skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate the new design. Not because it's new, but because it took everything I liked about Reddit (i.e. easy to read, no flashy design, FAST) and threw it out the window for a slow error-prone POS SPA app. I also hate the fact that when I follow links to Reddit from anywhere, e.g. Twitter, Slack, I see the new design and have to manually change the domain to old.reddit.com, even though my account settings are set to always use the old design.

I also finally caved and downloaded their mobile app because I got tired of all of the nagging. I feel like they intentionally broke their mobile experience to push users to the app so they could increase ad revenue. I'm sad I caved, but I just couldn't take the BS experience any longer.

Makes me sick.
AND.... THREAD DEATH.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll take a look. IIRC the script is hosted externally, maybe I should host a copy.

You're correct about the source code. Perhaps I should make it easier to see or download.
I googled fatjew and fuckjerry as you suggested. Their entire controversy originated because they reposted other people's content without attribution. That's what made it a valid controversy. That's what makes this a manufactured controversy.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/how-instagram-enables...

"Threatened by the backlash, Ostrovsky promised to attribute everything that he posted to its source in the future... Tebele and other meme account admins instituted similar policies, and the controversy died down"
RUST LMAO
I'd say Fortnite is less unhealthy. My thought being, confirmation bias / echo chamber is relatively less real than Fortnite, but not realized as such. That's proving to be very dangerous to all of us.
That particular quote as is makes no sense. I think the real statement is that solar panel RECYCLING requires sulfuric acid and phosphine gas. That would make more sense.

13.5 million cumulative tonnes of solar waste in China by 2050 is not FUD at all, that's a statement of success in solar deployment.

Are you suggesting that recycling this magnitude of solar waste will be trivial, both environmentally and economically? The 30 year lifetime plus massive deployments leads logically to a recycling challenge that isn't often discussed. I'm not an expert in the field so I can't say enough to suggest it will be trivial or challenging.

Gut feeling given those kinds of numbers is that it will be both challenging and expensive.

Do you have better data?
Thanks for your kind words :)

No definite plan for a print version, but it could be fun, if nothing else to have a copy on my own shelf! There's a few sections I need to complete first, though.

I do have plans to add a few more chapters covering more advanced topics, but again, nothing definite.
The legal immigration process has been slowed to a crawl by the current administration[1]. Any claims that they simply wish for people to follow the legal process are entirely misleading, to the point of being reality-muddling propaganda. The administration is making the legal process harder, impossible in some cases[2], and is advocating for the shutdown of many legal avenues, even those that the president's family themselves have used to attain status here[3].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547565

2. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/trumps-...

3. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/nyregion/melania-trumps-p...
would love to talk to anyone that is big into drones and video. live streams of builds, etc.
document.cookie is also already controlled by the website, but due to everyone <script src>'ing 3rd party trackers like GA it looks like they felt the need to limit this api. So why remove the possibility for blocking the same scripts from doing foreach('a').attr('ping','3rdpartytracker/uniqueId/'+this.href)?
Cultural coherence sounds like newspeak for tribalism.
Why so incredulous? Is he some smart guy or something? (Sarcasm)

I wish we would give people a chance before we dismiss people as dumb/.. .
I just disabled ligatures for now. Does that fix it?
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There's separate rights needed to show a movie to a public/large audience, like at a movie theater.
Ted Nelson was complaining constantly about the deficiencies. Pretty much nailed the issues too. Unfortunately his solutions were difficult to implement.
This inevitability is what they always forget.
Yes, that's me. Thanks!
How long did it take to implement, and how large was the team?
Google asked 5,600 employees about remote work. This is what they learned.
Virtual machines will put extra cores and memory to use.
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> Not necessarily - to start with, a good trade-off is unconditionally better than a bad trade-off.

Are you better off with a simple dokku server, or a k8s cluster?

There's lots of good/bad on both sides... it really depends on your needs. You could use one locally or through dev layers and another for production.
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The point is, these jobs still pay an average of over $90k year. They may come with serious hours but that's not unheard of in many white collar industries (e.g. finance, medicine, law). To turn around and call these people victims is really not valuable, and seriously degrades what it means to be a "victim" of labor practices. There are jobs that are a lot harder to do and pay a lot less that nobody bats an eye about.

The video game industry has been nothing but transparent about the working conditions, at least from what I've seen. Every game Dev I've talked to has been clear that working on X field in the game industry is going to be more stressful and less lucrative than applying the same skills elsewhere. The slogan in my CS department was that the game Dev industry is twice the pay for half the work.

While many do have fulfilling careers it was common sense to me and my peers that going into the game development industry was not worth it unless your passion seriously outweighs practical interests. Some people think they belong in that group and later find out that they misjudged their priorities. They made a life decision they regret but they are not victims. No more than my sister is a victim of biology because she studied biology and discovered after graduation she didn't like biology and changed to working in tech.
Your programs can potentially use all of those registers (or all those assigned to your task, if the particular core uses static partioning for registers). Unlike the compiler's work, the core does this based on real, current runtime information.
The point is that mobile apps are 1000x more intrusive than anything on the web (which was always designed for anonymous users).

Apple does not do anything to stop mobile apps tracking even with the app store review and the ability to scan them both on submission and as they're running in the OS. Mobile apps are 90% of the source of adfraud and privacy issues on iOS.

Meanwhile Mobile Safari (even without ITP) has caused numerous problems with apps trying to offer webviews for content while trying to keep users signed in. There are numerous effective improvements to be made instead of messing with cookies.
That's weird, I just saw this from CNBC:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/05/nonfarm-payrolls-march-2019....
So, what the heck it going on then?
I think this is a part of the bigger problem, which is the lack of support for continuing education. Our culture expects you to spend 20 years in daily school and then just stop. How are you supposed to maintain relevant skills for 40-50 years of work this way?
Samsung says profit slid 60 percent year on year
Not quite "writing a pixel to the screen", but to play around, you can use a <canvas> tag in HTML, like my demos do; you can use SDL, as another poster commented; or you can write some trivial code to write a PPM file to disk (or use something like libpng) to create image files on disk.
I am simply going to point out again that your best example of the media getting its facts wrong is a video in which "Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai,PhD(M.I.T.) Inventor of Email" --- a repeat InfoWars guest! --- complains about a BuzzFeed listicle-grade story that is itself at pains to point out that the (very few) attendees of an anti-left demonstration in Boston were not all white supremacists.

As you've no doubt surmised: not many people are interested in following you down "Hard News Network" video rabbit holes, for the same reason that even though the big-bad-scary-media reports it to be so, we're also not all that interested in what Alex Jones has to say about the Sandy Hook victims or the effectiveness of vaccines.

As I said, the picture you're painting of yourself is not the same picture Shiva Ayyadurai has painted of himself.

But I can sum both up as: "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
Mods— why is the title completely rewritten? The source article is titled, "How a couple worked charter school regulations to make millions."

My son is having a great experience at a well-run LA charter school and the current headline seems in violation of HN rules.
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Your root AWS account should have 2FA, and storing TOTP seeds in your cloud password manager makes it 1FA.
>> Adobe respects consumer privacy options.

They do. Is that a problem?
But... apparently, the government has changed how it measures unemployment in those last 50 years.

[1] http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...
"640K ought to be enough for anybody"
> Technopoly is a form of cultural AIDS, which I here use as an acronym for Anti-Information Deficiency Syndrome.

It's interesting how the moral panics of a time find their way into unrelated literature, and how jarring they can seem with a little distance (1993)
I don't think I have seen a Netflix DVD advertisement in a decade.

I would bet that the majority of those 2.7M subscribers joined before Netflix streaming began and never saw a reason to cancel.
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The Amiga had 880KB (DD) or 1760KB (HD, with a special drive) floppies, but instead of increasing track count, it had more sectors (11) in each of the 80 tracks.
It's terrible. I say that as someone who usually likes exploring redesigns and new software products.

It's clear what it's optimized for and the user or the user expereince is not it.

What's especially annoying is that the mobile website is unreadable since they use growth tactics at every step to try to funnel you into their native mobile app.

I pretty much still browse on old.reddit.com.
They are working on it and it can be enabled in the preview release of safari right now.

https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/releas...

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181943
This is all extremely debunked. The "Dr. Mews" quoted in the article lost his license to practice in the UK, largely on the basis of these claims.
The market was posting all time highs until a few months before the DotCom bust?
I think of how many people read one of Ta-Nehisi Coates' exquisitely researched, half-hour-long read articles at the Atlantic, vs how many people click on a video of a cat falling off a dresser or something. Sigh.
What is your threat model where someone has access to you while you are unconscious who also wants your web passwords?
The recent Safari Technology Preview builds have support for the WebAuthn Specification, so it's clearly something they're actively working on.
Even casually, various bugs and glitches gave rise to the whole "stupid tricks" genre of StarCraft custom maps.
> * The suburbs need more public transit than you think they'll need. Once you hit 50k people or so, you'll be hurting for transit badly. "But I'm building low-density housing with a street hierarchy, it works fine in real life, so why are my roads clogged in the game?" Yeah but in real life you're not cramming a dozen people into every single-family home.

One could argue some cities have low-density housing next to transit though (like Berlin, or Paris). It does have the disadvantage of making metros too easy though, so commuter rail is almost never done because it is too hard to integrate to a city.
I think the term is actually just "think of the children!" Wikipedia has an article precisely about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
The third party reddit apps are a lot better. I prefer Reddit Is Fun on Android but I know there are several good options besides that on both mobile platforms.
There are also sighted keyboard/switch users, a11y is a lot more than just blind users.
https://a11yproject.com/posts/myth-accessibility-is-blind-pe...

Implementing good a11y apis allows the variety of vendors to make assistive technology that can navigate your page for all sorts of user categories.
Netflix has done some work with their algos such that if you always watch your movie on the weekend and send it back Monday, they'll just start shipping your next movie out on Monday morning on the assumption that they old one will be back Tuesday.

They also have a deal with the post office that in some areas the post office will notify Netflix when they pick up your disk so that Netflix can send a new out before they get your old one back.
Pay $1200 a year more towards the mortgage is pretty good financial decision
You are wrong. At least when it comes to AGI, which is the only kind of AI that really needs to be prevented from existing. Your conclusions are based on fuzzy thinking and extrapolating old and irrelevant data.

We can control businesses. And as for someone in their basement, it isn’t clear at all that one could develop AGI in their basement. AGIs discovery will probably require massive, massive amounts of compute. More than could fit in a basement or be powered by domestic grid connections without drawing attention.

Good luck holding the military back? You are talking about the US right? The military and every other government entity answers to the people either directly or indirectly. If enough ordinary people wanted it, the constitution of the United States itself could be amended into the ITunes terms of service. And since AGI is to the detriment of literally every human being on the planet, I think some basic legislation might be able to be passed.

Don’t succumb to these notions of hopelessness. They are wrong. And you even spread them around which just makes solving the problem even harder.
> compile Java to JavaScript

If we would travel back in time to the nineties and tell them we have technology that compiles Java to JavaScript they would put us straight to a psychiatric hospital :D
Many of us often use the web on our telephones.
Everything I've ever read or heard about technical interviewing in the past 5 years basically says your idea (and other work sample-type things) is the way to go. And it's kind of obvious when you think about it. Seeing how someone works in practice is almost always going to tell you a lot more about their potential effectiveness as an employee compared to only asking them a bunch of questions or having them solve a puzzle or whiteboard a CS algorithm.
Even to the casual observer/thinker "screen time" being a concern is quite clearly "bollocks"

For as long as I can remember "society worries about every change" - but at least previously we focused on the content, rather than the conduit.

Online radicalization, porn addiction, violent videogames, video-nasties, metal music played backwards, Elvis's hips, fictional novels, .. , gnostic gospels, .. , overly-optimistic portrayals of mammoth attack on cave walls etc etc

My concern with "screen time" is that we seem to have taken a step back and have got even lazier in our "ill-conceived collective concerns about 'others'".

It blows my mind that a child today, anywhere on the planet, with a $100 phone can access pretty much every thought or concept humanity has ever produced - whether a thousand years ago, or 30 minutes ago.
I'm 42 and what's happened in my lifetime utterly blows away previous milestones like "writing", "printing" or "recording".

What really, really pisses me off is that this isn't celebrated - despite only happening "because of screens"

Now is everything on a screen good? No - of course not.
But maybe a better target would be "asymmetric engagement" or "prevalence of uncited facts" or "Kardashians"

"Too much screen-time" should be taken as the equivalent of "Reads too much" or "Discusses over a beer excessively"
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Woo, giving your random thought the acronym AIDS isn't going to create an immediate bias or anything - it's what I like to see in a neutral unopinionated highly scientific paper.
Scientists say they can make light travel 30x faster than normal
The 21.5" ones are, the 27" ones are not.
Most Alan Kay's presentations I've seen were worth watching. Tons of great ideas in each. They really improved how I reason about systems.

There is this famous talk from OOPSLA 1997:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY

If you want to see what "practical" OOP looked like in the 80s, this is a good video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJaFG63Hlo
> You are saying that lying online is a problem so severe that it requires solutions too radical to contemplate?

"Lying online" is your characterization, not mine. Fake news isn't merely "lying online."

And the solution I was advocating was pretty radical: a massive breakup of the tech platforms and social networks that make widespread fake news dissemination much more practical than it ever was.
My Apple Watch helps me track my general activity and my sleeping patterns/quality. I use another app to help track my gym workouts.

I record way more than I review. Most of the time I record out of habit, not because I'm actively doing anything with the granular data.
You need to live outside the US for a while
This shit again. For anyone who's never seen it before, there is a guy on the internet who's personal crusade is to establish 'mewing' as the key to facial good looks, regardless of the fact that it is widely acknowledged that restructuring your jaw past puberty is a fool's errand.

I like the example of katy perry vs candice swanepoel. As if either of those women was not considered extremely attractive.
OK, so that's your preference; yes, it'll cost you. (Personally, I wouldn't want to live in London even if it were cheaper than my current small-town location.) But please don't presume to speak for the UK in general just because you've picked a particularly expensive market.
Ethiopian Airlines crash: Boeing reduces 737 production
I think Patrick Stewart saying 'hazlo así' or 'make it so' would've been brilliant.
I never understand this kind of black and white thinking. So I either have to believe that people are total victims of circumstance with no control over their own situations or my opinions are "appalling"?

The reality is that there are obviously unfair elements to how these industries are operating and it would be desirable to most people to figure out how to improve that situation. It's also a reality that at the end of the day people have a big incentive to understand the big choices they are making in their lives regardless of subjective fairness. Regardless of your moral position it certainly seems they have paid a price for entering the industry and they entered the industry on their own free will(I doubt many people are being coerced into video game dev through threats of violence, blackmail or extortion).

Like literally everything else, the truth lies in the grey area and it's not "appalling" to have other opinions.

The idea of being so unable to believe that there may be validity to an opinion you don't like is a whole lot more appalling in my opinion.
> When the federal government comes asking for your help, I think it's pretty normal for people to provide that help.

There's all kinds of times when turning over information to the government, or certain agents of government, without a compulsory order is illegal, either under civil or criminal law or both. Sometimes it goes beyond that, and even prohibits such disclosure under otherwise compulsory orders.

I've worked with personal data of federally-funded substance abuse treatment program clients. Beyond (and actually, IIRC, predating) HIPAA protections that also apply, I could not, legally, disclose such information even to an law enforcement agent with a subpoena for the information, without a separate, accompanying federal court order authorizing disclosure of the protected client information. The implementing regulations (42 CFR Part 2) even take the unusual step of specifically calling out a number of nonexceptions to the general rule against disclosure outside of the specific parameters permitted: [42 CFR § 2.13(b)] ”The restrictions on disclosure and use in the regulations in this part apply whether or not the part 2 program or other lawful holder of the patient identifying information believes that the person seeking the information already has it, has other means of obtaining it, is a law enforcement agency or official or other government official, has obtained a subpoena, or asserts any other justification for a disclosure or use which is not permitted by the regulations in this part.”

If you work in an industry to which the law—state, federal, local, whatever—applies such protection to the data you hold, you are responsible to know that, abide by it, and not just roll over when someone vaguely waves a badge in your direction.

> If we want companies to require a subpoena to share information with the federal government (and personally I do want that) then we should set that standard in law.

The State of Washington did that. That's exactly what the case is about.

> (How much information does the CIA and FBI vacuum up from Washington telcos in a day in violation of this law, and why isn't anyone held to task?

Probably none, mostly because the law at issue doesn't apply to telcos.
By the way: it is my understanding, a personal, subjective understanding based on reportage and accounts from other people that I have read, presented here as a statement of my own opinion and not a relation of specific facts, that the claim that Shiva Ayyadurai invented email is laughable.
The same is true of regular public schools though, with predictable results.
Why is this garbage on hacker news?

Anecdotal baloney combined with pseudoscience and misrepresented before/after photos of people who had braces/orthodontic work. LOL, no.
It's worth the effort though - and don't be afraid to remove yourself from technology that demands too much from you for what it gives... that's why I've seen more friends of mine drop facebook recently - it's a nice place to keep in touch with family, sure, but the cost for that communication is extreme.
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