skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the whole historical factors of the location itself (for instance: the humans sent to the moon were launched from that same launch pad), watching the launch from a video or live stream does not tell the entire story.

To hear the roar of those 27 engines and feel it vibrating on your chest and the bleachers is an emotional experience. Then you can see the boosters coming back, and their entry burn and you can follow them down to their landing zones. A few seconds later you hear the sonic booms.

While all this is happening, you also have the energy of the happy crowd cheering and celebrating what humans are capable of doing.

It gives you hope and an exciting future to look forward.
Well, the virtual p-ap creation happens everywhere, all the time. Why aren't there a large number of photons happening everywhere all the time?
Th latter puts the users in control of what is trending. The former lets YouTube manipulate the content for arbitrary purposes.
I don't understand the thought process that a content host has an inherent obligation to equally promote all the content hosted on their service.

It's a very anti-consumer and anti-capitalism position, and I hear it most often from people that in other contexts are very pro-consumer and pro-capitalism.
"Deep Work" as outlined by Cal Newport was not collaborative at all. It was an individual deep dive on a specific topic, with deep thinking and a lot of time.

Of course Slack is not where Deep Work happens, more than the telephone is where Deep Work happens.

Now, is [Insert persistent group chat software] where meaningful work can happen as a team? Absolutely. Lots of things have gotten resolved, rubber ducked, fixed, etc in those channels especially for my remote teams.

But nobody expects to get "Deep Work" done there.
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This looks really useful! Is there a typo in example code, where the 'So' variable is assumed to be normally distributed (I think it's meant to be the 'Prob' variable)?

I tended to avoid statistics in the past, knowing just enough to realise how easy it is to draw wrong or misleading conclusions. I recently had to perform some data analysis and got a bit paralysed at the thought of choosing the wrong approach; something like Tea would have been great, if only to give external validation/justification to the decisions I made.
Constructing sets has a running time, too. All you're really doing when you build a set is sorting.
Like comments here the others simply disagree with?

Four of us disagree? Your words are invisible! Truth be damned.
I wish, but I doubt it will ever come / be useful.

Google and YouTube want their AI or algorithms pointed AT you, not working for you.
Including a nice and extensive FAQ on how they collect data: https://iot-inspector.princeton.edu/blog/post/faq/#data-priv...
Far from it. If you have an actual sow and contract with them, you can define your support terms and get better support than if you just sign up with a business account and avoid talking with salespeople.
This headline is misleading as it should be “Some tech workers” or maybe “a growing few tech workers.”
Most likely not, but considering my house would likely be on fire and the hearing damage, I feel a booster would be decent compensation.
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The Trending page has been listing the same people over and over and over again for the last 3 years. It's shameful, pathetic, and makes the platform feel extremely biased.

Seriously though. This is unacceptable and overly controlled. Not to mention that those people over the last 3 years post borderline brainwash content without any connection to a real audience.

It's pretty sad to see YouTube turn into something like this.
(I will argue) the reason 50 Shades could be popular in the first place was because it is fundamentally anti-bdsm: it deploys it for titillation, but safely defines it as 'bad' and those who engage in such are 'broken' and everything is wrapped up and 'fixed' in the end (of the trilogy), so the audience gets to have the 'naughty thing' but get their previously conceived notion of 'it was bad and always will be so' re-enforced at the end.
Socialism aside, the unionization of tech workers is extremely important. Failing this, they will be exploited at every damn job. Unions exist in local governments, so why not at private firms too. It's time to organize. A lot of CEOs and CTOs will hate this idea, of course, and will do anything to make you believe otherwise.
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Who is doing the fruit labor in this example?
I would go even further and call it "dismissively" high.
AFAIK you can do that? Hit the menu on a video recommendation, "Not Interested" -> "Tell Us Why" -> "I'm not interested in this channel".

IMO, though, blacklisting has been mostly proven to be insufficient. If you block, say, noted chud Sargon of Akkad, that doesn't mean that another half-dozen "Rationalist" "Thinkers" Who Just Happen To Be Chuds won't be recommended to you as well.
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And perhaps more importantly revenue can come from anybody regardless of views - money has no smell. “Quality” will easily turn into “whatever the site maintainers or majority consider good”.

This being said I pretty much agree that so far no big tech company found the recipe for properly and “fairly” curating content.
>I would actually be glad if some of the more extreme and irresponsible opinions are deplatformed

As long as they are ones your culture doesn't share, and/or you happen to disagree with.

Which, of course, will make them "objectively" extreme and irresponsible.
The mind boggles at what a sanitary check could be, but the article keeps talking about them instead of sanity checks.
Socialism is a cancer that needs to be stomped out. Not all devs want to unionize. Not all devs want "democracy in the workplace". These devs need to stop hiding behind crowds and learn to stand up for themselves.
To each their own. I've found WSJ is fine, it gets a little simplistic at times where I find it a bit disingenuous. Too many "here's a one line bar graph that shows a thing going up 10 years after de/regulation" like that's not evidence of anything.... but that's hardly unique among news these days.

Outside of what I think are the obviously truly "biased" groups, I don't perceive it as just left or right all the time. I think there's a lot of room to cover a story various ways and not necessarily be "biased". But I certainly see how folks think that way, it does worry me though, even on HN you'll see "here's 3 negative sounding articles about this topic... that reporter is biased". Like that's not necessarily biased man...
As you take on more and more responsibility, I find you need to be very careful with how much information you consume.

To this end, I use HN mainly to look at the Ask HN are to see what other people suggest. In many cases I have found fantastic book suggestions, products, or different ways of thinking about something.
You could pull a Stuxnet and create malware that would spread over whatever devices are used to program the voting machines. I believe they typically just use standard USB thumb drives, and are notoriously insecure.

However, the article talks about "election systems" which encompasses much more than just voting machines. Voter registration records are a prime target and those are usually (always?) connected to the internet. You don't need to actually alter any votes to swing an election. Just delete or alter the registrations of some people who you know will tend to vote the other way.
I've actually been bouncing this idea around for a bit. How many people do you know that are interested in an IF publishing platform?
That's an interesting idea, thank you!
It is just the auther's surname (Nutt) + X. What's the issue?
My favorite sci-fi anticipates increased autonomy of technology and incorporates that smoothly into the narrative.
There is an official "Who is hiring? / Who want to be hired?" post the fist day of the month. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring Remember to find the correct thread and post there.

I'm not sure that the exact subfield of algebra is important outside academy. Try to give more relevance to your generic skills.

Most of your projects are written in Julia. Do you have one in C? (Some people like "canonical" languages, not me, but other people do).

Do one of your projects produce nice graphics? Nice graphics are good for submissions. (Some project are very interesting and important, but don't produce nice graphic. Anyway, that "photo" of a black hole is worth a thousand pages of grant request paperwork.)
the accelerationist model of web centralisation. It depends on how much of the populace actually cares, or if YouTube draws most of its revenue from casual viewers watching trending videos that are not likely to fall foul of these practices.
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It's amazing that the community is still going strong. It's probably never going to be more than a small subculture, but I smile everytime I see these small but incredibly deep cultures staying strong, thanks to the internet.
The APA's definition is probably more authoritative, and is inline with what OP suggested:

https://dictionary.apa.org/introversion
Employees share responsibility for the success of a company so they should also have stake in the company.

This whole idea that a company exists exclusively for the owners doesn’t make sense to me. There is a bigger picture to make a society work for all citizens.

Warning about “ socialism “ also doesn’t make sense. We don’t have to choose between the way the US is at the moment and the Soviet Union or Venezuela. There is a lot of room between these extremes.
Many hash tables use tree structures rather than actual key hashing because it turns out that this is usually faster on modern machines. So many hash tables are technically O(n log n) for some high log factor like 32.

I've posted what I think is the optimal solution and the research behind it above, if you're curious how to hit O(n) time without brutal constants.
There are too many mistakes and typos in this to recommend it. Better if you go straight to the end and click on "TTY demystified" and the other links he recommends.
Not really, the average in the industry seems to be floating between 70 and 400 days depending on the source of your stats on the topic (different vendors and reports use different stats for this)
As a tangent to your tangent, seeing a name like Adam Neely, whose videos I've been watching all week, even though I know nothing about jazz or playing music, really strikes me as the magic of YouTube. It's being able to watch talents you'd never normally be interested in, but who prove to be genuinely entertaining, even if you don't know what a quarter note from a crotchet, and it's amazing to realize these people are gaining fame in such a huge market, despite being incredibly niche.
Another part of the Sixth Extinction.

Part of approving new drugs to treat chronic illnesses needs to include identifying a way to deactivate them in wastewater, or before they get to wastewater. AND we need to come up with ways for the existing drugs.

Maybe people on these drugs need to be taught to collect their piss and not flush it.
I had this with a Dell XPS in India but it was connected somehow to the power supply. Maybe some voltage crept to the ground wire. Dunno.
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This kind of thing is disgraceful. I enjoy it when social media shines a spotlight on this kind of half-assed design theft.
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User curation and popularity are, arguably, just as much forms of censorship as any other, although a "trusted user" curation system similar to Steam might be interesting. The only truly unbiased system would be random.
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Would you like to try a 150kV power supply that I have laying around here?
Anyone know of a tool that can extract the calculation/dependency DAG from an Excel workbook or Google sheet?

Ideally I'd like a Python package that I can point at an .xlsx file and it would give me back an object graph that replicates the values and calculations of the workbook.
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Their undoing contract will mean less if it doesn’t have ability to veto any attempt to farm out work to cheaper or less regulated labor markets.
There's a firefox extension for that. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-clean...
Electric exposure is such a new phenomenon in terms of human evolution... like, humans have had their hands on small charged devices for like less than 100 years.

I wonder if an overweight person feels less of the electricity since they have more fat shielding their nervous system?
You can't do a 1 cent transaction with Bitcoin either. The future is fee less cryptocurrencies.
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Valid concern, at the same time as users.... most aren't willing to pay. So I guess we get what we pay for.
I think you have to listen to who you are trying to hire.

What do they really want?

How can your organization goals intersect with their personal goals?
Not everybody has the same values as you.
I already noticed that I didn't have this with an earthed (grounded) wall socket, very nice to finally see the explanation!
I always figured this was to do with stress levels. More stress = higher muscle tone, more retention and less bowel motion.
But yeah, you could be right, I see there could be a feedback there.
Socialism is when the government owns production.

capitalist are allowed to aggregate in the form of corporations why shouldn't workers be allowed to aggregate.
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> How does this give them control? As long as it still use/depends on the Bitcoin network, you still have control.

I don't see how I have more control if coinbase hold my crypto and sell it for me when I buy something compared to just having money at a bank.
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This is why every tech company worth its salt has some sort of RSU or stock option compensation.
that only really holds if you consider "not promoting" to be a form of censorship - at the end of the day, as long as they're not actively hiding content that YouTube finds to not be "quality" (while still being reasonable content), it can still be found by someone looking for the subject. I don't see an issue with that - there will always be limited space for "promoted" content.
In most of the world "changing the plugs" isn't really a thing, the problem is the design of the power supply (hence my comment.)

To clarify: Floating switchmode power supplies that aren't isolated from a separately earthed conductive shell are a bad thing.
If anyone from the inspector team is reading: The audio in the "Installation" video really should be removed. :-D
I describe myself as an extrovert amongst mathematicians. (which, of course, means I'm still an introvert compared to most.)
I think it just takes exposure and experience, and some people have had more than others. In my experience becoming accomplished requires repeated interactions with a large but rather stable social environment, where >5% of the people you encounter in a day (or evening) will be familiar to you and the rest loosely connected. That forces a person's reputation as a valued and testable trait over time. It also rewards making new social connections as they are likely to connect back to existing relationships.
>How did we end up here? [...] systematic censorship and endless puritanical moral panic?

The reason is advertising money is what funds Youtube. Ultimately, this means Google has to make sure their videos are mostly "advertiser-friendly"[0]. This unavoidable editorial tension is what the prior boycott incident (Adpocalypse[1]) was all about.

>We badly need some new blood guiding tech development.

It's not just a new programming team with different ideals. You need a new funding model.

The obvious alternative is to create a video site that doesn't depend on advertisers. With no ad sponsorships as a revenue constraint, what options does that leave us?

(a) paid subscription or donation websites. But most viewers don't have money to pay for a youtube-clone with non-ad-friendly videos. Even if they did have discretionary income, they wouldn't pay for it anyway. (Example of users overwhelmingly preferring ads over paying an insignificant 8 cents per month.[2])

(b) volunteer self-funded decentralized video service like Peertube

Both those options have massive economic and technical disadvantages. Storing petabytes of videos is expensive and so far, nobody else has figured out a non-advertising model to pay for the hosting costs to serve them to millions.

Keep in mind that the other video websites that some people do pay for such as Netflix, HBO Go, Hulu, etc are also not bastions of free speech that allow extreme political views.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#Advertise...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Adpocalypse+advertisers+boyc...

[2] https://www.tune.com/blog/mobile-ads-70-of-smartphone-owners...
I've noticed this trend here on HN beyond workers organizing for their own benefit. The idea of regulating the internet, for almost any reason was abhorrent to the tech community a decade ago.

Now, most people seem to think the likes of Uber and AirBnB need to be regulated. A majority of comments here about GDPR seem to support it, and I regularly see calls for more regulation of the sort. I'm not sure if the same group of people have changed their views, or if a wider range of people have brought new perspectives to the community.
> Employees share responsibility for the success of a company so they should also have stake in the company.

Exactly, so what is stopping them from using their salary to buy shares? If you believe you are doing such a good job that the company will sustain or do better, it would almost be silly not to. You have domain expertise by virtue of working there. You may even have a solid insider feel for the pulse of the organization.
I'm 46 years old. I can't think of one example where I was exploited as a tech worker. I'm from a union town, grew up in a union family. I support unions. The UAW was very important to the country and the middle class. I'm just not sure where the need is in tech. I think it might hurt us, if anything. Tech workers are not fungible. We do have quite a bit of leverage. Your average factory floor worker is fungible and has almost zero leverage.
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The Trending page makes me feel really old, and pretty "get off my lawn" w/r/t what's popular, or being promoted, right now.

A lot of the channels I've followed have gone fallow. No new content.

That said, I think the arguments around this topic are pretty disingenuous.

1) There's nasty content being uploaded to Youtube -- YouTube isn't making the nasty content.

2) YouTube promotes some content, people are pissed - it's all about the moneti$ation.

3) YouTube creates a system to stop promoting some kinds of content, people are pissed - censorship, slippery slope to de-platforming, etc.

There's no real alternative to YouTube (Vimeo isn't it, and the blockchain YouTube isn't it) for:

a) creators,

b) creators who want to make money.

And looking at what Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have to deal with in the social sphere, who'd want to inherit those problems? This is why we're still going to end up with aggregated media empires, because they'll accept the overhead of running the network, and it will simply get even more shallow in terms of who supplies "content".
I've never been convinced that unions are necessarily the best approach to resolving the employer/employee power differential, but I do believe that in the coming decades something will be necessary.

By luck, the explosive growth of software in the states and relative scarcity of developers has resulted in a lot of wealth and luxury for engineers. There's no reason to believe this trend will continue indefinitely.

On the other side of the spectrum, another country that has explosive software growth but a large supply of engineers and STEM workers is China. China's 996 work policy has been getting a lot of attention lately and I think it should highlight the risk we face in a matter of maybe a generation or two if the software industry does eventually cool down.
The only thing this post did for me was entrench my thought that I'd rather write Rust over Go.

As ugly as Rust can be to look at, I'd rather solve this in 5 lines of Rust that make sense than read through any of those Go solutions.
This exploitation seems to take many forms. Being paid a multiple of the median income, working indoors under climate-controlled conditions, and (at least in my case) being paid to do that which I’d do for free anyway.

My grandfathers mined coal and milled steel. They needed unions. I don’t see any benefit to unions for me.
Unpopular opinion:

As a recent graduate (last 5 years), I can't agree with most works desire to unionize for one reason: demand for your skills.

When I was looking for my second tech job, I turned on that switch in my LinkedIn that lets recruiters contact me. I was immediately inundated with 10-20 messages a day from recruiters asking if I could speak with them about <Role with my expertice>. For me this was the most insane luxury in the workplace, instead of having to go out and look for jobs, those jobs were coming to me and knocking on my door.

What I took from that is tech workers have an incredible choice in where they can go work because their skills are highly in-demand. So why unionize? Don't like where you work? Flip a switch and suddenly you have 10-20 offers a day from other companies looking to hire someone with your skillset. Yes, you have to spend time combing through the messages, on the phone with recruiters and going to interviews but at the end of the day with that level of attention to your skillset, you can basically decide where you want to work. Company A seems great but the culture is toxic, ok great let's see what company B has to offer. Company B has a good culture but their data collection practices you don't agree with, ok let's see what company C has to offer. Company C has a great culture and doesn't do the things you consider unethical with data collection, bam we have a winner.

Also on the topic of general democracy in the workplace regarding decisions. As an engineer you don't make those decisions, you just implement them. Don't like the decisions, go somewhere else. Want more/total control over decision making? Start your own company.
Thank you. I think of HN as having significant influence on the dotcom workplace and culture, so I wanted to get a few ideas in at the front. Some of the comments on the black hole imagery post seemed unfortunate to me, so I might've said more here than was necessary.
Two good ways to make a dystopia: 1) by trying to create a utopia, which always ends up in dystopia, or 2) by removing all rules and concept of society.

Maybe we can unwind the dystopian internet by adding a little of the real world responsibility back onto corporations that have been running wild without any rules “because it’s the net”.

YouTube, Facebook, etc. that are all behaving as publishers but without the responsibility real world publishers have, are now facing that reality. It appears they are having to choose between taking on the responsibility of being a publisher, or to do away with that by become just a platform. At the moment they seem to be trying to hold onto their publisher behavior while doing as little as they can.

In response everyone cries fowl. Instead you should be arguing that YouTube must drop is publisher behavior and design aspects and reorganize around being a pure video hosting platform if that’s what you want. But not both.