skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans more or less use the media and information found online to confirm their deep rooted beliefs about the world. Even without facebook or twitter, organizations will prop up to cater to this. The path to authoritarianism is more and more deeply rooted in growing inequality of the world which technology has expidited further. You could literally map wealth inequality to rising populism since the time of ancient rome.
I think you ate not genuinely interpreting your parents message. Theres alarms and then theres reasons to ve concerned about the future.

Why so damn hostile to an otherwise decent observation
> this is enabling Google to lie to you about where the website is coming from, it doesn't banish Google.

I understand, which is why I'm pro AMP but anti Google-specific AMP.
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FYI for those who didn't familiar with Taiwan culture: Saying that you're going to do something because some god/goddess tells you to do so in your dream is a pretty common excuse in ancient Taiwan. So it makes sense as elder population is probably Gou's target audience.

But of course, it looks F* *KING RIDICULOUS to younger generations.
you can use replaceState for that and back will work fine
> We live in a weirdly intolerant era - consider how many movies 'couldn't be made today'

I think that's a common meme which is spread uncritically by people who want to denigrate the current age.
I don't know what is meant by "space" here. It's a text file. There's nothing to stop someone listing multiple copyright holders in an MIT license.

In general, having a long list of copyright holders is bad, because it makes it almost impossible in practice to verify that all of the copyright holders actually consent to release their code under the relevant license.
Could you be a bit more specific on the what exactly is untrue?
As a Taiwanese, I disagree completely. (1) Taiwan is not in China, geographically and politically . (2) KMT has already surrendered
This comparison has been made before - "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." It's an excellent book, and I highly recommend it.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-cathedral-the-bazaar
Watch The Breakfast Club for a primer. From what I can tell it's only a thing in the US, and before moving here I thought it was, like many other things, just a literary device. Alas it's real.
I'm not. A clinician is a human, and as a human, they can be distracted, tired, hungry, or any number of things that can reduce their cognition leading them to miss something. A checklist reduces cognitive overhead and provides accountability (no way a clinician would remember if they did or didn't do a particular action days or weeks or months after the fact).
Curious why the populists are siding with the pro-Beijing crowd. It’s not like the PRC is very populist friendly.
> For instance, the system spotted one software engineer who hadn’t been promoted at the same rate as three female peers who all came from the same top university computer science program. The women had all been at IBM for four years, but worked in different parts of the sprawling company. While her manager didn’t know she was comparing herself to these women, the engineer was all too aware her former classmates had been promoted and she hadn’t, Gherson said. After the risk was flagged, she was given more mentoring and stretch assignments and remains at IBM.

There is no evidence she was planning to leave in the first place. I'd like to see a proper experiment that shows higher retention in a double blind, this sounds like marketing BS.
> mythical racist muslim no-go zones in Europe

This was in France and yes the no-go zones exist. The only mistake reported was their actual locations. If you don’t believe me I’ll gladly organized a tour for you. Works even better if you’re a woman btw.
Not having assigned seats is frankly just bizarre, and doesn’t seem to have any relation at all to open office. Individual closed offices with no assigned seats would be just as bizarre.
> The Constitution patent clause grants Congress the right to "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." Would this ruling not, under that clause, be unconstitutional?

The constitution allows Congress to create a patent system. It doesn't require them to issue patents at all, much less without qualifications.

Moreover, promoting the progress is a trade off. Suppose various entites had two hundred standards essential patents. This is actually less than the number of patents on a device like an iPhone, which follows standards for everything from wireless to USB to TLS. Then if each of the patent holders wanted 1% of the total device price, there wouldn't be iPhones because they'd lose two dollars for every one they made.

In principle that isn't in the interests of the patent holders, because if there are no iPhones then they collect no royalties, but it's basic tragedy of the commons. Every patent holder has a blocking patent, they all want the device to be profitable enough that it's produced, but they also all want the other patent holders to be the one to reduce their percentage in order to make that happen and between coordination problems and brinkmanship it can easily sink the whole endeavor.

Moreover, if entities holding blocking patents could charge whatever they like, then there would be reduced incentive for anyone else to make further progress because the holders of the existing patents continuing to charge their existing rates would automatically capture the new value that should go to the new inventor when the value of the device increases.

So given that "promote the progress" is a trade off, giving Qualcomm a monopoly on the whole world is clearly not a good way to optimize it.
That statement is also false, because publishers can still track when the page is served via JS.
And yet the people most concerned about border security are those who live far away from the border.

Perhaps not coincidentally because they see the real impact for good and ill of both "the problem" and the "solution" and draw their own conclusions.

Or it could simply be because the people who live there would be less scared of that sort of thing and why you don't see people in California freaking out about their minor quakes. Anyone that terrified of seismic activity would have gone to a more tectonically stable place.
Note: this is a Google Translate version of the original Hebrew text.
I'd bet more often it's two people who could each do the other's role and therefore wanting to be specific that one person is responsible for X and the other Y.
Go is not a particularly good language, I guess there is some productivity gains for some.
I lived in a place where they had many co-located LTE base stations and power density about 1/4 mi away from these exceeded 75 mW/m^2. Now, I get it that a typical wifi base station transmits up to 500mW, but that's a point source and the inverse square law works to your advantage - the total dose in any one direction is minimal.

Not so when it's a huge multi-tier tower - that's your whole body facing the tower getting that dose.

I'm a software engineer, a technologist, by trade and I was in complete denial about this until I started getting serious eczema that only went away when I stopped using wireless gadgets and avoided staying too long in areas with cellular base stations.

I denied and denied and denied but repeated experiments on myself only revealed how my body reacts to this stuff. My ideal power density is less than 1mW/m^2 to not break out. And there seems to be a relationship to what LTE bands the tower is transmitting on - outside the US I seem to do better. It could be the frequency, or could be the modulation.
People simply did less
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2474026?hl=en

"YouTube Live is an easy way to reach your audience in real time. Whether you're streaming a video game, hosting a live Q&A, or teaching a class, our tools will help you manage your stream and interact with viewers in real time."

Youtube live is supposed to be streaming of live events. My point is that their algorithms incorrectly decided a live stream was a past event. Even google/youtube acknowledged it was incorrect to tag a live event.
It's not Coursera and EdX. It's that foreign students pay full price. As administrative costs increase and infrastructure costs increase and state contributions decrease if there ever were any, the money needs to come from somewhere.
I too prefer open office, if I don't want to see my coworker, why would I even go to the office, I could just work remote.

>I don't get distracted by noise or movement so that could be a big factor, so I can code without any problems

Same here.

I think better alternative is to allow both option, allow employee to work remove if they prefer not to see their coworker.
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> NATO and the EU have started anti-fake-news efforts to combat this narrative. It was all over EU facebook ads a while ago.

I hope you realize how deliciously ironic this paragraph is.
Publisher might want to display their URL in the address bar. But as a user I want to see the actual URL, not what Google or publisher want to show me. I don't want to see "example.com" in the address bar while I am actually connected to Google via a TLS connection signed by Google's key and my IP address is collected according to Google's privacy policy.

What confuses users is Google displaying a fake address bar [1] or browser displaying the wrong URL.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/images/amp0...
I'm really digging this thread. Nicely done. Thanks.

As a noob, some kind of Starting Assumptions and Context would be cool for all these distributed infra projects. For instance, I wouldn't have known about mitigating time skews in data centers.

Or perhaps even a reference deployment, image(s), playbook, or whatever the devops people are now calling it.
I try to use Touch ID for everything it can be used for.

Touch ID for sudo http://osxdaily.com/2017/11/22/use-touch-id-sudo-mac/

Touch ID for SSH https://github.com/sekey/sekey (uses secure enclave)

I use this for 2FA https://krypt.co/ (uses secure enclave on your phone)

Touch ID for password management https://1password.com/

I upload dotfiles and other credentials in a keybase encrypted repo
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Last time I checked you could get a 3600 for around 3.5k. While not as cool, you can get DEC Alphas for a lot cheaper and I'm told they run OpenGenera pretty well. You might be able to actually use an Alpha for "real" work, as well.
They've given more and more nudges over the years to funnel people from IG back to FB. I have no idea but doubtful it's working, just smells of desperation.

>badged notifications inside Instagram begging people to open Facebook being maybe the most prominent example.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/25/17903556/instagram-founde...
Well, if you worked hard, yet never won an Olympic medal, settling for a "boring" job might actually be easier.
This looks like it would be a very useful design, however the article doesn't discuss the implementation of the Promise.

This is not something memcached or redis support out of the box, as far as I know. It would seem to imply a cache manager service that has its own in-memory table of Promises.
If you don't own a dashcam (or 7) now is the time to get one. It can massively help you (if you are a safe (read: slow) driver). /PSA
Haha, not much has changed, except now instead of emails/letters they show tweets. Cable news is a waste of time.
This is the exact opposite of "keeping users at its domain". That was the situation _before_ they implemented this standard. Now users will get sent to the publisher's domain instead (via a prefetched page load).
this "study" is riddled with issues. only 2 companies studied. i can't imagine how different every place is depending on its culture. how comfortable are employees ? are the teams next to people they don't know? was this measurement amortized over project volumes after the move? are these companies designed with some private areas easily accessible on every floor for teams to discuss / have daily stand ups if needed?

seems one could easily come up with 2 new companies example where the opposite is true given a different design / team layout / project types and so on
Loss of ice in the Arctic doesn't contribute to sea level rise because the ice in the Arctic floats, and melting an ice cube floating in water does not change the water level.

(Ice on Greenland is a different matter, but Greenland is a lot smaller than Antarctica.)
The real world is much bigger than websites/apps.
fortunately there is a TLA+ spec so you can rewrite the system in any language you like!
Why are open plans (among software engineers) so common in the industry? Is it really that most software engineers like them?
This isn't just with checklists, but a typical behavior of organizations (at any scale). Organizations are systems, systems tend to fall into a steady state of performance, quality, etc. after some period of time. If you draw the people's attention to something (checklists, quotas, threats, praise, etc.) you can see a temporary boost in performance, but unless the culture changes the performance tends to return to that same steady state (maybe slightly enhanced or worse).

In order for the benefit to stick, you need to actually change the system. Otherwise, complacency or other things will return when the pressure and other early benefits wear off.
When translated into English the sea goddess thing can be really weird, but Ma Zhu is not really a sea goddess. She's more like a folk symbol combined with a patron/saint of the sea and a semi-lifestyle religion. With Taiwan being an island, the patron saint of the sea is an immensely important part of the culture.

She is widely known and revered in all of Taiwan. When you go to a Taiwanese family and say "Mazhu bao yo" (Mazu bless you) - it's generally well received even if the people don't believe in Taoism or natural / personified deities.

The idea that Gou says "Mazu wanted me to do it" is more like saying to a Catholic that Mother Teresa inspired you to visit India and start a non-profit agency to help the people there.

Hopefully the analogy holds for people who are not familiar with the culture there.
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> Taiwan is not in China, geographically and politically.

Facts disagree with you. It's not even an opinion.
They're cheaper, faster to set up, and pack more people into less space?
No, that's just the tech echo chamber where the "true" opinion right now is to hate open offices. Normal people have no problem with it.
>It's incredibly stressful to talk to a person face-to-face knowing that everyone on the team listens to the conversation. Not only do you have to constantly weight and evaluate your sentences, you also have the constant feeling that you are disturbing other team members just by talking

Fortunately I don't have this physiological barrier. I don't care if everyone on the team listens to the conversation.
And some people don't want to work any more than they absolutely have to, and can't understand why anyone would want to be able to concentrate.
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That seems to cover the core of the tidyverse, but not the long tail.
Well I know that lysimeter based snowfall measurement systems can be a real pain for remote stations in winter, so to me this is the exciting bit.
I wish this happened in my office. Instead there are face-to-face conversations at desks all the time, and those looking to do quiet focused work are basically out of luck.
Read Samuel Pepys diaries from the 17th century. They're available online in various forms. It's fascinating both what has changed and what hasn't changed at all. Pepys wrote these diaries primarily for his own use and so he sends to be largely honest (at least as much as we are honest with ourselves). He describes cheating on his wife, lying to people and so on.

Anyway, Pepys complains frequently that his day's work was lost because he was not able to meet with someone in the expected place at the anticipated time. That's just how things were then, you could neither phone to ask "where are you?" nor to say "change of plan I will now be at the old bridge until 4pm".
another dashcam from here: https://twitter.com/stevechazin/status/1118354864214614016
I've never heard of Panic. I've never heard of Coda. I don't develop on a Mac and I'll likely never be in their target audience.

But reading this product announcement gave me a real feeling for the genuine care and quality that these people put into their work that I'm curious enough to figure out a way to try their product. As banal as another editor might seem to some, the care of craftsmanship that this post exudes is refreshing.
I don't think there's really any "rebranding" going on in the case of hares and rabbits. Easter is round about the time when you'll start to see more hares and rabbits outside during the mating season. Hence "mad as a March hare": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_as_a_March_hare

There's probably a long tradition of people in Europe associating March and April with hares, but I don't think there's anything particularly "pagan" about it.
Yeah, some details on implementation would have been welcome.

I'm not sure how often "thundering herd" is actually a problem for your cache, but I could definitely see this being a useful feature to add to a caching system. Even just a way to tell Redis that something will exist there soon and to delay response until it arrives would be nice. (In essence, a Promise.)
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Yep, totally get it. That's why I'm using a throwaway, I'm a heretic to the highest, on the level of an anti-vaxxer.
> My understanding was that most/much of the ice is not glacial.. which I understood as not moving.

I haven't heard that. Could you link where you found that information?
I wish someone built something like this for generic classification. You give the system a bunch of folders. Each folder is a label containing corresponding samples. The system then creates a replica of the folder structure with no content. Each time you give it a new piece of data it places it in one of those newly created folders.

This is an interface truly anyone could use. Just call it "intelligent folders" or something. The user doesn't even need to know which algorithm it uses. Just split sample into training and test data at random and choose the algo that give best results.

I was working on this for text data, but then switched jobs and don't have energy to make this in my spare time right now.
After reading this post on HN about TLA+ a couple of days back, I started learning it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19661329

And now I see this, and I'm already having second thoughts. Prima facie, what I like about DSLabs is it's not so steep learning curve as it's written in a mainstream OOP language. Can anyone who has worked on both TLA+ and DSLabs share thoughts?
The URL you see _is_ the actual URL. It doesn't matter where the content was initially loaded from because the page is signed by the publisher's private key (the publisher has full control over the page contents, Google can't alter it).
I don't think that's terribly analogous. The difference is that when you're using a CDN, the traffic is being redirected on the server side, behind the domain name resolution.

That means that when I go to a site that is using a CDN, my browser isn't lying to me about the domain I'm contacting. It is correctly reporting that information. Whatever routing happens behind that domain is a different issue.
Indeed, Google just has too much market share.

Last week I blocked Google from my domains (blog: lucb1e.com/!130), hopefully others will follow suit and degrade the search quality until people get better results (at least for some more obscure content) elsewhere, or perhaps until Google notices we are really not okay with their behaviour.
The biggest problem for me is loading an external script (hosted by Google), plus CSS rules to hide the content until a timeout if that script doesn't load. It literally makes the pages load slower for me (but will never show up in their telemetry).
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> On a subjective level, it says ... just look at the bright side and carry on!

interesting. i never looked at the film that way.

i took the message in that scene to be that optimism can be overdone, that maybe the belief in Jesus's death/resurrection was simply optimism taken to a really absurd extreme
The open office format has increased our face-time 10 fold.

Not sure what the point of doing studies on this is? It's incredibly cultural and business/job specific.
The thing is, those top three are quite prestigious in Canada. Maybe not as prestigious, but being a smaller country we have less room for minor shifts in ranking value.

MIT could make 5x the money while still taking in extremely qualified students. But, they're a non-profit, so they don’t really care about money. The prestige has more of a perceived value.

Us top 10 schools have a lot of money. But you’d be astounded to see what they could collect if they were truly profit motivated.
> The endless debate on nutrition is exactly because effect sizes and latency are too small and too large, respectively, to easily establish causality.

Small effect size is precisely why you can ignore most nutritional news until it reaches general consensus - because the effect is so small that it's noise in ordinary life (and it's probably noise in the studies too).
Completely agreed, but that's also the point I was making. The issues with sites such as Twitter are fully self inflicted. The network is simply not designed for the spread or promotion of meaningful information. It's designed to attract followers through the promotion of celebrity/business accounts, and maintain their presence through maximizing "engagement" regardless of the direct consequences of prioritizing "engagement." And the celebrity/business accounts are attracted through the ease of being able to promote their business/persona/agenda, regardless of the value of any of these things. It's like running a casino and then suddenly having a fit conscientiousness about it driving poor economic decisions. It's your entire business model!
> Border towns are very unsafe right now

They have been for years, mostly because of drug traffickers and mafia types. That hasn't changed.
I've used it in situations where writing automated tests would have been too difficult compared to running through a checklist each time. I made a web game based on a variant of Chess, and I would run through the checklist before I committed to verify I hadn't broken anything. https://gist.github.com/CGamesPlay/1b3e150c5448c51fd6ea71ea6...
IMO it's always interesting to know what's happened in ancient history, but for the purposes of keeping earth habitable for humans, I'm mainly interested in the period of time in which humans have lived on earth. The rate of change has not been totally unprecedented, but it has been within the time range we've been around.

Superfluous data can distract from salient points; for example it's simply not relevant to the discussion of life on earth what the weather was like when the earth was still a ball of lava. And sure, the temperature changed quite rapidly when the moon was blown off the side of the earth. But how is that important?
> If you resolve always to ACT from first principle, and put your trust in God, why worry about who is lying to you and who is not?

Reminds me of the old joke about the man of great faith who was trapped in a flood: https://storiesforpreaching.com/i-sent-you-a-rowboat/.

I think I am safe in opining that even most clergy would describe such a policy as sticking one's head in the sand rather than being true to one's faith.