skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He does actually own about 30 newspapers so probably not far off the 500 journalists you mention.
I recently found Oni, which aims to be a web-tech UI for neovim. (The new version should even support the full VSCode extension API / ecosystem) https://github.com/onivim/oni2
"seems reasonable once you factor in the hard decisions that any CEO or top level executives have to make"

Maybe if C level executives / board members faced the same sort of consequences for their poor decisions but that doesn't happen as often as it should. Leadership should face the brunt of the cost for their poor decisions instead of letting others take the hit for them.
Rumours are they will open up / publish their web / html5 export (called hummingbird) at the next Google IO
> I have those too, and no offense to you personally, but I call bullshit on both mine and your acquaintances. In case of people I know, there was not one situation for which I couldn't find a more plausible explanation - which usually boils down to that for enough trials, even the rare coincidences sometimes happen.

Fair enough - this 'statistical argument' is a convenient explanation that can always be invoked, but in this case I don't really consider it to be very satisfactory as an explanation of the phenomena I have been told about (I would put the likelihood for something like those phenomena to happen 'by chance' to be so abysmally low that it seems impossible).

> There is this one reason that it's literally the job of science. Science isn't a bunch of fixed methods from a holy book, it's the aggregation of everything that reliably works for extracting information about observable reality.

I disagree. "Science (from the Latin word scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.". This is far from saying 'science can answer any question'. But again, you're free to believe that science can do that. I just don't happen to believe it can.

> But is it? The hint is given by the fact that there's more than one thinking human in existence. You may feel that answers about your subjective experiences are out of reach of science, but to the extent subjective experiences have any impact on reality, you can use science to study my subjective experiences (as expressed by me), and I can do the same to you.

I think your answer to the other thread makes it clear that we have some insurmountable philosophical differences here. If you believe that showing the correlation between a configuration of atoms and the subjective experience that accompanies that configuration to be 'an explanation' of that subjective experience, we have very different expectations of what constitutes an explanation.
We already learned they were fake with the Air Forces Project Bluebook in the 50s/60s. No need to look further. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book
It works when "pay the producer" is the default option, and not something you have to opt into. Also helps if you are serving a niche audience rather than a general one.

The Stratechery website charges $10/mo for what is essentially a tech consultant's take on SV company product strategy. This is a narrow niche, and the site isn't one that will get millions of ad views. So there aren't any ads at all, and as a bonus, there aren't any throwaway blog posts designed to be shared on social media.
Strange, I'm experiencing this issue as well. Wonder if it's an attack or just normal failure
Maybe in your area. The value of our home has been continually growing in the 3 years since I purchased it, and houses around us have been selling as soon as they hit the market
I'm the PM for the Flutter developer experience. I'm currently digging into the next steps for our desktop experiment with Flutter and I'm very interested to hear how your xplat desktop app dev options fall short. What do you need from an xplay desktop app dev framework and toolchain?

Chris Sells
csells@google.com
A cool project indeed!

I wonder thought if one could just build CIL backend for LLVM.
I think the last step to feeling a sensation is knowing that you felt it. To know that you felt a sensation, the act of feeling itself needs to feedback as a sensation.

I don't think you need a well developed sense of self or philosophy of mind to be conscious. But I think from a systems point of view, the mind needs to be self sensing.
Potato farmers cry foul as PepsiCo sues them
Except your users, they end up with your MBs.
In debug mode the app can be around 25MBs but in release mode the same app can be around 5MBs
The society rewards those “fake it until you make it” con. Sometimes it makes me wonder if the truth still matter anymore.
I hope hell is as engaging and rewarding as that.
I find kabbalah very interesting, because this assertion has been made for a long time without us having something tangible to compare it to. Now we have computers, basic AI, and no signs of slowing down. What if kabbalah, or something similar, is actually how consciousness emerges across different types of observers? I.e., consciousness is a "most likely" pattern that emerges from the initial ability to conceive of time.

Tarot is an example of a more personified version of the same archetypal phenomenon. The first few cards are indicative of susceptibility to experience, concentration of experience, awareness of experience, multiplicity of experience, and mastery of experience.
North American drilling boom threatens major blow to climate efforts
I don't follow. Are you suggesting random = whiteboard?
Just started digging into it, but seeing as he's using the Investigations, I'm expecting a bit more emphasis on linking up technologies with a nominative signpost that more clearly elucidated the essence of what it is actually doing.

I.e. ripping away the Facebook moniker for the social media platform and replacing it with descriptive language indicating what it actually does. Will update or reply with inevitable disappointment when my expectations fail to be lived up to.
Absolutely fascinating to me that this is voted up to the top of HN without anyone present talking about the elephant in the room on this particular issue of chronic bullshitters being more successful than they should be.
Isn't a user required to enter their name and address information for you to be able to charge the card? Doesn't that have to match the card?

No and no.

There is a certain amount of basic checking of some parts of an address that can optionally be done. It's nothing like as comprehensive as you seem to be expecting, though.

Your card provides name and address information.

Not necessarily, at least not that the merchant can see in full. Again, just because the card issuer has such information, that doesn't mean the merchant necessarily does.

If a user is somehow paying for services with cash online... doesn't that rather necessitate that they can't enroll in automatic billing? So, how does that have anything to do with the topic at hand: automatically billing against cards which are no longer valid.

The point was that you don't necessarily have to know someone's identity definitively to trade with them lawfully.
Or possibly the OP is arguing against generally held preconceptions. As in, "Lamborghinis are actually lower in CO2 emissions than the average coupe on an annual basis, because their owners drive them so little."
> I hate using services and having my data all on some remote service w/ little options for privacy and safety/backup

Ah, but you see, the current crop of developers loves these things because you can make a lot of money when people have to pay you rent. They might talk a good game about open source and empowerment, but they're behavior says they'd rather make money.
I've always wondered about this strategy. I'm a developer and a business owner. I'm in AWS's core target demographic. I know three things about AWS:

- Their products have weird names
- Their web console has horrible UX
- The lie about uptime and server status

I'm not looking to switch to AWS soon.
Seattle is full of "older houses, high (and increasing taxes), and undesirable weather" but I guess the job prospects make up for it.

Again, not sure what I did to deserve downvotes considering Seattle is full of old and historic buildings, neighborhoods, and districts and has pretty crappy whether. The taxes aren't the worst in the country, but they are certainly not low either. Seems like the downvote feature on this site is used as a "diagree" button similar to reddit, which I don't believe is the intent. Not even sure how I managed to hurt feelings in this case, considering I was just saying Seattle sucks based on those criteria but no one is having a hard time selling as was stated
know they could replace anyone with unpaid interns if needed because well that’s the state of desperation already.

Is this true, given how low unemployment is? (With respect to Google engineers being in a different situation from supermarket workers, teachers, uber drivers, etc.)

I would think workers have more power now than ever in recent memory given low unemployment and the current administration's aversion to immigration. Where are these replacement workers coming from? I disagree that unpaid interns is tenable solution.
Yeah the article expects you to accept that without question. I'm totally fine with FB removing it from their servers - I would do the same thing. But government interference here would destroy the internet, plain and simple. We can have "nuanced" discussions all day long, but there is no "nuanced" law around what can and cannot exist on the internet.
Do you realize that the first paragraph of your post directly contradicts the second?

1. Facial recognition played a role.

2. Facial recognition played no role.

One of the two must be false. It is the second. Facial recognition played a role. Specifically, it linked the face seen in video where a crime was observed to a face that misidentified itself.

The speculation on Apple's part was that the name the face presented for itself was genuine, and not a deception. It did not stop to assess the probability of all customers presenting fake ID, or the conditional probability of a customer presenting genuine ID given that they are a suspected serial shoplifter.

That last one is relevant. A person that can do a grab-and-run theft might also be willing to do a fraudulent purchase theft by giving a stolen, cloned, or credit-fraud card and stolen or faked ID. So while you might be able to assume that regular customers usually give genuine ID, giving fake ID and stealing from retail stores are probably not independent events. Once you have reason to believe a person is stealing, based on the facial recognition matches, you can't trust that they are who they said they were with the same confidence.

And what would Apple have done if the same person had given a different stolen or faked ID, on a different occasion, and that name was also linked to the case by facial recognition?
Terrible interview question: Swap variables without a temporary
That's not the case; if speech is considered an action like any other, it can be regulated like any other action. The implication is not that actions are forbidden unless they are specifically allowed. You aren't specifically allowed to eat fries or post comments on HN - yet you do so anyway. And you would, rightly, resist a law which says you can't, just as you'd resist a law which contravenes a constitutional right to freedom of speech.
> Do you people have that many hostile IoT / Smart thingies

My primary reason for running PiHole? Two Roku devices that cannot help but call home. It doesn't take "many" to make it annoying and unwanted.
Both of those are working for me. Much appreciated!
Stop saying you'd vote for Donald Duck
Android has plenty of issues and in the past 10-15 years Google has learned a lot from it and from Chrome OS.

I think it makes sense that it would go back to the drawing board and try to make something better from scratch.

Time will tell.
Could DevOps Best Practices Have Saved Jurassic Park?
These days, Xamarin looks interesting. Can target windows, Linux, Mac, Android and IOS. I have not used it yet but if I get a project that needs full Cross platform distribution, I would probably use xamarin with a F# code base where possible.
..for values of incredibly low cost that equal stolen
3M cutting 2K jobs is the reverse of 2K cutting 3M jobs...
confirmed, us-west works for logging into the console.
> Almost every single step of those are optional depending on the people in the household.

Indeed.

I'm lazy, and as a result I select my clothing almost entirely with minimizing washing effort in mind. I tend to buy clothes that I don't need to sort out before washing, I buy most of my socks to be identical so I don't have to match them, I avoid clothes that require ironing to look even halfway presentable, and so forth.

Properly done, laziness can be an art form.

All that said, I do fold my clothes. For me, it's not that time-consuming or difficult.
Ah, why did you have to spoil a great cultural observation with a contemporary political dig at the end?
The research says structured interviews and work-sample tests have similar predictive power and all together they have yet more. The takeaway shouldn’t be IQ über alles.
Why is there a ten second timer to load a page? The industry standard is two seconds, any longer is too slow and will lose visitors.
Sounds like this make a sandwich exercise is rather good for understanding the issues with gathering software requirements; it confronts the students with creeping requirements, before they even know how to code.

Coding should probably be taught with a background of requirements that are precisely given in terms of the abstractions that are being used in the code. So that is to say, the problem itself doesn't have to be something abstract (like a number-theoretic computation); it can be connected to something in the real world. But the representational mapping from that domain to the computer should be established by the teacher, so there is no irrelevant fumbling about the requirements.

In the case of the sandwich, we should provide a procedure which somehow takes the slices of bread out of the bag. Similarly, we provide all other necessary procedures, and only those procedures are to be used. Then we eliminate questions about the detailed requirements about what those procedures themselves do, like can the bag be ripped, or does the removal have to be tidy.

A good domain for teaching coding might be game playing (cards, etc). People understand that the objects used in games are abstract, and that certain details do not matter to the game, like the exact shape of a rook in chess or its precise placement within a square. It could just be the letter "R" in an 8x8 grid of characters (with "r" being the opposite color).

Symbolic games are basically a form of mathematics that is instantiated in the real world whose abstractions people readily understand. Moreover, they have a point (to have fun), so the "why are we doing this" question is settled.
I've seen people fail fizz buzz firsthand.
Remember When We Were Young?
I'm assuming they meant it was hard to harvest it when grown in this manner because it used to grow outside my grandma's barn without anyone doing anything for it.
What would most likely here would be abstracting this problem into a library that could isolate "unsafe" in a place where it could be specified, tested and examined in isolation.
I agree that the search in Fastmail is fairly bad - it does have an 'advanced' menu option that isn't immediately obvious, but it's still not super great.

You made me panic when you mentioned Spam false positives, as I've never really bothered checking that folder!

Thankfully I don't appear to have any so far. Better than bloody GMail arbitrarily deciding that subscriptions and emails I've long-since received from various sources being suddenly spam... .
we have 2 boards. Ice box and product board. The product managers control which tickets make it to the product board and what their prioritisations are. We plan projects via spreadsheets in google docs at the beginning of each cycle. It's not perfect and we're constantly working on it but I have faith it's the best approach for us.
Anyone got experience with this? https://webkit.org/wpe/

Here it is in use on raspberry pi https://medium.com/@decrocksam/building-wpe-webkit-for-raspb...

A long video on it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=klfE6m1oCkg

A short video on it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wVSwkj9McCU

It says: "WPE is the reference WebKit port for embedded and low-consumption computer devices. It has been designed from the ground-up with performance, small footprint, accelerated content rendering, and simplicity of deployment in mind, bringing the excellence of the WebKit engine to countless platforms and target devices."

I'd be interested to know how to use it.
Yep, that's fine, but it's not much of a firewall. And unless I'm mis-reading this, this doesn't allow you to combine multiple domains.
This book is a MUST READ imho. I heard him pitching the book on KQED Forum, he seems quite a pleasant, amiable fellow.

Books like this deserve a re-read at least once. Now I know to do the audible for round 2 in a few years.
It would be interesting to force Wasm through an asm.js polyfill for non tier-1 trusted sites. Then one would have higher assurance that malicious Wasm couldn't do anything that js couldn't do.

Wasm will be absolutely pervasive at all levels of the stack.
This is the issue. If your marketing, product, and hiring lingo is all self-aggrandizing BS, then your organization will come to reflect that same style. Tech companies are creating BS, communicating BS, and rewarding BS, so is it really such a surprise that the workers themselves have live/breath/eat BS in order to succeed? Those who don't embrace are seen as not fitting in to that organization's "corporate culture".
I think the thing I miss most about AWS was sipping coffee while watching the #wtf peanut gallery on wednesday mornings and during events like this
Do you mean cochlear implants?
Rippling handles that: you can onboard / off-board employees in one click
https://status.aws.amazon.com/

Shows AWS Web Console:

9:50 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates when loading the AWS Management Console.
>> push and promote “fake it till you make it”

Causality then render a situation where bullshitters have now gotten so good at faking it that buyers of tech are simply herrings among hungry dolphins. Bullshitters in our industry have united and made it impossible for buyers (herrings) to see any other choice but to become swallowed as a meal. So they try their best to choose the very best dolphin to be swallowed by. And then they are swallowed.

Because:

- founders (who are bullshitters) will hire other bullshitters
- the world is saturated with flawed, illogical messages and we have become used to it

Solution:

- stand the F up on every meeting where you hear BS, and call "shenanigans"!.
If you’re going to study something, study it where you can best measure it. Develop your tools and methods. Create theories on this and apply them to new, more difficult domains... hopefully get feedback and insights from the larger community as you progress. Science proceeds at a pace and through a process.
Seems funny to respond to an article that says X with 'Actually, X'. Doesn't 'actually' usually introduce an alternative view or a contradiction?
This is explained in part by the Dunning-Kruger effect (which ties into the Impostor Syndrome).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Even if it bolts you just need to snap of the flowering stem, you can still continue picking, and it doesn't even bolt that easily.
The only plant I know to reliably bolt is in a local allotment and is 6ft across, and 3 ft tall (that's the root mass, not the leaves).
I'd say there's a strong correlation between willingness-to-pay for Pinterest and being a power user on Pinterest.

As such, chances are, you're a power-user, and you (or at least your power-user peers) are generating way above-average ad revenues.

Not only that, but due to your willingness-to-pay for things online, you're also a particular niche within the poweruser group. i.e., a person 1) with money 2) of age, card-holding, ability to pay 3) willing to pay for things etc... you're an ideal e-commerce customer, and thereby an ideal advertising-target that also generates more ad revenue than the average.

In short, to replace you, you'd probably have to pay substantially more than the average.

The more typical pinterest user may only scarcely visit, be quite unwilling to pay anything, and generates a lot less than $9.
"Fake it till you make it" is often about jumping at a market opportunity on borrowed time, money, or experience. Like Bill Gates licensing MS Basic before he had written it.
They polluted the heck out of a lot of land in MN and NJ, but it looked liked they got away with it until recently. One example http://www.startribune.com/lake-elmo-to-use-3m-settlement-mo...
The idea that the civil war wasn't about slavery is mostly the view pushed by the North before the war. Before the war, there was a balance of slave and non-slave states, and any time they were added, that balance was preserved. Lincoln's position was that slavery was OK, but should spread into any new states, and that would have tipped the balance in congress to anti-slavery. After Lincoln was elected, the states began to succeed, and in their succession documents, they quite clearly stated that it was about slavery. The public position of the North was that they fought to prevent the South from succeeding, and they didn't want to end slavery (followed with a wink, wink, nudge, nudge). And its that attitude that allowed the South, after the fact, to promote the idea that it wasn't about slavery, and the North wasn't about to correct them.
It is probably best to avoid political commentary on HN but since you provided (one possible) political interpretation of these events which I am convinced is absolutely incorrect, I feel compelled to (merely - nothing more) note for others that it is just one possible interpretation; and that calling it the "consensus" is quite a stretch; even when one's scope is restricted to employees (past and present) within BoL. (I grant that yours is one possible narrative, of course). I will add a couple of notes here and will then suggest not to pursue the matter further, since its nature is both speculative and political. :)

I will only ask you to consider --

> Next month there is going to happen the elections for the parliament of the EU, and a few weeks after a presidential election. In 2020 MP elections are going to happen.

Consider observing how investigations will continue after the elections above (need to wait for that). (2020 elections... may as well say that everything is done as a function of the four year election cycle in that case, but that would be a bit moot, I would think). Also consider that the recession / VILIBOR etc. investigation conclusion dates were pushed ahead past the target May 2019 election dates (which had been agreed by a parliamentary vote back in 2018, voted for by opposition as well, including their main presidential candidate (she hadn't decided to go ahead with her candidacy back then), by the way) - and this push-ahead was an idea suggested and advocated by the chairman of the commission. P.S. besides VSD there is also FNTT, and FNTT has a pretty different (and rather bleak) outlook on these matters.
Their datasets aren't useful for the problems that make driving hard. Musk is making claims which are paper thin false. If he weren't making these kinds of claims I'd take him more seriously. I promise you that the reasons this is ludicrous are extremely solid.

Edit: fwiw I've actually taken a look at a number of waymos internal systems, and sat down with people who worked on autopilot.