skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My argument is that the UI requirements are almost always nonsense. I hate launching a new app and trying to figure out a new interaction model or fighting a themes/fonts that fight my needs (font sizes, contrasting colors, etc). Basic stuff is often broken and there's a long tail, if ever, for them to get fixed. They're also the best candidates to break during an OS or other library update.

The whole reason OSes give you reusable components is so its easy to implement the conventions users are familiar with. Those are the things that are supposed to be fast and easy.

This likely violates the delivery timelines, but Maya, Nuke, and Houdini are all professional, heavily customized apps that were written in their own UI toolkits but were ported years ago to Qt and are cross platform.
The Markup faces staff exodus and funder scrutiny following Julia Angwin ouster
To which I can reply 'come back in 20 years and tell me about your experience maintaining something based on npm and friends'. At least those old crufty systems had the good grace of not having a best-before date measured in weeks. They might lack many other graces but for maintainability there is something to be said for a modicum of temporal stability when it comes to development environments.
Stripe Billing is now available in Europe
Unfortunately for us google is not interested in making the google search engine useful to us in that way. You might be able to append -pinterest.com to your search, I'm not sure that works these days.
Duck fat is also really good for some things like frying potatoes. Relatively hard to find and expensive though.
Yes. However better brokers will give you a cut of the interest.
KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly
Is it not a good thing to catch a criminal in your family? I've yet to see a compelling argument that explains all the tinfoil. Replace DNA with fingerprint and it's the same piece.
Leaked roadmap shows Intel's 10nm woes
> It's literally designed to be forked and used in whatever way the user/developer sees fit.

That's true of open source under "permissive" licenses like MIT, BSD, Apache, and now Blue Oak. It was never true of open source under "copyleft" licenses, strong or weak. Others are free to fork and use copyleft software if they release the results likewise.

When companies choose a permissive license for maximum adoption, and then decry competitors for adopting, I haven't much sympathy, assuming they had the resources and wherewithal to make a better choice. But copyleft was also an available option, and copyleft is plenty open source.
Amazing how you cut the very next sentence after that quote which rules out ““balloons.””
Besides P&G, sugar industry also killed lard

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-in...

Just the other day I saw a pack of gummy "fruit" candy which is basically gelatin and sugar in the store. It was advertised with pictures of fruit with a large label that said how it is fat free.

"Look how healthy this is for you kid, it's just like real fruit and it doesn't have any fat, perfect!".
What is the reflective property
Whenever I cook bacon, I always cook it in the oven. In addition to keeping things relatively clean (as opposed to cooking on the stove top), it also makes collecting the rendered pork fat much easier – you just tip the baking sheet and trickle into whatever container you use.

In this way I accumulate lard with a mild smoke flavour and I use it for a variety of other things. It's not enough to deep fry of course, but it's enough to use a few spoonfuls here and there to add some flavoured fats that I would not be able to otherwise.
I was about to post something similar. Let's say, as a conservative estimate, a manager oversees 5 ICs. Let's also assume, generously, that the manager becomes 50% more productive if he or she doesn't reply to e-mails until the end of the day. If the "overflow" from that strategy causes the ICs to become even 5% less productive, the gain in the manager's productivity is more than wiped out, and the team as a whole is worse off.

A large part of a manager's job is to shield his or her team from e-mails, Slack messages, and other productivity-sapping interruptions. If a manager is grading him or herself by their individual productivity, they're doing management wrong. If an organization is grading its managers by their individual productivity, rather than whether their teams are meeting their objectives, the organization is doing management wrong.
Yeah but then you have to write every library you'll need, since the ecosystem is tiny.
It's never too late :)
The numbers are indeed out of date. I re-ran the tests for some of the C and Nim programs using Nim 0.19.4 and gcc 7.3.0 on Windows 10. Here are the results:

crb-omp 0m22.949s
crb 0m23.240s
crb_opt 0m31.404s

nimrb_pmap 0m8.828s
nimrb_fn 0m22.988s
nimrb 0m26.556s

The base C code is faster than base Nim code. The optimised C code is significantly slower than everything else(!?). The Nim program that uses a threadpool is the fastest of these.

I couldn't get the CPP versions to compile. I'll do the Rust programs some other time.
I'll wager a buck in 10 years you (assuming you don't die from something unrelated) will be here and the world will still be here pretty much as it is today except with a few more whizbang gadgets. And people will still be screaming on the internet about how we're all doomed in 10 years unless we make some annoying irrelevant change like stop eating bacon but something sensible and proven like nuclear power?, nah why bother it won't make a difference.
> The front-page links that say whether comments are present or not would simply be replaced with the word 'discuss'

Please do not do this. This makes HN far less convenient to browse.

I regularly use the "N comments" information to find discussions worth reading. This has nothing to do with "being seen", it has to do with quickly finding interesting comments. The front-page screenshot you show completely removes that signal.

For a similar example, consider how many email clients show you, without opening the mail, when it was sent and whether it has an attachment. This information helps with prioritization and processing, particularly when you have many emails. Comment counts, and to some degree story scores, serve a similar function, for people who are never going to read every story on even one viewing of the front page.

I go to HN, I open a few stories and comment sections in tabs based on a combination of title, comments, and score, then close the front page and start reading.

This isn't similar to the removal of scores from comments. For those, users were already on a page full of comments, comments themselves are relatively short and shown inline, and even without scores they're still reasonably sorted by some HN-internal metric of interestingness, making it possible to just read downwards and stop when your expected value of further comments doesn't seem worth the time of continuing.

Removing comment counts and scores from stories, on the other hand, makes the front page far less usable.

To look at this from another perspective: consider the myriad stories and discussions here on HN, about Facebook and Twitter and similar trying desperately to get their users to read content they don't want to read. "Let's stop sorting timelines reverse-chronological. Let's show random things from people you don't follow. Let's make it impossible to figure out where you left off. Let's make it so when you refresh (or click-then-go-back) you get completely different content and can't find the tweet you just saw a moment ago." No, stop, don't.
This is quite visible in academia. I don't know if it's more common, but it's more obvious. I was advised for a while (until he jettisoned me as a student) by one of the most stupendous bullshitters I've ever met. In one-on-one meetings with him, he'd say things I didn't understand, and I'd say "____, I don't understand what you just said, could you expand on that?" This would go on for a while, and at first I thought it was because I was new to the field. Eventually after reading enough papers, I'd understand. But that's not what happened. Eventually I realized that he had no idea what he was talking about. It was a bit shocking. He's now at an Ivy League college.
There's always a ton of sentiment analysis to be done on "crowds" i.e. on twitter towards companies. If they worked well we'd see 10x numbers from the funds that figured out the methods, but we don't. The crowd means little beyond technical analysis.

Tesla is the most shorted company in the world, of course people are going to try to use whatever they can as evidence to prove it sucks; They have a vested interest in doing so, and Tesla rightly fights back against these kinds of claims, because it's in their shareholders interests.

This article provides some examples of people talking about speculative evidence that Tesla isn't doing well, but you can find that for almost any company. That's what a lot of investment articles are, actually. So it seems like mostly fluff to me.
>But so are people who say they work 40 hour weeks. From working with hundreds of "normal" employees at clients over the years, I'd say the average actual productive time per person is around 25 hours

Agreed, I'd be surprised if I spent more than 25 hours a week actually actively working
That's an issue, certainly. But by default, Debian has no outward-facing services. And by default, ssh login by root is disabled. One would hope that people switch to key-based authentication, and keep their private keys safe. But yes, people screw up sometimes, and maybe hobbyists do more often.

Installing nginx is easy now, and the defaults are quite sane. The configuration logic is a little counter-intuitive, but it's not hard to find setup guides online.

I'm not so sure about the practicability of a user-based Web. For one thing, most ISPs are touchy about websites on home accounts. And many plans still have low upload caps. In the US, anyway.
I double checked my source - and it turns out I read it wrong. It is "one of" the leading causes of vaccine preventable death.

Flu definitely kills a lot more. I don't know how many would be preventable by a vaccine, given that the vaccine isn't that effective (compared to measles).
Aren't 2.1 and 5 pretty impossible to have at the same time? How can you look like Windows on Windows, Linux on Linux, and Mac on Mac, all while looking the same everywhere?
fair question. not sure why its downvoted.

Airbnb bought me onsite for 2 day interview process and kicked me out after 1 st interview.

I went to the beach and museums in SFO for 2 days. Not the best use of my vacation time but not the worst either.
Icing sugar (at least as I know it in Commonwealth countries) also contains cornstarch/cornflour.
Honestly, it's painless. Fire up a cloud server, run the omnibus installer and you're away. I can't remember having any serious issues in five years running it that way.
What I find most sad is that most of the people on HN will rail against how evil Google is (or any other company) yet happily use their Open Source code and not complain that they're benefiting from what they claim to despise.

It's really a tragedy of the commons.

Users on average refuse to pay for software/web apps directly so companies have to find other alternative ways to get funding and make money.

People complain about Facebook constantly and how they're selling their data yet these users wouldn't sign up to pay $2-3 per month for Facebook directly.
Are the action items assigned to an individual? Is someone responsible for seeing them through?
The main reason lard wasn't sold was because the health industrial complex blamed fat for heart disease and a whole host of other health conditions. This started the low-fat food trend which brought way more carbs into our diet which eventually led to the low-carb diets which spurred a renewed interest in animal fat like lard.

In other words, there was a lot of argument from authority that precipitated this, not just corporate profit seeking (which was also significant).
I don't think that time is very hidden. You have to sift through a ton of resumes and then spend hours and hours interviewing and phone screening. If you have actual work to do it's pure misery. I also don't have time to really think about my interviewing technique.

I would much prefer if we had a "hiring department" who are technically knowledgeable, talk to applicants, maybe give them tests and build up a pool of candidates who then can be interviewed by the actual engineering teams.
There are some consistently good commenters whose usernames I recognize. I will give anything they say slightly more weight than a random stranger.

So usernames are useful to me.
A million dollars is a million dollars.

In the court of public opinion, I can judge them guilty.

It is impossible to hold people accountable otherwise, because they will always just settle and escape the political consequences.
Well I think that's deeply rooted in human psyche.
> I also know from experience that time spent travelling is tiring, but is it strictly work?
> On the plane they could have the laptop out and be working on spreadsheets. Or they could be playing Angry Birds. Would one activity count as working and the other not?

If the company put me in that plane, I can do whatever I want and it'll still count as work. I wouldn't be in that plane if it wasn't for the company. The time I'm in that plane, my little kid is not with his father and my wife needs to work extra hard to keep up with her job and then take care of the kid all by herself.

It's so simple I even wonder people would ask themselves questions like this.
Grandmasters also use different tactics against bots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-computer_tactics

The concept of how different human intelligence is from "AI" fascinates me, as it would seem to say a lot about the nature of intelligence and how far we are from GAI (pretty darn far).
Trends in Self Employment Report
"AI," "machine learning," "modern," "blazing fast," and "for humans" for me.
The original comment makes it sound like lard was never really there to begin with in Europe, or at least Scandinavia. There was no "going away" in Europe, so nothing to really inform the hypothesis on it's fall in the US.
Suet is more like back fat (unrendered fat). Tallow is the rendered-fat beef equivalent to lard.
They meant Dorval, that's a suburb of Montreal.
Forget vaping and heated tobacco, and get Allen Carr’s, The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently second hand on Abebooks for less than a pack of cigarettes. It makes sense and works.
> StatusGator monitors the service status pages of more than 410 cloud services.

It looks like they are just an aggregator for status pages. I want something that does its own testing to determine if a service is up or down.
Out of interest, have you actually seen the movie?
I think this is a terrible idea.

It would drastically reduce the value of the site for me. Titles on HN are often not very clear, especially with the policy of removing editorialising by using the site's own title (which is often pretty meaningless out of context). The vote count is very important for guiding the limited time I can spend on the site.
To be perfectly fair, a good chunk of VPN providers primarily see P2P/bulk downloading and streaming traffic.

Ordinary web browsing probably isn't a significant part of VPN traffic when you think about it.

Agree it would reduce bandwidth costs, but there's also a cost to maintaining such infrastructure.
Very true, I make homemade lemonade by just stirring it into lemon juice and cold water. No need to go through the simple syrup route.
If it's sarcastic the remark is fine. Otherwise it reflects the harshness of the current environment where common courtesy doesn't count anymore.
Emails are one medium to support my team. They're not suitable for a rapid response to anything. If something is that urgent it warrants an in-person conversation or video conference.

E-mails are great for medium to large scale logistics and status communication: organizing meetings, ensuring participants have access to necessary documentation, and communicating the status of some on going project.
This reminds me of a thought I've had recently. It'd be interesting to have an anonymous forum like 4chan but with the strong moderation/guidelines of HN or /r/askhistorians.
> the company is based in Quebec, in a suburb of Montreal
Knowing a fact is one thing, but incorporating said fact into your life such that you live it and reap the rewards is another.
ICANN Sells Out: Will Let TLDs Price Gouge Your Domain
>> The most rational solution is to go back to hydrogenated oil.

Or just use olive oil that is high in monounsaturated fats and depends on olive trees that are not amenable to industrial production.

As a bonus, you won't find any research, old or new, be it the purorted result of "lobbying", conspiracies, etc, or not, claiming that olive oil is bad for you.
One thing that always seems a but more complicated at gitlab is to get a full overview/dashboard of my companies projects/repos. Has anyone found a better way to deal with that?
Unseen Clockwork Orange 'Follow-Up' by Anthony Burgess Unearthed
It's not just ads, if you're concerned about privacy then DNS-level blocking won't cut it. For example, you can't block cookies or third-party scripts via DNS blocking.

> So all in all, I don't see much benefit from DNS adblocking

The benefit is as a tack-on for a home network for devices and traffic that doesn't go through a web browser. E.g. for mobile apps connected to the network. But once again, as far as privacy is concerned, that won't block e.g. Facebook SDKs embedded in apps unless you block the relevant domain entirely.
Providing support and custom development, such as integration, creates its own conflicts of interest. Support models create incentives to keep documentation sparse and the software esoteric. Integration models create incentives to keep integration difficult, and to withhold tooling for doing so efficiently.
Blue screen of death windows 10 – Blue screen windows 10
Airline pilot Patrick Smith has a great description of how much human skill is required, even while using autopilot:

(skip down to the section that begins "Here, let me give you a quick demonstration:")

http://www.askthepilot.com/pilotless-planes/
I found my days much more productive when I close email and slack and I just check it maybe every some hours
I wish they offered that option.

I'd sign up for ad free FB for $2-$3 a month if it made it easy to set retention periods on my data and opt out of the collection.
Awesome, great to see a great product continue to grow
I recently started turning up at around 10 and leaving at 4:45 and I get just as much done as when I was in the office 9-6.

I've also started giving more fucks about work, which is amusing as I started showing up late and leaving early due to my lack of fucks.

So in my unsanctioned (and I'm sure time limited once someone complains) experiment with a sample size of one I can say shorter days definitely keep me more engaged and don't seem to slow down my work.
Certainly, but let's not forget that there exist other places to live :)
freemium/OSS the core, premium the plugins/enterprise-features is one business model.

more attractively is the all code for free model, so those who are able can use it for free, and you charge a fee for people who are in need of professional support.

a third one is still all code for free, but you can pay for hosted service instead of self-host the code, time is money for many people these days.

in all cases, you're building a group of followers with OSS, and you sell the hard-to-grasp or time-is-money-for-some-user domain expertise.

how to build your moat as far as competition goes? anyone that is smarter than you could copy all the code and do the same business model, the only thing might be a good license? however these days most OSS license are commercial friendly so I don't know how this works.
Here is one good resource: https://www.wearedonorconceived.com/
I think this has great potential for content creators and their use of royalty-free music. It might just help a lot of the big copyright issues, and distinguish each person's work with a distinct score.
With any luck, animal-based meat (as opposed to lab-designed meat or plant-based imitations) in general will suffer a similar fate.
2019 Applied Ethical and Governance Challenges in AI – Notes from Part I
First, they'll demand you tell them where you're getting your (white-labeled) product, as a condition of continuing to sell. That's the truly shady part.
> I was saying that your claim that "discretionary" in "discretionary military spending" is a weasel qualifier is wrong

In the above, the "discretionary" qualifier is being applied to "federal spending" not "military spending."

> So you keep saying, but the upthread comment is clearly about how much is being spent on that topic. Just because there's a law saying a certain part of the government is entrusted with a given task doesn't mean it's not meaningful to discuss how much needs to be spent on that task.

The upstream comment is arguing that too much is being spent on defense by pointing to defense spending being a high percentage of discretionary federal spending. It is meaningful to discuss whether too much is being spent on the military. But it's misleading to make that argument by pointing out that the part of the government that's meant to provide for defense (and little else) spends a large fraction of its budget on defense.

It's like the statement that "44% of Americans pay no federal income tax." That statement is technically true, but calculated to mislead because it ignores that most of the total tax burden is not "federal income tax." Likewise, more than 80% of total governmental spending is not "federal discretionary spending."
Amazon Smashes Earnings Expectations
Nice! I don't use stylus, but it's definitely good to have options for those who do
I just finally switched one of our projects from a very crappy framework called Metro UI to Bootstrap. The reasons were that the other framework was very poorly coded, supported almost nothing out of the box and also looked pretty bad in a lot of scenarios. Compared to that, Bootstrap works incredibly well, is very well-maintained, supports almost every scenario you can think of (if it isn't supported out of the box, you can find some plugin for it) and adheres to the latest web standards. On top, it's very easy to make something look good with Bootstrap (it will never look GREAT, but solid at least).
Sounds like what Scenic's trying to do for Erlang/Elixir GUI programming, albeit at a lower level.

Also sounds like what wxWidgets already does.
In the mid 2000-s we were researching what video card to use for a product with very long life time
and extremely tedious certification. Once completed, you can't replace one component with another
without invalidating the certificate. While both Ati and Nvidia would offer better performance and
features, Matrox was the only supplier promising to keep stock for the next 10 or so years.