skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially at Google, you first see the same problem appearing and getting solved in multiple products, then someone tries to come up with a more generic solution that works for most projects and, just as importantly, can serve more traffic than the existing solutions. Having to rewrite things on a regular basis because of growth is painful, but can also be a blessing in disguise.

Who that someone is who works on the generic solution, can vary. Sometimes it's one or more of the teams already mentioned. Sometimes, like in this case, it's someone with expertise in related areas that takes the initiative. And a project of this scope invariably gets reviewed on a regular basis by senior engineers, all the way to Urs (who leads all of technical infrastructure). Shared technologies require not just headcount to design and write the systems, but also to operate them (by SREs when they're large enough), so you need to get upper management involved as well.
r/emacs: Current maintainer and many famous package developers hang around there. Great and friendly place to ask.

r/privacytoolsio: Excellent tips on privacy e.g., F-Droid.

PS: I hate the new Reddit redesign. The old Reddit design was really good. I don't get the change.
Another take on this would be to open source components developed, but not the application itself, and be more subtle about the client mess. That's a better way to get some positive marketing out of what would be wasted time.
Using a SMT solver to find optimal GBA palettes
Have there been largeish tests of company wide four-day work weeks in the software sector?

Here in Sweden the movement has mostly been push by the left, and for workers with lower wage/burnout/high amounts of sick leave etc. I think it's mostly been tested in the health care sector. I think it lowered the amount of sick leave, but was too expensive to keep since those type of jobs are very hard to make more productive. I.e, we always need nurses on staff at the ER, or to look after the elderly.

Most office-type work seems that it could potentially benefit from this though.
There were (and still are) whole families of aristocrats who never needed to lift a finger in their life, and they seemed to find ways to not be too bored. I've never heard of high degrees of suicides amongst the very rich.
That depends very much on the terms of the contract and how the rights to the work were approached. If the rights were only to transfer upon payment, or not at all, then this action is entirely appropriate.

It sounds very much like this was a freelancer creating a product, not a contractor providing work.
I agree, ordinary bigotry is conservative.
But then my rent would drop 20% and I'd just be better off.
"The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on".

"the caravan" == employers.
That's what contracts are for. They specify a set of promises and what happens when they're broken. If necessary, courts will step in and enforce the contract terms.
Is it possible that a group/party can offer something you find very agreeable, like universal healthcare, while simultaneously being dedicated to installing unrelated authoritarian policies?
I also make the body background pink and the outline a different color.
Ask HN: How to come up with sideproject ideas?
I have some time available, but no idea what to fiddle around with. What would be an interesting way to brainstorm little side project ideas to work on? What kind of questions can one ask himself?
Thanks. Damn, glad I don’t live in one:

“In 2012, the media reported the case of John Pittas, whose mother had received care in a skilled nursing facility in Pennsylvania after an accident and then moved to Greece. The nursing home sued her son directly, before even trying to collect from Medicaid. A court in Pennsylvania ruled that the son must pay, according to the Pennsylvania filial responsibility law.”
I've always been amused by the conspiracy that flat earth is a smoke cloud put up to make all conspiracy theories look bad.
I believe the peasant's king would be just as astonished.

Do you think our world isn't incredible, and by far the best a human could ever hope for so far?
The idea is good in principal but its going to be gamed to death.

Some people derive satisfaction from their work !

Others don't.

Also will the pay be the same ? Call me a cynic but knowing business owners they will never accept lower hours for same pay. They will spend all their time figuring out how to game it.

All these solutions, studies seem like busy work for though leaders who have nothing better to do.

The best solution is quite simple - Universal Basic Income.

It can't be gamed as easily and by definition it costs less and gives everybody more freedom at the same time.

Normally I feel like rules that restrict freedom ( like you can ONLY work 40 hours ), you have to be skeptical.
In many ways its worse, PRC doesn't arrest or extrajudicially murder people that have never visited China from what I understand.

Julian Assange would be surfing in Australia with his family right now if he exposed Chinese war crimes.
nah, newfangled stuff, cross browser compatability issues, not worth it - it won't catch on
>Western societies pride themselves as abiding by the rule of law, and it is an important ideal IMO, but the application in reality is more on a Bell curve.

I agree that the rule of law is a nice ideal, but there appears to be an emerging split between the effectiveness of rule of law systems and their proposed values.

The historical arguments were not just that the rule of law is ethical, but also that it is effective at delivering for its citizens. So when the OP points to murder rates or the article points to atrocious health standards that fall below even middle-income trap countries, then that doesn't exactly fill me with optimism.
Follow up: I redid one of the graphs to satisfy my own interest in the question. Instead of averaging over all the movies ever released like the article did, I averaged over all the votes. This was an attempt to answer the question of whether the average viewing experience of a film from year x is better or worse than that of a film from year y.

I found that there has been a noticeable decline in the average rating of over half a point (out of 10) since ~1930 or so. https://i.imgur.com/bY9vPvk.png

I think this should be explained in a combination of two ways:

* History acts as a filter. If I choose to watch a movie from 1947 it's probably because a lot of people over the years have said it's good.

* To some extent, older movies may really be better than more recent ones.

I still suspect that the blockbuster effect means that the movies people are mostly to watch are going to receive higher ratings than the average film overall. And this is mostly because people rating blockbusters are less critical than the film-viewing community as a whole. So while there might be no "recency bias" of the kind this article was looking for, there might be blockbuster bias where in the last several decades studios have figured out how to capitalize on a less critical / cynical audience. (That hockey stick graph of 8-10 ratings in the article is certainly suggestive.)
What kind of American? Multigenerational living is still routine among African Americans and Hispanic Americans, and pretty common among rural white Americans. The median distance an American lives from their mom is just 18 miles.
Agree. Is it a Jekyll theme or some totally customized template?
It’s pretty hard to claim and prove discrimination. I don’t know how an individual person could defend themselves against genetic discrimination. It’s far easier to endow people with ownership of themselves their data and components. Maybe a law that requires dna data to follow a sort of “disclosure of stewardship.” Ie the dna owner has to be given the ability to track, remove, and submit their data - with no “opt-ins” without prior authorization.
Bootstrapping a Marketplace for Mentors to $3.5K/Month
Paul Joseph Watson was an employee of Info Wars. Like, the whole thing of that site is conspiracy theories? I can't help but feel you're being disingenuous when you question Info Wars members being conspiracy theorists.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, the agricultural sector in Europe is rather strong. The US is the world's top exporter of food, but the Netherlands come second.
Wikipedia Shows How to Handle Political Polarization
I dont know whats the point of being so negative to someone's efforts.

The author is given a very clear indication that this is not a good direction, and hopefully changes direction quickly. He actually replied to another comment I made where I gave some advice (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20130696), and said he continued working on it because of "overwhelmingly-positive community feedback", despite already being aware of the limitations of UWP. Maybe if he encountered a bunch of "UWP sucks, go Win32!" comments back then, he might've come up with something far more interesting and useful.

In other words, you can blame this idiotic "positivity culture" every time you see something half-assed, bloated, or just plain broken, or when huge mistakes are made because everyone was all smiles and happiness, and no one said NO until it was too late...
Ok then. Here's some science from a genetic expert professor: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

According to him, you'll just drop dead after six months. I've been eating vegan longer than that, so it could be any day now.
that's why I said it seems...because I'm not aware of any academia discourse or civil societal movement from china focusing on this kind of thought policing in its extreme. based on what I experienced, It SEEMS to me Chinese people are quite content and obsessed with their economic well-being.

Historically it's the middle class people who demand a share of power and who initiate all sorts of social reform and progression to protect their wealth and social status. Chinese middle class is very large now(in both absolute and relative terms) and arguably more wealthy than their western counterpart, however, the expected calling for more freedom, democracy, and human rights simply does not exist.
Throwing servers at the problem is less impressive then thinking very hard and solving it with less.
It's partially because, in Europe, the states are funding arts in a myriad of ways (grants for writers, video game designers, major money for covering costs of making films, tons of museums etc.), while in the US, even the major philharmonics are only funded by private sponsors. In EU, if you're very good at networking, art can be relatively easy money.
I’m just waiting for the part where her husband divorces her and takes all their money and leaves the country.

Life has a way of making a mockery of all your best laid plans.

What’s the point of suffering like this? She has escaped poverty from a financial perspective but not a mental one.
I was expecting this to show up... there's an original video, but thanks for finding this one!
I think three day weekends would be undeniably good for the health of our society and everyone living in it.

I have long (semi-jokingly) professed belief in the Church of the SubGenius. They extol the virtues of slack. I think the intended meaning of “slack” is as in “to slack off.” But I choose to believe in it as slack (i.e. spare capacity) in a system.

While some might use that extra day to slack off, plenty more would use that day to invest labors in their communities, maybe to get some exercise, maybe do some neglected repairs around the house.

I feel like in the name of efficiency, we’ve purged a lot of slack from the system, but that has left us with a lot of institutions that are at risk for catastrophic failure. For people who are stretched to their breaking point, there needs to be more slack.
I wonder if an enterprising attorney general could try to go after Plaid for CFAA violations. They are arguably making unauthorized, fraudulent access to banks’ computer systems.
The ROI from vacations when your younger vs much earlier retirement seems to favor early retirement.
And for anyone who isn't familiar with (what I would consider) the most important difference in this use-case: borders affect the positioning of other elements, whereas outlines do not. You don't want to be using a temporary border, since it can significantly affect the layout of your site when you remove it.
Linux and Supercomputers (2018)
So now the idea is to make it so that the only algorithmic pathsways to information are to the sanctioned ideas? That's dangerous! Basically, in 2019, you don't have to burn books. The powers that be can bias the power of discovery and viral spread towards the ideas they like and away from the ideas they don't like. You don't have to suppress, just make the ratified ideas orders of magnitude louder. Or, that was the theory. Now they have to resort to mislabeling and mass deplatforming. This mental control scheme is failing just like the Soviet's control over official media failed: People will eventually see through the manipulation and stop believing it.

That's not to say that damage won't be done in the meantime. What's driving society crazy isn't some single percentage slice of economically disadvantaged under-educated fringers with theories just about everybody knows are crap. What's driving society crazy is the meddling in the free market of ideas. It's the breakdown of discourse itself. It's all of the perverse incentives to communication and other manipulation perpetrated by big tech firms that may or may not be monopolies. It's the meddling with people's speech by entities that aren't governments, but have more power and more tech savvy than most of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

These big media/technology companies have been amplifying outrage, amplifying outrageous behavior, bubbling people into echo chambers to further amplify the outrage, and aiding and abetting the toxic mislabeling of ordinary views and formerly protected forms of discourse -- which just adds even more amplification in the form of outrage.

The problem is not the single-percentage fringers without access to economic power, the halls of power, and the ear of those who control the newest forms of media technology. They are merely a symptom. Look instead to the politically skewed access. Remember: power corrupts!

Look at the magnitude of how crazy society's gotten in the past several years. Who has the wealth, algorithmic/technological power, and reach to do all of that? The answer's simple. Look for the tickers with the multi-billion dollar valuations!

All society needs to fix things, is to actually have Free Speech and a level, non-manipulated free marketplace of ideas.
I think you're probably agreeing with Carroll's argument about cognitive instability.

Our universe, assuming we aren't hallucinating or falsely remembering our experiences in it, likely allows for Boltzmann brains that hallucinate or falsely remember a universe like ours, and also those that hallucinate or have false memories about universes very different from ours. I can't even guess at the probability distribution of false experiences of one type complex universe versus another type of complex universe, but hallucinating any universe well is a lot less probable than a lump of Boltzmann grey matter that does not have any memories of experiences (false or otherwise) at all, because a thinking, remembering brain (Boltzmann or not) has a much lower Boltzmann entropy than a non-thinking, non-remembering brain.

> I don't see how the properties of our Universe give any information on whether Boltzman Brains are possible

It's just fluctuation theory combined with two things: a cold and nearly uniform photon "gas" in the far far future assuming expansion continues, and the ability of overdensities of even IR photons to combine into more complicated bound states of matter. The cosmic microwave background exists, and there will also be an even sparser gas of ions that can capture any charged leptons produced if enough CMB photons localize and interact. If forming dense collections of molecules this way seems highly improbable to you, you are on the right track. :-)

The idea is to try to develop a no-go theorem about the early universe being in a high-entropy condition. Fluctuation theory does very well with structure formation, but if it's just fluctuations in an effectively uniform hot gas of matter (in the most general sense) then why do we have a dust of galaxies (at least one of which has real brains) rather a dust of Boltzmann brains? The latter are much much more likely than the former to fluctuate out of a higher-entropy state.

Our past being much lower entropy even at the hottest densest phase of the universe solves some arrow-of-time / manifold-orientability problems as well.

Among other things this motivates attempts to observe the "dark ages" after the CMB formed but before the first starlight, and detailed studies of the fine-grained structure of the relic fields (of which the CMB is one) produced in the early universe. The "noise" in the CMB is expected to be (and frankly appears) at lower entropy than the "noise" in the distribution of matter. But the "noise" in the latter does not appear to produce signs of Boltzmann brains in (or nearby) high-redshift galaxies. (Intriguingly there appears to be quite a lot of singly ionized carbon generating 158 micron fine-structure lines -- ALMA also sees a fair amount of water, HCN, HCO+, SiO and a few other molecular lines at high redshift, and practically everyone thinks it's more reasonable to blame this on the earliest stars being enormous and dying young and very violently, rather than heavier-than-lithium nuclei fluctuating into existence far from what became (proto-)stars. The "Boltzmann brain" argument applies to much simpler things too, including carbon atoms and organic molecules).
Valuation and Stock Market Returns: Adventures in Curve Fitting (2013)
Most of the comments on both threads about this story center on whether this is malicious activity by China Telecom on behalf of the PRC. My sense is those commenters perhaps haven't read the actual story closely.

What happened here is that a small Swiss provider, Safe Host, accidentally advertised routes it shouldn't have (those routes may also have been AS-padded, as a safeguard to make them less attractive as primary routes). China Telecom mistakenly propagated those routes, and in doing so became the preferred path for a bunch of prefixes.

There appear to have been two mistakes here. China Telecom's was in propagating the Safe Host advertisements, but the crucial mistake happened at Safe Host in Switzerland, by leaking those routes in the first place.

I understand the impulse to want to live on an exciting cyberpunk Internet where major governments are constantly manipulating BGP4 to capture WhatsApp traffic or whatever, but these "mistakes" are almost always just mistakes. It doesn't help that BGP4 itself is a clownfire of mistakes duct-taped together with other mistakes: significant chunks of global Internet routing policy are bound up in regular expressions.
I only have experience with OSGi from analysing the architecture of jailbroken Kindle Touches. It's possible Lab126 didn't use it correctly, though. They don't have a good track record (the first jailbreak for the KT was a mp3 with html tags that were rendered unescaped by the stone age old browser which was running as root).

The article claims "OSGi provides the type safety between modules that Java provides between classes" but I didn't see any of that.

Just a ton of services and modules that send message around that let to so much decoupling that you didn't have any Java language support anymore.

It looked like trying to do OO in C. You can do that but then you are completely on your own and have to ensure everything by hand.
There's no real pharmacological difference b/w prescription and illicit drugs
I wasn't in the AI team (I was the architect for the cloud infrastructure and backend), but my understanding was it was pretty much a "textbook" implementation (I dabbled with GAs, basic neural networks and swarm optimisation several years ago).

I actually kind of surprised, because I didn't realise people still used GAs any more, let alone such a standard implementation.
What word would you prefer I use? I was trying to avoid painting the right wiht that brush by using it, but I'll not use that term then. The guy in the article watched a lot of Stefan molyneux videos and he's a white supremacist. That's what the article was about, that's why I brought up white supremacists. You go down that youtube rabbit hole and you just get the "race realists" eventually. That's the topic of the article.
Standing in the street in Miami during a hurricane is also extremely risky. That doesn't make it a impressive achievement.

For that matter, so is playing russian roulette.
We could use gene drive to eliminate all of them without
causing physical pain to any particular one. Maybe not having children will cause psychological pain, but many people seem to chose that on their own, so maybe that's not very bad
The OPs point is marriage to a rich guy. Not just marriage.
Interesting, it is mostly whitespace for me. Maybe because of my large monitor?
Eh, at least it's not CODE
Yes it was. It also bothered me while reading.

I think he’s advocating for semantic HTML, not 90s HTML
Reading this article brought to mind one of my favorite radio stations, WOJB. It's located in rural northern Wisconsin. I live in Minnesota outside of its broadcasting range, but I always look forward to listening to it on my trips to visit my relatives who live in the upper peninsula of Michigan.

The first time I listened to it the DJ had his 4 year old daughter with him in the studio and during one of the breaks she asked him to sing her favorite song. He obliged and it was some depressing country song, but towards the end she joined in enthusiastically, breaking the tension. It was very heartwarming. That is my favorite radio memory and the kind of radio you don't get from corporate stations.

After that I looked the station up and learned that it was founded to bridge the divide between the Native American and white populations of the region between whom there were significant racial tensions. I can't speak to whether it did or not, but it certainly seems like it has. One year while driving through I caught a live broadcast of a pow-wow which was a delightful surprise.

A few years ago I was driving through the area and I couldn't pick them up. The next town I got to I stopped to look up the station to see if I had just forgotten the right frequency but it turned out that their transmitter had broken and needed a complete replacement. In the end it took them about a year to raise the funds to buy and install the new transmitter and I think they are still operating at reduced power because their antenna needs to be replaced (which is apparently in part what caused the original transmitter to break). It just goes to show how fragile these institutions that can form the pillars of communities can be.

They do broadcast online, but I find that when I'm not traveling I mostly listen to local stations here in Minneapolis. Minneapolis is almost certainly a beneficiary of the policies the article cites as the cause of the decline of rural radio. Radio here is as vibrant and alive as it's ever been (at least that I've been around). I have 6 different public stations that all have different programming in my car presets and there are many more commercial stations I listen to on occasion. The FM dial is completely packed (I don't think there are any open frequencies right now) and the AM dial is pretty full as well. I just wish this did not come at the expense of my rural neighbors (and I don't think it has to).
As a generalist developer nearing 40, I worry about this all the time. I have extensive and valuable experience in certain areas, including management, but I have started investigating other directions I can take my career and more focused specialities I can pursue to extend my shelf life, because it's seems pretty clear that it's not really viable to continue my current path.