skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who are the people looking at the pages/apps? Is there a way to match reviewers to my target audience?

Because getting reviews from the general public (or mechanical turk, etc.) is not necessarily going to be meaningful if an app is targeting a specific niche.
Sigh... I blame Greenpeace. Really. Japan was slowly moving away from whale meat. The only people who ate it were older people who nostalgically ate it because it used to be in their school lunches 50 years ago. Everyone I ever talked to said that they didn't like it the few times they ate it. "The Cove" was aired and it moved public perception of eating dolphin meat and whale meat into something embarrassing. It was almost certainly going to disappear.

And then Greenpeace decided it would be a good idea to confront Japanese whaling ships and throw rancid butter onto the decks. It hit all the big news outlets in Japan. From that point on, all I heard was, "What are these people children? Why are they doing such anti-social things to our fishermen?" It put everybody's backs up. In defiance, a few izakayas started featuring whale meat. It still wasn't popular but there was this idea of "This is our cultural identity and it's under attack". So people ate it.

Now whale and dolphin meat are in every supermarket I've been to in the last few months. It's so incredibly stupid. On top of that, I'm hearing people talk about tuna stocks and say, "All those foreigners are eating sushi now and the tuna is disappearing. It's not their culture. Why does Japan have to suffer from the selfishness of others?" Of course, the average Shunsuke in the street has no idea that Japan takes 80% of the tuna catch and that it's been unsustainable for decades.

It is so frustrating when I see people make such hamfisted efforts on such important issues. If you want to convince Japanese people, you can't use the tactics you used in other cultures. You need to understand Japanese culture and you need to be very careful because if you get it wrong it will backfire spectacularly.
Well Tesla's stated goal is to migrate cars from ICE to electric, even if they aren't Teslas. That require money, quite a bit actually. As many business have learned you get the maximum market share if you have a wide variety of price points. Each price point needs to appeal to a different market and you have to carefully avoid not frustrating customers with behavior that's viewed as unfair.

So if Tesla gives they same batteries to everyone, nobody will pay more for larger batteries, Tesla has less money, and loses one of the justifications for different model prices. As a result Tesla growth and spending on R&D would have to drop.

Additionally the "unused" sells are used, very useful in fact. The lower load per cell generates less heat when charging or discharging. The lower heat keeps the batteries happier. The lower load per cell means the batteries last longer. So the 200 mile range drivers paid for 200 miles range, but will get better battery life than if they had gotten an actual physical 200 mile battery.

By similar logic, should every Tesla customer get "free" full self driving because every Tesla ships with the hardware? Should every windows box get all commercial software for free, because they have the hardware required to run it?
So cities change timings in an illegal way? How is this possible :O
Well, at the very least those producing the sterile plants have to keep fertile plants.

There are actually plant lines which are more or less sterile and can't really reproduce sexually any more, because they have been (naturally) cloned.

The point is that modern breeding schemes and technology is necessary to feed the growing world population. There is no margin to reduce agricultural performance. You will feel any loss in performance immediately through price hikes.
Not an expert in the subject, but my understanding is that Gaudí was aware that the project would not be completed in his lifetime, but wanted it to be completed anyway, and even counted with future technology for help (i.e. some of his ideas could not be realized at his time, but he thought technology would advance enough to implement them after his death).

So leaving it as it was in 1926 would actually have been against Gaudí's will, and from that standpoint, continuing it was the right thing to do. I will not comment on decisions taken on the particular execution, as I don't have the knowledge, although as a layman I did like it a lot when I visited around 3 years ago.
Someone spends in R&D for making a better aspirin, they can profit by patenting it. Someone spends in R&D for making a better tomato, you oppose them patenting it? Why do you want patents to protect the ability to profit from R&D investments in one industry, but not in another?

Someone makes a virus for targeted killing of cancer cells. Can they patent it? Are viruses organisms?
Monzo bank in the UK uses OAuth 2.0 for its API: https://docs.monzo.com/#authentication

(disclaimer: I work here)
Hemlock is viable, that says nothing about it being good to eat.
Wow. Just when I think it's done, another structure emerges, bigger than the last. It's pretty impressive that we can sustain projects like these when they offer only cultural value.
Better or worse than a bug that appears once every few months in Prod, but only when it's raining at the customer's location, and never on Sundays?

(This is an actual issue I've encountered. It had to do with code scraping weather data for a horse racetrack, specifically if the page was updated while the scraper ran. It was buried in a PHP monolith with no tests. The track didn't run races on Sunday.)
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No, elliptic curve cryptography is not different, as it is based on the discrete logarithm problem [1].

That said, quantum computer resistant cryptography does exist, but is not currently in wide-spread use for various reasons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
I did this when I was at high school with a friend. Basically the place had a shared Windows file system, and the only thing that prevented everyone from viewing it was that it was hidden in the UI. On the drive was lots of data, including some applications in PDF format - completely unprotected - full of personal information of minors.

At the time we had recently covered data protection in IT class, so we wrote up a document explaining what we did, and why it was bad, and gave copies to a few people in prominent positions (principle, head of IT, IT teacher) as well as posting it (with instructions redacted) on an internal message board.

Well of course they didn't take it very well. They threatened to expel us and call the cops, and suspended us for a week until they decided what to do. In the end a well written warning from my friend's parent made them drop the issue and let us back in. I doubt they did anything to change the "security".
Maintaining a fork takes effort and this effort grows when the codebases diverge from each other. If the affected code is at a busy location in the source code then other changes can also affect it which makes maintaining the fork harder in the long run.
This discussion already started about a week ago in The Netherlands

For dutch speakers
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/153570/blendle-stopt-met-verkoop...
Video? Do red light cameras have video now?
It's not RF snobbery, the point is that this approach to transmitting RF signal is shitting all over the spectrum with harmonics and potentially interfering with other legitimate activity.
Surprised to see no one has mentioned 3rd party APIs yet. Especially half-baked, poorly documented SAAS APis where you're left wondering whether is was designed by malice - to protect some vague business interest - or simply by incompetence / lack of care / lack of time.

I've found the best mental defence in such situations is to assume the worst from the outset, by expecting to have to burn untold hours figuring out how this black box _really_ works and then be pleasantly surprised some parts actually work OK. Better that than assuming "this can't be that that hard" and ending up frustrated.
Except mobile browsers, arguably the most critical place where you need blocking to get any kind of reasonably decent experience (load times, viewable area, battery life, etc.).

Extensions like uBlock target people who don't want to bother with editing hosts files and keeping them updated.
My personal nightmare:

Working in a company where I have only one monitor and a PC without SSDs. And I am not allowed to bring my own mouse/keyboard. And I don't have admin rights for the OS.
Which country - Poland.
Just checked, and it’s actually 3s regardless of the speed.

Red light cameras - yeah, also other forms of automatic traffic control. We have some long stretches of roads where the max speed is 120kmph, with traffic lights every few kms + limit 70kmph on the lights + auto speed radar. Which is crazy because you end up watching the speedometer instead of the intersection.

I heard an interesting solution recently - cameras everywhere, but giving drivers a limit of violations they can do without punishment per a given period.
Pointy haired boss obviously.
> Because they have the potential to have a cascading effect on human healt and the entire ecosystem.

No they don't. This is stuff from scifi movies. Farmers have grown GMO crops for over 20 years, and there is not even a hint of an observation or theory on how they could cause any cascading effects.
It doesn't. But it should, just because the limitation is the tooling doesn't mean we should give up on this. Instead we should assume that the tooling will evolve. Even if the language is not style insensitive, this kind of search is still useful since you often are not sure what convention was used.
Why move if you can entice people to move into your back yard with all that money and not have to go anywhere?

And, weather doesn’t adequately explain the high CoL anywhere outside California or Hawaii. “It’s where the jobs are, so everyone wants to be there does,” and it also explains California. (Hawaii is special— it’s an archipelago, so, cost of shipping goods plus weather is really the best explanation, given the lack of a compelling employment story.)
I'm in NA and also don't understand why coder is negative. I remember it was very common in the old demoscene days. I've never even seen someone non-technical use the term. Usually non-technical people use programmer.

The one that irks me is engineer. I've met very few developers who have the sort of professionalism that the term engineer requires. Most developers are more like cowboys whose primary goals are making other developers and themselves happy. An engineer needs to instead feel responsible for serving the users of the application, which includes maintenance by others as a subgoal. No doubt my definition of engineering is not popular here.
“The first car company that truly understands software!” As if that were a good thing. Sheesh.
Not sure how I should understand your comment, but the link you posted is great. It clearly shows what a great place Shenzen is. If Silicon Valley is be the place for software startups, Shenzen is its equivalent in hardware. So much ingenuity combined with an extremely short manufacturing pipeline as described in the article. And as long as we are not talking about actual counterfeit products, I can't blame them for being inspired by known brands products. But unless we are talking acutally patented or copyrighted things, the concept of "IP" isn't as clear-cut as some company lawyers like to make it.
Having to refactor the IRS.

https://youtu.be/qL5ut8o5pfs
Oh yeah. I've spent my last (almost) three years (thankfully they're over now) working on that kind of codebase and it's been an absolute nightmare. The very few original(-ish) authors still on the team were generally very helpful, but the codebase was huge, some of it was bought from someplace else (so there was no one to explain anything, and no documentation because of course not), and the team had been downsized in the course of time. Patching it up with contractors, needless to say, didn't quite have the stellar effect that management had hoped it would have.

Three years later I was still struggling to figure out even the most basic of features. It would regularly take me days, sometimes even weeks to fix trivial bugs. The convoluted code definitely didn't help (message passing between several processes, 4000-line functions...). There were a lot of features that I could barely use, let alone debug. I had no mental model of the code at all. Figuring out where my mental model didn't match reality was pretty much out of the question under the circumstances -- and my only source for creating a mental model of the code was, well, the buggy code.

Thankfully, I also worked on other things during these three years, so my sanity is still mostly intact. But that thing was really terrible.
Nobody except the fanboys is going to buy a Tesla anyway.
Being asked to "improve" a piece of internal software with not a single hint of what actually needed doing. After two meetings where nothing more concrete than "make it better" came up, I quietly continued working on actually achievable stuff until I left a few months later. When I checked up on my colleagues a few years later the damn thing was still in limbo.
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I tried feeding a random CNN news I found [1], with the first few paragraph as follows:

"London (CNN)The interminable US process for picking a President has its faults but as a democratic exercise it outshines the closed-door system being used in Britain to choose a new prime minister.

Theresa May resigned as Conservative leader last week after an ill-starred premiership and triggered a party leadership race that will select the next resident of 10 Downing Street by late July."

as I added more paragraphs it started to shift from "quite sure this was written by a machine." to "quite sure this was written by a human.".

Does this mean the model has learned to take advantage of short text being generated by machine while longer are human written text. A similar effect can be replicate from this article as well[2]

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/09/politics/uk-prime-ministe...

[2] https://nypost.com/2019/06/08/mexican-troop-deployment-may-h...
I'm not sure it's only older generations. Some people just aren't future focussed, just look at some peoples inability to save or look after their health.
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I'm curious what exactly didn't work out. Maybe it was just the friction of signing up to read a single article? In that case, maybe what would've helped is sending the article anonymously via MMS and use carrier billing? Like 1990s ring tone downloads, though I'm not sure this model would even work today because Google's Stagefreight bug (or was it on purpose to close another channel not benefitting Google?) made telcos block MMSs. But then again, Blendle switching to a subscription model would indicate otherwise.
Understanding SwiftUI by reimplementing it to render to HTML
Spending time on both continents - I prefer the American approach in this. Starting and stopping slows down the throughput, also, as a driver, I prefer to sit still for 2 minutes than to stop and go every 20seconds.

Side-story, on the Burning Man entrance, there is always a multi-hour traffic jam (one road, thousamds of cars, for 70km or sth).
A few years ago they introduced a system where they only allow the cars to move once an hour. That way, you drive for a few minutes, and then stop and chill until the next movement window. Way better than having to be constantly alert for next 100m moveme t every few minutes.
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> What fonts would you like to have

Hack https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
Wait, prostitutes have their own individual websites now? I was under the impression that a lot of websites had either closed or limited access to Americans for to some poor laws written to go after Backpage. The effects have been more prostitutes hurt or murdered and no less prostitution, it's just not as in the open anymore.
They might just not be from the US. Here in Germany, tracking or forcing student attendance is subject of large discussions and generally often frowned upon (or forbidden by regulation) in the University setting these days.
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Building your own Deep Learning dream machine
Not "hi" it usually says "this should never happen" :)
I got two, now older generations and had problems:

- display dims when using dark themes. Had to use a sketchy unofficial leaked firmware patch to fix it.

- bluetooth + wifi not working

- changed chipset, now bluetooth only working when I activate/deactivate it once after startup

- after 2.5 years or so the battery of one bloated (got free replacement, quite nice to have the battery refreshed actually)

- bluescreens

- the dock... I had my display not turning back on when disconnecting, USB stopping to work after disconnecting, slight electric shocks from one even. Oh and the USB-c dock blocks your only usb-c slot and does not have any usb-c hub.

- I blew a speaker in week 2 (don't EQ it, neither yourself, nor with the dell eq stuff)

- the case screws are tiny. I was afraid I put one in at an angle, another one got lost because I didn't have any locktight.

Other than that very nice machines... I also now people without any of these problems.
Yeah, cash flow is a bitch that does not care about market cap or stock price. Something that many keep forgetting.
The all-famous „dark-yellow” :)
The history and opportunity of the modern mortgage [video]
Not sure why you're being downvoted. You're right of course that the male/female distinction of sexual reproduction is in itself is a clear case of 'biological division of reproductive labor'. Child-bearing itself is an even clearer example than breast-feeding. I'm not sure jly was really getting at the core aspects of eusociality there.

Humans aren't eusocial, but we certainly have division of reproductive labor. So do non-social sexual species.
This is a great video, thanks. The mentioned catenary shape is a cosh (Cosinus Hyperbolicus, i.e. 1/2(exp(x) + exp(-x)) or cos(ix)) and decidedly not a parabola.

Wikipedia contains a derivation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary (the one on the German Wikipedia is a bit more explicit)
Example of the Object.fromEntries new entry to flatten nested objects props
The football market.
True, specially when management is much more invested financially in the company than rank and file engineers. That happens a lot in European startup scene from my observations (as equity comp here isn’t that appealing for most of ICs)
There is little political opposition to the present government, which explains why a leader with such lousy support among the population at large ( Abe's administration has been riddled in corruption scandals almost non-stop, and has been hovering between a 30% and at best 50% in polls ) is about to become the longest serving Prime Minister.

The opposition is fragmented, weak in all respects, hasn't had a plan when in power, doesn't have one now, was mercilessly attacked when in power because of their handling of Fukushima among other things, and people have no real choice when it comes to voting.

Yuriko Koike took Tokyo Metropolis by storm and raised the prospect of a strong alternative political force to the ever in power LDP and the broken opposition, but then quickly fizzled out and renounced national ambitions.

This new whaling push seems to be just a political statement from the Abe administration, in essence.
The indie web folks have thought about this. Relevant reading:

Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere [ https://indieweb.org/POSSE ]

Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site [ https://indieweb.org/PESOS ]
I loved the fact that you could buy articles instead of getting another subscription.

I disliked the pay per article model, because it reinforces how expensive news articles actually are in the real world (outside ads-sponsored, click bait articles). I also tried their subscription model, but disliked it even more because you could only read the articles that they (or some ML algorithm) selected. It seems that they now offer unlimited magazine articles (but no newspapers), but magazines do not really interest me.

In the end we decided to take a newspaper subscription again. The price is somewhat steep, but you have unlimited access, and most of the money ends up where it should go.
I think they used hardware loops, not software loops, to reduce performance for the cheaper models.
Let's be clear about what Backpage was doing, because it wasn't just "accepting ads from prostitutes".

Children were being kidnapped, drugged, and trafficked for sex. Those children were being advertised on Backpage.

Backpage had a choice: they could cooperate with law enforcement, they could do nothing, or they could cooperate with the traffickers to ear more money.

They chose to cooperate with the traffickers. They went out of their way to make it harder for law enforcement to protect those children.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...
How high is the possibility that this is the result of a random mutation?
Almost all production motorcycle engines that aren't being raced and are getting regular oil changes will last 100k easily. The leading cause of motorcycle end of life is crashes, not engine failure.

As you go more esoteric, you need to rebuild the engine, replace piston rings, etc. But those bikes are either built for it (off road two strokes) or have the budget for it (racing). Still don't need to scrap the whole engine.

Perhaps oil changes counts as high maintenance. It can be a bit messy, but it's quick and cheap on most bikes. More time is spent oiling chains overall though.

Taiwan has drive through automated oil change machines that suck the oil out and fill up via a tube into the filler. Makes sense especially for <125cc scooters which do not normally have oil filters.
Isn’t this the opening to film Wargames?

Has Joshua asked you to play a game of global thermonuclear war yet?
People don't like microtransactions. Deciding if each article is worth a quarter is a bad user experience.
Ugh. The submitter there uses Some of you guys are killing people figuratively. Are they not aware that bad software really does kill people?

I was expecting to see some ill-advised use of WordPress in a critical software system, but no, it's about inconveniencing web developers. </rant>
sounds like a pretty poor metric to me, surely estimated time not lines of code would be better, a line could be 5 characters or 50 but not only that it fails to account for time to think of the best solution to a problem

asking someone that kind of bids them to their answer, like a word count on an essay it forces people to either cut back or add in extraneous crap to meet the required count

how would this manager react if the work was delivered in time and did the job it was supposed to but either fell very short of or far over the original estimate
We are in a period between ice ages, couldn't this recent human-powered warming be a good thing in that it delays the onset of another ice age?
When I had a project to render docx files, I had to refer the ECMA pdfs which were tens of thousands of pages long and use that only to supplement reverse engineering Word documents. I also remember something hardly decclarative: if a picture was angled, I had to calculate the container boundaries and store it redundantly in the container.
This is not binary. It is fully possible to hunt them to keep the population stable. It is not a bad idea at all as long as it is properly regulated.
Breaking the physical limits of fonts
One problem with flying wings is that you typically have seats further from the plane's center line (roll axis). Those unlucky enough to be farthest from the center experience greater force during banking, causing dizziness and nausea.