skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a zero-sum game, but there are 3 parties: the state general fund, the prize pool, and the players. By regulation, a fixed percentage of each ticket sale goes to the state general fund and the rest goes to the prize pool. Also by regulation, all the money that goes into the prize pool must eventually be paid out to players.

The unpaid prize pool getting too big can cause problems for the operator: there may be accusations by the regulator that it’ll never be paid out, or it could be stolen or mismanaged leaving the operator insolvent because they no longer have the funds they are required to give to players.

A rolldown event is the operator choosing to increase the payout schedule to an expected win for the purpose of reducing their liability of unpaid prizes; tickets having a positive expected value is the entire point.
People who get goosebumps from music have different brains (2017)
There are around 10 more prominent browsers and lots of smaller forks, which is enough choice in the context of anti-trust.
I, for one, welcome our dark background.
> There is s legitimate safety concern. That is certain parts of books can be turned into weapons.

Shit, half the modern doorstop fantasy genre is out on that concern alone.
To be more specific she de-anonymised 7 individuals in the data set and claimed she could do more (if you used someone's semi-personal information).

The risk with good de-identification is generally not that they can find everyone but that given enough knowledge they can find one individual. Or in other words, that your friend find you in the data set with enough effort. It's also why you're supposed to remove famous people from such data sets.
I definitely have this problem with Numpy: it just sort of vomits the whole matrix at you and never really makes it clear which one’s which. I haven’t had the problem with Julia though: it will actually format the output and the API’s make it clear when you’re dealing with rows or columns, and which one.
Since a blog that won't be posted to any more is effectively read-only data, interested parties could receive a copy of that data to be viewed locally. It doesn't necessarily need to stay on the internet with a domain name.
The whole George Washington/ Cherry tree thing was strange to me. I felt there was some joke going on there, but no idea why he wanted to 'cut the sucker down'. Today you'd just google it, of course.
No, it's saying like a company building "computers for the rest of us", that had traditionally had lines affordable by common pros, now only sells stuff suitable high end pro studios and cheaper mass market stuff, with no in-between regular pro tier.

They already have models in the "regular hatchback for families" range (and had since forever).

It's the mid-tier that suffers.
Unless you want to add, remove or replace disks.
What value is in a gender studies degree, and what path does that take careerwise?
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Some of those fonts make my head swim. I'm glad the quality of desktop typography has improved so much in the recent past. Also, I will always be scared of the people with strange cursive fonts like CmdrTaco. It's like people who use that comic sans-esque font that comes as a pre-installed option on Samsung phones.
I hope you don't tell them that. Hearing my parents say that would change me forever.
>> people ranging from the usual security-asshole

This pretty much illustrates the attitude of most of the bug bounties programs holders.
This is the HN equivalent of avocado-toast bashing. Let’s not do that.

As someone who used dark themes with CRTs whenever possible in the ‘90s, my theory is simply that those studies you mention were academic horseshit - CRTs with bright backgrounds were eye-killers. Well, they were eye-killers in general, but more when set with bright backgrounds.

Unfortunately, colorbleed in small-size text made it a bit more difficult to read text on dark backgrounds, but that could be somewhat compensated with larger fonts if you had a big enough display. So basically you could choose two different ways to kill yourself, but one of them gave you a chance if you were rich enough (and lucky enough - most programs on Windows never allowed you to change their white background). Man, CRT was so shit.

LCDs are much better in general, and occasionally worse (a lot of games make my eyes cry, with their aggressively shiny palettes). I still prefer dark out of habit in most cases, but it really depends on the monitor (and its calibration) and the surroundings. Saying one mode or the other is superior in all circumstances is silly, imho. And certainly wouldn’t bash millennials, or question their geek-manliness, for choosing this or that mode.
No matter how you word it: If I knew the answer, I wouldn't ask it.
I was thinking they dropped Steinway D's instead of bombs in Looney Toon Wars II
"The U.S. government has voiced concern in the past that the European campaign for a “digital tax” unfairly targets U.S. tech giants."

How about admitting that the U.S. tech giants unfairly use their monopolistic powers because the Internet has become a winner-takes-it-all economy.
Betting on MTurk, I don't see how else otherwise.
I wouldn't make any decisions while burnt out. Take some time and recover.

Then I think you need to think about where you want to go in your career. Do you enjoy development and want to do nothing else? Don't start a business, because you'll end up doing a lot of other things. Are you interested in the control and passionate about your solution of your own business? Then start a company.

Note that there's many other routes, some outlined in other comments. In particular I spent years as a contractor/consultant on my own. It paid the bills and gave me a ton of freedom.
[OT] Non-English speaker here. Is there any difference (in grammar and/or meaning) between "an FAQ" and "a FAQ"? I'm asking because it sounds good but it goes against the little English grammar I remember from school...
If you never use the TouchPad you are probably not the typical MacBook Pro user ...
Turn the brightness down to something not much brighter than a sheet of paper on your desk. You can always turn it up to watch a movie.

The brightness setting is like the adjustments on a car driver seat: the point is not to always use an extreme of the range. You probably wouldn’t move the seat all the way back just because the setting exists.
But...that citation contradicts the thesis.

"overall, injury crashes, including rear-end collisions, were reduced by 25-30% as a result of camera enforcement"

Any other citation supporting the post?
If it's a paid version of Firefox this means it will respect our privacy by having no telemetry, no remote code execution via Normandy, etc, or will it be the same thing in that regard?
Having started coding in the mid-80's I really don't get it.

I was thrilled when I finally had the opportunity to use graphical workstations.
Determining whether bugs are exploitable is hard: usually, the answer tends to be “yes, if you try hard enough”.
As a human, I'm used to that.
this is so sad, yet probably so friggin accurate.

I used linux in 2002 and the sentiment i get is that the whole desktop environment thingy is getting all bloated and padded. heck, those kde screenshots show so much stuff on such a small screen, right?

And it was all really snappy on a p166mmx with a meager 64megs of ram.
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Video: https://youtu.be/kZTKuMBJP7Y
Or even present, we nerds just don’t see it because adblocking.
Nah, that is the REPL in graphical workstations.
> People should of course not trust anyone with their data, not even the NHS

How do you even use the NHS without trusting them with your medical data?
I love how some of them used Phoenix (earlier name of the firefox project). It was a fresh breath after netscape and explorer. Even the earliest versions supported multiple tabs, advanced CSS and adobe flash containers.

https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_...
I'm not using it in the economic sense because that's not what the conversation is about.
Only if you are the author of all the code, so that the GPL doesn't actually apply to you.

In this case, the Telegram-FOSS people take the original Telegram source (which is GPL licensed) and redistribute it, so they can't distribute a non-entirely-free apk without violating the original license.

Other apps using, for example, GPL licensed libraries or accepting third-party contributions under the GPL exclusively are also forbidden from redistributing non-entirely-free stuff.
Relevant discussion from not so long ago about backgrounds and screen/ambient brightness and whatnot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19607699
What the Heck Is Product-Led Onboarding? (PLO)
I would like to have something like docker where I can describe a system kind of like a docker file but output an ISO file instead of running it as a container. Does something like this exist? I can't seem to find any user friendly tools for tailoring distros. In many cases you have to mouse around. I just want to do it with a script.
The Mac Mini is a great substitute for the old Mac Pro is they really want user serviceability. You can configure it up to a 3.2GHz i7 with 64G RAM and 2TB SSD for around that $2999 price (I'm in Australia so I can't check, but it's AUD$3500 which is less than US$2999).

The (non-Pro) iMac is a great substitute if they don't want user serviceability.
What this blog post doesn't mention is that they finally addressed the bug where if you have a broken file and looping enabled, it no longer gives you infinite pop-ups saying it can't play the file
Better than Chrome will ever be.
I think dart/flutter serves primarily two purposes, as I see it. First the obvious one, Google is trying to get devs used to flutter as when the time comes to switch to Fuchsia/Zircon, it would be relatively a breeze.

Secondly, and the most immediate reason, I think it's a very clever and clear move from Google to lock-in devs into using Google Cloud services like Firebase and Cloud ML services by leveraging Flutter. If you have observed, Microsoft has given a rebirth to their Xamarin developers YouTube channel and have been hosting 'The Xamarin Show', which is, hmm, quite similar to 'The Boring Flutter Development Show'.
Will it be called ... Netscape 10? I'm honestly asking / hoping. Does AOL still own the brand?
I’m not sure how you got to politics from what I said.
I'm afraid I've not completely understood. I was talking about the power consumption for the users of the site/webapp rather than the power necessary for running web servers. But that would indeed be another important measure (and I believe power density is certainly on the radar of data center equipment buyers, but not framework users and most developers yet).
> It's also why you're supposed to remove famous people from such data sets.

Because they deserve special protection the mere mortals don't?
Telegram violates multiple open source licenses, so I wouldn’t hold it up as an example.
I figured the goal was revenue, hence my dismissal of it as an effective tax for funding public services.

What’s the difference between avoidance and evasion with regards to taxation?
Trump’s Trade War Hurts Apple, and Lobster Farmers
Anyone got a link to the actual poll and/or the precise questions that were asked? As far as I can tell the original source for this article is a press release from a UK digital healthcare company [1]. There is a fairly obvious conflict of interest there, since big tech firms here means "our competition". It could very well be leading questions, results cherry-picking, etc.

[1] https://www.sensynehealth.com/insights/yougov-survey-shows-u...

Disclaimer: I work at Google, not on anything related to health or AI or ML.
I'm not a "young" developer, but regardless of any research I simply prefer dark themes because I spend several hours every day staring at screens, and I find them so much easier on my eyes.
Voice messages have been around since before smartphones, come on.

There is little reason to expect companies that have had multi-national success not to succeed in China if it weren't for protectionism; while there are certainly examples of poor execution, you'd have to be blind to think that was the reason for every such case, or even a significant portion thereof.
I'm sorry but I don't believe that a product that is added to the keyboard repair program on release day is absolutely fine. Apple doesn't have confidence in the new MBP and neither should anybody else.

The new MBP is basically gambling. You take your money to the Apple Store. They give you a computer, and a year down the line you see if that computer still works.

Apple products used to last an age, that is what justified the price. There are many people in this thread using old MBPs, including myself.

The more expensive a computer, the longer it is expected to last. It is quite normal to expect 5 years of use out of these things. I see plenty of evidence that this keyboard design is not capable of that.
I love Emacs. For all of its warts, "historical reasons", and vestigal features, it is the editor that really opened my eyes to alternative ways to do introspection and programming, in general.

I want to believe the friction comes if you try to "fix" Emacs too early.

You kinda have to conform to the Emacs way when learning it and leave all of your assumptions at the door. I see a lot of people who come to Emacs from Vim expecting Evil Mode to be the panacea for Emacs. It's not. At the end of the day, it's still Emacs and people run into friction because they expect it to be Vim-ish all over or they want to force Emacs to be Vim.

Personally, I came from Vim to Emacs via Spacemacs. I was a bit of a zealot about Vim until I tried Emacs. I left all of my expectations behind and I was pleasantly surprised by many things inside. Were there things I disliked? Of course. But, I wasn't looking for an excuse to hate it.
This is a marketing piece.

And the mechanism of action is not explained. The title is clickbait as it suggests otherwise.

Flagged.
I'd love to know just how different/bare bones AOSP (Android Open Source Project) is to regular Android.

As an experiment, I'd love to compile it, put it on a spare phone and use it as my daily driver for a week.
Trust != lack of alternative.
They kind of have to go that way (offer extra VPN/storage as a service for a monthly fee), their market share of users has tanked since their last deal with Google, they're not going to get that kind of money from them any more. Gotta diversify.
I like Reddit comments, they are always so insightful. I always feel like I've gained a few IQ points after reading them; after an evening reading Reddit, I became Einstein, now I'm testing my new theory of everything. Thanks Reddit
It's certainly more robust, but a lot of overhead for what should be a very uncommon situation.

In eg an application server, requests themselves may be independent, but still share a lot of cached data - and as long as locking overhead doesn't overwhelm you, a single process is still the fastest way to share data between (worker) threads.
> because traffic is bad, "commutes from <exurb> sixty miles away" do not happen and instead "commutes from <suburb> ten miles away" happen.

On the topic of traffic cost in congested areas, distance is only loosely related to travel times. If we reword using 1 mile = 1.5 minute

> because traffic is bad, "commutes from <location> ninety minutes away" do not happen and instead "commutes from <location> fifteen minutes away" happen.

This is obviously false for congested metro areas. As another commenter notes, people live where they can afford to do so.

Bringing it back to schools etc. For excellent teachers, it may be lower economic value for them to live in a congested area versus one where they can live closer to school. But the metro area lost an excellent teacher, presumably in favor of one with fewer other employment options.

Congestion, like air quality, is a tax on every activity. It's not useful to only model it at the individual trip level.
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What if the manager still insists you add features? Throw pebbles at the manager until you're fired and arrested?
I see a market potential here: tactical piano. There's a whole group of people who would buy this in a heartbeat and perhaps benefit from a little culture. Then again it'll probably wind up buried under last years bug out bags next to the 6x6 luxury military RV in the garage.
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> It's also why you're supposed to remove famous people from such data sets.

That's a very Boomer/Gen X thought pattern, Gen Y, Z and Alpha may not be famous yet but will be included in the data set.
I had a similar experience to yours until I realized that the extensible part also means you don't need to use the builtin commands and shortcuts. I have been using emacs for 10 years (used vim for about 12 before that, using emacs with evil-mode now) and, to this day, I have to google 'how to quit emacs' when I am faced with a vanilla emacs :)

I just feel it's "my" editor more than any other editor I've ever used.

edit: typos
> Telegram violates multiple open source licenses

Any examples for those who would like to learn more about this?
Can you provide some examples there support this claim of a "winner-takes-it-all economy"?
That's open to discussion. Even if Chrome sends your data to Google (and it probably sends more data than Firefox), at least you know the data is being received by Google and not by unrelated third parties, like when Mozilla sent full URL history of some users to an advertisement company: https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
"a" vs. "an" is based on the first sound of the word, not the first letter. You would say "an honor" but "a hair" because, while they both start with the letter h, one has a silent h and the other doesn't.

If you pronounce "FAQ" by spelling out the letters (and not like "fack"), it starts with "eff", so you should say "an FAQ." I think that's the pronunciation I usually hear.
Irrelevant; they can still sue the Telegram-FOSS team, even if they are themselves in violation of other licenses.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds a little like a buildroot. https://buildroot.org
> The notion of making the language more complex to be able to tell the compiler details like the above so that it would just do the RightThing(tm) is just crazy talk. Compilers are good at some things (mindless instruction scheduling, register allocation etc), but that shouldn't make you think they should be smart.

Compare this to Boehm 'Threads cannot be implemented as a library'.

The issue of course was with volatile which is useless, not with the notion of letting a compiler know about multi-threading assumptions.

I think today Linus has begrudgingly accepted that slowly moving the kernel to the C/C++11 acquire-release memory model, where possible, is a good thing.

Personally I had never fully grokked the reordering based memory barriers (I understood what they did, but it was hard for me to understand all the implications); on the other hand the C++11 memory model and its happens-before based somehow seems much more natural and it helps me retrospectively to understand even barrier based code.
Thank you. You bring up a great point and I really debated over the title. I think the mechanics for D&R are pretty well known and most people are aware that it's a marketing effort that needs the extra work. I also think that once we connect the mechanics of Investment Crowdfunding to traditional fundraising, those steps become clearer too. So I didn't want to rehash a lot of what was already out there. The questions I get all the time come down to "How do I get started on this?" So I tried to couch it as that. Hopefully, an entrepreneur who is interested will then choose their Kickstarter or whatever or find the right IC platform like the one I linked to. I will write more on the subject. Thanks again!
This is an excellent article. It motivated me to adopt a more Fortran morality, where my assumptions or so function first on underlying scientific principles, when I search for practical problems to solve.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20144521
Best announcement on e3. I was waiting for this type of game so much.
Packer, from hashicorp, allows you to create various image-types from a JSON configuration file.

https://www.packer.io/

It's a little bit more low-level, but I use it to build images which run under VMWare and on EC2 in AWS. I tend to just use the configuration file to install ansible inside the new instance, then configure the actual system like that.
Heh I am running out of RAM cause of Microservices plus Docker plus all I listed above.

I was surprised Firefox tells me Jira uses half a gig of RAM and its not even a proper SPA. I hope they optimize their frontend to be less memory hungry.

It runs smooth till I need 3 of my own services plus 8 plus vendor services running then the 16GB MBP runs out of RAM.
Because their personal information is public thus everyone has it which makes re-identification much easier. Although nowadays there's so much information out there that "famous" covers a lot of the population.

That said, a public data where you can re-identify your friends should not have been released in the first place.
That would be a good argument if many states weren’t also dependent on the federal government to maintain their own budgets. If you’re a tax payer in Connecticut, you’re absolutely funding the infrastructure of states like New Mexico and Alabama, albeit indirectly.
I wonder if it will last. A lot of games got ported to iOS at one point or the other, then fell by the wayside with OS updates. This happened even to big titles like Lego Harry Potter.
The mouse is the least ergonomic input device. I have a trackball which is mildly better. Until someone develops a pointing device that doesn't cause rsi I will stick to tiling wms and terminals.

I am also an order of magnitude faster at my job than my colleagues stuck in gui land,pecking away at their IDEs. Not to mention I have a greater command of the languages we use because I am not relying on an AI to guess syntax for me.
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Hm, another tax? No, thank you.
You can find fringe material in any topic.

This review summarized the evidence in a way that most of the rest of the field would not. Fringe views are valuable, but unless they can actually refute the underlying hypothesis or provide a better model, the work is not very impactful. Particularly so with a review article.
I avoid the TouchBar like the plague, but I think JetBrains is to blame for that particular problem. macOS apps don't typically use the F keys for shortcuts, and I wish JetBrains would offer an optional, more Mac-like set of hotkeys out of the box. (Their "OS X" scheme is basically just the Windows one with ctrl and cmd exchanged.)
Huh, 5 out of 15 interviewed developers referred to their desktop as "boring".
The biggest feature for me of Slack is newlines. The ability to break up a piece of text visually so that I can structure a complex question or explanation for more readability is incredibly valuable.
Thought experiment: write an application that automatically downloads and combines code with all sorts of legally incompatible licenses to create an application and installs it on an Android device. If personally doing it is legal (and basically unenforceable), what about making it easy for others to? Besides, unless you're a "radical Stallmanist" (for lack of better term), chances are you have a mix of proprietary and FOSS and use it together on whatever data you work with.

This is why I think IP laws make no sense, arbitrary restrictions are arbitrary and stupid.