skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But there are a ton of people "working hard" in the digital age and getting nowhere. If you see what they're up to, a big chunk of their time multi-tasking between random push messages and similar. What's missing is focus.

It's not just push messages, but a lack of clear organization. The bigger a company gets, the less organizes it seems to become, and while this is a natural law of growth, the amount of disorganization that seems to be the norm is inexcusable.

It amazes me how people will have no idea who knows what, who is in charge of X, or where feature requests are coming from. All these tools we use to manage "tickets", notes, roadmaps, and documentation don't seem to be helping that much. They're mostly a veneer to cover people's general carelessness. For years, I've been wasting time bouncing between parties trying to figure out who wants what and why, often running into the roadblock of two parties of interest looking at the same "ticket" and coming to a completely different conclusion about what it means and its scope. Planning is almost always an exercise in bullshit, and is a glorification of receiving a cargo container of new "tickets". I won't get into feedback processes that really just lead to an indefinite cycle of backseat-coding.

For people who aren't lazy, lots of time gets wasted because of the effort-debt created by carelessness and poor communication practices. All it takes is 10% of team members to be careless and a system of unclear webs of power to cause bottlenecks for the people who get most of the work done. The mental overhead caused by confusing systems almost completely destroys the ability for someone to get in the zone and actually focus. Focus isn't even respected a lot of the time. In meetings about improving developer experience(which never change anything), I've brought up the focus factor multiple times, only to be met by blank stares.

At that point, you've just got to accept that your work is going to be needlessly complicated and stressful, and that there's only so much you can do about it. Muting as many push notifications is one thing that can be done, and so is never working harder or longer than you are being paid to. Sadly, this borders on disengagement.
The purpose of a space force is a spacefaring economy (op-ed)
This is a technocracy. Noone wants this but Hacker News.
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You went on and on about some tedious point and kept doing it long after it was clear no productive discussion would take place. Also, you've done this many times before on this particular topic. I don't have a way to stop you from doing that other than banning you, and I don't want to ban you. But if you can't or won't stop doing this, we're going to have to. So would you please stop doing this?
I want to agree with you, but "passive ads sit on the edges of the page" is a false argument.
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The Hero Who Betrayed His Country
> I disagree with “math is not for everyone”. Math is vast and diverse. Surely there is enough math for everyone.

Are you the author? That's a great sentiment and you express it well. In fact, the whole article is engaging. Good job!
Agreed. Cartels aren't run by idiots. There's a reason they didn't pivot years ago and it's not because stealing fuel was too easy/lucrative.
That's just a press release but it claims that it uses the thunderbolt 3 PHY with Type C connectors (and bandwidth is within the TB3 envelope) so it appears those cables will continue to work.

Of course they cost a fortune today.
Housing crisis: Why can’t California pass more housing legislation?
What can one do with BA in psychology? The supply far outstrips demand, so there are plenty of candidates with MS or PhD degrees. There is no reason to hire BA candidates if there are more advanced degrees available.
Developers used to building apps find it much more efficient to build that way and, to an extent, it is. I've had developers straight up refuse to build "legacy" pages, and I understand their reasoning. Sometimes that is the reason, when another is not apparent.
No. We got content without this in the past, and we can do this in the future. And I will note THEY admit this is bad. Stop trying to defend the indefensible.
Although `.com` domains seem to do better for any product not for devs.
Guardian told it was target of Saudi hacking unit after Khashoggi killing
I think it is pretty impressive and I want to know more about porting UWP apps to WebAssembly.
This article is surprisingly short. How many bats are being killed? Are birds having similar issues? Will it help them too? Come on, Bloomberg.
firefox's charter allows for taking action against the interest of google. Chrome doesn't.
True, particularly about double click, but is YouTube really a well managed acquisition?

It seems to be a victim of Google’s schizo approach to product in the sense that every 12 months it seems to be following a new strategy or launching a new product to replace an older one Id never used anyway. Their whole YouTube Red stuff, and YouTube Music, I have no idea what the long term strategy of this company is. Outside of ads of course.
Does Brave still whitelist Facebook trackers? Is there a way to opt-out of Facebook tracking on Brave for iOS?

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1108
Hi Nick,

If you're serious about this, I've built tools for the publisher side for stopping exactly this.

My email address is in my profile.
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Re: [A Web page is a document.] No it's not.

It started out that way, but grew to TRY to replace GUI's, Flash, etc.

We need three different standards: one for documents (HTML may be good enough); one for media, art, and games; and one for desktop-like GUI's. There may be some overlap between these, but the one-size-fits-all of HTML/CS/JS has been a big messy time-sink where otherwise simple UI tasks take rocket science and luck to get right.
This I can agree with. Rust, appropriately, has special syntax for similar semantics.
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So I’m confused about the results. Is the engine faster because of rust or because of improvements to the algorithm?
PyCM 2.3 released: Machine learning library for confusion matrix analysis
I like that an article about using ultrasonics to deter bats includes the button "listen to this article".
Yeah pretty much. It’s fascinating why he hasn’t arrived at the same conclusion. The man has his strengths but the actual nuts and bolts of running a company day to day does not appear to be his sharpest edge. Surely even he can see that, sometimes? Makes me wonder how blind we can be to our own flaws...
> what's stopping you from "double dipping" and serving ads anyway?

People looking at the source code, like what happened here.
You can’t “harass” people online.
EA fixes cloud flaw that could have left user accounts at risk
None of these attacks seemed to use the speculative execution vulnerabilities. They're not very relevant here
What?

Even the cheapest ground beef still costs more per pound than most chicken assuming you make a reasonably even comparison between form factors.
Security is all about making the best compromises and shoring up the weakest links.

SPECTRE, Meltdown, Rowhammer are just a few risks amongst thousands. Most importantly they at least have runtime signatures that could be detected.

There are weaker areas for directed attacks against an organisation (e.g. spear-fishing).

When attacked by highly skilled, highly motivated, highly resourced and foreign opponents, an org may find they are better relying upon an external team for securing your VMs. I would expect Google Cloud to be far better than the majority of fortune 500 companies at securing hypervisors and VMs.
That is certainly a lot of water. To put it in perspective that's something like 10% of what's in the Great Lakes
Bill Clinton and the New Democrats were the rightward shift in the Democratic Party.
Kubernetes CLI tool security flaw lets attackers run code on host machine
Right, and r/politics, which is the left leaning version of T_D, doesn’t have any reprimands despite having frequent calls of violence against cops. It’s a double standard.
Dunno, I meant reddit flamewars etc.
The first AI universe sim is fast and accurate, and we don't know how it works
Literally the next comment (at the time I read this, by asdfgasd) literally begins with "Trump supporters are fascists". It's flagged and dead, but it's there (if you have showdead turned on).
"I was high when he pitched it!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFNhP-dBK4E
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You are missing the point. He's explicitly saying those _States_ aren't _Nations_. Hence the term "Nation-State" where a state is coterminous with a nation.
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I really enjoyed learning Arabic and this article nicely calls attention to a number of the highlights. As my first non-indo-european language it helped change some of my perspectives.

If you speak French the Arabic language texts and practice books are better than what I've been able to find in English.
Are you saying that I should be required to execute all code on a web page?
That's the eventual point this train of thought will lead you to.
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May be by the time Mac has an ARM processor, your deployment server might also be an ARM server. :)
Notably, AMD isn’t ARM.
Why did you go through it? You didn't have to, you could have waited a couple of years. dep still works. A custom script to populate a GOPATH with specific versions or forks of all needed modules still works.
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"America's Top Chicken" sounds like an awesome reality show
Yes I agree, I have been traveling a lot recently and Chinese tourists usually seem respectful and amongst the best behaved. This stereotype is ridiculous.
Yes, Pong was virtually a genre. Space Invaders was a year away and the second wave coin-op video game boom hadn't really taken off yet. Even the beloved Atari 2600 wasn't on the market.

Almost every game out there was some form of "block moving around the screen with player-controlled widgets hitting or missing it". The Apple ][ also came with a Breakout game, another block-on-block thing (Wozniak codesigned the Atari coin-op version, the Apple ][ was his logical next-step of turning Breakout from a fixed hardware design into a generic game-playing machine)

Take a look at the Odyssey 1 (1973) and you'll see what I'm talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2EIsnr_cv4
/R/SQL
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My assertion is that all advanced nation states engage in cyber warfare against one another, sometimes for the purpose of industrial espionage, sometimes for the purpose of achieving geopolitical goals (regime change, influencing elections, etc).

As long as we're talking about unsubstantiated claims (and yes, that is all they are at the moment unsubstantiated), I would hazard a guess that the U.S is by far the largest, most capable and most pervasive wager of cyber warfare and espionage of them all -which incidentally is probably the reason why they are so paranoid. One would have to be supremely naive to think otherwise.

Many tools used by these alleged Chinese state hackers were likely generously donated by the NSA themselves during their own cyber operations [1].

The consensus global norms of the current era is that everybody is hacking everybody at massive scale in order to further their own strategic interests -the same as it has always been. The only thing worthy of attention is the fact that these attacks are only being publicly disclosed now, coincidentally in the middle of a trade war, when the U.S administration is grasping for support from the American public against China.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/us/politics/china-hacking...
It's potentially even worse than that.

Exploiting this grey area in the law will lead to a response from the courts and lawmakers. That response might well require that browsers display pages exactly as the publisher intends.

In other words, the end of ad blockers and other tools, thanks to Brave.

(Not at all unlikely given that Google seems to want that too.)
Frankly, I think they've effectively killed Reddit with this move. Like it or not, it was one of the last places to discuss right-leaning politics on the site. Every major "neutral" sub (ex: /r/politics) has notoriously biased mods placed in by the admins. Now with one half chopped off from political debates, is the site still fun?
Deming didn't do "anything of value"? Considering Kaizen and the concept of continuous improvement in Japan is mostly attributed to him. The prime minister awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure and recognizes him for their post-war rebirth as an industrial power. Detroit did everything wrong at the time (see GM's disaster in automation at their Hamtramck facility [0]). Even when American execs were posed with a simple question of why their own employees didn't buy their product they didn't understand the disconnect between quality, reliability and the awareness of the buyer.

[0] https://www.leanblog.org/2016/06/gms-ceo-roger-smith-thought...
We have no way of knowing that when a permission alert comes up. The only reason we’d ever allow it is if we were tricked or exploited.
Not really. The Ogallala aquifer is bigger than that (3,600 km^3), and we've already drawn it down 312 km^3 since 1950.
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/what-was-einstein-s-relations...

Einstein views were conflicted. He was very pro-nationalist where it was a Jewish concern. He felt this was forced, but that doesn't change his position.
No surprise there. Rust is most loved language in so many surveys. Most devs planning to learn in near future. Many say it will be polished and ready by next year. I personally feel it may be ready for general developers like linux desktop will be ready for general users next year.
> Pipeline transport is cheap.

Seawater is salty, corrodes the pipes pretty fast.
It depends. Are Brave's ads more similar to the banner ads of the old days? If they are not so intrusive and privacy violating like modern ad-networks, that would still be a net win in my opinion.

As for the hypothetical youtuber, they are always free to put product ads directly in their videos if they can/want to. However, if they can only make money via abusive 3rd party trackers, that's on them.
>We are, after all, talking about measurable, quantifiable things inputs and outputs regarding human behaviour.

I don't think it's true. Looking at behavior is like trying to guess at the internals of a black box piece of software that's very well obfuscated + randomized.

The empirical way to do it is more along the lines of neuropsych -- taking a look at the physical processes involved. I think human psychology and behavior is a lot like the plumage of a peacock; pretty, loud, but ultimately an abstraction above what is really going on.
This seems like an unreasonable interpretation; it’s much more likely that ‘dymk wants to execute the bare minimum amount of arbitrary code on a web page.
Google blocks abortion ads in Australia
V is rising towards big languages like Ruby 1 week after release
That's the first letter of my name.
24 inch 1920x1200 is ~94 PPI - this is pretty crappy by modern standards and will result in the dreaded “jaggies”. Great if you can live with this, but one shouldn’t be surprised that many people won’t.

100 PPI is what we typically had on good monitors in the late 90s, it’s 20 years later now!
This. Fmt or imports or whatever will bug you about stylistic things “don’t use snake case!” “Why are you using caps?!” “Don’t touch me!” But I’ve never seen it recommend using built in functions. Hope it stays that way.
Google ads are anything but passive.
Like another post mentioned, this would be an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

Atoms work on 3 dimensions, I believe, and 1D doesn't need to imply our physical 3D existence minus 2 dimensions. It can be a virtual 1D realm that runs on our own defined "physics".

The rules that define the "physics" in Rule 110 are:

|-----------------+---------------------------|
| current pattern | new state for center cell |
|-----------------+---------------------------|
| 111 | 0 |
| 110 | 1 |
| 101 | 1 |
| 100 | 0 |
| 011 | 1 |
| 010 | 1 |
| 001 | 1 |
| 000 | 0 |
|-----------------+---------------------------|
Did you read the link you posted? They block many facebook tracking components but there are some things they aren't touching right now because some website depend on facebook for logins.
They helped a little with the overarching design (the ISA of the vector unit was pretty much Apple designed) but they never made any chips themselves AFAIK.
Dissapearing a subredit devoted to Trump immediately before the Democratic debates?

Election meddling.
I have a Sennheiser HD 280 Pro which I love. I think they are supposed to be studio phones, so they have a fairly flat frequency response (which is what I want). They are also really comfortable--even with glasses; I've worn them all day for years. They only have 10 dB of isolation, so while they reduce office noise, they don't eliminate it. But the 10 dB plus some quiet music is pretty effective. And you can still hear when someone asks you a question (or pretend not to).

I think the "big brands" in headphones are Sennheiser and Audio-Technica, though, with Sony as a lesser brand, and Bose down there with Beats. But I'd recommend going down to your local music store with your laptop / music player and trying on a bunch of headphones and seeing what you like. I got the Sennheisers after a friend at work loaned his to me for an afternoon.

(On the topic of audio, I bought a MacBook Pro recently and I'm really impressed with the speakers. They are about 90% of the Sennheisers, the only weakness is that they are a touch weak on the bass [no surprise, the surprise is that it's only a touch weak].)
This is untrue, as far as I'm aware. Brave blocks ads and trackers by default, and you can opt into a separate "Brave Rewards" program which pays you in crypto-currency tokens in exchange for receiving ads via push notifications and the New Tab page (not inline with web content).

https://brave.com/brave-ads-launch/

Users can then choose to contribute some or all of those funds back to the publishers/creators they visit that have signed up to Brave's platform. They try to do this all in as privacy-preserving a manner as possible.

https://brave.com/creators/
But that food has to come from somewhere, and the scale at which we do farming currently is already taking its toll on the environment.
Why do you state that? Some of the largest advances in our society have come from what would be seen as toxic or hostile engagements.
You are correct that fascists aren't the only ones who censor. But that doesn't make it something that should be a normal part of a free, democratic society. (Your Soviet and CCP examples highlight that, which may have been your point.)
purchase price < funding amount, investors had liquidity preferences, probably only a couple employees (if any) got anything
All of those came about after money, taxes, and state created markets came about. They are part of the whole. If you get rid of the state, the black markets will go away because taxes and money will go away.
My impression was that modern delivery chains are so efficient that the premium for freshness is very small. I thought the bulk of the cost was just the chicken.
Google also does not allow Windows Laptops/PCs anywhere near their campus.
In a sense. Ergodic hypothesis is basically that the phase space is explored "equally" (in a precise sense), over time. Ergodic random processes are pretty much independent of their initial state. So at a hand-wavy level its a very similar idea.
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https://www.altcoinbuzz.io/crypto-news/spotlight/famous-yout...

Tom Scott was not happy with Brave. They were collecting ad revenue for Youtubers who had never opted into their platform.

He had to go make a stink to their CEO, and finally after lots of pushing back, the CEO ceded that maybe this is not the best thing to do!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
I'm not positive on that statement. But I have seen political bias and ranking bias quite often on HN.
Then your argument train of thought stops at the station of "there is one ant organism" and "there is one human organism".

Yes, the inherent ability of surviving on one's own is important. An ant can. A Silicon Valley software engineer can. A Wall Street hedge fund manager can. However, it will not be long. Mostly due to their stupidity. Don't base disconnection of survival needs and general societal stupid as a way to define "alive" as well. The specialization factor creates ecosystems. Ecosystems are not organisms. We can draw parallels, yes. There are plenty of fun parallels. The same way we can draw parallels to galaxy clusters and the way an eyeball iris structure is formed. But let's not be silly about it. This is literally the joke Douglas Adams was making in Hitch Hiker's Guide. We are all not one big computer (organism) with one goal.

What I'm trying to understand is the desperate want for "machines are alive" argument. It's now come to the point that a dead cat should be considered alive and a functioning human is now not alive? This is some serious post-modern logic that just blows my mind.

Let's take it a step further. So an ant can't survive long outside of a colony, it's not alive. If you pull a fish out of water and it can't survive long, then it was never alive to begin with? But since some people can't survive in Alaska by themselves (or anywhere else isolated), that means humans aren't alive. Perhaps isolate someone by shoving their face in water and they end up not surviving long, they were never alive anyways. Because they couldn't survive outside their environment. Like an ant to a colony. Love to see that logic used in court. Oh but, because we still have the corpse, the person should still be considered alive, thus there was no murder to begin with.
Yes. I want a citation for this. As far as I'm aware this is completely untrue.
I guess you are buying inorganic chicken :-)
Wow... that was a lot better than your average Planet Money segment.
It makes sense that they're making the same arguments, but sadly I think the difference is that unlike Amazon, this book store can't just pick up and go somewhere else. They inherently have no bargaining power, other than saying we'll go out of business.

If anything, it seems like being part of a community and sticking with it is almost a detriment these days. Companies move to where labor is cheap, and design processes to have replaceable people perform them quickly and efficiently. These tax breaks only go to companies that are pitting different areas against each other, which are very rarely any small or local business.
It feels to me like this could be legislated based on profiting on others' copyright.

The issue here is one party making money, without consent of any form, based on another party's published materials.
North Korea produces oil? Iran and Iraq, I totally agree, but DPKR is a snub to China.
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Isn't that just splicing the definition of "hard" in "hard work"? Is peeling 100 kg of potatoes actually "harder" than actively practicing an instrument for an equivalent period of time? I'd argue that practice is harder, because (done right) it's extremely mentally taxing, as well as physically demanding, depending on the instrument.

I agree with your main point that the same task will be considered hard by someone who hates it, and easy by someone who loves it.
My answer: APL, or even better: J

YMMV, of course.
Sounds like algo.