skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often when it happens refresh isn't even enough, I have to do a duplicate tab operation. I had that issue on mobile for a long time, now I have it on desktop too. O boy.
That’s great, but GP was complaining that their preference is literally undone. There’s no consumer-friendly reason to change explicit preferences.
you're probably not alone but the issue here is forcing it on the user. that the option exists means they understand some people want a raw timeline which makes repeatedly changing the display that much worse
Efficient Go APIs with the mid-stack inliner
Canned or frozen vegetables are quite cheap in most industrialized countries.
these are the reasons a browser built-in password manager is ideal for many people:

1. most people don't need many passwords outside of the browser.

2. in-browser password managers can offer a better user-experience than standalone password managers. (although, so far, firefox's built-in password manager is lagging behind in this regard.)

3. password managers integrated into the core of the browser have a smaller attack surface than those implemented as plugins.

4. users of a particular browser already trust the browser vendor with their passwords, at least enough to let the browser see and transmit them every time the user logs in to a site.
Google will now pay bigger rewards for discovering Chrome security bugs
Has Amazon released a statement? We don't know that it was an error until they do. It's not unusual for a company like Amazon to sell things far below cost to conquer a market. This level of discount is out of the ordinary, but you don't really know until they say or someone says Amazon cancelled the order or asked for it back.

Maybe that sounds like rationalization to you. Let's go back to the article...

>> "Other members spoke to Amazon customer service about their order and were told that the order would indeed ship."

That doesn't sound like a company that made a mistake. And even if it is...

>> "While many Slickdeals members remarked that the orders would almost certainly be canceled by Amazon, the retail giant does have a history of honoring some pricing errors — even those that are significant."

Where's the lack of ethics? Amazon could stop it if they wanted to. Taking a deal Amazon offered and hasn't rescinded is about as pristine as it gets, mistake or not.
Sometimes it switched back to "Home" while you're using the app. I don't know why they're so against just letting me make the change constant. I really hate when companies think they know what I want more than I do.

ublock origin also seems to block the ads just fine at least.
Show HN: Free public API to perform vulnerability scans
“I had to wait until the sun went down to finish my Netflix download test”
They are hard to figure out the first time so make sure you read the instruction on how to wear them properly.
I don't see why it couldn't be a fine art.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
I think there are languages and tools that mathematically minded programmers will find accessible enough and useful to aid them in their thinking. Dependently-typed programming languages such as Lean [0] and Agda [1] are both expressive enough to search for proofs to theorems and practical enough to execute programs.

And in the design space when we're thinking about problems of concurrency or liveness there are great tools like TLA+ that take a pure mathematical model and automate the checking that it satisfies our expectations. [2]

It's not all figures and drawings these days! I see maths and engineering integrating more closely in the future.

[0] https://leanprover.github.io/

[1] https://github.com/agda/agda

[2] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html
liability covers prison, it is not an omission.
Interestingly enough, the FDA does not recommend eating more than 12 oz (~340g) of fish a week due to mercury concerns. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-and-...
This article is not about formal verification.

Why would mathematical thinking involve rejecting physical realities? If there is a performance constraint you are trying to optimize, account for it.

> Write a program that captures network packets and stores them on disk as fast as possible

How are you going to do that without formulas involving:

- network bandwidth
- disk bandwidth
- SATA bandwidth
- packet ordering
- compression time and ratios
- amdahl's law

This sounds ripe for mathematical reasoning! Absolutely the way you model the problem is informed your knowledge of the hardware.
> > More to the point, is there money to be made by making real food more readily available?

> Not likely. Any advantage you squeeze out could probably be copied by another company willing to sell less healthy food. So the only your only real option for differentiation would be marketing how healthy your food is. But that requires people to care.

I wasn't trying to make real food cheaper - just on par, so that the "path of least resistance" wasn't to eat garbage. We can't make people care. But can we make them not have to care so much, or try so hard?
Yes, why does it matter? Underrepresented? Who is? The people that are not different but yet are different? I don't get it. I see a couple of people with their commit times being analyzed. If there were black and/or females in that list, great. I did not waste a single thought about it and wouldn't have even if there were some or many in it. Why would I? It's just some people. Forcing a quota on certain "types of people"? Sure, go ahead. Ironically you'll be part of the problem you are trying to fix then, though.
Understanding Enough Awk to Search Piles of Files and Text
10x engineer = quiet working environment absent of distractions 2.6x * 2x the number of productive hours by removing and shortening meetings * 2x engineering ability and company culture with no obstacles to productivity
Quadratic Factorisation – A Complete Guide with Theory and Complex Numbers
My biggest pain as far as missing features is new tweets. In the old interface if I had someone's timeline open, There'd be a number '(n)' in the tab that indicated there were new tweets. If I went to the tab I could click on a show new tweets button and see them. A nice side effect of this was that you could easily view deleted tweets as they were queued and shown normally.

The new interface has none of this.
there seems to be evidence, that some plants restrict the bio availability of certain nutrients
How is Firefox a showcase of Rusts performance when Chrome beats it in benchmarks?

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-...

Not to mention Firefox's poor state in macOS.
This is such a great and completed guide. Lots of headers with example and explanations. Have been looking for it.

I will include in in my newsletter[0] next monday if you don't mind.

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[0]: https://betterdev.link
I was looking forward to reading Peter Norvig's writing on dynamic programming :(
It's also worth digging into "the mistake" here, because it's very likely that no human made this mistake (and can be punished for it internally). Rather the larger system (machine or beast) that is Amazon created a pricing system that created this price. You can either take advantage of it or not. So the real question of applying the principle of reciprocity here is ... what is the entity making the mistake and being exploited?

Would you like to live in a world where Amazon creates systems that exploit the market but individual consumers feel moral responsibility to turn a blind eye to the opportunities created by the mistakes that that system makes because they project their own humanity onto the system and apply the golden rule?
I quite like the redesign except the annoying sidebar on the right hand side, its way too big and pushes everything too far to the left for my liking

I wrote this Stylus rule to get ride of it and make the main box a bit wider. It's a blunt, brute force rule but it works for now...

.r-1ye8kvj {
max-width: 700px
}

.r-1ovo9ad {
display:none;
}

The downside is it gets rid of the search input.

Also I suspect those class names are auto generated by something so the above rules will probably break if they ever do a redeploy
FaceApp: FBI Told to Investigate If Russia Now Has U.S. Citizens' Biometric Data
When I read this article this morning I was confused by "In two years NASA will launch InSight" and "The New Horizons spacecraft will make a close flyby in 2015". I had to scroll to the bottom of the article to see the sheepish confession that this is a re-run from 2014. Look of disapproval.
Some portion of humanity can undoubtedly thrive with limited/no social contract, but for the majority of us these "evolutionary artifacts" are still very real and consequently still exert a very real force on our lives.

Until the day comes that we are able to (if we are able to) remove these drives, neglecting them will continue to have deleterious effects.
The issue is that the browser won't let you visit the insecure URL, regardless of how you get to it.

It won't work because the HSTS setting the visitor got months ago told it not to.
It's not about economic poverty. Firstly food is (as I understand it) pretty much at its cheapest ever, even zero cost from food banks (notwithstanding the supposed shame, and I can tell you my family would have had no shame in taking food from a food bank when they were starving in rural Wales during the Great Depression, and this family history somewhat limits my sympathy to arguments about the shame of using food banks); secondly people are not poor in economic terms, with our definition of poverty having had to be changed (making it a relative measure) because it had ceased to be meaningful; and thirdly under rationing food was obviously strictly limited, and yet the nation was so (we are told) never fitter.

The problem is that the person at the sharp is incapable for whatever reason of providing nutritious meals despite the basic conditions generally being available for them to do so. It's a poverty of history, culture, community, education, imagination, willingness, instinct, morale perhaps, but not money. None of that is the fault of the socially deprived, but the idea that more money will magically fix everything (as the left constantly parrot) is just as much of an untruth as the idea that the poor are too stupid and lazy to sort out their own lives.

Apart from that I do think it's amazing that politicians are surprised that despair is increasing. When was the last time you heard a politician stand up and praise Britain and the British people absent virtue signalling about diversity etc.? Constantly demoralise people for decades, do nothing to properly integrate minorities nor construct a cohesive unified nation: get demoralised people.
You are right. Betting everything on a 6 digit code surely is a mistake. For example, try same code on a million different account, and you definitely get access to atleast 1 of them. (Considering they are using a good random generator)
Unlikely. Alcohol is just sugar that no longer tastes sweet, as far as your glucose levels are concerned, and meanwhile can destroy your life and health in lots of other ways.

There is no Latteholics Anonymous.
Do me a favor. Visit your own link on mobile, then scroll down a little bit. Then scroll up, just one pixel will suffice. See what happens? Now here’s the most important part. I need you to respond to my comment and promise me you’ll never link to that site again.
I don't know about you, but I see Trump tweets everywhere; the very stable genius has made a YUGE impact on everyday discourse.
Speaking from experience, when I eat like crap I feel tired mid-day, can't sleep well, and can't focus.

Part of what I was trying to get at is if I cared to make myself an ultra productive work machine, then eating healthy and exercising (especially if I have an unlimited budget to do so) would be a key component to making that happen.
Well, first off, you don't need a "majority" for it to cause damage. The Nazis didn't have more than 30% of the vote, but they caused damage. Currently in the US, we have a president who has said, multiple times, that climate change was a hoax made up by China to make us weaker in manufacturing [1], and has dismantled the EPA to make sure they explicitly don't do anything about climate change [2].

Second, I'm going to need some sources for your stats. It looks like in the Gallup polls, we still have roughly 69% of Republicans who claim that climate change is greatly exaggerated [3], with only 35% of Republicans who think humans are the cause of it, and only 18% or Republicans that think it will cause any problems in their lifetime.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun...

[2] https://mashable.com/2017/02/03/trump-epa-climate-website-ch...

[3] https://news.gallup.com/poll/231530/global-warming-concern-s...
A little overbroad is somewhat of an understatement..
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https://www.reddit.com/r/NBA_Draft/comments/cev65y/golfthread_british_open_2019_live_streamreddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NBA_Draft/comments/cev85d/matchlive_british_open_2019_live_streamreddit_est/
I doubt that this played a role, that's just a such personality type which predisposes a person for crime and trouble, or the "without brakes" behaviour
we use mailgun's email thread parser. which is not perfect but good enough, and keep only the latest email (we ignore text from older emails in thread).

figuring out the output language is where a lot of the domain knowledge comes to play. although at the end the output language is just whatever you need it to be for your task. it may have a very small vocab size depending on what you are trying to "translate" to. for us it is a sequence of words and numbers that express the various types of calendric intervals that corresponded to the input emails. teaching human labelers this sort of task is challenging if you want to get high-quality labels. we had a team of in-house labelers labeling data (the human-in-the-loop) and we closely interacted with them and monitored the quality of their data and gave them feedback through various methods. we also perpetually improved guidelines for them. it was a pretty intense iterative process because we wanted their labels to be as accurate as inherent ambiguity in human language allows. so a lot of work went into that.
Wouldn't it be annoying then if Twitter kept switching you to chronological?
For 95% of people, PlusCal will suit them just fine.

I'm starting to see people say "I shouldn't learn PlusCal because it's not really TLA+", get disheartened about how difficult TLA+ is to learn, and believe they aren't able to use formal methods. I'd rather 10 people use a slightly-more-limited tool than 1 person use "the real thing".
I default deny all, then selectively enable scripts to add missing functionality. It can be a pain to get Gawker sites to work, but the vast majority work perfectly after enabling first party scripts and maybe cloudfront.
Out of curiosity, how different were the three pictures in their prediction?
Don't talk to me about finances until I have had my coffee ;)
someone told me that in industrial slaughtering they make the animals thirsty by feeding them artificial sweeteners so the meet will have more water
I don't see any moral issue until Amazon indicates it made a mistake and is actually asking for the return of the goods or for more money. I haven't seen them do that. Maybe their intention was to provide a great deal to their customers.

Even if it was unintentional the relative cost to Amazon is tiny and but the relative cost to any individual customer could be quite large. What you can afford to pay is not absolute so damage caused is not equivalent between an individual and a billion dollar corporation.

In life and money there are no moral absolutes and treating all corporations and individuals the same is not necessary. For me, immoral actions are those with the potential to cause harm, and I don't see equivalent harm in your two examples.
I'm not sure which point you're trying to make, but I would feel extremely uncomfortable being robbed at gunpoint by a person I knew to be "rich". A rich person has much better odds of getting away with it, or receiving reduced punishment. Also, the rich person has no material need to threaten me at gunpoint, so they have clearly become unhinged and are past the point of rational decision making. A poor person who robs you at gun point just wants your money, they're not actually hoping to shoot people.
How does it affect you?
A friend of a friend, as a poor MIT student, actually got scurvy, from eating mostly instant ramen noodles, plain (without the seasoning packet).

Presumably the student had previously taken health classes in primary school, and probably gotten good grades. But it's very easy to be slammed with work and stress (like a poor person might be), and just not have the time/energy to think about nutrition.
I'd find it very interesting to understand other people's "self-control", vs "normal behaviour".

As brief background, I've lost about 80kg, but I've put 20kg of that back on.

My main problem is what my body "wants" is about 1000-1500 calories a day too many. When I'm eating "properly", I'm hungry ALL THE TIME. And the world is full of tasty food, in basically every street one walks down.

I'm guessing that most people aren't hungry all the time, every day. Could you, in the middle of the afternoon, eat and enjoy an extra 1500 calories and then still feel hungry for dinner?
See my example. It was very short and helped me clarify immensely what I was going to write.

You're right that if I am going to add another template to a Django site, there isn't much math to think about. But anything bigger than that, there are always questions worth considering.
>The median person lives just 18 miles away from their mom.

Oh God, I wish I did. She's not even 18ft away until she dies, and she'll probably outlive me.
Problem with alphanumeric, is you have people from foreign countries who do not even have an english keyboard installed on their phone. Default is probably their native language and they do not care to add a secondary or switch.

Numeric values solve that problem.

edit: drunk typing
I am the type to rejoice in cynicism. But, I have to say that I don't see the screen phenomenon as necessarily a bad thing—time spent in contemplation is time spent alone. I am a person too that likes to spend time outdoors, so maybe what I am saying is that there is a fine line between lonely and alone.

You can only be anti-social in the presence of other people. Otherwise you are simply alone.
> it's infeasible to accurately measure ad performance,

how come? You can measure your conversion rate, cost per conversion, etc.
People need to "humble down" and see that if people keep falling into the same traps even with training, it's not as simple as "people sucks"

The parent isn't saying "people suck" or even that "people who write memory bugs suck".

They're saying that 'programmer machismo' sucks.

Saying, "we don't need better tools, we just need better people, and I'm one of those better people," sucks.

Closely related is saying, "manual memory management is hard, so I guess most programmers should use better tools. But I'm a really advanced 10x 'leet programmer, (in spite of how much of my code has wound up in CVE's), and I'm clearly capable of writing code using manual memory management because of my 'leet skills."

It's one of the peculiarities of the field that we're completely ok with practitioners using dangerous tools and building techniques when better tools and techniques are available.
You don't believe modern Japanese believe in absurdities from the past because it's part of folklore but it's not okay for Americans to believe in absurdities from the past because… the Japanese have a better education system? (Which I'd also count as an absurd belief because I only hear complaints about it.)

And are you really going to give lessons on the mythology of Japan to people who live in Japan? That's perhaps a tad presumptuous, especially considering it's like telling people living in Britain that witches are part of British folklore.

I mean, please.
Thanks for checking it out, I'll take a look into this. Right now it's limited to "Recent Passages" but I plan to include genre and friend based filtering, and searching by title/author in the future.
I see a lot of this, as I'm sure many HN readers do.

The kind of person you want can make $200k+ easily at an established company. What compensation are you offering to beat that? Not cash, so... equity?

The person you want is also going to be experienced enough to know that your equity is as valuable as your revenue streams. You have no current revenue, and it sounds like you have no signed customer contracts, either. It sounds like you don't have a customer pipeline. That means your equity is worth $0.

So again, what are you offering? You don't have a proven ability to sell or market this product, or you would've already sold it.

An initial design of a SaaS product is worth maybe $2k, and a non-technical co-founder is only worth their ability to bring in money (either through investors or sales). That means a technical co-founder for your particular situation deserves to own almost the entire company, which s/he will realize.

There are also some things you mention that jump out at me as red flags:

> Already have over 9k social media followers (planning to convert 7% to active paying subscribers)

This means nothing. The fact that you think social media followers means anything about sales is troubling and suggests you either don't have a deep digital marketing background, or you're trying to trick the reader.

> Invoicing SaaS product at MVP stage.

I don't think you know what MVP means. You have a design, not even a prototype. MVP means something that a customer can and will pay to use.
When I tried working in an open office, I tried most of those suggestions. None of them were worth the effort for me.

What I learned is that I am unable to work in an open office setting, so I won't take any job that requires it.
Does or has anyone conceived of a "coding cubicle"
the idea being the cubicle is like a dark room, donot disturb scenario. how a supervisor determines you are working and not screwing around is a point, but this seem like a possible hybrid, so that collaborative portions of development can be skeletally accomplished in a common environment, then the actual transposition of flow charts to code can occur in sequestration.
Well most of the people found these deals are the ones who will understand it.
The Amtrak That Works, and the Amtrak That Doesn’t
Berkeley becomes first US city to ban natural gas in new homes
>> The general public didn't know that the application was saying "give us your name and face and we can do whatever we want with it..." They had no idea that this was even a thing.

Because EULAs and "terms of service" and "privacy policy" are all bullshit that nobody reads and should not have legally binding consequences or obligations. Peope have come to treat those things like a simple OK button but the law says otherwise. This company could produce deep-fakes with users heads on them and claim it's OK by their ToS and they might be right.