skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not fully remote, but my wife is.

We enjoy Pittsburgh, big city feel (not massive though), decent public transit, gigabit ethernet.

Decent airport (well kinda we have to do a lot of connections when flying to SF or Europe). Easy to get to DC, NYC though via plane or car. Everyone is pretty nice here (bias I did grow up around here, though I can tell you driving has gotten worse..still far better than DC).

Edit: Given the chance to live anywhere we'd probably go back to Europe, lived there for about 4 years with my previous job. It fit our lifestyle a bit better than the US does. Probably pick a place like Berlin, Copenhagen, Amsterdam-area.
Back in the day, the internets worked this way with AOL. Every big compamy had an AOL keyword term.
Other than a few long-form pieces from investigative journalists that show up in my Twitter feed I would never actually read a newspaper. Print news 'content' is uninteresting, unimportant, irrelevant to anything that actually matters most of the time, just as sensationalist as the tabloids, mostly rage bait, and disempowering.

Podcasts where the format is they have to pick a single story to tell for the whole week gets this right. A daily book where on a typical day you can shread the whole thing without looking and not feel like you missed anything is only being kept alive by feaux prestige.
I think most jobs in Japan exist merely to keep the population busy, in the interests of "stability". Unemployed or otherwise "chaotic" life situations are undesirable. The Japanese corporate world isn't really healthy enough to absorb any excess labor, so the public sector takes up the slack.

Just walk into any Japanese business or local government office and the giant stacks of documents and rows of office ladies will make any knowledge-worker have an aneurism at the obvious inefficiencies. But very little (outside of the car industry, maybe) is about being efficient. It's about being "stable". Not that I agree with this at all, it's just my cynical take based on the interactions I've had.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20493585
But what you are describing is a tiny insignificant minority of very technical users from the 90s, amongst a population who didn't understand it at all (cf all the 1990s movies where the actor turns off the monitor instead of the computer!).

What I am trying to point at is the vast number of users born after 1990 that have a decent basic understanding of these technologies. And within that generation, the portion that has a similar deep understanding to 1990s users is a population which by absolute size is several orders of magnitude larger what it was in the 1990s. And it is going to keep increasing.
> The ones you provided all break the "transferable skill" requirement (React native a bit less so but still).

At this point what you have can't even be called skill, on?
> You're not getting an employment contract, for example, to work in Burger King in Stockholm because it wouldn't pass the labour market needs test.

As far as I know there isn't any labour market test in Sweden anymore. The unions only gets to comment on whether the contract is similar to that of the collective agreement for the sector.

http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/i-fokus/in-focus-2013/soc...
> You can't create a camera from your current viewport view so easily like on Max

I've never realized I needed something so badly that Blender didn't have as I do now.
> Recharging an electric car is usually done in a few seconds of active time

You forgot the 5 minutes spent trying to download and install their own proprietary app, creating an account, just for the app to fail to start the charging...
I don't know if the proposed solution is the best way of handling it, but I'm glad something is being done about the way some large companies are manipulating users and causing widescale mental harm. It'd be interesting to see social media sites with warnings similar to cigarrette labels. Require the sites to regularly display a warning along the lines of "Warning: Long term exposure to social media is shown to cause anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. If you experience these symptoms, call <HOTLINE>"
Mass transportation means you can profit from slavery or human rights abuses or whatever, while not seeing it because of the distance.

Slavery is more common than you think, and especially because there are conditions equal to any definition of slavery, which are just not labeled that. There still is plenty of such slavery almost all around the world.

Also, slavery is not the standard for exploitation. Subsistence wages alone may or may not be exploitative, but they don't constitute slavery. You need additional restrictions, for example on your movement, choice of work, human rights, etc
Facebook funds AI mind-reading experiment
To go a step further we probably should license dish washers. To make sure they know the risks of spreading food borne disease.
Please change my mind.
Besides the 1% privacy gain and some more free RAM when using firefox over chrome. Which are the key/killer arguments for firefox, NOW?

That chrome can become shit in the future is not to be discussed...
Lazarus could move on to a single window though. I find the free-floating windows rather annoying as they are hidden behind other windows more often than not.
You're 100% right. Look at #1 of their leadership principles

https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/principles

As a customer and as a former interviewee, their motives were always very clear.
SpaceX to mature Starship Moon landing and orbital refueling tech with NASA
2012 MBP has the escape key.
It remind me of getmagic.com, they announced the product, kind like a joke, here in hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087819

https://www.businessinsider.com/magic-personal-assistant-pro...

not sure how they are doing now.

similar other products:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9354164
Well look at that, couldn't find an Ubuntu apt repo I trusted -- ppa:thomas-schiex/blender appears to be often suggested but he has an open offer for someone to take over the repo admin, and I've no idea who he is.

I hate fragmenting my install routes though.

Fwiw the Steam install comes up as only 491MB for me. Also I see quite a few "bring back 2.79" comments whilst everywhere else I've looked had only been positive.
CUNI Systems for the Unsupervised News Translation Task in WMT 2019
The internet giants are trying to addict us to their products. I despise this and welcome solutions including regulation. However, the proposed law is stupendously overbroad.

It bans "the use of a process that, without the user expressly requesting additional content, loads and displays more content into a content feed than the typical user scrolls through in 3 minutes." So long, Google Maps? (Unless scrolling the map counts as an 'express request', but if it does then scrolling to the bottom of an infinite-scrolling page would count.)

The bill also bans "providing a user with an award for engaging with the social media platform (such as a badge or other recognition of a user’s level of engagement with the platform) if such award does not substantially increase access to new or additional services, content, or functionality." The point of this clause is to ban "Snapstreaks" as the Guardian article says. But if "substantially increase" is a low bar, then Snapchat can meet it. And if it's a high bar, then many nonaddictive karma systems would be banned. So long, StackOverflow and Hacker News.

The proposed law requires social media platforms to "allow a user to set a time limit that blocks the user’s own access to those platforms" — that sounds more helpful. But it goes on to require them to "automatically limit the amount of time that a user may spend on those platforms across all devices to 30 minutes a day unless the user elects to adjust or remove the time limit and, if the user elects to increase or remove the time limit, resets the time limit to 30 minutes a day on the first day of every month." This just sounds bananas. Today, the techlash; tomorrow, the regulation-lash.

The law says, "When an operator requests a user to make a selection from among options, no option may be preselected." MY BRAIN IS MELTING. So, in an address form, I can't pre-guess the user's country/state/province (even if those guesses are based on previous input)? My forms can't have DEFAULTS?

The law is overbroad — but in another way, it's too easy to elude. It says you're not a social media platform unless you "enable users to create accounts or profiles specific to [your platform]." But then, as long as accounts on YouTube are really Google-wide accounts, the law doesn't apply to YouTube — even though it mentions YouTube as one of its targets.

Who wrote this bill?
Are you implying that the New York Times is right-leaning? Certainly you're not implying that are you?
"They're going to follow and prosecute this like blood hounds"

No they won't. They do all they can, to not harm the important car sector anymore, than it already is.

So they will continue to act like they do all they can to chase the single bad actors and then everyone hopefully finally forgets, there was something.

As far as I know, no individual car owner in germany has any hope of getting a refund, after they were cheated in bying a "low emission diesel". The way the politic sees it, VW was already damaged enough by the US recompensation demands. It is politics and power they care about, not justice.
It's looking more like wealth leads to increased patience, not the other way around. Intuitively this makes sense to me, as if you're food-insecure waiting for a better deal that probably won't come is irrational.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmall...

The paper referenced in the article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761876166...
Sampling DNA from a thousand-year-old illuminated manuscript
Infinite scrolling exists in social media apps because it triggers a dopamine response in users. It's there to keep people addicted to the app, and it's foolish for us to think that smartphone addiction isn't a real problem. Because of that, I fully support this legislation in regards to social media. There are legitimate use cases outside of social media where it's beneficial to have infinite scrolling, but if it was implemented to keep a user hooked, it needs to go.
As with another poster, you are mistaking me advocating for these things, whereas I am just observing.

The argument is made that leaving the EU for more or less tangible feelings around sovereignty, identity etc. is futile because leaving the EU won't deliver changes in those areas. What I'm saying is that I agree it won't on its own deliver changes, but that it at least opens the door to changes in those areas. However, genuine change would require a political party to offer genuine controls on migration, for example, which none of the major parties are offering (Brexit Party arguable). Even Boris is offering an amnesty for illegal migrants already in the UK, and not offering any hope that migration will go down under a points based system.

I don't think it's sensible to argue that we are not on the path towards a United States of Europe, and that leaving opens the door to a different future, I mean, why would the fight to keep the UK in be so fierce unless there were a lot at stake?

It's futile arguing on the substance with me as if I'm advocating for it, I'm not, I'm just analysing.
ConLangs: How to Construct a Language
Novosbed+Mattress+Savings
Apple is going to be forced to allow other app stores onto their phone like Android does (although Android did it without any laws forcing them to).
Sorry for using "never" -- certainly I could spend a lot more time learning the tricks that could get me close.

But UI is not essential for a functioning app, and if the time costs of building a good UI are too high (a lot of new learning and problem solving) I'll spend less time on it.

What "sample" are you talking about? Is this the kind of thing you're comparing my app to? https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/examples-graphicsview.html
Let's ban interfering with ad blockers then. Let's enshrine the spirit of the HTTP protocol by legally reinforcing the core idea - the server only provides content and suggests how to show it; the User Agent renders it however it likes.

Do this, and autoplay issue will sort itself out.
> The reason that even minor crimes [..] are taken seriously is that letting small things slide is the beginning of an erosion of the rule of law.

I really love how you condensed it well. This is how I always observed in the wild.
https://cusp.chat/new looks pretty bad on firefox :( (behind multi blockers)
Exactly. Plenty of people used to always tell me they opened the internet when they opened IE, and no doubt many still don’t know the difference.
>> if you disagree where's your rant about browsers lying about port 80 by not showing it?

> Why should I write idiotic rants?

You are not aware that all browsers currently hide port numbers in the URI bar if they are 80 or 443? For example, https://www.google.com/ is actually https://www.google.com:443/, but the browsers choose to hide this part. Wouldn't it be better if you actually saw which port the browser connects to? That way you can write https://www.google.com:13000 for example to try to connect to another port, but now you believe that those addresses doesn't exist. Removing these two standard ports from the address bar is therefore exactly the same as removing other standards parts, like https:// or www.
I don't want YT to autoplay either, and you used to be able to make it not autoplay in the settings, but that was too useful I guess.
American politicians are famously unable to articulate consistent principles, and their voters are little better. I don't find it surprising that Republicans are unable to see this sort of invasive regulation in the same light they see regulation of other business practices. Maybe nobody's making it worth their time to see it that way. Maybe they see this as a bone they can throw to the public to get a few votes before they go back to guarding their power hoard. At any rate, there are only about seven or eight people with real, consistent principles in the U.S. Congress, and I'm not aware that Josh Hawley is among them.
Zach Gage created a version where both sides get a random assortment of pieces, which certainly turns the game on its head. http://reallybadchess.com/
They might have a chance with Health Insurance as Obama was able to implement ACA

Just barely, but it was still a half measure and while better than before, they couldn’t go all in even during the first two years because to keep the Democrats on board who were just as beholden to the insurance lobby as Republicans they had to work with private insurance companies. It is still slowly being eroded by both the President and red states that are trying to get it overturned by the judiciary.

They might have a chance with Health Insurance as Obama was able to implement ACA and it looks like its one of Sanders and Warren's major campaign promises to implement Medicare for all,

And no Republican in the Senate or House will go for it and many Democrats are afraid to stand up to the insurance lobby. Even if the Democrats keep control of the house and gain control of the senate, it’s unlikely they will have the 60 vote filibuster proof majority to pass anything. Even if they do, Republican states will fight it tooth and nails in the courts.

Inequality. Warren is especially motivated on reining in Wall Street [1].

She can be “motivated” all she wants, but both parties are in the pocket of Wall Street. She probably won’t even get Democratic support for it.
It's harder to exploit people who have the institutional/cultural knowledge to fight back.

And still, lots of natives in colonies managed to overthrow their exploiters, usually with higher technology or more ressources than their original hunter-gatherer culture had.

Native Americans were outmatched by the population pressure from Europe. They didn't get the time to develop agriculture and everything to the point that they could compete in population density. And on top of that, a lot of violence, accidental harm and wrongful deeds have been done to them.
I’m currently working remotely from Sognefjord (just for a month or so). Plenty of rainy days where it’s not hard to stay inside and get stuff done. Still beautiful even in the rain!
And this will solve it how? All it does is create the awful user experience of having to manually tap continue. If, instead, the law prevented scrolling past a certain limit (which would be very stupid indeed, but this is just a hypothetical), users would simply switch to the next social media app.
> No one should go with pen an paper double checking if that polynomial integral is correct or not!

Hm - maybe I'm fortunate that I studied calculus before there were (accessible) software packages that could just do this stuff for you, because back then, the only way to solve these was to do them on paper. I'm sure I would have been tempted to just "skip ahead" to letting the computer do it for me, but I definitely learned a lot more going through all of the steps myself than I would have if I had just gotten a high-level understanding of what was going on and plugged the rest into a computer. Because, honestly, integrating polynomials is really, really easy - if you know how to do it, you can do it on paper faster than you can load up wolfram-alpha, type it in, and wait for an answer.
Thanks for sharing. The whole time reading this, I was thinking how straightforward it would be to re-factor online/electronic chess games to also support a Kriegspiel mode. I'm surprised I have not seen the option.
This one does not. it's proof heavy, and there isn't really a mechanical way to do proofs that's efficient. The understanding comes first and often all in bunches when "the light turns on," then the proof follows.
One of the See Also links in this article is just this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_chess
A lot of that can likely be attributed to increased public awareness of the dangers of smoking.
Infinite scrolling triggers a dopamine response in users, not unlike a slot machine. It's sole purpose is to keep users hooked on the app. It's designed to be addictive.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/automatic-you/201208...
> I always start with HTML, then add CSS, and then add JavaScript

So when do you get around to teaching programming, then? ; P

/ducks
But none of those have a substance, they're mostly products of the newspapers misleading people! The idea that the UK somehow lacks "genuine controls on migration" is a total fiction, but Brits who haven't been through them or don't know people who have believe it because the newspapers have lied to them.

The UK already has a points based immigration system, for example: https://workpermit.com/immigration/united-kingdom/uk-visa-ti... ; so why do people think it needs one?
> Of course, sometimes "it makes no sense" is the right reaction (remember the Fire Phone, after all). But when clever people do things that make no sense, it can be worth looking twice.

Even though Amazon failed with the Fire Phone, I wish they'd try again! I think Amazon is uniquely poised to do this. Have a half-smart phone that includes their back-end services (Alexa, shopping, movies, music, storage for your photos) and a selection of curated apps (Uber, Lyft, some popular games) and a decent browser, and you may have a good phone for older people, people who want a nice phone at, say, a $150 price point but don't want to deal with complexity
> somehow they thought optical databases would allow for image search. It’s not clear what they had in mind here

Oh, well, it turns out that focusing a spatially modulated light beam through a lens gives you the Fourier transform of the original spatial modulation at the focal plane. So if your lens has a focal length of 30 cm you can calculate a Fourier transform of an image of whatever size (1024x1024, 2048x2048, 4096x4096) in 1 ns. This is about six or seven orders of magnitude faster than you can do it on a modern CPU core, and still about three orders of magnitude faster than you can do it on a NVIDIA Turing. It was about eleven orders of magnitude faster than you could do it on digital hardware at the time of the Fifth Generation Project.

But you lose the phase information (as far as I know) so you can't reverse the process. So what's it good for?

Correlation, that's what. If you have a photo of a tank from some angle at some angle and scale, and at some set of phase shifts it has a significant correlation with some other image, that probably means that tank is in that image. You can compute the correlation (disregarding phase, so it's an upper bound rather than the actual correlation) with an electrical SLM, which is slower than the lens but still a lot faster than a VAX. Or an i7.

So it was a plausible attack on the problem of image recognition using massively parallel analog computation. It hasn't panned out, but we had to try it to find that out.
Thanks for sharing that. After visiting the MCC offices when you were just getting started, I always maintained a curiosity about your work, enjoyed playing with Open CYC, etc.
> It's not like the government destroys that 27% when it spends it: the money is just redirected

It's easier to think about these things in terms of labor than in terms of money - money is too abstract and it's easy to make logical errors.

Imagine we have a 100% labor/service economy. Each time money changes hands, it means that that much "value" of labor has been exerted. In this sense, it is clear that the GDP is an accurate representation of precisely how much "value" or labor is being exerted in total across the country each year.

If each time money changes hands, the government takes 27%, that means that 27% of all labor exerted in the economy goes to the government, and is spent, permanently. Money is finite in the same sense that labor is finite in this example.

> But if a competitor offers a generic version of the same drug at ten dollars a year, putting me out of business, that $10k / year diaappears from the GDP figure.

No, then the consumer would put that 10k / year towards some other purpose instead, and it would still show up in the GDP.
Very "drop in the bucket-y".
Hence only 3 minutes of content per click...
Every time I see old textbook like this, I'm really thankful to professor Knuth for developing TeX.
Except that Google has to pay Apple $12 billion a year to remain their default search engine, a price that has increased every year.

What chrome did by training users to enter their searches in the address bar (via the default tab’s fake google search box which moves the cursor to the URL field) was stupid, expensive, and probably undermines Google’s ability to be a destination web site in the long term.

At this point, the overwhelming number of devices are not Google’s. There is no reason to think that in the future they will be. After this anti trust stuff their influence over android may be even less than it is now.
> Javascript and Electron : easy but terrible performance.

Is performance that terrible though? VSCode works ok for me, is it more to do with how people use Electron rather than Electron itself causing the performance downgrade?
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20565141
Yes it is. Infinite scrolling triggers a dopamine response in users, keeping them wanting more. Its sole purpose is to keep you engaged in the app.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/automatic-you/201208...
hiding www. seems like a bad idea.
Native American Cultures are extremely dynamic. It's hard to define objectively who is native American and who is not. As in similar matters, it may be the best thing to let people call themselves what they want.

You can define Native American ancestry in some way or other, but that would say nothing about an individuals connection to that culture which may be high or may be zero.
Yes, as in Google's.