skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your arguments are unsupported by evidence.

> Users dont care about AMP, just fast sites.

Then why does every major search engine support it? They're trying to please their users, so they just need fast, not instant

> "Instant" is a marketing gimmick and makes no material difference when sites are fast enough.

Instant means actually instant, not just fast. Of course it makes a difference, or the search engines, Apple, and Facebook would not put in the resources to enable it.

Your current problem is that you're confusing your hatred for Google's search results ranking with AMP. If you don't like how Google ranks its results, just use a different search engine. Bing ranks differently and also uses AMP.
Too bad. Ebola worked to control populations in areas known to be damaging for the environment. Population control must be part of any approach to run-away global warming.
HTTPS doesn’t know if the file changed on the server so that doesn’t count here.

I am doing security analysis. If this file changes and I’m using it in built server images then I have no way of automatically validating the changes are good without doing the checksumming myself and managing this data. What we have is a server that can be hacked and the files are unable to be verified by checksum
The dealer I talked to yesterday had price sheets for 2020 V60 T8 (PHEV) in Canada (and presumably US). So they'll be here in a few months.
Rather than penalise subsets of people with early starts, I would rather everyone pay marginally more in taxes for more buses.

Also what if your family has both teenagers and preteens? In my family we drove, so the schedule was based on when my parents had to go to work. I’d often arrive at school when the library opened or just before, which is a good hour before when classes started. Then again, my school experience wasn’t in the US, and schools started 8:30am / 8:45am consistently across the city.
I like the lottery idea a lot, as it would create a more level playing field. I think a possible improvement would be to have a small cost of x to enter the lottery, and then if you are selected you pay X to secure your spot where X >> x.
> I find developers tend to really dislike throw away code or temporary solutions knowing they might break in the future.

IMHE, it's usually management that feels this way.
>we aren't even going to drop a single rocket on Beijing?

You are being naive. Are you really ready to risk WW3/Nuclear War to support these protests?
"Unknown" is often code for "vaccines"
No... I've never took my car into Boston when I've visited, I've always dumped the car at the train station.
Is google just particularly dogged about salary negotiations, then? The numbers I've seen for someone new to the org don't impress me relative to the competitive baseline. Maybe you have to ask way higher, or you have to come in at a high level already?
Would you kill a billion for the sake of 8 million?
The Azure Storage Support for NestJS Framework
> The Chinese people do not see risking growth disruption as worth what the west considers freedom.

Yes, in the face of a dystopian surveillance apparatus and a Party that will not hesitate to commit mass murder to maintain power, Chinese citizens are understandably reticent to publicly ask for _anything_ besides basic subsistence and stability.
Even though it wasn't mentioned in the article, a lot of researchers in this field believe that a cure for hearing loss will take care of tinnitus and hyperacusis too, at least for a patient subgroup. There's tinnitus caused by muscle tension/dysfunction (?) which is of an entirely different etiology apparently, but the good news is that that kind seems more treatable than the kind caused by permanent hearing dysfunction.
I'm not hoping that this specifically will remedy her problems. But general understanding of hearing loss might have advanced since her non-diagnosis.
While I agree with your cultural differences conclusion, there are many examples of cruel authoritarians with absolute power in the history of almost all nations in at least most of Europe. Shared sentencing was common in feudal times though I do not know if capital punishment was among them. There are many examples in all regions of the world with respect to authoritarian cruelty and they are not solely an Asian thing.
Have you ever maintained a large open source project? It is so, so far removed from the pure "just creating for the sake of software" idea. It is a job. It can exhausting, frustrating, boring, tedious, etc... you trade your nights and weekends for... the creative spirit? The joy of creating?

People talk about OSS like /r/choosingbeggers. "Why would I pay you for art? You should do it because it's your passion"

To be honest, I still love open source, but I have to take long breaks from maintenance because the "work" side of it -- the tedious zero effort issues opened, just gets to be demoralizing. The next large project will be closed source. I'm getting too old and grumpy to do project maintenance for free.
>Optimizing the algorithm for greater “equity" also meant many of the planned changes were "biased" against families with privilege.

I mean maybe but measuring that by the skin color of those protesting is... not a good method. Of course people marching on City Hall or showing up at schoolboard meetings are going to be the disproportionately privileged, they're the people who have the time for that sort of thing. But even there I'm a bit skeptical, take a look at this:

>Parent Antonia Rodriguez after a fiery address. She says of her and fellow parents, “We don’t have careers; we have jobs!... We’re laborers!” And that makes it hard to handle early starts and early dismissals.

or this video just below:

https://twitter.com/jmlarkin/status/941104843137064960

which gets to the main root of the opposition which was drastically earlier start and end times for elementary school students, two hours earlier in some cases.

>But for those who can’t stagger working hours — specifically single parents or families who don’t have any wiggle room on working hours — kids often see themselves to bus stops in the morning, then wait an hour or so after school, alone, until parents return. I see it every day.

>Under the new start times, and therefore early end times, these kids will be spending up to four hours home alone every day.

>Let’s not sugarcoat: After-school care is for financially advantaged families. Costs vary, but for two children at the YMCA in West Roxbury, after-school care from 3:25 p.m. until 6 p.m. is more than $700 per month (the cost would naturally go up with the extension of hours needed), plus the yearly membership cost of the YMCA (currently $90 per family).

...

>And for what? So Boston Public School can save a little in transportation expenses. And while they save, families will find themselves in increasingly precarious financial straits.

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2017/12/12/boston-public-sc...

Or this analysis from the Boston NAACP, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, and the East Boston Ecumenical Community Council:

>This ignores the fact that parents of color are disproportionately in lower-wage jobs, and are less likely to have the flexibility needed to build their schedules around a school day that ends at 1:15 or 1:55, let alone pay for any resulting need in after school care

https://www.boston.com/news/education/2017/12/16/naacp-lette...

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Now it's clear that BPS used the MIT students here as a tool, a coating of algorithmic sophistication over a plan they already had, but it strikes me a bit poorly to see those students using 'actually we did everything right, it's just rich parents who stopped us' as a scapegoat.
This is a positive thing. Humans are born to labor and create. The problem is in distance from the value of that labor.

Github stars make us feel good. They are an amenity. But they are not commodities. They do not comprise material value, that which we need to survive.

This is essential Marxism.
Who says HN is not relevant anymore?

Thanks for this, made my morning.
Sometimes I really feel like Social Media changing the very fabric of society for the worse. I don't consider myself conservative at all but observing the results from the disinformation campaigns on Facebook and how crazied people can get from these targeted ad campaigns is worrying. I can recommend "The Great Hack" on Netflix.
Free massages and sushi bars don't pay rent!

And I'm not talking about mythical exit money, I'm talking about cold hard biweekly salary. I make more money at a small startup than it seems I would make at Google, for example.
My dad has severe hearing loss (hearing aids, etc.) but we made an interesting discovery: bone-conduction headphones bypass the portion of his ear that's damaged. When he first put them on he literally said: "That's better than I've heard anything sound in a decade".

YMMV but it might be something useful to try with your wife.
The hard part about the security of built artifacts is not building them, it's auditing the source looking for bugs. Reproducible-builds doesn't audit the source, but many act like they think it does. Added to this is the host of other security issues with the chain between the developers keyboard and your system. This solves none of them, but many act like they think it does.

Therefore, in my view it provides a smallish real benefit and a large moral hazard.
How “smart” email could change the way we talk
Restoration of hair cells may have knock-on effects for tinnitus.

If tinnitus is a maladaptive neuroplasticity (your brain "needs" to hear something so if it can't because you're deaf at that frequency it'll invent things for you to hear instead) that makes sense to model as some stable limit cycle of a nonlinear system -- which is one of the leading hypotheses for tinnitus right now -- then it's not totally implausible that restoration of function would change your tinnitus percepts.

It's not clear that it'd help, but I'm pretty confident that if we can restore hair cell function, someone's going to try.
I understand this is not the point of your story, but I hope part of the lesson here is just how fallible body language and facial expression can be. I'll bet a lot of these people believed they were good at empathizing, when in fact they were only good at empathizing with similar experiences or body language expressions.
Hitting a child is probably counter-productive. Scolding it all the time is definitely counter-productive. Scolding it in extreme situations is quite effective in my experience; this is what I was referring to.
I can think of a few good decisions the former half of that list made. Later half, not so much.
Socrates was saying things people didn't like. Google is hiding things they don't like, and trying to make it seem like people like other things more.
Not sure I buy this line of argument when comparing to the UK: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c... versus https://www.energylivenews.com/2018/09/27/renewables-hit-rec... or https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

The renewable fraction in both cases is just over 30%, but the UK has managed to phase out coal in favour of lower-carbon gas. UK prices average around €0.14 per kWh. Maybe the difference is made up by wind, but there Germany has a huge domestic champion: Siemens.
I have early hearing loss. If you haven't checked out hearing aids in the last few years, they've improved significantly, although they remain appallingly expensive.

Wired wrote up a short piece about my hearing aids at the bottom of https://www.wired.com/story/why-we-love-tech-better-humans/

Of course, some drops to regain perfect hearing would be far better.
Yes,sweeneyrod, that's true, I agree
Who gets the benefits of appreciation on the home?
But I wouldn’t call the disease “cured”.
oh this is a big game changer....

also josh you are a huge clown
>But in almost all situations help is only one subspace call away.

Huh? No way; whether you're in a battle with 3 cloaked Romulan warbirds, or have an imminent warp core breach, you have minutes, at most, to get help. Other starships aren't that close by.
As an investor, I vastly prefer buybacks to dividends, unless I'm in a tax-efficient account.
Probably not good for the government, but I always thought you should use porn terms -- that way if your project leaks, nobody can talk about it in public, and you will never, never, never rank for it if somebody does.
Claiming

> West wasn't ready to die for Danzig in 1939

by linking a Wikipedia that argues that this slogan was a fringe opinion that was promptly disavowed by political leaders and had _very_ limited political or societal impact in general doesn't really help make a case.
>This is the problem with unregulated power.

He's a judge. He gets elected. His power is regulated by his constituents. According to the article, this judge has continually been elected since 1996.
>unchangeable orange theme

“Topcolor” setting on your profile page
This sounds like how some regions are “due” for another catastrophic earthquake. Unfortunately, the modern notion of when a place is “due” for a revolution doesn’t take account of the sophisticated totalitarian surveillance technology that China has been building for the past 15 years.

You may not intend to give this impression, but the sense I get from casual observers of China (I count myself in this group) is that if we just let China do its China thing eventually it will implode and some different state will emerge, probably slightly better. As an American, this seems like The Way of Things because we are taught that freedom triumphs, even if it takes a long time, even if it comes in fits and starts.

It seems that this historical bias has created a blind spot for the possibility that things will continue to get very much worse for the Chinese people — who will go their own way entirely, as a group influenced by a completely different cultural background, with entirely different notions of what good government is.
...or invading and destroying countries and countless communities across the globe with a smile on your face.

I agree with you completely!
Good. It'd be nice for us as a species to have a chance to catch our breath, for a change.
Tech debt is inevitable and is good as long as you keep the level of debt reasonable, so maintanance cost doesn’t sunk too much of your dev time.

More good examples:

1. Technology progress: Long time ago JQuery was the best for UI library. Today you would use React or friends.

2. Company stage. As a early startup you usually prioritize for speed and validating hyphothesis. As you got a significant user base quality matters more.

3. Size of development team. With 5 or less developers having a monolite is good enough. With 50 developers you likely take more advantage of microservice architecture so each team can be decoupled and move faster.
Bluetooth LE – Increasingly popular, but still not private
> Because that irrelevant part was the only one that would give AMP any semblance of being open.

No, that is the only part of the document when taken out of context that gives AMP any semblance of not being open. The TSC is what makes AMP open, and you ignored it and continue to ignore it after I explicitly called it out.

> Several fixes were provided to AMP but they were rejected without discussion.

Where?

> RSS is a feed, AMP is not

You need to work on your reading comprehension. That quote that you took out of context says that AMP is exactly like RSS on that particular point. I have repeatedly explicitly pointed out that AMP is like RSS items, not like RSS feeds.

Let me know when you're ready to continue the discussion in earnest instead of going to great distances to strawman every point.
Everybody, now is the time to email your local Chinese embassy. Carrie Lam, the top HK politician. Michael Tien and Ronnie Wong, leading pro-establishment politicians.

Let them know dialogue & political solutions are needed, violence is not acceptable, and that PEOPLE ARE WATCHING AND CARE.

Your voice can make a difference to the political calculus. But time is very short. You must act now.
Agreed. For environments with A/C, solar is very well correlated with demand.
Who would you sell these homes to?

It's one thing to renovate one home in squatter and abandoned zones for yourself. Another thing entirely to bank on entire subdivisions of people wanting to move into such an area. Who's going to buy the home you build next to the squatters?

And keep in mind, if no one buys and moves in, you're still liable for upkeep on each and every one of the lots. For as long as it takes to sell. Which may never actually happen.
I imagine that to most people living though those protests at the time they were viewed as "someone is always protesting something." Don't underestimate how the narrative telling of history changes your perception of how something went down compared to what your own observations are right now.

Survivorship bias ensures that history only remembers the protests that were meaningful, making it seem like protests were historically more effective and more meaningful.
As of now the most popular comments here seem to decry the notion that anyone making six figures could ever relay an experience of misery. This is utterly non-sensical.

The article, to me, seems to imply that perhaps working at a radically free corporation doesn't yield pure bliss and benefit.

Is there some reason this article needs to balance out any possible misery with all the luxurious amenities Googlers enjoy? Does anyone actually think that it's not possible someone could have a miserable experience at Google?
Intel's Linux Graphics Driver Developers Get 3~20% Boost for Current Hardware
>Oh, and the government here is doing just that.

Then what are you complaining about?
Supercomputer-Powered AI Tackles a Key Fusion Energy Challenge
The first example of this I can remember was the endless stairs music from Super Mario 64.
Andy Sparks, CEO of Holloway, on Living a More Conscious Life
> Please, just apply password rules everywhere consistently.

This would honestly fix all of it, without even needing to communicate information about how passwords are handled. Although, I think those rules should be communicated as well, so users can make good choices about password security. If spaces are removed, that lowers entropy and users may want to add additional characters or restrict spaces in their password generator.

It may not be easy. You might have dozens of different client applications with different requirements or abilities. But it is simple: Figure out your best practices and your lowest common denominator. Then apply those rules to every password every time in every context.

Alternatively, if you have clients which (for whatever reason) need a special case, create a separate hash for that special case and then use that only for that client. (Likely, this will reduce the overall security of the account, but if this is your lowest common denominator, allowing other clients to have greater security certainly doesn't hurt you.)
Rust and Blockchain Workshop/Meetup in Berlin
You're assuming that the BBC successfully gets his attention. Personally, I don't even visit the BBC anymore and haven't for over a decade.
Yes -- although there are lots of folks with hearing loss who don't have tinnitus. There must be more to the story than just the ghost ringing that you're talking about. But I do think that the hypothesis you quote makes intuitive sense, at least as much as these hypercomplex things can be intuitive.
I've grown accustomed to singular they, and I've actually joined a group of people for a week and using singular they was pretty common, and felt way more natural than what I expected. I guess this is a question of habit. Grammar is fine, and singular they would not be the only singular pronoun using the forms "are" and "were" for verb "to be": "you" also does.

Though you are far from being alone to dislike it. You might be interested by RMS's take on this: https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html

tl;dr: he argues that singular they feels wrong to him, and argues in favor of a gender neutral pronoun "pers", derived from "person". I like the idea, though I haven't seen it used anywhere and would not easily use it.
Computer-Aided Knitting
Europe has no army or military capacity. You have UK/France with some military capability but rest of Europe has in essence no armed forces, their tiny militaries are mostly only used to help during natural disasters or with humanitarian efforts. Europe can't even handle issues in its own backyard without US.
Facial recognition coming to a supermarket near you – Technology – The Guardian
Here's a way to figure out how they work:

Listen to Bach's Fantasia from Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWyiiOkhwoc

At about 3:54 you'll hear a famous section where Bach starts "circling" around fifths. The general pattern is that the notes of the chords in the hands "rise" while the feet descend.

Listen to the bass line. It seems to descend by step for thirty notes in a row. But try singing any note and singing down a scale for thirty notes in a row. You probably can't do it. And if Bach did that in the bassline the final note would be really low and flabby.

So how does the bassline seem to continue descending by step while remaining in the same general range?

The answer is a two-word phrase that is usually met by profound boredom in first-year music theory classes. But that concept is what Bach uses in the pitch domain here to achieve his aim. And its analogous to what happens in the frequency domain to produce a Shepard tone.
I am so happy that I am out of the rat race that is online dating. It seems like it's pretty hard to get noticed and the culture of just ghosting people feels a bit inhumane.
I also felt like there was a large disconnect between what people wanted out of Tinder with my experience on the app.
Be careful when you assume you know what someone else's words "clearly imply[]."
At the time Gmail was introduced, it's hard to overstate how groundbreaking and influential it was. Totally raised the bar for web apps everywhere by making effective use of XHR, which at that time was hardly known even to web developers. An absurdly large amount of storage space (1GB when Hotmail was 10MB, IIRC?), fast and effective search. There's a reason Google was the most loved and respected company in tech for years, and IMHO Gmail was a huge part of that.
Some EV manufacturers are ahead of the game.

https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/02/contr...
... engineers who will still be there, just less white and western than you're used to.

There will still be a next generation if Millenials and post-Millenials in developed economies decide to not have children due to environmental concerns, just like there was a next generation after the baby boomer women took to their careers with as much dedication as men.

There will be a next generation. End of story. But its superstar engineers won't be white.
> Because otherwise, what would stop you taking on a loan for X, then paying it off after a while by taking on the same amount from another bank?

Nothing. That's why lenders do credit checks and due diligence.
I'm willing to bet you have a pretty wild idea about what "slightly right of center" means. The most recent "conservative" Googler in the news whining about being fired (Cernekee) was an open white supremacist.
The article says

> "But the cable can be configured to act as a client to a nearby wireless network. And if that wireless network has an internet connection, the distance basically becomes unlimited."
War no, confrontation yes.