skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> , scaled a botnet of over 2,000 bots that made money from a popular trivia game,

Did this make anyone else flinch?

edit: I do want to comment on the Feynman Technique linked in the article. I've never actually written concepts down as explained, but it's very close to how I _actually_ learn (or at least, feel confident in my knowledge). If I can't explain something in plain language, there's a good chance I've gaps. The steps listed are pretty succinct - going to have to give it a try!
There is definitely Sysadmins blaming devs, but not because they're monkeys.

The attitude that Devs have about Sysadmins comes from arrogance. Devs are arrogant that Sysadmin work is monkey work, and "they could easily do it if they had to because it's not nearly as complicated as writing code". It's a complete lack of respect for Sysadmins.

Sysadmins blame Devs because as soon as Devs are put in the position of doing ops work, they completely and utterly fail, but instead of changing their attitude about Ops work (i.e. that it's actually a real and separate skillset than dev work), they maintain their arrogance that the work is dumb and "I could do it if I really had to".

Both issues are caused by arrogance of the Devs... the way Devs see Ops work, and the way Devs interact with Ops people which is then reflected back at them by Ops.

And in your example, Ops has it right. If Devs cannot do a basic thing like provide specs on the environment/tools they need to do their own work (what, you really don't know that 'git' is a tool you use, even though you type the word 'git' 20x a day?), how is Ops supposed to do anything about that?
2014; but still a lovely thing to see.
I'd put money on the fact that it is smartphones and the internet over student debt.
Global Reasoning over Database Structures for Text-to-SQL Parsing
> But vaping has its own problems: To become inhalable, nicotine or THC, the high-inducing chemical in marijuana, must be mixed with solvents that dissolve and deliver the drugs.

This is not strictly true; there are vaporizers that take regular dried cannabis buds and deliver THC. No chemicals are involved.
If you're talking about biological evolution, this question is considered nonsensical to those with a background biology.

Evolution is merely the change in allele frequencies in a population over time. There is no herarchy or order one can impose to make a comparison of "more" or "less" evolved.
Awesome. "Because I needed it" is a great reason to build a product. Wish all companies ate their own dogfood.
For anyone curious, http://mbasic.facebook.com/ is one of the least data-intensive way to access facebook.
Stop taking your phone to bed
Los Angeles Escorts
Duh. I'd also be willing to bet it's correlated with screen time.
Ah very cool! In a couple of those, when his chin is stretched wide, Obama really looks just like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson!

Did you do anything tricky to blend between functions, or is this simple interpolation?

Something pretty similar I made on ShaderToy: a live Mandelbrot mapping using the camera: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XsKfDc It sadly doesn’t seem to work on all browsers, so you can swap the iChannel0 texture for one of the built-in videos if the webcam doesn’t show up.
> I found a mouse to be bad, something to do with pressing the button on top.

This is my main RSI issue as well. Suddenly stopped being able to click a mouse one day, and still can't 10+ years later without pain. Even doing the motion in the air causes finger pain. Would love to find a way to fix it. Instead I use a TrackPoint with thumb buttons.
Switcheroo Redirector for Chrome has worked for me to redirect amazon.com links to smile.amazon.com
Eh. I think the division of the work is only secondary to the quality of its organization and planning, which is almost always done by one or two core people on each team, regardless of the team size. Even a 6 or 8 pizza team could be high-performing if the team members all cooperate very well and have the same ideas and expectations.

Meetings would take way too long, but who says we need daily meetings, or to have everyone there for them? You could have a nearly flat hierarchy, and if all team members took their own initiative to coordinate and perform work in a way that integrates well, you don't even need N-pizza teams. You just need people who take initiative.

This is very rare, I think, but it can be taught. If you're the leader of an organization, focus on teaching people how to be self-organizing, how to care about a whole product, how to anticipate, ask questions, offer help when it's not your job, and find alternative solutions to work problems (ex: "they told us we can't do that" "why?" "I don't know" often has an alternate solution that just isn't immediately apparent)
No, that's simply you trying to re-create the classic lines of this argument.

You need there to be someone in control, it's the only way you stay sane, and it bothers you to no end that there simply isn't.

It's the same argument religion gives, but I doubt you fall for that one, do you? Kind of funny, how inconsistent you are.
I have the same damned Samsung fridge/freezer. It did the same freeze fan bullshit.

Its also why I built my own IoT network, with Tor for network-to-network transport. It sent everything to a dashboard on my domain.

https://hackaday.io/project/12985-multisite-homeofficehacker...
We're productive 4-6 hours a day. Anything longer than 8 hours really is a waste of your time. As you get older you find your time is more important as there is finite time on this earth. If you don't have a life outside work then you really need to reassess your priorities.
I worked with designers that felt it was their job to modify websites not because it was needed but because they felt that keeping the interface made the site look old and dated.

I think if the interface works there is no reason to change it but designers might have a point.

As an example, Yahoo's website manager felt that the site's interface should change as little as possible so for many many years yahoo's site looked exactly the same. What ended up happening was that people began to think of yahoo's website as being old and not as useful as other sites. The interface was not the cause for yahoo's decline but it did not help that it stayed the same for so many years.

Much of techs changes are changes for the sake of change not because they are needed but because without change, we wouldn't know what's helpful vs what's not.

So, is it a mistake to design a website's UI without new features? I have to say yes even if I don't like it.
Most probably because I haven't been able to setup HTTPS yet. I just moved my site to svbtle today (https://svbtle.com) and I'm still waiting for them to help with that
Generating natural-sounding synthetic speech using brain activity
Dang! That's really wild.
Hemp mentor? Is that a thing?
http://homepage.smc.edu/engfer_mark/frys.htm
Morris Worm History
What do you think about a paid service like this? I would gladly pay $20 a year for a membership to get access to detailed tear downs, unbiased reviews and objective analysis (with proper metrology, standards, etc.)

iFixit execs - if you're reading, please look into this - you guys already have a phenomenal business and expanding into all sorts of goods and services would be amazing. Instead of repairability rating, we need a Doug score (Youtube fame) for consumer goods and services or even better - measurement results, comparisons, etc.
The problem is density. The hawker stalls in Singapore are exactly this (pojangmachas and cafeteria dealios in Seoul, hawkers in Hong Kong), but they get to have it and your suburb doesn't because they have enough soulless 50 story apartments. Ask for a 50 story soulless concrete apartment in your neighborhood today!
This describes me pretty well. I'm a dedicated learner, and I think it's what I do best. I don't master topics. Even the information about the thing can be a distraction. It's about synthesizing info into your working knowledge. Everything is reference.

CSS is a great example. Do I know everything about it, even after 10 years? Nope. But I know it well enough that a quick reference is all I need for any problem.

Programming in general, too. Took me a minute to grok fundamental things (data types, functions, etc). I don't care what language I use, it's all one, plus syntax. I want to use other languages, for fun and synthesis.
I probably would have avoided ever getting dependent on them to that degree in the first place.

But, yeah, sure, I see the point--but my impression is that people automatically see it as their responsibility to figure out why someone else's email provider is throwing away their emails, regardless how much you depend on them.
Programmers, Business and Digital Transformation
+1, thank you.
> ...$25k in loans to make hundreds of thousands more over their life time.

1. Future reward should be discounted, usually by a fairly large constant, because of interest and risk. Also, in many fields, most of those extra hundreds will come toward the end of a career. So, highly discounted.

2. I wonder if it's really a good idea to set up a society where banks that provide educational loans are able to capture huge percentages of future productivity. Seems like this would have all sorts of really negative outcomes. Some of those negative outcomes are already happening -- e.g., we effectively import 90+% of our scientific human capital because US students aren't willing to do phds.

We realize that allowing financiers to capture a big chunk of the rewards for K-12 ed is a bad idea. Why don't we realize that the same is true for college?
I've definitely seen individual contributor salaries in the 170-190 range in Austin.
They will typically offer a numeric overall rating but also breakdown a review with a number of sub-ratings. For example, if you look at the list of tires in any given category, you'll get a numeric list sorted by number, but each tire is rated poor/fair/good/very good/excellent across categories like dry braking, wet braking, handling, hydroplaning, snow traction, ice braking, ride comfort, noise, rolling resistance, and tread life. They break things down similarly with other products. You can even sort the list they provide on any of the various categories to get a feel for how the products perform in the areas you care about.

(yes, you're doing it wrong)
You can read it using a "focused reader" service like Outline: https://outline.com/cvHmpU
Thanks for that.

It's weird, I haven't been able to find any other information about it. It's not even listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air_show_accidents_and....
Just looked into setting in my phone and doesn't have Dark Mode but I tried the Color Inversion. It's enough!
I'm not Gen Z myself (millenial who graduated right before asking for pronouns became a thing on college campuses), but that's a question I've asked myself as I well.

I get the feeling that it's simply because they believe they have leverage over the words people use on their campus, but no leverage over housing expenses or other economic issues that actually have broader appeal.

Remember that neither Gen Z nor Millenials have ever witnessed significant economic change that was brought on by direct action of normal people. Unions have been utterly defanged and left-wing candidates never manage to win or drive change either. Occupy Wall Street was the closest thing we've ever seen to an economic solidarity movement, and that was widely mocked and derided as an utter failure.

While the movement around language policing may give Gen Z the feeling of participating in successful direct action, it unfortunately is contributing to a schism between them and older generations who may be otherwise willing to ally with them on broader causes, but are fearful of mis-stepping and being called out publicly.

Of course, maybe that very same fear of public call-outs ties back to what one of the professors in the article mentioned. The new generation is used to having every little thing they do be potentially subjected to being recorded, publicized, and criticized at any moment through social media. They are constantly self-managing themselves and their social media presence with that in mind. They don't see why older generations shouldn't be held to the same standards - even if they'd rather be exempt from that standard themselves, they accept it as reality.

There's a mockumentary series on netflix called "American Vandal", which besides being funny, was surprisingly insightful about the challenges that young adults are facing in part due to growing up with instagram, twitter, etc. as part of their world. I have a lot more sympathy for them after watching that.
Bankrupt – TWA
A Better Way of Saying, “I Don’t Know”
The Egg – In Animation Format
Show HN: JSON with Comments for Go
Very happy to see one of my very favorite short stories turned into a short video animation by Kurzgesagt.
Voting does work with JS disabled, just not well.

The page reloads and re-renders with the UI changes (up-down buttons hidden and unvote link added). However, the reload takes noticeable time, and you lose your scroll location, which is disorienting.

With JS enabled, the UI changes happen instantly, and the scroll position doesn't change. The page still reloads, but the reload is directed into a new Image object which is immediately garbage, so it's off the UI timeline. But it's inexplicable bandwidth waste, nonetheless!
I rarely wish to click on the username or time links (“3 hours ago”), but that’s what I click on the most due to size and placement issues (when trying to vote or collapse a thread).
I agree one should not blindly vote, but at the same time if you have decided to vote, it shouldn’t be maddeningly difficult and error prone to execute.
> Being “safer than cigs” isn’t worth anything at all.

That's just not remotely true; anything that can replace ciggs due to being safer will save many lives even if it's not itself safe.
We're in the uncanny valley of manufacturing now. In not too many years you'll be able to download a schematic of that old motor, and have one made for you on your desktop.
Do you insure your hands?
I dislocated the last knuckle of my middle finger on my left hand yesterday. I set my finger as soon as I saw it and then went straight to ice. Today, while sore and swollen, I'm able to type at about 80% my normal rate. It got me to thinking, a couple broken fingers is a minor injury but devastating to a person who pays the mortgage with finger dancing on a keyboard. Do any of you carry extra insurance on your hands? Is that even a thing?
I don't think it is enforceable...

Also how would Wag know that you privately made an arrangement with Alice?
Are you... blaming the Chinese?

I'm honestly not sure.
Yeah I did consider a paid service, but that's when I was thinking about the information wants to be free issue. Unless you've got a good legal team, what do you do? I was still trying to think of a way around it, perhaps you could get people interested enough if you market it well? I imagine you'd need complementary info segments to go with it.
IME the "news" doesn't report on Yemen, climate change, nor does it critique the economic status quo, so skipping the "news" doesn't mean dropping out.
This. I bet you're talking about the agitator pawls been there. Or the rollers in a clothes dryer. Or an impellor blade in a dishwasher. Or the element in a heater. Done this a bunch of times.

So many of these machines can be fixed with a few dollars and an hour of your time if you're not afraid to read up a little, watch a youtube, then tear it apart and look up the part number on a website. A pro visit would be $150 trip charge (or two), another $150 labor, and a big markup on that part. Or they'll just tell you to replace the whole thing.

This is one thing that can actually be worth your time, so give it a try to save it.
Stock market and GDP indices are generally the same in that they are sums of correlated time series. Summing suppresses uncorrelated variance (often measurement noise) and retains correlated variance. The index's returns are essentially the first principal component of the returns of the index memebrs. This is how the CAPM works – stocks are analyzed by factoring out their responsiveness to the market.

Stock market and GDP indices are also particularly related, as stock prices are tied to corporate earnings and corporate earnings are a major component of GDP.

GDP has nothing to do with human perception. It measures the productive capacity of civilization, which is a physical quantity.[1]

It's often claimed that if you give something like Wikipedia away for free, its value will not show up in GDP. In fact, if Wikipedia is valuable, it must have a positive impact on civilization. This will be reflected in GDP, even if it's in the form of extra time/money people spend on ice cream in the summertime.

The maximum someone would pay to access to Wikipedia is likewise irrelevant. For one thing, it's a function of their personal wealth, which is an unrelated quantity. But in any case, paying more than something costs to produce just increases the buying power of the people selling it... But it can't increase their buying power above what civilization can produce. It's a just a wealth transfer. Money can't defeat physics.

All of that is straightforward. What can be surprising (at first) is how well GDP measures human happiness,[2] drives wealth and income inequality,[2] and predicts election outcomes.[3][4][5] Economic peaks coincide with moon landings, complexity in popular music, the discovery of canonical physics, commercialization of computing technology, and various athletic records.[6]

[1] http://www.inscc.utah.edu/~tgarrett/Economics/

[2] http://lumma.org/econ/Happiness.html

[3] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2014.05.002

[4] https://pollyvote.com/en/components/econometric-models/time-...

[5] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-economic-indicato...

[6] https://gist.github.com/clumma/90a1a53a1376699dd4001823e2760...
Beautiful! This is what the internet is for.
Looser gun laws in Texas go into effect one day after latest mass shooting
I agree with this, though less for its usability and more for its aesthetic.

I wouldn’t complain, though, if dark mode and a mobile-friendly font size were introduced.
> I live in the suburbs and I have to really, really, think. If I want something that isn't deep fried, isn't a burger, or a salad with 'BS' leafs (but is actually a salad with strong content and non-filler material): I struggle to think of even one place, let alone a selection that I could drive to within the local zone. Let alone anything I could hope to walk to in a reasonable duration of time.

Start checking out your local grocery stores. In addition to selling, well, groceries, most of them will have a deli section and a salad bar. Salad bars in grocery stores typically get charged by the pound, so you can pick and choose exactly what you're getting. Most grocery stores in the US will also have already-cooked rotisserie chickens, sides available by weight, and other precooked options. Most large grocery stores in the US basically have a fully stocked cafeteria in them.
These maps turn out to be awfully useful for interesting visual effects.

The exponential map shows up in Escher's "print gallery" too, which I tried to explain here:

http://roy.red/droste-.html

And you can use it to make various interesting things:

http://roy.red/fractal-droste-images-.html

I like this paper that extends the Mercator projection of the earth down a few inches so you can see what it does down right next to the South Pole:

http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2013/bridges2013-217.pdf
I suspect being in New Zealand, this was older stock... I'll try and find manufacturing dates but I vividly remember at the time we had 2 choices, a more sensible sized one by Whirlpool that was already made in Korea, or the bigger one but still made in USA; needless to say we opted for the USA model. We actually had whirlpool fridge and washing machine in the late 70s and early 80s and was really impressed with them, hence why when we migrated to NZ we still seek out this brand. I still have a double door whirlpool fridge that's made in USA, just over 15yrs now too; though I can see it's going to leak some refrigerant soon with a copper rust spot on the line to an Embraco motor...sigh
It depends on the culture. I'm female and I don't care, but then again I have room mates so I might be biased.
I couldn’t agree more about finding the best resources. As with many other things in life, there are power law effects in how intelligent and knowledgeable experts are in their fields, and more importantly, how skilled they are at communicating what they know. The very best are orders of magnitude better than the average expert, and you will learn exponentially faster and better if you can find these people. This means being very discriminating—if you don’t find yourself highly enthusiastic to read/watch/listen to more of someone, you are much better off moving on quickly than trudging through without being truly inspired. It’s better to search broadly at first, then zero in when you feel that ‘click’.

Unfortunately, most schools and universities take the exact opposite approach. While you can eventually get very deeply and thoroughly educated about a specific field via academia, it’s an incredibly inefficient way to learn.
I've been a sysadmin for 20 years, so I suppose I just see things differently than you.
"Chinese visa process ... a Chinese citizen has to account for you and explain why you are there"

This is untrue. I have had multiple tourist visas for China (without requiring any invitation/vouching from anyone), and written invitation letters for family to visit me (without being a Chinese citizen).

The process for getting work visas and business visas is more involved and requires more documentation, but this is the case nearly everywhere. I haven't heard of a foreigner being offered a professional job in China and then not being granted a visa, although this type of difficulty is common in developed countries.
I am curious about this one:

“I don't like Elon because his company branded existing technology in a misleading way and pushed it past it's safe limits and people died.”

Most of the other ones vary in magnitude and specificity, but it’s fine with me if you don’t like Elon, he is a polarizing figure right now.
Patreon with early access may be the way to go.
You pay a small monthly fee and get access to videos before others.
Also, you get to vote on what to review first.
What standard should a country have to meet in order to exile someone from what that person considers their home? What is the legal definition of home for these purposes? What are the rules that countries and individuals ought to adhere to?
How is that different from just calling it yourself?
They won't be rebuilding the old location on El Camino, but instead are opening a new location near 101 and Lawrence:

https://www.centralcomputer.com/sunnyvale-store
yeah it should really be the law. It's insanity that its not already like that now that you mention it.

Food and cosmetics has this in the form of an ingredient list. And even then, as a manufacturer you don't have to list every ingredient depending on the threshold and the region.

Why isn't this standardized? We could have open reviews for designs that are known to fail, just like we have open criticism for ingredients that are unhealthy to consume.
do you know about hershey fonts?
The thing that sucks is I can hear what is making the noise in the compressor, and as far as I know it’s something loose, not normal operating sounds. The compressor housing is a welded ball of metal, there is no way to open or maintain it. I was so frustrated when I realized the sound was the compressor. I was praying the compressor wasn’t mounted properly, or was mounted without isolation pads, etc... but nope I got down there and put my ear on it (damn near burned myself) and waddaya know it’s coming from inside the welded ball.