skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't want to get into it, but I would like to make a distinction, that I hope should be obvious in retrospect, and is different from the usual "casual"/"hardcore" distinction:

Some people play games; but some other people are only addicted to spending money on slot machines. The kind of mobile "game" you see Super Bowl ads (or, really, any TV ads) for are almost exclusively actually just slot machines at their core, with any game mechanics being tacked-on afterthoughts.

(If you wouldn't let your own children play a given "game", and your intuitive reasoning is the same as why you wouldn't let them wander freely in a casino—then you probably should mark such titles down under the "casino" tally, not the "games" tally, no?)

Importantly, the audiences for these two types of... experiences, let's call them—are mostly non-overlapping sets of people. Plenty of people are addicted to these slot-machine apps but would never play an actual "game", no matter how casual it was. They're not in it for game-mechanical "fun"; they're in it for variable-scheduled dopaminergic rewards. And, vice-versa, the more of an experienced "gamer" someone is—the more actual games they've played (where even FarmVille with all its dark patterns is still a game)—the more they'll have a taste for actual fun brought about by game mechanics, and so the more clearly they can intuitively feel that these slot-machine apps aren't providing such "fun."

Once you take these slot-machine non-games and their mostly non-gamer audiences out of consideration, then things do line up the way I described: there are no game companies targeting women bothering to spend much on advertising.

(There are, however, plenty of games without gendered targeting that have AAA ad spend. Pokemon, for example.)
https://jakeseliger.com/2014/10/02/what-happened-with-decons...

He's talking about almost anyone engaging in ideas typically labeled "postmodernist" "poststructuralist" "critical race theory" "theory" "literary theory" and a couple of others, as well as persons engaging in fields called things like "ethnic studies" or "gender studies."
Thanks! That clarified my understanding. :)
I'm not seeing how unbound solves the problem of your network provider spying on and recording all your DNS lookups.
Now if only python would do the same.
Grateful Dead Lyricist Robert Hunter Dies
So sad about the death of Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter https://rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robert-hunter-grateful-dead-dead-889788/ . In so many ways, his were the lyrics of my youth--the very best part of it. "Let there be songs to fill the air."
Immediately Invoked Function Expression;

(function() { alert('swiggity swooty'); })();
What an absolutely terrible website. The page constantly kept reflowing as ads loaded. I got a pop up to subscribe and finally a dialogue asking to enable notifications. We should not reward this sorry website by upvoting to HN frontpage
Well, there is an alternative.

You are talking about peak oil supply. Instead, what if we run into peak oil demand.

IE, instead of running out of oil, we run out of oil demand, as everyone moves away from oil onto better technologies.
We didn't pick a competing product, really. We just use Confluence, which we were already using anyway. Not enough team members contributed to the SO pilot for it to seem worth continuing after the trial period.

I think it probably has a lot to do with team size, industry, and also with how distributed/remote the team is whether it's worthwhile.
So, the solution to big corporations employing asshole tactics to lure you into selling your attention is big government using your tax money to make a heavily censored, totalitarian version of Facebook? Ok.

The whole article is futile attempt to try to embellish that concept.
I don’t think that existed back in the day, I could be wrong though. I’m thinking 1998-1999 era iMac personally.
Smartphones, tablets, Windows, Macs, Linux... they are all similar products targeting marginally different markets. I use my iPad for the same things I used my Linux desktop for not long ago. There are some things one does better than the other, but ultimately there is much more overlap than differences. The bigger the difference in form factor, the bigger the difference in use cases.

Also, less folks forget...

Android is Linux.
Jobs board in which prospective employers can vet users from their history
A super uneducated guess here would be that boys choose more to participate in skills-based competition and girls gravitate more towards relationship-based communal activities?
The secret is to learn how to distill the useful parts of the theory into something useful in pratice

Then you can leave all these reactionary and narrow minded coders to their own devices, implementing suboptimal solutions.
If this is self taught then calculus shouldn't be core. It should be moved to advanced math and replaced by more linear algebra. Calculus is a beautiful course but linear algebra is central to data science and ai. Unless you're getting into topics that require it, 3 semesters of calculus will go unused. You can't know too much linear algebra and discrete math.
It's nice, I guess, but huge?

Instead of:

async function main() {
// code
}
main().catch(console.error);

I'll be maybe writing:

try {
// code
} catch (ex) {
console.error(ex);
}

Hrm?
The 4 years of college includes a lot of non-college time during summers, breaks, holiday vacations, etc. There is no reason why a serious student shouldn't be actively learning 50 weeks a year, minus holidays, and putting in the same work time as his peers who entered the job market after high school. In which case, 3 years is easily enough. However, 3 * 50 * 40 is only 6000 hours, which won't make you an expert.

The coursework listed on github for the OSSU is likely thousands of hours if pursued diligently.
Used to be that the “key” could be a pocket knife in the right hands. They fixed that about 30 or 40 years ago when folks started to figure that out.
> What, concretely, does this control entail? How does it function?

Party members "inspecting" facilities, demanding access to records, issuing whimsical and unappealable orders, et cetera.
I’m not so sure. At least, running a does-nothing start-up is not likely to be seen as work experience in terms of applying to standard CS jobs. It may even be seen as a liability (e.g. “they clearly want to be the CEO / develop a product, how sure are we they will be invested in production quality software / craftsmanship / answering PagerDuty on the weekend?”).

I also see a lot of resumes of people just out of college who were rapidly catapulted into some incubator / start-up camp etc.

They often have had endless bullet points about “running a business” for ~2 years basically just burning someone else’s money.

Do they know the first thing about working 40-50 hours per week grinding through Jira tickets and code review? I don’t believe it.

A completely pure new grad who never tried to run a start-up on zero life experience is frankly a lot more likely to put energy and enthusiasm into the basic, unsexy realities of working a real job.
Quick thought: this looks like a clone of Reddit, or maybe more loosely HN, Lobsters, or Metafilter. I think the most important aspect of social media to most people is that it allows for people who are friends "in real life" to share text / media with a circle of friends in a semi-private forum.

This is why such an apparently unlikely candidate as Discord has become the medium of choice for a lot of young people. It's basically group chat with a few extra features like history search, different "channels", and easy media sharing. It's also why I think a lot of the current open source attempts are likely doomed to failure for this purpose - they're basically decentralized Twitter.

Do you have plans for Tildes to fill this kind of role? Admittedly, I didn't look all that closely at it, and so what you're getting from me is my surface impression.
Google selling YouTube to Vimeo or DailyMotion, say at a court-ordered valuation of $1, absolutely would have the desired effect.
I would say it needs to be more like BBC with a funding stream that isn't dependent on Government approval.
HN convention for old articles is that you note the year in parens in the article title.
I can at least name two bugs.
both bugs do not apply to everybody and one is fixable with some additional code.
I reported both in preview9, one should be included into 3.0 but was not.
the other will be fixed in 3.1:

- https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/issues/13696
- https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/issues/13715

(Edit: corrected first link)
Paywall...:(
> If you have a large family the requirement of a large house/apartment

Thanks. That's why I qualified that bit by noting that the COL curve may not be linear. Due to regressive taxes, housing minimum, etc.

But without hearing from folks actually in pittsburgh, it's hard for me, sitting here in SV, to know how good or bad $40k is.

But the relativity to SF isn't the most important part anyway. If the pay is below market, shouldn't HCL quickly find themselves without employees?
Elm-pages – a type-centric static site generator
so , just imagining the movement, or "just about doing it" ?
I've seen a Walgreens that was closed in less than a year because of poor location despite being across the street from a Rite-Aid. They aren't perfect either.
>why companies don't use more hand-coded HTML ads with inline images and direct links to prevent blocking?

Ad-blocking relies on knowing the origin of ads and blocking requests to the servers browser-side.

Regardless of where you shift the content it is just a matter of time until it is fingerprinted and blocked.

On the side of sites selling ads and hosting it co-mingled with other content, it is an issue of business priorities.

I know some sites that do this which causes the ads to be a feature rather than a bug. The ads are helpful and targeted specifically, requiring no fingerprinting of the user or tracking. The ad buyers get great throughput, the ad sellers get easy cash.
Microsoft and Google both release their own hardware. AFAIK, Microsoft does a pretty fair job updating software for the Surface. The same cannot be said for Google and Pixel (Or for that matter, Nexus prior to Pixel).
Interview with Lena Reinhard, Director of Engineering CircleCI
Congrats on the launch guys! Excited to read that you've already connected with Tim, more and more smart people tackling this problem is always a plus for everyone :)
Is this part of the standard?
I don’t have a car. How does this affect my life? I’d assume the prices of commodities go up mildly. What else could I expect?
Article is behind a paywall, so I wonder if it addresses what portion of these men find this to be a problem.
I have never had close friends other than whoever was my significant other at the time. This is more than sufficient for me, and I don't think it's unhealthy at all. Some people just aren't social.
being clickbaity and being diverse are orthogonal
Is there already a way for a regular person to fine-tune the 774M model in a similar fashion as it was possible for the 124M and 355M with gpt-2-simple?
Given how much money wework has lost this year, I think it remains to be seen if they’re a decent business.
Unbound does support DoT.
Problem of induction
> We should just straight up ban sports, legacies, ect from admissions

Banning is harsh. Top universities are tax exempt institutions. If they want to continue their legacy programs, fine, they're a private institution. But then they--and their endowments--don't get to keep their non-profit status.

Simple change that could even be effected at the state level by way of referendum.
Better at winning, sure. Better at being interesting to watch, though?
Things even veteran developers do
We use it at work. It keeps me sane... search is very good, tons of people internally use it, and teams tend to do a decent job of monitoring for questions tagged with their component.
I've looked into software carpentry, I'm glad it's there but learning how to commit and 'intro to <python/R/unix>' is about five years behind what I need. Most scientists can read intro tutorials themselves. I'll keep looking around on their website though, thanks for sharing.
Sure, but you're not speaking DoT to the authority servers. DoH and DoT aren't magic security dust; they're just a means of tunneling requests from an untrusted network to a more trusted network. If you run your own recursive resolver locally, DoT is mostly theater.
There is no shortage of video games both enjoyed by boys and girls. One popular "game" among younger children is "Roblox". It appeals to both girls and boys. My son tends to enjoy the more high paced action type games and my daughters enjoy the ones focused on running a store, dress up etc. They all enjoy playing games but my son can play for a much longer period of time. My daughters seem to get bored quicker and switch over to Netflix or similar.
Trump was a well-known "character" in NYC and he prided himself on that. They had no idea that this then colorful minor-celebrity who himself loved being in the tabloids (and, no doubt, on Sesame building a "Grump Tower") would become President.

I'm a registered Republican, and I don't find these clips offensive, considering they were made well before he even started running for President.

Also, Donald Trump has in the past been a Democrat and may have been when Sesame Street made these segments.

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

So if you should think this was an attack by "liberal" Public Broadcasting people against "conservatives", it's really not that simple.
They are like eye-spy books or Where's Waldo moved to tablet. You pick try to click on objects hidden in a scene.
That's an oversight on my part, excellent point. Thanks for pointing it out.
I believe support for additional query languages is in the roadmap.
You're asserting that the Chinese government uses these mechanisms to set the business plans of BYD and Geely? In other words, that BYD and Geely do not make decisions based on business considerations and the profit motive, but rather because the Chinese government orders them to make those decisions?

I'm trying to understand just how you imagine things work in China.
I try to operate under the principle of taking care to be clear with what I say or write and to take care to understand what I hear or read. (It's the human version of internet protocols or combinational logic levels.)

This is a very strong position if you care about trying to transfer thoughts from one person to another, but there are two problems. The first is that the people you are interacting with might not share the same protocol, which can be frustrating (even with just slight variations in levels of effort), and the other is that not all communication is about transferring thoughts.

Normative statements about how communication ought to occur, like whether one needs to follow prescriptive rules, are akin to the way engineers debate an API design. In the end, it is about setting a boundary that determines who has to do what work. The more clear you are (and clarity can take quite a lot of effort!) means less work for the recipient (which, if it is something you think they must know, then it might be worth it). The more effort you put into understanding someone means less work for the speaker/writer (which, if it is something you want to know, then it might be worth it). Conflict arises when there are different expectations, here like anywhere else -- for example, two housemates with different expectations for cleanliness.

Many people believe at some level that if they say something, then the utterance has exactly the meaning they intended it to have. This is despite the fact that symbols have no inherent meaning, but rather they are constructed to trigger something in the mind of the recipient. Such people might actively resist answering any questions for clarification since they believe they were clear enough and don't need to do any more work. They might think the question comes from a place of pedantry since they know what they meant.

There are some people who don't care to be clear and don't care to figure out what you are trying to say. Some people even add a bit of noise into their interpreter if it's something they know they don't want to understand, for whatever reason that might be.

When one person corrects or questions the speech of another, this is sort of a side channel, communicating either "I want you to be clearer" or "I am taking care to understand you." Unfortunately, there is not a good way to distinguish between the two without knowing the person well enough. Lots of talking is just to maintain a relationship of some kind, and highly precise language can be inappropriate since sometimes all someone wants is to be heard, even if not 100% understood.

It's nice when two people know the channel model well enough, so to speak, to be able to have high-bandwidth low-effort interactions.
Kik Messenger shutting down to redirect resources to SEC battle
One extremely important topic wasn't mentioned here - the impact of sunlight. For those, who feel that sunlight is crucial for their cognitive and (more important) emotional base-level, I recommend a great book by Linda Geddes - "Chasing the sun"[1].

One of important findings in the mentioned book was that blue light (as emitted by computer and smartphone screens) inhibits melatonin excretion and thus have negative impact on the quality of sleep and makes it harder to fall asleep. I replicated author's experiment and haven't used smartphone & computer after 8PM (for about a week) and my sleep quality improved greatly.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42603316-chasing-the-sun
Nice, we work in the same building. Can you smuggle me some cereal? ;)

Edit: I'm on the 5th floor, feel free to come party
>> Later in the article, the author explicitly suggests that accounts be connected to real world identities in order to prevent fake accounts and discourage trolls.

This solves one problem and introduces about ten other massive issues with underrepresented populations, protected classes, and stalking.

This is not a new idea. It's been tried many times before and shot down regularly for very obvious reasons.
I will admit to not actually looking at how third-party keyboards are implemented (specifically, how are security risks mitigated), but have always stayed away from them on instinct. For me, the potential value just doesn't outweigh risk.
https://imgur.com/jHXjUVr

https://californication.fandom.com/wiki/Slip_of_the_Tongue
Or just have the ad selection happen server-side and for assets to be proxied via your domain. The content of the ad to be embedded with your sites code. And maybe a JavaScript library which is also proxied and gathers the metrics.

It’ll cost more bandwidth and hurt the site experience, but I’s imagine that’d fool adblockers.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190924204425/https://mrmacinto...
"cannot" is such a high bar. This must be incorrect.

But religion is indeed in decline in the West. Whether or not this is an argument against God's existence is more questionable.
I am convinced that everyone prefixing headlines with "China's Tesla" is trying to short Tesla.
Alternate headline: “Potentially Life-saving Tech Works as Advertised”. I know, I know, it’s a human interest story and the regular folks might not know this. But my first thought reading the headline was, “it better call, or I’m going to be puzzling how to get a refund in the afterlife.”
Did you read the commit? The spec material was linked: https://tc39.es/proposal-top-level-await/#sec-execute-async-...

It's a Stage 3 proposal https://github.com/tc39/proposal-top-level-await
“Our general guidance is that the total cost of the early adopter program lease will be less than the price of a car—but how nice a car will depend on the number of Spots leased and how long the customer will be leasing the robot.”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robo...
Mastodon entirely fits the definition of a decentralized network, not just "technically." You're just pointing out inherent properties of decentralized network topology.

The next step would be a distributed topology, where every user of the network communicates directly with every other user. Pure p2p communication protocols have failed to catch on with users for a multitude of reasons.
> That or they found his cereal box and threatened to call the cops.

I'm sorry, I don't understand this part. Is this a reference to something?
'It's found money': YouTube stars look for ways to expand to Facebook
What about if I get a product for less than it cost the seller, like moviepass when it was first released, or an uber ride right now?
Unions are democratically run by the workers for their own benefit. They should be mostly upside, or tradeoffs in your favor, since they're doing stuff that you voted for on your behalf.

People make a lot of noise about union dues, but they're a drop in the bucket compared to the higher wages the union will negotiate for. The most onerous requirement is being prepared to strike (and a lot of union dues are to set aside emergency funds for people during a strike).

That said, not all unions are equal. And like any small democratic institution, they're going to preferentially represent the people who get involved.
Maybe you think of propaganda as something with a negative connotation, due to only encountering the word in context of "bad governments" doing it. It's not, it's just a term to describe the pushing of a judgement to an audience. Like the article is doing calling things toxic left and right.
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21057157
> ... I don't see how any of these individual things are proven to be true.

'Let the experiment be made.' -- Benjamin Franklin

That is to say democracy is, or ought to be, at its essence all about discovering, through experience, which institutions best serve the common good. "Laboratories of democracy" is another phrase that comes to mind.
True and I wasn't fully serious. But: Having SO as an external showcase has benefits for attracting other customers over "we use it on our site" A testimony from an internal customer is less valuable as I see more company politics over technical reasoning.
Personally, I hope the license thing bites Mr. Spolsky. I think he deserves it after speaking out publicly about getting companies to squash our creative freedoms at home.

What did he say / where could I read it?
It now looks as though it might be Google Chrome. Whoooops.

https://mrmacintosh.com/google-chrome-keystone-is-modifying-...

e: hn discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064663
Can I just point out how much I hate those sand charts? You can only tell what the bottom most variable is doing.
How big is the AMD segment when intel was rapidly rising? You can't tell because slope hides line width. Want to know the trajectory of the other small players? Too bad.

Don't use sand charts kids.
WeWork is the Goop of tech companies.
operators.
It’ll just have the screenshot on the bottom right corner of the screen.
Nice parable. :) This is sometimes called the "XY problem."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
See "Are paywalls ok?" in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html