skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users don't care about "offline account" either. (What does that mean to a user, they can't access the internet any more?) Same with the previous term before that, "local account", had no meaning to most "typical" end users for about the same reason.

Some of this I guess is semi-intentional dark patterns [1], but it's also a complex space where explaining the trade-offs to "typical" end users would involve a ton of wasted space and increasingly local/offline accounts aren't what a "typical" end user wants, because they aren't an IT Admin and don't understand the trade-offs and probably don't care to. Given no one seems to have a good name for them other than "offline accounts" or "local accounts", which would imply "can't connect to the internet" to "typical" end users, it's hard not to feel that it really probably is a Power User feature and it's as much an unintentional dark pattern simply because we don't have a good name for it and no one wants to explain the trade-offs to "typical" end users.

[1] Though I'm more willing than most to ascribe at least some good intentions to it: settings synchronization is more useful to typical end users than local sandboxes and devices that don't roam basic settings. The ability to recover logging into a device when a user forgets a password is also a huge necessary deal in 2019 because passwords are broken and typical end users have far too many of them. Microsoft also wants to kill the password as a thing in lieu of other factors. Getting end users out of daily password input would be good for us an industry.

(Yes, yes, I know the next three commenters will complain that it's all just for telemetry and surveillance, and I understand where y'all are coming from, but you are also not-quite-correct and it's a debate I'm tired of. Windows 10 has been increasingly better at allowing you to explore all of its telemetry collection and better with each update at providing tools for opting out of individual telemetry. Windows 10 and macOS/iOS are at the same levels of telemetry collection and accountability of such today. The telemetry debate is increasingly not productive nor interesting in the comments on HN and elsewhere.)
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NOW you tell me????
It would be nice to know in the 80s when I had my Amstrad PC 1512!
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> He actively made women feel unwelcome in the workplace and behaved unprofessionally over and over again.

I'm 6 foot+ and 200 pounds+. I make certain women uncomfortable simply by existing. They will view every action I take through a lens of being frightened and intimidated.

Do I deserve to get fired? Obviously not.

I have also had different women ask me to join a meeting because the audience wasn't listening to them because they were so physically small. They needed someone with authority to say "shut up and listen". Those women have no issues with me whatsoever and enlist my assistance

Clearly the problem isn't with me, should the women frightened of me get fired instead? Obviously not.

Now what?
These look like diffs to me, which I'm okay with. Not sure where the ML will come to play, and honestly, just calling it a site that shows "updates" or "changes" to 2020 candidate sites is good enough.
Will be fantastic once a few decades of inflation transpire!
If that's accurate, and college sports in aggregate have no net positive value to the schools (through alumni donation, local economic stimulus, etc.) that's all the more reason to not support the status quo. That would mean these kids are making lots of money that's not benefiting anyone except the NCAA and others able to siphon value off.
To compute the text differences, are you using the HTML/DOM and rendered webpage to extract the text? Or are the method for each diff separately determined? I'm curious to what the input and output of the ML model consists of.
Right, maybe not every tech company but he is wrong more often than he is right.

For example, he predicted both Amazon and Google would be 'losers' back in 2015.. oops:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2015/04/09/the-fut...
Probably also from cheap labor too.
I'm not, Stallman is when he says "let's assume Minsky did this".
The US also gives nonprofit status to organizations that do stuff like buy expensive paintings and build megachurches. There's no general requirement that the nonprofits need to be using their money in the highest-utility manner. If such a requirement existed, I don't think elite universities should be the first organizations to crack down on.
> So you're saying that the only people qualified to be "a leader" are the ones who subscribe to your particular flavour of groupthink and no other? Nice thought policing there.

> Yes, I believe publicly advocating for certain things can severely break cultural norms and make it impossible for you to effectively hold a leadership role in an educational or advocacy setting.

I'd characterize your general approach to the issue as "We don't need to debate the morality of a leader because speaking against norms is already disqualifying."

So do you want to look at a leader based on whether they simply violate social thinking, or do you want to discuss "fucking children"? But if I'm not mistaken, just discussing this matter for you is a kind of disqualification. And here you are, basically saying that other people are advocating for pedophelia and fucking kids. Is that your instinct for speech? Do you just want to talk <at> people?

Bernie Sanders spoke for gay rights at a time when it was a bad issue for any candidate. The advice for him as a campaign consultant would be to shutup, wouldn't it? Is this not a leadership sin?
ATT asks for the PIN over the phone too, so best practice seems to be changing PIN after giving it to an ATT employee.

But who knows if PINs are visible to ATT employees, and what verification they do in case PIN is forgotten. It’s all moot if any ATT employee can reset it without a significant paper trail.
The Synners novel is so boring. It's just a bunch of tech mumbo jumbo like robots talking in vaguely sci-fi(esque) terms among other non-sense.
It is honestly better to be on the leading edge of the curve than on the trailing edge.

People who got culled early in the dotcom did ok since the cross company hiring freeze wasn’t yet in effect. They took a hit but found more secure jobs earlier. The people a bit later went a year unable to find jobs.
Yeah, unfortunately my hypothesis that no one posts $1M jobs online seems to be validated, but I can pick it up by the time I get to retirement age!
Tips for reducing software development costs
Sounds like premature optimization to me. An empty string will take constant time. Much more concerned with communicating intent, and .textContent is just confusing.
I'm guessing since you need to get a quote, the answer is, "if you need to ask..."
He is defending Minsky by saying Minsky did not rape this child.

In this specific example he is not against rape because he is trying to redefine rape to make his colloeague look less guilty of rape.
When I was a kid, I made an alignment tool out of cardboard, and later plastic from old whipped cream containers.
Cryptonomicon is on there now; hilariously, it's categorized as "short" in the title.....
Punching a hold also made the 5.25 disk read/write instead of read only. Games and other software would often come with a "master disk" with no hole punched, and direct you to make a duplicate (or set of duplicates) that you would play off and save to.
When our jobs were outsourced to India, we dreamed about outsourcing the management instead.
Guess what...
The XCB tutorial is quite good as well https://xcb.freedesktop.org/tutorial/

Also, if you want to do simple graphics stuff with X11, then I highly recommend looking at https://www.cairographics.org/ instead of trying to use the builtin drawing functions that come with X11.
A 60,000 year old cure for depression
Also his essay Magic Ink: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/
tl;dr: use PGP.

>but it's hard

If you're doing multi-billion dollar transactions with email as your sole authorization structure, you can afford for it to be hard.
Those who claim PHP is dead should bookmark this link[1] and pay a visit every week or so for the sake of ranting...and decide how "dead" this language is!

Also not a single language becomes dead, at least in programming; it just becomes obsolete and not used, that's all.

Maybe they need to say the same thing for COBOL that "still runs the world in traditional banking, lots of large scale government systems, insurance and health care". [2]

[1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all
[2] https://www.quora.com/To-what-extent-is-COBOL-still-being-used-in-2019
The academic job market is so tight in most fields that random universities in the middle of nowhere get hundreds of applicants for a single tenure-track job. If you go back 100 years ago you would find that Harvard was a lot less selective (there were far fewer academics), but it was still elite.

Overall, society isn't putting enough money into research. Elite universities hiring more faculty would be a great thing, in my estimation.
I understand the concern, but I wonder if it's real. I can bash Facebook in this comment right now, lie, but is HackerNews legally responsible for this comment? I honestly don't know the laws. Seems like I should.
People with windfalls are often surprised how much they owe.

As an example, below 1M, I am told, Uber only withheld 25% from vested (taxable) RSU grants.

It was worse in 1999. I knew a few people who blew everything they took out at 1Y with the expectation there was more to come. They ended up with significant tax debt due to under withholding once the market crashed and there wasn’t more to come.
This is what I've tried to do in many cases, because, on one hand, if there are potential ramifications of X (security, etc.) it's good to educate, not just OP, but anyone else who may stumble on the same question. However, I've been on the other side too, and have written knowingly strage, contrived code for the purpose of teaching myself a concept, and it's frustrating when people just say "no".
ok, thought you were arguing against taxes for subsidies.

My own argument against subsidizing is simply the information problem. While a tax can add information to the market (this externality is expensive) a subsidy must be someones best guess at what should be done, which is most likely wrong. And as you point ultimately based on a distorted market.

I guess a public dividend would be better, less distorting. And it would offset some of increased costs.
Muscle Mass Index as a Predictor of Longevity in Older Adults
Yale is pretty famous for pay to play - it also turns out to be where two of Shaw's kids ended up going, and Harvard let in Kushner
Maybe just have these ships run on Methanol. Seems like the obvious long term solution.

https://www.methanex.com/news/industry-welcomes-four-new-oce...
I think a lot of people are critical of Gibson for not knowing enough about computers (he did write Neuromancer on a manual typewriter), but I think that misses the point - he had a poet's eye for where technology could go. Of course, on the other side, a lot of people also seem to think he was recommending a dystopian future, instead trying to warn against one... (admittedly by making it beautiful and dangerous he straddles both).
Doesn't Harvard own a bunch of prime real estate? Tax free, even. How tall is the average building on that land?
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Those plans, and even going public, isn't mutually exclusive with being acquired.
That's why I said you "can". As someone who's done c, c++, JavaScript, lisp, prolog, a bit of python, whenever I see people saying such and such language is bad (like trikko's comment), it just strikes me as immature. There are way bigger factors that determine the success or failure of a project yet somehow I keep hearing developers fixated with the idea that the language alone will make or break the project.
Shutdown unprofitable teams. That's what will happen.
Historically, free markets and private property protections would give rise to capitalism. But it seems like, in modern times, those two same ingredients give rise to something else. This "something else" is partially capitalistic, but the word seems to fit less and less.

Traditionally, a capital investment means something like a tire factory. The right factory in the right place gives the owner an advantage until the market changes or a new supplier makes an even better factory.

Putting things like software, a set of customer relations, a brand, or other modern business advantages in the same bucket as a tire factory just seems wrong.
The thing is, if you take the species dogs, pigs, horses, apes, and humans, then you can clearly put them somewhere on a scale regarding their ability to learn or understand (a) simple language (b) complex language, (c) simple math (d) advanced math. There might be some edge cases, but an average human will be better at any other species no matter how hard you try.

There is a very hard species boundary, so it must be something that is giving to the offsprings.

If you further accept that the ability to learn advanced math does not fall from the sky and we somehow descended from an ancestor that did not have this ability, then the only way we got here is that (something that correlates to) this ability was heavily selected for in the past.

And you need some kind of continuum (it can also be multi-dimensional) where you can gradually converge to. I don't think this is something that spontaneously emerged.

If you accept all this, then the same things will likely still play a role within current humans.
Ramez Naam - Nexus: one of the most detailed hard comp books I’ve read.
I really enjoy his writing, but I think he has a way to go before he's in the same league as Homer, Plato, Lao Tse, and Shakespeare!
https://qntm.org/responsibility is a very interesting perspective on function fixed points.
I predict the UI of the future will be via brain implants that allow one to control an app with just thoughts. It may become a necessity in order to keep up with other countries that may have less qualms about the ethical side of surgery and intrusion.
otherwise we would not make progress in basically all sciences

Other than physics, chemistry and, to some extent, biology, how sure are we that we have made progress? Can we say that the CBT-psychologists of today are any closer to a theory of human cognition than their Freudian predecessors? Can we say that modern dynamic general stochastic equilibria theories of macroeconomics do better at predicting long-term economic trends than the Keynesian models that preceded them? Even in physics, we seem to be spinning our wheels, building larger and larger particle accelerators while waiting for a theoretical breakthrough that never seems to come.
For some reason, the first story you mentioned reminded me of fight club.
This strikes me as somewhat dystopian. It is going to enhance the incentive to become a student athlete without helping students that are currently having difficulty affording education without loans, thereby potentially enhancing an already not insignificant sense of discord between athlete and non-athlete students on college campuses.
I was hoping they would use lunar "dirt". I mean this experiment doesn't seem like it even had to be on the moon due to the closed-off environment. It's still cool but I feel like more could have been learned here.
If you somehow think that "unpaid laborers" in college sports is a socialist ideal, I think you need to do literally any reading at all about what socialism is.

How do the workers have any control over the "means of productions" in that situation? How is that a confederation of laborers setting the market collectively for their efforts? You do realize that markets exist in a socialist paradigm right?

Progressive California is going forward for the right for laborers to make money off of their labor, which is an extremely socialist ideal (as opposed to being paid in "exposure", sorry, "college education" as if that's a real commodity)
> You're right that I was trying to calculate distance.

Oh good! Thanks for following up on that.

> one of your code blocks seems to translate into Math.pow, which made me think that I could use it too.

The way that the blocks work is that they convert into JavaScript under the hood. This means that there's no way to do something through the blocks that you can't do in code (although the converse isn't necessarily true). This means that if there is a block that converts to Math.pow, it's broken, so I'd definitely like to know about that if you find it.
Yet another reason to import less crap from China.
I wonder why scrolling is broken once the page fully loads.
For example: Do you think that Cloudflare should have been forced to keep offering its service to 8chan?
Well, yes. I guess it depends on the context but I suppose you’re right since when you’re sending or receiving data that fast, you likely are going point-to-point and not switching/routing it, meaning you’ll end up mostly doing more of one than the other.
Attack bad ideas instead of people.
Capitalist ideology alone.

This guy thinks capitalism is based on free labor? SMH. Read a history book.
Wow, to know that a company bought fake reviews is one thing, but to know that Amazon themselves recommended to them to do so is another thing.
You forgot one key thing. Don't stop learning. Too many former colleagues of mine got busy, got comfortable, or both, and now find themselves in a limited job market.
> They have relatively little skin in the game in terms of online services.

App Store, iTunes Music Store, iTunes Book Store, iCloud, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, etc.

Apple has been making as much of a PR stink about becoming an online services-focused company as Microsoft has. Arguably Apple has been doing even better in direct-to-consumer online services than Microsoft has in the same time period (their app store underperforming; their recent shuttering of an eBook store; etc). Apple just doesn't have (or seem to have interest in) the "big iron" side of Cloud services like AWS/GCP/Azure.
I appreciate the historical perspective on US suburbanization here as a welcome and more substantial reprieve from the "stupid lazy Americans and their stupid cars" takes that tend to dominate these types of discussions.
A "peaceful" religion is very relative when the founder had an army and slaves.
Each diff is done slightly differently depending on what it is... we use headless Chrome + Puppeteer on Fargate for crawling. We use Puppeteer itself to take screenshots and output HTML. We then use a separate Lambda function to extract the text.

From that, we feed the results into "diff" Lambda functions to compute image, text, HTML, and network diffs. We treat the text diff as the primary diff type, and so only if we have a text diff do we do the other comparison types.

From these diffs, we then feed the text + some DOM info into ML. There, we use added text, deleted text, and, for each, the shortest unique CSS selector, the immediate parent tag, and some other items that I may be missing (possibly some approximation of where in the main text the change appears... e.g., top 10%, top 20% IIRC).

Hopefully this answers your question?
Would I be right to assume that your PHP was version 5.x and you didn't do the upgrade to a 7.x release? PHP made enormous leaps and bounds in terms of performance starting with 7.0, and has subsequently been improved in each of 7.1/7.2/7.3. It even has JIT coming in the next version. One fact: PHP 7.0 started to closely match–and in some cases beat–the performance of HHVM (Facebook's PHP replacement); so even Facebook could likely run on the latest PHP rather than their custom solution.

Personally, if I switched away from PHP for web development these days I would do the backend in Go. But thank you for teaching me something new today. SCGI is not a protocol I'd heard of before, what with FastCGI being the (horribly legacy) standard. I have something new to research. :)
New research questions the evidence for health benefits of eating less red meat
"Obviously, performance was a big win. The website felt like it was running on local machines, bringing a dramatic increase to speed and lower latency across the board. After the switch, at first the load on our cloud servers was so low that we thought the website was down! Switching from PHP to D meant we could cut in half the instance size of each Amazon AWS machine in our cloud. And these machines are still underloaded. Our database cloud was highly affected by this too. We now use one quarter of its original computational power. All of this brought an instantaneous and dramatic cost savings, down to more than half of what our costs used to be."

I'm willing to bet they didn't even try a single one of the many possibly optimizations they could have used and actually stay either in PHP or a subset of PHP. It's so much easier to win your argument with a strawman, not to say there aren't cases where D is, in fact, better.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1408417/can-you-compile-...

https://www.keycdn.com/blog/php-performance
Alternatively, never be too quick to attribute to stupidity when there’s a strong incentive for malice to take advantage of that attribution to hide itself.
This is cool! Hate getting to the courts and they're all taken.
Other such limits are welcome. An umbrella organization should be allowed to only partake in a certain number of categories of business, and in a limited number. Barely anything is being done to control the power equity has over the system many deem as "competetive".

But this won't change. You can't change the system to protect others from greed, when people defend greed. One day they might gain from greed.
> Are we really going to accept an Interface Of The Future that is less expressive than a sandwich?

Great line.
PHP and good programming practices are orthogonal. Nice try at hyperbole, though.
Why are endowments so important for Professors? They're not seeing a dime from that anyway.
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