skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title alone made me think of a different phenomenon that occurs to me.

Its to do with websites. Lets say there a website where one downloads some free software from, for example. If there's a really big bright clear download link, Ive been taught to not click on it, as its probably going to an ad or some scam site. Ive learned to always ignore it and search for the tiny little text hyperlink that actually leads to the real download file.

Ive noticed this trained behavior of mine now applies to all websites, even when the big link is actually the real one. I will often miss it, and waste time search for the 'real' one as my brain now automatically filters the big clear ones out.
I made a throwaway suggestion he was doing this a few months back on reddit when he brought "bus" into the conversation [0]

I wish I had started keeping track of things he says to see how his comments impact search results.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/c59q98/boris...
> this exception is not currently in place

And neither is the regulation.

> this situation is concerning to many people.

That's not the same thing as there being an actual problem.
I'll toss out my opinion.

I'm a big fan of regulation to maintain good markets / good practices.

I'm very sympathetic to the spirit of a lot of EU policies, but the actual laws seem a lot like "old man who doesn't understand internet writes law" and at best whiff entirely at the point.

Example, I think it is terribly misguided to think people care / read cookie banners and they're not helping / educating anyone.

I don't doubt there are a lot of conservative POVs regarding regulation on HN, but I propose that just as often folks are running into a sort of "narcissism of small differences" where I share a lot of the values those laws have .... but man it irks me to see them swing and miss so badly.
How to build hot companies in cold places
The name is what it is. How would you feel if your company went to the media and made up some nasty name for your team because the real one sounds too positive?
> Either we as society should go back to cash, build our own payment systems to replace the US-based solutions, or end the US hegemony that even allows the US to spread its laws this way.

I think once the initial tech boom ends and good engineering talent becomes cheaper and more abundant, we're going to see a lot of countries building their own systems for the things that governments typically have control over. Exchange of money and proof of identity will probably be highest among those.
He had ten high. That loses to most bluffs. It's an underdog to a random hand.

Normally you'd fold and laugh quietly to yourself because your opponent thought they bluffed you when really they had the best hand.
Wow. Thanks for mentioning so, I had no idea is was such a widespread problem. All due to cutting corners on implementation while still wanting it to look legit.
And of course the carrier/mothership could be a cloaked bomber that drops them over the target zone, which brings back the need for cloaking.
App Store, iTunes Music Store, iTunes Book Store, iCloud, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, etc.

These are generally not the kind of SaaS online services that compete with desktop software, though. Rather, they're primarily ways of delivering software and media content that is then used locally. That actually fits very well with a model of promoting local devices, local networks and centralised access to online services, which is one of the reasons I thought Apple might make a move in that direction. The notable exception is iCloud, but if you consider that this one is primarily about sync and backup facilities and if you're promoting some sort of office server or "home hub" to centralise storage and connectivity to things like offsite backups, again that would fit quite neatly.
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And they don’t have enough competition for this global labor pool.
‘The Simpsons’ predicted Greta Thunberg’s climate change speech in 2007
Key Business Metrics Every SaaS Company Should Track
His question about what employees should say to friends or family is completely tone deaf. The problem is nobody believes him. Now he's just telling his employees to lie, too. You can talk all you want how you are solving the problems with Facebook as he suggests, but Facebook has shown by its actions that it will prioritize short term engagement metrics above anything else barring regulation.
I am wondering if you have read all of the 20k rows in order to spot it
Track the Movement of the Milky Way with This DIY Radio Telescope
Full transcript here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-...
This seems like something that would be perfect in a Jupyter Notebook or the like.
Anybody who doesn't grasp why location-adjusted salaries are a thing is probably not worth hiring.
begging for a multiple choice exam in a math-heavy course can be a really bad idea.

I had one physics teacher who taught us this lesson. he designed a test where some of the answer choices would be the same number but with a different number of significant figures (0 pts if you choose the wrong one). in a different section of the exam, he made answers that were deliberately off from the calculator result, and you had to know your sig figs to know if it was correct (none of the above was also a choice).

after that, we were all very happy to show our work on the remaining tests.
To be fair, I see this in the US as well and IMO the problem is that we have many generations of managers that have learned about management based upon 20th century manufacturing and military (the biggest and best studies in management come from here).

My plea to management in all these stuck in time companies is to read about Deming and a reminder that even the US military has mostly abandoned the practice of command & control for missions that are more exploratory or back office related because they weren’t working when enemies were so fast moving and adopting new strategies quickly.

And in fairness to your experience of lack of useful projects, many of the products people work on even at the big tech companies never get deployed or are shuttered within months (Google Wave anyone?)

We need management to lead now, not... “manage.”
I had one CS professor that was just awful as a teacher. She was, as far as I know, universally disliked by the entire class. We also did end of year teacher evaluations and I'm sure she got eviscerated, and I'm sure it wasn't a one time thing. She's still teaching the same class today so either she's a tremendous asset for the school overall or the evaluations are meaningless.
Interested in ambient computing? You should be
I don't think many people would have played it that way back then.
Great point. So true.
It depends what you mean.

As people have noted, the bet sizes before the river are much larger than what would happen in a well-played game today. I believe every action by both players before the river is a huge mistake relative to theoretically correct poker. So something like this exact hand would never play out between two competent players today.

However, the core problem is that one player has shoved the river and the other player beats all missed draws and no value, which is still a common situation. Since the prizes are $100k or $0, and the stacks will be roughly even if Ungar folds on the river, he needs to win more than 50% of the time to profitably call. Do top players ever bluff too much in this situation, and have their opponents profitably call them off? Sure, that happens a lot even at high stakes. Doug Polk recently had a video where he described how he lost a high stakes heads up pot to Jungleman in a similar situation.
vim (I can only really speak for vim here) has several modes for editing. The main ones are: normal, insert, visual. Most people I know (incl. myself) spend most of their time in normal mode, which allows you to manipulate text objects using movements. In insert mode, your key strokes are converted to characters which are inserted into the file buffer. Switching to normal mode isn't really the same as summoning a command prompt into which you enter commands, it's a bit more fundamental than that.
It doesn’t change the math. You should still insist on enough of a difference in your hourly rate to make up for paying your insurance. I’ve worked with contracting firms from both sides - hiring through them and working for them. They take enough of a cut from what they charge the client to have wiggle room to adjust your hourly rate.
You "think" you saw? That's not very convincing.
Great apes think alike.
They are not even hiring in Sweden (why not?). Is that a typo or did you manage to select Sweden somehow?
If you want to spend more money on a quality product with long term support then buy commercial appliances.
+ the agent can retract words or make edits. retracts are visible, but edits are just counted.

this sounds fun :)
Why should a person be allowed to pollute more just because they have more money?

As long as we make them pay a significantly large enough multiple of the externality costs they're inflicting I'm OK with that, especially if that money then gets reinvested into further solving the problem.
Is it possible that the picture was Jimmy Carter? As the article mentions, the Carter Center has been leading this effort and Carter hopes to outlive the last guinea worm (though this timeline would make it difficult given he just turned 95 today).

But perhaps both presidents have worked on it, just curious.
I find Jünger a fascinating person. A WW1 stormtrooper and militarist who later wrote prescient sci-fi and took LSD with Albert Hoffman.

In the documentary "102 years in the heart of Europe"[0] Jünger was asked what he thought of computers. He said they were uninteresting, and compared them unfavourably to "intoxicants" by which he meant psychedelic drugs.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ju5HFoD20U
While drag is "independent" of mass, the lift required to maintain level flight is affected by weight, and drag is affected by lift. A heavier airplane will absolutely require more power to cruise.
Works for me (iTerm2 + tmux + vim/neovim).
>what amounts to a holocaust.

Hyperbole aside, I think we can all agree that farming and killing animals isn't as bad as mass executions of people.
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As a former WeWork tenant, their value proposition to customers is that they provide office space quickly and without any long term obligation in convenient, trendy locations. They're also very eager to beat competitors on price in my personal experience.

Since it's very easy to set up a competitor (at least in my area, since numerous knockoffs have been created in the last few years) their margins are low at best, and they have almost no customer lock-in, I have no idea what their value proposition is for investors.
All this is possible and maybe even probable but not knowing how Google determines relevancy, makes it impossible to reason about.
Just changed jobs from a job that was 10 minutes away from home, in a quiet cubicle, to a job 70 minutes away in an "open concept" office - and it's painful.

Before that I worked completely remotely for years and I miss it so much. Unfortunately this isn't really a thing so far in Singapore as far as I can tell (The previous job was being proud about an initiative that introduced one day of remote work for select people. One day per month).
Precisely. The Boris Johnson who is acting off the cuff - reciting the myanmar poem or acting like a moron in portugal - is the real Boris Johnson. The Boris Johnson who uses "SEO tactics" has been programmed by advisors.

Portugal: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson...
No, imbalance would presume things are out of balance.

Your presumtion is that balance = men and women have the exact same interests and should therefore be represented exactly identically in occupations of things & people.

That is an irrational posture, foisted upon you by your media overlords, and accepted by you wholeheartedly without critical analysis.

I do not believe men and women are equal-- if they were, we wouldn't have two names for two genders in a dimorphic species.

If apples equal oranges, we wouldn't have two names for them.

I don't know what sort of mentality you live within, but it isn't a rational nor informed one, in my estimation.

Given the psychological science (again, many studies over the course of decades), and given the biological science (hormonal and brain differences between sexes), I think it is very clear: Women prefer working with people, men prefer working with things -- On average.

I don't think you understand how statistical distributions work. There are two distributions here: One for men, one for women.

They don't both fit onto the same normal distribution-- if they did, it would be bimodal, not normal.

Good lord, I see you're trying to argue against biological differences between men and women-- You must not be aware of hormone differences, which in fetal development, yield either a male or female.

OK, I am done talking with such a brainwashed person. Your ignorance does not offend me, I just think it's pointless to discuss this with an irrational person who prefers to block out the daylight of reality falling upon their presuppositions, and media-informed (not science-informed) perspective.
Compilers are extremely limited in how they are allowed to change data layout on your behalf. In C/C++ there’s: per-platform integer sizes (which are easily and usually forced to be consistent), padding between members of structs, alignment of objects, anything else? I think that’s about it.

Compilers are definitely not allowed to insert a small buffer into an object. Nor even repurpose an int that’s not being utilized completely. Messing with your data under the hood is blasphemous.

Unfortunately data issues have been the top cause of performance problems for a long time and it’s only going to get worse. A cache miss is much, much more expensive than operations people are taught are slow, like divisions, square roots and branches. Meanwhile, in my dozens of interviews with junior programmers I’ve found that the vast majority are only vaguely aware that cache exists at all :(
But that's not quite the problem we appear to have here in NL. There's a law whose basic intent is that you cannot use volunteer workers for what should actually be paid work. Here volunteers do almost exactly the same work as professional firefighters and therefore they should be paid employees under this law. Applying this to volunteer firefighters is an unintended consequence, but it's obligatory.

> Saying we shouldn't make regulation because sometime we may have to redefine more precisely some of its details when the situation arise makes very little sense to me.

My concern is both practical and philosophical: our firefighting system will very likely be reorganized; this is going to cost a lot of money and time, volunteers are likely to quit if things are no longer easily combined with their job, quality would almost certainly drop (since it's already high), and then, hopefully, in the end we still have a functioning firefighting service. But all that work will not actually solve any problem, it's just for complying with regulations.

On the philosphical end: the complexity and the number of laws and regulations keeps growing, and so does the scale at which they're applied. I think such unintended consequences will keep coming up at the local level, far from where they originated centrally, and in the long run it will be increasingly difficult to solve these problems.
Another really good option is single packet authorization. Which, again, a little more complex than port knocking but also another step up in security.

https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/docs/SPA.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
The name for this effect is Banner Blindness:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness
Not as bad because of the higher efficiency of electric engine. But yeah, 1 hour or so.
What evidence do you have to support that conclusion?
What a shitty post.

>That apartment in the bay area has great weather, it's above a fun little Thai fusion dive bar, and within walking (or public transport) distance to some of the worlds largest tech conferences and meetups. Meanwhile, an employee in Iowa has to drive an hour for a P.F. Chang's and has to wake up 5am to shovel his driveway 5 months out of the year to get his kid to school.

Could we inject just a little more Bay Area condescension for the flyover states?

To be clear, I understand the visceral appeal of the fairness argument and reducing two locales to a single ratio is incredibly simplistic. But ultimately, almost every distributed company lets market forces set different salary ranges--which may or may not be a better approach than a preset ratio.
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Why the fate of online accessibility may rest with a Domino's Pizza lawsuit
I'm wondering the exact same thing!
I'm not saying that he's immune to criticism or that he's even right. I'm saying that I don't find Adams using "unsourced statistics" to be a compelling reason to believe that he's wrong, and it's generally lazy argumentation when people criticize non-academic public figures for not providing statistics for the things that they say. It's really better to just argue for exactly why Scott Adams is wrong. Sure, proving a falsehood is more difficult than making falsehoods and people shouldn't be making false statements in the first place, but that's the way of the world.

In the case of Scott Adams, it's especially not fair to say that he's wrong without actually providing a reason why because, as a person who has been writing humorous comic strips for decades, he's in a position to provide his intuition as to how many people don't understand humor. Whether his belief is actually correct is a matter for discussion. It might be one thing if Joe Dirt off the street was shouting that 30% of people don't understand humor, but it's not unreasonable for someone who writes humor for a living to provide his judgment on how people respond to humor. Scott Adams doesn't write the funniest stuff in the world, but at least give the guy some credit for his experience instead of just pointing out that he doesn't have proof.
Sally might not have a more expensive lifestyle than Bob, but might be aware that a similar company is willing to pay $150k. And therefore not accept the offer of $100k.
I'm confused about 10933. Isn't that just a regular nails salon?
Agreed. I think in the author's example the student wasn't learning Algebra but rather was leaning on their arithmetic abilities and intuition.

I had this fight with my son years ago. Algebra is process and algorithms, what he was doing was not Algebra IMO.
True, if that were a one-off occurrence done under the guise of an anonymous or worthless tip-off from someone with an axe to grind.

When it's dozens of former colleagues, all calling someone out on their BS over the course of years, regarding unrelated incidents, and where a number of those incidents actually occurred in the public eye?

There's data points and a trend line...
Seems like both can be true. Author could be entitled and annoying to manage, and the manager could be showing his worst side to this crummy employee.
The rules you mention are completely non-functional.

What would it mean to prevent bias in TV broadcast? Bias can show up in all sorts of subtle ways. You can't really demand people don't have opinions. You also can't ask people to be totally free of bias given limited broadcast minutes, and so many news stories to cover.

Given this starting point, you might begin by expecting people who make TV news to not publicly tell everyone about their own extreme political opinions. You might expect TV journalists not to belittle and insult major political parties.

You might expect these things, but you'd be disappointed because the Ofcom fails to enforce even this most basic of standards.

https://www.nme.com/news/channel-4-jon-snow-respond-claims-c...

What was also reported was that during one Glastonbury’s many, many chants, Jon Snow joined in to bellow “Fuck the Tories” before noting that he was “supposed to be neutral”.

You might expect supposedly neutral journalists not to openly compare political decisions to drug epidemics:

https://order-order.com/2019/09/24/bbc-compare-brexit-drugs-...

Presenter: "At times there can be a perception that most of the headlines surrounding Stoke-on-Trent have a negative connotation, whether it be Brexit or the drug monkey dust"

You might expect broadcasters not to hire political candidates to referee complaints about political bias:

https://order-order.com/2010/04/19/labour-candidate-is-bbc-b...

Ever wondered why your complaint of left-wing bias against the BBC wasn’t upheld? It could be because you were speaking to one Chris Summers on the phone. Via his Facebook we learn that Mr Summer’s isn’t too keen on his “dull, boring, grey, miserable, crap job – dealing with election complaints!” Would this be the same Chris Summers who is the Labour coucil candidate in Ealing?

You might expect that government enforcement would reduce allegations of bias to the status of supposition - they may not appear biased in public, but who knows how they are in private? But the UK doesn't even begin to approach this standard of enforced neutrality. All you have to do to prove it is read the Twitter feeds of the journalists themselves.
That's not certain. A lot of the old guard foundered after computer analysis became a part of poker. They were all people skills and no math skills, to greatly simplify it. Computers changed the game and some were unable to adapt.

I was playing professionally back then. A lot of the people you used to not want to see at your table suddenly became soft spots.
Ask HN: To save energy, light mode + dim screen or  dark mode + bright screen?
I find myself increasing my screen brightness whenever I use dark themes/modes, and vice versa. Since I have no real preference between the two, I'm thinking of just choosing based on energy savings.

Which combination saves more energy in the long run?
GP wasn't talking about the community, but of changes dictated by the corporation running the website for that community, which is an important distinction.
Come to find out it's not really new and exciting, it's just driving your own car as if it is a Taxi Cab... :(
> Regular Brain - Lease an Office

> Nebula Brain - Virtual Offices like Regus Offices

> Galaxy Brain - Coworking spaces

> Exploding Galaxy Brain - WeWork

> Super Exploding Galaxy Brain - OurWork a per second billed coworking/living space
One problem is that explanation is in-and-of-itself a separate skill, and is, in many cases, harder than math (at least K-8 math). So asking for an explanation in addition to doing the math is asking for 3x effort. Moreover, explanation is highly ambiguous (whereas math ain’t!) So you’ll often get an explanation that you don’t quite understand bcs the kid isn’t good at explanation, even if they know perfectly well what they did.
There was a short movie about this, it's called 2081.
Well Switzerland has also the French-speaking parts and the super-nice Italian-speaking area around Lugano; I guess it's a rather expensive place though.