skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most worrying for me?

Even after countless updates to their algorithms, breakthrough AI and ML, breaking hundred of thousands of legit website each time, Google is still dumb enough to be tricked by such a simplistic tactics :-(

Or is Google biased toward "official" speech (even from a really-not-trustable source) like Twitter is when it will allow BS from a President (because it's an official account so not subject to moderation) or like FB is when deciding to NOT fact-check President obvious fake-news for the same reason ?

Maybe it's time to clearly distinguish 2 activities: search on one side, that has to be exhaustive, fact-checked, ranked by differences/complementarity (no use to show 10 times the same result, better to show 10 really different result with indication of common consensus) - and news of the day, where truth is much more "volatile" ?
At least 2 times and as much as 5 times seems surprisingly bad.

Do you have a source or a concrete example for that?

The most plausible explanation I can think of for what you're saying is that you're comparing an evaporative cooling system to a heat pump based one, in which case the 'reverse cycle' aspect is not the thing causing the inefficiency.
Ask HN: What open-source projects are you looking at?
I have found reading code is a good way for me to improve my skills. I am looking at Mattermost[1] and Spectrum[2] to improve my React.js.

What open-source projects are you currently looking at?

[1] https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-webapp
[2] https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum
iPhone "revolutionized" the world[0] because it gave people a portable computer that combined multiple separate devices into one, with (added retroactively) possibility for extending it with further capabilities.

This justifies a smartphone in its current form. It does not justify why your car stereo is operated by a touch screen.

The truth to p_l's comment is plainly evident if you look at household appliances of today. You'll note that ovens and washing machines don't even have touch screens. They have touch panels with fixed image underneath (same with pre-CGI Star Trek interfaces). They're an UX nightmare, but are used precisely because capacitive touch detection is very cheap (doubly so at low fidelity required in these cases) - it's just a plastic/metal sandwich with zero moving parts.

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[0] - iPhone is the one that's most remembered, but not the only phone in that space in its era.
source: Google employee. FTFY!

That Google, the Ad company threatening user's privacy, abusing user's rights, collecting user's data.

The company fined for 5 billion dollars in an anti trust case in EU.

The company behind YouTube, fined for 170 million dollars for collecting kids data [1]

The company behind Chrome, that recently proposed a change to stop ad blocking extensions from working (did I say they sell ads?)

AFAIK Stallman never worked for or at any company the like of Google.

Neither did Eben Moglen, who still offers pro bono legal support for free software at the Freedom law center, which he founded.

For those that do not know him, Moglen was member of Philip Zimmermann's (PGP creator) defense team.

Strangely enough, he was another target of Garret, a couple years ago he declared him "no longer a friend of the FSF".

He was already working for Google.

[1] https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/youtube-ftc-fine-170-m...
Author here. You're wrong. We did a lot of optimizations over the years :) We switched to D just because that's not enaugh
Aren't all the reasons you state, reasons why satire, snark, and sarcasm are actually incredibly effective ways to communicate?

Not many people have the fortitude to resist their charms or the self-awareness to police themselves indefinitely. I know I don't.
Money is more a function of algorithmic interviewing and negotiating ability than technical stack.
We prefer the term "disruptive", not "illegal".
With that context, I believe you. At the same time, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that no one at Uber realized this either.
Bigger wheels reduce the need for suspension to keep the wheel in contact with the road, so there may be a tradeoff that makes sense being made in this case.
Did book reading per capita actually decrease?

Back then, learning to read at all was nerdy and privileged.
This is a much safer claim too, since nobody will dare you to prove it.
If my bank took my money, and ran off with it, and then blamed it on bad behavior of some third party that I have nothing to do with, I have two things to say:

1. Not my problem.

2. Fuck you, pay me.

If they can't find counter-parties that let them do their jobs, they should not be in the business of payment processing. I don't get to pick which third parties my bank interfaces with.
The parent's comment was overly simplistic but yours is even more so.

What you describe works if companies struggle to hire people and need to compete with each-other for workforce. Nowadays in many sectors throughout the world (and often for less educated workforce) it's the other way around: there are more people looking for a job than there are vacancies.

Clearly in this situation it works the other way around: the worker who's ready to work longer for cheaper will be hired over the others. Then it's a race to the bottom.
The article explains how waste may leak and contaminate water supplies or make its way up the food chain. Future humans or others may find these facilities and not comprehend our warnings. It may or may not be possible for everyone carry a radiation detector at all times.
And of course, «je suis pleine» is a perfectly fine way of saying you’re full in Québec French...
Brothers, I Must Go
Does Bing shows better respect to search operators, than Google's attitude - "i already know what you want" ?
maybe because without Stallman and with a weaker FSF foundation Google, where he works, will benefit even more...
Well, people can have other hobbies outside of programming though. Be it sports or something creative. I agree that, in general, people with personal programming projects fare better, but it is not a hard rule for me.
It's difficult to mess up changing a plug or a fuse compared to, say, a motor in a washing machine or a heating element in a tumble dryer.

To be fair though, with modern houses being RCD protected it's very difficult for even dangerously-wired appliances to kill someone or cause a fire.
I have seen similar improvements in my own code migrated from PHP to C++. Yeah, no one writes C++ in this century, etc...
Reminds me the first signs for Año Nuevo State Park left off the tilde over the n.
That is quite a negative opinion, and seems to be very elitist ("book-readers club" vs "non-book readers club"). Nobody is getting "fixed", as sharing written text via new methods does not "harm" written books. People who are going to read books will do so, people who won't may read something similar to books, or may not. The books do not "gain" or "loose" anything, but people do gain, as does society. Those who wouldn't read may do so, which is a positive, those who would already do.
When Is Hiring Freelancers a Good Idea?
if you lie, said consumer advocacy group will sue the company and the company's chapter will be revoked? seems quite easy.
> a Googler calling out Stallman

Isn't it stange that the other one calling out Stallman, Matthew Garret, is a Googler too?
I'm not sure it is fair to link to someone's LinkedIn profile when we have one side of the story here and even that author did not identity him and wished to remain anonymous.
> My experience is that most of my male coworkers do not have a natural interest in computer science or engineering. They are here for the money.

So the conclusion we draw from that is ... women aren't as interested in money as men?
Just because a few people where discussing this doesn't make it out of line. I remember 2003-2006 well enough. There was no discussion in society about this.
By my definition it is generally not possible for an entity to be an effective authority on what is or is not false or misleading. You could think of contrived examples which you could get nearly everybody to agree to as false, like claiming the sun revolved around the earth. But that’s not what’s being discussed. What’s being discussed is establishing Facebook (or other entities) as the ministry of truth.

> There is a pretty big difference between a lie by omission and just spreading false information.

I don’t see how there is, and I don’t see how you’d be able to prove one over the other in many cases. Pick any mainstream media outlet, and you’ll find a significant group of people who claim they’re “just spreading false information”. Pick any truth that you personally hold to be unassailable, and chances are you’ll find a significant group of people who will describe it as “just false information”.

Trying to regulate the truth is an incredibly dangerous rabbit hole, which if done effectively, can only possibly end up with a central authority (or group of authorities) imposing their own views on others.

The only reason anybody could think this was a good idea, is if you think that people should not have the right to think for themselves, form their own views, and come to their own conclusions about the truth.
I’d argue that just because we have done something before doesn’t mean we should be doing it again. Also during the previous space race you could argue that it was a state of war and... (unfortunately) you have casualties.
This is becoming a parody of software engineering.

People are now irrationally scared of using dynamic libraries, OS packages and even directories, like virtualenvs.

Instead, a simple solution is replaced with containers, or by rewriting tons of code in the new hyped language.

Are we trying to create job security through unnecessary complexity?
Satire is effective influencing method. The additional benefit is avoiding the requirement for reliability and responsibility because it's not real journalism.

In the US The Daily Show established satirical ha-ha as effective method to deliver news and discuss politics for younger generations.

It started as pure satire but turned into real institution people used to learn about the world. The spinoffs like The Colbert Report and related shows from people who worked in the show is impressive: The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The Break with Michelle Wolf and Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj all continue using similar framework.

In the right the effective satire seems to come mainly in the form of internet trolls. It's more hostile, less intellectual. It's for people who see hostility as funny. Despite being very crude, this kind of satire can have huge influence.
> I still believe, perhaps naively, that it's possible to maintain not-normal opinions without causing pain to the people around you

It depends on other people around you, too!

If people around me are scumbags and they get offended for reminding them what they are, I think it's alright.
From https://tutanota.com/faq

"Your private key is encrypted with your password. This way your login password receives the status of the private key."

"Your password is never transmitted to the server in plain text. It is salted and then hashed with bcrypt locally on your device so that neither the server nor we have access to your password."

What's stopping them (or being commandeered) to serve you modified javascript which sends them your password, or this being done via an unsanitised email viewed via their web UI?

Having worked for two email companies for over 10 years, I know not trust email providers for privacy.
You want to allow companies to not honor their warranty if the owner of the product opens their own property? That sounds like a terrible idea. If I buy a product, I am legally allowed to do with it whatever I want, which obviously includes looking at the inside or modifying it for my needs, and it would be a massive limiting of my rights if that suddenly would mean that the manufacturer is not responsible for manufacturing defects or design errors anymore.
> So, people don't have the concentration to read a book anymore.

Or people don't really carry books anymore, whereas they always carry their phone, so reading novels there is convenient, and the experiment specifically designed an experience for the platform.

> we claim that people are reading again. Of course they are not. It's a whole different experience.

Of reading novels.

> It is more like seeing the movie adaptation of the book.

In what way is the full novel text "more like seeing the movie adaptation" exactly? It seems odd that you would care solely about the physical format and apparently not even remotely care about the contents.

> Books have remained the same for centuries.

Except for all the times people were not reading books e.g. many 19th century classics were initially serialised in newspapers, consumed as bite-sized chapters before being collected into volumes.

> If people are suddenly unable to read them anymore, it is far more likely that it is the people that need "fixing", and not the books.

Good luck with that. Meanwhile other people care more about the works than the format and are, as the article notes,

> happy to meet people where they are
EU subsidies and funds can turn into a form of the resource curse ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse ). When the biggest money is earned from writing grant applications, the best and the brightest are going to focus on that.
As a counterpoint, it must be said that more than half of the life beings in the planet are parasites of other species. Wiping all of them would be a disaster for biodiversity conservation and a direct danger for humans.

First, would make the populations of all agricultural plagues explode, populations of rats would increase also even more (but rodents would be much safer for humans). That would lead to choose between famine or free buffet of pesticides for all of us: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Second would have a profound impact on the development of our inmune system leading to people suffering a cascade of nasty autoinmune diseases.

Parasites can have other benefits. Some clean the body of the host storing its heavy metals; other enter in open wounds and then feed on bacteria, releasing painkillers and substances that arre known to accelerate the healing of wounds. This avoid innecessary mutilations. The fine microsurgery made by some flies has been still not achieved by modern medicine and has saved lots of human lifes in the past wars.

The reason for the disparition of many cases of guinea worm is wiping entire freshwater ecosystems
Or you could just put it on some Hetzner box. I would do that but I'm not sure how to contact him.
It also feels like a mild form of doxing. Not sure I'm ok with this.
> Touchscreens certainly also have their applications where they outperform every other interface, but it depends entirely on the task.

Agreed. I love my ipad for a lot of entertainment type tasks and I feel the touchscreen works great for that: most general web browsing, watching youtube/netflix, listening to music (touchscreen for browsing/creating playlists), some types of games (but IMHO fails miserably at most). Drawing is great with a stylus, but IMHO not so great with my finger.

For everything else, give me a proper physical tactile keyboard and a mouse, or physical buttons/knobs/faders/whatever.
Definitely more clever than asking Google to reove the results, like Hillary Clinton did during the campaign wrt. Searches on her health.
And then think "if we cut this corner we'll make $1 more on each unit, that's an extra $3M a year, that's my bonus sorted"

Those cuts take time to filter down into public consciousness, because companies are incapable of measuring the value of quality
I think the trick to that is to reformat it multiple times. a DD drive has a lower intensity magnetic field, reformating it a couple times gets rid of the high intensity preformat on the HD disk.
>I think the reason why most devs still prefer plain-text resources over anything else is...

I think you missed a vital reason and that is portability and sharability. No one needs to install anything special to read or edit a text file.

It's the digital equivalent of paper and pen when you think about it and that makes it a popular platform for everyone to be able to consume it.

Plus, back when we were all old and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the text file was the lightest/smallest way to transfer data (read: ideas) between computers.

The practice/behaviour saturated the industry so much that many readmes of today are still on text files.

Maybe there's a correlation to the real world, where we're definitely more apt to consume mediums that don't have superfluous data points than the words/ideas that they're meant to convey? Maybe I'm just talking out of my ass?

Either way, plain-text resources are the easiest to create, share, and consume because there's almost a universality in the standard for text files (except the EOL and CRLF but that's more of an inconvenience than anything).
Welcome to #FBPE Twitter.
HN on a phone is a miserable experience.
> you can't deny that Johnson is much smarter than he wants us to think.

In playing the political game at least, definitely so. Lots of reports from coworkers (especially from the Foreign Office) that he is genuinely as clueless as he comes across when it comes to other elements of his job.
When labour is scarce and desired, this is true. People who are in-demand right now can indeed set their terms (buddy of mine at a place with "unlimited vacation" took 2-3 months off a year because he knew they desperately needed him).

For everyone else, though, this works the other way too. All you need is for one person who's facing foreclosure to put in 110 hour weeks before it becomes the norm.

Hell, how many people here are on Slack at the weekend because their colleagues are and they fear looking lazy, and not because they're "passionate" (or whatever BS word we're using to describe abuse)
Beware of No True Scotsman. Of the people you know personally, who do you consider a nerd, other than those who confirm the stereotype?
Wut? Not tolerating shitty behavior is now conformity?
I worked there. I made some of those.
You write

> Let's see some actual research

which I find ironic given that you present your personal opinion about that person as if it were a fact. Maybe we should all start cleaning up in front of our own doors first whenever we feel an urge to not criticize (which would be okay) to bad-mouth other people.

In addition, you also do exactly what the comment you replied to ask you not to, seemingly without having given its content any thought whatsoever.

More, Scott Adams didn't say anything here. You merely read a comment from someone making a claim about what he said, in a short sentence. So you don't even have anything from the person you talk about himself. On top of that that claim would not be worth any severe criticism in the given context. Even if it were shown to be wrong, so what? It does not seem to me like anything substantial hinges on it, even if you took it as just a tongue in cheek kind of comment. Anecdotal evidence from reading online forums and discussions seem to indicate that the described phenomenon indeed exists, how many people are involved and if it's always the same ones or not don't seem to me to be of great importance since no quantitative predictions are involved.
I know I'm overly optimistic, but every time I see anything regarding legislation and "repair" keyword, i silently hope for a price limit on spare parts... and am always disappointed not to see one.

If a new (whole) car(tv,washing machine,...) costs 20k (...) ($,€,..doesn't matter), and you want to replace some parts, the cost of just a few parts quickly becomes higher than a whole new unit. In a modern car, just replacing a few parts costs more than a whole car (both front lights ~1k(eur), rear ones 500eur, ac compressor 500eur(+), radio/navigation unit 1k, foldable mirrors 500eur, 'smart' rearview mirror up to 1k, etc...).

If the sum of costs of all parts to assemble a car is above 2x the price of the car, someone is getting ripped off, and we all know who that is.

Same with laptops... lcd assembly on a shitty 600eur laptop was quoted as 400eur+tax here (luckily ebay exists) - and that's without labour.
I'm French (from France) and it's also perfectly fine to say that. I've never heard this sentence used to say anything else...
> Look at my comments in this thread: There are no reasoned replies to any of them...

You literally said "Greta Thunberg is not always there to tell you what to think"
"I got a reduction on the repair costs"

That's good? As far as it goes, it's a good smell at least.

I'm not of a view that a warranty guarantees no faults. To my mind it is the manufacturer saying they will stand by their product for the warranty period, that they expect no faults, and putting their money on the line to prove it. So I'm not particularly in favour of castigating companies for any unreliability, if they handle it correctly.

Having said all this, I did just check what Miele's warranty is, I was expecting 5+ years, but it's only 2 years, so your point about competitors is a good one.

I suppose it highlights a good point about what we as consumers should do. Should we go with Miele that everyone knows is good quality, but only offers a 2 year warranty. Or should we go with the competitor with the 5 year warranty? I suspect most of us would take the first option, when we should really be taking the 2nd.
This might be a personal impression, but there seems to be a reflexive (negative) response from many posters here regarding any new regulation that the EU produces.

I've been trying to wrap my head about whether that's different than the negative response about any regulation in general (including the US one), and I feel like it is more negative; as for why, I would only be speculating.
I think Johnson’s distinguishing trait that enables him to do this, is a lack of shame more than anything else.
The small vector class contains a static array of a few bytes. And as long as your data fits in it, no extra heap allocation is needed. A vector always does heap allocation, even if you only use a few bytes.
Most people already think they're good.
We're far from a cruel species lacking empathy. We need to eat, we're omnivores and it's more like our "production methods" have not yet caught up with our magnitude. We act like any other similar animal would do, except on an unprecedented scale. To reduce mankind through your favourite moral grievance also precludes any capacity for evolutionary change.
Very good idea! Are you planning to support multi-page forms?
Indeed, he is completely unproven in any matters of statecraft and has been founding wanting in actual matters of substance on many occasions.
Even at 3kw/kg, an electric motors blows ICE out of the water.
Imposing speech codes is most definitely an issue. It goes to the core of deeply held values. It replaces tolerance with intolerance as the value to be upheld.

Those imposing the CoC are getting exactly what they want - driving anyone who disagrees from the field.
Price limits would destroy capitalist freedom so never gonna happen. Good thing we have those on drugs at least.
In my experience "My postillion has been struck by a lighting" works miracles in an English speaking audience:

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

A few good ideas in "English as she is spoke":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke
I have several old synths with DD drives, and I've been using HD floppies with them for ~30 years without any problem. Late HD floppies were crap (whatever the mode), but old HD floppies formatted as DD back in the early 90s still work perfectly fine. I have several hundreds of these. Some having been used hundreds of times. Some I still use weekly.