skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what language you speak ;-)

I spent 2 weeks there doing the ring road. Everyone we met spoke perfect English. I mean absolutely perfect. We were talking to our server at a restaurant in a tiny village in the north and asked him if he had ever been to the USA since his accent was a perfect standard USA accent. He said he'd never even left his village to visit Reykjavik!
Third-hand recap of a NYT article from July spouting information that everyone here should already know. How did this make it to the front page?
Hi, welcome to the English-speaking world! Sometimes we say things in a self-deprecating way as a sort of social lubricant. Those times are NOT an invitation to insult somebody.

Plus, the way you said it makes the rest of us think you prefer the "brutal" part of "brutal honesty" over the "honesty" part... You are welcome to interact with other humans that way, but you may find them to be less receptive to your ideas.

In other words, "manners are free."
They are not hard. They are just almost never taught. We simply accept it if someone has bad soft skills as if that person can't improve. Whereas we would never hire someone as a mechanical engineer if they didn't have the papers.
> [build process]

I agree, the chromium build tooling is unfriendly af.

> I call bullshit

Lot of works goes into deterministic builds, have fun going down this rabbit hole: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=314403

> Now I have to trust them to keep all these dependencies up-to-date

Looks like it rolls on average every 10-20 minutes: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/HEAD/DEP...

> and I have to accept the unecessary bloat?

Ah yes, because all operating systems ship with a pristine installation of the latest pdfium.
> This would be difficult to set up and secure without doing it in the cloud.

No, it really isn't difficult without the cloud. All the cloud does is make it a bit more convenient.
Looks really nice! I'm interested to know how your web page editor works. Does it inject HTML into the page via JavaScript? Are there any performance implications? What if my landing page has a tonne of JavaScript already being used to render the page - can it handle that? I'm considering it for my company's landing page, which is heavily reliant on JS (https://usebx.com). Thanks!
Recycling, the worlds needs to reuse materials to prevent climate change. You will make the world a better place by working in this field.
NASA encourages industry to develop spacecraft cleanliness standards
Let’s Build Robots That Are as Smart as Babies
My understanding is that Craigslist really killed the newspapers. What funded them was a combo of full page adds and the classifieds. I remember paying $30 to post a garage sale. Since Craigslist expanded you could see each newspaper get steadily smaller and smaller over the years.
The Baffling Omission of Rich Text in SwiftUI
Zuckerberg faces heat in Congress: “It’s almost like you think this is a joke”
A lot of homeless I’ve spoken to in sf are from sf or have lived there a long time before being priced out of their home, and don’t have family or friends who can help them, or just don’t want to leave the only place they know well.
Our Unhealthy Addiction to Health Insurance (US)
Do you have data? This is an interesting case-study where political expediency may brush over confounding variables:

* Own a gun and kill oneself with it. The primary risk factor being depression, not the gun.

* Own a gun and be part of a criminal organization. The primary risk factor being rival criminal organizations, not the gun.
Sure but you actually need the power tool for something.
Why per-seat pricing needs to die in the age of AI
Roll your own with a raspberry pi. More work, but also way less sneaky BS.
This seems to be an elaboration/rediscovery/variant of something Scott Adams[1] said a while ago:

https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/car...

Decent advice, imho.

[1] Note, this does not constitute an endorsement of Scott's political views.
Just spitballing here... if the only camera is the Ring, then bypassing it seems like it would be easy. You can blind the camera with a laser without being visible yourself, then approach it and tape over the camera, or just take a rock and knock the whole thing off the wall.
Alternatively, you could roll up your sleeves and add support for whatever obscure OS you want to Electron and then have an entire world of apps available to you.

Mediocre and working > not existing
Welcome to 95% of the engineering world haha. Code monkeys.
This was the biggest pain point I had when developing a vanilla react app circa two years ago. It's great to see that they've come up with a neat solution that works out of the box!
I subscribe to:

* https://www.economist.com/ - good coverage of various subjects worldwide.

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/ - good coverage of US politics

* https://www.bendbulletin.com/ - because I live here and they're the only ones that always have someone at things like city council meetings, county commissioner meetings and the like.
Well, it has some element of truth. The S-expression notation we think of as “Lisp” originated as a contribution to recursive function theory rather than a practical programming language, even if earlier McCarthy was thinking of proceeding by adding IPL-V facilities to Fortran.
> Its similar to thinking about the Dunning Kruger effect, a complete waste of time.

What do you mean by this and how do you justify such a statement?
I spend several years managing an all-remote team that ranged from Perth WA to Seattle WA. We worked 90% pure asynchronously and 10% using video chat (or physical get-togethers from time to time). It was highly productive, and because it was all open source development any lack of productivity would have been obvious.

I now commute to an office where we all work asynchronously but are expected to appear to work synchronously, as is traditionally expected. It is less enjoyable, frequently subject to context switches (you need to synchronize with the dominant worker) and certainly no more productive -- although that's hard to tell since everything is secret and need-to-know.

I would say working asynchronously is better for intellectual workers. Most intellectual work places that claim to working syncronously are either working under an illusion or under a bad manager with a "my synchrony" attitude.
There was a time when being a hacker meant one understood a system and bent the rules to get that system to do something else.
These days, being a hacker seems to mean producing crap and not taking any responsability for it.
Building single-atom qubits under a microscope
the graphs in this medium post make my head spin, but at least the 2nd one has words describing what the author purportedly means.
Yes. Originally it was a thought experiment. Just like mathematicians can imagine an idea and use a notation without creating a compiler.
spectrum.chat or discordapp.com could be an alternative for you
And what of the cause missing in your title that cause being climate change?
Amazon stock tanks as Q3 earnings miss estimates; sales beat
I think the premise of your question is wrong - you assume that homeless in SF would prefer to be or not be homeless in another city, I would actually ask the question as “what makes SF so appealing as a homeless person” or “what is it about San Francisco that creates/allows so many homeless people”
Tax Increment Financing, Explained
acdlite has written most of the implementation work that lead to this feature
Yes, but it's easy for an organization of Google's scale to de-anonymize those users using browser fingerprinting. https://amiunique.org/
That may be accurate for commercial contracts but lawyers write lots of other documents too, some of which are subject to thousands of edits. Think about judicial opinions, advices, written arguments, continuously updated legal commentary services, public reports, or indeed statutes. These documents are often carefully drafted over months and complex manual protocols get set up to manage it, due to the limitations of Track Changes and the lack of familiarity with the tools used by software engineers.
Thank you, I'm glad it spoke to you, you're who I wrote it for :-)
Hi, sorry for the delay.
No. I can't tell you how to improve your life. But if you like to play chess with me (a beginner), grab my contact from the bio. I'll be there.
Maybe modern underground hackers are embracing racism and extremism. But think about the disconnect between the media's reporting of hackers and what hackers actually were even twenty years ago. A hacker is, according to the news, whatever makes society hate them more. I doubt anybody smart enough to break something miles away with just a keyboard is stupid enough to believe one race is more or less than another.

Disclaimer: I'm not a hacker.
Ms. Monopoly Creates a World Where No One Wins
About 2800 people in the world are 7 feet tall or taller. 0.000038%.

Half are women. 300/400 would be in the age range at anytime. If 10% play basketball. That's only 40.
Aren’t you kind of making my point? Hardly anyone owns automatic weapons but there is still an uproar about “taking them”.
So glad Firefox has recently started blocking third-party cookies. It's comforting to know there's still a web browser which put thought into guarding our privacy.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/when-it-comes-to-pr...
Interesting way to discover the curse of dimensionality.
We have Ruby for our sensu checks that run on our zounds of nodes. Ops folks seem to enjoy it. I dislike Ruby, and my dislike compounds every time I touch chef, nspec, mini test, or any Ruby test framework. So much magic and custom DSLs.
IPOs are a racket. But try finding something better
$5.5k annually, even in the US, is still enough money to devote a few hours per week on a paid hobby project. I'm actually working on a side-project app right now, and if it makes >5.5k/year I'd be fairly pleased.

Not enough to survive on, but as a sideline business that isn't terrible money as long as it doesn't consume 40 hours/week.
> Plus ISPs (or at least US ones) won't allow you to run an Internet-visible server using your home Internet connection.

That's not entirely the case. I've been running internet-visible servers from home for decades. My current ISP (Comcast) doesn't have a problem with that, even contractually, as long as you aren't running publicly available services, and I've never had a problem with any of my prior ISPs.
I graduated from high school in 2001. There was no shop class offered. There was home ec, but that was an elective and not required. I really wish there had been things like this required.
Personally I'm fine with application specific UI schemes. It's a bit silly every application would follow the same guidelines as applications are intended to do different things. Platform UX/UI conventions place too strict limitations on innovation.

The original point - that people would get confused from non-platform UI schemes - has been proven kind of moot since most games have their own domain specific UI schemes and people love them anyway.
Holding Algorithms Accountable
To be fair, it's possible to handcraft one or two connectors... might take some time, though.
Well that's just about all the data I need to come to a firm conclusion on the matter
Show HN: 1-800 phone trees with 0 lines of code
I saw Time and stopped right there. Might as well have been from Parade magazine.
25 years after apartheid, black people cannot live in this South African city
How exactly would you identify such a situation when a real-time conversation is more productive? And do you think that everyone involved agrees in the same way on this?

It would be interesting to analyse such situations further, and maybe there are actually ways to resolve it in a more productive and efficient way which does not require real-time conversation.
Interesting, the numbers that I looked at a few months ago weren't quite so pesimistic. 1 out of 20 and the average amount was also lower (like 40). Perhaps I remember incorrectly, or am thinking of another country.
The problem is when each funding round devalues and dilutes individual shares but delays actually granting you stock, so you get the same X shares your contract stipulates but after they’ve all been devalued.
There are technical solutions that allow a site to include 3rd party JavaScript for tracking/analytics while keeping it completly sandboxed so you don't have to trust the JS.

One large website I know includes a sandboxed <iframe> from a different domain on all logged out pages that pulls in 3rd party scripts for marketing purposes. Special data you want the 3rd party to have needs to be passed to the iframe with postMessage from the parent, but the key feature is that compromised 3rd party JS won't be able to wreak havoc on your site.

Here's some info on that approach: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Third_Party_J...
I wonder if safety violations, workplace injuries are up as well.
Any framework that allows me to write simple code which then gets _automatically_ highly optimized to run efficiently and with high/low priority based on the user-interaction and effectively removes race-conditions and makes it more intuitive to deal with loading states is a good thing for me.

In fact this feels so advanced stuff (React's runtime I mean) that it will probably one day land in the browser. So React's team is just one step ahead of the others, they are thinking: "what's the least amount of code we can let developers write so that we can optimize away all the rest of the stuff?".

One thing I'm worried is whether with all these amazing optimizations and very different code-execution model, we have to rethink some of the valuable simple lessons of software architecture we learned over the years. For instance, we have to rethink a bit about how to organize code and how to test it. Some things that before we could confidently say "this piece of code will run at this time" will now be a bit more like "not sure when this piece of code will run".

Cool stuff, but some tradeoffs to consider.
I take it you're not familiar with GNAA... hackers are just people like everybody else, nothing about them is inherently anti-racist.
To correct, it was actually Wozniak that was assembling the phreaking boxes.

Apparently they made a revenue of 3k from the venture[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#1975%E2%...
This isn't new. You've always been able to build up a DOM element in memory before adding it to the tree. You can even use something like requestAnimationFrame to incrementally build and not block (useful for things like long lists etc).
GA is the same in these ways, isn't it?
From https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/support:

Linux
The prebuilt ia32 (i686) and x64 (amd64) binaries of Electron are built on Ubuntu 12.04, the armv7l binary is built against ARM v7 with hard-float ABI and NEON for Debian Wheezy.
Cyber memo warns of new risks to White House network
The people that wrote this are serious people, and the person that commissioned it is a Trump appointee. It's bad that so many crises are happening at once. This can't be procrastinated on even one more year. This article links to a pdf report. The report is just as dire as the article. Your life is directly or indirectly in danger. This is no exaggeration.

Fight against climate change and the interests that minimize it like your life and the life of your children depend on it.
The Fall of WeWork: How a Startup Darling Came Unglued
> I don’t have the mental power to be crazy

Wait, what? I was clearly using crazy in the Steve Jobs “here’s to the crazy ones” sense. You appear to be implying that unlike you, I do have the mental power to be crazy in the mentally ill sense. That seems slightly unwarranted.
Alternatively, you could roll up your sleeves and add support for whatever obscure OS you want to Electron and then have an entire world of apps available to you.

To what end? The Electron devs have explicitly stated they will reject patches adding support for other platforms. Node is just as bad (letting trivial patches that would fix compilation on FreeBSD just fester).

I've already looked at the folks trying to port Electron to FreeBSD and honestly the build system on its own is absolutely horrifying. Qt (even Gtk) is far superior in this regard.
It's rather like saying that you can interview a musician without asking them to play.

Yes, nerves play a part. That's why it's good to start easy and ramp up difficulty gradually, giving the interviewee a few easy wins to build up their confidence before getting them in to the harder stuff.

Frankly I find the most unnerving interviews (coding and questions) to be the ones where you have to second guess what the interviewer wants to hear. Where the question/task is difficult, but the desired outcome straightforward it's much less stressful.
It has to be said that Steve Jobs great quality was learning from the best in a given field, what it is called now "modeling".

He had as a mentor, when he was kid, f*cking Robert Noyce:
http://online.wsj.com/media/NoyceJobs_digits_D_2011100715195...

Noyce himself was a genius on its own.

And then Markkula, and then the president of Sony(that launched the Trinitron and walkman), and so on.

He learned how to learn.
Interestingly (to me), Edward Bernays is discussed a lot in Mario Vargas Llosa's latest book Tiempos Recios (Fierce Times), as the "most influential person in the history of Guatemala" due to his PR work on behalf of United Fruit. Unfortunately I believe it is only available in Spanish currently.
For the other suffering Ubuntu Firefox users with no scroll bars: I got it working with the Page Down key.

Annoying++ right there. I guess scroll bars were ugly or too complicated, so they had to go.
> Generally, it's best not to run Tor relays from home as services will start to blacklist your IP as a proxy.

Conversely, if you're engaging in illegal online behavior from your home IP, intermittently running a TOR exit node could be a useful mechanism for creating plausible deniability.
Depression is rarely the cause of suicide. Suicide is usually the result of one overwhelming moment + means. Having a gun in the household makes suicide significantly more likely. Without easy means, most people get through the tough time and go on with their lives.
What happens now?
> Your life is directly or indirectly in danger

Should I be concerned? Did they say Texas was hosed?
The title is misleading -- few or none of the examples given in this article, as far as I can tell, use AI or machine learning. They're just "automated systems" in the sense of computer systems that execute regular business rules. For example, the system at issue in the K.W. v. Armstrong case discussed in the article wasn't an AI system, it was just a pretty amateurish ad-hoc Excel spreadsheet.

The report quoted in the article (the 2019 AI Now "Litigating Algorithms" report) also shares the same basic problem, making no serious attempt to distinguish between AI and non-AI systems.
Yes, even on iOS.
We’ve officially annihilated a second strain of polio
Sounds like it's fair to say most of this boils down to bounds checks and SIMD?
Come on, guys. Don't downvote him. He was being funny. X)
Along those lines, we can say anything made for ChristOS is definitely cross-platform. XD
(There's a double pun in that one if you know Greek.)
Funny to think that a lot of self called hackers are now Cathedral bootlickers in one way or another.
Opening an incognito window (still) works.
The hard part is convincing someone to give you 12 billion dollars to set on fire. That part is extremely difficult and a skill which Neumann had in spades and which unfortunately I lack.
I always just click the X in the corner of the popup. Does that only work because I have uBlock Origin, or only on desktop?
It definitely is quite difficult, but it's also very inspiring in finding various topics to read more. I must have bought at least 20 books from the vast bibliography in the appendix of the book.
"Water is currently 30-40 percent of the costs required to sustain a US military force operating abroad, according to the new Army report. A huge infrastructure is needed to transport bottled water for Army units"

Is this for real? It seems like a gross exageration given how many man-hours of maintenance are needed to keep a plane in the air for 1 hour, or the cost of fuel, or the cost of ordinance, or a hundred other things.
Everybody is a salesman, yet few people realize it.
>modern hackers embrace racism and extremism rather than transcending them

Pardon my ignorance, but can you elaborate on what you mean by this?
700MB on my machine. Logged in to 4 active workspaces.
Journalism is in such a disastrous state, I feel like/hope there's a growing appetite for a source that is of genuinely high quality and has an uncompromising approach.

No ads, no clickbait, no partisan nonsense, no dark patterns, no hit pieces, no mixing of news and opinion.

Just uncompromisingly focused fact-based journalism (of course there will always be some bias and mistakes, but there's a lot you can do to mitigate these things).

I wonder if there are enough people that would pay $X/mo for this to make it viable. I'd happily pay at least $20/mo.
It's closer to saying you can hire a songwriter without asking them to write a song in front of you. A musician gets paid to perform in front of people. Asking them to do that in the interview is exactly the skill they're looking for.
Positive Disintegration
The sentence was:

> The best way to increase your odds of getting shot is to own a gun. Owning guns is dangerous. Occasionally for some people it will turn out to be a positive, but in general, owning a gun is a negative.
Google's Hybrid Approach to Research
and the old hackers used that changing environment to explain why they didn’t want to teach and learn with young hackers, and missed the chance to sow the seeds for a new spring, whose fertility they pessimistically misinterpreted.

(on a more serious note: this is not the case everywhere, in Germany e.g. the CCC does a wonderful job with the youngsters)
If I have to support anyone using Windows 10 the first thing I do is recommend they install Classic Shell / Open Shell.

The UX on default Windows 10 Start Menu is unacceptable.

https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
Whose final form is probably PDF anyway. Even if it were .docx, there are lots of free softwares that can read or translate those.

So your real problem here is with the access to said laws, which is not a software problem.
I thought QT worked across all platforms?

Also, I think JVM UI frameworks still offer more than people believe. JavaFx and even the good old Swing work cross platform. Compared to Electron apps, they even hold in terms of performance and memory use.
> It's a bit silly every application would follow the same guidelines as applications are intended to do different things. Platform UX/UI conventions place too strict limitations on innovation.

They really don’t. Have you taken a look at the thriving ecosystem of native, powerful macOS apps that follow platform conventions?
> Relying only on naive telemetry analysis is going to lead you to misprioritizing work on improving the product.

yes, but it does let you know where to place the ads and “special offers”
Great to hear that you managed another 2x speedup! Sure, feel free to link my comment if you like.