skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried XFCE and thunar(both of which are incredibly fast and I loved them), but I've switched to KDE this year because there was always one annoying bug (last one was with large screenshots https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20674473 ).
I've also tried LXDE but the window manager seemed very basic compared to XFCE, but I haven't tried LXQT.

I'll do another set of tests once Ubuntu (or rather PopOS) 20.04 LTS releases.
1) I can tweak what is shown on the feed to good effect

2) I don't want porn, terrorism, hate or scams on my newsfeed

3) It cost a lot of money to run and maintain Facebook

4) Apple controls apps on it's store, Google too. Control has to be put in place to prevent scams, hacks and bitcoin miners from being installed. Facebook isn't the internet. It's a safe social space for my 81 yr old mother.
I spent 2 years trying to “fix” my feed before leaving Facebook altogether. There was no way at the time - the alg would always surface the absolute worst things that anyone I knew would post because the algorithm knew it would get the most responses.
Someone else in that thread asks:

> I wonder if they report a lower price to Google as well.

Presumably for the little boxes which show up below certain Google ads with price points []. I know that's against Google Ads' policies, but has anyone heard of it happening nonetheless?

[] https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2497706
Because they want hard deadlines. I don’t think this is something that can be “fixed”. I think it’s something you discover in an interview and use as a make or break join/pass decision if you truly care about it.
Neat!

(Although I knew about it and stand by my assertion, because...)

I still can't conceive of using that to build a (say) iPhone.
Did you try to use it? Whenever I have to take out the cable, I ask a colleage with long nails for help. As I keep T480s upright with on hand, they pull down the clapet simultaneously from both so I can pull out the cable with the other hand.
For those unfamiliar:

HOPE VI is a program of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is intended to revitalize the worst public housing projects in the United States into mixed-income developments. Its philosophy is largely based on New Urbanism and the concept of defensible space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_VI
If printing press in the 15th century is the analogy, we will have Thirty Years' War ahead of us.

Martin Luther was one of the first political troublemakers in the printing press era. He used printed pamphlets to spread his message. His use of language was extremely hateful and vulgar. Martin Luther would have been perfect for Twitter or FB.

...

Martin Luther @MartinLuther

>“A natural donkey, which carries sacks to the mill and eats thistles, can judge you – indeed, all creatures can! For a donkey knows it is a donkey and not a cow. A stone knows it is a stone; water is water, and so on through all the creatures. But you mad asses do not know you are asses.”

Martin Luther @MartinLuther

>“May God punish you, I say, you shameless, barefaced liar, devil’s mouthpiece, who dares to spit out, before God, before all the angels, before the dear sun, before all the world, your devil’s filth.”

Martin Luther @MartinLuther

>For you are an excellent person, as skillful, clever, and versed in Holy Scripture as a cow in a walnut tree or a sow on a harp.”

Martin Luther @MartinLuther

>“You are a crude ass, and an ass you will remain!”

Martin Luther @MartinLuther

>You are desperate, thorough arch-rascals, murderers, traitors, liars, the very scum of all the most evil people on earth. You are full of all the worst devils in hell – full, full, and so full that you can do nothing but vomit, throw, and blow out devils!”

More: http://ergofabulous.org/luther/
Regarding the bald text.

- I fear to explain more in case the user just can't other reading.

Regarding the icons.

- The palettes icon is using those colors because otherwise it would be too much.

Regarding the gradients, do you mean the ones in the page or the icon. ?

Thank you so much.
You got your own bias, that is plain enough.
"No, mental health issues really are not a direct cause of homelessness per se."

So how do you explain people that make a good living to living in a box by the railroad tracks if not some sort of mental illness? It has nothing to do with the cost or availability of housing. If the rent gets too high, a person not mentally ill would just move to a more affordable city/part of the city rather than live on the streets.

"We say homeless people are all "junkies and crazies" and blame their lack of housing on them"

Giving someone a house that can't even feed themselves won't fix the problem.

"Meanwhile, there are junkie millionaire musicians and actors. We don't use their existence as an excuse to conclude "drug addiction leads to wealth!"

Why would we? Most drug addicts aren't wealthy. Wealthy people are sometimes drug addicts. That's a ridiculous argument.

"it's a known and proven factor, but it's one that doesn't feed the narrative that homelessness is fundamentally an individual problem rather than a systemic societal problem."

It is a systemic problem. Cities like San Francisco won't address the problem with mental illness and they have laws in place that allow homeless people to shit and piss in the streets with impunity.

There are tons of shelters in and around the city (and most big cities), but most won't go because they won't be able to get drunk or high.
I just flew on a Lufthansa 747 from ORD to FRA two weeks ago.
Very much this. I try to never give an estimate without giving 2 values. The expected effort, and the expected calendar time. Sometimes I’ll also add expected complexity since that adds a lot of risk to both estimates. There are lots of things I’ve done that were quite easy, then I spend lots of time just sheparding the feature into production. Especially if you’re working with other teams, or vendors, and can expect 24hr delays for every email round trip.

In fact each department or vendor involved in a project will easily double calendar date, and often complexity as well. At a previous job we automatically increased our t-shirt size for every vendor just to keep our estimates honest. And there was only like one vendor who we would make exceptions for since they were always amazing to work with.
The Cocoa text input widget supports these keybindings and is used in many applications. Linux does not have one single input widget that is as popular (Gnome apps use a GTK text widget, KDE apps use a Qt text widget, etc.) On Linux, you would need to address this setting on a per widget set basis.

I don't think this supports the argument that Mac OS X is somehow more customizable that Linux. In my opinion it's the opposite: every application is strongly encouraged to use the same text widget. We're lucky in this case that we like this function. In other cases (like virtual desktop management) Apple's decisions have been towards less customizability. I believe that has long been a Hallmark of Apple, back when OS X was released Apple scoffed at the idea that anyone would ever want to change the default theme (which at that time was a bit more extreme). A "gray" theme.was introduced after much pressure from customers.

That said, I seriously doubt that the Apple Computer of today is as interested in ensuring this functionality to the same degree as the Apple of ten years ago. They have made many developer unfriendly decisions in the past decade, I wouldn't count on this feature being present indefinitely.
5 gens, that's awesome. Sorry for off-topic, but did you research your family history to find them or was it already known to your immediate family?
Yeah, better to let the foreigners invade and fight the war here and involve naive women and children.
> Thomas Picketty did great research in this area.

My understanding of the general consensus of economists on Piketty is that his data collection efforts were great work, but his analysis and interpretation of that data was not particularly excellent. His theories have been substantially criticized by that group.

I’m not really in a position to evaluate the substance of the claims of either side but just want to point out that Piketty’s work isn’t by any means universally acclaimed and it isn’t just shills that have issues with it.
You missed the, admittedly subtle, point of my post.
> Because this has become a pattern in OpenAI's MO.

I wonder if this is because it Elon Musk’s MO. It seems exaggeration and hyperbole is what he does.
> If your deadline is fixed, be ready to scale back.

True. Honestly, what else can you do if a deadline is approaching than to cut scope? Even enforced death marches aren’t necessarily going to solve it...
They can't show everything so a filter must be used. They try to show you things similar to what you have liked so you are happy, along with ads related to what you like so you will buy. I can hide/unlike/unfollow things I don't like to tune the filter. How is this complicated? Do people who hate Facebook not understand how to use it? Edit:sp
FIRE?
Agreed, but phrasing it in the “here’s what changed that most people don’t understand” language that VCs love:

“in the age of cheap money, scale is not a defensive moat”

When Fry’s was founded, it was so prohibitively difficult to get the funding to scale to their size, that competition was thwarted by lack of investment. Now? The trick is public knowledge; the funds are cheaply available to anyone able to scale a competitor. So the critical step two —- raise prices —- is impossible. Your margin is my opportunity, as they say.

What worked in 1985 when interest rates were ~8% doesn’t work when the great global pool of money is sloshing around, desperately seeking returns.

I think the actual investment dynamics are more nuanced (i.e. investors aren’t completely naive), but it’s still true that this get-a-monopoly-and-raise-prices approach is a business strategy from a very different era.
> Willingness to work on brownfield Ruby projects is rare

After working in a dev agency that took on outside Rails projects several times while I was there, my conclusion is that Rails (not the only way to write even Web-focused Ruby, and not the only one I've used, but the only one that'll score you any points for hiring) is a pretty bad framework for any project that will have multiple teams on it over its lifetime, absent heroic technical direction & testing efforts that I've never actually seen in the wild—probably because young or outsourced teams picking Rails are doing it to move fast, over all other concerns.

You can take on or resurrect an average outside or old Rails projects. It's just slow and expensive.

Too much magic, too much room for doing things some way that the next person will never have seen before, too little grep-ability, too hard for your tools to help you.
I want to boycott websites that paywall themselves off like that. Hopefully with some more similarly minded people we can get the ball rolling - get Google to honestly enforce their no cloaking policy. Maybe even get HN to de-rank submissions from their domains.
I think, when companies say they support ‘free speech’ they are adopting the stance that they will not punish their users for actions that the US government protects under the first amendment.
It should be up to Facebook to decide what content to show, not social activists or politicians. That's what free speech means.
Upvoted you because, despite le snark, I think you're making a really good point: Soda is fucking nuts.

Seriously, "pop" et. al. is "Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy" level farce.

There are places where it's easier to get Coke than potable water.

"If sugar had been discovered recently instead of in antiquity it would be a controlled substance instead of being half our kids' meals."
Interesting. Who made the decision to switch and who pitched it to execs? In my experience an executive is the only one who can make this decision. Extremely curious how this worked out.
I have no love lost for new-age fraudsters peddling magical nonsense, but it still feels a tad cowardly to focus your ire on modern self-styled witches for espousing ahistorical belief structures that recycle old material in ways that are at odds with historical fact but is more palatable to the modern masses when, across the country, there are protestant megachurches doing precisely the same thing but with orders of magnitude more adherents and orders of magnitude more political influence.
The only way out of it I can think of would be: if the site could prove that some number of people, greater than 45, were hitting that specific query on that specific page, then vacuously, they could say that any number of people between 1 and 45 were also looking at the offer.

But then, why wouldn't they just display "at least 45 people" or the exact number? I'm struggling to find some way of doing this which could be any stupider (`view_notification_random` ??) than what we see.
There are more options than "just serve the images" and "bloated monstrosity that takes so long to load on mobile that I actively avoid imgur links".

For example, they could have, but didn't, make it a page with adverts and social features that loads in a second or so.
What this snippet misses is the fact that FB, YT, G+, and Twitter determine what is presented and offered to users. Algorithm or no, their fingers, hands, feet and bodies are all over the scale.
Chrome is at the top of a giant tower of abstraction. Sure, millions of people built the tower. Imgur is even higher on the tower of abstraction, though. It should be much simpler. That's the whole point of the tower.

15 engineers doesn't seem especially efficient to me for what it does (or ought to). Just because you get a lot of views doesn't mean the software itself has to be terribly sophisticated. It usually means you host a ton of user-generated content. Websites which are relatively straightforward hosting of user content, like Wikipedia [1] and Reddit, tend to have orders-of-magnitude fewer employees than other types of equally popular websites.

[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Annual_...

If you assume WMF were about 20% engineers back in 2010-2011, as they are today according to their Staff page, that would mean they had about 16 engineers. Is Imgur today as complex as all Wikipedia properties in 2011? That seems rather inefficient to me.
If you have status with the rental car companies, a lot of them have express pickup where you just walk up to a designated spot number that's listed in the app and drive away. I have no idea why they go thru the whole charade of retyping everything on the computer at the rental car location if you don't have status, when they obviously know how to save data for other people.
> a topless photograph posted by advocates for an equal right for both men and women to be topless in public is clearly political speech.

Sure, but you can state the same opinion with words, and not get censored.

If certain opinions are forbidden from being expressed, it's a very different thing.
For more practical information on software estimation, I recommend apenwarr's "An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage" (2017):

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20171213
Free speech itself as a legal concept comes with limitations based on community guidelines, including obscenity and pornography.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech#Limitation...

I don’t believe there is any country in the world today for which “free speech” means that anything that can be said is legal and protected, but many people seem to think otherwise based on the name.
So...how do you feel about an independent Catalunya, amic? ;-)
> Linux does not have one single input widget that is as popular (Gnome apps use a GTK text widget, KDE apps use a Qt text widget, etc.). On Linux, you would need to address this setting on a per widget set basis.

Yes, I clearly already understood that. I was pointing out how absurd ColanR’s claim was that he could do this all through i3 config “super easy”. It isn’t within the domain of the window manager to control the toolkits’ widget bindings, which are all over the map in terms of customizability.

> I don't think this supports the argument that Mac OS X is somehow more customizable that Linux. In my opinion it's the opposite: every application is strongly encouraged to use the same text widget.

Which, in my opinion, strongly increases customizability because I can be sure the things I customize work the way I want them to effectively everywhere; I am not limited by every third application author’s obstinate choice to hardcode some other set of bindings in some deliberately incompatible toolkit.

I’d suggest that our disagreement comes down to the fact that configurability is not a linear gradient, but a fairly complex, multi-dimensional topic with a lot of subtle trade-offs that different people may have different preferences surrounding.

> I wouldn't count on this feature being present indefinitely.

Sure. Similarly I don’t count on however you do this in GTK today still working in 5 years, given how often they CADT their way into new incompatible configuration systems.
Well, 95% less bias would be good.
Well you two owe me $32 :-). Kidding of course but the G2 looks like a cool gizmo and so I got one.

I'm wondering if my Scarab code for the LX6+ will move over.
i mean the standard "fixed" X window fonts, that come with x.org and have a large variety of sizes. They are typically the default font for xterm. They are everywhere, in debian for example, so no problem with the license.
Your failure to understand how your comment could be considered "objectifying" is your own. The reasoning has been explained to you. Saying those who would point it out to you are on a "witch hunt" reveals a serious lack of reflection on your part.
I use Stevia and fiber powder to make a shake with my coffee cocoa mix.
planned parenthood lists it as not much riskier than condoms.
Not my problem
This is still a phenomenon worth examining. How is this cowardly? The author can’t do anything about the IRS. What else is there to say about megachurches that hasn’t been said?
Recently there was a conversation on Slack at work about gender pronouns. Several people asked that everyone use "hey ya'll", "hey folks", "hey everyone", etc instead of "hey guys" (when addressing an entire not-all-male channel, for example). Two or three people fought this giving various arguments about why this was unnecessary, calling it word-policing, value-signaling, etc. Throughout, I made an attempt always to respond in a civil manner, to try to explain reasoning behind counter-points, provide examples, and make sure all voices were heard. I basically took it upon myself to be a mediator for 30 people.

It finally ended after an hour, and afterward I realized I felt totally emotionally drained. I had spent the entire time reacting emotionally (internally), and then reacting mentally (externally). All that emotion, even if it was "inside", had been chewing away at me as a form of stress. I had to take an hour break from work to calm down. It did not feel good. "Emotional labor" might not have been the right phrase, but it sure felt like my emotions had just unloaded a 25-foot box truck.
Maybe the section of the AI devoted to you has tagged you as someone who likes outrage. Maybe you have posted some outrage stuff. My experience is opposite from yours.
I believe the FBI on this one. He seemed more like a naive terrorist sympathizer than a source the FBI could rely on, especially after pursing a woman romantically who wanted to go to Syria (and after the FBI told him to leave her alone.)

It's likely true they never told him to go to Russia, content on having him simply report what he sees in online chatrooms from the comfort of his parents homes. He was moderately useful but not someone they could really trust for anything more than basic "internet chatroom" work.
The Great Falafel Debacle
Beautiful city! The Alhambra is mind-blowing. The food, the music... ahh!
Any form of media that earns its profit from viewership and selling advertising, including broadcast and cable news and news radio, is optimized for outrage. That's what attracts the eyeballs.

The "algorithmic" part is irrelevant.
When you keep stakeholders updated early, you force them to make hard decisions about their product so you know what to prioritize.

It makes everyone focus on what is most important.

Are those features really necessary for the release? Can we change the requirements to accomplish the goal easier? Is it important enough that we should delay it?

Without a deadline, engineers waste time working on stuff that is fun and interesting to them and not the hard stuff that is needed to ship a product across the finish line.

I do that along with every other engineer I know. It is human nature.
It's all pay to play at this point. Even if you've already paid to get a strong following you now have to pay again to reach them, in perpetuity.
I'm noticing that even Etsy does this by saying that "n people have this their baskets right now."

That might be so, but it's not like most of the items are scarce. For example, I ordered a t-shirt and the seller just used a local t-shirt company to produce the shirt and mail it to me since it was cheaper than mailing a shirt through international delivery lol
Facebook can put whatever content in the news feed they want. I can choose whether to read Facebook or not. That sounds like free speech to me!
>So F1s could average 300mph on an identical track if it were nothing like the existing track. Gotcha.

That's not how I read it. He said 90 degrees to the -outside-. Which would be significantly more difficult than the current track and seemingly impossible until you consider that the air downforce would need to overpower the centrifugal force lifting them away from the track.

But perhaps 90 degrees to the outside doesn't mean what I think it means.
I don't necessarily care if it's a point or pad. I need it to get the jobs done that I mentioned above.

Can you with your laptop, and if so, which is it?

I had a Dell Precision M4300 for quite some time. Good laptop, decent trackpoint - but it was not good enough for design work:

My main problem was offsetting the cursor a tiny number of pixels, which needed some starting force on the trackpoint, which lead to more pixels than I needed.
Some trackpoint laptop might have figured this out by now. But if not, I'm not interested.
It's not a problem if sizes are different. That's why they are scored.

Points are only mean something with a constant team anyway. No point in comparing between different companies, teams, projects.

Also, you can estimate time based on points. After you have some baseline velocity for the given team-project setup.

...

I don't know what kind of estimation meetings you had to suffer through, but the ones we did were the usual SCRUM poker, and then the PM tool just gives you the estimate based on the team's past velocity. No hand-waving. It's data driven. And anyone has any problem with the date can talk to the PM and decide which features to cut/change.
Facebook can have a policy of free speech.

That's what people mean.
I just want to second this! I think I just ordered a LX100 for that price (plus 25US$ for shipping to ol' Europe).

//edit: Next thing tomorrow: Order the stuff necessary to program this (or check if I can use company equipment).
More and more I want someone to create a new language that amounts to a strict subset of Python, with mypy built-in, and is compilable into machine code. Python has by far my favorite syntax, community, and in my experience leads to the greatest productivity. There just happens to be a lot of overly dynamic features, that aren't even used by most, but used just enough to hold back optimization and structural improvement.