skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So some manager came up with this, tasked a PO, who tasked a team, and a frontend developer implemented it - and in this chain, in the end, everyone complied. I know it's not like murder, but especially in a field where it's so easy to hop into another job/project, one should have greater integrity.
I want to add Hanlon's razor to this.

Some are pointing straight to malice and intentional misleading.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they wanted to make it genuinely work originally, but realised they could save a lot of money, resources and sprints just faking it in js.

More laziness and “oh shit this project was bigger than we thought let’s find a shortcut” than outright malice.
Yes it happened to me, a hotel was priced significantly cheaper on Google and on their site initially. When the price went up I just called the hotel and the higher rate was their standard and only rate that they offered. The initial advertised price was never an actual option.
This is pretty much what I used to think. If it works out for you, then great, but I think you might find its unrealistic.

I suspect that your 9 year plan is an unrealistic, best-case scenario, that won't come to pass.

Also, 9 years is a long time to survive if you're miserable. I think you may find that at some point, your employer and coworkers notice it, get sick of working with you, and replace you with someone else that really likes programming. Like a lot. But right now, not N years ago.
An excellent point, I start to lose interest when reading conflation of fact and opinion as well. You know, it's comments like this that make me appreciate this community that much more.
Travelling instagram minimalists.
Last I checked, China are literally a government.

That said, I find weaknesses across the board with conventional arguments and talking points concerning speech.

It really is complicated. And there is considerable previous thought, precedent, and philosophy that's been forgotten or ignored.
You could just buy the normal and perhaps italic weights.

If you're a software engineer, $100 on a font that you look at 8 hours everyday for a living is a no brainer. You'd probably spend $80 on a mouse, $100 on a keyboard, $120 on a good pair of shoes, $1500 on a good mattress, fonts are one of those things. If you like it, there shouldn't be a hesitation for "oh...its just a font, why should I pay for it".

Typefaces are insanely hard to design and optimize. Sometimes, it takes a couple of years to develop one typeface.
A vanity place with pretty people pushing random products in their feeds. How is that "nice"?
> I'm not trying to trivialize depression.

As someone who has been catatonically depressed for a couple years now, I'm not so sure about this! People with chronic pain also often can't identify any physical source, but obviously you would never start posting "is this really an illness though?" or "aren't we distracting and misleading people??" in a thread about that.

The undercurrent of your post is that depressed people need to snap out of it, and falling back on the "illness" label reduces personal responsibility. Trust me, many people feel like imposters claiming they have depression, despite being completely non-functional. Thanks but no thanks to this proposed contribution to the discourse.

Are you really here to understand, or is it just to judge? Want some MRIs and EKGs of depressed brains?
That kind of ownership does not yield the kind of returns we’re talking about, and more importantly does not allow for control. The centralization of returns and control reinforce one another.
> Sure, but you can state the same opinion with words, and not get censored

Sure, but that is in no sense what “free speech” means, so we should stop pretending that “free speech” is what Facebook is offering.
I didn't say anything about the IRS and I didn't say the phenomena should be ignored. I think that the most impactful manifestations of the phenomenon should be the focus of study, on account of being the most impactful.

Cowardice seems likely when somebody ignores the high impact manifestation that enjoys popular support, choosing instead to lampoon the low impact fringe manifestation.
This Techcrunch title describes itself.
I can only speak for Germany, where it's definitely not.
“But..” stammers the dev “I have no real way of knowing just how many people are looking at this offer.”

“But in Sprint Planning round 4 you told me the API is ready” responds the PO sternly. “Sprint ends tomorrow. I gave you the story. You committed to the goal. Them’s the rules.”

“Ok, Ok. Tell you what, I’ll make something work and we’ll write a follow up story to make this right. Does that please you, mighty Owner of Product?”
Agreed. Usually the problem is that technical folks are involved too late. (They are the ones that actually think through the requirements after all.)
Fund rail like we do highways. Establish an agency to incrementally purchase ROW or track rights and incrementally upgrade services. And to tie all these services together into a cohesive network.

This would mean first all the lines in NoCal and separately SoCal would reach speeds of 120mph, electrified, with regular high quality service. That first supports the massive need for transit within these separate mega regions. You’d have a fast enough train from Sacramento to San Jose. Or from San Diego to LA. So on. This already provides good economic benefits.

Second, starting a rail renaissance this way around means you have laid out everything you need to get support for the 180+ mph HSR line that would later link these two networks into one statewide network.

At that point you would not only have support from the public because it’s obvious what the benefits will be, but you also have all the construction and project management experience built up over the years of buying/fixing/upgrading lines in these northern and southern networks.

And instead of this inside out (outside in?), stand-alone plan we had with CAHSR. You now all the way through are making peoples lives better AS YOU GO with your capital investments.

The Central Valley construction right now for example is ridiculous as everyone knows. (We know it was done because there was federal money for it, but still.)

Imagine instead that same capital expenditure had gone to making the Sacramento to San Jose Capitol Corridor route a high quality electrified 120mph line? It would’ve had immediate economic benefits and people would ride the trains and be like holy shit give me more of this now!!
I really hate this estimation crap.

We do it at the start, people change their mind 10 times and then we deliver something different and it's considered business as usual.

But if I suggest just once that we cut the estimates out, people get angry and afraid.

As if they all WANT to be lied at...
It only faded away in the West. While staying at a hotel in Africa not long ago I was served Coke in a glass bottle over 15 years old. The bottle looked like what you would expect from a glass bottle that has been use for that long, but the Coke tasted just as good as it usually does.
> I wouldn’t trust online, voluntary, self-reported salary “data” even a little. No more than any other form of e-bragging. Everyone who posts online makes $350k, drives a Ferrari, and has a supermodel romantic partner.

Filter the visadoor results with job=software to see only the software developer salaries. These range from $280K to $850K, have a mean of $373K, a median $370K, 24 of 66 are at $400K and above.

This is very much the same ballpark as the self reported average salary of $433K on levels.fyi (I'd expect PERM figures to be slightly lower than average for the company as a whole since I presume they would normally be filed in the first year of employment.)

This strongly suggests to me that the levels.fyi self reported salaries for other companies are also ballpark correct.

> Netflix is known to pay at the top of market, so the highest few compensations there being >$350k make at least a little sense.

47 of 66 in the visadoor figures make $350 and above. While I would expect Netflix's average to be higher than other comparable companies this is because it hires only at Senior Software Developer level and above. Facebook and Google certainly pay their senior and above developers in the Bay Area similarly, albeit with a different RSU/salary mix.
Author here. Just out of curiosity, why isn’t there much talk about serving simple sites from memory? Usually people talk about serving static HTML using NGINX and let the kernel page cache handle it. I wouldn’t assume it is complexity. As some one here, https://kieran.ie/loading-a-website-from-ram/, used a ram disk and NGINX to serve it.
isn't this argument like 2-3y old now? didn't they say they were going to deprioritize politics and boost cats?
I agree completely with you and would like to include fear. Fear and outrage.
Part of how returns to capital work is taking on risk and then hedging. Without significant cash (for hedged investments) or control (take care of that risk by dealing with it) taking on a lot of risk is just going to the casino. That’s why index funds work for casual investors and stock picking doesn’t.
Murderer. You'll burn in hell for that.
How would you write a law to make it illegal?

The better remedy is precisely what is occurring: someone calls the Emperor's bluff, and we all get on HN and engage in cheeky humor.
You're gonna love this: recently, in San Francisco, a measure has been passed to make parking meters "demand-responsive".

https://www.govtech.com/fs/automation/San-Francisco-Rolls-Ou...

> As of December, San Francisco has transitioned its SFpark pilot into a citywide program to set rates on all 28,000 parking spaces on public streets and 14 city-operated garages. The plan prices parking based on demand — not unlike the approach used by airlines to set fares or ride-hailing apps to set the price of a trip.

> “Demand-responsive pricing,” as the concept is known, means “prices could fluctuate block by block, time-band by time-band, and then weekday versus weekend,” said Hank Wilson, parking policy manager for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA).

> The new approach to setting parking rates in San Francisco based on demand is not intended as an effort to raise parking revenue, officials stress. In fact, the new system will likely be revenue neutral because rates on many streets and in garages will likely drop.
Sex attracts eyeballs too though it's a bit more difficult to sell Kraft Cheese Singles using sex.
FB's free amplification benefits FB. Or those who've figured out how to manipulate it to their own ends.

Paid amplification is FB's business model for the rest.
Cool idea and sounds like a fun project! However, Github pages has supported HTTPS for a while [1]. Personally, I like free over a cup of coffee any day.

[1] https://github.blog/2018-05-01-github-pages-custom-domains-h...
Hmhmmumblemumble Houston Harvey Flooding Hagibis Flooding Nagano Shinkansen...

You mean like this?

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/13/national/ten-tr...

10 out of 30 down until further notice.
Amoral deviant. Hormone junkie.
China is not threatening to arrest and try basketball players in the US. Their main threat is loss of financial income to the NBA.
Because "there's no free lunch" in capitalism.

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/dhir1i/in_th...
This is just a slogan people keep saying, and whilst it's useful fodder for one side of the debate, I'd encourage you to question it. I'm sure you're smart enough to understand the concept of free speech outside of what is protected by the US constitution. That is what people are often talking about, and even though their legal recourse (in the US) is often limited to only preventing government censorship, we are free to have debates about what is right and wrong about allowing or censoring other kinds of speech.

Saying "you're not entitled to X" with reference to current laws is disregarding that people are actually arguing against those laws, or about situations where they don't apply. Even when people are talking about the law, some laws are unjust: quoting present law is not an argument about anything except what the law is.

I'd also encourage you to consider that the writers of the US constitution were in favour of free speech generally, and almost certainly would have tried to constitutionally entrench a broader concept of it than they did, if it were practical to do so. The decision to only prevent government censorship is a practical one - government stopping others from censoring was (is) considered outside of the role of the government, or too impractical to actually enforce. That doesn't mean the writers of the constitution thought that other kinds of censorship were ok. They just didn't think rules about them belonged in a document about the US federal government.

Finally, most countries do not have freedom of speech entrenched in their constitutions, but "free speech" is still a phrase in these places, and they are not talking about the US constitution. Free speech has historically been considered an important right in post-enlightenment societies, regardless of legal protections, and regardless of trendy people on the 'right side of history' saying otherwise. The fact that oppressed people are presently somewhat anti-free-speech is due to the unusual situation of them having friends in high places. This is not usually the case, and throwing out the ideal of free speech to the greatest extent permitted by the US constitution does a great disservice to future oppressed people who are unlikely to have the media and tech companies on their side, as well as present oppressed people who have fallen through the cracks because their flavour of oppression isn't currently in vogue.
I love how my work is now about 99% OS agnostic. I've been working from home a lot lately. There are times when I want to do some deep research and I don't want to do it on the desktop. So I just get my MBA, plop on the recliner and Google away.

Save the pages with SessionBuddy on Chrome. Then when I have to actually work, I can go to my Windows desktop and jump right into work.

It's come to a point where I'm basically using two operating systems daily and it hasn't affected my workflow one bit
The Twitter thread pointed to a BBC article [1] that certainly suggests that the UK’s regulators don’t think this is okay. I’ve found that Booking.com legitimately treats independent rooms as “only one left” (e.g., the B&B has named rooms, so there’s always just one of a kind for each) but I suspect any investigation into most of these sites leads to “this is full of misleading dark patterns”.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49740143
Thinks of European orange juice commercials
Sure, estimation is needed. But the more important thing is that project _management_ must involve the constant updating of those estimates.

After all estimates should be data based. As more data comes in they should get more accurate not less.

If they don't that's a sign of basing them on hope or whatever ideology someone found instead of hard truths.
I love imagining the Jira ticket for these.

“As a desperate guy trying to save his marriage with a last-minute holiday, I want to know just how many other lost souls I am competing with, so I loose what little dignity I have left”
:) well hope my Go skills are better than my searching skills. It was a fun project.
Precisely—I switch between front-end, mobile, backend (Java, Mono, Haskell, etc...), I dabble in game dev and photography—so I depend on quick access to these tools/flexibility quite a lot. I love making my computer mine, but that doesn't mean that I'm happy to drop my work and fix something that should just work.

I've gone the hackintosh and/or dual boot route so many times that I finally gave up and I'm generally happy with my current setup. However, I'm sitting here with 2 macs (both hi-spec even in Apple terms), one with a broken keyboard, another one with a neurotic trackpad.

I guess the bottomline is: if we want to switch, we need to make sacrifices/change our habits.
> the device is obsolete.

One of my biggest complaints about Apple is the difference between what I consider to be obsolete and what they do.
Quick Primer on Articles in English versus Particles in Japanese
Well done - a function works well on a restricted set of hardware which the OS has been tested thoroughly against. How do you expect that same thing to be achieved with the hundreds of potential laptops out there which could run Linux?
The only thing I don't like about Ubuntu mono is tiny minus ("-") character. It is way too narrow.

Bront Ubuntu Mono fixes this, but breaks other things: some letters, for unclear reasons, are weirdly stretched (see "l")
False advertising?
Show HN: Higher Bitrate and Adblock for Spotify
I think that while there's a lot of informationally isolated pagans out there who still buy into the "burning times", hidden matriarchal religion, pagan survivals in folk customs, etc etc stuff, anyone who's well informed knows that all that has been shown to be 19th-century romanticism at work. So what is left is a contemporary mystery religion founded in the 1940s by a charismatic man, that borrows aesthetics from the popular idea of a witch, and combines a magical style in the Crowley tradition with western herbalism, western astrology, Masonic ritualism, and its own theology. And that's fine.

There's room out there too for grimoire traditionalists, cunning-man revivalists, catholic folk-magic, brujeria, santeria, pagan historical reconstructionists, and any number of other detailed traditions that aren't Wiccan. And that's fine too.

I welcome the idea of learning from the past rather than imposing romantic fantasies over it, but that doesn't mean the past is where everything of value resides. If you think religions relate to real things, rather than purely being a human construct, then those things have agency of their own, and exist in the present day. Authenticity, then, becomes about the strength of connection.
honest question, how to love the trackpoint? I constantly overshoot or undershoot my target when applying pressure to the stick. Any suggestions? Should I adjust some settings? Do I need to just dedicate to using it for a couple of weeks?
The algorithm is optimized for emotional potency that leads to increased engagement. Outrage is just one of the more monetizable emotions the algorithm is good at.

Consider also schadenfreude, in-group signaling, etc. All of these loom large on Facebook.

Compared to traditional consolidated media companies, Facebook does have the potential to be a better medium for “speech”.

But censorship is inevitable when advertising looms so large on the platform, so inevitably many forms of speech will be suppressed, leaving only the stuff that is the most establishment friendly.

Note that Hillary Clinton just made a statement accusing Tulsi Gabbard of being funded by Russia. A logical next step would be for Facebook to pull ads that are in favor of Gabbard. In essence, major party views are intrinsically conservative and uncontroversial.

What are Gabbard’s fringe views? She opposes some of the military/warmaking that Hillary made her career supporting.
Where do you get these numbers from?

Under "normal conditions", my reading is the success is 20%, 0% for a maximally-scrambled cube. I don't feel the Giiker Cube can't be considered "normal conditions".
About a third of friends on Facebook appear in my feed. It was the only way to get rid of the outrage. Now it's mostly friends and family members posting about their kids, concerts, and some travel. It's sad that so many people whose lives I'd like to keep up with have to be excluded but many people actually think reposting outrage all day actually changes the world in the way they wish it to be changed.
Ode to LICEcap, the simple GIF screen capture tool
The interesting fact about TinyVideoNets is they classified the layers in the end after identification on each layer, depending on the model of parameters, is much efficient to classify on each layer? Better sorting of the results? I wonder why they didn't explain that in the paper.
Ironically, this very article is a perfect example.
It can, but there’s a point of diminishing returns. There’s little point in protecting an ecosystem if it isn’t going to exist in a decade or two anyway. A big construction project might have a more tangible short-term impact, but if that excuse is used in every project that’s likely to have a strong positive impact on climate change, we might be shooting ourselves in the foot.

Of course, nothing is every black-and-white; destroying countless local ecosystems is a high cost, and it’s difficult to measure whether it’s worth that cost. How many ecosystems will be saved as a result? From any single project, probably none. From all the projects combined, maybe a lot.

It’s along the lines of, “nobody else is trying to prevent calamity X, so calamity X is inevitable, and I shouldn’t try to stop it if the cost is calamity Y, where calamity Y is a more localized version of calamity X.” Well, calamity X is going to bring about calamity Y anyway if everyone has that mindset.

It reminds me of the Trolley Problem [1], except the “do nothing” outcome is a long way off, and the “do something” outcome happens immediately, thereby skewing the choices.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
The notion of free speech isn’t advocated to protect popular speech.
> That kind of ownership does not yield the kind of returns we’re talking about

Depends on which stock you bought.

> does not allow for control

One share equals one vote. The more shares you buy, the more you vote.

> The centralization of returns and control reinforce one another

With stocks you get the same returns and votes per share that anyone else does.
Mostly wrong IMO. NT is more like VMS rewritten + pieces of MS code integrated (or rewritten), certainly not a "portable OS/2". The OS/2 parts were confined in the subsystem and are now extinct. As for the IBM did not know how to do OSes opinion, that's both kind of a joke and meaningless: in gigantic organizations, there is not a single mind and single centralized knowledge about X or Y. It bowl down to smaller teams, or even sub-teams. And if there were, "IBM" has done plenty of OSes, and some of them have been in service and backward compat for way longer than anything MS did, ever.
> When they're so big that no competition can challenge them.

This is pretty vague though. It also raises questions about why we don't limit the political proclivities of other types of companies that also deal in political speech (cable news, broadcast news, talk radio, public radio).

I also disagree with the idea that access to Facebook and similar platforms is fundamentally important; it's well known by now that these systems are engineered to be addictive and that heavy use of social media is associated with poor mental health, if anything we should make ad based social media platforms illegal altogether.

> My personal opinion is that Facebook should be broken up

Why? I am not opposed to the idea but I just don't see how it would improve the situation at all.
How does the trackpad perform compared to Macbooks? That's one area where I haven't found a Macbook equivalent
Exactly. And I honestly don’t believe anyone even Nike would claim the shoes to be an bigger factor than the pacers.
The rare earths are expensive because they are rare or hard to extract.

Make them the same price as (say) water and they become very, very cheap. The same thing applies to gold, or uranium, or platinum.

What we require as an end product is something that the world requires millions of tons of but is still quite expensive today.

I nominate copper as our most profitable end-product.
It could be cool to preview the changes before the final apply. Maybe with a GET to show the deltas?