skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't know there was such a feature, but most "influencer" feature accounts don't do that, they download and repost the image, and write captions designed to push credits to the bottom, like:

C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s,

YOU OWN THE NIGHT!!! AWESOME PICTURE! [clap] [clap] [clap]

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photographer: @artist_username

And the problem? Instagram's ranking algorithm promotes these idiots instead of @artist_username, and nobody ever sees who @artist_username is because it collapses the comment to the first 2 lines. It's really like a "congratulations but f-you", and I wish they'd crack down on this.

Artists often don't even get reach beyond their followers at all -- the influencer feature accounts fill up peoples' discover pages. Artists continue to fall for the feature accounts, trying to get featured for exposure (that they don't actually get).

It would be much better if Instagram recognized good artist content and promoted it directly, avoiding this whole reposting nonsense. The easiest way would be

0. See how the artist content does in their own personal follower network

1. If it does well reaction/like-wise, increase the number of non-followers that see it that have similar hashtag interests

2. If it continues to do well, continue to broaden the set of people that see it.
Thank you for your comment, perhaps I was too harsh. Must be shell-shock from other commercial/open-source products.

onus is a formal word for responsibility or obligation. Until recently, the authors only had a responsibility to their paying customers. Open-sourcing the product instead of abandoning it is also a responsible choice.

How far must somebody take repressibility? Lifetime of unpaid updates seems a bit much.

Let's assume some good faith in those guys too!
Yes, I think so. I’ve been planning on writing a blog post.
“Wouldn't it be nice if you could lock in a customer to recurring purchases of just your brand? Enter subscriptions.“ Yes, reminds me of things like dollarshaveclub, Harry’s, quip.

The unexplored dimension in this space (particularly in hardware) is whether a migration to a subscription model can improve material re-use (aka reverse logistics, cradle-to-cradle, etc.). For example, I’m afraid of giving up my years old durable phone/laptop (now on their second batteries but working fine) and support right to repair, but may consider leasing such objects if there was transparency in knowing they would be effectively refurbished and/or recycled to a point where it actually made sense.

Fairphone has supposedly been exploring a hybrid of this space as of last year: https://www.fairphone.com/en/2018/01/08/from-ownership-to-se...
I am French, in love with my language which I find to be the most beautiful in the whole universe.

I wrote my PhD thesis entirely in English because this is THE language we communicate in internationally. Sure I world prefer it to be French but it is not.

People who do not see that are still fighting for everything to be in French, in French companies working internationally. The idea is that we are in France and French should not be forced to speak another language in their own country. Yet they choose to work in an international company.

I like the rational approach in Nordic countries who teach English early (we do as well) and do not believe that striking will miraculously make the whole world pamper us.
I confirm. I never used containers before, and when I tried, I discovered it wouldn't work with how I configured firefox, which is always ON private mode.
The New Zealand Poly Computer Preservation Project
I don’t think the industrial revolution was slower.
This rings so true to me! At school (high school, for you Americans -- I don't mean university), I was an "A" student without really trying. Unfortunately, this meant that I didn't learn to try.

Eventually (at a prestigious university) I found I could no longer "coast", and studying required real work. It wasn't easy to come to grips with that reality, and I wish I'd learned earlier.
Twice, other than that no. In most behavioral programming interviews I haven't been structured in my answers as being structured came a bit later when I was also applying for consultancies. I was a lot tougher to follow when I wasn't structured.

When I was structured I did use a variation the STAR method when they expected me to. Having a method like that makes things quicker to go through, as long as you make it your own and own it. I adapted the framework a bit by swapping the T (Task) for P (Problem) as it sense to me why you'd need to emphasize the task as opposed to the problem you'd be trying to solve. In rare cases I also adapted it to the SPARAR method, since the result made the problem smaller but didn't fully solve it yet.

I prefer to structure things on the fly though without a pre-defined framework.
Construction unions in NYC have certainly done this. We have a terrible subway because it costs about 10x/mile to build here compared to London or Paris. Unionized employees often make $300,000 or $400,000 a year for manual labor. Crane operator make $700,009 a year. It's completely insane.
Quebec is part of a BILINGUAL country, you dingus.
What's the point? Programming language rigmarole is well on its way to being automated. It's better to memorize algorithms. Make flashcards of Knuth, not stuff that IDEs autocomplete for you anyway.
You can also create and launch new profiles from a running instance of Firefox on the about:profiles page.
It seems that hospitals are overly focused on bullshit security frameworks and box-checking, i.e., HITRUST, which in my experience results in many dollars going to consultants with essentially zero tangible improvement in information security. Worse yet, the false sense of security within these hospitals due to having a HITRUST audit report with a bunch of meaninglessness check marks prevents them from actually doing the work of securing information properly. Have worked in health-tech for a number of years.
Basically every industry is like that. Leads to my comment that at a job you get paid in money, experience, and connections. People fret about being underpaid and don't consider how bad it is being chintzed on the others. Especially the last one.
> Most humans born today will experience the negative effects of climate change over the next 80 years, with between 10-30% of them dying due to events caused by it.

[citation desperately needed]
This is exactly my main gripe. The address bar lags and I can't help but feel like everything's slow after that initial interaction.
Boycotts prevent money transfer to a company (or other entity). Which can be successful, depending on market forces.

A divestment (almost universally) does not; it's just a transfer of ownership to people with a bigger priority on making money vs whatever moral objection you might have.

In the case of public stock, "cashing out" doesn't require the company to return the investment dollars to you. There is no money coming out of their pocket, only someone else purchasing your shares. (Except stock buybacks, which are voluntary, and in those instances, beneficial to the company.)

Done on a large scale, it artificially deflates the stock price of a company below it's true market value, enabling people who have less philosophical opposition to obtain stock that's essentially subsidized by the divesting parties. (There are a few very obscure exceptions, that might initially look like divestment kills a company, but it still ends up only being an ownership transfer, just to more powerful stakeholders.)

If anything, these orgs should be doing the opposite. Becoming more invested buys you more say in how a company is run. Encouraging divestment is like telling those "divestors" not to vote.

If your really hate something enough, you would buy (enough of) it in order to destroy (or at least change) it.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait to HN? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this, we'd be grateful. I'm sure you can make your substantive points thoughtfully if you want to.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Radiology has gotten somewhat better. They do might buy whatever they want, but the files tend to end up in a vendor neutral archive with proper access controls.
I know many people who are extremely productive doing CRUD apps using Django. I am not one of those people.

They claim it is very fast development once you get past some comfort level.
There is a bit of jump involved when it just clicks. I've tried a few times and it seems like slugging it out with a lot of magic.

While I write and like Python more than PHP, something like Laravel or Symfony seems more logical for CRUD than Django to me.
One of the most important skills to develop is the practice of breaking up chunks of work into smaller pieces (and completing them) so that progress can be made on what initially appears to be an insurmountable and abstract problem.
Given the state of cybersecurity right now, is there any organization or domain AT ALL which is strong and model-worthy when it comes to cybersecurity?
It seems the biggest reason they're a weak spot is that the data they store make them a target. Retailers are also weak on security -- really, I wouldn't trust any company that wasn't a specialist in the space, i.e. finance and tech -- but most entities don't know so much about their clientele. Retailers don't need to keep as much info as they do (aside from profit motives), but hospitals probably do, so I can see this being a vulnerability that's never closed.
> They change that often?

Typically not very much, but it -can- happen. I don't see the need to have stuff like that memorized when I can just check my wiki, or search online if that fails. Or I can even just look at one of my past codebases really quick with fuzzy searching or grep.

For any domain that I'm working in, it's typically unnecessary anyways. I do a lot of work in Rust right now so I have most things like that off the top of my head, etc.
Why not? The latest techempower results show ASP.NET Core saturating a 10GbE network card with 7M+ req/sec while being a full-featured framework, compared to custom C++ web servers. [1]

The memory management, type safety, and high-level productivity make it great for building load balancers and other infrastructure components.

1. https://www.ageofascent.com/2019/02/04/asp-net-core-saturati...
Buy a Raspberry Pi, build a bootable SD card, then teach yourself some system management basics (shell, init, filesystem, etc.)
> This is France, forgive the stereotype, but doesn’t she want fresh bread or other fresh food

Well, not everyone in France eats fresh bread everyday. The population is not as homogenous as you may think. Many French still buy fresh bread daily but not all of them. Some people stock piles of frozen food for weeks. Other people eat junk food daily...

I imagine that this person who only see the postman is unable to run errands on her own anymore. Most likely, she gets her food from her family or a social worker. For instance, my grandmother who is 90 years old don't leave her house in the winter (as the streets may be icy and dangerous for her, in the summer she still walk and buy what she needs). She sees various persons though, social workers, nurses, doctors, hair dresser, cleaning lady... (most of this paid by the government as she has a very low income, about 1200 euros a month).
I'm trying to become a more discerning / critical reader of news stories. Mind expanding on what makes this a "puff piece"?
Web based spreadsheets are one sweet spot. Generally simplest and most flexible are conflicting requirements.
Turbotax should make this pretty run of the mill as long as you get all the proper forms from the people who paid you :)

The software will walk you through what boxes contain what values and then you type them in. Then maybe you can get some expense write offs too for home office, gas, computer etc if you saved the receipts.

Other than that be prepared to watch 30-50% or more of your income walk out the door depending on your state and level of income. That's why consulting is a hard gig that forces you to raise your rates!
oops, quoted a bogus version -- I meant this one: https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Principle-Things-Always-Wrong/d...
How do they store their data? Why don't they use private clouds?

-Duple? https://www.duple.io/en/

-Nextcloud? https://nextcloud.com/
The examples that you've given are political (represent, push back, take blame, fight), except for the example of keeping records (which is management).

Managements role, technical leadership role and politician role are different roles. The required skill sets and experience are different. The outcome of grabbing a wrong role is usually poor. Not confusing politician, technical leader and manager roles is probably a good idea to improve outcomes. As checking for required experience, to take the role.
The Muse at Her Easel
I like the puzzle. Sadly (and honestly), I got stuck on the last answer.
> You always have control over your own actions

I mostly agree, but a safer statement would be “The only thing you can ever have any direct control over is your own actions”.

Sleepwalking, inebriation, low blood sugar, hypoxia — these can all lead to degradation or total loss of conscious control of one’s actions. For many people, there are many other triggers, and some of these triggers are even less physiologically driven than the above.

Knowing one’s own limitations is also important.
I have been thinking about this recently. That applies to physical products too: the highest quality products are usually not the ones with the best marketing.
What we need is a SEO-resistant search engine (for tutorials, products & services). Maybe a way to approach this would be to have the engine function more like an independent amazon-review engine where it's really hard to put fake reviews and have a "quality index" that's community based.
I think that the successor to google will look like this: a search engine that cuts through SEO and marketing, and shows you the actual good stuff.
Revving Up For Edge Computing
Crossing a federal border to enter a sovereign nation is nothing like jaywalking. Crimes have levels of seriousness, and non-citizens have more serious consequences from committing crimes including deportation.
You might be surprised how little cadmium telluride is required. With a 2.5 micron CdTe cell thickness [1] and 17.6% beginning-of-life module efficiency, 25 years operation with linear power degradation [2], that's a lifetime average module efficiency of 16.45%. If it's illuminated to achieve 20% capacity factor -- which is realistic for utility scale solar projects [3] -- a square meter of panel generates 7205 kWh over its lifetime. A square meter of panel contains 16 grams of CdTe. That's 3150 kWh of electricity generated per 7 grams of cadmium telluride over the module's lifetime.

If a 7 gram uranium fuel pellet releases as much thermal energy over its lifetime as a tonne of coal [4], that's 8141 kWh. Assuming a thermal efficiency of 33% for conversion to electricity [5], that's 2687 kWh of electricity from one 7 gram fuel pellet.

A breeder reactor could extract many times as much energy from one fuel pellet's worth of uranium, but the world currently operates hundreds of power reactors and only one breeder power reactor, the Russian BN-800.

[1] Table 1 in https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timothy_Gessert/publica...

[2] http://www.firstsolar.com/-/media/First-Solar/Technical-Docu...

[3] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

[4] https://www.energycentral.com/c/ec/nuclear-fission-can-help-...

[5] http://holbert.faculty.asu.edu/eee463/NuclearPowerPlants.pdf
Eloquent JS is a decent starting point. W3 schools is even better.

But nothing will ever beat opening up notepad++ and making a one file html/css/js website of your own and having to research how to implement every idea in your head!
I just discovered today's discussion here on HN about building a CRUD app with Datomic Cloud Ions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21490305
It’s interesting to take this view and apply it to personal identity. A self seems to be a low fidelity model of one’s autonomous system.

It seems necessary to include a model of self to reach the kind of predictive ability necessary to learn from few examples.
Similarly brought up in a religious environment. I struggled with all these paradoxes as a kid. The hardest one for me was this idea that being 'good' and 'Christian' meant I wouldn't go to hell - and yet this was meant to be an unselfish behaviour.

As I got older, my questions would have the usual retorts - that things are more complicated than my simplistic questions. Maybe if I studied it I would eventually understand. Also complicated rules and reasons to explain why we believed in some bits of the bible and not others.

It equated to a form of double-think, and I see it in my intelligent colleagues who are religious. They have distorted their understanding and reasoning so much to accommodate a belief in the ethical values of their religion.

I enjoy arguing about why homosexuality is wrong with a someone religious. The rational/ethical arguments given by someone religious are so weak that they eventually need to refer to the bible. It gets to the point where the final argument is 'my religion says it's wrong, that is my belief - I just believe it'. You would have thought that would prompt questions about how rational their belief is...
I didn’t read everything, but this jumped out at me:

> What led to the first concussion? I’d decided to repay an opponent who had, during a battle for a loose puck, shoved me into the boards head first. I’d been having neck issues, and this had made them instantly worse.

Imhad a concussion last year. Turned out to have caused a bunch if neck issues that led to post concussion symptoms for many months till I found physio focussing on neck/eye treatment post concussion.

I also think my neck issues pre concussion made me predisposed to it, as the neck braces to help protect the brain in a blow. In the years before the concussion, tiny bumps would often leave me feeling discombobulated. Post therapy, I find tiny bumps are fine.

If anyone has had long lasting concussion symptoms, I highly recommend vestibular physio. Here’s what I wrote about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Concussion/comments/d8e4zz/symptoms...
It's frustrating how light the article is on data while being so full of anecdotes.
Somewhat of a tangent: With the much longer half-lifes of heavier elements, given their decay is longer than human history, would it be the best long term solution to put them in a literal vault made of precious metals like gold or titanium? Burying them in the ground isn't working especially since the early sites were largely just cement or housed in wood supported tunnels and those are already a huge problem we can't deal with.
I picked tokudb before myrocks existed.

Tokudb runs rings around myrocks. Particularly, it has better read/write perf and much better compression.

But it will disappear by MySQL 9. Tokudb died because it wasn’t widely adopted nor sponsored, not because it was worse tech.

I think the recent timescaledb stuff about compression is really promising. I hope Postgres moves towards built-in compression rather than telling people the fs should do it.
The research of Krashen, Mason and other L2 acquisition linguists on extensive reading for language learners directly contradicts this claim. Regular, sustained reading is considerably more effective for acquiring a language than flashcard-based methods.

I am not disputing reading in the language learning context as a tool for learning, especially when combined with SRS. Doesn't really apply to me since there is no widespread written component for ASL.

By reading, I meant people rereading their old notes instead of actively challenging themselves. That is, no attempt at retrieval-practice that is the basis for spaced repetition. Research said that study method is often regarded as effort in vain.

But that apply to contexts such as studying biology. Reading in a foreign language is a different context in that you are also learning new materials and practicing retrieval at the same time.

Anki is great and I'm a contributor! But it's more of an ancillary tool. SRS shines when it comes to memorizing decontextualized, atomic information (e.g. countries and capitals, the periodic table of elements or writing Japanese kanji), but not for learning a language in general.

I don't see how it's impossible to use anki for contextualized learning. It's the whole point of sentence mining. Rather, with no context, it's essentially useless since I wouldn't know how to use it in context.

Periodic table is a great example for this. When I don't know the answer to questions anki posed, I used related information to retrieve what I need to know.

In my case, I have no reading materials to sentence mine, so I just mine ASL videos.
BTC miners occur more than F@H these days, but they happen plenty.
I like the idea of not concentrating yet more power with Google, but, on OpenBSD, I use Iridium (Chrome derivative), so I see these benefits, and am wondering what Firefox would add for me, privacy- and security-wise:

1) Iridium doesn't send info to Google like Chrome does (or that is the idea);

2) It is easier (last I checked) than with Firefox to leave some config tabs open so I can quickly turn on/off javascript, images, and/or cookies for those sites where I need them (by exception list or temporary exception, and easy to manage it without a mouse once the tab is open; separately, I do change the search engine also, and create search keywords), and

3) OpenBSD adds pledge/unveil system calls from the browser, to prevent it from reading/writing files where it should not (plus I browse under a different user than I do other things with high confidence there will not be a privilege escalation; also they say the pledge/unveil support is easier to implement in Chrome/Iridium than in Firefox because of the cleaner separations of concerns in the code organization (my wording; though they have probably also put pledge/unveil in FF also for all I know),

4) Maybe the security of Chrome/Iridium benefits from Google's bug bounties, more than what Firefox has done (ie, the security track record of each, frequency of major holes over, say, the last 1-3 years). I don't really know but I'm glad they try.

Given those things, what are the remaining biggest reasons I might prefer Firefox? (I am aware of OBSD removing DNS-over-HTTP from Firefox, indicating that is a choice that should be made by the user at the system level instead).
When the Best Deal Is What You Give Away
Exactly. Look at Human Brain Project: $1B and 10 years later what exactly have they achieved? Just like you said - disagreements about approach, politics, or eventual competitive interests did bring things to a halt for a long time
You're underestimating the cost issue. Obviously if it was literally 0% extra cost they would have a value benefit. The problem is making a great and cheap and profitable electric vehicle.
It always felt embarrassing to me how incomplete (and still in draft status) the CSS for paged media is...

I would be so happy if this polyfill takes off!