skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You do realize there's other high paying industries besides software engineering, right?

Not trying to be snarky, as I'm generally ignorant about most career paths, but wharvelse is there paying well. Off the top of my head I cam think of finance, doctors, and, in some cases law, butnis there anything outside of that. I know that in many industries you can end up doing pretty well, but only once you've reached the very top. Whereas the aforementioned professions can pay well from that start .
Silly question but on facebook/twitter, most of the fake news I'm getting isn't from ads but from random people I've added over the years that are sharing a bunch of crap. The fact that they'd be paying to access that social network wouldn't change what they're sharing on it.. or would it?
Because I put in the time to make the sub what it is. Weed out the bad actors, update the theme, etc etc. I donate my work for the better of community. Who watches the watchmen? If not me then someone else could do it sure.
The C64 Programmer's Reference Guide was available at many bookstores; is the GPU of the Raspberry Pi documented?
Yes, literally years of practice that Laurent is completely missing out on. Even with all those years of practice, lots of people come out of school unable to socialize properly.
I tried this with my algo class in college, but my prof also just cared about research and made the entire class a focus of obtuse proofs (still kind of interesting) and not vaguely applicable stuff for interviews etc.

In retrospect I probably should’ve eaten $2k and dropped for a better prof. Then again $160 on leetcode has given me more algo knowledge than my $160k degree lol.
Ouch. Think he's missing the mark quite severely there.

Merit or not, the whole "if it's free you're the product" thinking hasn't really sunk in with people outside of heavy tech.

So while this might make sense to you and me, I can see 13USD being a tough sell for the average user. Which is a deathblow to something that inherently requires critical momentum.
Facebook is "free," this is $100/year. Even if Facebook weren't already the giant it is, that fact alone would determine the outcome in the social space.
Google manipulates search results to hide controversial subjects and favor big b
Target doesn't have nearly the same amount of products as Amazon, even if you don't count the junk on Amazon.
Education is such a winner take all system that people get really crazy about it. Desegregation busing was a huge issue in the 70s, Harvard is getting sued by students and parents for not letting them in. It's an emotional thing.
I used PDF.js in a side project for comparing pdfs and it worked quite well. It runs completely client side, so I can build the site with a static site generator and html: https://www.parepdf.com/

It can start to bog down with large image heavy pdfs. But overall it runs performantly.
One thing I’ve noticed is that as more things “advance”, there’s more that you’re supposed to already know - and an expectation (especially among people who themselves don’t really understand it) that it should somehow take _less_ time to get up to speed than it took in the past. Take machine learning, for example. You can work through a tensor flow tutorial in a day and understand how to use tensor flow to solve the problem in the tutorial or another problem close to it. If you actually want to understand how machine learning works - when it does or doesn’t apply, how to make it efficient enough to be usable, how to figure out where it went wrong when it does go wrong - you need to actually understand the statistics that’s behind it and the calculus that’s behind _that_. And that can take months or years, just to learn what you’re already “supposed” to know. I’m picking on machine learning, but I see this everywhere: I work with people who struggle to get Hibernate working because they don’t understand SQL joins, and they don’t have the time to go back and pick up “the basics” or people who can’t get Angular to work right because they don’t understand Javascript closures. As technology is made “simpler” it actually takes _longer_ to master while everybody on the outside looking in expects it to be easier to learn than before.
Pretty sure the IPMI software is crap no matter the brand. I know the SuperMicro one requires a very old Java version fat client to interact with it, and is very flaky.
Amazon isn't close to being cheapest. Now, many of the things I shop for are twice the price of other internet businesses. Some of those businesses charge for shipping, but they are still cheaper than Amazon.

Amazon has really lost their way this year. I won't be buying a single thing for Xmas from them.
>Or older vehicles.

Even that is problematic. Insurance, congestion charge etc
Why wouldn't you go to a open alternative like Mastodon instead to yet another silo?
> I would prefer a decentralized social network based on boxes you plug into your router with content shared in a way that fellow users bear the weight of shared content like torrents.

This is something that the SoLiD (Social Linked Data) initiative, based on web and linked-data standards, is expressly built to support; your "box" would implement what the initiative calls a Personal Online Datastore, or POD. Though "federated" third-party hosting of such datastores is also allowed for, of course.
He also less quietly launched a Social Media strike only 4 months ago, which now has a whole new perspective given this.

My thoughts at the time, which I said "EDIT ADD Had a quick look for `related` interests and see that he is CIO of Everipedia, which is decentralizing encyclopedia writing from an article in March: https://www.wired.com/story/larry-sanger-declaration-of-digi.... But I'd not cry foul even if they did produce their own decentralised social media platform; Kinda hope they do actually. Competition does have its upsides."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20318590
I'm in the same boat (but not quite as much money). I'm preparing to ask for a raise by demonstrating how my specific knowledge helps the company perform more efficiently, and how it is less costly to give me a raise than it would be to replace me.
> But I never thought I’d miss properly run meetings as much as I did when they were removed completely from our communication toolbox. Use the right tool for the right job and enforce good meeting discipline.

I completely agree. A meeting can be extremely valuable when you have clear goals, an agenda, and clear reasons why every participant is needed/needs to be there.

One tendency I see and hate is when someone calls a 1 hour meeting, finishes the (usually underbaked) agenda in half an hour, but now they feel the need to pad the remaining half hour with whatever they can dredge up. Instantly turns the meeting from "a good use of half an hour" to "a bad use of one hour".
I was recommended if I wanted corrective surgery to do PRK over LASIK and the recovery period is honestly what worries me the most. I'm pretty sure my eyes are tuned so well to displays that even contacts give me eye strain when working on stuff. Having that recovery period would be detrimental to me
Myriscope for scanning (bio|a)rxiv articles
> 1. Disengaged with the platform 2. Concerned about how much it knows about our lives

Disengagement is an effect, not a cause, but I'd argue that the primary cause of disengagement is that the balance of dopamine increasing "happy" social networking experiences vs neutral or anger inducing negative experiences on social networks has shifted to the neutral/negative.

Even on the "happy" side, there's only so many recycled life-affirming aphorisms, or happy photos from other peoples' lives you can see in your newsfeed before you start to tune them out. On the negative side, produced content on social networks has turned toward the increasingly attention-grabbing, and occasionally even psychologically injurious. So if the happy stuff isn't making you so happy anymore, and you tire of the negative stuff, what do you do? Disengage.
I have a feeling these points are not lost on the author. Having to own up to the self-serving aspects of your plan does add a little friction that might slow your roll a bit.

There are things you say and things you think. And there are ways of saying things so that you steer people away from their worst (from your perspective) behaviors without calling them out (just saying a thing sometimes gives people ideas, or clues them into your agenda).

And there are always more symbiotic ways to be self-serving, if being self-less is outside of your wheelhouse.
Is being exposed to fake news hurting you, or is being tracked?
ya goal???
According to Pew research, Facebook usage in the US has been flat since 2016, neither gaining nor losing overall.

However, the age breakdown of those users has changed a lot. Facebook has absolutely hemorrhaged users younger than about 45. The majority of American FB users are in the 46-76 year old range now, with 68% of US FB users aged 50 or older.

In the US, anyway, Facebook is for old farts and businesses.
Column: It’s called Earnin. I have no idea how the company ever turns a profit
Eh, embedded, robotics, mechatronics and the things we do with it are way bigger than the nascent computing industry ever was. More people "have" to play with that stuff than ever had to earlier. And we have better tools and it's more fun.
The default payment schedule on student loans is 10 years.

Is her's adjusted to 20 years?
It appears the "changelog" of all posts, comments, articles, and edits is public right now...

https://wt.social/recentchanges

Mostly nothing interesting, people testing the system out. The whole site feels like a post-dotcom-boom experience... a slightly styled Craigslist.
Why My Friend Became a Grocery Store on Instagram
I've had a hunch lately that someone would try to create a paid social network, but I never thought the idea would work for the reasons that social media became so popular to begin with.

Facebook is popular because it is free, it is easy, it is convenient. Old people, kids, a large proportion of the population has no understanding of how they get all this for free. And most of them don't care. They interact with ads just like it's any other content in their feed. They are happy they get something with so many features without having to pay for it.

Social networks that advertise privacy or no ads have limited appeal because the only group that really cares about this is (maybe) teenagers, and younger adults who are in touch with privacy politics.
What was your M.Sc in ?

Many people consider child prodigies to be incredibly talented and thus expect great breakthroughs in research from them, e.g. Terrance Tao, but do you feel that talent alone is enough?
This is relevant to the argument that Paypal is not merely responding to financial risks, but using its platform to impose its worldview. Guns are highly regulated in the US. Someone violating those regulations in the context on an online business is usually guilty of a felony, and has a high probability of being prosecuted. To my knowledge, guns don't have a high rate of chargebacks, as they involve a papertrail with an in-person pickup requiring government-issued ID and a background check.
>Until you have a listing for your headphones that comes with 5,000 pre-made positive reviews!

Fk. That's possible? How has Amazon not done anything about that?

Like I can get keeping fake stuff out is a losing battle, but that seems like a rather significant design flaw if you can "transfer" reviews like that.
Micro-Optimizing KVM VM-Exits
It’s the best presentation for this style of content that I’ve ever seen. Having a description of what’s going on with a particular code block, plus highlighting the relevant parts, and moving that highlight or swapping out specific parts of it as I go through the content made it much faster for me to grasp what was important and what changed between blocks than would have been the case if the author used traditional static sections of code. This isn’t documentation, it’s a follow-along tutorial, and for that purpose this presentation style is 100% appropriate.
Take a US currency note out of your pocket.

Read just below the Federal Reserve System seal:

"This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private."

Until they take that off the notes, I'll continue paying in cash, thank you very much.
This is not for the people who are complaining about the high price. Did anyone question what price we paid for free product like fb/insta ? Clearly this product is in infancy and trying to attract early adopters. In future price may come down and ui/ux will get better but it’s clearly not for everyone looking to escape into social media as entertainment.
More people work remotely than take public transit to work
If you receive a counterfeit item sold by Amazon, make sure to report it to the company whose product was counterfeited.

When I went to return a counterfeit item to Amazon, I made it very clear that the item I received was fake. Amazon decided claim that the reason for the return was because it was damaged, not counterfeited. That's pretty shady in my book.

There's liability for selling counterfeited goods, especially if your customers tell you that the products you stock are counterfeited and you continue to sell them anyway.
... the point being, for nuclear-powered merchant traffic, that that does congregate near shipping lanes. Increasing consequent risk.
There is no inherent value to complexity.
I would have been glad to live in a boarding house earlier in my career.
Really not impressed with their UI design. Looks like it was designed by programmers.
You can learn many of the most important sorts of things that a 13 year old would want to learn by being into video games. Computers, math, history, how to tell a good story, how to organize a group of people to accomplish a common goal.

Of course, you can't let 13 year olds teach themselves, because they don't know what's out there and they don't know the best way to spend their time. But that's not the same as not allowing them to do things that they're interested in. Incidentally, I don't think that we shouldn't have any sort of required education, just that they should be a small part of the whole educational experience.
So what's the alternative? Kmowing the right people? That seems 100x harder than than getting qualifications sometimes.
I don’t understand why Google’s competitors don’t form an independent search engine. If I were Microsoft, I’d talk to Apple and others to see if they would help fund a spun off Bing.

The internet badly needs a big alternative search engine that isn’t beholden to advertisers or dependent on a single corporate owner.

The benefit of such a search engine (whose main incentive is to just be a good search engine) is obvious for the public, but would also give companies who rely on their own OS leverage against Google.
One thing is "well, your experiment broke our <detailed information of setup>, is there some instructions on how to disable it?" So, well, showing humbleness since this is a software that you're using for free.

The other thing is the way that was described by the article: "I am a sysadmin from a multi zillion enterprise, your idiotic experiment broke our setup. Disable this ASAP and never do something similar ever again".
Who are my friends then? You've got access to my profile, if this is a social network you should be able to find out who my friends are, right?

This website contains no meaningful information about my relationships with other people. And more to the point, the way I use this site is not abnormal; people who leave lots of information about their social relationships on HN seem to be in a minority. You might claim that comments such as these, between you and I, are social interactions. I would counter by saying these are not meaningful social interactions. Don't take this personally but I don't know you and I don't plan on ever knowing you.
Ha, I wonder if everyone was talking about how Terence Tao would be irredeemably damaged psychologically for finishing college at 16. Well, it certainly looks like he's doing well.

I wish this kid the best.
> when you are qualified

Ah, but you’re confused about what “qualified” means. In addition to having the educational background and the experience, you have to be qualified to work for a third or a fourth the pay you want, be available 24/7 (and physically in the office from 7 AM to 8 PM), and never complain. Fortunately for employers, they’re recruiting from all over the world, and there’s always somebody desperate enough to be more “qualified” than you.
It's a nice idea but my social life doesn't revolve around news, it revolves around things I like to do and my friends and family, so this doesn't interest me.

I also think social + news will just lead to you getting stuck in a bubble of news content your social group agrees with.
> The built-in ability to pattern match on data nested
> deeply within the application state (or the XML document)
> is radically powerful. Haskell, for example, has nothing
> like this.

Now I'm puzzled because I know that you know about lenses,
so you must mean something different by "pattern match on
data nested deeply" and I'm wondering what. Could you
expand?
Mouser / digikey generally have inflated prices, and shipping on top of the order. I only go there for specific components, for day-to-day components Amazon is just fine.
This is the worst attempt I've ever seen at building a social network.
3 out of 4 of the major social networks were started by 20-22yos,
4 out of 4 were initially for teens only,
3 out of 3 in the last 10 years were mobile-only, ios-only

I could go on forever but the point is it doesn't even get the basics right. If you're interested in how one builds a successful social network check Nikita's tweets (sold TBH to Facebook 2 years ago for $100M) https://twitter.com/nikitabier
Then check out https://joinmastodon.org/ you can either host it yourself or join someone else's server where you can either pay/donate or just use it for free.
Isn't this article promoting exactly what you say, "frankness from your bosses"?

"Meaningful context is built through hot messages: high-resolution information where nothing is left unsaid, the meaning is clear and the guesswork is reduced to a minimum."
> By your (imo, extremist) line of reasoning, wouldn't the
existence of `unsafePerformIO` mean Haskell itself "looses
its ability to reason reliably about operations over time"?
By your (imo, extremist) line of reasoning, wouldn't the
existence of `unsafePerformIO` mean Haskell itself "looses
its ability to reason reliably about operations over time"?

Well no, because for some reason, be it social or technical,
people simply don't use unsafePerformIO in way that is
actually unsafe.
It’s a legitimate comment. You should be able to browse and view readable text without js enabled, whether or not the contents of that text discuss JavaScript.
Most people that attend IMO are prodigies but generally, sociable. I met many of them and they just love math.
How did it affect you romantically?
That's messed up. I never carry any cash and I wouldn't carry more than $50 if I did. And all that for an expired license.

For a lot of people, that could mean losing a job and all kinds of other consequences.
Samsung, LG, Motorola Phones Hacked: New Qualcomm Security ‘Hole’ Users at Risk
Given how much sugar the many people take in, it can really effect one's eyesight as metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes escalates. Overweight people and diabetics without strict controls should generally not consider something like LASIK.

Disclaimer, I'm a fat guy and t2d, this is practical not meant to be offensive.
I really hope this can work, however the only recent "honor system" I can recall that was tried recently failed.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40582757/why-paneras-experiment-...

Although this is a completely different business so I wish them luck and hope they can succeed.
I actually think the hair dryer comparison is fairly apt, but not in the way you describe.

Everyone wants their hair dryer to be decent, last a good while, and not cost an arm and a leg. You also really don't want one that will start a fire, sound louder than a jet engine, take forever to heat up, etc. When you have a lousy one it's miserable. So you want there to be a quality baseline and then know what's reasonable past that baseline.

It's pretty much the same as an ultrasonic cleaner. It's not rocket science, but you don't want one where the ultrasonic elements vibrate themselves off, the electronics go bad in a couple months, it leaks cleaning solution somehow, etc. Just like with hair dryers being no-name is fine, but being below a certain quality threshold is extremely miserable.
Ideally no more complicated than setting up their phone and adding personal info/pictures. With an app store that defaults to installing only from official channels but with the ability to add channels more so like linux repos than the google play store.
Can't verify it 100% but the boy in the video looks similar to Bill's boyhood photos: https://images.app.goo.gl/WT6GygVPiTiKgkuY7

However, Clinton was born in 1946, and this video is from 1955, so he would have been 9. The boy in the video looks older than 9 to me.
I seem to remember that von Neumann was also responsible for what later came to be known as "Mutually Assured Destruction", the idea through game theory that ensuring that both nations would be prevented from acting preemptively because the results would carry too great a cost.
Ford Mustang Mach-E photos, price leak
Devil's advocate: What about the developmental and psychological damage inflicted by some (Not all) school environments?

I skipped a couple of grades, and started university at 16. By far the worst time that I had, in my psychological development, was in middle school, when I was among same-age peers. Children can be incredibly cruel to eachother.
Running a server from one's home violates the terms of service of many ISPs, unless you upgrade to their significantly more expensive business plan.
Just want to say this is great, you are already ahead of the many. Keep this going even after college. Studying never stops even after you get job.
If You're Going to Lie to Job Applicants You Should at Least Do It Well
Hmm. The reason doesn't look immediately obvious to me. What does your switching from Vanced to the official yt app have to do with someone's account getting suspended? Care to expand on it?
Dropping support is about as user-hostile as it gets.

Once again, how can you ask/require users to expend precious limited energy to re-program just to stay in place? It's totally obnoxious and completely unnecessary.
It's not so much the cost, as the amount of experience a given doctor has. You may be surprised to find that some of the cheaper options are safer because of the increased experience. Skill is an entirely different factor to consider, again not associated with pricing.
Not exactly large sample sizes. What social networks are ios only?
A good question, though I will point out that either way benchmarking would still be useful.
Galois is a very interesting historical prodigy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois

Discovered group theory and died in a duel at 20. His work is very important to modern cryptography.
Why SF Tech Companies Don't Hire SF Students
I am a bit glad to see this come from WaPo and not NYT given the implication of ownership....
I have an Epson multi-function ink jet which sits for months at a time unused, and because of the cartridge design (I think the print head is part of the cartridge itself?), it prints just fine regardless.

The MFDs are cheap, the carts are expensive, but it fits your usage requirements (which were similar to mine, at the time).
I'm no Beijing supporter. I would hope that anyone, regardless of what they think about any country or place, respects that news should contain the truth and not open themselves up to manipulation regardless of which side it favors.