skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, README.md for most everything I can. Searching for info in the repo is also more productive than the search nightmare in jira/confluence.
You're right, I flagellate myself at the God (her/she) of militant feminists. Please don't torpedo my career or sue me for hate speech
The real problem is that companies seem to think that users hate toggles. It's extremely hard for me to understand how valid this might be since I have techy people around me most often, but even when I don't, I've never heard someone complain about excess toggles. Ever. Is this a thing people do? I hear orders of magnitude more complaints about lack of toggles.
Just a couple of months ago I called Apple to get my 2012 MacBook Air repaired. Apple wouldn't touch it because of its age, but gave me a list of independent repair shops in my area that would fix it.

If Apple blocks people from getting independent repairs, when why are there Apple authorized repair third-party repair shops?
Why was this flagged? This is exactly what it is.
There are ways to reverse engineer neural nets to try and understand the reasoning but AFAIK none of them are very good.

For example, I went to a SAS/STAT course a few years ago and one of the exercises was to train a simple neural network and then use it as input to generate a decision tree, that would (with pretty good accuracy, around 95% or so) explain the choices made by the neural network. I think the given scenario was that the neural network was used to decide who to send marketing emails to, and the head of marketing wanted to know why it was choosing certain customers.

The problem with this was that it didn't offer insight into why decisions were made, it could only show what variable was being branched on at a given point in the tree. Also while it worked with this simple example, more complex NNs generated huge decision trees that were not usefull in practice.
Why are non-profit organizations rushing to messaging?
In California you have Prop 13 causing people to stay put. If you bought a house anywhere close to the coast more than 6 years ago you’ve likely seen 50-100% in value increase. Therefore if you move you’d pay that same increase proportionally in property tax.

In addition you have 6% Realtors fees to sell plus staging and being out of the house for open houses etc. the math just doesn’t add up.
It's clearly a product manager. Let's find out what's their name.
Google is blatantly lying about the quality of Stadia’s games
I find that I am like most people in these threads and find it difficult to not provide advice on how to solve unsolved problems in other people's lives.

That being said, when more "socially normal" people are the recipients of other people's venting, I don't imagine that they are able to ignore it because they are psychopaths. In fact, I imagine many of them aren't actually ignoring it. I imagine that many of them feel sympathy, some maybe even empathy, but they understand what we don't, namely that unsolicited advice makes it worse. More "socially normal" people understand how to commiserate without providing unsolicited advice, and they understand that such commiseration is helpful.

Like I've told my wife multiple times, if I'm venting, I want solutions. If someone isn't able to give me advice, they're not helpful. But I've realized that more "socially normal" people aren't like this. They often don't care about the solution, they just want to be heard and understood. I don't get it, it boggles my mind to no end. But I've come to accept that it's true (though I often forget). My wife doesn't care for my solutions if she doesn't ask for them. She'll figure it out herself. She just needs emotional support.

Again, emotional support is useless to me. It's idiotic. I need solutions, not emotional support. But other people want the opposite.

Now, how to provide that emotional support... without being flippant, condescending, insincere, etc... is yet another conundrum... partly due to my foundational believe that emotional support by itself is useless. How can I be sincere about something I don't believe to be effective?

Anyway, my point is... I don't think others are psychopaths... they're just more emotionally intelligent as to what other people are actually hoping to get when in need.
Before Xbox: The Story of the First Microsoft Games Console
So you took a negative result (deadlock) and solved it in a mutually beneficial way (break deadlock + in-group reinforcement). That's awesome.
What can I say but... THANK YOU!

I definitely don't remember ever seeing or changing that setting, but it is 1000 times better with it off. Guess it's worth looking through an app's settings every once in a while, no matter how long you've been using it, just to see if there's anything new (or maybe forgotten) that would improve things for you.
I really wouldn’t mind the new UI, if it weren’t this goddamn slow (it’s at the point of unusable right now). My choice of using the old UI isn’t even a choice at this point.
Same old story.

Developer focused tool becomes mainstream.

Suites come in to maximize profit, engagement, in-app usages.

Early adopters leave looking for new developer focused tool.

Can't wait until slack gets snapchatitized features so I can put a cool filter and sticker on the code block messages in #devs
click bait for author’s software
Do you have a citation for this? That’s a remarkable statistic, but I want a source before I go telling people.
Oh god I didn't even realize, one second I'll try to edit this.
While I've been happily using Slack's pseudo-markdown for a long time, a lot of the less technical users on our slack have never posted messages with any formatting, which makes things like copy-pasted error stacktraces a pain to read.

Yay if we get more formatted messages on slack, and not just from technical users that have learned markdown.

Nay if I have to struggle to get my messages to format the way I actually want them to format. Having the new WYSIWYG editor show me the wrong formatting while editing doesn't make the new experience any less painful.

Slack formatting UX is now different from GitHub. Having to deal with Confluence/Jira formatting was already terrible enough - I now have to figure out how to type the same things three different ways.
That response doesn't make sense (normal people can risk lives but billionaires can't?). What does make sense is the fact that daily driving produces lots of economic value in the short term which manned space travel doesn't. So it's worth killing some drivers but not worth killing some astronauts. But that's still not obviously the right conclusion. Space travel has the potential for much greater value further in the future - most long term being survival of the species!
The claim that text is selectable in PDFs is often dubious.
Interesting, sounds (without more detail) like uuid datatype / uuid-ossp (which is available on rds)?
Can’t you just read about others stories like this and put yourself in their shoes, I guess it’s enough.

There is suffering on an immense scale daily.

* Warning - Following is Graphic not for sensitive people *

For example I read from the comfort of my bed last night that a beekeeper just lost practically everything in Australia and when fires ripped through his property, to add insult to injury, when he went into the Forrest, all he could hear was a choir of moaning, wounded or dying animals. Koalas, kangaroos etc.

One can easily be grateful this day they didn’t experience something this catastrophic and that you’re not one of those animals. You can also realise one day you might be, so while your ok, make the most of it.

Link to the story, again it’s not for the sensitive: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-20/beekeepers-traumatise...
Ever been to Connecticut? I-84 is still constantly in rough condition, even as property and income taxes climb.
This reminds me of Brian Balfour's "Four Fits" model which is the bedrock for how I think about companies.

You need four things: (1) a market, i.e. a set of customers with a valuable problem; (2) a product that actually solves that problem well; (3) a channel through which you can reach these customers; and (4) a business model to sustain the above efforts.

A good business idea attempts to account for all of these, and usually starts by looking at the customers and their problems and working backwards. But most new founders confuse "business idea" with "product idea." They focus entirely on the product, which is only one part of a business. And then after they've finished building, they go out in search of customers with problems, trying to fit their square peg in to round holes. I strongly recommend against that path.
The thing with floating to the top is that it doesn't have to be an either/or proposal. Bring a copy of the channel to the top but also leave it in the list.
Then bury them so deep they will never see it. There's already a Preferences // Advanced tab. Do whatever you need to appease the wide population. It appears only in desktop app or browser even though it's under advanced? Deal! I will still be happy. Is it a CLI option? Fine. I have been using Unix-ish command lines since 1993. I can deal with an option or two. Yeah that wouldn't work on mobile but the primary audience here is not mobile -- and I could see that toggle saved and applied across platforms as well. Make it a slash command. If need to be, I will hexedit the living shit out of your Electron app, I have first written assembly code in 1987 and while it's been a very, very long time since I've done so, I am on good terms with hex editors still. Whatever. Just give us the options, 'mkay?
I feel like they grossly underestimated how many users regularly use back ticks in their Slack messages – the rest of the formatting stuff seems to work fine, but the back tick handling is just horrible.
Completed the JP Morgan program, really enjoyed it! Definitely recommend for anyone looking for experience and a leg up in the market. The contents were straight forward, maybe a little easy but still help you learn.
Indeed, advance needs to be measured in the integer units of the font, if you want stable line breaks.
Solo.io’s Autopilot: A Framework for Automating Service Mesh Operations
yeah, we realised this too late :S

Riot's CIDER is pretty much an internal codename though, and it's not split out (yet) for anyone else to use. So hopefully it's not too bad a namespace clash.
Except the Great Pyramid wasn't built by slaves (1)

1: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-...
In order to challenge the decision to revoke his developer account in court, he would have to show that Apple has a legal obligation to provide and maintain such accounts. I suspect that Apple has no such obligation, and therefore a fear of lawsuits would not be a reason for them to conceal the reason for his account revocation.
I was going to say it might depend whether the angle is measured along the middle of a face or along an edge, but with a face angle of 51.5 degrees I calculate an edge angle of 41.6 degrees.

That's assuming I still know how to trig, and it's entirely possible I don't.
So there is no way to off and switch back to markdown?

Extremely dumb way to roll out something without an option to disable it, especially with the excuse "we are listening to your feedback". They literally are not listening to it.
As a current slack user, could you give a couple examples?
This is true of practically all formats.
Electric Motorcycles from the Milan Motorcycle Show (Eicma)
How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace
Why not just archive.org or CTRL-S?
The problem is that text selection relies on the PDF generation to be done in some kind of sensible fashion. There are so many ways to generate PDFs, and in some of them, the actual text is mangled or its order is mangled before it gets to the PDF generation step itself.

But in general, if you generate the PDF with an authoring tool like LaTeX or InDesign, or if you print to PDF from a webpage or document, it's going to be selectable in a sensible way.
Not sure about other apps, but the paid reader I use (1) includes an OCR function that adds a text layer to the document. Seems to work pretty well.
(1) https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor
Yeah, now that nearly everything prints or saves to pdf format, I have little use for a direct editor. Just make sure my PDF's always open and always look the same.

What I would like, is to make PDF's easy to markup with highlighting, circles, comments etc. Currently, even in Acrobat, it's not very intuitive.
Can't you get insurance for break ins?
Quizlet is great if you're looking for pre-built decks, as you mentioned. As far as I'm aware, there's no spaced repetition feature, which is the main value in Anki.

Also, one of the values to me in using Anki is creating the cards myself. It allows me to mull things over and decide what part of a fact is important, and how I'd like to recall it.

Relatedly, the value isn't necessarily in reading someone else's study guide before a test, it's in creating your own study guide. That process helps you understand and retain the material far better.
But this person is one of the success stories. It was difficult for me to feel sympathy. I didn’t get the point of this piece.

Fine. Ok. I read the whole thing. This person should have gotten a ‘lucrative job’...so he can become comfortably well off, lose the baggage and then should have gone the entrepreneurial route. Too early to become an entrepreneur. He isn’t ready for it.

ETA: this article is from 2016. I looked him up now https://rickyyean.com/2019/11/01/single-serving-friends/ :

[..] Whenever people talk about the loneliness epidemic, I can’t help but nod my head in agreement. For people who know me, that may seem odd because I’m constantly surrounded by friends and loved ones. But loneliness is felt in the soul rather than in physical space. I guess that’s why there’s the idea of soulmates. In fact, sometimes I feel even more lonely when I have friends but no one I feel like I can really talk to.

I’ve been exploring ways to build safe spaces online where we can be vulnerable when a friend shared this:

I’ve been looking for someone else to be vulnerable to because it’s not been helping my relationship with my girlfriend. The problem is that people form an impression of you with every interaction. If you have a lot of these vulnerable, messy, incoherent interactions, then they will look at you in a way you may not want. Even my girlfriend who has seen me as a sharp communicator gets too much of the rambling thoughts when I have to work out something big, and I can feel her perspective of me shift.[..]

ETA: https://techiesproject.com/ricky-yean/ : and there is more online to gain insight into this person..this interview around the same time as the article mentioned above.
Quoting him and restating the point isn't an argument. AI fits very neatly into China's policy goals in a way that it doesn't for liberal politics.

We don't know how the improvements in AI are going to play out - it is very easy to see how it could turn out that these are the missing technologies to make a totalitarian state the most productive equilibrium, or communism, or anything else.
I think it's funny that the top two comments of this post are diametrically opposed, yet I kind of agree with both of them.

The PDF is a terrible format, yet if I'm sending an email with an attachment I want you to see exactly how it looks on my computer then I'm exporting to PDF.

However if your book is only available as a pdf I'm probably going to skip it.

PDF is good for short things, a contract maybe. The best use case is forms which this doesn't really talk about but seems to address, the web has basically solved it, but there are times you want to send people a form to fill out that you don't want the formatting to be go wacky on, but still need to be editable.

PDF can do this but isn't good at it, this seems to take that not good and make it good.
I'm reminded of the lyrics: You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave.

I suspect even if facebook, google, apple, etc let users "opt out" explicitly, they use other methods to implicitly track users. If all else fails, they can buy data to "fill in the blanks" later on.
It’s downside is that it is computationally very expensive. All of the other NIST candidates are not very computationally demanding, but have much larger keys. So the trade off with SIDH is that it spends a lot of time calculating while the others are transmitting bytes over the network. There are trade offs with all the proposed schemes. a
I would bet a lot of money I already know the pitch. It's the same one that the Confluence PM I'm sure made. "We have done very well selling to technical programmers and hip startups, but the market is so much bigger. shows Office 365 revenue numbers vs Slack revenue numbers. We have an opportunity to take this to the next level. We need to make this the goto office communication platform. cheers. Markdown may seem easy to use to us, but our user research shows that 90% of fortune 500 employees don't even know what markdown is. We need a more familiar interface to break into this lucrative new market and continue our growth."
I realize I’d be giving you away, can I ask which book(s)?
Half that - 4 MB per core so the 64 core CPU has 256 MB (dual socket is where the 512 number comes from but that's 128 cores and NUMA).

It's also not fully accessible, each core can only directly access the 16 MB in its group of 4. Everything else is the same as a cross cache read.
I trust most of our high-quality mainstream news as well as our national broadcasting company, but I’m Danish, so that probably doesn’t help HN much.
I use Slack very often, and I also get annoyed that Drafts features often tugs a frequently-used channel to a different spot in sidebar. "Where did that channel go?"
- archive.org - lots of stuff was never archived, or is not available due to /robots.txt

- ctrl-S - not self-contained, compatibility depends on which browser you use (Safari at least gets it right and puts it in a single file, but then other browsers can't open it. Firefox usually saves it correctly and portably, but now you have multiple files, and you can't rename them because they have references to each other, which makes it hard to organize. Then there's all the JavaScript that web pages sometimes have, which can break in the archive.)

If a PDF is available it's easily better than these alternatives. In general I save webpages I really want to refer to later by copy-pasting the text out and manually reformatting as Markdown, or sometimes with wget.
Rent control has a similar effect as well.
djvu will continue to be a better format in every conceivable way long into the future.
That's dope. Thanks for sharing!
I'm not even sure why we refer to logical pixels (a.k.a. CSS pixels, etc.) anymore, for exactly the reason you mentioned. We should be saying things like "this only needs to be 512px x 512px because it's never rendered larger than two degrees of viewing angle" or something to that effect. But I guess that's hard to think about... ems could be a good compromise.
It’s a lighthouse for the ocean of sand!
I found they not only came back but after a week of no weed, for a week or so the dreams were really vivid, then after awhile settled into a more "normal" (what I'm used to) state.
Yeah, I'm still trying to do more on the iPad, and it's working well. At the end of the day, I really like the feeling of pen on paper, which is what it will keep me from fully going paperless.
I worked on a tool that infers a regex from sample strings, by building and then reducing an NDFA.

The NDFA->regex construction worked by "collapsing" a node in the NDFA. Choose a victim node. Construct a Kleene star for all "self loops." Lastly, form all triples of (incoming, self-loop, outgoing) edges; these become the labels of new edges. Now you can discard the victim node. Repeat until you're down to a single start -> goal node, and you're done (the edges just become alternations).

Surprisingly the length of a regex would vary dramatically by the choice of nodes to collapse. Finding the minimum regex was an unexpected challenge. Has anyone explored regexp minimization?

Incidentally it's not the case that Thompson and subset construction "are the basis of every lexer and regexp engine there is." It's not even true of the regexp engine inside the browser you're using now!
CTRL-S might download 10's of files and folders just to save one webpage. And then the html page when opened, starts running scripts and calling home, it's a mess really.
You’re saying Honey is worth $20B?
> some HTML with everything in one file

You just described the ePub format. It’s a ZIP file with HTML docs in it.
They do care. Some affiliate rates are far higher than that.

Affiliate comes out of retailer marketing budgets. They set the rates thinking they're paying for certain types of customers from certain participants. Honey is getting paid what the retailers think it's worth - they're skeptical, but it seems to be driving incremental conversion for especially price-sensitive shoppers.
Using wee-slack instead of the official Slack client is an easy win on multiple levels, including this one. I sincerely hope they never go out of their way to break/block it.
Calling Mark Manson a non-PUA is about as accurate as calling Obama a non-politician. He’s firmly within the mainstream of that literature. There are 20 pages of results for “Mark Manson” on r/seduction.
$235 per active user, and a mostly cash deal.

That sounds like one of those dot-com's deals.
This is one of the worst privacy and surveillance tech stories I have ever read in my life.

This idea is atrocious and a dangerous slippery slope promoting a 'norm' in which everyone in society is constantly being recorded, everywhere.

Socially and culturally people will censor themselves and stop being human anymore. This is anti-diversity and anti-consumer.

It will only serve the tech corporations' insurance policies. And what's to stop Uber secretly using the recordings for commercial big data purposes anyway?

It's also anti-business and makes no sense either way - what if a businessperson wants to discuss a private conversation that normally has legally-protected confidentially? Suddenly Uber has a permanent recording of that conversation, no matter what. That means less value as a service to me.

I will stop taking Uber if I know that this will start to be the service's default.

Or I'll just be quiet and explain to drivers that I don't feel like being listened to by default when I'm travelling in a car. Dehumanising, and anti-productivity.

It's always 'safety' and 'security' that takes away our most important rights.
For someone railing against "ignorance," your comment is certainly lacking in knowledge. Some useful information would be helpful.
> How does Honey make money, aside from the obvious data collection?

Affiliate commission from the online vendors.
Hmmm... It might be worth making a Slack-style interface for Matrix. It already supports replies, these could be flavoured as threads instead.
Unsolicited advice feels like criticism. It almost never is intended as such, but that's often how it feels. It's also almost always self-serving; the advisor wants to be a hero, and the recipient picks up on this and ends up feeling alone. Really recommend the book Messages: The Communications Skills Book by McKay.
As a Korean who visited LA this summer, I was shocked to see how unmaintained the roads were, especially the highways. (There were cracks and debris all over the place)
First time I’ve seen a Terms of Use clause like this one: “Light patterns, like those which might be displayed when using the Services, may result in epileptic seizures in some people. Discontinue use of the Services, if advised by your physician or you experience epileptic symptoms.”
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