skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hacker News is a critical resource for young male techies based in Silicon Valley (Disclosure: I am a young male techie based in Silicon Valley), this has the consequence of excluding female hackers.

This is a non sequitur. Anybody of any sex can enter the url into their address bar. Males liking a thing does not preclude females from also liking that same thing.

Perhaps the author is trying to build a premise for his analysis, but given the mostly pseudonymous nature of HN, it's a silly one.
Uh, no. Pi-hole is a DNS-based ad blocker, while the ads we are talking about are served by first party.
You could look for any job. If you have a skillset some employer really wants, they will think about it if you let them know that you'd be interested in working for them, remote. Of course you risk running into a company that isn't very remote friendly (and the experience can be painful e.g. due to poor communication), but it's surprising how many companies that don't really advertise themselves as remote companies have or have had remote employees.
Do you offer enterprise support? Perhaps with tidelift or similar platform
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I guess the power socket might prove contentious, since they look very different across countries... power plugs, although variable, can be identified more easily since they look more alike and have a power cord attached.

The traffic cone would be good for VLC! They could give rename their app so the name matches the icon :-) That got me thinking: are there any common apps that use emojis in their name?
I think there is a difference to the common drug consumption in the past. People believe psychotropic drugs to be medicine since they have or had a subscription. True in some cases, but the awareness of using a drug is different. People also take them not only to cope, but to help them learning, sleeping, concentrating... That goes beyond traditional use in my opinion. Plus, access to these drugs is much easier than in the past and taking them has become trivially normal.

It is also the first weapon to deployed if some kids are deemed to be unruly. Nobody would think of giving them alcohol however.
Medical student here. It sounds like you can do the job of a doctor, but I can't be sure yet. Case vignettes are the medical equivalent of the coding interview. Let's start with an easy question. If someone comes to you with a fever and a cough, what is your approach to their history and physical exam? What labs or imaging do you need, if any? Do they need treatment? How do you decide? If so, which drug and how long and why? How does your approach vary if the patient is 29 or 89? Or if the patient has HIV? What if the patient smoked for 20 years?
I agree. Especially face to face worrying about this kind of thing seems unhealthy.

However, I can see that in text conversations the chance for misunderstanding can be much higher.
Looks fantastic. I already use Hugo for some other things. I'll keep an eye on this for documentation in some future projects.
Is this serious? I don't understand if it is a joke.
The more self-effacing I make it, the more I try to put in that I think the trouble is only in my own understanding, the more mocking and sarcastic it seems to me and the more likely I think it is to be misinterpreted.

I think this a textbook example of the four sides communication model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-sides_model
IndieHackers, if their building something other founders would buy.
No, not at all the same. Please educate yourself on the Russian SORM law. Russia a revisionist authoritarian regime establishing cyber sovereignty in places other than Russia.
That's too lazy, we need unicode symbols for escaped start-blob and escaped end-blob /s
Completely agree. All of the phrasings he proposes presuppose that the thing he's suggesting makes any sense at all. Why not let the person take you through the design/thought process and then, and only then, if you're still left wondering why they didn't do X, ask. I guess in many cases you'll hear the reason why they didn't pick it while they're taking you through their thought process.
discord is really advanced Iove it you can do group video chat
Animoji is very different from using an animated gif in place of an emoji.
> get to decide what makes someone feel that hacking feeling

I agree, but I wasn't deciding for anyone; just saying what happens in my case.

> It's fucking incredible.

I totally agree, but it's not hacking. It assembling LEGO with instructions.

I am not saying I'm a better hacker or that it has to be done the way I say. What I'm just saying is that if you follow the instruction books, tutorials or videos, you are not doing any hacking. You are just assembling IKEA furniture. I am not saying that is not useful, that won't teach you anything or that you should be doing something else. I'm just saying that is not hacking.
Exactly. The real reason why FB is evil is not because it makes a ton of money from data that you willingly provide it, its simply because of what it is - a platform that takes advantage of a human weakness - vanity, to keep you "engaged".
It is an addiction that Zuck sells, pretty sure he knows it. The privacy bit is only a red herring and what should be the least of user's concerns. Just stop "using".
In China, definitely. They are halfway there, using Orwell's 1984 as a playbook now that the right tech innovations have made big brother surveillance possible.

Will it happen in the U.S.? Definitely not. Political influence on daily life is astoundingly weak here compared to China. Government is far more efficient in China too and can manage big projects like this (whereas the U.S. recently took 100 years to build a new subway line in Manhattan while China is criss crossing their vast country with high speed rail and probably hundreds of other transit projects).

Our knack for mismanagement of contracts and political disunity save us from ourselves. Plus you don't get sent to death camps for your political or religious ideology here unlike China and Oceana in 1984, so there isn't much worry even if one were built unless you are one to go off robbing and killing.
Can you please provide a list of at least 10 examples where ddg doesn‘t work for you but google does? Ideally write an additional line per item what the problem is. I use ddg and have no problems whatsoever but maybe we have a different query profile?
"I would probably have tried using sshd for this, do you think that would have worked?" Is how I would have phrased it.
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Who would have thought being told to corral like cattle under a table to rehearse waiting for rapid fire death wouldn't inspire much confidence.
What really makes me sad is that some presumably quite talented engineer spent time thinking this up and coding it.
That 'list of gripes' is all about the single change of having UTF-8 from the start. It's not multiple separate problems.

Also why are you implying that any gripes automatically prove you right? It's kind of ridiculous to suggest that not having UTF-8 was people "deciding to make it complicated to bolster their egos".
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In interaction between senior and junior engineers those type of question are made often and juniors should take it as how to grow themselves, but I agree with you that asking about their decision first would make the discussion better.
Someone should write this: an blocker that uploads a screenshot of the page, use OCR to find 'Sponsored' and send back coordinates of the box that can then be painted over client side.

Obviously OCR is one of many strategies and as long you kept the code for these adblock strategies open source, it would work on all visual ads.

Train an AI with a billion screenshots of pages with ads marked out. It should be able to handle 90+% of ads easy.
Why not also explain why you think sshd could work, though? The recipient might not understand the connection you're trying to make between the proposed solution and their problem.
I would imagine there is also a very big differeence between the USSR reported numbers and western estimates. Not sure what the reality you speak of is.
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You can see what's probably the same issue in Firefox/Chromium as well: You can't scroll e.g. https://tract-docs.dev/docs/getting-started/ with the keyboard without first clicking into the page.
Reddit lets people pay to not see ads. It's $6/mo.
Anyone can use this site. Anyone can comment. I don't see how this is excluding anyone. Of course you will find nasty comments if you actively collect them.

This narrative of online harassment against women is very one sided, in my opinion. Research from pew (https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2017/07/11/online-haras...) actually shows us that men and women receive roughly the same amount, in total.
Shortest version:
"Could you use X?"

Three advantages:
First, studies show people like to say no more than yes. This fits a no, perfect for the knee-jerk denial, but most would follow up with a reason. As the reason is formulated, one may realise the initial assumption is wrong. However, at this point the person is discussing with himself. This is exactly what you want: The asker is out of the picture; the parades are down.

Second, an answer in the negative does not reflect poorly on the asker, as the question does not speak to preference. He may already be inclined towards a no, but just want the reason for X not being the better choice. Hence, less chance for a follow-up justification leading to a discussion.

Third, it merely establishes if X is feasible. Higher chance of finding common ground when discussing feasibility without preference.

Lastly, it doesn't get much shorter than this. Less words is less skin in the game.
Probably right on the rationale, but I cannot remember anyone using FAX as a symbol. But, not the only obsolete bit of technology in Unicode though.
You’d think this guy works in an adult daycare center, either that or I’m an asshole. Why didn’t you just ask the question and not worry about how it comes across instead of writing an article about it? :P
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One emoji I wish I had a good ASCII alternative for is :thinking: U+1F914. There is :^) but only the skype generation will make sense of that.
Ads don't just slow down the browser, they also distract users and waste their time. The vast majority of people who use ad blockers don't want to see any ads at all.

Facebook also tracks a variety of metrics related to their ads, and the data collection is implemented through JavaScript or other methods of triggering web requests. These methods do impact performance.

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Sorry for the late reply, just saw your comment. I think what you're describing is training a model and then using feature importance. This is also a valid method for calculating sensitivities and it's used if the function from inputs to outputs is unknown. However, in our case, this function is known so there's no need to train a predictive model.
On business cards, in letters, etc you write your phone numbers.

Usually as

TEL 0123 45 67 89

FAX 0123 45 67 89-0

the "TEL" and "FAX" part should be superscript small capitals though. That's there these special symbols come in.

Some fonts also replace those with icons for phone/fax.

They're actually still in use in Germany today.
'Is there a reason for not using sshd? It seems to be a great tool for the problem you're trying to solve.'
Needs year in the title: (2014).

Previously on HN, with the most comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425385
What happens when you add a new teller? (2008)
A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9652882
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I'm confused.
I think you would be a difficult person to work with if you get offended by that one little word. I understand that it can be annoying to be asked repeatedly but just work on an elevator pitch to explain why you didn't use X. You might even earn some respect in the process. The way you act now will "just" (sorry!) make people feel like that have to walk on eggs around you and handle your brittle mood with silk gloves. Next time they will ask someone else.
ad nauseum Firefox clicks ads already, to pay the person advertising. and you never see them. it's great in mobile too
What freedom is being lost that isn't already lost. You go to the grocery store? The mall? The ball park? City hall? Your doctors office? Your college? The package room at your apartment? The airport? The train station? The gas station?

All currently under surveillance and have been since the invention of the security camera. No one bats an eye, these are to document crimes that have occurred.

Suddenly public schools also use cameras for the same purpose, and this is where the line is drawn? Personally, I feel much more comfortable having a government that represents me and offers me a recourse in charge of security footage than some asshole who runs the gas station and does who knows what with the footage when he gets home.
I say “what was the problem with sshd”? This gives the other person the benefit of the doubt, and also compliments them on being rational actors who obviously evaluated this already and are now going to report their findings. If they haven’t considered it, they usually just say so, and if they have and their concerns have workarounds or are incorrect I address the concerns without making it personal. Or they might just right, and know something I don’t.
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Especially since intel normally has a bigger spread between declared TDP and actual TDP.
Great, that's a perfect start for Google Scholar! Now I can see which papers cited it, and so on.

I disagree with their conclusions though, look at this crosshatching dither that emerges from totally different parents:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JobvdZwan/status/1201613029013671...

The two-bit version looks pretty neat with it's pseudo-crosshatching effect, no?

Although I have to add that I had to rework the error-diffusion implementation to minimize rounding error. Before I did that the results weren't so great. So if we make the relatvely safe assumption that they used a "classic" eight-bit in-place optimized implementation , it might be true that it did not produce good results. And I'm sure that in their day they did not have the computer resources to quickly experiment with different combinations of dithering and ordering like I did.

Anyway, thank you so much for taking the time to look this up!
How much blob is blob? If it is binary, then there is a chance of clash, no matter how you dare them bytes to do that. If it is always-valid utf-8, then use 11111111 and 11111110 (or any other out-of-band markers available for source encoding) to open and close your message. Not sure what’s the point for it though.
> You can't effectively use one character set well for everything; different applications have different requirements

So how about an application like Twitter, which has the requirement "has to support all globally currently written languages, often right next to each other", what character set aside from Unicode is appropriate?

And for what application in 2019 is Unicode inappropriate and why?
Yep...Not on their product.

Although this is fascinating, the amount of attack/defense in our browser just trying to put a block of ad in front of you and the CPU cycles that are wasted, I don't think it apply to my case.
In a language like Java, all these factors are specified and fully deterministic.
Agree that rational isn't it. But "reproducing the existing quirks" seems like an accurate description. If you want to pay 7% APR on month-end balances, then that's a real-number calculation, but to match what customers expect you need in addition to specify when to round off to cents.
This kind of shock-bait headline doesn't even deserve a one-time click.
It would look pretty good for the developers.
Ahh yes. I remember back in my day I was sent home if I didn't show up to school with my rotary telephone and a fresh copy of the Times under my arm. Essential components of US culture, after all.
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"Don't patronize someone by saying..." I'm sorry but a company where people confuse genuine curiosity into your work and chosen solutions with patronizing would feel so toxic to me that I would leave very soon. Don't be a snowflake, just answer the question honestly. Maybe you should have used sshd and you should stop wasting time doing what your are doing right now. Or maybe sshd doesn't cut it and the person asking you why you didn't use it is going to learn something new. Fear of patronizing is inhibiting honest open communication.
> But if I'm the proverbial twentieth person to ask the same question, it's probably a hint that it should be documented/explained prominently

If you're joining a project, or it's published, sure.

If you're just having a conversation you don't start off by skimming a dozen pages of documentation. So put in a tiny amount of effort with your wording, to show you realize they might have thought of this already.
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I have been using guile on my rock pi to do multithreaded things (using guile fibers, which works over pthreads). It is not a big project, only an IRC bot. Heavily over-engineered with the goal of being able to process more IRC messages from more sources than anyone will ever need. It isnt usable yet, but it can handle all traffic a raspberry pi 4 can deliver which is close to 60 mB/s spread over 100 simulated channels. Currently each channel bot just tried to find the largest integer posted , so there are no IO bottlenecks.

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How come "(...) Days after the failed landing, the Indian Space Research Organization said it had located the lander, but hadn’t been able to establish communication." but the lander was in pieces spanning several kilometers?
It's partly unavoidable, but you make the embarrassment far worse if you act like it's so obvious that they clearly must have tried it, you don't even need to ask.
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> The USB, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth symbols.

I believe those are all trademarked. Unicode tries to avoid those.

> A spray can to represent spray paint, insect spray, or spray lubricant.

Interesting idea! I wonder if there'd be any interest in getting wider coverage of other bitmap paint tools: rectangular selection, lasso, paint bucket...

> There's a power plug but no power socket.

That's problematic from a localization perspective, as electrical sockets vary widely from country to country, and some of them may be difficult to recognize as a socket at a small size. For example, some European countries use a socket which is made of three circular pins in a straight line -- it'd just look like an ellipsis.

Besides, there isn't a lot of symbolic meaning that's conveyed by a socket that couldn't be expressed just as well with a plug.

> There's no staples or stapler.

Maybe. There isn't a lot of symbolic meaning to these either, though.

> There are no appliances—no oven, microwave, toaster, mixer, washer, or vacuum cleaner.

A lot of those will just look like white boxes at text size, and -- again -- they don't have a lot of symbolic meaning.

You might be able to make a case for an upright vacuum cleaner, though, since that's visually distinctive and is associated with cleaning.

> There's no traffic cone.

Oh, I like that idea. It's got some symbolic meanings, too, like "warning" and "under construction". There is already a construction sign (U+1F6A7), though.
I'd say "Hmm, what about sshd?" or "Hmm, what do you think about sshd?" I'd also say it's more about how you say it than what you say. If I were to use the aforementioned questions, I'd come from a place of self-doubt and I think which is exactly what "Response 2" in the article says it is.