skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And information not captured in a verifiable primary source will never make it in

In theory. In general? I was just looking at an article where I have a lot of personal knowledge.

Is mostly True, as far as much of my first-hand knowledge can tell. And leave aside a couple of the random personal insertions that are definitely True if outside of all proportion to the rest of the article.

But there's one section in particular that goes into even more detail than I knew even as someone fairly in the depths of this particular thing. (But it's very plausible and consistent with what I do know.) It's certainly not something that's ever been written about publicly AFAIK and the actual references in the article are minimal.

Which comes back to that notability/verifiability/etc. are nice theories--and may even make sense in the abstract--but there's a huge amount of inconsistency depending upon whether someone has taken notice of an article or not. (And, in at least some cases, I'm often happy with people not looking too hard.)
This is why the Tea Party wave was so devastating: not because of their ideology, but because they swept into office with little experience in policy or the topics they were then appointed to committees to govern. Compare to, say, AOC: much maligned, but who sits on an economics committee and has a degree in... economics (albeit a BA).

It's really, really important that our representatives have at least a modicum of knowledge, or else you get a rubber stamp machine instead of a republic.
Something like:

https://materialdistrict.com/article/building-blocks-made-re...

or

https://inhabitat.com/lego-like-building-blocks-of-recycled-...
This is pretty straightforward in a locked-down Settings UI. Checkboxes that add to staging for a bulk "remove" action, a "select all visible" meta-checkbox, a search box to filter the view. Showing full paths might be tough, but you can wrap lines or ellipsize/tooltip if necessary, and rely on search for power users with deep hierarchies. Gmail has had this exact pattern for eons.
> EdgeHTML

Why doesn't Microsoft open source their engine if they're not using it any more? It can't possibly still have any of the NSCA code in it.

Microsoft is still a scumbag, claiming to support open source, releasing some of their middle-wear and buying GitHub, yet refusing to release something that could actually make our web community more diverse.
You'd like to think? Operating systems have had loads of vulnerabilities from features like this. There needs to be defense in depth.
Magic Startup Moments
This is an interesting story, but the thread so far is lame. Please do better. Low-threshold indignation makes for shallow, angry, generic, and therefore boring discussion.

The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Expecting Wikipedia to document every Apache project is ridiculous.

Wikipedia has a lot of rather obscure entries. Long, long lists that I think easily under-rank the Apache project.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but the bar for notability is kinda vague.
Lists of every episode of a series, every kind of kim-chee, etc.
Maybe a contractual provision they're legally bound by but which isn't itself a law?
If somebody is targeting inter-Unix builds, Autotools is probably a better pick than hand-rolling a Makefile.

But realistically, Linux has captured 75% or more of the entire *nix market. A lot of developers spend their entire careers in Linux these days, and that trend isn't likely to swing back towards other Unix flavors anytime soon.

As long as a developer understands what users will be using their Makefile, it shouldn't matter if they target platform-specific features. The BSD ports tree uses a bunch of BSD Make features that aren't in GNU Make. And that's totally fine, because they know their target users.

Like let's say I'm writing a Makefile that wraps tools which don't run on anything other than Linux. Why would I care about portability across Make implementations?

If a dev doesn't know their users' environments (other than being POSIXy), probably they shouldn't be writing raw Make of any flavor. And if they do know their users, then it isn't a big deal to rely on some platform-specific features.
”So instead of talking with customers and growing your business you are busy wasting your time installing a web server, database server, configuring build tools, etc.”

Oh come on. It takes maybe an afternoon of work to do everything you’ve described.

Let’s say you’re utterly clueless about all
aspects of sysadmin, and you need to learn how to do it from scratch: 2-3 days, tops.

No matter how much you pad the schedule, it’s far worse to have to learn 5-10 “managed solutions” to do what you can do on a single VPS with an Ubuntu install.

Can you do it all with something like heroku? Sure, but you’ll probably spend at least an afternoon learning heroku (speaking as someone who has extensively used heroku, it’s not a panacea.)

If I heard this objection in the real world, from a dev who worked for me, I’d be seriously reconsidering my hiring decision. You’re either irrationally afraid of basic syadmin, or you lack fundamental knowledge.
The problem isn't people want to kill themselves, the problem is they're saying so... on their phones...via social media
Has Ray grown beyond reinforcement learning? Ray appears to lack a datastore or locality mechanism for at-rest distributed data, which is really important for ETL and SQL workloads. So far Ray looks like it has some nice features that are missing from the Spark RDD API, but for ETL / SQL it looks like you’d only choose Ray there for your own entertainment.

It would be compelling if Ray were to provide Horovod support versus the authors re-applying some of same research in their own thing. Ray programming API + code distribution + Horovod performance primitives is what the community probably wants.
>"Every hospital I've been to seemed horribly understaffed.. and I'd be afraid of an underpaid surgeon. Not sure what waste you're referring to"

Doctor/surgeon labor scarcity exists for the following reasons:

- Medical associations lobbied the government to restrict residency positions a long time ago, and continually lobbied to keep them down until just recently when the shortages have become too obvious. They were even warning of an impending doctor surplus in the 90's. Ya, right.

- Medical associations and med schools have been smart about restricting the supply of doctors through our med school network and excessively tedious licensing system.

Additionally, the other OECD countries I've referred to have similar health outcomes for a much lower % of GDP. Clearly, universal healthcare did not worsen their population's health. If someone wants quicker healthcare, I'm almost certain the U.S. would allow supplemental insurance to get that hip transplant in 2 weeks instead of 6 months.
I think I am saying it's negative in both nations and ok in neither - the percentage of land monitored is much less a question than any percentage. Given reported uses of Ring, as well as facial recognition in police bodycams we have to question wether and how the techniques and technologies of big brother should be limited in free societies.
Yeah, the mazes Eller’s algorithm makes are often simplistic. Recursive backtracking give you nice, long mazes.
No.

Why would I trust some random third-party with this? Especially given that presumably customers of such a service might have some reason to secure their traffic, the value of subverting it is relatively high.

I can run a VPN on a $5/month virtual machine, dedicated to my personal use, without needing to trust the operator of the VPN service OR raising the value of subversion by concentrating private traffic.
Howard Marks Memo “Mysterious” on negative interest rates [pdf]
Two things can be different and still both be bad.

Are you claiming everyone on HN loves FB and hates Google? Because that is a pretty strong claim to make. Same goes for the tech press in general, it's not hard to find negative articles about FB and Google on the same website or from the same source.

If you type "matt stoller facebook" into Google Search (the devil's search engine) one of the top results on the first page is a criticism of Facebook... by Matt Stoller:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/22/restru...

If you're going to suspect a smear campaign or conspiracy that's fine, but please at least make a basic effort to validate your theory before posting it on HN
The quote there is just the recognition by him that the CIA committed crimes. The context of the rest of the decision still finding for the CIA is the half that you're missing.
The Aldous-Broder algorithm would be my choice. The large one on the page is still going strong! Amazing perseverance.
Days of yore when Bill Joy would rewrite / update Unix and userland over the weekend.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=08PmIv1l5LY
You can actually use the sender architecture in TCL!

It’s a bit hidden—but you can call %W and get a reference to the TK Widget and therefore any stored property that might be on there. Rad.
I really believe there are too many important things to know at this point, and so I instead concentrate on memorizing the bounds of the Realm of the Possible. I know what my tools can do, I know where the pitfalls are, but I don't always recall the exact details of those boundaries. I often have to look up why, and I'm perfectly okay with that.

Where that doesn't work well is in interviews, and in places where people think it's perfectly reasonable to have technical discussion meetings where laptops are banned. We're really going to make architectural decisions without looking at any code? Who thought that was a good idea?
Is YouTube becoming cable television?
Youtube is becoming cable television regarding advertisements. Advertisements are increasing in frequency and duration. Time is a highly valuable resource. Lost time is never found again.

If I'm not mistaken, generally a 30 minute cable television program in the United States has around 7 - 9 minutes of advertisements.

Advertisements are frequently necessary for companies to offer free products. However, when the advertisements jeopardize the integrity of the product, it's a problem for me. The net experience on Youtube has gone down.

It's only fair to put this in perspective. Youtube is not the worst advertising or video experience compared to other websites. Many news websites come to mind with un-skippable ads. I focus on Youtube because of their scale and influence.

I hope there isn't a day where downloading a Youtube video locally, and then watching it, saves you more time than viewing all of the mandatory advertisements. /s

Thoughts?
> I wonder how they justified to themselves having slaves while talking about freedom and liberty.

Isn't it pretty clear and straight-forward? It was based on the beliefs (regardless of the degree to which you might think from your perspective that those beliefs accurately represent reality or not) that many people held back then that there are significant racial differences between slaves and people, and the same rules do not apply to white ones as to black ones because they are not the same species, they do not have the same brains/possibilities/rights/etc. Just like they did not grant any freedom to animals or trees.

However much one might disagree with the basic premise of the racist argument, it does not make it a hypocricy freedom-wise. If someone was holding these racist beliefs in this past USA (and many of them did) - they could very well believe in freedom of all people, and at the same time not consider the slaves "people" based on their racist beliefs that there are actual important and significat differences between those races.

Just because someone treats someone else badly doesn't automatically make it a hypocricy, the world is just more complicated than that and there are plenty of examples of violence or exploitation being based on well established logical thought systems or even ethical (from the point of view of the exploiter) beliefs. And this is important because if you want to make a change in a society, you might benefit from understanding how that society actually thinks and what ideology is behind it. Just calling it a hypocricy is not good enough.
This is a misrepresentation of why healthcare costs so much in the US. There are a lot of reasons, but "you're paying for people who don't take care of themselves" barely makes the list -- insurance companies already give major discounts for not smoking etc.

The biggest problem is that the entire existing system is so convoluted and bureaucratic that the cost of everything is ten times what it ought to be.

They should just delete every single piece of federal healthcare law with two years of notice for the states to be ready to pick up the ball. Then let fifty states try fifty different ways to clean up the mess. Some will get it right and some won't, and then the losers can copy the winners, but even the screw ups can't be much worse than the status quo.
Often times, I've found situations that you describe (ones where you need to throw infinite developers at to fix) to be a smell that what your "product" does isn't something that isn't line with how your business delivers value. Such things are almost always candidates to be replaced by third party software of some kind.

Maybe I'm wrong though. When you are charting new ground, building new shit that has never been build before--which is what your product teams should be doing--you don't have years long backlogs because you can't see that far out. Good, productive feature work is iterative.

If you can see with a high degree of clarity what you will be working on 5 years from now, it probably means it's been done before and you are better off cutting a check for it.

Hopefully this makes sense :-)
Wait, how do you know that does search per keypress? I've just tried in Windows, and it doesn't seem to do anything until I press enter when the loupe is selected.
Don't let public companies become your city's transit.
You can make hypotheses and test them with models, that is science and it can shed light on how processes work. But these models have input variables that have some randomness and some which are currently unknown to us.

It's putting the cart before the horse to consider these models to be simulations, which is how we treat them politically. The only appropriate reaction to how we frame the climate in politics is skepticism.

There is clearly a push to amp the climate rhetoric up to crisis levels right now. It's easier every day to be a skeptic.
"We're trying to ship a system-wide permission lockdown, but we ran into unforeseen complications that will require more than a single release cycle to properly address. Instead of holding up the entire rollout for a release cycle, we'll ship the lockdown today and most users will benefit from it, but users that would otherwise run into the complications get a permissive bypass. Once the infrastructure to address the complications is in place, we'll get the lockdown working for them as well."
> 1. If the government claims "state secrets" they have a burden of proof to demonstrate a reasonable probability of specific and tangible harm actually occurring.

This is a terribly bad idea, if you consider the Curry-Howard-correspondance between proof and programm, and the constructive logic approach of proof by construction. That's a stretched metaphor, perhaps, but it's very real, considering that one often waits how things play out.

Just like wikipedia let's everyone edit, see how it turns out, and revert later--which can be messy or impossible if several legit edits were made meanwhile.
Ask HN: What has improved your productivity in 2019?
Curious what technologies/ways of working/tools/languages/etc people have picked up this year that has increased their effectiveness at work, or on side projects.
> Lots of freeloaders and incompetent power trippers in the middle layers and above.

Not just middle layers and up. Freeloaders and gatekeepers everywhere.
That neglects to mention that Microsoft Windows 95 OSR2 launched a few months before (97) and that entire release was centered around better USB support for a broader range of components. (e.g. CDRW Drives)

I don't think its fair to say PC "Followed suit" in using USB.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar.
A Tesla Valve
I'm not the OP but it's fairly simple: corporations wouldn't get taxed. Instead, shareholders would be taxed, as they're the ones who own the company and ultimately profit from the company's activities.

You could do this by increasing the tax rate on capital gains (dividends are already income if I remember US taxes right).
Most interviews seem to weigh heavily in favor of "sprinters" over "marathoners". That is, they select for people who can go from nothing to working code in a short period of time.

I am one of those people who takes a while to get rolling, especially when starting from scratch. Interviews generally give you 30 minutes or an hour to produce something. I will easily take an hour to think about the problem, do some research, and then create some notes before writing any code.

This is, of course, not what most companies want. Unless you are asking me to do something trivial or something that I have claimed to do many times in the past, you can't expect me to come up with the "right" answer instantaneously.

I never jump right into editing code, unless I am already intimately familiar with it.
Sorry, didn't mean to be offensive.

That link provides an introduction to MST terminology, starting from somewhat math/nerd angles and moving gently.

You will find that MST provides clear terminology for the sort of thing you're trying to talk about/say.
The hard-line Wikipedia deletionists should be deleted themselves. The argument is always brought up, like StackOverflow, that they have to be ruthless or it turns into an Eternal September dumping ground of garbage, but the quality is already very uneven and gatekeeping like Cerberus doesn't help further that goal. There's already a toxic Dead Sea effect where the pedantry and politicking has chased out a lot of people that would contribute; who the hell wants to bother putting in some hours writing something up if it is just going to be summarily deleted?

Bandwidth and hard drives are cheap.

Just spitballing, but it'd be nice if Wikipedia worked a little more like Linux distro repositories. Keep the tightly curated articles in a "core", but leave room for "community" or "nonfree" collections if you want to turn them on.
Which inconsistency is, of course, what you'd expect from an all-volunteer project.
Well what did you expect to find instead? That they just randomly assigned some people as slaves, that they instated this system throughout the country, without ever thinking about it? Of course there were justifications and theories and established rules etc.
Of course these people weren't randomly just evil or stupid - such people do not organize. There is always a system.
And we will have white/black lists for food. I don’t trust the same people who brought us the food pyramid and low fat as a reliable arbiter of what’s good and what’s bad.
No, American Marketing Companies (Apple, Amazon, Google, Etc) want to use the Cheap China Manufacturers, they just dont want consumers to be able to buy them direct
What's Henning’s method of mirroring? Couldn't find it with a quick google.
I'd imagine it would look more like "these twenty people are all in the same building in Russia posting a whole lot of opinionated content about America", if it was a true story.
That's only with a limited supply of product. Instead, I see a throwaway culture, where we have a surfeit of product such that anything not perfect is thrown away (safe but expired food, appliances with dents in them, electronics with a single broken component, etc.). Likewise, Americans suffer through services that run inefficiently, or go without services that don't exist because there isn't a critical mass of demand for them.

People are pretty good at coming up with good uses for an influx of money without crashing the entire system. That's the whole point of a market-based economy, right?
vast majority of food trucks park and serve from a static location, there are definitely challenges associated with cooking on the go.

with the explosion in popularity of food delivery services, you can probably move into any cuisine in one of these trucks. one of my biggest gripes about delivery services right now is the freshness of the food and also how it impacts the in-person experience at restaurants.

technologically speaking, i'm all for having a solution that brings the kitchen to the (lazy) customer. but i'm definitely having some reservations about the social impact it will have
There's a glut of resumes that have something web dev on them, and a scarcity of reliable ways to filter for the candidates who legitimately have the skillset(s) needed for the job.

I've done a lot of these tests and interview projects, passed plenty, didn't pass a few, didn't bother finishing a few, but - weirdly - every place I've been hired didn't use them in the first place.

I've started to view them as a sign of a company you probably don't want to work for.
I give the world the patent on a wedge-shaped seat cushion to counteract the angle. Stay as long as you like.

Second patent: cushion is inflatable and will fold to fit in your pocket.
>I've always been mystified at why people take superdeterminism as a good explanation for anything, when it actually acts as a stopsign for thought.

What? It's like the opposite...

Currently we don't have a perfect model for quantum physics, so what do we do when we try to create a model of something where we have data for, but we don't fully understand? We use statistics and probabilities to fit/approximate the behavior behind the model. Doing this can lead to a useful but imperfect model, but that doesn't prove one way or another that the behavior of what we're trying to understand is inherently random, just that it exhibits random behavior at some level or in some way.

Now the opposite: saying things like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is full stop proven, is itself a stop sign for thought IMO. Whereas opposing such principles, and assuming behavior isn't inherently random (i.e. the idea behind determinism), opens for testable ideas on what might actually happening behind the apparent randomness of the model. You know... one which might lead to a perfect model fully explaining the behavior (which hey isn't that the purpose of science??)

To put it backwards... the ideal in science is a model that explains how everything works, if this is ever realized it'll prove superdeterminism. To say stuff is inherently random, to me is equivalent to giving up and settling for less than the ideal...
I wouldn't call Sackler's the founders of opioids if that's what you're saying. (I can't really tell if that's what you're trying to say?)

But around here, (where I live in opioid infested flyover country), it's pretty well known by people trying to handle the fallout that the Sackler companies produce about 8% of the nation's supply. About 80-82% comes from other corporations. (With about 10% coming from China, but you can never really know how much of the "China" thing is truth as opposed to propaganda these days? So the China part I'm not sure about, it's just what the generally accepted story is.)

Anyway, that's why the cops and emergency services around here are so angry. Because giving the Sacklers a fine and then saying you stopped opioids is a slap in the face to our community and others like it. It's like they actually believe we can't do math. Or that we won't notice that opioid overdoses are still happening.