skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly I don't understand this kind of "calls to action" directed to company X employeese.

First of all, it is not like FB employees are pushing people into gas chambers in Dachau, FB usage is not obligatory, what I keep telling everyone who complains about FB censorship or privacy abuse - I don't have FB account because of that.

In the same way we might ask to step out Coca Cola employees (say, delivery truck drivers), because drinking Coke is bad for ones health. Or HSBC employees because HSBC was laundering narco cartels money? Or John Deere employees because company forbids farmers to modify tractor software?

All of those practices are immoral and bad, but why chase the weakest, whose income, ability to pay rent, etc. depends on the employer? Why not target those, who are really responsible for that what is happening and who make huge money thanks to that?

I would say it makes much more sense to vote with our money, avoid services and products from companies we consider immoral.

Publicly discourage people from using such services and products, publicly stand against CEOs, shareholders of those companies, spread the knowledge about their personal responsibility for such kind of behavior - this is not that difficult and actually can make a difference. Imagine PR outcome of a conference that would invite Mark Zuckerberg, but no one else would want to attend it? Mark shows up on, say, TED, and all the people leave the room during his talk? In the media-driven World surely this would become "viral" and even Mark with all his money couldn't ignore that easily.
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At this point, almost 12 years in, I've got what salespeople call "time in territory". I'm known to a small but always growing group of executives who change jobs every few years. Fortunately they see value in having me come in to their new company on a basic consult, and often these basic consults turn into more extensive projects.

In the beginning I worked my ass off, frequently for next to nothing, just to make connections, deliver quality work, and build experience. When I was getting started in 2003 this meant writing an ecommerce site for my girlfriend's employer, taking gigs on Rent-a-Coder, and doing small jobs for the employers of friends.

The biggest thing has been maintaining relationships with contacts. Stuff like the occasional email to say "hey, what's new with you" or "I'm going to be in your town, let's grab a beer." It's fun to stay in touch with people and be someone that takes an interest in them and their growth. Sometimes this leads to business, but that's just a by-product. The objective is to build good relationships, as cheesy as that sounds.
I think it's easier to drag-and-drop from the Downloads folder to where I want to save it, than to dig through a Save dialog to find the folder I want to save something in. So it's less work whether or not you want to put your download somewhere long-term.
There are videos of him talking about the inception of the internet. In fact, he explains in detail how we wanted to be able to have mobile military units that could relay data back to HQ real time in enemy territory and that was why ARPA created the internet. I don't want to misquote him, but essentially he said something to the effect of it isn't like you can ask your enemy to set up a network for you just prior to invasion
Hi all, I made an app called Monilo, that rewards you for saving money through a free daily scratch-off lottery and a monthly lottery. I would love feedback and beta users! Thanks :)
The ridiculous speaker list for SaaStr Annual 2020
Where this would be really transformative is if anyone could submit a video and have it verified. If they set up their own slo-mo capture they could just as easily record a sped-up screen capture.

There's definitely a way out by requiring that the tests are reproducible in a 'lab', but that throws out results from machines the lab doesn't have access to
Yes, I consume:

1. Twitter via Twitter lists using Feedbin: https://feedbin.com/blog/2018/01/11/feedbin-is-the-best-way-...

2. Email newsletters via RSS (also thanks to Feedbin): https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl...

3. HN via hnrss.org[†]

4. Reddit via subreddit RSS. (Just add .rss after the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang.rss )

5. A small selection of hand-curated blogs and friends' sites.

If the firehose ever seems too overwhelming (>200 new items), I generally just skim the titles for stand-out items and then mark all as read guilt-free.

[†] For example:

- hnrss.org/newest?points=50

- hnrss.org/whoishiring/jobs/?q=React

- hnrss.org/replies/?id=youruserid
I’m not the OP, but the fact that out of the thousands of professional academic linguists, none has ever seriously proposed and defined an “expressiveness scale” suggests that we would need extraordinary evidence to accept an HN comment claiming to have done so.
Correct. In no way is this tool a webpack killer. Webpack solves a lot of problems that clearly this author of this post is not familiar with based on the clickbaity title.
maybe a lack of good developers for the salary they are offering...
If Facebook were to defeat astroturfing, all advertising firms would just promote their new social media network on all the major news networks.

Our economy is founded upon mutual relationships of grift and greed, even if Zuckerberg were to disagree with his own platform, he would not be able to change it.
Right, thanks. The averages are independent and not identically distributed, but that's irrelevant to the theorem, right?
The difference is the disclosure. Only on the other you know that money is being used to affect your opinion on something.
The "Kihlepa" pages linked from the footer are quite something.
Ditto. I waited a bit because I was afraid the change would be difficult, I'd be missing something, etc... in the end it was a super smooth transition.

Now every time I see some new disastrous Chrome-related news I just nod and move on.
All that argument has done for me (as a person afraid of flying) is to cause me to never sit in a car again.
Yes,actually RSS becomes more powerful today
Kudos. In 00's there was print version, a very convenient feature. They are actually needed mpre today. Not just for printers of course. For the real content, wo banners, ads and crap :
Just going to plug Tiny Tiny RSS here since no one else has mentioned it: https://tt-rss.org/

It's a PHP-based server-side reader with lots of customizations and great Android support.
I've been discussing this a lot recently, and I think this is going to be the trend going forward in the 2020's. Developers are going to embrace lightweight, server side pages again. The holdouts will be the corps still dumping trackers on us.
Defined is not the same as correct.
The notion of security, as it briefly existed in the Win9x world, was that the OS should not have any remotely exploitable holes in the network stacks.
The 2nd amendment is better interpreted using this modern translation:

Regulated armies aside, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Yeah, I recall an article that said their physical hardware was in jeopardy during hurricane Sandy.
Well it seems like this is a sensitive subject. I agree the title is baity but the subject matter is relevant - Apple's blunder, and more generally the overall state of software and the Web should be discussed. How are we, as an industry, not getting better at usability metrics since the 1990s? All this amazing hardware and it still takes forever to do basic tasks.
True, but I also know the Max has at least one serious design flaw.

I don’t know the same about my car, which is why I’ll take it over a Max any day, and that’s why Boeing is having to PR themselves out of this mess.
ok... but this is kind of a problem that Facebook wants to fix also, so where is the conflict with "Zucc" ?
I use self-hosted Feedbin. This ensures the profiling is not done by the third party which hosts the state of sync as a service, and it barely uses resources anyway.
Have you ever studied German? It has an absolutely dizzying number of French and/or Latin loanwords.
Ha!

Thanks, I heard about it from someone that worked there, never saw a picture though!
What specific ergonomics pitfalls did you experience in Rust? "Development velocity is too slow" is a bit vague; beyond the use of GC, which only really matters in specialized domains, there's not much reason to think that rewriting your service in Go would give you better 'development velocity'.
People expect that companies pay for their ads to be presented. A big reason for buying likes seems to be deceiving people into believing the posts aren't ads. I'd say it's similar to "sponsored content" that doesn't disclose the fact that it's sponsored
Recursing on my post: Plomin might make sense as well, but according to Nassim N. Taleb not always: "Plomin who studies heredity doesn’t seem aware of the intransitivity of correlation." (he made a whole paper about these correlation issues: https://www.academia.edu/39797871/Common_Misapplications_and...)
Point that pushing subjective political point of views in technical conferences will not make the tech nor the political landscape better. Its actually divisive to push your own point of views without restraint and can actually backfire.
Yes, I use feedly for many blogs.

I also have many scripts that scrape web page and generate RSS.
By the time the transient reaches the voltage regulators, it's old news. We're talking about a base clock in the multiple GHz, which means the edges of power steps have harmonics in the tens of GHz, which means wavelengths on the order of millimeters.

When they talk about package and board inductance, think of it as meaning that the board itself is a transmission line and its characteristic impedance is limiting the risetime of the current waveform. No amount of regulator response can overcome that.
> Web servers are usually trivially horizontally scalable.

Maybe he really meant to say 'application server'. I.e that there was server side code with non trivial compute/memory requirements for running business logic.
Parent is probably being a bit sarcastic and referring to the perception that HN zeroes in and upvotes submissions based on how trendy the implementation language is.
I feel like with the growing popularity of Online Courses these ratios will get even more skewed...

What happens when the majority of courses at a University are pre-recorded sessions from years ago, with only minor updates from year to year?
Most CS curricula I've seen have commonality, at least in the US and UK, with a significant focus on math, algorithms, datastructures, and so on. A lot is interesting, but most is useless for normal work. I think it all should be kept, but the curricula should also be designed with the fact that most students will not become CS researchers, and will have normal programming jobs.

A curricula, OTOH, that prepares a student to be a good developer should also have a heavy emphasis on:
- #1 is write a lot of code with a focus on good coding practice, preferably in a combination of Python and Java or C++
- Understand Linux and be proficient with command line tools
A big part of the problem is "infinite growth" assumption.
Excellent point. Though it can be easy to miss the tiny text that says "advertisement".

I recall buying Facebook ads for places in the early days of their system that benefited off this & having it say which friends also liked this content.
A similar thing happened where I work. Say our domain name was `example.com`, we had a fleet of hosts at `foo.build.example.com`, `bar.build.example.com`. The internal network handed out `example.com` as the DNS search string but web browsers always try the FQDN first. On the day the `.build` gTLD went live, people who use short names in their URLs (just about everyone) could no longer access these hosts and I was the one who got to figure out why.
Yep, I love TinyRSS. I use it for webcomics, blogs, even YouTube so I don't have to use their shitty web interface. Here are some dockerfiles I made:

https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/TTRSS

https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/TTRSS...
Barely. Upcoming water and energy crises are primarily because of rising standards of living. If our climate woes were non-existent, those problems would remain.
This is the one reason I still use Firefox. They care less about privacy, but the inability of Safari to have a proper ad blocker is a deal-breaker.
I never had an old employer accuse me, but I did have a consulting client do almost exactly the same thing. It boiled down to a few people at the company that didn't like that we pointed out a lot of security issues on things which were not our direct work but was theirs. Basically we found a few major holes in a couple of their systems we had to do some integration work with and we documented the holes and gave it to the company as part of our deliverable. Well like after 6 months post our exit they had a breach through one of those systems. One of the PM's and a couple of devs accused my team of the breach because someone had used one of the open doors we identified. Literally they had an open port through the firewall to a database system that was unprotected (no password even) and had client data in it, yea Mongo's stupid default no user/password back then.

Essentially I did the same thing you did, reached out to the CEO, he denied they blamed me or my team and said there was nothing he could do about a few "bad apples" running their mouths. I disagreed and pointed out that what they say in a professional capacity about myself or my team as a result of our time there was something he can and should concern himself with. In the end, I did what everyone here is telling you, get a lawyer. It cost me ~$500 to protect our name and put an end to it, essentially we sent a cease and desist letter and a some wording on potential damages given our work and what was being said. That letter only got one response which was they had addressed the employees and agreed my team had nothing to do with their breach. That was all I wanted, and it is what you should get because if it ever comes up you can show that to whoever asks. Took less than a week to resolve and we did work for that company again like 2 years later, guess who no longer worked there, the "bad apples" were all gone, but most of the rest of the team was still around including the CEO who brought us back. So it didn't cause us any damage long term with anyone other than we probably pissed off a few people that were already running their mouths a bit.

One last point. I have had people bad mouth me for a number of things over my career. Not once did it ever really hurt me professionally, mainly because I had a track record showing none of what they said was true. As a consultant I had lots of people pissed saying we were there to displace them, replace them etc etc (even old developers saying that cause they had ancient skillsets). I had articles in a few papers how we were destroying jobs through automation of services of a long term employer in a small town. None of it hurt us, it hurt our pride/feelings a little cause we knew what they were saying was false, but in the end none of it ever affected us professionally. In some cases it actually helped us get other work partially because people saw we didn't react and get defensive or go off the deep end. I am not advocating you don't defend your professional reputation, but just realize there is a time and place to, and a time and place to just let it drop.
i suggest reading it, listening to it would be tough because there are a lot of important illustrations of fractals, etc.
I have never heard of any objective measure of "expressiveness" of human languages.
A piece of advice I would give to students: If you're applying to N universities, have your professors write recommendation letters to accompany applications to N+1 universities (including a university that you're lying about wanting to apply to). Chances are, you'll get N+1 copies of the same letter in sealed envelopes. Open one. If you dislike what they write about you, throw them all in the trash and ask another professor.

Why do I recommend such an unethical course of behaviour? Because some professors are just nice people who want nice things for their students and who will write nice things in letters of recommendations. And some professors will have a character deficiency that will make them feel better about themselves by writing mean things about other people. ...in each case, the "personality test" around the professor has nothing to do with you, so why should you suffer the consequences if you misjudged someone's character.
Thanks for suggestion. Added to my reading list ...
I can very faintly understand the reaction when Boeing was so successful. It just exemplify that no institution should rest on laurels and there should be mandatory external pressure and chaos monkey like systems to restore doubts.
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Long term the current university system is dead. I expect that some universities will exist for another hundred years, but not in it's current form.

Previous decades you had to go to a university to get access to resources that simply didn't exist in the rest of the world. Large libraries, labs, lectures, etc etc. Nowadays the internet can provide vastly superior resources then any Library for the most part. Sure there are lots of stuff not yet on there, but that issue that isn't going to exist forever.

Quality courses exist for free. Lots of others are available for hundreds were at colleges they cost thousands. Access to experts is something you can pay for. Don't need to spend hundreds of dollars on books. Can concentrate on what is important to you and you can go at your own pace. People who want to network and peers can still have access to one another through meetups and online messaging. etc etc.

K-12 education is terrible for most people. You can get far superior education for your children by simply enrolling them in Khan institute and hiring tutors for subjects you are not great on.

People think you need to government to solve the cost of education, meanwhile individuals and companies have reduced the cost of education to nearly zero in most cases. Just won't get those special degree certificates that everybody covets. But that won't last forever either.
I guess there are really better examples than this. One I've learened recently is Torschlusspanik (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torschlusspanik)
The winter months in Berlin can be a bit grim.
I'm using Firefox 71.0 (64-bit) on Ubuntu, and password fields are completely broken! I've tried disabling add-ons, and running in private mode, nothing helps. The only thing that works is if I run in a different profile where there is no account "Sync".
No and I miss it. But I don’t see it as a technology issue anymore. The rise of video and podcasts have greatly reduced the signal to noise ratio. Even if we were to assume the conversations are as interesting and relevant, that content is slower to consume by orders of magnitude.
At one point, I was building a service that allowed you to build digests of collections of feeds and presented the articles in a reddit-style view. Additionally, if others had the articles in their digests, it added a comment section. Is this something you would use? I had trouble gaining traction with the service and shuttered it, but I think about starting it again often.
Everyone worries about these choices in react, but you don't need to, for most apps, they're all good choices: use redux or mobx, doesn't really matter. Use lodash or underscore, doesn't really matter.

There are minor advantages to some of the tools, and the nice thing about the react ecosystem is that it lets you pick if you really need to, but for getting started, just pick one and move on.

IMO this is highly preferrable to the angular world, where some things just can't done without digging through poorly documented internals (at least this was the case wirh v4 when I last used it)
Yes, using rss2email for about 100 items a day, mostly blogs and forum posts. They end up in a RSS folder and are quickly processed with your favourite MUA (mutt in my case).

I make sure that any new sites I build offer RSS and / or Atom feeds.
and it will cost you a ton. I love when people immediately jump to "lawyer up" like that's just nothing.
My new pet theory is that software nowadays is _anti_ power user.

In the 90s and 2000s, software came with a bunch of features that most users would want, and also a few small but powerful features that a tiny portion of their users ("power" users) really cared about. Almost every software had "power" features of some kind. A config file, command line arguments, that kind of stuff.

Nowadays, popular software like Chrome are all too eager to drop "power" features; to make themselves simpler. This avoids confusing general users, at the cost of alienating "power" users.

Dropping Ctrl+tab (heck, making shortcuts support a low priority) is one of such features.
Yes. Moved to feedly when google reader was closed. It's useful to follow news, blogs, etc. The idea of using social media to replace RSS never worked for me, specially after platforms like Facebook started hiding content from our timelines, so I never stopped using RSS.

I also listen to podcasts and that's all powered by RSS feeds.
This comment is surprising to me. Most data scientists use results and measures of statistical significance provided by the program they're using, which accounts for the distribution used. Do you have examples where either data scientists are not presenting aggregate statistics or where someone is using the wrong kinds of p-values?

To your specific examples - the coefficient of a linear regression is distributed normally (?). Similarly, we know the expected distribution of most maximum likelihood estimators (logistic regression, etc.), and programs will give you the right p-value.

Of course, omitted variable bias is still a problem and it is possible to mis-specify your model. However, I think most data scientists are presenting aggregate statistics (means, regression coefficients) like you said, and that we have a pretty good handle on the underlying distributions.
Absolute. I'm using the Nextcloud News plugin which works great and keeps in sync between my devices. Actually I even wrote my own Android client. Because I couldn't find the perfect reader app for me.
How is this funded? Is this just another way to mine people's data?
Frameworks are managers pipe dream. Vanilla never gets old.
"Apparently the only design of the MCAS system the FAA saw was limited to a 0.6 degree deflection [of the stabilizer] at high speeds and only single deflection only. And that was changed and ... it is still unclear how that could happen ... it was changed to multiple activations, even at high speed, and each activation could move the stabilizer as much as 2.5 degrees, and there was no limit to how often it could activate." (~28min; emphasis added)

For me, in a crisis with a lot of burning questions, one I haven't seen raised much is: who changed the MCAS behavior after the FAA "saw" the first version? Someone decided this should happen, and someone implemented it (perhaps the same person). Forget the C-suite for a moment; someone in middle management made this call. Shouldn't they answer for it?
Right, but I was most curious about the persistence of the setting.

Say you set airplane mode. And then the phone sleeps. Will it still be in airplane mode after you wake it?

Or say you shut the phone off, and restart it. Is it still in airplane mode?

That's an issue because, as soon as it's not in airplane mode, it knows where it is.

And that reminds me, does airplane mode disable GPS? Because if it doesn't, it's more or less pointless, from a geolocation perspective.
Funny, I was impressed that they embedded many languages in the video and felt it was a great great work from the group. Sorry it was an annoyance to you.
Two ways. Receipts fade, sometimes very quickly.