skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, theres other ways to be tracked at the network level, sure. I don't see how that changes the discourse?
Beyond the straight technical implications, isn't it concerning that a single company can roll out its own protocol across the server and browser stacks, implicating 7% of web traffic? Would it be more concerning if the same company has certain interest in improving its tracking and data collection capabilities?

Also, I was expecting to find details around browsers implementing some form of network level partitioning at that link you posted, but failed. Care to spell it out for me?
> With every new generation of chips came new possibilities and new applications. The firms that developed those applications the fastest won.

Initially, I was really disappointed in this article. Facebook, on the client-side, was 'possible' on a Pentium 4. Perhaps a III.

Internet speeds where sufficient in the early 2000's, and MySpace was created a year before Facebook. We all know who won.

I really had a hard time seeing what "chip generations" or "being first" had to do with any of it.

Sure, powerful enough hardware is a pre-requisite. But... I couldn't see any correlation between generations of products / services and CPU power.

In my mind, if there was a correlation to be had, it'd rather have been between said generations of products / services and, first internet speed, and then internet adoption.

And Moore's law didn't have much to do with it.

Then, it hit me. I was on the wrong time scale. He's talking decades. We're not looking at the 20 or even 30 years, but at the last 60 or 70 years.

So, yes, he still misses the entire "internet tipping point", with the associated paradigm shift, that is probably just as important as his precious Moore's law.

But he's also right on how it enabled the Mainframe -> PC -> Smartphone transitions.

Although I still don't believe in the theory that being first matters that much.

Who here remembers Microsoft's UMPCs? Or Intel's MIDs? Or the first third-party iPhone app?

... he does make a point. But I don't know what to make of the whole thing, really.
Only if pattern recognition is immoral.
Unless you were on the other side running Windows IIS as a multi tenant server....
Not all books are good.

Your learning comes from the experiences of your life. Reading a good book is like learning someone else’s life.

...That’s why a truly great fiction book may be worth 100x a truly great non-fiction book.
NStD is something everyone in the business world (or who aspires to be) should read.

The fact that much of what we say, especially in times of stress, isn't what we really care about is easy to miss in actual practice.
How so? If a certain group of people always CHOSE profit over doing the right thing other people or groups or teams or whatever you want to call them have every right to criticize them.
The article does not mention whether or not the subject's father was present in his life. Why did you leap straight to that?
Very thorough and well-written essay. Thanks!
How is it more "objectively correct" than DD-MM-YYYY?

Because the I in ISO means International, so it's automatically better on HN.

It's why the people on HN go to International House of Pancakes so much, but wouldn't be caught dead in The Pancake House.
Most math you learn in undergrad was invented 200-300 years ago - 50-200 years ago is grad level material.
We know this is true, because most people can compute that it is 30. The interesting thing is how little dna is required.
> Self-reliance is not considered a meaningful goal - it's so much more convenient to herd them towards ethnically-focused non-profits and "community organizers" funded by government or by politically-minded foundations, mold them into people who will always be dependent on the government for something, 'useful idiots' for the political cause du jour.

Sorry, there is no evidence for this at all. The community organizations that you speak of are trying to provide assistance as well. One can be self-reliant and also participate in their community.
Exactly. Black fathers are screwing it up for generations it seems. We only need to go back a couple of generations to see how good fathers behaved and how that affected the civil rights movement. As in the type of behavior seen during that era is something I can't imagine today - the behavior of those marching and protesting in peace. Obviously there are bad apples in every batch but by and by...
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Somewhat topic-adjacent -- I'm looking at getting a new keyboard. In my early 20s, I used this specific keyboard and while I liked it (as my other comment points out), it's super loud.

Does anyone make a heavy mechanical keyboard with F-Keys on the left any longer? It is a whole lot easier to land on the right F-key without looking down when they're vertical on the left (just like it's easier to hit all the numbers accurately on a number-pad vs. the top row). Being able to one-hand CTRL/ALT+F-keys accurately, without looking, is somewhere between difficult and impossible on modern keyboard designs.

The keyboard I grew up on, the Northgate Omnikey, was heavy, had left-oriented F-Keys, and included replacement key caps for CTRL, ALT and CAPS LOCK (along with a tool to remove the keys!) so that you could put CTRL where CAPS LOCK typically is and ALT where CTRL typically is. It also had corresponding DIP switches that controlled whether the keyboard sent CTRL or CAPS LOCK from that position, so no monkeying around with driver software or OS configuration to make your keyboard behave the way that the key caps indicated.

Are any of you using a board like this which is either USB or PS/2 and has been manufactured in the last 5 years (or is still produced, new, today)?
There are short, easy to read non-fiction books too. It's easy to get through What We Know about Climate Change or Particle Physics, A Very Short Introduction in an evening.
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Most likely autonomous drone navigation (particularly very low altitude terrain following) and targeting. That is how cruise missiles work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

There was a big drone attack on a Saudi Arabian oil processing facility last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_at...
Random thought/question, does `process.stdout.write("Hello World");` in Node.js make any difference? While `console.log()` is correct for this analysis since it's the more common one, it does a lot of extra internal logic: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v13.x/lib/internal/conso...

Edit: I'm just curious and don't know how to even start testinng this, not trying to promote/demote Node.js in any way.
Where is the line drawn, in your opinion? How do we objectively tell the difference?
Just a nit on this point -

"Quick note on Microsoft's implementation: their first shot at it was buggy and caused the "None" policy to omit the SameSite cookie attribute altogether"

This isn't a bug, just unfortunate naming and a lack of prescient engineers. When it was written, None was not a valid enum value (and frankly still isn't) and the default was Lax. To remove Lax, you set it to None in dotnet, which did the standard behavior at the time - emit nothing.

If every framework implemented every random extension proposed to every standard, we'd be in a very messy world with half-baked and sometimes contradictory standards implemented. Special casing because it's Chrome doing the breaking change to the standard/Internet is not a precedent I want to see.
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I guess if the government stopped putting a higher rate of black fathers in jail (they may show up).
Had similar experience that you described but with a professor in Uni. He was documenting everything clearly to the last detail and was unwilling to answer any question, he was even unwilling to listen to questions asked because the answer was documented. I learned a lot in that class but I got a pretty bad taste for this type of this agressive personality. I saw it as logical sadistic at times... In retrospect I think that professor had some sort of asperger or was on the spectrum. I wish I knew that them, I’d probably take it better
True in principle, but the difference is that the children with certain genetic attributes tend to get this kind of support while others don't.
Probably because GP is making a general point about the subject of the article.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4104793/

It's not easy to link to on this page (unless someone can help me out), but there's interesting data about fathers being present in the lives of their children and its impact.

The beige/tan chart about 35% of the way down is what I'm referring to.
Most books don't age well, you're correct. Which is why you should read old books. Old books that are still around today are actually the few that were good enough to keep around. The crappy books from back then have long since aged out and been forgotten.

Meanwhile the "bleeding edge" is still so new, that the crap hasn't aged out of it yet, so your good-to-crap ratio is going to be lower. And while I'm on the subject of crap, don't read too much self-help - not that it's necessarily crap, but being a motivational type thing, it tends to be, essentially, a sales pitch - either for the ideas in the book itself, or possibly for more cynical things such as ancillary product$ or other book$, or for the author's cult of personality. That sort of thing will tend to be, as you said, filled with disconnected fluff/anecdotes/stories etc.

Though at the same time I had to laugh that you complained that "... books ... were mostly filled with ... stories." Yep they sure are! Done right, a story is sometimes the best way to tell something. Problems can be solved obliquely don'tcha know. You might learn more about "How to Win Friends and Influence People" (to pick a classic self-help title) by reading something like Dostoyevsky (though I wouldn't recommend that as a first try).

Get you some fiction. A book that captures something of the universal essence of being human, that's a book that can transcend time, and that's why, again, somebody and a bunch of other somebodies decided to keep reprinting or republishing it. Find a book or an author you believe in, that you consider worth it. Because that was your question. It's partly a self-fulfilling answer. Are books worth it? Read some books and find out.

Any time you skim something, you are putting yourself above the author, making yourself their editor essentially, deciding which parts of what they wrote, needed to actually be written and which parts can be skipped. You're probably not even reading this now, huh fucker? Ha, got you. Seriously though, find an author you can trust, and then surrender to them and their book more. Instead of thinking you know best what can be skipped, actually assume the author knows what they're doing, and wrote all those words on purpose. That won't work if you don't trust them, and it won't work if the author is no good (i.e. can't be trusted).

I bet this approach will also make you, to a surprising degree, remember stuff, whereas before, you (maybe correctly) surmised that nothing in the book was particularly important. You probably had yourself a crap writer right there, that's what that was.
There’s a number of studies over the years that show lesbian parents have had raised more emotionally stable, socially successful adults than men.

“Fathers” full stop is an argument that agrees with what can be true in our reality.

It’s almost as if things we know to be true are often just noises our motor functions generate, and may in fact, upon reflection, be belief not rooted in truth.
True, but I believe the author (who is a black male) is speaking to counteracting the trauma caused by the current state of affairs.
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If you already own a computer with the Windows OS, I don’t see a reason why you shouldn’t start learning Python on it. Anaconda is a great open-source distribution with lots of goodies. Also you can set up a VM with whatever Linux distro you fancy and run with it. Windows 10 itself comes with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). I hope this helps.
Being deliberately obtuse doesn't improve the quality of discourse.
> To put it another way, if we A/B test a documentation set that follows minimalist or constructivist guidelines with a documentation set written by someone who doesn't understand those principles, I will wager money that the minimalist/constructivist doc set will lead to higher user success rates, however we agree to objectively measure that.

Sure. What I was saying is that if you do A/B testing of docs that are written in a non-minimalistic way with correct, functioning code, and docs written in the best style with code samples that do not work, the former will have more value and will generate more of the before-agreed metrics than the later. Consequently, focus on minimalism should come after focus on technical expertise, which is not my experience (and I would go as far to say that it's not the practise of something like 80% of the field).

> As a meta note I'd really appreciate if you didn't say "most technical writers focus too much on style" and instead would say something like "the technical writers I've worked with focus too much on style".

I did say that. I said:

- "... most TWs I've seen ..."

- "A lot of technical writers focus ..."

- "... I've seen tech writers have ..."

I'll grant that there's missing one "... I've seen" in the list above :). But, of course it's only my experience. I don't know tech writers at Google, for example, or Amazon.

> This is the equivalent of saying "most software engineers are code monkeys with no social skills"

It's not because of the ad-hominem.
Personally for fiction movies and video games don’t match the amazement I can experience with a book.
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Accessibility may be an issue as well. All those subtle shadows defining the ui elements are not clear to an older or limited vision audience.
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Very insightful. It becomes a vicious cycle when fathers aren’t even able to show up because they’re behind bars.
> Most 18-year-olds are not super differentiated from each other.

I wonder if this is just elitism looking down on the great unwashed masses. I confess that my own initial reaction was to agree with the claim, then start composing a comment about how I was different from the others. But I, as much as anyone else, need to be careful not to stereotype a whole group of people.
This advice is dangerous.

They have managed to do it right and didn't cut corners. But it'll inspire thousands of "React developers" and provide them further validation to puke out abominations such as the New Reddit.
They are playing the long game with their GSuite offering. 70% of the USA educational market migrated to Google last 5 years.
Tor-like circuits, but for general purpose VPN activities using our WebRTC VPN protocol (instead of just TCP connections).
Most of my 27 years were as a consultant. Honestly, every time I hear someone talk about what you did, scope change, I ask, "What was the original definition in the contract?" Usually I hear back, "it was just a quote for the job, no contract."

Scope changes aren't scary if you write a good contract. As a consultant, that's truly one of the most important skills, writing a well defined scope for contracts. That way when it changes, you're covered by change order fees.
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Yes you can. You can install WSL and you have an ubuntu bash shell. Or just use putty/ssh and login to a server.
By saying they don't read and don't think. Telling yourself things like that about any group of people makes it easier and easier to disregard them as fellow humans entirely.
Nobody uses the greek word anymore. It is therefore invalidated. Morphism is currently used in things more fundamental than geometry, specifically category theory. Look it up on wikipedia, it's official. This medium article is far away from official.

What gets me is that some designer out of nowhere can repurpose the word because it sounds cool. Seriously nuemorphism? This is the inception of a buzzword, created literally for the purpose of "buzz."

I have a new word, it's called "buzzology." The science of stealing legitimate words from academic fields and repurposing them to make your new "theory" or "design" sound much cooler than just a drop shadow behind a box.
The author shares these kids' "specific genetic attributes" and feels that they're especially qualified to talk about what these kids need. They don't necessarily trust their own expertise beyond that.
Why not just get a cheap underpowered Chinese smartphone that can do all the simple things but has a crap camera and a low res. easily scratched screen, so you don't bother taking pictures, a weak processor so web pages render so slowly that they discourage you from browsing, etc.

Then you can donate the remaining USD 250 to a more worthy cause.
Crazy thought. Maybe stop committing crime and you won’t go to prison.
Is democracy important enough?

Btw, the issue here isn't ads, but the data and usage of data.
A trivial example of the pervasiveness of what you are describing is the fact my comment that merely stated "These things are no mutually exclusive" got flagged within 30 seconds. It is a comeplete denial of agency.

You need to have discipline to be able to benefit from a mentor. And probably vice versa.
"Don’t tell the reader something is extremely complex; likewise don’t tell the reader something is simple. The reader will make up their own mind about a concept being easy or hard."

I think this is great advice, and applied to teaching. I can't tell you the number of times a professor has said "and then obviously it follows that" or "it's easy to see that". Nearly every time that was uttered in a lecture I wanted to hurl my textbook at the board.

Looking for alternatives? "Is it easy?" or "It might be obvious" work fine. Maybe use those moments as opportunities to check in with your audience. In the written context, maybe offer end/footnotes explaining why it might be obvious/easy.
That's a simple analysis to an incredibly complex issue. There are many reasons some black fathers aren't around to raise their kids. Some reasons under their control, many not. The cycle continues until underlying circumstances (societal, penal, etc) are addressed.
Get a job( even if it's for a few days, evening, weekend or part time) in some completely unrelated field. It's fascinating how much you can discover when you step out of the world where a standard notion is to either automate stuff or to make some smart,yet complex solutions to most problems.
It's a system built on discrimination, the idea that people of different color are going through the exact same thing is ridiculous. People love telling other people how to fix problems they have no idea about.
It's not a competition. It's a responsibility.
Intel has a low-power PAUSE instruction that is literally a ‘rep nop’. I assume Arm has one too.
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I can link to stats that link absentee black fathers to criminal justice bias, and stats that show lesbian parents are producing stabler kids than hetero couples at scale.

If statistical evidence is all we’re gonna rely on, it’s seems less to do with the dangly bits between a parents legs and more what emotional lessons they’re teaching while the other parent takes some very much needed rest.

What a shock, sharing the emotional load keeps one anxious train wreck parent from raising an anxious train wreck kid who can’t achieve.

Life lessons we knew decades ago but now we have a stat. So it means more I guess to be gentle with each other.
So what's the incarceration rate for black men (or black fathers) in the typical age where they have children? (I guess ~18-35?) Seems like this stat should be publicly available.

Perhaps I'm naive, but I can't imagine it to be more than 15% of this population [and that would be pretty extreme]. If that's the case, how can incarceration be considered a major cause of these fathers "failing from showing up?" (I guess we'd need a number for that, too..)
What's called "entitlement tilt."
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You could certainly take week-long or month-long vacations, or take a month off of consulting to do things like business development or education. Generally, if you're at the level where you're billing engagements weekly or monthly, monetarily you don't need every single week to be filled with billable work.
IIRC, there are some issues with Red Fuming Nitric Acid & titanium, possibly resulting in sudden explosions under some circumstances.

Hydrazine + nitrous oxide could be fine though, but better check first before use. ;-)
Seth Godin's success is proof that mediocrity pays if you're early.

>Or say you make a mistake and go to the concert instead of selling (those seats are $500 seats now). But Bruce is sick and Manfred Mann is substituting for him. You don’t like him so much. But you paid $500 for the seats! Should you stay?

Well then the concert would be cancelled and you would get a refund.

In regard to the sign, if it were accidentally misspelled the person who made it should fix it at no extra cost.

He cannot even give good examples to support his thesis.
You're missing out. I think it has to do with depth.
A real world parallel: I recently travelled by car with no internet access with a friend for 3 days.
The level and depth of the conversation was surprisingly high because we could build on each precedent layer. No interruptions meant a higher architecture, so to speak.
Books can take you in places nothing else can.
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Agreed, but as a black man who grew up fatherless be mindful why black fathers are absent. Many times it's not by choice. There were and still are intentional systems in place to make it difficult for fathers to get jobs, stay within the prison system, and have access to quality education. I urge people commenting to ask their black friends for their insights. I came from an inner city and graduated from CMU. The two worlds are stark and mind blowing. But in the end, more mentors at an early age can help break the cycle. That's how you can play your part.
It’s funny. If an article mentions how much someone in management gets paid, it’s all about how they don’t deserve it, they’re profiting off someone else’s sweat, they’re useless, it’s unfair, etc. Then you see something like a data breach or the Boeing fiasco and management belongs in jail because they didn’t put good processes in place for the engineers.
I really wish that all markets worked like that. When they work, markets are an amazing mechanism for pricing, driving value creation, allocating capital, and searching the economic and technological solution space.

But they don't work like this all the time, for all goods.

Tetraethyl lead, which quite probably caused material long-term harm to entire generations, is gone because the bureaucrats banned it. The free market would never have phased it out organically in a reasonable time-frame, we know this because it didn't. The market participants fought for its continued use and obfuscated the issues to their advantage.

GlacierMD was explicitly an attempt to filter, aggregate and make available high-quality health-care information (i.e. improve the quality of the signal, which is necessary for efficient market functioning), and it did not find a value proposition in the market.
I found Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces" an interesting read in this vein.
Arrows are artificial to the eyes. They never existed in nature. However, people have been recognizing hand signals for years.

Paleo design involves replacing all flat arrows with a photorealistic picture of a hand curled into a fist with the index finger pointing at the subject.

That's a free lesson in paleo design for you!