skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused by the plurality of this single overly-aggressive cultural perspective that any intercourse even vaguely race-related necessarily is a transgression against the minority race involved.

Your analysis of the anecdote(!) that white offices seem to use people of color in gifs more often is concerning. It doesn't seem reasonable to think that working-class whites -- through meme communication at work -- oppress anybody in any meaningful way. Of course I understand _why_ someone would think that, and I largely agree with it.

That is the theory that modern white culture consists of microaggressions which enforce a race-order in society while outwardly appearing "equal" and "inclusive". But the memes at work? Aren't there more important institutionalized racist policies to tackle? When you argue that the individual's choice to use memes with people of color is itself a problem worth addressing, we lose the more important issues that need to be fixed to the noise.

If you really want to convince someone (or society) that something needs to change, you don't ask them to change a million things, you ask them for one thing. That's why we've been divided on race issues for so long, but it's even worse what's happening now. Now, the left (or those whites "in power" who say they are "woke" and want change) realizes it's easier to sit back and claim martyrdom for failing to convince the right (or those whites "in power" whose support is needed to make systematic racial change) because of some fundamental flaw in our opponent, rather than because of some flaw in the completely incoherent message of "change" that we are maintaining.

And it's disgusting because the left revels in this self-righteousness while actively sabotaging our own "goals" in order to reserve for ourselves this position of universality.

If we really want to make any change we would pick ONE policy. We would push and push until it HAD to become _law_. Then we would continue to push that program until that law HAD to become a _success_, and we would use that success to push ONE more policy. But we muddy the conversation with inane demands like "the (anecdotal!) tendency of white people to use people of color in gifs to communicate on Slack must be addressed," not so that we will actually _change_ that behavior, but once again to reserve the moral high-ground for, you guessed it, WHITES IN POWER (US).

I think this is the most sinister and disgusting forms of racism, and it's being perpetuated by US! Most progressive whites I know really ARE good people, and really DO want social change, but they (you, OP, you) don't realize that they're participating in a much more dangerous form of oppression, because it _feels good_.

It probably made you feel really good that you "educated" all of us on HN on this super important racial topic that you just happen to be "woke" on. You probably thought that was you "doing your part to end racism." Well your moralist masturbation just perpetuated the very cycle of racism that you espouse to despise.
Well it is clearly the opposite for me, the more I consume video or audio content the less I build things. Audio and video put you in a position of comfort in which 'virtual' learning is easy.

Learning can't be easy, that's the point of learning, and often the best way to learn is to experience and test by yourself, which is clearly the opposite of listening to podcasts.

Also I do find that the content in podcast is almost always the same and only less than 5% of the talk is actually interesting

As for people who explains that they are as much productive when coding only than coding and listening podcast at the same time, this is probably wrong, humans are not very good at doing two things at the same time
One more app removed from my phone now. Thanks Facebook.
nah, it's all good:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kutty

Maybe in dutch it can be called mutty.
You assume that the user account is anything more than a user-Agent. Accounts do not at all bind one-to-one with people. They never have, never will, and the push to try to make it so is a fool's errand.

That account could just be the tip of the spear of an entire department of information warfare specialists.

This is why the old tongue in cheek wisdom "On the Internet, no one knows you're a {dog,child,FBI Agent,Special Information Warfare Directorate Agent,Nymphomaniacal Grandma} " never stopped being relevant. User-Agents!=Users.

Don't get into the habit, lest the ones who don't run circles around you.
There was steady improvement for decades (e.g. on a Mac, you can compare Fred, Victoria, Vicki, and Alex, as representatives of 4 generations of TTS, and there were year-over-year improvements as well).

But the latest neural techniques have added quite a bit of naturalness, and their computational requirements, while high, are within the reach of consumer level devices.
> Someone sneezed on...

Sanjay Gupta was talking on CNN (I know, not the most reputable source) and at one point flat out said "If a cook in the kitchen of a restauraunt you're ordering from has covid19 and sneezes on your food, it won't get passed on to you, since this is not a food borne illness".

I was quite shocked to hear that.

I'd be very curious to see what actual science says about food as an infection vector.
Could the company use something like AGPL in these instances? (The developing company ofc wouldn't follow the AGPL, but in this case the code is officially open source.)
> Google pretty often refuses to respond to counter-dmcas,

There is not requirement to respond to DMCA notices or counternotices, doing so merely protects against certain liability you might otherwise have. In the case of counternotices, there generally is no liability to protect against (because providers can usually structure agreements with users to avoid liability for takedowns), and thus no reason to respond.
Downvotes? Groovy. Prove me wrong. Any "Remove Bad Internet Stuff" law will do.

edit: sigh. HN lessons are painful lessons.
I exclusively use signal whenever someone else is on it, and try my best to encourage people to contact me on it. The new improved UI has helped me get some more friends on it. Previously some folks complained it was "too weird".

However, signal has some showstopper bugs which make it really hard to use.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6079

I haven't faced this bug with any other messenger app ever, and it is really really frustrating.
I have multiple VR devices and for some reason, even with SteamVR active and my Index plugged in the last hardware survey didn't register my VR device, so its possible that the number is actually much higher than reported.
> You can read a bit about computer hacker culture in the Jargon file.

The Jargon File is an artifact of "hacker culture" as it existed in the 1980s and early 1990s. I would hesitate to recommend it nowadays -- it's rather dated, and could lead an unaware reader to some false impressions.
As I understand it there are reasons you want to not be behind in process technology as it makes your chips much faster. If your economy wants to keep pace I think this is a clever decision by the US government to entice TSMC to build a 5nm fab in the US.
Which is why many East Asian countries have big PR campaigns that focus on how stylish cotton masks are and how they're "more effective" than medical masks*

*more effective at slowing spread through the population, not more effective protection
What you're missing here is that you not shopping anymore DOES have an affect. You're just missing the larger picture where they might be seeing a reduction in growth of shoppers and they might be considering doing things to combat that.
I had a recruiter from Giphy pursue me pretty hard, and all I could think was there's no way I'm going to go to a company that won't be around in a year.
I think the reason is very simple, aid needed to be targets because those industries are hit harder. ex. If you send everyone a check for $5k, during the quarantine, no one is using that $5k to purchase gasoline or flights, so the oil/airline industry is going to be burning money during that time. Oil and air travel are particularly important to have healthy for after we get back to normal.
To me, MM is the activity of providing liquidity with passive buy and sell orders - profiting from the spread while taking on inventory risk. That's also how exchanges define it, paying (or giving discounts to) traders whose orders are filled passively - the whole maker/taker incentive that was invented to attract customers a few decades ago. And we had human market makers well before electronic markets, and we still have them for illiquid markets today. They are (still now) called Market Makers even though they trade on minute scales!

So why is it not considered Market Making if I make decisions on millisecond or second scales? I don't understand how that is related to time horizon. So that's what I meant with original question, why can't I be a profitable market maker without HFT speeds? I still don't see the reason... Or are we just arguing about definitions here? Maybe when you say MM, what you really mean is HFT, but in my head the taxonomy looks completely different.

DMMs are a different story since that's basically just an SLA you have to adhere to, but not talking about DMMs in this case.
This sounds exactly like the thing to KEEP on blogging about. Those people you mentored would look up to you for advice. Having humility to post about being wrong and what you've learned since is huge.

Don't be afraid to blog about multiple options either. I think value in being a successful senior engineer is knowing what to do once you can start to visualize those multiple options.
Yeah, there's a good reason they didn't do it: their constituents (by which I mean the people who paid to put them in office, not the people who voted for them) are in a poor position to capture a per-person bailout but are in an excellent position to capture a bailout of "the market."

POSIWID.
I have mostly been playing indie games. I find as a get older, triple A titles don't really appeal to me anymore. I sometime wonder if its possible to make a living developing a procedural generated rogue like on steam.
luhn responded to this one pretty well :)

Basically, most of these issues are gone. As long as you don't have extreme skew in your partition keys, you don't need to worry about throughput limits.
Xperi board sued for keeping TiVo merger on track
What about Bridge water and Hudson river trading
Hmm, I guess I know why SwiftKey became free. Probably want to check on their privacy policy now
Makes sense, it seems like a great way to inject ads coupled with facebooks profile information it's likely a goldmine

You start a campaign and suddenly you have people inserting meme-like-ads feature your content into their chat threads

It'll have a personal and convincing touch ( esp. with facebooks ad targeting) it's going to be amazing for our industry reaching customers, Pepe/Trump memes did win an election afterall

Also a great way to get ads into whatsapp messages without seeming intrusive
I understand that PeerTube is an interesting project but every time I look into it it seems hostile to any kind of "normal" user so I'm just assuming that's not the goal of the project to become some kind of popular alternative?

I tried to pretend I'm a normal user and looked at the website and right now it goes like this:

Let's say you are interested in the project, maybe you heard that it's a more open alternative to YouTube and you are intrigued. So you end up on: https://joinpeertube.org

There's no content visible or anything that would spark any interest in a person looking for a video site. I realized that joinpeertube.org is the site of the open source project and I have to look at a specific instance to get a more "YouTube"-like experience. So I click on "Instance list" which brings me to:

https://joinpeertube.org/instances#instances-list

The first entry in the instance list is "No Censorship Tube" and you don't really see if it's an active instance, popular or anything as it just says "Follows 0 instances" which makes it seem like an abandoned project.

Am I using it wrong?
Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been infected already
Nice start. Best of luck for future work.
I always think the argument that it should be used to resolve "blockers" is weird. As a professional, you need to be able to resolve "blockers" on your own -- you have to track down people and work with them, it's not always the PMs job. In all my years of experience if I was dealing with a "blocker", then either everyone involved already knew about it way ahead of the standup, or I didn't think the standup was a good way to resolve it.

So really the daily standup is about progress reports. Which is totally fine, but, yeah, async is just as effective.
"3. Masks mostly don't help you, they help the people AROUND you."

This is false. A more accurate statement would be, "masks help".
> no reason to respond.

Sure maybe from a purely cynical profit-motivated standpoint. Even then there's the risk of pissing off your users.
I think in OP's case they mentioned the nontrivial complication that admitting they did not teach someone well is admitting publically that some of your students are bad software engineers, which could affect them. It's not that they can't admit it to themselves, it's that they want to be tactful in announcing it from the rooftops.
That would be great! I am interested in the data. Thanks
This is completely tangental but I think it is wrong to see the internet as needing another feature in order to be complete. I think we really need a ground up re-think of data.

I remember diligently cataloging my movie preferences in LoveFilm, a UK Netflix competitor (when Netflix was a movie-by-mail company). I think I rated thousands of movies. I did the same in Netflix, certainly hundreds of films before they changed their rating scheme to thumbs up and "preference rating". Yet I have no access to this data.

We often talk about how much companies know about us. Google knows what search terms I search for. Facebook knows what content I slow down on while scrolling my feed. Youtube knows what videos I watch. My cell phone company probably knows the location of my cell every minute of the day. And outside of the horrible interfaces they have been regulated to provide me access to that data ... it is almost completely opaque to me.

Re-thinking data isn't the kind of thing a startup can do. I think we need to find legal mechanisms to really force companies to make data available to the originators of that data. IMO, that is the only way we salvage the Internet.
Goodbye Webpack: Building Vue.js Applications Without Webpack
According to Wikipedia, JCPenny’s has 90,000 employees. Assuming half were furloughed/fired (and it’s probably more than that), then distributing $7,500,000 to 45,000 people is $166/person.
I've given up on humans in general being amenable to reason. If an obvious 2-bit incompetent conman can get 40 percent of the population to swear unwavering alliegance, the species has no chance. Dinosaurs lasted far longer, we're just too stupid as a collective.
Maybe. The example that popped into my head, however, was Fabrice Bellard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard.

To the best of my knowledge, he shares in one way: a dump of his amazing code appears from time to time.

However, I have never read a comment, tweet, blog post, or mailing list post by him. They may exist and I have crossed paths with them. Or perhaps he's an incredibly helpful guy to work with. But that's not the foundation of his excellence.
Why does going to good school really matter if you are bringing in top notch skills I think that's one the reason why financial companies are having a hard time retaining good tech talent but they pay really well compared to FAANG
insufficient and ineffective regulation. imagine if they were actually held to account
I hope this transaction undergoes a deep antitrust review. As Instagram should have.
Just completed my first webdev project today: https://gravity-doc.com/

It's essentially a 2D rigid body simulation reskinned to look like a text editor. At the moment it supports basic commands like copy, paste, save, etc.
Also, there are cheatcodes.
Then explain to me why in some countries they recommend to go with masks and in others, like Australia, they don't recommend it. The thing is all those facts are useless because nobody knows yet how this virus behave and there is no one standard way to compare the data from various countries. I can't see one pattern that explains things coherently. It seems like in every country things are happening more or less randomly.

TBH, the corona made me even more suspicious about climate change assumptions. If they can't even explain one virus that happens right now how can they predict a very complicated system like the climate for many years ahead? I am not saying to ignore data but knowing those various "facts" not necessarily help with deriving any insight or action plan, let alone predicting the future.
Looks to be a play on the word “Angle” - in the context of news, this is the point you’re trying to convince your readers of. “What’s your angle?”
FB has dramatically reduced ad spend waste. Not sure how anyone can call that valueless. Moreover, though you may be annoyed by your mother-in-law's minion memes, Facebook is a (free) vital communication tool for millions who are less privileged than you.

The facebook hate really just gets out of hand sometimes.
For my current serverless project I'm using Fauna which I think is a better option than Dynamo. You get relations, complex queries, etc. You also get authentication and authorization baked-in.

I haven't done any serious tests but I'd say on average my reads to Fauna from Cloudflare workers are 30ms. Seems a lot compared to querying a local instance of Postgres but since Fauna is distributed you end up getting much better latency on average for your worldwide users compared to a single DB in us-east-1.

Writes take longer (probably around 200-300ms on average) but considering these are replicated to all Fauna servers with ACID I'm ok with that.

I wrote a little intro to Fauna's query language which is very powerful if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/PierBover/getting-started-fauna-db-fql
probably it'll be gone. gfycat already banned it, creating another service (redgifs I think) and moving that content there
Isn’t there a gif of the entire first Shrek movie?
I think listening to audio is more conducive to "drive by learning". It allows your eyes to get distracted and you can maintain some level of attention for a longer period. Our brains are also simply better at picking clues signalling the important stuff, when listening to someone speaking.

I have turned HN into a personal data-oriented wikipedia and I want to test consuming the resulting feed through audio (like a npr for data-based facts) [0].

If some of you would like to take part into the experiment, leave a comment below !

[0] http://datum.alwaysdata.net
You could also argue that due to Microsoft and the past being what it was, there is also way more to lose.
I love standups.

Been doing them for over a decade as a developer and lead developer.

But a lot of people make the mistake of following someone's specific "agile" or whatever system for them. Every team is different and should evolve their processes around what works for that particular team.

For me standup accomplishes a lot of great things.

- Let's everyone know what everyone else is doing. Which let's us identify if two of us are working in the same area of code and address how to do so without creating painful merges.

- Let's you know if someone is struggling to complete their work so you can figure out how to address (pair program, training, eliminating distractions for them, etc.)

- Parking lot gives everyone on a team a daily time that everyone else will listen to them and think about their problem or idea.

And my current team does our retros, planning, and any other meeting we can fit in immediately after standup. This compresses our meeting time down since having a bunch of scattered meetings is too disruptive for programmers as they need uninterrupted blocks of time to code during.

This is entirely against the traditional spirit of standup but it works great for my team.
google has chosen their pricing model tho. if it makes extensions a burden they should probably do something different
Why is it not possible to store all code there? Especially after github add private repos free?
I often find when I use people's toilets that I need to fix the toilet roll to the correct orientation.
It has an interactive debugger, which is not useless. Clearly.
Engines of Democracy (1999)
I would assume labor, not simply the cost of returns, is a huge factor for them. Considering that, a packaged a solution that works out-of-the-box with minimal setup might be a prerequisite for adopting your suggestion. For example, you could build your suggested solution in a manner that works with the Pinebook Pro's built-in camera and create a Debian package that can be installed alongside and easily invoked from whatever burn-in pipeline they use. Then they can just point the laptop at a mirror during burn-in.
CNN: Quickly Coronavirus Can Spread
But ClF3 is harmless compared to dimethyl mercury (which he also goes into) -- and which the USAF contemplated as a reaction mass for air to air missiles, until they realized the mercury in the exhaust plume would melt their launch aircraft wings (not to mention being a potent neurotoxin), at which point they tried to sell it to the US Navy!
I think you may have forgotten what it's like to be a young person encountering new technical concepts for the first time. Or maybe you were fortunate enough never to have encountered a misleading description, or maybe you were smart enough to think beyond every misleading decription on your own every time. Most people are not so fortunate.

The problem here is not that the article uses an analogy, the problem is that it doesn't present it as an analogy, it presents it as literal. The headline says that mathematicians have measured a force. That's nonsense. They did no such thing. But in order to realize that they did no such thing and that the "repulsive force" idea is an analogy you have to already know what is going on.

Here is another example from the body of the article:

"“You can think of the roots of a polynomial as negatively charged particles that repel each other with a force that decays when the distance increases,” Breuillard said.

No, you can't. If you could, then the "force" that these "particles" exerted on each other would cause them to move in accordance with Newton's first law. So not only is it an analogy presented as literal, it's actually a bad analogy.
I have a saas for non-devs to open big CSVs, so code I've written has parsed thousands of garbage CSVs (and failed to parse thousands others).

Lots of pitfalls are easy to avoid if you already know them, which it sounds like you do. The author is saying that most engineers aren't aware of these issues, and the author is correct.

Writing a for loop is easy, but so is using a language's built in CSV writer.
Why the Largest Cyberattack in History Will Happen Within Six Months
'Practically every employee in every firm in America is working from a makeshift desk on their kitchen table. Firms only had days to cobble together remote work plans. So you can bet most didn’t set up secure systems, like the one my friend is using. In fact, the vast majority of employees probably don’t even have dedicated work laptops.

'So hundreds of millions of folks are using personal laptops–on unsecured home internet connections–to access work files. Many of which likely contain confidential information and personal data.'