skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the beginning of my tech career when I was looking for my second job, I had an interview and then was asked to fill a written application with this question.

The question sounded out-of-context/bizarre to me, and in addition I didn't liked the company, so I wrote:

"In 5 years I'll become the CEO of this company and will fire you all" ;)
For a start, it wasn't "canceled," it was halted until proper authorization is obtained.

I don't really see the point of most of the stories about various ongoing tests. Until something is shown to be effective, what benefit do we get from learning all these details?
Fisherman Catches Sacred Math Cubes, Internet Goes on Scavenger Hunt
You shouldn't ignore the fact that Apple's larger 7nm SoC has the same die size as Ice Lake, and has been shipping a lot longer. To the extent that TSMC's 7nm has been confined to small, low-power chips, Intel's 10nm has the same problem but worse.
Browsing for a few minutes, I can already see plenty of HPC and computing articles. Thank you!
HN's software debaiter changed it. If it gets it wrong, you can always click 'edit' to edit the title. In this case I'd say it probably got it right though.
How to Automate Your Emails with Python
Collider bias undermines our understanding of Covid-19 disease risk and severity
link: https://www.realworldtech.com/
imo we need personal, public IP addresses, not labyrinthine decentralized p2p projects
There is also harm to telling them other incorrect facts, but we generally consider a ministry of truth to be a bad idea. Yet we tolerate the ministry of food and drug truth. This story underlines the cost of that.
I admit that I haven't read everything, but that's because I got stuck on the first paragraph of the README:

> New UI pattern for file manager type apps. It makes moving and reordering files much easier and more intuitive than traditional UI patterns.

You should go into more detail who the target audience is here. Casual users don't care about moving and reordering files into place meticulously. They just want to find stuff quickly and are will prefer a better search box over a better filing system.

I'm sitting on the other end of the scale. I do obsess over file ordering to a certain extent, but then again doing any of this ordering on any sort of phone UI drives me crazy because of the form factor. I'm much better served by something that lets me do this on the big screen. Right now I use KDE Connect which has a feature for mounting the phone's FS on the PC via sshfs. Then I can use big-boy file managers (or heck, just a terminal and good ol' coreutils).

I'm not saying that there is no place for your UI design, but a good design starts from which users have which needs, and your pitch (i.e. the README) should reflect that.
Golang is a pretty good example.

> The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.

~ Rob Pike
There's a lot of discussion on HN about things that increase or decrease covid-19 risk, and I thought this paper was interesting.

There's also a twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/bristimtom/status/1259458854020165632
If the software changes a title you can always use 'edit' to change the change.

Software changes don't show up in Peter's app of course, since they're done at submission time.
I've been collecting blogs I'm interested in via. HN, lobste.rs, reddit, or just random links all around, and am now at around 50 feeds, all of which at least have once had content that I'm genuinely interested in. Then I use `newsboat` for reading and keeping track of what I've seen.

Overall I'm very happy with this extremely simple setup, and am almost annoyed that I didn't spend those few seconds it is to set something like this up years ago.

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As to the original link posted, blogs obviously never went anywhere, but they aren't (anymore) in the places that you are.
I feel this comes close to the frustration some people have that "nobody is reading books anymore because everyone are streaming movies and series instead". Books never went anywhere, and they're probably more accessible than ever. If you're not reading books now, that's on you.

Similarly with blogs: if you're not reading and/or following blogs, it's just because you don't want to.
It's simple and demonstrates that the Nash equilibria of a game can deviate from the strategies that produce the best payoff. I think most pop sci corollaries people try to draw from it are overreaches at best.
This article makes... no sense to me. Blogs are still around, everywhere, and show up easily in search results if a post matches a relevant query. And bloggers still list other blogs in sidebars.

I genuinely don't understand the author's complaint. The only thing I can imagine is that there are a lot more alternatives for self-expression on the internet now, e.g. Instagram, Twitter, podcasts, etc. So blogs are perhaps a smaller percentage.

But given that you could never read even 0.1% of all the blog posts ever written, the percentage is irrelevant. There are more unique, quirky, individualist blogs out there than the author could ever get to the end of.

So I don't understand what the problem is. It's not even factual. The author claims Blogger was shut down... but it still exists. The author claims there's no way to find blogs... but it's pretty easy. The author claims nobody is writing blogs... but obviously they are.

I guess the main complaint is that you can't find quirky random blogs by searching Google for the search term "blog"? Not much of a complaint to me. If you want a curated list of quirky blogs, there are lots of lists out there of people's favorites.
Review of the Surface Book 3 for Developers
Oh that's awesome. How on earth is this not the main page?
This reminds me of the Gerbils Museum [1], although this one is obviously a real museum for humans visited by penguins, rather than a museum built specifically for penguins.

[1] https://www.boredpanda.com/quarantine-gerbil-art-gallery/
sourcehut.org is the proper landing page.
>what specific power does the Executive branch have?

They could just go after any company that doesn't bow to them for something like antitrust. Hell- make something up. Legal battles cost money and business and Uncle Sam has basically limitless cash to use for this.
> They are not health organizations.

They are in part. Apple's "edge healthcare" products and services are an important aspect of the Apple experience.

[1] https://www.apple.com/healthcare/ [2] https://www.apple.com/healthcare/apple-watch/ [3] https://www.apple.com/healthcare/health-records/ [4] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208647
exactly, because you need knowledge to do with files systems what we have been able to do with phone numbers for 100 years
If you keep posting like this to HN we will have to ban you again.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
1) there is no real "tragedy of the commons" in the general case. Google Elinor Ostrum to verify. Even Garret Hardin (originator of the concept) has conceded this, at least in part. The crux is that the "commons" as described by Hardin has essentially never existed in the form that he wrote about - things that are "commons"-like are actually always a complex mixture of law, tradition, culture and social sanctions governing their use. When people screw up "the commons", it's not because there are no mechanisms to prevent it, it is because these people have chosen to ignore them, and have made extra effort to do so.

2) You're seriously claiming that Reddit, a privately held company with sysadmins, subreddit moderation and user voting, could be a venue in which what happens is "a tragedy of the commons" (should such a thing actually exist)?
The big difference is in the social housing model rent is on a sliding scale so you get a mix of incomes. In America public housing was only for very poor people. America's public housing era also coincided with deindustrialization, the end of full employment, and the neoliberal turn. Good social policies work together. When some policies are neglected the policies that exist get blamed for the overall failure. For example, in America there's poverty, so schools in poor areas are blamed. Nobody in rich suburbs wants charter schools. The problem is obviously economic policies that cause poverty, not the schools, but because there's no full employment policy, the schools get blamed.
Maybe you should read the article?
That’s exactly how I felt reading the article. Their worse case historic scenario is 3 years? Not many people should be investing with a shorter timeline than that anyway!?
Full disclosure, I hold a short GOOG position right now, but I'm long on a similar company, so it's a hedge. I don't think Google's worth more today than it was on Jan 1. You're right that it's a feeling, but it seems crazy to think that with 15% unemployment, it's still worth that.

I'm also leaning towards a longer recovery in consumer discretionary right now. Someone posted a story here about how people started self locking down before government lockdowns. While I think people are over the strict versions and are ready to get out of the house, I also think they'll be slow to return to malls and movie theaters.
Most HN comment ever. I don’t care about noob spam or even know what that could possibly be. It just isn’t fun and weirdly addictive in a bad way.
If the question is "Is there a commercially-viable search engine that supports this feature", then the answer is "probably not".

Implementing this properly involves having your own search index. And that's pretty expensive.
I get the criticism (and "you need to find out for yourself" at ~0:44 sounds somewhat robotic), but given that it's aiming at the entertainment industry, where you will have background music most of the time, it also seems like a fair choice of representing real-world usage (where background music might always hide the imperfections a bit).
I believe that "things are net better" is a profoundly wrong way to decide if something is moral, no matter how you define "things are net better."

Again, see "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." I hope I would walk away, even at the price of slow starvation.

I believe I would, but it is hard to know what you will actually do in a truly awful situation before it arrives.
May be it is high time to examine if the representative democratic practices that are being followed are well suited for the current society with hyper connectivity?
Then perhaps, you‘ll love his (formerly) podcast even more.

https://garbage.jcs.org/
Single Message Transformations – The Swiss Army Knife of Kafka Connect
inb4 "muh private company"

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Brazil didn't do well at all. Try again.
Thank you. I am already reading Creativity Inc. at the moment and I am greatly enjoying it. I will check out the others as well.
A fine demonstration how "basically correct in two sentences" is better than "technically correct in five sentences" in most situations.
How will it cope when content starts to grow? It will require a massive single request to fetch the content and then JS will have to build the interface.

Like other commented, better split pages and prefer pre-rendering. Documentation is something I usually need immediately and I really don't care how pretty it looks.
s/confidence/greed/
FDA approval of new testing kit increases hope for detecting infections at home
> just that they don’t generate new goods and services.

The highway down the street from me was funded using Bonds. I even own a few Hospital bonds, which were used to construct hospitals.
See also

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825698

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17846522

Others?
I am not convinced that there is enough good content to sustain blogs. Even in the current blogging minimum I see a lot of repetitive self-selling blogs from the usual suspects and a performative aspirational blogs from nobodies. The people who I would read are mostly doing work and, if the are writing, it is about the state of their current work (Brian Goetz for example) rather than broader thoughts about the state of the industry, priorities and challenges. Technical content and informed perspectives are sadly in short supply.
Expanding all those 'move here' regions sure is disorienting and janky/slow. I suggest a floating element with an arrow pointing to the seam between the list items, that way you don't have to relayout anything.
Getting started with Rust by building a tiny Markdown compiler
> Reddit doesn’t display those qualities because of the tragedy of the commons phenomenon.

I find Reddit is still one of my favorite resources to search for help. If I need help on how to do some home DIY thing or help on making a particular decision, I'll Google for "how to decide blah Reddit" and I'll get much, much better signal than just Googling for "how to decide blah". In the latter case I'll get a bunch of ad-filled garbage and an article that was probably written by an algorithm.
No bookmarks of your own?

Eg. check http://handlr.sapico.me/Item/Create on top right (The bookmarklet).

On mobile ( Android), I share websites to Tasker that then open handlr.sapico.me/Item/Create?Title=%1&Url=%2

I then add the tags and then create the item. I think it's the only way to easily bookmark websites.

Note: If a url is filled in, but not a title. Then on focus-out the title is fetched from the page and filled in.

Although RSS is an "easy" content crawl feature, i wouldn't be able to miss the "bookmarking" functionality that makes the site more usefull.
This is a welcome change, but what would make it even more awesome is a little red bar at the last character that fits into the maxlength. A semi-common thing I do is paste a long thing of text into an exerpt text area, let it truncate to maxlength and manually tweak the ending. A little red bar to tell me where it would've gotten truncated would make that still possible, while fixing the dangerous behavior with truncating fields.
There have been quite a few recent advances in open-source TTS, such as:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2

https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning

https://github.com/mozilla/TTS

I think a lot of the remaining gap is due to a lack of high-quality training data -- most of the open-source models are trained on public-domain audiobooks (e.g. LJ Speech).

However, good training data (large amounts of annotated recordings by professional voice actors) is expensive to create, and unlike code, there's not a tradition of people sharing it.
HN is currently "black on very light background". The equivalent dark mode would be "white on very dark background". I hope we end up with either that, or even better, white on a black background (because that would be great for devices with OLED screens, including many phones).
Yeah, Monokai started as a color scheme for Textmate which I just made for myself somewhere in 2006. I named it after my company name and put it on the Textmate wiki. It took off after that.

I'll gladly accept a humble place in the HN Color Advisory Committee :)
First, I must admit, I'm reading some RSS feeds. At least the headlines. Sometimes it's unrelated to work, but mostly it's about tech somehow educating and inspiring. Personally I would say, it helped me to keep track of what is going on, what is trending and the best thing: Sometimes I find a nice piece of software that I haven't known about.

Back to things that I consider waste of time:

1. Bikeshedding
Have you ever had a discussion about timezones with a solution designer? It's everytime the same: "We need localtime because system x is doing it and it's confusing to compare it" (no, you don't! You need to store them with timezone information and solve the human problem in presentation)

2. Discussing the need for bigger changes
Yep. Your agile-developed system is running for some time and you see how it's being used and notice: It works, but it could be much better.

So you start a meeting others here describe as waste of time, because the result is "no" and the lasting result is, that somebody might keep the idea for later because there is potential (so not completely wasted).

But anyway, the time to prepare what you want to express in a way even managers can understand is annoying.

Coworkers often tell me, my ideas are inspiring and they would want to see them implemented. I feel it shatters because they are too big and sometimes cause efforts for other times because they have to change something so coordination is needed etc.

3. Finding workarounds for technical restrictions given by the company or project
Development workspace is virtual and has a proxy with whitelisting for internet access. Things like Python's pip are useless. So you setup a proxy on your local machine and build up a reverse tunnel.

More common: Doing things on machines without root access. You have to figure out how you get information why something is not working but logs are not accessible. Nope. You have to ask someone with at maximum your understanding of the problem to assist you.

Closing:
I consider myself as maybe 50% productive, but compared to results of others, I'm feeling much more effective, when I'm doing something. Not mentioning when I'm motivated and very concentrated. These are the moments where it feels like I'm getting the work for a whole week done in one day.

Thanks for reading
Patents have generally failed in their intended purpose. Edison probably spent half his career in court:

1. being sued for patent infringement

2. suing others for patent infringement

3. being hired by companies to find workarounds for other patents

4. being an expert witness in a patent case

The patent system should be abolished.
I couldn't figure out any explanation for that constant. If I had to guess, maybe some optimization for the base-2 log/exp CORDIC algorithm, like a polynomial approximation of base-2 log for the small remainder from CORDIC. The dividing by 3 might come from the Taylor series.
The issue with Reddit is that there's little to no user engagement with older content. Comments on posts older than a day in pretty much every reasonably active subreddit are ignored. This is also an issue on HN.

This kills informed discussion - some topics need more than one or two minutes of thought for a thoughtful and articulated response. This simply isn't possible when you know that the person you're replying to likely won't respond if you take more than a couple of hours to reply, that the conversation thread will be hidden behind a 'read more' button after one or two responses, and that the post itself will be buried shortly thereafter.

The average post quality on most forums was awful, as much or more so than what you see now on Reddit or HN. The difference is that it was possible for informed posts to persist as the center of discussion for years, if needed.

As an example, I don't see how a group of people can become interested and collaboratively participate in something like designing an amplifier circuit on Reddit without moving to a third party site, and in doing so cutting off contact and visibility with potential collaborators who happen to find the discussion a couple of hours too late. That's the level of connectivity and cooperation that was possible through forums and bulletin boards for a bunch of different niche topics, and it's basically been lost now that the 2chan/Digg style format (Reddit) has taken over.
I just searched for some relatively focused topics I’ve written about years ago, and Google found my blog posts just fine (mostly among the top results). I don’t know how popular those posts are (I don’t use analytics at all and since the blog has been hosted on GitHub Pages since forever ago I don’t even have server logs to analyze) but I do know quite a few were never discussed elsewhere.

I guess it’s hard to find blogs these days when you just type “blog” into the search engine, or search for a keyword that a million people compete on in order to sell you stuff. But if you have actual, say technical questions, you’ll land on interesting blog posts in no time, sometimes not even on the dumpster fire that is Medium, and written by people who aren’t writing merely to bolster their online presence.
Iceland is quite unique, only one real large population center, limited public transport, tiny venues, multi-generational homes and overall a tiny population so it doesn’t seem to be the prime candidate for contact tracing apps since it’s effectively the best case scenario for traditional contact tracing.
I can never tell whether these titles are referring to the programming language or the board game.
Except there's no sales people there to wine & dine you...it's actually the complete opposite.
The FDA doesn't object to the surveillance study, just the part where SCAN actually give individual test results to study participants ("diagnosis"). Nevermind that the informed consent form has explicitly told study participants they might get their results ("diagnosis") since early March, after the last time the FDA "helped":

https://pastebin.com/wj6fMnrw
>No, it's news because the FDA is haulting COVID testing over utterly stupid bureaucracy

It's not utterly stupid, diagnostic testing adds some amount of bias in the results. The quality of these home tests needs to be proven.
The FDA, much like other departments which exist as the long arm of the executive branch, depend on the president and whom the president appoints.

I think it's fair to lay it directly on his doorstep considering the person running the FDA currently is someone he directly appointed.
>This change removes that very validation.

How? The form can't be submitted until it's fixed.

>The form cannot be submitted until the user fixes the error [...]. The user will typically see a red border around the text field along with a validation message [...]
Why not just read the text to her?
In retrospect, it appears that the death of Google Reader ended up doing a ton of damage to blog readership. Nothing truly stepped into the void for discovery and distribution of blogs, and instead other sources of content took over.
The challenge with platforms is that they have big incentives to push small, regular updates and posts, to increase impressions. Thoughtful, considered content and engaged responses are lost in the noise.
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Most amateurs are investing basically at random, so there is nothing to adjust.

The article is talking volume not so much me. You can't sit at home and watch tv and invest without some volume.

Basically they wanted a /r/WallStreetBets angle but didn't want to say the word which confused the article.
None, because as they finally pulled back on QE in 2019 the yields inverted and the overnights jumped, so Trump forced them to dive back in around Sept '19 to keep the gravy-train trucking for the election year bragging rights.
Agreed, I try to encourage people to create their own blogs whenever I can, but very few see past the year. I think the main problem is that the temptation to buy into a centralized platform is very great - cost, maintenance, customization, out-of-the-box functionality.
They should remove maxlength altogether; it breaks the expected behavior of textboses wherein pressing a key when focus is in a textbox inserts the character corresponding to that key.
>Even if you use AJAX forms for logging in or registering (I'd prefer you didn't but whatever), you should still use the proper form validation API for things like this.

You don't even need to use "the proper form validation API". It's as simple as changing your ajax call from an onclick (on the submit button) to an onsubmit (on the form).
That's mental. Is that a common thing to happen?