skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that I've ever seen a feature that wasn't some sort of "failed promise". The feature sometimes hits and sometimes misses, and is usually somewhere in between. This idea that a defect is a failure of a feature is probably more to do with the inability to predict the future. Sure there are defects like you tried to read from /dev/null, but more realistically the "defects" you see today are more about the inability to predict exactly how a feature is going to be used.
It's all power and positioning. That chain of events does a good job of explaining how the soft consequences of speaking out (a little less trust from others, not being perceived as the person you actually want to lead) can lead to real outcomes.

It's hard to know for sure how much she knew about when hired, but without what she'd experienced prior, would she have felt the need to take on this role? Was she viewing her career or reputation in need of rebuilding or strengthening, so that's why she entertained this (and if so, was the outcome expected, or did they throw her under the bus)?
When I say the same thing about Prozac, people react with anger. It's strange.

A sleep study is definitely one of the best things I ever did. It helped uncover some undiagnosed narcolepsy, and I've been able to manage it since then. Even knowing that it existed was helpful. (For example, lots of stress was caused by getting jobs that expect you to have your butt in the seat from 9am to 5pm. Other jobs exist.)

So yes. Sleep study good! Go do one!
First one is really nice, second is fine.

Are you creating these yourself or have some source?
It's not freedom of speech if reddit starts suppressing speech.

There are various other arguments to make, such as the rpevelance of posts encouraging violence that aren't covered under freedom of speech, or that reddit does not have to follow free speech rules in the first place.
And? De-platforming works very effectively. Look at 8chan, Gab and Voat. All drowning in server costs trying to host "safe spaces" for certain opinions.
This is great because it will be so easy to spin up instances- just provide your VAT registration, detailed plan for GPDR, mechanism for 'right to be forgotten', cookie policy, application for any protected region of origin usages, and pandemic mitigation policy and after a short series of review and revisions you will be put in the queue for the no-bid government IT contractor to reject your request because they phased out the instance type you requested.
I enjoyed and mostly agree with these ideas. Some points though:

Re: Position In a Queue

> Every team must have a single ordered queue of tasks
> every single one of them is prioritized relatively

This may lead in Eisenhower's matrix to prioritize urgent tasks vs important tasks and end up with tech debt.

I lead a soft eng team and we have a task queue but they are not prioritized (and that may be a mistake). Beyond the time wasting agonizing if X > Y for tasks, I like to keep parallel tracks of urgent (blocking) and tech debt tickets.

Re: Ticket Type

The most or one of the most important metric in software is user angry or happy calls (a proxy for revenue). If an unannounced planned feature doesn't make it to the next release, nothing happens. But if the customer now sees a regression bug (something that worked suddenly doesn't) that's bad. There's value in differentiating bugs from features, at least in some industries.

Re: Software Version

See Semantic Versioning https://semver.org/ ; it's important to know if a release is backwards-compatible or not
I find that whatever Google releases these days I’m reticent to even bother trying it. I just assume they’ll kill it in a year or so anyway.
Use your phone to record and distribute your music – not much talent required
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I second this. Probably the best online course I've ever done. Very challenging but very rewarding. I'm looking forward to hopefully doing Cryptography II... One day.

Check out Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup's work-in-progress textbook here: http://toc.cryptobook.us/
What's the chance the DC police chief would ask for volunteers to go surround these "officers" and demand identification ?
Does Facebook not bundle their products?
November, to be more precise
Do You need to show your face to successfully sell courses online?
There is a surprisingly large literature of academic literature on Reddit an TD specifically, at least some of which mentions radicalisation, though I've yet to find specific bits.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=reddit%20the_donald&btn...

Work elsewhere certainly expresses and substantiates that narrative: Kate Starbird, Renee DiResta, Samuel Wooley, Kara Swisher, Zynep Tufekci, among others.
I worked at Intel for a brief 3 month summer internship in finance (2010). One thing that struck me was that I was not allowed to put certain words in presentations because they didn't want those words used against them in court. Its been a long time so I don't remember what words, but that was a long time after the first set of anti-trust actions.

Maybe someone that has been there more recently can attest or counter my point, but it seemed to at least leave a surface wound on the culture.
Doubtful. There's far less money in politics in the UK than in the US. The total donations the Labour party received in the 2019 general election would barely be enough to elect a single senator.
Unfortunately. But that's what VI keybindings for the browser are for!
That wouldn't be conclusive, as one could readily make the argument that prices would have fallen without the Fed support.

The logic here is armchair economics 101: supply and demand. The Fed is propping up demand.
Isn't it usually assumed spacetime is not discrete. At the very least there is no proof to say everything is discrete. Just because the universe can do computations doesn't mean it is a state machine.
Interesting, but did you really have to be condescending? On top of this, not everyone here is a hacker and not every hacker is a computer security expert.
I've also been thoroughly confused by a weird form of "liberal" that has infested social media. It's not necessarily left-leaning as in "help the poor workers, unionize, strong manufacturing domestically, etc". It's "offshore everything, maximize profit" damn the workers. It's very much not a left position in the traditional sense.
I wouldn't. Each time you do you put yourself at the top of the inbox, and we work through the inbox from the bottom up—this seems fairest, plus is a natural form of comeuppance for the most demanding emailers.

Please don't post off topic things like this to HN. I'm sorry it takes a long time to answer emails sometimes, but those are the constraints we're under. Believe me, I don't like it either, especially on nights when I'm up late answering them. You're not being treated worse than others, and it's a tad off-putting to be harangued.
It would imply that our brains are using currently-unknown physics, since all current theories are computable.
When Europe does do fintech it’s just really sleazy and exploitative, like Revolut, so better off without.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23416169
Looting and Rioting are not the same as Protests despite the media conflating them.

Antifa equates capitalism to fascism as something that must be stopped, the governments and police of included. And that violent means are acceptable to those goals.

Who paid for the stacks of bricks conveniently placed throughout the protest areas? Who is ambusing and killing cops in various cities? This behavior should not be encouraged or excused.
https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
The entire mentality of the company changed. IMO it affected every product group across the company.
Just got one a few weeks ago. Feel free to AMA.

It stays on for me (medium to large size head, or so I think) -- tends to ride up on my forehead a bit over time but never had it fall off. It's got some adjustments that can be made to tighten/loosen the fit, on top of which there is some elastic in part of the band.
I don't understand how a google breakup would work. Would it just split off the ad business from ad-supported businesses like gmail and youtube?

Some google products could stand on their own (Google Cloud) but most would have a lot of trouble. The worst case is open-source offerings like Android and Chrome which only make sense as part of a wider corporate strategy.
> After I accepted, she explained...

That’s _exactly_ what I was thinking about when I wrote that comment.
>> That's not what free speech is.

> The argument becomes more difficult the more widely used and essential a platform is.

The solution is to not let any one platform get that big and essential as a matter of policy.

For free speech to actually be positive, I'm starting to think it's actually pretty important for that speech to be subjected to some kind of peer review process before it's broadcast widely. We used to have that when broadcasting was more limited and expensive, but by destroying those limits, social media also weakened the peer review.

People are more comfortable with smaller actors making editorial decisions, we need those kinds of decisions, so we need to keep the actors smaller.
Prescient words indeed from Donald Rumsfeld:

> U.S. forces should not be blamed for the lawlessness and looting in Baghdad as it is a natural consequence of the transition from a dictatorship to a free country, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday at the Pentagon.

> "The task we've got ahead of us now is an awkward one ... It's untidy. And freedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here," Rumsfeld said.

> "And for suddenly the biggest problem in the world to be looting is really notable."
Keep in mind that it was found that all of her allegations of sexual harassment were completely unfounded and she was likely just trying to get a settlement to help her dire financial situation
Nobody is making that argument.

The problem is that there are fewer clearly bullshit things than people think.
"how revolutions start: when members of the elite try to overturn the political order to better suit themselves." - Kind of against the conventional definition of a revolution.
/r/The_Donald has effectively been archived and marked read-only. There's no or little activity - the link you posted was an exception - all users have moved over to a third party site.

While one could argue that Reddit should have removed the subreddit sooner, I'm not sure that would have done them any favors (see Streisand Effect.)

They opted to strangle the community slowly, hoping it would dissipate. But it just moves elsewhere, like it always does.
I think the police should protect and help the people. This often doesn't work out. At least in my country I think they could do that better if they had more funding. But from what I gather about police in the US they quite often punish people. I don't think that's okay, but I also don't think that cutting their funding would help with that.
You will get a stake in any spin-off companies that result from DoJ action. So there's no worries from that perspective.

However, this will take years to litigate and a lot can happen to a tech company over that timeframe.
My apartment is on a major downtown street. Rioters set part of the exterior on fire, and attempted to use heavy machinery to break in. The cops & firefighters were not around. When they showed up, how would they be able to tell the difference between me looking out for my home & neighborhood and anyone else?
Amen! E.U should do the same...
Not sure what this does. All I see is a grey screen on my iPad.
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Crowdsourced random number generator?
I had a sleep study done but was so uncomfortable I couldn't fall asleep...all the wires and crap. Waste of money.
That’s not exactly an unbiased opinion if he was an executive at the company that was subject to anti-trust action.

I’m not suggesting that he’s lying, but it’s important to remember that the anti-trust action likely had a financial impact on him, particularly if he had a lot of comp tied up in company stock.

Here we are 20 something years later and Microsoft looks to be just doing just fine to me.
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Getting an APAP (auto-adjusting machine) was automated to the point that the barrier to entry is pretty darn low.

An at-home study required me to sit through dead obvious instruction on how to equip and use the machine. Once I was prescribed a machine as a result of the study, the most time-consuming part was picking up a machine and sitting with a nurse to try on various masks.

Since the machine itself is set to what the CPAP community calls "lazy doctor mode" meaning it's just set to auto-adjust itself in a range and the newer machines use cell data to automatically upload usage data, once you take it home you're done. My only follow up visit was over the phone. And there is an open source project for reading the data which will appeal to the HN crowd: https://www.sleepfiles.com/OSCAR/
>How do you achieve this technically? Monorepo would be a pain to break.

Well, that's Google's problem... Plus, it's not like they can't follow an API and versioned libs and have to have it all bundled...
HN allows a very wide swath of opinions without over-moderation. I've seen arguments commonly from every ideological & political segment, even though HN leans left (because its userbase foundation derives from the Bay Area, which is 95% left leaning). You see Capitalists here, you see Communists, you see conservatives, you see liberals, you see libertarians, you see every flavor of Socialist, you see everything inbetween.

You can argue for most points of view here, so long as you remain within their decency guidelines. Obviously HN won't tolerate certain extreme ideas that involve genocidal camps, killing people, violence or racism, that you might see bubble up out of eg the pro fascist or pro communist camps.

If there are 20 slices in a gradient of political ideology in the US (as an example), HN will allow you to very freely argue 18 of them, only dropping the extreme left and right (both of which commonly involve arguing for murder, racism, genocide, oppression, gulags, forced re-education camps, violence and countless other horrible things).

If you go into the largest political sections of Reddit arguing strongly (but decently) for Trump, you'll get moderated because the mods won't like you. That doesn't happen on HN, Dang will mostly leave your opinions alone (you will get downvoted though), so long as you are arguing in a way that isn't belligerent.
Ah yes, the "look what you made me do" defense - just as valid here as in cases of domestic violence.
There's lots of examples of the universe expanding at different rates. The cosmic inflation early in the universe being one example and then the more recent dark energy acceleration of the expansion.

As for evaporating without losing information that's the whole point. The holographic universe theory states that a black hole doesn't destroy information. The holographic universe is a consequence of no information being destroyed in the formation or evaporation of a blackhole. It's literally the entire basis for the theory. My theory above is just postulating that as a block hole grows/shrinks due to information falling into it or evaporating from it a holographic universe on its surface would also grow/shrink.
None of those even scratch the surface of what used to be on reddit back in the days
In my impression of Google products (Gmail is a notable example), the company has been more on the "stagnation" side and less on the "innovation" side already.
If you use Hacker News, you probably do hear about it often.

Do German newspapers cover the news about NHS all the time?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-c...
I don't mean to be snarky, but do you think a comparison to a company that was dissolved over 100 years ago by people long dead is apt?
Both can be true at the same time. This is totally analogous to the extremely flammable topic of whether telling your daughter not to go to dark alleys at night in skimpy clothing reinforces the victim blaming narrative or is just rational advice for the harshness of real life. Or "don't teach web designers how to write standards compliant HTML, because then next-gen browsers will be less lenient and then other people's websites will be broken".

The thing is, there are testimonies of tons of people online who fixed so much about their life, based on tips like this. I'm very much against this attitude of "let's keep good advice secret, so we don't look too judgmental". This is what leads to things like "health at every size" and "fat acceptance". That you can no longer spread advice on how you can massively improve your well-being and life expectancy by losing weight, because this is somehow too judgmental towards people with conditions that make weight loss unusually hard.

Second order effects are important, sure, and there can be counterintuitive consequences and other weird smart stuff. But first and foremost, there are tons of stuff that people can do right now to improve their lives. I am really greatful for the existence of articles like this, because this stuff helped me and if it was for you, we'd only have articles that make us all resentful, bitter and give up trying.

And OF COURSE the system needs to change, especially in the US. How they treat mental illness by policing, the whole consumerist propaganda, the stress inducing, hyperoptimized apps, the hyperpalatable foods that are engineered to trick us to eat more and get fat etc. etc. they all need to be addressed. We cannot expect people on a massive scale to suddenly be able to counteract these immense forces raining down on them all day every day from all channels, billboards, ads etc. guiding them towards a harmful life.

In summary

1) When giving advice to an individual it's about how to thrive in a cold hard world that doesn't care a bit about whether they are happy or suffer or live or die. What you can do, you should because ultimately you have different paths forward and working step by step, little by little, while not beating up yourself in the process can be immensely helpful. Not because you will get praise or because you obeyed the commands of the white coats, but because you will genuinely be better for your own sake.

2) When talking to people who have their shit together, advocate for compassion towards those who are in a messy situation. But really helping is hard. Teaching to fish vs giving fish etc. Just because someone has a messed up life with mental health issues doesn't make them into angels, that would be some variant of "noble savage". It can be difficult to help, you may be used, you may be tricked, and progress is not guaranteed.

Think of it as an analogue of the Liskov Substitution Principle. Prepare the person to be strong in a harsh environment and simultaneously work on making the environment less harsh so that less strong people can also thrive.
A real computer is not a state machine nor a Turing machine nor an abstract closed discrete model. It isn't a closed system. It is connected to the rest of the universe through IO, noise sources, and time has meaning there
I really hope you don’t actually think the real world works this way. Police are not a ’tool’ in a vacuum, but rather a massively complex interconnected system influenced by thousands of different external forces. Changing the ’rules’ for them would do nothing.
If you refer to measuring and wave function collapse in QM, then yes, but for that you need interaction with the environment (the observer), that’s why I specified “isolated”. Regardless, even the wave function collapse is a state transition, albeit stochastic. I assume state machines allow for stochastic transitions?
Agreed. My point was you lose a lot of the workforce that power the economy, so you end up losing a lot of what was funding the UBI in the first place (like, it's really expensive) so then how do you support it? And then, these people are dependent on the state and UBI... and then now we can't fund UBI? How well that's gonna go over! Plus, we probably won't get rid of the other social programs to fund UBI, so even the savings people are saying will happen most likely won't. No one will want to get rid of what we've already got.

Minimum wage is less dangerous, agreed, but it feels like just pulling out the bottom rungs of the ladder, since it limits what contracts can be made, not really raising the people on the bottom up. Sure the overall effect on unemployment won't be much because not a lot of people actually are on the minimum wage, but young people and low skilled workers will have a harder time.
having seen to many unreasonable downvotes, i have the opposite reaction. when i see a gray post i tend to expect the downvotes to be unreasonable. frequently it is something that i don't agree with but feel is a comment made in good faith that doesn't deserve to be downvoted. rarely it is something unacceptable that deserved its downvotes.

(like this comment is made in good faith but off topic...)
When I was in a large organization, the upper management roadmap was based on quarters and year. Like Q1 2020 Q2 2020. That's a very large granularity of 3 months.

This had the benefits of ignoring the usual variations of software planning. Any development task could take 1 week or 4 weeks (if it goes well or not). This stops being an issue when the planning is quarterly because few weeks of jitter doesn't matter.

The question is then, do we have time to do this task next quarter, as well as the other 3 tasks we scheduled there? otherwise we'll plan it for the quarter afterward.
> I think the only way Amazon or Google ever start to stagnate is if a similar fate befalls them.

Google has been stagnating for more than one decade. What have they created since 2010 that is even remotely interesting, let alone in the interest of society?

And Amazon is Rube Goldberg machine of human suffering. Who cares?
I tried it on my wife's phone. That's not bad at all.Minimal design is just a plus. I will try tomorrow in real life with a shopping list in the store.
It's not clinical grade but I got the Mi Band 3 and it seems to work surprisingly well for only $30. The account of rest I feel in the morning generally matches the account of deep sleep it says I got.
If you are a beginner you want to start with either Python or Javascript (with our without HTML). Any course that introduces those languages would be fine. Don't bother with anything more advanced until you have the fundamentals down. Also, unless you're already doing it, learn how to touch type.
You are moving the goalposts.

You get value out of peace and serenity, yes? So do I. I take you at your word that you believe in a particular god, I would assume you take me at my word that I don’t believe in any gods.

If both of those things are true, then gods are not required to take value out of the idea of serenity. The only way that this could not be true as if one of us are lying.
If it works like AT&T though, not so much.
And yet the Microsoft of today is faster and stronger as a company than it was during the antitrust days. Maybe it wasn't such a bad thing for them.
exactly, control-userplane separation is the primary differentiator for "5g." the whole point is to eliminate backhaul and allow closer CDNs and caches..
> Monorepo would be a pain to break.

It's generally acknowledged in technical circles that antitrust action is a highly effective way to break up a monorepo.