skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share a lot of the commenters opinions: most of the toxicity (and intrusion) of social networks are due to... THE FEED. and they only affect us because we keep checking on them. Yes, they are engineered to "make" us go back over and over again to check for "news", but if we are aware of that, there are (arguably convoluted) ways to minimize that effect. The following is my experience on how I dealt with facebook, but I have since applied to linkedin and others.

Years ago I started "leaving" facebook by just: not visiting it. I didn't delete my account, I didn't explicitly posted anything announcing what I was going to do. I just stopped visiting it.

Now, it wasn't a trivial as that, because facebook will notify you, will email you, will send you messages reminding of everything I was missing out. So, along with the decision of "leaving" facebook I had to manually go and disable every way facebook could reach my attention. It took a while but it wasn't hard: I disabled email alerts (or just filtered them straight to trash) whenever I received one. For years I didn't have fb or messenger apps on my phone, or I would just disable them if I couldn't remove them. Now, with more granular control over notification I may install them but disable notifications entirely. In fact, I take a similar approach to email. While I do receive visual notifications of email, I don't get sound of vibration. In fact, my phone is in silent mode practically all day (I do have some rules that allow certain calls to breakthrough)

To me, gaining back control was about removing the ability of apps (and people) to digitally reach me whenever they felt like. And this is the core of my attitude with "leaving" social networks: it's about controlling when I want to actively use them (as little as needed). So, deleting account feels (to me) as I gave up having control (and extracting the little benefit of a network).

Also, it's not just about control how apps reach us.

It's also about establishing the social boundaries with friends, family and acquaintances: socials networks are NOT how you can get my attention. you may get my attention, but don't count on it. if you really need to find me you probably know how.

I still extract value from facebook/ig/linkedin on my own terms. But those companies probably get much less value out of me given their business models. I feel it's alright. In fact, I feel (maliciously?) better in this approach.

I still get linkedin job offers, and I do respond to them, probably after a few days when I feel like checking.
yarn.lock is just under half a megabyte, and lists 1461 packages that it installs. (232 of them are second or subsequent versions of the same package, which typically indicates unmaintained software. It has five versions of kind-of, and four versions of ten other packages.)
The offline app is a better option than a web app since the internet can sometimes be a major problem. With this app, the workers can send the invoices to the server manually later if there was no internet at the moment of recording the invoice.
The nearly blank narrative is listed under the header “public narrative”. Many departments use this to separate out the actual narrative from what can be immediately provided to the public (often just a sentence or two). So, there’s a possibility the full narrative was withheld as it’s an active investigation.

It’s also not uncommon practice for initial report narratives to be somewhat anemic when the follow-up investigation is immediate. Homicides being a perfect example where, in many agencies, all the useful details beyond “found dead guy” are in the murder book (i.e. case notes) outside of RMS.
I'll add to this: unless you have a lot of money, hand tools are going to not only be the quiet option, but the best option overall.

I recently bought a Craftsman bench jointer, and tried to flatten some walnut for furniture making with it. I went over and over the jointer with it, and it still wasn't flat. I tried various techniques found on YouTube, read until my eyes crossed, and still couldn't get the walnut flattened. Granted, maybe my particular jointer is bad, but I had limited walnut stock and didn't want to continue grating on the pieces I needed until they were too thin and unusable.

So, I threw my hands in the air and just went at it with a hand plane. It was a bit of work to get the pieces flat and square, but planing is kind of enjoyable. You're also not creating a ton of sawdust - just nice, silky shavings. On top of that, the surface of the wood looks great when hand planed vs. sanded or machined in other ways.
On techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/11/api-platform-postman-nabs-...
Twice LinkedIn connections have resulted in full time jobs for me. It's just another outlet for passive job searching IMO, and I think it fills that position better than Dice or Monster or any other resume site, so I'm content with keeping a LinkedIn account.

I also check it maybe once every other week so it doesn't mostly doesn't have an impact on my life really.
Also "U.S. states" = "United States states". In other news, ATM Machines...
> At best, it introduces a large inefficiency, waste of resources and unnecessary busywork ("bullshit jobs" becomes relevant here)

If the COVID-19 lockdown has taught us anything, it's that probably a full third of our economy is bullshit jobs. We're at best self-perpetuating economic 'nice-to-haves', at worst parasitic rent seekers, probably somewhere in between, whose real role is simply to distribute GDP more widely, while pretending to add value to society.
Because it's for "good.

The cynical side of me, and I'm particularly cynical when it comes to Google, is that this kind of thing is nothing more than PR to try to normalize filling our skies with drones ("Look at the good they do!") so they can inevitably then fill the skies with crap to boost the consumerist appetite without much protest.
I've always thought that most people either judge you for being below them or worship you for being above them.

Very few people occupy that middle ground where they are just happy for you and treat you as a person with motivations, flaws, and gifts.

I'd gander to say this hierarchical primitive behavior is a major impediment to human progress.
I took some 120mm fans out of some old servers my brother brought home from his tobacco factory co-op job.

I’d wire them to weird voltages (e.g. 12V and -5V, or +5 and -5), cover my eyes with a jewel case and drop small screws in them to hear where it bounced around incredibly fast...
No company wants automation played against them, they want automation put to use by them, to benefit them. Hypocrite paradox. It wouldn't be the first one.
Reading the comments here. I find it scary that people are willing to deal with broken "tools" to such an extent and manipulate their own behavior to fit profit-seeking companies. I can see why we will be stuck with the same few social media and recruiting platforms because people are not willing to change but they are willing to put in the effort.
>One book may be borrowed hundreds, if not thousands of times.

You over-estimate the lifespan of physical books and the physical stress of lending. 25–40 times is a more likely lifespan for a physical book. With digital lending, there are actually specific contractual limits on the number of lends and the cost per lend which vary based on the publisher. And the average number of lends per library book is probably close to 1.
As mentioned in other comments this is not a mainstream position, but suppose it were true. What do you do?

Think about how one behaves as a nerd in high school. There are a bunch of people running around doing stupid crap: their motivations are strange, plus many are incompetent and some malicious. What do you do, "do your part"? Nah, you just ignore it, adapt when you have to, and do your own thing as if nothing was happening.
Ask that about Canadians, who trashed Vancouver when the Canucks lost a damned hockey game.
Probably for the best here in the US. Police here jump on any excuse to use deadly force and hearing a bang sound from a cap gun would likely invite a hail of real bullets. Did you see a 9 year old girl was pepper sprayed recently? And that 75 year old man shoved over, banging his head on concrete, and bleeding on to the streets from it for having an imaginary police scanner? And the girl trying to give a guardsman flowers getting a direct hit from a flash bang in return? Imagine if one of them had a cap gun...not pretty.
Ask HN: What do you think about the self-promotion titles on GitHub?
On Github, on every profile people can introduce themselves.
Do fancy programmer titles attract any recruiters or people just look stupid? What is the benefit of introducing yourself as "ABC, DEF, XYZ committer" or "Senior Software and Cloud Architect"?
I ask specifically for github.
The disintegration of the nuclear family due to sociological and technological forces.

For a preview, look at the black community where over 7/10 kids are born to single moms (for comparison, this number was below 3/10 in 1965).
I have worked with people who could say they were good at things without sounding arrogant, and after a great deal of thought I have concluded that it's because of two things.

1. those same people are quick to say when they're bad at things as well.

2. their competency is never the point of the sentence, it's always a supporting argument on the way to the point. E.g. I'm an expert in this library and I struggle with using that part correctly, we should consider reworking it so it's possible for novices to use it.
It was not a finger-friendly time for technology. Here, take a look at the Farmall tractor/buzzsaw combination that is quite similar to the one I grew up cutting wood with (and probably only slightly newer than some of those fans) :

http://sketchesofalaska.blogspot.com/2012/08/farmall-tractor...

I have all fingers and toes, but you couldn't sell that shit today without getting sued out of existence.
Modern experiments would be Rojava, the Zapatistas, and so on.

Venezuela never got even close to socialism due to frankly stupid economic policy, their share of private enterprise was even higher than France, and Cuba while much better than comparable South American states is not modern, nor an experiment.
The oldest thing that I have which I think counts as "technology", and hasn't already been listed is a steam-powered car.

The Mamod S1-roadster, circa 1977:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamod#Roadster_SA1

Fill the tank with water, light the fire, and eventually you get a car that will drive round in circles. Complete with working steam-engine. I've had a few (static) steam-engines over the years, but this was the only want that survived the move across countries.

One day I'm gonna share it with our child, but for the moment I think it'd be a little too dangerous.
Zoom closes accounts of Chinese activists–including one in the US
HTTP and e.g. markdown has solved this with angle brackets. I tried that (didn't work), and putting a question mark at the end (also didn't work).

What did work was putting two full-stops, but that was so ambiguous that I left it as-was. Wikipedia has a redirect in place so obviously HN isn't the only one with problems.
One of the comments effectively frames the motivations for the US's current institutional disparities:

* The preference of well-off whites to pull the ladder up behind them;

* The preference of police unions to protect their members at all costs;

* The preference of the average non-black voter to not have to think about this crap.

I like that this is a pragmatic perspective that doesn't assume malicious intent behind most institutional racism (and tech debt, to continue the article's metaphor). People naturally act in their self-interest; it's not "I hate you" it's just "I'm not going to think about consequences when I optimize this solution for myself." While there are certainly many bad actors both in the creation and maintenance of our broken systems, IMO the vast majority of people are risk averse, passive participants in the status quo - i.e., falling into the third bucket. Even the more active participants in the first two buckets can justify their actions from inside their bubble; the horrible negative consequences are most visible only when placed in contrast to situations they often don't see.

Fortunately, people are recognizing the consequences of their actions - though not universally, and of course far too late to stop the death and marginalization of large numbers.

I hope it's a sign we're on the path to reduce or eliminate society's tech debt before the system crashes. Like all complex projects though, it needs sustained strong leadership.
If I had a subtitle file to use as best guesses for sentence segmentation, could this help extract clips and clean up start and end alignment?
Putting profits over people.
The only people getting paid in the reviewing process are the journals that are only coordinating the reviews. Actual reviewers (aka other researchers in the same field as the paper) are working for free.
Rederived from... what? A comfy armchair? The blog post chose to use vector math as its starting point but I’m not seeing any data that validates the approach in anyway, or anything that justifies it besides the assumption that “ You can take preferences and combine them into a single value/point on a vector” - which you can, but how meaningful is it really to say that my “dog preference” is 0.9? Why not model people with irrational numbers, regular n-gons in 24 dimensions, or a directed acyclic graph instead?
Your work is gorgeous. I hope you get to that point.
That sounds great! I'm not super familiar with ActiveRecord, but I use Django migrations regularly. For me the things that stand out are

1. a declarative model - ie. defining the db schema rather than the migrations

2. auto generated migrations with the ability to customize

3. integration with tools for deployment and testing

You probably have a much better idea of the landscape, but reach out to Andrew Godwin [1], he wrote south and then rewrote it to become django migrations.

[1] - https://www.aeracode.org/
Linkedin is absolutely useless after a person retires when it could be used to connect people to volunteer projects and meaningful non-profit groups looking for experienced free help. I'd go so far as to say it's ageist because it sends the message that once you're retired, you're worthless.
Do you mean for mailboxes…? If so, G Suite.

For other use cases maybe Sendgrid?
The existence of the military and state sanctioned murder squads.
https://www.radford.edu/gmartin/Immoral%20to%20serve%20in%20...

At the moment, it seems that the vast majority of people carve out a special ethical exception for the military but I suspect this will change over time. Many futurist/sci-fi dystopian scenarios have the general shape of the Terminator movies with autonomous killing machines roaming the planet. If these proliferate, perhaps the terror of that reality will bring into focus the immorality of using force to achieve geopolitical goals. And it feels like we're getting uncomfortably close to that future.

https://twitter.com/DocBunker/status/1270390796978536450

https://www.ausa.org/publications/mission-command-and-armed-...
> technical restrictions being alluded to is the advertisement and telemetry that is baked in.

I'm pretty sure the complaint is about anti-piracy features. In that situation it's a picture perfect application of DMCA. Also it would make way more sense.
Fail and Success
I failed the several times before succeeded at Learning How to Code
> Likewise in science all progress happens with surprises, not, "Aha! Just as I thought." but "Oh, that's interesting..."

I'd say that the bulk of scientific progress is of the "Ah, just as we thought." sort, but it's not the kind that gets headlines (because humans are wired to take notice and remember surprising information, making them less likely to be surprised in the future).

Isn't the drive to create "surprising" results in science creating situations like the replication crisis and incentivizing researchers to manipulate results so as to make them more surprising?
A Video Sphere black & white television, black [they came in white and orange as well].

It's a simple matter of having digitally broadcast TV signals come in via a digital signal converter instead of the onboard analogue antenna.
I personally find it hypocritical that they say it works best in "proper web browsers", yet the page has some pretty basic HTML errors in it:

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fgefiltergate....
Play your stuff on a staging server first, and if possible on a container or vm in the test pipeline of your infra code.

And well, start with a backup and be careful when you're working in production but that's common sense right ?
How's "Pepsi's mistake cost innocent lives by an exploding grenade"? Technically correct, but sounds even more horrendous and catastrophic, while technically 100% correct. If your argument is that the title is trying to be click-baity they could've probably done a lot worse even while staying with the strict facts. I really don't think the author meant to clickbait.
.well-Known/Security.txt
Odd. Did you run gpupdate /force afterwards? I've deployed it to Pro boxes before with no issues.
We use jfrog. One jenkins job builds our code into a .deb and pushes it there. Another job builds the VM image which is then deployed once testing passes.
This selfish
Securing a Ruby on Rails API with JWTs
Those that can leave, leave. Why leave the poor behind to be fodder in a war?
A 100% open and free journal cannot achieve selectivity without having some judgement and bias applied.

How does this follow? "Open" doesn't mean "anyone can publish", it means "anyone can read".

Funding for editors and webhosting should come from the universities themselves. Replace Elsevier with a nonprofit consortium funded directly by universities, and a lot of these problems just go away.
Correct. There is no expectation of privacy in public spaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_of_privacy
It’s about code clarity not optimizations.
So you pay Council Tax then, which is pretty much the equivalent.
I guess Sama plans on manufacturing growth metrics by forcing YC companies to pretend that they're using this.

Generic machine learning APIs are a shitty business to get into unless you plan on hiring a huge sales team and selling to dinosaurs or doing a ton of custom consulting work, which doesn't scale the way VCs like it to. Anybody who will have enough know how to use their API properly can jus grab an open source model and tune it on their own data.

If they plan on commercializing things they should focus on building real products.
There's a lot to unpack here.
Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
My wife will be undergoing significant oral surgery in a few weeks and there is a SMALL chance she may lose the ability to speak. I'd like to prepare, just in case, to have technology to reproduce her voice from keyboard or other input.

My ideal would be an open source "deepfake toolkit" that allows me to provide pre-recorded samples of her speech and then TTS in her voice. Unfortunately most articles and tools I'm finding are anti-deepfake. Any recommendations?

Fallback would be recording her speaking "phonetic pangrams" and then using her pre-recorded phonemes to recreate speech that sounds like her. I feel like the deepfake toolkit is the way to go. Appreciate any recommendations... There must be open source tools for this??
I think you can have fixed size nodes where you can specify the dimensions.
Things slip through inevitably but it's easy to correct them when you spot them eventually or am I missing something? That's what I do and that's what we've agreed upon with all developers and it's working flawlessly.

This is turning into a philosophical question rather than a development one. What is worthwhile to begin with? As per Maslow's pyramid it's breathing, eating and drinking. I've had this argument with a former co-worker who was strictly against writing documentation and comments, precisely because it wasn't "worthwhile" and a "waste of time". "Right... Got anywhere to be right now or is your plan to finish your task till 11 and spend the rest of the day scrolling through facebook?" Common occurrence for that guy as a matter of fact. We've fought for years to take out the "we need that eod" to transition to long enough periods with realistic deadlines and plenty of time to spare for tests, documentation and so on. And it is something that we have now. It is proprietary software but the postgres example is perfectly valid - simply look at it.
> A thing I got pissed off at a while ago was reactions to someone talking about having weekly one-on-ones with his wife

My guess is that it would have gone over a lot better if the person had stated that he had weekly scheduled dates with his wife.

> When someone tries to do something good and we don't think it's the right thing, we punish them.

Why are you announcing your good deeds to the whole world? A lot of religions and cultures condemn things like that. Do good for its own sake, not to be rewarded and praised by your peers. I think a lot of the issues the author describes are a backlash from oversharing.
LinkedIn got me the job I'm currently in at this here publishing saltmine back in 2013, so I'm a little ambivalent about it - but only a little.

Let's put it this way, in the beginning LinkedIn was useful - very useful, but as many commenters are noting here, it's now become something wholly different from what it started out as.

I deleted my account a good few years ago now and I don't regret it. And I doubt now that I would ever go back - even if I needed to find another job.
Well, that's not really building a new police force. She says the new force was largely made up of the same people as the old one. That's re-interviewing/re-assessing everyone, calling it firing+hiring is perhaps meaningful from a legal or contractual perspective, but from an outcomes perspective they could have done a rolling perf review + firings with new management and a big focus on cultural change, whilst preserving continuity of service. There was no discussion that they actually stopped policing for a few months whilst they did this re-assessment, so I suspect they were "fired" in a sense but were being told they'd still have a big chance to get their old jobs back. Otherwise a rolling "fire" and "rehire" wouldn't have worked.

That said whatever they did and whatever it was called, it apparently worked. But I wonder if that was due to this re-culturing vs the more practical aspect of using body cameras.
Completely biased article.

“As everyone knows, LinkedIn is a glorified resume site. Nothing actually happens there (unless you are a recruiter or in enterprise sales?).”

This means op could not get any benefit out of an online tool, this does not mean nothing happens there. LinkedIn has been tremendously helpful to find my last 2 jobs. You have to know how to use it, specially the premium account. The market research aspect of it is amazing. I do not enjoy the social media aspect and the timeline approach. Stay away from that.
which pyinfra seems to achieve perfectly