skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People think Wikipedia is complete???

I could add stuff in my field of specialty constantly. I just don't want to jump through all the hoops that come with being a wikipedia contributor, so I keep all my notes on a private wiki.
I think lots of people here are fixed on GraphQL from a backend perspective and are missing that GraphQL has a fantastic front end development experience using libraries like Apollo.

I honestly think the backend benefits are relatively marginal, but on the client being able to 1) mock your entire backend before it even exists, 2) have built in automatic caching on every query and entity for free, 3) use a fully declarative, easily testable and mockable React hook API built with out-of-the-box exposed support for loading and error states, is so valuable. Components written against Apollo feel so clean and simple. That's not to say anything about the benefits you get from being able to introspect the entire backend API or test queries against it with Apollo's extensions or how you can easily retain the entire entity cache across reloads with simple plugins to Apollo.

Can you do all that with REST? Sure. But writing queries against REST APIs is a pain in the butt compared to what you get for free by using Apollo.
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The point is that there's nothing reliable or trustworthy about passing veiled, pointed comments behind someone's back and expecting them to read your meaning out of context and circumstance, rather than just stating your concerns directly.

Such behavior fails to offer the report a fair chance to know what's expected of them and, presumably, how they're not meeting those expectations. It has much more in common with the kind of dysfunctional communication you see in unhappy marriages, than with anything I require of a manager - or, should I eventually join management myself, with anything I'll provide my own reports.

That's what "toxic" is a shorthand for. Yeah, I'll grant it might be consistent. But to be consistently bad isn't, you know, not bad. Being able to predict the bullshit that is going to happen doesn't make the bullshit not happen. It just means you can see it coming. I'll concede there may be reasons to tolerate it, if the benefits of the job outweigh the bullshit. But that doesn't make it not bullshit.

(And, as a side note, anyone who talks about how honest or straightforward they are - that's a big yikes from me, chief. People who are legitimately honest and straightforward don't need to talk about having those traits, because their behavior reflects them. People who do need to talk about having those traits are, in my experience, very likely to be trying to cover their lack.)
> Bose–Einstein condensates have been created on board the International Space Station
To perhaps state the obvious, the reason we don't encourage people to say that they're good at things is that it's hard to judge for yourself. It has as much to do with your general view on yourself, and what your standard of "good" is, than what the average other person would think. So, you try to prove you are good by doing things, not saying things.
Super useful for bandwidth sensitive situations where you need to piece together a small amount of data from several APIs that normally return a large amount of data.
Would the world have been better off if Pepsi had essentially gifted itself to the people of the Philippines?
> I don't think MS let their customers make an informed choice about their data collection.

I think this is part of a larger problem where no single individual can given informed consent to any corporate contract because one involves a team of lawyers and the other involves an average person. Even if the single individual was a lawyer it would be questionable, but for the average person who has a limited college education and no special legal education at all, there is far too great a power difference for informed consent to be given.
I think there are a couple things to unpack here.

1) They didn't know about the surveillance. To quote from the article:

> “I actually had no idea they were using that type of tech at the game nor was I informed that I would be recorded or analyzed by such tech,” said California resident Benjamin Mercke. “Actually, that’s incredibly concerning to me.”

2) Any entertainment can be reduced to being considered pointless. I don't think it's a big stretch to accept that people are entertained by different things. I personally find concerts / music festivals unbelievably boring, but it's obvious that people love them, so I have no opinion on whether it's "worth it" to them.
Can I agree with his overall premise but disagree with thinking that scheduling weekly one-on-one's with your wife is in any way a good idea?

I also wonder if the social obligation to be bad at things - that is, to avoid arrogance at all costs, even at the risk of withholding potentially useful advice - is more an American thing than a worldwide phenomenon. Not being embarrassed when you can't spell words correctly seems to be unique to American culture.
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"Having only 100 connections probably does more harm than good"

Is this true? Does anyone care about this? Serious question.

Should I close my read-only Twitter account as well?
The heart of these issues tend to boil down to finding out that your backups are corrupted or nonexistent when you need them most. Linked post says LDAP database backups stopped in February, which is causing the restore headaches. I'd be interested to know why.
The fear is that the "someone" will be the selfsame publisher companies.
Every single android version revamps the notification UI.

I'm not complaining, this one _looks_ nice. But why change it every goddamn update? It's like one step forward, one step back.
I'm a random industry software engineer. :)

> In day-to-day, all researchers use these to stay informed on recent results. But how to guarantee that nobody hacks in and figures out how to change a few bytes in one paper that is 10years old?

Printed versions + digitally signed and timestamped PDFs. This is a solved problem in the world, at least up to the level that Springer can solve it.

> How to guarantee that these documents are available 75 years from now?

I trust MIT and Harvard to keep PDFs and printed versions available much more than I trust Elsevier or Springer to be around in 75 years.

> Many academics need publications in prestigious journals with "high impact factors" in order to get tenure because the upper-level tenure committees in older institutions use these metrics to evaluate cases. These people are not stupid: it is just hard to evaluate cases across a university when you are not an expert. Instead, you assume that certain journals represent "the highest quality work" and thus use the presence of those publications to judge researchers. This means that the top papers still end up in Elsevier/Springer journals.

I don't disagree. This is why the change and the first wave of papers will likely come from already-tenured professors, who still publish high impact papers.

> When I was a grad student at MIT, it was easy to read papers; if your IP was from MIT, every paper was 1 click away. I wonder how it is going to work now that Elsevier's catalog won't work this way...

Now imagine the same situation, except you don't need your IP to be from MIT.
Anyone got a pastebin? Article's behind a paywall.
Eh, I dunno. I don't take issue with your reply. I suspect some people might read "from a fine woodworking perspective" as snobbery or a no-true-Scotsman that I'm not seeing?

From my standpoint as a woodworker, everybody's money's equally green and if somebody wants a piece stained something garish, it doesn't cost me any more than if they want it in a natural color. Although, as a mentor of mine once said: "You don't have to sign everything you build".

I'll let you know if that perspective changes if I ever have so much work coming in that I have to turn jobs down :-)
And yet much of the work of peer review is done on a volunteer basis.
Inevitably when GDPR comes up, there are always HN commenters talking disparagingly about the "nanny state" in Europe. However, I'll take some annoying cookie banners over an ad tech company scanning my face any day of the week. If this was in Europe, they would've gotten hit with a fine of 4% of their revenue.
wow, thanks.

EDIT: here are ways to automate https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Extensions
I wonder if there's some kind of software that takes an advantage of an AI to teach non-beginner players Go. E.g. you could play against the bot and then the AI would translate your mistakes into what you can improve upon.
It seems more complementary than a competition, as Pulumi targets clouds, while pyinfra has a lot of tools for self hosting.
Matthias's beginner page is on their Wiki![0]

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Yep. You know the library has to pay extra for electronic texts, right? For example, when a patron checks out an item from Hoopla, the library is charged from $1 to $3 (or so... prices may have changed) for that transaction. This affects the number of check-outs the library grants patrons for a given month. I've seen ours vary from 3-10. And many popular titles are not available at any time.

Another reason why it makes sense to leverage the physical books.
Interesting to see this. Is this similar to Google and Azure's ML apis?
I use my bandwidth to cost people who host "Flash Updater" Trojans money. When you find a site with a downloadable Trojan, just run a download script which downloads in a loop a hundred times simultaneously.

I'm very public about it:

https://twitter.com/AnachronistJohn/status/12343139528652144...

I do hope someone reports me, because if they do, then I'll know who they are. So far, I've cost one scammer close to $2,000 before their links died completely.
I feel the same way, but there are problems with this method. Especially with the artificial limitations on 4K/HDR content. For example, my PS4 Pro cannot watch Disney Plus in 4K/HDR mode, but my built in TV app can.

Another example: 4K on Netflix on a PC - you can't do it (unless using Intel IGPU > kabylake and Edge on Win 10 only). Mac users need to use a Win VM. But my TV app works.

It sucks, it really really sucks.
> Can I agree with his overall premise but disagree with thinking that scheduling weekly one-on-one's with your wife is in any way a good idea?

No. That's the whole point. If it works for them why would it be bad? Let's try and not shame people for having different approaches to things.
OK, maybe I exaggerated when I said nothing.

Per subject, per journal, the same person who edits a journal today at Elsevier could do the same thing for the same salary at a university consortium-backed non-profit.
The best developers grow by solving progressively more difficult problems. And great developers? It's not about what tech they're using, it's about what tech they're creating.
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"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"
Fair enough. My point is that Roman legions as you have described were terryfying for primtive and not unified tribes like Germans, Brits or Gaulls even for Carthago. But more sophisticated enemy like in Asia Minor, Parthia or Persia were more then equal match for Roman military science.

PS. Eastern Roman Empire had more sophisticated tactics and strategems in my opinion.
I agree with you, all parts of the machine need some daylight.

I wonder how much this is due to sheer volume of warrants and policing actions?
Nice. I've always thought of it as shaving away error margins, but I think your quote is much more general and easy to understand.
README.md file could use an image. I recommend the one from this page:
https://github.com/midas-research/audino/blob/master/docs/tu...
>But if a candidate is motivated to take a job because they get to use shiny new technology, i would suggest that they are not, in fact, a good candidate.

I would argue that this attitude often exists at the corporate level as well.

Most companies I've worked exist in a perpetual state of migration from monolith to Micro services. Basically the overall architecture remains static in the sense that it's always a giant monolith sitting in the center with some satellite services surrounding it.

The migration to microservices and kubernetes is 99% buzzword driven and rarely has nothing to do with whether or not the product will benefit from the migration. The weirdest part about it is that it's many times a never ending thing initiative. It's very rare for a company to actually arrive to a point where every component of their system is split out into small pieces. It usually just stays permanently as some services surrounding a monolith despite all the talk.

When entire companies are like this it's usually a sign that the entire company is weak. My experience has been that many companies have this attitude and many programmers share it.

If all/most programmers share this general attitude then I wouldn't call these "new technology chasers" bad as most people are like this.
The ISS is in free-fall, so that should be zero-g, not microgravity.
What a huge improvement to Ansible !

Seems like a much more modern Ansible to me, more precise but more targeting Python users instead of trying to attract non-coders too, it's very promising. I wish I had found your project before I started my own too, it's shitty compared to yours but i'll swallow my shame and share it with you just in case you find an idea that you like yourlabs.io/oss/shlax
80% of my LinkedIn feed feels like absolute dreck. "Humbled to announce..", "We had a great time at..", or "Announcing availability of.." .. you know it when you see it.

And I completely get the sentiment that much of the rest is just somebody amplifying an opinion for likes, clicks or connections. But consider this alternative scenario.

If you're dissatisfied with your professional lot in life, LinkedIn is a way to vent. LinkedIn posts don't have to be of the 'please consider hiring me' variety - they may be somebody who doesn't have another outlet for their creativity or feelings on how a topic is being handled by the world at large.

I'm in this category. I use Li to show that I'm out here, alive, and have some value. I strenuously try to avoid the whole "thought leader" vibe.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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What percentage of traffic comes from Firefox.
No I mean just promoting on other platforms that you are outside the cookie cutter stuff and you do your own thing. Regardless of OP, whom I don't know, there is a recurring pattern of people announcing leaving various platforms but still reach to other platforms and with a performative contradiction try to get widespread social validation for the radical idea of not needing social validation.

It was also typical in the 90s, when people always announced that they are now really really done with a forum, ragequit and then kept coming back.

The point is, HN likes this type of posts because it's contrarian and quirky. Tons of people don't use linkedin or just have a crude profile and never log in.
There used to be a comedy-show in the UK named "The Fast Show". Lots of memorable small sketches.

Here's a topical video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7iiOF10gz8
That helps. Thank you.
You're likely to find people using this to build solutions for remote depositions (in the US). Seems to be something fairly ripe for disruption, the pandemic is exacerbating the demand.

Is there a recorded demo of it somewhere? Would be nice to see it in action as I'm having a little trouble understanding the workflow.
>I’m quitting

>Hire a white guy to replace me

If the roles were swapped, everyone would (rightfully) say he only got the job for being white. If your argument is that blacks don’t get jobs because a strict majority of whites harbor secretly racist attitudes and don’t hire blacks for non-meritocratic reasons, I’d say there’s no evidence to support that theory. In fact, Affirmative Action has made the opposite true. Above all, blacks remain 11% of the population and even less than that in many areas. Only 1/10 workers should be black, in most (but not all) ideal scenarios.
Isn't moving to a new instruction set only a problem with proprietary software? Open source operating systems seem to be able to be ported to new architectures almost effortlessly, some of them quite old or obscure. It's true that some programs require modification to be able to run on new platforms, but the cost of doing that is minimal compared to the cost of "porting" binary software to new architectures, which is that of simply rewriting it from scratch. Why is everyone talking about emulation and coprocessors when the real issue is basically just a matter of source code availability?
What exactly is the basis for this DMCA claim? Is there any precedent for this or does MS just think their PR has it too easy?

DRM is supposed to prevent redistribution of copyrighted works. That's the unethical part. If the user is not redistributing copyrighted works, why should the law care about the preservation of DRM?

If I buy a locked safe at an auction and it contains a bunch of copyrighted paintings, nobody would get mad at me for breaking the lock so I could get to them. What else am I going to do? Hang the safe on my wall? The problem only arises if I start copying the paintings and distributing them.
This is already happening! Not quite "severe" disadvantage, but OA papers are getting cited more often.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/home/open-access-papers...
Apps that are designed to be addicting. We'll look back on that as evil insanity.
That is super informative. Thank you.

I mostly lurk on owwm, but I've found it to be a very knowledgable and supportive community when I've had questions.
if you are looking for a job, linked in is invaluable. lots of recruiters i know, now check resumes against linkedin to see if there is anything dishonest going on. with that point, i find it very imperative that i keep me linkedin updated.

another thing i have found is that some job searching platforms (like indeed) allow you to import your linked in profile instead of uploading a resume. then you can import your indeed profile into ziprecruiter.

so when i was looking looking for a job, the first thing i did was get my linkedin profile updated and corrected. next i signed up for indeed and imported my linkedin profile to it. after that, i signed up for ziprecruiter and imported my indeed profile into that. now all my information was correct and up to date across all platforms.

not only that, but there are so many linkedin to resume builders out there.
Which is all very silly since OKcupid will incorporate dealbreaker questions like “how important is your partner’s religion to you” with ones like “do you like horror movies”, and thus you may end up matching at 90%+ with someone whom you would never consider dating.
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Oh they'll try to shut it down in three and I expect public outcry will result in an extension.
Agreed. One of the comments points out that the term master is also used in reference to painters. In that context, it isn't a master/slave metaphor, but one of being definitive.

Likewise a master copy doesn't beget a slave copy.

It is possible that people are becoming over-sensitive to specific words to the point they forget about meaning and intent.
What really grinds my gears is CEOs and the likes fishing for validation with dumb, usually copy pasted "anecdotes" that seem to glorify employee-exploitation practices.

Before lockdowns, I kept seeing this post, that boiled down to "employee asked for WFH, due to personal life issues. Now they are even more dedicated and can spend the time freed up working 8-6 instead, and we both win! Thoughts?"
> This is not a fluffy article about meditation

Proceeds to articulate how to meditate successfully and the benefits of doing so(albeit avoiding over-use of the word itself), then suggests you download an app ( by an app I mean their app) to facilitate this

Hm
"Fridge DRM" was never something I thought I would see
Including the Korean brands?
Statistics is only capable of predicting patterns across a sample of data. It is pretty inaccurate when you try to use it to predict a single data point. The Lawyer knew that but also knew a ton of people don’t understand stats
>but up close the details of say, managing state with hooks in React, is very different from managing state with services and RxJS observables in Angular.

I would say learning the detailed difference when needed for the project is in fact extremely trivial. The wrong kind of learning is thinking that you're improving your skills by memorizing and learning all of these details even when it is not required by your current project.

I would say max it takes about 2 weeks to a month for a developer to get good with react. It's not even a big deal if you think about it, but hiring managers still look for "relevant experience."

Don't learn the details unless it's relevant to the project. To improve your overall skills as a developer: Learn the fundamentals.

Though I have noticed one thing. Many recruiters and even technical hiring managers are buzzword driven. Buzzwords are often related to details so to pad your resume you have to learn the details. Ultimately though, if you end up never touching that detail or that detail changes then you wasted your time learning it.

Learn the fundamentals because the fundamentals never change.

Honestly you're the kind of developer that the OP is talking about, but then again most developers are like that.
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China's economy is a form of capitalism called state capitalism.
...in stock.

If you can give away $7 billion in stock, clearly your company must be worth at least that much money, right?

This is a bullshit deal to drive up bullshit valuations for bullshit business models looking for dumb money.
The rest of the executives probably having ownership. If the CFO was a late hire, their compensation comes from the options. I haven't done much research on the CFO but many companies bring in a CFO as they prepare to IPO
I think hand tools require less skill to get started safely, from my experience teaching kids and grown ups.
Keep a menacing hammer in the corner of the room. Walk in once a week and fondle it with a viscous grin just waiting and daring someone to make you use it.