skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my survey, I didn't say anything about the type of ads or how we would use the data. We are very trustworthy, and part of that is that we don't monetize user data in any way. But of course if we created a free tier that was funded by monetizing user data, this would no longer be the case!
Just imagine the unboxing videos.
It is surely the case that a large amount of secondary writing on academic subjects is bad. This is why I suggest getting feedback from experts instead of building heuristics about topics outside ones field of expertise.
Async Communication in the Remote Work Era
Pianobooster is awesome, it is the most patient piano teacher you can imagine. I've modified it a bit to give me more statistics and to more intelligently split left / right hand parts. The original tends to assign notes based on a pretty rigid rule and I changed it so it uses some geometrical clues about what handspan you can expect to better assign the notes to the individual hands.
Airbnb Open Source iOS Calendar Component
As a friend of mine likes to say, "never forget that nature is always trying to kill you."
They didn't just drop a zero. They based their reasoning on that number, the next sentence suggests it's like the population of Kuwait (~4.5M). No, it's more like California:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/california-populati...

Or Canada. Or Iraq, to stay in the Middle East.
While there are technically stocks you can get for an AR-15 that fold, because you have to also fold the buffer tube they are not recommend and potentially unreliable. It is completely inoperable without the buffer tube.

They are not illegal to own in California. They are only illegal to be on a semi-automatic center fire rifle with a detachable magazine. So if you mag lock your AR with something like this[1] you can put a telescoping stock on it. This is also legal[2] (with a 10rd magazine) since it is not a center fire rifle.

Again a stock is not integral to the operation of most rifles so you can just not put one on. Oh course then it's legally not considered a rifle most of the time.

[1] https://armaglock.com/product/armaglock/

[2] https://www.smith-wesson.com/firearms/mp-15-22-sport
> I routinely see arguments of the type "Argument X is likely to increase prejudice against Trans/BIPOC/Undocumented people, which will lead to more of them being murdered" used against completely mainstream conservative arguments.

So what? Are you saying those arguments aren't true? If so, of course you should make that counter-argument.

Or are you saying that even if they are true, it's more important to protect "mainstream conservative arguments" than to protect those people from prejudice?
It also depends on which client ID it exposes and if that one is whitelisted on trackers. But that's not really a technology problem.
> all it does is to pollute my search results with garbage.

I agree, what I'm most surprised by is it suffers no penalties from Google. Why is consistently on the top for so many searches? How is it that news journals who go the mile of writing things and put it behind a paywall suffer the wrath of Google ranking them down, but a compilation site that erects so many hoops and hassles to get you to the image you found it for on Google is consistently on the top?
Cool, let me know if I can help somehow. I've learned a lot that I would do better on another run.
>For problems which are not well defined, and where a lot of decisions need to be taken, especially when they verge toward the arbitrary, it’s a lot easier to have people in a room and hash it out

Easier in what way? I think it makes people less frustrated by having to think hard about a hard problem, and feels "better" when everyone is saying what they think without any barriers, but I would guess it's much worse at arriving at good solutions to challenging business problems. Especially in the case you describe, with many decision points. I cannot fathom how a group of people chatting can efficiently work through many decisions at once, without laying it all out on paper anyway, whether it's before or after the fact. None of the meeting conversation matters unless you have someone taking good notes and summarizing decisions. Which makes me think, why not just start with the writing part? How is one person's notes about what a bunch of people said during a real-time conversation going to be even remotely on the same level as the people themselves composing their thoughts in writing? The in person meeting just seems like a space to share emotions and make shows of power in front of others.

I think async writing is much better (obviously nothing's perfect) for removing emotions from the discussion and forcing people to spend time thinking through their thoughts. The act of composing a written email, or composing a one-page spec document can do wonders for people ironing out their own thoughts and ideas.

And CC (+BCC) is, imo, the greatest business tool being dropped nowadays in favor of synchronous comms. CC keeps people informed without wasting time or disrupting schedules. It also allows the bosses to keep a much better handle on the comms culture of the company, since they obviously cannot sit in on or observe every meeting.

In person meetings have plenty of specific use cases, but I don't really understand the drive to make critical decisions synchronously in the moment during a meeting. Meetings are great for presentations, Q&A, gathering feedback, etc.
Yeah, from the perspective that tons of companies stopped doing business in Europe
Except, the engineers get paid adequately.
Old tweet
would be nice to use "they" or alternate between "he" and "she" in the post. Otherwise, it's a great post
Well but it is a different think to saying "there's nothing to discover" and "the cost/benefit of discovering those would be too high" (at least for now)
Re: Making Wrong Code Look Wrong
Objectively, pinterest broke Google Image Search so I can’t see how another player could make it worse. If you posit that a single link is shared on both platforms, the chances of getting to the original source are at least greater than 1x.
I've always thought of Dick Proenneke[1] as what McCandless could have/should have been. Despite attempting a similar thing (go detach from civilization as much as possible, though Proenneke didn't take it to the same extreme), Proenneke was actually prepared and talented in the kinds of crafts necessary to have a good life in the wilderness - guy was a crazy-good outdoorsman in general, on top of great carpentry/woodworking[2]/general jury-rigging.

The best part is that he took an 8mm camera and filmed a lot of his work, including building his cabin from almost entirely indigenous materials. Those films ended up as the (PBS-involved?) documentary Alone in the Wilderness[3].

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke

[2] https://www.nps.gov/lacl/learn/historyculture/proennekes-cab...

[3] https://youtu.be/iYJKd0rkKss (partial)
No doubt it's a polarizing topic, and I understand why people (especially Alaskans) get angry about him going into the wilderness unprepared.

The bus was moved for "public safety", which raises a bigger question of safety, and personal choice. Should we stop people climbing mountains, paddling whitewater, skydiving or even just eating bacon all in the name of "public safety"?

Who gets to decide that we're much better off sitting at a desk for life and never doing anything "risky"?

Some people have decided a long life is better than going after your dreams, even if that long life is unfulfilling and full of regrets. That's fine with me.

I'm perfectly happy to let people live whatever life they choose, and it feels strange people won't let me (or get angry about Chris) living the life we want.

We all have many choices in this life, and it seems people get angry when others make different choices than themselves.
It sure seems that way: https://socketsite.com/archives/2017/10/unfinished-block-siz...

You can see the podium is a base of concrete and above it is 4 stories of wood framing construction. The black parts are already wrapped but you see the plywood in the top right.
They do have a choice, it's called a Web App.
Walmart has 100% monopoly over their store space. Verizon has 100% monopoly over what can connect to their network. Google has a monopoly over the Play Store. Cows have a monopoly over milk production. At which point does this argument stop working?

> I doubt ms had 90% of consumer electronics market or even os.

You should probably look that up then, instead of "doubting": https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...
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Colour photography of the Russian Empire in early 20th century
It is because we understood the full-stack.

There was not "frontend" and "backend" developers. There were designers and developers. Designers created designs. They were usually delivered as PDFs, because the bulk of them came from print design backgrounds.

Their designs were then implemented by developers. Senior level developers tended to more of the application level heavy lifting (server-side scripting & db), with junior level developers working on converting designs to html, then to templates. By the time a junior developer moved on to app code, they were well versed and had mastered HTML and all the weird edge cases. They knew HTML.

The first real wave of "frontend" and "backend" developers came on the scene when you had designers learn Flash. They started driving more complex applications and there was a more bifurcation.

Granted even in small teams of the era, you had developers prefer "front" or "back". We tended to value "A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one"
IRS Used Cellphone Location Data to Try to Find Suspects
Toll roads or no bandits! Hand over 30% protection money.
Those $700 Billion will be spent on defense anyway. But we can actually put these $21B to good use instead of wasting them to fund another hole in the ground.
White Claw Became a Meme for Militant Gun Rights Shitposters
Unequivocally yes, MS, Google, and Apple are all deeply unethical. This is proven in their business practices as well as their manufacturing practices. The problem is we live in a society that values money over all else, including human suffering and fair access to markets.
This article by John Coggeshall is an example of great technical writing. I look forward to reading more of his work.

The more I learn about Git, the more it blows my mind. Torvalds must have designed Git in his head during the time he was using BitKeeper. When he decided to implement Git, he went to work and in a few weeks he had it working well enough to use for Linux kernel source control. Torvalds is either a genius or merely a superstar computer scientist and software engineer. Choose any two.
Interesting. I don't think everyone shares that perspective. Certainly I think this software is sort of like an oil exploration expedition. It's going to cost a lot of work, there's a lot of stuff on-site you can't really reuse, and at the end you sometimes fail to find oil. But you built the thing to search for the oil, not to get the oil.

Shell spent billions on trying to find oil in the Chukchi Sea and there isn't enough to be worth it. But if you don't do things like that you don't find the other big finds.

That's why you don't fall in love with the software. It's there to see if the product is viable. Honestly, I like that environment.
The homebanking login page from my bank greets me with "Hello :) How can we help you today?" and it makes me cringe every time. This is a major bank by the way.

I do use smileys here on HN, on facebook, and chatting, to signal I'm being friendly and non-confrontational, to preempt and defuse situations which could escalate into anger if someone misreads the tone.
Sometimes I (and others) give a TL;DR to our own posts. It's saying, "If you're not going to take one or two minutes to read this wall of text that I wrote, here's the short version."

Scientific papers have abstracts. Business and government papers have executive summaries. This is not an unusual thing. So I ask: Is it the practice that bothers you, or the label we use to signal it?
I use the Feedly web UI on desktop and NetNewsWire (which is open source) on iOS. I'm not a huge fan of the Feedly web UI because it doesn't support scraping the source page for the full article text. Too many of my RSS feeds only include the first paragraph or even just the subtitle.
The Regressive Design of the Playstation 5
Right? Feels like an absurdly low-effort attempt at "thought leadership" with easily made connections to recently popular topics like Hamming and that ML guide. As a researcher, I have also thought about the similarities between starting a lab / research agenda and a startup, but this is a superficial analysis.
> They are creative idea-generators—a lot of the ideas may be terrible, but there is never a shortage.

I feel like I almost never have creative ideas - the entirety of my (short) engineering career has been spent working on school projects, contributing to a design team, or set projects at work.

Am I screwed if I want to be successful as a computer engineer? (specifically hardware)
Not much recent HN discussion on this. Some here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438323.

But this, from a year ago, reads interestingly now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19737344.
Sure, it's a trade-off in what sort of upside and control you want.
> Think I'm gonna checkout 3blue1brown after this - he can probably close that gap for me.

You might like this lecture from MIT's OCW: [1]. It's my favorite source for motivating the Laplace transform. It's a bit difficult to make this concept "simple", and this resource assumes that you already have some familiarity with the following concepts: infinite series, power series, radius of convergence, and (indefinite) integration.

The tl;dw is that the Laplace transform is a generalization of a power series.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ2qulI6GEk

Edit: I also wrote up a form of this video elsewhere if anyone's interested. It's kinda long though, and I didn't want to spam this thread with it.
Previous discussion of the “Hamming question” that Sam referenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626349
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You posted one inconclusive Wikipedia article, and no further links to primary sources, by my count. And you would have me find this lack of adequate sourcing acceptable. I don’t. Despite your attempt, bare minimum that it was, I remain unconvinced. If you wanted to appeal to your sources, link one. Wikipedia is a reference encyclopedia; it is not a primary source. This concept is subtle to some people. I did not mean to be confusing in that regard.

Am I missing anything?
Actually funny this question. Because come to think about it, text is by far my preffered way to communicate.

That goes for work and for serious-private matters.

The absolute strengt with text is that it gives you history by default - you can save it.

While you can save text it's also eaiser to the search.

The mental model around writing and communicating is the mental proces that goes into it, and which is also the reason i disagree with people that believe you should be good at writing - if you haven't thought about what you want to communicate you can't write it nor speak about it. Why would you be better at communicating by speech rather than text? Sure it's faster to speak or video, but does that give a better result? I say no way
No?

If someone has to complete a marathon with a 20 lbs weight around their neck, I'm willing to adjust their time downwards to reflect that. I'm not going to avoid doing it because unencumbered runners feel cheated by it.
I use netvibes.com and have been for I don't know how long.

My dashboard there has some 8-ish tabs for different topics I follow, each with ca. 6 feeds.

I can mark each feed as read or a whole tab at once. Each tab has a counter of how much new stuff it has, so I can get a tiny sliver of excitement when there is some news about topic x.
New study: Up to six billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy
Are self-immolations in USA (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_self-immol...) a demand for freedom from an authoritarian rule too?
After I stopped using FB I missed a mobile news reader app that works without having to install a server or create an account.

So with some friends we created an app called Feeds
https://github.com/felfele/feeds

It does everything on the phone and there is no ads or tracking whatsoever. You can also mute content with keywords.

It is open-source and currently in open beta for iOS and Android.
What about the __thousands__ of actual drugs that exist, on a wide spectrum of potential harm in-between marijuana and meth/heroin? Trying to legislate this in some kind of fair manner is not a simple issue at all.

If you just decriminalize everything for personal use... you still have a black market, you still ruin people's lives for being involved in the black market, and you still have a drug war.
i love the idea of pinterest, and people's curated boards used to be very high-value search results for a lot of terms. what turned them to garbage was the change to not showing you result pages if you were not logged in to pinterest.
Reeder + Feedbin
Neat project!

Disklavier control boxes also have MIDI in, and you can get fairly cheap USB->Midi adapters. That way you can sidestep the bluetooth link if you want to use a computer to drive it.
The contemporary police department is a relatively novel way of organizing law enforcement, but there are sherrifs, constables, watchmen, guardsmen, etc. in our oldest written histories.
> A very good thread summarizing what happened in this massive fraud:

> https://mobile.twitter.com/DonutShorts/status/12736903626080...

Huh? I read the thread. It calls out a bunch of people who were involved; it doesn't discuss what happened at all.
Sometimes people write comments relaying their own opinions.
Was this an issue just because Netscape charged for their browser?

Microsoft includes a lot of stuff with the OS, from calculator, file manager, rudimentary word processor, ... How is a browser any different? I understand now we know that the ads and search engine control became vital but I doubt it was predicted at the time. Maybe the regulators believed MS was trying to get Netscape out of the business only to start charging a premium for IE.
The return is big, but what is it compared to the investment?

Many of the key advancements were made with military funding, but:
A) the fact that the military did it first doesn't mean that somebody else wouldn't have done it a year or ten later.
B) how much did we waste on our main goal of murdering people, compared to the amount of funding necessary for helpful scientific advancements?

If we threw $700 billion a year at anything, we'd see major scientific advancements happening almost by accident. We could have invested it in agriculture, or infrastructure, health, or ending poverty. All of those would produce major first order benefits in addition to the advancement of science and technologies.
Moreover, having a rifle shorter than 26in is also a federal crime. You might as well go all the way and saw the barrel in half too if you really want a SBR.
I don’t buy Apple laptops or any laptops Any more but it’s interesting that you cite poor price-performance.

15 years ago when I did they had great cost-performance, i.e. they held their value relative to the competition, remained usable for longer for a number of reasons and when sold actually yielded better value over the full lifecycle. Has this changed?
> it's hard to blame mailchimp for the rise of the wantrepreneur, which seems to be a logical conclusion if we follow the premise of the study

Not mailchimp, because mailchimp, as a business, is not focused on providing services to entrepreneurs. It's much more general. The paper is talking about businesses that focus specifically on providing services to entrepreneurs, what it calls the "Entrepreneurial Industry".

I do think the paper suffers from a lack of specific examples; I would have liked to see some actual examples of companies that the paper considers to be in the Entrepreneurial Industry.
Do you know which software this was?
Template: How to raise angel funds on LinkedIn
> One observation is that I'm really enjoying only using email for that communication.

If it were up to me, I would use a self-hosted NNTP server as an internal forum for communication and reserve email for one-on-one private communication.

> As a result I never get distracted by pings while working

I actually disable notifications from chat applications and email and just make sure I check them periodically throughout the day. No one has ever complained that I took 10 to 20 minutes to respond to a question. Though if there's an active discussion going on, I will participate as needed.

> how and where do you organize that content so that it can be discovered by newcomers to the team?

Newsgroups would typically have a monthly group FAQ post. While that could be done via email, newcomers wouldn't be able to see emails sent before they started.

> crisis moments, such as technical outages, would be tricky to manage for a multi-person operations team

The monthly post with the up-to-date operation procedures to follow for technical issues could work and could be checked for out-of-date information before posting (which is something that wiki documents don't handle well).
Never said it does, was it confusing? Maybe my English needs more work.
As far as I know, the marijuana rush hasn't created a trend of middlemen cutting weed with oregano and then making up for it with a little fentanyl.

Sleazy doesn't imply deceitful. Black markets set a tone of little enforcement and no recourse, since participants are already criminals. This encourages negative-sum games.
That sounds interesting. Do you use any microphone with this interface? Like BEHRINGER C-3 for example. Do you recommend something?
I think it's pretty clear this isn't just about the bus.

It's the general issue of people who have the idea to live in or travel through the wilderness (worthy, IMO), but attempt it without a reasonable attempt at preparation.

It's worth calling out.

These people endanger their own lives -- I think unintentionally in most cases.

And they endanger the rescue workers whose job it is to help people in trouble, whatever the reason.

Hopefully calling this out will catch the attention of at least some of the right people, and there will be a few less of them and their rescuers injured or worse.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23540941
Super cool! Having spent so much time in Meet in the last months really makes me think about the future. We should have technology that outperforms face to face meetings, rather than just getting as close as possible to the "real thing". Why can't I do the following:

- see who's who (bio)

- have pre-determined roles in the meeting (Mary is here as technical specialist on x.y.z.)

- have a set goal, agenda and timers per section

- have a feedback form after/during the meeting

- have stats about the meeting (who was actively participating, maybe via gaze tracking or seeing whether the tab is in view). We're they speaking aggressively, friendly, etc.

- give automatic feedback about your own sound quality (hey, you should really invest in a good headset)

- allow in-system meeting notes, such as decisions made and actions to be taken. Maybe even automatic?

- have voting / polls

- give audible feedback (claps) rather than the wall of mute icons

- have a button to add participants to the call if they are late (it would call their phone, pull rather than push).

- sub-rooms and spatial audio are also a great idea

But no, instead we get virtual backgrounds and the never ending "sorry, I was on mute".

My prediction: In 5 years, online meetings will be so much better than they are today.