skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the screenshots and gifs over there I can tell that someone is again forcing people to look at
1) animations
2) grey fonts instead of black
and they are even bragging about it being beautiful.
These also tend to enormously waste screen space.

Are especially those two things configurable by user? I mean - there has to be no animations at all (why does anyone insist on animating theme change? that is just ridiculous), and black text, not grey. If not, that is complete deal breaker. Please tell me I'm wrong and one can configure everything there.

Single word: accessibility.
More words: normal accessibility without needing to re-set whole system to be "accessible" just because one app developer can't behave.
You want only millionaires investing in securities? I don't have any right to invest because I am poor?

I am not against regulations, I think all existing regulations are perfectly adequate to protect inexperienced investors from themselves.
It's not misleading, they check for DRM presence and that's bad enough.

> but reason activists hate DRM is that it enables service providers to go a step beyond traditional fingerprinting and gain a truly unique identifier.

The reason is that in some places on Earth you can be sentenced for violation of special computer laws prohibiting you to even look at such code and disclose what it does, you just run it and see what happens
I'm on easy mode (white and male), but I had no network and no prestigious previous employers or schools to point to when starting on my company a few years ago. There were many points when I felt like raising money would be impossible, but I eventually did so. In case it might help someone who's feeling hopeless and has it much harder than I did due to their background, here are a few things I've learned about how the game is played:

- Talking to investors is a waste of time in the beginning. It's much better to focus on getting into an accelerator first.

- Never talk to one investor at a time. That gives them all the leverage. It's better to schedule many meetings with many different investors all in a one or two week period.

- Timing is everything. Don't talk to investors before you're ready to even if they say it's "just a casual coffee". They are looking for reasons to rule you out. Try to only talk to investors at inflection points where a graph of some important metric is going steeply up and to the right.

- Move on quickly. Unless an investor is obviously enthusiastic by the end of the first pitch, they are highly, highly unlikely to invest. Don't waste time answering their questions or getting their "feedback" or giving them additional meetings if they seem skeptical. Just move on to the next one.

- Don't ask for introductions from investors who turned you down. These are actually anti-endorsements that significantly decrease your chances with the investors you get introduced to this way.
California is certainly part of the US though. Anecdotes invalidate stupid generalizations but anecdotes don’t validate generalizations.

You should look up the history of Edina. It was established well before the war and had laws until shortly after the war that land had to be owned by Caucasians. They had no interest in sidewalks when they were built even when they had laws explicitly keeping minorities out.
> my discretionary spending has dropped by 95% and my bank account has swelled at a rate that I could have never imagined without much drop in my overall happiness at all and this is likely to lead to changes in spending patterns for years to come.

this is somewhat inherent in the system. they message you that you need to be out and about to be happy. it's the capitalistic way. Also a bit of why a lot of jobs work you so hard so you are too tired to form any thoughts on the system at large.

I think a more sustainable economy is what america (and the world) needs. the growth at all costs has been very, very bad for our world. for instance, one unintended consequence of mass manufacturing of food is that to get reliable, consistent bread they stripped everything that made it good (including time spent fermenting) and then added in a few choice macro nutrients and now, I suspect, those types of products are causing problems health wise on a macro scale. if people went down to their local baker and bought naturally leavened breads with more wholesome flours instead of wonder bread et al we might as a country be less sick. there are other examples of long term costs associated with short term thinking. (rise in allergies and planting male only trees because of a 1940s department of agriculture recommendation come to mind but there are others) not to say it's all been bad but there have been many bad outcomes.
That depends entirely on the company.

"Nepotism and corruption" is a very odd claim.

Does this mean that only family members and friends of managers get promoted? Or that you have to bribe folks in the company to advance? What do you actually mean?

What I would say is that most companies haven't really put much thought into building career ladders for their people.

Or into defining roles that provide enough breadth to capture a diverse skillset, enough autonomy to get the job done, and enough in the way of pragmatic constraints to scope the role.

Algorithms interviews only tell me that somebody can pass an algorithms interview -- one in which the solution space is very narrow, and there are a few correct answers.

In real-world engineering, this is very rarely the case.

There are always trade-offs to make. Good engineers know how to do things the cheap way now, and pragmatically invest more as we need to -- because they follow practices focused on, second only to delivering value, making the code easy to change.
I think the important point is that if you are selling placement above the first result, trademark squatting means you're actually extorting the trademark holder: Pay up or we'll put a competitor above you. Nobody should have to pay to be the top result for a searcher looking for them directly.

Of course, this problem could alternately be solved by always putting the trademark holder as the top result for the term, and showing relevant ads immediately below. You can still sell to competitors, but nobody feels like they're forced to pay you to own their own name, which is what happens at Google.

Selling the top result is possibly the most problematic thing about Google. And very few nontechnical users can even identify the first organic result. They click the ad thinking it's the top result, not because they found the ad valuable or relevant.
> The Vatican owns more than 71,659,919 hectares of land around the world

No, it doesn't.

Catholic institutions do, perhaps, but the relationship between other Catholic institutions and the Holy See is complicated, both legally and by tradition and more practical concerns.

> I can believe the Vatican itself, as in the tiny city state in Italy, is worth $1bn

I think the reference here to the Vatican is to Holy See, of which the State of Vatican City is a subordinate component.

> but the Catholic Church owns hundreds of billions of dollars worth of assets

The Catholic Church is not, as such, a juridical entity and thus, as such, does not have the capacity to own anything.
A developer with soft skills can pivot into being an overpaid “digital transformation consultant” or “enterprise architect”.
because Google (and apple) is using the exact same tricky they sued Microsoft for in the 90s: including the browser with the OS.
There are already ads on HN. They just happen to be tasteful and well targeted.
> Reddit also has the advantage of doing it during a major UI shift - it's easy to justify design changes when everyone is heading for mobile browsers anyway. Digg didn't have that excuse.

On the contrary, Digg’s UI changes were happening when “Web 2.0”-hype was peaking, including bold new web-design trends - many sites were actively redesigning themselves with a brighter theme and better visual-effects: this was around 2007-2010 when IE6-support was starting to be discounted by tech-oriented websites so they could start using new CSS features and alpha-channel PNG images that IE7, Firefox, and Opera supported.

I argue that the changes to their recommendation algorithm - and the introduction - and eventual promotion - of mainstream news (especially sports news) meant that their early users: technology news readers, lost interest in the site. The redesign of the site was a contributing factor, but a bad redesign is nowhere near as damaging to a site’s popularity than it losing relevance to its core user base.
I've had a Tonal for about a month and it's a super impressive product in many ways. From someone who love great product design:
- Very well-designed, distraction-free, non-buggy, snappy UI
- For being a 1st gen product it seems SO well put-together, everything feels very solid- especially considering what kind of weight and force is being applied at times.
- For being early on in the software lifecycle it already has Apple Watch heart rate integration via a Tonal Watch app as well as allows you to turn the weight on/off via the watch

Which brings me to what I think really sets Tonal apart..

I was a very early iPhone adopter and I vividly remember showing people the phone and what really got them hooked/interested was: pinch-to-zoom and the "rubber-banding" inertial scrolling. Both interactions of which demonstrated beautifully what a no-physical button, multi-touch slab of glass could do that nothing before it came close to... and most importantly, it felt a little like magic.

With Tonal it is a very weird feeling to "turn on" the weight. It's like you hit a button (built into the handles/bar/screen or your watch) and boom it's full-force to whatever weight you set with zero sound/noise.. it's very impressive.

I thought maybe this was just something that struck me but I've had numerous friends who are much more experienced with weight lifting try it out and they are so surprised and impressed.

Not trying to sell people on Tonal just saying that after seeing people's reactions to it I can totally see it being a viral type product that sells high-price to early adopters then lowers entry-level price as economies of scale allow it (then introduces new subscriptions, accessories, upgrades, better models to keep high margins for customers who can afford it).
Not a new phenomenon.

Google's anti-bot team in St. Petersburg had a lot of positions for such "talent" good at using borderline exploit techniques to detect bots as far back as 2012-2013

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17649371

> You know, mobile ads companies resort to borderline exploits to fight botting, but even they loose out.

> Lockdown is a useless measure, from my experience. Both IOS and Android ad nets croak under 60-70% bot traffic.
This is basically supercookie from Samy.
Redhat is bigger on both.

Scientific Linux, which was built exclusively for HPC, was based on CentOS.
If it is not Turing complete, your sandbox/interpreter/whatever can be certain that the code does not do anything "surprising". Basically, you can know at compile time that the program fulfills certain constraints. For practical examples, see the newish virtual machine inside of the linux kernel used to execute constraint "scripts" to control the firewall (https://lwn.net/Articles/740157/)

Proving the same constraints and having the same trust in a Turing complete language is basically the halting problem, which is not computable.
I'm not a screen reader user, but I have ublock origin on my mobile filtering out media elements over 1000kb. Instead I was given the alt texts for at least one of the images.
It's great when people do this, so many times I also just get emails from marketing that are images only without any descriptors, and I can't help but think about how many international groups simply don't care about accessibility.
Usenet atrophied slowly and suffered from multiple problems, but the turning point was when AOL started offering a gateway.

That's when it become obvious that a lot of what made Usenet work so well was that the population was small and very homogenous (making it easy to build a high-trust culture), and that neither of those were staying true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
When you (the VC) say you want to help Black founders, and then do not respond to a Black founder while responding to a non-Black founder for the same product, then yeah, that is bigotry.
How? In your world there is no concept of personal responsibilty?

If I lose ALL my investments, it doesn't change my way of life or status in society. I have no dependents or collateral.

On the other hand, if my investments pay off, I have a real shot of upward social mobility within 5 years, instead of 5 decades.
No, that's not the only difference. In fact, the two projects were more dissimilar than similar.

Notably, the point of "Who's Afraid Of Peer Review" is that no reasonable reviewer could accept the paper for any reason; the papers (they were all practically identical) contained self-contradicting data; in fact, the plots in the paper were contradictory, so you couldn't even just skim the abstract and the graphics and then reasonably accept the paper. And, of course, the WAOPR papers were claiming to have cured cancer.

The WAOPR papers were designed to be trivial to spot. That's not the case for the S2 papers; the "dog park" paper, for instance, intricately describes 1000 hours of field work.

And, of course, there's the distinction that WAOPR papers targeted commercial services asking for money to publish papers, not volunteer peer review time.
I believe Startpage.com still has a deal with Google to repackage their search results. The search results are identical so not sure what terms Google puts on them.
I actually type my commit messages in a new window in the editor (vim).

:r !git status -v

Type my commit message above the output, and then visually highlight the lines of my commit message and then run

:'<,'> !git commit -F -

In fact, if I see an issue with the diff, I can update the relevant file and then run:

:!git add %

and then go back to the window with the status output, delete it and rerun the status -v command.

In fact, if I want to be more fine grained with the changes I stage in git, I can run:

:r !git diff

to get the output of the unstaged changes, copy the hunk header lines, paste them above the hunk I want to stage, visually highlight the hunk with the header lines, and then run:

:'<,'> !git apply --cached -

to stage that hunk. I've even done things like using recountdiff to update the hunk header if I decide to removed added lines or restore deleted lines in a hunk. Personally, I think it's easier than using git add -p or reset -p.
Well, once companies stop having policies where they only give internal employees slightly above cost of living raises and bringing in new employees in at market rates - ie salary compression and inversion - then maybe employees won’t look out for their own best interest.

The choices are either have relevant skills to keep yourself marketable or be willing to do the “leetCode monkey dance” and remember how to reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard.
They have native first party applications for iOS and Android now.
US just has a massive podcast culture. All of my US friends listen to podcasts in some way, even if it's just when flying.

Meanwhile it would be news to me if any of my friends in Mexico and Spain (the two places I spend time in nowadays) listen to podcasts at all. I also listen to Mexican/Spanish podcasts to practice the language, and there just is no contest with the top 1% of US podcast -- what most people are listening to. So you need to also have a sufficient proficiency in English to get into podcasts.

The sibling comment focusing on public RSS feed is looking down the wrong rabbit hole when there's a simpler answer: US has high absolute and per capita numbers for podcast listeners which is what you need to have a culture of podcast production.
>What is the solution for these bad actors and use cases?

A model of paying for resources not based on serving ads and selling data? If you're not paying for a service, you are the product, not the customer.
I hate hit pieces, Robinhood actually provides a REAL opportunity for poor people with aptitude and high risk tolerance a way out of poverty!
It really doesn’t need western tech workers that much in huge troves. Look at people Alibaba has poached for top AI positions.

Also, are you aware of 1000 Talents plan?

I suppose you are also aware of Tsinghua and other 8 schools that are super strong? Especially two of them in AI.
DDG has a deal with Amazon. All product searches show Amazon up above with payment for that. Not sure if it's exclusive or if DDG has deals with other eCommerce players.
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I understand how performance isn’t a priority but would argue that it should be: The users of enterprise apps are typically employees whose time is valuable. That ought to be an important consideration for those who control the purse strings.
I was talking about PS5's secondary storage being essentially as fast as RAM: 9GB/sec throughput with custom 12-channel controller to the new PCIe 4.0 SSD.

https://screenrant.com/ps5-io-ssd-speed-tech-specs-playstati...
Harvard and MIT Sue to Stop Trump Visa Rules for Foreign Students
Great project. I did not see an explanation on the architecture of a cluster. Is data replicated to all nodes, or is data only stored on a single node (sharded). What happens when a node in the cluster goes down? Does there have to be a consensus (odd number of nodes) for the cluster to be "healthy"?
I don’t care about leaving things behind - I care about not being 70 years old and broke. The best case outcome is that we both spend our last penny when we are on our death bed.
Yawn. A gun is designed to shoot bullets. The vast majority of guns are bought and never murder. A small minority of them are used to murder animals and an even smaller minority are used to murder people. Handguns make up the majority of that latter group.

I own a handgun to shoot bears and mountain lions that might try to put the moves on me when I’m deep in the Rockies. One of my friends hunts with an AR-15 body gun with no intention of ever using it on people (and it has no automatic mode). He has it because of the handy attachments.

Whatever classification you think exists to draw the line does not in reality.
> What is left of the catholic church if you reject the pope?

> Protestants

I think you mean “Eastern Orthodox”, as they both were rejecting the primacy (at least, in the terms Catholics define it) of the Pope long before Protestants existed and remain closer to the Roman Catholics on most points other than the primacy of the Pope than Protestants, who reject a lot more about Catholicism than the role of the Pope.
Yes, call center is a great example, as any customer order/processing center that uses many non-integrated IT solutions or where APIs don't provide enough flexibility/customization required workflows to run
UGC: user-generated content
Nowadays I don’t know if drops means released (like an album), or stopped supporting. Guess I will have to RTFA. :)
The podcasts-over-time statistics remind me that podcasts are like the new blogs.
You are right, but Options trading isn't available to people with less than $5k deposits on Robinhood and I think same is true with margins.

Robinhood is more agressive when it comes to margin calls, that actually protects inexperienced investors.
@OP and others, here's how to enable this flag temporarily.

In the pretty printed version of https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/Reddit.de2e3f279d82ee... add a breakpoint to the first line of this part of the code.

if (!as(e))
return;
const t = e.user.account ? Jt()(e.user.account.id).toString() : void 0
, s = document.createElement("script");
s.src = Object(es.a)("https://s.udkcrj.com/ag/386183/clear.js", {
dt: "3861831591810830724000",
pd: "acc",
mo: 0,
et: 0,
ti: $t()(),
ui: t,
si: "d2x"
}),

Then when you are paused on the breakpoint evaluate this in the console:

e.runTimeEnvVars.staging=true
Sounds like SlashDot. See the article on HN then shortly thereafter in the /. firehouse.
Natural ELF fields in the atmosphere and in living organisms
Generally true in Japan but "Tower mansion" (high apartment) on Tokyo/Osaka is exceptional. It's considered as wealth.
I guess I prioritize it over other things which I would otherwise be spending the time on. You might just be a more busy person than me?

I also have a pretty strong aversion to headless-chicken-mode, having seen it as a pathological disaster spiral at a couple of places where everything is urgent all the time, and so you never have time for anything. Being in too much of a rush to do things properly is a trap.

I find as an employee I have to fill and empty my head a lot. I have a good short-term memory, but things that I don't write down tend to slip out after a week or two. "Oh, I worked on that thing? I don't remember that."
“I wish I had less money”. Said no one ever.

While you are busy not being concerned about money. I bet your employer is glad to be getting you cheaply.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00484-020-01864-6
They'd probably just ban Apple and Google from having TikTok available on their App Stores.

Personally, I can't see how TikTok is any different from FaceBook. They both extract data from their users, they both hand over that data to governments who want it.

Ban TikTok, maybe. But to be consistent, you should ban FaceBook too.
DRM is a bit clickbaity here.

The site does a lot of fingerprinting, and the EME module is one of the least useful bits and doesn't really reveal anything the browser user agent string doesn't already.
Twitter is nothing like that. It's a publicly-traded company with thousands of employees, covered in ads, and Jack Dorsey owns something like 2%.
Twitter... great? In what way?
There's also the ~$1500 upfront cost for the hardware, which is nothing to sneeze at.

I can definitely see upper-middle class consumers buying something like this, but I'd have thought it's slightly out of reach for "Average Joe and Jane".
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> Who goes digging into old commit messages to understand what a piece of code does? I know I don't.

A lot of people do. If you've ever used git blame on a file, you can see which commit each line in the file is associated with. You can then run git show <sha1> for that commit and see the message and associated diff. Having that information can help you understand why a change was made and may help you avoid introducing regression type errors.
I assume that was a typo for "Heptio", who were acquired by VMware in 2018.
Take a look at GPT-3 doing a programming phone screen: https://twitter.com/lacker/status/1279136788326432771

This is an unedited output of a language model which was not trained to pass programming phone screens. The only thing it was trained to do is to predict the next word in a sentence. Just 10 years ago this would be pure sci-fi. Today it's "meh". More importantly, there's no sign of slowing down.
> they'd launch maybe a couple years later

If at all; probably obvious, but important to point out that in a startup environment this kind of mistake could just outright kill the company.

I work on an open source project (Sandstorm[1]) that was started by a now-defunct startup. There's a repo that's unmaintained at this point (It might still work?) containing a high-scalability backend that had been used to manage Sandstorm Inc's hosted offering. Apparently they never got to the scale where they couldn't have thrown one giant server at it and been fine, and it pulled a lot of resources away from other (ultimately more important) development tasks.

...and now I'm stuck developing against mongo for no good reason :P

[1]: https://sandstorm.io
No. You cannot pepper a thread with demands for people to source their arguments and then confront a wall of sources with your own ad hoc thoughts. Source your rebuttals comparably. You set the bar, now clear it yourself.