skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the impression that the author needs to think a bit further outside the box.

Simply taking the classroom model and trying to perfectly replicate it in Zoom won't work. Of course. But online learning opens up a whole host of new possibilities that in-person learning is equally unable to replicate.

I earned my most recent degree online, from a fully online program, and really appreciated some of the thought they put into creating an online learning experience. One of the key changes was moving toward pre-recorded lectures. This yielded all sorts of fruit. It meant that I, the student, could listen to lectures at a time that worked best for me, rather than being tied to a classroom schedule. Not able to concentrate right now? Fine, take a break and try again later. Morning person? Never have to struggle to stay awake during late afternoon lectures ever again. Evening person? Same for morning lectures. Lecturer's voice dulcet tones and musical prosody make you drowsy, or hard of hearing, or classes not taught in your first language? You, my friend, are going to love the new Transcripts feature.

It also greatly reduced the time we needed to spend in classroom sessions, which, in turn, increased our access to personalized instruction by freeing up space in the instructors' schedules for small group and one-on-one meetings with students.

I, personally, didn't have difficulty focusing on class during class. I don't know that my classmates did, either. My suspicion is that those studies about students not paying attention were looking at typical online classes, which do consist of the traditional "classroom lectures, only on a screen" model. In which case, I am not at all surprised. Traditional classroom lectures tend to be boring as hell. A live classroom environment creating psychological cues that discourage distraction behavior doesn't fix that problem, it just makes it less apparent to the lecturer. Moreover, with asynchronous, recorded lectures, when my attention wanders (as all attentions will), its no big deal, all I have to do is rewind 30 seconds. In the classroom, if the lecturer says something critical while you were zoned out, too bad, you missed it.

The real problem here is that the pandemic has taken teachers who worked under the traditional model, and rudely thrust them into a completely new working environment that requires a radially different approach to the job, and has left them them zero time to adapt. But even a baby you didn't ask for shouldn't be thrown out with the bathwater.
I'm not looking at any parts of twitter, as much as I can avoid it. Twitter is a lost cause, and for any people that are trying to have "nicer parts" there I'd only say - stop supporting the cesspool by your contribution and find a platform that actually tries to support what you're doing instead of trying to ruin it.
This is why the free press and personal liberty are vital components of most western civilisations: they act as a release valve for the sort of behaviours you talk about.

What you are broadly driving at is the necessity for many areas of intelligence gathering and espionage to be invisible to the public eye. There is necessarily a strong tradition of civilian oversight of intelligence agencies in nearly every democracy. For example, in the UK, domestic intelligence is overseen by the Home Secretary, the Intelligence and Security Parliamentary Committee, and the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.

Needless to say, a free press, whistleblowers, and civilian oversight do not exist in China.
Pretty similar to the Hollywood blacklist.

Non government institution discriminating against people for their perceived political views.
not in the name of patriotism, always in the name of fascism, internally called anti-socialism.
..yet
“straw man” isn’t a get-out-of-jail-free-card for any argument. You’re the one who put “perfectly” in all caps.

The reality is sometimes products break or have other flaws, regardless of how much they cost (I don’t think $150 is that high-end for headphones either). Nobody wants that to happen, but when it does, it’s good to know the manufacturer will do something about it.

Also, it’s not clear right now how widespread this issue is. This might be a fringe issue or it might not. I don’t know that and neither do you. (I do know my APP don’t have this issue. I use them heavily and not gently, so I know not everyone gets this issue easily.)
Great article. Most people don't appreciate the value of accounting knowledge. One quibble: few businesses are actual corporations, so I learned to use the term "Owners' Equity" instead of "Shareholders' Equity".
Your arguments lack context. India isn't ruling out Muslims from citizenship. While the CAA is a very bad step forward, and has several problems, it is about what criteria satisfying refugees are available for quick citizenship, and doesn't apply to citizens of the country. India is certainly not running anything close to the camps China is running for Uyighurs.

India is actively trying to fix disparities caused by the caste system. It took the US 200 years to get civil rights, India had affirmative action from day one, and one of the biggest examples of affirmative action at that. The caste system is horrendous, but social change can never be brought so quickly ( atleast in a democratic way, we certainly don't want Stalin or Mao style quick changes)

The caste system, while bad, isn't in any way worse than color discrimination in the US. To quote just one example, India has very strong laws against caste based violence.

India has it's own shares of issues, but it's still an order of magnitude better than the Chinese Government.
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etcd is not a windows registry- it's more similar to active directory, but with consensus protocols to implement the multi-machine requirements for consistency.
very sad news. I loved Mythbusters, especially the ones with Grant, Tori and Kari. I still cringe when I think about that time Grant nearly disemboweled himself on camera.
This is good, even though it could be a possible result of VW/BMW/Mercedes lobbying efforts. Human life safety is the top priority in any industry in Germany. Regulations are keeping Germany a little behind in the innovation race but, at the end, it is all worth it if people are not dying everyday because of failed tech.
Nobody said it's a bad a thing. The bad thing is claiming he wrote it to help people without mentioning the monetary motivator. This is dishonest, end of story.
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Keep in mind the videos in the article were sped up 6-10x, and even at that speed they were painfully slow compared to what a human could do in person.

If you can hire a remote operator to control a robot for half of the hourly wage that you would have to pay for someone to show up in-person to perform the same task that's still not anywhere close to economical if the robot also takes 10x as long, even if you ignore the up-front cost of the robot itself.

In order for something like that to make sense the robots would either have to become comparable to humans in the speed at which they are able perform their respective tasks, or the tasks would need to be at least partially automated so that an operator can control multiple robots at once.
There is a bit of signals and signifiers conundrum here. That said, her points are still valid even though she is not the perfect victim of mob mentality group think orthodoxy.
What's wrong with the YAML? It's easy to read and write, concise, and generally has sane defaults meaning you don't have to be overly verbose.
She is not making this plea for her own benefit, but for those who don’t have her same level of privilege.
How not to suck at eventual consistency
handling eventual consistency

https://medium.com/swlh/handling-eventual-consistency-11324324aec4
Sure. And during those hours of straight and level flight you can read a book or talk to the cabin crew or have a meal. Shouldn't do that in the car (yet).
I don't claim to write books to help people, without mentioning the monetary incentive. That is a common, and very dishonest tactic.

I agree that it's cheap. Or priced to what the market might bear, depending on your perspective.
> Fourth, when I hear people complain about "going against the progressive party line" or whatever, I generally hear people wanting to be some flavor of racist, sexist, transphobic, or just asshole-ish without consequence.

I hear this all the time, but it seems so disingenuous. There are so many national examples that no reasonable person could consider to be any of the above:

* A hispanic man was fired for accidentally making the "ok" symbol

* A data scientist was canned for citing a prominent black academic's research about the efficacy of nonviolent protest

* A journalist was forced to issue an apology for interviewing a black man who was happy about BLM but wished there was more attention on issues of violence in his community

Frothing racists indeed.

In light of cases like this, I don't know how anyone can think that cancel culture is just "punching up" or "criticizing people" or "going for people who want to use hate speech".
Minimal effort was a big part of why I struggled in university. I'm smart, and learned at an early age that I could get away with coasting and scrape decent grades - until university. Turns out working at something that doesn't come naturally is a very important life skill that I'd completely missed.
That's the ultimate eventual consistency.

When you realize your previous approximation leads to a discontinuous function after new data arrives, just roll back your instruction pointer as well as your perception of time.

This ability to retroactively error-correct without affecting perceived continuity could also be affording our brains a greater margin of error.
I was interviewing a candidate last year for a software engineering position. Interview was fine and he was capable. I decided to find him on Twitter.

He said immigration was ruining the country, and that there are too many Indians / Chinese in the Bay Area. About half of my organization either have an H1B visa or a green card.

Am I a McCarthyist for rejecting him outright without hesitation?
I'm mostly a happy systemd user. Unit files are much easier to work with and more consistent than init scripts, the faster bootup (at least on my arch and Ubuntu systems, maybe you could make Gentoo even more minimal with initscripts), and the container/isolation features won me over.

That said, I can understand the objection to software that would previously support BSD or macOS now only providing systemd units or depending on other parts of the systemd project that in turn depend on the init making at a pain for portability across unices. Or software like gnome taking up huge amounts of time for the BSDs to support.
No, that's what you are doing.
What I'm doing is comparing the number of successful companies that came out given that the VC system exists versus a situation where it doesn't. We don't know how many potentially successful companies haven't been started, or got strangled in the crib, because of the dynamics of the VC ecosystem and the fact that it exists.

Also it's an error of remarkable proportions to assume that "massive company" is synonymous with "net positive to humanity", particularly in tech.
Your argument that “context is everything” is exactly my point. It’s not. Context is something. If context was everything, then there is no point in writing anything, because words cannot be wielded to create new meaning. Their meaning will be imbued by their collectively interpreted context.
1. What does gatekeeping accomplish here?
2. Did you even read the tutorial? It does much more than just "stream your entire screen"
Ask HN: Who are the best companies for promoting open source?
My company is looking to create a policy to allow developers to have ownership of the technology they create, as long as it is non-competitive. For example, if a developer at Slack created a tool to do their job better (maybe a new IDE), they should have the freedom to open source it or sell it commercially.

This is tricky to implement which is why we'd like to gain inspiration from other companies who have done similar policies. Specifically, how do you deal with the same employee who works ~at~ Slack but spends most of their time working on their IDE?

To us it's ridiculous the amount of control some companies want of their employees. There is no reason a chat app should want ownership of an IDE that has nothing to do with their core business.

* I am not accusing Slack of being this way. I am just using them as an example.
“Platforms will have to provide 30 days notice to publishers before removing content from stores, allowing them time to appeal or make changes to their software. So no immediate and opaque bans”

"The regulations will force stores to be more transparent in how their ranking systems work, letting publishers understand how ‘trending’ apps are being chosen for instance."

They are also calling for an accessible and transparent system for handling developer complaints.
We're choosing to not deal with unemployment. Which is to say, we could solve a lot of the issues associated with it very easily but prefer bailing out the stock market over the poor and middle class.

Unemployment will be an issue even if we open up because bars, restaurants etc will go under regardless the moment they have a confirmed coronavirus case. Then they have to shut down, sanitize the place etc which is devastating for small businesses.
Do a lot of programmers feel like they could be effective on a livestream? I might be in a minority, but my preferred coding style is very non-linear and sporadic, and wouldn't make for an enjoyable viewing experience.
Isn't it simpler to use fixed point in this case?
Go's compiler values being fast over potential optimizations, I believe, so this might be something that they don't think is something the compiler should do.
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I also got my account locked when I changed my telephone number and had the email address associated with an old work email. They didn’t seem to be able to unlock it, so I lost a decade worth of projects. I now keep offline backups.
I think she wants her previous employer to protect her rights and not be subject to a hostile work environment, no?
Is Gnucash closer to Quicken or Quickbooks? I wish I had started with Quickbooks even for my personal finances, years ago, but I used Quicken instead :( My impression was that Gnucash was meant as an open source version of Quicken which would be much less attractive as it hides the true double-entry bookkeeping going on underneath.
Oh I see, yeah that doesn't help sadly, for me though the stuff it shows me does not correlate with the people I follow at all. The algorithm must be weird I guess?
I think the same argument can be had about the other side. People who push for changing words like this need to find better arguments that emotionally driven ones.

The other option is to have a nuanced debate from both sides where one side isn't thought of as hateful and evil. One side is saying "hey this is a slippery slope" the other side is saying "no you're wrong and you're what's wrong with the world today".

Also, where has my defensiveness been at all illogical or emotional? The arguments presented against doing this seem pretty sound from the people who can explain their reasons.
It's time that courts come to terms with the amount of money companies now control. A 600k fine is quite large if an individual. For a large corp, it's a rounding error. If a court wants to signal they are unhappy with the behavior of a corp, then they really need to adjust their punishment. These corps have money that rival nation states, and should be treated as such.
the comments on this thread just remind me how conventional in thinking most people in tech are with regards to politics. why is it we pride ourselves in thinking outside the box but everyone marches exactly down the line with the same political views? you know something is up when it’s hard to find even one donation to a republican from some companies employees
There seems to be quite more to the article than that. Maybe if being critical of everything on the internet, the comment section may not be for you.
The huge problem with this is that you are giving an economic incentive to the customer to "go down" for hours or days.
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Thank you!
We do plan to offer an API in the future - there are tonnes of cool things that can be built around this data.
We were even approached by a couple of companies that were willing to pay for such API! (that was cool)
However, we're currently a really small team and it's hard enough wrapping our head around everything we want to do with the website, so we decided the API is something we can pursue as we grow the team.
I didn't have cable so I rarely saw myth busters, but I was a fan of his for building the Geoff Peterson robot
Everyone who uses tiktok retard, even if tiktok was us company.
> But I am sure that future historians will view the impact of systemd on computing as largely negative.

I don't really think so. They probably will point out a lot problems with at some point somehow got fixed but it should be net-neutral or positive.

The thing is todays linux is running manny services and to do so nicely you want to have some form of service manager which does startup/shutdown/restart/circicute braking and helps with interconnect. Which is what systemd does and what mainly differentiates it from many previous systems which where mainly "just" start-up helpers. Through there are IMHO a large amount of problems with systemd the general approach is IMHO good, just the implementation isn't so much.
How do you know they support Harper’s not paying interns? Maybe they object to that, too.
I don't know what you are seeing - TikTok gives you localised contents straight away even when browsing their website.

If you play around with it for a bit, the algorithm will adapt to your taste.
Where your doctor friends virologists? Doctors are some of the worst people to ask, in my opinion, about what to do if they do not have subject expertise. They have just enough knowledge to speak authoritatively and not nearly enough subject expertise to really know what they're talking about.

The old adage that doctors are the worst patients, I think, rings true.
There have been attempts at decentralization of git storage and collaboration. See for example:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/interview_yurii_rashkovskii_t...

I would love to see something like this succeed for all manner of infrastructure... from domains and DNS, to email, to version control.
Someone listed confluence, jira, linux, git, docker as the worst software he worked with
I've heard it pretty much everywhere in the US
Ruby's a bit of a niche, but there are a fair number of big-name companies built on it (Github, Basecamp, etc), certainly not bad to have in your arsenal.

Note: Ruby is the programming language, but in the SaaS world that's usually coupled with Rails (the MVC architecture) and ActiveRecord (the database/SQL layer).
> People used to say the same things about dishwashers

I still say the same about dishwashers. In the time it takes me to sort things into what can and cannot safely go in the washer, scrape off the food residue, load the machine, and unload the machine, I can simply wash the dishes and stack them on a rack to dry.

Vacuum cleaners are useful but actually not very important in the kind of dwelling that the robot could inhabit because it will have to have flat floor with no carpets so a broom will do just as well (or a Roomba type cleaner).
>refreshingly playful

That's the kind of content that survives the crucibles of Chinese censorship, "Creative and Joyful" opiate for the masses. This is an often overlooked aspect of Chinese social media / content filtering philosophy that has coalesced over time - block out the bad and divisive while elevating mundane joys. It's how the 50c operates, it floods the airwaves with small happy platitudes and avoids debates because engaging and challenging controversial topics (especially politics) is how toxicity is produced. It's counterproductive to even try. It's why TikTok's content policy is designed to protect the status quo, often misinterpreted as being pro-Beijing when it's broadly pro-establishment. The last thing Chinese social media platforms is designed to do is to start revolutions, encourage radicalization or sectarianism among impressionable audiences, things western social media platforms are dealing with now, and why they were blocked in China in the first place.

E: IMO the style has it's place, whole of China has no choice but to live under it, but in the west, a plurality of content management philosophies calibrated for different audiences is good. There's lessons in managing toxicity to learn from TikTok even if it gets banned.
> It is a pretty nifty idea but like all things made by Canonical it is basically digitized garbage.

> At least those are not made by people with a disdain for error checking.

Every single time there's a topic about Ubuntu or Canonical you seem to go straight into offensive mode. I can tell you use Fedora, but that's not typical of Fedora users and developers and no excuse.

I'm an open source developer and believer, but this kind of behavior slowly burns my soul, even more when it seems accepted. I've worked on enough projects in my life that it's absolutely certain that you use my code regularly. It's inside Go, Python, APT, and RPM by the way (hello Jeff Johnson, wherever you are), and in key libraries that you surely depend on as well. And I never heard you complaining about any of that with such anger here.

I'm also Canonical's CTO, and I was one of the key designers and developers that started snaps, and juju, and other key projects from Canonical. I usually hear such blind hate in silence, but sometimes it's just too much. I don't understand why do we do that to ourselves, as a Linux community. Why is it okay to openly offend unknown people that we almost certainly depend upon? What is it that we came here to do, again?
Wanting to help people and charging for it are completely separate topics. There's absolutely nothing dishonest about it.
Maybe I am, but I don't own any shares of any company. How does it benefit me? :P
Try sneaking into the EU and act all idignant when they kick you out.
Ask HN: Any software projects considered Done?
Assuming the semantics of programming languages are well-defined, I'm wondering if there's any software projects that we can confidently say are entirely bug-free and not requiring any new feature additions to be considered complete.

If not, how about only considering the projects' core source code, not counting compiler/build-chain bugs and dependency bugs?

If not, what would be the closest?
You're transposing airplane terminology with automobile terminology. In a car, the co-pilot is typically someone that sits in the passenger seat and functions only as an additional set of eyes. They can't take complete control over the vehicle from that spot. Cars, unlike airplanes, don't have two sets of full controls.
I love the idea of putting the express checkout technology in the cart. Promises less queuing and less frustration.

But of course amazon had to tie it to your amazon account. I don't want my data to be sucked up! And this no does not serve people without access to the usual banking & internet infrastructure.
Thanks for the kind words
We built it to solve our own problem (spending so much time trying to find the right package).
Happy to hear it's useful for others like yourself!