skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad was using the one I gave him until it was destroyed in a fire last year. He was still fine with it except that the Amazon app didn’t work any more.
Germany already had a law where any security software on your machine = you are a hacker.

At least this time is is simply useless. The secret services are not magicians and the fact that they have access to my home network or the link does not mean that they can do anything spectacular.
Have you reported that behavior, preferably with a debuglogs attachment in their GitHub tracker (or even the community forum)?
Disagree strongly on git. On the surface the syntax is ugly, but the data model is brilliant.

Once you wrap your mind around what commits, heads and remotes are and learn to rebase you get an incredibly simple and fine-grained control. I never use stash because it's trivial to create a WIP commit and rebase later into the chunks I want to ship to permanent history.

Git is like a chef's knife: extremely powerful tool that's dangerous in untrained hands.
Did they charge money to use it?
Classification is segregation if people are free to take any job there is no classification required. It was a short sighted system, a modern economy works by people participating in it by exchange of skill/work for money. There is no scientists caste , no computer programmer caste all that exists is peoples skills, ability to up skill and take a job as they qualify. Todays Programmer could be tomorrows priest, CEO or politician. Also economy and society as a result is much wider than 4 Groups of the Hindu caste system. It is a terrible system no matter how you look at it. My understanding is it was a reservation for Jobs for certain class of people from them to their sons and daughters which was codified in religious texts or law giving books of the time. Not only something like that vicious but out right unethical.
It’s interesting to study, but it doesn’t magically make hard problems tractable. It seems to make certain common mistakes less likely. When you do statistical analysis or machine learning to model p(x,y) or its friend p(y|x) it’s possible that you mistake correlations for causation (because there is no way to express directionality of dependency). If I have data about the measurement on a barometer and atmospheric pressure then I may learn a model that predicts higher pressure when the barometer reading is high. But if I manually force the barometer reading higher that doesn’t increase the atmospheric pressure. Causality provides a mathematical framework to express that idea.

The problem I have with causality is how to find accurate causal diagrams from unstructured observational data. We _could_ guess and check every possible causal relationship, but that’s at least exponentially hard—in which case causality is useless.

People seem to have reasonably good capabilities for generating candidate causal hypotheses from observational data (basically all of modern science), but most of the material I’ve found on causality focuses on the theoretical benefits it provides rather than on practical applications at scale. (I don’t care if we can automate finding the causal graph for barometer & air pressure; how do I find a causal graph for classifying fake/real news from plain text data?)
CDC director, after being pushed by the grim reaper in chief. The federal agency's initial advice can be taken as useful, but once there has been time for the marching orders to come down, it's better seen as outright harmful. Unfortunately that won't stop a lot of people in red states from dying, as their corrupt leaders point to the harmful misinformation when implementing their own backwards agendas.
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Uh, I was agreeing with you.

"Quite bad and totally better than every other solution" sounds about right to me.

With the caveat that it's apparently a worse option than Perforce and Mercurial for huge monorepos a la Facebook and Google.
Google Doc Search

Google Doc search is totally useless
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Opinion: The only way to end cancel culture is to cancel the cancel culturists
If I remember correctly, at some point after a year-lasting downtime due to hardware failure (whole 2016 was the-year-that-didnt-happen), users were told that site relies on local (to the Austrian creators) ISP infrastructure and it will continue to use it out of costs - no word was given when soup.io moved elsewhere since that time but they did and it wasn't AWS.
Indeed I'm not a masochist. That's why I avoid staring at a screen with poor LED backlight, using a crappy keyboard or a kitsch GUI, all of this brought to you by Apple[tm].
>used to be

Another victim of open office seating, I'm sure.
Only as much as having a window that reflects sound waves almost-perfectly, like... a really thick pane of glass.

For what it's worth, since humans perceive sound logarithmically, a doubling sound of intensity feels like a constant (+3dB) increase of noisiness. This window would not even double sound intensity unless you're right next to it.
This is great. I move around a lot, and one of the big headaches I always have is figuring out a decent route to run. The only thing I would request is having an option to have completely circular routes, rather then having routes that require running back the way you came.
It may not surprise you to learn that his Ph.D. was on "on Games With A Purpose, which are games played by humans that produce useful computation as a side effect" and is same person behind Duolingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn
On the latest post on their site:

> The infrastructure and micro-services of soup became more and more complex over the years and the amount of data is huge, really huge. To serve nearly 6 million users is a resource-intensive duty.

> This is also the reason why we dropped the idea of open-sourcing soup. It's too complex to maintain and to hand-over.
Discussion from 2015:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8897387
How is that an issue for you and not an issue for drivers who obviously can’t hear other cars?
Although this appears very alarming, it's also worth noting that due to covid it's allowed for them to defer payments for a bit, and that is included in this statistic.
My personal issue right now is that I have multiple accounts with MFA and there’s no easy way to differentiate them besides this generated account ID in the auth app. This means I have to create some type of mapping table between the ID and the account, or try to remember what’s available
I was think the same thing. The routes generated are really great, but how would I actually use the routes. As some of the routes are pretty complicated. I use an Apple Watch and it would be great to use that.

My preference would be to use Apple Map directions. But it isn’t possible to specify waypoints.

But the official Google Maps URL spec supports specifying waypoints. It would be awesome to click on a link to open the route in Google Maps for turn-by-turn directions.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/urls/guide#...
1Password with the one-time $50 software license + its local WLAN synching functionality + automatically backing up your hdd/ssd locally.
I'm taking issue with latency in general and it's dismissal. There are reams of ergonomic targets, data, and guides on user interface latency that are just completely ignored these days. A terminal is close to the simplest possible interface whose job is to provide input and output to a user with as little disruption as possible. 30 ms is in fact noticeable.

Here is a short video from Microsoft (about 10 years old now) on the experience of using a touchscreen with 100ms of delay vs 1ms showing the steps in between. The difference is extraordinary for the user even if the end result is the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
Desktop sorry. It does support Face/TouchID on iOS.
Slack. It has become the ultimate annoying piece of software that I feel I always need to check and keep an eye on. There is an untold expectation to always be online. It's using the same mechanism as Facebook to keep you hooked with dopamine.
People have been accusing this place of devolving into Reddit so often for so long the mods specifically call it out in the guidelines as a semi-noob delusion and tell people to knock it off, which they never do.

The interface is merely simplistic, it's neither serious nor very off-putting. No more than, say, Craigslist anyway. For that matter, 4chan's interface is far more offputting, and its culture is far worse than Reddit.

Like, do people here really believe HN would instantly descend into chaos and madness if the layout used proper typography, modern HTML or (god forbid) AJAX?
It tries to! But if there's no good way to avoid them, then it will end up taking them anyway.

More specifically, when 'avoid repetition' is enabled (it is by default), then the routing algorithm has a very significant penalty weight applied to any existing path already taken.
Calibre eBook reader.
Wonder why no competition from other in ebook reader apps.
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I recall reading the Subversion architectural chapter in Beautiful Code. In fact it's probably the only chapter that stuck with me (there's another IIRC but I can't recall which. My brain didn't make an association to the book).

One of my design mental exercises is to try to figure out if you could tweak the svn architecture into a DVCS, preserving the superior subtree support. I think it could have been, it's just that theory and execution diverged.
Hands down, it is JIRA. But close seconds include zoom, ring central, and slack video/voice calls.
Cmsynergy

The worst version control software known to man.

It is a bloated IBM tool from the 90s, takes 10 minutes copy a repo that would take git 5 seconds. It has a lock modify unlock paradigm, so if your coworker forgets about a file they were working on and they get promoted, you can forget about working on your project ever again.

The paradigms are backwards. The project doesn’t branch, the files do. You make your commits before you do any work.

It’s slowly being phased out at my company, but it can’t seem to die fast enough. A lot of people have built their careers on this tool so it’s hard to kill.
Android. Very bad for the consumer, from a privacy standpoint. Hopefully a plain Linux phone will be my next phone.
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Except that like flight it’s already been done - by evolution. I’m very confident that people will be ‘proving’ that it’s impossible like this article, right up to the day we actually do it.
Okay, thanks for replying. Just noticed that you had today, skimming through my comment history.

When I said "controversy wouldn't exist", I guess that was unclear.

I meant specifically you wouldn't get people from broadly the same cultural and religious background so strongly disagreeing on how to interpret the evidence, if they were all there just to exercise confirmation bias.

Your point is a good one, and very fair. Sorry for the slow reply.
All my posts about how pathetic this is keep getting flagged so I'll just keep making posts in the best interest of entrepreneurs everywhere. They have millions of users and just "gave up". Nobody should feel bad for them.
I think the best argument against git is to use mercurial for a few months. It has exactly the same functionality but a nicer and more streamlined interface, especially when it comes to branch management.
This is a bit of a weird take, the weird part is primarily...

> My point is this: if we expect everybody who is a little bit different to think of themselves as an impostor, we’ve totally lost the plot on this whole inclusion thing.

I'm wondering why when "especially [...] younger women" refer to "[their] Imposter Syndrome" it's assumed to be related to them being "women" and not to them being "younger?" Many young men and women feel some level of self-doubt early in their careers (and this is often labeled as "Imposter Syndrome"), which is why I'd imagine it'd be expected. I certainly did - self-doubt being simply a difference in internal vs. external "value" or "ability."

I certainly wouldn't expect a woman (or man) who has been in largely the same software space for ~20 years to feel Imposter Syndrome.

Other than that, which is a large portion of the article, I agree with the other general premise - that some level of humility in what you know is good (I probably would not call it "self-doubt" though, because nothing she described sounds like "self-doubt" healthy or otherwise).
I would agree with you if 100% of older judges were less adept at technology than all younger people. But the fact is, that while the stereotype of older people being worse at tech than younger people is true on a statistical level, it is not true on every individual level. And that is the very definition of -ism. Assuming someone must not be good at something because of their age or group or whatever.

Statistically, black people are less likely to have a college degree than white people. Does that mean it is ok to not consider black candidates for hire since statistically, they are less educated? Of course not.

If the problem is that judges don't understand technology, then the solution is to get more judges that do. Not, get younger judges and hope that they understand tech better than their older counterparts because it will probably play out that way statistically.
Sure, and thanks for asking.

Start with the opening sentence:

> Much of the emotional suffering in the world comes from the substitution of power for value.

From a casual POV that sounds like a meaningful statement, but from a scientific POV it's meaningless:

What's "emotional suffering"? How is it measured?

What's "power" in this context? How is it measured?

What's "value" in this context? How is it measured?

How much is "much"? How is it measured?

My point is that psychology is in an alchemical as opposed to chemical phase: people are telling themselves "just so" stories and then kinda-sorta dressing it up in pseudo-scientific verbiage. You might as well consult an astrologer or numerologist. They help a lot of people, and it's much easier to remember that their underlying theories are garbage.

Next sentence:

> The curse of our times is that so many people have developed the habit of seeking to feel temporarily more powerful when they feel devalued.

Our "times" are not "cursed" as measured by an enormous number of metrics. (E.g. violent crime is down globally, education has never been greater, etc.)

In re: "so many people have developed [a] habit", where is the poll data?

How do you know someone has a habit "of seeking to feel temporarily more powerful when they feel devalued"? Again, how do you measure feeling "powerful" or "devalued"?

Once "afflicted" with this "habit":

> They grow alienated from their more humane values, which makes them feel progressively less valuable.

Again, how is this measured? What's a "more humane value"? How does one "grow alienated" from a value? Is it a thing?

MY whole point, again, is that all of this sounds good until you actually try to analyse what the author is actually saying, and you find there's nothing there that you can't also get from e.g. the Psychic Friends Network.

This is not science, it's pop psychology.

I know what the author is getting at: You let go of the "attachment" to the "correctness" or "certainty" or "rightness" or "need to be right" and suddenly you're getting along with people much better.

That's an important and worthy thing to know. And we should do science to it. (But you're not getting a scientific treatment of it from TFA, and that's what I object to.)

In re: "Certainty itself is an emotional state, not an intellectual one."

A more accurate way of saying that is that the word "certainty" can refer to emotional states as well as intellectual ones, and often they are interconnected. That's still not science, but it's less linguistically muddled.
It kind of sort of does. You can go to effects > "isolate vocals" for example and it usually does a decent enough job.

There are lots of open-source tools that can do this, some requiring more effort than others.
We tend to overestimate how often a document will be modified. For example wikipedia seems to keep "a history of every change ever made to the document" and they seem to be managing fine. If there are bad actors, what you need is better moderation. Having easy undo helps a lot in that case!
"If your taking flak, your over the target."

I'm new here and just getting the feel. I definitely immediatly turned on viewing of dead comments. How else to get an understanding of the dynamics of this place?

I've been downvoted for comments that I feel were honest and accurate of the way I think and feel, but are definitely outside the HN overton window. I find this a valuable signal, and potentially what I can bring to HN.

I've also been downvoted for comments that I feel were a bit too pointed or flame bate style. That is a valuable signal also.

So I'm trying to maximize the number of the first type of downvote while minimizing the second. Score goes up and down, someday I'll get that pony.

I use a modified version of the links browser on the linux framebuffer, which works very nicely for HN, and incidentally does not allow for text color changes so I never see anything grayed out. No Javascript, so no need to vote.
It means that the sender is either illiterate, or that his time is to precious to spend on inferior creatures like us, aka an asshole.

I really do not get this religious approach to other pepole.
For work, I expect we will buy some Intel Macs, but for myself, I'll probably go with the ARM since I do some Mac App programming. That whole need Boot Camp or x86 Windows is a powerful need.

Question, can someone hang a x86 off the thunderbolt port to help with virtualization?
Could be.

But then like adding lanes to a highway, having more supply just leads to a disproportionate increase in demand, frittered away in a million dependencies that nickel and dime us to death.
Grep bytes surprised me. Why is it the exact same as write to memory? Is reading from memory much faster than writing or something? Even then I'm not sure how it wasn't CPU bound to compare a 4 char string 2 billion times...
I foster my relationship with a person whom I know not to exist, who is the source of the hallucinatory Light, beloved of mystics.
I do this by making others' happiness more important than my own; this has the paradoxical effect of making me very happy indeed, because happiness is the reward of the work of love.
I'm just looking for concise wording that no one will misunderstand as somehow critical of the repost.

The intention is simply link to interesting things that readers might be curious to look at. If the repost were bad we'd mark it [dupe] instead.
- Google products.

- - Gmail intentionally doesn't filter spam or phishing emails.

- - Google Voice used to be useful but today is being blocked by more and more services.

- - Google Contacts is pervasive and uselessly so.

- - Google Calendar also supports tons of spam and phishing.

- - I stopped using Chrome because it stopped being a user agent.

- Atlassian products. Slow bloated pieces of privacy violating garbage.

- - JIRA is more and more confusing every day. Frequently changing UI incurs cognitive costs. Its workflows are confusing af.

- - Confluence is functionally inferior to Media Wiki. That's not even the worst part; the worst part is that it doesn't use markup like the rest of the world.

- Microsoft products.

- - Skype. Once upon a day Skype was nice and usable. Today Skype is functionally, measurable, objectively less useful and less stable than it was just half a decade ago.

- - Github. It was great until a few weeks ago. That new UI is still worse.
Sure you can, but that doesn't change the untold expectation. It puts the work on us to get away from it, and that is no easy!
What are your needs? eBay/hamswap/craigslist. You shouldn't; handing out a radio designed for licensed radio spectrum to random people would be irresponsible.
Thanks for your input. Industry insights like these are gold.

The reason I ask is because it’s starting to appear, to not be worthwhile anymore. Yes, some people want the autonomy and independence. But it seems securing the gig itself is tough.

For large companies, with millions of dollars budgeted for a project, they seem to want an off-the-shelf system from a vendor, for a technology qualification selection, with another large company behind it. Because that customer “feels” safer that the larger vendor will not go out of business. It’s the old adage: “No one ever got fired for selecting IBM/Microsoft”.

So, it seems unlikely that a company will hire an expensive consultant, to do something, when they can hire cheaper senior level programmers, and put them on the clock full time.

Granted, some companies do operate at that level, where they try to bring in a specialist to work on something, and get rid of them after a few months. But, they tend to hire these specialists via a contracting agency, where the specialist is deemed an employee of that agency. Hence, the specialist here is not really a consultant, but an employee of a 3rd party. And instead of getting consulting rates, that employee just gets a normal hourly salary.

Also, this allows the customer company, to not have a full time staff, and allows them to easily get rid of people, without violating any lay-off laws. Or having to make some embarrassing lay-off announcement publicly. They just silently kill their staff. Although I heard some states like California, is trying to crack down on this, with new laws, but I’m sure companies will find some ways around it.

Although now, it seems the most expensive hired guns, are the new experts in some deep learning library, or someone pawning off knowledge in some AI or Machine Learning solution.

This appears to be the new valuable gold rush. So if you’ve kept up on this, then it’s time to sell shovels to the desperate prospectors.
The gifs in the readme showing the functionality you want to highlight is a nice touch. I wish more projects did that.
Sorry, but everything listed here is rank amateur stuff when compared to Blackboard Learn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Learn).

First, the user interface is designed as if the programmers were incentivized to maximize the number of clicks required to get anywhere.

Second, it has the responsiveness of continental drift.

Third, editing and formatting text is an exercise in torture. When I want to delete text that I am writing, half of the time, the delete key won't work (I'm exaggerating, but not joking). Formatting of text is quasi-random. Want red-colored text? That works about 90% of the time for me. The other 10% will give me gray text (This time, not exaggerating). If you are brave, you can edit your text as raw HTML, but, my God, you'd better bring the anti-hypertension pills, because the HTML will blast you with a tsunami of <span> elements. Sometimes the <span> elements (unnecessarily) surround individual characters, sometimes they surround _parts_ of words.

Third, it is nigh impossible to set useful defaults. Why can't the due dates for assignments be defaulted to the end of the day instead of the current hour and minute? Do you honestly think that I would ever want my assignment to be due at 4:33 PM?

Fourth, it tries to do too many things. I already have email. I don't need Blackboard's email functionality getting in the way.

I could go on (for a while), but it's time for those blood pressure meds.
> That (including healthcare) is what you have in Europe if you don't work at all.

No, if you don't work you don't have healthcare, only emergency care that I think it's similar to the one in US. Also the quality and availability of healthcare in Europe is degrading fast, mostly because there is no free lunch and it is impossible to cover unlimited medical care for everyone, it would cost more than the entire GBP of each country.