skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did this, but by not fine tuning the CSS until the end. Just use black and white, leave off the border radius, and make it look "unfinished".
> "third-party site tracking (which is what Firebase is; it's a framework for third parties building usage tracking into apps"

Firebase isn't that at all. It can be used to build such things, but so can PHP and CSV files.
Is your Product ready for Scale?
I've tried Dadi and Sppare.me in the past and had good results on the front-end (I haven't retrieved any samples yet). I'm not sure the service could have been improved. What are you doing differently than existing mail-in sperm analysis/freezing companies?
I find it easier to pay attention when autopilot is on, for a few reasons. The first reason will fade eventually: it's fascinating to see it in action, and to observe how it reacts to situations. Another reason is I am a bit more free to vary my attention safely, checking mirrors more often, seeing more of the scenery (don't worry, with fleeting glances, not long stares that would lead me to miss a truck crossing the road). Finally it eases the cognitive load of keeping safe follow distance and makes bumper to bumper traffic dreamy easy to the point where I no longer dread it, which is amazing! So I would not call it a design flaw. Checking the mirrors more often is good for safety too btw.

>the fraudulent advertising

purported / alleged. The claims of this have been debunked.
HDCD format and how I recovered lost audio on Linux
That’s a bit extreme... Microsoft also shouldn’t start killing people, but that’s aside from the point. Let’s unpack some of the differences between Apple here and the MS example:

Apple always had this model. From the start... So people who bought into the ecosystem did it fully able to understand the system. This isn’t some creepy unexpected recent change... if someone doesn’t like this system then they should (past/present/future) put on their person pants and buy a different phone. I use Linux and Mac specifically because I didn’t like the way Microsoft was doing things. I didn’t start a movement to somehow legislate handcuffs to force Microsoft to address my whims, I just voted with my time, attention, and wallet.

And yes, do think others are free to chose too and should own their choices. If Apple stops providing me the best avenue to the things I want then I will switch. But right now I want ease of use, and the most confidence that things will just work and work well. I want this in the hardware, the OS, and the apps... and I think Apple provides that best. If my needs change, or their ability to meet those needs changes, then I will move to the place that does it best then...

Regarding the “don’t HAVE to use it” argument... I humbly suggest it’s irrelevant. They don’t have a monopoly so we don’t have a public overriding interest in messing with them. I’m saying that I don’t give a hoot about them having a side store: I want to quickly and confidently find the best apps to fill the needs I have. I will pay for the ability to do it as time has value. After that need is met, not much else has value and so I’m (personally) happy in the store. I’ll also suggest that Apple’s success says that a healthy number of people agree. This leads me to think that all the people who want to better sell crap to me that I don’t want are showing a bit of a case of “sour grapes”.
What Is VPN and How Does It Work?
Know in detail about the VPN technology: https://technodunes.com/what-is-vpn-and-how-does-it-work/
WhatsApp is the stupidest name of the bunch, your argument is weak.
Don’t forget the ridiculous property prices and rapacious rental market. The skyrocketing unchecked insurance costs and the 25% VAT and the total of 33% tax on cars (VAT + questionably legal VRT). Ireland is only a low tax economy if you don’t live here.
You know what - I agree, the tone here on HN is important to me, and I'll try to do better in the future. In my defense, the comment I was replying to had linked to a bad-faith site claiming the tax rate of the wealthy in the US has not gone down since the 50's, which is only true if you don't count the massive number of loopholes that have been introduced over the years - the effective tax has gone way, way down (Warren Buffett even commented on this a few years ago, how he was being taxed at a lower tax rate than his secretary). That, combined with the way they simultaneously presented what I perceived as a counter-argument to their own previous comment, caused me to jump on that instead, and probably sounded a bit smarmy in the process - I'm sorry for that. FWIW, here's a source for the effective tax rate of the wealthy, which I probably should have linked to instead: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/incom...

I will very happily argue for any of the points I've made, and I promise not to change topics and stay with a single point as long as is needed.
I think the trick is to distinguish "that's an unorthodox idea" from "you are violating the orthodoxy". For instance, here are (relatively anodyne?) statements, the first being rare to hear but unpoliced (unorthodox), and the other being one where I've had people, in person, prompt me to explain it so that they and their friend can laugh at me (violating the orthodoxy).

a) The exception in the 13th amendment for criminals is bad, currently used to legally shield slavery in American prisons, and should be repealed.

b) All Americans, including minors of all ages, should be allowed to vote.

Seeing the difference in reactions to them has sharpened my conception of precisely what orthodoxy is, and what social purpose it serves.

[As a historical note, Nazis displayed art they hated at prominent museums, specifically to encourage people to mock it for how terrible it was (of course, almost universally art created by Jews). Ben Shapiro would be out of a job if the people he mocks were _actually_ silenced -- not because he'd have nothing else to talk about, but because the format would be boring. Same for Chapo Trap House, etc etc etc.]
First they came for the Nazis, because the Nazis were coming for black people, and I said .. sure, go ahead, we don't want those Nazis around.
I would not be surprised if there were something like that happening, although even that would be a best case. When I said "not this year", I meant it's not going to meaningfully impact the course of the pandemic this year. If they do manage to get something to protect the most at-risk health personnel this year, that would be awesome. I wouldn't count on it.
Covid-19 vaccine development pipeline
> I think this is something that most people believe

I think it's about 50/50. The one good, recent poll I found on the issue seems to suggest that (I mentioned it at more length in the other subthread here). So I definitely don't think that there's an overwhelming consensus, but I do think that it's a pretty standard opinion.

As for the "material difference" thing, sure. I think almost everyone would agree with that. My problem is that I believe Rowling is using it as a dogwhistle to argue that (most) trans women are not meaningfully women.
Also having outages at Azure DevOps Pipelines every other month or so it seems. And that's paying - for hours there's no mention on the status page and we are stuck there, not being able to merge PRs or release our app in the standard way.
This has been in Debian since forever, and the installer asks if you want it. I've always opted to not install it since it's my opinion that my package choices are weird and shouldn't -at all- influence the distro defaults.
> Unfortunately, I studied engineering at school, not sociology so I have no idea what a "leaking a power level" is unless it has something to do with batteries.

Snrk. That's an amusing interpretation of the phrase. I shall steal it for future use.

It's an internet meme. To hide one's power level means to conceal details of oneself, hobbies, skills, affiliations, etc[1]. Conversely, if one is leaking their power level, they are letting slip details about themselves. Consider that if you interrupted an argument amongst co-worker to correct their misconceptions about furries, what that might reveal about your interests when your co-workers don't know you're a furry.

Given the context, GP is accusing you of being transphobic, and that such is betraying your affiliation with the alt-right.

1. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/power-level
Globalization has broken the social contract. You've got countless companies that truly "form" in western countries with high standards of living - the founders and leaders all reside there. But then they offshore their profits to keep more for themselves, draining that western economy and creating an unsustainable funnel of money.

The problem isn't taxes, the problem is founders who believe they are above the social contract. They want the benefits of a highly stable society with high taxes and high standards of living, but they don't want to pay their share of keeping that system alive.
I can see where taller might be better for documents- so maybe better for LaTex, Word, etc. productivity. But not for programming IMHO.
YCombinator rules:
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for. "
> Talking to someone about code they have written and the decisions and thinking around their own code is so much more respectful and gives better signal

where have you been all my life? ;)

I'm an autodidact, zero formal bg in comp sci. I suck at timed tests and algo interviews. Fifteen years I've been at this and I've worked with several 'full stack' teams, none of which had a single engineer who was within a thousand miles of what I could do with CSS (and they're mostly utter slobs wrt HTML). And as to the endless javascript demands, I will never be of interest to google (and the feeling's mutual) but I always get the job done, and often the job is something FE that none of my esteemed colleagues would know the first thing about how to achieve, comp sci degrees and recursion expertise notwithstanding ... not to mention that every one of them has as many stack overflow tabs open as me.

I'll get back to my sorry little js projects now, maybe I'll get another job before I grow old and die ;)
This is exactly how I see autopilot as well. You can debate the ethics of this approach and people will forever (I certainly think its been misleading the public), but it so far seems to have worked for Tesla and has arguably forced industry in the BEV direction sooner than otherwise might have.

The bigger issue (for Tesla at least) is what happens to Tesla if they don't deliver the promised autonomy now in a reasonable timescale. Company itself still isn't all that independently secure, yet to turn an _annual_ profit etc. It feels to me like the recent surge in their value is driven by over-enthusiastic investors hopeful that one day all those Model 3s on the road become autonomous revenue generating entities (driverless cabs etc), which I still can't personally foresee happening anytime soon.

I own a Model 3 - the cabin alone, while nice enough, wouldn't stand up to more than a few months "shared" use IMO, ignoring all the other technical barriers. If these things really become shared, we are going to have to seriously rethink cabin design and materials. The kind of cabin a private buyer expects when spending 35k plus on a car today simply isn't going to last a bunch of drunk kids autonomously Ubering, even more so when you consider a long range Model 3 is approx $50k today.

Despite my own misgivings about how autopilot is conveyed to users, I still find it to be a really competent auto steer system on highways, which of course is a relatively simple use case for these systems to excel in. Ford's decision to brand their competing system in the forthcoming Mustang Mach E "CoPilot" feels far more appropriate. Ford aren't as dependent on hype for short term survival though.
Looking at the conditions externally should not be enough to contradict data

Data can easily be used to lie or conceal, and if the observed conditions are clearly inferior, then the data is qualitatively inaccurate and/or incomplete.
A buddy recently started a company based around helping companies write better software engineering blogs. Maybe interesting to some folks who want to explore this topic more: https://draft.dev/
because I read the book recently.. what an odd question. why post about khmer rouge or other atrocities at all?
You've seen the disclaimers in drug commercials and infomercials, right? Programs would be free to use more than one sentence, they just might need bulky glossaries read by a sonorous voiced narrator before use.
Someone had a talk at the DEFCON blue team village about police software and how trivial it was to find something. I think it was like database creds in a DLL and apostrophes in fields causing errors (likely SQLi). I can't remember if it was something they ran in the patrol vehicles or at precincts.
Where things get interesting is the mismatch between Big-O data structure complexity analysis (as typically discussed in interviews) and actually knowing about the hardware, the operating system, the memory hierarchy and things like cost of context switches and cache misses.

Some real-life practical examples: knowing when a simple O(n) linear search beats O(log n) binary search, or knowing when a multiple substring search algorithm based on a simple Rabin-Karp and L1 cached hash table lookup will outperform the theoretically more optimal Aho-Corasick.
Yes, I think the article has the wrong address. That building is 265 not 365 (which I don't think exists?) I am also in the neighborhood (hi neighbor!) and saw police activity there this morning.
paulg is a good rhetorician: he doesn't actually defend either himself or others in this post.

What he does defend is an orthodoxy that presently enriches and empowers him, and that ensures brutal consequences for those less powerful than him. A prevailing (and legitimate!) complaint against social media justice is that it leaves vulnerable people (like your janitor) unemployed and outcast; this simply isn't possible in a society that has strong employment protections. But this constrains the power of companies to arbitrarily fire people, and paulg's material wealth is substantially dependent on that never happening.
It depends. If you're caching ("weakly" eg with revalidating If-Modified-Since against mtime, or even "strongly" eg aggressively), which you should, you're creating processes only for a small fraction of requests. Remaining major overhead is reparsing dynamic language backend code, which you can further reduce by using native code.
> he heated his small bedroom through the San Francisco winter off of one GPU while researching

He must not have needed much heat, since a huge GPU would still be 1/6th of a space heater.
Happened atleast once in San Francisco -
https://mashable.com/2015/01/29/body-parts-twitter-headquart...
My guess is that he thinks you will extend your business to selling samples (bank), complete with pics and bio of the donator.
In my experience, Flow is truly awful. It bloats build times, and prevents incremental rebuilds. You'll curse AspectJ and Flow as your codebase grows. Stack traces become atrocious (even more atrocious than standard Java).

> make.sure your decider is written in a deterministic fashion

You're right, but this is easier said than done. And if it isn't, it will error at runtime.
DARPA is building Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
My pet peeve is the standard of writing "Buy" on the ad, "Buy" on the button, and "buy a license to use under the following terms" in the thousand word TOS document which no one reads. "Lease" would be more honest.
> Recruiters and official interview guides say that your "thought processes" matter a lot, but reports from in the field tend to imply that the #1 most important factor is that you get the optimal solution. If you can't, your "thought processes" are worth little, barring exceptional circumstances

Agree. Also "there is no hard requirement in completing both part of the exercise" is another lie.
How do you know if the cameras/microphone are active when you're not using it? You don't.
These people are professional writers. Including details that let readers form a mental picture is practically unconscious behavior. Of course they're gonna say "$2.5mil full floor luxury condo" instead of just "condo".
If you honestly believe that, I certainly hope you’re not actively trading the market!
Handling rate limited APIs in Ruby
To solve this conundrum, Greeks created their own funding system called antiparochi, in which developers saved themselves the cost of buying land by giving landowners a share of the constructed units when they were completed. “The best translation of the term is probably ‘flats for land,’ or as some people say, ‘quid pro quo,’” says Panos Dragonas, an architect and professor at Greece’s University of Patras. “The system saw landowners hand over their property, and in return get, say, two to five apartments back in the completed building to live in, or rent or sell. It was a bottom-up system of housing development not created by any law change by the government, though the state did offer motives for construction by granting tax breaks.”

I'm surprised to see that this arrangement is mentioned as novel/quaint.

This kind of deal is extremely pervasive here in Brazil, and I suppose in the rest of the world as well: developers don't acquire residential lots with cash; rather they build up an apartment building and pay the original land owner(s) with apartment units. This is so common I assumed it was a worldwide "thing".
If it's good enough to run Zoom, isn't that all the specs you need to know? Since that's all it does? What are you going to do with the information about how much RAM it has?
The Five Stages of Strategic Grief
Where are we going? Tech and the Bay Area in 2025
Single-purpose and supersized version of the Nest Hub Max ($229). I have no doubt that Zoom has consumer aspirations somewhere in its future.
Often what you describe as "is facts", especially in areas of politics, are in question. I believe that global warming is occurring, but some others do not. I suspect that anytime you get into any discussion about the issue of global warming, you will find yourself getting very quickly into "ought beliefs".

Also, it might also be very frustrating to not be able to express your "ought beliefs" about whether ethnicity X deserves to be put into concentration camps, and so on.
Privilege isn't a binary thing. You aren't privileged or not. Many people have some forms of privilege and not others.

An affluent white woman and a homeless black man have very different life experiences, each has privileges that the other doesn't.

Fighting about which is more privileged is silly (even if it may seem obvious to you). What's ultimately important is to understand situations in which those privileges will affect the experiences of those people.

As for Beyonce, that's so vague that I can't know. If she was describing the challenges of being black in the recording industry, then yes using her success to claim she can't understand the challenges she's had to overcome is ridiculous. But in other contexts, that she's affluent is relevant.
On the thread 3 months ago for Launch HN: Riot (YC W20) - Phishing training for your team

> Hi Ben - cool product! Speaking as the lead for Riot.im, I would recommend picking another name asap, if nothing else because Riot Games has an awful lot of lawyers (as we know first hand, unfortunately).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22677841

Then, 22 days ago, We’ve decided to rename riot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611863
This would be nice if it is super easy to use. Like could I give it to my parents or other family members and say click here to see me.
I think a successful tech entrepreneur wanting a 2b apartment is not blame-worthy, certainly not something that warrants an extra-judicial murder.

Unfortunately the article mentioning the cost of the apartment elicit these types of "good riddance" and "down with the 'rich'" responses.
Early in my career, I interviewed at Google. One of the interviewer asked me to recite the algorithm for constructing a Convex Hull. Since I hadn't done anything related to convex hulls since my algorithms class as a sophomore in college (several years earlier), I couldn't remember all the details. At some point, I said, I know where in CLRS (https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-3rd-MIT-Press...) this is. The interviewer didn't like this, so he said "Pretend you're an engineer at Google. You need to have a convex hull. What do you do?" And I said probably the most correct thing I've said in any interview: "I would go look it up." He really didn't like this answer, but we struggled together for an hour, with him frustrated that I couldn't remember the details of an algorithm I last had seen 6 years earlier and couldn't recite in 60 minutes what took our professor 180 minutes of lectures to cover, and me frustrated that would have taken me 30 seconds to look up.

I did not get the job at Google.

I do make sure as a more senior engineer at my current company I use what leverage I have to make sure other interviewers don't ask pointless questions like this.
Probably for an easier direct comparison with 16:9, which has been the de-facto standard for years. Without having to do any math, you immediately know that the screen is proportionally taller than a 16:9 screen would be, which makes for easier marketing.
I don't fully agree but I upvoted you to counter existing downvotes, because I think you make a coherent argument that doesn't deserve to be downvoted into oblivion.
GitHub should let users know about problems and downtimes
When Github has problem they should show a banner or another sign in the main website about it.
I'm a paying customer who hugely depends on their service. I shouldn't investigate if GitHub has a problem.
I know that they have a status page, but it's not enough at all. When a problem occurs, the first thing that I do is to check if I did something wrong, Sometimes it more than few minutes. You can multiple this with dozens developers in my company (and most of them don't even know about this page).
Kubernetes Privilege Escalation Attack
Different area of business (games vs chat program). But I see your point, all companies you mentioned have a messenger with mobile apps (AFAIK).
Well, it did include the RGB controller, if that makes you feel slightly better. :-)
The threat of nuclear war doesn't seem to occupy people's minds the way it used to. It tends to still scare me and keep me awake more than the threat of climate change (although both give me pretty regular existential crises).

There was even an earthquake where I live a few months ago (first I've experienced). It woke me up, and the first thing my mind thought was "nukes" for some reason (despite not living somewhere that would be a likely target). It only took a split second to realize what was really happening, but it was interesting that it was the first thing my mind went to.
How do you know that on an iPad? Or any other device in your home?