skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would someone bother to make that series of screenshots if it was something they'd explicitly requested?

Still, I figured I'd check to see what I get. I can't figure out how to get these "Recommended by Pocket" sites on my Firefox new tab page, but I only just signed up, so perhaps it takes a while to appear.

The Pocket Discover tab on their website seems like the closest thing to it. It has an extremely small collection of sources for its stories and with absolutely no range of perspectives at all. They're all metropolitan left outlets. I get: the New York Times, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Quartz, James Clear (?), the Verge, Vox, the Washington Post, the Guardian and some Medium articles.

So, pretty good if you live in New York or Washington, I guess. I don't even live in America so this selection isn't so hot. Here's a sample of recommended story headlines:

"The Doomsday Invention: Will artificial intelligence bring us utopia or destruction?"

"America's gun problem, explained"

"How exercise shapes you, far beyond the gym"

"Buying organic veggies at the supermarket is a waste of money"

"The true cost of being a black teacher"

"A pregnant woman with COVID-19 was dying, with one decision, her doctor's saved three lives"

"The rise of American authoritarianism" (it's about Trump, of course)

"One legacy of the pandemic may be less judgement of the child-free"

There are a few stories that might interest me here that I didn't cite, like "How vulnerable is GPS" (in the New York Times, of course). I personally seem to get more self-help and less woke content than in the screenshot I posted. But you get the idea. If you hate Trump, love any publication with New York in the title, eat quinoa, capitalise Black, and think children are a burden, you'll love Pocket. If you aren't like that, it has nothing for you.

Oddly, Pocket seems really buggy. A lot of recommended stories under Discover that come from Medium don't seem to have scraped the title correctly, so the title ends up being a raw HTTPS URL, complete with fragment specifier. One recommended story is just "Redirecting..." so they don't even follow redirects properly.

It feels like this experience sums up Mozilla under Mitchell Baker.
I think your contact form is broken, or I just sent you like 8 messages trying this in a few different browsers.
Google commissions Samsung to build a new chip for tracking body movements
Ranking is more specific to the particular company. At Netflix and Amazon it is obviously very important, as it is part of their recommender systems. At Google, probably less so.

Computer Vision and NLP are both extremely hot research topics. Knowledge gained in either one is highly applicable elsewhere. If you go into NLP I recommend learning about the problems other languages pose, don't just learn NLP for English, if you can.

Personalisation is not something I can say anything about.
Encryption is a terrible edge case. If you are forced to half-ass encryption, you should seriously question the project requirements. Bad encryption can be worse than none at all. Things won't end well if data security is treated as a detail.
Allan Lichtman's has correctly predicted Presidential elections since 1984 [YT]
Seems like something in signup is broken. Every code I get back fails.

edit: Scratch that. Took about 5 or 6 codes to finally work for some reason.
yes you may :) however, Android is much more fragmented platform and it’s only really possible to run the advanced ML algorithms we’re using on the newest Android phones. so.. we’ll probably have some level of Android support in the future, but it’s not clear which of the features on which devices.
Just my two cents: I'm a front-end dev, and I found this book to connect with me a lot more once I also learned some backend.

Earlier this year, I read a few chapters of the book, and it was really abstract to me, so I stopped reading it.

On a whim, I had two developers teach me SQL and relational database theory. I spent a few weeks creating a few databases and connecting them to the front end to mimic real life application, before picking up the book again and the book made way more sense.
Relm looks promising. Actually there are a couple of promising GUI libraries coming up in Rust.
They couldn’t bring a copyright claim because they don’t own an exclusive license.
AI Magic Makes Century-Old Films Look New
> engineers disease

what do you mean by that?
A Knowledge Base Can Help You Improve Customer Happiness
The point on RSI is too often overlooked.

Beyond typing, it applies when considering any specific position or movement to be the only ‘correct’ form and optimize to do it again and again in that exact specific way.

However correct it is supposed to be, that’s a recipe for RSI. One way to mitigate that is to take frequent breaks, other ways include deoptimizing your movements to have more variation, rotating input methods, use a different hand etc.

Basically, extreme optimization and sticking to correctness is in my opinion overrated.
Game Dev Examines the Underrated Minecraft Dungeons
You are confusing libertarian with anarch-capitalists. The former advocates for the rule of law the latter wants a stateless society
> it just seems greedy, especially coming from Google.

Except it doesn't come from Google, does it? The amount of monetisation is entirely in the creator's discretion.

Disclaimer: I do work for Google, but that's public information.
You'll be glad to know some modders are remaking the game using the Unreal Engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55y17rXdt4&feature=emb_titl...
Well, I thought it was Adenosine Triphosphate, but I was surprised that Magnesium reduces ATP.

I interpret that as saying that the more Magnesium you have in your body, the less energy you have. Also, the less energy you have, the less anxiety you feel. That sounds wrong to me, although I can't explain why.

Am I confused? What am I missing?
Look into voice coding. It's a usable substitute & getting better very quickly.
Star Wars: The Old Republic 200

Star Citizen 215+

But again if you compare SC to SW.....
Heading is low value clickbait for a post that amounts to: "use our tool".
Yeah, that was my first thought - I haven't looked at the keys since I was a teenager. Doesn't mean I don't still mistype things.
And cost effective redundancy.
Consider the following situation with parties A, B and C involved. "A" wants to do something that negatively affects B, while C is unaffected. The legislator would decide to compensate B, but who is taxed for that? In case of taxing A and C, C's freedom as a group would be compromised. In case of taxing only A, the cost would be prohibitive and could discourage A from wanting to do its thing in the first place.
Seems like such a strange break. I feel like there's supposed to be a dramatic piece of video in slow-mo showing one strand breaking, then the additional stress causing the next one to snap, until the final 'plink' before the whole thing comes crashing down.
I do remember fravia’s texts about reality hacking (i think), but i also definitely remember +Orc tutorial about reverse engineering, and i owe them my first crack using wdasm ( what a thrill).
Looking at the wikipedia page for +ORC, it seems that his true identity was never found. Is the article up to date ?
Beaker Browser – A P2P Browser for Web Hackers
I took a typing class back in high school in the 80's and it's probably the most useful class I ever took. I've been touch typing with the skills I learned on an IBM Selectric for over 30 years now with no RSI and a decent typing speed.

However, earlier this year I had an accident and lost about an inch off the middle finger on my right hand and that's really messed with my typing. That's the 'I', 'K', and ',' finger and that's made code and vim usage a bit tough. ;)
Thank you very much. You're right, the README file needs improvements. We also don't have much tutorials yet that would show the tool from the practical point of view.
Our short-term plans include:
1) Improving the documentation and writing more use-case specific tutorials;
2) Add more functionality for more interactive applications, including Machine Learning applications.

EDIT: Speaking of the react library, we've just finished a refactoring and plan to improve it too. Please don't hesitate to share your feedback, over email or via GitHub issues. And thank you!
> “we frequently make decisions implicitly based on probabilities and expected values”

that’s all intelligence is, the ability to make predictions about the future. our subconscious does most of the work, which is why it’s not “explicit”. feelings are the bubbled up (non-numeric and fuzzy) results you’re looking for.

it’s not mathematical in situ. math is something we overlay on it to bring it to a conscious, external realm of understanding.
It's great that your interested in education research. It's a great area to study and you have the potential to have a lot of impact on students.

There are exceptions, but the reality is that it's hard to be established as a researcher without a PhD in the field. CS ed researchers tend to fall into one of three categories:

1. A small number of professors at major research universities who pursue CS education as their main area of scholarship and supervise grad students in the area.

2. Professors at smaller colleges where pedagogy is a big part of the culture (this is me). My college likes it when faculty think critically about teaching and learning and translate that into scholarship, but almost all of us did our original PhD work in areas other than teaching and learning.

3. Faculty (usually called lecturers in the U.S.) who are hired specifically to each intro classes at large universities. Many programs like for faculty in these roles to have PhDs, but there are also options for people with Master's degrees.

Here are the other options I can think of. There are a number of companies that provide infrastructure for coding classes (GitHub, Codio, Mimir, repl.it) and are involved as sponsors or presenters within the CS Ed community. You might also have options at nonprofits or foundations that are focused on equity and access in STEM. A third option could be a teaching position at a private high school, where you could work with students and publish about your experiences, although it might be hard to get institutional support for scholarship at the pre-college level.

One last comment: in the U.S., demand for faculty at teaching-oriented colleges has been far higher than supply for several years. From personal experience, I can tell you that PhD graduates from good programs with proven teaching experience are hard to find. Hiring is going to be rough for the next few years while we work through the enrollment implications of the pandemic, but demand for CS courses will continue to remain high and I expect that hiring for CS faculty will be among the first to rebound in a couple of years.
Yeah, I never expected so many good answers.
That explains it perfectly...thank you.
Triangles Are Excellent Patterns for Trading in Financial Markets
This is an advert for a paid program TuringBot.
I hope you don't mind a piece of constructive criticism about the web page but: the syntax coloring scheme you're using makes the comments nearly invisible. Code comments are useful, and therefore should be easily readable, IMHO.
Yep, that and it's all about money, which means ratings in this case. You get ratings by giving people what they want to see and supporting their existing views to avoid creating cognitive dissonance. The more passionate the content, the more validation the user receives. That's why the majority of the programs on news channels are not actually news, but rather lively opinion pieces or talk shows.
Agreed! Designers spend tons of time on creating a document for printing. I can only imagine if the print house devcided to change the aspect ratio or size of the final output randomly, or lower the printer resolution.
Congrats! This looks great. The website and the info presented looks very well thought out!

In the features section would really like to see about how Text rendering is handled by Bevy. It is a big feature.

Edit: To clarify, I wanted to know if it uses any known lib (Skia) or technique (signed distance fields) for some fancy text rendering.
Worship what?
> Mozilla, with revenue of $27M last year, is mainly responsible for Firefox and a few related applications

The 'Mozilla' that is responsible (in the sense of funding) Firefox development is the Mozilla Corporation, not the Mozilla Foundation. I don't think the 2019 annual report is out yet, but the 2018 one gives "In CY 2018, Mozilla Corporation generated $435.702 million from royalties, subscriptions and advertising revenue": https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/
You are right, it has the same behavior. It's the same exact page (displaying the content of a post), and it has no logic in it around where you came from.

Personally the back button is the first resort, unless I opened it in a new tab, in which case ctrl-w brings me back. I always assumed others felt the same, but good to learn that not everyone feels that way.
Lisa Marrone on founding Revel (YC S19) -A community for women above 50
Which is frankly MIA most of the time, Squadron 42.

The game content actually seems pretty quick to produce, given that it's been highly automated. They went from next to nothing to 20+ planets/moons with a mix of procedural and hand placed locations to visit in a short time frame. The technology means the artists basically paint the planets content in real time with brushes. Then the missions/social content is also a mix of hand written and procedurally generated content, eventually backed by an economic model that fuels the missions and NPC behavior. This all makes sense because it's an infinite open world, not a story game, but so far it plays pretty well.

The "hero" landing zones seem to take the longest. My guess is they will launch with only a handful of the star systems and build from there.
Ask HN: Critique my landing page
Hi,

I have just finished creating a landing page for my soon-to-be launched email course. I am not a designer or marketer but have designed it based on the things I have learnt along the way.

https://www.geetapandey.com/main

What do you think about it? What is your first impression? What is good and what can be improved about it? Let me know!
Really cool! I can’t wait to start playing with it.

Can two people collaborate on the same project at the same time?
If I have to make two remote desktop connections lasting ten minutes each per workday from the beach, which machine am I bringing: my phone/this? Or a full laptop?

Not as obvious a decision for some.
How's it going ?

I'll be starting as well, feels like I'm too late to the party. Won't stop me though.
Blank keyboards also look better, especially these:

https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/
postgREST the worst thing ever. Just use the DB to store things, thank you.
Right? I've also had multiple co-workers (programmers!!) who do not use any keyboard shortcuts. Drives me crazy.
Monzo needed me to send a video of me speaking a phrase of their choosing along with a photo of my ID.
HTTPS for your local endpoints with inlets and Caddy (2019)
I'd sell it personally. IMO for personal domains anything would do, be it .co or .xyz. Whatever is cheapest.

Can argue this applies for most sites too. If you visit the domain at least once in your life in the browser, you can forget about TLD as the browser will autocomplete it. And for finding sites, Google works.
Why and Where You Should You Plant Your Flag
Then why don't we flag all political articles? I have yet to see what you describe not happen on any political threads and many of those make it to the front page with hundreds of upvotes.

For better or worse, there seems to be enough people who want these discussions on HN.
Now I admit I'm not going to watch a 5h+ video, but from just skipping through the first hour or so, I don't see that at all.
I'd imagine a ton of German citizens roughly held this view throughout the entire Nazi era.
Icelandair cancels four 737 Max orders
The barrier to entry of open-source is far lower than you think (I'm proof of that!)

Most great projects that have advanced patterns evolved from simple toy projects. They only became advanced with the collaboration and help from internet strangers ;)
To the example: You wouldn't have the necessary democratic legitimization to implement it and I think that is excellent since declaring it the only sustainable end state is very likely wrong. Similar problems within the educational system exist and it is not a completely independent problem to that example.
Just an FYI, your link uses dwarf planet as a modifier.

From the Dwarf Planets section: "These planets are Pluto, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake."

(Not commenting on whether this is correct in this comment, just what the link says).
I don't doubt it, we just redid everything last night. Please give it a shot later, I'll go fix it.

EDIT: it's redeploying right now. Please send me a email at erdos4d at gmail if you are actually trying to get in touch with me for business and not just testing the form. Thanks.
You can just as well do it on paper or virtually anywhere. No point using such a service.
I like this. It would be a nice challenge and end up with a solid product. Abstraction is the most valuable concept is computer science.
If all you have to go by is the popular stereotypes, you will be shocked by the number of engineers with ADD.
Also an ADHDer here. My current model of things is that Dopamine broadly signals messages like "you're going the right way, keep going".

Insufficient dopamine and you end up being really open to needing frequent positive feedback to follow through on a plan. Leading to either:

1) Distractibility -- greater task-switching in the face of frustration or negative emotions.

2) Hyperfocus -- lower task-switching in the face of frequent rewards (like from a video game or novel or programming with test-driven-development).

And then there's a bunch of other mood impacts from the life-impacts of that. For example: Emotional sensitivity due to memories of people being disappointed in you.
> here in Orlando, you can call the cops on people who are too noisy...a fee will be issued if they have to come back.

I presume this is only during "quiet hours" at night? Or can you get your neighbor fined for woodworking at noon?
Honestly, in terms of employment you don't need to learn anything at all. Your skillset (which is quite similar to mine) is highly in demand. What you'll probably find is that you can specialise in any of the areas you already have skills in simply by advertising yourself differently.

However, it's always good to learn more. I have a couple of suggestions:

1. Rust. The Rust book is an excellent introduction to lower-level programming languages, and also to more functional patterns. I went into it from a primarily JS/PHP, and it's been a wonderfully refreshing experience. And it's also been an excellent way to level-up my programming experience.

2. Embedded programming. Get yourself an Arduino or an ESP32, and make something that connects to the physical world. Lot's of fun. You can technically combined this with Rust, but I'd recommend sticking to C/C++ for embedded work (at least at first) because it's much better supported.

3. AWS / Kubernetes / Cloud computing. Managing large amounts of infrastructure on these platforms is an art unto itself. And it's worth learning if it's something you have an interest in. I'm not usually a "training" kind of guy, but I'd recommend doing some kind of course / using structured learning materials for this. Because there's so much tribal knowledge that needs to be acquired.
It would have failed faster?
I'm currently reading a manga named Attack on Titan, in which freedom (and its implications) takes a very important part, and I couldn't emphasize how good the writing is.

The anime is also available on Netflix in most countries, if you prefer that format.
shared_ptr is fairly understandable at-least from an application developers usage point of view.

std::remove_extent is only used for template metaprogramming and generally in linear algebra libraries. polymorphic_allocator is an expert facility.

Apart from shared_ptr, the other two are for very specialised purposes - 99.9999% of all C++ code ever written will never have them. But if you need them, you can leverage them.

I came from high level languages (JS/Java) and I found modern C++ pretty good - wow I can code native!. I found writing in plain C very difficult and laborious. I found Rust conceptually far more difficult than C++. Also you can't take your traditional data structures and write them in Rust. You have to do it the special Rust way, which makes it a plain when you are just trying to follow the code/pseudocode in a paper.

Admittedly, the Rust compiler catches pretty much everything you do wrong. But I code C++ with all warnings treated as errors along with static code analysers and they catch all my mistakes too.
Hey I'll take the keyboard. This would be a major blessing :)

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PostHog is a great project, I've actually talked to their founders in the early days and we use them! They're more similar to Mixpanel vs EventNative being n event collector focusing on processing large amount of data at scale (our first destinations were RedShift and BigQuery).
I'm not a rock star. If they want to pay 50k over market they're expecting something in return. probably me not seeing my kids.
About 10 years ago I regularly played a multiplayer only source engine remake that was ok.
Yep - but, the iPhone came from nowhere, and, "no copy and paste" was put out by Microsoft to say how bad it was...

Microsoft basically took a backwards step from Windows CE and then did the same years after it was the norm in other systems.
Distributed Systems Pattern: Write-Ahead Log
Vinay Johar, CEO at RChilli, is a passionate entrepreneur
Python Community Interview with Bruno Oliveira
But, in that sense, fairness is also subjective. There are viewpoints that call what Google did unfair and viewpoints that call it fair. What overarching philosophy do we use to decide which is the right viewpoint?
... and designed to let enough sunlight through that the plants underneath continue to flourish, preventing soil erosion
I had exactly the same blank cap HHKB, which only makes me angry (when I couldn't found the punctuations I wanted)
Serious sam and a lot of bohemia interactive games are written with ECS.
> As a scientist, PDF journal articles are almost always easier to read than the HTML version -- the graphics are of much higher quality

You mean they look better on paper than on screen? And what magic improves quality of graphics?
I don't understand how touch-typing forces an awkward posture. I had a self-taught typing style for something like 10 years before switching to touch-typing about 4 years ago. I'm just as capable of slouching, leaning, raising, and lowering my posture like I did before. I started getting pain in my shoulders and neck but that was from pushing my hands together on a tiny keyboard. As soon as I switched to a split keyboard, all of that went away.
Really? I LOVE the HHKBPro2 have 3 of them, one at Work one at Home-Workstation and one for the Laptop
Hm, I'd say the environment can matter quite a lot. My own bike is a carbon "race" bike with 21mm tyres and yet I'm sure I get in that "zen" zone practically every time I ride it. I ride it exclusively in the countryside, on mostly secondary roads.

I sometimes ride a bike with fatter tyres in the city and I never get in that zen state. Probably because I have to stay very alert, even when riding on bike paths separate from the street.