skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Google doesn't give a damn about education but they actually care so much they're lying about their commitment to hiring people from the degree curriculum it designed?
> That's really missing the point. Recommendation engines are a lot more dumb than you are thinking. They don't understand the content at all.

I think you're the one underestimating modern recommender systems, especially the ones built by advanced teams in big tech companies.

They absolutely use content features. Among other advantages, this counters the cold start problem (how will you learn about a new video if it doesn't get recommended to anyone).
Sounds like a Columbus' Egg kind of situation. Your conclusions may be obvious in retrospect, but they weren't obvious at the time that you chose to pursue them and your supervisors gave you their blessing.
The problem is (as with all open/federated systems) spam.

How do you figure out which data has been faked to drive views to particular content?
>> * also, some of the changes that Firefox needed to remain competitive with Chrome were going to break most add-ons immediately, possibly all add-ons in the longer term;

This is probably the most important point. The other points apply to almost any software that supports addons, including emacs, vim, zsh, etc. and they're not really an issue.

>> * very quickly, add-on developers realized that anything they did could break anything else in the system, including other add-ons and Firefox itself, and they often had no way to prevent this;

So they're careful. Any add-on that breaks other stuff doesn't really get adopted. Emacs shares the same namespace for everything. Addon developers just namespace their stuff by putting a prefix on their identifiers. It's not really an issue even for them.

>> * similarly, anything Firefox developers did could break add-ons, and they often had no way to prevent this;

So don't change Firefox so drastically. Well, I'd say it's nice for software to be stable, but web browsers are a good exception to that. If Firefox didn't try to keep up with Chrome, Chrome would probably have greater dominance.

But yeah, other software would just be more stable. When a change needs to be made, the benefit is weighed against the potential of breaking addons, but I imagine that's probably OK with addon developers as long as the change was reasonable.

>> * oh, and by the way, since add-ons could do everything, they could very easily do anything to the operating system, from stealing passwords to pretending to be your bank.

Most times, addons are almost like any other program, and should be judged accordingly before installing. I imagine even after the restrictions were placed on addons, they're probably still capable of quite a bit of malice.
Coherent made a fatal choice at the wrong time. Mark Williams Company started to ramp up their marketing right before Linux really started to his. When they had to make a choice to add either XWindows or a TCP/IP stack to Coherent, they chose XWindows. Coherent could have been a great Internet OS at the dawn of the commercialization of the Internet but they blew it.
A fire there was inevitable. Anyone who’s visited would’ve noticed that many of the trees were charred from previous fires.

For people who have never lived in or visited Silicon Valley, you should know that the parks in the area are one of the best parts around here (probably tied for first with the great weather). Big Basin has the biggest trees in the area, but other than that, it can be a little underwhelming. There are a lot of other really awesome parks and preserves (Castle Rock, Portola, Russian Ridge, Skyline Ridge, Monte Bello, Wunderlich, just to name a few) within a 30 minute drive of Palo Alto. I had been trying to go to as many as I could the last few months, but barely scratched the surface. Any of the ones I visited were better than and park I had gone to before moving out here.
How would they possibly know the terms of either offer as former employees?
So, install Firefox 56, or 52 ESR, and never update it. Or run PaleMoon or one of its relatives, I suppose; that community's doing what it can to preserve archives of XUL-based extensions and API documentation.
It's not adding much to the discussion, but this exact thing happened to me as well. You can't exactly escape Adobe products these days, but you can certainly keep your money in your pocket.

SumatraPDF for Windows is terrific.
Define “very quickly” for trees that grow for 1000 years.
My health care plan was better and cheaper when I was working for a 50 person company than it is at a FAANG. Then again, I work for the one that is all about “frugality”....

It’s not bad, but no better than my jobs before the last one.
Most redwood tree trunk hollows are completely blackened on the inside - I would hope this tree ends up the same.
FTA

>Big Basin, in particular, has benefited from the longest, continuous program of prescribed burning anywhere in the state since the purposeful burning done by indigenous people who tended this landscape for thousands of years.

That's the main thing that's missing from modern forest management by most accounts. Reading that gave me a hell of a lot more confidence that the trees are probably mostly safe, even if pretty much everything else has been wiped out.
because we do
For maximum readability, you could also go for

(min + ((num + max - Math.abs(num - max)) / 2) + Math.abs(min - ((num + max - Math.abs(num - max)) / 2))) / 2

Since

min(a, b) = (a + b - |a - b|) / 2

and

max(a, b) = (a + b + |a - b|) / 2
There are commercial receivers that can be placed near the side of the road to measure the popularity of broadcast FM stations by measuring LO leakage. Definitely not limited to TLAs.
Apple's 30% pays for strict reviews that should have prevented this...
Phewww, we definitely saved those drivers this time!
>Counterintuitively perhaps, the industrialisation of chicken led to far fewer choices when buying poultry.

This is actually a metaphor for what's happening in the computer industry currently.
The original inspiration and example featured on the website was from a blog post on cold "welcome" email copy: https://www.gkogan.co/blog/increase-reply-rates/.

I'd love to test it on more marketing emails, or content marketing -- these seem to be the two applications with the most direct ROI.
Surely all metals would be unsporting in a cricket bat, not just scandium.
If planes cannot maneuver in the air without significant fear of fatal injury they should (and would) not be flying.

This goes beyond your comment: but sometimes it feels like there is a growing tendency to value safety - or perceived safety - over the rest of our humanity.

Does that second paragraph make sense?
Codebases and products aren't that simple.

Changes and maintenance cost money and time. In this case, they deemed it to not be worth the expense to resolve the potential security issues (which can never be truly resolved).
> in most cases.
I can't think of any real upside of that, but can think of a lot of downside. Humans, and especially academics (I've noticed a trend in my work environments: the less money everyone makes, the more power is sublimated into inane dick measuring contests) are petty, and less personal it is, the better.
Not worth the time, irritations, and headache that will follow. I'm struggling to survive our Startup[1] and this is definitely not something I can digress my attention.

1. https://valinor.earth
In ages past my first thoughts upon hearing of Uber was entirely about "matching" as you described.

I recall thinking it would be great for adhoc rideshare commuting to/from work.

Somewhere it turned into a money sucking business platform. Maybe because it required funds to run the servers required and went off the rails from there?
This is a great article but it saddens me that it had to be written because all these years later, community members are still mad their extensions don’t work.

I guess I’ve underestimated all these years that what David described as the problems with XUL and the reasons it had to go away weren’t commonly understood. As the post states, it was clear as far back as 2010 (and honestly earlier), that XUL extensions were both Firefox's killer feature and also the reason that it got its ass kicked by Chrome (and to a lesser-extent, Safari). Extensions were amazing but the tax it created for performance, development, and security ended up becoming what made the browser so slow. Chrome and Safari didn’t have extensions but they had speed and built-in features that replicated many of the most popular extensions. And once Chrome added extensions support — and support that didn’t require that add-on development tax — it was over.

I found this bit of the post really telling:

> And yet, there was no choice for Mozilla. Every day that Mozilla didn’t ship Electrolysis was one day that Chrome was simply better in terms of architecture, safety and security. Unfortunately, Mozilla delayed Electrolysis by years, in part because of the illusion that the Firefox benchmarks were better enough that it wouldn’t matter for a long time, in part because we decided to test-drive Electrolysis with FirefoxOS before Firefox itself, but mostly because we did not want to lose all these add-ons.

>In the end, Mozilla decided to introduce WebExtensions and finally make the jump towards e10s as part of the Quantum Project. We had lost years of development that we would never recover.

This aligns with what has always been my personal view which is that Mozilla waited too long to make the changes it needed to compete with Chrome and by the time it finally did the hard thing and lose extensions and start over.

When you consider that there was still time after Chrome was released but before Quantum where IE had the largest browser share (it wasn’t a long period of time post-Chrome, but it existed), that’s indicates to me that there was time both before and after Chrome's introduction for Mozilla to rip the band-aid off and drop XUL for the greater good of the browser. After all, IE didn’t have extensions in any comprehensive way, which could have given Firefox to refactor and approach. Sadly, Mozilla waited too long.

But what really makes me sad is that there are still diehards mad that XUL died. When to me, we should all be angrier that it was allowed to live as long as it did.
Know this is not the case here, but any company in the EU must report a breach involving personal data. This was introduced with the EU-GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-33-gdpr/
A brawl is violent, and a gunfight is violent. Should English have different words for them? They are not at all the same kind of thing.
>Caring about certain groups of people more than others is clearly immoral.

This can't be true. You have no control over your emotions. You can't be held responsible for things you have no control over.

> When your resources can be used much more effectively wasting them is immoral.

This statement depends entirely on what you mean by effectively.
If I send you links to 2-3 rare videos and you view them, I can probably uniquely identify you (or restrict the list of potential users to ~5 users then recognize you based on other videos you would have watched). I then have access to your full video watching history.

Even without this, I could just check videos you shared on Twitter, follow the same process, and have a decent chance of identifying you.

Anonymization is very very hard. Maybe federated learning is more promising here, keeping all your data privately stored on your own devices.
> including employees who put in years at the company but left before May 2020. Zoox was founded in 2014.

I mean, I don't want to get into the legal side, or even the ethical side, but on a practical note, former employees with stock should really expect to be at the very bottom of the pecking chain here. If you leave and hold stock, you're coming out in decent shape if you aren't completely screwed over.

Like, Amazon doesn't care about you -- you're not joining the company. The startup doesn't care -- you've already left, there's no need to retain you. Even your former coworkers likely don't give a shit; you're profiting off of work they put in to get over the finish line (to paraphrase their thoughts).

You kind of have to be on the rocket when it reaches orbit, to get the payout. I dunno what they're trying to accomplish other than make a few quick bucks to make them go away.
The only really hard things from then to run are things that did tricky hardware-specific memory management or otherwise used hardware that is no longer available.

The only one I can think of offhand is Harpoon II Admiral's Edition, which had its own built-in memory manager that doesn't play well even with virtual machines. But that is one where they did eventually re-release an updated version that runs on modern systems.

Edit: The original release was 1989, Admiral's Edition was 1996. I don't know if they did those memory tricks in the original, but it's doubtful.
uBlock Origin is important enough to Mozilla that it's featured prominently on the add-ons pages, it was the first add-on made to work on the new Firefox for Android ("make uBlock work" was its own milestone item), and Mozilla developers have actually contributed design work back to the project. Couple this with the positioning win of having uncrippled blocking compared to Chrome, and you can rest assured that Firefox won't break uBO.
I don't understand why (other than Stallman religious reasons) you would go through the effort of hosting a PeerTube instance when you could just serve a static video file and call it a day
What's Manhattan's Land Worth? Try 'Canada's Entire GDP'(2018)
Wei and Zhang are asking the court to order Zoox to open its books “in order to determine whether it is appropriate to pursue litigation against all or some members of the Board and/or Company management or others based on the apparent wrongdoing in connection with the Acquisition.”
German Public Broadcasting (Deutsche Welle) just published this timely and well rounded two-part overview and analysis of wildfire causes and mitigation.

part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUo2Vs6id7w
part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VPWq8LVDtk
To whatever extent, there have been forks that are still alive today that support XUL extensions. Pale Moon [1] is one of them.

[1]: https://www.palemoon.org/
Would it matter? When presented options, they aren't required to choose the best on a given metric. They can choose any, as long as the votes align.

Perhaps the founders believed their product would go further (not die) under Amazon or that they stood to benefit more from stock rewards long term
This is maybe a tangent, but do these ML-powered recommendation algorithms actually, like, work well for people?

I use both YouTube and Netflix pretty extensively. These companies are both held up as ML success stories. But, at least in my personal experience, they suck! My front-page feeds consist of (1) content that the platform knows I have already seen because IT IS IN MY WATCH HISTORY, (2) content that is trivially related, like by having the the same channel/director/actors, and (3) random junk I have no interest in watching and always regret clicking on.

It's not that the content isn't out there -- I'm able to find stuff I like through "big spreadsheet of all the Netflix movies" websites, online recommendations from humans, and YouTube channel crossovers/cameos. But I've never had that magical "the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself" experience that every ML engineer I've ever spoken to seems to be convinced their systems achieve.

Are all ML engineers mindless drones with exactly average movie preferences, or am I some kind of incomprehensible weirdo?
Another part of the problem is many people buying second homes in wooded areas that now prevent controlled burns to clear the extra brush. This has become a big issue in Colorado.
Deploy to Cloudflare Workers (5 min video)
I wonder how much California nonsense would just go away if they repealed Prop13. It just seems like such a dumb law every time I hear it brought up.
> For those wondering why Lyft and Uber doing the shutdown, it's to bully voters into voting their way on Prop 22 in November.

Why is this getting downvoted? The strategy seems fairly obvious: by threatening to end service, they're trying to scare voters (and the legislature) into repealing this law.

Uber and Lyft could, under this law, continue to operate in a legal, legitimate manner, no longer relying on the legal loopholes that this law closed. The fact that they would rather shut down entirely than follow their own state's laws is deeply disturbing.
They kept their fleet in port for most of the war; Jutland was halfway through the war, when the Germans lost patience, ended indecisively, and led the Germans to return to a fleet-in-being policy.
I can attest to this as well. At the end of a run music seemed much slower for me. A track that usually was very fast sounded odd, it sounded like the music was much slower.
Really? Walking is free but driving isn't. More food costs more than less food. And lots of boring difficult healthy food (eg. veges) is cheaper than more pleasurable easy food (eg. fast food). Being unemployed provides more time to do healthy things than having a busy job.

I'd say the reason poor people are unhealthy is the same as the reason they're poor - unwillingness to work.
Gravitational Teleport: Cluster SSH Web Interface
FTFA: "I would say, though, that the coronavirus-from-space theory is still more plausible than some other theories of COVID-19. "

IMO less plausible than that it flew out of a Chinese lab!
I feel a little suspicious of the story that there were two mistakes here.

1) Citi paid the wrong amount (they paid the full outstanding amount, rather than just the one payment)

2) Citi paid out of the wrong account (Citi’s account instead of Revlon’s account)

In particular, I’m suspicious of the second claim. If Citi had paid the correct amount out of this “wrong” account, would anyone have noticed? Is it possible that paying out of account on behalf of clients is actually a normal practice? After finding out that they paid the wrong amount, is it possible that the “wrong account” is a convenient legal cover to make it more likely the payment can be reversed?
Ooh thanks for the link. Remote Sensing is a particular area of formal and informal study/interest, and have had similar ideas to components of what your startup seems to do, but am not currently doing anything related. There is so much underused public data available.
"As we know it" is just as important as "gone" in the title. Even if every single tree survived (almost certainly not the case), the park will not be the same for many years to come, and the loss of the historic CCC buildings would be devastating all on its own.
> Firms do not know how much each worker contributes to their revenues.

THIS. So obnoxious when free-market dogmatists make arguments based on that bullshit assumption.
On the practical side breaking the law doesn't always work though. Shareholders are owners, and regardless of how they got their shares (vesting, purchase, gift, poker game) there are rights that go along with that.
Can you clarify why that was so? I started using privacy.com for basically any trial of subscription nowadays, am curious if this would Avert their dirty tactics.
Playing Go was a big deal because it could be done by a program that started from zero.

Did somebody create a program that can write poetry without first consuming basically everything humans have ever written? Or even after consuming roughly what a well-read human might have read?

I think it's reasonable to allow for the fact that humans must have a certain amount of information encoded by evolution, but I can't believe it's either qualitatively or quantitatively comparable to a database of all the text on the internet.
Back in 2004, I did some consulting work for a manufacturer of Identification Friend-Foe (IFF) equipment. One of my colleagues had to go in and replace an IFF transponder on a Saudi military boat after its commander (a minor member of the royal family) decided, during the First Gulf War, to take it out of port despite knowing the IFF transponder was not working. A British RAF Tornado mistook the boat for Iraqi after it failed to auto-respond the pilot's IFF interrogation message. One HARM anti-radiation missile later, and anything near or behind the boat's radar dish looked like Swiss chesese, including the IFF transponder and pretty much everything in the mess hall. My colleague said that the mess hall looked like someone walked in with a shotgun and a ton of shells and just started blasting in all directions.

That commander had no business being in charge of a lemonade stand, much less a military vessel, and I'm told such nepotism is rampant in the Saudi military. People who have been isolated from all consequences of their actions for their whole lives tend to make terrible leaders.
As shareholders they may have a right to certain acquisition information, even if they aren't still employed. At the very least, current employees cannot be stopped from sharing such information with shareholders.
This sounds expensive to install. For it to work as well as regular AC, wouldn't this have to be built into basically all the walls in your home?
UBI and NIT are two different systems that provide the same minimum income guarantee. Saying they both provide a min income is obvious. That's what they're designed to do.

However the way they do it is very different and that's what changes everything. NIT guarantees min. income without just paying everyone. This costs less than UBI. NIT pays a (negative tax) bonus on the first dollars instead of immediately taxing earnings. This provides more motivation. Not giving everyone the same helicopter money prevents cost of living inflation. This provides better purchasing power.

How you provide the income is more important the final amount because the economy is an interconnected system with secondary effects. This is why Friedman recommended NIT instead of UBI. The mechanics of the system matter.
After a certain point is it just better for everyone to keep an old burner smartphone for these ‘required’ apps
Is the db format standard - ie can I sync the same file between Android/Linux and KeePassXC and use it in all of them?
Nothing can possibly be slower than a heavily customized Jira instance.

I opened up the api recently to discover that every story I edited had close to 100 custom fields on them, most duplicative (presumably) and hidden.
"Stuffy" air is your body detecting CO2. You should totally do something about it.