skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this comment. The single best thing you can do for you career is to learn how and when to say no.

What’s helped me feel comfortable saying no to project scope creep or decisions that will result in overtime is the fact that if projects run over time then it is a failure on managements side; they are responsible for the resources provided and the end deliverables.

Managers will (often) not tell you to work less, they will always find work to fill the time you’re willing to work so it’s very important you place boundaries.

You can place boundaries in two ways, explicit and implicit.
1) An example of an explicit boundaries would be informing the PO during a standup that their feature request will result in you working weekends which you won’t do.
2) An implicate boundary would be not responding to emails, slack messages or PR outside office hours.
Now I understand, this is done to protect the banks from the legal fees they might have to cover. (In the linked story bank paid thousands in legal fees). The warning during the transfer also makes sense now. I.e. we provided you with means to check the identity and warned you when we couldn’t confirm it, so the erroneous transfer is now on you.

So the main user of that feature is the bank, not the bank customers.
Lack of any standardization meant that none could keep track of CPython
I considered that, but wanted to preserve Crockford's partial defense against accidental profanity generation while still allowing U/u to be decoded (if Crockford's aliased it I probably wouldn't have bothered to whip up Base32H, lol).

As for 1/l/I, yeah, that's definitely the main flaw. The workaround (as described in the FAQ) would be to always emit uppercase and take advantage of L being pretty visually distinct. A bit ugly for URLs, but for things like asset tags, product keys, and item codes / SKUs (the main things I had in mind) that's already the norm.
Why a startup with $10M in annual revenue took 18 months to get VC funding
Culture and team camaraderie are likely long-term negatives. The existing team relationships can hold things for awhile but it's tough as people join+leave.
I believe that both the app store and Google play store charge 30% fees for all app purchases except for subscriptions lasting over a year, which are 15%.

That further incentivizes developers to concentrate on the subscription model.
> I just said that for many single calculations, GA has saved me literally hours of headaches, in addition to making the result dramatically clearer and more insightful.

Er, right; I was[0] asking for a example of a such a dramatically clearer and more insightful result, relative to just using normal dot and wedge products. Using vectors at all saves hours of headaches if all it's being compared to is coordinate-based calculations.

0: Well, the comment before that one was asking about the interpretation of the geometric product.
Time to link the ConLang Critic's video "A better way to count" where he compares decimal and dozenal (base12) with seximal (base6) and base 6 wins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qID2B4MK7Y0

One of the best videos of number-base related comedy.
I’ve been continually using last.fm for 14 years now. I think that when I’m older, or if something happens to me, it might be a cool way to see who I was.
It’s just that the team is right there for the taking and it’s so easy to hold control over the most exciting language of the next five years as Google instead of MS EEE’ing Rust soon.
Years ago I worked on Google Maps, we spent an inordinate amount of time making sure that we didn't break backwards compatibility. Sometimes we would be trying to refactor some old code, but we'd get stuck trying to support some ancient client that was sending us like 4 requests a day with some wacky query parameters.

On the other hand, our Maps still worked on all 5 Blackberries that people were still using.
"Optimizely died of indigestion rather than starvation" while it might be true, not sure if Dan ever admitted anything close to that in public.
I’ve backed people on patreon and never accessed the rewards. I’ve bought humble bundles that I never played the games or read the books. I have, on occasion, bought apps just because I liked the idea and wanted to support the developers. I sponsor people on GitHub whose projects I like but don’t actually use.

Not everyone is aiming to pay $0 for everything. Some of us like to support things we like our values even if we never actually use them ourselves.
Not being funny, but if you trust people, why don’t you offer a free option also?
Lovely stuff, our society may be imperfect, but our material well-being is not something to be dismissed. Our secure food supply, sanitation, clean drinking water, medicine, and ability to adjust the climate to a comfortable level are absolutely marvellous achievements and dependent upon resource extraction. I’d hate to think anyone would suggest we should regress a millimetre away from that.

We need to find ways to satiate our hunger for resources in a sustainable manner (or find a way to import them from a nearby object in space), but we shouldn’t be ashamed of the progress we’ve made.
WAP specifically feels like an experiment. A female singer's equivalent to the overtly sexual hiphop. In music, and in video.

Anecdotal: Friends have acknowledged that they're more disgusted by it than the male singer's counterparts. I admit I am, too. And this is regardless of the particular singer's ability to sing/rap, or the lack thereof.
> what's everyone's solution for blocking autoplaying sticky videos?

Compile your browser without support for video codecs.

99% of the time I don't care if no videos play back in my browser.

0.9% of the time the video is on youtube, so I can youtube-dl it to watch with mpv, which kicks the crap out of every in-browser video playback UI ever created.

The remaining 0.1% of the time I fire up a separate browser that does have video codecs.

Web video is simply unnecessary. Try life without it, you won't mind.
Junk food is bad comparison, because listening to unchallenging music will not harm you at all. For that matter, the same goes with visual arts and fashion and design. There are movies and books that can actually harm you (when it teaches wrong history or facts for example, when violence is more then you can handle), but I would argue the cheap predictable popular ones are rarely those.

It is cheap argument to try to imply that unchallenging pop music somehow harms the listeners, but that argument does not have base in reality.
> OK, stability is relative.

I don't know what that means in this context. What I do know is that RoR versions go EOL roughly 2-3 years after they're released. That's not stable by any stretch of the imagination.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Iran, Kosovo, Venezuela, El Salvador: these are all places where war and strife and economic turmoil and the Wests' sanctions have led a significant number of their citizens to use Bitcoin - and other cryptocurrencies - to manage their lives and feed themselves, and their families.

It beggars belief that someone would so callously call the situation in these countries 'hypothetical'. Please, inform yourself about the war and strife that is occurring outside your own bubble. Its very important that we in the West stop ignoring the plight of the people our military industrial complex is targeting with their weapons.

Bitcoin has held things together in many such places.

Also: Russia.
Reminds of the Casio calculator. I don't remember the specifics, but a cheaper model is actually exactly the same as the more expensive one. They cut off a connection of the circuit board to disable the advanced functions. All you have to do is to connect the cut wires with a pencil stroke, and the calculator is "upgraded".
Oh is it? Good

Top 40 are only relevant to music executives that make their living pumping up the worse kinds of musical garbage to people that base their musical tastes into what "other people" (payola, it's payola) like.

And it seems that, as the internet came and the music distribution became more long-tailed, the worse the "top 40" became.
I think you’re right and I’d argue that American Idol proves that there is a surplus of talent for labels to choose from, allowing them to be picky in regards to secondary requirements (ethnicity, backstory, work ethic).
> Again, I attribute the issue to the choice of upper case as canonical, because L is not easily confused with any other letter or number.

That is indeed why I settled for that tradeoff, yep; as long as it's all VPPERCA5E it'll be distinct enough.
I think his nitpick was you promoting weird bash tricks. They're neat to use but usually a pain for someone else to maintain, as a general rule, don't use them, don't try to be clever unless you're 100% sure that it's code you'll be the only one to see (which can rarely be guaranteed).
Google will soon remove old Google sites where there're lots of historical stuff
> I don't understand how purely unitary evolution can explain this. Does it?

What's the alternative? Assuming unitary evolution and some fairly common-sense axioms about how we'd expect subjective experience to behave (things like: we never experience being in a branch that has amplitude zero; if we experience being in a given branch then we continue to be in that branch), the Born probabilities are the only model anyone's ever come up with for how our subjective experience should go. So what's there to explain?
Googles users are companies that buy ads, so no need for sarcasm.
I should not have read that prior to finishing the game. Still hilarious to think about a movie based on a clicker game.
> i was not claiming the distribution code literally calls eval, just that it is functionally equivalent to a system that calls eval.

Not really. The distribution can only call code that exists in the other node. So while the system can be used as if it was an evaluator, it is not because of its primitives, but rather due to functionality that was built on top. If you nuke "erl_eval" out of the system, then the evaluation capabilities are gone.

I agree it is a thin line to draw but the point is that any message passing system can become an evaluator if you implement an evaluator alongside the message passing system. :)

> elixir/erlang's features that increase it's reliability on a single machine are a cost you pay not an added benefit

Agreed! Erlang/Elixir features should not be used to increase the reliability on a single machine. Rather, they can be used to make the most use of individual machines, allowing you to reduce operational complexity in some places.
I would say engineering edge is still extremely relevant, in the form of the recommendation engine, especially as content increases.

Netflix doesn't just have to have enough content, it has to surface that content to the viewers that find it interesting. The streaming service that does this best will likely keep the most engagement.
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RH-32
These Are the Top Browsers for Privacy and Security
I think the contemporary podcast Mysterious Universe has solidly taken the torch from Art Bell. They always seem to sincerely dance with subjects while occasionally throwing a wink your way. Their storytelling skills are phenomenal.
Vacancy tax won't solve the problem, will just escalate the inevitable crash
HTTP allows the body length to be specified in the header before the body is downloaded via the `Content-Length` header. It also allows you to stream the body in chunks by setting the `Transfer-Encoding` header to `chunked`, as you've mentioned, in which case each chunk starts with its own length. In both cases, the length cannot be faked because the recipient will stop pulling bytes after the specified length, as that's the purpose of sending such length (after there's no more bytes according to the latest length, the connection is free to be used for a subsequent response)!
The music industry has never hidden that they manipulate listeners into consuming more and more media, so it's pretty much the opposite of a conspiracy.

It's like saying the ad industry is conspiring to manipulate us into buying their clients' products and services.
Learning Material – Berkeley Fire Research Lab
Interesting work that demonstrates the benefits of the use of domain knowledge [1] and of trying to understand a dataset, rather than throwing a bunch of data at an and-to-end black box and hoping for the best. In particular, data in the tennis point play domain is too sparse for approaches that rely heavily on large amounts of dense data, like a neural network. This is good, old-fashioned AI work and I mean that 100% as a compliment.

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[1] Quoting from Section 10:

Finally, our work makes extensive use of domain knowledge oftennis to generate realistic results. This includes the shot cycle statemachine to structure point synthesis, the choice of shot selectionand player court positioning outputs of player behavior models,and the choice of input features provided to these behavior models.

A successful behavioural model of that kind is a contribution in and of itself, useful beyond the task of simulation presented in the paper.
Then, why did BitTorrent work on such a costly change if it's not vulnerable against it?
> but seriously what else are they going to do?

The police should arrest the fucking fences and openly advocate giving addicts drugs.

Seriously, the fences aren't hard to find: they openly do things like sellobviously near-new and second hand cordless drills with battery but no charger, while at the same time advertising a rather odd collection of other random items.

People are doing carriable item theft for only handful of reasons: fun, or they need the cash.

Edit: typo and grammar errors galore!
Universe: 50 / Sim Level: 13
Paperclips: 153,625
How JavaScript Was Created and Why the History Behind It Is Important
What does Apple need to understand? I don't believe there are any rules about publishing MyApp2.0 and then heavy advertising it in your previous versions.
Fearing return to drachma, some Greeks use bitcoin to dodge capital controls
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-eurozone-greece-bitcoin/f...

WikiLeaks may have amassed more than $46 million in Bitcoin based on the number of coins held by its known wallet address.
https://bitcoinist.com/wikileaks-has-received-more-than-46-m...
Using Tree Neural Networks in Proof-Assistant HOL4
> Shellcheck will happily suggest changes that break working code.

Which is OK once it is known. Your example nicely shows that. The flagged behavior is often unexpected, so there where it is expected having shellcheck line that turns off the warning greatly improves readability of the whole script, essentially showing the reader "here is the dependence on non obvious behavior."

Where such dependence exists, I prefer to see the "shellcheck" line before pointing to it (by turning that specific warning off exactly in that line). It's then a "vetted" and "explained" line.
Subscriptions also add cognitive load. If I pay upfront and later stop using the app, oh well. If I pay a subscription and stop using the app, I have to remember to unsubscribe.
If you want to try a different way to play through this game, most of the functionality is pretty accessible as js functions. You can try to automate stuff in various ways with a tampermonkey script or whatever. For example, click(N) is equivalent to pressing the main paper clip button N times.
Up here in the north east of the UK is Holy Island, a small island off the coast with a village that has a population of about 200 people. The causeway to get there is cut off from the mainland twice a day too. A few times a year a hapless visitor gets their car swept out to sea.

It's well worth a visit - it's a beautiful place. https://holy-island.com/gallery/ybphotography.htm
Especially the first link is incredibly useful to me.

Thanks a lot!
Firefox did well enough until chrome came along. It even managed to keep up until the recent downsizing. In other words your comment only makes sense if you just woke up from a thirty year long coma.
So at this point you're really no longer using the core feature of any blockchain based currency but make changes in some SQL row in a central database that maybe later results in changes made to some blockchain on your behalf. Why even bother at this point? Might as well trade gift cards or airline miles.
That was essentially what I was getting at :) ...the difference being those who have these wired up into their text editors vs those who have to context switch between editor and terminal.
> A key difference between bangladesh and the US is that the white majority in the US is not indigenous but is the outcome of a colonial project in which the indigenous population has already been marginalized.

That’s not a difference. Like many (most?) countries, Bangladesh is the product of multiple waves of colonization. There are a small number of indigenous people in Bangladesh (mainly Buddhists living in the hill tracts). This is true of say England as well.

> Far right opposition to immigration is rooted in a concept of native identity that requires the conceptual erasure of prior indigenous populations to a safe historical distance.

Opposition to immigration isn’t a “far right” concept. Bangladeshis don’t consider themselves less entitled to their country just because a thousand years ago their ancestors replaced some other people who used to live there. The country that exists today—its language, political institutions, etc.—is almost entirely the product of the colonizers. (By that I mean the waves of people who replaced the original inhabitants of Bangladesh.) I’m pretty sure the Japanese and Chinese feel the same way.

> But you're relying on a definition of 'country' that's rooted in ethnic essentialism, something very different from the nominal values o which the US was founded.

As I observed above, the US is a special case, because of its very recent immigration history. But I took your point about “fringe” views to sweep more broadly than the United States. What about say Germany, which even today is 80% ethnic German. Why are they entitled to a country of their own any less than Bangladeshis? There may be good reasons for them to accept immigration as a policy matter. And if they do accept immigrants, they should try to integrate them and treat them respectfully, etc. But it’s a perfectly valid position to say they want to preserve the essential character of the country as German. If you tried to argue otherwise to a typical Bangladeshi, or Chinese or Japanese, or Korean person, most would look at you like you’ve grown a second head.

> I get that you're* arguing in favor of a cultural rather than ethnic identity, which is a very nice idea; but it overlooks the fact that the more hardline someone's 'cultural identitarian' position, the more likely it is to be a proxy for European ethnic identity that turns out to exclude non-white (eg ask a European identitarian about Romani people and see what sort of reaction you get).

I think in most countries, at least in Asia or Africa, nobody sees anything wrong with maintaining a country along ethnic identity lines, insofar as they would strongly oppose becoming ethnic minorities in their own countries. Most European countries are homogenous enough where it doesn’t seem illegitimate to me if they felt the same way.

The United States is an odd duck, because no ethnicity makes up more than about 10-15% of the population. But that’s why populism in the US is happening more along rural/urban divides.
I suspect the answer is no. Things are always dying and decaying in forests, and it seems like it would be hard to differentiate the affect of a decaying human corpse from any number of other things that affect soil composition. But it would sure be interesting if this works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiCortex
Ha, that must be for academic articles as well. They all (well, almost all) have an ID that you can look up at doi.org, which is supposedly kept up-to-date and links to the article at the publisher's website, wherever that is. But then in practice, that publisher's website adds another bunch of redirects because why not.
Spotify did this for a while, but the more advanced recommendation algorithm got axed after the acquisition and now it just plays songs from similar artists.

I really wish Spotify brought back that deeper music analysis because I'm the type of listener who will like one or two songs from an artist while not being a fan of the artist's general style of their more well-known work. Thus, Spotify's current recommendation algorithm is incredibly hit or miss for me.
Pricing subscriptions higher has more side effects:

* you get users who care more about your app
* you get users who will not place irrational demands ("I paid $0.99 for your app, now implement this feature or I want my money back!")
* you get to focus on features that matter and long-term development, without having to implement shiny cruft just so that a "major version number upgrade" is justified
* you have a sustainable business

I've reached a point where I am worried if an app I use regularly does not have a subscription model with reasonable pricing. Experience shows that this means that sooner or later the authors will lose interest and abandon the app, or go overly broad with features. I've seen this happen so many times that I'm actually wary of even starting to use new apps at this point.

As for the "but it's too expensive" problem, well, perhaps you don't need all those apps after all? There aren't that many apps that I use regularly and I'd much rather limit the selection and then pay for those that I use and need.
The internet has made so many of my youthful amazements obsolete. I don't think kids who have been exposed to high speed internet and youtube would find much interest in exploring HF radio signals or using an acoustic modem to talk to people on the other side of the world.

That said, the internet has a whole new dark underbelly. If I were young again and granted the "get out of jail with a slap on the wrist" card again, I'd be poking at open ports and using an SDR to probe security weaknesses in modern RF systems. Getting strange music at Tower Records or from anarchist collectives out of zines has given way to youtube and a thousand other outlets. The effort may be less but there is still a world to get lost in.

There was a lot of magic in the old days, but it's still there in other ways now. Maybe the biggest danger is the end of boredom and the torrent of on-demand dopamine surrounding kids of today.
Ford's Giant Turbine Semi-Truck 'Big Red' Is Lost in the American Southeast
I think if there was one game you could single out as the best computer game ever, it would be Minecraft. Out of the box, there are several ways to play it: creative mode where you cannot die and have all the resources you need to build whatever you can imagine, and survival where you need to mine and gather your resources before you can build anything and at night monsters come out to kill you. Then in survival you can just keep collecting resources and build whatever you can imagine, or you can try to finish the game by killing the Ender Dragon, which involves travelling to two different worlds and surviving some pretty tough challenges. Speedrunners can do it in 20 minutes, I cannot do it at all.

Then there is a whole community of online servers which can run a variety of plugins that completely change the game, from a wide variety of minigames that may not involve any mining or crafting at all, to a game where you're resource-starved on a floating island, to a game where the resources available are totally different.

I rarely play it, but I can totally see why my son, nephew and all their friends are addicted.