skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've quit (as in, delete, not suspend) my Facebook account twice. Deleted it, signed up again years later, deleted it again. I hope it's for good.

The reason really was politics. I've never learned anything new from these posts, they tend to just be the more bombastic restatements of things that everyone already knows about. I think they're a form of social signaling or posturing (people want to establish themselves as the most for or against... whatever their in-group is for or agains).

There's a funny onion article I've always enjoyed, "I don't like the person you become when you're on the Jumbotron".

https://sports.theonion.com/i-dont-like-the-person-you-becom...

There are people I am friends with, but I wouldn't want to be around when they're drunk. I feel the same way about some people on social media. The problem is, they tend to be the ones who dominate the platform. And it's new, so we're not really aware of the dangers - but I actually do think it may have a lot in common with alcohol addiction.
That also exacerbates the problem. The only people posting are strongly opinionated loud mouths.
This is a sleight of hand on Amazon's part. Humans looking at a palm print and identifying the person is not a concern, it's computers looking at a palm, associating it with a credit card, which can then open up a trove of behavioral data to push (i.e., ads) to people. It's disingenuous, like putting someone in a tiger cage and saying "Don't worry, there's no way you can drown in here -- we made sure there's no water."
"but 3 months later, they reopen that same email, you get a live read notification"

It doesn't work for gmail users. Tracking pixel will only be fired the first time the email is opened. After that, images will be served via google proxy servers.

Source: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html
Yes, this was great. I think the slogans "Privacy is the right to be imperfect" and "Privacy is the right to be human" are both great, relatable, non-controversial, and easy to understand.
I thought ignorance of the law wasn't a valid defense?
Is there some threshold? Can any fork of Chromium make it on there? Can a company make 10 different forks to increase their chance? What if someone gets a really bad roll and sees 5 really shitty ones they don't know or like? How is that putting the user first?
Not to mention all the others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold#Viruses
25 year old patient, sequenced genomes of virus differed significantly. Looks like a real re-infection.
Attention science: some people have only one name
That's a really interesting point that I didn't realize. Does anyone have a good history of how QI came to be like this? I can't imagine that it was the intention when this started.
Just checked the wiki, looks like France defines something called double jus soli, which means a person who was born in France to a parent who themselves is born in France (even though they might not be a French citizen) gets the citizenship.

That's a bit closer to birthright citizenship that what we have in Germany, but nowhere as liberal as USA laws, which give citizenship to anyone born in the USA even if their parents entered the country one day before the birth and left next day after the birth. That is something that doesn't exist anywhere in Europe to my knowledge.
Nintendo console games still cost $50, and seem to outsell $1-$5 games despite the fact that the vast majority of users already own a phone, and consoles cost extra (and there are more than two platforms to choose from.) So I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the market does not consider these to be equivalent products.
> gorillafind.com

Interesting. (ﾟヮﾟ)
You seem to know well that search is beyond ranking and retrieval. [1]

> I’d start off with not doing state of the art because it’s overkill for an “MVP”.

Can a search engine "MVP" sustain without using sota methods/practices?

What should be the initial scale for a search MVP for which it just works? In the modern realm.

[1] : https://medium.com/startup-grind/what-every-software-enginee...

just a note (you can ignore) : I am actually a believer of iterations in development and incremental optimisations. But even a minimum viable product should be able to work.
I wonder if this might have a positive effect on extremists opinions/divisiveness in the US. Assuming "the problem" is that people are too divided in their political views, would social cooling bring people closer to the center by making people less likely to post "controversial" things, despite it being by hook and crook versus genuine unity?
A tech manual, he means?
I answered in a comment below with potentiel food for thoughts. Let's be serious, it's a utopia, but the philosophical path is interesting to walk through.

Your concerns are valid, yes, but only if you value money over self-accomplishment.

I learn skills for myself, not for others. It's about investing in yourself, the output is not necessarily money. You can learn dance classes, it'll never pay-off, but you'll feel more accomplished.

Furthermore, from my perspective, money is unfair and is not a reflection of social value.

Because not the most deserving people are earning the most (the farmer who feeds others, vs, someone sharing pictures on OnlyFans).

I often speak with people who are smarter than me, and they share their knowledge with me for free. One example is for machine learning. In return I do share my other discoveries in fields I know better.

In the short-term, it looks better to keep the knowledge secret. But in the long-run everybody benefits.

The others still have their knowledge, I have new knowledge, and together we can build something better.

I'm very grateful to people who share what they know without charging me every minute like if I'm on a phone sex-line.

And the best lessons are actually free (YCombinator, Bill Gates, Physics classes, etc).
"Newfangled features" and "don't be too smart for your own good" don't overlap as much as you imply. They aren't entirely orthogonal but very much so.

C++'s `unique_ptr` is a "newfangled feature" but is not the latter (ignoring custom delete functionality).

I tried to account for the discrediting of zero cost abstractions (which I buy) but I think you are adding the latter onto that which I didn't get from the person I was responding to.

> I want to know as directly as possible what is going on in the machine

Certainly not in multi-threaded code on an x64 machine (and IIRC ARM is trending in that way as well). There are too many abstractions to actually do that, the best you can do is understand the abstract machine of the language and the rough edges translating that into real machine code entails.

> safety of low level code is not a concern

I will remind you that in the case of Rust safety is where all of this comes from not productivity.

Writing a mutex by hand is hard and you will make mistakes, here is a library construct to do it for you. It will be more complex than what you would write but it will be safer because others have worked with it. etc. etc.

When working with minimal computation resources using "works for everyone" constructs stops being zero cost and starts being expensive both conceptually (what were the poisoning rules again?) and performance wise when the cost of providing your abstraction is hard (why can't I arena allocate an RC?)

Those are the situations where Rust and even C++ have difficulty shining and C wins out. It provides so little you never have to pay for anything but what you absolutely need. But remember the things you lose out on are from every category you can think of, not just one. Performance, reliability and safety are all often sacrificed in some amount when writing custom code.

When you write code instead of a random Joe in a garage you know who to blame when it blows up. When you write code instead of using the larger community code you give up the often great characteristics in every metric for your more fine tuned characteristics in some metric generally.

Sorry that got wordy... TL;DR nothing about most low level languages up to things like Java and C# IMO stops you from having a simple imperative model in your head so using that to chose C over something else is missing the point.
This begs the question. What controversial issues?
Can those Credit Systems be it China’s or any social networking services be gamed? I’ve seen a lot of people deleting their accounts out of fear for their data and privacy. But at the same time, a lot people get the system to work in their favor, e.g r/churning. I’m not dismissing the harm or discouraging conversation for privacy. Just asking if we can hack it.
I agree somewhat, but I also do appreciate reading why the company themselves think I should care. Often times it's the best way to get to the meat and potatoes of what their actual unique selling point is - you can get that from third parties, but it's also useful to get it from the company themselves.
That being the status quo doesn’t make it acceptable?
People in America dont live in random places. You have parts where everyone is white and parts where everyone is black. Then you have parts where one group is severely dominant. For many if not most businesses, their customer base does not have same racial ration as whole America.
Let's phrase this another way: if neither were SCOTUS justices, but mere acquaintances that came across one another at say, a party, and began discussing politics-- would they have become friends? No.
> just wait until 4g/5g will become so cheap ...

One of the perks of living in Canada is I am sure this would never happen here in my lifetime.
> mainly just organizing blog posts

Were these your own blog posts, or posts from other folks? If the former, you should include that time as time it took to write the book!
More like an MCSE fixing a server.
> But 64-bit is only viable if you buy the twice as expensive 8GB model and have use for the extra bandwidth.

Benchmarks don't entirely agree: https://www.cnx-software.com/2016/03/01/64-bit-arm-aarch64-i...

If the difference between AArch64 and AArch32 were simply larger pointers, I would probably agree, but AArch64 includes a number of instructions that can do more work, so 64-bit programs can actually run faster than their 32-bit equivalents, even if you're not using much RAM.
Yeah holy shit I was immediately struck by how creepy that first example was.
On all of those issues there are at least two takes-and they’ve flip-flopped over time. People on the right have a different take on how to alleviate homelessness (self empowerment vs state dependence). On immigration (remember the time Bernie _didn't_ want immigrants to take jobs from locals?) minorities (also about the extent of state help vs other empowerment vehicles).

There are varied ways to address the issues from different points of view. Parties have switched from one view to the opposing view over time, so by proxy of this we know there isn’t a “right” way and a “wrong” way but rather opposing philosophies that stress one thing over another. Why does one work better now and why will a different one work better tomorrow?
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Wired internet and wired headphones make such a huge difference, it's almost unreal. My best video conversations are always with others are with those who do the same thing. There are just fewer gaps in the conversation, fewer "can you hear me now" moments when headphones unpair, and fewer "Mr. Roboto" moments.
What if everybody gets basic income to cover basic needs (housing / food) and then can do work, to unlock extra-money ?

Whether they work or not, they benefit from the situation.

I'm still concerned though, that landlords, seeing that everybody has 1000 USD / month in the pocket, that they raise prices by 1000 USD :|
There are a number of problems I have with this report, a presumption(that was false) was that covid-19 was going to follow the seasonality of the common cold and the flu. That prediction turned out to be really incorrect as cases in the US exploded in the summertime when they were expected to wane. This report compares the 4 corona viruses which follow that track to covid-19 which does not. Another article offers some interesting insight on why some get severe cases vs. others that do not, its related to T cells, which the OP's article also ignores. - https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563
Exactly. Great way to put it. Facebook forces you into this politician way of communicating which is a waste of time and just sucks.
I left when coworkers started asking to connect on FB.

I don't bring my friends to work with me, except once in a very great while about ADA topics. I don't need my work life to be affected by the activities of my social circles.

I wasn't getting much out of it anyway, it was easier not to play (leave and say I didn't have one).
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That is definitely going to also happen on brain-computer interfaces.
Sorry I didn't use my words properly. What I meant instead of 'unrestricted asshole' was more 'saying whatever you want without taking into account how people are going to react'.

So yes, when you speak, you have to speak according to the societal norms present at the time. Like we always have had to.

The difference being is that your audience is near infinite and it is near impossible to please everyone, unless you speak in a very deliberate and neutral manner.

Based on your tone and the implication of how you wrote out

> however when someone calls you sir, cause you know you're a guy, and you jump down their throat cause they aren't recognizing your non-binary lifestyle of feeling like a girl that day, that's being a dumb ass and an example of how the world is today.

I assume you don't speak in a deliberately neutral manner and your manner of writing is inflammatory, so you piss people off.

I might be jumping to conclusions here but so many comments I've read on HN that were asking "why is this getting downvoted? echo chamber, PC blahblah". No, the reality is they just come off as an asshole due to their style of writing posts. (exactly like your post that I'm replying to right now)
Oh yeah, I forgot to include the trailing comma in my list of wants. But yes, I probably want something like json5, albeit it would be nice if it had the traction that YAML and company enjoy. One problem with most of these JSON++ dialects is that they tack on a bunch of low-value features like single-quoted strings and unqouted keys that complicate building parsers and facilitate stylistic differences.
You're combining "email" and "mailing lists." I totally agree about the value of mailing lists, but well archived mailing lists don't seem to be an option in many companies. Email w/out mailing lists can be a poor experience.
I think for high throughput scenarios the 3090 probably has more headroom due to its higher TDP and better (larger) cooling solution, which might really matter here if you're driving the tensor cores at max the whole time.
Heads up, that site was injected with a ton of malware/adware and redirects. Possibly their ad network got hosed, but that site doesn't seem safe unless you are locked down.
> I'd bat both eyelids, that's the kind of surprising design decision that would turn me away from a language. To my knowledge, no major programming language does this, and there's wisdom in the principle of least surprise.

Lol prepare to bat your eyelids.

% python
Python 3.8.5 (default, Jul 21 2020, 10:48:26)
[Clang 11.0.3 (clang-1103.0.32.62)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 1 / 2
0.5
This conversation has been beaten to death, but I'll bite.

I think the problem with whiteboardy-type interviews is they've become closer to trivia. The fact that you grinded LeetCode and others read CTCI kind of prove that, no? As in, people go far out of their way to learn a skill _just to pass the interview_.

> I’d imagine it’s very hard to distinguish between a good talker and a good worker. Maybe some people can do it, but this is not a skill set I’d expect everyone conducting interviews to possess.

Interviewing is a skill and should be treated as such. This means possessing a set of skills any dev off the floor won't necessarily have, and that should be expected. 99% of devs don't have the skills required to conduct a whiteboard interview as an interviewer correctly either, and yet that seems to be generally accepted as okay.

> The data shows that humans are terrible at every kind of interview assessment.

Exactly, which is why, in my posts above, I pointed at things other than the interview as reasons you might be very happy with the quality of your coworkers work. It seems silly to say "The data shows that humans are terrible at every kind of interview assessment", but then also attribute anything from your job to a specific style of interview assessment, right?

You'd get further as a company by investing in training, code quality (review, analysis, etc), leadership, and healthy firing processes.
I wasn't the one making the assumptions, not exactly my responsibility to appease your questions. DYOR.

Though, in an attempt to perhaps please you:

I go to the most liberal University in my state because I was born in the town and got an academic full ride. We pul about 25,000 students in a town with a pop of less than 5,000.

Our safe space office was actually just "repurposed" as it was just about never used. In the beginning in helped spawn some friendly campus programs that meet every now and then as University programs do. Most students who sought the Uni official safe space office migrated to those. Thus, it's purpose was served, and now it's gone.

Hope this helps in your research.

Looking back at your comment: No, you weren't a student who would in any way be affected by the office, yet you still are commenting on it from the outside. Seems... unnecessary. I'm glad you're so concerned about the dispersal of University funds. Must be wanting to know how each penny will be benefitting your community in the way you see fit.
Google/Twitter/Facebook are the same in EU. GDPR barely changes anything in this case.
Agreed. I'm reading it just now and it is really high quality. Just the chapter on transactions is probably the best explanation of a single topic that I've read in any technical book. It's really good for such a complex topic—thorough while still being very readable!
With COVID-19 there are 2 confirmed cases of reinfection. 1 of them did not have symptoms on reinfection but the other did.
> Don’t mute

No, please, do mute. I don't want to hear a baby crying in the background while the SO tries to calm them down, nor do I want to hear someone doing the dishes, or the police siren that seems to have stopped in a congested area. We have work to do. Please, let's get it done and stop the meeting.

Also, thank you Google for enabling people to mute other participants who do not realize how loud their environment is.

This article seems to come from a place where people live in big, spacious places (possibly rural North America? I could see Canada). The reality for me is that most of my coworkers work from a 1- or 2-bedroom studios crammed with kids and/or their significant others.
> Why?

I've heard LG OLEDs run a pixel refresher when "off".
They aren't bromides if there's evidence that they work.
Actually, there's even more recent research into doing this really efficiently, using an algorithm called Ryū.

[e] https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu

[-4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw-U6smcLzk

[1.73] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P_kbF0EbZM
Just waiting for the women over 35 to say they are being discriminated against :-)
"Right wingers" don't have a monopoly on ignorance. People of every ideology are unwilling to listen to opposing viewpoints, read controversial books, and rate movies based on the social context rather than the artistic content. Pointing at the worse parts of only one ideology is counterproductive.
Between the creator and consumer, choices should be available and not restricted to any specific platform. The creator (or the distributor willingly chosen by the creator) can fix whatever the price and should be able to distribute it via multiple channels. And the channels can charge whatever percentage they want, as far as consumer has access to alternate channels. Apple/Microsoft/Google should either allow alternative channels to be available if consumers wish.. or else, they should agree the app stores to be treated like utilities (utilities are heavily regulated with pricing, profit margins, etc). FAANG are already too powerful and why do you want hand over more power to them? Imagine, Microsoft allowing only Edge browser and not allowing any other browser in Windows OS.. and then start charging 30% for all payments done via the browser. That's what happening in app stores. Soon, Oculus will do the same thing in VR world..
Almost all projectors in "high end TV" price range and up have 0 "smart" features.

I've been running a BenQ w1070 since 2013 and couldn't be happier
Says nothing of the tradegy of the commons. Uses the excuse that plastics recycling didn't actually recycle as a justification to not produce plastic waste in the first place.

That the plastics industry lied and deceived the public that plastics weren't being turned into environmental waste is not the justification for continuing to put plastic into the environment.

The author then begins a political attack by calling all regulation elitist and framing them as puritan.

The author describes no solution other than removal of all regulations. This results in the tragedy of the commons and why our waters are filled with plastic particles.

But it does make some rich people richer when they can continue to manufacture and sell cheap disposable garbage.
I've also noticed I can disagree with people I actually know.

Online we're all on teams. If anywhere in your post history you indicate your on a different team then we need to say mean things to each other.

In real life I have very liberal , very conservative and somewhat indifferent friends. I've also dated a variety of folks with different political leanings. I've largely stepped back from social media due to this. Why am I going to get into arguments with people I don't even know ?

If you want to connect with people, I suggest meet up groups. It's very easy to make friends you can actually hang out with. I would say to prioritize doing things you want to do. Like I'm heavily into tech talks , so I attended a ton of those.

I'm fairly optimistic next year the vaccine will be out and things will be somewhat normal.
Having incentives to do something doesn't mean that you will do it. Lowering prices reduces your income per sale, that is a disincentive. If it increases sales then that is an incentive. If there are no incentives then there is a problem since then there will never be a reason to reduce price.

Healthy competition is when the different parts have incentives to reduce prices to steal customers from each other. Then unless they collude they will reduce prices until there is barely any profits left. However if reducing prices doesn't help you get the other persons customer then there isn't healthy competition.

So tell me, what non government action would you say could cause Apple to reduce their 30% fee? I don't see any. Apple reducing their 30% fee wouldn't cause more people to choose Apple over Android and vice versa under current circumstances. Both of those fees are set with no care about competition.

> There is roughly 50% of the US population who wouldn’t buy an Android phone if it cost $1.

Pretty sure many would switch if the highest end android phones were free.
I'm sure it's alive in some circles, but I haven't contacted any friends through email in years.