skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are an awful lot of businesses that charge huge margins and use that extra cash flow, plus their scale, to essentially fence out new entrants by a mix of sales/marketing, channel spiffery/bribery, and regulatory capture.

It's often a fairly "bad for you"/"predatory" product, too, but the problem is that it's very hard to create a new entrant doing it the "good for you" way, because all that extra margin the bad guys make can be used to squeeze you out of the market. Legacy industry examples would include whole life insurance, title insurance, payday lending, and whatever it was that "Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp" was selling (not the historical D&B) a few years back.

I consider it enough of a pattern of "bad money chases out good" that I identify it regularly among pitches I receive.
Agreed, Btrfs has been out for quite a while. I think it is only now beginning to become more widely accepted or noticed by the broader community, which is both a blessing and curse.

That said, I'm going to continue to opt for Ext4 or XFS for the time being, even on distros where Btrfs is the default. Probably in a few years I'll get around to upgrading to Btrfs.
> if I watch something on one subject it seems to assume the subject is now the love of my life and proceeds to offer a zillion on just that subject.

There was a distinct point in time a couple years ago where this started to happen. Before that, my YouTube feed was always a diverse selection of all the different topics I had ever watched. Now, if I watch one car review my feed is full of car channels. If I watch one political video it fills with politics. Nothing I do seems to affect YouTube's singular focus on whatever topic I've most recently viewed.
In Erlang, instead of calling it Offensive Programming they call it "Let it Crash".

A very valuable concept either way: if a function encounters an error and can't somehow resolve it and still do its work successfully, then it should fail and not do something else.
I’d be quite surprised if the schools in question didn’t already have tight control of the ingress/egress points of the school, so the there really is a question of if this technology has substantial benefit at the margin. I find that unlikely, given the stated purpose is “ intended to more easily identify sex offenders, unauthorized school staff or other adults that might be dangerous” since literally every school I’ve been to since 1996 requires ID checks of every adult entering the building, and volunteers get fingerprinted and run through criminal databases.

So now you have a system that can’t clearly accomplish it’s stated purpose, but does have serious potential side effects.

Now I also agree in strong local control of schools and think the state should have done the study before enacting the moratorium, but as a parent I wouldn't support it at my school / district as presented in the article.
Robinhood Traders Anonymous
D3 is the best, free option. However, its documentation is atrocious, especially for new users. If you plan to learn, you'll rely on other resources. Luckily, there are numerous free tutorials and book available online.
I think there is a useful distinction to be made between the impact that financial support has just by existing, and the leverage that can give the sponsor if they choose to use it.

If I offer a 1mm grant the use of X drug on Y disease, I am being opinionated about where time should be spent and what diseases are "important". This is not neutral, and can be very political.

However, this is in a different universe than if I offer the grant with strings attached like editorial control on the paper(s), or a veto on publishing.

As you note, most failed research doesn't get published but vanishingly small amounts of that are due to outside pressure, it's mostly more mundane reasons.

Research is sponsored by, and done by people, hence it is flawed. But the best of is places value on the rigor of the research regardless of outcome, and certainly does not attempt to silence results that are not favourable to the sponsors goals. Commercially sponsored work should aspire to this in the same way that public research does - the specific outcome the sponsor hopes for is progress in our understanding. In both cases, sometimes the results are damaging to other projects you have (business goals, policy programs, etc.) which is the real test.
So I am just supposed to go though a site and give them my spotify credentials? In 2020?
Most of the aerial imagery used in Europe for improving OSM is shot from planes, not from space.
hm... do you mean linux-based? can't... Korean banks have activeX + other crap requirements. (they even detect VMs in linux)

also, linux can't run apps like photoshop / adobe cc apps / etc

as for mac... I'm waiting for a M2 macbook pro 16 inch with RTX 3090 graphics for about $1500...
Thank god the red states are thriving during the pandemic!
Yes you can. Also if you want even more control over multiple audio outputs including individual control by application check out the App SoundSource by RogueAmoeba for Mac.
That's not a very helpful comment and highly subjective. Depending on their requirements and needs a different OS might not even be feasible.
I used to be a consultant, a lot of our clients were lawyers.

We talked a lot about gaps in the market, but when talking to our clients, they really were not interested in anything that didn't come from a largish vendor. Compliance, liability and the belief that somehow the people writing it should also have passed the bar were frequently mentioned.

Those folks will never run something they pulled off Github.
My little finger tells me it's a bad move. Just to compete? If these 2 weren't here, customers would have been left out?
> The video website has no option for me to say "don't show me any more of this kind of stuff".

There are actually two different actions you can take on recommended videos that help. Just click the 3 vertical dots under a thumbnail:

"Not Interested" or "Don't recommend channel."

> There's no way to tell youtube what I like.

I can't imagine a scenario where there's a feasible way to "tell" YouTube exactly what recommended videos you want other than what it's doing now unless the content creators themselves were all on board to properly title & tag their videos. Bigger channels use clickbaity titles (eg. "I was shook when I heard this"). And smaller channels don't know how to utilize keywords.

I personally have never had an issue with YouTube recommendations, especially after using the above method to filter out things I don't want to see.
One of my top songs is the absolute worst. It always comes on and I always click next and cuss at Spotify about it. It came on twice in one day recently. Somehow that song is the artist’s top song, despite it being a bonus track and not even on the official album. Too bad they took away the “dislike” button.
It only works on certain playlists, I think only Discover Weekly and Release Radar. It shows up next to the like button for me.
RH sets an initial default value for the limit order at the middle point between the bid/ask. You are in control of your limit order pricing there. If you wish to join the queue at the bid you can. There is no option for a market order. You can leave your bid and wait to be filled same as others.
Ask HN: Are Design Systems Masturbation?
I work for a company that seems to have an inordinate focus on a half-baked design system, which constantly gets in the way of all developers shipping features.

To what extent do people think design systems have a legitimate role to play above being mere job security for graphic designers.
Getting in the Flow with Snorkel AI (Transcript)
I was a python programmer before I became a c++ developer and believe it or not despite lack of type checking, big python apps have much less bugs then a comparable c++ app due in no part to offensive programming features built into python. In other words you don’t need to offensively program in python, it’s a given.

Firmware is just a pain in the ass to deal with. Wish there was a better way.
> I think this is very different from the advising process in graduate school.

All of that sounds normal to me. Including filtering out trade-secrets, which is completely normal when working with trade-secrets in grad school too. Additionally, it's completely normal to filter out intellectual property you might plan to patent; confidential information; proprietary industrial information; information protected by law; dangerous findings (e.g., hackers often omit details of an exploit until the relevant vendor has had time to fix); and a few other categories.

Maintaining a positive, constructive tone is also completely normal. For example, failed experiments are typically described as progressive steps toward an ultimate success; unforeseen problems are discoveries; and major issues are seen as research challenges to be overcome. Or, ya know, stuff like that.

I mean, is that all this story's about? Because if that's it, then it seems like nothing substantial. But if that's the case, why is this in the news?
I would say it was good at one point. They used to just recommend videos based on whatever tags the video had, or the title and description.

This lead to much more relevant results than what it does now it seems, especially when looking for more niche topics.
Thanks for offering to answer questions! I have a question (but haven't finished reading it yet, so maybe the answer is in here). The article starts by saying that Titus is your orchestration engine but later says you're moving to Kubernetes. Are you completely moving off of Titus, or running Titus within/parallel to K8?
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”- G. Michael Hopf
This article is about nothing. Conspiracy theoriest followers create conspiracy theory about why conspiracy video didn't show up in spotify, creating another conspiracy theory in the process. It's like russian doll inception with these bozos

> Update, November 30th: Spotify has now denied any foul play in the deleted episode, attributing the issue entirely to a technical glitch. “The issue with the episode was entirely technical and any suggestion that it was a result of nefarious activity by someone on the Spotify team is completely false,

Edit: Even Joe Rogan himself says it's not true lol

> with Rogan himself working to dispel any notions of employee interference
You could potentially remove more?

I would maybe use this if it was Django and React only, there are many things in the tech stack which I just don't want to get into.

For example, I would be happy with sqlite instead of postgres. I'll migrate if sqlite ever gets near capacity.
I've definitely seen this in academia. Some institutions will bias in favor of supporting high-visibility research over "meat and potatoes" base-line research (such as reproduction of other experimenters' results, or chasing down un-sexy problems of elaboration or exploration of an information space). Their incentives are to chase grant money and get published, even if the published results aren't thorough or rigorous but will capture column inches (leaving someone else to do the un-sexy work of verifying the claims from a single experiment run).

It leaves gaps in the robustness of human knowledge, a bit of a Swiss-cheese at the edges that isn't necessary, but for the way we reward people for cutting the edge instead of filling the back.
This sounds like the typical false equivocation about "all media being lies" when somebody brings up the danger of outright, constant propaganda like OANN.

Just because bias is impossible to avoid, does not mean that all bias is the same.

The goal isn't outright elimination of bias (which is completely impossible), its ensuring incentives that are aligned so bias doesn't become a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
It's similar to: https://opensource.builders/
>If we were to believe this, we would conclude that moving requested resources from HTTP 1.1 to 2 gives a 1.8x speed-up, while going from HTTP 2 to 3 causes 0.6x slow down. Is it really true that HTTP 3 is a slower protocol? No: A more likely explanation is that HTTP 3 is rare, and that the few resources that are being sent over HTTP 3 (e.g. Google Analytics) are things that have a larger than average effect on dominteractive.

If you wanted to measure the effect of protocol, you could compare requesting with support HTTP/N to requesting with support for HTTP/N+1. Since this is all synthetic testing it shouldn't be too hard to run a controlled experiment instead of a correlational one.
Is this kind of stuff self help bs? AFAIK there's only so much info that can be audibly transmitted between two speakers of a language at a time. Why should reading have any less of a bottleneck.
isn't PiHole some kind of external firewall?
that works 90% of the average-joe known botnets against a desktop PC, but it's not helpful for laptops / unknown-control endpoints. (or endpoints that are really good at hiding)
My mistake, thanks for pointing this out
Yes, but I was replying to someone who said that we got all of this with cgi-bin. That’s like saying, “I can code a modern app in assembly, therefore there’s been no progress here”.
Ask HN: Can non degree-holder use the title Software Engineer?
Just feeling curious: Can someone use a software engineer designation without the formal education path (such as Computer Sc. degree etc). I always thought that to use a professional designation, you need to have professional qualification. Is there any laws/regulations/bodies that govern use of title of 'engineer'? I am interested to know, apart from learning to program and developing/designing software solutions, what makes a software engineer an 'engineer'?

Or is there a career path one has to take. After how many years in industry a person can start to call himself an engineer?

PS: Also curious what's the nuances of distinction between a Software Developer Vs Engineer?
* Make as few requests as you can. Number of requests matters more than number of kilobytes transferred.

* For the request you have to make, do them over HTTP2 or greater if you can.

* Strive to avoid render blocking requests when you can, prefer async loading when possible.
“Keeping those skills sharp even when you’re not job hunting.”

It’s so tiring to continue to see this.

If the “skills” you need to keep sharp are not the same thing as the skills you exercise through your job, that’s a giant red flag that the hiring company should be avoided.

If you’re practicing leetcode or Kaggle in your spare time to pass interviews, you need to stop and realize you’ve set up your goals completely backward and you are actively helping companies to commoditize your labor product and short change you on poor job quality or experience building.

If you don’t reject companies when they try the algorithm hazing crap that has no bearing on the real day to day job of software engineering, you are setting yourself up to fail and burn out, with crappy resume experience and nothing but perpetual leetcode skill to show for it.
> I published several papers while working at Google on Chrome.

I'm curious -- did any of your papers touch on the ethics of browsers or call on specific caucuses of Congress to take action that your employer will not?
Wouldn't the speed losses negate the attractiveness of the M1's performance? I guess if you feel the Apple pricing of the larger hard drive is extortionate, then ok, sure.
My cousin is an MD. I'm a software engineer. His home network is more well-provisioned than mine (IoT stuff on separate VLAN, PiHoles,...). He also has a nicer soldering iron and a DIY voice assistant.
I take a similar approach to you, and am also a solo dev. I would take a serious look at client-side frameworks if I was building something more appy than websity. It might also make more sense if I was working with others and there were separate front end and back end people so defining some kind of back/front end interface would make sense.

With regard to the admin, my experience is that usually the customer will have specific tasks that they need a workflow for, and the admin panel is often not a good fit for that (and things get messy quickly if you try to bend the admin panel to be something it isn't).
Offering a grant on Y disease at all also biases research in favor of pursuing that over other diseases, possibly diseases of more pressing urgency to cure in the realm of improving human quality of life.
Is this more effective than blocking l-glutamine and glucose to starve the cancer cells? [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06e-PwhmSq8
Building an audio library using the composite pattern and higher-order functions
This is incorrect, no AMD chip (CPU or chipset) comes with thunderbolt built in. The x570 Phantom Gaming board uses an Intel Titan Ridge (see the obligatory AnandTech block diagram) controller hanging off of the chipset's PCIe lanes to provide thunderbolt 3. This is functionally equivalent to just buying a thunderbolt add-in card, other than the space requirements.

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14880/ASRock%20X570%20Phan...
as a self-appointed connoisseur of fried poultry, and after EXTENSIVE (and delicious) testing, i can come to no other conclusion except that i agree w/this statement: spicy popeye's chix sammy >>>> chick-fil-a.
Form submissions are brutally bad the moment a back button comes in. I remember so many "The client used the back button in a multi-page form and part of the form disappeared for them" bugs.
> The algorithm doesn't care, it just recommends.

And isn't that terrifying, in the Parable of the Paperclip Maximizer kinda way?

We can make the well-its-your-individual-responsibility bootstraps argument, but that kinda works only if you believe in the supremacy of an individual's autonomy and that the mind can't be hacked or hijacked. Everything from addictive products to the marketing industry shows that isn't the case. The youtube paperclip maximizer is maximizing for your mind's engagement.

We can say "well, it's just feeding people what they want!" But you can say the same thing about airdropping crates of opium onto the streets.
There's so many things that need to be done around real time communication ... they aren't done there. Unless they are planning on making something completely different, don't get distracted.
Is that what it's detecting you might like due to having profiled you based on other aspects of your google identity unrelated to that cookie reset? I think if you were a teen, for example, you might get skateboarding videos or Billie Eilish or certain games or whatever teens do or like these days, rather than "X TOTALLY DESTROYS Y" (two people in suits and ties in a political debate).
Tip 3 is huge. I ask hard questions during interviews, and I don’t expect a perfect answer. What I do want is the interviewee to handle failure without being defensive, and to ask probing questions.
Anonymous passive aggressive downvoting cowards go to hell.
It's not personalized.
> the average person

An average person, not the average person. They'll at very least target the content by country, and if you have a fixed or rarely varying IP address (which I do at home, and may public wireless APs do in my experience) they can be more fine-grained than that and give recommendations based on what people in your more local area have searched for recently.

I had an Italian friend staying in my spare room for about half a year some time ago (hassles with previous landlord, took her and her fellow a while to save to the point where they could afford a place together). For many months afterwards I would get Italian language recommendations and adverts from youtube and others, even in incognito on a fresh device.
its easier to train someone up in technical skills than to untrain them from being a dick
Does Sawmill still work on new systems? Every time I install it gets more and more difficult, to the point where when I tried installing in on Ubuntu 18.04 I just gave up.
Is there some evidence to support this idea that this is "obvious" propaganda? A plausible link, like what dog does the "Aerospace Industries Association" have in the 5G network hardware market?

From my not-very-informed perspective US competitors don't need to catch up to Chinese equipment, the Chinese equipment makers are locked out. If anything the US equipment makers would have the OPPOSITE motivation, get the spectrum sold and get their sub-standard equipment into the networks before the position of the US government could possibly change and they face real competition. And that is kind of what is happening, right? The actual story here is the FCC (lead by carrier and equipment friendly folks) are seemingly pushing ahead despite concerns from other industries, no?
Brute force, mass image production copyright trolling?
You could put the things that take up space on the separate disk instead of trying to use an external system disk. You can actually put a home directory on an external disk, for instance.
No, he really, really didn’t lie. I wish people predisposed to only see Google as being on the wrong side of it would stop saying stuff like this.
My apologies, my question should have been directed more specifically at the GP who claimed ZFS is never finished.
I wonder if it’s possible to do in the same way WhatsApp does for media uploads.

When you send a video to a contact on WhatsApp, it takes some time to upload the video. When you then forward the video a few minutes later, it’s near instant. This set off red flags for me, as that can’t be E2EE if so.

Someone explained that the media is encrypted using one key, which is stored locally. The key is then encrypted and transmitted to the recipient using the clients public key. When you forward the media, you only need to send the second recipient the encrypted key using their pubkey (along with the identifier for the media that is still present in WhatsApp server side cache).

This in itself raises some more red flags relating to the encryption of the media being transmitted and cached in the first place, but if that’s all done sensibly, then this isn’t the worst solution to reduce bandwidth utilisation by end users.

A similar approach could be used for E2EE group calls. Encrypt the payload using one key, send the payload to all participants via a central server (which generally has to happen anyway due to NAT traversal issues, especially with mobile internet), and send each participant the keys individually. Voila, group call with 3 people or 30 people doesn’t result in having to retransmit the same audio payload multiple times.

Obviously this is a simplistic overview of how this could work. I am not a cryptographer, I have no expertise in this area, everything above could be total baloney. Anyone with expertise should absolutely correct me please and thank you.

All that said, hope this helps.

EDIT: changed the above to reflect that forwarding media is “near instant” rather than “instant”
It's because Dang is an XYXXY boy. Kind of the same way how your next persident get sturck while jaywalking. Shit happend dude. Everything is a curious thing. Just absorb it.
> The only time I have seen altruistic, "clean" research was performed by individuals as hobby. Once there are more than one person involved, there will be some preferred outcome. Nature of humanity.

I also think it's worth noting that even though "clean" research does exist coming from individuals, there's also a significant chunk of individuals whose research is even _more_ predetermined for a specific outcome.
I also agree with this - maybe a hint of doubt is cast by their sketchy history w/ Plaid and collecting transactional data. But for the most part, I think Robinhood did open the doors to a new era of retail investment not accessible ever before. They've just been eaten by the very market they've helped create.

I think you nailed the sentiment well, basically blind spots in an industry that thrives off exploiting them.