skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shared.com has the headlines that are extremely simular to the fake add headlines you see. If I was to implement some automation to kick of agressive spammers, it would not be too hard for Shared's content to get mixed into that pile.

Given how much you have to spend on Facebook ads to still generate views. I wont be losing sleep over it.

Maybe its a sign to move on to more productive things.
The HGP definitely had value, but almost all of the "massive" data collection projects in biology have since been basically useless, except for the consortia who got paid to do this. Leave medicine, no one I know of even uses any of these datasets even for research if at all they're made available in a browsable format.

Only exceptions I've seen are the cancer cell line encyclopaedia from broad and the c. Elegans rnai projects.
Oh, so you have 1 room? Must be nice. I had 3 walls and a plastic tarp I time shares with a neighbor as a shower curtain, and had to tap out tcp-ip on an old telegraph machine. Got quit good, tapped out about 0.3 kb/m (kilobits per minute)
this sounds like a port 25 block by AT&T - have you tried 587/465 (smtp submission-only ports)
What would the positions for the internships?
Somehow it never comes up in recommendations (I don't know why), but the book that gave me a lot of pleasure in learning Haskell in the beginning was "The Haskell School of Expression" by Paul Hudak.

It just "naturally" plays around with the language using very simple concepts, and at the same time showing the simplicity and expressiveness of working with those concepts that would be hard in other languages.

It's a bit of an old book by now, so it covers an older subset of the language (and maybe some very few syntactic details might be different, but I don't think it should impede anything), but for starting out you don't want to go too "wide" anyway.
I don't think you're responsible for the content, nor have I stated you must agree with it deeply. In fact - I am arguing the opposite: The cited article does not make an argument for technical debt killing a product. As you stated above, it's an argument that "a technical-debt-driven rewrite killed Netscape."

> A total rewrite, if done well, is going to take less resources and way less calendar time than a refactor-and-cleanup approach done equivalently well.

This is totally up for debate, and largely what Joel's article is talking about. Does "less resources" include opportunity cost? You may be able to get something out in less calendar time, but will it be as feature complete? Will it get rid of the old bugs that plagued the product? Will it avoid introducing new ones? There are many reasons to believe that a refactor would be better - for most projects this is probably true (at least in my opinion, and evidently in Joel's too!)

I, like many others, have seen the disastrous results rewriting from scratch can produce - if they produce results at all.

I'm not sure that the time builds take has any impact on which approach is faster. Certainly tooling advances might - but it's unclear to which approach the advantage is given. And while tests certainly make refactoring far easier, this can often be done as part of the refactoring.

And let's also remember that the article cited is written 20 years ago - the timeframe you're referring to. This idea that rewriting from scratch is dangerous and costly is not predicated on recent advancements in tech.

We can argue whether Netscape's approach to rewrite from scratch was the right approach to take, and we can also argue about whether rewriting from scratch is generally appropriate, but the intention of my original comment was to point out that Joel specifically makes the argument that it was rewriting from scratch that killed Netscape - not technical debt itself - and that there are alternatives which would've been far less risky (from his POV.)
Because it's easier for competition to arise for the smaller company when it doesn't have the clout of a behemoth behind it.
For competing with Discord, it seems like it would benefit from a more robust free offering to compete with Discord. Being able to create a free Discord server is great, and it is incredibly capable for most communities that don't need the fancy perks of Discord Nitro etc.

> The free Discord plan provides virtually all the core functionality of the platform with very few limitations. Free users get unlimited message history, screen sharing, unlimited server storage, up to eight users in a video call, and as many as 5,000 concurrent (i.e., online at the same time) users.

For a lot of small communities that aren't focused around commerce of any kind, Discord's free offering blows Element Matrix Services out the water. It's a non starter. If I could create a server with feature parity to Discord's free server, any new community I'd create I would definitely jump on EMS in a heartbeat, and I'd start trying to recreate communities currently within Discord, to be on EMS.

So like a very normal progression for Discord servers is that some niche sub-community wants to gather, and so they create a free server, and people join and there's all kinds of rich content that gets posted and curated and great discussions and then as it gets bigger, people running the community or people who want to support the community will boost the server with Discord Nitro for additional features like more slots for custom emojis (I can't communicate enough how important of a feature this is to Discord's success, even though it seems like minor window dressing).

That kind of model is what would justify a server starting to shell out money every month for EMS. I would note that Discord's pricing for this kind of level of community is tiered and not a per-user thing. You unlock more features based on how many users are paying for Nitro, going up a tier based on breakpoints of 2/15/30 Nitro Boosts per month. It doesn't cost more to have a tier 3 server if you gain more users. This is a big deal for fostering growth and unseating incumbent social networks (which is what Discord and Slack are).

Just some thoughts. I really want stuff like Element/Matrix to succeed!
This reminds me of one of the closing remarks of Simon Peyton-Jones in his A History of Haskell talk[0].

"Haskell is great fun, it's rich enough to be useful but the thing that I think is really important about it is that it's a kind of playful language. It encourages people who want to play and so I've given some examples here about the sort of playing that people do embedded domain-specific language and cunning type programs, but it's a language in which is fun to write programming pearls in which people really do start to do bits of programming as an art form, write papers about them and even get them published and I think this is good not just because it's fun but also because play leads in the end to to new discoveries so I think languages that are playful lead onto to learning new things."

This playfulness is evident whenever you spend enough time in #haskell in IRC, a question about writing a program to reverse a list ends up in a discussion about folds, talking about ADTs leads you to discover a whole new meaning to "(datatype-)generic programming" and so on, there's even a bot that makes your code 100% pointfree (online version at [1])!

In practice, it's not needed to use these super generalized/golfed solutions, but having the knowledge that there's many ways to approach the problem is akin to knowing many licks and scales in Jazz improvisation, makes programming a great deal more fun and flexible.

[0] https://youtu.be/3bjXGrycMhQ?t=2624

[1] http://pointfree.io/
It was on the front page of HN yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622322

I suppose it could have used a better title?
Do they even let you enable non-SMA 2FA anymore? Last I checked the TOTP option was gone.
> What if they then put him in solitary anyway?

Nothing, but now you've potentially damaged diplomatic relations with an ally. Countries generally (!) try to keep their promises to each other, or they won't be considered reliable in the future. Just like individuals.
> weather the pandemic overall in incredible comfort due to technology and content created under our IP regime

strike "under" insert "in spite of"

> demonstrate that we'd have these things without the IP environment of past 100 years.

IP are laws that prohibit who is allowed to manufacture and profit by certain types of goods. The burden of proof rests on those who think that those goods would not exist if more people were permitted to produce them. The presumption is that prohibitive laws have the effect of decreasing the things they prohibit.
That requires a vote of 50%+1 of all eligible employees (not just voters) though, to certify the union as the employee representative, followed by regular elections to union leadership. It's not like a few dozen people can just seize control over union dues and negotiation for the whole workplace.
I couldn't find an intern position listing on the page.
How should I proceed?
Wait, benches aren't the leading cause of homelessness?
One thing I'm not clear of, what is the supposed intended purpose of these seawalls? The article doesn't explain that. Is it meant to prevent erosion, but simply back-firing? Or is a more flood prevention measure?

The cynic is me also wonders if some more reclusive property owners don't actually prefer having their property end at the water rather than a beach with public access rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomics#Structural_genomics
Weren't there antibody studies of people in the US around that same time frame that claimed 30%+ (somewhere in that range if I recall) of the American public already had covid-19? There was some sort of issue with cross-reactivity that later came out. Did the above link take that into account?
I have no clue about this topic and this comment isn't representative of my employer whatsoever, but...

Since you've never experienced this with other domains, does the word cheap have to do with it? When I think domains, "cheap" instantly reminds me of those early quasi-legal online pharmacies and if I see it in an email almost certainly it's spam of one sort of another. I could see being problematic in spam filters.
Europe didn’t sign anything - the trade deal will probably die in parliament
While I support any union in the current capitalist hellscape, I would rather see a Walmart or Amazon union that can help pull millions out of poverty.

This is basically 220 people who didn't have the guts to quit and want to see if they can up their pay...I fail to see the "activism" in a union that doesn't care if their job tracks, entraps, and controls the narrative of content for half the global population just for having curiosity and questions about their world.
That’s not rent seeking by any accepted definition.
I wonder what the costs/benefits of tele-medicine are like right now. It seems like for certain services like gp visits you could just have a location that scans people to create high detail models for a remote doctor to review during a live call while locally situated support staff handle things like collecting blood, fluids, etc. and feeling for lumps. Probably not ideal for a small practice but if you have a pool of 100,000 employees it seems plausible that you could realize some savings.
On the opposite side, I’ve wondered if Apple Music purposefully attempts to play music with lower licensing cost when possible.

For example, if you ask for a particular classic song, and some newer cover is available, Apple Music will play the cover. Sometimes you must specifically ask for the song by the original artists name.

I have gotten this vibe in some “curated” playlists as well.

Could also just be bad algorithms, however since Apple Music “For You” has felt very payolla-y in the past I would not be surprised if the company used tricks anywhere it could to increase margins on the Music service.
Great news! I can't wait to hire workers to start using my body to produce valuable commodities which I can then sell for a profit!
That's because everyone is a liberal until their job or salary is on the line.
Might I suggest something more appropriate where other users are looking for it like Insta/FB/etc. Maybe if you're so special, try looking for an agent and get on a billboard on the side of the highway so that I can show you my improvemnts with a can of spray paint
Your first sentence is missing the number, did you mean 'one bas pair'?
I worked with a team that included printing, low-level graphics rendering. When we were able to rename our lab at work we went with "Dithering Heights."
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Nature.com says:

> Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this story is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.

which seems to be unscientific editorializing. There is some evidence, as presented in the OP for example, and there is "no evidence" for any other origin theory either.
And the Chinese government in Wuhan showed from the start with Li Wenliang's experience, that any evidence that pointed to imperfect competence in Wuhan would be destroyed by the totalitarian government.
The "likely vector" would be the millions of peasants living near bat caves in rural China (who actually have already been shown to have antibodies to bat viruses). And some of whom traveled to the market.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/23/8417296...

So I would upgrade that quite a bit from "moderate-low." (One of the researchers in this NPR article seems to rate it as an obvious suspect, so I'd call that "high likelihood.")
TIL! Although I’d argue it has to be accessible by my mom before it’s really useful.
Automation may also improve consistency, or quality.

There are two basic outcomes regarding labor:

One is to reduce labor and ride on productivity / efficiency.

The other is to work differently, better. Head count may or may not change.

In terms of which is better, there are strong arguments either way.

Everything costs something.

The first scenario is easy. Margins go up, labor costs go down. However, cost of change, maintenance, quality, business expansion may carry much higher costs and risks too.

In the second scenario, margins likely increase, but not as dramatically. People are free for other work, training, to innovate, etc...

Lots of ways this can all play out.
They could work on tackling the epigenetics in human cells along with the differences of the genome between different cells in different organs. It's as big as the original project probably.
Which point? Are you talking about the point notinventedhear made? That point was not useful and the initial reply was not derailing and that wasn't me making that reply.

If you're talking about something else, I have no idea what you mean at all.

And nobody here has said anything in bad faith. Why do you think there was bad faith?
Creators, Flurly now let's you split revenue with your product collaborators
> a world where a creator is not entitled to benefits from their invention

This is a mis-statement of the anti-IP case. Given the abolishment of IP laws, creators are not prevented from benefitting from their invention. They merely no longer have the benefit of the state regulators in preventing others from following the inventor's example.

> Including any monetary benefits if they so choose.

The "monetary benefit" here is the power to exclude others from manufacturing the invention with the power of the state, and to compel society at large to pay for enforcement of this monopoly.
There is no math.Random() in hardware, so I have to ask: what algorithm did the noise block use? :)
Appreciate the concept. However,
Could you show me something before requiring signup? Like screenshots.
From TFA:

"Arranged as a members-only union, the new organization won’t seek collective bargaining rights to negotiate a new contract with the company. Instead, the Alphabet Workers Union will only represent employees who voluntarily join, as reported by the New York Times. That structure will also allow it to represent all employees who seek to participate — including temps, vendors, and contractors (known internally as TVCs) who would be excluded by labor law from conventional collective bargaining."

That sounds to me awfully like a voluntary union, though I'm not familiar with the laws allowing unions in various US states to compel non-members to join.
Not just this, but think of all the links with the anchor text, “good cheap and fast.” Google would penalize any site with this anchor text repeated too many times.
> There is no direct evidence for these zoonotic possibilities, just as there is no direct evidence for an experimental mishap

But there is so much more opportunity for the zoonotic possibilities. In fact, this is the seventh time we've seen Betacoronavirus cross from bats, through another animal, and then into humans. SARS came via palm civets. MERS came via camels. Four more types cause a mild cold only and so they don't get sexy names or a deep investigation as to how humans became hosts.

So why would Covid-19 even need to come from a lab? We (humans) had wet markets filled with animals, including the very bats that carry the base virus. It's the perfect breeding ground to create a pandemic-level virus and probably a few thousand more viruses of lesser impact.

> A lab accident — a dropped flask, a needle prick, a mouse bite, an illegibly labeled bottle — is apolitical.

Oh, I disagree. If the root cause is Big Government meddling where they ought not to, that tells us one story. If the root cause is unregulated wet markets with viruses crossing species freely, that tells a very different story.

Smaller government solves one problem, and more regulations solves the other. There are a lot of people who want each story to be the truth.
> the text is 1mm tall.

That's relative.. But maybe it was as a joke. Because it's funny to imagine someone with a ruler measuring their screen ^^

> I would say a good place to start would be asking yourself, "Why does Linkedin look the way it does?".

I don't like this trope personally. It works for linkedIn because it was what Monster and other sites were not.

If its to be different, embrace it, listen to customers as you say. Don't just take what's already been done with a slight knock off feel.

As for the site itself and concept its nice and super clean, definitely fits into a lot of designers/developers ideals. Recruiters will want the analytic data but doesnt seem thats the market.

An exportable html/pdf page of your profile would be nice to give users too. Just because it gives ossum designers and whoever to extend on the clean template for themselves.
Everyone is doing it so investors expect it - not doing so would be a competitive disadvantage. A better and more permanent solution should be changed with legislation, not by asking individual companies to maximize their tax base, since this would also equally apply such a rule to everyone and not just companies under the public microscope.
CCP is the world's largest mafia.
I'm not sure a lot of this is really relevant in this situation. From the articles I've seen, the employees forming a union are the activist employees. So the fear for a non-union tech worker in this scenario would be if the union behaved like many others and demanded a certain ratio of union to non-union workers since the dynamic in this context would boil down to deprioritizing applicants who don't have the same political views as the union employees which seems wildly toxic for society.
I'm pretty sure that one Black Mirror episode has prior art on this.
I was going to add some motivational stuff, like "I worked with a junior developer that got two exits in one year because he always took the cash option and left. You're putting yourself in the right circumstances for the luck to happen!"

but is that really what you want to read?

what would you like to happen now? you want to own a cash flow producing property? you want to own another house to live in exclusively?
This use case could be supported, but at this stage customer demand is too low to justify the development work.
> It was invented before the iphone

That's true for email also. So that's not an evidence for anything lacking in xmpp. The plain fact is that Google killed it due to their greed.
Interesting. I could see that. I actually didn't think of that. My impression with most laughter like that is that it can be a mechanism to disarm the interviewee and possibly get more info from them.
It's weird to me that a large share of my spotify monthly fees go to Ed Sheeran and Drake and Taylor Swift even though I literally have never streamed them, and almost none of my monthly fee goes towards the artist that I stream all the time.
Your China article is from 2004. China's regime's ability to control media and its residents is stronger now than then, and the people in charge are more insecure and defensive. That may be enough to explain the change in PR strategy.

Alternatively, past leaks simply weren't bad enough to embarrass the State and could be blamed on local officials. This one got so big so fast that a more defensive posture was required.
Good, Cheap and Fast (let's call it GCF) appears to be a search engine. When you visit this domain, you get a search box.

It looks pretty cool, and all but ...

Why would/should Google's search engine send users to another search engine?

What GCF needs to do is become well-known, "like DuckDuckGo, but for shopping". Then people will save a bookmark (like I'm doing now).

EDIT:

Unfortunately, bookmark removed. This site doesn't appear very useful. I typed in numerous search queries, starting with generic categories like "bluetooth speakers" and "baby bib" and whatnot, and it came up with "Your search did not match any documents.". I tried some very specific products found in various online sites. Again, "Your search did not match any documents."

Finally, I got some results by just using "bluetooth". Hooray! Some other single-words are working.

The results appear to just be some product advice, followed by some links to selected products and price information on sites like Amazon.

I see now that there are links to categories below the search UI, but I don't see anything there I would be interested in looking for, and if any other categories exist, I have to guess what they are through the search box.

I tried doing some "site:www.goodcheapandfast.com ..." tagged searches in Google to confirm that the GCF pages are being indexed. They are in the index; just when you remove the site: syntax, they disappear; maybe they show up in the long tail of the search if you dig far enough, who knows.