skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ancient Roman graffiti is seen as being valuable enough that significant time and resource has been spent on studying it. The anthropological value of it seems obvious to me. Perhaps low effort thought-leadership or social media drivel has little contemporary value, but it could be a fantastic historical resource. The selection bias of history that was chosen to be preserved (and the people who were doing the choosing) puts a rather firm set of constraints on our ability to understand the past.
In any kind of subreddit about a category of products, they are all very sure that anything that's not expensive is awful. But what would real customers be doing replying to posts I'm a subreddit like that? Probably not a great place to compare things
the key issue is that they'll never reach a decent playing experience on some of the platforms they've released on: PS4 & Xbone.
As pioneer of "<something> On Internet", do you regret not turning out like Russ Hanneman? ;) (OR DID YOU???!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo&ab_channel=yate5...

https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/Russ_Hanneman

I'm just glad I didn't turn out like Erlich Bachman! (OR DID I???!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/4jmlv9/wh...

https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/Erlich_Bachman
The few backend devs I've talked to have agreed that the world spins a bit slower in the back-end side of things, without having weekly "chapter meetings" to discuss how the code we wrote last week is now obsolete. Backend devs are also much more versed in writing decent, performant code, to my experience - whereas the majority of front-end devs I've worked with have no idea why you should try to avoid writing loops in loops. But of course, everything can be bad, and it also varies from org to org, so here's to hoping my first back-end role won't suck because otherwise I'd be pretty sad.
Fun fact: Amazon's home assistant was named after Alexa Internet. Amazon owns Alexa Internet.
It's not, bad source apparently misled commenter.
Great! I alctually always wanted to hack one to turn it into a home weather/calendar screen. It would be great for the purpose as it's battery efficient.
Stocks and the “Wash Sale” Rule
Anyone know how a 'wash sale' rule works? I understand from definition point of view if you take a loss, then rebuy equivalent stocks within 30 days, it is considered a wash sale and cost basis is applied.

My question is if you sell those repurchased shares immediately again can you deduct those as capital loss for same year. Or does it still have to roll over to the next year?
Faced with the sack, Nominet CEO half-apologizes to members
> So it’s important that, even then, LGBT rights have a solid justification in the fact that it’s biology, not choice.

... and if the science turns out otherwise? We just ignore reality so people are not harmed? it would be preferable if individual rights are protected regardless. Sorry, just my "western" view.
Is Reddit even generating a profit?

6 billion means approximately 1 dollar from every person on the planet. I struggle to see how Reddit is able to provide that much value.
Well, their social network (Google+) didn't really take off.
I know why Brackets are used in quotes - usually to add a subject that wasn't in the original quote but was obvious from the context, which is missing in the quote.

I've seen these used a few times in the weirdest places and I just assumed the person who originally said the words mixed things up - so in the example quote given in the article I would've assumed Corky said "go home and bite pillow." (cause you know sometimes saying things outloud is messy and not precise)

It would never occur to me that the writer will replace a word in an actual quote.
Flexibility – Key Advantage in Data Annotation Market
The booming of data annotation market has also stimulated the players to secure a niche position in the competition.
So here is the question: where is the future of data annotation company?
> A set of brackets is a barrier to understanding between the reader and the writer.

No, a set of brackets is a sign of respect for the original author who didn't spell their statement to match the writer's situation.

Any change to a quote that isn't clearly indicated would make me very, very suspicious whether the writer is misrepresenting what the original author said.
Learn to enjoy it by turning it into a game : try to maximally distort a quote with a single bracketed word.
Most of the complaints were related to older console version (PS4, Xbox One). PC bugs were mostly solved rather quickly.
They had to pay more for employees who could be on site at unreasonable hours.
Bitcoin Hits a Record High over $43,000 as Tesla Buys $1.5B in Bitcoin
Aren't the old 1996 websites behind CDN's or beefy webservers nowadays? I'm sure a modern nginx instance can easily deal with tens of thousands of plain http requests per second.
Why is the range so large for coal?
This is bad advice citing comically-bad examples of the practice to criticize the practice. Yes, the specific examples given there are all bad and unnecessary, don't do that.

But that's not what bracketed editorial interpolation is for, and editorial interpolation isn't, as the article (paraphrasing the AP manual) pretends, an alternative to paraphrasing, it's a mechanism of paraphrasing which makes explicit what is paraphrased and what is preserved exactly. Used well, it preserves the important parts of quote while maintain flow around paraphrases necessary to preserve meaning from context in the source that was omitted. E.g., replacing a pronoun with it's referent/antecedent when including the portion of the text that provides it in a way which preserved the relationship would require a much longer quote with more material extraneous to the purpose for which it is being quoted.

The comments about trust are kind of dumb. If I use quotes with no editorial interpolation, I ask just as much trust as I do with editorial interpolation: I could, after all, just be inventing thee quote whole cloth, or presenting it accurately but misleadingly out of its original context. The only way to be sure that I haven't misrepresented the origin, text, or sense of the quote—whether or not I have marked interpolations in it—is to check the source, both to find the quote and understand it's context.

As are the bits about exact text search: it is extremely rare that editorial interpolation will fail to leave enough unique uninterrupted text to allow an exact text search to take you to the right part of the source material if the original source is exposed to online full-text search in the first place.
And yet somehow developers are more productive and build better web apps than ever.

“Modern web app development sucks” is a really tired trope.
Did you take a pay cut? Usually people go into management because it pays more.
Got your point.
But since it's in a public link, unknowns will hop inn and start corrupting it. Because I liked the intent of your product and wanted to keep it sane.
Try products like https://akismet.com/. It'll help.
This is not bad. Most of the destructive power of social media comes from micro targeting and the optimization for engagement(outrage). Both are properties of the advertising model. Not necessarily causally linked but they share them.
On PC, I had softlocks, hardlocks, being catapulted at the other side of the map after climbing up a pile of trash, T-posing enemies with disabled AI, dead bodies talking, and plenty, plenty more. Neither your experience or mine is more valid, simply that "it did/didn't happen to me" isn't a good defense.

Additionally, Cyberpunk is also being shat on for lacking mechanics or half-assing them. Cops being the more obvious one, or the complete lack of driving AIs.
Pipcorn – Watch YouTube Videos on Your Mac via CLI
I know I'm asking a question that is likely difficult to answer, but how do you make humor out of something so mundane as a cover letter for a job? Without knowing anything about the audience I can't imagine how to be funny on paper without coming off as inauthentic.
Proper developers indent their code with gifs rather than tabs or spaces.
Fnt – apt for fonts, the missing font manager for macOS/Linux
Very interesting! Here is the video of same file browser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bhq08BQLDs
> "bugger off" is a valid response to stakeholders.

Sometimes "bugger off" is a valid response to stakeholders, even in a professional context: you just have to know how to say it.

I really started to feel like, after three and a half years, I was succeeding the other day when one of my product managers told a stakeholder to bugger off and they did without even challenging it.
The game doesn't crash that much on PCs and recent consoles. It is unplayable on base PS4 and Xbox One. They manage to add in softlocks in the main story with bugfix patches though. But even then, it remains a very average game.
if you are making any sort of content or running a website, it is really useful to know how people found you.
So you'd have to pay, and still have to use Twitter?
The platforms these companies provide have been so useful and successful that they have both become oligopolies and are a big part of how society operates nowadays. Think like electrical grid or roads.

But it's still not stabilized, society has not yet found out how to deal with all this.

It's like when there were no speed limits for cars or standard signage. There was more freedom but it was way more dangerous and unpredictable and also as a result, not yet as useful as it could be.

It's not necessarily anybody's fault. A company like Google maybe sees itself as a company but it's way past that. It really provides quite essential platforms for people, families, cities, you name it. And also the platform for content creators and developers and businesses.
Many of these don't have a proper contract with the platform. It doesn't scale to have lawyers to be involved in every point to point dealing either.

My assumption is that there is going to be maturation of these platforms, common rules and terms. Governments and WTO could be involved.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the possibility of subscription only content.
I guess you can define modern web several ways - two ways I might use

def 1: Built using modern styles and with a modern design aesthetic.

def 2: commonly accessed as a useful destination in modern times.

Using definition 2 there are still some blogs out there that are still part of the modern web, although probably not as important as they were in their heyday. I mean definition 2 would apply to HN as well, whereas not sure if definition 1 would (it scales like a modern website should though, so maybe).
I feel your pain.

I’d make a simple static blog generator but then grow tired of some shortcomings, which then led to abandonment.

My current blog has an HTML rendered homepage but all the posts are text files. https://blog.webb.page
It's worth alot more as a leftish propaganda machine.
> They are benefiting enormously from the free labour of moderators

A lot of people leave Reddit because of the heavy handed moderation and groupthink.
Angular Editor
> a human factor, not a technological one

I think the author's point is to highlight the relationship between technological and human factors. Git+markdown has a better user experience if your user is a developer who uses git every day.
We're working on this indirectly by building systems to increasing the productivity of our machine learning team and reduce distractions and context switching. There are a lot of distractions when you do machine learning projects. The nature of the beast involves several people with different skillsets optimizing for different things and "speaking different languages".

This creates a lot of "taps on the shoulder": a Phd tapping on your shoulder to set up or fix their compute environment, or to get them data, or to deploy their model, or to make a temporary application to show results to a client and make it available "on the internet" behind authentication.

A developer who wants to use a model in an application being dragged into the ML realm when they only want to use the capability of the model, not get intimate with its dependencies and setting it up.

Ad-hoc experiment tracking schemes in spreadsheets, logs, physical notebooks, emails, verbally, and "in my head" that made it almost impossible to know what we did a couple of months ago, or why we did it, or what worked best, etc.

The fact that people needed to know a lot of things about a lot of tools in order to make things work put a lot of stress and overhead to do any work.

So we created our internal machine learning platform[0] to remove as many friction points as possible. Basically, we try to make everything that sucked the responsibility of that system, while maintaining flexibility, as one of the reasons we built our own is that we found the other offerings trying to force us into what they consider to be "The Right Way" or a rigid pipeline, or having to pollute our notebooks with their SDK that tied you to their stack/infrastructure instead of relying on APIs or protocols.

We'll allow notifications and events at some point, but we'll leverage what the users are already using instead of adding yet another distraction channel. For example, we'll enable webhooks and integrations so if people are using Slack, they can tie it to the platform to be notified when a training job's status changes in Slack, rather than asking to enable notifications. If they're not using that, they can tie it to their other systems and do things programmatically, for example. We're very sensitive about these topics.

The result of this is what we've been working with clients without tapping on our colleagues' shoulders for a lot of things, and letting them focus. This is really important as all these interruptions and "urgencies/I need it for yesterday" can devastate a team or a company, push people to quit or burn out, etc.

- [0]: https://iko.ai
> publishing unofficial builds of the source code

You could patch installed files and/or at runtime, no? With patches being wholly original work?

I'm not actually sure how IP law works for something like that.
That's a study of people already visiting the hospital for a cat bite, which implies they were fairly serious wounds. Of course if you have a serious enough wound to go to the hospital over and possibly get plastic surgery to repair, yes there is a serious risk of infection obviously. The OP was implying that ANY cat bite that breaks the skin means you should rush to the doctor which that paper does not prove.

Furthermore, I already acknowledge that proper wound care should not be ignored.
First time I’ve seen the culture war described as “neoliberal.” It seems like everyday that word becomes less and less meaningful. There seems to be a large set of people who use it as a general descriptor of things they don’t like.
FWIW, I really liked the sections of this book that I've read. In particular, I read the sections on "Minimum Spanning Trees" and "Fast Fourier Transform" and found them the clearest treatment of the subject that I've seen.
> build better web apps than ever

Is this really true? Most apps and websites are broken in one way or another, terribly slow on older devices or connections and sometimes break for unknown reasons.

They look better, yes, but are they really that much better in a complexity to function ratio?
Andy's a Harvard MBA, class of 1997: https://archive.is/tBpsj

He joined the Marketing department at Amazon just a few months before they IPOd. In the aftermath of the dot-com bust when a lot of senior executives left Amazon, Andy was one of the few who stuck with the Company and rose through the ranks, leading their Customer Service (?) and subsequently Music businesses. He was appointed Technical Assistant to the CEO in 2001-3, after which he was handed the reigns to the flourishing "Amazon.com Web Services" group.

https://archive.is/4cG2H
United Nation rules that countries' borders are indisputable have led to more than one war. Heck, Kosovo today is still officially part of Serbia even though de facto it is not. And I worry if we'll get to see more wars out of it (Serbia is looking to reintroduce obligatory military service for all men).

UN was created to stop wars like the WW1 and WW2 happening again, but while one could argue it was successful in that (I believe other factors have come into play, mostly increased standard of living), it has anything but stopped separatist conflicts.

To me the UN sounds like the right place to extend the goal to stop wars even further: it's where countries come together and agree on shared values, goals and rules.

I don't care if it's UN or anything else, if we are worrying about corruption, we'd need to design for that too because it is inevitable in any organization.
I started out my career in a similar fashion as the author (dabbled with HTML/CSS/PHP).

One reason for the growing complexity in UI tooling is that many websites we build today compared to 10 years ago are not "stupid little web pages containing youtube embeds and guest books"

With that being said, many people are still building simple websites, and React/TypeScript/Webpack/Babel/CSS-in-JS/et al. probably isn't solving any "real problems" for them.

I've had to learn and adapt during my whole career, but I'm also more productive today than I've ever been, thanks to the tools that are available to me as a front-end developer.

I still reach out for Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS now and again, but I mostly deal with large and complex UI's that need to be shared across multiple projects and hundres of developers.

From a historical perpsective: jQuery solved a very real problem at it's time: simplifying and doing consistent/reliable cross browser JS development.
Backbone.js later came along to solve the problem that JavaScript apps were now so large and complex that simply dropping a few JavaScript/jQuery files was not a scalable way to build.
As applications became even more complex, React.js made it easier to deal with UI/state changes in large code-bases. All of these abstractions grew out of necessity.
For now twitch is separate from Amazon. Can't wait till shitposting on twitch means you cant shop at whole foods anymore.
Yeah, the IT person who is there Tuesdays and Thursdays, and helps plug unplugged mice in.

Surely they'll be capable of configuring a corporate VPN without a fat budget to have Cisco do it for them...right?
kids use cloud storage lije Google drive which has folder structure. they learn through that
You underestimate the stupid things local kids can get up to for fun if they thought they wouldn't get caught. So you can at least throw out the "specific malicious intent".
PayPal Has New Milestones for 2021 by Offering 5 New Products
Caricatural mercantile thinking at play here. It’s sad to read.
Made in Nigeria
CD Projekt has been hacked
So you are making the world a better place by providing high end analysis of data to large corporations?
(In Turkish)Software Development Trends in 2021
Twitter getting toxic was great for me. I left and am no longer distracted by the constant noise.

Going payed might help others get away from Twitter.
Isn't all evidence probabilistic? What's an example of something that isn't?
Post Graduate
> HN threads going back at least to 2015

Guess, as on 2015 it was WIP.[0]

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20160102200214/http://web.engr.il...
I've been doing front-end work recently and absolutely hate it. It constantly feels like I'm developing on quicksand where I can't trust the layers below me.

But I think web development has actually improved a lot. Frankly 10 years ago it was even worse.

Had we chucked Javascript in the bin a decade or two ago and built something new from scratch we'd probably be better off for it.
The title is clickbait, since the article is actually NOT about bringing back spacer GIFs.

It's just about creating a spacer component, which loads of component frameworks already have.
Maybe. But content on reddit has better provenance data than content on the web in general; reddit has found a version of identity that strikes the right balance. You can take an arbitrary comment and be able to tell with reasonable confidence whether there's an at least somewhat "real" user behind it, in a way that you just can't for a random blog or a product review anywhere else.
“The best minds of my generation are busy thinking about how to make people click on banner ads.” — Jeff Hammerbacher
The reasons are getting lesser, but it's still a good way to automate a few things. I'm loving the SCSS + CSS Modules combo.
The note makes it seem like the attackers got access to their internal network; but the (admittedly little) information I have on the subject indicates that the perforce server was hosted on the internet with username/password access (not cert based authentication as is recommended by Helix these days).

I suppose the IT team got overwhelmed with requests to open up the firewall for people working from home during the pandemic and just opened it for the whole internet.

CI runners (usually Jenkins) require a perforce user to function and those users often have very simple passwords, this is compounded by the fact that perforce itself does not have any backoff for brute force attempts.

Perforce assumes that it's being hosted in a secure environment.

The note indicates HR documents were stolen, but I have not seen any evidence of that, it is most likely posturing.
Half the people I like on twitter are moving to substack.
Good point. These are at a high risk of being outlawed then...
I wonder how annoying it is to compile, and how long it takes.
CSS Tabs
There isn't massive churn. As far as I can see, most of the JS ecosystem has been continually improving.

React has been around since 2013 [0], Webpack has been around since 2014 [1], etc.

If you're stuck in 2015, you're 5 years of updates and improvements behind.

The author, by his own account, does not want to keep up with the evolution of the ecosystem: "I suppose with the increase of complexity in what we want to achieve on the web the stack to achieve it with has had to also increase in complexity. For me, personally, it's too much".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(JavaScript_library)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webpack
I wouldn't say miles and miles ahead. HN is consistently where Reddit was about 3 years ago.
They mean a platform for developing for eink, not a development platform using eink.

Lots of people want to make projects with epaper displays but it’s not particularly easy or cheap to source the panels and hook them up to a Linux system. Reusing these ereaders makes it cheap and easy.
Verbalizing Value
> Half of the content on r/popular is hate speech about the right.

[Citation needed]. You don't do your point any favors by being hyperbolic. And as always, the "both sides are both equally bad"-rhetoric is just discussing in bad faith.
I agree there can be an overuse of the brackets.

HOWEVER:

Writer should find balance on why brackets within quotes is used in the first place. Many times, the quote itself may lose context. So in addition to a the source of the quotes, you may substitute words within the bracket.

Examples also include replacing a block of words with [...] to skip long passages for example, substitute other words to fill context for the reader.

This is an MLA notation:
https://getlibraryhelp.highlands.edu/c.php?g=635153&p=451319...
Hopefully they have to have demonstrated some level of quality to be used as legal evidence in convicting someone. Although, I would hope "code analysis" is an infinitesimal part of the validation with the majority being real world end to end tests. (e.g. we can take 10,000 samples, divide them in two, mix them, then use our tool to pair up the samples with 100% accuracy).
Interesting. So if I understand this correctly, if someone breaks into your house and gets injured, and they can make a good case for some kind of negligence on your part, then they can successfully sue you?