skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made my statement and posted those quotes because a woman should prioritize children over her career if she desires them. I don't think that there is "sound advice" for women who want to defer having children until they are in their 40s. The odds of a woman having a successful pregnancy are much better if they are under 40. It is easy to see through just the anecdotal reports that many women either thought or were convinced that freezing their eggs succeeds far more often than it actually does in the real world.
If static-typing is your thing, you should give a try to TypeScript. It's easily the biggest game changer that happened to the JS world in the recent years.
Here's the part of how does this work that's my TL;DR.

> A browser with FLoC enabled would collect information about its user’s browsing habits, then use that information to assign its user to a “cohort” or group. Users with similar browsing habits—for some definition of “similar”—would be grouped into the same cohort. Each user’s browser will share a cohort ID, indicating which group they belong to, with websites and advertisers. According to the proposal, at least a few thousand users should belong to each cohort (though that’s not a guarantee).

> If that sounds dense, think of it this way: your FLoC ID will be like a succinct summary of your recent activity on the Web.

> Google’s proof of concept used the domains of the sites that each user visited as the basis for grouping people together. It then used an algorithm called SimHash to create the groups. SimHash[0] can be computed locally on each user’s machine, so there’s no need for a central server to collect behavioral data. However, a central administrator could have a role in enforcing privacy guarantees. In order to prevent any cohort from being too small (i.e. too identifying), Google proposes that a central actor could count the number of users assigned each cohort. If any are too small, they can be combined with other, similar cohorts until enough users are represented in each one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimHash

> In computer science, SimHash is a technique for quickly estimating how similar two sets are. The algorithm is used by the Google Crawler to find near duplicate pages. It was created by Moses Charikar.

So...in addition, Google can use all the users' CPUs instead of their own.
Import is different than drag and drop. The image folder doesn’t show on windows, linux, or even my Mac.
Even if Chernobyl would have had a containment vessel, what would have been the best case scenario? I'm not an expert but the blast threw the multi-ton slab of steel and concrete lid into the night sky, surely the containment vessel would have had a giant hole in it, albeit saving some of the radiation from the atmosphere of course but not all of it. One reason I think Three Mile Island wasn't as bad is because nobody in the west was crazy enough to build an RBMK.
The feminist movement, the one in the 70's, wanted all the things the top commenter wanted. It asked for structural change. Subsidized daycare, wages for housework, better maternity leave, all that stuff.

The pushback from the men in power was enormous, and the eventual compromise was, "Ok, we'll grudgingly let you work in our companies, as long as you accept worse treatment, lower wages -- and most importantly, always pretend to be little men."

This isn't the fault of "the feminists." This is a bum deal that was the best women of the 80's could get, and then they tried to make it work.
>Scrum was created by one of the creators of the agile manifesto as a way to see consulting/training around the 'Agile' idea (timeframes may differ a bit, but they were linked).

Scrum was actually created by two Japanese dudes [0], and was for the manufacturing industry.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)#H...
Yeah, from where I sit Chrome is the absolute first target, regardless of how many nails are being nailed into its coffin.

There is some thought that if Apple opens up iOS a bit Chrome could make more headway there as well.

Numbers I've heard are Chrome - 60%, Firefox < 5%.
Modern C/C++ build tools, Powerful dependency package integration
25/3 is a little sad for modern computing.

It's ok for video streaming and conference calls. And I guess that's the minimal threshold. But with more and more services and offerings in the cloud, especially iCloud that just happily backs-up data out of the box and OneDrive 1TB corporate plan it's not going to win any awards.

With the pandemic and the changes in work from home habits, if I was a small town mayor I'd be rolling out fiber right now like there's no tomorrow. Big upfront costs but it instantly boosts the value of every property covered and attracts a new demographic that's not tied to any specific geographic location. Even with folks doing part time work from home, the additional time spent in the town during work days means that commercial real-estate will appreciate as well.

Easy as that.
Economies don't exist in a vacuum. There is a demand component and a supply component. The Fed pretends as if influencing the supply component is the only thing that is important.

There are parallels to the law of the minimum.

>It states that growth is dictated not by total resources available, but by the scarcest resource (limiting factor). [0]

The same applies to the economy. If adding more money to the supply side does nothing, that means you already did your job and the supply side is already saturated and you should look for the part of the economy that is lacking in stimulus.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig%27s_law_of_the_minimum
I've seen it work, and work really well, on a team with all "A" players, and with a guy (just one of the team, not a "scrum master" or anything) who really understood how to run an agile team.

And then I've seen it fall apart, in the exact same place, because upper management wasn't getting progress reports in terms they understood.

It can work, and work well. But it's far less automatic than people think, and far more likely to turn into cargo cult agile.
Piscine ?
> I think that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is world-leading.

Comparisons are irrelevant - Japan's regulations weren't the worst in the world when Fukushima happened => something similar could happen anywhere else (a lot of factors influence a lot of decisions/policies - the past years demonstrated that even the US nowadays isn't the most stable country).

> They identify problems proactively... even for plants built 50 years ago.

Maybe they do "now" (I'm not a "pro" in this area therefore I cannot confirm nor deny that) but in any case there are never guarantees about the future. Additionally that "even for" sounds ugly - that MUST happen as long as such a plant exists.

> I live near an operating nuclear reactor and I prefer it over any form of fossil plant.

It's well-known that fossil plants are the absolute worst => such a change isn't a great improvement from my point of view.

> Power reactors operating in the United States are reliable, safe...

So far, and the terms are flexible - incidents did happen with civilian & military reactors, Wikipedia has a lot of nice-to-read articles with timing summary, analysis etc... .

> ...and have extremely low life cycle emissions of greenhouse gases

Correct - basically almost 0 (don't know, probably the truck that delivers the uranium stabs does generate some gases, maybe as well the mine&plant that create them, but not a lot compared to gas&oil&coal). But then... that's it? No other remark about maybe what is generated and where to put it and how to take care about it for the next 10000 years?

I'm definitely not/never going to approve any measure to deregulate a sector which has a near-infinite potential impact when something breaks and/or something is not properly taken care of.
Sure. I’m not an expert or anything, but the term ‘neurogenesis’ would be what you want. I guess the fact that many neurons are formed in the womb, and last our whole lives still holds true, but the realization that at least some parts of the brain continuously generate new cells is significant.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4306487/

From the introduction: ”For a long time, it was thought that the nervous system is fixed and incapable of regeneration. Although it is indeed true that most neurons in the brain are generated before birth and are never exchanged, it is now well established that new neurons are continuously generated by stem cells in at least two discrete regions in the brain throughout life in most mammals: the hippocampus—a seahorse-shaped structure underneath the cortex that is important for memory formation and cognitive functions; and the olfactory bulb (OB)—a structure located above the nasal cavity that is important for the sense of smell.”

“Tongue map” -> https://www.livescience.com/7113-tongue-map-tasteless-myth-d...

To be honest, after reading a little more, I’m a little unclear on if ‘all taste buds taste all flavors’. I might be wrong to say it like that. I saw one thing that said there are actually different types of receptor cells, but they are not isolated into zones, and somewhat evenly distributed across the whole tongue.
> Their parents can't afford a laptop? They can't afford an Internet connection? The kids don't have a good place to learn in their house? They don't have time?

All of the above, and it's surprising this isn't obvious. It may be hard to notice or internalize if you've never seen it and only know privilege, but possession of all or even some of those things is not a guarantee for everyone. Believe it or not, there are some who don't come home to a computer, caring (or even existent!) parents, stable meals, or free time.
> you should also consider Airbus unsafe

That would be a simplistic
logic error, which you are making, not me, as evidenced by your suggestion here and by your previously stated belief that a headline simply mentioning an airline model caused an impression of unsafeness.

To me the deaths in Boeing 737 Max incidents and the revelations about mismanagement are much more reliable indicators of unsafeness.
> 100Mbps download so that multiple people can simultaneously stream 4k video is not a sane default.

Remote work has become very much A Thing since the COVID lockdown. Solid upload/download bandwidth isn't about streaming multiple 4K movies. It's about productivity where a sketchy 3Mbps connection is a hurdle.
Wow, this really brings me back. Found so many great songs/albums.

A fun story. A friend and I created a chrome extension called Turntaste [1] that would help suggest what to play based on what was previously played and help avoid songs to play. Basically, we used everyone who used the chrome extension to scrape the play history and stats. I was hoping to apply some cool ML... well cool for 2011 ... as I was doing my PhD in ML but ended up just using some simpler statistics based approaches. My favorite room was something like “Trending Indie - No Mumford & Sons”.

It was also used to generate a few cool playlist like a trending indie Spotify playlist [2]. It’s a bit frozen in time since it stopped working whenever the site went down.

[1] https://turntablefmfans.wordpress.com/tag/turntaste/
[2] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63h132rkg3oNhirWbJqGWZ?si=...
That's not what happened. This decision has actually been in the works for a while and involved a lot of discussion.

> The decision to cease publication and sales of the books was made last year after months of discussion, the company, which was founded by Seuss’ family, told AP

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-dr-...

eBay has an existing policy that removes racist materials. They're just applying it based on the Seuss info.

> Items with racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise demeaning portrayals, for example through caricatures or other exaggerated features, including figurines, cartoons, housewares, historical advertisements, and golliwogs

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...
Being opposed to something that is literally proven to actually happen is "tech-elite/libertarian mindset and borders on paranoia"? I don't understand your point of view at all, frankly.

It's okay to say that you personally don't believe in a right to privacy or don't believe that it's an issue to vacuum up the data of own's own citizens, etc, but what I don't understand is saying that other people are paranoid elitists if they hold the view that they think it's wrong to spy on citizens. It seems incredibly uncharitable.

Furthermore your comment reads like you're addressing an argument the GP never made. What's the relevance of this section:

> Does the average voter care enough to vote one way or other for it? I would suspect not.. they have bigger problems to deal with and they seem ok with government knowing something about them.

The GP never insinuated that the average voter cares about such things (indeed by mentioning that the HN userbase does that implies that the general population does not otherwise it would not be worth mentioning)
That was the first thing I thought. Jon Blow was spot-on.
If I had to choose a language to teach programmers to absolute beginners, I think I'd actually go with Go.

I understand the predilection for Python but there are some parts of Python that are just... odd.
This is common in Russian as well. See Rostov-na-Donu (Rostov-on-Don, Rostov on the Don River), Komsomolsk-na-Amur (Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Komsomolsk on the Amur river)...
The whole image: https://smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-cont...
The accusation is proof of discussion, therefore any conclusions are correct? Is that what you're saying?
I think you mean GLib as seen here https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Strings.html

GLib and GTK are closely aligned parts of GNOME so they are easy to get mixed up.
I learned to fly long before GPS was a twinkle in anybody's eye. As such I was taught map-reading. And even in places like the 'featureless' Australian outback, it's surprising how detailed modern maps are, and how easy it is to follow them.

But it's so much easier to plug in the co-ordinates or name of your destination into the good old GPS, that I fear 99.9% of pilots do their navigation that way.

But what happens if your GPS malfunctions somewhere along the way? Can you get to your destination by map and wristwatch?
Your browser recording history of web pages you've been and saving it locally is not someone else tracking you. Your perspective is seriously warped. Even if they were tracking you, they are doing so to give people better ads to make the world a better place.
I wouldn't say it's only past times. You would be surprised how many people still hold those opinions (not only white supremacist types). Internet just brings out the things the people sometimes think about, but do not express in their everyday lives (unless they're under some kind of pressure or stressed).

So these models for now can be treated as a very reductive snapshot of humanity (at least English-speaking segment), warts and all
One asked for by folks on HN who said third party cookies should be blocked - well, the ad tech companies are making them first party.

I'm surprised they even setup another domain, you could do path rewriting at load balancer level to route the /extras path to the ad tech software / provider.
That's what a free market is, yes.

edit: or would you prefer "that's what a free market does"? Either way, this is a remarkably incendiary, and frankly absurd, attempt to recast voting with one's wallet as "dictatorship".
Actually I experienced worse restrictions when I was at Siemens writing embedded. Expanding on your list, here are some extras:

- ternary operator("?") was strictly forbidden. One had to use full "if () {..}else {..}" syntax with comments inside each branch even if the branch was empty

- a dynamic array written in an abstract way, when used and implemented specifically for current project had to become a constant static one, with values precalculated and copy/pasted to current project source. This was a fun one to do maintenance work years later.

- magic numbers inside code was forbidden. All numbers had to be defined in a specific header, with explanation why is that number said value.

- no variable parameters. All functions to have fixed parameters

- use of macros as minimum as possible. Code review was wasted sometime on 50% time over use of macros that were not already "classic" from the project point of view

- operator overload strictly forbidden. Also overloading functions was forbidden too.
And when you fix it, everything breaks.
If all you have is Git everything looks like a commit.
Done = I'm finished but haven't tested it
Personally, I want the advertising industry to not exist. Moral question of for-profit manipulation aside, I think if you look at net societal benefits versus total cost, it's pretty easy to see that we could find better things to do with the ~$1 trillion that it consumes. That day won't come any sooner just by me running an ad blocker.
ebay does not own the books, but they deny service because they deem these books offensive.
Electronic Health Records Haven't Helped U.S. with Vaccinations
spend as little time on your computer as possible and as much time outdoors as possible.
and from a platform that still allows Mein Kampf to be listed it seems especially idiotic...

Edit, to add: as a comment below notes eBay only allows annotated versions of the book. So maybe they are consistent; I didn’t click through any of the listings when I searched. I also have no idea how you annotate Mein Kampf to not be racist/anti-Semitic propaganda...
But it's all white people getting offended at it, and specifically it's white people who never give a shit about Chinese in any of their other culture wars.

Discriminated against in college admissions? Erased in discussions of diversity in tech? Who cares. Call me back when we can use you to get mad at a children's book.
Kind of yes. In case of a single site storing their own visitor logs (with or without some kind of correlation cookie) is not personally identifiable. At best it's a device.

It could becomes PII or personal data if that same IP then gets correlated to name, address, birth date, etc.

I'm aware that the GDPR for example considers anything personal data that is "related" to an identifiable natural person, but cookies and IP addresses can only become that "indirectly" if someone watches you and your network traffic. (Or retroactively, if someone with that IP and session cookie provides more information during that session.)

Essentially I argue that in a system that doesn't do profiling, doesn't even have the ability to ask for more personal data (eg. name), cannot link IP to a person. So in that system IP address is not personal data.
It's pretty cool that simply appending a period to the end of the domain name causes the paywall to disappear. I wonder if that's a bug, something not disabled when testing?
About 5 years ago a friend of mine was saying, "yeah, it's bad at the universities but it doesn't affect the real world." Pretty funny how quickly things accelerated. I'd like to get off this ride.
Yes, if done properly. I have had great luck with an Agile/Scrum methodology, to the point where I actively advocate for it over other management/time structure styles.

There are a few points that are important to it working well though:

* Team size should be small, but not pathologically so. 3-8 is about the range it is ideal.

* Strong ownership and trust between engineer and product owners, both way.

* Engineers should have broad, or at least T-shaped competencies, not narrow, exclusive focuses

* Meetings should feel useful to all participants, at all times. Specifically, standups should be useful to the POs because they get a rough idea of how things are going across the team, but it is also useful to the engineers to ensure that engineers are actually working together, not simply siloing themselves.

* Engineers should be competent, in general. They don't need to all be 10x engineers, but a team comprised mostly of leaderless junior engineers will fail, even more so with Scrum/Agile
I think your argument here could be made about pretty much any activity that humans do repeatedly. The critical difference is that both WaniKani and Execute Program quickly tell you "go home, you're done", so it's difficult to dump hours of low-quality time into them. Whereas advertisement-driven platforms are incentivized to retain your eyeballs for as long as possible, as you pointed out.
So why is the experience still a monopoly all the same?
Well.. the obvious one: don't kill yourself. Assume you already died and this is the what-if-you-had-not version of things.
I'm surprised people don't understand public relations. These books were likely not good sellers. I have many of their books but never heard if these titles.

All 6 books have issues? But only two images have been described.

The company just hit a home run in global PR the whole world has run this story. Honestly this is very smart for the company it gives them attention, they get to remove low volume books and it makes cancel cultural look bad to normal people

https://www.rollingstone.com/product-recommendations/books/b...
It looks that way to me (40 LEI ~= $9.81 USD). Personally I'm more impressed that they advertise a 200/100 Mbps minimum speed. I'm not sure I've ever seen a minimum speed listed by a US residential ISP. If you're very lucky they'll tell you the average speed to expect and not a theoretical maximum.

They also didn't say anything about data caps, though there could be something in the contracts. I don't read Romanian myself and the PDFs of the contracts are time-consuming to manually reformat and feed into Google Translate. (Text selection goes across the page, not down each column, so it interleaves the columns.) But those minimum speeds—which BTW are guaranteed in the contracts—and no data caps would imply an oversubscription rate of only 4-5x.

One question to ask would be whether they are getting a subsidy to provide service at those rates. The subscriber might not be paying the full cost, or at least not up front.
> your IT department

If software engineers are working as the "IT" department, it's already a red flag. Especially if it's treated as a cost-center.

> It worked great for my project, but I was lucky to work with a competent and collaborative key user. On the other hand, some colleagues of mine faced issues. I suspect that their projects would have been more successful under a different, slightly more bureaucratic approach, given the sort of users they were working with

Some users, especially internals, don't want any changes. when that happens, the only thing left to do is pretty much switch project sadly. With a stock compensation, you don't want to waste your time building something that won't be used: that doesn't create any value.
That sounds horrible :(. I do want to mention that a plant based diet without veggies is not really any less healthy than a meat based diet without veggies. Hopefully you are taking a multivitamin either way. Even without grains there are nuts, fruit, and starchy roots, as well as different ways of processing food like hominy or fermentation. If you like banannas, do ok with some kind of oil, and haven't tried fried plantain, I recommend giving that a try next time you are feeling adventurous. I had a very limited diet for years at one point due to digestive issues so I have a better idea than most how difficult it can be when you are in a situation where you know a few foods work and almost nothing else does (of course in my case it was a delayed reaction so it was at least partly pleasant to try occasionally).
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Millennials actually are less promiscuous and have sex later and less often than their previous generations.

So your points are not only classist, but wrong too.