skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The look/feel/interaction in media apps today is essentially a "cultural good" in the same way the design of a TV-franchise is a cultural good.

It needs to be updated every few months to feel fresh, and the time horizon is very short. There needs to be analytics/engineering-work to enable this, but the goal itself is to adapt the user experience such that it maximizes adoption and screen time. What matters is fast iteration, creativity, and "fast plumbing".

The perception is that young people are more enthusiastic about this sort of work. More experienced people would be unnecessarily concerned with code quality, stability, technological trajectories, and so on.
Ehhhhh. I'm about 4 years into my career and am trying to transition to working on a distributed team in a startup. I have a four-hour, seven question pair programming thing coming up after my second interview, so I've been reviewing cracking the coding interview and practicing leetcode to make sure I pass the screen.

I've spent my entire career solving real world problems, but it always comes back to tricky logic puzzles or deriving best case runtime complexity on paper with these interviews even still, and even for non-FAANG companies. I regret not just reading cracking the coding interview every couple of years and passively leetcoding at this point because I still might fail this technical screen. And that does suck.
The US is an outlier with almost anything relating to health...

About colds - perhaps it's when doctors don't first wait for the test result for a streptococcal throat infection?

https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/streptococc...
> US from the start blocked vaccine exports

Not sure how I feel about this. I can't help but think: "can't help others if you don't put your oxygen mask on first".

It's also hard to see how Americans in particular (and fairly enough any country) wouldn't go absolutely bananas if the government made this huge deal out of COVID-19 and then turn around and exported vaccines to other countries while half a million people were dead.

Certainly at least some of this discussion would depend on where you start from (i.e. maybe you're against the idea of a nation or something) - but from a practical standpoint I don't know if there would even be a United States if the situation unfolded this way - the government simply had no choice, and, I think other governments tried to obfuscate that fact and have their cake and eat it too whereas the U.S. and U.K. were pretty quick to decide and focused on their own citizens first.

Certainly there is room for debate here and it's an interesting discussion to be had.
is that really the problem here??? i would think spotify uses its market dominance to drive down what they give back to the artists. also, evading tax is not a good idea. it's there for a reason.
Also the kind of geoengineering that turning large parts of the sahara black would be is estimated to cause warming due to albedo changes.

https://thenextweb.com/science/2021/03/02/solar-panels-in-th...
IIRC 'creators' as far as Grumroad's tagline is concerned are their customers.
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Is it just me or are most of the crowd funding opportunities horrible? Valuations too high, terms suck, company sucks.
As such, people immediately trust the information they get from them, whether it's reliable or not.

Science is a process, not an end - treating current theory as the final truth (to the extent that science priests even relay current theory rather than just provide fun accessible notions for entertainment purposes) is a fool's errand.

How many people have learned about Shannon's information theory from their deep understanding of Hawking radiation, thanks to Hawking appearing on Big Bang Theory?

There's a huge divide between actually having any understanding of science and science-worship, and science-worship actively detracts from understanding science.
Specifically, Swedish building codes don't apply to small constructions, hence the rise of the friggebod: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friggebod

> In Sweden, a friggebod is a small house which can be built without any planning permission on a land lot with a single-family or a duplex house. It is named after Birgit Friggebo, who was the Minister for Housing in 1979 when the new type of building was allowed. The word is a portmanteau of Friggebo and bod, the Swedish word for shed.
I'm confused, how are you testing TCO by giving the compiler a non-tail call?
Well, humans tend to only face criminal charges if the problem was willful (which may include willful DWI).

The closest direct equivalent with driverless is that the vehicle may lose its right to operate until the problem has been corrected. I'd actually expect this to happen somewhat frequently in the early days.
The ask is 1p/stream. I'm not sure that that's actually sustainable without a massive rise in spotify prices, given the proportion of free users and even paid users that listen to more than 1000 tracks a month. If spotify raises prices, consumers go back to piracy. I'm not sure this will have the effect they want.

Let's imagine a radio station. Something medium sized, about a million listeners. They play a track. Are they paying 10,000 per play, which would be the equivalent rate? I suspect not.
Working till 70? Gosh I don't think that's realistic
This is an interesting take I haven't heard much before. Could you expand on what the alternatives are?
I looked up the numbers for Aswan in the south of Egypt.

Roughly 360 hours of sunshine or a bit more in the summer, 290 hours in winter months [1], so about 80% of max.

If we look at direct normal irradiance instead, a more appropriate metric, it varies between 7.93 kWh/m^2/day in June vs. 5.51 kWh/m^2/day in December [2], so about 70% of max.

Hour-to-hour and day-to-day fluctuations are another thing altogether, and higher demand in winter (e.g. for heating) yet another consideration, but if we're purely interested in some sort of "seasonal correction" I guess you'd want to overbuild by 40% or a bit less if you set the angle of the panels in such a way as to optimize winter production at the expense of summer production, a common strategy.

The closer you get to the equator, the less it matters whether you're in the northern hemisphere or the southern hemisphere. Aswan is at 24°N, a latitude at which you can still find a lot of smaller cities, but as you go to the south of that, infrastructure disappears and it might not be economical to build PV or solar thermal installations in the absolute middle of nowhere. Seems to be about the latitude to which DESERTEC proposes to lay HDVC connections.

Not an expert though, just someone who can look up some numbers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-Direct-normal-ir...
Good. Unions ultimately get entangled with regulators and its harmful for everyone. Look no further than public school teachers, getting paid, refuse to work. Meanwhile private school teachers have been working.. if you hate working at Amazon, quit.
>Pay us at least one cent per stream

I bet if Spotify adopted it, the publishers would still want a cut of that.
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"Your Right to Form a Union

"Not represented by a union, but want to be? If a majority of workers wants to form a union, they can select a union in one of two ways: If at least 30% of workers sign cards or a petition saying they want a union, the NLRB will conduct an election. If a majority of those who vote choose the union, the NLRB will certify the union as your representative for collective bargaining. An election is not the only way a union can become your representative. Your employer may voluntarily recognize a union based on evidence - typically signed union-authorization cards - that a majority of employees want it to represent them. Once a union has been certified or recognized, the employer is required to bargain over your terms and conditions of employment with your union representative. Special rules apply in the construction industry."

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/whats-law

That's in the US obviously.
The pandemic is giving tech leaders a shot at replacing teachers with technology
> You are incorrect, blue boxes were and can be used to evade wiretaps.

That was not why Woz (and Jobs) were interested in them, which is my point. They were interested in the free phone calls and geeking out on the system. I know, because I asked him. I’ve also read all the history that’s been written down on the subject too, and nothing has remotely said what you claimed, including the source article to this post.

> Edit: Really having trouble finding that quote from Woz

Yeah, because it doesn’t exist.
Yeah if I get asked fizzbuzz at an interview I'll really think less of the interviewer and will try to propose a solution like that ;)
Neat trick, the only issue I see is mis-selling the idea that no conditionals are used ... map on it's own (independently how it's implemented) is a conditional. Also, if you break down how mod can be implemented, it definitely requires conditionals.
In terms of the computational overhead this is way worse than just going for mod 15 and then mapping every of the possible 15 results to Fizz, Buzz or FizzBuzz.
The use of sand also requires extensive street cleaning each spring. Lots of the sand gets recovered, and is presumably re-used.
You'll have to enlighten me. What are the better ways? Why should you not own copyright to that which you produce?
Where I used to live used crushed glass as part of a traction mix. They claimed there were no adverse effects on tires but there were many complaints from cyclists that their tires were popping regularly.
Well, in the article it says that they are doing this partly because coronavirus has wiped out a lot of live music. If they can't stream for profit and they can't do live shows what do you suggest?
Good job downvoting instead of doing some self research. It's not hard to find stuff.

The stuff Nathan talks about isn't even the worst. He never mentions Shl's attempt to monetize racial injustice and then telling a black woman she doesn't qualify for the promotion because her skin isn't dark enough, then blocking everyone who says what he did/said was not cool, and instead of acknowledging and fixing his fuckups, he just goes silent until the uproar dies down and then goes on with business.
ah, I see now - the reference is to the RDA article, not to the recent update published in the Springer Big Data Journal:
https://journalofbigdata.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s...

my bad, sorry!
Mostly merchandising and touring.
You can use it as a scorched earth tactic. If the market disappears as soon as it's cornered, in the long term people will stop cornering markets.

But more importantly if you use a solution with a lot of known downsides for the sole reason that it's the cheapest, reevaluating that decision when costs rise is the prudent thing to do.
Maybe my impression of Mexico is wrong, but I would feel much safer living in Spain/EU than Mexico or South America.
I think this is a bit like the 2A argument.

There's a really happy medium that neither side ever talks about. Just dramatically reduce the legal length of copyrights. One year maybe?
Oh, you mean they're being anal about the name? Ugh. That reminds me of years of Debian (and others ?) quibbling with Mozilla over this stuff.
But they didn't want to think about it for even five minutes and figure out a friendly way to do this. They should have given gaming sites purchase invites to hand out to members.

There are other ideas too, higher prices on raw hardware but cash-back incentives if bought with games or gaming hardware.

Now everyone hates them. AMD couldn't have paid for such marketing. AMD gives everyone ECC support, unlocked cards. They're (currently) the anti Intel/Nvidia, and the market darling.
Seems if it sprays into the air and gets into people's eyes, that would be an even bigger problem.
Alcohol (everclear) is a good long term storage medium for mushrooms. Tea (as suggested by another poster) works alright but loses some potency and doesn't store well.

One thing to be aware of is that you need a decent amount of everclear to perform the extraction, but once you've gotten everything out, you're going to want to reduce the alcohol by evaporating some of it so that you don't need to take several shots to get a good dose.

Also, boiling isn't a problem for mushrooms, psilocybin is heat tolerant to that level. Water, on the other hand, degrades psilocybin fairly quickly.
I also never denied that. But there's a difference between finding details that would otherwise go amiss (i.e. in lieu of a microscope revealing features invisible to the unaided eye) and reproducing data that simply isn't there to begin with (as is the core of the "enhance"-trope).
Yeah, I tried out F# within the last year or so on Linux and it was fine. The setup, either Windows or Linux however was quite confusing. I was never really sure if I had all the right parts in place or ran all the right commands from the right places. Once it worked the first time, the development flow was good. I was doing simple compute, print self-learning coding, as well as making a web app with an sql db using Giraffe.
The vast majority of work in the programming market is low-scale CRUD websites. Occasionally some data structure/algo knoweldge helps here. Maybe recursing over a tree once in a blue moon. You can make it in this field without being gifted. Much of it paid well, just not FAANG 400k+/yr.

Of course, there's work where being intellectually gifted and a deep knowledge of CS are very relevant. Ability to effortlessly solve a tricky math problem might be relevant for someone working on the next encryption algo. But not for you, and not for the guy working on an inventory system or point of sale system.

On the internet it's easy to see everyone in the world. The best in the world are filtered right to you. So don't feel down comparing yourself.
Can you explain your approach/philosophy, or is it intuitive?
If this is not sustainable for the artists, how is this different than piracy? I'd say it is even worse, because people is paying but the money goes to a middleware company that is not paying the right price. It is like buying CDs from the street sellers.
Scams are everywhere. While most of them are so obvious, somehow they do end up stinging the most gullible because this is the nature of scams in general. This person could have lowered their damage by first trying with a small amount if "too good to be true" flag didn't raise, he could at least test the waters, but he went all in.
As others have said, there is more risk than just death. I don't really want more of a chance to have a poor quality of life for the rest of my life.

The vaccine greatly reduces the chances that I have any of these things. Or heck, it even greatly reduces the chance that I'll have a week or two of misery.
because when you live in a 1st world country as a foreigner it's safer to assume all cops are pigs. I did report it to the FBI though.
This post is awful.

The author takes a drastic misunderstanding of the operating model of BLM, which is largely decentralized, and uses it to attribute degenerative philosophical characteristics to a group of people all banded together on a loose set of shared goals -- primarily stopping racial violence instigated by police, a problem which cannot be denied in the US.

Kendi's work is extremely good, very provocative, and also long enough that I doubt a single person can succinctly summarize it -- let alone refute it through the words of someone else in a mere paragraph.

I suppose "consider the source" is at play here. From what I can tell, this site is nothing but the blogosphere version of some garbage neocon beltway think tank.
As a person who subscribes to Autodidacticism; here are my suggestions;

* Know the difference between "Knowledge for Knowledge's Sake"(KKS) and "Knowledge Needed for a Job"(KNJ). While there may be some overlap, they are separate pursuits and need to be tackled differently.

* For KNJ, use any and every means to short-circuit the learning ramp and get started on the job. This includes;

- Identify the "Guru" in the company and ask for a one-on-one brain dump on the project/product you would be working on. I do this in the first couple of weeks over lunch and late afternoon meetups. Keep your ego aside and revert back to "student mode" that you had when studying in college. Take notes, book/article references and anything which will shorten your learning ramp.

- Based on the above, focus on the domain knowledge and technologies required for your job. This will be an intense 2-3 weeks and just like you are preparing for an exam.

- Get started with some simple bug fixing/minor features implementation etc. When you get stuck and/or lost do not hesitate to ask for help from team members. Within a couple of months you should have enough knowledge and confidence to take on bigger responsibilities.

* KKS is far more amorphous. Actively cultivate the mentality of being a Dilettante i.e. dip your toes in anything/everything that catches your fancy. Wander aimlessly through the various Technology (and Other) domains trying to grasp the "essence" of the subject. Do not look for outside validation and do not compete with others. The aim is to educate yourself and understand the subject to whatever level is acceptable to you. You will have to read a lot, do a little of what you like and follow your curiosity/interest/instincts. There is no goal and no end to this; it is a lifelong endeavour to gain knowledge. Once you get hooked onto something you will find that you soon transition to becoming an Expert without your actually trying to be one. All the Geniuses/Scientists/Greats we have read about have followed this process to become what they are.
Whew, love some good HN cynicism this early in the morning! Usually means there is something good.
Clickbait headline. They actually have no idea what she used to create the fakes, just threw deepfakes in there for the hype.
I can't even get them to install an EV-Charger in there... even on my own cost.
Post edit as it’s unclear, “blue boxes had nothing to do with evading wiretaps *for them*”

Yes, in general some did, but that is not why Woz/Jobs were interested and to say otherwise is just showing your own knowledge of the subject.
Thank you!

>Do you mind if I ask what kind of stuff you’re maintaining where you see any traffic from these old browsers?

I'm maintaining mostly text-based resources, some of them about technology and interesting to nerds and retro enthusiasts, otheres just general purpose, which I want to make accessible to as many as possible.

For example, when I conducted my first user studies with actual users of screen readers, NO ISSUES were encountered, even though I had not yet made any special adjustments for them.

>Do you think it would ever be possible to transpile a site into some shared common set of syntax/features/whatever instead of making browser specific corrections?

Yes, absolutely. JavaScript makes it very easy by being able to feature-check most things. Also, NoJS is something I already start out with, so it's not difficult to just skip past things like createElement if not supported.

Three biggest challenges I've encountered is no > character (Mosaic treats it as end of HTML comment), no ===, and no anonymous functions.

>And what do you think about features like WebGL which are impossible to replicate on older browsers in a performant way?

I haven't done WebGL, but one feature I have which requires relatively modern JS (think Presto and IE9) is in a separate feature-checked module, older browsers not currently supported.

Again, my goal is for basic feature support, in some cases requiring a skilled operator. For example, this particular feature (client-side cryptographic signatures) can be replicated with an external application.

You need not look far for a great example of progressive enhancement and the benefits it brings. HN has a couple of JS-only niceties, without which the site is still perfectly usable.
Most places offer an alternative. Especially institutions that are not FAANG-types, like government services and heavily regulated ones like banks. I am a U.S. citizen and have never encountered a service that didn't have alternatives to using a smart phone. Are you saying that Fidelity would not have mailed you a statement?

A complaint can be registered with the company, regulators, and/or politicians. Switch to another provider if possible. I know it's not always easy, I'm not perfect in this regard. But if nobody does anything, nothing will change. Are you telling those of us who feel this way to give up?
Exactly. If the record labels thought the price was unfair they wouldn't see the rights to Spotify.

The unfortunate part is that the artists have basically no power when bargaining with the record labels.
Does anyone know if this so-called union is an actual union? As in, do they collect dues, do they represent a substantial % of artists, and do its members already collectively bargain with Spotify and similar publishers? If Spotify says no, do these demands have any teeth?
>It's not hard to find stuff.

What stuff?

The rest of your post sounds like some personal conflict about some unrelated topic.... it's about racial injustice now?

Are you saying the dude who posted that twitter thread is concerned about that?
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Kotlin is made by JetBrains and additionally compiles to native code and JavaScript, OpenJDK is open source, Google has their own JVM for Android. You could use Kotlin pretty much everywhere with no/only indirect Oracle contact.
You could put epoll fd in non-blocking mode, wrap it with os.NewFile, use SyscallConn() to get syscall.RawConn object, and then use its Read method. Its Read method is special: you can return "not ready", and it will use the Go runtime poller to wait until it's readable, in this particular case effectively putting epoll in a epoll.

In epoll case, using RawConn.Read would look like this:

err := rawConn.Read(func(fd uintptr) bool {
nevents, err = syscall.EpollWait(int(fd), events[:], 0)
if nevents == 0 {
return false // try again
}
return true
})

Note that using RawConn.Read here is only necessary because epoll needs epoll_wait(2) instead of typical read(2). For ordinary file descriptors, like pipes, etc., setting them to non-blocking mode, wrapping them with os.NewFile, and using its ordinary Read/Write methods is sufficient.
Probably 9 different geographical locations. Nothing to do with the actual load per server
Thats the stupidest idea ever. No thank you. I do not want to work till 70 and I am sure no one else does either.

VAT is there for everyone, you can't avoid it because you are a 'creator' thats insane.
> DC deserves statehood.

The state is named Maryland; it's called "retrocession." It already happened before, with the Virginia side of DC.

What? This is no good? Well, some people prefer the naked power-grab version, I suppose.
I use Authy app which performs encrypted backups to the cloud and verifies regularly that I can still remember the passphrase. I have never lost a TOTP token this way.
had similar with weed. Problem is, after the effect wore off I was left with some memory of the "existential dread" feeling for month afterward, took a while for the confidence and general sense of life satisfaction to return. Didn't find the experience worth the hit.