skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the result of someone not understanding why they wanted to measure a thing in the first place. I’m assuming that the original intent was ~”sometimes people sign up for Spotify and don’t play anything for a long time, then cancel, possibly because they weren’t getting much value from it.” I’m guessing that someone then decided “Therefore, time between signup and first play is a factor in retention”, which probably isn’t even wrong, but is likely something to not try to directly optimize, or something that needn’t be optimized to the nth degree. In other words, someone taking 15 minutes between signup and first play probably isn’t retained any more effectively than someone taking 15 seconds. I don’t know the exact term for this concept, but it seems like overall engagement is more what they were trying to capture, and somehow the plot was lost, a project was concocted, and auto-play-after-signup was implemented. OKR optimized, but the actual effect on retention is likely zero. Bad OKR and probably indicative of a culture where no one was asking “why” enough / challenging product / marketing initiatives.

I’m making a lot of assumptions here, but I’ve seen this before in a lot of projects where people get worked into a froth optimizing something that will provide no real value to users.
Of course you do. You could define bullshit jobs as any job with a negative externality whose value exceeds its profitability. Many of the arguments in our society are over the existence or not of externalities and the measurement and allocation of liability for them where their existence is an agreed-upon fact.
The big question is what can a nation do to stop this? The normal diplomatic and legal avenues don't seem to do much. A ship here and there can be seized but much like fines that are slaps on the wrist for large corporations, there's too much economic value in violating the rules. A seized ship now and then is a small price to pay for access to everyone else's fishing areas. There don't seem to be any good escalation paths that aren't morally unconscionable.
I think this problem can be solved quite easily with the following mindset:

Do something that might make you happy. If it doesn't make you happy, try something else. If it does make you happy, keep doing it. If the thing that made you happy no longer makes you happy, try something else.

Oh, and, don't take advice on happiness from blog posts by strangers. Friends, maybe, given that they share a similar mindset to you, but not strangers. And yes I realize the irony of this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526156

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16034764

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14274655

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033822

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18316572

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2296693

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3617730
> I think there's always inherent tradeoffs to specialization vs. generalization, and side projects/side hustles are more of a generalization technique.

That's the theory behind side projects, but it's a false dichotomy.

Side projects are, by definition, something you do on the side. Your primary day job requires attention whether or not you do any side projects. Side projects are additive on top of the work of your day job, but subtractive out of your pool of free time and energy.

Side projects always start with good intentions of broadening horizons, but people generally realize that they only have so many intensely productive hours in a day. Do you allocate your most productive hours to your job? Or to a side project? It's tempting to say "both" but in practice that will spread someone's finite energy too thin across both domains.

Students tend to go wrong when they think that side projects are the key to unlocking their next big job opportunity. When they start to burn out in their dayjob, they think they're just a couple of side projects away from qualifying for an opportunity that will make them happy. The trap is that being burned out at a dayjob and adding the additional work of side projects only worsens the burnout. They get stuck thinking they need to finish the side projects before they change jobs, but they can't complete the side projects because they're too burned out from jobs and a side project. In these cases, I encourage people to drop the side projects and just apply to jobs. It works better than most people expect.
Fast meetings do not exist.

Once the time is allocated, if there's nothing of importance to discuss then some low value subject will always fill it.
> It almost makes me feel that I am breaking the law when scraping a site, yet web scraping is on of the most basic programming things.

Yeah, same for me.

Regarding the denylisting, I guess it depends on what is being scraped and how often the scraping happens?
I'm maintaining a remote jobs aggregator website and I've never been blocked before (but I'm not scraping more than ~5 times per day the same web page).
And with a caching strategy, I think that even a scrape-as-a-service API like the one I'm building in the article should be "kinda" safe (besides edge cases that brute force the cache constantly, like by adding random query-params)?
Text Free Browsing (2013)
Open source software newsletter Console launches on Product Huntproduct hunt
Has always been around, but now you can find it there. If you like it, feel free to upvote. (I'm a reader, I just like it.)
I've embraced having a hobby for its own sake, and it does add joy to your life. I'm trying to get a photo of all the different bird species I see. The photos are not high quality. The web site where I post them is nothing special - just the freebie portfolio site you get when you subscribe to lightroom. I'm not even an expert birder, but learning more is part of the fun. But I really enjoy going out, finding new locations to explore, and posting my photos, even the ones so bad that I'd delete them if they were not my first shot of a species.

And when I spend a Saturday morning out doing what I enjoy, it truly does energize me for everything else going on in life. I doubt I'd get that energy if I started trying to figure out how to make this return monetary value.
How is it a flaw? There are data-first processes where a LISP-style data “objects” are better, but there are many stateful objects, eg. a database connection where you very much don’t want anyone to access a flag with this specific meaning or IP or secrets, etc.
Thanks for that informative link. I personally like ragged right text. I also like fixed-width fonts. Strange, I know.
Yes. Fishing is basically fishing the globe, regardless of where home port is.
Time to start sinking ships.
This reminds me of Nelsons famous "I see no ships" quote. Everyone in power knows what's happening, everyone in power agrees not to prevent it, everyone in power pretends they haven't.
Because not everything is about businesses or money. Nor should there be any expectation of monetizing our hobbies / personal time.

There is a modern obsession with monetizing -everything- that one does, turning -everything- into a "hustle". Why can't people just do things in their spare time for fun without being bombarded about monetizing them?
Amazon became an engine for anti-vaccine misinformation
Interesting claim. Source?
Show HN: Check out the Loooops app It will be free until June 9th
Argentine coast guard opens fire on Chinese fishing boat (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3lkM4t8AaA

Argentina sinks Chinese fishing ship that entered restricted area(2016)

>"The offending ship continued to maneuver in an attempt to cause a collision" (0:20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00rMVee0R4c

>Therefore, the concept of people's war was applied to the sea with fishermen and other nautical laborers being drafted into a maritime militia.

>Most vessels are issued with navigation and communication equipment while some are also issued small arms. The communications systems can be used both for communication and espionage. Often fishermen supply their own vessels, however, there are also core contingents of the maritime militia who operate vessels fitted out for militia work instead of fishing; these vessels feature reinforced bows for ramming and high powered water cannons. The increasing sophistication of militia vessels' communication equipment is a double-edged sword for Chinese authorities. New equipment, as well as training in its use, has substantially improved command, control, and coordination of militia units. However, the vessels' resulting professionalism and sophisticated maneuvers make them more identifiable as government-sponsored actors, dampening their ability to function as a gray-zone force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Armed_Forces_Mariti...

S. Korean Coast Guard fires machine gun in warning to illegal Chinese fishing boats

>"They were surrounded and threatened by some 30 other fishing boats" (0:17)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42AWXEzcoFk

You don't need to look very far to find reports like this. There are too many incidents to list here.
My Economic Report (Peak detection of prices and commodities) [pdf]
Generally businesses have to eventually make money. At least, that's how it works in most of the world. If you constantly claim business expenses and only ever see losses, eventually you'll run afoul of the "expectations of profit".

Most people's hobbies will never turn a profit -- that's why they are hobbies, after all.
Firing on them could be problematic - at least if you actually sink one. I suspect seizing the vessels and keeping them (returning after payment of ruinous fines) would be more effective.
> This happens many times a year with company buyouts where many shares are accumulated first, then a buyout is announced, which boosts the share price further.

That doesn't make it more ethical.
No, Manhattan is still outpacing them all in terms of total and percentage job growth; their share of job growth is growing, but Manhattan is still a whopping 52%. https://www.osc.state.ny.us/files/reports/osdc/pdf/report-1-... Hudson Yards and Midtown East are not showing signs of slowing down.

Flushing is mostly meds and retail, which is fine for a shopping district but is not indicative of a greater jobs market trend. Manhattan's tyranny is largely due to its geography; it is the only place with fast, reliable mass transit access to all of the metropolitan area, and companies don't want to limit their labor pool. It is a pain in the ass to travel within Queens on mass transit (say, Rochdale to Flushing), let alone travel from some place like Westchester or New Jersey to Flushing. Flushing is no Shibuya or Shinjuku.
This is my favorite text on electronics, open or otherwise: https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/

The explanation of impedance (volume II, chapter 14) was the first one that made intuitive sense to me, after struggling with the concept for years. The whole thing is beautiful, but that chapter especially.
That's just differentiating nominal numbers from others [1]. The same is much too common everywhere -- zipcodes, student ID number, etc. I am still missing reason why the suggested base 24 is better. :-)

[1] https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/cardinal-ordinal-nominal....
> A person thought he was getting a legitimate Bitcoin wallet app, but turns out it was a fake and he lost his life savings

I guess I'm victim-shaming here, but using mobile apps for large financial arrangements, no matter how trustworthy the app claims to be is a bad move. For this type of stuff you would use a clean computer with no known malware present, and use a privacy-aware browser like Firefox or Brave preferably with `HTTPS Everywhere` addon installed with the EASE feature turned on to avoid plaintext leaks / traffic going over HTTP.
Is the idea that a nontechnical person might trust Apple really that outlandish to you? Do you have, like, family members or nontechnical friends?
The overflow flag and its intrinsics was quite a mystery for a while.

(Related fun fact: There is no such thing as a break flag, it just gets inserted, whenever the the status register is pushed to the stack by an instruction, i.e. by software, as opposed to a hardware interrupt. This is also, why it is commonly shown as 1, because this is the value it would show up with, if there was a PHP or BRK instruction at the given time, which is also: always. But this is really just a virtual state and there is no such flag in the CPU.)
I saw a thing before talking about how much each byte of code on the Google homepage costs to deliver. I wondered then why the homepage isn’t just integrated into their browser, as in literally ship the code for it and load it from local cache. I guess the URL bar already does that.
The character who expressed it as their maxim also ended up engaging in violence to solve the problems facing their world.
I said "as an adult", not "old age". I'm not aware of any hearing tests as a child, as an adult I know I have the portion required to understand speech but major loss both above and below that.
On paper I'm the type of person who ought to be interested in a cybertruck but I'm finding myself a lot more interested in the Ford F-150 Lightning.
What about the weather, ant colony (which only has intelligence as an emergent feature at most), fire, a forest, etc?
The speaker starts, "we are computer scientists, we should be more sceptical".

This is a little odd: computer scientists are mathematicians, not scientists: therein lies the issue.

I think the more this is really absorbed, the clearer things become.

* Why are ai models of intelligence logical and not dynamical?

* Why are models rules of association, rather than interpretative frameworks?

* Why is a statistical association deployed without empirical verification?

* Why arent empirical (& verifiable) criteria given against predictive systems?

* Against the mechanisms of these systems?

* Why is ML an experimental discipline without experimental tests?

* Why doesn't ML research employ tests of significance?

* Why is the ability to experiment seen as incidental to intelligence?

* Why is ML sold with a scientific technical vocabulary whose meaning is given metaphorically?

* Why arent ML researchers aware these are metaphors?

* Why aren't scientists of intelligence researcher reviewing and informing the claims of the artificial intelligence community?

* Why do some of the most prominent "scientists" in the world advocate that understanding the world is a matter of mining datasets?

* Why don't these scientists defend the need for actual science in producing accurate models of reality?

* Why aren't computer scientists more sceptical?
https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/exports-by-country

China accounts for 11% of Argentina’s exports. I’d imagine a lot of it is soy and maybe lithium.
That's what I think as well.

I don't think there's any negotiating with willfully negligent and dishonest Chinese industries & government.

To be honest, I am hoping the entire world soon turns against China. Maybe once enough of western industry is extricated from China.
If it's going to be "really damn fast" because nobody has anything (more) to say, it's pointless (and micromanagement, for the managers' benefit only).

And if the person is busy, they should indicate as much. People shouldn't have to have a carve-out on their calendar for concerns or requests for assistance: that's an indication of a dysfunctional team.
The city is saturated and almost everyone outside of Manhattan wants more relevance and hates that the observation of Manhattan is accurate.
That's because that was an inane point used as a headline that didn't really have much to do with what the article is actually about.

It's a criticism of the training data sets used on ai's that were manually tagged by individuals that's led to some extreme biases in ai behaviour resulting in real world consequences.

For a great real world example of this happening right now, there's a fairly large scandal and a whole bunch of angry people over the problems caused by latitude's choice of training material for their ai driven text adventure game.

https://gitgud.io/AuroraPurgatio/aurorapurgatio
How would I prove to the client that the implementation conforms to the
model? Wouldn't it end up being written in some crappy programming
language for which no one can agree on a formal semantics anyway,
running on some grotesquely complicated processor family full of
defects and bugs?
The webpage can be generated from markdown files which can be in the repo.
Clearly he did, because he spent several hundred dollars buying their smart TV.
> Of course, that would gain them a great deal of negative publicity.

Negative publicity where? I’m sure within Argentina this would be very popular and if China protests it’ll have to own up that these illegal boats are coming from there, which it may not want to do.
I usually find that with online tutorials, which tend to be a strict function by function synopsis. The best books tend to go a lot more in depth, involving practical exercises that do something marginally related to what you might do in real life with the language.
Hey that's a nice tool! I didn't know that existed and now I'm wondering why I didn't think to Google and find out. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, the idea that if you leave, you must have been fired is pretty out there. More people quit than are fired in pretty much every month except when there is a big recession. The BLS tracks this in it's JOLTS time series https://www.bls.gov/jlt/

Currently, the quit rate is 2.4% and the layoff rate is 1%, and the quit rate is almost always roughly double the layoff rate.
Check out Backstage, and in particular, TechDocs: https://backstage.io/docs/features/techdocs/techdocs-overvie...
FWIW, Apple made $8.3 million with an M off those 18 apps (28.2% commission on average). They will make something like $350 billion with a B this year
> mathematics, physics, and neuroscience

I can't imagine two things making less tangible ("industrial") value than Mathematics and Neuroscience today. Physics is too big a field to make such an asinine comment on at least
Those are all valid, but do you have a non-recent example that got mainstream attention?
Well that statement may have been a little too aggressive and come off the wrong way. I was quite pissed when wrote that comment. I believe humans can do great things, we really do. I wouldn't have chosen to be born as any other living thing (not that I had a choice anyways lol). It's just the selfishness of some people that results in massive damages that ruins it for the rest of us.

That said we have to realize as a whole that our current way of living is not sustainable and will result is us screwing over future generations that will have to live in an incredibly polluted, and ecologically damaged planet. We have to use our intellect and capacity of achieving anything we put our mind towards and take real, meaningful steps to solve this problem. Before it's too late. There are also many other important global issues that need our attention as a society but that's past the scope of this comment.
I have very severe doubts about TriboroRX happening in my lifetime because of a combination of exorbitant costs at the MTA ($12B and counting for East Side Access) and the State's/MTA's tendency to slow-walk and sandbag projects they're not particularly interested in ($8B estimates for the Rockaway Beach Branch, radio silence on Utica Avenue or NYS high speed rail)
If Americans can put down their mobile phones and concentrate on the driving.
Sounds like a feature for features sake. Your response also sounds like “but can you do this?!?!” Can’t say I’m remotely impressed. Anyone who needs this weird feature could just add a string delimiter to their markdown file, and use a Unix until to partioning. Still not sure why multi pages should be in the same file, sounds like a horrible “feature”. Each webpage has a distinct url with the last bit being the filename…

Also sounds like you have a conflict of interest to inflate the merits of this project
China will retaliate. China sends naval escorts with its fishing fleet when it goes to Indonesia and countries fear this happening. Chinaa is not shy of threatening economic sanctions either.
When people say driver license, they mean the one kids can get at age 16. Driving a bus requires a commercial driver license, which is referred to as a CDL - it's a much more rigorous test.

How often are you driven around by bus drivers who just finished their learner's permit?
http://www.rexresearch.com/kanzius/kanzius.htm Some news articles and patents.

(Rex Research is mostly crackpottery. But not all of it. The tricky bit is sorting the horse from the horseshit, eh?)
Taking into account the size of the problem, most persons would just assume these were the ones that did not pay the bribes...
Working with audio files – Html5. – by Sukhpinder Singh
yeah, just guarantee that everyone rocks up to a conversation already enlightened. problem solved, no more questions like that.
I feel that we need to acknowledge that "work" is not something we need to aspire towards, but we often need "success" and "activity", and just have a hard time separating these concepts. All members of our society that need income compete with one another with how much work they're willing to put in, and we really need to figure out how we can stop competing against one another, as we're driving down the value of work.
People use their bank's apps, their investment institutions apps (Robinhood, Fidelity, etc) and a lot of other financial apps all the time.
I have no idea how commercial textbooks for anything up to specialized, college-level classes are viable. You'd think that enough states (and countries) would put the work into the Wikibooks calculus book so it meets their standards and just use that.
Do you consider the New York Times mainstream? This article is from 2012:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/technology/pressure-on-ap...
What to Expect from Apple WWDC 2021 Event?
This is just enraging. And a reminder that all the fiat currency in the world won't be able to by a tekka maki when there are no more fish.
http://archive.is/QPFJB
If you are in a car, chances are the goal was to get there more quickly than you could by walking. If you are getting there more slowly by taking a car then it was "worse than walking" by this metric. No one is criticizing walking as a general means of transportation.
Check the x-axis/y-axis ratio of the graphs. Even if the pancake edges weren't included I think Kansas could still be flatter.
You're able to deduct expenses from revenue attributed to that activity.
> If one says that ECS a just another design pattern, then it's only fair to say that OOP is also just a design pattern in itself, since I could implement OOP itself in C (see Linux Kernel), Haskell or ECS if I wanted.

Well, it is?

What do you mean by looping itself? How is having a struct dissimilar to having an object iterated, especially with C++ essentially having barely any difference between a struct and a class?
CTRL+F "microdata": no result. Yeah, I thought so too...

The Semantic web has failed. ARIA tags are important for accessibility though, but semantic HTML has been irrelevant for a decade, I haven't seen a single successful product based on that or a single use case that yielded something interesting SEO wise.
I listed the first two that came up in a brief search.

'The Hustler' is a good example of people making a buck out of their hobby
https://youtu.be/bpc3TKhS6MU
Linux x86/x86_64 Will Now Always Reserve the First 1MB of RAM
> Nobody in Argentina would buy Chinese products again, probably.

Sure, but would that really affect Chinese decision making? I imagine that a partial US boycott would have a much larger impact than a full boycott in Argentina. Their GDP is 32nd in the world according to Wikipedia.