skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nicely written. The postscript was a bit saddening though, makes me wonder why people think mass tourism is anything other than an ironic destruction of what they profess to love. Currently I (dwelling in Canada) am being bombarded with advertisements on YouTube attempting to stimulate a "post-Covid" tourism rush between provinces and Expedia promising free cancelled hotel rooms if only I will get on an aeroplane and do my bit to pollute the world by staying for 5 days in a resort built to house people like me in a developing country.

Mass tourism seems to destroy anything that makes tourism rationally attractive in the first place. Maybe we can sell these people a different dream?

Returning in 2014 it was different. Most of the lush jungle on the road to Ubud was gone. Many of the rice paddies had disappeared, replaced by resorts and large concrete dwellings. Ubud was now a town, its streets jammed with tourist buses, and taxis full of tourists like me, its population of 70,000 or so swelling to accommodate three million visitors per year.

Jesus.
I read Peopleware a long time ago (from an HN recommendation) and found it super valuable, but if I have any takeaway from this past year it is how right they were about office layout for knowledge workers.

At this point I've worked as a programmer in many open office configurations, and this past year has been somewhat of a revelation in my ability to focus and think through things. With each passing month the status quo of pre-2020 has become more absurd to me: hiring a team of highly paid software engineers to do focused thinking and plopping them in the middle of big room with multiple conversations, phone calls, people moving around, only for all of them to wear headphones and communicate with each other via Slack.
The interest rates they charge on these loans and their mission statement suggest two very different motives. Mine is approaching car loan interest territory.
Software engineers are rewarded what the market demands, not some prize because they're seen as better for humanity than nurses. Some would argue the field of nursing has a lower bar to entry than software development.
Snap layout felt to me a cute name for a feature I have seen last on Windows 3.1

That said I did liked that feature I am happy it is back.
Society has benefitted a net zero from social media. Arguably a net negative.
It shouldn't be a setting.

Requiring opt-out (hidden at that!) is statistically the same as not supporting it. Most users will not know about this or be technically inclined enough to change it.

Google knows this. Some analyst or PM modeled it.

edit: Hello Google employees downvoting me. I'm confident nobody else on the planet wants this the way you do. You can censor me, an individual voice. But the world doesn't like or need this, and they're waking up. As are our legislators. Change your behavior and innovate in other areas that benefit society. (There are so many - nearly limitless!) The clock is ticking. They're building the antitrust cases as we speak, and this is the road you're actively choosing to go down. Not a good look, not the best step forward. I really do want the Google of 2005 to succeed; all of this has just been a misstep. Microsoft in 2021 is so much better than Microsoft of years past. Google could do the same. Don't be evil.
Yet they didn't do it, aside from very minor exceptions.

And with good reason, trying to outbid each other doesn't make a great strategy to keep a Union.

I don't get why I'm downvited, btw.
Show HN: GitGallery – Turn your Git commits into NFTs Just launched on Rinkeby
>Maybe it's the documenting of the relatives still in the camps YouTube objects to. If this is a violation, would a news clip about a missing child that includes the child's name and photo also be a violation?

The difference is that a missing child is unlikely to be punished for appearing on YouTube. The same can't be said for a detained political prisoner.
If you happened to be Danish, I watched this 30 min minidoc the other day and it was eye opening, I was curious how accurate it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A1LtmxkAYk - If you have some time, i'd love to know. Thanks.
My “Investment Mindset”
I'm studying for another batchelors with the Open University in the UK. It's a good institution and I completed my computing masters with them a few years ago. I'm studing for fun, not for career. I'm so disappointed to see my peers spend most of their time discussing how to get grant funding, which parts of the taught course they can safely skip and how to formally complain about a tutor that has given them poor feedback for poor effort is just depressing.
doesn’t that hurt folks who aren’t great at writing?
Real-Time Voice Cloning
> African American culture is largely dysfunctional and self-destructive.

You don't know shit about me. But your post has told me plenty about you.
I'd love to watch the event stream but it is down.
Everyone's job relates to skills acquired post-18, necessarily so. The question is what role a university plays in that; and whether it actually provides those skills. Or whether, for example, the job itself can.

I started programming as a child, and used this irc-gained knowledge and self-study to earn money till c. 26.

I studied physics during. Much of what I make money with now was gained via MIT/Stanford/et al. initially on iTunes U, and latterly on youtube -- both during my apparent "attendance" at university; and for years afterwards.

It would have been entirely possible for me to skip my entire university experience and still have the postgrad level of knowledge I have now: as almost all of it was gained via free lecture courses.

You might say I'm cheating here: the content is still provided by some universities. Sure.

The question remains whether even for the very high end, this process needs years at university; and whether all of them need to repeat it. Let alone how meaningless the process is on the low-end.

I have been offered a PhD in a highly technical area (which I declined) -- and I can assure you nearly everything which landed me in that position had little to do with whatever my university "did". I barely attended.
I'm pretty sure Hubble didn't crash due to a memory overflow. It is almost certainly a hardware failure somewhere, and Rust's memory safety won't help you if a failed bus or flaky memory chip is corrupting your data.
> Does it require scientific study?

Yes. There are smart people with compelling anecdotes on both sides of the debate.
Anyone that has been around long enough to remember the days of Atari, Amiga, PC, Archimedes, PC.
Past post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20752548
Except it will be the same old windows disguised.
Didn't know about this, great stuff
Many (I suspect a large majority) of users simply don't care about web browser privacy. And I don't mean lack of concern due to ignorance of the scope of the issue. I mean if you describe to them what a third party cookie does, they just don't see a material harm, or risk, or disadvantage.

They may prefer not to see ads at all (who wouldn't?), but in terms of surveillance marketing, it's just not something that is perceived as adversely impacting their day-to-day experience.
Or someone wakes up and fixes the current fiat system. People thought of solutions 80 years ago.
Ok, this worked. Really enjoy the site so far. I expect to be a medium+ term visitor.

Feature recommendation (that you didn't ask for): Allow users to embed blocks on their own sites.
Phnom Penh Is Now More Vaccinated Than Most Large Cities Will Ever Be
I don’t see a ‘#’ option there. It’s a valuable command line inclusion to keep copypasta from executing something you may not intend. Also, the ability to check what branch I’m in (assuming cwd is in a git repo) is a useful prompt inclusion.
How would a free 30 minute class considered "rent-seeking"?
There's no way existing teamsters are going to force strikes, etc. very few employees are not on board with. That is a sure way to make the organizing fail with massive blowback.

I'm sure they have some plan get enough skin in the game to actually inspire and have credibility. Maybe allow their organizers to work at amazon in
"tours of duty" despite it being a non-union job.
re-identification is basically the same as browser fingerprinting. with enough vaguely stochastic variables, you can uniquely identify pretty much anyone
I've always had the notion that Code is Art, and with NFTs blowing up in the digital art scene, I wondered why couldn't it be the same for "technical art". Thus GitGallery was born, as way to convert GitHub commits into NFTs.

The site is live at https://www.gitgallery.com/ currently on the test network Rinkeby to work out any bugs. Feedback is appreciated
I sleep listening to old TV shows with earbuds. It completely cured my sleeplessness.

I was having stress related nightmares and inability to sleep, and now I sleep 8hrs reliably.

I have a Plex playlist that I play on shuffle for 8hours. There's about 30 days of content so it keeps my dreams fresh. They are all old episodes of TV shows I loved when younger. I listen only - never watch.

It works because you hear a familiar and comforting voice as you sleep. Sometimes you dream about the show - which can be funny.

For daytime stress, I use the technique I learned in the marines. Deep slow breathing. Four deep slow breaths tricks your monkey brain into thinking everything is ok.
still no windows explorer tabs?
The domain was registered in Dec 2020.
Wait till you find out how easy and profitable it is to bust off Tesla mirrors.
So, you'd think static typing was a major win but it actually isn't (surprisingly) for a JITed language. Most of the benefits of statically typed languages comes from memory layout optimizations. However, that sort of layout optimization is something that every fast JITed language ends up doing.

This is why, for example, javascript in Graal ends up running nearly as fast as Java in the same VM. The reason it isn't just as fast is the VM has to insert constraint checks to deopt when an assumption about the type shape is violated.

https://www.graalvm.org/javascript/
The "rule of thumb" etymology is also bullshit but it's still there: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-04-17-19981070...
Following conspiracy theory: Google and the rest of the deep state originally wanted to develop a bio weapon, for which bats are perfect as incubators, while using Chinese labs, because it's illegal in the US to do so (also in China BTW), but it never was successful because they were using equipment from TaoBao.
When some lab assistant didn't wash his hands properly before going for lunch at the wet market down the street, the virus leaked, but it's only a bit more aggressive than its original form, which was basically a mild cold.
Now they blame China for it, using all their psyops tactics, mainly their mind control project Blue Bird (https://mind-control.fandom.com/en/wiki/Project_BLUEBIRD), also known as project ARTICHOKE or Twitter, because some insane elites think, the world would be better off if most people would die from a thermo nuclear WW3, while China really would like to avoid a war if possible.
When China realized what the US was doing in their labs, they panicked and started trying to do damage control, not realizing that all their P&R attempts at face keeping are futile, because everyone thinks they're the embodiment of evil, not matter what they're doing.
> If you can't bothered to be in the same place as the people you want to communicate to, you're signaling that having their time and attention isn't important to you.

Untrue. My DMs are open.
My first thought also went to “how it’s made”.

I think it’s obvious that they are allowed access on the condition of speaking kindly of the given factory.

But it is still a fascinating program and new episodes are regularly released on official and unofficial YouTube channels.

I highly recommend searching for it!
125 kg of fat is approximately 1.12 billion calories, enough to last a human for more than 400 days. Rough math checks out.
Linux devs giving money to Apple instead of GNU/Linux OEMs are the ones that got mixed up what Apple eco-system is supposed to be.

Most of them never used the old Mac OS, GUI based, with Object Pascal/C++ tooling, and zero POSIX.
It’s yet another effort by Microsoft to make Windows relevant to touch form factors at the expense of productivity, desktop, and keyboard/mouse/touchpad.

It’s astonishing how little (close to zero) human factors research is done, much less sought out or taken into consideration by PM or engineering on the software side of Microsoft.
So taskbar extends horizontally and places icons in the middle, which means:

1. It creates unnecessary visual clutter in the right and left sides and takes up valuable space.

2. Users will have harder time clicking to start button.

I’m having hard time seeing what is UX benefit of this?
I don’t think it’s reasonable to interpret their statement to mean that their user-submitted content classification would never be without fault. I think people are forgetting the scale of Facebook, or even the scale of the global internet population.

If Facebook made a change to stop recommending groups that had been categorized as political, that’s a fair fulfillment of their statement. If some users are miscategorizing their user-created groups and some of those aren’t caught by automated filters and some of those are slipping into recommendations somewhere, we’re starting to play a game of “gotchas”.

What do people actually want from Facebook? 100% perfect categorization of 100% user-generated content is impossible, and I think most people on HN understand that. So is there some degree of “good enough” that would be acceptable, or is this the type of issue that will generate outrage as long as someone can find an isolated exception somewhere? If it’s the latter, I think we’re bound to wear out the patience of reasonable people following along.
Look up what people thought of MLK at the time. There were no bridges. He described white moderates as a bigger stumbling block to racial justice than the KKK.

When he was murdered, he had a disapproval rating of 75% [1]. People accused him of being a communist. The FBI literally attempted to blackmail him into committing suicide [2].

The widespread admiration for him over the past few decades is a result of the shameless whitewashing of his legacy. In that regard, Malcolm X was far more successful — his image has not been co-opted by people to oppose the very ideals for which he fought.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/04/martin-lut...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...
> Warrants have legal meaning but little practical impact. They can be requested and granted very easily. The process offers very little protection. If the cops ask for warrant to request the list of numbers called, they will get it.

What are you basing this on? Warrants require probable cause (in the US at least). Are you saying that that the probable cause requirement still allows warrants to be granted very easily? Or that the probable cause requirement is not being followed?
This but its good actually. The opposite of "corporate media" isn't honest factual reporting free of agenda and aligned with the viewers interest. The opposite of "corporate media" is a complete lack of factual investigation, replaced instead by the loud opinions of overconfident charlatans spewing forth bullshit at an unprecedented rate. News orgs print retractions and have a reputation to maintain, but no one is ever going to come back and fact check a facebook rant. Its called a news 'feed' because its served from a trough.
Slimy and disingenuous as always. This cutesy facade is getting old. Just tell it as it is God dammit.

-We are compiling everything with a newer -march so offices need to buy newer PCs. This makes OEMs happy. This move may come with a more or less accidental perf increase.

-Design departments trying harder than ever to justify their continued existance while still in the shadow of the original team who came up with the layouting before metro was barfed into existance.

-more "AI" features nobody gives a rat's ass about.

-More locked down. Enjoy remote attestation and measured boot.

/cynicism off
Not if there's an even number of students and the two students nearest to the median have distinct value judgements.
I mean strictly speaking the business model of the very top universities is identical to that of a hedge fund. But I suppose you could argue that doesn't apply to the entire category of institutions.
I disagree that written documents are clearer than conversation. I've always experienced that the vast majority of engineers, including introverts, gain a clearer understanding of key concepts from an interactive conversation than from a document. In my experience almost all complex documents I've read and written required a follow-up meeting to explain and discuss.

Documents are useful when the volume of details is too much to remember in a conversation, and to communicate with wider audiences, but for communicating key points in a small group, conversation is vastly more efficient.
Just bad design. There's a setting to set it hard left, but it's not the default, and the vast majority of users will have to contend with important things moving around and being harder to hit. (There's a lot in the UI that seems to be borrowing from phones used vertically. Which would make sense if the target devices were phones being used vertically.)
Really, if someone suggests that such a push would not be effective at convincing a lot of people, regardless of the truth of what's being promoted, then I'm not sure why they care whether media is biased.

Yes, media's biased. Yes, media lie a lot, often about serious things. Yes, some outlets on some topics tend to slant "left" pretty consistently. It's also true that, in the early days of post-fairness-doctrine right-wing broadcast media, there was a concerted and deliberate effort to promote the notion of the "left wing media" to a much greater degree than it was actually true, at least at the time that effort began, and that it was highly effective.

... but, if it's not possible that suddenly emphasizing the notion of a "left-wing media" may have significantly affected public perception of same, including possibly even if it wasn't true or was being grossly exaggerated, then I suppose we don't need to care about any of that. Right?
The part I’d be interested in is knowing the age when it could begin. I’ve had crippling amounts of stress when I was younger. I’ve even experienced quite a bit of stress in the last couple years. I haven’t noticed a bunch of new gray hairs at either time.

I’m wondering if there will ever be any easy to tell differences that will indicate if someone can have gray hair through stress or are immune to this condition. Being put in a stressful condition doesn’t seem sufficient to tell because some people seem to not be affected by this or maybe the stress level isn’t sufficient. How’d to gauge what is stressful enough for one and not for another?
You could argue that there are more jobs on the line if they remove support than leaving it as is. AdTech is huge. Now go and tell any government entity about coming down "hard on this behavior".
I agree very much. My parents worked as foster parents and I know some people working professional in the area.

(mental baggage was a euphemism)

There is so much going on, people from normal upbringing cannot imagine (and usually do not want to imagine).

Even the children who were not abused in one way or another, how can they develope a stable mind, when they have no stable surroundings?

Dragged around back and forth from instable "parents" to foster parents to various institutions and back. And out again. And then maybe adopted one day.

I would never blame the childs. (I find it also hard to blame their parents, as they usually had a childhood like this, or went down into drugs for one reason or another - always easy to judge from the outside - and they do get judged. Usually at a time when they simply needed help and not judgment - but they don't get help, but their children taken away)

So ... like I said, it can be very, very challenging to adopt a older child. I did not wanted to scare anyone away from it. If anyone feels like this is the right thing for them - do it!

Just don't expect it will be easy.

edit: note, that my experience may be a bit biased through the foster home situation, which is especially hard, because often the parents of the kids often wanted to have their kids back - so this pool is probably the hardest.
But personally I would just want to see the child and see how we feel about it, if there is a emotional connection with the child.
Older children can also be easier, by beeing already very independent. You also might end up being the hotel for a distant teenager. But that also happens with "normal" kids. You never know.
Job Posting: NASA programmer, needs at least 1 wpm typing speed and experience with compiling large projects.
While it is a totally legit point, the macOS dock hasn't been corner aligned since OS X 10.0 too and it seems people got used to it. Probably not a big deal after all most of the time.
I think PoW is kind of 'the easy way' to do it right, but it is bad for thge environment.
Yes, it seems so. For example a couple of years ago the anime studio working on new Evangelion movies moved to Blender [1] and there are other success stories [2]

1. https://www.blender.org/user-stories/japanese-anime-studio-k...

2. https://www.blender.org/user-stories/

edit: add second link
I just did this one in about 20 mins after seeing this post:
https://trust.dronelaunchacademy.com/

It was genuinely helpful to understand the regulations and the multiple choice test was easy. It did not however create a certificate so I did a pdf screenshot to save on gdrive in case I need it sometime later.
I was more talking about the article itself. Does it require a scientific study to poll experts and distill into an article?
Consumer awareness is shifting and fueled by Apple's privacy marketing campaigns. If Apple continues to invest here, I could see Chrome's desktop marketshare start to diminish. Safari has 50% of total mobile marketshare while only 16% in desktop. I see both platforms as low hanging fruit for Safari or Firefox.

https://blog.google/products/chrome/updated-timeline-privacy...
The Beginner Syndrome
> Both interpretations are listed in the Cambridge dictionary.

That is due to a change that was made in the last year. [1]. Historically, that dictionary has defined defund as "to stop providing the money to pay for something". The change to the Cambridge dictionary entry was made recently in response to the "defund the police" discussions, so we can't use the newly changed meaning as always having meant to "divert some money".

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/2020*/dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/defund
Even as early as 2013 Facebook was using advanced image recognition to moderate content. They use both humans and sutomated screening
From the article.

>we used keyword-based classification to assess whether they contained support for politicians, movements, parties, or ideologies

They don't need AI to improve this. A boring old keyword search would improve things. Sure, classifying groups perfectly is a difficult problem especially at Facebook's scale. But this shows almost a complete lack of effort when groups like "Bernie Sanders for President 2020" and "Liberty lovers for Ted Cruz" are recommended.
The same reason it’s reasonable for Hacker News to promote user-submitted links that have been voted up by users. Before being individually vetted ahead of time by moderators.

Do we really want to go down the road of restricting websites from sharing user-generated content? That’s a non-starter for the free internet.