skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also brought the dark pattern to automatically upload and save any file you select in the file uploaded control, even when you mistakenly selected the wrong file.

For more than twenty years, we had to click "upload" or alike to confirm the upload of a file to a server. I wonder how many millions or billions files Google steals (yes, that's theft) from gullible users who use their web interface.
Everyone here who’s worked for some moderately large corporation knows exactly why this was done: it’s a flashy pet project for some “labs” team in an otherwise boring retailer and maybe they’ll recoup some of the cost in ads, minus whatever they lose for it being an awful idea. Some charismatic product manager sold it to execs as “being the future of connected retail” or some other BS. In a few months they’ll be removed because it’s a stupid idea.

When the company that made these was analyzing their market, I have no doubt they were targeting this exact scenario knowing that even the stupidest products have a place to make a boring brick and mortar retailer think they’re doing technology.
Every story is a climate story huh?
And that's why he paid for them.
They updated their opinion from "no" to yes" it is possible it was a lab leak. That's complete change of mind; first they said "We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin" and now they are saying something like "ok maybe it is possible." I mean c'mon are they updating their mind according to Microsoft Patch Tuesday schedule?!
For everyone who likes HEY’s workflow and wants to use it with Fastmail, Big Mail just launched this week and looks promising. I haven’t tried it yet (and no connection), but planning to give that combination a whirl when I have some time. Very curious if anyone else already has.

https://getbigmail.com/
We've had it for 20 years and were still doing it.
> The point is to show that either one of two things is true: Either the bible is wrong or God does not exist.

Since the Bible says God exists, that's really “one of one things is true: the Bible is wrong”. But, since the Bible contradicts itself, you don’t need to go so far out of your way to prove that it is wrong.
The reason may be that just like Mozilla Foundation, they may be tired of dealing with bugs such as buffer overflow, integer overflow, undefined behaviours and use-after-free which are responsible for most security vulnerabilities that still haunts C and C++.
Crackonosh: A New Malware Distributed in Cracked Software
Jokes aside... Without C#, life would ♭flat
Yeah I guess it’s a trade off
sitting next to a 10xer for 2 years.
I'm pretty sure that there are some hardware terminals where the cursor cannot be hidden, and this might even include the hardwired PC/UEFI console. So this change ought to improve usability in these environments as well; since they're going to show a cursor either way, they might as well place it so it correctly indicates focus.
Don’t think a hose that costs $10 is comparable to everything going into these contraptions that cost $1.5k
For all the captchas on this site you have to check every box, IIRC.
Perhaps it's for quickly updating the price tags for items inside refrigerators? E-Ink tags are ubiquitous but often handle low temperatures poorly.
It looks like some of the core parts aren't closed source (but definitely not open source). For example: https://github.com/WickrInc/wickr-crypto-c
I used to use `go get` for grabbing even non-Go repos but had to stop because of similar problems. I finally wrote a small tool to replace it I call `grab` https://github.com/jmhodges/grab to take over my "fetch the code and organize it into a tidy directory system" need

It actually uses the nice VCS library guts that `go get` does!
Ok but my point is:

Understand that the "shares" that you get may end up being worth exactly $0, while the "shares" of the venture capital investor may end up being worth substantially > $0, because they sometimes are different things.

Just saying "oh yeah factor that in" doesn't help anyone who may not even know there could be a whole different class of "shares", as well as other corporate liabilities.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/793/
It wasn’t a roll-out - it was the announcement of the first public beta. Spaces has lots left to do: not just iOS but private spaces etc too.
I thought the idea was that these would allow more insulation in the doors than glass, and that the energy use from the screen was less than the energy saved from cooling losses (but what is the payback from the manufacturing, shipping, install, recycling, repair etc?). I'm skeptical, but it is conceivably possible that it works out if the screens are very efficient, using off the shelf parts. Maybe.
> Actually you don't want this, and you are describing a nightmare scenario that everyone who studies health policy understands all too well.

Would a very large representative sample of volunteers doing this kind of hitherto unprecedented level of medical monitoring help improve this technology while limiting the unintended consequences? If we could get to the point where the technology was very highly predictive of specific outcomes and even had the ability to test early interventions on those outcomes, that would both allay the psychological cost of a population-wide roll-out and drastically improve outcomes across the board, would it not?
I feel like Clubhouse looks a lot more polished as an app though. Telegram feels like a CS 101 "hello world" messenger app demo. Yeah I know it has more features than that, but it looks like it has no features.

When you go into Clubhouse you know you're in Clubhouse. They don't need to write "Clubhouse" at the top of the app. There are no generic buttons such as hamburger buttons. It's obvious which account you're logged into just by looking at the icon at the top right. Almost every use has a profile pic. There is attention to negative space and typography.
There's an open-source project run by a team out of IBM thats trying to use RL to navigate the space more effectively looking for anti cancer molecular compounds

https://github.com/PaccMann/paccmann_rl
The Philosopher on Substack
> How is this any better than looking at the real product on the shelves? I mean, why did the shop want to pay for it?

Probably the fact that you can't see the cheaper alternatives anymore without opening the door.
Some bean counter came up with the idea that they have a captive audience which they can force to watch ads.

I think this is one of the stupidest things I’ve seen. But to be honest, I won’t be surprised if this actually increases revenue since people are going to buy what they buy and it’s not like they will go to another store due to this.
Except, 1 billion isn't typically considered _big_ to even perform full scan searches.

It's only big if it's expensive to search all of them, and that problem is very easily parallelizable.

Which makes it a $$->time equation? If it costs 1s for 1 machine to check an item, you will need 32 machines to check a billion in a year, or 12000 to search in a day.

So, it's the is_match operator that's expensive, rather than data storage? Is the match check minutes long or needing human oversight?
(N.B.: I've done over a half dozen startups, and exited two of them, but didn't make much.)

Yes, this is possible, but really, if done correctly (and most of the time, it's not), getting a good marketing strategy and plan in place and successfully executing it is the hardest part of getting a startup going. As the CTO/technology guy in all those startups, it pains me to admit that, but it's true - the biz part is way harder than the technology/product part in almost all cases. The biz side challenges are responsible for way more of my gray/lost hair than building awesome products...)

If you already know who your customers are, how to identify them, and have at least a clue how to reach them, then outsourcing this is more straightforward. If you don't, and especially if you don't have any marketing chops yourself, you'll definitely need to learn enough to not get taken advantage of, and then hire someone to help do that for you. Early/existing traction with PAYING customers is a big help here.

Dynamitejobs.co is one good place to find such people, but be aware that even hiring remote workers in another country may not be all that cheap, and you're making a commitment that's right up there with taking on a key employee or cofounder.

(FWIW, I plan to do this next year, once my new startup is off the ground, and flowing enough cash to pay for remote team I'll need. Interestingly, this is a small automated mfg play, and almost all the software dev (much of what I'll want to outsource) can wait until we're making money.)
Turns out the climate doesn't care about borders and kind of affects everything in our lives.
UFO US 'has no explanation' for sightings
But a really good sign that we haven't been wiped out yet.
I think it is way simpler than that. They want money for a new thing that will cost a lot and yield no results requiring more money. Hunting UFOs is an endless money pit.
> Do you actually use that many apps. Am I just a Luddite?

I bet you don’t have kids.
I can't speak for "western democracy", just my experience in the US.
#5 is one of the ones that isn't worth recycling.

I'm not really sure what your point is though. My initial comment is about the strange narrative that plastic was getting shipped to China for no reason (it would be cheaper to landfill it here than there, so the whole 'greed' thing means there was probably a reason for it).
Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CYFEZFNl6E

Milwaukee, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mkRgPGncn0

https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOVHS/
Hiding in Plain Sight: Merle Oberon
I haven't followed every scientist in that list so I have no idea how much any one of them might or might not have actively and aggressively smeared people. If that's the case, then obviously, that's awful. But they're still allowed to change their mind, and OP's comment seemed to take primary issue with the mind-changing. (That could be me mis-interpreting though.)

Edit: I've definitely seen people on Twitter and people in the media be overzealous when denying the lab-leak theory; but that's not the same as the scientists themselves doing it (which again, I don't know about either way).
What killed Usenet, IRC, etc is new technology/platforms not "irritation from a handful of people". If that was the case, facebook, reddit, twitter, etc would have died a long time ago.
Turning down a promotion to VP early in my career, now I’m in my mid 50’s and no one truly understands why I didn’t. Personally I didn’t want to ascend into mediocrity like most VP’s and above. Now I’m having trouble with age bias as a Director or Senior Director.

Ho-hum.
I like to call this line of thinking "capitalist determinism". Basically, if there is money to be made, it must be made. Letting any other concern interfere with this extracting of value is silly, or unnatural - even immoral.

People talk about it in these detached terms, call it laws of economics and say that it is something that happens naturally. But of course, when one remembers that these so-called laws of economics describes interactions between people, and that you always can choose what kind of influence you want to have on the world.
Missed one worst-practice: I was able to paste a password
What's the best way to get this effect while working from home?
Agree. Look at Santos, Brazil, as an example. Lots of buildings near the coast are visually tilted because of the terrain : https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/leaning-towers-of-santos

It hasn't been an issue.
What would you use that information for? Would you refuse to use an online service, smart device or video game based on how much storage space the app asks for? Even though the actual space they will end up using might be only half of that or even less?
What are the time-scales involved in system formation, the evolution of a technologically sophisticated culture capable of doing what you say, sending probes out (at sub-luminal speeds) and reporting back? Isn't that reason enough to estimate that while there may be such advanced alien societies, we will never have the possibility of contact?

Or through a vanishingly small chance, happen to find ourselves in a system relatively near one of those 100-400 billion stars around which such an advance civilization had earlier arisen?
Even having read a lot of Cal Newport, and am a fan of the principles he writes about, this was hilarious to read. Needed that. Thank you.
They are completely for ads.

https://twitter.com/RunDaltonRun/status/1408566439833788423
Yeah, I’m big on this stuff because I like scientific studies to be biased towards me. So like, imagine there is some treatment for a disease that only works on people who live in San Francisco.

My ideal outcome is that the study is accidentally biased to serve us and that all of America pays for this medicine.

Ideally, all outcomes are tailored to me through sheer participation bias.

Sure sure, everyone knows that sampling bias exists but there is a systemic human bias to what has been measured. I intend to exploit that.

And as for my data, Equifax got the most sensitive stuff so I’m not worried about anything else.
Twitch a 10xer?
So the PDF is broadly available on Google.

It's section on mental illness says that abusers are too "selfish" to put up with a medications side-effects and that they overdose on medication to strike out at his partner dramatically. The guy isn't really an expert on mental illness at all, pushes the hypothesis that abusive behavior and mental illness are distinct things, and that abuse by and large is rational behavior. The book in general defines abuse so broadly that anybody could meet the criteria if they're blunt, sarcastic, career-oriented, or simply discontinue medication. The author denies rehabilitation is possible because he deemed almost all the men he met to still be abusers when he was done treating them.

I generally don't see this book as examining the link between mental illness and abuse in any sort of balanced way, it's more a tome to persuade women that they're in an abusive relationship and their partner only abuses them because they think they can get away with it and would stop otherwise.
Yep. One of our salespeople had a fit because a prospect couldn't get emails from him. The return message said "we do not accept email from the .io top level domain".
They can display ads, which makes the store money.

https://twitter.com/RunDaltonRun/status/1408566439833788423
The course: Object Oriented Programming at the University of Minnesota
The book: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

This was back in the early 90s, we learned OO with Scheme. SICP is where I credit my programming ability even today. I think that if I'd taken OO via C++ my eyes wouldn't have opened like they did with Scheme and SICP.

I was, at the time, programming products in C++ for my father's software company while taking classes and I remember a student ask the professor (Dr. Maria Gini, an amazing instructor) why we were learning OO with a dead language instead of a language we'd actually use like C++. And I remember thinking to myself "I'd like to learn something other than C++ anyway". Dr. Gini simply said "because this is how I choose to teach the subject." (something like that).

It was an amazing experience, definitely one of my top 3 classes taken at University.
Citroën Tulip
Bitcoin Became El Salvador's Currency
Nationalism aside, there is a common refrain on HN comments that breaking up companies will result in a decline in innovation. History suggests otherwise:

The last company broken up was AT&T; at the time everyone was worried about Japanese electronics companies.

> breaking up AT&T in 1982 was the best thing that could have happened to America. AT&T's core project in 1982 wasn't fighting Japanese electronics companies: it was suppressing the growth of the internet in the USA

> Antitrust enforcement isn't an economic drag, it's an economic STIMULUS

Source: https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/21/each-drop-of-strych-a-nin...
I like this one:

> You'll Never Beat The Government With Just Guns,' Says Party That Also Believes Government Was Almost Toppled By Unarmed Mob On January 6

https://babylonbee.com/news/youll-never-beat-the-government-...
"vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas" translates to "vanity of vanities, all (is) vanity" - just in case I'm not the only one who didn't know.
Thanks for your work Dang, but also specifically thank you for writing a defense of your practices. I wasn't aware that HN didn't currently shadownban established accounts-- it's a practice I thought the site still engaged in (which like the prior poster I feel is somewhere between ill-advised and unethical) so I'm thrilled to learn otherwise.

I know it takes a lot to sit down and write out a response like this over and above the work you put in to making the site a usable venue. Doing so makes a difference.
> The US will probably get better outcomes with a multi-party system, but moving to one will not change the tone of political conversation. (Which is what this thread is about.)

I believe it could and would. There will always be extremists, but the current outsized focus on them is driven, in part, by their effectiveness in our two-party Plurality Voting system. In a system where the best compromise candidate is regularly elected, I believe the public discourse would differ.
That's what I get for skimming. I missed the connection being made.
>I think there is likely to be a wide variety of life. I think there are probably other human-like life forms in the universe, just as there are probably life forms that are so different that they might resemble ghosts and angels to us.
>Anyway, some life in the universe might be more easily anthropomorphized in this way.

I completely agree.

>What if we're being visited by multiple types of interstellar life?

Sure, that's a possibility. This makes me think of that university (and more places certainly exist) that was simultaneously hacked by two different APTs (if memory serves me). Maybe humans/Earth is really that interesting that there are several different kinds of aliens, or alien ship designs from the same species, at the same time here. Intuitively that doesn't sit well with my gut instinct, on the other hand as it is an unknown, unexplained, speculative phenomenon, I guess all bets are off...
How do you know?

If I were studying a primitive species, I would be no more interested in their war fighting than any other aspect of their society. Maybe that is just me.

If they are concerned about our militaries more than other things, why would they not always be perfectly concealed?
There are a ton of interesting graph neural network architectures that have been developed over the last 5-6 years, they are getting pretty good at modeling the properties of molecules and crystals

Edit: saw your other comment on GNNs. I don’t think it’s like a solved problem or anything, but I also don’t think it’s intractable. e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00094 seems relevant
Thanks! Those sound like awesome features! (.df() is extremely useful).
Me too. I have the exact same tax situation as last year, but now it pushed me really hard to upgrade, and at the very last step, it told me that something I entered on page 1 meant that they required me to go up by 1 pricing tier. They VERY CLEARLY made this product so that it wouldn't tell me that I needed to upgrade until I got to the very last step, so that I would feel intimidated at the idea of starting over with someone cheaper. So I switched to TurboTax, went through the same thing, and wound up paying $10 more as an F-You to TaxAct. Although turbotax did the same thing to me, so my moral high ground is pretty imaginary.
70% of America say government has more information about UAPs than it's telling
This doesn't say anything about encryption.
"Worth" doing is situational but, assuming you have the personal resources to spare and the interest in doing so, grabbing some snapshots in time might be useful to you in the future. That said, I'm fairly sure it would not have good ROI to do that as a broad public health measure. I'm more assuming we're talking about a 40-something affluent tech worker who has all the basic needs of life already well-covered and is up for spending time and a few thousand dollars which may well be wasted.

It's not so much that "new" tests are incoming, it's that last time I checked, a really large, thorough lab had a menu of over 900 different blood tests they could run. Just for grins, I did Select All and it would be several thousand dollars to run them all (plus who knows how many gallons of blood draws over time). To me the point is if, in the future, you have a new reason (symptom or indicator) to look at one specific test, if your immediate test shows positive you could go back and run that specific test on earlier samples to establish a baseline or perhaps even a progression rate (assuming it is a chronic condition which develops gradually over time).
> Finally, an easy way to query Parquet data without spinning up a local Spark instance

What's the burning pain-point here? Spinning up a spark shell is extremely quick and easy.
it looks intentionally vague and noncommittal, and in classic form, released on a Friday afternoon to minimize coverage.

As a guess, they do that both because this is information gathered for security reasons and there are limits to what they can reasonably say without compromising security and because no matter how they write it it turns into wild speculation about aliens by the general public and conspiracy theories and the like. That stuff even creeps into HN discussion in a way and to a degree that is not the norm here.

Minimizing the public furor is probably the least worst thing they can do, all things considered.
Almost 200% of commenters and lurkers on this thread buy dead-tree books on the design patterns and best practices of a javascript framework from 2012. Yeah, not much hope with that here.
Got the same name as a serial killer? Google might think you’re the same person
Yes, lifetime is a major factor. One hopes evolving solar cell tech will increase the efficiency as well as the endurance, however there may be a limit, as yet not fully defined, thatdetermines the maximum durability. I know that multi material cells(research grade) have efficiencies in the high 46-7% arena.Download this chart for max resolution.
https://www.nrel.gov/pv/cell-efficiency.html
Any idea why you're being faded? That's an apt enough summary of the article.

I keep a bunch of BNC to RCA connectors, S-video adapters, and RF modulators at work to connect legacy hardware we grew up on and started our careers with to some of our CRTs because they just don't look right on LCD. Gotta keep analog evil.

I've also got a green phosphorescent display that I keep a raspi B+ connected to running asciicam that I sometimes point a camera at to use as an avatar for meetings. It looks cheap on LCD, but people get a big kick out of it when they realize what they're seeing isn't just a filter.
I've never used Clubhouse, but on iOS and macOS Telegram looks and feels very native.. but better. Snappier, faster, more responsive, yet still looks correct, and works as I expect native apps to work.
Large panels like this emit heat. Any wins from better insulation are going to be offset by needing to keep the panel’s heat well away from the refrigerated contents.

Triple-paned glass insulates pretty well and for a fraction of the cost…
The NYT said that the author of the paper who found sinking did not expect, in hindsight, that anyone from the city would read the paper.