skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that’s a result of being connected to the web not a native application vs web app thing. Nothing is stopping a native app from sending telemetry to a server for every action you take.
It’s not a PyTorch book per se but Dive into Deep Learning by Alex Smola et al. has PyTorch examples. https://d2l.ai/
This is true. As someone who has done a lot of sparring, I can go for a long time, but it is only because I have learned how to be perfectly relaxed. Most people tense up their whole body and stay that way. Also breathing is incredibly important. But mostly, it is keeping your body relaxed, which also relaxes the breathing. But that's extremely difficult to do, when one hasn't done it thousands of times.
A lot of companies just put up "laundry lists" of requirements when writing job ads. Often HR asks the developers / team lead what they are looking for and which qualifications a candidate should have and they just respond with all the tools and languages they use, which then all end up in the job ad. Also, many companies that mostly use legacy tech put put modern tech keywords in there to appeal to candidates, since most developers find it more "sexy" to work with K8s and Docker than an outdated Jenkins & Tomcat based workflow.

I wouldn't be too concerned about that, you can have a look at the most important technologies and get a basic understanding of them, which should be enough to get you through most interviews. Often they're just part of the workflow and most developers just know enough about them to fulfill their role. For example, most devs know how to create a simple Dockerfile, but only few know the internals of container networking, scheduling etc..
No, not really. It seems they stumbled on some good solutions and nice features by accident during their random walk process to IM application design, but they forgot about them just as soon. The first step in figuring it out is to get something compelling in an useable state, and then commit to it because people are not going to use something they’d drop in a year.

They did it with Google Talk but could not replicate it, which tends to show that they (collectively; I am sure some people at Google could predict what would happen) did not really know what they were doing.
I am not sure I understand what clickbait actually is. It seems to be a term a lot of people use, but in many different ways, and often in a 'I know it when I see it' sort of way.

The author claims that basically any sexiness constitutes clickbait, that a hammer is clickbait, and wield is a gun is clickbait. I think only the last of those is plausible. Title images really give very little information, and usually suggest only what genre the film is.

If Netflix is nefarious, why even put genre labels on? Afterall, wouldn't that discourage people from watching films with outside of their genre?

And the best example they can come up with is that a show about norse mythology has as it's cover art... a hammer? As in the object that we associate with Norse mythology? What exactly did you expect? Okay, no hammers--better show a man instead. 'oh why are you putting a man there when it's about mythology?' You can't win.

I get the impression the author just wanted to beat on Netflix and tech in general.
Looks like the feature is still being A/B tested
Thank you for sharing. I read this a while back and it still hits me just as hard. My brother passed away nearly 6 years ago and left under similar circumstances to the author's father. He also left a tattered, and similarly-chaotic journal.

I was really torn about reading it at first, but he was the type of person who wanted to go ahead of the pack and clear the path for others. His journal was the last way for him to do that.

He was older than me and, reading it years after his death, it's shocking to see the differences between our lives at the same ages. He always seemed older and wiser, but now -- having just turned the age he was when he died -- I realize why he felt so lost and lonely. Being an adult in your mid-twenties is difficult. I have it easy, and I'm having a hard time. Throw in years of battling addiction and no college education, and you can't help but feel the entire world is against you.

Losing an older sibling is a strange experience. The longer you go without them, the smaller the age gap between you becomes. Eventually, you're older than they will ever be -- I haven't reached that point yet but just thinking about it puts a lump in my throat.

I've considered publishing bits and pieces of his story on a blog, or in a book, someday. Anything that could help people in his (or my) situation feel less alone. Although, I don't think it would be much help considering his story ended.

Not sure why I posted this comment. There's not much substance here other than evidence of another touched soul.
I can't wait for more button mashing "talking dog" examples, especially if done by professionals like Cesar Milan. Being able to actively communicate could lead to all sorts of improved physical and mental health practices for dogs.

Bunny, of YouTube and tiktok fame, has demonstrated remarkably abstract thoughts, and the fart/poop humor [1] was a revelation to me. Dogs are treated like automata or mindless things, but they are intelligent and emotional on a very human level.

Giving them voices and making such systems common and easy would radically change humanity's relationship with canines for the better.

https://youtu.be/9iW1CY7mlOI
This post is from 2011 and requires post update
Show HN: No fuss super simple TODO/list making app
You know what's worst about this? That pretty much every single engineer in Google that I met was voicing the same opinions. I personally used the phrase "I truly believe that the new unsinkable strategy will lead to a titanic success" so many times...
It is a con job. In some sense, it is Darwinism for people who choose to invest in them I guess?
But, it’s all about whether they can jump before the ship sinks.
Who wouldn't think that wandering through the forest all day is the best job ever?
The heart of the problem in my opinion is that Google is an ad company first. Their primary concern is selling ads. If a given product is not helping them target or sell their ads, it gets sunset. Google has a long history of ruining or killing everything they touch... and I don't expect this to change. Too many smart people there, not enough idiots.
Well that is what html should be used for.

I do freakishly experimental webdesign at times (like for designer portfolios, where freakishly experimental webdesign is kinda part of the thing), but for everything where it is much more about the info and the content I will bend over backwards to use semantic html (and even with those freakish sites I will try).

If you never looked at your website via lynx or used a screenreader I highly encourage it. It will give you a different perspective on things.
> particularly video calls which in my experience are the best in terms of stability and quality.

I guess you use Chrome? Or have Google fixed it?
You can change the language from top right corner.
I'm not an Apple or Jobs apologist - I'm sure you've noticed - but I can see why someone who was would want to paint each individual example of poor behaviour as isolated, accidental, deeply regretted, not indicative etc - rather than on trend for some deep, persistent, unpleasant character flaws.

The absence of any technical brilliance is fairly well documented, and Woz was the first, possibly most famous, person he leveraged / misled (depending how charitable you want to be).

So, yes, I am saying he annexed the credit. The quote that we're talking about - musing on how there wouldn't have been an Apple without Woz - was from a 2011 book, where he looks back, from his multi-billionaire perspective, at someone he shafted repeatedly some decades earlier. Who knows the tone of this comment - to me it doesn't feel like a '...and I feel bad about it' type comment, just a casual aside.

Mind, Woz was just one of many casualties along the way, too.

> So when someone is complaining about the awfulness of any one person I guess I actually want more than anecdotes of how rude they were, considering how awful people can be.

The stories of Jobs' awfulness are many and manifest. Start with a web search on 'stories of steve jobs being awful', or go straight to Lisa Brennan-Jobs' book. Arguably every story about someone is by definition an anecdote, so perhaps this won't be enough for you.

In any case, the guy certainly did NOT 'completely transform modern life and changed the human trajectory for everyone on the planet, multiple times', seemed to have no notable skills beyond showmanship, and was awful.
> I think too many people ( ones who did not have kids) threw themselves into work since Covid started.

Heh, even the ones with children.
On the contrary, both communities are very active. Pharo and Squeak both have active mailing lists with dozens of messages each day, and the Pharo community maintains a very lively Discord server
As has Signal. And Signal doesn't - as far as I know - leak all its metadata to Facebook or anyone.
Unit testing a TCP stack (2015)
Tech people generally love to under invest in accounting and legal services early in a start up, but cases like this show why investors should consider audits to be valuable even in early stage.
I bet that's an effective job ad. I have no idea of the significance of this news. (But I'm glad to hear Erlang is/was still in use.)
Yeah, this really irked me. I used Hangouts for everything...calls, texts, chats, even group calls/screen sharing. It all worked so well.

At this point, I'll not use another Google messenger. They've made it clear enough it either won't be updated (hangouts), or will be killed off in 2 years(allo).
Widely held opinion in HN: Promotions in Google are based on how many new products / projects launched by that person. So, every person in that spot wants to do afresh and nobody cares about maintaining existing ones: coz that is not in the metrics for promotions.
> Not every job requires Leetcode practice.

In The Netherlands, most jobs don't.
China actually has both actual elections (at the local level) and it definitely has negative public opinion. The Chinese are, if anything, some of the most ardent shitposters if you've actually ever used social media in China. Of course some of it is censored but most of it isn't, deliberately so because it's pretty much the only way to figure out what grievances people have, and technically because you can't stop a billion people with the ability to make memes and puns from getting around anything.[1] There's even people who make that stuff available for English speaking audiences[2]

This notion that you somehow can't figure out what the Chinese want, as if you couldn't talk to them, which you literally can, you could just visit China actually, just shows that the entire discourse happens at some sort of meme level.

[1]https://qz.com/2014939/chinese-internet-users-reject-beijing...

[2]https://www.whatsonweibo.com/
> Where do you draw the line? What is misinformation and what isn't? Who decides?

The Reddit posts present clear examples of blatant misinformation, such as:

* Claims that COVID-19 does not exist at all,

* Wearing masks can suffocate you,

* COVID-19 is just a flu,

* COVID-19 is a bioweapon,

* COVID-19 vaccines are not safe and are untested,

* COVID-19 vaccines are a DNA experiment,

* Etc.

Unless you're gunning for a slippery slope argument, we don't need to dig too deep to find subreddits that are a constant stream of these claims, and even worse claims.
What are the factors that made this a hard problem? Isn't having 1,000,000 open TCP connections kind of similar to having a 1,000,000 row key-value database? As long as it fits in RAM it doesn't seem too terrible.

You could even do the TCP protocol in userspace and literally use a key-value database to store all state, I think.
… and that word alone means two very different things because of incorrect metaphorical usage! (Its original sense, now rare, was killing one tenth of a group of people, and so metaphorically the destruction of a tenth of something; the typical meaning now refers to a much more drastic reduction than ⅒, very commonly almost complete.)
There’s also Pine Phone.

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
I'm trying to think of really old, selfish people. Not super easy. And it's pretty hard in every case not to see those individuals' younger selves as being more energetically, vigorously selfish. :-) Ahh, to be young again...
Someone rightly pointed out : Google is ADHD at industrial scale
Well, isn't the most OBVIOUS thing to notice the fact that this study proves that the vaccines are not worth getting; certainly not worth requiring...
For (guitar) effects processing, there's also JSFX, which uses a scripting language similar to C/Javascript: https://www.cockos.com/EEL2/
I made nofusstodolist.com because I needed this app for myself. I find most apps require some form of registration which is just too much friction to get going on such a simple task. I also feel like iPhone notes (although perfectly simple) is a little more trouble than its worth to make a quick interactive grocery list or TODO list on the fly. I know there are a thousand list apps available, but I hope someone else finds the simplicity of this useful :)
No, they will be deprecated. The decision has been made:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28310716
Another example of this is SharedWorker.

Here it is in the standard: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/workers.html#dom-shar...

Safari/Webkit removed it in 2015 (edit: maybe even earlier!) and never reintroduced it:
https://caniuse.com/sharedworkers

Here is the apparent reason for cherry picking features:

> The implementation of Shared Web Workers was imposing undesirable constraints on the engine. It never gained any adoption.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/48193804

Edit: Here is the ticket for it’s reinclusion https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149850

Turns out it was removed temporarily because of internal architecture changes, and never reintroduced because of lack of adoption. Of course the biggest barrier of adoption is Safari not supporting them, so talk about a self fulfilling prophecy.

> This feature was originally removed temporarily during multiprocess bring-up, and actual usage on the web has been pretty low. We're willing to reconsider if there is significant demand.
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Hi HN, I am learning SEO and would like to get an overview in this area. Probably starting from knowing what tools which are available at my disposal. Do you have any suggestions?

(Tips are welcome. Forums/Communities are welcome. And even things which I haven't known yet are mostly welcome.)
How is that even possible? Aren’t the books and statement audited?
I don't know about a discussion, but i know a lot of people are moving to plotly [1] or seaborn [2] as they are prettier and more intuitive.

1: https://plotly.com/python/
2: https://seaborn.pydata.org/
HN loves to bitch about whatever Safari doesn’t support at the moment but I use Safari as my platonic ideal web browser. It’s the only one that is directly designed for users and not web devs, and the only one that has a simple “buy our hardware and get Safari” business model.

I am automatically suspicious of web techs not supported by Safari.
1 million tcp connection is that possible? I am not an expert just thinking about the maximum port number how this could be possible ?
Why not double down on that and coast?
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html

These 'Illusions' that trick the mind are based on perceptional biases, more or less hard-coded brain structures that gave its ancestors a survival advantage.
They had faster reaction times with some out-of-the-box categories and such.
They back-propagate information that filters perception.

And its not just those 'Illusions'.

In reality, whatever that is, there aren't any vanishing lines meeting at a vanishing point somewhere around infinity.

But that 2D graphical user interface in your head comes in handy, moving in a higher dimensional (mostly 3, sometimes 4) reality.

So since perception is always subjective illusion (are there any others), science in a sense is parting from Illusions.

Something, one or the other religion, strangely also claims for itself.
I'm wondering if you somehow pinned your org to an old version. I'm, as a googler, on pre-release and Chat is obviously changing a lot. I doubt I will ever like it, but "nothing has changed" is the polar opposite of what I'm seeing.
>"How is that even possible? Aren’t the books and statement audited?"

From the article:

>"The company’s unaudited financial statements were reviewed by an auditing firm in May 2020. According to the complaint, the review concluded that Headspin’s cumulative revenues from inception through the first half of 2020 totaled only approximately $26.3 million, instead of the $95.3 million originally reported by the company. The review also calculated the cumulative net loss from Headspin’s inception through the first half of 2020, totaling approximately $15.9 million, instead of the $3.7 million net income originally reported by the company."

The first audit found the fraud (which probably means it just wasn't well covered-up).
No, they will be deprecated. The decision has been made:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28310716
I think what this graph shows is, contrary to what the text alludes, the VCS use for Debian packaging. There was no standardized way to declare that until late 2006, and it was offically documented only in 2008:

https://bugs.debian.org/391023
You can identify the connection by the local port, remote port, remote IP triplet. That gets you many, many connections.
>And the adults in their lives have the opportunity to be vaccinated and also protected so we don’t need to worry about transmission.”

This is a complete abdication by the writer of the duty to consider actual reality. The actual reality is that vaccinated people are known to be able to transmit the virus and both vaccinated adults, and minors vaccinated and not are liable to spread it either immediately or ultimately via the chain of infection to the huge population of unvaccinated in America. Moreover these unvaccinated people aren't evenly distributed around the country, they are clustered in Trump country. This means that those parts of the country where most are unvaccinated which will face unique challenges that can't in the short term be solved with an optional vaccine because the parties at risk won't save themselves. We cannot absolve our selves entirely of being concerned about their harm just because they won't. They remain our fellow Americans.

>there are obvious socio-emotional and educational harms from masking children for this unprecedented duration of time.

This really requires a citation

>the onus is on those who recommend masking kids to robustly demonstrate a meaningful benefit

Reasonable studies seem to suggest that masks in help us slow the spread of covid in other settings. Given the nature of the risk I would suggest that the onus would be on those parties to present further research into the proposed socio emotional harm and insofar as mask being ineffective in schools in order to justify us not using such measures while more research is done. A really good question would be why.

Did they have poor fit based on size of face? Did they have poor compliance? We know that decreasing size of initial dose bears strongly on chance of infection. Is the dose in full classrooms so high that infection so likely as to render the utility of preventative measures too small to be measured?

They left out the parts that they couldn't prove presumably because failing to prove that masks work in this study without explanation is vastly insufficient to conclude definitively that masks don't work and if they even vaguely implied that it might be so the anti maskers would be reposting the conclusion into 2023 even if a contrary study came out 30 days from now. They are more measured and responsible than the writer of this article.
SEO is a racket man. Just write semantic html and provide useful links (don't spam) and you'll be fine. The big 2020 thing was "guest blogging" but I get so many guest blog spam emails now I don't think it works anymore.

Best thing is to share your link in niche user groups where people will find value.
To use your metaphor, quadrupling up all the rotten beams would only increase the burden of said beams without proportionally increasing their strength.

You're just making the house obese and the structure will collapse under its own weight because your building materials are trash.
What do you mean? Do you think all functions should be asynchronous? Do you think no functions should be asynchronous?
I really liked Hangouts with SMS inside of Gmail. With Google Fi you also had calls in there. Everything in Gmail!

Of course it was too good to be true. Google taketh away.

I can understand poor design choices from a engineering heavy org - but why do the products get technically worse (less featureful, less integrated) over time?

I suspect there are too many cooks in the kitchen.
LHC Micro Models: Build Your Own Particle Detector (2013)
Has anyone used their services? Seems like a solid product idea
Not OP, but it took me maybe a couple of years.

I kept telling me I was _close to being burnout_. It took me probably 6 months to realise how bad it had gotten and that I was actually in a really bad spot.
Everything is not determined by local control like this.

Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods is a group of residents that organizing collective action and is bringing a legal challenge against a massively wealthy and powerful organization which they believe is impacting their quality of life. Doesn't seem unreasonable.
One state alone can't fix a nationwide problem. Otherwise it becomes more attractive and loses any ground made. There need to be homes everywhere people would like to live, within reason.
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Yea I'm surprised the later rounds didn't require an audit.

Too much follow on money that said oh I'm sure the previous guy did it.

I wonder what triggered the audit though. If he knew he was cooking the books then why allow it?
One problem is, it would have to be permanent, once the steroids are stopped, the extra muscle will mostly fade away and the natural testosterone production will be inhibited, this is the worst effect, the people end up with a lower testosterone production than before.
But it's true, so long enough calories are given, they would gain some muscle, even without training at all.
An alternative might be hgh , but that comes with other issues.
Last but not least, all steroids are not equal, they're all testosterone derivates, the tablets are very toxic to the liver, and some derivates come with some more side effects than plain testosterone.
Science tried to develop a mild steroid with great anabolic effects , but all of them are not powerful without adequate androgenic properties. The androgenic properties is what makes a steroid strong and....causes most side effects and hormonal imbalances post going off.
To this day, testosterone seems to be the choice of medicine and by no means it's a weak drug, it simply upsets the body bit less as it's the same thing that the body produces.
There might be more points on why not give it to these patients, but that's the steroid side of things.
Personalisation gap grows despite boom