skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too bad they don't cite the paper "The Benchmark Lottery" (M. Dehghani et al, 2021) (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07002)

> The world of empirical machine learning (ML) strongly relies on benchmarks in order to determine the relative effectiveness of different algorithms and methods. This paper proposes the notion of "a benchmark lottery" that describes the overall fragility of the ML benchmarking process. The benchmark lottery postulates that many factors, other than fundamental algorithmic superiority, may lead to a method being perceived as superior. On multiple benchmark setups that are prevalent in the ML community, we show that the relative performance of algorithms may be altered significantly simply by choosing different benchmark tasks, highlighting the fragility of the current paradigms and potential fallacious interpretation derived from benchmarking ML methods. Given that every benchmark makes a statement about what it perceives to be important, we argue that this might lead to biased progress in the community. We discuss the implications of the observed phenomena and provide recommendations on mitigating them using multiple machine learning domains and communities as use cases, including natural language processing, computer vision, information retrieval, recommender systems, and reinforcement learning.

Edit: By "they", I was actually referring to the linked article. Strangely, even the paper the article is about does not cite "The Benchmark Lottery" at all.
Do they really reject them though? In my experience publishers will publish anything, if anything they should have higher standards not lower.
I think the response was incredibly muted. It gave it exactly the amount of attention it deserves.
The point is that the people who use your software have that awkward right, which you have carefully granted them (as that is the only right removed by the GPL). This is frankly sufficiently obvious that I can only imagine you are arguing in bad faith :/. Like, I definitely have seen good-faith arguments against the GPL, but this is not one of them.
It's much easier to make clothes at home than shoes. I could probably cobble together an odd looking shirt given some time and instructions without needing to buy special tools, but leather shoes are an entirely different thing.
I would not want to be this person, in any shape or form. It's fascinating to think that a man's mind can become so entangled in an alternate reality in hopes of getting back something that he lost.

While it would be a wonderful success story to see him find his hard-drive, I can't even begin to imagine the levels of exhaustion and stress he has endured up to this point.
I'm inclined to think a PoC (or whatever you want to call it) would be useful for some things:
- a tangible and cheap way of showing the customer how you think you can solve their problem
- getting concrete feedback on that solution (you're both talking about the in same, tangible thing)
- using it as a foundation for the "big" project. Not its code, but the ideas behind its UX, flow, treatment of data, whatever is the main crux of the solution can be made tangible in a PoC and be used as a reference for the next step, ie making a production-worthy application
- the PoC can also show that what the customer wants is in fact a bad idea.
>It's interesting to think about though. You can easily throw away a pile of cash, but never half a billion. The volume would be too big, you would notice. But a bitcoin wallet of the same street value fits on a micro SD, it could literally fall through a hole in your pocket.

It's not exactly same thing, as you obviously won't lose something like that if you already realise its value. It's more along the lines of throwing out painting from your neighbor and he becomes world best paid artist in 5 years.

Still interesting and scary to think that individual can basically "destroy" irreversibly any amount of savings by forgetting the keys/ sending it to wrong address and that can be done with 1 click.
> actively resists this advancement in human social services,

> "Until all of us are using waterfall, many of us will have a hard time using waterfall.

Now you've lost me, I've no idea what you're talking about with the first statement and the latter just sounds like cultism? People have valid reasons for iterative processes!
Having returned to aerospace since then, I can agree. Also with military written large!
Alternate reading, Amazon is worsening the supply chain chaos by buying up transport.

I guess it depends on whether you are waiting for a finished article that is already produced and sold from Amazon, or your waiting for a supplier (of a supplier, of a supplier...) to deliver some intermediate part to the factory that makes what you want or something that isn't sold on Amazon.

What makes the problem tricky is the interconnectedness, so I feel any "solution" that comes from one source is likely just adding to the problem, like "solving" a bus getting stuck in traffic by taking the car instead. The collective solution is more people on the bus, and the individual solution makes the wider problem worse.
Probably not. Of course, it's highly dependent on how you group related professions, but according to [0], which has a granularity similar to our medieval source, the three most common occupations in New York in 2020 were retail salespeople, nurses and labourers. You need to get to 4 and 5 before the office and management jobs usually associated with the "bullshit jobs" epithet start to appear.

[0] https://stacker.com/new-york/new-york-city/most-common-jobs-...
That sounds like a nice idea. Unfortunately I don't believe anything similar exists here in the UK.

I can pay my mobile provider an extra £7.50 per month for a "second SIM" to share the allowance from my main SIM (you're effectively paying to rent another number).

It's not a terrible expense, but for something I need to send an SMS maybe 1 per quarter is a little much. I guess if you look at it as a "service" it's not bad, but this was a home thing, nothing critical would be lost if I couldn't get my home IP until I got home. Now I use DDNS using a small piece of Go code I wrote to update the domain on my Digital Ocean account as a form of "free" DDNS, it runs on my router on connect/reboot.
> And how do you make sure you don't accidentally damage a hard drive with an excavator? What makes him think the hard drive is not already damaged because it has been driven over or just the weight of garbage crushing it? What if his hard drive went through one of those conveyor belts with a giant magnet above it to separate metals?

Money until proven otherwise. Never underestimate the power of money on a person haha. Plenty of people out there that would eat a fair share of the excavated crap for a potential 500 milly never mind sift through it

If he's smart he'll spin the attention into something with actual value than try to actually excavate a landfill
I dunno, I've seen many, many examples of a properly done Analysis phase. But it does require a great deal of competence, a lack of hubris, and plenty of self-doubt/verification/validation on the part of technical contributors to make sure they do actually know what they're talking about .. a Qualifications step usually reveals the nature of this impact on the project - or lets just say, omitting this step is usually the first part of project failure.
Kieran Healy's Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction https://kieranhealy.org/publications/dataviz/
Ascento Pro (a wheeled-bipedal mobile robot)
The abstraction of mining made concrete. When Bitcoin reaches a certain price, it will become economical to excavate the entire landfill to physically mine the trove of Bitcoin. The growing value forces the ore to surface.
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You're right. Thanks for the feedback.
Could one lose access to manage domains registered with Google domains because of some other service like this?
Welcome to google support. We value our customer so much, we let our developers handle your worries. All we require in return, is you bring us news, interesting things, hacker news.

Only if you attract the interest of the djinn, will he grant you a review or three wishes.
I figured as much. But I don't agree with the premise of the book. Sure, we all "know" the jobs are bullshit, and yet they aren't. Let's go over the wikipedia summary at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

>flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants, makers of websites whose sites neglect ease of use and speed for looks;

They serve, hence, not a bullshit job. We might look down on it, but they are providing value to their employer. Sadly perhaps, humans are just deeply subjective. See again my religion example. Also, this seems really dismissive of receptionists/PAs. These people do a lot of real work.

>goons, who act to harm or deceive others on behalf of their employer, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists, community managers;

Not very nice no, but again they provide value to their bosses. Probably to themselves too.

>duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing bloated code, airline desk staff who calm passengers whose bags do not arrive;

This just seems to be naïve idealism.

>box tickers, who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers, quality service managers;

Here it gets interesting. These people may actually be the first that don't provide value, but trick others into thinking they do.

>taskmasters, who manage—or create extra work for—those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals.

This is a mix of dumb (mis)managers, and malicious time wasters. I think it's obvious that a lot of resources of all kinds are wasted by inefficiencies caused by stupidity. That's a human (as in, we as a species) problem. Then there's malice, which fits into the "tricks others into believing they provide value" category.

Anyway, that's just my take on it.
Yes, waterfall is a team activity, as all software is necessarily a social service. Developers that fail to understand this - or indeed, resist it as part of their cultural identity - usually get taught this lesson hard in the form of failed projects.
I had an MGF and an MGTF (late 90s and early 2000s) - so they had an ECU but it was all 80s technology in there (the MGs were basically Austin Metros with the engine replacing the rear seats and the roof cut off).

Both died when the electrics got wet after a heavy rainfall, but they were the best things to drive.
Then why would EU be expected to give a coordinated response (the comment i responded to)
Ten Years of Measurement
It makes a lot of sense, which is why a lot of people follow it. Your comment is implying that somehow 1000s of people around the world don't realise they are doing something stupid.

You are portraying a poorly run implementation of agile as the only way and then destroying it. We call it a straw-man.

* My development team are rarely interuppted with customer meetings

* The meetings we have will always have outcomes, even if those are high-level "would this be possible?"
* Everything is not expected to be done "just-in-time" "on a whim", it is simply a case of allowing the highest priorities to be looked into in much shorter cycles.

* "Dev whiplash". Nope, not here. Poor architecture and tech debt? I haven't seen any more in the agile projects I have worked on compared to old waterfall projects.

* Tens of people who don't have any role. Nope

* Non-dev/product running meetings? Nope. Shouldn't happen and if it does, it's nothing to do with agile (or waterfall!)

* Borderline abusive?
We have an anonymous system, it's called cash. The price is you lose the anonymity if you store it in a bank, which something you have to do in many countries if you own too much.

You can still withdraw some and spend it anonymously.

Given, you can't buy a house anonymously with cash, but can you do that with bitcoin?
wow. what a fucked up thing to do.
You sound like a hopeless academic, so I can't help you up there in your ivory tower.

But for programmers implementing charts, look at the sample charts from Google Charts, Highcharts and D3.

(I happen to use Google Charts with tweaked SVG, so that's a rare but viable route.)

If you need high performance basic charts, there's also some projects around now on github that can render millions of points for timeseries, etc.
Could you clarify what "unbridled mass immigration" means? Sweden has restrictions on immigration from non-EU countries. As an American, I can't just decide to move to Sweden, can I? From reading https://sweden.se/culture/history/sweden-and-migration , I need to have Swedish employment, family connections, education, or be seeking asylum.

My reading of the article suggests limitations to your interpretation. (These may be from being an American reading about Sweden through a British news source.)

Sweden's drug policies seem rather prohibitionist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Sweden says there's "zero tolerance focusing on prevention, treatment, and control, aiming to reduce both the supply of and demand for illegal drugs", and that cannabis is still a Schedule I drug.

It therefore seems another answer is that Swedish drug prohibition policies have failed. There's clearly a demand ("Large quantities [of narcotics] were detected regardless of how wealthy or poor the district"), and the article says funding for the gangs comes from selling drugs.

If immigrants were magically removed, there will still be the demand for illegal drugs, yes? I find it hard to believe no one will fill that gap.

Also from the article, why are immigrants geographically segregated and socially excluded?

I ask because the article is also clear that the older policing policy, where officers didn't know the community, caused part of the failure. ("The turnaround had been built on old-school policing, he said - talking to everyone, including the Ali Khans ... winning back the trust of Hjällbo's residents offers a back-to-basics reminder for UK policing".) Why did 'old-school policing' disappear in immigrant neighborhoods?

And isn't a third answer that many other EU countries (and my country, the US) didn't accept refugees anywhere near the extent that Sweden and Germany did, seemingly out of xenophobic fears?

Eg, 1 million Irish economic refugees immigrated to the US after the Great Famine. The US accepted 22K Syrian refugees [1] from 2010-2020, and 24 governors didn't want those refugees settled in their state [2]. Sweden accepted 114K Syrian refugees [3].

[1] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/refugees-and-asylees...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34848248

[3] http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/en/ssd/START__BE_... selecting years 2010-2020.
> if it were truthful

Aye exactly. The priority is legally covered, clicks. This is also why you see "allegedly" even when something isn't actually alleged haha

"The man was allegedly murdered blah blah".. no, the man was murdered, we know this for fact. There is a body with 20 knives in it.

The suspect allegedly did it, though. Journalism lmao
The suspect allegedly stole gigabytes of data, need bandwidth for that.

Last time I tried to use tor, I was getting like 32 kbit/sec, on top of a symmetric 100 mbit/second internet connection.

That was many years ago but I doubt they fixed the speed, very hard to do without centralized servers.
While the term "hacking" is used in both black- and white-hat contexts, it's also used to mean simply... programming/making computers do what we want them to :)

Like in "HackerNews".
I don't encounter this problem - and have rarely disabled JS. Perhaps having hundreds of tabs open is the cause of your issues? Isn't this what bookmarks are for?
Nadieh Bremer's blog: https://www.visualcinnamon.com/

And she co-wrote a beautiful book with Shirley Wu: https://www.datasketch.es/
You forgot Tim's email address[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29446529
>>> That's the whole thing with the difference between so-called "ACID" databases and MySQL. Corrupted data after a power outage just shouldn't happen. It's one of the things database engines are supposed to protect us against.

I knew I was not running MySQL in ACID mode (via innodb-flush-log-at-trx-commit=0), and I sacrificed safety by performance. I was OK with that in my specific use-case.
I haven't looked at the recommended add-on page for a while but I do recall ublock being on there at one point.
That they are two massively different occupations, with different goals, different processes and different regulations they fall under. Just about the only thing they have the same is low salary.
When I try to visit Youtube now I get redirected to https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/40039?p=youtube which says:

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Google reserves the right to:

* Disable an account for investigation.
* Suspend a Google Account user from accessing a particular product or the entire Google Accounts system, if the Terms of Service or product-specific policies are violated.
* Terminate an account at any time, for any reason, with or without notice.

---

So you can just be shut down completely for anything.

After privacy couldn't be trusted to big tech companies, now time for another EU law that restricts how companies can handle account terminations?
Shoes might fall apart in 2 years if you wear them every day. Do you wear the same t-shirt every day?
https://web.dev/vitals/
> If a project is more than 6 months to a year in duration, there is very little chance that what the customer now wants is what they wanted before.

Depends largely on the customer. Just do anything defence, related to aircraft, or industrial control systems, more often than not, requirements are set in stone, and modifications require approval and consequent fees.

Now, those industries throw a lot of money at actual R&D to know what requirements can be requested, which is very different from your usual software shop, where "R&D" is some brief talk during refinement or at most a dedicated user story to look into the subject.
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The Amazon Empire Strikes Back
Nuclear weapons too.

It's the one thing that can wipe most of us, and faster than global warming could.

I'm all for ideas old and new but to me it gets old

I'd rather it read 'activism to create a mass popular movement for [insert idea of tactic or whatever here]'

Like, the idea that ideas without mass popular action will get us anywhere is misguided imo
I know this isn't going to be a popular suggestion but can we please ban these type of threads from HN? I'm not sure if that's a 'done' thing around here, but they are multiplying in number and really, HN isn't a suitable venue for Google support.

For each one of these threads that reach high in the HN index, there are like 10's or 100's more cases - why is one person more special than another?

Really, we should just do a weekly 'big tech banned my account pls help' and pressure changes to be made, such as legislation, to ensure proper support is given in these cases.

HN isn't meant to replace actual Google support.
> Holder’s memo asserted that “collateral consequences” from prosecutions—including corporate instability or collapse—should be taken into account when deciding whether to prosecute a big financial institution.

> That sentiment was echoed as late as 2012 by Lanny Breuer, then the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, who said in a speech at the New York City Bar Association that he felt it was his duty to consider the health of the company, the industry, and the markets in deciding whether or not to file charges.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/how-wal...
Thousands of JSON parsing errors after Logstash upgrade to 7.15
Pay-For-Stamps is also not an option in most use-cases where I want strangers to contact me.

Say a purchase representative wants to contact another company with inquiries about purchasing options for their product.

To draw a clumsy analogy: Imagine a supermarket charging an entrance fee. How many customers would they have?
The uttering 'I dont believe them blindly' could be literal (there is always a chance), but/yet it is very much the language that an attemptive manipulator could adopt. Suggesting some kind of animal "adoption of stance through imitation of the acting wise". I was surprised to see, in this context, in the past few years, some clearly absurd pieces of communication that comprised images of ignorance and images of "revealing" knowledge.

This given, q., let us not forget the guidelines, «Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like».

The "political interest" is out of here, this is a place for debate on intellectually relevant topics. The interest here (specifically to these "theoretical suggestions" the new account/member triggered) is in language, response, awareness of the instruments, intellectual processes, intellectual productivity.
"Software is a social service - rigid developers who cannot put on the user hat, are not providing the most intrinsic aspect of that service in their field."

All the more reason not to rely on the proper wearing of a user hat (how are you going to know, by the way?), but actually work with the users instead and spend time creating the necessary artefacts to capture their perspective as soon and as well as possible.
As a teenager, nothing, and I ended up short sighted as a consequence of squinting at flickering CRT displays for hours.. oops.

As an adult, a lot! I go each year for a test that includes a extended 3D scan of my retinas. I always have glasses that match my prescription. I have "night shift"/reduced-blue mode turned on my computer and phone almost permanently to reduce eye strain and reduce the chemical effects later in the day. I wear sunglasses whenever I feel eye strain outdoors, even if it's winter. I increase font sizes on sites where it now, post 40, feels necessary (such as HN). This all seems to be working well so far.
Health ministry warns of vaccine's side effects (Japan)
That would make a cool bot. Followed by block them on Whatsapp. One by one no more whatsapp.
I don't follow. What could be said about it?
By taking away one freedom (the right to relicense software under other licenses or exploit the software, analogical to slavery), you grant more people more freedom (the freedom to modify and use *their* software as they please, analogical to abolishing slavery).
> 1 team, 10 houses = 10 weeks, 2 teams 10 houses, = 5 weeks. Ballpark.

Concrete needs 4 weeks to cure.
Yes, I forgot to mention that Zoë lives in Doña Ana county, NM.
All these analysis both on HN an outside seem to miss it one logical conclusion:

It doesn’t matter.

At least for ~90% of the projects. People use MySQL because it’s in the tutorial and it works, end of story.
it's not a shame. It's capitalism working as intended.
Cash also fairly rapidly depreciates
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Services of condo cleaning in Toronto are solely for the comfort of homeowners who have jobs in the day and cooking duties in the evening at home. As a resident, it is your responsibility to maintain your house clean such that it remains valuable, attractive, and efficient in the future.
> Many GNU, Linux and other utilities are useful, and obviously some effort has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects are written in platform-specific C, a language considered unsafe compared to Rust, and have other issues.

I wonder why some people in the Rust community seem to remind us every few sentences how Rust is superior to C because it's safer.

/s And now it's C, yesterday it was C++... what's next, ASM ?