skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that it not only increases engagement, but also increases likelihood to click ads and buy things. People seem to like to shop as a distraction / coping mechanism.

I have no evidence of this but I have thought quite a bit about why social networks angering push content the way they do.
I've got a friend who is a long-time embedded C developer, about 20 years of experience. Really knows his stuff. I just hired him to write python and he got a massive pay rise to come over, because all the embedded shops in our area pay shit.
We had a candidate once who was super smart, it was a role we really needed filled. His level of knowledge exceeded mine on every area I asked (not a high bar, but it meant he got full marks on every one of my questions). But he was insufferable. (Blamey, exaggerating, interrupting, bitter). In the hiring committee everyone rated his knowledge tops. Everyone also said “but I’d never want to work with him”
He had interviewed with our parent company before. He asked why he hadn’t been selected the previous time “was it because I asked about the secret locations of data centers?” I said “I assure you it wasn’t that” we ended up not hiring him and leaving the role unfilled. Some employees are not better than nothing.

Think about that for a second. We chose to have nothing than hire an asshole.
You can always decide what to build yourself. Decide your priorities. If you build some thing people want, then great.
I cannot and will not take monitor advice from someone who uses a bright yellow background to display text over. It's inhuman.
why there's no native PDF API on Windows? macOS has PDFKit.Win32 has great foundations to make a good pdf library：Direct2D/DirectWrite.But it's so inconvenient to do pdf programming on Windows.
We wrote enterprise applications with jQuery and Backbone. It didn't scale. React fixed everything. There is no post-React.

I'm not "technology-agnostic"- I only use React, and will only work for companies that use React. React is the best.
Yeah, I had forgotten that when I was looking through the version history. I remembered most of those features, but when I saw Flash, I had to sit and slowly blink for a minute.

(A lot of those “interactive” features are exposed in Adobe InDesign, hence my passing, regrettable familiarity.)
He's right about this - nerds get a lot of money these days, but no respect.
Hotels for short term or travelling alone.

Airbnb for long term and for families.
This needs to be in base R, Julia, python, and all spreadsheet programs yesterday.
> These guys aren’t usually that good (by NHL standards) and you’ve probably lost the game anyway.

Interestingly, EBUGs have a pretty good record -- teams using an EBUG have won 3 of 4 games they've been used in. I think #3 factors into it: the players know that a "normal" (to be clear: while EBUGs aren't NHL caliber, they're not scrubs or beer leaguers, either) guy has gotten the night of a lifetime, and they'll (based on a subjective eye test) play more tightly in their own end.
There are some switches I've seen that can snap back to "neutral" when another switch in the circuit is turned off, so anywhere you go the normal "push up to turn on and down to turn off" works, but if I recall they were weirdly expensive.
I gave a coworker honest feedback during our 360 review period and now I feel bad.
A switch exists for this, however they’re quite expensive and had some financial issues in the past (although they seem to be under new management now)? https://dendevices.com/products/switch/
There’s a popular narrative that social media companies use algorithms that intentionally favor divisive content. WhatsApp is a useful illustration of how that narrative might be wrong.

The WhatsApp algorithm can be described as: “show the chat with the most recent reply at the top, then show the most recent reply at the bottom if the user clicks on that chat”.

Suppose the Twitter algorithm was: “show the tweet with the highest count recent replies at the top of the feed, then show the most recent reply at the bottom if the user clicks on that tweet”

That is a pretty natural way to design a social media service that wants to host the global discourse. And that algorithm would inherently promote tweets that provoke a lot of responses. It would take a strong thumb on the scale to make it not be full of divisive content (the major social media companies publicly claim to be attempting this).

WhatsApp is a useful datapoint here because we know the feed is chronological, yet there are a ton of news stories about how the app is rife with divisive content and misinformation, just like Twitter and Facebook.
I’m playing StarCraft 1 over again.
So great.
An old Indian saying goes like this. Healthy eating and regular fasting is a big part of ancient Indian system still followed.

Wordly people eats twice a day,

Ascetics eats once a day,

Children and invalids eats throughout the day.
Maybe a apt place to ask the question, all of my devices are silos. I’m still wondering if this is for people besides me, or if I’m just missing the potential use cases for myself. I have never needed to connect my device to each other. In the house I have a few laptops, a couple phones, Xbox, Apple TV’s, fire sticks, and every device is just connected to the google mesh Wi-Fi. Every device communicates out for what it needs (and yeah probably more) but I never in years have needed to use a device as a server unless I was developing on it and using it as localhost. Do I still have a use for tailscale?
the bigger question is: who would pay for such studies?

big pharma? government lobbied by big pharma? universities given grants from government lobbied by big pharma?

actually though, the soviets did do serious research into the science/benefits of fasting. Too bad it never really made it to the west.

Watch the video: "The Science of Fasting" for an overview.
> lazy loading - and it turns out that you can do that without JS too, now, at least in modern browsers.

The irony is, modern browsers are more likely to have JS enabled, older browsers are less likely to support lazy loading or JS.
> shocked that Facebook wants to make their money back.

Haha. So true. As if all these people in the heart of the money spinning and raking machine that is SV were so naive and cheery eyed, that they just didn't see what all the "deals" were.

They didn't know that FB has a fiduciary duty to explain its spending? They didn't know that Zuck wants to increase the share price and market cap of FB?

Did they really think that paying 1$ for downloading WA was a good enough revenue stream?

Did they really think that Zuck was such a fool to actually allow that "No Ads..." bullshit paper really run?

He waited for a couple of years, mining user data, then when people mostly forgot about it, went in for the kill.
What precisely are the consequences of the third-party auth? Is it, they get an IP ping each time a device connects or does anything? Or, does that only happen once, but they can revoke access at any time? *Surely* they aren't granted access to the content? That would be mindboggling.
I actually got a chuckle out of the 30 pages of statutes from places that are now US states and territories from 1850 till 1973.

Thought it was odd and hurried to include Hawaii's 1850 statute. Since it was neither a territory or state then. Wish I knew a news source or discussion board that could find this stuff moderately entertaining, instead of looking for angles to discredit the entire institution.
Pitching in baseball follows a similar rule: the pitcher that gives up the winning run is awarded the loss, the last pitcher to pitch for the winning team is awarded the win.
From an organizational level, we're 98% regarded as human resources for management's usage.

From a personal level, few people have the capability to appreciate what we care about. They can measure us with yard sticks & jira points & dollars-of-valued-delivered, but none of these outsiders can adopt our value system & see us as we see ourselves, none can rate us by what matters to us & how we go about & care about our lots.

This post is about opening one's view & recognizing other peoples game. Im contending nerds find few who can rate their game, see what they're really playing at, what real success is & what matters to them. Who else out there has hard really hard to understand games, has a value-system alien to others? That is the defining question to me.

Often we see mis-allocated respect too. Nerds given undeserved respect, sourced in shallow understanding, undermining our trust in the world's sensibility & discernment. The "cowboy coders" and 10x discourse revolves around these outsider/alien/unsensing values being used to determine respect & rank, causing endless offense & distrust & alienation to nerds, confirming to us we are alone in chasing our good game.

The respect you consider is shallow & exterior & the respect we want & that matters to us is often trapped & esoteric. Real success - often yes of the business - often derives from what others cannot see.
I had to recreate some PDFs at work that were created by "iText by Lowagie" which must have been a java library at the time.

I redid it with the FPDF library for php, and it worked out fine. I tried some new features of tcpdf, and it wasn't much work to convert.

Using inkscape to make an EPS out of an svg was also challenging.

I know that postscript and PDF is based on a forth stack machine, if I really had to get that low.

http://fpdf.org/

https://tcpdf.org/

https://wiki.c2.com/?ForthPostscriptRelationship
But I don’t ignore morals, so your counterpoint is moot.
> Users who violate the rules must talk to a “conflict coordinator” and read documents about why their behavior was problematic before they can post again. These moves are intended to “lay a foundation for users and set a different expectation” for how users should behave online, Ms. Austin said.

There are lots of great ideas about how to tame problematic online behaviour.

But in the end I've only see one working well and at scale - here at HN, @dang's courteous yet determined interventions. As luck would have it, I noticed a new one this morning, classic dang:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31265977

Perhaps there is literally no tech. that can do as good a job as a motivated savvy human.
I'm inclined to agree. x86 seems to have the most performance still "left on the table" so-to-speak, at least of the major architectures. My fingers are crossed that the next 5 years of RISC-V development come swiftly so we can finally kick ARM back down to the microcontroller market that it performed best in. I seriously doubt ARM will be able to compete when x86 chips are at the same transistor density, we might need an even bigger scam performance metric than "performance-per-watt"... "performance-per-watt-per-area" perhaps?
“wildly simpler stacks” [citation needed]. With a framework like rails you still have a front-end and you still have to solve for interactivity — unless you’re building a rudimentary CRUD app. There are modern alternatives that attempt to hide the interactivity by baking it into html attributes via a DSL, but JS is still there.

I would argue that a client-side only SPA is very simple from the lens of how it is deployed: drop the files in an S3 bucket. There’s no need for a server and from that perspective, an SPA is actually a simpler stack.
I was actually socializing with folks at the Cambridge Area Julia meetup where I gave a talk on Enzyme’s Julia bindings no less when someone shared this.

So in this case pure coincidence.
Yea but it won’t raise your prestige, I mean giving charity to Stanford, one of the top schools in the world, shows everyone how baller you are, and maybe the next 20 generations of Doerrs will get guaranteed admission too
IMO it's still the best pw manager by a fair margin.
Are you not able to use it on the plane itself? It's been a long time since I've flown anywhere, but I seem to recall there being quite good accommodations for such things.
Google is free: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprise

Root around in there, plenty of examples of nations taking control of individual companies or entire industries. Feel free to make your own judgements of which were doing it "for the good of the people" vs "to take control of a major income sector in order to enrich a minority of individuals within the government".
I worked at a place where my boss told me this story. He was interviewing an engineer, on my bosses way in to the office that morning he was cut off in traffic. He honked, the person who cut him off flippes him the bird. He then followed that car all the way into the company parking lot. He had to interview the guy, but he didn't get the job.
There's an open standard version of pdf called PDF/A, which Libre Office can write and read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF%2FA?
It's also a little strange in that both positions are highly consequential, highly visible, and don't map cleanly to the other players in the game (kickers, at the NFL level, aren't taking regular snaps, goalies in the NHL can't even skate past the center line).
Thats what impressed me too! He seemed very natural addressing the media.
I don't think anyone wants to force you to live an urban lifestyle. I personally wish there were places I could move that was walkable, bikeable, and without having to cross 4 lanes of loud polluting traffic.

Those places don't really exist, since most major US cities have been built to accommodate cars first. And even those are way less affordable (because people want to live in cities and theres not enough housing to cover it) forcing people who would rather live in cities to move to suburbs instead. That's what people are lamenting.
> > Learning rate (η): Amount by which gradients are discounted before updating the weights.

> so this is already explicit to anyone who reads the documentation. The quibble in the post is about the named parameter.

As far as I can tell it's a documentation complaint. He has to remember "η" from the line with the signature, past the line "Gradient descent optimizer with learning rate η ...", and a heading "Parameters" until the line quoted which explains this in full.

He says this is the API, but that's inaccurate. The API being explained is that the first positional argument is the learning rate. It's not a keyword argument, so you cannot supply it by name. What variable names are used in the code is private, and in fact the struct's field name is `eta` so that you can access it without typing greek.

If this makes the top 10 list (even the top 10 list of documentation complaints) then Flux is doing OK. Especially the top 10 list of a guy with a PhD in a mathematical field. (From the sort of university which used to require students to know latin & greek, too.)
Sarcasm is a rhetorical trust-fall, I refuse to cheapen it by adding the /s.
I think it's the same as ms-office, they make a format, and they are the only ones that make the software to use the files in that format, it's funny, because adobe reader is very bad, and they ended up "giving it up", now ISO handles the spec, as for generating PDFs, maybe check libreoffice? or some other software that creates PDFs with the source available
Kodak Black X FatCat- Peachy (Remix)
Do it! Would be happy to help. Also we have weekly development meetings (time about to change for summer), which you’re welcome to join.

Also feel free to email me (wmoses@mit.edu), would be happy to chat and or help bootstrap.
>These guys aren’t usually that good

To further this point, the person in this article is nearly blind in one eye.

And on three, I agree. But the rule also applies to playoffs and it's interesting to imagine how you would play with your favorite team's Stanley Cup dreams riding on it. More so when you add in how the city would react to your actions.
Have a look at mailcow (https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized). Basically Docker images for Sogo and everything else (postfix, dspam, dovecot, etc).

I'm also stuck on Zimbra, but planning a move for me and my dozen users. I really like Zimbra's calendar sharing features, but Sogo seems to have a good implementation too.
You can find maintenance experts too. When someone tells me that they have this important, dangerous, buggy system wthat has trouble handling its ever growing load, and they need someone to come in and fix it, I cannot be any happier. But I know the system has to be really important, and that the fire has to be so bad that upper management is willing to spend the money to let some specialists come in, few questions asked, knowing that they will be rewarded as if they were building a new shiny, high visibility doodad. What is difficult is to have management that will keep that level of attention, instead of realizing that the reason that nobody has heard a bad thing from the system in months, if not years, is because there's a lot of work being done trying to make the system invisible.

What usually happens is that after a year or two they forget, and the maintenance programmer jumps to a different fire, typically in a different company, because there is far less reward to keep improving the system than to stop it from being a raging fire.
It's certainly true that there are a lot of PDF renderers out there with subtle incompatibilities (and bugs), and also a lot of PDF files with subtle nonconformances. However, that doesn't seem like a good reason to not write a new PDF generator!

Instead, write a conformant one. Better, write one that not only conforms, but also isn't affected by any of the bugs in popular PDF renderers, by testing against all of them. Shawn Davis at LevelUp Research, working on the same DARPA project I'm currently on, has written the amazing SPARCLUR https://youtu.be/6I6E1N3CJzQ (no sound) https://github.com/levelupresearch/sparclur https://pypi.org/project/sparclur/ which will feed your test PDF to Ghostscript, MuPDF, PDFium, PDFMiner, Poppler, QPDF, Xpdf, and some other PDF engines, and compare the results. That way you can see not only if any of them produce errors and warnings, but also if they render it differently or extract different text from it. SPARCLUR is Apache-licensed, written in Python, and very well integrated with Jupyter.

(We've developed some other tools for this as well, but they're not as accessible.)

SPARCLUR doesn't test your PDF against Adobe's implementation, or for that matter Foxit, and I don't remember why.

But basically if you're going to generate PDF files you might as well feed them to SPARCLUR's Spotlight and automatically verify that they work identically, or near enough, in half a dozen independently implemented PDF renderers. Hopefully SPARCLUR will dramatically improve the software quality and compatibility of future PDF generators.
> India and China are not losing any Russian imports

Russia cannot keep up production without the involvement of the likes of BP etc, so while China and India haven't boycotted Russia it won't matter before very long.
Isn't that how pendulums swing?
Burried in the long post (as copied in the thread), it sounds like they are starting to move something to production, which they say will enable enough fuel to do demos and what not. Depending on what exactly that means when it happens, maybe they can start selling $10/gallon gasoline somewhere.

If it's a turnkey fuel production device, I'm sure there's a market for hook up electricity in remote location and get a tank of fuel over time.
> Very straightforward format.

The spec is 756 pages. For the 2008 spec. How is that very straightforward? My god.

Even the 2003 version clocks in at 696 pages and apparently includes "Interactive Forms", "Movies" and "Sounds".

Here's the link https://web.archive.org/web/20101214132912/http://partners.a...

How is that _straightforward_?
Vague headline that leads to a navel-gazing self-congratulatory blogpost. The Y Combinator equivalent of clickbait, meant to reassure the headline reader that they're intelligent and important. Kudos!
I see carbon nanotube tech and become immensely skeptical. I am under the impression that anything carbon nanotube still cannot be done at scale, and the article is very light on that part of the process. Following the rabbit hole leads to http links (in 2022?) and various publications from science journals I am unfamiliar with.

Does anyone else get the smoke and mirrors vibe from this or am I just being overly skeptical and not reading thoroughly enough into the literature provided?

If this tech is true, I can see the HUGE potential it has.
There’s a lot of info on this sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/GripTraining/comments/7gacyh/new_ro...

Personally I like farmer’s walk the best and keep a gripper on my desk.
It’s far easier to get a boomerang promotion at Amazon than it is to work through the process.
I have a plex server with plexpass and not a single person user my server has ever seen ads streaming my content.
True. A whole generation of users has been accustomed to finding their folk on social media.

Whatever SM comes about, they are going to do the same.

Also, the one and only business model, of any SM, is keeping people on the app, and you don't do that by providing counter points / arguments against their world view. You do that by matching them with people who think like them.

Any social media will devolve into cesspools of group think that often ends up being bad for society.

Just look at Whatsapp. It has no ads feed, no subscription fees and yet, it has innumerable groups that do spreading of all sorts of conspiracy rumor mongering.
WA is not even getting like minded people together. They are doing it themselves.

The next wave of SM will be similar. But, even more crass and materialistic. It will not bring people together. It will bring groups together that will fight ever more aggressively with other groups, drawing strength from numbers.

And human nature, with its fickle tendencies, will enable the dumbest and gullible to form the largest groups.
They're at least slowed down or diverted by walls, not flying objects though.
Fun fact, the time and date on the model is correct as well.
I often have the feeling that if almost everyone at Google just took a 1 year vacation, the thing would run itself. It's a money printer (search + ad auctions) surrounded by all this other busy work. Just leave the Borg to its business and take a break already.
I'd wait for the emails to come out. One side is probably hoping that won't happen.

In my view, ethics go out the window when the mantra is to eat the world. The kind of ultra-fast, ultra-huge growth that Stripes pitches to investors and also to its employees comes at great cost. We've seen this with prior tech giants like Facebook, Microsoft and Google who also invested heavily into developer PR.
And everyone clapped! The taxi driver's name? "Albert Einstein."
Users consented in giving their information to a third party and then were betrayed by that third party misusing using the data.

Personally I believe there in a big difference between a company giving your data to another company behind your back and doing so after you have approved it first.
That makes no sense.

Wage market pricing mechanisms are still important for a proper allocation of labor; however, at the ends the market rewards get distorted (aka you get more money the closer you sit to the money printer - software, finance and such are examples of that). What we want to fix is that distortion - and redistribute income that gets misallocated via the Cantillon effect for the good of the general public.
Two of my favorite Perl features:

unless/until can be way more readable in some conditions than if/while.

Postfix conditionals and loops make flatter code, especially in scripts. Love writing "do function() if $condition".
You are not a nobody. You are a 'hiker, fishmen, who makes under 50k has a wife three kids lives in Salt Lake City, 28 who loves walking dead and works at ibm who went to this mall at this time". You are not a random data point in a sea. You are many datapoints connecting you in a map of people, time and space.