skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ads make sense for social media, because the value is in the network, and putting a paywall would limit user access -> fewer members in the network.

Ultimately the problem with social media is no one wants to talk to everyone they've ever met or know of them all the time except for public figures, and then they want to share only watered down PR messages. I guess also people desperately convinced of some political point they want to convince others of. The early days were naive and fun because everyone was oversharing and we were taking on larger risks in terms of public perception in search of fun connections but we wised up, and now only young kids on tiktok still have that naivety.
I remember feeling very excited about Spotify at one point - I figured there would be ways to get exposed to new and interesting artists. As it turns out, their algorithms, at the paid behest of those reliable old villains, the majors, are dead certain that what I want is the same fifty songs, over and over, that I've been hearing on FM radio for literally my entire life.

Billy Bragg said it decades ago: capitalism is killing music.
I’m really disappointed that you would take such an antagonistic stance towards what I said and twist my words.

I am not a saint. I never said I was. You, my friend, are also not a saint. I suggest you make arguments based on things you have actually done yourself. Be better. I’m trying to better as well.
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Censoring the media of a state that literally is in a proxy war with you and essentially has been since Putin came to power, although the west didn’t realize what was happening until recently, seems reasonable.

If someone was stealing and breaking stuff every time they came over to your house, you wouldn’t let them in anymore either.

Utter unrestricted access to all from everywhere is a odd notion. Is it also somehow hypocritical to censor isis propaganda?
> Is lamb not a popular meat in USA?

It’s not exactly rare, but it’s far less popular than beef, pork, or chicken.
It’s text and is transmitted gzipped. This is as close to a non-issue as I can think of.
It's a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-wifes-son
It could also mean that they share responsibility because of their lobbying efforts.

Laws could have been enacted a long time ago and surveillance expectations could have remained strongly on individual privacy instead of fighting like:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49808208

Or https://thehill.com/policy/technology/407528-fight-looms-ove...
His conclusion seems like measurement bias. Cloud-based streaming now means we can measure what people listen to, rather than only what they buy. Back in the days of LPs and CDs, it was natural that people only purchased new recordings, but most people maintained at least a small collection of favorites, often years old, that they listened to over and over. Likewise for movies and TV: TV broadcasts and movie theaters presented new works, only new works, but a favorite movie could be purchased once and watched as many times as needed. Or it could be rented.

Now that we can measure all media consumption, we're discovering that people like to listen to their favorites over and over, and somehow concluding that's artistic stagnation.
it is a system of thinking that was developed in response to ethnic division historically. In the United States, a series of Federal laws were enacted in the last one hundred years to make discrimination based on attributes, in the workplace, explicitly illegal. Some argue that these tests are themselves, a form of discrimination. Meanwhile, humans of every skin color or religion continue to make, build, do and socialize at remarkable levels.

A legal system of oversight has to deal with problematic behavior, yet external attributes never tell the whole story of human interactions and productivity.
You just have to open the Preview tab.
Beach trips these days are normally for the gram not for the day at the beach.

https://fun107.com/dads-embarrassing-their-daughters-in-the-...
It's seems like what you're describing would help you find music that's new to you, not necessarily music that has been produced recently like in the article.

I imagine this is especially true with today's data driven recommendation engines.

When I discover new music it often turns out to be made in 2010 rather than 2022, and tbh it doesn't matter to me since I haven't heard it before either way.
I’m surprised this isn’t mentioned more. Removing ratings was a disaster, just personally as a consumer. You don’t feel engaged enough use their like/dislike system where as with a rating you got that feeling of contributing something and were contributing something. So, first you’ve removed engagement, that’s bad. And now we get these like 98% match type of rating systems, and every time you see a movie or show that is high match but you hate it makes you lose confidence in the whole system.
>Native reader mode

The unremovable "floating" controls are visually distracting.
Completely fair, but that's often not built into dynamic languages. My main criticism is with their nonsensical approach to dealing with the limitations of JavaScript.

As far a I know, ESlint can't detect missing methods, and they weren't even using a linter. TypeScript can, but they weren't using that.
I'm making browser games and there are some still some performance issues that make my game unplayable in Firefox, e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925025

I really don't want to have a "works best in Chrome" banner but until Firefox catches up I don't have much choice (don't get me started on Safari, I've already given up).
OpenAI Transgender and Diversity bias
It's called Value Investing. Buy stocks that pay dividends instead of chasing growth. It is thoroughly out of fashion and dividends have been dwindling for decades but maybe it needs to become cool again.
Instead of DDD, I would suggest using the graphical Emacs interface to GDB.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gdb.png

(Image taken from the Emacs Tour: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/)
I wouldn't wear it, even if I could afford it, but it is an amazing engineering feat.

Personally I love mechanical things, and collect both steam-engines and watches. Half of my collection of the latter are cheap Soviet pieces, often older than I am, and the rest are high-end Swiss watches that I buy as/when I can find them at reasonable prices.
I think the article is about how frustrating those needs and limitations can be, not about denying their reality. It is rather exactly the realization that you can’t escape those needs and limitations, but that you have to continuously accomodate them, that can be depressing.
Normally, yes, but the sales pitch is "no stylesheets" + "fast", etc. So it becomes a topic of interest.
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> Of course the former alone on its face is reprehensible {...}

Can you elaborate on why?
My country relatives would build a giant barbecue grill (probably starting from an old propane tank or something similar) and throw the whole goat on. They were not Muslim; just rednecks.
Honestly, the crazy wacky internet stuff tours aggressively (how else can they get paid?), and regularly does make it to the local theater (or at least local bar).

The article would have us write off anything that has fewer than a 2-day stint at a local sports arena.
> Until recently people simply were not aware that personally identifiable location data was gathered on

Is this right? For a long time now, every time I visit a restaurant I get a notification from Google suggesting that I should write a review. That should be sufficient to raise the alarm bells for even non-tech folks no?
How does this happen if not due to poor management? I had transgender, straight, gay, catholic, white, black, chinese, east european, muslim and hindu people all working in the same team without a “disconnect” due to their backgrounds. We agreed to accommodate specific needs of each of them and not once had one an issue with another. This was in the uk. We did have issues with our german branch tho but hr dealt with it rather nicely and it didnt happen again, showing that proper management can sort out discriminatory … “disconnects”.
I thought this was me. Many professionals told me this was me. I had a horrible off and on decade fighting it, trying to do all the things you're supposed to, feeling guilty for failing and hating myself. A decade later someone finally figured out - despite the small fortune spent on education and medical professionals - that I actually had ADHD and some learning disabilities. There was a slightly different model with previously hidden forces. Only now, knowing this, have I finally been able to effect real positive change for myself.

Make sure you have the right model for you.
Actually I read this the other day and its actually great. Despite the headline it doesn't actually say how to deal with it, only how annoying it is for other people - which actually helps me.

Procrastinators eventually turn up late with their work explaining how they were toiling all night to get it done and expecting gratitude and sympathy for their incredible dedication. Of course, everyone else knows that this self-sacrifice was because the person concerned had been scrolling through TikTok videos and binge-watching Love Island UK for the previous two weeks when they were supposed to be getting it done. There is no chance to review the work, no time for a run through, and half-baked ideas full of mistakes are presented. We're supposed to be grateful for this. Yes, everyone is late on occasion, but if it happens: Every. Single. Freaking. Time. Then there's a problem.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/paul-catmur-how-to-deal-...
Two "issues," not to be conflated:

>Meetings with such team is always awkward as they internally discuss the topic in their own language during the meeting.

If English/lingua franca is to be expected, then that can be asserted thru HR or thru placatable means.

>Also their hiring practices are essentially discriminatory.

"essentially" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The alternative is blind hiring, which may not "solve" the "problem" - because equal opportunities does not guarantee equal equitable results. Anything else is intentionally discriminatory.

If diversity was actually a strength, then it wouldn't take such a monumental effort (of actual discrimination, no less) to achieve it.
I don’t know if I agree, but it means to overanalyse and overoptimize everything. Being too meta instead of experiencing things directly.

You’d do that to a vacation by having a series of emotional goals for the journey, with a plan for daily photo session highlights for your social media audience, and five-point-plans for each waking hour with target goals, contingencies, and meta-analysis of how it all fits into your optimal vacation experience. You’d be taking notes throughout for your pre-planned four post blog series on how to optimise vacations at the end. Presumably all of this would be tied up into some deeply researched simple trick to get the best out of life, the universe, and everything, or get rich quick, or live forever. Something like that.

Instead of going somewhere, having a bit of an agenda, and trying to go with the flow and see what happens/enjoy it.
>There is no question that you are the pinnacle of evolution

trading one religion for another, huh? pinnacle of creation, pinnacle of fate, pinnacle of evolution...

maybe buddhists got it right centuries ago: shut up, eat your food and clean your bowl, that's life.
The compiler has to prove that it can use 31-bit integers.

By forcing your number into a 31-bit integer, you provide definite type info to work with.
It's very unlikely that people of that specific nationality are always the best candidates for the job. It wastes other applicants time, it's discriminatory and creates awkward tensions in the company.

You dont find it odd when an indian / filipino / chinese manager hires only people of their ethnicity for the team?
The author talks about going and getting an award winning pastry but not enjoying it at all. Clearly they must at least have a preference for quality food or else they'd just drink Soylent all day.

Like it or not, the fact that we spend so much of our time and societal energy on feeding ourselves collectively instead of hunting and gathering is kind of the whole point of having a civilization. The alternative is every person for themself, and then we really wouldn't have time for any organized higher pursuits.
> I'd be tempted to train them, arm them, declare the county the Free Porcine State.

Why stop at pigs? Why not free all of the animals at the animal farm? Are some animals more equal than others? ;)
One might argue, that inline CSS cannot be cached by browser and are loaded with each HTTP document, thus increasing total download size. And using HTTP/2 making additional requests ain't such a big problem anymore.

All in all I think developers have considered all options and chose the best solution for their particular use case.
“Day after day, I swipe the Hinge profiles of girls endowed with the greatest gifts known in the universe, only to find that their hobbies are sleeping and eating. The last million years of evolution has been wasted on them; they might as well live with orangutans.”

Oh, buddy. You’re definitely going to be a hit in the dating scene when your first instinct is to call women boring and basic.
Sideberry is a great addon for tab tree, grouping and container mgmt.

Tab search, keybinds, and many many other handy stuff, can be done in vimperator.
BigInt exists, but there is a chicken and egg issue.

It's slow, so nobody wants to use it and nobody uses it, so they don't see a need to optimize.
> When there is no more isolation, all music shared everywhere over the internet all the time, how can a unique new cultural strain develop? When any new ideas one musician comes up with just get dropped into the global soup, instead of taking time to ferment in a smaller, more focused environment, how can any distinct new genre emerge?

The bar of checking out a new genre has gotten lower than ever, yes. But I don't agree that it's one big global soup now. Recommendation systems of Soundcloud/Spotify/Youtube often give you stuff from the same genre/niche of music when you listen to a given niche, and conversely they don't recommend you stuff from unrelated niches. So small niches might not be discovered by average listeners unless they are going viral.

Furthermore, the gatekeepers of the mainstream are still in full power. Things like radio stations, shopping mall music, etc. all are still controlled by a small elite. Even social media platforms often perform curation of things featured on their front or even trending pages. So there's still often a "this isn't going to work with average listeners" kind of decision going on, done by a human.
Well, it seemed like a good idea to have the forum, and then it's very hard to shut it down. But you can massively understaff it and reduce the cost (and effectiveness).
I consider the use of auto-tune in Cher's "Believe"(1998) the very last example of technological innovation in music.
Lets stop calling Facebook, Instagram and Twitter social media, it's like we can not say the Devil's name aloud. More productive approach would be find acceptable for-profit social media definition and fund it.
It works when you curate it. I removed lots of "friends" and family. Joined hobby groups, and now it's a good source of relevant events for me.
Nice and smooth in Firefox, too. But yes, it's quite laggy in Safari.
Not sure this will resonate with everyone, but Edge has both of these features built-in :).
So you admit things were better (“resulted in a much worse situation”) under the Shah.
Understanding the make-buy question in a growing Mars city
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A team owner can advocate for safety related rules in a league while not having his own players adopt those changes and start losing.

Warren Buffet can advocate for changes in the tax laws that benefit the country while still playing hard by the existing rules.

Authors can advocate for changes to the web while their host is still doing the bad thing.

These can be seen as hypocrisy, but I think there is a large dose of honesty and in some cases humility in these situations.
Chrome does the same and more. So, yes, it is a win. But Firefox should really stop doing that.
90% of music market share in the US belongs to three companies. Warner Music has a 12.1% market share. Sony has a 23.4% market share.

Universal has a 54.5% market share. Over half the market share of music in the country is from one company.

It's a long way from magazines like Broadside and Sing Out and independent record labels like Folkways and Vanguard. Even songs on major record labels were influenced by this milieu. Most songs today are a corporate product packaged for consumers. The article says people seem to prefer music made before this all happened. The grunge/alternative scene that was commodified in the early 1990s is the last independent music scene that was mainstreamed that I can think of. Can't think of anything else - Reggaeton or a variety of other things never really became mainstream.
I've been cooking a lot more recently and it's one of the most enjoyable parts of my day. There's nothing more satisfying than grilling a steak to the perfect amount of doneness, or tossing a bunch of aromatic spices into a pasta sauce whose scent fills the room. At the end of it I feel like I accomplished something productive and I get to eat something delicious that I crafted to my own taste. I've also had way more energy since I've stopped eating processed junk and take-out food.
Or the ratio of animal weight to human weight per county…
Well the US definition of diverse is much more picky about what diverse means. I am talking about situations where indian / filipino / chinese hire only people of their ethnicity.

Or in case of Europe in an international company a team decides to hire only people that speak german / russian / french even when the interaction with other teams is obviously just in english.
You called it spamming, I would not call it that.

Yeah shit took way longer than it should have. Just FYI Bitwig also took a while. Figma too. Desktop apps are hard, and audio desktop apps are double hard.

Almost there though.
Same for me, my app used the html5 webspeech api and the text to speech and speech to text on Ff was nothing compared to chrome. So had to put that dreaded banner myself.

I hope things have changed now and ff is just as good as chrome now with the recent progress in ML and so many good open source projects for tts and dictation.
O poeta é um fingidor.

Finge tão completamente

Que chega a fingir que é dor

A dor que deveras sente.

E os que lêem o que escreve,

Na dor lida sentem bem,

Não as duas que ele teve,

Mas só a que eles não têm.

E assim nas calhas da roda

Gira, a entreter a razão,

Esse comboio de corda

Que se chama o coração.

Fernando Pessoa , Cancioneiro.
You're fixating on the details too much, but if you wanna fixate on details, you can't install unlock origin in chrome Android.

The big picture however, is that Firefox works for you, chrome works for Google.
Speculation based on timing, public comments and coincidence...

If this was a trial it would be a circumstantial case, probably not enough to convict someone "beyond a reasonable doubt" but if it were I think there is "clear and convincing" circumstantial evidence to correlate the 2 events
It's a reference to the Bible story of Saul becoming Paul. God strikes Saul blind by putting scales (as in karatin, not a weight-measuring device) on his eyes. Later, when Saul decides to stop persecuting Christians, the scales start to fall from his eyes, he regains his sight, and changes his name to Paul.
Wait until this person learns about where children come from.
Can I ask two dumb questions though? If DataRobot is doing so poorly- why did investors want to purchase the executives' shares? Presumably they are sophisticated investors and had a look at the company books, etc.

So let's say they liked what they say, and it made sense for them to purchase a certain amount of DataRobot shares. If that's the case- why not let the employees sell to the investors too? If there's a pool of investors who are willing to purchase X number of shares at Y value, presumably either they or other investors would like to purchase 3X number of shares.... Wouldn't this be win-win, the employees can sell if they like, and the investors can buy if they'd like? Why not allow that too?
Tab search doesn't work across containers afaik and it's therefore pretty useless
I'm not saying it's a bad editor, but that it is a rather odd fit with a typical vim or emacs flow. If you're using VScode to debug, you are probably using it as your editor as well.
Likewise! It has fewer features and is less convenient to use than a regular browser due to constantly having to log in to sites, which is 100% also a feature to me. The extra steps to access Facebook have allowed me to kick my Facebook habit for good. I waste less time refreshing the same websites waiting for new clickbait, while productive use of the internet for reference is mostly unaffected.
Great points. I completely forgot about HTTP/2, thank you.
Btw, I've just released version 1.0.0, which means the project is now on the state I thought of it when I started developing. I encourage all of you to check it out :)
No internet before age 13 at least.

1) Touching grass is super important at this phase of their development. We were given brains to move our bodies; kids need practice at running around and playing in a physically active manner.

2) Aside from the usual risks (exposure to porn, Elsagate material, child abusers, etc.) there's the fact that even innocuous kids' apps encourage addictive behavior. I made the acquaintance of a delightful six-year-old girl, the child of a family friend. She was eager to show me the games she played on her Kindle Fire, and some of them were the Skinner-boxiest things imaginable. Feed the animals ice cream by tapping the indicated thing and get a visual and sound reward. I flat out told her her favorite tablet games were boring, intended for toddlers and not big girls like her, and she needed something that would challenge her brain. She is rather smart and creative given the opportunity; she makes her own maps and such for Little Big Planet. But she is quite prone to being satisfied with the familiar and not seeking the challenge and advancement she needs (for that matter, so am I), and the internet -- even at its best, before actively harmful material enters the picture -- is only too happy to supply that stagnant comfort, to drive up engagement metrics.

By all means, get your kid a computer! Do not connect it to wifi or ethernet. Tell them if they want a game for it they will have to write it themselves, and in response to their frustrated "HOW?!" open the discussion about how to program. Get them a Raspberry Pi autonomous car kit or something. All of this at appropriate ages of course. If they need to look something up online, do it for them or supervise their internet use. Require beforehand that they ask to look up something specific and once they have it, have them save it for future reference.
In Enemy of the state they could hide from the every present satelites by

1) Not looking up or going in side

2) Throwing away any phones you have

Good luck with that. You might not even have a phone, that person taking a photo you just walked past does, and the facial recognition works just fine. Even if they don't know your name, they can track you. It was sort-of covered in the film - the CCTV in the garage etc, it's just far less manpower intensive now