jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm a suspect because I worked in digital media in a media agency some time ago, and let me tell you that this is quite a broad request.

Why? Let's start by asking: what is targeted advertising?

Is it based on interests? Behavior? Demographic? Psychographic? Contextual? Placement? Geolocation? Search queries? The list goes on.

Even if they want to narrow it down to collected data from users, this still has a lot of broad aspects to it.

What about what Kantar and GFK, and many other market research companies do, where they track people who consent to be tracked and share their opinions and behavior, to generate statistical inferences? Because that's one of the ways you target on TV for example.

So, I understand where they are coming from, but this is such a broad request that's naive.

A company that sells vegan supplements that places advertising in the POS (Point of Sale) is targeted advertising - why should we ban something that has the consent of everyone involved?

Or the solution is to randomize ad placement? The amount of wastage and the play field would destroy anyone who tried to compete with companies who could afford mass media platforms with budgets in the orders of millions+.
Well, nnq. Turns out you may have been right and owed an apology by those who downvoted you:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/23/criticism-ov...
Having the wrong things broken is a great way to move slow. Heavily manual (so, insufficiently documented) deployment processes, difficult, manual correctness testing, slow feedback loops in development, that kind of thing. Poor rollback planning.
A pandemic is a form of epidemic (according to Wikipedia's definition, which you have referred to).

An epidemic is an outbreak of a disease (according to Wikipedia's definition, which you have referred to).

A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not due to any immediate external injury... A disease may be caused by external factors such as pathogens or by internal dysfunctions. (according to Wikipedia's definition, which is included by link by its definition of epidemic).

There is no requirement on the definition of epidemic that you have referred to that requires it to be infectious.

Please pick a definition and stick to it. You want a pandemic to be a global outbreak of a disease to which the overwhelming majority of the population is susceptible and which is spread via a pathogen without physical contact. If there's an authority that uses that definition, find them and cite them. Otherwise please stick the definitions you've already cited and move on.
The source of the article does mention Antarctica: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020...

"In Antarctica, ongoing high mass losses in the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica, the Antarctic Peninsula, and Wilkes Land in East Antarctica cumulate to 2130, 560, and 370 Gigatonnes, respectively, since 2002. A cumulative mass gain of 980 Gigatonnes in Queen Maud Land since 2009, however, led to a pause in the acceleration in mass loss from Antarctica after 2016."
Yeah was referring to the edges, if you gonna add a "sloppiness" level in the toolbar might as well have proper edges
Not all laws are best enforced by manufacturer collusion. I assure, if you want an corporate oligopoly, that's the way to go about it.

Make things. Let people figure out how to use them. Keep semiconductors neutral.
http://www.sxemacs.org, an xemacs fork, works as a window manager. hasn't been updated in a while, though.
> "My general thought would be that if you have less money than Elon, you should probably watch out," he told Bloomberg.

Isn't Elon the richest...I see what he did, there.
Scott Alexander just posted a very interesting article[0] with a section "2. War On Experts" that covers some of the issues that I was so poorly trying to communicate. His take is probably more harsh than I would want to adopt, but he is deliberately addressing Republicans here so maybe his tone is different for that reason.

[0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-...
Is your mail server IPv6 enabled?
I would disagree. Coinbase's value is based on volume and volatility. If anything, stable values are the worst time for exchanges, as experienced in early 2019.
They choose it as much as I choose to implement whatever my PM asks me to. I could weasel my way out of it, most likely by changing jobs, but at a significant personal monetary and career-development expense.

Publishing open access in journals maintained by the cartel is expensive. Scientists can't really afford to pay this out of pocket, so they tack it onto grant costs, reducing the money they get to actually do science. And it's overall not a pleasant experience.
http://www.gооgle.com <-- attention to details...
I think it's both impressive with what people can do in 1k of Javascript because, well, it's Javascript running in a browser, and not given what the rest of the 1k demo space consists of, even in comparison to those for platforms that are older than most js1k participants.
The writing was on the wall and they knew it. Now that Trump doesn't benefit them, they will act like they don't support him.
When I was a kid my family went to DC for a vacation. We walked up the stairs of the capitol and in through the front door. It's a sad state of affairs that barricades are necessary now.
That is a lie.

There is no "movement to ensure accuracy". There is a coup attempt to alter the honest outcome of a legitimate election.
I did something like this - I took an image and rotated it a couple hundred times in Windows Explorer. It gradually degraded into a blurry blob.
I would love to see the two datasets side by side
After having a little patience to digest the stuffy academic language I realized something:

This is one of the craziest articles I have ever read.

It is like the premise of a sci-fi novel where future states slowly creep along by dredging and filling in land. But it's actually really happening at a scale beyond novelties like Dubai and non-contentious (at least internationally) expansions like Battery Park City.

The fact that sand-smuggling is a thing...
> You make it sound as if writing a task was like writing a plugin.

In that you have to write something, it is. Which is my point. I had a very vanilla product; I couldn't do it with vanilla Gradle. I also couldn't find in the documentation how to do "normal stuff"; or at least it wasn't early. It started RIGHT OFF with "here's how you customize it!"

No, start with the 80%, deep dive into deeper stuff, later.
For anyone that hasn't heard it, ten states have alleged Facebook entered into an unlawful agreement with a competitor to manipulate advertising auctions. [1]

[1] https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...
Berlin is a bit like a US city in term of sheer surface area. But the individual neighbourhoods are much more livable and self-contained and the S-Bahn (suburban trains) efficiently connect all the sprawl. The individual neighbourhoods also have fairly efficient grids compared to US suburbs and usually higher densities (taller buildings, more multiple-tenancies).
@tenderlove was experimenting with this idea for ruby/rails:

http://tenderlovemaking.com/2015/02/13/predicting-test-failu...

Here's hoping someone will make a gem for this stuff.
> whole town(600k people).

If you want to compare to a similar city in the US look at Portland, Oregon. The city proper has 500k ~ 600k (~2.5m if you count the 'metro area' -- for comparison Toronto Canada has ~2.7m people in the city proper).
Your summary has nothing to do with the actual content of the article.
Motivation is tricky. Sometimes it's worth it to continue, and sometimes it's not. Only you can make this decision, but you have to listen to yourself and figure out what it is that's bugging you. If it's a transient "motivational crisis" you can take some time off. If it's more permanent, then leave.

Academia sucks, but it's not much better than most corporations are. It's just different. In academia, money and resources are scarce but time is abundant. In corporations, money is abundant but time seems scarce (because of tight deadlines, 90 percent of which are completely arbitrary). So (to simplify grossly) academics build really cool things that no one uses or cares about while corporate employees build ugly commercial things that are actually useful.
Founders gotta eat too. In that case, budget is a looser term.

The point is, launch isn't when the battle is won or lost. Launching is just the first time you're engaging with the enemy. So you shouldn't expend all of your resources (cash, optimism, etc.) before that point... It's a long road.
This is a slightly tricky one because I do think there is potential for the tax change to negatively impact funding available for startups.

However, the impact should be minimal and I agree with Fred Wilson that carried interest fees are not really that fundamentally different from other types of fees and thus standard income tax levels make sense.
Any europeans here on HN? I had a german professor last semester tell me many schools/teachers don't require students to buy specific textbooks and do homework problem sets in Europe. They just expect their students to understand the material, turn in good labs or essays, and pass the tests. He was obviously criticizing that american college students are spoon-fed their education.
Great point. A sad reality of the career game is that you win not by being most truthful, but by building a coherent story.

My moral stance is this: "fudging" is okay-- if you were fired, turn it into a layoff-- as long as you're not representing yourself as having skills you don't have. If you do, you might end up in a job where you're incompetent. It's not only morally wrong and costly, but you're the one who ends up most severely punished, because being that far out of your depth sucks.
True. Also, I've seen a number of negotiations broken off over pride--offers were made that were deemed "offensive." Don't be misled by treating everyone as "consequentialists" or you are very likely to step on a pride booby trap and cause the other party to sever negotiations. So in a practical sense, your simplifying assumption makes a lot of sense.
I had a look at the architecture of the B5000 system they're talking of (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems).

It's really completely different from today's architectures and I have the feeling we're emulating a lot of the functionality in software today. This gives some credibility to Kay's claim that "a benchmark from 1979 at Xerox PARC runs only 50 times faster today". (This number really baffled me.)
Sure, but if you're using both a read/write master and a hot standby for read-only queries on another machine, you're going to need TCP.
In same way Trinity was a test, I assume ;)
> Yes. Yes, we could. And that's what all of those "researches" and "use cases" will inevitably end up doing: scraping "blockchain" and replacing it with MySQL, Postgres, BigQuery, Cassandra, MongoDB, sqlite etc.

I must admit that this right here was bait, because one of the storage backends used in enterprise blockchains is indeed Cassandra.

That’s part of the issue here. Blockchain technology is just something built on top of pre-existing tools, like Docker or Spring. My point is that if we were to scrap abstractions just because they could be done at a lower level already, why stop at blockchains?
What if you have your ‘immediate mode’ produce not a direct rendering of the GUI, but a virtual object model describing what the structure of the GUI should be at that moment? Then you diff that object model against the actual object model of the GUI and apply the changes....

That’s how react works. It’s effectively an ‘immediate mode’ abstraction above a component based UI.

That avoids the component connecting and wiring problems, and creates the simple determinism that makes immediate mode systems easier to reason about.
Apparently, people come out and say this instead:

"Climate is changing, and climate has always changed, and always will, there's archeological evidence of that, there's biblical evidence of that, there's historic evidence of that, it will always change," [GOP Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma] said on the Senate floor. "The hoax is that there are some people that are so arrogant to think that they are so powerful that they can change climate. Man can't change climate."

"Biblical evidence", indeed.
And that "if" turns into a delay hugely chewing up the benefits of such high speed.

There was, briefly, a rather grand project implementing a "fast ferry" between Toronto (Canada) to Rochester (New York). This cut the previously 3-hour drive around the intervening lake down to about 30-45 minutes, and included the luxury of enjoying the view/bar/games/social. Price wasn't bad (comparable to gas cost for the long trip), but certainly not trivial. Anyone coming to Rochester discovered "they come down far from a desirable location": having no personal transportation immediately available, it was upwards of an hour to take a bus from the port to downtown Rochester - turning an ~80% reduction in travel time to ~40%. The project was scrapped - twice[1] - after enormous expense.

When throwing lots of money at diminishing returns, encroachments on those returns are very costly.

[1] - There was huge political capital invested in the ferry's success. Upon completion, ridership was dismal and the project went bankrupt within a couple months and the boat went up for auction (few want such a specialized vessel). City-scale egos intervened and bought the boat back (!) at the auction, pressed it back into service. The mayor et al were promptly voted out of office, and the replacement sold the boat and permanently shut the project down.
Supposedly the audio out on the B+ and A+ is dramatically better. I haven't bought one of the new ones to make my own judgement yet though.
Fwiw, Deeplearning4j.org is a modest attempt to bring sci-kit learn's semantics to the Java and Scala communities.
This seems a bit arbitrary?

I would be happy with one, or two posts a day...I only need 5 friends to post a week, at 10 I always have something to read, at 50 friends I am positively awash...

Introverts are a big crowd - a fact the socialites like Zuckerberg tend to forget. This will easily grow...
I run Alpine Linux in Diskless Mode on a Raspberry Pi Zero W. Diskless means it loads the OS from SD-card into RAM on boot and then runs from there, preventing wear. I use USB for writable storage only for the (few) applications I run that require it.
It suffices as a basic NAS and consumes very little power.
but what about the battles of Lexington and Concord when the minutemen shooting from behind trees and walls were able to deal a resounding defeat to the redcoats with their massed formations with spears?
If a lot of people will start running it, it will lose profitability (assuming it is profitable now). The same software acting on the same set of signals means the signals will be cleared pretty quickly.
Delete "light" and it's the answer.
It is a Human Right according to the UN declaration.

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

both Turkey and facebooks home, the US , have signed it
Seems a lot easier to just pay the taxes than to fly around the world in a pandemic?
I extend what I'm saying to the point where I'd be upset if Obama, or any leader, were hindered during their time in office. These people pass our rigorous vetting processes, they put up with our shit for the entire campaign, and they prove themselves to be worthy of leading this country. Our nation puts them into power with the expectation that, after their term is complete, we can judge them for their performance and either re-elect them (or people who think/say things like them) or not.

Impeachment is a violent disruption of that contract, and it makes zero sense to impeach a man who, as I just said, is doing the exact same things every other leader does/has done since the dawn of history.

Voting 3rd party pretends like that 3rd party candidate wouldn't be guilty of exactly the same violations if, by some miracle, the person were to be elected. It's a lie voters tell themselves, and it's worse than voting for a DNC/RNC candidate because it demonstrates either a depressing and dangerous naivety, or a malicious and malignant sense of superiority over others.

Voting for a single issue (to get attention, or to get your view imposed on others) is the act of a fanatic. No single issue is that important. Period. Furthermore, voting is the very last thing that happens in a campaign. Your 3rd party selection will be completely and entirely ignored once the results come in. No cause saw a significant change in public awareness because of a 3rd party candidate.
It doesn't matter, the editors will change it to the one they like.
(non-american here)

EFF is an organization of USA.

They are doing right by preferring to award those they know a lot about, rather than awarding some random people outside USA how it often happens with other local organizations.

Given how most countries' internets converge on USA services it's much more important to acknowledge things that happen in USA.
While you probably already know this, others may not: there is an organization called the Oath Keepers which is comprised of current and former uniformed members of military and civil services who affirm what you've stated - that the oath they took was first and foremost to defend the Constitution.

From their site (http://oathkeepers.org):

Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, reserves, National Guard, veterans, Peace Officers, and Fire Fighters who will fulfill the Oath we swore, with the support of like minded citizens who take an Oath to stand with us, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God. Our Oath is to the Constitution.
I think by default your terminal is in "cooked" mode, where stdin is buffered a line at a time. Try

cat /dev/fd/0

then type some things including backspace and enter.

However, you don't need ncurses to change this behavior. termios is the lower-level C API. You can do it from Go with the syscall APIs but I suspect it might be frustrating to make portable.
https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/ssh/terminal/util...
Or they changed the program to actually make it Constitutional.
My favorite technical interview was when one of their engineers got me on Skype, and told me to explain (line by line) the code for one of my open-source projects (which he picked out).

I didn't prepare for this, but it allowed me to convey my engineering thought process and brag a little :) I really enjoyed it.
They have a quote from the GKE lead directly saying "Despite 6 years of progress, Kubernetes is still incredibly complex."

But it is a surprisingly negative headline. Autopilot sounds like a cool tool to simplify container orchestration!
I mean, that’s exactly what these companies spent $204,222,779.20 on. And that’s just what was spent. All of these companies also advertised for free in their apps and on their mailing lists as well. Valuable space that would have likely cost millions more.

Advertising works.
That is indeed the claim made by Bitcoin Cash promoters. However it’s not particularly convincing to treat Satoshi’s vision as the ultimate truth, and borders on religious. Shouldn’t developers who have now worked with this technology for a decade have a greater understanding, now? One of Bitcoin’s greatest attributes is that it can evolve and be updated!

Furthermore BCH has seen virtually no transactions, especially compared to bitcoin, so all it’s claims of superiority are untested. This makes people who proclaim them as facts quite suspect.

For example - since you don’t understand why - big blocks centralize. “Just make the blocks bigger” means more and more storage of a permanent ledger, which means less and less people can run a node. Of course, since there have historically been virtually no transactions on BCH, it’s easy to throw this consideration to the wind and claim the solution is infallible.

Is that the future we want, when even when pushed to it’s maximum vanilla on-chain cryptocurrency struggles to compete with Visa or Coinbase for usability? Or should we strive to maximize what cryptocurrency really delivers on: uncensorable settlement of a stateless store of value?
I don't blame them. There are too many incentives for companies to ship self-driving features in vehicles before they're ready to be on the road.
Build debs, use the package manager. VMs are already an artificial abstraction, just use them.
Thanks for writing this! I don't think we're as far apart as it seems. For example, in cases like this, we often bend the rules, very much for the reasons you mention:

If you primarily publish changelogs or summary pieces (both of which can get a lot of play on Hacker News... but only for one subsection, not the whole article), publish to mailing lists or forums (where the titles are often under someone else's control or abnormal to use at all; we see a lot of great content these days on Twitter, and I would use it more often were it not for Hacker News and its title policy), or even technical articles on smaller blogs designed for closed audiences that would find a title for a "general" audience off-putting, you become permanently trapped in what to you is a disregarded corner case.

We're trying for a global optimization here—interesting content, free of sensationalism to the extent possible. We're not bureaucrats trying to enforce little rules. Always the intent is to be a spirit-of-the-law place, not a letter-of-the-law place [1]. If you've got content that you feel is great for HN but whose title doesn't fit the cookie cutter, you're always welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com. Our goal is also for HN to feature the best content, where 'best' means most interesting to the community. (Of course, there's also often a tension between what an author feels is great content vs. what the community (or moderators as a proxy for the community) feel is great content. That aspect is unavoidable, given how scarce frontpage space is.)

It's true that baity titles work better for attracting enough quick upvotes to make HN's front page, but then one of two things typically happens: either readers (who there are far more of) see the bait, go "WTF is this doing on HN" and flag the submission; or, moderators notice the submission, see that the article is good, and replace the title with something more accurate and neutral. That's not such a bad thing in practice. Some good content does surface that way.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
It's definitely not that easy... They would be sued in Civil Court for the entire amount, the Feds have a variety of options for 10-year statutes that could be implicated when they transfer the funds to a bank (wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud) and they would have to pay taxes on the funds lest they are implicated in tax fraud. It's hard work being a criminal.
Writing about it isn't crimethink. But it's highly undesirable for a commercial company to be associated with incest erotica.

Amazon made a business decision to stop publishing incest-erotica through its own publishing label. It did not ban other publishers from publishing that crap in its store.
Step 2: Put news coverage of the event behind a paywall

Step 3: Profit?
Yup. All true. But I trust Amazon, and I am intelligent enough not to use my Kindle in a way that could later implicate me if Amazon was forced to turn over information.
What kind of development do you do?
Definitely. My account was recently frozen under a 'random check' to very my phone number. They didn't like the fact that I didn't have a land line phone number, cell phones are not accepted! It took 3 weeks to get it verified through their customer service.