skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm having trouble seeing how the scenario you describe is 'unhealthy'. The behaviour to drive clickbait into people's feeds you describe is essentially the same kind of thing as email spam: using a loophole to drive the cost of reach as near to zero as possible in the hopes you'll make it up on the few suckers who click. If this isn't good for the user, how is it unhealthy for them to curb it?

And while I'd rather they be paying me to have my eyeballs available to them, driving up the cost of my eyeballs still benefits me even if I do not monetarily profit from it.

A business doesn't have an inherent right to exist. If it exists because it annoys people in a particularly profitable way I don't know where this sympathy is coming from.
No, Tesla Does Not Lose Money On Every Car Sold.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3968035-tesla-lose-money-eve...
It's just that it's very hard to determine what's 'wrong' and what's not, other than very extreme cases and even then you might disagree. Banning some media because you don't consider right/worthy/beneficial/whatever doesn't help with free speech at all.

Imagine someone banning Justin Bieber music because it's not 'worth listening', or banning some books because they have no value. That's a bit absurd.
Wow !! I really like this analogy. I will try to apply this in real life and probably this will help me distinguish interests and distractions.
You might be making a joke about active listening, but it's actually really effective. Try it out next time you disagree with someone -- it is a good tool to prevent you from talking over or past someone.
Interesting that Valve isn't looking for royalties here. Any speculation as to what the strategy behind this release is?
In the midwest, we have two season, Winter, and road construction. As soon as winter ends, road construction begins. Neverending road construction.
Americans think hacking our bodies will make inequality worse
Correct. And one of my biggest gripes with F*%#book. Perhaps it can't be entirely avoided in a social networking app, but there's a difference between unwanted leakage and active encouragement. Providing incentives to people to rat out my data is scummy.

Unfortunately, scummy is what I've come to expect from them.
How did you track it down? MS's performance debugging toolkit? (Can't remember the actual name) Or something else?
> ... but you also face developer unhappiness and attrition.

I don't think this should be assumed. The unhappiness and stress around Tech Debt are directly caused by sub-optimal communication, not by the debt itself. The debt is just the stage on which the poor communication is played out.
Hm? Understanding is important. It opens up possibilities for change and/or improvements.

You might call someone who deny evolution a thickhead or a zealot, ignore, and that's the end of it. Or you can try to ask "why do you think so", and turns out they only heard about evolution from their pastor, who spoke about some nonsense like "monkeys gave birth to human babies". From there, it might be possible to point that out in a way that would make them read a wiki article about it, for example. That is, make one real step towards changing the opinion.

Assuming the other side would care to answer the "why", however...
Looks great, but how long will it last?
What would be good is filter for common, normal, and rare pokemon.

And nests. Do we need Machine Learning to characterise nests?
Who wasn't listening? Did anything in either of my comments imply I wasn't?

I read the author's post. I digested it. I provided my counterpoint.

Your initial response was essentially dismissal.

I prompted you to provide a more substantial response (admittedly rather sarcastic, though I hope it wasn't viewed as hostility... probably a bad decision, that), and you once again come back with a pithy response.

It's almost as though you feel I've offended you by providing my viewpoint, which I find odd since I haven't personally attacked anyone, certainly not you, whom I don't know from Adam.
Just start by giving smaller servings.

Really, the size of servings in US is ridiculous, who is supposed to finish that?
I mean, if you want to go that route, it's your skin that will roast.
I generally agree with the points made, but I think it is rather poorly written. Plus, like others here, I found the formatting a problem. I repeatedly wondered if I had reached the end only to find I had not.
if you live in San Francisco forget Comcast and just get MonkeyBrains !
I'd sure be interested in what those efficiency gains could be. The ISP business isn't exactly a gold mine and margins are pretty thin. It's only at (massive) scale that things start to look better.

I'm sure it'd be much easier if people just moved into their closest DC. That last mile really is such a drag.
It might have a simpler explanation. Maybe what you are seeing isn't guilt, but submission, and you are mistaking it for guilt. When spoken to a certain way, submission is the correct social response. This is true in people as well. If you have a work superior approach you in an angry manner, your best option is likely not to respond angrily or indifferently.
China’s Yutu rover dies on the moon
Fantastic essay. Listening in this way is an important part of Nonviolent Communication[1], which I'd highly recommend as further reading if this resonated with you.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication
> I find it nice that the complexity of the universe hides it from us and it only occasionally comes up in discussions like this.

I agree. I find arguments for lack of free will strange. If we don't have it, then what's the point of anything, including arguing whether we have it? It's not about being right or wrong for me, but rather that I'll always accept the illusion of free will, because anything else is just boring and depressing.

And who knows, maybe in the end we'll discover that there's randomized quantum effects that break the determinism. While not quite free will, at least it's an out from the boring and depressing alternative.
I am very suspect of 130 hours/week being sustainable at a level of quality anyone would appreciate. I do think it's easier to achieve in a management position. I don't see how a developer can be productive working those hours regularly. But the article seems to imply you should be ready to work that many hours all the time, not during crunch times to get things launched. The latter is definitely possible.

But maybe this is just one of those legendary questions people ask to weed out those who would immediately balk because they want to have a life outside of work.
For as long as it can :) Filters are coming very very soon along with notifications. Please elaborate on nests? I honestly don't play the game myself.
Just be careful not to submit one patch per file, times 1500 files.
> aquafaba, the viscous canned chickpea liquid most of us dump down the drain, ...works as a whipped cream substitute on top of a banana split

Nope. Nope nope nope.
This hasn't really been true on Linux for a long time, glibc happily munmaps unused arenas when they empty and some dynamic threshold is reached
Ah, i had an impression that the article was talking about the one-on-one case, and so assumed you were too.

Makes more sense now.
I suspect the "super-recognizers" are a good cover for some new algorithm for face identification..

"trawling through an image database with more than 100,000 stills.." sounds quite incredible to me.
The way Facebook chooses articles for its feed has no effect on anyone's free speech. Comparing it to banning books is silly.
​How to block annoying Facebook political posts
I think it's just barely possible for the fastest NES and GB emulators to use this trick for one single frame of lag reduction.

Here, you have eight inputs (assumes one player on the NES.) But there's a trick: up+down and left+right aren't physically possible due to a rocker in the D-pad. So as a whole, there are nine possible D-pad states instead of sixteen. With four buttons, that's sixteen possible states. So the total is 144 states.

Now look at QuickNES, blargg's masterpiece NES emulator that runs fullspeed on a 66MHz PowerPC system. If you had the fastest, overclocked octacore CPU Intel makes, you may be able to pull off 144 instances of the emulation. Especially since you don't have to actually output the audio and video for all the missed predictions to the real hardware.

Or perhaps more sanely ... most games don't have you using start+select while playing. I think people would be willing to accept a large jitter when pressing those two buttons. So now you're talking 36 instances, which starts to look very reasonable. At least, for emulators that are okay with sacrificing accuracy.

The most popular NES emulators today require 800MHz (Nestopia), 1.6GHz (Nintendulator), and I'm not sure on puNES, but presumably just as high. 36 instances of those are unlikely.

Still, this would be a fun experiment if anyone were willing! :D

Of course, the end result is a 16ms lag reduction. And again, I need to stress ... I get that latency stacks, but ... you're really going to have a hard time even telling the difference between the two. Even if you're one of those people who can beat Dodonpachi or Ninja Gaiden or Battletoads on one life.
Yep I've taught at CTY. Might not be challenging for IQ 148 though. (I say this as estimated 140+.) Also $$$. (Was invited to attend when I was younger but parents couldn't afford it. Usually classes have 1 public school student to 13 private.)
I don't see the connection. Could you explain what you mean?
Which country (or organization) do you think will be (or has already been) the first to implement a program of creating physical mimics of humans for military and intelligence purposes? With technologies like this and CRISPR, video, testimony, or genetic evidence could be thrown out the window in criminal or military cases.
Again, I though the moderation was unfair and unwarranted.

Just trying to 'splain.
Even if you use distance bounding protocols, couldn't someone just use one of those contactless paypal machines, to steal your money directly?
Yep, not just in work, but in personal life too. Everyone is always so "busy" but if you actually probe, it's mostly false or exaggerated. I don't know why having free time is such a dirty word.
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I read your table as 60m in county budgets, and another 16m+ in "other" (which is not necessarily the state budget). So to get the magnitude right, you'd take budgets for police + 75m for prosecutors at the county level, plus the state-level budgets of the Attorney General, Prosecution Services, and the Highway Patrol (which operates as our state police as well as a bureau of investigation).

That's not to say that 1:1 parity is necessary or desirable for real justice. But it's misleading to compare just the state level budgets and assume it's even roughly equal.
If he is in Chicago its worth targeting IMSA for junior and senior year of high school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Mathematics_and_Scien...
"belief" itself is a loaded word, and I think it muddles the discussion.

You're probably able to use a technical definition of "belief" along the lines of "falsifiable assertation". Most people don't see it that way; being conditioned to equate "belief" with "opinion that is factually wrong". Even for those of us that know the technical definition, we have to make a conscious effort to no fall back to the casual definion on our day to day lives. And from there, there's a slipery slope that goes down to "opinion I do not agree with".

It is much more productive to see this issue in terms of values. If is not that this person cannot see the facts, but that she assigns a moral meaning to those same facts that is different from the one you would prefer.

From there, it is Politics 101. If you want her to withdraw her opposition to abortion, you have to find some other issue X that is of comparable value to her, and either offer your support to make X happen or threaten to block her from achieving X.

This is not pretty, but in a democratic society, it leaves everybody more or less equaly frustrated with the compromise; while at the same time nobody's deepest needs and wants get ignored.
I'll reply here because we've reached the thread limit below. I'm not taking issue with this example alone, it's the latest and a list of crazy interactions, some listed elsewhere at the root. The one that stands out in my mind was the guy reported/detained for doing some math on a piece of paper.

That might have been on US soil.

Look it. I grew up in the troubles, I was shot at, I was constantly searched on the way to school, constantly suspected always in fear. I saw all sides of a messy stupid war. You know what worked in the end... peace and dialog, it took men like John Hume to rise above it all and just be reasonable, to sit down and talk.

My fear, no.. my firm belief is that this McCarthyism-like nonsense solves nothing, has constantly proven itself to solve nothing throughout history and actually perpetuates the issue.
I'm sorry, it's possible that I am too cynical for this world, but this sounds embellished if not entirely fictional like the precocious toddlers* waxing lyrical on free speech and Donald Trump. After the author asked a single question the stranger poured their heart out on a deeply personal issue, conveniently vindicating the presence of a "free listening" booth at the RNC and giving an all-too-perfect story for the author to write up on his return home. The advice that (I think?) the author was trying to convey is fine - listen, empathise, understand, withhold judgement - but the story is nonsense.

* = What I mean is summarised nicely here: http://www.dailydot.com/unclick/woke-fake-kids-repudiate-don... - stuff like 'my 3 year old daughter caught a glimpse of todays trump rally shut down and starting crying "daddy why do they want free speech to die?"'
Reference books for whatever he's interested in. With that age, intellect, and drive, he will eat them up. Also support his interests even if he moves on easily.

Unlike others I don't think he will benefit from enrichment programs much. Even in talented-youth programs (e.g. CTY, where I've taught) teachers will find it difficult to challenge him, and it sounds like he is already self-motivated.

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EDIT now that I have a keyboard, to expound on the teacher thing: I've been on both the giving and receiving sides of talented-youth education. The problem for students with such high IQs is not that teachers don't know things they don't (they certainly do), but that teachers often have no experience with correcting the mental models & processes such intelligent children develop.

E.g. when I was young, I developed (incorrect) "folk" theories as to how capacitors worked, or the meaning of dividing one by zero, etc. In both cases I was wrong, and teachers told me I was wrong, but they couldn't explain why I was wrong (and hence correct my underlying misconceptions). It wasn't until college that I would encounter instructors who had such a profound grasp of the subject that they could deconstruct my folk theories. (Not that my theories were deep; just that my misunderstandings were deeply rooted.)

On the flip side, during the years I was a teacher/tutor, I met maybe 2-3 students whom I could tell right away I couldn't help. I could have told them things they didn't know, sure, but not anything they couldn't have read from a book. There were no flaws in their reasoning skills that I was capable of understanding, let alone fixing.

To be a truly effective teacher for a highly inquisitive mind, you have to be at least as intelligent, and more knowledgable than the student. For someone so smart as your second cousin, it will be a very tough find.

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EDIT2: Academics aside, here is something cynical. If your family is not upper-class, and you are primarily concerned with the kid's success rather than straight-up smarts, find a friend who is upper-class and have the kid hang out with them. As someone with a middle-class upbringing, as I've entered my 30s I've come to realize how tangible class is in terms of networking and "getting ahead in life" (if that's what you're into). You can switch class with a lot of work by being very good at what you do, but it's a lot easier if you already "fit in" with the upper class because that stuff rubbed off on you when you were young. (Again, I recognize this is somewhat cynical and others probably have very different ideas.)
Human nature reacts to the environment. Change the environment (by reducing clickbait prevalence), and the observed behavior will change.

Your last point hits the nail on the head. Changing core aspects of human nature is not really feasible, so we have to to modify the environment or context in some way to better accommodate those aspects of human nature.
I'm having trouble seeing how the scenario you describe is 'unhealthy'

I wasn't referring to killing clickbait as being unhealthy. I was referring to the practice of implementing policies that kill businesses because FB isn't getting their cut. There have been several much less cut-and-dry situations - for example, the drastically reduced organic reach of Facebook page posts for small businesses.
>> To me, history demonstrates that it's simply idealism to believe that people can, in aggregate, come together on complex, polarizing issues.

Just look at how much the majority opinion on dozens of topics has changed over the past few decades. Marijuana legalization. Gay marriage. Mass incarceration.

Lots and lots of change happens in the hearts and minds of lots and lots of people without force being involved. People often change their views very gradually, over time, as they realize aspects of things which weren't apparent to them before. A big part of this is often empathetic discussions with the people around them.

I think you, and other commenters in this thread, seem to imply that the assumptive goal is to change someone's mind RIGHT NOW, or else just force them to do what you know is right, and ignore their wrongheadedness.

The civil war was a serious net benefit to humanity by outlawing slavery. But the underlying concerns of Southerners, which was the dismantling of their economy, was never addressed. This has led to generational poverty in the south which has never been fully undone, and created a fertile field for the southern strategy and Jim Crow, which are arguably continuing to affect us in the form of the current presidential campaign.

Force may have been necessary, but a deeper understanding might have made the aftermath of force far better.
Jesus, read your comments in this thread again. Do you really think you're a champion of Listening? A guy made a rather cogent point about whether this protocol will actually help resolve issues or not (which the linked article doesn't make claims about one way or the other), and you responded with the soul of Contempt, reducing his argument to an implicit "eh, why bother".

edit: thanks for your response to 'zzalpha, helped me understand your position, and my response above seems a bit harsh in light of that. That said, I'll leave it up because the expository rant came afterward :P
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What is SOA on Twitter sentiment these days? I thought it was around 80%
The issue is people simply don't trust the airline to take care of them. Typically airlines place lots of limitations on losses and make it very difficult to get compensated. Lost identification usually involves fees to get them replaced.
Some might argue, quite correctly, that you are making a choice between death and inconvenience but many would not assume they are going to die and weigh up the risk vs return accordingly.
Less effective when your own luggage is in your hands... :-P
I think understanding matters. It may not lead to compromise, but it'll get you closer than just ignoring dissenting worldviews.

And it's healthy. So much of the hate and anger around, say, politics today is predicated on not understanding and actively refusing to change that situation. We dismiss and actively insult those who we disagree with: idiot, racist, bigot, naive, liar, insane, greedy.

You may never compromise on a polarizing issue because any middle ground is either non-existent or functionally equivalent to full capitulation. That's life. But if you shut down, ignore, or insult those who disagree with you on one issue, they're not even going to show up to the table on the next issue where compromise is more feasible.
>I make a serious effort to nurture relationships with people who hold beliefs very different from mine, some of these beliefs I even consider ethically flawed, or counterfactual. And yet I get so much out of talking and especially listening to these people explain their beliefs to me. I feel grateful to have the opportunity to see the world through other lenses, and I have learned and grown as a result

Honest question -- exactly what do you get out of talking and listening to people explain 'ethically flawed' or 'counterfactual' beliefs to you? What have you learned? How better to deal with people of that sort? I realize this sounds sarcastic, but whenever I've been in that situation I've only come to the sinking realization that the discussion I am trying to have with this person is fruitless at best and damaging to us both at worst.
X person opposes your view...It is absolutely imperative to understand this person for the purpose of either compromise or annihilation. Know thine enemy. In the process you'll come to know yourself.
I've actually found it works a lot better if both people just allow the contentious statements. Just let each person say, "Oh that's ridiculous because..." and the other replies with "You're totally missing this point..." Even if people raise their voice or scoff, it's fine. The key is to just keep going.

If you go on long enough, the points do start sinking in.

Too many people assume that acrimony means that the discussion must end immediately. But that's not true at all. It's exceptionally hard, sometimes, to meet clashing beliefs with entirely soft voices and polite manners. You don't have to suppress everything you want to say. You can let it out. So can the other person. It's good. (Obviously it shouldn't raise to a degree where people are screaming continuously or acting violent).

Maturity doesn't just mean always speaking softly. It can also mean being able to make and reject points forcefully, and not wilt like a delicate flower if the other person does the same.

The real key is that people need to not be so delicate. Accept the natural difficulties of clashing belief systems. Just stick in there, let the acrimony happen, don't give up. Eventually - 10 or 20 or 30 minutes later - you'll get to something meaningful simply because there's no way to talk that long without both people having a lot of time to make real points.
Actually, he's been admitted there and he is going next year. They received 50% off scholarship, but for my cousin it's still kinda daunting. But he is going!
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I have a heuristic that gets evaluated over time on randomly-sampled tweets. (It's the core of the Python "ftfy" package, which fixes Unicode mistakes based on a heuristic for whether text "looks right".)

I frequently have to read the randomly-sampled tweets for debugging purposes. And, yes, random tweets are often so dumb that my brain slightly regrets the time it spent reading them. But that is far outweighed by the benefit that the Internet is delivering me fresh test data all the time.

On the whole, I enjoy the notion that I am converting stupid babble into something somewhat useful.
You take the rest home and have it as a second meal.
Just not like this: https://youtu.be/65GbpVZTgAk

Or god forbid: https://youtu.be/TChRv8m79zs