skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open Letter to Facebook Employees
Dear Facebook employees,

I am writing not in my capacity as a shareholder, but as a concerned citizen.

You have worked tirelessly to build a world-changing platform that enables almost 1.8 billion people to connect and share what matters to them. What you have accomplished is unprecedented in the history of the world.

The thing is, communications technologies don't just passively reflect what already exists in society. They shape society. From the printing press to the earliest peer-reviewed scientific journals of the Royal Society, from the wireless to radio to television, each new communications technology has evolved with it social institutions that govern how people communicate on that platform. This is not about politics -- Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative. It is about the rules of debate, whether a communications technology facilitates or destroys a culture where argument is grounded in evidence, reason, and respect.

You are not just building a communications platform. You are building the future.

And right now, the future you are building has a lot of swastikas in it. It's a future where bald-faced lies get more shares than evidence-based argument. It's a future where propaganda trumps reason.

Is that the future you want for your children?

The choice is really yours. No one can stop you from building a communications platform that foregrounds civility, rational evidence-based argument, and tolerance. If you build it, that platform will support a society where the best ideas from the right and from the left, from all races and from all creeds, are shared and discussed and respectfully debated. A society where the best ideas are successful, not the best propaganda. It's up to you.

Move fast. Break things. Before it is too late.
>If you want to make something cool, don’t give it to geeks first.

Does anyone else get really tired of stuff like this? Why is it that every possible difference is celebrated except within liberal circles, with the exception that nerds are considered objectively bad. In fact the article comes across as body shaming.
Nice idea. Conservative attention seekers could sue over inherited debt.
Its only in India?
i tried the same with portuguese comments/text where i always felt Facebooks translation was pretty bad and in google translate it is a lot better, to the point you hardly notice it's translated by an algorithm at all.
Absolutely - my main computer is an iMac, which will soon be replaced by another iMac (5K), however as someone who builds and upgrades a gaming rig as well, I always look with envy towards the very affordable world of PCs. I'd love to be able to slap macOS on custom build computers for a fraction of the price that is attached to Apple hardware.
Completely agree. Not sure why you're anon.
> Over the next few months, we can expect the dominance of the United States Navy to be increasingly challenged

Maybe over the next few decades. Months...nope.

Here is aircraft carries. No-one is even close to challenging US. And those closest by number are US aligned. Also look at what is on the carriers. US carriers are in a league of their own for their strike capability. Sort the individual carrier list by tonnage and you will get a perspective on the scale difference of US carriers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_by_c...

Always an interesting fact. The largest air-force in the world is naturally the US airforce. The second largest is the US Navy.
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Show HN: Build native iOS apps using declarative markup
Is that chinese character compatible? (half-serious)
A company is worth the percentage it captures of the value it creates. You alluded to it in your comment--Snap has a much lower headcount and an order of magnitude less operating costs, so if anything it kind of makes sense that they'd be valued at a relative premium.

Also, you may not like Snapchat, but to say it deserves to die when it both a) employs real people and b) clearly serves a market need is such a terrible thing to wish for.
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BO surely did have a GUI! Sub7 was dark and sleek though, while BO had a messy office-like look.
Yes, easily.
Human drivers will bully robot cars, says CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA
At least they have something they can sell afterwards...
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What sort of cycle-accurate simulation are you proposing, exactly (I assume you're aiming for something pretty accurate if your simulation is going to figure out performance-related problems!), and how will it be improved by dependency injection? If you just want to simulate a network, why not use something like http://mininet.org/?

(Also: formal proofs of correctness for stuff like leader election are very much concerned with stability / liveness, not just safety; that's a common misconception).
Apple historically hasn't had a problem competing with itself - iPod mini - iPod nano - iPhone, each of these completely destroyed an existing product or product line.
I'd just use a separate NodePool and match your jobs using a selector as appropriate.
I'm not sure about Sierra, but El Capitan works fine under VirtualBox/VMWare (you do need to be running an Intel CPU).
There is also a nice feature: if you have enough reputation there (I'm among the top 1%) you will have an ad-free experience.
You could host it for free on GitLab or GitHub with CloudFlare's free CDN - should hold up to almost anything.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12956597 (same link at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12956566, but comments were moved)
I bet facebook would be number one.
Can we sue the government for not funding Social Security properly thus making future generations work more years?
> Sadly, I also predict that this is the only mechanism by which requirements will be tightened.

Not going to happen. If this were so, Interlock Ignition Devices (Breathalyzers) would come standard on all new cars and be a requirement on used ones. Also, we already have a law against speed limits, but even a cheap, shitty Toyota Yaris can go faster than the highest posted speed limit. There's a large swath of the population for whom car=freedom.
If your driver violated two traffic laws, you should most definitely rate them poorly. They're a hazard for everyone on the road and should reconsider their line of work. No one is entitled to any job, especially a job that can very easily kill other people. There's a reason why many work vehicles have "how's my driving?" stickers on the back.
200 W for gaming card? Just ridiculous. Even gtx 1050 need 300 W PSU. And modern quiet fans in quiet cases are really quiet - below 20db, so it's difficult to hear it at all. My son have such with Gtx 1080 - it's the gaming card.
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I bet it would look really cool to have 3D primitives that can be oriented with respect to the time dimension. So for example, a spherical primitive would be a circle that grows and shrinks as frames progress.
> It takes 3 years to refuel them

What do you mean by this?
After playing Holopoint for 30 minutes, I felt a sense of elation and heightened perception. I felt like I could type faster, and my reaction times were faster. It reminded me of Lawnmower Man.

I didn't get this effect with less intense games like Space Pirate Trainer.
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Thank you!!! I was so frustrated at having multiple chat apps I spent hours and hours around the time you were writing Miranda just trying to find one I liked. Miranda was like early Linux: ludicrously flexible configuration (and extensible!), but once you got it tweaked just right, it was hard to go back to anything different... including Trillian, which was the OSX foil to what Miranda was designed to be.

I don't know when I stopped using Miranda, but it was probably approximately when I started using Gtalk and encouraged the majority of my ICQ and AIM contacts to get Google accounts, too.
For performance and bandwidth.
Generally it's hard to pre-emptively sue to prevent the government killing you -- even though in the US the Constitution requires due process before a person can be deprived of "life, liberty, or property" -- because most ways the government has of killing you (guns, bombs, etc.) happen very quickly.

In this case the mechanism by which the government is alleged to be killing people is slow-acting enough that the people who claim they will be harmed have time to file a lawsuit.
Google's paper on datacenter hard drives addresses this point -- it's easier to do this and other tricks with a set of disks than attempting it within the confines of a single drive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11172876
The inclusion of arbitrary values suggested you would actually use those values.
I wish I'd listened then.
Yes, and this is an interesting way to get more labelled data.
Last time primitive was posted I wrote some bash scripts to make it work on video using ffmpeg - https://rybakov.com/blog/primitive/
more details surrounding Assange and the struggle the past month - weird lawyer suicide, fonky WL twitter, and police forces confiscating phones.. http://survivalacres.com/blog/julian-assange-is-probably-dea...
Sorry for a question that is not directly related to the blog post, but anyway. CockroachDB is the only Go project I'm aware of that uses `2 spaces` indentation instead of `tab`s. I'm curious, is there any reason for that?
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do you know why? Because you were there too. So was I.
Yes, but all software may have bugs. The attack you referred to was fixed in 9.3, and going forward there are no known attacks as far as I know. I think it's safe to assume a lot of people out there are continuously trying to break the iMessage crypto. For attacks that are not disclosed to the public (e.g. intelligence agencies that would like to keep it secret), this can really apply to any of the other competitors including Signal.
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"...as caused it."
I agree, it's definitely more pleasant. When my mum was visiting she commented that the pleasantness of customer service was really amazing. What impressed her most was that there are people whose sole job it is to welcome yoy into a store.

But I have to admit that after the thousandth reflexive "How are you" without caring for a response, the novelty wears off. What if sometimes I'm not "Good, thanks, how are you?" ... but that would be impolite.
Miranda was my go-to-client for quite a while, on Windows. I like it better Pidgin due to how lean it was. Thanks for writing it!
You're welcome, chappi42
Interesting reaction to the quote from Robert Gordon of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America. PCI is an umbrella lobby for insurers; their website says they represent writers of 42% of automobile policies in the U.S. Since insurers are in the business of understanding and quantifying the risks they insure against, I'm willing to assume that he and PCI are knowledgeable about this issue.
It depends on what the score represents. If a 4.4 means you take a wrong turn here and there then I don't mind. If it means they constantly speed but other users don't care then I do mind.
Apple releases $300 book containing 450 photos of Apple products
I'm excited to see if these changes trickle down to the Latin model, which has seen improvement over the years but at a pace slower than non-dead/historical languages.
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Refueling, which only happens every 25 years, is quite complex since they have to get still highly radioactive spent fuel out of the sealed reactor, so they combine it with a general overhaul and upgrade, which means the ship is taken out of service for years. (search term "refueling and overhaul")
That's the problem. I don't want my news to be narratives and conclusions.
Paste the code into a private gist. (See developer's comment above.)
http://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2016/

From 25:45 to 30:39 (5 minutes), discussing the Mac's past.
From 30:39 to 35:00 (4 minutes), introducing the new MacBook Pro.
From 35:00 to 36:07 (2 minutes), discussing the history of the function keys (on an IBM terminal, not discussing Apple's history).
From 36:07 to 73:21 (37 minutes), discussing the new MacBook Pro.
From 73:21 to 74:21 (1 minute), showing the new MacBook Pro next to a PowerBook 100.
From 74:21 to 79:37 (5 minutes), discussing the new MacBook Pro.

Generously, they spent 8 minutes total referencing the past (3 minutes of that was for framing the new product) and 46 minutes exclusively talking about the new product.
Boo! My ip is way too dull color :( I was at least expecting a new color of the spectrum with glitter and unicorns and cheese burgers
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The college I attended had a copy. I leafed through it. I recall (but didn't reimplement)

* map coloring

* maze generation

* some company forecasting / resource allocation game

* a vm and compiler

* huffman encoding

* conway's game of life
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Happy 20th birthday, ICQ
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957476
You think the features of car touchscreens will still be relevant in 5 years? The point them in because it adds planned obsolescence.
I'm the founder of Repl.it (https://repl.it) and our aim is to make programming more accessible. In addition to being an easy-to-use online programming environment free for everyone, we are currently focusing on classroom environments (https://repl.it/classrooms) for some of the reasons you mentioned. Many teachers come to our site because they find themselves in Classrooms where half of the students use Chromebooks which makes it really hard (impossible?) to install any native IDEs or compilers.
Your post is also lacking many concrete details so it's not adding to the conversation.

>Your posts seem like classic climate change denialism.

Any skeptical post would qualify for this.

>The same tactics were used to argue that lead in gasoline wasn't a problem and that cigarette smoke doesn't cause cancer.

The same tactics (attacking data sources) are used in any critical analysis of a given scientific field (see sociology).

>CO2 causes atmospheric warming.

Repeating the conclusion is not an argument.

>The underlying principles are simple and sound.

Right, but the underlying principle isn't being disputed. The underlying principles behind lots of research can be fine while the research itself is garbage (e.g. bad data collection methodology).

>The only reason to argue against the science is if you have an ulterior motive or you've been unwittingly duped by those that do.

This is so idiotic I don't even know where to start. You're saying that there is no reason to question scientific findings if you think a whole method of research is fundamentally flawed?

"The only reason you have to argue against numerology is if you have an ulterior motive or you've been unwittingly duped by those that do."

Sounds silly, doesn't it?

>That isn't how science works. It doesn't matter what they hypothesize, what matters is what the evidence shows.

Cute, I take it you've never worked in academia? People completely throw away experiments that fail to support their hypothesis all of the time. Especially if the result would bring down a fire of threats to their career. (https://xkcd.com/1478/ https://xkcd.com/882/)

Bias in the researchers is a very big problem in all scientific fields. When you're trained to be a hammer and all you work with are hammers, and you get your funding from the hammer use-case fund, you certainly aren't out looking for screwdriver use-cases.

Please keep the discussion to substantive counterpoints other than ad hominems, strawman arguments, and appeals to authority.
As a cyclist in SF, have you encountered any self driving cars? Were they aware of your presence on the road and able to maneuver around you?
What would be cool is using the windscreen for an AR display, with glasses for both head tracking and for stereoscopic display.

I guess it would be expensive, probably too expensive for Uber drivers. Maybe it could still be used in luxury vehicles while full autonomous operation is in the works.
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Written text in SMS and twitter tends to a lot closer to the way people speak, whereas newspapers are a lot more "polished". So there is definitely a bias depending on what you train your algorithm on. Also, topics and vocabulary may differ widely so if you train on newspaper, your algorithm will struggle with phone conversations.

If you are talking about Modern Spoken Mandarin (or written Spoken Mandarin: SMS, social media) vs Modern Written Mandarin I don't think the gap is that large compared to other languages. Certainly a lot less than the gap between written Colloquial English and Formal English (more words of Latin origins).

Looking at the People's Daily website (which is presumably an official news source in China), it looks like standard newspaper Chinese. Should be readable for most Chinese people with at least primary education.
Is it possible to sue and collect damages for exposure to carcinogens (eg. asbestos) before the cancer manifests? If so, there's a reasonable analogy to be made: once excess CO2 is in the atmosphere, solar radiation will inexorably cause harmful warming. The biggest difference is that carbon sequestration is somewhat imaginable, but still impractical (especially for non-government actors).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957306
It is not so simple. The characters are not the same colour as in the image. Look at the eyes and the nose for example. It seems to be doing a more advanced kind of image feature detection.
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To answer your questions:

>Where does "I" come from?

The system has lost track of the subject (the government and ruling party) and put in "I" as the most likely candidate. This error is pretty dumb, to be honest, and no halfway competent human would make this mistake.

>What's the part of the sentence that follows it supposed to mean?

"entered the adjustment with the plan" is for ～案で調整に入る, which is quite difficult political lingo. The sentence should begin "the government and ruling party have entered discussions regarding (two different) proposals to raise the ..."

>each husband?

"Each" should be "[under] each plan"; the original omits the subject. Figuring out the meaning of それぞれ here would be hard for a lot of quite advanced Japanese learners, I think.

>funny, it translated １７年度 as meaning 平成１７年

Actually this is the more common interpretation - if it didn't say 2017 earlier in the text this would be a pretty safe bet. I guess they don't do text-level analysis yet?

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Anyway, I agree with what everyone else is saying - this is an impressive leap in making intelligible output for JtoE, but as a translator I'm not fearing for my job just yet.
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I got so annoyed with the complexity and poor performance of web frameworks that I sat down for a day last year and made my own little database-less CMS for this kind of usecase. It's not quite as fast as a purely static solution, but I think it would be fast enough for HN:

https://github.com/muellermichel/guetzli
TL;DR, don't make and market tech products for tech people, because they're all queasy autists who will make your product look dorky and ugly. Aim your products at the cool people, the beautiful people, the Kardashians and Iggy Azaleas of the world. They're the people who matter.
I think it's more about the lack of fiber. I used to take my gameboy or a newspaper with me until I changed my diet.
You are correct. More than just banking, it is difficult to get a mortgage, investing in stocks/bonds, or even financing a car.
The nuclear reactors have an endurance of ~25 years. (Not limited by amount of uranium, but by build-up of undesirable elements). After that, they need to be refueled, and that is done as a part of a complex mid-life refit that takes over 3 years.

The construction cadence of the Nimitz class was set with the idea that starting from '98, all the carriers would be refueled and refitted in turn, so that one is always at the yard. Right now, that carrier is USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), which entered the dock in March 2013, and still remains there.
What do you mean with everything? Because we have seen languages such as D (without GC) and Rust that offer the same possibilities and performance, yet much less opportunity to blow your hand off by accident.
So, is gci going to come with the right drivers?
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I'm not sure if their understanding of data or statistics has decreased, but the level of journalism has definitely taken a nosedive. A friend of mine in journalism school says they are taught that accuracy isn't as important as being first or having a clickbait thanks to social media
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Ah, thanks! Yes, I do. I was 50/50 between mir and mich there.. Couldn't quite remember the use cases. Really ought to refresh my skills a bit, perhaps by finding some good German C# /asp.net tech sites to peruse.

I gained most of my knowledge from reading Das Amiga-Magazin, which I subscribed to for probably a decade. I was going to flunk before I started reading it, but ended up with nearly best grades (high school). It's surprising how actually wanting to read the subject matter can change things around.
It is not because of the touch screen, but because the designer was probably an intern.
I wonder how it'd work out with talking to or screaming at kids, who have no awareness of what's going on.
Alright, smug one. Might be a student.
The french translation is pretty bad. The funny thing to try is to double translate english => french => english and compare both texts. If the results are way off, you know the translation is incorrect.
Hidden cost of Uber on cities/residents. Now we need more police to follow Uber drivers around continuously.
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Who matter to drive sales ;)
Well said, and I share this intuition and desire 100%. I’ve been working on building a platform for data-driven journalism at https://numer.al -- It’s a prototype that turns public APIs into live D3 charts. (Working on embedding those into articles so that they stay up to date, link back to show their provenance, etc.) I think there’s a lot that can be done to bring journalism into the 21st century. If you’re interested in the things we’re working on, feel free to drop me a line: brian@numer.al.
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Isn't Hesco basically a modern sandbag?
While not AR, Mazda is moving in that direction with their HUD. They display speed, directions from the NAV and speed limit from sign recognition. All on the screen in the CX-9 (or is it 7?) and a little popup display in the 6.
I'd just like to say a quick thanks for creating REPL.it. I don't personally use it, but many of my classmates do and it's a very nice environment for development within the browser.
I have let it run for ~40k shapes on a very hi-res photograph of my adorable children in front of a stream, and it is a beautiful thing to watch the resolution unfold. I love that I end up with a vector graphic at the end.

I have a crazy question: It generally seems to fill in detail uniformly, across the entire image. It's like the entire thing is coming slowly into focus. At some point, I'd prefer the algorithm to care a little less about filling in detail on the background, and focus more detail on the "items of interest" in a scene, the high-contrast regions or something. Perhaps even to have some manual control over it. Would this be possible? I am a total amateur when it comes to image analysis, btw, just thought it would be cool.
A HUD would probably be almost as good as AR in terms of safety, just not nearly as cool.
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Streacom has fanless cases that look way better. They're not as small though.