skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wales is correct, in my opinion, that the proximate cause of this crisis is indeed social media.

I don't think social media has much to do with it. I think the confusion between the professions of journalist, entertainer and partisan political operative has much more to do with it.

> If you don't agree just ask yourself how often you visit the masthead of whatever newspaper

Why would it be important if I visit the masthead? That's like saying libraries are in crisis because people don't spend enough time in the lobby. That's not why one visits the library! The frontpage is an utilitarian tool, and if people can do without it, nobody cares.

> These places need to either be shut down

I don't think they should be shut down. If there's an audience for them, why not? Nothing "should be shut down" - if it has no audience, it will die off, it it does have one - it should serve it. The problem here is the audience of "give us facts and let us form opinion" is woefully underserved. This is solved by creating, not shutting down.

> So, hire some old school editors and fire the "social media" guy

Social media guy didn't write that awfully biased article. Some "journalist" did, the social media guy just posted the link on twitter. So why the social media guy should suffer? "Journalists" that do bad job should be called out and shamed, and social media is not where the blame should go. Hard to believe, but twitter can be used for good too, if only people would want to...
I wrote a passionate blog post made the front page of a major subreddit. The story was then syndicated across a few other large blogs in my niche. This resulted in 3,000 sign-ups in a few days-- much more than I had expected!

I've also found reddit ads to be quite useful if you take the time to craft relevant ads and quickly nix ones that do not perform.
Clever Facebook ads are definitely effective. Approach it like 99% of FB advertisers, however, and you'll undoubtedly lose money.
But in general the reversal of a glob pattern is trivial while the reversal of the equivalent regular expression is not, no?
Getting the first hundred users in itself is not hard, post to forums where your users hang out and you'll be at 100 users fairly quickly. The hard part is getting users to keep coming back to your site aka engagement.

The best advice I have come across to get your initial users : do things that don't scale [0]. Yeah, everyone read that post by PG but a surprisingly small number of people actually apply it to their own projects/startups. Practical example : I am building a community for programmers [1], so to get some initial feedback I posted to a Python subreddit and got the first 50 users. I got a lot of valuable feedback, but users hardly came back to my site after a couple of days. So I decided to follow up individually with users who had signed up and started a conversation about my site. I explained to each user what the site is about, how to use it and asked for feedback. I also asked them what their first impressions of the site were and how it can be improved. I learnt that people did not even understand what my site was about, and I knew that I need to focus on conveying the essence of the site to new users. (Still working on it) You gain a lot of insight about users by having conversations with individual users. I managed to help 3 people with their Python related problems so far, in the chat room https://www.metalmanac.com/topics/python/chat/

Once you get a small number of users who are passionate about your project, continue talking to individual users and ask them to share it with their friends and offer to guide each user individually, it works very well. This is obviously not scalable beyond a few hundred users, but getting those passionate users initially is critical. I am currently at this stage.

Once you have a group of 100 or so passionate users, you can share it with a wider community of users (eg- PH, HN for tech projects) and continue focusing on having conversations with individual users.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

[1] https://www.metalmanac.com/
Not. The similarity is in title only - "identities of ~1M of the murdered are unknown" and "there's a discrepancy in statistics, therefore did not happen" are as different texts as they could possibly be, even though the title could fit both.
I'm about as far from Jewish as you can get, but I do have access to Google & Wikipedia, so in the interest in providing some data for this confusing side-thread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_symbolism#The_symbolic_...

"The number six symbolizes imperfection". No idea if and how that would relate to the six million in relation to the Holocaust.

Then if you go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_numerology#Numerical_... there's some more details.
Compared to a car accident a flying car accident can create 100x damage for participating and/or non-participating passengers/travellers. The factor '100x' is just my guess, correct me if you think I am wrong. Could this be an obstacle for the future success or do you see any solution to this problem?

(This is just what I am always wondering when reading about flying cars)
I couldn't help it.
Show HN: Kailua, Type Checker and IDE Support for Lua
Unfortunately I've watched at least one person go off the deep end with salvia. Permanently.

I guess some people get addicted easily.

I think it's best to stay away. But that's me.
They are alleging that it spied on any and all electronic communications that occurred in the Long Island, New York area .. not just international shipping, though that was included, but potentially everything else as well.

And that's really the point: we don't know. Unless someone investigates and pulls the evidence, we won't know, for sure, that this device isn't being used by the political elite in order to maintain their powers.

Such is the nature of a nation run on secrets.
It depends on the type of exercise, how intense it is, when, etc, etc. You can totally wreck yourself by doing it wrong.
With Rust, you'd have to drop support for some platforms that the kernel can run on but Rust can't just quite yet.
> If any quack could call themself a heart surgeon then it would hurt the credibility of real heart surgeons.

I'm afraid here we have a different situation - where heart surgeon behaves as a quack because she thinks it would convince you to do things that she things are right for you. You, of course, can say "well, she's a surgeon, so she always knows better and I should not ever doubt her, even if what she says sounds like complete quackery". But many people are not ready to surrender their autonomy so readily.
It doesn't have to solve it perfectly and in every case. But by building a human apparatus it can apply human ingenuity at scale to tackle the problem.

Wikipedia mainly fails around the margins. Yes, initially bad actors can game the system. But success brings more attention and eventually the problems are fixed.
Because they have to?

" in Russia, even the very youngest were extremely focused on the fact that their future employment opportunities were more likely to be rooted in Stem subjects."

In the west, women/girls can choose what they want to do, rather than what they feel they have to do out of economic necessity.
Ask HN: Which static site generator you use?
The Story of How Fake Sugar Got Approved Is Scary as Hell
For the nike/adidas comment: I don't have a lot, but I have a few things from each. I didn't buy any of them specifically because they were that brand, I bought them because they were the right size/style/colour/etc at the time.

I am however more picky about some categories, and some brands. I'll never buy a Samsung anything. I've "inherited" a samsung a/c, and a samsung TV. They didn't quite catch fire like the last bunch of phones, but they're sufficiently terrible and combined with their corporate MO of "copy $PopularBrand, then cut corners" on basically everything they make, and I will never buy anything from that company.
I hate it when threads are full of the same comment, I didn't diligently search to check it hadn't been mentioned already; ergo preemptive apology.
Definitely an interesting concept. There's a bit more information on the indiegogo website [1].

Their problems they mention seem to be quite standard for image recognition (scale- and perspective variance), however I could imagine that this could be quite disastrous for plant recognition, given the massive diversity of plants: e.g. a leaf viewed from the side could equally well be a more narrow leaf from a different species.

As they write on [1]: "Our challenge comes from adapting our image recognition platform to recognize different shapes and sizes of the same plants, flowers and trees. We know this is possible, and we are close to cracking it."

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/plantsnap-identify-plants...
> It's people who would not allow opinions different from their own to exist. So called "fact-checkers" were subverted by partisan propaganda in mere months.

Months since when, exactly? Most popular fact checkers existed long before the "fake news" meme brought them to newfound attention.
The Snapdragon 835 chip will be the protagonist of the three new Google Pixej
eggs are high in dietary cholesterol, which is not the same as bad cholesterol (LDL). Eggs aren't generally considered to increase LDL levels.
> Fast forward to today - the tech is available and the team is assembled to make PlantSnap a reality. With a beta version completed, and 250,000 images in the database

250,000 images doesn't sound like a large enough training set to be effective on anything but the most common plants.
A Primer on Bézier Curves
Practical tutorial on how to make a shopping app
I found "Spark! How exercise will improve the performance of your brain" (Ratey/Hagerman) to be a good popular summary of research in this field. (No connection with the authors!).
Ok, I bite. I went to your site and then clicked to learn javascript. There is a short description about javascript and then a couple of links to javascript tutorials. What now?
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It's skewed heavily to really really new stuff (and they're on the money with Kendrick, Chance, J Cole) but …

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qpbd-fHbMyfWXlWPRA_X...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ewEzXRHj8LGvUB3g9Qbn...

The best place to start is https://reddit.com/r/hiphopheads
Firefox, Lenovo, Vodafone, Coca-cola.
I prefer tailored clothes that fits me comfortably. Shoes built by local shoemaker, again fits nicely and comfortably.
Load Balancing software is a thing. It exists, waiting for you to install and configure it.

For a site called hacker news, its fucking depressing how many people here jump at every possible chance to give up control of the most basic things in their tech stack, for no other reason than "X already runs something similar as SaaS".
We use "unsafe" because Rust is concerned about memory safety, which is well-defined. Something memory unsafe does have a bug, and often security holes. That is, as you say, you can write code that is memory safe in C, but you get no assistance from the compiler in doing so. In Rust, you do in the vast majority of cases.

Words are hard; your suggestions of "lowlevel", "expressive", or "tricky" have problems too: Rust is not exactly "high level" or "low level", that is, it feels higher level, but can easily go as low-level as you need; "expressive" is suggested because you see Rust as being very restrictive, but not everyone feels that way, "tricky" might work, but also has a negative connotation as well.
I'm not quite following your question?

It might be worth noting Mickey Mouse is a registered trademark and so doesn't need to use the weaker Passing Off law?
I googled and Wikipedia said Ethylene glycol is also toxic to people and animals.

So like yeah it must have to go through some other process after the worms eat it. It sounds like it'll get really complicated.
OT: Just saw that your company Pixsy is registered in the US and in Germany but based in Germany. Is the US Inc the top company or the German GmbH? Why did you choose that setup and is it working out for you?
I'm a big fan of Converse. I've never ever thought that i would walk with a Nike or Adidas. I don't know exactly why.
We can debate the meaning of words, but the goal of a backdoor from the perspective of the government is to gain access to a system. The effect of a backdoor is accomplished through a literal backdoor or a figurative backdoor by hoarding exploits, which both are a detriment of security.

By de facto, I was implying that they both accomplish the same things with almost the same list of pros and cons.
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Please, define clever. I installed fb pixel and it made a huge diference. What else?
> According to the most recent Go developer survey, only 12% of respondents use an IDE;

There are two possible reasons for this I can see:

1. Go is so awesome that unlike any other language I've used in my multi-decade carrier, it can not be improved with an IDE. It's just an ideal and any attempted improvement would just spoil it.

2. There's no decent IDEs for Go and Go developers are forced to do with what they've got.

My experience shows the former is much more probable than the latter.

> Developing Go without an IDE is quite feasible

Of course, people programmed when ed was an IDE, and before that. It's humanly possible. Is it better? I highly doubt it.

> The particularities of IDEs which make them more productive than text editors are artifacts of the poor project system found in most languages

I'm sorry but this statement sounds both misinformed and fanboyish. There are tons of benefits to IDE which have nothing to do with "poor project system" - from module management to task management to refactoring to keeping integrated information about the project to code assist, etc., etc. I could spend an hour writing them. Claiming that Go "fixed" need for IDE sounds, excuse me for being blunt, laughable. It's like when iPhone was first released, I heard some fanboy claim that iPhone interface is so intuitive one doesn't need copy-paste (first version didn't have it). Of course, next update added copy-paste and iPhone users (including the said fanboy) are happily using it ever since.

> or perhaps only based on experience with Java and the like

Yes, it is based on almost 30 years of experience with programming in multitude of languages and environments, and this experience is why I find claims that Go is so awesome it needs no IDE so laughable. I'm sorry to look self-aggrandizing here, but you asked about it so I have to say it I guess.
I go to bed between 8:30 and 10. Depends on what is going on. My kids are grown (19, 24) but they live with us right now. So I usually want to spend a little time with them if they are around. One is in graduate school and one works in the evening with disadvantaged kids in a stm enrichment program.

I do nap. Hey I'm 63. I have an office with a door at work and I take a power nap 4 out of 5 days. I love a power nap. Usually 12 to 18 minutes or so.

I've been up all night tonight testing 3 server replacements from home. So no exercise today. Drinking a glass of wine as I wind down from the testing.
You can get most of that for a few percent from places like Avangate or FastSpring.
"The caricature of investors as "the wealthy" is not connected to reality."

Because you think the wealthiest top 5% owning 82% of all stocks isn't an accurate statistic? Or because you think the top 5% are not what you'd consider "wealthy"?
You think that there aren't good markets outside the US and that every business needs/wants to go global. If I want to become a millionaire, I can just stay within the EU and not touch the US at all. So my friends (and me included) do not necessarily have to take the burden to setup business in another continent. But very low taxes AND a big single market are an interesting combination.
By the way, that's exactly how the Dolby 3D system works. You could try this out just with their standard glasses. Maybe you would have to create custom ones with more pronounced frequency differences, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_3D
If we knew the answer to that, then maybe safe Rust would be able to handle it :)

Or rather, knew of one without a GC.
Windows 10 Surface Pro 4 lookalike: Chuwi's Surbook goes the budget route
I'd take Recommended Daily Values with a pinch of salt. They are heavily dated and are derived from a time when recommended diets were heavy in sugar/carbs and frowned upon fat.
Hugo : https://gohugo.io/
So the cover story could have been right in this respect and we could have unwittingly given the Nazis a minor advantage? Weird.
It appears that you still think of a date without a time zone as relative, which isn’t right (IMHO). A Unix date is an absolute mark on the axis of time, time zones are just different “views” on this time.
“I'm Feeling Lucky” is back again
The letter is extremely vague, I have a meeting with my attorney on Wednesday regarding this situation. I will post an update as soon as I have one.
Performance actually matters a lot in Ruby. The average coder doesn't (usually) have to deal with it, but chasing down performance issues in library code opens up more and more applications for Ruby to tackle.

It would be awesome if Ruby could eventually become useful in every context. I think it'll eventually get there, but on the way there will need a mountain of performance improvements.
he neglected to include anything pre-1996

Why is that a bad thing? If I, as someone who knows nothing about the genre, wants to find out what it's all about, isn't it better to start with contemporary bands that are still active so that I can get a feel for the current state of the hip hop scene? All else being equal, I prefer to discover new bands that are still putting out material and touring to discovering 'new' bands where the last member died 1998.
More than likely, its because they've got skin in the "keep CEO's great" game, and want to obfuscate the issue being discussed before it devolves into "coz Marxism sucks" ..
Can plastic roads help save the planet?
I just think debugging is art and parcel of programming. Debugging should come up in the first practical exercise in a Graphics 101. It should come up the first time you do an ML assignment in Programming Languages.

Its absence in any course is conspicuous.

But at the same time more than half of the professional web developers I know don't really use a debugger. Equally problematic.
I'm starting to get very skeptical to be honest. I tried to read that article looking for some hard evidence, one link went to BuzzFeed, where that linked to Forbes. I'm finding it hard to get more information.

In the wake of fake news, I'm asking for links, and not to other news sources. How do we know all this dirt isn't coming from Lyft? They're certainly going to benefit from this.

I read through the documentcloud link, Uber collects a lot of data, is honestly all I can see. I feel like I've missed something important, but I'm reading on my phone so I couldn't really search or read properly.

Could you help me understand?

(For the record, I don't use Uber or any ride-sharing platform and I don't have any stocks/shares. I have no incentive to watch them succeed or fail.)
I was about to fly off the handle until I realised your sarcasm.
What legal implications come with having servers in certain regions/countries?
Is there a list of what laws I should watch out for?
Wow... $ 14k for what kind of business and where ?

where are you from ?
I wrote my thesis on biomechanics analytics under sports equipment department, which primarily focused on improving the motion for people suffering with lower body injuries. I think the field need more exploration I believe with advent of AI in this field can even boost its reach.
There are never two sides to an issue. That would imply the solution is to "show both sides" on any given issue and then you're done, BBC-style. We consider this to be a flawed form of journalism - it substitutes "A vs B" for nuanced journalism and any deep understanding of the subject matter. You'd never know of the disagreements between climate change scientists because the whole problem is presented by the media as "does it exist at all vs doesn't it?". It also ignores the most prevalent form of bias - simply running stories on a given subject more/less often, or pointing out certain characteristics of people more/less often, and so on and so forth.
> I'm holding my breath waiting to see what the Trump administration and their supporters do.

As am I. The politically aware could simply point out how expensive the war on drugs is. In fact I have no idea why this isn't raised as an argument against it, and the incarceration at taxpayer expense of so many people for nonviolent offenses.

The answer to my quandary is probably that most conservatives aren't libertarians -- that being conservative doesn't necessarily mean a person wants to stay out of other people's lives and choices or reduce the cost of government.
Yes this is exactly my experience too.
Hi, Daniel, developer of Timing here. Thanks for the mention!
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You can check it out at https://2.timingapp.com
Define 'better'. In terms of performance Optane absolutely wins. In terms of performance per dollar it's hard to justify.
Quantum many worlds violates most if not all of those everyday language formulations.

Doesn't violate the minimum message length one, though. I've not heard that one before & I like it.
Amen brother. This right here:

“In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.

On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.”
"The letter is extremely vague"

Maybe, but it looks like they figured out you had an account with them and they have a clause in their terms about intellectual property.

If your screens look similar they will try to hold you to that agreement. It doesn't look good.

At this stage you can back out with no costs, I suspect if you move forward they will try to get back their legal fees.
I can tell you that I would not set foot in a country with high taxes. The US has some special incentives which even nowadays make it attractive (honestly, the US is so rich, big and special that the tax rate does not matter too much in the grand total), but in general, as a European there is no need for me to accept anything more than 25% when starting out. Everyone who starts out wants to keep their money. Especially starters need low taxes so they can invest more (and not only in the present year to get "deductions").
Well, your browser info and metadata have now been sold to third parties for a few pennies, so I'd say mission successful for site owner.

Are people actually still this naive? Reading HN users makes me feel like I'm trapped in the 80s where the internet was a magical mystery that nobody really understood. It's about 40 years too late to just assume the average trash website is actually a meaningful statement about something, or a viable product of some sort.

99.9999999% are just junk. The big ones, you already know about.
Guys as I've said: my customers are there.