skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's because drama and fear sell very well that's why any video you click about the shooting on a site such as cnn will have loud dramatic music loaded up and ready to autoplay think about that for a second a tragedy just happened and cnns response is to find the best dramatical music score for their video.

all while running opinion pieces "YOU'RE NOT SAFE YOU'RE NOT SAFE WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK ITS YOUR FAMILY YOUR FAMILY IS GOING TO BE MURDERED HOW WILL YOU FEEL THEN", "Law enforcement officers are trying to get churches to run active shooter drills", "You won't get into this church easy (you have to be buzzed in and seen through a video feed)".

guess I'll never step foot in another church if that shit happens. same reason why I won't ever fly anywhere I refuse to give into fear and paranoia and have everything locked down like a maximum security prison. went to pick up my niece from daycare and left feeling absolutely disgusted they have multiple buzz through doors security cameras everywhere the place is more fortified than most prisons
just blue my mind. is there a babel plugin that will let me do this?
With some ugly UI stuff pulled out and some extra compiler optimisation flags set.
Yes 100%
I hope you're not CEO of a publicly traded company
Most of the useful signal in the system is going directly from one circuit to another. The signal headed out toward the power meter is mostly dead, and you might even improve the networking by getting rid of those extra echoes.

Unless I'm mistaken?
You're trying to limit this to a discussion of whether the coverage is good or bad for the company in question, but in Disney's case, there was also the public interest angle of the capture of Anaheim city council. I don't give a shit if I don't have a review of the iPhone X on the release date, but if Apple had corrupted my city council, I'd be very interested.
Oh, that must be why they disclosed all those vulnerabilities they found instead of exploiting them...

The NSA finds and exploits vulnerabilities for their own uses, suggesting that they might create some is hardly a stretch.
> men can be faithful too, and women author originals

Both true, but in practice and looking at history, not just today, there have been few women authors and far more expectation for women to be faithful (and chaste). The prodigal son's return is a celebration, but a prodigal daughter?

Look at Odysseus and Penelope: One roamed for 10 years, sleeping with sea nymphs and witches, and was celebrated for his genius and courage; the other was expected to wait faithfully - your spouse leaves for 20 years (including the war), you have no idea if they are alive and have no sign from them at all, and you just sit there waiting for their hoped-for return, spending 20 years of your life weaving and unweaving a veil - and she was celebrated for that.

The 'unfaithful' female servants who slept with Penelope's suitors were summarily and cruelly executed.
Google awards its second ChromeOS $100k bug bounty
You are not the user. You are a consumer of promoted tweets, which are paid for by the users.
Someone ‘Accidentally’ Locked Away $300M Worth of Other People's Ethereum Funds
I originally created blast to send ~6m API requests, and I couldn't find anything that was flexible enough for the job. Since then I've added lots of features for load-testing scenarios. It's simple to configure but surprisingly versatile. I'm happy to answer any questions...
They rolled with it, they made their own source control system, as evidenced by the page that was linked.
Change doesn't need to happen for the sake of change. It was an amazing product and they've made it worse with changes like the algorithmic timeline, so the less they do the better, from my perspective. Though I have no opinion either way about 280 characters.
The self-driving platform will financially nudge you in the right direction.

Currently Uber charges more during rush hour.

It's rather obvious that self-driving operator will implement similar price discrimination e.g. $10 if you drive alone, $5 if you share with one or more people.

And the more they want you to share, the bigger the surcharge e.g. if $10 vs. $5 doesn't have desired effect then maybe $20 vs $5 will.

It's a win-win during rush hour (operator makes much more money from the few people who don't care about money and minimizes over-all traffic by packing more people into a single car).
From a business perspective doesn't more characters = fewer tweets visible in the viewport = ads are less seen?
I wouldn't call a fact in the first paragraph a "buried lede".
If you are at all interested in poetry and its translation as well as AI (assumed since on HN) a great book to read is Hofstadter's Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language wherein he offers 60+ translations of a playful poem by Clement Marot.
Perl 6 you mean?
> They are a public traded company, and for us casual users of Twitter the only change that has been in the talk the last couple of years has been to increase the character limit.

I think that's a bit hyperbolic.

But, that being said, it annoys me that they haven't even put enough effort into this change to update the documentation.

> Note that the current best definition of the algorithm for counting characters on Twitter is described in the page on the twitter-text Tweet parsing library. This documentation will be refreshed shortly to reflect the most recent changes.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/counting-charac...
I don't quite understand the object localization piece of the article. Are there other resources on this topic that explain how do do the same thing (object localization). Or tutorials/examples on this topic?
> While a small minority of graduate students may come from the lowest income backgrounds, on average they're highly educated and privileged.

It's somewhat difficult to find high-quality statistics on graduate students in the United States, but I tried to look up some information for context. The following is not an random collection:

It appears that more than a third of doctoral students in the United States are not US citizens (compared to 7% of the overall population). Perhaps a slight majority (~52--53%) of doctoral students are female. Graduate students are also slightly more likely to be non-white than the general population. The majority are under 32 (of course).
Yes, that's what I mean by let syntax. The implementation and more description can be found at https://github.com/janestreet/ppx_let

I failed to find F# computation expressions, probably because I searched for the word "monad" which they seem to be avoiding, but that's another great example.
You're asking all the wrong questions.
The original may have intentionally chosen words to carry all those meanings simultaneously.
If it's an iPhone, law enforcement can basically throw the phone in the trash right now.
Some people micromanage incessantly. Are you saying that micromanagement is just one of many tools a CEO can use to achieve a result, that sometimes it is the quick and easy solution to, perhaps, a roadblock launching a product? I can agree with that.
See e.g. the first example at http://www.zinktypografie.nl/latex.php?lang=en
My 10y0 daughter wants to get this.

She is busy dreaming up genetic experiments, mostly inserting features of one organism in another, and has a theory that there will be a future movement like the Amish that will have rules as to what technology they will use, and which they will forbid. Of course she thinks CRISPR will be one of the things allowed.
I'm not. I wish you would have actually taken the 2 minutes to explain your comment.
(In case "I like this metaphor" isn't a comment about how you have liked and continue to like it, it's a reference to an old Buddhist saying. I could have sworn it also appeared on the first page of the Tao Te Ching, but I guess I had just remembered the gist.)
No. Me too. Can’t even read in a plane, or watch a video. Won’t even think about getting on a boat.
Not quite used for in-store advertising, but Google's "Nearby Messages API" does use "near-ultrasound" audio signals to communicate with other devices: https://developers.google.com/nearby/messages/overview. I don't know if it would work at a larger scale, though (maybe you couldn't allow dogs in your store!).
d'oh! the extras... Did not even occur to me there. ;-)
A proper hash function provides a lot more than a timestamp. A service with a B-tree (or other traditional database) can rewrite history. Even if have a copy of the db, it's difficult to prove that your version is the service rewrote their version.

If a service wrote all transactions into a log in a way that allows for easy verificatio9n of the validity (including order), and the parties using the service regularly check that log, those parties can demonstrate that the service is acting correctly.

Questions about transaction order and consensus are separate problems, which may not be necessary, depending on the nature of the service. The point, I believe, is that some problems only need some of the features usually associated with "blockchains". We are only beginning to find the interesting uses for Merkle trees, and thus shouldn't blindly use the current bitcoin-style design when the current problem could use something similar,
OpenMined: AI and blockchain = data democracy revolution
It appears this issue was brought up previously on Feb 21. So you've got a group of people who already raised the issue seeing it happening again.

They may have been more reserved on the first go around but I can empathize with them seeing red now.
If you follow popular technology you get a slow stream of annoying technology thats predatory by nature. When I switched to the free software side, my experience sped up and I had finer control over everything. My files are mine and not a company's, non-free javascript is disabled so the web is faster, and my system is lightning fast since its devoid of windows telemetry. Encryption keys and offline password managers can be a hassle but the freedom overshadows the difficulty for me. Or maybe its stallman stockholm syndrome.
Would anybody know who he means by the great historians? Is it classic ones like Herodotus or Thucydides or is it someone more modern?
I wonder where we'd be today if all this effort was focused on something like automatic cars. Instead of spam.
Solid description of the important part of this essay. The automated generation of content that perfectly matches to humanity's unconscious desires is terrifying to watch.

I also worry that it's inevitable. Even if YouTube or PornHub or Facebook decided to introduce some sanity or human oversight in their system, that's such a massive waste of resources that competitors would beat them over. It's a race to the bottom for automation and machine learning. I genuinely can't think of any way to "go back in time" at this point, other than perhaps moving the entire internet away from its dependence on advertising.
Of course, other instance owners may choose to block you for being A Brand, as well. One of the rules of my instance is "don’t be a corporation, or be sponsored by one", and I'm debating if I’d end up blocking corporate instances.
Comcast and other cable ISPs? They’ve increased their speeds to some but also my price has more than doubled.

In retail, Walmart, Target and most mainstream supermarkets have changed very little.

I think you mean to ask what tech company startup has ever remained relevant for so long without change, maybe?
once people are okay with sharing seats in a van

That's going to be a long wait in the US! People would rather pay 10x to sit in their own luxury bubble in traffic and have everyone see how fancy their luxury bubble is vs. /gasp/ sharing it with others. Most people here don't want mass transit, they want their big truck / SUV to haul 1-4 people ("it's safer for my kid").
Any idea where? Do you mean the web interface? I can't find it anywhere: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nEtxRgXs1yD1bV2-aDjkugc7Ocd... .
> Thanks for an awesome extension!

You're welcome! (I won't reply to every positive comment, but...)

The impetus for me to create Markdown Here was mostly a) code blocks, b) nested bullet lists (which are fiddly and hotkey-heavy in a rich editor). (Brief origin story, fwiw: http://markdown-here.com/about.html )
Introduction to Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
I wonder if that is a setting you've switched on. When I go to that link it does not show after hours trading at all (it shows the price but not on the graph).
You need a Tesla!
Creative male tattoos-statements of self-expression and fashion
I guess this is as good a time as any to mention that something like that exists (and to toot our team's work over the years):

I started the project years ago and in the last few have gotten really great support from glebm and some others to get it to the point where it's a really lovely, stable, and fast piece of work.

We consider it the best Ruby/Rails-based alternative to Discourse out there (as an aside - wewere honored that Ryan Bigg would point people our way when he stopped maintaining Forem[1])

You said:

√ I would like to see forum software that has the feel of classic forum software (like Flux)
√ not in PHP
√ that is server-rendered
√ with a very minimal default theme (no animation)
√ and minimal JavaScript
√ and that has many of the modern features of Discourse.

I think those check out. In any case I suggest you check out the website[2], the repo[3], and the demo[4].

[1]: https://github.com/rubysherpas/forem#no-longer-maintained

[2]: https://thredded.org

[3]: https://github.com/thredded/thredded

[4]: https://thredded.org/thredded/
Perhaps there's a law requiring a competitive bidding process ...
Alphabet Launches the First Taxi Service with No Human Drivers
The thing about HTML emails is, different email clients support different things.

It's not HTML5 at all. If you want to do layouts, you must use tables. There are hacky things you have to do to display things correctly across all different types of clients.

You have tools like this: https://buttons.cm/ which generate abominable code for the sake of compatibility.

Also, Outlook uses the Word rendering engine to process HTML. It's janky, at best.
The net loss is in parenthesis so doesn't that mean it's a net profit? This chart makes no sense.
Pretty soon we'll see aircraft running Kafka, microservices, elasticsearch, etc.

All running in kubernetes.
Wish something like this existed for college football.
This is what they do to circumvent legal reporting requirements. You don't have to report a hand-off to a remote driver, but you have to report a hand-off to the safety driver in the car.
If I could get something that would make Outlook just copy and paste text in a consistent way, I'd pay money for it. There are supposed to be settings for that, but I'm apparently not smart enough to figure out how they work (or if they work).
Or maybe the slab just had a big pretty screen and all of the potential of soft keys. Screen took up as much space as possible, ergo it was a slab.
Easier Searching for Tickets with Google Flights
Emiter: High Performance Clustered Low Latency Publish/Subscribe Platform in Go
You may not have noticed that their other product is the exact opposite. Maybe that gives them some legal protection? http://youjustneedspace.com/
Then there's also SlingShot back in 2014. Which went nowhere
Nice! Went to a talk about this last week - this post outlines a fairly solid approach to syncing application state in a multi-window Electron app if you have a lot of data. I haven’t used Realm, but we built something similar on top of SQLite for Nylas Mail / Mailspring: https://github.com/bengotow/electron-RxDB.
Those are both badly copied features from Android. On Nexus/Pixel tablets the top right was used for the system toggle, left was used for notifications. What I'm surprised by is that they didn't copy the "hard press where home should be for home", instead relying on swipe and press. The galaxy s8 supports both and the hard press is substantially more useful.
I was of the opinions puns are not tolerated in HackerNews
the live demo could hardly render well on my browser.
So this person is proposing that every random site gets to determine the size I want to have my font and wants to make it the same regardless of device? Way to only think of the designers.
On some vehicles (Honda, IIRC) if the TPMS isn't working (dead sensor battery, interference, etc) the stability control system will assume the tire on that wheel can't be trusted to apply grip when correcting the vehicle's trajectory, so you might not stay on the road in an oversteer/understeer situation.
> This is precisely why it is important to counteract the creeping tightening of copyright law in favor of Disney. They've successfully lobbied Congress for extensions every time Mickey comes up to the end of his protection.

"Every time" is a kind of odd way to describe something that has only happened once definitely, and possibly one other time.

The copyright on Mickey Mouse has been extended twice. The first was the Copyright Act of 1976, which changed copyright terms to match those of most of the rest of the world. Works that were still under copyright at the time were retroactively given the term they would have had in the rest of the world (life + 50 for works of individual authors, publication + 75 for works for hire).

I've not found anything on whether or not Disney lobbied for the 1976 Act. They undoubtedly were in favor of it, but there probably was little need to actually lobby for it. It's main purpose was to bring US law more in line with the rest of the world, paving the way for the US to eventually join the Berne Convention. It also codified fair use and the first sale doctrine, and legalized library photocopying, relaxed notification and registration requirements. There was widespread enough support for all of these that lobbying would not be needed.

The second was the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, which Disney definitely lobbied for.
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Imagine something like a modern first class cabin with the concept of 180 degree flat bed-seats.
It is not “definitely” the other way around. Quite the contrary.

The Arab Spring began in 2010 and lasted several years. The (first) Saudi investment in Twitter didn’t happen until December of 2011, and by then much of the region was already on fire. In fact, it’s notable that after the $300M investment, the following summer is when Syria devolved into total Civil War - with February being when Assad invaded Homs.

So, no, I’m still skeptical that we should be allowing this. Given the regional alignment of the Saudis, seeing Syria (an Iranian ally) devolve into chaos wouldn’t have been something they’d exactly move mountains to stop.
I developed this site dedicated to connect writers and readers
Because others "did not"? Other framework didn't need a new language to be usable.
IMO it's solving the wrong problem. Did what you do at work require you to be there, or could you just as well have done your work from home / a close co-working facility?
Only one way to find out... and I would love to hear about your results :)
Well, it's kind of a mix of NIH and this weird cargo-cultish idea that every API needs some kind of wrapper around it. In the past if anyone wanted to use basically any library it was a major battle to get permission to do so, so a lot of code ended up being written to do things that were already provided in fairly standard libraries which is where the NIH comes in. On top of that, they then insisted on using wrapper libraries that exposed essentially the same API as the libraries they did bring in (and then never updated ever again before finally cutting support for their wrappers). The infuriating thing is that the wrappers were both tightly coupled to the underlying library in a way that makes them useless from abstracting from the underlying library, but also differed ever so slightly so that ripping them out and using the underlying library is still a major refactoring. The major impetus for the refactoring we're currently doing is that all these wrappers formed an interlocked set of dependencies on very specific versions of the underlying libraries and all of it was starting to suffer from bit-rot, with many of the libraries being stuck on versions that had been EOLed or were otherwise many years behind in updates. The worst one I can think of off the top of my head was one library that was pinned to a version from 2006 (and was still actively maintained with current releases from this year, so this wasn't even a deprecated library, just the wrapper was preventing it from being updated).
I have no idea. That's why I put it in quotes :-)
3% quarter over quarter growth on a product that is supposed to be still in growth mode is pretty bad. Compare this growth rate to Facebook's when it was was a 200 million DAU and it is not much at all.

Yes this is very true.

They have to find a new growth channel somehow. It's good news that their user base isn't being eroded by competition, but they need to try something different to grow.
Ask HN: How do you avoid distractive features while building a project?
While building something I find that a lot of things get added to the project which does not actually solve the core problem but is nice to have once the core has been solved. This happens at work and other places. What is a good way to avoid this kind of noise since it takes time away from solving the actual problem?
You're thinking of cryptographic hashes. Perceptual hashes don't do that.
If I am not mistaken, this is plaintext email. Traditionally, email had bold, /italics/ and _underline_. Markdown just extends on this. The danger is, however, that people continue to create their own Markdown extensions and we end up with emails, that are full with those "control-codes", which makes them ugly for anyone, not having a transformer in their email-client (aka: those, who read the plaintext)
You needn't bother; I was being partially facetious.

Although, if you were prepared to do that you might have just done it to begin with. Or better yet, let the moderators deal with the post. The irony of myself getting involved certainly isn't lost on me.
I'd politely disagree with the assumptions underlying the question.

Changing the physical proportions is a very big deal when you look at the long term impact on the development and app ecosystem.

iOS developers can test their design on the SE, the Plus and the regular size and it will cover over 4 years of phones in the hands of users.

And for what? Have people's hands changed shape or size? Once you've reached something that makes your customer base happy, you would want to have a new design that is substantially better. Novelty isn't a better selling point than knowing you'll be happy with what you get.

There's an old Wired article on the making of the iPod, where they reveal that they made over 100 prototypes, down to weights internally to check the balance and feel of the device. It's likely that there are thousands of iPhone prototypes they have tested out, and the models we have are the survivors of a much larger and longer process than is publically visible.
San Francisco is one of the worst-paying places in the US for software engineers
Tracking request in Node.js
The CEO is an active member on a FB group called Sydney Startups. I suggest OP try to contact him publicly through that. I'd be curious to see what he says.
The silkscreened-onto-the-headliner bright yellow non-removable warnings weren't enough.
Ads.txt anti-fraud and why is it so urgent issue for Advertisers and Publishers?
It's the A350: https://sqlite.org/famous.html
And a video: https://twitter.com/copiousfreetime/status/67583454330408140...