skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> ... but who are the professional counter-trolls?

The actual journalists, at least the ones that wade into the swamp of comments sections. The vast majority of real journalists shirk any duty to respond. That's a big mistake imho.

Also google and other search engines, at least insofar as they are looking to revamp search results to promote actual stories and drive down junk news. But there is another link on HN today about the dangers of allowing search engines to become the arbiters of truth.
Of course he knows this very well. But why should he talk about it? There's nothing he can do about it anyway.
Sure but then by that measure neither does Amazon. I bought a metal plant off of Amazon stand that literally had half the nuts and bolts with no threading. There's no way that passes any kind of QC.
What are individuals buying on Alibaba? All I see is "Contact Supplier". Are individuals buying in bulk?
If you're referring to implicit conversions, IIRC, those will have to be defined in the same source file in which they are used in Scala 3.

Otherwise, refresh my memory, what was he warning about with implicits?

There's currently no way around definition site boilerplate (e.g. `implicit name: Type`); `implicit` keyword and providing a variable name are required. Implicit function types eliminate definition site boilerplate while providing function composition -- looks like a solid enhancement for FP in Scala.
> I don't believe it harmed me

That's very hard to know though. We all have unconscious stereotypes.
I’m glad you’re maintaining perspective in a sea of thrashing opinion.
XML is not a transport encoding like JSON. It is a hypermedia format that supports metadata. Even something as simple as an author attribute on a quote requires a standard on top of JSON.

“I can’t parse without programming” is a terrible reason to prefer JSON.
I make it a point to deliberately throw dead/dying markers into the corner when I come across them... otherwise they stay in circulation and annoy everyone constantly.
"A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel"

https://hbr.org/2017/04/a-new-more-rigorous-study-confirms-t...
Exactly. I'm extremely happy to pay $20/yr for BazQux . Like Pinboard, it's simple, does one thing well, and just _works_. I'm amazed that it doesn't seem to have gotten more mindshare as a replacement for Google Reader.
And at AWS scale you can always have a human team present to provide a human back up the cost of having 2 or 3 people on an overnight shift is trivial compared to the down time costs.
"Bauernfängerei" is just another german meaning for deception and has a historical background(farmers were lured into signing a contract to fight in the army).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
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Do you know why its harder for a generator to power an unloaded circuit? Just curious.
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There's plenty he can do - for example, place a warning message/banner on the website. Of course, he'd only do that if he cared about Facebook users.
And in case anyone isn’t aware, the sequel started yesterday at https://www.parahumans.net !
I have been a big OVH advocate (cheap prices + free DDoS protection + good hardware) and have been using them for years.

However, I am really frustrated by the lack of communication during this incident. All I had was the tweets from the founder, while their status page was down and I had no other place to reach out to them (phone + ticket system down).

What is worse is that they treat the individual SBGs (SBG1, SBG2, etc) as individual availability zones, when they truly are not. I had an application using their vrack on different SBGs availability zones and they all went down.

Anyway, glad they are fixing it, and glad for the clarification that they don't have real availability zones. Will design my applications better next time.
Most wasm toolchains use clang for c/c++, so poor compiler generation is rarely a significant issue. IIRC, the emscripten toolchain uses musl as the C runtime, which is reasonably performant runtime. Of course, if you write algorithmically inefficient code, no toolchain is going to improve it.
Just to give a short overview:

A powerful, intuitive content publishing approach aimed a Startup, Micro Businesses, Freelances, as well as Hobbyists Blogger.

You will use the power of Evernote’s One Workspace to manage and collect great sharing content, to compile it and then leave the task to the Publishing Bot, to deliver the content to your nicely, mobile-friendly designed Web site.
Sadly, I agree on your beef about implicits. They are a nice idea, but are far to easy to abuse to "hide" poor design.
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Just use the mobile page without paywall https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/business/alibaba-singl...
This is because we are lazy and we use a search even if we could go straight to a specific site eg MDN, Stack Overflow, Wikipedia.
the alibaba site is a marketplace, the $18B are made by all the merchants, not soly by the alibaba group
How did you reach out to them? Like, did you reach out to their marketing department? Hoew did you get their contact info?
Right. "class fields" as opposed to "instance fields" had me confused.
Thanks. I would like to see numbers on how many of the search results actually come from their own crawler though. I may be wrong but it feels like most of them come from Bing or Yahoo.
Yep, sadly it didn't really get going until RSS was moving out of the mainstream. Really need setup, though.

Just noticed that it was renamed to WebSub and adopted as a W3C standard earlier this year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub
I’m not sure how you’re drawing your metrics, but football/soccer is the most played and popular sport in the world—by a long shot, for more than 20 years. Basketball is, I believe, the fastest growing sport in the world, judging by number of players, teams, and revenue. However, it still lags about a billion followers behind cricket.
I’ve seen these before on eBay and really wondered what they were all about. Thanks to the person who took the time to write this up! It’s crazy how cheap and small these devices are.
Beautiful handwriting. Letter writing is a lost art, both in writing and meaning. Doesn’t anyone know or recommend a pen-pal websites where people exchange hand-written letters just for fun? My hand-writing is horrendous (as my spelling) and I’d love to get better at it.
Of course. As others here point out, the hypervolume inside an n-dimensional hypersphere grows as the nth power of a linear increase in radius. In high dimensions, tiny increases in radius cause hypervolume to grow by more than 100%. The concentration of hypervolume is always highest at the edge.[0]

The theoretical tools (and intuitions) we have today for making sense of the distribution of data, developed over the past three centuries, break down in high dimensions. The fact that in high dimensions Gaussian distributions are not "clouds" but actually "soap bubbles" is a perfect example of this breakdown. Can you imagine trying to model a cloud of high-dimensional points lying on or near a lower-dimensional manifold with soap bubbles?

If the data is not only high-dimensional but also non-linearly entangled, we don't yet have "mental tools" for reasoning about it:

* https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/why-probability-theory-s...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15620794

[0] See kgwgk's comment below.
Implicit parameters are one of my favorite features of the language. I think most of the ambiguity comes from the days when IDEs couldn’t tell you what implicit was being used. I see the implicit functions as a great addition to the language making certain kind of code much easier to reason about.

Personally most of the “wtf is going on here” comes from implicit conversions and usage of symbols (both of which have thankfully gone out of style for the most part)
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Sorry for offtopic question.

I have no idea what machine learning/deep learning/AI is. Is now a do or die situation for me careerwise?
And that the expected value of an hour of work producing YouTube content is probably, like a casino, negative, if you include production costs.
This is something else that used to work - but for the past few years it only seems to make it more likely that the search term is in the page. Very annoying :/
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I don't remember eV, but moles are the obvious way of expressing what they are. Also Fortran is within rounding error of dead outside of a few niches, where it benefits from everything being done in it, which is similar but not the same as your premise.
It would be different if you started out with different preferences (note: all new rock music is uninspired rock music, and Discover Weekly pushes newer music).
For me the hassle of checking different things in different place made it so that I would only check "a few" places.

With RSS I'm crawling under a huge load of articles that I always have to clear up. I used to be extremely addicted to that, I used it to get through work stuff now and when I have weeks of articles pilling up in my feed I feel bad.

I use it, and definitely love that, but it def. re-enforce addiction, not the contrary.
RSS is a protocol, applications could implement Twitter/tumblr's retweeting functionality on top of it... FB conversations would also work.

From the end-user's perspective, I don't think anyone is asking for features that are fundamentally at odds with using RSS to distribute messages. The resulting network would be much more distributed and harder to "monetize" (imo, good for users)
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WASM is not native code, so there's no guarantee it will have the same performance. There have been earlier attempts to have cross-browser and cross-platform native code execution on the web, not to mention plenty of nonportable web plugins, but WASM's just-in-time compilation of a low-level bytecode is a good balance between performance across different architectures and feasibility of sandboxing code execution (you don't want a web app to gain access to your filesystem and kernel syscalls with impunity)
Introductory videos from the inventor of STARKS that may be useful (similar content in both)

* Eli Ben Sasson at SV Ethereum meetup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ9K_o-RRSY

* Eli Ben Sasson at SF Bitcoin Devs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmnXxs9kUM
While it's perhaps counterintuitive, audiences often respond better (particularly in advance, where a title has to do it's work) to framing things in grounded concrete terms that are, as you point out, overly specific, rather than generalized abstractions that end up seeming ungrounded. Now, for some segment of the audience that works less well after the fact, but it's usually a minority and, perhaps more importantly, its after the fact.
XML is not just a transport encoding like JSON. Apples to oranges. They are not comparable. It’s like comparing HTML or CSS with JSON. What’s he equivalent of XPath in JSON? There isn’t! They aren’t remotely solutions to the same thing.
Can we derive some type of optimization algorithms from using this?
Desks with wheels; each desk with an ethernet switch and a power strip so you're down to two wires when you move the desk. Moving is really simple.

Additionally, teams may want to rearrange desks (e.g., in a circle, or back-to-back, or whatever). There's no reason not to have flexibility here.

You'll find that most people will still accumulate stuff, and will need some kind of storage. People also get attached to their chairs and their working posture (sitting/standing, monitor height) as well as their particular keyboard and mouse brand, etc. -- hot-desking seems bad for this.
I do both: Cursive for my own notes, because it's faster and more comfortable, and block letters for stuff I need others to read.
https://maierfelix.github.io/wasm-particles/dist/bundle.js

Quite interesting to read. I don't know much about WASM but I presume the big Uint8Array is the actual C program or something?
In this case, it apparently wasn't an answer, though. It was a box saying "popular on Twitter". That's not much of an endorsement.

It's a cliché to say that people should think more critically. In this case it's just a matter of knowing what "popular on Twitter" means when it comes to breaking news. It's not really about whether you trust Google and more about knowing that Twitter rumors are often inaccurate, however you run across them.
Soccer definitely has the breadth of places played locked down. Nothing is likely to overtake that any time soon.

But basketball has a surprising advantage in potential players in that China is mad about basketball. The last time I was there the enthusiasm I saw for the sport, especially with young players rivaled anything I’ve seen outside of my own basketball obsessed childhood home of Indiana.

Which leads to another conclusion. If I were betting the most popular sport globally I’d probably bet on Ping Pong, just based on Chinese school children participation.
So, news, fake news, trolls, counter-trolls, content farms, revenge porn scanning (?), surveillance and censorship, large-internet-property moderation (special classes for special sites), content curation, “influencers” (???), propaganda production...

All these mind crimes should just fall under a single umbrella class of worker called “motherfucking internet bullshit artistry (all levels)” ...and oh yeah, the article neglects one of the most recent sub-classes: child video troll (and of course child video troll moderator (scanner?) AND coming soon (!!!) child video counter-troll, as discussed over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15670109

When will we get to see child news and fake child news?

Seriously though, if 90% of everything is bullshit [0], where’s the distinction between good and evil? It’s just regional sports teams from what I can tell, and just as pointless.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15661372
Valve has 8+ floors and things work pretty well. If you've got multiple floors, you should have muscle with the building and be able to use the freight elevator.

I don't have a solution for multiple buildings, you're right about that.
So, your response is to rudely and ineffectively comment about this allegedly ineffective comment?

You're very welcome to leave.
So true. Implicit parameter explosion is one the worst aspects of maintaining Scala code. In larger projects trying to comprehend how to import and understand which implicit parameters are used/needed can be maddening.﻿
That sounds like a great idea. So no more importing of implicits in Scala 3 to use them on methods of another package (or namespace)? That would make them quite a lot more "wieldable".

What Odersky warns about is defining implicits on built-in types. Which IMO too often gets abused to hide poor design.
Pixel won’t get KRACK fix until December but is that a big deal?
It's still very useful for taking notes. I find taking notes on a computer is not nearly as effective as taking notes with pen and paper.
No imagination:

Hacking-insurance adjusters: This is just starting to become a thing. Once the insurance market matures, and claims become more routine, an industry of adjusters/inspectors will emerge.

Autodrive car rescue: When the robots get confused they will need specialized people to sort them out. Your average tow-truck driver doesn't want to approach a Tesla stuck doing a perpetual loop in a roundabout. I'm waiting for the 911 caller stating "I'm heading west on I-94 at 70mph and the car won't stop."

Space imagery analyst: Once the domain of the NRO/NSA, as space imagery becomes cheaper and more available even small corporations will need people who know how to read and interpret sat data.
PubSubHubbub (even before it became WebSub) was divorced from the original tie to Atom or RSS.
What's especially creepy is that many devices (e.g. laptops) with USB ports continue sending power to those ports even when the device is off.

So someone bugged with something like this implant could fully power off their laptop when discussing sensitive information, and if they left a bugged USB drive plugged in, they could still be compromised.
I've had good results in the past running a fairly complex VOIP + webapp call center from entirely custom code based on PXE boot and Linux. (Lots of universities used to use this in their labs, I don't know if it's still common these days.) This would also work for developers.

You can trial it quite simply. All you have to do is have user login network mount a home dir and you are in business.

In general laptops cost quite a bit, break lots, and people want to take them home which creates issues. I think a lot of companies just give developers laptops now. However, it can be quite nice for the developer to have "not at work = down time" as an option, larger screens and keyboards are generally smiled upon, and desktops are WAY CHEAPER. You can even go 100% diskless.

PXE is usually centrally supplied kernel vs. individual developer compiled kernel, though, which can be annoying if people want funky features. However, you can do this diskless as a default and just say those who want to sidestep the system can boot from an external SSD.
Software architecture is failing
I'll be very disappointed when podcasting becomes fully metricised. The large scale introduction of advertising will be toxic and do to this beautiful indie space what has happened to the web.
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It's more complicated than that. People can't defend themselves against that kind of manipulation. It's extremely difficult to leave that site, because they have you put all of your social connections/interactions into the site with no way to export them.
Wasn't the main point of WASM that it is faster to parse than JavaScript?
I took a ride in my friend's Ferrari yesterday. It took me a few hours after lunch to recover and work on what now seemed like a very mundane project. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't need Facebook to feel left behind.
I have a friend who just doesn't "get" why people like sandwiches. So they do exist.
Any chance of this going up on Spotify? Apple doesn’t seem to want me to get via iTunes Store, infinite loop of asking for TouchID
You are assuming that cursive is "useless" and lacks "some non-zero eventual utility". Practicing fine motor control seems like an excellent use of time to me.
Why would I want to get closer to people I consider evil? Why would I listen to people whose argument I have already found flaws in?

Until you can answer those questions, society will keep drifting. Dan Carlin had a good argument which essentially boiled down to we are all in this together, but the obvious counter example to that is to make the walls higher and eventually to make the other group submit.
Ahh! I thought the farmer was the one doing the catching, not the one being caught. (I'd started dreaming up an idiom about "as easy as catching eggs from a trapped hen".) Thank you!
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Yet you still keep talking past my point(while also nicely moving the goalpost).

Yes, the languages you mention meet all the technical requirements(congrats, here's your 10 internet points) it doesn't matter if I can't find people who know how to write it.

Since you seem to want to avoid talking about anything I raise I don't think it's productive to continue this conversation.
Do they? I think the creator/YouTube split is approximately 50/50 which seems reasonable as both parties provide value.

I have friends just about managing to live off YouTube money (with other related revenue streams like blogs) with a "small" following in some niche area. The few people I know of in "minor" sports have a full time job to pay their bills.
They are buying on Aliexpress.
Your site is down
I'm not playing the victim. To be transparent I grew up in the class of children who are empowered and have the fiscal/social stability and network to participate in entrepreneurship...which I did. I went to a fancy ass private high school with one of the reddit cofounders, a school that (by nature largely of the socioeconomic status of the students' parents) has produced a number of other founders as well. I've founded/co-founded multiple startups and the most notable quantity of my entrepreneurial friends is that they have a fall back option (not plan...option). That freedom has heavily influenced how I make choices throughout my career in ways that leveraged a safety net that I had and others didn't.

Again, I'm not the victim here I'm the victor...but that doesn't preclude me from calling a bad argument a bad argument. There is actual research on this. Expert entrepreneurs evaluate risk based on what would happen in the worst case scenario (the downside risk) as opposed to the potential profit. You flipped the interpretation of the evidence on its head and tried to make poor people feel stupid.
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Same for me. I was looking at my huge collection of Expo markers going "Yeah Expo!"...which makes no sense.
Hi there, a friend and I are very excited to release a new education course we've created for instrumenting product analytics. We’ve both been building digital products for some time, and have been involved in the setup and management of product analytics. We’ve learned a lot about what not to do (the hard way), and about what sorts of strategies help make product analytics setup easier and more effective.

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This kind of thing would immediately stick out like a sore thumb to a lot of technical users. In the world of USB cables it’s HUGE, even though technically I know it’s very small for it’s purpose. Very cool nevertheless!
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"Every"? I know for a fact that we don't because we've fallen back to the redundant generator before and it's worked flawlessly. (pity the same couldn't have been said for some of our other redundant systems).
Whether the videos are disturbing to kids is not the point, at all. Tons of things are not disturbing but harmful.

Your little brother grew up just fine doesn't mean my (hypothetical) kids will grow up fine.
Although they are very different under the hood, as a developer the experience vue gives is very much like component based angularjs (version 1). Yet everyone seems to hate angular 1, while they love vue. I really can't see why.
Does this mean I get an exemption for loving whiteboards because I am doing Real Academic Stuff (tm)?
Eh, I understand why it made sense to denote official accounts of well-known people and organizations in Twitter's early days, and also why it doesn't make sense anymore.

The culture of the platform and the world it exists in have changed, why shouldn't policy change to reflect that?
This is obviously not good, but I'm not sure it is particularly useful for something "important".

Any target of high value will be pursued and observed by trained humans with advanced tools. The amount of data collected, I suspect, would be less but more accurate.

A device like this just lowers the bar (really low) on tracking. However, it increases the noise/inaccuracy. If combined with some key logger and other devices, it could provide a very detailed picture of someone's communications and movements. But it would include a lot of noise as well, which would still require a lot of sifting and organizing to make sense of the data (and especially to filter out the noise).

If anything, I think these devices are more a money grab on the "spies" than a significant intrusion on the targets.