skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
phew that was one the darkest, bleakest wikipedia entries I've ever read. Does anyone know what it was about the Japanese army in WWII that made them so particularly vicious?
I was getting excited for an article about hops and yeast too
I thought they destroyed society by the end? All of the nuanced ethical considerations replaced by straight up supervillainy with mind reprogramming noise being broadcast over the radio to everybody in the world and turning them into crazed murderers.
use .io or similar for any customer facing websites but a .com for any mission critical api type calls. Customer never even has to know about the existence of myUglyCompanyNameApiHandler.com but all api calls are handled by it.
Definitely, especially over the Delaware, where the DRPA will totally share that revenue and not squander it one bit.
> Is there any reliable body of evidence about what happens to children if they watch content that their parents find unnerving?

Yes. See the number of perforated ear drums after the "You've been tango'd" adverts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Man_(advertisement)#Bro...

(the lead says the ad was banned; his section says it was voluntarily pulled. Either way it could have been banned: any system of media rating (eg advertising standards or BBFC) include imitatable violence.
70 years ago no one viewed cigarettes in the negative.
I was surprised to read those posts re: YouTube Kids. My daughter has watched a few thousand hours of YT Kids over the last two years while she's been bed-ridden with leukemia. My wife or I have been within earshot for almost all of it. 99% of what she watched was human made content and the most risque thing she saw was a video where a "host" pretended to make some stuffed animal poop gumballs. A good chunk was actually educational—she went on a kick learning how to make healthy smoothies and learning about the solar system, state capitols, etc. Perhaps we've just been extraordinarily lucky, but the reporting re: TY Kids this week reminds me of the 1980s panic around Dungeons and Dragons.
It would be slightly faster. However, if you ever had to change your server's IP address (for example, because you had to move to a new hosting provider) you'd be utterly screwed.
Where are these examples of poisonous kids cartoons?
The article is criticising content curation via algorithm. What does it have to do with free speech?
He probably shouldn't be using Medium to market his thing either. The signal-to-noise ratio is way too low. Unless the post really grabs my attention really quickly, I'm likely to close the tab. Custom-made, well designed, websites get a lot more of my patience.
This essay[1] by James Bridle points out that YouTube Kids' algorithmic filtering is failing. Thousands (millions maybe) of videos are uploaded containing violent and disturbing imagery and tailored to match the search inputs of children. The entire article is quite interesting.

[1]: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...
Or you could do the same with a data centre or supercomputer that runs useful services, like hosting websites or doing research (in fact there are already projects to use heat from servers for district heating).
So personal responsibility be damned. Lets just have the government determine what is good for us and what is not.
The thing is I love linux on a desktop (if by desktop we mean not-a-server and thus laptops are in context as well), in fact I prefer it over OSX... right up until I plug in an external monitor, or try to do a video chat only to realize a driver literally does not exist for my MBP camera, or my IDE just kinda flickers randomly for no discernible reason, ec.

Walled-garden hardware like Apple has set up certainly has advantages, but given that windows is installed on a far greater variety of hardware than linux distros, I'm kinda surprised its more stable. I guess other than the obvious fact that everybody working on a given linux distro is doing it for free (right? that's my impression).

Most of my troubles vanished when I switched from Ubuntu to Debian. Only been about two weeks but loving it so far. Might finally be able to abandon OSX!

(note: I'm a total noob when it comes to OSs and whatnot - not that kind of programmer!)
Facebook cares about EARNINGS, every quarter. The same thing that made Sean Parker super rich. Not "exploiting human psychology" isn't in their 10k report or mission statement. Yeah, they care about the world being connected or whatever, so they can serve ads.
That sucks, I didn't realize how pervasive Google Now had become (as I'm an iOS user)
That scheme assumes that the service is hosted at a stable IP address, which in almost all cases is not a valid assumption.
I have a lot of anecdotal evidence from personal experience. Two examples:

PTSD from seeing horror movies at the age of 2.

Sexually precocious behavior at 6 due to having seen hardcore pornography at the age of 3.
I kinda assumed Bitcoin, since that's where most (almost all?) of the computation is happening.

And if Ethereum gets any significant traction, the ASICs will come. That's pretty much inevitable. Heck, I bet ASIC would be worth the investment even for Argon2d hashes —even though that one was designed for modern stock hardware.
Not my area either but I think dns queries are cached locally for a certain amount of time so dns lookup for 1000s of requests shouldn't give too much overhead
Edit: yeah and also what the other guys said about not relying on the ip being the same forever
I think we're crossing signals WRT I'm talking about engineers shopping like the guy using a parametric search and examining some data sheets to find the correct resistor for a circuit, vs you're thinking I'm talking about engineer as a proxy name for well paid individual, which is admittedly usually true. There is a moderately high minimum required cognitive level to successfully use search interfaces and study what the component data sheets say, and do not say, about a device, vs the requirements of the design, combined with a bit of buyer beware ("hey, it says right here on page 7 of the engineering data sheet that this little surface mount resistors maximum voltage rating is 200 volts so using it as a bleeder resistor in a switching power supply is kinda all your fault...")
I don't think it's blind faith in algorithms, but that Google is using algorithms, because the only other alternative is to hire 100,000 people to do unrewarding grunt work classifying this stuff.

They are trying to provide more services using the tools they've develop. Maybe they've exceeded their reach, but I wouldn't blame that on a "blind faith" in algorithms.

And no, I am not a fan of Google. I think they are evil.
Remember this:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-09-27-en

I think .io was part of the issue for the delay.

After the last outage, we at gator.io took it as a 'all hands on deck' firedrill to get our api off .io. The problem is that many of our customers have scripts on their sites with the old .io endpoint. Migrating them is very difficult.
I wholly admit the government can do those things (that was the point in my original reply).

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

The only example there that could be remotely tied to the government is cable companies (I think the last-mile expense barrier to entry is the main contributor to those monopolies). All of them prevent a "free market" and the idea is that governments break those things up or regulate them. Breaking up a monopoly reduces barrier to entry. After the breakup of at&t, long distance rates dropped due to the new competition.

A few things most governments do to reduce the barrier of entry when starting or running a business: maintain a legal system to facilitate agreements between parties, educate a workforce so there's a pool of citizens with basic skills you can hire or sell things to, maintain open access roadways for transport of workforce and goods, maintain a trusted currency for the exchange of goods and services. All of those would be huge hurdles if I wanted to open a lemonade stand.

> unless you're talking about mafias.

So they're the only fly in the ointment if governments didn't exist? What is the solution to mafias if the government just steals resources?

I'm earnestly curious, if governments only oppress a market, where your best or ideal example? Is there any free market that doesn't have a government? How come when governments fail (or countries without strong governments) a strong free market doesn't develop to overtake the EU or US?
I don't think the author cares about the logistics of it, nor should he. If you offer me a service, it's up to you to figure out how to provide that service. If doing so is a logistical nightmare, then you're failing uphold your end of the bargain. No one is forcing YouTube to market a kid's channel.

As to whether today's AI is up to the task, I think it's fairly hard to say definitively. It seems certain that we haven't yet fielded a system that does it very well though.
Isn't that training for a different task, though?
The source, as well as more in-depth description, is available at https://github.com/rwk506/CrashCatcher

This is actually quite neat! Having little data and not enough resources to manually label thousands of examples seems to be a somewhat neglected problem. Maybe we should boycott Google's captchas until they feel the same pain :)

The comments in the code do read like a parody, though:

count = 0 ### start a counter at zero
"And frankly so, Germany doesn't have an opioid problem."

You are very uninformed obviously. As far as i know for my town, Paderborn (NRW), we have about 1.000 people receiving opioid replacement drugs under government supervision (~90.000 city population).
This happened to me: I quit Facebook some while back, but there is an alumni group I wanted to connect to. But their events are organized on an FB page, which I can't even access. So I had to find someone else who's a member of the group and ask them when they are assembling.

I'm reminded somewhat of certain websites only favoring a specific browser or being written in a manner that seriously messes with accessibility.
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I'd be careful with that kind of nihilistic attitude; note that it has the same effect as wholehearted support! (Which is, advocating that nothing different be done.)
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Sounds like Robot Chicken. Fortunately Cartoon Network firewalls off Adult Swim with an hour or so of King of the Hill or other bland, boring material.
I completely agree with you. I just think the linked article could be strengthened by adding some rules of thumb. No complaints about its technical explanation.
Cool. Could it be also used on video without flickering ?
Problem is what do you do when most of the population has extreme difficulty in reasoning this?
This is a highly misleading presentation of the study.

The study compared the following doses:
— 400 mg ibuprofen and 1,000 mg acetaminophen
— 5 mg oxycodone and 325 mg acetaminophen
— 5 mg hydrocodone and 300 mg acetaminophen; or
— 30 mg codeine and 300 mg acetaminophen

https://media.jamanetwork.com/news-item/no-significant-diffe...

So, the study is comparing high doses of ibuprofen/acetaminophen to low doses on opiates/acetaminophen.

It is an interesting outcome for mild pain and suggest that for mild pain it might be better to pass on low dose opiates but in no way does this show that opiates are not needed for severe pain.
> standing on the shoulders of giants

Of course. No question that you take the sum of your education and experience with you to each new job. The "company knowledge" limitations are around specific trade secret inventions or verbatim recreation of such.
I have learned to never rely on something being, "technically not possible" that is only a side effect.
In the case of `auto foo = bar(baz);`, while specifying the type of the returned value may be useful in many cases, it would also require modification should the return type of `bar` change in the future. So the type specificity can come with a caveat.
This is so much better than I expected. I thought it was yet another person who put libcaca in front of a game but this. THIS! This is awesome!

I used to love playing on the MOO and other MUDs and this brings me right back there. Excellent!
It's a remarkable piece. But plenty of 'real' relationships are maintained partly by paying for them, too - think of the friend who always picks up the tab, the boyfriend or suitor who pays for dinner and buys gifts for his lover. A Marxian could even claim that traditional families aren't so different... The temporary nature and upfront pricetag though are distinctive.
This story makes me think of the colloquialism in the northern plains states where if two drivers come to an all-way stop on some dusty dirt road right-of-way is determined by a nod of the head or wave of the hand.

Legally, I don't think there's a rule on the books for offering right-of-way via body language. If you misinterpret them and they drive out and hit you, then you would be at fault. Yet, growing up it seemed like an an unwritten rule that, at an otherwise empty rural intersection, if you have right of way, you should offer it up as a kind of generosity to the other driver.

It's a cultural norm that I would dearly miss and would definitely vary from state-to-state and even from urban-to-rural driving inside the same state.
If you increase everyone's wages the quality of employees across the board won't change. If you increase your wages, while other employers' wages stay the same, you'll get better applicants.
What's the name of the laser procedure you had?
I agree, worth studying, but probably difficult to compare across the board. You'd probably need to identify groups with the same kind of pain and study those individual groups. But right now, is there all that much on the market between opioids and NSAIDs? Cannabis would at least provide an additional method of action, and maybe they go with what works best for the specific pain or patient.
The games facebook plays to get you to stay are as harmless as video games, Teaser tv promos or chain letters.

The mass collection of data is the real harm. The slowly eroding public web is up there too.
Social Media has failed.
The parent was comparing flying to driving cross country.
A test for HN is always whether we can resist the pull of the obvious nearest offtopicness.

Offtopic tangents can be great when they're interesting a.k.a. unpredictable. But the predictable ones are just highways to entropy.
Most small businesses fail. They fail because the founder doesn't have enough money to survive the dips and bumps. Being rich gives you an edge in making money, it's pretty cut and dry.
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That evidence would be nice. It would also be nice to know exactly how many kids have even been exposed to this stuff. The NYT story is one parent's anecdote. The Medium post linked to some videos that aren't actually in the YT kids app. Many of the questionable parts of the videos were 10+ minutes in, which doesn't excuse them, but knowing about the dropoff rate of online video, many hopefully dodged the worst content.
People have always lost touch. Before and after Facebook. By the way, being "friends" on Facebook does not equal being in touch; it signifies nothing.
What is the best media player?
What is the best media player to help us watching any videos no matter the format.
PostgreSQL 10.1, 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, 9.3.20, and 9.2.24 released
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Article is about the dude and not the beer.

https://russianriverbrewing.com/pages/pliny-the-elder
Hey, so I've been programming (as a hobbyist and a professional) for 20 years. The key thing to note is that all of these are things that don't require access to an existing codebase. All these projects could be done within 4 hours by someone talented and reasonably experienced. Combine that with the fact that we take care of finding the clients and offering same day payment, I think it's a fair deal.

>How do you assess the real level of complexity of a project in order to determine its price ?

One thing I should mention is, as I said, I'm a super experienced programmer [1], so I analyze each project and do the work of dissecting into what needs to be done. I provide links to helpful APIs and help provide suggestions of ways to tackle the problem.

So once I know what needs to be done, I do a bottom up estimate of how long it would take for me to do each microtask. I then multiply each time estimate by the market hourly converted rate for a San Francisco Silicon Valley startup software engineer and sum. I put that bid into the Slack channel, and if someone good takes it, that's that, but if nobody bites, I raise it by ~$15 every so often.

There are 400+ people in Slack currently, and at any given time there's 20+ experienced developers online. Tasks are usually snatched up pretty quickly. The bottleneck in the system currently isn't experienced devs, but qualified businesses and entrepreneurs.

[1] But not a truly great one, like Ada Lovelace, Adam D'Angelo or John Carmack.
Your criticism would have been a lot better if you had pointed to an alternative.
Currently there is one blog post about an outage and a lot of speculation. I don't think there's enough information to make an "informed" decision. On the other hand, if you use .com, and the whole thing breaks, that from a users perspective means "the internet just broke", so your small startup won't be at the top of the list of sites people will complain about.
I laughed at the fact that there's no year short syntax here.
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I'd rather the elected government do it rather than an unaccountable multinational corporation. What do you think "relevance" algorithms are other than some company determining what is good for us and what is not?

Edit: P.S. Where was the personal responsibility of Facebook after they were caught peddling propaganda placed by foreign actors? As I recall it took a lot of arm twisting to get them to admit there was even an issue.
>I guess other than the obvious fact that everybody working on a given linux distro is doing it for free (right? that's my impression).

People working on most components of the desktop Linux stack are being paid for it. Think kernel -> video drivers -> systemd -> wayland -> GNOME. All of those groups have paid employees. They are evidently understaffed.
Child-friendly isn't even a well-defined objective category; different parents will disagree violently (sometimes, quite literally) over what is appropriate.
Not really. You have westerners taking advantage of the "fake <whatever>" as well.

see:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/05/everyth...
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Yeah that would be a great read. You want your system to learn what's in real photographs, not how to see through your simulation.
Based on your phrasing it sounds like you think owning a national ID card is commonplace in Sweden. The national ID card system isn't widely used at all, most people use either their drivers license or passport when they need to identify themselves.

The only thing everyone has is a person number, and the difference is that it is explicitly considered public information and you can get anyone's person number by just asking the Tax Agency. It's just a convenient way to keep track of people, not a way to actually identify yourself.
The difference is in trust. if you don't trust the stability of BTC, you don't want to put all your money into it. It just means that BTC would not make a good currency to replace other currencies, even if people would trust it.
MemSQL doesn't quite do that. It has 2 tiers, aggregators and leaves. Leaf nodes store the data but they also do computation of local node data while aggregators split up the original query and assemble results with final ordering and filtering.

PostgreSQL can do something similar by using FDW (foreign data wrappers) to child databases, which can be other postgres nodes or different datastores entirely. It's still relatively naive with access but possible, and I'm not aware of any polished product that will do it all for you. The closest is systems like Citus, PipelineDB, TimescaleDB that work as extensions but the nodes do both compute and storage.

However there are now several SQL execution engines that you can use like Apache Spark (SQL), Apache Drill, Presto, Dremio, and others that will run SQL queries and joins over several different data sources, so you can scale each layer independently. It works especially well for data lake/warehouse needs where you can run an elastically scaling group of execution nodes against files in a cloud storage bucket. Not as fast as a focused system but cheap and effective.
I’m repeating much of what I wrote on a previous thread about the same topic as I think it’s relevant here too.

I believe the discussion here about parenting is a diversion from the real issues at play.

This is not a ‘won’t somebody think of the children moral panic’. Instead, we’re feeling a foreshock of the problems we’re going to experience, caused by the unintended consequences of the systems we have built - and what that means for us as a society.

YouTube videos for kids is a lighthearted entry to the subject - we could be discussing news, porn, education, whatever, and the problems and implications would be broadly the same.

The key issues raised here are:
* The ‘delamination’ of content and author and how that affects the awareness and trust of its source. If, for example, a scientific paper and a bunch of woo is presented in the same way who can tell which is more legitimate? ‘Just teach critical thinking’, or ‘it’s called ‘parenting’’ are not acceptable solutions as by the time enough people have been taught to provide herd immunity we will have long since succumbed to this pandemic of bullshit.

* ‘...the impossibility of determining the degree of automation which is at work here’. If both humans and machines are creating content tailored for every possible niche, interest, fetish and keyword combination, and algorithmic personalisation makes it possible to exist entirely within our own personal tag clouds what does it mean for us as a society, which requires a basic set of shared values to function?

Junk content and the pandering to base instincts is not new, but our ability now to automate the creation and dissemination of such content to pander to every possible interest and combination of interests at vast scale is new - and we do not yet have the cultural toolkit to deal with it.

I wonder whether in a few years time, once we’ve really felt the impact of all this, people will look on today’s enthusiasm for putting ‘social’ in everything with the contempt and horror we do with last century’s enthusiasm for putting radium in everything.
Yea I had to mod the fuck out of Skyrim to make the combat fun, and even then... eeeh

I actually enjoyed stealth/archer as long as I didn't go too deep into the stealth tree, making me literally undetectable.

Mage got fun when I found a hotkey mod. Combined with Apocalypse spells, I could switch through a bunch of fun spells really quickly. Kind of felt like playing an Elementalist in Guild Wars 2 when I got it right.

Sword and board... never fun lol. Just running around lopping people's heads off gets old fast.
All this and yet they still can't implement support for a .dropboxignore file
Very possibly the opposite! Companies will hire westerners to pose (like, literally stand and smile and nothing else) as C-level execs because having foreign execs correlates with a successful international business and thus looks good to potential partners and the like.