skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe there wasn't one. But Google has moved from a "top 10 results" strategy to a "we'll give you the best answer for your question" search strategy. They did this for one because that's what kind of service they'd ideally like to be for their users, but also because that's the only way voice search can work - by giving you just one answer.

The problem with this is that while before the #1 result on their search engine didn't actually have to be the best most relevant result that there is on the internet, but just one of the best answers, now it has to be the absolute best and most accurate result, because of this shift in strategy of only showing you one answer. They can't afford any mistake with this. And that's way harder to solve as a problem than the problems they had before with the top 10 results.
the point was more that maybe most are not as disturbing to kids as we assume they are, not that kids will stop watching all of them.

My little brother watched "fist of the north star" with me when he was 5, where people literally explode and evil guys routinely lick blood off their blades, and he still grew up to be a balanced person, as far as I can tell.
Actually, a lot of research suggests that it is pretty similar to the opioid crisis https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=social+media+addiction+s...
MZ even if he knows that is a complete lie, he may sleep very well at night.

End justifies the means, ala Bill Gates, type of reasoning. Will make it up to the world /God when I use the FB stock to do good.
From the comments: “I tried it out earlier this week after work, leaving from Mission/New Montomomery. Told me to meet at 5:30 on a street corner for the car. The driver was 20 minutes late, didn't know that the feature was in use. I was the only one in the car, but I was told I would be dropped off maybe a 10 minute walk away. We both agreed this was silly, and the driver just dropped me off at my place, which was nice.”
What's the cheapest now?
Is it at all possible that these "weird" videos are not disturbing to children?
The problem with German is here that it concatenates words without any indication what the break is :)

Your translation is for BauernFängerEi ("farmer catching egg", which doesn't make too much sense), while this is BauernFängerei ("farmer catching/trapping"). "...erei" is similar to "...ery" in English.

I guess the saying comes from the prejudice that farmers are not the smartest people, and therefore people trying to catch/trap/trick/prey on stupid people are called "farmer/peasant catchers".
> where he announced a new, idealistic mission statement: “To give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.”

You should read: "power to build community and bring the world together... inside our walled garden".

Facebook has never been about building technologies aiming at decentralizing the web, so any power they'll give people will be on their own rules and domain.
Everyone against Facebook is just jealous. Admit it. You don't want a world that's not connected, and Facebook executed it brilliantly.
Great idea, absolutely horrible implementation even as an MVP.

Never in a million years would I trust that kind of data residing on Facebooks servers even fleetingly. Years back, Facebook allowed you to have private profile photos. My then-girlfriend-now-wife has a picture of the two of us as hers which for cultural and religious reasons she had private since we hadn’t decided to tell her parents yet. Facebook decided without telling anyone one day that Facebook photos were now public. She hasn’t spoken to her father since that day. Facebook can and will do whatever they want with the data they have on you. Maybe permissions change on messenger (or there’s a bug) and data from this flow leaks. Maybe a year from now this flow still exists but messager makes all picture uploads a soft delete because they want to keep things as training data. Maybe the upload gets replicated to their CDNs in a way that is discoverable and recoverable. Maybe documentation for this manual process outlives the software, someone finds it, and uploads a picture only to find out they did it in the wrong place that now has no guarantees of even an effort for privacy.

That’s a lot of maybes for something so sensitive. Facebook doesn’t deserve your trust with this kind of data. They should come up with something where the hashing happens locally and the user never has to put faith in them to begin with.
It seems to work quite well. See https://youtu.be/0Mp5Y3UTWH8?t=93
Still significantly cheaper, also I'm paying only for the domestic part.
Weak empirical data is still stronger than abstract speculation with no evidence.
When I was at AWS we were using generators from a large commercial supplier. We were constantly having issues with them refusing to take over if there wasn't sufficient load. Doing so puts lots of stress on a generator and can significantly shorten its life.

We went to the manufacturer and tried to get them to make a firmware change; we wanted the generators to sacrifice themselves under most every circumstance (short of danger to humans). Generators are an irrelevant cost compared to the cost of an outage. The manufacturer refused, even when we offered to buy them without warranties.

I don't know if they still do but at that point AWS started to buy basically the same generators straight from China and writing their own firmware.

There is also a great story about an AWS authored firmware update on a set of louver microcontrollers causing a partial outage.

AWS really likes to own the entire stack.

*It has been years since I left, details are a bit fuzzy but I think I've got these right.
Not you. It’s getting frustrating to see less quality info being brought up first when I search for something.

Its to the point I just go to a certain few sites directly to search within these sites instead of Google.
> YouTube is a huge opportunity creator. The lottery aspect comes from the fact that the offer is enormous.

That’s like calling casinos “opportunity creators.” The lottery aspect comes from the randomness of success.
Ask HN: What's the best indoor air quality monitor?
I've been researching the effect of indoor air quality on health, and it seems that it's something worth taking seriously. To those of you who know about these things, what's the best indoor air quality monitor that I can buy for under $300? Thanks!
It was recently pointed out that .dev while never officially sanctioned for the purpose has been used extensively as a test TLD for development servers.

Would Google entertain supporting something like .local.dev for this purpose, used only within a single organization and without reverse-lookup supported?

If not, is there a better alternative that also maintains the aesthetics as well as the similarity with production domain names?
Indeed. No criticism of them has merit and can be attributed to envy.
It's not bad at all. You just have different requirements. I prefer React, but if the apps I was working on came to change in requirements, I'd be very happy to have Vue as an option. I don't think having 16 different major frameworks that overlap in functionality is healthy, but having a handful of fairly distinct ones that overlap on some points is just a good thing.

We have hundreds of full sized frontend applications, millions of lines of both javascript and scss. Thousands of extremely complex i/o operations and algorithms. We push the tools in the ecosystem to their limit and have to write our owns where they fail us.

And when I'm at home making a small app, create-react-app and VSCode, then npm install-ing styled-components, is all I need to replicate 80% of the above. It's all just JavaScript so all my tools just work the way I expect them to.

Not everyone needs (or want!) this. And that's okay.
That's what Facebook's own studies have shown, too. You'd think Zuckerberg would read his company's own studies.

Facebook is not making people feel happy. It's making them sad and envious of their friends.
You are assuming that designers would be overly simplistic about their work. Planes don't use their wings for propulsion, so why would a designer try to make them flap? That action isn't solving the same problem, and any engineer would know that. Likewise, tires roll in response to propulsion, whereas galloping legs are providing power. Frankly, the pistons inside an engine ARE closer to a gallop than to a roll. (Well, maybe not in a Wankel rotary engine, but...)
Hotline was pretty good. I ran a banner server there for a bit to make some cash since I was pretty broke in college at the time.

A better version of Hotline was Carracho in my opinion. More open communities and a better experience overall. Super nostalgic for those days right now. It was about a lot more than the files, at least after a new users initial frenzy. Great discussion groups, etc.

Any Carracho users here from back then?
I grew up doing the BBS thing for many years, then when the internet started emerging with CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL a lot of us effectively moved there. Illicit things I remember the "AOL era":

* CC generators actually worked to create an account that would last a good amount of time

* In the early days (~ AOL v2.5) they had a CGI form you could fill out and have a disc sent to your home. So of course we scripted it and had hundreds of free formattable 3.5"'s. A bit down the road and MS had a similar thing for Windows '95 replacement discs -- they'd send you the entire set if one was bad, which was a lot of good discs :)

* AOL at one point allowed ordering physical products (early digital cameras and the like) via your account credit. Mix in a phished account and you can see how that goes.

* I can't remember the names right now, but there were services in which you could pick up a CD and get free dial-up email access. The gig is they would show you ads. Patch the EXE and viola, you essentially just have a PPP account to the web.
Bypassing SSRF filters by abusing a bug in Ruby's native resolver
Can they leave without withdrawals?

Online Social Networking and Mental Health

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183915/

"Addiction to online social networking, as well as Internet addiction in general, are recent and insufficiently investigated phenomena, frequently discussed and sometimes disputed in the psychiatric literature.30–35 The addictive nature of SNS is supported primarily by the mental preoccupation of many chronic SNS users who as a result tend to neglect other aspects of their social functioning such as family and offline friends. In addition, according to our own observations, sudden cessation of online social networking (i.e., lack of Internet connection) may in some chronic users cause signs and symptoms that at least partially resemble the ones seen during drug/alcohol/nicotine abstinence syndrome."

And just googling "facebook addiction nih", it looks like there is plenty more material of this sort.
Cerco hacker per whatsapp conversazioni e Facebook – massima riservatezza
Dynx: a dynamic http proxy with openresty and redis
As a technicality, yes, but your bank almost certainly has a rule about what it will accept. And there's nothing illegal about that rule.
In the US it's a dead art. I learned it as a kid and never use it. My kids are actually not learning it. It's been removed from the curriculum in New York and I'm pleased.
And you have direct link to GitHub on that card, right under the title.
Can you link to your project?
Indian Police Cyber-Crime Call for Action on Linkedin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgMqhEMhVV8 (12mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbMSOCpCcA8 (13mins)

if you prefer to read instead.

Online Multiplayer Video Games:
Peak Daily Users
5,000,000 League of Legends (Riot Games 2009, Free / Cosmetic microtransactions)
2,552,565	PLAYER UNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS (Steam / Bluehole Inc. 2017, $30 / Cosmetic microtransactions)
727,479	Dota 2 (Steam / Valve Corporation 2013, Free / Cosmetic microtransactions)
547,883	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve Corporation 2012, $15 / Cosmetic microtransactions)

-in-built audience of about 500k-5million
-low barrier of entry high skill ceiling
-former professional players stream their games daily and give advice
-livestream audience of 10k-20k concurrent viewers
-streamer can earn up to 5 million USD a year from: monthly subscription model for cosmetic chat features, ad and merchandise revenue streams

There are many intersections between genres, because teenagers are interested in a lot of things, fashion, music, video-games, tv shows. There is also a certain infantisation of 20-30's due to the increasingly common choice to put off starting a family until late 30s.

A good example is the two brothers Logan (22) and Jake (20) Paul. Former viners(1) who were on a Disney tv show (2) moved to youtube (3) bringing over their fans from vine and disney and adding new ones due to clever self-promotion. Any 5 to 15 year old in America knows their name and about 5-10 million watch their videos daily.

What is their talent? In a post-modern twist, the story of their success is their product. Much like the various Kardashian sisters, famous for being famous very much describes where they are. They both live a Truman Show / EdTV esque life of daily fan interaction. every single day of their lives is documented into 15-20 minute long videos which they upload to their channels.

(1)(2)(3) the more intersections you can get the better your chances of having a wider audience. the youtuber you mentioned does not have 50 million people watching, he has 1-3 million, the fiasco around his racist slur was viral marketing on his behalf to draw attention to his struggling channel. his peak relevancy was probably in 2014 and he has been struggling for the past 3 years to remain relevant as his fanbase grows up and he needs to adapt to their changing interests.

video games are a 100 billion dollar industry with china's addiction for the electronic crack soon dwarfing anything the rest of the world does.
I mean like there are bigger problems out there man. And plain stupid to focus it all on Mark, he's just having fun.
I don't think so? Modern plastics have to be created by humans; chalk literally occurs in nature.
Isn't the unsuitability of the high-dimensional Gaussian intimately related to the fact that for most realistic problem spaces, we actually believe there are really far fewer than the N >> 1 measured dimensions?

A uniform Gaussian presupposes that the variates are either linearly orthogonal, or all have the same linear interaction with each other (in the case of fixed positive correlation).

If your actual problem has dimension 20, but you've measured it with N dimensions, then that means there are strong interactions between your measured variates, and moreover the intervariate interactions do not have a single fixed interaction strength (like a single Gaussian correlation), but probably vary like a random matrix.

This might be related to the Tracy-Widom[1] distribution somehow. Perhaps the the distribution you use to replace the Gaussian should really be something like: first generate a random positive semi-definite matrix as C, then generate random data based on different random choices of C.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%E2%80%93Widom_distributi...
That's exactly why they don't want to legalize home cultivation. In Mass the back market is booming because everyone can grow it.
Because hotdesking doesn't affect only the person moving. It affects everyone that person moves away from, and everyone that person moves toward.

If everybody cares, then as you note, not everyone agrees that it's good. If few or no people care, then why hotdesk?

Either way, someone has to set the policy. Even at Valve, with no structure, someone has to say "we hotdesk, it's our culture". Someone has to sell the haters on it (or tell them to take a hike).

And even if only one person hotdesks, depending on that person, that could still be enough to leave an impact.
tl;dr: there needs to be a tl;dr on every web page so People don’t have to read content they don’t care about to get an answer to something they googled.

Yeah? Maybe. I don’t know. I don’t google much.

I go straight to BBC or the Guardian for news.

I get my tech news from email lists or HN.

When I’m curious about random stuff, I’ll end up on Wikipedia.

What i use google for is getting to a deep link in a site i know i want to go to:

* shortcuts to amazon

* shortcuts to stackoverflow

* probably specific porn term

When I use google I’m usually looking for a specific answer to something that I’m not sure where to find it.

The two most recent example are:

- safety rating and electric range of the Volvo T8

- a recipe for chicken tortilla soup

And here is where i get to “maybe”.

I want an answer to those questions. What do i get? 40 paragraphs of SEO unique content around some experience someone had as a child with their grandma and then a recipe for chicken tortilla soup buried in there somewhere.

I’ve started and worked for a few big content sites and i know the SEO game well.

Websites that want to show up in google can’t just focus on what their core competency is, they also have to be content site and have writers.

It kinda sucks because I just hit the back button when I’m expecting a succinct answer and I’m confronted with a novel (and i think that’s still a big penalty to them) and try to find the quickest answer without reading a life story or opinions on a car.
We do that in broadcast. We can have a matrix on the order of 1000 inputs 1000 outputs, with any source and destination routes to another.
These tend to be really pricey, even before factoring in the miles of coax cable.

In fact as an industry we're moving to IP - a modern video stream is in the 12gbit range, so that's a backplane of about dozen terabit, so that's not cheap either. On top of that, 1 lost packet and it's a big problem, so we dual stream it all.
As I re-read my comment above, it seems hyperbolic, so I went to check the actual data on the last time I tried to buy something at Staples.

I needed a 1/8" stereo mini to 2 RCA male cable.

Staples: $15.59 - https://www.staples.com/Staples-7-3-5mm-to-Dual-RCA-Y-Adapte...

BestBuy: $9.99 - https://www.bestbuy.com/site/insignia-6-3-5mm-mini-to-rca-st...

Amazon: $4.76 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IE7Z628

Aliexpress: $0.56 / $0.82 - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1-Mini-Plug-3-5mm-Plug-Jack-...
The 1IM punt HTML tag that overloaded AOL’s own buffer <font size="199999999999…"> and fill the 9's to the end of the IM window.

I believe there was even a more effective one that was something like <font size="¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿...">.
First hand experiences?

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/14/16309752/google-rehabs-ne...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/12/15259400/burger-king-goog...
It is the first time hearing this word(seems to be an older word ) but a better translation would be something like "Farmer trap". According to Wikipedia it originated in a war where mercenary groups got farmers drunk and had them sign contracts to have them work for them.
Nowadays it's just used as a word to describe a scam where you trick people that don't really understand what they are agreeing to sign a favorable (to the scammer) contract, etc.
Isn't a non-technical person more likely to want to know what GitHub is than to go there?
Don't they have that already? I remember it being a prominent feature for browsers ~10 years ago. Heck, even Outlook had a feed reader - still has it I think, though it's always sucked.
Based on what I remember, $4M is what he earned in the year, not all FROM YouTube. Most of that money came from other deals. Of course those deals were possible because of his popularity on YouTube, but it is not a case of Google spreading wealth.
I don't see how it's spreading the wealth, youtube/google just keep more of the value created than the MLB/NBA/NFL.
I don't know about 3 year olds but parking infants in front of "educational" videos does the opposite: http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650352,0...
Yep, that stuff works great on these surfaces. Sometimes, you need to spray, let it sit for a few minutes, then spray again and erase. But it’ll work.
Benson was focusing his efforts on usbc, presumably cus it's got a higher propensity for damage, what with the higher voltage and all. I wouldn't be surprised if he could find issues with non usbc stuff too though.
Two bits which caught my attention:

"[Evan Spiegel] has dismissed ideas that rely heavily on data, according to people who have worked with him. He prefers to study the experience of users for cues on revisions and new features, some of the people said.

...

One banker involved in the IPO said he thought the lack of voting shares and other decisions could imperil the company’s standing with investors, possibly hurting its stock price. But he said he didn’t articulate that to Snap’s executives for fear of jeopardizing his spot on the prized deal."
What's ad revenue like now for IH?
It looks better than then, true. But it's still trying to be so flashy. And I feel like they are trying to push all their useless social features on me. And there's a lack of customizability. I guess the free tier is better than what newsblur offers, but for me, newsblur is where I'm staying.
I listed all of those. My point was that you don't have the situation like in San Francisco where a driver drives for Uber+Lyft+RandomOtherStartup at the same time.

A minicab is a minicab, an uber is an uber, and a black cab is a black cab.
Well, there’s also the dodgy adverts that occasionally interrupt the video..

I saw how at my local primary school, kids were happily jumping up and down to a song and suddenly there’s a chocolate advert.

Imo the safest way to let kids browse is walled gardens like Netflix Kids. But that would also be unleashing an entire new addiction.

The ideal scenario is parent supervision, but most parents don’t have enough time/patience to sit with their kids everyday. In fact the iPad is meant to be the new babysitter!

It’s quite a problem, this one is.
Also, unless they're doing something interesting, zips really aren't hard to modify. See also: Android APKs, also just fancy zip files, also easy to modify (though, granted, you have to re-sign the result).
I’m the opposite—I love the feeling of chalk on my hands. When I was in grad school, all of the other students tried to keep the chalk off of their hands, but I would take the chalk and rub it on my hands to keep them dry.
For any content that's being sold as such (eg, news sites) that's definitely copyright infringement. For user-generated content, I'm not sure. Though I would not be even a little bit surprised if Facebook asserted copyright to anything put into it. In either case, probably violates the TOS as well.

Technically it's achievable, but it would likely be forever relegated to mostly-illegal backwaters.
You could have made the same point without getting personal or ascribing malice, couldn’t you?
Anecdotally, I told a friend last night that I had deleted my Facebook 6 months ago so they wouldn't wonder why I had de-friended them. They said they had had the exact same conversation like 3 times this month already with other people. Facebook may continue expanding around the world, but it's popularity has certainly peaked in the US.
Which is difficult to control over a social network unless it's a closed community and still, it's used as a metric.
I have the same experience I feel like Google is becoming less and less useful for finding things. There have been several times where I tried to find things I've come across before and Google was no help.

However it's still the best search engine hands down. There is no way a search engine like DDG could provide better results. If Bing can't do it there is no way DDG can.

It would like it if there was a comparable alternative to Google but there really isn't.

I think it would be cool if some system or protocol (eg. IMAP, RSS, OStatus) came along to provide a way to create a user programmable search engine, that's decentralized but comparable to Google.