skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The inevitable quality decline of popularity is much noted.

"A Theory of Mass Culture", Dwight Macdonald. First Published June 1, 1953

https://doi.org/10.1177/039219215300100301

(Available via Sci-Hub: https://sci-hub.ac/10.1177/039219215300100301)
It's not supposed to make the problem disappear. The problem doesn't exist frequently enough to do anything with.

How much code has to be put in for all of these edge cases? How much data needs to be learned to possibly and nowhere near reliably deal with these edge cases? How often will these edge cases occur?

It's not worth the false positives, not by a long shot. You cannot make self driving cars perfect, that's not possible. You just need to make them better than human drivers.
I mean if you read the article the reason they say not to use it is specifically because they used it themselves and were burnt
There is also a good, ethical reason to stop using .io domains completely, as the territory's population had no say in the governance of the TLD and are deprived of any revenue from it.
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If that were the case then Amazon and practically everyone else wouldn't be running under .com which of course is managed by Verisign.

Will also note that Amazon is a registrar but relies (as others do) on markmonitor.com to be the registrar for their own domain .com name. Ditto for google which is also a registrar. So they could be the registrar for their own .com domain but choose not to do so.
How do we 'really' know it was the fungus that controlled the ants? And not some sort of ants' self-defense mechanism?
because US government at pays 1/3 of your interest cost back to you! so in reality you only get 2.5% !
I'm not sure I understand who you're referring to as "HN" or what you're referring to as suppression? If you'd like to discuss further, we'd be happy if you emailed us at hn@ycombinator.com.
The article ends with

> A step back to assert human control -- even if it cuts into the tech companies wide profit margins -- is overdue indeed.

The author seems to think these problems cannot be solved with technology. Maybe they think that, or else Facebook, Twitter, et. al., would have solved it already?

I think that it is far more likely that our society directly incentivizes the companies to not solve the problems. That is why they are not solved. Because we lavish them with money to leave them unsolved.

Legislate that political news must be regulated. Legislate that companies that exert social control over a population, like Facebook, must do so responsibly. Don't just tell them that humans must curate all content. That won't work. Humans are too expensive and corruptible anyway. The solution is structural in society just as the problem is. Take away the profit incentive for big tech firms to cheat and feed lies, and our society will improve directly in line with what the author probably wants.
You can write "Pythonesque C#" today using F#.

Once you get used to it, though, you'll probably want to write idiomatic F#.
A sociopath wouldn't be open about what the harm they did because they don't care to help others heal.

He talks about it because he feels guilt but knows he won't be punished.

He understood it was immoral. He still did it, because morality doesn't have the power to stop actions. Now he feels guilt for doing evil. But at least now he's ultra-rich and powerful. He understood what he was trying to achieve.
Yes, like a sales tax. That is an extremely regressive tax and should be removed.
NSAIDS + acetaminophen are very common. Excedrin is acetaminophen + aspirin (and caffeine).

>and usually advised against on the labels of both drugs.

I've never seen this.
Lol love how I get downvotes for stating facts
Dumb question, but why not host DNS name serving somewhere other that NIC.io so it does not go down? As I recall you can set the name server to live somewhere else, though I don't have the account pages open.

The dnscheck.pingdom.com page shows that .io domains commonly route to different name servers. Just try stream.io and slither.io and you should see different authoritative name servers. (I picked those randomly for the test.)
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Perhaps the author does not understand the logistical nightmare of having human moderators manually approve all content.

Further, the fact that YouTube, Facebook, et al. Have failed to police content to the author's satisfaction is not indicative of a failure in AI - especially when these corporations are effectively incentivized by view counts and advertisement not to remove these videos.

In short, YouTube's failure is not a valid indicator of the effecticeness of AI in general.
In the commercial sector I seem to find myself spending a significant amount of my time working on projects that were started many decades ago that have just been improved over time.

I honestly wouldn't be too surprised if a lot of these applications were used today with relatively little change.
Don't you realize that the institution that's being examined isn't necessarily on your side? Without oversight, how could they possibly be kept on the good side? Having gone so long without oversight, how far have they strayed?

Assuming you weren't involved in any of this, ask yourself: did I authorize it? Did the legitimate authority of my civil peers (to which I am willing to cede) authorize it? Did my representatives authorize it? (Not everyone in congress is on these top-secret commitiees, it's entirely possible that some action could be taken that the voters of an entire state had essentially zero say in.)

Finally,

What would happen if a cleared individual decided to take an action without asking anybody or telling anybody? You know, like Snowden, except not conscience-driven to make sure we all heard about it. It's not like established systems have ever suppressed secrets that would make them look bad if widely known, right? Right?
Her real father left.

So the real question is: is the 4-hours a week of fake fatherhood better than being a bullied, emotionally traumatized kid throughout some of the hardest moments of growing up?

Its a fake, rent-a-father for 4 hours a week. But that fake fatherhood is probably way better than no fatherhood at all.

Its a difficult moral question for sure.
Gibson's Neuromancer touches on this with the backstory for how Molly Millions paid for her cybernetic enhancements as a "meat puppet".
I'm a little confused about which guideline I broke. Is it the all caps "you"?

edit: is this account a bot that I triggered?
He is building up a lie that if unleashed could destroy a person. If not the person, defensively the relationship between the kid and the mom that hired him.
In Oregon at least you can grow up to four plants for personal use [1], I assume Washington and Colorado have similar provisions.

1: http://www.oregon.gov/olcc/marijuana/Pages/FAQs-Personal-Use...
All: we've turned off a few of the flags on this article because the discussion so far has not reached the 7th circle of hell. If you're going to comment here, please do so slowly, thoughtfully and make it civil and substantive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This has (some) echoes of the rise and fall of the use of Linux at Central Scotland Police: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/11/ms_lochs_down_polic...

I worked with one of the architects of that (many moons ago). He was a fervent believer in OSS and its use in the enterprise. From what I could glean, they struggled with user interface issues - end users didn't like having to relearn how to use their very-similar-but-not-quite-the-same-word-processor software. As soon as he left (and it was never clear which came first) they decided to return to the Microsoft fold.

edit: better article link
Which cell of your brain is the seat of sentience? I know little about ants and maybe that analogy sucks, but it seems like it could easily not be anything more specific than the colony as a whole.
> 'auto' is a terrible choice of the keyword. 'var', like in C#, would be much, much better.

I don't know; "auto" to me means "automatically deduced". While "var" sounds like it should apply only to variables, and auto to types (including return types, argument types etc).

The reality is it could have been called "floog" -- after a while I don't even think of the English meaning of "if" when I write "if (foo)...", much less "for(...", and non-english speakers simply learn the keywords by rote, much as non-Italian speakers learn western musical notation by rote (or do you silently translate "fortissimo" in your head as you play?)
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That wasn't my read of the situation. Bottom line is, the administration realize that the cost savings promised might not materialized, and that most of IT problems could be resolved more cheaply by just moving to better version of windows
Before social media, those are people we forgot about and moved on from. And for good reason.

Social media, especially Facebook, seems engineered to create this illusion that we're more connected with our "friends"; while those people may have been our friends in another time, that doesn't mean they're our friends now just because we have Facebook connections with them. If it only takes not having a Facebook profile to not exist to people, they're not really our friends to begin with. I can say this about the vast majority of people who are my "friends" on Facebook; I know for sure that 99% of them will never contact me unless Facebook prods them to post "Happy Birthday" on my timeline. This isn't to say that my connections are bad people, but it's to say that social media has distorted what friendship and human bonding actually mean in order to profit on peoples' loneliness.

It's not difficult for a truly lonely person to come to that conclusion, but that perspective solidified in me when I became real-life friends with a neighbor of mine. It had been several years since I made a non-superficial friendship. And no social medium was required. I was reminded that real friends are actually interested in seeing you, talking to you, and coming to you first when they've got news about something. Just one friend like that is far more valuable than all the "friends" I ever had on Facebook.

You may still feel a void from it, but I do hope you eventually make some real-life connections like I have and forget about your old "friends" entirely. I abstained from Facebook for 9 months, and even near the end I was feeling the void. Going back to it was starkly different and I realized how much of a waste of time it is. I do still use Facebook, but only as a photo repository since I do have some semblance of friends and family on there. Though I'm sure they wouldn't bother with me if I wasn't there to bolster their friend-count.
DNS resolution is hierarchal. You start at the root DNS servers for a TLD to find the authoritative servers for a given domain in that TLD. You can host your authoritative servers wherever you want, but you have no control over the root servers and it was the latter that had problems.
It may help to note that THC and CBD are two active components which can treat different symptoms. I find CBD extraordinarily effective at treating my essential tremor. CBD and THC combined provide mild help for my pain, but THC makes me anxious and spacey. The side effects don’t quite outweigh the benefits for me, personally. But I cannot recommend CBD enough, and agree both are worth trying.
There's nothing stopping you from extending your browser so that it's as wide as all your screens.
OCaml is great, but F# is better for almost every one of his bullet points.
I'm going to assume he will never leave FB by choice
Having had an entry in the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005, I can say that rural is easier than urban. Most of the really hard problems in self-driving involve other road users. Driving on an empty road isn't that tough. You need full ground profiling, which many of the urban vehicles now don't have.

(When we did our vehicle, we had way too much of the wrong stuff. We were worrying about having to navigate a field of boulders. Getting high-centered on rugged roads. Nah. In 2005, all you had to do was stay on the road. The 2004 course was actually harder, and nobody made it past 7 miles. CMU's team tried to do 2004 by manual mapping. They had people with workstations and aerial photographs manually plotting a precise route. The vehicle itself was almost blind. This was the result.[1] "At mile 7.4, on switchbacks in a mountainous section, vehicle went off course, got caught on a berm and rubber on the front wheels caught fire, which was quickly extinguished. Vehicle was command-disabled." -- DARPA" They plowed right into a sheet metal fence, a clearly visible obstacle.

Why hadn't the planners, who had paid for custom aerial photos, known about the fence? Because DARPA didn't want a dumb vehicle that ran on a preplanned track. The officer in charge of the event, a USMC Colonel, had some men out the night before the event placing obstacles, just so that trick wouldn't work.

Anyway, off-road self-driving on bad roads is a solved problem now. Oskosh sells a system to the military for that. They were thinking that the solution to guerrilla IED attacks on convoys was one armored vehicle controlling a convoy of self-driving soft-skinned vehicles. Works, but too much trouble to set up in a combat zone.)

[1] http://overbot.com/grandchallenge/images/race2004/cmucrash.j...
If these are just API endpoints (not typed in by users, and thus, no Marketing value to the name) why not just register <random hash>.com?
Isn't a walkable commerce area suitable? I've lost count of the number of stores I've wandered into, mostly because I live in one of the most walkable parts of the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state

By the technical definition, yea, it does seem to.
I don't know if there are for GraphQL in particular. I have my GraphQL implementation as a part of a Ruby app. graphql-ruby has this handy error handling doc: https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby/blob/master/guides/... and there's the graphql-errors gem which sort of does this in a generic manner, allowing individual fields to fail without the whole query failing: https://github.com/exAspArk/graphql-errors
Yep. The animals are euthanized with CO2, placed in the device, and reduced to liquid in seconds. Obviously, this is not done when specific organs need to remain intact, but if you can do your measurements from homogenized whole animal, it saves a lot of time on rapid perfusion and dissection.

Specialty devices exist, but a standard high-speed desktop centrifuge can also be used, as a mouse will generally fit into a 50 mL centrifuge tube.

Generally best not to think about it too much if you like animals, but also like biochemical sciences. But if you're after a specific enzyme that would not be destroyed by rupture of the cell wall, whole-animal sacrifice by centrifuge is the cheap and easy way to get at it.
Funny, I feel the opposite!

I'm quite happy to ignore the type in most cases (especially in templates) when I see a line like
auto dest = make_data_sink(....blah blah....);

At that point I am unlikely to even worry about the type.
I have to admit, sometimes I worry about the ethics of capturing peoples attention given all we know about psychology now, whether it's through social media or video games or other things where optimizing for people's attention is important. I work in video games, and on the one hand I'm pretty proud of the work I do, but on the other hand you see people get a little bit over-invested in these things and it's easy to wonder if it's totally a good thing to be able to push people's buttons like that. Once you're past the naivety of like "is this fun", and you start thinking in terms of like intermittent reward schedules and ways to monetize players it starts feeling... weird?

I don't know what you can do about it though. I can't imagine any company willingly dumbing down engagement with their product for the common good. I'm guessing that as all these psychological techniques become more prevalent, cultural norms will probably shift to counter.
Ha, try WhatsApp. I see more and more people cancelling their Facebook accounts (mostly because they feel like it's become too much of a time-waster), but WhatsApp is the normal way of communication now.

The advantage is that I can still give my number and people will see that I don't have WhatsApp, so at least nobody feels like I'm dissing them.
How am I building a strawman? I didn’t ignore anything you said; I’m responding directly to it. The computation does nothing. Until the brute force finds a hash that meets difficulty, it’s computing literally nothing of value. That’s computation and energy we do not get back. You’re not folding proteins, you’re not rendering climatological models, you’re not training machine learning. You are hashing, then throwing it away. It’s a “nope, not it, next.” There is no measurable value until by chance you find one, then the energy you threw away getting there gains value in that you threw it away. Millions and millions of watts of absolutely zero computation of benefit to humanity.

Yes, the end result is a secured ledger. The path to that secured ledger is entirely wasted computing. Bitcoin is wasteful solely based on this fact. How can you consider Bitcoin wasteful as I do and also claim people who point this flaw out are naysayers who don’t get it? Your argument makes no sense.
> I have to get my news from citizens who comb social media and investigate independently.

And where do you find these citizens? Twitter?
I'm not saying they are unreasonable doses but they are definitely low as far as opioid doses go. Apart from T1/T2s you can't get lower afaik.

My point is I don't see that replacing opioids in this case is really useful. I'm happy to admit I don't know the answer here but I'm skeptical that people going to the hospital and getting a single 5mg percocet/vicodin or even a 3-4 over ~8-12 hours are really at risk of addiction.

For 24/7 dosing that acetaminophen/ibuprofen combo is only safe once every 6 hours which from my experience is way too long for acetaminophen. Even on every 4 hours I find the last 1 hour is definitely very noticeable.
The addendum is that Liu believed it would be very difficult for, if not impossible, for a civilization to hold together across a long enough distance. This was shown when the original interception ships floated far enough and started attacking each other, throwing out pre-emptive strikes when communications broke down and resources were needed.
The game they played was Halo 3:

> To explore social constructionist and evolutionary explanations for sexist behaviour, we examine how individual performance and social standing affect female-directed male behaviour using an online first-person shooter video game, Halo 3 (see methods for greater details regarding the game).
> This is when a criminal defrauds a bank or other company by getting credit using your identifying information and then defaults.

ID Theft isn't just this. Illegal aliens use ID purchased on the black market to get jobs and pass ID verification. While they have those jobs, they have payroll taxes withheld, but don't file taxes leading to some Americans being hounded by the IRS.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/15-illegal-aliens-arrested...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/07/03...

Additionally, some American babies are assigned SSN's already associated with illegal aliens:

> Illegal aliens generally prefer SSNs that have not yet been legally issued or, failing that, the SSNs that belong to American children since these numbers can be used for years without anyone knowing it – except the IRS and the Social Security Administration.

> However, the Social Security Administration does not remove unassigned SSNs used by illegal immigrants from its database. That means the numbers are eventually assigned to newborn, American infants. Neither the Social Security Administration nor the IRS notifies American citizens when their or their children’s SSNs are used by others. In other words, the federal government has facilitated identity theft and protected the identity thieves.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/327049-pre...
True for high-THC strains, but not high-CBD / low-THC ones. And of course opioids also famously affect perception: "do not operate heavy machinery" etc.
Couldn't agree more, but it's more complicated than that. Usually if something isn't pegged to inflation via CPI some politician(s) had a reason for that.

As an example, say Party A wants to raise the minimum wage but party B wants it lowered or the same. They agree to raise the wage, but don't adjust it annually for inflation. Party A "wins" but every year party B "wins" more and more, as long as it isn't adjusted upward further.

An interesting recent example is in the House Republican's tax cut bill. The thresholds for which tax bracket you would fit in are adjusted annually, as they are now, but would be done via chained CPI[1]. Chained CPI grows more slowly, thus meaning that over time, people get pushed toward higher brackets, subtly increasing tax revenues.

1: https://www.vox.com/2017/11/2/16596896/house-republican-tax-...
Taustation is a neat scifi text adventure that's under active development. They do regular blog posts on a variety of topics from gameplay, UI, artwork. They've made it a big point to make sure it is as friendly as possible to visually impaired individuals. I'm not sure about support for blind individuals though.
OpenAPI and GRPC Side-By-Side – APIs and Digital Transformation
Without going into too much detail, Oldboy [0] has a bit that reminds me of this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldboy_(2003_film) , I haven't seen the 2013 remake
Has there been any studies on this?

I'm under the impression that opoids are much stronger than cannabis, would people who take them be able to wean off them onto cannabis based products?
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