skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> According to data collected from dive bars.

How do you know? A British pub can be anything from a squalid shabeen to a comfortable community space to a restaurant that happens to sell beer.

In the UK, wine by the glass can only be legally served in measures of 125ml, 175ml or multiples thereof. The vast majority of pubs today only sell 175ml and 250ml measures.

A few decades ago, asking for "a glass of red wine" would have got you a 125ml glass unless you specifically asked for a large glass, which would be 175ml. Gradually, the default moved to 175ml and the 125ml "small" glass was phased out in favour of the 250ml "large" glass, with 175ml becoming the new "small".

It's abundantly clear that there's been a vast increase in the quantities of wine drunk over the past few decades. Wine consumption has contributed to the legitimisation of heavy drinking amongst the middle-aged and middle-class. Drinking several large glasses of wine doesn't carry the same stigma as drinking several pints of strong beer. As a result, we've seen a quadrupling of chronic liver disease, with the increase mainly being seen in middle-aged, middle-class and disproportionately female drinkers.

https://www.gov.uk/weights-measures-and-packaging-the-law/sp...
https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2008/06/27/Major...
Because company [X] thinks the target for product [Y] is [Z].

That's my guess anyway. And I work in (and/or closely with) marketing.

.edit:

Come to think of it, I want to elaborate on that.

Think about search engine optimisation. It's in a similar vein. "A guy walks into a bar, bars, pub, tavern, pulic house, irish pub, drinks, beer, acolhol, bar stool" etc.

My point is; people that are trying to sell 1 thing, might focus on reaching AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, over focussing on getting the right (but smaller) audience.
I've got to say, I'm incredibly impressed by how a country with zero computer education or infrastructure manages to launch a successful cyber attack against the most militaristically aggressive nation on earth right as that country is trying to pin them--a country with zero conflicts in 60 years--as the world's biggest threat.
It’s because no one wants to do the job of moderation.

Reddit uses moderators to police their subreddits basically for free . All of the founders have been admins which police the moderators or do the things that mods can’t do.

It’s not like this phenomena is new. Digg and Slashdot had similar problems . Newsgroups even before that with eternal September. Facebook , LinkedIn and Twitter use paid moderators (but have the pockets to do so) and they still are deluged with issues.
Microsoft even has some class action lawsuit over people having PTSD after performing image moderation. 4Chan has had similar problems also.

We haven’t gotten even to advertisements that have conflict of interest. Even worse though is that if you have groups that your site allows in and your advertisers see it they will flee you really fast. Also, the fact that those same brands can just buy social network PR services for a fraction of the cost and all of the upside. Even better that they will be platform agnostic which means when reddit gets replaced they will still be there.
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I didn't say everyone you were friends with are "best" friends. Nor am I trying to redefine friendship as "Facebook friends." And I wish people would read what I wrote, not what they think about Facebook.
I'm pretty sure that worked out just fine
I'd thought a programming language, for manipulating data structures, would work well... but when I had a go at it, it wasn't as easy to use as I thought. It's because the typical usage patterns aren't simple.

A gui with drag-and-drop to rebase a graph also seems like it would work well...
Show HN: (websnake Ajax-like) Asynchronous http/https requests in python
Python’s more broadly applicable, easier to read and maintain, installed by default on distributions. Pyramid is another good option if you have something against Django.
they do this becuase I set up end to end for my parents and they lost the password. they never want to use encryption again. the default to user-friendliness which is not a bad thing.
That's exactly what I was thinking. A modern sherry or port glass is the same size as those illustrated.

Note also,

"As a supplemental unit of apothecary measure, the wineglass (also known as wineglassful, pl. wineglassesful, or cyathus vinarius in pharmaceutical Latin) was defined as ​1⁄8 of a pint, or 2 fluid ounces (2​ 1⁄2 fluid ounces in the imperial system).[11][12] An older version (before c. 1800) was 1 ​1⁄2 fluid ounces.[13] These units bear little relation to the capacity of most contemporary wineglasses, or to the ancient Roman cyathus."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_glass
I've never missed someone I'd consider even a distant friend passing via FB -- a few acquaintances, though I usually found out within a week.

That said, I have experienced FB hiding something bad in someone's life for an extended period -- a relative I'm not directly linked to passing, cancer diagnosis, someone's dog getting very sick and having to be euthanized, etc. Again, I found out, but not fast enough, even with friends that were in the second ring out from my very closest friends.
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Screw all your "legacy" extensions, but here's a crap marketing extension for you. You're welcome.
I have a feeling these businessinsider articles are actually coming from the pump and dump groups' press kits.
This is one time when we wish source tree was written in electron!
If it’s traveling too fast for us to intercept it, it’s location is irrelevant.

If our craft can accelerate fast enough to intercet it, it’s position is still irrelevant since we know it’s trajectory.
11,341 abandoned rape kits identify 817 serial rapists in one Michigan county
My definition of friendship includes people I haven't interacted with in years, and that definition long predates my involvement with Facebook.

Most of my friends aren't actually "friends" on Facebook.

Anyway, it's clear that people are thinking I'm an advocate for the Facebook definition of friendship, which is in no way what I wrote, but whatever.
They've even got their own Linux distro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
If you are going to learn something different, learn something really different, not another dynamic unix scripting language.
Good for you. I am completely off Facebook and feel much happier. I no longer needed to see people broadcast how happy or smart they are.
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I don't think that's a correct interpretation of 2-party audio recording laws, and therefore don't think the parallelism to video recording applies.

The relevant Washington law for audio recordings is at http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.73.030 . It applies to:

> Private conversation, by any device electronic or otherwise designed to record or transmit such conversation regardless how the device is powered or actuated without first obtaining the consent of all the persons engaged in the conversation.

A conversation outside, in a public area, which can be overheard by others, is not a private conversation, so outside the scope of this law. I think.

Looking at https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/LAWS-ON-R... , the entry for Illinois says it's a two-party (rather, all-party) state, but adds that after an earlier version was found unconstitutional, "On December 30, 2014, the statute was amended to permit recording of conversations in public places, such as in courtrooms, where no person reasonably would expect it to be private."

That looks to me like there is no necessary conflict between being a two-party state and allowing audio recording of public conversations without consent of any party.
It gets a lot of screen time. I believe there was one scene in which Tor was used as a browser. The main characters all use Firefox on a number of occasions, in all three seasons.
>I didn't say everyone you were friends with are "best" friends.

Where did I imply that? I literally responded to:

>If your best friend died, would you really know how to contact everyone he/she was friends with?

>Nor am I trying to redefine friendship as "Facebook friends." And I wish people would read what I wrote, not what they think about Facebook.

Yeah, didn't say that either. I wish people would read what I wrote too.

It's just absolutely 99% ridiculous to believe that _facebook_ would be the way you'd likely be notified that your "best friend" (your words) died. A true friend, let alone a _best_ friend, is someone whose life you're involved in at a deeper level than FB.

I left 1% for situations like elderly people who have been friends for decades and live half a world away from each other.
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It doesn't matter how well a contract is written, if it comes into violation of US securities laws or other rules and regulations, it will be a problem in the US. I'd expect the number of crypto-related prosecutions to rise exponentially in the US as crypto markets have heated up. The various regulatory and law enforcement agencies generally work slowly, but they do work.
No it hasn't. You don't have to accept anybody as a friend on Facebook.
The tool that doesn't work with case insensitive filenames is OSX.

Edit: To add, how is git supposed to handle two files with the same name -- as is the case -- with a case insensitive file system? You can't have two files with the "same" name.

git checkout file1

Is entirely different than

git checkout FILE1

In any other platform ls file1 FILE1 would show two different files, but on OSX, it'll show the same file twice.
There are plenty of older buildings with manual elevators (as in direct control of the motor), and they're a bit tricky to line up with the platform accurately. I regularly visit two buildings with such elevators and only one has an operator on staff. If people are being paid to 'operate' modern automatic elevators it is indeed quite silly though.
It would be interesting if it was the same event.
Though unlike the formation you showed, I recall the three stars initially coming together from different locations in the sky to form the triangle - they weren't initially in formation. They stayed in formation then for a few minutes, before disappearing
Zero conflicts in 60 years? Hah.

You forget that NK is still technically at war with South Korea. It's been non-stop conflict for 60+ years.
but north of 8 mile is not Wayne County.

You have to look west and south of detroit to see wayne county that isn't detroit
After a few weeks without checking your notifications, they start emailing you things like this.
Then don't have someone tell Facebook you died. Nobody would know if you don't think they shouldn't know.
It's not as if they don't have computers [1]. Besides, the WannaCry attack was mostly facilitated by exploits that were leaked by Shadow Brokers [2] [3]. The skills required to slap those exploits onto a basic ransomware tool weren't very demanding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_121

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoublePulsar
How did Mozilla try to defend it?
That happened in the late 90's with online ads. It's just weird that Facebook is a juggernaut of data collection and hasn't been capable of doing anything new or better for targeting ads
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I stopped drinking 20 months ago. Australia has a big drinking culture so not drinking is confusing to friends and family. I've found that it's had a huge positive impact on my life - much improved mental function, motivation and stress/emotion management. I'll likely never drink again.
On another slightly related note, has anyone else noticed that Facebook will reset the feed's sort setting to "Top Stories" no matter how many times it's set to "Most Recent"?
Whatever maximizes profit.
Right, but users are commenters, ie doesn’t include readers.

~ 1:99 seems to suggest the platform is pretty new and/or dominated by low participation communities. Is Mozilla Coral Project federated? Can the same person be easily counted multiple times (user)?
Look at the question you originally quoted:

> If your best friend died, would you really know how to contact everyone he/she was friends with?

How did you make the leap to:

> It's just absolutely 99% ridiculous to believe that _facebook_ would be the way you'd likely be notified that your "best friend" (your words) died.

I didn't say: "I want to find out my best friend died via Facebook." My question was meant to imply: "I don't know how to find everyone my best friend considers his friends, but his Facebook friends list is an improper superset of that list"
Kym Worthy 2020. She has my vote. Amazing story.
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Okay...tell me more about this mobile turtle bathing service.
Thank god, and hope he/govt stick to their words. India being one of the biggest internet consumer is a likely target for greedy media companies and corporates.. Google, Facebook all tried their part in controlling access by giving 'free' internet but once net neutrality was enforced they backtracked.. the problem is 90% users don't care if they get only fb(including instagram, whatsapp) for free. And fb can easily share their ad revenue with a telco to offset their cost..
Thanks for responding. First of all, I don't buy that "deployment scenarios" shouldn't be a primary concern of yours. Both Pachyderm and Kubernetes are frameworks for deploying code.

Secondly, it's not like Google Cloud Storage is some kind of esoteric platform. You decided to support GCS, and so with that comes to expectation of up-to-date support. The details is where the devil is, and that's where you have to be diligent in ironing out the bumps.

Thirdly, while it's absolutely frustrating that Google shuffles the Go SDK around so much, it seems that that the surface area you need to cover here is rather small, and GCS itself hasn't changed. As far as I can tell, the fix for #2538 requires just a single line change. (I'll comment on the issue.)

That said, I'm sure this is just a temporary speed bump while Pachyderm matures. I'm looking forward to using it.

As for streaming, I know that Pachyderm streams the data internally, but I was referring to real-time streaming processing á la Spark, as opposed to batch jobs. From what I can tell, Pachyderm is not only batch-job-based, but its data model is based around files, so it's not suitable for situations where you have a continuous, fast, unbounded stream of data (e.g. analytics events).
If this is true then it explains so much.

Facebook is trying to get people to be miserable because then they are using facebook more, and its engineered in such a way that it makes us addicted to facebook and want to use it more anyway.

Is this enough reason for our society to revolt against facebook? How do we actually make it go away when everyone is addicted to it. Does anyone have any practical tactical strategies to get rid of it?
Having interviewed people who worked at Facebook, I'm convinced that nobody there really understands how it works.

I agree, but far from being an unique or surprising property of Facebook and the way it (as a company) works, I'd say it's almost in the nature of any system built by a large enough group of people that "nobody there really understands how it works".
Seems to have been a common complaint over the years:

https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=1015223...

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/how-permane...

> In the desktop view of Facebook, there's an option to change from "Top Stories" to "Most Recent", but Facebook only maintains that setting for about 24 hours and then it automatically reverts back to Top Stories.
I wanted to mention that these two views were actually just the philisophies of differencent personality tendencies but felt that it was a side point.
Just like how China funnels missile technology to DPRK and then feigns shock when they have a success, I wouldn't be surprised this was a gift from Unit 61398.
I don't think that distinction is meaningful. The digital ad market is frighteningly sophisticated and coldly logical. You are shown ads for things that optimize what you're likely to buy/click multiplied by how much the ad buyer makes when someone actually does buy or click. Talk to anyone on the buy side of the ad market - these ads work. They really do show you the things that you want to buy, even if those things surprise you.
Just because Kay criticized the Web for its limits on user participation does not mean he did not criticize it for other reasons.

Here is an entire talk on complexity and robustness in software where the Web is mentioned as one of the worst offenders of design by accretion:

https://youtu.be/QboI_1WJUlM?t=1046

(I'm linking to a specific part, but the entire thing is worth listening to.)

Also, he does talk about protocols. Heck, VPRI implemented a TCP/IP implementation by treating it as a language and using a non-deterministic parser.

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf

Page 17.
Very few Facebook engineers work on the feed ranking team. I am ex-Facebook, and have a decent mental model but never dove into the code myself.
There was some kidnapping, terrorism, artillery fire and missile launches in those 60 years. Not exactly what most people would call "zero conflicts".

It's not particularly hard to get some software people. You may notice they've trained and hired enough people to run their nuclear program. That's a lot harder than cobbling together some software exploits.
Currently America needs a third party.

The design of its politics used to work. But today the dual effects of Fox News insulation, and social media polarization are running in only one direction - more polarization.

This is finally the year that the Democrats got polarized fully and started responding to the system with the levers that still work.

Unfortunately, bipartisanship is a dirty word for the republicans, due to the set up of their internal power and image dynamics. For decades now, they’ve been working on the winner take all playbook- this has bred ever more aggressive republican politicians, whose main focus is winning elections.

The younger politicians see reaching across the aisle as weakness and betrayal. The older republicans have allowed the situation to occur and now ride the tiger.

This scenario will lead to only more polarization, even within the parties themselves. Without any ability to listen to the other side, your options are reduced to “do nothing / try the same thing, but harder”.

In such a scenario having only two parties results in deadlock.

A third party would allow for cooperation, and breaking of deadlock.
> Freedom Train Blockchain

all aboard
I have heard the best way to use Jenkins (or another CI server) is to avoid any plugins and just have it kick off a few shell scripts. Seems also easier to test the different steps that way.
Does that mean you are against stereos in cars too? Hearing your surroundings while driving is also important.
Don't mean to be rude but isn't it fairly well known that facebook is using deep learning to optimize the feed for engagement? I mean do you really think they are hand tuning these algorithms?
Hey thanks! In that case, let me shamelessly say I'm actually hiring for iOS and Rails full stack (We are a seed stage startup working on a pretty fun consumer problem, Rails experience not necessary, admitting you are wrong experience helpful) :) Contact info in my profile
Yes, I agree that it's a dumb comparison. I'm only making it to refute the parent comment which said:

> You can buy a lot of EC2 compute per month before you hit the cost of running outdated servers on your power bill.

I can't see any way of interpreting that other than as them claiming the dumb comparison I just made plays out differently than it does.

If the parent comment said something like "It will take a lot of time and money to reproduce any meaningful percentage of what EC2 offers" I'd be in agreement... but the parent comment was directly comparing a power bill with ec2 compute costs.
And then follows the text messages.
Just delete it, it's not that difficult.
Err, I thought NVidia already won?

Though dedicated silicon like Google's TPU will always post higher _numbers_, GPUs have the ecosystem, the developers, the libraries, the language (languages? CUDA is probably the only one that matters)...

That's a lot to catch up to for all the competitors listed in the article.

Yes, yes, TensorFlow is cross-platform. History has shown that a cross-platform library or standard only serves to raise the barrier to entry for small startups. The cross-platform library/standard has never defined the cutting-edge or next-gen market makers. See: Posix, PDF, U2F, OpenCL/OpenGL, Intel HDA.

And yes, there are exceptions to the rule: USB, PCIe (and SATA, SDXC, etc.), WiFi.
Machine Learning, meet economic theory, where people have time-inconsistent decisions and where macro observations of micro-decisions can really throw off your model (big K/little k problem[0]).

[0] A decent review with code, a Noble laureate, and a top notch Computational Economist: https://lectures.quantecon.org/jl/rational_expectations.html
Truly, thanks for sharing this. I can't imagine how much anxiety and stress the situation created, and I'm quite sure that you had quite a few people that truly enjoyed and respected your leadership. I think your memoir would definitely find an audience. Best of luck to you in your current and future pursuits.
CGP Grey has an interesting 7 min video on how this might work [1]. Not so easy to summarize but the main part is that opposite sides of an issue are really part of the same meme that need each other to grow. The more polarization the better.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
Apparently Facebook sends out notifications when a friend who hasn't posted in awhile does post. I don't know if this signal manifests itself outside of notifications, i.e. whether these first-post-in-awhile get high placement in a "Top Stories" newsfeed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/6u5twl/friend_pos...

I know that as a sporadic user myself, I get mobile notifications telling me things like it's been "6 weeks since you've last posted", or that it's about time I change my profile pic.
> This is basically Microsoft using Windows Update to install...

Asphalt 8, Candy Crush, Keeper (also, see this[0]).

These are the three[1] apps that I had to remove from a laptop purchased last month. They weren't a part of the OEM install, they came with the updates after the system was up and running. Bad example.

[0] https://betanews.com/2017/12/17/windows-10-keeper-vulnerabil...

[1] I think there was one more, but I can't remember its name.
Why? It's not like you have to invest in expensive equipment and enrol into some kind of specialist training programme that only some countries have access to. You just need a computer, access to material online and determination. Plenty of hacks and viruses are done by independent individuals and small groups not linked to the government.
Whenever I try to fake it and act like an extrovert, I'm pretty sure it comes off fake, weird, and quite possibly creepy in an "uncanny valley" sort of way (i.e., "He's acting like a human being, but something's off").
I haven't logged into my FB account in a few years at this point. The emails I get are annoying AF. "Did you see {your aunt}'s comment on {your cousin}'s status?", so I click only to be taken to a login page. And I fall for it too often. The kicker is the email summary has more info than the body when you click on it. It has a little tease of what the original status was or something.