skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um. Not really. The media covers that which gets clicks / eyeballs. That gets turned into revenue via advertisers.

When you gather news from enough sources you start to see patterns in what gets a lot of attention, and what doesn't.

Long to short, you're naive if you don't think there's a straight line been the mainstrean news media and advertisers.

Note: The mainstream news media should also not be confused with journalism. The reasons are obvious.
I found some of these pretty handy, as someone still-kinda-learning the language I'm writing a project in.
Much of what we learn in biology comes from happy accidents. Targeted research for financial gain is very, very difficult. Moreover, much of what we need to learn will come observing biologic mechanisms that have evolved over eons in life in places like the rain forests of Brazil that are being destroyed with all the knowledge and medicines that can be developed from the research of the species that live there. Sadly, your interest is money but for the human race investing in protecting rain forests as a whole would be a greater investment.
I was thinking something slightly more complicated. Correct me if I'm wrong but you have to know the memory address to prefetch so it can only deal with a single level of indirection. Often it's a case where you know you'll need x but you'll also need x.y (and y is a pointer) and you can't prefetch that until you have x. For many cases you could build an index to get both efficiently but I think it's pretty hard to do generically.
Almost exactly like the defunct Weave: https://weave.in/
Here's the citation, from the Official YouTube Blog:

"We will continue the significant growth of our teams into next year, with the goal of bringing the total number of people across Google working to address content that might violate our policies to over 10,000 in 2018."

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/12/expanding-our-work-ag...
Glad it’s not coming to my city!
Yes, unlike those paragons of insight and community spirit taking selfies and updating their feeds with each thought, meal, and bowel movement.

Be real, social media is intended to magnify narcissistic ego through engagement, not disengagement.
Contractor, like Call center employees. Probably from outsourcing firms. And, this number seems...low? Considering the sheer amount of videos upload even just from partners.

I guess those platforms are growing so large and influential, censoring is inevitable now.
Thanks, this looks promising! I'll take a look.
We generally speak about the first OS with that isolation; of course early OSs were without it.
Well there's nothing absolutely 'wrong' with them. You can write good and bad apps with view controllers (I've done both). But they're an architectural blank slate, mainly offering access to UI objects & lifecycle callbacks. You need some architecture on top in anything but the most trivial app. The naive approach is to have 'no architecture', which actually is an architecture of just throwing masses of state, ad hoc, into the view controller, and using this to effect the UI any old how (so a 3rd party has no idea where to look to find out where things happen). Or you can go maximalist and select from MVC, MVP, etc, all of which are an improvement on the naive approach.

It just so happens that I've found RN (React Native) to be the nicest improvement, to my taste. Simple unidirectional data flow & UI state being a simple function of app state make for a beautifully clean and unambiguous model for how everything fits together.

One can argue the costs and benefits of app architectures all day, but there's really no substitute for trying them out, for the sake of curiosity & learning. All the devs I know who have written RN groan a bit when they're back in iOS and/or Android native development, and absolutely not because they love javascript!

Check out Andy Matuschak's celebrated Tweet on RN
(https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/560511204867575808). I point to it not as an argument from authority. But if one of the people who wrote UIKit thinks RN's model is the superior one, surely that should pique curiosity just a bit?

> Are you suggesting React solves the programming language problem completely

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. What 'programming language problem'? And why would an improvement have to solve something 'completely' to be of value?
Victim of the brain: Docudrama about D. Hofstadter's ideas (Gödel, Escher, Bach)
> feels like watching Pinterest issue its own coin for people to spend on pinning some content.

I think this actually sounds interesting, if it cost a little to pin something but it also means that content creators get a little bit of $$ just for creating content that people pin. Of course nothing about this requires a blockchain or a new coin, but it could be fun!
It's good to see Google crediting Retpoline to Paul Turner. As Senior Staff Engineer, Technical Infrastructure I wonder whether he was actually tasked with working on mitigation for these vulnerabilities or he came up with this in his free time.
Mechanical Turk.
For better or worse, I can imagine that once you become POTUS and see all of the information it becomes very hard to stand by your privacy principles. This is by no means giving a pass to anyone, and I'd like to think I'd pick privacy every day of the week, but I'm also human. If I was POTUS I may end up doing everything in my power to avoid another attack on the US, no matter how unlikely.

Something to ponder.
I already do step 1, if I do step 2 I worry that all my lucid dreams will involve meetings with management.
>Facebook has zero real power over your life

>ALL THEY DO IS HOST YOUR FRIENDS' PHOTOS.

These two obviously false statements completely undermine your otherwise valid point about personal responsibility.
Is it? In which case should the penalty for all offenses be the same?

Regardless of that: if the goal is simply to get these people out of circulation, anything that makes that process easier / cheaper is presumably worth it. This change goes the other way.
For what purpose specifically (not theoretically) do you find this interesting?

Your username is “bitcoindev”, so I assume you’re trying to find a way to secretly wrap malware around Firefox in order to mine coins using headless mode while the user blames Firefox for being slow.

Duly reported to our security folks, but it’s comforting to see that we already prohibit this.
Even there, though, they’re going to want to have air tight areas.
No, that’s the problem. A lot of shared hosts will allow any customer to board a new website — as long as it’s not already taken on that hosting provider — then allow you to upload any TLS cert for that.

So attacker requests to validate for a name that you have pointed via DNS to that hosting infrastructure.

The names that you need to respond on and have certs for are then calculated by attacker. Attacker, who is also a customer of same hosting service creates the necessary “sites” and uploads the matching challenge response certs, and successfully receives a cert for your domain.
I’d agree, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not true. I could see Apple trying to keep certain data encrypted in private in exchange for other less important data being “open“.
> Is that true?

No.

If you’re worried about it, read the linked paper. The mechanics (and assumptions) are covered in painstaking detail.
I would speculate most of these employees are outsourced workers from countries like the Philippines (see for a recent discussion of this: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/comme...)
I would guess traffic and cost-of-living.

And the winter.
How does Signal know my contact is using Signal?

Signal periodically sends truncated cryptographically hashed phone numbers for contact discovery. Names are never transmitted, and the information is not stored on the servers. The server responds with the contacts that are Signal users and then immediately discards this information. Your phone now knows which of your contacts is a Signal user and notifies you if your contact just started using Signal.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/115005045728-Do...
the best one is "I'm too busy for romance". : https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/ind...
Facebook Newsfeed: Bringing People Closer Together
> Can Stellars be mined?

No.
Are clicks the majority of revenue for FB? An ad unit that fills a users screen for a few second as they scroll throughout the day every day is super super valuable to brand advertising. I think that’s ~$450 billion of the total ~$500 billion total annual global ad spend.

To me browsing the fb feed is a lot like like flipping through tv channels used to be. Brand advertising loved that too.

I’d think the More people browse their feeds the more valuable their ad unit becomes to brand advertisers.
> in the fields they compete in: solar, cars, batteries

Those are not trademark categories. Here's a list:

http://www.tmweb.com/trademark_classes.asp

In particular note Class 09, which covers solar and batteries AND this haptic suit.
> that content that makes us angry, anxious or jealous is a much better driver of clicks than content that makes us happy

Not for me. I've all but abandoned Facebook because I was tired of being angry all the time. It's a wasteland of political hysterics.
This is a pretty sparse article/video that doesn't quite back up the premise of the headline, which is "the only people who will buy one are Tesla people". Basically the single complaint is "the gauges and controls are on a touchscreen". There's a side complaint of "the one I drove was really expensive" but those are options, which every vehicle has.

Everything else is "it's fast and exciting and fun" which sounds pretty appealing.
> ALL THEY DO IS HOST YOUR FRIENDS' PHOTOS

This is like saying a Tesla car is just a machine that generates heat.

Facebook has built an algorithmically optimized list of content that they believe will drive you back to the site to consume more.

They also have insane amounts of usage data which they are testing for sentiment analysis [0] They've also run tests on content to provoke emotion as far back as 2014.[1]

It's clear that they have the power to influence emotions and impact people in real ways. Because you are strong willed does not mean that others cannot be easily swayed by dopamine release.

[0](http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/27/technology/facebook-ai-suici...)
[1](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...)
> Option #3: Stay on, try to convince them it's bad idea. In this case I'd go for "I think this is fraud, it's too risky", with nice broad paper trail that will be trivially findable by discover if they get sued later, and copies of paper trail kept by you.

This approach requires great care. You could easily leave a paper trail that makes it look like you (1) knew it was fraud, (2) advised against it because you thought it was risky, not because you thought it was wrong, (3) when the company went ahead with it you went along.

I think you want something more along the lines of "This seems like it could be fraud, or at least appear to be fraud, but I'm not a lawyer...are we sure this is legal?", and the paper trail needs to have someone that you have reason to trust answering that it has been checked out and is OK. If it hits the fan legally, either civilly or criminally, you need to come off as someone who was an inside victim, not an inside accomplice.
You might be logged in. Shows up the same as the page you linked for me. Try opening in incognito tab.
The difference is that in browser you have to tap it twice , first tap expands browser bar and second tap scrolls to the top. However In conversations it just scrolls to the very top with a first click, which is incredibly annoying.
SiFive’s RISC-V Core IP Offerings Are Not Affected by Meltdown and Spectre
Not sure why this is downvoted.
At the end I was scrolling down looking for the rest of the article.
So you would prohibit local communities from locally allocating their hard earned resources towards educating their own children?

Why? Because some strangers on the other side of the state are incapable of doing the same thing? So nobody can?

>Freedom to pursue wealth and happiness

>Sadly

How about you keep your hands in your own pockets?
I met him a few times at conferences and we exchanged a few emails. Such an amazing mind. I really thought that Aaron was going to grow up to be one of the heroes of our generation as we got older and took on the reins more. Wonder what he’d have thought of the last few years. I feel like he embodied an energetic, optimistic, pragmatic grappling with the powers and principalities of our time, which has gone out from the world now.
Your analysis makes sense but I think it’s too simplistic. Specifically, I think the economic costs are borne by the taxpayers as opposed to people planning prisons, and rather obliquely at that. I’m not sure a prison is motivated to be fiscally prudent above and beyond what’s required to stay within their operating budgets, whereas a private corporation would have that incentive. I’m envisioning someonething like the military, where the pain of wasteful spending is quite disconnected from the people making the decision.
Just noticed something - in safari it requires you to tap it twice, thus precenting accidential clicks, while in skype it sends you straight to the top with a first click.
I'm really not.

The is in this particular thread is what "literally the entirety of the natural world" thinks is "food".

The ought is whether we should "think" likewise, or use our purported rationality to consider the implications of that behavior.

The "naturalistic fallacy" — normally used to deride people we like to think, rightly or otherwise, are less rational than ourselves — is, literally, "if it's natural, it must be good/right/proper." The notion under discussion is exactly that.

It's not about whether or not we should all be vegetarians; it's about fallacious "arguments" that we shouldn't.
I am not saying "journalists only cover what advertisers will cover".

I am saying "journalist's standards are increasingly coming second to the generation of advertising revenue".

Once-reptutable media empires embed Outbrain widgets and generate fad-focused, celebrity-focused clickbait garbage because it makes them money. They are not doing this for Journalism's sake. They are doing it for revenue from advertisers. I understand that this is an ancient phenomenon (PG's "suits back in style" essay comes to mind), but I have observed the scale and shallowness of the phenomenon worsening as the coffers get lighter at the news orgs.

For that reason, I am arguing that the "meaningfulness" of the difference between advertisers and journalists appears to be waning.
> I don't see how this is different than any other empirical fact we didn't know before we started exploring the world.

We didn't know that bacteria existed, but we knew what disease was. Once we had the concept of bacteria, showing it to be related to disease was a matter of testing. How do you test if something has a consciousness? I know that consciousness exists because I experience it, but for all I know you don't, and I have no way of knowing any different because experiences are, by definition, subjective.

You've probably seen this old XKCD about color [1]. It's like that. We can both perceive a wavelength of light and have labeled it "blue" for the purposes of communication, but we cannot possibly know eachother's experience of it. The very question is meaningless in an empirical model of reality.

> Similarly, consciousness is an amalgamation of different information processes that we have yet to disentangle, and all we have is a catch-all term "consciousness" to describe our ignorance.

I disagree. You describe what I would call "mind". The kind of consciousness I'm talking about could be described as "the experience of being". We all know what it is, but we get our communication about it confused with concepts like intelligence, mind, and complexity. I suspect this is because we grew up with a scientific worldview and have difficulty allowing ourselves to believe something non-objective can exist, so we entangle it with concepts that are objective to force it into our model of reality.

> I care about anything that is not yet explained.

Ok, fair enough. I asked because this sort of discussion usually takes place in the context of people having already come to the conclusion that human beings (and maybe some animals) are special and trying desperately to find a line of reasoning that allows for them being conscious, but not computers or plants or other such things. Some of my earlier arguments presumed this context and that may have been a source of mutual confusion.

[1] https://xkcd.com/32/
I have the new Prius Prime that uses a giant touchscreen as well and not using mechanical controls for things like AC and Radio at least partially is a terrible trend. It's so distracting being unable to adjust things without looking away from the road.
Wow that article was low on substance.

Basically the author wanted more physical buttons. Everything else was a compliment.
There's an open source Google Drive cli for Linux too, works super well: https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive
Would a clinical trial tell why? Or only who it works for and who it doesn't?
How to Create a Time Tracker Using Google Sheets to Master Your Craft
I spent a week in Rhode Island for work and spent one day sightseeing in Boston in the summer ~1998, it felt a lot like Houston in terms of heat and humidity which really surprised me (long time Texan at that point.)
Ask HN: As an engineer, how can I volunteer in the developing world?
I'm an experienced software developer from the states, but I've spent a lot of time overseas, particularly in Asia. I'm interested in spending some time, at least six months, volunteering in the "developing world", for lack of a better term. Are there programs or organizations that I should be aware of that will let me use my skills to help others? How can I have the biggest impact?
A co-author seems to think so:

>The new study ... identifies eight sites where ice is directly accessible, at latitudes with less hostile conditions than at Mars' polar ice caps. "Astronauts could essentially just go there with a bucket and a shovel and get all the water they need," Byrne said.
I'm beginning to wonder if Facebook has begun to realize that being the source of ads while temporarily beneficial to their bottom line is actually destroying their long-time value to advertisers. Chasing eyeballs for ads necessarily warps the things you present to those eyeballs and eventually you're in a race with every other eyeball chaser. The problem with that race is that you no longer have an undistorted understanding of viewer/user preferences but instead only understand their reaction to your attempts to capture attention and clicks, which is a more mechanical understanding of behavior rather than understanding underlying motives and preferences.

Ad companies have long specialized in the mechanistic side of things so Facebook really brings nothing new to table for them, and merely being "a giant audience" isn't especially worthwhile either since a "run of network" ad buy for Adsense or the like is cheap. Facebook's differentiator was "we have all this insight into users!" and while that was true at the time they began courting advertisers what I suspect advertisers and Facebook discovered was that those insights became less and less accurate as users responded to the changes Facebook began to make in order to try and increase ad effectiveness, thus beginning the distortion spiral.

I wonder if Facebook is making an attempt to return to the insight side of the business, allowing advertisers to use the info Facebook has regarding people as targeting for ads that occur away from Facebook. They return to a demographic/insight source rather than an advertising platform.
> Amazon is (already) leasing a big building in Seaport. It's mostly Alexa, ~500-1k staff.

There's a building in Fort Point, but apparently they're looking to lease yet another one. [1]

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/01/10/amazon-seeks...
The Technological Landscape Affecting Artificial General Intelligence
It’s a haptic suit for VR.

I couldn’t make a more buzzword-y, vaporware-sounding sentence unless I added the words “crypto” and “AI“ to it somehow.
Every company that publishes research allows employees to put names on it. It's not really an indicator of a forward thinking company so much as one that wants prestige in the academic world.
Omnifocus sounds like it might do what you want, but it is (IMO) very complicated.
Like the parent said, architecture change.

How Skype works, is how msn messenger worked, office messenger, then office communicator worked, then Lync, now skype.

They moved Skype to their existing infrastructure
So it is good looking, it is fun to drive, it has a decent base price if you don't splurge on options. Changing speed through the touchscreen when you are using the autopilot hardly seems the end of the world. So almost all positives.

I really dislike the center console. At least the speedometer should be visible at all times(a hud focused at infinity would be ideal), everything else is less important. Still, this is becoming a trend now (I'd guess it's for cost-cutting).

What about readability of that screen under sunlight? I see nothing in the article addressing that. Is it just a non-issue?
I run pi-hole on my server and it's been great. Family loves it too which is always good when it comes time to hinting around that I need to do some upgrades.
> Are we that simple that our entire personalities can be fully pwned with some basic machine learning?

Unfortunately, yes.
I can't be smug though. HN has become my replacement for RSS. Surely even Facebook is a better approximation.
But how much of the company's limited energy are they going to waste correcting public perception when they'd be much better served by a better name anyway?
South Korea plans to ban cryptocurrency trading, rattles market
Last year, I was walking near a sports ground a couple of miles from where I live. Someone came up and started talking to me about something extremely odd, and I wondered what was going on. I thought to myself, "Am I dreaming?" So I asked her about the papers she was carrying, and if I could look at them. She gave me one to read, and when I looked at it a second time it was different. I realized that I was dreaming, so I decided to change where I was - suddenly I was in my childhood home, as it was about 30 years ago.

I just made the decision to do things that I knew I could do, and it happened. I think I eventually even visited a Star Trek set. (Nerrrrrrd.)

Didn't really try to fly, I just changed the situation I was in from "I'm in a room," but I imagine that I could change it to "I'm in the air, and there's no gravity," without a shock sufficient to wake me up.

I've only managed it twice, myself, the first time I woke up because I was so surprised that I was aware in a dream. I want to try it again, so I can see what limits I have before I wake myself.
Moved to ATL in 2002. There are a great number of intown neighborhoods, many with their own park/square. And many with their own cultural quirks.

Since I have lived exclusively ITP, I would be fairly lost on the details of OTP neighborhoods.
Reality check: Most enterprises aren’t adopting Dropbox… and for good reasons
I doesn't look like any of the *BSD people were let in on this issue until very recently. Apple, Microsoft and the Linux Kernel devs seem to have been given priority. It kinda shows where Linux is right now in the global landscape compared to two decades ago.

Funding and time/people for the kernel comes from the big players (IBM, Intel, et. al.) and distribution decisions have created a monoculture, making the big Linux distros feel like they're part of the corporate/national tech culture and less community centered.