skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I thought, too. But no:

We recently started testing personalized recommendations, and we will soon experiment with showing an occasional sponsored story within the Pocket Recommendations section in New Tab Page in Firefox Beta.

Arrgh. Do not want. At all. I don't want "personalized" anything. I don't want Firefox to collect data about me. I run "Fennec", a version of Firefox without the crap, on my phone. That's what F-Droid, the all open source app site, loads.

I'm not that fanatical about privacy. I just hate ads in my face. I have enough ad blocking that I'm barely aware that the Internet has ads.
My first programming experience was on a computer with software loaded from tape drives. The Commodore 64 was a speedy step up from that!
Racial Bias in Facial Recognition Software
It was funded through 2024 and Trump cut its funding to 2025? This guy has a hard time accomplishing his goals.
I wonder if this impacts the plan of releasing Disque as a plugin in Redis 4.2. I always thought that Disque could have a great impact in the field of job queues.
This is a simple Penny Auction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidding_fee_auction. Not a scam per se but a bit of a racket as the operator typically brings home a lot of money as people are putting much more money in to the pot then is actually paid out.
Looks like the winner gets precisely 0:

// The winner is responsible for withdrawing the funds
// after the button expires
function Win() public {
require(msg.sender == winner);
require(now > deadline);
reward = 0;
winner.transfer(reward);
}
So as a user of the Beme Panel app (the 2nd app, created after the CNN acquisition), I thought its core idea was fascinating. The ability to quickly panel and poll people on news topics directly via a phone app instead of invasive text or phone calls seems something worthwhile to invest in. Using it felt more like joining a group for a conversation rather than being prodded by pollsters.

What didn't make sense to me is why they didn't "step on the gas" and accelerate the speed of their app development and content. I overall enjoyed the Beme youtube vids and it seemed they were finally honing in on the right track, and as mentioned earlier the Beme Panels app showed promise.

However, the videos were a bit infrequent, not pumping out as much video content as competitors VICE or Vox, or even CNN's own previous acquisition "Great Big Story". The Panels app was still in closed beta and only brought in a trickle of users instead of trying to bring in even more to provide more data points and diversity of content/conversation.

Being a subscriber to Casey's YouTube channel, it seems to me that Casey is the kind of person that's a self-starter that likes to change things up a lot (which works for YouTube vids), but when it comes to consistently working on something that's more finite for long periods of time he doesn't have the knack for it.
Very much second that; one prof I worked for at MIT as TA kept insisting that s/he (and we) have the best job in the world. Quite ridiculous, as s/he later was denied tenure and had to move and their research was quite stuck and un-impactful.

It was part of the personal narrative of the person (their identity) to keep telling that to themselves.
Insightful comment. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ;)
Completely agree with this; not only are you more likely to share a common origin or destination, but it also becomes an opportunity to meet someone new within your network.
I think some of the questions you're asking have well known answers within the Eth community, but OP should have provided a FAQ or links.

To register a button click with the smart contract, you must send a transaction over the Eth network, which has an associated transaction cost. I'm fairly certain that you must pay once per click. However, there should be a way to send these transactions from a console like `geth`, so that the browser extensions are purely convenience features.
>We live in an era of noise, and we are in desperate need of better filters. How do we detect an argument made in bad faith? How do we respond once we know an argument can't be won? I don't think we have good answers to either question.

We place faith in effective political and social institutions and aggressively defend them from those that attack them or bypass them.
my life goal is dink
But DST is in summer, isn't it? At least that is what I have been told: In summer, days are so long and start so early that we might as well move the whole day back by an hour, so get up early, finish work early and still have a couple of hours of daylight left.

Full disclosure: I am not a fan of DST, but I do not expect the current situation to change. In Europe, almost(?) all countries use it, so if just Germany (where I live) abolished DST, we would be out of sync with the rest of Europe for half of the year. Dealing with dates and times as a programmer is already confusing enough; if DST was to go, all countries would have to drop it simultaneously, or else the resulting patchwork would be too much of a pain. And I do not see that happening anytime soon.
As per his linkedin profile, he was a senior staff engineer at Google. That's a pretty damn respectable position to reach at Google. So I would politely dismiss that he didn't progress to any top level position in any company.
> "What difference made the search bars in IE if you never clicked on them?"

The Pocket button is tiny. I often forget it's there. Furthermore, other browsers have similar "Read It Later" features, do you have a problem with those too?

"Read It Later" type services are useful in browsers as alternative to bookmarks. Are you going to complain that bookmarks should be an optional browser feature as well? Are you really that bothered by a couple of small buttons in the corner of your browser UI?
I was reading an article about 10 years ago about this ride-sharing in the DC metro area. We discussed how a smartphone app could make all this much easier and smoother. We didn't follow up on it back then...

It wasn't (and won't likely to be) the only big missed opportunity in my life.
Do you maintain a 1:1 relationship between reduced state and components? I'm curious because your word choice seems to imply you do and I'm wondering how popular that is if so.
>"Cheap, high-quality, and healthy food delivery would be beneficial to all Americans, especially the working class..."

Yes cheap, high-quality and healthy food would be beneficial.

There is however nothing inherently healthy about using an app so you don't have to walk further than your front door.

Do you really believe the barrier to people eating healthy is that there isn't an app for them to do so without leaving their couch?
> Most of their servers were idle. So why not turn that unused capacity for productive use.

That's not how AWS started, according to one of the principals.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing...
Poll: How do you commute?
Car (solo)
Light rail
Electric bicycle
Technology were created by humans. Language was created by humans. Both are abstractions that keep us from experiencing each other and reality in its true form. Let's not trick ourselves into thinking that we're somehow getting a true unambiguous connection with each other by removing technology.

To quote Simone Weil: "The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through. Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication."
Sure. But I'm saying that bit of information would become interesting given the original post which supports a similar idea. I'm not making an assertion of fact simply bringing to mind another data point. Also here.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781139/
It would seem that this is a rather well documented and often researched thing. Not just a one-off p-hack.

I believe the research I was thinking of was specifically this part of the overview above.:

Various studies and research[9,10] results indicate a lower incidence and prevalence of AD in India. The prevalence of AD among adults aged 70-79 years in India is 4.4 times less than that of adults aged 70-79 years in the United States.[9] Researchers investigated the association between the curry consumption and cognitive level in 1010 Asians between 60 and 93 years of age. The study found that those who occasionally ate curry (less than once a month) and often (more than once a month) performed better on a standard test (MMSE) of cognitive function than those who ate curry never or rarely.[10]

Sources:

9. Pandav R, Belle SH, DeKosky ST. Apolipoprotein E polymorphism and Alzheimer's disease: The Indo-US cross-national dementia study. Arch Neurol. 2000;57:824–30. [PubMed]

10. Ng TP, Chiam PC, Lee T, Chua HC, Lim L, Kua EH. Curry consumption and cognitive function in the elderly. Am J Epidemiol. 2006;164:898–906. [PubMed]
Are there people that actually want to implement "Surprisingly Popular" for voting in political candidates? It seems useful for things like finding the correct answer to a factual question, but I have no idea how it would work in politics.
Comedians can tell jokes and make exaggerations, but they can't fully go out and slander. (Even if it later comes out to be true)
I mean I hate to break it to the guy but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun we've already had one of these, for a while now.
Also survivorship bias? The only remaining Roman concrete is the stuff that for whatever reason has lasted until today.
I found it useful, it's a good start. Perhaps if you had more context about the toolset you would not find the lack of documentation the thing to comment on. Also, there are better ways to engage in communication than leading with negativity.
JavaScript is absolutely not pass by reference.

let a = 1;

function foo( a ) {
a = 2;
}

foo( a );

console.log( a ); // 1
I agree probably 90%. If this had existed when I was in my first year of university and had a little money in the bank still, I probably would have thrown some at GOOGL when the Gmail beta came out.......

On the other hand, it could have got ugly. Hindsight is often 20/20 and young people can get competitive, over-aggressive, and dumb.

It took me until far more recently to even start to pay any attention to things like financial markets and trading.
Oh god, I messed up horribly. Will refund everyone who paid
It's like everyone missed the second half of that sentence! Morning was presumed valid and night wasn't. That's the point.
It occurred to me 'why not set the timer to reset automatically within rand() of 5 minutes if no one's pressed it, collecting whatever loot gets deposited'.

Two reasons:
1) auditable code
2) transparent deposits and withdrawals

I'm generally skeptical of smart contracts' real-world use but this is a rare case in which an immutable, trustless public ledger is essential.
Redis Pubsub is fire-and-forget, so if you aren't listening when a message is fired, you'll never receive it. Redis Streams store messages, so you can connect and read all the messages since you last checked. It's a similar model to Kafka.
that's definitely a good approach in theory, but messier in reality. if we knew enough about which variables impacted disease, and could measure them well enough, and had comprehensive quantitative models of each variable interacts with a biological system, we could do this, but we dont. the reason we have to triangulate is because the types of modeling you do in physics just doesn't translate to fields like life science / medicine

there are too many unknowns in life sci and error bars are too high compared to physics to enable this kind of model to be too accurate. collecting all of that data (ie mutation rate, number of divisions, accumuated mutations etc) across whole tumors in enough people to matter would be incredibly costly and time consuming, and the result probably wouldnt be as useful as we'd hope.
This is so funny.
Flying Internet of Things: Toward Low-Power Vision in the Sky
Property crime is also down to around the rate of the mid 1960s.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=property+crime+rate
In Atlanta, Concessions Prices Go Down and Revenue Goes Up
the dude uses an electric guitar, an electronic communication device.
Disclaimer: I work for an IoT company and our big solution to this and many others is LoRaWAN. Essentially super cheap low power data transmission network that is in the process of being rolled out as an infrastructure component. Companies like Comcast have made large pledges to provide huge, cheap nationwide coverage in the coming years. The cost of doing that is the LoRaWAN protocol is very low bandwidth but thats pretty good for IoT when most of the time you just need to transfer state.

Also I think LoRaWan networks wouldn't have to necessarily rely on the internet which is the original intent of the article. I think it could be possible to be much more localized like in your house, but right now its early stages and all of the tech i've seen is meant to provide much larger networks.

https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/wiki/LoRaWAN/Home
Here is the guy in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zhdanov

He was a Soviet virologist that generated the initial push to eradicate smallpox.
Summary of how this works from reading the smart contract:

1. User deposits ether to contract (at least 0.001 ether)

2. Creator of this takes 20% for server costs

3. The other 80% goes into the prize pool

4. When the timer reaches 0, the last person to click the button gets the prize pool (well, actually 0, but...)
No, his Big Thing is banking. He goes on at some length about how southeast asians don't use banks and don't trust banks to hold their money, but they do trust food delivery companies to hold their money.

However you break into the market, holding everyone's money is a good business to be in.
Survey: What shoppers think of mobile retail apps
There may be something to it. At least, when I was young, I could accumulate a lot more sleep-debt before there were consequences.

These days (I am 37 now), when I go to bed an hour later than usual, I will feel it all day. Might not be a huge deal, but I notice it.
Tackling the toughest challenges of our generation.
Why is strtok() Considered Unsafe?
Is uh this a parody or not?
Not sure how function calls in ETH Smart Contracts but what prevents someone calling Countdown() function and extending by 3 hours?
You can still buy rare Earth magnets of exceptional strength and small size. It’s just that they’re sold through scientific and industrial channels rather than the toy aisle at retail stores or marketed as toys online.
So who is responsible for Robinhood's orderbook? Are they partnering with an existing exchange to fulfill market/limit orders? Are they simply paying for the trading fees on behalf of users?

If Robinhood isn't posting their orderbook, why would anyone trust that there are no fees or commissions when they could bake their costs directly into the price? There's no market regulation (a la Reg NMS) for cryptocurrencies, so who's to say that the user isn't getting screwed on price and allowing Robinhood to take their cut?

But if they are partnering with an exchange, why pick one over the other? Who will pay for the withdrawal/transaction fees?
Could ask the same question to an auto engineer who's relative dies in a car crash. Should he quit his job, should we ban cars?

While auto safety is important, cars save much more lives than they take - and the economic opportunities they enable drastically change the median quality of life in societies where they are used.

In the same way, carsharing is not an enabler of crime, it's much safer than hitchhiking and would be a drastic improvement in the lives of people who are economically dependent of hitchhiking.

A good example is the Highway of Tears murders - in the last 40 years 20 to 40 women disappeared or were found dead hitchhiking the same stretch of highway in Canada. They were typically underprivileged and of aboriginal origins, and lacking other forms of transportation. The vast majority of cases remained unsolved.

Should something like internet carsharing had been in use by a victim, the police would have had acces to a vast trove of forensic data, including their last match to a known Waze user, identified by credit card, phone fingerprint and cell tower and GPS location history, as well as the victims own location trail up to the point where her phone is taken away/shut down. While a determined high tech killer could operate with these constraints, it's orders of magnitude more difficult. A determined killer is by definition unstoppable by any service or company.
"Orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes and visible from anywhere on the globe…"

"You will not be able to see the satellite within the next 2087 hours. Please check again later."
EDIT: I am wrong. Below quote is irrelevant. I misunderstood the term "pass by reference", and confused it with mutable entities.

It is for objects, not primitives.

> JavaScript has 6 primitive data types: string, number, boolean, null, undefined, symbol (new in ES6). With the exception of null and undefined, all primitives values have object equivalents which wrap around the primitive values, e.g. a String object wraps around a string primitive. All primitives are immutable.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/13266769/1319878
ads against ads (like ads for installing ad blockers) is actually something I'm considering doing.
You can't see it during the day and you can't see it when it's in Earth's shadow.
I saw some other comments that this doesn't work with kids.

Not sure I follow exactly. The point is that 5 hour work days can be a better setup than 8 hour days (given that no manager is in your way etc.). What's stopping you from putting those hours in when the kids are in school?

I would agree of course that choosing to be employed in a 9-5 job is probably a much better deal when you have kids because of parental leave.
There is: A reasonable salary that's decided upon an an independent board of directors or an independent compensation committee based on evidence that that salary is in line with market rates for similar work.

Some details: http://blueavocado.org/content/how-much-pay-executive-direct...
For sure, when it's gonna be another 5th wave of financial crisis employees just move between sectors - from private to state (more secure). I'm not sure it's somehow related to IT at all or Google in particular, but this migration type really exists.
Seed Fundraising – 10 Traits of Successful Founders
Why wouldn't their preferences be presumed valid? If I read the story right, there was one morning person and several night people. Why should the one person's preferences be presumed more valid than the several persons' preferences?
Ask HN: We’re a Mixed-income/race house. Experimental rent ideas?
Hey all,

We’re a mixed-income, mixed-race house in the Bay Area.

We bring together people from different worlds to connect, learn from each other, and elevate each other.

We are not a charity organization and have a very pragmatic, functional approach to our mutual advancement. Everyone involved has something they need to improve. For our underprivileged residents, it is gaining exposure to the “unknown unknowns” of the privileged world so they can be successful and healthy. For our privileged residents, it is gaining empathy and understanding of the world outside the elite bubble so they can be peaceful, supportive members of a broader community.

We would love your ideas on ways to run our house better!

Rent is one key issue. We have been dealing with rent in a very unorthodox way, because some of our residents, due to factors like criminal history, experience job instability that would typically result in eviction. So payment is often irregular.

Today, we have a house manager and he arrives at an individual arrangement with each resident depending on their circumstances. However, this arrangement needs improvement because:

1. It’s sort of paternalistic to say, “ok, you get a rent deal for the next few months, but what is your action plan to get to full rent?”. And then be constantly checking in. Idk..maybe we could just be managing this process better.
2. It is a lot of emotional overhead for the manager to be handling each of these “cases”. He’s a resident too with a day job
3. We haven’t figured out a good way to ensure accountability
4. We haven’t figured out a good way to manage security deposits and deal with damage to the house.
Etc.

Curious to hear your thoughts, philosophical, functional, or otherwise!

Thanks.
I was going to click it then realized you need to pay $1. Interesting experiment nonetheless.
I mean, depends on the aggregation you need imo. Shouldn't be too hard (tm) to rig up some distributed query pipeline. (as long as you are ok with coding per query, instead of the convenience of sql)
Its a "constructor". It is called only once when contract is deployed to blockchain.
it's not some stupid trick to get money. artists just really suck at time management.
Did you do it? :)
As an example, here's a strange eyesore on an otherwise nice landscape that probably looked futuristic or something back when it was made, the concrete square tower to the right of the turquoise pyramid thing. http://www.newpaltz.edu/media/stock-images/slides/12308197_9...
That seems to make a lot of sense. Good write-up, thank you!
I made that! Thanks for sharing, didn't expect someone to know about it.
When you completely paid all your debts and solved financial problems (not just nowadays, but future too), you start thinking some different way.
> How can we do worse by including more information?

If the information is not relevant but mistakenly assumed to be, because (e.g.) it is not, but treated as, representative of the class of animals to which it is applied, it can produce a worse model than one constructed without the bad information.
Fraud is probably greatly increased.
Why'd you x-ray your bearded dragon? No judgement, just think it's an interesting thing to do.
There's no such thing as a no-fee stock trading. It does not exist: every company that has "no fee" stock trading sells order flow to market makers.
Biologically, don't most people wake up at dawn? That doesn't get you to the office at 7:30 AM in the winter.

That is, our schedule is not a biologically-based schedule. "Morning" (as defined by our society) is not the biological default.
"Deep copy" and "structured clone" are not synonymous. A structured clone is one specific type of deep copy, and it has a variety of quirks. It's not clear to me why anyone wants structured clone as opposed to some other kind of deep copy, except if you were polyfilling some API that demands it like I did here https://github.com/dumbmatter/fakeIndexedDB

There are plenty of more reasonable deep clone functions available, for instance the Lodash one someone posted in another comment https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.4#cloneDeep
Pretty sure I would like the sun to not start flashing like a disco ball...
No, no, don’t refund anyone! Code is Law. They knew what they were doing when they donated; refunding them would be moral hazard.
Fixed the contract and will refund anyone who clicked on the old contract
>I've never read a good rundown of WHY they decided to sell, Twitch or otherwise.

The "Startup Podcast" episodes on Twitch is worth a listen:

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/season-3-episode-2/
I suspect that the FBI antipathy to encryption, if it's not fundamentally irrational, is actually about white collar crimes: trade secrets theft, money laundering, insider trading, tax evasion... Violent crime leaves abundant physical traces. White collar crimes may sometimes be un-prosecutable or even undetectable without access to electronic records.

They know that "outlaw secure encryption to stop inside traders" is going to be an even tougher sell than "outlaw secure encryption to stop murderers," so they try to make an illogical argument involving scary criminals instead of a stronger argument with not-scary criminals.