skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must have known a mindless set of teenagers. When I was a teenager people actively talked about their resentment that arts and humanities were not going to get them a well paying job and society was biased in favor of people like me who found math and science easy. And this would have been tenth grade, if not earlier.

Edit: for historical context, this was nearly two decades ago and nobody had either a mobile phone or a Facebook account
Cel phone tower repair guys should be jumping in droves.
Here is how I would do it: I would create an auto-moderation feature where users could report and classify inappropriate materials. I would have a team of moderators judging some contents in-depth and a system trying to match their judgment to a clique of auto-moderators that are not linked to each other.

I do not understand the lack of research in automoderation systems. This has now become a crucial point of social media! The most advanced system I have seen is 20 years old (Slashdot's moderation system) but now we are back to much more primitive reddit-like systems. Why did people stop explore these?

In a world where deep learning and blockchains are available through many easy-to-use packages I am surprised that there are not more experiments around that.
>The argument that loot boxes are "only cosmetic" is also a terrible argument.

It's a critical argument, because it is the difference between an even playing field and pay-to-win.

>The game experience involves customizing your character. Cosmetic items are by definition part of the game and, therefore, enhance gameplay.

How much of a core gaming experience is "what one of your characters is wearing"?

If it's a massive thing, you are presumably playing the wrong games.

It's not a core gameplay mechanic, it's... Well, purely cosmetic.
Bans are easy to circumvent, and the worst trolls tend to be technically savvy enough to create new accounts. They'll do it forever. They'll hide behind VPNs and anonymizing proxies if that's what it takes.

Also, what do you do if the hate speech is posted or linked to by a notable public figure, such as the President of the United States or a member of Congress?
I'm serious, yo, I bet these guys will have all kinds of issues trying to set up a newsletter.

Also gmail might start serving up ads for expertsexchange.com
Why does it surprise you? The doctor is probably basing his/her advice off what they most commonly see.

Are you saying your doctor should have known in advance your wife was an edge case with high pain tolerance?
If I didn't need 15" this is exactly what I would have done - I actually like the 2016 MBP 15", but the touchbar is utterly useless and a regression from having a physical escape key.

I honestly don't know how you (the article author) could have a problem with the touchpad though - it's an improvement in every regard. Quite happy to do away with the mechanical bits there for better reliability, and it's very difficult for me to feel a difference. One of the better parts of the laptop to be sure.

USB-C is fine - with the large caveat of Apple fucked the rollout up horribly - things like not shipping reliable working HDMI<->USB-C adapters at launch date are inexcusable. After those initial pains though, USB-C is amazing for portability - I'm always near a charger now, and my 15W phone chargers I have in every room of the house do fine to either charge it overnight or simply not lose battery life while working.

I can certainly wish there was integrated HDMI and USB-A, but then again I also don't miss those that often after getting a dock for work.

My largest complaints are the regressions in battery size from the 2015 15" rMBP, the keyboard, and the stupid and utterly useless Touchbar I was forced to pay for. That and the corresponding lack of ESC key. I do however love the Touch ID - and won't buy another laptop without something like it.

If the next MBP doesn't come with a physical escape key I plan on seriously attempting to make Linux work again if the hardware is out there to do so.
Pretty much 100% agree with this.
This is really very interesting for those of us afflicted by bibliomania; thank you for the article.
Well, yea. The housing market is super fucked up, that’s what’s wrong.
I’ll throw another spanner in to mess things up: I am European and know other Europeans who feel compelled to take painkillers for any little thing (I personally will take them only if the pain is really severe or interferes with work or such, which is quite rare typically).
> This is ridiculous.

It's not. It's just your daily anti-facebook/social media propaganda. Every day there is something about the "evils of social media".

It's the new gangsta rap or violent video games. The news media spreads fear in order to sell ads.

It wasn't too long ago when the news media hyped up violent videos to sell ads. Violent video games were blamed for everything from school shootings to depression to anti-social behavior and everything in between. It wasn't too long ago that gangsta rap had to have parental advisory notices.
"That house was flammable all on its own, all I did was provide a match".
New Study: Phone-addicted teens aren’t as happy as those who play sports
"This system is based on a migrant and young workforce."

If a lot of people with a Muslim background is doing this job, it increases the probabilities that things reported as "Islamophobia" (which doesn't exist) will lead to deletion and banning.

While things reported as Islamistic will probably not be deleted or banned as often, since they will have a greater sympathy for these things than non-religious moderators.
An Introduction to Digital Computers (1969)
Given that it's uninhabited, I don't think anyone enjoys it as such.

It's located in what, either side of the river, was the medieval kingdom of Navarre, subsequently ruled by distant monarchs in Paris and Madrid.
For their safety and sanity you may want to set up a network-wide ad blocker like Pi-hole [1].

[1]: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole
White House Considering Nationalizing 5G Networks
> The book primarily focuses on the story of the captives, who were freed just five years after they were enslaved, thanks to the end of the Civil War.

Just 5 years of slavery. I think this person lacks imagination and empathy if they think "just" is a relevant word here.
Interference is very fragile. It used to create the most sensitive scientific instruments. It is very easy to disturb self-interference in double slit experiment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsaUX48t0w8
I think this tells us as much about GitHub as it does about changes in programming language popularity. Ruby's decline is the most stark example because GitHub itself was one of the early Rails successes, Rails was hosted there and many other Ruby projects moved there early on as well. So its percentage of MAU was higher simply due to this early network effect.As GitHub has grown the percentage of its users that use Ruby is dropping.

I suspect Java is still more popular than Python, but much of that code is private and not on GitHub anyway.
If it helps, in the multiverse interpretation wavefunctions never collapse. Don't think too carefully about observation in QM it's just an artifact of getting the right answers.
A photon from the observer or outside of the system you are observing will still cause collapse. I have corrected the sentence to clarify that it's external interaction.
Why dog breeds look so different but cats don't
Do you have updates on how the performance is on 4.x kernel versions?
Why do you say "the burden is on the defendant"?

The usual description is that "the plaintiff has the burden of proving their case by a preponderance of the evidence".
It's not just the nerdy kids, though. It's all kids. Smartphones are teen culture now. It all takes place online.

It's kinda hard to imagine a society where all meaningful interaction takes place online that's not massively depressing.
> I don't think this means that the same is true for all procedures, and suggesting that people just make peace with it or whatever without knowing what the level is seems wrong

It's like I literally expressed that? Maybe I made it trickier to parse by referring primarily to chronic pain--if you want to lump extreme, trauma-induced pain into that? Sure. When lives are on the line, whatever, do what needs to be done; we have doctors to make educated decisions based on the information available.

But I will contend most Americans--and my observations are largely limited to us--mostly harm themselves in the effort to avoid what we have largely decided is pain and is in many ways merely discomfort. And I tend to think that that ramps up into greater problems along the way.
Its crazy isn't it. First we had desktop applications, then webpages that try to be desktop apps, now websites are changing their very definition to being desktop applications (using the browser as a framework).

It's similar with the UI. First flat, then 3D, now back to flat. Its crazy.
It's eminently convenient for China to gather valuable intelligence from countries around the world.

No matter who is manufacturing what, it's Intels responsibility to ensure all those who _use_ their chips know of it immediately.
Facebook is a massive enabler for the spread of fake news/hate speech. I do not doubt that there are problems in society, but Facebook needs to be held accountable for its (in)action.
the exchanges aren't the ones tasked with defending the peg though.
This article isn't about chronic debilitating pain. It's about the fear of pain and the culturally normalised behaviour of pre-over-medicating.
it never works when pulling it from the AUR for arch linux
Yeah - but it's only available for one distro: Android.
"Collapse of a wavefunction" is a (mathematical) artifact of the currently used theoretical framework in which the quantum system is being brought into contact with a classical, i.e. non-quantum system (which is what observation, or measurement, is).
An oven will damage tissue by thermal heating. Since the energies involved in cell phones, WiFi, etc. induce negligible heating, we need another plausible pathway of interaction with the tissue. If we don't have one, then it's like saying that african butterflies could cause cancer at the North Pole by an yet unidentified phenomenon of spooky action at a distance. Impossible to disprove but irrelevant.

Edit: To make matters worse, there is even a profesional disease among people with RF exposure: eye cataract, due to thermal heating of a poorly irrigated and termoregulated corneal tissue. These are guys working in close proximity to megawatt transmitters. It is not correlated to cancers.
I use Waterfox on desktop and it's the brand-less FF with all the tracking crap disabled. Hardly ever have to resort to using FF Quantum but when I do, rest assure, there's the song and dance every single time of having to go in about:config and adjust/disable everything.

On mobile, Brave with PIA's killswitch enabled for daily browsing but it doesn't matter because of GCM and I can't seem to rid myself entirely of Google.
> How much of a core gaming experience is "what one of your characters is wearing"?

In every game, from CS:GO, to Overwatch, to WoW, people seem to care what they're wearing. If it's so unimportant to the game, why do people care? Why do people spend real money on cosmetics that have "no impact" on gameplay? Drop this contrarian nonsense, it's clearly important to the game. "Purely cosmetic" is a misleading non-material weasel word.
We're helping bridge the gap for non-technical users with our Jekyll and Hugo CMS (https://forestry.io). There are many other options too, just check out https://headlesscms.org.

It's an exciting time to be a web developer. We have many static site generators (like this one) to help build super performant sites, we can host them in the cloud for a negligible cost, and we can keep everything in Git.
Unlike the 18th-century USA, China is party to numerous international treaties and conventions [0] which obligate it to honor certain IP protections. Their enforcement record to date has been spotty at best, with many [1] allegations [2] of state-assisted [3] or -condoned [4] IP [5] theft [6].

Also, between slavery and the Native American genocide(s), I'd say the 18th-century USA may not be a great moral reference point. For that matter, China's government at that time still practiced slavery, foot binding, judicial torture, and all kinds of fun stuff. Neither would be great models for a modern state.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_in_China...
[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/14/news/economy/trump-china-tra...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/opinion/china-us-intellec...
[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fighter-hacking/theft-of...
[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-great-brain-robbery-...
[5] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2223272/cisco-subnet/60...
[6] http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/may/17/...
I think I can approach a layman's explanation to this (feel free to correct me if this is offensively inaccurate). My understanding is that 'observation', at a quantum level, isn't like "watching something with your eyes". A better description would be "taking a measurement" instead of "observation". It's impossible/difficult to take a measurement at the quantum level by passively observing, you have to de-facto interact with it in order to measure it - not unlike searching for a house of cards in a dark room with a blindfold on. Once you've 'found' the house of cards, you've 'interacted' with it, and in the process of interacting it is no longer a house of cards any more.
> Any online open forum would have the same problems no matter how hard they tried to prevent it.

Facebook tries to get by with as few moderators as they can, with paying them as low as possible and generally trying to teflon away anything negative from their service (i.e. they negate being responsible for the fake news/hate speech on their platform).

I believe that there would certainly be a way to provide fair moderation - for example a ratio of 1 full time CSR (customer services representative) per 1000 users, not the 1 per 20k or worse they are currently trying to do.
Static site generators are very WYSIWYG friendly, see my comment above about our Jekyll and Hugo CMS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16254696
Thanks, I'm going to work on it tonight!!! I got a few ideas for the site. But thanks for the comments.
> And nihilism isn't a bad thing.

You aren't taking nihilism seriously enough.
Academic journal titles generated by AI
It was worked on for over 2 years and now the partial solution was tested since September. If you have common hardware, it's probably fine. But you should take a backup of course :-)
Thanks, I'm going to work on the design a little. But thanks for the comments.
I just want my kids to be nice people.
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I want a sign that has a Prop 65 warning just because of the sign itself.
They took the results of a survey administered 6 years apart and applied their pet theory to interpret the differences.

The survey is done every 2 years by the CDC, so their findings have a prima facie lack if rigorous credibiltlity by ignoring the 2 administrations in 2011 and 2013.
Nice. The original is apparently https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ktjfi/deltav_map_of...

It would be more nice if the delta-V were drawn to scale.

I don't understand why in this graphic the delta-v to the sun is something like 600 km/s but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget#Interplanetary says that it's 25-30 km/s.
> Please allow me to ask a question of the HN crowd. To me, if it were my company (and I have had a few with varied success), if an employee can not (or will not) read and can not (or will not) write in a structured format, in an organized way, and be prepared for meetings, before the meeting starts, by having read all of the relevant material -- is it the company's obligation to spoon-feed them? Or should the company get tight and move those people out the "Next!" door?

Up to you.

If you are running the company, you can set the expectation and punishment.

However, if I have read all the relevant material, what was the point of the meeting?

The problem is that meetings wind up serving multiple purposes, and you don't always know which one you are in before the meeting starts. There are meetings to hash out a difficult problem (rare, but very important). There are meetings to disseminate information and vision (common, and useless to a lot of people but required because you never know when you are the person who missed the relevant info). There are meetings to CYA (too common). There are meetings to solve things which cross management boundaries or allocate resources (somewhat less common, but important). Then there are simply political or show meetings by useless people (sadly too common).

In reality, the really big problem is that people don't feel able to slag a meeting because it looks like you are slagging the person in charge of the meeting. I can send back "Will Not Attend" to meeting requests and will get indignant responses of:

"What the hell do you mean you won't attend?"

"Fine, tell me what input from me that you are going to need."

"Ummmmmmmmmm."

"Exactly. When you can tell me what input I'm supposed to give other than consumption of oxygen, I'll attend."
Thanks for all the comments. Like I said, I'm going to work on the design a little.
Haiku does it automatically, though: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/GUI.html#stack-ti...
So? The system doesn't have to be perfect, it only needs to make trolling time consuming enough to reduce it to tolerable levels.

> hate speech is posted or linked to by a notable public figure

Here's how I would approach it. Accounts that are tied to real identities have a much higher threshold for bans -- public figure or not. Sans a credible threat of harm to specific individuals they can largely say whatever they would like, hateful or not. When pseudoanonymous accounts get flagged their choice is to attach a publicly visible identity to the account or be banned.
Mongolian Tsagaan Sar – Lunar New Year
The most pleasant time of the year for most Mongolians is Tsagaan Sar (Traditional Mongolian Lunar New Year). It is particularly pleasant for our domestic food manufacturers as they are busiest at this time. Food manufacturing businesses are generally successful in our country as there are many celebrations and holidays that revolve around food. Singers and bands also earn good amounts during the New Year celebrations.
https://www.discovermongolia.mn/blog-news-tsagaan-sar-the-most-pleasant-time-of-the-year/
> a lot of programmers don't understand (or don't think about?) what it means to have a failure

Most of my devops consulting these days is more on the human side of things (devs and ops not getting along, Managements Just Don't Understand, etc.) but whenever I end up in a design review this is still the first thing I ask: "how does this break, under what circumstances will it break, and how to we respond to it breaking without waking somebody with SSH access up at two in the morning?".
They had years of organization using IT that built up a lot of inertia. As another commenter said, 10 days is probably well below the threshold of their typical shipment turnover.

My guess is they'd quickly suffer potentially company-ending losses if they were to stop using modern IT altogether.
In Boston: When Old Regulatory Systems Meet New Technology
I'm deeply sick of the absurdly drawn-out living death of the Copenhagen interpretation, and its even more absurd "consciousness is made out of magic" descendants. This is bordering on straight-up irresponsible misinformation.
For me moderating what amounts to open communication platform falls into third category: it is impossible and you should not try to do that.

Especially in FB's case where it is quite obvious that various opposing "hate groups" have learned how to game the system, and also how to present results of that such that it supports their rhetoric.
I clicked on California and it gave me a per-county view, and it seems like a bunch of counties (which pay the same California taxes) are green.

I clicked San Francisco county and it seems like it's gaining money from other high tax areas (Santa Clara, New York, Chicago, DC, and Boston, in that order) and it's losing money to other, more suburban Bay Area counties. I don't see any low tax state mentioned in that view.

As I click through on other states I'm familiar with or have lived in, the trend I'm seeing is that populated areas are all red. That makes me think about the comment here about retirements or regional income differences. There is some population-based skewing here.
I've been tracking this same "bug". do you have any sense for when webrtc will be in wkwebview? some thread somewhere said it's one full release lag behind when Safari gets a feature
Great question! And terrific answers so far ;)

Cultivating true friendships is so important at that age. Its a learning process and a skill that must be continuously reinforced. And it opens one up to a foundational belief. That you will be defined by the people you surround yourself with in life.
Not to say it's a bad thing to drink after recovering from alcoholism, but wouldn't that just be managed addiction?

My uncle is an alcoholic, but has managed to drink at a reasonable level (not healthy, but doesn't socially harm him, e.g. drink driving, losing a job) for the past few decades. He'll crack his first beer at 10 AM, but manages to keep a good level of control.
>>And the freedom to ramp yourself into opioid dependence is not a meaningful freedom.

Nor is that a freedom I am speaking of, however the idea it should be a crime to "ramp yourself into opioid dependence" is unethical on its face as that is more of a medical and mental health problem not one that should be solved with criminality

I do however think it is a "meaningful freedom" for one to be allowed to judge for themselves what medication and/or pain management they should use in a given situation.

Further the War on Drugs as a directly result of prohibitionist policies have directly lead to more suffering and lose of "meaningful freedoms" for non-drug users than the abuse of the drug ever did.

I think it selfish is prohibitionist to not look at the big picture, to not see the Failure that the War on Drugs is, to not see the Extreme Harm the war on drugs in inflected not only on the US but the world, and double down on failed prohibitionist policies

>> in my experience the proportion of people who crow about "individualism" and who aren't in it to hurt those with fewer advantages than they have is a rounding error.

I must be in the rounding error then, I support many things that help people with fewer advantages, I believe these goals can be accomplished with liberty and respect of individual,

I also have a good understanding of history, and know that Authoritarian policies like the one you advocate for are often hardest on those not in the majority, on those that as "fewer advantages", Contrary to rose colored opinions authoritarians have, authoritarian polices are harmful to the less fortunate this has been proven countless time by countless authoritarian governments through out world history

Freedom and Liberty leads to prosperity, not Centralized Authoritarian Control
> Couple this with the continued social discrimination faced by African peoples

Such discrimination often (though certainly not exclusively) perpetrated by the same forces who claim that no lingering disadvantages persist and thus each individual who does worse than average represents a failure of motivation, morality or inherent talent.
Ya I see the warning that elements known to California to cause cancer are present posted all over. OK so what now?
Do you have experience with it? Does it improve upon Plan9 in any fundamental way, side from incremental toolchain/arch support?
Ingvar Kamprad, founder of ikea has passed away