skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I got the impression that there may be no long term safety net for the enduring impact of this. (Like PTSD support for policemen.) That's not good enough.

2. Reading this piece I don't imagine the system can actually "work" in any reasonable way. This job should be done by the individual user. In FB you can "block" other people. I imagine that would sort out much of this issue.

3. If FB and others are forced to police and censor like this maybe they should simply take themselves out of business lest they become inclined to exterminate our species for the actions of what, I hope, are a few.
All about Go's Stringer interface
10 Years of Instapaper
This sounds very much like the kind of exposure we had moderating ww.com/camarades.com and files.ww.com. I've had a lot of contact with authorities over the years about some of the more disturbing things we came across on the service. Some of those images will haunt me for life. Nothing but good about the people that do this for a living from an official point of view, that's got to be a very hard job to keep up for an extended period. I ended up shutting down files.ww.com because there was no way to run that part of the business profitable with the amount of oversight it required, and it seemed to attract the worst kind of content, but I'm frankly also not too unhappy to be out of the webcam community business.

Content moderation is a pretty depressive activity to engage in for any amount of time. My biggest stroke of luck was to find a couple of community members that really enjoyed doing this and that kept a pretty fair hand or instead of a year ago I would have shut the whole thing down a decade ago.
Last time the doctor did not give me enough penicillin, I was required to take a disgusting roadband antibiotics, which I had to mask with taste-numbing food, to not throw up the instant it hit any muscous membrane. Due to that, we had a tablet of it on a plate in the corner of the kitchen, and were wondering in the (no door; adjacent) living room, where that horrible smell came from.
Anecdata: since then, I fear horrible broadband antibiotics being needed.

I would prefer phages, but they are soviet tech, and soviet died.
But can you buy a box of 1000 aspirin tablets?
That would be $23 in the US: https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-health-ibuprofen-tablets-200mg-...
Non-paywall:

https://outline.com/H992nD

I'm like, 90% close to making a bot that just does this for HN submissions.
> if they did this, then what people are suspecting is true.

No, this is what they could do if they were legit.

Issuing and selling a new Tether when it's over $1.00 on an exchange keeps all their promises and lets them make the difference as profit. If they sell the Tether for $1.05, they put a dollar in reserves and the $0.05 is profit.

Same for buying a sub-$1.00 Tether from an exchange. They've taken a Tether out of circulation, which means they can treat the backing USD as theirs again, which means the gap between the $0.98 they paid and the $1.00 value is profit.

All of this requires them to actually have the capital to do so, though, and I'd consider the lack of Tether-issued buy/sell orders at these values to be a hint at the real scenario - they don't have the capital they claim.
> The only power that the content moderator has, is to delete a post.

This surprises me, but it is consistent from Facebook's viewpoint where the user is the product. You can fire a customer, but you can't fire your product.

So maybe it is to be expected that Facebook implemented moderation as a QA process. It would probably be against their interests to implement policies that would police their community in a way that makes sense, with warnings, temporary and permanent bans etc.
> I have had my teeth filled by a dentist that didn't "believe" in novocaine. Luckily, he died before I had any significant issues, and I had a later dentist that did it correctly. If you are doubtful of the usefulness of pain management while receiving a filling, you can try it yourself.

I (German) openly prefer it, if the dentist gives the option whether to get a anaesthetic injection or not for dental fillings, not to get one, since I strongly prefer 5 to 10 somewhat inconvenient minutes over having a numb jaw for a whole day.

I am of course aware that there are really painful dental treatments such as dental root canal treatments - but in these cases no dentist will give you the choice whether to get a anaesthetic injection or not.

> Luckily, he died before I had any significant issues,

Why didn't you simply change your dentist?
You cannot withdraw Tether. You can only trade it for something else on an exchange. Tether does not actually let you convert USDT -> USD. I wonder why.
I went into some detail here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16254250
4. Other people should not be viewing private posts anyway. (Assuming this is limited distribution posts (not public).)
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> ask your doctor about...

That freaks me out. The doctor is supposed to tell me what to assume, not the other way around.

Also, I have seen too many stories of drug representative sellers with no background in medical sciences convincing doctors to prescribe a drug with many, more-or-less honest arguments.
> Also, the mountain of cash hidden in all the Dutch and Luxembourg trust funds coming from this tax structure is not being used to contribute back to society in a meaningful way like Gates and Buffett.

Not really an excuse, but at least since 1990s, that was very common among the European rich.

Psychologically, it's easy to justify: the state takes about half of your hard-earned cash, then passes it on to a bunch of bureaucrats in Brussels who have not done a damn thing in their lives. On the other hand, before everything became computerised, stashing the money in Luxembourg was way too easy.
"You can hire lots of humans to work at a normal pace and give them psychological counseling, and spend so much on their salaries that you'll go out of business, "

They could hire 10000 people at 100k each. This would cost 1 billion per year making 3 billion every quarter.
It is all about keeping the OS sane to give the users and applications a chance to be sane, rather than causing madness from the get-go.

However, if the system permits arbitrary applications to be executed (which plan9 does), then it cannot be shielded from madness. Proof: plan9 has a POSIX compatibility layer (APE), a vt100 terminal emulator and a vim port. It even has an aging full-on linux emulator. I think it could run a really old version of Firefox, but the memory is vague. People swear by Mothra these days anyway.
CPU of the Day: Tandem CLX 800 – It Takes 2 to Tango
That is the interesting part! "Everything is monetised"

But it's also your secret so I won't ask more
And all of this human cost just so we can post about our avocado toast! :-(
You can apparently borrow this book online for 14 days: https://archive.org/details/eudaemonicpie00bass

It's also available on Kindle for $7.99: https://www.amazon.com/Eudaemonic-Pie-Thomas-Bass-ebook/dp/B... They also have it as an audio book on Audible.

Note: this book is about a different, later group that built a wearable computer to hack roulette rather than Shannon and Thorp. Shannon and Thorp's work is mentioned a bit, but most of the book is about Farmer, Packard and associates, and the Shannon and Thorp work is discussed more as general background to help in understanding Farmer and Packard's work.

Farmer and Packard do not seem to have been aware of any details of Shannon and Thorp's work. They had read Thorp's book on blackjack, and Thorp mentions briefly that he had way to beat roulette but had not implemented it yet. When Packard and Farmer read that, they were skeptical. Later, they independently came up with the idea of using physics to predict roulette, and only after that did they realize that this was what Thorp was getting at, too.

I don't recall anything in the book indicating that they knew Shannon had been involved with Thorp. They made use of Shannon's work in areas such as information theory when trying to understand chaos and apply it to roulette, of course. It has been over 30 years since I read the book, so I possibly missed something (although just before posting this I found my copy and skimmed the first 60 pages, which covered up to where Packard and Farmer got the idea and started working on implementing it).
Can I install it on Linux?
You're exagerating the parent's claims. It is possible that religion can reduce stress, and help against depression without being an absolute defense. Our brain may just be wired that way. This doesn't even involve God or the supernatural actually existing for these effects to be real.

You should check some of the talks, and lectures by Robert Sapolsky (an atheist), who advances this in several of them.

Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WwAQqWUkpI

Religion Is Nature's Antidepressant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oldj11NEsc0
memory_order::relaxed doesn't imply locking. Compilers on platforms where aligned access is atomic will generally implement relaxed reads and writes without locking, barriers or other expensive operations. So x = x + 1 with relaxed semantics should be cheap and best effort, like you want.
This must be the longest hype cycle in human history!
People talking positively about pain (and especially immediate post-surgical pain as in the article) makes me uneasy. Sure, some level of pain is useful as a warning sign. And wanting painkillers primarily to avoid resting is unreasonable.

But, if there is too much pain, it will cause extreme stress during the day and they will probably be unable to sleep at night - it is hard to imagine this being beneficial for recovery.

Also, if the pain is too great, people will avoid future treatment, even if it is medically advisable.

I think there have been problems with anesthesia in the past, where people woke up during surgery (although still unable to move), and I think it led to negative outcomes even though it is only pain - although I admit, I am reluctant to look up the details.

At the very least, I think it is good to give enough pain medication so that the patient does not want to die, although I understand it may be unavoidable when the level / duration is high enough.

It looks like in the article, the level of pain and recovery for this procedure is not very bad (probably because it's laparoscopic), and the doctors know this, so their recommendations were appropriate and the patient was worried over nothing. But, 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. Especially in the case of surgical recovery where the first day or two is usually the worst, and the risks of medication over such a short period are low.

I wouldn't wish for a more serious level of pain on my worst enemy. I do not think it is useful or possible to make peace with, unless you are Buddha himself.
Well, if you add up the various encodings they offer, I think it's like 8 static videos...
so, has anyone ever pointed out that 'Schemaless' looks like how a spammer would spell 'shemales'?
Fitness Data Map Shows Locations and Activity Patterns of Secret Military Bases
One more tidbit: Professor Arthur Lewbel knew Clause Shannon personally as a fellow member of the MIT juggling club [1]. At one point, he photographed Shannon's "toy room" [2]. In the center photo. is that the $1500 roulette wheel mentioned in the article?

[1] https://www2.bc.edu/arthur-lewbel/Shannon.html

[2] https://www2.bc.edu/arthur-lewbel/toys2.jpg
> Then you should not fucking be in the business at all!

You seem to be venting incoherently. How does that follow from the statement you're replying to, at all?
For me, it's more than just a "tolerance for solitude", I feel I have an occasional active desire for solitude. A few times a year I'll explicitly hide out for the weekend and avoid all outside communication. It's probably one of the reasons I like motorcyling so much - even when I'm out riding with friends, there's a thing a friend of mine calls "shared solitude" when your alone inside your helmet even if you've got 4 or 5 friends along for the ride - I often spend a day "out riding with friends" when really, we just stop and meet up every 2 hours for fuel/food, and spend the rest of our time alone but riding in close proximity.
Real 100% serious art world talk:

"Paradoxically, an object whose image is very widely spread is a rare object, in the sense that few objects have their images spread widely."

This is from McKenzie Wark, who is not known as a joker. http://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/156418/my-collectible-ass/
It's very interesting to me to see the attack on the article/research and the defense of the screen here. Reminds me very much of client change deniers.
Context is important, but so is intent.

Darth Vader did murder Luke's father in A New Hope. George Lucas didn't decide he was Luke's father and that the murdering was of the abstract "from a certain point of view" variety until he was making Empire Strikes Back. Which context is the valid one, that of the story actually described by the film, or what Lucas decided, later on, that it should have been?

So, as with the Genesis account, I think it matters what the ancient Hebrews intended the serpent to symbolize. When people say the serpent represents "the devil," that concept tends to be overloaded with centuries of Christian history and Lucasian retconning to make what are disjoint parts seem like a coherent narrative.

The curse that God places on the serpent is that he will strike at humanity's heel, and humanity will crush its head. Is that meant to symbolize the eternal enmity between humanity's divine and profane nature? Is it a political message, with the snake being a debased version of a Babylonian deity? A just-so story about why snakes bite people? Maybe it is the devil - but it's not the Christian devil.
If I was a fully funded academic, I'd agree with you. But the reality is I trade my time for money - to maximize the latter, appearing as a "leader" in my field requires I give talks to both technical and business tracks. The former might pay my bills (if they're a successful tech startup), the latter definitely will.

Conferences are great for networking and entertaining. They're not great for learning new stuff, there's much better media out there. I'm not sure what your gripes are with it.
The title of this article is misrepresenting the content to the point of distortion. Her doctors never "prescribed" herbal tea (at most they mentioned coffee in the context of stool softeners).

The author sounds a lot like my wife, actually. My wife cannot stand to do "nothing". To me, a day doing "nothing" is like a gift from the universe. I might nap, read a little, noodle around online, learn more of a new language -- all without any particular goal in mind. Heaven! Or Hell, for some people!
> In the case of opioid-based painkillers, overprescribing leads to unnecessary addiction

So does underprescribing in a world where extremely effective yet more addictive illicit painkillers are easy to come by. I've had to resort to this for a few days after a wisdom tooth removal and would much rather have had access to better regulated options.
Is SATA Power Link Management reliable enough that I should enable it on my laptop now? Looks like Fedora 28 may enable it by default?
Vivaldi for me. SRWAre Iron and PaleMoon for backup
OS Mint 18.2 x64
Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)
Why do they need to moderate every post. The problem posts will be coming from a minority of accounts. Ban them on first offense, or maybe allow one warning, and people will figure out pretty quickly that Facebook is not the place to post that sort of thing.
Seems perfectly coherent to me. He's saying that if your business can't afford to solve the problems it creates (and instead pushes the problems onto society at large and/or disposable workers), then he thinks that business should go under.
Some people use it seriously for their home/work computers, and work on it solely for that purpose. Others do it out of interest.

It's a very, very nice OS to experiment on due to the simplicity of everything. The kernel is almost small enough to memorize.
I would expect that if this common cold virus had such an effect it would have been noticed by someone before now. I'm not a doctor or anything, but it just seems unlikely.
"...At the end of the ramp-up process, a moderator should handle approximately 1300 reports every day which let him/her in average only a few seconds to reach a decision for each report..."

If you are doing something 1300 times a day you are effectively not doing it. I don't know what you call it, "Monkey in a can" comes to mind, but you are not adding any sort of human oversight or judgment aside from simple image recognition -- and probably not doing that good of a job at recognition at that.

I suppose these jobs exists so that the social media giants have somebody to point to (and fire?) when things go wrong. That's fine. Sounds necessary to me. But not at that scale. To attribute any sort of meaningful behavior to clicking images at that rate is a joke. Most normal people would be burnt out before they got to their first 100.
I’ll use an alternative historical example to explain why your assertion is not true.

My grandmother was held in concentration camps. She was in this time raped regularly, starved, beaten, debased, and so deprived that when her closest friend died all she could think of was taking her shoes.

Eventually she was liberated, walked thousands of miles across Europe looking for family to no avail, and finally by chance met my grandfather.

Throughout her entire life she was emotionally destroyed, on edge, and nearly a witch in her ability to direct her emotional energy at those around her in order to protect herself when she felt threatened.

This hard edge of survival and death migrated into the emotional lives of my mother and aunt. Both of them demonstrated symptoms of severe PTSD even in early childhood despite having no personally experienced events that would be considered traumatic enough to induce such behavior. It was in the air.

I in turn have as well, two generations later, demonstrated a tendency toward self-protectiveness, have developed symptoms of PTSD from what would be considered normal life stressors, and have struggled to overcome this emotional inheritance.

Now, my personal example is the result of only a few years of war and inhumanity.

African Americans who descend from slaves descend from people who for hundreds of years underwent equally debasing, dehumanizing treatment. They were in the struggle so long that they developed broad cultural and interpersonal coping mechanisms to make life bearable beneath the threat of death and the absolute absence of personal control or privacy.

It is quite easy to see how, even many generations later, even if there were no more reinforcement from the environment of the trauma, that it can live on and continue to destroy the descendants of its victims.

Couple this with the continued social discrimination faced by African peoples and it becomes impossible to not see that the echoes of these atrocities live on in the minds and hearts of their victim’s descendants.
Victorian-era photos of tech devices are inspiring virtual reality engineers
The worst thing about LinkedIn is the guys who think it is a dating site. I have completely stopped replying to "recruiters" who contact me on LinkedIn. I still keep it updated though.
New Virus Types Undergoing Study--They Are Unusual [MIT]
The announcement from MIT: http://news.mit.edu/2018/new-type-virus-found-ocean-0124

Related study on these marine "weird virus" types: http://www.nature.com/articles/nature25474
Most reputable automakers wouldn't be caught dead running Ford's software, especially if it means putting a Ford shield on their vehicle. Where you might see it is in budget vehicles and public transportation, if Ford plays their cards right. These things may help generate some revenue, but neither of them is likely to be good for the brand.
You're going to have to clarify that one a bit. Currently it looks like you're calling him a hero for being fascist.
Thank you! That text wasn't there when I looked. It is still too wide but at least much better than AutoPinTab and with a few adjustments I got something that behaves a little strangely but uses less space.
Basically, Facebook should be taxed for the externalities they create like fake news (just as manufacturing plants should be taxed for the externalities they create by polluting). They should also be required to provide a safe workplace.

So if it turns out that their moderation policy creates big problems for their employees and the world, thought should be forced to shoulder a financial burden in the form of taxes/workers comp.
Is this really going to be a big deal as they say it is?
Why We Closed Our Doors to Defend Net Neutrality
>One thing I would definitely want to have in my hand is a hardware cryptocurrency wallet, but that'll require power source and some interaction interface.

I can see this leading to people's hands being hacked off in some of the world's less nice places.
When we are all complicit in building our own panopticons, of which we play the role of subject, we are doomed.
Obviously just a sample size of 1, but I -- a teenager -- am the only one out of all my friends that isn't depressed, and I'm fairly sure I spend more time on the computer/phone than all of them. Not to imply that the conclusion is wrong, I could just be an outlier, but it's likely just a rule of thumb when attempting to diagnose/identify potential causes of a problem.
is there any examples of this idea?
The prevalence of fake news and hate speech on Facebook is caused by problems in society itself, not by Facebook.
Reminds me of this article about censoring content at Google from 2012. https://www.buzzfeed.com/reyhan/tech-confessional-the-google...
I got the 13in 2016 MacBook Pro sans-touchbar and absolutely love it. The screen is lively, USB-C has made traveling much easier (don't need dedicated charger, can use Anker USB-C battery to top laptop off), the build quality feels substantially better than my old Macbook Air, and the battery life has been fantastic. I've seen a lot more of these rants crop up and end up confused since my own experience has been substantially different.

The only negative thing has been needing to buy/carry an external hub for USB/SD cards (I use it maybe monthly).
I tell my kids 3 things.

1) If you want to be good at something, practice.
2) Everyone can make mistakes, own up to yours and don't blame your brother for things you have done. If I find out you will be punished.
3) Learn how to win and loose with grace.

My kids school teaches my oldest 6 things which I can really get behind.

Agency

Every member of our community takes ownership! We take responsibility for making sure that our schools and scholars are reaching the highest possible standards across the board.

Curiosity

Our schools are fueled by wonder. Scholars, teachers, and staff always ask, “What if?”

Try & Try

Our entire community understands that tackling tough challenges takes elbow grease, grit, and perseverance.

Integrity

We are honest, open, and transparent.

Others

We never forget to look out for each other. From helping someone on a project to smiling in the hallways, we build a community of mutual respect and support.

No Shortcuts

Excellent learning takes time and effort.
Ok, I'm going to hijack this thread to get an answer to something I've always struggled with: how does 'observation' cause the wave function to collapse.

It won't happen in a closed box, but what about an open box in a closed room? What about a closed box with a live video camera? What about a live video camera whose display no one is watching?

I'm sure this is a basic question but for the life of me, I've never really understood it. Thanks.
Bill Joy: “The Smartest People in the World Don’t All Work for Us.”