skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Well, yes that's the obvious (and cynical) assumption. It's definitely true as a real pseudo-economic force on the internet and media generally, but let's not just assume reddit are following that "interest" blindly.

If you think reddit doesn't have those values, I guess we disagree. I don't see any way of coming to that conclusion apart from fundamentalism, it's either absolute or it's bullshit.
I really don't care about any of this. I would only push back on the idea that you might want to choose VPN software by first verifying that it somehow can take advantage of Curve25519 and then counting lines of code (whether or not you choose to include OpenSSL's line count). No, that would get you to some bad places.
I think the joke here is the implication the AI can guess your code. But yeah it would be hilarious if there was a complexity class on predicting what the problem solver is going to write.
Excellent points, and great story. Thanks.
That's awesome. The only reason the school should take the burden is to distribute the risk pool and also theyre the most capable of providing some value framework on whether this $400 or that $400 is a better investment.

I personally would loan money for this sort of thing if there was a reasonable ROI and someone vetting the students.
Strong moderation would mean that moderation is not optional, always present and always consistent.

Having a toxic community that internally declines to moderate is not strong moderation.
Within 20 miles of somewhere like Portland for that matter. My in-laws live in the Portland burbs and everything between their house and the next town is farmland.
Anyone know a nice source for learning some basic music theory? To be more specific, something that would teach whatever would be required to understand the musical concepts in this article (for example).

The ideal would be something directed towards readers with some mathematical background (but not a PhD), conversational, and focused on concepts and maybe historical development rather than just stating facts without context.
Or the connectivity between universes is sparse, so that we only have direct connections to a few universes. I guess the set of all universes might still be a closed system in this arrangement.

This is overall kind of an interesting idea, because it seems to me like it'd be more testable than some other more intangible multiverses. My (non-physicist) intuition has always been that black holes somehow are the key to many mysteries of physics, but we're still pretty far from really knowing I think.
I don't think graph theory is in any danger of being lost. That seems overly dramatic.

The Brits and Japanese had no idea of the underlying mechanisms, and our society has the underlying comp sci knowledge in our case, archived in libraries. If an entire generation of computer science grads just fluffs graph theory, it's not like the knowledge will be lost, but it's definitely not a good thing. It's definitely a step in the wrong direction.

However, it was not graph theory which was lost. It's a body of engineering knowledge for how to do applied graph theory; how to recognize you have to deal with graph theory, then quickly clobber the problem with several broadly applicable tools. Why isn't this being passed down from one generation of profs and TAs to the next?

Since people can learn from each other, it's hard to say what people really need to know the day they join the team.

It's one thing to know a high level overview about something, then to be able to go and bone up on a specific area. It's another thing if someone doesn't know enough to recognize the thing without prompting and clearly has no practice solving problems of that general category, whatsoever.

EDIT: Isn't anyone curious about what these tools are?
That's typically where the best jobs are (or maybe even the only jobs, depending on industry).
The problem with artificial creation (and simulation) theories is that they can generate universes of all kinds without restriction, including one that's consistent with our own in every way. I'm not sure that there could ever be a way to disprove such theories.

If theories are going to be useful, they'll have to predict something which can be confirmed with follow-up observations.
Hmmm, you're right. Perhaps a sliding scale then? The cost to up/downvote increases exponentially?
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No sure where i left it.
Ill stay here, to lay low.
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Is that relevant? If only 1% of Reddit traffic is destroying civilization then civilization is still being destroyed.
Why CEOs Love 'The Godfather'
In theory.

Have you used their client?
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And for any that are skeptical about the gambling link, think about the now-ubiquitous pull-to-refresh gesture on mobile interfaces -- does it remind you of anything... like a slot machine perhaps?
it's odd because recently I felt most "modern" society is based on gaming things until things break.
How is it cumbersome and heavyweight? If the app is already using AWS, it's trivial to start using the parameter store.
I'm really glad you replied. I hadn't realised that it was impossible to offer help and technical support without invading. Strawman-of-the-month-award goes to....
How would you know those things without being in that 'business'? The current drug problem is disproportionately rural, as far as I know. Crime in cities is at lows going back decades. Again, gang-ridden, drug-dealer filled cities is an obsolete notion among those who don't live in them.
HOA's pale in comparison to zoning in the US.

Zoning is what prevents dense development, mixed development and all the other kinds of development we used to do in the US (not just Europe).

Here's a small example from Bend, where I live:

https://bendyimby.com/2018/01/06/1947/
Sure, if you remember to disable Face ID before going through the checkpoint. Good luck getting on the plane after refusing to unlock it with a passcode, though.
What does "less parsimonious" mean in this context?

The definition has "unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal" but I'm not sure what you're describing as less frugal. Is it a way of saying the deist explanation is more likely?
I know some authors it sounds similarly poor from their perspective as well.
That sounds great for people who are already invested in Reddit but terrible for newcomers who don't want to do a bunch of work to get Reddit into a usable state.
It closes subreddits at the owners whim, that seems strong. It doesn't need to be always exercising that power to have demonstrated that it has and uses that power.
> It's exhausting to put up with

It would be more exhausting to put up with a system of censorship.

There will always be people around you that say or do things that you do not appreciate. Getting offended at them is something you do to them, not the other way around.

The more we act like people have power over us, the more power we give them.
It sounds fine in theory -- people are being helped -- but in practice, I don't think it's so simple.

People _register_ for a course, presumably, with the goal of finishing it. (Otherwise, why not do a google/wiki search for topic X? Find that specific topic on youtube/MIT OCW?)

When the vast majority of people fail to complete the goal, you decrease their confidence in the process. Unless someone starts with strong academic confidence, they may be demoralized by giving up/failing a course. We shouldn't be happy that 5% of people enjoy high school math class if 95% of people graduate hating it, and never touch the subject again.

We can move goalposts and now pretend that MOOCs primarily exist as a random buffet of knowledge and not replacements for actual courses, but that's not how they were positioned.

"That pill I sold you, turns out it's no better than placebo... but placebos are 30% effective, so it all worked out, right?"
With the cost reduction curve of solar energy being as fast as it is, prices might just make solar the default sooner than you think.

Cars are especially good for this, since they all need to use batteries and are parked for most of their lifetime. Peak power usage isn't as much of an issue with smart meters.
I don't get what the issue here is. Guess at which plan you'd need and go about your business. I'm sure they're reasonable about upgrading and/or paying for additional usage if you go over the limits. Even if they weren't, what's the risk here? That you'd end up owing a couple hundred extra dollars? If you're worried about that, you're probably not a customer they want. This sound like standard developer cheapness.
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I agree. I think this is good advice in general.

I suggest one looks at the standard library and ask for people's opinion on well written libraries to pick the style, idioms, limitations and tricks of a language (and even compiler at points depending on what you do -- representations of built-in data structures are enlightening in general).
> All we can do is understand that our own perspective is not the default or de-facto correct one, and that other people are entitled to their own assumptions and unfalsifiable opinions just as we are. They're entitled to their own credibility heuristics and decisions about who is worth trusting. People are free to make their own decisions and conclusions, whether we agree with them or not.

For opinions, perhaps. There are also people who reject facts. I don’t consider rejection of evolution or young-earth views as legitimate. Thus, those who cling to these views are empirically wrong.
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This is very anecdotal. I really wish we had data on market share, costs, revenues, etc. Obviously we won't have even most of the picture until both companies are public, but at this point it seems like all of these articles are just speculation. When I interned at Uber, media estimates were pretty inaccurate.
If office issued electronic devices (which presumably have to undergo routine organization-specific scrutiny, and may contain non-public info) are snatched by the TSA for random sniffing, why can't an organization sue the TSA for compromising security?
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Of course this has me thinking of possible interventions - maybe a substance that interacts with neuron cell walls to stop Na/Ca/K leakage? Of course, it would have to be fast-acting, non-toxic on the way in, reversible, and non-toxic on the way out.

Could any experts comment and inform if such a thing is inside the realm of possibility as we know it?
How do you know the latter are rare, as they're not publicly disclosed. You only find out the former potentially if you're the a moderator, or perhaps the person banned. The banning of subs you find out if you're in the sub, or watch every sub to check for bans. Or is there a banlist from reddit I don't know about?
This post on Steve Carroll's blog [1], called "Energy Is Not Conserved", answers that question fairly clearly.

[1] http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-i...
I'd argue that if you're worried about a thousand dollars a year difference over the course of a year, you're not a customer worth having.
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I wonder if they're imaging the device for later analysis.

I suspect they're not installing implants but it would make me nervous all the same about using that device in the future...
Eastern Germany: the most godless place on Earth
Or looking at historical pictures of a city with street lights on at mid-day because of industrial smog ...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kevintang/stunning-photos-of-pittsb...
Many cryptocurrencies are designed to be efficiently mined on GPUs, with the idea that mining would be more decentralized. This may be effective to an extent, but in the case of rapidly rising prices like we're seeing now / over the past months, there are some side effects.

Furthermore, in the 'alt' space (i.e. not-Bitcoin), there is a lot of competition and you don't want to tie up large capital expenses to inflexible hardware. GPUs can mine whatever trendy coin is currently pumping. Miners switch to mining different coins in order to maximize return.
On iPhone X, all you have to do is "squeeze" the phone, or press the side and volume buttons at the same time.
This has actually been operationalized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_array_model

It's conjectural on my part, but if you apply D-weighting to the resulting pitch cylinders you can conceptualize musical space as an aesthetically pleasing spherical shape:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-weighting

If you further consider the nature of stereo hearing, head-related transfer functions, and sympathetic resonance, then you could go a bit nuts in the visualization department: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function
Are you referring to a feudal lord as a "private landlord" or a "devolved local state"? Both would be more or less fully appropriate.

"Devolved local state" is slightly more accurate than "private landlord", because unlike a landlord in a more commercialized society, a feudal lord was not legally able to sell the land he owned. He was legally able to govern it.
Let me first turn this around. I actually personally tried to interact with the Slack team on how they implemented their XMPP gateway, early on. I pointed out how a relatively small missing protocol feature (server-side group chat bookmarking) was severely impacting the usability of the gateway, as it caused caused you to have to explicitly join the group chat room representing a Slack channel on every client (re)connect. In fact they violated protocol in case a client requested the list of bookmarks, causing clients to hang while connecting. It took them a year to start responding, and the problem was not fixed.

Additionally I had pointed that their statements on XMPP security were factually wrong. No useful response or changes were made.

That all said, I really like a bunch of things about Slack and have repeatedly pointed out in discussions in the XMPP community that there is a lot to be learned from Slack in terms of features (and how they work technically), UI consistency, and usability. As JC points out, this is surprisingly hard to achieve in open source projects. Even harder to pull off for a very diverse community around a set of protocols, rather than a single software product.

There are also things in Slack that I think would be a lot better if they were modelled after recent protocol proposals in XMPP. For example we are working on something called MIX, an evolution on group chat, based on Publish-Subscribe. This allows for orthogonal streams of information bound to a channel, besides just chat and presence, like merge request notifications, Twitter mentions, etc. that could be displayed in a side-bar or ticker, instead of (annoyingly) interleaved with chat messages.

I would have welcomed Slack interacting with the community, but they didn't.
My first thought too. And since services like Blendle lean heavily on iOS for generating money I think it's probably bad news for them. But at least they had a great time playing with their investors money while they were growing ;)

https://twitter.com/alexandernl/status/585415710546993153
Not one word about the HUGE Antifa presence or doxing by left wing conspirators and agitators. This is exactly why I don't read the New Yorker.

I would consider reading it if they gave light to both sides of this issue. But they don't. This is not journalism.

Edit: u/spez was caught editing user comments on certain subs he publicly disagrees with. How he's still CEO is beyond me. At least he admits he's a troll.

Edit 2 - Downvotes all you want, all I'm saying is FACTS.
Here's more FACTS:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z4444w/how-reddit...

Reddit culture starts at the top and this is Steve Hoffman. He should resign. He's completely in over his head.
> Multiverse is not only a non-terrible hypothesis,

Missed the edit window, but non-testable, not non-terrible.
My Nextdoor community gets a lot of hate speech. They have filters that catch the words you know, but they don't have a way to stop the ideas.

My neighborhood is 50%+ non English Speaking Chinese. There are posts almost everyday that say things like..

"Some people in this neighborhood need to OPEN THEIR EYES and stop hitting the gate with their cars. I'll post this in the appropriate languages so everyone and the community can appreciate the significance of my message. Ching-Chang Chow... Bang Bong, Bing bong bing."
> I recall reading that in the USA it's a lawful order to have you unlock your phone with a thumbprint, but not to unlock with a PIN code. God knows why.

I believe the rationale was that they can't ask you to incriminate yourself (give up your passcode), but you don't have to say anything for them to force you to give your fingerprint.
SICP, the foundation on which my career rests.
I like it -- it would be killer if there was a way to simply throw an SVG at it and have it convert the whole thing to this style.
> James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA, advised Bezos to spend just a quarter of his fortune on space exploration, so he can take care of this planet’s needs. “

This is an odd opinion to have here. I thought Bezos was clear that Blue Origin is all about protecting the Earth in the first place! The stated goal of Blue Origin is to stop all mining and manufacturing on Earth, to move it off-world, and leave Earth a peaceful place to live and generally hang out.

The entire purpose of Blue Origin is to stop humanity from resource-extracting-and-polluting Earth's oceans, land and water. I cannot envision a way Bezos would be better suited to personally spend his money on solving Earth problems than the way he has just posited.
Tips for devs writing emails: objectivity without rudeness
Of course when college was a stretch but not median-income-barely-covers-tuition expensive, the assumption that parents would cover it were more reasonable. And it was less of an issue if they didn’t since the debt load wasn’t insane.
I noticed the same thing about my family in Phoenix who has nothing to do with the tech industry. They think they're very savvy for having the Uber app and knowing how to use it. In fact my uncle was bragging about some uber benefit he gets via his amex platinum card.

They've never heard of Lyft and don't know anything about any Uber controversy other than the fact that 'taxi drivers hate it!"
In Easter Europe, there is much less expectation that women is naturally lazy useless housewife. There is much less tradition of the "women are supposed to be naturally at home and do nothing whole day otherwise there is something wrong with them" I see repeated surprisingly often by Americans. There were no culture wars around women working in 1960. In Easter Europe majority of women (except very small aristocracy) always did useful things and worked whole day (same as men) - the place could not afford half population do nothing.

Importantly, pay gap between genders is bigger then in America. So much for women being attracted to money more due to desperation.

However, jobs are gender segregated a lot, probably much more. Tech is boy thing, clearly and openly. It is mostly that different things get qualified as "boyish tech" - for instance economics is mostly girly and seen as office administration job. Math is also much less likely to be perceived as "male thing". The attitude that girls don't have what it takes to learn math exists, but is less pronounced. I have heard it first time as adult, although I knew it would be weird for me to do something with physical technology. And I heard it most often from christian circles influenced by Evangelicals, for other people the stereotype was news.

There is a lot of push for boys to go to stem, including to tech occupations that don't earn much.

Edit: it is very odd to put reading and science into opposite. As if you would be interested in one and not in the other. There is not subject "science" in school either.
Mostly a lot of establishment bashing because 'they' are dumb and he is not. There are competing theories about the emergence of farming, even if not as fast as often stated it was still a profound revolution.
Even if the firmware can be replaced, 99% of the time it won't be. And while it's nice that volunteer hackers are producing third-party firmware, we can't rely on that as the solution for Internet security.
I'd really like to use Apple News, sadly it's only available in three countries [1].

[1] https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#news
I believe L. Bob Rife had some thoughts on that.
This seems to be survivorship bias. Since you like lyft, you are more likely to be friends with people who also like lyft. OR to phrase it better, you and people who like lyft have more in common.
As they request it they can probably claim that those not giving it are not authorised under the CMA/CFAA or appropriate act in whatever jurisdiction. Would be interesting to see that tested.

Just because I have an honesty box for payments doesn't mean you're not obligated to pay for whatever goods/services.
It's doable - It already parses SVG paths https://github.com/pshihn/rough/wiki#path-d--options
Metafilter set the gold standard: accounts require a one-time payment to discourage sock puppets and they have full-time moderators who’ll jump in before behavior gets out of control and tell people to tone it down.

I don’t know an easy way to scale that model.
In Southern California, Lyft is always the first choice among my coworkers. It's consistently cheaper than Uber, often significantly so.
> I just wish there was an Apple News app for the desktop

This is almost surely coming with iOS 12 and macOS 10.14 as they are reported to introduce “unified” apps[0].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-20/apple-is-...
Also they supposedly black out sensitive areas.
I would like to see him put a big chunk into a fusion research skunkworks.
Google wasn't the first search engine...

Apple didn't sell the first smartphone or tablet...

Facebook wasn't the first social media site...

Amazon wasn't the first to sell shit online...

And Lyft wasn't the first ride-sharing app.

Maybe being first to market is overrated?
> The problem is trolls are given too much room to play and speak.

That's the problem with your mindset right there.

We are talking about people. To decide that other people cannot say things you do not like to hear is to deny them their liberty. That clearly worse than "trolling".

Getting offended by a person's words or actions is not them doing something to you, it's you doing something to them - or rather, to yourself.

So if you can't - or shouldn't - compel other people to think and act in a certain manner, what do you do?

The answer is simple: show them the door.
OpenWRT and the Turris Omnia are an interesting alternative, for home/SOHO use.
Cloud computing hits a tipping point
New ThinkPad Guts Bring Intel Core I, DDR4, USB 3 to Cult Laptops