skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun stuff. My one contribution was the libc function getsubopt() which originated in what was the first release of Solaris (code named Zeus) and picked up in the Net-2 release.

I was the engineer responsible for harmonizing the 'mount' command between SunOS (aka BSD 4.2+) and SysV R3.2. The way that worked usually is that the command would get options from both sides of the tree and we would argue about the ones that overlapped, but in the case of mount the AT&T System engineer was totally appalled that mount had a -all option to mount everything in the /etc/fstab file. AT&T was pushing a new script named 'mountall' what would mount all file systems. They also hated multi-letter options like '-o rw,noatime'. Their argument was that there wasn't a subroutine in the C library to parse multi-letter options like we had for the mount command.

So I invented getsubopt which, with Bill Shannon's sign off, we made a 'standard part of SunOS'. And then we added it as something to be included in the consolidated lib C.

Going through that exercise of trying to harmonize System V and SunOS into the one true UNIX was the weirdest thing. AT&T had 'system engineers' who never wrote code, and Sun just had engineers who actually wrote code. Some of the technical disagreements were settled at the 'VP' level (Eric Schmidt at the time) where Eric and his AT&T counter part would 'trade' concessions that had escalated to that level. Like I said, very weird.
We have far lower tariffs and fewer business barriers than any other market.
Here's what I don't get about this though, was there less meetings back in the early 2000s? I'm only 24 so I don't know, but if there is one thing I feel has been passed down from seniors as a software developer it is that in the early 2000s managers loved holding meetings.
Group chats silently break, that's pretty bad. For 1:1 chats it works fine though, and quite a few of my contacts are on it.
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How is this not considered anti-competitive behavior?
Not according to Ireland and Luxembourg.
Wait, are you now blaming level 3-4 automated vehicles for the inattention of the human?
Zuckerberg is too smart to think a third party candidate has any chance of winning. The parties being in shambles does nothing to change that, and if anything it's going to heighten tribal affiliation with those two labels.
I wish people had to justify downvoting with a quick comment. I presume you are being downvoted a) for the possible hyperbole of 'white supremacist' (Is Sessions a White Supremacist, or protectionist and somewhere on the nationalistic scale? Genuine question, as I am unqualified to say) and b) as it is arguably fanciful thinking to simply 'rip it out and replace it wholesale' (I would argue 'never going to happen').

To a large extent, issues posed in this thread could be solved with body cams. When all police are held more accountable in this way, are your grievances eased at all?

How would you suppose a government bring about such a large upheaval when most modern politics spends its time on compromise and incremental change?
Productivity measures how much money economy produce per hour of work. It depends mostly on type of industries and such and little on how persobally productive white collar worker is.
What on earth makes you think they "targeted friends"?

I wrote "the targeted friends". In other words, the "volunteer's" friends did not themselves volunteer to participate, yet their contact info was handed over, and they were then targeted.
I'm not disagreeing but I'm adding the context.

The article is dated May 5, 2016. There was apparently a -1.0% drop in productivity according to the May 4, 2016 BLS news release, but it doesn't seem to be the worst quarter since 1993. In fact, the same article revised the previous quarter's productivity down from a number that was already lower than the May 5 number, so the author seems to be BSing. The BLS timeseries for nonfarm business appears to show 2008Q1 as the worst quarter-to-quarter drop in the span from 1991 to 2017. The worst quarter drop since 1947Q2, was -11.3% in 1947Q3 which was followed by a 17.9% increase in 1947Q4. The data are pretty noisy.

Most of the charts in the BLS articles you mention do show productivity growth in 2009-2017 lagging far behind the trendlines for previous business cycles. The BLS articles are good for putting productivity on an index which I think makes a better comparison than looking at a rise or drop from quarter to quarter. I have read a number of economists who are concerned about the drop in productivity growth, although there hasn't been a persistent drop in total productivity.
It's also interesting that there is barely a mention of all this in my news feed on Facebook and there have been no links to it as a trending story.
It was already impossible, or nearly so, to discharge student loans in bankruptcy before Bush 43.
Does anyone have this for Google ads domains and/or YouTube?
> The police are 100% your enemy once they start questioning you about anything.

This is mostly not true for most people, especially if you are not-poor, white, and not actually committing major crimes. OTOH, the times when it is true aren't easily distinguishable from the times that it isn't true, which means you have an interest in treating it as more true than it actually is.
How about making it a crime to misremember? Sure would make you think twice before you testified something as fact. Human memory is _very_ fallible. Time we started treating it that way.
Lightning for X means a way to transact in X without waiting for block intervals, for example for micropayments. Eventually it will be used to do rapid atomic swaps between tokens, and for this reason it will likely be available for all major tokens.

Bitcoin is the slow part of on-chain atomic swaps, so that could be a reason to implement lightning for tokens that already have fast transactions.
close to the market to sell digital goods? Ukraine is "closer" to the EU market if you want a non-EU country "close" to the market...
Yes, and the liberty of the users (read: the price the developers would be if having to replace the violated code) is worth that much.

How much is a team of developers for a month? So yeah, that's real money and time.
This is a good thing to enable, but I think that smartphones contribute exponentially more data to Facebook services than laptops and browsers do. Smartphones give easy access to location, background running services, microphone. Even if you block these permissions to the app, Facebook gets the data from their data providers that use Facebook ads.
We are starting with non violent offenders, who make up 2/3 of the jail population.
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Just spent a few minutes playing with the Watson Custom Model for vision flow and let's just say I am totally disappointed is an understatement, few things I noticed:
1. You first need to register an account, and to my surprise there is no command line tool or REST APIs, the entire interface is written in HTML. Hmmm, are they expecting me to specify the network structure by pressing buttons
2. Okay next, after choosing the visual model, it leads you directly to a web page with a bunch of widgets where you can add classes and negatives. To a seasoned ML engineers, this whole interface is useless. The classification has to be done at a full image level, no way to define the layers, the loss function, or any knobs to play around with the network. To an amateur, this is also very confusing. What are they expecting us to drag in to the negatives, if it's a logistic classifier, I could understand but for classifying an image, what exactly do you expect us to put?
3. Btw, to upload images, they expect .zip format, and this is where i stopped. Do they seriously think I will now export this so-called "model" to CoreML and load it to my Xcode?

If they came up with this 5 years ago I might play with it a little longer, but don't the IBM engineers keep up with what's going on at GOOGL, FB or AMZN. I can't possibly imagine anyone using this to develop iPhone apps for the purpose of image recognition, even if it's an offline flow.
Boring repetitive project in closure is still boring.
If the purpose is just to pay for pre-trial release of inmates, the simple solution would be to just release them and offer them reasonable payment plans. Or to postpone the fee until after they have had a fair trial ("I will only pay you if you treat me fairly according to the law" might actually incentivize the judicial system to treat people more humanely).

Locking people up for not being able to pay their fines/fees is literally debtors' jail. This was supposed to have been declared unconstitutional, but the practice remains, and the ACLU is fighting current cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debtors'_prison
It may not be that bad for Ireland. Ireland had stipulations in bringing a certain amount of operations(ie jobs) into the country to get their favorable tax rate. If the tax benefits are cut back, these businesses may decide it is worth while to keep operations ongoing in Ireland even without the favorable tax regime. Only time will tell on that front if Google et al will remain there.
> banned fake news sources like HuffPost/WashPost etc

Is the Washington Post considered fake news by most? Do you have examples of why you think it's fake? I'm curious because I actually pay for WaPo. I occasionally pull up fox news to see another side, but while I do consider WaPo liberal leaning, it seemed at least less biased than some other sources I've seen, and I would rather know the biases I'm consuming.
Both used Facebook data, but the comparison doesn't go further. The Obama campaign did something very different - as different as legal, ethical medical experiments using informed consent and the tests on the Tuskegee Airmen. I won't repeat what was said elsewhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16630214
Pi-Hole [1] is another nice way to filter domains at the DNS level network wide, if you want a wider reaching solution that supports wildcards. Great way to use an extra Pi if you have one sitting around.

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[1] https://pi-hole.net/
Wait, really? Jurors have to swear to always treat law enforcement word as true, even if this entirely contradicts physical reality?

Do they get punished if they say yes to that and somehow it becomes obvious they're not doing that?
Because it's axiomatic that absolutely the last thing that happened in 2016 is Trump legitimately won after the media lied about consensus.
I can speak from experience and the experiences of many defense attorneys. Many of my clients spent time in jail and then the government decided not to file charges, or the charges were later dismissed, or they were acquitted of the charges at trial. This is is a good resource for additional information on the number of people impacted by the criminal justice system: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.html and this is a series on netflix that highlights some of these issues: https://www.netflix.com/title/80187052
Yes. It is why the app does not do continuous GPS monitoring and does not store days of GPS data.
Perhaps, but there was almost no positive returns from his ideas there. He seemed to fundamentally misunderstand the JC Penney customer. I don't think it was a case of abandoning a good plan due to lack of patience, the entire strategy (eliminate sales, make it like a mini mall with its own sub stores) seemed ill conceived and was a disaster.
I don't even like Facebook, but really, is this newsworthy now? I know the media sees it as a chance to dogpile the company that has taken them to the cleaners, but there's a reason people don't trust or like the media anymore and "articles" like these are a big reason why.
Wow, let's just put people in bubble suits so they don't hurt themselves. It's ridiculous to say people shouldn't drive cars because it's possible to hurt themselves or others. We might as well outlaw pregnancy for all the harm that can come to people as a result of being born.
I was fortunate enough to get into rehab after only two stints in jail, and have remained sober from heroin and cocaine for 10+ years. However during the time in jail for crimes related to my addiction the only thing on my mind the entire stay was, "can't wait to get out of here and get that first dose again".

It is especially hard to think about bettering yourself and getting help when you're around countless other people basically glorifying the problem from which you suffer.
English fluency is much higher in the UK than in the Ukraine though.
Similar to another discussion I'm on in this same thread, Signal is simply non viable for my use case at this time. I have the app on my iPhone but I have no conversations in it. For background, my primary IM service is Facebook Messenger, followed by Telegram for some chats, followed by Discord for larger groups around games.

Signal doesn't have a native (or even near-native) desktop app for macOS and Windows nor does it support my iPad. For an app I rely on as much as my messaging software it must be available and high quality on every platform I commonly use. Signal's desktop app is poor compared to the extremely polished Telegram macOS app and the nearly as well made Telegram Windows/Linux/macOS app. Admittedly Messenger doesn't have a very good Windows app but in my opinion it is still better than Signal's, while it completely lacks a macOS app which is a bummer.

The Signal iOS app has no way for me to back up my messages, and I understand they are not backed up on Signal's servers. This means if I lose my phone I will lose all my messages. On IM services such as Facebook Messenger and Telegram this is a non-issue for non-E2E chats. I realize this is considered a feature for many, but for me it is a strong anti-feature.

And finally yet most importantly - practically no one I know uses Signal. Even the 5 or 6 contacts it found haven't even set profile photos nor did they reply to a test message I sent - it's likely they've uninstalled it from their phone. Everyone I routinely interact with save maybe two people are on Facebook Messenger or at least visit Facebook.com eventually.

edit: grammar and expanded responses
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Yes it does. But you could have found this out way faster by just searching on the page.
Really brutal how unashamed they have become about their biases. No wonder people are getting so angry against the media and big tech while those still play the facade of a fair game.
But, no to staying in jail as a choice. I share the concern about storing data.
Also worth calling out https://appolition.us/ as a way to turn spare change into Bail.
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Respectable sites usually include a list of corrections and changes made to an article after publication.

When it comes to submission titles, HN has a tendency to change them for no obvious reason even if the original title hasn't changed.
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It is makes me smile. I never heard any news that Signal has been done anything or it were used by anybody. But in every Telegram article there is 100% chance that somebody will come with advertisement about Signal.
Carnegie did it 100 years ago.
This list presumably updates/moves around often.

Is there a service that, say, subscribes to a live list of this domain set (like adblock consumes easylist) and updates my hostfile automatically?

If not, that is a piece of software that I would find useful and worth paying for (with the ability to audit the software's ability to phone home about the rest of my hosts file)
There are better ways to counteract that. Off the top of my head - if you declare bankruptcy to evict student loans, you are ineligible for retirement account contributions like IRA and 401ks for the 7-10 year window. Additionally you take a 5% tax increase for the duration of that window.
This is an interesting point:

"To do these short and surprising proofs, you need a lot of confidence. And one way to get the confidence is if you know the thing is true. If you know that something is true because so-and-so proved it, then you might also dare to say, "What would be the really nice and short and elegant way to establish this?" So, I think, in that sense, the ugly proofs have their role."
I'm not sure what you mean by that. As far as I'm aware the no law has been passed around this yet, the proposed law from the other day was a flat 3% tax on any revenue made in the EU (which includes Ireland and Luxembourg).
The author of the article confuses productivity with productivity growth (the rate of change in productivity). While productivity growth has generally declined in recent years, the rate of change has been positive. Consequently, productivity itself has continued to increase (albeit at a declining rate).

Another comment provided a link to the St. Louis Fed’s chart of productivity growth, which illustrates this [0].

From skimming the article, it doesn’t appear to address some of the hypothesized causes of this trend, including insufficiency in the definition of productivity to reflect Information Age work and arguments that the internet has less of a multiplier effect on the productivity of labor than other inventions (electricity, combustion engine, etc.)

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MPU4910063
What software actually parses /etc/hosts, at least on Linux?
How are you considering that such disqualifies you from ever sitting in a jury box? Are you thinking more in the general principle that your bias would prevent you from being impartial, or more that it would be rooted out during voir dire, and you'd be dismissed because of it? Because if it doesn't come up in voir dire, and you don't volunteer it, you might end up in that jury box.

In my case, I'd have liked to think that I'm not particularly biased for or against police, though news stories like this one don't help in that regard. But when I sat in a jury box, I don't recall it coming up. The only question from voir dire that I can immediately recall was the defense attorney making sure I understood accusation != guilt.

With that said, I did up having to consider the police witness testimony unreliable. Not because I thought they were lying because they could get away with it, but because it was too inconsistent from one officer to the next. That was one of the first things we agreed on in the jury room, that the police testimony was too inconsistent to be useful, and that we would need to focus on the other evidence (video, DNA testing, call records, et. al.)
Thanks, that was the goal!
We are pragmatic founders. We spent most of our professional like advocating for these changes and realized we wanted a more immediate solution. We are also worried that the absence of bail can actually lead to more incarceration. Kentucky got rid of private bail but the system is still fundamentally unjust.
Its actually quite annoying to block all of facebook. There are a lot of innocuous sites that have at least some small reliability on facebook and blocking all of facebook makes using these sites a tad bit difficult / poor UX.
It mainly uses RSS feeds versus HTML scraping, but there are a couple of news sources where HTML is required.
I spent 13 years of my life electing candidates. We just disagree. We wanted an alternative and solutions.
Salesforce is buying MuleSoft at enterprise value of $6.5B
You don't think evidence of the NYT being bossed around by Facebook is newsworthy?
PyTorch for example is often called a deep learning framework. But at its core it is a hardware accelerated linear algebra and tensors library with the support of auto differentiation.
So it is well suited for implementing numeric algorithms, classic machine learning algorithms and differentiable programs.
DL is really a subset of differentiable programs, but it happens to be a very interesting one.
I don't have a list that I can easily share, but you can curate your own off of https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Exactly.

I sort of don't care why the media firestorm is so bad, even if it's unfair, because it means we might see some action which will limit bad actors on all sides of the political spectrum.
I don't see https://messenger.com or https://m.me (which also leads to messenger)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16575852
Seems kinda crazy to me that you'd put down a rhino that is the last male of its kind. Even one in pain. Why not induce a coma, and keep those gametes alive?
> The bigger question is whether this marks the beginning of the end of startups offering high-quality, low-price passive investment.

Probably, because what value prop is there above using Vanguard? Tax loss harvesting isn't good enough.
The best thing about Google News (the old Google news) was that it was like being able to search microfiche of all the old-school news publications (but digitally): articles written by journalists for publications that happened to also be digitized. You could scroll back and back to as many results as the engine could find on any given topic. As a research tool, it was unparalleled in its ability to help journalists link facts to unbiased sources and to multiple sources.

When they redid the design (yes, I know exactly what you are talking about) it was like ... murdering democracy: limiting results.

I had to stop using it all together.

Sure you can go search google.com, but items that would show up on news ( == important things) are somehow lost from google, and it's just not the same.

Sad day when we lost the old news.google.com. If what they're saying here is true, the first thing to do is to bring back the old news search. That will help journalists more than anything.
>Doesn't this entire issue corroborate the idea that this ISN'T just about a social media company trying to sell us shit

No. OP called out Facebook, not Cambridge Analytica. OP attempted to shame Facebook employees not Cambridge Analytica employees. Facebook is here to sell targeted ads.

>but I think you're being just as hyperbolic by saying this wouldn't crack the top 100.

I stand by it. This smells like a big nothing burger. I'm not even sure what the news here is. Candy Crush probably has info on hundreds of millions of Facebook users. No outrage there.

It isn't even novel that Facebook was used for political targetting, as the Obama, Romney, and more broadly DNC and RNC did the exact same thing. I just assumed this was all part of that vauted digital strategy all the news outlet were blaring about everytime one party won an election. It may be a coincidence that this is a problem because Trump used this method for voter outreach. Maybe.

Maybe it's the potential Russian meddling that's the new news here? But then it's not really what the news outlets are focusing on. It's all about how Cambridge Analytica created 'psychological profiles' on voters...which sounds more like a query that was ran against the dataset.
Sounds like adapting rules for mediæval heraldry might be useful for y'all. Shields & livery, after all, were meant to be clearly visible from a distance, in poor conditions, while the viewers were in psychological distress.

Likewise, flags which use bold swathes of colour & logos are more likely to be recognisable than wordy texts.
Ok, I've taken out '?' and put in 'growth'.