skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who falls asleep in roughly 15 seconds of putting my head on the pillow, it's fascinating that people have to adopt strategies to fall asleep. I wonder what's different about me than other people. I know of insomnia of course, and know plenty of people with it, but it still seems utterly alien to me to not be able to sleep as soon as my head hits the pillow.

I don't particularly have any bedtime rituals, but I often have a cup of caffeinated black tea right before bed. I don't know whether my ability to sleep at the drop of a hat is physiological or psychological. I'd be interested to figure it out... once I fix the 831 unit tests I just broke by upgrading all the nuget packages in this solution XD
Medium has a policy on cryptocurrency? Given the amount of problematic thought pieces submitted to HN from it (and the no-so-subtle advertisements for the author’s own crypto), you wouldn’t know it.
90 seconds? You're lucky. I have machines running systemd (RHEL 7) that simply will not reboot unless I use the --force option. They will just sit there with a blank screen forever otherwise.
Isn't Unity a way better and a way closer to OS X?
What did I just read
oh i'm dumb just the block. for some reason i was imagining 10k for a car with an ls3.
The laser allows you to achieve that to no detriment towards your own soldiers
Polarized lenses were initially conceived as being for car headlights to reduce glare, but ended up being used in glasses. Perhaps this should be looked into again.

Depending on the situation, I wear polarized sun glasses or yellow tinted glasses at night while driving. The yellow tinted ones work really well to cut down on the ultra intense and blinding LED lights of police (blue) or work vehicles (yellow).
That's a great model to deal with the fact that cash isn't going away anytime soon.
John Cleese mentions this process as being done as well by Thomas Edison in his Talk at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-p44-9S4O0&t=9m39s
Strange, according to the queries I did on the package managers, only about 35 of the Gnome 3 installs are default, all the others were manually selected (and often don't have the distro-specific extensions installed like those from Ubuntu and Debian). Most of the users in the pool I can query with Salt and OSQuery are developers/ops/engineers.
"Towards a world without Facebook"
How do people compare this to Alpine Linux? I'm interested in both.
As someone who switched from Slackware to Void several months ago, Void boots far faster. Also, though I haven't used Arch, Void really feels like a combination of a slimmed down Slackware + NetBSD (the author of Void is a NetBSD commiter IIRC). Of course, Gentoo portage was inspired by BSD ports, which I believe was an impetus for Arch's package manager.

I don't know what the story is for Arch, but I find that Void strives to make the system dead simple: it is even more minimalist than Slackware (it feels more like a BSD). It isn't just small, though: it has good defaults. There isn't a whole lot of documentation beyond the well-written man pages, and I believe this is in part because it isn't necessary.

Like Arch, though, it is a rolling release system: an update may break your system, and package indices quickly become stale as old packages are deleted from the server. You can easily fix this by updating the index.
Malicious ad took over my browser when I tried to visit the link...
The quintessential moat Facebook has is its strong network effect facilitated by ease of use. Facebook is simple. To the point where my elder relatives refer to Facebook as "the Internet": the place where they can see funny clips, talk to friends and share their photos and thoughts.

For every person bemoaning how Facebook extended and proceeded to take a dump into her favorite aspect of the Internet - be it online publishing, email and chat, news feeds etc. - turning it into a restricted, ad-infested, bastardized version of itself, I have only one answer: Facebook could only do that because there was a margin for simplification that attracted the average users.

If you want to move to a world without Facebook, you need to make it simpler yet, and even more compelling for average users. The margin for simplification Facebook operated in circa 2004 is long since gone and a perfect Facebook clone will not break it's strong incumbent advantage.

So when I hear things like token operated blockchain based distributed social networks I really have a hard time understanding how does it simplify things. Yes, it might get a niche following inside crypto circles, but it has nothing to do with "a world without Facebook".
I don't know anything about DP, so my question might be unrelated. But I think perhaps someone can answer it. Almost 20 years ago, I was told of the following problem at the university:

You have two identical databases (sets of n bits) that do not communicate. You want to know a single bit from the database. How many bits do you have retrieve from each database so that neither database would learn about which bit you were looking for?

The simplest answer is n, retrieve all bits. But we were also given a better answer, square root of n - you order the bits into a square, ask for a xor of random subset of columns but to the first/second database respectively with/without the column you're looking for.

And here is my question, we were also told that this can be done even better, in cube root of n bits. But I never learned the answer, and since I wonder, was that claim correct? Does anyone know this problem and the better solution?
I never connected my FB/Insta accounts and they were created with different email addresses entirely. Was conscious of not letting the two connect. One day my Instagram account started actively recommending my FB friends. Anybody have this experience?
Magical Serializer
Is a world without Facebook one with a real alternative (everyone in the same place), or one where there are many alternatives?

Reddit is a single platform with many mostly-independent communities. Could a similar thing in the shape of a social network exist?
Or one could just wrote because on wants to write, want to share knowledge and not to "build and audience" or anything.
I'll add my recommendation here too. You can get going with it over at digital ocean with one of their single click images, whatever you call them, and run it fine for $5-$10 per month. I recommend $10, but I believe it'll still install and run fine for low traffic sites on the cheapest tier.

It's also really easy to install yourself. They've done a great job on it all around. If you have a blog, give it a shot. It's not a WordPress replacement if you use tons of plugins but it's great writing software.

It's also really easy to theme.
Oh man...

This is literally my whole business, and I wrote about this here: https://austingwalters.com/is-search-solved/

Hinting at why search was broken.

Essentially, search providers are for the general, meaning if you type "whales" it'll bring you to the wikipedia. This is because probably 80% of the time you're looking for wikipedia. It uses NLP to determine when you say "I want to know about whales" because it works in the general case. If you want an exact match do "I want to know about whales" and it'll look for that exact phrase.

Now my business, is actually the reverse - not looking for the general case, but identifying the niche - i.e. "what an expert would want":

https://projectpiglet.com/

This lets me build a financial advisor which is averaging over 100% YoY returns because it identifies and tracks specific topics (as opposed to just wikipedia changes). So if you go on there and type "Iran", you'll get a lot of search results about Iran, but also about Isreal, Jordan and the like because it identifies Iran being associated in the graph. This works great for investing because you want to know about the related topics (you may not even realized you wanted to know about).

Now, that's NLP. But it works for my customers, because exact matches typically are not what people want. They want the Niche, the general, or occasionally as in your case an exact match (if they can think of the right words). Luckily you have quotes "search phrase", in my system I always assume you mean to type "search phrase", so I always look for an exact match. But I still apply NLP to the results, because that's the value.
Here's the post where they quote the message Medium sent them: https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99744414079487371

And here's the policy page it links to: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000646167
the really hip are developing plugins for https://vcvrack.com/
You really don't want this at all. If you think keyword optimized spam is bad today wait until it's not filtered out.
Electric car dreams may be dashed by 2050 on lack of cobalt, lithium supplies
Farha tasha tweet on Twitter
Agreed. It's funny you mention the Stasi. When touring the old Stasi headquarters in Berlin its tough not to think about how 25 years later a company has amassed much more data on private citizens than Stasi could ever imagined.
That's not a good cite: it was a 5/4 decision, and the majority explicitly rejected unlimited firearms rights despite no limit on them residing in the text of 2A.

I'm sure Rayiner is right, since he went to school for this, but I doubt Heller gets us there.
Cities:Skylines does a relevant thing with traffic. Because the granularity of all activity plays out as individual vehicles and pedestrians going from place to place, as you scale up you run into bottlenecks and traffic issues that affect lots of things in the game.

Some of it's simply dumb AI bugs, but some is a legitimate requirement for designing road flow (which you can do around the bugs as well if you know they're there). A comparable thing could be done with Civilization-type games if you had something that worked at a low enough level of granularity. Rather than 'because you did this, enjoy 20% more productivity', implement it as something where it depends on underlying factors following a good design.
They banned several other people, iirc, who did not incite violence nor disinformation on their platform.

>argument doesn't hold on a private platform

Would you argue that Liberapay's banning was justified, here, in the context of this story?

>everyone else knows the positions are nonsense.

The cornerstone of a modern liberal democracy is not 'nonsense.' You just don't appreciate free speech, and thus cannot call yourself a liberal. And that's fine with me.
Interesting story, I Played this game way-back-when. Thanks for sharing!
https://steemit.com
http://minds.com

Bizarre that jonevans/techcrunch doesn't site these modern social networking sites, only the mysterious demise of Diaspora etc.
Think you need a 2000 sqft house to be comfortable? Think again
I did understood that, but unless the language has 1:1 of SQL declarative power, it is a no go for the majority of DBAs.

Hence why Perl, Java, .NET as stored procedures have been a failure to SQL extensions.
Suppressing an automated service disruption or preventing the spread of spam is different from policing content on topical or ideological grounds.

Looking at reddit as an example, I don't like where this is headed. First they came for pedos and creepers, and I said nothing because ewww. Then they came for assholes and trolls, and I said nothing because good riddance. Now they've come for gun coupons, and I don't want to flee to Voat because it's dominated by assholes and trolls.
If you want to add a 'modern' political issue you could add a dynamic where city growth results in a backlash from "original" city participants who push for laws/policies to keep the city the 'same', increasing real estate prices, zoning issues, subsequent gentrification as no new internal growth pushes the wealthy out into low income housing areas, lack of low income housing as it can't keep up with gentrification (or development of low income housing lacks profitability due to laws like rent control or other well intentioned laws), and generally hampers growth and increases conflict/unhappiness within the cities.
#plasma on Freenode seems like a good start, had some friendly on-spot conversations there.
Jews traditionally didn't have last names, but instead referred to as the son/daughter of their father, e.g. "Moshe ben David" or "Sarah bat David".

In the past few hundred years, European Jews were generally forced to take fixed surnames. It's unlikely that Nissan was used as an actual surname at that point without any explicit patronymic. It's more likely that it was a father's first name, converted into a surname upon moving to Israel.
It's a function of lower income trailer parks not caring about building and sanitation codes.
I was thinking about this a few months ago. I stopped though because I realized most user content (well in my network at least) was photos and video. Which don't belong in a block chain. In fact if you really start to unroll the implentation, a block chain is t even required. I think we just need a common protocol. Then multiple "vendors" can host the information (encrypted so they can't read it), and multiple "vendors" can create clients.

I often feel like the block chain is derailing the decentralized Internet by adding unnecessary complexity.
While it’s unfortunate that the US legal system is very expensive to participate in, and this is something a lot of larger litigants use to their advantage against smaller litigants, the truth is this guy could have transferred over the domain and walked away at any time. If he bankrupted himself in this fight he has himself partially to blame.
I'm having a .... not fun time updating darch to the latest version. Does your makefile still require git, or can I kill that code?
In parent 'intent' referred to a programming construct of some kind, just a FYI
After ditichong Facebook long ago it seems amusing to me that people have such a connection with it and find it hard to leave.

Sure it may seem hard at first. But your true friends will not lose contact with you. You might not know random life events about your seldom communicated with old high school peers though.
That doesn't really solve the problem, it just moves it to github. At least you have a clearer path to move your content to another platform, if needed.
First Doctorship in Data Science
I second the author that we need to host our own website and data, however finding an audience is really hard in post-Facebook world. Just ask any blogger who saw the golden years of blogging (2008-2012). The Internet might be the same but the social media sites have changed the nature of the game. I feel our attention spans have decreased and the fallout of the Facebook privacy fiasco will definitely make it hard to consume new stuff.

I'm not sure if decentralised solutions like Mastodon/Scuttlebutt/Diaspora etc will succeed, as I feel this is a human problem, not a technical one.
Users are also highly irresponsible with their data, you didn’t even know the settings available, and others know they are giving up psychological profiling info and do it willingly.

No one really cares until the media overhypes what is possible with the data, P&G knows it can’t use FB ads to get users to buy things but somehow Trump was able to get people to vote for him? What about the idea that maybe as the emails disclose it was Hillary who gave the MSM the idea to promote Trump, how about maybe she was so unlikable that she had to rig the primaries to win against a political neophyte because when she ran against the rookie obama she also lost. Maybe it wasn’t CA, FB or Russians that lost the election but her perennial unpopularity.

Fundamentally if you want to keep your ‘privacy’ it’s pretty dumb to go posting intimate details of your life on the internet.
Bulgaria rising: Can a growing startup movement reinvent the country’s economy?
That's a really good idea. Most of my application switching needs are covered by the built-in Windows "Win+1 opens first icon on the taskbar, Win+2 opens the second...", but this could cover the lesser used ones like Outlook.
Would you say that social media is alienating, in the sense that it has routinized man's acquisition of information and knowledge? That the internet should serve as a tool for our own purposes, and not vice versa?
I guess monolithic kernels have gone full-circle now.
GSFS18: a rejection of code of conducts
I logged my own traffic for a while in order to have an insight about this.

It came out that in a world of reverse proxies, ddos protection and large tech conglomerates, reverse dns is not a big deal (depends on you behaviour too, smaller websites with a dedicated IP are easier to catch).

But traffic analysis may be a big deal, and the risk of this kind of exposure is not something you can evaluate by yourself. Mix networks are a mitigation.
A cryptocurrency ad disguised as "a world without Facebook".
Our initial author, and the primary author of xbps, came directly from the NetBSD community.
Decline the work or make it transparent to both parties via a contract. 10-16 hours is not worth the potential legal trouble as well as burning bridges.
No. It could potentially kill someone so it might ought to be regulated.

Some of the stuff the pro-regulation types want regulated is nonsensically stupid: in the EU, the shape of cucumbers, the brand names of cheese, the power output of a tea kettle, the strength of hair dryers — none of those things have any life or death consequences. People want to regulate internet content, the height of fences, the width of doorways, the capacity of private toilets — even if those toilets connect to a septic system and don’t connect to the sewer mains. Even fucking lightbulbs are subject to the agenda of unelected officials in Brussels.

People, especially left wing people, just LOVE regulation. They like forcing by people to abide their opinions on how things ought to be. Considering most regulation is by executive agencies and not actually written by accountable elected officials, excessive regulation could be argued as being contrary to the ideas of a representative republic.

We need less overall regulation, but that doesn’t mean NO regulation.
Underground Storage of Energy Carriers – Brine and Salt Extraction (2012) [pdf]
Here's the weirdest hack that no one thought of as a weird hack:

I worked in a vehicle assembly plant from the mid to late 2000s, and our real-time monitoring was performed with a commercial off the shelf system called Cimplicity. Cimplicity was an excellent systems integrator... for the 1990s.

Cimplicity's main problem was that it wasn't enterprise scale; updating the content of screen objects was laborious.

Someone's solution was to add a database call to every object on the screen - some screens had about 100 objects.

So on each and every screen startup, on each and every computer, about 100 database calls were made.

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I guess that wasn't too hacky, but when absolutely everything is half hacked together like that, it's hard to what is a hack and what is normal.
I have no idea how blockchain helps social media. If my details, my posts or other "my thing" end up in one they're indelible, no? So how does that help me exercise my right to be forgotten? Besides the perf question of syncing blockchains, or the design hit of federating them, or apportioning by some yet-to-be-defined traffic/post/data taxonomy...
should rename this to ultimate guide to speech recognition APIs.
Do handset manufacturers ship Facebook pre-installed? And if so, do they choose the permissions for pre-installed apps, or does the user do this on setup?
thats one advantage. another is portability.
Ah, that policy page was added a week ago (the update date is visible on the mobile site). Even if that policy was violated, it’s a jerk move to ban for infractions prior to that date.
Similarly they removed the Civ 4 culture flipping in Civ 5. And, way back, the "militia defeats battleship" after Civ 1. Unpredictable minor penalties that increase the micromanagement burden aren't especially fun.
Didn't AWD on Model S become widely available only relatively recently? I seem to remember it being an option last time I looked at it.
Peter Thiel Leaves Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Gets
A fundamental distinction needs to be made between blockchain-based and non-blockchain-based decentralized services. Blockchains are insanely ambitious, century-scale, state-killing, finance-replacing behemoths. WE DON'T NEED ANY OF THAT STUFF TO REPLACE FACEBOOK! You're exploding the problem way out of scope, and constant focus on blockchains seems almost like a false flag to demotivize people who just want to build decentralized alternatives to Facebook, which is already an astoundingly huge problem.

Stop trying to put blockchains in web decentralized systems. They're not going to work for several more decades. All we need to do to kill Facebook is solve the self-hosting P2P UX problem, and create a W3C-like body that allows developers to participate in standards creation process for how we schematize common social data. That's it. Once everyone is running a federated node in the cloud or in their basement, then you can go back to doing blockchain stuff.
5 book recommendations for developers
Certainly gnome felt more familiar than unity. What felt truly closest was elementaryOS's pantheon.
"Sid Meier's San Francisco"?
wiby.me seems to do just that.
If we go by your definition, "true speech" is always intended to persuade others of your opinions or positions. I don't believe that to be the case.

Your reference to the last presidential election is nonsensical, if you're attempting to claim that the Democratic candidate lost because of a few hundred thousand dollars in ad buys and thousands of Twitter bots. Clinton lost because the campaign was clumsy when it came to image management (which you really need when it comes to the skeletons surrounding both her and her husband), and the campaign ignored flyover states and the electoral college, and even outright insulted voters. You can't rely on California to get elected, sorry.

The real victim, when bots run rampant, is platforms. Not democracies.
What has changed at facebook to create all this negative feedback?
Almost everything was on server side rendering 5years ago. Then angular appeared.

I have seen an application login page size 5mb, full of js. Because it downloaded the full application to the client before rendering the login page.
Civ II did as well, climate changes, through pollution and nuclear fallout, with enough global effect to use it as a strategy against more modernised but smaller rivals.

Such grim game progression was made all the more poignant by the space race game mechanic, where you could technically still "win" by sending a ship with settlers to a different star system which translated in many games to: "We're all doomed, but you were the first to avert complete extinction of the species. You Win!"
You can remove the git stuff, as long as you are not building containerd and runc as well.

What issues are you running into? The AUR and VoidLinux package don't have an issue. Skype (paul.knopf1) me?
Users need to be able to mislead the apps.

Right now, an app can force a choice: enable all the permissions, or you don't get to use the app. Users need to be able to feed fake data into the app. For example, maybe Facebook should think I am spending my time with Bill Gates in Bhutan. Users should be able to install dishonesty plugins to generate this data.
Maybe. But... maybe not. Per trip costs, including cost of time, already peaks very sharply at rush hour. Bike adoption is what it is.
In America they just ruled that URLs were property and therefor could not be stolen. Never understood why the plaintiffs didn't just steal the judges' phone numbers.
A quicker way to get cold is a really cold shower just before bed. It works really well for me, and I believe there are many other benefits to cold showers beyond just getting to sleep.
How will I know if my college roommates got fat though?
DO recently upped their specs. Now you get 1 GB ram for $5/month, which are the specs of their previous $10/month tier. I'm going through this weekend and switching my $10 instance to a $5.