skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is happening on your Facebook that's making you unhappy?

Not me because I haven't been on social media for years but I'm guessing it's comparison. If your friends are posting photos of their holiday in Bali and you only managed a camping trip over the weekend then how is that going to make you feel? Add in the doom and gloom in the news that tells you things have never been so bad and you can see it isn't healthy.
Ask HN: Will HN allow account and comment deletions?
Ask HN: With the GDPR coming, the 'right to be forgotten', and the FB privacy flare-up, will HN ever allow comment and account deletions?
Ive moved on for the most part.

I check reddit and ycombinator.

Instagram was good, but its a lot of repeats after you spend enough time on it.
It's still always possible to just generate any radio signal close to the SDR at a low enough power that no one else can pick it up. Also, it would require special SDR transmitters, but you could in theory transmit on every frequency that an RTL-SDR could pick up (again, close by at a low power so you don't disturb other stuff).
Ugh, yeah. There's a whole bunch of names that are incredibly shitty. Fuck this site.
> Hopefully with a less malicious business model.

The housing bubble bursts when a malicious business model failed and was declared illegal. We still have housing. It seems reasonable that valuation of social media companies can be greatly reduced, and their business models be restricted by regulation, without all social media disappearing.

I suspect many politicians are eager to control aspects of social media, specifically political speech, for similar reasons they are happy to control district boundaries: it gives them influence over their constituents. I fully expect to see legislation purposed that would decrease many platform's revenue while increasing their operating costs. We are already seeing operating costs increase as Facebook hires a new team of lobbyist.
Facebook is but one example of the neutering of the once powerful media. Long ago in the US, there were three tv networks, one or two local newspapers and that's it. A guy named Walter Cronkite single handedly swung public opinion against the war in Vietnam. No one holds that single power today.
Cutting spending and raising taxes are not both indistinguishable forms of “austerity”. In the U.S. political context, the former almost always means cutting essential services to the most precarious people in society and the burden of the latter is almost always born by those with the most resources to bear it.

Attempting to elide the two together under one term fundamentally misrepresents the politics of the situation and makes two very different options sound equally unpalatable.
I think he's making a joke about deflecting lasers with tinfoil?
I agree with your observations. It is getting further and further away from it's roots.
Greenland is melting faster than at any time in the last 450 years (at least)
Better shut down the Internet during the election period (or forever?) if you think that liars online is "manipulation" of the democratic process. Or should we lock people up and isolate them to make sure they are not influenced by liars or uninformed people? Mainstream news media is more dangerous as far as "manipulating" people goes.
Actually, they accepted above-market salaries with above-market pay raises and above-market retirement benefits. There was literally no sacrifice involved.

There are plenty of government unions that did bargain for lower salaries in exchange for higher retirement benefits, (for example, many teachers' unions did) but those unions won't be found in Illinois.
Seriously, but not too seriously, sorry. And, yeah, that's what we grownups do.
nice article, but the concept of a career that is too much based on self-promotion and too little on actual production is not a concept invented by social media. It's fine to say, "hey don't waste all your time on twitter" but this seems to address people who specifically are pursuing their social media persona as a means to career advancement. It depends on the career.
>When you are a programmer and your work requires your smart phone to be on

Couldnt get node.js to work with my emulator...
I completely agree with both of your points. But I also think it's conceptually simple. My last statement also shows that I don't believe it will be easily accomplished, or accomplished at all.
Free Logos for Startups
Anyone who has requested a copy of "your Facebook data" did the data you got include a listing of which websites with embedded "Like" buttons you visited?

Presumably Facebook has this data, for people who are logged in with the same browser at the same time as they visit any page having a Like button. No need to click the button.

The question is whether Facebook is keeping the existence of this data hidden from people who request a copy of the data Facebook has on them.
Indeed. They have lots more data about you that they don't consider to be your data. They think it is their data.
How I optimize “mental states” to make writing books easy
awesome! excited to work with you!
Why emulate a human at all? I think that's the main issue. There has to be a better way to lay brick once you get robots involved.
hahah thanks
I thought the ads only pop up when the car is stopped?
Maybe stuff more like this[1]?

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUdnrtnjT5Q
All the more disappointing to see both Google and Microsoft embrace HEIF for images in their next operating system versions. They really couldn't wait another couple of years to develop an open AV1-based image format? Come on.

Who cares about what Apple does or doesn't do? Apple certainly doesn't seem to care what Google and Microsoft do, which is why it continues to ignore open standards like Vulkan and now went ahead and adopted another one of MPEG-LA's proprietary and patent-encumbered formats.

Because they couldn't wait, now we may be stuck with another proprietary standard for the web for another 20 years. Not to mention there could still be others besides MPEG-LA to claim patents on HEIF and accuse developers of infringement, just like it happened with HEVC. This mess could have been avoided with a little bit of patience.
These pensions are just as absurd as executives of failing companies getting paid golden parachutes. That's the point the OP is making.
Yesterday’s discussion (over 90 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16694365
There are several problems with this analysis.

The first major problem is that the article presents "promised benefits" - equal to the sum of all future pension payouts, which can span as many as 50-60 years into the future - and compares them to ANNUAL state revenue; a comparison which will obviously seem ridiculous. A more accurate comparison would be expected annual payouts vs expected revenue allocated to pensions. An even more accurate comparison would be expected payouts at year X vs (contributions + (expected returns at year X * balance of pension fund at year X) + expected revenue allocated to pensions). After all, pension payouts are funded by a mix of contributions, investment returns, and any state revenues allocated for pension payouts.

Another error is that in the linked analysis where they say they looked at every state's level of underfunding, they state:
"According to a recent report from the Hoover Institution, on
average, public pensions (state, local and federal employee
pension plans) assume that they will achieve a risk free 7.6%
return on investment per year, every single year."

This seems very stupid if it were true, but it's not. The Hoover Institution paper actually states that the 7.6% figure is the return these pension funds are expecting, which is reasonable given the historical S&P 500 annual return of 11.83% (since 1928). The Hoover paper makes no mention anywhere that pensions are expecting the return to be "risk free." Furthermore, the paper makes no mention of inflation or "real" returns, and pensions are tied to nominal wages rather than real wages, so it's reasonable to assume that the 7.6% figure is NOT adjusted for inflation - but even if it were, it would be reasonable, given the historical average inflation rate since 1928 of 3%.

Moreover, the Hoover paper rests on the rather dubious assumption that "The appropriate discount rate for a guaranteed nominal pension is the rate on a government bond with a guaranteed nominal return of that same maturity, so for the average plan it would be a Treasury bond with a roughly ten-year maturity." They are saying that pensions should always value their expected returns at the 10-year treasury rate, which is absurd. The only use for using the 10-year T rate is to estimate taxpayer liabilities if everything fell apart.

The real question should be, is it reasonable to expect these returns and inflation rates going forward? I would argue that 11.83% is too high to expect, although if it encourages you to save as much as possible to maximize possible gains, so be it; but that 7.6% is much more reasonable. If I were a pension fund manager, I would expect a more conservative target like 5 or 6%, and allocate anything extra either to an "emergency pension fund" in case of years with a revenue shortfall or allocate the extra to be refunded to the taxpayers.

Sources:
https://ycharts.com/indicators/sandp_500_total_return_annual

http://www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.html?cstartin...
China takes on Hyperloop with 1000 km/h 'super maglev' train
As an anecdote, I did quite thorough background checks on candidates before I hired them, more thorough than what they expected or suspected. I get occasional texts from two former employees thanking me for the great role I gave them and the great work environment. They were happy to have the job that I had to offer, and no I had no shortage of candidates for it.
Brave Browser Transitioning from Muon to a Chromium Front-End
Fraudulent Web Traffic Continues to Plague Advertisers, Other Businesses
“Delete this (from my visible feed)” might be the effect that you see, but that doesn’t mean it’s not still being used to feed your advertising profile or shared in some way with third parties.
If you think about it, software is a tool, and more than that, it's usually a brick in a construction. I wouldn't expect bricks to go up in price.
> I feel the connections it brings us, or helps us maintain, are too important to lose.

I felt the same way about IRC rooms. They are gone now.
It wasn't that long ago that we were lauding the Twitter Revolutions. I don't think social media is going anywhere but it will certainly change.
I'm not pro facebook, but the fact that so many people are saying bad about facebook means they still care, and that also means facebook knows there is a problem.

I think a bigger indicator of death is when a company neglects problems, or lies about them. Facebook has not denied problems, which makes me think they might fix them.

I had problems with facebook since 2005ish, and actually creating a rival to facebook was a big motivator for me to learn to code, but now I've since taken up my own interests, and am not so concerned with facebook, since I see it, in some ways, as a necessary evil. (though I would rather see some sort of decentralized blockchain thingy that serves as the global directory of connecting all people)

Also, if you are in the valley, you are posh and already "over facebook", you are an early adopter of a facebook-less world, and you don't realize how obsessed with facebook people are in the midwest(where I am). I'm not saying a facebook-less world won't catch on here, but where I am, people aren't anti-facebook at all.
But how good is the quality? I watched the Mozilla Demo and at the 30 second mark the "Robot Hand" distorted the green trees in the Background. Even at 720p@800kbps. Haven't noticed this with other hevc encodes at similar bitrates.

https://demo.bitmovin.com/public/firefox/av1/
Is a World Wide Web Even Possible?
BTRFS space allocation monitoring with proactive alarms
In the backlog...stay tuned.
Funny, I probably saw all three headlines you mentioned, here on NH. I just don’t click on ones likely to upset me.
It's a bit misleading to post that quote without including the validity section as well. People are not as quick to abandon their ethics as the original results of that experiment suggest.

In 2012, Australian psychologist Gina Perry investigated Milgram's data and writings and concluded that Milgram had manipulated the results, and that there was "troubling mismatch between (published) descriptions of the experiment and evidence of what actually transpired." She wrote that "only half of the people who undertook the experiment fully believed it was real and of those, 66% disobeyed the experimenter". She described her findings as "an unexpected outcome" that "leaves social psychology in a difficult situation." In the journal Jewish Currents, Joseph Dimow, a participant in the 1961 experiment at Yale University, wrote about his early withdrawal as a "teacher", suspicious "that the whole experiment was designed to see if ordinary Americans would obey immoral orders, as many Germans had done during the Nazi period."
Passenger 5.2.2: passenger_base_uri fixed, new Phusion product spoiler
Mortgage margins at pre financial crisis levels: lows at 0,25%
What you’re suggesting sounds more along the lines of antitrust and seems unlikely (though sounds great to me). I think that regulation around data security would be more likely and is what most people are suggesting. Whether this type regulation could be written competently in the US is my concern.
My joke was poorly received. I'll do better next time.
Bricklayers are already a dying breed... workers compensation makes it way too difficult to build many structures out of brick. Most "brick" or "stone" you see in new construction is some prefab panel glued to something.

IMO you'd employ more bricklayers doing trim work and operating the robot than you do now. And we should move away from shitty manufactured wood, glue and toxic treatments.
Nobody cares if your SQL is written by nazis as long as nobody knows they're nazis. Nobody cares if your sales guys are alcoholics as long as they bring in busines and don't embarrass the company. By intentionally filtering on irreverent criteria (like the politics and drug habits of back-end devs) you're needlessly shrinking the talent pool.

The time the average hire spends with the company is short enough that having to fire the occasional qualified employee early over "culture fit" really isn't a big deal.
HN is social media, but its much more anonymous since its based on usernames.
Great job! I will use this. It might be a nice discovery pipeline if nothing else.

A "select all venues" feature seems important, and the playlist probably only needs one song per artist, I see that quite a few have 2-3.
Am I the only one who thinks this "algorithmic targeting" thing is overblown.

Well, I actually know I'm not [1]. I'm a bit more scared about TV. Sure, Facebook is one entity and it'd probably make sense to regulate it and/or break it up, but I'd assume TV is probably more of a homogenizing force.

On the internet you have a lot of people sharing their opinion, and it's two-way. With TV, news sites, etc, you have one "Fox News", slowly turning all conservative people paranoid, and it only goes one way, or one "CNN" banking on excessive coverage of things blown out of proportion, etc.

Hell, John Stewart, when he went to Crossfire caused the show's cancellation was talking about how CNN was making politics a sports show, with two teams, strong feelings, and black-or-white loyalty. TV had been polarizing politics for years before social media even existed.

This is, again not just me speaking. Polarization is increasing the most amongst those who use the internet the least. The internet gave us a grassroots independent movement (wether you agree or disagree with him, it's impressive where Sanders got to without Super PACs) [3]. Similar people to non-heavy social media users gave us Donald Trump (old, no-college education, etc) [4][5].

Not saying online advertising didn't sway anyone, but to think "Facebook/Twitter/social media elected Trump" sounds more like just an emotional response than a facts-based conclusion.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17138854/cambridge-analyt...

[2]: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/12/15259438/s...

[3]: https://www.vox.com/2015/6/2/8708331/bernie-sanders-presiden...

[4]: http://www.people-press.org/2016/08/18/1-voters-general-elec...

[5]: http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/social-media/
Is it not obvious? It's a visual opinion that is open to interpretation as much as any company that can consider you a fit for their culture. It's not a universal cringe per se, but likely falls into 'outside of social norms' cringe.
But a 'robot' built that house... Didn't you say prefab would put robots out of business?
Check out habitat folks!

https://bldr.habitat.sh/
Great, an empty play list. :P
You seem to be under impression that underfunded pensions is some kind of a mistake, due to the lack of a system to create funded pensions. Not at all. People know how to save for the future, have known for millenia. The purpose of the defined benefit pension scheme is to cheaply promise massive benefits and to stick the next generation - when current politicians have retired - with the bill, thus keeping the employees content and happy without busting the budget and collecting exorbitant taxes. The fact that these benefits are not funded is not some omission that nobody noticed. It is by design. They do it not because nobody came to them and proposed your scheme, they do it exactly because they want to be in control of easily corruptible pots of money, and they do not want transparent and accurate accounting of the government costs, and do want manipulable numbers. And as long as people keep voting for those fraudsters, it will not change.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm currently working on filter like https://www.eggradients.com/category/purple-gradients
I will add the homepage soon
Undeserved?

All parties agreed to a contract. They "deserved" it because that's what the contract said.

It's crummy that the state made promises it's now reneging on, but that in no way makes any sort of pension offer "undeserved."

This is a contract issue, not a moral one.

Or, think of a similar situation: the old guy who's fired shortly before retirement so that he doesn't qualify for his pension. The company says his performance was fine, but didn't want to pay a pension. Do we then conclude that his pension was "undeserved"? Of course not.
Awesome! There were 4000 (plus 73) donations at the time and I hear that there have been more than 10k over the last day for more than 100k euro.

Still we don't know if that brought down the server accidentally or on purpose. It's a question of intent, and their desire for publicity. Sadly, it only takes one.
One thing I'd love to see follow from this is an image format based on its intra coding. The companies involved expressed interest (https://www.cnet.com/news/google-mozilla-av1-photo-format-co...), and tests (https://people.xiph.org/~tdaede/av1stilldemo/) look great.

The .heic format now used by iPhones is the same idea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_For...). But wider use of that is going to be constrained by the cost problem HEVC has in general (two patent pools to deal with). Some of WebP is based on VP8 (not VP9) intra coding too.

There are a lot of tools packed in AV1's intra coding (and HEVC's, though I've read less about that). Block sizes range from 4x4 to 64x64 and there's a mix within one image, so the encoder can use the right size for the level of detail in each area. There are more ways to predict a block's content from what's to the top and left, which leaves less work for the JPEGish DCT part. There's clever de-ringing post-processing that, in effect, blurs away many of the attention-getting JPEG-y DCT artifacts around edges, while 1) being aware of the direction of the main edge itself to avoid blurring that away and 2) using contrast thresholds to preserve as much other legitimate detail as it can--more about deringing at https://people.xiph.org/~jm/daala/deringing_demo/ .

(There's some good detailed discussion at https://parisvideotech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AOM-AV... and in Wikipedia's page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1 )

Relatedly, given the complexity, I wouldn't expect this to, like, take the world by storm in the next three months. The unoptimized encoder is still _really_ slow. Google has designed a hardware implementation, but of course hardware designs take time to get integrated, fabbed, and into shipping products. Given who's involved, I'm hopeful it does get wide support. (Would love to hear Apple's plans given their current support for x265; their decision to join AOMedia is a good sign at least.) Anyway, looking forward to seeing the results.
_The Power of Habit_ helped me understand it isn't just catching yourself, but catching yourself in the right place. The book calls discusses keystone habits. ([0] has some digital overview a the beginning)

I think finding those keystone habits is difficult. GP figured it out, great!

If you haven't figured yours out, I recommend continuing to observe and try different reactions to triggers, thoughts, feelings, etc.

[0]: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rl-adams/6-keystone-habits-to...
I think this is an attention thing.. you notice it in tv and movies as well. Older kids movies are slower paced with less cut scenes. Whereas new movies are faster paced. I think this is due to digital editing capabilities now. Watching these older movies feels boring compared to movies today.
It's probably anticipating corners and arches, but for the majority of bricks this seems quite inefficient. Bricks could be rolling off a conveyor belt in to place.
We have switched last year and achieved 45% cost savings. This is mostly because we can now easily run all CPU heavy activity to preemptible nodes if they are available. It is also much simpler to gracefully scale down the number of nodes/containers outside peak hours.

We also no longer have to manage servers.

All of this was possible without Kubernetes, but it is so much easier with it. Although admittedly much of the ease of use is due to not having to manage Kubernetes itself – we use Google Kubernetes Engine. I would not want to install or manage a Kuberenetes cluster/master myself.

I can recommend managed Kubernetes to anyone that runs many different apps/services.
What do HN readers use for social media?

I basically only use Reddit, HN, and instagram(which I'm slowly quitting).
Is there some study showing that your first sentence is correct? The reason I ask is that I never ever see stuff like that in my feed.

Is it your friends who share that kind of stuff or is it showing up as ads or? And why are those people encouraged to share stuff such as bacon giving cancer?

In my feed I only see the stuff from friends, such as travel photos, various fun experiences, poems and sometimes comments on local political events. And of course intermittent flooding of happy birthday messages.
Facebook announces privacy tools to 'put people in more control' of data
New Zealand's privacy commissioner deletes his Facebook account
"what’s keeping any random free game app from doing the same"
It's not that simple, as author stated, it was some of the most challenging code he ever wrote.

Charles desktop app is well respected in the developer community. There is no reason that the iOS app will be treated any differently.