skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your lawn mower must be a lot less loud than the one I used as a kid. Do your ears not ring after using a lawn mower, even just for one hour? Exposing yourself to a noise loud enough to make your ears ring, every day, for 8 hours... that's just asking for accelerated hearing loss.

Also, that list is kind of goofy. A snowmobile is louder than a lawn mower? A chainsaw is louder than a lawn mower? And 15 minutes per day of a loud rock concert is "safe"? You've got to be kidding me.
"World without end", and "Eternal Return" are two I know of.

Roger Penrose is in this camp and attempting to prove it. Although he does incorporate the big bang theory, which is a kind of a "beginning", I suppose. I would recommend his book, "Road to Reality".

You might gain more insight from ancient Hindu and Buddhist texts, but I can't recommend anything specific.
I believe the main problems of "the social network" (FB) can't be solved in this way, it focuses almost entirely on the privacy and "freedom from surveillance" aspect, to the detriment of other vital aspects (like non-anonymity).

What we seem to need is a solution that does what Facebook does right, which corresponds to the networking needs of billions of people, combined with a transparent and ethical content policy approach. Plus: that doesn't leak data at an individual level (except after a court order), to name some of the requirements that seem most important.

On the other hand, a non-corruptible utility-type service like this might be too much to hope for as well ... ?
I think it's a good decision for the language!
See also previous discussion from 3 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16003544 (10 comments)
Does "cockroach" refer to the nationality or to the ideology (cockroachism) and its followers? There is plenty of Turkish people who in no way deserve this moniker - this is obvious.

The ones on Cyprus, preventing the locals from even having a peek at their lawful properties, literally at gunpoint, the ones on the Navy ships bullying the Italians, the ones in Constantinople blackmailing Europe and the millions who support them are most certainly cockroaches though.
This can not be a surprise to anyone with a just a bit of skepticism.
Turkish never intended to use the city, actually army didn't want to push this far neither. When they were able to, they just wanted to use Varosha as a bargaining chip to keep Turkish population in north safe in the negotiations -since city was important for Greek Cypriots-

None expected negotiations would take decades.
> Not to alleviate facebook of blame, but who's to say data on almost every other social media service isn't also just flagged for deletion?

The word "delete" has a pretty clear definition to most users. Facebook is one of the most used pieces of software in the world. If FB is allowed to lie to its users, it would indeed give a pass to just about every social media service out there.

The reason Facebook is special, and deserves special scrutiny, is because of its power. If FB establishes a bad behavior, it will become the norm.
It's amazing it took so long to get here. Obviously less smart people like myself, figure this out on our own. My brain doesn't have a lot of processing power, and I always try to shorten the feedback loop between what I write and the response I get from the programme itself, instead of throwing myself in layers and layers of abstraction. But to me and I think many others, this is the only way. We have to make the language, and flow of the code conform more to the human intuition.
That is not the whole picture. Most Ph.D programs require you to successfully complete 2 years in a research master program which is based on classes and homework assignments. It's not easy.

After that you enter into the Ph.D. for 3 years(max 4) and you are right, you can almost do whatever you want. Just bear in mind that either you publish in top journals or your academic career ends here.
The autopilot is not a safety feature.
The volume required to cause damage goes up as the frequency goes down. Bass has to be ridiculously loud to cause damage. A club which turned up the bass to create a good "feel", but turned down the treble, would save a lot of wear and tear on people's hearing.
The domes are supposed to be resistant against impact from small planes. And there's an air defence system which could break it into smaller pieces.

However, the chances of hitting it by accident are absurdly tiny. It would be pretty hard to hit from orbit deliberately; maybe the only people who could do that are SpaceX.
From playing on the difference cryptocurrency courses to buy a loaf of bread
To clarify for anyone reading, "Overwatch" is not referring to the Blizzard game, but an in-game Counterstrike tool in which players review recorded gameplay of a suspected cheater.

When enough reviewers agree that a player is cheating, that person is banned. Each player has a hidden successful conviction rating and on occasion the system will send you professional players or non-cheating players in an effort to verify your ability.

This is only meant to convict the most blatant of cheaters. It's fairly successful for what it's intended to do, but of course, it does not even remotely catch every cheater.
These best practices are about database records and not about files. I'd be very surprised if Facebook store files as database blobs. These are generally stored on a separate system, and it's quite reasonable to delete the file while keeping the metadata in the database.
CFS obeys core isolation and task sets, so it would work
The research paper in question, titled "What Insights Do Taxi Rides Offer into Federal Reserve Leakage?":

https://research.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/research/stigler/p...
And in this case by "resettling" it is meant making the robbery official?
As the author of this recent post https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/ I'd be really interested in seeing your code for primes. You might enjoy seeing the output of `perl6 --profile` to see if there is any glaringly obvious place its being slow. You get a nice interactive html report.

I find it kind of funny primes are constantly used as a first filter on using Perl 6, despite it being one of the only languages with an efficient built in .is-prime method on integer types >;P I have a more contemporary version of Rakudo built locally too, so can see if this is something that's already gone away if you dont mind throwing your code in a gist/pastebin somewhere?
That’s not too difficult if the area you live/work in has a good scene for your favourite genres of music. The music I listen to tends to be pretty DIY (very small gigs in front of 20-50 people), and more weeks than not I find myself at at least one concert.

I commute via plane for work so it gives me something to do that’s not sitting in the hotel watching TV or drinking too much alcohol.

I recommend an app called Songkick if you want to find local gigs you might be interested in, it scans your Spotify/last.fm and notifies you when artists you’ve listened to are playing nearby.
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Agreed, but most do not have much skepticism. You and I may have known about Facebook and had accounts (or deleted them) for over a decade, however many current users are relative internet novices.
Tent city? Lol. Reminds me of the 90s when refugees from the Balkan wars were housed in party tents because there was a shortage of housing. It was a national scandal that shamed the nation in the international newscasts.
The launch was in 1977, the construction of the probes started in 1975. So it's between 41 to 43 years ago.

If you were a young engineer at the time, let say 22, you are now 65 years old, if you were 30, you are now 73.

So there is a good chance that people who worked on the design and creation of these probes are now retired, except maybe for the youngers (25 and less or the time).

It's absolutly not a statement against young versus old. By 68 years old, I hope to be retired ^^.

And it doesn't take into account that the computer system is derived from the Vikings probes, so it's even a bit older than that.

As for the assembly language, I don't think they are stating that assembly is outdated by itself. I think that they are more stating that the assembly language used for these probes, custom and purpose made for these probes, coming fom the 70ies, is now outdated.

And assembly can still be a very legitimate choice, specially in highly constrained domains and high safety assurance requirements (even trusting a compiler is a risk).
What I need is the proof that the program is correct. Bugs will show up as gaps or inconsistencies in the proof. But, in the absence of even an attempt at a proof, all I can do is throw the program to the dogs.
Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20

http://www.bfilipek.com/2018/04/deprecating-pointers.html
Facebook might actually love this. Because for every 20 useless videos you upload, you may click, comment, or view some facebook message that pops up while you're uploading. It could become a net gain for them.
It's quite simple: if someone says they deleted something, you expect them to delete it. If they don't, they are lying, and you can't really trust them with anything else.
These are rather fun. Our company has a more expensive oneoff solution, a traditional six-axis robot which we use for testing chip-and-pin integration by pressing the buttons on the pinpad.
The database we use (Vertica) works this way. Nothing is deleted. Instead it is flagged as deleted. A background task may purge old data (older than x). Historical queries show the database state as it was days or weeks ago. If the background task is broken (bug?) then the data stays indefinitelly on disk.
> when there is no domestic market for most PHDs.

Isn't this common knowledge though. Isn't not like NSF is advocating people to not google search their career prospects before embarking on the journey.
“It’s tough to build if you think you’re building a weapon. Especially if you thought you were going to be making helpful tools.”

Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Humanity is a superorganism. Thanks to the internet, it’s more connected than it’s ever been, and can “think” and change faster than it’s ever been able to before. Facebook is trying to build a neutral platform and useful tool for communication & socialising. Because of that neutrality, it has no inbuilt “immune system” for preventing the superorganism from being infected by memes created by individual humans. Quite the opposite: it rewards memes and viral popularity because the humans who run its “brain” can extract value from that effect. Most of these memes are benign (jokes and entertainment, advertisers trying to sell more widgets and widget-related services) but some are malignant/parasitic (e.g. influencing political outcomes for personal gain).

Any sufficiently large social network is going to have to contend with this and make the hard choice: do you remain neutral and let humans influence humanity, or do you try to prevent “social infection” when it’s deemed detrimental? But what are the criteria for intervention—sharing false information, for example? Who has the power to dictate what’s “true” or whether to intervene? Facebook? Governments? A benevolent AI—developed by whom? &c.
I just wanted to thank you. I've used your site so many times in personal scripts.
In principle every problem solved by facebook in a centralised fashion has already been solved by phone companies in a decentralised fashion. You can buy one or several numbers, which are quasi anonymous and distribute them to anyone you care to share them with. Noone can easily find you unless you give them that number, it easily possible to separate between work and private numbers and you get a new number if you change your job. Calling by phone is nearly universal as is access to SMS, it already connects all people across the globe without any need to sign up to a centralised service. The only advantage services like WhatsApp and Facebook have is that it is really cheap to communicate over them, whereas the only way of operating a traditional phone service is to charge money.

I think what will eventually happen is that the traditional telco providers will gradually improve their service quality, prices and infrastructure and eliminate the need for parasitic communication platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram by introducing standardised and provider agnostic solutions. For example why not extend the protocol that is used to route phone calls to a protocol that allows to route arbitrary packet or streaming data transfers.
Sorting a list of a non primitive type in Go can be done inline.

To this day there is no generic list sorting function in PHP proper.
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Communist dictators throughout history have been highly education engineers. I don't think you can say engineering degree = peace.
Can't find it on Netflix Germany.
There are people on this very site complaning about how "hard" it is to delete data on request to be GDPR compliant. Highly paid developer experts are literaly throwing a fit when told that they should be able to delete data when "Delete" button is clicked.

It's not just Facebook.
> [a solution for the] relative scarcity of human attention and overabundance of data: return fewer results, prioritize iterative analysis, and filter fast to compute less.

>By combining streaming operators for feature transformation, classification, and data summarization, MacroBase provides users with interpretable explanations of key behaviors, acting as a search engine for fast data.
Ask HN: How to take the leap mid-career?
I’m in my early thirties in a very-well paying non-tech career and contemplating a switch into the startup world. This is largely driven by hopes to tackle some of the more fundamental challenges of our world, the idea that small firms offer a better ground to contribute to/enjoy a positive working culture, and some idea to have more time for my family (compared to a lot of traveling and 70+h/w at the moment). While not working in tech, I do have an engineering background and some limited dev skills and good industry insights. I’m also confident to be able to execute projects/products in agile environments and with challenging customers. I’m lucky to have accrued enough savings to sustain my family’s down-to-earth lifestyle for ~4yrs, but still wary about long-term implications of disrupting my career.

I’m wondering how to best go about it:

1.) Find a CTO role at a startup of interest. However, early stage startups often require more hands-on dev skills than I’d be comfortable with. Later stage roles are exceedingly rare in Europe. Career risks would be a bit more limited

2.) Take a non-exec role at a startup and use it to test the waters and grow from there. Easy to get but a huge break for my career

3.) Found. The two ideas I have would be very heads-on against established players. I’d risk my capital. Alternatively, take time off and find other ideas (how to best go about it?)

4.) Stay and make the corporate world a better place

Anyone with experience in similar situations?
I learned nothing at one of NYC’s elite high schools
Funny story, Google News, the web interface seems to have been abondonned by Google. The normal web interface that is, don't know about mobile. The "Sources" preference on news.google.com has a bug - whenever you try to block a new source, it replaces the old one, so you can only ever block one source at a time :D

Which isn't sufficient as their feed keeps showing material from Daily Mail and similar garbage. Skipping it manually isn't a problem, but it does take the space of meaningful news reports.

Users sent countless bug reports and started many threads on their forums since around June 2017, no reply. Nowadays I just aggregate aljazeera and reuters, way more efficient.
I wonder where recursive programming fits into this.

For any newby programmer, recursive programming is a difficult concept to grasp. Then during an intermediate programmer's stage, you realize recursive programming's power and lean on it because of it's often theoretical beauty and often simple. As you advance more, you realize the computational disadvantages (exploding stack) and softer disadvantages (lack of readability).

Would "gradual" programming ban recursive programming?
You're missing the fact that it's April 1st somewhere on Earth.
The reason to use PHP over JS/Python or Ruby is that PHP supports strict typing and that makes code both more maintainable, understandable (Find Usage feature only works reliably when types are inferrable which is not always the case in those other theee langs) and refactorable.

Now the reason to use PHP over Java or Go is that PHP at this point has a type system that’s on par with Go’s but at the same time it gives you an advantage of fast development process thanks to the lack of need for compilation and/or restarting the container after each change in the code. I’m currently working with Java and before that I had a long experience of PHP, while I personally would choose Java over PHP almost in any case because I value type system features perhaps a bit too much, but I do suffer from those slow turnaround times (compile/restart TomCat) and I can see how it could potentially be bad for the business at early stages especially.

So the bottom line is PHP at this point has a nice balance which is hard to find atm in any other popular languages with evolved ecosystem
>I got used to the looks of disbelief, thinking that I was some sort of hermit, an antisocial.

I know that look.

>I also got tired of answering the frequent "Why don't you have Facebook?" questions.

I solved it by stating flatly "For the same reasons I don't have Twitter.", somehow marking the final period, people still believes I'm a kind of weirdo, but they don't go on asking ...
>"remove from the internet for eternity"
lol, internet never forgets. Everybody seems to have an ilusion of control over digital data shared with others or uploaded to the internet.
Unfortunately no matter how many times you say this or how much you wish it were true, US (at least) courts have disagreed with you by enforcing contracts of adhesion.
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A UI framework is better understood as an algorithm plus a psychological model of your user. You must understand what they are thinking at every step of the way, guide them to the answers they want, and help them avoid pitfalls.

This is by its very nature a less deterministic solution than a pure algorithm.
> "Noone can easily find you unless you give them that number"

Yeah well, finding anyone is not a flaw; it's a one of Facebooks killer features, without which it would not have become the de facto global registry of single individuals.

> "The only advantage services like WhatsApp and Facebook have that it is really cheap"

I believe this is a gross misunderstanding of the utility of social networks compared to older systems like telephony. But granted, the brave new world comes with a number of problems as well.
It's one thing to keep an illegal pregnancy and birth secret. It's another, much more difficult thing afterwards to raise that child in secret. I'd guess that among the penalties when the parents get caught would be losing custody and access to all their children, probably in most cases early enough that the birth parents won't have much influence on the morals and values those children end up with when they are adults.
Some of the points made in the "why ipfs" are inaccurate wrt scuttlebutt. Secure Scuttlebutt is a signed immutable log/database of a person's posts, replicated with peers. It is also distributed, instead of federated. (Add:) And because SSB is a database, you could build pretty much any app on top of it.

The SSB network is very active, take a look - https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
Personally, I was following the Microsoft case and thinking about what kind of rules would match well with the reality of global infrastructure, and it certainly wasn't this law.

Logically, it doesn't really matter in what country something is stored. An ideal database will send or cache data, or perhaps incomplete/encrypted data, near every user and in multiple processing/backup centers.

So the location of the data should not matter at all for jurisdiction, but instead just the location of the company, users and/or employees who can access it. And the US shouldn't need to ask foreign governments to hand over data which they could compel local business to provide.
I think there is a common economic structure in organization that creates a-hole cultures.

Actors, PhD students, etc. enter into superstar economy where many people compete for very small number of positions with prestige, money, power, fame (or whatever the measure of success is in the field).

Each position with value has large number of potential candidates who are all good enough. It's difficult or impossible to rank the top applicants with high accuracy and objectivity. Those who are selected are receiving something of great value from their mentors for subjective or arbitrary reasons.

Normally you would use auction or some other mechanism to sell the position, but actors or PhD student's don't have that kind of money and selling a position may be seen as ethically questionable because you are supposed to select the best.

The abusive culture is the result of this extra value that is given out for subjective reasons. Movie actors can be expected sell sex to cover the gap between their innate value and the position they are getting, PhD students can be used as a slave labor for years.

To correct the situation incentives should be aligned. If PhD student works on something for 5+ years, it should cost something for the boss. Dropping out from PhD program should cost something for those who are in the position to select who gets in.
Man, I wasn't making a political statement. I'm just saying that setting up a wifi access point for other people is not like setting up a wifi access point for yourself, and six grand isn't even going to get your wired uplink connection extended across the street.

I was just saying that if you want a wifi access point that supplies a bunch of users, well, someone is gonna have to hook that up to the internet, and deal with the inevitable abuse problems that come from providing internet access to people you don't know. And yes, a lot of people do this for free, which is probably why it seems so cheap for you. Which is fine; I mean, I'm all for people giving out free services, I use a lot of free software myself, but don't pretend that those people aren't giving you value, or that it wouldn't cost a lot of money if you didn't want exactly what they were giving.

Even if you've got free labor, you've gotta run power and internet access out to that wifi access point. Real internet connections are expensive; even consumer-grade stuff is expensive if the provider isn't already where you are, and consumer-grade connections shouldn't be shared.

Have you ever tried to talk a network provider into running a line across the street, when they don't already have customers in that area? Here in silicon valley we're talking in the high thousands/low tens of thousands of dollars to get a connection across a street.

I mean, it's great that you were able to find wifi for yourself on your vacation, but that doesn't have anything to do with how much effort and money it costs to maintain those wifi access points.