skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem statement is given the sentiment space of reactions to similar clusters of search queries, minimize negative sentiment across the most clusters given resource constraints (time, cost, CPU).

This is a hard problem. There are many search queries, there are many clusters of similar search queries that address partially overlapping (topic,audience segment) pairs. Deriving sentiment scores from these segments is difficult without any feedback mechanisms. Choosing which segments to focus on is difficult or counterintuitive and depends on the topic and audience and characteristics of the audience. Once a topic and audience segment is identified for remediation, the task of effecting change is again topic and audience specific (resistant to automation).

This is a hard problem. Neither a brute force "human review squad" approach nor an automated "deep learning" approach will provide 100% coverage through all time. Does that mean that they shouldn't try? No, of course not, and they almost certainly try every day. However, it's inevitable that they will be subject to sniping articles no matter what they do.
It's hard to take your work home and easy to measure so not much opportunity for politics to creep in.
> But lately I've been using Datagrip for SQL stuff,and geez, did Jetbrain crush the competition w/ this product.

For me, "the competition" is the MySQL CLI. Is there and advantage to Datagrip assuming that one is reasonably proficient in SQL (at least the MySQL dialect)? Serious question. After running \# I've got table and field completion, and all the readline (pseudo-emacs) shortcuts work.
I love this article. I think I submitted it to HN myself a couple years ago during some other Facebook news cycle.

I'd call it "Peak Guardian", but they keep outdoing themselves, so there may never be a Peak Guardian.
Churchill also took a 2 hour nap daily. The man would change into his damn pajamas to do it. Night time sleep is not total sleep. Let's stop glorifying folks who supposedly need so little sleep...they may be getting it other ways.
read the source code for the programs you use. compile them yourself. try to fix your own minor annoyances, and poke around. take a look at their bugs database.
They enforce it when reported. Who cares to report it, though?
If you don't think representation affects things, please post this under your main account.
Waze ads are an area where I feel an audio ad would be a better approach.
Why are you comparing the date of SavaJe's being acquired, with the date of Android being actually released or gaining third party external hardware partners? Apples and apples would be Google's acquisition of Android in 2005 vs. Sun's acquisition of SavaJe's in 2007. And even then, Google acquired the actual devs too, whereas Sun only acquired the code and IP.

And Android is way more a rip off of Palm than SavaJe. All of the interesting things it does (the intent system, the capability based IPC, the battery friendly process lifecycle model, etc.) clearly descend from Palm (which isn't a surprise given that's where Dianne Hackborn cut her teeth).
Breaking monopolies is always a good thing for consumers.

Anyone knows a Social network with solid features, perfect UI and good privacy ?
> I dont know why they dont do this already

Because people would use Facebook less.

Creeping is one of the core values of FB whether its acquaintances you think you want to know more or the old flames you think you want to forget. It may not be entirely negative as it sounds - its essentially gossip with a digital middleman and no distortion. Or at least a different kind of distortion with more control by the source.
Next up: voluntary labour camps where unhappy desk workers can go lay bricks to gain better life satisfaction. Learn the same techniques used by real blue-collar workers! $20,000 per team for a weekend retreat. For an extra $2,000 an ornery foreman will come out of his trailer every two hours and yell at you to get off your ass.
This is the fault of the browser and WebRTC. They know about this but deliberately break it. The truth is WebRTC should never activate without user permission.

But no, WebRTC added data-channels. They have no good use to be silent and especially not to override SOCKS proxy. In fact, some key people on the WebRTC group, when I pressed them, could not provide a single real use-case for silent data channels.

Firefox is absolutely in the wrong to ignore your proxy settings, especially without getting consent first to start a call. It's a complete mess. Regardless of what the "spec" says, Firefox is responsible for implementing broken software that harms users.

Then again, so is STUN/ICE and basically every single thing that has to do with SIP/VoIP. It's like they go out of their way to be obtuse and come up with shitty standards then take glee in how bad it gets. As an example, look up SIP Torture Tests. There's an RFC just to illustrate the moronic edge-cases in SIP parsing that at one point implies your software needs to be conscious to infer the intention of malformed messages.

t. been working in telecom for far too long
There have been all sorts of undemocratic processes in history, but at present I think the vast majority of voters would agree that primaries are supposed to reflect an intra-party democracy, and the DNC leak proved that there were efforts to bias that process. Still, many of the same Democrats who rail against the electoral college for being undemocratic, or Russian propaganda for biasing (however slightly) the general election, are silent about biased/undemocratic selection of their primary candidate.
I am going to be working on a ML + expert system + genetic algo hybrid for the UK's Network Rail, specifically its research organization. Managing delayed trains is a big issue - the trains impacted by the delayed train can be dealt with more or less, but trying to figure out the best course of action to deal with the trains delayed by that set (and so on) is essentially a NP hard problem. Competing cost functions to optimize etc and the traditional methods are not as effective anymore due to infrastructure changes, more trains, more passengers, etc.

There has been a lot of academic research, but only in the past few years have transport companies been investigating and implementing more sophisticated solutions (Japan is of course a decade ahead of the West).

So what you are looking for is out there, but you have to get away from the IT industry. Look for jobs involving IT that involve supporting businesses / business sectors that are not primarily IT or consumer focused. I feel your pain - I got tired of only seeing companies focused on marketing and all that sort of thing. This is more a research contract to investigate the feasibility, so perhaps you should find a university and do some networking.

Finance is another sector to look at, but I don't know about the better world aspect of that...
If you downvote, please comment a counter argument. I'm posting this to contribute a perspective to the discourse, and would love to know where people disagree specifically.
This is a vulnerability from earlier this year. This is not the security release dropping today.
All the cool kids were on facebook.

I remember signing up in 2005 because I was taking German for my future trip to the World Cup (pointless as 95%+ will reply in English (edit), unlike those darn French!).

As it grew in size and popularity, the limited nature of it really made those that couldn't get in jealous. I remember all the kids screaming about the feed when it went live, how they'd leave. Then once it opened to everyone, they'd leave then.

WhatsApp seems to be the new kid's playground, so facebook buying it was a smart move.

There will be another. Hell, maybe I'll make it :-)

Dropped out of my (still better IMO) Telegram style program after worrying about N$A fallout.
I think it more that if someone is killed by something they control it is seen as more acceptable than them being killed by something they don’t have any control over. For example someone dying in a car crash on the way to work is not front page news. However if someone dies on the way to work when the train crashes, it is.
Replacement can also become a compulsion however. If you get a negative thought you want to stop having, replacing it with another will only make that negative thought more important to your mind, as it will be considered something to be avoided. I recommend doing CBT instead of following the advice of NYT articles.
What I find more interesting is the gravitational pull of ice sheets on the sea, e.g. [1].

[1] http://sealevelstudy.org/sea-change-science/whats-in-a-numbe...
Back in 2011, Solomon was nice enough to get lunch with me along with a few other DotClouders to talk me through some scaling issues my startup was stressing over. They were all super knowledgeable and helpful. We were able to get a handle on things thanks to their advice. Thanks so much and best of luck!
I think if Waze did audio, they'd cause more accidents - usually I have Audible or Music running at the same time if I'm using Waze.

Perhaps that's why they're partnering with Spotify (well other than you can't run Waze on Carplay)?
Please tell me this is a joke. If this is true then women are way more amazing than I ever realized - amazing they're not homicidal!
I think a lot of capacity disappeared after the financial crisis and demand has shot up in the last couple of years due to relaxation of the planning laws.
> I would say that persuasion based on facts is perfectly fine. It’s the deceit that was particularly troublesome

This is just using different terms to say the same thing. Facts can and often are used to manipulate, by framing and context, and by what is left out. Opinion, supposition, and FUD are also commonly used to persuade. That people usually believe what they are saying does not mean their opinions were not originally based on deceitful or self-serving propaganda.

> last election.

This has been going on since politics existed (ie. civilization).

Foreign influence is another issue. It is however deceitful to suggest that the issues foreigners (Russians) are accused of inflaming were domestically non-issues, non-controversial, or not-inflammatory before their interjection.
You mean 95% respond in English?
In the US, we essentially do require that they all be profitable or else not exist at all. This is "solved" by just charging you (or your insurance company) tons of money if you actually need to use it. A medical emergency requiring an ER and an ambulance can easily cost as much or more than an ordinary person will earn in their whole lifetime.
I wonder what the implications are for cow-based astrology.
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How can you be so sure that's the case? It's generally very difficult to get a wider perspective from within the fish bowl, you need to step out to feel the difference. What I found, and the reason I ultimately dropped out; is that social networks make me think less of others, because it makes them look stupid and desperate; and I'm pretty sure that goes the other way as well. The corporate incentives to fuck around with our minds for profit in these networks are just too much to deal with; the entire game is rigged, there's no way to win.
The first SQL ISO standard is from 1987. Oracle's first commercial SQL DBMS came out eight years earlier in 1979.

In 1987, Oracle was already the largest database vendor and IBM's database business never recovered from that setback.

That said, I don't know if Oracle had some sort of licensing agreement with IBM during those early years. The question is what any such agreement would have looked like in light of the recent legal opinions on copyright.
I thought about this a while ago but gave up because there weren't any good CouchDB hosting providers. I don't want to host a DB myself these days.
My wife refuses to use Waze due to the ads. I prefer Waze b/c I'm in motion almost my entire commute (95% freeway).
Oh no :( I monitor the AV1 bugs, and repos and was indeed puzzled to see this. So it hasn't actually been released. OMG, this is really bad and could backfire.

Even following the things above, it can be pretty hard to see what's going on.

EDIT: mailing list is not accessibly, had some bits flipped in my wetware
It’s archaeology-hostile. It pisses me off to no end when I am searching for information on reddit and come across people replying to deleted posts by some paranoid user who wishes comments were more ephemeral like Snapchat.

This is what the next dark age of mankind will be like, people from the future looking for historical information and finding nothing but deleted or decayed data

No. It absolutely should be allowed. Sites like the internet archive exist to preserve internet data.
It's interesting how the article tries to 'blame' an algorithm while it's basically just working fine and simply reflecting the output of culture/country/people. It's not that the software decided that one thing should be the results, and others should not, it just takes what we feed it, and gives it back to us.
I've noticed this too.

Also the more popular answers are coming up over the more relevant results.

Seems like changes that would be valuable for most instances of casual searching, but when it's an off-the-wall blog you've never heard of that has the answer you seek, it's a problem.
Perhaps I should rephrase to what I meant to imply: I find it funny that people think Facebook is going away / will fade into irrelevancy.
That's really amazing. There's a similar situation when you search "American scientists." Interestingly the regular search results are very different, but the image search is similar.
Apple does not closely track its users.
Well, at that point, all semblance of reality would have been lost anyway. It seems highly unlikely that any businesses, even huge ones that have data-hoarding business models, are going to start itemising opt-in consents in their sign-up process rather than just having a compliant privacy policy and a single active consent to processing under it.
Let me sign up for a mailing list for when you add in my city :)
And those skills may include taking the company in directions that you may not agree with. What then?
Fortunately, they don't seem to have replaced journeyman masons either. Journeymen still do corners and other complex features, they just do it with oversight. Rather, there's a shortage of masons at all skill levels, and so far SAM is only cost-effective as a way to help fill that gap on very large projects.

I'm sure that will change with time regardless, but I don't think it'll be because SAM drove out human expertise.
If you're a drug addict, the ideal way to kick the habit is self-control, but after a certain time, rehab might be needed. There are downsides to rehab (cost, isolation etc.), just as there are downsides to regulation (compliance costs, unnecessary burden on small and otherwise well-acting companies because of the abuses of others).

There's also the fact that "regulation" is a nebulous term that says nothing of what the actual laws are that manage to get passed/implemented. If history is a lesson, we should all be weary of rules written up by people who do not fully understand the domain they are trying to regulate, and who are often lobbied by the very firms that would be most subject to said regulation.

So, no guarantees in the slightest that regulations will bring about a healthier tech ecosystem.
Thank you!
PostScript is another example.
"It did." -Ron Howard narration
you're not addicted to reddit, at a molecular level your body doesn't even know what reddit is
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The per university rollout of Facebook was genius. Actually keeping people from signing up until there is critical mass is, I suspect, crucial for building a social network.

There's nothing to discourage me from coming back quite like the feeling of signing up and finding out I'm the only one I know.
Kinda abandoned any semblance of subtlety at the end there lol
The same could be said of arstechnica, HN, news and most of media. They are selling "customers" to their advertisers. Also, not sure where Tim Cook has any room to talk. By most measures, Apple is just as bad or worse than facebook. They are in bed with china exploiting slave labor, using advertisement to peddle overpriced junk to the uneducated masses and of course using tax loopholes to avoid paying taxing.

Microsoft used to say something similar as well. But when they realized that they could make much more money off customer data, they went converted to an ad-centered model with their OS.

The only reason Apple is acting high and mighty is because they are able to rob their customers by charging ridiculously high priced products.
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Out of interest I followed the link to "installed in my home directory under ~/.local/bin", because I use the same method for "global" user installation of some npm packages and arbitrary little tools I put together... anyway I discovered this:

> export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH

> Notice I put it in the front of the list. This is because I want my home directory programs to override system programs with the same name. For what other reason would I install a program with the same name if not to override the system program?

I've always made a point of doing the exact opposite of this when adding to /etc/profile, with the reasoning of: why the hell would I want to allow any user script to be able to override system commands without root permission?

Have I gotten this all wrong? I admit I am no expert on bins and paths and security, but isn't the above a potential security issue?
Can't edit anymore, but as Daemon404 points out. It's a paper release. Nothing to see here, move along.
The whole point of posting this article is that people felt exactly the same about MySpace, Ford, Atari...
It's a trick to increase the recruiting pool.
>I think Google is responsible in 2018, now that they offer extremely tailored results. Duckduckgo, maybe not. But if Google is going to say "we're going to show you listings for restaurants in SF in your simple 'restaurants' search because we know you live in SF," I think they should also say "we're going to show you results for LGBT resources when you search for 'gay men' because nothing about your query indicates a desire for pornographic content."

Are you are saying that, in a scenario where there are more results for one sub-query than for another, Google has an obligation to assume someone is searching for the sub-query it finds more politically acceptable? This seems like a bad idea to me. We should want to reduce the political/social influence of Google, rather than think of ways to give them more tools of influence and assuming they will have a positive effect.

These two things are completely different

"Because you live in SF, if you search restaurants you probably want results pertaining to restaurants close to SF"

"Because subject X-A is socially unacceptable, if you search for subject X we will only show results pertaining to subject X-B"
Hi Slaughter, Lamb here.

I designed this and I'm looking for some (brutal, I expect) feedback and input.

I've been working on some DNS-based protocols and have been frustrated by how verbose plain text data serialisation languages are and how unsuitable they are for storing in DNS TXT records.

MODL prioritises character efficiency above all else.

I welcome all feedback and comments and if anyone would like to help develop it, that would be amazing.

So, please tell me what you think – I can take it. I'm expecting a good shearing at least.

Thanks,

Elliott
I tried some of the leak tests here, it seems to leak my NAT address not my nearest public IP? Can anyone chime in?
Yeah, but Apple pushes new phones onto the market every year, leading to unnecessary environmental impact.

Every industry has its vices.
> There's already a Rust AV1 encoder

80% of codebase is C. How is that Rust encoder? Seems like a binding to C AV1 encoder.
Cancel SLS. Cancel Orion.

Mass produce satellites and space station modules instead.
>I do not believe we receive knowledge from modern mainstream media today. Most of it is ephemeral drama that does not matter in the least.

The "news" has been like that for a long time.

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knolege with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time; whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables. General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on. I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."

-Thomas Jefferson, 1807

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_spe...

While Jefferson neglected to read newspapers, he read many books and was arguably one of the most important figures in the Enlightenment.
This is a perfect summation of how people feel about Google and Amazon, or Sears in the 1920s and Kodak in the 1960s. And it's a perfect reminder that monopolies are much more fleeting than people realize.
As with most things, the choice is more difficult than either giving up and accepting a new, more lax definition, or "righteously" rejecting it. That process requires an application of judgment. In this case, my judgment says that it's an unnecessary cheapening of a psychological term, and that pointing out its origins might help people understand why.

Simply giving up on definitions means always ceding power.
TBH just from setting up one (1) PBX with about half a dozen devices from only two manufacturers -- I would never take a job anywhere near anything having something todo with SIP, ever.
Running Tails in a VM is so your browser can't leak your real IP to the wider internet even if it wants to, because it doesn't know what it is. Your VM provider still knows your real IP address.
It's not as much about who is responsible as it is about what the results reflect: apparently this is what we put in, and thus what we get out of it, including results tailored to our bubble.

This isn't fixed by telling Google it's their fault and they should hide things, that's just looking away and covering things up. The true fix is making the input better, which requires society being better, which it isn't (at this point).
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