skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That can happen even if everyone involved is individually logical and rational. See the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_paradox for more.

It happens even more easily if you're lumping people into a single group, but the individuals that you see speaking out about one topic are different than the individuals that you see speaking out about another.

The upshot is that from your described experience you cannot conclude that any group is being self-contradictory unless you personally witness the same person contradicting themselves in different discussions.
Synthestech offers “cold transmutation” alchemy on the blockchain. Plus UFOs
Why does Euler 10 take forever?
>You can consume and that's about it.

Uploading videos isn't "consuming". Writing blogs/articles isn't "consuming". Contributing to open source projects isn't "consuming". Neither of those activities require forwarded ports.
Thanks for this... Because of the big push to Kindle Unlimited, I didn't realize the Kindle edition was actually free without the subscription.
In the case of Netflix, it is specifically to save on licensing fees. Gotham is expensive, yo.

Apple's always had their own typeface, though I don't remember them using one as heavily as San Francisco. But it feels very in-character for them.

Samsung did it, I suspect, because Apple did.
People use it to do bad things, so this thing must be fundamentally evil.
It is so evil, it does steal your processing power, that is worse than loss of personal data like credit cards and deserves to be the most evil malware of the millennium.

/s
I'd hope you were kidding, because I went through this very thing, at IBM, in the 1990s and got a corporate legal standard put in place.

Or so I thought, because I'm fairly certain everything we did in the 1990s has been thoroughly erased by ridiculous document retention policies.
That would kinda seem to be the point of it.
At 2B users, it's hard to imagine doing a faceplant as fast as MySpace did. But I can definitely see a situation where it is hollowed out in the short term, meaning that 'high value' demographics flee to some other service. If it's bad enough, it could drop their advertising revenue enough to hobble them and precipitate a slow decline.
Data size = 1.

I wish people stop posting anecdotal experiences. Not just saying for your comment to be clear.
If you are interested by this topic, here is a relevant discussion on golang-nuts: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/KJiyv2mV2pU/di...

One of the arguments mentioned against having a generational GC is that it would make concurrent GC with low latency harder (because Go permits interior pointers, unlike Java) and slower (because Go only needs write barrier, unlike Java which needs read barrier as far as I know).
I find it interesting you think the fall of Facebook-like platforms will affect Snapchat. As far as I'm aware Snapchat is popular for the same reason WhatsApp is - you send your updates to people you choose too, not some huge acquaintance-list or group of 'followers'.
Social platforms are much "easier" to rebuild and actually gain market share with (because they're to a large extent self-contained, you "just" need the users).

No company is really competing with Google on search. There's DuckDuckGo and all that, which is a nice idea, but their results are just nowhere near as good as Google's in most cases.
The news of Plex started coming out late last year, but I think it started appearing on e.g. IBM documentation even earlier than that.
Are we being unfair by only pointing to how FB had a negative impact on the US election?

Unlike the other platforms, Facebook and Twitter are the only ones that also manage the content that the end-user sees. This would be fine if it was only targeted ads, but it's all content that can be manipulated. A user may think they are seeing a legitimate news story or a post 'liked' from their friends. This gives it much more weight than an Adsense ad on a website.

There's also the social metrics that can be used to target you - many people were targeted with anti-Hillary news (true or fake) even though they weren't Trump supporters. This was done to sew voter apathy into the election, turning a 'might as well vote Hillary' (say, Bernie supporters) into a 'why bother' - no vote is half as bad as a vote for the other candidate. And this exact thing happened in swing states where Hillary ended up with really bad turnout, thus costing her the election.

I can't think of a way Google or other ad networks could pull this off, that's why it's fair to attack Facebook over this.
A local maxima perhaps.

It’s quite typically Guardian in that it manages to combine preachy, pseudo-scholarly, smug and wrong. But it’s way down the scale on hypocritical outrage to be a global maxima.
How do you know the algo/search results weren't tweaked after these critiques went public but before your tests?
Optimizing React.js by dealing with virtual DOM properly
And to think Fubar.com outlived them all.
Drupal 6 is also affected, with no mitigation actions announced (other than basically taking the site offline).
> "How did this make it to the frontpage?"

From the FAQ: (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)

> "How are stories ranked?"

> "The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in comment threads are ranked the same way."

> "Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which downweights overheated discussions, and moderator intervention."

---

> "What are we supposed to do with this submission?"

From the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

> "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it."

If you've got more substantive criticism of the piece: skip the other stuff and dive right into that.
The issue is that they see an opportunity... give you that control... or give that control to someone who will pay them more than you can for it.

I've been a bit surprised that none of the news aggregator sites (including HN) realized that in most cases what 'most people' want is not what any individual user wants. And we have the technology for actual personalization of newsfeeds. But then that puts the control in the hand of the user... and I suppose they simply don't see that as alluring.
I certainly hope not, there are a lot of great comments above that read as both honest and smart.
Any idea why they recommend TrueType over TrueType? Is that a general recommendation, or something specific to this typeface?

Edit: From BoldMonday's comment in issue 103: "TrueTypes can be - and in the case of IBM Plex are - specifically hinted for screen. OpenTypes with PostScript outlines are not able to do that."
> I like to think we are all 10x developers

Well, that's why the author had to call tech leads "100x developers". x inflation has led us to this situation where 10x is now a baseline minimum. Anything under 100x is just mediocre.
I'm not an expert, but the wikipedia page alone doesn't paint that bright a picture.

> Venus is shrouded by an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid.

We know very little about it. Also, I'm sure you'll need to coat any probes/spacecraft to protect against the sulfuric acid.

> The water has probably photodissociated, and the free hydrogen has been swept into interplanetary space by the solar wind because of the lack of a planetary magnetic field.

So basically same chance of water (maybe worse) as Mars.

> Venus (at ~50-55 km altitude)

So we'd have to have floating habitats even if we knew this zone was actually habitable (it's still a sulfurous environment). This also means much higher energy costs along with other logistical challenges.

> Shortest distance from Earth (for logistics): 40M km / 55M km

Yeah, but you're fighting solar winds so the question is how much less are the energy costs. Also, from a logistics perspective, communication might be important & the unfriendly atmosphere may pose additional challenges/costs.
Right, a social network gaining market power and maybe abusing that? Ha, those days are long gone, kappa.
> diverse and multicultural, something that the GOP has been trying to cast as a negative since at least Reagan.
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> stories such as the Republican appointee to the DoI saying "diversity isn't important" [0] lead some people to conclude that there's effort to cast other goals as more important than diversity.

Diversity being negative, and diversity being unimportant are two different statements.
This website is so ugly and hard-to-use I honestly thought it was a parody (I still kind of do). Font looks okay, though.
This link here on HN should include a disclaimer that The Guaridian has a vested interest in you spending less time looking at facebook.com and more time looking at theguardian.com.
Comments have personally identifiable information in too, it really doesn't sound like it's enough.
I've played Tetris everyday for the past 15 years, so I feel John's anxiety on this.

The solution is simple though:

- NES emulator for Mac: https://openemu.org/

- Tetris ROM: https://www.emuparadise.me/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_ROM...

However beware, if you go deep enough down the Tetris rabbit hole then you'll inevitably find yourself buying an original NES and getting a CRT just to play Tetris as God (Alexey Pajitnov) intended.

Alternatively you can buy a USB NES Controller and play with that instead of buying the whole thing.
This link here on HN should include a disclaimer that The Vice has a vested interest in you spending less time looking at facebook.com and more time looking at vice.com.
> But the Russian wetworks division, under Putin's authority, has its fingerprints all over the Salisbury attack.

There is strong circumstantial evidence, but proof is a slightly different game. It would be nice, for example, to have a clear motive for why Russia might have poisoned the man. According to the wiki article the Russian justice system had sentenced him to 13 years in a penal colony in 2006, and then handed him over in a prisoners exchange in 2010. What happened to upgrade that to a death sentence in 2018 that the GRU didn't know about in 2006-2010?

Evidence should be a high bar. We might suspect the Russians, but lets not pretend there is any clear public evidence beyond government say-so. The government can be wrong, just like the rest of us.
This link here on HN should include a disclaimer that CNN has a vested interest in you spending less time looking at facebook.com and more time looking at cnn.com.
I suspect that was very geographical, over here (Norway) young people were on MSN Messenger. It was practically universal for anybody who wasn't an old fart.
I personally use spacemacs with a bunch of layers enabled. It uses evil mode for vim emulation.
The headline should be "Google Search has a striking history of bias against black girls," to clarify between Google the search engine and Google the company that makes the search engine.
> To argue that the case would have stopped at the Ninth Circuit is to argue that because the Supreme Court denied Google's petition to reverse the Federal Circuit, then they would have denied Oracle's petition to reverse the Ninth Circuit.

That's not the argument I'm making.

The Supreme Court had several procedural reasons for not granting Google's petition for certiorari: the Federal Circuit's decisions were not setting binding precedent outside of this particular case, and there were still issues to be decided by the lower courts that included avenues for Google to prevail, making it unnecessary for the Supreme Court to render a landmark decision on the matter of API copyright.

If the appeals had gone to the Ninth Circuit, Google's appeal would have stood a much better chance than it did before the Federal Circuit. A Ninth Circuit decision in the matter would have set a very important precedent, but a decision in favor of Google would not have created any obvious circuit split and wouldn't have upset the status quo of the software industry. On the other hand, a decision in favor of Oracle would potentially have consequences serious enough to be a priority issue for the Supreme Court whether or not it created a circuit split.
Take a look at the W3 recommendation "ActivityPub" [1] which is a shred protocol for communicating not only across different servers of a social network but also across different social networks. I think using an interoperable protocol is better than having to move your content to another walled garden every few years.

[1] https://activitypub.rocks/
I'm usually very critical of Google for other reasons (privacy, android etc.) but I don't see them at fault in this case, at least not of being voluntarily racist. Their algorithms "evolution" is based on what people searches and find useful, which means if say someone clicks on a link and stops searching for a while it could mean the user found what he/she was looking for. Now if thousands of people search for "black girls", the search returns say some porn links among others and most users click on them, could we expect the algorithms to ignore porn or rather to slowly adapt to what most users considered the right result?

The other points look also valid to me, but again, I don't see why Google should be labeled racist when their engine adapts to what news sources publish. Somewhere in the code there could be an association like 3 teens -> gang and a piece of code skimming news sources that reacts to all articles containing the word "gang"; now just mix the two and what you get? Just try searching for "gang" and look at the colors predominance.
Search engines aren't easy to write. If I was an Eiffel language expert I would write a book titled "A tour on the Eiffel language" just to prove that. Try searching that phrase without getting submerged by images of the famous tower. Incidentally, a fun search for "a tour on the Eiffel schnitzel kraut" yielded about 90% food related results and only about 5% tower images although it still contained 100% of the terms for both, but having the word Eiffel not immediately following tour could mislead the search engine, so I changed it to "the tour Eiffel on a schnitzel kraut" and results slightly changed with more towers but also more unrelated stuff like Stonehenge.

To me a search engine should return results based on harsh reality if necessary, not church choir dreams; policing search engines results in pursuit of politically correctness would be very dangerous.
We won't see that day, nor will our grand-grand-grand-grand-kids, but one day eventually racism will start vanishing from society by itself and search engines will follow, and/or we'll be socially mature enough to ignore anything that could resemble racism to a today's biased mind, giving it even less exposure.
Every incident is logged including the SDC's response for the particular situation. Let the humans take over and avoid the accident.

Then you try to recreate it in your test environment and see what would have happened if not for human intervention. If it would have resulted in an accident, fix the code to make sure it doesn't need human intervention, it to your test case and make sure all of the existing tests pass.
Turn on NoScript, makes the site much better :)
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Deep learning scaling is predictable, empirically – the morning paper
And after AIM my friends migrated to Gchat. The real mystery to me is why Google let Gchat wither on the vine. For many years it was my primary way of chatting with friends. (Now it's iMessage.)
How does that differ from AIM? Eventually social networks migrate platforms, and the old one starts to get stagnant and finally perishes.
Docker is a reflection of some of the side effects of HN. Self driving cars and AI are other tech being pushed in a misleading way. All these aggressively promote SV funded companies without proper technical scrutiny.

The lack of scrutiny means questionable technical decisions and complicated tool chains that add layers of complexity with little benefit are passed on to users with little knowledge of the trade-offs involved.

In a way the original promise of containers of being simple and portable have been completely lost to complicated wrappers like Docker and Kubernetes and words like devops that promise a lot but deliver an out of control web of complexity.

Google and Facebook have an army of networking, storage (they even hired the btrfs developer), security and scalability experts. It's not 2 engineers doing devops.

This also sets perverse incentives. Wrappers like Docker and Kubernetes monopolize all the attention and funding while the core open source projects that they are critically dependent on like LXC, Aufs, Overlayfs, Btrfs, Dnsmasq, Nginx, Keepalived, Consul, Quagga, Bird, open source networking tech, container tech in the kernel, apps are all hidden from view.

Docker initially wrapped the LXC project without proper credit and there was a lot of misinformation about what LXC is, with zero pushback here. Many commentators even today are not clear about containers and think Docker invented containers. And this after thousands of posts about containers here.
Galaxy without any dark matter baffles astronomers
Do the code to handle paymet system, user management, plan etc open source as well?

I'm not really familiar with Python yet and try to find some example of these code.

Thank you.
I don't think we'll see another breakout until someone comes up with a new killer use case. "Basically Twitter but with no users" and "Basically Facebook but with no users" is not a compelling proposition.
It's also sometimes referred to as The Grauniad, as it has traditionally had the worst reputation of a UK newspaper for copy-editing.

They also occasionally take articles from Richard Stallman and Cory Doctrow, often about free/open-source software, DRM, etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stallman-richard
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/corydoctorow
> Also, why would the UK-Ecuador relations be in danger of a tweet of a fugitive?

Because the fugitive is occupying a Ecuadorian diplomatic facility in the UK and using it inconsistently with it's diplomatic function, which, if permitted by Ecuador, is a violation by Ecuador of Article 41, Paragraph 3 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
More like the 21 yard line?
Why we are in danger of overestimating AI
todays market cap:
MSFT: 688.28B
FB: 444.55B
FB is different because they buy competitors. Between WhatsApp and Instagram they've managed to insulate themselves against game changing competitors. So even if traditional FB dies Facebook the company will live on.
It's not classist to want to hire someone with experience for a job that demands it. If your money and your startup was on the line, would you want to hire only junior programmers and hope it works out? No, time is of the essence and you have investors who put their faith in you, so you're much more likely to put people with experience in charge.
Alipay tempts Europe’s retailers with Chinese tourists’ massive spending power
Nintedo Switch drives GameStop’s Q4 sales, provides weaker outlook for 2018
Facebook was started in, what, 2004? It went mainstream on most college campuses in 2005. By 2006, MySpace was a place for the non-college educated; the older generation never used it, the college-aged users had switched (if they ever used it at all), and the younger generation either weren't on either, or were on MySpace but aspired to be on Facebook by the time they got to college.

There were legions of people who couldn't handle how downright ugly and terrible MySpace pages were, and simply never used it, even when it was the only option.

The idea that MySpace had a "monopoly" on anything, 2 years after Facebook went mainstream, is absurd. It never had anything like the market penetration FB has, even among those online and interested in social media, let alone the overall user numbers that FB has.
Steven Spielberg explains why Netflix’s “TV movies” aren’t Oscar-worthy
Continuous deployment is hard (and do not inherit from Struct.new)
China’s falling space lab is a prism for its space ambitions
The question is not whether or not they can learn, but whether or not they did.
There’s a biological reason you’re bored at work
A cheap, pipette-wielding robot wants to take over the boring bits of research
Does the galaxy spin correctly according to our current understanding of gravity?
Waymo is building an autonomous, all-electric SUV with Jaguar
Banksy will save us all!
Drupal 6 patch:

https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2018-03-28/SA-CORE-2018-...

Mirrored:

https://gist.github.com/paragonie-scott/dca4690a504a1d860575...
The website is a pain, the font is very nice though.
Isn't this basically the same phenomenon (and result) as instant retweeting and the like button?

If you simply reflect and amplify the behavior of the general population, you can get some pretty ugly results — which is because the general population has some actual ugly tendencies that are being accurately depicted. So the conversation needs to be about how we should actively bias the algorithm to damp out the ugliness, which is already being done by Twitter, FB, Google, etc.

I think we've done the experiment and proven pretty conclusively that a totally unbiased algorithm or information-sharing network is not a good thing for society, unless you want society to be like 4chan. Of course, that immediately opens the can of worms — who gets to decide how to bias the algorithm?
Search for 'white man and white woman.' The reason I mention this is that the article implies this is some sort of result of social bias and stereotyping. As the result of that search shows (it's entirely interracial couples), it most certainly is not. No, it's a result of the fact that Google's search is not particularly smart. It's arguably the best there is, but it still comes down to correlating words to pages and that correlation is far from intelligent.

And as an aside, I think the term of bias in algorithms is misused when they are operating as intended. You'd call a poll biased if it implied it was polling group 'x', but did not actually do so due to some inadvertent bias. You wouldn't call it biased if it polled the group it stated it was going to poll and then gave the results - even if those results were not what you personally would want to see. If people are mostly searching for interracial couples when they search for 'white man and white woman' or they are mostly searching for porn when they search for 'black girls' then a biased algorithm would be one that actually returned white couples or non-pornographic results.
Are there paid advertisements on HN?
A beautiful explanation.
I did find a bit of irony that the page warning about VPNs leaking my IP was hijacking my scrolling.
Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOST5S06F-o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJH_L0ZLOfw

:)
I don’t expect them to do anything - it’s their platform and is exceptionally useful. But consider their core mission to catalog and make available all the worlds information. If that information reflects the biases already inherent in the culture rather than a more objective reality (IE outsized coverage in media of black people being criminals) is it not more accurate to make a correction and show the real experience? Should it not correct for societies biases rather than confirming them?
You can change word boundaries pretty easily though. There is a little bit of friction in some things like that but nothing that is insurmountable. Every single keystroke is a function that can be changed and even wrapped with "advice" to leave the function alone but change the before, after, or both before and after the function is called.
If FB declines completely and goes the way of my space, what will happen to all those 3 million dollar 100 years old, 1200 sq ft houses in palo alto?