skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never bought a TV when I moved to my own appartment many years ago. Now when I visit people having their TV on in the background it feels like overly loud. Am I getting more sensitive to noise too? It feels like information overflow and the only thing I can do is give up and just disappear into the TV. I never regret not buying that TV 25+ years ago. Now we do have one but it's only used for selected programs a couple of times per week or the odd movie or game. When ads show up, sound is off and we do the dishes or whatever.
Ah.. the causality.. the argument can be made that without engineers the creation would never happen, (even if others are still trying to make money without ethics..).
My personal preference is to always use snake case, and not just for JSON but for all javascript variables, while keeping all functions names as camel case. Since javascript doesn't have type safety I find that it makes it super easy when looking at code to quickly make a distinction of "is this a function or is this a variable".
I wonder: technically Basic (MSX Basic to be precise) was the language I wrote my first working program in, but I've learnt to program on paper. I am serious: we had no computers in school, but we had a programming course and a teacher who took that seriously. So I've learnt about variables, loops, control flow etc. by writing pseudocode on paper. When I got access to the computer all I needed was a syntax.
So is my brain mutilated or not? :|
Only one person can use it at a time, and it wastes energy. Paper is recyclable, and more need for paper means more trees. Paper is low tech and works, and is more hygenic.
The irony is that at the limits of capitalism you find the same thing as soviet communism. Worthless news.
Did I just read "they found out that tech is not actually ready to fulfill what its marketing promised", or is that something else?
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." [0]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I did try to mention this before, with creating a Slack clone [0]. PHP and MySQL which is what this is written in are not very sexy but they're perfect for when you want the entire world to be able to use it.

There's reasons why PHP has been so successful with WordPress and Facebook.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16567271
My goal was to sketch a ceiling.
Hmm, it seems like they may have fixed it, I can't seem to reproduce the problem I had (it would randomly fail to resolve CAA records for DNSSEC enabled domains).
This is being downvoted but it's so true. Google just clarified the value they place on advanced (aggressive) SEO techniques/exploits.
Let’s imagine that auto-driving tech saves 2001 gross lives per year and kills 1001 people who wouldn’t have died in an all human driving world, for a net of 1000 lives saved.

I think that’s a win, even if I now have an even statistical chance to be in the 1001 and no chance to be in the 2001.

Requiring that I be in 1001 is not ok, no more than requiring I donate all my organs tomorrow. Allowing that I might be in the 1001 is ok, just a registering for organ donation is.
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Right and when the secret police come to your door you will be surprised. Wait, you say, when did we get taken over by a dictator? What happened to our democracy? Why is my internet suddenly riddled with NO everywhere? How come my job vanished? Why are my children suddenly forced to eat dirt? Why do I live in a crime infested neighborhood that used to be safe? Why did evil people destroy my environment? Oh yeah, I didn't pay attention.

It's not News you should be looking for, but information, and that's the real problem. If you ignore what is going on in the world because you don't want o hear anything hard you may be blissful, but you are just not involved, and all of us will suffer because you did not care to participate. If finding your information in "News" which is determined to give you false information is bad, ignoring what is going on in life is worse, because the only people who will change things are the very people you don't want doing it.

I remember voting in a bond election in a city of 500,000. Only a few hundred voted. We spent $50M of the people's money because they didn't care. Ignoring News is fine, ignoring what is going on is not.
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our own bullshit that we fail to realize that the average Facebook user has no idea what "decentralized" means; nor cares that their personal data is being sold.

This is another example of faux outrage that will pass with the next news cycle.
You could check out Wikipedia's "Current events" page:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
Yeah the advice on not clicking unsubscribe or report on spam emails is wrong advice. It doesn't verify your email (other ways to do that easily). But reporting or unsubscribing will often get you off that list.
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Not (known if) specifically Jewish but there is a semitic slave figure in the Hecht Museum [1] from 18-19 Century BCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Figurine_from_Egypt_of_se...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Figurine_from_Egypt_of_se...
I'm curious as to whether I am covered by the GDPR. I'm an EU citizen but I live outside the EU.
It's illegal to cross through a red light, even if there is an emergency vehicle behind you that wants to get through.
Serious question(s) from a father of 2 under 2...

How do you get the cloth diapers clean? Like, really clean so they don't still smell after they've been cleaned?

My wife and I were planning on cloth diapering. We bought some high-end cloth diaper and liners and started on our merry way. We found that no matter what we did, our little guy smelled like piss all the time. My wife was washing diapers 2 or 3 times in between wearings, "stripping" them to remove remaining smells, etc., etc.

Our water bill went up by literally $50 a month, we were buying all kinds of detergents to try and get the smells to go away, and we had already invested a ton of money actually buying diapers in the first place. Not to mention that my wife was spending all her time washing, re-washing, and folding diapers _and_ our kid still smelled like piss.

In our case, disposables were a god-send. The little dude is happy, he doesn't smell, my wife doesn't spend half her day cleaning diapers, and (especially since we buy diapers in bulk on good sales), we've found disposable diapers to actually be far _cheaper_ than what we were paying for water, detergent, startup costs, etc. on cloth.

I would never go back, just because of the time savings alone.
The major US news outlets deteriorated to the point of being close to USSR level of bias and propaganda.
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That's kind of survivors bias. You are not aware to the mass of mail that doesn't appear in your mailbox. When you are in the sending side, you quickly find that you don't reach your audience.

If it was open you would probably be receiving hundreds of them a minute. The filters means many don't even try, but if the required effort was zero we would be flooded with them.

The situation was so bad before the filtering products were invented that Bill Gates tried to push small fees (stamps) as a requirement for sending emails (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fee-based-e-mail-way-to-can-spa...).
I am not sure the UK has traffic light cameras, but they do some places in Germany. And the official position in Germany, and in most of Europe I think, is that emergency vehicle decisions trumps everything else. If a police officer directs you to do something that would break the law, then you should do it, as a police officer's decision trumps regular traffic laws.

At least, that's how it works in Germany and Denmark. But I don't think Denmark has traffic light cameras. I've never seen them anyway. But I've seen them in Germany.

Of course, this is assuming you don't actually cross the entire junction, but rather just moves out into the junction, so the emergency vehicle can get through.
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New York to London is nowhere near enough to make an aircraft development programme worthwhile, especially not one requiring substantial technological novelty. Demand for high speed business class flights on that route is - based on the last supersonic operator - in the region of one flight per day.

The A380 programme has over 200 aircraft delivered and over 100 more ordered and is not expected to break even.
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Hence the penultimate paragraph, no?

"Society needs journalism – but in a different way. Investigative journalism is always relevant. We need reporting that polices our institutions and uncovers truth. But important findings don't have to arrive in the form of news. Long journal articles and in-depth books are good, too."
This is a tough one, Google is walking into a semantic quagmire - how do you differentiate "business of war" from "protecting our troops/homeland". You are going to piss of one half of the country at least by even engaging in this debate.

The only Silicon Valley figure that would have veered out of this almost unscathed would have been Steve Jobs.
Anonymity lets you induce cognitive dissonance in people you disagree with without real life social consequences. The troll derives pleasure not just from anger or frustration, but knowing they’ve left a logical knot which will require untangling a whole region of knowledge.
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The problem with this thinking is that Google is not in the "business of war" but in the business of artificial intelligence. They have written an AI engine and a customer, the defense industry, wants to use it.

This is almost like people in the steel industry wanting to get out of this business of war by not selling or working on steel.

Another thing to note is, do these Googlers honestly think Russia and China and others aren't working on the same thing to be used by their military? Are these Googlers actively trying to persuade those countries not to work on this business of war at the same time?
I didn't know about that page. That looks quite like I want. Thank you.
Oh man, diapers pale in comparison to formula costs. My daughter gets changed ~8 times per day, but she eats up to 36oz of formula. That's about $1.76 in diapers and up to $6.79 worth of formula. Add in DI water (since we make it from powder) and the obscene cost of bottles, and it gets even worse.
Which safeguards are implemented to detect that rotation and modulation are taking place as intended?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it can actually cost money to put a child up for adoption in some places.
And why would your leadership care what you say? I know how little the leadership in my company (almost as big) cares about causes when there is money to be made. CEOs are paid to make profits not care about doing good. They do good when they are retired and can spend all the money they made making money and not caring so much about good. Why do so many companies do business in China despite all the censorship and other pain they have to support? Money.
we all have equal protection under the law, we have mostly reliable social welfare programs, and private charitable programs are bigger than they’ve ever been. Your analogy doesn’t hold any water at all.

Reality is that minorities get charged more harshly for the same crime than Whites and once you have a criminal record, it's harder to get a job.

Studies have also shown that all other things being equal, when a person has a resume that signals "blackness", they get fewer calls back.

Not to mention that because of overzealous prosecutions, poorly funded public defenders offices, and the prominence of plea deals, poor people don't get the same breaks as someone who can afford their own lawyer.

Then let's not even mention the poor state of some school districts since schools are funded by property taxes leading to a cycle of poor schools.

As far as just because you were able to come out of poverty means anyone can is just like saying that because I won the lottery, why can't anyone? Statistically, income mobility is rare.
I wonder if "Don't be evil" is still in their code of conduct...
You might be thinking of "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser.
It is a good question. I wouldn't have monetised this and would have still report it, because doing so would hurt legitimate businesses (by pushing them out of the results).

However, I have to admit it does nag at me a bit that the bounty is so small - it is like they are trying to send a message but I'm just not sure what it is!

I have done loads of research over the last 5 years (this exploit took me a couple of months to craft) and most comes to nothing, and then when I do find something big that the bounty is so small is frustrating. A bigger bounty would have made a meaningful difference to me (kids+no savings!).

The broader issue is how this may play to motivating people to discover/report these sorts of issues in the future. I have a couple of other ideas for search related attacks, but am not sure I'm going to explore them any longer.
I think the latter is the bigger of the issues.

360 nappies will generally last for 2 months. If you can't afford a mere $30 for that, then it's a case of your priorities being wrong (e.g. buying alcohol, tobacco, Netflix etc before thinking about your kids' needs) - in which case you should probably give serious consideration over whether you should bring kids into the world.
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I've had the same thought. Charge a small monthly fee in lieu of running ads or selling user data. Might cut down on fake/spam accounts as well.

But I don't think it would work (and I'd totally work on something like this if I thought it would). People say they care about privacy, but when you present them with the option of paying $5/mo for a service that respects their privacy or using a "free" service that tracks everything they do and sells that data to anyone who'll pay, they'll almost always opt for the latter.

Now, I would certainly pay a monthly fee for a non-user-hostile social network experience. And I would consider the smaller user base a feature, so long as it wasn't too small.
They promise privacy, but in a decentralized system, do I have to trust every node admin?
A squatting posture made a big difference for me. I get more thoroughly emptied out more easily. I literally need to go less often than I used to.
While Google is technically an American company, US citizens make up a minority of their user base.

How do you define "homeland" here? What if Google's foreign subsidiaries participate in project "Maven" in some way?

This doesn't seem "tough" to me at all.
> Apple can say to a Blizzard "game" with certainty (...), "there is no unauthorized software running on this system".

What does that assertion even mean unless you completely lock down app signing keys though? Sure - this system doesn't run any unauthorised software, only "foobar test" signed by a valid developer key; everything is fine.

It works for consoles, because you won't have the trusted signing keys.
Not sure what decentralised means. Do the different hosted versions communicate together and sync users and data across each other? (like the blockchain etc. Because that would be fairly important).. Also a real sneaky pro move would be initially to allow people to "sign up" via Facebook :) - once they're registered and the network has their email address then Facebook can become useless, just lowers the barrier to entry and its ironic that Facebook can be used to replace itself.
While this may be true for you, and for a limited number of others, I strongly suspect this is a case of "what the customer says they want is not the same as what they'll pay for".

While we might like the idea of luxurious travel at a gentle pace, in practice the though process that will happen is:

* I would like to go to Australia
* I have 2 weeks of holiday
* In order to maximise my time in Australia I shall take the fastest travel I can afford
Trivially fixable by a little foot hook on the bottom of the door intended to be used to open the door after you're done.
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It's not $30/day, it's $30 for 360 nappies that will last around 2 months. Even if you're making minimum wage, you can afford that if you've got your priorities right.
Well, they need to train their AI project on something, right?
Researchers have created a potential keyboard competitor. A headset that is worn, which picks up sound (?) and electrical signals from the jaw area, with a resolution of 20 unique signals. Testers have been able to communicate chess game moves "silently" with an accuracy of around 92%. Researchers seem optimistic that N > 20 in the future.

This reminds me of a relevant HackerNews discussion about biological interfaces a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727719

I am so happy to see progress in this area. While we're still some ways away from replacing keyboards, this seems like a huge step in the right direction. AFAIK, a vocabulary size of 20 for inconspicuous communication is unheard of, but if this has been done elsewhere, please share links!
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Ask HN: Do you know any non-technical founders that built great tech companies?
Title character limits are my weakness, so I'll expand -

Do you have any examples of non-technical founders that have built tech-centric companies?

Whether they had a technical co-founder, or outsourced / hired a development team would be interesting to note as well.

Thanks in advance!
Yet another examples of a completely rigid worldview, no doubt caused by decades of anti-socialism propaganda and indoctrination. There is absolutely no call for the frothing-at-the-mouth reaction so commonly seen from free market/capitalism proponents.

Did you read the article?

https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-com...

Marxism and what happened in countries like USSR, China and Cambodia only have an extremely tenuous connection, most of it related to the propaganda fed to the populace to force the tyrannical regime on them, without too much opposition.
Same here. Mine has an idiotically loud coil whine and sometimes fails to go to sleep(the screen switches off but the computers stays on, resulting in a scorching hot laptop when you pull it out of your bag). The touchpad is horrendous, frequently jumping the cursor when you click on it. I've had the motherboard replaced 3(!!!!) times now, and all of those issues are still present, and from what I heard they are not exclusive to just one generation of the XPS - it's almost like Dell engineers can't make a small laptop without coil whine.
Do they really though?
tbf, Concorde also took 17 hours to go to Australia, and that was when it was actively bidding to set a speed record, due to the need to divert and refuel unlike today's 787, as well as restrictions on supersonic flight overland. Coolness value of Concorde aside, I'd definitely prefer the business class in the 787.
That's like "Made with 100% local organic chicken" is only pointing out that the organic chicken is local, unlike the non-organic chicken whose provenance is not guaranteed.

That would be great to live in the world of marketing people where everyone is so able to parse weasel words. That would solve the fake news problem overnight.
1. Tech stack has to be decided based on functional requirements (real-time chat, less-write but read-intensive etc) and non-functional requirements (concurrent connections to support, regulatory compliance requirements etc).

2. Any serious business system (not just one app) will have multiple tech stack.

3. In the long term tech stack has to change depending on the changing business needs.

Assuming a whole lot about above 3 points, choice could be postgres, python, react, aws. Purely because they are battle tested. Any discussions about their merits are moot without knowing requirements.
Friendica is part of the fediverse, that is, "federated universe." The model of decentralization is "federation" here. Friendica is interoperable with Mastodon, GNU social, etc.
> It's not News you should be looking for, but information, and that's the real problem

This is an excellent distinction!

> I remember voting in a bond election in a city of 500,000. Only a few hundred voted. We spent $50M of the people's money because they didn't care. Ignoring News is fine, ignoring what is going on is not.

I'm guilty of not following my own advice here, but anybody who feels utterly overwhelmed and powerless by national/world politics can definitely be involved or at least informed at the local level!
It may be called HN, but most of what gets posted here is not really "news".
There are many ways:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key
I strongly believe that extensions stealing resources and power from unwitting users should be banned. However, that many legitimate extensions have also been pulled reinforces that this is a lot of power in one place with no observable external oversight, and it has strong resemblances to how companies such as CloudFlare can ban whoever they want[1].

"Just don't use the platform" is becoming more expensive and less practical for consumers every passing day. The same economies of scale that allow individual Internet companies to effectively dominate markets also confer the power to decide who has access and how, even if there's essentially only one game in town. Anti-trust regulation may experience some interesting evolution these next few years.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/cloudflares-ceo-...
this always amazes me...it is like telling me some population of humans cant raise their hands over their shoulders..
I remember voting in a bond election in a city of 500,000. Only a few hundred voted. We spent $50M of the people's money because they didn't care.

Similar in my city (250K people, a few hundred voters on the participatory budget to decide what to spend several million € on). Reaction of many people: "we elect these politicians to make decisions for us for four years and manage the budget, and that's what they should do, why should they ask anyone instead of doing their job?" That, when the participatory budget was about 1% of the total budget, and it was an explicit promise in the platform that was voted in the elections. Sigh.
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Google also has employees in different countries.

Would you be okay if your AI works as American ends up in the hands of the Russian military?

Why should a German, or French, or Russian Google employee then accept that their work ends up in the hands of the US military?

EDIT: Yes, they won’t directly work on the drone program – but the drone program will more likely than not be reusing ML technology built all across Google, and everyone that worked on that now knows they are personally helping the US military-industrial complex.
Elite (1984) generated its maps on demand, in real time:

http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2015/01/14/procedural-content-g...

Admittedly, a few specks on a black background does not take a lot of generation!
Just thinking, who should provide this decentralized service for common users? Someone who already provide them email? Their internet providers? Family?