skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of reddit's strengths is that you could build a community within reddit, reusing existing resources and users. Its like an incubator for user-created forums.
Compared to building and managing a forum, reddit provides much easier ways to create a community.
I started using it after slashdot, digg and so on descended into noise and in particular after digg's universally hated redesign. There too site owners were deaf to user
complaints. Reddit seems bent on learning the same lesson.
Terrible choice of name... it’s a common, and not very pleasant, slang term

Munted: uncontrollably drunk

Munter: extremely unattractive female

In the UK at least, possibly other English-speaking countries.
No ads. It's monetized via in-app upgrade to Apollo Pro.
I checked and you're right. For launching an entire product, they're really dropping the ball in the first sentence.

I read the English to imply that the network is based on your "loves" (passions, hobbies, goals) but the Portuguese makes it pretty obvious that's not right at all. I have a hard time interpreting the English in any way that matches the Portuguese version.
You make it sound like this came out of nowhere. Reddit has been letting people beta test this for months.
Spectrum: Extending Cloudflare to 65,533 More Ports
Grain Dashboard – Free HTML Admin Template
Not even a case of hacks; before modern (C99) C, standard C didn't have fixed-width integer types at all, so behaviour can very easily change with architecture.
World History Map. A great reference for how cultures move and change
Ask HN: Is there a trusted news source between East and West media
I find it very difficult to believe world news reports that originate from US (and allies). Just as unbelievable are reports from Russia (Eastern forces). I would love to find a number of sources that are less politicized and more objective. Help!
China’s Built a Road So Smart It Will Be Able to Charge Your Car
Author here. TPROXY module is pretty special, it really would have been hard to handle any inbound port without it. I guess it shows that there are benefits in keeping firewall and network stack code tied close.
Purely anecdotal, but I was a kid during the Nickelodeon era. I bought 1 little plastic container of gak at that point. It was neat, but not novel enough to consider a big memory.

My daughter? Had me buy a book for her from some girl that she said is on YouTube who makes slime (the book is about slime), she wants glue and other items for the mixture almost constantly, and if she sees a container of slime at Target that looks cool, that's the toy she wants over anything else.

It'd be one thing if that was just her niche, but damn, her friends are all about it too. It is kind of insane.
You got me curious, and I found this article about people growing rice in Maryland without flooded paddies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/rice-grown-in-...
And that seems to be the direction legislation like this would be pushing employers towards. The problem is, as demonstrated elsewhere in this thread, that many people don't appreciate the idea that working 24/7/365 isn't what most people want. If you do, that's cool, do you, but forcing that culture on people makes problems which makes market regulations.
I am not underestimating them, I am planning on it. All my capital investments are in automated equipment, that I know how to operate myself, and that are flexible in their use - they can make things for many industries, out of many materials.

The future is high mix short run manufacturing. Just in Time. Anything that has to be shipped and not flown, is never going to be 'just-in-time'. Locally made, custom just for you. This does not mean that automation won't be involved. The automation is the core of it - without the miracle of CNC (praise be!) the local guy wouldn't stand a chance.

My customers don't seem to care if it is robot welded or not, or made in the US or not. I doubt 99% of them could tell me which parts are robot welded and which ones are manually welded. Everyone claims that they care, but the top sellers in my segment are all made in Asia. So the evidence does not match the claims. The customer just cares if its what they want. Thats it. We use the "long tail" strategy in our market segment to differentiate with offshore competitors. We offer 3x the part numbers, and 2x the vehicle coverage, plus we do custom sizes and the others do not.

Automation, and flexible use machines, let me change styles to follow trends, and get low labor costs without resorting to offshore. We can customize parts one a one-by-one basis for clients if needed, and we do so usually once or twice a day.

I view my factory like a breakfast restaurant. I know I am going to sell a bunch of eggs, bacon, potatoes, toast - but I don't know exactly how much, or in what configuration. I have a menu, and I know what is roughly the most popular on any given day, but I never know exactly what the customer will want, and it doesn't matter since we make it fresh for them right when they order. I keep the raw materials in stock, we build about half our units on a fixed schedule based on statistical high movers, and the other half is built to order from the orders that day. There is minimal WIP on the floor, I try to keep it under 2 weeks.

Given the choice, people want to get things personalized just for them, or to have something a little unique. How many t-shirts do you see people wear on any given day, and how many are the exact same? Almost none, yet the basic form is the same for all.

TL;DR - things will be fine. Humans will have jobs. Have robots, hire humans.
Aside from pregnancy and breastfeeding, I don't think there is anything about parenting that biological grandparents cannot do.
Assuming nothing catastrophic happens in the next five days, https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/49664 can be merged, by the way. So that'll be one thing off your list as of 1.27.
Again, reminds me of http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html.

It's funny, even before the Cambridge Analytica scandal started I made a presentation at a local meetup, comparing Zuckerberg to Escobar. The title is more attention-bait than anything, but I found it especially relevant in current times.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mrR4tE7KSjpy7U4NnBqH...
PaintsChainer – AI-Powered Automatic Colorization
I don't know - the "reddit disguised as work" site http://codereddit.com/ and the Android app Reddit is Fun have been running off the API for nearly a decade.
There is yet another path to survival:

1) Do a startup
Ask HN: What is the best technology privacy guide?
And this makes it right? What right do they have to create this situation? Care to explain?
“Criticizing C++ in 2018 with arguments from back in 1993 feels dishonest.“

That statement itself seems intellectually dishonest. What has changed that invalidates his arguments? After all, C++17 is still backwards compatible to the C++ of 1993.

Pardon me for finding this humorous, but stating that I can’t use a Donald Knuth quote in a computer science topic because it’s an old is like saying I can’t quote Sun Tzu when talking about modern events because the Art of War is an old book.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programm...
I had the odd, but unique, experience of taking "Computer Engineering" and "Formal Logic" (a neurology/history-of-thought course) during the same semester. One observation from that experience is that there is a great deal of cognitive overlap in our representation and communication of those fields of study. Typically, I would see that overlap as being indicative of broad similarity.

Reading this and the comments makes me question the similarity of the fields somewhat. Perhaps it is just our tools for comprehension that are shared between the two rather than any deeply tactical, functional commonality.

To that end, I think that experts in these fields could communicate very effectively with each other once some vocabulary had been sorted out. How effective one expert would be in the other's field is less clear to me.
Semiconductor manufacturing is very planar - it's made up of many layers on top of each other, with some interconnecting features or vias between layers. It's a best-case scenario for reverse engineering with photography.
Almost almost, iff on happy path and in good enough weather and this and that...In other words, just what we have here: "it helps you fly/drive, unless it doesn't, but you're still in command and responsible for taking over if it becomes unhappy." With flying, there's rarely a situation such as "concrete wall at 12 o'clock" - this might be the distinction w/r/t driving.
You should check out Cesium. I've been using it for the past couple of years. It accesses your music library, so all your music and playlists are there. You can play by album (and shuffle the music) or even play by artist (and shuffle all songs by the artist). You can even play by genre if you so desire. Of course it provides all the typical music queue management facilities as well, but I don't tend to use those too much. I like it's extreme simplicity.
Is Steemit using an incentivized blockchain structure (like the "cryptocurrencies" Bitcoin, Ethereum's Ether et al; Pyramid-Ponzi scheme), where the value/cost to purchase their tokens increases with demand or based on a price someone sets?

If it's running on incentivized crypto-asset structure then I personally feel unless you're wanting to take advantage of uneducated/unaware population, whereby as the value/price of the crypto-assets go up then society's wealth is unreasonable/unnecessarily reallocated weighted towards the earliest adopters, then I personally won't be using such services. I started to read their whitepaper and it looks like they're attempting to create a "stable coin", however those inherently seem to have similar problematic issues.
That is absolutely true, especially in "western" richer countries, but don't forget other poorer places where most people don't feel the need to get the latest gimmick to climb the social ladder by impressing friends, but rather to communicate in the cheapest possible way.
Way cool. I would personally mistake many of the results for a real painting if I didn't have the original in front of me.

Getting the colors right is half the problem, and I guess the histogram loss function I saw mentioned at the bottom of the page does that. A couple of the results had strange looking color transformations though - the little girl whose red shirt turns blue, even though the bed has some red in it, and the red rose that turns yellow even though there are orange flowers in the background. So it's not always choosing colors that are the closest to the source while being available in the target's palette. Anyone know why the colors sometimes go so far of course?

Also, this is one of the first style transfer papers I've seen that has a pretty obvious built-in and seemingly plausible business idea. I'm sure poster stores in malls everywhere could sell versions of your favorite painting or poster with your or your own face or something else of your choice added to the composition. It's like the new version of the picture board painting with face cutouts, but way better.
Arguably, school curricula are driven by the industry's needs. People keep asking for Java and Javascript developers, so that's what they have students learn.
The only thing I cannot wrap my head around is why we won't create new jobs. Are we truly months away from reaching the pinnacle of human achievement?

We've quite literally lost 95% of all jobs before. That part is nothing new. However, what we found was that when people were jobless and bored, they found new things to do. Things that nobody ever imagined people doing when they were busying doing other jobs.

It is not like human-level robots are anywhere on the horizon. At best we have simple pattern matching machines that can be trained to do certain tasks. But they cannot cross tasks. A self-driving car robot cannot start becoming a self-practicing doctor robot on a whim. A self-practicing doctor requires building an entirely new robot specialized to do medicine.

Up to this point, each time we lose jobs, the new jobs people invent have become more and more diverse. At one time, 95% of the workforce all did the same job. Now the largest industry employs something like 5% of the workforce. The numbers are getting smaller. And are trending to be even smaller still. It is not difficult to imagine a time when people will all have distinct jobs, that no other human does. The economies of building a robot to replace a single person starts to diminish quickly.
There is also a subreddit dedicated to alternatives https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives
There is probably a niche for which a stripped down HN-like forum with moderation but for general discussion might be moderately successful.. moreso if it provides a robust API that allows for third party clients.

Maybe self-hosted forums will make a comeback.
Correct, sort of. They are still owned by Conde Nast's parent company
This one https://steemit.com/ is interesting... would be more interesting if the percentage of non-cryptocurrency-related articles were higher.
I like the new concept
Nope, well except the standard Reddit posts that are obviously ads...
to be fair, usually it's not just the "slightest bit of... usability discomfort" but an enormous chunk. (e.g. Mastodon is hilariously complicated and difficult to understand for me and I can't even imagine trying to get my friends to use it.)
> The main unifying aspect that the "filter bubble" criticism and the "connecting people" criticism seem to have in common is that both involve Facebook taking away some control of the culture from the press, the media, and other powerful groups and giving it to the populace

No, it's giving it to a new powerful group, specifically, Facebook. Just as Stalin stated, “I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how,” so, too, is it true of social media; power doesn't lie with the people who can press “Like” (etc.), it lies with the people who select and continuously tweak based on observed effect the algorithm by which Likes and similar actions are used to shape the flow of information to and between users.
Another proof that state “managed” healthcare is unnecessary
Unfortunately common things in one language often mean other things in another language. The author is clearly trying to share this with the English speaking world, (the site is English after all), so it stands to reason that you would choose your words carefully in English.
> When asked by Senator Maria Cantwell whether Facebook employees helped with the Cambridge Analytica work: “Senator, I don’t know.”

If someone asks you "did any of your employees ever do XYZ?", and you've never heard of a case where they did, then sure in normal conversation you'd answer "no". But if you're under oath, you'd better damn well say "I don't know."
Since there's a lot of talk about rss feeds on hn nowadays, you can also subscribe to any individual subreddit by adding "/.rss" to the end of the url (e.g. "reddit.com/r/subreddit/.rss"). I've been weaning myself off reddit, but there are some subreddits that I still want to follow, and rss is a fine compromise.
I bet the big defense contractors and three-letter agencies have pretty good AI departments.
Two basic APIs are not available in 64 bits: Carbon and QuickTime. Steve Jobs promised to port Carbon to 64 bits when macOS X was introduced. So many of us developed for Carbon, and a few years later Carbon was deprecacted, and Apple announced they would never port it to 64 bits. Even software from Apple such as iTunes was built and Carbon, and it took years for Apple to remove the Carbon code out of iTunes...
Reducing life to exploitable profits is just wrong. If it's the only way to incentivize drug testing and marketing then the companies involved in those pursuits ought to struggle under the weight of sin taxes.
I’m not sure the American public at large cares. I don’t think most folks know how much the hand of someone else controls and guides their everyday actions, assumptions, and opinions. That hand being a foreign power or Jiffy peanut butter. Facebook is an echo chamber. The perfect propaganda tool in an age of critical-less thinking. How many people open the Facebook app 30 times a day and see the same “alternative-fact” or falsehood repeated, in an ever-so-slightly flavor, and eventually believe it? Never realizing they are eating shit pies all day?

The most valuable good/commodity/crop today is our attention, because with it outsiders can influence what you think and feel.
Chat-blogging platform P4 in Markdown, yeah!
https://onp4.com/@p4-team/about-us-72r45
ESPN launches ESPN+, its $5 streaming service
Ah so its like and EDM (Early Day Motions) in the UK
> Reading almost certainly takes more activity from the reader.

People who make this kind of claim seem to think "visual learning" means being shown pictures or videos (not reading)

> Also your idea that visual learners tries to avoid workimg real problems seems to be that you have dealt with lazy people who tried to hide between learning styles.

I think that's exactly what GP was trying to say.
I thought we were talking about phone numbers. They're not impossible to obtain in bulk, but that's much harder than faking user agents.
I agree with the initial premise, origin story more likely was nerd bros desperately wanted to get rich and get laid. Connecting the world only came around when they were told they couldn't put that into their business plan template as their mission statement.

But I have a feeling you are confusing things and timelines. Perhaps you are remembering the actual hot or not site that did just what you remember while thinking of the facemash or whatever that Zuckerberg made prior to FB that we probably all learned about when we watched The Social Network.
How its not filled with paid ads?
The platform seems interesting technically, but what prevents them from being swamped with promoted content/ads/blatant spam?
Some Android Phone Manufacturers Lying to Users About Security Updates
Participation (permission to measure BMI) was around 60%. That seems like a pretty low rate, and it is not too hard to imagine that parents who know their child has a BMI problem might be more likely to not want it measured, for fear of stigmatizing them or their child. So, while I don't doubt that a program of this sort might not be the answer, I don't think their data is sufficient to prove it one way or the other, unfortunately. I would expect you need well over 90% compliance/permission to measure before you could say that. Disclosure: I am not a statistician (and I would love to hear from one about this issue).
Apple can still fail.
Yep, you need to do your own aggregations, now a place to hold all my forum links and note/save them (similar to bookmarks but way more robust) would be pretty nice.

I've been forcing myself off Reddit and to search out specific forums and sites. It's an old (I meant odd) mix out there, some have obviously been using phpBB for years, some are brand new with lots of mechanics, and some are tied into other sites that have drastically helped my hobbies.

For Reddit, besides the time-sink/image click portion, it doesn't hold much water for indepth hobbiest communities.

The short life of a post and terrible search result in a large portion of each sub being the same post, iterated daily. You don't get around that with a forum BUT, and this is important, forums for these hobbies are often attached to sites specific laid out and updated so you see the bare basics before getting to the forum. Subs can have a sidebar all they want but it's clear a lot of people gloss over it daily.

EDIT: The more I think on it, the more Reddit has splintered into subs and their sidebars/communities just being single login web rings/forums.

Specific example, numismatics

There's /r/coins, coins4sale, papermoney, colonialcurrency, banknotes, maybe 50 more. In reality there's a few main ones which are easily grouped together on a dedicated site similar to Numista's forums
Complaining about decisions like these is a form of market pressure. A weak one, but still within the rules of the business game.
> social protocols are the answer

While true, they probably won't be the first answer. You need a some of these networks with real traction (or at least one huge one) so they can derive a protocol from the greatest common factors between them. To preemtively make a protocol sans popular implementation has little value and often ends in low adoption. As we've learned, the success of a protocol is more about its popularity than its presence or quality. So I say let these networks gestate and once the market (of people, not money) starts picking winners, then begin your abstraction.

And for those (of us) working on solutions to this problem space now, keep going. You don't need a committee or standards doc or whatever. You just need an awesome impl.
If people have done architecture-specific things they may not compile (or worse, crash inexplicably at runtime).

I tried doing more or less that (compiling a C++ Windows app for 64-bit) a few jobs ago and eventually discovered that way down in a library somewhere a dev (who had long since departed) did some trickery in string processing routines that relied on arguments being lined up on the stack, which is no longer the case with the x86_64 calling convention. That remains the worst piece of code I've ever worked with - it's innocuous to look at, and any developer who understands why that works should also have known better than to do it.

More generally, integer size issues can arise - if `int` remains 32 bits it's no longer enough to capture the difference between two pointers (and obviously should never have been used for that, but often these things happen).
I agree. The whole issue with the first decentralised networks at the moment are their usability and accessibility to the average person. There’s a lot of work to be done on this. There are 1000s of people tackling the problem globally from the protocol level to the user interfaces.

My point is these networks will and need to replace the centralised social model which is what this new network is.
I don't, I would also like to know. I get home, feel like satan drained my soul all day and sedate myself to continue the vicious cycle the next day.
I have a vaguely related personal anecdote on this topic: back when I was a school kid I experimented with vegetarianism for ethical reasons. I quickly realised it made no difference so long as I was still at school because my parent bought the same food and cooked the same quantities of meat. All that happened was my Dad got an extra helping of steak or whatever.

Ultimately kids might have some control over what they eat at school (depending on school dinners etc), but you're absolutely right that they have little control over what they eat at home. (or rather they'll be given the option to eat what the family eats or cook their own dinners - which no normal teenager is ever going to do week in and week out if there is already an easier option going)

I do also completely agree with you about leading by example with regards to exercise etc.
> First, let's clear the misconception of cost effectiveness. An F-35 shooting down a dingy Su-24 amortized way back in 1992 would be entirely worth it, if Su-24 was on a mission to strike your C&C

Not sure why that's an argument against the cost effectiveness of something? If you could do X for N dollars or 2xN dollars then it's more cost effective to do it for N dollars assuming the mission can be performed with either.

> Norway found the cost manageable, in competition with other bidders.

I think it's safe to say there was a "political cost" considered here too. That is, what would be the long term cost of not "helping" NATO allies and the other F-35 buyers by pushing the price down through larger sales.