skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A subtle point you've written up well, kudos. I'm curious, do you think that this forum we're on, Hacker News, subtlely maximizes the wrong thing? Its goals[1] are

>Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Do to this "maximizer function", including comment guidelines, many people refrain from adding noise to subjects they don't have much to say about. HN has lots of readers on each story who do not comment, because they have nothing to say. Cf Reddit, where having nothing to say has never stopped anyone.

Do you think HN's guidelines, moderation, and culture, have any unintended side-effects?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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EDIT: The votes on this are weird :) First it got voted up then down. To be clear, I don't have any specific expectation of what your response might be! It's a totally open-ended question. I'm just interested in your thoughts,
mundo, for the reason I cited (that I think you make a subtle and interesting observation). Really no agenda here! :)
http://archive.today/4K797
It's a compiler "hack" for shared libraries, because there is no other way to run initialization for elf objects. [1] The C standard doesn't allow it. And gcc forces you to be explicit about it.

[1]: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/__attribute__constructor-__att...
That's true, but pissing off someone who cut you a deal usually ensures you won't get a similar deal like that again in the future.

It's a risk.
Only work 4 days. I put more value on my free time and learning than on money I don’t spend anyway.
I will disagree with this. Clicking on the bar has been part of the interface for some subreddits for a while now (though not many). I find it quite nice because if you are reading a deep thread and want to collapse to the next N levels up, then you don't have to carefully scroll up while watching the vertical bar to find the top comment in order to minimize that thread. This makes it very easy to skip to the next top-level comment when a topic has lots of comments.
Ankiapp in the browser. Also Anki for iOS (which is around 25 dollars but is the only way the developer is monetizing). This enables sync between iOS and browser.
The reddit post I meant was this announcement from 10 or so days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/891stx/start...

Thanks for the Wired link. That actually shows it. Yeah, I agree it looks quite facebook-like.
It looks like they want to turn this on incrementally. First private browsing, now this.

It gives web developers time to notice issues with their websites/webapps and fix/report them.
Google Fuchsia is not Linux: So, what is it and who will use it?
The maturity of Serverless
No you're not. You're trying to taint me with your bias.
Backpack in Morocco and West Africa. And when I say backpack, I don’t mean just follow the hostel trail and stay with other foreigners. Try to stay independent and maximize your contact with the local people. (I learned active French over several months hitchhiking in the region, for example. Before going, I had a decent passive reading knowledge like any bookish European). I highly recommend learning French there because the local people are much more tolerant of mistakes than in France proper. They will just be happy you can communicate. And yet, many urban Moroccans and Senegalese speak French so well, so virtually natively, that they are good models to learn from.
Is it possible to completely/selectively prevent websites from knowing I have IPFS running in my browser?

Or does this extensions have the same issues as Metamask[0], which means there's no way to hide the fact that one has the extension installed?

This is a pretty important privacy feature, because I'm pretty sure the presence of such an extension massively increases the accuracy of targeting.
Probably a Sansa Clip or similar (not too familiar with their current model lineup but it roughly mirrors my experience with them back when I used one).
I’ve always joked that Domino’s is the original food delivery “tech” company. Reading this article confirms it, as well as watching the Netflix Ugly Delicious “Pizza” episode where they show how as much of the Dominos’ process is automated.
Who’s a good AI? Dog-based data creates a canine machine learning system
Grammar in general is my definitely my biggest issue. I have a firm grasp on grammatical terms in English, and it would be much easier for me if the rules of grammar were simply explained instead of implied.

I've found I end up looking at the comments frequently and just hoping that someone was kind enough to plainly explain the grammar at some point. Failing that, I end up asking fluent Spanish speakers random questions like, "Are adjectives gendered and pluralized in Spanish?" Which works up to a point, but when you start asking about things like "gerunds" and "past participle" you end up having to explain what those things mean in the first place (using English) and then ask the question again about Spanish.

Would love to see an app that focuses less on implied methods of teaching and is more willing to dive in to grammar lessons.
The process is even more fun when you don't have an SSN yet and the form doesn't know how to deal with that.
I wonder if you have to be logged in for that link to work? I'm at work right now and I never log in to reddit from here.
I had to very recently correct my credit report because their happened to be another guy with my same name in another state. it didn't take long but was annoying. I also get a lot of that guys emails, he must have a similar gmail address to mine. super annoying. Sadly his insurance provider leaked a lot of his PII data to me through email. Which is probably still archived on gmail.
The world faces floods, famine and extreme heat – what it’ll take to bounce back
It's a dog and pony show.

Everyone's going through the motions, to moderate (heh) and deflect public outcry.
Strange, yeah if I open it in an incognito window I'm shown the old reddit homepage. Maybe it only works for signed-in users?
You have the actual solution, in fact. How long does anyone think a Canadian supreme court decision could stand if Google ceases operations in Canada?

I suppose they could stand up a Baidu-like Canadian Google replacement, but it would take a while.
true. my whole side project output yesterday was a shell script that monitors if another process is running and lights an led on the raspi if yes :P
40 min work. But one step closer to the goal
Sounds like a feedback loop. They ought to slowly introduce "Albanian" options to their Italian and Greek menus.
Dominos put more money into their ordering system bells and whistles than the actual food, if you can call it food. I couldn't even finish a slice it was so bad.
Riding in a Tesla with autopilot turned on is like driving with a new teenage driver: you’re terrified at any minute it’s going to do something crazy like steer you into a concrete wall.

There are certain situations that you can quickly get into via steering inputs to the car that cannot be recovered, so the point of even keeping your hands on the steering wheel as an argument for legal liability is moot: before you even realize what’s happening to take over and apply corrective action it will often times simply be too late.

Additionally, most people, save for professional drivers, do not have enough experience to know what corrective steering inputs to perform during an emergency situation. In many cases, any corrective action via steering, brake or acceleration control input from the human driver will be incorrect and thus lead to an unpredictable and dangerous situation.

By this logic, Tesla needs to be held accountable for any accidents where they argue human intervention would help.
This subject needs far more attention than it's getting.

It's funny how the psychoactive compound we have the least reliable data on is legal and the most abused while safer and better understood drugs remain illegal.

It's fucked up.
Creating a Unity-like theme using KDE Plasma’s desktop scripting API
Interesting. Here in Switzerland this is also true. A lot of Pizzerias are operated and owned by Albanians. I always thought that this only „happened“ here.
Don't miss the point here. Tesla doesn't require that you be a licensed air pilot before you buy the car. It doesn't matter what pilots know about autopilots, it's about what the general public believes when they hear "autopilot". I wouldn't be surprised if 50% of the world believes that an autopilot allows both pilots to leave the cockpit for five or ten minutes. So the word "autopilot" misleads them, even if a pilot would know the limitations.
This Man Expects to Run a 2:50 in the Boston Marathon on Monday
WebAuthN – Chrome and Firefox have a new standard for password-free logins
What If Warren Buffett Paid the Fees Most Hedge Funds Charge for His Career?
Totally. I suppose that's due in large part to the fact we owe our existence to cycles (water, moon, CO2, solar, etc). But time as a construct is bizarre nonetheless.
I feel like I'm missing some context. I thought you were talking about work stealing in threaded systems, in which case sleeping seems reasonable.

Are you instead talking about some kind of event loop? If so, then clock_gettime seems like it's merely convenient, not essential. You could just as easily keep a ticket incremented on successful operations or successive loops (or some other metric), and exponential backoff is a wait operation on a ticket number.

Unless you're suggesting the delay must be based on real time for some reason?
Here's the thing about autopilot all the way up through self-driving cars:

A perfect system would never have a fatality. EVERY problem that ends in fatality can ALWAYS be traced to some flaw or inadequacy. Every. Single. One.

That is why self-driving cars will eventually be far safer than any human driver (because every fatality can be stopped), and why the natural human tendency will be to crucify any company who attempts to enter the market[0,1], which will mean millions of more unnecessary deaths at the hands of human drivers because we'll delay deploying self-driving technology until it's perfect.

[0]Even if they, accurately, point out the driver is still responsible and that overall safety is improved. Accuracy doesn't matter, emotional resonance does. That's victim blaming!

[1]At the same time, this intense focus--while it's "unfair" given the masses of car deaths every day--is also what will drive the massive improvements of safety. So the inaccurate outcry can actually be a good thing. Provided that original player doesn't give up or go out of business first. This dynamic can help explain why airlines in the developed world are so ridiculously safe (...but also perhaps why airliner technology has been stagnant for half a century, with only safety and incremental efficiency/cost improvements).
No, this phenomenon actually proves that space really is warped, otherwise you wouldn't see the light from behind a galaxy cluster because light follows a straight line.
I'm inclined to agree. It runs beautifully on my Nextbit Robin. My wife however has nothing but problems with it on her Google Pixel.
I was aware of the DC-X. It was tested in the 90s but it never went anywhere. Why didn't someone else do what SpaceX is now doing? They were too busy selling 70s tech and cashing checks.

When I said 'first new thing in aerospace since the 70s' I meant shipped. Things that never shipped don't exist.

The Shuttle I suppose could count but it was a mixed bag and in some ways a step backward from the Saturn V.

Seems like people have flipped from mindless Musk worship to being haters all the sudden.

Tesla may fail but they validated the market for high-end electric cars. Before Tesla the popular narrative was that EVs are impractical, slow, have poor range, and can't possibly ever compete with ICEs. People argued that modern transportation was absolutely and fundamentally inseparable from oil, even spinning this into popular peak oil doomsday narratives.

The biggest threat to Tesla today is that now that they've validated the market larger more experienced car companies are jumping on the EV bandwagon.
Might be worth linking to a clearnet service that loads .onion sites, since this isn't a very privacy-conscious usecase and that would probably have a higher success rate than asking people to download a new internet browser
Daily Stormer, which has gone through 20+ domains in the past 18 months, was the first site to get kicked off Cloudflare for content/no court order, constant attacks on hosting facilities, etc.
I don't think that child pornography falls under speech at all, and I don't see the connection. Child pornography sole purpose is to serve prurient interests.

Sorry I don't mean to say that speech should be a free for all, threats will not be tolerated, nor would harassment, but we already have longstanding laws and procedures to deal with those things, they are nothing new.

"it's pretty clear which voices get silenced. Which voices have been silenced for decades and decades"

I don't think it's clear at all, nobody is currently being silenced, however I can see the pattern of existing laws and policies around harassment and threats being misused to silence political opponents. This is a very bad development, and mostly recent phenomenon. I think as far as thats concerned we have crossed the rubicon so to speak, and the polarization will only accelerate.

"So in practice, somebody will always be silenced on some topics."

I don't agree. Even child pornography can be discussed however children have no agency and can't consent to their images being used in such a way. So it can never be legalized. There are many subjects that cannot be discussed (racial issues, social issues) that are considered by the left to be unmentionable even though points expressed are perfectly respectful and salient.
I can tell you're an asshole.

(that's what I would have said)
Well, the alternative to PGMs is a lot more collateral damage. Want to take out that bridge? Carpet bomb or dive bomb and hope too many civilians/pilots don't die. Want to take out that factory? Carpet bomb or dive bomb and hope too many civilians/pilots don't die.

With PGMs you can take out a bridge with pinpoint accuracy in the middle of the night and nobody dies at all (directly, at least).
"Seem" refers to the lens like nature or the warped space.
Are All Spatial Reference Frames Egocentric?
Sorry, I didn't mean that it would be an actual feature request. The grandparent poster wanted about:config and I proposed that it do that. I don't actually think it has any advantage overall.
Life imitates art. https://sf.eater.com/2018/3/26/17165314/hbo-silicon-valley-s...
Facebook isn't solving a real-world problem. Before Messenger, I could have easily just kept in touch with those I care about via text message. Without the ad targeting, echo chambers, and anxiety that social platforms create with "keeping up with the joneses".

There's a bunch of negative externalities. I don't want to be a user anymore. I will share things I care enough to share with my friends directly, not through an abstraction of a "wall" where an opaque algorithm decides who sees what. It's incredibly impersonal. It is by no means "connecting" us. Facebook sows far more division than connection.
Good! They should be worried!

This is one of the greatest things about the internet: the reduction of information asymmetry.

Occupations like investment advice and sometimes auto repair exploit the heck out of information asymmetry.

The death business is especially nefarious because not only are they exploiting information asymmetry, they also exploit emotional overload.

When I was in college, my dad died in another country. The mortician had me over a barrel. The hospital had one funeral home they worked with and before I knew it, the funeral home was in possession of my dad's body. Want to transfer it to another funeral home? Well there's a charge for that. My only option was to pay them whatever they asked to cremate him. I paid some outrageous amount (I believe it was about $600, which was a fortune in the small 3rd world country he was in) for cremation and a little urn and box to carry him in.

Even as a guy who was emotionally relatively stable (I was mostly estranged from my father), it was still an infuriatingly weak position to be in as a "customer" of one of these predatory businesses.
I'm not sure what point you think you are responding to.

My point is that a particular approach tends to work similarly well across many languages within a language family. Duolingo's method is effective at providing elementary grammar and vocabulary within Indo-European languages. I agree that it does not get you a sufficient vocabulary to read, or the verbal reflexes for speech. But it is an effective approach for an absolute beginner.

Everything that I've heard about it says that it is basically useless for various Asian languages. Even for absolute beginners. For example my wife used Duolingo with languages like Polish and Spanish. She was quite happy with the results, even though she outgrew what the app can do. However despite these good experiences it took her less than a week to decide that it was useless for Japanese, and move on to a random flashcard program instead.

As an interesting aside, we have objective evidence of these linguistic differences from machine learning. Google Translate originally worked by a form of statistical pattern matching across large numbers of original and translated documents. This worked brilliantly for Indo-European languages, but did badly for various Asian languages. To my understanding for much the same fundamental reasons that Duolingo does.
Sliceline?
Ask HN: Best way to find an apprenticeship?
Hi HN,

The value of an apprenticeship cannot be overstated. As a student myself, I'm currently searching for a summer opportunity where I can absorb as much as possible.

If someone asked you for an apprenticeship, how would you want them to approach you?

I'm particularly interested in engineering, AI, and design.

Thank you -- I can use all the advice I can get.
Generally I don't mind a subdued audio track on a documentary, but this was especially egregious.
Tough one to answer since I believe I already explained the reasoning in the comment. I'll be happy to play if you think something is unclear there. The only rule is; you need to say what you think of this yourself.
Speaking as a marketer, I think people will be more interested in differentiation than in perfection (provided the basics are covered).

I.e. get the "secret" formula for a unique hair color or body proportions, or whatever.

If everybody's "perfect" in the same way, there's no advantage to being perfect, and people will look for ways to differentiate.

(Of course all of this is Hollywood-level speculation, but still).
Adaptive Cruise Control with Lane Keeping Assistance seems to be the most common industry name for it.
Can you share how you're showing the vocab on the desktop? That would be a neat study tool.
There's an app on the Google Play Store called "Stay Focused" that allows you to set time limits for individual apps and block the app for the remainder of the day once the time limit is reached.

While I could go through the effort of subverting it, I've found that it has been effective in limiting my usage of distracting apps like Facebook or Reddit. A lot of times, I will instinctively click the app icon when I get on my phone, and the "Access Denied" splash screen it displays after the time limit is up helps me stay aware of my aimless browsing habits and encourages me to do something more productive.

If you can maintain discipline and not disable the app after a time limit has been reached, it can help to deter compulsive news feed consumption and other distracting activities.
It's true that Japanese is harder to learn. However, the Duolingo course is particularly awful. Even with some prior knowledge I was completely lost with much of the stuff they randomly throw at you without any explanation.
Thanks for the offer. I'll likely take advantage of it. I've been submitting my resume a lot, and making tweaks here and there.
> Direct, conventional war between the US and another major nuclear power isn’t a likely threat model. As soon as one side starts losing, the nukes are gonna come out and conventional forces become irrelevant.

A few thoughts:

1. You may be correct.

2. But 'not likely' isn't sufficient odds when it comes to survival of the U.S. and its allies. The U.S. has to be prepared for unlikely and even very unlikely threats when they are existential.

3. The U.S. government believes it must prepare for near-peer warfare; it's unchallenged consensus in national security circles AFAICT. That doesn't make it correct, but that does have some weight.

4. The Russians explicitly disagree. Look up their 'escalate to de-escalate' tactics, which includes use of nuclear weapons in limited warfare.

5. Some hawks in China believe they can, through a fast, aggressive strike, drive the U.S. out of certain strategic areas and intimidate the U.S. into substantially withdrawing from East Asia.

6. Strong conventional forces can deter Russian and Chinese hawks from doing something crazy.
Somewhat off topic but the majority of the indie pizza joints near me (central NJ, 60ish mins from NYC and PHL) have gone bottom market. That is, flavorless and mediocre.

If Domino's is winning from convenience then perhaps the M&P product needs more help than their technology?
Tab sync, better UI (especially on iPad), better private mode (e.g. blanks out the screen when switching apps), honestly just the warm fuzzy feeling of having Firefox.
If you want good Italian in NYC go to Celeste, owner is actually Italian too
I use Slice all the time to order from A Pizza Mart in Seattle.
I don't think people who have never programmed before are the only ones who would be interested in more consistency and maintainability in their code.
16M Ton Deposit of Rare-Earth Metals Found Underneath Japanese Waters
So confused. DNS registrars can be mandated to reject domain ownership? What about DNS registrars outside of the US?

Also..... at some point we could just publish a list of IP's if we care enough, right? Although that's less than ideal.
Why does a legacy matter when you're dead? You won't be around to know if you truly are a legacy. Sure, Zuckerberg has a hospital but who knows what civilization will remember of him in 500 years.

To rationalize it my own mind, he must simply continue being CEO since that's what he enjoys doing.
It's not hard to hire someone to notice that the comments are reporting errors.
With new regulations like GDPR coming online FB's business model is basically kaput. They're going to need to rethink their whole stance if the world follows EU's lead. Given that Zuckerberg was called to testify in front of congress, I think we're probably going to see much more action.
As I understand it, other auto manufacturers provide similar capability, though they may call it "lane keeping" instead of "autopilot".

What I haven't seen discussed: Are these cars from other manufacturers having similar problems with crashing into things? Are Tesla crashes considered more newsworthy, which is why we hear more about them? Or are drivers of these other cars more attentive? Or do these other cars actually have better technology?

Just curious why the discussion is always Tesla "autopilot" vs Waymo "full autonomy" vs unaided humans, when other manufacturers are also putting level-2 "lane keeping" systems on the road.