skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's partly the regular, simple, easy to understand structure that makes the approach outlined in this paper fail so badly. Because CPUs are made up of a number of simple, regular pieces connected in a way that's generic and easy to reason about, each of which is general enough to be used across many kinds of programs, knocking out individual transistors and observing the effects on the output of complex programs doesn't tell you much. Which parts of the CPU are used for a particular "behaviour" depends on the whims of the programmer and the compiler's optimisation passes as much as anything else.
The founder has an amazing history, and the description of Hello is enticing but vague of what differentiates it.

None of that matters for me though, because when I attempted to sign up from my laptop I got the message 'Sorry, we're mobile only'. I see no compelling reason to be mobile-only at full launch. Mobile-first for your MVP with early adopters, yes that makes a great deal of sense. But when a company does a full launch I think they should support as many of the major platforms as they can (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS).

Also, I am not convinced that we need yet another social media company (YASMC, "Yazz-em-see"?) that is centralized and will by necessity make money by monetizing attention.

Cal Newport thinks social protocols are the answer, as he discusses in http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/03/20/on-social-media-and-it.... I agree. I worked on this as the OASIS XDI technical committee co-chair for a while, and am working on something new now.
Tell that to the explosion of automation occurring right now. My local McD's just put in the touchscreen kiosk that'll ultimately replace the entire counter crew. The 'cooks' are already just a few folks running from machine to machine pressing buttons. That can also be entirely replaced (see other timely HN posting about MIT students' robo-cooker).
It is. But if you close your mind enough you can't even think about those kind of argument and follow the kind of thinking some people do, how can you mount a valid argument against it?

It's heinous! Eugenics bad! Are not good arguments. You have to try and follow thoughts along ways you (and most people you know) don't or you end-up creating your own echo chamber. Try playing devil's advocate sometimes you may learn a lot about how you think and why.
The peasants were getting too uppity with their free speech and free exchange of ideas and need to be smacked back down into the mud again.
Ask HN: Your thoughts about Hello.com social networking app from Orkut's founder
When confronting the utopian side, by contrast, the relevant question becomes sharper: Should these companies even exist at all?

I am coming towards this conclusion as well. As individuals, the easier and more frictionless our communications with others, the greater our opportunities to live, love, learn, and collaborate. As a species, we have evolved to live in small social groups with radically different norms and life patterns. That's a survival and evolution benefit, not a bug. As long as we can remain peaceful and not harm one another, we want the maximum possible diversity in humanity, not some utopian norm for the entire species.

We have a wonderful example of large numbers of people instantly communicating with one another. They're called mobs. Because at some point in scaling, and it happens probably between 75-500 people, powerful emotions are the only thing that can sustain the instant feedback loop we've created.

We want friction in communicating. Not only do we want it, we have to have it.
At the crypto-currency markets, a wave of sales ended
Just wondering: How did you (supposing Orkut reads this here) get the IP out of Google?
We could start with something very small, like a worm.
It's not really open to that interpretation if you read the memo where the quote comes from.
I was a relatively early adopter to Facebook, though not Harvard- or Ivy League-early. It didn't have a hot-or-not style rating at that time. Poking was a feature, but I'm not sure it was ever that popular.
After reading his books Deep Work and Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You, I feel like Cal Newport has become sort-of a guru for me, not pure computer science, but the larger view of how to live a good life.

I am sharing this article with friends and family to maybe help them understand why I don’t want to use social media, rather, I want to talk on the phone, email directly, and travel to see people.

I manage a machine learning/AI team so I am not against technology, but technology truly needs to serve human needs.
>> There must be some technological reason we have moved to this yet.

The AI isn't good enough yet. We have self-driving cars running into things, fighter jets are an order of magnitude more complex.
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The difference is that Google doesn't share that information with other firms. Having centralized information for a user is important to many (you can always spread it across multiple emails and accounts) but I think violation of privacy is the main reason Facebook is under investigation not centralization of data.
The cited fragment does suggest that interpretation, that the de facto goodness should be scrutinized. But the entire memo frames terrorism and bullying as unfortunate side-effects which must be tolerated for the sake of ever greater connectivity.

--- [Newport quote in brackets] ---

Andrew Bosworth
June 18, 2016

The Ugly

We talk about the good and the bad of our work often. I want to talk about the ugly.

We connect people.

That can be good if they make it positive. Maybe someone finds love. Maybe it even saves the life of someone on the brink of suicide.

So we connect more people

[That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.

And still we connect people.

The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good.] It is perhaps the only area where the metrics do tell the true story as far as we are concerned.

That isn’t something we are doing for ourselves. Or for our stock price (ha!). It is literally just what we do. We connect people. Period.

That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it.

The natural state of the world is not connected. It is not unified. It is fragmented by borders, languages, and increasingly by different products. The best products don’t win. The ones everyone use win.

I know a lot of people don’t want to hear this. Most of us have the luxury of working in the warm glow of building products consumers love. But make no mistake, growth tactics are how we got here. If you joined the company because it is doing great work, that’s why we get to do that great work. We do have great products but we still wouldn’t be half our size without pushing the envelope on growth. Nothing makes Facebook as valuable as having your friends on it, and no product decisions have gotten as many friends on as the ones made in growth. Not photo tagging. Not news feed. Not messenger. Nothing.

In almost all of our work, we have to answer hard questions about what we believe. We have to justify the metrics and make sure they aren’t losing out on a bigger picture. But connecting people. That’s our imperative. Because that’s what we do. We connect people.
That’s a extreme position. Use the experience of folks living in NYC after 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy.

Things to consider:

- Disruptions to communications.

- Disruptions in emergency police/fire/ems response

- Gasoline and diesel gone in 24 hours (or worse... I was on a coastal island where a hurricane suddenly turned -- all gas was sold within 6 hours of the hurricane warning!)

- Electricity disruption

- Mass transit shutdown

- Shutdown this of highways and other roads.

Basically, there’s a 72 hour “oh shit” phase (priority: your safety), 4-10 days of the new normal formulating (priority: protect your property), and then the new normal (deal with consequences, if any).

How to prepare depends on risk. If you live in a floodplain or on the coast, you should have a clue about how you’re going to need to think about a couple of weeks post flood or hurricane. In other places, it’s probably good to think about what to do when a snowstorm knocks out power for a week.
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I think you mean the Domain Name. Well, I think he just asked (and maybe bought for a fee)
The Netherlands buys them, much too my chagrin.

But hey, we have nukes and I think we are forced to buy F35 to carry them.

The pretense that the decision to buy was democratic was all smoke-and-mirrors imho.

There was no way not to buy.
In Europe, when searching for Python jobs, you should also look for Python frameworks other than Django, such as Flask, Pyramid, and Plone (actually a CMS, comparable to PHP's Joomla or Drupal).
To get started quickly with SBCL/Quicklisp/Emacs/Slime on Windows:

https://common-lisp.net/project/lispbox/

or

http://www.iqool.de/lispstick.html
I feel I would still want to use Inbox over this redesign, although having calendar, notes, and tasks right on the side could be very handy
You're right but it's not really a counterpoint, it's just supporting/ alternate angle on my original point: for something like Peepeth to be mass-market-popular, it needs the underlying technology (cryptocurrencies) to be mass-market-popular, not just popular-in-some-niche (however large that niche is). So this service seems to be betting its future on the fact that some analogue of "whatsapp" will appear, that will make cryptocurrencies trivial to use. Do you know of any such service? THAT is something I'd be really interested to invest in :)
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Depends who is invading. There is no chance the F35 will fly if the US invades you.
I'm talking about active level 2 systems, which the Autopilot is an example of.

A level 2 system has to be monitored 100% of the time, because it can not be trusted to warn the driver and fall back to manual automatically in every situation. A level 3 system is robust enough to make this guarantee, which means that the driver can take his/her hands off the wheel until prompted to take back control.

Autopilot is a level 2 system, because you can not take your hands of the wheel of a Tesla and expect to not die. In fact the car itself will tell you to put your hands back on the wheel after a short while. After the fatal crashes started getting into the media, Tesla themselves have stated that it's only a level 2 system. Their CEO's weird claims of Autopilot being able to handle 90% of all driving tasks, there being a coast-to-coast Autopilot demonstration run in 2017 etc. are just marketing BS.
Fun fact: Google collects much more data from Android devices than from iOS devices. This might be unsurprising, and even obvious, but I was surprised how precise and intrusive that data is.

The whole time I was using an Android phone with my google account logged in on the device, google recorded and retained basically everything. My location, without even me using the maps app. My old contacts which I deleted from my contacts lists were still in the records. Any IPv4 or IPv6 address my phone was assigned to. This was even more creepy than facebook's data trove. I deleted my data on facebook as far as I could and also the account (not just deactivated) and I deleted most of the data google had on me. The problem is that I only can assume that all the data is now gone, but how can I be sure?

Google might constantly assure that they handle everything with care, but the extent of their intrusion into my private life is really scary.
Starwood Hotels.
No unless your future net worth is less than the cost of the treatment.
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This is empirically false as Boldrin & Levine describe in chapter 9 of their book Against Intellectual Monopoly that countries which had no patent protection for pharmaceuticals had a high innovation rate in this field.

Link to chapter:
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/ip.ch.9.m1004.pdf
More tracking metrics for them to consume on mobile, I suppose.
Aye, had the same thought here. I'd've signed up to check it out. I don't own a mobile... Even if I did, I'd not download an app on spec. WebApp gives an opportunity to sell yourself with no additional buy-in.

If they're looking to capitalise on FB's data revelations, asking to download binaries is the wrong way to go about it. You need a no-commitment approach here.
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No.

No.

No fucking apps.

It's not happening.

Stop asking.
"What happens is F-35 lets you fire missiles a lot earlier than your opponent. If they see you at all."

Thanks, that's a fairly critical feature.
You're also forgetting that most companies/people that are good at AI are refusing to do work that promote war.
This will destroy the kid's future life. Very selfish of grandparents imo.
Founded in 2004, existed for 10 years. I believe this was the first mass adoption by Brazilians that was noticeable worldwide, right?

I miss communities with names like “Eu abro a geladeira pra pensar” (from Brazilian Portuguese: I open the fridge to think). I haven’t seen any social media allow names and topics like that and present them in the same way that orkut did.
Orkut was all about communities in a way that neither facebook or reddit are. They were part of your identity in the network. Those were nice years.
The discord invite on that page has expired, does anyone have a current invite?
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Maybe using one of the lisps that compile to lua would be a good idea, since löve is pretty nice to make games in.

There's quite a lot of them, I don't know how they compare:

https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel

https://github.com/sctb/lumen

https://github.com/leafo/moonlisp

https://github.com/SquidDev/urn
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Is this a Google product, then?

It says he was a google engineer, but I get the impression he left. So this is independent, right?
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Most (I hesitate to say all) programmers understand their own code. The problem is usually that nobody else understands that code you wrote.

> Any language can be used to write indecipherable bad code. You are blaming the wrong thing.
Some languages allow stupid things. Some even encourage it. So, no, languages can and should be blamed.
Those are discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16819873
> F-35 program was never really about building a fighter jet.

This. It was primarily about international collaboration, not military capability (F-22 is a more capable fighter). Best military technology (with most capable pieces likely highly classified) can never be built as a multi-national project. And there are cheaper ways of boosting international goodwill than funneling hundreds of billions into favored defense contractors. Government :(. My 2c.
The Russians say their GPS spoofing is so good they can simply steer an incoming cruise missile back to its start point. What chance does a drone have?
That does seem to be the owners' plan going forward.

The type of content that Reddit's design encourages most would be meme-blogging in the style of r/me_IRL
I was confused by the title but this is about EmberJS, the web front-web framework.

From what I have seen from my peers, EmberJS is indeed often ignored :/ The developers I know that are using it at work seem very satisfied AND very productive with it though. And the same core team also released GlimmerJS which is very interesting: https://glimmerjs.com.
On the other hand, it will create the kid's life. The opposite of destroying it.
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I tried Hello once it was launched, hopeful that it would be a viable alternative to facebook which would gain traction because of Orkut's name. I really tried to like it, but I gave up because it didn't have a way to find my real life friends back then. I don't know about now. But when I looked at it, it was all about connecting via shared interests, and apparently they didn't want me to search for people by name.
tldr; Night Owls May Die Sooner *

(* when living in a morning person world)
Materialistic is nice. The only feature I miss with it would be a custom filter. If I could hide automatically stories based on keywords (like "Facebook"), that would be great.
meanwhile, across thousand years of history, best tools mattered marginally. get the job done cheap is what traditionally won wars. so there's that.
I agree with you. You express precisely what I believe is going wrong with Tesla/Autopilot right now.
Easier on the eyes surely, but I understood it that dark themes only save battery for OLED/AMOLED screens. For LCD/TN dark themes use slightly more. I am not an Electrical Engineer though.
I still think it is just Hillary fans making up excuses why she lost.

The amount of "news" coverage, the amount of money invested, television, radio, with much more reach. The strong opinions.

It is like brexit some people don't want to believe it.
That doesn't sound like an effective way to combat the obesity crisis.
Those figures are estimates. Blind trusts and proxy buyers are two ways to hide ownership.

Protest all you want, but with current available data, all the public can do is speculate, only the government has access to the data necessary to have a deeper understanding.
Other warplanes and air defence systems commonly deployed. In case of Norway here, it's the assets of Russian 45th Air Force and Air Defence Army.
Try i.reddit.com. I still use it, and I'm still annoyed to no end when the "modern" mobile website loads instead, with its ~5 second splash screen that loads less information than the former does in goddamn instant.
And after clicking that small hard to see button, get ready for another popup if you want to watch a gif
> In all air combat training scenarios, F-35s blow F-16s out of the skies.

How many F-16's? And what block? In order to be great it has to shoot down a LOT of F-16's to motivate the cost. A problem with that being that it can only carry 4 radar guided missiles internally (so while remaining stealthy). If it carries more, then it's just a very expensive non-stealth fighter. If it carries just 4, it's rather vulnerable to

> but it's the best aircraft in the skies for now.

What's the "best aircraft" isn't really an interesting measure. What's most interesting to any buyer is for X billion dollars, and N years of flying, what capability can I get? In such a comparison you have to weigh in the per-hour flying costs, the cost to aquire and train, what investments you get locally (can you manufacture some part locally or would you have to buy from lockheed?) and so on and so forth.
Well the government isn't about to starve 6 year old kids to increase their insulin sensitivity, what do you expect?

Mandating kids to do <activity> is 100x easier than mandating parents NOT to do something.
Why that? People write a lot of experimental code. There is nothing wrong with that. One could remove them from the list, but the state is documented and you can choose to use them or not. Note also that the language does not change too much, so relatively old libraries might still work - the surrounding platform changes faster and is probably more of the actual limitation.
There's SCL. It's a pain in the ass, especially if you want to ship RPMs, but it works and is - more or less - official.
Reddit is terrible for discussion anyway. You can't have a discussion when people can "downvote" your post. Nothing of value has been lost here. I say that as someone who used reddit heavily until about a month ago when I kicked the addiction.
It was launched in 2016. I guess it didn’t get much traction at the time to justify further development.
Geez. What does one have to do to earn 500k/year? Asking for a friend...
In order to find that interesting content, you need to learn about it. I can imagine many new users coming to reddit, seeing just the front page and drawing their conclusions, turning around and not look back.

Should they be criticized by that?

Maybe take the time to share some of that interesting content here to parent to change his view instead of denouncing him. (https://xkcd.com/1053/)
I hate to say this, but it's either a terrible landing page or terrible product I'm seeing here.

I totally admire the effort to bring back Orkut, but I don't see any value proposition that makes me want to try this out other than some philosophical words that anyone can say.

In fact, I have never seen a product introduced in these philosophical ways succeed. The only signal I get from this is that the creator is naive (No offense, I'm sure the creator is insightful as he's the one who created one of the earliest social networks in the world, but just saying that's not what the copy on the website is signaling).

If you believe in "love, not likes", I would like to see HOW you implemented it. Otherwise there are tons of social networks out there each with its own twist in "connecting with people with similar interests".

Maybe there's more to the product than what the website says, and if that's the case, you should show that instead.
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I would say it's both. There are additives and such that are known to be unhealthy and should be eliminated. Making it easy to make cheap crap food by adding unhealthy elements needs to stop.

That said, I agree with you about choice. Creating a Nanny State only further disables the masses, and perpetuates the Nanny State. If you're always doing my homework, how am I going to learn to add?

Moi? Unless, there's a personal responsibility / accountability most people won't change. Not to get off topic, I do believe we (i.e., the USA) should have an accessible healthcare system. That's simply modern common decency. However, making misguided decisions (i.e., preventable diseases) affordable and acceptable is dangerous and expensive.
Trump happened. That is why. Real world consequence.

Love or hate Trump, the election is what motivated these inquiries. Just listen to the hearings internationally.
The history is full of examples where superior weapons won wars.
What makes it different? Not much info and I'm not going to download an app to see.
VLC for iOS can do that now afaik.
And the diet part is about healthy (at the time) meals.

Just learn to count calories, how much you need and avoid excesses. Bad food in small portions is better than huge amounts of healthy calories.
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But even driving is going to have a massive impact, beyond just trucking. That will be the first to get hit, but then you hit the taxi services. And then the big hit - the entire auto industry.

How many people are going to decide they don't need to buy a new car, they can just sell their old one and have a fleet pick them up and drive them to work. Driving as a subscription. Then you lose car dealerships, and car manufacturing jobs, because we'll need fewer cars. Parking lots will become less necessary as the cars can just continuously drive around anticipating the next customer.

Of course, that is all assuming full autonomy, which I think we are still pretty far away from.
Wasn't that memo a rhetorical device by the author to raise that kind of opinion (one he does not agree with) as a conversation point inside Facebook?

I don't like Facebook as much as the next person, but being willing to write things in that style and get discussions going sounds really healthy to me.