skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, for one, many of these companies, like Facebook, are not US companies. They're headquartered in Dublin, an EU country.

And, you don't have to abide by foreign laws as long as you never intend to go into that country or do business with people in that country. But, as many EU companies are about to find out, they're subject to US laws, most notably those pertaining to sanctions on Iran. So why shouldn't US companies be subject to EU laws?
This sounds like yet more cost on an unsustainable business model. Just like Uber announced today (iirc) that the are paying a bunch more quasi-benefits to their drivers in the EU.
> The practice of removing higher-voted posts in order to keep their AMAs at the top should never have been allowed, and I'm glad that it now isn't.

The right response here isn't to punish subreddits that did that. It's to understand why they did that and provide them with an alternative solution. I'm sure the askscience moderators didn't like removing highly-rated posts. But they needed some way to promote AMAs and Reddit didn't give them the tools they needed to do it.

This is ultimately a massive failure on Reddit's part.
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That’s the flip side of term limits. Doesn’t mean the advantage isn’t worth it

When they say “weakening” that seems like an emotionally overloaded choice picked for cultural resonance.

Is it really a weakening or just a new model to acclimate to and tweak as needed to ensure outcomes?

Why is giving any ground or change always coming along with “we won’t be strong in the same way!” rhetoric

Duh but that doesn’t negate the argument for change given other data over here

We’ve yet to discover a unified theory of reality

I highly doubt our system of social governance has found an equivalent

It has to change. It will change if history is any indicator

Better to have the conversations ourselves then leave it up to experts across the world
Apologies for my ignorance, but I'd like to ask if you (or anyone) could elaborate on that "adding up the op-code and memory access times to design their algorithm" bit. I understand what op-codes are, what memory access times are, and have an algorithm design knowledge expected out of "3.5 years of CS+Math undergraduate education, relevant interview prep, and a year and a half working in the field doing generic web work", but I'm not sure I'm wrapping my head around that part. Do you mean that he used those timings to derive an output value for the cost function for higher-level parts of the algorithms he was using? If you can recall any specifics that aren't a trade secret, I'd love to hear it for the sake of my own learning.
This is no better than a press release. How does this absolute crap make it to the HN front page? Is it hatred of Uber? I don't get why such a fluff piece can get so many upvotes.

Even the title "Uber invests in its drivers" sounds like a press release.
I try not to use any jargon at all when communicating to non-dev stakeholders, and they still complain about jargon.

Words like "server" or "database" are not jargon. There are literally no other words to use for those things. And if you don't want to hear any technical-sounding words at all, then don't ask technical questions. Or better yet, don't work at a tech company.
Were they skeptical at all though? Or did they just want more control over the content? Whenever I talk to people who would very much be in that category, they don't hate TV at all, in fact they love it and sub to Netflix and Prime (or whatever else), they just hated the bombard of ads and not being able to watch what you want when you want.

So this hypocritical behavior you're trying to highlight just doesn't exist at all IMO, people wanted more control and they got it.
This is as condescending as it is wrong.
To be fair, no president was this rude. at least, not in public.
This is the key. If no one is allowed to moderate this stuff, legitimate replies will simply be drowned in a sea of garbage.

(Not that I personally care, since I've already dumped Twitter.)
The reason for the migration was to be able to leverage the Functional/Expression Index[1] capability of Postgres. Any type of aggregated time series reporting queries were likely painful from a performance perspective, since an index on the epoch timestamp would have limited usefulness from an optimization standpoint.

So instead, he leveraged the expression index functionality of Postgres to pre-materialize an index against the converted timestamp. He didn't touch the table structure itself so it's transparent, but gets the performance benefits of that index already existing.

MySQL doesn't support function based indexes directly, although you can achieve a similar result in newer versions of MySQL with an intermediate step. You can create a Generated Column[2] first, and then build an index against that. If you specify it as a virtual generated column, then it's essentially the same as the above process where the column isn't physically stored, but you can index it. That said, asah may still not have been able to do that if the version of MySQL was too old or even that level of schema change was not allowed.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/indexes-expre...

[2] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/create-table-generat...
Completely backwards. Make it effective, don’t kill it. The obvious way to do that is to start early. The typically US approach is to ignore foreign languages until high school, when the child is well past their best years for acquiring a new language. Why did anyone ever think that was a good idea?
I thought one of the aims of AMP was to curate advertising. A couple months ago I got (on my Android phone) one of those popovers that fills the entire screen and screams that my phone is infected and I need to "click here" to fix the infection. I couldn't even get away from it with the back button and had to return to the home screen and kill the browser. This came from a Bloomberg page (which was summarily blacklisted from my news feed.) I searched for some way to report this and found none.

I guess it's no surprise that AMP is not doing better with some of its other goals.
How is the content the crucial part?

Free speech is about free speech, not discriminating on content.

It is both illegal for the government to shut down leftist newspapers, and illegal for the government to shut down all newspapers.

The idiocy of this is making shutting down a newspaper equivalent to twitter blocking, but if you draw the analogy, that's what you wind up with.
That was more than an allegation, Kaspersky has admitted it happened, and the person with the inappropriately stored classified material was found guilty.

The important thing to note that is the way it happened makes me comfortable in saying that all the big anti-virus products have received similar breaches of classified material and we just don't know about it. Any antivirus company that isn't sending unknown but suspicious code back for analysis is completely incompetent (this should be a setting for privacy reasons, but they need to make sure it is on where possible). You can accuse the various vendors of problems, but none are that incompetent.
This perspective isn't wrong but it isn't complete.

Blaming the user is common, and so is blaming the purchaser. From that individual's perspective, sure, they could exercise more control by being more careful. Who could be against personal responsibility?

But what it leaves out is systemic effects and power imbalances. For example, if I were running a Ponzi scheme I could plow a lot of "investment" money back into marketing, having many skilled professionals create the appearance of respectability, of safety. I could create entire front organizations, or bribe trusted recommenders.

Would my investors still be responsible for losing money? Sure. But the fact that I can use power to manipulate my investors' decisions means that it isn't a fair fight. So I would still be responsible for taking their money. And society would be responsible for permitting a fraud to continue deceiving individuals.

Responsibility isn't zero sum.
That's missing the step to compel usage. It sounds like apple doesn't even check periodically that your address is valid.
Getting to the kill screen seems like it should count as a victory. Getting your initials on the top of the high score screen counts too, if perhaps only briefly. The idea that you can't say you've won unless you've played a completely perfect game is a mindset for insane people who will never be happy.
The internet is already free and configurable. It takes some technical knowledge to create a website just like anything in life, but that barrier is rather small. What is happening is that to get free content, you have to give something back. That is data, attention or money.

Don't want to live with the dominance of a DNS? You don't have to. Just share your website's IP address. Do you want to have looser rules around your content? Rent a server in a more liberal country.

The reality that most technologist ignore is that people want the ease of Google or the reach of Facebook. They want cheap Android devices run by an ad company, or free phone and video calls run by another ad company. Perhaps they don't want the consequences of free stuff, but they are not willing to pay for it, either.

The internet is exactly what people want from it: access to free information and connection to anyone on the planet. It has done exactly what it was suppose to. Let's not pretend that the internet is somehow broken (conceptually, obv. Technically, it could be better ;) )
Or the power of technology will enable them to repeat the message until public believes it. If you repeat something enough people start believing it. Fun exercise, check out persuasive techniques below and count how many of those China (and other governments) are employing en masse.

https://www.mindmeister.com/213923097/persuasive-techniques-...
I took 1 year of Russian in school and I still know how to read Cyrillic a little, but don't know all the words. And for some reason, I can also make out Greek because of it.

Early immersion is probably best way to teach foreign languages.
Deutsche Bank looking to cut around 10,000 jobs
Things like this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/26/senat...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbo-score-on-latest-senate-gop-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/28/senate-gop-health-care-bill-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2017/09/18/graham-cas...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/04/18...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...

And this one is a two-fold: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/supreme-court-upho...

Both that the Garland-seat was stolen, but also sad that the supreme court is so partisan (cuts both ways).
And technically, since the court didn't order anything, neither does Trump.
No but this blogger bringing attention to the issue and getting the rule changed might.
Fair enough, but what's the use case for this?

I think the reason the project was shelved is that it did provide different capabilities, but none of those capabilities were actually useful in a military context.

That said, after a bit more review, there is one scenario where they would be useful -- launched en masse as a first strike weapon.

While easy to detect at radar range, the smaller boost signature does make launch detection more difficult.

Assuming a launch from the west coast, and design speeds comparable to Pluto (mach 4.2), you'd have about 9 min before they hit Midwest US silos.

Which is one of the other reasons we never developed them. Announcing loudly that you're developing something that's primarily a first strike weapon tends to make the other person jumpy...
So Trump could still mute people, right?

Seems like the reason he can't block people is because it prevents them from replying to his posts and engaging in the public conversation. Title seems a bit misleading, almost makes it sound like he has to read all of his twitter replies.
Music has a very important role in a movie - if you cut that out and replace it with generic music you'd be left with films with great acting that feel muted and listless. I'm not sure you quite understand how much work goes into a score and how much the director's, among others, views and desires affect that score.
> There's a Mute button. It's like Block but much simpler, in that it doesn't prevent other people from following him or reading his tweets. He just won't see what they say back.

The First Amendment concerns speech, not listening. It protects citizen's right to speak to government, not to hear what government says (not a highly sought-after civil right!). I wonder if Mute is legal.
Atari aimed for a playtime per quarter of 2-3 minutes back in the day
Firefox is now supported by Google Hangouts and Meet without plugins
This is painful.

If, as an employee you're so engrossed in technical jargon that you can't explain it at an understandable and reasonable level to a competent adult, there's a problem.

Likewise, as a manager, you memorized some flashcards and now "understand" enough to throw around some buzzwords and jargon, that's going to have it's own set of problems.

Talk like a human, ask questions, and don't be an idiot.
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Thanks. Google play doesn't seem to be able to find it, not by a search, and not by the link from their web page. I tried getting weather from their web page for a trip I'm starting soon, but I just got a "this is embarrassing" response.

But, google play suggested other apps, so I'll try them. I appreciate your pointer.
It's not unrelated, it's the same issue the r/science mods reference. A short time ago, reddit switching the default homepage to sort by "best", where it used to sort by "hot". While "best" sounds great, it actually results in some terrible behavior such as often pushing up items you really aren't interested in, while hiding very popular posts. The only fix right now is to change your bookmark to point to https://www.reddit.com/hot/
I created AMA on Reddit and I was essentially ousted as a moderator for highlighting how much power moderators have.
Does the social credit system ever charge higher prices to low scorers rather than banning or shaming them? Skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System#Involveme... it looks like this might be done to some extent for businesses so I wonder about individuals.

To what extent is the social credit system a mechanism to collect bribes, i.e., is it possible to have one's record fixed by paying off the right people?
Bah, I still say service in Congress should be like jury duty. Anyone who meets a certain minimum set of criteria (age, criminal record, education, etc.) is placed in a lottery and names drawn at random from each district. It should be something undesirable that you do because it's your "duty."

You serve one term and then you go home.
I am glad you shared that.

I did exactly this but was always too afraid to admit it publicly, because of Emacs 'purism' users.

I love Emacs exactly because of how highly customizable everything is (without other editors bloat) but equally because I can leverage the huge user-base to not spend an infinity amount of time on customizing.

Although I appreciate other people's experience may be different with vi/vim/emacs, in my personal case I don't have to remote into other machines so I can get away with a custom init.el on my machine.
windy.com has become my "goto" weather site and app.
Maybe the reddit link should be de-coupled from the reddit title. That is anyone could create a sub called "Science" and the link would be an arbitrary string.

It's related to the economics of property taxes that scale with property values. Reddit created arbitrary scarcity in naming by allowing only a single subreddit of any particular name, but must work to implemented good economic policy (moderation is one form) to make sure that each remains a good citizen.
Charging Bird scooters overnight is like a much less fun version of Pokemon Go
I don't understand why there is an issue with markets entering the domain of "leisure", and I certainly do not think that this is something new. Is a hobby shop immoral?

Micro-transactions in freemium video games have proven to be a great way to make money for games that are deemed worthy by their users. No one is being forced to buy the new skin in Fortnite.

You can't stop market forces. If you choose not to partake, good on you. But applying your own personal moral concept of what leisure should be onto the entire country is worse than Fortnite making me pay $10 for the new skin.
The US pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal, and forcing sanctions on those companies that are doing business both in Iran and the US.
Substitute TripAdvisor or Expedia or any other business in a valuable vertical in place of Yelp and perhaps you can evaluate the antitrust case against Google with more objectivity.
> Has the judge read some of the comments being made? Absolute craziness in there. Some accounts should absolutely be blocked, they are repeatedly spamming and saying things you would never say in a meeting face to face.

Wouldn't many say the same about Trump's comments? I don't meant that to be provocative, but to point out that standards of behavior get complicated.

At the same time, I'm happy that craziness isn't on HN!
I'm completely on the side of the mods, here.

Our social networks reward mindless content.

If a social network doesn't provide any tools for a content creator to somehow highlight, "No, really, please take an extra look at this," and / or a way for content consumers to highlight, "Ooh, yes, last time I consumed content like that, I really, really liked it, so please highlight it," then the network is failing everyone.

I'm not even prescribing how that negotiation should take place. Different systems could come up with different solutions. If users have switched to /r/popular, to the exclusion of all else, then maybe reddit could offer users to flag some subreddits as having special permission to get their attention occasionally. With a Sensitivity that they could turn up or down. And then that content could be highlighted for them at the top of /r/popular.
The complaint isn't that Amazon is expanding into other locations. The complaint is that Amazon is using this to play cities off against each other. It's a race for the bottom designed to maximize gain for Amazon at the cost of the commons.
Trump spends almost no time reading Twitter. Dan Scavino manages most Twitter interactions for Trump's accounts, and writes a lot of the tweets too (dictated to him by Trump).

When Trump tweets for himself in the early morning hours, he just picks up the phone and starts typing. He reacts to what he sees on TV, not what he reads on Twitter.
Yes, because what we really need in Congress is people with even less understanding of the issues they're regulating than the ones we have now. Have you ever watched a reality TV show? That's the "median American" that you're proposing be put in charge of Congress.
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I suspect the reason people don’t kick out politicians anymore is increasingly its difficult to do. This seems to be a fairly reasonable interpretation of the above data too. In the past politicians were unseated more frequently leading to shorter average terms. Now they’re rarely unseated leading to longer terms.

Seats aren’t contested enough because of the massive amount of party support or funding required to beat a sitting person. And we’ve seen how these two parties are corrupted and need to care less about the public opinion now. Less options means less choice for voters to do what you suggest.[1]

Of course I think the real solution to that is election reform with single transferable vote (STV).

[1] though we seem to be seeing some backlash in the past year against this such as with the Justice Dems movement.
You really don't think it's possible that one of the 28 member nations of the EU will pass down an absurdly large fine for some minor infraction? This happens all the time...

The fact is, if I am not GDPR compliant in any way there is no mechanism built into the law to limit the amount I am fined and some judge that is in a bad mood or hates the idea of my business can simply fine me 20 million to kill my business and still be abiding by the letter of the law.
Are you just making a specious argument, or are you literally arguing that acting in accordance with one's values will cause bigger problems than engaging in addictive behavior?
> Successfully raised rates with all client projects (avg: 19% / engagement)

Interesting, does that mean you raised rates during the project or as you switched to a new one?

Well done, that's a very impressive first year.
Humans have such issues with confirmation bias [1] that I worry it's not going to matter.

The last election already had algorithmically generated artificial news designed to sway people (note: I'm talking FB articles with headlines like "$POLITICIAN just insulted $NICHE_AUDIENCE. STOP THEM." that linked to articles that were scraped/spun from other sources). They relied upon people not actually reading and just hitting like/forward/heart whatever and spreading the top level message.

We are not going to be able to convince ourselves, never mind other people, that video (which has been the gold standard for "truth" for nearly a century) isn't actually real.

Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0 (which was included in the article) has comments from people deeply confused by it on YT.

1 - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont...
The scheduled service on that map is 30TPH, although the theoretical max is 40TPH; the signalling system has never been used to that extent, mostly because the extra 30s between trains is used as contingency padding in case a train is late.

The Lexington Line actually ran 30TPH at one point between the 4/5, but this has decreased because overcrowding has gotten so severe that it is now holding up trains as people struggle to enter and exit overcrowded cars. Prior to the opening of the Second Avenue Subway, the Lexington Avenue Line carried more than the transit systems of San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston combined. http://web.mta.info/capital/sas_docs/feis.htm
I've written my own UUID generation function which uses the current timestamp with microsecond precision for the first 64 bits and a random value for the last 64 bits. So far it's been a great success.

Collisions are extremely unlikely unless you have Google scale and generated UUIDs are mostly ordered.
Haha, no worries - embedded stuff sometimes feels so confusing that I think I misunderstand myself most of the time.

Yeah, I've wanted to learn more about the ESP32 - it seems like people have done some really cool stuff with it and it looks like you get a lot of power and connectivity.

But I'll bet you can empathize with not having enough hours in the day!
Or better yet you regularly see the following

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And when I have access to cache on rare occasions, it really is innovative or interesting content being discussed. But because someone didn't understand, or someone didn't care, or $insert_reason , the whole discussion chain was deleted.

That kind of stuff made me unsub r/science . It was turning into a cesspool of narrowminded busybodies. Kind of reminds me how StackOverflow is.
I completely agree. I find it a little strange that with politicians, unique among all occupations, we consider experience with the job to be a bad thing. I think the discontent many feel with Congress can be better fixed via other means than direct term limits.