skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know several youtubers, and twitch streamers and the thing that is striking about them is that the time's they sound the most... mentally disturbed is when they discuss the process, the algorithms, the schedule, etc.

The passion, and angst they have for it all is obsessive, and seems very unhealthy. Looking for reasons everywhere for which signals are causing them to go down in views, or not go up. Or not go up as fast as they had planned out in some sort of scaling of the past performance they've had.

I feel quite badly for them, and it's the reason I don't bother streaming even though the few times I have, with their support I get a lot of viewers. It's a completely viable thing for me to do, but the "thing" in question is to be as unhappy as they are, and as obsessed with the detail of if people like me or not.

You couldn't pay me for that hell.
> Why does GitHub need to be acquired at all?

They raised a 250MM round a few years ago. You don't get to take that kind of money from VCs for a cut of yearly residuals.
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> So in your opinion developers and scientists are not "patriotic" enough, I disagree

Where, exactly did I say that? You're putting words in my mouth.
It's using a webfont. Maybe your font renderer isn't handling it correctly. Try removing the "fonts-loaded" css class from the html element to see if that clears it up?
> I don't know exactly why this type of activity can become stressful so quickly.

The weight of expectation, probably.
> "Use it or lose it" applies to genes as much as (or maybe even more than) anything else. Genes involved in biological processes are lost if the trait they confer is unused or unnecessary."

Why would this be true? Can't a gene be dormant? Or perhaps over-ridden but another gene or genes?

Or is, over the long haul (read: __many__) years any and all genes will naturally mutate (that is, be lost). Then if the "replacement" is more advantageous, the replacement will persist.

Fair enough. But that's not use it / lose it per se. It's still in use, but less so (and is over time replaced).
Completely wild guess: Good/(profitable) product offers?
> Despite this language, actual costs for getting medical records varies widely. “Fees range very widely, from $2-55 for short records of 15 pages to $15-585 for long ones of 500 pages. Times also range widely, from 1–30 days (or longer for off-site records)” from a survey study on the topic.

All of those numbers are in line with the actual costs of producing information like that. The problem scenario is the one where the company claims everything costs a zillion dollars just so they don't have to provide the information at all, which the rules appear to be successfully preventing from happening.
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Try a web search for “emotional labor”.
It is funny how LE focused on darknet meanwhile the real market runs just fine on regular internet through popular sites.
False Dilemma. Direct invasion is not the only option available to a sufficiently advanced, large scale AI attack. Think of how many ways you can mess with elections, opinions, security, etc. of a target nation without being detected.
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I was playing with my cat today and he grabs the worm toy in his mouth and carries it to a spot when he captures it. It's really adorable. But the first thing in my mind was: this is so cute, I have to share it - but then he moved and the moment was over. Pulling out my phone for some snapshot/video is such an emotional drain on the moment. It's a stupid 21st century idea that somehow sharing your life with strangers through video somehow makes it more worthwhile. The views don't matter, except for $$$. It's like being at a concert and watching it through the iPhone. I can see why having to depend on "authentic video" as one's main source of $$$ has its dissociative/depressing nature. Isn't there a famous quote about how getting paid to do one's hobby often turns it into torment?
I would understand if they sold, but it would make me sad. GitHub has done a great job. I'd hate to see them have to answer to someone other than themselves.
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

Psychology is fad based, mostly bullshit and still not able to deal with the fact that correlation does not imply causation.

So to answer your question: who cares, these people need help.
> Maybe you aren't aware, but this is a field that people do PhDs and get professorships in.

I'm aware of my own existence, thanks ;-)

> Noone respected agrees with the doom-sayers

But many, many, many respected AI researchers (who I've talked to about this) certainly do agree that AI/ML safety/robustness are important topics of inquiry.

Including researchers at all the top CS departments, at Deepmind, at OpenAI, etc.

Consider critiquing the concrete projects that are funded with AI safety money. Very little of that money flows to research about "preventing malicious superintelligence" or whatever strawman you have in mind. And even projects that consider those questions also consider many much more near-term AI safety questions.
Who cares about Google? What Alphabet does, matters. A new subsidiary with strict confidentiality? They can play with optimizing company structure depending on the area of business as they like.
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I've been running Ubuntu 18.04 on my XPS 15 since release, and was running 16.04 for some time before that. Both work really well.

Other distros did not work well out of the box. Ubuntu seems to have the out-of-the-box experience nailed (although I had to install and adjust tlp to get good battery life - now it's much better than it was under Windows)
> creating localized versions of services like reddit and facebook

In what way would it be better than existing town- and neighborhood-specific groups on Facebook or something like /r/LosAngeles?
http://nextdoor.com is the leader in this space.
Well this is very cool. On my MVP projects I'm happy to get any of those things to happen.

I would LOVE an angular service that did this that I can re-use. If only I had the time to fork this and make it work... May need to explore this over the weekend.

Thanks for putting this together!
Really large ISPs have even planned for the disaster-recovery scenario of a collapse of public DNS infrastructure, so their internal management network and hostnames are not related to the existing gTLD or ccTLD, or legacy TLD in any way. There is no need to involve ICANN-approved TLDs in your internal DNS infrastructure, particularly if you have management interfaces for a lot of things that are firewalled off or air gapped from ever touching the public internet.
I'd argue LinkedIn is much worse than it was pre-acquisition, but it was already on that trajectory. The "news feed" and discussions around current events, etc. They've locked down more and more of it without a $30/mo subscription. Privacy controls are a nightmare to decipher.

I think it's significantly worse albeit probably short of totally "screwed up". Just marginally worse in a lot of small ways that add up to a less useful, less efficient experience for me.
Good point, those types of systems also address the problem I am worried about.
Just like any other celebrities?
Top tips from someone who's been in your situations.

Regular wooden chairs can be surprisingly comfortable if you take a pillow from your bed and use it as a back rest.

Screen height is all important, get something like this

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-Ventilated-Adjustable-Func...

and get a bluetooth keyboard & mouse to go with it
Driverless cars OK’d to carry passengers in California
Look at the photos and screenshots, and the language options the bottom-right corner of the home page. It's an app for Indian women, at least for now at launch. (Indian Orkut?)
Subreddits for local cities do an ok job of this, actually. The problem is that they are very basic and essentially "fan-made" (when the city gets involved it actually goes down hill). There's no ability to add features or anything so it's only serviceable.

I do recommend people participate in their local subreddit though because it's one of the few examples of this that I see working out there.
Possibly Amazon. They tend to leave acquired companies alone to manage how they prefer, apart from Bezos micromanaging how to cut costs and restructure logistics, which is often a good thing. Plus Amazon (like Microsoft or Google) also has economy of scale opportunities for hosting GitHub on AWS.

I do believe Amazon would interfere less with what users like about GitHub than Microsoft would.
I use an Inspiron Dell with similar specs, but it costs something like 1k vs probably 2k for xps. Only thing it's missing is touch screen and it's thicker which I don't care about.

Never really got the appeal of xps over same specced Inspiron, don't see anything worth paying around twice the price for.
> I can see why having to depend on "authentic video" as one's main source of $$$ has its dissociative/depressing nature

Authenticity is the key to YouTube success. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made!
Was that a thing in Europe?
I've seen such machines only in the USA (e.g. on conferences where they wanted to sell stuff and didn't have connectivity).

I've never seen it in Europe.
you can easily install a systemwide adblocker

So now "easily" has turned into going to a third party App Store and either blindly trusting an app wont surreptitiously store and forward all of your data or either trusting that someone else has audited the code or audit the code yourself and to be doubly sure, build the code yourself.
That video[1] is part of a series by this guy who is out recreating technology literally from dirt. If you're a prepper you want this guy on your team, you'll advance to the castle age way before anyone else does :-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVV4xeWBIxE
NO, with an electric car your charging time is probably higher. The difference is every night you spend and extra minute connecting the cable, and in the morning a minute disconnecting it. This adds up quicker than you realize, but since it is part of your daily habit you don't think about it.

The 10 minutes I spend filling my fuel tank every other week (including time to get there, it is on my route home but I have to cross a stoplight I normally turn right at) is ultimately less time that you spend charging your electric car.

Of course I fill my tank as part of a different errand, not a fill the tank now to be ready for the morning. This does change the calculation somewhat. I also don't know exactly how long it takes you to plug in and unplug that cable, if you normally park such that you walk past the charging port, and you just toss the cable wherever when done this can be much quicker. If your car door is next to your house door, but have to walk to the other side of the car, and then as a neat freak you carefully coils the cable up it will be longer.
> The problem this solves is is when you are using haproxy but need redundancy or a single server is no longer capable of handling the load and you need to scale out to 2+ servers.

Please describe how HAProxy running in l4 mode is a solution to this problem.
> Remember: firing the rocket must have been done by the army, not by some NSA like agency. That increases the risk of leaks.

Sure. But by how much? Ukrainians were actively moving their BUK launchers around at the time, so the movement itself wasn't going to raise suspicions. The firing itself is going to involve a dozen of officers. Other soldiers will see the rocket and this will leak? Don't know. The opposing soldiers have also definitely seen the rocket, and you would suppose this is not their secret, so you'd expect them to just tell the journalists? Nothing.

> You write like there is a cover up here, but what do those guys have to win by blaming one part instead of the other?

Or to lose. US government has consistently expressed a strong opinion on this case. How do we know what influence do they have on Dutch investigators?

> Western Europeans does not generally go around hating Russians trying to find something to blame them for.

Sure, false flag operations are not generally guided by emotions.
> It'll take me 5-10 to gas up as is

Surely it doesn't take more than 2-3 mins to fill a car with petrol/diesel? Certainly don't think it's ever taken me any longer than that, unless I'm on a big journey and I need a break.
When you make a really specific statement, why use the super broad term "leftists"? This american pseudo-dichotomy is not helping the discussion and is just fueling partisanship...
Because electric cars provide positive externalities for a city such as reduced pollution. Which is an especially big issue in densely populated cities.

Vehicle emissions contributes to as much as 50k premature deaths each year, tax dollars have been spent on worse things.

http://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-e...
That's because solar usage has created a "duck curve" I would imagine it would be even more unfair to make normal energy users pay for that: https://youtu.be/YYLzss58CLs
Engineer's that were working on this should quit and form their own company to continue the work. Whether the drones can autonomously fire or not is a legislative issue. Cloud cert would be a big issue unless they can resell AWS which I believe already has it.
I imagine that's where they get the vast majority of their ad-targeting signals, though. They can't show ads based on how much you like the random thoughts of an acquaintance of unknown proximity, they need us to signal our feelings toward fixed commercial targets and sources that can be analyzed reliably for sentiment.
USA-first (or only) launches are the norm. Something different for a change.
Instead of downvoting cryptoz, I encourage people to counter what he said with their own replies. The majority of his statements in this post are verifiable facts. (I do not know this person, fwiw).
I'm not proposing anything specific so it's hard to respond to this question.

There are many things that make subreddits and local facebook groups not work, though, and that's a lack of value to the user. They are there for you to use, or not, and their value comes from participation only.

Facebook isn't going to add a feature for your community. Reddit isn't going to help moderate your subreddit. These large companies make money off of the national-level mindset, so their local offerings are kind of "take it or leave it."
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Original creator here. I hadn't thought about Homespring in years until a friend tipped me off about this post. Since it seems like people are still interested in this monstrosity, I created a web page with links to all the Homespring-related stuff that I am aware of: http://jeffreymbinder.net/208/homespring
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Why didn't anyone pick up the open-source drop of Wave and built an awesome service out of it?
In capitalism, someone else fills the void in a profitable market.

Will it be another large company or a startup?
They made some filters for photoshop called Nik that were really nice...
Yeah, I'm on to check out nextdoor right now and see how many problems it solves for.
Broke: 18th century voting systems

Woke: 13th century voting systems http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-28R1.pdf
Right but a lot of channels like Rachel & Jun don't fake it at all. Maybe that's why they don't seem to have much burnout. Because they aren't putting on an act, or doing anything fueled by insecurity. They just love cats and nature and cooking and whatnot and most of the videos is not extremely edited or stabilized, etc.. they just film while they do some of their cool activities.

I think a lot of these YouTubers feel locked into the persona they created, and just like any lie, it's tough to remember all the details, to be contiguous.. And I'm sure it feels like something they want to get off their chest and start over as themselves.. But they are worried that their audience isn't going to be interested. I think it all depends on the audience.. Some channels have dedicated viewers. Others depend on couchsurfers and SEO/spam/keyword linkage. I think most channels that put out consistent content with consistent subscribers would do fine if they changed it up. It's probably just the level of risk that makes them worry to tears.
Let's talk about the individual's failure more instead of the systemic pattern.
It's called "Effective Altruism"
You don't need to kill dozens of bystanders to misuse drone technology or to do it unaccountably.

As I understand it, the call for a drone kill of an insurgent target is made by the JSOC ...or... by a CIA officer in Langley. In the latter, the case for discriminate sufficiency is entirely up to the CIA and its current set of political priorities for that target, which is NOT shared with the drone team or their chain of command, nor with any non-CIA entity.

I've seen no mention that the CIA is NO LONGER killing with drones (which became one of the established practices for drone use in Afghanistan about 5 years ago, IIRC). This program is very much one that Google would serve in targeting drones, which is why I mention it.

No doubt the CIA would claim their reasoning behind each kill order was discriminate. But if my description of SOP is correct and the CIA is still in charge of many drone kills, that makes them unaccountable in any practical sense.

For some background on CIA's targeting of drone strikes:

"Transferring CIA Drone Strikes to the Pentagon"
https://www.cfr.org/report/transferring-cia-drone-strikes-pe...
If they were aimed at devs and tech ppl, why is it phrased in grandparent-friendly terms? This isn't just a True Scotsman, it takes money and time to refine their message into something so plain and comprehendable by everybody.
Maydanets, 4000 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_cul...

Talianki, 4000 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_cul...
So much this. Apple should make this the next thing to get removed.

Realistically, how many people shell out for a MacBook but don't have the (usually much cheaper) iPhone or iPad? I don't need forward-facing cameras on all my devices.

I haven't added a webcam to my desktop builds in, I don't know, 10 years? Don't need it on my laptop either.
That's roughly what I'm saying - the law treats the accused as innocent, but it does not mean this person is _proven_ innocent. Legally, they are innocent, but there is no declaration made on whether the person is _factually_ innocent or not.
This is where another HN front page item (neighbourly.google.com)[1] might help soon, nextdoor.com might help right now, and facebook with some local contacts probably would have sufficed.

I can't stand Facebook, but it was better than nothing during the Northern California wildfires this last year, so I logged in and used it. The groups created by residents to track info were wonderful at first, but quickly descended into somewhat low utility after a day or tow as people regurgitated old information and misinformation every few hours, each time one level removed from the source and thus a bit harder for people to confirm or deny.

My wide uses nextdoor.com, and I've long thought I should take a look, but never gotten around to it. It would be interesting to see if Google can leverage their brand name to get enough people to sign up such that you could easily switch between multiple levels of locality, and also allow local news to leverage that in a way that preserves local reporting. If I could easily toggle between neighborhood, school district, city, state and region to find relevant information, and discussions, I would be pleasantly surprised.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17209127
Most EU?
It's first time I hear about country-specific cards.

Or more specifically, all cards are country specific, they are issued by your bank which is in your country (and has country of issue language printed on it).
Find Gmail search fine and use all the time as I am messy. It is super fast.
In what world are 401k limits low? Between you and your employer, you can contribute up to $55.5k/yr to a 401k, more if you are over a certain age, I think it's 50.
yeah I don't understand what this number refers to either. Population? But there are 39.5 million people here?
Oracle Separation of BQP and PH
The Sisyphusian struggle is real. Stop producing and revenue dwindles. Life becomes less about life and more about the next "pay cheque."

But much like repeated drug use the buzz wears off and the futility of your existence stares back at you in the mirror.

But with less new creators, what is YT going to do?

It's almost starting to feel like social media is becoming a hula hoop. Fun while it lasted. Everyone was doing it. But as the novelty wears off so does the mass and its gravity.
It works great for me.
Islam’s Impact on the West’s Identity
That seems to be based on this paper: http://www.int-res.com/articles/cr2009/39/c039p001.pdf

That is a really weird paper, basically they are assuming that the 98-99 season is representative of some abstract season in the 2040-2069 time period which is at best a questionable assumption. But even with the questionability they are showing a 8-10day decrease sometime in 2040-2069?

I think they also leave out major changes in snowmaking. The mountains I visit have lost a lot of access to snowmaking due to regulations limiting their water use and changes to what bacterium are used for nucleation.

The temperature swings are in some cases actually a benefit for season longevity. What you often want is a good dumping early in the season and then some rain / wet snow followed by a freeze to build a good hard base for later in the season.
Problem is search in Outlook is horribly slow.
I'm getting that too with Linux+Firefox. Quite the ransom letter vibe.

Though strangely, if I zoom to a smaller or larger size, it looks fine.
It means it’s interesting enough to dedicate later reading time. That’s high praise!
Cookies is just a tool it all comes down to how you use it. Not all knifes are stabbing-people-to-death knifes.
Yes, reports of people paying rent, for school fees, etc. Plenty of use as a currency going on.
Undercover UK police officers got into relationship with activists to spy on the