skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reverse would be incredibly more useful. Here is a giant block of code. Break it down into snippets and explain what they are doing.

I rarely have trouble finding examples of code using Google. When I do, I'm most likely using obscure languages or it's a very niche programming scenario.
On another note, what do you call this phenomenon, when something is super simple, but you can just tell how much work went into it? iA Writer, Instagram, Dropbox, iPhone, a great chair...they feel expensive, regardless of price.
That sub story also takes place in a location where the local authorities are very active in finding and squashing scams (Vegas).
Out of curiosity, were these high CPU usages on pages with any sort of video playing (culprits for me were Twitch or any live stream)? I was also having these issues, and I want to use Firefox, but the performance in the past was just too difficult.
In PA, there was an effort to pass a law to prohibit local or city-wide bans. The bill was vetoed. http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?sy...
> Go try writing non-trivial queries in any other database query language

Which query languages (other than ORMs) are the top contenders when staying within the rational model to compare with?

While there are notable examples of non-relational databases that use SQL as their native query language, I was recently looking for a relational database that natively uses a language other than SQL and came up short. I imagine there is something out there, but SQL dominates the landscape.

I am familiar with a few alternative languages, some of which compile to SQL. But it is pretty bleak out there, which is interesting given how many general purpose programming languages we have. I expect because ORMs have become the language people use to query databases, all of the attention have gone into them, rather than improving native query languages.
If I remember correctly, they paid only a cool billion for Instagram, which means this would be a 100x return at this valuation.
> Do you not think the standard should be higher for someone on national TV with an audience of millions?

Yes, but he should not be held an impossibly high or unreasonable standard, which I believe is what EpicEng is doing. Bear in mind that he's made no specific claims in this thread that Oliver has made misleading omissions, just vague, unsupported accusations.

John Oliver is a comedian. He should strive to be as accurate and complete as that format allows, and I think he satisfies that standard. That entails leaving some things on the cutting room floor in the name of focus, clarity, brevity, and rhetorical impact. This is something we all do because it's required to communicate effectively. He can't reasonably be expected to create ponderously long segments that cover every point and counterpoint that someone from the internet peanut gallery may care to see. This means he's a man expressing an opinion humorously, not a "propagandist."
And shame on the government for not doing any due diligence in trying to prevent this acquisition/monopoly.
One of the reasons I don't consider a degree anything of value when evaluating candidates. It might be a baseline or it might be a red herring. Best to just assume a degree and no degree are equal and asses based on practical examples.
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Can I now have my tab groups back?
So what level of mathematics is needed to understand the following thread? Undergrad real analysis? Grad math courses?
Indeed it does. Most people doesn't even browse the web anymore. World news, social updates, gossip... Everything in one app.
The sun is not to blame for almost all of it (just a tiny little bit). This is quite easy to figure out since we have data on the sun and Earth's orbit and the relationship is simple.
Great, please send me the link to those studies.
Right now as far as I know it is very clear cut where the ignored externalities lie: island nations going under (Kiribati, check out Anote's Ark), civil strife with a climate component spilling over (check out Syria last ten years), hurricanes and floods frequencies way above historical records (soon in an abandonned mall nearby)
Facebook owns Instagram, so they haven't really lost you, have they?
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I totally agree.

I saw a hot girl with 1M followers. So I decided to check out her website.

Website looked like a bland woocommerce store, no soul, just the girl selling pictures of her and underwear.

I went to alexa's Site Info and saw her website was ranked top 5 million or something poor. However, her rank in india was top 100k. The girl was not Indian, she had botted/paid so much that her fake traffic was visiting her website more than her real traffic.

I guess I'm thinking I should start botting? I already make an instagram 'like' bot on friday in 60 minutes.
>I have some adult friends spending 1 or 2 hours a day on Instagram.

I have some adult friends regularly spending upwards of that. Boggles my mind.
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> LTE has been modified by a few companies so that it can operate in the same unlicensed spectrum that Wi-Fi uses (called LTE-U)

It looks like to me that the problem is they decided to use the same bands of wifi. If you're going to be using the unlicensed spectrum expect interference.
I think they just added a TV type thing
If you go “explore” for photos you can be fed a constant stream of content that is hard to pull away from. It’s kinda like watching TV.
You may want to see some evidence on those claims. For example:

https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/if-you-want-build...

> “Lift to the point of exhaustion and it doesn’t matter whether the weights are heavy or light.”
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We know from other places that experimental cancer drugs are 1) very expensive 2) don't provide any meaningful benefit 3) cause unpleasant side-effects and 4) may expose people to toxic side-effects.

See, for example, the English results of the Cancer Drugs Fund. https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2097
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-09-03/should-do...
> Some people find it emotionally displeasing to think of themselves as a collection of particles. I got a good laugh back in my 20s when my friend Emil addressed my friend Mats as an “atomhög,” Swedish for “atom heap,” in an attempt to insult him. However, if someone says “I can’t believe I’m just a heap of atoms!’’ I object to the use of the word “just”: the elaborate spacetime braid that corresponds to their mind is hands down the most beautifully complex type of pattern we’ve ever encountered in our universe. The world’s fastest computer, the Grand Canyon or even the Sun—their spacetime patterns are all simple in comparison.

Thank you. I would never be able to express this idea so eloquently, and now I can just point people to this paragraph.
Thank you, yes I'm Italian - you're right, I should have asked someone to proofread it! I'm sorry for this.
The decision to use glass as the de-facto re-usable container medium has always driven me nuts. I think the "marketing" is that it's slightly "harder" (mentally) to throw away a nice glass bottle than it is a plastic container because we've been so conditioned to throw out the plastic ones.

I've long wondered why retailers don't offer a "refill" option for items like milk and liquid cleaning products. The bottles for laundry detergent in particular are usually thick plastic that rightfully could serve their purpose for a very long time. The store could have a big tank of the stuff and consumers can bring the re-usable bottle in for a refill at a worthwhile discount. Similar to what some retailers do with water and those re-fillable 5-gallon jugs. Perhaps the economics don't favor this for other products, but it seems like banning plastic in favor of heavier and less-re-usable options is just political hype without real examination, as you point out.
If this is true, I would finally be ready to dump Chrome. I had the same issues, and I couldn't figure out what was causing it, but the app regularly ran hot. Will give this round a go.

UPDATE: So far, so good! Multiple account containers open, lots of different websites that usually would cause problems, and so far it's running fine! Also had Ghostery left installed and uninstalled that as well as it also hogged CPU time on Chrome, so that may have had an effect. All in all, think this is g'bye, Chrome.
The acquisition of Instagram was more about keeping Facebook as a company to stay relevant. Well played.
As it not only says in the original article, but also in many of the comments, you can't just do that because the abuser knows if you've superseded their control, and abuse can escalate into physical if that action is taken.

It's not simple.
I wonder about Instagram's success if they had decided to reject the Facebook acquisition. While there's no way to know who got the better end of the deal, it would be better for the tech ecosystem to have more large players and their success feels inevitable in hindsight.
>> "I'm fairly sure there are countries out there where citizens do not lie awake at night in fear of their government, and where such technologies might be responsibly deployed as a tool in law enforcement."

This was true of many countries where it's no longer the case. Once a technology is available to a benevolent government, it remains available once that benevolence ends. It's wise to do what can be done to prevent and hinder misuse before it's too late.
When users realize that data has intrinsic value and what companies have been doing with it and are incensed enough to do something about it?
Noise levels can be pretty bad in big UK cities too. Especially London. Too many extra-loud modified motorbikes, too many overflying Heathrow planes. But yes, British people are for the most part polite!
Millennial here, deleted my account a few days ago.

Unlike most platforms, Instagram cuts strait to the most depressing part: pictures. I've had enough with social media, and I envy those who never created a Facebook.
I've long had a theory (maybe it's not that revolutionary) that part of Instagram's success is it allowed people a free pass to be vain and show off-y. On Facebook, it was a bit stigmatized to post a picture of an expensive purchase, amazing house interior, fancy vacation, or workout picture of your physique. However, it's the entire point of Instagram. Couple that in with all the brands and other accounts of inspiration for whatever you're into and you have a lot of reasons to open the app constantly.

Edit: Also worth pointing out that you could argue Facebook's infrastructure was hugely important to their growth. Instagram was literally almost anonymous profiles. However, once FB got everyone to connect their FB accounts (which they may have been able to do with only a phone number as I did notice this became a requirement), they gave advertisers and brands a lot off resources and tools (and reasons) to devote money and energy to the platform.
I have never found facebook ads 'worth it'.

Even with professional marketers, total joke and waste of money. People do not click on ads, and those that 'do', might be fake facebook bots or actually facebook messing with numbers.

My new 'ad' is that I make content that people will search for on google. Then they can check out the rest of my website.
Producing a cucumber results in CO2 emissions of about 1kg (3.3kg CO2 per kg product, avg weight ~300g). Shrink-wrapping a cucumber increases the average shelf life from 9 days to 15 days in refrigerated conditions and from 2 days to 5 days in ambient conditions.

Producing a kilogram of polyethylene film packaging emits about 2.7kg of CO2. The wrapping on an average-sized cucumber weighs about 2g, producing an additional 5.4g of CO2 emissions and increasing the total carbon footprint of the cucumber by ~0.54%. About 12% of cucumbers delivered to US retailers go unsold due to damage, spoilage or other loss.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146290110...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3550898/

http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Carbon_Methodology_-...

http://www.mdpi.com:8080/2077-0472/5/3/626/pdf
> Okay, so what exactly do you think public interest orgs are?

Public interest organizations represent the diffuse general public against concentrated power, e.g. when the EFF pushes back against Hollywood lobbying for retroactive copyright term extensions.

The issue is to avoid an "us vs. them" frame, because not everything MegaCorp wants is against the public interest. There is a public interest in having access to more medicine. It's counterproductive to fight something that helps everyone just because it also helps MegaCorp.
That’s pretty interesting. Given those stats, why can’t it be selectively deployed on light skinned perps till the system is trained better on other skin color classifications in order to achieve similar accuracies? And in the mean time catch some baddies.
Yes, it's a much more relaxing ride compared to a diesel bus. Smooth and quiet.

The noise seems to be exaggerated somewhat in that video - in real life it's pretty subtle.
I started out in a similar spot. I this FTL has an awkward issue with getting stuck in a loop where you die too fast to learn to not die. (Dwarf Fortress, NetHack, and others seem to have the same issue, while other roguelikes like Dredmor don't.) As you hit stage 4+ repeatedly, you start to get a much better feel for the game.

Start on Easy if you haven't, it helps a lot with breaking that loop. It doesn't undermine the gameplay at all like it does in some games, it just helps stretch your money and fuel further. It'll even help you unlock new ships that might suit your playstyle better for harder difficulties.

And yes - the variety and replayability are strongly tied to unlocking multiple ships and progressing far enough to try out a variety of different builds. Stage one just doesn't vary that much if it's all you're seeing.
Are there a substantial number of macOS users using touchscreens?

EDIT: I don't know how I forgot about pinch to zoom via the trackpad. While my original question did start me down an interesting rabbit hole of touchscreen MacOS, I 100% agree that a lack of smooth pinch to zoom via the trackpad detracts from the overall user experience.
I think this is just how it's implemented. It works this way in Firefox on Windows as well.
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At the time, all the pundits thought it ($1 BN) was insane.

They'd compare revenue and time since founding to acquisition price, and used it to dismiss the Silicon Valley bubble.
When the acqusition happened instagram was not large enough.
...like ConvertKit? That's who powers the form that collects emails here.

Just wanted to point out that this question is decidedly not hypothetical. Many websites use third-party services to administer their mailing lists.

Now, this makes sense from a developer's perspective since we don't all want to be rewriting mailing list tools, but I'd wager many users aren't aware that their email address is being passed on to a third party. These are the sort of tradeoffs that we're now learning to address explicitly, as opposed to sweeping them under the rug in the name of "marketing". As much as it's a pain for me as a developer, I welcome it wholeheartedly as a user.
Thanks for the heads up. I now enabled the GDPR compliance form on ConvertKit. It seems my explanation under the form is clearly not enough to explain the intent and how I will use the data, and I need explicit consent to be able to contact EU users that enter their email. I probably need to discard their emails now.
I've heard alexa is huge for people with dementia. Checking the day/time. Pill reminders. Managing lights, music, etc. For people with disabilities, I think it's great. I wish it wasn't tied to an ad machine, but whatever.

People that are able bodied however, I don't think it's even that effective at managing lights, music, or whatever. It's mostly the novelty of arguing with a robot.
Yes, you are absolutely correct! BASIC seemed much more accessible on early microcomputers, when compared to any programming language today. Basic essentially was the OS. The Apple II, C64, etc. extended basic with DOS-like commands.
They often shipped with BASIC manuals!
You Can pinch to zoom using the mousepad om MacBooks.
What makes these suggestions better?

Unless someone can demonstrate how effective each tweet is (maybe by retweets, or by how quickly employers respond (if at all), or by actual hirings) they're really just as good as each other. Data is key here.

The author is making the very common mistake of believing more information and a more verbose writing style makes better marketing. The opposite is true in so many situations. I can certainly believe that something very short like "I have a first class in X. Please RT" would be much more effective at actually getting retweets.
Complex systems have less linearity than expected, but more hysteresis. The flat(ter) early naughties have already been well explained, mostly taking 98 as reference is where the effect comes from, we caught up since then, and ain't slowing down.
I guess they could’ve made more effort to cater to professional photographers (and steal marketshare from Flickr and 500px and similar) and offered paid plans.
There are 7+ billion people on the planet, if climate change kills off 99% we've still got plenty.

It's going to suck, but it's of our own making.
You pinch to zoom on the trackpad, there’s no touchscreen
Could you please report back with your findings? I'm also terribly interested in this as well.
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Terms like “Super Bowl” and “World Series” are trademarked, so advertisers use phrases like “the Big Game” or “baseball final championship series”, in this case, to avoid a lawsuit.
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WHERE filters input rows

HAVING filters produced rows

Questions?
Instagram was not that popular back in the time.
I think he's referring to pinch-to-zoom using the trackpad since there are no Mac computers with touchscreens at all.
Judging by some of these popular comments, I never want to show HN anything that I build in my free time, ever.
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An old man with little skin in the game.
That was my point with that sentence. They still have me.
No macOS machines ship with touchscreens, but trackpad gestures are used heavily throughout macOS. I find pinch zooming on the Mac to feel pretty natural.
I tried that in Japan and the Netherlands while I was on my country-visiting tour. After a fruitless month in each, I moved on. The flights and living costs made it an expensive mistake. I'm not rich. The low cost of living in Kaohsiung means I've saved enough to pay for my visa fees, but that's over half my savings. Not to mention flights, food, accommodation while searching. All my previous jobs interviewed over Skype, although sometimes I was introduced by Facebook friends who I do know in real life.
was eager to try but "upgrade failed" - will try full download later
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I've seen the claim that the Japanese versions of Fire Emblem don't do this, though I'm not sure if it's true.

It wouldn't surprise me if people's past gaming experiences did a lot to vary their expectations for random number generation. I know XCOM was sometimes accused of fudging numbers against the player, though experimentation shows the percentage chances are correct (excluding bugs). I wonder if that's tied to expectations set by games like Fire Emblem.
I didn't downvote you but I do like that your edit provides more info!
Can anyone explain sport/trophy hunting to me? I can't imagine looking through a scope knowing you're about to end an animals life for "fun" without the thought of it's pain, social bonds or right to exist stopping you from pulling the trigger.
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I don't think much is clear to you right now. You seem rather hellbent on disproving something no one ever claimed. I have no interest in those kinds of debates.
So then what caused the prior ice ages and following warming spells, spanning hundreds of millions of years? Or were things different that time around?
An improved, AI-powered browser extension that correctly does the Snake People transform would be a sweet Show HN. "A good chunk of the snake people generation are in the egg-laying and burrow-buying (well, maybe not the latter, too many baby mice) stage of life!"
You're incredibly optimistic about how this will be used.

I have zero doubt that the second such a thing is deployed, they are going to be cataloging everyone's faces permanently then moving to track people next.
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Thank you for the feedback!

I considered beginners to the framework, rather than to frontend development altogether - I think an npm/yarn intro would have helped, it's difficult to know where to stop and avoid going into a rabbit hole to explain all the things you're "supposed" to know when entering the JS frontend dev realm.

Good points!
They are at that too big stage already. Even started abusing network effect monopoly and breaking UX to direct more attention towards ads.
Procreation is relevant not due to the responsibility aspect (which may change things), but because I wouldn’t want to have brought an unwanted life into existence.

I don’t prefer death to life, i just don’t want to be alive. No clue what death may be like. Could be infinitely horrible or the opposite.
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Ask HN: Where and how do you use AI/ML/DL?
Wondering, what is the problem you are trying to solve with AI, machine learning or deep learning?

If possible to share, what technology stack is behind?

Don't hesitate to share your project or work.
Fun to review how many HN commenters pooh-poohed the acquisition and price back in 2012:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840
They follow a ton of people and also spend a good amount of time posting their own photos/moments.
I remember the outrage when Zuckerberg bought Insta for $1bn. The Internet was filled with bubble-theorist.

Say what you want about Zuckerberg but the guy was well ahead of his time and could see how things would evolve and what tick with people brains.
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If pictures are depressing you you might be following the wrong people.
You're paying income tax, not sales tax, because winnings are income. (Think about professional gamblers...)

Income taxes are progressive, of course, and then there are a mess of deductions. But they could still make an estimate by just assuming the person is in the $37K to $92K bracket. So that's 25% [1].

> It seems like bad publicity if your "winners" have to pay several thousand in sales tax to get their "prize car."

I think they make the judgement that offering a prize that is 3/4ths as expensive would be less good publicity vs. the largely unknown bad publicity that is mostly oriented towards the government anyway.

[1] ... and yeah, there's 25% on that, and 25% on that, etc.; for tax rates < 1 it's convergent, if the tax_paid = rate * (original_value + tax_paid), just solve for tax_paid.
Anyone else think the really significant change is going to be when Webrender finally enters the stable channel? It's already stable for me on nightly and is what makes the single largest difference to my experience, everything is so much smoother (instantaneous) and uses less resources. The reason I even switched away to Chrome from Firefox to start with was performance, I came back when FF's performance started eclipsing Chrome's again.
This is (basically?) the technique used by PRoot, which has issues with using SECCOMP [1]. If anyone has the expertise, they'd doubtless be grateful of help with the problem.

PRoot is pretty useful as a pure-userland solution for jobs that container-ish things might otherwise do, e.g. user-mode installation of Nix/Guix.

[1] https://github.com/proot-me/PRoot/issues/106