skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in one of these call centers just after high-school. Not even a molecule of ethics existed in the entire company. My job involved getting yelled at by people who were sick of getting calls from dozens of different companies, and occasionally talking with someone gullible enough to come in for a sales meeting, who would then yell at everyone involved once they discovered they had been duped.

I can't remember exactly, but I think I eventually got fired because I started to deviate from the script. Sometimes being honest with people, and sometimes trolling angry people. It was a horrible job.
I wonder why it wouldn't be nominative fair use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use

Maybe I have to learn more about this doctrine.
I'm a 30something curmudgeon, but I have become addicted to their "explore" page or whatever it is. Their algorithms have masterfully created an infinite scroll of addictive content that generally applies to my tastes.

I caught myself a few months ago scrolling through that page for almost 30 minutes before realizing what I had been doing. I now have to be very intentional about not going down that constantly-refreshing feature for more than a few minutes.

Anytime I ask my wife what she's doing on her phone, it's almost always Instagram. No more Snapchat, no more Pinterest, and no more "official" Facebook.
Hey @onion2k, this is not a full proof way of getting a job. Every time I see this, I am asking, why should I hire you? If you can give me something extra, more meat, the context for demonstrable skills, then I can talk to you. That's the point I am coming from.
> really learning computer science outside top well known schools

Eh... no. It's not 1975 anymore. This knowledge is widely distributed.
If controlling and isolating variables is crucial to objective science, and using our own consciousness is a requirement to test/observe consciousness, is it even possible for us to objectively test consciousness?
I remember getting an advertisement for a pot shop three blocks away from me two hours before my Thanksgiving dinner. That one felt a little too real.
I feel for the folks who see identity politics everywhere... How painful must it be to operate like that?
The question is: how long will these IoT devices receive security fixes?
That's also how evolution works.
right, so being able to disable the microphone without destroying it, by pressing the little red button, would be quite useful in this instance.
No but diesel owners who have for decades had a nice subsidy from my pocket have been :-(
What a time to be alive. Many tech companies now that don't offer any actual product or service and don't even make money are valued multiple times more than the biggest car manufacturers.
Empty your feed and start over. My feed is nothing but picture of wildlife and it's amazing. No humans, only fantastic photographs.
> Ugh light gray keyboard is ugly if the rest of your computer hardware isn't in light gray (which is common these days).

I think it looks pretty good but I have the version with blank keycaps which I use on a white desk so I think it fits in pretty well.

> Just the price at 220 USD seems... expensive.

It is unfortunately expensive. This is mostly due to the switches since it uses electrostatic capacitive Topre switches[1] and not Cherry MX-style switches which are otherwise very common in keyboards nowadays.

> How noisy are these switches?

The stock version is fairly noisy but nowhere near as noisy as say Cherry MX Blue or buckling spring switches. It really depends on what the keyboard is on though since the stock feet are pretty bad which means the sound can get amplified by the table that it's on (many people put some shelf liner under it).

There is a quieter Type-S version that's more expensive but you can achieve the same affect by modifying the stock version.

Some typing videos:

Stock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hWTxQqoIuY

Modified stock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ1aI3HmF2E

Type S vs. stock comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSimmbuFGpQ

> Also, what's up with keyboard not supporting USB 3?

The HHKB Pro 2 was introduced in 2006, two years before the USB 3.0 specification had been completed. A Pro 3 version has yet to be announced but they did release a Bluetooth version two years ago.

[1]: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Topre_switch
We all know the systems are biased, because we feed them biased information - Cathy ONeil did a great job on this with "Weapons of Math Destruction"
What puzzles me is why he doesn't just provide the counterexample to scare the hell out of everyone - if he inverts the racial distributions in the training datasets, then you'd have a system where the shoe was on the other foot, and both argument and fuel for removing bias from the training sets - the recognition systems only know what they know, and they don't really understand that they might not know, they only know the confidence they have in knowing - hence this is my favorite happy place example of the problem --https://youtu.be/UFVB5rnqjyY
Arguably this is an allegory for so many things in the world
I think ambient carbon capture has a genuine chance to improve the situation. This isn't to say that we should stop doing other things to reduce emissions. We are very much in the thick of the struggle -- anyone trying to tell you otherwise is simply trying to maintain the status quo.
10 gigabit ethernet is not 1 GB/s. It's 10 gigabits of data per second, or 1.25 gigabytes per second. The encoding is not an issue with these data rate numbers because Ethernet quotes their data rate as a data rate.
The tech-savvy market is served well by free static site generators like Hugo and Jekyll.
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This is currently _the_ reason I don't use Firefox on macOS for anything other than testing. Oddly, it works on Windows reasonably well.

Edit: forgot to mention I had to tweak something to enable it on Win 10.

Edit 2: Why the downvotes?
The versions I was speaking of were Ubuntu 18.04 = 2.4.29, Ubuntu 16.04 = 2.4.18, mod_brotli was introduced in 2.4.26.
Because it's worth spending money on any product that your spends a third of its life on and which can directly affect your health.
I use Tree Style Tab in the most recent firefox with a couple of style customizations: https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/master/.mozilla/fi...

Works great.
Who would care if they can't shove it in everybody's face?
I'll be honest, I like ads that are relevant to the things I am interested in. I am no FB fan boy, but their ads are pretty good... I actually click on them.

What's wrong with that?
Thanks for catching that! We definitely still have some bugs to work out.
Ask HN: Companies that work on distributed systems/scalability?
I'm looking for relatively fast-paced companies that work on high scale, distributed systems other than the ones that make business through ads/social media/entertainment. That rules out Facebook, Google and Netflix. There's Amazon but I'm curious to know about other companies - large and small that I can learn from.
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Was that identity politics? It looked like gibberish to me.
Actually, it's my use of Facebook that is ironic
So, if you are acting during the normal course of business, you are not liable. If someone tries to buy a rope from your store saying they are going to use it to strangle someone, you can sell it to them anyway, you are not liable.

The prosecution is arguing he is a co-conspirator. The biggest evidence mentioned in the article was that the guy asked Alfred to make a compartment big enough to store 10 kgs [of cocaine]. As in, he literally specified how big the compartment needed to be in terms of kgs of drugs. That wouldn't fall under the normal course of business, that's doing custom work specifically to aid in an illegal activity.
They've undercut Amazon EFS by 33% for the budget option ($.20/gb vs. $.30/gb). Hope this kicks off a little pricing war - shared filesystem is a hugely useful solution for migrating old apps, would be nice if it were cheap. Both options are still grossly overpriced (IMHO)
These problems are definitely going to be serious. But how serious they will be and whether or not all the doom and gloom is justified depends on how our societies react to the challenges.

It depends on how quickly we can develop technology and make it available to everyone. It depends on how quickly people can adapt to migration situations. It depends on countless non linear interactions that are unpredictable.

I think what we can say is that the pace of change is absolutely crucial. If land is lost to deserts or to the sea at a pace noticable only by asking your great grand parents, then I think we're good.

But if a billion people have to move within 20 or 30 years because large poor cities can no longer be defended against the sea or because technology to deal with desertification is only available to rich countries then I fear the gloom and doom is more than justified.
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Firefox has tools to figure out which tabs are causing problems, try about:performance. Any freeze of minutes is generally caused by a memory leak in the javascript of a particular page.
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Is Snapchat the best example? Snapchat is getting killed.

Also, as it was made that Instagram only had 7 employees when they were purchased, that's actually one of major reasons why the acquisition worked so well. 7 employees for an application of that scale is not "swift and agile", it's criminally understaffed. After the Facebook acquisition, Facebook was able to easily redirect some of their hires to work on Instagram which allowed Instagram's original workforce to actually be able to worry about things other than just keeping their heads above water. It's definitely not ridiculous to credit some of Instagram's success to the acquisition itself.
I have an air-gapped Windows XP desktop from 05. It has an old Pidgin installation on it. Of the options listed, we're losing a lot of the heavy hitters that were on that product: AIM, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, now Yahoo Messenger.

It supports XMPP and ICQ protocols still, but my goodness, I'm now learning what it means to be old and lose the systems I used during my formative years. Is this what it felt like to have BBSes die? Yes they still technically exist, but their 'mainstream' days are behind them.
(Repeat of comment from discussion almost four years ago, with minor spelling and style edits):

The article mentioned he was appealing. That has happened and he lost. Here is the appellate court opinion: https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca10/12-30...

Something is mentioned there that either was not mentioned in the Wired article or I missed it: Anaya admits that he knew particular customers were buying compartments for illegal purposes. He just didn't know what particular illegal use they were going to be put to. He's basically arguing that to "knowingly" join a conspiracy, you have to know its objectives and scope, and he says he lacked that knowledge.

It's probably a bad idea to do business with people who want to use code words when they talk to you on the phone. The appeals court mentions an intercepted call where Anaya told the drug traders he could put "3 speakers" in a Camry for $2,500, where "3 speakers" meant a compartment to hold 3 kilos.

His sentence is way too long. He's not the linchpin of the drug trade the prosecution made him out to be, but he does not appear to be quite the innocent bystander Wired makes him out to be either.
Part of Operations is weighing new and shiny features versus the maintenance cost of supporting them. You can make an amazing amount of work for yourself by deciding you are going to run the latest and greatest, and becoming the maintainer of your own custom distribution. My shop is on the small side for deciding to bite that off though, so we try to leverage Ubuntu's expertise in doing that whenever possible.
I am implying that. In the time since this story I've had a lot of time to think about the ethics of this situation. Even if he was a sleazy liar, sleazy liars are people too, and someone getting fired is drastic. But to use your terms, a multiplier on a negative quantity is more deeply negative. He was doing his job duties none at all or poorly. Other people had to clean up after his messes and lies. I created a throwaway account to tell this story because he was the most sociopathic IC I've seen in the business, and my career is not brief, I am not normally phased or automatically put off by sociopaths.
Thanks again - all fixed. Code runs on an aws lambda function, but always appreciate finds like these.
Instagram is one of the simplest social networks. It's twitter with a focus on picture posts. It's blogging but every post is centered around a picture.

It's one thing to not want one yourself, but to be willfully ignorant about something so simple and publicly visible seems like an odd thing to feel the need to advertise.
(Noticing this thread because of a search for "Sanskrit" on HN.)

On the one hand, it is good that you are thinking about these things, and trying to articulate your current thoughts. Good luck to you. On the other hand, in order to gain enough certainty about your thinking to be able to confidently recommend it to other people, you should probably discuss this with people more advanced in the path of yoga, and consider thoughtfully their differences.

Flipping to a random page in your document, I see:

> 5. Yama - Brahmacharya

> The literal meaning of the word Brahmacharya is unmarried.

Now, that is not the literal meaning, in either the etymological (yoga) or colloquial (rūdhi) sense. If I open a book on Yoga I highly recommend — The Sacred Tradition of Yoga (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1611801729 , https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/1611801729/ , https://www.shambhala.com/the-yoga-journey.html) — this is what it says on Page 116 under Brahmacarya:

> In Saṃskṛta, Brahma is “Eternal Truth”, and carya means “movement”. Brahmacarya literally means “moving towards the Eternal Truth”. […] Sometimes brahmacarya is incorrectly translated as control of sexuality, or celibacy. White it has a relationship to celibacy, it is not the same. True brahmacarya is the discipline of keeping the body and mind attuned for Realization.

Etc. (There are 14 pages devoted to Brahmacarya; the book main covers Yama and Niyama, but always in light of the full context of yoga.)

Good luck to you. Please consider reading other sources as well, and seeking the ideas of people well-versed in both yoga and Sanskrit — you don't have to agree with everything, but consider it, and something may spark more useful inputs for you.
>Plastics are aesthetically bad..

In many parts of the ocean we are way past aesthetics.

73% of Deep-Sea Fish Have Ingested Plastic:
> https://www.ecowatch.com/plastics-deep-sea-fish-2536726086.h...

Whale Died Of Starvation After Eating 80 Plastic Bags Off Thailand's Coast:
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/06/04/whale-die...

All UK mussels contain plastic and other contaminants, study finds:
> https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/mussels-plastic-mi...
I was a kid back then; K&R was pretty hard to find in my area and it was quite outdated anyway, most people were happy to use whatever resources they could get; the best in mid-to-late 90s ended up things like what DJ Delorie wrote, stuff from John Carmack, Dave Eberly etc. that were pretty low on rigor but very high on practical value.
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The NFL has aggressively litigated uses of their trademarks, to the point where you might technically be allowed to do something, but realistically it isn’t worth the trouble.

https://www.thedsmgroup.com/super-bowl-trademark-copyright-2...
Yes, the article mentions the sample was taken from the talk.
The ecosystem is quite dependent on fiat crosses... the U.S. government alone has the power and the tools to destroy crypto.

You can't hurt the rentiers, e.g. large American banks, and expect them to not get compensation or destroy you in turn. They are the law. To think that it matters that the technology is better (and it's debatable that it really is) is ludicrous.
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Algorithm analysis. Similar to my other post, I've gotten speed ups on the order of 100x or more by changing the algorithms used to accomplish the same work. One example was a data analysis tool, the original author wrote a correct (produced the right stuff) but naive implementation. It took about 3 minutes to perform its work, I got it below 5 seconds without being clever (read: hard to read/write, but fast). I changed the order of some of the data processing, and switched to a smarter data structure (built-in hashmap versus whatever he'd chosen). The final version was readable and maintainable by non-CS folks (it was used by engineers, mostly).

I knew of optimal sorting networks which let me optimize a hotspot in an embedded system and improve throughput in a real-time system. It seems like a miniscule savings (versus whatever sort they'd used before, insertion I think) since it was only a handful of items. But its execution time was one of the dominating factors in the system, and reducing the number of comparisons and branches to a minimum was a significant improvement.

Familiarity with declarative languages like Prolog informed the design of data analysis tools (that could've been done better in Prolog but that wasn't an option). So I wrote a specialized program that, internally, was halfway to being a Prolog implementation.

Parsing. I've not written any compilers, but I have needed custom parsers over the years. Understanding the difference between different types of languages (regular versus context-free in particular) meant I could choose the right tools for the job. Additionally, understanding what needs to be done in a parser leads to better structuring of the code.

Programming language theory. You don't need real, formal theory here, but if you understand how ideas map between languages and what some languages excel at (compared to others), you can write idiomatic code in more languages. Versus my predecessors, who could "write Fortran in any language". You can also understand the tradeoffs between the different kinds of languages (why do people support OO, FP, and others; why do they choose each). Additionally, you can borrow ideas from some languages and import them into others, with some care.

Understanding abstraction, which I'll admit was generally not taught well in my program, I got it more from my math background. This can lead to generic code and programs that operate on a wider variety of problems and data types.
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I know that’s just back of the envelope math, but I’d suspect monetizing whatsapp has been far trickier (do they make money at all?) so it wouldn’t be multiplied at anything like Insta.

The e2e crypto must really kill opportunities to sell data or push ads.

Edit: spelling
I've used 6 different Macs over the past decade and none of them have ever had this issue. I'm not saying that you're wrong about your experience, but that it's not like it affects 100% of Firefox's quite large Mac userbase.
The dicta of Dijisktra should be handled with the same accommodation of self-contradictory paradox as is accorded to zen koans.
I think the last time I ran into this issue it was a bug involving DPI scaling. If you're not running at the "default" scale, you'll have performance problems.
> Well, I think FB has probably lost 100B in value, and as someone who stopped using FB this year because I dont enjoy it anymore-I moved to instagram and twitter.

Well that's incorrect Facebook is only like $5 bucks per share off their all time high: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB/
I guess I'm one of the outliers. The worst part of FB to me is the vain pictures and constant "look at me attitude", which is pretty much 90% of the instagram content I've seen. The comments are about on par with FB comments on the "look at me" picture posts as well, so little to no improvement or added value there.

I don't have an instagram account and have 0 interest in getting one or ever posting anything to it.
When you write:

>humans might have something to do with it

you come across immediately as a climate change denier. The science of what humans are doing to the climate is well established. We _have_ something to do with it, no "might" about it. Of course other things are contributing -- in fact we may well have passed a tipping point where non-anthropogenic carbon emissions are being generated via feedback loops, similar to warming cycles in the past that aren't associated with human activity. But there is a very very broad consensus that as a species have something to do with climate change.
The mattress world—like just about every other, I imagine—is crazy: https://www.gimletmedia.com/surprisingly-awesome/12-mattress...
I always found when my losses where that high it isn't a matter of going a few turns back, it is starting over with a new strategy.
C# may not be generally criticized for that. But there are certainly C# code bases that do get so criticized.
The "coming ice age" was a creation of Newsweek. There was some scientific speculation about whether cooling from particulates would offset CO2-induced warming. Theories of climate change were first proposed in the early 19th Century, in order to explain the evidence for Ice Ages. The first theory of CO2-induced climate change (Arrhenius 1896) was actually discussing that. Global warming describes a subset of recent climate change.

Note the date above. AGW is older and better-established than Relativity. It's a relatively straightforward consequence of the heat physics of gases, which was first worked out in the 1860s, and can be trivially replicated in your basement. It was also, as it happens, completely disproved for about fifty years, and the overturning of its disproofs was notable for none of the political infighting surrounding the issue today. The skeptic might wonder what the difference is, and why the people complaining of bad science don't have better science to present. We've only been studying the issue for a dozen decades or so, and surely the previous disproofs would be a start?

P.S. That you can create a semantic link between the concepts of "holocaust denier" and "AGW denier" does not mean that those two things are commonly treated as being morally equivalent: non sequitur.
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One issue that affects folks with a zillion tabs is that some extensions add a lot of memory usage to every tab. AdBlock Plus is one offender; uBlock Origin is much lighter weight.
Exactly. To be honest Instagram's hypergrowth probably couldn't have been sustained if the company didn't end up getting access to some of Facebook's engineering talent and hiring pipeline.

Having 11 people try to manage a site of that scale is just asking them to keep doggypaddling to avoid drowning.
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It continually amazes me the contortions people will put themselves through just to be able to keep writing Javascript.
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