skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever tried to purchase an ad on Facebook? If so, please give me examples of the type of targeting you used.

(I should note that I'm genuinely not being an ass, I'm just trying to figure out your level of experience with the platform. My education is in marketing, I've run many campaigns across many platforms, yet I have never found a tool anywhere that lets me target ads the way Facebook does.)
If I had to bet between insects and plant-based meat substitutes like the Impossible Burger, I'd bet on the latter. Insects are cool, but they just doesn't make sense as a major food staple.

They don't really taste like much.
Texture wise, adult insects have too much chitin.
They're not as easy to farm as you think (high death rates).

But the real problem is that they're basically snacks. Finger-food. Toppings. A person who accepts entomology is not going to automatically stop eating beef, pork, chicken and fish.
(Author of paper here) This is approximately my growing suspicion.
They are willing to put punishment collars on their own security forces... is it really that hard to fathom?

If only a handful of ultra wealthy go down this path, the rest will be forced to follow or risk getting eliminated. It's like the nuclear arms race but without the global fallout.
>This also effectively means that it’s harder to be the kind of person that waits for the bugs to be ironed out before upgrading because by the time the current OS feels good, the beta for the next OS is literally already out

I realised this a couple of weeks ago when Mojave was showcased. I've got about 30 Macs here, mostly running Sierra, because of bugs and infamous security failures in the new OS that I held people back from upgrading, but now I'm thinking it might be stable enough to use, 10.14 is on the cards.

You're right, it's exhausting trying to keep up. Could not be more thankful that Ubuntu (our other platform) has LTS versions!!
It's certainly fair to say that Obama benefited from racial tensions, whether his campaign intended to or not.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/107770/most-say-race-will-facto...

Blacks were 19% more likely to vote for Obama because he was black and 2% less likely. Whites were 5% more likely to vote for Obama because he was black and 6% less likely.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/local-elections/20...

Obama ended up with near-unanimous support from the black vote in the primaries, beating Hillary.
> living five adults to a two room apartment

This one has become terrifyingly normalized - even within the industry, people who don’t live this way are decadent irresponsible pigs. People who resent living this way are entitled redneck whiners. And despite all that, don’t you dare suggest you’re not really a member of the evil elite 1%.
Netflix is removing online reviews
As mentioned in TFA, the home directory bug was fixed in 10.6.2. What badly embarrassing bugs exist in 10.6.8?
> Manspreading and mansplaining are two light examples of calling for male harm.

Asking someone not to take up extra room on the subway is not harm. It's basic courtesy. And in reality, few people actually gripe about manspreading all day. It just seems that way with social media.

Mansplaining is the same. Outside of tumblr, I don't hear it that often. And all it means is "don't be pedantic or condescending." that's just common courtesy. Both men and women can be pedantic and condescending. This is just pointing out that men often talk town to women, and there's a dimension of discrimination that often accompanies this.

> The whole thing comes down to maleness is bad: energy, competition,

There is a problem with education generally, and boys can have a tough time, I agree. But feminists aren't causing this problem. On the contrary, most feminists I know agree that the education system hurts boys and girls in different ways. Nobody thinks having children sitting still all day and listening to lectures is a good way to learn. It's just that girls mature faster, so they can do this more easily at a young age.

I'd also be careful with associating "maleness" with energy and competition. Young girls are energetic and competitive too.

> Actually I'm worried about incels and the lost generation and all that.

Me too! I'm worried that children are not being allowed to fail by overbearing parents, and become susceptible to mental issues. I'm worried that social media, video games, and online streaming are keeping kids inside all day, when they could be hanging out with eachother. I'm worried we've built an economy where poor and working class children have no chance to get ahead. I'm worried that young boys are learning bad lessons about what it means to be a man, and turn to the manosphere for advice.

But I'm not worried at all about feminism.
Snap! is an awesome scheme-like visual programming language that runs in the browser, which is a lot like Scratch (visual Logo), but like Scheme in that everything is first class, including functions, lexical closures, continuations, macros, special forms, user defined functions, control structures, etc.

https://snap.berkeley.edu

ProgKids is a Russian site that integrates Snap! (and Python) with Minecraft, so kids can visually program 3d turtles that move around in the world and build things!

https://progkids.ru

ProgKids. Строим дом, а потом ещё пару (Building a house, then another couple)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muNpsk4UH7c

ProgKids. Куда же без зверей? (Why do you not have animals?)

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

ProgKids. Как работает Snap? (How does Snap work?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0mrqxFImQ
> It probably doesn’t help that there are some inveterate literalists about...

about what?
there's a difference between "when things get desperate, what can I do to survive?" and "I proactively want to genocide the entire planet". Shows like the walking dead explore what we are willing to do (and what humanity we are willing to abandon) in the former case. It's not incomprehensible that we would be willing to do inhumane things to survive in an apocalyptic scenario.
Lots of good material science also performed.

And don't forget fundamental science, such as cosmology.
Wow. I think it says something about how the community has already been altered or manipulated that this wasn't on the front page of the site. The reddit I joined years ago would have gone apoplectic. The new site is such a javascript spaghetti dish it won't even function without JS enabled, and with it enabled all of your keystrokes and mouse movements are collected. It really is frustrating to see the admins post time and again about "transparency" at reddit and then not clearly disclose a change like this to the community. Which, as other posters pointed out, fits the course for the redesign at large and the site's management over the last couple years.

Aside, I think it shows how much the growth of sponsored content on the front page and the death of IAMA has jaded me that when I saw multiple front page posts about "working with the admins" to ban half that Infinity War subreddit I assumed it was advertising related.
Gavin Kelly is associated with Downing Street. It's in the conservative government's interest to downplay social issues caused by its policies.

I smell a conflict of interest.
While it will no doubt be somewhat more competent and have a better grasp of english, do you see a computer as being more empathetic? Here is my favorite lack of empathy quote from a computer:

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you do that.
Everything in there looks ascii to me, just using the charting characters in the high end of the table.
To be fair, natural sunlight is actually a massive deal to me. I can’t focus without it and I get weirdly claustrophobic in rooms without it. I wouldn’t take a job in an office without windows, even if my salary was doubled.
This is definitely a partisan issue. It's true that there was always a low level pro-privacy/anti-fb sentiment, but it's the perception that FB was used to get Trump elected turned it into an inferno. If Clinton had won the election there would be far less attention paid to FB.
And Rolls wants their suppliers to be doing JIT delivery of all their parts--no one in the supply chain wants to be stuck holding the bag on inventory so Rolls expects to whistle at Pratt-Whitney for parts, and Pratt expects to be able to whistle at their suppliers (and down and down the supply chain) and still be able to get parts within an incredibly short window. Oh and they don't want to pay for anything they order until 6 months after receiving delivery. Its an incredibly tough squeeze on the supply chain.

You can tell some of my customers are in aircraft engine manufacturing.
For the top 10-30%, I will give you two heuristics.

1. Sniff test: You read something in their application and say to yourself “damn, that’s really cool”.

2. More robust test: They have worked on a hard problem and have done something interesting with it. This could be research, starting a business, starting a non-profit, something substantive in their community, something creative (usually externally validated like being a top performer), etc. Again, check out Cal Newport’s stuff. He says very specifically that it’s not a formula, because it’s not (I suppose it is at one level of abstraction, but...).

For the rest of the class, there are a ton of variables that are usually out of the control of the applicant (one variable being who is on the admissions committee that year). Again, a quick heuristic is to ask what the applicant is giving the university. If the answer is not fairly compelling, then their chances of getting in decrease dramatically.

If you’re looking for specifics, these are harder to find, and generally vary from year to year depending on the applicant pool. A few random ideas:

- Kushner’s dad pledged $2.5 million over 10 years. It’s probably more than that now.

- PA residents get preferential admissions treatment for Penn. They need something else going for them if their grades and scores are subpar.

- Each elite boarding school gets a range of spots any given year.

- Academically strong athletes are strong, esp. if they are great athletes by Ivy standards.

- Academically weak athletes better be damn good and better have at least one more desired trait. Some of these folks do 13th grade at an elite boarding school to prep them for elite universities in a number of ways.

- Being a legacy doesn’t get you nearly as far as people think it does. The number of legacy rejects typically far outweighs the number of legacy accepts. Again, that applicant better have another desired trait or two.

- Having social capital and being able to demonstrate that goes a long way. What is “social capital”? Well, an applicant might say something like “I want to study economics at $SCHOOL because I want to understand better the fundamentals that my father, the finance minister of $COUNTRY, regularly discusses with me about his job and how that impacts my country and the counties around it.” The size of $COUNTRY can vary wildly, but these folks are unassumingly at elite schools.

Does that better answer your question?
Wind and solar if distributed is better if A) it currently exists and B) enough transmission exists to connect it to the higher voltage grid and C) the sun always shines and the wind always blows.

Several regions of our grid don't have near enough of these resources. You might only have 10% of your fuel-mix as renewable, but the percentage is constantly growing.

Having a nuclear plant that can generate a freaking GW 24/7 for years gives you fuel diversity and security. Coal plants typically have months of fuel on-site.

In the future, we can imagine tons and tons of renewable and batteries working together for a distributed and secure grid, but we're just not there yet despite a lot of excitement just like Musk hasn't really setup a Mars colony yet.
Adapting to Robotic Grasping Challenges Using Neural Networks
A dozen stages? Holy crap. I guess they weren't worried about you considering other offers.
I totally respect the "Anyone is allowed to post anything, even if it's toxic". but when that's all the site is, or if I can't easily ignore it, it's not usable.

The core audience of a forum set the culture. The core culture of voat were people angry they couldn't post their racist shit on Reddit.
I have a late-model Indigo2. They're definitely a lot heavier than they look. The later models also suffer from being a bit of a "bridge" machine. Newer CPU and graphics paired with older SCSI, Memory, and Networking.
True. Especially in India where it's wasn't even covered much in the news
It's virtue signalling.
I just hit my forehead hard enough to wake the dog.

Thanks. :)
It’s also error-prone. That being said, research in the area has been ongoing for years. For example, see [0].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/01/mp3-files-written-as...
Ask HN: How do you organize a revolution?
Hello,
We are trying to organize a protest and a resistance movement against dictatorship and censorship that is happening in our country Moldova.

What tools and methods would you recommend for better distributed organization, coordination and self-governance?

#OccupyGuguta

Thank you!
Global GPT Websites and Passive Income Apps
Would using the hidden printer tracking dots/stenography also work to disprove the documents age?
> So true. The USA is viewed worse than China, Russia or Saudi Arabia.

I think this is a reaction to the perceived hypocrisy of the US. Like any country, the US has a complex history as well as a variety of cultural and political issues that need addressing. However the US also consistently and loudly bills itself as "The Greatest Country on Earth". I think this contradiction fuels a lot of hyperbole about how bad the US is when it fails to live up to its own marketing.

All of this is exacerbated because US cultural exports (Movies and Television) have such huge global reach. When you're a kid - whether in the US or not - and you see the pro-American messaging in many popular films you definitely believe it. The disillusionment can hit hard.
Many, many people don't think it's a bad thing. As an American I look at things like GDPR and the proposed copyright law and completely understand why a sovereign country wouldn't want to be part of the EU.

You may not agree, but it shouldn't be mindblowing that reasonable people hold this view.
I love seeing projects with a docker-compose.yml, so I can check it out quickly. However, yours only spins up redis - wouldn't it make sense to spin up TaskBotJS in a separate container? Yes, I know the proper answer is "PRs accepted", but just curious about the rationale.
The US of late has caused more shit than anything. The Syrian war is a direct consequence of going into Iraq for no reason.
What is Duplex, but a voice version of a chatbot. We have had to endure chatbots for ages and we know for a fact that they suck. Why would Duplex be any different?

Also, Google's entire customer support strategy is "let he computers handle it, no humans involved." And it is universally loathed and derided. Why should we assume they are going to offer something to outside corporations that is better than what they use themselves?

It doesn't have to suck, but all evidence points out that it will.
It’s also worth mentioning “selection by postcode”. My daughter goes to a state school but our area is comparatively wealthy, so the intake is biased towards wealthy families.
Space X/Boring Company engineers are being sent to help with Thai cave rescue
That's about average for a senior developer in Seattle. But honestly, I wouldn't move to Seattle for that amount. $150K is about the max you will make as a software developer in my neck of the woods but I also just bought a 5 bed 3.5 bath, 3000 square foot house, brand new build for around $320K in a great school district.....

I have a friend who works at Amazon and he was telling me how much he paid for a slightly smaller house. I was amazed. Out of the FAANG companies, Amazon is the one company that I think I would be able to work for.
First, congrats on this work! It's certainly a lot of work to write this code, the documentation, think about enterprise offerings, etc.

That being said, I think you're inviting a lot of ill will by calling your project "the best", "in the world", etc. It's fine for a proprietary product but it feels awkward for open source projects (if that's your goal).

I think you should spend more time detailing how TaskBotJS is better than the competition in a formal document to justify your pricing. Again, the open source vs. product thing is confusing right now, which is fine for the initial release. If following an open source business model is your primary goal, I would spend more time on open source and community building and then the paying customers will follow. As of now, there isn't a lot of incentive to pay.

Finally, this work is dual licensed, how are you dealing with external contributions?
Tech is a bountiful solution, not a problem. The problem is in not properly taxing the output of the hyper rich tech industry. The taxation then goes into trivially solving the homelessness problem in SF. We're talking about 5,000 people, not 50k or 500k. It is not a problem compared to the enormity of the tech riches. SF is an extremely affluent city that refuses to act.
Maybe this is 2005 Me talking, but I simply don't trust AMD to do anything well. To be fair, both Intel and them have had high profile failures where the product either didn't work at all or didn't perform adequately (Itanium and Bulldozer).

The AMD I remember also had a tendency to over estimate performance and underclock parts, (1800+, anyone?) even if they could sell them for less.

It's this part that makes me think Apple wouldn't want to deal with them. For all of Intel's missteps, Apple choosing AMD because they are the cheaper alternative smells weird to me.
Agreed in theory, but we're honestly just not there yet. In fact the large grid-size batteries aren't even a 1/10 of a percent of grid capacity. Getting enough batteries to cover hundreds of GW of demand ain't cheap.
Very nice job! I'll definitely be trying this out in a personal project.

How's your experience been with TypeScript and oao? I've got a very large monorepo (using yarn workspaces) of TypeScript modules and it's been sort of a PITA. For instance, a typical yarn install will unnecessarily duplicate some dependencies across packages causing tsc to complain about duplicate identifiers. Running yarn --check-files fixes this, but it's still annoying. Also, following symbols with yarn workspaces is sometimes annoying since linked packages will use "main" and "types" fields in the package.json, thus following a symbol takes you to the generated type definition. I have a generated tsconfig.json that sets paths to their appropriate package paths to fix that. Again annoying.
Magic Leap Promises to Show a Real Demo and Share Specs Next Week
I was part of the digg to reddit user migration. The big difference this time around is there is no reddit to migrate too.

I was affected by that recent wave of subreddit bans and started looking at alternatives.

There's plenty but none are very good.

The biggest move I've seen is people going to Discord servers. The two problems with that are:
-Searching and history aren't really a thing on them
-Discord does not really have a good way to make money other than nitro.
I was very enthusiastic about Faktory when it was first announced, and still am, but when we tried to use it for a project at work it wasn't really suited to PaaS based infrastructure because of the dependency on a local database. There are a few Faktory as a Service providers in development at the moment, but none of them are in production in the EU yet.
The long excursion might be seen as implementing all that code to do EFS-to-TAR. (Rather than figure out how to compile a Linux kernel module, or run an old version of Linux on something.)

If I was trying to do this project, I'd just do what it took to get an EFS-supporting OS up and running, expose via NFS, and be done with it.
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What is a "regular search result"? Your link says:

"DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex."

I use DDG because I like its !bang searches and I genuinely prefer its Instant Answers and page layout over Google's.
>dosed with nutrients

Forgive me for the possible ignorance, but that sounds like just a different means of addressing the same problem of having to add nutrients to the soil. Don't we add fertilizer/till/change soil? Why is it better to dose with nutrients?
To clarify: "Perl One-Liners Explained" is self-published, and "Perl One-Liners" is based on it and published by No Starch Press. Not sure why that makes "matters worse"?

He also self-published "Awk One-Liners Explained" and "Sed One-Liners Explained" and has a "Bash One-Liners Explained" in the pipeline, see http://www.catonmat.net/books
New Zealand probably also has a more affordable healthcare system, and lower cost higher education. It's all relative...
See https://opensource.guide/starting-a-project/ for GitHub's latest advice on starting an open source project, which includes adding a Code of Conduct. I think single-person projects just starting out can get away with just a LICENSE and README, but it's best to have CONTRIBUTING and CODE_OF_CONDUCT if you expect any contributions.

Hopefully it's rare that it's needed, but it's really easy to add and a nice thing to have proactively instead of reactively, and plenty of people feel more welcome when things like that are explicit.
I use a 2011 MBP, and it works great. Computers haven't improved very much in the last decade at all.
I like the graphing library used in this one. A quick look and search at the code leads me to this https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape.js-cose-bilkent
I think all depends on the project. In ur case a Coursera app would be easy to do even with video play back. But issues seep in when you try to do complex features and their bugs and implementation. My 2:cents would be time box your react native implementation and decide if it's worth it.
It's a weak signal for the maturity of the ecosystem around it, but it's a signal.

It's hard to define what's "the best in the world" so users are totally justified in looking at different metrics to figure out what that actually means, if there is no clear defined metrics to compare against.