skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a caving hobbyist, I think it's rather stupid. Yes you can tweet about your ideas but that doesn't make you actually helped because there's no sign of you being a speleology specialist or any other expertises of wilderness rescue. Those are prior requirements to differ you from a normal guy in the web. Here's a proper rescue case [0], althought there's no cave diving involved.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesending_cave_rescue
I'm not sure this is a wise move - Reddit already has ads, which clearly haven't done enough for them. And there are legit reasons that ads are not as reliable of a revenue stream as they were in the past. Tweaking a failing business model won't produce a major shift in revenue.

They need some real change if they ever want to be something different than what they are today. And what they are today is a mildly entertaining site with both good and bad impacts on our society. But reddit is not a great place to find paying customers, and therefore not a place I need more ad capabilities.
> Propaganda doesn't change your mind, it gets you to cross the threshold and do something you were already positioned to do, by giving you meaning for doing it.

Read the rest of the article, it kinda goes there.
Agreed these otherwise great criticisms of social media seem to always fall into this trap. Turning this into a partisan issue is going to backfire, I promise you that. Make this about a political party and it is going to be all too easy to divide people on this issue.

Right now the left and the right are aligned in their loathing of Facebook -- but every time the message "Facebook helped Trump get elected because his supporters are racists and easily manipulated" is parrotted it serves to encourage them to take the opposing side to defend themselves and claim Facebook's tactics are being overblown. They'll never defend Zuck, but they will fight against clamping down on tech companies in the name of defending capitalism and American jobs (and, without saying so, as a way to assert they were not manipulated and resent being called racists.)
Here's an interesting thing I've seen from people making such claims. Yes they are bigots even if they say, "What you're doing is wrong, but I'll let you be (aside from denouncing the behavior)". This is actually not really bigoted by the definition "a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions." That's were this discourse is. If someone doesn't AGREE, they are bigots. Hell, tolerance just means putting up with their view. You can tolerate and still try to teach another path. Unfortunately for many on the Left, disagreeing and arguing against without seeking any force of law is the same as being a bigot.
Now that's a perspective I haven't thought of before.

They could make it so that the more time you spend on Reddit, the less control you get over your feed. I know it's a complete non-starter for business reasons, but it's an interesting thing to think about.
> How we will get out of this, I have no idea...

I don't know. It was a faustian bargain we all made. It was fun for a while, but now it is getting increasingly ugly.

How does one get out of a Faustian Bargain, anyway?
“I definitely hope centralized exchanges go burn in hell as much as possible”
As someone else pointed out, they didn't make $100M, that's their revenue.

If anything I believe that what Reddit has shown us is that there's absolutely no money in online advertising, for most sites. You'd have to built your site around the advertisers, and not the users, if you want to make money going down that route.

The idea that you can built a service and just slap ads on it when you reach a certain number of users only work in rare cases.
Agreed, and in an earlier comment I intimated that Doctorow doesn’t really object to propaganda, he just objects to other people’s propaganda. (And his objection in fact contains some propaganda itself.)
And Tcl (which can be compiled to machine code using TclQuadCode)
Programmer tried to sell cyberweapon on dark web for $50M
Net neutrality returning to California; new bills ‘strong and enforceable’
> In NYC, Boston, Chicago, SF, and possibly Seattle

Unrelated to your bigger point, but I'd put Seattle in second place after SF for the high offers. And for tech jobs, Chicago wouldn't feature on my list at all.

I think you're focusing too much on base salary. Past a certain point, companies flatten out their base and only start upping the equity. Amazon actually has strict rules about it - they cap out their max base salary at 170 and there on it's all equity + sign-on bonus. People should look at the total comp - RSUs are reported on the W-2 anyway. And they can be sold immediately upon vesting (usually the vesting periods overlap with trading windows), so it's really no different than a salary.
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Why would you close it? Aren’t the other users getting some value out of it?
I just recalled an interesting difference between BSD and SysV (including Linux[1]) regarding group ownership.

On BSD when you create a file the group owner is set to the group owner of the directory. From the BSD open(2) manual page:

When a new file is created it is given the group of the
directory which contains it.

But on Linux the [default] behavior is to set the group owner to the creating process' effective group. From the Linux open(2) man page:

The group ownership (group ID) is set either to the
effective group ID of the process or to the group ID of the
parent directory (depending on file system type and
mount options, and the mode of the parent directory, see
the mount options bsdgroups and sysvgroups described in
mount(8)).

The BSD behavior is more convenient when it comes to using shared supplemental groups because you can often invoke existing programs with a umask of 0002 or 0007 and files they create (without subsequently modifying permissions) will usually have the desirable permissions--specifically, writable by any process which has a supplemental group of the directory they're located in. For example, with BSD semantics Git technically wouldn't have needed a special core.sharedRepository setting. But because of SysV semantics on Linux Git had to be modified to explicitly read the group of the parent directory and explicitly change the group owner of newly created files.
By the pigeonhole principle, any such iteration must either enter a cycle, or the translations must be unbounded in length. If you experiment, you will find that Google Translate usually lands in the first category; transpilers usually land in the second.
Safety critical software is a different ballgame.
Echo chamber usually means it merely reflects back what you emit -- that's a possibility, but personally I like inciteful or thought-provoking comments more than I like comments that agree with me, and seeing more of them is also possible: this is one of the reasons I hate that pg (and thus HN) promotes downvoting for disagreement, and basically censors (with near invisibility) dissenting voices.

My favourite system has been Slashdot because you could promote your view of (moderated, and meta-moderated) content voted to be insightful, say, whilst reducing viewing pure joke posts, and such. You could also boost/nerf particular voices.

Reddit is too much "cutesy animal" content, I wish I could filter all of that, it just doesn't amuse me.
No, becaues he spent his own earned/liquid wealth to start up and finance these companies, before they reached any level of success that enabled them to be financed externally.
Wow. To be fair, lots of apps/sites scrape viral content from reddit. I can see the argument for why reddit would want to limit that access, but in reality it's a fool's errand in the same realm as Twitter restricting API access.
Only really that itty bitty's compressed in the URL, not in the transport (& could be extended to add encryption).

It's absolutely true that, that may be tackling the wrong area - if data: were extended with compression/encryption options (not that itty bitty has encryption, but it's an option with the JS layer there) then the itty bitty decoder has nothing to do.

BUT, experiments like itty bitty might spur on ideas & standards changes for things like data: which to me makes it worthwhile.

(Self-contained, standardised, compressed [, encryptable?] content objects [in this case URL] renderable via ubiquitous web technologies feels like a win, itty bitty or not)

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Also, if links are shared on html-based platforms, some block data: url's in links. Not sure of the justification, but reddit doesn't seem to render markdown formatted URLs with data: on them, as links. Not sure how to tackle that one - itty bitty sidesteps the restriction.
I've heard quite a lot about musical.ly lately, I wonder if that's the next cool thing among soon-to-be teens.
You’re right that they’re not like the ikea lamp I bought last week... they’re like the hydroponic lamps I bought two years ago for a shit ton of money.

Everything you said is right. It’s still more efficient to use the suns energy and then distribute the leds than to directly try to use the suns light. Modern hydroponic grow led controllers can adjust the wavelengths as the plants grow
My iPhone has been through three major OS releases. My MacBook has been through two, and the previous one survived three. However you came to your current beliefs, I don't think there is good data to support them. Apple is quite good about OS upgrades in general.
Perhaps because you can request a page of items at a time? For something like this an even better alternative might be the BigQuery dataset: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/hacker-news.
Maybe I misread the article, but I only see tweets commenting on (read: making fun of) local Twitter. I don't actually see any examples of it besides two or three quotes from people who are allegedly "on local Twitter." And there's no indication of the size of this audience, or that it's larger than a similar audience on Facebook or Instagram, which I'd imagine to be more popular.

What an odd article.
Looking at pictures and categorizing them by appearance has very limited application. The human context can't be in grasped that way, can it?

For instance, 'wedding pictures'. A cake being cut; a cute kid throwing flower petals; a black-clad clergyman; a hand with a ring on it. Any human could categorize a pile of pictures into those that are in the 'wedding' category, and those that aren't. But no strategy based on weighting pixels is ever going to get there.

Likewise, 'cute' or 'scary' or 'funny'. And on and on.
I suspect it was developed on a trackpad, which has pixel-level scroll precision. Zooming is a bit fast but generally fine on my MacBook Pro. Probably anything like this should have a zoom slider (like Google Maps does) for people without precise scrolling or pinch zoom.
> So who wants to let others host some arbitrary code execution Docker containers in their datacenter for [money]?

I believe they're called hosting companies. ;)

SCNR.

More serious answer: When we pitched AWS on running Codius they pretty much said the same thing: credit cards aren't just used for payments but also to keep spammers out. So we may need some kind of trust system eventually. But it seems to work ok for now. (Port 25 outbound is blocked and DDoS from Codius is more expensive than other options. Codius costs about the same as EC2 and hiring a botnet or adding a few dozen iframes to your reasonably popular website is much cheaper.)
There are companies that provide discounts if you provide direct debit information. Something tells me this is related.
I usually just mumble or make strange noises. After some attempts my call is forwarded to a human
It may be well known but there are many practical considerations. It certainly requires a lot of tuning. For example, if you want to target all four peaks of absorption by cholorphyll a and b, that’s four wavelengths, but many people settle for just two due to cost. It’s all a giant optimization problem!
Similar here in the UK but it doesn't appear to put off certain companies. Some calls are just recordings pretending to have a conversation (which I'd be surprised if anyone fell for) and others route you to a human. They will never divulge the name or details of the company they represent, I can't imagine their success rate is very good.
This is an excellent clickbait headline because the word "myth" in modern language has two distinct meanings (a popular belief; a falsehood). The article is about the earlier meaning (e.g., "the legend of Snow Leopard has steadily grown, its mythology spreading"), while people assume it's about the latter and get riled up.

(One HN comment here even uses the word in both senses in adjacent sentences!)

It is a myth (well, as much as a computer operating system can be), but that doesn't mean it's not true.
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Environmental Protection Agency blocks warnings on cancer-causing chemical
You have to Faustian Haggle.
Codius co-creator here, AMA!
In the end hiring is a lottery for both sides. It is like finding a good marriage in a speed date.
My point is that an offer like that would seem attractive, but two things:

A) The company didn't value you until it was too late. Their opinion of you hasn't changed, just the pay rate.

B) The company now has painted a target on your back as someone that is "in it for the money" and doesn't have the best interests of the company in mind. It's bullshit, but that's now management thinks. Next time a budget cut or RIF is necessary, guess who is first in line?

In both cases, you need to weigh if that's worth sticking around for.
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I've been thinking about something like this but from a different angle for a while since the #MeToo. The war between the sexes is heating up. With 3rd wave feminism calling for the mistreatment of men, rape charges required to destroy lives without proof, courts stacked against men in divorces, schools trying to teach boys their gender is the cause of all the world's ills, and the general diva nature washing over women on social media, how long until men just say, "I'm out, but still want a family so I'm going with tech"?

The people researching these devices and techniques are largely men. Bio-hackers are largely men. In their spare time with the spare money that they have since they've sworn off the dating culture, they could build, probably in community with other like-minded men, the labs at home. Essentially you could see a male "makers" community around not involving women.

I know we're a long way from this, but I wonder if its possible. Add to this sexbots and we might get there sooner rather than later.
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> Activation of intermediate OLMa2 cells impairs object and
fear-related memory encoding
> Inhibition of intermediate OLMa2 cells enhances object
memory encoding

Seems it's the opposite - these brain cells actually impair learning when they're active.
An interesting question is whether a car dealer that says "we paid $Y for this car, we're losing money if we sell it to you at $X" is committing fraud if Y is a false figure aka negotiating tactic. I think a lot of people would be unsurprised that such a thing would happen, but should it be a crime?

I was reading a Matt Levine column in which he described some litigation over selling bonds that was very analogous to the car dealer situation. And apparently what happened is that it was decided that lying about the price paid was ok per se, but creating falsified documentation to back it up was fraud. Which seems weird!
Hmm, you may or may not be Chinese born or Chinese descendant,but your remark is still racist in the sense that you think the Chinese people are large the same and they're different from other people. It doesn't matter if you think the Chinese people are good or bad, it's racist.
A Faustian bargain implies that we knew the price. Facebook actively misled (and continues to mislead) us about what we were giving up to use its service.

I always get downvoted for FB criticism, perhaps by their employees, but I have evidence for what I just said: Zuck's many, many, many public apologies.
that I am, mea culpa.
Most people aren't particularly tempted to shape their behavior to Facebook. They just use other channels for things they don't specifically want everyone to see. If some people are so uninvested in their thoughts that "open up a group chat" is an insurmountable barrier... well, they were going to be mind controlled by a stiff breeze, so it's hard to blame Facebook.
what's outdated? The dataset?
Don't know how much you use FB but I highly recommend it. When I got rid of mine, all I lost was status updates from people who weren't really my friends to begin with. Your close friends will stick by you and your social life will grow richer, with more face-to-face meetings. Quitting Facebook is great.
I think this is more of a problem in certain parts of the world than it is in others—particularly those parts that receive large subsidies to increase production capacity so as to fuel discounts that would draw otherwise hesitant commercial activity.
I loved working at Rolls-Royce, via DXC. I begged them to give me some sort of raise or even a timeline, to offset the 10% salary cut I took due to a benefits change during the HPE to DXC spinoff.

I know that just a small portion of the work I was doing covered my salary and the other two guys I worked with. I know there was room, but the company had no flexibility to offer raises. So I switched to another company and got a 12% raise. I'm not going to wait around for a match.
You are missing a lot of details. Google purchased and then sold the cable hardware business for $2.4B to Arris. Then there is the $6.6B tax credit and the selling the factories and also they kept the AP group.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/04/29/why-goog...

But the key was it allowed Google to do cross license deals that avoided paying a competitor patent license fees which is double bad.

Paying money and giving your competitor money.

Moto was a brilliant deal by Google.
We have a local file server with keepass, its not great we have problems with one person locking the file and no one else can save details to it. I want to switch to something like syncthing so every one gets a local copy thats kept in sync, im hoping this will fix the locking issue.

We have too many accounts to change when some one leaves so we just change them all once a year.
Any effective advertising is mind control, in a sense. It convinces you to take an action you wouldn't have otherwise taken. Sometimes that action is bad for you, but the advertising has convinced you that it's good for you (or that the alternative is scarier).

The better Facebook can convince you to take an action, the more value its platform has. The Darwinism of the ad industry meant that the top ad-tech companies were eventually going to be really, really good at changing people's behavior.
Ask HN: Do you run a web scraper? How are you dealing with GDPR splash screens?
An increasing number of sites have cookie consent splash screens. In some cases they are just overlays, but in other cases there's a redirect that physically prevents you from retrieving any content before you click a button.

Are you running a web scraper / bot? Have you noticed a drop in success as a result? Are there known strategies for dealing with this? Does using an appropriate user-agent work?

Conversely, do you run a website that does this, and have you taken into account of non-human user agents?
You know that's a good question. I feel like I would want to know though. Another thought I had was some sort of Machine learning Caller ID/CAPTCHA that just emits some garbage that only a bot would be able to dissect. I just don't want to spend my time talking to an API.
You don't know who will read it because of algorithms or just because someone did not log in and so on...

Those tools are just media and offer you visibility to a certain degree.

And of course you adapt your presentation style to reach a specific audience.
I thought this was about the programming language RUST—it's not. It is a diatribe about how this person feels Apple's software quality is going down hill. And get this... it's dated 2014. Not saying that it is old just that apparently this has been a noticeable trend for a longer time. Diatribe might be a little harsh a word.
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Trump did and said many things during his campaign that would have been political suicide before. The media is still struggling to understand why people support him in the face of what they consider detestable. They also fear what politically incorrect things will become fair game in the next crop, since it has been proven you can do and say those things and still win.

I think the result was largely in support of pushing back against the ideas of political correctness. I know many fine people who voted and support Trump. It isn't that they are racist, bigoted, etc. It's that they believe our country was spiraling into a state where you couldn't be, and that was too much an affront to free speech. (For example, wanting to secure our borders so that your own children born here would have a better chance at finding a job was becoming "racist")
> engineering douchebaggery is actually the biggest thing to hurt engineering since the dawn of time

Quote from Fetch Robotics CEO Melonee Wise on SXSW panel.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/13/fetch-robotics-ceo-douche...

Melonee kicks ass.
> celebrated through marriage

Nothing spells celebration like the approval of the State and the Law does