skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it's telling that tech people are very skeptical of the "$100k in facebook ads turned the election" narrative.

But...that narrative doesn't exist, it's a strawman.

No one that attributes any significant impact on the election to the Russian information warfare operation limits their description of the operation to $100K in Facebook ads. The Facebook part of the operation involved ads designed (among other purposes) to draw audience to false-flag Pages, that then distributed non-ad propaganda which would be relayed by the followers of the group, who were dupes of the operation, including organizing meat-space events designed to foment conflict and draw conventional media attention. The $100K on ads wasn't the operation, it was an expenditure to recruit unwitting agents for the operation.

And that broader Facebook angle itself wasn't the whole operation, either, there was also the targeted hacking and information release aspect, as well as other channels through which influence was (or was attempted to be) exercised. Like the NRA.
In my opinion, spending double the presentation time on editing transcripts qualifies as significant effort.
They added 5.15 million subscribers, which was below the 6.2 million consensus. Is Wall Street always this stingy on hitting targets?
Also, until full AI control, it seems that operators not in the field have subpar performance if not opposing desire (see the drone operators going deeply depressed)
A bit of both I would think. It's hard to hire skilled developers etc. in the Bay area if they would have a better standard of living elsewhere. Arguably they would anyway--as has been the case forever--but there are various compensations to SV and Northern California. AND, while they'd prefer to pay less, many companies can in fact afford it if the alternative is to be unable to hire or to be forced to hire lesser talent.
Easy - half the conference venues don't come with dongles, or if they do the AV guy is dealing with a crisis in one of the other 17 conference rooms and won't be able to get to your one within your 20 min slot (this happens A Lot. I do have my own HDMI-VGA though, but the VGAs seem to by dying out thankfully).

SD cards - I've never had an SLR or a high end mirrorless camera (but i haven't bought either for maybe 18 months) that's been able to transfer through itself at anything like the speed of a fast SD card in the slot. Makes a big difference when you want to dump 64GB of pics. As for dust, my favourite camera has been to Syria, the desert southwest of the USA several times, morocco, antarctica on a sailing ship (so being sprayed a lot), and not to mention my local beach. Aswell as just being the camera i throw into my shoulder bag when going out. Unless the photographers in your own office are war photographers or dirt-bike specialists, I've probably given my kit a harder life than they have. I've never had an issue with pushing dust into the SD slot of my camera or laptop. I did however dent the ISO knob on my camera when trying to tether it to my laptop when sailing across drake's passage, and a wave tipped the boat and I instinctively grabbed the macbook and let the camera hit the deck. I learnt my lesson. Fair point on micro SD though, but I have never used them for photography. I would probably be concerned too about fumbling, especially if wearing gloves.
The fact is that the Linux kernel without the APIs copied from POSIX/UNIX and the userspace copied from UNIX is useless on the server space.

Of course we can play semantic games about the use of UNIX word, and GNU/Linux not sharing any code from either BSD or AT&T linage, it doesn't make it any less UNIX.

Had Linux not copied UNIX, and provided a playground for UNIX vendors kind of outsource their development costs, it would have turned out to yet another hobby OS.
Communicate with your team a physical signal for what is focus time and when you're open to "office hours." The simplest example could be "if I have headphones on" or you can have some sort of trinket on your desk that shows when you're free or when you need to focus.

That combined with proper away messaging on Slack/IM, you should be able to get focused chunks of time
> Every company is special

A company must consider whether its business processes are a competitive advantage. In well established businesses, chances are they aren't. In that scenario, it really doesn't make much sense to stick with them.
I removed all my apps from the EU, and I will no longer publish any future apps there unless they become wildly successful in another country first.

My apps are tiny, free, and just not worth the hassle of figuring out what GDPR compliance is (even though they are likely GDPR compliant already since I don't store any info).

I think we're going to see a lot of small indie developers just not publish to the EU until it makes financial sense (which might be never). And that's exactly what happened here: Instapaper is a two-person team and they didn't have the time or resources to ensure compliance, so they just kept letting it slide.

I suspect we'll see much more of this to come for the EU.
I think you would probably catch a bunch of safety issues rewriting any code.

As well as introduce new ones.
Well I was specifically speaking in very broad terms. I don't know what a Civil War in the modern US will look like and I hope to Christ or whoever else is running this thing that it doesn't come to that.

I think though that far beyond contemplating who is shooting at who with what, the more interesting question is what does victory look like for the 1%? Just shoot everyone who complains until there's nothing but peaceful staff left?

If you're talking an actual war of attrition between the classes in the US, you'd be crazy to bet on the rich. It's not even a question of "if" they can win, their win condition DOES NOT EXIST and cannot exist. The more disgruntled people who are killed, the more people become disgruntled, until you have the entirety of the damn country saying "wait a minute, why am I shooting my fellow citizens because Mr. Bezos wants a 10th house?"

If this gets to a place of violence, and if the Rich of today allow it to get to that place, they have assured their own destruction, it's simply a matter of time. The best thing they could be doing right now is supporting measures to help out the common people, if for no other reason than their money cannot stop the torches.

Edit: I'm rambling a bit here but I guess my counterpoint basically boils down to: let's assume that the Rich get full control of the US Military and it's assets to end civil insurrection and restore economic order. How do they do it? What orders do they give? Where do they send the missiles to dismantle the resistance? Which neighborhoods get power cut? Who gets banned from twitter? And how does it end?

I'm just not seeing a way that such a conflict would end where Amazon (or anyone else) could simply resume business as usual.
Why Silicon Valley Is So Good at Making People Hate Things They Should Love
By work being more interesting than being bored out of my mind. If the work's boring though, an album or two from my collection; C418's One is pretty great.
Down for me also and it's being reported on https://status.aws.amazon.com/
Too late to edit my comment. Turns out I got it on a different sale. The $119.99 appears to be a legitimate normal price.
Joining others into wishing a the happiest birthday to slackware. Never used it though :)
Yes, usually, because hitting the consensus numbers is basically priced in by the time the actual numbers are announced.
Ah, now I get what you mean. The refund case seems solveable: at least once you've downloaded the game to your PC they don't auto-refund, so they could just hold refund requests during the sale, or explicitly block people from rebuying cheaper. But I see how the waiting pattern would be bad for them.
I guess I'm not used to such a large group being seen as a "minority". Isn't the breakdown in US elections roughly 1 in 3 (or 1 in 4) Democrat, Republican and other (independent / didn't vote)?
There is plenty of evidence supporting the idea that social connection leads to better health outcomes, and not just for older people. Modern living, especially in countries like the US, where many people move, live far away from each other, depend on social media to satisfy social impulses, and tend towards individualism and non-communal living, makes it harder to find meaningful social connection for many people, even urban dwellers, and can't be ruled out as a contributor to sub-par physical health and mental well-being.
> Most other cultures readily see that this is impossible today.

Nope. All cultures I've seen so far have this. It's just that immigrants stuck between a rock and a hard place put in the effort to do better, and threaten their kids into doing the same. Or at least, they do so more often than other groups.

Needless to say, the natives try to sabotage this. This is also the same everywhere. In Europe, in Asia, in America. It's worse where there is more state control (ie. it's pretty bad in the Netherlands for example).
That's true, but you could distribute stock more uniformly (since that's where most of Bezos's wealth comes from) and then workers would benefit from making Amazon successful.

I think a lot of the criticism on HN of capitalism is misguided and fails to account for some of the things you pointed out as well as the enormous rise in living standards over the last 200 years or so, but there does seem to be a tendency for successful people to accumulate far more wealth than they can reasonably spend.
Concentration of power is never good.
Haha! Good joke!
Just because you don't personally own a gun doesn't mean you're also against owning guns.
That’s a great topic too. But I don’t think we need to wait for one to do the other. It’s also worth noting that we did not fight an extremely expensive and unnerving political struggle for 60 years with Israel, and we are at no risk of entering into hostilities with Israel.
It's a pretty sizable miss. And it's not like people think it's not valuable - it's still up more way more than 50% in the year.
Hm, what do you want to say, with your videos?
Those are remotely controlled drones. Nothing to do with AI.
How Reddit Got Their First Users
This narrative has long since become tired.

If you don't respect your users' privacy you don't deserve to do business in the EU. And make no mistake: whether you like it or not, that legislation - or something very like it - is going to jump the Atlantic sooner or later, so why not position yourself ahead of the curve instead of stropping off and taking your ball home?

There are side-effects I don't like about GDPR, like the endless bombardment of overwrought cookie consents on every site I visit (definitely something that degrades the experience of the web), but I do like the fact that my privacy has to be respected by corporations.
A chicken walks into a library, walks up to the circulation desk and says "Bok." The librarian is confused and looks around, the chicken says "Bok" again.

The librarian asks "You, want a book?"
The chicken replies "Bok."

The librarian grabs a book from the return pile and hands it to the chicken. The chicken puts it under its wing and walks away.

The next day the same chicken comes back in and says "Bok. Bok."

The librarian looks at the chicken and says "So, you want two books?"

The chicken says "Bok. Bok." The librarian hands the chicken two books and the chicken puts them under its wing and walks away.

On the third day the librarian decides to follow the chicken to see what it is doing.

The chicken comes in and says "Bok. Bok. Bok."

The librarian asks "So you want three books?"

The chicken says "Bok. Bok. Bok."

The librarian hands the chicken three books and the chicken puts them under its wing and walks away. This time the librarian follows the chicken over fields and valleys, through a forest to a large pond. In the middle of the pond is a frog on a lily pad.

The chicken takes one book from under its wing and throws it to the frog. The frog catches it, looks at the cover and says "Readit. Readit. Readit."
When I'm struggling to focus I just walk away from my desk. It doesn't matter where I go or what I do. I spend up to 10 minutes letting myself think about whatever my mind naturally brings to the table. Usually when I return to my desk the distractions I was struggling with no longer bother me.
How Quora Got Their First Users
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You can be a hundred times a bigger a dick than Elon Musk and won't get a hundredth the publicity. Its all about clicks!
> selecting a solution that was a poor fit for the problem

In the specific case of SAP, if the problem is "we want to automate our processes" then it's probably a horrible fit.

If, however, the problem is "we need good automated processes", then it can be a great fit.
Looks like the 2018 model still only supports 4K at up to 60Hz [1].

[1] https://www.apple.com/lae/macbook-pro/specs/
I dunno, Dunkey managed to do it.
It's not silly at all; it's a good trick. It's one that the Pomodoro technique uses, and at least one piece of productivity software (Vitamin-R) that I know of. Having a clear immediate-term goal is very valuable for getting stuff done. Just defining it is a good start; having it in front of your face can't hurt either.
I use gentoo these days, but I used slackware as one of my first distros and I learned tons. Congrats on such a great distro!
How Castbox Is Remaking the Podcast Industry
My earliest memory of Linux is a bunch of dark blue 3.5 inch disks that I used to install Slackware from. I think that GCC required additional 4 disks and X 6 of them? Good times.
Why would you think it’s about synergies? I’m not sure why you would think it’s about synergies. Or why it would be “worthless to try to diversify within the same structure.”

Summarizing the book here would be a bit of a disservice—but one of the points of the book is that there are economic reasons why companies focus on their most profitable core products, and there are economic reasons why that kind of focus can result in the company collapsing when the market moves forward. This isn’t some kind of imperative—the book isn’t saying, ”therefore, you should create a new company.” It’s more descriptive, “this is how big, successful tech companies can suddenly fail.”
How many of the workers chose to work there instead of some other, inferior option? How many are proud of what they accomplished? How many went on to found other successful startups like Instacart?

selfishness is allowed? Is it possible to disallow a core human trait?
I think what bothers me about this is that it's an analogy which crosses the digital divide.

On the physical "train" side of the analogy, we've got a believable scheme to save money by only having a toilet in every other car. Given the constraints, it is indeed clever to make these two-car atomic units and reimagine them as symmetrical. All the fixes in the story taken together could pale in comparison to the cost of putting a toilets all the cars.

But when we cross the digital divide we get a completely different set of constraints. Even if dealing with 100 million train cars it may be cheaper to just fork the entire train yard and add a toilet object to each car.
The 6 Types of Product Teams You’ll Be Working In
I guess it depends on your role. If you are editing the video you are spending way more time than that already.
How can we download this file?
MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar 2018 Teardown
Exactly. I'm apparently in the top 0.5% and it always feels like money is tight. Anyone who must work for a living is in a sense poor.
That's a justification for writing an ERP in Brainfuck.
I really do not expect military things to look pretty.
Dammit I made the mistake of searching "Goatse" at work.
That is science, yes. But if you are not attaining reproducible results, it is hard to argue you are making progress.

I agree that not all experiments should be in the positive or negative category. Ideally a solid mix. However, the spin of this and other stories is that pretty much no studies are seeing healthy reproduction. And nobody can really say why. Outside of p hacking and such. Which is fairly universally agreed as not progress.
Just curious - what's the point of stealth aircraft infiltrating enemy airspace when they can't use radars or they would be shot within 30s? Seems to me like just bombers make sense - fly in, enable radar/weapon bay for a few seconds, drop the load, make yourself undetectable again, move out; once the air defense is down, send in 4th gen fighters.
Ah the Silicon Valley Oasis.

"I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen..."

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/SF-Mayor-Theres-more-f...
Alibaba build on Apache Flink. Today is a good day for Apache Flink.
Yup, many an outage has something like this at its core. At my company, to address that, we've built an internal library for enforcing rate limits and size limits that is (a) configurable on the fly and (b) generates logs, so that we can trigger an alert whenever any limit reaches 70% of capacity. And thus, hopefully, head these things off before they reach the tipping point.

https://blog.scalyr.com/2014/08/99-99-uptime-9-5-schedule/
The Philosophical Argument for Working Less (and Wasting Time)
Get a Bose QC 35, it will change your life and also your future flights.
note though it is not 100% AWS, ex they use Akamai instead of cloudfront
Pretty much only use-after-free and double-free of that list is truly solved by unique_ptr, which is great, but nothing like what you say:

- std::move out of a unique_ptr x and "*x" is a null pointer dereference,

- take a reference into a unique_ptr, and it becomes dangling if it is held after the pointer is deallocated,

- an T[N] array doesn't get bounds-checked whether or not it is stored in a std::unique_ptr (it is nice that it reduces the number of raw pointers flying around, which likely does reduce the number of out-of-bounds accesses, but it doesn't solve them)
I like that they include a page with further details of their intentions with regards to the AGPL: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/wiki/License-Explai...
>the jet could be used with either pilots or as a drone.

Seems they are going dual purpose. Fighters weigh about 30 tons so whether you have 100kg of pilot of not won't make a huge difference.
Not trying to be political but when in the past was incompetence at this level considered OK?
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Perhaps you need fewer people maintaining those business apps.
Back in 2007 Slackware was my first Linux distro because that's what my friend at the time used. Later on it became Debian and then Ubuntu.

I think openSUSE was once upon a time based off of Slackware, it's since diverged greatly. openSUSE is one of my favorite modern distros outside of the Debian based ones.
Vendors don't put the 50% off sticker on it to make those happy who would have bought the item anyway. They put it on to trick people who would not pay 50$ for the article into doing so.
4th gen frames are sexy. I'd love to see some real fight between F14-F18 and Su-27/MiG-29 outside video games. Maybe /r/outside developers could help?
> If two people like that are having a discussion, it's truly an pointless activity.

Some points I can see and am able to articulate:

1. Being exposed to opposing viewpoints is valuable even if your goals don't consciously include learning from them. Pointless to the individual because rationally they won't further their goal? Perhaps. Pointless to society as a whole? I would argue no.

2. Non-participants exposed to such a discussion can learn from all sides, even if the individuals actually doing the discussion gain absolutely nothing, and there are orders of magnitude more non-participants than participants. So even a small impact can be far-reaching.
My experience with self deprecating humor is that it only works well when the audience has sufficient context to get why it is funny. Otherwise it just comes across as poor self esteem and signals that you really are the loser you are claiming to be.

I like the suggestion someone else made to basically joke about life, not about people. (my words, not theirs, but that's what it sounded like to me)
Boot, root, get the 3com drivers in. Good times.
> every joke is actually mean

What is a cow's favorite form of entertainment?

Going to the moo-vies.
1) Don't agree. The obviously important metric is quite clear. Contribution to global warming over some time period. Just looking at CO2 and ignoring all the other factors is fine if the science justifies ignoring those other sources and the cost per unit of GHG reduction is lowest for CO2. This isn't jumping from one metric to another, its effectively common sense.

Not sure why if it wasn't meat or cars it would be guns. Certainly healthy public debate about guns is needed since the US has way too many per capita as I understand it, but this is totally irrelevant.

2 and 3 - do you have some math or citations? I think China will quickly begin gaining ground but pretty sure the US has likely outpaced Europe. Also worth noting that it should review both per country but also per country per capita.
Minority generally means “less than half”. In some contexts, with a non-binary trait, it may mean “smaller than the largest group”, with the largest group being a “majority” if it is greater than 50%, and a “plurality” if it is not.

33% on a binary trait (one either does or does not own at least one gun) is clearly a minority.
Tesla produced 53,339 vehicles in the most recent quarter. That works out to ~4,444 vehicles per week. Also, the vehicles per week figure is increasing.

To be fair, they would only produce ~231k/year at this run rate, which would be disappointing for a factory that is capable of ~430k/year. Hopefully their production rate will improve considerably by the end of the year.
Have kids at home.
So is this something you've experienced personally, or is it just speculation?
Oh, shoot, I forgot there were yungin's in the room. I'll edit that.

(Another "makes you feel old" moment when someone says they had to look up "goatse".)
did Dapps stand for Dog apps the whole time?

alternatively, Amazon rebrands their entire cloud lineup to PAWS
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Your tone is definitely negative, but, in this case, I'm afraid that it might be warranted. Its hard to imagine being this far off on production numbers by accident.
Silicon Valley is about 40 miles south of San Francisco :)
The OP makes it sound like inability to focus is a normal thing, but it's not.

I've never used white noise or headphones to improve focus, and it's rare that co-workers ever use headphones.

So maybe investigate whether the problem is you or the office. Or if you really understand what you're being paid to do - I can write documentation and diagrams effortlessly.
There is a test plan, and specs. Acceptance tests (manual) weren't even done by a dev.

Also, the code has been reviewed and is documented.

Bus factor really isn't a problem in the instance I was talking about. In fact, the original dev won't be around in a few months, and that's fine. The rest of the team will be able to modify the code.
I just don't focus and bounce around everywhere :D

But seriously, I try and psychotically keep Jira updated. It probably drives the PM crazy, but it's very satisfying to see your progress grow, and especially satisfying to close a ticket.
And that is not relevant, either you own a gun or you don't. Americans by and large don't own one.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that it is "triple the labor hours"?
Step one: Publish a book on Google Docs, the most stable book publishing platform on the internet.