skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially true in the UK, where the newspapers are dire and the media has ignored any sense of ethics or accuracy in exchange for pandering to their individual echo chambers. If your standard for journalism (for many people) is the Daily Mail or the Sun or the Daily Mirror, is there really a huge difference between that and the fake news and outrage driven clickbait seen on social media?

Even the more upmarket ones like the Guardian and Telegraph pander to their audience and twist stories to fit political slants...
This was fascinating, makes me want to actually try and build a frankenstein phone. Thank you for posting!
I don't think that's true. That's exactly how we were sold on cars in the first place -- you're more likely to die when you drive than when you walk, but you can get places faster to save time. Same can be said about e.g. caffeine. Humans are notoriously bad at estimating and considering tail risks.
Very impressive findings.

Disclaimer: I am part of Borg team.
Interestingly, I haven't seen that irrational exuberance about the economy as a whole in a long time. Perhaps for specific sectors, like mobile in 2013 or Bitcoin last December (both of which turned out to be market tops). But in general people seem incredibly pessimistic today, with none of the optimism about everything that characterized the late 90s or even the Web 2.0 boomlet from 2005-2007. People have been predicting a (further) financial crash since the bottom of the market in 2009.

I wonder if that's a sign that the current boom still has a while to go.
Honestly, I don’t see how people can be concerned about an audit trail without being concerned about voter id. It seems like the two go hand in hand.

Why bother with the audit trail if you can’t verify the voters themselves?
> Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics

Wait? Since when did Einstein not accept Quantum Mechanics? He won the Nobel Prize for his work in discovering an important part of Quantum Mechanics.

Einstein rejected the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. That's not the same thing as rejecting Quantum Mechanics.

I've seen no claims that he would object to either the Everett or Bohm Interpretations of QM. (But then again, he died before they were invented.)

Einstein, by the way, is far from the only critic of the Copenhagen Interpretation. Quite a few physicists are drawn to the Everett Interpretation instead, for instance.
> I can't wait for [cities] to be redesigned for self-driving cars

Personally, I hope it never happens. The US is still suffering from when its cities were redesigned for cars, vs. public transit and pedestrians.

Self-driving cars can and will play a very important role in transportation, but cities should be designed around people, not cars.

Edit: I'm by no means criticizing your hope, and I do agree with you that cities should be redesigned to "accommodate" self driving cars, such as "buffer garages" (where autonomous cars are parked in a FIFO way, not in the way cars are parked today), auto-charging stations, smart curbs for pick-up/drop-off, etc.
> How many centralized social networks have failed too? Most of them.

That’s still infinitely more successful than decentralized social network attempts.
This isn't Reddit, no need to prefix an otherwise normal comment with internet credentials.
> Every decent journalist would respect that parts of a tour would be off-the-record without the need for a legally binding document.

Granted. Still, you don't know who's decent until it's too late. Even decent news organizations can hire utterly odious people, as in the Glass incident. Admittedly, that was more about making information up entirely, but the premise is valid: Even the best-respected news organizations could, potentially, ship you someone just untrustworthy enough that, without the immediate threat of an NDA, they'd leak.

Because that's where laws live: Most people would be largely decent without laws. Some few aren't decent even with very immediate penalties hanging over their heads. (This is a disorder in the DSM, in fact.) Others, some unknown fraction, are only decent because of law; that is, they lack much internalized morality, but they understand consequences well enough that laws keep them from doing bad things.
There was a lot of hoopla in the media over easily hackable voting machines before and shortly after the Bush vs Kerry Presidential election. Afterwards, the Democrats screamed fraud and vowed to get rid of those easily hackable voting machines. Then they apparently forgot all about it and moved on. The machines are still there. The vulnerabilities are still there. The results of any election that they play a role in is suspect.

Then Trump vs Clinton came around, and it seems no one remembered that the easily hackable voting machines were even there. But they were. What role did they play in the election? Without a paper trail, we may never know.

Apart from the travesty that is the easily hackable electronic voting machine, there are also electronic vote counting machines. In my own district, we voted on paper ballots which where then directly placed in to electronic vote counting machines. If those are hacked they can give out any vote total the hacker wants, perhaps just outside the margin required for a manual recount.

Any election where either electronic voting machines or electronic vote counting machines were used should not be trusted. When there's no paper trail, it's even worse, but even where there is the laws might not allow a hand recount.

The use of either of these types of machines might explain why exit poll numbers and predictions have been so wildly off the mark in recent years.
Adding their ASCII together, they both yield 321.
Have you looked at Apache Calcite?

Quite similar in very high level concept.
Thanks! The quality is great but I need around 250k 512x512 satellite tile loads per day so 250k / (4 tiles per “view”) * (30 days per month) - (50k free requests per month) * ($0.50 per 1000 views) = $912.50 per month. Is my understanding correct?
Tangentially related: check out the (awesome) Postgres foreign data wrappers (FDWs) and the multicorn scripting library to write them. There's 100s of connectors listed on the wiki.

https://www.google.com/search?q=postgres+fdw
I believe Black Pixel took over NetNewsWire (which was originally developed by Brent Simmons). http://netnewswireapp.com
What we can learn about UI from the past 18 years
Exactly. If this thing is accessing my email, I need to understand more about it, especially the privacy policy. A blank privacy policy page doesn't instill confidence.
> my impression so far suggests that it's the second child where sleep and free time get lost more permanently

The most difficult time is right after the second child is born: you have two children who are incompatible in their needs, abilities, sleep schedules...

But think long-term: if you have only one child, then anytime it needs human interaction, it will turn to you. Two children, they can play together for a while... while you are doing something else (within hearing distance).

Here is a trick we used for a 6 months old child:

Make the child room accident-proof. Trivial things, such as the child stupidly crawling against the wall and hitting it by head, that's not a problem. Just make sure that the child cannot reach anything dangerous (sharp, breakable, poisonous, small enough to swallow), that there are no plastic bags, that the power outlets are filled with small plastic pieces, and that there is nowhere to fall from. To achieve the last one, instead of bed we simply have a mattress on the floor, surrounded by soft carpets, so the child can crawl from/to the "bed" anytime. Have a box full of safe toys in the room.

Now, when the child wakes up, as long as it is not crying, feel free to sleep. If the child is crying, breastfeed, change the diapers, then return to the room and continue to sleep. Choose five or seven random toys from the box, and put them on random places on the floor, about one step far from each other (the time your child spends crawling between the toys is also the time you spend sleeping). During the day, as long as your child is okay playing in the room, feel free to take a nap there; just remember to close the door.

You will not get long uninterrupted sleep this way, but you can get a long interrupted sleep and a few naps. Anyway, with breastfeeding, long uninterrupted sleep is impossible for a mother with little baby; but it gradually gets longer: a newborn will wake up several times during the night, but the 2 years old child can sleep the whole night.

And here is a trick we used for a 3 years old child:

She can play with tablet: there is Tux Paint and Scratch (where she only edits scenes) installed. In the morning she gets an apple and the tablet, and we get an extra hour of sleep. (Yeah, yeah, some people disapprove of little kids using computers, but I can't hear their opinions while I am sleeping.)

If you insist on long uninterrupted sleep, I imagine the following strategy could work: one partner goes to sleep N hours before the child, and the other handles the evening routine alone; then the second partner wakes N hours after the child, and the first one handles the morning routine alone (adjust N depending on how long the child sleeps and how long you want to sleep).
You use 32-bit ARM assembly on 32-bit ARM, AArch64 assembly on AArch64, and x86 assembly on x86. There is no handing over a monopoly to anyone.

While the mentioned browser functionality have existed for decades, then that does not change the fact that for the past decade then almost everytime I have had to download a native application I have had to select the correct type of executable myself. So the argument still stands. Developers should implement the mentioned functionality on a download page for their native application, instead of trying to make everything a web application.
HTTPie: Consul support
> death threats are not appropriate

GP's word was "unacceptable", not "not appropriate", but I think yours is probably the better position for such a vaguely defined term as "death threat".

On the more meta level as one commenter points out how sometimes "death threats" can be used as a DDOS attack on a person, they can also sometimes be used to get undeserved sympathies. Making up alleged offenses is not new and many people seem to just take this guy (who we know is a liar) at his word that these vague terrible things happened that he doesn't want to go into more details about. (I should clarify that I don't really doubt that he received hate mail and possibly other communications that could be classified "death threat" by some people, this being the internet, and the people involved being gamers. But hate mail is merely inappropriate, generally speaking; it's rude. A specific piece of hate mail could be unacceptable, it depends.)
And that's probably why they gladly removed that piece of software - they would risk being fined in long term in Europe, I believe.

Opt-out as someone already noted, is available on red shell company site but I would try to block it in hosts instead of going on site where you can be again tracked. In a nearly ideal world, Firaxis would ask their customers if they agree for this e-life "improvement" of more accurate ads and whatnot else. In a perfect one, they wouldn't bother including Red Shell at all.
Show HN: Links and Magnet Explorer for Ethereum, you can run it on client side
What jovial said. Adding ascii yields the same integer for ill and duh.
I am ok with the fees. I suppose I could create a business model and even use a funding site to get more interest. Perhaps there are a handful of other hobbyists that could benefit as well.

I agree this is non trivial. That said, I have done crazier things on a whim with some level of success.
My side project is using Rails, React, Postgres, and deployed to heroku. There’s nothing flashy but I can prototype quickly and it’s easy for 2 people to manage.
I thought this article was going to be about AltaVista, The Mining Company, Lycos, Dogpile, etc. and of course Yahoo!'s human-curated indices.
People seriously seriously underestimate the amount time and tech that has gone into youtube.

Sorry, but "yawn." More has gone into nuclear weapons and I'd send those into the sun in a heartbeat, sunk-costs be damned.
This is a cool site! One minor bug, the “third passport” link in the “see also” section seems to be mistranslated. It says “nacionales” instead of “nationals”.
Facebook suspends analytics firm Crimson Hexagon over data use concerns
"Next.JS with SSR on the frontend" I call that backend, and node is pretty good for graphql too (graphql-js), full JS make a lot of sense (add flow/TS to get more type-strength)
So I have a friend who has a pretty popular YouTube channel and one of the things he complains about is that some users are stealing and them uploading his videos in bulk and moneytise them. The benefit of having a central authority is that you can at least complain about your stolen copyright, with a decentralized network it will seem like a very difficult task since there is no regulation, unless I am missing something
One thing that may have been good to add, is the length of time / financial requirements to get citizenship.

For example, I'm personally planning to move to Ireland relatively soon; in part because it's one of the easiest to get dual citizenship (5 of the last 9 years)[1].

[1] https://www.quora.com/Which-EU-country-has-the-easiest-citiz...
DuckDuckGoogle
Alan Watts called this running on the "balls of your feet."
You don't. I do. Maybe others also do this.
So somebody will know what timezone I have, what fonts I have installed and what browsers? Linked to my in-game ID?

I am struggling to think of how this affect my life.
Large scale voter fraud is much more difficult to pull off, especially if the rest of the process is well audited?
"was held accountable" here is euphemism for harassment, which is not fine nor "holding accountable" and make them victim.

Demanding money back, writing articles about game being bad, suing them, reporting them to authorities (lying in ads can lead to fines) are holding accountable steps.

Harassment is not "consequences", it is just another attempt to euphemism it away. A lot of harassment is not from paying people or wronged customers anyway, it is from people who like to do harassment and do it for fun. This excuse making is quite typical for gaming culture, but just leads to more harassment by next confident emotionally unstable assholes.
I'd rather have the operating system provide this protection. Mobile OS, especially iOS really seems like the optimal model.

Give apps a secure sandbox by default, and require them to prompt for any external or 'dangerous' permissions. This gives ultimate control to the user.
Not that anyone should be thrilled by this news but this is, to me, at least a little more reasonable. I think for a vast majority of professional workloads (video/3D modeling excluded) this is a reasonable trade off. The same way I don't complain about network latency trying to saturate my NIC. I look at performance in and around the expected load with a margin for head room.

I suspect that anyone doing big time rendering work needs a beefier desktop / external GPU anyway.
The professional ultra running scene isn't like what you think of when you think professional sports. There are certainly runners on the track and in road races that take the mindset you are describing, but ultra/trail running is very different from other pro sports.
Well, I don't know whether I'd go that far. And we haven't talked about it extensively -- just for a few minutes.

With Chihuly, as well, the accident really did limit his own physical capabilities.

A lot of people enjoy the work. I saw one of the first "garden" shows, years ago at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, and it was amazing.

But, people should keep in mind that it's a team effort. And the PR might do a bit more to highlight that, as well.
I spend a bit of time most days on new submissions. With so many submissions being made there's no way some high quality content (or at least content of interest to me) won't ever make it on the front page here so I think it's worth a few minutes to see what's there.

That said, a couple months ago one of my submissions got buried quickly and about an hour later I got an email from HN telling me they "put it in the second-chance pool, so it will get a random placement on the front page sometime in the next 24 hours"

I was pretty amazed by that and it warmed my soul. They included a link to learn more about that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380
> Usenet is still a thing, going on 40 years now. It may not be uber popular but it's far from a failure.

Well, it’s not a failure, but it’s not far from abandon.

Quoting from Wikipedia [1]:

"AOL discontinued Usenet access in 2005. In May 2010, Duke University, whose implementation had kicked off Usenet more than 30 years earlier, decommissioned its Usenet server, citing low usage and rising costs. After 32 years, the Usenet news service link at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (news.unc.edu) was retired on February 4, 2011."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Decline
I would not know why would anybody wish to give their accounting information to any online company, distant, unknown.

So people don't do it.

Imagine, your own accountant knows everything about you. Hyr knows your suppliers and your buyers, he has close insight in your business. And you need to be careful with him.

Best is if you can handle your accounting yourself. There is free software for that like https://www.gnucash.org and others. There is also online free software, which you can install on your intranet.

Do not install your accounting online. Internet is not for doing your private business.

And do not give your accounting data to anybody online.

Come back to basics and keep your business private!
Announcing Enhanced Steam End of Life
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever [pdf]
A monetization style I'd like to see more of is one where the videos are uploaded, but only a thumbnail or a clip is available by default, until a certain donation goal is reached, at which point the video becomes free for everyone to view, indefinitely.

This looks game theoretically like it will produce a Tragedy of the Commons outcome, but there are plenty of streamers out there who rely on tips while allowing the majority of viewers to be "freeloaders".

Of course, the incentives for donating during a livestream are different from the incentive to donate to unlock a video, but the software/UI could display prominently who it was that contributed to unlocking a video, and who are the major financial supporters of the channel.
If you have running shoes, then sure you have different styles. For instance, you can land on your heels and blow out your knees and hips, whereas without shoes you would never run that way.
Facebook suspends firm founded by researcher behind its election study
Is that plugin system documented? I thought I read that it was on the roadmap but not an existing feature.
The Importance of Goodhart’s Law
That's interesting, but riving them with a shingle axe looks faster to me. At least the guys I've seen do it. And there's no wasted material, or very little at least, compared to a saw kerf.

(An example here, not using a shingle axe but a froe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FjpmFwVLtM )
"This seems like the best system to me. Most Americans are very familiar with bubble forms and there is a clear paper trail while still allowing electronic counting."

The problem is that the paper ballots may never be hand counted if the margin between the candidates given by the electronic vote counting machine is far enough apart.

Of course, whoever hacks a vote counting machine can give any vote count they want, so they can set the margin however wide they want.

The only way to really be sure of the totals is to do hand counts of paper ballots, with representatives of each party participating or at least observing the entire count.

Machines should never be trusted.
> It's nice to see journalists actually reflecting on how to make journalism better for once. Sometimes I wonder if engineers and doctors are the only profession that constantly hold conferences and write blog posts about how to become better at their jobs.

Journalists actually do have tech conferences and events, as well as blogs about the profession. Though the former are ridiculously expensive given their audience, making me almost wonder how any actual journalist could afford to attend one. It's not like in tech where someone can get a few hundred grand a year in some jobs, it's 'would struggle with rent in a medium sized town' level salaries.
I don't blame you. I tried a purple mattress (which I had no idea wasn't a new or unique "technology" until your post) and Im pretty sold on getting a similar style mattress now.
I only know about thunderfoot's hyperloop debunking video, but it was so full of incorrect assumptions and half-truths that he lost all credibility with me.
This isn't journalism, this is marketing.
PwC’s Global Artificial Intelligence Study: Sizing the Prize
Science (and especially mathematics) is all about increasing human understanding. A neural network that makes correct predictions would be very interesting to both engineers and scientists.

From a scientific perspective, the fact something can be modeled well using a neural network would provide interesting constraints on the system, which may eventually yield breakthroughs in understanding the original system. However, the neural network's parameterized equation by itself would never be accepted as good science, since its complexity would hardly contribute anything to our understanding.
according to a bloomberg article that I cant fully read, as of Feb 2018

<<The debt-to-equity ratio for the S&P 500 is 1.1 compared to an historical average of 1.7; >>
Your list seems pretty complete, but I wonder which items are the most important. It might be counterintuitive.

For instance, I assume that grant writing is such a hassle, the average person would accept just to get out of writing grants. But the guys and gals that they picked up are at the top of their field. Would they also have the same constraints? Seems like they would have higher hit rates, less teaching and so forth.

I think the ability to launch the careers of their grad students, get them hired etc might be at the top, but I am just guessing.
Huge mysterious stone spheres on Arctic island leave scientists baffled
Probably paid for by their publication.
Waymo is supposedly planning on launching a ride-hailing service. Perhaps they can start giving rides to customers while continuing to test with a live driver (to take over if necessary). The revenue from the ride-hailing service could offset the cost of testing, and allow them to operate indefinitely until full autonomy is ready and legal.
There is a "Self-managed moderation" section at the end of this article.

If you host your own instance, you can serve that kind of content. Since instance discovery is also decentralized, you can only subject your content to users who you convince to visit your instance in the first place.

If you are trying to expose the masses to perverse/extremist content and you don't have your own popular instance, you are limited by the moderation of the instance you are trying to publish to.
> inbox got a bit out of hand by having too many unread items piled up. I slowly stopped looking at them before abandoning the idea completely

And this is precisely why it's insane and counterproductive to have unread counts on an RSS feed.

Don't obsess over reading every last article. It's a feed. Read what looks interesting. Let other things go. Don't track what you've read or what you've missed. There's nothing down that path but frustration and stress.

And yet, almost no RSS developers see the wisdom in this, and they prefer to embrace the dumb idea with open arms.