skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree but Google has this with its news, and perhaps (I'm guessing because it's hard to imagine otherwise) Instagram. What makes Facebook vile is the news feed.

But everyone is selling customer data. And my words are coming from the very unusual coincidence that I'm in a bar in Brooklyn and two data scientists are discussing 10 years of customer data needing to be parsed (and I heard the word verticalization). I'm not making this up (it's live).
Funnily enough, this happened to me just today! After almost two years of studying 6502 assembly in my spare time, the whole mindspace required to be an efficient and productive assembly programmer clicked for me this afternoon.

It wasn't literally sudden, more so a realization over the course of an hour after the usual reading and re-reading of various tutorials and documentation that I had already been doing. I'd say a few hours into programmer flow was when it all came together.

I liken it to when I first grokked Lisp back in high school. A shedding of mental fog leading to a sort of "now I finally get how somebody could program a game in this without being some hack-the-planet-level computer whiz."
Where do I learn to write simulations like this? I'm doing numerical models this summer, and it feels like a lot of the notation is inconsistent, unlike programming.
Thank you for the pointer to Recoll!

I'm trying it out now -- I have way too many pdfs, and I could really use the extra features (like context previews).
This is incorrect.

The cost of care in this country is not a function of salary; it's a function of grotesque inefficiencies in the system.

When I dug into this during the attempt to repeal the ACA, what I found was the US pays 50% to many times more per capita for much worse outcomes than any other first world nation, with comparisons against Japan being particularly bleak.

Furthermore, that is the result of systemic inefficiencies here resulting from, in a nutshell, protected oligopolies and preservation of profits.

One underreported aspect of the ACA was that in order to secure recalcitrant GOP votes, the Democrats essentially caved on everything other their mandatory features–namely, on allowing the GOP to engineer in changes written by the health care industry and IMO extorted at gunpoint.

The result has been clear, the industry has enjoyed record profits since the ACA passed. So much so that one of the problems with the attempt to appeal it or weaken it was that the GOP and its industry interest groups had already gotten most of the things on their wish list.

The worst part of this trainwreck is that for much more money, we enjoy far worse outcomes when you consider most any metric that matters to people: life expectancy, infant mortality, incidence of chronic disease, incidence of disruptive mental illness, incidence of opiate addiction, and so on. In all of these we trail not only the rest of the first world but many countries in the developing world.

There are other factors such as a diet and lifestyle distorted by e.g. the sugar lobby, but even when you 'correct' for those things, the quality of service we get does not make for healthy or happy citizens.

Then add the likelihood of personal bankruptcy or financial ruin as the result of carefully engineered carefully obscured limitations on coverage.

None of this is particularly hidden or hard to uncover; it's just utterly obscured by GOP empty distracting whipping horse talking points and scare tactics.
Huawei have a rep for being IP thieves. They once were sued by Cisco for having software so "accidentally" similar, it had the same bugs...

https://www.cnet.com/news/huawei-admits-to-a-little-copying/
China is objectively not playing by the same rules as the west currently. Chinese Nationals have been caught stealing tech multiple times. I worked at a company where an intern from china was caught trying to steal the entire database but failed only because our infrastructure was so shitty that it crashed when trying to export everything. It was just quietly swept under the rug because any sort of retaliation would have led to losing access to the Chinese market since the intern was a relative of some government official. These sort of behaviors make people angry.

Not to say that no one else has acted like this. The United States stole/forced the UK and other European powers to give over IP back when we were the rising star in the global market
I really enjoyed this slide from the BuzzFeed talk "Hundreds of terabytes across 300+ tables, 100K+ queries a day" on BigQuery.

I quoted the reddit talk on the thread above/below :).
I think it doesn't have much to do with the generation. You'll find rich people saving long-term and poor people saving for the short-term(or not at all).
Thanks for the quoteinvestigator link... I was likewise reminded of Terry Pratchett's version, also mentioned there:

"A lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on."

It's quite amazing that the researchers essentially quantified those idioms. And it's also somewhat surprising that none of the idioms found their way into the article. :)
I was hoping the article would have answered how the Prince (or his buyer) even heard about the book? I wonder if it was recommended by the shopkeeper, or if the fact that it was written "By A Lady" was enough to pique his interest, in the hope that it would be more salacious?
Heroku works fine in prod up to the scale of most pre-series A startups. There are a few limitations you have to accept but for us the easy deployment strategy (and existing suite of addons) makes it very easy.
A lot of research discoveries and new products have come out of both military needs and space programs. In fact, the horrors of war have a long historical association with medical discoveries and medical progress.

I wish life worked like you think it does. But I have no reason to believe it actually does.
Hey seanwilson, I actually made a lot more sales than I expected. $500 Revenue so far. 167 sales :) I'm also planning to write an article, I'll update stats on twitter (@gvrizzo)
And with the just announced clustering now you get even better costs and performance.

Disclosure: I'm https://twitter.com/felipehoffa and I work for Google Cloud. And I'm really excited to reprocess all public tables into clustered ones.
If not Facebook they will go to Reddit, Twitter or watch reality TV .
Death threats and calls to violence are illegal and not protected under free speech.
1M dollars in tax advantaged income fund

3M in 401ks

Have wife, we both work.
Those are so that you can use a security key with an iPhone or Android.

Yes, more surface, but it is a trade-off that means protecting more devices (users' phones; not just their laptops).

Personally, I would also like to see a USB-C security key that also works with phones and doesn't have the wireless antennas. (Not sure how to make something like that work with an iPhone, though.)
Saying the NYTimes spread lies (answering the question in the post title) in a context WMD's or other contexts is not the same thing as saying the NYTimes or journalists were/are lying (with intent).
Thanks! It grabs the current media query only :)
You're basically saying, "nobody cared about their material security weakness until someone did something bad with it"

How is that not true of every single security/privacy incident, ever? If the situation was, "everyone knew 23andMe was storing non-deidentified genomic data on an unsecured S3 bucket, and this was fine until [insert villian] took it" it would be the same, and people would be justifiably pissed off. This feels like a completely correctly handled story in the media, your personal anecdote about working with Facebook notwithstanding.
Not a big believer in traditional conspiracy theories. But, there's a lot of evidence that the US military has a lot more than they let on.

I mean, GPS, the internet, strong encryption (look up history of DES). Much of what we take for granted came from black or semi-black US military projects. Leaked out I guess, sometimes literally.

God knows what's out there now, but UFO sightings are a reasonable place to start. Hypersonic transport. Plasma stealth. Nuclear engines. EMP, railguns and laser weapons.

What's made public is a tiny fraction of what's already out there. Terrifying but fascinating at the same time.

Funny that we already have weapons powerful enough to end the species but advancement continues.

Most people don't realize, but patents important enough are, and always have been, immediately been appropriated secret. A little known purpose of the patent office is to keep the lid on anything truly ground shaking.

And that's where my conspiracy theories start. There's so much out there kept from the rest of the world. I guess in 20 years or so we'll know what they've got now
Facebook is not giving out API access willy-nilly.

My god man, armies of lawyers involved.
This talk[0] makes a very good case for why keeping your DNA a secret is a good idea. It's also probably the only talk at defcon that I've watched that has scared the hell out of me.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY
That's what I have, a very small helper library that contains 5 or 6 functions that I use frequently like .closest(), .hideAll(), .showAll() etc.

My application doesn't use much JS so this seems reasonable to me instead of including a framework for a few functions.
100%. A whole generation grown on dopamine addiction and fake relationships with people they don't know.

I hope they go down. Social networks were a net negative on the world at the end of the day.
There's a YouTube video that I can't find where three greyhounds are in a house, when someone kicks the door in. The greyhounds panic and hide behind the furniture while the guy helps himself to the contents.

Definitely not good guard dogs.
> That is more than the EU and the US COMBINED

Source? From two quick Google searches it seems like the EU and the US Z
combined make more than 1bn users.
I was once something of a journalist and noticed something interesting. When I interviewed someone about something controversial, they were significantly more likely to become defensive when I checked facts and quotes with them.
I expect that to be an adverse and inevitable outcome.
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> You don't even attempt to cite any stats

Neither did the post I responded to.

See here for some stats on US gun violence in 2018 (the site also has data for past years):

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/charts-and-maps
I think they add some positive value being able to be in touch with distant friends and relative.

But their business models depend upon getting people hooked up like a drug addict.
From what I can tell (those sources are pretty vague), they include china where American tech companies are effectively banned and thus there population is not really relevant.
Chris, another amazing story! Others have already said, but you really should consider writing a book. Not only the stories are great, but you have a a great and engaging writing style. Also loved your other story, about Unix Expo.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17420674
Ha, I had the same problem on a Lenovo phone, except I knew it was not a VLC issue because the process-kill would happen with any app I would leave running in the background. The most annoying part was that even after tweaking the battery/power settings this would still happen. Lesson learnt, don't buy Lenovo.
NASA, University of Texas at Dallas Reveal Apollo 11 Behind-The-Scenes Audio
> But this argument happens every time the issue of funding space exploration comes up. Every single time. Without fail. Not a single time is there a proposed NASA budget without part of the discussion devolving into, "why don't we just hand the money out to the poor instead?" Not a single time do the risks and costs of SpaceX, or a new satellite, or the rovers, or the ISS, or other efforts get discussed without someone saying, "but cancer..."

So? You say that like repetition means it's necessarily a nonsensical droning of idiots. Maybe the reason people always respond with that is that they have a point. Dr. Zubrin doesn't make any compelling points there sadly. There is a ton of "real science" to do here at a wildly better cost-benefit ratio.
That is a non-cash solution which is insubstantially different from a plastic card.
Rick isn't an alcoholic, it's a side effect of the mega seeds.
If you've been following AMD, good news hasn't always meant better prices with this (or any company).

Last I remember this thing was bouncing from 11 to 12 consistently.
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Some time back, my partner had a really sad event in her life, and she sat on the couch crying. We have two dogs, a happy yet dumb-as-a-rock greyhound, and a collie-staffie cross. The collie noticed, jumped up on the couch, and cuddled into her to (try and) make her happy again.

When we lost her pack mate to cancer, a few years ago, she sat on the couch for ten days, didn't eat, just lay with her head between her paws. We were all heartbroken, myself most of all, but she was too sad to help anyone this particular time. After she recovered, she helped me a lot.

We don't deserve dogs, but dogs are awesome and we could learn a lot from them. “Be the person your dog thinks you are!” ― J.W. Stephens
Thanks andre! :)
The sales went pretty well! I'll share some stats on my twitter @gvrizzo tomorrow. Also already shared some numbers on a reply here.
According to Google search for EU and US populations:

EU population: 508 million people

US population: 325.7 million people
Another clickbaity title not giving the whole story... "Huawei killing apps; devs blamed" would have been better. If a phone was crashing your apps and users blamed you (and rated your app as such), what would you do?
I'm under the belief that the original Star Wars will be studied alongside epics like The Iliad and The Odyssey. It was hugely impactful when released, reinterpreted the hero's journey for the 20th century, and even has its own holiday.
Not a stock investor but AMD looks like a solid but for the next few years especially given the fact that Intel is in disarray and will be for a few more years. $100 amd shares by 2021 is not out of the question imo as I believe amd will reach at least 40 percent market share by then in the pc market and probably around 20-25 in servers.
How does GDPR curtail free speech? Please give me citations from the text.
Glad you liked it! Thanks :)
Maybe statistics can help. If a uber driver is a “vomit scammer” he’s doing this multiple times, deviating too much from the normal, even if taking into account factors like being late hours, next to a club/pub, etc.
Uber can then kick this driver out or, giving the benefit of the doubt, limit the number of “cleaning reimbursements” to force the driver to find better passengers (stay away from nightlife rides?).
They have people who's sole job is to make sure Facebook users are on the platform for as long as humanly possible. The company goes out of its way to subvert your desires to make it hard to leave (such as changing sorting by most recent so that you have no idea what content you've seen before). That's as close as you can get to being a pusher.
this is awesome :)
> while firing 30 at the same time for redundancy?

I presume this is a reference to the failed N1 project with it's 30 NK-33 engines? To be fair, the N1 rocket didn't fail because of it's engines, it failed because of numerous organizational failures, including a ruthlessly rushed design process, lack of funding, and most importantly, the death of it's chief engineer, Korolev. The NK-33 rockets were basically the only part of the rocket that actually survived the program-- they're a big part of the current Soyuz stack if I recall.
It's not an ad-hominem. It's an inference on the predictive power of the article as a function of the commenters prior belief on the expertise of non-developers.

They may or may not be right, but you can't just dismiss things you don't like by classifying them as a "fallacy."
You show your values and you prove nothing with that sentence.

Experts are often wrong. They exist because because we don't know. When we know something we don't need experts anymore. We just know and apply our knowledge.
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I can't tell if you are a troll or legitimately hold beliefs that manage to piss off every side of this forum but I have seen you pop up all over the place on here lately.

If I can make a request, please include your reasoning on your future posts because I have been incapable of understanding the viewpoint that led to some of your comments
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Can I ask more about the structure of the data and what you'd like to do with it? My email is in my profile.
It's NOT coupled tightly at all. You don't need an FB account.
I’m using gigalixir to host a few projects and have been happy with it so far. I believe it uses GCP by default under the covers
I value privacy but GDPR is an overreaching government hand with consequences that you and I can't even imagine.

Edit: We'll pass a law that protects your privacy while we ourselves don't abide by it.
No trouble! I had unfortunate (or perhaps fortunate for Gabriel!) timing with its completion. Making a forum post is a good call! I need to throw some more docs in there, but I'll make one after that's in decent shape.
Do it the old fashioned way. Full backup to a hard drive, store that offsite and do incremental backups on USB sticks. There are dozens of good tools.

Personally, I manage media separately from normal files, and use hard drives for media, sticks for files.

It’s easier, cheaper and more secure than any backup service.
Ethereum seems like an obvious winner based on the amount of innovation going on.
Their GPUs for deep learning are nearly non-existant, as others have mentioned there are projects and support, but... not worth the effort essentially.

On the other hand, with the rise of their cheaper CPUs and APUs, I'd actually expect that to change. From a power perspective and eventually the ubiquity, it'll make sense to provide more support.
Functional programming is not vastly different from other popular programming languages.

There is also a wealth of tutorials, books, and interactive learning resources for Elixir that are up to date. I'm not really sure what you're referring to
I'm pretty tall and I've never had any issues flying economy. I wouldn't call it comfortable but I can still stuff a bag under the next seat and reach it later.
For the benefit of those who are off Facebook (each to their own), here's how I use it;

- my mixed sport team has a group page, where we discuss the next game time, who can make it, etc. We don't need to Friend each other, or sign up to another service. We all have FB, so we just add/remove people very easily. Helps organise and track conversations easily. A new post each week, and everyone just comments on that.
- my sister and brother live in other states of Australia. FB helps me see what they're up to (photos, videos especially). I call them regularly, so FB is just value-add.

- I have a young (under 2) son, and keep most photos off him off FB. However, occasionally (once every 2-3 months) we will share something so people in our wider network can get an update. It's not for us, it's for them.
- I have a lot of friends I met through a time in my life (university exchange overseas, growing up, living in different cities). FB is a very casual, easy way to stay in touch. The barrier to entry is very low (literally, just click the 'like' button on their post).

- FB messenger: I use this a LOT. I also use SMS (via Signal), Hangouts and WhatsApp. Yes, they overlap considerably, but FB Messenger has the functionality, and critically the contacts, I need. Lots of group chats about different things (social events, family, etc.) and things like location sharing when I'm on my way home from work.

I don't endlessly scroll through updates on my feed page, and I don't get my news from FB. If I read the feed page (with the updates from friends, etc.), about 50% of content is secondary (meaning someone has shared a viral video, or something) and the other 50% is original content (holiday photos, though of the day, etc.).

Can all of the above be done on systems other than FB, yes. Do other systems have the low barrier to entry now that all of my friends are on FB, no.

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Judgmental much? Who are you to speak on behalf of everyone, a whole generation? I personally have enjoyed using FB and Instagram. If you don't like it, don't use it. And don't tell me and other users that we are stupid or drug addicts.
Everyone knows this is about censorship. Period.
Well, there's not a lot of context to say whether there are more shared counters. That said, I overlooked the MAP_SHARED, and the code actually got itself in non-portable land. Not all atomics are actually atomics. IIRC, at least ARM doesn't have 64-bits atomics, and using atomics on such platforms means using locks. Which are very likely to not work properly in shared memory.
That wouldn't be enough, either.

Core A and V are cache-coherant. Attacker sets up the cache in core A such that its state will be affected based on the victim's speculation on core V. A speculative write on V to a line that is present in A produces a state change that is visible to A.

There's no way you're going to see speculation rollback across cores.
Security is gobbledygook. It’s why politicians love using national security with legislation.
> also completely unacceptable for a standard.

[...]

> It's completely okay that they wrote this code, as a "version 0.2". But there's no excuse for presenting it as finished code, with reasonable semantics. It's not hyperbole to say that.

Am I missing something, or are you just saying "Worse is Worse"?

The "excuse" is that this way (arguably, perhaps) governed the history of Unix development, well before there was even a standard.

What I've been attempting to get people (especially ones with the seemingly most strenuous invectives toward the design) is to perform the thought experiment of placing themselves in the "shoes" of the designers, both by trying to imagine being in that past and, much harder, actually believing in that philosophy.

I believe that will go much farther in increasing understand and, to borrow from the HN guidelines, gratify intellectual curiosity, than arguing against strawmen (or just non-existent proponents) of design goodness.
> But with WebAssembly et al, are tabs still the right abstraction?

How are these two things related? One is for running code in a VM, and the other is a UX pattern for presenting multiple screens/interfaces for multitasking.