skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the points in this essay, but I have paid attention to 37signals for quite awhile and I don't think this is actually why. I think the reason they priced as they did was because their first clients were agencies similar to themselves and they were selling to the whole agency. The second reason is because Jason Fried likes simple business propositions, and likes to picks prices based on how they look/sound/feel. This isn't a criticism; it's perfectly valid to commit harder to a pricing strategy as you realize other benefits. I just don't think that they started out this way and I think a new software company could make a case for per-seat as a way to sell to companies too small to pay $99/mo all-inclusive without giving too much away to slightly less small companies.
Sorry to be pedantic (although this IS Hacker News, after all), but shouldn't the web page's title be "Censoring Unhappy Customers" rather than "Censuring Unhappy Customers"?
> If you look at the boxes now[1], they only have the Amazon curved-arrow logo on them.

Another thing I noticed is that some third-party sellers are using similar yellow curved arrows in their product images [1][2]. I guess this results in more sales due to the association with Amazon?

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07583NM7L

[2] http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B071VX675L
We could spend a lot less money on un-needed things. For one, why are we the police of the world? What if we shut down ALL military bases abroad, docked most of our carriers except in times of war, put half the military on reserves.

What if we capped politician benefits across America at what the average American's is?

One big thing is-- if we ended Healthcare's ability to 'lobby' washington... made it illegal to spend healthcare money in lobbying endeavors, they could divert that to r/d and other worthwhile endeavors...

All insurance companies are --are companies that take our money and pay medical companies...couldn't the medical companies become the insurer?

What if instead of single-payer hospitals would take 'subscribers' locally, they'd pay 6% of their income. Make it a requirement that every American needs to signup with a hospital, and that all hospitals need to take anyone regardless of income or lack thereof.

Hospitals would then have a guaranteed monthly residual income they can track/chart and use to figure out their budget. We'd no longer be wasting ANY money on insurance CEO's, etc...

When traveling your host hospital pays the guest hospital, or other providers. The hospitals could work with each other to bring prices/costs down.

There are solutions and there's ways to pay for things, like maybe dropping progressive income taxes for consumption/vat instead... a vat would be paid by anyone in the country regardless of legal status, citizen or immigrant. So everyone would contribute.
So 0.1% of Americans were affected by these updates? Seems like fb needs to take broader strokes.
Depending on circumstance, I can think of a few: work stress (many high-paying jobs are high-paying because they are highly demanding; the stress on the poor is perhaps shifted away from work and towards an inability to pay for things); social pressures (to maintain a high social standing, for example); and privacy invasions from the paparazzi. Certainly, not all rich people face these problems, but many of these would disproportionally affect the rich in my view.
Why is Zuck's account still active then?
F-droid,yalp store as app stores;wire, signal, conversations, qksms as messenger clients;k-9 mail, proton mail as email providers;next cloud, syncthing as cloud services;bitwarden as password store; Joplin as Evernote alternative.
We are witnessing very dangerous times. Groupthink is real now. If you disagree with a new story you can simply claim it’s “fake news”. Getting doxxed is a real possibility. The 4th estate is no longer to be trusted. “May you live in interesting times” is no longer just a fortune in a cookie...
What is "Touhou Lossless Music Collection"? Besides "music" a google search didn't get me much info.
This is something that's been in the noggin for a while, kind of like a bottle of some spice that sits in the back of your kitchen cabinet; you know it's there, but never really use it or even touch it-but you always remind yourself to seek out recipes where it may have some flavor value but otherwise you never use it.

"Facebook themselves are a bad actor" is the comment that jiggled the mind-cabinet enough for that spice bottle to fall off the rack and into full view.

That's the head space I'm in when I ask this question. So with that Caveat Lector out of the way:

Am I out of line in thinking Facebook kind of opened the doors for this by aggressively "graphing" social connections and going full speed at turning relationships into algorithms and then giving everyone and their mama the tools to sculpt all of this data however they please? And that they're probably getting off way too easy?

Last night I said to a friend with much sincerity: I miss the days of MySpace and LiveJournal where I could collect all of my friends into one online space, my own little corner of the internet and interact with them on my terms. No nudges to participate in a post, no prompts to go look at what someone else is doing, no suggestions I go buy what my friend just bought and shared simply because "it's my friend". It existed, we were there, and we didn't need MySpace's help to interact with each other. Of course, that was a different Internet where everyone wasn't trying to analyze and monetize your every click and keystroke.

Just kind of thinking out loud. But curious what others think.
I'm nitpicking here, but I dislike that commenters and media alike so liberally use "The Russians" for this. It's the Russian government and their benefactors. There are 150 million Russians and, like anywhere, they're by and large good people with good intentions. Let's not blame an entire people for their government's decisions.

Eg if I would blame "the Americans" for the CIA torture program, I'f rightfully get backlash here.
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American Empire is referring to the vast network of American corporations that permeates every aspect of global life. Starbucks, tv, cars, internet, smartphones, culture, films, music. China is nowhere near close.

Military wise China is still very behind and does not have projection capability (as USN has port calls that covers 90% of the coast lines).

Economic wise China is in frail shape as it's built on mountain of debt that other countries like the US can recall. The US is unique since they can always print more and let other countries eat the costs.

The American empire is far from gone and since we aren't going to be speaking Mandarin anytime soon here in North America I'd say keep dreaming the dream.
I think a better approach than calling them lazy, would be to look into how easy it is to sue, who can be sued and what the difference is between the limit on liquidated damages allowable between the “lazy” countries and a place like the US.
Sitting down with legendary publisher Tim O’Reilly
As long as you keep learning, you aren't failing.
I've heard people who are able to absorb inputs and make connections faster have high IQ and only 50% of the population has average IQ.

Maybe you are comparing yourself to those with higher IQ.

Training and education doesn't seem to help IQ that much.
>I don't think it comes up much in practice because bugs due to non-terminating code don't actually happen much to begin with (compared to all bugs that cause hangs or timeouts), and when they do they are often found via testing. We know that a function terminates for any inputs it was tested with.

None of these are acceptable in Agda actually, since they would all be partial functions (i.e. functions that are not defined for some inputs.) The simplest, intuitive explanation is that since Agda has dependent types it needs to be able to evaluate functions during typechecking, and if you allow partial functions (e.g. infinite loops, halting functions, functions that timeout, or functions that are undefined for untested input) the typechecking would be undecidable.

Instead Agda has a bunch of built-in tools to help the compiler figure out if a function is total (the opposite of a partial function, meaning it's defined for all possible inputs). Things like the termination checker can detect a subset of all terminating functions, and sized types let the programmer aid the compiler in figuring this out. There are also language pragmas to overide this totality check on a per function basis.

I've implemented an algorithm, that I knew on paper terminated, and had it rejected by Agda, although I'm not experienced enough to know how easily these things are solved in general.
A very large lossless (.ogg) collection of doujin [0] Touhou [1] music. Googling the name should have taken you to the website [2] which might provide a bit more information. It's split into three torrents: One for just the music (1.65TB in size), one for Album Scans (76.5GB in size), and another for extras like lyrics, bundled item scans, and other misc. extras (24.2GB in size).

Or in simple terms: A large collection of cover songs for the soundtracks of a popular Japanese bullet-hell game series.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Djin

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_Project

[2] http://www.tlmc.eu/
Is that making 10 million fake accounts that have the first name 'gerry'? I was born yesterday so a lot of these figures of speech are confusing to me.
Square furniture, I presume?
It's interesting that there's been a massive delay between risk profile change in 2016 and 2017 and the recent drop - a drop that it appears may be temporary. I know a lot of people that have been shorting Tesla for years and have been continuously surprised by its seemingly irrational rise in stock price.

If you look at their cash burn in Q4 2016 and Q2-Q3 2017, it doesn't fit with the press on the company or its stock performance at the time. Instead, the price hit all-time highs over that period and press was glowing.

I get that as the production numbers didn't increase along with capex there's a crunch in Q1-Q2 2018, but it doesn't seem to me that this is the reason behind tech news' change of heart.
>> if you time traveled and showed Siri/Cortana to an AI researcher from 1960 they’d be incredibly disappointed.

If you time traveled and showed 2013 me what self driving cars would be doing in 2018, 2013 me would have been astounded.
Read NYTimes. Then watch Fox. Repeat. You’ll know what he means.
Better slow than sorry – VirtualBox 3D acceleration considered harmful
OPNsense 18.7 released
> I'm not entirely sure how that can benefit the Russian government though.

Decreases the will of the US to effectively achieve its aims, which run counter in many ways to the Putin regime. If congress is spending its days shouting at each other, then they can't do awkward things like, e.g., provide substantial support in rhetoric and materials to the Ukraine to address Russia's invasion.
The combined amount spent in the 2016 presidental campaign was over 5 billion dollars. Maybe Russian money is worth more?

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2016/03/07/the-2016...
Tesla is enlisting workers from all over the company in push to build cars
Well if you are worried about those 2 characters, you should be stoked about Grain, because it gives you type safety without ever defining types. Think how many characters you will save in an application by never defining a type and at no cost.
Cool straw man.

My thesis: Bail shouldn't exist, it creates a 2 tied system, and creating a platform, business, whatever, that exploits that system to make money isn't "being a super nice person who just wants to help" it's profiting off the prison industrial complex unless you spend all they money you made solely to reform the system.

It sounds like they're trying to help. This doesn't mean they're not also making money by attaching themselves to the problem. The world is shades of gray. I'm sure the bail bondsmen sleep at night saying they're helping people get back to their families faster.
> I was in no danger of going to jail if I showed up for my traffic hearing, but I'm most definitely going to jail (even if only briefly) if I'm pulled over with an outstanding warrant.

And yet, people skipping court dates for traffic violations is extremely prevalent. In many areas, there are varying degrees of enforcement of failure to appear arrest warrants because of how common they are. (They'll have like amnesty days and stuff like that to encourage people to appear.)

The basic problem is that poor people have very little to lose by not showing up to court.
True about that org top being untrustworthy, but I think it is more about the specifically designed structure of the org,

Design the org so that power is separated, no one has the opportunity to steal at scale.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Divide the power and you remove the impetus for corruption. I don't think that cop would have done anything but an ordinary good job, had that multi-million dollar temptation not just showed up in his lap...
Obviously a retailer like Amazon wouldn't outright edit user reviews because it would be incredibly easy to catch, and would be a massive scandal if true.

The guy you're replying to probably just forgot what he wrote.
Indeed, I believe TCAS is one of the only places where planes and pilots override ATC, in that if ATC tells you to go down, and TCAS tells you to go up, you go up
No, it doesn't. It just says that they were connected to the protests.
Tax reform means my organically growing startup gets to keep 33% more of our profit to reinvest back into the company, which has meaningfully impacted our annual budget and growth trajectory.

VC funded startups get the advantage of growing ahead of profit, and booking tax losses which they can carry forward.

Bootstrapping means growth driven by profit, which necessitates paying income taxes on the ever growing cash balance which flows from growing revenues & expenses (e.g. always having 3 months operating expenses in the bank)
Thanks for bringing up that book it was lost in my memories and now I just ordered it on kindle.
Techmoan's recent video on extended play (2.5 hour) CDs is also quite interesting.

https://youtu.be/5fG1crhGqI0
$100k versus 5 billion dollars spent by the presidential campaigns. Why are these people working for the IRA? Wouldn't they make billions in marketing anything other than political division?

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2016/03/07/the-2016...
Apologies if my tone made it sound dismissive. I'm genuinely interested in how this could be made to work.

I agree in thinking a full on handshake would be required. Not sure how instrumented all of the suppliers would be. And I'd imagine that is where a lot of the pain to build a solution like this would be.

Any other approaches that you could think of that don't require cooperation from every party?

There is also the question of cost and basic reach. You assert this gets 90% of the way there. Do we really think the fake problem is over 10% of traffic today? I'd be surprised if that is the case. I don't have numbers, but I would expect this to be in the .1% range. At the scale of a large store, that is still a giant number.
>Miniclip - majority stake

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I wasn't even aware that they were still around, but apparently they are.
Synchronized SGD Outdated? Yoshua Bengio on Hardware-Friendly DL
At the bottom of JavaUnitTestChallengeSolved[0], William Underwood posted the test below and claims that it always catches the `notify()` problem. He did not mention using TLA+.

public static void testConcurrency() throws InterruptedException {
final int[] threadsFinished = new int[]{0};
final BoundedBuffer buffer = new BoundedBuffer();

Thread thread1 = new Thread() {
public void run() {
synchronized (buffer) {
synchronized (this) {
this.notifyAll();
}
try {
buffer.wait();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {}
threadsFinished[0]++;
}
}
};
Thread thread2 = new Thread() {
public void run() {
synchronized (buffer) {
synchronized (this) {
this.notifyAll();
}
try {
buffer.wait();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {}
threadsFinished[0]++;
}
}
};

synchronized (thread1) {
thread1.start();
thread1.wait();
}
synchronized (thread2) {
thread2.start();
thread2.wait();
}
synchronized (buffer) {
buffer.put("");
thread1.join(1000);
thread2.join(1000);
}
assertEquals("Not all test threads were awoken!", 2, threadsFinished[0]);
}

[0]: http://wiki.c2.com/?JavaUnitTestChallengeSolved
The reality of decline is going to be quite boring.

Boring,and a world worse than today in many ways, if we don't get out ahead of the failure modes.
Not exactly. Fireworks was a raster-based graphics program that behaved like a vector program -- everything you drew was an object that could be moved backward and forward on its layer, with opacity, clipping, blending style, etc., set independently. There was no real distinction between vector shapes, text shapes, and raster shapes; all operations were available on any graphics object at any point in time.
What sort of structure would you use a concrete without a tensile support like rebar or steel of some kind? How would that stand up in an earthquake?
Maybe you should ask Ethan Allen [0] or the New England Federalist Party [1] about patriotism. I'm sure they'd proffer some good insights.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldimand_Affair

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Convention
- Forgive yourself. It's okay. You are who you are.

- Understand that there is no speed limit. You can be as fast or as slow as you should be.

- Mimic. Connections and insights are rarely magical. Usually the person has been trained by themselves/others or have come up with mental "hacks" to promote these kind of eureka type thoughts.

Decades ago, my best friend was much better about making connections, insights, etc. I was constantly wowed. Instead of fixed mindset like "I'll never be as good/clever as they are" I simply asked: "How did you come up with that?" or "How did you figure it out?". Sometimes he would point me to how he read documentation and interpreted that into code. Once I got the cryptic answer "Think like an electron." (His point was that similar to how you can predict how water will flow down a mountain, valley, gather against dams, you can kind of predict how electrons move through capacitors, inductors, diodes, etc.)

The point is that I was less interested the outcomes and more interested in how they were achieved.

You'll find that there is a snowball effect. The more connections and insights you make, the easier it is to add to them.

Lastly, the core principles of no zero days might help out. Here's a link to the seminal reddit comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/1q96b5/i_ju...
NIPS 2018 Paper Reviews In; Researchers Unimpressed
Yuck, ... why does English get to be the universal language? We should make Rust the official language!
> This never will happen. People will never agree to upending their culture and language, even in supposed interests of humanity. [Whether this would actually work is arguable].

This worked for one country, so there are chances it works at a bigger scale.

However, I fail to see arguments that are serious enough to back up your "never", which is a pretty big word to avoid argumenting for somebody using "citation needed".

> Nope, because culture and language are deeply intertwined. Over time, people would use their native languages less and less, and then entire cultural swathes of knowledge will be lost.

That's not killing, that's letting die. Do you regret latin ? We are doing alright without it. But we can still read it if we need to.

The difference between killing and letting die is that people will stop using their languages after decades without feeling to be robbed of it, because they still could use it.

> Next, no one will ever agree on one language. Not English, not Chinese, nor any made up language. Especially not an existing real language, for any number of reasons.

Again with the huge, absolute assertions, without backup.

> There are also concepts in different languages that are difficult to translate or grasp in other languages. Translation isn't a 1:1 rote task.

Yes. Things are imperfect. We will loose in the process. Guess what is also imperfect ? Communicating at the scale of 7 billion people with different culture, believes and needs.

> There is no "ego trip" going on here. The only "ego trip" is assuming that we can simply force everyone, unilaterally, to speak X language.

Absolute sentences and lack of arguments are usually sourced in a strong emotional reactions more than logic. So my guess is there is some ego there.

>> Peace, democracy, exchange, cooperation, archiving, education: they are too hard to do in hundreds of languages. It's a waste of resources, and a hindrance to the most important challenges of humanity.

> [Citation needed that this is better than forcing 1 language on humanity, which will almost certainly only happen with supreme military force, aka wars.]

Well, take 5 people speaking 2 languages each, but only one in common with another one. And 5 speaking the same language. Put them in a room and make work on project. Check which team accomplish the fastest the task at end.

>> written chinese is way too complicated

> Subjective.

The fact it takes 5 years to a chinese to be able to write english and 10 for an english to learn chinese is not subjective. Again, that's funny comming from somebody who is all emotional about this.

And I get it. I get that languages are an emotionally charged topic. But incomprehension is a problem hard enough when we speak the same language: see this very thread.

> This is a very stereotypical hacker news viewpoint of blithely trying to "engineer" life and humanity, as if it were so simple.

I don't know where you got from me that it was simple. Also, thinking I'm talking about engineering and not politics and sociology "is a very stereotypical hacker news viewpoint".
* Telecom industry
* Utility industry
* Road-building industry
* Railroad industry
* Oil & gas industry

Seems to me that governments, including American Federal and State governments, do it all the time. In fact, it's so common, that I wonder if that's the main function of government.
The article specifically states the state actors created an event, and then coordinated with five legitimate pages to co-host the event:

> The “Resisters” Page also created a Facebook Event for a protest on August 10 to 12 and enlisted support from real people. The Event – “No Unite the Right 2 – DC” – was scheduled to protest an August “Unite the Right” event in Washington. Inauthentic admins of the “Resisters” Page connected with admins from five legitimate Pages to co-host the event. These legitimate Pages unwittingly helped build interest in “No Unite Right 2 – DC” and posted information about transportation, materials, and locations so people could get to the protests.
Similarly, Fireworks felt like it died the day Adobe acquired Macromedia. While it had a number of versions released after that it never felt like it was getting very much attention. A shame.
No -- pay candidates for the day they spend interviewing with you.
I apologise. I completely agree with you.
Sounds like it's opportunity to buy on the dip.