skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to find the model in the menu but I can't see it. It's a 50 inch, 4K, UHD only about three years old. I think it has an OS that's different that what is currently available.

It's quite obvious that it's Samsung ads as mentioned it's constant not at the start of a video like how YouTube would do it. And at odd times as if it injects every five minutes no matter what.
I'm not anti-gteen, but it's not worth "less than zero", it's the people's money being given away. This isn't a so much as a huge success as it is a legislative oversight. :/
> What's happened is that most of the major social networks only hire and promote people who make decisions primarily based on analytics. As a result these sites no longer have any real communities or organic content, and have been completely hollowed out by math-friendly refrigerator magnet junkfood.

_Exactly_ this. Rather than understanding their users as real humans, having unique insights about them, and building something that meets their real needs, everything has been about maximizing hollow engagement metrics. And guess what? That's good for short term revenue but not long term trust. If you're running a startup and the main way you learn about your users is through statistical tracking and A/B testing, you're missing an important opportunity to get to know them properly. They will lead the way and although you can't simply ask them what they want, if you understand them deeply you'll know what to do.

I'm excited about the next wave of platforms, which are tapping into enormous unmet needs. It's early days, and I can't stand the "web 3" label, but there's definitely going to be a sea change.
It guess it depends on your point of view. I think of the rules language as being the "user-facing" part.
Thankfully, the community is really welcoming. Not like RN where issue are closed for no reason all the time..
Heating a big, isolated water tank was pretty common when I was working in the industry 25 years ago. Power was much cheaper during night so you used that to heat the water tank and daytime you used that water to heat the building. Lately this has been available to private customers also, price by the hour. (Sweden)
I think the Python approach is better :).

> head -c 8 /dev/random | base64
Gives me
PRM9hlMDpG0=

Which is 12 chars, not a big deal, but with Python I specified exactly how long the password should be.

With Python, I just used the first example as the anchor and then built more examples. (For example enforce it to be pronounceable by using every second char as vowel, or build a `horse battery staple generator` style password.)
Digitally Sign Business and Legal Documents in .NET and Java Apps
> I find the analogy between free speech (which he has, literally can say whatever he wants) and a platform being obligated to distribute _everyone’s_ content bizarre

I find it interesting how so many people are unable to stop their mind from automatically, and without their awareness, narrowing the very broad topic of the principle of free speech in general, to narrower and more specific topics like the first amendment, or obligation (by force!) to distribute unsavory ideas (neither of which were mentioned in the comment to which you are replying).

Can we agree that the network effect has reduced the majority of public, mass online communication to a relatively small number of players, most of whom are owned and heavily staffed by people who don't tend to describe themselves as centrists on the political spectrum? Considering this, can you imagine any scenario where perhaps multiple silicon valley companies work in a coordinated fashion to de-platform someone of a political persuasion that they disagree with sometime in the future?

I think we've seen large societies in the past get a little carried away when everyone starts thinking the same way, exposing their minds to only one flavor of opinions, and perhaps harming their ability to think critically. Some people might say we're living within that very scenario right now. No, this doesn't necessarily mean Alex Jones specifically has any redeeming qualities whatsoever, but can you at least see that there is at least something to be said for the general principle of free speech and diversity of ideas?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

"Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction."

EDIT: Downvoters, care to share the thinking behind your disagreement? Do you think I'm wrong in thinking that the principle of free speech exists independent of the first amendment, and can be discussed with or without the existence of force being exerted on publishing platforms? Is the very idea of a conversation with those whom you may not completely agree old fashioned or unrealistic?
I wish one could get the dataset and see how many bots some specific people, like politicians, might have had as followers.
Actually I have noticed one thing about parents i.e. the older generation (tech savvy or otherwise) they don't give a shit about anything they are not used to as long as they can get work done with whatever device they are already familiar with. It's good to see that they do not go after every new (over)hyped feature (which might not even have a practical use) unlike a lot of newer generation just for the sake of getting the latest toy.
So many good comments in this thread, there are several I agree strongly with (these are the highlights, but I agree with these comments entirely):

> Any company that offers me better compensation with the same work-life balance is one I'd jump ship for immediately.

> Oh, I don't have "passion" for the product? Who gives a shit? I have passion for doing the best work I possibly can if I hire on to your company.

> After that 1st phone call it's not about the product or the company anymore, it's all about testing you

> Hiring in software is completely broken.

> I currently work in water management software.

My own take: imagine I wrote all of those interesting tidbits, and eventually I see myself going back to slinging code for physics labs somewhere in the country, which is how I started. My first web dev project was a CRUD lab management application that went on to be used for years after they had bought a solution. That project really mattered and I hope to one day feel that kind of fulfillment from my code again.
Depending on the words, it is entirely illegal in many countries around the world. The USA is behind the curve on that.
What about cigarettes, lead pipes, lead paint? There's quite a few chemicals/toxins that were in use for thousands of years before any did anything about them. Even something as simple as hygiene is new to doctors as of the 18th century.
ouch, i linked to the edit screen, and theres no way to delete submissions. this will be here forever haha.
This is a really cool project! Will definitely be useful. Quick question about what the motivation behind the project was.
It seems worse for some videos too which made me think it was YouTube but I can't see YouTube inserting ads mid-video or a few seconds before the end of a video. It's local ads too for my small town so it's targeted very precisely to me.

Other crap is resetting the opt-out after a software update. And also putting the agree or disagree checkbox on a separate page than the actual terms you just read. You read it on one page then exit, look at a bunch of terms and scroll to find the matching document that has the agree or disagree checkbox for one of the TOS documents you read. It's a mess.

Never buy a smart TV just buy a monitor without any smarts.

The sound cuts out on it too you'll miss every few words almost as if it were censoring it.

I'm afraid someday it will not work if it can't update its OS.
If you learn enough languages and their features, then aside from syntax, you can consider yourself language-agnostic. A syntax without its edge cases is the easiest part about learning a language. Your exposure puts you a step ahead.

How can only knowing a small number of languages make someone a bad developer? As a developer, it's about the things you can develop. You might be limited by your language and the language implementations but this is why being rounded with a good variety of languages puts you at an advantage.

My first programming language was PHP 15 years ago, but I keep myself proficient with a systems language (e.g. C or C++), a server application language (like Go), and a web client side language (like JavaScript). I have chosen to work with C++, Go, and TypeScript as much as possible for now.

I hope this helps in any way.
Except if the drone you hack has the "access code" to let it fly in sensitive areas.
>"...the benefits outweigh the costs.."

I agree with this sentiment, but it seems the costs are only considered after public outcry, not from scientific understanding or economics. It's often cheaper to let people get hurt.
Users are jumping ship to Instagram. Once they duplicated the functionality it was the nail in the coffin for snap. If I had a ton of cash lying around I’d short the stock to zero. Insta was Facebooks greatest acquisition.
"Just because you got in doesn't mean that you should go". With the amount of high school students being prepared nearly around the clock to gain admission into college, there looks to be a great deal of FOMO. From parents to students to possibly school administrations. Not many stop to question is the student themselves ready for College or will they wash out with tons of debt?
I'm not sure it's 50 inch, UHD, 4K so possibly UHDxxxx something.

It's is incredibly annoying to have numerous ads in every video. I even tried to see what was going on using Wireshark but it was beyond my capabilities.
I had the great fortune of knowing Andrzej Jesmanowicz, one of the participants in this story. He did MRI research at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was also a helicopter pilot, skydiver (how I met him), and total maniac in the best possible way. Andre died in 2016 and some of his friends got together to spread his ashes over Wisconsin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZhCCohSBg
Actually, simple off-the-shelf weapons are extremely effective against drones. A 12ga loaded with #9 pellets can easily defeat any off-the-shelf drone. And to boot, the pellets fall harmlessly back to the Earth if fired into the air.
I am against free speech and a free society and I am proud to say that.
Note that the asycn/await syntax, coroutines, an asyncio are 3 independents part. If you do not like callback and Future have a look at trio[1] that takes a quite different approach.

http://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Tesla Stock’s Surge Puts Convertible Bonds in the Money
This might be interesting reading. Comments on rust's approach to async from green thread.

https://aturon.github.io/blog/2016/08/11/futures/
Thanks a lot, I'm actually so embarrassed right now. Never confidently log onto Hacker News drunk and expect to contribute in a meaningful way.
Laughed pretty hard
Effing thank you. I don't think most people realize just how convenient green threads are. It kills me to see devs stuck in the local maximum of callback hell.

That sad, https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc12/atc12-f... raises some interesting points in defense of one-way RPC. The key is not to allow returns.
Back in the 90s I read about this new HDTV thing they had in Japan and how they could play TEN player bomberman on it - mind blown.

SNES bomberman 3 I believe actually supports five players (one on joypad port 1 and four more via multitap on port 2). Runs great on Retropie, my nephews love it.
> What was Python's killer app?

Not a killer app, but the fact you have so many ML frameworks

> What is Rust's killer app?

That's clearly Servo.

> Go?

It was docker which really made Go take off, it was their first big platform.

> Kotlin's?

Android compatibility, before that it was a niche language not being picked up much.
I want to do D, and it'll be easier to do A, B, C first.

A turned out harder than expected; B had challenges, some seemly insurmountable, some merely incredibly tedious. C looks even worse.

I'm exhausted, lost interest in D. But I "should" continue. I give up... a failure.

All because A, B, C make D "easy".
Three thousand dollars will get you options until 2020 that you can cash in for $50k worth. You don't need a ton of cash if you think they're going to zero.
I can't begin to express my horror at the idea of a well-meaning parent funneling their child into a pit of abhorrent fear-mongering, bigotry, and conspiracy theories. I sincerely hope this was a weird joke.
I'm sorry, but he's a crank, as called by somebody else in said thread. Down vote me if you want, it's a shared opinion, regardless of Carl's cult of personality.

Very childish.
> Trying to figure out how a cake baker with 1 store front is NOT allowed to discriminate, but multi billion dollar multinational companies are allowed to... ?

In the US legal context, what determines the permissibility of discrimination is the grounds on which one discriminates.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
Never heard of killdozer, thanks for sharing!
Cry, Nazi bitch, cry.
For used cars there's always room for negotiating, but for new cars I felt the pricing was standardized through TrueCar (and their derivatives, like Costco Auto, Amex Cars, Overstock Cars). Is that not true?
An apt name though, Discord.
"But the real name of the user should be revealed only to a small circle of people involved in the court case, Spero said."
Tesla Possibly Going Private
And we're going further, with async/await http://aturon.github.io/2018/04/24/async-borrowing/
Why is it a problem for Twitter if they push the hate elsewhere? Of course accounts publishing outwardly racist or otherwise bigoted content should be banned, just like they'd get insta-banned from HN. That's what makes this a nice place, unlike Twitter.
Wait... we were talking about ease of access right?

Just re-reading the getting started guide for flutter, you need a set of tools, the flutter SDK, xcode etc.

That's not one command.

The same goes for React Native, you need node and xcode for building locally just like with flutter.

I am talking about the advantage expo offers to try React Native without any tools.

Heck you could try it in an iPad only if you'd want.
This has some interesting-seeming camera related items but doesn't contain a .xcodeproj, making it hard to compile. ;)
> Lambda calculus doesn't have a concept of its own expressions being data manipulated by lambda calculus. There is no quote operator in lambda calculus.

McCarthy himself noted this about Lambda Calculus and came up with EVAL. In fact several people have also noticed this. They simply shrugged and delta-ruled all the things.
Does anyone truly believe that regulation is going to fix that in a way that leaves people the ability to freely express their thoughts -- something that is and should be a human right?

I think the real issue here is that social media has moved us to a place where people's real thoughts are visible to all, and the problem we need to solve is how society will work now that the genie is out of the bottle. Social media isn't the cause, it's helped us see the world more clearly.

Solving that problem is going to mean empowering people with the knowledge and tools to assess the quality of information they read and make decisions backed by critical thinking. This is a problem that needs to be solved by society, and expecting a governing body to prescribe to us how our society is meant to think is no solution.
There's just one small problem: Blockchains are massive, slow, and it takes new users hours or days to join an old blockchain. Once those miiiinor problems are solved, I'll agree.

It makes sense as a store of value. But a realtime database that requires rapid, possibly millisecond-accurate entries? It just hasn't happened yet. Not on a scale that works in practice, anyway.

Example: I tried to use Namecoin a couple days ago. I got bored and quit after a few hours of "Synchronizing network". It seems to have consumed several GB. I just wanted to register a .bit domain. I didn't even get to "How do I acquire namecoin?" because (a) there is no clear "go here and pay this dude" service, and (b) you have to have GBs of free space just to try it. Such experiences are typical of blockchain, and this seems to murder consumer adoption.
That's not a personal attack, it's an honest question.
> decentralized social media hasn't had its try for the title yet

That depends on the answer to your first question. If HN is considered social media, then Usenet needs to be considered social media. In which case decentralized social media already had a good run, but users eventually came to prefer centralized systems.
Neuromorphic computing with multi-memristive synapses [pdf]
I think the proper "role" of congress is to send a message to silicon valley: fix the mess you've created, or we're going to fix it for you.

That there's a serious problem has been obvious for quite some time now, and Silicon Valley has hardly even tried to do anything about it. More likely, they've tended to tune their algorithms to best profit from it.

I'm a small government guy, but if they continue with this disingenuous "we had no idea!" song and dance for much longer, I'd fully support bringing a very big hammer down on the bigger players.
Warner Music Group Sells Entire Stake in Spotify
Sounds like an example of Goodhart's Law: "When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric."

Optimizing for something as abstruse as "engagement" seems like a great way to completely ignore everything that actually makes social networks compelling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
How difficult would it be to replace current oxide layers with something like BeO?
Solution: free day care. It’s a win for taxpayers if those parents go to work and pay taxes instead of staying home with the kids. Also a win for women’s liberation.
Maybe not consciously, but they absolutely do subconsciously.

When you've spent a long time dealing with blindingly or subtly hateful plugs and sockets, a connector like lightning seems utterly magical. I appreciate its ergonomics every time I plug my phone in.
In Japan, Tesla supplies the adapters to use CHAdeMO.
I'm in the same, but get the opposite idea. I procastinate in build the language I want (a relational engine, not a DB, a language) always thinking "Is better to let that to pros".

But more time I do the same things over and over, more I'm convinved I could abstract my main tasks (around data manipulation) in a simple language:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8ygbvy/state_of_rust_...

But the idiot of me think "and the let's use Rust... how hard it can be?". And now.. is HARD! Sadly, Swift was ruled out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/8zb9y1/state_of_swif...

and don't wanna do C/C++.

I expect the language to be a glorified DSL that is just about data, parsing, loading data, moving data, converting from this to that and a way better (I hope!) than ORM for interfacing to RDBMS.
Japan would not have the low reproduction rate it has if it made it easier for women to have kids and also stay in the workforce. Amazingly, women don't like giving up their entire societal and intellectual life to have a baby and live, isolated, in a tiny apartment. Japan's low birthrate is in part a symptom of the fact that motherhood is a career death sentence there. To be crude and still discriminatory, even a half-assed, difficult, crippled career limping along after motherhood would be much more motivating than the zero currently allowed in Japan.

(BTW, the previous HN discussion referenced above is definitely worth referencing if a reader wants a more wide-ranging discussion.)
Fracking, and development of all that domestic shale oil that became economical to exploit when oil prices were through the roof previously, as I understand it.
What does this title even mean? We aren't at peak social media until we are embedded in a mechano-biological matrix hive mind. I'm not joking.
Did you stop to think that the reason you like dart so much is that you're coming from javascript?

JS is not a real language, coming from python.
Day care in the US is a huge problem. It's hard work to find it, and then it's quite strict/constrained on hours.
Unless you want to buy more shares from the shorters or liquidity from the traders. Markets need sellers and market makers.
Any proprietary communications platform meant primarily for communicating between humans can be referred to as a social network. It's a pretty broad definition in my mind.
I was baffled that the university appeared to get away with just "oops, we'll stop doing it now". Years and years of something this serious should be enough to end an institution.
At least your honest about it. Hypocrites who claim to support free speech and a free society while seeking to silence those who disagree are despicable.
It was noticed that those who were in more higher education went on to achieve more success later in life (where success is often more income, but obviously many other things too). Over time some inferred causality from this: clearly the reason why some were successful was because they had a degree or even a masters or PhD. Thus in order to encourage success, it was decided that higher education should be strongly recommended as a means to achieve success.

But what was not considered was that the causality here could be incorrect, instead showing us that people with traits optimized for success in life chose to enroll in higher education to use the additional knowledge and experience as a catalyst for their success (or they just otherwise loved academia or learning).

Due to the extent of which this first hypothesis was treated as a fact, we are left with a system that attempts to reinforce it at many levels of society, ignoring the large cost that it takes.
I see you have not read the article.
Thanks for the details. I would love to read still more about it to learn from the experience. E.g., What would be examples of the boxing-unboxing loop. All you have described seems worthy of a more detailed blog article in its own right. :-) Thanks.
That‘s simply wrong. We don‘t have a speed limit because the majority of the people would hate that.

On the other hand, German carmakers have a longstanding gentleman‘s agreement to electronically limit their cars to 250 km/h. Seems they can live with limits.
I would add on the Cons that Flutter is a bit more verbose than React-native since it does not have JSX. And also on the Pros that the community is much nicer on Flutter, RN is Facebook's own pet project and it's very visible when you run into issues.
5 miles of range per hour of charging, presumably?
> The Discord app, which allows users to chat anonymously with one another, was allegedly used to organize the Charlottesville violence.

If they found her then it would seem discord isn't really anonymous?

> (Last year, the app kicked a number of white supremacists off the platform, attempting to return to its original target audience of gamers.)

How do the kick people off an anonymous platform? Seems they would have to identify them first.

Anyway, I normally come down on the free speech side of things, but this person seems to have been inciting violence and that is a very sensible place to draw the line on where free speech ends. Instead of trying to remove her anonymity why aren't they charging her directly?
Drones by default have that "access code" now. There are guidelines/rules to generally keep us away from airports, but it's not a physical restriction for the device.
Title 17 Chapter 10 only seems to go up to § 1010 on easily accessible public online sources. Is there a canonical way to look up what this actually means ? It seems questionable on first amendment rights anyway.
I wish there was one of these that actually reversed the protocol so you can use username/password. Unless I'm mistaken, token is an opt-in/out feature for each slack admin.
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