skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: Nevermind, realized I was on the test domain instead of the `en` domain. All is well. :)

Odd... I made an account (@keb) and made a post while at work, but as I got home and attempted to log in, it seems like my account had been deleted. Just remade it.

Anyway, I have no experience with Go, but I'll definitely consider as I play around with this more. :)
I've been here long enough right? I've seen it happen, my share of [dead] comments.
No clue, didn't want to know anything.

I was naturally curious but I got the feeling knowing anything would be looked down upon. I could guess but it would be just wild speculation, there was no information to make anything near an educated guess. Military site is all I knew. It could have been anything.

I was happy to do the job and go home.
“When work crews pulled open a broken BART escalator at San Francisco's Civic Center Station last month, they found so much human excrement in its works they had to call a hazardous-materials team.“ (July, 2012)
https://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Human-waste-shuts-down-...

On the other hand although the following article mentions human waste multiple times, it seems likely the largest factor is age:

“The escalators had once been very reliable but are now showing their age, Lemon said. The Dublin/Pleasanton escalator, on the job since 1997, and the Millbrae escalator, in service since 2003, are both closing in on 20 years, which means it’s time for an overhaul, Lemon said.“

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-breakdown-of-B...
> try drawing the simplest of all forms: a straight line

My high school algebra/geometry teacher, Fr. Arnold Perham, taught me this crucial skill almost 30 years ago and I use it frequently still and teach my own students how to do it. The trick: put your chalk/pencil/marker at the start of the segment; then look at the other end of the segment and keep your eyes there; and then draw the line. It's like magic.
“Nope, you're still not understanding. The government can't do that either, because that law would target the content of a communication”

It can, because that communication would be considered to create a hostile work environment. The most recent nominee to the SCOTUS has noted he’d consider a single use of a particularly evil racial slur to qualify for the creation of said hostile environment. (“a single verbal (or visual) incident can likewise be sufficiently severe to justify a finding of a hostile work environment”)

Your response equates slurs (words) with lynching (an incredibly violent crime). Lynching is something the government can and does prohibit with laws directly, because it’s a violent action not covered by any interpretation of the 1A. Your example of “fire in a crowded theater” is another - a word directly designed to create violence and immediate physical damage to other people. Slurs, on the other hand, the government does not prohibit directly: judges would block jail or fines for speaking such as 1A violations. Instead, they order your company to take care of it by firing you under hostile environment laws.

If your argument equating hostile environments with behavior/action, not speech, were legally correct, then the government would be permitted by judges to regulate hostile environments directly by jailing citizens who create them by doing things like e.g. watching porn, speaking a racial slur, or discussing their sex lives. I doubt that a law doing such would pass constitutional muster in today’s courts (rightly or wrongly). Nevertheless the government has had success stamping out those behaviors by having the employer do it for them.

In general I’m wondering if we are simply speaking past each other. I thought I clearly recognized that hostile environment laws are considered OK by judges despite the 1A. My main point was to show that the government, when it can find such a legal justification, can generally exert more power than a naive understanding of the 1A might suggest.
I'm not here to defend Jones, but I'd rather live in a world where people decide to avoid objectionable sources on their own, instead of some big brother or sister making that decision for me.

I see the world of information like an immune system. If your system is active and repelling threats, it gets stronger. If you are never allowed to see actual threats, your system atrophies and you become the intellectual equivalent of a native American when a European colonialist shows up at your door. Bad ideas from your own side will come some day, and if your big brother has been suppressing dissent enough, you'll accept those bad ideas like a lemming off a cliff.
But there's a caveat: you lose the book cover in the process. I think Amazon does that intentionally.
I agree, i think the biggest issue right now with tech VCs starting to get back into biotech is that they don't appreciate the technical / scientific risk, or think they can magic the risk away with AI. The tech VCs are renewing their interest bc they've seen that its possible to get $10B+ exits in under 5 years in biotech (KITE and JUNO got to $10B valuations faster than I think dropbox, snapchat and twitter), but i think some of them misunderstand the risk, as you mention, and will get burned

Cycles times are costly / more expensive, and companies usually only get a handful of chances to get it right. And it's too expensive to try to manage this risk through diversification alone -- cost of failure is too high. That's why biotech VCs spend so much time on diligence -- mostly scientific diligence -- compared to tech counterparts
This is the top comment I came here for. I really hope there is a way to turn off all the "machine learning stuff" because I would rather not sacrifice any of my personal data so that Google can better predict how to "optimize my phone experience". My human brain learns the random quirks of an OS in a matter of days, I don't need the OS brain trying to learn how I use it, as it would be confusing for both of us.

I just wish there was a global "NO NO and NO!" override button for any kind of "help make your service better by using your personal information" feature. Just recently, I discovered that www.google.com was also accessing my Chrome browser's location, and I can not recall when I said "yes" to any such location prompt. It's a bit sad -- I think of these features as being intentionally obfuscated similarly to how Facebook intentionally obfuscates their "account deletion" mechanism.

I'm afraid the majority of people just don't care about these needlessly nosy "smart" systems, and I'm probably going to suffer from it as someone in the privacy-niche.
How is no FCC better than the current FCC? How would you propose we regulate the use of radio bandwidth? Cell phones, wifi, bluetooth, all would be impossible without the FCC. Net neutrality can never be enforced by a non-existing entity. Congress ultimately has the final say over what the FCC may or may not decide. The accountability is there. If the current rules are broken, that's a problem to fix, not to give up on.
Sure, I can talk a bit about it.

Essentially, the problem (like all other ad opt. problems) boils down to estimating the expected value of a particular click. This is a particularly challenging/weird problem in this space because unlike other segments of ecommerce, you can't successfully optimize for correlated metrics such as engagement. So, it's a heavily imbalanced problem (i.e. few positive examples, lots of negative examples). In addition to that, the buying characteristics of specific products are heavily related to one another so sales on one affect how we advertise the other. There are a number of other subtleties discovered over time.

Our software produces good bid estimates despite these characteristics.
Re: this exercise highlights a great amount of ignorance around bicycles. I purpose society would benefit from better bicycle education.

You don't have to understand or remember technical details to ride a bike: you just hop on and go (once you learn to ride). It's not like you have to rebuild one every time you hop on: they pretty much stay as they are. Let's not invent problems that are not real problems.

Sure, it's good to know how to lubricate, maintain, and inspect a bicycle, but even such an education won't necessarily make one remember the physical location of all the parts from raw memory.

I suppose in an extreme case the bar between the peddles and the back tire could just fall off, and a typical rider wouldn't notice it's missing until something bad happens. But this is probably a one in a million event such that it's not worth hours of education to prevent. It's like meteor insurance. People tend to skip inspections out of laziness anyhow, even if trained.
It'd suggest reading the article before spreading harmful misinformation.
Found this saying Voyager has a pointing accuracy of 0.1 degrees:
https://www.quora.com/How-precise-are-spacecrafts-like-New-H...

From the distance of Voyager, I doubt it makes any difference where Earth is for pointing the antenna. As in, it is pointing to the same spot no matter the day or season. They probably dial in an inertial coordinate and that is it.
Was gonna say, it sounded like HostGator.

One of the HostGator former admins actually doxxed one of my old accounts on reddit by typing my full name in response to some random comment. When I asked him how he knew it, it's because my reddit username was the same as my domain name at the time, and he remembered looking through my server. Whenever the admins would get bored, they'd just dig through peoples' servers and see what they had. He remembered mine because I had a lot of sheet music on it.

They get people like this because they put their admins through the puppy mill process. Basically hire anyone not braindead, train them to do basic shit, and then pay them peanuts. The company men eventually get a high position in the hierarchy for a negligible pay bump and then help keep the new ones in line.

Such a shitty company, but I don't host anything sensitive there and it's been reliable for the last 10 years so I haven't migrated anything yet.
> organizers realized they needed more information and materials from the original authors;

Then the study already isn't replicable by definition, so why waste time asking the original authors? Just mark it down as 'not replicable' and move on.
For what is worth, those commentators are actually very good players. Every year they team up in the qualifiers for the world championship and they usually make it very far.
> I discovered that www.google.com was also accessing my Chrome browser's location, and I can not recall when I said "yes" to any such location prompt

This is the worst when traveling through Europe. Cross a border and suddenly all Google services are in a language you don't speak.
Electing the FCC makes no sense. The rules are set by Congress, who we do elect. The FCC interprets and enforces those rules, but if they make poor decisions, Congress can change the rules.
Though e-lisp is great and I appreciate the power and regularity of Emacs, Vi(m)'s mode-full, default cmd-mode editing that doesn't require ctrl + meta + esc left_foot_pedal + wink-wink-nudge-nudge... seems so much nicer to me than insert-by-default editing - thank goodness there are vim plugins everywhere.

The TRS-80 Level II line editor was very much in the spirit of "em", along with other BASICs of the day.

And perhaps a nod to the even more cryptic Teco.
From what I hear, the lower mobility is endemic to biotech culture. The only folks who are able to run significant research programs are junior faculty poached from the nearby medical schools. If you are a fresh PhD or postdocs you have a low ceiling on growth potential and starting salary. This is probably due to a glut of cheap highly educated (PhD+) labor in the life sciences - way more so than CS. Also, at these biotechs, the software/informatics/stats folks are just playing support roles and are treating accordingly in terms of autonomy and compensation.

This is mostly heresay from folks I know from my PhD days in a computational life science field in Boston. The other computational folks I know have either tried to stick it through in academia or have left for greener pastures in software. The wet lab people who joined biotechs are not thrilled.
The hiking in the midwest is hardly comparable to the hiking in the rockies and west coast. It's hardly even comparable to the hiking on the east coast.

There's some good rock climbing sure, but there's no alpine climbing.
I don’t know really. My wife, who is from the region, is the only person I’ve heard call it that now that I think about it. I find it amusing though so now I do too.
It's not as bad as it sounds. The bots are hard-coded to follow a item guide that is published by TorteDeLini, but at the same time many human players do the exact same thing. I'd say that most players blindly follow those guides from 1.5K to the low 3K mmr brackets most games.
I would love to see a night-mode solution for televisions, either via an HDMI pass-through device or a film if necessary.

Do any products exist for that use case?
macOS and iOS also have Night Shift these days which is the same feature baked in.
What I found interesting in Apple’s earnings is how little money they need to pour into R&D and operating expenses. This leaves a huge retained earnings which has resulted in them having so much cash left over. It’s super easy for Cooke to indulge himself and enter new markets, but he’s an operations guy and it’s nice to see he’s sticking to his core competency. I’d be a bit nervous to see another CEO come along and try to be the next Steve Jobs (with a high chance of failing at that) and burning through billions of dollars.
> For military, yes. For civil, that's going a bit too far into the dystopian realm.

Destroying the devices might go a bit far, but there are plenty of jobs that require things like phones going into a drawer before a shift starts. Not everyone is always on all the time.
cant the loophole here be simply that you have agreed to a TOS with FB, where they said they wont be sharing data, but you may have agreed to the TOS of the bank who says they share with third parties to determine credit worthiness etc.

so then FB pay the bank for your financial data anf FB then mines said data they purchsed from entity you authorised to do so... then FB "anonymizes" data which it in turn sells as a product whereby the completeness and/relevance value of the productized FB data is higher as it is informed by the data that they purchased.

pluas it is trivial for facebook to correlate you with your bank and etc...

so, yeah, looks like fb can evily get around stupid TOS checks.
Thanks; that's helpful. One point confuses me:

> Only two major browser vendors also operate a distinct major trust store. If you're Microsoft (IE, Edge) or Apple (Safari) this is de facto not a problem since you also control the OS.

> For Chrome the OS trust store is used, (on Android this of course is Google's trust store but on a desktop it isn't) but, Chrome layers some Google policy rules on top.

If only two major browser vendors operate a distinct major trust store, and they aren't Microsoft or Apple, I infer that Google operates a distinct major trust store (along with Mozilla). But that seems to contradict the second statement: Why operates a trust store that you don't use. For ChromeOS?
Microsoft reverts decision to discontinue Skype 7 (Skype Classic) after backlash
One can't even sync Fitbit without the GPS on. I just want to count my steps, and bluetooth is not enough? For at least Fitbit, the rule should be not to own one.
Did you miss the part where I said "I'm not saying private entities should be subject to the 1st Amendment"?

My point was "free speech" is not synonymous with "The 1st Amendment". The former is a general concept and the latter is one way we protect it in the United States.
Not just you, hope can turn off, do not want.
Well, regulatory capture is the problem here [1]. The FCC crooks were appointed by elected crooks. If the US didn't elect crooks, we wouldn't have this FCC.

Electing crooks, of course, is a very old tradition. When it's blunt, it looks like the Credit Mobilier scandal in 1867 [2]. When it's a little more subtle, it might look like LBJ destroying Leland Olds' reputation to keep him off the Federal Power Commission [3].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit_Mobilier_of_Americ...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Olds#Unsuccessful_re-no...
The usual Facebook move! Why are people surprised here?
"Such patients" means women who had heart attacks. Apparently, "years of experience" doesn't necessarily mean the same thing? Maybe some kinds of experience are better than others?

But if you really want to dig into this you'll probably have to read the paper.
I don't think either language I mentioned there could offer you 12 productivity against the rest. Yeah, people have preference, for sure, but if you can build something in a month time using Node, someone else could probably clone it with Python/PHP in a month time as well.

Whether you can sell your startups or not, is a completely different matter
There are a number of excellent artists who have cerebral palsy or tetraplegia. If you have limited fine motor control, you can paint or draw in large-format using gross movements. If you shake or twitch, you can work in mosaic, collage or pixel art. If you can't grasp objects, you can use a typewriter to make pointillist drawings.
On some keyboards it matters which keys you happen to be pressing at the same time, depending on how the matrix is laid out.

So it might be only 2KRO, depending on which keys you're pressing. Just unlucky if those keys happen to be "W" and "A".
On iOS 11 just long press on the brightness control to get a flux-like feature
There's no way letting him have access to millions of people via these giant platforms can go wrong either.

Gotta preserve that freedom of expression and the marketplace of ideas.
It's actually been added into the tutorial - if you pull it's there.
What's wrong with prosecuting public officials who lie to the public? Make all official statements de facto under oath.
> You drove to the site knowing it would all be gone and a strong warning not to turn around if you were near the gate because you just remembered you had your phone in your rental car.

Forgive my denseness (maybe it's because I just woke up), but I'm having a hard time figuring this bit out. If you're near the base, as in not-quite-on the property, you could be anyone, with any arbitrary selection of interesting equipment that needs to drive up to the base then away again. Is it timing - as in, driving away and back will take far too long and make you late?

> We went through a lot of equipment.

On your own dime? :/ I would hope a base like this provides all contractors a reasonable "security enforcement viability" fund, or something like that :)

> I don't even know what the faculty looks like

Wait. What gate were you referring to before, then? Some point you were transported from, but which wasn't the actual location? Hm, perhaps this explains the "don't turn around" bit.

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Unfortunately I can't find it right now, but I remember the (possibly-apocryphal?) story of the random server, deep in a secure facility, that was part of a botnet. The person who found it didn't think it looked particularly like a honeypot; it was an actual database or equivalent sort of machine. The person informed various higher-ups, but despite the report being acknowledged nothing was ever done to fix it.
The second class citizen for software/stats/informatics is indeed generally true but not universal. It seems like the trend is in the right direction at least. My workplace is definitely changing in that regard.
I can understand some of the fears of her constituents who purchased houses on large lots and have seen houses in those neighborhoods torn down for multi-family dwellings.

More density is something Austin requires but that of course involves transforming the nature of neighborhoods and whether that's gentrification of the East Side with yuppie condos replacing traditional black and hispanic neighborhoods or tasteful (imo) multi-family residences in traditionally genteel white suburban neighborhoods, it's something out of everyone's hands.

People in Austin and other cities are resistant to change for a host of reasons both legitimate and not. Change is inevitable though. Fortunately I'm not a native and I don't have strong ties to the area so I'm preparing to move back home before the next 1.5 million people move here in the next decade. I'm planning to hold onto my relatively large lot and house and rent it for entirely selfish reasons, though.

It's the pace of change that locals can't handle, and part of it is all the outside money transforming the city for its own profit, the city and its neighborhoods and people be-damned.
I'm concerned by the fact that this response to blue LEDs, while founded on reasonable sounding theory theory, doesn't seem to have much high quality, real-world data AFAIK (e.g. insomnia in houses with blue LEDs vs not, comparisons between people using the glasses mentioned vs not, average bedtimes of people correlated with tv usage, any studies looking for causal links in day to day life, etc). Such studies might exist, but I don't think I've seen or heard them referenced, just mentions of how blue light decreases measured meletonin or what not in clinical settings. Mostly I just hear anecdotes from people who have fully bought into the line that this is a serious problem that requires time and money thrown at it about how awesome their life is now that they've gone out of their way to reduce blue light exposure, opening them right up to the placebo effect.

I'm double concerned since the answer for this seems to be "buy more stuff" and "blindly assume blue == bad without followup research or verification". This is one of those situations where it's pretty easy for companies to swoop in and offer at-best ineffective and at-worst actively harmful products to solve a problem that might or might not exist.
Ive had to walk customers around 'the long way' when showing new technology. (private sector)

Tape on phone screens and always with someone(me).

Although I feel like social engineering is really the easy way in. "forgetting ID" if you were a cute girl or young kid would be too easy.
The DoD, Intelligence Community, and US government as a whole is subject to the same rules as everyone else, and would get into huge trouble from the FCC if it was found out that they did that.

On an side note, like other federal laws, the DoD is subject to endangered species laws, and actually take a lot of care to make sure they do not endanger them, which is made fun of here:

https://terminallance.com/2017/01/17/terminal-lance-453-ceas...
It's an interesting article, but a better title would be "How the Netherlands were dredged without fossil fuels".

The article makes note of how wind power was used pre-electricification at several points (windmills, specialized sailboats) so they're not oblivious to that obvious answer.

Since it can be periodic and during daytime surely electric dredgers with umbilicals could do some of the heavy pumping based off a wind and solar powered grid. Would be interesting to see the dredging power requirements vs local renewable resources.
it's also a boon towards eventually 3d printing the scaffolding instead of using a pregrown one
The Power of Prolog: An Introduction to Modern Prolog
Could they cram the world Machine Learning into the article much more? If this was 12 months ago, replace every instance of the word Machine Learning with "blockchain"... Oh boy, gotta love buzzwords.
"We only burn the bad books!"
Doesn’t go as far. Colour filters in ios accessibility do more.
A hazmat team of 6 in bunny suits arrived each morning for the Hamilton VTA light rail stop in San Jose when I lived there.

That stop has an outdoors elevator, and somebody was wiping shit all over the keypad daily. So reality is even more vile than any urban legend.