skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it mail that you're building (with attachments to messages), or a messaging platform? Not necessarily instant messaging, but say, the type of inter-user messaging on phpBB forums.

You may have some luck with looking for a messaging library of some kind, instead of a mail platform. Not too email based, not too IM based, and not too social.

Instead of paring down phpBB, something like discourse may be easier to pare down, or fit outright. https://www.discourse.org/

Still, if I was looking for a github project that was very clean and simple.. it might be a one table message queue solution for this, where it has date-time/from/to/content/status columns, I'd almost wonder if it wouldn't be quicker just to implement than to find something and integrate.

If there's any chance the messaging functionality had to grow, I'd try to find an xmpp based messaging library that had a message store in it instead of IM - this would give me a migration/upgrade path to other features, and standardize if needed.
Angela Merkel has lost positive control over her own country
Well in the early 80's I entered fortran code that an Engineer had written onto coding sheets for our two phase flow simulator

And I suspect that this went on longer in traditional big iron shops.
In India, not only are ground floors often numbered 0, subterranean ones are in many places numbered -1, -2.
> But the fact they keep on using "military grade tech" makes me lose most of my faith in the merit of the article.

This description has been paraded around ever since the original Munro comment using those words. I'm still waiting for someone to actually explain what they meant by that. Does that mean MIL spec components? Does it mean an approach to board layout or packaging? Or does it just mean that it looks like a modern high quality design?

Of course a Tesla is going to have fancy power electronics in their vehicles, and these will obviously look more sophisticated than some off-the-shelf ICE car's ECU. Its kinda a design requirement for a high performance electric car.
I use Linux exclusively across all of my computers. The biggest problem is touch support - you can get drivers working fine, but the ecosystem is terrible. Open Source applications are an entire generation behind on basic gesture support. The best drawing apps on Linux don't even support pinch-to-zoom.

This is a solvable problem that I expect to improve, albeit probably not any time soon, and I'm still incredibly frustrated by it right now. Seriously people, just test your software, even a little bit, on a convertible device.

But... if you're not an artist, and you're not using a tablet, and you have someone who can even just help you get set up a little, you kinda, maybe, probably should be at least looking at Linux? Especially if you're using a computer as a professional.

It used to not be this way at all, but I think that modern Linux is generally way more stable than Mac or Windows, and is generally easier to work with for professionals. It's starting to reach the point where it may be easier for low-tech users as well, since you can get someone else to set up a computer with exactly the stuff you want, and then only install security updates.

It's a major selling point for me to be able to go to someone and say, "Hey, Ubuntu will support an LTS for 5 years. You won't need to change a single thing about your interface, and everything will just keep working."
Why not both? https://github.com/icopp/react-redux-provider-consumer
None of this is relevant though. You're comparing critical acclaim with the opinion of the masses, while what's being discussed is the reaction of the masses based on pre-viewing marketing (views) vs the reaction of the masses _after_ having seen the movie (reviews).

You conjured the objection to professional critics out of whole cloth to bolster the weak argument that the opinion of the masses who've watched the movie in question is not _precisely_ what they should be optimizing for.

Views that a user is dissatisfied with is obviously not good for the user. While just as directly profitable for Netflix, it's also something they should seek to minimize in favor of satisfied views (ie views that would lead to good reviews), as it can be a leading indicator for "I don't like much of what I watch on Netflix" --> "I'm going to watch less Netflix". The latter is obviously not something Netflix wants, both in terms of ability to acquire content and potential loss of subscriptions on the margins.
I also assume that the further you get from overt discrimination based on a protected class the less issue you’re likely to run into. After all, ads on sites or magazines have to be selectively run and each site or magazine has some demographic.

Added: HUD lists some advertising practices that it prohibits but obviously the smaller the scale and the grayer the intent, the less likely a complaint.
Please elaborate. Why using Fedora when I could go with CentOS?
London museum is livestreaming a key 21st-century artifact: festering sewage
Nope. Pumped storage is between 70 and 80 percent efficient, this is 85 percent efficient. Remember, with pumped storage, the pumps/turbines are usually centrifugal vanes, not displacement pumps. So, there’s quite a bit of inefficiency caused by fluid drag and leakage/backflow, like in an automatic car transmission without a torque converter. With a crane, the motor is directly geared to the weight.
It's definitely feasible IMHO:

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/ditch-the-batteries-o...
#1 is oft-repeated advice, but as a dev this is a great way to end up with another static site generator, obscure javascript library or css framework.

Might be better to apply this to non-coding domains, or applications that "normal" people will use.
Pencils for me. Hi Uni HB is what is mostly use. There’s just something about writing using something made of only three natural things. This pencil isn’t cheap either.
If Tesla were actually so far ahead that his tech represented an advantage when applied in a military context, he'd no longer be able to export it much less share the tech by building in China.

I really don't see that happening based on the article here.
I had prior experience with other programming / scripting languages, and picking Python up felt very natural.

I started with Mark Lutz's Learning Python (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596513986.do) about 10 years ago.
In the meanwhile I've been an active contributor to large Python-based open source projects, e.g., Salt (https://github.com/saltstack/salt) which not only that it helped me get feedback from people with a tremendous experience, but also reading through the code taught me good practices and many good ways to solve various problems.
A few months ago I started reading Luciano Ramalho's Fluent Python (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do) which is just beautifully written and with a wide variety of topics for a deeper look inside Python internals.
Many of our biggest hydro facilities in the USA are smack in the middle of the desert.
One of the ways in which admins often treat instances like their own petty fiefdom is cutting off communication with other instances that don't toe the line. So sure, you can move instances - just don't rely on being able to contact your friends anymore if you do. (Some instances even have a whitelist of instances that are allowed to follow and interact with their users, with everyone else blocked.)
Austrian version: http://fruitmap.at/
Reading charitably, perhaps they meant: it was bad in the case, but it isn't always a bad thing.
It's not at all hard to "interact with" reviews on mobile or with a remote.

Talking about a popup is a non sequitur, it's not like the web site does that.
“The big social media sites are in the process of evicting everyone who doesn't 100% agree with them”

That is a flat-out lie, unless you disagree with the terms of service. Find me one person that was booted that wasn’t booted for violating the ToS.
No love for Hackintosh? I run all of my machines with High Sierra and they are rock solid.
Some coverage of Austria as well.
I can get behind or at least validate the concerns of everything here except "…bodies who…"

If this language aims to show the blunt physical way that others dehumanize the people in question… well, that's not clear. Maybe exploitive actors see others as just "bodies", but that's not a good way to see people.

The concept of a "person" is bigger than just their physical body, in the same way that this sentence is bigger than just a bunch of binary numbers.

If you want to highlight the dehumanizing, objectifying way that power sees people, it would be "…bodies that…"

Using "who" makes it seem like you think you can refer to people as "bodies" in a way that is non-objectifying…
San Francisco is like a distopian future from an 80s movie where those with money have the latest technology and skate around on electric scooters while the ignored underclass don't even have access to basic amenities and live in tents.
Using “tweet” infringes on Twitter’s trademark.

(IANAL, but former tweep)
Newer drivers. They are the same basic OS but it’s not a server so you actually care about the newness of the drivers and other client software.
... except the FHA literally has text that specifically applies to housing advertisements. They are enforcing the letter of the law.

>(c) To make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.
> Synvivia develops biomolecular ON-OFF switches to make synthetic biology safe for use outside of the laboratory.

Yep...then the on-off switch jumps species and the only way to survive is to consume a particular (patent pending) brand of parsnip which can't be grown from seed.

Pretty much the only place I could reasonably be accused of being a luddite is in releasing GM organisms into the wild.
The LinkedIn profile is that photo now.
Upfront costs can sink a project, but so can ongoing maintenance. Materials that don't foul as easily have a long term advantage. And when there's a drought people won't be too happy about all that fresh water you're taking to make electricity ('course, how much water does it take to make a cubic foot of concrete, cradle to grave?).
The day 'discrimination' happens to you, you'll sing a different tune.
that's very kind gesture :) this idea is very good but it would be a shame if it cost people too much!
Time and time again, I cannot believe people recommend a company that installed spyware in their hardware.

I will never ever buy a Lenovo. It doesn't matter that it didn't affect the ThinkPad line.
Yeah, but I remember when the same thing was said about Diaspora. I remember when the same thing was said about various indie game consoles. I remember when the same thing was said about a whole bunch of social network alternatives that never went anywhere.
Decades of incremental small percentage gains really adds up in overall terms.
This is similar to if the NYT ran discriminatory ads - which is an actual case from the 1980s and resulted in both notable fines, and the NYT having humans review housing ads for discriminatory practices, such as having an unrepresentably white set of models in housing ads (from one of the propublica links in some of the other comments). Same goes for craigslist, which also has to screen housing ads.

I'd argue both are responsible - the platform hosting the ad and the people making the ad.
Followed to its logical conclusion, this sort of complaint prohibits all ad targeting, and that's a very bad thing.

Practically any criterion X you might use to restrict an ad's audience will have non-uniform correlations with group demographics. You can't wish away these correlations: they're true facts about the world. These non-uniform correlations allow activists to argue that allowing advertisers to target based on X is therefore prohibited discrimination. They can repeat this process for all X.

Now, you might argue that ad targeting is bad. That's a common position on HN. But it's not true: ad targeting is good for advertisers, since it enables more efficient advertising, and it's good for users, since it subjects them to less noise and exposes them to ads more likely to be relevant to them. Ad targeting also undergirds practically the entire tech economy. That probably means you, reader of this comment.

Where exactly should restrictions on ad targeting stop?

EDIT: For clarity:

Step 1: HUD files a complaint against Facebook for allowing ad targeting based on certain criteria.

Step 2: Facebook bans advertising targeting based on the criteria in the HUD complaint.

Step 3: Advertisers react by targeting based on demographic correlates of the categories from step #1.

Step 4: HUD notices that ads are still getting delivered more to one group than another.

GOTO STEP #1.

There's no clear point at which this process stops. Demographic correlates are numerous and strong. Are you going to ban all of them? That's tantamount to banning ad targeting generally!
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I expected that. I run it in a VM and on the server and there this is obviously not that much of a challenge. Thanks for that input.
Isn't he cost of typing that statement out is less than the cost of counting N stairs, where N is usually pretty small?
The subtext of my point is that if you policed the subway beyond a certain threshold, New York might cease to be attractive to the kinds of people that find New York a uniquely livable place.

It’s not so much that the bar should be higher, so much that leaving the bar as low as it is provides a signal that contrasts the range of sky high standards New York also makes possible in other ways.

Yes, the subway sucks, but New York’s tendency is to let the full scope of humanity simply exist out in the open, as is, warts and all. This is the philosophy I take away from it.

Should the world standardize a mandatory minimum quality upon public civic spaces? If we did, wouldn’t that require cracking down on deviations from the prescribed norm? Wouldn’t that drive people out, possibly sending some to a place much worse that a dirty smelly subway tunnel? The answers to these questions aren’t cut and dry.
Heh, there are plenty of places in my area that require crossing a street to get to a sidewalk. I usually end up walking down the wrong side of the street until traffic clears enough for me to cross. Efficiency!
I think you know that's not a reasonable thing to ask for a "proof" for.

On the other hand, anything which someone claims to have proved is a reasonable thing to expect a proof for.

I'm not the one throwing clickbait headlines around.
So it eliminates the financial incentive for massive private surveillance?
Mastodon has literally no moderation tools. There is absolutely nothing to prevent impersonation or harassment.
It’s been a while since I even have a laptop (just a gaming desktop PC with Windows), but I’m glad people recommend Arch Linux.

It certainly was the best I worked with until two years ago, for several years. Sure, it’s got its quirks, but they help you a lot to learn new stuff, and after that, it’s much easier to set it up again in case you needed (I only needed it once every two years or so).
They are enforcing this part of the FHA (emphasis mine):

>(c) To make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.

If people actually did place housing discrimination ads they'd also be in violation of the law.

(In general, laws are usually written in a way to prevent profiting off of illegal behavior)
Funny, I've been a bit obsessed with counting the number of steps on stairs at home, at work, and all subway stations I pass through. Haven't thought of this before. Will have to try, but I'm afraid it'll look really weird.
Have you considered System76? I've been interested in their laptops for a while
It isn't sensitivity in the way you're thinking. The issue is that unsubstantive comments grow like weeds if we let them. Since we don't want them to take over the site, we need to not let them.
How do my followers know to follow me to the new instance? How do they know it’s actually me?
Also: UTF-8 instead of UTF-16 can make a surprising difference on memory use, especially if you interact with services in UTF-8 and so spend a lot of memory in Java copying back and forth.
If they sacrifice what is "best for the company" in order to do better for the world, they can be accused by investors as not acting in good faith on the premise of pursuing business success etc.
It stops at the product, no? It seems more acceptable to target advertisements for toys than housing.
> No one has come close to solving recommendation.

Recommendation is a solved problem from a computer science point of view. The problem with recommendation systems is that their outputs always get overridden by political and marketing concerns.
That's why you mount the heavy block on rails.

I don't see a practical problem with very heavy monolithic blocks. Over a century ago, people built perfectly stable hydraulically-powered draw bridges that have opened and closed several times per day, every day, up to the present. Sounds like a solved problem to me.
Arch is great. If not the wiki, the AUR and Trizen. Almost every piece of software I would want a few commands away.

It's also surprisingly stable.
Since, as you say, we don't have a concrete theory on what causes mutations to occur, how can you then go onto say the reason they occur is nothing more than chance?
The car lobby already created "jaywalking" https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history . Let's hope we don't end up with an even more pedestrian hostile world than what we have already.
Redundant array of independent blocks
Can you give an example of mastodon community with clearly defined and legally binding policy, that protects rights of regular users? I could not find any (doesn't mean that they don't or cannot exist, of course) and highly doubt that any admin there has motivation or resources to develop it and properly implement. Pure declarations like "we are good fellas and don't allow abuse" mean nothing - they are not enforceable and regular user cannot sue instance admin for violations.
The selling point of this is low relatively low capital cost and well tested technology. Power density is not that good, but if you have land that's not a problem.

The use of space to store energy is maybe double of what typical damn reservoir uses to store the same amount of energy.
The problem is that you cross this line a lot. I'm sure you don't mean to, but it has the effect of making you seem rude and uncivil in arguments. No doubt different cultural standards are in play, too; but HN is a highly international site, so if we're to avoid turning into a war zone, people need to err on the side of being respectful.
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> for example, a publication focused only on single gay men, if that would necessarily function as discrimination since single mothers wouldn’t be reading that publication, nor those ads.

Who is preventing a single mom from purchasing that publication?

Seriously Brian, you are ignorant, hateful asshole.
> For instance in Germany the numbers vary from 75%-90% of immigrants expected to be unable to find a job within 5 years

Given 12% of Germany is foreign born and the country has 3.5% unemployment, something feels off about these numbers and conclusions.
Should Facebook be liable for allowing an advertiser to target a housing ad at people with preferences for organic food?
Because the crane has a limit of how much it can lift. If you're suggesting a custom system, it's addressed in the article, using off-the-shelf hardware is much cheaper.
I'm going to guess it was an IBM selectric using the pica72 font typeball.

http://munk.org/typecast/2013/11/03/gp-ibm-selectric-typebal...

Bitstream has a $$ font called Pica 10 Pitch if you're interested.

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/pica-10-pitch/

n.b - the typist used lower-case L instead of the number 1.
This is a good article. I just wanted to take issue with this claim: "Twitter is a public company, funded by investor money; they thus owe a legal duty to make as much money for their investors as they can."

This is a common misconception. While public companies have some duties to shareholders they are not required to maximise profits as such: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

It's important to be aware of this so that corporations cannot use this excuse to get off the hook for otherwise immoral behaviour.
I wonder if gravity wave detection could be ever be precise enough for communication.

I wonder this because it occurs to me that one possible answer to Fermi's paradox is that aliens don't use Radio or other EM to chat.

And maybe they don't leak it because they move energy and information around more efficiently than we do.
Good point. "Technologists in management /leadership" groups need to form everywhere to get the right people speaking about topics they understand.

It's ironic that there is an imposter syndrome among competent people, and incompetent people have no issue being imposters.
Recently, I watched a few horror movies because they got good ratings (which I interpret as good-for-a-horror-movie, rather than good per se). Between seeing the rating, watching (half usually) of them and going to rate it myself, the ratings had gone from 4-5 stars to 1-2. That's a big drop in star rating in a period of, at most, 90 minutes, usually, 40.
> Most people have niche interests. Grand parents can go fishing, and registering to a fishing centric server could be great for them.

That sounds great in theory, but (1) I have a dozen different niche interests, and there's not going to be one instance with even half of them, and (2) AFAICT there is no "fishing centric server", and even the "Mastodon instances wizard" doesn't provide a way to search for them -- it's only about whether I want to allow porn/spam/ads.

Are my grandparents supposed to start their own Mastodon instance, just so they can hang with their fishing buddies online? Am I supposed to get accounts on 10 different instances, one for each of my interests?

I just don't see how this is supposed to work. Everything I read about Mastodon in the abstract is great, and then as soon as it gets into any specifics it falls down.
Exactly. The point of this idea is that it is supposed to be doable when you lack geographical features, like in the Netherlands.
Q: A big stack of concrete blocks seems to be almost purpose built for the wind (or a gigantic mutant toddler/cat) to push over. Cranes are also extremely susceptible to wind. I suppose the blocks could be engineered to interlock, but the pictures show cylinders. How do they plan to counteract the wind?
Wondering if that reason is not being necessary or beneficial?

At this point we’ve built several generations of advanced jets that’ve never seen meaningful combat or use starting with, from what I remember, the F-117.
Even if tons of intelligent civilizations happened to be radiating gravitational waves (or some other form of radiation which travels at or very close to the speed of light) encoded with information directly towards Earth right now, it's very likely we'd never receive them in the next million years due to the vastness of the universe.