skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider something like PyPi and the way in which it will host Python packages. There's times with Python that you will not know what packages are dependencies until you actually download it (this you may notice is why Pipenv will take so long to create a lock file, it has to download a ton of packages, get our your network traffic tools and have a look sometime). So I'm fairly sure there are times where the reason you don't know the dependencies exactly is because they are in some form of being unknowable. Now you might argue that such systems should be re-implemented and as a generalized goal taken in isolation I would tend to agree (improving existing code including legacy systems is something we consult on in my company). But alas in existing systems you sometimes have to deal with non-ideal circumstances that were created with non-ideal package management tools (legacy python and c++ being prime examples of difficult areas to get 100% right).
From the GDPR, Art.4 (1): "‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person".

This certainly seems to fit.
I think what I'm worried about is approaching ketosis with skepticism. Are people wrong on this? I hope not. Specifically, I remember growing up and hearing about Weight Watchers, Atkins, and a number of other trendy diets, and for some these approaches worked.

But it doesn't seem to be universal. And I don't know how much of it is personal choice and commitment or dietary reality. Are people really overeating and saying "no" less, or are our foods inherently more calorie dense? I suspect maybe it's both? I'm not sure.

The latest talk on the Internet seems to be that to burn fat, rather than just reducing caloric intake, a more effective combined effort would be to put your body in ketosis.

That being said, I grew up on being taught out of outdated health textbooks in charter school from the 70s with food pyramids. I remember the largest part of the food pyramid from the 90s being bread, cereal, rice & pasta. All foods you would religiously avoid by today's advice for weight loss.
You're being down voted for responding to a non-partisan, even handed post that doesn't blame any one faction and then going off on a partisan, cartoonishly exaggerated rant of exactly the kind the poster was appealing against. It's this attitude that's the problem.
Before reading the article, I estimate that the technical detail is this:

a normalized statistical value is generated for a particular user's willingness to share fake news

after reading the article:

a normalized statistical value is generated for a particular user's willingness to report news they disagree with.

yeah, nothing to see here..... :-/

I'll write a note to the journalist, hopefully they can elide or contextualize this kind of thing in further articles.
Too bad class action lawsuits no longer benefit the consumers involved. If that system worked, it would be a way for consumers to fight back en masse. The alternative is legislation, but 'blah blah no more regulation blah blah.'
"The election was stolen from Hilary by Russian election hacking" the gripping new fantasy novel by 'ppl who watch TED talks'.

I for one think this could be a cracker of a fantasy novel but if you struggled to connect with LOTR because Orcs seemed just too unrealistic you may struggle with this book's plotline.
I'm gonna give it a go. They have an interesting business model:
> You can use cloud version for free, or pay for a self-hosted version and host Clockify on your own servers and premises.
That equation is unequivocally true...under certain assumptions.

Contravariant is simply saying that it's being stated and used as if it holds generally; but that's not the case.

This thread quickly dismissed 'through an area' as pedantic, but as far as I can tell that really is the crux of the debate: this simplified form of the equation only holds for scalar flux - viz. constant over and perpendicularly through a fixed flat surface.

In the generalised form, `I` is a function of the area at a point.
A bunch of related thoughts:

1. How do we know FB will assign the scores fairly and objectively? We don't, of course, but is there any legal requirement or protection for users?

2. How is it like the Chinese government's social credit score? Right now Facebook says it's used for filtering user reports, but if FB becomes confident in it, what else might it be used for? Will they sell the score to advertisers and vendors so that they can filter customers? To credit score companies? To insurance companies and potential employers? Will it be used to 'nudge' mass behavior in certain directions? Is there anything preventing FB from doing those things?

3. As usual it's the powerful (FB, potentially their advertisers and other partners) who have information about ordinary people (FB users). Isn't it more important that ordinary people have trust information on the powerful? What is Mark Zuckerberg's trust score? Google's? Elon Musk's? Various politicians?

4. According to the article, FB isn't releasing the algorithm because it would enable users to game it (in fairness, I don't remember if FB said that or someone else). But those with resources and motivation, such as the high-end propagandists, will learn how to game it anyway, which can have at least two consequences: 1) Propaganda may become harder to identify, and 2) power will be even more concentrated in the hands of the few - FB, their partners, and those who can game the system.

5. As seems the norm for tech, the users have very little agency (other than to try to please the system); they are objects of technology and of those who control it. It bears repeating that we've come a long way from the world of free-as-in-speech systems and the idea that the goal is end-user control. In another context, an article posted to HN paraphrased Alan Kay as asking, 'Should the computer program the kid or should the kid program the computer?' [0] I think our society has answered that question for the present.

[0] http://wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html
Re: people are used to work with lists.

To a degree, yes. But it's not the best root linguistic structure, by my observation. But I do realize it probably varies from person to person. Others have agreed with my map observation more or less, and thus there is a potential audience for it, perhaps even bigger than nested lists.

And I do realize one can emulate maps in Lisp, but it's not native, and ends up getting mixed in with lists unless somebody with a big stick stops it. I'm working on a "native" map language so sticks are not necessary. (Similarly, MASP drafts can emulate lists, it's not just as easy or natural.)
Man, that's crazy. If the law says you have to have the deed and the note to foreclose, how can the court ignore this? Honestly, it sounds like Trotter was trying to game the system, but shit, isn't that what they do to us all the time? We forgot to check a box, or filled in something wrong, and they hurt us. We should hurt them for the same reason.
The problem is that people poor enough they can't choose to move states get kinda screwed over.
Look HAMAS are awful but they are democratically elected in Gaza at least and have shown themselves to be a rational actor when it comes to deal making. For example offering as a negotiating tactic to remove parts of it's charter etc. It was similar in Northern Ireland where the people on the extreme edges ended up being the ones who made the deal. In theory it might have been the same in Israel but Bibi is weak and a coward.
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Anything written needs to be interesting though. There is no way to escape the time spent / return on investment balance.

The return can be entertainment, practical info on a legal subject, or thought provoking opinions on a message board.

But the worst the text is written, the higher the return needs to be for the reader to continue reading.
Could you reenforce the gamer meme a little more?
That's not how he meant it, because it makes no sense.

He meant that he still hasn't taken the time to get some people in his team to support Postgres officially, I guess.
As a small business owner, this is perfectly fine. It's fair for our employees to jump ship - we wish them well and often they come back.

What I'm more concerned with is Non-Solicitation Agreements where our employees can't poach our customers based on inside knowledge - and it looks like those are still fine and good in Massachusetts.
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You're right, it was stolen by James Comey's witch hunt.
Counterpoint: I've found it to work better than Google Meet. But maybe that's not saying much.

(Is there any video conferencing software that doesn't suck in some way?)
While I agree, I honestly don't care. It's a bit of magic, yeah, but at least we're rid of the insane amount of mental masturbation that permeates the Haskell ecosystem.
It's just basic reputation, a mechanism humans have used to improve cooperation since before they had become homo sapiens.

There's absolutely nothing nefarious about remembering previous interactions you had with someone. In fact it's impossible not to do so.

The problem with China is how it tears down the natural separation between different spheres of your life, how all-encompassing their panopticum can become because it has access to any data source it desires, and that the issues it engages with all seem to be of the this-doesn't-concern-you-and-nobody-is-actually-harmed variety, such as peoples' porn consumption or eating habits.
We were being harassed (read: annoyed) by rsync's incremental and non incremental backups for our primary research storage, accounting for ~66 TB.

We were able to reduce run times by 80 to 90% by using GNU parallel and rsync. In a nutshell, a wildcard directory list is created for rsync, which is then piped to GNU parallel.
I mean, the same could be said for countries relative to the world, towns relative to counties, cities relative to states, etc.

I mean, I agree with you - I'm just pointing out that while I do agree with the idea, I've never understood if there needs to be a line or where that line of "new ideas" is actually implemented.

Some states are so big these days that they're basically the federal government by themselves. Ie, California. California hardly feels like an incubator for new ideas, as being wrong on such a massive scale could lead to very big problems.

Furthermore, rural and city life in California differs greatly, and I imagine there are often times where one group or another feels dismayed over a ruling that primarily focuses on the other group. Ie, the broad stroke of the state is so broad it may as well have been the fed.

Anyway, none of these are counter points. It's just discussion points that I've often thought about before. Ones that I have little answers to.
I think this is why a lot of people vendor dependencies and keep mirrors of anything particularly mission critical that they depend on. I've been involved in situations where this has been done for closed source code too via escrow services to make sure of continuity of product even if the other business closes for whatever reason.
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I meant a webhost or VPS isn't free. And yes, that was directed more towards the general populace using services which are currently free, such as Tumblr and other blog platforms.
Not true. Prices in non-US countries are almost always tacked onto US prices + extra import duties, VAT, and other regulatory fees (thanks EU!).
> Uighurs are required to install government-­designed tracking apps on their smartphones, which monitor their online contacts and the web pages they’ve visited.

Appalling as this is, I'm surprised the government needs to do this at all, given the assumption that WeChat or Tencent would already have all this information and be required to make it readily available. Then again, maybe the visible intrusiveness is the point: Han get spied on invisibly through social media and mobile carriers; Uighurs have mandatory app installs to constantly remind them who's in charge.
Backpage wasn’t porn, which is known to be fake on many levels selling fantasy. These ads weren’t about fantasy, they were a reality you could buy. I don’t know if you’ve even been to the site (which I checked out after the controversy recently started) — I was shocked to see what it was and that such a site could be online without being taken down.

If they really just edited out those words, then that’s pretty f’d up. The ads were very clearly for prostitutes, all with very obvious photos. If someone looks very underage, and advertises as underage, then they should do the right thing and notify the authorities themselves. To profit from that is extremely unethical.
>Non-Solicitation Agreements

Aren't those fine and good pretty much everywhere, including California?
What about a bunch of dummy links that aren't visible in the UI (funky css selectors) that are mixed in with other links but provide junk content and take forever to load.

If you can randomise how those selectors are applied enough it might make it less fun to scrape.
Thank you. Democracy is not about guaranteeing competent government, or government that agrees with you. Democracy is about avoiding civil wars. I think people forget this, and forget how hideous civil wars can be, because it's been so successful.
well they just raised $427, so yeah they should still probably be able to find the scratch.
> Black text on a white background can cause eye strain because of too much contrast. I use dark greys for my content. Then, there is still a lot of contrast, but not as much as there would be with black text.

Is there such thing as having too much contrast, in the context of text relative to its background color? I still feel that this blog's text needs more contrast, not less. Perhaps it's only me, but the gray text used here is not contrasty enough for my eyes, at least on my monitor, and I find myself straining to read.

My favorite blog design is https://paulstamatiou.com/. It has just the right balance in contrast, and the text's spacing is perfect. I can read comfortably. I wish I could explain how it is more readable, but it just feels right.

EDIT: It's probably just my personal preference. I do notice #333333 (gray) is probably the lightest gray that's acceptable for me. The blog is using #4a4a4a, which feels a little too light. Also, I find HN to be very readable (which uses absolute black text), and I'd rather have a black text with light background than a gray text on a white background.
> "Lyons said she soon realized that many people were reporting posts as false simply because they did not agree with the content."

So, people report posts as false when they do not agree that they are true?

I'm struggling to understand how that is a surprise, or what other possible thing you could expect. That's literally exactly what “false” means.
It was probably stolen by Hillary being a garbage candidate since the 90's, and everyone knew it including the left.
Sort of. Russia is a threat in that they're an expansionist power whose interests are not always aligned with ours, and that their culture is one where you take any advantage you can and use it to leverage your power.

Many Americans don't realize just how small Russia is in terms of the real numbers that matter. Their GDP is less than half of California's. (You can see why they've been funding Californian secessionist efforts - an independent California is a bigger threat to America than Russia is - but so far these have pitifully low traction amongst actual Californians.) Their population is less than half of the U.S, and is shrinking. Their military is a pale shadow of its Cold War size. Many people have this image of them as the second world superpower, which was always a bit of a mirage, but is doubly false after the breakup of the Soviet Union, which took away half their population and 25% of their land area.

There's a certain irony where most Americans think the biggest threat to American hegemony is either Russia, North Korea, or Islamic fundamentalism (the former two of which are bit players with outsize threats, and the latter of which has the organizational & technological sophistication of 200 years ago), while the real threats are either an ascendant China (4x the U.S. population, 60% the GDP and projected to overtake the U.S. by 2029, already the world's largest trading partner) or domestic disturbances that lead to the breakup of the U.S, much the same way the USSR broke up.
The argument against net neutrality that I like the best is that net neutrality takes power away from the regulated telecom monopolies, which are more firmly under government control and scrutiny, and gives it to the tech multinationals who are much more loosely regulated. The tech multinationals are more and more acting a lot like governments with their coordinated content policies, so it's more about giving power back to the government regulatory agencies vs embracing the brave new world of banning unpopular speech on all the major platforms.
Most people I know that have read or written on this subject agree it can often be cured in minutes (even after a decade of pain). David Burns has a weekend program that often solves these situations quite quickly.

However, I'm not so sure about The Emotion Code's pushing of "organ energy fields" or Dr Bradley Nelson's "message from above" to go write a book pushing this
What makes these companies "public utilities" as opposed to others? I don't need Twitter in my life. Nor Google. Definitely not Facebook. And maybe lots of web sites use CloudFlare, but consumers don't interact directly with them.

Maybe applying common carrier status is something that's more palatable, but classifying them as "public utilities" doesn't have to be the mechanism by which CC is applied.
I blame math. In mathematical prose (proofs in particular) every word down to the articles (a/the) matters. Non-technical prose is usually (necessarily?) bloated with extraneous info and many irrelevant words/sentences (and often paragraphs). I don't have patience for that anymore. I skim an article to find the main point the author trying to make and if I can't find it by the mid point of the page, I simply leave the page/article/site.
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How did Microsoft confirm this was Russia? Are they just blanket blaming Russia now?
Do they? Can you really establish a rational need for democracy, or are you just running on cultural reflex?

If you take this question as me saying we shouldn't have democracy, maybe it's reflex.

It's an interesting question. Democracy isn't an end in itself, but rather a means to an end. What is that end (or those ends)? How else can those ends be achieved?
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They don’t pass to the employee the marginal tax rate pf the health benefit, which by the way is a very regressive policy.

And you would be very wrong to believe healthcare in the us is worse than in third world socialized medicine countries. You will find horror stories galore as well as all other kinds of trade offs you wouldn’t accept.
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I never had panic attacks until the age of about 23. I adopted a dog (a Blackmout Cur) and brought it home for the first time, and it went off like a tornado as soon as it stepped foot in the door. I got it calmed down, and everything was fine. When I went to bed that night, though, the reality of the situation struck me, and I thought I was having a heart attack. The entire night, I hummed 'Rio Grande' by the Great Speckled Bird in my head, because I always found it to be a soothing song, and it just made it worse and worse.

The next few months, I would get panic attacks as soon as my head hit the pillow - nothing to do with the dog at this point. Though, the dog was quite a handful. I'd take it for two hour walks, and after a 5-minute rest, it'd be back to rampaging.

Now, I'll get a panic attack once every few years - still, always in bed. I usually have no idea what sets them off.

Edit: I got my first dog so late, because I'm allergic to dogs, and I was a sick kid. My parents didn't want to exacerbate my allergies. I have dogs do this day, and I just deal with the allergies.
But the parent commenter's issue does imply a solution! Just add "Biased/slanted coverage" to the list of reasons to report, and now your "Fake News" section is much higher signal to noise.
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>It's a step in the right direction but falls flat in addressing the competition in high tech with SV...which sounds like exactly the sort of timely pandering a guy like Baker would do right before re-election season: let the working class know he's "got their back" while still keeping the people lining his pockets happy. For a guy who calls himself a Republican he's sure got a backwards idea of how free market competition works.

Well, as long as we're being political, speaking as both a Mass resident and a Millenial American in general, when Republicans talk about "free markets" they mean free from state interference specifically. They make no guarantees, even rhetorical ones, about making sure the markets stay competitive. If you're hearing that from them, you're hearing what you want to hear, rather than what they're saying.

And it's not like the Democrats are super-good on this issue either! The parties can, by now, be viewed as coalitions of cultural and economic sectors squabbling over how to distribute the outputs of, and authority over, a fundamentally low-productivity, uncompetitive, oligarchical system in which you "ask permission, not forgiveness" if you want to get something done. Neo-Brandeisianism is the most under-appreciated political idea today[1].

[1] https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2018/the-...
Zoom has been my best experience. Plenty of features, smooth video for the most part. Enough that I use it exclusively for business at this point.
The predators on Dregslist just moved to other categories. The gigs, rentals & rideshare postings are full of them, but that's OK b/c it's just good old fashioned exploitation.
Here's more on that! http://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-use-pure-...
AppEngine is a "Platform as a Service" although they are re-phrasing it as "serverless" these days. It has benefits like you dont have to worry about the "roll your own" side of things - you just deploy your code and it runs (Google takes care of the servers - patches, security etc).

The "killer" feature of AppEngine is the scalability - i.e. your small-scale virtual or shared servers are ok for small usage, but what happens when you have more traffic than that VPS can handle? Perhaps call the hosting provider and ask for more CPU/Mem/Bandwidth, or maybe move to a new bigger server elsewhere. But that takes time, and what if it was just a spike and now your traffic is back to normal but you've got a beast of a server running the site. You could be wasting money even with the small VPS sitting idle for most of the day if you have very infrequent traffic.

With AppEngine it just scales automatically to handle the load, from zero QPS to many thousands QPS and back down to zero again without any effort from the developer apart from the initial config (... of course you can limit that scaling too if you want to control cost).

There are also a bunch of other nice-to-have features around traffic splitting (i.e. A/B testing), some nice task-handling tools (e.g. cron-style stuff, task queues), centralised logging, and the easy plug-ins to the other Google Cloud stuff.

Deployments themselves are not especially "quick" and you have to do a few things "the appengine way", but the trade-off is you have nothing to manage on the server at all.

I've used AppEngine a lot over the past few years (mainly Java and Go) and its pretty decent I've found, although I do use a lot of the other Google Cloud services (e.g. their database stuff) so it makes sense. App Engine has been pretty rock solid in my experience.