skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually think Bing is ahead of Google for image search these days.
Hm, then there should be a name for someone who commits a criminal act.
I do wonder a lot about the root causes of this. Personally, I'm working on my Master's degree and am reading about 300-400 pages a week, and still enjoy reading novels if I have any spare time or during the summer. I don't have this issue, have no problem with deep focus, and am a computer programmer during the day so am constantly consuming computer-based media.

What I DON'T do is watch TV. We don't own a TV, don't have a netflix subscription any longer, and I see movies about once every 3-4 months. I do watch Youtube, but not ads...I wonder how much of an attention problem while reading is actually internet related and how much is media related.

This is completely non-scientific, but I feel like your body adjusts to what you train it to. Media and TV in particular train you to appreciate interruptions, shallower and half-hour to hour-long stories. The internet and mobile trains you to however you use it...if it's facebook, maybe reloading the feed every 30 seconds isn't the best thing to train your attention? But there is plenty of deep reading content on the web as well.
Sure, I just updated my comment.
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Much as I usually try to understand the 'business end' of things, I have to say that I'm baffled that Slack hasn't done this yet.

I rather like Slack, and have good reasons to use it (it's pretty central to Elixir's community, for one), but even on my relatively beefy MBP (2015) I actively avoid having the app open because it's a heavy Electron piece of shit.

While of course I might be a bit of an outlier as a developer with a preference for 'lighter' applications (and comfortable with CLI stuff), surely I'm not that much of an outlier...
I have never heard of a libertarian in favor of a government-based social safety net. Could you expand on what a libertarian social safety net would look like?
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Having worked in the sector in the past, I can’t imagine anything I’ve gained for my time in there besides bitterness and cynicism for business, and this attitude has had only negative impact upon my career. On the other hand, I see a lot of parallels with the private sector, specifically in enterprise software. B2C software has its own awfulness but at least it’s a bit sexier than the insane Rube Goldberg Machine of, say, Payroll software. These days, I don’t really see a difference between an IBM, HP and Lockheed, Northrop - they oftentimes compete for the same contracts even.
So people in Brazil won't know about 9/11(maybe the biggest news event in recent history), for a day. how is it dangerous ?

And i say that as an Israeli, we don't lack drama in our news.I don't listen to the news, and i don't feel i'm risking myself.
There's a balance. Many things in the news are depressing and completely irrelevant to 99.9% of people's lives. That kind of news isn't really necessary.

For example, it is not at all relevant to me to know about when a mother murders her two children, but it definitely has a negative impact on my psyche.
If you get blocked on Twitter, you go to $OTHER_PLATFORM on the internet.

If you don't have NN and you get blocked from Twitter, your ISP can also make it so that you can't go to $OTHER_PLATFORM.
Regarding the downvotes, I suspect that people don't think that's bias. I don't really get how that's bias. It looks more like recycling an article with a clickbait title that's attempting to seem relevant.

Plus, anytime an article has a question in the title, the answer is no[1]. So, you're already dealing with a low-quality data situation.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
There are so many wantrepreneurs and "founder networking" types that suck up valuable time. I'd hoped that YC had filtered those out and that accepted companies could assume their peers are as serious as they are.
To me, fake news also includes slanted coverage of true events (i.e. covering events in such a way as to convey a sponsored message, biased polling methodology, etc.). That encompasses statistically approaching 100% of trashy sources you’re likely to encounter as 'sponsored content', as well as a healthy portion of more established sources' content. I'd be likely to report a majority as fake news in perfectly good faith if given the option.

Maybe the term isn’t as narrowly defined as your (former?) employer would like.

Edit: upon a bit more reflection, I do take for granted a desire to protect life and liberty (in that order), and anything that appears to threaten that view will draw special scrutiny, and potential abuse of reporting features.
$11/month is too expensive for a small project?
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YouTube is really quite happy to serve me "right opinions".

They involve guys like the one who's a subject of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahuj1B0ow4U

That dude, literally that dude, showed up in my recommendations pretty regularly until I explicitly blocked him. Now I get fellow chuds like Sargon of Akkad and the like; I have to "nope" at least one fascist or at the minimum white-supremacist channel out of my recommendations a week.
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I don't really agree for the most part. But, individual preferences aside, the economic reality is that you don't get paid for doing weeks of research and turning it into a few bullet points in an abstract. At some level, people pay for quantity as well as quality.
In my mind, I'm paying for convenience, not content. I can find the content I want to watch. I have for years. The reason I watch Amazon Video is because I have Prime and why not? The reason I watch Netflix is because the amount of content I want to watch that is in one place is worth the cost. It also lowers the barrier of entry to some random stuff I'd never otherwise watch. So it works for me. But I would have no issues canceling and going back to less ethical sources if the cost outgrew the convenience.

This is why I started paying for Spotify years before I paid for Netflix. It is simply easier to find music there and let it sync between my phone and computer via their service than find every single song, download it, and sync it by hand. Also, there is no way in hell I'm paying $1 per song for thousands of songs. That method is vastly more expensive with none of the conveniences (and usually some sort of lock-in, even if weak).

So in my opinion, companies need to figure out how to make their services more convenient than the alternative. Spotify figured it out, Steam Games figured it out. Netflix figured it out when it was in competition with Blockbuster and Redbox but has since lost it. The fact of the matter is, all the content is scattered across all the services, and the combined cost is not worth it. If we had different services serving all the content (similar to pandora/last.fm/spotify/youtube red) then people could pay for the service, not the content. And ultimately, the first service we are willing to pay for is convenience.
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Has anyone else tried it?
Two wrongs don't make a right. "Jerks", as a comment, is purely subtractive. We're all adults. There are plenty of critiques to their action and their defense. Let's use our words to make reasoned arguments rather than just lashing back.
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Digital + govt agencies... high likelihood of screw ups. I still think blockchain makes sense here. Distributed verifiable record that doesn't depend on any single entity to do things right or be honest. That is a perfect fit for bc.
MRR is a decent criterion because it means the market is responding favorably to their product (and it's not vaporware).
>some users began falsely reporting items as untrue, a new twist on information warfare for which it had to account

"new",

> But how these new credibility systems work is highly opaque, and the companies are wary of discussing them, in part because doing so might invite further gaming — a predicament that the firms increasingly find themselves in as they weigh calls for more transparency around their decision-making.

Fractal stupidity - this is the term for this situation

You build better systems, which dont ACTUALLY capture the core bad behavior.

Users figure out the edges of said system, and start finding newer ways to slip through the gaps.

Now you need a new system.

Repeat till the history of the system looks like a pullitzer prize winning Kafka novel.
Hey Google, tell me something good
This reliance upon, or even worship, of one species is a disaster waiting to happen. Permaculture would solve this, it strives to create multitude of relationships between many animal and plant species, and unorthodox accomodation to local circumstances /ecosystem. Then whole agriculture would not depend one single type of tree and is more resilient.

But the unorthodox part is probably where it breaks down, it's much easier for humans to follow "recognized" methods than observe and adapt.
I've dabbeled in Elm and have some trivial single static pages in Elm on one of my sites. Is there a book or blog series anybody could recommend that's less about the language and more about the practical steps of building a full single page app in Elm? How does routing work, do you need JS to integrate with your API, how to configure the compilation/build/deploy step, etc?
Because a GNU userspace is "distributed" along with proprietary software?
"Who needs freedom of expression? I'd rather avoid a thirty second conversation about sex with my children."
Everyone else here has a lot of good suggestions, but the biggest thing I would recommend is NOT actively blocking them. As you already know, if you detect them and make things harder...they adjust.

Start with successfully detecting them and go from there. Log them. Track origins. Compile patterns.

Then, when you decide exactly what you want your move to be use all that data to be as effective as possible.
Normally (i.e.: the vast majority of the time), games don't simulate pooping.
How long is this going to be the go to excuse? Some ad buys and an email phishing scheme is “manipulated”?
While this is a very interesting story in more than one way, and I'm not big on news shaping by editor to tell an overall story rather than give facts, here is how your story doesn't relate to the google feature discussed here: the good news feature doesn't replace the user news, but is specifically requested by the user on each run, by asking specifically for the good news list.

So if someone checked their news on it on that terrible day, they would see both event. If they felt very depressed about it and needed to cheer themselves up, they could ask for a good news of the day; something that they certainly couldn't find on regular news system of the time since the WTC is all they talked about for days.
It's about time. Unfortunately not time for this audience...mostly. It mainly applies to low wage workers, though there is a loose garden clause as well as provisions for hourly workers (which I guess can include us contractors/freelancers).

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.
No, standard qwerty keyboard. The test I took was on TypingTest.com (no affiliation, just first result in a web search) and chose the two minute, Aesop's fable test.
I know you're just trolling, but one this is clearly apples and oranges.
These are orthogonal issues.

It is in America's interest to suck up economically productive people from all over the world. This is solved by the wage lottery system

It is also in America's interest to increase the number of skilled service providers in rural areas. One policy to solve this might be solved by targeted wage subsidies that are tied to working in certain areas.

There's no need to couple these orthogonal issues together. It doesn't matter whether the rural doctors are native or immigrants. That said, the policies compose well: Wage subsidy + actual wage might win the visa auction, modulo the quantity of subsidy and the demand for medicine as a skill set.
The former provide infrastructure that the latter services run on. They are therefore in fundamentally different categories and so different regulations apply. That's why there isn't consistency between them, because they are different things.
third-party fact-checkers

This is the part that stood out to me.

It's allows Facebook to tell lawmakers and the public "Hey, look! We're taking things seriously!"

Until something goes wrong. Then they can lay the blame on someone else and issue another non-apology apology saying, "We can do better."
The easyjet one is great, at least in CDG. Ryanair's is complete rubbish
That's absurdly vague.

You build a form that allows ads to be submitted. It refuses to allow certain illicit keywords. People resubmit a few times until they get the form to accept the ad.

Prosecution: You built a tool to help child sex traffickers groom their ads!
Meditation has showed some promising results:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3772979/

Anecdotally it's very helpful to myself.

Deep breathing can be part of CBT too.
The idea that wanting to use typeclasses in Elm is an impedance mismatch would be more convincing if Elm and its standard library truly did everything without them, using alternate approaches like explicit dictionary passing. But as you probably know, they don’t. Instead, the language has special syntax for three builtin “typeclasses”: comparable, appendable, and number. And the standard library uses them: its Dict, for example, requires the key type to be comparable. These classes are automatically implemented for various builtin types, but there’s no way to implement them for custom types, so you can’t have Dicts with custom types as keys (unless that changed very recently). And if you want to, say, implement a hash map data structure, which requires the keys to be hashable, you have to use a completely different design, since “hashable” is not one of the three magic typeclasses.

To me, rather than principled, that just feels incomplete.
The Transputer is a success; a lot of the ideas developed for it are mainstream today, even if we don't call it a transputer.

Kind of like all of the ideas from AI in the 70s and 80s that worked we don't call AI anymore.
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I'm not sure what you want as sources if two well respected, global news publications don't make the cut.
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The executive branch being in control of this is how we ended up in this mess. It should be done through legislation so it won't change with the White House.
Ah, when you said "private" I thought you meant something that wouldn't be shared with anyone (e.g. a personal diary).

You're right that some other solution would be better for "private but shared" content (although it would likely be tricky w.r.t. both security and psychological/social aspects like getting people to follow good practices to prevent leaks).
I've had situations where a migration that ran locally just fine, failed in staging and/or production (config-level stuff running into hosted DB access rights, etc.). Those situations are a mess to untangle without idempotent migrations.

Also, minor niggle but Flyway isn't database-agnostic, you'd have to use the SQL of whatever DB you happen to be using (although if you code in Java I guess you could use ORM commands)
Bing is Microsoft, they likely do not pay for Windows licensing, and would also rather work with the Windows team than switch to Linux.
What would be a viable alternative? I don't think they can just ignore the issue and, as you mention, can't review every single story. They'll have to rely on some form of sampling for the reviewers. Would it be better to just take a truly random sample of all reports? I don't think that would be very effective given the number of publications they have to review. Do you let users review the content for veracity? Seems like that just creates a situation where the group with the most participants pick the news. I'm not sure this is the optimal path, but to say that Facebook has learned nothing is disingenuous.
> I'm curious if the Google engineers visited any of the 100 search terms using IE or Microsoft service... but I doubt that.

From the article:

>We gave 20 of our engineers laptops with a fresh install of Microsoft Windows running Internet Explorer 8 with Bing Toolbar installed. As part of the install process, we opted in to the “Suggested Sites” feature of IE8, and we accepted the default options for the Bing Toolbar.

> We asked these engineers to enter the synthetic queries into the search box on the Google home page, and click on the results, i.e., the results we inserted. We were surprised that within a couple weeks of starting this experiment, our inserted results started appearing in Bing. Below is an example: a search for [hiybbprqag] on Bing returned a page about seating at a theater in Los Angeles. As far as we know, the only connection between the query and result is Google’s result page (shown above).
Yep, we ended up buying water bottled from the Himalayan springs, untouched by modern society. Just kidding, New Jersey.
Do you check your spam filter to see what it's been filtering still? Text classification has gotten very reliable over the last decade, the process just needs to be transparent.

Valve also does something similar with their anti-cheat system called overwatch. A machine learning system selects which replays are most likely to result in a conviction, then those replays are shown to human peer-reviewers who must come to a consensus on whether the replay shows cheating or not. The pre-selection stage greatly increases the efficiency of the system.
What are you insinuating? Booz Allen isn't even a cloud provider at all. They will likely inevitably be involved in the rollout regardless of who the gov goes with, AWS, GCP, Azure etc. but I'm not sure what your point is.

I'm also genuinely confused by Oracle being pulled into this, are their execs really so deluded that they think they could actually win this contract or is this just a wild guess?
If people are having to dig up 7 year old articles to bash Microsoft, I guess they've improved a lot.
looks like Trotter lost... https://law.justia.com/cases/idaho/supreme-court-civil/2012/...

https://www.housingwire.com/articles/idaho-supreme-court-dec...
In my opening sentence I admitted to disregarding a legitimate mental health issue that I didn't suffer from. In the next few sentences I described getting high before going to a kids birthday party.

Not to come off as snarky, but if you interpreted my comment as looking for sympathy then I suggest you read more carefully.
Those are legit, fairly reliable news sources.
This is very very common and happens in every big company and in every government around the world, even so call "not corrupt" countries. For big contracts and for small contracts.
I'm inclined to believe that this was explicitly allowed to happen by those in power, and most of the 'shock' and perhaps even the 'well, look at stuff like the SFE to see how people can go wrong' is really just covering up for the ugly truth of torture that quite a few people in positions of power are really quite okay with.

I mean, considering the history of the US government, or the behavior of its various three-letter agencies, does it make any sense to give them the benefit of the doubt?
But once you get to that organizational size, there are 3 project managers and a VP with an agenda and designers and design managers and a QA department which is backed up “for a bit” and a PR team who wants to make sure we get a good Q2’19 “win with the developer crowd”.

So it takes a year, and $2.5M, to do what should take 3 months and $300k.

* not saying this is the case at Slack, it’s just often the case at Everywhere. ;)
What would this other platform be that provides a similar reach?

Freedom of speech isn't just saying what you want while alone on your back patio.

Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc is the "digital public space".

Hell just take a look at what private companies are doing to the attempts at making alternatives: gab is threatened daily, and BitChute keeps getting bumped by payment processors.
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Not quite sure what the relevance is today of this article from 2012. It's core message is a good one, though.

Americans are used to getting pushed around by "the machine". Bills come from various places (utilities, hospitals, banks, the government) and we pay them without thinking. Why think that much about it? You have to pay or your precious credit rating will suffer.

But the mistakes are so common it's likely that everyone has a personal example from some point in their lives. Credit card fraud, billing errors, mistaken identity, hidden charges on a phone bill, and on and on, and on again. The companies are faceless, emotionless, and completely without loyalty to their customers. It's rather insane that we grant them fidelity in return.

You've paid your insurance bill diligently for years, but as soon as they are needed, they start looking for ways to get out of paying the claim. They will happily screw you over the tiniest technicality. The insurance industry certainly isn't the only offender in that regard.

Some people might scoff at the ideas in the article. You took out a loan, only a deadbeat leech would default on that loan and expect to keep their house. Sounds about right, but that assumes we live in the world we all imagine. The "right" world, where business still resembles interpersonal relationships. It doesn't, and we don't live there.

It shouldn't just be about fighting Wall Street greed, or getting out of an eviction. Everyone should be on top of any business from which they have purchased a service. Be informed. Force them to deliver the service they promised. Force them to make you whole when you've been screwed. Force them to prove that they have accurately managed your account and they they truly do own your debt. Above all, make them actually compete again.

It would be nice if everyone did that, but I don't actually believe that they will. Oh well...
This definitely won't backfire.
I don't need democracy. I only need liberty.

Representative democracy creates career politicians. And career politicians are yet to prove that they aren't just a complete waste of oxygen.
You can add typos to a certain set of items and follow them on their service for a match
> Having said that, just as often, it's due to cronyism.

The line between cronymism and efficiency is in the eye of the beholder.
How can that organization be nonpartisan when one of the founder is: "Courtney E. Martin is an American feminist, author, speaker, and social and political activist" [1] Like I said I have zero faith in Google presenting me not biased, self-interested news.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_E._Martin