skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also happened to me. I was watching some completely unrelated stuff (technical stuff) when I noticed that a polemical and obviously stupid and dumb right-wing AfD propaganda video showed up high in the recommendation list. I was watching stuff in English, yet BS in German was shown (just to be clear: that it happened to be German was not the problem, but additional to be puzzling that it was such BS, it was also strange to show me something in a different language). I don't remember what the current news was at that time, but when I then searched for something related to that, that extreme right BS pub talk stuff was all over the place. It was obvious that the recommendations were skewed. I was puzzled. I closed the browser (cleared cookies) but it remained the same. One video was recommended regardless of how non-political the videos were that I tried to watch. And once I searched for that topic, again, every second video or so was extreme right BS. It took a few days before that video was not shown anymore.

Scary. Definitely a problem.
Whole Foods workers, painting a grim future under Amazon, want to unionize
While we're on the pedantry topic, I'd like to put in a word for proper sentence structures.
That argument is so tired. Just because there's no perfect privacy, doesn't mean you can't significantly increase it. At some point you also have to trust that the chair you're sitting on will hold you and the one that isn't visibly weak has the best chance of doing that.
Obamas speech slammed Trump’s latter back I heard that I fell asleep
At least for me it does it on both sides.

I get ContraPoint and Jordan Peterson.
Companies can’t start up and fail for zero cost. Which allows Walmart to raise prices without instantly getting competition in those areas. In higher population areas that can support more stores it’s a very different story.
>primary concern is maximizing engagement, makes perverse sense.

I agree. But considering online platforms have, more or less, become de facto town squares, it's no longer responsible for a tech company to ruthlessly optimize for user engagement at the cost of stability of democracy.
The GDPR does apply fully to government agencies, some requirements are even stricter (e.g. they always need a Data Protection Officer). Most agencies had to alter their policies because of that. What is true that there can be special purpose laws giving a government agency the power to process some data (e.g. by tasking them with collecting some information, such as say your income for tax levying). Member states can also pass laws to overwrite portions of the GDPR for some listed purposes, such as public security but those don't apply to the vast majority of governmental data processing. Naturally, that makes the government more powerful than private companies but certainly not more powerful compared to a time before there were data protection laws.
Because there's no way to get apps any other way, there's no "open-source" app store for example. Therefore they hold more responsibility in what they let in.
Doesn't look like that on Mac. Seems like a bad case of disabled ClearType, aka subpixel anti-aliasing. Dunno if the font also contributes to that.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYqCZOwHbnPwyjawKfE21wg

http://es6-features.org/#Constants

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

https://medium.com/search?q=javascript

https://javascriptweekly.com/

https://nodeweekly.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnjavascript/

http://www.jstips.co/

and

https://www.google.com/
Show HN: Four Seconds – try and stop a timer at exactly 4 seconds
If you want this added to the standard of care, then work on having it
introduced at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Seriously.
"Vendors aren't corrupt. Standards bodies are, intrinsically."

I think in the end either I disagree radically or I can't parse this the way you intended. Can you maybe clarify? One thing in particular, "standards bodies" is a very broad term, which encompasses everything from industry consortia like W3C through government agencies like NIST and whatever the IETF is. Are these all "intrinsically corrupt"? How so?
Got this game idea while I found myself routinely trying to stop a timer at a 'round' value while at the gym.
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http://foursecondsgame.com/
> Could you elaborate please on the atheist community going extreme?

I read a paper on this some time ago... and now can't find it. There are many blog entries that discuss the evolution of the Skeptic community and the whole anti-SJW out there but can't find the actual researcher who was quantifying this using YouTube data.
Actually server side rendered ads would be a whole lot more acceptable to me compared to what we have today: less bloat, less risk of malware injection.

Personally, I could live with a some advertising if that is how it was served and it was slightly relevant.

When they want to try to track me around the web to see what technical and news sites I visit and then serve me ads for dating sites then I'll just turn on ny adblock again ;-)
You can find useful insights in life from Mr. Musk, some just psychological arguments I agree upon from experience of reading.
As they have gotten the pentium 2 (the top of the line, most expensive CPU in 1997) as a free hand-me-down computer & considering ubuntu first released in 2004, the author probably got started at the earliest in the mid '00s - by then you'd probably get started with something like flash.

But I agree QB was surprisingly long-lived, this 80s era tool probably lasted as long as Windows 98 (i.e. till XP became the "default" windows version).
It’s factually incorrect. The US government can hold patents. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/34/6.3

More widely, if someone argues that changing the law to do X is a good idea. You can’t argue that the law prevents Y because changing the law is the idea.
"Optimized code" has an established meaning in our field. It's beyond simplified.

Don't tell me I'm misreading you when I make you aware of the distinction. I've understood what you wanted to say, albeit with difficulty. Just say "Ah, I meant simplified."
Humans never travel at significant fractions of the speed of light with regards to other nearby things, so relativistic effects are rather hard to observe in person.

It's the same how Newtonian Mechanics is a really good approximation (and still widely used, too), and because everything around us happens to obey it very closely, it is more intuitive. The difference between what Newton's equations and Einstein's equations predict for most planetary orbits is very slight.
You could at least have Trust On First Use and rely on clients save the domain name<->SSID association. It stops someone from implementing a MITM on the network later on and is a significant improvement in security.

Having said that, there's no need for a CA as such to make that work.
Firejail is a sandboxing tool that does this (and also restricts access to other things), and it supports many popular programs out of the box. I’m going to say it supports Chrome because I know it supports Firefox.
Not sure though - how could you discover cheese if you were not actively storing and processing milk in the first place? I think they are closely intertwined.
Not sure what kind of strawman you're building here but there's quite a big difference between giving location to a map app that will help you if you're lost, and a weather app. Having to use location data to get weather seems like the pinnacle of laziness to me, if you don't know where you are than you have bigger problems than the weather.
That the rich get richer is just math, not a value statement.

Preferential attachment in the absence of proactive redistribution leads to accelerating inequity.

As you know, too much inequity undermines democracy.

If we want a Liberal, democratic society, we need progressive policies. Some mechanisms to offset windfall profits, level the playing field. Debt jubilees, entitlements, UBI, Keynesianism, something.

While I'm (very) sympathetic to "late stage capitalism" rhetoric, I think it's besides the point. Inequity predates capitalism and won't be remedied by eliminating capitalism.
With autocompletion? Where is the autocompletion?
As the conventional wisdom states, China is the future. There will come a time when us Westerners will need VPNs as well.
Nearly 10 years later and I still prefer consolas.
> 1. You can inspect HTTPS traffic by installing a trusted MITM cert on your device - no jailbreaking necessary.

Then they'll just move to pinned certs in the apps?
Sheryl Sandberg Faces the Classic Double Standard at Senate Hearing
> not purely functional for those who don't want to go all the way in that direction

That's why I first loved it. I liked what I knew of Haskell but was skeptical of the Monadic IO system (I've since warmed to the idea). OCaml was in a perfect sweet spot in my opinion.

Also it feels a bit less abstract in some difficult to define way - I don't think Monads really clicked for me until I was using Options in OCaml.

I'll also second the opinion that as a _language_ OCaml is more ergonomic than Rust. However, I find that Rust is more _community ergonomic_ - it's easier to find libraries and contribute to them. Related to that - the build process is just spot-on. With OCaml, I found myself tripping over obscure errors in my build process about every month or so.

For me, OCaml is a bit like the one that got away.

But I'm excited about the momentum behind the Reason project!
Ask HN: What are UX Designers' most frequent issues?
What users' behavioral and psychological metrics UX designers struggle to measure accurately?
>I'm keen on a distinction between numbers and forumals.

What’s the operational advantage of this approach? I feel like it would wreck havoc with fundamental tools like mathematical induction..
> The broadband market was experiencing a classic "prisoner's dilemma," where neither cable nor DSL providers felt a competitive threat from the other requiring substantial new investment, trusting in relative peace within their own market segment. Continued expansion of broadband capacity was on the verge of stalling.

I don't see how that can be viewed as a Prisoner's Dilemma.
> My wife, while not a full on anti-vaxxer yet, is now suspicious of vaccinations and wants to wait to vaccinate our child, and skip some of them all together. This after having watched some "documentary" series on Youtube.

Out of curiosity is your wife college educated?

It's the radicalization of "average" people that is most interesting. I suspect what your wife discovered wasn't just a series of videos but a whole community of people deeply committed this nonsense. This is the secret of radicalization: it appears as just a (very rigid) community of like-minded souls. This shows up again and again in the literature and the news.

The internet is doing its job of bringing people together. What's not clear is whether any of these communities are actually beneficial.
It's hardly doable in practice. For example, certificates have to be updated at least yearly, leaving your app completely broken unless updated.
The rates were worse at Tesla in part because of frivolities like "Elon doesn't like yellow safety markers aesthetically."
His github portfolio is in perfect shape already. He is an expert Lua coder who created his own language interpreter.
Apple has removed GPL-licensed apps from their store.
Privacy-oriented #Linux OS #Tails 3.9 is out, what's new?
The basics are that a font should have immediately recognizable characters (aka glyphs), so that you could read text on a road sign or an indoor navigation sign from afar, in bad lighting, while moving and being nearsignted (it's sorta an edge case but a good one). At the same time, glyphs must form a line that guides the eye without making it stumble—there should be no jarring inconsistencies, of which wrong letter-spacing is a case. Glyph shapes affect the perceived spacing, so there's interplay between the aspects of a font. The Kern Game is a good primer: https://type.method.ac/

As usual, learning to see good fonts is a matter of recognizing bad ones first. You'd want to look at reviews of bad fonts, more-or-less detailed.

Then there's also the matter of the font style: a decorative font may easily have an untasteful twang to it (e.g. “playful” ad fonts), or be overly pretentious for the task. This is also a matter of looking at a lot of examples and thinking of what they make you feel.

These are just the basics, and designers sometimes diss fonts that look fine to me. But these help. Also, IMO learning to see and apply the proximity principle covers a lot of design, including typography (e.g. line spacing and paragraph positioning).
It reminds me about John Cage's 4'33''

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3

- https://youtu.be/JTEFKFiXSx4

An anecdote: when my semiotics professor talked about this composition for the first time, I was recording the lecture, and when colleagues asked for a copy, I sent them only the pauses between the sentences. When art meets sarcasm, it spreads really fast.
I don't get it. Helvetica is a perfectly okay font.
https://www.pierrickcalvez.com/journal/a-five-minutes-guide-... is actually about laying out text more than picking fonts, but it goes hand in hand with https://www.canva.com/learn/font-design/ which is approximately what you're asking for.
> having slaves, eating people, not allowing women to vote, all have been considered perfectly natural

I think we're talking about different kinds of natural. What I meant (an clearly mentioned) is that almost all life on Earth since the beginning of life followed a natural cycle: it was "born" (a cell, an individual), lived a certain relatively predetermined period, then it died. Your examples are about an individual, a species, a society. I'm talking about all life.

> i have not seen a single pro-aging argument

I'm not sure what you're saying, you have not seen any good argument that supports the idea that we should age and die? With uncontrollable rise in population you have everything that accompanies it coming from the lack of resources and limited space. What happens to people who want to live on this planet but no longer fit, or have food? An "incentive" to buzz off the planet, right? Where? What if there is no planet able to support you?

What happens if you are ever unhappy with something and want to change it but the person you're fighting has 200 years of experience, power, and wealth under his belt. They are for all intents and purposes Gods walking on Earth.

If you haven't seen any "good" reasons against eternal life than I think you weren't really looking. ;)
Is the offer still up?
You don’t realise it until you see something truly bad.

I remember there was an algorithms book that was set in this typeface that was literally difficult to read. It made it harder to process the content.

The way things look is important.
Any GUI developer knows that UI/UX is much more than just rendering the same.

Back when Tk still mattered even the attempt to emulate Win32 L&F was just partially done.

I very much doubt that it has improved.
Some devices actually verify the MAC of the sender, but that’s probably the exception and not the rule.
For those that didn't know what GraphD or Freebase were:

https://medium.com/@iainsproat/freebase-is-dead-long-live-fr...
Tesla announces management changes, Musk says record quarter, ‘ignore media’
Show HN: How fast is your website?
Can you comment on what will happen to that community when the hand pumped wells go dry? (assuming this is inevitable?) The best argument I've seen against what you are doing is that you are moving farming from sustainable areas to unsustainable areas. But I don't know much at all about the topic.
WeGrow: A School by WeWork and BIG
Some books about QM include big warning about "Mathematics is not Physics!" at very beginning, but nobody reads it.

Chapter 2

The Formulation of Quantum Mechanics

2.1

Basic Theoretical Concepts

Every physical theory involves some basic physical concepts, a mathemati-
cal formalism, and set of correspondence rules which map the physical concepts
onto the mathematical objects that represent them. The correspondence rules
are first used to express a physical problem in mathematical terms. Once the
mathematical version of the problem is formulated, it may be solved by purely
mathematical techniques that need not have any physical interpretation. The
formal solution is then translated back into the physical world by means of the
correspondence rules.

Sometimes this mapping between physical and mathematical objects is so
obvious that we need not think about it. In classical mechanics the position of
a particle (physical concept) is mapped onto a real number or a set of real numbers (mathematical concept). Although the notion of a real number in pure
mathematics is not trivial, this correspondence rule can be grasped intuitively
by most people, without any risk of confusion. The mathematical formalism
of quantum mechanics is much more abstract and less intuitive than that of
classical mechanics. The world does not appear to be made up of Hermi-
tian operators and infinite-dimensional state vectors, and we must give careful
and explicit attention to the correspondence rules that relate the abstract
mathematical formalism to observable reality.
Diatonic accordion harmonica – the best musical instrument
Trivial in isolation, but it is much harder to see the problem in a heap of source code. In general such "surprise moments" should be regarded seriously however it seems trivial in isolation.
Personally I've always liked the simple query language Graphd/freebase had. I'm interested to see how the performance is like in comparison to other triple stores
I dabbled with terrain generation many years ago. Did the think of using noise, I used midpoint sub-division. Fun times.
What is "radical"?

At one point in history, the suggestion that you would vote for your leader was "radical". Giving the vote to women was once considered "radical", etc etc
Two problems that come to mind when writing a good music generator:
1) What's the metric? Can we have a metric that's not based on human judgment? Imho the best idea is to have a parametrized generator that creates music within manually set bounds, that way we can have a goal to compare against (we need to vary the music enough so that it's new); you apply the length, the structure (draw the ups and downs of your music), maybe even what chords to use, etc. (how many parameters you find necessary), and then set how much variety you're looking for against your trained net; 2) Good music is often like a structure within a structure within a structure; it has internal links several bars away from each other that are out of reach for simple Markov chains; there are patterns and progressions on every level of music, and a slight change to that pattern can make a big difference; every abstraction level has its own logic (previous chord against the next chord vs. previous melody vs. the next melody, previous ornament vs. the next ornament), and if you omit one layer, the whole tower of music won't be in balance.
For those of us outside the graphic design bubble, the author's top-level post[1] briefly explaining his madness.

[1] http://tholman.com/post/smelvetica/
This is a good point. It seems plausible to me that a recommendation algorithm should "feel out" a user by putting a variety of options in the sidebar.

What I don't totally understand is how it determines the directed nature of the recommendation graph, and how the destinations are labeled. What does it mean to "end up" at "alt right" videos? Do the recommendations have to exclusively lean right or just mostly? What about higher vs lower recommendations? If there are recommendation patterns that go left but don't end up in a tight loop are they considered somehow? There could also be some dependence from the chosen starting video / topic. I'd be curious to see the results from a variety of starting points.

Basically, it's an interesting exploration but I'd like to see it with the rigor of a peer reviewed paper, more than just the NYT.
Interesting! I wonder if there's a bug in the gRPC library that you used?
I think JavaScript: The Good Parts is still relevant, you'll just want to supplement it with other resources on ES6, async, etc.

I recommend Kyle Simpson's series You Don't Know JS for understanding in depth.

Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke is a great interactive resource covering the basics: https://eloquentjavascript.net.

For more practical guidance on specific topics I recommend https://egghead.io if you're okay learning from videos.
Nevertheless, time is supposed to be a local phenomenon. If we have a region of space where entropy is decreasing (balanced by a larger increase elsewhere), would you not then expect "time" to flow in the opposite direction in this local space? Would it be possible to set up such an experiment?
Seems what Chrome is doing is a good idea. "Secure" is being phased out, then there will only be "insecure" for http, which it most certainly will be since there's no encryption.
You have to remember that these articles are to some extent manual stitchers writing critiques of the sewing machine. The newspapers are what is getting killed by new media, and honestly they deserve it. They've had an oligopoly on pushing their agenda for a long time, and it's hurt people (eg. beating the war drums for Iraq, leaving the American people objectively misinformed). There are criticisms to make but these people are not the ones to make them.
> so far it fights imaginary enemies

Too many politicians in the UK are trying to ensure the economy tanks when the UK leaves the EU.
Couldn't home routers come with a certificate from the manufacturer?

I guess manufacturers could even issues certificates for globally unique SSIDs by allowing costumers to register a sub-domain with them.
my-net.my-router.com

Yeah, dealing with CAs is probably overkill for local coffee shops and home networks.
The Ray Tracing part is really interesting. John Carmack describes the NVIDIA RTX architecture there.
1a. You don't have to pin the leaf. You can pin an intermediate

1b. Or you can pin the public key and ignore the certificate altogether, new certificates for the same key can be obtained as necessary.

2. The maximum certificate lifetime is currently 825 days, which, unless you're on another planet, is not "yearly".

3. If you're pinning for an application (not a generic website accessible in browsers) you don't need a certificate from the Web PKI at all, you can mint your own, ignore the lifetime rules, write Emoji in the Common Name field, use a different RSA exponent, the world is your oyster.
The Ray Tracing part (page 247) is really interesting. John Carmack describes the NVIDIA RTX architecture there.