skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe there's an exercise that would be helpful for understanding the "corporate media filter" and the "social media filter"?

You, having no money -- while watching corporate profits soar and income inequality grow to unprecedented heights -- will choose to take a job that requires you to judge whether thousands of reported pieces of content a day are abusive, harassing, making specific threats, inciting specific destructive acts, recruiting for hate groups, depicting abuse; or just good 'ol political disagreement over issues, values, and the appropriate role of the punishing and/or nurturing state. You will do this for weeks or months, because that's your best option, because nobody else is standing in the mirror behind these people who haven't learned to respectfully disagree over facts and data (evidence).

Next, you will plan segments of content time interspersed with ads paid for by people who are trying to sell their products, grow their businesses, and reach people. You will use a limited amount of our limited electromagnetic spectrum which the government has sold your corporate overlords for a limited period of time, contingent upon your adherence to specific and subjective standards of decency as codified in the stated regulations.

In both cases, your objective is to maximize profit for shareholders.

Your target audiences may vary from undefined (everyone watching), to people who only want to review fun things that they agree with in their safe little microcosm of the world, to people who know how to find statistics like corporate profits, personal savings rate, infant morality, healthcare costs per capita, and other Indicators identified as relevant to the Targets and Goals found in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals Indicators).

Do you control what the audience shares?
Only if you let a broken build into prod
This. Plus M$ was firmly against open source and open standards for most of it's existence. They only switched to open XML based file formats after some EU municipalities experimented with switching to open source software rightly arguing that they have no effective way to preserve or convert vital files in proprietary formats. M$ wouldn't have done it otherwise. Microsoft, like most corporations, only does the right thing when it coincidentally benefits them.
The new Google Chrome design with version 69 marked the beginning of a new era – Google wants to portray Chrome as something that is way more than a browser. They want you to see it as the primary interface of the web.

This is what the average user wants. All complex functionality has been put in the background. Cross-platform integration has been perfected.

Give it a year and users around the world will no longer think of Chrome as a browser, but simply as the interface to the (Google-)Web.

With Chrome Google has succesfully defeated Apple, MS and Mozilla.

And Google will continue to do everything to make people stop thinking of Chrome as a browser. They want you to think of it like a window into your online life, a window that is the same no matter where you are or what device you use.
Linux based OSes don't let you install software from a new repository without adding their keys to your system. This is for the user's own security. Blocking 3rd party tracker cookies by default is a similar decision. Sometimes developers have to protect users from choice overload and choose sensible defaults.
why would that surprise you?
Actually, both A and B are incorrect choices. Option A is a complete waste of time. Option B uses a regex that is no longer standards compliant and will tell users that their entirely valid email address is invalid (this is usually a no-no...).

You're skipping entirely over option C:

c) Send the user an email asking them to validate their email.

You'll notice option C is actually the preferred method of almost every company that needs your email to be valid. Option C also does not use a regex at all.
There is a (long) argument here (http://www.gwern.net/Sunk-cost) that people tend to over-use the concept, since it's probably the most know logical fallacy.
Just commenting on this thread is enough.

The NSA / MI# / [Military Intel of Country X] know me. I know them. I don't do shit. They don't do shit beyond some pranks and exchanging banter. What are people so paranoid about?

When you get to meet the boogeymen, they have amazing tech developed by someone else, but the people who use it are stupid, incompetent, paranoid military average joes who more often than not shoot themselves on the foot or cause the problem they were trying to prevent because they never de-escalate.

Secrecy, violence and a carefully-built media reputation just hides how ineffective they are despite mass surveillance and infiltration of all public online communities.
yeah, as long as you don't care leaving the place you grew up in, your family and friends, not to mention having to actually figure out another place to go, find a job, get a new place (including deposit).

Easy.
He saved the best line for last and knew it:

>Sooner or later, you will meet some older man who has been around for a while. At some point, this man will lecture you about the Laws of Programming. Ignore this man entirely.

That said, like everyone else I'm going to add my most salient bits:

1. Keep It Simple, Stupid

2. Programming is a lifelong study of the difference between what you said and what you meant to say.

3. Reflect reality in your modelling.

4. If you have to get creative, you might be doing it wrong.

5. Build tests first when you can.

6. You're coding for two audiences: The computer and the future programmer. Favor the latter, because the computer doesn't need help understanding your code.

7. There are two hard problems in programming: naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.
One thing that bothers me with studies on MDMA harm is that they tend to look only at regular/frequent users, rather than occasional users. For example, the study this post cites for MDMA causing decreased attention and general intelligence only looked at subjects who used it at a minimum twice a month for 6 months or more than 25 times over two years [1]. It's still unclear whether single or infrequent (like once every 2-3 months, which is common advice for recreational MDMA usage) use is harmful, which is important to determine for progressing MDMA-assisted therapy.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10811694
My two cents... Find a service-tool-solution for something that could be used by many people (try not to think of only your country/language but global), build it fast and simple but practical and fast, offer it for a really low price (coffee, beer, pizza range) so that you can be certain that you’ll have users/customers. Oh yeah, and build it so that it doesn’t need too much of your time.

As for good ideas, that’s the tricky part. Look around and open your ears... sorry for not letting you know of my exit plan idea ;-)
Citus is an open source plug-in that you load into vanilla PostgreSQL, similar to PostGIS and other extensions.
Rail freight in the US is the highest in the world. Europe focuses on passenger rail which is where the misconception comes from. However the vast majority of the freight is travelling cross country from west to east.

Last mile rail is incredibly inefficient which is why intermodal has taken over. The shipping container is simply transferred from the train onto a truck bed for the last mile. This eliminates the need for expensive and rarely used spur lines which is why you see them mostly abandoned.
Books onSight – a beginner's journey into web development and contributions
Most laborers (people who care about being employed) don't own extremely meaningful amounts of real estate/stock equity. Most people rent or have very low equity in their mortgage, and their 401k balance is not terribly high.

The exception to this would be your doctors, lawyers, executives, and rockstar programmers. And maybe anyone else who doesn't have kids and doesn't live a material life. These people are typically landlords too.

So, I personally wouldn't care too much about affecting them. I would put much more focus on preserving the value of the dollar (without killing exports), and keeping the business credit availability constantly adequate so that there aren't any overreactionary bubbles where unemployment goes from 4% to 17% virtually overnight as everyone deleverages
Hi there, I'm a beginning developer and am looking to learn and grow as much as I can. I created this book sharing app as a way to imporve my skills and become more familiar with front-end and back-end development techniques. Please feel free to submit issues and pull requests that improve the app in any way, and that will teach me how different developers approach features in web-based applications. Thanks and I look forward to engaging with the community!
> Bonus: programming doesn't make you money, marketing it does.

This one I find the hardest to accept out of pretty much any advice I've ever read on HN. All rational evidence points towards this being true, and yet all my being, all the ethics I have, scream loudly that it ought not to be so.
SpaceX would probably be fine with Gwynne Shotwell running it, absent Musk, at this point. Perhaps they'd lose some of their media/PR attention and the daring to take chances that Musk is known for. I'd expect SpaceX would become a bit more conservative in its ambitions, and would probably continue to operate well and be very successful as a business.

It's the Apple model without Steve Jobs. Cook is a tremendous operator, he's just not a visionary or new product guy. Apple won't have to worry until the next big inflection point. SpaceX could probably ride - with modest incremental improvement - on its technology lead for the next 10-15 years.

In the case of Tesla, the best thing they could do is hire a talented operations heavy CEO and have Musk be the product lead. He has never shown himself to be a particularly talented CEO, it'd be better if he focused on what he's the best at.
> For me the React experience includes tons of bikeshedding over which accessories (routing, state management, etc) to pair it with and how to wire those up.

This is React's biggest strength IMO, that it doesn't handle routing, state, etc. It just makes your UI a function of state. How an app needs to manage state can vary wildly, but it's all the same to React.
From observing Americans, at this point I'm fairly certain "bureaucracy" is their universal excuse to not get things done.
ha - the opposite, more like! "Overengineering" is what allows payloads to be as light as they are. You spend a fortune squeezing every last gram out of the design because it costs so much to get it up there. Lower launch costs allow heavier (cheaper) stuff to be economical.
> I'm sure I was projecting and it was just trying to avoid being eaten, but it seemed way more intelligent than other insects.

Really interesting, but I agree it's most likely just a projection.

Possibly due to the fact that mantises are the only insect (that I can think of at least) that indicates focus by turning its head toward something?

The power of human emotional projection is extremely strong. I had the misfortune of seeing domesticated dogs in great distress (to put it mildly) a few times when I was younger, and one thing I always remember is that while experiencing the distress, the dogs would still make that familiar panting facial expression that most people innately perceive as a dog "smiling" or expressing happiness/joy.

As a result I have a very different experience from most people when I observe the behavior of dogs. I haven't seen any behavior in dogs yet that are any indication to me that they're capable of experiencing happiness/joy.

I'm somewhat convinced that people's perception of the emotional spectrum of dogs in particular is almost entirely an optimistic human construct. Their behavior patterns and how they appear to experience things actually seems extremely narrow to me, roughly the same as most other animals. I think the one exception to that is that dogs are unique in their tendency to adapt those behaviors in a domestic environment as though dogs and humans were members of the same species.
If I got a free one from work, I'd just put it on my dog.
That just helps disguise a symptom doesn't mean that neurodiverse people suddenly stop existing.
A conversation with Gilbert Strang [video]
That’s going to turn heads everywhere if it stays sounding like that. Sort of like a turbo charged sports car take off.
The Irrational Ratio
Most intro courses on QM that I've seen cover exclusively problems of operators with continuous spectra (like position and momentum). For those, the mathematics of L2 space is critical (and, in my experience, woefully neglected). Because multiple observables are rarely treated, tensor products and entanglement are less important.

For intro to QIT, thoroughly understanding the C^2 space and tensor products is critical. This book appears to be useful for that. Unfortunately, it can be hard to make the jump to the former way of looking at things, without someone explicitly pointing out how to think of L2 as a Hilbert space. Maybe this is just intuitive to some, but it wasn't for me.

And the converse seems to be true, too: you can apparently master the former without having a clue about the latter. As Scott Aaronson points out:

> Today, in the quantum information age, the fact that all the physicists had to learn quantum this way seems increasingly humorous. For example, I've had experts in quantum field theory -- people who've spent years calculating path integrals of mind-boggling complexity -- ask me to explain the Bell inequality to them. That's like Andrew Wiles asking me to explain the Pythagorean Theorem.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
The dream of AOL.
> 2. Programming is a lifelong study of the difference between what you said and what you meant to say.

This week I finished reading "Startide Rising", a 1983 (!) novel. There was this gem hidden in it:

"You don’t have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally."
Upgrade to Debian 9 Stretch on Digital Ocean VPS
Well the more some for-profit company wants me to push around to their vision of the future and milk me for more and more data from my private life, the more I will resist. It comes naturally, doesn't it for you?

It is a good browser, it may be even the best for some things, but it ain't so good compared to rest I will stop using Firefox, especially on mobile.

The more they push, the less I use their services (openstreet|opentopo, duck).
This is what gets me though and it's so confusing. If I were a stockholder of a big megacorp and they weren't spending their money on looking climate change solutions - especially the corps causing the most damage (due to future lawsuit concerns I would expect these companies to be most on board; if they don't get on board then the future will consider them mass-murders and their money-making opportunities will shrink further than I outline in this post) - then I would be leading the charge to sue for poor use of money.

The companies are leaving trillions on the table right now by not spending their money wisely. The future economy is going to be based around climate change cleanup at the rate we're going right now and most companies are trying to lose customers by accelerating global climate change to make their customers pay more money to relocate, fix environmental issues, instead of buying their products.

Our society is going to be so financially strained in the future and it is a Direct result of the megacorps not spending their money in sustainable, responsible ways.

They should all be facing constant lawsuits from their stockholders for not doing better to protect the environment. Since their high-payed lawyers are presumably the ones that lobbied congress in the first place to make sure environmental care was not going to be part of taxes, and in fact that they should pay nearly no taxes at all, suggests to me that they think that the public good is best taken care of by corporations. It seems the only logical conclusion of this line of thinking: if the corps don't want to pay big taxes because they think it is a waste of money, then they have to be in charge of clean air for us, bu they don't actually care about that and so we're all going to suffer and pay less for their products because we have to pay more to fix the air.

I just don't get it.

Edit: For example, how many people in North Carolina will be buying new consumer electronics this Christmas? Will it be fewer than normal, because they have to spend a lot of their own money cleaning up from a storm that was exasperating via climate change and had to deal with a government that made planning for climate change illegal? I think so. I think fewer people there will buy iPhones this winter and fewer people there will buy TVs are even new fancy cars too. But really why are these corporations losing these sales already? It's because an area hit by a climate-change-fueled storm was unprepared by not taxing companies correctly and by the corporations themselves trying not to be taxed; so we end up with the population themselves trying to fix the errors of their government and this process takes expected money out of the corporation's hands.

But the storms will come, and come, and come, and there will be fewer opportunities to make money from people affected by climate change.

I. just. don't. get. it.
Sorry, I'm a pedant by nature. I was not trying to pick at you. It's something I learned early that most people misunderstand. I'll return to my usual grammar correcting now. :O
It's worse than a headache.

With debit cards, you don't get a refund.

With cc's, typically you will have to state that you did not know about the fraudulent charges and that you did not loan out your card.

Usually you get an immediate credit with 60 days for the bank to finalize it.

However, if the number was entered into a database, the merchant can keep billing forever. Sometimes changing the cc number works, but sometimes the bank "forwards" the new charges to your replacement card.
I'm glad you are looking forward to such an event, but I doubt it will be very comparable to what the moon landing felt like. About the only similarity would be the fact of space travel + other planet(oid).

The pure risk, in both technological and human terms, the sheer number of things that had never been done before at all, the extent to which so many people didn't think it could be done, the utter shock of watching it live when there was no such thing as significant live coverage, won't be re-created in my opinion.

Just like it is hard today to understand just how shocking Orson Welle's head projected to enormous size on a movie screen saying "Rosebud" was in a movie theater - something people had never seen at that scale before - it will be hard to understand how shocking and amazing the moon landing was when looked at by near-future sensibilities.
Multi-Account Containers is from Mozilla too.

As far as I know, Facebook Container is just more comfortable to use.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/multi-account-co...
I used to do a variation of this by looking at project requests posted on RentACoder or other outsourcing sites and considering if there was a product idea there.
If you turn one of the three animation settings to 0 on a Keyone phone, the popup to choose charge/fast charge/data connection when connecting to USB doesn't appear and there's no alternative way to select it.

I forget which but stuck with 0.5x for that reason.
You can buy one for 0.99 from the App Store.
If you're arrogant, you don't really mind if others are, too, so that formula doesn't really work. If you're at work, just keep work conversations moving in a productive direction. Nobody sensible is going to really dislike you if you're arrogant and basically transparent and forthright in personality. I mean, there's the kind of people that go around looking for reasons to categorize people as good and bad, but you shouldn't worry about them. (They're bad!)
Is it me or it's a pretty standard sound of a pretty mundane electric train engine vagon accelerating?
Well, Celery uses Rabbit-MQ and typically Redis underneath. Rabbit-MQ to pass messages, and Redis to store results.

You can scale up web servers to handle more requests, which then uses Celery to offload jobs to different clusters.
But you can sync w/ your own server, with a little extra work.
There was some discussion about that paper here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18023452

I think it's much less interesting than it seems at first sight.

Related (and clearer): In Defense of a "Single-World" Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Jeffrey Bub) https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03267
To my knowledge there isn't a way to bypass its DRM atm (to directly download a file).
A couple weeks ago I shipped a simple project that consisted of an Arduino logging some data to an SD card. Three of them actually.

Dataloggers are a dime a dozen, but yet someone still wanted to pay more than the price of buying three off the shelf units simply because what he wanted was slightly different from everything he could find.

The point is that it doesn't matter how many times something has been done; there's always something different you can do that a niche of customers need.
Either it’s a conspiracy or it is not. If there are a bunch of people running down the street, and I see that they’re running from a fire, then I’m going to run too. That is not a conspiracy. The decision is independent even if the reason is shared.

That’s not to say it’s just one big coincidence.
My partner proofreads theses at an hourly rate well below market (students are broke. Predating on them at the closure of their study feels bad) and still can earn more than these quoted costs, fixing English language mistakes. Which makes me wonder how good the originals are, since it takes literally hours to correct semantic and syntactic confusions even by experienced domain-specific-language aware authors. (And yes, she has been asked to write from scratch for some clients and yes, she always declines)

TL;DR USD1,000 seems too low for writing a doctoral thesis. You can barely proofread one adequately for this, sometimes.
As a marketer, I see countless great projects that were abandoned. What seems like a promising project goes dry when, presumably, the dev can’t market it.

Marketing and sales are so important; without it, your project risks a short life.

I would look at what you already have and figure out why you aren’t making money on it, versus building something brand new.
Wouldn’t work for me. My dog is incredibly lazy. :)