skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm definitely not saying anything is the 'natural order of things'. Far from it I'm saying that what people will become is a product of decisions yet to be made. And you are the master of those decisions. Make bad decisions and you will probably not see good outcomes. But at the same time make good decisions and you probably will. Think about this. Imagine the amount of time you will spend over the next 5 years on social media. Instead of doing that dedicate it to learning [x]. With the time allocations of most of us, you would be an expert on [x] by the end of those 5 years. The one and only thing separating you from that achievement is self discipline. It's really quite remarkable if you really consider what this means.

I've coached chess for years and the one thing I've found is that who achieves and who fails has very little to do with who is smart or who's dumb. It invariably comes down to what happens when a person runs into a bumpy streak, which happens to everybody at some - even world champions. One group of people will decide well they just must not be smart enough, or somehow weren't born with the ability to play, or maybe they're just too old. And the other group will grit their teeth and continue pushing forward. Not all of those that push forward will succeed, but many will. However, exactly 0 of those that resign themselves to outside forces will ever achieve success - the resignation to those outside forces becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
The iPhone 7 will likely be supported with security updates for a lot longer than the Sony Xperia.
There re many different kinds of soil. I can totally understand that some soils are better used for this kind of sustainable grazing. Other soils are great for growing crops.

This should not be a veganism vs organic meat discussion, but an organic meat vs intensive meat production discussion. And a separate sustainable crops vs soil-depleting crop production discussion.

You can't feed everybody on just meat; you're going to need crops of various sorts. Feeding crops to animals for meat is incredibly wasteful, but having animals graze on land that's otherwise unusable, is a great idea. I hope this is the future of meat production. But it's not a replacement for sustainable crops.
The problem that one finds is that suddenly many parents want the same odd-sounding names for their offspring. My parents never had classmates named Lisa, but I had plenty such. There were no Caitlins around when I was in school, but there were a lot when my son got there.

I have a hard time thinking of comparable trends in boys name--I suppose Justin was one that was suddenly popular around 1990.
Salesforce wants to end customer service frustration with Customer 360
'statistical probability of antitrust: zero, full speed ahead!'
The opposite of free will is not necessarily pre-determination. It's probably the case that events proceed randomly at atomic levels and this randomness snowballs into more macro events (e.g. neurons discharging).
Suitability of Commercial Clouds for NASA’s HPC Applications [pdf]
I've seen multiple implementations of different paradigms on top of SSB. Even though most of the clients are providing you with a lens that makes it look like a social network, there is so much more to it. Check the application tab at http://scuttlebutt.nz

The SSB protocol and feed database are both very flexible and can be used in the way you want if someone builds the app for it.
Tell HN: Legacy WebAudio content will break in Chrome 70
Heads up: Chrome 70 (due in October) will restore a content policy that breaks most/all WebAudio content that hasn't been fixed to follow the policy.

Edit: Note that in general, content will break even if it follows the intent of the policy (by only playing sounds in response to user input). This is due to the nature of Chrome's implementation of the policy.

If you maintain any WebAudio code the fix is below. For any code that hasn't been fixed and isn't maintained, expect it to stop working soon in Chrome. :(

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Background:

This is part of the "no autoplaying" policy that rolled out in Chrome 66, and was reverted for WebAudio a few days later because it broke everything (including Chrome's own webaudio demos). Chrome 70 apparently restores the same implementation, so any content that broke before will break again, unless patched.

Past HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079724

Policy info: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes#webaudio

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Fix and tech details:

The easiest fix is to add a redundant `ctx.resume()` call to any user input event handler. Once that fires, the audioContext will work normally.

Basically Chrome's implementation of the policy doesn't look at when an audioContext plays sounds, it only cares when (a) the context is created, and (b) `context.resume()` is called. If either of those happens inside a user event handler, that context can play sounds. But if you create a context at startup and never call `resume` (like most WebAudio demos), the context will be muted regardless of whether it waits for user input.
The universe isn't deterministic as far as we know, so that's probably not right. But if you change it to something that is compatible with the predictions that can be made using quantum mechanics then that's most likely the truth.
One of my issues with Secure Scuttlebutt is that it is difficult to participate unless you already know other people there. I joined and began messaging other users and commenting on the community hashtags - only to discover that no one was going to get my messages until they subscribed to me. This means that I either need to message those users outside of the network - or I need to run into them irl.

Is this a feature of SSB or a bug? I mean once I'm in the network and well-entrenched, I could see it being a feature. But how do I even get to that point? (Oh and does Manyverse address this at all? Sorry I don't have Android.)
It's still an absolutely monocultural view. Indeed, in anglophone cultures "professional" = more formal, and restrained. In many other places it works like that: professional community means reduced social distance means LESS strict mode of communication, then you would use with people at a bus stop. Personally, I think in some cases it really makes sense to accept a compromise set of rules when communicating internationally, but they must be flexible, dynamic, as much informal as possible, not punishing, and not hindering efficiency. And swearing Linus could be quite within such a compromise. Btw, no formal CoC I ever read represent a compromise, and all efforts to enforce industry-wide CoC is obviously goes against the very idea of compromise.
I'm kinda surprised not to find the Accidental Tech Podcast in the Tech section.
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NVIDIA is attempting to separate enterprise/datacenter and consumer chips to justify the cost disparity. Specifically, they're introducing memory, precision etc. limits which have major performance implications to GeForce and there's also the EULA which was been mentioned here. That said, everything AWS comes at a premium as they're making the case that on-demand scale outweighs the pain of management/CapEx. This premium is especially noticeable with more expensive gear like GPUs. At Paperspace (https://paperspace.com), we're doing everything we can to bring the cost down of cloud and in particular, the cost of delivering a GPU. Not all cloud providers are the same :)

Disclosure: I work on Paperspace
One exciting use case of SSB that might interest you: https://github.com/cn-uofbasel/ssbdrv/
For those who covet money titles are more important than to those who covet building great products for users. As a product leader offloading your money challenges into the hands of VC funding is a surefire way to turn vision into greed and slowly destroy one's creative product vision.
Surprised about all the fuzz. The good part about Chrome is one may create many sessions/users in Chrome. So, I use one dedicated Chrome user to access Google services and use another not logged into Google user in a different session for everything else. There is really no problem if one knows how to use Chrome.

Really good part is that it's possible to create a shortcut to a site/service from a particular user session in Chrome and launch that shortcut as a headless standalone window that looks like Windows native app, not a browser. The shortcut is connected to the user session it was created from. So, for example, I have Gmail icon on my desktop and taskbar that launches a dedicated window to access mail without even starting Chrome browser session for Google user. Simultaneously I have Chrome opened with another, not Google, user/session. Problem solved--check mail, calendar, whatever in one sandboxed environment and browse the web in another one.
To anyone using a degoogled Android phone: A F-Droid release IS planned [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/manyver_se/status/1044569401595514880
Ask HN: Which company, if it goes under, would ruin you
Facebook had a cloud. It was called Parse. They bought it in 2013, then they promptly shut it down in 2016. It wasn't a failed product. It was in use by hundreds of thousands of customers. But it didn't align with their "vision" or whatever, which of course no one noticed when they paid $85M for it three years before, but visions change and whatever.

Point being: they squandered any trust they'd have been able to gain in that arena, and they're competing with the most powerful companies on the planet. I don't see it happening.
>I think that deep down, mental illness is not really accepted as something real. We tend to believe in free will and how people are responsible for their own actions, and we tend to apply this to the mentally ill too, and this is exactly why free will is a flawed concept.

It is hard when someone is developing mental illness or has hit some tipping point. Once upon a time your friend or loved one was pretty normal, and they've gradually become more erratic, hard to deal with, potentially dangerous even. And most people aren't experienced with how to deal with those issues and they're tough issues. And there's no line when friends, family, society can just take over for a mentally ill person.

>we won't tolerate it and the mentally ill will never be able to accept they have a condition

There's some caveats to that. Mainly being that mental illness covers a huge spectrum and people at the deeper end may not be capable of acknowledging they have an issue, or even if they can, that admission isn't the thing that will change their circumstances.

The identity of self-determination in the U.S. is interesting. There is a lot of truth to how many Americans are just down on their luck millionaires. And how consistently they will work against their own self-interests, because someday they might be wealthy or powerful and they want to enjoy that maximally.

And you can see some of these attitudes among many successful people who want to believe it was their effort, their hard work, their genius that made them successful, solely. Or at least those are the biggest factors, while luck, circumstance and opportunity are minimized or completely dismissed. They want to believe if they had to start over they could do it all again and the admission that that might not be the case is not what a lot of people's egos want to hear.

So perpetuating that myth of the self being all. That very successful people did it all on their own. That we're all completely totally responsible for ourselves and our circumstances can enable us to feel good about ourselves, and make it easier to blame those who are beneath us on the socia-economic ladder for their own circumstances and not acknowledge that the system is broken, or stacked against some people, that some of us had significant advantages. It makes it very difficult for a lot of people to walk a foot, let alone a mile, in another man's shoes. And that permeates everything in our society, even views of mental illness.
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https://www.thebalance.com/medical-bankruptcy-statistics-415...
LibreOffice: A history of document freedom
Nomophobia: The silent struggle - Mobile phone addiction
> adding road capacity (e.g. more lanes) can result in zero change in congestion because more people choose to take more trips

This is not the paradox nor even an argument against adding road capacity though.

Even if congestion or travel times stay the same, now more people are able to travel to places they want to go. Traffic might not have improved, but some measure of quality of life did.
Ask HN: Where can we see Data Structures in nature
I remember the long periods of inactivity in Myst. The time to slow down and think. A stark contrast to games I've played recently.
Is there a good alternative for google photos? I remember I looked for one few months ago after I got a little freaked out by google facial recognition, but didn't find any good alternative.
How Instagram Rose into a Cultural Powerhouse
> The NSA can say that cryptoanalytic warfare has helped us sink Nazi subs, find Che Guevara, etc.

Guns have helped the allies defeat the Nazis. Bombing civilian targets to break morale did the same. I'm sure torture was also used here and there to get Hans to tell them where the gestapo hides their sauerkraut.

My point is, bad stuff can be used for good. That doesn't make it right, and even less does it mean we should allow others to use that same bad stuff with bad intentions.
This isn't a post-mortem, it's a CYA report.

A monthly standing meeting as a result of failure to communicate? Even if they had implemented the recommended procedure prior to the failure, this wouldn't have mattered one bit: "ensure that decisions not to install microcode bundle updates are documented and approved." That's not a fix. It wouldn't have affected the impending decision favorably, just made it documented and rubber-stamped.

The approvals aren't done by a person with any technical knowledge, it's a standard-issue bureaucrat. Literally, "authorizing official" and "responsible directors" spelled out in the PDF consist of an actuary with an MBA and BA in economics, a single graduate in "Sceince" from '77 whose resume is littered with leadership platitudes and zero indication of hands-on work in technology, two-three underwriters, and the usual coterie of HR, procurement, inclusion professionals.

This is how you get gridlocked bureaucracy and why the Federal retirement system is literally run out of a Pennsylvania cave.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/03/22/sinkho...
It's not too difficult to hit the "Skip forward 15 seconds" button a few times.
So for you isolation and sandboxing are the same but both are different from containers? What's the function of containers then?

Also I don't quite understand how you claim isolation/sandboxing but also offer "natural interaction with the host operating system".
I've been messing around with audio nets and that was the first thing that surprised me too - convnets don't work nearly as well (out of the box) for audio as they do for images. This article has some good reasons why audio data is different from image data: https://towardsdatascience.com/whats-wrong-with-spectrograms...
Your tl;dr isn't _wrong_, per se. But the article is really well written, and I feel like there's more depth to it than what you've said.

Plus, your statement comes off as kind of cynical and snarky ("no shit, guys" is the tone, even though you probably didn't mean it that way). The piece itself makes some pretty interesting, non-obvious points I think.
1) I was replying to someone who asked “Given the journal and the time it was published, are we sure this is research that would replicate?”, as I am a person with “more knowledge of statistics and experimental methods”, the kind of person to whom the question was being asked.

2) I can look into your question, later, but you can answer it by searching for citations of the original research.
Sure, but let's be honest: this isn't true for everyone working for Google (or whatever Big Bad you want to talk about). Tons of developers don't give a toss about ethics and just prefer to stay with their unethical employer because the tech is cool and it's more convenient to not to have to look for another job (even if you have it so easy you actually take time out of your day to whine on social media about recruiters pestering you with job offers).

This already played out with the NSA after the Snowden leaks. The money is good, the tech is cool, so who cares if it's technically unethical as long as it's not illegal, nobody's going to hold you personally accountable and you still can easily find a job if things get too shady and you finally decide to leave.

Also, people can rationalise doing all kinds of evil things as long as they're allowed to safely live in a bubble ("Facebook is about connecting people, which is a good thing, so Facebook is a force for good and improves people's lives" is a recent one I heard from an FB employee).
Exotic names are your parents expressing themselves through you, when you might prefer to express yourself... yourself.

IMO banal names from different time periods that still work today are best.
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to do an internship after a year working full time?
I am finding it extremely hard to land a job abroad (read US/Canada) with my current experience. I think I may have a better chance trying for an internship abroad instead. Is it a good idea to do an internship? I have been working full time for an year now. Will it have a negative impact on my resume? I am not having any issue finding a job in my country though. I often get a mail from companies now and then. But I am finding it extremely difficult to land a job abroad.
Look at https://caniuse.com/usage-table. IE11 has 2.66% usage. Is that worth the time investment in development?

If your site is already active, I would also look at Google Analytics and see if any of your audience uses IE11.

And the last question, the user experience will, of course, be best on evergreen browsers, but will it completely break on older browsers?
This might have gotten some more attention if the question was "I don't need online privacy, change my mind"
> Public arrest records are an important part of the distinction between “police” and “secret police.”

Germany and Europe in general goes fine with not publicizing arrest records.
You know, extraordinary claims don't require proof or elaboration. This isn't a court of law. I'm sharing my experiences on a public board. The insistence on legal-style proof seems to be a personality-trait of some people. I worked there. I saw things. If some people can accept an unconfirmed datapoint, and add that to their store of knowledge, then they will be able to make better judgments than if they insist on legal-style proof.
I read somewhere here on HN that medieval colors weren't precisely accurate. I wonder if red also meant brown or reddish-brown and dogs like the Rhodesian Ridgeback would qualify.
The disturbing link between gold prices and the survival of girls in India
Arguably worse than worseless, when it is actually destructive to society.

The history of banking in most countries is the story of a repeated cycle of abusing the trust of the people with money in the bank: The bank holds people's gold -> the bank issues 'gold certificates' -> the bank issues more certificates than it has gold -> system crashes and everybody loses their money.

In the end, the establishment of national banks to regulate/nationalize the appropriation of wealth.

Here is the history of the Swedish national bank, as an example (it could be copy/pasted from every other European national bank): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_Riksbank#History
>What we found was that English as spoken in England //

Ha, there's such variations in accent it's quite hard to make statements like this that apply generally.

Some like to add "r"s where they don't exist too: Bath - barth vs ba-th.

Strangely my mother and [only] one of my sons both have this more RP approach to pronounciation.
Does this factor in the cost of lost productivity from having an awesome gaming pc always available?
Dude, your cell phone is a couple of watts of non-ionizing RF at approximately 0 duty cycle. Under what standard does that count as high intensity? The latest "mice in a microwave" study I've seen shows a need to bathe mice in the human scale equivalent of 200W, 100% duty cycle RF before they see a measurable effect and even then there are strong reasons to supect p-hacking (e.g. effect is barely significant, they don't control heat input, effect vanishes in female mice, etc).

The hypothesis "RF causes cancer" is easy to test (it's easy to crank up the RF dose) and, if correct, would be extremely rewarding for the researchers involved. It has, unsurprisingly, been extensively investigated -- so if it's true, why does every paper that I read with a positive result seem to have cheated in order to obtain it?
Going full vegan may not be necessary, but we do need to drastically reduce our consumption of meat. I know a lot of people who eat meat twice per week, for example. That seems like something that could work for everybody.

And if we eat less meat, we can more easily afford to get the meat we do eat from these kind of organic pastures.
Agreed. I realized a few weeks ago that I really like Instagram because everything on there is original content- pictures/videos from my friends and a very few select people I don't actually know that I share interests with. And that's kind of what I want to see- the highlights of what people are up to in life.

No one is sharing content from BlatantlyBiasedNews.sketchydomain all day, memes, or other crap. Its the stuff I see less and less of on FB, and why while I still check FB at least daily, its starting to feel more like going through the motions than something I enjoy doing.
Engineers like money too. 85%+ of their revenue is from ads.
Most companies do and thus, most people believe they have a policy from the processor, not their company. Also many companies hire processors for payroll too (ADP and the likes). Does it seem sensible to you that in this case the payroll processor would require some amount of money in escrow to cover severance, PTO, California's WARN etc in case of bankruptcy?
Oh, good! Are were finally going to get the Microsoft anti-trust effort we deserved? I mean, I know "Microsoft is different" and all that, but a near-monopoly like they've got is still pretty bad for consumers. They have 1 minor competitor (Apple), no incentive to lower prices to marginal cost of production or anything.
I'm not denying that proper suggestions is a great service. I am questioning if it is enough to build a product around. Especially when people do not yet know they have an issue or are missing it. Netflix, Spotify, Apple music, they all share a common thing that made them great: give access to content not previously available for a fixed price. Your service doesn't. That doesn't mean there isn't a product here, it does mean you need to market your product completely different than "a netflix for podcasts". People probably feel they already can get all the podcasts they need for free so they do not easily see the value in a netflix for podcasts.

In any case I wish you all the best and hope you find good product market fit!
Agreed. The DOM and JavaScript, as used by many heavy websites and web apps, are heavy.

On the other hand, JavaScript in a more constrained environment--React Native, for example--is a lot more reasonable. Still heavier than an Android app, but not so heavy that it kills processes except on very downmarket phones.