skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not dead against it though not my first choice. But how would one who has been technical with no people management skill make that change?
I totally agree. Especially for "micro-interactions" between people while remaining anonymous (i.e. not needing to exchange phone numbers, email addresses etc.).
E.g.:

- receiving appointment info at a doctor's office (in lieu of a physical appointment card)

- exchanging links/addresses/numbers with strangers in any kind of conversational interaction ("call this number", "go to this address", "here's a brochure" etc.) without divulging personal identifiers

Phone-to-phone, anonymous, exchange-and-forget type interactions. Can use bluetooth, wifi, or data connections (or even just qrcodes). I've always thought that there would be usefulness for something like this (key being simplicity and anonymity).
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You're reading it wrong. It's conjecture. Speculative. I won't weigh in on its validity beyond to point out it's apparent speculation.
Not only video ads. They also show regular ads to paid subscribers. If you have an ad blocker they detect it and show a request to disable it! I was pissed off because I am paid subscriber (for many years). So, I emailed them about that and they responded that their business model is based on both ad and subscription revenue.
A good example of this is meats like bacon and pepperoni cured with “celery juice powder” or “celery extract” instead of “nitrates”, when the former contains just as much of the same carcinogenic nitrate salts they would’ve used, but it’s “natural”.
> the first thing companies do when there's any hint of trouble on the horizon is layoff anyone over 40-45.

well, they're not the 'founders' in most cases.
May also be evidence of the problem of only having two parties. Surely there's many valid left wing positions worthy of sparring in the political arena.
Why are you assuming that kickstarter projects would have any IP? It seems that a very low percentage of kickstarter projects would own IP on their devices considering the amount of time and cost involved in just applying for a patent.

If no one owns a patent that covers the design then manufacturing a bunch of "copies" for a much lower price isn't illegal. It makes sense that kickstarter would be targeted as a source of not patented ideas to use.
If I want vitamin B12 I don't need to eat fortified cereals. I can just eat beef or tuna.
Are you literally comparing guar gum with rape?
Indeed. It’s dismaying (though not surprising) how many people are satisfied with “it makes sense”.

Anyone remember the schematic illustration of Bin Laden’s supposed mountain fortress that ran, unquestioned, in newspapers? https://gizmodo.com/5800027/there-is-what-we-thought-osama-w...
72h is a lot of warning?

That's a very disingenuous statement. Of course they had only 72h notice about this hurricane.

But uh, is it really news that hurricanes roll through Florida with pretty regular frequency?
What is the value proposition for the user to use the app over the website? I tend to avoid content apps because they seem to offer the company more value then the consumer. Web browser works just fine and I can more easily determine what the publisher is up to.
Reddit is a centralized proprietary product, Mastodon is not. The worst that can happen to a user in terms of censorship is:

* Your instance banning you, which means you can just join another instance. The hardest thing about Mastodon is chosing an instance whose administration you can trust. The reason the service is valuable and important is that barring any instance being trustable to you you can always start your own.

* Another instance banning you (or your entire instance) which just means users on that instance don't see you in the fediverse. This can lead to complications where swarms of instances cooperate their ban lists and thus getting banned from one of them can see you cut out of a swathe of the network, but in practice those using mastodon pride themselves on not centralizing and thus there is limited interest in centralizing moderation like this in the first place.

Of note there are degrees of that second kind of ban. The lightest form is that you or your instance just doesn't show up in timelines - users can still find you by other means and follow you. The most severe is the total noop communication with that instance server which means its users don't exist to the instance doing the banning.
Yep. Baye's theorem is actually a generalization of contrapositivity (if A implies B, then "not B" implies "not A") to stochastic settings. It's not usually taught in an intuitive way.
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And in British Columbia, Canada; here there is no meaningful differentiation between a contractual Marriage and a common-law Marriage by cohabitation.
> Why is Forbes writing about it now?

Why not? Look who the author is: Ethan Siegel. He has a blog (https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang) and a podcast (https://soundcloud.com/ethan-siegel-172073460).

He basically does a Dear Abby type column based on astronomy and physics topics. He takes difficult concepts and tries to break them down into something the lay person can understand.

Quite frankly, I think he's pretty damn good at it and we should be happy Forbes is publishing his stuff for a wider audience.
If all you do is bang out CRUD classes that talk to an ORM all day, you're essentially a commodity.
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I truly think this is because picky eaters are easy to market to; they pay attention to flashy advertising rather then hard science. We have an entire generation of people that think GMOs are somehow harmful and also ignore the tremendous environmental impact of so called organic foods. The same people taking birth control are reaching for grass fed hormone free milk and beef.
Could this be a food industry backed opinion piece?

The lobbyist could then say: Look, people misunderstand things like dihydrogen monoxide. What should we do with the ingredient list? Perhaps we should have the freedom not to mention scary sounding ingredients?
> But, the data breach exploiting 3 vulnerabilities seems to be bad luck

To me it seemed to stem from at least one fundamentally alarming design problem on their part, not "bad luck". [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18203396
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Maybe the military just informed airlines that they are doing tests in that area?

(I have no idea how air traffic control works)
Cool project, but I always find it amusing when the word “suborbital” is used since it’s sort of a fancy way to say normal or not space. Reminds me this Feynman story:

> Or his questioning of space shuttle engineers: ''They kept referring to the problem by some complicated name - a 'pressure-induced vorticity oscillatory wa-wa,' or something. I said, 'Oh, you mean a whistle!' 'Yes,' they said; 'it exhibits the characteristics of a whistle.' ''

http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/09/21/reviews/feynman-do...
I think that's the ideal story: the system generates an intermediate representation that can be interpreted or compiled to a programming language. There are bindings to common languages/runtimes, and you can take your system and leave at any point.

In practice, lock-in seems like a real issue.
For those who are new to Bayesian Statistics and not to eager to dive into the maths right away I recommend Think Bayes [0]. It gives a nice introduction for those who know programming (Python). The ebook is available for free (see link).

[0]: https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-bayes/
Well, potentially quite a lot of benefit:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-dyes-linked-to-allergies-a...
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This seems like it works worse than photoshop’s content aware fill, which tries to do the same thing with a little more user guidance.
Every Chinese company is at least partially owned, controlled, or heavily influenced by the Chinese government. It's just a fact of life given their current system of government.

Ask yourself this question. Would you buy an iPhone if the US Government owned a significant part of Apple? Or could shut down Apple at any time they wished? Would you trust them not to provide your information to US law enforcement or other government entities without due process under those conditions?

Then why would you purchase a phone manufactured by a Chinese company given the same circumstances?
Can you explain how one implies the other?
"They just wanted THEIR work to be used, or to be able to take credit for it. I hate that weak ass shit." My favorite part, it sucks he lost someone in the whole process...
I made a serious effort last year to read more translated works. Read a couple of Turkish novels, a Chinese one, and a couple others. Really enjoyed it, highly recommend reading translated stuff. Certainly your experience of the piece will not be 100% what the native writer intended, but it will be close, and that is okay. Even translated, there will be ideas and phrasings and ways of thought that you simply will not find in most native English writers works. Shakespeare read today will not have the same effect that Shakespeare perhaps intended it to have, 4-500 years ago, and that is okay. We read it all the same for what it can give us.
Sure. The main thing is that space-time is not linear or even understandable. So infinitely traveling through an infinite number of directions and dimensions could intersect with your start point.
NYT is still desperate to gets ad revenue because they've chosen a subscription model that doesn't work. The same subscription model that doesn't work for a gazillion other newspapers and magazines online, precisely because it's a gazillion-subscription model. Most people are information omnivores. Few want to pay $X/month to the New York Times and $X/month to the Washington Post and $X/month to the Wall Street Journal and $X/month to each of a dozen other publications, just to read an average of less than one article per month on each of them. It's not just the expense, it's also the hassle of having to create logins and remember passwords for all of them, plus the security risk of having to trust every one of their IT departments not to leak your info.

I for one would be glad to pay several times the single-publication price to have a single subscription that would work across all of them, with articles on any counting against my monthly quota. I suspect I'm far from alone, but because nobody's making that offer we all continue to use ad blockers and workarounds, while the publishers continue to be desperate. That's why they keep getting in our faces like this, and also why their product is cruddier than it used to be. If we want a strong press, we need a better subscription model.
I'm in my late 30s now, after two decades as an entrepreneur. My brain was quicker at 21, memory was slightly stronger (slightly faster, easier recall), and I had greater endurance at working productively in very long stretches. And despite that, due to learning how to work more effectively, how to be far more productive with my use of time, understanding what mistakes to avoid, I'm a dramatically better entrepreneur across the board. My patience has improved quite a bit, and my understanding of how to build for simplicity, reducing things down to only what they need to be, is leaps beyond what it was in my 20s. The single most important improvement I've seen, is building up a belligerent ruthlessness when it comes to complexity and general bloat. My 21 year old self just loved to build unnecessary, complex shit.
Is that a question? Cause no, if they care about preventing cheating, they generally don't trust the client. WoW is a good example of this. Every action requires a client->server before it actually starts, though they are generous enough to allow for lag in that, and to do client side prediction so you don't notice. (I think movement may be partially/mostly client side, but they do do checks for people "speedhacking" for that on the server side as well)
Monosodium glutamate is there as a flavoring, just like any number of seasonings. Nobody says that thyme or oregano shouldn't be in food unless they help preserve it longer. There's no evidence whatsoever that it's harmful to anyone, and it's a common part of Asian cooking. The furor over MSG is that it has kind of a funny name and people are still in a tizzy about the racist panic over "Chinese restaurant syndrome" from a few decades ago.[1]

1) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/21/chinese...
Any product that took a lot of time and effort to build before it was launched.

Such as Lightbulbs, Cars, Airplanes all famously took an incredible amount of tests and funding before they achieved product market fit :)

Fundraising is more a function of having access to capital by knowing the right people or being inside the right company, than about the product. It’s rare that the product itself is such a new and revolutionary idea that has a simple implemntation — but perhaps that happens occasionally whenever a new platform comes out.
Note that this report is in terms of percentages, which don't track what's happening to individuals. Population growth and turnover (as people move, retire, or join the workforce) mean that it's possible for average wages to decrease largely due to new low wage jobs filled by newcomers, rather than wage decreases for people already working in Silicon Valley. Someone would need to dig deeper to figure it out.

This trend towards inequality is still not good. The percentages do show that.
I understand what you're saying. The only counter point I'd put forward is it's purposefully playing to the ego mind for attention - arguably deserved or otherwise - to draw more people to trying it out. Likewise, you have to start somewhere. Hopefully over time they can start measuring and reporting on metrics with more meaning to them, which will require them also explaining that meaning to educate people - which will give us all an understanding as to what their understanding is. I still don't feel I understand the ecosystem well enough to say if I like it or not, I do like observing different models though to see how and if they work, what problems they solve or don't - so I am enjoying Mastodon seemingly gaining traction; it at minimum leads to discussion on HN.
Sometimes it's just dumb. Nitrides are no more hazardous than maillard reaction products like acrylamide, yet we're sabotaging our pastrami because of it. Totally irrational.

Having a culture where people consider organic Pop tarts to be somehow healthy is a problem. It's superstition and leads nowhere good.
>The idea is that it allows you to define your database models by specifying what fields to include and BackendLab automatically creates a CRUD API

I don't see the advantage over Firebase FireRules , AWS AppSync , Azure Cosmos or MongoDB Stich all of which have advanced querying options with great SDK and integrations support.

This idea is not bad , it's just it doesn't seem to bring much compared to others on the market already offering BaaS...
I think consumers are honestly trying to be healthier, but the amount of effort required to understand food science is way too high.

What consumers are told is healthy vs unhealthy changes from year to year. First, saturated fat was considered bad for you so they were removed in favor of trans fats. Then trans fats were considered unhealthy so manufacturers replaced them with palm oil. Then we found out palm oil isn't great, so they use coconut oil instead. Who knows if that will hold up.

Ultimately consumers want a pattern they can follow to get healthier foods. "Natural" or "organic" are these patterns for some people. I don't know what a good alternative would be.
I would think something like Rails scaffolds, only it generates React code. Heck, you could probably extend Rails scaffolds (or other frameworks that provide similar utility) to accomplish this.
Your theory here seems to be that usage isn't the point, that people writing code is all that matters.

I think that's a fair measure for a repository of code golf examples, or something where it's just a bunch of people scratching their own itches. But Mastodon is an inherently social product. I don't believe it has any meaning without usage. And clearly, the Mastodon people know that, which is why they talk about the number of registered users.

But the danger with vanity metrics is that a lot of effort can get wasted. That wasted effort can snowball. If a product has a lot of features that nobody uses, it can make future additions and product evolution harder. That can also discourage adoption. And I think the additional danger for Mastodon is that as the most prominent of the open-source social network alternatives, its success or failure will be seen as the success or failure of alternatives to Twitter, etc.
> Apple probably collects more data on a per capita basis than google or facebook.

Sources? That which is asserted without evidence is also dismissed without evidence.

I'm not aware of apple working with credit card companies to track if after an ad was show that someone bought their product. I do know Google has however, and Facebook, well, hard to argue they collect less data than Apple with a straight face.

Please provide some substance to this argument if you could.
The people that can afford to pay and do not is a less valuable population than the people that can afford to pay and do.

Edit: valuable from an advertisement point of view.
Isn’t it called canola nowadays?
> I think #4 is very subversive (for unfortunate reasons). It really made me think what would it take for an African country - be it Nigerian, Botswana, South Africa etc - to compete with the likes of Singapore or California.

Part of the conceptual difficulty, I think, is the Western vision of Africa as being one place with one peoples. It's a bit like how Western nations view their own indigenous groups, only worse: with a broad, homogeneous, inaccurate portrayal.

The futures of Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Nigeria, Ethiopia and South Africa are likely to lack homogeneity.
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Deep Stalin would be a more appropriate name.
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Yeah, I had to figure some of this out on my own. Do you have a good book/resource on this?
I agree with you about both the title and the content, it is a disappointing article. However, I decided to submit it anyway given that it's a sample of how this is being reported in the mainstream media, and that it has many comments, a few of which are quite interesting.
Ah, great. There are definitely some non-vanity metrics in there. Thanks!
"precise timestamps" from two phones is a hard distributed systems problem.
If timestamp and geo were the only things that the app used, I wonder if it worked well only because there weren't too many people 'bumping' at the same time from that geo.
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If you are a Software Engineer you are likely in the top 10%. Just mentioning this because I saw a thread in /r/programming the other day and some Software Engineers actually thought they were not in the top 10% of Americans when it comes to salary.
Funny, coca tea is an expression I sometimes use for diet coke.
In an interview with Germany's ARD TV channel, the former NSA contractor said the agency would spy on big German companies that competed with US firms. [0]

President Barack Obama got a list of talking points that United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hoped to hit on during a one-on-one meeting, courtesy of the NSA's X-Keyscore program. - not economic but it's hard to imagine this tactic wouldn't apply to economy related meetings [1,2]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/25907502

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/nsas-spying-on-united-nations-and-...

[2] https://theintercept.com/document/2015/07/01/un-secretary-ge...
A co worker last year ended up in the hospital with the flu. He had been vaccinated. He was told by the staff that vaccinated people appeared to be harder hit, so he is unlikely to get a flu vaccine again. He's no antivaxer. Yet, information on how effective these vaccines are seems hard to get and politically sensitive.

The npr article states that weakened immune systems can put people at risk, yet the 1918 flu most severely affected those with the strongest immune systems. Many of the flu symptoms are due to immune response, and apparently that flu elicited a much stronger response and higher mortality amongst the healthy.
Does anyone know how to do this with StackExchange?
Rossman does depot-level repairs. They don't need 10,000 depots. They need a few. They could potentially have someone like him video or phone-linked to stores to answer tough questions (and very well may). They then need good policies and training for the frontline staff to sort out when something can be sent for repair and when it can't. It would also help if they revived SOS-APPL and started making parts easily available.

I suspect it wouldn't take much money at all for Apple to buy Rossman, drop him in a big NYC depot with a Jurassic Park-style viewing window for fanbois to watch things get fixed while he livestreams the repairs, and quickly turn this into a PR win. They could replicate that in several other large cities easily. Will they? Probably not.
Blackstone is spending millions to retain such exemptions trying to block Prop 10 as we type

No safeguards like those in Phoenix, it's still the wild, wild west of politics & regs here.
> scientists have already ruled out a universe with a "radius" less than some ridiculous number (like billions of light years)

How is billions of light years a ridiculous number? Even the observable universe is bigger than that, so the full universe could be many many times bigger.

Since you can't see past the observable universe you wouldn't be able to see the double copies.
> The more north you go, the blander/crappier the food gets, mostly due to the weather.

It's more complicated than that. Cultural reasons are a huge factor in why Western food is so bland:

> Serving richly spiced stews was no longer a status symbol for Europe's wealthiest families — even the middle classes could afford to spice up their grub. "So the elite recoiled from the increasing popularity of spices," Ray says. "They moved on to an aesthetic theory of taste. Rather than infusing food with spice, they said things should taste like themselves. Meat should taste like meat, and anything you add only serves to intensify the existing flavors."

> The rest of Europe soon adopted this new style. "It's a redefinition of what elegant is," Freedman says. "It's sort of like — in fashion — for a while having more frills, more jewelry was fashionable. But then someone said that a basic black dress with some pearls is much better."

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/ho...
They mobilized 20% of the male population, built large modern fortifications and had a strong air force. The germans just had better weapons and better tactics and rolled over them in 18 days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Belgium
Tweet-storm stories always feel like that: disorganized, erratic, frantic, extremely unpleasant to read.
What's so special about Google photos? As far as I can tell it just gets used because it is the default camera roll on Android.
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It can in fact be MORE nitrate salts, because there's a minimum level needed to cure meats, and since celery salt or whatever celery-based product you're using is less consistent in the amount of nitrate included, you have to use enough to guarantee that everything gets enough nitrate, which means that some of what you make will have substantially more nitrate than foods that aren't labelled 'nitrate free.'
Can you give me some examples of a server with extreme right-wingers? That way I can find out whether my server allows me to follow them or not.