skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's your definition of nefarious?

If using your data to get you to spend as much money as possible fits that definition, then sure. They're absolutely doing that.
Christ does exhort his followers to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and Democrats believe the state acts on behalf of the populace to perform tasks that we individually could not do. So a community can clothe and house the poor better than an individual can.

Clothing and housing are artefacts of this world, not the kingdom of Christ. Ergo rendering unto Caesar what is caesar’s involves providing clothing and housing to those who do not have it, with the state as proxy and effort multiplier.
> Personally I would have been much more understanding of the process of using stackoverflow if I knew this, and so would many of the people who get stung expecting an answer to their question.

My gut feeling is that this worked better in the past because Stack Overflow was at a smaller scale, and the audience was a bit more insular and willing to read stuff about how the systems work on Stack Overflow (programmers love understanding rule systems; it's literally their job most of the time). Now that SO has achieved permanent world scale, the constant influx of new people who don't take the time to learn the ambient norms before posting, and thus cut themselves on what they perceive to be unnecessary sharp edges, is getting .. large.

Most of this could be solved by a very detailed, educational multi-step /ask page in my opinion.
I couldn't agree more.

I supported various decriminalization and legalization pushes on the principle that the criminal justice system is a poor avenue for addressing things that are public health problem, which is a principle I still believe in. But I've got some considerable buyer's regret; I don't want to smoke myself, and as far as I can tell, it's shockingly common that smokers of either tobacco or cannabis are (a) pretty bad at realizing how others experience it (and how far the experience travels) and/or (b) not particularly considerate about the fact that others haven't signed up for it. It's particularly galling in living situations where people will smoke on balconies or just outside an entryway apparently heedless of the fact that smoke will travel in other people's windows; and even smoking indoors travels through both windows and ventilation systems.

For a while I thought this might be something that could be solved via education and etiquette, but there are too many entitled smokers. I don't think this is a problem that's going to be fixable without at least minor citations/fines to back up the right behavior. And we might need to see if there's a relationship with production that's neither full-on industrialized nor necessarily driven underground.
BuzzFeed is fake news run by idiots. Look at the article (s) they have now on their front page...

It's nothing but college age "editors" who are "googling" things and looking at Twitter for content.

I know it'll be an unpopular opinion on here but they are a huge source of bullshit on the internet.
Rethinking software engineering in the AI era
> And we know it happens because 'we' do it as well.

What's the logic in this? This is like saying Saudis must be Christians because we are Christians as well
How to Set Up WordPress on a Raspberry Pi
Captable
What are the most common captable system you are currently using or you use excel sheet to manage your shares?
Tagger News might be what you're looking for: https://www.taggernews.com/

It was a TC Disrupt hackathon project that generates tags using AI, and seems to still be functional.
> You could have said the same thing about gay marriage or marijuana legalization in 2001

I take your point, but I don't think it's the same thing. There was no vested commercial interest in maintaining the gay marriage ban and even then marriage equality was fiercely opposed and narrowly achieved and would be impossible to achieve today and into the foreseeable political future. It was also a no-brainer issue for Democrats that earned them a lot of support and did not conflict with Democratic donor interests. Marijuana is more complicated, especially if we are mindful of the fact that it is still a Schedule I drug (while e.g. cocaine, fentanyl and meth are Schedule II), but there was at least the gigantic bales of cash to create a clear incentive to drive legalization forward despite the fact that marijuana businesses are still being hamstrung by the banks and are under explicit threat by the attorney general. Still, marijuana is a very old issue with a clear binary choice that most of the citizenry is educated about...

Now, compare all that with a ratcheting up of privacy restrictions wherein the only possible outcome is the loss of billions of dollars in monetizable customer data and personal information, not to mention all the usual suspects that continuously endeavor to magnify the scope and breadth of the surveillance state for their own ends. Additionally, there is no clear binary choice like with marijuana and gay marriage; any viable solution will require an imperfect, nuanced, and somewhat technical approach to being solved and this type of solution is the hardest thing to do in our politics right now. There is no incentive for any faction to tamp down on data collection and the populace has given the signal that it doesn't really care about these issues (e.g. the equifax breach had no legal and minimal financial consequences for the company, and people have already forgotten). Additionally, there is also a sizable libertarian population among the technically literate that will oppose any kind of serious restrictions on data-collection because they are ideologically opposed to regulations. Imagine the furor on this forum if a presidential candidate seriously suggested something within the ballpark of EU style privacy laws - the entire front page would be flagged out of existence. Maybe I am pessimistic, but I just can't see a viable route to privacy restrictions.

edit: I just want to add: I'm not saying "no progress is possible forever, give up". I'm responding to the cavalier tone of your suggestion that "we can just make them stop". It's certainly possible, it's just very unlikely within the foreseeable future.
How to build a self-writing Wikipedia
> Your God is whatever you worship, and yes even the Atheist worships something.

You're just making up your own meanings for words.

Yes, it can be said that a person can worship god or worship a person. But they're different concepts, and because the text is so specific about using the term "God", capital G, it's a reference to a specific named thing.

This isn't like a kid saying he wants KFC and you pan fry some chicken.

Stop pretending you know anything about atheists or anti-theists - the text is written by christians, and (like pretty much all monotheistic religions) they get pretty iffy when you try to dispute "one true god".

> identifying "your God" and make it your priority. Live with purpose

having purpose is almost the exact opposite of believing in a sky fairy to absolve yourself of guilt or blame.
I believe it was breaking all NYMag links today, appears fixed on NYMags end now.

https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkMag
> How to handle stale information. I still see no solution to this.

Since you're down with "SO as Wikipedia" surely you can find the edit button on every answer and question.. which works even in incognito mode when you are not logged in?
I don't know about retail but if you are ever in Las Vegas or Reno, go into a casino and walk past every slot machine to the reservation desk and ask for a room. Availability and prices will be far worse than booking after gambling or even phoning from the parking lot.
> If any robo taxi provider will be stupid enough to annoy passenger with ads then they'll loose big time to another provider who isn't.

You just described my experience with NY Taxi Cabs vs. Lyft
Hey guys! I'm building a crypto trading terminal that'll give all kinds of crypto-related information to traders; Think a lot of fundamental data like social media sentiment, articles, trending #hashtags; RSI reports etc..
That’s well and good and all...but it’s in Amazon and Apple’s best interest to deny everything.
Geosynchronous orbit, satellites can be locked in position over a certain point on earth, from our POV it would look like that satellite is locked in position in the night sky
We already can do all of that, we don't need robots. Most farms have been no till for years now, the idea that fields are plowed is an anachronism. This is more tech wankery, people with a particular technology trying to shoehorn it into being the "solution" to problems that are already solved easier and cheaper.
Facebook War Room
> this person does not deserve our ire or contempt for solving a social problem with social engineering. He did the right thing, in that case.

One of my issues is them claiming that it was a technical problem and other manufacturers do not want to manufacture BEV because there is some conspiracy. No, chevy bolt barely sells because it is not hyped as revolutionary and futuristic. If you think the solution staring a new cult for GM instead of addressing such FUD that is actually hurting BEV adoption. If these masses who worship Musk turned up for Chevy bolt or nissan leaf, we would have a ton more BEVs.

> everyone has been saying that SpaceX is going to fail, and that they won't be able to pull off the next important step, and every time they did it afterwards, it sounds like the story about the boy who cried wolf now.

I am not knowledgable about rockets but spacex can only use rockets twice till now with refurbishments, and nobody else seems to be pushing new rockets.

I can only wonder if Spacex is doing what tesla did to self driving, take existing technology (like driver assistance/VTVL and costly refurbishment which people could do), use them irresponsibly (call lane keeping assist autosteer and let it steer itself/cut costs using dangerous methods), and then make unsubstantiated claims about the future (self driving taxi networks with cross country summon/biggest rocket ever with thousand times reusability with minimal refurbishments).

I would only believe what they have achieved, which is impressive but nobody seems to have deemed that impossible.
It’s really starting to smell like Bloomberg got played hard here. To preserve their journalistic integrity they either need to produce some supporting evidence real fast or admit they screwed up and retract the story.
> Dumb people are incapable of learning unless they get burned on the stove a few times.

I'm having a hard time not applying your statement to the entire human race. Not that I think we're all "dumb people", but we all seem to be exhibiting a serious lack of concern for the environment and the planet's future.

Also called "learning the hard way." Maybe we do need to get burned a bit to learn how to take better care of ourselves.
It would support two things that are currently in doubt (1) the idea that Bloomberg ran the story with actual information from actual insiders at Apple/Amazon (I've seen upvoted comments in multiple HN threads suggesting fabrication and whether the journalists have a history of it) and (2) that Bloomberg did not confuse or extrapolate the claims in their story from much more minor security incidents, such as the one Apple had previously disclosed re:Supermicro (such confusion/extrapolation seems to be the most likely explanation for everything we've seen imho but many other outcomes wouldn't surprise me).
uBlock Origin.

What's annoying is that I've actually signed up to pay for their basic digital access, and they still not only still try to serve me those ads, but because I block the ads, half the time they still put a little please-let-us-inflict-ads-on-you bug at the bottom of the page.
When I read comments like this I just don't believe it, I haven't seen anyone get sick since the CV1/Vive came out.

The DK2 totally had those issues and the PSVR is a sub standard experience but hey each to his own I guess.
'our latest understanding is', not 'confirmation'
OpenBSD Foundation Receives Silver Contribution from John Carmack
Can't wait to see if you can use this with ScyllaDB!
If the board house has copies of the gerbers, which they should, someone could easily edit those to introduce a spot for the implant. And if they already have all of the drawings, they can just add those empty pads into the design so any inspection wouldn't raise alarm. Then install the actual implant post-inspection. Maybe they get lucky by just re-purposing unused pads from the original design and route the traces to where ever.
Wow it's classifier looks very accurate. I think everything on the front page had nonsensical tags as of right now.
Aptoide: EU National Court Rules Against Google in Anti-Trust Process
The funny thing is Carmack only works on the mobile headsets and has been for awhile. He knows that's the future.
> They unleash a task force of moderators on them that kick out the low-quality creators

Not following, SO has always had pretty strict rules on quality from 2009 forward. There's no inflection point here.
My partner and I are the proud owners of a Toyota Corolla CE 2003. We often joke about how it has to be the most nondescript car ever made. It has no extra features (with the exception of the CD/radio stereo perhaps), it just drives, really well, it's very efficient, nobody would ever think to steal or break into it as long as there's pretty much any other car in sight, it requires very little maintenance, and when it does we can go pretty much anywhere and it's very cheap.

There'll come a day when we have to replace it, and I'm dreading having to pay more for something that most likely won't be as reliable, but will attempt to squeeze yet more "value" out of me. The corporatization of everyday goods and services at the expense of consumers absolutely sickens me. I can't go to the movies without having to watch 15 minutes of ads, even though I already paid for my seat (and tickets are more expensive than ever). I fear giving my email/phone number/etc. to anybody because I have no idea how they'll be used. I have to regularly remind my ISP/phone provider to stop trying to push more crap and use me as some sort of advertizing platform for my friends. And so on.

People complain about Facebook, Google, etc. all the time for their underhanded tactics, but at the very least I haven't already paid for the product before being amalgamated into it... For all the people on HN who work for these companies and help them implement these things, I do have to ask, how do you sleep at night?
> How do you represent an action scene where the viewer could potentially be looking 180 degrees from where the action is taking place?

You put the viewer in the middle of the action.
The implication here is more "we know its possible because we do it".
Swedish Competition Agency Rejects Forcing Banks to Handle Cash
And now dumber than ever. At least on my iPhone 6s with the latest update. Now you have to go through 2 screens to send a photo to someone in imessage, whereas before the most recent photos were easily accessible. And on facetime you have to pull up a menu [that covers the entire screen] to flip the camera around, and if you accidentally hit it a couple times theres no way to know which way your camera is facing without closing the menu.
Oh, I realize that most people don't study historical banking system but what your saying is only partly and only if you look at specific places.

The crisis in the US system in the 19th century were usually based on bad harvest that lead to a banking crisis. The US was suffering from absolutely horrible banking regulations back then and that was acknowledged by everybody (and was blocked from being reformed for 25 years).

However the severity and duration were not necessary longer then they are today. The Great Depression and Great Recession were easily as bad or worse then any of the recessions in the pre-WW1 era.

Furthermore Canada, who was just north of the US and with a similar economy suffered no banking crisis at all during that period. So saying that it was like a yo-yo in the 19th is simply not true unless you are locking at the US. Even in the US banking systems in some states performed significantly better then others (more diversity in regulation back then).
I guess you could include it in 'price and equipment' but for me I simply don't have space in my apartment to do any of the interesting things with VR (eg I really enjoyed SuperHot VR), and it doesn't seem much of an improvement if I'm just sitting in my chair with it. Floor space is extremely expensive in almost every big Western city at the moment.
I recommend creating some action shots which demonstrate how well the tool works.
"correlogram"? More like "core-relogram", amirite?
A little bit but foveated rendering is really the tech we need.
Aha, this explains it:

>Developer tools at Facebook
Oof, I got burned by the tokio/futures ecosystem too. It's definitely a frustrating experience. Thank god it was only a pet project with no deadline pressure, cause it's been 6months now and I'm still waiting for stabilization.
Compliance and company formation?
Thanks! My brain seemed to think the R in Reduced Instruction Set was for real time ...whoops!

Neat project regardless.
> Don't load header files with documentation comments. Put them in the implementation.

no, that's terrible. How do you do when you don't want to install the source of every lib you use ?
But pure capital allocation efficiency isn't a good indicator of social well being, just as infinite sugar sounds momentarily delightful until you think about diabetes.
How would you verify this theory?
Artificial intelligence paints a self-portrait
The future of self driving cars makes me think of city tours I’ve taken while abroad.

For example while in Delhi I hired a car and driver for a day to take me round all the sights. These sights also happened to include shops run by either family members of the driver, or ones he’d arranged a kickback with.

Imagine entire journeys optimised like the confectionery rack by the checkout in a supermarket or the floor plan of IKEA. Individually tailored to match your shopping interests.

The new bidding war won’t be for the top spot on the google homepage but for companies to take you past their premises. For example it’s late, Google knows you like a beer in the evening but don’t have any in the house, so the grocery store willing to pay the most gets you going past. Maybe with a voucher delivered to the in-cab screen.
That's simply not true. Low axle weight and low pressure both reduce soil compaction tremendously, to the point where it no longer causes any at all when you get small enough. This is easily measured. A garden tractor is 1000 pounds, even with normal turf tires you get no measurable compaction unless you are in mud. I can drive around my garden all day long and a penetrometer confirms absolutely no difference.
> I hope you'll be able to find one. Finding a decent TV that isn't "smart" is pretty difficult.

If you don't want a smart TV you should by a "professional display" (I don't remember the exact term). They're almost exactly like a normal flat-screen, except their designed for always-on operation an lack all the "smart" crap.
The entire story is an elaboration of a hypothetical example Fitzpatrick gave in consultation. That the final article is an exact match is seriously problematic.
> Again, if you're saying that increasing our efficiency in sales is a bad thing, you're saying that capitalism is bad. But I've just come to see this data as something that enables product evolution to occur much faster. I see this data as something that's helping the world, mostly, get more of what it wants.

Unfortunately, I've seen too many product decisions catering to the manipulative aspects of adtech. UX often suffers, not improves with ads. Online platforms all seem to follow the same game ad monetization plan these days which results in messes like Frankensteinish apps--see official Twitter app.

As for actual hands on manufactured products or services, I'd like to know how ads improved the UX.
42% of executives believe AI will be of 'critical importance' within 2 years
Passed First Time with 4 Minors – Adriving School of Motoring
Acacia is not an easy genus, even for specialists. There are around a thousand species worldwide.

Wood-Database talks about 'Gidgee wood' as a product of two species of Acacia: The Stinking Gidgee (Acacia cambedesi) and The western Gidgee (Acacia pruinocarpa).

I couldn't find a mention to the third, closely related and similar Georgina Gidgee (Acacia georginae) naturalised in US, and also known as the poisonous Gidgee. Creates a product very toxic for mammals, small and big, to the point to be sold as rodent poison. Just a few mouthfuls of leaves can kill cattle. I don't know if the compound is stored in the wood (probably not, or we would know it).

Leaves of Acacia often contain Cyanide. Bark can contain Tanines and also alcaloids like DMT, according to the species.
Keep it quiet, because the nuclear-phobia of many people, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_systems_...
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was feeling old when I became confused by the facetime pull up menu and accidentally disconnected the call, unable to figure out if the camera was flipped, and how to get back to the call.
Why was Google not affected by these Supermicro motherboards?
> I actually don't care what the truth is

Why are you in this thread at all then?
That's one of the reasons I created MediaTag [0], to be able to save pages and see associated tags next to the links. Here is how my HN favorites look like: https://mediatag.io/gui/items/f117244b-mediatag-hn

[0] https://mediatag.io
Mapping the world's food production with AI and satellites
No, it's pretty decent now
So your issue isn't with the Code of Conduct, its with the people badgering them to implement one.

The maintainers (and only contributors) implemented a Code of Conduct in line with their community.
AI aids automatic monitoring of cells
Any evidence of this theory?
> Astounding lack of skepticism

You must not live in a conservative area. Where I live (Utah) is certainly an outlier, but skepticism is all I hear without any talk of the benefits of legalization.

I believe that marijuana was wrongfully criminalized. If marijuana were legal today, would you support an initiative for making it controlled?

I think the discussion about marijuana is tainted by its current status as a controlled substance. It's currently treated as if it had no medicinal benefits, and that's clearly not the case. In fact, it's pretty clear that it's less bad than alcohol and tobacco, yet it's banned. If we can't come up with a rational reason to ban it, it should be legalized and controlled to the extent that it causes harm.
at the very least, they'll have to work -hard- to get it as easy to hack as https://github.com/letoram/durden/blob/master/durden/tools/f... :-)
GAFAM is pretty common in french. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM
Hive CEO Kevin Guo Interview on Human-Powered AI
> Alcohol is obviously way worse
> more and more people start having troubles with [weed]

The latter case is not a guarantee - the potential negative effect is (IMO and through my experience) likely closer to that of coffee addiction than alcohol. The difference is weed addicts can get help for it rather than be thrown in jail - the industry is/was already there, but having it above board can allow for much better outcomes.