skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that wouldn't be the end of the world for bricks and mortars retailers now, would it?

The UK is seeing the high street decimated with many chains closing scores of shops, or closing outright. That's awful for people who can't, or don't want to, shop online - and also leads to less tax being collected on the whole as Amazon et al siphon their money to places where they've managed to strong arm a sweetheart deal.
You good bro?
What will happen to drivers when self-driving cars roll out?

In the meantime there is a long shot of a way to improve this type of thing. Which is to replace proprietary centralized platforms like Uber with open decentralized platforms that would allow multiple providers to share a common market and infrastructure and still compete. That would give drivers the ability to choose the nicer company but still have the large market.
Not talking about market capitalisation. Talking about profits. The UK doesn't have anything on the scale of FAANG generating enormous (taxable) profits. We are literally 2 orders of magnitude off.
A first look at changes coming in ASP.NET Core 3.0
> I'm known to ALL of my friends and ALL of my family as someone who will not ever be on Facebook. You know what they do? They call me. Or text me. Or email me.

That only works if they already know you. If you wanna start something new, it might benefit from having the outreach that facebook has.
Sometimes when I lurk on Reddit it appears that "the internet" is giving helpful and respectful comments to someone who, say, alleges that her husband had been sexually assaulting her.

When I start digging down into the lower quality comments those comments are obviously lower quality. But here's the thing-- within the lower quality comments is the OP responding to the low quality comments!

In other words, an OP (probably like many OPs) has a limited amount of time to get feedback on Reddit about a pressing problem. And mods/downvoters cannot react quickly enough in that period of time to appropriately moderate the responses.

Imagine OP's "Reddit time" (let's say an hour) as a rectangle in a video game that starts at 100% and drains to 0%. Let's say those dregs comments drained 15% of the OP's total time or energy participating on Reddit.

Now, suppose a lurker reads the thread later when the mods/downvoters have caught up with all their work. The lurker's default view is only the quality comments. This misleads the lurker by hiding the 15% time-or-energy hit the OP had from interacting with the dregs. The lurker likely assumes that participating on Reddit requires less time or energy that it does in reality.

Now the lurker tries out posting for the first time and starts to experience the 15% time-or-energy hit from the dregs comments. The more impatient OP is about reading comments, the more likely OP is to increase that wasted time-or-energy by interacting with the dregs.

Worse, that 15% time-or-energy hit includes content that would be beyond the pale for in-person social interactions-- it's mindless trolling or misanthropy which nearly no one would utter face to face. Some of it-- like accusations that the OP is an imposter-- is unique to social media.

Worst of all, that poster probably started as a lurker. So their decision to post in the first place was based on a view of Reddit that radically downplays the costs of interacting. I mean, I don't see any clear warnings on first post that let the poster know "shit will roll in" faster than the mods can flush it.

The obvious solution is to throttle all posting activity so that participating on Reddit slows to a level approaching those tree people from Lord of the Rings. (The larger time slices would actually get rid of whole class of problems, like the internet sleuthing BS that happened after the Boston bombing.) But I'm sure Reddit wants to encourage OPs to increase their # of responses for maximum buzz, so I don't really see any non-manipulative practical solution to this problem.
Posting in political subreddits is not "civic engagement."
Maybe you'll try out Sekiro when it comes out? Or at least read if the problems look similar from your perspective. There's always a question of how much blame to allocate where, putting it all at the developer's feet doesn't seem fair -- Sekiro differs from Dark Souls (and Demon Souls/Bloodborne) in that it's From Software + Activision as publisher, rather than From Software + Bandai Namco + Sony.

I also wonder if your viewpoint has any room for forgiveness? When I got a friend to try the Prepare to Die edition on steam, it worked without any issues (he used a controller though), he didn't even need to install DSFix, so clearly through patches they made the port acceptable. The 'Remastered' version also works without installing anything extra (except on Linux, you need to install a dll yourself) plus you get reliable 60 FPS. I don't know what Dark Souls 2 or DS3 looked like for PC gamers on launch day but when I got them I had no problems, but I don't know if they would pass your criteria or signal a sign of improvement.

What amazes me is why the Xbox 360 port was so bad with respect to framerate in one particular area. Even the Xbone X drops down to 15 in a small portion of that area (but at least is rock solid 30 pretty much everywhere else, unlike the 360 or the classic Xbone emulation).
What’s New with Speech Services from Microsoft? [video]
Needs a simple JavaScript or similar client (REPL?) baked into the page.

API appears powerful, but lots of free alternatives that don’t require a comfort level with shell scripting or REST calls.
They're still looking for a sufficiently large truck to repossess Apple Park...
I don't know what the demands are -- I would hope they were transparency and accountability going forward. I do agree that a walkout without clear demands is meaningless -- except that it can embarrass senior management and that is sometimes the goal.

But beyond embarrassment, what these types of walkouts do is signal to management that discontent is brewing and that employees are willing to fight back and stand-up. And as people are arguing upthread, tech workers have a certain amount of power in deciding where they work. Recruiting is competitive as it is -- it certainly doesn't make it any easier if you have employees walking out en mass because of policies that protected senior executives.

Do walkouts work without mass buy-in, no -- not usually. The bad publicity/embarrassment factor could force some corporations to make changes, but just as many won't care.

This is why unions are typically successful with threats of work stoppage, and also why the hardest part of unionizing is getting enough employees to sign cards (not to mention fighting against the mistruths management usually puts out about the union itself).

I've never walked-out, but in my last job (which was union (WGA-E), we did very seriously consider a work stoppage because of changes that undermined our editorial independence, Even then, the walk-out is the last-resort, but to management's credit, once it was clear that we were willing to walk out, our demand (written indemnity protecting us from personal lawsuits based on things we wrote for the publication -- this is almost always provided by major news organizations but isn't always in writing. The circumstances of our company and the reason why we now had new ownership made it crucial that we get written indemnity and not merely a verbal promise that if sued, the company would pay legal bills if we were named personally) was met.
> She really thinks she's "fighting the good fight" by posting a fresh outrage every day.

I have a few people in my feed who do this, from both sides. It almost feels like they've turned into nothing but meme/share-bots. It gets so annoying that I should probably block them already.

If you try to call out the content, you either get childishly shouted down because you're on "the other side", or called out as "the problem" because you don't agree with their group-think.
It's incredibly annoying. I've built out my own mobile website for interfacing with Reddit because of it. Update after update the mobile.reddit.com keeps becoming harder to use.
Maybe because it was harder to bypass local laws before? Untraceable money (crypto) is great way to "incentivize" removal of one of your rivals.
What does ulimit -a say?
Probably because I'm older, I am envious of the parents to be able to do this. I have kids getting ready for college. Thankfully they are getting academic scholarships. But to be able to write off the entire schooling and basically set them up for life...that I envy.
See, that’s what I mean about being reductionist. Is your answer wrong? Eh, not entirely, it’s just useless. Plenty of uses for the Strategy Pattern require more than just a function, and even those that a function is sufficient, what the function returns, and when, and why, matters. Reducing it down to a single function offers no understanding, it just sidesteps the point.
2% does not tip it, it's actually a pretty low, but still sane, figure IMHO.
Be careful, that kind of speech could get you charged with practicing engineering^Wcommon sense without a license:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/12/0...
Thanks for mentioning tensorpack, looks very interesting!

VergeML is not a library, it is a (command line) tool which lets you drop images in a directory and type 'ml train' in the most basic case.

You would use VergeML to quickly train with everyday datasets.

VergeML is framework agnostic, there will be model implementations in pure TensorFlow ("closer to the metal") and other libraries. Keras is a very good fit for the classifier based on transfer learning from ImageNet. It provides a lot of functionality and good training performance.
As a side note: Microsoft will do AI work for the military: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/10/26/technol...

And Amazon will host the Pentagon cloud, and no one really cares, employees aren't derailing things and they sure aren't protesting.

Meanwhile at Google there is one employee driven mess after another, they leak everything to the press, and have no regard for company image or reputation, maybe Google should just show the door to those threatening to quit and start incorporating these lessons into their hiring process.
Is the only thing holding you back from murder lack of funds?

If not, why do you think billionaires are any different?
it never occurred to me before, but seeing it in a chart like this it really seems like Reddit has basically just turned into Gamers and their side interests, politics, and a few vestiges of old Reddit, like AskReddit, which at this point might as well be their own separate site for what all they have to do with the main demographic.

The Video Game sphere takes up a huge chunk of it. Then many of the other subs are basically gamer adjacent. Many of those technology subs are just about building PCs and stuff, which is largely gaming related or correlated. Even a lot of the politics is invariably linked to Gamergate type stuff. The Entertainment section is all genre fiction, anime, etc. Stuff you would expect a gaming forum to focus on.

The dedicated meme parts of the site are gone. The interesting stuff that fits in no particular category are gone. If you had told me 4 years ago that one day I would come to miss the derivative rage comics and image macros in the face of the unrelenting stream of toxicity that the site would become I wouldn't have believed you.

Just look at this joke post https://external-preview.redd.it/dv9xRUyCUzzan5wZnVBCmmHIriH... from 6 years ago. It all seems so innocent compared to what it is now.
When you put it that way it actually seems like a good idea.
What do the children of poets and musicians study?
> The end does not justify the means. So what good is a society built on prejudice, harassment, and corruption?

Spoken like someone who was raised in a culture where airing grievances led to getting what you wanted most of the time.

I mean, it's not illogical. There's a reason why the activist archetype is so respected in our society. It gets results!

But the outlook that fuels activists to push things things until they win: "I'd rather burn everything to the ground than not get what I want" is also an incredibly short sighted and selfish way to look at things.

This is the human condition I guess. We take things for granted. Like the stability we've grown up in, so much that we're willing to sacrifice our inheritance [a stable and mostly fair society] chasing windmills.

Luckily we've amassed so much wealth and institutional inertia that I think it'll be a while before it all comes tumbling down.
He probably assumes becoming mega rich requires a certain form of sociopathy that ditinguishes the group from the rest of us.
How Does Spotify Make Money? Spotify Business Model in a Nutshell
(ESET is from Slovakia, but still European)
Yikes... now is a good time to look for a new job.
Bret Victor: The Future of Programming
This all makes sense. APOE literally carries viruses around the body : https://bit.ly/2oRVFSr
If you're employed in the UK there's very little you can deduct - mostly it's salary sacrifice arrangements like pension, childcare vouchers etc. The only real deductible I can think of at the moment is mileage allowance, and since very few people do anything but commute to and from their place of work, they can't claim that. It's only if you're a salesperson or area manager driving your own car.

If you're self employed however the picture is a little different.
Gab Vanishes, and the Internet Shrugs
>The link you provided actually contradicts this statement.

If Chartalism was a valid theory then no fiat money -- which required to be used to pay tax -- would have ever failed. That is to say, history and time provide real-world proof[1] that Chartalism is a specious theory of money.

At the end of the day though, if you know more than the market, take negative delta exposure to bitcoin and profit handsomely.

[1] https://trader2trader.co/2012/11/28/list-of-590-dead-currenc...
While we hate Google for the privacy invasion in advertising, reCAPTCHA is one the areas that is a definite positive. Google has the data and the unique position to make the web safer. I wish they did more.

Need to give them credit for fighting: hurting malicious websites by not sending them traffic, keeping search results relevant against SEO abuses, cutting down email spam effectiveness, ... and reCaptcha.

All of this becomes very relevant when you run our own online business like I do. You can lament that google knows you're shopping for a new car, but my users lose real dollars if a scammer gets on my website - and google provides the tools to combat this.

And, no you can't implement your own captcha. No matter how smart you think you are, you don't have the data that Google does.
>I still don't like that people get into their own bubbles and do little to bridge the gaps between political and ideological differences

Leaving your comment moderation duties up to majoritarian voting is inevitably going to do that.
I always wondered how Pinterest skirted this issue.
A lot of the activity on the_donald was intended to push propaganda to the front page. These tactics became ineffective after the reddit admins changed their algorithms around.
You can get similar raw data using these public bigquery datasets: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/fh-bigquery:reddit...
To be a little more descriptive, it's a dashcam video from a vehicle driving near Bagram Airfield, and you see the plane crash in a way that makes it clear that the entire crew are killed.

Some more detail from the Wikipedia entry[0]:

"On 2 June 2013, investigators from the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation of Afghanistan confirmed the load shift hypothesis as the starting point: three armoured vehicles and two mine-sweeping vehicles, totalling 80 tons of weight, had not been properly secured. At least one armoured vehicle had come loose and rolled backwards against the airplane's rear bulkhead, damaging the bulkhead. This also crippled key hydraulic systems and damaged the horizontal stabilizer components - most notably the jackscrew, which rendered the airplane uncontrollable.[10] Control of the aircraft was therefore lost, with the abnormal pitch-up rotation, stall, and crash to the ground ensuing.[1] The damage made it impossible for the crew to regain control of the aircraft."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_102
Seems dumb now in hindsight, but I never thought about its meaning at all.
It more than just leans left. Most comments and posts from a conservative position get downvoted, and many libertarian ones do as well, while almost anything positive for liberals gets upvotes, even if it's not newsworthy.

I'd really like something like HN, but for political discussion. There are a couple okay subreddits, but it's just not worth it anymore IMO. I just want quality discussion about issues, complete with evidence. PoliticalDiscussion is okay so far, but then again, so was politics a couple of years ago.
Probably not bots. In those days they actively encouraged upvoting everything as a way of gaming the front page algorithm.
Youtube doesnt seem to save settings like darkmode and languagues (defaulting to my localized option instead of my set language) with ad block from ghostery
Yeah, I won't be shocked if that happens eventually, but in the meantime wouldn't it be nice if the people who are paid by the public to serve the public interest and have also sworn on bibles to do that would actually just do that without being forced to do that? Besides this is yet another example of private profit and public risk. None of the judges, prosecutors, city managers, and cops who receive consideration from Xerox will ever answer for their corruption. Xerox execs will never answer for their corruption. Instead the families of some poor bastards who died of T-boning will just bankrupt a few counties and municipalities. That's not really going to fix the problem. Eventually, Xerox itself will go out of business whether they get sued or not. Nothing says "no innovation here" like the trivially venal schemes described in TFA.

Meanwhile, we seem to have drifted a bit here. Re-aiming cameras and cutting wires is still a much more available remedy for the average human being than running a successful class action lawsuit against a corrupt conspiracy of huge corporations and unaccountable civil servants. The difference between those two alternatives is so vast...
Get an injunction to prevent Apple from selling their products with stolen Qualcomm tech until they pay. I mean, it's stolen if they didn't pay for it, right? You know, just like Apple does to companies like Samsung who they claim use stolen Apple IP. https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/09/17/apple-v-samsung-samsu...
Qualcomm has bullied players like Samsung to prevent them from using their own LTE modems, and has done everything possible to ensure they are the only reasonable choice for LTE chipsets.

In Samsung's case, only Samsung branded devices can have their LTE modem per the settlement with Qualcomm, and US bound phones always ship with a Qualcomm SoC (part of that whole home territory thing for Qualcomm).

Another affected group is Mediatek, they only recently got LTE support, and their ability to get chips with LTE is entirely controlled by Qualcomm. There is no competition in the modem space, which is absolutely appalling.
If I'm a server, and my ip is 192.0.2.1, and i listen on port 80, my nearby clients 192.0.2.2 and 192.0.2.3 can each establish just about 64k connections to me (port 0 doesn't generally work). I like to think of it as a 5-tuple

{Protocol, PeerA, PeerB, PortA, PortB} ex:

{tcp, 192.0.2.1, 192.0.2.2, 80, 12345} is distinct from
{tcp, 192.0.2.1, 192.0.2.3, 80, 12345}

With roughly 2^32 ipv4 addresses and 2^16 client ports for each ip, you should be able to establish 2^48 connections to your server IP. Although, it usually requires a bit more than standard effort to actually use quite that many client ports per IP, by default you have to fight against high vs low ports, and anyway not a lot of OSes have a very sane allocation policy for ports.

Note also: if you're testing this on localhost, IANA has assigned you 2^24 ipv4 addresses for localhost, 127.0.0.0/8, so if i assume you're going to listen on all addresses, and connect to all addresses from all addresses, that gives you 2^24 x ( 2^24 x 2^16 ) = 2^64 connections. It might take you some time to iterate through an array that large :)
One of the major reasons reddit became popular initially is because of Digg. Digg had content that was 2-3 days older than reddit (many posts from Reddit got reposted to Digg). Once people started figuring that out, combined with the Digg censorshop scandal(1), reddit took off.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
Theoretically college is not supposed to be a purely business transaction.
IMO talk radio is far worse than Facebook. It’s just a constant stream of vitriol and nastiness with no end.
Proactively responding to publicly violent social media?
In the Tree of Life shooting, the shooter publicly tweeted his intentions. Are there similar instances where we have quickly reacted to threats shared on the public internet to prevent violence?
What good is a society without due process or presumption of innocence, where a disputed allegation would be punished without proof?
The author worked very hard to determine the root cause of the problem but he was stymied because the APFS source code is not available. Why not? Apple has open-sourced the Swift compiler with great success, but there seems to be no movement within Apple to open up other system software components.
One of the cool thing, basically THE cool thing about the old internet was the exposure to a giant wide world with all different kinds of people and interests from all walks of life. It skewed technical, because you had to be technical to figure out how to work it. But once people got over an initial barrier it was cool, and it's not like there was anywhere else they could go if they wanted to reach whatever community they were into.

One of the problems with attempts to keep the "old internet" alive is that they still skew technical (because most of the people who are nostalgic for it are comfortable enough with those technical things), but now regular Joes have other options. They're not going to bother learning the technical stuff if everything else is set up to make it brainless and easy.

Moreover, since you HAVE to be technically inclined to build such a thing, the initial word of mouth and distribution winds up being constrained to the technical crowds. This makes the communities one-note and boring, so people just don't feel very compelled to stay.
AI Keeps Ships from Striking Endangered Whales
Pinterest says "don't upload things you don't own" and when a copyright holder complains they take it down. So is it legal for Outline to offer this service? Sure, if they comply. Is it legal for users to use it like this? Probably not.
try this name: Sloaken, or the short version Sloak
You seem to think that I'm against spam protection mechanisms, which I'm not. I am concerned that this will be used to 'protect' GET requests rather than POST requests, so to speak.
Compared to a black person living in the same place and going to the same school and having the same number of living parents with the same jobs and same dedication to success, probably very good. Please remember to keep other factors equal when comparing aspects of demography. Otherwise you've just strayed off into the wilderness of logical fallacyland.
Reddit is basically one giant forum. Old fashioned discussion boards and message fora will still be around.
Reddit has a number of systemic issues (poor tools for moderators, hard to get rid of bad moderators, huge amounts of astroturfing)

It's a shame that they are 'good enough' to prevent much growth in the competitors, leading the cool tech made by competitors to often become exclusively filled with content that would be banned on reddit.