skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter and Facebook have shown that giving some huge corporation arbitrary power over a social network is not a good idea. Centralization creates network effects, which make it so that the owners can basically do whatever they want without losing users.

Federation largely avoids this problem. If the owner of my Mastodon instance starts doing stuff I don't like, I can switch to a different one or start my own and still interact with all the same people. (Hell, if the developers start doing stuff I don't like, I can even fork it or switch to an alternative program like Pleroma that uses the same protocol.)
> Man I remember when I used to think like this. I remember the time fondly, oddly enough. Sadly, sorry to say, you will be cured of this

Stupidity _and_ condescension? That's a combo I can't resist trying for myself. Blue ducks bark oranges.
The Facebook-based comment sections on some news sites make me question that.
Have the protest organizers communicated any specific set of outcomes they wish to achieve from the walkout? The news article does not go into those details. Perhaps I have missed out something there.

In the previous protests, Google employees had their demands penned in open letters which I believe also contributed to concrete actions taken or responses given by Google. A generic protest is bound to only draw vague assurances such as those given in their all-hands meeting as reported in the article.
Have you looked at yarn? From my experience yarn does not change its lock file unless you explicitly change your dependencies.
Thanks so much. I've had this conversation with a lot of founders and we all feel we are in a race to the bottom of sorts where the power dynamic is all with the big corps.

We don't like open core but proprietary software is the best way to make money, so I'm trying to push that just a tiny amount.
> especially since extremely targeted pornography will be in everyone's budget.

This is why the ML pornography excites me. All my twisted fetishes that nobody caters to can finally be fulfilled.
The point of university is to learn, not to already know the course content by the time you get there. Plenty of high-school students may not have taken any computer science subjects during school, but may wish to get a degree in computer science.

Universities with decent admission competition value well-rounded, high-achieving students. Such students are involved in a lot of co-curricular activities, may take many subjects, and have broad interests. It's perfectly reasonable to expect that they simply never had the time to learn multiple programming languages and compete in programming competitions, in addition to whatever else they do.
There has to be political will to completely ban all fishing, hunting and deforestation. Allow rangers and coast guard to kill on sight all violators.

At the moment I see no other option to restore wildlife on this planet.
> earlier you claimed they were "the only ones" capable

No, I claimed that they were the only ones capable of running the systems without significant interruption. Others can be trained up, but it would take months and there would be some failures along the way. You're the one whose argument has been changing, since you started with the presumption that strikes' effectiveness relies on explicitly excluding others (e.g. via law or force).
Does cholesterol function to harm or help us?
Can you trust the reviews? "Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered and removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews removed to be 182. Previous analysis of this listing was an C grade." https://www.fakespot.com/
There's a fair amount of that available in http://docs.vespene.io/importing.html ... if you have more ideas can you stop by https://talk.vespene.io/c/ideas ? ... I don't want to make the syntax more complex than the YAML that is there now, but I think we can add other fields if there is something you want or a capability that might be missing.
Nobody should be forced to pretend evil isn't evil just because a lot of people embrace it.
To give Holy Stone credit, they have good customer service. I bought one of their crappier models when I was first exploring the quadcopter marketplace a few years ago. They did the usual thing of proactively emailing and asking for a review after a few days, but then actually replied to my email rant about quality control with suggestions to debug the issue. Finally, once I'd crashed it one too many times and destroyed it, they sent me a new drone free of charge. I suspect they're probably doing similar to anybody who leaves a bad rating in order to groom their listings.

(Don't get me wrong - their customer service doesn't make up for their poor products. Never buy a drone with injection molded frames, since they're not serviceable. Carbon fiber with replaceable frame parts all the way.)
Doesn't adding an rss feed from own website still cost 2$ pm?
The same thread explains it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem.... Sounds plausible to me.

If it wasn't dangerous one could try the same with hydrogen. If the post is correct it should have a similar effect (if the device doesn't explode during the test).
In my understanding, to begin learning diagnosing issues in code you need to understand your stack very well. Try to invest time explicitly learning bits and pieces of how your platform works, in detail.

Once you learn few different platforms and spend some time diagnosing problems you will start recognizing recurring patterns in problems. Hopefully this will gradually become your ability to diagnose difficult issues on unfamiliar platforms.
If you need the Windows version of a game on Linux, you can use SteamCMD[1] to do so.

[1]https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD
Just use https://reviewmeta.com/ to validate Amazon scores of products. When you do it on HS100 it immediately gives you a warning: "Unnatural reviews possible" . Fakespot shows a Fakespot Grade F and a corrected rating of 1.3: https://www.fakespot.com/product/holy-stone-hs100g-drone-wit...
It seems to me that Reviewmeta and FakeSpot do work. It is just Amazon that is too lazy to do anything against fake reviews.
...and animal farming. It's completely unsustainable as well.
I fully agree music taste is based on how your brain is wired, but that goes for anything (movies, etc.), but I completely disagree with all of his hypotheses.

Point A is rigged. This is like having you or I listen to a form of music that we don't like and give our opinions on it. I don't want to put anyone down for liking what they like, but for me personally, I don't like country music. I'd probably answer A with "yeah, this music is assaulting my eardrums, please turn it off" and if you hooked me up to a heart monitor you'd probably notice my blood pressure and heart rate elevate because even listening to it makes me internally cringe off the charts.

Point B, truthfully for a lot of bands I don't even listen to the lyrics. I don't distant myself with "it's just a song" -- they are completely out of the picture. I listen to a lot of these songs because the riffs and growls sound good to me. For example, some of Infant Annihilator's songs are awesome but if you ever looked at their lyrics or song titles you would either start uncontrollably laughing or try to get the band locked up for life.

Point C seems strange. I also never had these feelings, but I think if you did a similar study with any music genre you would draw the same conclusion. A text book example of that would be English speaking people who listen to K-Pop, but it really applies to any genre.

As an aside, the K-Pop case is interesting because I think it proves that people are able to enjoy music without understanding the lyrics (which also applies to some death metal bands who sing in English too).

It is hard to make sense of why people like what they like. I think the moral of the story here is, human brains are hard to reverse engineer.
Why should Bezos care? He's worth $160 Billion so something must be working for him. Why would he feel the need to change? Amazon is making money, he's happy, investors are happy, so ... who cares about a few unhappy customers?
The only "local" store where I may possibly see a few drones is Best Buy, and you can forget about testing them.
By making it a paid service, the author effectively kills two of those issues straight away - No ads and reduced fake news issues.

The ads claim is obvious, they don't host ads because they don't need the revenue. However, that fake news is defeated is less obvious. Fake news largely spreads on free platforms by bot armies, which need to pay $5/mo per bot, making them highly expensive and reducing the likelihood they exist there at all. People will still post and shill shit that is fake, but it's less of a problem in a social network if only the minority who actually buy into the fake news or other garbage are spreading it.
As you alluded, mostly likely insects don't have what we'd consider to be an emotional response to pain. Hence, likely not.
One of the large World of Tanks (online game) patches last year turned 10 second map load times into full minute wait for HDD owners ;-) SSD users didnt notice a thing. Some idiot with dev workstation (xeon, high xx GB ram, NVMe storage) decided to rearrange data structures in files loaded every game round, and nobody has time for testing apparently.
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Ask HN: Prime number hunting, techniques to wrestle it down to the ground
Okay I found a small slim sieve that seems to produce primes. Basically take an ordered series of primes and multiply them together and take that subtotal and add the number one and it will always generate primes.

So I am looking at number methods and theories to wrestle it down as its a good way to understand the switching back and forth between deductive and inductive which helps keep my unit testing skills somewhat sharp.

What good books or resources are there for factorials and their distributions and also on cantor dust, bars, and sets?
Yes. More precisely, I stopped when I discovered that I couldn't decouple the signal user from my phone number.

More importantly, I'm still very interested in seeing the data behind your vocal-minority assertion.
It's fun playing the games so it's win win ;)
Gab goes offline after GoDaddy
When one of the ads in your ad gets clicked, what do you think is the most likely reason? That a child was interested in the product and wanted to get more information before making a decision?
Anecdata ahead. There are different sub genres even within such niche genre as death metal. I love melodic death methal bands such as Dark Tranquility (those in the know would recognize it just by looking at my username), In Flames, and Insomnium. Their lyrics in general are not about extreme forms of aggression as article suggests, but revolves mostly around feelings of loneliness, apathy, acceptance and imminence of death, despair etc. First and foremost I listen to it because it is a very good music by talented musicians, just in their choice of genre. There is definitely an element of appeal in it in its “death” aspect though and I thought about it a lot over the years. Contrary to its general tone and lyric content melodic death metal does make me feel relaxed or energized, but generally brings positive emotions. I came to the conclusion that it is about unearthing all the fears and negative emotions that this music brings up in lyrics, acknowledging them and making peace with them instead of suppressing them.
This reminds me why I use https://www.fakespot.com/ analysis of Amazon reviews for products that I'm unfamiliar with. I see they mentioned fakespot in the article, which is nice.
Do be careful with that, whilst I agree that we need to drastically reduce our meat consumption, getting rid of all meat consumption with out some kind of super advancement in other fields will be far worse for the environment. In some place plant based food is more sustainable, in other animal based is.
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Nothing new. As a marketer we look to optimise reviews as long as reviews were a thing, though tools are get increasingly sofisticated. And some businesses do this in more ethical ways than other.

The fix is the same as always, brand. Companies and distributors establish a reputation good or bad. You pay a premium or chase cheap and take the risk. This I suspect will be a never ending cycle.
> c) people who enjoy Death Metal enjoy the feeling of being in an elite club that's set apart from the faceless conformist masses.

I want the bands I love to be popular... but unpopular... but popular. It's aggravatingly paradoxical. Like, if I see a great band in front of 6 people including the bar staff I'm angry that there isn't a bigger audience; same band in a 1,000-strong venue (say) and I'm disappointed at the loss of intimacy; headlining Bloodstock and I'll be "FINALLY ten thousand people agree with me, about time".
The article actually mentions Fakespot [1] which has a chrome extension as well as ReviewMeta [2] which as far as I can tell doesn't. Neither do exactly what you're asking but they seem quite useful from a quick investigation and highlight some of the issues highlighted in the article when you look at the linked product.

[1] https://www.fakespot.com/

[2] https://reviewmeta.com/
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That's correct. The concept of overpopulation is quite misleading because it blames the sheer number of people regardless of the extreme inequality in consumption and pollution.

"World’s richest 10% produce half of carbon emissions while poorest 3.5 billion account for just a tenth"

Source: https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2015-12-02/...
Well if you hadn't stopped reading:

> “What we are finding is that they are not angry people. They’re not enjoying anger when they listen to the music, but they are in fact experiencing a range of positive emotions.”
Monkey Sort: Gab Ditched by GoDaddy, Russian Agent Studied Nonprofits and More
I stopped eating meat five years ago and made the decision not to get a car. It's a start but it's not enough. I'd welcome the government forcing more change on me, but more importantly I want the government to encourage if not enforce change on a larger scale (like the EU banning old-school light bulbs some years ago), because that's what governments are there for. I can't do that on my own and the looming ecological disaster is too severe to sit back and hope that enough people will wake up before it's too late.
4chan is my guilty pleasure.
I don't use social media. So 4chan is my "scrolling while waiting for the bus".

I mostly lurk. And It's mostly for "the lulz". But once in a while you get big nuggets of wisdom and insight. It's "a thousand monkeys in typewriters" in practice.
Actually, I'm wrong about one thing: Ehrlich didn't warn us that catastrophe was inevitable if we didn't do something. He said catastrophe was inevitable period:

The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate...
If everyone did it, it'd make a noticeable impact. That impact isn't enough to fix things, but thinking "oh well I won't do anything because they're not doing anything" is not the kind of thinking that will get us to a solution. Act to your capacity and trust that everyone else will do the same. Either you will be right and things improve quite a bit, or you will be wrong and things improve very little. In both cases at least you've stopped making it worse.
I disagree, C is popular for the same reason that QWERTY is more popular than DVORAK or Colemak or that x86 is more popular than ARM (talking purely from an IA perspective). It's not folklore or nostalgia, it's just that it was here first, there's a ton of legacy applications that rely on it and the cost of the switch is seen as a large, one time cost vs. the small benefits it would bring over a longer period of time.

I'm a huge fan of Rust and I can only dream of having all C codebases in the wild ported to it some day but I'm still writing C at work because it's faster, easier (vendors provide C libraries and code, not Rust) and it's easier to hire C coders than Rust ones.

>P.S: there's a book called "The design and evolution of C++" which you should probably read. Where can one learn more about the design of C?

I'd be surprised if C was really ever "designed" the way we would design a language these days. Basically it was a fork of earlier languages tweaked to more conveniently model the hardware of the time. It was more about getting the job done at the time than making an innovative language. At least that's what I gathered from what I know about the early days of C and it's also fairly apparent in the way the language itself is designed (the whole pointer/array shenanigans come to mind). C is many things but it's definitely not elegant or even clever.
Indeed, UBI is uncharted territory, so it's not obvious what would happen. I only meant that we should be very cautious about extrapolating.

I'm not convinced that the changes in competition would be in the direction you mention. It could be that even more people would like to live in Vancouver, if only their jobs weren't keeping them elsewhere.

It could also be that the artistic environment is more about competition for audience, and for status, than about creative outlet. As a datapoint, the world of the '80s had lots of small-time newspaper photographers, and commercial photographers, most serving a local market. The world of the '10s instead has instagram stars, and is in some sense much more competitive, much more unequal in terms of who gets their work seen.
And you will have disgusted half of the class from programming by the end of your first assembler lecture.

IMHO that's a major part of the problem. Somehow Asm turned into something horrible to avoid, instead of being the crucial understanding that makes everything else fall into place.

I have an engineering textbook from the mid 60s. There is an entire chapter on how computers work and how to program them (in Asm!) to solve numerical problems. The audience of this book was not computer scientists/specialists, but just engineers in general.

Two decades later, computer magazines --- not "developer-oriented", just "user" or perhaps "power user" --- had Asm listings of simple (sub-512-byte binary) and useful utilities for readers to manually enter, use, and modify.

Another two decades later, and the programmers today barely understand binary nor Asm, despite the concepts being so ridiculously simple. A computer is a machine that executes instructions step-by-step, and nothing evokes than more clearly than an Asm listing. An HLL with all its nested structure doesn't convey the same "it's just a list of instructions" to the beginner.

I thought it was interesting but too tedious for my taste

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."

You don't teach kids math by starting with topology. Most 1st year university students will have never programmed in their life (particularly if all they dealt in their life was smartphones and tablets)

Starting with Asm is like learning arithmetic. Starting with a HLL is like teaching calculus to students who don't know arithmetic by giving them calculators.

I've worked with a lot of both "new-school" and "old-school" developers over the years, and there's a large contrast between them: the former group is heavily reliant on tooling, tends to make many localised changes to "fix" things without considering the whole picture (causing more problems later), and get stuck easily when debugging. The latter tend to adopt a more methodical approach to problem-solving, and while they don't appear to be doing as much interaction with the computer, are overall more productive.
> It's probably more of a concession to the fact that in-app purchases is where the money is.

I'm having an ethically generous day ...
The simplest solution to this problem is simply to buy a Nintendo Switch. You can control exactly which games are installed, and and rely on the fact that they are not exploitative.

For web browsing you can then have a desktop hooked up to a monitor in your living room. You can buy small simple systems that connect to the VESA mount on the back of a monitor.

Its unfortunate that mobile gaming is as it is, but its really up to the platform holders to manage. I think the problem is also that smartphones really don't have a lot of RAM, storage space, or battery life, so any entertainment they provide needs to be in short, high-impact chunks. This encourages the story-lite puzzle games which are precision engineered to be as psychologically manipulative and cash extractive as possible.
Yep. I can ride this speed and maintain it, but I definitely wouldn’t be riding that fast to work or I’d need a shower.

Commuter bicycle speed is closer to 13mph. It’s why lights in cities that are optimized for bicycles are optimized for that speed:

https://denver.streetsblog.org/2016/04/11/dpw-syncs-signals-...

(if anything, I find my pace closer to 10mph when I'm riding to work)

Either way, these bikes are on a bike path which is a safe space for them and they're moving closer to the speed of cars. Most scooters, in Denver at least, are operated on the side walk, so you have pedestrians sharing space with 15mph SILENT scooters.
Sigh.

a) This is not in their field of expertise.
b) If there is any species that has the best chance of survival, it's humanity.
Because it's wrong?
And Pascal was a big language back then. Big software like photoshop were written in it, IIRC. The very first version of GCC, in the late 80s (when it was not even called that way) was written in a pascal dialect, too (and compiled both C and pascal code).

OTOH, C was just standardized a few years before, and linux was just a side project from an unknown student in a small university. And there was a new version of C, with objects, classes, inheritance and all those buzzwords, so why care about the old C anyway?
Let me rephrase and see if I can get my meaning across: the author is asking if there is a pre-existing genetic/morphologic/physiologic/whatever predisposition that makes it so that some people can listen to death metal and suchlike and have a positive reaction where others (anecdotally, the majority of other people) will have a strong, visceral negative reaction.

Is there a biological cause? Is it a "learned" like/dislike?
>I've been listening to various forms of metal (heavy metal, death metal, metalcore, deathcore, etc.) for over 20 years, and I never once (not even once) even thought to think about associating negative emotions to the music. In fact, it's the exact opposite reaction.

Agreed, it's energetic music (that I mostly lift to) not "hey man, I wanna go home and kill myself" or "hey man I wanna kill all my neighbors" music.
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At least in the U.S., politics is a football game complete with cheerleaders and game stats. It's my side vs their side. Even the most intelligent people get locked up in this battle. They don't bother looking at the candidates themselves, they just vote for their team.

I mean, I look around and so many people who voted for certain people to get rid of certain programs are the one's who would actually benefit from those programs. It boggles the mind.
Commuters in most cities are simply not traveling anywhere near 18mph on a bicycle.
Very cool! Takes me back to the days when I first studied Laughlin's short paper on fly eyes [1]. Amazing how we've gone from this early experimental result to something as complex as simulating a full visual system!

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7303823
Who cares if they acknowledge the problem but take no meaningful action? I give no credit for that. Anybody who can do math can see that the only solution is to manage the population but that will never happen outside authoritarian states like China.