skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How is this not extortion?

because it's authorized the state (municipality).
I guess it’s to look on the positive side. Like for me, I luckily went to college, making good career progression, and will have my loans paid off in the next 5 years with aggressive paying and money management. Many people don’t even make it to whatever step 0 is of that progression list.
Any comparisons to Amazon need to be taken in context. Their stock price went from $300 4 years ago to $2000 2 months ago and now is around $1500.

They were ahead on both metrics for a while but since they are a super high growth stock, it's been highly volatile.
Oh, so it was a bug, huh? I found it so irritating that I just removed my phone number from my facebook account altogether, because I couldn't find any setting that would make them stop texting me.
The support from somewhere else raises the question of from where?

Which raise the risk that IBM could kill CentOS. Once done, there is no choice for company but to pay for RedHat or migrate to Debian.
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I'm not sure. I suggested Danbooru2017, as I mentioned, and I thought he was using it, but double-checking his Reddit comments he seems to imply he's using a custom private dataset only at this point. Maybe he hand-extracted a lot of censored/original pairs from various places.
I'm having trouble following the argument in this essay. It takes pains to establish its premises in the first few paragraphs but then it doesn't seem like it ever really ties the knot in terms of what it is arguing. Can someone summarize? Maybe it needed some blockquotes to highlight the problems it identifies with the guidelines.

I understand that ceasing a poisonous practice is only the first step in remedying the effects of that poisonous practice. But I guess I didn't take the "kind communication" guidelines as something that would by definition prevent further actions.
Apart from the local company's payroll makes up $50 of that cost, of which $20 goes to taxes, so society is still up $18.

It's far more complicated than you make it seem.
I actually considered that but wasn't able to gauge how realistic an option that might actually be.
If someone was going to the city to buy drugs I could see it. If you show up at a dealer with a normal bullet proof vest on they aren't going to be very accepting of you.
"Vendor-specific enhancements" are not a part of the standard by definition. If the project is built upon vendor quicksand then technical leadership has failed (unless the product is meant to target only one browser).

> if there were a decent standard multi-select-list widget

I don't get the argument. You're right that there's no multi-select-list standard. What is the problem if there are 20x custom ones? Just use the one that meets all your needs. Who cares if there are 20 or 200?
He seems to think the impact of the RedHat CEO on IBM will be like Jobs returning to Apple.

(Except for the "returning" part.)
I barely log in any longer. Maybe once a month.

I honestly do like seeing pics of my friends and their many animals. I like knowing what events people are going to. Other than that, I don't care.

I can't post without feeling like an attention seeker; because that's how I see most people who do post. It's to the point where I stopped sharing things I think my friends might actually find interesting... I'm out here all by myself in the end.

I'm just done with it.
It's really hard to have legitimate political debate when you can't even find out what people's real political positions are. My gut feeling is that the blue team is more honest about telling you what they actually believe and want, but I might just be naive.
I do believe that but this particular data set will demonstrate very little evidence of that since since the very likely biggest reason Y Combinator companies seem to be centered around SV is because that's where SV is; and so the data is biased beyond usability in this manner.
I really like the stuff that Mark Sisson writes on fasting[0], because he explains and links all his sources.

0. https://www.marksdailyapple.com/health-benefits-of-intermitt...
I don't think you have any facts to validate that either. I'm just going by their resumes.
One is a former executive at Time Warner, the other is a former executive at Amazon.
This is likely another vapid and factless analysis but it seems that Snap could benefit more from the latter.
Either way my original point was that it's hard to understand decisions like this when the company's future is at stake.
The article is fairly well-sourced. I am not saying this makes it unbiased; but if you are not-satisfied with the conclusion, you can verify the quotes and make up your own.
> The UK has gotten very frustrated with the slow movement of international lawmaking in this space

The space of... international laws to transfer money for literally no reason to the government of the UK, even though they have no services or investments to recuperate related to the money in question?

I mean, it's fair that everyone asks for a slice of the pie, but that doesn't mean it's fair that they take it.
I’m quite proud of GOV.UK for banning CAPTCHAs from government services completely.[1] Have you ever tried to use the ‘accessible’ fallback for ReCAPTCHA? It’s literally impossible (my team had 0% passes trying it over and over again) so by implementing ReCAPTCHA you’re completely blocking an entire set of already disadvantaged users. At the same time, even a normal CAPTCHA is already harder for some users to solve than it is for some bots and you’re lining Google’s pockets by training their ML algorithms.

While this new version potentially helps things, it feels like the users with more automated interaction methods or those who want to reduce fingerprinting efforts will still fall foul of over-zealous site owners.

At the end of the day, all a CAPTCHA is is a method to externalise business costs onto your users.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-captchas
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> an awful lot like UBI. But, I think the key difference is that ... parents ... have a standard for how it's spent.

There's another important difference from UBI, that only a few kids now get this $28k. So being one of them, you can out-bid the others on having a nice apartment... whose price would otherwise rise.

This applies to work too: she could get ahead artistically by being able to write full time. Ahead of the competition, that is, who had to work. UBI wouldn't have given her that advantage.
We actually have serverless, that's called cgi scripts. Very stable and proven technology.

But for some reasons, nobody try to use that anymore or even think of it.
It's not disingenuous, it's exactly the same motivation, just operating on a different scale.
That data is pretty interesting. I am not sure how surprising it is since in the election days the t_d discord was pretty good at vote brigading their own posts, which might explain that difference. I wonder if the sub still follows that pattern.
I grew up in the UK and I’ve lived there for the last four years. I’ve lived and paid taxes in six other countries so I’m happy to compare.

There certainly are possible improvements, but it’s overall very well managed and there are here many aspects of how civil servants are trying to improve at the same time the cost, the efficiency, the quality but also how to think about the service that touched me. The National Health Service, for instance, is a little bare-bones but the cheapest developed health service there is. The Land Registry is incredibly helpful, especially when you depend on reliable, sensical data for your business. The BBC is expensive but peerless. Transport for London, for all its sins and there are many, transport more people, faster, further, more reliably than anyone; it’s heavily dependent on having redundancy rather than reliability but at least it works often enough. Social services are minimal and insufficient, but nowhere else can people find jobs so easily if they are motivated and willing to learn. That is also not just due to companies, but also government services that manage to let people employ others without making it too difficult.

I sincerely believe that the same system, without the stress that the Tory government is putting on the budget for education, police and health, could be world-class.
All white people do have some innate starting advantage due to their whiteness. That isn't to say they don't also have disadvantages too, for instance poverty, disability etc.

Having white skin though gives you an advantage in a system that prioritises whiteness over other colours. Its not racist to discuss this.
Glad you brought up porn because I believe that if you optimized any site's features just based on engagement analytics, you'd end up with a porn site with elements of gambling!

I'm kidding of course, but the idea is that analytics tell you a part off the user story, but doesn't answer the deeper "why" questions. It certainly has a place in tech, but it's less than what it's currently afforded.
Weren't there stories about stadiums being built and the team moving away?
Wow, I really can't imagine an acquisition that I would less rather learn about than FB hypothetically buying reddit. Considering how FB has all the money in the world it is probably wise to start editing/deleting all my reddit comments now because once FB slurp the whole DB it's already over - the fact that I would never visit reddit again wouldn't save me.
The Unlikely Long Life of My AKG-Y50s
One of things I like about the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is that they find great scientists and just fund them. The scientists can research whatever they want as long as they keep producing. I always wondered if a hybrid approach to funding would work well at the government level. The current, permission-based process would remain in place for new researchers to prove themselves, and then an HHMI-style process for researchers who have proven themselves. There would be checks in place and if the funded researchers stop performing then they have to go back to the normal process. There are several details that would have to be worked out to guard against politics, etc. I think this may overcome the government agencies tendency to reject truly new ideas especially when they contradict the prevailing theory.
I played with one too, but my take away was the opposite.

- It was dark, it looked like I was looking at a screen with sunglasses to the outside world.

- It didn't feel like I was looking at things in the real world.

- The FOV was pretty poor, I could see the edges on the sides and above.

- The battery life was short and the device was expensive.

Successful AR has obvious applications and will be huge, but the Magic Leap device falls way short of the hype [1] and I'm not convinced they'll be the ones to pull it off.

If you have a chance you should try VR (like the HTC Vive) - current VR is actually impressive.

[1] https://twitter.com/fernandojsg/status/1017411969169555457
It was in 1971 that US got off the gold standard, but yea even in the 1960s there was signs of trouble I think.
There are far, far, too many ads. But the ads are at least more tasteful than on most platforms. If you keep your list of follows < 100 or so (and take care to cull any accounts that get too spammy -- limiting yourself to people you know personally is a good strategy for this), Instagram is a pretty pleasant platform to check once a day, especially if your friends use Stories.

That being said, it suffers from Facebook syndrome to the extent that you literally have to fight the platform to make it usable. I'm holding out for some kind of federated hybrid of instagram/facebook in the near future with a chronological timeline and a reasonable volume of ads (to keep the lights on)/subscription option.
> Wow, talk about a misalignment of incentives.

Even though I lean libertarian I despise most of these public/private partnerships for this reason. Profit seeking combined with governments use of force (for monopoly or as part of the business model) is almost always worse than pure public services or markets.

Private prisons are a classic example of that, but there are countless less obvious ones in every local government. And it sucks because people blame capitalism for these failures, despite the arrangement looking nothing like a traditional market.
I am worried those days are long gone. Just like there is no turning back for gaming. F2P elements in nearly everything including paid games!
assuming rational actor

There is a reason such toy models are called "toy models". They are very useful for understanding and interrogating ideas. They aren't so useful for modeling real systems. One can only hope that policy making is a little more sophisticated (alas, often in vain).
> Theoretically speaking, this is true. I can opt to simply close the page, turn off my computer, etc. However, it may not be practical to do this all the time. Some example maybe school/government institutions that you have to use deploys reCAPTCHA, or something like the CloudFlare pages that makes you fill out a reCAPTCHA for each website (which amounts to a large part of the internet).

Sure, but what's your suggestion? Not using reCAPTCHA? Using one of those other crappy CAPTCHAs that impact far more users?

reCAPTCHA seems to only impact a small number of users with adblock (which is largely a personal choice). Seems like a fair trade-off from the content provider's perspective.

Again, what would be the economically-viable alternative?
This is in the comments of the post but the author should really have linked to Alan Kay's comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11808551
And poor writing. Is that $2k/day for each camera, or for the system?

If over 90 tickets/month, is it $33 for all tickets, or each over 90?
My wife and I conduct experiments. The first was shouting “dog food” multiple times in earshot to our google home and phones. Sure enough a chewse.com pamphlet came in the mail a few days later with a discount for the website. We’ve mentioned some pretty eclectic things and found ads on Hulu correspond. I had heard some story or myth that Target could predict pregnancies based on customer’s purchase habits [1], and half believed it. Now I really do.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
Yeah, I'm sure that's what happened...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...
Human in the loop: why we will be needed to complement artificial intelligence
We have customers that batch upload data to our cloud service. We originally only offered HTTPS uploads but found a significant number of our customers really preferred SFTP workflows. My best guess as to why is that WinSCP provides a comfortable UI paradigm and there isn't an equivalent (well known) windows GUI for doing HTTPS uploads.

Our SFTP server is written in go and exposes a VFS that has nothing to do with anything on the local file system. It doesn't even allow you to download the files you just uploaded in the same session.

Of course things like the recent libssh CVEs should make anyone exposing non-standard ssh services to the internet a bit nervous.
Recaptcha is a horrible experience if you block tracking. Sometimes I fill in literally 10 pages of CAPTCHAs and it still can't work out if I am a bot or not. It's not even clear to me why having tracking cookies is even a sign that a client is not a bot.
I get a lot of auto completes for "site:reddit.com" when I search for anything in the Chrome search bar or just in Google Search. I find reddit answers to be less likely to be advertisements or affiliate marketing. Honestly not sure where I would find information otherwise.
That goes without saying, and isn't an interesting answer in this case.

When I mentioned panopticon benefits, I was more directly implying the complex "cui bono?" question of whether or not this data continues to entrench Google's behavioral analysis arms that use such data to sell our every behavior to advertisers for the purpose of buying our attention. It's not the websites using reCAPTCHA that benefit from all that extra advertising information stored on Google's servers, and it's not necessarily the individuals like you or me using those websites that's benefitting from all that extra information on Google's servers.

Especially given that in v2 it seems very clear that Google has been using reCAPTCHA as their own personal Mechanical Turk to also entrench their positions in map data and possibly automated driving image recognition, this is not an idle question.
The US Air Force still can't explain why it spent $1,280 on a coffee cup
Agree

The obvious way out of that is to join bubbles that are aligned with your interests rather than political views. If your interest is politics then find a better interest :)
> The legislators who design these laws are not elected, and you have absolutely no ability to influence the direction of these laws.

Correct, but all 'designed' laws must be approved by the European Parliament, which is elected.

> Can you tell me right now, without looking it up, the name of your MEP and what they represent?

No, and I don't need to, because I eventually vote for a long-term political view and ideology, not for specific people.

> Or when your newspapers instantly go out of business because the legislation meant to protect them kills them?

You try to install a climate of urgency and fears, which is a tactic from far-right political groups. Building the European Union took times, and it is still being built.

A legislation is not set in stone, it can be changed, by the same system, with adequate discussions and processes.

It is known than the democratic system, with separated powers, is the least worst system of the political systems. So, at the end of the day, I have still more trust in the Commission and Parliament processes to defend my European rights than trust in your alarmist, pessimistic and defeatist opinion.
German doesn't have a concept of a "silent -e" for their words. Like how Porsche is pronounced Porsch-uh, SUSE is pronounced "Soos-uh". I don't work for/with SUSE but I also accept when people say "Suzy" because at least it acknowledges that the -e is supposed to make a noise.
It would be interesting to see them classified by subreddits where the a significant amount of comments are driven from live events (thinking of the big sporting subreddits and some of the e-sport/gaming ones) vs subreddits that are almost completely based off non-live events (i.e. AskReddit, Sex).
Reddit was great, many years ago, although there are many sub-reddits that are still excellent today. Moves they've made in the recent years, like hiding vote counts, were to improve growth, but it has also enabled more astroturfing and censorship (widespread).

More recently, they started injected tracking into outbound link clicks and introduced the terrible redesign to help with growth/monetization also. As they've grown, the quality of the content within sub-reddits and discussions within those communities, have fallen dramatically.
It's not about being young, it's about being inexperienced. You can make a parallel to Trump, whose supporters give him a lot of leeway on "inappropriate" decisions because he's not a politician.

Being inexperienced isn't a good excuse for being a bad CEO (please give any evidence you have of him being an effective one). Realizing two days after you make an important public decision that you should have made a different one is a failure, regardless of if you got it right the second time.

Founding a company doesn't mean you should be CEO.
Personal allowance (zero tax band) raised to £12,500 from April (in the Budget today).

This gives money to richer voters because the higher your earnings, the more tax saved. But corporation tax takes money from rather anonymous entities, which of course affects voters too in the end but in a rather indirect way.
Maybe the machine mearning community is particularly good at curating feeds, heh
It means things were not going to go well for IBM with that CEO at the helm.
The puzzles aren’t simple if you’re blind or hard of vision. Or don’t have a US cultural background (I personally know a sidewalk is US English for a pavement, but I definitely don’t recognise all US street signs or shop hoardings, and have been caught out by that before).
The Dilemma of Anti-Semitic Speech Online
Social network's are very risky to invest in. Sure they have crazy growth, but users will leave just as easily.
Asteroids are Windows to the Past
Dependency injection in Go
Yea the shape is pretty cool. Hm, I don't think the author used the three models in succession. I think he just tried out different models to measure the results. Yea feature importance would've been cool too. I think the SHAP value does list the order of importance on the y-axis. Wonder if there's a way to extract more signal somehow?
Ask HN: Business logic in the database – your thoughts
I realise the question of whether you should store business logic in a database will never yield a definitive answer but I'm still keen to hear your opinions.

What has been your experience with putting business logic in a database? How much business logic did you place in the database and do you think it was a good choice? Thanks
Vertical integration in law enforcement is coming. Some components are already here - private cameras, private prisons, that judge getting kickbacks for sending children to the private prison...
This is actually why I don't visit facebook often, I had to spend so much time curating all of the echo chamber effects and political posts. My entire feed got flooded with crazy stuff and none of it was anything I actually wanted to hear about. I wanted to hear about people in my life but those who posted popular shares got all the exposure. It has become a platform to yell at people and to echo chamber each other. Having real conversations is impossible.

It became work to make Facebook worthwhile.
Expedia have hotels.com, the main competitor to booking. The plane business and the hotel business are of similar size from what I've seen. Both huge and shadowing everything else.
NYPL pulls this bullshit if you're blocking scripts. Funnily enough, your IP gets whitelisted if you access the URL from a different browser.

https://www.nypl.org/
To my mind one of the major mistakes Facebook made was that they never made any effort to implement identity segmentation. I don't want a picture of me from college with a solo cup in each hand visible to any prospective employer and therefore would never want my Facebook profile to take the place of the one I have created for myself on LinkedIn.

If I could have multiple views of my identity depending on the context that would be pretty neat and more analogous to the way people present themselves in the real world. Huge missed opportunity on Facebook's part and now it's way too late.

My other hot take is that the interaction design of Facebook is just much too heavy when compared to Instagram or Tinder. If I go on Facebook it's guaranteed 15 minutes of time just to kind-of get into the flow and see a bunch of friends' statuses and maybe click on their profiles. Instagram on the other hand you can just pick up and scroll through pictures for a few minutes and then put down — the interaction feels lighter weight and less burdensome.
> I feel the same way about inheritance taxes, although those are high enough I'm not too concerned about it.

Having just gone through this, your parents must be really, really wealthy if your inheritance taxes are high. You can inherit many millions of dollars and not pay a cent in taxes in the US.
Most issues of social or civil justice typically have at least one conflict of interest. However, individuals are burned at the proverbial stake daily for far less than coercion, and the idea that Google would sweep this under the rug instead of fighting the fight is sickening to some.