skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it's necessarily "hate" per-se, but go read one or more forums on something like Reddit.

Depending on the forum, and the size of the comments, you'll sometimes see something like:

TL;DR

"too long; didn't read"

In some cases, you'll see a post where there will be a "TL;DR" section summarizing the "long form" version just below it.

The funny thing is, the "long form" might only be a paragraph or two, but apparently for a certain segment of the population who read forums, even that much information is "TL;DR" worthy.

These people don't want to read anything that won't fit inside a tweet. I'd dare say that for some, even 280 characters is just too much text to digest.

It leaves no room for thoughtful discourse. It leaves no room for intelligent debate and conversation.

I see such brush-offs of conversation online, and couple it with what I have heard of some people who eschew being alone; who need noise (particularly people around them talking with each other) so that they don't have to listen to their own thoughts - and it makes me shudder to think to what end our society will arrive at.

In a way, we are already witnessing its decline.
One of the main problems with the educational system is that students are evaluated by the same person that teaches them. If the teacher wasn’t the one grading the mean grade of the students would be a decent evaluation of the performance of teacher.
Old Lunar Data Gets New Life, with Help from Seismologists
> Yes but none of us want to die.

This is the problematic false dichotomy. If you give someone a choice between "this specific set of onerous, expensive, competition-destroying regulations" or "you will be killed", they make the obvious choice.

But those aren't the only options. Existing regulations are poorly optimized. It would be possible to save the same number of lives -- more lives -- by doing more work to improve the benefit:burden ratio of regulations.

The problem is that people aren't interested in this. It's detail-oriented work that doesn't make for good sound bites, so the beneficiaries (the general public) aren't organized enough to know how to ask for it, and the organized incumbents don't want it because it would result in a larger number of viable competitors.

And it's too easy for incumbents to make the sound bites go the other way, by pretending that not spending a billion dollars to save one life is irresponsible, even though the same billion dollars could save more than a thousand lives if saved here and used beneficially somewhere else.
Here’s an idea: turn churches, mosques and synagogues into cooperative worship centers and kill two birds.

“God” only knows there’s a lot of work that needs to done to repair the bad rap organized religion is getting lately: from children abuse in the Catholic Church, megachurch scams, subversive terror organizations and states repurposing Islam, Christian white nationalism, Israel’s expanding theocracy ... )
How to improve your moral reasoning in the digital age
Very true. But we also don't want to overpay. Heck, no one wants to die but some people smoke cigarettes. Despite what people identify as their preference, their behavior reveals what really matters to them.

In freer markets, people have the option to buy the safety that's appropriate for them. A person who's concerned about car safety may buy a Volvo and someone who'd rather have the money can buy a 90s Corolla. The analogy would be that regulations prohibit airlines from offering a lower safety at cost levels that consumers may find palatable. If airliners became an order of magnitude less safe, they'd still be on-par with the safety offered by other legal modes of transportation.

A better analogy might be this - overly zealous regulations probably make it more expensive to achieve a given level of safety. Engine inspections are a great example - they have to be done on a regular schedule despite operating conditions and monitoring. These regulations disincentivize jet engine manufacturers from developing and deploying on board monitoring equipment that could flag engines for inspection when they need it and avoid unnecessary inspections.
FYI, after clicking RSVP link, all the navigation links stop working. I'm using Firefox.
The Unified Theory of Ram Dass
This is what “high stakes testing” is for. Not that it’s perfect, but the idea is to have objective third-party measurements.
> you owe it to your readers to make sure that you've done a thorough vetting

On a hamburger review? I'm all for holding the media accountable, but it's just a guy saying he like the hamburgers he ate there. The owner's personal life is his own business, and the reviewer has essentially no obligation here.
Viagogo may have to pay back millions of pounds to fans
> Milton Friedman

Advocated murdering people to get rid of unions.
> If you live in Japan but don't look Japanese you never really feel welcomed as a Japanese.

That goes for a lot of countries, especially if your skin color is different as well as your accent, language and whatnot. Heck, even when you are born in a country where you are not the same skin color as the majority you can feel not welcome. So, it's kind of a generalization to say that only about Japan.
The article talks about it, but it seems too fantastical to me. I mean, what’s the business model really? Facebook earns around $2.5 a year per user, is enough people really going to bother selling their data for almost nothing?
This feels too much like an appeal to wishful thinking.

I can't say that you are wrong. But this doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. Probably doesn't help that I don't really have a minds eye. I am probably clinging too heavily for some "underlying truth", as well.

Reminds me of the complaints I'll see, where folks bemoan that nobody learns the reason math works anymore. Only, that doesn't really make sense. Few of us ever really learned "why math works" because it turns out that is not nearly as straight forward as folks assert that it is.
> Today, we still lose land every time an acre is sold to a non-Indian, inherited by someone less than half blood quantum, or even when an owner lifts restrictions to qualify for a mortgage

I don't see how that would be effected by the Congress. If Congress allocated land to the natives, but then the natives sold it (I assume not of fair grounds, but still...) then the Congress cannot return the land to the natives.
Hey I'm trying to RSVP but it's rejecting my invite code :-(

Dude, excellent work on that site by the way. It's incredible, really.
> Maybe nationalization should be an option

This turns a problem company into a problem government bureaucracy. Cleaner to fine the company into oblivion, put it into bankruptcy--thereby teaching its shareholders and creditors a hard lesson--and then let the market figure out if it's worth more liquidated, split up into bits, or sold to a new owner.
Nationalized infrastructure is a good way to create poor service, and a long lasting debt. Look at pretty much every country in Europe with national railtracks and rail lines: massively bleeding money, with worse and worse service and low levels of investements because there is no incentive to do so.
Anti-trust was diluted to the point of being completely toothless. Not sure why the public went along with it.
Equities process
Googling the Mayotte Island that they tracked it to shows that a magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurred within the last hour:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000hwxr...
A macro look at IoT: Developer tools, 'platforms', and what's to come next
My only question is: Which century is Empire "the game of"?
That may be. But there's still the T-Mobile Essentials plan that's $30/line for 4 lines - and might be lower for more lines.
My issue with that is who should it be returned to? The people who it was taken from and who took it are long dead. Is one person more deserving of the land simply because they can trace their ancestry to someone who used to own that land? See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18558224 to see the issue with it.
I’ve found that the best professors tend to come with higher standards for grading, more involved assignments, and just generally more work involved. This is great if you’re actively interested in learning the subject; most students are not. In which case, its far worse than the shitty teacher, and its reflected in the feedback.

From the perspective of most students, the ideal professor has low grading standards, “good enough” teaching, and most importantly, a “fun” class (primarily by means of humor). Most students are there to get a degree, to get a job. The best teacher according to students is the one that best fits that model (which is generally at odds with the goals of classical academia).
Weren't Limes and Birds of the world super disrespectful to pretty much every municipality onto which they dropped their POS tincans without permits?

I mean, it should not even need a disclaimer that of course cutting brakes on those things is wrong, but if you drop them all over a major metro, usually without even bothering to get proper permits and work out proper storage and usage policies, and let every brain-dead idiot zoom around full-speed on sidewalks, bike lanes and roadways, you should not be very surprised that bad things will happen.
Don’t Send Your Bitcoins to ISIS
I wonder what the US Navy is testing!
You can easily fix the low quality PR issue with a CI setup.

Setup a Travis job to fail often (build, lint, test, coverage, etc), so you pressure them PR author to complete it. This will make the entry barrier massive, but helps you focus your attention.

In addition, take an hour setting up issue and PR templates and guidelines in GitHub. A good readme with an FAQ section helps too.

See Symfony/Symfony for a good example.
Just wonder how this could connect with Fargate and possibly support scale-down to zero with power of firecracker?
Long Island Woman Admits to Using Bitcoin to Launder Money for ISIS
The hardest part would be understanding how much people will adjust their long term behaviors. Grandma might continue wearing that one pair of clothes out of habit. But the younger generation will more quickly adapt to the new norm.
Not good ones because everyone wants to solve the distributed store, proof-of-work & contract-as-software problems rather than the primary thing that makes blockchain useful for normal businesses.
It seems to be the opposite, Africa has positive population growth with low economic growth.
I wonder if this integrates with AWS Certificate Manager to provision HTTPS certificates so that traffic can be end-to-end encrypted.
That's one of the reasons I've stuck to Application Load Balancers in front of services instead of using ECS/Route53 service discovery.
Well, I did refer to it as an analogy.
However, I do think there are probably several useful analogies between machine learning and neuroscience.

For example: Sparse Encoding
http://www.mit.edu/~9.54/fall14/Classes/class07/Palm.pdf
Battered Bitcoin Miners May Start Shutting Down
> I think it's to drown out the feeling of existential dread of actually having to hear yourself.

To a certain extent, this is actually true.

I have read more than a few stories recently where people have literally said they hate quietness, and need noise surrounding them (especially other people), so that they didn't have to be alone with their thoughts.

I find that to be depressing.
One of the best classes that I had was very hard in homeworks but was easy on the grading. It was literature and art class taught by a lawyer. I felt that I grew up a bit after that class. The class was also rated high by students
Agree with the sentiment behind a lot of the comments above. Elixir/Erlang are awesome and there is a lot of vitality in those communities at the moment (more in Elixir perhaps).

Elixir is definitely a darling of HN but there are some areas where there are some shortcomings in my point of view:

- A lot of people seem to love Elixir macros but I actually think that they result in a lot of compile time magic and make the code difficult to debug/read. Macros make code easy to write but supremely difficult to behind-the-scenes-understand and debug. The code that you write is transformed into something very different when you run it! Also every major Elixir library brings its own special macros which is a pain. Erlang OTOH does not use user defined code transformations (i.e. macros) so much so the code there is easier to comprehend. But the Erlang language is quite barebones and does not have the expressive power of some of its functional cousins like OCaml/ML/Haskell. Its seems that macros were an easy way to impart this expressive power to Elixir but it comes with the above mentioned costs.

- The Elixir (Erlang) runtime is stateful. This leads to many advantages but I kinda love the PHP model of every request is isolated/new from the rest of the system also. This may make PHP feel clunky/slowish but then its super easy to debug. PHP works out fine for _most_ systems even at scale. If your system does not have extreme requirements then PHP should work out fine.

- Elixir is not statically typed. In 2018 for a new project its hard to justify not using a typed system to make code more likely to "run" properly out of the gate or increase your confidence while refactoring it. Even a simple type system like golang's will do. No need for something complex like C++/Java/Rust etc.

In summary there is a lot of good in the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem. I think it makes sense to use this platform in many scenarios.

P.S. I've talked about PHP above. It continues to be fashionable to bash PHP and I feel this is a meme that must be combated. PHP 7.x is a much improved platform. Once you look past some of its historical warts you'll find that it can be very productive to work in. Of course it lacks static typing but if you specify the types of the your function parameters and (comment) annotate the type variables you can get some of the benefits of typing if you have the correct IDE/code analysis tools. (Elixir/Erlang also have "soft" static typing via dialyzer).
I've been working on a similar tool: https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio (see the 'keytap' tool). Not sure how well it works yet, as I have made tests only with my setup. There is a live page that anyone can experiment with.
> The world in which we evolved would have been almost silent, almost all of the time, apart from the sounds of birds and insects.

I wonder if that hypothesis is related at all to hypothesis of bicameralism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)

Note: I haven't read the book, so maybe it was covered...
No, the US military goes to great lengths (and sometimes expense) to have things domestically made, mainly for security but also for economic reasons.
Yes, I'm talking in the context of SPA frameworks (which the article referred to).
Yes, the problem with modern capitalism is that companies face too much regulation...
js is perfect for the resource constrained student of today ie their primary computing device is a mobile.mobiles ship with a js environment built in regardless of platform. i used to be like you until i had to start advising kids from low income environs in india on what language to learn(from a personal desire to create hackers with low resource access and seeing what happened+give them access to coding as a skill).

js really is the most accessible
This reminds me of a bhikku from Sri Lanka (1) who said he only sleeps 4 hours a night because meditation replaces it. It could be possible that they actually are "brainwashing" themselves when reading sutra's dogmas combined with lack of sleep would have some permanent brain changing effects.

(1)https://www.google.ro/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://...
Oh, it is definitely an analogy. I should have stressed more that I don't think you are wrong. Not just that I can't say you are wrong. I really don't think you are.

My concern is that I'm just not sure how far that analogy helps. Unlike old analytic models, we don't have much in the way of analyzing these new models. We can only talk towards how well they perform on fixed data sets.

There are some interesting results in transfer learning. But, I suspect most of the truly amazing results have been essentially cherry picked in the process. (That is, blind pigs and troughs, and all of that.

I hope I'm wrong. I really do.
Only a quick read, but both the lenovo pressroom and the guardian stated the thinkpads were not affected.

pressroom: https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-stat...

the guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/14/lenovo-se...
And more safety is a bad thing... how?

Should the airline industry become more like the software eng industry, which has had such great success in producing solid and safe products?
Are you against new cyclists using bike lanes as well? Inexperienced riders are a hazard on any form of transportation.
Facebook staff discussed selling API access to apps in 2012-2014
> Laws generally exist for a reason

Laws need to be updated as the world changes and that's a really bad reason to justify one.
> many tech giants exist around natural monopolies, either in network effects

Yes, network effect is a huge part of the problem. So much in tech requires user adoption, and typically users won't adopt until others adopt, thus creating chicken and egg problem. Overcoming the network effect is extremely difficult, as we've seen from competing platforms trying to unseat facebook and twitter (tho network effect is not limited to social networks, but they are the most obvious examples)
Ask HN: What concepts in your field are the most difficult to explain simply?
The article mentions another $7M worth of fines, and that's just for the US.

Also, they sold their customers pretty cheap, so the combined fines likely significantly exceed the profit from the deal:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/02/27/lenov...

While I do think the punishment should be significantly more severe (including jail time for executives), I suspect the scandal has made companies aware that this is a bad idea.

I still don't get why it didn't hurt them more in the enterprise space (read: why large companies didn't institute a strict "no lenovo" policy for a couple years). That would have been way more effective than fines.
Do I infer correctly from your change in topic that you understand how your earlier comparisons were not applicable?
There's a trick, oft forgotten in these discussions. You don't have to just automate your existing workflow and hope not too many gaps remain. You can always build a new workflow around automation, playing to its strength, and eliminating human factor at the system level - or even business model level. Hell, iff no machine can handle a particular task, find a way to not require it at all. If your marketing team is good, it'll even sell it as a feature.
Why Branding Is the Need of an Hour?
That makes it like finance, then: good at hiding the bodies.
The French Navy starting another round of nuclear testing might be more likely for this one, it's only 20 years since their last ones.

We should get greenpeace to send the Rainbow Warrior III over.
How hard is it to make money on Shopify? Store Success Rates
Putting the placeholder for the +1(s) as "Wife or kids", Yikes... Are women allowed to use the form?
The risk is lower on a scooter than on a motorcycle.

On the road, yes. But motorcycles don't routinely take the sidewalks.
If you want to live in a off-grid area. Sure.
If another professor wrote the exams for a class they didn't sit in, you'd have the students screaming in unison, "this wasn't discussed in class!" Not exactly disagreeing with the idea, but students have been normalized to the idea that, with enough studying and concentration, any exam can be aced. When they feel like they've been cheated by the system they get discouraged, making a harmful learning experience.
They did have a firmware-based malware dropper. The "only" thing it did was re-infect clean Windows installations, so installing Linux would still mean you'd be fine as the second stage wouldn't be dropped, but of course that's not a technical limitation - they could have built it to also infect Linux, but didn't.
There is a yin and yang to nearly everything in reality. Without this great evil, it's entirely possible humanity might have remained completely stagnant, or even have begun to regress. Stick 1000 people in a utopia where they have everything they need to subsist and endless digital entertainment. You've now set those people on the path to idiocracy. By contrast, put 1000 people in an oppressive environment where the only path to survival is ingenuity and you've laid the groundwork for creating the great thinkers, and creators, of tomorrow.

The Nazis were a large part of the reason that our technological development accelerated like nothing before, or since. We went from having never even put a man in orbit to putting a man on the moon in less than a decade - which remains what I think is by far the greatest achievement in the history of our species. A great evil created resulted in the most unimaginable good.

The times since then remained dominated by yang. We've had relative peace, prosperity, and our greatest threat was literally just a threat. And so now we are in an era where after decades of technological devolution we struggle to even fly a rocket by the moon, unable to come even close to replicating what we achieved with seeming ease some 50 years ago.
I understood the P / S part (P-waves and S-waves).
> uniformly believe that syntax-rules is the only macro facility

far from it. CLers know that Scheme has zillions of different macro systems. Which makes the whole topic highly confusing and intellectually interesting.
Well, I mean, it's still open. I'm sure if it got more votes on it, it would be better prioritized. That said, I guess this is a good example of a possibly starving issue where the core team can't scale to address the most minor issues.
"Imagine if there were no governments" is a category error. There are always governments, not all of them are formal. Whoever has the most mercenaries can make rules.

The thing that works is to have a coercive force which is primarily used to quell other large coercive forces. So you have a police force that prevents violence etc.

But it needs to be limited in scope, because it has no natural predators. It's always tempting to use the coercive force for <thing> where <thing> is literally anything. Laws are molasses. They have benefits, but they also have costs, and the fact that the costs and benefits apply to separate people makes it much too easy to do net-negative things.
This happened before, i had forgotten about it. But it was posted on some forum, and they could track the seismic waves as they traveled from the eastern US to the western US - and they were exceptionally fast... but the interesting thing of when that particular event happened was that the speculation was it was the detection of secret underground high-speed transports, between DUMBS...

Other than it being an interesting fanciful thought to imagine if such a thing could be, i didnt think much of it.

But this is interesting in that the waves were also tracable from seismometer to seismometer...

Ill see if i can find it.
There are no replacements, which is the worst part. A healthy community has a gathering place, and without a church, where is it?
To be honest, NFS is usually more pain than it is worth it. (But hey, at least it's not iSCSI)

Yes please let the default not allow me to unmount a fs from a server that died.
Hey thanks! Fixing it :D
Yep. In chess, you have to make mistakes to lose. Top players don't make very many mistakes, so often nobody loses.