skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's somewhat anecdotal but in my experience, Twitter search can be quite filter bubbly.

I've had this recording sitting around in my YouTube account which illustrates an example of this: CES 2015 which was around the time of the shit show known as Gamergate.

The event aside, it was interesting to understand how sides were inflamed based on what they were seeing thanks to Twitter effectively amplifying similar opinions, creating an echo chamber.

Here's a link to the recording: https://youtu.be/yoCcKYJ7hDI

On the left is an account that was heavily skewed on purpose, towards the more conservative group while on the right is what a regular, unlogged in user would see.

A regular user would have no idea of such an event going on while the user on the left would think that this event was engulfing the planet based on the sheer amount of noise being generated.

For users on the left, it would be near impossible to penetrate the noise, based on retweets and likes, short of a tweet being passed around for users to jeer at. A literal bubble in that sense.

The sad part is that a great number of people from both sides seemingly had a lot in common without realising it. Unfortunately they had no visibility of the "others" short of going out of their way to meet people and talk with them one on one.

As we all know, it's easier to just label a foreign group and pretend we're objectively right.

Anyway, that's just my experience with filter bubbles anyway. Hopefully you found it interesting.
It's in the about section. Can't post the direct link from my phone, sorry!
The idea that old physical theory always becomes false or incorrect when a new theory supersedes it is elementary mistake. For example "Classical physics is wrong" or "all theories are proven wrong in time" fallacies.
Posting on first Google result for "share short sound clip". I can put it somewhere else if you have a better suggestion.

https://clyp.it/rfu2x1kb
It constantly underscores how early we are in the development of reliable tooling that such basic errors as these are still regularly being made. I am glad this sort of research is being done to uncover and identify our societal technical debt.
https://github.com/maxbittker/sandspiel
It doesn’t seem any more damning than typical alcohol advertising.

> His archived Juul ads are filled with attractive young models socializing and flirtatiously sharing the flash-drive shaped device, displaying behavior like dancing to club-like music and clothing styles more characteristic of teens than mature adults.

In a country where you have to be 21+ to get into a club, what club music is characteristic of teens instead of adults?
I have similar experience. People known within the company as "geniuses" are most likely to get offended when you suggest an improvement to their code. The average coders will be like "yeah, whatever".

Of course, there is a difference between being a genius, and being perceived as a genius by the managers. But sometimes there are people who are insanely good at some things (and everyone knows that) while having blind spots in other things (and get extremely sensitive about them).
There are thousands and thousands of APIs, properties, attributes, functions and so on for web programming. Holding up a few examples of past accomplishments from long ago is no defense for IE and the widely known vulgarities.
Ask HN: You $10,000 to Invest into 1 CryptoCurrency, What would it be?
The student might be still getting paid by the company. I see no admission of them being unpaid...
Netflix’s Movie Blitz Takes Aim at Hollywood’s Heart
Your views are entirely subjective.

To many, Trumps foreign policy seems to be centered on breaking down Western order in favor of despots and not from a strategic perspective in favor of American interests but entirely his own financial schemes.

Just about everyone from his administration has resigned, is in the midst of some investigation despite the Republican Party owning all branches of government, or both.

There have been over 30 indictments related to the various investigations the last time I checked.

The market has recently been wiped pretty hard. Issues are student loan debt are only getting worse, with the education secretary openly supporting predatory lending.

I haven’t even gotten to the environmental rollbacks.

I’m not saying the media is on Trump because they stand on some moral pedestal, but I do think something is seriously messed up, orthogonal to what any journalist or entertainer claims.

The thing Trump has succeeded at is propaganda. If only not for immigrants whether legal or illegal, it would be like the good old times when blacks were slaves or at least had to use separate water fountains. Hispanics and Muslims are supposedly parasites. I’m just repeating the things I hear my staunchly pro Trump colleagues say at work at a very Republican company (energy).

I have one coworker who literally said she’d support Trump even if he was found to be working with Russia the whole time. She believes he’s the only one who can protect us from Shariah law.

I think there are several real issues in this country. My personal politics are fiscal conservatism while being socially liberal. I’m now a democrat although I voted against Obama twice because the Republican Party has become the party of blind nationalism led by a conman with a deemphasis on critical thinking.
You had to write all that orchestration code yourself.

With the Windows VMs I had to:

- integrate TopShelf to make it a Windows Service

- write the code to poll the queue (no big deal but still)

- create two Cloudwatch alarms to monitor the queue to tell the autoscaling group when to scale in and out

- define the launch configuration for the autoscsling group

- define the autoscaling group

- add health check functionality to the Windows service to ensure that the Windows service was running that could be integrated with the sutoscaling group (well I didn’t have too but to be complete)

Alternatively with lambda all I had to do was

- add a method that took in two parameters - the SQS event and the lambda context.

- add the SQS event to trigger the lambda.

Of course both stacks were created with Cloudformstion. One I had to do myself, the other I just basically set everything up in the web console, exported the CloudFormation template and made some minor changes.
> The whole premise is that the relationship between the suburban dad and the celebrity was somehow weird and unbelievable. I see that

I'm not sure why, and it seems to me like I must be in a minority. I'm pretty sure every other upper-middle class person has one or two wealthy and/or famous friends. All wealthy and famous people can't only have friends that are wealthier or more famous than themselves, the math doesn't work out.

Instead, I see this story as an example of a very NPResque genre: upper middle-class parents often get cancer and die, surprisingly almost as often (proportionally) as the parents of people who do not work for NPR. But in the case of the children of the upper middle-class it probably hurts more because it's the first significant suffering they have ever experienced.

edit: I also assume it's pretty difficult to reject a story about a dead parent's "simple rules for living," interesting celebrity-filled early life with some artistic potential gone unfulfilled due to the choice to settle down and have children, or their immigrant story. They have a sentimental appeal for some readers/listeners, and your sad staffer won't be turning one in every week.
Funny because they're about the least scary entity in the digital advertising space.
I buy 4 index funds (domestic stocks, foreign stocks, domestic bonds, foreign bonds), same amount, every month. I don't pick stocks because I don't believe that's a viable strategy.
I'm not really a huge fan of hyperbole--I don't think it makes for useful conversations online (which are hard enough already, even on HN), and I don't believe any reasonable interpretation of my comment above supports your argument.

Feel free to explain the problems with my math, whatever math there was. Tell me how ~20 people a year is the greatest public safety threat CA faces.
This is the bug report on the mozilla bugtracker by the way, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927621
Marvelous Mrs. Maisal is on Amazon, not Netflix. Amazon also picked up season 4 of The Expanse after SciFi cancelled it. Good for them. Who needs cable???
I wonder if anyone is banking on a reversal of that perception of "filter bubbles"?

It seems to me that creating "filter bubbles" not only should be the goal of social networks, but that it's a desirable goal.

Obviously, someone will have to come up with better branding to wash off the stink from that term, but the underlying concept is what people fundamentally want, and it's here to stay.

Facebook recently changed their vision statement to talk about making communities more tightly-knit, and so on. This can only be done by curating content and limiting information to stuff that attracts people together and makes them feel at home.

People have limited time and attention. Dunbar's number imposes constraints on how much data/people they can keep up with. And people want that circle to be as pleasant an experience as possible.

I'll be the first to make that bet if no one else has: the social network that will displace Facebook will displace it because it will embrace filter bubbles, not "solve" them as if they were a problem.
I got monitor arms to lift mine off the desk. Really freed up space and I could never go back now.
Couldn't they replace it with a laptop running UAE?
It's a sandbox game indeed [1]. This is standard terminology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_video_game_terms#S...
I'm still wondering about the secret tunnel in the Great Pyramid of Giza with double false door that was found with a robot. They never further researched what's on the other side of the second false door.

Also it is known based on radar screenings there are some empty spaces under the Sphinx, quite likely very ancient chambers. I wish they would dig bellow the Sphinx to find out what's actually there.

I guess it would cost a lot of money and be time consuming and risky so they won't do it (in both cases). Pity that we might not know what may be there.
Possibly regarding the intonation/inflection and pitch?
Where it especially blurs the line is when the sandbox/toy is sufficiently advanced that one can invent their own games. For example, Garry's Mod is not a "game", but millions of hours have been spent playing games in it. Does the game need to impose the rules, or is it sufficient to allow the players to impose their own? If the former, then what of games that normally impose rules strictly, but include cheat codes that allow players to flexibly circumvent the rules and invent their own games? In practice, nearly every video game is all of a toy and a game and a toolkit for games and even a sport (any game can be speedrun!) simultaneously.
What's interesting is how much of a departure from the Apple II it was. The Apple II came with very technical documentation, such as the assembly listings of the ROM monitor.

Of course later the Mac started shipping with HyperCard which was an absolutely fantastic development environment for amateurs.
I still remember when my Dad marched me over to his laptop, to boldly proclaim the new Internet Explorer 7 had TABS

He legitimately looked as though he'd unlocked some kind of arcane technology that mortal man should never have wielded

I still feel a little bad when I casually shrugged it off with "Firefox has had that for years". He looked legitimately shattered
The Logitech M500 Corded Mouse is a cheap but solid and basic mouse for those who aren't interested in a gaming mouse.
This is key:

“in a financialised economy, only those closest to the means of money-creation [...] are in a position to employ the language of universalism. As a result, any political claims as based in particular needs and interests, tended to be treated as manifestation of identity politics, and in the case of the social base of the GJ, therefore, cannot be imagined it as anything but proto-fascist.”

If these people represented any other view. Addressing climate change, protesting capitalism, etc., we’d see this covered 24x7. But they are in great part anti-globalists who want to wrest control back and put it in the hands of the middle class. So much of the media dismisses it. A few teargas canisters at the US’s SD-TJ border and it’s a crime against humanity. Almost daily teargassing of citizens and those people who piped up are silent.

Side: It’s a shame this was flagged. I think we need to think the implication of moneyed people influencing hoew the hoi polloi should think and act.
Can confirm, was quiet and sat in an open room with other workstations around with no extra fans, cooling, etc. But, it's administered with a CLI computer hooked up, so not sure it is truly 'electromechanical'.
The web browser vendors have too much money. They have no incentive to keep the platform small. Google in particular, the cost to implement Blink is essentially meaningless to them, but it is beyond affordability for almost anyone else.
Not sure what it is, but his lectures are amazing to go to sleep to. Thinks it's the voice.

Also really interesting stuff too.
I agree 100%. In fact, I almost never go near the park, except when I'm forced to in a training course. I don't enjoy it at all.

Riding switch is still a fantastic way to improve your riding - yes, even just "going down" groomers. And a more balanced stance allows you to do that.

It also keeps more of your body more balanced over the board when things go wrong, so you stand a better chance of regaining control because more of your body (hips, knees) are symmetrical.

I'm not even really talking about my personal opinion here, this is straight from CASI.
The video is actually a lot more interesting than the original article.
Belief in Fake News Linked with Delusionality, Fundamentalism, Reduced Analytics
Less the notes and scales themselves, and more polyrhythms and phasing. This reminded me of Steve Reich's Clapping Music, and similar phasing-heavy works (Piano Phase, Drumming, Music for Pieces of Wood, 6 Pianos/Marimbas, and Pendulum Music).
You;re right. i incorrectly stated the ended of my post. I was speaking in the context of this podcast, where Susskind constantly talked about how we've discredited past theories but now we know the truth.

I certainly did not mean to state anything similar to your fallacy examples. Obviously thinking in absolutes either way in incredibly arrogant.
Not to mention liability in case there's some kind of emergency (fire, etc) that they can't respond to effectively.
Chrome distrusted Symantec certs when 70 got pushed to stable (at the end of October)[1]. Digg shows NET::ERR_CERT_SYMANTEC_LEGACY error when I navigate to it. Firefox was supposed to remove the Symantec certs in 63 (also to be released at the end of October) but I guess they pushed it back a version[2].

All major browser coordinated to distrust the certs at the same time.

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/chromes-plan-to-dist...

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/07/30/update-on-the-d...
hmm none! The Cryptocurrency market is very unstable right now. This is different from usual stock market instability. When stock indices fall, given enough time they will bounce back. However, Crypto's very viability is in question so it is a very risky gamble.

That said, it all depends on your investment profile. Are you a big risk big reward person? Even if that is the case crypto's don't really offer high rewards for the high risk at this point in history
x86 and POSIX are actually great comparisons to the current state of browsers. They all have well defined standards that everyone should follow in theory. In practice CPUs have bugs[0] that kernels and applications make a lot of effort to work around. There are also enough implementation/non-compliance quirks in POSIX[1][2] implementations to matter when porting. Just like all of the web standards, x86 and POSIX don't solve the compatibility problems that come from innovation.

[0] https://wiki.osdev.org/CPU_Bugs

[1] https://personal.opengroup.org/~ajosey/tr28-07-2003.txt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base
The identifying characteristics are signal for the minority, but noisy for genpop.

Deployment/engineering constraints call for a single model.

Realistic scenario.
It actually goes the other way, the litmus test is something like this:

- is the student doing something that tangibly contributes to the business?
- is the student doing something that you would normally pay an employee to do?

If the answer to either of those questions is yes, you should pay the student/intern. Of course, IANAL, and this only applies to the ISA, but that is how acquaintances who are self-employed handle their interns.

The only time you can have an unpaid intern is when their work is substantially education, and does not contribute to the bottom line.
If you enjoy demos like this and live in or visit San Francisco, check out the Exploratorium, which is full of amazing physical demos like this.

https://www.exploratorium.edu/
I'm not sure this changes as much as people keep saying. Microsoft isn't completely abandoning browser development, and it will still have (sometimes strong) opinions on the development of the web.

The conversation though will shift from conversations in external organizations between stakeholders, to conversations in a shared codebase between stakeholders.

In some cases this could be better, as it means we will have fewer occurrences where there's agreement on a feature, but implementation lags in 1 browser. Instead, adoption of many features should now be quicker, while debate about larger or more controversial features will still exist.
The plot of Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden sounds awesome:

"The game starts off in 2041, twelve years prior to the main part of the game, in "post-cyberpocalyptic Neo New York". Charles Barkley performed a powerful dunk called a Chaos Dunk at a basketball game, inadvertently killing most of the people in attendance. As a result, basketball was outlawed and many basketball players were hunted down and killed. In 2053, another Chaos Dunk is performed in Manhattan, killing millions. Barkley is blamed for the Chaos Dunk and is hunted by the B-Ball Removal Department, led by Michael Jordan."

(It just gets weirder from there)
> Most corporate profits are now no longer derived from producing or even marketing anything, but in the manipulation of credit, debt, and “regulated rents."

I have read this assertion before, but how can you measure or prove that? I mean there is still an awful lot of stuff being produced, somehow.

Wow, HN mods seem to have deleted this story, so i can't answer the comment:
https://i.imgur.com/tOlYKUa.png says that in 1971, when they still had the gold standard, the ratio was 20-22 now it is around 25-27; so is that a big qualitative change that changes the nature of the system? (Ok, it was much higher a few years back, but it is fluctuating) Still I don't entirely trust the argument that change of gold standard changed everything.
lol the arrogance of your phrasing is weird. Just stick with the compliment, and then maybe: I think we could improve thermodynamics, not "I'm almost tempted", which sounds like "I'm a god, and could really outdo this but I'm not sure I have time since I'm SO important and busy".
Similarly, you can see a remarkable model airplane collection by Edward Chavez at SFO now. It was sponsored over two decades by the Nut Tree restaurant owner:

https://www.flysfo.com/museum/exhibitions/masterworks-edward...
Reminds me of The Powder Toy, which is great by the way, lots of fun!
> Sure, Google may be at the reigns of where the project goes, but then differentiate on features, or fork it and make it different.

And if the fork diverges, then what? This is not a theoretical concern: Blink and WebKit are now quite different, and it's best to regard them as two different rendering engines. Is that bad?

> Maybe the rendering engine should be more akin to the Linux kernel and less akin to Windows?

This presupposes that the Linux kernel is at an optimum point in the design space. It's pretty clear to me that it isn't. In fact, I think the monoculture around open source kernels has been bad for OSS. I look forward to Fuchsia providing some much-needed competition, much in the same way LLVM provided much-needed competition to GCC.
Ask HN: What to build next?
I been thinking about what to develop next that has a chance of being economically successful, so here next you may find my ideas, tell me which one you think is best and any advice you may have about it. If you have a similar idea that you think have more chance at being successful (or/and take less time to develop) feel free to share them.

As much as possible avoid meta-discussion such as "look into yourself what you wanna make".

▶ Online video editor integrated with YouTube: [Desktop Electron app] Make editing videos as easy as watching them.

▶ Visual PHP code editor, focused on Wordpress plugin development: [Web-based] Similar to Unreal-Engine-Blueprints.

▶ Twitter-like social network for fairly smart people. [Web-based + mobile app] A social network that asks its users very simple basic intelligence questions, things like “Chocolate milk is usually made of: A) Milk from brown cows B) Cocoa and sugar C) Milk and cola”

▶ Online Webcomic creator [Web-based]: Make creating webcomics easier (pre-made cartoon eyes, noses, backgrounds, etc)

▶ Make your website prettier and responsive without pain [Web-based]: Analyze an old website visually, create a more modern look for it, and a responsive version using algorithms.

▶ GTA2 like game [Windows/linux and mobile]: Made using Unity, cartoony style, think Crash-bandicoot meets old GTA. Plus cartoony power-ups think Rocket League.

There is character limit here, so an extended version with the rationale for each idea may be found at:

https://gist.github.com/Ivanca/ab07fe09da06bb91974a54dd1f283ffa
It's not gone yet. One of my favorite places of this sort, andkon is still going strong after all these years. The toy category still has some of the sandbox stuff: http://andkon.com/arcade/other/toy.list
boom, upvote for you my jaded social observer. The weird white shame and identity politics being pushed by Americans is really tiresome. It's the first thing the author writes about, was it really the first thing he thought about? Because that perspective is just as shallow as facile as the idea that advertising from 40-50 years deliberately excluded minorities.

And is the OP really that proud to be broadcasting his SNAG status? Jeez. Rant over.
> you can get free marketing from an apprentice as part of their training
That's remarkable. I'll be in an audience somewhere on the 27th.
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How bad is it if everything on that list applies to my day-to-day responsibilities at work?
I wish fire or lava would make steam out of water, but I love the smoke effect. It was a really nice surprise when the rest of it was so low resolution, great combo.
Although this one appears “self-inflicted,” it seems like a pretty important issue for a machine being sold in the US, where road rage shootings are not at all uncommon.
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Ask HN: What to do if a Government is not GDPR compliant?
What should I do if my government doesn't handle my data in accordance to GDPR?

Furthermore, when is it possible to exercise "the right to be forgotten"?
Those accurate energy-saving models IMO fall apart because they keep buildings just a bit uncomfortably warm or cool, leading everyone to bring in plug-in space heaters, dehumidifiers, and fans. One other trick in the summertime when the central operations folks have decided that the building is cool enough but everyone is sweating, is to bring in a space heater and put it under the thermostat.
Have you considered that an independent judiciary has been aided by an independent media? Who will watch the watchers and all.