skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> very few people are actually able to come up with valid criticisms

I guess that depends on what you mean by "valid" but I think his plan to profit from carbon trading was a clear conflict of interest.

All the conservative people I know are aware of this, so it also depends on who you know.

And if those conservatives find out that Matt & Trey now think they should have kept this a secret to avoid damaging Gore's climate change advocacy, that will only reinforce their distrust of climate change advocates.
No Easy Day by Mark Owen. It is about the seal team who killed Osama Bin Laden. I thought the book had a ton I action and was very captivating.

I’m currently about half way through Principles by Ray Dalio and am enjoying it so far.

Next on my reading list is The coddling of the American mind, by Greg Lukianoff
When they were choosing a claims management provider, they surely took care to choose one that aligns with their values. So this at least reflects poorly on Amazon's choices at that time.
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight ( Nike Founder)

The journey of how nike became what it is today. It is a must read because, it gives an in depth knowledge about how Companies used to be built without the VC's.
Progress-skeptics are always wrong - except for artificial inteligence.
In the future, the milk container will get in an argument with the can opener, and you'll have to be the mediator if you want to use either. That's where AI is headed: the emergence of machines with egos to both placate and be concerned that they're trying to manipulate you for a variety of interests.
Do most viewers really care at all about the “script” and instead click on the first video that has someone they find attractive doing the sexual act they want to see?

If I’m right in my assumption about most “tube viewers”, I wonder how much of the “conclusions” made from the data set provide false conclusions due to confirmation bias. If they think folks want to see [insert script narrative] and so they make more videos of that, just because it had lots of views doesn’t mean that more folks wanted to see that specific narrative IMHO.
You'll just get a copyright strike and be banned from YouTube itself. Any accounts made after that is just breaking YouTube TOS
Machine learning IS the solution. If you have a better idea, you should contact Google immediately.
I was thinking asphalt and concrete - it seems that New York uses a specific percentage of mica flakes in their sidewalks, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find that roadways would use something to aid reflectivity as well.
I've been banging on about this point for years. Filesharing doesn't hurt megacorps, who have vast marketing departments that reliably shepherd people through the fare gates or monetize them in other ways, but indie and niche performers and creators suffer terribly because they don't have a big capital pile in addition to their labor and natural assets (whatever those happen to be).

Filehsaring has a great deal to recommend it, but ultimately it comes down to wanting something for nothing (and often whining about the very people whose performances it desires to devalue).
Dealing with YouTube support (and Google support in general) is the epitome of 'Kafkaesque'
Not saying that this is not true, but "World Socialist Website" is a website with content created to promote socialist agenda on behalf of a group of socialist parties.

Again, I'm not discrediting them, but it's good to know that there's an implicit bias and agenda on this type of content.

Same goes for the majority of the mainstream media. I wish someone would build a Chrome Extension that could reveal potential biases based on political donations, affiliations, and known shareholders, in relation to the media website you're visiting.
It would add a lot of context and allow people to have more criteria to evaluate the media they consume.
A few years ago the Columbia Journalism Review published an article about how great Der Spiegel's fact checkers were.

https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/inside_the_worlds_l...

It's quite obvious that article about that small town had not passed through the most cursory fact checking.

The CJR owes some explanation.
Right, they've clearly put a lot of amazing work on the engineering side, but sadly, this is something that really need more humans. Especially in the edge cases.

I don't know if anyone remembers how bad Steam customer services used to be. They tried super hard to use engineering to solve it and it was awful. They finally gave up and hired more people and now it's much better.

This definitely isn't an easy problem as some make it, but yeah I don't think the answer lies in better algorithms. You just need a lot more partner supports that actually assist creators who run into issues.
> The Spanish Inquisition occurred under the aegis of a church that had strayed so far from Judeo-Christian values that many of the most pious people in Europe would soon abandon it.

The Spanish Inquisition (unlike the Papal Inquisitions, or the later Roman Inquisition) occurred under the aegis exclusivelt of the Spanish Crown; and “Judeo-Christian values” are most often cited as a thing by evangelical and fundamentalist Protestants trying to pretend that their views (often quite personal and not even broad enough to be sectarian) have some kind of broader grounding than can be justified factually.

> Judeo-Christian values are hard to pin down

Because “Judeo-Christian values” aren't actually a thing.
Unfortunately a generation of developers was raised in c++ and java. The new generation writes rust fortunately so this kind of eye hurtful syntax is going away
What were some key insights from this?

It looks quite interesting. I'm guessing it's centered around entropy?
Nowadays even donkeys don't work that much.
Righteous Mind, Why good people are divided by politics and religion by Jonathan Haidt (also applies to classic nerd feuds like Mac vs windows vs Linux)

The Mom Test, how to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you by Rob Fitzpatrick (worst title ever, book is great)
It is important to note that this Michael Levin is at Tufts https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/faculty/levin/ and is NOT the Michael Levin that comes up first when you search for that name:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levin
To confuse people further, I customize the email per website. So when I tell the person at home depot my order is under homedepot@johndoe.com,they often ask if I work for home depot then look confused when I say no.
Why not an atheist? Not believing in his divinity doesn't preclude objective analysis of whether a human named Jesus existed. But, yes, surely not any Christian, who by definition believes Jesus exited.
Dow dives 400 points to end its worst week in 10 years
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Reflexive clichés are an example of that and should be avoided.
Apple iOS 12.1.2 Has a Serious Problem with Cellular connectivity
Yes. Changed from https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/12/22/0418241/two-miles-f.... Thanks!
And does it HAVE to be? At what point does YT just say "piss off, you can't control the internet"? When they use the DMCA properly and not Content ID only because they don't want to lose money on lawsuits?
To someone not growing up in America it isn't clear that you can't say the n-word. We see people say it all the time in tv shows so we just copy that. Therefore it makes perfect sense that Europeans uses the n-word without being racist. Once they are told to stop they usually do though.
> Then it's not a tax cut for the middle class.

The claim I was responding to—as should be obvious since I quoted it—had nothing to do with the middle class:

>> With any tax cut, the rich will benefit the most because they pay most of the taxes.

But you can do a similar thing to target any income group you want, while excluding any you don't.
Why is it that every single article about abused Amazon warehouse workers includes a GoFundMe link?
not sure you realize the consequences of what you’re saying. taking an unfiltered approach would simply not scale. 90+% of startups fail. there has to be some quality filtering, even if it does discard some potential. i’d assert the type of startup you’re talking about is even more rare than your average unicorn.
Nothing comes for free though. While we can easily write list comprehensions in Haskell or Python, their implementations are complicated. In the case of Haskell and Python, lists and comprehensions are language features, and for C++ ranges, they’re implemented as a library. Both approaches provide building blocks for users to build software and not have to roll their own implementations.
> The two Chinese characters that make up Huawei’s name literally mean, “To Serve China.” That’s clear enough, isn’t it?

Interesting, but I doubt it’s a conspiracy in plain site. Could anyone elaborate any further? Is serve in this context “do the bidding of” or “provide service to”.

Since it’s a cell phone / technology company.. cell service is exactly what it provides..
Fishing Habits of Northwoods' Wolves
Epic EHR is typically deployed as a separate instance on customer premises (not cloud SaaS). Epic customers don't automatically share patient charts with each other. However they can do so if desired through the Epic Everywhere product. And they can also share the same patient charts with other third-party EHRs through standards based APIs, although that requires configuration.
I have an adjectival reply which is less based in fact but more in practical maxim. One problem with the late stage of a general purpose language may be described by one instructor's phrase as "programming zoo." Thus people tend to keep to the usual described animals but then formerly binary dynamic linked libraries need to be opened up to be cured and then the zoos sort of super-zoo thus become ooze. So it is true. (p) There is no real way to gate a general purpose programming language of industrial application for the rules of commerce are too adaptive. Thus version restriction by compiler is one method to reduce intellectual orthogonal complexity, in sense of bizarre constructs going fourth wall against each other and paralyzing the human analyst.
You expect Amazon to interview insurance companies and reject any which answer in the affirmative to "do you follow industry standards with regard to investigating claims"?
> boost is not high quality

This is just false.
I said many years ago that it would be interesting to rate posts not in some pseudo-objective good-bad way but in terms of agreement or not, and that you could then modulate the ordering of posts on a per-user basis by proximity to the preferences of people you had expressed preferences about.

This was dismissed as overly complex for arc, but I really would like to see the unfiltered graph of HN's social network to study the various voting rings and social subgroups.
That’s what I thought. I had this brutal exchange where I was willing to burn some karma to make a point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9904732

I see you in there DanBC. :-)

You actually saved me from a severe beating.
I really, really hope that XRP is not adopted.

At least US government uses monetary policies for the benefit the country (not saying it is always successful, but it is trying), has some responsibility to the voters, and a whole system of checks.

Now giving all that power to a commercial corporation whose only goal is to "earn money"? Artificially creating megacors from cybepunk stories? Please no.
It is allegedly mixed with bleach and used by the coal industry to make the smoke look white. People don't like seeing black smoke.
learn how to manage the relationship you have with your family and friends, that is very important part of our lives.
I spent some time with a team building a ML processor based on associative processing. It still has a classical on-die, multi-tier cache system - built entirely in SRAM - but no ALU. It was designed to handle computations entirely in specialized SRAM arrays.

The concept was designed to handle massively parallel computation & minimize off-chip data transfers as much as possible. Still waiting to see how it will do in production.

http://videos.re-work.co/videos/267-in-place-computing-high-...
and what does that say?
How about skiing, snowboarding or ice skating?
Favorites that I read in 2018:

* Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep)

* Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4806.Longitude)

* Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26156469-never-split-the...)

* Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25852784-evicted)

* Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11084145-steve-jobs)

PSA: if you use an e-reader or like audiobooks, check out Libby: https://meet.libbyapp.com/

I'm not affiliated with them. Nice app for borrowing ebooks and audiobooks from your local library.
Against Librarization
David Copperfield reference?
Paper aeroplane wind tunnel
Any reason to believe this, or just Devil's advocating?
Canada really doesn't have a single-payer system though. If you're injured at work you'll receive far better care than if you sustain the same injuries at home.
You're right that I'm frustrated. I'm not even upset at anyone in this thead, but from previous discussions. I appologise for carrying that baggage here. Having my morality questioned when I legitimately want to make programs work correctly for foreign languages has left me... emotional on this subject.

Unix has its own problems, but the program avian wrote works correctly on Linux. Most encoding issues I encountered when working with Python 3 were on Windows.

PEP 383 was making the best of a bad situation without breaking the API again. The real mistake was having the functions return strings in 3.0. The operating system APIs should have returned path objects that require an explicit conversion to string with an explicit error handling mechanism.

Python gives you all the tools you need to do this right, but they're easy to unknowingly use in ways that break on corner cases. A well-defined API should guide you towards the correct solution and should make pitfalls obvious.

In any case, I should probably give it a rest. I work hard to make sure my programs do this stuff right, and I suppose that's all I can really do.
I think Windows 3.1 also had something like xeyes. It might have been part of an add-on pack, but I remember it existing. Maybe putting eyes on screen to follow a mouse was an early Hello World for GUIs.
I don't understand this title. Shy people usually don't want to be celebrities in the first place.
Heroin addiction explained: How opioids hijack the brain
Not written in 2018, but I recommend reading everything James Bamford has ever written on the topic of the NSA.
New York sets tougher standards for marketing internet speeds
This article has mysteriously vanished from the front page in record time. Vouch for articles?
Let's talk in 50 years. Odds aren't great, but there are still odds to talk about for a little while at least.
Sing Out
Religious flamewar will get you banned on HN. Please don't post like this again.

You've also been using HN primarily for ideological battle—we ban accounts that do that, too. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here.
Wikipedia is still alive
TempleOS Down the Rabbit Hole
Looking through the Wikipedia pages for June 1910, it looks like quite a bit was happening in the US. Oklahoma chose its capital, O. Henry died, statehood was given to two states, and Halley's Comet made a visit. Newspapers might have been preoccupied with domestic issues.

Other than Diaz winning yet another election in Mexico, it doesn't look like much was going on internationally. Goldwin Smith, who appears to have been very well known at the time with comments on American politics, died that month. He lived in Canada. A few front page headlines about his death might have been enough to put Canada on the chart, given the conditions.
Tiles are back baby
https://phirmware.host/music/5c1eb2777bcdeb68a4f5b7d7
I think this is the best music on the website
Speed of change is also behind the neverending stream of fad and fatigue. A little.
I know, right? Isn't racing to the bottom just great? Why should we try and stop it, it's such a nice thing to aspire to.
He's literally doing the same thing everyone is complaining about
Please don't break the site guidelines by posting flamebait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18743326 and marked it off-topic.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/14/what-is-the-hi...
Hey, that's great! Even if the execution wasn't up to your standards, I'm looking forward to watching! I heard from someone at the conference (maybe it was you even?) about how Gary curated the talks. I'm really glad he did that, because all around it was my favorite tech conference I've been to and I'll definitely be back. :)
It should be obviously that the issue with humans is the same if not worse. People already complain en masse about Google censoring all kinds of stuff. Put a human behind things and then people will demand their head for taking down controversial videos.

Their algorithm is absolutely terrible however and doesn't absolve them of allowing incredibly awful content to exist on their platform. However this is simply not an easy problem to solve when you serve such a large community and want to bend to support as much of it as possible.
Upvoted, but to be fair, Rust shows that expressiveness and performance aren't mutually exclusive. It does not (currently) have language-level list comprehensions, but those could be easily enough implemented as simple syntactic transformations over the existing iterator combinators, the way Scala does it.
I think you miss my point slightly but in your defense I didn't make it very well.

That people pay for the internet connection doesn't really have much effect on the economics. It's the payment for the production of the information or lack thereof that is driving the deleterious effects on quality of information that we are seeing.

This is mostly of our choosing too! And we will continue to put up with it until we don't and we sort out alternative systems. You can already see things changing with some sites putting up paywalls and some people choosing to pay or some people clicking away.

It's not an easy fix in aggregate, but as an individual it's possible to make choices where the economics isn't skewing in a direction you're not happy with. The trade-off is you might not be happy to pay for what you used to get for free. Well I don't have a good answer to that other than it is what it is.

Two good examples in my life at least I can think of is paying for access to Pluralsight means I'm getting high quality, in-depth, curated tech education on demand rather than scrappily piecing together random tutorials that bug me with passive aggressive "no, I don't want to become a coding ninja" ebook offers. The being I buy and read a decent amount of high quality books as the economics is structured such that they have to provide the value upfront before I'll exchange the money and the cost to produce the book is higher than just a blog post, so it's much more in-depth and Im not being sucked into anyone's marketing funnel.

All personal choices but I've been saying for years now the economics of the internet is somewhat busted as it relates to information. You just have to be careful and don't be afraid to use economics to drive the quality up in your favor.

Then there is stuff like Khan Academy. That's just out of this world awesome. Free and insane quality.

Then again that's a case of education as infrastructure. That guy put in the work to produce that content once and it can go on teaching forever. That is the real power of the internet, but it seems that's the exception to the rule.
How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Unless there is a complete collapse of the Bitcoin blockchain and it's ecosystem there is no way any cryptocurrency will take over Bitcoin as the number 1 currency on the internet
The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa. I find it the textbook on meditation and it has largely transformed my life.
Yeah fair.
This Algorithm Can Create 3D Animations from a Single Still Image
Not written in 2018 but these are some of the books I’ve read this year

The Bullet Journal Method - Ryder Caroll - A how to and the philosophy behind bullet journalling. Am doing a 1 year test to see if the system works for me.

Spark Joy - Marie Kondo - Book about living minimally, got this suggestion because the previous book mentioned it and was curious.

The Hacked World Order - Adam Segal - got interested in cybersecurity thanks to my internship, so picked up a book to read about it and am planning to study and get certification/qualification to get into the field. Will be working in IT/Network Engineering for 2-3 years while learning cybersecurity during free time.

Jony Ive - just like biographies in general.
Author here - thanks folks! I'm glad you liked it.
These people have already done the hard part of fitting their lives into an RV. Accept the reality that you've been priced out of the market and drive somewhere you can afford.
I first discovered Dostoevsky in undergrad engineering school. Needed gen eds and ended up taking a class that sounded interesting that talked about the philosophies of the superman (ubermensch) and it started with Crime and Punishment.

It was the best class I took in undergrad, it was so interesting to read and discuss. I think I needed to be in that class, though, to really get what I got out of it - so perhaps it is ok to come across them later in life. They almost require experience.
That code sample is outright ridiculous, it is totaly out of control. Can't agree more.
I love the author's humorous descriptions

> Metalization, he explained, is the process by which aluminum is deposited on both sides of the film. This made sense in theory, but how could aluminum go from being not on the film to being on the film without at least some Scotch tape? “They evaporate aluminum and deposit it on it,” said Mr. Shetty. This made sense in theory, but how could aluminum be evaporated? “It’s a very, very thin layer. They put it in a vacuum chamber, then evaporate the aluminum,” said Mr. Shetty. “With heat,” his son added. “What are they evaporating out of it?” I asked. “Aluminum,” said Mr. Shetty. I have no idea how humans figured out how to do that, or why it occurred to them to even try, but it sounds expensive.
The article mentioned that many of the RVs are not drivable and the residents cannot afford to repair them.
I mean, why don’t the underprivileged just accept their lot in life and get out of our hair. /sarcasm
Yes, that's the problem. If you or someone can figure out a way to salvage "3 professional life hacks from a billionaire introvert" into a suitable HN title, we can change it above.

Or maybe it's just a fluff article and not worth saving.