skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m fairly convinced it’s not remotely limited to Der Spiegel. If primary sources aren’t cited in downloadable attachments, it’s just best to assume the thing is a pure work of fiction.

I have absolutely zero respect for “journalism” at this time. It is, as far as I’m concerned, an entirely dead art, all life sucked from it by the great destroyer we call the Internet.

This network we created, and in particular most of the shiny things at L7, is not healthy for even an above average psyche. It attenuates all feedback loops that our bodies require to form empathy, while amplifying the worst parts of us through appeals to fame, fortune, and notoriety.

I don’t even hold this particular journalist in particular disregard. The sooner we recognize that he was so outmatched by the construct that he didn’t even have a chance, the better.
Just putting "-quora.com" (no quotes) on the end of a search seems to do it just fine.. you could have a long list of them you copy/paste in every time, or I imagine you could write a grease monkey script to do it for you automatically every time you click "search"
I have lived in Europe for about 5 years now, and sadly this is correct. German and French media in particular seem to delight in disparaging America and Americans.

Most Germans I've talked to are incredibly misinformed about what life in America is actually like. They think the entire country is more like a small southern town and that police roam the streets shooting citizens at random.

We have our problems of course and are far from perfect but the extent of them is grossly exaggerated by European media.
The false negatives will only cost them money when they are litigated against consistently on the basis that they systemically aid fraud and/or engage in unlawful interference in economic relations.

There might be other nice torts to ding them on, but as always, the channels that are too small to matter for manual review are also too small to support the economics of litigation.
11) Invariant: Someone should be able to go from a referenced paper or book to your code without scratching their head too much. This can be approached by either fortifying the documentation in the code or by specificity in a methods paper.
is there a blog post on this ? we have been struggling to export models to tf-lite. Not sure if you are using TPU trained models (which is cheap) or GPU trained ones using your machines... but a quick pointer would be helpful.
It is still not literal end if the world. We destroyed lots of cities in Iraq. That didn't end the world.

Yes, hundreds of thousands died. But not billions. Not even close. That's the only point I am making.
Gell-Mann amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Really it is impossible for it not to be a mess when the law is a mess. Until there is a sufficiently severe punishment for fraudulent take-downs and it is applied frequently there will be no hesitation. If they could give a three strikes on false takedowns to be removed youtube would probably happily do it just to reduce their load as all rightholders would have gotten themselves banned.
The Maxims were Huguenots (French protestants) who fled the persecution of Catholic King Louis XIV. Hiram's great-grandfather Samuel Maxim emigrated to Massachusetts sometime around 1710. The spellings of the surname bounced around a bit, some preferring Maxam, others Muxham, Moxom, and Maxham. I think roughly half of the modern descendants live in Vermont.

Hiram, his brother Hudson, and son Hiram Percy were prolific inventors, mostly in the field of armaments (sadly). Hiram was born in Maine but moved to England and was later knighted.

I am not a direct descendant but am in the (fairly sparse) family tree under Samuel.

More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Maxim
Your heavy use of 2FA is a good practice.

That said, linking SMS often allows for SMS to be used to reset passwords. As sim swapping and phone cloning become more common attacks, the level of protection you gain from having SMS available drops. These attacks essentially let someone else receive your texts or calls. I have at least one friend who has been attacked this way.
Yup. It's guilty-until-proven-innocent, autonomous evil. Scammers get away with bloody murder and hurt actual tiny content creators. YT is more and more turning into a platform for megacorps, not individuals to build from viewer one.
Books I loved in 2018
The Chinese are already conduction all sorts of quantum experiments in space, and from Earth to space and vice versa. On some occasion even in collaboration with nation actors such as Russia. The US is lagging behind so far, the discussed dollars won't undo this.
You are not wrong at all. And the amount of test coverage and documentation on needs depends a lot on the field, the numerical methods, the indended users, the type of the code (simulation vs analysis vs plotting) and so on.

The thing where I seem to have a totally different view from most of HN is that I think that we make valid tradeoffs, and that undocumented function and tests that only cover 40% of the code base is a perfectly fine state of affairs, instead of being caused by scientists that are too stupif for basic software engineering.

What a lot of software people also do not get at all is that variables such as x, v and a might be perfectly descriptive variable names.
On a somewhat unrelated and maybe tangential note, I felt the logo of Torrent Freak reminded me of Techcrunch quite a bit and ran it against the logo database I have and indeed found Techcrunch show up in the results.

http://compute.vision/brands/logo-results.html?hash=CD1POO56...

Edit: Updated Link
No, I don’t think. Was trolling friend. It was transcribed by third party app. The guy mentioned “technology transcribed it”, but he didn’t “record it”.
One last bit that people ignore -- The Clinton Foundation Initiative is a Public Charity (as opposed to a private foundation like the DJT Foundation) managed by a team of professionals subject to regular audits. Everyone one of their financial reports is posted on their website (by law), it would be public knowledge and it would be illegal if the Clintons benefitted financially in any way from the activities of the charity. They didn't. There are reams of pages of IRS guidance around private inurement in 501c groups (aka what was going on at the Trump Family Foundation -- a different type of nonprofit charity).

You can safely ignore anyone who claims that the Clintons took money from anyone if they're claiming that money donated to their charity ends up in their pockets. They don't know what they're talking about.
Essentially correct. You can see way ahead of time where this will happen.

That said - there's a new kind of 'suburban gentrification' which is another thing altogether: middle class people not looking to be so much hip, rather than just live in a decent affordable area near downtown that's not crackburg.
That was around way before the internet, before radio even. The printing press has been used to spread outright works of fiction as reality. To be frank it is more a human nature thing.
A monument on how the housing crisis is the combination of both incompetence and malice. Price controls, discretionary zoning and control of production with affordable housing.

California deserves all its woes and tech should just leave california to stop giving away the value they create as an industry to landlords and city officials. California only has misery in its future.
Open API for car rental
This is a very important point. Your budget of "being careful" might be best spent on better software engineering. But it is also possible that you should rather spend it on other things such as better mathematical model, better input data sets or something else. And a (sub)field prospers most if different groups and researchers spent there (very limited and expensive) time on different things. Trying to shame everybody into following the magic 27 rules of software engineering is a step back, not forward.
If you see this reply soon, you can edit and fix the Amazon link for this book. Your link shows a Page Not Found error. The correct link is https://www.amazon.com/View-Flyover-Country-Dispatches-Forgo... (the last two digits are flipped in your link).
That's only true in a world where everyone has the same preferences. People don't drink Pepsi because they think Coke needs competition, they drink it because they like the taste.
If you have "yeah I guess it works" code, you're likely producing "yeah I guess it's right" science, and that's not really the point it seems.

But yes, you're right. Perfecting things is at cross-purposes with the frenetic pace of research. Crappy untested code gets written under duress. Resist it. That needs to change, just as the whole funding model needs to reward verification more than new discovery... But back to the code, if the code is wrong, the science is likely to be as well.
It will never happen because the people that control the money have enough it to afford the good parts of the state. California and even San Francisco can be very beautiful in very specific areas.

I live in SOMA, it's dirty to say the least. Go into the Mission, there are places that somehow manage to be worse. Then there is the Tenderloin, I do Meals On Wheels and have delivered food to people in a SRO, I suggest you look up what that is to understand why the Tenderloin is as bad as it is.

The NW corner of Sf may as well be a different city.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram
For anyone who loves Dostoyevsky, I’d recommend Alexander Solzhenitsyn too. His writings have a stronger political bent, but his style is firmly in the Russian tradition, with a mastery of the polyphonic voice—the ability to bring life to many perspectives—and explores every aspect of life and humanity. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich—a portrait of a gulag prisoner—is the quickest introduction.
I immediately thought the same thing. But then I thought, not being a subject matter expert doesn't give you an excuse to write bullshit.

I think people who study the arts are less likely to have experience with and understand complex systems and, because of the different structure of knowlege in a subject like journalism, it's easier to be overconfident in one's knowlege. Especially when extended to topics like physics which require mathematics to truly understand.
Who cares, people are primed to consider China as enemy. These BS charges/stories(Bloomberg) are only going to help it.
YT doesn't care because megacorps and a handful of elite creators butter their bread. The only way around this is just like the problem with ad-driven journalism: content and user-experience corrupted by perverse relationships and motivations... corpo bullshit. User-supported journalism works, so must streaming to break free of megacorp bullshit.
Internet stories
One things that has worked well for us, is to give a very explicit invitation to every new code user to question every bit of the code. If something is not obvious, ask why it is there and why it is the way it is. Once the new user understand the code he then adds a comment to the code or explanation in the documentation. After four new users very little code is left where the design considerations is undocumented.
Even the southern towns aren't like their caricatures. Don't feel bad, people in California do the same thing and they don't even have the excuse of language or distance.
Technically, the government determines what qualifies "certified gluten-free", at least in the USA[1]. It probably belongs more in the "when customers care enough to pass a law" section than the "self-regulation" section.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Allergen_Labeling_and_Con...
di·a·lec·tic
/ˌdīəˈlektik/Submit
PHILOSOPHY
noun
noun: dialectics
1.
the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions.

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I really don't understand your use of that word here.
In 2016 YouTube banned me from using their service based on a single claim made against a video which had already been taken down. Within two weeks not only was my account terminated, my original content was deleted without trace. Content deleted included both video I'd uploaded to YouTube as well as 10 years of videos I'd backed-up on Google Photos (then called Picassa). I never did get any of that content back.
How to Measure Anything - Douglas Hubbard

I personally consider this one of the most valuable non-fiction books I've ever read. It would be hard for me to state emphatically enough how strongly I recommend this book and the author's approach. Using calibrated probability assessments, an understanding of nth order effects, and Monte Carlo simulations, is a process that everyone should have in their toolkit.

The stuff on AIE and portfolio management I found less valuable, but all in all it's a great book.
YouTube is a perfect example of a platform that has somehow managed to serve as host to an incredible ecosystem of content creators despite the management having little real concept of the value of the system and consistently treating its most important creators poorly. They would kill the goose that laid the golden egg just to make things marginally easier for advertisers or to save themselves the trouble of having to do real work.

Not only that, but they do a very poor job of contending with what can only euphemistically be called "the wide diversity of content" on the site. Dumb as rocks machine learning based recommendations and content filtering means that for a vast majority of users (including minors and children) it's common to watch perfectly ordinary videos and then be recommended all sorts of ridiculous videos to watch next, from flat Earth and ancient aliens conspiracies to misogynists to holocaust deniers and actual nazis.

To call YouTube a "mess" is a vast understatement. Much like twitter they have captured the attention and engagement of enormous numbers of people, and yet somehow they cannot figure out how to prevent the platform from becoming a toxic hell hole (because they refuse to do the work), they treat their users and creators poorly, and somehow they are constantly in a battle to increase revenue. I support about half a dozen different folks who make youtube videos via patreon but I refuse to give youtube money until they get their head out of their ass.
Do you assume that every substance you're unfamiliar with is a poison?

You're going on about a "public health threat" but the only evidence you have for your hysteria is a circumstantial link between nicotine and carcinogens in cigarettes?

What proof do you have that nicotine itself is harmful? The other components to vape juice are safe for consumption. Sure, that doesn't mean they're safe to inhale, but you're talking about 1-3 total substances, which are not known carcinogens, versus what, 100s of carcinogenic compounds in cigs?

You're biased by an emotional association between the words nicotine and cigarettes.
Tessellations by Recognizable Figures
What exactly is a winter/Xmas vacation ?
I'm inclined to agree and the sad part is, journalism is an essential NGO organ of civil society.

The 4th Estate is a very important thing for us all.

Watching Cable News these days is crazy because you can watch journalists, spin, lie and misrepresent ... but at the very same time they are presenting facts that do matter.

Go take a look at 'waybackmacine' and click some links from even 10 years go - the news was not nearly as crazy and clickbaity.

I truly hope that things can settle down a bit maybe in the next political cycle.

Finally - I should say that almost all MSM left and right completely misrepresent middle America. The reality in Cleveland, rural Ohio, Utah, Houston, Alabama ... it's just not anywhere to be found on the news unless something terrible that happens where the press wants to use that piece of information to construct a narrative.

Edit: I should add that there is a very real financial pressure right now for journos - newspapapers are falling apart everywhere, this is a real thing. Individual journos are not natural capitalists. We used to pay for the news we don't now, and we still haven't figured out a model. This is a major factor.
Also, check out andOTP on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.shadowice.flocke.andotp/

Open source and supports backups.
> when Brave launched, they put out a lot of info about stuff they were _going_ to do, and one of those ideas was to replace ads

So it's not exactly a baseless claim. I think between that ad idea, and this donation scam, I would _never_ use Brave nor recommend it to anyone. On top of that, it is blood boiling to watch you sit here and try to defend this scheme as a "UI problem" over and over again.
I have to agree. Pumping out C++ revisions every 3 years means I can no longer assume a game written in C++ will port relatively painlessly from one C++-compatible platform to another, as it all depends on which C++ standard is supported by the platform SDK/toolset I'm forced to use.
I have difficulty seeing what this would add. As a Java developer, I know what "List" is, just like I know what "ArrayList" is. If someone instantiated new better.ArrayList(), I immediately have to check what the hell is the import (go to the top of the class, uncollapse the import statements, and see what is "better").

As with all code readability, I assume to write and use import aliases, that's very easy. The person who's gonna read it after you, they've got a problem. And that's why I'd personally be strongly against this in my code review.
High resolution photo that people's faces are visible from kilometers away
I think that's what the parent is saying - "up to 750k".
Indeed. Compare and contrast with "sorry again for something new this week" Facebook. "We let everyone and their uncle access all your private data, my B dog." "Oh no, guess we helped cause a genocide, oopsie doodle."
Do you have any sources for these statements?
I agree, the Quora explanation is pretty good.

TLDR; the evidence that Jesus was a real person is very strong, and stronger than many other historical figures (the article mentions Hannibal), whose existence is not considered controversial.

As a religious figure Jesus is inherently controversial, which is what probably attracts the skepticism and interest in trying to cast doubt on his existence.
Maybe instead there should be a big red "X" or something if they _aren't_ verified
Some financial providers offer a 2FA choice at login that includes email. The 2FA email can be directed to an account protected by a hardware key.
Agreed with the remark about 'Why We Sleep'. I also suggest "Circadian Code" for some practical remarks (for improving sleep, but overall health too)
In 2018 you don't need to interview anyone.

You just cruise Twitter to find some random poor soul who said something consistent with the narrative you want to construct.

Now you say: "People are saying XYZ"

And deflect the source of the narrative from yourself.
Ten years ago I wouldn't have predicted a device for ~$5 that could host a wireless webserver (e.g. ESP8266). But nowadays it doesn't take much of a stretch to imagine that very powerful and cheap general purpose ML devices - kinda like Marshall envisioned in manna - are going to flourish in the next 2-3 years.
In Defence of Hate
you and many, many other venture capitalists
Where is the funding going to come from?! As a non-American, I get worried by all this funding when America is in serious debt. :(
Bryan Cranston: A Life in Parts. It shows Bryan's life, struggles and pleasures - everything that prepared him to play Walter White in Breaking Bad. That's the only Autobiography I ever read, but once I picked up the pace I couldn't put it down.
Highly recommended!
Still No API, right? So no care.
> had a large parent company with a significant portion of a trillion dollars

You are describing Alphabet.
I agree, the bizarre fascination with a very small demographic (Coal miners/truck drivers/diner patrons are still with Trump!) strikes me as simultaneously condescending to rural Americans while also missing the real story, especially considering 40 congressional seats flipped this year in "Whole Foods" territory.
I think you missed the point. Alex Honnold didn't woke up one day morning and decided to climb El Cap in the afternoon. He has been preparing for the climb for almost 7 years. He memorized each and every step he would make during the climb. He even abandoned his first solo attempt because the conditions didn't seem to be right. It was never a do or die situation. He wore the same set of clothes throughout the practice sessions and the climb. Everything was done to minimize the risk. For me Alex Honnold's solo is an example of what a Human can achieve with the right amount of practice and preparation.
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https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610106/chinese-satellite-...
It would be wonderful if every single takedown request required a phone call. And let these copyright claimers be put on hold for 40 minutes like they’re trying to reach the cable company.

It sure as hell shouldn’t be automatic or point-and-click, and it sure as hell shouldn’t be this guilty-until-proven-innocent system.
That was not my experience on google and github.
I read this too. It was an enjoyable read. You can safely ignore any commentary or review you read about this book since I have not found a single one yet that isn't incredibly biased. About half of reviews I've read seem to be written by people who didn't read the book at all, let alone skimmed it.
It’s very interesting and unfortunate that our universities taken a lot of money from awful regimes. There’s been a lot of talk about universities heavily depending on international students because they pay exorbitant tuition. I’m not sure what the solution to this is.
Hold the Fries How Calorie Content Makes You Rethink Food Choices
Vue.js Intro – The Progressive JavaScript Framework – FrontNet
Iran Denies It Fired Missiles at US Flotilla in Persian Gulf
How does the real thing happen?
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While we are talking about jesus, i'm wondering why so many pedophiles are in church.
A few billion is literally nothing compared to our overall balance sheet. If you’re worried about American debt, you need to look at the pentagon and social security, not our research efforts.
If you don't take some money out, everyone on your team will be worse off. They need you to lead to company and make their equity worthwhile - they don't want you worrying about rent/mortgage/school/whatever, and they especially don't want you to sell the company too soon because you don't have any money.
While I won't subscribe to PewDiePie because I'm just not interested in that kind of content... I disagree with very, very little of this piece.

Sad state of affairs.
Assuming everything is made up seems sensible.

But your assertion “journalism is an entirely dead art” is far too broad to possibly be true.

Surely there are some people doing proper journalism. I don’t see how you could stand by your claim.
Most guides are at least 200 pages long. 40 pages is not long in comparison
Reddit's ads are the content. Most picture posts are ads of some sort, and comments are full of very apparent astroturfing.

Reddit also has the gilding system for making extra cash for when ads aren't enough.
Magic does not change the world? I find that difficult to understand. Using obscure incantations to affect the physical world is pretty much mind-blowing, as far as I'm concerned.
I never understood why people are so fascinated by some theories and spend so much time on it.

Bermuda triangle, jesus and loch ness monster don't become more interesting when we decorate those stories with more theories which can't be proven.

I'm always thinking that this might just be the reason why those stories are still around. People just don't stop. they continue to extend it small little piece by piece.