skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The polity was fractured like this before TV and radio.

But it wasn't felt.

Before TV and radio, the main method of communication was print and conversation, so that a random person picked out of a population might come in contact with only a few political or cultural opinions in a given day. This continued into the age of TV and radio because only a few such opinions were permitted by those controlling the broadcasts.

Now that people might easily come into conflict culturally or politically hundreds of times a day, the real diversity of opinion across a large population is apparent to a given member of that population, in a way that it wasn't before, even if we assume that the differences were really there.

That constant conflict is a few clicks away at any moment leads many people to internalize that they are constantly fighting for their ability to hold their political beliefs and perform their culture, and/or to shut out most large differences to the extent they can, while conforming themselves to minor differences.

The only people who experienced this kind of constant churn in the past were travelers, and mostly only while traveling. We are all travelers now.
Which is actually part of the problem. Hollywood is in is in own massive filter bubble, and what Hollywood portrays about America is what the world believes... whereas most Americans look at Hollywood/Los Angeles with the same confused bemusement.
It is an old book, but i would recommend "the inner game of tennis" to anyone making a living of competitive competition in any field.
You don't have to live in the city to work for the city.
I'm sure the two of them are enjoying having their faces plastered over the sunday news (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs/the_papers) and sorting through all the lovely messages they've received over the last day or so.
Interesting thing is that antidepressant use rised despite antidepressant being mostly ineffective and their underlying principle of action being flawed.

This raises the question of why antidepressant use rised this way. Could it be that heavily medicated people are easier to manage and keep under control to prevent them from rebelling against the lives they're forced into by the societal system ? Could it be related to huge profits from pharmaceutical corporations ?

Then again Facebook and the computer as a machine middleman in human interaction is destroying social interaction and society fabric by replacing actual meaningful interaction that builds human ability to be human. Not the single cause but a recent and efficient accelerator of a trend that push us further apart from each other.

I recommend watching the following BBC documentaries by Adam Curtis:

The Century of the Self[1]
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom[2]
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace[3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_(TV_series)
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_(TV_series)
Psono's new features in 2018
I agree with almost everything you wrote but...

it's easy for me to see almost no connection between viewing violence and people commiting violent behavior. It's much easier for me to see a connection between sexy media and sexual behavior with consequences like teen pregnancy and STDs.

I watch a violent movie yet I don't want to commit violent acts after. I watch a sexy movie and I do start to desire to have sex.

it seems therefore reasonable to argue that violent media has no consequences but sexy media does.

No idea in reality if sexy media has real world consequences.
Yes you can: eggs and wheels.
The Xiaomi Mi 8 is a relatively inexpensive flagship-grade device with L5/E5a capability.
I think people are saying that the algorithm isn't cool enough for its name.

Bubbles aren't cool, so bubble sort must be rightly chided. /s

Quantum physics? Now that's cool, regardless of how much one knows about it.

I don't think the reason gets much deeper than that, barring any disagreements that it is just plain misleading.

I guess you could argue to some degree that a name should be usefully informative to an outsider or newbie. But that doesn't really apply to things that have already established their cool factor, like 'deep learning', 'crypto', 'agile', 'serverless', etc..
If I was the parent of a teenager I would pay good to have this.
Please do say what offensive 'facts' are universities afraid to teach. As someone working in academia, I'm curious to know what ultra-subversive stuff I've been missing all along, and surely a HN commenter in a thread about a Quillette article can tell me.
Ask HN: What do you plan to learn in 2019?
In my view the perspective of the author is needlessly antagonistic. China is only demanding inclusion of their own Beidou system, with no mention of banning other systems. As others here have pointed out: That Beidou receivers could be banned in the U.S. seems to be baseless speculation on part of the author.

The good news: There will be four competing global positioning systems available to consumers. They're motivated to operate their systems out of strategic military and economic reasons.

To call this a war is uncalled for. It's an arms-race with civilian benefits. It would be a war if they jammed or destroyed each other's satellites.
That paywall just led to me blacklisting the entire economist.com domain at extension level.

Too bad.

Don't do paywalls like that please.
The article implies that if cities could unilaterally annex twrritory they would and that presumanly would result in nicer city shapes (boundaries) as well as more importantly better and cheaper services due to elimination of redundancies. Interestingly the article claims both rich and poor people are reluctant to give up their enclaves/ independence due to power, momey, and other aspects such as education.
But you also understand their motivation, right? They don't want any boycott campaigns and protests from the loud minority, both inside the company and outside of it.
the only way i got out was to

> killall firefox

that's pretty impressive
There are two major points to clarify this characterisation:

· Existing algorithms are not proven to be secure, even classically. Quantum encryption provides an additional level of safety, but against unknown and unexpected attacks.

· Practical quantum computers are very speculative, much more so than nuclear fusion or AI. They might not be built in the next million years.
The reason, it seems, is that a lot of people come there to work, but live elsewhere: ‘Founded in 1905 as the first exclusively industrial city in the Southwestern United States, Vernon currently houses more than 1,800 businesses that employ approximately 50,000 people, serving as a vital economic engine in the region.’ (http://www.cityofvernon.org/about-vernon)
Can't read the article because the economist Saya I've read my free monthly limit.

If the article is about governmental districts, it's because Americans are predisposed to having lots of small localized governments.

Don't like what the guys 5 miles over are doing? Incorporate a township and run your own government.
I've taken to tweeting every time my plugin-release videos are hit by a ContentID troll: https://twitter.com/applejinx/status/1070249318609752064

I'm using Logic's Test Oscillator to generate white noise, which goes through my plugins to demonstrate how they react, and gets shown on a frequency analyzer.

Some bright spark (over the years it has been more than one 'publisher') has ContentIDed noise… different sorts of noise… in order to stealth copyright strike people's videos and get revenue. If you file a complaint they quickly remove the claim so they're not noticed. Your only form for filing the complaint involves making a statement that you think they're doing it by mistake, and acknowledging that you know YouTube has nothing to do with it and won't do a thing about it.

So this becomes an exercise I do over and over and over again.

Or I suppose I could never use a test oscillator or noise source again, because somebody owns the idea of audio noise now. They've got a bunch of different EQings of noise, so demonstrating a filter is no refuge. Since once upon a time it was a different claimant, I think that from time to time someone gets YouTube to kick them out of ContentID: I've been told of some magic URL to go to where you can complain against this sort of abuse, but I don't remember what it was and don't know if it's helpful or actually dangerous for a creator to make use of such tools. I do know that it doesn't help because the Noise Owners come back under different names and keep operating.

I've been dealing with this for YEARS.
Massively agree! This is why I started blogging myself - as a way to compound my learning but then I realised I was also using it as a form of documentation (https://www.jvt.me/posts/2017/06/25/blogumentation/). I now tag all my articles under the term `blogumentation` as they're all about blogging as a form of documentation.

The great thing about doing it is that I can see loads of pageviews coming from search engines for things I blog about. And given I'm writing things like howtos or resolving things that I've been bugged by and can't find any docs about, I'm glad to see others are also seeing the same issues.

I however blog for myself (and sometimes my colleagues) to look back at the post and see how to accomplish something. This means I know I have at least one person in the audience that I care about, and everyone else who reads it is just extra. I find that looking at it in a selfish way is quite good, because I write about what I am currently doing / feel needs to be documented, rather than "what's the next big thing" or trying to fight for attention.
It's the only site on the I internet that tells me I've read all of my free monthly articles every time I link to it.
Fantastic point on thanking people. It’s a very underestimated idea but, when done authentically, can have a massive impact.
To be honest, this market correction has been a long time coming. The index PE ratio had been in the 20-25 range. This translates to a paltry earnings yield of 4-5%. Far below its historical range.

Investors had been ignoring this fact because bond yields are so low, and they figured increases in the PE ratio will make up for the paltry yields. But that's clearly not sustainable in the long run. At some point this bubble was bound to burst, which is exactly what happened.

Today, the PE ratio is closer to 15, similar to its historical value. In overseas markets, the PE ratio is even lower than that. We may still see some further drops due to investors fears, but short of Trump kicking off a full blown global trade war, I doubt we'll see anything like a 2000/2008 meltdown.
So a bunch of videos about that will be uploaded on YouTube in the next hour.
1) Node + react + redux + jest (+ maybe react native)

2) Serverless (maybe via JSF Architect) + DynamoDB

3) AWS. I've been running all my stuff on cheap VPSes, never considered AWS for financial reasons, but too many employers need it.
dogwood, Texas!

I think that's the only one I (think I) know.
Hedging is not free, and not risk free. See 2008.

Closer to home, one of my investments did quite a bit of hedging against risks last year, for threats that in the end failed to materialise, and due in large part to this underperformed significantly.
You should upload some of those videos to https://archive.org
It does make more of a difference than you think, though as you say it's nowhere near as marked as America.

My city, Nottingham, likes volunteering to trial things. So we were the first or one of the first cities to have average speed cameras years ago, we also introduced a workspace parking levy. The former has gone nationwide, but the latter hasn't been adopted anywhere else.

The planners in Nottingham also love traffic lights and are utterly shit at roundabouts. It's a frustrating city to drive in, but has great, regular, buses and now trams.

That's very different to other areas, like Colchester where I lived before had loads of roundabouts and tended to phase out traffic light junctions for roundabouts. But it used to have fairly rubbish buses to the nearby towns.
The dangers of vaping are unknown, however the fear is that once hooked on Nicotine users may switch to cigarettes.
> C++ is extremely widely used.

C++ is not memory safe - which is one reason why e.g. Java and C# are even more "extremely widely used" than C++. Rust is memory safe, and has C++ -like performance (and arguably better than C++, with e.g. its restriction of pointer aliasing and its high-level support for things like simple parallel programming).
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For me, his writing helped me understand human nature better such that I see people less as slowly clawing their way up a mountain towards being a better person and instead to view people more like a Jekyll and Hyde struggling between two extremes of good and evil.

I'm off to celebrate Christmas with family but I don't think you can be honest with yourself about who you are unless you appreciate the depths of human depravity, with that understanding you can build a truer foundation for your personal convictions about life.
It’s not an uncommon fallacy to think that people only commit crimes because of poverty, desperation, or oppression, and that solving these problems is sufficient to stop crime. It’s also not an uncommon fallacy to think some sufficiently liberalized, rehabilitative form of incarceration would actually work for 95% of criminals. The fact that some people are just awful and need to be quarantined from society is uncomfortable, taboo, or alien to a lot of people.

Maybe this comes across to you as a straw man argument because you don’t live somewhere completely insane where there is political opposition to building jails and police stations in the first place because of wacky leftist ideology. Sometimes I envy people who assume I’m arguing with a straw man.
Does it matter? How quantities of any kind of sugar (whether it be in the form of carbs or fructose) are really bad for you.
Who is we? I am not paying anything AFAIK. When my girlfriend had problems, she simply stopped using it that much. I myself simply don't subscribe to pseudomotivational bullshit or internet "personalities".
The best health wearables of 2018
It seems to me that mental health cannot be outsourced the same way that other services can be. Additionally, we probably individualize mental health treatment more than we should, neglecting what I would term mental ecology - how one survives/thrives/writhes in their environment.
With the way it introduces Elliot Carter, then goes back to the original topic, the article is structured like the thing it's describing. Very interesting and fun to read.
It's automated ContentID flagging, right? Classical music is a problem because different (copyrighted) performances have very similar music fingerprints. If you tune the music fingerprinting to distinguish between different performances of the same piece by Chopin, you will probably get false negatives if someone uploads a video with a Taylor Swift song that has some background noise added or slightly sped up or slowed down.

False negatives are a problem, because big content rights holders get upset. False positives rarely matter.

Not to ignore cases of manual copyright flagging abuse, but that's usually done for vindictive or careless reasons; there shouldn't be any reason for anyone to flag a video of someone performing an old classical piece.
Try Sound Hound! I've been using it for several years, and it does identify hums and badly song music I have in my head.
Right but that's comparing a city in the north to a city miles away in the south. We're talking about the immediate boundary between outside a city and inside a city, aren't we?

My local city is Chester, and I couldn't even tell you where the limit of Chester is now - I presume it's no longer the old Roman walls. When you cross that boundary wherever it is, nothing changes. It's still the same local government authority, still the same police force.
Selling novelty flavors that only children would be interested in could be construed as intentionally targeting teens.
Are there in fact forced delays? Couldn't be sure it it was my connection or js bloat.
To split hairs, the bug is in MacOS - its fsync() does not flush data to stable storage. Go 1.12 includes a workaround for this MacOS bug.
Ask HN: Favorite movies of 2018?
Any movie you would like to recommend worth watching during holiday.
> it's easy for me to see almost no connection between viewing violence and people commiting violent behavior.

You've been tangoed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV8zGNe7Ebg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Man_(advertisement)

> The advertisement features an orange man slapping a Tango drinker across the cheeks, a wacky metaphor for tasting Tango, and was intended as a reaction against the norm of "cause and effect" television advertising at the time was largely focused on scenarios where peoples lives were improved by the product being advertised. Orange Man caused controversy after reports of injuries when children began copying the events of the advertisement in school playgrounds, and was subsequently banned, with two other versions of Orange Man replacing it, both showing different scenarios aside from slapping.
The fact that quillette takes this clown of Ben "Okay, that is epic" Shapiro seriouslt _is_ the problem here.
Also, Drew Gooden this November was not at all the first to copyright strike themselves: I've done that as well, uploading an old CD of my own music which, it turned out, I'd also distributed through CDBaby.

I don't remember ever telling CDBaby to attack people on YouTube over my work, much less myself, and I wasn't able to get a satisfactory answer about whether I could withdraw from their automatic listing with ContentID, so I ended up removing the album from CDBaby entirely.

I'm sure others have had that experience with CDBaby. Probably some find it valuable: as an individual I can't put stuff into ContentID, so it's one obvious way to jump to the 'abuser' side of the equation. I'm not clear on how you'd tell YouTube that you've licensed your music to somebody and to let their channel/etc play your content, and without that there's no commercial use to the system.

Well, except for copyright striking stuff that's not yours and seizing tiny crumbs of ad revenue in however many hours or minutes you get before you're noticed. It's generally old videos so I'm sure the real paydirt here is copyright striking stuff that's old and forgotten.

It's still pathetic because stuff like that doesn't get views…
Still needs Python itself.
The Holy See should make an app containing every nude Michelangelo ever painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I'd love to see the headline, "Vatican banned from the Play Store."
I'm not saying it's a competent response. I'm saying it's not a response from puritanical idiots.
Is it possible that the anger you are experiencing is due to a fear that you have no other skills you can rely upon other than programming? Maybe you feel pressured to only express your creativity and intellect through programming. Worth considering. You're probably only a few small adjustments to your goals away from being happier.

P.S.

If you're putting in the time, you're probably getting better - plus, you are likely a good judge of whether or not you have actually wasted time.
Wouldn't in-place decompression for a "self-executable" squashfs require one to disable NX for that binary? That seems like it would be a terrible idea from a security perspective. (Even for pure data, in-place decompression seems like it would heavily interfere with e.g. demand paging of such data into RAM, using the binary itself as backing store. Disk space is so cheap these days - I don't think things like squashfs should be used nowadays unless truly necessary.)
I always wondered how it is possible to be a nation of innovation and still be so idiotically puritanical. Clearly a smart person cannot support this step back into the dark ages of witch hunt.
If you have legitimate reason for using 150MB. Developer laziness is NOT a legitimate reason.
Thanks for this!

Is there a suggested way to get a list of keys based on wildcard? I note that the infamous KEYS command is not listed as supported (and fair enough). Is there a suitable non-Redis backend command that can get this info?
The Internet has at the very least not bettered the conditions for journalism because the advantages it brought are completely drowned out by new mechanism of consumption and its subsequent fights for readers.
Yes it’s a great book, non-fiction but riveting.
Electron for living cells? (An honest attempt to make a joke)
I feel the same way. It is constraint satisfaction with a name that gets people's attention. https://adamsmith.as/papers/wfc_is_constraint_solving_in_the...
Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
What technologies have you invested time in learning that you are going to keep using/experimenting/learning about in the next year?

I'm a professional Android engineer, and as for me: I learned Kotlin and use it at work every day, and so far I like it a lot. I also learned a little bit of iOS development with Swift. I also experimented with Flutter developing non-trivial "Hello world" apps, and I feel that it reduces a lot of friction that a lot of native mobile developers encounter.

What's your favorite tech in 2018?
As someone who holds bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, bitcoin small blocks suck, they regularly hit the limit, and the transactions get stuck, fees go out of control, companies drop them as a method of payment. Lightning Network is a shit show that doesn't work, has horrible UX, and can't possibly scale.

So if I'm going to buy crypto, it will not be Bitcoin, but Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, maybe Stellar and some new generation coins. Some anonymous coins are of interest too.
What Startups Should Never Ask Their Customers
I have a lot of friends that are significantly happier now on antidepressants than they were before. Maybe some are ineffective, I don't know, but when your first sentence completely contradicts experiences of my friends, I have to call bullshit.
Die hard
You should get further than 1/3rd into the book before you comment on the very subject the book addresses.
To repeat my comment from last time this came up: in Firefox, this site is almost entirely neutered (but still a bit annoying) if you turn on the option that forces all popups into tabs rather than new windows. It's especially easy to shut if you open the site in its own window in the first place or use tree style tabs (so you can easily close the tab and all its descendants). I find this behaviour nicer anyway, even for non-malicious popups. I believe there is no such capability in Chrome.

To change the setting: in about:config change browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 0. Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1066799
I'm assuming they're referring to BSD here.

Admittedly jails and pledge(2) seem rather nice to work with compared to Linux's equivalents.
Yeah, you're right, I got confused when interpreting the parent comment. Thanks for pointing it out!

I guess I overlooked it because the other way is so logically trivial, since it basically boils down to A -> B => (A || Nothing) -> B, which is just an or-introduction. So if you wanna implement Maybe generically the "work" lies on the other side.

But since Hickey's argument sort of is that we shouldn't implement Maybe generically, I guess my argument here becomes circular. (Begging the question maybe?)
Most people don’t run Adblock on mobile and probably aren’t getting any better ad rates running native ads vs mobile web.
I was uploading family videos transferred from VHS and one got flagged down because in the background someone had a radio on.
Every third-party Reddit and Facebook app I've tried has seemed as if it was throttled or blocked.