skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Make your algorithms downplay controversial stuff (which is often controversial because it uses dishonest language tailored to sow discord and minimize common ground interpretations).

Controversial stuff is often verifiable truth that is politically inconvenient for some interested party.

> Make your algorithms promote level headed, honest, non-tribal language and verifiable truths

Algorithmically detecting content that is either “honest” or “verifiable truth” is a pair problems go beyond mere hard AI problems.
Nicotine by itself is not really that dangerous, even its negative side-effects on the cardiovascular system are debated and nicotine is addictive but apart from that generally "safe" [0].

Of course, it's better no vape at all than one but between cigarettes and e-cigarettes I'm glad, as an ex-smoker, that the latter exists as an alternative.

I've quit cigarettes for 6+ years now, completely cold turkey from a pack a day and it would've been much better if at the time I had the option of an e-cig, the damage compared with normal cigarettes is severely reduced and much easier than doing what I did.

[0] https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-withou...
This is probably a DNS issue, that I noticed some time ago - using some DNS servers, the qosf.org resolves to wrong IP (which we don't have in our zone at all). If somebody has an idea where this might be coming from, I would be very interested in hearing that.

The correct IP to, i.e. put into /etc/hosts as an workaround is: 169.55.161.194

EDIT: Actually, I might have fixed it. Let me know if you still can't access the website.
> I think we need a new push for de-centralization.

I believe that it will eventually happen and that this moment is prime for a decentralization push. The internet is still a bit too young to call out trends, but I'd be surprised if 50 years from now we don't notice a cyclical nature that straddles the line between centralization and decentralization when it comes to the internet.

The early web started as decentralized, but to increase the rate of adoption, drive standards, and break into the mainstream it probably needed centralization in the form of Yahoo, Google, Windows, Facebook, Apple, etc. Sometimes centralization is the best way to work out the kinks in a new system and drive quality, now that the internet has reached a certain maturity we no longer require online platforms to "hold our hands" so to speak and drive the way we interact online -- everyone knows the rules and the boundaries.

The big question for me is what does decentralization look like? There are a lot of ideas but to be honest in my opinion none of them are good (Bitcoin, federated social networks, etc.). We're still working out the model, but I think in due time we will get there. When the internet reaches its next big milestone, I think centralization will come roaring back.
I live in a rural area and I go to "my" Dollar General so much I know all the people who work there.

I'm not going to the Dolla G to do grocery shopping. I'm going there to get stuff like glue sticks, tooth paste, paper, tape, etc I need in a pinch. The only groceries I'm buying at the DG are eggs in an emergency and beer. Every once in a while I'll get a frozen pizza if I'm exhausted and don't feel like cooking because the closest fast food is 15 more minutes away. I'm sure it's the same for most people who shop for groceries weekly.

This whole argument doesn't make any sense to me and completely misunderstands the role DGs play in rural communities: saving you an hour round trip to Walmart if you just need a fucking bottle of shampoo.
There is really a philosophical contradiction on many demands put on Facebook and the social media companies. There are many in western governments and media who want the social media companies to engage in "repressive tolerance" at home far beyond preventing physical violence while ensuring space for dissent in authoritarian nations. If western media and governments want social media companies to be more principled in dealing with more authoritarian governments then they themselves need to be more principled about speech in western societies.
> the point of the standard library is not to give you a
> bunch of abstract containers that "just work", but rather
> to give you many highly-optimized implementations of
> specific data structures to choose from.

Are you talking about C++ or high level languages in general?

Either way you can come at this from multiple directions. For instance I like the way Josh Bloch designed the collection classes of Java, where you have some key types (given as interfaces) and multiple implementations as well as adapters. The focus is on the semantics and not really the implementation. For the most part you try to write code so it can take advantage of as many implementations of the same type as possible.

Rather than focus on implementation detail I think a standard library has two jobs: the first is to serve as an example of idiomatic language use. The second is to make the language useful - meaning that it should be possible to do practical things with only the standard library. Today such a practical thing might be to perform an HTTP request without having to go on an easter egg hunt.

I think one reason Go is becoming so popular is that it isn't obsessed with "purity". Remember Scheme? Remember how useless it was out of the box? It couldn't actually do anything.
But with fewer people subject to them! There's always been echo chambers of extremists out there, but they aren't big enough to swing elections in most democracies.
"Unavailability of Electronic Search Services (e-Search Services) under the Integrated Companies Registry Information System (ICRIS)

Due to technical problems, electronic search services under ICRIS has been temporarily suspended. Urgent action is being taken to investigate and recover the system. We apologize for any inconvenience caused"

Looks like they took the system down after seeing this. Also, they're using lang=zh instead of lang=zh-hk or zh-hant... that font though :(
What app did you find for Pharo?

What attracts me most about red-lang is its cross-platform GUI story (I know that the iOS back-end is not implemented yet). You can do so much with so little code. It looks like a great platform for this. The syntax also helps.
Facebook's slogan, "Bringing the world closer together", reminds me of cigarette companies purporting health benefits.
The video is really impressive. It looks like there are a lot of new real time features that I have to try. I wonder if there is the possibility to code our own real time shaders in glsl/osl for the viewport.
The food industry did it with obesity by suggesting exercise is the solution to being overweight. It does seem to be a successful strategy.
Then the real question is why such a seemingly negative statement is favorable to the CPC.

If we rehearse these lines as Westerners, are we repeating a piece of propaganda? I think so.

My feeling is that the important narrative for the CPC is, “Everyone has it bad.” It keeps people from questioning why senior Party members have it so good and how.
Linux doesn't have a stable driver interface. There's no way to write a driver that works on a few different versions of Linux. The way you are "supposed" to do it according to the kernel developers is to open source your driver code and convince the kernel developers to merge it into the kernel itself.

Yes this is a stupid design. They do it because it means they don't have to worry about backwards compatibility or API stability at all, which is a nice thing to not have to worry about. But it comes at the cost of bad hardware support in Linux (and difficult-to-update Android phones).
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I don't really understand comments like this on HN. I've derived a lot of value through the years from thoughtful questions asked to dig further into an article but I've never understood why somebody would assert "I don't even know what X is." Search engines exist, yes?
He's talking about something different, you can actually change the force required for a basic click.
I agree! I'm so impressed they could defeat the spectre of OSS UX (at least for me). Blender is now an app I am excited to open up and play with (even before 2.8, I thought they had made some great improvements).

Gimp and Inkscape still give me a little bit of dread whenever they start. They're functional and work well - but they aren't a joy to use. I hope the Blender-vibes start rubbing off.

Seriously, I know it's (really really) hard and I don't know how Blender managed to pull it off, but hats-off to them!
> Facebook critics generally want more centralization so that people are exposed to opposing viewpoints and a uniform sensibility on what is and isn't true.

No. Facebook critics want centralization so that people exposed to viewpoints within the narrow, mainstream window of acceptable opinion and completely isolated from anything outside that window.
However, the cheapest dwellings (yet still nice and desirable) in the cities, the condos, are actually cheaper than the cheapest SFHs in the most of the suburbs.
Its the opposite of the described above. Constitution is a set of regulations on governments power, to make sure that its not too powerful, but what you said is just like government is not strong enough or isn't enforcing it's rule strongly enough. See the difference?
FWIW my nvidia laptop also became a heater running Ubuntu (which Pop!_OS is based on) but has been running like a cool dream since I installed Manjaro (Xfce, out-of-the-box non-free driver setup).
> the underlying incorrect assumption is that everyone will do the right thing, if only nicely and logically talked to. This is not true and obvious to anyone with experience managing large amounts of people, especially so when firing is not an easy option.

I've yet to see abusive management tactics work in the long term. It might work in the short term, but people with the means will take it as a signal to jump ship because no adult is going to accept abuse if they don't have to.

I've heard your exact sentiment echoed by people who aspire towards management, and it always comes across as a weird power trip fantasy.
Hi! Maybe this is a misunderstanding due to FOSDEM lingo - call for participation is not an registration/invite, it is the equivalent of call for papers (that is, talk submissions).

FOSDEM [1] is open to all (there is no registration or fees) - and several thousands of people come every year.

[1] https://fosdem.org/2019/
notabug.io looks like an awful community, but it does seem to work.
If you already know what you want to do during your Phd, definitely go to the UK. You will be done in 3 years, and the quality of universities is world-class.

Everyone is talking about Oxford and Cambridge, but the best rated Computer Science department in the UK is actually in St Andrews[1], the third oldest university in the English-speaking world.

It's more focused on software engineering than theoretical mathematics, though.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2018/ma...
They're not the same, but 2.80 is the first release in the 2.8 series, so this is the release of both the specific 2.80 version and the 2.8 series. Next will be 2.81, etc.

(Except it's not, because it hasn't been released yet. Still in beta.)
Facebook can also spread anti-authoritarianism.

There is a catch!

Authoritarians are currently, and successfully, exploiting economic grievances. This is true in many neoliberal nations.

Middle classes are shriking. Incomes relative to labor and cost of laborers (what they need to exist, show up for work, feed families) are increasingly inadequate. This makes people desperate.

They do not want more of the same, and may turn to facists who make promises they do not intend to keep.

Those of us who speak against authoritarians on a social basis are on the right side of history. The long arc of social progress favors anti-authroitarians.

Our struggle today is more economic. While current neoliberal policy is rapidly improving poverty in some of the most needy regions, one cost is a lack of progress and some regression in more developed regions, the US, EU and friends being case in point.

To clear majorities in these developed regions, they see a long arc of econoomic decline. That is challenging confidence, resulting in more volitile elections.

An improved economic strategy is needed to bolster already solid social progress strategy. The lack of it puts social progress at ever increasing risk.
The "As a child of two union parents ..." argument in relation to unionization is the equivalent of the "As a mom of two children ..." argument in relation to child psychology. I also have two parents who are members of a union but that doesn't make me an expert!
They have money to pay developers, which differentiates them from the vast majority of OSS projects. Obviously that's not all there is to it, but I'm sure it makes a huge difference.
In the general case, yes. In this case, however, I'm responding to the claim that, "nicotine in isolation is really no more harmful than caffeine." (Emphasis added.)

Two orders of magnitude greater lethality by dose comports with no definition of "no more harmful" which I can conceive.
Start with your step after you get your PhD and make your way back. If it's for the industry, I would stick with the US. which companies are you targeting? (Google, Microsoft,....) they probably have a preference. Usually it's only companies with R&D that would higher PhDs.
If it's academia, it's also important to pick a top tier school. Schools usually hire from the same tier or higher. pay close attention to this on....
Overall if you're looking for employment in the US, stick with the US. Americans we don't know much about the rest of world's universities.
> That certainly sounds to me like the program compensates more than just victims of adverse reactions.

All of those examples are for things caused by the vaccine itself though. They're not including things like, say, people who got HIV due to medical staff reusing needles while giving vaccinations.
[I believe] the 24 hour change is legally mandated for all the airlines.

https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/all-major-u-s-ai...
Yes, the rare case where you can sort version number strings alphabetically, not numerically (split on .)

And a max of 10 minor versions per major version (2.70-2.79)
The modernization of PCIe hotplug in Linux
I have not done 3d stuff extensively for years now...

The current iteration of Blender looks amazing. How does it compare to commercial 3D tools from Autodesk?
I wonder if I'm the only one who's extremely reluctant to change default key bindings?

I find it very off putting that suddenly all existing tutorials and manuals might become bogus.

Pretty much the only tool where I have custom bindings is Vim.
Does anyone know how to access the ~Friston & Solms article cited here? i cannot find a DOI and i have not been able to break through with https://sci-hub.tw

~Friston & Solms

How and Why Consciousness Arises: Some Considerations from Physics and Physiology. Mark Solms and Karl Friston in Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 25, Nos. 5–6, pages 202–238; May/June 2018.

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/2018/00000025...
It's a trend that seems to have started on Buzzfeed, and I've been seeing more and more blogs adopt this style over the past couple of years.

I'm personally not a fan, as I feel it takes away from the content of the post, but I'd be curious to see how it impacts the readership metrics.
Many comments focus on the duration, but this is not really the criterian. I would even extend my study until I secure the job I want. I did my PhD in the US, quit the industry after 20 years of working in the industry & switched to the academia.
You may want to re-read the definition of Turing equivalence. You should find it in any good CS/EE book.

You could bake a JS interpreter in silico. There are actual hardawre implementations of the JVM. You can also run machine language in emulators.

CPUs are just hardware interpreters for their respective machine language.
From the Truffle readme:

> TruffleRuby is progressing fast but is currently probably not ready for you to try running your full Ruby application on. However it is ready for experimentation and curious end-users to try on their gems and smaller applications.

> TruffleRuby runs Rails, and passes the majority of the Rails test suite. But it is missing support for Nokogiri and ActiveRecord database drivers which makes it not practical to run real Rails applications at the moment.

Emphasis mine, but that puts it firmly in the "fun toy" category rather than a viable technology for anything mission critical.
Because they are not the same version number. See https://www.blender.org/download/releases/. There does not look to be a 2.8 based on your description because it would have been called 2.08.
I'v tried it in the past because of Hammer storage (please do not call it fs), hw support at that time was far from good and desktop usability is reasonably low (though not much lower than {Open,Net}BSD) but without counting cluster's hammer by itself it's simply the storage we desperately need.

Think of a zfs log-structured instead of offer only snapshots. This means a complete protection against any accidental delete/overwrite since any write on disk create a new "checkpoint" and with proper file manager integration this means you can "browse history" of your's files and trees like they came from a VCS software.
I certainly hope you do sell more than one! They're awesome looking and offer an original way of reading time - best of luck.
Crystal is nice, but my love affair with Swift is going strong. Not exactly Ruby syntax but pretty similar in terms of simplicity. I am a Rubyist who feels right at home with Swift. But for the new year, I definitely want to give Crystal a fair shot!
I love Blender, coming from other "industry" tools like 3ds max, Blender has all the features I want for amature 3d work.

I think my favorite thing about Blender (I still love it) is the objectively god awful user interface. It's a good learning opportunity to show what happens when a community designs a GUI (hint: never ever let it happen). Almost every single possible GUI design decision is wrong or backwards. I'm excited to try this new interface to see what terrible UI gems lie in wait for discovery. It's weird and exciting that Blender is so useful and feature filled and yet so poorly visually designed.
Incredibly underrated comment.
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If the first thing you have to do to a software is customize it, you’ve already lost on usability. How many thousands of potential users simply created a cube and tried to click it, realize that on top of the already overwhelming UI you don’t even know how to click something in this software, then just exit and take to the internet to echo that Blender is unusable.
This doesn't and I think most grid solutions keep the items separate
Surely the “neuroscience inspired ML” that op mentions is much closer to “theoretical mathematics” than “software engineering”?
I’m okay with it. It wasn’t excessive, like some blogs tend to become with these
He's talking about 24 hours before the flight takes place. The 24 hr rule for purchases is us law.
Street names in Hong Kong don't have to match up either, e.g. 青山道 vs Castle Peak Road. (Maybe there's an obscure or obscure-to-me source that makes this one make sense, though.)
Network time protocol

Obscure but critical way servers set their accurate time, but maintained by even more obscure people with limited recognition and reward.
I detested the writing style.
His argument is likely that you shouldn't have to when a simple explanation could fit into the article.
Largest Known Prime Number Has Almost 25M Digits
What RTC drifts so much in a week (or even a year) as to throw off lighting or HVAC controls timing?
I wish they wouldn't advertise basic economy tickets. They're a terrible value.
Yes, but a new user will not be aware and that is quite the turnoff for many (myself included). Even with that fix blender is plenty different to what most new users will be used to.

That said I'm completely blown away by the quality of blender. It is among the most well polished applications I've ever had the fortune of using. And an open source software at that, and multi-platform at that.

Truly amazing.
You could say the same of Gimp, to a lesser degree.

It’s interesting that features can probably be coded by committee and volunteers (as both programs are featured packed) but UI seems to require a unified vision.
Yes. It's telling that the biggest critics of Facebook in particular are the mainstream media, who find their monopoly on public discourse being threatened.
Could you elaborate? Aren't those ToS/Privacy Policy displays there in order to satisfy GDPR requirements? I thought the idea was that you could either agree to accept them and continue or decline. I don't claim to be that well-versed in GDPR law however but genuinely curious.
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Biggest use cases for me has been events and groups.

1. Events: Facebook's provides a streamlined experience for hosting events and all my friends use it for birthday parties, house warming and so on.

2. Groups: Facebook's group experience is quite good and I am a part of 4 groups of like minded people that I get to have conversations with quite frequently.
I never used Blender, but I always thought that its interface was the "vi" of 3d design tools: not easy to learn yet very powerful. But perhaps I was wrong about that.
But it's not an "article". It's a blog post. An informal post, written informally, for an obviously technical audience.

I very, very rarely explain what "AWS" is when I'm casually writing about cloud stuff. It's table stakes. You should know, or you aren't gonna appreciate reading it anyway.
As long as customers are shopping on basic price, [un]bundles like Basic Economy tickets will be a thing.

For some people, they're exactly what is needed.
Changing your flight within 24 hours of purchasing it is different than changing to a flight within 24 hours of the original.

The latter doesn't need to happen within 24 hours of purchase.
In the last month or so I'm pretty sure I lost a handful of recent bookmarks. I am in a bit of a pickle, since I have to decide whether to renew in about 3 weeks; at the moment, it's hard to justify the money. It's a shame, I liked everything he was trying to (not) do, but it looks like the last election cycle broke him or something.
Basic economy is a sign that end airlines are raising process in a drastic way, and not increasing the value with it.
United's Mileage Plus program is pretty iffy for getting tickets for domestic or international, but one great thing about it is the ability to use miles for goods, gift cards, etc. I've cashed in expiring or insufficient miles more times than I can count for all kinds of useful kitchen items, power tools, and once a pretty nice watch (Citizen Eco-drive). I've found other U.S. airlines are better on reward travel but not as good on other uses ... unless you really like magazine subscriptions.
Washington Post: The most bizarre political moments of 2018
Yeah. The add-on API docs for the beta are a little inaccurate at the moment. For now, developing new extensions is experts only.

I'm not familiar enough with the API, so I switched back to 2.79. I didn't want to go back, because the human interface is vastly improved... So, I'm really looking forward to the 2.80 release.
Damn, cold-bloodedly nice Linus is terrifying.
A shorter and more concise article https://www.dawn.com/news/1453299
The article doesn’t seem to be making as much a point about Facebook policing content but rather protecting individuals who are being jailed, beaten, or killed by their own governments for things that they post.