skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>how did we manage to screw this up?

I was a teacher last year and while I can't answer this question fully, I do know that it's a result of perverse incentives and group pressure.

Where I taught at school (a private English school in China) we also had an app that shows parents how their student is doing. They'd see test scores as soon as I uploaded the grades, and I'd get complaints from some of the parents if I was more than a day late in uploading those scores.

In the case of my school, we were competing with other private English schools. If we stopped or had never started using this app, we would get a few parents complaining "why can't I see my son's grade? [school z] does it, so I'm going to switch to their school!" We would lose some parents -- and for our student-retention team, losing too many parents means a pay for cut the following year. They would do anything to keep those parents so promises get made, and ultimately the school would certainly go back to using the app.

Meanwhile the group who built the app gets fabulously wealthy because they've built a (albeit harmful) service that their clients can't possibly get rid of.

Depressingly, the only way I see it turning back would be a force of equally-upset parents who removed their students from the school while asking "why do you use this at all? It's fostering anxiety and depression for my kid".

People vote with their wallets.
Modern psychiatry, let alone many branches of medicine the western world takes for granted, including pain management, stroke care or gerentology are nearly non-existant in Russia.
The thing is that I’m sure there are plenty of families on Fi who don’t have phone numbers for anyone but the primary account holder and rely on voip.
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Does anyone know of any other prod ready elasticsearch alternatives? I'm working on a logging infrastructure project for shipping syslog, and it seems no one these days just uses plain central syslog and ES is the standard, but it seems bloated.

I've been tempted to just ship straight to a dB and skip all these crazy shippers and parsers and all the other middle men in the equation.

Also, why has no product unified monitoring and logging? AFAIK that's why Splunk is worth it is you have the budget (I dont)
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Or, an alternative approach that also works in Chrome: use DuckDuckGo. Actually early AMP, that was extremely broken, pushed me out of Google completely.
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They are, when there are teachers willing to do the same job for 40k and cant because the union doesnt allow them to get hired.
I am already politically active, to the extent that I am able and can afford it. It very often doesn't seem to make a lick of a difference, when people just patently refuse to listen to anything that doesn't align with their prejudices.
You might be interested in the idea of Sudbury schools. Though there's not exactly a dependency graph of subjects, they do emphasize learning things appropriate to the individual student at the student's own pace, rather than forcing subjects based on the student's age. And it would certainly not be abnormal for a 7 year age difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school
I miss pre-commercial Usenet too. But I think it was a completely different feel than HN/Reddit. You could surf the net for a couple hours, engage in a long-form argument, forget about it and come back a couple days later to reply. It wasn't like this where I'm replying to your "28 minutes ago" post.

Also the environment was completely different. When people talk about Linus Torvalds being mean, there were a lot of people back then who had the mentality "I'm going to flame this moron off the Internet." I like the more friendly confines of HN.

My take is Usenet was not so much killed by spam, but the lack of moderation. Eventually the unchecked kooks, flamers, stalkers, and etc made it uninhabitable.
I suggest this reading to anybody interested in this topic: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3078224

It tracks the history of this narrative and explains who profits from it.

This phenomenon has a clear political and ideological root and both journalists, politicians and engineers should fight against it together.

If you want to explore more related topics there's plenty of related content in a reading list I've been developing in the last few months: https://github.com/chobeat/awesome-critical-tech-reading-lis...
I don't think there was ever a point where the Internet existed in a "pure" form. Everyone will have their own recollection of the past, different from someone else. It's easy to be nostalgic about the past: some things were better then (industrial scale tracking of users was not a thing), other things are better now (like video streaming).

- Search engines: There was more variety in search engines (including country-specific search engines). Examples: Alta Vista, Lycos, Yahoo, Excite, meta-search engines like Dogpile.

- Serendipity: The earlier web felt more serendipitous - free web hosting sites encouraged people to put up personal sites on any topic that led you down a rabbit-hole of discovery. You may say: isn't that the case now? Maybe. It doesn't feel that way - but maybe that's perception rather than reality?

- Designing web sites: CSS was full of crippling layout limitations in the early days. But there were also dozens of desktop website builders. They may have spit out horrible code, but they were far more accessible and usable to non-technical users compared to the dozens of static site generators loved only by developers today.

- Complexity: Developers love complexity, and they simply cannot recognise it. What's striking today is how ludicrously complicated it is to deploy and host your site or app on a server. Who would have thought in 2019 that only WordPress would offer users a simply one-click install on the server. Meanwhile, developers stuck in their own little command-line bubble, remain baffled that anyone would struggle to self-host using a docker image or via cloudron ("What do you mean it's complicated?")

- How reliable was information in the past? I don't think it was any more or less reliable in the past. There are reliable sources now that didn't exist in the early days of the internet (e.g. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/). But there also plenty of unreliable sources.
I felt like that was a bit of a red herring to even be included in the article. It's disingenuous to try to make the reader feel pity for him or to "soften the blow" of the reporting on his statements. He has said some truly backwards and reprehensible things and has been for over a decade.

> In 2007, the scientist, who once worked at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, told the Times newspaper that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really". While his hope was that everybody was equal, he added, "people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true".
Your exactly right. This is just contrarian click-bait leveraging general cynicism.
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You misunderstand. It very much should be pushed and updated at authoritative DNS servers within minutes. I'm aware of ISP and local DNS caches and this is not what I'm talking about.

You can query the authoritative DNS servers for any domain using dig.
I agree with the sentiment that the discussion about AI and Machine Learning should not be entirely driven by industry.

At the same time, this article seems to be a bit down on AI itself, and part of their message is that AI doesn't provide "relevant and competent" solutions to problems. It also sounds like they are writing off real work (both in industry and academia) focusing on real ethical concerns with AI and what can be done to address them (e.g., the FAT* conference, a growing number of sessions on fairness, privacy, and other related topics at NeurIPS and ICML, etc).

I think the most important issue is educating the general public about AI and giving them familiarity with what types of things are automatable, what things can be learned from their data, where and how AI is being used in the real world currently, etc. A big part of this is to have the mainstream media be a bit more self-guided.

A final thought: one of the suggestions from the Reuter's article is that we should hear more from scientists and activists in the media. This seems a bit troubling to me, since in ML and AI research there are very strong ties between academia and industry (and often people move fairly freely between the two). I'm not sure we would hear a significantly different narrative if we talked to researchers in academia...
The model isn't about cars, used or otherwise.
20-40% of the fuel consumption of a similar cargo plane.... what does that work out to in comparison to, say, a container hauling truck? Are we likely to see vehicles like this (or larger) taking trucks off the road? If it's entirely autonomous, and thus able to operate 24x7 there's some strong advantages there, but fuel efficiency could seriously ding in to that.
What is the tech community? The CEOs or the engineers/researchers/data scientists? Because they are not by any means the same entity.
Not to mention safer than a car or jet. Airships are quite safe, contrary to what people think after what happened to the Hindenburg. I wonder how this hibrid airship behaves in high winds.
*and the iPhone was under active development at the time. Jobs additionally played Fadell and the iPod team with this move.
The midrange Moto G released in 2018 is much less responsive than my old iPhone 6s from 2018 that my son “upgraded to” and it will get updates a lot longer.
i m entitled too. for the amounts of golden eggs they make, where is the novelty? At least add some new sensors, or some weird new radio tricks, i mean, i know shiny things sell, but they have tons of cash to invest under the hood.
Within a year: First astronaut travelling to GEO, to physically reset a satellite with a broken ssh config.
That it deflated, broke and crashed just a bit over a year during a test flight doesn't give me the confidence that I'd wanna fly in this thing.
Conceptually this seems a lot easier and safer to build and operate compared to a let's say a Boeing, so crashes make me wonder about their quality assurance.
Ask HN: Is there like an online version of Monty Python’s “Argument Clinic”
One of my new year resolutions is to meet and engage with more real life people.

But it’s time consuming and can make me anxious. I was wondering about something like Monty Python’s Argument Clinic skit. But only online.

1. Having too many people in an online forum is very distracting and is difficult to hold a discussion without constant digressions and feeling judged by audience.

2. An app with a tinder like app where people state what they’d like to discuss and how much time they have along right/left swipe..would this work?

3. Sometimes I want to discuss trade unions and sometimes I want to talk about a Burberry model and sometimes I want advice for the growing something at the farm. Sometimes I have 5 mts. Sometimes I have 30.

If there isn’t an app for this already..how easy/tough would it be to come up with one?

Would it make money ever or rather is it fundable?

Is there anything similar?
Which OS are you using? I'm using Be Focused Pro on iOS and macOS. It's a paid application, but it's very refined and can hold nice statistics.

I tracked my progress when I was writing my Ph.D. dissertation, and it helped me tremendously. I can even see the "end crunch" on the statistics, which is very satisfying.

Last, but not the least, macOS and iOS version synchronizes, so when I use my Linux workstation, use the iOS version to keep track of time.

About Electron, this is how I feel:
https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/1072503943790497798
This website is one of my favorite resources for traveling. I travel in Europe quite often and I always visit this website when I need tips on how to get from point A to point B. I just used it a few weeks ago to figure out how to take the train from Krakow to Warsaw.
The paper isn't about cars.
As is the 2013 iPhone 5s. What are the chances that you will still get updates in 5+ years?
People do have a tendency to wave at strangers, when either one is in a non-car vehicle. I. e. a boat, Train, balloon, etc.
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Apparently my ISP (Cox) injects stuff as well? I've never seen this message before, but just now stumbled on it for the first time -- have been with them for 5+ years now, first time I've seen this message though.

https://imgur.com/a/f4BLf3h

Aside from the cap topic, it's outrageous to me that they find it OK to alter/inject into HTTP responses like this. Send me an email, sure -- but to alter responses?!
Thanks for this interesting analysis!

I remember reading a while ago the hypothesis that cytoskeleton (microtubules) encoded some kind of memory that was stored in the neuron -- making in even closer to a networked computer if it is the case that it can run programs (RNA), exchange them (your link) and store them long term (microtubules)

What do you think about that?

These hypothesis would seem to point to consciousness as an emerging phenomenon of a complex network of computers
Sure. So each platform has different exceptions, but my point was they both have exceptions. The terminal is an exception on linux, but not on macOS. Other apps are apparently exceptions on MacOS, but those same ones probably aren't exceptions on Linux. The exact apps are different but the overall situation is the same.
Suggestion: in your example, clearly show what you’re inputting (including contents of the input file/folder), then in the end, clearly show what is outputted with a link to the output file.
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If you're looking for SaaS solution, check out DataDog. They offer monitoring and logging (and a bit more) as a packaged service.
The part of the satellite being "software-defined" is probably the phased-array antennas of the transponder/payload. I think it is unlikely that all the GHz RF processing is realized as SDR. Maybe someone can dig up more information?
The problem is that researchers and engineers rarely engage in the public debate except if they need to drive corporative interests.

The debate sees corporations and the tech elite on one side and artists, activists and philosophers on the other, with journalists split between the two. Engineers are used by either side but they don't have their own voice and mostly because they don't have informed opinions or the cultural means and interest to join a non-technical debate as a cohesive force.

The result is that the whole debate is conducted mostly by people that has no idea how this stuff really works and cannot separate marketing mumbo jumbo from the actual practice of building "AI" systems.

It's therefore very refreshing to see the work of artists like Hito Steyerl or ssbkyh that actually learn how to work with Deep Learning or other techniques to actually create critique of the existing narrative.
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Writing things down (how to know what to do next)
yes, this.

Godaddy is not doing much more than auto-updating packages with security fixes. This is easily handled with most Linux VPSs (often automatically, in the case of DigitalOcean). I am pretty sure the Amazon Linux AMIs do this too on AWS EC2. And most other distros can turn this on once with one command.

I don't think GoDaddy is going much deeper than this, so security is a moot comparison between the two. In fact most sites are hacked at the application level anyway, not the system level. So the real security hole is not something on Linux, but the actual wordpress site thats installed within it. Food for thought: 83% of hacked websites in 2017 were Wordpress sites.
Source: https://sucuri.net/reports/2017-hacked-website-report
Do you mind linking your resume (Anonymize it beforehand if you wish)? 1 interview for 10 applications is low but not unheard of, but if you get cut for those because they somehow never noticed you're not senior, your resume itself may be misleading. The alternative is they're lying and you're failing interviews for a different reason, probably behavioral or something strange about your background, and nobody is telling you. If you can link to an example job you have applied or would apply for that would help too.

I'm a mid-level C++ engineer -- if anything I can tell you where your current experience is compared to our requirements for junior jobs, if your resume is fine information-wise and what kind of thing may be tripping up interviewers. I've interviewed juniors and I've never told them they needed a ton of experience -- and most of our juniors have science or engineering PhDs but zero industry experience.
This is the same basic idea as Surge [1] by the looks of it. IIRC, it requires Node as well.

[1] https://surge.sh/
The theory predicts that peaches will have to be sold for less than they're worth if they have to be sold, so this fits the theory.
In my experience it doesn't break all that often. Once in a while it does, of course, but not weekly; and knowing the creator personally, I can say he uses it himself too, so any breakage will be fixed quite quickly (at least at the moment). ;)
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> reverse engineer network requests and write a more raw client

People already have done that. The most famous example is the yowsup [1] python library. The problem with these client implementations is that WhatsApp is banning any numbers that use them [2]. So most recent attempts to use WhatsApp outside of the official clients revolve around using WhatsApp Web somehow. That appears to work better, but even here if you are using it on a long term basis, WhatsApp might ban you.

Ultimately, WhatsApp is a bad host when it comes to using their service outside of the official app. This is really sad for people like me who don't want to install WhatsApp on their phones because it sends too much of my data to Facebook... probably that's precisely why they are so strict, to get all the data because that's all they get (the service is gratis after all). That and spam.

[1]: https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup
[2]: http://google.com/search?q=yowsup+name+ban
Arguably, it's now cheaper in raw material terms to up-step and down step DC with high frequency transformers and buck-boost. The problems are lower efficiency than a modern, high efficiency transformer, which leads to increased dissipation and lower life of the complex electronics involved, requiring active cooling. An AC transformer is a well understood technology that can operate for decades without any maintenance. DC-DC high power convertors are exotic beasts with large downtimes and expensive to repair and maintain.

We are a long way of seeing this setup used outside very special applications, AC might no longer have a natural advantage but the benefits of DC are too small to justify the massive investments and research required.

Though, it can certainly be argued that a single home-wide rectifier and smart DC wall sockets could improve efficiency and safety. You could have things like negotiated power up, ground insulation, cheaper and more efficient light bulbs and appliances etc.
That specific classname didn't change since the beginning of the project, I had a breaking change on WhatsApp's side one time (was several months ago already).

I'm aware of https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp which I'm personally interested in, which uses a reverse engineered implementation of the WhatsApp web protocol.
>An object-oriented operating system, to boot

Isn't that what android runtime is?
An astronaut at GEO would exceed their lifetime radiation exposure limit in less than an hour (in a spacesuit). The reset is gonna be robotic.
Yes, with read-only volumes. These are awesome for security.
Definitely seemed intentional--see also the bit about all of the patrol boats getting painted at once when they figured out that water was the primary avenue of escape.
Back when I worked at Google, the standard log processing tool was Dremel. You could get exactly the same thing by shipping your logs to BigQuery.

I haven't checked, but I bet it's cheaper than ES for data that's mostly cold, like logs. You will need a separate monitoring solution though.
Major problem with Postgres full-text search that those articles don't dwell into too much is that unless your documents are in one of the "chosen languages", you are more likely to find support for your language in search engine (like ElasticSearch) than get it on PostgreSQL.

You can convert existing dictionaries available to format Postgres understand, but this is annoying pain point if you happen to be an open source project like CMS or communication platform.
I have always thought science is inspired by fiction.

Cellphones are nothing less than a better communicator, Bluetooth badges are even available on thinkgeek!
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This got props on twitter from Chris Lattner himself. https://mobile.twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/108450927492...
There's a wide spectrum of accessibility between "content as created by the designer" and screen readers. People with a vision impairment who do not require a screen reader can use the browser's built-in magnifying/zooming capability to make a site usable for them, but only if the content is visible.
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> Seeing a lot of comments on the thread to the tune of "just use IRC; I don't use the features that Slack et al offer on top of IRC, so neither should anybody else".

Where I work, the argument is reversed:

"just use Slack; I can't deal with some of the limitations of IRC because I'm not willing to, so no one should use IRC."

This effectively happened once Slack discontinued the IRC gateway they provided.
I thought the site doesn't support Russia?
Why not? There are already plenty of SDRs that can operate in the GHz range. Obviously they don't output the raw RF signal directly but no SDR does that.
All the conditionals in your rendering are at the very top level..?
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Just to insert a single bit of anecdata here.
In my wife's case the treatments to help with a dementia type disease involved medications that did improve her condition for a very short time followed by a very sharp decline. The physicians warned us about this and in one of her lucid moments she stated she wished to undergo this therapy regardless of the outcome being that what was happening to her was so mindbendingly terrible that even a few more more days of a "shared reality" was preferred to her ultimate condition.
I guess my single point of reference here is that there are trade offs to this kind of therapy and family and PoAs need to carefully consider any type of treatment