skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brought to mind the Matrix movie where Neo finds out that people are plugged into a big machine for that machine's benefit.
I'm not on social media for a reason, that kind of features is part of the reasons I stay away from them.

So no. If someone really wants to engage with me, they can leave a comment... that I will see or not.
This is a little tangential to your point, but per your example: it's generally inadvisable to track objects (including users) with incrementing integer sequences.
Metoo, don't have that many options lately for health reasons. So I figured I might as well use the opportunity to have a go at the status quo.

Nailing the future down to worst case scenarios isn't very constructive from my experience, visualization is a powerful tool and cuts both ways.

It's not sustainable right now. But predicting the future is a fool's game, everything changes all the time and no one really knows anything for sure.

Try to picture where you want to go instead, it's more challenging but at least it has the potential to lead there.

And good luck to us all :)
Meanwhile crickets in the bay
I don't know about your area, but here in Utah, essential oils and herbal remedies are very popular despite not having any scientific evidence whatsoever.

People buy whatever you tell them to buy, provided you give them an emotional reason to buy it. We just had someone try to sell to us in our home today, and when we told them the price was completely unreasonable, they tried to appeal to emotion (we need this sale to get a bonus, so we're willing to give you an awesome price...).

If you're a good enough salesman, you can sell air, as long as they think there's something different about your air.
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/training-a-core-ml-model-with-tur...
I thought their fallback perpetual license is actually for the version you had when you purchased it, not for the version that was available when your subscription lapsed?

Not sure if they changed this recently - I stopped following them when they switched to subscription with fairly onerous terms (which they rectified after backlash to ‘mediocre’, but never to ‘fair value’).
So... Bioshock?
No. That would truly ruin HN for me personally (as seems to be the case with just about everyone else)
Try driving around resort towns in the offseason or even midweek. Nearly all empty. ITs really noticeable compared to other countries.
If someone is filing an issue to an open source project -- whose maintainer will very often be working on said issue for free -- the least that person can do is submit the issue with the information that the maintainer requests.

I really like this idea if for no other reason that it would raise the bar for submitting an issue. So many open source maintainers on Github are overwhelmed with vague issues or support requests masquerading as issues.
That I am a human being, like all the other humans, and not a robot or machine. I was hard on myself, and by consequence, hard on others. Learning to be easier on myself allowed me to learn how to complete good, worthwhile things without damaging myself or others.
Aren't most (non-insider) data breaches the result of OWASP top 10 things though? If the goal of security is to make sure the costs of stealing an asset exceed the value of that asset, then ensuring that the least-expensive-to-exploit vulnerabilities have been mitigated first seems like a good place to start.

The fact that there may be other vulnerabilities that are just as dangerous doesn't mean it's equally bad to have vulnerabilities like that, if they require more time and sophistication to exploit. E.g. you shouldn't have string comparison timing vulnerabilities in your code, but having them is less bad than a SQL injection attack even if they can both lead to the same result.
No. Courts don’t govern. They mediate disputes.

When your state AG or the CFPB are the only way to stop collective harm, it’s a problem. Private rights of action were a thing until recently. I’d imagine a whole lot of these privacy breach issues would be closer to resolved if class actions were holding these big companies accountable.
I run a forum for my family. Don't have to worry about shit. People can use it as much as they want. Invite their friends, etc.
In my experience one can pretty much just copy and paste, and most things work (though likely not 100%). There are two ways in which Octave still falls short: (1) Matlab is faster, as it has (I believe) JIT compilation whereas Octave doesn't; and (2) all things related to plotting & graphing are still better in Matlab IMO, though that may be changing. This may not be important for learning DSP, but does matter in day to day scientific work.
Here's how I replaced Twitter with email.

https://www.tinyfollow.com

e.g. Weekly digest of the tweets by Paul Graham: https://i.imgur.com/kd8SCKv.png
A better link.

https://www.nachi.org/forum/f11/exerpt-freakonomics-book-reg...
Anomie and omni/suicidal destruction are only a self-fulfilling prophecy only if you subscribe to, and reinforce, learned helplessness as you appear to with a chicken-little "let's do nothing because it doesn't matter" or "it's someone else's problem" argument.
One of the problems that I feel we face these days is the challenge of discovery. Sites like HN, Reddit, Pinterest help to some degree, but I can't help but feel that they're just scatter-shot.

I miss the days of web directories. I really appreciate that the programming community is creating more and more of these curated lists ("awesome" lists), but I'm disappointed that other categories aren't as popular.

Perhaps there's room for an AwesomeAwesome, someday... A Wikipedia-like curation of worthwhile resources. I doubt it's feasible once a certain critical mass is achieved, what with gaming the system or disagreements about what should or shouldn't be included. Wikipedia can at least limit conflict somewhat by saying that something is or is not factual or backed by a reputable resource. To determine what should or should not be on a curated list is a lot more difficult.

Maybe a voting system could help. Or maybe that's too easy to game.

Anyone else miss web directories?
Does reading, saving, and sharing newspaper articles violate the privacy of the journalists who write them?

Public content is public.
I’ve never seen recycling presented as anti-landfill propaganda.
Not entirely DSP, but Software Defined Radio is very related. There's an excellent tutorial series on SDR over at https://greatscottgadgets.com/sdr/ that's a whole lot of fun. No coding, just an intro to many great concepts.
The information about the strength of the buyer comes from their proof of funds or pre approval.
Urbantech in 2019
Also probably worth mentioning:

https://sfosc.org/

https://medium.com/sustainable-free-and-open-source-communit...

And my own personal take on this whole Game of Throne'ing that's currently happening out there with open source:

https://medium.com/@echohack/we-need-more-sustainable-free-a...
Crypto has crashed a bit but there could be some opportunity for an ethereum style contract to help here. Opensource projects are like the ideal 'DAC'(decentralized autonomous corporations) so they could have funding pools that pay out for feature or bug additions. Basically if enough of the DAC vote a feature or bug is important and you contribute code that addresses said issue, you get paid. Similarly OSS licenses could shift to a scheme where if your MRR > $X you are obligated to kick either ether or equivalent code value into pool. Self sustaining, self governing. Corporations might even open source more projects to basically outsource work where hiring dedicated software engineering doesn't make sense.
I would use Google groups for this instead of a true newsletter product, but I totally agree with this approach. It's similar thinking to the philosophy behind ctolunches.com.

An earlier thread had me think about productizing this actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18585534

My thought:

For a social network, I see it being a cross between a Google Group and a newsletter.
* List my profile somewhere with a sign up box to "subscribe to updates and conversation from Miles and his network." * Every 3-6 weeks, I receive an email from the platform asking me what's been up with me, and I simply reply, which then gets sent to people who subscribed from updates from me. * Calendar integration -- when I add an event to my calendar, I have the option of including it in my next update to my email network to let them know I'm doing it. (ex: I'm speaking next month at some conference) * Community participation -- if anyone who subscribes to my email updates/network wants to email my network (ex: do you know anyone who...), I get an email saying my subscriber Bob wants to ask my network a connection, would you like to include it in your next email update to your network? If I respond yes, then it is also listed in my next email update to my network.
Something like that would be awesome.
The installer comes with it's own JRE just for DBeaver, so you don't have to install Java systemwide for it to work.

And why the hate for Java? Most other languages have runtime libraries or VMs too, does it really make a difference if that runtime code is baked into the exe vs. stored in a separate folder?
A friend was once in a similar situation and reached out to the Electronic Frontier Foundation... She didn't end up taking it very far (for other reasons) but their legal team was interested in at least hearing what she had to say, and potentially connecting her with legal advice if it fell in their scope of work.
Reading published content is not surveillance. Otherwise you’re surveilling me right now!
America is also a developing country. It's not like anywhere is ever finished developing.
I still think the best sql client in existence is sequelpro. It only works with mysql but the ui and feature set is incredible.
Do people really not want people to print debug? The professors of all my CS classes so far (from data structures to assembly) explicitly tell students to print debug.
> This data is mined without reasonable suspicion

Uh, no. If you post a billboard on the side of the road or hang a letter on a public bulletin board, anyone can freely quote it, take a picture of it, or read it and tell others about it. If you post something on a public internet website, anyone can freely quote it, take a picture of it (err, screenshot), or read it and tell others about it. There's no difference. Public is public is public.
AHH yes how could I forget the CIA's involvement in Afghanistan. Thanks for the reminder!
Every time there's one of these articles, the comments are always from one of two groups:

1. Introverts (like me) saying that they can't work under those distracting conditions.

and

2. Extroverts screaming, "why can't you just be social?! I love noise!"
The stack trace utility looks super useful. Getting the "Error: VM Exception while processing transaction" without any additional context is a huge waste of time.
Hah, tell that to all the HN people who downvoted me for arguing that the immorality of plagiarism is largely a construct we learned from the school system, rather than a global immorality on the same level as theft and murder:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16969089

People pay lip service to questioning authority and thinking for yourself, but then immediately turn on those who do exactly that.
Totally going to use this on the PhaserJS project I'm doing for work!
Cool. These are always fun. I'd love to see a list of the more unique CSS frameworks like this. For example, I also like BOOTSTRA.386:

https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386
[I may have skimmed most of it.]

Insightful, dense and heavy stuff, with definite parallels to the present. At the end it seemed like a pathologically flowery/frenzied way to express quite a fatalistic outlook.
My take on the final sentiment is that we'll probably more or less need to become a different species to 'earn the right' to exist in perpetuity. Our ultimate moral failings as city-apes were brought to light like never before in WWI, and it inspired a lot of dark reflection like this. Now I'm curious what this guy thought of WWII!

On my more optimistic days I like to hope the path of improvement from what we are now to something 'better' might turn out to be a gradual, peaceful process. I figure that since we're extremely unlikely to experience it, we may as well just pick the happiest possible transition and pretend that's how it all works out.
Oh, that's good to know!
What, within context of what we are talking about, defines "vacant"

I grew up in Lake Tahoe , and having gone up recently for my Dad's memorial - and talking to some of the wealthiest realtors in the region - coupled with how areas of tahoe are literally banning AirBnB - they have a crap ton of "vacancies"

But its not like these are not owned-homes - they are just not lived in/abandoned.

Basically, the homes were bought in the past decades for fractions and either rebuilt/remodeled such that now there are +++% of the homes which are +Million$ vacation homes.

The problem with this is that it happened so densely so quickly, that the idea of running a small business in Tahoe City is tough due to lack of traffic as well as lack of workers - as you cant have workers who have no place to live...

Is there a global institute for urban planning who is attempting to address some of these issues.

In dealing with the local cannabis regulations across every county in California, and the local city planning department jurisdictions within these... my take-away is that its a ridiculously fragmented understanding of both problems and the solutions.
That $450 isn’t a “fashion” price. There is a lot of expensive tech in those watches.
They were replying to a comment which implied that the main risk of working for the TSA is dealing with bombs. But the TSA has never dealt with any bombs, so clearly that's not actually a risk of working there.
Perhaps I should have invested more than my tax return ;)
https://www.google.com/search?q=best+sql+client+for+mac

Basically every top result mentions this. It's not a secret. :)
Pretty much. There is simply no reason why I need to know what all my friends are doing and how they are feeling every single day. I just wish we had a good alternative for event organizing because that imo is the greatest value in facebook.
I suspect that the set of people who publicly "appear distressed" (definition of which is entirely subjective) is quite a bit larger than the set of people who commit violence. I also suspect that the former is not necessarily a superset of the latter. In other words, casting a wider net means you'll scoop up a lot of innocent people, with possibly devastating results for them.
> It may be illegal to monitor networks for MAC addresses

I use promiscuous mode to monitor and send alerts about everybody with a wifi active phone that comes onto my property. I also have cameras and motion sensors. It's not illegal and if it's made illegal I'll keep doing it because I have an intrinsic fundamental human right to protect my property.
I actually felt quite alright with it. Obviously, I regret not selling when the system suggested (as it did her), but that happens. I tend to pretty laid back about it and look at it as experiment with real money.
Homes depreciate rapidly in Japan. It's a cultural thing. They value newness.
There are some projects that are fine with having support requests on the Issue tracker, and some that have another system for that. At the very least, it may highlight missing documentation.
What's the Fourth rule?
They can understand common patterns and find problems.
That doesn't mean they can fix them.
I actively block any/all facebook domains for privacy reasons, is this mirrored elsewhere? The 'web' link here in HN is not showing anything useful.
a fitting end to humanity: kessler syndrome caused not by war but by advertising
Mailchimp basically is a spam company, except its "legitimate spam" because you signed up for a website once and forgot to opt out of spam letters. I could block every single email from mailchimp and I doubt I would miss anything that wasn't spam.
MTG is really skewed towards high end stuff 99% cards are never really going to be worth anything. I think a lot of people get disappointed when they find out their old bulk cards aren't as valuable as they expected them to be.

I own thousands (probably 10's of thousands) of magic cards but I'd say 95% of my collections value is tied up in probably fewer than 50 cards.

If you have unopened product (sealed boxes or packs) those are potentially worth quite a bit. A lot of old unopened booster packs are worth $15+ now.
Nobody said it was a secret?
Fearmongering like this does not for a reasonable argument make. Especially when you're invoking language like calling people you don't like 'immigrants'.
Meaning the shock will be worse or such a shock can't happen? If anything, I presume the former.
(i) 16 work hours in any 24-hour period;

(ii) 26 work hours in any 48-hour period; and

(iii) 72 work hours in any 7-day period.

As a 20 year operations shift supervisor this is still way too many work hours. Mistakes happen at the end of long shifts.
Plug- Use QtCreator for a nice Rust GUI
Do quantum computers actually need helium-3? The author doesn't say exactly that, but it's a depressing thought. There's too little of it on Earth to go around.
Probably less of an issue now they're part of Microsoft, but if you're focused on source control / open source, you probably don't want to take on crowdfunding with all the associated drama and complexity, too. That's a business in itself.
My point was that I don't agree with your position. I don't think that nearly all of our value-preferences come from social conditioning. That's why I countered with specific examples of values/preferences that do not come from social conditioning.

The belief that watching TV is wasteful comes from the experience of actually wasting time watching TV when one would prefer to have done something else. Why don't we do something else? That's a good question, but not the question you asked.

A better example of social conditioning is "common sense". If you ask a question and the answer is "common sense", the likelihood is that the person is simply socially conditioned to think that way. An example that I've given a talk on is that Japanese people sit down while showering. Western people stand up while showering. Explain why one is better than the other. I did this in a workshop composed of half Japanese people and half westerners. After 10 minutes I had to halt the exercise because people were close to coming to blows. It was amazing. The answer, of course, is that it doesn't matter really (apart from preference for a couple of minor details), but I was not prepared for the backlash of unthinking cultural beliefs.

Perhaps a better question to ask would be "Is it better to read a book or watch TV"? There I would agree with you that people are socially conditioned to respond with "read a book". They don't actually know why a book is better and, in fact, are unlikely to have ever thought about it in detail (and almost certainly have never looked at any studies on the matter). They just know it to be true (for various values of the word "true").

However, I think these socially conditioned preferences are not in the majority. People's preferences are actual preferences. Someone likes meat, another likes fish. You can learn to like something else and you may be pre-disposed to like something based on familiarity, but that's not social conditioning. People do think about their preferences quite a bit, even if they are influenced by others. People like pop music, not only because it is popular, but also because the genuinely like it. If you ask them what they like about a song, they can actually tell you in surprising detail. Often they like some popular songs and don't like other popular songs. That most people enjoy the same songs in a culture is not surprising -- that's familiarity working. You like what you know.

One of the reasons I responded to this message is because I think it is a big mistake to underestimate people and classify them as a kind of "sheeple". They aren't a big unthinking herd, just following the person in front of them. There is an aspect of that, yes, but it is really dangerous to imagine that this is all there is.

It's easy to convince yourself of the opposite position due to confirmation bias (there are lots of examples of social conditioning), but I recommend looking for the opposite. I think it will surprise you.
Apart from perhaps the mouse cursors, what could Nintendo possibly claim?

It's Atari's arcade font from 1978 paired with some generic low-res graphics.
Developers are hands down one of the cheapest group of customers to deal with.

I've been shelling out for IntelliJ Ultimate for years because I want to support JetBrains. At this point I think I could actually get away with just the open source Community Edition, but it's worth paying them for the effort in my mind.
I could think of interesting use. In India currently mini Kumbh Mela(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbh_Mela) is going on. Police and organisers can use this technique to estimate and monitor crowd. I bet they are already using sophisticated crowd monitoring techniques (https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/technology/ku...) but more the merrier.
You would think that at least one big company finds it in their interest to make sure the product is bug-free, at least enough to compensate core FOSS devs for their time.
In addition, even if they had set up Let's Encrypt auto-renewal, they may have had to shut down the system running it before they left. Leaving a system up that you won't be around to patch/maintain is almost always worse than shutting it down until you get back.
I stopped reading once you made a distinction between “tariffs” and “politics”: you don’t have one without the other. You have a common market only if you can agree common rules, and you agree common rules with shared political institutions.

You cannot buy chlorine-washed chicken in the EU because EU countries agreed that, in order to be able to freely trade chicken in the union, chicken should have certain qualities - qualities defined through a political process.

The EU is simply a place where all the stuff that used to get done with slow and opaque bilateral treaties or with wars, now gets done mostly in the open, faster and more democratically than before. It doesn’t “hold free trade hostage”, it’s actually the opposite: it takes free trade to its eventual consequences. Everything is free to trade, all the time; but to do that, we must agree on common standards to make, sell, buy, and consume all stuff - it wouldn’t be fair competition, otherwise, right?

So we built a process to write these rules together. Once we have rules, we need ways to enforce them and amend them - which happen to be useful to also sort out other pesky issues like borders and to foster collaboration in various endeavours. And if all products and services can be freely moved across the market, why shouldn’t people be allowed to do the same?

That’s the EU, in a nutshell; built on and for commerce. Trying to unpick trade from the rule-writing is nonsensical.
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Over two millions births in Latin America to mothers under the age of 15
No, I don't think there's much science to the OWASP Top 10.
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