skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Any site doing this is more likely to use a mirror array for concentration, but I'm not sure offhand which shape(s) might be optimal for different reasons.
This happens consistently even well-respected independent news orgs.

The editors at the NYT are famous for being more 'active' than at smaller newspapers - instead of assigning beats and checking submissions they request specific pieces and plan narratives that encompass multiple pieces. It doesn't mean their output is dishonest or even necessarily misleading, but it certainly affects what stories get covered and how.

For that matter, one of the things I value about ProPublica is that their narrative-building is unusually open - they organize by topic instead of newspaper-style sections and publish meta pieces on how they choose and research their stories. When the topic is something like 'algorithmic bias', it's far more forthright to say "we went looking fo examples and here are some we found" than to run pieces in isolation and imply whatever company is under discussion is uniquely villainous.

There are things to object to about Facebook's move here, but I'm deeply frustrated by this idea that objective journalism is some relic of the pre-internet days. News of all sorts gets made for people, by people. Without recognizing that, we just get these bland calls for 'real journalism' that don't help us look at specifics like the dangers of conglomerates or the negative incentives of monetizing on views or clickouts.
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Could just be this particular image, or that I'm missing something else.
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That’s also a good way to describe DDG’s search quality vs. Google’s. I used DDG as my main search for over a year after discovering the setting in Safari. It was not pain-free as the result were never better, only about equal or clearly less useful. I overlooked it because I wanted to support something different and have a non-mainstream experience, which comes naturally to me as an Amiga and long-time desktop Linux user. Finally the last straw was out of date results, like a search pulling up an old version of a major company's website from 4 months ago that now 404’d, while Google had up-to-date results.
I'm a manager who recently transitioned my team to Scrum. I see many parallels from the doc to my team vis-a-vis the Scrum process as implemented by our scrum master. I think it's an awful process and I'm questioning whether it was the right move. I don't really see any improvements despite my engineers' desire to adopt it.

It seems to help junior engineers by making them comfortable tackling unfamiliar systems and code. However, it's completely slowed down my senior engineers. I feel Parkinson's Law (work expands to fill the time allotted for it) creeping in. The scrum master encourages the engineers to be conservative in their sprint workload.

I suspect if my engineers were more enthusiastic and proactive, it might have paid off. However, I think enthusiastic, organized and proactive engineers don't need any process to be productive.
As it may be of interest, here's the related portion of the Wire Act:

Whoever being engaged in the business of betting or wagering knowingly uses
a wire communication facility for the transmission in interstate or foreign commerce of bets or wagers or information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers on any sporting event or contest, or for the transmission of a wire communication which entitles the recipient to receive money or credit as a result of bets or wagers, or for information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

18 U.S.C. § 1084(a) (codifying Pub. L. No. 87-216, § 2, 75 Stat. 491 (1961)).

From the 2011 DOJ opinion that stated that only sports bets were illegal[1]

1. https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/201...
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HN has never been that narrow, in my experience. I don't recall ever seeing a day on HN without something of mere general science interest (although I've only been here since '09.)

Come to think of it, there are HN guidelines that explicitly state that HN isn't that narrow:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>>It seems to me the only thing we can really do is not have children.

And then who pays for your social security checks, pensions and other debt that was raised to fight wars?
>> What you saw at airports were probably "machine guns" used by police and military to guard the airport. A civilian legal "machine gun" can run upwards of $10000 and is likely not something people would carry in public, even if it is likely legal to do so depending on open carry of long guns laws in that locality.

The OP is probably not American and so most likely took it for granted that this type of weapon would only be carried openly by security forces. As did I.

Now, this type of weapon is not available to civilians in Europe so most Europeans would probably think of anything that looks more "automatic" than a shotgun or a revolver as a "machine gun" owing to the lack of familiarity. As, also, would I. In Greece, where I'm from, it's common to use the word for "automatic" (weapon) to refer to both automatic and semi-automatic weapons, even though army service is mandatory and most men above 18 can probably understand the difference. Everyone else has only seen automatic weapons in movies, where everything, from slings on up, has unlimited ammo and rate of fire anyway.
Or faking/randomizing your UA? Some sites (e.g. YT) serves other image formats based on the UA string.
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Interesting, since "agile" itself is actually built upon bullshit.
Oversec, transparent encryption for any app
Or Apple's marketing team lead to a donation to DDG to make it possible
Yeah, this. They can be used to replace some legal agreements. They can be used as a replacement for escrow. But that is a small slice of the capabilities of smart contracts.
I'm just going to nitpick a little here - I don't think Typhoid Mary is a good analogy. She had a single communicable disease and was asymptomatic. This does not describe the computers of people who blindly click stuff.

Incidentally, are there any common computer viruses these days that are spread by "contact"? Perhaps it's my biased perspective as a Linux user, but I was under the impression that despite people's tendency to blame "a virus" as a way to avoid responsibility, modern malware typically requires one to download and run something. Stuxnet is the only "virulent" example I can think of, and that wasn't exactly typical software.
In 1919, a 40-foot molasses wave slammed into city’s North End, killing 21
I remember servers being relatively open, i.e. "we just got some new Alphas, we'll give you an account to check it out".
Just remeber when you’re recording your dummy loop to play back while you pwn, make sure no flies land on the camera lens!
How is it a 35 year old vulnerability? ssh and friends have only been around for 25.
In cases like that we use a mechanism called "grafting". See http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Securit... for a description.

We usually put changes that cause the world to be rebuilt on a separate branch and have the build farm build binaries for it. This can take quite a while, but it's not something a user generally needs to worry about.
Facebook has already proven to be liars. They are also biased with everything they do. Facebook has clouded the minds of everyone! Get the f off facebook and go live your life! Facebook needs to die in a fire.
I really wish DDG would build a Google Apps competitor ... as long as gmail dominates email and business email the privacy argument is largely irrelevant because people will spend hours per day logged in and locked in to the Google ecosystem
> IMHO, there's no point in individual action

Very much disagree. You can both take individual action and push for systemic change, for two reasons.

Individual action can make a meaningful difference, maybe not in curbing climate change, but at least in supporting biodiversity in your little corner of the world, if ever so small. In the case of the monarchs, you can help by preserving their habitat by planting milkweed. There's a lot of examples of other small scale conservation efforts that make a real difference.

If you have some time to spare, Jonathan Franzen wrote an article about your defeatist attitude https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/carbon-capture, contrasting it to the meaningful work that can be done, and should be done by people of all means. It's well written, if not his message, you may enjoy his prose.

Second, taking individual action, however small, is the right thing to do. Eventually, somebody needs to be the first to step up. Some people already do, by making choices that reduce their carbon footprint, lowering their daily driving needs, travelling less by airplane, living smaller, whatever it may be.. Be that first person. When you lead by example, advocating for systemic change might actually work, as more and more people may follow in your footsteps.
There's brine shrimp in the Great Salt Lake.

But there's also industry that extracts the salt from the Great Salt Lake, via evaporation. This shows that, if you've got salt to dump somewhere, there's actually a market for that. (That is, if it's pure. Others pointed out the problem of chemicals added to the salt water to make it easier to process.)
> Truth: The pull request did break it. There was an additional reason beyond the pull request unknown to the author,

Nope:

> At some point, I did a routine rebase on top of this change (and many other unrelated changes).

> [...]

> (Yes, I should have caught the bug in testing, and in fact I did notice some odd behavior. But making software is hard!)
Litigation can be an asset or a liability depending on which way it goes for you, of course. Double edged sword for sure.
Probably not in the short term and only if enough people start doing it. I like the idea of making it clear for the people you're voting for and against why you're voting/not voting for them. Hopefully, it'll influence their future platforms.
I think the big matrix in the post is the "dictionary" used to map words to NN input vectors, not a representation of one input sentence or document. So its size is (total words understood by NN * dimensions of embedding).
A trolley tour guide from the area told me that the locals call it "The Great Molassacre."
The most obvious trading I can imagine would be selling in-orbit manufacturing of spacecraft and space facilities to planet-based interests, in exchange for hi-tech electronics and food.
Screen time: how much is too much?
You make a good point about the consultants without experience and I think this document is working toward fixing it: make sure you ask the questions that ensure contractors (especially) demonstrate they have done this and know what they're doing, rather than relying 100% on the proposal.

Given the DoD's (and Government, FAR-governed) proposal process, it's exceptionally hard to get real proof that an organization knows what it is doing so language is really important. While not a guarantee, you can at least feel slightly better about a proposal that speaks the right language about these topics instead of parroting talking points that indicate less hands-on experience.

Agile vehicles at DHS and GSA have tried this but have yet to gain serious traction - I look forward to see how this evolves.

Ensuring you get the right folks on the ground / staffed AFTER the award is also part of the problem, but one step at a time!
If you write enough tests you could probably know for a fact that your contract doesn't have any bugs.
Thanks. It's quite a bit better than I expected.
I heard an interview where the scientist said that we need to stop mowing our lawns. This will help the butterfly and bee population to thrive. We need to change our township laws so that we can do that. That is a tough challenge but something we can achieve if we work together.
I quit a couple years ago when my phone left me in a position where I could not get any connectivity from the TMobile or Sprint towers, nor wifi. They tried to use the excuse that it was tower maintenance yet couldn't explain why wifi connectivity wouldn't work. As someone who is on call 24/7/365 it was unacceptable and I moved to another provider. Their phone support was absolutely useless.
I try not to ask existential questions it seems to only lead down the road of deppression and nihilism. I work hard, because it seems to be one of the only things that makes me satisfied. Video games, tv, etc. may be pleasurable in the moment, but it is definitely not satisfying for my own life.
Agreed. Raising vegan/vegetarian children and trying to steer them toward effective-altruistic careers around environmental benefit probably has positive expected outcomes for the environmental and political future.
Sure they were terrible, but at least we had auto-playing music to keep us company while we waited
TL;DR No inherent terrible problem, just issues as it scales.

With sea levels rising there's not going to be a global shortage of water.
When DuckDuckGo is set to a dark theme, the map is also in dark mode! To me, that is an incredible valuable feature.

Edit: which is a fallback to Mapbox, no Apple Maps feature.
What aboyt maps.me? I use it and its excellent. https://maps.me/
This has been submitted and discussed several times in the past, but they are all old enough that discussions are closed.

If you want to read the previous discussions then simply click the "past" link and go for it - I'll not put the list here.

Added in edit: Reading some of those previous discussions has been ... (significant pause) ... interesting. There are some interesting differences of opinion ...
This article says rising CO2 is making milkweed toxic, and as everyone knows we are killing milkweed (as "weed") - with a billion stems needed to fix the problem:

https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/publ...
You have to understand, HN hates cryptocurrency at the existential level. It doesn't matter about capabilities or features, it's about encroaching on their world views of how hierarchy and permission should exist. Do you think anyone who hates ETH is going to hear about a cool use case and change their mind? Absolutely not. Hating crypto is an identity, nothing more.

Edit: as further proof, we have articles from 2016 about how ETH is doomed (BUT ITS 2019 AND ETH IS STILL RUNNING). The article is about a bug in the DAO contract. If ETH is doomed why haven't we seen the same kind of hack again? It's almost as if the ecosystem has matured and will continue to do so.
Humanity along with 90% of the plant and animal species evolved in the last 66 million years.
If I travelled into the centre of Munich every day (I'm in the 7th ring out of 16), it would cost me 1400 euros a year (a full network ticket would be 2700 euros!). That seems rather similar to London.
It's splitting hairs IMHO. Lots of things we find acceptable are basically gambling like the stock/bond/futures markets, insurance, and prediction markets.

Maybe a better answer is why we ban gambling at all. There are people who have a problem with it, but maybe a better solution is to get them help to break the cycle instead of banning it in some cases but not others.
I've thought about this recently. My grandfather has been struggling with some senility like problems. He tends to leave his house in an attempt to "go home" and wander off somewhere and then suddenly realize he's in the middle of nowhere and doesn't know how to get home.

When I think about developing such conditions myself it doesn't seem like it would be as much of a problem for me. If I suddenly came to cognition in the middle of nowhere with no idea where I was I'd immediately use my phone and Google maps to find the way back or Uber if it was far away. Likewise, if I found myself in an unfamiliar place and had a compulsion to "go home" I assume I'd try to use Google maps to find my home, and when it pointed to my current location I might dig into my recent photos and notes to discover messages to myself that I actually do live here and have been having memory problems and what I should do is sit in a chair and wait for a bit.

I hope the advance in technology and the extent to which my phone is part of my life and mind will make me more resilient to some of the harms of old age.
It's super hard to ensure something with 100% confidence, but it doesn't mean there shouldn't be at least some basic integrity checks.
In a modern compiled language and without using ten layers of abstraction. It is very feasible and does not require significantly more development effort, at least not compared to the energy and material savings.
Been doing this all my life, it hasn't helped.
This article judges Ethereum as a potentially useful tool and author proves such a tool has no advertised usefulness in it so it's doomed.

I think this is wrong approach. Ethereum and most of the altcoins are not tools aimed to solve a problem. They are gambling machines. What matters for them is marketing, charismatic leader and wide audience (developers).
Ethereum has all of these.
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Your client asks for 1 file, the server comes back with 2 files (the 2nd one what you actually asked for), but the name of the first (tiny) file's name contains escape sequences that clear the line, move up a line, or otherwise obscure that the first file was sent.
That's a good point. If you can already translate words you could implement some of the basic features like search on the same device.
I appreciate the response. I'm going to think on this a bit. I thought that free postings would be a good strategy but it isn't enough.
Himalayan salt lamps?
Tests can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence.
It’s missing customer acquisition cost, this is pretty important imo because it gives you a framework to measure and explore ways to improve it.
In contrast: "The Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for states to legalize sports betting, striking down a 1992 federal law that had prohibited most states from authorizing sports betting."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/14/politics/sports-betting-ncaa-...
Sadly, there are heavily armed security forces in all major transit stations in Europe, these days, and I say "transit stations" because I mean to include train stations and ports. For instance, I've seen heavily armed guards in army fatigues in the train station in Brussels and in Paris and heavily armed border guards in the ports connecting France to the UK, but only on the French side I think.

I guess we're just as paranoid about terrorism in the EU, as anywhere.
You should probably read up on axiomatic incompleteness and the halting problem.
They require permission of US CFTC.

https://www.predictit.org/support/faq

Why is there an $850 limit to how much I can buy on any one contract?

PredictIt operates under no-action relief from the Division of Market Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. An $850 limit on investment by an individual participant in any contract is a condition of this relief.
> I will not knock a company for wanting to maximize profits.

I won't knock a tiger for wanting to eat meat, but I'm also not going to nod along sagely as it stalks me through the underbrush without at least complaining about it.
>> humans have been becoming much more respectful of the environment as we become more wealthy.

The wealthy generate the most pollution[1]. Also, Native Americans, the most environmentally respectful humans I can think of, were not wealthy.

[1] https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachm...
Honestly at this point, anything they do is just a ploy to advance some kind of hidden agenda even more so than any other corporation. Their name in my trust bank is pretty bankrupt.
No need. This thing is already a voice synthesizer. This is how modern synthesizers work, more or less: by generating a sine wave and then modifying it in the same way as the vocal tract does.
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Posted below, but:

Creator here - thanks for bringing this up. I was concerned about the message here as well. I'm not getting paid for that ad. I had a couple companies offer sponsorship of this list, but I decided to not pursue. In the end, 1Password simply offered this discount to visitors. For me this felt like the best thing I could do from a user experience point of view (switching to a password manager is hard for most people, and giving the extra nudge to do something really important for their online security might just do the trick) and from an ethical point of view (I'm not getting paid, and will continue adding competing password managers to the list).
> My grandma knows she doesn't know anything. She won't do anything she's unsure of, won't click any link or button without getting my advice first

This is a blessing and a curse. A blessing for the reasons you mention, but a curse because people like that won't figure things out for themselves, since they're afraid to click on things. But if her asking for advice isn't a burden (and it shouldn't be unless it happens all the time), then this is definitely preferable to the people who screw things up and then you have to clean up after them :)

> Their devices are the digital equivalent to Typhoid Mary.

Someone asked me for some help with something once and I needed to use the browser, Internet Explorer of course. I'm not at all joking or exaggerating when I say that half of the vertical screen space was taken up with toolbars. How someone can have half the screen taken up and not realise something is wrong, I will never know, especially since it wasn't always like that.
There is no law against "causing global warming", and it's not caused by one oil company.

Carbon tax doesn't address energy sustainability, or force people to stop polluting. They just have to pay to pollute, or switch to non-Co2 pollution. Co2 isn't the only form of pollution. Pumping it into the ground like we do with nuclear waste isn't a sustainable solution either.

Seizing oil fields and carbon tariffs would wreck havoc on innocent people, since getting food and being able to survive is entirely dependent on the global economy in all developed nations.

We could power all of the US with solar with 0.5% of the land we have. Solar is already feasible with the will, and improving.
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What do you mean? If if there was a nuclear war to end all nuclear wars and all humans died and the surface of the earth was irradiated so that most animals died, there would still be life. Slowly the surface would be replaced though tectonic action. New life would flourish and grow without human intervention. In a billion years or so you probably wouldn't even know humans had ever been here. The planet would be just fine.