skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right.
It seems as though the service (perhaps every critical service) has to open source their code, let you self host, and then offer their own hosted version for a price.
Perhaps you forgot to put /s.
Well, I mean, what if it's just the way you work? So you're creative and you like learning new things, big whoop. Someday it'll come in handy when your task-focused colleagues need somebody who can rattle off the state of the art in database indexing or adversarial networks...

If it's actually impairing your life (as in, you put in 12 hours days because there is no way your brain will allow you to complete your work in 8), you need to consider changes in work environment may be needed to keep you on task.

Several of my friends had success with lists and time tracking (it helps be aware that, whoops, you're working on bug #Y now). Pair programming tends to keep people very focused and it will never go on for 12 hours, so you could pair part of the day, get the core work done, and then feel guilt-free about the self-learning.

Take physical breaks, start drinking coffee, or both. Sometimes lack of focus is a natural consequence of your task being not nearly exciting enough. We all have tasks to do that are terribly boring, so when stuck in one, occasionally give your brain a nugget of stuff feeling new. But don't task switch without physically changing your environment; going outside when you need to goof off will let you internalize that at desk=boring stuff we get paid for and outside=play time. (Like many other smart children you and I probably didn't learn that lesson quite as well as we should have in school.)
> not all such limitations are just

This might be the heart of your confusion. I’m not arguing about what’s just or right at all. I’m talking about what freedom actually means, and the fact that, right or wrong, not all speech is allowed in public.

> Nowhere does [the first amendment] preface this with a statement like “the freedom of speech shall be defined as...”

That is correct, but it does start with the words “Congress shall make no laws...” which is an uber-law defining the idea that speech will have legal protection. Those five words are a constitutional directive that defines what “freedom” means in the term “freedom of speech” in the United States.

> My argument is that freedom of speech is a universal right

The principle of freedom of speech is the idea that most speech should be a universal right; that principle does not allow for all speech, and it is not universally recognized, therefore is is not a universal "right". It becomes a right and a freedom when the principle is recognized and protected by your government.

Freedom of speech is an explicitly stated goal for the US constitution, and also for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Those documents are not recognized in all countries, and both documents have exceptions. In no case is there a blanket protection for any speech at all, anywhere in the world today.

> One of the most power uses for freedom of speech (and freedom of the press) is criticizing governments and powerful entities.

Again, you seem to have the misconception that “freedom of speech” is a term that is referring to speech that takes a moral stand against power or against the law. What you’re talking about is “speech”, not the principle of “freedom of speech”, nor the legal protections we call “freedom of speech”. If you might be sent to jail for saying it, then you aren’t enjoying freedom. The better term for this is “speaking to power”.

You seem to be referring to cases where people should have freedom of speech in principle, but don’t. The term “freedom of speech” is the term for the idea that most speech should or will be protected and allowed by law. That’s what the word “freedom” is referring to.

> But what does freedom of speech even mean if the only criticism or forms of expression allowed are those permitted by the government?

What would freedom of speech even mean if it's not permitted by the government?

In the US, freedom of speech means that a journalist is allowed to criticize the president’s public policy actions and not be sent to jail, for example. People are allowed to protest in public.

In China, journalists who criticize the legitimacy of the communist party are put in jail. In China, you are not allowed to use Facebook or Google, and people are jailed for attending public protests.

If you want to understand what our government means by speech that is permitted and protected by the government, you just have to look at other countries that don’t recognize those freedoms.
slogan >> plan

sadly visible all over the world
The radar in tesla vehicles is the type intended for use in adaptive cruise control. Extremely low angular resolution with a filter that ignores objects that are close to stationary.

This is why Teslas keep running into stationary cars. The radar in them is not designed for this, and can't tell the difference between a fire truck in the lane and the barrier to the side of the lane.
Maybe it's worth it to first reform the political system from a first-past-the-post system to more proportional representation (otherwise, unless I'm mistaken, those votes go pretty much straight to the wastepaper basket (or trash can, in this case)).
> It will stop for objects in front of you.

Until it doesn't.

Failure to stop for a stationary gore point:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/ntsb-autopilot-steered-...

https://abc7news.com/automotive/i-team-exclusive-tesla-crash...

Failure to stop for a stationary fire truck:

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/

Again, the Model 3 user manual is illuminating:

Warning: Traffic-Aware Cruise Control cannot detect all objects and,
especially in situations when you are driving over 50 mph
(80 km/h), may not brake/decelerate when a vehicle or object
is only partially in the driving lane or when a vehicle you
are following moves out of your driving path and a
stationary or slow-moving vehicle or object is in front of
you. Always pay attention to the road ahead and stay
prepared to take immediate corrective action. Depending on
Traffic-Aware Cruise Control to avoid a collision can result
in serious injury or death. In addition, Traffic-Aware
Cruise Control may react to vehicles or objects that either
do not exist or are not in the lane of travel, causing Model
3 to slowdown unnecessarily or inappropriately.

Warning: Several factors can affect the performance of Automatic
Emergency Braking, causing either no braking or inappropriate
or untimely braking, such as when a vehicle is partially in
the path of travel or there is road debris. It is the
driver’s responsibility to drive safely and remain in control
of the vehicle at all times. Never depend on Automatic
Emergency Braking to avoid or reduce the impact of a collision.

The user manual tells a different tale than Elon Musk does (https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5c0e83e40fefb34c4e3b4...) Elon Musk gravely misrepresents the capabilities of these systems to impress consumers, who are left with the mistaken impression that Tesla sells cars with Level 3 capabilities.
Corporate Senescence
An insider’s memoir of falling out of love with Facebook
React isnt a terrible thing either.
> ...this series of events ... each seemed like a kind of message from an adjacent reality that few of us experience directly.

This nailed it for me. By the description this was a combination of sophistication and ad-hoc, all conducted in what is indeed a parallel world (e.g. the confusion and corruption helps them where it would get in my way).

In a movie or novel everything lines up to make the storytelling crisper. Which ultimately makes it implausible. This was quite gripping.
A 5-year-old should not have unfettered access to Facebook nor should Facebook let them. If Facebook knew the user was 5-years-old and titled the child as a whale, that is essentially the definition of an exploited minor.
I found your article particularly interesting, because lately I've been experimenting with calling Swift from Go.

The approach is based on the same principle: cgo as bridge between Go and a C library. The C library is build by the Swift package manager. Blog post on Dev community with details:

https://dev.to/gerwert/calling-swift-from-go-5dbk
That isn't an accident. The Model 3 was meant to be called Model E but Ford owns the rights to that name even though they haven't marketed a Model E in forever.
Eating while driving is also a huge part of the distracted driving problem. Food also causes numerous other health problems; obesity, diabetes and so on.

If we all work really hard we can come up with dumb reasons to ban almost anything. Politicians make careers out of this sort of thing.
A Debt to Education
People dislike the idea of the UE turning into United States of Europe with a Soviet style super-government.
Very bizarre...

Just reviewing some of the categories and runners up;

Application & Data Tool of the Year
Javascript was pitted against frameworks made in Javascript? It was also judged against HTML5? Against Java? Against MSQL? All of these tools can (quite literally) be used in the same application, cleanly.

Advice for next time; If you're going to join the hordes of writers ranking technologies, research your categories better, and include some sort of metric that they are judged against, other than your own experience. Because some of these tools would be supremely useful over the winners, in the right environment.
Where in this article (besides the headline) does it say Facebook "Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales”"?

The article does say "the average age of Angry Birds players on Facebook was five years old" but includes no evidence of Facebook calling five year olds "whales".

It also includes a separate recorded incident (chat logs) where two Facebook employees referred to a 15-year old as a "whale" and refused a refund, but 15 is not 5.
Worth noting that the difference there is exaggerated somewhat by the unusually low value of the pound at the moment.
He has several essays in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, as well. It's sad to see how he changed his ideas about the Fed once he was put in charge of it. :-(
Are you sure it’s wise to put the onus solely on the parents? Some kids are born into families with crappy parents. Are they to be exploited at the whim of whatever corporate goal is out there due to their bad luck of having crappy parents?

It’s more reasonable to say that parents ought to be on top of things and recognize that not all of them are. Thus it’s best to have other safeguards in place. Like make Facebook liable for its exploitive behavior.
To me the takeaway is that backup system should be designed with the storage system, when the storage system is still empty of valuable data. If you change the backup system, you should treat that as a change of the whole storage system, so first you would run the former backup, archive that securely, set up the new system, check it and only then release the former backup as not critical anymore.
CrashPlan for personal use no longer exists. Only the business license remains.
The person in that incident was fifteen, not five.
You will also always get people targeting kids, even outside of the law. Reducing the number of kids without a family still might be a lot more effective than regulating the world into being as safe as an extended family (although both would be nice).
Ask HN: Fundraising advice
Are there any actionable fundraising advice for entrepreneurs who have no network, are outside US with no big significant credentials? We are trying for a while but for some reason not able to break the glass ceiling.
UX Trends for 2019 – Displays Grow Faster Than Our Thumbs
Green pieces of paper with dead presidents on them.
Sounds like it would be about as successful as abstinence only sex education.

The reason we end up with laws covering stuff like this is because it's a lot easier to do that than fix the whole of society. I don't think anyone disagrees that every child having a caring and attentive parent would solve a lot of problems, but how do we get there? While we work that out, we can pass some laws to protect those children.
It's depressing how true this probably is for many of them. In a lot of ways, it feels like the new Wall Street: cash large paychecks that distract you from the ethically repulsive work you do destroying privacy, undermining democracy and public discourse, and targeting young children for money that aren't capable of consenting to such financial decisions.

Stealing from families by exploiting toddlers. This is what many of the most talented minds in the world are working on. Truly tragic.
Have only played it twice over Xmas. But there was much about Beat Saber that really stuck in my mind. If nothing else, it certainly sets the heart racing and adrenaline pumping. But more than that, it feels like the delivery on a promised future. Immersive and entertaining for both player and spectator. Combines a potent admixture of LAN party play and physicality. And will certainly inspire the next wave of arcade oriented VR gamedev ;)
I'd assume it's more than the pictures.

From my perspective: I'm a photographer and there are DM photography critique groups I wouldn't want to miss out on. Groups with contributors that have seriously improved my work.

Outside the critique groups there are darkroom groups where techniques and tips lost in the digital age are shared -- I shoot analog so I can make darkroom prints (a little non-digital zen after writing code for 8+ hours a day) so re-discovering some of these techniques has been vital to improving my printmaking skills.

I'd imagine there are probably yoga technique groups that are similar. Critiques of form and posture, tips when trying to reach that new, difficult pose, scheduling for impromptu classes, etc.

Any tight knit Instagram group of posters has some longer form discussion on the DM end of things in my experience. All people you want to speak with, but wouldn't do so over text message for whatever reason. I've tried multiple times to lift and shift groups to Slack, Discord, Discourse, etc. Never works. Instagram has a tight hold.
In 1970 the exchange rate was something like 3.65 Deutsche Marks for a dollar. $79.25 would be 289.26 DM.
The publication, Plough, is a Christian publisher, and the author is a Christian pastor. The end of the essay has a call to action to the Christian community for how to consider debt and treat people with debt (more humanely, of course). I am not a Christian, but I found the author's framing of how society at large treats debt useful and insightful.
> I'm in a similar position, and actually found I had more interaction with family once I got off facebook.

I completely agree. I used to be a heavy user of Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat for years and I have been off all those platforms for 14 months now and I noticed that I am more in touch with friends and family than never before and most of them live abroad with at least 6 hours difference!
Rangnick announces Arsenal deal is close as star Smith Rowe arrives for medical
The green party has terrible candidates and often I disagree with their policies.

I'm not going to vote for someone just because they're different from the establishment if they have positions I find ridiculous.
> asks their parents for their credit card info

Are parents really that stupid to tell them?
The article doesn't state otherwise, it just states when it turned to massacre...
Hacker News Later: Digest No. 6 (Jan 31, 2019)
"Pay yourself first"
original post https://dev.to/ped4enko/top-10-micro-sized-javascript-librar...
Whale is industry term for player that gives a lot of money. If any of those 5 years old ended up paying a lot of money, he would be called whale.

Through, given context it is less of scandal.
Quite a different approach from one in the bloc.

Nuclear bases in Eastern Russia are all built with though of stopping, and stalling a substantial military assault from paratroopers, sabotage specialists battalions, or forward armed recon that might preclude a full scale conflict, but security was known to be lax (thought still way above any normal base)

And in US it seems, they are more wary of infiltration by small force, or "trickery," or, I'll give myself liberty to imagine, enemies from within.
Facebook employees are not all scheming about the best way to target 5-year-olds. Just like any company (including 90s Microsoft!) for every one executive working out how to maximize business value at the expense of everyone else on earth, there are a couple directly complicit engineers, and a hundred engineers that mainly work on improving server uptime so that Joe Schmoe can catch up with his highschool friends, or so Grandma can use a computer (in the case of 90s MS).

Any company employing over 1,000 people is almost guaranteed to be involved in something evil because of the corruptibility of mankind, but you can't just assume that every single person is a direct contributor. Another similar example would be how you can't blame every individual American citizen for the various crimes the CIA has been running around the world committing, because there really are only a few Americans who have any connection to those things. This is true despite the fact that Mother, Apple Pie, the CIA World Factbook and the assassination of third world government officials are all technically part of the same institution.

You might counter with, if people can claim innocence even though they are part of a guilty organization, what's the motivation to improve? The answer to that is that the moral calling of Americans isn't to all leave America until the CIA gets shut down, it's to stay and stubbornly assert their morals until things improve. Evil leaders would much rather have a slightly smaller but completely obedient workforce than they would a larger, more skilled but unmanageable (in evil directions) one.
Yes. You can go into settings and remove it easily though.
Yeah, that makes sense to me. I'm not sure how profitable that can be, but it'd certainly be ethical and useful to people. I do think it'd be sustainable at least.
Lol, what?

This deal is entirely designed to cut US out the loop of international payments, one step at a time. It is extremely valuable to EU to able to conduct oil payments with Iran directly in Euro, without the US being able to say no.
The strategic advantage of blowing up NYC harbour is getting bombed back in time before stone tools where a thing.
Still a minor.
> There is no such thing as a "healthy" use of cigarettes.

I don’t think that’s really true. The health effects of a cigarette a week would be indistinguishable from background noise.

The fundamental problem with cigarettes is that they are addictive, and convenient (at one time very convenient), and so it’s easy to smoke more and more. That’s actually very similar to smartphones: their use is addictive, and convenient (you can get a hit at work, in line, in the car, at the store, walking down the street, in bed).

As with tobacco, I believe that the answer is to responsibly use smartphones. Chain-smoking is bad; so too is constantly getting a hit from your smartphone. Smoking a pipe a couple of times a week (or a cigar a couple of times a month) isn’t a problem, and neither is using a smartphone intentionally & deliberately.
The Rumors of Silicon Valley's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
I'm not sure I agree with your analogy between current "autonomous" vehicles and an inefficient lightbulb. I'd say it's more like a lightbulb that flickers and burns out in 5 seconds. In which case it probably makes more sense to make the lightbulb not burn out first.

I don't think Edison (and his employees) got a momentary flash of light from a lightbulb and then said, "alright, it's almost working, now let's see if we can do it without the fragile glass bulb."
Thanks for the response. TBH I was a little confused about whether you were trying to serve personal customers or business customers. From your response above it's still not clear =) It sounds like you don't care much about the business customers (great! focus is good!) But then you say:

> And we have plenty of avenues to business customers, from support [0], to more API access, to larger community hosting [1]

I think the fact that you mention both groups on your pricing page had my hopes up. In general if you're going to focus on consumers that's great, but you might not be doing yourself a favour from a marketing or resource-allocation perspective by talking about business customers.

Just my 2c!
very clear read; wish I had this when I was learning molecular dynamics. However, I suggest using bouncing term on the walls rather than sticking.
So the parents are the real "whales." The kids are just having fun.
On-Call Nightmares Podcast – Episode 9 – Charity Majors – Honeycomb.io
There's no guarantee that computers will do better. We don't have the data. They currently do worse.

Some people claim that they won't make the same mistake twice, but how many times have you seen the same bug crop up after it was fixed in previous updates?

I would also posit that the existing statistics provide a "good enough" floor. If a million people currently die, the software will be good enough when it has the same level of fatalities. There is no incentive to make it better, at least not in our Capitalistic system. Investments would be better spent on differentiating widgets that dazzle the occupants, not protecting non-customers outside the vehicle.
For personal, 1:1 contact, a little goes a long way. On a couple levels.

First off, it really takes very little 1:1 contact to maintain a deep relationship - no more than 10 minutes a month on the phone for some of my most meaningful and long-lasting friendships, sometimes less.

It's true that, without the Facebook feed, I don't get a play-by-play of every single even that happens in their life via the Facebook news feed. I see that as a positive thing - it leaves us with something to talk about when we do make time for each other.

Second, I definitely am in contact with fewer people than when I was on Facebook. The relationships that I have maintained since then have been more fulfilling, though, so, at least as far as I'm concerned, it's still a net positive. (Think of it as giving your social life the Marie Kondo treatment.) I'd like to think that's a two way street - if I'm getting more out of the interaction, then that means I'm probably giving more back, too.

So the end result is that my friends are not, overall, spending that much time interacting with me without Facebook. I can't speak for them, but, I at least view it as an enjoyable way that we can spend some time together, if not physically in the same space. I'd like to think they do the same. It'd be really weird if they thought of me as a friend but didn't actually enjoy having conversations with me.
You should try again from non-Chez Racket.
This won't be very HN favorite view, but I will say it anyways, I enjoy using Facebook and don't find it affecting my productivity.

Not everyone uses Facebook the same way though. I have no family on Facebook, very few friends. I use it mainly for the Groups I participate in - some of them quite useful. The Facebook groups are more personal than sub-reddits and people generally seem to behave better.
Ask HN: Is there room for a new ‘curated’ search engine?
Google results seem to be getting progressively worse, and even if they aren’t, there are too many relevant websites to accurately display on a single search results page. It seems to me that a return to the original Yahoo model might actually have a place in 2019.