skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> America was all into slavery 200 years ago.

American didn't abolish de jure slavery until 153 years ago.

It retained de facto slavery for much longer, as it did little to enforce the prohibition on except terminating overt chattel slavery until WWII (the federal order to federal prosecutors announcing the policy shift that stopped eseentially ignoring this was issued five days after Pearl Harbor, 77 years ago.) [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Circular_No._3591
Also, re: "Many of Google's services have a great deal more basic utility than anything Facebook provides"

I would so gladly pay money for a version of Google's services which was 1) client-side encrypted, 2) not mined whatsoever by Google - even the metadata, and 3) ad-free. They really do make useful, high-quality software, but I refuse to give them my life's data. I switched to using Apple for everything cloud-related, and while Apple Maps isn't as bad as people think, and Safari, Notes, and Calendar get the job done, they're also not as good as Google's equivalents.
For highly useful, tested bangs, check out Duck Go Bang: http://duckgobang.com

My favorite is probably !pf since I use it so much.
Yes, I'm pretty sure you can set FT2 in a record mode and then "play" notes on your computer keyboard, but I don't think that's what OP is asking.

How I understand OP's question is; you make a drum pattern in FT2 which you can trigger to play by pressing a key on a musical keyboard. I think the context of OP's question is for during a live/real-time performance.
Being honest about malicious intentions does not vindicate your actions.
It could be that few read it. But the product itself doesn't exist yet.

I think the more interesting discussion isn't about the product itself anyway. More interesting discussions would be about why have such a product and why such a product doesn't exist in high amounts like it used to.
Sorry, wasn't clear enough on the "human behavior" bit. Where data scientists are dealing with business problems, you can pretty much always assume that the data describes human behavior at least in part. Doubly so if you're talking about data that's big enough to not be processable on a single computer, and also needs to be handled in short order, since that implies we're in Big Data (emphasis on the capital B and D) territory.

The counter-hypothetical you're giving just isn't plausible for the situation at hand. Analyzing bird songs on the Galapagos is scientist work, not data scientist work. Analyzing bird songs in an urban area might more plausibly be data scientist work, in that it gets you back toward business applications, but also gets us back into a spot where there's no way you could just assume there's no day-of-week effect.

I'm gonna stand firm on that one. That sort of thing is worrisome - I don't care if it's someone who holds a PhD or someone who just took a MOOC or two, data scientists have a professional responsibility to be way less sloppy than that.
i don't think there's much mystery here. apple's strategy has been pretty consistent with their apparent mission--ubiquitous computing for regular (but not poor) folks--for years now, since the success of ipod revealed itself as a foothold for apple to launch the iphone and set it on this path.

the iphone is a huge stepping stone to that future, and it will still be relevant for a while (if no longer novel and sexy). carplay, home, airpods, watch, even icloud--all that stuff now wraps around the iphone to create pieces of a future personal computing cocoon. over time, the integrations between them will be more and more seamless until the iphone disappears, absorbed into those other devices.

apple's current services growth is part of this strategy, not the strategy itself. it has to build out that part of the business (particularly video content/entertainment) to set itself up to be competitive in that future market that the other faang companies are also vying for.

(as an aside, the movie her seems to be a neat extrapolation of apple into the future, minus the clunky ending)
People don't know what they're consenting to. In reddit conversations I've seen people say that they're fine with the app because "everything private is encrypted with SSL". They don't realize the whole point of this is to get around that SSL encryption.
In the Apple world, everyone owns their own devices. No sharing.
Subjectively, I don't feel like I can distinguish shades of joy or anger with infinite precision. I can't properly express my feelings the same way I can't properly express exactly where between blue and green a certain turquoise I'm looking at is. But I know a scientific instrument can give a number for the later and I don't feel I have any basis for ruling out the idea that some future scientific instrument can quantify the former.
Or how many billions of hour-lives should we steal a minute or hour at a time from to save X lives?
Randomness does not yield freedom. A robot connected to a truly random source (like a decaying radioactive substance) is no more free than a fully deterministic x86 chip.
Bit of a shameless plug... but that's kind of what we're building @ find.xyz.

Here's an example of some weird shit in the dessert. https://find.xyz/map/toto-forever

Also one on the death of RSS since someone mentioned that https://find.xyz/map/what-happened-to-rss
It's surprisingly non-trivial to pin down exactly what the 'correct' scale[0] for a given measurement is. I do agree about "roughly" generally being up to a factor of two in the appropriate scale[1], although I'm the sort who thinks a 19% increase (or 16% decrease) should be called a quarter of a factor of two.

0: Uniform, linear and logarithmic are obvious candidates, but depending on the domain you can end up with some really wierd scales (eg floating-point ULPs, which can look logarithmic or linear, but aren't either).

1: hence > So you're off by more than a factor of two.
We changed the URL from https://duckduckgo.com/app to the page that explains what that app does.
and there's these massive attacks that news outlets continue to heap on them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_messenger
Relevant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...
The day EA killed Westwood Chat and it's active community and replaced it with their hideous in-game matchmaking was I think the day the internet stopped being fun and weird for me.

Or I maybe just lost my internet innocence, seeing Big Game come in and decide on a whim to toss in the bin the place where I spent most of my after school time. Also where I learned how to un-ban myself by editing the right registry key. :D
A few years ago, I saw @r0ml touch on this in his linux.conf.au keynote. It had some really interesting ideas around how software could be democratized.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3nJR7PNgI4
That wouldn't solve the problem at all--at best I'm getting a marginally clearer error message. It doesn't help me (the programmer) remember (before runtime) that my expression is evaluating to an async function and not a sync function. Whether I get the runtime error, "invalid call to async function" or "future has no property 'status_code'" is of little consequence.
HN has every one of those features also.
Not really, no. You can distribute IPAs to users for them to sign locally, which Apple can't really control, but this is much more difficult.
It's not proven (as in, no verifiable evidence was presented) that it was a "hack" rather than a leak in the first place. The emails could have been leaked by an insider. There is some evidence (albeit very weak: file timestamps) that the leaked data was collected locally before it was sent over. I also find it extremely suspicious that the DNC did not allow the FBI to investigate the "hack", but rather chose a private firm to do so, and not just any firm, but Crowdstrike, one of the founders of which, Dmitri Alperovitch, is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank with openly anti-Russian sentiments that is funded by Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk, who also happened to donate at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation.

As to the Mueller investigation: no US person has been charged with _anything whatsoever_ related to collusion thus far. It's all "tax evasion" or process crimes. And he can charge anybody he wants in absentia: it's no secret that governments spy on each other and wage psy-ops campaigns all the time. Heck, Obama even listened in on Merkel's phone calls. Russia is not unique in that regard. In fact it's somewhat unique in how _little_ it interferes in affairs of other countries it has no common borders with.

For a bit of a historical aside to give some color to my perspective, consider that the US helped to re-elect Yeltsin in broad daylight in 1996 (he would have lost to a communist if it wasn't for the US), and was heavily involved in getting Poroshenko elected in Ukraine, also in broad daylight just a few years ago. US influence in Ukraine predates Poroshenko, though: see e.g. Manafort.

So to sum up: I do believe that there was "interference" to the extent proven by concrete evidence such as Facebook spend. I do also believe that such interference is part and parcel of international affairs: the US itself interferes all the time, often in a rather heavy-handed way. I have seen no evidence thus far that the DNC hack was indeed a hack, and not a leak. I believe about 0% of what Crowdstrike says, given its affiliations. I don't really believe in "alleged intrusions in voter registration systems" in absence of independent evidence. As far as I can tell it's fake news.
>Is that backwards? ISTM when we let the intellectuals run things, they come up with all sorts of plausible pretexts for wars...

Is the premise here that plausible pretexts for wars are less preferable than implausible ones? That an anti-intellectual launching a war on an irrational or purely emotional pretext is better than someone led by reason?

Because we had that with George W. Bush, and I'm not sure it was an improvement.

>Right now the most anti-intellectual politician in several years is the one who happens to be bringing the troops home from Syria, Afghanistan, etc.

He also said we should torture the families of terrorist suspects because fear is the only thing they understand, and warned North Korea that "the button for nuclear war is on my table". He would probably invade Iran tomorrow if someone told him Obama wouldn't have had the guts.

>> In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir.

Meanwhile, anti-intellectual zealots like Pol Pot forcibly relocated people from the cities to the countryside and murdered anyone who demonstrated any form of "intellectualism" including wearing glasses or literacy.
You could potentially explain the normal trading hours bump because of that, but the after hours is definitely on the earnings news.
That, sprinkled with a bit of CP on top
> Does Google default to Hangouts messages when using an android phone, if the recipient also has an Android (vs. straight MMS)?

No. Google does not integrate their messaging solution with SMS. The real reason behind that is that Google doesn't want to piss off the carriers who still see messaging (iMessage excluded) as a source of revenue.
I think you're overlooking CSS as well, which is a very nice declarative way that maintains semantics and makes styling more adjustable.

<span class="bold-text">this</span> and .bold-text {font-weight: 600;}
Audi e-tron and Jaguar iPace compete with the Model S; BMW i3's small range puts it in another category entirely. There's no competition for the Model 3 yet, and I don't think there will be for a while.
Isn't that the way it's always worked? A friend who works at a university told me how male professors always leave the door open when they are talking with female students in their offices. They can easily ruin your life... just like that.
I don't think so. For instance, people I spoke with on reddit who installed the FB app thought that due to SSL, all their communications would be encrypted, and FB would only see who they were talking to, not what. Of course, the entire point of the root cert is to break SSL.
Number 20 in logic is incorrect. It’s surprising how often this is misstated. There are lots of complete axiom systems. Indeed, take as your axioms all true statements in a given model. Voila, you now have a complete axiom system. It’s not just a useful one but it is complete. What isn’t complete is a recursively enumerable axiom system that contains arithmetic of the standard model of integers.

Overall it is a nice list and well done.

EDIT: Deleted a sentence that was pointed out to me that was wrong in the context of the assumptions made in the paper.
As I understand it, it does actually mean "free of locks", since a lock-free algorithm, by definition, cannot be implemented in terms of classical locks (typically mutexes) [1] [2]. It's "free of lockups" by virtue of, well, being free of locks.

Note that there's also the distinction between lock-free algorithms and lock-free data structures. Crossbeam is the latter, I believe (but I could be wrong).

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410-s05/lectures/L31_LockFree.pdf

[2] https://erdani.com/publications/cuj-2004-10.pdf
After seeing the Amazon Services bill that Troy had to pay on the last leak, I hope this one is thoroughly examined before acted upon.
Hmm. There might need for a sooner transition point for that particular inhibition. Perhaps somewhere between ground effect (well below minimums) and back trucks are turning.
Facebook is the only way a lot of people have to contact one another. I feel like only celebrities deleted FB accounts during the whole #DeleteFacebook thing. Furthermore, I think a lot of that campaign (and be honest, it was not organic. It was a purposeful campaign by news and media giants in an attempt to show they still dominated the minds of people in the world) was a battle of the old rich vs the nouveau riche as Gatsby would say.

I wrote more about this last year, specifically focusing on Zuckerberg's rumors of eyeing the presidency:

https://fightthefuture.org/article/facebook-politics-and-orw...
Restaurants in other part of the country will raise someone's paycheck if the tip didn't reach a minimum threshold. We call waiters who expect tips "wasters" here in the bay.

That's not a bro thing, just a shift in culture.
A stripped reverse gear would be indicative of failure to put it in reverse.

If the connecting rods had fled the engine that would indicate that someone succeeded in getting it into a gear it didn't want to be in.
>"The Screenwise Meter iOS app should not have operated under Apple’s developer enterprise program — this was a mistake, and we apologize. ..."

This isn't something you can do accidentally. What's the actual explanation, beyond "oops, we got caught"?
> After all, basic physics requires that there be a physical world we can observe in such a way as to make true statements about it.

But that's the point of confusing free will with consciousness. You can experience something (that's the hot stove argument), and inference is perfectly possible for even today's computer algorithms to do (which are certainly not free). Even something as common as a virtual memory system deciding which pages to swap makes predictions/inference based on what it has seen in the past.

Morality is still a thing, much like there are worse and better paging algorithms. Think of it as mental models of how things work, much like the rest of science. In this view morality is a study of how things/consciousnesses feel.

Edit: another way to look at morality as a science is like this: assume most people genuinely don't want to cause suffering of others, and especially of themselves. But they can still cause harm by being simply wrong.
I've been cussed out on HN before for saying pretty much exactly this, though. There are people who genuinely drink the Google kool-aid.
When testing resiliency software testing isn't the whole of the thing.

I spent a lot of time at new job (well 18mths now) on making the software side more resilient, we still had a site wide outage of internet access and comms and internal systems because one of the women in the sales office unplugged a socket in the ingress comms cabinet to plug her hair straighteners in.

Coincidentally my request to have physical access control on all the comms cabinets shot right up the list.

The boundary layer between software and hardware itself has to be tested, the real world is a messy place :).
and i don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Well, even if the volume is very high, the scandals had planetary coverage, therefore I would still expect to see some kind of impact? Or would it still be too little to show a variance in the trend?

Dumping here links of DAU/MAU charts of other apps (no specific selection - it's all what I was able to find):

MAU

- WeChat: https://www.statista.com/statistics/255778/number-of-active-...

- Twitter: https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly...

- Instagram: https://www.statista.com/statistics/253577/number-of-monthly...

DAU:

-Snapchat: https://www.statista.com/statistics/545967/snapchat-app-dau/

The most stable one seems to be the one of WeChat? I personally understood that without it, when living in China, your life can get very hard as you're not even able to pay for some services or get loans etc... (therefore there is a lot a direct pressure to use it).
You have to consider that the purpose of a forum is to have a discussion, not to post articles, dissertations and theses at each other. That most comments carry low relative intellectual gravity is a feature, not a bug. Comments don't exist to provide "value", they exist to facilitate communication between posters.

And it's a fundamental aspect of the threaded nature of the forum that comments deviate from the central topic and become more narrowly focused and relevant to fewer posters as a branch diverges. I supposed if they switched to a purely linear format, where every comment was explicitly to the OP, then that might focus threads more, but they would also be less interesting.
This is incorrect as well. Take the standard model of the integers. Now take all true statements in this model. Let this be your axiom system. It is complete. It is not recursively enumerable and therefore not very useful. You can also have second order systems that are categorical. For instance the second order Peano axioms. I believe they are complete.
But unsubstantiated benefits should? Furthermore I think you should take a sample of how some HIV+ individuals feel about this issue before calling these fears unsubstantiated. I suspect you will find unanimous agreement with what I'm saying.
Nice summary! I was under the impression that the services loss was from the free electricity they gave out at superchargers to some owners. Their boosting of the prices there was a response to converting that line into a something at least revenue neutral. Also no details on how they proceed with their power swap arrangements.

Personally I expect them to use the Google hack where they create a wholly owned subsidiary that is a registered power company so that they can negotiate at grid rates for power rather than with various power providing entities where the super chargers are located.
> In this case it seems that the 787 engines were reversed before the air/ground sensor had sensed ground and it is a potential problem.

What I don't understand is why does the reverse thrust input from the cockpit even influence the engine control when the air/ground sensor doesn't sense ground? It seems like an obvious lockout mechanism to have in place, if the result is shutting down the engines when the combination occurs.

Then just have a manual air/ground sensor override should that thing fail and you know you're on the ground and require reverse thrust.
My website is a static Github page that's been built without any site generator, but I've set all the paths to be relative so your main issue of "all of my absolute paths break" doesn't really apply and the website still works fine. I then don't need another program besides Brackets to do all my editing and testing in. And as far as other people's comments, it looks like Jekyll can spit out relative paths so it doesn't exactly do much.
I was wholly expecting this to be about the endless robocalls that I receive. This was... different but fascinating. I had no idea that people were faking sponsorships like this.
Ask HN: What are your rules-of-thumb for personal finance and saving?
I am curious what kind of algorithms and rules you all follow to stay on top of your finances.
Following eyeballs and good ROI do not always go hand-in-hand.

In my dream world I'd love to see a more granular ARPU breakdown and how much of that came from growth in ad impressions/user vs. increased CPMs for advertisers as well as some sort of count of advertisers and their spend by tier of advertiser size. If I recall correctly, one of the fairly recent moves was cutting bad on FB feed ad frequency which resulted in increasing CPMs and in theory concentrating the advertiser base further to those big brands that can afford the higher CPMs.

Many advertisers are experiencing higher CPMs on FB properties as one might expect as they consolidate their hold on the market. As that continues, at a certain point ROI may not be that good, and they may see diminishing returns and look elsewhere. That's the normal cycle of saturation of ad sources. The question is how long FB can stretch that out and innovate.
I can't speak for Wisconsin, but the laws are usually riddled with exemptions. E.g. records sensitive to a 3rd party.
The formats he uses as raw are already compressed by default, gzipping them wouldn't help. Gzipping the new encoding makes sense.
Would it be fair to say it should be rare to see channels passed directly in the parameters or return types of a public API?

If so, it feels to me like channels are a bit of a misfeature. They work OK as a way to implement concurrency, sure, but not in a way that you want to expose in your API. They’re not very composable.

(That’s a bit hand-wavy as I’m not a heavy Go user. If there are good uses of channels in public APIs I’d be interested to hear about them.)

Compare to e.g. maps, or closures. Those are very generally useful and composable primitives and it’s therefore common to see them used directly in APIs.
Nobody said anything about “every case”, but I’m here to tell you that most webapps can be written without it. How do you think webapps were written before React came along?

I do it every day, and there’s absolutely no reason that progressive enhancement should be ignored today, except that fromt-end devs have forgotten how.
Agreed, in Australia facebook prety much has a 95% monopoly on messaging, with iMessage a distant second. I haven't even heard of anyone using a Google product for messaging, just a few isolated instances of someone using Viber or Whatsapp (but nothing like how popular it is in Europe).

The primary advantage Facebook has, I believe, other than that everyone is already using it, is that you can find someone on it later without having to ask them for contact details.

Nobody would pay for a messaging service. Even if you would, it wouldn't matter, your non-tech-industry friends wouldn't.
This existing system wouldn't likely cause loss of all engines unless the PIC commanded all engines TR in-flight. Also, it doesn't make sense that such a system would go out untested because such a system should try command engines to idle before cutting fuel to what it thinks are runaway engines. Finally, it's still unknown if it's a Boeing software issue or a RR T1K issue... the OP article is purely speculative and guesswork "news" is not how aircraft safety is handled.
Same thing happpened with Streets of Rage And Columns. I won't buy any Sega game anymore.