skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am on HN more, but it hasn't replaced Reddit. HN doesn't move fast enough for hours of dopamine hits like Reddit is. HN is for when I'm at work and I need to give my brain a rest from a tough problem. My time at home no longer has any social media when it used to have WAY too much Reddit.
Actually it's a debate my wife and I had for a while but our situation became more strange than that. We now have the bed in the living room and we just turn off every power bars when we go to sleep to not have any lights disturb our sleep.

Some of the reason behind is separation of concerns strangely enough. I work from home, we live in a 1 bedroom apartment, and I felt really stressed whenever I would play video game or watch TV while still in the very same space I worked all day. I was basically doing everything in the same 10sqft all day every day. Now, because it's in another room, I feel way more relaxed.

Another plus is now I get the sun up right in front of me from bed every morning and that's just an awesome feeling I didn't get from the bedroom. I believe the bedroom should be oriented south east to get that morning sunshine to wake you up, and we didn't get that before.
Lol, I actually like the bars :p

They have a lot of sodium though
I don't particularly care one way or the other, I was simply asking for evidence of your assertion that it does happen lately. Playing devil's advocate I think it's sometimes called.

>>>>> Would a corporation sink billions into there knowing full well they can come up with arbitrary laws to get their way?

>>>> Yes they already do that. Even Taiwanese companies like foxconn and HTC.

>>> The China of today seems less safe than the China of ten years ago though. Are foreign companies making big investments lately?

>> Yes, Apple had done as well as an investment into Didi. You'll notice a lot of western brands in China from Mars (M&M), Nestle, General Motors, etc.

> The Apple investment was almost three years ago, were the others more recent?
I heard a couple of times, after people get a new phone number, after installing WhatsApp, they see the conversation from the old owner of this phone number. How can this happen then?
>>Unfortunately, some insecure developers sign up to be interviewers precisely to feel superiority and power over interviewees.

Had this experience recently. In the 2 hours or so interview. The interviewer bragged and boasted about himself for a good 1.5 hours. Out of 30 minutes of question/answer time I got he would routinely and very rudely interrupt me to tell in a humiliating tone that I was wrong.
> European restaurants have stars dating from the 1960s, so this is really just the beginning for the East.

My sense is that it's more that the Michelin inspectors have only started to explore the East (Tokyo in 2007). I've always felt that Michelin inspectors were late to the scene.

Excellent restaurants have probably existed in the East long before this. I've visited many Asian countries and the food culture and passion for food there exceeds that of many European countries (and I've eaten at Basque restaurants).
Reddit's data isn't that valuable (as you cannot key it back to a real human), a huge swath of their users adblock, and it has tons and tons of pornographic content which - and i do not necessarily agree with - will lower ad values. The current path to monetization Reddit is trying is making their data more valuable via more detailed user profiles and chats, essentially creating a pseudonymous social network and hoping itll take off like FB.

However, I think the real money would be for them to be more like Craigslist. Subreddits could pay to upgrade to become more feature-rich "Classified"-like pages whose posts could then be further boosted (re: upsell for ad team) across other subreddits.

Users react with hostility to forced social media / redesigns geared to ad revenues. They like new features that are actually useful and enhance the experience.
> when are they going to become profitable and how?

It's been 15 years. I think it's just a ponzi scheme at this point.
When I read the headline I thought someone finally made AI singers that sounded like people.
I had a similar problem (land sloping towards the house) with a much simpler solution. I got a free dump truck load of fill dirt from Craigslist and then graded the foundation correctly. Took an incredible amount of work by hand as I didn't rent a bobcat.

Fortunately the land was overall flat, other than the problem with it sloping in towards the house, so that was sufficient to solve the problem. It sounds like you had worse issues with your terrain.
> What incentive do I have to sign up?

Arguably the best Reddit experience is only available when you are signed in. Reddit's greatest value come from niche communities. Personally I enjoy things like r/savagegarden, r/mycology and r/askhistorians, so when I log in I see pictures of mushrooms and carnivorous plants, and get to read interesting articles about history and science. If you don't log in and subscribe to things you're interested in then you will see memes, jokes, pictures of people's pets etc, it's a totally different experience.

Disclaimer: work for Reddit.
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how long until we start seeing computer vision applications that translate sign language? It's a pretty hard problem, but definitely something that's feasible with the right methods.
Reddit has over 450 employees now (very last line of this article: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/01/09/reddit-hires-ex-twit...)
The gating is even worse on Android. They ask you to "continue" with the Chrome icon even when you're not using Chrome.
One book not already mentioned is Alfred Korzybski's Science and Sanity. It makes fairly broad and sweeping analysis, so there is plenty to disagree with. That said, this book opened my eyes to important concerns about language and cognition that, only in retrospect, seem glaringly obvious.
Is the dose administered during these sessions high enough to cause hallucinogenic effects?

Could you describe what your depressive symptoms were like before/after treatment?

How many sessions did it take before you saw improvement?

Also, any personal insight on why it was so effective for you? Do you think it helped you view circumstances in your life in a different way (the way other hallucinogens like LSD might)?
Can you not pick specific subreddits to advertise in (or have your ad appear next to on the home page)?

Seems like your userbase self-segments pretty quickly on Reddit, although it's no doubt a fulltime job for several engineers to keep up with the classifications on subreddits.

I guess the biggest problem is that so many users don't log in and just browse the default, which is pretty generic. Reddit could track the not-logged-in users and what they click on like Google, but that's a fair bit more work.
Sorry if I misunderstand, but are you suggesting that these forces are not active on HN?
This book has had a monumental, life altering perspective shift in everyone I know that have read it.

Warning: If you go over the fence, there is no returning back. Your thought process will change forever (for the good in my view).
The Bible
and
Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon
The sad part is that it's not better in the app. I tried it.
Worth mentioning that CoreOS was bought out by RedHat, which makes a lot of sense given where they were going with OpenShift. Which, in turn was bought (is being bought) by IBM.

In the end, the tooling in use is crossing a lot of lines and becoming very common in a lot of ways.
Most of the advice in "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is fairly relevant and can be learned at any age - the book and Carnegie's courses were originally for older businessmen. The problem with the book is that its title and chapter titles have not aged well - they sound manipulative. The actual advice is very good and focuses on empathy and kindness; timeless concepts.

I've definitely seem people change their behavior after reading it well into their 30s and 40s.
The Unpersuadables by Will Storr.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114379-the-unpersuadab...

I found there were some very interesting and useful insights into the way our brain works. Disclaimer, I am only 2/3 the way through it.
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Both arguments seem quite hokey and not really rooted in science.

When muscle gets cut off from it's blood supply, it produces lactic acid through anaerobic respiration. That's regardless if the nervous system is sending out "stress signals".

It's pretty hard to kill an animal and not produce stress (the physiological kind) response in it's tissue.

The nervous system is also more than just the brain. For example your spinal cord can receive and send signals to your limbs that don't even pass through the brain.
While I agree that 37 seconds is slow enough to be noticeable in an intense conversation, I don't think it's a deal breaker.

I don't think all text messaging is equal. If you want a realtime conversation with someone, you probably want to just jump on a call with them anyway.

Furthermore, a system like this, with its extreme level of privacy (and the fact that you, at least at the moment, need a Go toolchain installed locally to even use it), seems to be tailored for a pretty specific kind of audience. That audience is the kind that values, and probably requires for their own personal safety, privacy above all else. 37 seconds of latency seems like a pretty reasonable trade off in that case.
Not surprising that if you want to understand political issues, you need to askHistorians given all political issues are historical in composition
Yeah, I need to get a cross-body strap. That'd help for carrying it around all day.
"I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj. It changed how I think about "I".
Of Mice and Men. Clear and concise sentences are the best sentences. Pain and suffering is worse than death. Quality of life matters.
It’s so good. I just finished reading the Constance Garnett translation and it’s just gripping all the way through. Well, I guess apart from Zossima’s life story in the middle, but that definitely has its place.

The Gutenberg HTML of it is definitely a labour of love and extremely high quality: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28054/28054-h/28054-h.html . I converted it to a nicely formatted epub for Standard Ebooks and it’s in review now, so hopefully will be available this week.
This is pretty fun; as someone who played a lot of SmashTV as a kid in arcades (once, a friend and I managed to crash the video processor), this is great to see. I love the 8-bit chunky graphics.

Will there be sound added later?

Also - you need to add something to stop "clumps" from forming; when you die, then start again - you can land inside a clump of enemy and basically "insta-die". Maybe have them disperse when you die (IIRC, the original game did this).

Will source be released?
Swift 5 Exclusivity Enforcement
Are you Ron Gilbert?
If that would mean staying independent and free from economic/political interference, why not?
There are multitudinous ways to show people kindness that go beyond the interrogation room.

Also, the police force plays tough with people all the time. Then, our prison system is brutal. Then when you leave prison trying to reenter society is made brutal. There are no niceties for suspected criminals in this country.
All the issues stem from new populations of users contributing to the site, not a top down change. Reddit 5+ years ago was a different place because it was a much smaller place.
Are you entirely sure? Someone's race, ability to pay a lawyer, and prior history can be huge factors in convicting them.

Convicting a poor black man who dropped a cigarette butt at the scene hours prior to the crime may ultimately be far easier than finding the actual perp.
Oh the mascot of the white peoples party.
Engineering:
- Infrastructure (500M MAU)
- Web Dev
- iOS Dev
- Android Dev
- Design
- UX
- Localization

Data:
- Ranking timelines
- Ad performance
- Recommendations
- Business analytics
- R&D

Product:
- Coordinating across the above 2 and adding/measuring (new) features

Sales:
- Ads

Finance/HR/Admin/Accounting/Office Manager(s)/Recruiting:
- Running a company
It's the 21st century Clippy. "You look like you're trying to do X. Here, let me help you do Y instead."
For anyone in the know, what are reddit's big costs? Wikipedia has employees @ 230 in 2017, for whatever context/scale that contributes.

The article doesn't mention plans. Are they just getting while the going's good, or is there something expensive that they plan on doing?
The heavily moderated ones are generally better. /r/askscience and /r/askhistorians are the highest quality subs I know of. They delete any comments that don't cite sources.
Too many but I can list authors
Michael Pollan - all his books

Jiddu Krishnamurti - a freethinker, who said we need a revolution in the psyche of the individual

Paul Theroux - prolific travel writing

Oliver Sacks - his insights into brain disorders

Salman Rushdie - his early works, when he was in his prime, a giant in literature.
> What's the saying, show me who you're not allowed to criticize and I'll show you who holds power over you.

How about Mother (fucking) Nature.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

* To be pedantic, it's not that you cannot criticize Nature: you can do it as much as you want, declare it to be invalid, legislate away its right, like those genius NC lawmakers who made sea level rise illegal. Mother Nature doesn't give a damn.
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Reddit's public-facing data is very useful for ML/AI.

On the data science end, you can do a lot to gauge important topics and user behavior: https://minimaxir.com/2018/09/modeling-link-aggregators/

On the silly AI-end, I made a subreddit consisting only of text-generating RNNs: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditNN/

Reddit's internal data is even more robust.
UCG?
competitive eaters have nothing on shoe
The Biggest Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older (2016)
How Old Are the $1B+ Tech Unicorn Companies?
good luck falling asleep tonight everyone
I came from a deeply religious family and read this book after reading Contact (a friend lent me). It too had a lasting impact on my worldview. I cultivate a skeptical worldview nowadays thanks to this book.
This is very true . R-ketamine holds most of the benefit but some of the metabolites of s-ketamine also do contribute to the positive effects .

Regarding patents . It is possible to patent an ROA method just like what j&j did with s-ket
Users are more likely to give apps e.g. location permission, or contact list permissions, which make a user value (in eyeball models) aignificantly higher than a web user.
Because the only thing better than building an AI to help identify people to kill with impunity, is building an AI to help identify peopl to kill with impunity using slave labor.
A running list of sites that don't use AWS
In order:

1. The Technological Society - Jacques Ellul

2. The Sickness Unto Death - Kierkegaard

3. Dubliners - James Joyce

4. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport
Interesting mix. Going to check out Sapiens I’ve only heard good things.
Yep, as soon as they stop offering the old design I am out.
I'm a proud atheist, in part thanks to early Reddit. /r/Atheism at the time it was removed from the default subs list was a toxic cesspool filled with a lot of the same kinds of hateful rhetoric and magical thinking they criticize religious groups for. Removing it as a default was the right call.
Pentagon releases RFP for ‘optionally manned’ Bradley replacement
I sometimes think about robot controllers this way. Every arm corresponds to an action, meaning a control feedback loop applied to the robot for a short time.

If you find that two actions are both fairly good in a given state, the system might try automatically generating a new action that's some synthesis of the two, either an average or some kind of genetic algorithm crossover.

I don't know if you can have a useful falsifiable hypothesis about individual arms. But you can about the entire system. The hypothesis you want to fail to falsify is that the system gradually improves its performance (measured by some reward function) over time.
There was a actually a meta-game of where you'd (1) take a horrible quote, (2) mis-attribute it to Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson or Stephen Hawking, (3) put it on an image of space and (4) post it to r/atheism to see how many up-votes it got.

It was a very easy game.
/r/atheism was absolutely obnoxious, to the point that the obnoxiousness of some of the users is still a meme:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/in-this-moment-i-am-euphoric

> a community that is still one of the most hated

As far as I can see in the USA and in most of Europe it’s way more socially acceptable to declare to be atheists, rather than observing Christians.
Yes that is him.
Essence of Decision by Graham T. Allison

In a nutshell: The mental models we typically use to think about and understand the behavior of organizations such as corporations and governments are deeply wrong.
Signal is a proprietary service. As it is security-oriented, for me it looks like a clear honeypot, so I would never use it. Matrix is much better approach. While I don't like that they use flashy languages for their leading implementations instead of platform-native C/C#/Objective C/Java, it doesn't matter in the long run, what matter is standards and implementations will come.
If you are interested in stoicism, 'stoicism and the art of happiness' is a good book
So HTTP/2 was crap all the time but was still forced upon everybody with the repeated discourse: "it's much much better"?

And HTTPS, which is much slower than HTTP, was said to be much much faster BECAUSE with HTTPS you could used HTTP/2 and not with with HTTP.
Little Changes to the MBTA That Can Take Us a Long Way
It’s funny, the web app used to be really good. Much better than the native app. Since then they have been making the web app increasingly worse over time, actively degrading its functionality and pleasantness to use.
How about some essays:

Tense Present by David Foster Wallace: https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-...

This really changed how I think about communication and language, which is used for everything.

Abolition of Work by Bob Black http://www.primitivism.com/abolition.htm

This essay persuaded me to change a belief which was previously core to my belief system: that work is an inherent good. I don't think that his view of an ideal society is entirely realistic now, but as technology replaces jobs, I see Bob Black's vision of productive play to be a lot more palatable than slavishly continuing the capitalist obsession with work as work becomes more and more unnecessary.
Go read r/politics comments for 5 minutes and then go read r/the_donald comments for 5 minutes, then come back and tell me which subreddit has the most hate speech. Also let's not forget that r/politics mods sold the subreddit to Shareblue for $2 million.
> But we already have a term for that: the cloud.

No, the cloud is a term for dynamically provisionable resources, some of which (IaaS, for instance) still require traditional server management.

It's true that the invention of the term, originally for Amazon's Functions-aaS, wasn't particularly distinguishing from lots of existing cloud SaaS categories (classical PaaS, DBaaS, etc.) which are equally free of server management to FaaS services, but the terms has subsequently been broadened in use (AFAICT, Google Cloud Platform was the main driver here) so that it makes more sense than Amazon's original use did.
Is it common to see non-gravitational effects, though, without seeing something ejected from the maybe-a-comet?
The new inquisition by Robert Anton Wilson
Wonders of the Natural Mind by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
You shouldn't make this argument without supporting it in any way. Why does it have inherent value? Life doesn't have inherent value to us as a collective society. Look at livestock. We've had countless pointless wars where people die horrible deaths. Abortion is legal in many parts of the world. Humans have made tons of negative impacts on our planet like tossing literal tons of plastic in the ocean.

I agree that human life is valuable, but you have to support your claim in some way. If you can't find a way to support it, then maybe the claim is wrong.
If we aren't using TCP anymore does that mean all network congestion tooling developed in the last 30 years are suddenly worthless and quality of service will degrade everywhere?