skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science, Strategy, and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd,History of Sexuality by Foucault, Methophors to Live By by Lakoff

All of these portray the world as a series of systems. First deals with interconnected systems like war, business, conflict, the second the notion that culture itself is a series of systems of power and sexuality has been used as a system of power, and third that most of our thought can be made from simpler set of blocks i.e metaphors from which we construct almost all of existence.
That would be worded very differently than it actually is in the article. It specifically states that the very notion that urban poor have higher birthrates is in and of itself a "classist assumption", not because other factors are omitted.
A Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark. It changed my mind about the nature of industrial civilization.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and the sequel, What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
Thanks for the paper, that is really interesting.

For those who read my previous comment, an example of pre-game communication collusion that the AI in the paper invented was to decide that any hint involving red or yellow _also_ means that your most recently acquired tile is immediately playable.

"Roughly 40% of the information is obtained through conventions rather than through the grounded information and card counting"

(what I have been describing as "collusion" the paper describes as "conventions" but it amounts to the same thing -- you can pass a lot more information than the hints imply if you can plan ahead)

That is super fascinating.
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I grew up in the South, so I know very well what the "culture" in rural America is like. It's not something to be celebrated.

Furthermore, you cannot argue that flyover country is full of Trump voters. The voting records are quite clear about that: those states all voted red in 2016.
> all my extensions, move bookmarks, history, passwords etc

Minus the extensions, migrating everything else should be easily accomplished via importing and should only be a few clicks in a wizard.[0]

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google...
thanks for the heads up, I'll be on the lookout for symptoms. I do believe though that the benefits far outweigh the risk in this case.
Yeah, Voat's not an appealing alternative. There's an ActivityPub-powered, federated link aggregator in the works[1], that could work out really well as each community could have their own rules and if you don't want to federate with a particular one, just block them.

1 - https://gitlab.com/mbajur/prismo
So you’re saying you’d like targeting to be better?
I can't believe this is the only post with Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! Such a fun, creative book. Parts that stuck with me: lock picking, finding safety hazards at Oak Ridge, playing drums, working intensely.
If nothing else, I think your conclusion that the product team is incompetent (or displays a lot of incompetency) is debatable. That seems very uncharitable. Reddit isn't flush with money the same way Google, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix are. They can't throw wild amounts of cash at a problem to solve it or attract the talent who can.

I think your characterization of Reddit's infrastructure challenges - which basically considers the problems as solved versus unsolved - is the wrong one. In my opinion, a better characterization would be whether or not Reddit has:

1) the money required to attract talent or buy infra, in order to 2) scale the website to extremely high availability under extreme load, while also 3) doing feature engineering and turning a profit.

This seems like a highly nontrivial problem. Do you know of another website with Reddit's daily active users and revenue profile, but significantly higher availability?

Note that performance is a related but distinct problem from the Reddit UX and advertising. I think that they are probably introducing these kinds of user-hostile changes because they are precisely in the position I've described, and can't find a way to improve performance in the way you're describing.
"I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Legacy of Male Depression" by Terrence Real, a relational therapist.

The ideas in this 20-year-old book are just starting to catch traction, but basically it's that depression manifests differently in men than in women. This is because, the book's thesis goes, of the differences in social conditioning between men and women.

I recommend this book all the time.
I agree with you that what works best for some may not work the best for others. I disagree that doctors who charge a few hundred bucks for this "don't give a shit" about their patients. I also know that, from personal experience, sublingual ketamine did very little for me (tried that before IV). Doc then suggested IV use, and said most patients end up needing the IV route.
My last news I took action on was the weather, which happens rather often actually.

But I must disagree with your final question, because I don't think percentages matters. An extreme example: if you read about some new life saving drug for a disease that a loved relative of yours have, how many useless articles is that worth? Twenty years of articles? Thirty? A lifetime?
I know $3B is a lot for a valuation, but I can’t help but feel like it should be higher, given how influential the site is.
It's more than memory use - it causes tree traversals to take longer, which means unbounded style recalculations (common) and side-effecting DOM changes take longer.
Another XR fan here. I went from 6s to XR. It’s much faster, the camera is amazing and the battery life is exceptional. It lasts 1.5 days of heavy use no problems at all.

The only compliant is sometimes I pull it out of my pocket and try and use it upside down. And the torch comes on in my pocket about once a week.
Ketamine is heavily cut on the black market, both in crystal form and not.

What is harder to fake it vial ketamine. There is a significant cost to that.
WebComponent libraries lit-HTML and litElement released
This doesn't work for people who browse Reddit without cookies or signing in, such as for those who use Private Browsing.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this one yet: "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion", by Jonathan Haidt [0]. This book fundamentally changed how I think about religion and politics. It helped me understand a lot of behaviors which I'd previous considered absolutely incomprehensible.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Relig...
This kind of analysis will reliably lead you to services that will get your data compromised. Cryptocat was a non-proprietary, open-source messenger with "end-to-end" encryption, and Snowden and Greenwald used it to communicate. And it was grievously broken.
The sheer fact that you need to involve a third party for encryption shows that the web is fundamentally, conceptually broken and no longer lives up to its original design goals.
> This helped me understand that genuine empathy is irrelevant. All that matters to convincing people is that they feel empathized with.

You have proposed an Emotional Turing Test! The price for failure looks high!
Trust-Busting implies that we have to go out of our way to identify and bust monopolies every 10-20 years. That's the wrong fix here. Instead we should focus on finding alternative solutions that reduce the tendency to form these huge corporations or conglomerations. And encourage more companies/competition.
But I prefer webpages over apps. Especially on mobile.

The apps frensy was over years ago. Nobody wants an app anymore.
ABS, roof bars, traction control, and airbags are all what I would consider crash protection.
EDIT: Didn't see the traction control the first time around.
Strongly-Typed React Redux Code with TypeScript
There are also many more additional services that someone in the Apple ecosystem has access to vs. when the 4S came out, which can account for a portion of that $27 marginal difference.

Example (that I serendipitously learned about recently): free (!!!) workshops in Apple stores that you can learn advanced techniques for things like video editing on iPad, among other things.
Goodbye Python Virtual Environments
>> Mediterranean

>Also a valid point, geographically.

Surely there must be loads of michelin-starred restaurants within the various Mediterranean culinary regions.
I think it has some privacy implications. Lot of people will feel uncomfortable if they feel their conversations are being saved in someone else's device or cloud.
I've always felt that Reddit would work really well as a non-profit. This would remove the inherent conflict between keeping the focus on communities/shared-interests (what drew me to Reddit in the first place) and the financial incentive pushing towards profiles/gathering personal information for ads. I would definitely donate to Reddit monthly if it went that route.
There's a paper from just a couple years ago about turning hanabi (with >2 players) into a variant of the 100-prisoner hat color problem: http://helios.mi.parisdescartes.fr/~bouzy/publications/bouzy...

For the 5 player variant specifically, the concept is as follows:
Out of the 8 moves each other player can make (play any of 4 cards, discard any of 4 cards), you figure out the best move, add them up mod 8, and make one of 8 hints (you have a color or number hint available for each player). Then each of the 4 other players deduces which move you wanted them to make by subtracting out everyone else's best move.
There's some room for improvement on figuring out how to avoid one player mistaking another's best play (because it might be predicated on them playing a card they don't know they have first), or how to hint in ways which avoid that.

A friend has put up an implementation up on github: https://github.com/chikinn/hanabi/blob/master/players/hat_pl...
Change is good though, change is the only constant. Better to be in a state of flux than a static, dead-end field where time stands still.
San Francisco Wants to Ban Government Face Recognition
I found William Irving's A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy a very legible contemporary (if somewhat idiosyncratic) introduction to Stoic thought, and maybe more accessible/applicable than the classic sources.
To The Finland Station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Finland_Station
Yep, thanks.

Kind of scary how inaccurate my memory was on the exact strategy, but that's definitely the one I was thinking of.
Check out the Excel version of the 10-Q report for Tesla, generated by Morningstar Research software [1]. Lots of merged cells, with some column labels appearing one column adjacent from the data it's describing. And you still need the HTML/PDF version because the Excel includes only the numbers, and not things like risk disclosure or management's comments about the earnings.

As 'structured data' goes, it's nowhere near where it needs to be to support 'instant article generation' beyond anything but the shallowest headline numbers. The consolidated financial statements all have appendices (notes) with relevant details. The case study you linked to simply indicates only that reduced man-hours significantly by automating the process of manually picking numbers and putting them into an article template. They may as well be putting out a press release.

Although the topic of the post is how automation affects financial journalism, it bears mentioning that an analysts' job is to reverse engineer the report to see how they arrived at those numbers. The vendors' auto-generated reports never include formulas, so you'll have to be doing your own calculations as part of your due diligence.

For instance, if they're trading at a high P/E ratio, how much of that is due to positive investor sentiment and not related to recent buybacks? The headline numbers won't reveal that, but past data and the notes to the financial statements usually will.

If their cash balance says $x billion, how much of that came from convertible bond issues that are coming due in the next 12 months?

[1]http://ir.tesla.com/sec-filings?field_nir_sec_form_group_tar...
Rule number 1 for project naming: choose a name which anyone can easily figure out how to pronounce.
Chromium still being the better browser in most ways, I wonder what could be done about this. Maybe it's time to have a simple patchset for doing content blocking natively in the engine. With patches like that floating around, they can't very well say that it's an efficiency issue like they do in the doc describing Manifest V3.
Who then can sub-hire other people for 0.40$/hour, pocketing 0.20$/hour from each of them for ZERO effort.
It hasn't launched publicly yet, but that seems to be what Tildes is going for.

https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
You don't think language has an impact on perception? You think the Nazi effort to dehumanize jews with rhetoric didn't work? What a simple world you must live in.
I think we'll see something eventually. There's too much money there and there isn't much of reddit that isn't copyable.
Benchmarking Go vs. Node vs. Elixir
Doubtful that they are seeing the old conversations, but people with the old phone numbers can send new messages to the new account with this phone number, continuing an old conversation.
Fighting/dealing with that repulsion is an endeavor some people seek.
Which subreddit had that information?
I wouldn't be surprised if this also correlated with openness to experience, the "O" in the big five personality traits ("OCEAN"). There is a high prevalence of "O" among my liberal communities.
On the Evolution of Cooperation. Unbelievably simple and yet conveyed one of the most powerful ideas I've ever come across.
"Everyone gets caught in the long run" are there any reliable numbers of this?
What I find fascinating is how we can quantify this bias. Here are two examples of my research on the NY Times with terrorism coverage by region + general coverage by country:

How Media Fuels our Fear of Western Terrorism: https://www.nemil.com/s/part2-terrorism.html

Visualizing 10 years of International Coverage in The New York Times: https://www.nemil.com/s/nytimes-international-coverage.html
Practical take: Thompson sampling is great. Use it if your main focus is getting things done. I found that most literature about MABs concentrates on various (mostly not too useful) approaches to MABs instead of on getting stuff done. Which is of course fine if your intent is to study MABs.

Thompson sampling is easy to implement, predictable, stable, and you can leave your experiments running forever without supervision. It has very few drawbacks.

With a combination of two HyperLogLogs and a Bloom filter, you can also have a really nice scalable distributed implementation (HLLs and BFs combine in an idempotent manner, so updates are lock-free), albeit at the cost of low precision early on as the number of samples is low.

Don't use a library. Thompson sampling itself is not difficult (specifically, 6 lines, as I'm looking at my Clojure code), you will need to understand it very well anyway, and most libraries will include lots of superfluous garbage. Most of the work is not with Thompson sampling, but with processing your events, and that is something which is application-specific anyway and can't be abstracted well.
How to Describe Weaknesses in a Job Interview
The enthusiasm for ketamine and TMS undoubtedly outstrips the evidence and is driven by financial motivations. But to call it "anecdata" is a bit harsh. The available evidence certainly eclipses some of the other recommendations in the comments (CBD, lsd/psilocybin - before I get angry responses, these look promising but the data just aren't there yet).

Where I totally agree with you is ECT. It is, with a bullet, the best-supported intervention for treatment-resistant depression, and it's not even close. It is an absolute tragedy that it has such an unfairly terrible reputation. Even before anesthesia was a universal element of ECT, it was never as bad as usually portrayed in popular culture.
I read various translations, scientific editions by (german) islamic schoolars - I know there are other versions out there which are more white washed.
I can especially recommend Bill Warners "An Abridged Koran", if you believe there are errors in his translation, please let us know.
> Nobody wants an app anymore.

Citations needed. I, for one, like apps.
> fueling a cycle of dependancy.

Similar to how diabetics are dependent on insulin, or schizophrenics dependent on their anti-psychotic medication?

You're also implying that people with severe, clinical depression can assuredly be helped by psychotherapy. I'm sorry, but the literature is far more abysmal than that. Many patients don't even respond to psychotherapy, and need psychiatric intervention in the same way a schizophrenic does.
How are you qualifying that?

Power draw in usage vs battery capacity?

I've never really looked at it like that, but I guess we should take the least generous values from both:

Pure Capacity:

iPhone XR: 2,942 mAh

iPhone SE: 1,624 mAh

Draw:

iPhone XR: "Up to 15 hours", so 196,134 mAh of draw if we take the best case for the iPhone XR.

iPhone SE: 12-13 Hrs on Internet (so, LTE, according to apple) that's roughly 129,92 mAh

; while the capacities are wildly different I don't see the SE being so far behind.

If you can get real power draw numbers you can make your own conclusion. I suspect Apple expects a certain about of idle time (which has been optimised for on the later generations).
In software people use agile as an excuse to not think through the core architecture.

I believe agile was invented to incrementally improve an already well thought production process. Once the assembly line was setup, agile was used to eliminate the unproductive activities. I am not sure agile will be helpful to build the assembly line itself?

In most scenarios that's what people try to do with agile.
Not quite a trailer but living in a decked out Sprinter van makes you a climber or a hipster, but definitely not poor.
There's a Firefox add-on that rewrites all reddit URLs to use old.reddit.com. Absolutely indispensable.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
The Industry’s First Managed Kubernetes Service on VMWare
MXE does. So does 2-Fluorodeschloroketamine, deschloroketamine, and several others. The issue is once you step off the PCM chain you have hider chance of a side effect of mania.

MXE does have the same bladder issues, but is taken as a smaller dose so it takes longer to happen.
Sci-fi author China Mieville recently wrote "October: The Story of the Russian Revolution".
Two cars of the same mass hitting each other head on at 25 mph will be the same as one car hitting that wall at 50 mph. Remember p = mv and m1v1 = m2v2
Ask HN: Interest in a service where a person insults you to motivate you?
Basically thinking along the lines of https://bossasaservice.life/ except in the form of ridicule and belittlement instead of encouragement, for people who are motivated by insults or just enjoy them.

Steps would be like:

1. You send us your task list

2. We ruthlessly insult you daily (email or preferred chat app) for not completing it

3. You send us proof that you completed it

4. We give you a break temporarily

5. Repeat

Maybe charge $25 per month, same as Boss As A Service.

I know this sounds ridiculous but I can't get the idea out of my head. Am I crazy?
Play Iconary, a simple drawing game that hides a deceptively deep AI
> It picked up after the WebKit/Safari discussions last week

looks like it picked up on Jan 3 according to that PR?
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo.

It really opened my eyes to many issues about race I was not aware of and did a great job explaining the real problem is systemic racism. It had a pretty profound impact.
X265 3.0 released
The last big batch was proven via test to be 30% caffeine by weight. I can't imagine people stopped cutting it.
Yeah, autocorrect.
Most recent: Factfulness, by Hans Rosling. For the past year or so, I've been trying hard to understand why people act the way they do, when those actions and beliefs are often irrational. This book brought so much of that together.

Very first: The Song of Wandering Aengus, by William Butler Yeats. I read this when I was six or so. I found it as an illustrated children's book in children's section of the public library of the very small rural town. Someone decided this very adult poem, about an old man who wasted his life chasing an unattainable magic dream, was a good children's story. It introduced me to the idea that poems and stories could express sadness and failure and other negative feelings, not just the happy silly stuff of the other age-appropriate things I read.
It's called a loan. They take out a loan to buy an Apple phone.
You're definitely right about this, the fact that even /r/4chan isn't quarantined despite the content of it's comment section tells you everything you need to know. WPD had very strict rules imposed before the quarantine occurred and the comments weren't nearly as bad as one would expect.

Frankly I think it's obvious that the entire point of quarantines is to hide away the content Reddit doesn't want advertisers to see without any community blowback. Quarantined subreddits are completely ad-free after all.
As a long time reddit user I actually find the product to be borderline unusable without an account. There's so much noise and the account features allow you to focus in on what you want to hear.

I've never used the official reddit app so I cant speak to it but I have used an android app called RedReader for a few years now and it is my preferred way to browse reddit. I highly recommend it.
Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse

Beautiful book, full of wisdom. It's short but I had to read it multiple times (and I'll probably read it many times more, each time discovering something new and deeper and relevant to my current state of play).
It does not.
For faster pseudopolynomial time algorithms to knapsack, see this https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06440
That explanation seems pretty hokey to me as well.

The pictures of the muscle are when the fish is alive (overcrowding). That I can believe.

But drawing a distinction between just cutting the dishes head off versus an elaborate process laid out? I haven’t seen any evidence it matters.
Control-F: distributed (0 results)

Control-F: peer (0 results)

Control-F: p2p (1 result)

Can we seriously not come up with a way to make a distributed reddit?

I imagine running a client on sandstorm.io which is pulling content from subreddits that are each hosted in a sandstorm.io instance.

Is the problem with that that it becomes too easy to doxx someone? That we like having a centralized authority that we can "trust" for authentication / authorization / pseudo-anonymity?
Yes, I am indeed saying you should trust the opinions of people with medical training and experience. Especially doctors that have been treating depression with ketamine for years. Whether or not they're an anesthesiologist or one of the handful of people in the entire world that are both an anesthesiologist and a psychiatrist. (All of my ketamine docs require you to also see a psychiatrist, so that profession is still completely involved for me.)

My previous doctor runs a monthly group meeting where patients get together to discuss their experiences. The vast majority of attendees had positive experiences. So even if you don't trust the doctor, you can trust the living proof of positive outcomes. Sure, you could say that the group self-selects for positive outcomes, but no one claims this treatment is 100% effective, either.
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, made me realize that almost 50% of jobs in captialism are not really nessasary. Made me an anti-capitalist and despise most of the users in hackernews.