skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU has been pulling this stuff for a while. Back when Ireland had a referendum whether they should ratify the Lisbon treaty the Irish voted against it. A year later they were asked to have another referendum with some concessions given by the EU.

Referendums don't really work if one side can just ask to have another one.
Hadn't heard of it, but will definitely keep an eye on it. Thanks!
Now I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands
But I will find out where she's gone
Kiss her lips, and take her hands
And wander through the dappled grass
Pluck 'til time and times are done
The silver apples of the Moon
Golden apples of the Sun
> I want to see the illegals dumped at the embassy rather than hooked up to medicine.

That is a horrible, near sociopathic, line of thinking. You seem to have gotten to a point where you can't even recognize illegal immigrants as human beings.
Another good example is Sonos ... they are slowly letting their desktop application die to force users onto iOS or android apps.

In the case of Sonos, it is much darker and user hostile because there is no danger of "web consumers being siphoned off by google" - you have to buy the Sonos components anyway. In this case it is all about metadata and traffic and user profiling.
Cool, but having to give data to Google to create an account is a major detractor.
Not a lawyer, but from a moral perspective, for most justice systems, the punishment is determined after determining whether the person is guilty. On top of that, the prison time for the crime is independent of other crimes (usually). It is almost impossible to balance all the crimes to make it seem fair. How do you even gauge that? Thief < Rapist < Murderer?! Each crime should be taken for what it is rather than what it compares to.
Hans Rosling is one of my greatest heroes.
Because I can check the sources. I can go to the Twitter profile and search the tweet. I can corroborate sources.

Whether its the correct interpretation or whether the content of the tweet itself is factual depends on several factors. And I agree, the news has some play in interpreting the information because they have to generate content through additional discussion (ie. business), and because everything needs some form of interpretation.

The irony is, the OP might as well say stop reading Hacker News, because this site is a publicly curated news outlet filled with BS and non-BS content everyday. So, should we stop reading Hacker News because it could spread lies or opinion?
> Nobody wants an app anymore.

News to me. You sure you’re not just projecting your personal preference?
There are people sitting in prison RIGHT NOW from Reddit posts. Now think about the damage admins editing posts can do. You're right, it is beyond acceptable.
Free Will by Sam Harris had a great affect on how I view the people and by proxy the world around me.

He argues that anyones decisions are a direct result of the physical structure of their respective brain, which in turn is moulded by their genes and experience so far, rather than a by an unexplainable free will.

The book made me reconsider how people treat each other because of their beliefs and actions - from harbouring negative feelings towards somebody due to their opinions to locking up people for committing crimes.

At the very least it has helped me in personal relationships and encouraged me to try to understand where another persons opposing viewpoint is coming from rather than feel negativity or superiority towards them because I feel they are wrong.
If you add AppleCare, aggregate that cost over 24 months and sell the handset at the end it’s a good investment. I don’t sell at the end but give my wife’s and my used handsets to the kids and they get two more years out of them.

Total expenditure is less than $100/month for 4 good spec iPhones that run our personal and business lives entirely is a damn good deal.

SIM contracts are approx $90 + broadband is $70 a month as a comparison.

Pricing adjusted to USD from GBP
"Deschooling society" by Ivan Illich.
opposite of survivorship bias

If you've heard of them, its because they got caught
That's great input/insight, I think I agree with with most of what you're saying. What I really got from this book is that I was not managing my goals correctly. As a programmer when I'm given a problem the first thing I do is break it down into small, easily achievable pieces that then build up into the final solution.

I wasn't doing this with my goals and a byproduct of that was that I wasn't able to measure to progress of my final goals.

It's really more about how you manage your goals, not what they might be, but even with something as broad as happiness I think this is still possible. If you set "being happier" as your final goal, you can start to set daily, monthly, yearly... goals that fold into happiness. Happiness may not be strictly measurably, but if you know that working out 3 times a week makes you happier you can set that as a weekly goal. You then can set monthly and yearly goals around what working out steadily will improve (lifting more weight, running further and faster) and those things will usually be easily measurable.

There's edge cases for sure, as with most things. I will say it works better in a work environment where most progress can be easily measured (Even though it often isn't), but I think a good goal system is something that can be beneficial for any goal you may set.

However I do agree with #3 & #4, if your final goals are not in the right direction any adjustments to the daily, weekly, monthly goals will not improve that and may have a negative overall effect, but I think that resolves to a much larger issue than your goal management system.
It's spiraling down now. Too transparent that hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent to shape public opinion. Shills all over the place, in every single subreddit. And if they can take over a subreddit, they'll prop up a new one with the right people in charge by spamming it's content enough that it reaches /r/all.

The clocks ticking on reddit. It used to be such a different beast back in 2005.
This is hilarious. Yes the reason the subreddit for the President of the USA is allowed to exist is so the FBI can gather evidence.
Actually, I think it's arguable that financial market deregulation in the US is largely responsible for the increased costs.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/02/real-reason-stock-bu...
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Can you share which translation you read? I imagine there's multiple that people will still find enjoyable but there's a lot of options for russian lit.
I think that they should focus on educational games that teach basic language and math. That may be very challenging but if anyone can pull that off it could lead to some really general purpose abilities.
You aren’t shadow banned.
Great job with the app! Which open source model did you use to generate the speech?
A rant.

The question itself is kind of absurd if you think about it. But it leads to a nice parade of skimmed and unread books. Sorry, if I'm too cynical. I just have seen these questions about books thousand of times and every time I have the same feeling: that people are grossly overestimating the impact of the books they have read and they are just approval junkies. Surely, no book can change your thinking about almost everything.

It's quite interesting that people love the concept of "favourite books". Any time there is a question about our favourite books we feel the urge to share and tell everyone what great books we have read. It's not important what others have read, main thing is to shout out our title.

I still haven't figured out why we love to discuss books so much. Is it egoism or need for approval? Is it because we have to somehow justify hundreds of books we have bought and never actually read? Books become elements of decoration, just to show off and appear smarter perhaps. If they are stacked on the edge of your desk, that's even better, it portraits you as a restless intellectual adventurer. And when your guests arrive you make sure that they get a glimpse of your amazing "library". And some of the guest who kind of dabble in books themselves, are happy to look at your books, skim them, and make some general remarks. Win-win. I'm sure you guys can relate.
Deep Mind continues the venerable tradition of defining their own frontiers of AI research based on what will sound good in a PR release when they inevitably achieve superhuman performance by modests means of a single datacenter stuffed with TPUS and $10K video cards.

I guess we should just accept that in the society of the future robots will play board/computers games and draw paintings while humans will all be slavering on integration of endless badly written web services.
It gets even more interesting when you figure you that we're already all playing it! We're all judges, and both false positives and false negatives are already common.
Eh, they went back to Youtube. I've read the vilest, most shocking and dumbest comments on Youtube (and they had quite a few upvotes) - Reddit is meek by comparison.
I wonder how important Google Search is to Reddit, though. They are big enough (like Facebook) that they may not need it much anymore, and may have used AMP based on the promise of a better experience (meanwhile deliberately degrading mobile experience).
Why did GM's people's salaries depend on not understanding NUMMI/TPS? I would have thought it would have been clear to them they either adapt or die, and thus their salary depended on understanding it.
Facebook is a natural monopoly. People have to use it, whether they like it or not, whether they care about privacy or not.
To your point about viewpoints: Reddit is pretty demonstrably not a place for all viewpoints. Note that I'm not making a normative comment here, I'm just stating a fact: in most of the mainstream and default subreddits, there are a variety of opinions you really can't express without being downvoted.

As for the thing with the CEO giving drugs to someone in a cabin...I think you should interpret this a little more holistically. For a variety of reasons (starting with illegality, and moving on to liability), that is generally not a thing you want your CEO doing in a well functioning organization of Reddit's size. It's not really about whether or not you're personally okay with recreational drug use. It's a bit of a dog whistle. Things that are generally okay can become very not okay in the context of the workplace and professionalism.
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> Now think about the damage admins editing posts can do.

Why, their actions can lend plausible deniability to incriminating information in posts that have not been edited.
I have had sushi that was completely fresh — literally a tuna I caught myself, carried off the boat, cut up and ate. The taste and texture was fantastic.

You are right that almost all fish you eat has been frozen. This is partially for practical reasons: fishing boats are often at sea for weeks at a time. Also for safety reasons: most fish have a significant risk of parasites which are killed by deep freezing.

Tuna is one of the few fish safe enough to eat fresh and raw (and even then there is some amount of risk).
1984.

Changed my perception about the state, our society, people's beliefs and media's influence. I was fascinated how Orwell was able to accurately portray the characteristics of totalitarian and authoritarian states.
I've never heard it described that way. Now, you've given me the incentive to read it.
Thank you for your comment. I can't really relate, but it does sound very interesting and potentially useful to many others.
Ask HN: Why do cloud providers allow subdomain takeover?
Hi, So recently I did a successful subdomain takeover attack on a shopify domain and was appalled by the lack of response and knowledge the owner of the domain showed when I informed him. This led me thinking as to why do cloud providers let this form of attack happen? As I understand, most of them use some form of virtual hosting thus asking for alternate domain names. Why doesn't every cloud provider make verification of domain name compulsory? Some of them do, so I'm sure this is possible.
Please help me satisfy my curiosity.
Thanks
Now all they need to do is remove the old design and I might be able to quit for good.
The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion
Friends and family.

In many cases they are super-smart too. That’s optional. More often they’re good at relationships and have a great network.
Sorry about that. I need some way to prevent someone from quickly registering many email addresses. Do you have any other ideas?
I use a third party mobile client and am very happy with it, but I know it's only a matter of time (despite what they've said in the past) before they kill/rate limit/price the API in such a way to kill off all the third party clients.
For anything I use regularly, I'll choose a native app over a web site or web app every time because they typically consume less battery, cpu, memory, and bandwidth. They are usually also faster and a well written app is always going to feel better than one running in a web browser.
Essential Features in a Feed Aggregator?
i.reddit.com. 2010 mobile app feel, blazing fast, light on resources. As it should be.
Hey, I'm building an RSS Reader / Feed Aggregator and currently looking for feedback and ideas on what features would users want.

I want to build a better alternative to Feedly and other readers.

My value proposition points are the following:

1) Modern design

2) Simpler use and minimalistic interface

3) Cheaper paid subscriptions

4) Wide feature availability in the free tier

5) Pocket-like browser extensions for saving urls to a Read Later section

6) Aim at the regular internet user so it's really seamless to get up and running (not like aaronpk's Monocle for which you need to setup your own Microsub server and stuff)

7) Highly customizable: shortcuts, colors, layouts and other options

8) Add a tool to make a feed out of any website (like an integrated http://fetchrss.com/)

9) Save articles as PDF for offline reading or sharing

10) Probably offering an in-app reader but I also want to emphasis the importance of reading content on the actual website to show support and 'live the real experience' just how the creator intended to (and not just my parsed content, stealing traffic from his site)

Should I give it a try or should I quit already?
Reddit is awful. I used to absolutely love reddit in 2010, 2011. Back then, reddit was at a stage where it was just starting to be mainstream. Most of the people who had found reddit on their own or by word of mouth, and who had liked it, were cool and smart, so to speak. At the same time, reddit was becoming very popular and being seen more and more as a meme-ey social movement. As the importance of reddit became more apparent, it galvanized all those cool, smart people to work very hard to create excellent content and generally nurture the community. That was the key to the goodness of early reddit: a very high caliber subset of the user-base being driven to put tons of effort into content creation and community management — driven by the intoxicating idea that reddit was the next big thing more or less. I remember visiting a friend at UCSB in 2011, and everybody talking about reddit. One of his female roommates asked if I browsed reddit. It was just a very exciting thing back then. But now look at it.
Differences in notation between different fields abound. It used to be (probably still is) the math department didn’t talk to the engineering department, so people would reinvent basically the same solution in different contexts. Now people maintain the notation for internal consistency, instead of switching to “universally standard notation”.

Basically, historical consistency trumps cross-disciplinary consistency.
In the 60's people generally thought nothing of a 3 year old going out the front door by themselves. That's what I mean by old school.

I have a van without out a back up camera, I'm slightly terrified of backing up because of small scampering children and short Asian grandma's. I've noted balloon cross overs have the same problem.
At Home Assistant we have used Lit Element to power our new user interface and it has been great. Small and fast components, easy to learn for new developers, intuitive API.

One of the coolest thing is directives, https://lit-html.polymer-project.org/guide/template-referenc... (you can also write your own). Directives are attached to a DOM element and can interact with the DOM as they see fit. Examples are awaiting an async iterator and writing results to the DOM as they come in, or have a directive that attaches an animation or ripple effect to an element on click.

For people interested in a UI built with it, the Home Assistant demo is at https://demo.home-assistant.io and source is at https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer/tre...
They also will write the divs out of order, put in "fake" letter divs that are hidden or on a different z axis, all sorts of fun stuff.
Thousands isn’t really a whole lot. If you have say a table with 10 columns and 50 rows and have complex content in the cells (including div elements) you’ll be well into the thousands.
Any particular reason for preferring that translation? I'm always curious to hear others' thoughts before picking one to read.
I hate it because of the tracking, scroll around with dev tools open and see the activity. Call me paranoid but I bet they're building a psychological profile on each user by watching how they interact with topics. I hate it so much I did something about it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8ra9y6/i_hate_the_...
Like the difference between A.I. and I.
Exactly there is a reason most APTs stay as some designation without any real people identified
What do you recommend? I'm on their lowest cost tier and am seeing some of the issues you describe.
Reddit was great back when done in lisp and mostly about programming and Paul Graham essays. Back before Digg died.
New York Beats out San Francisco to Be World's Best City.

Drops mic.
> A shoddily built, poorly insulated, overpriced status symbol.

Got a new, half million dollar house. (not sure if this counts)

Got the upgrade on insulation(got it in the attic/garage area). Got the upgrade on the triple pane glass. Nothing, has broken in 2 years.

Since, I've used it to rent out AirBnB, rent for friends, and soon house many children.

It would have been nice to save 100k and get a smaller home, but builders make nice new homes, not smaller lower cost homes.
To me it’s a warning that when you rightfully overthrow an authoritarian you have to be careful not to trade that authoritarian against another one. This seems to happen all the time. Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Russia and probably many more.
That's only a proposal and it was put out to get community feedback (which was overwhelmingly negative...)
The Price by Niccolò Machiavelli.
Funny thing is, reality is based a lot in perception. For example, it was "reality" that the higgs boson didn't exist before 2012. It was simply part of a model.
It is large. Definitely a two handed phone even with my massive hands.
From the paper:

> The main difference in Hanabi is that there is no “cheap-talk” communication channel: any signalling must be done through the actions played. It is therefore more similar in spirit to learning how to relay information to partners in the bidding round of bridge.

Jakob, why did you choose Hanabi instead of bridge itself? Bridge is obviously much more widely known and seems to present similar challenges.
Maybe the AI also considers ratings of the band. Then it would be no more unethical than online shops displaying customer satisfaction ratings?

In any case the AI could make several educated guesses on how good the band is. Quality of the venue would be another indicator.
This is a design problem. An important one to solve, but still, solvable.

I'll add that I'd feel MORE comfortable with just a transcript being saved than I would an audio file (which is what happens now). Deniability.
Fine, show it for the front page. What is the advantage when you are already at a subreddit or a specific thread?

I hope your superiors realise how much they are stealing users from the future.

You've basically given your competitors a free USP - "it's like Reddit but without all the bullshit".
Ceph Storage Cluster Based on Raspberry Pis and HP Microservers
This is a fair point. You've won me over on classifying bloomberg.
You're totally right, this was a formative anecdotal experience for me but honestly there's absolutely no control for the experiment. I'm sure I've had the blue vs. green disagreement with non Russian speakers and discarded it. If it weren't already topical (I'm sure we were exploring синий versus голубой) I may not have considered the blue/green towel memorable.
Science and human behavior - BF Skinner
PDF available for free from the Skinner foundation:
http://www.bfskinner.org/newtestsite/wp-content/uploads/2014...

Skinner's views on human behavior evolved a bit after this book was publish until he died but this book was my first contact with his ideas.

This book changed the way I view humans (myself included). It made me more empathic.
It allowed me to unified many concepts of human/animal behavior and AI.
Yeah, you're right - that's an unfair characterization given the way you've posited the problem.

My strong reaction comes from being a formerly very engaged user of the site observing a continuous detraction of all the reasons I started using the site in the first place.
Is there a consistent, low risk way of getting 7%/yr. I invested in a few ETFs and am down 1% since 2018. How does one go about doing this reliably?
Daniel Dennet's books - explains how complex designs like our mind can appear out of very simple rules without the need of a designer or what consciousness basically is - a high level view i.e. how can we understand it in simple terms - or what is the purpose of humor. Some examples: "Darwin's dangerous idea", "From Bacteria to Bach and Back".