skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that is correct. A function that takes no arguments and returns 2 and a function that takes no arguments and returns 3 both have the same type signature. I'm not super strong on the theoretical side of computer science, but, my understanding is that the only general solution to determining if our function returns 2 or 3 (or some other integer) is equivalent to the halting problem.
The amount of censorship on Reddit by moderators for arbitrary reasons, completely defeats the purpose of having community-controlled content.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditMinusMods/
These people were the mark for this scam, paying thousands to "apply".
It's an intel thing, apparently.
While I can understand this being true for AOL:

> The data includes personal names, addresses, social security numbers and everything else someone might type into a search box.

I don't think I have a similar issue with page views of one website of one session. I strip all query params and only save the hostname and path of the URL. I think it's nearly impossible to ever link that to a user. Maybe if you have very little amount of users, but then still you don't get personal info.
It’s notoriously hard to make parsers bulletproof against malicious input.

For a toy example, imagine the format says [number of bytes to come] [the bytes]. Allocate an array with the specified size and then copy the rest of the message into it. Right?

Now you’ve got a remote buffer overflow. How about [start sentinel byte] [up to N data bytes] [end sentinel byte]? Just put more than the allowed bytes before the end sentinel.

Unless a format is designed to facilitate secure implementation (which would include being very simple), there are going to be at least a few vulnerable implementations. Is it a backdoor? Read the patch yourself, decide whether the original authors and reviewers knew what they were doing.
Basic income has nothing to do with this and can’t be funded by measly taxes on mega corps. The funding for basic income would require more money than all of the tax revenue the federal government brings in right now.

>It boggles my mind

It boggles my mind that you wouldn’t put any effort into understanding the view rather than sitting around pontificating about how boggled you are.

The key different between large governments and a large company is that only large governments wield the monopoly in violence and involuntary taxation. It’s still trivial in the grand scheme of things to avoid using Google/Amazon/Apple without breaking the laws. Good luck refusing to pay into the US government as a US citizen.

Once Amazon gains the power to garnish wages and imprison people for failing to subscribe to Amazon prime, then they will be on the same level as the government. Until then they are just another fish in the pond that can be avoided.
Same with Facebook. I usually just unfollow people who frequently post political things, but at the cost of missing out on their posts about their personal lives. I wish there was a "subject" filter that I could use to filter out political posts.
Accelerating America’s Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
I’m not sure we have culture anymore that isn’t entertainment.
"Is Reddit a web app? Is Twitter? Facebook? They all started with server-generated HTML, all kinda feel "document-like", all of them involve scrolling (if that means anything.)"

All three of these are examples of websites where JavaScript should be entirely optional. With the exception of the realtime chat functionality in reddit and Facebook, there is very little that any of those three platforms couldn't do exclusively with server-side-rendered HTML and CSS. It might be ugly, but it'd be usable. Any client-side scripting should build on top of that and implement the fancier features.
What if you used the data collected in stores to serve better targets ads online, paid stores to incorporate your tech and made money through more traditional online ad revenue?
FWIW, "containers" aren't a thing. Namespaces, cgroups et. al. certainly were designed with security in mind, as was docker/runc.

Look, this isn't about whether jails are secure containers or not. I'm sure they're great. It's that responding to "if you want more isolation, try hardware virtualization" with "FreeBSD is just better because 19 years!" is not really enaging with the argument as framed.
nice link. countyourculture is bookmarked. thx.
Don't make the mistake of viewing the entirety of reddit under one lens. There are many serious sub-reddits that don't tolerate meme/joke posts and focus on content value.
Ask HN: What does it mean to have a attack on a problem
I was reading Richard Hammings lecture - “you and your research” where he mentions about having “an attack on a problem”. He mentions he didn’t work on time travel , antigravity etc because he did not have an attack on that problem. And because he didn’t have an attack on the problem they were not important problems.

What does it mean to have a attack on a problem?
It is possible to read the readme[1] to imply that unveil is the only protection from escaping the root (e.g. with a ".." directory). The only way to know for sure is to dig through the code though.

https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync
Your Company Wants to Know If You’ve Lost Weight
I use the "Old Reddit Redirect" FF add on which redirects all Reddit links to old.reddit.com which still uses the nicer old UI.
I think a few DNS records can fix their UI, don't need 300MM for that. Just make reddit.com the same as old.reddit.com.
No one bought at 19k/BTC.

And if they did, they likely bought petty amounts.

Most people bought before. We believe that there may be an alternative to government currency in a rare number.

I didnt lose 90% of my wealth.

I actually got an extra 0.6 BTC since Jan 2017. I consider that an increase.
Pushing AI into the Mainstream: What Are The Limiters
Interesting point but I'm not sure I agree. There are other professional soccer leagues in the UK aside from the Premier League as well. It's not entirely apples-to-apples because the wider market structures are different between the US & UK, but I do think comparing the dominant player in each market is useful & instructive.

I think your point is totally fair though in that my description of NFL as a monopoly isn't as comprehensive as I expected. From what I can find, CFL revenues are about $213M , and US college football is $3.4 billion. CFL is pretty close to being a rounding error compared to the NFL, but college football is a definitely a significant presence. I think I'd say a market where one entrant commands almost 80% of the revenue is pretty close to being a functional monopoly, but not entirely, so I should have accounted for that.
> My subreddit filter list (so not including keyword filters, blocked users, domain filters, etc.) is currently 1,391, which translates to 2 or 3 unfiltered posts out of 25 if I browse r/all.

I don't understand what you mean here. It sounds as though you have a black list versus the superior option of a white list (in this case)? Surely it's better to let in what you want and ignore everything else by default versus being surprised by something you don't like and having to ban it?
> Not to the same degree.

Yes, in the same degree. It is a street vehicle. They even published their safety manifesto some months ago: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57bcb0e02994ca36c2ee7...

However you may meet standards and regulations, and pass all certifications, but the issues about autonomous vehicles present big unknowns. We already have accidents and fatalities related to use or misuse of UAVs. Even small sidewalk delivery vehicles may injure or kill a baby in a stroller because of incorrect detection or malfunction, or start a major accident when other drivers need to swerve to avoid them because they entered a road or stopped without notice.

Nuro is testing in Arizona like other self-driving vehicles companies. Some people are getting increasingly annoyed dealing with their behaviors and have started retaliating. With Waymo's cars, for example: https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2018/12/...
Hard disagree here. The tides are finally starting to shift on this and customers are demanding it -- no need to capitulate now.
Reddit's slogan is "the front page of the internet". I think he's referring to that.
I remember having to learn how to normalize my data a lot when I was learning SQL, because the only tools available for use in my environment was a good ole' tool called Microsoft Access & VBA.
Does anyone know if such functionality exists to disable seeing likes?

I've turned off all retweets for exactly the reasons discussed but twitter still shows me that so and so liked some snarky thing so and si said about So and Se, Candidate from State about current affair.

If I can prune that last bit, my twitter feed just might be saved.
Why not just buy a premium membership?
I have this strange compulsion of liking to give companies money and they give me stuff instead of “collecting analytics.”
Tons of people bought at 19K. That’s when transaction counts peaked from historical graphs. And at 18k, and 17k and so on. This isn’t in dispute the historical data speaks for itself, not opinion. [1]

They bought huge quantities, multiplication tells us that. And anecdota of people taking out massive loans because they couldn’t lose.

Most bought in the cumulative run up from mid to end of 2017, again, charts. [1]

You lost 90% of your buying power.

[1] https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/volume/5y/USD?c=e&t=b&vu...
It's a low-comment sub, but I'm a big fan of /r/damninteresting

It's described as "The reddit-specific version of the curated links section of DamnInteresting.com. These represent the nifty articles we've found (and occasional written) about science, history, and psychology."

I enjoy it because it's a shotgun approach to knowledge, rather than specific domain knowledge.
I use rsnapshot [0] for the same thing.

[0] https://rsnapshot.org/
Recently I've been asking more programming help on Reddit because I get more friendly response there compared to Stackoverflow.
Can you even browse reddit behind the great firewall?
A use case centric survey of Blockchain: status quo and future directions
Stallman himself makes a big fuss about "Open Source" not being equivalent to "Free Software". See: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
How will getting rid of the technology that makes this possible stop it?
SemVer bit starts at https://youtu.be/oyLBGkS5ICk?t=825

Have to agree, excellent talk.
Thanks for the response. Just curious, are you single or do you have a family who depends on your income? If the latter, how did your family handle the adjustment?
That's not a good analogy. In this case, people aren't being stolen from, they are freely giving it away for someone else to do as they wish.

Additionally, "theft" as you put it, in this case, doesn't affect the original property owner.
The app binary is hosted for download on Apple’s CDN. I don’t know about Google, but it’s a safe assumption it works that way with Google too.
What Is OpenTracing? Everything You Need to Get Started
Here's the best source I have found for back-of-the-envelope calculations for energy use:
http://www.withouthotair.com/c20/page_121.shtml
Calculating emissions from energy depends on the local mix of power plants.
Twitter is a rage machine, that’s what makes people glued to it. Twitter threads are also a waste of time.
That's what Haskell has done for a while now! https://pvp.haskell.org/
I respect this perspective about non-military origins of the internet, and perhaps it is true in the context of "ARPANET as a separate effort than the Internet".

However, the motivations driving the development of this technology are more diverse than scientific and engineering. There is clear-as-day evidence of military and military-related conceptualization and funding in computer networking going all the way back to defense initiatives in the 1950s.

An early 1960s Baran paper needs to be cited when discussing the origins of the Internet: "Reliable Digitial Communications Systems Using Unreliable Network Repeater Nodes".

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P1995...

This paper clearly extends computing and communications work done at RAND and the Air Force on SAGE, and it is likely that this strongly influenced what ARPANET became. Reliable Using Unreliable would at the very least drive or be used to support funding of ARPANET.

The "military origins" perspective is elaborated on in Ronda Hauben's "The Birth and Development of the ARPANET".

http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x08
Why My Dad Never Made It to V.P
Not to mention the fact that the site for some reason performs like shit on mobile. Never underestimate a corporate company's ability to overcomplicate/encumber a simple product to the point where it's barely usable.
The new UI feels like a roomful of fresh graduates designed it.
This article makes great points about basic negotiation. One other point for people not used to sales is that you get way better with repetition. Getting a particular price once gives you the confidence to ask for it again. Conversely there's a lot less push-back if you forthrightly state your terms instead of dithering. These are both the product of experience.

For people starting out I think it's fine to low-ball a few deals to gain experience and get insight into what the market will bear. But you need to learn from that process as quickly as possible. The most important learning for me was to ensure that clients put money on the table to close the deal. At that point they are invested in your success, especially if they had to push for it from their own management chain.
Really? That's sad. Our democratic values are not motivated by entertainment as far as I can tell. Neither is our capitalist approach to the economy. Really I'm not sure what component of American culture is driven by entertainment, other than the consumer oriented nature of our economy. But in that case entertainment is just one of many products.
They have oil, so nobody (governments) cares.
I would love more & cheaper VIA Rail trains in Canada as well... Especially when so many train cars are running empty! https://emptytrains.com/ (petition started about a year ago).

It was in the news (all articles/videos in French) [0][1].

[0] https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/medium-large/...

[1] https://www.lesoleil.com/actualite/un-collectif-pour-des-tra...
I quit cold turkey from ~1 hour a day in 2014 to zero and have never regretted it once.
I worked at reddit for 4 years but quit in 2016, largely because they were clearly beginning to switch from a small, fairly independent company (despite being owned by Advance/Conde) to one that was going to become completely dependent on venture capital and I knew what that would end up doing to the site (which, like you mentioned, is manifesting through the redesign, the dark patterns, and so on). They've now taken $500M in VC since I left.

A few months later, I decided to start a non-profit with the goal of building a site that would actually be able to stick to its principles and address a lot of the issues that I think are hurting online communities: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes (HN discussion of the announcement here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17103093)

It's in private alpha and is still fairly small, but it focuses on higher-quality non-fluff content and discussions, and gets several hundred posts/comments a day. If you (or anyone else) is interested in an invite, please read the blog post I linked above and send me an email at the address listed in there and I'll be happy to give you one.
perhaps the drugs screwed up the routing and you got to see a thought routed over the optic nerve ?
By default, Datashader accurately conveys the shape of the distribution in a way that the human visual system can process. If you want a linear representation, you can do that easily; see the first plot in http://datashader.org/topics/census.html , but you'll quickly see that the resulting plot completely fails to show that there are any patterns anywhere besides the top few population hotspots, which is highly unrepresentative of the actual patterns in this data. There is no saturation here; what it's doing in the homepage image is basically a rank-order encoding, where the top brightness value is indeed shared by several high-population pixes, the next brightness value is shared by the next batch of populations, etc. Given only 256 possible values, there has to be some grouping, but it's not saturating.
Yes. Creating safe spaces for slavery and oppression is not what the App Store should be doing. It may not seem like much but every bit helps.
I'd do it, if there were a high probability of it actually happening and a >50% chance of not dying.
I hate websites that try too hard to get you to download the app...incredibly annoying to open Reddit on mobile web
There are also these much older (1980) notes on the Rubik's cube: https://maths-people.anu.edu.au/~burkej/cube/singmaster.pdf
HN has gotten worse since I started visiting ~2 years ago.

That said, still some of the best comments.
Less, though. So Lyft it is. Not that there’s really any way you can ever control who owns shares of a public company, but if the government or its proxy is on record as a large shareholder, that’s something.
>erode away why HN is a gem of the internet

At this point HN isn't much more than a means for YC marketing their investments and job openings for their investments

Any actual attempt at discussion or debate ends up with flagged posts, warnings, and bans
> It doesn't really mean anything.

Among nations, South Koreans have the third most favorable opinion of the US [1], only behind the Phillippines and Israel. South Korea's well-known love of the US goes back more than half a century. As an American, for me it's mutual, I love South Korea too.

My grandfather, having fought in WW2, re-enlisted and volunteered to fight in Korea. He always said the South Koreans were wonderful to him. I think he'd be proud of how amazing their country has become, knowing that putting his life in jeopardy was worth it.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/15/which-countr...
Android Q Features, Release Date, Rumors: Everything You Need to Know
Value and Reference Types in Swift (2014)
My reading of the situation is: That's because it's not theirs to fix. The API is missing in Mesa, and implementing it there would fix the issue. I don't begrudge Google and the broader Chromium developer community for closing it.
If I find an app I really like, I usually buy it. Especially upgrades to pro versions to unlock the full feature set.

Polished, well made apps are absolutely worth the price.

I don't get what's so hard to comprehend. It's a store. There are lots of apps worth paying for.
i think you mean "the competition" instead of "concurrency".

but i see where you're coming from, it's "konkurencja" in Polish :)
I believe its specifically Google Docs.

Google Sheets has had a reasonably good API for years.
I'd do it in a heartbeat, if I'd thought it had a chance in hell of succeeding. Everyone's going to die, why not do it while having the adventure of the millennium?
Our reps wanted to push us into enterprise. We went with LTSC against their advice because the upgrade cycle is much better.

IoT Core looks interesting but I am not sure if we are ready for App Store only. Does it even support WPF or only UWP?
Definitely not like in the west, user interaction tends to be very closely tracked. Although, China became a model that the EU is trying to copy.
Is the German newspaper also considering the infrastructural costs of road construction, expansion and maintenance (particularly maintenance costs incurred by shipping freight on those roads instead of rails)?
I’m not advocating that anybody DDOS their SMS system with fake alerts. But at least an app protects against that to a greater degree than an SMS solution. The app creates a safe space for oppression.
Rootless containers using user namespaces was merged into runc in March 2017: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/774

A week ago Docker gained support for running dockerd as non-root: https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/38050

And there is this project for running Kubernetes as non-root: https://github.com/rootless-containers/usernetes
The mobile app UI is fantastic IMHO. List is snappy, easy to perform upvote, downvote, comment.
I don’t think most PhD physicists know what a diffeomorphism is.
You could see this in the announcement of the planned US-based LAN for the Midas custom game that came out today. The video is absolutely daffy. It reminds me of the old twitter video with the founders as scientists. Super low budget, but raw, real and emerging.
The topology in planning usually deals with higher dimensional geometry. Does the same answer still apply?
It’s kinda frustrating how recommendation systems on most of these sites are just broken. It recommends popular stuff instead of using this power to help “spread the love”, meaning you end up in a sort of monoculture of popular content.

I think it’s on tic-toc where they try to feature “new stuff” a lot more than just popular things, effectively helping along newer users. I know hello talk tries to do this too.

Popular users and content don’t need help! If these places used their power to point at more hidden gems in their content the entire system would feel healthier
Everytime it's crashed it's recovered to a point where the low is now higher than the last peak. I am fully aware of that and expect if it zooms up again, it probably will crash again. I don't deny this. But if when it crashes it ends up higher than the last peak, who cares?

I didn't sidestep your issues. I didn't address them directly, but that doesn't mean I didn't address them. They were as valid as they during the last crashes, and proven to not prevent a recovery then, so therefore the same issues do not prevent a recovery now. You weren't providing any reasons that a recovery like it did before, even in the face of all the issues you mentioned.

Now you respond with a new reason:

> What’s different this time is there are no new bag holders. They all lost their shirts last time around. The price relies on new bag holders because 1800 new BTC are generated by miners and then sold to pay the electricity bills. That’s $2.4 billion dollars per year in sales pressure. The more the price goes up the more the sales pressure goes up. $20K per bitcoin requires $13B in new bag holder money per year. $100K means $65B in new bag holder money per year.

By "bag holders" you talk as if it's a big scam. Only it's not. Everything is out in the open for people to see, and no one is lying about what it is. Whether people in the future will choose to invest or not, and whether the industry will continue to grow or not is what determines whether the price will recover.

You say there won't be any more of that, due to price pressure from miners, but again, there has always been pressure from miners and that didn't prevent recovery the last 5 times.

I grant you the selling pressure from the miners has increased, but the size of the market has also increased as well. Also, due to block reward halving, they do not increase at the same rate. So, even if the selling pressure is too much currently, for the market to grow enough and make up for it, it will eventually reduce so that won't be the case forever.

To repeat though, I also am not 100% sure bitcoin will be the dominate cryptocurrency. As I said before, I'm bullish on the cryptocurrency market in general, not just bitcoin.
> What does it mean for America when it's no longer the owner or creator of culture?

A broader perspective on the world
MasterCard and Visa cards are issued by banks, so you'd need to have some kind of partnership agreement with a bank. For example, at the very bottom of Brex's home page[1], you'll find:

"The Brex Mastercard® Corporate Credit Card is issued by Emigrant Bank, Member FDIC."

[1] https://brex.com
That's a 7.7% delta. If there was a 7.7% price delta then people would opt for Lyft every time.