skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, like the homeless.

I'm not exactly sure if you're trying to refute a point I made...In my experience the greatest impediment to helping the homeless or rent-burdened comes from NIMBYs and excessive local control. 100% affordable projects regularly face vicious opposition from local members of the community[0]. I was at one of the community board meetings for the linked project and the mental contortions people go through to justify not building housing are really amazing.

EDIT: Another tidbit, just something I find interesting. The linked Curbed article shows my viewpoint, and what I believe to be an accurate reflection of reality. But articles regularly come out that try and spin things differently. See for example this NYMag article[1]. Pretty amazing that people could not be in support of 100% affordable housing, built by Habitat for Humanity, for homeless LBGTQ seniors. But, people find a way.

[0] https://ny.curbed.com/2019/1/23/18194444/nolita-new-york-aff...

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/when-a-developer-com...
The existence of Marie Condo would suggest we have too much stuff, as would the fact that we are using the earths resources faster than we can replenish them. Growth at the moment is predicated on buying ever more 'stuff', theres a limit to how long we can keep doing that.

At the other end we get better at making ever more stuff with less labour. That widget factory that used to employ 1000 people 50 years ago, now employs 10 for the same output. Now from a stuff buying point of view that's good, your products are cheaper so people can buy more. But what happens at the extreme. 0 employees in a factory? If everyone does that there aren't any employees to buy the stuff you've made.

Both of these trends are happening, both are unsustainable, sooner or later we are going to have to address them.
"Delivering value to customers"? It's a website-cum-message board. There is no further value to deliver via software features; all of that work is going towards meeting the needs of advertisers.

And advertisers are asking them to show what they are doing to combat adblocking. FB isn't doing this to target customers least likely to convert, they're doing it to check a box for their ad sales team.
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coming to github from perforce due to a job change, i have never gotten back to the point i was at with perforce in terms of expertise, flexibility, and custom scripting. some of it is because of size of team changes, but most of it is github missing features and git being, in my opinion, overly complicated. for example, perforce has a very nice file tracking ui that helps navigate changes, braches, renames, etc.
> And she’ll get even more millions if she waits.

Probably, but maybe not. 2008 happened; something like it could happen again.
> which already makes them the least likely to be attracted by advertisements. If anything, those brands are souring their reputation anytime they are seen by those kind of people in a medium that those consumers find obnoxious.

Facebook thinks otherwise. Between you and them, I suspect they are more likely to have some evidence or trials to support their position.
Interesting post, but i would say you can easily read more than 3000 books if you retire at 65 and live to be 90+. Also there are great non-fiction books by journalists that are not about journalism, a few that come to mind are Bad Blood, The Chickenshit Club, Angler, All The President's Men, books by Matt Taibbi, etc.
Thanks. Still confusing title, guess best Would be tls 1.2,1.3
But at the same time, Trump uses the Enquirer to cover his antics up. Today, my enemy's enemy is my friend.
In the Amazon format, meetings begin with dedicated reading time. The presenter hands out copies of the memo, and everyone spends 20 minutes or so reading silently. Then they discuss the memo as a group. People aren't expected to read it beforehand.
Do customers know anything about 5g other than that it is ostensibly faster that 4g?
Yes, the environment definitely makes it easier and more feasible.

Still, what if we have Star Trek-like transporter building blocks today but just can’t see it yet?
Sorry all that stuff (design docs, prds etc) is confidential. I'll try to find blogs which I can post.
We could have written this exact paragraph. Terrible experience, terrible service.
>counter to your users desire is not unscrupulous?

I mean no... they don't have to my (or my employer's) site.

I love doing things users like, and I do my best to do that often, but straight up it's not their site. If someone wants ads on their site ... I don't see a problem with that on the most basic level.

Fake news, other content, we're talking about something else.
FreedomCoin: Just another word for nothing left to lose?
If I get discouraged I just tell myself this is good because I am adequately challenging myself. If you're only doing stuff that you feel is easy then you aren't really going to improve.
What do you mean freeloader? They chose to distribute the content for free, not me.

If they mistakenly thought this would allow them to guarantee certain things to appear on some private citizen’s personal property, it sounds like a very foolish decision on their part. It might mean they have to shut down the free version of their content or something.

If they try to circumvent my ability to control what is shown on the screen that I own though, it will fail comically, as there will just be an arms race of new technology I can use to ensure my freedom to control what shows up on my screen, to such a degree they would bankrupt themselves trying to control what goes on my screen.. seems a stupid waste on their part, wishing to control someone’s private property like that.
Bolsonaro Wants to Plunder the Amazon. Don’t Let Him
He also probably lost the protection Mueller offered him and AMI for co-operation.
According to this paper [1], the salinity is 7.5-10 g/L, which is one quarter to one third of ocean salinity. Wikipedia [2] also states the lake is "brackish" -- meaning less salty than seawater but more salty than freshwaster -- but hardly a problem for boats. I guess the article is mistaken?

The Dead Sea [3], meanwhile, has order 340 g/L of salt, roughly 10x ocean salinity.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003101821...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakul_(Tajikistan)#Lake_desc...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea
What kind of integration are you thinking about?
Sounds like this HQ2 thing is becoming a complexifier for Bezos
Advertising is just the first thing to do with that data - I expect there will be more (or already there is more - just most of it secret). The problem is that there are huge network effects for information - because there can always be something interesting from a new set of data - so we'll bigger and bigger information stores until we all join the Borg.
Yep, they are using it right now to draw attention away from Jeff's naked drama.
Regarding activity in the US... Do you think it's because we have no cultural knowledge/history of peasants vs the aristocracy? I find that Americans are very confused when discussing class issues and any discussion usually devolves into racism or simple consumerist preferences.
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I have been publishing at Elsevier, and the editing process was a nightmare. The "layout and editing and filtering" is not performed by skilled editors, it is performed on an Amazon Mechanical Turk level. There was no improvement for the reader over what my co-authors and me had submitted, just a lot of back and forth to prevent numerous new errors to be slipped in.

I'd gladly pay a one-time fee for a good editor to bring a paper into a better shape, to cover these costs.
https://brandur.org/articles

Very clear technical writing, mostly about web technologies.
That was one of the annoyances that finally made me pay for the service. The other one was that they were constantly changing what the free plan allows you to do back then.
He has all the right to, that's why he's not in prison.

Spotify gets to dictate who gets to use their product though.
Wow thanks for replying! I haven't taken the class but will definitely look into that.
Fat chance of happening, but it would be interesting to see a 2020 candidate run on the promise of convincing Amazon to put HQ 2 1/2 in a swing state.
I think you can have "legitimate ads".

I think plenty of people are happy to do illegitimate things with them too, and Facebook is as dirty as it gets, but that doesn't mean ads can't be fairly mutually exclusive from scams, fake news, and etc if someone wanted them to be.
It's because they already get unlimited music streaming for free, from multiple sources. The value added by Spotify's premium plan is ad-free unshuffled playback and the offline option, so you have to see whether you have $10 in your monthly budget for just those features. I see the value there but it's also relevant to note that your phone can already do all that if you just buy music.
Best I'm aware, radios offer unlimited music broadcasting all day long and are doing just fine without subscribers.

I've never used Spotify, but if its free, supported by ads option means serving web-based stuff, then it might want to look into getting rid of that and serving audio ads every few songs instead. Ad Blockers wouldn't be a problem in that scenario, and Podcasters have long shown that the what essentially amounts to radio ads are a perfectly valid way to monetize audio content.
Don't forget that you also have to install and update the JVM. We admins don't like that.
That's only the case for so-called Gold Open Access artiles. However, many other articles are put behind a paywall, but also have a version uploaded elsewhere (e.g. arXiv) by their author ("Green Open Access") - Unpaywall helps you find those versions when you hit a paywall.
> But thinking back a few decades when I was young and didn't have much money at my disposal

Setting aside the possibility of malware for a second, would you have taken spotify/pandora with ads back then?
Amazon should build their head quarters in Bangalore. Plenty of tech talent, very low cost of living compared to USA, and no shitty visa policies. Not to mention the 1.3 billion population of India which will soon sky rocket to 1.5 billion making it one of the biggest economies in the world. I guess even Canada would be a better option because of their good immigration policies.
Central Dogma of Genetics May Not Apply to Cephalopods
sure, thats why I said what everyone consider 'matter' are different, for me this doesn't matter that much.
Online advertising is only a slice of this. From political campaigns to chains picking locations, collecting and interpreting vast amounts of data has become the norm.
No doubt about it man, that happens. I don't disagree.
I agree in principal, but the standards can move very slow.
Look at WebRTC. It is only a 'candidate recommendation'.
> How would this be reconciled with significant weight loss often being a symptom of type 2 diabetes?

I don't know, but here is my guess:

At the beginning of the lecture McDougall talks about there being three kinds of diabetes: type 1 (pancreas produces no insulin), type 2 (pancreas produces enough insulin, but it doesn't work because of insulin resistance), type 1.5 (not enough insulin is being produced to cover the body's needs). Significant weight loss seems to fit in the type 1 and type 1.5. McDougall will prescribe insulin if a person is in danger of losing too much weight.
Local government can't be trusted to allocate public resources in a fair way... so we defer that to a private company? That doesn't seem too smart. Where's the guarantee (or even suggestion) that Amazon would use their tax break to improve local infrastructure?
[EDIT: the post says "Prefer books by experts in the field" and says these are people who have spent their lives researching that field. It gives GEB as an example of such a book. That claim is factually incorrect and calls into question the idea of requiring books to meet that criteria. Does anyone of the many people who've downvoted my comment care to explain why you find it objectionable?]

> The best nonfiction books I have read have invariably been by folks who spent their lives researching that particular issue. A couple of books in this category immediately come to mind: Why We Sleep, The Language Instinct, Gödel Escher Bach.

Hofstadter was only 34 when GEB was published
Disagree. How do you suggest they operate their business? Does this extend to print magazines and newspapers--do you suggest they stop running ads and just give away their product? Do you think Facebook should start charging a subscription?

What users want, naturally, is everything awesome free forever. It's naive, though, to things that everyone should always get what they want.

As other have said, I agree there are hard limits and Facebook has violated them, in terms of selling data and collecting it without user's permission. That's different.
Oh sorry about that - these links should work:

Backend eng: https://jobs.lever.co/scaleai/c1443865-f64e-4467-bfdc-898053...
Frontend eng: https://jobs.lever.co/scaleai/9fe1f405-647b-493c-9728-e2c387...
MSFT at $805B ;-) (disclosure, my employer, etc)
I've long used his site as an inspiration as well. It's just pretty clean and interesting.
> Memory hog only by those that don't know what they are doing and happilly new everywhere.

Go uses an order of magnitude less memory for most type of workloads though.
Also you don't tune c++ binaries delivered to you. You have to tune the JVM's option to death for big apps. I can't count the number of incidents "solved" by raising the Xmx param.
That is definitely not the only consideration for pretty much every researcher. Being able to keep doing it is another, for example, and in today's world, citations help you do that.
For statically typed languages yes, but for dynamically typed languages I would say not in all scenarios.
I have often thought that a EBNF-grammar like system would work better in many situations than regular expressions.
PCRE isn't Perl.
> Throwing away TLS for something else doesn't have any compatibility problems on the web

No. Even just small changes to TLS resulted in massive compatibility mishaps. There was about a year delay in the TLS 1.3 process while they worked around things like this.

> But for some reason that keeps not happening and insecure options like these still exist.

Unfortunately you don't even understand enough about this topic to have noticed that the article is specifically mentioning a downgrade because the "insecure options like these" do not exist in TLS 1.3.

Insisting that problems you don't understand will go away if we just rewrite everything again from scratch is even closer to CADT than the anti-agility enthusiasts.
You could explain this over and over to my 65 year old parents, they still would fall for it. They're far from dumb, it's just that it's a lot of information of to handle.
http://ctrl-c.club/~philips/
https://felipetavares.com
Part of good science is to communicate the results of your research. It is after all the scientific community, not individual people doing "cool science".
Achieving even 100x improvement in the energy efficiency of training / inferencing neural networks sounds too good to be true. Still, as ASICs are getting to their limits, it makes sense to try lower level changes in the architecture.
How does "very profitable" equate to "never made losing trades?" If you're only right 60% of the time you can still be profitable overall with proper risk management.
Could be true. Could be whatever chat app he used too.

But my Bayesian prior of how the world works is that someone had access to someone's phone (his or his GFs) and gave the photos to the Enquirer.
We're talking about the greenback, not our cheap canadian pesos...
Monthly paid service for all the music I can possibly want is such a good deal vs. the old days of collecting CDs. This is one specific area where the Internet as absolutely delivered on it's potential.
According to Wikipedia, "The German V-weapons (V-1 and V-2) cost the equivalent of around USD $40 billion (2015 dollars), which was 50 percent more than the Manhattan Project". That was super high-tech, blue-sky research, which in the end had almost zero military impact. It was not stopped by Allied bombing. It was done at the expense of more practical things, like tanks and planes, despite serious shortages of some of the ingredients (like fuel).

The Manhattan project indeed had a brain trust working on it, the like of which existed nowhere else on the planet. (Maybe more Hungarian than German, though.) Germany could not have replicated that, but it seems likely to me that the brains they did have would have been plenty.

There could have been some other roadblock of course, like the total lack of some material. But I don't know of one. IIRC the Soviets mined about half their Uranium in E Germany, so that was available.
It's much deeper than exposure. It's closer to an "ecosystem" model. You're likely to create playlists in a service. You will find channels that you like. You will find that some artists are not available in other services. You will find that an interface is better. You might find their "you-might-also-like" algorithm is better. I tried Google's music system for about a year before switching back to Spotify (the irony being that Google Play Music didn't play well with Google's Assistant if you have more than one Google account).
I learned about lua patterns while trying out OpenBSD httpd and I quite liked it as Regex alternative. It's easy to learn and covers most of my needs: https://man.openbsd.org/patterns.7
Buy the Cheap Thing First
Touché. So Amazon is 3rd, unless someone else wants to jump in.
That’s like saying any inflation is bad because if it were a million percent bad things would happen. It doesn’t tell us anything about reality.
That doesn't refute the fact that he spent his life researching the content in GEB.
I don't understand that surprise. It's their business model, what do you expect? They need to earn money, right? If you don't like them, stop using them.
Yes, but practically speaking, China has almost no power at all to bother you if they successfully spy on you, aside of course from passing any secrets they learn from you to your Chinese competitors.

The US, on the other hand, is where you're located (in this example) and can easily use any information gained against you in a large multitude of ways.

Basically, everyone would probably be better off just assuming any network gear has backdoors open to the government of the country that it came from, then just adopting security policies to mitigate this, and buying network gear from countries that aren't their own.
Bingo. Fake accounts and bots Make Number Go Up And To The Right, so why on earth would they want to stop them?
You need your psychoactive drug fix (caffeine), not coffee.
ToS's (online, at least) aren't legally enforceable. If they were actually legally binding companies would be sueing users for violating them all the time. Theres a reason the extent of ToS enforcement is just account closure, its because they have no legal standing and just act as a safeguard against actual legal challenges.
Literally has literally been destroyed:

"Used for emphasis while not being literally true." [1]

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/literally
It feels like the point is just to raise the difficulty for script kiddies.

After all, there’s always headless browsers and OCR
It shameful that people mindlessly spend $1000 on the latest fashion, sorry, tech accessory but can't afford a few dollars a month to enjoy the creative output of others.
Look, I don't like Facebook, but it provides me tangible value sans the news feed which I feel is bad for my health.

* Messenger is the hands down the best messaging experience that exists. It's super bloated which I'm sure annoys this crowd but it doesn't skip a beat.

* FB Events is the only thing I've ever been able to get people to use -- email chains and group messages aren't half as productive.

* Their real name policy, social graph, and blocking tools are essential for dealing with creepy people and stalkers.

* Local buy/sell/trade yardsale type things operate nigh exclusively on Facebook.

* Local professional networking and enthusiast groups also organize on Facebook.
I tried to use the URL matching pattern from the reference, and I got the following error:

Error: Compilation error: Pattern capture is not supported in this version of the pattern matching engine, pattern 'Url'
Is authoritarian and authoritative exclusively educational psychology and child development jargon alone? I'm honestly asking because I work and am steeped in education.

It seems to me that anyone educated would be able to draw a line between authoritarian and authoritative just based on context clues from society (that's not meant to be as condescending as it might sound). Am I wrong?
A few days ago [1], I found this filter for UBlock Origin to be working for me so far:

facebook.com##[id^=hyperfeed_story_id_]:has([id*=feed_sub_title_]):has(span:has-text(/S.*p.*o.*n.*s.*o.*r.*e.*d/))

GitHub issue: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/3367

[1]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1092191140168622080
I'm Flemish, and I worked in The Netherlands for more than 4 years. The dutch understand "muis" (mouse) "toetsenbord" (keyboard). There are dutch words with different meaning in both regions (like "aftrappen", "precies"). I think the biggest problem learning Dutch for foreigners (except for the rather complicated grammar) is that there are plenty of dialects (especially in Flanders).
Enjoy your ban! I'm always pleased when companies stand up to grifters like you.

Go back to stealing mp3s or whatever it is you think you're entitled to.
Scarcity is beyond just stuff. Land for example is a finite resource.
This is an absurd claim. I use spotify and suffer zero ads. There is no universe where I am anything but a paying user.

People go to extraordinary lengths to rationalize being outrageously cheap.
Future Considerations of Online Marketplaces
If this happens (and I'm not all convinced it will, I think this is just Amazon posturing) then Cuomo, De Blasio and Amazon will have no-one but themselves to blame for it.

The secrecy around bids for HQ2 was already a joke, but the announcement for NYC even more so: De Blasio and Cuomo basically just announced that it was happening whether people liked it or not. Then said they were going to do an end-run around the NYC city council to ensure it does. Some of the objections to Amazon moving to Queens are legitimate and some are not, but you can't blame residents for freaking out when a huge, huge change like this is just dumped on their neighborhoods with zero consultation or warning.

(It should also be noted that the timing of this is probably not coincidental. An outspoken critic of the Amazon deal has been nominated to the state's Public Authorities Control Board, which has to approve of the deal. But he hasn't been confirmed yet, so I suspect this is an attempt on Amazon's part to stop that approval:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/nyregion/michael-gianaris...)
That's exactly it. This piece was written to describe a parent's interaction with the child, whereas I've only ever read about/seen helicopter parenting in terms of the relationship with everyone else.

I'm 100% convinced they are not the same things. This article used that phrase either out of context, or just to get the grabby headline. Not sure which.
Can't speak to the claims in this comment around type 2 diabetes, but worth noting this article and pill is specifically for type 1 diabetes, which is in no way related to weight or metabolism, but rather an autoimmune disease.
Considering the degree to which most Twitter users are trash, I wouldn't mind losing a few of those. The rest will understand the need for security.
Hmmm Symfony uses routes declared in a file...