skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and things like acid attacks against women are decently common.

Wait, what? Where's your source on this.

Via google I can find references to one case from 1997 and one from 2002, and that's it. The idea that this would in any way be "decently common" here is preposterous.
Getting to mars and colonizing there seems like an awful life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKGREZs6-w
> If so you could argue that they were given a service free of charge.

Sure. And so are Uber drivers. But the only real way the service continues to be of value is if the value proposition remains the same. Facebook and Uber made a promise, maybe not explicitly, but implicitly, that the service would continue to offer the same value on Year 10 as it did on Year 1.

And those early adopters, those without which the companies could not have gotten as rich as they have gotten, bought that promise, hook, line, and sinker. They probably didn't realize that the platform they were building, the devil whose promises they bought, would turn into the monster that it has. Heck, some probably still busy themselves defending that monster as we speak.

To make this clearer, the trade for the early adopters isn't just for what those early adopters immediately got for it, but also for a promise. Without the promise, nobody would bother. This is what makes a startup so hard to get off the ground in the first place. I have to either not care about the money or really buy into the promise in order to fund a Kickstarter. I have to trust your company's SaaS offering before I'll add it as a dependency to my own business or my own life. Without a promise of future value, no company would ever get off the ground.

Everybody is complicit, some more than others. That's what makes a morality play so riveting, you are participating just by watching it. When I call an Uber, I sell a little bit of my soul to make my life a little bit more convenient. The nature of technology and modernity is such that you cannot avoid making such choices. All you can do is make them anyway and hope you don't get screwed.
At least your money is often going to a local business rather than a big credit card company
How to generate random geo-coordinates within a given radius
I love Costco, but it is worth remembering that a good amount of the time even their per-unit prices are higher than the local grocery store. I still shop there, but I go for the stuff they do better than the other stores in the area, not for any kind of bulk price.
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None, of course. As I said, I don't think we will see anything like this happen with Facebook, but that might not be the case if megacorp monopolies continue to garner political power.
Why do you think moderate inflation is bad?
Ask them to pay for a crappy version of the product.
From a communication with O'Conner:

"Please tell me the ministry of information was just a flippant remark -- I hope that you will never promote such an idea. It sounds great, in a world run by honest individuals. But, No - not ever - has humanity demonstrated that this would be a good idea."

Her response:

"Yes, of course a joke. I need to learn to be more careful on the record."

-- Bad joke, but better than the alternative.
Plato was at odds with democracy. Zeno was not. Plato's Republic, shitty as it is, survived and is still widely read as a basic philosophy text. Zeno's Republic, written in response to Plato, was lost. Go figure.
Study Blames YouTube for Rise in Number of Flat Earthers
That is not what it needs to do to pass a Turing test. It needs to sustain ongoing dialog and thought, while maintaining a consistent awareness of another human's perspective in real time. It needs to do what a human does while having a conversation. And humans don't just spit out responses to questions. They get bored. They get distracted. They display tonal inconsistencies in response to emotions.
It's not leadership failure. It is what Facebook IS fundamentally as a company. There are no rules. They proven it time and again. There is no real will to do anything differently.
I certainly didn't say it was better.

"Entirely flawed" is also incorrect. At least according to this UK-based ranking: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...

The problem in the US is that too many people go to college to study things that cannot possibly afford to repay the cost of learning those skills. High school students are lied to by making them think college is the only path to success. Many 2-year trades exist (that you can apprentice - so earn while you learn) and pay much better than the opportunities available to 4-year students.

I do believe there should some cheaper public options but the biggest problem by far is too many people buy into the "you need college to succeed" myth.
You can bootstrap a node without storing the blockchain. You have to download it though to build up and validate the unspent transaction outputs which are < 1 gb iirc.
Not to mention that it doesn't work without JavaScript enabled on the client (unless he's generating CSS in server-side JavaScript). That's fine for a true web app (and web apps do have their place), but it's completely not fine for a web page, which should display just fine without JavaScript.

People should not be forced to grant you permission to execute code in order to read text & view images.
A more likely outcome is that while FB gives a "soft" finger to the government by questioning the law, anti-government disinformation magically accelerates and floods Facebook, causing the formerly loyal citizens to believe that the government is controlled by shadowy Jewish financiers, and that the government's attacks on FB are an attempt to suppress this vital free speech, &c.

Sigh.

I'm old enough to remember when saying something like this earned you a free tinfoil hat and the condemnation of your saner friends.
> Also why would I trust them, when there is no need to?

Because your alternative is to trust the crypto infrastructure, which is far less trustworthy.
This seems like a inaccurate take from folks who are not following the gaming industry closely.

Activision just had a record-setting year of high revenue (presumably they are not feeling the impact of peaking attention), in part because the quality of their products is still high-ish. They laid people off because they could, not because of any downturn in business.

EA's quarterly results are down, because their product quality has suffered and their pricing has risen, players are somewhat disengaging. Those problems are with EA and internal to EA, not problems with the industry.

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The article is right to claim that too much focus is on "Fortnite", but they miss their own point. These companies are not suffering from "peak attention", so much as they have stumbled into various mismanagement and/or bled out a chunk of their talent and ability to create. These companies problems are impacting the products they ship.

If you build a well designed, well crafted product, players will still happily arrive and spend lots of money (as EA's own Apex Legends is showing today, and as Fortnite, Spider-Man, RDR2, Warframe, Path of Exile, Magic Arena, and many others routinely demonstrate.)
One of the three is bound to disappear from their product lineup soon, right?
> Why don't we have more : "We tried it, it is the worst, especially for products which lifespan is more than two months"

Because that last sentence is just rubbish, CSS in JS is great. I'm using it for large projects already 4 years. If your experience is bad you must be doing something wrong. CSS in JS is almost the same as working with (S)CSS, except for extra power to control dynamic elements without having to juggle with classnames.
Sailing across the ocean is not as easy as 'make sure you have supplies and your crew doesn't mutiny.'

Yes, many of the real problems were solved by 1490 AD, but some were not. Longitude, for example, was insanely difficult.

Many, many people have died at sea. Well-trained, prepared and determined people.
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Unless it's sarcasm, this seems like the sort of thing you should be discussing with a therapist, not posting on the internet.
You know rule 23 exists for a reason, someone thought it would be a good idea.....egads, I wonder what evil horrible thing they did.
An interesting thing that's happening right now with the release and rise of Apex Legends is seeing how these now stale numbers are already starting to move around in regards to the level of engagement that Fortnite now commands versus what it commanded only weeks ago.

The pace that the market is moving is pretty incredible in direct contrast to the landscape even just 5 years ago when MOBA's owned the world.

This in conjunction with other nimble, highly accessible entertainment experiences (Tiktok, HQ and its clones, etc) make for vast and extremely fickle landscape vying for attention. It's really fascinating to zoom out and watch it unfold.

Personally I'm just thrilled to see the level of production around eSports really kick off. Games that have been around for a decade plus now (CS:GO, Dota 2, Street Fighter) now have these incredibly high quality events and online coverage that for me have shifted my attention away from many traditional sports I used to watch.

Exciting times for sure.
If you were an author of a book with active copyright you might want to get paid for it.
Ask HN: How to ask for feedback without spamming
I've built an application, I think it's really cool. Now, I want to start asking for feedback, but when I tried posting on sites like reddit I got flagged down, because they say it's spam. Can I post references to my project here on HN and expect it will not be considered spam? Any special places on the web that are specifically meant for posts like this? Any special techniques I should apply to make it less spammy?
Intuitively, the purpose of the positive coefficients constraint is to allow for the interpretation as a mixture (admixture?) of components. This constraint gives the nice properties of W.

In principle there is no reason why you wouldn't allow negative coefficients in H, but if you want the W to learn additive components, then you need the non-negative constraint.
This is one of the great things about the internet. Not only is it an amazing article about hexagonal grids that you would never find in a magazine much less a book, but the references are equally amazing and exhaustive.

I do remember back in the late 70's and seeing D&D using hexagonal grids for outdoors, and the despair and pain of trying to find a damn pad of hexagonal paper (I think I had to mail order from The Armory or Chessex?!?). It was pretty funny that years later, one of the first PostScript programs I wrote generated hexagon sheets that could be printed on the college laser printers.
Perhaps even more than all of these issues was scurvy. It killed absolutely ridiculous numbers of sailors all the way to the 19th century. Funny thing about it too. We now take it for granted that it is caused by a vitamin C deficiency, so it can be prevented by access to fresh citrus fruits. And some had caught onto this, but at the time it was largely considered superstition since it was thought that scurvy was simply a disease, and so trying to prevent it by eating lemons was treated with extreme skepticism.

Even once people began to realize that it somehow really worked, the benefit was attributed to the acid somehow interacting with the disease and not to vitamin deficiency. It's interesting how we, now the benefit of hindsight, can take things that took hundreds of years and literally millions of deaths to discover as being practically self evident.
This is very cool. I've never used this site before!
Can you explain how ARC can be more easily lock-free than LRU? ARC has to coordinate 4 doubly-linked lists and a pivot on every access.
Is the world's most expensive painting a FAKE?
Wow! I had no idea this is how they did it. Very cool!
> "How Kotlin makes me a more productive software developer"

The title is categorical, but the content does not support that claim.

The content gets no further than — "I feel much more productive with the language."

Whether or not the author is more productive seems unknown (and apparently unexamined).
Adding to this, the original quote of “the submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology” is what makes me say "cretin". Because it's BS. The degree to which technology is interfering with culture is a real concern, yes. But "all forms of cultural life"? Nonsense. If he could resist absurdist generalizations like that, he'd be a much more valuable thinker. Instead, he's just telling people what they want to hear.

I just suffered through a brutal, dehumanizing call where I spent ten minutes trying to convince a voice recognition bot to connect me to a human being. That's part of Postman's negative world, for sure. But tonight? I'm going to play music with a friend. We're recording some of his bass parts for an album. That's cultural life, too.

And tomorrow? I'm going to an amazing concert, African singer Angelique Kidjo's reworking of the Talking Heads' "Remain in Light" album. That album exists because of technology. I found out about the concert because of technology. I get to hear her because of technology. Technology (and by "technology", I mean "stuff that wasn't invented yet when Postman was a kid"), in this case enriches the cultural experience.

I remember seeing Postman bragging about how he uses a pencil rather than a computer to write, because Technology Is Bad. That's not sophisticated. That's a cretin. Pencils are technology, too. Paper is technology. The books he got printed are technology. But he doesn't get it, because he's a cretin. For Postman and his ilk, "technology" is "stuff that wasn't around when I was a kid". And it's bad why? Because it's unfamiliar and uncomfortable.

Postman is just saying "Get off my lawn" in fancy academic language.
Let's say we have 100 people and they'll each pay you $100K if they are cured. If you give them sugar pills, let's say 1 recovers naturally and pays you a total of $100k. On the other hand, if you give them an experimental drug that cures say 10 of them, then you'll get $1M dollars. So you'd be willing to spend around $900k on actually curing them. That works out to $9k per person.

So the incentives seem correct to me. The incentive is to actually cure you as long as the cost/benefit ratio works out.

However, in order for a treatment that costs $100k up front with a 10% cure rate to work out this way, you'd have to pay $1M if the cure worked. I suspect that most people paying for this cure wouldn't or couldn't make that kind of payment.
It still proves your point, but the gallery is interactive via clicking to the sides of the image. Interactive but not intuitive.
We didn’t arrest any executives in 2009, likely out of fear of the signal it would send the markets — so no I don’t believe the Chinese example applies here.
A select committee is distinct from government, and Theresa May's inability to organise a piss up in a brewery. They are carefully bipartisan. DCMS committee currently has an equal number from Labour and Tories, and one SNP. Committees are equally happy to lay into government.

As has been the case for 40 years (some might claim 200) or more, the Tories would prefer to put the Tories before anything trivial like "the National Interest". Brexit was guaranteed to be a dumpster fire from the moment Cameron put a referendum in the manifesto.
FWIW, depending on where you live check to see if there is a Habitat for Humanity ReStore near you. Better than dumping such things into the garbage. And for small projects, you can save a fair chunk of cash by shopping there. I used to get wood stain for a tenth of what HD would charge for the same thing.
I've used it for demos - which aren't production but I'd really prefer if it didn't crash!
Tangentailly related; i recently needed to buy a new shirt, where in the past, i had shopped at Express for some work shirts - but havent been in their store in several years - i went in as they were having a 40% off store wide.

Their shirts, which i used to have dozens of - are now priced at $69 per shirt... less 40% for this sale.

Ive never paid $69 for one of their shirts in the past. So the 40% off now reflects what i ised to have paid. So i feel they raised the prices of their shirts, then hold frequent 40% off sales to lure in traffic of people thinking they are getting a great sale - only to pay what the full retail of the shirt used to be.

So Express literally found a way to inflate sales of product through this tactic.
Can you link the study? As far as I'm aware, even a relatively small proportion of misleading news, if it hits the right political nerves, could cause real damage to a society, so I'm interested in how the study defines "not that widespread", and what the implications of that are.
Train and ship a Core ML model without writing a line of code
It's been years since I played any games really. I enjoyed D3 and really committed for a while to WoW. personally, I don't really like free to play as it distorts the gaming experience too much. Take WoW for example: when it started, it was legitimately slow and hard to get to level 20. Now that level 20 is the free to play cap, it only takes a few hours. All the fun that came from exploration and "play" of the game in that early level set is now gone, replaced by speed grinding, achievements, and constant rewards. I feel like leveling used to be a consequence of playing, now, since they've basically decided that there is no play until endgame, leveling is a chore that is meant to be rushed through. I mean, I get that endgame play is fun, and that the big raids are fun, but, they've so distorted the solo-questability that as a part time player there is virtually no point. There was a point in there where they could have focused on the long-term viability of the game and doubled down on mid-game content - better quests with complicated storylines, better low-level raids, better "role playing game" mechanics. Instead, they focused on endgame, where WoW and Fortnite start to look a lot more similar. One just takes a ton of work to be competitive and one is easy any free.

I guess if I had one point to make it would be that all the big titles focus a lot on endgame rather than making the mid-game deeper and more fun.
To be clear though, This was a nuts concept until Yamanaka blew everyone's minds.

When I read cell biology texts in 2008 the "dogma" was that differentiation was a one way route.

I've had the pleasure of attending classes by a prominent stem cell person who presided over the conference session where Yamanaka presented his findings first. Apparently everyone just thought he was nuts. People only believed it when the original cell paper came out. Definitely one of my favorite biology papers of all time!
Plenty of other countries besides China tightly control internet access.

Banning Facebook in the UK would cause them a significant amount of grief and likely close their London office (Facebook is the IDP for Facebook employees). Most folks are not going to go through the trouble of setting up VPNs for their phones to connect to Facebook.
"I almost closed my browser tab at "fake news". There are legitimate concerns about Facebook, but this isn't it."

That's one of the main concerns about Facebook (aside from privacy).

Anyone can post any kind of fake story with tremendous reach and no accountability or traceability.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/30/read-all-about-it-the-bigges...
Securing Bare Metal Hardware at Scale
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/941/7277
In addition: consider that “force” also relates to actions online. A government may be able to arrest employees of a company on its soil, but consider the consequences of Google turning off gmail/google access in the UK. Not parity, but that power is real and something governments should be worried about.
I was on the fence there for a while between the two designs, and now that you mention it I think the shoulder-width separation is at least as important for comfort as any other factor. I ended up going for the Advantage2 instead mainly because of the mechanical keys, since the two bottom-end Lenovo keyboards I was using previously got to where I had to forcibly "pop" some of the keys down to type and I wanted to minimize my chances of a similar experience. Though, I doubt the problem happens quite like that on any but the cheapest of keyboards.

I really do wish they made a separable Advantage version. The ErgoDox seems as evidence that there is at least some market for such a thing.
Case study: building a dashboard and developer documentation portal from scratch
JCPenny very famously nearly went out of business because they do this all the time, but then tried to revert to just pricing things normally. People thought they weren't getting deals any more, so they stopped going there.
> What use is it to see the price of the item without knowing the shipping cost?

It's better than not knowing the price until I tell them where I live.

> It seems to me that what you’re really saying is that they need to know where you live and what kind of shipping you want before they can show you the real price.

If they want to include shipping in the price, then yes, they need to know where I live before they can tell me the price. So either they can't tell me the price, or they will change the price after they learn where I live, or they won't change the price and lose money on it, or they may refuse to ship to me. None of these options are in any way reasonable, except maybe not telling me the price, but that's extremely annoying.

Better to not include shipping, tell me shipping is not included, and add shipping later. That way, shipping cost can be the real shipping cost, rather than shipping cost for 1 item times the number of items, which is likely to be more than the real shipping costs.
A class action is not likely. Most Swedes will probably see this as a minor setback and just move on.
I used this guide to help me prototype this engine, which is a hexagonal tile map with the ability to scroll infinitely! (Though, the backend isn’t all there). You can click tiles the change colors and the color persists and has real-time updates between browsers.

https://territories-1d6eb.firebaseapp.com
"Data monopoly" implies FR24 have exclusive use and control over the ADS-B feeders. This simply isn't the case. There's nothing stopping you feeding your data to other sites/apps. Also (as is the case with flight aware), all users providing ADS-B data get free subscriptions to the paid for parts of FR24s service.

Building an app, maintaining a website (that has something like 2 million daily users iirc) and building out backend infra to support the huge amount of incoming data and turn it into something greater than the sum of its parts costs money. What many people don't realise is the data you see on FR24 is not simply derived from ADS-B broadcasts. Data like fight numbers comes from other licensed sources; MLAT triangulation is done at FR24's end; telemetry data for areas without community ADS-B coverage comes from partnerships with radar operators, airports (and soon satellite, when Aireon is active) etc.

If you're curious to know what raw info is included in a typical broadcast, this is a good link: https://www.adsbexchange.com/datafields/
Clearly when somebody has a bad experience, they are just doing it wrong.

Or perhaps there's something to it, and the idea is not as good as one might claim it to be.
> I think there's value in reducing the politically privileged's means to dominate their power over the general populaced

Cryptocurrency doesn't do this.
I can't answer your question, but it is faster and more efficient. I've used it and it works.
Hogwash. How can a user be sure that the chain is valid if they don't download the transaction set?

If users cannot verify the amount of coin in the network this is useless.