skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Success.

Nice use of the 80 - 20 rule.

Get rid of the 20% that causes 80% of the work. 4HWW FTW

(Or is the HN narrative we are supposed to be happy now we have 'proof' they are failing?)
I imagine it would take careful and meticulous observation to differentiate between legal porn and almost-legal porn. Dissolving the platform of porn entirely would streamline this process and potentially be automated. Banning regular porn has a greater than zero bearing on moderating child porn, and you're being disingenuous in pretending otherwise.
Not the poster you were replying to, but I use Thunderbird's inbuilt rss reader. I get news and entertainment through it and have no complaints about the UI or experience (The interface is the same as the email interface, so it is easy to master).
Iceland has a lot of industrial aluminum smelting operations there because they have very low cost renewable hydro power...

Flow batteries will come online to carry the storage past where high volume production lithium cost savings can't reach. I think if we put nearly the same or as consistent capital into renewable as we put into even the last decade of fossil fuel discovery, we'll find that costs drop very very rapidly.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/03/13/worlds-first-flow-bat...
> Your votes are still probably counted by a computer.

They are not. The count is done thrice, by hand, under supervision by scrutineers appointed by candidates.

It works very well.
Such is life in the age of post-privacy. By the way, Zuck didn't explicitly renounce that horseshit when he announced the new privacy-focused Facebook. Probably hoping nobody remembers to avoid detracting from the believability of the current horseshit.
I appreciate the increasing trend toward openness. I think it benefits everyone to see what's out there.

My journey All USD $ are gross annualized and approximate. No bonuses/stock. Doesn't include employer-paid health or retirement.

2006, Tenured professor at a community college, $43K to $65K

2011, Developer at a state agency, $84K

2013, Development Team Lead, $90K

2017, IT Manager, $100K
Okay, so now there's one consenting party instead of zero.
> According to Tice, illegal NSA surveillance was targeted across the federal government in order to secure political leverage. He describes this use of surveillance as a counter-democratic tool allowing the agency to pressure elected leaders across the House and Senate.

> Between 2002 and 2005, he said, he discovered that the NSA had been targeting all communications of Congress, FISA, the Supreme Court, senior Pentagon officials, the media, and even future presidential prospects.

> The NSA was essentially “collecting fodder for their lists of dirt for blackmailing all levels of top government officials”, said Tice. The idea was “to ensure they had leverage with those that could conduct oversight.”

There’s a lot to process here. Seems like this would be bigger news. Any other outlets covering it?
Yeah, bad title. It just mesesed up the install, device is still fine. Article even contains the fix.
Money.

They pay many people salaries that they’d have trouble getting elsewhere. If these people stick around for the dream even after the money dries up, then I’ll be impressed.

The sentiment I’ve heard so far is “let’s wait this out, and hope it goes back to business as usual.”

The ethical have likely left already. Those who are most talented and in it for the money will likely be next out, if things don’t turn around. Then they’re left with the untalented and overpaid, who will cling on for as long as possible while the ship sinks.
I want to buy these apps. I want to buy them for my children. I spend time every couple of weeks looking for one-time-pay, no ads, no tracking, no 'optional' micropayment ads. I can find them only very rarely (Stardew Valley was released for Android yesterday - $8 purchase, best money you'll ever spend).

If there was a well-curated newsletter that had a weekly review of new apps (mostly games, but maybe also other categories), I'd even pay for the newsletter ($10/20 a year?) for giving me a better experience than the Play Store. So if there's anyone out there looking for a side gig idea that doesn't really involve programming, and this sounds like your cup of tea, please let me know.
I’m working for myself. I’m exploring some ideas right now. My target is to have something on the market by around May, and then keep iterating/changing based on market feedback. Going to live off my savings until my work can cover my family’s expenses. I’m hoping that happens before I run out of savings.
Ajit Pai’s Plan for Phone Location Data Never Mentions the Word “Privacy”
You will soon be able to pay your subway fare with your face in China
As much as I distrust his motives, there is this in TFA:

> Now, Mr. Zuckerberg is barreling ahead with his shift to focus Facebook on private messaging and away from public broadcasting, even if it means shedding some of his top lieutenants.

That sounds a lot like "understand[ing] the dark side of his monster". Maybe an extreme overreaction, it's true. But a clear acknowledgment that "sharing will make the world a better place" is rather too idealistic.

Edit: spelling
Humans require few or many examples depending on the situation. For example my toddler got some candy from the hospital gift shop six months ago. Walking past the same place today he took off on his own accord and went directly to the candy. A single example was enough to train his candy finding algorithm. On the other hand he has had hundreds of examples of putting on his shoes and still can not manage this on his own.
And yours is a broad generalization, too, about the impact Facebook has on society. You cheer all the good and mention none of the negative consequences of this model. Google also makes much about the internet less frustrating and easier for novices, but I also understand what is being given up in that compromise.

I'm not even saying the "open" experience is not often without frustration. It absolutely is. Part of Facebook's success is connecting the frustrating parts about the internet and making it usable for normal people. But it's not like Facebook achieved some amazing technological advancement, nor is connecting the communication mechanisms of the world something that cannot be done without harvesting all of our personal data.
The absurd reach is pretending that a company shouldn't take every measure possible in preventing its platform from hosting some of the most abusive and criminal content on the planet. What makes you think they're not more moral than the other platforms? What makes you think this has anything to do with morality at all?
That was their DSL service though right? like 100MB? Not gigabit? I'm talking about the gigabit service specifically. I don't think they run those with copper, because the spec says you can't go more than 100m on copper and get gig speeds.
Modern Perl Development Framework and Standard Library
I recently released "Data-Object: Modern Perl Development Framework and Standard Library", a project I've been working on for a few months.

It's my attempt at a framework which provides and demonstrates a bunch of modern Perl programming concepts and best practices.

The elevator pitch would be that it integrates the object system, type system and subroutine signatures such that everything is type-constrainable (should you desire that) in a way that feels native to the language. Additionally, it provides classes and methods for native Perl data types, etc.

The framework is designed such that you can bring your own type library and the system will integrate it along side the core type library in the current scope (package space).

If you're the slightest bit interested or curious please give it a look and provide feedback, and give it a thumbs up if you like it on CPAN and/or GitHub.

I would love any help in further developing it, e.g. pull requests, bug reports, suggestions, etc.

https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Object

- iamalnewkirk (irc: alnk)
I think if I was a super-intelligent AI plotting to take over the world I'd get into cryptocurrency. An anonymous way to accumulate wealth and power and you could use bitcoin mining as a cover for the processors powering the AI.
Bill McKibben: A World Without Fossil Fuels?
When I was a lad, wirewrap was the thing. You can prototype quickly, and make changes easily too.

(It seems like it's still a thing in fact http://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/wire_wrap_is_alive...)
Keep calm and blame dev ops!
I find this very interesting. Could you elaborate a bit more in what features tumblr has that you require?
StackBlitz is Monaco in the browser. No extensions or terminal. Works great for certain kinds of front-end dev, but more complicated build tooling aren't available and only JS/TS are supported.
> Plus, living off grid is cool when you are young and not living with medical conditions.

Depends how you see life, I don't think quantity matters as much as quality here.
Maybe living fully for 50 years is bette than dying slowly for 80 years while busting your ass 5 days a week for a company. Realistically speaking, by the time the system spits you out to retirement you're physically and mentally destroyed. (US retirement: 66, avg life expectancy: 78)

A lot of people keep going despite having a (perceived) miserable life because at the end of the week there is the weekend, and after 6 months there is vacations, and after a life of work there is retirement. Is that living ? I don't know, I guess everyone has to find his own answers.
I don't think saying "it's worse in X country / it was worse before / there are good things in the world" really helps either, you could say that during a bubonic plague epidemic and it would still be true in a sense. The fact is lots of people don't feel fulfilled and build up resentment, you don't fix that with words.

Society doesn't encourage you to be passionate about much, just do your work, watch your netflix, and come back tomorrow. If you're too sick to work we'll patch you up asap so you can come back and start working again. All that matters is your productivity and making sure that you send a good chunk of your income back in the loop. Mental and physical well being aren't a priority, see the opioid crisis, depression epidemic, obesity epidemic, pollution, &c.

Thanks god previous generations fought more ferociously than us to work less and live more, we'd still be working 10 hours a day, 7 days a week otherwise [0]. The current state of global resignation is deeply disturbing.

"We do not want a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation is bought by accepting the risk of dying of boredom." Raoul Vaneigem

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/how-the-8-hour-workday-chang...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_law
You can only reliably say that something which has happened several times is something that will always happen if you know the reason why it happened several times. This article seems to think it's Moore's law, which has ended. I think history tends to go in cycles as people over-index on whatever worked well for the last n decades.
Those total comp bumps from 2015-2019 were probably due to massive stock appreciation more than salary increase.
Care to share more about that retention bonus? Are those regularly used? Did they have a sense you’d be leaving?
Theres nothing pragmatic about not caring about privacy, monopolies and freedom.
It’s totally just a matter of opinion, but I would argue that property tax (and especially LVT) is perhaps the only type of tax that is completely logical. It is the most justifiable form of tax, since the core role of the government is to enforce your property rights. They will come and arrest someone who is on your property without your permission. Paying for that is the most natural way you could pay a government. Stuff like sales tax and income tax is awkward, easy to game, and very messy. These types of non property taxes have nothing to do with the government’s core functions, and require a huge amount of effort spent on surveillance, reporting, enforcement, and lawyering.
To elaborate for the uninitiated, the organized criminals here are leftist academia and its tentacles, not the Albanian mob.
Negative-Fee ETF Will Pay Investors to Invest
Online services actually do have the data available, just their online graphing is a smoothed out version of the data.

Generally data is received every 5 seconds. In cases such as Lion Air, they downloaded all the granular data from nearby receivers and provided some analysis in their blog.

They also made available the raw data for the public to download:

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/flightradar24-data-regard...
There is a difference between proactively pursuing safety, which will yield diminishing returns sooner or later, and acting to correct a known defect that puts human lives at risk via a clearly understood mechanism.
I got a big bump in 2016 because I got a competing offer from Oracle, and Amazon matched it. 2017 and 2018 growth was from stock appreciation. If the stock hadn’t increased so much, the last 2 years would have been at around the 2016 level. AFAIK, people with ~10 years experience commonly get offers at around my 2016 level.
As I said, tiny details :)
Graduated in the late 90s with a degree in CS. I read this and I wonder, where the hell did I go wrong? If this is commonplace, then how did I fail so spectacularly?
I may be misunderstanding but what language "specifying scientific protocols" do you mean ? Is this published? How does it work (a generic workflow language? The t sounds interesting whatever it is)
Not to mention Pytorch. Hottest deep learning framework.
But there would be no way to know that the colors and their meanings weren't switched in the case you wanted actual verification.
If I recall correctly, every Tumblr account has at least one default blog associated with it, so a bunch of users who are mostly read-only probably technically have blogs there.
Even if there were the (local) political will for municipal fiber in Nashville, it would get blocked at the state level-- too many state politicians in AT&T and Comcast's pockets.

Same thing happened when EPB tried to expand their fiber network in the Chattanooga area.
I’ll post Epic Games response in the thread here also.

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We use a tracking pixel (tracking.js) for our Support-A-Creator program so we can pay creators. We also track page statistics.

The launcher sends a hardware survey (CPU, GPU, and the like) at a regular interval as outlined in our privacy policy(see the “Information We Collect or Receive” section). You can find the code here.

The UDP traffic highlighted in this post is a launcher feature for communication with the Unreal Editor. The source of the underlying system is available on github.

The majority of the launcher UI is implemented using web technology that is being rendered by Chromium (which is open source). The root certificate and cookie access mentioned above is a result of normal web browser start up.

The launcher scans your active processes to prevent updating games that are currently running. This information is not sent to Epic.

We only import your Steam friends with your explicit permission. The launcher makes an encrypted local copy of your localconfig.vdf Steam file. However information from this file is only sent to Epic if you choose to import your Steam friends, and then only hashed ids of your friends are sent and no other information from the file.

Epic is controlled by Tim Sweeney. We have lots of external shareholders, none of whom have access to customer data.

Daniel Vogel
VP of Engineering
Epic Games Inc.
I would love to try this at some point: http://cpuville.com/Projects/Z80-wire-wrap/Z80-wire-wrap-hom...
While I led off with "I think", the notion that this is outlandish is a curious response. Every large industry has social media massaging efforts (and nuclear has layers and layers of lobbying and PR groups), and I see no reason why nuclear would be free of this. The recurring "Nuclear is the only hope" posts on various social media sites come with regular frequency.

But they also have a number of former well-known figures who are quite literally on their payroll. People like Patrick Moore who they pay to write editorials -- always with the byline that he was a Greenpeace activist (yet never noting that he's paid to do this) -- heralding the wonders of nuclear energy. It's a massive industry, and every plant is tens of billions of dollars, so of course they engage in these efforts.
By having dozens of people watching everything except the actual marking of the ballot. Scrutineers are highly motivated: they want to catch the other candidate cheating.

I've been a scrutineer in a polling room. I could watch and challenge anything except the marking of a ballot. And I did. So did other scrutineers. The odds of the mobster keeping a rotating scheme without detection approach zero with great rapidity, especially since staying in the ballot after casting your vote is not permitted.
I’ve used software that’s so bad and thought there’s no way anyone at the company that made this has ever used this.
I don't think that "broad generalization" fairly characterizes the gp. They are saying they observe a lot of benefit in Facebook - if you read the post, that's all they say.

Maybe Facebook also produces a lot of ill. Any claim about the final impact of Facebook is claim to be able to sum up the good and the evil FB does and get a definite value. That's a pretty challenging argument.
Loved your firm take on hate speech and the anti harassment mechanisms! Is the entire project open source? I would love to contribute
> his design goal was to create a vcs for the Linux kernel

Which is a largish piece of software.
I have channels full of “1 blocked message” messages, thanks to people using stupid pointless chat bots. That is one feature I wish they could implement differently (the idea being that you can click the “blocked message” message to see the content of the blocked message)
Also “How to Build a Brain” by Chris Eliasmith. Interesting theories on how neurons represent functions and then build into a greater whole. I’m not a neuroscientist but my intuition says he might be getting closer to a solid mid-level (above the level of ion channels) understanding of brain function.
Because deciding presidential elections around the world isn't the kind of thing one usually gets to do.
How cute, he thinks he “owns” some text he shared online in 2019.
http://blog.eladgil.com
Pretty straightforward I think: America is way ahead in terms of its economy, tech industry, and business environment and way behind in terms of government-provided social benefits.
Gilson “Nirvana Glow”: A glow-in-the-dark snowboard
Only 2016 and 2017. The other years had minor impact from stock appreciation (~$5-15K). In 2016 I got a big bump because I got a competing offer from Oracle at $380K, and Amazon matched it.
I’m not sure that’s right. Proactively searching for risks would cost more, but the same reasoning still applies. I think we know that if we limited cars’ top speed to 10mph, they would be much safer. But it’s not worth it.

I think it would make sense to require the disclosure of known flaws though, if it isn’t required already.
I never get coffee argument, if I can choose between coffee for 3.5€ or coffee for free in cup plastered with ads I ain't spending the money

plus I don't really spend money on unnecessary things or pleasures, at least not regularly as your typical daily coffee drinker
I've been saying that Facebook would do these things since around 2008. And now you're here telling me I'm part of some fear mongering campaing orchestrated by the US government. That's beyond absurd.
Tumbling down
The feet measurement was above sea-level not ground-level. The airport there is around 7600 feet. So in actual fact this plane was only sitting 500-1000 feet above ground.
Think of it as a 100 Hz computer with 80 giganodes and a fanout from those nodes of up to 10^5. That's a lot of computation!
> These may be things you take for granted but a large majority of the population has to have a large emergency refund in case they get severed from their company without any notice for any reason

This seems like somewhat of an idealistic view point when over half of Americans have less than 1k in their bank account.
> can be applied to you about git technically.

I have read large parts of the git docs. I don't like them. This is not just the text: the low contract colours and hard-to-read fonts are also factors.

> It sounds like the issue you actually have is that the documentation isn't easily readable in one or two sittings, and you don't have the time (or can't be bothered) to go through it and learn it.

So how long should it take to learn a VCS? And how long does git take to learn?
Writing an http proxy is 5 lines in node.js, and not much more in Ruby. I could do it in either without even consulting a reference. I spent hours learning nginx configuration, and could spend hours more. If all I need is a simple proxy with some logic why do it? It's not reinventing the wheel, it's building a wheel that's good enough, using the materials you got.
It’s not commonplace.
Meh. Everyone has moved on, while RMS still fighting the lost war.

People just want freedom (through permissive licensing) rather than be soldiers in RMS's holy war (the GPL license).
How many RSUs did you walk away from?
> Advertising dollars are far more lucrative if you think you can trust where you're sharing your deepest, darkests...

You mean like a Google search?

If you don't mean a Google search, I'm not sure what you could mean. What could possibly be more intimate than a person's lifelong history of general queries in their pursuit of knowledge and personal identity?

Oftentimes those queries are even natural language sentence fragments that directly convey the person's intentions.

What more are you claiming a company could infer by convincing their userbase that their data remains private?
If you could make voting much cheaper and faster, it could be used to decide more things. (If your immediate reaction is "But voting is a terrible way to make decisions!", well, there's considerable evidence in your favor. I think we should be researching collective decision-making a lot more broadly, but voting tech could be one building block.)
Not only VSCode is available on mybinder - There is also a RStudio in browser: https://hub.mybinder.org/user/binder-examples-r-twi4fgdz/rst.... Thank you for a link!

Many years ago (around 2011/2?), I remember there was some company that was taking care of emulating native Windows applications in browser, i.e. Notepad++ editor or Serious Sam game but I can't remind the name nor link to archive.is nor any other source...
This is the coolest easter egg I have heard about in a bigco mobile app.
Nope, Slack was working fine...
> "But human intelligence is limited by the size of the skull that houses the brain."

It's actually not. Humans are unusual in that they can teach each other and institutional knowledge can span generations. In addition, just as your speed of travel is not limited by the length of your legs and the ATP cycle, your intelligence is not limited by your brain.
Silent Horror
I can highly recommend nand2tetris. It doesn't go as far as this post but it covers a lot and is a ton of fun to work through.
It took very long to fix so I think this was related to their databases, maybe some data corruption.
Being "smartest" (whatever that means, and assuming it even is so; being good at coding has very little to do with being smart) is completely orthogonal to being a decent person.