skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would this be more ethical? If I own a network connected device, I am perfectly within ethical grounds to case-by-case block any kind of web request it might make. Whatever web requests happen on my device has absolutely no connection to someone who decided of their own accord to make a game or a music channel or whatever freely available to download / stream / etc.

They may prefer that those web requests succeed and generate ad revenue, but that’s literally just a mere hope that the user will choose to allow that to happen.

Another example could be creating a little robot that floats above my shoulder and uses a computer vision system to place some construction paper in my field of vision dynamically to block the photons of light coming from ad pixels from reaching my eyeball.

I’ll just miniaturize that idea and place it into my phone either as a browser/app ad blocking program, or a root level web request blocker, etc.
The best HBO experience is on Amazon. HBO Now is so unreliable and bad that I cancelled it and added the HBO Now channel to my Prime Subscription. Same content, but a player that actually works.

HBO Now's web player (on my Macbook Pro, anyway) would not play in HD on an external monitor no matter what I did. HDPC is working. Every other service (including Netflix) worked fine. Only HBO reverted to SD video as soon as I moved my browser window to my 4K display, no matter what browser I used. I'm sure the problem is Silverlight. But it's ridiculous that they still use that piece of garbage.
The shows you're listing there are, excepting True Detective and Boardwalk Empire (which is a second-tier show!), generally available on Netflix and Amazon. They cost Netflix and Amazon to run, sure. But HBO can't run them at any price.
I just want my colorful threading back. Every time someone 'improves' the Gmail UI, it gets harder and harder to use.

Back when each new message in a thread had a different-colored header, it was vastly easier to use by skimming.

Now, with everything in various shades of monochrome, threads collapsed or expanded, quotes hidden or not hidden, signatures here and there, it's virtually impossible to tell at a glance where one message begin and the other one ends.
I would also point to the engineering required to build and operate some of the world's largest datacenter and wan infrastructure.
> So your saying the right way is to force amazon to continue selling this book?

Possibly yes. When a publisher choses to sell through Amazon I assume that includes some form of legal agreement between the two parties. This idea that "They're a private company, they can do what they want" is wrong if they have some kind of agreement to sell the book.

The fact that we've been letting the tech giants get away with putting vague language into their terms of service and using that as a justification for arbitrarily enforcing or even changing the rules is bullshit. These catch-all provisions that let companies "do whatever they want" would never have stood up in court in the past. They are undermining our ability to conduct business and are being abused to stifle competition.
"We" is a prospective customer of this db. Maybe other devs/companies do need speed over multi-functionality
Leaving aside the (unconvincing) possibility that Boeing was actively covering up issues (which, if they were, is potentially a criminal issue due to fraud), there is a deeper philosophical point to be made about how people should view industry in the modern world, which includes aviation, but also all other production, ranging from farming and mining, to the manufacturing and use of products, and even to services.

It's easy to point to the various risks and lives at risk, due to the products of industry, such as aviation accidents as well as pollutants and even mundane things like typing on a computer (RSI anyone?).

However, what is often forgotten is all the amazing benefits of this industry -- from being able to fly to anywhere in the world in less than a day at a cost affordable by almost anyone in a developed country to having energy to light and heat our homes and run our medical devices, to the existence of this very forum. It is right and moral for both producers in setting their own safety and emission standards, as well as the state in setting limits on production in the name of "protecting society", to consider these positives as well as the negatives. It is morally right even knowing that not setting these limits higher will result in lives and health lost, because the alternative is, bit-by-bit going back to a pre-industrial society in which humans were lucky to live past 35. The way to achieve setting these limits higher is in fact by becoming richer, such that we can afford the better controls. If the state attempts to too tightly control an industry before it can afford those same controls, it is essentially the same as destroying it, and keeping its benefits from the world forever.

Aviation is an example of this whole process working. It's exactly why aviation has become so incredibly safe, while at the same time becoming ever more economical. Companies like Boeing are to be, overall, praised. When fraud occurs, it needs to be investigated and punished, but that doesn't change the essentially good nature of Boeing.
I don’t dispute the land constraints, it’s the economics you can’t argue with. Solar and wind at utility scale are below 2 cents/kWh and falling. Nuclear cannot compete with that in any configuration.

You can make roof installs safer (process, hardware), utility installs on the ground are already safe. No one has any place to store nuclear waste, no one will insure it, and no one wants to tie capital up for decades in nuclear generators.

Nuclear, like coal, is a wonderful fuel if you can foist all of the externalities on someone else.
That is contrary to what I'm seeing. The extended attributes for an image downloaded by Safari (in Mojave) do contain the kMDItemWhereFroms attribute.

com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms:
00000000 62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 A2 01 02 5F 10 7D 68 74 |bplist00..._.}ht|
00000010 74 70 73 3A 2F 2F 75 70 6C 6F 61 64 2E 77 69 6B |tps://upload.wik|
00000020 69 6D 65 64 69 61 2E 6F 72 67 2F 77 69 6B 69 70 |imedia.org/wikip|
[snipped for brevity]
com.apple.quarantine: 0083;5c8a76d8;Safari;ADF309D2-762B-4FE2-AEC6-104E019BDBF9

Have you modified the configuration of Safari in any way? I never use Safari, except this once to download an image to test with. It seems possible to me that Safari might disable it if you flip some privacy or security switches, which I haven't done.
I don't agree with this being detached from the parent. It's directly related to the quote: "the `industry' felt the losses would be in the acceptable range"
If HBO can keep GoT going indefinitely at this level of audience engagement, it'll do fine. But Netflix and Amazon aren't dependent on a single tentpole show the way HBO is, which is part of HBO's vulnerability. I think AT&T's take on HBO is dead on.
I find it fascinating that this seems to at least in part be a reaction to the scandal. Like a spouse whose indiscretion is found out and then decides to radically "come clean" about literally everything, having your screwup discovered might end up making you a better entity :)
It seems memory fragmentation can occur, rather easily, if you hold onto a few of them.

> The disadvantage of bump allocation is that there is no general way to deallocate individual objects and reclaim their memory regions while other objects are still in use.
I mean, sure, but they also often fund 100% of your users.
Thanks for the well-informed answers!
Man, only 27 but stuff like this makes me feel like I'm 60.
I found this part of the about page interesting:

> Originally, I wanted to predict the number of upvotes and views questions would get (which, intuitively, I thought would be a good proxy for their quality). Unfortunately, after working on this for about a week straight I've come to the conclusion that there is no correlation between question content and upvotes/views.

> I tried several different models (including adapting an AWD_LSTM classifier, a random forest on a bag of words, and using Google's AutoML) and none of them produced anything better than random noise.

> I also tried using myself as a "human classifier" and given two random questions from StackOverflow I can't predict which one will be more popular.
I think you are overlooking one important aspect with espresso machines. You can get much less expensive machine that will create same tasting cup. But only if you do few cups a day not few hundreds. They are expensive because they are heavy duty, they perform and you dont have to clean them as much because they are made with much higher precision and they last longer. This is highly valuable - you dont want you main source of income to die on you in middle of the day.

In the long run price difference is well worth it.
> This is pretty well established. If your Toyota malfunctions and you hit someone, you get sued. You may sue Toyota afterwards, but you're going to get sued first.

It's not unlikely if the immediate crash investigation even hints at a product defect, you (all of driver, driver's employer if done in course of employment, and owner if different from the preceding two), Toyota, and everyone in the chain of commerce between you, plus the people up the chain from Toyota with regard to the part at fault will all get sued, simultaneously, in the same action.

The only change self-driving cars bring is eliminating the driver as a distinct target from the manufacturer and a whole bunch of upstream suppliers, but the person or company owning and the one (of different) directing the operation of the vehicle are still potential liability targets, as well as the upstream chain of commerce.
There is plenty of fearmongering, but the thing preventing new nuclear construction is more economics than anything else.
Ask HN: I'm a solo founder and I suck at sales. Help me please.
I quit my job a year ago to start my own business and I have an MVP ready now.
I love all the aspects of running a business except doing sales.
And to be honest, I hate it. That's just not compatible with my personality.
Every email I want to write is a huge burden. Sometimes it takes hours to write one (not joking).

Somehow, I've managed to send over 100 cold emails to potential sellers (it's a marketplace app).
A few of them have shown some interest but I don't know how to convince them to use my service.

I wish I had a co-founder to do this but due to some complicated reasons I cannot.
And I don't have enough money to hire someone.
I've been stuck at this stage for 3 months and I don't know how to get out of it.

What should I do?
I'm not sure comparing eyeglasses to problems within formation of the brain is a very strong comparison. We haven't really cured anything like autism that I know of.

But I agree we're a very long way away from curing something like autism, particularly if it required altering DNA/gene expression.
Good news. An Agora voting system's fork powered by SGX/TrustZone and verified by Cryptol?
I have WebPass (webpass.net) in Denver, which is a company that Google acquired. It's mainly for residential multi-unit apartment buildings, though. I've had it for several years and it works extremely well. It uses point-to-point radios from their main node in the city to the top of your building, then you get an ethernet hookup in your unit.

I almost always get in the ~700-800Mbps up and down range on ethernet connections, regardless of time of day. Never had any issues during snow, rain, fog, etc.

My guess is that Google realized that fiber-to-the-home is the wrong strategy, and too costly, just as Verizon FIOS halted their rollout years before. And I believe even ATT only does fiber to a neighborhood and then coax to the home, right? It's sad to see, but the cost is astronomical and it's a lot harder to get cities/municipalities to let you dig things up.

Especially for America with it having so much sprawl, a wireless solution will probably work better and the rollout will be quicker.
It's still more expensive than piracy, even accounting for effort you have to put up to do it.
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How do you automate asking HN things before you need to automate them so you have time to automate them before you need to, leaving more time for side projects?

I only eat soylent, I have a bottle at 6am,10am,noon,2pm, and 5pm. Each bottle takes about 10 minutes to drink, which I usually do while reading HN or normal people news.

This leaves plenty of time for my side project: overthinking things
My concern is whether the ISPs will find expanding and maintaining their fiber infrastructure necessary if Google continues to pull out of the market, or whether it'll end up crushed like the EV-1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1).

Is there enough demand already generated in industries requiring significant network throughput (e.g. e-sports, industrial IoT, or elsewhere) that ISPs will shoot themselves in the foot if they collapse the market? I personally don't use enough data to justify a Gigabit connection. My friends who stream video and game online might. Hopefully the latter will pull us into the future, but I don't know for sure.
IANAL, but I don't believe that there are any US laws that would require Amazon to sell a product. If they sold real estate, or operated restaurants or whatever, they couldn't discriminate over race, gender, religion, etc. But I believe that they could decline to sell products that catered to some protected class.
Hmm. Based in the 22nd century. With this sort of viability I wonder if it'll survive until that point.
IIRC that commenter was pushing a line about quarterly bonuses which struck me as odd.
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> none of the election committees were willing to commit to a full hand recount

I don't see how any system can work if nobody is willing to double-check it.
The advertising industry is a massive moral failure, right under annually throwing 8 billion baby chickens into a blender seconds after they're born so that our meals taste marginally better. It turns out you can commit all kinds of atrocities on a mass scale, and nobody cares so long as it's socially normalized. In another time we're gassing Jews.
Say goodbye to democracy wherever electronic voting is rolled out.
I haven't read the paper the work is based on, but if the RNN outputs a probability distribution for the next letter/word then they form Markov Chains (since then they only depend on the current state and not the previous state)!

RNNs are just fancy parametric functions that take a (state, input)-pair and return a new (state', output)-pair.
That's awesome! Facebook login is cancer and should die.
There's a distinction, the cakes are both custom-made and religiously themed.

Say a baker hand-makes dog-shaped cakes, among other cakes. The baker loves dogs. A client comes in and tells him he hates dogs and wants to order a cake for the purpose of ritually defiling it.

Would the baker be wrong in refusing to fulfill this order?
I, too, studied this in the late 70s. Interesting stuff.
It's also about dependancy. More players in the game only improves the dynamics of the space.
If you ran into the wsj's paywall, you can get past it with outline.com
I guess the correlation here is the stalling problem often happens during this height range. Both 737 were in the ascending process, while the 767 is during normal flying.

For me, the 767 hit with some kind of strange turbulence then the engines went to max and caused a typical stall crash. You could google about the stall crash, such as : https://www.dw.com/en/why-do-airplanes-stall-and-why-is-it-s...

For both 737 max, their MCAS system thought they had a stall potential and triggered on nose dive while the airplanes were actually in the perfectly normal situation.

For 767, they do not have this autonomous system and the stall warning was not even triggered. So it was a purely manual operation. If they have a perfectly functioned MCAS like the 737 max has, they may have survived.

So a working MCAS could save plane from crash like 767 had. Just the MCAS on 737 max was not working correctly and MAY potentially have caused the tragedy.
S3 is (for want of a better term) a legacy system in AWS, having been around since pretty much the beginning. A series of choices made when the idea that there would ever be more than two regions, leave them unfortunately stuck having to tie regions together to a limited degree (bucket names are global).

Beyond those bucket mutations, everything else is purely regional scoped.

I'm _really_ surprised to see that GCP has made the same mistakes though and had things tied together. I'm not convinced there's a good excuse. AWS/S3 is understandable. No one knew what things would look like. Not one engineer would have made the same decisions then if they'd known what the future was for the platform. Google came to the cloud market much later. Their engineers should have seen the issues with AWS and the problems that interdependence cause, and specifically architected isolated infrastructure (which from this post-mortem it seems like they didn't). That's both remarkable and disappointing to see.
>I think you're confused.

Nope

>Explosion in the early 90s != everybody used them in the early 90s.

Never said that

>Explosion = the industry got traction / was kickstarted and kept on going and going.

No, explosion means something along the lines of "a sudden outburst". Anything that plods along slowly cannot be considered an explosion. The slope of your own reference is rather timid until at the later nineties.

>As contrasted with VR which in 90-92 there was a huge hype, and it got nowhere, people forgot about it, and it was resurrected 10-15 years later.

Not the same thing. The tech simply didn't exist. At least, not in a manner which we would deem acceptable. Cell phone tech was fine, but it was simply too expensive.

>Err, the graph starts around 1988 -- and the "increase" is sustained from then until the end of the graph (and probably still today).

It is not "sustained": it begins increasing rapidly in the late 90's! In other words, it "explodes". Let's be honest here; in a response to another person you claimed that the plot showed 1B users, but the Y axis only goes to 300M. I'm not convinced you can even read that thing.
It is absolutely unethical. If you don’t want ads, don’t install a game with ads. No one is requiring you to play the specific games that have ads. Choose from the many games that don’t have ads.
How click farms work. And how fake engagements is generated
I legitimately don't understand what's the invention here. If all you're trying to do is avoiding having an invalid or ambiguous ballot and you print out a paper copy anyway, why invest 10 million into a new system instead of just using some bog standard computer + printer?

If you're going to get the physical ballot anyway what's the point?
Do you want it looked at, or not? You make no point. You get mad about the research, then get mad about some wanting to do it without enough research.

Is your point that we should never, for the rest of time, investigate the use of electronics for secure voting?
www.sindome.org / moo.sindome.org 5555

Cyberpunk MUD. Been online since 1997. It has a web client which is great, but continue to support mud clients and simple telnet. No color, ansi, xterm256 all supported.

Has good accessibility options as well. Very friendly to visually imparied with special code for stripping out stuff like ascii art.

Roleplay enforced. Has a detailed timeline and wiki. 50-60 people online at anytime. Good and well trained staff.
I think the Internet gives us the tools to discuss and learn and collaborate, rather than read the newspaper, watch the news, and think, "okay I'll just with until tomorrow's paper arrives to learn more."

Who are pre-Internet people going to discuss it with? A handful of people at the dinner table or at work?

It's not about impatience, it's about opportunity.
Here is an article about how Russia dealt with India's civil nuclear liability law.
Perhaps, something similar was agreed for American reactors.

https://www.powermag.com/indias-nuclear-liability-law-breakt...
A Peek into the Future of Wearables
Corruptible humans will always be in charge, until Terminator. The question is, how much corruption are we willing to put up with, how would we know it is happening, and how robust are the apparatus for correcting those abuses?
> I hate being outright dismissive but it sounds like an expensive html/pdf form with a printer attached.

I don't think that's dismissive at all. That's what it is, and it sounds good to me. Basically the computer is a scribe with perfect handwriting that fills out the paper ballot for the voter while the voter watches. Absolutely any voter is qualified to assert whether the ballot contains the votes they intended to cast.

From there, you could have the voter carry the ballot and drop it in a box that's being observed by any number of interested parties, providing old-fashioned accountability. Counting by scanner is an optional time saver, with hand counts as the alternative / double-check.
Your entire premise is based upon your perceived quality of HBO's programming.
Daughter used to do this. They used to set a time (say 8 pm), all would login with their school provided e-mail addresses and chat for an hour before going to bed. She is not doing it anymore but I found it to be pretty clever as most of them don't have phones.
I'm not sure this is accurate - I used to download music and can count on one hand how many times I procured a deliberately bad file. Spotify represents a reasonably priced and convenient service that has the music I want.

I did recently bin my Spotify subscription owing to privacy concerns but have returned - it's a pain to build up a library and then put it somewhere accessible (sometimes offline in an era of devices that aren't as big as the iPod I used to have) and I was optimistic to think that the value-add would be trivially replicatable. The weekly playlists are excellent too, so currently I'm prepared to pay a monthly convenience fee. If that changed too dramatically, I'd probably move back to piracy.

Netflix is a good example of faltering here where Spotify succeeded - I know 99% of the time that the media I want to watch isn't available on their platform whereas that's an almost non-event with the latter. Convenience is something people will almost always pay for.
They don't build the WAN infrastructure, nor is building data centers an exercise in civil engineering. Typically, data centers are located where the least amount of civil engineering is required.
EVs are tweaks though. Nobody buys ICE vehicles. They buy sedans, trucks, SUVs, etc. What the engine uses as an energy input doesn't matter and won't for another decade.
It's not about relying, it's about what works. A lot of companies advertise across Google, Facebook, television, radio, podcasts etc, but Facebook is frequently the best ROI for reasons that are entirely beyond an individual company's control. For some markets, there is simply no better ad platform than Facebook.
Given the number of wacky yet effective treatments that western medicine has uncovered by accident I’d be more inclined to let people explore the information out there as they desire.

Although uncovered under different circumstances Lorenzo’s oil is an interesting case, cannabinoids for cancer patients are another.

Everybody thinks modern medicine is like CSI because a few people know how to use CRISPR. The reality for many people with common diseases is that the doctors a taking shots in the dark. In layman’s terms they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.

I have far too much personal experience with such things to be blinded by the fancy motion graphics and splashy headlines. Being sick is a total shit show of incompetence.