skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what anyone is proposing.
>>would need to specifically address the current issue of automated political speech online in order to be taken seriously.

I have yet to see significant evidence proving there is an issue with automated political speech online

I see left activists claim that anyone that disagrees with the authoritarian left to be either "alt-right" or "bot accounts" but little by way of actual evidence

Sure Twitter and other Tech companies like to talk about how they "banned thousands of bot accounts" but they offer not proof on how they came to that conclusion and given the bias of the companies I am not sure they are not just banning libertarian and conservative moderates under the guise of "abolishing bots"
I've had the inverse problem as a morning person, where all the interesting social/cultural activities require staying up hours past my bedtime.
Could you go more into detail about the 'taking a hit in the worse before better' way of getting out of it? My department is drowning in endless toil (from the parent article) right now, and I'd like to figure out some way to get out of it besides just leaving the company like so many others have (although I might end up doing that too, but maybe I can course correct the department just a little bit before doing so).
2nd reply, for some reason HN refuses to accept my edit of the 1st one where I appended this, although it still lets me open the "Edit" option even when I reload.

As for your second point, I have a similar argument to make as in my first reply about your fist point about "saving". Unless you think that suddenly, within the last fifty years somehow humans especially in the US were born radically different than any human or pre-human generation in the million years before them, it's kind of strange to blame it on the individuals. I would say humans have stayed pretty much the same. So if the outcome suddenly is bad, why do look for the reasons in the individuals who did not change? There must be something outside people that changed, and I would say that is where one should look for a solution. Not in changing the people ("You buy wrong! You eat wrong!"), which won't work.

The Guardian has just written an article along those lines: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/16/snack-attacks-...
I created a programming language called Lux:
https://github.com/LuxLang/lux
It's a question of false positives and false negatives. Most medical tests have a decent percentage of both.

> Screening test results may appear to be abnormal even though no cancer is present. A false-positive test result (one that shows there is cancer when there really isn't) can cause anxiety and is usually followed by more tests (such as biopsy), which also have risks. [1]

[1] https://www.cancer.gov/types/colorectal/patient/colorectal-s...
2 quick things to add. First, eat dinner much earlier if you're remotely sensitive to blood sugar movements (read: a normal human) because the difference between eating at 6 and at 8 is huge when trying to get to sleep. Second, have something you really want to wake up to do. For me, it's almost always breakfast. I can't wait to get out of bed to have the delicious thing I have every day which my body really wants.
I hadn't thought about it that way, but it's just so annoying to me.

P.S. I always buy the phone outright, was just getting it through the carrier, the price was competitive.
A lot of folks in India who work on US/Europe based assignments tend to work to a similar schedule. Most of them did not seem particularly happy after a while on the schedule. Partly, its missing out on a lot of socializing that tends to happen in the evenings, and partly it is missing out on the morning schmoozing at the coffee machine where are a lot of information exchanges hands and decisions are worked out.
There's an argument on HN and other techie circles I see which is pretty insidious and it goes like this:

"There is very little meaningful content being exchanged between artists / fashion people / etc.

The successful people in these fields are the ones that are good at personal branding + PR. They don't have any significant skill or insight over everyone else."

For example, from today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19409610

Do you really think it's likely that millions of highly educated people are just exchanging noise and there is really no signal underneath it?

What many people miss is that there is a legitimate conversation happening in fashion, or modern art. It's just over your head, you don't understand it, so you dismiss it as nonsense.

And yeah, luck and personal branding are PART of success, like everywhere. But these fields also filter out most of the people who are not intrinsically excellent, in addition to being good at branding.
In the circumstances when "literally" is used figuratively it is an intensifier. It is never used to mean "figuratively".

Compare "really" (which funnily enough etymologically points towards meaning "literally" or "truly" as well.)
It's definitely a pain point for many teachers. So far, the response from teachers has been overwhelmingly positive. The response from school leaders has been cautious at best.

Focusing on one region is a good idea!
I'm a big fan of the C4 model [1] for diagramming and documenting software architectures. There is a SaaS tool, Structurizr [2], for diagramming, documenting, and exploring such models, plus also set of PlantUML styles [3] for generating C4 using that tool.

[1] https://c4model.com/

[2] https://structurizr.com/

[3] https://github.com/RicardoNiepel/C4-PlantUML
Greenwald has also been complicit with Assange and Wikileaks. He shouldn’t be the torchbearer around reporting biases.
There are "elite schools". But there are also sub-par, "diploma mill" schools.

The majority of colleges are probably in the middle, doing their best to teach the majority of students. However, the institution does matter.
Bach is, quite literally, famous for being baroque, not minimalist.
Thanks for the quote!

Before I wrote that comment I was actually on the anti-OO side, and in writing it, I convinced myself that maybe the FP solution wasn't great.

Good to see this wasn't a mistake!
The J curve
Artists, writers, and poets will start using the best AI to help them come up with material.
By far, the most popular time slot for the activities I want to participate in is 7-9pm, and usually Tuesday and Thursday. Monday is much less common, Wednesday is very rare, and nobody ever wants to schedule an activity on Friday. Occasionally something will start at 6pm, if they need an extra hour.

So every week, I'm forced to choose among activities, as my Tuesday/Thursday 7-9pm are always at least double-booked, and usually triple- or quadruple-booked. I have more than enough free hours in the week to do everything I want to do. It's just that hardly anybody ever wants to schedule anything at any other time.

You're going to have a chicken-and-egg problem getting any number of people to shift away from this schedule.
No electronic system is safe enough to guaranty secret because it depends on too many other systems.

It would just be a trojan horse for total control.

In fact, it would allow big actors to pretend giving freedom while in fact having perfect discreet local control when they want.

At least with cash, it's clear when you face a hostile system.
I believe we are seeing the end of Free Speech as well

That however does not change my statement, If we regulate away Anonymous speech we regulate away Free Speech

There is no getting around that fact, so we are going to destroy free speech while claiming we are "protecting it"
Rhyme and rhythm are pretty small-scope when translated to mathematical domain. Manually making lists of rhyming words and counting syllables from markov chains, you could fit these requirements.

Meaning, on the other hand, is a much larger vector to handle, and that's the real test of quality here. The OpenAI GPT-2 seemed to have meaning nailed down -- these poems clearly do not.
Here's the URLs from the extension in UBlock rule form:

||widget.intercom.io/
||connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk/xfbml.customerchat.js
||assets.producthunt.com/assets/upwigloader.js
||js.driftt.com/include/
||crisp.chat/

(These can be copied directly into UBO's My Filter section)
Dan Ingalls Demonstrates Smalltalk [video]
I understand the CDDL is not GPL-compatible, but why is it not acceptable for OpenBSD?
You can't be serious? People are different. Dear God, to say that lead to the Holocaust is just absolute insanity. There are so many more things that lead to the Holocaust than just "people are different".
Wow, I don't know if the negativity is warranted here, but for me (and my kids walk to school), getting the kids ready involves making sure the young kids get properly dressed, breakfasted, lunch packed, etc... Transportation is not always the issue.
I use a product called Shipt and they have a 24/7 live chat widget. When switching phone numbers on my account, a bug would persistently prevent the change from going through. When it happened, I'd go to the live chat and they would fix it in about 5 minutes.
Of course there is some overlap.
True, but those taxes pay for things that money can't buy; for example job security, open spaces, parks, social services such as cheap child-care, paternity/maternity leave, etc, etc.

You can't just compare salary. The lifestyle is different. You'll get 4-5 weeks of (paid) holiday, you'll live in a modern country where the taxes are high, but the streets are clean, people are looked after, and you'll have effective health-care.

(Disclaimer: I'm in Finland, not Sweden, but things are similar here.)
Human-First: Decentralizing Identity and Governance in the Era of AI
With wide open throttle, why would the power brakes lose vacuum? Vacuum is lost when the engine quits.

Besides, just to stand on one foot requires 100 lbs of force exerted on your foot. If you can walk, you can do that. Pressing with 175 lbs is not a problem.

The point is, the brakes can override the engine torque. Unless, of course, you're standing on the gas instead of the brake.

You can also just turn the key off on a runaway engine.
I saw a few posts on Reddit about how the Apple Watch basically saved people's life:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/a40qm5/heading_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/9zrdq5/how_an_a...

I'm sure there is a lot more.

(Also all the people losing weight)
I don't know whether Breitbart is propaganda or not. I've only read a handful of articles from it, but from the few I've seen, I like that they source their statements with hyperlinks. Take this one for example: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/03/15/italy...

When the text says that Reuters published an article about a topic they actually link to it. I wish other news sites did the same.
As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
I have to admit... I half expected an article on why Phone Operators are useful, say as opposed to annoying IVR systems.
Neither do I, even if they aren’t around anymore, but that is hardly the point grand parent was making.
In the future everyone will wear a smartwatch. My thesis was health and safety.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/in-the-future-everyo...
Could we please stop this kind of useless statements?
Aren't we developers supposed to be scientific-minded?

There is not such thing as "bad" or "good" in absolute. There are paradigmes that work better in certain contexts - and I use the word "context" in very general way here - and some that work worse.

If my consulting experience has taught me something, is that "it depends" is a valid comment most of the time. By the way, I also learned that if you stopped at this comment, you're not a good consultant.
I didn't want to be negative, sorry. Kids generally are able to do all of what you saod when they're 9 years old. I've seen that American families often belittle their kids and are afraid to make them responsible.
I don't see this as a problem.

There will always be someone better than you at something. Finances are no different.
I thought everyone used a CC just to build credit. Guess I was wrong.
I'm an annoyingly productive night person. Why should I change?
The Holocaust and the events that lead up to it were directly related to new studies about DNA and genetics. That exact line of thinking is what caused the Nazi population to pick out specific groups as a whole.

And currently, as we speak more and more violence is spreading based on people looking at others as genetically different.

Of course sleep schedules are pretty tame stuff. I'm just asking us all to please be to mindful of those who may misinterpret our discussions.
I've had plenty of awful professors, too, but some of the best I had were excellent researchers, both mid- or late career or just out of grad school themselves.

Not sure what that means.
Most traditional companies are based on having revenues higher than costs.

dotcom v3.0 companies are all about the potential and cornering the market. Amazon was exactly the same - it was founded in 1994 but didn't make a profit until 2001.
Ironic that an Oregon-based company is fixing voting machines, when Oregon has a paper-based vote-by-mail system that has encountered few problems.
I’ve had much better success with online retailers’ chat boxes than trying to get someone on the phone, whenever I’ve had an issue with an order or shipment. That’s the only useful use case I’ve seen.
I have no idea if that’s how they operate or not or if you’re being facetious, but that’s a very valid business model. I know companies that did something similar starting out and then brought the expertise in house.

In fact, I was offered a job as a “digital transformation consultant”/“enterprise architect” to be the face of a company that did just that - take over a complete project for funded startups or other companies who had an idea but no in house expertise. Of course I would be the face of the company where most of the work would be “rural sourced” and outsourced.
Anyone else freaked-out when a bank or something like TD Ameritrade uses Facebook's chat? I mean, they don't know enough about me already, now they have to know exactly how much I have in my brokerage?
I'm not sure what you mean by that.

They're removing, presumably just your data (you can't just ask them to delete it all I'm guessing) at your request.
If you simply go looking, you'll find a lot of abnormalities associated with various conditions that turn out to be false positives and, for that person, fairly normal.

Here's a piece on the subject; http://www.journalgazette.net/features/20180604/anomalies-in...
> He concluded that poor management of what they had was a bigger problem.

Counseling works for broke families - not poor ones. 6-months of savings and all the financial discipline in the world won't do you any good when you get a medical emergency that costs 5-years worth of family-income and leaves one spouses unable to work (or both! Caretakers are expensive). You can't budget your way out of poverty.
CORBA actually supports both "object handle over network" and "ship some actual local object as part of a request/response". It's basically a way of addressing typical FFI/IPC concerns in a way that's actually network- and location-transparent, and that thus also addresses the concerns of distributed programming (for example, making something network-transparent introduces network faults as a possibility, and your system needs to deal with them appropriately!)
Cameras and microphones must come with physical switches to turn them off, not software switches.
You then deny that health insurance is a reasonable way to plan for illness?
I feel like once it is out there for someone to do bad things ... the archiving rules apply, and any concern about privacy is out the window already.

Cat is out of the bag, not archiving it isn't going to help. It could in some cases help define what really was on someone's public facing profile on X date.
Obama was not a dangerous president from a European perspective.

Bush and Trump on the other hand have been raising a lot of concerns. The first one for lying to his people to get to war and tell the UN to go to hell. The second one has just too many red flags to even begin with.
On the contrary. Free-file does not let you "literally type in your address and other into along with your w2." You have to first choose a third-party tax preparer based on your qualifications (it's not the same across the board). Then you have to remember your password, or create an account. Then you have to hope the preparer's service puts you in the free package, while navigating through a site designed to get you to pay more for things you don't need. Often, you'll have to decline to upgrade multiple times, and it is downright annoying, if not confusing, as to how to do that. And if you do choose the free option, the preparer will not pull in your wages automatically, despite Intuit and others building systems that could (but don't) do this. No, the proposed system has not existed for decades. It has never existed. And as long as we keep listening to Intuit and the like, it will never exist.
>Basically, software is organizational politics.

I'd go further to say that software management is (often, mostly?) organizational politics.

Software itself is about the flow of control and data, trouble often follows where dogma obscures this fundamental.
You only need a few people on prem with AWS expertise. You would be surprised how much infrastructure and management grunt work you can outsource to cheaper managed service providers who can then outsource some of their grunt work overseas.
And it's particularly egregious because it disproportionately affects the least computer literate and actually vulnerable people.

It is absolutely disgusting that the Google and Apple portals will nitpick an app about using a particular API or some random infringement, but when it comes to literally harming their customers, it's money first.
That HN discussion is mentioned by the top commenter on G+, saying: "The discussions there were hardly interesting, however", which I thought was kinda funny.
At this point it's propped up by buybacks and central banks that can print as much as they want.

We'll see how it works out.
I find the stupid names childish, but I don't think the evidence is cherry picked at all. Linking six different examples of Apple bowing to China's censorship isn't cherry picking, it's making the point well. I wish more writers had Stallman's obsession with linking previous material on a topic.
I'm naturally a night owl. My best sleep seems to happen between 7-9AM. However, I recently started getting up at 5AM. It was hard at first. It took a solid month before I started sleeping well again. However, I feel the tradeoffs have absolutely been worth it. Before, I worked on my side projects after work. The amount of brain power I had left at the end of the day was incredibly variable and completely dependent on how the day had gone. Now, I do the things that are most important to me first thing in the morning. I feel far more productive. It's been awesome. Also, I don't use caffeine at all.
I'll come to work there. The night is so peaceful and there are fewer distractions from the news or social media
Yeah, but they don't post what winners they are for doing so, and how it changed their productivity...
The camera and microphone on a phone is severely limited by battery life (and your data plan). But one connected to the electric grid and LAN can run 24/7 without being noticed.
Thank you for posting!
One of the authors here. Let me know if you have any questions!
I'm from the Midwest. I'm guilty of saying it. But that being said, 1) there was a time where I was seriously contemplating declaring bankruptcy, so I think that qualifies under the authors definition of 'poor', and 2) I don't see the value in making this distinction of 'poor' and 'broke' anyway. Sure there's a matter of degree of difference involved, but it just sounds like making an argument of semantics.

If the general usage is using your word wrong, invent a new word for it and popularize it, or just be more specific. Meaning of words gets co-opted and morphed by the public all the time anyway. I don't see this author creating any serious movement towards reclaiming the word "poor" for what they think it really means.
I'm not convinced. The article found one situation where it makes more sense for the type to be on the right, but in most situations it makes more sense for the type to be on the left. The reason being that it reads more naturally. It's the difference between saying "Golfer Tiger Woods adopted a cat" and "Tiger Woods, golfer, adopted a cat." Nobody speaks the latter.
OP did not specify AM/PM.
Nothing specific to this article, but this comes up often in medicine. Sure, you can pay to run more tests, find some things earlier (along with some false positives), but the outcomes and treatment aren't any different than if you waited for more obvious symptoms and could take a more accurate test.
>People's histories have often been weaponized against them (...)

"often" is hyperbole. Most people's social media histories are never weaponized against them in any sense whatsoever.
> I have also bought an Amazon Echo, but I unplug it when it's out of use for extended periods of time.

I'd buy an Echo if it had a physical switch to enable the microphone, along with a light that says its on. Software switches are worthless.
How Much Does Getting into an Elite College Matter?
Python type hints (since 3.5) also follow the same pattern. see: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0483/
That doesn't hold as much water when you take into account how much curation goes on with the app store.
Probably depends on where you live/work. My experience is that the roads go from empty to busy around 6:30 and start to get seriously clogged around 7:15. They're worst 8:15 - 9:30, but 11-2:30 is pretty similar to 7:45, partly because of double-parked trucks everywhere.
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement effective in younger, healthier patients
> Manually making lists of rhyming words and counting syllables from markov chains, you could fit these requirements.

That would involve human labor. The NN learns that by itself from having enough data thrown at it.

> The OpenAI GPT-2 seemed to have meaning nailed down -- these poems clearly do not.

This is derived from GPT-2-small. So we already know that the state of the art is already better than what we see here.
You don't get the point.

The article talks about the believe in meritocracy, because true meritocracy doesn't exist.

For example, the gnome team had tons of good contributors over time. But nobody have time to keep going back to work they have already done. Then a new designer leader show up, with lots of free time, and start to churn out bad design on top of bad design, all to make gnome a mac clone.

Now, in your rosy vision of the world of open source meritocracy, who would judge merit? in real life, nobody did, and since the new designer had more free time than anybody else (is free time merit?) the awful designs moved on and people adopted the new osx-clone vision, and the community voice was mostly shunned away as not having enough merit to complain.

> People wouldn't tolerate that mentality when engineering bridges or building automobiles

you would be surprised how contracts for urban infrastructure are selected. In most places of the world there is a bribe mafia. And cars are mostly marketing for stagnant design (e.g. dashboard and bodywork design is lead by clay sculptor on every single company. Why do you think most dashboard designs are useless-ly round and fluid? because people want that or because the clay sculptors like to design it that way?)
If there are any MDs around, I'd be curious to know if there's some kind of data-driven baseline about there being a regular heart beat to begin with, or if there being one is an underlying assumption that's taken for granted.

(Either way, kudos to Apple for contributing to health science.)