skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have spent many hours looking at this. From the data I've seen, there's zero evidence to back up the accusations of political astroturfing, shilling, and spying that users make against each other on HN, and plenty of evidence against it [1]. The only actual observable pattern is users posting comments that disagree with one another. Anything beyond that is an interpretation. I have not seen any data to support those interpretations [2].

When it comes to users accusing each other of astroturfing, shilling, spying, and so on, the only conclusion that fits the data is that people are imagining things. In reality, the community is simply divided and users have opposing views. Unfortunately, when my view is sufficiently obnoxious to your side or vice versa, the assumption of good faith evaporates and people reach for more sinister explanations. We can speculate about why, but it's clear that users are projecting those sinister explanations onto fellow users. The more divisive the topic, the more opposed people's views become and the more harshly they express them, leading to more projection, accusation, and division. A vicious loop.

This is especially toxic to HN because HN is a single community where everybody sees the same threads. Here you are more likely to run into views that you strongly dislike than you are on sites where communities partition into like-minded factions. Even when discussions on HN are more thoughtful than these other places, the fact that you're part of one big group—everybody, instead of mostly your own tribe—makes them feel less so.

When people post aggressive remarks to HN, they're not just bonding with their own tribe, they're simultaneously broadcasting to the other side, who take the harshness like a punch. All sides do this, so all sides feel punched. This is painful and one can't help but react internally. I believe that the accusatory reactions are self-protective. If you're a spy or a shill, that explains whatever you say and I needn't give it any credence. Unfortunately, these defensive reactions are also offensive ones, so we get an escalatory cycle. If HN is to avoid being ripped apart, we need a rule against such accusations. Therefore we do have such a rule.

1. There are other contexts on HN where we do find manipulation: usually startups or projects trying to promote themselves, but occasionally also more sophisticated astroturfing that appears to involve larger companies.

2. More on this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403438. For a specific example, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19404162.

p.s. I'm sorry that felt like I was targeting you specifically. My intention was only to say something about a general phenomenon which I've written about many times already: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
Are We Already in the Matrix?
Its funny that so many people are against vaccinations, but pesticides, chemical residues and phthalates gather little mass interest or outrage. You can to an extent avoid vaccination, even though they are beneficial - but you cannot avoid all of these industrial and agricultural byproducts, and they most certainly have a negative effect on you and your children.
For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Payback
Not only do they need to release a controller, they need to allows games to only support the controller. Forcing touch controls into games that want to be on the store filters out too many good games.
These days, it seems like news media outlets suffer very little from publishing unsourced claims that turn out to be false. If media consumers would/could participate in these betting markets and put their money where their eyes and ears are, they would use more critical thinking when deciding what to believe and how strongly to believe it (or else they would be punished financially). If popularized, this would have a feedback effect to the media outlets and they might start using better journalistic practices.
I see the value in not allowing another party in on the transaction data. You're correct that there are other parties that by their nature have to have that information (the merchant, the bank issuing the card, and Mastercard). But, it's good to know that the maker of the device doesn't know it as well.
Cases for Optimism
Wonder how the extreme flooding in NE is affecting that.
This sounds like a mediocre credit card (2% back but only with Apple Pay — if you’re okay with cash back on only some transactions, there are much better cards) with some benefit in the form of a nice experience.

I guess that, if Apple’s marketing power can sell a ton of these, there’s considerable upside for them, but it doesn’t sound like a truly impressive innovation.
That petition doesn't say what you think it does.
Isn't it right in the address bar on a default Firefox install? If it isn't, then it's definitely in the 3 dot menu in the address bar.
Nintendo will do fine, they can still offer Google Stadia on their devices additional to their own service. But I'm not sure if Apple will allow Stadia on their mobile platform, most likely not because it could require the full Chrome browser which isn't available.

Stadia is much more interesting for gamers and developers than Arcade, offline gaming just doesn't matter enough when measured against the advantages Stadia offers, where devs can target modern PC specs, while Arcade devs have to deal with device fragmentation – being bound to the performance of Apples most commonly used devices, and ecosystem exclusivity on top.
PDFs are kinda weird because there are somehow always PDFs that slow one viewer down but usually another viewer is fine. E.g. I have PDFs where Okular takes a couple seconds to render the first page, while LLPP renders it much faster. And vice versa -- which is the confusing part.
But not the rotisserie chicken.
Samsung Pay works at most (all?) readers that let you swipe your card. The only tricky ones are gas pumps since they don't read the mag stripe until they detect that a card is physically inserted. With a bit of finesse you can fake this by putting your drivers license or a library card in the gas pump while holding your phone up to the reader.
> system service which will deliver package to a proper application

That's expensive. Even if you avoid copying the packages by sharing memory between processes, there are still a lot of context switches...
> It is a self-propelling idea that would be almost impossible to kill because doing so would make your credit card offering less competitive.

Both the EU and China have introduced legislation that caps merchant fees. This helped with cashless adoption, but also killed off many of the bonus points/miles/cashback offerings.
I wonder if they ran the numbers and found out that a) late fees really wouldn't be a big deal and b) it's a disruptive move against standard issuers?
You can connect a Bluetooth Magic Trackpad 2 to your MBP :)
What am I missing? This quote seems to contradict itself.

"The thing is that we have this idea that everything can be taught, everything can be taught in school. And it’s not true that everything can be taught. In fact, the most interesting things cannot be taught.

But everything can be learned. And very often that learning either comes from some innate characteristics in your DNA, or it could be through your childhood where you learn soft skills which are very, very hard to teach later on in life, or it’s something that is brand new so nobody else knows how to do it either, or it’s true on the job training because you’re pattern matching into highly complex environments, basically building judgment in a specific domain."

If something can be known, why can it not be taught? Is learning not the process of being taught, by yourself or others?
Yeah. Similar routine in the morning, or on the weekend. Sitting there means goofing off, eating junk food and surfing the web. Which is bad when it also gets used for doing actual work on the computer, like coding. So there are conflicting signals.

I'm thinking a lot about triggers as a way to change habits right now.
I find the UX on a Mac to be vastly inferior to Mate or Cinnamon on Linux. The first thing I do when an employer gives me a Macbook is to install Linux on it so I have an usable UI.
An "Apple TV Game Edition" that comes with a bundled controller would be right in that console price range.
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I'm against this practice because of two things:

First, you are selling a little bit of your privacy, the bank you know all your purchase patterns and even though this seems not to be abused it creates a precedent that I do not like.

Secondly, every time that you buy things with your credit card the bank change the business a small fee, so in a way you are making the 'rich' more richer and the 'poor' more poorer.

I believe that these two thing will make me use cash forever.
Hold up. This guy's advice on making art is: "Reduce your message to its simplest, clearest, easiest-to-understand form"?

I guess this is a road map to making great art such as uhhh [checks notes] The Legend of Bagger Vance and Above the Law.
How would this pick up on the problem where stories such as the Mueller investigation are hyped and mischaracterized for a long period of time, and in the end Breitbart ends up being more correct on the story than most other news outlets?
The underlying network that's processing those payments still largely involves Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and Amex. For Apple Pay to entirely replace them, they'd need to convince millions of merchants to get credit card terminals that use them.
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Concerning remote development solution, for Python I highly recommend this feature of PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/configuring-remote-in...
With that website, is it just a matter of clicking on the red dots as they appear?

Asking because clicking on them here doesn't seem to be registering. eg I can click the buttons to start/end the recording session, but clicking on the dots does nothing. Score of 0 at the end.

Then again, I'm super tired so could have missed something super obvious. ;)
There isn't really an "inside of". There is no other universe that our universe is expanding into. The universe itself just "is", it is made of space-time and that metric is expanding and accelerating. Why it exists is philosophy. Maybe it was made just for us to exist in. Maybe it doesn't give a shit about us and we're simply hydrogen left to own devices long enough to futilely question its own existence.

When we talk about the universe we're rarely talking about what do not know yet, but rather what is possible to know.

Whether there is another universe "outside" of ours is not just something we don't know. It's something we cannot know but it's also something that cannot matter. The observable universe is, by definition, the total encompassment of everything that can possibly ever matter to us in even the strictest mathematical sense.
> I'm not sure I see the value of Apple not knowing this information

The value to them is the ability to consistently use "we care about your privacy" as a marketing tagline on new product launches.
China has aging population (median 41 years age) and things get further complicated by one child policy, which are not reversing even with relaxation of it. Their attempts to pivot to consumption economy did not yield much of a result. Once their shawdow financing faces a day of reckoning, we have to wait an see what their real consumption capacity is.
Amazon’s Zappos Rejected by High Court on Data Breach Suit
> There is no question of who the experts are: anyone can invest in a prediction market

You mean: anyone that has the opportunity to invest.

Incidentally, prediction markets have failed to predict the outcomes of the 2016 US presidential election, and the 2016 UK referendum.
> I think we'll have to accept that certain production will just never happen here.

It can happen here, if you break with neo-liberal economic dogma, and institute equalization tariffs on imports.
For PDF annotating/collaboration, Xodo for the web deserves to be better known: https://www.xodo.com/app/#/

It displays/creates standard PDF annotations. You can collaborate with people online if you want, or annotate files on your computer without uploading them to a server (it uses emscripten/wasm/pnacl client side).
America’s Identity Crisis
The assertion that needs to be proven is "pesticides in the amounts that currently exist in the food supply chain do not have adverse effects on human health," wise guy.
I think a lot of folks looking at this from the point of view of an adult gamer are missing the point: the audience for this is parents.

For 10 bucks (or whatever) a month you can load the ipad up with games and not worry about microtransactions or scummy ads targeting your kids. "Curated" is a signal that can trust age recommendations and not worry about inappropriate content.
Hot take. Care to elaborate a little more, for the sake of discussion?
Just got 210 on my first try (and 225 on a second) on linux-on-a-lenovo, same size and difficulty settings.
Retail banking, especially credit, is much more regulated than the investment banking shenanigans that led to the 2008 crisis.
By UX I include the touchpad. I have a linux XPS13 and their touch pad isn't comparable to what MacBook Pro provides. Interface on Linux isn't that bad now, I agree, but I like Mac more due to better hardware support and lack of problems.
Drones May Kill Commercial Air Travel
Space itself is expanding. At small scales, it isn't really that "fast" (gravity can/does overcome the effects within our galaxy and the Local Group). However, at large scales, it can exceed the speed of light (google "Hubble volume") so at some point, light emitted from sources outside this range will not longer reach us because the space between here and there expanded faster than light travels.
Why? I think EW is more worried about bigger fish than Apple's entrance into a crowded market.
I didn't post this item, but I am the person that started SageMath in 2004, so if anybody has any questions I will try to answer them...
Bodies have evolved to deal with crap substances through metabolism and excretion, so it just has to be Good Enough.

If you live to 85 and get cancer, by all means try and figure out how to deal with the cancer, but a positive mindset would also appreciate that you lived to 85.
That seems to be it.
I beg to differ on that one. When it comes to shonky hotels, Amex, from my experience, will side with them, given that they know what side their bread is buttered on.

By comparison my Chase/Visa sided with me when I was ripped off by a shady accommodation listing.

I agree totally with the sentiment though, also the 1-2% cash back is great.
BTW, do you have any modifications to the mentioned environments?
https://idsn.org/report-finds-entrenched-caste-discriminatio...

This is not an exageration anyone jumping in the train from their biggest cities will know.

https://www.ritimo.org/Slum-Settlements-on-Railway-Land-A-St...

not saying that progress has not been made. But calling India the best democracy is not factual worse it's a blatant lie. It is a country where you can (should) bribe public officials i.e: "A study conducted by Transparency International in 2005 recorded that more than 62% of Indians had at some point or another paid a bribe to a public official to get a job done"
How is it fortunate for citizens of those countries?

If the company monetizes, but in ways that the citizens don't like, they can choose to not use services provided by the company. If they agree with the monetization practices being adequate in exchange for the services provided, they can use the services. Whereas if the company doesn't monetize in the region, they can't afford to provide services anymore, then even those people who are totally cool with the monetization strategy cannot use the services.

TL;DR: if you don't agree with the way a service is monetized, you are free to not use it (obvious limitations apply for things that are essential to living in modern society, like internet or banking; FB doesn't fall under this). Just because you are not ok with the cost associated with using that service, that shouldn't serve as a solid ground for denying service to those people who accept the cost.
I guess the higher order question we may be disagreeing on is

"Is it okay to use disadvantaged people for personal gain, if in doing so you also improve their state in life?

I would answer (not enthusiastically) that it is okay.
Parent commenter is likely referring to MacOS's trash fire opengl support and zero Vulcan support.

It's not about getting spectacular graphics on MacOS, it's about even getting your renderer to work.
I don't quite understand that, since the linked article says Apple will "use machine learning and Apple Maps to label stores that you use in the app, and use that data to track purchases across categories like “food and drink” or “shopping.”"
Yup! There is light moving towards us from the other side of the universe, but we'll never see it because the space between that light is stretching faster than thr light can travel (or something like that). Check out this page on the Observable Universe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe.
If the credit card does not have any numbers on it, how do you make purchases online on sites that don’t directly accept Apple Pay? Does the Wallet app on your iPhone generate virtual card numbers on request that you can use online? Or are you only allowed to use it at websites that explicitly accept Apple Pay? I read through all the official Apple PR stuff and the fine print, don’t see any mention of this.
Unless discussion is just going to be about scoring points, the burden of proof is on anyone who is intellectually curious.
If the US government is willing to directly subsidize corporate farms with corn subsidies, the least they can do is regulate them.
Interesting content. I'm at the IC vs. manager crossroads and this was some well timed perspective.

FYI: You have a `margin-top: 1rem;` value in your `.navbar-custom` class causing text to be visible above the header when you scroll.
Belated edit: More like ~10^81 times the speed of light.

> According to the theory of inflation, the Universe grew by a factor of 10 to the sixtieth power in less than 10 to the negative thirty seconds, so the "edges" of the Universe were expanding away from each other faster than the speed of light [0]

It seems that the universe was on the order of ~1 meter in diameter then.[1] So the "'edges' of the Universe were expanding away from each other" at ~10^90 meters per second.

0) http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/physics/109-the-universe/co...

1) https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/03/24/how-...

Edit: Upon reflection, I get that "~1 meter in diameter" makes no sense. Maybe just say that the "edges" were ~1 meter apart.
Simulated Policy Learning in Video Models
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The Hacker Hype Cycle
I love Sage! But, which was the rationale to build Sage as a standalone programming language/environment instead of being more integrated into Python? I assume syntax, basically?
Another problem which I include in UX is sleep mode. On Mac it works flawlessly. On XPS13 + Ubuntu/Fedora (I tried both) which I used, there's non zero probability that when I open laptop again, the battery is almost empty.
No it isn't possible. But if you're married (or cohabitating) it is possible for one of you to focus on wealth creation and the other to focus on supplying edibles such that you both have a good quality of life and reasonably self sufficient food production.

The things you can't produce will be flour, sugar, spices (salt, pepper, Etc.) and will need to import, but with a flock of chickens and a dairy cow, and roughly 5 acres of land you can provide everything else. As I recall the Firefox survivalist series gave a pretty complete recipe for what you needed. You can substitute goats for the cow if you are ok with getting your milk, cheese, and meat that way. I don't recall if there was a purely vegetarian or vegan recipe.
Can you raise your concerns at the office with your manager and team?

If you have a good manager and good team no one should care about when or how you work, as long as you are productive and are available every now and again (perhaps a couple of times a week) to sync up or answer questions.

E.g. if work is not able to provide an environment conducive to thinking for large blocks of time, can you negotiate to work from home 2-3 days per week?

I have a similar problem at my work, I will be working from home today & will aim to spend most of the day at home with email and slack off. Lots of thinking and programming will happen.

When I am in the office it is sometimes possible to occupy a small meeting room for hours. If I have an afternoon without meetings I tend to try to hide in a room for noise & physical isolation from interruptions. Headphones and lyric free instrumental music work for me too.
Is quality of life / general happiness considered when we talk about how many jobs there are in the service industry? I know a few people who have been steadily employed in such industries but are unhappy and don't see any way out.

Imagine a society with two classes - an upper class creating & sustaining 'services' like horse-walking or tinder coaching, a lower class forced to choose between unemployment and being the other class's glorified servants.

We need to be looking at ways to level the playing field - provide opportunity and education to those who were not fortunate enough to be born into it. Celebrating the stability of jobs which make people feel like second class citizens feels like shrinking away from the problem.
It's 2% cash back on Apple Pay, 3% cash back on Apple products, and 1% cash back on non-Apple Pay, non-Apple products.

Do you know a better card that always gives 2% cash back, no cap?
Givent that they are only operational 5% of the time, does it really matter what a pilot thinks?

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27047/the-navys-operat...
What does that matter? If we get it from directly from plants we eat or indirectly through meat, you are still getting pesticides.
Another thing to note about having no numbers, I sometimes volunteer to run the box office at a local theater, and we have a little Square reader that only accepts magstrips. But often it doesn’t seem to work properly, so I end up typing the numbers in manually in the Square app. I know it’s not ideal, but when you’ve got 10 people in line you just need to get it moving somehow. How would a store employee deal with a card having no numbers in this situation?
They said it that all happens on the device itself, and won't be transmitted back to their servers.
Maybe consider the literal implications of the "joke", even if its meant to be ironic/endearing or something similar.
In the US we have a much better system. The overwhelming majority of buyers spend ~3% more on every purchase and then wealthy cardholders who can attain the requisite credit ratings for rewards cards are given a cut of this 3%. The rest of it goes to the card companies bottom line. A truly magnificent system.

/s
I was around during that time period. UUCP was used over dialups well into the 90's. Many early ISPs offered UUCP email and news feeds.
It is largely incorrect to blame loss of US manufacturing jobs to minimum wage legislation. If a company is paying $20/hour in the US, well above the minimum wage, and can outsource an equivalent job for $6/hour, that's just what it will often do.

Minimum wage doesn't come into it. No employee earning $20/hour is going to accept that tomorrow she'll get $6/hour for the same job. (One reason is pride. Another is information asymmetry. As an employee being offered a $14/hour wage cut, you can't know whether the company is telling the truth about the equivalent cost of labor in China, or is just trying to cut your wages.)