skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were some pretty interesting things in the sharing patterns, which probably warrant more analysis. (Short version: the post produced lots of comments, lots of users directly tagging one another, and a high "user share" to "site/brand share" ratio.) At a glance, all of those things imply that in addition to rewarding personal/organic discussion, Facebook is implicitly rewarding inflammatory, false, or satirical stories; scary crime stories and outrageous jokes are the sort of things that make people tag each other instead of just liking a post.

I'm irritated, though, that the article can't offer any support for any of those claims. I understand that Facebook isn't forthcoming about their algorithms, but there are several hints that this piece is trying to build a "scary evil social media" narrative rather than simply seeking answers. In particular, the line "While no sources I talked to suggested this..." looks like journalistic shorthand for "No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get a sourced quote with which to claim that..."

This story is definitely more interesting than a simple clickbait headline, but I'm reluctant to trust the specific theories on offer here.
Belkin produces a thing like this; "Valet Phone Dock", which holds an iPhone and watch in view. I have one by my bedside. It's convenient with the watch because a slight tap causes it to wake up and show the time. Everything's at the 'right' angle.
Why? The new AirPods still have Hey Siri and longer battery life on telephone calls. If you choose the Qi case they still charge wirelessly with other Qi chargers.

It’s a solid spec bump to a product. Not a huge leap (which is there is no 2 in the name) but it’s not like they were ONLY going to work with the AirPower and had no other new features.

No reason to cancel them.
I love their keyboards, and have never met anyone IRL that has complained about them.
“Oh my god! The engineers are revolting!”

“You’ve worked here all these years and you only just noticed that?”
They may be working around Deka patents.
That title does seem hyperbolous. We switched to the HTML doc title.
I guess I wasn't clear. I understand that, "self-harm" is a very specific psychological term that encompasses activities like cutting and attempted suicide.

I meant that certain non-physical, indirectly harmful activities could be interpreted as falling under the category of self-harm while not meeting the classical definition. As I mentioned, if someone with the intention of hurting themselves or causing theirself pain (and not with that just being a side-effect/result) instigated a fight at work to get themselves fired and out of a job, you don't have to squint too hard to see it in that light.

e.g. classic self-harm: someone feels like they don't deserve to be happy or need to feel some physical pain to wake up or what have you, and engages in cutting, directly bringing that harm to themselves.

Someone feels like a fraud (without having engaged in any deception or the equivalent that would objectively result in others labeling them as such) and decides that they don't deserve the job they have with its pay and benefits, and so takes measures to make sure they are out of a job and a livelihood, and end up homeless and eating out of trash bins. Self-harm, no?

Someone gets angry at a boss/colleague and can't restrain themselves from starting a physical altercation and gets fired/loses their livelihood.. not so much self-harm.

So it's a question of perspective.
Now would be a good time for the return of the "gentleman scientist" of the 19th century. Not just passively giving money away to worthy organizations, but educating yourself enough to be an authority in that field. Wealth on the order of hundreds of millions affords your own private research team with a good enough budget for many fields, the possibility of pursuing high-risk basic research with no expectation of immediate financial gain and the ability to sidestep the trappings of the academic environment.

It will be impossible to have more money than you can spend in that scenario - the capital demands of global scientific research far exceed the liquid net worth of any single human individual.
Bullying should be purged, but is not. And others comes before individuals, except beta males and non-members. Near-harmless hazing, teaches rite of passage to membership alright, but morals are not only nor primary about how you act to your own members and friends. And maybe I don't want to be member of your group and where does it leaves your behavior toward me, exactly?

Morals have more to do with how you treat non-members and beta males and competitors.

Not sure what all that has to do with combat. Ultimately, people in IT are not in combat. Our moral questions are about which projects to work on and whether overly optimistic estimate counts as lie. Should I fight my manger to be unethical and where is the line? How much tracking is ok and am I going to develop software that breaks the law?
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't do this again—especially because we've had to warn you about this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: Is there any dark theme for HN?
Given the target audience of HN, it's quite baffling why it doesn't exist in HN's preferences page.

I remember Stylish (Chrome extension) offered a way to have dark theme, but even Chrome warns me about its privacy issues now. Is there any other way to have dark theme on HN?
This sets appropriate expectations. If they don't know when it will reach the quality that they want to ship it is better to cancel it.
> That's the point though, how do Google's stewards square their pottential support for losing secrets, with their fiduciary duty to numerous teacher, firefighter and police officer pension funds?

They don't. It makes perfect sense for Google to oppose right-to-compete.

However...

> "Society will be better off in the future your honor."

This aphorism implies that this decision is going to be made by a judge. It isn't. It is being made by the legislature, and the legislature is supposed to reflect the will of the people. So the right outcome here (if everyone is acting rationally and honorably) is to enact right-to-compete despite Google's objections.

The situation is no different than (to pick a very extreme example) that it was right to pass the 13th amendment despite the fact that it was vociferously opposed by a lot of people who lost a lot of money as a result.
Hmm, certainly Amazon doesn't want to pay anyone, robot, company or human more than they have to to do a job. Does that benefit humanity? For it's customers and shareholders yes, for the replaced warehouse worker, maybe not. But even that can be argued.
I have an IKEA charger (Nordmärke) that works really well:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/ho...
Well, in the case of music, what happens is that due to the low bit-rate there are many different signals that can produce the same features. The LPCNet model is trained to reproduce whatever is the most likely to be a single person speaking. The more advanced the model, the more speech-like the music is likely to turn

When it comes to noisy speech, it should be possible to improve things by actually training on noisy speech (the current model is trained only on clean speech). Stay tuned :-)
You are a True Believer.
In his book, Joe Dominguez called this point, "enough."

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/27/us/joe-dominguez-58-champ...
I wouldn't make any bets about what the US would do, sadly. I get the sense that the DUP and most people pushing for no deal actively want to tear up the Good Friday agreement (and blame the EU, even if that makes no sense).

I think this issue leads people to overestimate how much support the EU is giving to Ireland. How much they will support Ireland is still to be seen, but for now it seems to be more like "wait, agreeing to do what you already agreed to do is supposed to be the easy part; how can we negotiate with these people?"

IMO, the updated flowchart is way too optimistic. I don't see any reason to suspect parliament won't keep doing what it has been doing, either nothing in particular and crashing out or, more likely IMO, finding a consensus around an impossible plan, crashing out, and blaming the EU for not accepting it. If they were actually going to do anything different the time for that seems to have come and gone a long time ago. "Revoke article 50 if we can't come up with a plan" went down to a huge defeat Thursday as it has previously.

Edit: Looks like I should have checked the news first, sounds like there may actually be a general election. Edit2: Maybe not as clear as the headlines suggest.
In the late 90's there was a company trying to make a contact charger. I can't even remember what it was called now, but the gist was the device would have a couple pins, the charger a bunch of pin pads, and on detecting a device it would negotiate voltage and power level (like USB-C does now) and feed power to those pins.
For anyone looking for an alternative, now that the Apple charger didn't materialize, I can recommend the IKEA charger.

Works well and is reasonably priced (I've got Nordmärke).

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/ho...
> These people are more than free to express themselves in any public platform or their own platform.

Let me know if this is free speech:

- I have an extreme view I want to share

- I tried sharing on facebook but it got banned

- So I hosted it on my own website but then Cloudflare and AWS dropped me

- So then I hosted it on my own physical box in my house but then Comcast disconnected my service

Do I still have free speech?
That doesn't make for a clickbaitey enough title though.
"The only rational move as a real estate investor in most of these markets is to continue pumping capital and re-leveraging on the basis of accrued equity." - Can you ELI5? I recently sold a home that I bought for $600k a while back in a decent school district for $1.15M and bought a $1.8M home near Sunnyvale. Was that a stupid thing to do?
Exactly this. It's extremely difficult to lose your money at that stage.
Are you against all the existing rules that aren't life-or-death, then? Because they make life a much better place when you don't have to obsessively research every single product you buy.

And generally you can avoid it for bespoke items. It's not a barrier to personal deals.
It's perfect for a bedside table. Instead of needing to fumble around for a cable when I'm tired, I just place it on the mat. It's handy to have several pads around the house and office so your phone can always been juiced up. My phone rarely goes below 50% anymore, and I basically only bother with cables when I'm traveling. It's awesome.
Utility stocks tend to have low volatility and they pay higher dividends.
We can't talk about this without talking about the inequality in wealth which is the biggest factor in economy mobility unfortunately.
I suspect Apple's launch plan was to ship last week's AirPods with the new mat for last holiday, and that as of ~Sept 2018, Apple assumed AirPower was possible (which is why last weeks AirPods were manufactured with AirPower documentation placed into the box)

I spent sometime working on a hardware team at Amazon and we had an expression "hardware is like fruit" meaning the longer it sits unsold, the more stale and obsolete it gets (and it costs an unbelievable amount of money to keep it in storage). A few weeks/months ago, Apple must have decided that AirPower isn't going to happen, and that the AirPods that have been sitting in storage since September need to be sold so that they can actually sell their inventory before the launch of AirPods 3 (whenever that arrives)
Sure, the article is applicable primarily to US-based freelancers. YMMV in other places.

If it's any consolation, I live in a tiny town in the US and have rarely met my clients in person. Many of them have no idea where I work from or that I occasionally wear pajama pants on video calls, because my webcam is from the waist up.
About Removing Medium from HackerNoon
Cockroaches are a tough problem.

Isn't there something we want that eats them?
All SSDs are that fast (and way faster). Nothing special on Macbook ones.
For those interested in low bandwidth audio codecs, take a look at the voice codec used for Iridium handheld satellite phones, which was finalized in about 1998. Fully twenty plus years ago.

It doesn't sound the best, but consider the processing power constraints it was designed with...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications#Voice_a...
bonuses are still taxed at ~50%. depending on how much you make, you might qualify for trump's passthrough
Domain Names of Fortune 500 Companies
There's two examples in the comment you're replying to, and you can find more in less time it took you to write that reply.
What if you drive safely so you don't have to swerve to avoid the small child?
The difference is that it uses the voice of the original person. And STT is rather erroneous. The WER is in the single percent range :).
That's cool to hear :)

Thanks for the good article in any case, and best of luck!
How do you feel about the current employability of Rust, for high-skilled developers?

I helped grow a different fringe/innovative language platform and community. I'm recently doing Rust instead, partly because I'm very sympathetic to it, and it suits some kinds of server and applications programming I've done. And partly because Rust seems more employable, without being considered as commoditized a skill as some other languages I considered.
Very clever, but if it has battery issues it's going to fall on its face. An automated forklift seems a bit safer in that scenario.
"At the time of his arrest in 2017, Clark was a security researcher working for Malwarebytes, and made the hacks from his family home."

"Clark was given a 15 month prison sentence, suspended (or delayed) for 18 months. So as long as he stays out of trouble for the next year and a half, he won't have to spend any time inside. At sentencing, Judge Alexander Milne QC said he was spared a custodial sentence because of the efforts made by his parents—his mother has quit her job so that she can aid his rehabilitation and supervision—and reports that he would suffer unduly in prison due to a combination of autism and face blindness."

I was a bit stunned by this. It makes me think of how politicians, at times, voice physical health / mental health as the key problem when bad things happen to the public (e.g., bullying and school shootings). Sometimes they place more weigh on the individual(s) circumstances and view it as an isolated event, and fail to look into structural problems. I wonder how the courts in the USA would have resolved this - would this be labeled as an isolated incident or would they think more carefully about this on a policy level?
If you're going to cheat and pump in external energy, you might as well use atmospheric pressure changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Clock
Has someone tried to implement public key cryptography with Tetris?
Which is just as effective an argument against the entire of SICP. In a real lisp, a (list? <some-fn>) doesn't return true. You can't dig around inside a closure and walk the entire environment which is made up of a list of pairs.

But the point of a toy model is that you can read an implementation, build your own, reason about it and send code through it with little difficulty.

Once you've built eval and sent real programs through it, it's not a big jump from that to understanding how real tools work, which can generally be done incrementally.

That was certainly my lisp journey, and that includes macros (which were a separate step). After implementing them in eval, learning how they're in the real world was about as challenging as reading a restaurant menu.
Or another one not so long ago about still ongoing troubles with F-35C carrier version [1]. I stumbled upon that while following up to reading of the recent F-35 post on HN. Fascinating craft, nevertheless.

While at it also found some stories about F-35 helmet targeting systems, if it's anything like BAE Striker II for Eurofighter [3]

1. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/navys-version-f-35-ha...

2. https://militarymachine.com/f-35-helmet

3. http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/future-tech/inside-baes-stri...
Loading the file from disk into memory doesn’t require reads by the CPU. That’s significantly different than the cpu doing comparisons (or even reads) on each byte.
> Living there would be constant danger plus tedium, the space equivalent of working on a farm barely making ends meet for the rest of your life. Such lives don't have enough dopamine hits to keep people of such dispositions around long.

Training for ultra-marathons (and running them) is painful and tedious. The thing that people need are goals. For example "survive on Mars for 2 months". Then the next person will come along and say "I bet I can do in for 3". Then 6, then 12. And if enough people do it, suddenly you have a "base camp" from which to run your extreme survival competitions.

The dopamine drip will last a long time. Eventually, someone will fall in love with Mars in the same way they fall in love with Everest or El Capitan, or whatever, and then a colony can start.

Humans are crazy, and a subset of us enjoy pushing past the boundaries merely to prove that it is possible to ourselves. To prove that we have no limits. I think those people should be given every opportunity that humanity can afford to give them to push the limits of human capability.
You really can't think of any uses for being able to push 40 simultaneous speech connections through a single 64Kbps voice channel?
The EU would like to have a word with you.
Next.js pages do work for people without javascript too, and it's often paired with something like Express that can handle form post submissions. The Next.js+Express integration could be made smoother though.
Freelance via TopTal > https://www.toptal.com/
Were it "just like others with their markup", why would people pay more for the same thing?
That's not true. I even remember talking to some Nokia guys that expressed how everyone hated WP7 design and how much rather they would have gone with Meego or Android. There were polls at that time where like 7% of people liked WP design. Just because MS spent some money on marketing to get nice reviews doesn't tell much, but if you want to stay in that echo chamber, it's your choice.

And please don't be condescendingly academic about WP/W8 distinction. The "ugliness" of UI people here talk about is present on both platforms and you still have to do some work to hide it on W10 (e.g. manually unpinning tiles from start menu after each upgrade, confusing system settings, disjoint set of options in old vs new UI etc.).
Sounds like a production issue to me, and they're taking an opportunity to throw shade on the existing induction-charge market in anticipation of fixing issues and launching something bigger later.

"Doesn't meet our standards" sounds like "we have something vastly superior to Qi charging but it isn't quite ready yet" which will get eaten up by Apple stans.
Oh good grief! I expected better from HN. Socialism is not about getting something for nothing. Period end. Full stop.

Socialism is about owning what you produce.

How does that differ from Capitalism? In Capitalism workers don't own what they produce - the company owners do. All a worker owns is their time and expertise, which they trade to the company based on how easily they may be replaced. Capitalism therefore provides no incentive for quality, only the incentive to not get fired. Those are completely different objectives.

If you ever wanted to know what happened to people taking pride in quality and craft then know that Capitalism destroyed it. What Capitalism has become is a method for producing crap for the lowest cost possible. This is where we are today.

That's not to say Socialism is a panacea, it's not. One of the problems Socialism has is providing incentives for people taking significant capital risks. This is why most people agree company owners and founders should have a greater financial reward, at least in the early stages. But it should also be recognized that employees are also taking significant risks in that they're putting their livelihood at risk by signing on with a new and unproven organization. Balancing this is tricky.

In this brief discussion note I'm not talking about the old notion of Socialism where the government owns all the means of production and the workers shared in the proceeds. That form of Socialism has never worked. Governments have time and again proven themselves inept at moving anywhere close to the speed of markets. You must have private production and you must have workers being compensated proportionately to the value they produce and not by how easily they may be replaced. You do that and income inequalities will be minimized (not eliminated) and quality will increase. Sound easy? It's not - there's no obvious path for getting from here to there.
Why the next decade will be critical in the fight against climate change
Good list, but missing CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN (https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN.html).
Well, I did not find a crash (yet), but at least some deadlock (probably). https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1231
Interesting interview, but about the title: I really cannot imagine having more money than ways to spend, as there are so many things to do and get, like my new space telescope and moonstation and I heard those things are really, really expensive.
JVM could have been WASM but they made some unfortunate design decisions. They started as a target only for Java, GC, signed types. WASM started from the bottom, floats and ints (signed and unsigned) with plans to add GC, threads etc later.

It isn’t that the JVM is bad, it is that it isn’t the universal compilation target that WASM is.

Remember folks getting excited about LLVMIR, Bitcode? WASM is this but with a clean sandbox and minimal tractable semantics.

The JVM is awesome, esp with Graalvm and Truffle. WASM is the next evolutionary step.
or right click on the video and "Copy video URL at current time"
Agreed. I much rather have a company like Apple just flat out say "we can't make this work to our standards, to our customer standards, and we're not comfortable with releasing this product this way."

Versus say Google who'll just never mention it again or launch a broken version only to kill it off within two years.
100%. Wittingly or unwittingly, it was the right call for them, and pulled a ton of air out of the room for competitors.
Considering that pretty much every huge service goes into the direction of less control over time (Amazon, Netflix are other examples), I assume that for other people this has to somehow be great and actually increase their engagement. For me (and I assume many others on HN) it simply makes the experience worse and recommendations less relevant.
he's measuring the actual current draw of the running system with a meter.

Are you saying that Coriolis forces and the earth's magnetic field will have a greater effect on the system in a few years as opposed to now?
Would be really cool when this is in FreeDV and the HF bands benefit from this!
As a society, we expect all citizens (officers included) to do their job.

I think the record shows, that putting officers into that situation too often is a recipe for disaster. We shouldn't be using a force optimized for "takedown of fortified gang hideouts" for domestic violence cases. We shouldn't be letting pranksters deploy such forces.
My Case for Veganism (2018)
Where are you moving the heat by putting aluminum on the bottom? Into the surface it's on? That won't be very conductive.

Also heat issues with a power supply means losses. Thermodynamics might be keeping them from hitting numbers they wanted to reach. It's quite easy for an executive with some clout and bad listening skills to insist on a feature set that violates the laws of physics. I've worked on a few of those projects.
What the Theranos Documentary Misses