skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OMG, if no one ever traveled anywhere, there would less CO₂ emissions. Also, if we decided use nothing other than aspirin and penicillin, health car expenditures would be so much lower. If we all lived like pre-industrial revolution serfs, the earth would love us. After all, my grandmother got by without a fridge. Who needs a car anyway? Besides, we should just have a single brand of toothpaste. While we are at that, why should anyone be able to travel more than 50 miles away from where one was born? Why should you be able pick up and move somewhere else on a whim if that's going to interfere with the plans of the CO₂ Emissions Planning Board?

BTW, why do you keep emitting CO₂? It says here you filled up your lifetime quota last week. Chop chop!
Generally they only contact you by phone if they’re trying to sell you something. Banks being the one notable exception but I still get more than my fair share of sales calls from the bank too.

Plus at the time that was written, it was pre-GDPR so you’d often find your number getting sold on if you weren’t extremely careful when signing up to even non-free services.
The number scheme changed around 2014 when the numbers started getting close to -9999

https://cve.mitre.org/cve/identifiers/syntaxchange.html

Might as well add a massive 1000 prefix when upping the number of digits to catch truncating bugs early (seeing a bunch of 1000 is more obvious than if just the last of 5 digits is dropped)
Is there resolver with Tor proxy? I love being able to use onion websites from browser.
Quitted my previous job and accepted a 20 hrs / week remote contract dev job with 40% pay cut, I haven't woken up by alarm clock for almost 1 year now, no more arduous commuting, plenty of time to spend with family and hobbies. Wrote and sold two books using the free time I have got.

Although I could have accepted full time job offer with higher pay, I think the free time to pursue hobbies / side businesses are more worth it for me
There is a saying that approximates to:
"your solution is only as good as your understanding of a problem" and this is especially true of Elon Musk.

From your perspective, his projects might look like blind faith.
But from Elon Musk's perspective, he felt he had a better understanding of the viability of those projects to undertake them -- he knew or had a vague idea of which levers to pull that hadn't been pulled in a certain way before, or perhaps new levers had appeared that hadn't been noticed by experts in the field.

This is why humans are different -- our life experiences shape our perspectives and our perspectives shape our understanding. Elon's confidence comes from his better grasp of the challenges to make EV a reality which is why he felt emboldened to tackle the problem anew, where others had failed.

Elon felt his understanding of EV and how they would evolve made him uniquely qualified to invest in an EV venture called Tesla when he was pitched by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003.

And it goes both ways: bankrolling a EV startup at that time was considered crazy.

Elon's personal bankrolling of a rocket company back in 2002 gave off two crucial signals:

1. a money-bag that gets manufacturing (only a handful fit this criteria);

2. a money-bag with the right kind of crazy (an even smaller handful fit this criteria);

that assured Martin and Marc that Elon was the right person they should be speaking to to invest in Tesla, which he did.

Those two signals were necessary for the investor minority at that time to appreciate the value proposition of Tesla. The majority of investors actually laughed off such an investment as what Elon himself characterized as "idiocy squared".
With the added problem of the very strong stigma in japan against mental health issues which means that most would be very unlikely to consult.
I'm surprised that only two surprised me:

HTC mobile (I assumed an HTC phone is an HTC phone)

Boston dynamics (I saw this as a DoD thing)

And I think a lot of people (though maybe not here) may not know about Nest and Waze. I've heard people being surprised about it, though I don't know if they made it obvious by now because I don't use either.
The paradox is that the school institution is actually very dumb and stupid where it should be the smartest thing out there.
The funny thing is that it isn't more friendly because efficiency produces big gains - look at just how much more land is required for organic farming vs conventional practices - let alone lower tech subsistence farming which amounts to 'slash and burn and then move on when the soil has depleted', heck even cooking fires produce far worse air pollution than propane stoves.

Local and small scale may 'feel cozy' but they aren't efficient - they were abandoned for a reason.
Of course it is. This is only news to people who think being able to use a couple of Python libraries makes them a "scientist" of some sort.

See also instrumental variables[1]. Oh, sorry, I forgot, who needs all of the thought that went into the development of econometrics as a discipline? We now have data mining as a career.

[1]: https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/teaching/economics/bond/instru...
Nice, I was not aware of it, I'll have a look at this :) I updated the README of my tool to link to this: https://github.com/eliemichel/MapsModelsImporter
Is there an app that, upon clicking a button, will play a standard message to the caller and hang up the phone?
Which country are you talking about?
Not surprising, Facebook can ask for regulations because it becomes a way to lock the market for themselves - it will be difficult for new entrants to respect all regulations from the get go, it's a well known appeal from companies that control the market. It's not innocent.
Someone’s being studying strategy.

This is a great move for FB. This is the correct strategic move - punting the ball.

Fundamentally most people, and that includes most people even on tech websites like HN, don’t understand that social media governance is a black hole which leads to hell.

By pushing the ball into the regulator’s courts, he’s hoping to divorce himself of the baggage of lawsuits and moderation costs.

Moderation work is fractal in nature - the more nuanced your rules, the more training surface area for abusers.

Leading to more nuanced ways to define the same issue, but the overall structure not changing.

That means it’s a cost/spending black hole as well.

This day was coming anyway, no matter what the free speech advocates who’ve never had to moderate difficult forums have to say.

I’m an active mod elsewhere and its obvious to me that the internet and social media firms will dump the costs of actually moderating the web at first chance.

It would eat their income almost entirely.

There’s no automated way to fix this so scaling is man power driven.

The manpower issues are simple anyway - deciding whether something is newsworthy or whether it will be pg-13/A/or PEGI-x is a whole different problem.

This means a national editorial desk in each country.

So all the benefits SM firms have been enjoying by sucking up the benefit of attention which used to be filtered by editor and journalists teams now has to be spent.

(I recognize that news was dying before the internet.)

Facebook has the answer.

It’s good PR.

It’s good law.

And it’s good for profits.
I'm kind of tired to read what he (and other way-too-powerful-tech guys, such as Jack "thoughtful" Dorsey) "believe" about how things should work on this planet.

It's horrible that single individuals can gain that much influence while possibly being entirely unfit for the kind of responsibly that comes with that.

I have a lot of respect for how Zuckerberg has built the business that is Facebook. But I have zero trust left in that he's able to do anything else than just to make things worse (for everybody except Facebook's bottom line).
Try wasd instead of arrows.

And yes, the starting position of new pieces looks random.
> The true problem with surveillance is the asymmetry of it all.

This argument reminds me of those pro-gun arguments: we can't prevent guns from falling into the hands of wrongdoers, so let's allow everyone to arm themselves – soon we'll reach an equilibrium where the fear of retaliation acts as deterrence.

I don't agree with this kind of thinking at all, the way to deal with destructive technologies is not further proliferation.
Agreed. The flaw in this article is that it talks about overwork as a given and as a solution offers some measures that can help you individually cope with stress while doing nothing to the overall atmosphere. The idea of reorganizing a workspace so that it is more humane is seemingly too radical.

I am currently recovering from a mild burnout. Self-diagnosed, but I had surely felt a lot of exhaustion, cynicism and ineffectiveness. The curious thing is that I didn't even work that much! (In the end I barely worked at all because I couldn't). What caused it in my opinion was not overwork but the combination of sociopathic senior leadership and an incompetent immediate boss. The senior leadership tried hard to institute a culture of self-blame and fostered the feeling that you were never doing enough while my immediate boss had a preference for the "zerg-rush" style of software development with little design and planning, constantly changing priorities, "motivation" by unrealistic schedules and disregard for quality control (that resulted in several entirely preventable production outages). He also did little to shield us from outside distractions and expected an "always on" attitude (he would message us in the wee hours of the Sunday morning and expect a timely response). All this pushed me hard towards burnout.

In the end I decided to quit my job (high salary be damned) and go on a sabbatical. Already I feel a lot better and am starting to regain some of the interest I had in programming.
Sure. So here's the question: do you want everybody you want to keep in touch with to have control over your attention span throughout the day? The site is engineered so that it's a steady stream of almost-interesting, emotionally-manipulative things somebody you once knew finds interesting.

For many things, at least at first, I was more curious as to why these people found these things interesting, so I clicked. I slowly realized that "things I rind interesting to share" and "things a lonely person who has a lot of emotional drama in their life" would find interesting to share are worlds apart.

Doesn't mean I don't like these people. Doesn't mean I want to shut them off. Many of these people are part of my past, they feature highly in important memories. And Facebook is the only way to stay in touch. (No, my 85-year-old former English teacher isn't going to join Slack anytime soon)

So we're left with this binary yes-no choice. Either you accept them in your life and spend the rest of your years each day going through and muting all the various ways they find to spend their time -- or you either unfriend or unfollow them and have no idea what they're doing.

Unfollow is best of those two options, but then you end up missing things you really wanted to hear about, like them getting sick and dying. Facebook presents a Faustian choice: accept your "friends" and let them spam you or mute them completely -- and perhaps never hear from them again. Who wants to do that to Aunt Lisa?
"I don't know how to sort this out. Come get me off the hook. You can censor whatever you want! Globally!"
This relates to my most hated interview question - "If someone else can do what you do but they also have X quality why should we pick you?" Which always makes me want to contemptuously exclaim "Well obviously you shouldn't, fool!"

I have never actually gotten a job where the interview had a variation of that question.

on edit: changed explain to exclaim, don't think it significantly changed the meaning in context however.
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I think you're spot on on your evaluation

I would advise not to block sources, but unfollow people. They will still be friends, but none of their crap will show up in your timeline
That isn't that meaningful without the overall rate of deception for all parties. If nobody else can deceive you who is left to deceive you but yourself?

It would be like dealing with people immune to all diseases and aging and noting that they tend to die more often from violence - of course they would it is the only thing left to kill them! It doesn't imply that they are more violent.
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There is a well-known burnout measurement test from Christina Maslach, who gave an interesting overview of job burnout in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRPBkCW0R5E
What I like about this article is that it does something subtle yet profound: it uses repetition to solidify a concept to the reader. For example the referencing of wall time in the first few paragraphs lowers the load for the reader to refer back to previous paragraphs to reconnect with a newly introduced concept (walltime in this context was new to me as of reading this article). I think this is a huge win as it doesn’t break the reading timeline and it’s a subtle yet huge showing of attention to detail. Much kudos to the author.
I still find it hard to believe that Apple will actually bring a car to market. Look at how long it took Tesla to do it, and all the problems they are still having more than a decade in. And all they do is make cars. It would seem so much more efficient to simply buy a car company that already had the expertise. Yeah it would cost an absolute crap ton, but Apple is probably the one company that can afford it.

That being said, I would definitely buy an Apple car. Too bad Steve isn’t around anymore, he would make a damn fine automobile.
Yes, they are quoted on the article itself.
Google cache only exists at local nodes in the cluster behind 8.8.8.8; chances you hitting the same node behind 8.8.8.8 for non fb like domains are slim.
It's both interesting and expected that we're only just now really getting a grasp on mosquito targeting. Viruses and bacteria tend to have single targets, easier for us to figure out, whereas more complex mosquitoes logically have more complex targeting systems. We'll probably have it sorted in a decade.

Now, as for my unique anecdotal contribution:

I 1) don't attract many mosquitoes but 2) when one of them does find its way to me, I'm non-reactive (no itchy bump).
I'm both a sweaty and oily person, but I don't really produce BO. No stinky armpits (I save a fortune on deodorant), no stinky feet, etc. My father has a similar situation and he's non-attractive for them, but my siblings are less sweaty, but do produce BO and get eaten alive.
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100 years ago and beyond 14 years old married and worked 7 day a weeks.

Now we cry because the might have to learn for a few hours, 5 days a week 40 weeks a year?

As a adult an incredible important skill to live life is to self manage. How do kids learn this skill? How do they learn to work as a team without being babied?

If parents are able to swap in a replacement, sure, if they are rich and have time and the skill set that might be possible, to bad for everyone else. (And for kids already massive responsibilities this is a separate issue that needs solving)
Is this not common knowledge?
Discussed earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19531457
Absolutely agree - despite all of the advances in "AI" (quotes used deliberately), I simply don't see fully automated moderation happening any time in the near future.
When there is a dispute, sure.

If it's just "we don't have all the rights, sorry", there is no legal matter to worry about.
> Yeah, you could quite easily build something like Facebook and Twitter (without comments) with RSS.

People already have!

I'm going to use the example of Wordpress, as I know for sure that it does offer RSS out-of-the-box, but there are alternatives.

If your grandma, say, has a wordpress blog, then RSS comes for free. If she knows what a hyperlink is (even if she doesn't know what it's called) then she can paste links to individual articles or blogs or news-sites. The reader can read whatever is recommended in their web browser and if it was (part of) an RSS feed, they can subscribe. In principle, you could even have an RSS feed reader that checks all links for whether they are associated with RSS feeds, to avoid the "web browser" step.

I don't think that a non-self-hosted wordpress blog is significantly more difficult to use than Twitter. There will probably be people who can use the latter, but not the former; however, I think that it'll be a tiny minority.

With Wordpress you could even have an RSS feed of comments and pingbacks, partially (but not globally) solving the third-party comments problem.
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Its very strange to me that no one mentions any concerns about government censorship in this thread.

You ask the government to control what is allowed online, eventually they will start doing it.

The problem is that many people on Hacker News have this rose-tinted glasses worldview where their governments could never do anything too bad. Most people here have no knowledge of the history of propaganda or that it actually is part of western government operation.

What will happen is that governments will start saying that certain content about certain election candidates is "fake" and then remove it. That will be applied to some actual spam. But then some candidate will come along that is just plain completely against the direction of the current government or there is a grudge with a high-level official. They put something slightly emotional in their content. The government then flags that content as spam. This is called suppression of political dissent. And that is what you people are asking for, and will get, in your new unified global system.

I mean I'm all for global integration but you've got to be extremely mindful of the direction it goes in.
When I was going to school most days I was coming home at 1pm. I guess getting homework was fair and later at university I learned a lot by doing my "homework". Still I have to admit I skipped it a lot while in school. Instead I played with friends, build some projects and learned a lot of other things.

I really get concerned about the "night" mentioned in the article. If school is the whole day saddling anything on top is wrong.
Well said!

I've just opened Facebook's homepage after about 10 days. 15 new notifications, and 14 of them were absolute junk.

8 friend suggestions that can't be turned off.

4 updates from my friends for some reason (FFS, that's what the home feed is supposed to show).

2 new events I might be interested in, and one event I'm going to has posted an update.

Nobody in their right mind is going to use a product where there's 1 useful notification out of 15. If I have to ask myself why? multiple times while using a product that claims that I have control over what I see, that product may as well be dead.

If I wished them any good, I'd suggest that they seriously consider rebranding as soon as possible. The word "Facebook" makes me immediately think of frustration, and there's no going back from there.
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Bullshitanavia, of course. When someone says “one of the Scandinavian countries with the highest happiness factor” I just chalk that up to optimism and hope that such a place exists.

Small percentage it exists, but I’m jaded into thinking any comment with a specific statement attributed non-specifically, without citation, is safe to ignore.
There is another cost - the cost to society of paper garbage and dead trees. I live in a 200+ unit apartment building and recently received a mailer for hedge cutting. I promptly went to the mailroom recycling bin and threw it out, discovering about 150 identical copies thrown out by other unit residents. Obviously no one in a building needs hedge cutting — we live in apartments, not houses — but the mailer didn’t care or put much thought into even basic ad targeting. What a waste.
Easy to explain, Japanese deny themselves the right to be weak, they are all supposed to be samurai. Same as in Russia, you are supposed to be a Communist hero whatever happens, mental health issues, especially among men, are as if don't exist there - guys just 'fix' themselves with vodka when they have to, or with suicide if vodka doesn't help anymore. In Russia people can't become hikikomori en masse just because the country is poor so their parents won't be able to feed them - and also because they have same hero mentality so would just beat the crap out of their kids if they tried to lock themselves up in their rooms.

Also, on the good side, in Russia there are much fewer social obligations before people. As in Japan, if you didn't get a college degree to become a salaried employee in a huge company, you are fucked and no one respects you. In Russia, you can do a lot of things and with vast majority population being dirt poor and apathetic, social standards of what constitutes 'successful enough' are very low - some kid who dropped out of college to make $1500 on Upwork writting crappy PHP code at the age of 30 is a success story and his parents are proud of him - in Japan he would be a hikikomori because it would be a total shame to be in that state.
Everybody sweats, you too. I don't think you need to be very sweaty to attract mosquitos, but everybody's sweat is different so that likely plays a role.
This follows with one of the most effective mosquito repellents already in use today. A rotating fan.

It mixes everything in the room around so that the carbon dioxide, sweat, and everything else can't be as easily used to target you.
Very nice; writing minified code is a challenge I've never been particularly good at.

As it happens, though, I had a university assignment due today to write a WebGL falling-triomino game:

Start game: space
Rotate: a/z s/x d/c
Move: arrows
Drop: space

http://2-71828.com/T%C3%B6lvugraf%C3%ADk/Verkefni03/tris.htm...
It's also a bit of a tragic story. The PDP-1 was designed by Ben Gurley, an engineer at DEC. He took just 3.5 months to build the machine. Tragically, Gurley was later murdered in 1963 while eating dinner with his family, when a co-worker fired a rifle through the window of his house. The co-worker was later admitted to a hospital of the criminally insane, where he died.
It's likely going to apply to consumer connections only so any kind of VPS provider will likely continue to be fully connected. Likely even consumer connections will be mostly ok, but rather some blacklist would be applied.

Looking at it realistically: if they actually disconnect - NTP gets pretty flakey, lots of DNS requests start filling, software updates stop happening, VoIP providers stop being able to route international calls, etc. Even things like large investors won't just go "nah, we can get by without Bloomberg".
No. Android has limited access to the audio streams for voice calls, which is why call recorders rarely work.
If only legislators read HN and could see through the motives behind Mr. Zuckerbergs announcement.
Same in the UK with Royal Mail (which is now privatised, but it was true before that too).
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Britain’s vote to leave the EU was the result of widespread anti-immigration sentiment, rather than a wider dissatisfaction with politics, according to a major survey of social attitudes in the UK.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-lates...

But it’s not European immigration

https://screenshot.net/2lxzmbn

I’ve been canvassing for the last week, the majority of people want brexit stopped. Of those that don’t the vast majority don’t care what we end up with as long as it stops the immigrants.
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