skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look folks, I'm open to any and all ideas, as long as it's not a decently funded public system.
> (I also distinctly remember being shocked by the size of some paintings, especially the crowning of Napoleon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_Napoleon_I#/medi...) This painting was printed in many of my history school books, but I was not even remotely aware that is nearly 10 meters wide.)

And yet, it's the postal stamp-sized Mona Lisa that gets all the attention...

Sure, it's a good painting, but I personally find it to pale in comparison to the other works on display at the Louvre.
Implication that people who don't agree with you are all "incels", broad-brushed insult aimed at men -- plus a side of victim blaming. lol
The thing that makes Facebook different from the postal service is that Facebook provides an amplifier.

You can send one message and it'll be received by many.

Facebook may not have to take responsibility for users' content or wrangling with issues such as free speech but they must take responsibility for what and how they choose to amplify and recommend that content to others.

Traditionally this is a power that has only been held by broadcasters. Broadcasters have things like time delays and "dump switches" when they are conducting live shows. The time delays are mostly used to insert the "bleeps" for bad language. The "dump switch" is a more brutal approach that allows them to avoid broadcasting something that is going terribly wrong.

Broadcasters also have "watersheds" that place time constraints on when certain types of things can be broadcast and broadly define who the expected audiences are.

In this case, Facebook are acting more like a broadcaster than a publisher or message conveyer. Because the audience can be more tightly controlled than a regular broadcaster, there is a case to be made for making the responsibility bar higher, not lower, so that inappropriate content cannot be deliberately targeted at vulnerable people.
1- 1/r^2 is the most natural in 3D space. Think of it as the surface of en expanding sphere. A lot of things follow the inverse square law: electric fields, light intensity, sound intensity,... It is not a strong argument: there are other things that don't follow 1/r^2 and we are not even sure our universe really is 3D (though there is strong evidence for it).

2- Theories that don't involve 1/r^2 (MOND) exist, but they are not sufficient to match observations without involving dark matter. And following Occam's razor, since MOND introduces another parameter (the behavior of gravity on long scales), but doesn't simplify anything (dark matter is still there), it is not preferred.

3- While we don't know the details about dark matter, we "see" it in a way. We see it affect the movement of galaxies, and the gravitational lensing effect it has. It is just that we can't observe it with our preferred methods, which involve electromagnetism. I mean, we don't need to see a glass panel to know that it's there. Sure, we'd like to know more, and evidence of dark matter is weaker than our glass pane, but we simply don't have anything better right now.
You mean canv.as?
> I still believe in that bright future pre-cyberpunk science fiction was promising us. Citation enough?

Not to impose your will against free speech, no.
I grew up with a fridge in the home, but my parents certainly did not have electronic refrigerators growing up -- perhaps not the most profound difference in our worlds, but certainly up there.

The ability to reliably, safely store perishable foods in quickly usable form for weeks, or (only slightly less conveniently) freeze for many months, is hugely significant, and it's easy to underestimate the cultural impact. Similar to the electronic / mechanical washing machine, I suspect.

I've always assumed a fridge is a fridge, albeit some have fancy doodads like cold water dispensers, ice makers, etc. However, I've just started looking at a new fridge in earnest, and discovered it's way more complicated now than just the cold bit (2-4C) and the frozen bit (-18C).

I'm looking at a device now that has 5 separately doored areas, with each area adjustable, some by up to 15C difference, for combinations of temperature and humidity, with 'barely frozen' for slightly longer than fridge storage, different types of fruit/vegetables, things that need to be rapidly frozen, etc.

I'm starting to wonder if I have the competence to drive such a machine.
But doing some public works in the community in lieu of a portion of local/council tax? That could work.
The link should be changed to the original interview: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/25-years-later-intervie...

Very recent discussion: 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19559970

296 points by axiomdata316 5 days ago | 145 comments
Acorn was the manufacturer rather than the model.

So the Acorn logo was on the back of the BBC computers, the Electron and on later Archimedes lines.
If the House of Lords votes through Cooper-Letwin today, and it gets Royal Assent, then a no deal Brexit has become illegal. If the EU also refuses an extension, then the PM has no option but to revoke.
An indirect approach could be better to communicate the lack of cameras without making people too suspicious. Something like: "We highly value our guests' privacy".
"[In Tinder,] the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men" - from https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g... (2015).

I dive a bit it that topic in "Dating for nerds (part 2): gender differences" https://p.migdal.pl/2017/09/30/dating-for-nerds-gender-diffe....
How much can we afford to forget, if we train machines to remember?
"you're left with 12GB RAM and that is not very much"

omg
Especially given that /r/The_Donald is still around.
Are they a disease, or are they symptoms?
Linking to content is not piracy.
The middle-men are the most desperate about tyrannical copyright laws. The content creators don't need IP to survive and create, because they can always monetize their content in some form. But for the middle-men it's their only means of income.
Sorry to hear about that. Here are some tips:

1. Bullies will keep punching you in the face until you fight back. You don’t have to win: just fight back.

2. You’re more likely to lose your job if you’re not respected and you’re less respected if you don’t fight back.

3. Cutting your rates won’t help you find a job: it just makes you entirely undesirable to the market segment you belong in.

If you can, consider this an opportunity to grow as a person and challenge your assumptions about interpersonal relationships. I don’t know you or your situation, so I offer this as just honest advise from what I’m reading.
A journey – if you dare – into the minds of Silicon Valley programmers
Reddit was a link aggregator for the lowest common denominator. But with the introduction of comments and subreddits they stumbled into the role of an aggregator of niche communities and mostly pivoted to fulfill that role better, until fairly recently (with the redesign, community containment and bans etc. in an effort to increase mass appeal)
During my time in IBM I was walking by the "main" Watson server everyday into work. I was always impressed at the package, and what ever they said it could do.

Finally got my hands on it and was incredibly disappointed. Lacking features, archaic interface, and not delivering on what it was promised. Talked to some guys working for the Watson team and they told me that half of the AI stuff is just them doing it manually under the guise of "integration and configuration".

I did have fun "talking" to Watson whenever I was bored at work, trying to make him swear
Piracy may well be a requirement for culture to survive beyond that which is mandated and approved by the major content owners.

In fact, once something enters the public domain, copying it, consuming it, drawing attention to it, documenting it, analysing it, archiving it, reusing it, in short, using it; is absolutely vital to keep those facets of culture a part of our heritage. And it is completely legal.

But between the public domain and the moment cultural artefacts are created is a vast gap where copyright shields everything from those acts, even when nobody is monetizing it, and when all that stands between losing it forever and maintaining it for future generations is a couple of pirates who ripped a copy at an opportune moment.

The current copyright status quo is killing culture. 28 years of copyright protects the creator, life plus 100 years just protects the profits of some faceless megacorporation or rent-seeking artist's estate.
Rakudo.js update – running tests in a real Chrome – Paweł Murias
Interesting that trying on an A1200 had no joy. That machine will switch quite happily between PAL and NTSC timing if you press the space bar at the boot menu.
That's only because the US stopped all R&D on them under Carter.

Again, the only reason we're not all nuclear today is because of politics.
Describing Self-Descriptive Data with DFDL and Apache Daffodil
Whatever pro-ana content is, there have been books about starving yourself, building bombs, committing genocides and whatnot since printing was invented.

It is not the platform's or the internet's responsibility if a minuscule percentage of teenagers starve themselves to death because they watch a video. If a teenager isn't equipped enough to be able to not starve himself to death because someone on the internet tells him to do so, it is the parents' fault, and the parents' responsibility to keep that teenager off the internet and into a psychiatrist or psychologist office.
What are the parenting options in Kenya?
If you accept the premises:
free information leads to higher female promiscuity aimed at top % males

Lower % males will always be aware of this

At some point this leads to increased violence and conflict

There's no way to put any of this back into the bottle (how can you enforce cultural (or even enforced) monogamy given free information and anonymous encounters? It's harder than trying to prevent people doing drugs, incel fantasies aside.

The closest thing to a way out is to try and change the culture of sex as power and status and deconstruct the whole thing somehow? (As in all you change point 3, get low status guys to care less). It seems difficult though, it's beyond politically incorrect to say but I can't imagine guys ever being happy to know that they were a compromise choice by their girlfriend who had to really prove himself after 10 years of sleeping with men far more attractive than them that just had to swipe. Hard to see outside your own culture though, maybe that will just become accepted.
The problem referred to by the article is actually predicated on the idea that women want less casual sex, therefore are able to be more selective due to supply/demand advantage.
If the mirror is harmful, you can stop using it. You don't need to cripple mirrors for everyone else.
Fun fact, but this small island is the home of one of the best whisky in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jura_distillery
Thanks!

1. Right now, you can emulate this with the transmute builtin function. Not yet sure if the additional complexity of this feature would be worth it.

2. Array bounds checks can be avoided by using the unchecked_index builtin. Uninitialized locals are not yet possible, but I think it makes sense to eventually add a construct to allow that, for situations that need every last bit of performance.

3. I've only started to look into LLVM recently, thanks for the heads up.

4. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19599908

5. C# programmers would like to disagree with you ;). Note that the formatting issue is not due to significant whitespace, as you'd have the same issue writing up a Golang snippet.

6. Editor support (specifically, language server) should help a lot here.

7. The string based types are only used for inserting the right cast to make the C compiler happy, so they should not be an obstacle.

8. Compile time evaluation can be used for some cases. Adding a preprocessor comes with its own set of tradeoffs, haven't yet decided what to do there.

9. A lowercase l looks a lot like a 1 in many fonts, hence the uppercase L. Will consider adding an i suffix.
Thankfully I'm currently off the market, but I've spent some time in the Tinder subreddit out of morbid curiosity. The Tinder "mating dance" so far as it's celebrated in that community seems to consist of some combination of the following:

1. Forced puns about the girl's name.

2. Long, extremely high-effort descriptions of hypothetical scenarios to establish how "unique" the suitor is.

3. Awkward double-entendres and transitions to a sexual topic.

It just strikes me what a weird filter this is for who gets to have sex, and how nice it is to meet people in real-life.

I think one of the saddest things, if true, are the reports that younger generations are more likely to view any real-world approaches as inappropriate as the online alternative has now been designated the official channel for meeting people.
There might be, but personally, I feel better knowing that the hotel records 200 rooms any somebody might watch it if something is broken than thinking that some person sits in his car with his cellphone and is watching me.

And I'm pretty sure that it's less often in hotels as well - they are generally more professional. Well worth the extra bucks for me.
Did any HN reader ever find a camera. I typically do a half-hearted scan but never found anything suspicious.
They are, but it took me a second read too.
> by making it more Facebook-like, they infantilised a great site

And Facebook itself used to have a very simple and lightweight layout.
I could create a site promising to host all files forever and after years of operation delete everything. It would certainly be within my rights, but you'd have every reason to hate me. Having a legal right to do something doesn't mean it is a good (and compassionate) idea.
How's the false positive rate?
The server will know how far you scrolled in a session by what images/iframes are being downloaded.
The MCE was a very controlled study that would disagree with your assesement.

Here is another review of the literature:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512433.2018.1...
well yes considering how much he has empowered far right racist crowd
Google+ obviously didn't optimize for engagement, that's why nobody was using it!
Chances are that you might get skipped in the first place with no chance to chat or meet in person. It's basically marketing. If the user doesn't click on the link or call the number you get no sale regardless how good your product is.
With server side implications. The worst case would be a website stacking 1px images vertically to detect good far your scrolled
it's absolute bullshit that they haven't banned that cesspit yet
Agreed, it seems a casual observation that's heading toward universal opinion.

Though I agree with the sentiment, I'm not sure Linus carries much authority in speaking about social media.
TLDW: You can apply whichever you like, just don't put too little.

Even putting way too much makes 0 difference.

OP's problem was probably dust and ageing of paste. Plus interestingly there was less power used in test AFTER so I guess that contributed most.
In many climates wheat and oats are subject to pre-harvest dessication. Guess what herbicide is commonly used.
That's why you can "glue" wallpaper on the wall with paint.

Rather helpful knowledge, when you just want to put a small piece over a blemish on the wall.
In the end I don't think anyone had any idea what Google+ was supposed to be or do, most of all Google themselves.
That's a good challenge, thanks. I suppose we'd have to do a historical analysis of societies to try and tease out the relative effects of each of those factors independently.

It’s not clear to me how the first three would lead to social instability though. There have been plenty of religiously authoritarian cultures that were quite stable. Similarly gender inequality and reduced education for women have been common historically and it’s hard to see how they would lead to social instability and violence. After all it’s not very common for women to rise up violently against gender based oppression, that just doesn't seem to be the dynamic.

I can certainly see how low productivity and standards of living could lead to violence. Desperate people can reach for desperate means. Nevertheless there are many very poor countries round the world and only some of them are significantly polygamous. The fact that the most unstable 20 are all to some degree polygamous seems to me to be a pretty strong correlation. If polygamy can be a driver of social instability though, it’s fairly straightforward to draw a logical causal link from that instability to all sorts of other social and economic ills.
I misread "not just" as "just not", but after staring for a while, I don't think they're arguing.
"With rare, old media like that, the best chance to preserving them is reading the raw magnetic flux data with specialized equipment"

Kryoflux is great for that. https://www.kryoflux.com/?page=kf_features
Madrid Bans Airbnb Apartments That Don’t Have Private Entrances
Foreign-Born Samurai in Japan
> Are they a disease, or are they symptoms?

They’re akin to the lead in lead poisoning. Not the disease per se, but the cause thereof. Broadly speaking, ad-driven social networks are incentivised to spread enraging content. That, in turn, incentivises content producers to make such content for broadcast.
Because we're looking at the surface of a sphere, and that scales like r².

Why do we look at the surface? Because every point at the surface has the same distance from the center, and so we expect the field to be the same on each point.
AirBNB needs to show rating percentages, i.e. the % of people who _do_not_ leave a rating. Most people do not like to leave negative ratings.

AirBNB (Amazon too) also need to enforce normalized ratings. Another five star review? Either adjust all ratings to an agreed average (e.g. 3 stars) or let users "use up" their 5-star ratings allowance.
Why ban them though? We could just tag them instead, prevent people who don't want to see them from seeing them.

AFAIK there are reddits like (I'm making this up but it's probably something similar) r/PhotosOfDeadPeople and r/gore - but come on, you don't visit such a place accidentially.

This move is pure government censorship and/or security theater (the politicians want to be seen as doing something).
> But it also covers harmful behaviour that has a less clear legal definition such as cyber-bullying, trolling and the spread of fake news and disinformation.

So, basically any site with user content can be fined/blocked at any time at the official's discretion.
/r/piracy had a strict policy of not linking to pirate content, even. They really tried to stay on Reddit's good side.
It's funny you call safe spaces Fascistic while arguing against censorship. A lot of it doesn't have much to do with civilized disagreement and honest debate since many of the people deplatformed are neither interested nor capable of it
> we're not the population that Reddit redesigned for.

What is the population that Reddit was redesigned for and how does that redesign cater to them?
In the U.S. as a kid, they aired some of these programs. On one episode, they showed a computer playing tic-tac-toe (naughts and crosses) and claimed that it learned as it went. To this day, I don't know how it did that - maybe building a simple game tree? Still impressive. I always wanted one, but could afford only the TS-1000 (ZX81 but black). I was like 12.
Actually, they still do (or do again?). Here comes the relevant part from their example config [1]:

force_node_config:
## Change from "whitelist" to "open" to enable OMEMO support
## See https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/issues/2425
"eu.siacs.conversations.axolotl.*":
access_model: whitelist

[1] https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/blob/master/ejabberd....
> or insanely forward (sexually)

If you're not after a relationship but to get laid, then that might be a good strategy. Yes you'll get much fewer positive responses but but the false positive rate should be way lower.
This is new news? O thought it was established a while ago that humans have only made the progress we have because of an increase in animal fat consumption.

Hell, with a few exceptions, you can cluster mammals in a pretty accurate grouping of intelligence by the percentage of animal fat in their diet.
It seems like rights holders have realized that carpet bombing is a cheap and "effective" strategy. There are reports (https://youtu.be/JwG0bQ7WC3c) of music copyright holders reporting the use of even a single chord in YouTube videos. This strategy appears to be having a chilling effect across multiple platforms.

Copyright claims are super easy to make at scale, but the platforms themselves cannot investigate at scale, meaning the small guy suffers. Yes, redditers who are truly infringing should have their posts removed, but the result of trigger-happy, likely bot controled complaints is having an effect on legal speech.
The problem with this logic is that the exact same arguments are used by totalitarian systems to shut down the opposition. And like with this comment, they are sure they are the good guys and are doing what's right.

What's more, we had plenty of hatred before internet. They managed to recruit enough people way before we had internet or even television.

The fact is, this "solution" is just hiding a symptom, which not only gives a false sense of security, but makes treating the disease even harder.

And of course, it's a slippery slope.
The foxes weren't any kind of accident or incidental to human arrival though - they were deliberately introduced so that fox hunting could be engaged in!
We're actually at a point where the supposed middle-men are clearly acting against the creators' best interest, in many ways. Which means we're mot even dealing with middle-men anymore, just pure copyright trolls.
Sounds more and more like a temporary modern art installation.
You forget that Boeing doesn't own these planes. These aren't Tesla's. We are currently in an era were it seems to be expected that the manufacturer automatically update their software without the end user intervention, ie Tesla, Windows, Apple, etc... Thats not how it was done in the past, particularly when the bandwidth didn't exist.
There's a sliding scale from mail order brides all the way down to women slightly lower class than the male with something in the middle like travelling to a poor country to meet girls. The third thing is definitely effective and on the rise (and incels are obsessed with it).
I use a very similar list of addons. In addition I recommend:

* CanvasBlocker https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker...

* Cookie AutoDelete https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

and I block cookies by default using uMatrix.

Thanks for pointing out CSS Exfil Protection. I hadn't seen that one yet.

Edit: I also recently switched to NoHTTP instead of HTTPS-Everywhere. This way I have to explicitly allow any non-HTTPS connections.
Valve confirm Linux support for Valve Index VR headset, pre-orders on May first
Is there no spectrum with you? Do you see any need for architecture? That is the base of the dreaded beautiful code. Stay far away!!!
But brain to body size is determined by meat and fat consumption.

Gorillas are big primates for their brain size. Chimps eat quite a bit of meat, and are not only generally ranked "smarter", but have a bigger brain for their relative body size.
A tiny island that inspired Moby Dick
Real or artificial? Tech titans declare AI ethics concerns
> sueddeutsche.de

German leather?