skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But people like the drama even if reluctantly.

It's like how you can /ignore someone on IRC and phpbb, but nobody actually does. They only threaten it. Hell yes they want to be clued in when you open your mouth so they can bark back! Humans love it.

Look how many people waste their time responding to Donald Trump's tweets with things like "RESIGN!" They could unfollow Trump. But they choose to spend their precious time on earth bickering about Trump because it's pure entertainment.

What also happens though is that we kinda know this. The more astute/introspective people will realize Twitter isn't bringing out the best in us. Sam Harris lamented this a while back and was able to quit Twitter for a couple days before being driven back to the crack.

I find myself doing this on HN too. Ever read a headline like "Javascript sucks", know the arguments you'll find in the HN comments, and click in to respond to one? The whole reason I'm here is to socialize, so I don't think filtering can be very effective. I'm not going to filter out the very things that draw me like the opportunity to call someone out on the internet, which is the same reason why nobody uses the ignore feature on forums.

Nobody would use the block feature on Twitter if it didn't tell the other person you blocked them.

There are some bugs in basic human psychology that I'm not so sure technology is ready to solve. Maybe this is the Great Filter that no civilization can surpass in the Fermi paradox.
Also CNC to cut stone, vs cut by hand.
Even IF it was relevant sometimes/mosttimes/alltimes... Why would you ever allow someone else to choose what you see?

Do you not realize the massive avenue for abuse? How about come election time and the impossible scenario where your "curators" don't agree with your opinions?

Google, Twitter, YouTube and Reddit are already creating/supporting bubbles. How would you know if you are in one?
such metacontrarian
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If the feed shows me a pseudo-random sample of recent tweets, and each time I refresh I get a slightly different view, of course I'm going to keep refreshing to see if there's anything new or anything that I haven't been shown yet. But most of the time, I just keep seeing the same thing over and over. Imagine if your email client did this.
Exactly. I predict many areas will never see 5G. You need more transmitters to cover the same distance as 4G.
coming from an engineering and climbing background... i favor redundancy.
Less than 5% of the accounts I follow have a checkmark. Most of the most interesting ones don't use their real name or profile pic.

The real problem is that reputation can't be absolute but is relative to a context. Hence the blockbot partial solution.
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I got one recently. Linux support is pretty so-so. It requires custom kernel parameters to boot, and suspend to ram hasn't been very reliable. Sometimes it refuses to wake up, others it wakes up but WiFi and USB become unstable, and maybe half the time it works as it should. (Running a 5.0 kernel; 4.18 was worse and 4.19 didn't work at all)

Battery life is also pretty weak; it's just over 3 hours under semi-heavy load, altho you can push it to around 5 with low brightness and RyzenAdj to downclock the processor
Spam in space, the final frontier.
He's also making the mistake of thinking that my interests are what @thisdude and @thatchick are talking about.

My interests are @thisdude and @thatchick. That's why it's called "social."
This is the 5th or 6th time this story pops up here, and it always features "The Castle".

To me that doesn't even look like a mansion, more like a pastiche, the exterior / materials look very cheap.
You're thinking of IoT as only personal home electronics. IoT might encompass a lot more, such as more connected fleet vehicles, infrastructure pipelines (water, gas, sewage, etc), traffic systems, and potentially a lot more.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/negative-interest-rate-...

It's an extreme expansionary policy designed to keep the economy afloat by making people pay money to keep it in banks. Normally this is done by dropping interest rates below inflation; this is the nuclear option for economies. The fact that they are still stuck on this is not a good sign for what may happen to Europe next recession.

This is one of the inherent limitations of a shared currency: Greece needs expansion; Germany needs contraction. Help one; harm the other. It's very difficult to do the kind of things America (or most other nations) can do with Europe for this reason.
We will have to run fiber to all those 5G hotspots. 5G is very short range, it does not extend access to anywhere that doesn't already have good access, it just makes it possible to run devices at higher speeds without being tethered to a wall.
You do find good talent embedded in poorly performing teams, but that doesn't last very long (few years at most). People like to be around others with similar standards. Good talent will gravitate to teams with high quality talent and conversely good teams tend to pick good quality people. It's a form of sorting that over time results in people with similar standards working with one another.
How very white collar of you to think that.

I think maybe 25% of my interviews have been in a suit, the rest being some version of industry specific clothing (chef's whites) or just jeans and button-down. I can't imagine I'm that much of an outlier here.
admit, deny, allege, stipulate are legalese now?
I'll tell you why it's not based on that.

Becuase you might not like - or they might not want you to see things that are popular.

How much would you complain if your Twitter feed was filled with Trump tweets? Better yet, how much would they not like that!? - Sorry though it's based on reputation levels and his is up there relative to non-famous users.
When I was renting in Van, 90% of landlords hanged-up immediately after asking how many kids I have. The idea they would lease to a bunch of random doped teens is utterly ridiculous.

[E: that was before EHT]
When hot dogs at sports stadiums cost $10 a pop, why do you think 1080p streams would be cheap?
All of their LTE modems, or just some of them like previous years?
Why would anyone want foreign money driving up prices for residents by insane margins and then keeping the bought property empty? It's just common sense to not want that.
What separates Tik-Tok and other sites which also show millions of sexualized people like Instagram?

There obviously is a reason to be against China in this ban otherwise they'd ban a ton of other apps as well.
> I don't know what Baby Boomers called it.

CORBA
Jack demonstrating yet again that he has never used his own website.
> dual quad-threaded cores

ooh, is that the first SMT4 on an amd64 processor?
The problem is you can't trust anything/anyone any more... Brands are generally trusted until you get burned by one. And then they relabel or buy out another brand to burn.

I often make choices that are anywhere from 50% more cost to 200% if I'm relatively certain I'm actually getting a better product. Unfortunately that trust is usually limited and even then, you often don't have a good trust case.

There are also times where I look at industrial options for comparison, as that's often usually skewed towards more solid/maintainable production. Though again often means more expensive.

I tend to find the best value (my own experience) about 2/3 up the pricing scale for whatever products I'm looking at.

If I could find appliances in general with a 15+ year warranty (that didn't have weird loopholes), I'd be more inclined to buy. Unfortunately, they often don't cover interface boards, and even then they redesign in often incompatible ways each year and stop making the previous version entirely.
> Serious question: has Twitter released any new, major features in the last 2-3 years?

Double-length tweets is the most major thing that comes to mind for me.
Yup! It means fiber to the neighborhood rather than fiber to the home. The proposal is that fiber to the neighborhood will be considerably cheaper than fiber to the home.
> Subscript checking optimizations had been figured out by the 1980s, so the performance penalty was coming down.

well, we're in 2019 and replacing a few critical .at() by [] regularly allows me to gain a few % when benchmarking.
Any society allowing parents to put their children in religious schools.
Shifting to interest-based feeds entirely misses the problem, and would actually make it worse.

Trusting information isn't only about trusting the source, it's also about whether that piece of information fits into your established frame of reference for how the world works. It also depends on how many different emotional buttons the information presses, fear being the strongest.

Shifting to an interest-based delivery system would only reinforce filter bubbles. And what's the alternative? Forcing people to see things you know they'd disagree with? Somewhere in the middle?

I worry a lot more about the rise of advertorials and product placements replacing traditional advertising, than I do about the visibility or importance of follower counts.
He's likely referring to negative real interest rates where inflation is higher than the interest rate.
1000$ in good areas will get you a nice racoon-sized box.
It's probably not the default? I'd guess that most men don't wear suits to interviews. I didn't wear a suit when I was applying to be a baker. Or when I worked at Costco. Or any of the software jobs I've had. Or even when applying to be a manager.

A button down and a decent pair of jeans, maybe. But I can think of 0 times I've worn a suit to an interview.
Say you're standing in front of the sun and you wave your arm. As the light travels away from you, your shadow will get larger and move faster. Eventually the movement of the shadow will exceed the speed of light. In theory it will approach infinity.

The light itself will continue to travel at normal speed but if you waited for the light to bounce back from distant planets you could observe the shadow moving FTL.
She literally addresses this in the video you linked: https://youtu.be/UGL_OL3OrCE?t=1757

They spent a lot of effort ensuring that their imaging methods were objective and free of human bias.
The market is stupid. They have valuated Apple under Amazon, now Apple is over Amazon and Microsoft.

How stupid is that?
If its any consolation the stream isn't much better
> CT scanner at your local hospital needs to be calibrated

Of course the scanner (and any other measurement tool) need to be calibrated. Specifically, the scanner (and telescope) needs to be pre-calibrated based on already known samples.

In case of telescope, it needs to be precalibrated based on known images of remote stars.

Katie Bouman (the face of EHT imaging team), however, claims: "you [have] do not need any calibration whatsoever and you can still can get pretty good results"

Check it out, she actually said that: https://youtu.be/UGL_OL3OrCE?t=1180

I am surprised that only few people caught that flaw.
It alleviates some of the concerns about black boxes, but it doesn't really help with reproducibility, as other people who don't have access to the code will not be able to reproduce the results easily. That is, they won't be able to download the original source and fully understand what's happening.
I think it was, it was just a lot more "diverse" on the radar. Terrorism wasn't (and really shouldn't be) considered "one thing", but a spectrum from hijackers to bombers to arsonists, from nationalists to separatists to religious extremists. When people in the 70s/80s used to speak of terrorism there were often more adjectives and synonyms involved.

Jingoism has a hard time with nuance and diversity, so the "War on Terror" (sigh) mentality that terrorists are some how a coordinated force, and "mostly" religious extremists, and who cares what methods they use to promote terror just lump it all together.

Which is to say in metaphor terms, I don't think the number of terrorism "bogeys" on the radar changed, so much as the "friend or foe" system just started using the same color and tag for all of them, instead of somewhat more individual labels. It looks like "more on the radar" because it's easier to spot clusters, but they were there before.
"The facts are clear: we've never sold people's data." - Paul Grewal, VP and Assoc. Gen. Counsel, Facebook

Yeah, but that is not what is being alleged.

What is being alleged is that you sell access to people's data.

This constant recitation of "We do not sell users' data" is like being in late stage litigation where each party's lawyers have chosen their respective arguments. They will cling to them no matter what happens, repeating them ad nauseum until the end.

Facebook's argument is "We do not sell people's data".

The issue however is not selling people's data. As such, this is not an argument. It is just misdirection.

The issue is selling access to people's data.

Maybe we could call this "licensing"? Maybe it is more desirable for Facebook to license access to people's data than to sell it.

"People's data" might be their friends list, or whatever they have uploaded or contributed to Zuckerberg's website.

Facebook's lawyers will not address the issue of selling access to people's data. The reason
is clear: they do not have a winning argument.

Then we have the matter of metadata. Facebook will let a user download their data, but not their metadata. All that data on her usage patterns on facebook.com and across the web that Facebook collects 24/7/365, e.g. via "Like" beacons and "Sign-In with Facebook".

If a user downloads her data from Facebook it does not tell her anything she didn't already know. It is simply the data she submitted to Zuckerberg.

But of course he has much more data about her that she is not allowed to see. The question is, "Why not?"
> There's simply no excuse for not providing an encrypted connection.

Its use in every situation (ie, browsing a website dedicated to reviews on salt shakers), might not be necessary and could cause an affect similar to the overuse of antibacterial soap. :p

It will also prevent older computers from accessing the web as ssl standards evolve, which is kind of a shame.
You must not have read Laudato si'

https://laudatosi.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudato_si%27
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It's worth trying. If it makes Twitter worse they can always undo the change.
> once cellular networks allow you to stream high-definition VR content and upload data at the same rate, it seems like there's nothing more that additional bandwidth could add.

Well there is this famous quote "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." from 1943 and it turned out to be very wrong.

"High-definition VR content" isn't the same as "indistinguishable from reality". When movies were first introduced to theaters, with small frames per second rates, without color and without any sound on the medium itself, people were quite stunned and e.g. took cover when a the movie showed a train approaching at high speeds. Nowadays it seems primitive to us from a technological standpoint.

There is a trend that some people don't accept lossy audio encoding. Maybe one day, videos will get a same trend and people want lossless videos, in full 360 degree VR, intensity resolution beyond perceptual limits and constantly high enough angular resolution for your eyes to foveate any area of the screen and see no pixels. That's quite a huge amount of data to transmit. Add in buffering so that you can seek, etc.

As for genuinely new forms of media, I could think of some: full-body experiences with feeling of touch, smell, etc either live or recorded possibly professional in a studio or just you sharing your last vacation to venice.

Taking it further: uploading your consciousness to a body which is a large distance away, making physical travel of humans mostly obsolete: Maybe one day we can represent the brains of human individuals as data and send it with light speed around the earth and throughout space.
They've got 6 years to work it out.
Perhaps there are better examples of that claim.

More than a dozen democracies have fallen in the last twenty years. Many times that over the last century, making predictions of that correct. Obviously neither life nor the universe have ended as many times in that period.

Furthermore, I know of no well informed people that have ever predicted the later but many who have successfully predicted the former.
> I don’t think I would create ‘likes’ in the first place.

_You didn't_. It was called "Favorites", and you later renamed it to "likes".

Jack can introspect as much as he wants, but it doesn't change the fact that they keep making the platform _worse_, not better.

Another indication is that the official web/client is a cesspool of unrelated content I don't want to see, and somehow they now think they need to double down on that effort - oh, sorry, "make it a interest-based network" - instead of take a look at whether that's users want.

Twitter is a prime example of A/B testing gone wrong.
2020 maybe. 2019 models are surely already fixed on the hardware side
If you hear a 'Make it not take so long.' command, thats not an unreasonable interpretation. However, it is also one that should be questioned because it clashes with how software projects work.

If you go from "my boss gave me a command" to "I must execute the command and not question it" without exercising independent judgement, then I would assert that you do have low self-confidence. Whether someone needs therapy is a deeper question that we should be hesitant to answer for another person. But therapy was tremendously helpful for me in realising how my personal and professional life were held back by my reluctance to trust my own judgement or endure the discomfort that can come with honest, respectful, collaborative confrontation.
Because that's a lower energy state. The deuteron binding energy is 2.2 MeV, i.e. the mass of a deuteron is 2.2 MeV below the sum of the masses of a proton + neutron. If the neutron inside would decay into a proton, you would have a diproton (^2He). Very unstable, essentially no binding energy, so it's mass is very close to 2 protons, which is still above the deuteron mass. So the neutron can not decay spontaneously. There is not enough energy available.
As far as I can tell most mansions are being rented out to high income locals, not to groups of college kids.

I toured a few of these in the last couple months and the nice ones had a parade of high income couples going through who would be perfectly happy to rent a $6,000,000 house for $5000 per month.

All the ones I saw explicitly disallowed subletting/group tenancies in the rental agreements.
Well I'm just quoting op and the incoherence of the first part as it relates to the second.
How about a new “dynamic” with true freedom of expression?
What I want are separate feeds for "firehose" and "friends".

My friends have better things to do than to post to Twitter 20 times per day. A bunch of firehose feeds (NYTimes news updates, for example) or Twitter celebrities (Nicole Cliffe) will make it impossible to see the signal.

A simple UI change (a "I don't plan to make any more tweets for 4 hours" button) should make this filtering trivial to accomplish.
Elsewhere in press it also said they lost ~5m due to churn from subscription price increase.
A VPN won't compromise your speed if you have powerful enough equipment on both ends to encrypt/decrypt at speed. Latency will take a hit though.
It does seem off.

I live in a US region with essentially no population growth, slow job and wage growth, and a lot of vacant buildings and land.

Since the financial crisis ended, real estate price records are broken every year and see neighborhoods that have double through quadrupled in the past 15 years.

At the same time new apartments have gone up, big property companies have formed and consolidated a lot of multi-unit buildings previously owned by small time owners.

I know interest rates, especially on mortgages, were historically low which caused some inflation. But it honestly baffles me how it could be anything but a bubble.
That's no consolation at all. Why can't we have nice things?
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It's so fucking aggravating that Facebook says "Don't worry, 3rd parties won't abuse the data, because that would be against the rules.".

A friend of mine wanted to remove her name from all social media, she said there's one site left that seemed to just mirror FB, and my name was on it too, it seemed the creator managed to download all the data accessible to apps and he even claimed making that site wasn't against FB's agreement...
If the photons were a conscious subject, would that mean, from their point of view, they are everywhere (everywhere being defined as the entire path the photon will take from its genesis to its final destruction or absorption), all at once? Because if no time is passing for them, doesn't that mean no space is being traversed either?
I recently closed my Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit accounts. A week has passed since then and I have noticed that I have been really happy and optimistic. Probably the happiest in the last 5 years. I am still tempted to take a glance at Reddit or Twitter. It is almost a drug like addiction. These platforms are designed to provoke, agitate, and make you mad. It was immensely bad for my mental health and I am sure for countless others. I was time and again drawn to all the negativity and it had a slow pervasive effect in changing my mood. I sincerely hope as a society we move away from these toxic social platforms and go back to the days when we used to have civil in person conversations
> How efficient is a developer when producing things that are incorrect? Unless the goal is produce incorrect things, which seems unlikely.

I have heard more than once that if we could spend a few hours less developing at the cost of having the product need to reboot every day or so, it was worth it. Of course it was no safety critical code, but in the end the only discriminant is money.
Projector?
My husband used to work at one of the top lobbying firms in Washington DC. He told me they had a standing rule that if they saw a tattoo on someone, unless they were a former member of Congress or some very high ranking staff person, they wouldn’t hire them. Not even for the internship program. There was paranoia that the wrong tattoo could scare off a potential client.
5G doesn't work well inside buildings without additional hardware. I doubt people will buy that for their house just so their toaster can display adverts.
On the one hand, it looks like the policy is working and having the desired effect of reducing rent prices and sale prices. But, this is just a short term effect that brings prices closer to their underlying cost.

But, one of the bigger problems we're facing is the underlying cost of building homes. Humanity hasn't made much progress in this regard for the last 100 years: inflation adjust, homes per sq foot still sell for about the same amount. if we're going to make progress on this, we really need to look at those underlying costs and start addressing them. Jumping from one band-aid to another isn't going change things significantly in the long term.
WhatsApp is a good example. Also Skype, Netscape, IE. All dominant at one point and eclipsed due to bugs and poor management.
The defaults are the WORST!

Between the censorship on /news and /worldnews who argue "no US politics... unless it's an anti-Trump circlejerk", the straight up lunatics on /politics. The unfunny on /funny. The boobs on /gaming... which I'm not actually complaining about. Everything photoshopped to hell on /pics. Unbashed propoganda on /science. Gullible fools on /futurology. /television /movies /music falling for every PR created "news" put out... No Thank You.

/ECE /ReverseEngineering /gundeals /programming are OK though.
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