skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I laughed, but the grunge/rap/metal/hippie "skins" of my youth were basically just as shallow.
It's one of those awful ideas that seems to bubble back up into the corporate mind periodically. IBM actually did the same thing back in the first half of the 20th century (see https://www.networkworld.com/article/2333702/a-history-of-si... for the full history), even going so far as to publish a songbook titled "Songs of the I.B.M": https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/tripp...

They kept it up into the 1950s, when Tom Watson died and control of the company passed to his son.

I like this note from the end of the Network World article, where they ask a Harvard Business School professor if there's anything similar going on in the contemporary tech world:

> "I don't think there is a Microsoft company song other than 'Get to the bank as fast as possible so you can deposit the check,' " Tedlow adds.
You're lumping in your reason for using their search with the reason it's used by the majority.
My Husband and I Left Our Spouses to Be Together. Here’s What I’ve Learned
Yeah... no.

If you must vent, vent privately to a friend. If you can't help but vent back to the person asking the question, then please stop answering questions, because you aren't helping.
In that case that falls into the latter exception I made where you manage the host; albeit the management is just “buy an instance”.
How can you avoid content dupe for search engines?
They've also restricted my account for no apparent reason a few days ago, and because the account is associated to an older phone number I have no choice but to wait for the mercy of Twitter Support. Makes my lazy ass ponder about the importance of federated solutions such as Mastodon.
An important detail is missing from the article (or perhaps I missed it). The AI had an advantage unrelated to intelligence. It's "plugged" into the game in a way that gives it a big advantage. Better reaction time, better aim, technical capabilities that a human player with "primitive" input devices and looking at the game through a low res window can't get close to.

Unlike a game of chess where the mind is basically the only one at work, this time the "body" might have had just as much of an input. Even regular bots were good enough for most players anyway :).
- In 1918, borders of Poland were established on the future Curzon line (more or less, less in fact) - https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_Polski_(1918%E2%80%93...

- The territorial gains of Poland in 1919-1920 materialized, because it won a war started by the Soviet Union

- Curzon line was proposed/described only in 1920

- Those lands (that you described as conquered and re-conquered) weren't Russian etnically, more like Belarusian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Ruthenian

- (edit) The secret pact (Germany-USSR) didn't say Soviet union will recover the territorial gains from 1920-1921, but that it will occupy Eastern Poland (east of Vistula River), making it effectively partition of Poland, so no Curzon line here too.

PS: Please reply if you'd like, and EOT for me. This whole centithread started because I wanted to display that the current Russian historiography is heavily biased (way more than other "western" countries) towards minimizing its own misdeeds, and portraying them as innocent, normal or justified.
I speak to a lot of Open Source software users in Database space and they tend to love DBaaS offered by AWS and other cloud vendors. It is not convenient for my business but that does not make it a bad thing.

The competition is how great things are born. Some Open Source is being pushed towards proprietary model (Open Core, Shared Source etc) while others will find a way to have sustainable business in the new reality with Cloud Vendors.
Can anyone really say that Google's practices are more anti-competitive than, say, the dominant players in broadband or health insurance or wireless telecom or household appliances?

I guess, "not exactly exonerating, but not exactly damning" is à la mode in 2019.
Anecdotally I’ve noticed that it’s mostly people aged 35+ buying these things whereas millennials and younger people think it’s creepy.
For one, because chess players are hardly judges of what is and what isn't AI.

On the other hand, they happen to be great judges of human- vs engine- style of play. If you ask any of the top players who have spent time reviewing games by chess engines, I think you'll find a consensus around the belief that Alpha Zero and LCZero play far more human-like moves than do engines like Stockfish.

The traditional engine tends to be extremely conservative and materialistic, only playing a sacrifice when it has calculated a line which recovers the material with interest (or forces checkmate). The so-called AIs don't do this. You're far more likely to see them sacrifice material for a long-term positional advantage, like a great human player would.

From my experience looking at Alpha Zero and LCZero wins against Stockfish, one of the more common patterns I see is a sacrifice by the AI which gives such a dominant position that one or more of Stockfish's pieces become uselessly trapped behind their own pawns. It's this sort of position which seems perfectly tailored to exploit Stockfish's materialistic nature.
roughly - "AI is what we call it when we don't really understand how it works, yet."
Oh, boy Americans! Trust me as a Brit you will miss your freedom of speech when it's gone!
Nice visual, and a similar one could be built to show the incidence and/or prevalence of various cancers versus the number of fundraising events or dollars. Breast and colon cancers would probably stand out as distant outliers in opposite directions.
> The problem is the high gun-ownership rate [2] - other countries also have bad mental health care, a strong media focus on suspects, or high depression rates but America's gun culture is quite unique

This is such a trainwreck of an argument - first you exclude 'non-western' nations, and by doing so acknowledge that there are factors besides gun ownership rate that influence gun death rates (Which include gun suicides, and so probably shouldn't be included here!), and then say that "America's gun culture is quite unique" while ignoring the fact that the highest rates of gun homicides in the US occur in cities with extreme restrictions on gun ownership.

Finally, gun ownership rates are not as different in Europe as you'd think - US gun ownership rates are only slightly higher than those of Europe. (Not guns per capita, % of population owning guns) Most of Europe and the anglosphere ranges between 20 and 30 % gun ownership. For instance, Canada has a gun ownership rate of ~26%. The US? ~33%.

If you want to discuss gun homicide rates, fine. If you want to include countries that the US borders like Mexico, great! But comparing gun deaths (since suicides make up 2/3 of US gun deaths) against a cherrypicked subset of countries is really disingenuous.
> Amazon is accused of using sales data belonging to companies selling products on their platform

Why does this sales data belong to the companies and not Amazon, if they are using the platform? Is it unethical to copy a product or software in a non-infringing way?
Did you scroll down?
> You can do this book without previous programming assuming you have domain knowledge to install SML yourself.

Via http://www.smlnj.org/ ?
iirc in a recent episode [0] of The Talkshow, John Gruber and the people from Panic are discussing the button layout on the Nintendo Switch. They were wondering why the Switch has so many buttons and whether it was a pragmatic choice by Nintendo to make porting games from other platforms easier.

Made me wonder whether we're observing some variation of Hotelling's Law [1] in controller design.

PS: the episode mostly is about Panic's upcoming handheld game console Play Date [2] which also has two primary buttons (and a crank!).

[0] https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2019/05/30/ep-252

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law

[3] https://play.date/
But people don't learn or change behavior if they don't understand the issue. In this case, providing polite and constructive feedback would help them ask better questions going forward.
That was covered in the headline...

"Police Post Racist and Violent Messages on Facebook, a Review Shows"
As a Greek with Armenian in laws, my grandparents and great grandparents would quite literally spit in the face of someone who tries to tell them that wasn't genocide, and deservedly so. I have family alive right now that remember what happened then. If we can't call what was carried out by Turks in the early 1915's throughout WW1 genocide, we might as well retire that word from language all together.
Because I expect, even if naively, for things to work as described.

If a phone assistant is disabled, I believe it is indeed disabled.

If there is a listening device in the home, I expect it to be listening all the time.

I don't understand what the confusion is.
They appear to have a political bias in their employee base and are under pressure to make judgements about fact v. fiction (might even be an inherent requirement of choosing a sort order for search results) - that is a position somewhat similar to a conventional media organization.

Apps and games are media. In 2019, that's a glaring truth which is obvious to many in the industry. It's just that society and the culture haven't caught up with technological reality yet.
When it comes to the whole "supply chain blockchain" thing, I agree it is easy to just think "so, you just mean a signed log?", but there is actually an aspect to the whole thing that makes actual blockchains relevant here - and that's because they're both trying to solve the "double spending" problem.

In this case the thing that a middleman might be trying to "double spend" is a part with a legitimate provenance. A simple record system might show that a middleman received part A from a legitimate source, but not immediately highlight that they sold on parts B and C too, each claiming to be part A. Blockchains solve that problem in a nice way with decentralized trust.

Now, to what extent decentralized trust is relevant in a system apparently operated by Honeywell in a way that seems completely centralized... you know as much as me.
"an alternative is a URL change away" isn't really a true statement. You can move off of Facebook, but you can't move your friends and family off of Facebook. You can use a YouTube alternative to watch videos, but all the videos you want to watch are not going to be there.

Pretending platforms are a wholly different thing than infrastructure, and easily switchable seems willfully ignorant of the real world. Moving platforms is almost as difficult as moving real world locations. And popular opinion aside, most people have two or more ISP options. (I have three wired residential ISPs here, two offering gigabit connections, and at least four wireless carriers.)
Legal stuff and photocopies go hand in hand it seems.

There was a local case involving some harassing txt messages, the evidence was a series of photocopies of an iPhone on a copier....
Another way of looking at it: even for Chinese people who are aware of and care about the incident, Tiananmen Square is still a famous and significant place in its own right and is not primarily associated with that particular event. They don’t call it the “Tiananmen Square” incident in Chinese, because many other things also happened there.
It was. But the video looks like the camera software is trying to track something that's on or within the camera, thus doing a steady rotation at roughly uniform rate. In plane's frame of reference, this footage would correspond to an object trajectory shaped like a circle centered around the plane. That's a pretty weird trajectory to have.

See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9D8dzl4zGk. And tell me, why would the UFO start rotating exactly at the moment the camera is about to cross 0 degrees, and persist through what looks like camera axis reorientation, continuously rotating at the rate about 2x of the rate camera axis rotates?
Watch this; this post will probably be flagged and disappear from the main page really soon. Authoritarian countries monitor everything.

Cowards.
Police are thugs with badges, criminals and cops are two sides of the same coin.
Indeed, mice are often used as guinea pigs.

The problem with autism research on mice is that it is not at all clear that the mouse autism model has anything to do with autism in humans.
Wow, you seem to have some very detailed knowledge of plastic gears. It is almost if you copied and pasted text straight from the article.
police bad
unmanned aerial platforms?
Polish borders as of 1918 are here - https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_Polski_(1918%E2%80%93...

Soviet Union decided to attack, it lost the war, it had to ceede territory.
See also Kill or Cure, a comprehensive index of every Daily Mail article claiming that something causes or prevents cancer.

https://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/
I will say something like "can we back up a minute? Why are you trying to do this?" And yes, my second question should be worded differently or spoken carefully to avoid being interpreted as "WTF are you doing?"
Right, you have to be there at your pickup point, you shouldn't slam the door, you shouldn't be a creep. Not very hard.
While I appreciate that functional programming came out of the 80s... I am surprised at the assertion that it isn’t ‘the hotness’ right now.

Maybe not in academia, but it sure is in the working world... and for good reason imho.
There are scientists who argue that what the mitochondria does is fundamentally cancerigenic on a long enough timeline, so in a sense, yes, everything we eat is associated with cancer.

https://www.nature.com/articles/cr2017155
I disagree that all guns have similar potential, a small pistol should have small magazine capacity so a killer would need to perform a reload , at this time someone could stop him, you can make this small , self protection guns have a long reload time by design.

Small caliber bullets have obvious smaller killing potential in my mind, please let me know if my intuition is wrong but a small bullet would have less energy, so it will have a larger drop so it won't be effective on large distance.

What is ironic is that I read here on HN an article about some type of knives that are illegal in New York, so is a bit ironic you can forbid some knives but not some guns(or at least make it harder for people to obtain them)
I don’t think people don’t admit it, it is just too often people think “they are special”.

Admittedly, that is a critical part of being a founder/entrepreneur, otherwise knowing just how “stacked against you” the real world is would make you go running for the hills.

That said, I absolutely agree it is always about execution, with luck.

But to echo someone else’s comment: luck really is about opportunity + preparedness/ability to recognize a true opportunity.

For an analogy on the luck part: in poker, everyone is dealt the same hands in the long run. It is about being able to read both the cards and opponents effectively to routinely “win”.

On the execution part, it is all about focus, learning to know what is important and what really isn’t. Time spent on anything that doesn’t really matter slows you down. Of course the hard part is knowing what matters and what doesn’t. My simple advise here is to ask yourself two questions: What am I not getting done by doing this? What is more important, this or what I am giving up?

One word of caution on the above: understand what is urgent, and what is important, and don’t let things that are important but not urgent slide.
> It seems pretty unnecessary.

Most of the things we spend most of our time on are, strictly speaking, unnecessary.
Lots of things are 'obvious' but we do the research to both confirm them and to exclude our biases.

When you have enough evidence one way or the other then you can begin addressing the problem properly.

Evidence lead policies are the most rational way to addresses things.
Wow, that was quite a read. What does seem to stand out is the danger of negative results not being published. 99 studies look at an ingredient, find nothing, don't publish. Through pure chance, the hundredth study finds a correlation, and everyone is immediately convinced that yet another ingredient is unhealthy.
I'm aware of the ratings, I'm just trying to say that in my experience, no matter what the numbers say, reality has proved the opposite for me, I've had far more (some number I've not counted, but, in the order of dozens) Micro ports/plugs fail on my than I've had Mini ones fail (none, ever).
We're their magical feeding/guarding/providing shelter/petting machines. From their POV it's a good thing we humans are too big to eat, otherwise they wouldn't have all those benefits.
Those "time saving" smart home devices are such garbage. We end up wasting more time on technical support and system administration than we save.
Loser-effect duration evolves independently of fighting ability
metal gear to metal shaft first, then attach plastic gear for further reduction?
Also the article mentions metal-core plastic gears.
Well since they seem to just block entire /24 subnets it does seem to have resulted in a large portion of Digitalocean's network being unusable from Viasat. I guess they think it's worth it to maintain those blacklists.
One.MIT Creates a Monument–At the Smallest Scale
This is complete nonsense.

The Russian government cares about one thing - perpetuating the Russian government. Nobody in it cares about 80-year-old history.
typeformer is referring to Robert Hastings' claim that military personnel witnessed UFOs disabling nuclear weapons, e.g. https://www.livescience.com/10146-ufos-disarm-nuclear-weapon....
Is the majority people who have other jobs and this is just their side job, or is their "gig job" their main job.
This is of course correct. Classifying workers into exactly two categories is logically absurd, but that's what the old law does, at least in USA.
Cameras Came to the Newsroom
They add artificial delay and other handicaps in order to compensate and match human shortcomings.
Well both really for me, now that I know what to look for I've been noticing a bunch of broken Digitalocean hosted websites on Viasat.
To be fair the article is talking about new kinds of plastics that might actually be superior to metal gears in the future. The consumer grader plastic gearing of today who's primary advantage (AFAIK) is cost do kind of suck.
Surely there's a segment of the population with similar personality traits predominant to police officers that don't become police officers. One would think they'd also have similar incident of domestic violence if this were a personality trait?

Personally, I would have no interest in dealing with the horrible things people do to one another, on a regular basis, as part of my job. No thanks. Reading the news is bad enough, I wouldn't want to live it.
What's so absurd about it? We know that murder-suicides happen, that's a well established phenomena. We know that murder-suicides committed by pilots who crash their airplanes happen as well. That's well documented, with Germanwings Flight 9525 being maybe the most infamous example. Furthermore, doesn't it make a lot of sense that some portion of plane crashes attributed to pilot error might in fact be murder-suicides? That makes sense to me; many believe Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a murder-suicide, but concrete evidence for that is missing.

Of course if some portion of fatal plane crashes could be murder-suicides without any suicide note or other proof, then the same could be expected for lethal car crashes too, right? A suicidal person drives their car into the opposing lane, or into a tree or down into a river without leaving any suicide note. That could happen too.

In fact a subsequent study found such an effect:

> "Tarde and other classical sociologists paid a great deal of attention to the concepts of imitation and suggestion, but these concepts have been virtually ignored in modern sociology. This paper presents new findings indication that imitation and suggestion have a powerful have impact on social behavior: Three days after a publicized suicide, automobile fatalities increase by 31%. The more the suicide is publicized, the more the automobile fatalies increase. The age of the drivers is significantly correlated with the age of the person described in the suicide story. Single-car accidents increase more than other types just after the publicized suicide. After persentation of these and related findings, the paper discusses some ways in which the concepts of suggestion and imitation can be incorporated into sociological theory."

Phillips, David P. “Suicide, Motor Vehicle Fatalities, and the Mass Media: Evidence Toward a Theory of Suggestion.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 84, no. 5, 1979, pp. 1150–1174. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2778220.

(http://sci-hub.se/10.1086/226904)
How does something large scale like this happen? Is it possible to get an account suspended solely by mass reporting of Tweets, or does it require some level of internal access to Twitter?

The former would just mean Twitter needs to tweak their suspension procedures a bit. The latter would be quite worrisome due to the various implications (security breach, internal oversight and approval, rogue employee, etc.).
Regarding the lack of "innovation" concept this article is hocking... pretty sure before Uber/Lyft I couldn't click a button and know how much my ride to a place would cost then, book it and pay for it.

(I still remember cabs in NYC where the driver "knew a shortcut" that ended up adding $10/$15 to a ride... I've never seen uber/Lyft pull that move)
Why are Rachel Maddow's ratings plummeting so quickly lately,something she said
Given a lack of per capita numbers and comparison to the general population this seems like concern trolling by an advocacy organization.
Do we have evidence around whether this is a selection effect or a transformation effect?

That is, do racist assholes disproportionately gravitate towards the police force? Or does the police force disproportionately turn ordinary people into racist assholes?
It's called vanpooling, often, obviously.
Are you suggesting we ignore the problem?
The uncertain future of protected lands and waters
Wow this is pretty fascinating.
When you say "we" are on track to destroy this world .it seems to me that you are denying the geological record that shows climate change is a given.our weather systems and our planets atmospheric chemistry has never been stable.
I'm not going to drop links attempting to argue my point as you seem to have made up your mind.
I will say I'm concerned about the planets rapidly changing atmospheric chemistry but, according to the " accepted " geological record it has changed so many times in 4.6 billion years that for me to take the current
" Sky is falling because we broke it" talking points is just a non starter.
I really appreciate the ppl doing modern science in this area but it, to me is just pointing out obvious things.

Our species has the privelige of harnessing these natural resources provided to us. and yes there are negative effects of using these resources,
Along with a lot of positive ones( like being able to discuss this issue with ppl all over the planet in real time)
The world will not be destroyed only changed- and change is the only thing that remains constant
100x this. I've met Stephen and was like this in person.

Even the essay (ostensibly an obituary for a physics luminary!) is full of humblebrags as he notes his personal contributions and wunderkind status growing up. Strange, because if anyone should be confident in their own skin, a famous billionaire physicist should fit the bill...