skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If what you are saying is true (I'm genuinely asking), that sounds like behavior that should absolutely be made illegal and severely punished.

I try to maintain a "lite" internet footprint (no facebook, only social media is LinkedIn, I use a VPN when I can) ... it's a little disturbing to think that someone can just purchase my buying history and use it as, essentially, an attack vector to serve me ads or gaslight me into buying stuff I don't really want or need.

Am I'm being naive?
The best place to hide bigotry is irony.
>Wikipedia disagrees.

It really doesn't.

This might help. http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/B/Blackbody+Radiation

Note the line 'As the temperature of the blackbody increases, the peak wavelength decreases'

Just because some things can be approximated for varying degrees of usefullness as absorbing and emitting equally well on all frequencies (which the earth is really bad at anyway), does not mean they are stable in temperature.
I'm a little confused why they're going with a search warrant here instead of a subpoena. The only reason they would want to do this usually is if the admin was refusing to comply with a subpoena, but the search warrant says nothing about this AFAICT. This is pretty unusual for FBI evidence gathering procedure.
Skilled labor and the trades are paid very, very well. I could probably make more money busting ass as a plumber or electrician than I do slinging code.

You do have to actually work though if you want to make money in trades, and sweat and get dirty. Most college-educated people are alergic to working that hard, and are looking for white-collar BS jobs that they can push paper around, go to meetings, feel good about themselves, and never actually do anything.
It's because of the Steven Crowder episodes (especially #1071) where they watch hidden camera videos of transgender activists portrayed in bad light. [1]

In those videos there seem to be some opportunists operating what could be viewed as a "grooming pedophile" mentality towards gender identity politics.

Between that, and playing nice with Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro and other right-of-center pundits/intellectuals/scholars or whatever, it's a bridge to far for counter-extremists. Joe Rogan also generally professes a dim view toward ANTIFA activism.

To some, that makes Joe Rogan worse than a "do nothing centrist" because he offers a preferential platform, while operating a moderate semi-centrist facade, in the far-left's view.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS_XL1tBnWw
Canada is getting its smart grid on
>The FOIA response said:

>in all cases UKAB has no confirmation that a drone has flown close to an aircraft other than the report made by the pilot(s).
Similarly, other than from the report of the pilot(s), UKAB has no confirmation that a drone was involved.

- https://www.airproxrealitycheck.org/uk-airprox-board-reveals...
Whether you are for or against bank robberies at nonspecific banks at nonspecific future dates shouldn't be the deciding factor in whether you're an accomplice. I hope you're not right.
It's nice to see this getting some love but a little bitter sweet because I posted it a year ago and it went nowhere. Oh well.

Deviant Ollam is always an interesting listen. He's got a very good way of explaining things in understandable layman's terms.
The related quote is the one part I remember and thought about most from the book:

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. [...] When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments.
Maybe hire people with the a good teamwork attitude + ability to learn, and training them up to the required standard?

Sounds like it'd be more effective than spinning wheels without traction. :/
What's better? Is the idea that there are 3 separate operators better, or did the reason why not come through in the post?
Yeah, the Wikipedia article doesn't mention it, but here's a post from a user named "K44B" on SiliconInvestor circa June 2nd, 1999, and then a bunch of discussion a few months later about it being Mark Barton. Doesn't seem to be any clear proof, but at least it's a rumor that dates from the same year as the murders: https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=10909471

(also holy shit is the UX on this forum awful)
economy of motion works wonders, but even then sometimes there are positions which have the same economy but may be dramatically easier at speed, and you need to play closer to tempo to learn that.

Sometimes it's even better to trade away lots of small adjustments to avoid one big one, because you can't hit the big one at tempo.
Not my problem. If their parents don't care, why should I?

And furthermore why should my freedom of speech be curtailed to protect somebody from their own irresponsible behavior?
Houdini is the best!

Also Substance Designer and Nuke.
Gut microbes eat medication
Hey @spiralganglion, thank you for your wonderful codex. The signal:noise ratio is superb, and the referenced materials are amazing.
There are so many similar stories of not completing checklists in aviation.

A plane was painted and they failed to remove tape placed over the pilot tube (followed by a series of more bad choices after the plane took off).

In another case a military plane crashed after the flight engineer asked of they completed the landing checklist, they hadn't.
Don’t forget earning the financial freedom so the founders themselves can leisure at will
They already outsource their moderation to mostly the Philippines so there’d be no change.
Alteryx is another one, and it's super popular in the business world.

LabVIEW is limited to the research and academic realms AFAIK.
Yes, I missed that part, though I didn't write that whole quoted section, that's verbatim from an article I found in my bookmarks[0]. Good spot.

[0] https://www.the-philosophy.com/marcuse-dimensional-man-analy...
I believe the same version (within a specified semver range) are hoisted and stored in the root of ./node_modules. Differing versions are nested within the consuming packages and therefore duplicated.

This can be particularly bad when a popular package has a semver major change (even if, for example, support for an outdated version of node is dropped), many libraries will lag behind in updating to the latest major version and you will have many duplicated copies of a popular package.
Doubt as you like, but I put a lot of work into measuring it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521 was over a year ago, but I'd be surprised if it has changed much since then. I'll take another look soon.

I'm glad you have a sense of the culture HN is trying to cultivate. Even getting just that across is astonishingly hard. By far the likeliest default is that nobody has any sense of it.

Does it fall short? Sure. The question is how much is possible on the internet—specifically on a large, public, optionally-anonymous internet forum, the bucket HN falls in. We're happy to do our utmost, but only along the axis of the possible. We can't come close to delivering everything people imagine and demand. Your comment doesn't allow for the constraints we're up against, how few degrees of freedom we have, or how close we come to getting crushed between the gears.

HN is a large enough population sample (5M readers a month) that it is divided wherever society is divided. That means you're inevitably going to see posts which represent the worst of society relative to your own views. Societies, actually, because whether you doubt it or not, HN is a highly international site. People post here relative to their respective local norms, but mostly in mutual ignorance of that fact. This accentuates how bad the worst posts seem.

So yes you see awful posts, but it doesn't follow that they're representative either of the community or the culture. Jumping to that conclusion is an error nearly everyone makes, because painful impressions (such as nasty comments) are vastly more memorable than pleasurable ones (such as sensible comments). This has been studied and there's a name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect. The phenomenon was established about news coverage (https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/978019...), but internet comments are no different.

What are these "other sites and circles" you mention that do so much better culturally than HN does? Are they public forums where anybody can create an account? Are they optionally anonymous? How large are they? In other words, do they face the same problems that we do? If so, and they're better than we are at solving them, please point us there so we can learn from them. Nothing would make me happier. Usually, though, when people make this claim, they're talking about much smaller communities and/or ones that are not fully open.
Game Soup[1], Thomas Brush[2] and Code Bullet[3] are three I enjoy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGPMrF9AN_D9BrmSmMeV3hA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuHVjteDW9tCb8QqMrtGvwQ

[3] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0e3QhIYukixgh5VVpKHH9Q
Interesting to hear Cal Newport after reading three books he wrote. As I have mentioned before, I got some value from his latest book but Deep Work is my favorite.

His message in Digital Minimalism is simple but not easy to do: take a 30 day break from using any non essential digital services like social media, NetFlix, etc. after 30 days reevaluate what you really want to keep in your life.
Nope, but it should be. But it does up an entirely unexplored avenue into foreign election interference
What, they are just making up rules for fun? If it shuts down the airport, it is because it poses a risk to planes. Otherwise they'd just ignore the drone.

They aren't trying to kill people, so they aren't colloquially terrorists, but they are purposefully introducing risk to the activity of ordinary people.

Giving warnings is more responsible than the alternatives, but it doesn't really excuse putting passengers at risk.
>The /pol/ boards on 4chan and 8chan aren't role playing boards.

They often are. Lots of threads are about fictitious things. Don't make me go there to find examples.

> The people being ironic here know perfectly well they are ironically supporting actual racists who actually sometimes commit violence in the real world.

That's different.

If you post something racist, that's a general statement and lots of people will see it.

If you post about a story someone is telling, with specific facts, you have no idea if it's connected to reality or not.
My conception of what the government does that is worthwhile, in the abstract, is that it lowers transaction costs, enabling free markets to function a la Ronald Coase's theorem. This is what the private sector is always fighting, what requires regulation. It's like entropy. This is ultimately what makes a modern civilization different from a stone age one.

So measuring productivity in the usual manner and comparing it with the private sector is a non sequitur to me. The benefits aren't booked as revenue or profit.
All of these things still happen to LGBT people in western society.
Texas court: photographer no recourse against university copyright infringement
Not sure if I really know about these countries but I don't think this comment enlightened me.
"Haha I was only pretending to be retarded"
Even then, it’s still fun and games if you know where to look these days.
This made me curious about the Model 3 I have. The owners manual states that the rear seats do have pretensioners, although they are only for the shoulder while the front seats have them for the lap belt as well. It doesn't say anything about load limiters though.
All of us should be thankful that the tools we rely on (like gcc and Linux) were available under the GPL, since otherwise proprietary extensions to these programs would have made the OSS versions obsolete.
Easy things are easy, hard things are possible. As opposed to ORM, the insert is easy
What, so if an activist does something it is going to go exactly to plan and everyone will figure it out as they go, safely and cheerfully?

This attitude to passenger safety is completely unacceptable. Protesting is acceptable. Doing anything that disrupts airline safety and the control of the airlines over their airspace is not. The reason air flight is so safe is because they understand that that is not an acceptable way to manage threats.

We want engineering control over flights, not the clowns in Extinction Rebellion.
But the nature of 8chan's user base isn't being dictated by its design. It's still an overwhelmingly right-wing site that gained its prominence from the Gamergate controversy. As a frequent user of reddit I would openly declare that overall it's an observably left-wing site. People across the political spectrum certainly use it, but it's still a left-wing site. Neither site was designed to cater to a certain types of users. But it seems dishonest to say certain ideologies, sentiments, patterns of speech, etc. don't take prominence on either platform simply because that prominence isn't an intrinsic aspect of the software that these communities use.
mass background tracking is becoming the defacto leading industry
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Steel Contact
> "consciousness is quantum!"

Amused by this particular choice as an example of ["fuzzily emotional pseudoscience"], given Roger Penrose (Hawking's peer in Nobel-winning black hole astrophysics) wrote a book -- The Emperor's New Mind -- detailing his theory of how consciousness relates to quantum mechanics. Wondering if you had that book in mind, w/ your comment a critique thereof.
I do indeed strongly encourage not trolling people to do illegal things using the Internet or any other method, as the law does not require the courts to take your motivation for encouraging them into account if they then commit the crime you trolled them to do.

I note that you, in essence, shifted the point from “encouraging a person on a forum to commit bank robbery” to “nonspecifically encouraging bank robbery in general”. You’re on your own for interpreting that latter one.

ps. From elsethread: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
Project Horizon: The American plan to build a military base on the moon
Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates (2009)
i take it you’re new to the concept of memory palaces.
8chan really got popular when gamergate people were kicked off of 4chan.
I don't see how they have good reason at all. If you take a reasoned look you will see that there is in fact no impetus to do so.

It's blatant overreach. Don't lick those boots too much or you might hurt your tongue.
OpEx vs CapEx
Just to finish off @keeperofdakeys comments: here is the ZFS answer:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/becdcec7b9cd6b8beaa...
Effects of metronome are quite insane. Even physically, as a faux drummer, playing with a stable time reference allows for so much more regularity you can be physically efficient, meaning more relaxed, less exhausting music playing (basically energy optimization). Then there's the mind massaging from perception of time .. Having a metronome is almost like a trance device.
I'm not sure I agree with your argument. People say a lot of things on these boards "for the lolz", or so they say. I don't know how far the defense gets you. Can swatting be for the lolz?
Please explain what rights would be legislated away in this case. It's definitely not the 1st amendment - you can still say what you want, just not on necessarily on the platform of your choice. This was equally true in the broadcast TV days. So what other right(s) would be legislated away by regulating Youtube's content?
US Air Force tests hypersonic missile on bomber flight
You can tighten containers but at the end of the day they are running as native processes on the same kernel. Any vulnerability and game is over. VM offers an easier (maybe heavy) mental model of security. Between guests and between guest and host.
I thought that farmers were in crisis because of the trade war(s). I don't know how accurate it is, but it's been widely reported that, for instance, certain large buyers of soybeans have switched to other countries. I wonder why the article doesn't say anything about export markets.
>But I’ve found that quite often, on the internet, when you think you’ve found a forum of hilarious ironic commenters... a lot of them are very sincere.

I mean, I think that’s pretty much how /r/The_Donald started. It started out as satire but over time collected a following of people who weren’t quite in on the joke...
"Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

--Percy Shelley, "A Defense of Poetry"
Tiny houses can be beautiful, sustainable, affordable, and illegal
Please read the FAQ regarding job postings, HN is not a job board
The startup conference is this Monday in Mountain View
Yeah, I don’t use /s tags, because I like to use the downvote count as a sort of inverse metric.
Is unprovoked violence any more tawdry because of racism? Most violence in the world stems from causes other than modern "racism".

Any communication channel, by virtue of human nature, is going to enable assaulters and murderers. If you look at assault and murder, most people are victimized by their own kind.
6 hours a day is plenty for a professional working musician, since they’re going to be performing, dealing with students etc. Serious students will do up to 10 hours a day tho.
Wikipedia says they use a dictionary of 40,000 words. So it's not going to fit in a few kb.
I see the astroturf committee is out in force already.

TFA said their match got 14000 hits, and they called police and sheriffs' offices and confirmed 400. But how many did they call about? Were they randomly selected, or were the ones called about identified as more likely than others?

We know that these domestic terrorist groups encourage members to join and try to subvert police departments and border patrol offices, and we know that the presence of just one has been seen to profoundly increase the amount of brutality in a department.
Does this mean Svelte 3 is the Tesla of the web? No virtual DOM it's like it doesn't even use gas. XD

tl;dl around 20:45: They're comparing javascript and the tools you use for it to transportation modes. Saying things like Angular was the H2, React is the H3, vanilla javascript is riding a bike. They really are just saying don't over engineer things and use the right tools for the job.

Douglas Crockford's Javascript the Good Parts, is imo the best when it comes to getting a feel for what the right/wrong tools are. That book was a perspective changer for me. People like to get very passionate about frameworks and how Javascript should be done. JS The Good Parts made me realize it's better to play the strengths of what's available to you here and now. To accept the tooling as it is with its pros and cons - exploit the strengths and minimize the impact of the cons.
I would think having humans more involved in training the algorithm could scale much better.

Also, detecting videos that are inappropriate for children is a lot harder than determining certain content creators that are trustworthy to post videos that are appropriate (and to tag them correctly). That can be learned from the user's history, how many times their stuff has been flagged, getting upvotes from users that are themselves deemed credible, and so on. The more layers of indirection, the better, a la PageRank.

So even without analyzing the video itself, it would have a much smaller set of videos it can recommend from, but still potentially millions of videos. You still need some level of staff to train the algorithm, but you don't have to have paid staff look at every single video to have a good set of videos it can recommend. The staff might spend most of their time looking at videos that are anomalous, such as they were posted by a user the algorithm trusted but then flagged by a user that the algorithm considered credible. Then they would tag that video with some rich information that will help the algorithm in the future, beyond just removing that video or reducing the trust of the poster or the credibility of the flagger.
Very funny. Those anti-fascists are just mowing down innocent people left and right, shooting up bingo parlors and country clubs everywhere you look, aren't they?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20179308
Sundar Pichai Cautions Against ‘Unintended Consequences’ of Big Tech Regulation
> there's no reason to make others redo work.

As a simplified example, consider Corporation G and Corporation P. One will eventually lose market share to the other, go bankrupt, and be replaced by Corporation R that bases its business practices on the more successful one (then the cycle repeats).

Both are evil, as corporations are wont to be, and in particular will never release anything under a less restrictive licence than they have to (so they will never release software under a MIT licence). However, G will release software under the GPL if this allows it to save work, whereas P will always release software under a proprietary licence, even if this forces it to expend more resources rewriting GPL functionality.

Releasing code under the GPL exerts a selection effect that favors G over P, and in the long run results in corporations that release somewhat more software period - and significantly more software under FOSS licences - than if P was not forced to redo work.
I’d argue servo has been a success and doesn’t need to implement everything 100% to do so. It’s a research browser it’s goal is facilitate new techniques and many have been merged back into Firefox: production use of rust, the stylo css engine, webrender, etc. They’re still doing some really valuable work in vector graphics and vr. https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap
Planes can crash if a drone gets sucked in the engine, so it is a bit worse than a bomb threat actually.
Well, SI did standardize the thousands separator as space, so there is at least precedence for using spaced numbers there.

I personally don't like it though, and tend to prefer either the swiss system (ie, 3'800'000.0), or maritime system (ie 3_800_000.0) if separators must be used
Easy. What sort of writings do you put off the most? Do you fail to write replies to text messages but find yourself easily jumping into long threads on message boards? Or do you put off formal documentation in favor of a series of short notes? What are you not doing? That is what you should focus on, by deliberately going out of your way to put yourself into situations that require you to do it more.
Don't kid yourself, the feds have already put those people on a watchlist. This is all part of the parallel reconstruction of evidence that will be used against them should the need arise.
Half Moon Bay hotel blocks beach access, gets $1.6M fine
Report finds wealth of top 1% up $21T, bottom 50% down $900B since 1989
I see no mention of AFL which seems like a fitting tool for the topic.

Also the term 'antifragile' (lightly controversial) comes to mind.
I've been doing 4 day work weeks and its like i'm on vacation all the time. We need this.
8Chan deletes any threads that contain threats (with the associated logs and details) and then immediately reposts them as images in a different thread. They actively abet heinous acts.