skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it's eminently tech-solvable. Experts can still analyze the pixels and determine if anything fishy happened. I think the societal problem is more if/when people make up their minds to not trust those experts when they call out a fake and just believe it anyway because they want to believe it.

An example would be, some fake video circulates of some politician saying or doing something they never said or did. Maybe someone created it to harm that politician, maybe it was a prank, doesn't matter. A day later, a gazillion experts do the analysis and come out with public evidence that the video was a fake. Great. Then someone like Alex Jones tells his millions of listeners that he knows better, and some world-class expert who he mysteriously won't name told him privately that the video was real, and that somehow all of those experts were in on a conspiracy to debunk it, even though the evidence they provided debunking the video is all out in public (if perhaps too technical for most people). And then, voila. Millions of people now decide that it was real after all, and that all of those scientists and engineers and law enforcement people who said it was fake are all in on some conspiracy to squash the truth.

So you're right, it is a tech-created problem, and presumably tech solutions will always exist, but as long as you have an uneducated segment of the population that will always just believe whatever their tribe tells them, those tech solutions won't even matter. I don't know how to solve that problem, other than people becoming more educated and less geographically isolated, so that they can recognize and trust expert analysis when it's available and trustworthy.

Put another way, the problem isn't that Alex Jones exists, but that there exist people who think he's credible. The very existence of his listeners is a much bigger problem than his own existence. There will always be conspiracy theorists and there will always be faked evidence to support them, but what holds society together is our collective ability to acknowledge well-documented bullshit as bullshit, regardless of what tribe someone thinks they belong to and regardless of what they want to believe.
as a brit, I would say 'tuna' and 'tuner' exactly the same
It seems that they only added the watermark when they started charging. Pre watermark it is hard to know if the business is potentially viable at all. Free signups might fall off now that they aren’t getting everything for free.

Assuming that is the case the business model would have to change to pro features or add. Maybe VC would be more comfortable on some data on all this.
Yes. Correctly pronounced with a Khoisan click.
Inspirational.

I'd love to hear names of companies today where folks feel their work place culture might allow something like this to happen.
You make it sound like ether can only be used to pay for gas. It can also be transferred to another account in a transaction, it's the native currency for making payments. It will also be required for staking.
A constitution that disallows meaningful federal regulation of co2 emissions is nothing more than a pathetic suicide pact.
In mechanical drawing terminology, we pronounce it with a hard "t".

Fillets or rounds are placed features that round off or cap interior or exterior corners or features of a part.
If you're talking about the University of Notre Dame in Indiana USA, the most common pronunciation is /noʊtrəˈdeɪm/ or /noʊtərˈdeɪm/ (NOH-tər-DAYM). Simon Whistler's video uses both the American and French versions appropriately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKhPDprqB_c
FWIW, this is what pushes energy and opportunity into the entrepreneurial marketplace. You work in these companies as a contractor, learn about problems and start something new.

Crowdfunding and free marketing distribution platforms exist to aid your small venture.

Just as this old story may be less likely today, new stories of entrepreneurship continue to be written without the inclusion of PepsiCo. If anything these giants exist as acquirers.
> too many stupid people were involved

You've gone from one unconstructive thing ("lacked [a] grade-school educations") to another ("stupid"). My link explains why neither one of these adequately explains why people make or miss these kind of mistakes, rather than just hurling out glib insults as an explanation.
Render founder here. Happy to answer questions.
Couldn't the same question about Google's ethical position and their reasons behind developing the Chrome browser? And, as a follow on, couldn't you also ask the same question about YouTube's ethical position in its participation in killing IE6 [0]?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19798678

Update: To finish the thought, neither Google nor SuperAwesome are neutral when it comes to pursuing objectives that also help others besides themselves.
I'm not convinced this is objectively bad. It may be that the benefits outweigh the costs.

But I do think this is one way in which the "American Dream" was broken.
The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)'s study from June 2016 came to this conclusion:

https://www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.535261.de/themen_nachrichten/...
For this sort of project a live demo is pretty much a must-have. Or at least some screenshots.
My guess is that Bell Labs is in New Jersey.
> The objective function that most human beings use is not "what animal kills rodents most efficiently", but "what animal kills rodents most efficiently and poses little harm to human beings most of the time".

See, I disagree. I do not believe that killing rodents is a serious consideration for most modern cat owners. There are cheaper, more efficient and lower maintenance methods of exterminating rodents than cats. Most cat owners own their cat as a pet and think nothing of letting it terrorize the neighborhood birds because it's cute. Talk of rodent extermination is a post-hoc justification for their behavior.
Blurb generated by GPT-2 for TWDNE #283: https://www.gwern.net/images/gan/thiswaifudoesnotexist-283.p...

“It is so sad to say that this manga has never been seen by any anime fans in the real world and this is an issue that must be addressed. Please make anime movies about me. Please make anime about me. Please make anime about your beautiful cat. Please make anime movies about me. Please make anime about your cute cat. I wish you the best of luck in your life.
Please make anime about me. Please make anime about my cute cute kitten.”

Maybe it's just a prank, but Gwern's description makes it sound like an accidental creation of the text generator. https://www.gwern.net/TWDNE
That’s a fatalist outlook. The ceo in the article was humble enough to recognize a good idea when he saw it and not judge the presenter by where he came from. Most bosses would’ve laughed him out of the room when he held out his arms and said he thought they could win this much market share.

Credentials can only get you so far, at some point intuition is important. Leaders and recruiters need to pay more attention to drive, work ethic, and character than to where someone went to college or what their job title is. This is the way things used to be and they can be that way again.
On a normal file, unless it’s NFS with a special mount option, read() and write() never return partial results, which means that many programs can’t handle it.

Even modern async/await/promise/future systems frequently have no reliable way to express partial success.
This is nothing but click bait. Three paragraphs about how searching for Hong Kong in china doesn't return any meaningful results. Pretty much just standard censorship, and nothing about creating an "alternate reality." Also interesting that the OP only seems to post negative stories about China.
If you never connect it to the net, there’s never a need for an update - and no way for them to sneak one in behind your back. It’s a sad world we’ve built, isn’t it?
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As near as I could ever find, the format of a VMS executable file did not appear in the DEC manuals. I meant that as a commentary on the "VMS had great docs" sentiment.

At one point, I was convinced that understanding the format of an executable file (a.out, COFF, XCOFF, Mach-O, ELF, .com, .exe, PE, etc) was important to understanding the operating system itself. I spent a fair amount of effort and some money buying books trying to find the VMS executable file format. Couldn't find a hint.
That’s interesting — I haven’t seen any code that does this. Do you have more fleshed out examples on github to share?
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Adobe just a few days back released a paper on detecting fake / cgi pics https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613781/adobes-new-ai-tool...
What features does slack have that a well designed email client could not have?
The company I work for now seems to be serious about a strategy of golden handcuffs, giving more than the going rate, and keeping employees from having to fret about basic needs so they can spend more time focused. It definitely appears to work to retain talent. I could say similar things about the two companies I worked for prior to this one as well. I feel there is something serious and economically competitive to be said for understanding the importance of hiring and keeping good people by paying more than the minimum. Maybe this only works if individual employees aren't easily replaceable. Or, maybe some companies don't try to track the long term financial costs of high turnover.
I'm not sure that's inherently a bad thing. Yes, loyalty should be rewarded, and employees should not be treated like resources but as people with inherent dignity. And I can see that its unethical to hire external workers to avoid treating them well. But if laws are made to protect and enforce their rights and dignity, then how is this kind of outsourcing system worse than hiring everyone as a full time employee?
I've noticed a recent uptick in news promoting the cruelty of China toward its citizens.

I struggle to figure out how much is true, and how much is an alternate reality created by my government. (I'm in the USA, and anger towards China definitely benefits the Republican Party / Trump administration.)
Brutal and depressing. Might as well just end it all at 50. None of the spiritual mumbo jumbo resonated with me at all. What's the point of going on if you can't contribute?
I recently played around with Ink. [1] I hadn’t heard of Dialog, but it shall be interesting to contrast them.

It’s quite elucidating to see how different the constructs of a programming language can be when the constraints are so different. For example, Ink is designed to produce spaghetti code, because a narrative is more spaghetti shaped, so there is no call stack. Another peculiar thing is that by default, a link will only be used once, because in most narratives you don’t want to read the same thing over and over again.

1: https://github.com/inkle/ink/blob/master/Documentation/Writi...
The Rules of Evidence in Federal Court (and the States) make it fairly easy to introduce photo/video/audio. This needs to change. The rules regarding admissibility of this type of evidence were drafted when fakes were difficult.

The treatment of emails, however, does not inspire much hope. That is, in most courts, a printout of an email is treated -- as a practical matter -- similarly to a document signed by the author. Very frustrating. There is nothing magical about a piece of paper with an email header... you can create same in two minutes with a word processor. And don't even
Get me started with text messages... try to introduce an unsigned typed scrap of paper and you'll get laughed out of court; but, put the text into something that looks like a screenshot of a phone and, voila, instantly admissible as an authentic text message.
Given the trend of leap seconds, I don't think it will happen (unless we do really stupid things to the earth). See https://what-if.xkcd.com/26/
The "money going into Slack's bank account" feature.
Frito Lay was a great place to work at because they did promote up, and they also hired the best. I would often be in meetings where one logistics manager went to MIT and the other logistics manager would be someone who started at a plant boxing chips.
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If we are facing something like potentially billions of human beings losing their habitable regions near the equator, shouldn't someone be busy sketching out a plan on the costs and requirements of draining swaps to the tune of several million kilometers of land? So we can at least analyze our options, just in case?
Accessibility is hard. It's not just a technical problem. It informs every stage of conceptualizing, designing, and implementing a web site. Accessibility is end-to-end.

For instance WCAG 2.1 requires a minmum text color contrast ratio of 4.5:1. If a web designer and other stakeholders haven't taken this on board there's a risk they'll select an inaccessible color palette. And that's just one requirement.

Designs that appeal to management and other stakeholders are more often hostile to accessibility than not.

https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/#contrast-minimum
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I've been using C# off and on since about 2006 or so. Very early on I was a bit dismayed at how hostile Linux users were to the language. Since it has the potential to fill a large gap in the language development space. Most other langues required knowing a bunch of stuff in order to develop, build, and especially allow naive uses to deploy. The various ecosystems had annoying and often perplexing gotchas. With C# all of those were trivial, especially the last one. (Instructions that start with 'download language version x' would be a non starter)
Slack (and chat-in-general) has replaced email for many things it used to be used for. And we're all better for it. Other things still go over email and slack can't ever touch them. It's called disaggregation. Why does everything have to be "x wants to replace y", "is x the y-killer?", "x will destroy y" etc etc. I wonder who wants to replace clickbait headlines...
i'm not clueless - i'm very familiar with supply/demand economics. my point is simply that saying we should raise housing supply is very convenient when none of us are real estate developers (and the developers aren't saying that). are you going to quit your job and start developing real estate at cost? no. am i? no. are the policy makers going to do it? no. so it's a completely feckless remark (increase housing supply).

my ultimate point is therefore that you have almost no other policy levers than the minimum wage.
"Giga" can be pronounced both ways, AFAIK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga-#Pronunciation
Someone has created a Rust crate called libra, which claims to be a "Simple fantasty Adventure MUD" (sic). It's currently just a "Hello, world!" program.

What are the chances it's a placeholder for malicious/trojan code intended to steal Libra coins? (c.f. the event-stream backdoor[2])

[1] https://crates.io/crates/libra

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534392
This isn't a matter of rights, it is a matter of legal obligations.
These laws definitely increase expense though, wheel chair ramps aren’t free in material and space. We do have to pay for it in the form of increased real estate costs.

For websites, either they will have to spend more money making them or make fewer of them using existing budgets.
I wonder if we're about to see another big wave of emigration from Hong Kong, like the one that occurred in the decade before Britain handed over HK to Chinese control. Anyone who grew up in the 80's/90's in commonwealth countries like Canada probably remembers seeing a lot of new faces from HK in school pretty much every year.
Games industry is probably one of the few jobs where you can work your way up to the top role from the bottom.

It's still not uncommon at all for executive producers that manage entire projects to have started as game testers that would have been paid a low hourly wage.
There are no noteworthy novelties in this kickstarted bike. I'd personally venture to lose some money if I saw some real innovation and I wouldn't bother even if they failed to deliver the end product or the company went bankrupt. Here we see only some Chinese copy work.
The need to get lots more attention since they are going to go public soon?
I find this varies between people.

I have co-workers with whom I've had fantastic, multiple-day drawn-out asynchronous discussions on Slack.

I have other co-workers for whom this form of communication fails completely.

I'm not sure if this is a learnable skill or if it's down to something fundamental connected to different people's communication styles.
This would only work as a deterrent if they were found guilty, sentenced to death and hit squads sent out, and they were executed.

We all know the russians will continue to do what they do.

only if those they use to perform attrocities knew they would themselves be executed would they think twice.
This might be useful to convince some people of the validity of anthropogenic climate change, but I fear it will not be picked up by any of the news sources that reach those who are skeptical. If you have any denier friends or associates you might be aware of the latest nail in the coffin for climate change from earlier this month:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/06/11/oh-so-tha...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/07/national-park-glacier-war...

https://www.theblaze.com/news/glacier-national-park-signs-cl...

https://hotair.com/archives/2019/06/10/national-park-ditches...

https://canadafreepress.com/article/thriving-glaciers-and-do...

Search for: "Glacier National Park signs" to see more.

Almost all of the articles reference the truth, the 20-year old models failed to account for increased local snow and the signs were just updated, but pretty much all the news outlets are hailing this as another example of the "failed liberal agenda" or similar sentiments. One source even tries to blame the backpedaling on the Obama Administration:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/48287/national-parks-toss-sig...

Though you can find that these signs were actually put in place by those working for the Bush Administration in this article from Aug 18, 2008:

https://missoulian.com/news/glacier-park-the-next-century---...
In London it's hard to find a free bike around the rush hour. They are all gone in case of tube strike or other public transport distraction
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Our team just recently switched from Slack to Twist.. precisely because Slack doesn't feel like a good replacement for email. It has support for threaded conversations but it feels like an afterthought and doesn't fit well into our workflow of "discuss something in a thread, archive it when it's resolved"
“I do have a Ph.D.,” he responded. “I’ve been poor, hungry and determined.”

Love that.
It doesn't get newsletter, recruiter, and salesperson spam.
As much as I've embraced Slack, I just don't see it replacing an entire open protocol, with one proprietary product. If anybody was close to this, it definitely would of been MSN Messenger at one point. Everyone I knew had MSN Messenger, and would check their inbox from the IM client.

Unless we start seeing @slackmail.com or something and they make a very powerful mail client, but I havent see Slack do much period, it's taking how long just to add dark mode into Slack across platforms? I feel like nothing visible is being done by Slack. To be fair it does work, but new things would be nice to see.

I don't think you'll be able to replace the likely massive market share that gmail / hotmail / yahoo has.
There's nothing stopping you using slack for thoughtful drawn our discussions. My experience is that in slack the people who send quickfire messages are the people who send quickfire emails, and the people who send thought emails send thought our slack messages.

The big advantage of slack (to me) is that people use channels, and it avoids the "I mailed X and Z, but forgot to CC y in on this", where people routinely selectively email people when really more people should be aware.
You can pry my email from my cold dead hands.

Why anybody would want an email replacement controlled by a single company is beyond comprehension.
The ability to share links to conversations. I can link to any message on Slack, in context, going back to the beginning. I can't link to emails: I have to find and forward them to people.
Very impressed with the janitor's vision and the CEOs good leadership. A poor leader would have quashed the process when the janitor could not justify his idea. Being a good leader, the CEO came up with a solution to determine the viability of the janitor's idea.

The difference between seniors and juniors is experience, and that experience can partially be defined by your "moveset". A janitor would not know it is possible to run a limited trial, but the CEO would. I have found that managers are often amenable to ideas from their workers. But, if a worker does not have a full moveset, it will be difficult for the worker to pitch an idea in a way that is actionable, and he will be turned down.
Mirroring the sentence sure looks cool and makes the two situations look so equal, but any US citizen is free to criticize US prisons, and free to find information about them. This is very different from China which desperately tries to hide the fact of existence of this concentration camps. Anyone who tries to talk about this in China ends up in Chinese prison (which is separate from this camps and worse than US prison). All the people who were released were threatened to not talk about camps, people living in cities near camps have malware installed on their phones to not be able to talk with anyone outside their cities.

China condemning US won't change anything because the situation in US is the way it is because the people know and do not care enough about the issue. US condemning China would help because China tries to hide the truth from its own citizens who believe the camps are kind of schools where people learn history and get rid of religious superstitions.

By putting the false equivalence sign between these two situations you do disservice to both causes.
I work for a Fortune 100 company and we don't use Slack, but we do use email. I think step one for slack to replace email is to get a larger market share.
I don't think any janitor working for an outsourced company is learning about problems. For the most part, people try to ignore that the cleaning staff are there at all. They don't talk to them and they certainly don't engage with them as equals -- for the most part, of course.

How would a janitor working for Aramark, emptying trash cans after everyone's left for the day, "learn about problems and start something new"? Even the "start something new" bit doesn't really make sense. You're going to get an appointment with a funder on the pitch of "I'm a janitor with Aramark, and lately I've been working at the Johnson corp...."?
Interesting. I wasn't aware it was possible to create a plane that could avoid a sonic boom. I wonder if newer supersonic tech could get efficient enough that we'd see new passenger jets.
Not sure why you were downvoted, because this is an interesting thing to note.

I don't know who it benefits, but it's important to question everything in this day and age.
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