skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can't be resolved at that level as far as I can see it. Even in planned economies individuals found ways to enrich themselves. My view is that any programs that are seen to imply that a employer is responsible for it's employees is harmful. It should be made clear to everyone that the employer/employee relationship isn't too different from the used car dealer/customer relationship in that everyone is looking to extract maximum value from the exchange. These people aren't your family and will take food out of your children's mouth without hesitation, as such make the moves that are best for you and don't work too hard if hard work goes unrewarded.

This was the critical realization that took me from poverty to the middle class. Smile, pretend to be a bit naïve, extract what you need from the company (résumé fodder, etc) and move on.
How about training a classifier to detect and remove potentially bad stuff, then let the users who uploaded it argue that the classifier made a mistake? Only in those cases have human moderators look at it?
I can barely tell the difference between the parrot call that means "Ohshithawkhawkhawkhawk! Take cover!" and the one that means "Hawk! Just kidding; pay attention to me now."

I'm not certain a machine learning system could classify the emotional context of screams across the entire range of animal voices. And what are you going to train it on, exactly? That's a nightmarish corpus to be tagged, right there.
It should be available pretty soon. Void has already released the new version and they're a very small group.
Sounds like you’d enjoy an R5RS scheme. Minimal syntax goes a long way. Unused variables throwing exceptions definitely seems like an over accumulation of technical debt.
they're fucking with view counts
As an ex chef, I gotta point out capsicum is the native word in some English countries :-)

Also as a chef anyone who uses a nutmeg bech is an insufferable twat

Edit: fat thumbs :-p
Dogfooding isn't really retribution, so much as a reasonably effective way to better understand and capture requirements.

Using the things you produce generally helps motivate ironing out bugs and/or improving the product overall.
I've done exactly this with a Zero and an Olivetti M10, which is a clone of the Tandy Model 100 for the European market. It is indeed awesome.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=475

If you're in Vienna, you can come see the Olivetti, as well as a suite of other machines, at my TIMETRON2019 exhibit, where we have done new and interesting things with a ton of old systems:

http://primitur.at/TIMETRON2019_Opening/

More details here:

https://subotron.com/7635-timetron-2019/
> Typical unskilled office job, with handpicked horror stories.

Are you arguing that these stories aren't important because of the relative infrequency with which they occur? An employee died on the job in a brutally high-stress environment, and Cognizant is denying that his death had anything to do with the work he did. You're right in that cases like his are all too typical nowadays. But the fact that you don't "see anything particularly bad about it" says a lot.

> They didn't create neither the job situation, neither the lack of education

They created the jobs, didn't they? Those jobs exist because Facebook exists. How do they not bear responsibility for the conditions of those jobs? And nobody is criticizing FB for the lack of education or life choices of these workers. What do those have to do with this story at all?

> they aren't even in a any condition to control the labor market.

Disagree. They're in a position to constantly threaten thse workers with termination, that's about as close to total control as one can get in the free world. I'd wager that's far more control than your employer exercises with you. Can you imagine what would happen if Facebook tried that tactic with their SWEs? It's unbelievably disgusting that they treat their low skilled workers this way.

> But aside from an impulse of assigning blame on the closest most powerful actor related to situation, I don't see any reason to see Facebook in any kind of negative light for this.

If the company paying the employees isn't responsible for the working conditions of its facilities, then who is? Do companies not have a responsibility to provide a safe and healthy work environment? On top of that, these employees who make very little chose to break their NDAs, subjecting them to legal exposure, in order to talk about this. They're risking far more than just their jobs by going to the press.

If a company isn't comfortable with employees talking, the onus is on them to create an environment in which workers aren't motivated to go to the press. That very clearly isn't happening here.

> In my experience, such an experiment creates a very unhealthy office politics: people realize that they won't get this kind of compensation anywhere else, and their concern for not getting fired becomes more influential than personal ethics or professionalism.

Logically, this makes no sense to me. In a healthy work environment, strong personal ethics and professionalism should inherently insulate a worker from termination. If a worker feels that they need to behave unethically to stay employed, that says a lot about the culture of the company. Good people in good work environments don't think this way. But I'd love to see some data on this if you have any.
A typo in microprint that nobody will notice without looking very hard. So basically clickbait.
I would say this is why monads such as Either, and Optional, are so important. They require the programmer to deal with the dark path or at least make it explicit when there is a dark path. I first encountered these monads writing Scala years ago, and although it takes some getting used to, I always use them now in my Java day job to communicate the dark path.
Do you have an example for a free market, where this has happened?

I consider the IT world, that i was part of, the most free experience in my life. No state was involved, contracts were enforced, people just got along. Plain level field. No one even thought of unionizing.

Just now it peaks around the corner again. Rules, bureaucracy, everything that slows you down to make your own thing. Can i do this, can i do that? Other people decide about what i do in my life.
Sometimes “everybody does it” is the appropriate response. I’m absolutely in favor of Facebook giving everyone more money and better working conditions and generally making their lives a pleasure. But when they sometimes fail to do that, in predictable ways that other companies also fail at, “Facebook specifically is evil and we’ve got to destroy it” is just not a reasonable reaction.
From access to your photo library – yes, I'd think so. I don't know if they extract meta data from the photo you're about to send via WhatsApp. But this is a different thing than accessing meta data of thousands of photos.
Satoshi was American
It seems pretty clear that they stayed after any illusion of that fell away.
I typically double my estimate for how long something will take me both in personal and work-related projects. This allows for all manner of unknowns to happen and seems to be more realistic.
Personally, I find your response to be emblematic of what is wrong with our industry. Completely ignoring the quantity and power of the filth that social media is able to generate and being ok with shoveling this shit to "unskilled" workers and letting them handle the consequences of dealing with that garbage on a daily basis. Just brush it off as a by product of capitalism/the labor market - "They need a service performed, they found people willing to do that service for the money offered".

You ignore the human cost of all of this and brush off peoples experiences as "handpicked horror stories" - you are completely detached from the real world. . Despite your claims, this is 100% a problem of Facebook's making.
Like "I'm Blue"[1] (that's some /r/vintagecgi right there)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BinWA0EenDY
"Searching for libcrurl. Click here if you really meant libcurl."
They did/do.

Perhaps it's just the fallibility of my own memory, but looking at the No Doubt and Beastie Boys videos linked I don't recall them looking terribly different to what they do now.

It'd be great to have a side by side comparison, or perhaps some information on which ones they're going to work on so I can grab them now and do it myself later.
Ok, so this is a highly intelligent and definitely user centric improvement to their network, and the only reason nobody else does it is because Comcast patented it. And the fact that the limit matches the amount of data used by popular speed testing services at the time is a total coincidence.

Cool, hooray for Comcast! I sure wish Verizon would take some lessons from them!
No, see, "cradle of civilization" is exactly about resource constraints. They have water and sunlight and good soil, and those are the resources needed for agriculture. People living in Egypt and running short on grain is a temporary condition that condemns their government not a permanent one that condemns their land.
I am a big fan of returning arrays like [err, value] from async functions (kind of like Go, only reversed) which can be destructured on one line. Yes, it does end up with if/then statements but I find those cleaner than try/catch semantics.
Is that true though? I think it's at lest an open question as to what's cheaper - mitigation or avoidance.
> (I assume /etc/hosts would work for linux?)

No, because both www.reddit.com and old.reddit.com (in fact, *.reddit.com) already map to the same IP address. They are distinguished through the Host HTTP header. The only way to do that mapping would be within the browser (or with a MITM proxy, which I wouldn't recommend).
It's not the same. A deposit guarantee is given by a third party, so that if Libra goes under or mismanages things I still cannot lose my money (up to a certain limit).
This is great, OP. We are building a prototyping tool [1] for conversational interfaces and with our tool we have seen teams improve the entire prototyping, design and testing process by 10x.

1. http://www.botmock.com
There was a previous article a couple month ago that explained that this sort of stuff is already build into the moderation tools.
I believe Lubuntu has the same kernel as Ubuntu [1], as far as I'm aware Lubuntu is literally just Ubuntu bundled with LXDE instead of Gnome. I imagine Ubuntu's decision to kill the i386 build will also trickle down to derivatives such as Lubuntu.

[1] https://askubuntu.com/a/90918/789899
Laziness is my reason for being a console gamer as well. Over the last 15 years I've dabbled in and out of PC gaming, usually spending the money every time I buy a computer to make sure it has a fairly high-end graphics card. The end result is usually things will go great for a while then I'll try and play some game that will either not run properly or have some weird issue with my setup and I'll get frustrated and head back to console. My day job is figuring out why computers aren't doing what they are supposed, at night I just want to be able to stick a disk in something and have it work correctly.
I had no idea that was in there along with all of the other things like a PMT calculator and unit conversion. I would normally switch to the scientific calculator after getting a fresh Windows 7 and never open that menu again.
The most expensive hyphen in history Venus probe
After my initial computing forays with BigTrak, a ZX Spectrum and some time on a BBC Micro and Apple Mac, my first multi user computer use was on the VAX Cluster at uni. I hated UNIX when I tried that on a Sun workstation as it seemed so much less friendly than VMS with it's hierarchical HELP command. Ironically I went onto to a 25 years and counting *NIX/Linux based infra career :)
Meritocracy is the worst form of societal organization, except for all the others.
"This simplifies the code a bit because ElementAccessHasExtraIndexedProperty
checks for length-overflow and sparse-indexes so the callers don't have to
do that anymore."

simple code best code, the less opportunity you give people to shoot themselves in the foot the better
Sure, but this falls under "the ends justify the means", which I disagree with.

Take climate change. Just because we advanced because of our previous attitudes about carbon doesn't mean it's a good idea to continue doing so in the same regard.
It’s amazing how so many issues that are nominally caused by human error are actually the result of bad design.
They probably do. On the one hand, there are a lot of herd animals that we're supposed to leave alone but could probably do with some predation, and we've got predators in need of prey. But I don't think we can get them together; too isolated, too far away.
Except those dollars amount to $28,800/year. Hardly enough to live on in the cities where these offices are, yet more than twice minimum wage ($15 full-time, versus $7.25 at what are often inconsistent hours [Edit: in Florida it's $8.46, but I think the point still stands]).

They aren't hustling because they want some extra cash. They're trading their mental health for the basic ability to be a living, eating human being.
Technically, he has been able to create a hard fork without a majority of miners.
It looks like this:

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/nbfcbjbdceowrvuepvoj.mp4

Software rendering. Not terrible. Ivy Bridge.

I did not even consider about messing with GPU passthrough.
Grain yields in the US have on average increased every year since 1930. Global warming is a real issue, but to say that farming is currently being effected is not supported by much emperical evidence. https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/yieldtren...
80-characters limit for text is wrong
In the Loop – June 19, 2019
It's nowhere as sophisticated as this, but I wrote a little utility for Monte Carlo analysis of spreadsheet models with Python and Xlwing:

https://github.com/asemic-horizon/stanton

As a bonus, since the spreadsheet model is exposed as a Python function, emulating complex spreadsheets with simple ML models (decision trees...) is easy.
Yeah but I also don't think the question "is Carl Ferrer a scumbag?" and "was the closing of Backpage good for sex workers and at risk youth" have to have the same answer.

The wired article talks about culpability and most focuses on the first question where as the reply all seemed to exclusively focus on the second.
I mean, come on. If the article had said there are mandatory mental health screenings, and mandatory transfers if you don’t pass, you know everyone would be pointing to it as another example of how the content moderators are being mistreated.
June 2019 – TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
Not an expert but I highly doubt they are building them so they can be used with them first level underwater. I am pretty sure such a building is a complete loss.
I see the logic in point 2 and agree it's possible that this could be the net effect, but I think there's at least one more distinct possibility.

I use a good password manager with long, unique, random passwords.

The world is messy, though, and some small fraction of the apps/sites/devices/contexts I need to enter credentials stored in my password manager require manual entry. Some of these are on a device with the password manager, but fail to support auto-fill and block paste. Some of these are on other devices (such as TV streaming boxes). It also applies to every login I need to enter on a new device before my password manager is installed and unlocked.

When I have to enter dozens of high-entropy characters on mobile keyboards, TV remotes, or my sad 3rd-gen MacBook butterfly keyboard, a simple unmasking toggle is a lifesaver. Its absence is a misery/frustration multiplier. I'm not sure how the initial login on an iPhone is, but it took me 4 tries to log in on my newest Android because I had to enter ~40 characters while swapping between the stock alpha/symbol keyboards without an unmask.

I'm sold on the value of using a password manager and aware of the risks of not doing it, so these frictions won't deter me. But I'd be surprised if I'm in the majority, here. I suspect many people will fail into partial or complete non-compliance with the password manager if they regularly encounter these scenarios (or encounter them while the costs of abandoning the effort are still minimal).
There is a website with 789 free calculators
There are numbers in everything we do, literally everything. This Polish startup [https://www.omnicalculator.com/] lets you find the number you need with fun, easy-to-use, free web calculators.

Calculations are something most people refrain from, because, you know...Math. But what if it was made simpler and fun to learn, just enter what interests you and the website suggests you a list of interesting calculations it can help you do. (Go ahead try it)

From calculating the molecular mass of the moon to boiling a perfect egg; Omni Calculator has 789 free easy to use web calculators. They recently killed it on Product Hunt[https://www.producthunt.com/posts/omni-calculator-2-0], Their Plastic Footprint Calculator [https://www.omnicalculator.com/ecology/plastic-footprint] is super useful. What do you think?
Learn vim commands through the power of pacman
On mac, it's Firefox menu -> About Firefox, then wait for it to download the update and click restart
> painstakingly remastering some of the most important works in the history of the format to the highest possible standards

Seriously, couldn't we do it using deep learning?
You can just as easily:

1. Build a competing product (social network, cryptocurrency, etc).

2. Build a career at FB, to influence from within.

3. Join/start a campaign against/for Facebook to influence its (potential) users.

4. Lobby your representatives to change whatever you don’t like about FB.

Maybe you have a point but so far it’s not very clear :)
In Australia where Craig Wright is from, capsicum is the colloquial word for what you call peppers.
Haskell's Either isn't intended to be used solely as Left = Err and Right = Ok. It's supposed to work as an abstract concept of "one thing or another", and the language designers have avoided choices that would canonicalize it that way, such as introducing a MonadFail (Either String) instance.

One example of why you would buck the trend would be to use of Left = Ok and Right = Err for a series of "retry" computations. Say you have a few functions of type Either a String, which all get progressively slower, but which work on progressively more advanced input. An example might be a series of regex engines, each of which run slower but handle more and more advanced lookahead syntax. You can then write something like:

makeRegex :: String -> Either Regex ParseError
makeRegex regexExpression = makeBasicRegex regexExpression >> makeLookaheadRegex regexExpression

This will return a Regex using a simple parser if it can, and if that function fails (by returning a Right value!) it will go onto the next function and try that.
NBA 2k today suffers from the same problem Madden suffers from today: no studios competing with them to push them into making a better product.

Who knows if the latest PES (which looks absurdly good) will push EA to make fifa worth a damn again, but at least we’ve got choices in futbol games now.

Edit: No seriously, look at this trailer for PES2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_89i5H1zAeU it's amazing
It is very possible to "improve" somebody's life and still be abusing your power over them and causing them damage in other ways.
That’s an important point. Hurricanes and flooding used to damage cheap buildings. Now the most expensive real estate is right at the water.
There's not really a shortcut around having employees do it because Facebook has a significant amount of private content which users will not tolerate being shared, standards vary widely (imagine a vegan flagging every picture with leather visible or a post about eating meat as obscene — if you're requiring this, do you just disable their account once you notice it?), and especially because it's the target of coordinated group activity so errors won't be uncorrelated: get a cycle of outrage politics going and you'll have thousands of people around the world who have no easily-observed connection to each other flagging things as either objectionable or safe.
Preventing Text Flashing with Google Fonts
Cats are cuter. A clever strategy for any animal, but especially so for a murderous predator.
I would if I could, absolutely.
I feel that we're going to view these places and these practices the same way we view children in coal mines or young women working with radium paint. I've got a feeling that though we know very little about this now, our children and grandchildren are going to know a lot about this.

Dear Lord, what a horrible thing.
Is there a way to increase the font in firefox? Maybe an addon? That is my only gripe with it. I know I can use Reader mode and even increase the font at the OS level but I would rather not do that.
Neuroscientists 3D model ‘face identity information’ stored in the brain
Mendel 3.3 Released
William Nordhaus won the Nobel prize for his efforts flushing out this idea into a workable plan.

There are no longer any excuses. We have a reasonable, viable plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions. It's expensive and hard, but a lot less expensive and difficult than the alternative of doing nothing.
it may be native but is it colloquial?
Fair enough, "non-negative integers" then.
Since when are bank transfers fast? If I happen to need to send money over the weekend it takes an entire day for it to show up in that person's account.
I mean, this is a great example of how complex systems exhibit unpredictable, emergent behavior. You think you are doing some process X (say, printing), but it turns out that X relies on some more generic layer Y (a file utility layer) which is running a set of arbitrary filter functions that you have no idea exist. One of these filters then happens to check for some magic strings in your data. And these hardcoded strings turn out to be strings that can also occur in unrelated kinds of data...

What's the underlying issue, really? Is it that detecting file types by checking for magic strings is always a bad idea? Or is it something more basic about the architecture here, more like the leaky abstractions problem?
good play -
now they will have title to some portion of the mechanical royalties and can promote youtube premium with their own exlusive content.
Are You in Your Element?
I'm pretty sensitive to crappy headlines but I really don't think including the guy's name or not would make a huge difference here.
That works well for simple programs, but if you write at scale, that style of programming is very error prone and tedious.

It introduces a lot of noise into the program and makes it harder to follow the logic.

If you don't lift yourself into higher levels of abstraction, it's much harder to focus on more difficult problems. For example, long division with Roman Numerals is more difficult than Arabic because there are simply more low level details to worry about.
Mnist Reborn, Restored and Expanded: Additional 50K Training Samples
Hollywood Faces “Devastating” Costs from California Bill Targeting Gig Economy
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Pogo_-_Earth_...

Shutting down FB will just create this problem in the next popular social media platform. This is a problem that needs to be solved, and shutting companies down won't do it.
Actually I thought a bit and realized that I don't want to defend checked exceptions. Let me amend the previous answer to "I prefer such functions to be interchangeable".
That's an extremely cool hack!

I won't be on the right continent to enjoy TIMETRON2019, but I'd love to know more about how you integrated the Pi with your M10. Was there anything difficult about the software/hardware? Can you share some photos?
The UK has something like this. Is called Eastbourne.
Deciphering the CDF on Hysterectomy and Sterilization