skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ranking system did kind of annoy me. We used G+ heavily inside of Google, and lots of interesting people posted interesting things. As time wore on, I felt like I got less and less of that stuff. A coworker would say "did you see so and so's G+ post" and I would go look for it and not be able to find it until I begged someone a link. I followed them. They followed me. The post had 300 +1s. But I could never see it.

The other thing I thought maybe killed G+ was the "ghost town" effect. Instead of forcing everyone to share everything publicly, people would just share with their close circles. So to an outside observer, it looked like a ghost town, but to the people using it, it seemed perfect.

In the end, I miss it. The people I interacted with on G+ were great. I met some people on the Internet that are now real-life friends. I could always post a random idea or a project I was working on and get feedback. Now I have nothing. Twitter seems like it's a place where people shout into the void about how far to the left or right they are. Facebook seems dead (I never used it). Blogging sites like Medium seem evil. So I just share random things with random friends on Discord. It's sad. G+ could have done so well.
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No one deserves anything but it's not up to a 3rd party to judge the validity of what one can generate when playing by the agreed upon rules of the system. Fix the foundation rather then boarding up the broken windows upstairs.
Where do they get this data from?
Gotcha, makes sense. This is definitely better for the interests of the consumer.
Max Weber's concept of Disenchantment is essentially this applied at the societal level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disenchantment
For what it's worth, regarding the asymmetric interactions, if my memory serves me right, it seemed to be Google+ that made Facebook introduce the notion of "Following" people. They were a good idea, just not a substitute for symmetric relationships.
> almost every hardware company remains at the whims of the Chinese government due to their dependency on Chinese manufacturers.

If anything, it's the U.S. government that's been volatile and unpredictable.
To nitpick, the underlying tech is UPI (United Payments Interface), of which BHIM is one of the interoperable apps. I see more Google Pay users. It picks my phone contacts, and even uses inaudible sounds to pair phones.
by hacking the reward circuits of your brain with immediate interactions? The issue is that those are counterproductive in the long term.

The exact same reason why people initially loved Facebook and spent so much time on it?
U should listen to this https://castro.fm/episode/tHImy5
It's 500MB RAM per tab/login/workspace (whatever it's called).

Office/company slack, project A slack, project B slack, ... and in no time slack starts to use more RAM than docker/VMs I am developing on.
Yeah, "Potential Money-Laundering Lapses" is a interesting phrase to use to describe a systemic and long running criminal conspiracy. Sounds like we're most of the way there to the "Nothing will happen" part.
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There's a way of falling back to a locally-hosted version...but building and maintaining that gets hard if you're using more than a handful of scripts.
This is also my favorite. It also works pretty well for punctuation and general flow, I find.
totally agree... (as a non google person.. just a normal user)
This machine seems far overcomplicated. Also, the dish at 00:50 in the video had a visible dirt spot after cleaning.
I'm using it in my toy OS as my TCP/IP implementation. It's meant to be run in a wide variety of contexts, from embedded IoT-style appliances to userspace Linux. In fact, it has instructions for Hosted Usage[0] in the README.

[0]: https://github.com/m-labs/smoltcp#hosted-usage-examples
I know people like that but they also write emails and then come over to tell me that they've send me and email.
That section you are saying was reasonably understandable was the part that confused me.

For example:

> it is obvious that XLNet always learns more dependency pairs given the same target and contains “denser” effective training signals

BERT is only masking 15% of the tokens, so isn't the amount of dependency pairs like 18% higher at most?
For the imported good buyer, there's a price increase. It does not matter to him who collects the tax that increased the price - an import tariff imposing government or an enlightened carbon-scheme participating foreign government. This will reduce demand like any other dead weight loss, and yes, depress economic activity, employement and thus wages.

BTW, most countries already have carbon taxes on fossil fuels, they just don't bother calling them that. They call them fuel excise taxes. Around 60% of the price a consumer pays for fuel in the EU is fuel excise tax, in other words, a 150% tax. In the US, it's only about 20%. Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax#China

What's your estimated impact of this already huge tax ? Think about the demand elasticity of fuel and energy products.
It's really good.

Function keys would be nice, the original green screen with function key strip at the bottom of the screen interface is still one that I think is a good one.

Another small thing, it could be made to work with the HTML elements that are semantic rather than presentational. So no div elements and magic classes, just sections, headers, footers, asides, nav and those sorts of things.

In that way the content could be neatly structured and look good with a normal stylesheet, or, do the terminal mode (s).

I have had a go at terminal mode myself and the Holy Grail is to do a compelling CRT impression with the slight curve of the screen. Not worked out how to do that yet. Phosphor glow is fine but I want to do the live lens distortion on HMTL content.

As an added Easter Egg to your terminal you could get print mode to do the green stripes on the paper look.
I think the reason they got rid of Buzz was a legal issue re: privacy. Not sure how practical it was to keep it alive, but I do miss it.
I disagree. I still love aspects of my job and will until the day I die. RF communication is still magic. The power of modern computers is absolutely amazing. Power efficiencies and transistor densities blow my mind. As a software engineer, I feel like I create something out of nothing.

I am completely bored with version control, flaky automated testing systems, decaying source code, the "development process", not being empowered to do good work, etc.

Things are fun when they're new. They're also fun when they don't require a lot of work. Small software is fun. Shoehorning features into a massive codebase or hunting for obscure bugs in a complex system is not always fun. Even when it is fun, it is draining.
Performance and, to a much lesser extent, accountability are not the easiest topics in software engineering outside of strict waterfall. Still, awareness of these is critical for teams.

In that particular example that you are replying to I would go a few "why" steps deeper though.
Why are they not motivated enough by their work maybe?
Are they not aware maybe how a higher than "normal" engaging in distracting activities will hinder their development and ultimately their career?

Slacking off once in a while is perfectly normal. It is rare to find the perfect situation of engineer's brains being constantly on fire, churning out great solutions because they are so motivated, in the right place at the right time being asked to and capable to do the right thing in the right way.
No manager can make their team get closer to that nirvana alone - It needs a good environment but most of all an intact network of trust inside the team and the openness to speak about lack of motivation or other issues and trying to tackle it together.

Imho it is your task to help them become aware (calling out and other methods), reflect on the issues and gain the confidence that a change can be made that benefits them.
It's probably just logging AIS data ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Identification_Syste... ). Large ships are required to broadcast (like, on the radio) their position, heading, and so on. Anyone with a radio receiver can collect this data for ships within radio range. Anyone with a large number of internet-connected radio receivers can collect this data over a large area.
Why would I as a non-American want to buy a US made iPhone over a China made iPhone?
People are not exactly a benchmark of good...

Slack is terrible for any definition of terrible.
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This is definitely not the implementation that comes packaged with every OS. Every OS has its own TCP/IP implementation that usually lives in the kernel - though most are derived from BSD's TCP/IP stack.

SmolTCP could (in theory) replace the implementation packaged with an OS, or even be used completely from userspace by taking over the raw network interface.
Slack is a giffen good for me in terms of attention. I have to pay so much attention to it that now it's all I pay attention to
Communication tools don't create this issue, they only bring it closer to the surface. You have to learn to manage your emotions. If you don't then it's always going to something which holds you back. If it affects younger workers more than others, then that's because they haven't learned this skill yet. It's one of many things which people new to the workplace have to manage.

Some of the other more obvious emotional issues include procrastination and imposter syndrome. Everyone experiences these emotional swings. Experienced workers learn how to manage them. The earlier the better.

There are lots of things broken in the space of "work." Teaching younger workers how to deal with emotions is one of them.
I never understood the need for things to be magic. Isn’t cool that you can predict and harness these great forces?
macOS Catalina could add even more Project Catalyst apps
Karabiner Elements has this template where caps lock can behave as an esc key if you tap it, and a ctrl key if you hold it down.
I question what the author was expecting to happen. If bar_exit comes from a dylib, and that dylib is subsequently unmapped, you can't very well call any functions from the unmapped library, so there's only 4 possible outcomes I can see:

1. The program crashes during termination as atexit() tries to invoke the previously-registered-but-now-invalid function.

2. The function is silently skipped as it's no longer loaded.

3. The function is invoked upon dlclose().

4. dlclose() does not actually unmap the library.

Of these options, only the 3rd actually seems reasonable. The first two are obviously bad, and the 4th seems like it rather defeats the purpose of calling dlclose() if you can't actually unload the library.
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Safari reader mode?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/19/himalaya...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/himal...

I hope these are readable, I always disable javascript on news sites so I'm not sure...
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> Presumably you also believe that government bureaucrats are somehow better able to ascertain exactly when to stop issuing building permits so as to avoid "overbuilt" construction.

Strawman. That is not the question here.
I'll guess you are not a parent.
I, for one, disagree. And here's why:

https://qz.com/work/1231617/what-you-learn-about-business-wh...
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I probably would have been interested at some point had I started using it by my own initiative, but I got forced into Google+ by this project.

I didn't understand what it was (a bare bones Facebook clone? ), didn't have friends who used it and I can't remember if I saw no content or just only irrelevant content. I gave it maybe 15 minutes and never came back.

And I actually considered myself an interested user, at the time I used Facebook but hated it and still saw Google as a force for good.
The thing that should concern you more about upgrading is the fact that they now solder the hard drive into the motherboard and the keys break and once broken also requires replacing the whole machine. Oh and they have no travel either. Maintainability? Who cares about that!
Apparently every English student in China learns the following exchange:
How are you doing today? /
I'm fine, thank you, and you?

I've had trouble explaining why this is a weirdly formal response that native speakers would probably never use. So it was somewhat amusing to find zero search results for this! (not counting partial matches). It seems like the first phrases you learn in any foreign language reliably turn out to be phrases nobody actually uses.
Awesome. Now their developers will be able to afford the new Mac Pro, with 1.5Tb of RAM, just so that they can run the Slack client! :-)
I have thought about the keys opening the menus and the green on black crt. I did post this project here to see if people would respond to it, they seem to like it. I think I'll work a little more on it.
As salawat stated in the excellent parent post, >The key is really about detection

A cursory search indicates ICBMs have terminal velocity comparable to, or higher than, of hypersonic missiles, at about 16...34'000 km/h. The key difference is that a ballistic missile has recognizable launch signature -you can detect it via satellites- and coasts high above the atmosphere for several minutes, during which it's readily detectable by radar. We already have tech that reliably intercepts & destroys ICBMs - counter-rockets like Sprint/HIBEX [1], lasers, and even small nukes.

A hypersonic missile could fly low-ish [2], perhaps even "on the deck", thus evading long range radar detection. Still we could probably detect, from satellites, the heat signature of super-heated plasma around the missile.

I think the most stealthy -and dangerous- scenario would be a slow (trans-sonic, or maybe Mach 2) low-level cruise to mask the heat signature, followed up by a hypersonic dash to the target. Essentially leaving very little time to make decisions and launch counter-measures.

>If you are talking about putting the debris in its path after observing the incoming missile, how can it be stationary?

Relatively stationary. Dispersing several tens (or perhaps hundreds) of kilograms worth of small metal cubes or balls in area of a few hundred meters ought to be enough to hit a hypersonic missile with reasonably high kill probability. Basically old-fashioned flak, except delivered by a small rocket. The missiles own high speed would be enough to cause destructive damage upon hitting even small piece. This photo [3] shows effects of impact of tiny 7 gram particle at comparable velocities - some 25'000 km/h. A gaping hole like that in the heat shield would quickly lead to further damage in a hypersonic flight regime [4], perhaps also aerodynamic instability. And that's if the initial shock doesn't disable the mechanisms right away.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZTjA44T6tY&feature=youtu.be...

[2] however low level hypersonic flight is very fuel-hungry, and causes tremendous heating; both significantly limit endurance

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SDIO_KEW_Lexan_projectile...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaste... was triggered by a small-ish hole of some 15...25cm in thermal protection
The point is you don't need slack for any of that.

I remember

- everyone is on IRC

- everyone is on ICQ

- everyone is MSN

- everyone is on Jabber

- everyone is on Skype

- everyone is on Gtalk

- Do you remember Gitter?

All of them in a way or another enabled what you're talking about

The only difference was that no one was advocating so blatantly for a tool thinking it made them look cool
I am about to leave a company made by very bad managers, even if my line manager is great (he is a former rugby player and rugby manager, then he really know how to manage a team).

Good manager:

* It's a person that I can trust, everytime

* He is always on my side, even with upper managers

* No micromanagement (he is in another office, far away from me)

* Very clear and deep communication (sometimes is a bit verbose, but it's okay)

* He can take reponsabilities and fight for them

* He always drive me to growing

* Care about people and feelings

Bad managers

* No responsabilities at all

* Care about end year bonus, not about people

* Using people to fight each other

* No communication at all

* Trying to exploiting people with tricks and hidden moves

* Manipulators

* Arrogants and conceiteds
The lack of syntax alone puts me off. E.g. Inability to define an operator for composition
Within the presentation layer though.
Random idea: superimpose this with a live map of air traffic.
I fear Seattle may be real. Pace Bostrom.
Honest question, how much would it really cost to just keep it going? Vs killing the service, even if not investing in growing it? It seems odd for a company so large to not have its own social platform.
>Communication tools don't create this issue, they only bring it closer to the surface. You have to learn to manage your emotions. If you don't then it's always going to something which holds you back.

That's close to saying "bullets don't kill people, the hole in their vital organs does".

The thing is, text-based communication tools are problematic compared to face-to-face communication, even in people who know how to "manage their emotions", because they hide non-verbal clues and make statements easier to misconstrue.
Not necessarily, it might be that they quickly grow and get placed into better positions
Gotta say it: it ain't just HN that doesn't like Facebook :)
Has linode improved their security intrusion and disclosure policy yet?

These are great improvements but are virtually worthless if linode didn't change their behavior.
An author may care so much about readership that they value reaching 50 million people, over a few dozens, if the price to pay is some inconvenience with the medium (see what I did there?)
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> The difference is 8 more GB of RAM that comes at a steep premium

This is incorrect. The RTX 6000 has 24GB of VRAM and is $4000, and the RTX 8000 has 48GB of VRAM (double the amount) and is $5500. Is it worth the price increase? For a lot of people I know it is.

Also, the RTX Titan is $2500 and is identical to the RTX 6000 (at the chip level) and also with 24GB of VRAM, with the only difference being software enabling of additional H.264/5 encoding features on the Quadro. Definitely not worth the cost increase, especially for anyone doing ML.
Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study says
Wow. Thanks for that; I'm very happy to have been wrong about this issue, and I've just learned a lot from reading your Faces page.

One issue I notice in your video of interactive face editing is what I'd call "crosstalk" (there's probably a more formal term for this) - you alter a specific slider, and beyond the targeted modification, the entire face, shirt and background changes slightly. Is there any work on eliminating such crosstalk, so one could e.g. stitch together a believable video from such dynamically modified face?
The point is that he is self-made. He didn't leave school because he was stupid but because he had to. The family caused the lack of education but they gave him the right values. They instilled the pride and curiosity that allowed him to execute and not to just fulfill orders.

To me, these parts of the article stand out, all beginning with his grandmother:

>When he broke the news to his family, his grandfather imparted a piece of advice that would always stick with him: “Make sure that floor shines,” the man told his grandson. “And let them know that a Montañez mopped it.”

He was prepared to execute because he knew the company, out of his own curiosity:

>In between shifts, he set out to make himself seen, learning as much as he could about the company’s products, spending time in the warehouse, and watching the machines churn out crunchy snacks in the lonely midnight hours.

This is the key part: he actively sought the knowledge by himself. From my experience, that's a rare value that is far more important than any shortcomings in his knowledge. People help him without him having power. He already is a leader.

>After nearly a decade mopping floors, Montañez gathered the courage to ask one of the Frito-Lay salesmen if he could tag along and learn more about the process.

Finally, not being able to read must be an exaggeration. He just went to school for four years. This doesn't mean that he stopped reading afterwards. I would assume that he regularly went to the library and thus it came naturally to look there for help. Why would an illiterate seek help in the library if his manager was kind of supportive ("YOU’RE doing this presentation!") and at least would have told him the basics?

>Accompanied by his wife, he went to the library, found a book on marketing strategies, and copied the first 5 paragraphs word for word onto transparencies.

After all, being captain obvious, this is on HN because it is the startup tale: a young, ambitious man without the right education can become a business leader if he stumbles upon the right opportunity. At least for this story, I think the tale is true. There is no need to know more because whatever he learned at Frito-Lay is specific to Frito-Lay. It's his attitude that brought success.

But then again, he didn't become CEO or a regular manager, he is the token multicultural person of the executives:

>vice president of multicultural sales for PepsiCo America
My beef with Slack is that everyone in this comments section is pretending it's an async communication tool, but that is only true people that are used to working without context switching and acknowledge that interrupting someone has a cost. For everyone else, there is an expectation of prompt responses, or you are considered untrustworthy if you take too long to respond.

I suspect a lot of frustration fundamentally revolves around trust. If there is a lack of trust, it must get compensated with an increase in visibility. Slack just happens to be a decent tool to provide visibility.

Story time: in a company I worked for, the Most Senior Engineer requested to be exempt from participating on Slack as the only person outside management, and skip the daily stand-ups. He did get a lot more done. I envied him quite a bit - mostly because our stumbles and challenges (just normal development stuff) were very visible and prompted lots of nervouse queries from PMs and sales people via Slack about why our tests are failing and why we needed to refactor code, whereas he only needed to show the end result of his work after a few months. Even if we had both experienced the same amount of 'challenges', his way of working gave him a lot more credibility because he got to control the narrative where his solution emerged working as designed (because any development hurdles he may have had were invisible to our PMs and sales). However, he did have a lot of pre-existing trust with key people to pull this off in the first place.

I hope I get to a point in my career where I can operate like that.
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Or hacker news...
Misleading title because Dr. Stewart built on a significant body of research. Payton Rous conducted the studies that led to the discover of the Rous Sarcoma Virus (RSV) in 1909. Shope described the papilloma viruses. Admittedly, there was also some embarrassment around the 1926 Nobel prize for a researcher who made a similar claim that was later discredited.

All that said, Stewart did demonstrate the cancer-causing effects of HPV, which is important and remains a significant problem even in the developed world.

Suggestion for better title: append "Sarah Stewart revealed missing link between viruses and cancer in humans".
Weird that they provide a button to improve your score.. wouldn't that mess with their results if many people retest themselves