skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody ever considers the downside to all this heavy-handed governance. When you give the government the power to regulate lives at such a level, what do you do if social mores change, and what you support is suddenly the contrary view? Do you capitulate, or do you stand firm?
How would it be any different than if there was just one country? Borders in the US don't seem to prevent democracy (or something close to it) from working
Unlike most subreddits, their upvote count to comment ratio is really out of whack.

Usually a pretty reliable sign of botism. You see it on corporate driven posts on movie promotions a decent amount too. (Along with some pretty lame top voted comments)
I'm not 100% sure, but I think they're referring to the nines of reliability. Something, such as web hosting or server time, is typically deemed as "reliable" when it is 99.999% available as intended. I think what they're trying to say is that a video doesn't need to be reliable at all. As long as you can execute something once or fake it realistically, the video is good enough. For real-world application, though, you need at least 99.9% reliability and, arguably, you'd need 99.999+% for people to accept it.

I might be totally off, though, since I've never heard of the nines being used in the context of autonomy but it does make sense in context of the conversation being had.
I swear there are bots on the news channels run by various interest groups. But never have been able to prove it.
Any liability claim you have to harm from the cereal would be denied based upon misuse for the targeted age range.
Deplatforming is not censorship. Twisting definitions to suit your impotence in the face of actual rising authoritarianism does not help anyone.
I'd love wolves roaming around my local forest, but my neighbors with pets and local farmers wouldn't let it happen.
"Unlike the rest of the language, numerals are written left-to-right."

Everyone makes this mistake. It is rather the case that in English (and other languages) numerals are written right-to-left. You can tell since, when reading right-to-left, you will know exactly what each number signifies. If you start from the left, you will not know what the first number signifies until you have reached the end of the whole number.

Interesting to learn though that in Arabic it is still pronounced from left to right, up until the tens.
The entire thread is going to be about partisan flamewar Dang given the context. It might be best to flag the thread vs. flagging my comment individually.
When a loud motorcycle [0] goes though a city at night, I wonder how many people it wakes up. It could easily pass thousands of people with just a few miles of driving. If 1% are woken up, it could still cost dozens of total hours of sleep.

Based on how much a loss of sleep lowers performance (and increases health risks), the total cost of that one motorcycle driving one night might be huge. The cost of the health damage and lost productivity might be about as much as stealing a car.

Since the cost is spread out over a lot of people, we don't tend to care as much about it.

[0] Likely with the muffler deleted. While technically illegal, no one enforces any laws related to the noise output.
Modern Fluent Notepad for Windows 10
In the U.S. the standard for most positions is 2 weeks, and for key positions 30 days. Most executives have it listed in their employment agreement, which is commonly 30 days. C level execs generally range from 30 to 90 days. The larger the organization the longer the notice period in general, I have seen a few extend up to 120 days but that isn't super common. It also isn't uncommon for a C level exec to give 120-180 days notice even if it isn't required.

In the U.S. the vast majority of workers work in a right to work situation, which means you could quit & walk out today and there is nothing the employer can do about it. Likewise, an employer can fire you and only pay out what they owe you in salary and benefits and not provide any severance too.

Of course some people work under unions too which changes everything, but that is not common with professional positions, and definitely not in technology. But even in those situations the notice periods are still pretty typically 2 weeks or 1 pay period, and generally do not exceed 30 days. But each union has negotiated agreements so that can vary of course.
The idea of twitter just randomly deciding to boost a low-like-count tweet because it got replies is EXTREMELY WEIRD. Nobody knew the service worked this way. Showing friends' likes in your timeline is not a new deal but in this case there weren't likes, it was just "high engagement". High engagement tweets are often controversial posts from women or conservatives or leftists, and all of those groups are likely to get inflammatory replies that the original poster may not have wanted - you don't have any control over whether your tweet goes viral or gets ratioed.
Please keep regional and ethnical flamewar off HN. Not wanted here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The subreddit's culture for years has been based on aggressively upvoting everything posted there. This started back when it was small and the community tried to get pro-Trump posts on the front page of Reddit, which invariably caused a lot of drama. So I don't think this means anything.
>that the particular views they were banned for were making violent threats to law enforcement

They were quarantined, not banned. I honestly doubt they'll get banned at this rate, it was headlines like [0] that got it quarantined.

[0]: https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2019/06/25/you-cant-offer-to-...
I'm actually sort of scared with the way that censorship of different views is becoming the norm. I'm predominantly left leaning but I'm seeing more and more moderation where the only allowed opinion is the correct one. I seem to recall that a lot of horrible things were started with good intentions, ie Nazi book burnings were censoring the wrong views.

It's also incredible divisive. In my country we had a football star doing a GoFundMe for legal fees after he was sacked for a religious and homophobic cartoon on his social media. GoFundMe blocked his campaign, as it's against their views, and now he's making more money than before through a private donations drive.

The banning of The Donald is going to drive an even bigger wedge between the two sides of the political spectrum. For a political movement obsessed with power/privilege, the left seems oblivious to its own power/privilege. They wield the cast majority of the societal power currently and they're throwing it around like a hammer.
Go is new, not modern.
Isn't it pretty hacky to use a Web browser for that instead of a dedicated virtual machine ?
local bookstore average annual pay: $23,000
Amazon HQ2 average pay: $150,000
local bookstore workforce: 75
Amazon HQ2 workforce: 30,000

OK, here is your $2,800 tax credit. Have nice day.
Ok then call it global, it's not a meaningful distinction just a dumb nitpick
I don't think this does what you think it does.

This confuses the algorithms temporarily into thinking that your tastes have changed.

They still know who you are. Your devices and browsers are fingerprinted. Your home network is in a database. Your mobile carrier is selling your location data. Your IP address doesn't change that often. Etc.

Plus, you know there are already multiple teams tasked with filtering out "fake clicks". They probably are already doing it, assuming that multiple users are sharing a machine or something like that.
I always think they should just take it down and put up a sign that says, "Too cheap for towels." It won't damage my hearing and will get my hands just as dry.
>This was a targeted attack

That's a pretty incredible claim, and requires some pretty serious proof if you expect anyone here to believe that. As a counterpoint, they give plenty of air time to a candidate who is literally running as an independent, who the party machine specifically, systematically disadvantaged last time. Why would they cut Yang if he got ratings?
Ravens parallel great apes in flexible planning for tool-use, bartering (2017)
Would they be that obvious? There was an absence of actual discussion on the_donald threads I read. Just agreement or telling dissenters they were idiots. It was weird but could that be because of bots or just a lower level of discourse.
You quite literally just independently re-derived the concept of "border" in the same sentence that you rejected it.
Next thing you know, Twitter will let you view tweets in the order they were tweeted.
This is because they broke threading and the replies section for a tweet now shows parent tweets. It's bizarre, and twitter breaks the replies view on a regular basis and only notices weeks later. It's not just you.
I never could find them on sale and never could afford them. If they didn't sell well, why were there so many "knock offs" available (which I did have, and did wear on my skateboard) at k-mart and the like with no logo and the black "swoosh" more of a hockey-stick shape".
Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ramp Up
Honestly, that's just the garbage Linux desktop. The kernel has learned a lot of new tricks (atomic kernel mode setting) for frame perfect display, but it needs hardware and much more importantly software support to use it. At least wayland is moving in that direction.
Did you outgrow the tics? If so, at what age and what led to outgrowing them?
I've been using this[0] kvm with a 4k 60hz HDR monitor. The only problem I have with it is the mouse and keyboard emulation doesn't work with my more exotic QMK keyboard mappings and the fancy features on my Logitech mouse, but I think that would be the case on any kvm.

Edit: whoops, missed that you're looking for DP. For what it's worth I'm using HDMI for all of the above with no performance issues.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CWR31PN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_bS...
> As I’ve heard it, Deming was having trouble getting people to listen to him

made me chuckle - its not like he did anything of value...

Deming has always been a reminder to think about counter tendencies. He might not have made sense to the Detroit execs in 1950-1975 but his relevance changed sharply after that.
If you don't care about literally decades of progress you're just a bad software developer.
That’s because eBay only used to only charge commission on the item and not the shipping cost.

I’m sure someone else (or even the same seller) has the same item for $175 and free shipping for those wanting to indirectly donate an extra $20 to eBay shareholders.

I was probably on a list for selling games for $0.01 and clearly specifying $7 shipping in the title.
Can you figure out which dialect the original author is learning here? From some of the vocabulary I'm pretty sure it isn't the Damascene Arabic I learned.
I'm glad we agree ... so with that settled, the Democrats, particularly the progressive wing, will be approving funding for Homeland Security and Border Patrol then, right?

No? Oh, right, I forgot we need to keep this humanitarian crisis going till the 2020 elections so that Dems can retake the White House ...
If you think of it as like an old fashioned library or an old fashioned Blockbuster video store.

Sure you could read any book ever printed in the English language in the local library. They might have to get it in from the national collection or the big library in the city. But you ain't going to see every book in the local library. There is more than you could wish for and you will never read every book in the local library. But all the classics are there, the talked about new books are there (or out on loan, back soon). All the reference books that school kids are there, there is enough to get you started in any hobby.

Google search results are like that. Those 880,000 'titles' are a bit like the Library of Congress boasting how big it is, it is just a number. All they have really got for you is a small selection that is good enough for 99% of people 99% of the time. Only new stuff by people with Page rank (books with publishers) get indexed now and put into the 'main collection'.

Much like how public libraries do have book sales, Google do let a lot of the 880,000 results drop off.

It's a ruse!
AI GPT-2 Writes a Story About the Creation and Censorship of the Internet
> It has been asserted that the ear of man alone possesses a lobule; but 'a rudiment of it is found in the gorilla' and, as I hear from Prof. Preyer, it is not rarely absent in the negro.

> The sense of smell is of the highest importance to the greater number of mammals--to some, as the ruminants, in warning them of danger; to others, as the Carnivora, in finding their prey; to others, again, as the wild boar, for both purposes combined. But the sense of smell is of extremely slight service, if any, even to the dark coloured races of men, in whom it is much more highly developed than in the white and civilised races.

-- Charles Darwin, "The Descent of Man" (1871)

> It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.

-- Albert Einstein
Mexico nationalized the petroleum industry... in 1938 [0].

Are you talking about something else?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Mexico
Arguments for AI risk have shifted over time
I went to a similar program, I personally loved it. It's not for everyone, but for me it was amazing.

The 7 AM to 4 PM schedule of high schools is just insane. No kid needs to be at school that long, and that early. And most classes give out excessive homework on top of that.

Conventional high schools are infantilizing, harmful to health (waking up at 6 AM to get to class is absurd), and teach people to hate learning. And if you're not a social butterfly you can expect to be bullied as well.
There is no nation on Earth that just throws open their borders as is repeatedly asked of the U.S. in recent years.

It is true that the U.S. has a responsibility to its neighbors. It doesn't follow that open borders are the same thing as taking responsibility. In fact, open borders are the opposite of responsibility.
What's the point of locating in Silicon Valley and hiring the smartest programmers in the world if you can't figure out an algorithm to make hateful posts not show up as often in someone's feed?

I doubt it's because they can't. The more likely answer is they don't want to.
I don't think you're uniquely flawed in this regard. In fact you're not.

I do think I am among those who make a point to pay very close attention to my driving and others on the road with me. I may be somewhat unique in this regard because I grew up working on cars that had been in crashes, and then went on to design and build vehicles for severally disabled people for over 15 years, many of whom were disable in vehicle crashes.

I don't think I'm flawless though, but I know for sure that no self driving car could have avoided the one accident I was in. It was similar to the Tesla that hit and killed the person who walked out in front of it. No person or computer could anticipate or avoid it.

As of right now, Tesla autos have been in way more accidents than I. I'm sure that collectively they've driven many more miles than I, but many of the accidents they've been in involved conditions that I have driven in many times and never made the mistakes they have.
the issue is the militancy, not the particular orientation.
> By "T_D users", you mean one user who made one post in a thread, right?

This Media Matters article[0] contains screenshots showing more than one user supporting violence against the police.

Of course, any such comments have been deleted from Reddit proper, now, and you may well consider them faked, but given the number of outlets reporting on this, and the fact that no one here seems to be denying that these comments actually ever existed, I think it's safe to assume that more than one user and one post was involved.

[0]https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/06/24/A-pro-Trump...
"Glottal stops are everywhere in English but we are not trained to hear them, so a long portion of one of your first Arabic classes will be devoted to blowing your mind with the fact that English words like 'apple' and 'elegant' do not start with a vowel."

Is this for real?! Do non native speakers of Arabic (and similar languages) not hear the common sound at the start of words like apple, elegant, ignite, umpire? I find that hard to believe since they are saying it.
Reddit quarantines Trump subreddit r/The_Donald for violent comments
In case anyone has just skipped the article to post here without reading, you can play the game here: https://getbadnews.com/#play

It helps to play it to understand what they are trying to accomplish.
I meant Arabic.
And yet - irony of ironies - concentrating on one's experiencing self instead of the narrating self is the quintessence of meditation, a practice frequently credited with delivering spiritual experiences.
I'd be happy if it didn't recommend the exact same videos two or three times on the same page, but that seems a lot to expect apparently.
Amount of Nuclear Material Under IAEA Safeguards Continues to Increase
There is an enormous amount of nuance in that statement. The real change that occurred was that nuance evaporated from the discussion of the subject.
Could be done with a p2p "swarm". Peers get asigned pages to index then share the result.
I've been avoiding hand dryers for years now. Mostly it's because a germaphobe friend pointed out years ago that germs are being blown onto your hand.

But after reading this I think my subconscious hates the noise it makes on my over-sensitive hearing.
What makes you believe that the "asylum seekers" are being treated any sort of way due to their ethnicity?
Seems obvious without thought to me that it’s mostly moot. Very few people will be running machines like we have for the last 30-40 years, most will be on Android/iOS where ad blocking will be minimal.

Savvy users will continue to block on machines that aren’t walled gardens and through pi-hole style blocking.

I think the cat and mouse aspect will be completely overshadowed by tech giants continually neutering their users ability to block ads.
It suggests that there are not enough people to make it worth the while of someone to be in that business. In that sense it is not like the market for horses (for specifically) transportation. For that your statement would be true. For stocks I would argue that you need a certain critical mass of customers to make it worthwhile to be a stock broker.

Let's use the travel agent example. There are people that would like to use a travel agent located at their local shopping center. Back in the day there were enough of those people that a agent could be busy and therefore afford the overhead of a business to service them. Now there are not enough people so the agent is not in business. However that is not because the travel agent does not provide value (what you are claiming for the stock broker). It's because there are not enough people that the agent can earn a living doing so.

So it's not the value in this case (although it might be in other cases or for other things).
> gatekeeper ... is trivially bypassed

It's almost as if they waste a legit user's time, and developer's nominal fees on certs, notary, etc., for something that malware will not actually be subject to.

Maybe that's a little disingenuous as Apple can work to close gaps, holes and bugs.... But when it doesn't actually stop malware in the real world and honest people need to jump through hoops, the cynic's reading is easy to make.

Similar discussion to be had around DRM.
The thing is that those people are also on other subreddits, people generally don't frequent just one. So those people always bring in Reddit to comment on the Donald is also leasing to more engagement on other subreddits. It's possible that the Donald would organize more and be more of an issue in other subreddits but that wasn't how it worked in the past.
I'd love for it not to be true and it's not like I have any proof
Biohackers are trying to upgrade their brains, their bodies and human nature
This article could have been interesting. However, I think it has little to do with its premise. It tries to link the experiencing self (the self that is here right now) and the narrating self (the self that creates memories and alters them) to the way lies and illusions are used for political purposes. Yes, you can, at best, compare the manipulation of masses to the manipulation that one's self commits against himself or herself. However, what does that say about the phenomenon itself?
That's essentially equivalent except in pathological synthetic cases, as time goes to infinity. Since any sample is representative of the whole, samples that don't include the intial conditions are as representative of the whole as samples that do include the initial conditions.
There's a bit of tautology - They are at Apple because if they were fired in the acquisition they were never at Apple.
Meta -- but does anyone else get tired of the word 'myth'?

These days, instead of opinions and arguments being countered, we have 'myths' busted.

It's even weirder when it is 'myth' you've never heard of.
Do you change your diet based on weak science? If you tell someone you weakly believe a paper about diet science, do you think they might change their diet?
> most will be on Android/iOS where ad blocking will be minimal

Safari on iOS allows for content blocking, and Firefox for Android allows users to install extensions.
This is the demurrage dynamic in freicoin (now tradecraft - https://github.com/tradecraftio/tradecraft) from bitcoin core developers Mark Friedenbach and Jorge Timon.
I had to read your comment several time as well as some replies before I understood the problem you're talking about. Turns out that it's never been a real problem for me because I've been using tiling window managers with placement rules for a long time, so basically I configure once "when I have n monitors I want that layout" and I'm done.

I fully understand that tiling WM are not and will never be mainstream, so finding a general solution would be desirable, but I guess for a tech-savvy crowd like HN I want to proselytize tiling WMs a bit. Every time I have to use a regular "hey here are a stack of overlapping windows, have fun" destop I'm genuinely frustrated. It's nice when you're working on a new flow with new apps you're unfamiliar with but once you've got your development "stack" figured out I couldn't imagine coding in an environment where I can't switch to my editor, terminal, browser with a single non-context sensitive command, regardless of where I am.

I suppose just having virtual desktops can be a decent enough compromise (put your editor in a virtual desktop, your browser in an other etc...) but as far as I know even that is relatively uncommon outside of linux DEs.
Really good podcast, you thanks for recommending
I think you are thinking of robotics in the sense of replacing surgeons or being an autonomous partner.

While OP is talking of robotics as an assitive tool to help a surgeon make finer or less invasive movements.
The statement looks like an assignment, and unless I was really used to seeing it, I would never expect an implicit return.
This is also known as "liquid rescale" and there is (was?) a gimpl plugin for it. It last updated in 2013 or so. After that the developer was hired by Adobe to work on Photoshop.
Don't tell me something is built into people until you can show me the neurocomputational mechanisms by which it is so.
This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxBKgOyMzSc

Edit:

Although this one is pretty good too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QdbeM2JWYE
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient".[2][3][4] Censorship can be conducted by a government[5], private institutions, and corporations.

That's the first definition I found when I googled the word. Reddit, a private institution, considered the content harmful. Seems to fit the definition.