skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social media's entire business model is peddling influence at massive scale. They've always been in the "shaping discourse" business but most refused to realize it.

"Twitter Revolution: How the Arab Spring Was Helped By Social Media" is over 7 years old now:
https://www.mic.com/articles/10642/twitter-revolution-how-th...
What false advertising? The ad clearly reads "up to 50mbps" and the 1.1mbps the copper in your neighbourhood allows is indeed positively in the 0-50 range!

Damn I hate consumer ISPs, with a few small exceptions.
>android apps

Nah
I admit not having good, hard data. My most vivid related memory is comparing the back then new flat screen to the my CRTs and being disappointed with both delay and sharpness (CRTs exponential decay is way nicer imo). Obviously wouldn't expect those to have gotten worse, though.

Anyway, you mentioned phones: 16ms from touch to response on screen? That's hard for me to believe and I'd love to read up on that, if you got any sources. The ones I've found were not that great but don't paint such a good picture. [0] is an article claiming touch sensors scan only once per frame, aka 16ms at the time. [1] claims ~85ms to response on an iPhone 4, ~55ms on iPhone 5. How were you able to easily beat those by such a margin?

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/9605/the-ios-9-review/9#Input...

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-5-touchscreen-2x-faster-tha...
It's one of those games that has a fair amount of breadth for those who just want to jump in and have some fun, but a ton of depth for those who get hooked.
If you havent already, watch the two following Documentaries:

"Century of Self"

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-century-of-the-self/

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"Human Resources"

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/human-resources/

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The mods here state that HN is immune. Anyone that calls out potential hostile information operations is threatened by the mods.
exporting more means you're earning relatively more money that can then be spent on assets. All spending is either on assets (property, equities, land, etc) or liabilities (cars, toys, clothes, etc). Assets are the key to wealth because assets make more money whereas liabilities cost you to loose money. Wealth begets more wealth because it grows based on compounding effects.
The linker, though ...
Hong Kong has independent jurisdiction system. So yes, they are living under a system where due process is respected.
Yeah, if you're not offering me 75% pay for 50% work I'm not interested. My peak productivity is 3 days a week. The gains from working more than that are marginal at best.
Life of Brian- 1979 Debate with Cleese, Palin and the Bishop of Southwark
It would be crazy loud.
Beto O'Rourke Joins the Silly Parade of Confused Politicians Looking to Destroy
Companies are focusing on reliability earlier in product development
Then I suggest most of the Culture battles in Iain M Banks’ works. I believe one of the passages was along the lines of: “Are we winning?” “We won several minutes ago. You’ve been watching a slow motion replay since it started.”
10% is nothing to sneeze at but it also does not mean it is a game changer. I like the way the coil ends are described, they are 'dead' weight in a normal motor because they don't contribute to the flux but they do contribute to the resistive losses in the motor. But that 10% of the length of the winding that sits outside of the coil chambers is not responsible for 10% of the electric consumption of the motor, which is not resistive in nature in an AC drive motor.

I do like the fact that they believe they can do without a transmission entirely, if that works it will save a good bit of energy through weight reduction, mostly during acceleration and deceleration. The bit I don't get is where they talk about DC-DC conversion, most electric cars that I know something about the guts of use tri-phase AC drive.

Making this work across a wide range of scales will be an interesting challenge, in my experience increased torque comes with its own challenges (such as shafts snapping or rotors slipping on or shearing off the mounts of the shaft they are mounted on).
Wafer scale integration, the stupid idea that just won't die :-)

Okay. I'm not quite that cynical but I was avidly following Trillogy Systems (Gene Amdahl started it to make super computers using a single wafer). Conceptually awesome, in practice not so much.

The thing that broke down in the '80s was that different parts of the system evolve at different rates. As a result your wafer computer was always going to be sub-optimal at something, whether it was memory access or an I/O channel standard that was new, changing that part meant all new wafers and fab companies new that every time you change the masks, you have to re-qualify everything. Very time consuming.

I thought the AMD "chiplet" solution to making processors that could evolve outside the interconnect was a good engineering solution to this problem.

Dave Ditzel, of Transmeta fame, was pushing at one point a 'stackable' chip. Sort of 'chip on chip' like some cell phone SoCs have for memory, but generalized to allow more stacking than just 2 chips. The problem becomes getting the heat out of such a system as only the bottom chip is in contact with the substrate and the top chip with the case. Conceptually though, another angle where you could replace parts of the design without new masks for the other parts.

I really liked the SeaMicro clusters (tried to buy one at the previous company but it was too far off axis to pass the toy vs tool test). Perhaps they will solve the problems of WSI and turn it into something amazing.
> This is why some advanced communities have a weekly/monthly duty cycle where people switch activities.

Monthly/monthly sounds more fair to me. Or even monthly/weekly if I'm allowed to dream...
While that possibly might be, there are legitimate grievances when you see that many people in the street.

I'd say this is almost certainly not instigated by foreign intelligence services and I'm skeptical they would risk trying to run it. (they probably aren't too broken up about it happening though).
It shouldn't be that hard to build MindMaze on top of Wikipedia. I wonder if anyone's done it?

Although I do remember the hard geography questions very frequently just being "What is the county seat of (insert random US county)?"
This is something that macOS does well. You can search through the entire tree of options in drop-down menus for that program. This is definitely something I've missed after leaving the Apple ecosystem.

For those who haven't used macOS, here's a video of what this looks like in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anUt0Kw8C28 (full disclosure: not my video, no affiliation with the video poster).
Google Cloud Console Incident #19008
We are currently experiencing an issue with authentication to Google App Engine sites, the Google Cloud Console, Identity Aware Proxy, and Google OAuth 2.0 endpoints.

Incident began at 2019-08-19 11:30 and ended at 2019-08-19 13:27 (all times are US/Pacific).
We've never said that. All we say (and have said for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9115965) is (a) that there needs to be evidence, and (b) that someone holding an opposing view is not evidence (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...).

The trouble is that most "calling out" that people do about this is easily seen to be bogus, even from just the public records of the commenters—unless you believe that Chinese (or, before that, Russian) moles were posting, say, GitHub projects in 2013 so they could get away with propaganda 6 years later. A lot of what we do as moderators is simply to sift carefully through the publicly available information. It's an indication of how lazy these accusations are that the users making them mostly don't bother to do that.

It's a cheap shot to fire off "you must be a shill-spy-astroturfer-bot-troll" in an internet argument. It degrades discussion, and the overwhelming majority of the time, there's no information in it beyond "I don't like what you say". The users who do this need to learn how unreliable this impulse to denounce others is, and restrain themselves from letting those neurons fire. Not only does it degrade the community in general, it often targets individuals in ugly and distressing ways, which none of us wants to see here. For an example, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403358.

What Twitter and Facebook are writing about in today's posts is something completely different. The fact that such manipulations exist does not give HN users license to cheaply smear each other. Both are wrong.
I actually think that Hershey's has the edge over Mast.

But either way, the new M&M bars taste infinitely better than both Hershey's and Mast.
When Trump sells MAGA hats, it is both marketing and a tool for political change.

Musk selling electric cars can also fall under both categories. People with electric cars are more likely to support policies that make it easier to own electric cars and less likely to care about fossil fuels.
I'm working on something like this, but as time has gone on I've made technical constraint less of a priority and focused more and more on the I/O and "bus" model itself, because that's where the ultimate bottlenecks lie. If you have all the processing power in the world but only a 256x256 space to draw in and a limited number of commands to draw with, you still have an interesting constraint.

One of the things I found myself doing with PICO-8's setup was prematurely optimizing code for size, which presented a new kind of puzzle(how to express things in fewer Lua tokens) but didn't feel good in terms of authoring finished work(I made a nice 3D maze wireframe renderer - and then stopped there). So with my own fantasy console I'm prioritizing other things beyond size/retro aesthetic, while still thinking about limitations. "Diversity" has become one of those things: you will have some ability to swap out graphics and sound cores, and use a variety of programming languages. The fixed spec approach makes it harder to make each part really distinctive and not just another "tiles and sprites and chiptunes" doddle.

Since I made the foolish decision to support 3D cores it's taken a while to get a renderer going, though, and I finally decided to speed things up by releasing with 2D first and adding more later.
I would love to see a PICO-OS. Something in the same spirit, but for making little simple apps instead of games, in the style of a 90’s OS.
Really confused by the terminology. I assume in this context "rendering" does not mean translating an abstract scene description into pixels on screen, but something else.

Can somebody shed some light on this?
Will be excited to see if it uses a re-vamped game engine. KSP 1 is based on Unity and bottlenecks at single core cpu.
Not sure how you jump to “lump of labour fallacy” here when the article was discussing wage suppression. This trope is beyond tired and misused. Please stop spreading misinformation.
Absolutely. Just landing on the mun is one of those moment you never forget. And then the rescue mission to get the first lander from the mun. And then the rescue mission for the rescue mission.
Yes, there are many cases where the caller can optimize the dependency chain / order of

constFoo(x);
constBar(x);

where it couldn't make that assumption if one function wasn't const.
Hawks* not falcons
> on the argument that you could taste the difference between beans shipped by sail and beans shipped on a ship with an engine

Where specifically did you see this argument? In this WSJ article, this is the reasoning given:

> They hoped it would save energy, help lure environmentally conscious buyers, and, maybe eventually, cost less.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303714704576385...
Well, plus nonlinearities and backprop/gradient descent, to turn those matrix multiplications into a universal function approximator.
Ok, you are nitpicking. The legal purpose is to advance the interests of shareholders. Sure, shareholders can give away all the money and earn zero returns ( presumably they would register a non profit if they wanted to do that ) but it would be illegal to do something that shareholders didn’t agree to. Did shareholders of the signatories agree to forego profits in order to make customers happy ? Of course not.
> If someone tries to buy a part of a property but you don't reach the 100%, where does the money go?

For properties that don't reach the 100% we will cover a part of the investment if funds raised is close to 100%, but otherwise will issue a full refund.

> What happens in case of a massive destruction by the tenant?

There is insurance on the property and there is deposit required for tenants. As part of the management process we also vet tenants before they move in.

Regarding appreciation it is not guaranteed but there is a high likelihood that real estate appreciates over time assuming a minimum investment duration of 5 years.
I recently dropped from full to half time (due to small kids). I dont think my output has dropped by half though, especially since I come back to the office well rested, instead of needing a half dozen cups of coffee before being able to read code. Given that, I wouldn't accept being paid less than 50% for half time work.

I would echo, though, other commenters that for the same hours two people require communication that one wouldn't. On the other hand, that can encourage good practices (docs, sane style, passing tests) instead of 10x syndrome.

I forgot to add: part time remote is my dream work arrangement so I would definitely apply if it was sufficiently well paid, stable proposition (not a 6 month contractor towards full timer thing)
It does has other effects that they may be interested in, at least if they require that the person in the queue actually be the attendee.

Forcing people to stand in line in order to attend an event means that only those who are willing to spend time rather than money will be able to go.

This has effects on the type of person who ends up in the crowd - arguably people who on average are more interested in the event, even relative to a lottery solution since that would give you a more random distribution of folks along the axes of access to time / money.

That said, it does come at a cost.

Edit: I'm realizing now that you may have been more focused on retail than events, in which case I suppose the identity verification option that I'm discussing I admit seems a bit stranger / less relevant.
> The fact that various platforms are controlled by private parties is a little nerve-racking.

What’s the alternative though? If it’s not private the only alternative is State control, and I don’t think that the Trump administration or XJP offers less harm than Twitter does right now. If you want the US government to control what Twitter says, that means you trust Trump more than you trust Twitter. That seems like a faustian bargain.
They've been doing that more transparently on r/Sino, too.
Same here, Edge Dev
Version 78.0.244.0 (Official build) dev (64-bit)
OT (wrt law): The phone hardware is a call computer, but even I would call them consumer devices rather than a computer. The closest convenient computation I can do on one might be Google sheets.
Do you happen to remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fRX4R6MY4A

:)
Sometimes you need to take a step back and consider the bigger picture. Is it really necessary to make an EMT fill out a 100-field form?
No, I didn't dodge your question, I answered it -- on both a local and global scale. Yes, it is. Of course it is. I didn't think I had to because to say no would be insane and that it went without saying. I don't believe anyone has ever made that argument.

However, cash is difficult to transact in material quantities due to it's physical volume, the fact you have to defend it, and the fact that few legitimate businesses accept meaningful quantities. If you want to make a larger purchase you have to deposit it into a bank account somewhere and launder it which is when AML/KYC/OFAC come into play.

It's irrelevant to this conversation that cash is being used for illegal purposes, because we're making active attempts to stop that from happening. You're proposing we switch to a technology stack that makes it harder to enforce the law, intentionally, along every axis. That makes this regressive. If that's your argument, own it, but let's not mince words.
I think the business model is mostly based on ad revenue. They only care to influence to the extent that it increases the amount of time spent on the platform, maximizing the amount of ads shown, raising ARPU.
Non-destructive scanning is very much an option, but it's slower, more expensive and requires a bulky rig. It's probably only worth the effort if you're a serious data hoarder.

If you have a handful of precious books that you really can't bear to cut up, commercial non-destructive scanning services are available at ~$30 per book.

https://linearbookscanner.org/

https://www.diybookscanner.org/
> This policy will apply to news media entities that are either financially or editorially controlled by the state

I don't think any of the entities you are referring to qualify based on this definition.
2019.31/32/33 And We’re Back – Weekly changes in and around Perl 6
My boyfriend is a nurse and said a very similar thing. He said he very rarely looks at a PCR as everything important is conveyed verbally when the handoff from EMT->Hospital.
If the Tories get Brexit then this could be one of the first changes, Raab MP - a cabinet member - is on record as saying he wants all workers rights removed (I assume he's a proponent of completely free markets but I'm just rationalising his position because it seems abjectly immoral to me and I daren't consider what other forces might be directing the country).
I wonder how easy it is to manufacture comparitivly. Also I wonder how well it works to generate electricity.
Thank you. The difference is we allow individual users to invest together in a property, we don't necessarily own the properties instead we facilitate the investment process.
Amazon Logistics Has Arrived Early
That's interesting and works in all browsers. Not very discoverable though, looks like an ordinary text box... and behaves like one, I can select an option and then edit it. So, more like a list of suggestions and not specific options to choose from.
>>1) Payscale

I don't get how this is a "con" of working for a hypothetical union. Why couldn't a collective bargaining agreement create better wages? Why couldn't a union help prevent a sudden layoff in the first place?

>>2) Demand

Some professional skills are currently in demand, which currently makes changing employers easier. Again, saying "Well if my job sucks, I can just go get a different job" might be true today, but it might not be as easy tomorrow. Also, this isn't a "con" but an alternative solution to the same problem a union would solve. If your job is enjoyable and paying you well (ideally what the union should be doing) then why do you need to change jobs?

>>Upward and lateral mobility -- In a union shop, mobility is often rigidly defined by seniority

There's no reason for this to be needed. You can make a union without this problem. NFL players don't make more money because they're older, they make more money because they provide more value to their teams. They're also in a union.

Bad unions exist. Good unions also exist. Why not just say "if we're going to make a tech sector union, we need to make it a good union that meets most people's needs" instead of saying "some unions can be bad, so never make a union"?
With the exception of the part about storage consideration (paper tape vs. internal storage), everything else still holds to this day.
Soviets didn't need aircraft carriers because they were a purely defensive army. Aircraft carriers are only needed for offensive armies, like the US army.
Submarines are a much better and cheaper way to keep the offensive attacker under control. They are almost unbeatable.
No, if it’s secutities fraud it’s illegal. Unethical and illegal are not the same thing. A corporation cannot do what it wants, but it can do what shareholders want.
> We’re constantly working to detect and stop this type of activity because we don’t want our services to be used to manipulate people. We’re taking down these Pages, Groups and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted. As with all of these takedowns, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for our action.

To suggest that the practices of facebook in general - likes, the activity feed, and various experiments that facebook has in its history - is not itself an attempt by a coordinated group to manipulate people, is itself disingenuous at best. In order to correct this to honesty, they would have to clarify that they don't care for external groups - other than those who pay for advertising services - to be permitted to manipulate people.

This take down of a few pages being followed by 15k people and its subsequent information release is itself a manipulation, to make it appear as if facebook is doing something about the glaring problems that I personally think it represents. It seems to me that in the halls of power today, there are few good actors, and this tiny morsel doesn't make facebook one of them, and does nothing about the manipulators on their platforms that are beyond their ability to take down, despite self-serving dishonesty from so many groups.

In other words, what a skillfully crafted news release from facebook, give that marketer a raise.
I have done a lot of profiling work and I have observed similar things. One thing is const, another is virtual functions. A lot of people think they add overhead and avoid them for performance reasons but my profiling almost never showed them as a problem. Same for const and inline. it’s really hard to predict what the optimizer will do.

Obviously there are stupid things that can be avoided from the start but in general I prefer clean code where people write for readability and simplicity and not speed.
If I make project Foo, which leverages #Script, and make Foo MIT-licensed, by your statement #Script is now also MIT licensed in this project. So then Company Blah wants to use Foo, which happens to just be thin wrapper/modification around #Script, and is now permitted to take it and fork it into closed-source repos, yes? That is what this statement implies.

Regardless, this is why getting clever with software licenses, and giving guarantees in the form of comments instead of actual license legalese, is problematic. The intention might be clear, but the governance is only by law, and this appears to be in conflict with your statements.
What makes coordinated activity from government entities different from brigading performed in coordinated ways by non-government people with political or activist agendas? Isn’t that also manipulation? Or is it that Twitter just has its own political and economic agenda and their TOS/rules/blog posts are self-justification?
I thought that's because this is the time when interns' code get deployed
If you do a lottery you're still more likely to have a higher proportion of folks with more money and less time than vice versa than you would if you force people to stand in line, and if you verify that the attendees actually stood in line you make it more difficult to game.

Re: your second point, I can't imagine that's accurate given the extreme differences that exist in disposable income and earning ability.

Edit: I'm realizing now that you may have been more focused on retail than events, in which case I suppose the identity verification option that I'm discussing I admit seems a bit stranger / less relevant.
Twitter isn’t accepting any more money from “state-controlled news media”
Typically more diversification means lower returns, using AlphaCap.ai you can invest in individual properties whereas with REITs you don't have control over which properties your money is invested in. We also distribute a share of the monthly rental income to you from each property you invest in.