skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>with a few threats and promises

There have been people tortured to death who never gave up important secrets, so that might not be an option...
My bet is simply that you go where the money is[0].

[0]https://www.justfacts.com/news_poorest_americans_richer_than...
Social networking sites cause stress that fuels social media addiction
Suggestion for rename: Pearl 1
It's at least much more respectful in terms of passive smoking, for other people
Here’s the ABC broadcast of opening day. Pretty interesting and definitely different than it is today:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JuzrZET-3Ew
I'm just not convinced we have adequate information to formulate an educated opinion either way. More, better, validated research would help, but like nutrition and much in medecine, the nature of the problem precludes ever gaining a rigourous scientifically robust result.

Not only that, I lack the confidence we as a society can make adequate decisions on restrictions to freedoms based on the sorts of numbers and correlations that are currently being published. Does the expected reduction in harm justify the restrictions of personal freedoms imposed in its name? Does it help more than, say, banning high school sports would?
The measures aren't necessarily technical in a lot of cases. Anyone can claim a US number with very little effort. Claiming European numbers usually requires business address verification.
Life is all about choices. They can choose not to live in the same area, to downsize, not to send their kids to an expensive college, let their kids pay for college through loans, they can take out loans, etc.

Why should I subsidize their choice when I chose to live in an area where the cost of living vs salary is much more amenable to my choices and financial goals for me and my family?
Interview with a Twitter ETH Giveaway Scam Ringleader Making $50K+ USD Daily
Isn't this exactly what they're doing?
Can you elaborate on that just a bit, I couldn't find anything relevant by doing a quick search for a few combinations of those keywords.
>I'm not an expert on Catolonia and Spain

Here, let me wiki that for you (lmwtfy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Catalan_independence_refe...

>I've likened Hong Kong to Singapore.

I love how people pull out Singapore (hey, why doesn't Hong Kong become an independent "authoritarian democracy", like Singapore?) at this point, but the analogy is spurious. The historical and geopolitical situations of these two cities are night and day.

I mean, lmwtfy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Singapore

Here's the relevant timeline:

1959: Singapore achieved full self-government as a British colony.

1963: In defiance of massive skepticism, Singapore merged with Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak to form the federal constitutional monarchy of Malaysia.

1963-65: Massive protests rocked Singapore because of disaffection with the racialist affirmative action policy of the federal government in Kuala Lumpur.

1965: To avoid further unrest, the federal government of Malaysia decided to expel Singapore from the federation.

For your analogy to work, you'd have to substitute "Malaysia" in the above for "China", since Hong Kong depends on China for its food and water, as Singapore does. But the result of that substitution looks nothing like the actual history of Hong Kong.

Your analogy also breaks down for the following reasons:

- Malaysia does not have an official irredentist position regarding Singapore. The official irredentist position of the PRC is well-known when it comes to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

- Many Malaysian politicians at the time, including the then ruling party UMNO, were skeptical of Singapore's entry into Malaysia, and were quite relieved to be rid of Singapore. In contrast, the PRC's position is that Hong Kong is an integral part of its territory, come what may.

- Malaysia does not have any troops garrisoned in Singapore. There are PLA troops garrisoned in Hong Kong.

>Spain and Catalonia both use the Euro. Catalonia has its own judicial system, but I believe they both are set to the EU in terms of bigger picture things.

The EU, as a community of sovereign nations, is wary of being seen as supporting separatism within its member nations. This is one of the reasons why it let Spain do what it did to Catalonia.

>HK [...]

These are superficial differences. Power is power, as some have said. No matter how much you and others would like to liken Hong Kong to Singapore, the fact remains that they face vastly different geopolitical realities.
That should be up to the user to decide.

If millions want to provide telemetry that's enough to make the product better. Why have other millions who don't want suffer it?
2 years ago, 214 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16454645

3 years ago, 55 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12285545

4 years ago, 53 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567630

4 years ago, 20 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10687471

If I remember rightly, there was some interesting discussion of how accurate the claims made here were when it previously appeared on HN.
Oh really? It's hard to believe that C++ could not achieve better performance with hand-tailored memory management than safe rust. I can understand that unsafe rust should perform about on par with C++.
The spam operations are usually overseas, not US based. This makes enforcement harder and takes longer time. It still happens, because I see news about busts in the press from time to time.
This touches on something I find fascinating: that in the pure world of perfect maths there's a lot of near misses, things that nearly work out but don't quite, but that if we have a world where a bit of error is allowed (our bendy molecular world, with our limited consciousness) then an enormous host of possibilities opens up. My personal theory is that this is exactly why we find ourselves in a reality that is slightly fuzzy with an awareness that's alright but not perfect.
> Sometimes I wonder if AGI (and the concept of a "technological singularity") isn't just "intelligent design for people with north of 140 IQ"

You're not the first person to express this idea, but it's pure speculation. There is obviously a possibility that it will be proved correct at some point in the future. But historically, very smart people have been ridiculed like clockwork for expressing ideas that were beyond their time but philosophically (and physically, eventually technologically) possible.

I'd be wary of adding to such sentiment. It also feels suspiciously like an ad hominem criticism, although in your case it's expressed more like a question. I think there is clearly something to the idea of very smart people having an intellectual disconnect with the reasoning of their closer-to-average peers (and hence expressing things that seem ludicrous, without considering how they will be received), but not one that negatively affects the quality of their deductions.

IMHO, the ideas of AGI and a "technological singularity" (let's call it economic growth that's extremely more powerful than anything seen up until now) aren't so different from earlier, profound developments in human history. The criticism of "smart people developing a blind spot" could have been applied equally to e.g. the ideas of agriculture and the following power shift, industry, modern medicine, powered flight and spaceflight, nuclear weapons or computers, networking and robotics.

All these ideas put the world into an almost unimaginally different state, when seen with the eyes of an earlier status quo. Maybe AGI is relatively different, it's hard to say without having lived in ancient Egypt. It's certainly qualitatively different, since it involves changes to intelligent life, but I'm not sure the idea feels much more alien than things we've already experienced.
Microsoft is the king of backwards compatibility. They might propose a new framework every now and then, but they still support the old decades on...
BBC is working on its own virtual assitant
Maybe the parent wanted to say that the result is detetministic and not far too off from the true value (in fact, as accurate as possible given the format). In the other words FP is exact but abides by a slight different calculation rule involving rounding.
The world record is over 70mph but yes, seriously modified http://www.colinfurze.com/fastest-scooter.html
I still can't figure out what Dark is actually about. You seem to focus more on how fast it is to deploy than on what it is, how it works, how you use it, what it looks like or how its different from previous attempts (eg Eve). I'm a bit confused by this since deployment really has never been a particularly large pain point for me (setting up the actual infrastructure has always been a much bigger pain that actually deploying, plus typically I set deployment up once with CI and then don't have to think about it again), certainly not compared to actually creating complex software in the first place. You talk about why you built Dark, but I can't find anything about what it is you actually built. Am I missing an important blog post or page or something?
Hm. Just enterprise-grade. I need military-grade und planet-scale.
Great Barrier Reef outlook now 'poor', Australian government review says
diving headlong into complexity rather than minimizing/avoiding it

Most web frameworks are far from “minimal”.

promotes the artificial concept of software manufacturing with it's basis in "design patterns" that are seldom used in any meaningful way in my observatioN

Too many companies think their yet another software as a service CRUD app is a special snowflake where they need the top 1% “ninja
Rockstar developer”. Usually there are well known patterns.
Bad Idea: Iran Thinks It Could Sink an Aircraft Carrier
Puppeteer – How to Find a Link Element with a Certain Text?
But then you lose the ability to control various parts of your car, because these are often controlled through the entertainment system...
> Which explains why it is so hard to find peanuts on airplanes

Malaysia Airlines happily gives out small pouches of salted peanuts to every passenger.
Well, Gmail was ok but then they decided to slow it down massively for no benefit. Sure paid services may work better, but "integrated" services are worth more so apple/google all in is the preferred approach.
This is developed by LXD team for it's cluster. It's used by us in production as a part of LXD cluster. Initially there were some issues but now it can support thousands of nodes in a cluster easily in our regression tests.

It's good they made it as a separate project can be used independent of LXD containers.
Pinball, fizzy water and helium balloons: why small office perks loom large
Do Citizens Have a Right to See the Algorithms Used by Publicly-Funded Software?
Its approach to regexes (with grammars) feels genuinely revolutionary

Is that really a thing that couldn’t just be added to PCRE and be available in any language with bindings?

F# has the advantage of easy interoperability with the vast .NET ecosystem.
Legacy Voice Bots
Are you thinking of Susan Barry's "Fixing My Gaze"?
I went to high school in Utah, long before this automated scoring. It sounds awful but considering the quality of the education I received there perhaps not that bad after all.

My best Utah education anecdote - In the first day of British literature class the teacher came in and asked "Does anyone here know what A.D means?" someone said After Death - she said no. I figured this was my time to shine so I raised my eager hand and said "Anno Domini, in the year of the lord" - she said no.

Then she announced: "A.D means after the Deluge, and B.C means before Christ".

She also totally lied to me one time about whether she would be considering a particular textbook question as applying to Rosencrantz or Guildenstern.

Anyway I think that was one of the many classes I got an F in after stopped going and would walk past it every day on my way to play chess with my German teacher.
> I just don't know why MS spends so much time shooting itself in it's feet.

Removing a (great) feature that almost no one uses, in a product that is being sunset is shooting oneself in the foot?
"Greatest in history" != "Ever on Earth". Please don't editorialize titles.

The Deccan Traps and Siberian Traps eruptions both dwarfed anything in human history.
You would think but its a valid concern. Facial recognition systems tend to fail more often with dark skinned people and I would argue that should have been considered the same way.
The article notes:

>the city looks to the mainland for most of its resources.

So does Singapore, which looks to Peninsular Malaysia for most of its resources (water and food).

That's the main problem with that opinion piece.

Here's the real difference:

- Singapore was expelled from the federation of Malaysia by politicians keen to keep their racialist affirmative action policy. AFAIK Malaysia has no official irredentist policy when it comes to Singapore.

- Hong Kong is in no danger of being expelled from the PRC because the PRC has an officially proclaimed irredentist policy regarding Hong Kong.
I don't think the other answers here question the impact Gojek has on millions of people.

> If uber built these no one will question them why don't they use some off the shelf solution.

If it's over-engineered, they probably would.

Disclaimer: I work at Gojek.
Since it's not the first time someone pointed out some "evil doers" do have a Jewish heritage, it seems to become a pattern, and thus interesting to know. Founders of Google and Facebook have a Jewish heritage, too, for example.
I thought "migration" had a strictly seasonal component separate from food availability. Thank you, OP, for the challenge to my baseline!
> or a food delivery person at your doorstep.

That's what doorbells are for.
So glad right now that Apple took the bold step of removing the AUX plug. :)
Note for the record that large tides (spring tides) are associated with full moon and new moon. Smaller tides (neap tides) are associated with half moons.
I follow your point, but I'm not sure the research or my personal experience proves that to be true.

In some cases, automation leads to net job growth (e.g., there are more bank tellers now than before the invention of ATMs), but I think that is the exception rather than the rule. Especially in manufacturing, automation absolutely guts jobs. A line that was run by dozens can be run by a just a couple. The balance is so far to one side I think it's hard to make a case that automation saves many jobs. It seems to me that the paradox you bring up would only apply to very limited use cases; I don't know many products people would want to increase consumption on scale with the job loss for that to work. But I may be biased by my automation experience in high dollar products.

Example: I know of an onion farmer who recently automated. Even if all other onion farmers automated im not going to 5x my consumption of onions, and that's a low cost product
A (Telehealth) App a Day Just Might Keep the Doctor Away
Ask HN: Alexa left me a creepy message for somebody else. Anybody else had this?
Hi HN!

So, I've just had the fright of my life when I tried to pick up some messages left on my Amazon Echo. There were indeed messages, couple of delivery notifications and a gem saying:

"Hello, I can see you. Are you okay?"

Except the person sending the message is completely unknown to me and to add to the whole Black Mirror caste my afternoon is apparently taking, the voice speaking those words were that of a young girl.

I have a recording on my iPhone but for obvious reasons I am reluctant to post it on the Internet, but I was wondering if this is widespread or just me?

Thanks.

(I hope my heart rate returns to normal soon)
Why We Should Teach Kids to Call the Robot ‘It’
I think Toyota have docking stations as option on some of their cars, but only for rear passengers. Attached to the back of the front seats, for kids to watch stuff on a tablet.
Show HN: A radial menu at the tip of your fingers
He has written some interesting stuff. In particular, I recommend his book the Black Swan -- it is a very nice description of why there are often structural incentives to disregard unlikely/low-probability events.

But he's also definitely over the hill as a thinker. About the only notable thing he's done in the last few years has been sustaining a long-running and personal feud with Nate Silver (of 538) about who among them better understands probability.
You only need to claim a number if you want to receive calls, you can make calls from any number you'd like.

FWIW I see lots of European countries that require you to provide an address, not many that actually require verification.
Can You Write a Novel as a Group?
> Is a complete browser engine really necessary to embed images and videos?

No, but it is a "fast enough", well tested, well supported, regularly updated to address security issues, option that does the job, and the developers are already familiar with many of its ins-and-outs, and when a new display feature is needed it might just already be there.

Any smaller alternative has to compete with all that. Who is maintaining it? With fewer people using it (as it is optimal for specific cases but less useful generally) is there the resource available to support it, and are issues even going to be noticed before you hit them?

Electron is one of those odd things that is probably ideal for nothing, but is good enough for such a huge range of things, and is easily accessible to existing developers, that it quickly gained momentum, then ubiquity, and will likely keep both for some time to come. Not unlike Visual Basic, which was initially seen as prototyping system (my memory of VB1, its packaging and advertising, is that it was marketed as such) but turned out to be "good enough" for production use for many small apps & tools, and was more accessible to less experienced programmers than the other options for development targetting Windows. Similar arguments about its output hogging resources and having large distributables were made back then too: why does your simple calculator, slightly enhanced notepad, & other tools, need a 300Kbyte library to be distributed with each of them?!
> Write unsafe as little as possible and if you need to, put that unsafe block in as small a module as possible. That's mostly it.

I don't have links at hand, but there were already instances where a bug in an `unsafe` block had effects in completely different (and seemingly random) places. Discovering all the ways in which `unsafe` blocks can cause unsafe or undefined behavior in unrelated places is still an active field of research.

> It would be disastrous for Linux to drop support for it's long tail of platforms because Linux could no longer be built for those platforms.

Which is why driver modules are a good place to start. Drivers are specific to certain pieces of hardware which are oftentimes only used with CPUs of a specific ISA.
And how many “architects” have said that they want to use the repository pattern just in case the CTO wants to migrate from their million dollar Oracle installation? How many hours of effort have been put into avoiding lock in, coming up with more complex patterns in the rare event that someone is going to change their entire underling infrastructure.
In this vain, what about other options like beterC (a very capable runtime-less D subset)? What about allowing Ada into the kernel? The fact they are focussing their evaluation on rust only is already an indication that they are playing the fanboy game to some extent. There are other languages out there that improve over C and can be used for systems programming.
Similar to cloud based server prices.

Paid for time that you're actually online.

If you're only logged on for 20 mins (a third) of the hour - you get $7 min wage ($21 / 3).
A predicted superconductor might work at a record-breaking 200° Celsius
I hope so, that's the impression I got. Other than that, I hope the discussion here has less of that "Playstation vs. Xbox" tone we're all familiar with.
You could have an aggregation service, run by a trusted independent non-profit. It could have a strong privacy policy and external auditing.
Camera-based facial recognition.

The Apple-style IR Mesh doesn't care what your skin color is, everyone is grayscale as far as it is concerned :D
I would have expected this to be proof-read, as it is a direct excerpt taken from a book, but it is filled with mistakes. Spelling, grammar, word order...

Maybe it is an excerpt of the first manuscript of the book.

Other than that, I find the concept very interesting, but quite intuitive too.
https://browsee.io/blog/using-tags-to-watch-the-right-sessio...
Fan is short for fanatic. Ok it's not used much like that any more.

To expand what I mean, when I recall what I have seen people say on Rust, some things strike me: overwhelming positivity, lack of depth, and it-cures-all-ills.

In a word, hype.

I don't owe anyone my attention to do some determination about how valid this or any other hype is.

If I hear people talking about something and the loudest and most numerous voices are hype, I think it is fair and rational to have a solid doubtful bias much moreso than if conversation seemed more varied, substantial, and rational.

Things that attract more rational people than hype-r people correlate with quality.
I hate the new “Drafts” feature with the passion of a thousand suns.

I select my recipient in the sidebar towards the bottom, start typing, then quickly switch to another channel to check something out, then want to switch to the recipient again to finish typing my message... it’s no longer there. I waste 10 seconds before I realise the recipient is now in the “drafts” category all the way at the top.

Which moron thought this was a good idea? I can’t think of any use case where this “feature” is actually beneficial.
Japanese Anti-Groping Device Sells Out Within 30 Minutes
Or second hand models that come with full warranties and have low 4 figure mileage. They're as good as new and easily 20% less than new price.
Although we were talking about Rust here, I'd love to see those evaluated and compared between each other as well.

This is nothing away from BetterC and other languages. If anything, this could open up ways to using languages other than C in kernel development.

That said, I don't think there's room for more than maybe two languages for the critical kernel components even in the long run. Not because of technical limitations, but human ones.
I have to say I disagree there. "Our program for handling HTML+CSS content should handle HTML+CSS content stored in containers" is a much more reasonable idea than "Our program for opening containers should also handle whatever content is inside those containers." It's a common thing for programs to do. VLC plays videos in zip files and RetroArch plays games in zip files, for example.

And I don't think reading a book and browsing the web are fundamentally different activities. They're near-identical. The web was created as a way to access documents consisting of text, images, and links to other points within the current document or to other documents. A book is a document consisting of text, images, and links to other points within the current document (endnotes, footnotes, "see page X") or to other documents (references/citations). The UX and features you'd want for a book reader are the same you'd want for a browser's Reader Mode, as implemented by Edge, Firefox, and Safari. I don't see any difference between reading an ePub file and reading a long article on a website.
Do EMTs only get paid when they're transporting a patient or during their downtime too?
> 6) <Your consideration here or above>

"Would C++ fare better or worse than Rust on these fronts?" is the question I would have.