skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious about the causes of frequent restarts.
You never had a memory of some childhood event that feels super real, and yet you're positive that you couldn't really remember it - you've just had that memory implanted as a result of hearing the story told over and over by your parents or older siblings? There's also a solid body of evidence that this can happen sometimes to adults during police investigations when innocent people start to actually believe that they've actually committed the crime. When such double memories are encountered that can be very disturbing experience to a person, it feels like going crazy, as you don't know what is real. Our minds are fragile systems and under pressure some personalities start to decompose relatively quickly so I'm pretty convinced it's possible to drive someone insane that way.
Amazing how quickly Hugging Face's Transformers has become the most important library in NLP.
That has me wondering, too. Has anyone tried signing up?
I agree. I have a long time design of an MMO resting in my computer. It is a text-based game that runs presidential elections in a corrupt country in Latin America. There are 4 parties competing and the winner, of course, it the one whose candidate is finally elected. The biggest design problem it had was: how to implement massive voting, programmatic. So maybe today, the 2019-era as you mentioned, using AI somehow could be the solution.
Static + Netlify is my current hosting scheme. Although I’m somewhat unique in that I use artisanal hand crafted HTML rather than using a generator.

I’m super happy with this setup and think it should be way more popular.
Resort fees are probably one of the best examples of rip-offs that travelers have become accustomed to (but still loathe).

Fortunately, there is a proposal to make it illegal to list prices without including mandatory fees. [1] This would include "resort fees" for hotels and "cleaning fees" for airbnbs or other rentals.

1: https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/hotel-resort-fees-Cong...
>We shouldn't expect the companies to be "fair&transparent", especially given the documented evidence that it's unprofitable. It's really the job of the governments to impose fairness rules. E.g. in Europe you don't see prices without tax - I believe they're not legal.

Governments have little appetite to tackle any of this within the tourist industry. All the fleecing is just adding tax revenue by skimming it off people who don't live there and won't vote for you. It's perfect. As long as it never hits a point where it starts discouraging tourism nobody is going to care.
SF has a half dozen extra taxes that aren't listed on menus. It's not quite 1.5x bad but they aren't too far off.
Sweet - I built the streams feature in DynamoDB (well tech lead). Awesome to see it on HN!
> He didn't say anything else about it until now, as far as I know.

At least there is this one from 14th September, also on his site:

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

" Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why."
I've been staying in hotels a bit more, in recent weeks, than I have in a while. So I'm seeing more television. I'm seeing more messaging around this than I usually do.

Target advertising their own delivery services was news to me... of course I was familiar with all the food delivery services (UberEats, DoorDash, etc).

This will crash, as you say, and some will survive as the Lyfts of the market.

But I don't hear a lot about Zipcar anymore...?
I believe you’re referring to Michigan? Incidentally my former summer camp counselor is the lawyer challenging that ban https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/201...
We don't exactly have prohibition. We have a perverse, contradictory patchwork of state level legalization, federal level prohibition that overrules the state legalization efforts, federal prohibitions on enforcing federal prohibition laws in states that have legalized, and then in some states, outright prohibition (with black market product flowing in every state regardless). It's prohibiting the FDA from providing common-sense regulation to provide safe product.

We already tell people "don't do it." That's a failed policy that's producing hundreds of sick people. We need to make harm reduction via regulation the default case.
It does seem a choice of words that would rankle on people who do a real tour of military duty. I get they want to make the work sounds important, the people that do it as part of an important mission, but I'm not sure that's the best way.
oh headache wise, id take the 7b and run for the hills. if it was cash play, id stick out the shareholder issues at least until i lost on them and they sent me packing. :)

i would really never want to be "important" at a public company, unless it came with big golden handcuffs and parachutes.
I'm immediately reminded of the whole thing with Captain Sully, where initial recreations in simulators could safely land the plane on the ground... but only because the pilots already knew exactly what to do, instead of having any realistic delays to evaluate the state of the plane and consider landing options.
Having someone see more articles on the benefits of quiting smoking is messed up?
In the next couple years a couple things are going to happen:

1) This (or something like it) will go open source.
2) An AI will be made to generate campaigns automatically. This can either use articles selected with some sort of sentiment analysis, or by generating the content itself with the next gen GPT-2.

Neal Stephenson talked about this more then 10 years ago in the book Anathem, calling them "Artificial Inanity Engines."
Just a heads up, you mean to say Old School Runescape; Runescape Classic refers to the first version of Runescape that was superceded by Runescape 2 (in 2004) and is now defunct.
Aren't instances of sexism, misogynism and threatening situations coming from RMS himself and going back decades numerous and well-documented at this point?
Aaahhhh, this is something I was looking for. Thanks a ton.

From the GitHub issues, looks like the team is little hesitant to support JSON input support by default, which I think might lead to a negative effect (especially in the coming years, APIS EVERYWHERE) with someone forking and supporting the native JSON.
Sounds like a great opportunity for a GoFundMe campaign.
You are targeting the author of the parent comment and making them question their perception of the meaning of 'gaslighting'.
I'm not currently doing it as I'm unemployed and at my age (near 40) cannot find something else without previous experience.

edit: obviously my impostor syndrome kicks in lately due to countless factors and I self-sabotage with every interview out there lol. I just want to go back in time and slap me in the face for choosing this career -_- I don't want to spend the rest of my life in front of a screen.
Red Hat doesn't have developers to support Btrfs, and it takes a lot of support if you're going to depend on constant backporting of fixes and features.

Given how many kernel developers and filesystem developers they have, it would not be hard for them to hire btrfs developers or ask some of their kernel developers with a background in file systems to specialize in btrfs. I think the reasons are different: either it's because they have a lot of XFS developers on staff, fighting a transition to btrfs nail and tooth; or they simply believe that btrfs cannot be made good enough to support their enterprise developers within a reasonable time frame.
Doesn't include Kirkland, the Costco brand :(
I'm all for calling out BS where it exists, but lets get our facts straight. The program (AATIP) existed beyond 2012, they just changed how it was funded. Luis Elizondo, former lead investigator for AATIP, explains this here: https://youtu.be/D3r6SmrCUM0?t=706
A functional government? Does this even exist?
Sure it's something to consider. But what's worse...a system that may have minor bugs while upgrading; or one that lets low level criminals easily swindle the system for millions on an everyday basis?
Market correction doesn't solve future issues, just the specific one at hand. Regulation sets a baseline so that problems below that baseline of quality are much less likely to crop up.
Strategic reserves and I assume these bunkers have tanks deep enough that geothermal heating causes convection currents, slowly stirring the contents. That seems to have a positive effect on shelf life as well.
Capture Leads in Real-Time with online forms
I'll step up and say it again... artist renderings of mathematics are fucking stupid. This isn't an "image of a black hole"; this is a bunch of algorithmic trash data turned into an image.

https://onlineimagetools.com/generate-random-image

Just run the same tool on this lmao.
Agreed. The wiki article goes further to describe common components of gaslighting:

>>Three most common methods of gaslighting are:

Hiding: The abuser may hide things from the victim and cover up what they have done. Instead of feeling ashamed, the abuser may convince the victim to doubt their own beliefs about the situation and turn the blame on themselves.

Changing: The abuser feels the need to change something about the victim. Whether it be the way the victim dresses or acts, they want the victim to mold into their fantasy. If the victim does not comply, the abuser may convince the victim that he or she is in fact not good enough.

Control: The abuser may want to fully control and have power over the victim. In doing so, the abuser will try to seclude them from other friends and family so only they can influence the victim's thoughts and actions. The abuser gets pleasure from knowing the victim is being fully controlled by them.

If targeting ads and content to an individual is 'gaslighting', then yeah - I'd say most internet/social media co's have a problem on their hands.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting#Usage
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Ask HN: Why is reaxt.com resolving to github.com? Attempted phishing attempt?
Why is https://reaxt.com/ resolving or is a clone of https://github.com? Is it a security concern that it is popping up in the first page of Google results?
That's a pretty wild claim. Do you have any sources to support it?
Ask HN: Dr sending marketing emails after multple unsubscribes HIPAA Violation?
A doctor's office has been sending me marketing emails for years after multiple unsubscribes. Just based on the nature of their office specialty and based off of the content of this email it would be very easy to infer pieces of my past medical history that I would not want public. I'm assuming google now understands this part of my medical history based on their parsing of these messages.

I'm also just annoyed at the concept of having to unsubscribe over and over again.

My question is: could anything here be construed as a HIPAA violation?
I wonder if it's possible to build a defense service to this.

Counter PsyOps as a service (if built, social networks should probably build it in for free).

Make something that can detect if your stories seem to be manipulated and show stories that counteract that.
Magmatism Along Lateral Slab Edges: Insights from the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea
With a chronological time line you'd still have the ability to unfollow and follow users, which would eventually get you to a manageable chronological list...

Facebook removed chronological order to posts so they can manipulate what is presented to users any time they want.
This is very much akin to the "weapons-grade" tools used by the likes of Cambridge Analytica and AIQ to manipulate the minds of Trump and Brexit voters, using ill-gotten Facebook data to work out exactly what pushes people's buttons.

Tools like this will now be used during every election/voting cycle, forever.

Extremely worrying, but inevitable.
That is a matter of content not technique; "New research suggests people that use internet handles starting with Homo have tiny penises and poor reasoning skills" - See? Targetted propaganda that denigrates...
Checked the table of content, didn't find continuations. Am I missing something or is this material too much outside of the intended scope?

It's perhaps also too different, but I'd be interested in ways of saving the state of program execution and restoring that state later. Different from continuations, but overlaps...
The Great Filter of web development and how to break through it?
I mean, the cases of illness from vaping is a tiny number too.
You also need to pay to keep the new system running. That’s the real ‘hidden’ cost that you need to be aware of. COBAL may not be sexy, but it’s stable in ways most new systems can’t hope to match.
We are currently running tests on Putin. Will be a few years before the results are available though.
Oh my deck – Make decks by focusing on content
Prototype Nuclear Battery Packs 10x More Power (2018)
Except that's not a big problem. A non-activated reactor just contains enriched uranium. Uranium is dug out of the ground and you can buy it on amazon and chemically concentrate it yourself. It's safe to hold and handle (wash your hands afterwards so you don't eat particles) and store in your house even. (In the US this is all legal.)

Reactors only become dangerous after you activate them and short lived isotopes are created that also happen to be types that are bioavailable, like cesium-137 and strontium-90 which the body will take up and store inside the body.
I think those are wrong too. I used to believe that way, but having worked in the tech industry for over 10 years now, I've been around the block and I see it for what it really is -- taking advantage of others. You can try and wrap it up however you want with a pretty bow of "changing the world" but if you have to take advantage of people as a business or institution, it's still taking advantage of people. At best it's hiding the true cost of something by not paying people what they are worth.

Pay people what they are worth! You don't have to pay Netflix salary but it at least needs to be in the range of market rate.

It disturbs me that there are those here on HN that seem to fetishize suffering when there are so many resources. People don't need to suffer needlessly to do good work and get things done and "change the world". In fact, when you allow people to live a decent life you'll find they are happier and more productive employees.
The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI · fast.ai
To continue with what you're saying. The government doesn't just pay people like they're not valuable but also treats them like they're not valuable. Expecting market value is about more than just what you're paid.
Yes, though gaslighting is a subset of the possible uses for this tool.

In the opposite direction, you could choose to reinforce current ideas. Which, due to confirmation bias, would probably be easier than gaslighting.
Find something meaningful, that makes you feel complete.

Right now I'm in a very difficult situation where I don't know what to do. I cannot find anything that does not ask for previous experience; and the irony is that I don't know anything else apart from technology which I started hating the last 4 years.
You're getting hung up on this, like looking for the individual in a population who exactly matches an average, while ignoring the normal distribution that surrounds it. Don't obsess over the point, just center your window function around it.
You’re right, we can’t let low-level criminals swindle the system, we need that money for the really elite criminals running our multi-year system modernization IT projects.

/ducks!
Your inference is incorrect.

Where in that quote, or my posts, do I say I "optimize for PTO", or that my job is stressful or causes anxiety? I don't.

I was specifically talking about/referring to low PTO and what it does to me - and why I think 28 days as a floor is beneficial.

A final few thought experiements for you (I don't expect you to reply answering these...):

- If your employer offered you 15 days extra PTO, would you take it?

- How would you use it? Where would you go? What would you do?

- How would those extra 15 days impact you?
I strongly disagree with this one being a real link in the chain.

OK, we put bigger engines on. The 737 is kinda already sporty and easy to get the nose too high on departure. Now it's a little worse with bigger engines.

This is part and parcel for what happens when you stretch planes, adapt new engines, etc; there are minor, associated design changes you need to make to improve handling, etc. Software is a reasonable way to do it.

The criticality of this was badly misunderstood and mis-characterized.
John Rawls provides a vocabulary for talking about these issues. In Rawls view, society consists of "reasonable citizens" who want to live in a society built on cooperation and are willing to abide by rules if necessary to do so. Each reasonable citizen has, as a matter of course, a "comprehensive doctrine" which is the full set of beliefs and opinions they hold on all kinds of things: if aliens exist, which TV shows are good, when it's OK to lie. Reasonable citizens can (and usually do) disagree about many aspects of their respective comprehensive doctrines; however, they can acknowledge an "overlapping consensus" formed from just those ideas that almost everyone in the society agrees upon. For example, Americans generally agree that it should be legal to watch TV. Now, an reasonable citizen can believe something very strongly (such as a specific conception God) while acknowledging that since a large number of of citizens of the same society do not hold the same belief, it is not part of the "overlapping consensus" of their society. This overlap consensus must form the foundation for any agreement.

Rawls gives examples of things that should be part of the overlapping consensus for society to function, such as public standards of inquiry and public values. He proposes the following rule:

> Citizens engaged in certain political activities have a duty of civility to be able to justify their decisions on fundamental political issues by reference only to public values and public standards.

All of that is just background. You can read a summary of Rawls on SEP[1], or his book A Theory of Justice.[2]

Given all that, we can see how things might break down. In order:

1. A citizen may not be reasonable. Jeffery Dahmer would qualify. He does not want to live in a society with rules and justice: he wants to rape and eat people.

2. The citizens of a society may differ so much that their overlapping consensus is empty, or too small to serve as a foundation of anything. If all we agree on is that the sky is blue, but disagree on democracy vs. monarchy or which end of the egg to eat, then we will not be able to form a society.

3. We may agree on much, but not on those key topics like public standards of inquiry. If one person believes that matters of fact should be decided by a unanimous decision by a jury of peers, while the other believes that only confession under torture can be trusted, the two will have a difficult time agreeing on a legal system.

When things do breakdown for one of the above reasons, "civil discourse" is not really possible. Other kinds of discourse are still possible, but these will be more like hostage negotiations or the arguments that precede a divorce than any kind of idealized notion of civil discourse. Which is to say, the tools required for understanding these conflicts are rhetoric, game theory, and psychology, and not political theory or ethics.

[1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/#ReaCit

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice
In case this helps anyone: Most cashless toll roads have an option where you can go to a website within a couple days and pay the toll online by entering your license plate. If you do this, your rental car company shouldn't get a bill, and you will avoid paying the extra fees.

I agree that the processing fees charged by rental car companies are ridiculous, though. The per-day rental charge for toll passes (in addition to the tolls) is also ridiculously high.
> If you are concerned about any of those things stay away, you are not good enough to join.

Who is your target audience with this little speech? 14 year old boys? I'm asking, because I stopped responding to "Prove you're not yellow, you coward" nonsense about that age, and I was pretty slow...
Ask HN: Should I turn off my idle machine over the weekend?
Monitors turn off automatically,
Processor: Intel Zeon E5-1660 16 core, 3.2 GHz,
Memory: 64 GB,
Typical apps open: IDE's and browser,
OS: Linux Ubuntu 16.04.6

How much energy am I wasting?
They don't need to know what the symbol means. There's text!

https://source.android.com/security/images/boot_orange.png
> There really is no reason transactions need to take as long as they do other than that money disappears from one account and re-appears two days later in another account.

Well, that and legacy systems that run batch jobs in COBOL at midnight to do the bank-to-bank transfers:

> Roughly 80% of their systems are batch jobs. These are jobs that runs at a certain time or interval, doing some processing on their data or sends data to other banks/agencies/etc. For example when I buy a can of Coke, the money is withdrawn from my account balance, however the money is not actually transferred anywhere until one of their batch jobs does so. These jobs are usually executed during the night, which is usually why it takes a day before transactions between banks are completed. Transactions to the same bank are usually instant because it executes immediately.

https://hackerfall.com/story/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainfr...

Also, that interview convinced me that the busfactor of the entire Swedish economy is a handful of old Cobol programmers.
> Message: Prevent Phishing Attacks!

> Target: Employeess

Hmmm
So this is something for you to think about if you really want to have a discussion: I mentioned this issue briefly in my longer response, but it might serve our interests to just jump into the debate in bite-sized bits.

The famous cosmologist Max Tegmark has written an entire book (and published several papers) arguing that there is no difference between mathematical existence and physical existence and therefore all worlds that can be described mathematically and consistently are just as "real" as our world. Consequently, physical existence of a world is due to nothing more than that such a world can be described mathematically.

According to Tegmark, our world is just pure math with no extra secret sauce to make it "real" and physical. And so, of course, according to Tegmark, there are an infinite number of other worlds described by math that also exist physically. And they exist physically for no other reason than that they exist mathematically.

Do you agree with Tegmark?

And if you don't, why isn't it the case that you are postulating invisible pink unicorns to explain the difference between mathematical existence and physical existence?

(Note: I'm not aware of this approach to arguing for the hard problem to be present in the literature. This argument is my own.)
You can't regulate against scams that haven't been anticipated yet any more than the market can correct for them. Both democratic regulations and market correction depend on the same thing, which is the population's awareness of a problem, so one can't possibly be more vigilant than the other.
That's a really old joke and its purpose is to deflect rather than to illuminate. Your friend was trying to sound smart to distract from his unwillingness or inability to come to grips with the underlying design issues.