skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense to me :) Excited to see that happen!
That is really interesting. Seems crazy, especially given that a lot of people use Executive with added benefits with $0 extra cost (essentially, via reimbursement). I typically get a check each year that more than covers the total membership costs.
Why is that I always find this extreme comments from foreigners online.
Wait, you are telling me a kitten made friends with a panda?
then it's a good thing that piece of shit is dead lol
This is a good point- I'm thinking about how many times pedestrians will wait for eye contact with a driver before crossing. And also the ones that see you, but cross anyway, assuming you'll stop.

There's a lot of subtle interaction that I have yet to see how ai driving cars will replicate, or at least account for.
It doesn't work that way, you can't just define arbitrary spaces. They have to be actual habitable rooms, which means a minumum ceiling height if 6.5-7' in every jurisdiction I know of.
Very interesting to not have chosen 2019, a.k.a. The Year Of 737 Max. #cherrypicking
> I dunno if it true in every case, current 2 times Dota champions literally built their team upon friendship and support for each other.

Dota is a game where folks play avatars that come together to contest a pointless battlefield, murdering each other over and over while also murdering useless "creeps" that have the trappings of anthropomorphism but are explicitly considered value-less by the Heros.

It's not a boring or bad game, but the fundamental principle is "me and my friends murder your face with our amazing tactical teamwork for no special reason while our grunts carry on fighting like robots."

> So its not all doom and gloom yet. But I can see this type of behaviour fade away as more money and celebrity start pouring in.

You're kinda behind on this. It depends a lot on the initial community. An example of a bad community is the Overwatch community. It's toxic even in the competitive place. An example of a community that is struggling to make a nicer and more civil gaming environment is Smash Ultimate, which has kicked people out for excess behavior and started to make outreach for kids and women who are typically excluded from the spaces. Unsurprisingly, the Overwatch community models a convincingly fatal combat scenario much more convincingly than Smash, where you're explicitly pretending cartoony action figures are fighting in a magical arena where the worst that happens is you get bounced off into the distance.
Same reaction. I'm skeptical this story is true. I've never heard of Google banning a user over blocking ads before -- frankly, even with the amount of crap I usually give Google, this feels out of character for them.

Lots of people use NewPipe with unrooted phones, so if it is an actual policy, we should see more widespread bans. If we don't, I'm going to dismiss it as, "we don't have the full story, or its made up entirely."

That being said, of course you should take steps to mitigate the impacts of being banned by Google. But you should have been doing that anyway, so I don't think this story changes anything.

But... no, I wouldn't panic over using NewPipe.
You’re stringing together a few questionable statements here.

It’s true that the vast majority of cars won’t be autonomous for “a very long time” so the vast majority of deaths won’t be prevented. But what’s your point? That if the vast majority of the problem can’t be addressed quickly it’s not worth exploring?

On a quick search, 30% of fatalities involve alcohol. 7% involve rain (the most common condition that causes crashes).

Cars don’t actually need to be better than humans, or even as good as the average human. They just need to be better than the bottom 5th percentile, prefer safe driving, and not get distracted/drunk.
> Personally I believe the desktop operating system of the future will be one that draws from some ideas from the past that have never been fully realized.

> from the classic Mac era (I admit, as much as I like Mac OS X, I believe that the classic Mac OS era was actually superior from a usability standpoint, even if its infrastructure wasn't solid). Application software should be built using components inspired by Apple's OpenDoc project. The system should be an object system inspired by Smalltalk or CLOS that enables pervasive programmability of the environment and supports an objects-all-the-way-down environment, and the operating system should provide a REPL for programmers. The difficult part will be how to make such an operating system happen, since building an operating system is a large effort, and I believe part of the reason why the desktop computing situation in 2019 is the way that it is has to do with market forces.

This is exactly right.
Also Rosetta@HOME: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
You could run an experiment and track the data. Three cohorts: paid, free, trialing. Data points per cohort: customer support tickets per 100 accounts, conversion rate, ARPU, LTV, churn %.

I think you'll be surprised at the results. At the very least your hacker brain will be more informed, especially if you put a dollar figure on your customer support time. Doesn't have to be anything fancy, it could even be minimum wage.
At the end of the day China “owns” HK according to the rest of the world, so I see little hope of anything positive happening, especially since Nationalism is on the rise in the West. People like Trump are all to happy to engage in meaningless trade wars, but have little political ideology to espouse. What serious ally does HK have?
Constants in Go vs. JavaScript, and When to Use Them
Can we please stop spouting this quote all over the place (especially when it isn't even applicable)?

You can believe that the folks working at FinFisher understand very well exactly what they are doing. Their salary, however, has simply caused them to ignore it.

Everyone has a price.
Vilaweb... one of the many propaganda outlets for the pro-independence Catalan government.

Next on Hacker News, articles from Fox.com, Breitbart News, and more...
this is obviously my cheap opinion and I am looking to get to the point where you are with my side project: I think you could have the best of both worlds by getting rid of your free plan. The key would be to wind down your free plan in a way that is respectful to your current users and you could do this by offering them a steep discount on the first year's terms or giving them ample time to make a decision once you discontinue the free plan.

You have probably enough word of mouth now and establishment to build off of with your product that you can get some new customers without it. You can always do trials or free POC periods.
This has class action written all over it and I'll definitely take the bucks!
there's an investment thesis to be made to invest in the exact opposite of whats trending on wsb
This is the kind of content I’m pleasantly surprised by - it’s both technically impressive and adorable!
I see a cost issue, easy to justify a full investigation every time a commercial plane crashes, how do you do a full investigation every time somebody crashes a car or is crashed into. How do you get the improvement loop that the airline industry had?
Turning push goals into pull goals
I'm paying for Inkdrop.

For me anyways, the reason to adopt it wasn't to do with markdown, it's just about having better UX than the built in Mac notes app. I don't know why, but I just felt like I was fighting with it on certain tasks, such as using it as a scratch space for system logs or taking notes when doing customer support.

The markdown support is nice / simple for formatting, but at least for me that wasn't the reason to adopt it.
Google/Youtube love to pretend it was the AI that made the decision when in reality many are made by humans. Companies get away with so much lying.
That was mostly a (slightly wierd) knee jerk after Fukushima. They are definitely another outlier.
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro (same design as yours) and agree with you. I think it's probably the best laptop design Apple ever shipped. My work laptop is one of the new ones, and I don't particularly mind the USB-C ports, but the keyboard and the touch bar are pretty bad.
I was really troubled and disappointed in the nation of Spain when I heard the sentencing today:

> Spain's Supreme Court has sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in the 2017 independence referendum.

(sedition: "conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch")

I understand why it is in the interest of governments to punish these things harshly, but I don't think it's right. This is shameful.
I just got a bit into the “One queue, many processors” section and that’s where I got confused. Knowing it’s one processor per CPU is the information I needed. Thanks!
> the entire computer freezes from time to time

Hate to point out what may be obvious, but since this is a self-build, have you entirely eliminated hardware issues? Bad connections or components that just don’t jive properly together? Just saying cause the first thing that came to mind when you described the issue is something similar I had a while back with mismatched RAM; it doesnt sound as though the comparison controls for these kinds of causes.
Some in Catalonia has been against the centralization of Spanish states since they were all folded into one state (1716) while Hong-Kong at it's earliest was created 1842 if I'm looking at the right details.

If we look at when an actual movement existed for Catalan Indepdendence, it was formed 1922 (Estat Català). Granted Hong-Kong wasn't really transfered until 1997, it seems unlikely Hong-Kongers have fought for independence for longer than Catalonia.

But in the end, there are no winners or losers here, only freedom fighters.
That was as true in the days of when pit trading dominated as it is nowadays.

It's true that automated trading is fast, and that means that things can go off the rails fast. And, it's true, that has led to some spectacular news-making events. But, for that very reason and others, most trading firms keep a very close eye on what their auto-traders are doing. Closer than they ever kept on their pit traders.

I briefly worked at a firm that did both HFT and pit trading, supporting one of the teams in charge of monitoring both groups. And what I saw was that the company was generally much more in control of the algorithmic trading. It was more heavily instrumented than a human could ever be, with humans (who were themselves licensed traders) watching the computers very closely at all times, as many layers of automated fail safes that would kick in if things went a little screwy.

By comparison, the pit trading was kind of a mess, and the team was frequently having to scramble to amend all sorts of human errors largely stemming from things like miscommunication and straight-up bad handwriting. Beyond that, I'm sure that, compared to the folks operating the auto-trading systems, the pit traders never had as firm of a real-time grasp of the finer subtleties of their positions, simply because nobody's able to do math in their heads like that.

Which, I think, is why spectacular events in the markets stemming from speculative trading going off the rails aren't really any more common nowadays than they were in the days before high frequency trading. Yeah, computers created some new ways to screw things up, but they also mitigated some existing ones.

The net effect is not nearly as bad as journalists make it out to be. But, of course, playing to people's fear of the unknown has always been the more lucrative route for journalists to take.
Ah yes, like how if a drug company poisons enough people then the market will make them go out of business. You know, because people died.
Please, if you dont know the catalonia problem directly, beware of the separatist propaganda. Its known they spend a lot of public money in media. The Guardian, The New York Times, and others.
We run our own instance of Gitea, which is used as an issue tracker as well. Sometimes things do end up as discussions in Basecamp, but mostly, we try to keep it in Gitea.
I really like this idea. I bonded with friends over video games in highschool. I would have probably benefited if a coach were involved - informing and teaching me and my friends about teamwork, strategy, and training skill/tactics.

The competition and comradery of playing against other teams in the area seems to me like it would make for higher stakes (involving pride and an in-person level of gamesmanship). I'd argue these are important skills in living a social life.

I also think that including some level of physical exercise, even if just as an ante to participate under the school's charter of the sport, would make students more healthy. I don't know if any research or statistcs exist correlating cardiovascular health to markers associated with better video game performance. But it would not surprise me if a lap or two around a track before a practice or competitoin would sharpen minds, reflexes, nerves, etc. If nothing else, it would reduce apprehension to adminstrators sactioning kids playing video games.
On a serious side though - they had quite solid dataset of the population across the entire Anglosphere and of their associations with POIs like schools, universities (early Facebook anyone?), and workplaces (LinkedIn anyone?). They reached the peak of their popularity while charging 7.5 GBP per month to use their website (imagine!). The ASP .NET + AJAX Control Toolkit might had not been the most fortunate tech stack to create engaging and snappy social network experience. A complex case study, overall.

Disclaimer - I worked there.
There is no mention of being cash-strapped in the article, unless I missed it?
This might be slightly off topic, but what are the others in this same space?
One of the things that stopped the Quebec referendums from getting even 50% + 1 is that once you bring up separation, there are seemingly endless ways you can subdivide regions. In Quebec you had English-speaking and aboriginal communities that threatened to leave outright or stay with Canada. You are most likely to end up with the tyrant of the (different) majority.
Oh neat, TIL about Gordon the Gopher.
I always hear this line of thought, maybe it's even true, but why is that?

Chinese top leaders generally are only in power for ten years. I don't see why they have more motivations than leaders in democratic states to think about the long term.
gitlab's issue tracker.
Originally, the switching equipment was driven with pulses, and your phone interacted with it directly.

As the dial plans got more elaborate, things like digit absorbers got in between you and the actual call routing equipment, but they all still talked to each other and to you with pulses.

When tone dialing made its debut, some offices had switched over to electronic control and could natively understand touch-tone, but a lot had not, so there were front-end circuits that would decode the tones and control the switching equipment. Throughout the 80s, pretty much all the step, panel, and crossbar switches were replaced with common-control switches (where a computer did the thinking, even if relays were still used for the actual routing), and the fees became bogus.

If you had Call Waiting, you should not have been paying extra for touch-tone.
Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge
Noting [1], imagine when this kind of resolution will be possible from simply deploying a range of satellites. http://thescienceexplorer.com/technology/new-satellites-will...
If the stock price is contrived, it's contrived, and the only difference between humans arriving at a price slowly and computers arriving at it quickly is how much time and money gets consumed in transaction costs.

If a company wants their stock to have a more stable price, they need to make the price less contrived, for instance by paying dividends that anchor the price to something tangible.
Distracted driving is a leading cause of accidents, and if you spend any time driving at all it seems like practically the majority of drivers are distracted.

Particularly when driving on AutoPilot, I notice the drivers around me tend to be highly distracted, not only that but the bottom quintile of drivers are actually quite horrible at driving in practice.

Functional automation brings stability and predictability to driving patterns which will eliminate more accidents than purely emergency response systems do. The human element is responsible for $877 billion in damages, pain, suffering, and lost wages per year according to the NHTSA. I believe it's a moral imperative to massively reduce that number.

Emergency response technology works in a small percentage of cases to reduce the severity of an impact. It often does not even avoid an impact rather than just reducing the severity of one, and the systems on the market are particularly bad at avoiding pedestrians. While all that is true, these systems are also very good at annoying drivers with false positives to the point where a plurality of drivers want to switch them off.

Aside from removing distracted and poor human operators from the equation, another reason that self-driving can obtain a lower accident rate than emergency response systems is that the self-driving system will have (1) awareness of the environment, (2) keeps the car within a safety envelope at all times, (3) is in full control of inputs, and (4) has a set destination point in mind, so it knows where it is trying to go.

The emergency system may have (1) awareness of the environment, but is lacking (2) - (4). This puts it at a strict disadvantage to full self-driving.

For example, just take the simple situation of approaching a stopped car 500ft ahead at 25mph. The road is currently one lane but expanding to 2, the stopped car is turning left in the left-turn lane. When does the AEB apply the brakes? The answer must always be "at the last possible second," because the system doesn't know where the driver is headed and is not supposed to intervene during normal driving.

An autopilot knows if is planning to stay right and proceed through the light, or if it's going to come to a stop behind the lead car in order to turn left. It can set an appropriate speed at all times based on not only the environment, but the desired path ahead. It is planning and strategizing, instead of merely reacting (and not at the last possible second either).

A functional AutoPilot comes to a full stop at a stop sign, every time. It always signals before merging. It knows how to zipper merge. It doesn't get on it's cell phone on the highway, or fall asleep at the wheel. Personally I think FSD should be able to prevent an order of magnitude more accidents than a purely emergency response system.

In practice, of course, we do both.
This is a fascinating comment.

In a municipal environment, would standard remediation of sewer water be good enough to dilute the brine? It seems like you could get something close to a closed loop. Obviously some water would be lost to evaporation, but in a city a lot of water comes out of the tap, over dishes or people or laundry, and then right back down the drain. It's not drinkable anymore, but we've got lots of tools to make it reasonably cleanish enough to put in a river. Would using that gray water to dilute brine alleviate some of that pain?

I'm not remotely an expert in this area, just spitballing here. But you clearly have some experience. I'm curious if closing the loop might be enough to make such a system workable.
I addressed this with my side business by keeping the free option pretty limited. Only a very small set of my potential customers qualify for free (very small, volunteer orgs, with very small problem spaces), so their support burden is kept pretty low. I still feel good about being able to offer something free to folks that get some value but can't afford to pay anything, but I'm not overwhelmed by ungrateful masses.
Quote pulled for critical context - The schools want everyone involved in an extracurricular activity. This solves tons of issues - bad home life, gangs, loneliness/depression, etc.

> Finding a niche for all students to participate in an extracurricular activity is one of the DISD’s key goals. Trustees made extracurricular participation a major priority in 2017, setting a districtwide goal of 78% participation by the 2021-22 school year.
Ah yea, makes sense now. Thanks for the clarification!
Are we in a war with Machines now? Did Tesla state that it needs more Lebensraum, which, regrettably, requires purging the globe of everyone else?

I'm not trying to invoke Godwin here: just that war happens be somewhat hard to compare - "people die, ergo same thing" seems a rather forced comparison.

Perhaps the only fitting parallel seems "history will be written by the victors."
>- Should this become some sort of right?

It is a right under international laws, customs and norms. The same is even codified in Article 1 of the UN Charter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination
Sounds like the next YC startup...
Maybe reach out to some enterprising professors you knew in college and offer your specialties?
> My Ubuntu machine — which I built to edit photos and game — currently runs on a Threadripper 2950X with two VEGA 64 GPUs. It should be a beast, and it is, but the entire computer freezes from time to time and requires a hard reboot to come back to life.

That's the story with all the assembled pcs out there.

Something is faulty, replace it.

When I stopped doing it myself and started buying workstations with an actual warranty, my problems ended.

My main machine has been a Debian testing for the past 3 years on a Lenovo P70 with 64gb of ram, not a single glitch, except those things a power user running bleeding edge software has to face .

The quality of the hardware is very important, Mac hardware is just good and extremely overpriced.
> Costco doesn't check membership at the door.

Every Costco I've been to does. at least 7+ locations across Oregon and Washington
I say variations of this all the time. I don't get why people just assume AI will be better.

It's like questioning the existence of their God.
This seems like an argument from ignorance. eg. "Well, there's no evidence to support this hypothesis, but it could be x (no proof given), so unless we look into x, we won't know for sure".

Using the system browser or webview doesn't send any user identifying information (other than device type and version) in http requests. There's no plausible reason why using the download manager API would do it either.
I can't wait for the Tulip... err Blockchain hype to die down. Using the energy of a mid size european country for what is now essentially a pyramid scheme is just shitty.

(And I make that statement after having made a few thousand bucks by mining BTC at 5$ per coin.)
From that section.

> There are multiple processors, each running on a separate thread.

It's probably easy to miss, do you have thoughts on where else this can be clarified?
We should simply persecute anyone finds issues with this software to the full extent of the law. A culture of fear around security research is the most effective culture.
This could potentially mean they start making space a battleground when entites switch to foreign-operated satellite data services.
It's no fun seeing your country's best companies being snatched up by Chinese companies, which your country's companies can't even consider buying. Same with Supercell although it went with Softbank as intermediary buyer. Oh well. At least they don't funnel their profits with tax schemes. But I guess it's hard to resist temptation of selling when they come with truckloads of money. We are all humans after all.