skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For reference how imgur was started 10 years ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t...

A prophetic comment in OP:

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Anyone can make an image hosting service that doesn't suck. But tell me in a year or two if you're still around and not sucking. Then I'll consider it.
Not unless he gets sued. And I hope he does
I think Zuckerberg is out of touch with reality, but so is this article. It's entirely possible to understand and support free speech as a concept and not want to implement it within your own business because it would hurt profits. Businesses are not governments or societies and we need to either stop acting like they should be or start regulating them like they are.
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Sounds like it was just a fantasy, rather than a scenario with internal detail.
What you've done here is absolutely fucking insane and I will never ever trust you and your project and I hope noone else does either. I'm sorry but this is utterly inacceptable. The fact that you need this to be called out is horrifying and your apology is insufficient.
More human than human indeed.
'Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.'

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There's gotta be a better name for this...
That is weird. One ends the world in ten years or less and the other just does damage to the world.
Ah, didn't realize you could use Tor as a poor man's TURN server. That makes sense.

... thinking about it, has anyone tried to actually use Tor to provide TURN/signalling functionality for WebRTC? Seems to me you could get true peer-to-peer WebRTC calls relatively easily this way.
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> But here’s the thing: Zuckerberg was not wrong. He just could not articulate why.

This is what makes this discussion so frustrating. Avoiding discussion from the principles.

There is the obvious common carrier vs. publication angle. Being common carrier brings regulation, being publication brings legal liability. Facebook want's neither, so the only option is to obfuscate.
Can anyone share the trick without making me read his life history?
Perfect thread to vent. The difference between an Elitebook 8770w and a ZBook 17 G2 is astounding. It's like HP is telling everyone to get fucked. The Elitebooks (8770 and older) used metal, was easy to open up multiple times, had a great keyboard. The ZBook, a new model, you'd be lucky to open it 3 times before the absolutely shit plastic clips break, along with the absolutely shit plastic molds for the nuts. The keyboard is some Apple butterfly level of shit, mushy keys that fail to register after a few years. The touchpad buttons went from sturdy rubber to creaky plastic. What an upgrade.
Climate models are a perfect example of the above statement. They're not good enough to predict the detailed future with certainty (weather forecasts only go out for a few days), but they're useful and valid for reasoning about large scale trends.
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The tests have been gamed by a test prep industry that extracts money from wealthy families. Colleges aren't admitting students based only on diversity. They are taking kids with excellent grades, volunteer work, etc. and giving them a closer look. It relies on the judgement of all of the student's high school teachers, rather than a centralized corporate assessment.

Poor kids don't get second or third tries at tests that cost money to take. Even the most brilliant students can have a bad day.

Colleges are held financial accountable to enroll students they can retain, so they can collect a full-term tuition. They aren't going to risk giving a valuable spot to a student that won't be able to perform well academically, just because they are 'diverse'.

Professors would rather teach exceptional, motivated students from all walks of life than the wealthy, entitled children that can afford to spend $5000 on a test prep coach.
Publishers don't necessarily do a lot of structural editing. Copyediting (proofreading), yes. But that's more like three figures to pay someone to do (which you really do need to do). Non-fiction editors will often also pay for someone to do a technical edit.

Promotion. For the average book, not much. The main promotion/benefit for, say, technical non-fiction is that you're in their catalog and will be on display in venues like trade shows.

Generally speaking, publishers aren't paying for book signing tours, publicists, etc.

Distribution these days isn't a big deal. Everyone can be on Amazon.
You've built a false dichotomy between over-engineering and planned obsolescence. Outside of a few cases you can still buy the watch that will last 60 years or the amp that will last 20.

The problem is that most people don't want to pay $2k for an amp when it's only benefit over a $400 one is that it'll work 16 more years. Most folks don't care to buy a $400 watch when you can get a nice one for $40. And, a lot more folks can afford watches and amps these days as a result.
Timeline at the top of the page seems to indicate this opened a few days ago and runs through December 2019?
What’s the alternative to these tests?
Maybe it's UPX compressed?
Or the immortal page for the definition of megalomania
I don't think anyone is claiming they bear "all" the blame. That would be an issue for a court to decide if it ever came to it.

Instead, the counterposition here seems to be that they should bear none of the blame, that any liability on their part is an injustice, and that refusing preventative maintenance and literally unplugging regions at risk is somehow an acceptable outcome. And that seems insane.

If they can't provide the service they're contracted to provide, they need to be regulated to be sure they do. The market has failed (and this isn't the first time PG&E got caught playing ridiculous games with regulators at the expense of customers, I was in California during the electricity crisis of 2000).
No disagreement that there are fundamental elements of our socio-economic system that suppress certain groups of people, but this approach seems to be tackling this problem from an extremely misguided direction.

The end goal is certainly to increase college enrollment among groups who have historically been underrepresented, and removing all academic and skill prerequisites from academic and skilled trades programs would certainly increase enrollment numbers, but by totally devaluing those programs in the process.

The enrollment and degree isn't what we should be trying to provide these groups it's the underlying knowledge and skills so they are prepared for these academic programs in the first place. This approach, though, is almost worse than doing nothing because it's pretending to help when it's actually just hurting everyone and serving the interests of the student loan industry in the process.

There was a story in the news that broke recently of a high school doing exactly what this is describing, sneaking disadvantaged kids into ivy league colleges when they didn't have any of the skills or knowledge required for the degree programs. Obviously it didn't go well.

You can find more information at

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/03/672817734/the-reality-of-t-m-...

There was also a really great Feakonomics podcast talking about America's math curriculum and how the SAT is changing to focus on the right kinds of skills.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/math-curriculum/
University of Edinburgh

ETH Zurich

TU Munich

EPFL

Cambridge/Oxford are very overrated imho. I have a masters from one of them.
Like what Christian Bale did in Batman begins?
What a drivel! An attack by someone who appears to hold the patent on Free Speech (TM) against a billionaire who is uneducated and thus unable to use free speech to talk about free speech, because, frankly, he didn't pay hundreds of thousands to get a degree in the liberal arts of bullshitting like this author did. You could replace zuckerberg with "layperson" in the essay (because, well he is a layperson) and it would read like a very childish sneer about nothing. Still, good job on fulfilling the monthly "FB hate articles" quota.
> so to someone who doesn't see VC success as very desirable, it comes across as a fairly weak argument.

> > What matters is how it changed it.

"I read his profile. 'Nuff said"

Seriously though?? Certainly the post referred to their awesome experience(s) as a YC founder, and later a YC partner and currently as a VC. Sure there is an argument to be made against taking VC money; as it makes you (the founder(s) chase growth, possibly at the exclusion of all else--but I inferred from their post that it was a great experience for them for many reasons.

Fine you wouldn't take VC money, that's cool; but businesses that decide its the best path forward are not necessarily scum nor sellouts.
Is there any advantage in involving you in the loop, though? Couldn't it just shutdown upon detecting the problem and turn on a warning light for you to see when you got home?
Grades and all of the other factors admissions people like to look at, like volunteer work, extra-curricular activities, projects, essays, etc.
Or Masters degrees from U.K. ex-polys for any overseas student.
I recently added a Rake task to one of our builds which checks for the exact problem mentioned in GP, after having 3 separate occasions in the last 6 months where OSX "smart" characters have changed the encoding of a file consumed by things expecting pure ascii.

Unfortunately it is a bit of a hack that shells out to "file -i", but I'll take it over hours of frustration.
I don't trust technology companies to mess up updating apps, removing features or breaking working functionality, sure as hell as I don't trust them with something permanently in my wall. Oh sorry, we decided to end the support for this product because there weren't any users. No, you can't use it offline. Buy a new one, break your walls every three years etc.

Maybe, maybe companies who produce industrial equipment, and know what it takes to have something work for 20 years non stop. DOS based CNC machines etc.
Same has happened for HTML since 2000 ever since Microsoft created Frontpage and Adobe created dreamweaver. Just bloat over bloat of html.

Now we have npm and webpack doing this for Js. It's convinience vs purity.

But now I think the same argument can be made for using C++ over assembly language.
Seems Edison's patent record was broken in 2008.

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

Alas no metric to measure the quality of these patents. Though I'd say that how much a patent made would be probably the best metric upon that. Though a list of patents and profitability of said patents by inventor is going to be much digging and research to collect all that data.

I would say though that some of the most profitable patents have been for drugs and would not be supprised that the top 5 drug patents would of made more money than all of Edison's patents, but that's just a gut feeling and may be wrong.
When comparing two alternatives, we can most definitely conclude that the science is settled, at least until actual evidence to the contrary shows up. Being open to accepting new evidence in the future in no way means we can't act confidently on what we know now, taking into account our state of knowledge/uncertainty.

The science on a heliocentric solar system is settled. The science establishing a link between anthropogenic carbon emissions and average global temperatures is also settled - built on foundational chemistry and physics, supplemented with observational evidence here on Earth, and validated by the planetary science done to understand Venus's temperature.

Sure, there's a lot of remaining uncertainty about short term effects, but mostly in the category of "just how bad is it likely to get?"
Correlation is not causation, and the period of time that dual class has been used this way is not long enough to establish causation. Wait until there’s a real crisis that runs up against the dual class share issue. That’s when the wheels will come off.
> We spectators are equally affected by the discrepancy between what we see and what we know. Take a group of diehard anti-free-will determinists to the deciding World Series game and have them watch their home team’s batter lose the Series by not swinging at a pitch that, to the onlookers, was clearly in the strike zone. How many do you think would be able to shrug off any sense of blame or disappointment in the batter? Indeed, how many would bother to attend the game if they accepted that the decision whether or not to swing occurred entirely at a subliminal level?

im kind of a determinist even though I don't enjoy it, I think if you're a determinist and you still get up every morning, you've made some kind of arrangement with the paradox of having no choice yet "having" choice such that enjoying a baseball game is pretty low difficulty level among determinist daily challenges.
I did the GMAT years ago and more than anything it is a test of how diligently you prepare for it. Guess what, people who diligently prepare for things tend to succeed at them! That’s Batman’s entire superpower! And those are the kind of people who will succeed regardless of what universities they go to.
This is wholly made up, no evidence for it as far as I can tell.

Again, that’s not “made up”. It’s a logical conclusion based upon the facts of what happened. You are saying that the facts of your case are not evidence that this could possibly happen to anyone else at that organization in the future. I hope you’re right. But the reality is that if they pushed one person out because of ideological differences, it is quite probable that it has happened to others and will continue to happen.

The bottom line is this: You made a minor donation to a conservative political cause years before you became CEO. That ultimately led to your departure. I don’t think even you would dispute either of those facts. This pretty well supports the conclusion that anyone with even mildly conservative views is not welcome there. I’m not sure how else anyone would interpret that. You seem to have a much more charitable interpretation of it than the facts support, but that doesn’t mean that people interpreting what happened in the most obvious way are “making up” that interpretation.
That's true, but material extraction is a good enough proxy, and it's easier to measure than environmental pollution.
My theory is when you are trying to run a business that doesn’t generate cashflows and have no idea how you are going to get to that point, you start wasting your time with crazy stuff.

Everyone knows there is a big difference between a company like WeWork and Apple. There is also a big difference between other money losing unicorns that have a path to generating positive cash flow, albeit perhaps at a much smaller valuation.

Consider this is a person who was operating a company with a (SoftBank granted) valuation of a company that should have been throwing off billions of dollars in free cashflow. Instead, this guy had never run a successful or positive cashflow company in his entire life. If you pulled the average person off the street, told them they were extremely smart and successful, and put them in the exact same position as Mr Neumann, I’m going to guess they would be doing things as weird as he was if not much, much stranger.
... and even more often, historical artifacts which built up for no good reasons, but which aren't worth fixing due to everyone knowing it this way.

Music notation is a mess.

I'm not proposing changing it (that would make no sense -- it's good enough), but it's not worth treating as somehow right. Centuries of unplanned historical evolution don't necessarily result in something rational.

To go with your analogy: it's like the legacy software system written in Fortran which runs on VMS. There's a ton of institutional knowledge and good ideas, but a ton of cruft too.
The point is to select for diversity for the purpose of diversity, not for the purpose of academic potential.

Selecting for prior academic success is a good way to predict future academic success — your analogy about encryption makes no sense at all. Academic success doesn’t fail in any of the same ways that encryption does.

But the problem is that selecting for prior academic success does not select for diversity, because the environments which support early adolescent academic success are not as diverse as colleges want their own student populations to be.

So colleges are left trying to increase the diversity of incoming freshman by passing over more academically successful candidates which don’t meet their diversity quotas.

There is tremendous value in having a diverse campus population, but the best way to get there is to have diverse academically successful applicants. Colleges aren’t willing to wait.

One problem is that these applicants are also generally paying a lot of money to attend these colleges, and if they ultimately aren’t going to be successful those colleges are causing significant harm by admitting them.

Note that one of the primary purposes of the SAT is to predict success in the first two years of college.

The not very good alternative is to lower academic standards in the classes themselves, and certainly there is anecdotal evidence of this but I’m not sure about rigorous studies.
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“Would she really have wanted it stolen..?”

The painting is inscribed “pray for the painter” and anything that would bring that message to more people is what she would want.
I'm not really sure what your point was intended to be in your first paragraph.

"I'm worried about ubiquitous drone-enabled surveillance."
"Well, it's legal."

I don't really see how that addresses any concern.
IWATANI: The algorithm for the four ghosts who are the enemies of the Pac Man–getting all the movements lined up correctly. It was tricky because the monster movements are quite complex. This is the heart of the game. I wanted each ghostly enemy to have a specific character and its own particular movements, so they weren’t all just chasing after Pac Man in single file, which would have been tiresome and flat. One of them, the red one called Blinky, did chase directly after Pac Man. The second ghost is positioned at a point a few dots in front of Pac Man’s mouth. That is his position. If Pac Man is in the center then Monster A and Monster B are equidistant from him, but each moves independently, almost “sandwiching” him. The other ghosts move more at random. That way they get closer to Pac Man in a natural way.

When a human being is constantly under attack like this, he becomes discouraged. So we developed the wave-patterned attack–attack then disperse; as time goes by the ghosts regroup and attack again. Gradually the peaks and valleys in the curve of the wave become less pronounced so that the ghosts attack more frequently.

I always found the ghosts algorithms fascinating: the pac man dossier has interesting graphical representations of them

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132330/the_pacman_dos...
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No one is ignorant of the role of the Bible in forming societal values - certainly not atheists, non-Christians or the non-religious.

Atheists and the non-religious follow the Bible because it does offer useful moral and ethical teachings (along with many other religious and non-religious texts.) and because many modern (primarily American Southern) Christians have adopted a literalist interpretation of the Bible, and it's easier to ridicule such people by pointing out how little coherence and sense the Bible actually has when read from that perspective.

Where atheists, non-Christians and the non-religious disagree with Christians is in the insistence of the latter that the Bible is the only valid source of morality, that it is perfect, inerrant and immutable (in other words, that Biblical morality cannot evolve as societies progress, despite the fact that it does) and that morality presupposes Christian theism (the oft-repeated but utterly false narrative that atheism is nihilism and atheists are incapable of morality.)
I know very little about automotive engineering, but I would suspect that cars are built to withstand impacts on the X-Y axis, not the Z-axis.
It seems like he’s pretty confidant he’ll be able to instill unwavering values in his family though.

I wonder which of those is more likely, but they both seem pretty fantastical.
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There is not really anything wrong with having a family business. Many of the German automobile makers are run that way. In this day and age where pump-and-dump short term trading often prevails, the security benefits of limiting the power of public shares often seem worth considering. Indeed the market has spoken on Wework, as it always does, but it had little to do with this. It had to do with him flying around in things the company could not afford.
> It's convinience vs purity.

I doubt about the convenience part. With more moving parts, you sooner or later run into problems you couldn't anticipate. I'd rephrase it as "immediate and deceptive feeling of convenience vs. purity and convenience"
This is how I feel about front end frameworks. I understand the benefits for large projects, although I still wouldn't want to do that work myself. I have some small personal projects in vanilla JS, and they're a few hundred lines in 3-4 files.

They will continue to function for the foreseeable future, with zero build process, no node_modules directory full of tens of thousands of garbage files, no transpiler or bundler version issues, and almost no overhead in understanding the code, even for a bug fix 5 years down the line.

But, I still get funny looks if I tell my front-end friends all this. Sometimes I feel a little crazy.
I went to Santa Clara University for my Master’s degree. People who never showed up got B’s for their final grade. It made me ashamed to get my degree there.
Semi related but there was an article on here or slash about that re-watching thing. Part of it is because they "miss" so much when watching it that it is almost like "watching it again for the first time". I wish my Google fu was working because it was a neat article about young brain development and such.
Not necessarily a universal solution, but our family primarily shops at Aldi. You have to pay for bags, so you either bring your own or use the empty cardboard boxes from stocking the goods.
Huh. Intercontinental flights are pretty carbon expensive... still doesn't add that much on the price though, not even twice as much even if you go for the cheapest flight conceivable.

I wish I could add carbon expenditure to flight price searches.
For example, for web development, there is a lot of introductory content but there is very little in-depth advanced content published by editors. Advanced content is usually self-published.

And not because people are not looking for that, but because it's not profitable for editors to do several books on the same topic at different levels of difficulty.

What they want is another introductory book on another topic, as they know that is what sells better.

An author getting royalties from advanced books would not be able to make a living, but by self-publishing this becomes much more feasible.
Sounds like a really useful signal detector then.
The non-removable fuse is probably there so that in case of a fault you have a non-functional fridge instead of a burnt down house.
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