skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It has nothing to do with facts like the ones you've stated above.

I don't think I can agree with this. When dealing with one group who is using facts to push a narrative/conclusion you think is false, it can become quite easy to push back without outright lies. Once misleading facts have been introduced into a discussion, the level of civility drops. That opens the door for the further drop into outright lies. Especially if one side feels they are less versed in manipulating statistics.

I've spoken to many people who view lies of omission as being just as dishonest as outright lying, especially when done to manipulate someone (normally this involves when a child has lied to their parents and isn't related to anything political). As such, a lie of omission or selectively using facts has now introduced dishonesty into the conversation, making the other side feel like they are just using the standard that was already been set.

>It ruins the ability to have a real debate in a society, and I think it harmed America (not only of course) greatly.

I feel this occurs as soon as someone starts relying on presenting facts to push a certain narrative because it sends the message that it is now acceptable to have a dishonest conversation. At that point, any discussion changes into a matter of winning at any cost.
Whether or not death is reversible, this lends a lot of credence to cryo-suspension when near death. This proves clearly that an inactive brain reboot is possible, though to what extent memories or identity will be retained is unclear.

Even if the brain is restorable with about as much damage as stroke victim (which is a lot) this is still interesting.
Most people are okay with violence, though they might disagree with who gets to have a monopoly on violence. Police are allow to attack and be violent. Same with military organizations of different countries.

Most people have a really, really difficult time conceptualizing that an individual might be as legitimate as a group of individuals (government) when it comes to rights, including the right to employ a violent defense.
I think the compilation speed and goroutines/CSP enticed a lot of people, as well. Those are or were Go's unique selling points IMO
Plants can be parasites, practice deceit, produce poisons to kill animals and other competing plants, kill other plants by strangultion as well (and likely other ways). Perhaps that was your point and I missed it.
Biotech is a giant field, so it really depends what you want to do. I did my undergrad in CS but spent the past ~4 years working at a molecular diagnostics startup, where I do software engineering/stats/machine learning work. Along the way, I learned a fair deal of biology, the fundamentals of the molecular assays we work with, but more importantly the skills fundamental to science (inquiry, designing experiments, generating new knowledge, skepticism, etc.). Honestly, the biggest transition from CS -> sciences is not the specific biology or understanding of experimental techniques, but rather learning how to think like a scientist. These are skills you probably will not have if you come from a strictly programming background.

If you are really serious about starting a biotech company, you will need to get a PhD in an applied or natural science or work at an immature startup with a team of PhDs thats needs programming help and you can hopefully learn the 'scientific' skills you need along the way. If you restrict the space of companies you want to start to be strictly in the bioinformatics space, then you can probably bypass the PhD route, but you'll need to get a job doing that sort of work at a startup. Job descriptions for those roles should tell you what specific skills you would need for that. Also, I would highly recommend becoming good at stats. Thats fundamental to any path you go down, and can be another way for you to provide immediate value to others.
I guess this applies to reported content, and maybe for content for wider audience (like public post / group / ...)?

I.e. if you send eggplant to your GF via chat, and she does not report you, it's fine. But if she receives private eggplant sex message from some rando and she report him, that should count as violation.
> I hope the US creates a sovereign wealth fund.

Umm, and where would that "wealth" come from?? The US national debt is over 22 trillion dollars.
Then you should look into IPFS :)

https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
how about https://www.researchgate.net/?
The key factor is the arbitrary sexual moral of the country where FB is headquartered.
I think you have an interesting product, but I'm having serious issues with your marketing.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. How many of your estimated treatment effects have been supported by experiments? Do you have experiments demonstrating that your model generalizes? How accurate are your estimates compared to experimental results?

It's ironic that you're marketing a causal + analytics product without any data. Generating a narrative and basing it off of observational data is the typical trap that many causal claims fall into. Portraying yourselves as statistical experts and pushing unsubstantiated claims is misleading bordering on unethical.
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So we're finally finding out where the zombies are going to come from.
Yes, a single sentence on the event is probably what he was asking for, thank you.
Early adopters of a language tend to be relatively highly skilled and tend to write better code, while when language becomes enormously popular the majority of software written in it tends to revert to the mean.
Our company manages quarterly OKRs poorly.
> dependency injection [is an] anti-pattern.
> injection of dependencies should be done via an explicit method/constructor parameter

The second sentence seems to invalidate the first (and I agree with the second but not the first). If you're injecting dependencies using language features, you're still doing dependency injection - and doing it a lot better than the useless Spring "framework".
Does Lex Fridman show have a community/comment section somewhere? Or just on Twitter?

I don't work with AI but that's a must-listen to podcast these days.
>This sounds so obnoxious and short-sighted.

The intent is to be obnoxious. But I'm not seeing how it's short sighted.

>If I own a business that doesn't align with your values, it's one thing to boycott and protest my business. It's another thing to follow me around to a restaurant, dentist, or park to protest my business decisions.

The size of the organization matters. It's much easier to completely shutdown "Dave's Coffee Shop" after they find out Dave supports the KKK. But to seriously impact a multi-billion dollar company with millions of users would require a large coordinated effort....which is unlikely to occur. So as we've seen in the past, status quo will be maintained.

>You're disturbing the enjoyment of those places for other people who might have nothing to do with my decisions. I suppose spouses, children and even extended family should have to endure this as well?

If we want results, we must exploit people's weaknesses. You want it to stop? Stop the decisions people are unhappy with. No is forcing these executives to work. Don't like what you're being subjected, and you don't have the power to change it? Then quit!
>Who is the "they?" The rank and file employees who had nothing to do with this decision?"

Yes, them. Exactly them. They're likely going to be faced with protestors and other types of pushback, and it seems rational to not look forward to that. They're at the event representing their company, and so they must face the conequences of those decisions.

They should not, themselves, be directly blamed, but it's their job to front for the company, and that won't be a comfortable thing to do right now. Now though, if they decide to keep working for the company, they are complicit In it's actions because now they know better. I wouldn't expect them all to quit at once, but if they don't start looking around for other opportunities then they share an increasing part of the blame.

We all face this in our work. Decisions we disagree with, we must decide if it's something we can live with it not. If we decide we can live it then some level of culpability accrues to us. Certainly this can be mitigated by working to change things from within, but it's still a factor.
Can't use eggplant emoji sexually, can post completely topless photo/video breastfeeding as a woman, can not post completely topless photo/video as a woman, sexually suggestive cartoon still images are arbitrarily allowed/removed, sexually suggestive art or art depicting nudity you made is often removed unless the genitals and female nipples are covered (including tattoos that depict nudity), sexually explicit art from a world famous artist like a famous painting or sculpture is fine...

In a former life I've even seen but I've seen friends' burlesque posters/flyers with cartoon nudity be removed if they don't have pasties drawn on nipples or the nipples airbrushed (yet throw a baroque painting with far more detail/realism up and it's ok) out and numerous performers that have had actual photographs of them removed even when they DID have pasties on.

Seriously, women wearing amply sized pasties has been a no-go "violating community standards" but you could post something like Reubens' The Judgement of Paris and that's fine because it's a 17th century painting worth mind boggling amounts of money and is tasteful art.

Facebook reaaalllly needs to get consistent with what they do or do not allow.
Totally agree. Toastmasters got me from barely being able to speak before a group to a point where I have no problems giving presentations before anybody. One of the best things I ever did in life.
I generally speak like this and find it causes problems with others because they view this as a weak form of speech. It makes you appear uncertain, which should be a good thing, but our society seems to value undeserved confidence far above cautious uncertainty.
You can wander around with your toddler without waking folks up.
Yup, I was about to suggest this before noticing that it had already been said.

It is remarkable how many of the top domain that show up on search (amazon, ebay, others) have little or nothing to do with long-tail search terms.
In a sense, we do this already in the form of billions in all kinds of grants.
The real issue with FB and Twitter is the news feed algorithms, not the paid content.

The inciting incident that gave rise to the concerns is simply that Trump won. Only a tiny fraction of the reach that Trump obtained via FB and Twitter was paid advertising.

Most of the reach that benefitted Trump was simply the algorithm amplifying journalistic stories (mostly negative) that allowed Trump to dog whistle effectively.

Imagine someone with 800 FB friends who shares an article from, the NYT or Huffpost that is harshly critical of Trump for saying something that comes across as racist. There are three broad categories to characterize those who see the shared content:

a) people who are in the target audience of the article, who dislike Trump, who expected him to be racist, and who consider the article further proof (and vindication) of their view

b) people who read the coverage and find it unfair to Trump, even if they agree with the gist.

c) people who actually agree with the racist view Trump is alleged to have expressed.

If the user sharing the article has 800 friends, most are probably in group a, but Trump benefits from any friends the user has who are in groups b or c. To them, the article reinforces their support for Trump or their view that the coverage was unfair.

For those who view the coverage as unfair, a steady stream of similarly unfair-seeming articles makes them effectively immune to negative press about Trump. In 2019 many of Trump's supporters are in this group. When Trump describes "fake news" he is appealing to this group. The reach that benefits Trump may be 100 of the 800 friends, and it cost Trump's campaign nothing. Trump triggered these kinds of signaling cascades many, many times during the 2016 campaign.

Sadly, the biggest problem is reporting that is not journalism but in-group focused entertainment writing. Many of the "most shared" articles from major papers are not thorough, in-depth stories, they are light on journalism and heavy on in-group signaling. It is this kind of article that helps Trump the most, for the aforementioned reasons.

These are also the kinds of articles that get the most clicks and generate the most revenue for the paper.
I've been using it for about 6 months now, backing up my home directory 3-4 times per week to an external HD. Would also agree that it's fast, easy to use, and also easy to recover files. I'd add that the documentation is really well written.
If cypressrecorder is not working for anyone, try adding the www:

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And our github:
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Mostly agree with you, but I would just like to point out that it might be that some of those founders would have done prudent and useful things if they had been given 1/10th the amount of money. Just like Softbank, they may have felt the pressure to spend that money somehow.

I don't know enough about Adam Neumann to say, and the current media environment for him is too negative for me to get an unbiased opinion. Maybe he was always going to be an unwise investment. But it is just possible that he (and Uber, and Lyft, and Peloton, and...) would have built productive, profitable companies if they had not felt they had to somehow justify being given 10x the amount of money they deserved.
They do allow female nipples, if breastfeeding. I've seen numerous breastfeeding videos/photos get shared with nipple exposed or one of the two breasts completely exposed and report them just to see what will happen, they are always allowed to remain stating it does not violate the community standards.

Similarly they seem to allow people to post comments like "why don't you use your guns to kill yourself" and "I hope you f*cking die" which are actual comments I've had when commenting on posts where the second amendment is being attacked, report them, and get facebook telling me an hour or days later that they did not violate community standards. I even had some in my messenger inbox before and got the blah blah blah it's ok, you can block them if you want message.
Apple unilaterally decided that the pistol emoji actually refers to a water pistol. Most other vendors followed suit a year or two later. IMO this was an incredibly stupid thing to do. Someone on iOS could text their classmate something innocuous like "Can't wait for the school's field trip to the water park tomorrow!<gun emoji>". If the recipient was also on iOS, they'd see a squirt gun. If the classmate was on Android, they'd get a very different impression.

Side note, does HN not support non-ASCII characters? It looks like the actual emoji was stripped from my comment
Same old argument. Why isn't everything legal then? Why not make all explosives legal? Nuclear weapons?
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what even is unlimited? there is a finite amout of time in a month, and a finite amount of throughput per second.

xGbps*2.628e+6s is already your max.
Wait a minute, your test code spins up a SERVER? Dear God, that’s just horrible… Sorry, man, but that’s just… horrible.
Airplay works pretty okay. Bandwidth and latency can reduce quality substantially though.
What does this have to do with the artice? You've had luck with Airbnb. You're just saying oh it's a company fraught with fraud and deception since its inception, but that's fine. My kids get their own room.

This company has no moral compass. Why are you advertising for it? Distracting from the reality of the company described in the article?

You know it has illegally ruined communities in the name of profit, right?
In my experience no. But it puts the renter at a disadvantage. I have had them cancel 5 days before my flight to a small island. Least to say it was extremely expensive to rebook a new room that matched the "quality" of the airbnb I was expecting. Of course if I had cancelled 5 days before I would have been on the hook for half the amount of the stay and the service fees, due to the cancellation policy the host choose (Do the host choose these?).
Does this seem really incongruous to anyone else? It's like a biologist hears something about Linux, and asks about how he can start writing kernel patches having never coded anything in his life. It seems like there's an underlying assumption that computer science >> all other sciences, as if the abstract logic of computer programming is a substitute for basic domain knowledge in other fields, often built over hundreds of years.
I want a plot of land. I want to plant trees and see them grow. I want to grow my own apples; Finnish apples are second to none and you can't buy them in a grocery store. I want to grow berries, vegetables, flowers, birds, butterflies. I'd like to have a piece of forest too, though mainly for sake of preservation and relaxation. Maybe as a source of firewood for sauna.

I also want to make music, and possibly do other arts.
I can’t argue with your broader point, but as for “well last week you said”: there are large amounts of various greenhouse gasses being added to the atmosphere; nobody has identified all all the sources but there is continual work on reducing the amount of “unknown”. So it’s not like this result discounts any other study or claim.
“I transformed my life by participating in Toastmasters for about a year an a half. ”

Same here. The time investment is quite small compared to what you can get out of it. my main regret is that I didn’t learn about toastmasters when I was 18. My life could have gone quite differently.
> But my power was nothing compared to that of a company valued this year at $35 billion...

It may not recover their loss, but the author wields significant power with this article. For example, I’ll never again consider staying at an AirBnB property. I would caveat that to add “until they fix the problems with their platform”, but I don’t think it’s necessary because (a) I’m not sure they _can_ at their scale, and (b) it certainly doesn’t seem like they _care_.

Sure, I’m only one guy, but this is not the kind of press a company wants before they go public.
The backup server should have information about when a particular backup was made, it should be able to prune based on backup date without having the ability to read any of the data inside the backup.
Is copying your brain into another body == bringing you back to life?

The game SOMA explores a lot of the topics being brought up in this discussion:

https://www.gog.com/game/soma
>264 APM

Actually 792 APM. They limited their AI to 264 "things" (choose unit+ability+target or change view) per minute. Each "thing" can be counted as between 0-3 actions by starcraft. So it really has a peak APM limit of 792.

From the article:

>Agents were capped at a max of 22 agent actions per 5 seconds, where one agent action corresponds to a selection, an ability and a target unit or point, which counts as up to 3 actions towards the in-game APM counter. Moving the camera also counts as an agent action, despite not being counted towards APM.

But from replays it has an average APM of 248 at the highest, so nothing crazy going on. Plenty of pros have peak APMs during fights that are higher than 800.
> If you are told that, is simple. You are being lied (and pretty gullible).

Maybe I’m being lied, and maybe I’m too gullible, but it’s a hard sell to say that everything is fine and dandy on Spain.

Just this year you had quite a scandal with the supreme court changing a decision about mortgage taxes by quite a margin. Not forget that your current foreign affairs minister got caught red handed trading with inside information, something that warrants jail in all other western countries.
Cannot blame the Saudis one bit, but...this might be the sound of a tech investment bubble bursting. Which means many of the readers of HN, even the ones like me who never worked at a SB-backed company, will find the employment market in 2020 to be much less favorable than it has been in 2019.
> I wouldn't necessarily say that people go to office hours just to get to know their professors, that would be presumptuous.

This. I was a teacher's assistant in college for 3 years for the introductory programming courses, and most years there were only a handful of students who bothered coming to my office hours.

One semester in particular stands out, one student came in every single week, not directly for help, but because class was during her part-time job and as a single mother she had no free time at home. It was the only chance she had to get an overview of the lesson (she had a good mind for the topic and didn't need much instruction from me) and complete the assignments each week. Just being in the same room like that for extended periods, conversations tend to wander - or outside life intrudes through phone calls - hence how I know what her situation was.
I think it is because evolving further in those areas inevitably could expose AirBnB to information they are happy to be ignorant of / responsible for.

A lot of tech companies, including AirBnB operate by passing risk / responsibility off onto everyone else (the host, the customer) and thus saving AirBnB a great deal of time / money.
What a moving story. Thank you for posting it.
The NSF regularly gives grants for no equity https://seedfund.nsf.gov/

You could do something like that, but broaden the requirements to include all tech (not just science or high tech), and take equity.

The gov't would also be in a much better position to hire scouts across the country, hence democratizing access to funding.
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At the top of the HN front page the 'Y' logo links to 'https://news.ycombinator.com', but the 'Hacker News' title links to 'news' (expanded to https://news.ycombinator.com/news). Why is that?

From the page source:

* 'Y' logo - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com"><img src="y18.gif" width="18" height="18" style="border:1px white solid;"></a>

* 'Hacker News' title - <a href="news">Hacker News</a>
Softbank spent $18 billion according to Marcelo Claure.[1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/24/softbank-notes-it-has-now-...
As far as I know, IPFS objects are immutable. Is your suggestion that I publish some sort of index containing all of the IPFS links to my backups, and then my friends can automate pinning those links? I think that could work, but it would be pretty bandwidth intensive since there would be no deduplication (I'd have to also encrypt since I wouldn't want everyone to have my files).
yeah if anything Walmart explicitly disproves this statement. Also see Dollar General et. al, Comcast, AT&T etc..
I also don't understand why there's no lock that integrates with the app. Getting into Airbnbs is consistently inconsistent and confusing.
>I don't know what the legal status of mod/spinoffs is.

No one did. Blizzard's failed lawsuit established precedent. Now we know.

>Could I sell my own Mario fanhack game?

If you are using any assets from the original without permisison, or any copyrighted names/characters, no.