skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instagram and WhatsApp are the bought step kids of facebook and by all indications(ok just hearsay) are more relevant(read popular) than the original product i.e. the facebook. A sound investment but I can imagine how it feels for Zuckerberg. While recently trying to advertise on Instagram it became evident how desperately facebook wants to put itself in front of these products and brands. I kind of understand at a personal level but at the business level it doesn't make so much sense. I almost feel sorry for Zuckerberg. Actually I don't ;-)
Thinkpads have much nicer keyboards. I also never use the trackpad for anything, and turn it off immediately. I guess don't conflate what is good for you, as good for everyone.
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Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar and especially not by posting flamewar tropes.

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21440369 and marked it off-topic.
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Yep. That was really bad on Reddit during the election. If you even broached certain topics about Hillary, it was downvoted/flagged right away. Then the day after the election, Those topics actually came up.
it's ridiculous how blatant it all is, to the point that even in modern media (e.g tv show Succession) pokes at all the cancer this stuff produces and its one of those things most people are like "yep its happening" but there is nothing being done to stop any of it. ive stopped using facebook/twitter ages ago. that stuff is the downfall of modern society
Ultimately, it seems like there are two different Apple TV products, but not more than that.

There's the device, and there's the app/service. The difference from Netflix is that Netflix doesn't sell hardware also called Netflix.
Wait, omit-frame-pointer has been the default on GCC x86_64 for a while now, even in debug build. The debugger is supposed to use unwind tables to to traverse the stack. Am I missing something?
In my experience, there is a non-zero chance that a kernel update will render the system unable to start the display driver.
Things may have improved in the last couple years, but I switched to AMD and never looked back.
> They have to verify your identity somehow, or anyone could get at the data.

Yes, but the mere fact that I possess a photocopy of my drivers license does not prove that I'm me. That is manifestly true because they now possess a photocopy of my drivers license and they are not me.
I imagine none of you or the GP is talking about in-database cursors, that you open in SQL, use on the same SQL script, close at the end of the script and move along. There isn't really a problem inherent to those, and they stay non-problematic if you are writing your database scripts on Python, C, or whatever.

For a server reading and writing from/on a database, you paginate your queries. On Postgres that would be using "limit" and doing small bulk inserts, but under Oracle your options for inserting are limited, so there is still value on cursors.

There is the odd occasion where you'll will iterate through the entire results set, do something fast for each and every row, and only get something useful on the end. Those are classic problems where cursors are more efficient than the alternatives. But even on those, once you add error handling and recovering may yield better results with pagination.
I think you’re trivializing the difficulty in categorizing the low quality, and extremely brief, comments of social media.

Go look at a political subreddit, or some controversial tweet. There’s little conversation or context. Most users could be bots.

Google often has the advantage of having hard (url) or soft (product/key word mention) links that point to something extremely rare and “unimportant”. Everyone is bitching about politicians and policy in a way that’s not far from a Markov chain.
> Nobody remembers them for ever

Actually I always thought the opposite - if you started programming in the 80’s (maybe early 90’s), you had to write sort algorithms and you had to study them in college, so you’re going to be bound to remember them at least well enough to come up with the “base case” (i.e. bubble sort). I do assume that younger programmers, especially self-taught types, probably haven’t come across these to if they did, it was one lecture, once, ten years ago, memorized and forgotten because they never applied it again.
Ask HN: What IT certifications should I get for my degree?
I have my B.A. in Computer Information Systems with a focus on Networking and Security. I've been applying for jobs for almost an entire year with no luck so I'm looking into getting some certifications but not sure which ones exist that I should get nor do I know which organizations to trust to take the tests with or which study materials to get that will have all the information needed to past said exams/certification tests.

Any helpful information will be greatly appreciated!
...and Roadside Picnic.
I know it is easy to be cynical on these types of "announcements", but I am having a really, really hard time understanding how curved strokes (or any branding decision) can result in empathy or "open space for peoples stories".

Empathy is a human characteristic. To think that a word mark can have (or even create) it is patently ridiculous. In fact, I'd say it cheapens the meaning of the word to the point where true empathy means less.

This press release contains a type of language specific to our current time that will age like milk.
I don't know why this comment was downvoted for trying to provide clarity, because I too, started scanning OP's reply in search of a meaning for that acronym that appeared from thin air. If someone disagrees then they should simply state what they think is the correct definition. But in my opinion this comment contributes value by making it clear that not everybody is familiar with this jargon.
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You should have written a paper.
LA should focus on its massive homeless problem. 50,000 people sleep on the streets every night in LA.
The butterfly keyboard is a pain to type anything long on, my x1 carbon work laptop's keyboard feels so much better.
> Articles like this fall into one of two categories: either paid promotion by the author, or the author's unwitting corroboration of Epic's marketing with this game.

> It's designed from it's core to have as much mass appeal as possible and the barrier to entry is downloading Epic's launcher, so naturally it's popularity is off the charts.

There's ten gazillion cynical, manipulative free-to-play games out there. None of them blew up like Fortnite. When it first launched, the gaming press was genuinely excited about it. It was the first really polished, professional entry in the (effectively) brand-new battle royale genre, finally pulling away from the jankiness and generic brown "realistic military" look of PUBG and its mod predecessors.

The game has become inextricable from the social phenomenon, at this point. It was mostly luck and good timing that pushed into into mega-success territory. But it was never bad or even mediocre.

Edit: Basically I'm saying that it's pretty silly to assume that just because you don't like something, anyone who does like it must be either an idiot or a shill.
I think you misunderstand HIPAA. As long as they have a business associate agreement with the pharmacies and serve some vaguely care-adjacent purpose, the pharmacy can share your data with them without your knowledge or consent.
It looks to be using Wordpress (at least for the front end code, and why would you only use WP for that?). I see lots of references to Visual Composer.
No, instead Bitcoin forks: https://www.forks.net/list/Bitcoin/
>when the tests all pass, you’re done

>Every TDD advocate I have ever met has repeated this verbatim, with the same hollow-eyed conviction.

My experience has been much different, in that I've never heard this mantra. I have heard for years 'Red, green, refactor'.

I question what it is the author is railing against, as it doesnt seem to be the TDD that I'm familiar with.
Just wondering, why the carbon? The X395 is equally light, and you can actually replace things.
Would you please not take HN threads further into flamewar? And especially please don't break the site guidelines by calling names like "ignorant pandering". We ban accounts that do those things.

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I think it's more complicated than that though.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-los-angeles-sco...

> The data would not include a rider’s name, but even in sprawling metropolitan areas, paths between home, work and school are typically unique, experts say. Someone with basic coding skills and access to the data could easily connect a trip to an individual person.

> “This data is incredibly, incredibly sensitive,” said Jeremy Gillula, the technology projects director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based digital rights group.
That's true in coastal America too from what I can tell.
Isn't that one of the selling points of Rails? Time to market is king. Optimize your SQL query performance after you've released and proven that it's an actual bottleneck. Why spend more time and money on an optimized product that might never see the light of day?
While you might be able to infer what a certain endpoint does based on context. For example:

POST https://api.stripe.com/v1/charges will create a CC charge

POST https://api.lob.com/v1/letters will mail a letter

There's no way you know what the parameters to each endpoint are without proper documentation. If the API has good validation you might be able to make a request work but you won't know the full extent of the APIs capabilities without documentation.
You're also not tied to any particular vendor with a pure software approach.
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The only thing holding back remote work is leadership's ego. Remote is cheaper, more productive and healthier yet there's something about walking through an open office and not seeing a buzz of activity that makes leadership feel like nothing is happening.
I wonder what it takes to have more than 16GB of RAM in these "for developers" laptops.
I really like the form factor and the fact that it works well with Linux out of the box, but I am sure I will regret buying a laptop with 16GB of soldered memory in 2019.
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I have all of your personal data. But it's OK; I don't share it with anyone outside the Milky Way Galaxy.

At least, it will take a while for our radio transmissions to reach that far. By the time it does reach another galaxy it will be a part of history.
No clue if it's still in development but I recall a FPS where successfully hitting an enemy increased your size and decreased theirs. If you got a headshot, your head is now bigger and your opponent is now smaller. It seemed like a goofy way to level the playing field. That giant guy running around is probably at the top of the leaderboards right now. May have just been a gamejam project but looked neat.
I'm a Midwestern transplant into the South, and a significant proportion of the anti-welfare sentiment around here seems to me to be incredibly racist, plastered over with language that has been carefully scrubbed of any mention of race. And that poisons federal politics.

The fear is there, but to me it looks like white people afraid that some black people or brown people might earn the same money for the same work, or get equal representation in government. And it's all apparently justified in the politically segregated religious congregations.

There's that "if you didn't work for it, you don't deserve it" attitude, but it also combines with "whatever you have, you got because you deserved it" attitude. It's very fatalistic, and completely discounts the possibility that injustice exists in society, and that some humans actively create it for their own personal benefit.

It also seems like more of the social bonding activities are inherently organized around pre-existing in-groups and clique-sorting than I remember from more northerly cities. I had been accustomed to events organized around public schools, their intramural organizations, public libraries, chambers of commerce events, and city sports leagues in public recreation facilities--one thing, open to all residents--but in the South, they have entirely different networks organized through churches and private clubs, which are heavily segregated by political views, if not by race.

This leads to a lot of information asymmetry, and irrational beliefs or disinformation propagated through channels that are difficult for outsiders to monitor. So white blue-collar workers get propagandized against unions and democratic socialism. They are constantly being lied to, and subjected to rhetorical distractions. Black people go to different churches, so they aren't as politically self-defeating, but they get institutionally disenfranchised instead. Having lived in Chicago, Illinois, I recognize political corruption, and they definitely have it here.
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Read-and-edit? First time I have seen someone interpret it like that. Read it. As in I have already 'read it"
Worse still, the resources in schools are (for perhaps obvious reasons) only aimed at those who autism stops them learning/makes it difficult to learn. If you're on the spectrum and can do decently well at the curriculum but struggle socially/with general anxiety/etc, then you're often on your own.

This is the situation I was in at school/college/university. Meanwhile when you leave education, the same situation applies there too; the organisations and resources seem to mostly be focused on making sure someone on the spectrum is employed/not homeless, with zero real thought towards their general wellbeing.
That's true. I wrote that because I was thinking specifically about the concept of the PMC and the estimate I recall reading in the WikiPedia article.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional-managerial_class
Your last sentence does not seem right to me, and it also seems to be phrased in a disingenuous way. "punishing companies for not serving some greater democratic service" is a very weird way to describe a legitimate worry about consolidation of private power (which, by the way, has a very long history).

Of course, healthy competition & pricing is a core issue here (duh). But power, in all its forms, is also a key issue. The founding fathers were very concerned about a corporation gaining too much power and interfering with democracy [1].

In addition, Facebook is constantly engaged in anti-competitive and unacceptable behavior, including buying multiple competitors (anti-competitive) and lying about its product (the recent inflated-ad-views scandal, which was literally a scam). The antitrust case against fb is complicated by the nature of the business, but there are plenty of very good reasons for the gov to investigate fb for antitrust violations [2].

Matt Stoller has done some good writing on monopoly, so has Binyamin Appelbaum. Both of them have books worth reading.

[1]: In 1816, Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, said he hoped to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." (https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Angela-Carell...)

[2]: https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...
> For me, I find that the majority of everyday linux problems all boil down to trying to install or update some kind of software. Either software you already have has a bugfix or feature you want in the newest update, or you have some new software you want to install.

And yet the Linux Desktop community insists on sticking with the package manager/repo model that makes stuff like this such a pain. Worse, it's actively hostile to the concept of portable applications in general.
select_related caught me when I first started using Django. It's a sneaky one because the queries worked fine when I first wrote the program. Then I started populating the database and, over the course of months, the queries got slower and slower and slower.

Eventually I was forced to pop open the hood and horrified to find this spaghetti bowl of nested, duplicate queries that took a fair bit of work to simplify and optimize. I was not so lucky as to have a DBA I could dump my problems on and was forced to learn that lesson the hard way.
Can you elaborate how Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/WhatsApp/Google/Microsoft/Apple are approaching power levels of the government?

I know that Facebook + Twitter political ads are "powerful", as well as "fake news" spreading when it is relates to politics. I'd be curious to hear any other examples if you have them.
Yes, storing value is useful, but not storing value doesn't make a currency useless. You can always store value in other ways, by purchasing assets - such as food, or another currency.

It's worth noting that people tend to like to do this anyway, even when the currency is already pretty stable - because a house you can rap your knuckles against feels like a more secure store of value than numbers in a bank.
I think this article is a bit of a stretch.

The smartest thing about lambda is they thought really carefully about their pricing model, what's the optimum price and method of paying for an education, if we're optimising for keeping student and educational institutions' incentives maximally aligned?

I'm not an expert but I think YC answers the same question but in a different context, with different actors.
Thus you are agreeing that the government should get access to every phone calls, because some people may use it for illegal purpose and phone company doesn't regulate their behavior?

If you have an issue with how theses companies operate, stop theses ways of operating, that's all. The solution isn't to deanonymize the userbase.
I don't know who I'm shaking my head at more: the person who bought this nightmare of an alarm clock, or the person who sold it.
That's not what Wikipedia says [1]:

> During the Great Depression, New York had as many as 30,000 cab drivers. With more drivers than passengers, cab drivers were working longer hours, which led to growing public concern over the maintenance and mechanical integrity of taxi vehicles.

Have you re-written history to support Uber's lawlessness?

If the reality is the law was created to protect passengers, then Uber is actually repeating the same mistakes of history. People are hurt. Laws are passed. People are less hurt. People forget why the law was passed. People break the law. People get hurt again. Same thing as the great depression itself, which caused a glut of cabs and then after the 2008 crash, Uber saves the day by doing exactly the same thing: Creating too many cabs such that each cab doesn't make enough money anymore and consumers are at risk and if cars weren't built so much better now than the 1930's perhaps even more so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_New_York_City#1930...

Edit: I see arby's link below. I can see how violence contributed to the medallion system. I still think the use of law in that case is justified to quell the unrest. Yes, perhaps we could have put the violent cabbies in jail too, but would that be better for society than regulation designed to balance the supply / demand curve?

Uber has upset that balance and now we have to write a bunch more laws to regulate Uber, which just seems like a step backwards for those doomed to repeat history.
What do nuclear power trolls look like? I support nuclear power (instead of fossil fuels and in addition to renewables) and, sadly, I haven't got a cent from the nuclear industry yet.
It seems extremely unlikely they will be able to prove much of anything. The Bitcoin markets in particular are extremely complex: lots of disparate exchanges, actors, and entities all vying for a piece of the pie and some of them are not necessarily acting in line with regulations or norms. How can you possibly prove that one entity is responsible for a global phenomenon that happened over a period of several months? How do you even establish evidence that what happened on one exchange affected another?
No, I'm aware of that. However, as far as I know, Tex is largely used in the academia to produce PDFs—I've been told in person that this is the process. (And I'm guessing that it outputs PDFs with text layers because that's what I see.) What I don't know is why anyone would prefer PDFs nowadays instead of more flexible formats, namely something HTML-based in the vein of Epub. I've seen people argue vehemently that PDF's exact formatting is necessary but I fail to see why, when most papers I see differ from Markdown only in having two columns and formulas.

I asked a friend, and apparently some journals are still printed on paper but no one buys them on paper. So the practical reason for the use of PDFs seems to be that people can print them at home to avoid reading from the screen.

One actual reason for non-adoption of HTML, that I can see, is that there's lots of tooling available for collecting, organizing and annotating PDFs. But it doesn't look insurmountable, since files with metadata could just as well be HTML-based, and there are already multiple tools exactly for annotating HTML, only they position themselves for different audiences.
I didn't think it worked that way. After that, can I be the Silent/Greatest Generation?

Maybe the word "Boomer" will just get redefined to mean "old people with more money than me". Kind of the same way "meme" got redefined from "idea permeating society" to "cartoon or cat picture with sarcastic text", and how "troll" got redefined from "someone who tries to antagonize" to "someone who says things I don't agree with".