skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone surprised considering the amount of saudi money flooding around traditional and social media?

Now lets look into israel and their spying/influence in traditional and social media.

It was amazing the amount of "news" and social media spam we got about russia ( We were always at war with eurasia ). It's amazing the amount of "news" and social media spam we are getting about china ( We were always at war with eastasia ).

But one hardly ever hears a peep about israel or saudi arabia. Considering what is happening to the palestinians, yemenis, etc, you would think you'd hear a lot more "news" about them. Especially about saudi arabia from the feminist/lgbt traditional media considering the saudis probably treat women and the lgbt as badly as any nation on earth.

How come the "news" industry isn't going apeshit over more than half of the state and the US house of senate pushing unconstitutional anti-BDS laws?

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/rights-protesters/new-...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-house-overwhelmingly-passes...

A country founded on boycotts banning its corporations from boycotting a foreign country?
It took a large part of modern industry working cooperatively for decades to build the tooling to make ICs. If your commune wants to make a similar effort then there’s nothing stopping you. If you don’t then you’re not entitled to own a chip fab.
did google actually produce the hardware, or was this designed and manufactured by a partner?
Nice, thanks for sharing. It wasn't clear to me whether you cashed in your options. Is there still the chance you could lose that gain if the stock went down?
http2 has push, so you can make a single request (for the friends of a user) and then just push all the users in that response before the client requests it. this all happens over a single connection and leverages all the http infrastructure and experience you already have
I mean the way you make oodles money is taking market share (Uber) or creating new markets (AWS). Both are valid strategies - either take someone else’s customers or create a new way for people to spend money.
that's not how the walrus operator works though.

if x := 3:
print("x is now: ", x)
print("x isn't scoped to the if:",x)
> Plastic straws, browsing history and DNA indexing are white people problems, IMHO.

I can’t imagine what it’s like to dismiss problems based on the ethnic demographics you believe they impact.
I spent $69 on a Daydream headset a month or so ago just to play with it, only to find out it didn't work with my phone. I kept it just in case. Then Google cancelled it. It'd be nice if they opened up that code as well...
>>> Unfortunately, a lot of essays in university lecture courses are graded by underpaid TAs who are skimming quickly, and who might be inclined to give an AI-written essay a D or a C- for effort rather than recognizing it as fraud.

This raises an interesting point, which is that there seems to be a relationship between essay-writing and essay-reading. The students are able to cheat on essay-writing because the school is already cheating on essay-reading.

If we reach a point where essay-writing is unnecessary because it can be done by machine, it's a safe bet that essay-reading will also be done by machine. What will be the point of writing me an essay, if it's just a function of a prompt? Why not just send me the prompt?

Then professors will start to teach and assign the writing of prompts for essay-writing machines. "Write a prompt in less than 25 words that persuades analog31 to approve your project." And someone will come up with a prompt-writing machine, and a prompt-reading machine.
More studies on the topic with microscopic images: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4624768/
"It's the logical equivalent of having a political movement to ask for better snacks in the kitchen."

But if that mattered, you would need a political movement, because anyone reasonable is not going to make snacks a dealbreaker for accepting a job offer. Where's the mechanism for companies to compete? People imagine competition exists much more broadly, but you only get to choose between jobs as a package, and only when you have multiple offers in a brief window.
Yes, it's been an incredibly valuable tool for me. I get the most out of the host monitoring and the logging / alerting. The APM is nice, but I'm not using it nearly as much as the other pieces.

Just getting logging centralized alone has saved me tons of time, which is in turn more time spent on the product. I've been able to use the log parsing to setup metrics that tell me when an outside integration is acting up and isolate which paths. Take a day to really learn how their logs work and you'll be able to generate metrics / advanced event alerting in no time.

I was hesitant to pay the premium, but the peace of mind has been worth it. You can piece the same thing together with open source tooling. But then you've got another thing to manage.
> “Relative deprivation” is having less access to material goods and services than others in one’s social milieu.

I cannot buy a yacht, while some rich guys can. Therefore I'm relatively deprived, according to that definition. That's not a problem.
how would that make movies indistinguishable from each other?
I bought an Oculus Rift devkit and later the full version and loved it, but I actually have doubts about it only being a content problem. VR has some inherent problems (lack of any outside visibility, motion sickness, space restrictions) that are hard to solve and keep many people away from it.
For me it only really worked in racing games where i was not moving at all and even then it is quite exhausting.
I worked with the Tango tablet a bit when it was released as a dev kit, and it worked decently well (as far as I remember). The biggest problem seemed to be that it never really got past the "dev kit" stage, as far as I'm aware. I'd guess that behind their decision was the fact that there were (and still are) very few use cases for phone/tablet AR that are useful to the consumer market - in a lot of ways it's still a toy. (that's not to say it's useless - I could name a bunch of important niche use cases - but only that I haven't seen a compelling mass-market need)
"The International Building Code, which is used in 49 states and Washington D.C., has no requirements for a bedroom to have a closet." https://buyersask.com/edu/code/does-a-bedroom-require-a-clos...

I keep seeing rumors that there are localities that require a closet, but no one ever actually names them.

It may be a persistent rumor in your locality as well.
Is this assessment (reviews over papers) based on your own experience?

As a scientist I would say quite the opposity is the case, reviews are sloppy in citations, per editorial guidelines have to be written in a positive optimistic tone, and often overstate the claims of the cited articles.
Trend Micro customers received scam calls after employee sold customer details
What I would like to see is forest. My ideal future: fusion power, lab-grown meat, and lots of trees.
To be fair, I've worked for a company that initially staffed people on all shifts round the clock, and hand-offs from one shift to another are an issue.

Eventually they realized they could just have people on days in the US and an opposite schedule in India instead of three US shifts. But communication certainly didn't improve.
There's really no part of his assassination that needs a connection to Twitter to explain.
What are good examples?
> Can I pay someone to monitor my AWS deploy and make sure it's healthy?

Yes. There are consulting shops that will do this, as will many of the monitoring tools listed in the thread (though these tools will not fix the problem for you). Broadly speaking, there is a cost associated with this, as well as the cost associated with your downtime. If the cost of your downtime (reputational risk, SLA credits, etc) outweighs the cost of hiring someone to cut your MTTR to 5 minutes (assuming you can playbook out all of the relevant scenarios) + provides some value in stress reduction, then you should do this. If you've been doing this a while, you can math it out. In what experience I've had though, an outside person is unlikely to be able to fix an "unknown unknown", they just won't know your environment as well as you will.

All that said, one hour of service interruption a year is still better than most.
I mean, i dont want to make this political but who was the secretary of state during this time and was simultaneous receiving funding to their foundation from saudi arabia as well?
No problem! I appreciate your support.

I've sold my stock as soon as it's vested. I'm already overexposed to Facebook.
Like anything in life, you have to adapt or die, the city are build for car, you either adapt to it or at worse case die.

Why are city build for car ? Apparently enough people/entity whatever want it to be that way.

Good for you to, to fight for you cause, which is what you should be doing. If it were me, If I care enough I would petition to have more road and less sidewalks.

No, I do not expect the situation would be ideal for everyone. You can't never have a situation where everyone is happy, that is simply impossible.
Although I love to write, I can imagine a world in which the construction of sufficiently detailed outlines, along with some sort of style examples, could be automatically converted into a full-fledged essay that elaborates on the connections entered by a student or individual.
I think we're arguing semantics here. What I mean by policy is a de jure rule. I think you can have policy while not having any sort of de facto enforcement, and you can have de facto enforcement (encryption), even if you don't have a policy.

Policy is never useful because even if there is enforcement, there is never 100% perfect enforcement that beats out cryptographic enforcement, at which point policy is no longer needed.

For example Apple can state that your data is end-to-end encrypted and they have no access, and it would be redundant to also have such a policy saying they will not access your data—they can simply say they can't access your data which is a superset of any such policy.
> Everywhere I’ve worked, there has been 3-5X more development work needed to do than engineers to do it

If the deadlines are reasonable I wouldn't care. If they aren't, it's time to start reviewing glassdoor before finding a job.
I have walked around outside in order to get places almost every day since I moved out of Arizona years ago. Even in the car-centric US, huge numbers of people live in places that aren’t quite so car-centric as Phoenix.
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The essays can be a learning or training exercise for the student. Required, but not graded. We had plenty in high school like this.

If the student gets the AI to do it, so be it. You'll get useless feedback and then you'll have to sit in a room and do it for real in the final exam - maybe you didn't need the practice, or maybe you'll wish you didn't waste your chances.
Why would Google change because of the Snowden Leaks? They knew about it. They were handing over data to the NSA.
No, that's like saying cheating people or killing them is the capitalist thing to do. Defending capitalism becomes indistinguishable from attacking it; either way, the assertion is false. A market economy is a way of optimizing welfare through profit-seeking, but it has no meaning or existence or justification without constraints and boundary conditions. What constraints we should have is a political question completely separate from whether we should have private ownership of capital and free markets.
Maybe. It could also be because I did a terrible job at explaining it.
Open access doesn't necessarily imply free and not peer reviewed like arxiv. There are plenty of good, peer-reviewed journals that are open access - they are certainly not free though ($1-2k when I was publishing several years ago).
Sugar and insulin response are critical to weight loss. The more overweight, the more you're insulin resistant, the harder it is to actually lose weight. Once you hit metabolic syndrome you've got a big problem on your hands. The CI-CO model is not sufficient to model weight loss effectively. Especially since with caloric restriction your BMR slows down to match your reduced intake (which doesn't happen with fasting, FWIW).

tl;dr: The only time CI-CO is truly accurate is when CI=0.
When I selected the profile picture menu in the top right of Google Maps there was an option to "use without an account". After selecting it I am still signed in to other Google apps. Google Maps still lists the account in the menu but claims that it is not signed in. Note that before you sign out you should clear and pause your "Location History".
Hong Kong started using China-made tear gas canisters recently [1].

Reddit discussions on why those made in China are more dangerous [2][3].

[1] https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/12/hong-kong-police-confi...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dqjb5g/why_chines...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dsh5b6/tear_gas_c...
Why is it that every post about a company ( Disney today, Stripe yesterday, Microsoft, Gitlab, Bloomberg, , etc ), the top comment is always a PR-style praise of the company?

It's always "I used to work at and so and so is great" or "I know someone who worked at and so and so is great".
It's a hard thing to admit on an anonymous forum but I have never been a great dev. Just good enough to never get fired. Over half the developers I have worked with are more capable than me.
The trick is to get them to think I'm a great dev during the interview stage.
I feel like the “ideal” option would be to create something milkshake-like (takes a while to eat, is filling) and take away some of the negative aspects of milkshakes (lots of sugar, unhealthy).

Introducing “Morning Protein Boosts” all the vitamins and minerals you need to start your day, in a semi-frozen liquid form.
It's not about costs. Regardless of budget, I can't make a star wars movie.
I feel psychology has way many ways to help us. If you happen to open to new things:

- Personality psychology is insanely powerful and useful when it comes to understanding people / situations. An introduction to theories of personality
Book by Robert B Ewen is gold.

Have you ever had gut instinct about how someone acts/a phenomena but lacked the words to express it? A distrust/discomfort, déjà vu, or feeling someone is being motivated by dredging up an issue from their past and trying to recreate it with you, to "try it on" you like a Cinderella slipper? (Could be in a good or bad way)

When you grasp the concepts, it can go well into looking at your family / upbringing, yourself, selecting a partner, personalities to distrust/avoid, etc.

Also you may find yourself liking concepts from Freud / Jung / Adler / Horney / Bowlby+Ainsworth and so on. That alone can give you a more informed perspective on behavior.

- Here's an example of professor using the above tools to dissect Twilight (haven't saw the movie or read it yet): Deconstructing Twilight: Psychological and Feminist Perspectives on the Series New edition Edition by Donna M. Ashcraft. She also written a personality theories workbook.

- Object relations stuff is absolutely awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Myk352wMSs. IMO it's far easier to digest if you grasp psychodynamic theories above.

- Projective identification: https://youtu.be/cBnZiP3W3ao?t=1215

- You can then take it into individual (like schema therapy https://www.guilford.com/excerpts/young.pdf) and family therapy methods (e.g. Bowenian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLQOWoom2d0) where the concepts on the stuff above occur
When did that start? Here's an account of someone working at Google accessing info to stalk teens.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-stalked-teen...
At a minimum it makes you wonder what vested interest the state department had in making sure twitter stayed up. It couldn't have just been for the humanitarian benefiet, it makes me think that they also had a part to play in the social media traffic itself.
I really wish I'd have thought of doing this. I'm really uncomfortable sharing this kind of information. I understand and support what they're trying to accomplish by doing this, but I've learned better than to trust the security and privacy of such data.
Thanks for pointing this out!
One thing I've always thought about ads is the subconscious impact that they have of building brand recognition and awareness. Especially for something which would typically be purchased infrequently or irregularly.

I might be at a grocery store and I need to purchase something like dishwashing liquid. If I'm staring at two brands on the shelf priced identically (or near enough) I'm more likely to purchase the brand I recognize over a brand I've never heard of. How do I recognize the brand - from advertising.

That is not something you can measure with tracking metrics embedded into a banner ad. I'm sure there must be studies on impact this has.

The other thing I suspect online advertising works very well for is service based businesses, the kinds of things you used to look up in a phonebook. The last time I needed to find a plumber I typed my suburb name + plumber into search engine I imagine a lot of people do similar.
Isn't the low carb argument that for proteins more is passed and don't need to be burnt off, but for carbs almost all calories must be burnt off? How many calories do I take in and therefore must burn off thru exercise if I swallow a penny?
Not going to work:

>>> x = -3
>>> if x <- 2:
... print 'yes'
...
yes
>>> x = 5
>>> if x <- 2:
... print 'yes'
...
>>>

Yes, those are ugly examples of bad use of whitespace, but making '<-' mean assignment would be a backwards-incompatible change.

(In case it isn't clear, that evaluates as "if x is less than negative two".)
> his starting point is that labor is identified with value

This is a large mistake. For example, spending an hour on an exercise bike is certainly a lot of labor input, but nothing of value, since nobody will pay you to cycle on an exercise bike.
We don't need to look into Israeli or Saudi Arabian money in US politics. It's there and we like it there. Those two countries are the most stable in the region by a mile and are willing to compromise with US interests to maintain the (fragile) stability.

Like it or not, US interests are inextricably tied to those of the region. Don't believe me? Most scholars attribute Trump's election, at least in moderate part, to the massive influx of Syrian refugees to the many countries they went to. If we had done a better job stabilizing the region, perhaps Trump would have never even sniffed power.
Did you read my comment? I never said closets are a thing in europe. I said that I think it's part of the regulation in the US. More importantly I linked to detailed regulation in the UK that defines what a bedroom is.
Measure how much pee is in a swimming pool
I think saudi arabia won largerly from the arab spring, and that was powered by social media. I think they view it as an investment.
> I think it'll be hard to come up with a legally defensible reason to demand that they shut down all research efforts without looking like it's a vendetta.

They don't have to shut down their research. I don't care if they want to write software and play on private tracks.

As I see it, Uber should be explaining exactly why their privilege to endanger the public by operating unsafe robots on public roads should not be revoked for criminal incompetence.
For context about the note at the end of the description, see: https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4434494
> neither the current levels of income inequality nor the acceleration of said inequality is unique or historically high

I'm not sure what you're saying, as these statements are unqualified:

"current levels of income inequality"?

"acceleration of said inequality"?

"historically high"?
>Vigilante is the wrong term on so many levels for her work

Agreed, her work is independent peer review, an important part of science and the fundamental way science should work. The entire body of science should be constantly trying to disprove facts and remove falsehoods. Journals shouldn't have a monopoly on this. A rigorous peer review is a rigorous peer review whatever the source.
What alternative but legitimate beliefs are being silenced? I'm not following the issue closely, so I've only heard about people like Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos being removed from social networks.
Every company that collaborates with the NSA (including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Dropbox) has in house spies. We don't like to think about it this way because the spies are on "our side".
I haven’t had the experience of driving in proximity to a Waymo vehicle like you have. Your statement could be viewed as taking a conservative approach to that automation is in itself a shortcut. That of course is speculation; I feel confident that when it comes to automated driving by virtue of the infancy of the technology, there are things we don’t know that we don’t know yet.
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Why would anybody care their neighbor is an AirBnB?
tl;rd if you always bet x% on a fair coin you are going to lose in the long run, ex. 0.95*1.05 = 0.9974999999999999 < 1 (you will win and lose the same number of bets)

so if world is a casino, where everything is a bet for utility with someone else, since the best strategy is not betting (or betting the less %) the richer is always in an advantageous position, and on the long run will have anything: this is intuitively true, but it has to be said that this passive force is way inferior compared to the active skill of a good better, that can completely override this force (that on a single life span would be like 1% of the force coming from skills). Basically the system is too chaotic to even notice this little force.

Interesting idea, but this one from margrit kennedy https://vimeo.com/71074210 is even better, here it's another passive force, but with way more impact than that, can be considered a real case of the general idea that "inequality" is a natural phenomena (that is a quite lazy concept cause it makes humans totally dumb and with no free will, like, sure, even war is natural, and murder, etc etc).
honestly these ideas are so basic that shouldn't have names on them, and surely they are not the first people to have notice that.
Well, maybe not lazy in the case of the declaration of independence, but it's definitely filler words.
> Unemployment has never been lower in 40+ years (in the US).

Big difference here is quality of jobs. Lots and lots of underemployed and low quality work.
The biggest problem GraphQL solves is not a technical one. GraphQL is an enforceable contract between clients and servers that encourages APIs to be designed in a way that best serves the client, and in doing so, the end-user. Clients used to spend an inordinate amount of time and thought in simply getting the correct data from the server. So much so that entire FE frameworks and libraries evolved to essentially pull all the server’s data, organize it into UI-friendly chunks, and then (and only finally then) create an experience the user would find valuable. It was a small miracle if any time or energy was left to make the user experience enjoyable too.

A litmus test for a well designed GraphQL API is: could you tell what the client looks like and what the client does simply by looking at the schema? GraphQL forced everyone to think about the end-user experience, and to be on the same page. Literally. And that is it’s greatest strength.
That’s from the sellers point of view and doesn’t translate into consumer demand to keep the ventures profitable and have a competitive ROI.

A 100 cheese and tomato sandwich shops are even cheaper and would probably go broke or a paper airplane franchise ...etc
I suppose there is a relationship between profits and the establishment cost however customer demand is king