skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the solution is to ban the "algorithm" that determines your feed. People sign up for posts and photos from friends and family and groups, instead that is held hostage and released as a trickle with ads and fake endorsements (your friends like brandX) and targeted stories chosen to trigger emotions and go viral.

The feed should go back to being RSS essentially, that's what people really expect out of fb/instagram.

Also, just like government sets limits on roadside advertising, online advertising should be limited (area-wise or frequency), with clear distinction and attribution for all ads. In addition, there should be limits to profiling such that ads can't be shown to less than 10K viewers for example.
I don't think people get rate limits for having minority viewpoints. They get rate limits for acting rudely and breaking the site guidelines, none of which are viewpoint-specific. (I know, as someone who once had a rate limit and cleaned up his act.)
It was there from the first iteration of spelling a long time ago (the first iteration was just looking at misspelling frequencies, second iteration 12 years ago moved to understanding multiple spelling mistakes/mistypes)

If you see these kind of easy-to-correct mistakes, it probably means that the spell corrector wasn't given that big attention in the past 10 years.
I want to live in your fantasy world where militaries meet up at pre-arranged times in empty fields to take turns shooting at eachother.
Thank you! That doesn’t seem as insane
I thought that lots of senior housing establishments offer what is essentially dorm living as an option in between independent apartment living and full nursing care?

In college, Mrs B's rooming house was about the best accommodations I had. She had 5 single rooms and 2 double rooms IIRC. It was $9/week for a single circa '65. Another $11/week for 20 meals at the eating club, and I only got food poisoning once.
While my experience is on Windows, and with Chrome, I have also had a similar issue.

I ended up tracking it down to the fact that on start-up, over time a lot of junk got added into the applications/services that run on start-up. To the point that it would slow down Chrome when I tried to open it right away.

So a potential solution to your problem is to check out what else is running at start-up that might cause FF to run slow, but only at start-up.
If I'm getting this right, that they think that they'd rather not be born, I think it's a perfectly reasonable question. To not be born and to remove yourself are close enough.
> sex/porn and esports are both addicting

Sex is not similar to alcohol, tobacco, or pharmaceutical addictions.

You can have orgasms alone without purchasing anything. There's also debate about whether you can be addicted to sex. 1) It's a normal part of our lifecycles, 2) there's no withdrawal effect after you get off of it, and 3) it's a convenient way to pathologize bad behavior.

E-sports are game competitions, not video games in and of themselves. You can be no more addicted to them than you can be to the NBA.
> The next obvious step is to bundle it with office space

That's partly the plot of the Canadian film, Waydowntown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waydowntown
“Anonymous” claims to be giving $75M in Bitcoin to privacy startups
> It isn't like sociology...you either haven't studied economics or sociology.

I love this dig specifically because you missed my point. I was simply addressing the fact that I don't think a field needs to have experimentation to have value.

> And btw, arguments generally about the function of a society are politics.

No shit.

> Because if you want to value any end...just build a model that does so.

> Economists can have a view on them but you have to use politics to demonstrate that any goal of society is better than any other.

That's exactly my point. Economists conflate their model of Western Capitalism (for better or worse) with a moral position or _necessary_ condition for society.

I know their are economists that don't do this, but none I've met or been taught by.
That sounds like demand paging to me, try running from a RAM disk and see if it goes away.
Hahaha that's gold.

I'm looking at you Microsoft.
> But it did provide a functioning cab network that was safe and predictable for decades.

I don't even know what world you're describing right now. With issues like "the credit card machine is down" to a cab never showing up despite how many calls I made.. the last word I'd ever use to describe cabs is "predictable." Even today, post-Uber.
Is the Bladerunner universe not capitalist?
For any target number K, we can pick lower and upper bounds N and M with the following properties:

1. Multiplying by N causes the leading digits to increase by at least 0.5 and at most 1.0
2. Multiplying by M causes the leading digits to increase by at most 1.0
3. M - N is more than twice as large as the target number.
4. M > N and M & N both have the same number of digits.

We start at N!, then checking N+1! etc, increasing the leading digits by at least 0.5 and at most 1.0. We do this more than 2K times, so we're guaranteed to hit exactly K.

The first two conditions are pretty simple to achieve - if we're targeting 2019, then 10,003 works for N and 10,004 works for M, and we can easily find some number that fills our need for whatever target we get. For the third condition, we can multiply both N and M by 10. This increases M-N by a factor of ten, but has the exact same effect for the leading digit multiplication.
Did you actually listen to the whole interview? They have market fit and thousands of applications for their product. What are you basing your opinion on ?
Don't want to live with other people but very happy in a much smaller home than 4 bedrooms.
Amazon to protest decision to award the $10B cloud contract to Microsoft
> In my opinion the third in particular needs substantiation.

Fair enough. Exhibit A would be the AAUP's report on BYU's academic freedom¹ (BYU - Brigham Young University - being the LDS-owned-and-financed university system, aimed specifically at Mormon students and faculty). Money quote:

Many faculty members shared in some detail the narratives of
their problems with academic freedom, reappointment, promo-
tion, and tenure, frequently producing documents but asking
that their names and identifying circumstances not be included
in this report. At least two cases are in litigation against the uni-
versity. Some cases involve issues of personal conduct that are
under investigation and others focus on academic research that
raises concern with the administration. Several creative artists in
different fields told of pressures to alter works to meet unclear
administrative agendas. The ability of faculty members to leave
BYU after many years of service is impeded by a non-portable re-
tirement plan. Numerous women, some in groups and some
alone, spoke to the investigating committee about the hostile cli-
mate for women on campus. Many expressed the view that single
women and women who want professional careers are under sus-
picion by the administration and the LDS Church because the
Mormon Church considers marriage and family the first duty of
a woman.5 Overall, faculty members described an intensified
pressure in recent years for a rigid orthodoxy and active interfer-
ence by Church officials in university business to the detriment
of faculty morale.

And bear in mind this is a university (or more accurately three universities, though the report predates BYU Idaho transitioning from a junior college to a 4-year university, which is likely why only BYU and BYU Hawaii are mentioned). If even the Church's own university prioritizes Church doctrine over free thought and academic integrity, then the Church itself - and the various stakes and wards thereof - is unlikely to be much better.

On another note, per your second source, the "61% vs 50%" only pertains to individuals with "at least some college education"; the percentages drop to national averages when you look at actual graduates (18% of Mormons, v. 16% nationally) or those with post-graduate education (10% of Mormons, v. 11% nationally). Not that college education is really a reliable proxy for rational individual thought anyway (lots of smart and rational people didn't go to college; lots of less-smart and/or less-rational people did).

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¹: https://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/27EB0A08-8D25-4415-9E55-80...
Regulations from previous administrations don't magically disappear at the end of their term.
They aren't close enough and this demonstrates that you don't understand the position.

It also suggests that you didn't read the article.
Your internet browsing habits are not a substitute for journalism.
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That's not a ... relevantly fruitful ... search term.

Have any relevant links?
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Bitcoin (and all other cryptocoins) are just not usable for mass transactions. Buying anything with bitcoin takes over 10 minutes, often times over an hour for shops that are paranoid and require 3+ confirmations. During the peak bubble time, I remember buying something with bitcoin taking 2 hours!!

This technical problem has not been solved and the "lightning network" just turns exchanges like Coinbase into a bank or Paypal that can be shut down or run away with your money, which basically ruins the entire point of using Bitcoin.

Until Bitcoin can scale without "lightning network", I don't see people using it outside illegal activities. And from what I can see, the core concept of Bitcoin (and other cryptocoins) is fundamentally at odds with fast transactions. If you make confirmations 2x faster, then it just becomes 2x easier to fake a transaction. So paranoid merchants will just require double the confirmations.
A Hacker Wants $5M in Ransom From Pemex By End of November
Imagine a shared working space but this time with words like agile.
The Daredevil of Niagara Falls (2011)
There are free, base functionality accounts in every bank in Poland. Debit card use is also free provided you make few transactions per month.
The level of engineering behind this is such an amazing feat.

Landing a satellite on an asteroid, and then shooting it with rare minerals to cause debris to shoot off, to then be collected and later analysed by scientists here on Earth? All while in flight? And there's enough fuel to give this another crack on a _second_ asteroid?

I remember buying dinosaur and space magazines that often had collectable assets (like, each magazine collection would build an entire glow in the dark T Rex skeleton or similar, each magazine came with one bone and you had to get 20+ magazines for the entire 1:200 scale skeleton... we'd probably call this DLC now) and being absolutely amazed at what was written within.

This article brings about the exact same glee and nostalgia.
What are the "standard" algorithms for vectorizing bitmap lines?

I'd had a little art project where I wanted to draw lines on the wall and then have them captured by a camera and vectorised .. preferrably "minimized" to be as few vectors as possible. I couldn't really design an algorithm that was satisfactory and I didn't wanna just hack it with some heuristics

I see they're doing it here with an edge detector - anyone have any insight how it's done? Is this a solved problem in computer science?
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Uber could very easily reduce carbon emissions if they bias their payments/ride assignments towards EVs and other efficient vehicles. I'm not sure about the legality of that, but its definitely an interesting idea if they need to pull some PR shenanigans.

>Commercial exploitation of subsidized infrastructure
What makes trucking different than Uber in this scenario? Is driving my own car around not abusing the infrastructure, but hailing an Uber is? Uber doesn't make money if nobody is riding somewhere in the car, so the market forces try and make utilization as efficient as possible.

>Increased collision risk to cyclists and vulnerable road users
Are Uber drivers more likely to hit people than non Uber drivers? If you control for the population utilization of the roads, does this have a measurable affect?

>Abuse of contract law by preventing independent rate setting and concealing negotiable information
You have a point there, but personally I disagree that these should be required by law in the first place.

>Artificially depressed prices fueled by venture capital in order to create a monopoly and capitalize later
Well its doing a pretty bad job if the goal is to create monopolies. For most tech companies, they have a reasonable amount of competitors given the chicken-and-egg situation they need to solve. Prices are artificially depressed, not going to lie, but a lot of prices are artificially depressed to make them usable by the masses, and its all the better for it.
They don't magically appear under certain administrations either. I'm not sure I understand your point.
Sesta/Fosta potentially make Pornhub/Paypal liable.
How's mastodon doing?
There's two more variables you're missing here, besides "memory" and "pause times" - how well matched to GC the language is, and how advanced/good the GC is. Some languages might just be fundamentally easier to garbage collect than others - a simple example might be that of a language with no references and no threading, where the GC is going to be extremely simple. And GC quality is certainly a thing, since I doubt major companies would spend tens/hundreds of millions of dollars producing GC 'advancements' that just move a slider back and forth.
What's the largest codebase you've migrated?
Could you (or someone else) elaborate on Coinbase going beyond KYC requirements?
I've got three 4GB pi4's running. Two are in FLIRC cases which do an Okay job (and they look good :-) They transfer heat to the case and the Pi peaks out on my loads at about 55C. I've also got a cheap fan+heatsink solution (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TZQHXZ6/) which does a better job and keeps the Pi under 50C on all loads (it doesn't throttle at all).
>I don't consider my colleagues my friends,

Do you allow colleagues to become friends?
Using public USB charging stations could drain your bank account, officials warn
Thanks — btw I’m interested in the garage laboratory you mentioned. The process of how you go about setting up and running an independent lab, etc. If you end up doing that, I’d like to follow that. Would that be on Google Scholar?
I’m no fan of unnecessary regulation, but you cannot compare externalities of driving your own car for your own purposes vs. ride share, accept in cases where people are ride share driving in the same capacity/frequency as personal driving. My opinion is that people who drive their own cars don’t do so at the same clip as people driving for money. In the former, people do so out of convenience or routine. In the latter, people do so as long as needed to meet financial obligations. Maybe I’m wrong and people are out here driving hours and hours for wages they don’t need to survive or support others.
Probably either the Odroid N2 or HC2 or Nano Pi M4.

The one feature all these boards have in common is their CPU is mounted on the _bottom_ of the board, allowing a much larger heat sink to be mounted without obstructing anything. The lack of this feature in on the RPi 4 is a fatal blunder IMHO and why I chose not to buy it.

I currently use a Nano Pi M4 as my main desktop computer. It has no active cooling, only a big heatsink which covers the entire rear of the board. As I write this, I have three browser windows open containing a total of 30 tabs while streaming a 44 kHz stereo 128 kbps audio stream. Its CPU temp is holding at 32 C.
Aha! Thanks. Thought I was going crazy for a bit there.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvgxvw/girls-do-porn-empl...
I did. If you list a room for rent in SF that looks nice and is competitively priced, you'll also have thousands of applications.

What do you think is the innovation here? He's offering housing in a market with no housing supply. Of course he has market fit.

It seems the steps here were: Be born in commune. Notice SF has a housing problem. Suggest building a commune in LA and SF. Get funded by YC.

Maybe it's like asking for a date with a very attractive person, where everyone thinks they can't possibly get the date, so nobody ever asks?
I used the work in the gaming[0] industry and did my best to read up on addiction, both in general terms and related to gambling. One of the main takeaways I found was that the addiction rates are surprisingly similar across different vices. It doesn't matter if the vice is gambling, porn, alcohol, shopping, or whatever -- some low single digit percent of the population is likely to get dangerously addicted, a somewhat larger group will spend way too much money but not otherwise disrupt their life, and the vast majority of people will treat it like just another type of recreation.

I really wish our society could take all of the energy that goes into criminalizing and stigmatizing vice industries and instead use it to offer help to people who are dangerously addicted. Just think of how much free therapy, rehab, and drug research could be funded by the tens of billions of dollars that the drug war has cost.

[0] Gaming is the industry term for gambling
You certainly don't _have_ to do anything, and under a fixed computational load the Pi4 should run cooler because of the better core architecture.

However, you can get better performance by cooling. A fan off to the side of the board blowing between the two would probably work well if you want to keep it on top, but you're probably fine doing nothing as well.
one of the best real life examples of being resistant to financial deplatforming is Wikileaks and they used Bitcoin
and yet another (fedora's): of 3414 packages total:

- 3122 Python 3 only

- 88 Dual support

- 8 Py2 leaf (standalone packages; may be dropped)

- 77 Not ported (will be dropped unless ported)

- 100 Blocked (require 1 or more "not ported" packages)

- 18 Legacy (will be dropped)

https://fedora.portingdb.xyz

note that py3only/dualsupport only reflects how it is packaged in fedora, not what upstream provides.
Except the content on social is already free.
Can someone explain what 1Password gives that iCloud Keychain doesn’t? Is it just the cross platform thing?

Because I use iPhone and Mac and iCloud Keychain works really well, I don’t even think about it.
> producing mind numbing amounts of physical waste in the process.

It's hard not to see bitcoin like this, with the huge energy waste and the newly brought in funds from ad-hoc meme advertising on social media going to early investors.
I agree. I haven't checked the front page much. Feel free to flag if it doesn't meet the requirements, as per guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "

Unfortunately, barely informative opinion pieces isn't in that list.
RPi power consumption and power supply is a bit more complicated than it seems on the surface.

A large problem is that even “3A rated" supplies suffer large voltage droop under load. This can be seen pretty easily using a cheap USB DC load [0]. As load goes up, voltage tends to drop slowly at first, then heavily at a certain point.

Several I’ve bought drop as low as 4.1V at just 2A load which will almost definitely make any Pi very unhappy. I haven’t found an authoritative source but generally the Pi’s power management system starts complaining (flipping the “undervolt since boot” bitflag [1] in “vcgencmd get_throttled”) around 4.6-4.7V [2]

To monitor the throttled bitflags, which also report thermal throttling, I wrote a basic shell script that just converts the hex to bin then returns a Grok-ready string with the flags as booleans. I've already got Telegraf on the RPis sending basic host metrics to an InfluxDB instance so that script just gets called by an exec input to generate and persist the data for monitoring or analysis.

Eventually I'd love to write (or contribute to) a proper Golang Telegraf plug-in that just reads from the VC mailbox directly but that's still on the back burner.

As far as actual power consumption during use, I’ve recently started running tests using a decent USB power meter (WITRN/Qway U2 [3] and X models, in particular) to monitor load over time while running various workloads on a Pi Zero W, a Pi 3B+ and a 4GB Pi 4.

Power usage at idle is usually low but even that's unpredictable. Daemons are gonna daemon regardless of the user load. Generally though the load goes up substantially when powering peripherals - Ethernet, USB, BCM VideoCore enc/dec/CSI/SSI, SD card R/W, HDMI, fans, HATs, GPIO peripherals, etc. CPU load definitely factors in heavily, of course, but it’s only part of the picture.

For reducing power usage, some surprisingly simple things can help. As a very minor example, shutting off the activity LED [4] can save a few dozen mA. :)

[0] https://www.droking.com/Intelligent-USB-Adjustable-Constant-...

[1] https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/48329/underv...

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=1477...

[3] https://usbchargingblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/11/web-u2-usb-...

[4] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/controlling...
To the point: they found that wolves eat grasshoppers.
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I'm not a linguist, but it's been explained to me that grammar is important to understanding. Even mishmash languages (think Creole) develop their own grammatical conventions over time.
Wikipedia’s co-founder takes on Facebook with ad-free social network
Yes, I have an HDMI to VGA adaptor in my backpack, but it doesn't fit in my pockets. See the photos to get an idea about the size limit. It also needs external power, so I'd need to carry a barrel jack to USB wire too.

I wish I could fit a Lightning to HDMI adaptor, but it's physically huge compared to the other adaptors, and I wonder whether Apple's likely to change to USB-C on future iPhones and iPads. Therefore I feel like WiFi is a more universal data source. Latency is slow, but that's not a problem for PPT slides.
Science says that there is a distinction between the colloquial definition of "addicted" and the technical definition of a physiological / psychological addiction.

Many people will also say that a delicious food, an entertaining game, or an enjoyable TV show is "addictive", but these do not actually constitute addictions either.
Carry some freaking cash.

"For decades" -- like, from the 1940s to the 2000s.

Fares were predictable. Still are in fact, they are actually painted on the exterior of the cab itself. Maybe you've noticed?
Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's necessarily neutral. We can still argue this development being negative, for reasons unrelated to "freedom of speech".
This is called a hostel or a flop house.
So its that simple? Few lines of code?
The 1% rule is for the US. If you want a higher % for your own country, knock yourself out. It's the principle of the thing that matters anyway, not the exact % that defines a platform.

That said, I see no issue with asking a privately run forum to keep it's membership under 3.4M if they don't want to be regulated like a platform.
ccache solves this fairly well if you're on *nix.
No, but certain politicians would with a goal of gun elimination might. We have already seen pointless laws passed to ban cosmetic features on guns that has zero purpose other than punish monetarily and criminalize otherwise law abiding citizens. At the very least it makes them buy federal tax stamps or pay for Federal Firearms Licenses which is a paywall for ownership and will ultimately reduce ownership rates.