skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social media seems to drag everything down to the lowest common denominator. The only barrier of entry to express your opinion is to register on Twitter, which is not a barrier of entry.

In the past, one had to be published in a magazine, a paper, or show up on TV - not an easy task, just to say something.

Then we had blogs, which was a vast improvement in giving people voice, but at the same time a very good center ground. Setting up a blog, and then writing an entry is not that enjoyable. You need to really have something to say to go cross that bridge.

Now, however, you just open up your app and go "LOLZ LOLZ STUPID LIBS R SO TRIGGERED MAGA". Done.

Social media is where social conscience goes to die, so yes, I believe it.

There is a very good reason why the tornado of lies we hear from the VERY top of our government, and in fact, governments, is because social media brought down the attention span to zero. It's not that they became better liars - people just no longer critically process information, and move on to the next thing.
This is a good video on the technical advantages at Netflix, just from the way their platform is built [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmM4V33ReCw
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Apparently, Cristiano Ronaldo makes more from Instagram posts than what he makes from soccer.

Also, instagram is supposedly the platform with highest organic conversions & so I expect instagram come up with a way to monetize this off-platform Ad deals if not already.

Does any country have a law telling these influencers need to inform their followers about their sponsorship? Such laws exist for affiliate marketing.
There were a couple of drawbacks from commercial success, at least outside of Japan. There was a bit of marketing of them in US (and presumably Europe too), but they didn't catch on, despite having great specs for the time.

The main issue? Using the 6809 CPU.

At the time, the 6809 was a "dream CPU" - compared to lower cost rivals like the Zilog Z-80 and MOS 6502, it had a set of features (more registers and such) that made programming it much easier and resulted in a more powerful system.

A popular operating system of the time for machines using the 6809 processor was Microware's OS-9, which allowed for multiple processes and multiple users on such machines; kinda like an 8-bit form of Unix - but lower priced.

Low-priced enough that Radio Shack sold a version of it for their 8-bit 6809-based computer - the TRS-80 Color Computer - called OS-9 Level 1 (later, Level 2 would be released for the Color Computer 3 - today, an open-source version can be had called NitrOS9 - while Microware is still in existence, they don't support or sell the old 8-bit versions of OS-9 any longer).

Like the 8-bit FM computers, though, the Color Computer didn't do well in the US market, because again...it used the 6809.

The 6809 was an expensive processor, compared to its rivals used in most other personal microcomputers of the time; consumers as always were price conscious, and went with the lower priced options instead, in most cases. The 6809 found more success in the business and commercial embedded space, where price was less of a concern, and performance was more valued.

As an aside, the 6809 enjoyed a fairly long life, and later Hitachi came out with a pin-compatible version that included some upgrades, the 6309, that can help to speed up software that uses them - as a result, many people upgrade their Color Computer systems to use this newer processor.

So that was Fujitsu's misunderstanding of the market - that people would put performance over price at the time when it came to CPUs. That wasn't true in the US for most people.

Their second mistake?

Including a second 6809 CPU in a multi-processor configuration.

If one 6809 was considered a "mark of doom" for a personal computer of the era (for the US market) - two was seemingly unthinkable to all but a very few enthusiasts (who also had the money to burn). Similar offerings were made in the TRS-80 Color Computer market toward the end of that line (late 1980s to early 90s), with the idea of luring OS-9 users and hopefully others, but few went that route (that, and the 68k was also a draw - but it had a fairly short life in the consumer market, too - mainly limited to the Amiga, Atari, and Mac - then later to some console game systems).

Ultimately - well, we all know where and how things ended up.
Yep, this is more or less the thesis of M. Pollan's 'The Botany of Desire,' which, whatever one thinks of his stance or other works, is a thought-provoking read [misguided treatment of Appleseed expert W.E. Jones aside]
I find your argument a bit cynical at best - this is a very black or white way of viewing two very large sites. Having read through Wikipedia decisions they are often open about the process, and the decisions can be very nuanced, they'll never be 100% successful, but they work extremely hard at trying to avoid bias and mistakes. I find Snopes to be a reasonable resource too, they present sourced facts as much as possible and whether or not I agree with all their conclusions I find the way they go about their research very compelling.
Why? Aren't they on the same side?
Super cynical, I realize, but whenever I see the description “secure by default” for something computer related, and they don’t mean, “we unplugged it,” I assume what they really mean is, “we made the code so complex we can’t find the problems.”
I run into a similar problem trying to chose libraries for projects.

There's one project that is 'active'. Are they active because they're better, or because they arrived late to the party and are reinventing the wheel.

This other project is 8 years old and has hardly been touched in 2 years. Is that because it takes 4 years to cover the entire domain and a couple years to fix all the bugs that can be fixed? Or because it's languishing?

Novelty is not a good selection criterion. Sometimes the old ways are best.
Yep — problems with the first gen were:

1. Complex joins and poor performance.
2. Not pre-computing important attributes made them hard to slice and dice on (because they weren’t true dimensions)

2nd gen:

1. Really unmaintainable. Like....really unmaintainable. A rat’s next of ad-hoc common table expressions, that referred to each other in undocumented ways, used inconsistent CASE statements to transform enums to human-readable values, inconsistent time stamp formats (and time zones), etc, etc, etc. Fields in different explores that were named the same but didn’t quite match and no one could explain why.
2. All of it was SQL in LookML and the persistence strategy (e.g. when were the CTEs running, were they writing to disk or ephemeral, etc) was not manageable.

If we had been smarter, we would have introduced DBT after gen 1 and not gotten into the gen 2 mess.

There’s a ton of other nuance here, but that’s the high level.
>But for whatever reason, people ask them to look into it.

Maybe because a false rating leads to being buried by Google and Facebook. That's a legitimate motive.

Asking for someone or something to be investigated isn't necessarily a de-facto innocence excuse.
That "delta_weight = calories_in - calories_burned" expression is absolutely technically correct--the best kind of correct.

But...

Some forget that calories_in is the output of a function with multiple input variables, and calories_burned is also the output of a function with multiple input variables, plus whatever your wrist-worn fitness monitor says you burned directly through exercise.

If you stand in the freezing cold for 15 minutes, and then go back inside, and you still have some brown fat left after infancy, it will add to calories_burned for a little while. If you are insulin resistant, and you cut carbs out of your diet for a while, that will tend to deduct from calories_in, because the foods you are now eating impact your competing appetite and satiety functions differently, such that satiety is winning more often now. If you exercise vigorously, your calories_burned rises by when you burned directly, but you will also increase metabolism for a few hours afterward, and the fitness monitor won't tell you that, but it will also boost your appetite function, and your food scale might catch that.
A fair warning. Wouldn't any engaged legal group understand that if I had registered the .com first, then a company was offering to sell me a .org, etc. after my purchase, that is more extortionist than me trying to recoup the registration fees of a domain name I no longer need?

Agree if I want to keep the domain, I'd be careful not to lead anyone on - scammer or otherwise.
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This reminds me of how San Mateo county uses a third-party petdata.com for licensing dogs.

I made a faux-website complaining about how easy it would be to create an official looking scam website, particularly how the entire county uses .org domain names.

Fake website: http://sanmateogov.org/
Holy mother of Molly. I think I'm going to set BROWSER=browsh
after this.

I didn't realize that you could actually get this to work on most terminals by now, and they make single static binaries, so hell yes. I hope they eventually remove the Firefox binary dependency, that'll be a big win.

I've already started using `bat` and now I'll use this more. I've incidentally started following r/unixporn on reddit too, this would make a nice addition there. :)
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If I one day have lots of spare time, I think I want to build a neural network and a browser extension that will replace all clickbaits with something. Not sure if it was better to translate them into proper language or just make them even more laughably stupid. Maybe a setting to choose... Wonder if there is a labeled dataset already somewhere?
Well, lets look at the exact quote that you are referencing.

"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

I got this from RealClearPolitics and I'll ignore the fact that they quoted it as "they're" instead of "their", even though those words sound identical when spoken. His very next sentence is "And some, I assume, are good people."

So my interpretation is that Trump believes that a disproportionate number of the people illegally crossing the US Mexico border are involved in drug or human trafficking, but some are just people trying to find a better life.

I think Trump is a very poor orator and is kind of dumb, so this didn't come off very well and I can see why people were offended by it, but it is also not fair to leave out the context of his very next sentence when it refutes your agenda.
There was an opt-out and multiple pages worth of confusing "opt-in" options selected by default. I painstakingly went through and skipped/declined all of them. But I'm still receiving my "moving gifts".
So we're going deplatform all satire?
> Speeding up booting is a nice side benefit but not at all what systemd is about.

That's a claim I've seen before. Maybe it's true, but it's not what I get from reading the initial introduction "Rethinking PID 1" [0] is that systemd is very much about fast booting. That blog story says:

"As mentioned, the central responsibility of an init system is to bring up userspace. And a good init system does that fast. Unfortunately, the traditional SysV init system was not particularly fast.

For a fast and efficient boot-up two things are crucial:

- To start less.
- And to start more in parallel.

"

The remainder of the post talks mainly about those things. In my mind, that clearly means that fast booting was the major design goal of the project.

(Off topic to your comment, but what the post does not talk about is taking over lots of unrelated services. Even the name of Poettering's blog, "Pid Eins", seemed to indicate that systemd was meant only as an init-implementation. That would have been a lot better).

[0] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
Previous commenter had it right. Supersonic aircraft have terrible lift/drag. This means that they will always burn much more fuel. Since the extra speed is really only useful for long flights, a supersonic aircraft has to carry a higher fraction of its weight in fuel, further reducing efficiency.

This makes supersonic airliners infeasible for the really long routes that they would truly help with. The Concorde only shaved 3.5 hours off the NY-London time, and cost about 8x as much to operate.

The extremely high costs then mean that you have to sell what are essentially coach seats at greater than business class prices. There aren't many people willing to pay business class prices, so you can't run the planes very often, and you can only run them between very large, rich cities.

Since the whole point of supersonic is speed, you can't effectively sell connecting flights, because if you fly, say, Boston-London through NYC, the direct flight from Boston subsonic will arrive at nearly the same time as the supersonic flight with a connection.

This leads to a very small passenger market. It also means that supersonic planes will operate on an infrequent schedule. Many people in a position to pay for a supersonic flight will prefer a subsonic flight that meets their schedule over a supersonic flight that doesn't.

With the advent of lie-flat beds, in-flight wifi and power, and higher cabin pressurization, being on an airplane an extra 3.5 hours isn't even so bad anymore, so the practical advantage isn't nearly as great.

All of these factors make supersonic a very small niche market. This means that few planes will be produced. High performance aircraft have high development costs, and those need to be amortized over the production run. Concorde was a complete financial disaster because they only produced 14 of them, for all of the reasons above. The only solution is to somehow make the airframe far more efficient.
I'd love to see some research supporting that statement because caloric restriction has been consistently upheld by longitudinal analysis and meta-analysis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31303390
Probably compounded by the fact that a bunch of schools closed in the midwest and northeast because of the snow.
I'm so glad to see others having this same opinion. I was just chatting with a friend about google search results and how, recently, they have become much worse than they used to be.

It seems that if you don't tailor your search terms perfectly all you get is ads, clickbait youtube videos, and review sites built to push a product.
My guess would be maybe in this new state, some metals might be more likely to alloy with others, so we'll have lots of fun new materials with strange properties.
Maybe even find a new super conductor or two.
I actually kind of like those mailers, it's how I got all my magic erasers and swiffer pad refills.
>I'd expect them to have continuous issues for the first 3-6 months

I don't think it will be anywhere close to that long. Disney already has plenty of experience in streaming video (BAMtech / Hulu).
I use a Mac. I get those warnings.

I use a Synology drive (using Synology's RAID-like format) for my Time Machine backups, and a Drobo for my less critical stuff.

They have WD drives. I have not liked the Seagates. However, I like the HGST stats.

One of the nice things about both Drobo and Synology, is that I can change the drive type and capacity "on the fly."
Even without that change, the claim is false, though. The claim says that Democrats have attempted to impeach every Republican President. That's false.

Additionally, by the criteria you're suggesting, I would wonder then, by extension, if Republicans have attempted to impeach every Democratic President if the only criteria is that some Republican filed for it as opposed to it being a party decision.
Where does anyone claim or suggest that Wozniak is a company spokesman in regards to this issue?

"Representative ... in a ceremonial capacity" is not "spokesman" except in the broadest of senses (eg, all employees, in some sense, can be spokespeople). It certainly isn't a spokesman for all of Apple's policies.

I'll note that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokesperson comments "it is the job of a spokesman to faithfully represent and advocate for the organization's positions, even when these conflict with their own opinion."

This strongly suggests that Wozniak is not a spokesman, in the usual sense of that word, for Apple.
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The story is that, around the time Larry Page became CEO, he went to Jobs for advice, who gave him exactly this advice. Obviously Google never sunk as far as becoming Apple, but this fits the narrative of killing Google's soul to make it a little more like a place like Apple.
Back in my time those kinds of ‘memes’ were known as ‘idioms’ and one would be marked down for misusing a term or failing to identify one, but... whatever.
And then what fraction of energy production are you spending on disposal, can you trust the folks disposing it [1], and will it properly circulate? Ocean currents and chemistry are extremely complex, and fisheries are an emergently fragile food source.

I am, by no means, a fan of petroleum. But dismissing concerns about dumping chemical waste into the ocean as "hand wringing" is not a reasoned argument.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_waste_dumping_by_the_%...
I absolutely would! And I know what you are getting at. But you can't look at the relatively poor performance of 3D IMAX ticket sales as evidence that classic 2D cinema constitutes a kind of "End of History" culmination of the art form. It's just really hard to make something like "Gravity", which hit like 80%+ 3D sales percentages internationally.

Instead, for a peak into a possible near future I'd look to new immersive experiences such as teamLab's borderless

https://borderless.teamlab.art/

Visitors to Yayoi Kusama's Infinite Mirrored Room at David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea get exactly one minute each to experience the sensation. And it's expected in excess of 100K+ will make the pilgrimage ;)

A Look Inside Yayoi Kusama's New, Eye-Popping NYC Exhibition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3UmpPF9Bo4
I'm still using old.reddit.com instead of the modern rework because the old version is fully compatible with Vim browser plugins while the new one has all kinds of issues with keyboard-focused usage.

This is a frequent symptom on websites that consist of more JS than HTML: they often won't even let you scroll the page without a mouse, let alone have UI that's visible to plugins(I never tried it, but I'd bet these same sites would also appear basically empty to screen readers etc.).
About news being spun in a literal washing machine? Seriously?

I hope I got this straight. There are actually people claiming that news are spun in a literal washing machine, and the amount of those is big enough to raise a concern (to be honest, even a single one is a concern). Do you have any sources for this? Absolutely incredible. I wonder what temperature and what detergent is used when spinning news in a washing machine.
To paraphrase Peter Attia, this is akin to answering the question, "Why is Bill Gates so rich?" with, "Because he gained more money than he spent".

What we really care about is why people are eating more than they expend, and how we can get people to lose weight and maintain a healthy weight unconsciously.
In what ways is Lucidchart worse in functionality?

(disclaimer: employee of Lucid Software)
It's still very cumbersome to type a search on mobile, and having to type a url first or launch another app is almost half a minute more. That alone drives people to google. The rest is just google taking advantage of users that have fallen in its trap. IMHO, if these major companies like expedia stopped going after mobile aggressively , that might inconvenience users enough so that they would switch to use a desktop for their travel searches of deals, where they have much more control
I'd argue that instagram posts are a way to monetize his soccer playing, so that money come from soccer too if you look at it like that.
I agree. I love the `-dump` flag (and use it to provide html rendering in my gopher/gemini/finger/file client).
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The other reason is to avoid long arguments.

We used to give specific details for things (ie, price is going up because x). People INTENTIONALLY misunderstand, selectively pay attention, and argue endlessly.

Same thing with job interviews and hires. Imagine a potential hire for a client facing role with poor communication skills. If asked point blank about any areas of challenge in their application you might say this was a high pressure customer facing role and so communication skills, as described in job post, would be a big factor in the analysis. You might then be repeatedly followed up and both re-assured by them that they have excellent communication skills (with lots of bad grammar, spelling errors and terrible tone) and threatened for evaluating them on their skills in this area (which may overlap various protected classes).

People sometimes take the worst possible interpretation of any action and nitpick every explanation. Read hackernews for plenty of examples here.

In many cases, particularly if someone is not paying you - it's really not worth getting into it with folks who love to argue endlessly. They usually have FAR more time then you do, and if you have 20 people arguing with you an entire day can be lost dealing with them.
Doesn't seem to be unlike HN where we basically just kneejerk respond to titles and titles are more like open-ended writing prompts for us that mainly have the purpose of introducing a topic like "javascript sucks" or "weight loss is just CICO" or whichever hobby horses we have chomping at the bit.
That's not what they're suggesting and you know it.
> He has extremely high self confidence

Agreed, and I would add he's extremely combative with those of opposing view points. So much so, that he spends large portions of his books (and social media posts) not expounding upon his theories and why they are right, but why his opposition is so stupid and wrong.

In any event, I do think many/most of the things Talib expounds upon are correct/have merit. The best way to read his is probably through via second hand accounts of his work.
If you sort by most upvoted instead of most recent, you get a better idea of why I have been averaging about 1000k/mo with this handle for nearly two years straight:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=DoreenMichele
Did you put any ad spend behind those blog posts, or did traffic come organically?
Yeah, what is it with Netflix and making it impossible to find something to watch anymore? It's like you open it up and not only do all the lists change and it's not easy to find things, but they also run around changing the cover images of the series you've been watching so you don't even recognize it at first and you're hunting around to find it again.
It breaks when you hit the main CTA button to start a free trial now. I don’t understand how a company with billions of dollars in resources can fail to solve such a well trodden problem. Even if there were a billion users on day 1. I wonder if the problem is due to an abdication of parts of the engineering problem, an over reliance on 3rd party services, that meant that no-one in the engineering team was able to study the whole engineering problem from first principles, which would result in inadequate fail overs.
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