skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you are saying, but I'd find it stupid to pay a set amount per month to see the same movies over and over. Do you really think people will pay to see all of the Avengers movies every month? If yes, then fine, good for Disney. I just find the 'they have better content' line a bit much.

I'd rather watch Master of None, Fargo, The Crown and many more quality Netflix than some action here movie that has been cut from the same comic book cloth as the previous one. But that is just a matter of preferences, but to say their content is better based on how good they do in the box office is nonsense.
I had mine done in 2011. I went to a highly reviewed specialist who charged a lot. No coupons for me! One of the best things I ever did. In 8 years, not a single day has passed where I haven't taken a moment to appreciate my 20/15 to 20/10 vision -- no hyperbole. Eye drops for a while. Then less often. Then nearly never.

Now, what I wish I had known is that apparently a knock to the head can dislodge the flap. Still would have gone for it.

Edit: I do have a bit of halo at night with bright lights. A total non-issue for me as my lenses were always scuffed, causing more halo that I get now. And I'll take an eye drop once a quarter or less.
Also great recruitment vectors for competitors
With something like squarespace or any of the umpteen other design by wooden block site generator companies, or even Wordpress or Blogger... probably?
Afaik the more you tighten a bottleneck the more accuracy you lose, and much faster than you gain interpretability. My guess is that such abstractions would require very powerful "priors" (as in, knowledge stored in the network as opposed to being stored in the representation) that humans gained with evolution and that today's models don't possess.
I have to agree with the first part, Amazon is very much like going to AliExpress lately. I search and all I find is cheap products from China - I don't find any brands I've heard of that I could get at any local retailer.

Its like Amazon.com is redirecting to Amazon.cn
As per the article, exploring the trailing edge of the heliopause would be interesting and is something that hasn't yet been done. But yes, presumably instrumentation has also improved over the last 50 years, so hopefully we could get better data as well.
Does anyone have a good, non-biased resource explaining why keynesians cannot explain stagflation, and what Milton Friedman did during this era to solve that problem and thereby launch us into the modern neo-liberal moment?

Whenever I search for this, I have a tendency to find articles that already assume the reader has read on the topic numerous times (like this one), or they they only address the topic in the most watered-down and overtly partisan manner.

From reading between the lines on the first few pages of google results, it seems like Keynesian thought in the 1970s hadn't evolved far enough to recognize that inflation could have multiple driving factors and could impact different parts of the economy disproportionately. My limited understanding too is that this was resolved theoretically and with obvious and clear explanation in the years afterward (now referred to as neo-keynesian), but by then Milton Friedman had been lionized as the new economic "truth" and the universe moved on in his direction.
This movie was INCREDIBLE to watch knowing that it was all real. This was 'reality tv' at it's best. Try to ignore the shitty plot, the Lions are the real stars.
These risks are not bullshit. On high contrast images I see not just 'halos' but more like blobs. Things it ruins: stars - looking at the night sky is ruined forever; good quality cinema - white letters on a black background are toast. Etc etc. I regret the almighty shit out of Lasik, but most people don't.
What on earth? How are there HN people who still knowingly buy fake stuff on Amazon? This has been well understood by HN users for years at this point. What were you thinking? Not only that, but you put the things you received in your mouth? Can you explain why you did any of this?
I don't think the judgment supports the conclusion in the article.
Yeah, one of them was formerly a plant pot, an umbrella, and christmas lights. It's pretty funny but equally sad that Amazon doesn't care (or worse, is misincentivized) about fixing it.
"Playing videogames" isn't enjoying your life "in full", especially if you're smart and could do things that are really meaningful instead.

I'm pretty sure he knows this deep down inside, but that "have fun, don't give a fuck"-attitude is just a too convenient rationalization for being a lazy coward.
I knew how to read at 5
Oracle v. Google Heads to Supreme Court
Wow, that's a recipe for nightmares. I'm just now remembering a recent story of a woman killing herself after a failed Lasik operation.
Guided Daily Planning Ritual
Newsgroups with an extension that signed your post as a verified account (handled by whatever the moderators decide is good) and with some middleware to accept signed/allowed posts automatically would probably do it, if you could get people to actually use it enough to get momentum.

Edit: I suspect something like this probably existed. It seems straightforward and obvious enough that I'd bet it did exist, but couldn't get much usage in a world where spam wasn't quite as bad, numbers of users were smaller, and people were already shifting to HTML based platforms.
The toxic elements didn't exist invisibly. They bled out regularly into unrelated subreddits. For example, the fat phobia of /r/FatPeopleHate seemed ever present for a time. Popped up in many different places. And then after the sub was banned and many of its users banned, that particular form of insults & speech mostly vanished. It was a huge quality of life improvement for the site overall. There have been similar results from banning some of the more virulent racist and misogynistic subs.

I suppose if you never read the comments, then the subscriptions would keep you away from certain types of content. But if you wanted to participate in the community, only banning and active moderation worked. Subscriptions weren't any barrier at all.
Great communication,good work result
Sounds like a great idea for a deep learning neural network...or just lock all the fields down after a product is created.
That's not true. It'd help a lot. Apple can use their cable and simply not say that it's USB3/TypeC/FancyX. No one would care if it would actually work.

But at least there were clear markings for those who care.

It would take up about 2 cm on each end of the cable, a set of bands, like a barcode. It doesn't even have to be that strikingly different in color.
I didn't say I don't like their content. I am saying that I wouldn't pay every month to have the option to look at their content. Will you be watching Toy Story and Finding Nemo 4 times a month? I'd rather buy those on a disc (which I did) and pop them in every now and then.

Better yet, sometimes cinemas replay those classics so you can enjoy the full experience. I'd rather pay to go look at that.
does he still play the violin for fun? Being able to play at all is rare enough that that alone is worthwhile if it entertains him&his family. Nobody needs to be Nobel prizewinner or anything, and plenty of people become Nobel prizewinners that you'd never have thought anything of when they were < 18.
Liquibase 3.8.1 Release
Is this Cyberneodadaism?

Never mind. Whatever it is, I like it. Especially the part about just knowing a beautiful, completely random computation is happening, at 1/150000000000 the speed of a so-called "normal" computer.
Interpreting your question as a possible desire to make a HN clone (maybe on a different topic).

Check out https://lobste.rs/about for a HN clone written with Ruby on Rails.

Source code available here:
https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
Has anyone actually tried and failed to hold Amazon accountable for a dangerous product? I don't think it would be obvious to the average person that they're not transacting with Amazon when they use the Amazon website, and if Amazon's legal strategy depends on that distinction being upheld in every country, it seems risky.
That is definitely the next thing I would try :) mostly the reason why I started with a BiLSTM is that it's much easier to implement/debug, also afaik the time complexity of RNNs with respect to the sequence length is O(N) but it's O(N^2) for attentional models like a Transformer. Although it probably doesn't matter much on the scale of the SST-2 dataset.
You just linked 'diversity' to left and far-left, isn't that the same thing that started this side thread? How is that site linked with activism or left politics? You mentioned a "pretty clear" connection.

I could just as easily say it's a decision for the economics of the company and you're projecting your own politics into that, confusing capitalism with left/right? But you know your example is a political decision pushed by the company? The same company that sometimes pushes the opposite political message? You're assertions are lacking consistency
I always leave a review. I always name the product I bought in the text of the review. Now I'm thinking I should take a picture as well.
Do You Love Trains? Well, You Can Buy One
And yet they still make a big deal of how you can come in for a "tune up" or whatever. If it's so accurate, how did I end up an entire diopter off target?
Could you point me to at least one hyperbole in my text?
Lichens are way younger than scientists thought
There was a comment about that here on HN a few months back and that kind of convinced me that it's to enable the very-very cheap gadgets to be at least compliant. Cheap chips, slow clocks, but at least they follow the protocol. At least that's the theory.
Well, https://dubfi.com/ is there already and it's free. And yes, it's coded by me.
Here's more from the Economist, check the chart: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/09/20/far-left-...
It's full of really bizarre spam, though - and I got the feeling that it isn't technically straightforward to stop people from spamming, beyond everybody just keeping thousand-entry killfiles.

It's also very slow. And the posting format is very hard to follow sometimes, especially when you get people that don't do hard line breaks (or the other way around, depending on the program you're using) or have funny ideas about quoting.

Also, the lack of moderation seems to create a very wild-west style of conversation, where apparently rational people can start spewing really hardcore invective at the drop of a hat.
As impressive as frightening.
Towardsdatascience.com is rapidly rising on my irritation meter. Tons of submissions to HN of questionable value. This article is worse than most, the person interpreting the ruling does not appear to have a legal background and has essentially twisted the ruling to support his foregone conclusion. I'd love for an actual lawyer (paging Rayiner) to interpret this and to see whether or not any such far reaching conclusions are supported by the ruling the article is about. I've read the ruling and I've come to the conclusion that it makes no such statement but since I'm also not a lawyer you should assign as much value to that opinion as to the article itself.
Yeah. I knew (from TFA) that there was a charge to jump the queue. But there's no mention of that on the signup page. And no mention that they don't accept ~anonymous payments.
Setup builds.sr.ht for ci on a university project (unfortunately we have to use github for the source hosting). It has been an absolute delight to work with and for everyone on my to work with!
"Diversity" based on identity politics and physical characteristics (race, gender, skin color) is a left-wing position. Hiring the best people for the job is a universal capitalistic non-political position.

Is your counter argument that this "diversity" is also part of the right-wing party?
Is using pirated or otherwise illegally acquired data to train an algorithm legal? If yes then why is it illegal to use it for other purposes?

Is it legal to use the data to train an algorithm if the license disallows that explicitly?
bitwize said that, after Trump's election, a lot of stuff got labeled "far right" that never was before.

You replied that bitwize was supporting white nationalists and repeating a propaganda narrative.

Hmm... I'd say you just proved bitwize's point.
> Definitely don't cheap out!

This is so important for any surgery where mistakes can be life-altering. When I was a teenager we cheaped out on braces with a dentist 3x cheaper than the other one we'd spoken to, and my teeth are now slightly misaligned and I have a fairly weak bite.

Fortunately it doesn't affect my outward appearance and I've gotten used to it as it's not too bad, so it was almost worth it for the valuable life lesson.
Up to speed: the Welsh village that installed its own fast broadband
Do you have astigmatism? Every time I've tried contacts, this has been the achilles heel, because the contacts inevitable rotate a bit and then my vision is intolerably blurry until they get back into place. Maybe it's just my prescription, but my eye doctor straight up told me that I'd never be satisfied enough to switch to contacts (from glasses) full time.
You can't upvote though. One of the nice things same Reddit is that you can go to a subreddit about something you want to learn about and sort for the most popular posts from last year (for example). Some kind of system like that for websites could become a killer feature.
This is so sad on many levels. I first saw this article on HN and then went back to search my mail folder in disbelief (I hadn't seen an internal memo about this.) TGIF used to be a wonderful forum to communicate with leadership and enjoy our latest and greatest achievements.
Isn’t this formal verification more for algorithms than implementations? Eg if I have to use Coq to prove my code works, what use is that for my C application? Porting the code to Coq seems to defeat the point of formal verification, I can much better use some property based testing method.
The left was pretty damn upset about the blackface scandal.

The Liberals are a _centrist_ party, not a leftist one. That's the NDP.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

> Is idea that expecting you not to berate your coworkers about your pet political issue is erasure?

No, the idea is that being trans in the workplace can lead to discrimination, and I've seen people use the excuse that identifying as trans is political to tell trans people they can't use preferred pronouns or use a preferred restroom or like wear what they want to work.

That's bigotry and bias under the guise of apolitical-ness, no matter what you're looking for.
More than meets the eye
Wouldn't an assumption of good faith presume a capacity for frank discussion?

Oddly enough, I'm debating (on Mastodon) against the notion that a Single Global Authority defined as "suitably free", supported through taxes, would be a prefered / acceptable alternative to present private Internet service provisioning.

I agree with most of the sentiment, particularly public subsidy of comms capabilities. The concern is that it's not possibly to simply define a thing as "suitably free", you've got to work in a real world, in which definitions don't simply instantiate themselves, in which adversaries may take control of critical regulatory bodies (I pointed out that One Geopolitical Party with interests Significantly Opposed to Another has in recent history held the chair of the UN Human Rights Commission, where the UN was the proposed Internet provisioning entity).

Similarly: you can't simply declare by definition or fiat that we're all on the same team. For multiple parties' interests to be fairly represented and addressed, there must be some mechanism for representing and addressing those concerns.

Otherwise the proposal simply ignores existing realities and complexities and attempts to abstract them out of existence. They'll reappear in time in other places or forms.

Additionally, my understaning of "presume good faith" may be different from yours. It's not so much a belief I'll maintain, most especially in the absence of evidence. It's an operating and communications modality I will attempt to sustain (and hope others do), up to the point at which it is clearly no longer tenable. It's an extension of all feasible grace and credit, to the point that no possible justification for that extension remains.

Andreas Schou, a Googler, used to have an excellent guide to moderation pinned to his profile page there. A copy survives here:

https://www.voidstar.com/Takeout/ActivityLog/Comments.html

I've posted it, with paragraph breaks to Pastebin:
https://pastebin.com/raw/W3vpntgM
Wood Does Not Burn
First off, "identity politics" and centering ideologies around physical characteristics, religious views (almost as unchangeable), or ethnic backgrounds is practiced across the political spectrum. According to Wikipedia at least, "Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy"[1]. There's nothing specific about identity politics there.

Secondly, looking at the website that's not even the whole scope of the program. For example, they have diversity initiatives for veterans, people with disabilities, and employee resource groups for older people.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics
Right under the "Buy it now" button, it says "sold by X and fulfilled by Amazon", or "ships from and sold by X". If you click on X it shows you seller feedback. It's an extra click compared to eBay and it's not ideal, but it's hardly impossible.
" people are working to build things they don't own. That is the context. Any other spin on the context is just manipulation."

This is overly cynical.

People are getting paid a salary to do something - that salary is usually paid wether or not the work actually gets done, whether the thing actually works, wether the thing actually makes money. Money in the bank is worth 10x some magical payout at a future date.

New projects of any kind are exceedingly risky, and that's the ugliness that comes with ownership, it's also why the vast, vast majority of people wouldn't trade their salaries for big chunks of equity.

Most people are professionals at heart, take pride in what they do, and want to do a good job. It helps them to know what they are working on and it gives meaning to the work.

It's universally good advice in any king of org.
Most of the thrust of rocket is loss to get out of the earth gravity well.

I believe that this is wrong.

The Earth weighs 5.96e+24 kg and has radius 3.37e6 meters. The Sun weighs 1.98e30 kg and our orbit has radius 1.496e11 meters. That means that the potential well for getting away from Earth is about 11,800,000 joules/kg while for getting out of the Sun's gravity well is about 882,800,000 joules/kg. Assuming that I did the math right, that's about 7.5 times as hard.

It therefore takes a lot more energy to climb out of the Solar System than it does to climb out of Earth's gravity well. Voyager got a LOT of energy from those gravitational slingshots.
Does DDG do the same then?

Its autocompletes:

is hillary clinton running for president

is hillary clinton running in 2020

is hillary clinton going to jail

is hillary clinton an alcoholic

is hillary clinton democrat or republican

is hillary clinton sick

is hillary clinton under investigation

FYI, Google's "is donald trump" includes "is donald trump the antichrist" so they're certainly not consistently selective.
The end decider of that question will be another judge, but what I've been told by counsel retained for that express purpose so far was that the model (you don't really train an algorithm) that resulted from the use of that data would count as an automatic transformation of the data leaving it very likely that the model itself would be classed as a derivative work without deserving copyright protection in its own right.

In other words: you could not have come up with the model without the original data.
Nice work! Looks like HN / Reddit in terms of functionality and layout.

Really impressed that you've built all the features like RSS crawler, taxonomy, user and role management etc.
Can you provide evidence for that assertion, or are you just heaping abuse upon the poor because you think you can get away with it?
I’ll look into this. What I think Tilt and Skaffold are doing is just setting up a persistent volume to a local directory and letting all the reloading stuff be handled by the end-user. As long as the persistent volume links the local files to the cluster it should be good to do.
Pivoting to platform helps companies re-invent themselves
I've found exactly the opposite. He blatantly lies about situations, gas lights at every opportunity, refuses to himself follow the HN guidelines; his behavior is completely the opposite of the letter and spirit of the HN guidelines.

He posts vague, "Please stop" comments on many people he perceives as breaking the HN guidelines, which is a clear violation of the "no low effort posts" HN guideline. When he does elaborate, he violates the HN guideline of arguing the best form of an argument by nitpicking and intentionally misinterpreting what people mean and how they write. Further, he pretends to not understand a situation and simply repeat the vague, "You're breaking the rules".

When I tried to interact with a different moderator he refused to let me, without elaborating. He didn't allow me to speak with anyone other than him; I wonder why that is...

Dang is not a good moderator, a look at his comment history will reveal that pretty clearly.
This is an accelerated variant of typical business evolution. How many high grade brands are now cashing on their name subtly. Seduction etc
So this "diversity" is also part of right-wing politics then? And if so, why is there any political disagreement about it?
Well, it's cool that these days you can learn Javascript and have your code do something on anything with a browser, which includes almost all computers and phones. Abstraction isn't all bad.
He asked what it was used for, not what it does.
Apparently Costco's Kirkland contacts are CooperVision MyDay lenses.
Dave, all your material is now behind the Medium pay-wall for me.
Journalist Sharing Their Salary
We’ve been running it as part of alfresco. It’s not very stable and hangs every few weeks. Since we kill it every night we didn’t notice any problems.