skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yeah of course I know what age we're living in, and that it's a thing, otherwise I wouldn't be saying these things. We're saying the same thing basically, but you asked what I recommend and I'm just saying I don't have an answer, because that wasn't the point. In other words it's outside the scope of my comment to make recommendations of any kind, or try to state what an appropriate course of action might be.

It might've sounded like I was accusing you of something - I wasn't, sorry, just pointing out that rushing to a conclusion is part of why Twitter sucks. Nobody can just talk about an idea or let's say, one particular side of an idea, without it being construed as carrying a flag for that idea to take over the world and exterminate all other ideas. I'm only mentioning one thing, that doesn't mean all other things are false. But I'm focusing on this one side of it partly because nobody really needs me to enumerate the BAD aspects of having ADHD, I mean that's the side everyone has already heard!
I think this is fair provided you also remember to thank past you for the things that are helping you today.
There's plenty of intent. Just no ability to connect that to outcomes.
Completely agree with the sentiment, but the word "violence" has been tortured enough already. "Negligent driving" would be far better.
Are you referring to platform/publisher?

If so, it has no legal basis for many reasons, including Twitter's first amendment rights to choose what they show. See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/no-section-230-does-no...

Also, isn't the whole reason we're on HN the moderation?
The NVidia Shield runs it beautifully as well. (Same Tegra chip as the Switch).
Importantly, Alphabet is an inventor in 23andme. Her sister is also the head of YouTube.

This still isn’t as bad as Elon Musk using Tesla to bail out his cousin’s failing Solar City.
I'm curious too. The only problem is it is going to attract too much attention when people look at the shop shelves.
> Tangent: When Stumpf stepped down as CEO, he did so with a $134 million retirement package.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/10/12/well...
It's always bots and foreign influences when an organic populist movement that doesn't fit the blessed agenda grows.

The machine is showing it's rust more and more, and the more it flails the more credibility it loses.
So how did you fix it? What was the solution?
:) Thanks! I’ll ping you when it’s ready for some feedback.
> TMBPF had another apparent advantage. Manufacturers use two chemical steps to forge BPA into can linings. In the second stage, some BPA molecules don’t get incorporated into the polymer chains. Those strays are thought to account for most of the BPA that leaches from linings. Valspar chemists found a way to use TMBPF just once, early in the process, stanching the release of the unlinked molecules.

The article is, at least somewhat, about their tetramethyl bisphenol F compound having a process advantage to bisphenol A which could reduce the leeching.
I think there's a little bit of dismissal on both sides here, because people want very clear narratives about what happened. Some people feel good saying, "Trump won because people wanted him." Some people feel good saying, "Trump won because the system was hacked."

Both of those claims are simple. Either the election was a farce, or nothing is wrong and all the criticism is fearmongering. That kind of simplicity feels good.

It doesn't feel as good to say, "Trump won in part because the system was hacked, but if a bunch of people hadn't also genuinely wanted him, hacking the system would not have been enough to make him win."

People are hardwired to look for clear, easy-to-reason-about patterns or rules that they can just universally apply to every situation. Real patterns like that are rare, usually uncommon events have multiple causes. Usually reality is more complicated than we expect.

I don't think that bots/plants are as big of an issue as people say. I certainly don't think they're an existential threat to democracy. I also don't think we should ignore them, I do think they have an impact. They're one element of many that can influence an election.
> I can use my knowledge

That’s a great point. On the other hand, truly, “What happens in emacs, stays in emacs.”
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My squeezebox/logitech devices from the early 2000's are still working fine in 2020. Open source server software too.
I'm similar. My sister pressured me into doing it about 5 years ago. These days, I really regret that I gave in and did it.
You could just get a home with a kitchen you are content with and don’t want to rip out.
> It's because software is primarily a means of rent-extraction on existing industries than providing massive amounts of new value, with the potential exception of cases where inferential computing is being used.

How is software rent-extraction, and why would inferential computing be an exception to this? Software generally reduces the cost of performing some task while increasing speed, accuracy, and efficiency.

> The market thinks it needs more software when what it needs is good software in the right place. But then the belief that an industry needs more software creates a problem – a lack of software. This comes with the host of other software-specific intractables which spurs on the growth of software-focused labor.

Successful companies are looking for ways to increase their margins, which software generally does for the reasons I listed above, not inventing ways to integrate software into their business that serves no purpose.

> But in the process of converting an industry into one that is software dependent, you can capture massive market-share while gaining slightly greater efficiencies on the services provided by that industry but then introducing a whole new host of software-specific problems. Which grows software's demand.

Software generally is able to produce massive efficiency gains, not minor ones.

> The thesis that payoffs for VCs are so substantial in software startups come specifically from the scaling of software across an industry capturing industry-specific assets rather than improving the productivity of that industry per se. If it were just about outsized productivity more specific bets that resulted in critical efficiency improvements would be more common. But instead we see broad-based bets that serve to get rid of minor consumer inconveniences, then adding more inconveniences to produce an incentive to raise consumer prices.

Again, I question why you're saying that software doesn't produce large productivity/efficiency gains, and would add that VCs are interested in software companies because of the high margins, short production cycles, and past successes with software companies (among other reasons). You seem to be focused on a few specific types of companies (I think social media apps would fit your description, though I'd be happy to get specific examples of what you have in mind) that are neither the norm for the software industry or VC ecosystem in my experience.
I (and other people with ADHD) have trouble getting motivated not just for boring tasks, but any task. Even things we want to do. I doubt you've ever procrastinated playing your favorite video game, but I do. A lot.

Stimulants also effect people with ADHD differently than those without. I won't pretend nto be an expert on the subject, but stimulants tend to make people with ADHD calmer, able to control their thoughts better, and sometimes even sleepier. People without ADHD tend to feel agitated and jittery and hyper.
Of course you can do the same shell thing easily enough with emacs, too.
Good for you: the more things you like the more opportunities you have to be happy. Would you enjoy living and working in a room painted magenta?
No problem. I see it now on desktop but not mobile.
Transparency: bots can see exactly how to cheat. Search gets worse. Victory?
I wonder if there is a some kind of a subliminal psychoanalytical trick, where by going out of their way to make it super ugly they make it appealing. I can certainly see teenagers responding that way.
Most of those points sound reasonable but where do you draw the line and wouldn’t these companies be able to just throttle your dependence on them right before that line?

Let’s take Otterbox and Amazon for example. If Amazon notices that Otterbox is selling exceptionally well, they can require proof that Otterbox is selling similar numbers on other platforms otherwise they will be throttled. Just like that, there’s no dependence on Amazon because you’re obligated to diversify your sales. Don’t like it? Tough shit, now you’re not allowed to sell on Amazon at all because you must maintain compliance with the law.

Also, while we’re labeling internet properties as utilities, can we label internet access a utility first?
> governments have committed some of the world’s greatest atrocities in the name of certain genetic theories.

As have private companies.
The minimum amount you can serve is 85% of the sentence, fwiw:

https://prisonprofessors.com/rdap-truth-early-release-federa...
In Australia darts are all packed in an unmarked cupboard behind the counter anyway. No advertising, no branding.
Transit is also run by a bunch of transit geeks, who also invest a lot of time in getting local knowledge and fixing feeds. Just a simple example, they will add colors to the transit lines in a feed, so that in the app they show up the same way as on maps etc.
How many other people deserve to be right there with 'em?

There's this whole other version of the rat race / climbing the ladder that is either new or I just didn't know about:

If you can be adjacent to the people who can be blamed for something, you get to keep all the bonuses and not go to jail. Unless they find a way to blame the whole thing on you.
> If the government encounters one of their kid's DNA, that's enough to identify them as a son/daughter of the person with that DNA profile.

I don't believe that's ever been tested in court (so there isn't precedence) and the ways in which DNA are complex enough - and the mutation rate is high enough - that it might be like fingerprints... if you're the only person with DNA that might be like the kind found and you've got some serious suspicion around you for other reasons... then they might be able to use it as supporting evidence or to compel you to submit to DNA testing to confirm the match (which apparently does have precedence in the US... wow America)
It is 100 seconds to midnight
well in some cases it is, given our sand mining for silicon lol. but no i get the point of the article. even if your behind now. start, dont fall for the trap its too late.
Even if citizens are armed with assault rifles? Sounds like specialized police to me.

It doesn't mean their primary purpose is responding to the doxes of the mob.
I think rates may be skyrocketing because some of the stigma associated with the stuff you listed is finally started to recede. Now that people are being more open and honest with their doctors, more diagnoses are being made.
"Collect what?"

"Collect sand."
This is so true for beginning developers. They tend to have a mindset that once they run something and it appears to work, then that means they likely got it right.

In reality the code might be right for 90% of use cases, but once you multiply this over a whole project, you end up with total dogsh*t, and mainly because of laziness too. This is the biggest reason the inexperienced developers create such horrendously buggy code.
I definitely think people are wired both ways, to an extent. Sometimes people are just sort of... craftspeople who mostly keep to themselves. But I agree that's been mostly older people so far, though I don't know... Samuel Clemens certainly liked the spotlight.

So maybe it's just a personal trait that has perhaps gotten more visible lately due to the ease of communicating. People always wanted their five minutes right? But maybe it's more common, I can see people posting low-effort communications simply to get the approval of their in-group. Maybe even high-effort material, though at some point I'd hope the high-effort stuff gets out to the rest of us.
The group that you have some sort of actual say in how they operate. That usually means the government, not a private business.
I too read that as a Call for Further Testing, and given the other tests, at least moving forward with using a likely safer coating based on the other tests.

It isn't unfathomable for a single study, pro or negative, to uncover a previously unconsidered test variable or other complication and it is entirely indicative that a followup study which has a larger sample size and better controls needs to be conducted to obtain more solid evidence.
From TripAdvisors "About" page:

The subsidiaries and affiliates of TripAdvisor, Inc. own and operate a portfolio of websites and businesses, including the following travel media brands: www.airfarewatchdog.com, www.bokun.io, www.bookingbuddy.com, www.cruisecritic.com, www.familyvacationcritic.com, www.flipkey.com,www.thefork.com (including www.lafourchette.com, www.eltenedor.com, and www.restorando.com), www.holidaylettings.co.uk, www.holidaywatchdog.com, www.housetrip.com, www.jetsetter.com, www.niumba.com, www.onetime.com, www.oyster.com, www.seatguru.com, www.smartertravel.com, www.tingo.com, www.vacationhomerentals.com and www.viator.com.

That's a ton of subsidiary companies and explains a lot IMO.
Signal talked about how this is actually a security flaw. I believe they are working on implementing the feature though. It is about being able to create social graphs. So like if you get a new phone you can keep your social network (also that if you discard a phone an adversary can't pick up your identity trivially). With the current implementation you'd lose your social graph every time you got a new device. I didn't check very hard but I think it is this blog post [0]. They don't have many posts, so I'm sure you can find it if this isn't the one.

[0] https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
I know this has been essentially stated already, but: DUH.

The moment they let anyone have access to that information, they soured the market.

The “least morally questionable” risk is accidentally handing distant cousins over to police, and most people aren’t even comfortable with that.
> All of the company's research suggest it works, and the only other research mentioned in the article raises flags.

That's not true. Soto, Maier, Maffini and Zoeller, all outside researchers, had findings in favor of TMBPF. I suppose it's fine to be skeptical though.
Run things on Wine.
I think there are other forms of dungeon mastering that use little or no AI while delivering the same if not better experience.
> While there may be a few bad actors

The question is are these bad actors acting in support of Yang or to undermine Yang? If you were against Yang, imagine how easy it would be to set up bots to "support Yang" and then have fellow operatives/journalists who are against Yang write about Yang "bots". It's just as easy for Yang's detractors to set up bots as it is for his supporters.

There seems to be a concerted effort by certain operatives/journalists/etc to undermine certain political candidates by tainting them with "russian asset" or "bot" labels.

Without a doubt, there have been bot activity starting with obama/ron paul/etc in 2008 and everyone since in political life. If the author ( who also submitted her own article here ) wanted to find bots, there are far better candidates to focus on. Why the focus on Yang?

As with bots, journalists, media and everything, we have to understand the context and agenda.

Since the author also has an account here, I would love to know what her political leanings are and who she is supporting. Has she work for any political candidate before?
I don’t know about you, but I find Tiffany Blue to be about 70% of the way to pretty. It’s too fluorescent for my eyes, and it bothered me the last time I was in one of their stores.
I'd love if you were able provide some reading on "superblack", or even just explain it yourself.

I tried looking it up myself, because it sounds interesting, but of course search results are polluted with articles on vantablack. "Super black TV" and related search terms just bring up garbage about OLED TVs and such.
> Just FYI, the "proper transportation" is the exact same thing

It's not. Dogs have to travel in their kennel under the seat, which is significantly more stressful for small dogs than on your lap, speaking as someone who travels with an actual ESA
The candidate straight outta Google is struggling? Too bad, Google. You could use more friends in high places the way things are headed.
how do you know the passionate to the point of addiction Yang supporters are real?

I think its likely that many are, but that there are also many passionate supporters of the other candidates who just lurk on Twitter without posting due to social norms about how often you should chime in and how forcefully. The social norms around Yang supporters on twitter have changed by bots posting often and loudly, breaking the bubble and giving permission to people to do it too. If you then turn the bots off, the YangGang effect would last. (I'm sure this applies to not just Yang...)
For now, at least we have "grep" and "diff".
The technology itself is constantly improving, for instance the push towards long read technologies. Beyond the underlying sequencing, the computational pipelines run on the output from the sequencers is also constantly improving. A huge issue at the moment is in that space, as key portions of the alignment and calling pieces of those pipelines are not optimized for a global population.
That went on for a long time before getting to the point.

"Trained on gigabytes of input, GPT-2 is uncannily good at producing sensible text by simply predicting the next word that should follow a given list of input words."

There are now a few systems like that - autocomplete with a big text database. They have no underlying model of what they're talking about. So, after about three sentences, you realize the output makes no sense. It's just words strung together with probabilities that match known text.

This seems to be where machine learning gets stuck. There needs to be some underlying model of the subject matter to have a useful dialog. Outside of well defined subject areas (sports, weather, travel planning, shopping, etc.) that barely exists. Frustrating to see this half a century after Eliza.

Chatbots have the same problem. Either they force you onto a specific track, like a phone tree, or they just natter endlessly without going anywhere. I've been playing around with Rasa lately. This is a chatbot which uses Tensorflow to match user questions with canned answers. That's about all they get from the machine learning part. Outside of that it's a phone tree engine. There's a file of "smalltalk" questions and answers, so it can natter better.

What do we want? Chatbots!

When do we want them? Sorry, I don't understand the question." - bag at chatbot conference.
I’m not sure that’s a fair comparison either. One primarily makes computers which change quite fast (though my 10ish year old Macs actually work better than when they were purchased) and one makes audio stuff, which really doesn’t change that much.
I used to work on the search team at TheFork years ago (we were already a TripAdvisor subsidiary) and don't know about the current practices but back then there was no foul play about the ratings, which is not even the default sorting on the site.

Also, not specifically related to TheFork (because I don't remember...), do all ratings should always have the same weight? Are old ratings as relevant as newer?

If you want to book a romantic dinner are ratings from groups as relevant as the ones from other couples?

Is a new restaurant with two reviews at 7/10 average the same as another one with 200 reviews at 7/10 average ?

There's more to it than first apparent.

Example: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
Paradox has been pretty consistent about Linux support, and in turn I've been pretty consistent about lighting my money on fire by buying their games and the DLCs thereof.
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The meme might not be real but they're also not doing themselves many favors. People want a certain couple games, value does whatever they can to avoid it.

Even to hold people over they could have resurrected HL:DM and made it F2P.
Likewise, diet made a huge difference for me. I really like eating once in the evening and sticking to a super-low carb diet. I'm sure it's different for everyone, but for me it's a miraculous contrast to eating carby breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

When I eat regular meals I'm _constantly_ hungry and my focus goes to total shit. I tend to have to manage my weight because even when I expressly try not to, I eat too much. It's weird. I also eat worse food. It seems to be a vicious cycle.
Kaiser and mental health are a brutal combo. I had Kaiser in my 20’s and got depressed. It took them 3 months to see me in their mental health department. I told them I just needed someone to talk to for a bit but they saw me twice, asked me if I needed meds and handed me a flyer for a group that was not associated. I finally just went to a place that had student therapists which worked out well.
It seems like a pretty strange null hypothesis that people are entirely unaffected by the social media they are exposed to. The fact that using Twitter bots hasn't caused one candidate to become the most popular doesn't seem like sufficient evidence. Perhaps he would be even less popular without the Twitter bots. And perhaps many of the other candidates are doing the same thing, but better or at a larger scale.
For those interested, this video actually shows someone remove cans from the coating, which sounds backwards but if you watch you will understand.

https://youtu.be/X1pB6O6AYMU

One other note - often the coating is put on the can to protect the metal from the liquid inside and not the other way around. There are stories of poorly coated cans packed together where one becomes damaged, leaks onto nearby cans, damages them and so on. Quite a mess.
I too have a Denon A/V receiver, although probably older than the rest of you (an AVR-1913 bought in 2013). I don't know if the later Denons still have this, but try finding out its IP address on your network (assuming you have put it on your LAN), and then go to that address, port 80, in your browser.

Mine has a built-in web server running there that serves up a status and settings site that lets you do most or all of the things you'd normally do via the remote and on-screen menus, which sometimes gets tedious.

The web server is very slow, so it is still tedious, but a "twiddle your thumbs" tediousness as opposed to "way to much remote button pressing to navigate" tediousness.

They also have some kind of much faster network access, probably still through the web server but without all the GUI stuff which is apparently where the slowness is. They've got an app on the iOS [1] and Google stores that uses this.

Did any of you have trouble getting ARC to work? It simply would not work for me, until I finally noticed that the Denon manual very specifically says you have to use a “Standard HDMI cable with Ethernet” or “High Speed HDMI cable with Ethernet” for HDMI. I was using a regular HDMI cable. Switching to one "with Ethernet" made ARC work.

This puzzles me. Everything I've been able to find says that for the version of ARC available in 2013 it should not require a special cable. It should work with any HDMI 1.4 cable. A "with Ethernet" cable should only be required for eARC. I don't think eARC was even in the pipeline in 2013, and didn't start showing up on receivers until 2019.

I've checked some Denon manual for later models, and they also have the explicit "with Ethernet" requirement. What is going on?

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/denon-remote-app/id388608880