skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After all this time watchin me, everything I ever asked it, all the ads I never clicked on, all the videos it watched me watch, all my emails it read, heck even after I worked for the dang company for nearly ten years, Google does not understand a very basic, essential thing about me. I hate advertising, damn it! I am sick of looking at it, I am sick of it looking at me. I am sick of hearing about how advertising is necessary to support a $130 billion in revenue and a trillion dollar valuation and some of the world's richest people. It's a lie. I'm sick of hearing about how I don't really hate advertising, I just want to see better ads. It's horseshit. I want to stop being bothered. I wanna stop being followed around. I wanna stop being monetized. We could have a smaller, more useful web that better benefited humanity, we could make education free or nearly free, we could actually have a chance to realize the dream of the original pioneers of the internet, if we weren't so obsessed with making it into the world's largest commercial marketplace, the world's biggest casino and TV show, and Google wasn't intent on extracting its ludicrous "fair share". If access to the internet is a human right, then its gateways can't be commercial entities, let alone ones hell-bent on growth. It is fundamentally incompatible.
I actually agree with you, and tend not to play on the hardest levels because it irritates me so. But it is a legitimate option.

My love for MOO and MOO2 is great, but doesn't blind me to the fact that the AI is dismal.
Amazon Aurora Backtrack?

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/05/amazon-au...
Roam vs. Notion: Which Tool for Productivity?
They make the extent of syntactic expressions more obvious to both people and tools.
When I'm searching for local businesses, I find I get better results from searching GMaps than through the regular Google search.
> That's literally what affirmative action is.

No, it's not. Affirmative action does not prevent any company from hiring any white/male/etc. people. All it does is preclude them from hiring only such people when there are qualified minority applicants. Equating a preference (even a mandatory one) to a total exclusion is specious, as is equating situations with and without specific ability-to-perform requirements. It's a false analogy.
Weird. If you go to udemy it says $9.99. If you logon to purchase, it says $199.99. lol
Aside from some simple BASIC, I can attribute the beginning of my development career to being a kid playing with the text-based config files of Civ 1.
Those all cite the same finding from a business research firm hired by Australia. I was hoping for something slightly more "scientific" than "these marketing guys say it's ugly" :shrug:
> You know, the style that allowed stuff to halt for 20 years because Disney want it in 1999.

You are aware that the copyright extension law was passed in the US to align it with the EU's length, right?
>If you want to run a massive platform where anyone can upload anything, then you should have to pay for it, at least insofar as financially supporting the potentially life-long therapy someone is going to need after doing a moderation job.

But this is so tricky though, isn't it? Anyone can run a media sharing platform. Hacker News is a media sharing platform. Mandating these sort of laws...makes the Internet less free.

The same sort of horrifying content that is moderated out today could have just been easily been uploaded to the BBS's and phpbb's of the early 90s-2000s. Does it make sense to make Facebook pay for lifetime care of moderators? Sure - they make billions of dollars - but what about a regional car club forum, or a subreddit about cat pictures? Should reddit be paying anyone who makes and runs a subreddit because they will inevitably have to moderate something grotesque?

It's not an easy problem.
A claim that today is "more dishonest" than times in the past is also tough to substantiate.

It's like how PBS has been pounding in its promos for the last few months that "We're a country divided like never before." Well, not really.

Yes, American politics is terrible now, but it's nothing like back in the 1800's. Posting some of the campaign literature that was distributed back then would get you banned from any modern electronic medium today.
I still do trust Google --- because I knowingly feed the search engine with terms I really hope no one can monetize. That's the only way I do not feel betrayed.
I hope we can finally see some improvements at SFO. The fact that the slightest impact on visibility can cause 4-5 hour long delays is ridiculous. the SF government has tirelessly blocked all attempts to fix the runways so that planes can land in visibility conditions (fog/rain) with the promise that technology would solve the problem.
When I was in college I read “The Innovator’s Dilemma”. It totally changed my life. I emailed Dr. Christensen and he responded! I thought i was the king of the world.

Dr. Clayton Christensen’s books are some of the few ‘Business’ books that I ever recommend to friends or colleagues. I find that “The Innovator’s Dilemma” is applicable to almost all aspects of life.

Dr. Christensen will be greatly missed.
Not as far as I can see, no.

That article contains the following claim:
« Computers, however, are only as good as their programmer and tend to offer engineers a false sense of security. »

which matches the "dark side of expertise" talk's bit about « There was an emotional investment that the engineers had made in the new technology, so it was inconceivable to them that it could be giving them the wrong answers. »

That seems to me to be a different issue to being misled by one's own expertise, and in any case neither source bothers to give any evidence that it's true (that is, that the computer's involvement was the cause for the unreasonable trust in the model's results).
Thanks for the heads up. Checking it out atm and it seems valuable.
"How do you vote with the majority, when the majority is only known after the vote?"

There are few surprises among these votes, and major parties often signal beforehand what they're going to do.
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Paywalled

https://archive.is/1pzuJ
This a small perspective. We have experimented with free information vs locked down information over many hundreds of years. We consistently see that bad people take control over the information lock and use it to create tyranny and death.
Stellaris doesn't have much tech or fleet micro. However, there is a _massive_ amount of planet (or more specifically, population) micro. You have to manually build up each planet and move the extra pops that grow to wherever they are most needed. Once you get to the late game and you have 20-30+ planets the game really becomes a slog to micro and game performance drops a ton. I still love Stellaris despite these flaws, but they are pretty big flaws.
Thats a great feature, if you're on Aurora. In my case these were MySQL RDS instances created ranging from 2012 and beyond. Migration of the app to Aurora is possible (after testing), but it would be a much larger change.
In South America too. In Peru, many mobile phone plans come with free data for WhatsApp, fb and Instagram which makes it way harder for people to even think of changing messaging platforms.
Nice try. You wrote:

"The fares are exactly the same in the entire section of the cabin"

Which is simply put, completely false.

My response was: "The fares (on most airlines) are absolutely not the same throughout an entire section"...

Maybe you should learn something about logic and argumentation.
Yes, essays like this give people like you and me a short term advantage. But these anti-work-ethic pieces also poison the minds of the next generation and justify political agitation on the part of the suckers who believe this stuff and squandered their time instead of contributing. There will always be a market for soft words that tell us that our vices are actually virtues.
"Leaving the EU does that, as effectively as being on the receiving end of international sanctions."

This is not just hyperbolic, it's false.
Excellent, thank you! I didn't realize this was possible, appreciate you taking the time to educate me.
I made the switch to Roam for a week and put my thoughts into a new post on comparing to Notion.

Notion vs. Roam: Which Tool For Productivity

https://www.austinrileygray.com/articles/notion-vs-roam
It’s possible of course, but ultimately so much business is conducted with Europe that UK businesses are still going to have to be in compliance with the majority of the regulatory regime - at least anybody who exports.

I imagine most companies will end up setting up EU-domiciled subsidiaries to minimise barriers, but who knows ultimately!
Oh wow, so you have to manually lock and unlock and wait like an hour before you can e.g. update DNS? That sounds painful.
Innovator's Dilemma and Competing Against Luck are the two best business books that any tech person should read.

I have my students and product design team read them.
I don't think that's the best criticism of bangs. The best criticism is that your query already gives you what you want if you just type it into Google without the bang.
i shake my head every time i think of the sheer marketing power of the bing brand...

Hey man, i googled that chick in marketing last night and found her facebook account. Really??? well i binged her and found her pornhub account. Bing... Find what you really are looking for.
Good point, in summary, Alex Jones is the symptom, not the disease.
Fergal Keane, BBC Africa Editor, Steps Down, Suffering from PTSD
I find a big reason to use DDG is because it has "!bangs" that allow you to redirect your search to other site's native search engines by appending/prepending them to your query. I can use "!pac" to search for Arch Linux packages, "!aw" to search the Arch Wiki, "!gh" to search Github, etc. So the quality of DDG's search may be lacking but I generally know the site I want to search and can use their native searches. Any way, if you want to get away from Google but can't get by with DDG, consider Qwant.
A significant portion of the modern digital advertisement is heavily data-driven, and those numbers are available to advertisers as well. Based on the numbers, many advertisers actually believe that Google is one of the best options available on the market. It's possible that this is not necessarily due to their modeling technology but infrastructure though.
>The solution should be to education society, not lock down information flow to protect society.

An extremely 90s tech utopian world view that time has proven to be misguided. And if you're not adjusting your thinking after the multi decade experiment where we tried it this way, then it's just an ideology and you're not really the educated and rational ubermensch you believe to be.
I use rds Aurora but i run a daily cron job to export the entire thing with mysqldump + gzip to s3.

I pass some flags to mysqldump to avoid locking the db and otherwise interfering with production. It also dumps from the reader node not the writer.

I also clear some tables and restore it daily to a development DB.

Sadly this looks like it only supports parquet, a rather usual db dump format. Even if, I'm sure, it's way more efficient to process using some modern tools than a text sql dump.

I just like open formats and interoperability and AWS's rds offerings are always just slightly 'off'.
Do you really need to connect to Facebook, Amazon, Google and whatever all these other hosts are just to provide PostgreSQL configuration reference?

https://imgur.com/a/oxu1bfA
Reminds me of what I called “emotional ramping” when I worked at conference booths. Most people in a booth are either a zombie (exhausted and uninterested) or a clown (putting on a show of excitement). The trick is to start your interactions with people somewhere above zombie and end somewhere below clown. If you start at a 10, you have nowhere to go.
Swedish Court Issues ‘Dynamic’ Pirate Bay Blocking Order
People got along just fine before the Internet existed too. This mode of argument is not particularly constructive.
Technically, project is any task with a start or an end...
It would be one thing if Alex Jones and his ilk were actually challenging people to think critically and be skeptical, and look for evidence before reaching conclusions and to be aware of biases both external and internal. Those are useful values.

But they simply declare that the entirety of the mainstream narrative is a lie (and that, therefore, only the alternative can be trusted) and then tell you exactly what to believe and then eventually sell you gold coins to hide under your mattress for when the globalist feminazi lizard-men finally come for your guns and precious bodily fluids.

People like Alex Jones aren't helping anyone, certainly not honest skeptics, I don't understand the efforts I see to portray him and others like him as merely the loyal opposition telling truth to power, or something akin to a court jester. Ok. The mainstream media is biased and corrupt... but if someone thinks the mainstream media is more biased and more corrupt than much of the alt-conspiracy media, they're very much mistaken.
I'm trying to find a full delivery of stack adaptives, but my search results are always so filled with this other crap that I can never find what I'm looking for.
Outside of his influence on the business world, I've met him a couple times and he was such a kind and genuine man. There are a lot of business school professors who reach far less heights, often in obscure areas, and they let it go straight to their heads.
I think it is normal in Good Faith. Your Company is paying you for your full time job, most people describe it a 9 to 5 when it is not. You are working during those hours, traveling back to home and then "resting". While traveling is not counted inside your working hours, some laws protect employees from the moment they step out of their home to work.

While it is entirely up to you what you do in your free time, but if your free time activities hinder your Full Time Job's performance, then it is a problem. And your employees do get to tell you what to do. You cant party all night and come back to work feeling sleepy just because it is "your" free time.

And that is especially true for someone in higher up position.
> The promise of the internet was to give everyone an "equal voice." We probably should have solved mental health first.

This idea that you're only allowed a platform once you've been "fixed" is exactly what pushes people towards conspiracy theories in the first place. It's a reaction to authoritarian mono-culture.
Because they are not perfect and you need control of where they go. They don't always get it right and you might have to correct them.

At least none of the solutions I've found been 100% perfect. So I much rather have the computer do as much as it can, then I correct if it gets it wrong. Collaboration with the machine is better in this case.
Mormon here and I had no idea how influential he was to some of the greats in business.
Rough.js v4.0 – hand-drawn, sketchy graphics
It's hard to say. I think it's more that society has changed and become less tolerant.

The sorts of G-philes we used to distribute without a care over BBSes in the 80's get people arrested today.

There was an article in the local newspaper a couple of months ago about a guy being arrested for sending someone bomb-making instructions over the internet. We did that all the time. Even plans for how to make a floppy disk explode inside someone's drive.

The Anarchist's Cookbook didn't cause mass terror in the 20th century. I wonder if it's even available in libraries anymore.
How dare someone provide an open forum and allow individuals to investigate and use their own critical thinking skills? It goes against the principles of our constitution.
Just the other weekend I had a very weird sleeping/lucid dreaming experience that gave me a new perspective on death.

Someone in my house woke up around 6am and made some noise. Enough to wake me up. I quickly wrote it off as "not a danger" and went back to sleep. For some reason though, over the next 3 hours, I went in and out of sleep maybe 30 times. Each time entering a dream-state for a couple of minutes, dying, and re-awakening here. Then semi-consciously deciding to go back into another dream knowing that I would likely die back into this reality. Much like is shown in the movie Inception.

It gave me a strange new perspective on what happens after death - making it seem like a song I'd listened to too many times to care about anymore. Like, "Eh... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ been there, done that" (even if only in a dream).

Living life is more interesting to me than worrying about what happens in or after death.
> No they aren't and never did.

That you can say this make me think that we are using different definitions.

Have they also stopped buying real-world credit card usage and correlating it with your other actions?

> To the extent they do collect as much data as they can, they limit it to identify you as a unique user, not you as a specific person.

That doesn't really make it much better, in my opinion.

> They do an excellent job of not pulling a FB and selling the raw data. Their internal controls are extreme.

I never thought they did sell raw data. Having strong internal controls is wonderful, but a bit beside the point in my criticism. I object to the collection. How the data is handled post-collection is a separate issue.
The difference here is that the EU bans something here that some of its governments actually want (e.g. the german minister of internal affairs said he'd like to role out surveillance that can do that).

I understand that things that are new should not be banned per default (as they aren't) — however if it is quite obvious beforehand they might hurt civil rights I think we can make an exception.
I remember reading How Will You Measure Your Life years ago right after college and enjoying it.

I also found the following section from the article especially thought-provoking:

> He second-guessed the wording of the label, but never the theory. Even after he changed his terminology to disruptive innovation, he saw flaws.

> “What we didn’t anticipate, and what in many ways was a fault of mine,” he told Quartz.com in 2016, “was that the term disruption has so many different connotations in the English language, that it allows people to justify whatever they want to do as, ‘Oh, this is disruptive,’ and they don’t ever read the book. The population of people where the fewest have read the book are venture capitalists. They are arrogant and smart and why do they need to read something?”

> He wished he’d created something less expressive. He began to discuss type 1 innovations and type 2 innovations, with a nod to Daniel Kahneman, because he believed those terms were vague enough to force people to read and understand his work more closely.

It makes me think about the way complex ideas get distorted and re-interpreted as they get repeated, like in a game of Telephone.
This is true of almost all business books as well. Typically they are a brief paper or even a single drawing ("crossing the chasm" is a single insightful drawing).

Unfortunately a four-page (or one-page!) book wouldn't sell particularly well. So like washing powder they are expanded with inert fillers.
I always found that the planet micromanagement is fun in the early game, but tedious late game when you control 20+ planets and are expanding quickly as you take over enemy planets.
TradeWars 2002
BuildZoom (YC W13) is hiring construction engineers and sales in Scottsdale
Thanks! Pretty big flaws indeed. Not the game for me then.
Unpopular with who? Also more unpopular than offering no help to the moderators?
Is there any rational theory of morality beyond temporary agreements for mutual advantage? Isn't all morality a psychological weapon to trick other people into giving up their advantages, and a set of excuses that people use to justify their self-serving actions?
Yes, as a parent of multiple kids, it's been extremely difficult to keep tabs and set boundaries on this sort of thing that both keeps my kids from awful content and doesn't make them feel we're suffocating them. I was thrilled when I was able to take away my child's unfettered YouTube access, which I had to constantly monitor and curate, in favor of YouTube kids which has 99.99% of the time presented appropriate content. Though now my oldest is aging out of that walled garden, and we're back to stricter monitoring. It's hard. I want my son to be able to watch folks playing games he likes, get tips & strategies etc., but some of the language used... it's not great. He's old enough now that we can let him be exposed to it and use it as an opportunity to teach.

Other things are much more subtle & subversive than mere foul or sexually suggestive language though. Something like "f--- those carebear wuss players that help all the triggered snowflakes that want everything handed to them" I mean, even if you agreed with some of socio-political themes this suggests, the particular language used is one of social division, derision, and disdain. Not "virtues" I'd like to instill in my kids.
I found the font hard to read. The light blue color doesn’t help readability either.
I really like what they're doing with using it for volumetric displays. They take a small white ball that's a few mm in diameter and they move it around a 3d space really quickly to create the 3d "pixels" while at the same time shining light on it at each position to color the pixel.

This is a great video with a demo and explaining how it works:

https://youtu.be/tzWP-NL3Lck
How do you deliver end-to-end encryption in a federated architecture like that?
> made it harder to do business in UK

If you want to export/import out of the country then you're going to need to follow all EU guidelines anyway. So all the UK has done is remove itself from the decision making process of rules businesses still have to operate under.
To transfer the registration, but not to update records. Domain ownership is generally largely separate from zone management. Transferring a domain to someone else typically isn’t something you do often.
Taking extra is a fast track to burnout and disaster. Do it at your own peril.
Indeed. This is pretty much part of what it will be coming in the next iteration.

What we're thinking is providing a set of "cards", where each card contains a theme: logging tuning, memory parameters, autovacuum, etc. And then, every card contains a recommended set of parameters to tune, and guidance about how to tune them.

Thanks for the feedback :)
i watch alex jones, and fox news. And CNN and MSNBC. BBC Sky news etc. To try to get all the view points.
How does anyone know if their naturally produced neural nets are self aware?
Doesn't everyone name SSIDs etc. "FBI Surveillance"? I think you have to more directly impersonate them to be guilty of... impersonating.
Yes, we should create licenses, and it should be vetted by the existing media institutions to make sure the opinions and facts are correct!
If employment at Google were the direct cause of mental health issues, then, yes, Google should take responsibility. That responsibility should include providing mental health care, not forcing it upon anyone. Don't strawman the issue.