skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly closed license: "You may not use, alter or redistribute this Software for commercial purposes or in any manner that isn't for personal or hobby reasons. This includes, but is not limited to, selling altered or unaltered versions of this Software, or including advertisements of any kind in altered or unaltered versions of this source."

Also: "This repository does not include the source code for the engine, it is just the source for the game Delores." The engine is offered as a Win10 and macOS binary only.

Also: "Delores is coded in a custom language called Dinky that is based on and inspired by Squirrel."

Also: it requires the use of FMOD, a proprietary audio system.

These aren't knocks, just things worth being aware of before getting too excited at the headline.
The point is that without a monetary payout at the end, you're going to have trouble incentivizing someone to do the study no matter how cheap it is. And don't forget the opposite, if there's a current medical treatment for the condition you're testing they will try to block you at every step.
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This is what I thought the article was going to be until I clicked through.
Feels like this is about where problems lie along the closed-world/open-world, fast-thinking/slow-thinking fault line.
It’s going to become increasingly difficult for IT decision makers to justify managing or paying for Slack separately if they’re already heavily bought in to Office 365

That's the 'Killing Netscape' playbook - Why pay for Netscape when Internet Explorer comes built-in?

We all remember what happened with Internet Explorer once it became the monopoly browser - standards went out the window. (JICYMI - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish)
SpaceX's first astronaut launch will be a 'unique moment' for America
There were hundreds of these around London 10 years ago. Lovely little car (but then I say that as someone who was brought up on 2CVs...).
From any Matrix client try searching for Rust.

It pops right up for me with #/room/#rust:matrix.org at the top of the list.

Now try searching for Firefox.

There's a Russian Firefox community on Page 2 of the search results. There are beta and nightly groups on page 3. There's various other noise. But the maintainers have hidden the real Matrix room for Firefox so well, it doesn't even seem to be in the search index.

The choice was public. The move has not been public at all.
The thing is Teams does a lot, we just moved our phone system to it and chat eliminating two separate subscriptions into the O365 one we already had for email.

Is it perfect, no, but its pretty nice doing all coms through one app that generally works everywhere.

If MS where smart they would put EVERYONE!!! on Teams NOW and go over to the uservoice starting with most voted request and get to work and just dominate.
YouTube says that an error caused comments critical of China to auto-delete
I can say with absolute certainty that you've never given a shit about a customer. Ever. I have.

I've worked with many customers, and I've helped them solve problems. I've cared about them. I've worried about if I was doing harm to them. I've let them be more than just a KPI on my dashboard.

It's HARD. There is a lot of pressure from sociopathic, no talent, MBA-holding sociopaths who will argue that the best thing to do is to fuck the customer. These people think they're smart, but they're dumb af. They view the world as zero sum. IN order for us to win, the customer must lose.

To win over the long term, we must ignore all of these dumb, lazy, zero-sum thinking mouth-breathers, and embrace the customer, care about their problems, and solve them.

Google had thirty billion of _profit_ last year. They can pick up the phone even if it costs $5 a call. They need to ignore the people like you, the cowards who have never had the courage to care about a customer more than the immediate bottom line. They need to borrow some fucking balls and grow some fucking leadership.

I'm not saying don't use ML. I'm saying that ML at Google's scale is not a full and complete solution, and it's simply insane to argue otherwise. They need to deal with the exceptions and make their ML better. To do otherwise is to embrace permanent failure and eventual irrelevance.
Neal Stephenson explores something like your “user agent” idea and comes up with an different solution in his novel “ Fall; or, Dodge in Hell.”

Spoilers ahead:

In Stephenson‘s world people can hire “editors” to curate what they see, and those editors effectively determine reality for people at a mass scale. This is just one of the many fascinating ideas Stephenson explores and I highly recommend reading the book.

This interview covers some of the details if you’re not willing to dive into an 800+ page novel:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/neal-stephenson-explains-his-visi...
Sanity check in my head telling me that once content is reinstated by human operator - it shouldn't be taken down by algorithm, but flagged for secondary human examination instead.
Virtual Minecraft protest demands MS address the game’s sexual predator problem
"It"?
A well implemented karma system might be a thing: employees don't scale, trusted users do.
Google has an absolute fetish for making the ratio of profit to employees as large as possible. They will do it at any cost. There is no Google service without horrific customer support. Youtube, Google Fiber, Google Fi, doesn't matter. They refuse to accept that having 2x as many customers requires 2x as many support personnel.
Another person to talk to would be Brooks Paige, who recently joined UCL: https://tbrx.github.io/ This is totally not my area of research (I'm a PL person), but I know Brooks from the Alan Turing Institute and I think he'd be a great advisor for this kind of work.
> HIRE SOME PEOPLE

See: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/12/expanding-our-work-ag...

TL;Dr - YouTube announced they were going to have over 10,000 people to help.

Disclosure: Work at Google, but views are my own.
They probably see themselves as a competitor primarily to email inside an organization. Very different priorities.
I don't think your point passes a back of the envelope math test.

Right now Google makes the second most profit per employee of any large enterprise on earth: $269,000 in profit, annually, per employee.

I know of other- successful!- companies that make less money per employee, because they hire people to do customer support.

To start your argument, I think you have to explain why Google can not hire more CSRs, even though they are the #2 most profitable enterprise on Earth.
Well that kind of already exists in a project called "huginn".

https://github.com/huginn/huginn
A community based on geographic locality is the prerequisite for a functioning society and state. Anything that polarises that geographic community ultimately damages the state by attacking its precondition.
There is a guy that collects them, he has 100's of them.

I drove a Daihatsu Copen for a while (another small Kei class car), the Figaro is a bit more practical, both are super fun cars, if a bit on the small side.
Some apps generate a side effect from the callback being run so if you prevent the callback from happening then the app breaks. This is similar to the problem he has with patching the boring ssl callback so the libraries callback doesn't get called. The libraries callback was generating side effects that needed to happen.
> People don’t need to have content dictated to them like mindless drones whether it is from social media, bloggers, AI, or whatever.

If the AI is entirely under the user's control, why not? It's like having a buddie that's doing for me what I'd do for myself, if I had the time and energy (and eyebleach).
You have a typo, I believe: "There is no such thing as bad writer." needs an " a " after the "as".

Or maybe that's your intention? In which case, I find it distracting and could take away credibility for your product IMO.
I've been using NextDNS for the past few months and it's a fantastic product!

I don't need Blockada on my phone anymore and I can block whatever I want at the router level instead of doing it on each devices.

Keep up the good work!
Windows 8.1 (both phone and desktop) briefly supported Live Tiles driven by refresh/pull of a tiny bit of metadata you could easily add to the HEAD section of a webpage. If a user bookmarked that page to their Start Screen, Windows would poll that page every so often (IIRC as often as once every 30 minutes) and the user would see the notification eventually. It was a neat way to run very basic scheduled tasks. [1]

I wish something similar had become more common. I understand why all the platforms are focused on push notifications rather than pull notifications, but it's so much easier to write a bit of HTML/XML templating than to write anything with a PWA ServiceWorker and the Push Notifications API.

[1] The one app I built during that brief time was to poll NaNoWriMo for count API updates. It's a really simple app and was easy to customize with just an old school HTML method="GET" form. https://github.com/WorldMaker/NaNoWriMoAtGlance/
There is a Smalltalk books website out there somewhere with copies of all the old classics. I think Stefan Duccasse (Pharo professor) hosts it.
Yes I agree - this sounds exactly like what you get from e.g. a master class in music. There's no promise that the person you watch is any good at teaching, but they're gonna be pretty good at doing the thing.

A master class isn't supposed to give you foundational or comprehensive knowledge about a thing. A master class is supposed to

a) give you some random-ish insights from an expert

b) be marketing for the expert

You don't go into a masterclass not knowing how to do XYZ and then leave knowing how to do it. You go into a masterclass with a fairly good base knowledge of XYZ, and then leave knowing a few neat expert-level details about a particular subset of XYZ, but without any practice on actually doing it yourself (unless you're the demo student, but in that case you're probably also nearly an expert yourself).
>comments are much more valuable to the reader than others

This presupposes some kind of universal value function.

>but how can you tell whether a response is "genuine"? It sounds like it'd devolve into people leaving vacuous replies just to clear that prerequisite

This is like perfect is the enemy of good counterargument. I don't know and I'm not going to hypothesize right here right now where one misstep on my part gives credence to the idea that it's impossible.

Here's what I'll say though about modern forums: they fixed a system that wasn't broken as far as discourse goes. When I was in high school the were forums where responses were ordered in time rather than by popularity. Those places were actual venues for discussion. Ranking only exists for monetization. If you don't agree with this then consider professional venues for discourse: academic journals. I have never browsed a journal or arxiv by the number of citations or the hindex or whatever.
Sure, it's just that the person you were answering to--and this whole thread really--seem to be advocating for just importing module files without any sort of build step. Without a build step I also assumed tree shaking wouldn't be an option. Tools that handle tree shaking, like Webpack and Rollup, aren't really the simplest of JS tools anyway so if we are talking about simplicity of dev experience, I'd argue that multiple direct file imports--how inconvenient it may be--is still _simpler_ to get right than "single namespace import" + tree shaking.
Interesting because I think I have some rather random assortment of hobbies that generally tend to have no overlap and I get pretty good recommendations all the time.
Support scales linearly only if you don’t do anything to work smarter. Maybe your product sucks so much that every customer needs to interact with support to get things to work. Maybe you don’t have the right resources for customers to self solve. Hiring your way out of a support problem rarely ends well.
Perhaps, but DBeaver is under the Apache license and TablePlus is from what I can tell proprietary software.
Why are you defending Zuckerberg for being a dick? If you have power, you have responsibility: full fucking stop.

The idea that it's okay to be a selfish child with power is tantamount to allowing driving while drunk. Power is deadly, you can just as easily crush a persons life as you could their legs with a car. Don't drive drunk, don't be in power if you can't be a responsible citizen about it.
China's military power may surpass the US's
Business Insider's article explains how China's technological advantage may overtake the United States' military, even with superior hard power.
Positioning is something where overnight you can turn a stinker into a hit, or the reverse. The initial iPod is the Michael Jordan of this, but I myself repositioned a product and its sales went up by $100m. It was being sold as the most feature rich phone with a long list of features. I discarded all of the marketing except those around the music features and ran an advertising campaign just around music.
You are mistaken. I don't have the time right now to explain in detail but it really is quite simple: burning new forest is carbon neutral.

https://wood-energy.extension.org/is-burning-wood-carbon-neu...
Yes.

Some background[1] on the change.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/research/revisiting-the-broadcast-...
Nice, I'd think supporting many languages would be a worthy goal. This could be a nice tool for language-learners keeping study journals.
Hmm, this techcrunch URL redirects me to https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers which my little snitch ad-filter blocks. In fact https://techcrunch.com/ does the same. Not a good move by techcrunch, I can't be the only one running host blocking of ad-servers
CloudNine Mechanical Keyboard - Very similar to Microsoft Ergo 4000. Ultrawide monitor. USB webcam. USB switch to switch between sending peripherals to my personal desktop or my work laptop. Wacom tablet. Electric standing desk with 4 programmable heights. Dedicated room for home office with lots of windows looking over a lake. Lots of green and blue in my vision until I have to pull the shades later in the day.
This already exists. Its called Facebook purity.

It obeys what you say. No cats? No problem. No babies? No problem.

And yes, it also does filter out ads.

FBP
That guy is entertaining! I loved the video, even though I don't care about cars at all, never had one, never wanted one, only learned to drive by family pressure.

That trunk seems unusable, and all for making it a convertible that I don't think it even feels that much as a convertible with those large bars staying in place.
I think it's interesting to look at his code. I have not worked on games myself, but I've understood that most big game studios write their own versions of STL containers, in order to have close control over each and every CPU cycle spent, and in order not to get burnt by changes in the STL, or by slight, or not so slight, variations in performance between different implementations of the STL.

I see that he does the same, keeping his own lightweight string class implementation, for instance, and also his own lightweight smart pointer implementations (Owned and Borrowed). I suspect that he also uses bare pointers and new for similar reasons.

It would be interesting to know if he thinks it is necessary, or if he could have used std::string, std::unique_ptr and std::make_unique instead in this framework.
That's not relevant, and the paper itself doesn't really measure anything pertinent either. Ionizing radiation does not cause molecular ionization that stays in one place. It generates free radicals that propagate in reaction chains. Reducing the penetration depth only increases the volumetric dose.
I figured I'd activate it again and test it first... and of course it's way better now! Consistently getting around 40ms now so I'll keep it enabled and try again :)
You can pester scientists, they have their own separate set of perverted incentives - academic status - which, in this case, works in your favor.

As for the opposite case - if there was a thing you wanted to test that had a strong effect, then the company that owns the current treatment would happily fund you the tests in exchange for dibs if the tests pans out.
The fuck is MasterClass? This is a submarine advertisement, right?
Couchbase was a commercial CouchDB spinoff product, co-created by the programmer who created CouchDB. Much of the API is (was?) the same, but where possible, Erlang was exchanged for C++.

It also has a built-in, in-memory cache layer, which CouchDB doesn't have.
But everybody doesn't pay for Facebook, and the reason they don't do so is because Facebook is funded by ads and no one has paid for a Facebook without ads. But sure, Facebook might hypothetically still have ads if users paid, and my grandmother might hypothetically be a bicycle if she had wheels.
Curious what the process was in designing that warning. How did they A/B test this? How did they experiment with different fonts, colors, and spaces?
Yes, more like narrative fallacy akin to sayin that one feature we added to a product was responsible for its success.
I feel like it makes no sense to do this for AIDS seeing as it's already a word, with a different meaning
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
That's what I do too. Never understood why I should use something else.
Thanks, didn't realize the great courses were available on audible. Reduces the friction just that much more.
I suspect it kills in a number of ways and immune response is just one of them. Fortunately it is unlikely to kill you unless you are very old.
Agh.

April is terrific, and I agree that the right messaging and positioning can have disproportionately high impacts on revenue (speaking from experience with Netlify, Gravitational, and others), but this click-bait title is a huge disservice to April, other marketers, and founders who may be dissuaded from trying new messaging and positioning.

The actual story is that the person (April) was asked by a manager to interview a bunch of customers. When they brought back the data, the manager (or the team, collectively) acted on it by coming up with new product positioning.

Some years later, after countless product iterations and three acquisitions, the product landed at a tech giant that does $30B/year. The author speculates it was then responsible for $1B in revenue, though doesn't know for sure.

So...

It's fair to say "I was there early and it was neat to solve these problems for a DB that later ended up at SAP." But to imply that your work directly resulted to $1B in revenue--as this title does--is just nonsense. What the F*ck were the editors thinking.
This is what happens when you tell new developers php isn't cool anymore.
The Hard Truths About Freelancing and Self-Employment
How to Build A Nintendo Switch to Starve Online Price Gougers [Joy-con Update]
"the cake is a lie"
I was asked by a moderator not to perpetuate this discussion, but I just wanted to say that I do not envision a world of repeated theft, but a world where no one would put up the barb wire fence to keep out the hungry in the first place. And I do not want to be the person keeping the grain from the hungry. It requires the consent of people on both sides of the fence to make that happen.

I won't reply further to avoid continuing the discussion further, but I had to correct the assertion that my view on this is simplistic.
+1 Great Courses. Often taught by university professors and academically respected people.

I just went through the Hinduism course and it was an amazingly deep insight into how the country of India works and worked in the past when it comes to social fabric as religion is quite tightly weaved into the culture.

It is much much better than any of this fancy high production value celebrity tabloid thing we call "MasterClass". Nothing masterful about it.
I haven't touched this in years, but one time I made a little project[1] to analyze the people I was following on Twitter and recommend who I might want to unfollow based on their attitudes. People who posted negative stuff very frequently were at the top of my list to ditch; I don't need extra input pushing me toward misery. The first few runs were very illuminated, but not surprising, like "wow, now that you mention it, Joe does saw awful stuff approximately hourly".

I would love to have an agent that could apply those sorts of analyses to my data sources. In my case, I wouldn't want to filter out bad news, but unnecessarily nasty spins on it. I'd find that super valuable.

[1] https://github.com/kstrauser/judgish
I don't know about "prototype", but If it helps, the Kickstarter was $2k (I remember it as a grand, but I guess my memory was wrong) for the big(now medium) 15" ones, and $400 for the small 8". After it arrived, I kinda regret not gambling on the bigger one

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/the-lookin...
The only advantage this has over a parallax-barrier 3D display is you can move your head to look around an object. I don't see how that makes up for having 24 times the processing footprint, greatly reduced resolution, and enormous pricetag, especially if you equip a parallax display with similar hand-tracking sensors.
If we're honest a lot of his tweets violate twitters content policy and they do so blatantly. I wonder if they'll ever have the guts to straight up hand him at least a temp ban.
recently discovered this opensource hosts solution for android

https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway

almost everything obeys hosts on android, works great on lineageos
What you ask
The irony is that there's a disincentive to skip ads on 'paid' users even more -- because people willing to pay for things are even more valuable to advertisers -- so if you make a paid option with no ads, you're also gutting the value of the freemium-ads option (beyond the average user loss)
That's not what that article says. It's speculation from before the display launched. Here is a later article in which the founder of the company says it is lenticular:

https://hackaday.com/2018/11/21/supercon-alex-hornsteins-adv...

"since he happens to be head honcho at a holographic display company he can show us the result. Looking Glass Factory’s display panel uses a lenticular lens to combine the multiple images into a hologram, and is probably one of the most inexpensive ways to practically display this type of image."
Very much appreciate the encouragement. Thanks!
> The primary content no user wants to see any every user agent would filter out is ads

"no user"? Nope. People buy magazines, that are 90% ads. Subscribe to newsletters. Hunt for coupons. Watch home shopping channels. Etc, etc.

There's large part of population that wants to see ads. Scammy and bad ads? No. Good and relevant ads? A LOT of people do want them. Even tech-folks, who claim that ads are worst thing for humanity. Don't you want to learn about sale for new tech gadgets? Discounts for AWS? Good rent deals?
I think it's just maths. Otherwise, if not for the absence of calculation-by-machine, Isaac Newton and Archimedes would have been doing AI.
I can't speak highly enough of Crikey, totally worth the subscription. Journalism as it was meant to be.

TL;DR of the above:

"2203 stories. 10 newspapers. A five day snapshot. Six months’ worth of research"

"Crikey reveals the results of a six-month investigation into the role PR plays in the Australian media, finding that 55% of newspaper stories analysed were driven by PR."
You have many requirements to blog. Blogging is substance over style. Not much required.
Absolutely not. I am willing to bet that 90%+ of queries are about the confusion between a shallot and an onion. Nothing to do with the desire to learn how to cook.
Yes, I thought so.

Still sad.

On my desktop systems I can configure it in the network options and never think about it again. On Android I always close it if I don't think about it when closing all apps, then I forget to restart it.
Why wouldn't you? Life is way too short to pass up on the opportunity to ban a president. The lulz would last centuries.