skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be a long list. We've got >35,000 people working on safety and security. I expected some challenges recruiting people with all the bad press we got over the last few years, but instead I've seen that talented people eager for a really hard challenge are even more excited to join and wok on this area.
I see two problems with this. First of all, the service Facebook provides isn't valuable at all unless all your friends and family are also using it and posting content. So unless you can get a critical mass of users to switch to a new platform with a different business model, it won't succeed. Secondly, we've become accustomed to not having to pay for social media, and asking to pay for a social media platform is a little like asking to pay for air. Sure, yours might not have as much pollution, but I can get something almost as good for free.

I've actually experienced the latter, as I looked for an alternative to Gmail. I just found it hard to justify paying for an email provider, where the only real value add to me is the absence of ads, and not being Gmail. And really, the price is mostly irrelevant. For me to be willing to pay _anything_, it would have to have a really compelling reason to move. The value of not seeing ads is just not that high for me. And I don't think you would say there isn't value in an email provider.
> Do you think this actually hurts sales though?

It might in some situations. With music for example, some bands have successfully encouraged people to buy their releases by including "rare" tracks that, if they were released previously, were done so on obscure titles that even collectors have a hard time finding. If everything an artist creates is easy to find online through piracy, there's no trove of "rare" material unless it's stuff that's never been released (like practice sessions or stuff that didn't make the cut for previous releases, much of this stuff is simply subpar and doesn't encourage purchases much).

Its hard though to carry that idea over to books though. What would be the extra material, unabridged versions? Not many books have abridged/unabridged versions to choose from.

I guess the closest parallel would be books people buy because they have to, not because they want to. By that I mean things like textbooks where, if they were available easily on pirated sites, everyone would just download. I kind of think publishers know this, and that's why so many now carry a one-time use only keycode to unlock online content. If you have to retake the class you can't access the online content again without repurchasing, even if the book itself has not changed.
Currently reading The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson. Wanted to read his book about ants but it was not available/deliverable/ebook. So purchased this on kindle. Have read only about 30%. But some of the things are new. I expected it to be a refresher course after a few of David Attenborough documentaries. But some of the things are new. Like how do we define species. A lot of these things are available on wikipedia. But I think it helps if you take time to read books and then explore further on the web.

Also liked and would recommend very highly Peter Wohlleben's The Hidden Life of Trees (so many new things to know).

Leaving this comment here just in case someone is interested.
Yep we actually do this! (invite journalists to decision-making meetings). One of our regular meetings is about the content policies, we publish the minutes here - https://about.fb.com/news/2018/11/content-standards-forum-mi... - and have also hosted journalists and outside academics from time to time.
This is a game changer! Thank you for letting me know. Kanopy is a deeply underapprciated gem.
Mint is well-liked and often used as an alternative to Ubuntu, and it's known for being reasonably lightweight. I haven't used it myself in several years.
Dark horse suggestion: Patent portfolio. It’s possible that self-driving implementations will be patent encumbered, so they’re actually buying leverage to keep the fees reasonable.
Then your company doesn't get to scale.

Sorry, but you can't skip support because it's not cost effective, just like you can't skip financial regulations or data regs. You don't get to use the excuse of "Sorry we are too busy making billions, maybe we wouldn't have to cut corners if we weren't so successful."
If they're counting subpixels as separate whole pixels and omitting the fact that the "effective" resolution is much lower because of the 3d layering just so they can say "8k" in their marketing material that's suuuper dishonest.
Well, people have decompiled the Android app. I believe if someone wants to term the app as a complete sham then they should at least do that.

Note that I am not against criticism of the app. Privacy concerns are full valid and I also want the app to be open sourced in its entirety.
These things are not linear. As your scale grows, the amount of attention from bad actors you receive goes up (from what could basically be 0 for something small). Coordination also becomes more difficult, as does managing the fleet of customer services resources.

If you have 1 person doing support, they can deal with the weird cases themselves. If you have 2 people, they need to share information between themselves. If you have 10 people, they might need to set up some sort of escalation system. If you have 100 people, you'll probably set up some sort of routing system (multiple languages/specialization). If you have 500 people, you probably need some sort of internal abuse / anti-bribery effort to catch bad apples. If you have 1000 people you've now got a separate team working on setting up policies. If you have 5000 people you've got a training and evaluation system set up for your customer service staff. If you have 10000, you've got customer support staff in multiple countries around the globe and need to deal with conflicting and ever-changing laws in the countries you do business in.

All of this while marginal revenue per customer declines as your scale goes up. So yes, in addition to it being costlier per customer to provide the same level of support as your customer base grows, you have a smaller budget per customer to do it in.
Bits of History, Words of Advice (2020)
True and I often have both. I like my exported environment variables to be all caps and my directory aliases to be lowercase. This keeps their uses separate.
Military alleges conditions,abuse in pandemic-hit Ontario nursing homes
Apollo-Soyuz
We have finite brains. We process and learn much more information over our lives than we retain at any point in time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
Show HN: dbhi/qus · qemu-user-static and Docker/Podman, non-invasive MWEs
Why are they a dead end?
The platform is constantly evolving. At any point millions of individuals could be part of an A/B test that alters their experience. How can a third party navigate these conditions without corrupting their findings?
There’s nothing Wordpress can do that you can’t do with a static site. Even comments can be easily bolted on.

I don’t want to pay $5/mo for a VPS when I can run my whole site on AWS for 32 cents a month.
True, although having a good bayesian prior working in your favour can also make you more effective and valuable as a spy.
I was under the impression that if you have a reference to an object it won't be GCed. Is that not the case?
Also, why do people use archive.is over web.archive.org? One (web.archive.org) is an actual library and gets all the legal protections that entails, while the other doesn’t.
It seems to me that we don't need to improve the tech at all. We just need some pragmatic infrastructure to support the existing tech.
As long as they all stand within a 55 degree arc in the middle of the display. Hope you're real friendly with your coworkers.
This is hardly new and in no way unique to Amazon.
That seems highly questionable. Given the complexity of his brute force algorithm, it was probably significantly more complex, and required more development time than the more elegant solution. The only reason the brute force got its answer first, was because it was the first thing he tried. That’s hardly an advantage of the approach.
You must know that's a fairly ridiculous reading of what I wrote...
From The Diversity Of Life by Edward O. Wilson
(These numbers are for recognized species.) This does not answer the "only 10% known" part. However, the part where the author says 13000 new species recognized every year should give an idea. Also this is about species not members under those species. And from the same book "Bacteria continue to be the “black hole” of biodiversity, their depths unplumbed."

"How many species? The estimates I made in 1986 and cited in The Diversity of Life (1992) put the number of recognized living species in the world— in other words, those formally described and bearing two-part scientific names— at approximately 1.4 million.

About 13,000 additional “new” species are recognized each year. Thus in the decade since 1986 more than 100,000 species have been added, bringing the total as I counted it to 1.5 million. Meanwhile, the numbers in some important groups have been revised upward— in particular in the insects, the largest of all groups, from 751,000 in the 1980s to 865,000 in 1998. A similar elevation has been made for the fungi, from 47,000 to 69,000 species. A commonly cited total world figure in the late 1990s, suggested for example in the Global Biodiversity Assessment of the United Nations Environment Programme (1995), is 1.75 million species. But this does not take into account the number of formal species names that have been erroneously applied to species named by earlier investigators, requiring an eventual reduction of the global number by 10 or even 20 percent...

“Working figures” for all groups, including insects, have tended to fall close to 10 million; the Global Biodiversity Assessment number, which constitutes no more than an educated guess and leans to conservative sentiment, is 13,620,000."
> Wikipedia has some severe biases when it comes to what and who counts as notable.

This is very true. I once googled “Next.js” to try to learn more about it, and Google “helpfully” linked me to the “Nuxt.js” (note the “u” instead of “e”) Wikipedia page. I was thoroughly confused.

Turns out Next.js doesn’t even have a page! It has a draft[0], but it’s been rejected as “not notable” despite it being more popular on GitHub (in terms of stars, contributors, etc)

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Next.js
This is an expected consequence of deplatforming — once you kick them off, those people are going to go somewhere. For this argument to work, you need to show that those networks are able to grow more than they would as a community on a mainstream platform.
What books or literature do you suggest to learn more about making these sausages?
> How else would one build up a library of e-books without purchasing them?

books.google.com and archive.org have a lot of content. Depending on his interests, its possible if not probable that he has not pirated anything because most of his collection is too old to be under copyright.

Maybe his ebook collection consists primarily of product user manuals (pdfs straight from manufacturer websites), or pre1926 trade manuals (hey, I know a guy who collects antique light fixtures...), or he dabs in genealogy and has a few GB of pre1926 genealogies (not all surnames have had their genealogies re-done in print since then).

Its a stretch, sure. But its possible.
The true fake news
The fact that FB has not banned political ads is pretty shocking and absolutely related to this topic.

Twitter managed to do it, but FB continues to allow political parties to spread misinformation via the algorithm, and FB profits from it.

So essentially VP of Integrity, your salary is paid for in part by the spread of misinformation. Until you at least ban political ads your integrity is non-existent.
Click Bait Alert
Absolutely, you are correct.

But that's not the point I want to make. What I was trying to get at is, why does it make sense to say "Well, why doesn't the United States just implement the policies of insert name of European country here?

Well, because the federal government, for the most part, isn't calling the shots on what individual states decide to do about the pandemic. It's up to the governors and individual state governments to decide their own course of action, for their area. In many states, the outbreak is very manageable and under control. In others, usually in states with the largest cities, the situation is much more serious. We are not all like New York City.

It it much more complicated than just lumping all the US numbers into one. I'm saying, it doesn't make sense just to look at the total US numbers, and say we are fucking up. Take the 3 most populous states in the US for example. California, Texas and Florida combined have nearly 90.5 million people. Together they account for nearly 203,000 cases total according to the CDC.

Comparatively, the United Kingdom has something like 65 million people, and a rough total of 261,000 cases according to the ECDC. Spain and Italy both individually have more than our top 3 states by population. Russia's rate per capita is higher.

Don't let Donald Trump and the huge numbers out of New York City/ New Jersey fool you. Most areas of the country have the pandemic under control, and very importantly, hospitals are not at risk of being overrun. Weather that remains to be the case as we loosen restrictions going forward will be interesting to monitor though.
A counter-point to this is that studies show polarization has also fallen in some countries over the past years - including ones where social media (Facebook or otherwise) is popular. Studies also show some of the most polarized segments in the US to be the older population, which uses social media less. We definitely have work to do, but this suggests there are many factors at play.
> Pick up multiple books from the same area to go deeper in an area. That way to genuinely learn about a topic.

My problem with this is that when I encounter something that I think I already know I tend to skim it, making it hard to pick up additional knowledge that I might have missed.
Identifying lies doesn't require perfect knowledge of all truth.
Lol. It's someone's language? Looks like Korean

"I think it's too hard"
The article is talking about ensuring you have no dangling references, a.k.a. memory leak.
I'm also fairly sure casually talking about murdering prostitutes didn't just become uncomfortable in most circles in the last decade, although I'm not quite old enough to confirm that anecdotally myself.
Even what you process every second thru your senses is a huge amount of data and most of it is not memorized (and it's a useful mechanism as we don't need to remember everything either).
Ya right lol
Narrator: it does

Edit: heck. It extends into education too. We’ve heard about a Harvard microbiologist prof who was receiving $$$ from China
Check out WeakMap and related weak- data structures.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Hate to be that guy like "why can't we get along". I can understand when I'm the one in some camp that would be pretty "in my face"/relatable. I'm trying to see aside from IP what the US provides/would provide to China. Food maybe. Vise versa in a manner where does China need the US. If they were to somehow "strike the mainland" whether by lack of supply, etc... what would they do when US is out of the picture, use other countries? It's hard to see the "good" with regard to my initial comment I guess I am just naive... sure I have running water/access to knowledge but do other people have that, there are always bad people... it'll be interesting to see what happens. Also more on topic, seems they seal everything on their end anyway why YouTube. And with "truly" decentralized technology not biased by nationality that would be interesting. Not sure how, data pipelines, machines, etc... nothing is guaranteed to be "secure"/not tampered, encryption maybe, even that "do you personally know every single line of code" sounds conspiratorial ha.
I use this - https://www.target.com/p/pure-fitness-multi-purpose-doorway-.... I've had that bar for a while but just decided to do 1 pull-up a couple of weeks back. Graduated to 2 last week.

I'm not affiliated with target or the bar manufacturer.
My point is Bill Gates, and anyone who reads for retention, does control how much of the information is new by picking books they bring a lot of context to. But you are right that reading the same unfamiliar book three times would also be a way to bring more context to the third reading.
I started a project to track news articles across various sites, the idea was to get multiple takes on the same subject and ideally a more informed, less partisan view.

It uh, did not pan out. Most news sites publish nearly identical articles, stuff them with ads and affiliate links and fill in the dots with a few low brow opinion pieces catered to the audience for that site.

Pretty depressing discovery on my part.
Who cares?

Youtube deletes lots of comments that are vulgar or tasteless or obvious coordinated uselessness before anyone sees them.

Just because this one is an insult to China's ruling party doesn't make it more meaningful.
I think a energetic butterfly was more responsible for the $1 billion in revenue.

But on a serious note, this is clickbait. Anything that says "X happened, then ${big money}" is designed to trigger "X happened, if and only if ${big money}" in peoples minds, and therefore "X is the secret to ${big money}" so I need to find out that secret to big wealth, so I will read the article. It's bait.
Anything that promotes privacy and then offers “sign in with Facebook, et al” worries me.

At the very least offer Github or Ubuntu One or something as a single sign in option for those who don’t trust either your database or BigCorp
Great stuff! Does anything like Cobra exist for Java?
The article has a very strong "throw enough sh__ and see how much of it sticks" tone to it. Mark Zuckerberg asking Xi for a baby name or American entertainment producers trying to play friendly with the Chinese market isn't really 'enabling the communist party' in any meaningful sense of the word. And Chinese media replaying some CNN clip isn't really evidence of anything either given that you can take everything out of context.

The one thing from the article I'd agree with is bad is Bloomberg interferring with the journalists reporting at his own company. There should be a strict line between Bloombergs other business interests and the editorial at the newspaper.

Otherwise I think there's a lot of confusion in the article between the conflation of the private market changing products to be popular in China, which is fine and simply reflects their status as a consumer, and actual propaganda efforts.
Japanese Waltzing Mouse (2014)
Reading through the comments, either muricans are so dumb. Or PRC/CCP has put their hands here. CCP are worse than the nazis, speaking as a Chinese.
Hackasat 2020: After Action Report
The IFR rate cited here is in agreement with the latest CDC information as well.

https://in.dental-tribune.com/news/new-estimate-by-the-cdc-b...

And here if you want to see the CDC details.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

While I can understand some of these experts indicating that the lockdown was a mistake I think it ignores a larger world wide cultural issue that has come about. People have become increasingly risk adverse and expect experts to protect them. Let's not forget in Italy scientist were convicted of manslaughter for not knowing if there was going to be a earthquake and not trying to cause a panic based on their uncertainty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_L%27Aquila_earthquake

The current cultural climate is to always err towards the most extreme risk adverse action it seems.
Certainly nothing brilliant about the acquisition. I'm with you there. It's just an M&A deal. But considering the (relatively) cheap price, there's a chance it eventually pays off to be a transformative catalyst for the business.

Amazon's market cap is currently $1.2 trillion. If they spent $2.5B to acquire zoox, that is only 0.2% of market cap. Not a bad risk/reward ratio.
26M LiveJournal credentials leaked online, sold on the dark web
Anti-black racism is obviously worse than anti-white racism. No rational person would argue that they're equivalent.

That does not mean that anti-white racism should be acceptable.

It's a pretty simple concept.
> Microsoft open-sourced the 1983 GW-BASIC interpreter last week as a historical software artifact.

Walking into a Radio Shack viewing some Tandy running BASIC prompt, more fun was the grin walking out of store. Infinite loop of random ASCII always got some looks. Kids 6 years old today could do this.
On Comcast my ping time is 16ms to a lot of websites. On AT&T fiber at the same speed (gigabit) it's 1.5ms.

On fiber when I'm downloading at the full 126 MB/s my ping barely goes up, unlike on cable.
The version where he honestly didn't know is a lot scarier.
This isn't Nam Smokey! There are rules!

I think if the president of the US is unable to operate within the terms of service, he shouldn't get a platform.

Why is that something you're going to argue against?

Am I the only one who gives a fuck about the rules around here?
ngl, if I read that I'd be impressed at the sheer moxie and marketing ability
Had never heard of this before but saw it as a throwaway reference in an old story. In Japan they are apparently known as Komanezumi (spinning top mouse) or Mainezumi (dancing mouse) and said to come from China.

https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E7%8B%AC%E6%A5%BD%E9%BC%A...
https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E8%88%9E%E9%BC%A0/
Higher hoods are caused at least partially by pedestrian crash safety regulations. There has to be empty space under the hood to act as a cushion.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15118822/taking-the-h...
Ah ah yes, that's the one. Did you take it too?
3 pages a day I think it was. the Miracle Pages practice from Julia Cameron.
Their promo video makes it look like a TV with a touch screen.
Don't overgeneralize, though. Yes, using the traditional pipeline is indeed way more efficient when you're creating traditional scenes.

However, this technique of doing everything in a fragment shader can actually make sense for some types of unusual/experimental scenes. Stuff like infinite repetition or fractal detail, smooth liquid-looking geometry with constantly morphing topology, detailed translucent volume rendering. These can be considerably easier to create as a fragment shader.

So, while some people are indeed doing this as an esoteric programming exercise, others also realize that this technique can allow the exploration of different types of realtime generated images.
> I think you could ignore C++ tokens and just pay attention to the preprocessor directives when figuring out e.g. what to #include, because strings couldn't span multiple lines, so you could easily identify the directives with a # in the beginning of the line.

char *cstr = "This \
#is a valid "
"C string";

If I understand you correctly, is this a counterexample?
Looking at your profile, I get the sense you are trolling :) but I have a bad time imagining the need for the elasticity of lambda for those single-user actions.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/china-superpower-two-pa...
It's quite heartwarming to see how resilient nature is. A lot of near extinct species seems to be making a comeback with the coronavirus slowing down human activity. In a way humans are the real virus lol
CDC: Coronavirus antibody tests may be wrong 50% of the time
Absolutely! I've used picocli[1] and airline[2]. There is always the Apache Commons CLI if you feel like building it all yourself.

1: https://picocli.info/

2: https://github.com/airlift/airline

Bonus: picocli lets you create native images using Graal, so you can really build native cli executable using Java.
Use Flutter for your next app. This is what I think of it