jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Beyond things that are broadly considered reprehensible (e.g. videos of rape), I'm not convinced that moderation/deplatforming is healthy for society.

I definitely get the "my company - my rules" POV. The First Amendment doesn't apply to private spaces.

Then again, I'm not convinced that moderators ought to have the power to control what sorts of ideas are interrogated publicly (e.g. in the company of strangers). It's particularly problematic when the social climate at the companies that control these platforms is synonymous with the Progressive echochamber, but it's also hard to imagine any body that would be qualified to police ideas.

One of the worst things to happen this decade is the rise of social echochambers, where groups of people intellectually isolate themselves amongst likeminded people, writing-off dissenters as evil strawmen. The groupthink in these echochambers is nudged further to the extremes by the loudmouthed activists who control what ideas people are comfortable expressing. Large groups isolating themselves in these constantly drifting echochambers leads to the problems we saw this week in Washington. I fear making the platforms synonymous with these echochambers will only make this problem worse.

Anonymity and free expression have historically been some of the best qualities of the Internet. Anyone can say - and think - anything, and share those thoughts with everyone. That's always included snark, parody, and similar absurdities. People don't always mean what they say - they often might not even know _if_ they mean what they say.

Those same qualities make it particularly vulnerable to misinformation and conspiracy theories.

Figuring out how to help people understand what's likely to be true without censoring the kinds of ideas people can openly express is one of the great challenges of our time. I really hope we solve it.
I think you are missing the key point: Apple wants people to use their fancy devices more, not less.

You spend this money on this awesome device that does awesome things, Apple makes money when you use it (via iAds, via google searches, via many things) and AT&T is saying to their customers "don't use your device too much!"

I'm betting Steve is totally pissed off at AT&T right now.
Yes, the information is now online. So what?

The problem isn't the availability of knowledge. Books have been around for a very long time. What is the additional mechanism which will allow the youtube revolution to dethrone the school/university system?

Some benefits of a university course over a library of videos:
- A structured pathway through the knowledge in the field
- A body of peers/teachers who can help answer your questions
- A carrot/stick/framework for those people who don't have the self discipline to engage in a three year course of study on their own
- Critiques on your ongoing state of knowledge, ie, a way of solving the problem of a student who doesn't know something but can't fix it because they don't know that they don't know it.
We were pleasantly surprised too! It's great to see the interest, and we can't want to get it out there.
It is great to have alternatives to successful products and services that big companies provide. Esp. if the pitch is why this alternatives is better not why the incumbent is evil.

But the amount of negative campaigning (remember Scroogled campaign?) and BS that goes with it here makes me cringe each time I see one of these posts.
Starting a company has the potential to create something of value for people outside the company, though. Buying some Bitcoin and it increasing in value doesn’t really change anything in the world but the amount of money the person who bought it has. It’s not like Bitcoin use is very widespread or likely ever will be due to its slowness, power inefficiency, and government distaste. Bitcoin goes up in value mostly because more people think they’ll earn money from buying it and it subsequently increasing in value, not because it has become more useful.
Curious why? Is it because of the insane taxes (100+%) on imported electronics? Employment taxes? Or some other reason?
I really miss Sitemeter - loved their simple, no nonsense metrics that was exactly what I wanted from an analytics tool. I don't even understand the new version of GA, and have no idea why I still have it on my site.

But again, I don't want to pay for analytics. It's not a core necessity for my sites. Are there Sitemeter-like simple ads-monetized sites still?

I don't like Mixpanel and the other big ones.
Yep, exobrain is using org-mode export + some tweaks. I've settled on emacs + org-mode a few years ago (perhaps on the fifth attempt it finally clicked). Before it was gitit/Zim/sublime text/random scripts, whatnot. All the shiny apps like Obsidian/Roam/etc have appeared over the last couple of years (and it's awesome!). But I'm too hooked onto emacs now, maybe the only thing I should use more is org-roam [0]. For me the most useful org-mode features perhaps are tags, agenda, org-capture and org-refile. Search is very important, I have a whole post about it [1].

I started a draft describing my 'process' [2], but it's pretty incomplete.. there are some bits scattered across exobrain too.

Also lately I started playing with Logseq [3] to get a more interactive representation of exobrain [4] (warning, it's pretty heavy, needs some optimization and I might have messed up the physics). Logseq could be a great gateway for people who want to get into org-mode but not ready to go 100% Emacs, highly recommend to try it it!

[0] https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam

[1] https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm_processing.html

[2] https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html

[3] https://github.com/logseq/logseq#logseq

[4] https://beepb00p.xyz/logseq/#/graph
Just hours ago [1] H.R.5 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) was passed in the house. Also known as the Equality Act. It appears well intentioned, great name, but some of the demands are gonna be a challenge, specifically, bathroom accomodations, and potential to disrupt traditional women's programs.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5/te...
> My supermarket costs are 5x-7x.

If the cost of your groceries doubles every ~2 years, you've got yourself a local problem. If this was caused by inflation, it would be the common experience of all Americans. And yet, the price of my groceries today is not noticably different than the price was two years ago.
I don't agree. I just watched a talk from Gates in 2008:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsonKu4STzM

I thought it was totally wild how much he predicted correctly, e.g. personalized ads, big data analytics, internet of things, increased pervasiveness of screens throughout life, explosion in phone ownership, smart mirrors.

Some of that stuff was obvious by 2008, but his vision was always miles ahead in my opinion.
Use TrueCrypt for deniable encryption!
This is a very clever attack. I wonder if the same attack can be used on other sites or if it exploits something about Github.

Github's data is difficult to cache and many pages load piecemeal using turbolinks which itself creates lots of un-cacheable requests (cacheable only until someone pushes a new commit).

So it would appear to be next to impossible to stop a distributed attack.
Baidu is not doing anything wrong. The HTTP requests/responses are hijacked.

Baidu could make a switch to only support HTTPS though. That would require a more elaborate attack.
Interesting point. I started doing squats because I was already standing, but it didn't occur to me that I was able to stand because I was doing squats.
Hey.. actually I also just got the task to integrate an Ad provider in out game and made a little research. As far as I can see almost all big companies are providing Adobe Air SDKs for integration. For Example:

https://www.adjust.com/
http://www.mobileapptracking.com/
http://www.appsflyer.com/
https://www.kochava.com/
http://www.fiksu.com/

Alright.. I am done with promoting now, I think ;)
I do as much development in a local IDE as possible. From there I just depend on git and ssh. Screen makes things a little more manageable as well.
Because we do take people's licenses away if they repeatedly cause accidents?

Treat the Tesla FSD as a human driver and it would've had its license revoked many years ago. It's only through close supervision by humans that accidents have been as infrequent as they have been.

The clip in question, if a human hadn't been paying attention, FSD would've knocked a cyclist over - at best. Do that enough times as a human - not many - and you'll be disqualified from driving pretty promptly in most civilised countries.
It does make a difference because Jenn's rise to general attention has been through her satirical and artistic work (as well as the fact that she's an awesome developer who worked at the NBA and now works for Bocoup).

The context in which everyone was relating to Zed was the dude who wrote mongrel who did an about face and not only left the ruby community but decried it all the way out.

Remember this was in the heyday of Ruby on Rails's rise, twitter was still using mongrel as their primary web serving mechanism.
Because 1 guy doesn't drive 12000 cars at the same time while Tesla FSD Beta software does.
I think the point is that it technically isn't illegal to mine coins, later mix them, and then sell them. It is very suspicious though.
Energy in Texas, like everywhere else in the US, is heavily regulated.

They can't just raise rates or borrow money whenever they want. These decisions are regulated and political. So there is a set amount of income coming in to improve things and repair things and to pay off debt.

They were required to build out wind power. Probably a good thing in the big scheme of things, but that takes money away from other priorities. They have to fund the capital improvements of putting the windmills out there and expanding the transmission capacity to get the electricity to where it will be used (a long ways away). And they have to make other improvements and alterations to account for the intermittent nature of wind.

While they're paying for that, it puts pressure on maintaining and improving the other parts of their infrastructure.

What we're seeing in Texas and other places is that the stable system that existed for decades is being disrupted by many things, and it will be a while before we reach a new point of stability. It's an enormous engineering, economic, and political challenge.
>Much of those are free apps

What about in app purchases?

>and fewer than half of iPhone users use the App Store.

Woah! Are there any reported stats on this? That sounds crazy that so many people just stick to the default apps installed on the phone.
(from the slides)

>I learned Emacs in September, 1983

>It is now November, 2019

>...that’s over thirty six years!

>An amazingly long time.

Hmm, I think I learned Emacs around the same time. Yes, sometimes I think it is weird that I'm still using it.

I get a lot of pushback when I say that the developer environment hasn't advanced amazingly in all those years. Devs will point to one or more rather small incremental improvement. I'm sorry but I think we are still in the Bronze Age of programming.
s/friction/traction/
> I don't know. Even though I know HTML, I'd much rather create a bullet list by putting an asterisk in front of each item than writing a bunch of <ul><li> tags.

But I wouldn't—and it's a lot easier for you to process your Markdown and paste it into an HTML-enabled text field than it is for me to process my HTML and paste it into a text field that understands only one of the flavours of Markdown that doesn't have sufficient escape hatches built in (or that, like most flavours, has lots of features built in that you're apparently supposed to discover only by experimentation, preferably without any sandbox or preview available).
I like my pet theory: the Cybertruck has a much lower level of detail; this frees up more resources for pulling things.
My fiber ISP gives you overloaded PPPoE for the legacy "dedicated dynamic IP" experience, IPv6 is carried over more modern and performant IPoE infrastructure, and if you want you can use DS-lite for IPv4 to trade CGNAT for performance

Most of the stuff regular people care about performance for is on CDNs that support IPv6 (or is YouTube, Netflix etc)
Towing has more to do with braking than anything else.
You can't run the world without them. (Yet, barring some sci-fi hell dystopia.) That's why.
I'm not sure how they know, but see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis for the reason for the quantities.
I call bullshit. The cost is not "very high", it's astronomically high.

(Comments like this make me want to stop reading Hacker News.) Just because the "gunpowder" is expensive doesn't stop the production of containment vessels or delivery mechanisms:

http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-10-04/news/17447495_1_antima...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter_weapon

Additionally, "antimatter" can include positrons, which are much cheaper to produce than antiprotons.

My advisor also worked on creating antimatter traps at government labs, but none of the projects had any kind of defense related purposes.

Your advisor may not have been involved in all imaginable projects related to antimatter.

There are only a handful of interesting research questions about antimatter that exist at reasonable scales. Most of those are either fundamental physics or medical in nature.

Along with research into directly producing weapons, antimatter can also be used to initiate (micro)fusion, and has been researched for space travel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter_catalyzed_nuclear_pu...
Yes, you are missing one thing: if you are storing that file, a security breach (several kinds of those) means an attacker can get that file. Are you thinking this is not a problem? Think again!

* For "moderately" strong passwords (say, ones which need 10,000 attempts to get), getting at your encrypted files means the difference between you being able to throttle-and-disable a serial guesser and having the password hacked (bonus points if that was the password your user uses on other sites with the same usernames.)
* An attacker can go over the file to find "extremely" easy password for some user.
* A determined attacker can test hundreds of millions of passwords for a specific user, and know when he succeeded, before you ever notice it. So unless your website has a "change password every year" policy, the attacker can breach even "moderately strong" passwords.

This is even before issues like "well proven encryption libraries" are still broken, and if the one you used is broken, your file is still out there.

This doesn't mean that it cannot be done, with enough care -- but it does mean that if you avoid doing it, it's a big relief, and a big potential crisis averted.
It looks very well made. Good job!

However, shouldn't it be "Two degrees of Wikipedia"?
I forgot about FaceTime. Thanks for the suggestion!
My bad choice when purchasing a laptop.
> Facebook is hardly going to say, "Login with your Twitter account."

Not really. The value for Facebook is in the data stored on Facebook's computers. Who provides credentials is not that important.
Exactly! The brand name solutions are great, but provide little flexibility, and aren't very startup friendly. The total for our solution came in under $3k, and we'd be looking at about $15-20k for a brand name system providing similar functionality.
Fortunately tweeting has the concept/expectation of following (whitelisting) and email doesn't.
You tried to discredit the argument on the basis of irrelevant issues with the author, that is an Ad Hominem.
Sure, but the fact remains that Germany, France and The Netherlands have Free Speech.

A fact that American 1A fans usually deny.
Along with a some _really bad_ information in the community comments. The most blatantly horrific advice gets rejected or removed, but it's still best to search around to verify that the methods advocated are the best ways to do things.
It was my understanding the urllib2 respects robots.txt automatically. I can't find much to back that up, but I really thought I read that somewhere reliable once.
All what you described are the niche applications of a very little interest to the general restaurant going crowd.
No, but we both went to Berkeley (at different times). Go Bears!
Because of loss of value. Without backing there would be nothing guaranteeing the BitCoins in your wallet would hold close to the same purchasing power from before the time the network split.
It most likely wouldn't be considered an act of war, for several reasons. Most cyber-attacks are difficult to trace to a source, and even when they are traced, it's basically impossible to prove (beyond a reasonable doubt) that the attack was state-sponsored. Countries let more serious transgressions slide, because wars are costly and they cause orders of magnitude more damage than any cyberattack.

In the grand scheme of things, economic damage resulting from cyber-espionage or cyber-sabotage is regarded -- or at least should be regarded -- as a cost of doing business on the Internet. Companies should treat DDoS attacks the way banks treat robberies: inevitable and expected. And just like banks, they should simply buy insurance to cover the costs and damages.
Then you probably didn't look in the right place :)

Check http://www.pouet.net for some great generative art. Here are some <4kB demos:

- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=52938

- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55758

- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53509 [NSFW]

- http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=56866

And many more.
This question is answered rather quickly when you ask two questions:

1. What exactly are people paying for?
2. Is that actually necessary for messaging?

If the answer to 1 is servers, the answer to 2 is no: distributed or federated messaging is entirely reasonable and possible to do. If the answer to 1 is paid developers, the answer to 2 is no: there are plenty of developers willing to work on open source. Try it.
Similarly, I'm also bothered by the common argument that participation in sports is vital for learning to work as part of a team, as if STEM projects don't facilitate gaining such experience.
It's extremely hard for me to imagine how my quality of life would improve if my neighbor started believing in evolution. Perhaps you can provide an example?
eli5 what SOTA image recognition is?
I’m just curious to know how do developers reverse engineer
Unsupervised learning doesn’t give us named labels. Someone still has to name cluster 1, 2, 3... etc. So not sure that actually gets around what amounts to a semantic question.
Of note for the curious: Special Purpose Acquisition Company (a.k.a. "blank check companies") [1].

1. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/spac.asp
It seems on the face of things that a good expert would know about these psychological heuristics and would deliberately blind themselves, according to some method suitable for the field.

I doubt it's reliably the case that experts will be immune to the tricks of the human brain, unless they don't own one.
What safeguards are there or what assurances do we have that JFT is not contaminated with images from (or extremely similar to) the validation set?
Your first point is not that far from claiming not every group in the world has exactly equal average IQ scores. Different growth prospects are an inevitable consequence of that.
What about a much simpler explanation: a man just out fresh out of a university took upon an project made on entirely incorrect calculations of feasibility, and totally overpromised things left, and right to equally unqualified to judge investment fund people?
Answering my own question, it can work on a per-app basis. So far I haven't missed anything with per-device blocklists, but maybe I'm missing out :)
Alright, what do you want? Specifically, what will it take for you to believe the results of the presidential, senate, house, and local elections are legitimate?
Examples must be made.
He's pardoned a lot of low-level people in an effort incite people. You can look at all of the war criminals as an example.

I bet he'd pardon all of these people just to hear people bitch about it.
> excessive intake of HFCS is a lot more harmful to health than excessive intake of sugar is

That's mostly an inaccurate myth that has persisted for decades. Despite the "High Fructose" part of the name HFCS, the balance of fructose and sucrose in HFCS is roughly the same as regular table sugar, 50/50. HFCS 90 is actually worse for you than table sugar due to it's high fructose content (which is primarily only absorbed in the liver, unlike sucrose), but it is rarely used and the taste is very sweet compared to normal HFCS or sugar.

You can easily search for tons of sources (queries as simple as "HFCS vs sugar" will give you decent results), but including one to back up what I said above:

https://www.berkeleywellness.com/healthy-eating/nutrition/ar...
This is uncalled for. Pointing out Twitter's political bias on a technology forum is relevant, whether you agree with the comment or not.
What will make you think this election was fair? To me it seems like the only way Trump supporters and Trump will be convinced of the results is if they say he won.
But... why? Why would you, in the middle of a pandemic, be emboldened to have a child? Did the financial situation of people wanting artificial insemination improve? Did it get harder to adopt? Are people loving their partners *more* thanks to the pandemic? Has seeing other people struggle being locked in with kids created a wish to personally replicate the same?

Very curious...
Yes. Podman allows you to use WSL2 with the `podman machine` command on Windows.
The pricing makes me feel like the founders was more inspired by academic journal revenue model than standard SAAS revenue model. But they wanted the best of both worlds.

The pricing can be justified if they are actively pursuing universities to pay for it instead of individual researchers.
You’re just going to have to tell your toddler you can’t afford the insurance and crush his dreams.
I use it for my work in program analysis, code generation, and other languages-research projects. I’ve also used it to a lesser degree for modeling and simulation problems.

You would probably be better served by F# or Ocaml for a web-oriented ML stack. SML has less of an ecosystem in that area.
> clients, and not Twitter's servers, should ultimately determine what users see. Like the web browser or an email client.

That would involve giving clients access to information that clients probably shouldn't have. eg: If a part of the weighting for recommendation is that people you follow who regularly DM other people you follow should be weighted higher, doing it client side would allow you to see other people's private DM information.
Lots of affluent people still raise kids badly. Being affluent is a necessary but not sufficient condition of what the author describes, and that seems to me the gap the article is trying to span.
I probably agree with Justine about instruction cache bloat for these functions, but I remain unconvinced that diverging from System-V is something worth its tradeoffs. The discussion for that would likely be lengthy and unrelated to this topic, as compiling with newer CPU features would likely make performance comparisons worse under her scheme as the vector registers are temporaries.
>> It's a technical issue because the investment and power required to for the deicing necessary greatly reduces their efficiency.

Interesting. Can you provide sources for reading?
Would you consider putting the project up on github?