skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, but I disagree that we have an internet that isn't an internet.

Even though two particular problems affected a great many sites, they didn't affect every site or even a majority of sites. That's because we don't actually have a "handful of companies hosting everyone."

Maybe I'm not a typical user, but the only site that was affected by S3 that I use was HN. The only three sites affected by Cloudbleed that I use were HN, Discord, and another smaller site elsewhere. The rest of the internet worked perfectly fine for me.

I'm pretty sure 90% of the sites typical users were unaffected also. I mean, facebook didn’t go down, did it? People could still search on The Google. I don't know of anyone whose job was affected by this aside from people who run websites. Neither of these were as bad as the Dyn outage, which wasn't the apocalypse either.

I agree that over-centralization of the Internet to be concerned about actually creating, and it's definitely something you should consider before choosing services like Cloudfare and S3. But I don't think it's so bad today that the Internet isn't the Internet anymore.
No worries -- they can hire guards to watch them.
Can Facebook sway elections?
Giving Facebook's power to sway public opinion, do you think it could influence elections? Did you think it affected this one?
Why not use logarithms instead?
One engineer... but a LOT of volunteer editors.
Korean language has built-in social framework for respecting the elders. Different words used when speaking to someone older vs. younger. The language enforces filial piety.

When I learned German, French and Spanish I struggled with gender specific features in them.

When I learned English, I struggled and still struggle with the use of articles, like the "the".

Languages reflect and reinforce culture and mindsets. I am a different person in each language.

Reading translated books is a great mental and cultural exercise.

Elena Ferrante reads better in English than the original Italian.

Jhumpa Lahiri reads better in English than Italian.
"Bred vectors" are an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bred_vector

Note that these vectors are generated not by just sampling the uncertainty in I.C.'s. Of course, this is because the space of I.C. perturbations is too high-dimensional to cover. In the method above, selection of perturbation direction is based on the adjustments implied when new data is sync'ed to the model.

There are other techniques.
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The media does not have a "hard left" bias. They have a "hard profit" bias. The most recent example is the 2016 election, in which they used an orange haired fascist and a right-leaning, conservative "new Democrat" to amplify their entertainment driven ratings (and ad revenue).
Hanlon's Razor applies?
In my opinion zero rating is one of those things that is good until it is abused, and it would be much less of a problem if there was actual competition between ISPs. In my opinion net neutrality is largely to keep monopolies (either a web company or an ISP) from gaining even more power over the market. I would prefer to have no zero ratings at all because having any opens the door to abuse but practically it isn't actually bad in this situation otherwise.
Yes - and there's also the fact that you have to get everyone on the same page with tags. It isn't as simple as just moving something where it belongs.
Other sources of information can't compete, and it's fairly easy for one source to be controlled by some person or organization. Additionally, when this has been done in the past people turn Wikipedia into the normal internet, hiding media on various pages and using it as a social media stand in.

The money would be better spent lowering the normal cost, but then Wikipedia doesn't get the huge supply of editors.
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Bingo. Just follow the money and see who profits from cannabis being illegal.

1. Can't put a patent on it and can literally grow it in your backyard - pharmaceutical industry is going to lose a large chunk of cash inflow from anti-nausea and opioids. Not to mention the fact a large portion of opioid/herion addicts started out on prescription medicine, which leads into my other points.

2. The entire law enforcement procedures will have to rethink the status quo. Smelling cannabis was a great way to have "reasonable suspicion" for violating privacy, and going after cannabis dealers were incredibly easy targets to bust. Don't forget RICO that gives LE a nice cash bonus from drug dealer assets.

3. Prison industry will have a hard time filling in the since a large majority of the prisoners are nonviolent drug offenders. Perhaps with less opioid addicts that sought cannabis instead would cause some extra vacancy as well.

4. The Cartel and several other underground organizations that I have a hard time believing would not have ties to politicians and decision makers on the subject.
I wonder how many people are like you, as a percentage of the total.
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From the title I was genuinely wondering if this was about a novel system time usage, or if they were killing the whole thing. Kind of a strange phrasing.
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Much of this seems to be safeguarding Github from legal issues related to their internal handling of the data the repository: reproducing without attribution is necessary for internal search, integrity of source will be violated by search and backups (which might partition the source on the backend), and conditions of "use, display, perform, and reproduce" were already issues before -- essentially depending on users to obey the license rules -- all that changed is that Github is legally requiring your permission to do these things.

Honestly, to me, these signify more of a problem with either a) legal interpretation of these licenses or b) the licenses themselves. The things that Github wants to do with your code are perfectly reasonable, and I don't think would be interpreted as "breaking the license". All code is attributed to you when displayed to other users and isn't being broken up in its distribution (unless you believe that only viewing a single file is breaking up the source code... which is just silly) in practice.

I really don't view this as a problem. I think fighting any of these issues against Github (without this ToS) in court would likely be very difficult and unfruitful... but the risk makes it necessary for Github to protect themselves anyways.
You're not crazy. I think the people who want such colors (which I'm guessing is a very small minority) should use a custom css, instead of straining the eyes of the majority of users.
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You are right, the best possible solution is to ban free access to Wikipedia. It just isn't fair.
The question of hash usage made me think of an alternative approach -- what about some kind of audio perceptual hash? P-hash has support for audio hashes [1] (at least it claims to, but I've never used it). The metadata is useful, sure, but coupling it with the playlist seems like a bit of a strange design choice, if it could be avoided. In my mind, an ideal world would have two databases (or equivalent): one for metadata -> perceptual hash, and one for playlist -> List[perceptual hashes].

The downside of course is this requires pre-calculation of the p-hash for every track to use. But I can't think of a music application that doesn't require some kind of "library loading" step, so perhaps this could be accomplished then?

Of course none of this mitigates your concern with decoder bugs resulting in RCE, but I think that's probably best handled elsewhere (for example, sandboxed upload validation in your hypothetical user-uploaded-files service).

[1] http://www.phash.org/
3DS has a browser and a built-in reliable controller. I haven't heard about any HTML game for 3DS.
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It is specifically those who are benefiting from capitalism who need to be convinced that it is not great, since they are the ones who are propping it up.
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Excellent deep dive - treasured.
I would much rather see devices fitted with full dumps of the text content of Wikipedia(s). The english Wikipedia is just 60 Gigabytes for heaven's sake!
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I've been toying with this very idea for quite some time. I don't like that I have to seek out a complete story instead of being able to see links that form a narrative in a single place. I also wish I could easily see different sources of the same information to compare the perspective.
Yeah we have something like this in Ontario ("TeleHealth") and from my experience the calls usually end with "Go to the doctor / emergency room" because they're mostly unwilling to tell you "you're fine, it's in your head" unless it's completely obvious.
The part you're missing is: this comes from Firefox dropping support for NPAPI. Google is also dropping NPAPI. But rather than turn Hangouts into a plugin that could work in the new non-NPAPI world, they've just given it special privileges in Chrome to allow it to keep working, and are letting it break in Firefox.
I've had PCS my entire life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordial_catch_syndrome

Definitely not worth going to the ER for.
Out of curiosity, what's his involvement with "monopolistic dumping scheme"?

Looking through his Wikipedia (ok, not a fantastic reference source ;) ) entry, there doesn't seem to be any mention of involvement (employment/directorships/etc) with financial institutions.

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How to increase conversion rate?
When you have a landing page for your startup, how do you tons of sign ups?
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The question is posed as though this is settled science, when it isn't. Leaving aside causes of difference, the concept of "cognitive ability" is, at the very least, fiercely debated as being variously: culturally biased, overly narrow or mechanistic, or unmeasurable.

Measurements like IQ or g are only validated by being "correlated with important social outcomes" and "correlated with job performance", uncritically accepting the current society or structure of work as natural or inevitable rather than as products of culture.

If "cognitive ability" is restated as "how likely an individual is to succeed and thrive in the dominant culture" it becomes less surprising that there are differences between different "population groups".
What tools do people use to administer these? Since Twitter and other platforms seem to have no interest in fixing the problem I figure I might as well stop trying to abide by their ToS and leverage the technology for my own agenda.
Tagging along on the top reply here, but does anyone else notice some serious HN gaming going on in this thread?

Accounts commenting that have made 10 comments in 5 years, people defending CF that, after going through their profiles, are clearly linked to CloudFlare or maybe even employees. Top relies suddenly being near the bottom and replaced by posts supporting CloudFlare with statements that don't match what was actually in the blog post.

Just seems really really fishy to me
@untog's got this one right. There are other teams that focus on improving the CMS, website and apps — but this job posting is specifically geared towards research, data analysis, reporting, tools for search/viz/compare, databases for journalists to rely on, and so on, and so forth. As he says, the input.
Holy shit. That explains why I took a S550 the other day despite it being an UberX ride. This would have been avoided if Uber had never got into the auto loan business.

This is gross. I'm glad to have deleted my account and go full Lyft.
Yeah, I don't have Overwatch or GTA V completely maxed out. They both still look pretty spectacular, though.
That said, modern piezo actuators can get really small. And there was some other work on non-ceramic piezo systems.
I agree in principle, although in practice allowing Firefox add-ons to be fully equivalent to other features has been a detriment to security, stability and performance

Only in an abstract "we might have been able to implement security/performance improvements faster if we wouldn't have had to worry about breaking addons" sense. Any other effects are restricted to those people actually using the addon and don't affect everyone else.

A powerful extension interface can also be used to improve performance/stability: while e.g. adblocking certainly doesn't come for free, its cost should be more than offset by not running all that crappy code pulled from ad networks.
To be clear, we lost six hours of data. Not something we're proud of at all, but I figured an exact number would be useful.
Interesting article, but very one-sided. Yes, there are a great many ways people are different when they switch languages. But the basic realities of human existence, like being bodies that have to eat and so on to survive, and living in a three-dimensional world, and, are still basically the same. Oh, and that is why it is possible to translate, imperfectly but still to a great extent, between different languages.
It'd mean the world to me if you didn't spam my preferred forum for tech news... ktnxbye.
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My website gets 75,000,000 total requests per month through CloudFlare, so they estimate 6-11 leaks.

I am happy with the way CloudFlare have responded to this.
I've heard it used in wonky circles, and if you pronounce the whole thing instead of the acronym people know what you mean.
It's been in there for an hour+, and sits lonely at 2 points as of the writing of this sentence. So go figure!
>I don't mean to be uncouth, but if you are 55 and not retired yet, you are going to have serious employment issues in software industry.

I've only seen this occur to people who failed to keep their skills up to date and failed to keep growing their abilities commensurate to their number of years of experience. Demand is still tremendous for people who are experienced and competent.
I strongly recommend visiting the Miguasha National Park (which is a Unesco World Heritage Site) if you are in Quebec.

They have a great collection of fossils and some great trails you can hike on.

It's close to a lot of touristic areas too!

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> small incremental policy changes make huge differences to individuals

I'm curious to hear what small changes you think will have a huge difference.
That's because you're viewing this situation entirely from within your prior beliefs about large corporations, which somehow have convinced you that only 3 or 4 hosting companies exist and everyone must use them.

Exactly how do you figure this? There are lots of alternatives to S3:

1. All the cloud stuff, which is the new fangled hotness (3 to 4 companies)

2. Non-cloud hosting providers (hundreds of them, from shared hosting to VPSs and above, and usually cheaper if you don't have high traffic)

3. Hosting your own stuff on your own hardware, which is the cheapest if you really need it, and can be done in a data center just about anywhere in the world with good internet.

So, what planet is this that you live on where 3 to 4 companies handle all hosting and we have to use them?