skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you run a multinational company? Or how did you afford throwing away $29K for a simple arithmetic error?
Hold a reverse auction instead - start high and lower it until you get just enough takers.
> since it can't be bought

This is not precisely true. Read some of this description in the FAQ [1]:

> What is mastodon.social? The "flagship" instance of Mastodon, aka the server I run myself with the latest code. It's not supposed to be the only instance in the end.

> What else is part of the federated network? Let's call it the "fediverse". It has existed for a longer while, populated by GNU social servers, Friendica, Hubzilla, Diaspora etc. Not every one of those servers is fully compatible with every other. Mastodon strives to be fully standards-compliant and compatibility with GNU social is higher in priority than the others.

> I tried logging into a GNU social client app with Mastodon and it didn't work, why?
While Mastodon is compatible with GNU social in terms of server to server communication, the client to server API (aka how you access Mastodon) is different. Therefore, client apps that were made for specifically GNU social will not work with Mastodon. The reason for this is half technical, half ideological.

While I applaud the ideals espoused in these paragraphs - and completely understand the technical reasons why it's not compatible with some older protocols, why there is a flagship instance, and so on - imagine for a minute that the current developers were supplemented/replaced with a group of people who wanted to "own Mastodon". They could give the flagship instance at mastodon.social proprietary add-ons, not available to other instances. They could develop "Mastodon Pro" mobile apps that don't prioritize standards compatibility, but are compatible with the flagship instance. They could get on the standards committees so that they're difficult to implement, and not followed precisely by their clients. And while they do claim to be disinterested in VC funding, monetizing, advertising, and anything of that sort, well, money can be very persuasive.

[1] https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/e92a1cf436b99757e...
None of the countries targeted in the NSA slides are part of that program.
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That's a thing you can train yourself to change, if you want.
Than the sources I found? Yes.
The GP is saying that the bias isn't an attribute of the Wikipedia text, but of reality.

If the reality is that only 34% of doctors are female, why is it not desirable for the machine to learn that?
Not to belabor this, but I believe it's a valid point to illustrate the scale of the potential financial repercussions for United. The damage to their brand could in fact cost far more than the short term $1.6B change in market cap.
Google isn't a monolith. The author is on one team that wanted a way to encourage use of its services. They used an open source project to achieve it. Doesn't seem _that_ crazy to do rather than wait for some other team to build you an API.
The US government already has legal and very broad access to SWIFT for anything even slightly terror related.
I probably wouldn't want to do automatic striping of arrays of structures, because it'd only make sense in some circumstances, but it'd be trivial to add logic to the code generator to use indexed addressing modes --- you'd need to check to see if the thing being indexed was an array with bounds small enough to be indexed with an 8-bit variable.

<thinking out loud follows>

...that would produce something like:

lda index
rol a # scale for 16-bit values
tax
lda address+0, x # read low byte
ldy address+1, x # read high byte

== 11 bytes (assuming index and address weren't in zero page). But of course if I were reading a 16-bit value, I'd probably be wanting to dereference it as a pointer or do arithmetic on it, so I wouldn't want to read it into registers all at once --- the 6502 likes streaming maths through the accumulator a byte at a time.

Something like 'result = array1[index] + array2[index]' would end up:

lda index
rol a
tax
clc
lda array1+0, x
adc array2+0, x
sta result+0
lda array1+1, x
adc array2+1, x
sta result+1

== 24 bytes!

(When I was about 10, the 6502's lack of 16-bit arithmetic made me very sad. It still does, but it did then, too.)
I seem to recall reading that the compatibility between 68k variants were less then stellar. Not sure if it was Filfre, in relation to the Amiga, or elsewhere.
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14116413
uBlock Origin in Firefox on Android still seems quite effective against ads on Facebook
Hi all - I'm the author (backed by a very capable team) of the YouTube nuclear attack video. I appreciate the commentary and the dialogue about Threads, The Day After, The war Game, Fail Safe and other such movies, all of which inspired us in making our own modest production. Ben Marking.
I heard about that I and I want an answer on it. Why is one subject deemed off-limits?
It literally says after that, "'To avoid taking sides on the ethics of ad-blocking, we have deliberately stopped short of making our proof-of-concept tool fully functional—it is configured to detect ads but not actually block them,' Narayanan said."
Awesome! Thanks for the information.
here's a direct link to the whitepaper: http://randomwalker.info/publications/ad-blocking-framework-...
The usual "business school" approach to preventing metrics from causing unintended effects is to assemble a balanced scorecard of a dozen or metrics. If you do it right the negative factors of each cancel each other out. So for example to evaluate public school teachers instead of just looking at student improvements in standardized test scores relative to their peers you could also factor in subjective (but quantified) ratings from principals / students / peers, number of continuing education credit hours, student participation levels in extracurricular programs, counts of "suggestion box" ideas, etc.

http://www.balancedscorecard.org/Resources/About-the-Balance...
The Economist is not named for the profession, though.
Moon – A blazing fast UI Library based on vuejs syntax
Vulgar: A language generator
Wouldn't it be a benefit for most taxpayers, and only a drawback to a small minority of taxpayers and companies involved in e.g tax law or tax software?

If a law is merely about bureaucracy and is neutral in terms of e.g tax pressure of redistribution then any political resistance must surely be because of some kind of unwanted influence from an organization or company?
This is research, not an attempt to make an extension for you. They're not looking for beta-testers, or users, or anything other than to have done research and share their work.
> Thankfully we have enlightened people among us to guide the sheep, right?

Please don't. If another comment takes a wrong turn, going further that way doesn't help. Instead, please help the thread self-correct by posting more substantively.
This is answered in TFA.
perhaps someone will fork it soon?
Me too. I don't get most of the posts in this thread.
Mastodon and most other ostatus projects are free software, licensed AGPL.
right - the operative phrase in the OP's post is Sometimes.
"Sometimes you don't want to do that." He did not make a categorical statement, but y'all are treating like he did.
Doesn't this blocker still require you to load and render the ads so they can apply their vision techniques to them? You won't get any performance win and you'd still see empty popovers or blank space. I don't see how detecting that something is an ad is enough on its own to create an effective ad blocking solution.

The part about defeating known anti-ad blockers seems rather unfair. If this technique did gain popularity I'm sure there would be ways around it (like tricking it into thinking the button used to dismiss a popover is itself an ad).
This was my question as well.
Ok you must love competitive programmers then, because they are very driven to solve problems :)
don't forget the ecology argument, that's always saver if someone doesn't wanna admit they are just cheap
Free trade is unambiguously good in terms of maximization of total utility. Don't the Econ 101 models say something that there might be specific losers, but overall it's still a net win?
I'm hoping it would be something based on micropayments, maybe through a service like flattr. That would keep content accessible (for a small, affordable fee) and completely block out the bad actors (i.e. advertisers).
As i learn of the mainframes of yesterday it feels like all the hoopla of _nix on x86 these days is basically rediscovering all those things mainframes did back then...
It has its own Snapchat Stories now.
Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System
I've made the "insurance companies" argument before, most recently with the isp regulation rollback (visit webmd and watch your rates go up). I just can't sell it (but I don't seem to be able to sell much of anything, sadly- that's a different story lol).

Do you know of any evidence where that has happened? I wanted to say that those things they blamed on Obamacare were actually because they were posting pictures of themselves at barbeques on facebook- but it's hyperbole to my knowledge.

The "getting rid of envelopes for mail" argument might work on some.
The Economist could certainly live with Singapore's system---which is different from the UK one.
>Has no one here been on a flight that had to IDB someone prior to the door closing due to weight issues?

In fact, on a United flight just a few months ago the captain got on the intercom and said they had weight issues because of headwinds on the flight path and they might have to deplane some people. As it turned out, they were able to remove some cargo and otherwise get the numbers to work so everyone could stay.

I have no idea about trespass etc. but flights have legitimate reasons why they have to deplane some people. Now it's much better if they can get people to agree to do so voluntarily with compensation. But one way or the other, they sometimes have to get some people to leave a plane and making a fuss vs. not making a fuss isn't a very good criterion.
It sounds like part of their premise is that won't happen because of legal reasons - to some extent, ads have to be identifiable.
well in this case your reply IS very condescending. lmao. "I just checked the server manually and the files were there. Could you check again and let me know if they still aren't showing up for you?" would probably be a better way to phrase what you're saying.
The Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer ion collector has an open-source mode, confused me for a moment, they mean open ion source of course.
Your comment here broke the HN guideline against calling names in arguments. Please don't do that; it degrades discussion.
In a sense the PC was a recreation of the Altair, but with extended IO features out of the box.
The 68k had its own list of dumb architectural mistakes, FWIW. Registers were 32 bits wide but load addresses were 24 bit -- the CPU just ignored the high 8 bits, which led to programmers trying to cheat and stuff things like tag bits into pointers, which then broke on the 68020 which expanded the address space.

The hardware bus was async (!!!), meaning you had to arrange correct clock synchronization for every one of your peripherals independently. (c.f. "DTACK grounded", the classic 'zine of the 68k hobbyist).

The exception handling was insanely complicated, and even then they got it wrong in the first version: faulting instructions couldn't be restarted, making the use of an MMU impossible even in principle. They fixed this (via dumping even more undocumented complexity onto the stack) in the 68010, which was essentially a "patch release" to the part that was needed by the Unix workstation community.

It's true that starting the PC with a 32 bit flat address space would have saved headaches in the late 80's, and it's likely that the feature set in Win95 would have arrived a few years earlier. But on balance the mac and unix worlds had not less grief moving off of 68k.
They took back climbing harness a friend bought two years ago but told them that even though it's in their right to return, they would basically destroy/dispose of the harness since it's a critical safety equipment. Other stuff goes to the Garage sales.
When I think of NZ, I imagine South Pacific beaches, lush forests of emu and kiwi and other exotic animals, and the landscape of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

What natural beauty does Tulsa have?
According to the article, current adblockers like Ublock Origin aren't searching for keywords in the page elements for ads, they're just using human maintained lookup lists?

That's very surprising. I would have thought that would be the first avenue of attack for adblockers.

Also, who wants to help me retrofit this thing to actually block ads?
The code is where TODO's should live. Anything else can be separated from it. It'll help people understand areas where technical debt was intentionally incurred and expose them to the tradeoffs involved at a high-level.

Also, not all tech debt is solved by refactoring.

TODO comments aren't suitable for tracking all technical debt, but they're good for targeted instances.
Obligatory EconTalk for people who want to better understand US taxes and popular perception of them:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/04/vanessa_william.htm...
A walk down memory lane
Again, from humans and from reality is not different. Whether it is desirable to avoid stereotypes depends on your values.
I also think the Chrome team might be unhappy that the blog post confuses the terms "plugin" and "extension". So yea, Google is not a monolith.
I'm a big supporter of the RTBF and I wish we had it here in the United States. The law does, actually, set fairly clear lines in most of the places people seem to be concerned, in terms of prohibiting "forgetting" information deemed important to public interest, for instance about celebrities or severe crimes. It explicitly highlights outdated or incorrect information as being suitable to be forgotten.

I think corporations here in the US that are against it managed to set a pretty good FUD campaign about right to be forgotten, and I think a lot of people bought into it.
Why would the data disappear, given that it's stored on an external volume (i.e. EBS or Google Cloud Storage or just a directory on your laptop), not in the container FS?
Quality at both places seems all over the place.

I bought a great bag at REI a few years ago that was praised by the ultralight hiking community for being a great, cheap ultralight pack, but now I've heard that REI discontinued it and everything available is a lot heavier.
Ask HN: What new language/framework would you like to learn?
I have a significant amount of experience with Ruby on Rails and front-end javascript development (React and Backbone) and a little (< 6 months) professional experience with Go.

I have a new side project and would like to build it using a new language/framework. I am leaning towards Python as I also have been dabbling in Machine Learning but adding something like Java to my skill set would get me more experience with strongly typed/compiled languages.

Recently I've been looking for a new position and I get the feeling that Rails is starting to fade or at least its growth has halted.

My goal with choosing a new language is to learn something new that opens up more opportunities.

What language/framework would you choose if you wanted to break out of your development comfort zone?

P.S. Please ask any questions if you want more details. I'll append my original question with the answer.
When I went to college I bought an honest to god IBM PC because I didn't know any better. One of the things that IBM did was clone MSDOS with a product they called PCDOS. It turns out that PCDOS was ever so slightly better at managing its memory and I had a pretty easy time getting pretty much any game to run. I guess spending an extra $500 on the machine has its perks. :/
Tesla’s Parking Problem Says a Lot About Elon Musk’s Brand of Tech Saviorism
The further outside Auckland, the cheaper it'll be. Some bits of Agtech are harder than others in NZ because biosecurity rules, etc. Feel free to flick me email and I'll help if I can: me@gnat.me
It depends on what you want the machine to do. If you are making a gambling machine that looks at pairs of names and makes bets as to which name belongs to a doctor, you want it to learn that.

If the machine looks at names and decides who to award a "become a doctor" scholarship to, based on who it thinks is most likely to succeed, you don't want it to learn that.
if you live in bay area you would understand. this is how it works in US west coast. Wall street is pouring money to here and big companies just pay that much to new grads who can do algorithm questions on whiteboard. believe it or not, it is true.
lobbying lobbying lobbying.... tax companies drop millions of dollars to get whatever they want. It's american politics at it's best.
> What would a post-ad-supported web looks like?

Probably a lot like the pre-ad-supported web.
Whoa, posting like this is a bannable offence on Hacker News. Your recent comment history looks pretty civil, so we won't ban you, but really please don't do this.
Oh dear, of course I meant "emphatic". I'm certainly not a Betazoid. :)
How does HN pay the server bills, etc.? Is it essentially paid for as a marketing / recruiting aid out of ycombinator funds? Or is it a charity paid for by PG?
wow, something i hear first time, it would be scandal in my country or country of my wife to ask guests to pay for anything, though in China is pretty much mandatory to give red envelope containing money at entrance pretty much as ticket, people even keep databases for future weddings do they won't pay too much more or less than they got
So, "plants are pleasant" or "insects are unpleasant" are universal truths?
The original comment is meant as an observation rather than an attack. It's great to see the author of the post use gmail.js to quickly get the sentiment analysis working with 30 lines of code.

The library was a fun side project and has been used by many companies (big and small) over the past few years. Its always nice to see someone make a cool extension on top of gmail.

Here is another one that came out a while ago (uses gmail.js) and on the same theme as this original post:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/12/29/new_chrome_a...
I've always used 'me'. Not for any particular reason, it's just the first name that occurred to me.
Their REI-branded stuff is a pretty good value and has consistently become better and better winning several awards annually in Backpacker's magazines Gear of the Year. It used to just be the tent (Half Dome) that was well regarded but I think this year, both the tents, their backpacking packs, and down sleeping bags are considered some of the best gear and usually 20-30% cheaper than the bigger name brands that they also sell.

Also, I generally use my 20% member's coupon for things that never go on sale such as bear canisters and climbing shoes.

For budget outdoor enthusiasts, I would recommend Walmart's Ozark Trail brand. You can find a sub-4lb backpacking tent for $30 on sale (which is still twice as heavy as a high end backpacking tent but costs $30 vs. $300). They put out a lot of decent gear but never the lightest or the most durable.

If you want better quality gear but only clearance/outlet, try sierratradingpost - basically the TJMaxx of outdoor gear.
Also, magnets
Yeah - I'm very curious for where that 48,000 figure comes from.
I don't know where youre located, but in many parts of the world there are low level c++ jobs available. The us and Europe are full of them, and every company I've spoken to has offered relocation.

There's a difference between people not wanting your skills, and people not wanting your skills where you're located, unfortunately.
By any measure, people are smarter today than they ever have been in the past.
Coauthor of the paper here. No --- this is not one of the three techniques that we implemented. It was a hypothetical suggestion for future work. Unfortunate that the article didn't make that clear.

Here is the paper http://randomwalker.info/publications/ad-blocking-framework-...

Here is our blog post about it: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/04/14/the-future-of-ad-bl...
Since "this" as defined by the U.N. means "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with [personal] privacy", not "absolute right to privacy", we do indeed have "this" in the U.S: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_Sta...
Interesting I didn't know that in screen you could isolate bash history per context.
No, but I'm used to people not understanding me until much later.
You're right, income tax withholding wasn't implemented until 1943. Social Security withholding was introduced in 1935. I was probably combining the two.

Thanks for the correction.

Ref: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/tax/10/understanding-ta...
Musical User Interfaces
A proof-centric book I used that went well with the 3Blue1Brown series was Robert Valenza's LA book, which focuses on extending the applications of LA concepts to many settings which have no obvious geometric interpretations. It also has surprisingly easy proofs for exercises.
It's within the pilots rights to remove any passenger they want. United should have just asked the pilot to kick the guy off - that is 100% within the pilots rights.
> they're just using human maintained lookup lists?

That's correct. The lists are maintained here:
https://forums.lanik.us
Good luck courting new tech talent when existing tech talent gets hung out to dry at the first hint of pressure.

See Kim Dotcom's troubles for reference.
An Empirical Analysis of Linkability in the Monero Blockchain
This is true, and I wasn't claiming anything further. However, according to Wikipedia, the United States was one of the 48 countries who voted to proclaim the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There were 8 abstentions, but none opposed.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document which is globally accepted, therefore, to represent what human rights should be. The fact that the US, the supposed "land of the free", falls short of this, is just particularly sad.
But writes need to be directed to the master, right? Or Patroni is smart enough to do it by itself?
If this is true, I wonder if this is inherent in the way markets work, or a result of the way we (government, society, whatever) have structured things.
SIMD is an implementation of data parallelism. Data parallelism doesn't require SIMD.
Le Monde tackles fake news on Snapchat Discover
I have no idea, im not a doctor. Based on pop-sci articles, i think the idea is that a cell mutates to have DNA that makes it harmful to you. But this cell is part of your body, so it gets nutrients from the body and divides like any other cell, propagating its harmful DNA.
would not be then better to have smaller wedding with amount of guests one can afford without asking them to pay for food or drinks? it's very odd idea for me to invite me somewhere and then expect i will pay, of course i can give some gift to couple, but expecting hard cash at bar or waiter, sorry but I'm that case i will rather go to normal restaurant of my choice and pass on such wedding
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14116195 and marked it off-topic.
Same goes for Diaspora and other decentralized social networks.
Yes, that's the way I interpret the diagram.

I think the importance of there being five tonal regions is that this enables the multiples of 12 to line up at 60. These numbers are significant because they connect back to the Babylonian sexagesimal ("base 60") system used in both music theory and trigonometry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_numerals
That's one of the things I feel FOSS is largely underestimating, the amount of old code running in offices around the world. You can still run programs from the Windows 1.x-3.x era (win16) if you have a 32 bit Windows 10 install. You apparently need the 32 bit version because 64 and 16 bit modes are mutually exclusive (or some such).