skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is something even worse than walled gardens and those are the closed platforms apple, Google and Amazon are creating.

One thing is creating websites where they control the content users can see. But the web is still "open", even if facebook bans my content I can still create another website and share it with everybody (probably nobody will ever see it, but that's another problem).
The real problem is the new tendency of app stores (Apple Store, Google play, Alexa skills...) If Google/Facebook/Amazon decide to block my content, I have no way to reach other users.
It does for me, using safari.
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There's indeed no OR, as you'd be able to type those three queries with instant results.
If you really wanted to do that, you could use the optionalWords feature at query time using the API. :)
The public library where I live loans video games, so why not both? :-)
> straightforwardly

Alright. Point taken. Thanks for clarifying.
The UI bit is really important. To do it well would be to make a pixel perfect open source clone of Facebook that works over a distributed protocol like scuttlebot. theacebook.org is the closest ui attempt that I've seen.
Well, having "anywhere" be the shutter button means tap to focus won't work.
What's wrong with hosting on Google/Amazon? I understand that there is a paranoia of them taking control of your servers or stealing all of your data, but that is almost certainly not going to happen. I think the real issue is that they're monopolizing services that non developers use.
All Major Cities sensitive data exposed showing 403 Forbidden files to access
Well, it's not a problem with Facebook, it's a problem with people and our society, Facebook is just serving their customers' needs. If you tolerate only one point of view, if you accept and get engaged in only one line of political discussions, and actively avoid and try to shut down anything and anyone with a different point of view, entirely detached of any self-criticism, then of course that it's exploitable to serve you false news (and much more BS than just news). People deliberately choose to live in these info bubbles because it's easier on them emotionally. When nobody questions your views you are always right.

Also, it's quite easy to avoid this trap by listening and reading what other people are saying and writing, trying to understand them, and by always fact checking their claims, but also your own beliefs. But it takes some mental effort to do this. Therefore, most of people are not ready to do this, they don't care. You can't fix this without fixing the society first, and not Facebook.
Nope, I'm using exactly as intended.

If one is to believe that healthcare products should be subject to market forces, then their prices should be variable in the same way other products are. In which case the answer to the question is, yes someone with a "niche" health problem would pay a substantially high price.

If however one believes that healthcare should not be subject to market forces, that is, it should be available to all equally (non-excludable) and cannot incur asymmetric costs between users (non-rival) then the answer is no, it would not be good.
IME, I haven't been able to replicate Algolia's search responsiveness with ElasticSearch, even with good hardware. I don't think ES/Lucene was ever designed for that use case. IIRC, Algolia was designed to perform well even on mobile phones. I wouldn't dream of getting Lucene to run performantly on a mobile phone.

I'd love to see if someone has done any of the "realtime" Algolia demos backed by ElasticSearch.

In any case, ES excels at very different use cases - I've only seen Algolia provide "basic" search.
Timegrid.io: FOSS online appointments platform
Tracking Physical Asset Movement with LSTMs
Great to see these folk supporting https://github.com/strapdata/elassandra
Because it sounds like an attack vector for running abitrary code on every node in the network. Additionally there is the halting problem, you can not know if the program will halt by looking at it.
Sliders take up more space for the same "travel" though.
And it is an almighty pain in the arse to set up
Correct me if I'm wrong, but without the Higgs boson and its corresponding scalar field, the concept of mass/inertia does not exist. Without mass, can matter still exist? How would this "matter without mass" behave? My mind is close to exploding.
If you look at marble statues, a square box is hardly amazing in comparison. "a few ten-thousandths of an inch" - close to micro meter precision - sounds almost like exaggeration, but some type of stone might just split in a very planar way.
I honestly think it's already too late. A bunch of tech people complaining isn't going to do anything against dominant companies worth hundreds of billions each.

The solution is probably to actually get the government to view things like Google's near monopoly on search as harmful, even if they aren't actually being explicitly harmful to consumers.

Behaviour like AMP eliminating URLs in favour of showing google, internet.org, pushing chrome via their other offerings, etc... is pretty questionable IMO.

The other problem is that people don't want to leave facebook. They are perfectly happy scrolling through their feed and just reading whatever pops up.
> Beneath its layers of conceptual complexity, the holometer is technologically little more than a laser beam, a half-reflective mirror to split the laser into two perpendicular beams, and two other mirrors to bounce those beams back along a pair of 40-meter-long tunnels.

> For the scale of chunkiness that Hogan hopes to find, he needs to measure distances to an accuracy of 10-18 meters, about 100 million times smaller than a hydrogen atom, and collect data at a rate of about 100 million readings per second.

How is this different from LIGO in any way?
Former Silicon Valley CEO Indicted for Allegedly Defrauding Employees of StartUp
This one honestly makes no sense to me. How is this company being valued at a Billion dollars with a flagship product that is indistinguishable in features and price from any of its competitors. Who the hell is going to gamble on a new, no name brand for a $700 product that is exactly like the very reputable products from Apple, Samsung, and 50 other phone manufacturers?!?
Have you ever warwalked or wardrove your neighborhood? What is the # of AP's / mile? Think of all that NAT not being used.

Where are the specs for the Outernet Protocol: a NAT to NAT DNS system that doesnt rely on gatekeepers/ISP access. Use the 198.162.xxx.xxx addresses on all of our existing routers for neighborhood scale networking. Build trust by proximity by allowing only known neighbors to connect. Could be very interesting. Especially when Joe mirrors Wikipedia and Samantha mirrors Archive.org and Jan has a realtime mirror of some good Reddit feeds.

Automate the mirroring the internet. Scrape every last bit, in real time, without the ads and crap. Make it available to those trusted folks in your proximity.
FTA:

> Safari 11 also gives users control over which websites are allowed to auto-play video and audio by opening Safari’s new “Websites” preferences pane, or through the “Settings for This Website…” option in the Safari menu
The significance of the Planck length is so far based heavily on conjecture. Some theories of quantum gravity look at it as a minimum distance two events have to be apart for them to be distinguished, others incorporate it in other ways, and some don't imply anything about it at all. As others have noted, we're nowhere near being able to use physical evidence to decide it.
follow-up to this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379518
Where's the evidence for your statement? This is what Wikipedia says:

> Currently, there is still no complete and consistent quantum theory of gravity, and the candidate models still need to overcome major formal and conceptual problems. They also face the common problem that, as yet, there is no way to put quantum gravity predictions to experimental tests, although there is hope for this to change as future data from cosmological observations and particle physics experiments becomes available.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity#Candidate_theo...
This sounds very similar to a basic technique I find useful for making difficult decisions: the coin flip.

If I can't seem to decide between A or B, I flip a coin. If, in doing so, the answer is A, one of three things happens: I find I like the answer, and it turns out it was my preference all along. I find I prefer B after all, and just didn't realize it. Or, I really don't care in which case the coin flip was as good an answer as any I could've come to.

The coin didn't tell me anything. But by forcing a decision it revealed something I didn't consciously understand.
I have read alternate interpretations of the Planck length/time/volume/etc.

One says that they are a mathematical construct with no meaning, the other says that they provide a bound for the limits of the measurement of reality as we understand it (which many people take to mean the smallest unit).

Do you think these definitions disagree? Does one definitely supersede the other? If so, could you point me at some literature?
It's possible to implement the `location_1, location_2, location_3` as a optional feature.

But i am not sure what name to use for this option.
Digital becomes a real boon when you are creating knowledge networks; connecting pieces of information, or tagging them. This metadata is, as far as im aware, best suited for being stored digitally.

Disclaimer: I'm working on a knowledge management app thats core focus is connections and tagging (amongst many other useful features)
We must be talking past each other, because I'm still not certain what you're trying to say.

If you're trying to say "there exists Rust code that contains `unsafe` blocks that is memory-safe", then this is obviously (hopefully!) correct, because 100% of the time we hope that our `unsafe` blocks are correctly implemented. In the same sense that "valid" C code does not contain undefined behavior, "valid" Rust code doesn't either; therefore the correctness of `unsafe` blocks in Rust must be tautologically (if uselessly) guaranteed. But that's not a very useful statement. Bugs happen.

Conversely, if you're trying to say "there exists code that can only be written in `unsafe` blocks but that can never cause memory unsafety despite any modification to the surrounding code", then I'd say this is trivially refutable; I can modify any unsafe block to exhibit memory unsafety.

Finally, if you're just saying "static analysis must, by its very definition, reject some correct programs in order to guarantee that the programs it does accept are correct, and Rust's static analyses are no different" then, of course, this is true (again, by the nature of static analysis), but again this is not an especially useful statement, especially since this isn't what anyone here is disputing. Your original comment was made in reply to this statement by rabidferret: "`unsafe` literally means "this might violate memory safety". This is a true statement, both in a social context (see my original comment) and in an implementation context (see the second example from this comment).

The bottom line is, if you see an `unsafe` block, assume memory safety is at risk unless you're absolutely sure the author knows what they're doing.
The worst offenders by far have to be National Instruments, entirely because they loosed LabView upon the world. LabView essentially makes it impossible to make UIs that aren't terrible. Most of the volume controls in these posts are more usable than the best that can be done with LabView.
Sounds like they were targeting ecommerce though, and since Amazon added reviews and was a winner in that space they had no chance with that market.
FaceDisplay and Other Bizarre Virtual Reality Projects from CHI 2017
Quite possibly. Had a mock interview with one of their senior engineers on campus who was impressed and referred me, so I was surprised at being rejected before even the initial phone screen. The rejection email mentioned a new policy of "no new grads (bachelors) for fulltime SWE".

Also possible that I was referred to a particular position which doesn't consider new grads. Do you happen to know if your acquaintances get hired on as fulltime SWE or something different(SRE, residency, etc)?
"threaten democracy" as in "people may vote for somebody I don't like".
Seems like it's impossible for a modern desktop browser not to be "bloated" considering all the crap they need to support.
Just saying. Obviously she has a twin. Probably they each work four hours a day...
Also see: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/cheek-...
>The Planck length has no physical meaning. It's just a combination of physical constants that gives a length.

remember a combination of physical constants that gave a speed 100+ years ago? Happened to be pretty meaningful later :)
Interesting. What specific concerns or pain points did you experience? Any examples of "reasoning about what code runs next is easy, until it's not" ?
You mean the following sentence?

> Make your website of record your website.

I don't see a typo (and your comment is 3 minutes more recent than his, so I don't think he made any corrections). Maybe "record" is throwing you off?

What he means is that "Your official or authoritative website (i.e., website of record, like owner of record) should belong to and be controlled by you."

Edit: If you're saying that the sentence could be hard to parse, yes I agree.
Also, mathematics has to be discovered and remembered, whereas half the internet seemingly consists only of programming tutorials and documentation.

Edit: In the end there is no difference, however. Both are structural sciences. I guess you meant the maths in a CS degree.
Scuttlebutt.nl
I've managed to completely block NI from my mind. When I have to use their hardware (which is mostly good) I use pyVISA or the session based interface in Matlab.
That's a good point. It should reply with the inverse of the volume that it hears!
Yeah, the choice of a non-inertial reference frame for this example is a little confusing to me too. I also haven't been able to find an independent mention of the spinning astronaut experiment.
My understanding of all this is that "space" and "time" does not exist. There is only quanta of energy (quantum field theory) from which we should be able to derive space and time. Which does not means there nothing smaller than planck length.

But I learn all this by watching discovery channel so I would appreciate if somebody smarter can summarize idea that space and time derive from something else.
What I'm getting from this thread is that we're sort of fucked. The only way to stop Facebook and Google was to become them before they had a chance to. That way you'd presumably be more benevolent. Maybe that's true for Facebook, but it's still hard to imagine for Google.

I think the bigger problem is cross-generational power. YC itself is somewhat terrifying in this regard, but that's a different topic. In regards to Google and FB, even if we like Google now, we probably won't like the Google 60 years from now. But what is there to do?

Google stopped Microsoft by making Microsoft irrelevant, in the "Microsoft is Dead" sense: Nobody is afraid of them anymore. But people fear Google and FB. Imagine a Microsoft competitor to your startup vs a Google or FB competitor.

This could be a lack of imagination, but it's very difficult to imagine some new company making Google or FB irrelevant in the same way they made their predecessors irrelevant. Think of oil fields. At one point, before oil fields were monopolized, I've heard the ecosystem seemed pretty similar to Silicon Valley circa 2008. Everybody seemed to be able to get a slice of the action, and while it took determination and luck to get involved, it was possible.

Now the oil industry is on lockdown. Imagine asking "What are we doing about Exxon Mobil?" or Walmart. You can't do a damn thing, and there's no shame in admitting that.

As defeatist as it is, we may want to start thinking about ways of riding out the next 40 years in a productive fashion. It's more beneficial to say: Ok, Facebook, Google, and the closed internet are here to stay. Now what?

For example, if you're really set on doing something about it, one of the most effective things you could do is try to join the companies and shape them yourself.
Seems to be pretty standard regarding enthusiastic consent and conflict of interest, what's the big deal?
$1M in sales over 3 months dropshipping products from China. So profitable he is now a few months later generously branching out into a course on dropshipping which this article is an advertisement for.
Don't Say This to Amazon Alexa
He was talking about servers, not just clients, and not just free. I've been running my own email server for a couple of decades, and it's getting harder and harder over time.
> You say "overpay" but if the user pays for it then that would have been an efficient price

This says nothing of the possibility that one party has a lot of information, and the other party has relatively little information, and the guy with very little information is getting screwed.
The response times are six times as long as with Algolia. I assume because of latency.

Will you offer distributed datacenters as well?
To not only use UTF-8 as the internal string encoding but practically mandate it, if you want to remain safe.

UTF-8 is a fine transport format, but for raw runtime performance it's obviously going to be an issue if you ever need to iterate over characters, do substring matches, things like that because you can't do constant time "next char" or indexing.

UTF-16 doesn't let you do that either in the presence of combining characters, but they're pretty rare and for many operations it doesn't really matter.
I had a more cynical view that it was so the credit card companies had the fewest amount of people opt out. They could have made that site apply to anyone worldwide but that would hurt themselves.
More important I think is this misunderstanding that this is a technical problem to solve.
I think it's already too late for the USA. You have three main groups, and all have achieved near total epistemological closure:
- Conservatives: Liberals are evil
- Liberals: Conservatives are evil. And morons.
- Apathetic Middle (everyone else): Politics are stupid and we don't give a fuck.

Don't really see a solution for any of this. It's like we're three different tribes doing our best to coexist. And it's not really working very well.
* website-of-record should be your own.
The solution is that not everyone needs to go to college. Just look at the thread here. You have unqualified restaurant waiters wanting to get an engineering job at Google and think a CS degree is the only way.
"bloated" is arbitrarily defined.
I like the ambition, but it's limited to regional effects at best.
It's more like "No girlfriend's mum, I will not buy into your essential oils pyramid scheme. No I promise you a homeopathic medicine cannot treat both cancer and the common cold. Yes even if it did help your friend's friend of a friend's sister's dog walker. But thank you for telepathically healing my parrot. He was in good health both before and after"

Ya know?

Do I get to vocally disagree with stuff like that even though it's thanksgiving?
>So, what to do... Acquire obscure military surplus gear, and attempt to port Linux?

MIPS if you're desperate, not sure what general software support is like, you'll probably spend a lot of time compiling things, otherwise cross your fingers over RISC-V?
With regards to advertising, what are you doing to offer a realistic alternative to getting content creators paid online? Paywalls work, but people hate them (go into the comments of any article from the WSJ or such on here). The automatic tipping things offer very little friction, but hardly anyone uses them. So what's your answer?
And how about if the vote had been phrased as "do you wish to remain in the EU", with a 2/3rd requirement to meet the bar, meaning 1/3rd was sufficient to trigger Brexit? Would that have seemed fair?

Democracy evolved as a shortcut to avoid fights. Just count and you got a rough idea of which side has the most people and thus, is more likely to win if it came down to it. Once you start tipping the threshold in order to bias things towards your preferred decisions, you increase the risk of the losing side thinking ... wait a minute. We could win this. That's far worse than any other outcome.

The EU and its supporters constantly warp the system to try and make it hard for people to leave, hard for the people to reject their policies. It is fundamentally undemocratic.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Fastmail. I am curious if you or anyone else might be able to share any tips or resources for successfully migrating from something like Gmail to Fastmail.

How do you get everyone to update their contacts?

Also it seems like even if you forward form Gmail to your Fastmail account Google still knows your business.

I'm not trying to make a case for not doing it but rather would be interested in hearig what has worked for others.
I don't know if you're actually looking for a solution here, but cider performs macro identation by delegating to metadata on the macro itself. This lets user-defined macros get correct formatting (for whatever value of correct the author of the macro decides).
No because you technically performed an action which changes the system.

Relativity states that there isn't a measurement you can take if you change the system however it's a different story.
I have a FB account and use it mostly to post pictures of my cat to my friends and talk to the breeders of my cat as needed. I also have a much more active Twitter account and use it to post pictures of my cat to anyone who will listen. Then I've got two not too active Instagram accounts that I only post to sporadically - one for my fitness/workout posts and the other to post pictures of my cat.
> ... the company hired Russ Salakhutdinov, a Carnegie Mellon professor whose expertise is in an area of artificial intelligence known as “deep” or “unsupervised” learning, a complex branch of machine learning in which computers are trained to replicate the way the brain’s neurons fire when they recognize objects or speech.

The author of the article clearly made a mistake saying "deep learning" is the same as "unsupervised learning".
> Similarly, the functional abstractions almost feel like a step backwards from the venerable C++ <algorithm>, abstraction and composition-wise. Very nitty-gritty, low-level implementation details leak out like a sieve — you can't have your maps or folds without a generous sprinking of `as_slice()`, `unwrap()`, `iter()` / `iter_mut()` / `into_iter()` and `collect()` everywhere

That's not been my experience at all. In fact I've found <algorithm> to not only be extremely limiting but also being painfully verbose due to the need of begin/end pairs everywhere.
The implicit assumption is that the service is charging your air fare or whatever based on your ability to pay. So in that sense, in aggregate, it drives equilibrium between supply and demand - and thus is comprised of market clearing prices, as I said.
Firefox has had it for a while at media.autoplay.enabled. Unfortunately, like this article notes, this arguably breaks web standards and some websites behave poorly as a result. YouTube requires you to stop the not-yet-started video and then start it again to get it to play. And Google Play Music just straight up doesn't work. Hopefully Apple publicizing this will cause website devs to support it better, and it can be presented to the user as a legitimate option instead of a hack.
Totally agree with you. Algolia's speed is pretty amazing, but its price is pretty hefty also. We ended up switching over to Elasticsearch which is much cheaper and more flexible in certain ways
Techniques for emotion detection and content delivery