skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but I believe you'll also agree that factual information with a narrative is better than fictitious information (and I'm struggling to think of an example where fictitious/censored information wouldn't have a narrative as well).

In an ideal world, then I'd say that the goal should be to educate the current and future generations to develop critical thinking capabilities, so that they'll hopefully laugh/cry/shake their head (or if they have more patience/heart than me, try to educate) when they read the kind of information you'd more often than not find on the_donald.

I honestly don't support the idea of censorship, and I believe everyone should have the right to privacy (I'm very saddened today to discover that Apple/NSA/Chinese government/etc is likely secretly recording my iPhone screen as I type this message). A part of me would even want to go as far as to say that if people wanted to spread hateful messages/illegal activity, then the solution shouldn't be to censor them, but rather to rely on the people to downvote and educate. Imagine a Reddit where mods were incapable of deleting/censoring any content. What do you think would happen? I personally have no idea, but I believe that there's a real chance these alt-right and racist aggregators wouldn't be able to succeed in creating a "safe haven" where they'd continue to have their hateful views reinforced. I recently read an interesting article about a neo-nazi that was forced to interact with a black police officer, resulting in a friendship that ended his hateful views. I strongly believe that if they couldn't censor rational voices (which I'd like to believe outnumber them by at least 10 to 1) then there's a high chance that their views could be corrected.

It would definitely be very difficult to achieve this when governments like Russia's appear willing to commit hundreds of millions of dollars (I'm assuming) in supporting hateful views. But I do (probably naively) believe that if people were highly educated then it should be possible to build a platform that could withstand these state attacks (e.g. value an upvote by a high karma user higher than a low karma user). Do you think the HN crowd would be negatively influenced (persuaded) by hateful flow of information? If the answer is no, doesn't that mean that high intelligence can withstand hateful/fake information and that there'd therefore be no need to censor it?

Censorship is dangerous because it can easily be abused. You may want to argue that with the right censorship tools then we could've prevented Trump from becoming the president. But what happens when a manic like him ends up in a position of control over said censorship tools? I'm guessing he'd do everything possible to become a dictator, to rewrite history, to spread his hateful views, to worsen the education and attempt to brainwash the students, etc. The way I see it, the only sustainable solution would be achieving a highly intelligent population.
> Perhaps if the methods are sound (even if expensive) then someone can step up and make tooling or refine them so the methods are more accessible to smaller firms.

To his credit, Hillel is trying to evangelize (in general, not directly through the post linked) a particular tool (TLA+) whose creator (Leslie Lamport) wants to do exactly this. I don't know how big Hillel's employer is, but from what I understand it's nowhere near the biggest engineering firm in number of technical employees. Lamport's current objective with TLA+ is to get people to learn concepts for formal description/specification of systems, and he happens to provide an effective tool for testing those system specs.

Check out his TLA+ tutorial at https://learntla.com.

If you want an example of solving concurrency issues, jump to here: https://learntla.com/concurrency/processes/.
The first intelligent AIs will be weak and have limited influence on real world human affairs. The worst we have now is poorly supervised automatic trading systems that can shift massive amounts of money through electronic markets.

However, once AIs can design and implement their own successors all bets are off.

I would also be concerned about the development of non-theraputic neural implants and the ability of an AI to surreptitiously influence human behavior through them. Thankfully that is likely to to be further off than when we start bumping into the AI singularity.
>Bitcoin.org is controlled by the same people and should not be taken as any sort of an authority.

Not sure if many people here are aware, but r/Bitcoin mod Theymos and others in the Core/Blockstream circle proposed and supported editing Satoshi's bitcoin whitepaper[1].

They did this under the reasoning that they control the bitcoin.org domain where it has been historical hosted and want to treat it as a living document. Obviously people didn't like this but the issue has not been resolved, it was only put "On Hold."
If every low-wage worker could start writing software, then writing software for an employer would also become a low-wage job. We're not paid well just because we have useful skills. We're paid well because the demand for our kind of skills hasn't been swamped by supply.
I expect that your grandfather is still an outlier, even back then. It's not like that sort of thing was common 50 years ago. It's still possible today, just unlikely. Maybe more unlikely than it was 50 years ago, but I hardly see that as representative of a huge shift.
>"So many people wonder when science will let us do things. When will we land on the moon, when will we cure cancer (most cancer anyway, a handful have been effectively cured), when will all of mankind benefit from the next great insights? We ask this yet in a lot of ways, we won’t even open our minds enough to give it our best shot."

I'm of the firm opinion that we'll always be slow to do those Big Things while we are dragged-down by the welfare/nanny state. So many lives and generations are subsidized into oblivion for a net societal loss.
Thanks! I took the karma hit to say hi to taco, in the thread. Worth it!
It's not required. But just the same it should always be a what-if possibility. I'd say the poor choices come from a tunnel vision approach to those decisions.

Ultimately, in the context ans scope they are made, they are probably great decisions. However, reality is more far reaching.
I meant we markup the computing power of the server (not exactly the purchase price). My host rents me a server that can perform X calculations for $Y/hour. I divide and resell that computation power, plus my software, to customers at Z markup.
I think you are assuming people make their money inside the community. That's far less efficient than having an outside job and enjoying significantly lower cost of living and a low effort social life. Rent, food, house supplies, utilities, cable etc for ~500-600$/month/person + regular parties etc.

It's often the low producers without significant retirement savings who have larger incentives. ~100k can be a lot of money or almost meaningless very easily.
Gates was wrong about the internet, but he assumed that proprietary networks like MSN, AOL, etc would be the network.

Given the dominance of Facebook, etc, he may have been right the first time!
If someone tells a joke and nobody laughs, was it a joke?
Except how often do you actually dial a number on your smartphone rather than use the contact list, call history or tap on a phone number in the browser?
Per the Draft RFC `security.txt` is meant to be akin to `robots.txt`, in that it's at the root of the path.

So yeah, it's a bit inconsistent.
> 16 colors

Try 4 colors, on CGA.
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I'm interested in hearing about those ten ideas and your startup.
while i'm here (and not banned yet) i'd like to point out how extraordinary it is - how many accounts I've had to create here to comment on a thread about "free speech".

if you didn't have double-think, you wouldn't think at all.
It also would allow for unsavory gamesmanship due to the "license available" trigger. Wait for widespread adoption, then release a commercial license. Suddenly you have a lot of scrambling to either replace the product or buy a license. Alternatively, license cost could be inflated greatly after adoption.

I just see the terms as creating too many unknowns about the future. Maybe I missed it, but do you have to constantly monitor all your dependencies for whether they may have just released a commercial license?

The effects of the license shouldn't vary depending on some outside input (the existence or not of a commercial license).

And the 90-day "trial" period seems both too long and too short at the same time. It's long enough to make tracking a little more difficult and too short to even make it into production from testing for many uses. (I assume the 90-days starts as soon as an org begins testing the product, not necessarily starting upon shipping.)
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Universalism not Centrism
The author is UX Lead at SAP. I would be willing to accept that slapping patents on everything is the default MO and this was a slip up.
Sure, but even with those (or worse) odds, I don't think it's that bad. I personally don't think writing a 3-4 minute melody with lyrics to go over it is worth all that much, at least in general. In that 1/100 case where it blows up and you make $150k for that time, I think that should be an exceptional case.

But of course that's just my value system at work: other people might value creative work of that sort much more highly; if a creator can get that person to pay them, great. There's no intrinsic worth or value in a particular instance of creative output; it's just up to how much demand you can create based on how well you can promote/market it.
I don't understand how in 2017 the author completely ignores the problem of avoiding detection in the Mechanical Turk phase of the story.

Let's handwave away the initial secret epiphany that creates the AI compiler in the first place. You've still got to get it to solve the following problems:

* route around or trick the various Narus devices located at unknown places on the internet to get the software up and running on AWS, and to somehow launder the money you earned on MTurk

* somehow avoid detection by the agencies leveraging the Narus devices and Amazon itself while a non-trivial number of MTurk tasks are being completed by new accounts which themselves are all on AWS.

There are of course variations on those themes (use botnets, ratchet up, etc.) and various associated chess moves. But I don't see any chess move that doesn't end up with both an NSL and a state-level actor taking over the means of producing those AIs for the chief tasks of code-breaking and stockpiling exploits (exploits both in the traditional sense as well as novel ones for the AI compiler itself).

With that in mind I don't think the author's plot arc would be able to mirror today's reality the way author imagines. Because the moment you get the AI equivalent of Stuxnet leaking out onto the internet, the resulting catastrophe would be so obvious and so dependent on AI for a solution that hiding AI would no longer be an option.

Edit: clarification
There's also Netscape's (?) email autodiscover mechanism with a .xml file served from there that describes how to do POP/IMAP/SMTP etc. However, despite /.wellknown/ being a bit of a standard, you'd be amazed at how many mechanisms you have to support to get autodiscover to work for all email clients. As it turns out SRV DNS records are also a bit of a standard for publishing pointers to services, and TXT records, and RANDOMLY_NAMED_RECORDS because updating your server n resolver to support another record type is such fun.

I actually think we are almost there now: DNS to find it and /.wellknown/ to describe it.
So much this.

I recently ran a port scan of a subset of the internet on a single port. (To get an estimate how many servers with a certain old protocol version were still running, as I wanted to drop it from a client I was working on)

I previously messaged the contact email given by the AS of every affected subnet.

I got over 4 weeks not a single complaint or request to be excluded.

Then I did the scan, and got tons of complaints – and once I pointed out the email I sent them, most got very quiet, but one continued to complain and tell me I should have tried harder to contact them.
No. Miners construct blocks that adhere to the protocol rules agreed upon by validating economic nodes (full nodes run by economic participants of the network).

Ask yourself why miners haven't forked to a version of Bitcoin that gives a higher block reward and you'll understand how it works. Nobody would accept these blocks as valid so the money they are "creating" would be worthless.
This is what bums me out. I went down my AIM contact list when I got this news and realized I had fond memories of people from the 00s that I will never be able to find again because there is no name attached to their AIM.

But at the same time, that detachment was what made those interactions magical. I knew people by screen name, not real name. They weren't constrained by what their lives meant offline because all they were online was what they made that screenname out to be. Getting into the Internet i the late 90s / early 2000s was like another world because of how detached from boring reality it was.

That being said, the Internet has only really gotten better for weirdos. There is everything from decades old niche website forums to subreddits to new stuff like Matrix rooms for almost any subject.
The documentation/naming schemes comes from the Java interfaces which Hazelcast implements. The issue of course is those interfaces were I assume intended to only run on one JVM.

And of course they knew what they were doing since that was the whole point of Hazelcast. You could use the same Java constructs you knew and loved but on a distributed grid. Problem is of course that it wasn't well implemented and likely not such a good idea to begin with.
Well, judging by the upvotes, I'd say it got a few. :)
Pragmatism is not a lack of compassion. There are limits to everything.
Sure. But given recent events and the increasingly blatant escalation of government power over its people it starts to become more clear that, at the root of it, "freedom of speech and of the press" means exactly that which our current governments fear the most and desperately aim to control - the freedom for all to research, dig and question the authority that governs them. It has almost become a simple interpretation. Which brings us to the second.

Complicate that with the fact that through generous corporate sponsorship we now seem to find our collective selves being led by all manner of wolves.
Heh I thought the domain ending was "txt" and was trying to register domain with ".txt" before I relised that it doesn't exist and that it's securitytxt.org and not secuirty.txt ! Silly me
It always seems odd to me that people want to readdress solved problems. When I mean solved in this case I mean reached a level of usability where the design became stable, then familiar, then standard/de jure.

The oppprtunities for improvement here are minuscule, and nonexistent if you take into account familiarity and expectation. We should save this kind of blue sky redesign for new or less solved design problems and stop making people’s experience worse in pursuit of some noble but misguided strive for constant and relentless disruption.
I'm right handed, but somehow I hold the phone and dial with the left hand. I don't think I'm alone, so this is not only a left-handedness problem.
My marketing plan at this point is stickers.

"License Zero" because it aims for zero marginal friction over use of permissive open source software. That's entirely attainable with good metadata, a good CLI, and a speed checkout process.
Oh you mean 60 years ago? When everyone was racist? And Democats enacted the Jim Crow laws? Welcome to the 21st century
Choosing to work on improving things that are used infrequently, or impact a smaller populace is good. The long-tail of UX is well understood.
This is pretty critical advice. I'm sure many HN users like myself love to troubleshoot every single thing they can, and that is the first inclination when someone you care about is talking about their concerns or problems with something you are proposing.

But the thing is--even if you flat out disagree with what she is saying, she is not wrong for FEELING a certain way. And trying to interject troubleshooting basically says "your feelings are inaccurate." That tends to not go over well.

When contemplating major life events (and this would be three: moving in with someone new, moving across the country away from friends and family, and quitting a new job while needing to hunt for a new one), thoughts and emotions are often irrational and that's ok.

But if its one thing I've learned, its that feelings are always valid and simply listening to them to understand their perspective is way more useful than trying to stomp all over it and try to convert them to yours (at least initially).
Famous artists can yes. If you are a semi-known band with four people playing a twenty date tour playing 400 capacity venues with two local support acts you're probably not making so much.

That's 8,000 people who care enough to come out and see you. So let's say at least 100,000 people need to like you enough that they would at least consider buying the ticket.

$4000 dollars gross in ticket sales per night, 30% to the promoter. $2800 left. If you get 50% of that with 25% to each support act then after commissions to booking agent and manager you're left with maybe $950. You need to pay travel and accommodation costs out of that, and possibly a tour manager. For a four piece band plus tour manager you probably need $30 a head per diem for incidentals of living in the road. Add in food - another $30 per head and you've got $650 left. Hotel rooms aren't cheap. travel isn't cheap.

Sure you can sell 25 t-shirts a night at $20 each and make $15 a shirt. And throw in some CDs - maybe 30 at $10 a pop... you maybe net another $600 a night.

$1250 a day for your hotels and travel for 5 people - maybe you have $600 left after these costs. Oh and you have to pay your tour manager...

Each of the people in the band makes... what - $100 per show?

Can artists really make that respectable a living from touring and merch?

Sure, scale this up, play bigger venues - 2,000 capacity. But then your costs increase - people want a more impressive show, not just spit and sawdust. You need a set, lighting design, all the rest of it.
You can make that argument about any kind of job. Is the CEO who makes $10M a year really worth 100x the marketer who makes $100k a year?

It's all in what you value, and who has the most leverage to get more money for whatever value they may provide. You may not think it's fair that the record company made some large multiplier of what the artist made, but that's just how the business works. If you want to change it by cutting out the record company, it's a lot easier to do that than it was 20 years ago, so I'd say the situation for artists in that regard is better, not worse.

In the end it absolutely does not matter what anyone thinks is "fair". Absent some form of regulation, people are going to extract as much wealth as they can out of a series of transactions, and some people are going to be more advantaged at doing so than others, whether because of talent or for structural reasons.
Bazel is the worst part of google. It ruined tensorflow as well
An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it?
I know Whatsapp apparently has a ton of users but I honestly know nobody that has ever used it. A lot of Discord, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, a little Hangouts, and back in the day MSM, Yahoo Messenger, and AIM. I guess I missed that step in the ladder or something. Same with SMS - from the time I made the leap to Smartphones there were already enough general XMPP clients / Hangouts was good enough to never think about using a third party, especially proprietary, service like that.

My understanding is Whatsapp took off outside the US entirely because it seamlessly used SMS when data was unavailable and that was certainly a killer feature in many parts of the world.
They explicitly state you do not have to be a Christian. Instead of settling on a strong feeling, do a little investigating for the facts.
"correct horse battery staple" doesn't fit in 16 characters, and has has much better recall than basically all similarly-secure passwords that do.

Longer passwords let you optimize passwords for ease of recall and security, rather than fitting in arbitrary requirements.
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I think some of this breakdown is from motherboard support. You can MB that supports a single CPU and 128GB for DDR4 4400 which is significantly higher than ECC.

When you start looking at multi CPU computers with 1+TB of ram the story changes.

PS: Some of this stuff is also really hard to test. Without ECC it's hard to data in terms of stability for petabytes of ram over years. And no extrapolations don't work very well.
Also, the contact is a twitter instead of an email, doesn't that break the whole reason for this, which is being able to automate it to some extent?
Forrester website hacked for financial research
So, if I view footage of Amber Rudd, I'm going to jail?

Because that's what we're really talking about, here.
- Which company do you see yourself working crazy hours in?

- Which company pays you the better base salary?

- Which company has a business model that you can get behind.

- Which company will let you achieve personal goals (perhaps you'd like to get fit, or travel, or date and settle down).
The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November
This is sort of how I was introduced to programming in 1996. The teacher told the class she needed instructions to make a PB&J sandwich, and basically kept interpreting things incorrectly until everything was super precise.
I didn't downvote you, but my best guess to why you're being downvoted is that HN skews capitalist, and confusing the market with politics is, in the capitalist p.o.v., how the game is in fact played.

Myself, I don't think that you can untangle (even in your mind) the mess that is the market (financial system, really) from the mess that is the government. They're called "voting dollars" for a reason.

I prefer to just refer to the whole big mess as "The System".

As for downvotes, I don't think they add any value to the site except to encourage groupthink, and you're better off ignoring them. Or take them as a hint that you might be on to something! :)
Measurement of effectiveness is pretty hard, I agree. And as I point out elsewhere, the Russians promoted diversive left-wing causes as well.

But I wish people would stop making claims that it didn't happen just because they (reasonably!) doubt the intel agencies. This stuff is trivially verifiable by anyone with the desire to do so.
I know the author’s being a little tongue in cheek, but you could say this about anything that is an acquired taste: “stop pretending to like coffee.” “Stop pretending to like tea.”

I personally think it’s amazing they can make beer that tastes like a juice blend with alcohol using only hops; and yes, it tastes delicious.
I'm hoping Matrix at least might stay around and evolve into something pervasive like SMTP, but not as shitty. Right now its a great API to implement and use in my experience.
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I'm finding it hard to imagine any place that does no automated testing, but then I started my career as a tester and later became a verification engineer before moving to development.

I'll agree with you, if you have no automated testing then that should be the first priority for a dev shop. By this I mean, if testing is: follow this instruction sheet and do each step, hopefully we've made enough of these and it's thorough enough. No other tool or method is likely to help you as much as developing automated tests.