skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it's not a matter of trust, it's just that there's no customizability to the ad-blocking on Focus, even at the level of choosing blocklists to subscribe to, or adding particular elements to be blocked.
disagree, youtube is the place people go for better-edited, entertainment-focused video game content. pewdiepie is still #1 on youtube and has survived criticisms of being alt-right. also, vloggers and music videos will always be popular with the huge parts of the population that don't play 'core' games. online UGC video is still an immature industry so some of the best content for the average reddit user (20-30 y.o. male) is just mature vloggers criticizing immature vloggers (idubbbz, h3h3) but in the long run better things will surface ('every frame a painting' is an actually great channel for example)

twitch has cut out a new market IMO, it's not directly replacing youtube. i expect different things on twitch -- generally speaking, more boring, unprofessional and unedited content that's focused almost entirely on learning how to play games better and occasional audience interaction.

as for facebook, i have no idea what they should do because i don't know anyone who likes it anymore
We also have an issue for running jobs only when modifications are made to a given file or files in a directory, it's tentatively scheduled for 10.7 (April's release).

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19232
Most of the better ads standards have more to do with ad placement than with the ads themselves. It's not particularly easy for Google to reliably detect whether their ads are embedded in a pop-up, for example: https://www.betterads.org/desktop-pop-up-ad/
Facebook isn't going away. However it seems to be coming apart because its hard to argue that FB improves, rather than burdens, people's lives. Its simply easier, less distracting and often happier connecting outside FB's walled garden. For example:

Messenger --> rampant competition from about a dozen apps.

Community --> reported audience declines. From participation fatigue, privacy concerns, and competing sites.

Publishing --> push-back from content providers and publishers who don't wish to be assimilated into the 'borg'.

Payments --> no real competitive offering.

FederatedID/SSO --> rampant competition from Google, LinkedIN, Github, etc.

I really believe Facebook is grossly overvalued as an internet property, much in the same way MySpace and AOL were in the 'old days'. I also suspect that Twitter remains undervalued in terms of influence and - importantly - 2nd/3rd order reach (eg. republishing).

There's something to be said for building products that make people's lives easier and truly happier, and I'm not sure that FB does either anymore.
Thanks! You hit the nail right on the head there, while aggregation is nothing new, we're hoping that the notebooks and tutorials provide an entrypoint into being able to get up and running with the model more quickly.

We're actually hoping to build ModelDepot into a place where anybody can share (well documented) models, and be able to discover the right ones for their needs.
That's just absurd, why would they need to make the dog "used to" sleeping alone? They sound completely lacking in empathy.
They have an interest in showing you non-shitty ads. They sell non-shitty ads. Therefore they have an interest in showing you their ads.

They also own the most popular way those ads are shown: through their web browser. This browser has the ability (at Google's sole discretion) to block shitty ads, of which all of them are run by their direct competitors.

So what's happening is, Google is giving themselves the right to block parts of the Internet they don't like, with the implied statement of "if you want your ads to be seen by Chrome users, buy them from us or else we might block them".

That is a classic protection racket. "Want your ads to be seen? Better buy them from us, or... bad things will happen."
My apologies, I was indeed wrong.
Why? What's wrong with YouTube? Wouldn't Facebook video have the same problems?
Strange, Consumer Reports indicates fewer repairs with the exception of the gullwing coupe, which was and is a bonehead idea - even Mercedes abandoned it.
This said, once mature, I would expect simple rotary electric engines to need less service - I have not yet seen a customer reported service feedback grid.
On true Delta they seem good.

https://www.truedelta.com/Tesla-Model-S/reliability-1095
A Practical Approach to Actually Scaling Your Database
The Singing Furby Organ
>I'd say their incentives are perfectly aligned with ours

Speak for yourself. I hate advertising and would rather see that whole revenue method burn to the ground and pay the $2/mo or whatever to use my favorite services.

Ads have ruined everything they have touched (radio, satellite radio, TV, cable TV, satellite TV, magazines, highway scenery, etc) and they are well into the process of ruining the internet.

In addition to bloating every site and exposing you to higher malware risk, they encourage companies to violate your privacy as much as possible and exploit psychological weaknesses to get you to buy stuff you didn't want or need to begin with.

Google's incentives are to spread this poison so they are not aligned with mine at all.
The Eddie Murphy Rule (2010)
The speed at which this has changing is ridiculous -- I have two kids that are about 12 years apart in age. In a decade, things have already changed dramatically; it was a small issue then but now it's an epidemic.
Interestingly, many microfinance programs that are widely heralded as having lifted many people out of poverty (eg. Grameen Bank, CARE) rely heavily on peer pressure to boost their repayment rates. They lend out to groups within a village, and then if any one member of the group fails to repay the loan, the group can't access more capital. This creates a strong incentive for other members of the group to exert social pressure to make sure everyone pays back their loan.

...which goes to illustrate the complexity of most ethical issues that arise out of social systems. Oftentimes, something that seems cruel to an individual within the system is actually in the best interests of the participants of the system as a whole, and sometimes can even be in the long-term best interest of the person themselves. And then whether you view such features as cruel & unethical or necessary & beneficial depends on your perspective & role within the system.

(This could also be taken as a synecdoche for capitalism itself, which on a micro level is about as cruel as you can get - individuals compete in a race to the bottom to do things more cheaply, and nobody will help you unless it serves their interests too - but on a macro level is the most effective system we know of for satisfying consumer wants.)
Why does doing something first give you the right to sell it? How do you deal with the problem of multiple discovery?

I'm not saying inventors aren't intelligent, but I really think that if they had not existed someone else likely would have invented the same thing.

What your saying though is that some other company could have advanced the product in a way that people would prefer it over the original. The negative effects here seem stifling to innovation.
I very highly recommend this[1] outstanding analysis of Black Mirror. It's short, it explores how Black Mirror fits in the history of sci-fi, and is one of the most concise explanations of the root cause of this kind of "tech problem" (hint: it isn't actually caused by technology; it's how people use it. Technology is just an amplifier).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr9_DcO6G3A
Yeah that bubble will burst when AI/ML replaces us or America* creates a surplus of competent engineers. Don't hold your breath for that. I made top $$$ (on a relative scale) in college tutoring aspiring computer scientists and engineers who hated these subjects.

*Not in America? Yep, that's different.
i'm up voting specifically because it seems that companies that see stories like this on hacker news tend to comment on them. We had such a case about 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16261136

I hope you get this resolved, but let this be a warning that these "gig" companies are nothing but a scam.
> It seems futile to silo this as a problem of "tech", when really it's a problem of society at large

Of course, but while it is broadly socially acceptable to criticize a particular industry or technology, criticizing capitalism is less acceptable; indeed, redirecting frustration at particular (and changing periodically) industries and away from the system itself is a key defense mechanism.
How can planting Forest Gardens achieve the ultimate goal of Zero Hunger?
I grew tired of arguments supporting fleecing the users that were basically "We aren't making them do this, they choose to do it." I have heard them put forward at nearly every company I've worked at, at various levels and through various departments. At Google it was always "We don't take an editorial stand, this might be just what some of our customers want." That has been the most interesting aspect of their recent moves to either sanction advertisers or block them. So somewhere in there it has gone from "If people don't want to see ads there are lots of adblockers out there to choose from." to "We need to take a stand against abusive advertisers." And that is a huge difference in approach.

Do engineers need a Hippocratic oath? I'm not sure they do, but if we forced some liability on companies for what the software they sell does, that would change a lot of things fairly quickly.
For sure, the result is a good news, but it highlight what I believe is a major flaw in the modern court systems : the tax payer and the defender ends up footing the bill for what is essentially abuse of the system and pure incompetency.

Is there any follow up on the body that approved a patent that should never have been granted ? Not per the court order.
Is there any punitive damage awarded to the defender against the filer ? Not per the court order.

Having been personally frivolously sued in the past, I can tell you, it's not fun and it's expensive. And even if you win, you have to sue back to pretend to any kind of financial compensation. If you have a settlement saying the opposing party is supposed to give you X amount of money, you have to sue to recover that money. And they can appeal. And even if you have an agreement saying that the winning party is entitled to have their legal fees paid by the opposing party, apparently no judge ever grants the real legal fees.

There's a major amount of work to be done in how we deal with abusive lawsuits and who pays the bill for the shared public legal system.
Oh man, don't be this smug. You be this smug, you regret it later.
Similar things happen on iOS, too. I can't tell you how many times I'm trying to go to a seemingly legitimate site on my iPhone and I get redirected a dozen times and end up at "You've won a free Samsung tablet!" instead of the content I asked for.
You can disable it in content settings. It's a new permission, just like Notifications, JavaScript, and Sound. Basically you just have to turn on the "Allow sites to show Annoying Ads" permission.
1.Everyone need not sell their soul to Google but the majority did it
2. The same argument stands for Facebook. I wish there was a neutral platform but...
3. I wish someone like apple will take on AMP or search or cloud storage or cross-platform email but apple is interested in keeping people locked. Heck, I can't reliably find a client for pics, calendar except iOS or macos device...
Oh my gentle Jesus... no. This is worse than Hannibal playing that poor bastsrd’s vocal cords like a cello. This makes the abrupt exhalation of trapped air from a corpse seem homey and familiar. This is downright Lovecraftian; an otherworldly and inexpressible horror from Beyond.

Show to this to your kids if you want to scar them forever.
I'd say its more of a broad taste-test of various shit varieties. From my recollection, grade school didn't go too deep on any one subject.
The facebook video playing experience is also getting "fixed" to death - getting more horrible with every change.

The ui is bad, the # clicks needed is growing, autoplay random videos vs playing what I actually want to watch[1], all of these issues are getting worse.

[1] If you scroll through a page, and click a video to play it, then keep scrolling, the video comes along with your scrolling. But once you want to watch another video, when you click on the new video in the stream, the old video stops but still stays on the screen frozen. there is some odd interaction between these 2 actions (I'm assuming controlled by javascript) and it's like the videos are fighting each other over what should be shown/played. It's really stupid - I can 100% predict the issue is because the teams working on these 2 features are not communicating with one another, and so are trying to optimize the user to "pay attention" to both things at once. This kind of engineering just turns me off so much that 90% of the time I close facebook and go find the video on youtube and watch it there.
Actually “reflected” doesn´t mean much for photons: they are absorbed and re-emitted.
I certainly wasn't saying that all or even 20% of people will be swayed. Just that it can make a difference.
Can you ensure the safety and security of all of your gold at all times? Can you send that gold to someone else across the world quickly and securely?
Stats go back to 2013, but the oldest video appear be from 2017, what’s the deal?
i think the most obvious example is probably impossible for you to fix. when i press c to replace a word, then navigate to the next instance of the same word and press period, it types each letter individually, including my typos and backspaces over the typos.

i know you guys are just interfacing with the vscode api so there's some things you simply can't do, like skipping over folded code when navigating with j/k.
Brazil came out in 1985 and basically involves identical bureaucratic obstacles. Catch 22 was published in 1961 and also describes similar unthinking callous bureaucracy.

It's not Silicon Valley you're railing against: it's blind unthinking bureaucracy. It's a problem that goes back much further than the days when "silicon valley" was all orchards.
>That's assuming that it's a simple process to publish a huge list.

Oh please. Claiming Google can't publish a giant list is really disingenuous. The question is really if they want to or not.
The philosophical aspect of ethics is not void of substance. There are many ways to think about the ethics of a situation. You learn different frameworks of ethical thought and you gain new perspectives. Some people who are very ideological will write this off as useless bullshit, but only because they are very invested in only one perspective and not open minded enough to consider the merits of other ethical frameworks.

To give you a programming analogy, it is as if you always programmed imperatively, using C, because you learned that organically as you grew up, and then you take this class and you learn about functional programming and object oriented programming and you learn how you can think of the same problem from a completely different perspective.

Except with the crucial difference, that the end result will not necessarily be the same and in fact there is not always a right answer. But when there is not always one right answer it is better to know many possible answers and why they are possible answers, than only one such answer.
I'm currently using "Teach your Child to read in 100 Easy Lessons." with my 3 year old. He hasn't had trouble with the reading, but a few of the exercises were too long for him.

It uses the DISTAR method which seems to have the most empirical evidence supporting it. (The controversy over DISTAR appears to me to be that it's boring for the teacher)
Good skates can be baked and molded to their feet.

Cheap skates are like cheap running shoes. Yeah, they get the job done until the ill-fitted skates don't offer proper fit and support. Your kid is fine for a month, then they have welts from the cheap insoles and twisted ankles from no stability.

Just wanting to skate at the rink is one thing, practicing and chasing pucks on top of learning edge control demands proper equipment.
Honestly, there should just be a required ethics component to all college curriculums; I am not sure why it needs to be technologically focused.

I would actually say the tech industry is the least of our worries with concerns to ethics; the last two years, tech has been heavily criticized and as a result it seems that people in the field are willing to change.

Can't say the same about any other industry.
My experience is that 'collectives' aren't a lot easier for the socially impaired than traditional body shops, and they usually have less work.

they do usually charge a much smaller cut, though, which is pretty good, so if you get along with the people, and they do have work, they can be pretty great.

I don't think I'd advise anyone to rely on a collective as their primary income any more than I'd advise anyone to rely on a body shop as their primary income. Treat the job as a job, be open to jobs that don't go through your collective or body shop.
The ones that do it on their own data do. The ones that must buy it from 3rd party data miners, have significant 'startup' costs.

Have to admit, its not 'fully online' but, with their webshop and customer card registration for in shops, its all one datapool if you ask me.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
Slacking off with Slack bots, creating your first Slack bot
They mean:

* PhD in deep learning / ML with papers at NIPS/ICML

* Working for BigCo (FAANG)

* Half of that is stock, annually.

* In the bay area or a big city

If you don't hit all those items then you pay is likely more modest. If you are academic, it is still likely laughable.
It was actually a couple psychedelic experiences that allowed me to "get over the hump" and "see" the universe the a larger, deeper, internal lens. It also allowed me to reflect and understand myself in a way that I found to be extremely valuable. While the experience itself was simply beyond description, ineffable, the single most enlightening moment of my life, it was the following years of reflection on it and everything around it that start putting things into place.

I remember one particular thought of how "real" the mind space actually is. We tend to think of the perceived reality as very physical, when in fact the mind space is able to simulate the same feeling of physicality. It really makes one question if the difference between mind and physicality is even worth distinguishing.
Hey, I can't really see the website. The page is blank..
> I believe that much of the unemployment problem for people with higher education diplomas is because people have to choose their career around 14-18 years old and fail to do the right choice.

...and also the fact that school is very inefficient. Like out of each 45 minute block, I would say that only like maybe 20 minutes is spent productively. Like I think that during one school day, you waste over 50% of the time.

> I have also worked with people who came from the modern "sans-teachers" schools. They were terrible.

The same can be said about people who came from with-teachers school.
Your examples are rather extreme and not what I'm advocating at all - there's a big difference between the Navy and Blackwater.
Or you can do pair and/or mob programming, where the review happens as the code is created. This eliminates the feedback loop and the creation of throwaway code.
> Youtube gets this right and puts the content first, on all endpoints. I see a youtube video and click it, I get a video.

More like "I see a youtube video and click it, I get a 10s commercial"
Back in 2013 I had published a few random, low-quality videos. Removed them when I started taking video seriously last November.
Hey sorry for misrepresenting your architecture, I did start with the caveat that I'm not with you guys though :). I shot you a couple of emails.
this is very selfish, unless you're the only developer in your shop.

whoever works with you will have to bear the burden that you left behind because you think its a low ROI for YOU
It's not a hedge bet, necessarily. It's a way for them to get direct input from users on which ads are tolerable and which are not. This information will undoubtedly be used to make ads 'more tolerable' so that Google's bottom line is not impacted.

I wonder if we're heading into a new era where online advertisements will become indistinguishable from non-ads. For example, a picture of your friend vs a picture of your friend with a soda bottle subtly added. That would be more tolerable to most everyone when compared to a flashy gif of that soda bottle bouncing around in your browser.
"Lots of accounts leaving after public relations disaster," is not really something that you need data science to detect. A chart, maybe.
If you want to see how flagged site info looks like, use this link: http://livetvcafe.net/video/7RDR4DAYSBMO/Fox-News

Unfortunately.. I don't see a dispute button. If Google won't let you dispute like blacklisted mailserver, I see class action lawsuits because ultimately with such high % of market share, Google and his pal Chrome will decide whether your business thrives or dies.
Safari already does it, don't know about the status of other browsers.
That does raise the question is Google big/ubiquitous enough to force that on publishers? If Google unilaterally decided no more JS in ads., would the publishers grumble about it but adapt, or would they look to other ad networks.
I guess it's the usual problem with "unlimited". When you push it to its limits it falls apart. If they have a lot of demanding customers they either have to slow down response time or reduce quality of the work. This could be a problem for a customer who relies on certain turnaround times.
Or Brave.
With no evidence whatsoever, I would argue against that. "Top talent" does not equate to "moving into an industry with potential". I think the other comment re TensorMonkeys is valid. How many AI researchers actually understand the ins and out of what they do or the tools they use? Seems to me that AI is/will become abstraction on abstraction etc as AI gets more complex and that means the people using the tech are more and more removed from "first principles", and therefore need to know less and therefore not really "top talent" in my book. Maybe at the start though.
I'm a materialist who says things like: "Based on the frequency of the self-reports, the 'god-shaped hole' is clearly a real phenomenon." (1)

How do you distinguish if you are making people mad because you are making bad arguments vs. making people mad because you are piercing the veil of their tribal biases?

(1) - (And therefore, any mental states which people have experienced resulting from the "god-shaped hole" are clearly within the range of normal behavior in the evolutionary heritage of Homo sapiens. Therefore, the feelings associated with religious faith and hope are merely the birthright of human beings, whether or not one believes in a particular deity or is a materialist. I cite myself as a datum.)
> neo-Marxist class warfare (most commonly referred to as identity politics in the zeitgeist)

Identity politics is basically a
distraction (sometimes intentional, sometimes not) from development of proletarian class identity, a prerequisite for Marxist (neo- or otherwise) class warfare.

Now, it is clearly, when engaged in by the pro-capitalist neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party (and, also, in the White/Christian identity politics form frequently practiced by the Republican Party, though the people practicing that often rail against identity politics and would never acknowledge engaging in it), an element of class warfare, but by the bourgeoisie against the proletariat; that's more anti-Marxist than neo-Marxist, though, so it still doesn't jibe with your description.