skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a majority of broadcast stations were owned by a single company, and that single parent company enforced censorship and strong bias about one or multiple issues, would that not be considered an instance of limited channels?

Sure the number of channels is higher, but the amount of information spread is not.
I agree with your point, but I'm not sure how it ties in to the comment I was replying to.

Edit: You seem to be overlooking the less tangible contributions languages like Rust or Haskell have made to PLs in general. One example that comes to mind is how Scala has affected the development of Java, even though, in the real world, Scala use is relatively non-existent.
I think IMB's question was just limited to understanding the employee's motivations, I don't think they were implying there are no other affected parties.
Paper: https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf

GitHub: https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet

Joseph Redmon and Ali Farhadi are funny and informative as always.

Disclosure: I work for Vulcan Inc. and collaborate with AI2 regularly.
That’s not how email works. That’s not how any of this works.
”it eked out 10 percent of the smart speaker market, compared with 73 percent for Amazon’s Echo devices and 14 percent for the Google Home”

Given the earlier ”grabbed about a third of the U.S. smart speaker market in unit sales”, let’s assume this is in units, too. Guessing at average sale prices of $100 for Amazon, $129 for Google, $350 for Apple and $150 for ‘others’, that would give them about 25% of the market (1) in dollars. _If_ that’s ballpark correct and _if_ they manage to keep that up, I wouldn’t call it a failure, certainly not considering that, in their other products, their margins are higher than those of their competitors.

(1) if that’s their market. That’s arguable. Some people think they compete with audio systems more than with smart speakers (¿for now?)
The browser people are the WHATWG. There are no other stakeholders in that.
No thank you Sir, I'll stick to my collection of GPG public keys.
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* I'm surprised Amazon has no system to detect this kind of gross plagiarism.*

There's no incentive to create such a system (I'll be optimistic and assume Amazon doesn't actually have said system yet) until you're held accountable for infractions arising from lack of possession of such a system.
Can they not tweak specific word variations to track down where the leak is coming from? You can narrow it down to which department the leak is coming from at least.
I’d rather have my compiler and tools spend the time doing their job well instead of me spending ages because my language doesn’t provide the right abstractions and forces me to build everything from scratch.
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I had never heard that before either. I've been using the same one for like a year now, which is definitely too long now that I think about it, but 3 weeks?
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While I agree, I think I'd be saddened by what it would suss out: that people don't really want news.

The sad part would be that even after this, people would still look to the Hannitys, the Maddows, the Carlsons, the Lemons of the world for their news. I understand the reasoning behind it (zero effort way of processing news). Where it does become dangerous is if someone turns a non-news/fake news item into a talking point to deceive the viewer into thinking it is legitimate like the content based on real news items.

I guess the beginning of the end was to allow channels specific to "news" to propagate. In an ever growing fight for ratings, something if we're being honest that shouldn't be a news team's goal, they've had to at best fluff the news or at worst make it controversial for ratings sake. I like CNN and feel them to be fairly "even", but even I have to question the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" nature of constant BREAKING NEWS items that are on their site at any given time and I would imagine is pretty frequent on social media (at least, anything I see shared from CNN seems to have breaking: at the beginning).

Maybe the local news showing national/international news format would be best, but with some kind of regulation to prevent them from politicizing it. Now what that would be defined by, I'm not sure. It probably wouldn't be heavy in ratings though.
Unless you locally encrypt your content before shipping it to Google or any other mail server, you can never be sure that your e-mail is "self destructing".

This is a dog and pony show.
They could but they'd have to retool the converted factory space back to making Falcons and there would certainly be disruptions.
Well, no one was dismissing critique of a language _simply because the language has utility_, so I was giving you the benefit of the doubt that you weren't strawmanning or otherwise introducing an entirely unrelated topic.

The OP said he didn't weight intellectual criticisms more highly than observations, which is a pretty reasonable position. I'll go a bit further and say that criticisms based on theories aren't worth very much when the belying theories do a bad job of predicting the observations. For example, if the theory is "Powerful type systems predict language utility" and the observation is "Very little software is built with languages with powerful type systems, especially very little _important_ software", then criticisms based on that theory aren't worth very much.
this isn't exactly new. There's videos from Conan showing the same thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLXQ0qbq6jY

In fact it was a regular segment on his show. This was 10 years ago. Further more, during the second Iraq War local new stations owned by Sinclair aired pro war talking points (even NPR read them), word by word.

If you go back to Bill Clinton, there's a video of him doing this and saying how great it is. This was satellite feed that was broadcasted to remote stations, omebody was able to record the feeds and hear all the conversations. It was basically scripted at the local news level.

There's other evidence to but I don't want to get into it on this site, its overwelming and dark. If we can get just one victory against this crap I'll take it.
First, I'm probably not the only one but I find ads really annoying. Also, I always find myself spending so much time on Youtube when I was just coming for one video, that can be problematic. I think Tube is simple but effective.
I was curious, is Diaspora* used anywhere or by anyone?
So now I can use my ZNA?
I'm using the metaphorical definition.
I don't think it's unreasonable to suspend the right to vote to some (or indeed to most) prisoners.

But I also don't think it's unreasonable to allow some prisoners to vote, especially where they are imprisoned for short sentences and where it is in the interests of rehabilitating them to do so.
I had a fake blender from Amazon and they first were helpful then suddenly wanted me to return it to the reseller allowing them to sell it to someone else. I only discovered it after a BBC report of fake ones catching fire. No way would I let that end up in someone else’s house. Got my refund in the end, but Amazon were clueless really.
Hi there, just a suggestion - invest in an actually visually appealing website. The current one looks like a side project that can disappear in a day or two without the warning. Data storage is a serious thing and no one would like their files to disappear overnight.
Because having this information wasn't the problem. The problem now is that anyone anywhere can have access to all the data about you at any time. The scale of the ability has changed the behavior. The same issue comes up with cops tracking cars.

It was never an issue for society for a cop to tail someone driving on public roads because they could only follow a few people given the resources necessary to tail someone. Now they can buy a few cameras that track license plates and have real time tracking of _everyone_ on the road with the ability to store the data forever until they decide it's useful, which is has changed the actual results of cops being allowed to track people.

This right to be forgotten used to exist simply because you had to put effort into finding out data about people. People could move to another town and restart their life. The courts in this case appear to be trying to reset tat status quo
Universities in the US (and most other countries) need accreditation to be considered universities and to qualify to education grants and the like. That doesn't mean that all universities are state-run, only providing a government-approved curriculum. There's lots of controls you can put in place to limit government control. In the case of university accreditation, the government generally gives the responsibility to a handful of NGOs, along with regional bodies.
I tried using it for some small projects, and it was really fun but seemed to not mesh well with the rest of the Racket ecosystem.
Do you really believe Sinclair doesn't have the manpower to watch their own programming to check for any 'biases'?

And if you believe they are somehow incapable of noticing biases: how would they adjudicate any complaints they get?

That request for comments is either a McGuffin needed to have a reason for the preceding rant slamming all other media outlets.

Or it's a ploy to get local stations in line with Sinclair's corporate agenda, by asking their viewers to rat them out to headquarters.
Well, this is finally the nudge that broke the camel's back, to leave Gmail.

And it will play havoc in GSuite, where there are needs and requirements for various entities to maintain business records. (Maybe these deleted emails remain visible to administrators? Still leaves employees without control over the messages sent to them, including and especially abusive ones.)

Anyway, feels like more asymmetry in what was designed as a symmetric model -- like much of the Net.
Exactly. It's like email for social media. You get free choice of which provider to use, while being able to communicate with all your friends regardless of which provider they use. And if you're technically adept, you can choose to self-host as well.
> the AMD system has the additional disadvantage over the others of being 1P instead of 2P, which approximately halves the available cooling and correspondingly limits clock speeds.

This doesn't make sense to me. I'd assume each system to be spec'ed correctly for the TDP of the processors. Each system has it's own HSF and case solution.

Multiprocessor systems do perform as less than 2x of their single processor counterparts, but it nothing to do with thermals in a properly designed system.
It's refreshing seeing a site without a mystery-meat UI.
Who says the employee is not being rewarded?
> A small algorithm would be a much better representation of you.

Nice, nice: and the de facto elected official becomes whoever implemented the algorithm. You've described a rare opportunity for us to become the Engineers Who Installed The Red Button. I'm in.
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That's assuming the leaker is repeating what (s)he heard/read verbatim instead of paraphrasing.
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OK, those are some fair points.

I'm still not convinced that the marginal difference between specialized naval and terrestrial fighter-bombers is the most cost-effective way to move the needle, though. Even against near-peer adversaries, the US and its allies have substantial naval and air superiority. Wouldn't it make more sense to focus on pressing those advantages? (Of course, we kind of foreclosed on that by shutting down the F-22 and doubling down on the F-35...)
This is awesome! Is the code available as open source anywhere? I might be interested in making my own personal deployment because I think youtube is far too distracting
Or perhaps a reference to the cult television series of the same name starring Scott Bakula.
Uh, WHATWG is an open process - they have a similar level of control over things that W3C had.

If you want to try and claim W3C ever had the power to enforce people following their specs, IE6 would like to have a word.
Isekai (parallel world?) of various sorts generally come from light novels, which, as I understand it, are amateur novellas aimed at teens and youths with interests in fantasy and subjects typically found in anime. The popular ones get picked up by production companies or pushed by the publisher to be adapted into manga or anime. Usually just the first few books in a series, as a promotional thing i guess.

I think publishers hold contests to find which writers will get their stories serialized and at least according to 4chan isekai stories are banned from those contests now for being too uncreative. So people just posted their stories online and some still got picked up by publishers to get light novelized!
It’s not a design flaw that can’t be fixed down the line with coming up with a backwards incompatible v2.0 of the langauage.
Why cant people just use an older copy of the WHATWG standard as the new "stable" documentation? This is basically how caniuse.com and browserslist work today, allowing developers to precisely describe their compatibility targets and even automate their builds.

It seems unnecessary to have an entirely separate organization to just copy/paste/publish new "versions" of existing archives.
Two points:

- This is not from 1984; its the current version of the raw (`.web`) source of METAFONT, which was first (re-)written in 1984 and last updated in 2014. The original Metafont (MF79) was written in the SAIL programming language; this is the rewrite in the WEB programming language (Pascal+TeX) that has been used since 1984. DEK still maintains it; he'll next look at any reported bugs etc, and update the program in 2020. (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/abcde.html#bugs)

- The raw .web source (linked here) is not intended to be read directly; the whole point of WEB is that you're supposed to read the typeset version instead. Here for example: http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/mf/mf.pdf
Neither: it's the person who implemented the script. That's why this is such an attractive prospect to the programming/tech crowd.
If we assume it's a sound idea to ascribe trust to a project based on the involvement of individuals, is Tim with the DRM concessions in mind the right person? I feel like if we hold the Equifax and Facebook CEOs to a high standard when it comes to safety and privacy, we cannot overlook the recent DRM mistake. Am I too cautious?
Didn't mean to imply that if I did, essentially just wanted to add to their comment.
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>I’ve never understood what the employee gets out of it

The intelligence services have done a great deal of research into the persona of the press leaker/Wikileaks leaker (as distinct from the more traditional espionage leaker). A common trait is for the press leaker to be either highly over-qualified for their job or believe themselves to be over-qualified for their job. The belief coming out of that research is a sense of being under appreciated and a deep need to be recognized by someone (even themselves) for something they’ve done is the primary motivation for this class of leaker. The “leaking good and important things” blanket that the leaks are wrapped in then becomes a secondary factor that is used by the leaker to justify their actions to themselves in their quest for the recognition they need. I doubt if corporate press leakers have been studied as heavily as intelligence sector leakers, but the chances are good there are some similar motivations at play.
I agree.

I'm fine with the FBI going about the letter of the law with a warrant to obtain evidence.

I'm also fine with Apple hardening their devices against such attacks, eventually the "GrayKey" technology will become commodity and we'll need to protect our information from casual thieves.

However, I take a strong stance against mass surveillance and obtaining (any/all, including metadata) information without due process. This includes getting pulled over and having police search my phone, or as a US citizen, re-entering my country and having my phone searched.
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> I know nothing of Argentina finance

They have a big sailing ship and an (obviously unpleasant) guy in New York got it impounded in West-Africa a few years back (purely from a sailor's perspective).
What was your motivation for creating such a similar site? How do you see yours as different? Not criticising, just curious.
In both politics and tech there has been nothing more permanent than a temporary measure. Jail was already supposed to be a temporary punishment for a crime that has been turning into a permanent punishment. How would your system not devolve into the same thing?
I often order at work, just before going to the pizza place (and then home). Ordering online means that I can spend some time thinking about what to order, whether I want more than just pizza, poking around to see if there are special offers that day (even check on more than one restaurant without bothering their employees), and so on.

I can avoid the person at the register punching the wrong thing in, get a receipt on my phone, and not have to call several times in a row to get the teen working the register to pick up.

The phone call's easier if I know which restaurant I'm going to order from, which coupon I'll use, and everything I plan on ordering, but often those 3 things don't apply at the same time...and I still have to go online to find the place's phone number.
Maybe they are? But I think that would magnify the downside of leaking by 10x for limited upside? Note I'm talking about people who work in Cupertino. It makes complete sense for someone working at a supplier in Asia to leak for money, doesn't really make much sense for a software engineer.
> I worry they're going to come after us programmers next.

That ship sailed decades ago.

> Only "authorized" programmers will get the access code required to change anything.

Stallman. Laser printer firmware. `nuff said.

Speaking of Stallman and Apple: have you heard of this? It was formed in reaction to Apple's actions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_for_Programming_Freedom
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weird to say "formal Ottoman lands", the Ottomans were only a thing starting in the 1300s. But technically correct, as some cursory searches suggest that the consensus on yogurt's origins is 5000-6000 BC, around Central Asia/Mesopotamia
Sometimes the leaker might think they have an upside. I worked (generally, in the same floor/area) with one such person[0]. The actual emails are available for the public, the leaker wanted some coverage for the new startup she was going to move to.

[0]: https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/08/18/ex-yahoo-employee-adm...
I think putting the Hannitys and Carlsons on the same level as the Maddows and the Lemons implies a false equivalency. Everyone has an agenda, yeah, but one of those groups is deliberately misleading its viewers.
It seems the Constitution leaves a lot to room for interpretation. Otherwise placing people on the supreme court wouldn't be such a big deal. Tightening up some paragraphs would probably help a lot.
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They already have, it's called iMessage ;)
TBF, they should have worked the formatting so that it is easier to find for someone looking the said memo without having to scan through the whole article.
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federation allows different servers. Some might be more private than others, and federation allows people to choose the flavor they want.

Remember it is not just public posts which you should be concerned about...but it is your interaction with the sever as well, as well as your semi-private communication.
>(although I still find singular 'they' abhorrent)
Is there any particular reason or is it just a matter of taste?

I personally prefer the singular 'they' because I don't think any of the pronouns invented for the purpose will gain any significant traction.
That the linear model is "correct" is only assumption if you're trying to draw probabilistic inferences.

There's nothing stopping you from using it as a "best fit line", even when you have no reason to believe those assumptions. But then it's just a best-fit line. It tells you the direction and magnitude of linear trend, nothing more. That's never wrong in any sense, it's just that sometimes it's not very useful.
Why can't people just donate their money directly. Why do they have to send you crypto so that you can donate their money?
A large amount of TV news is pure fabrication. The use of green screens, fake sound tracks, fake live shots, etc is just part of the biz. TV news is an entertainment product pretending to be a news product.
This assault on the journalistic integrity of local news must stop! Before you know it they'll have so many must-runs that I'll never find out if my toaster really is going to kill me.
After watching things like this (Louis Rossmann), https://youtu.be/FeUBdMU2qA0 , if I ever buy an Apple product I'll basically treat it as unrepairable.
Only if cures are equally expensive to develop as ongoing treatments. If cures are substantially more expensive to develop, then the system never gets over the activation energy (or it takes an extremely long time).
Based on that video, all that is required is that you stay in the lane. If you are paying attention, you have plenty of time to do that. If you are not paying attention and/or your hands are not on the wheel, I could see how you would struggle to react in time.

But blaming this on the use of the term "Autopilot" is idiotic and discussion centering around it is silly when there are much more important questions to answer about the design of autopilot, other driver assistance systems, and the future of self-driving cars.

99% invisible has a really interesting story about this topic:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magen...
This is the kind of in-depth stuff that I love to read; the CloudFlare blog has been a source of good articles for a few years now, might be time to just add that to the list of things to check on a regular basis instead of waiting for some of them to pop up on HN :)
Quantum leaps in the sense of physics have nothing to do with the Planck length, or “smallest” units in any sense. Quantization isn’t about small (although in practice it is), but about discrete changes with no values “in between” transition. What makes a quantum leap a quantum leap, is that the energy levels an electron may occupy are not continuous.

Incidentally, while it’s true that no current theory describes physics below the Planck length, it’s not true that said distance scale is somehow a limit on scale. It may be true that the Planck scale is the scale at which spacetime becomes “foamy” although it’s just a conjecture. It’s also possible that scales far below the Planck scale exist. We don’t know.
Everyone is ignoring the fact that China is a massive closed market. Most western services do not care about China. China culture is different and it doesn't seem that the "world" is willing to translate and adapt its services to it.

This means a huge opportunity for local ventures.
Odd. If I'm paying in cash for a delivery, I'd question them asking for a credit card number.