skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's get it straight, machine learning models cannot reason anything. They follow the rules and data supplied.

That is reasoning. I’ll agree with your later point that we don’t really know what intelligence is yet, but that’s because reasoning is clearly only one type of intelligence. Current systems are terrible at language, for example (a year ago I would have said “and spatial awareness”, but this is progressing fast and I am no longer sure).

> They cannot recognise in any way that the rules by which they operate or the data they are supplied with are or are not reasonable.

Quite a lot of humans fit that description. For example, consider how much angry disagreement the following questions get: “is climate change real?”, “Brexit, yes or no?”, and “does god exist?” Also consider how many people (angrily!) refuse to believe these questions result in any angry arguments.
Not only that but any company shipping Linux in IoT (or really any kind of hardware) usually compiles its own Linux kernel with needed custom modules. Not sure how this is news besides the IoT thing.
Morally one could extend this to average employees in the tech industry whose work utilises online advertising. Whether buying ads, or putting ads on their services.

I'm sure there are thousands of active and passionate Hacker News users, many reading these very words that support online advertising through their job. Perhaps they are wisely being quiet? Perhaps it's because the whole issue is murky and morally ambiguous.

Now - one can make the case for ethical advertising... so why don't we?
I usually just write "TODO have not done X and Y yet" into the source file that where I was last working. It's deliberately not a comment, so that I can find it by running `make` and looking for the syntax error.
So what can telegram do if google and amazon bans them in Russia?
My personal opinions follow:

Windows on a non-gaming, non-CAD box.

PHP.

Gentoo.

MCSE.

Being a hubristic jerk (common with sysadmin types)

People who homebrew crypto.

“Just install linux on a cheap PC and...” types. These people also usually vastly undervalue their time or overestimate the number of hours in the day available to do 90s sysadmin bullshit.

People who don’t realize that more running software is usually a liability.

People who treat other people as idiots for being yet ignorant of something - there is an xkcd about this one.

Joke ones that I wish were true:

emacs

javascript

android
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First, article is talking more about ideological divide (democratic/republican) than ideological diversity (which would presumably mean many other viewpoints).

Not sure about ideological diversity, and how to even measure it, but ideological divide to me seems as an inevitable result of two party system (and majority voting system), as both parties struggle to get supporters. In order to do that, they often abandon or shift in ideology. The result is that the "ideological divide" is so very fluid that it is not really representative of any particular ideology.

In short, I think measuring the "ideological diversity" in terms of democrats/republicans is probably quite misleading.
> There is no option to pay them so they don't gather information about You.

I would absolutely 100% not trust that they wouldn't track me anyway. How could they not? Even if I trusted them (which I don't) it isn't possible: they'd at least need to know it was me where-ever I want so they'd know to not track me as I'd paid...

Would you pay someone to not follow you down the street? If you did you'd have a queue of people following you to collect their "share".
> are you sure you are just not being a true believer of the cult of Elon Musk

When did you stop beating your wife?
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About 20 years ago, I did a one week internship as a teenager in some lab that worked exactly on this. They were trying to grow and select enzymes that could process different types of oil that frequently occurred in spills.

The tricky part was to make sure they only targeted what was in the ocean. You didn't want them to start propagating into the oil tanks in boats, or start processing all the random plastics that make up boats or various infrastructure.

I remember on my last day, they had some really good results with some samples that processed some oil really well and were quite excited. I then left, and have no idea if they managed to reproduce the results or not.
> fuelcell

Sort of like a battery?
> Washington DC: The intellectual class in this city is about half conservative/Republican/libertarian and always will be.

While I think the 50 percent figure is high, people tend to only think of DC as a liberal city.

Of course it primarily is, but there is a large population of well-educated conservatives and libertarians living here.

Most of my social circle leans left, but it was always good living in DC to hear different perspectives, rather than shouting into an echo-chamber.

Also an extremely diverse population (51% Black) along with on-going gentrification leads to DC being one of the more intellectually stimulating cities to live in.
Starting with 4 gallons (more than 16 litres) of "very good brandy" is an enormous amount for personal use. Was the original recipe aimed at businesses?
Couldn’t the same analogy be used if I left my front door unlocked? The door would happily say: “yes, you may enter” to anyone trying the handle.

I think the real question here is: did the website provide enough information for the user to have been assumed to understand that what they were accessing wasn’t meant to be public (e.g. did the door look like a door to a private property)? And did the user cease to access the data once they understood it (e.g. did they close the door and leave)?
But there's also https://live.sysinternals.com/ as usual.
> What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook

Absolutely everything they possibly can.

> and Why?

Because they want to in order to wring every last fraction of a penny out of the worth you are as a data point to sell to everyone else.

And because no one is stopping them.
>We also live in a time where stuff that conspiracists and cynics have been saying for years is absolute bullshit.

We are also living in a time where things like ubeam and Theranos can get millions in funding..and various nefraious schems that intend to take the naive public for a ride...

May be, don't fall for that..
In my experience of recent years, addresses like abuse@, webmaster@, hostmaster@ and postmaster@ normally bounce. It’s a real nuisance when I want to report bugs in web systems, or in email systems where they’re doing enough things badly wrong that they trip (or get close to tripping) spam filters, et cetera.
When you're running a room with sharks swimming through it, I doubt it helps to be so bland. It's absurd, but I've seen it here in Las Vegas as well.
Cellulose was hard to break down, so when bacteria found a way to do it, they had no competition for that food source and millions of years worth of it just sitting around to feed on.
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Entry-level programmers are paid $100k per year, entry-level actors are paid exposure.
> Imagine all the plastic items in the World suddenly as susceptible to rot as wood. It would fundamentally change almost every aspect our existence, in a very short amount of time.

Hardly. Some usages of plastic would need to be altered, but most would be fine. The conditions in which wood will rot are very specific (the forest floor, basically) and reasonably easy to avoid, surely something similar will be true for rotting plastic. Pre plastics, practically anything, including all kinds of liquids, was stored in wooden barrels.
I think people would be less upset about the teenager going to jail if the chain of highly paid Peter principle executives responsible for the files being accessible would also have to face any investigation at all.
Being a few hours away from California, I no longer see this as bias. Scum. Scum, everywhere.
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/b14abe7b4af30cbc5eddfc72e8...

So, probably safe.
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Wow, this is the first time I've seen a [dead] article on the front page. Not sure I understand the front page algorithm. Vouched, of course, as it's definitely newsworthy to hackers to know that the law is potentially going to shut down the whois service.
i posted it the other day and it got flagged as well. its an important issue to many. some people need to get their heads out of their arses
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Well, it says right there on the page:

Known Limitations - CSVFileView cannot load extremely large csv files.
Houston for sure. It’s close to a true melting pot. You have everything from cowboys to Marxists, libertarians to La Raza activists. You have an old, tight knit African American community mixed with limousine liberals, George H.W. Bush style globalist conservatives along with large Latin American communities, GLBT flag-wavers and evangelicals. There is even a small, but extremely tight-knit Jewish community along with a large and welcoming Islamic community. I could go on and on. Houston wins by far when it comes to ideological diversity. The ciry itself does trend leftwards, however if you add Harris Coubtry into the mix, it’s almost an even split with many people straddling the left-right ideological divide (voting for liberal mayors but conservative county commissioners.)
I will try to run a org-mode to ipynb converter, so thanks to your suggestion! I just wish there was an Emacs version that wasn't to differnt from everything else so other people could look past the stigma of Emacs. So thank you for the feature run down, and to be cyrstal clear I want more options, but I will only be able to run org-mode/babel myself. Requiring Emacs is just too big of an hurdle for anything bigger than a two man team.
How can this question be reasonably answered?

Maybe places with high numbers of academics and articulate people can be measured but that's about it.

There's multiple dimensions when it comes to ideology and multiple approaches to each dimension. There's even fundamentally different interpretations of the categorical differences on how to subdivide the classifications of these systems. And each of these facets have wide diversity at every nuanced level.

For instance, many San Francisco "lefties" are anarcho-capitalists who want to do away with market oversight along with having drug legalization, amnesty for all immigrants, gay rights, and unlimited gun rights for all. They want to privatize all public services and call that process "progressivism".

Some of them call themselves libertarians, others "classical liberals" and yet others will tell you long stories about how they aren't either of those... It's really quite complicated and throwing them all in a "liberal" column with people who believe entirely different things for entirely different reasons (such as, for instance, those who believe "money"(another debated term) is a fundamentally corrupting influence and the state needs to tame the market through strict oversight), is pretty incorrect. In fact, some socialists I've spoken with consider the entire libertarian project as a form of tyrannical autocracy by the ruling class - so they view those lefties as actually far-righties.

But let's pretend you can map all those out and ignore that perspective matters. Do you need population size? Representation in governments? Places of discussion?

I really can't see how to even approach this question.
Spam is only the beginning. Wait until a crazy person gets angry at yuor site.
VW to Tesla Set to Win from China Move to Remove Ownership Caps
Soon enough, every country will have their own internet. Until the new new internet appears
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For sure Musk has an incredible carisma which seems at this point to have grown to rival the reality distortion field of Jobs. All the other claims remain to be proven.
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Surely, true ideological diversity begins with (but indeed doesn't end with) the capacity to have democrats and republicans successfully coexist, something that parts of California and parts of the south, respectively, has struggled with.
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"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

I'd say that organizations are not just constrained to do that -- they should. When you design systems and infrastructure, keep in mind that systems and solutions are under evolutionary pressure, and engineers have to change it all the time. When optimizing for change, you need to optimize for teams and interactions.

If the whole team is sitting in the same room, then there's nothing wrong with a monolithic app and shouting to others that 'hey, does anyone have a problem if I release the latest master branch?'; or it's also fine to have a QA server that the team is using. At a remote company, it's much more important to be able to test subsystems in isolation or even without internet access, automated integration tests are more useful and important.

And so on.
People don’t usually look that deeply into the consequences of their choices. Is it ethical to invest in land mines? I’d say not, but when I last put money into a high interest savings account, I didn’t know if my bank had done that for me and it didn’t occur to me to ask.
I'm arguing with Facebook about getting access to the data they have from tracking me as opposed to what's available when you download your profile data at the moment, having closed my account a while back.

I'm literally waiting for the day that GDPR comes into force to exercise my right to be forgotten.
parseInt() and parseFloat() are made for strings, not for numbers. I think you are looking for one of these:

Math.round() Math.ceil() Math.floor()
Maybe it's better that way, lawyers have to do actual manual work on cases that matters instead of sending random legal threats to every company they can find. Random legal threats are not substitutes for law enforcement.
8bit video game and computer consoles by Atari and Commodore loaded into Basic from ROM. Yet in modern times they can't even mine bitcoins.
Transport sector is quite more than cars tho. Tankers especially are a mess.
Does this mean that Google/Amazon customers on mentioned IP addresses are inaccessible? If so, I think Google/Amazon will choose to cease the contract with Telegram.
probably aimed at large houses that did a lot of entertaining guests
Cowen uses intellectual and ideological diversity interchangeably.

I would argue that intellectual and ideological bubbles are only partially intersect and most of his readers are more interested in intellectual diversity.

I also suspect that binary conservatives/liberals division is not bringing enough diversity either ideologically or intellectually. The political diversity is large cities with large universities with lots of students and immigrants far outweighs the diversity in local politics. Smart Nepalese student who is communist may cut trough the conservative/liberal axis in a surprising way that is really new and interesting.
Has this appeared on here because it was discussed on This Week in Tech (TWiT) ?
> the Register is a well regarded technology site

Is it? (Honest question, I have no idea.)

Most of the links at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theregister.co.uk are dead for some reason.
were doing exactly that at the place i work at, riot has too many settings and can be quite hard for a "normal" user (someone who is used to slack for example).

would love some kind of integration with openid connect though, since that would enable us to easier integrate with our AD. of course we could make that ourselves but we dont have the manpower right now.
For anyone who is wondering why:

parseInt() only accepts strings as input. So JavaScript calls .toString() on the number before passing it as an argument.

(0.000001).toString() // "0.000001"
(0.0000001).toString() // "1e-7"

By the way, TypeScript or Flow would have caught this error during compile time.
Current weather in hell: chilly ;)
>I fail to see how this is a problem...

Some TLD's don't allow proxy registrations.

whois privacy being a service extra (sometimes included for free sometimes a paid extra which can expire and expose your data if you miss the email) where other TLD's (.uk springs to mind) already have the ability to withheld the personal details of domain registrants (private individuals have the ability to held their data, company registrations have their data shown) at the registry level and not having to use a 3rd party company.
What is the point diversity for the sake of diversity? What you want is a community of people who can analyze data and have sufficient knowledge of statistics to know how to distinguish valid information from garbage. There's no point in being around anti vaccine people, or people who base their arguments in assumptions (beliefs) from old stories.
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I don't think I am. I'm suggesting that much of what the OP takes as not prioritizing web apps is part of a deliberate strategy to protect users. I certainly could be wrong about Apple's motives, though.
Russia has blocked 1,834,996 ip addresses in an attempt to censor telegram
When commodity hardware got "good enough" no workstation manufacturer could any longer ask for the large premiums they did when a PC couldn't touch their performance. A 386 was not good enough. A 486 was almost there and a Pentium was quite enough I didn't feel constrained when running Solaris 2.5 for development with a 20" monitor and reasonable graphics. Now I'm comfortable with x86's running different flavors of Unix and use both macOS and Linux almost interchangeably.

Yet, if someone could offer radically better price/performance than a x86 PC and still run the large software base that runs on x86 Linux machines, it'd stand a much better chance than it'd in the 90's and 2000's.
Are you referring to Richard's new internet or Jian Yang's new new internet? Jian Yang's internet is based in China...
You have to be a little careful with trapping SIGSEGV to implement funky behaviour though -- it's easy to write a handler that works for the expected case, but harder to write one that doesn't result in incredibly confusing behaviour if the rest of the program runs into a bug that would normally be reported as SIGSEGV->program core dumps...

(Also, mmap() isn't async-signal-safe in POSIX, so this is veering into OS-specifics and reliance on implementation details.)
Netflix overseas sales to surpass US home market
Wow, wow, wow.

- All others are doing it, so we're doing it, too and that's okay.

- We collect data on you, even if you don't have an account

- If you want to control your data, you need an account

- Despite collecting even more (like your phone number, name and additional info) from your friend's address book they shared with us, we don't inform you about that and surely, there's no way for you to delete that info.

Fuck you, Facebook.
See what companies have your information and use it to target you on Facebook
To get a list of ALL Facebook ip's to block them with your firewall:

whois -h whois.radb.net '!gAS32934' | tr ' ' '\n' | awk '!/[[:alpha:]]/' > facebook.list
whois -h whois.radb.net '!6AS32934' | tr ' ' '\n' | grep '::' >> facebook.list
51% black doesn’t make it “extremely diverse.” That makes it “majority black.” Hispanics are only 4% of the population, Asians less than 3%. Whites are roughly 43%

I am not sure how diverse that is and certainly questionable to call that “extremely diverse.”
No, but third-parties experience some problems.
I considered doing that, but decided it’s probably not worth bothering them given that the street is also filled with homeless people, piles of trash, and discarded needles. I’ve since learned that you can use the 311 app to report abandoned vehicles, so I’ll do that in the future.
> MS finally "gets it"

All I can read into it is that it's in their best interest to stop being deliberately hostile towards Linux and open-source. We can trust them doing The Right Thing only as long as The Right Thing benefits them.
Windows still has almost 90% market share, so it's not going to be killed anytime soon.

For gaming, it's pretty much only choice, Macs have no hardware to handle them, and for Linux, I've tried switch many times, and it always been a hassle.

I've ended up with Ubuntu for work and Windows for everything else.
When Americans are not allowed to criticize their own government without fearing retribution, you can put them in the same group as the other two. Until then, you’re being absurd.
What you're suggesting is how it already works. Partnered creators all have access to a creator support email (with a 1 business day SLO). Top partnered creators (aka the "creators who get paid anything meaningful") will also have a partner manager they can contact for 1-1 advice/support/etc.
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> The ecosystem? It will be fine.

It will be greatly impoverished, so not really 'fine'. Its possible that in several 10s of million of years the sheer level of diversity of the ecosystem may have rebounded. But not a given
I was bummed that there were no contributions in the 6 years this was open sourced, but it turns out that active development is actually happening in a fork:
https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3
Just in case previously when same thing happened with service called Zello and back then Amazon cease to provide them service (forbid to change IPs) before actual subnets were banned. Soon we'll see how Amazon / Google will react on Kremlin bullying this time.
So because transportation is not the top CO2 impact industry, no changes to it can have a substantial impact on the environment?
Absolute timestamps cannot be trusted in a byzantine environment, so we do precisely as you suggest - messages are transmitted with pointers to the previous message(s) in the room message graph, so you get a partial ordering within the room (just like git). We also sign the messages into a merkle graph (like git) to stop the shared datastructure being tampered with.
I can confirm the issue.
tbe ripples will be felt for centuries

hah, seriously? "centuries" as in "hundreds of years"? Do you have _any_ kind of half-way decent argument to back up that -frankly outlandish- assertion? I'm not a big MSFT fan, but you make a lot of statements in this thread, non of which are backed up by anything else except emotional knee-jerk comments. I'd be happy to engage in a reasonable discourse, based on supportable factual statements. Spare me the "M$ is teh (sic) evil" stuff, it doesn't help us as a technology community with being taken seriously.
(also in the UK) Completely agree with your closing remark. By and large, by deciding to not care about stopping cars getting in front of me, it doesn't bother me when they do. Any delay is completely negligible.
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In my experience, socioeconomic diversity results in different points of view than the color of someone's skin. Many problems people face are economic or financial, so I would expect people that have grown up in similar financial environments to have similar political concerns.
"Mexicans fit along a political spectrum of their own."

Tell me more about this mexican political spectrum. I'm only half can I join? Btw what do we believe in?