skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I agree. But in the article I shared, they say that this goal-oriented language would be somehow "imperative" in the sense that you would be telling to the computer concrete things to do, just from a (much) higher abstraction level.
Waiting for someone to advocate free markets and how the markets regulate themselves. Any time now.
Hey! It's meant to be more of a collective "everyone who wants to participate"! I came up with the concept as myself and some friends are trying to get a project off the ground this month ourselves!

Sorry if it isn't SUPER clear! I designed/built/launched this site in less than a week (with no room for testing since May is tomorrow, haha)!

Thanks!
> I suspect that relatively few would argue that unskilled labor is a great way to support a family.

So... how do workers in these jobs-that-apparently-don't-qualify-as-trades support their families?

We have the economy we have. Someone has to do these jobs. You can't wave a magic wand and insist that everything would be fine as long as everyone is a plumber. Someone has to pick the fruit and teach the kids. People who do that can't support families. That's a problem, right?

The solution isn't plumbing, is all I'm saying.
What you measure - you optimize. They measured cellphone shaking. They got optimized cellphone shaking.

I will also share another famous quotation of mine which I intend to eventually get tattooed somewhere (when I can figure out how to make it look good.. I have no tattoos): "Make game of that which makes as much as thee." - from The Rubiyat by Omar Khayaam.
If you can't connect it to the user in any way, it's no longer personal information. Expect the data protection agency to compliment you.
I remember when I was in high school, I got onto Something Awful and saw some posting about nootropics and was interested in the possible effects, like improved memory and sharper concentration, so I got some (I think piracetam). In the instructions it said it would take some time to work, like a week or two, and after a few days of feeling the same and seemingly having no effects I stopped taking them and the only benefit I got afterwards was selling the remaining pills to my friend since they apparently make the high from pot more intense.

Beyond the anecdote I don't think this is censorship from Youtube, it's likely the creators were either venturing into advertising/selling products as the primary purpose of their videos, or giving some kind of medical advice about how they can improve your life/body, or both, both of which I think are against Youtube ToS. Given that it's a story from Motherboard we're probably just getting a partial part of the story and the article is just making it seem like Youtube is censoring something they shouldn't, rather than putting the creators at fault.
So can I run Crysis on my TI calculator? I'm sure whatever platform/language is running on it is Turing Complete. I think you missed the point that the brain is also hardware.
How is modern C++ safer than unsafe Rust?

In Rust, the borrow check is still active even in unsafe blocks. In C++, however, the complex rules around when destructors are called, combined with references, are a constant use-after-free footgun that you can never eliminate.

Rust projects that use unsafe code are empirically safer than C++ projects. See, for example, the Servo style system as used in Firefox.
Expensify suck for other reasons, too.

Sometimes it just stops updating from your bank or whatever and doesn’t notify you. You have to somehow figure out it hasn’t updated and go to the page and give it your auth details again.

And even when you reauth they won’t fetch all the missed expenses and then you ask them about that and they tell you to enter them manually.

Good times.

Oh yeah, also their CEO is... abrasive.
I'm not really that concerned about financial freedom right now. I am concerned with optionality. Meaning I never want to be stuck at a job I hate. For me that means a combination of staying marketable, keeping my network fresh, and being careful about "lifestyle inflation" so I won't have to always strive for the maximum income.

It's a big stress reliever knowing that if things go bad, you can always jump ship.
So a creator trusts the guidelines provided by youtube and invests in a business to find out later youtube can actually shut that business down without a tangible reason. I don't understand how being a private entity gives youtube the right to make a false advertisement and treat their creators as fools.

Is it clearly stated that youtube can remove your videos just because? (considering, claiming it's not fitting guidelines is as vague as claiming it is bad for the environment)
> it's still slower than typing

In alphabetic languages. What about Chinese, or Japanese?
As far as I can make out, that isn't what happened in this case.

It seems to me that WHATWG settled on the behaviour that the reporter of 255107 originally asked for, and Firefox recently changed to match. The work just wasn't tracked in the 14-year-old 225107 (looks like it's in 1324406).
In all fairness, the people leaving these cities are typically not the same people who give the cities their "soul". Anyone who has been to Detroit would be hard pressed to say that the city does not have "soul". It has "soul" and "character" in abundance. None of that ever left.

But you know what? Cool kids with "soul" typically don't bring in a whole lot of money. Add to that the fact that a lot of their "soul" is coming from a place of some very real pain, and you can see the potential for issues. So, yes, cities want to keep their "soul", and that's fine. (That's actually a GOOD thing.)

But let's look at it face on, and not romanticize what that "soul" is too much. "Soul" makes cities what they are. No question. But it can have a dark side too. Just as the gleaming tech economy startups have a dark side that we shouldn't be romanticizing too much.
The "my preferred definition of censorship specifies that it can only be done by governments, and [company] is not a government" rhetoric that always appears with these sort of stories is truly tiring and pedantic. Nobody here thinks that youtube is a government. The problem isn't people thinking that youtube is a government; the problem is people thinking that censorship is something only a government can do, or thinking that because censorship is legal (when done by corporations) people shouldn't complain when it happens. Many things that are legal are worth complaining about.

With regard to the rest of your comment, I'm not confident breaking up the google 'monopoly' would actually solve this problem. If you spun youtube off as its own company distinct from the rest of google, wouldn't it still have a virtual monopoly on this user-uploaded online video space? How would you actually solve that? Split youtube itself into several "Baby Youtubes"? How would that work, which one would get the domain name?
I used this exact same method.
I completely agree. Very well said.
With that money, a new messenger can be created, preferably one that uses an open E2E-encrypted protocol that supports decentralization.
It does supply you with warnings for stuff that might go wrong. It's just that there's a lot of things that might go wrong, may of which need longwinded explanations, and you're probably never going to love micromanaging all that stuff (never mind enough to buy shiny add ons giving you more symbols and options!) if you don't like reading manuals. And the whole point of differentiation from the Civilization series is to start off with an enormous choice of unbalanced real life historical scenarios which may need immediate attention rather than a blank slate to gradually build up. I mean, the UX is terrible in many other respects: but the first this looks like it's designed for people that enjoy complexity glance probably reveals more about the games than anything actually intuitive could!

Fair to say it's targeting a different market from mobile games where you see a screenshot of something that looks like Tetris crossed with Scrabble or Solitaire with poker hands and instantly understand the rules and what a good strategy might look like.
Did you do any testing with a VPN?

When I was visiting someone in Atlanta GA, the speeds weren't good for what they advertised, but once I put on a VPN the speeds almost tripled.

They just have internet through Comcast too, so I was wondering if something was up.
Rural Kansas is dying
> FB either has access to the message content to feed in to adsense's gaping maw or they don't

There is a lot of grey area in between. How metadata is treated, whether encryption is turned on by default, what about the messages are encrypted, how they're encrypted, et cetera.
We looked at the number of security-critical bugs in one new component of Firefox—Web Audio—a few years ago in order to determine how many of them a memory-safe language would have prevented. The answer was 100%.
I'll immediately agree to that but in the spirit of the GDPR which allows you some screwups, isn't that still better than keeping non-encrypted personal data on a small VPS you have no idea if other people have no unlimited access to?

I shut down my hobby projects because I didn't want to rework them. Deleted everything, never sold info to anyone, never served ads and had exactly zero external JS snippets on them.

If I am to open a business, I'll however work a lot to be GDPR-compliant. I believe it was about damn time for something like that to emerge.
It is so difficult now to get Google Maps to just show the actual map! It's trying so hard to add value by showing you pictures of sandwiches that you can't just see the map when you need to.
It collided with an underwater reef.
The Current Museum put together a really wonderful write-up regarding Olia's work. [1]

An excerpt:

In Summer (2013), a GIF of a woman swinging back and forth from the viewer’s browser bar, Lialina devises a clever way to mimic earlier, slower web experiences on a more modern connection. The 18 frames of the GIF are hosted across 26 different sites, making them vulnerable to the whims of load times, site bugs, and outdated code. Michael Connor writes, “It reminds us that each time we view the work, we will experience it in a slightly different way, reflecting the shifting conditions of the network and our position within it.”

[1] https://d.rip/thecurrent/posts/RHJvcFBvc3QtMjQ3OQ==
It might be. But it's also just over four years since Facebook bought WhatsApp. Were his FB shares on a four year vesting plan?

I don't mean to be too negative, but I'm still very disappointed they sold to FB in the first place. There was no need to do so - WhatsApp's business was sustainable. And surely they must have considered this possibility?
1. Hosting videos costs Youtube money. It's probably a tiny amount per video. But that doesn't mean they can host every video forever.

2. They have a commercial reason to cancel these videos. Maybe they think the use of these drugs is risky, and gives their website an unsavory reputation. That hurts their brand (and potentially their bottom line). This is not unlike a TV show canceling a successful show when it's star actor becomes embroiled in controversy.
which seems precisely why Acton donated $50 million to the Signal Foundation and is taking an active role in a parallel for-profit entity.
Not really.

I don't really see AA doing that much better than, say, Madison Wi. Which, I'm sure most would agree, is a comparable town. If anything, places like Madison and Champaign in Illinois are doing a bit better. (Well, more population growth anyway.)
Even if it gives history priority, there's still something a bit peculiar about the arrangement; it's not sorting by distance within history, but rather probably sorting history hits by recency. That's the sort of thing I think of as "programmer logical" rather than "common sense logical." If I search for "tiki bar" when I'm in Oakland, it's all well and good to remember that I also ran that search when I was in Portland, but it should probably show me a few tiki bars in and around Oakland, and give rather low priority to letting me know it's only 632 miles to Hale Pele.
Why not just use Signal? Didn't moxie implement the e2e in whatsapp anyways?
TIL calcium supplements are research chemicals.
I doubt it. We had plenty of discussion before comments on blogs.

If anything, I’d prefer an internet without inane comments from mouth breathers.
Yeah, it sounds a lot like deterministic encryption. Which is OK if your input data is essentially uniform random.

But if it's not, and your adversary knows the distribution of the input data, then the protection level is pretty close to zero.
I'm really curious why they thought this would go differently than any of the other companies that Facebook acquired…or did they just think that they could stick with WhatsApp for as long as they agreed with Facebook, and then take the billions they earned and try to use it in a way that aligned with their principles and end up having more benefit for society?
Nestle set up shop 185 miles from Detroit because there is a nice aquifer there and the permit was cheap. Detroit actually has a good water supply and good treatment (their distribution system is aging).

I'd be fine with Nestle paying a whole lot more for the permit (because bottled water is dumb), but the value of the water they are extracting isn't even that high, so if you made them pay high prices and used all the money improving municipal water systems, it wouldn't make much difference.
Mark Zuckerberg answers to Koum leaving:

"Jan: I will miss working so closely with you. I'm grateful for everything you've done to help connect the world, and for everything you've taught me, including about encryption and its ability to take power from centralized systems and put it back in people's hands. Those values will always be at the heart of WhatsApp."

https://www.facebook.com/jan.koum/posts/10156227307390011?co...
It could also be a "no really, I'm leaving" announcement to end debate internally. He leaks it publicly and baldly and now there's no going back.
> Keep the ticket open long enough, and maybe the standards group will adopt your behavior!

But the description of the spec-fix[1] says it aligns with the behavior of all the browsers except Firefox.

So how exactly did Firefox come into alignment with the behavior of the other browsers without there being a patch associated with this bug?

[1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/00769464e80149368672b8...
What's interesting about this, is that user complaints can be suspect too. I read an anecdote recently about the American auto industry. They'd ask people about what they didn't like about the cars they bought. And they'd get all these complaints, then try to build cars based on those complaints. The problem was, many of the complaints were for things that took them out of the market for the car they bought. For instance, people who bought sports cars would complain about lack of doors, or lack of back seat, and so GM or Ford would build a car that wasn't quite a sports car, because it was too big, and it wasn't quite a sedan (for whatever reason, too sporty? whatever that means?), and so no one bought it.

I honestly don't know what the solution to this problem is, since feedback is invaluable. I guess, always be careful?
While Signal is a good start, you do lose the advantage WhatsApp: its entrenched market dominance and network effect.
I don't see how your points and mine conflict. They don't, IMO.

GDPR simply made me aware that I am not willing to go the extra mile for hobby projects so I shut them down and never sold any info to anyone, nor have I served ads/trackers.

Many commenters of my sub-thread here are making me look like a histeric and that's seriously annoying. It's all about deciding if a cost is worth it and I figured in my case it wasn't. Why make it more complex than that?
I gave an earlier version of this talk at JupyterCon 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtsbspKHJGo, which captured my full screen output. The pgcontents demo starts around 19:30 in that video.
> Can allcats.com take down videos of dogs?

Sure. Why shouldn't a private entity be able to determine what kind of speech they allow on their own property?
I cut it off because I was only disagreeing with the bit before the 'and'. Indeed, Rust is a more complex language and it is not surprising that it would take longer to compile. Although, as another poster pointed out, Go code also compiles much faster than plain C code (with gcc or clang), and C is of a similar order of complexity to Go.
I bet I know the Ukrainian contractor that released it. :p

It's a draconian security model, not there to fleece farmers. You want Tesla style updates lobby Deere for them and they will invest in bringing it to market.
Same experiences here. The biggest fun was to be on our own, unsupervised, learning by ourselves.
I'd argue it increases utility, not wealth. It'd increase wealth if that vehicle was used in a business to generate income.
And the unmoderated spaced of before don't exist any more (Usenet), because companies didn't make money on it. Or worse, because it violated some company's "right".

Now, in order to speak, you nearly have to go through one of Their gateways. If you piss off FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon), you're gone off the net. Some of those gatekeepers are big scripts with no human intervention for your level. If you fall between the cracks, then you have no recourse, other than find a place like HN and beg publicly - lest you get shitcanned by the HN gatekeepers.
That goes a bit beyond the "trusting trust" scenario, though, and into subsuming "hardware" rather than "compiler software", which DDC admits it doesn't control for...

I don't have enough backing physics to be confident on the possibility of a "matter lock". How do you detect without being detected a nanomachine that was designed vs one of the nanomachines that already exist in living organisms? Can you also expand on the goal of subsuming all the nanotech of other labs? If things obviously start breaking, that's especially going away from the "trusted trust" scenario which implies things like trojans used to passively sniff secrets and gain advantage through information when an opportunity to export the information arises. I would expect physics might allow some workarounds for that, on top of methods of outright detection like conservation laws, spectrometry...

I've finished the first of three in a sci-fi book series that has introduced the problem of what to do with an adversary that subsumes basic physics research to halt general advances, perhaps there's an entertaining hard sci-fi book you'd recommend for the "matter lock" idea? Or arxiv papers if you have any.
You can configure zsh to use glob pattern matching when reverse searching the history using ctrl-r . For example you can do ctrl-r wordA*wordB and it will match commands where wordA is followed by wordB with zero or more number of characters in between. I wrote about it in http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Search_command_line_history_u... . AFAIK bash does not have this and it is the killer feature for me.
I don't doubt for a second someone or someones is pocketing those fees. The avarice of the rich should never be underestimated.
> If you can't connect it to the user in any way, it's no longer personal information

Just because you can't connect it doesn't mean nobody else can.
In the 60s/70s, we used to have a 'Block Party'. We'd pass the hat to pay for a permit and block off both ends of the street for a few hours on a Saturday. Set up picnic tables, play games, pot luck, talk politics and religion and basically call time out on our otherwise busy or boring lives.
I think that, counterintuitively, that's a stronger argument at larger firms. There you have surveys and metrics and more room to focus on how the work gets done (rather than being in a mad scramble just to do it).

Smaller companies, everyone is in execution mode and superhuman efforts often get rewarded simply because they generate a good result.
That's unfortunate[1].

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/08/ricardos-vice-vir...
Besides IC fabrication, you can also use HF for making mouthwash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHoUCyQR7h8
Maybe they can become companions to people who get out of prison once their marijuana convictions are tossed.
Wouldn't storing the first three octets of an IP address be enough for this kind of analysis? Or use the whois database and reduce the data to the first IP address of the network ?
What wrong with the UI in your view?
Or, fund education and set higher standards in education so you can rationally expect typical journalists are capable of diving into technical issues.
If you are a billable service you don't have to worry about it that much. GDPR does not overwrite current EU or member state laws and you are compelled to keep financial transactions and related information usually for at least 5-7 years.

If it's a free service then just pseudoanonymize any identifiable information such as first and last name, email address, phone number, IP address etc. pretty much anything that you would use to identify the user with.

A hash of these values or an HMAC would be sufficient to comply with GDPR and allow you to keep them banned.

You can also check your local legislation and see if you have any laws that would support you keeping PII under the justification of protecting other individuals.
The solution is both (but not limited to) trades and efforts to raise the minimum wage for unskilled labor. There is no silver bullet to fixing the US economy.
Actually, I’m surprised a guy with $8 billion in his pocket worked a day job at Facebook this long.
The cake is a lie. ;)
The Wells Fargo effect: if you optimize for a number, you’ll get that number.
really?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=magnesium+sleep+research&t=ffsb&ia...

First result: The effect of magnesium supplementation on primary insomnia in elderly: A double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial.

CONCLUSION:

Supplementation of magnesium appears to improve subjective measures of insomnia such as ISI score, sleep efficiency, sleep time and sleep onset latency, early morning awakening, and likewise, insomnia objective measures such as concentration of serum renin, melatonin, and serum cortisol, in elderly people.

btw I was a fan of Steve Cronin's channel and of reddit's nootropics subreddit. Steve's stuff was hardly experimental. Lots of this stuff is heavily researched. Youtube probably has input from Big Pharma. What's next, eliminating smoothy and juicing videos? Vegan recipes? Will they let themselves become a perfect shady of the corporate lifestyle?
> a world where people dump hazardous waste into rivers to save money

That mostly comes down to insufficient education, greed and lack of immediate consequences.

Letting a live snake roam free is entirely different in that an uneducated man would understand the risk, there is no upside and there is a possibility for immediate consequence.
Both require model tuning before you can get a speed-up from mixed-precision training.
Get an early night.
What the world needs is an app that enables our kind to hire some peon to walk around with our phones. Where do I send my YC application?
I have a VM that I have to fire up every once in a awhile to deal with a Delphi 7 app if you feel really sentimental.
> For example, you could just not nod, and not smile. And only pretend to clap after the next announcement. And if everybody does this, it adds up without anybody being a target.

This is hilarious and terrifying.
I'll add another vote for this.

My use case is that I used Atlas to incorporate quickly -- which was lovely -- but the business is turning out to be a solo venture and the C Corp is overkill.

The real user need is a way to reduce business operations time and cost for a small biz.
Even unsalted hash would be sufficient.
I mean... 19 Billion... it's hard to pass that up.
But their WhatsApp business model was not self sufficient. They were charging $1/year which is less than the operating cost of the servers and bandwidth.
There may be a Greek woman named Calm Calcium.