skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I considered creating a service that you subscribe to and that gives you reasonably detailed content filtering. With configurable classes to sort news between e.g. newsletters and chatbot interfaces, based on how time-critical they are. There are meta-agreggators like GDELT [0] that supply machine-readable classifications that should somehow allow filtering useless stuff out based on what they contain.
Do you think there is significant demand for this, possibly even in a way that you pay a (small) amount for the service?

It seems like a (comparably) sane idea to pursue, but pre-implementation market validation is a strong motivator to prioritize work on it without direct financial pressure.

[0]: https://www.gdeltproject.org/
In the Netherlands we have trains with the cab above the passenger compartiment[1][2] but the national rail service has recently revised these and welded shut the passenger walk-through coupling due to maintenance costs and frequent breakdowns of the many moving parts.

[1] photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/NS...

[2] video of the walk-through coupler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIi2CDYG7jc
Is it me or the level of detail is not good in some regions even compared to Google Earth? https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
You think Apple is upsetting casual users?
As a UK person without context of the background, this was a little hard to make sense of.

AFAICT there's some gig economy company called Country Time Lemonade who have managed to get a workforce of child labour for free, and yet it is the stall (small business) that requires a permit and so the startup behind it is offering refunds on the permit fees?

What have I got wrong?
Of course it’s a PR move. Who would ever think it’s not?
New from Johnson & Johnson:
"Band-Ade! Tired of all those lonely nights in jail because you helped a friend with a bandage? Here at J&J we've established a legal fund to ensure..."
I think that convolutional networks are really mostly a way to address space shift invariance too; and I even wonder if the same job could be done by some special purpose code that just runs the underlying neural net with a bunch of different rotations of the same image. That's probably how they do it now.. I feel like that's probably close to the optimal approach.
…why shouldn't a vendor be allowed to charge more for tiered service?

Right now all content producers are roughly in the same position: it’s equally easy/hard for them to get the same amounts of data to the consumer. Once you make it possible to put some producers before others, the wealthiest producers will use whatever means possible to be the chosen ones. In other words, Facebook will do their first and last to be free & fast everywhere. Given the last few years of experience with big players, I don’t think that’s a good idea.
I think the main point should be, this article is essentially viral news clickbait that's empty of any valuable content. (I clicked the "flag" button, and if you agree, you should too)
What you're posting on Facebook you have more or less complete control over. You can freely exclude aspects of your life that are not flattering or which you don't want others to know about (in practice Facebook collects plenty of information you might not want to share, but this is less obvious and not a core part of the functionality for users).
>why cant they build out competing networks if the prices get too high or the services they want to deliver require them?

Probably for the same reason why there are so few cable TV providers. Artificial monopolies caused by restrictions on laying cable in residential areas.
Eh, I think this belongs here. Heavy moderation is probably good to prevent the BTC/BCH flame wars you'll see on other forums, but the technical differences being introduced between the chains (such as OP_CODES here) are actually very interesting I think.
What the PT mass extinction, or “Great Dying,” could tell us about our own fate
If anything he got off easy, think about all the patents he is probably violating.

If you can get a patent for "Combination hamburger and hotdog bread bun" I don't see how anybody can be safe. You need a lawyer to walk across the street.

https://patents.google.com/patent/USD584478?oq=hot+dog
I think that dystopian vision falls apart when you factor in porn, because that's the #1 use and no ISP is going to add a porn tier. People will flip their lid when they can't get to pornhub.
If that's the problem, then why don't we tackle that problem? Legislation should be geared entirely towards solving problems, not their second-tier consequences.
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Kind of defeats the purpose of using golang for a task like this. The whole point of golang is using the little greenlet threads, but actually using them in this case is terrible on performance.

The remaining performance left behind is all in memory allocation and garbage collection - something you could optimize relatively easily if it were written in C. Such as by using a memory pool, so that you wouldn't need allocations or garbage collection at all.

Of course if performance isn't a big issue for your task, then none of this is really important.
Javascript was a mistake

Edit: Answer to “always_good”:

If a toddler shoots himself with a handgun, we can say that his mistake was pulling the trigger.

While technically correct, it’s not addressing the real issue, that is, how did the toddler get hold of the gun in the first place?
Your first method just overprices/wrong-prices the whole market. I'd argue that supply-demand doesn't give fair pricing (which presumably is what's meant [in part] by objective), if you can make something very cheaply does that mean you objectively deserve to be very rich simply because you've got a corner on that market?
the fact that someone just went "hey what if we had Uber but with scooters" and it worked is the very definition of low hanging fruit. the good ideas are NOT all taken.

(am being facetious, but only somewhat)
The Great Headphone Cable Debate: Do Expensive Cables Really Matter?
I agree. I don't think we're going to get tiered packages. It's not good PR. There's a lot more to these predictions though. I think what's going to happen is that that the ISP's that own media content (the big ones, Comcast, AT&T, Dish, etc.) are going to be able to bully out both ISP and digital streaming competition.

Comcast isn't going to charge their customers more, they're going to charge Netflix more (to not throttle them). Netflix will have to raise prices, making Comcast's streaming service more attractive.

This is going to lead to consolidation of media and Internet companies, with less competition in both. Startups will have a harder time to succeed.
The first five minutes are great.

It's the few minutes right after the ominous orchestral music starts that I'd start paying very... close... attention... to what's going on around me.

Stay out of the storm drain.
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Oops, fat fingered that one.
That might make sense for older downtown department store and street store fronts but doesn't make sense for malls and big box stores here in the US. I don't really see any way to meet code requirements like bedrooms requiring windows in those buildings.
This isn't really true. Netflix, for example, strongarms ISPs into colocating their boxes for free, which bring massive amounts of their data closer to consumers, and guarantees them some of the best performance on the Internet.

If ISPs were able to charge for this (they want to), Netflix would have to pay a lot more for this sort of premium placement, giving smaller players much more room to compete financially. (i.e., if Netflix's cost to provide this best-in-class service they currently get for free is much higher, either it's more financially viable for small companies to pay for the same service, or they'll be able to offer video on demand cheaper than Netflix does)
Every time I see one of those outrage inducing articles, I assume there was a lot of backstory missed and this is just how the situation bubbled up.

For example, if a neighbor calls in a kid's lemonade stand, I'm assuming that neighbor has had multiple issues with that family and can't make any headway, so shit just blows up. I'm not saying it's right, but I doubt someone just wakes up and says "HELL NO!" to an 8 year old's 3 hour project on the sidewalk.
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I totally agree.. though to play devils advocate, I do have to wonder how different what you describe is from the traditional system.

By traditional system, I mean; who is the best lawyer? One who can most effectively manipulate the jury towards their clients case. It sounds jaded, but mechanically I think it's true, no? And what makes one lawyer better at this? Perhaps training, personal talent, etc.

So in the two scenarios, you have:

1. a lawyer wins because s/he's more talented/trained at manipulation.
2. a lawyer wins because s/he's obtained a better ML software suite for processing data.

Is there a meaningful distinction here? Before ML, you always wanted to hire a "good" lawyer. So there were already meaningful differences between good and bad lawyers. Lawyers always tried to manipulate the jury. Lawyers always tried to sell the facts around their case in such a way as to be most effective.

I'm not sure how ML will alter this. Aside from cranking the dial to 11.
There are plenty of counterexamples. If I have an illness no amount of "openness" from others is going to solve the problem that someone might not want to hire me because of it.
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It's a regional thing, we have bake sales all the time around here and no one checks with the food inspectors. If you get sick, you deal with it (public shaming works fairly well). Most folks around here just assume its something you do when growing up.
You mean protecting wealthy incumbents? I'd argue it is working as it is designed to ("should" is a whole different barrel of fish).

I've lived in both the US and EU, and counter-intuitively the amount of incumbent regulatory capture* in the US seems worse, even though one would assume it would be quite the other way around.

The US has a population that is "anti-regulation" and a pro-capitalism agenda. You'd think it would result in a highly competitive landscape, but instead it results in many duopolies.

*Edited
Where Did All the Watts Go?
It's fast, no login/site wallet required, supports a lot of cryptos & transactions go through even when the network is clogged.
…giving smaller players much more room to compete financially.

I beg your pardon?
The days are long and the decades are short
I think that's the interesting anthropological slice: Leveraging paranoia about government meddling in our lives to sell product. Encryption/security products do this, too, of course, but they don't appeal to the mainstream. The mainstream isn't sufficiently vexed for security beyond passwords and brass keys to be a product, only those with enough to protect. OK, maybe a techie familiar member installs a doorbell cam.

But in this case, they're betting distrust of the government has become a motivation within the mainstream.
perishables - Amazon ships goods including PrimeNow delivery and leveraging their acquisition of Whole Foods to ships fresh food

things you want right away - Prime Now, 2 hr delivery in select markets

services - Amazon has an entire section of services, from auto detailing to household cleaning
Nexmo, Plivo & Messagebird are quite good. They can be cheaper and sometimes even offer per second billing.
Because of usage & volume... More users of BTC/BCH than ETH.
Isn't that already the case though, regardless of net neutrality? Seems the large scale surveillance and manipulation will happen, whether it is legal or not.
Country Time sells powered lemonade in US supermarkets.

Separately, there’s a US tradition of children setting up lemonade stands to make pocket money during the summer. Typically parents help buy the supplies, the idea being that the kids are learning to work for money instead of being just given it outright.

Some US cities have strict permit requirements for selling food & beverage which has lead to silly looking photos/stories of police giving 10 year old kids tickets.

This is basically a publicity stunt by Country Time lemonade.
Does this mean that ISPs can block users from connecting to known VPNs or the TOR/P2P type networks without any recourse?
> The same problems exist I believe for volunteers who prepare food for homeless people.

Let's be honest, cities don't want volunteers feeding the homeless because they want them in someone else's back-yard, so they'll use any regulatory tricks and fines they can (inc. arresting the volunteers) to stop it.
in most localities the police won't even stop unless someone calls. usually you see that in a HOA but in the one I am subject to they just asked them to be in the cul de sac, it would only shut down when you guessed it, some anonymous neighbor called the cops.

so yes you can also lay claim to health issues but let us be honest, you don't have to drink it to play along. as long as its obviously just kids having fun and not parents exploiting kids for cuteness to get money where is the harm.

the occupational other license requirements in the US is just insane.
NPR's Text Only is pretty good too.

https://text.npr.org/
That particular scooter is only $500 + tax from Amazon (or was just weeks ago, it's sold out at the moment,
but you have many other options). If you like it, just buy it and it will pay off within months. It is not like a car where the upfront costs are substantial. I heard that it is even $210 at wholesale prices if you can ship it from China and there is not even an import tax.

Of course the author was just visiting SF and only needed it temporarily - in that case I understand the need for a rental option, but you should be able to rent it for a whole week for little cost.

I am an owner of an electric scooter myself, but I do not enjoy the shared scooters lying around everywhere on the streets like trash. It is understandable to me why the numbers would be limited by the city.
> I see Mali 400 GPU. Is this GPU now fully open source?

If you are talking about drivers (rather than the GPU itself), there are reverse engineered drivers:

https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima/
https://github.com/yuq/linux-lima
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima

For the newer Mali GPUs there is the Panfrost driver:

https://notabug.org/cafe/chai
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/panfrost
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/
You can run stuff on any of the Allwinner SoCs without using the GPU, the display controller that provides HDMI or VGA output is separate and fully documented. Some of them also have a simple 2D graphics accelerator.
But the payoff from breaking into Google is much larger than stealing your computer. One of those provides mass access to data and the other only involves data about a few persons. So comparing that is not really valid.
npmjs shows 1,325,674 weekly downloads.

The current version was released 3 years ago.

The code is small and straightforward.

Using exec("cat x " + userdata) to read a file in any language should immediately drive any developer nuts.

Apparently, nobody ever looked at the code. Or maybe some people did, but never reported it. Pretty sure some companies did, fixed it in their closed local fork and never notified the author nor contributed their fix back.

This is really scary, and really bad for the trustworthiness of open-source software.
Country Time Lemonade is a lemonade company, who primarily sell lemonade in powder form to mix with water.

Lemonade stands are a cliche way for kids to make money in the United States, however, it is technically illegal without a permit (though I've personally never heard of a kid getting shut down).

Country Time is a popular choice for kids making lemonade stands because it's cheap and easy.

Country Time Lemonade is starting a legal defense fund of sorts to help kids fight back after they get their lemonade stands shut down.
Or you could just keep everything the same for end users, but start charging Netflix and Google for their share since they use up over 90% of all internet traffic.
> Without profitability they cannot survive.

clearly, but again, what is the link to the original statement?
> Either we wind up with a tiered, cable package style internet or we don't.

I don't follow this closely, but is this really the "against" position? I thought the premise was less that ISPs would offer tiered packages to the consumer, and more that ISPs would do deals with content companies, such that the consumer just sees slower speeds to sites that didn't pay up (and has no say in the matter apart from finding a new ISP (hah!)).
I liked this quote to give a feeling why the euclidian metric for the gradient might be wrong.

https://hips.seas.harvard.edu/blog/2013/01/25/the-natural-gr...

"As a concrete example, imagine two people standing on two different mountain tops. If one of the people is Superman (or anybody else who can fly) then the distance they would fly directly to the other person is the Euclidean distance (in R^3). If both people were normal and needed to walk on the surface of the Earth the Riemannian metric tensor tells us what this distance is from the Euclidean distance. Don’t take this illustration too seriously since technically all of this needs to take place in a differential patch (a small rectangle whose side lengths go to 0)."
It's a monthly subscription. The price depends on how many flights you want. Each one-way flight is $105. E.g. So if you want four one-way flights per month it would be $420/month.
I'm not talking about absolute positioning, but calculating positions and width/length based on rules (like the browser does with CSS, but for stuff the browser can't do). For example: https://css-tricks.com/scaled-proportional-blocks-with-css-a...
Why do people think this is trolling?

Ive been a long time bitcoin owner and I know having 15 different forks is bad for the currency.

Unless the definition of trolling has changed, I'm very serious when I hate on the fraud being committed with 'the real true bitcoin'.

When BCH started encouraging 0conf, I started thinking BCH leaders were actually crypto terrorists.
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Read what I wrote. I use words for a reason and if you don't read them you will miss important information.

Why do you think I would have taken the time to point out that the icons are ugly regardless of two tone scheme chosen if I hadn't

a) figured out that the color scheme is configurable,

b) given some thought about other ways of coloring the icons (including choosing the same value for both colors, choosing subtle shade, hard contrast etc)

c) decided that the icons are not very good regardless of how you color them?

I'll grant you that I could have been more precise. I could have pointed out that they are both ugly and that the semantics aren't as consistent as something that is designed with care.
We had the exact same arguments when rail lines were built out. The rail line operators could suddenly decide who won and who lost in _every other_ industry that required shipping goods, because they were changing prices based on their other businesses. This is bad for consumers and bad for competition.

Now ISPs are effectively digital rail lines and with the repeal of net neutrality they can decide who wins and loses in every other industry that requires the internet. The exact same arguments apply, and the fact that the ISPs are already in the content market in many places and have been
caught throttling competitors, shows that they are ready to abuse this position immediately

Edit:added emphasis to first paragraph
Pretty sure the author bought some reviews on Fiverr as well.
> People can put anything on their resume and sometimes bullshit their way through questions trying to figure out whether they've actually done these things. If all else fails, they can claim trade secrets.

They can perform similar tactics on github: like mirroring an obscure but technically in-depth project without attribution, paying someone to write code and then committing it in your name (I've seen this done!), or making sure to get lots of extra commit density by doing one feature or bugfix after successfully landing a series of reformatting PRs.

An applicant planning to fake their way past you is genuinely hard to catch unless your process is tuned for it. The idea that there is a one-size-fits all interview process and that process is as simple as, "Check their github" is lazy to the point of malpractice. It's a goofy premise, and it's playing right into the hand of people who want to abuse you.

And this is just addressing the problematic nature of modern tooling for positive signals. Given the pervasive nature of harassment culture in the open source world, you should ALWAYS excuse the absence of open source work. It cannot be a requirement because the open source world can often become extremely hostile and/or political.
Country Time Lemonade isn't a "gig economy company". It's a powdered lemonade product that's been for sale for a long time. https://www.amazon.ca/Country-Time-Lemonade-Drink-82-5-Ounce...

There's a long "tradition" of kids setting up a little lemonade stand on the side of the road and selling glasses of lemonade for 50 cents or whatever to get a bit of extra spending money during their summer break from school. This is typically just a random table from their parents house, a sign made out of a sheet of paper, and pitchers of lemonade.
An issue is where/how to park your own scooter. It's a good deal larger (and dirtier) than many offices will allow to be brought in an leaned against your desk. And there is no place to lock your $700 scooter on the street.
As another UK person, lemonade stands are a suburban thing kids run for pocket change, like you see in the movies all the time. Sounds like local officials are getting bureaucratic and shutting them down.

I think the first paragraph pretty clearly explains the problem:

Are you thinking of helping your kid setting up a lemonade stand this summer? Apparently, some young entrepreneurs are getting shut down due to a lack of small business permits.
It definitely doesn't hurt their image, but it also informs the public about an issue they care about. There is only so much they can do, especially because of child privacy laws. But it's getting the word out about regulation they deem unnecessary.

I haven't seen a lemonade stand in a long time, but I would cross two streets to support a little entrepreneur.
I dont feel that the question was truly answered. WHY do we care? The author writes about human behavior and discusses the 'natural right' of privacy but arent natural rights just customs from previous generations. Observing human behavior might suggest that privacy somehow is a desired trait from natural selection. ie when pooping, animals are more vulnerable (maybe) suggesting that privacy somehow aids in security from preditors. Financial Transactional data privacy allows a competitive advantage on future trades.

Basically id like to hear arguments that get down to the fundamental reasons why humans care about privacy.
Is there a link to something better than a blog?
Bitcoin crashed after another crypto exchange got hacked
Wrong again.

Passing user input into arbitrary shell commands is the mistake.

Good examples of amateur criticism that plagues our field, though.
Everyone always says things are dysfunctional or bad but never says how. Manipulating people through social media has been a thing since there's been social media. Only today more people are aware of it than ever. Same with news agencies with axe's to grind. Journalists have been using their barrels of ink to push their angles since there has been newspapers. Today more people are aware of it than ever.