skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody says people should be paid equally. That makes no sense, there are different types of work and efforts involved. However, when most can't make ends meet and few have more than the rest, this "inequality" thing becomes a big problem. When there is a decent standard of living, access to healthcare, housing, education, then inequality is more than welcome, it becomes as you say an incentive to to better.
I could become a “Canary Clause”: you know a jurisdiction doesn’t abuse privacy or doesn’t deploy warrantless ubiquitous surveillance until the GDPR compliance clause disappears
Where in the USA? I know a lot of folks hiring, both regionally and locally.
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Average users don't even care about features, they use the browser they're given or the last one they were tricked into installing.

None of the things in that list would need to be a concern of the average user if the right thing is the default. Nothing I suggested would stop that from being the case. In fact, most of those things are already being done right in Firefox, except the telemetry. Presenting the opt-in choice as a warm fuzzy sounding thing ("improve product", "speedy solutions", "Dark Web protection") to users that have no clue what it's about isn't really opt-in, it's just inducing a predictable fear-based response. Having a multi-step process to install an extension to turn those things on would be true opt-in. The average user would be too lazy to do it, the people that want it can have it, and those that explicitly don't want it, don't have to worry about it being inadvertently activated.

Note, by "keep up with standards" I didn't mean be standards compliant at all cost, I meant implement new ones as they come up.
So grep exists because someone wanted to do textual analysis on the Federalist papers.
This would probably be my go-to from now on when canceling a service. Kind of sucks to have to pay for registered mail but sounds like it’s a sure fire way to cut through the bs and maybe that’s worth the postage.

I’ve once signed up for a service and I didn’t know beforehand that their “delete account” button would take me to a page telling me that in order to shut it off I had to email them at least three business days in advance. I don’t have a general issue with having to inform people to shut things off the old fashioned way like via telephone or email.. but that’s for when I had to communicate over phone or email in order to begin the agreement. Such as with a consultant or contractor.. Not when they made signing up a quick and simple online process and then want to make it difficult to shut off so they can squeeze an extra payment out of you.

So I resorted to CC-ing a fake legal@ email address in the cancellation email, thinking maybe they would think I’ve CC-ed one of my lawyers (I didn’t have a personal lawyer, but they didn’t know that). They took care of it immediately.
Maybe the leaders have the opinion that "Internet wars are good, and easy to win."
There's no issue with forming a company but you can't get an H-1B through that company if you control the company and you can't "work" for that company even if you don't draw a salary unless you have work authorization through that company.
I'd guess the definition goes along the lines "El Presidente does not like what someone said on this platform, so it is social media and banned". It'll be highly arbitrary.
> in something extremely liquid like a checking/savings account.

I was asking specifically if the surveys mean actual "savings" account, which often have some restrictions on them ("Make a total of 6 transfers and withdrawals each monthly statement cycle with no Withdrawal Limit Fee"). If you're getting a grand total of 0.01% interest, there's not much reason to also restrict activity as well.

That said, I realize I do have a 'savings' account, via an online-only bank, getting about 50x what my local bank's savings account rate is. I just didn't think of it as a 'savings' account as I'm so accustomed to thinking of 'savings acct'='brick and mortar location'.
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Can you cite something for this? Everything I read is to the contrary, that they are well armed.
Being on an H1B can I release a software service that does not cost anything? I want to make something useful for society at large.
The most effective of those strategies (specialized hardware, SIMD/wide-register instructions, shallow suspend, etc.) are only possible with hardware support. So yes, even though transistor and ALU power efficiency isn't going down that fast, the power usage of a given complete processor or SoC is going down.
The facial recognition cat is out of the bag.

If AWS is "enabling dystopia", so are Linux and Ethernet.
Have you tried it? My experience is that it works pretty well, though I've mostly been working on toys. Even bigger projects like Redox have shown that you generally don't need very much unsafe.
I always found Soylent funny, as my mom had been consuming a similar local product for the past 20 years. Only superficial difference to Soylent was that this product was intentionally low on calories, but otherwise a full meal replacement.

Being an entrepreneur is hard, though. It's a huge gamble, so it's hard to pull people in.
Yeah I would like to find a good recruiter for my area.
Whoa whoa, there. Who said that? Facial recognition is a tool. You seem to be extrapolating some dystopian fantasy from this. The fact that your face can be tracked does not mean your speech will be curtailed, those two things are fairly unrelated.

Now, there are real privacy implications to facial recognition and tracking. Serious ones. There are also benefits for law enforcement. Personally, I come down on the side that the privacy is worth more than the benefit to law enforcement. But that doesn't mean that that benefit isn't real.
>Kind of confused why Recognition continues to be made into the 'bad guy' here.

Because some people respond to a hypothetical better when they can see concrete aspects of it, not just hear a description of the possibility space.

"I could build that if I wanted to" vs. Recognition is a bit like the difference between the black market and dispensaries, a difference of scale is a difference of kind.
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Recursion is not defined in terms of the execution of the program (such as storing data on the call stack). For example you can have stack less languages with recursion.
I'm not a fan of Prop 13 and I've considered what the effects would be if it was phased out in some way. I really wanted to gain a better understanding of the housing climate back in the 70's when this proposition came to pass. Apparently it was really, really bad. Found this NYT article from 1981 that did a pretty good job outlining what was happening[1]. I don't think we can possibly go along without it but I don't understand why Prop 13 has to be applied to businesses, landlords, and investors buying up as non-primary residences...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/17/opinion/housing-boom-goes...
HTML5+js is very locked down?
There are a variety of criteria and high comp and original contributions (patents) are just two. The others are publications, press, essential roles for distinguished organizations, memberships, and journal or competition review. And you must meet at least 3 to qualify for an O-1 visa.
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yeah, thanks. it's a weird old-fashioned thing, although, as I replied to someone else, I realized I do have a 'savings account', in one of those fancy new online banks, paying ~50x what my local brick and mortar pays. It's such a weird situation, because... if they even paid something like .7% or 1%, I wouldn't have bothered to move money out. Slowly, I will probably just stop using them when all new activity is done online, but I'm a child of B&M banks, and breaking the connection 100% is hard to do.
It's taking up to 5 months to get a work card after filing a green card application.
Could they have captured banking or other financial or sensitive data?

The author used burp, but couldn't you also validate what is collected more explicitly by viewing the xpi contents for that add-on?
Einstein proven right again: Even the heaviest objects fall the same way
I don't think you understand what being a billionaire is. Zuckerburg has hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate holdings in Hawaii alone. His seat at the top of this list is contingent on Facebook continuing to make him money, but he is wealthy independently of it at this point

I get that humans are, by design, way too risk averse, but what do you define "could easily go under" as meaning? What odds would you actually give of these outcomes: Facebook keeps stays a top 10 business for the next 20 years, Facebook stays a top 10 business for the next 5 years, Facebook implodes and is worthless in the next 5 years.

I get your point, which I think is extremely narrow, is that "a diverse portfolio is better than a single stack investment plan", but to say you'd prefer to be one billionaire vs being another different billionaire because the first billionaire meets some weird criteria you've devised for determining how best to become a billionaire is not an objective point to be made.

TL-dr; you're not playing the same game either of these guys are, and your suggestion that trying to model your life after one vs the other is a weak point to make because of it.
When I saw this title I assumed it was about using ML to build dynamic scrapers that self-configure where the changing data elements. Does that exist anywhere?
If anything media companies and content marketing broke the web, not individuals creating online journals or hobby content.
That's really stretching the definition of "professional work". If you're just gluing third party components and libraries together you're going to end up with a bloated mess.

This is why javascript/front-end developers get so much flak - there is a prevailing opinion that you can just fake it and not bother to learn best practices, not bother to test, and not bother to care about performance. If you do not consistently produce work of professional quality you just might not be a professional.
I feel like this is a major point in this article, if not the major point:

"Homepage production became suddenly a question of economics: Go with the system’s default format: zero work. Customizing the system to your format: way more work than pure HTML ever was"

I noticed that same exact trend even with WordPress or Bootstrap pages. I refuse to get into WordPress as a career. It's just copying and pasting! But if you write a React site from scratch, you really get full control over how everything looks and works.

That's what I'm banking on, that people still want custom websites that don't look generic. Those are the kind of gigs I want to get: make something completely custom and unique, and make it beautiful and still functional. I already have one gig doing this and it's great, I'm in love!
I would say that it's a good thing for Twitter's monetary growth. This would hopefully let advertisers know that they're ads are being seen by real users. I would just hope they getting around to culling hate speech and all of that jazz. Maybe even broader user powers to filter it out at the least.
There’s a nice Stanford class I took called CS 140E that had students write an OS for the Raspeberry Pi in Rust. There are actually some benefits to using Rust at this level, though it can be a bit cumbersome at times.

Check it out here: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140e/
Linux and Ethernet do not "Easily add intelligent image and video analysis to your applications."
I agree with almost all of the frustrated comments here, and the premise of the article.

I was also involved with a major F50 that was warily forced to deal with various regimes trying to filter content.

But consider for a moment:

'Globalization' is having many nefarious effects on the world - and the 'openness' of the internet is generally only a mostly positive aspect from powers that are large and centralized. America is relatively free, and nobody 100x the size of America is going to come along and 'control your internet', and therefore potentially control your economic and political system.

The ubiquitous internet means that a small or mid-sized nation that is not a G7 is at major risk of having the almost the totality of their nation overturned by foreign powers.

Consider: Facebook, or Google, could very easily change electoral outcomes in many nations, possibly even by accident. A small change in their algorithm that suppressed some, and promoted others, an accidental ban of a political group, etc. - can happen. I don't suggest FB or G are interested in this, but remember they also do have relationships with the US Government, and it's reasonable for these nations to be very cautious.

Moreover, an open Internet allows fully malicious actors (hacker groups, bad international enterprises, bad governments), to do some really quite dangerous things to other nations, most of whom are too small to be able to protect themselves.

'The Internet' is the new 5th column if you will, and to some extent it can have more power than government or the Supreme Court in many nations. If 80% of a nation is convinced of some truth/mistruth perpetuated by 'whoever' on the Internet, well, then legality hardly matters. It has more revolutionary potential than perhaps any historical ideology.

Even on the economic front - Globalization means that all of the talent is getting sucked up like a vacuum into centres in the biggest economies. So many of the best go to America. So many European professionals flow into Germany or the UK - to their advantage.

Both of these issues come to head with issues like journalism - it's one thing if 'American journalism' is concentrating in a few American outlets, but imagine if your country was losing most of it's journalistic opportunity and that centralization was happening in another country - a large country like America with whom your nation may not have a great history.

Tax bases are a real thing - and though the Internet should in the long run provide more opportunity for local governments, in the present it's causing losses in tax revenues, or at least, those revenues created by new economies are not being realized locally.

Recognize that these issues are a problem, and that the erstwhile 'open internet' which positioned as a very positive and aspirational aspect of global development by American/Western forces, does not necessarily represent the same opportunity in the rest of the world.

So yes, so many corrupt and stupid leaders doing corrupt and stupid things to their own nations, but the answer is definitely not "Just let Google be the Ministry of Truth" for the nations of the world. Definitely not.
Yep, that's how I view it. Real enough to take seriously, but at the same time, not so severe as to put an intense amount of pressure on the whole thing.

The only two previous vulnerabilities we had were in crates.io, and this has already exposed some interesting aspects of how we handle these kinds of things. If we have to have a security bug, this is exactly the kind I'd prefer to have.
Yep. That’s who I’m referring to. I don’t know each persons’ level of control and utilization of their country’s wealth. But Xi only needs a fraction of his country to match Putin’s.

The consolidation of power is what we have to look out for. So the qualifier to your statement is “yet”. Would you have said the same thing of Putin after he returned to being president? How long did it take him to control as much as he has?
I've never understood why I care who does it, honestly. Companies? The government? A person stalking my wife? The negatives are obvious, do I really care who is doing it? These discussions often feel like tax law debate to me. We're debating whether or not X person is bad for legally avoiding tax, instead of talking about restricting tax laws.

Likewise, we're sitting here focused on Amazon for implementing facial recognition instead of focusing on changing laws and government "culture" to make such an act against its own citizens far from accepted. I don't like what Amazon is doing either, but attempting to stop people from advancing facial recognition seems fruitless at best. Facial recognition is here, and it's only going to get easier, better and faster.

Can we focus on finding ways to prevent/identify/etc bad actors? Because facial recognition is coming, regardless of Amazon, and bad actors aren't loyal to amazon.
I think he's saying that your feelings on how people should do charity work is just like, your opinion man.

You seem salty that some dude has lots of money because you're whole thesis was "this guy is a jerk because he paid for a hospital and then had his name put on it".
But are all instances of category 2 actually category 1? That’s a strong claim.
I think they may have meant something more like “publicly available service”
I work on a project related to combustion and fuel efficiency and we need to run thousands to fluid mechanics simulations/FEA on the cluster computing facility in our university. Sometimes they go like weeks to finish, a powerful clsuter machine will definitely speed up everything.
I wish there were more real personal blogs. Heck, sometimes I wish for the days of Xanga and LiveJournal. Reading one from the past really feels like you're inside someone's deepest thoughts. People were unafraid to really be vulnerable when writing those things.

Now we have lame blogs owned by corporations like Techcrunch, or filled with vacation pics and food porn.
They certainly set directions and champion initiatives.

Also, impose tariffs as we're seeing with the last 24 hours.
I am going to sign off now. As always, it was a pleasure and honor to correspond with everyone. If I missed your question or if you have a question not asked, either post here - I'll be checking in over the weekend - or send me an email (my email address is in my profile). Have a great weekend.
This article seems to be making two arguments. One is that popular blog software was limiting, and its popularity discourages people from trying other forms of content. Its a reasonable take, but it's not clear to me that's actually what happened. The other argument is that the web got worse as it became accessible to people who didn't have the knowledge, skill, or time to write their own HTML. I can't help but strongly disagree with that. Yes, the web lost a certain kind of character, but it gained billions of people and many other kinds of character. There's more content, better content, and more accessibility now than ever before. That's great news, and the value of it vastly outweighs the loss of the handcrafted HTML aesthetic.

Preservation and archiving are good things to be doing, and discovering the signal inside all the noise of today's internet can be challenging. Still, inviting everybody is a huge step forward.
I agree fully. I think a lot of people who claim that someone needs to know those things to be employable are just elitist. It’s no different those who claim one needs a Ph. D. in math/statistics to grok machine learning.

I’ve found that the best way to learn is top-down: identify the problem and then start learning the bits and pieces you need to solve it and go as deep as necessary (but no more).
I am a professional developer who primarily uses React and I actively avoid most of this. I keep up with the community so know (or at least know about) almost all of this, but choose not to use it all.

The direction I have seen react go is exactly the opposite of the reason I liked it in the first place. It was simple and JUST A VIEW LAYER. How it became all of this is just typical software devs over complicating things for themselves IMO.
I thought the legacy of Modula-3 lives in OpenJML (through ESC/Modula-3 -> ESC/Java -> ESC/Java2 -> OpenJML)? I have never heard anyone use it though.
Beer is taxed differently than bread, and that's fine.

It would be more absurd if different brands of beer were taxed differently.

I don't think it's going to work out well given the lack of standardized information floating around, but the impetus is does not have to be entirely unreasonable, even if in this situation it probably is.
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Well, in Julia it's an incomplete expression (Y is a variable, % is the infix operator for remainder, and # a line comment (the $ is used for string/command interpolation, but is commented out).
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Or you could just write a plain site, with simple markup, that's like how things used to be and still can be, except a colleague of mine was critical because "it's just default styles. Why wouldn't you do more with it?"
There is this youtube channel that regularly uploads short excerpts of Chomsky speaking on particular topics.
Chomsky's Philosophy https://www.youtube.com/user/chomskysphilosophy

And this channel did a great compilation that introduces to all Chomsky's works. Table of contents is in the video description. Topics are: War, State Power, and American Exceptionalism. Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Corporate Propaganda. Anarchism, Libertarian Socialism, and Classical Liberalism. Science, Philosophy, and Language.
Noam Chomsky - The Essentials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1umiaNjOinE
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> if we're just deciding whether the program halts then "f(x: int) => x is prime ? halt : loop" is clearly resolvable to "doesn't always halt"

Yes, that's right. But that was not your original example. Your original example was:

f(x: int) => x is even ? f(x + 1) : halt

which is a much more interesting case.

But the real point (as I am now repeating for the third time) is that the halting problem is equivalent to proving arbitrary theorems. "f(x: int) => x is prime ? halt : loop" is equivalent to the (very uninteresting) theorem "X is prime" for whatever X you happen to put in. Your original example is equivalent to "there are an infinite number of even numbers", which is slightly more interesting. Replace "even" with "prime" and it gets even more interesting. Replace "prime" with one of the other examples, then it gets more interesting still.
Given the mob mentality that's settled into modern social media/the blogosphere, it's actually amazing there are still as many personal bloggers as there are. One wrong word and ...
Hmm. Could you maybe file an issue on the React-Redux repo and provide some repro examples for your use case? I'd be interested in seeing the perf traces myself. This would also be valuable as we work on refactoring React-Redux to work with the new React context API. I have a hunch that my proposed architecture will improve perf, but having more benchmarks would be helpful.
tldr: At first making web pages and writing blogs was hard and tedious. So very few people did it and we had awesome things like "the big red button that doesn't do anything"

Now, making blogs is easy so millions of people do it and make generic websites. The fact that their quality is much better is irrelevant, the websites look more generic!
Ah, nostalgia!

Yes, chronological blog feeds were hot back then, but now that FB/Instagram have taken over the role of lifestreaming platform, we're starting to see some blogs move away from the constraints of "chronostreaming", and more towards a collection of essays.

Search traffic also tends to have a power law distribution, so the majority of your incoming traffic will be focused on a few popular pages, meaning that in the long term there's really no need for an sequential stream of posts. One of the main benefits of a blog is its ability to earn search traffic for years, so why limit yourself by dating your own content?