skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I’m familiar with the semantic Web and did a reasonable chunk of reading about it when doing this research, but view it as only tangentially related to the ideas I talk about here. If you’re looking for citations around this work, check the full dissertation — there are plenty.
If you're referring to the Masterpiece Cakeshop case they said no such thing, the ruling was so narrow (and nonsensical) that it's hard to conclude that it means much of anything, other than the court trying get out of deciding the more general question on a technicality.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
Well no, it means that either they've been compromised and thus shouldn't be trusted anymore, or they forgot (?) to update their canary which means they shouldn't be trusted anymore.

Don't "who knows?" on this subject, it makes you look like a government shill trying to lull privacy conscious people into indifference.
> they are also not allowed to block your access to legal content, regardless of what they may think of it

What law forbids this?
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Wow! That's a lot of clothes! ;-) For the past ten years I can fit everything I own (except my three guitars - all of which I use on an almost daily basis) into one suitcase.

And almost one half of the suitcase is for a large monitor.

I'm not suggesting everyone go as minimal as me, but it sure has improved my life by having so few things. If I had to name the programming discipline I used to get there it would be YAGNI: You're not going to need it. You'll be surprised. You really aren't going to need 99% of what you have stored away in case you someday find a use for it. Far better to use a website like https://freecycle.org/ and just find someone who can use it now.
'Decentralising' means spreading around effective decision-making power. That power comes with consequences -- negatives ones, if ineptly used. And most users are quite inept, when it comes to running powerful general-purpose computers, especially internet-connected ones. I don't blame them: the internet is not a friendly environment. It's a jungle. People want to be able to safely communicate online without the responsibility of system administration. Many companies have stepped in to offer services with this trade-off. Thus centralisation has prevailed.

Urbit's conceptual path to decentralisation seems sound: build a new friendly network on top of the internet, and build a new friendly server OS on top of Unix.
No idea, it surprised me too.
Mathematica isn’t expensive, in the scheme of things. Some engineering software such as Cadence can run $100k/year/seat for maintenance. I don’t even use Mathematica much, but keep paying the $500/year maintenance, because when I do need it, I really need it.
Well, so much for sunlight being the best disinfectant.

You just know Alex will use the deplatforming to "prove" that the globalists are after him, or something like that. Might have been better to ignore him instead of Apple getting into the game of deciding what is and isn't hate speech.

(Does NY Times hiring an openly racist editor make them subject to removal? Who knows...but somebody will start making that argument now that the door is open.)
Yeah not sure, what argument this stands on, because Apple is private provider of content on their own platform, they can do whatever the hell they want.
What if their lawyer explained to them that removing the canary for a reason was likely to be criminal and they removed it preemptively?

Unless you want to cite a bunch of jurisprudence that warrant canaries actually work, I'm gonna stick on "who knows", even though I'm not a government shill (I'm more "pragmatic about who really has the power in that particular relationship").
I had that problem at school too. It felt like a denial of service attack.
And companies that value free speech don't censor opinions regardless if them censoring is technically legal.
... and commercial entities will not be proponents of free speech, as long and as far as that's legal.
Various field of Deep Learning.
Right now - Reinforcement Learning.

See: https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2018/01/12/10-cha... or in general any other marker like NIPS submissions or arXiv preprints on DL.

Of course focus changes, and maybe in the next 2 years it will be on something different than RL. But still, even in Computer Vision it is still a very vibrant field, since its breakthrough in late 2012 (https://www.eff.org/ai/metrics). The majority of more traditional disciplines of CS had their breakthroughs a few decades ago.
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It's a bit more than that. Censorship violates freedom of speech, but it does not imply imprisonment
music is surprisingly sensitive to the slightest differences
And Facebook has permanently banned them.

There used to be a joke on Slashdot. Whatever was happening in tech, somebody would say "And I for one welcome our new $X overlords"

Now we have all the major internet companies deciding winners and losers. Doesn't seem like much of a joke anymore.

All those years I watched my dear friends on the left march in the streets, claiming that the right was going to shut them down and prevent their message from being heard.

Fooled me, guys. I guess it's true: we become what we fear from others.
Any ideas on how many people in the company would know about it? If it's quite a few, one would take the chance on writing anon to a tech writer /activist. But that too is easier said than done...FBI would not be happy and they have a lot of cards in their hand.
Titanium white.
similarly, in the context of nightmarish optimisation death marches to fit inside a memory budget -- see "the programming anti-hero"

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4111/dirty_coding_tri...
I think a decentralized web is easier than what people think. In the early days of the web, users could host their creations somewhere in their ISP's hard disks.

The same model could work now, with a small difference: instead of storing only data, it may also host applications that manage those data, and collaborate with same/other applications of same/other users.

For example, a photo app could allow us to manage our photos at a specific host of our choice; the same photo app uses a sharing protocol so as that the photos are shared with other users of our choice.

The stored data are encrypted by our own keys and therefore not visible to third parties, we still get to share our stuff with our mates, it's decentralized because no central authority can lay claim on our data, it's protected because it is encrypted for us, but the infrastructure required for this to run is provided by a centralized entity.
> What we're seeing here seems like a relatively new phenomenon, of private companies that are taking it on themselves to systematically erase entire schools of thought from the modern communications platforms, at least as far as they can.

That's not happening though. Or, if it is, it's nothing new.

Newspapers have always decided to not hire someone. Newspapers are not a free outlet for anyone to publish any content they wish. Editorial choices are made that, in one very narrow (and incorrect) view, could be seen as eliminating speech and "entire schools of thought".

Apple is exercising editorial control over it's platform, like they do with most of theirs. To say that they shouldn't be allowed to do this is a very interesting claim to make, especially when you're trying to promote freedom of speech.
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He still manages to live though. I'm surprised.
Funny, distributed systems supervisors often warn their students that there is a huge disconnect between theory and practice and if they really want to be in the field.
> The problem with PS/2 is that most motherboards today don’t have it anymore

About two thirds of all current motherboards have PS/2.
The BS crisis actor narrative and conspiracies pushed by Jones are not the null hypothesis , it's actively pushed by them.

If you take away the mic, there's nothing left to disinfect. It's the formation of conspiracy believing, self-reinforcing cults that cause these narratives to begin with
Help was the first command that came to my mind. Atleast in my very early days, (this was in early 2000s) I did use lots of help. Maybe help was better then or I was so clueless that even the insipid quagmire of the help pages still proved to be useful.

But in general, I am talking about certain consistency among ui. Say you have opened a new program and you do not know where to start. We can go to 'File' and there is sure to be a "New Document"/"New Object"/"New Diagram"/"New <whatever-model-the-program-work-with>" available to start.

Similarly Edit, Insert, Preferences, Script, Debug and their visual and keyboard access methods are all paradigms that are consistent across GUI.

At the worst case, you can do a systematic exploration of the ui to find all possible actions one can perform. This has to be standardized to CLI also for a shot at widespread adaptation.
AFAIK, it was mostly because a lot more PS/2 keyboards support N-key rollovers than USB keyboards.
Very probable I think. Just keep in mind, the same was true back in his day I think. Most people were tied up in the drudgery of getting food on the table, quite literally.
If you initiate the shell commands from inside the database, does it count as less hacky? :) https://github.com/petere/plsh
Oh wow; that is significant.
That's thanks to walled-gardens, advertising, and a lack of the average user's ability to use adequate replacement services. Quite frankly it's not likely for the average user to learn about DuckDuckGo, MillionShort, or Exalead. We're starting to see some small pushback against Alphabet's YouTube, but there aren't that many places that will ever have a viable alternative. Dailymotion's the closest - but they're not all that close.

Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter are too tightly controlled, but the very few alternatives are primarily grassroots efforts with small communities who are genuinely scared of being forced to shut down by server providers with an agenda - so they keep as much data as possible encrypted and only bring people in by invitation. Not to mention, a social network lives or dies on the users themselves - and frankly speaking, the average grandma isn't going have an easy time going on Gab to look at pictures of her grandkids. Many can deal with Instagram or Facebook.

So no, people have not spoken with their inaction. They have been led to believe that this is all there is. They have been given an ever-shrinking Web that is a complete disappointment compared to the openness and opportunity of the 1990s.
One of my favorite Picard quotes.
The 16ms is for USB in legacy mode, where the BIOS does the USB stack handling and then provides the keyboard input via interrupt 60h to the OS.

This is NOT how a USB keyboard should be attached to any OS, and it hasn't been for at least a decade. Modern OSes have native keyboard drivers which integrate USB keyboards like any other USB device and speak to them directly, thereby bypassing that BIOS logic that introduces the delay. Such a driver is then capable of receiving key input with the delay depending on the USB bus delay. That is way shorter than 16ms, but also kind of hard to determine, because with USB being a host-controlled and shared interface, it basically depends on a) whether there is any other device also communicating and b) on the rate by which the host polls the device for new data. As far as I know, the latter is configurable (by the device and/or the driver, I'm unsure about that) within certain intervals, and it is possible to poll a keyboard at 1000Hz or even faster, so we're back at a theoretical delay of about 1ms - however, this time that's for the entire byte sequence belonging to a key press/release, not just for one byte as with the PS/2 keyboard, so this delay can directly be translated to keys pressed - no scancode sequences of differing length to account for.
Part of the advantage in teamwork and coordination is presumably that they don't have a limitation on what data they can view at once?

Dota & HON had people mod their client to give an optional bigger FOV resulting in bans for cheating.

I'd assume the bots don't have to specify their screen position, plus no orientation response means a limitation on this wouldn't be meaningful anyway. What I'm saying is there's a big difference between 'I see lion on the mini-map down there' and 'lion showed for 1 frame on the other side of the map, his HP is 324, he has a TP scroll, no boots and a health pot.'

Something I noticed is the bots seem to like range and AoE far more than the normal human meta. The humans being limited in the distance they can see to one screen were frequently just failing to appreciate how dangerous 2-3 bots half a screen away were to them.

Quite a few teamfight wins came from the bots inevitably causing far more damage to the entire enemy team via heros like DP & Gyro. But this isn't really perfect teamfight execution. I'd have really liked to see a mirror match.
Doesn't it mean that it's much harder for 'casual' listeners to find him?

Like every show there are likely hardcore listeners (who will still find him) and a spectrum of less committed listeners (along that spectrum is a point where people will just stop listening)
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I would have more sympathy if American conservatives hadn't removed the Fairness Doctrine.[0]

I would have more sympathy if AM radio wasn't dominated by conservative talk radio and elaborate syndication organizations.

I would have more sympathy if you weren't equating vile propaganda about 'crisis actors' and 'schools of thought.

I might have more sympathy if Fox News and Sinclair broadcasting were being told what to talk about by the government.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
Give that it looks like the canary just did its job, it would be prudent to assume SpiderOak is now compromised in some way. Therefore, it's probably safer to assume that all data stored on it up to this point is also somehow compromised too.
I also think some people with high iq learn to fake a lower iq and thus, go below the radar.
No, more like "that's not how apple store works".

You can find fart apps where you press a button and you hear a fart. I doubt by allowing this app in Apple store, everyone all of sudden believes farts = Apple. Or that Apple affiliates themselves with nasty behavior in public, etc.
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Worst case is civil war but pillarisation is absolutely possible too. The division of society into groups that mostly keep out of each other’s business and think the others are going to hell or should.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation
No, that's the first amendment. Free speech is also a broader principle that the first amendment applies by restricting government power.
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Not mainstream / enthusiast / gaming ones check the IO those, ASUS and EVGA dropped it completely, Gigabyte offers it on some motherboards, same goes for MSI and ASRock.

Also the last gaming keyboard which still had native PS/2 support was the old non-macro enabled CM quickfire.
I didn’t say it made sense. But conservatives have been fighting to allow for profit businesses to be run based on “religious beliefs” - not only the Cake case but also Hobby Lobby - it’s the other side of the coin.
Alex Jones is sadly closer to a religious cult than something desinfectable.

There is a line somewhere in between, it's rather blurry but at some point sunlight no longer work and the best option is to nuke it. (I don't think this is generally true for everything the alt-right says, a lot of it can be desinfected with sunlight, so to speak)
Almost all of the answers on this list are not fields that are "emerging" but fields that "have already emerged".

The ideal emerging field is one that's so obscure we haven't heard of it yet, but so important that we will. If there are widely disseminated books on Amazon about your field, it's not emerging. If there are hundreds of professionals cranking out papers about your field, it's also not emerging.

Emerging fields are underrated and under-recognized. What are they?
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Zero knowledge proofs.

Secure execution environments.
Much the same phenomenon as line-drawing with a stylus on a tablet screen. It has to be really low latency to not feel cheesy compared to pen-and-paper.
Optimization is the enemy of creativity in marketing and music
Why do you think so? The math behind blockchain is pretty easy and well explained.
I was going to add that that quote is a Simpsons reference, but it turns out the Simpsons actually referenced H. G. Wells: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-ins...
Adapted, not designed.
Thank you! Well, the idea wasn't mine, I built it upon another library.

But from what I gathered, these symbols are made for drawing, so I'm not really exploiting anything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character
Hey there,

I built Charge Status after a stretch of time when every time I tried to use a specific tablet the battery was dead because I'd forgotten to plug it in. Started with Chrome Extension/Android, looking to expand in the next few weeks to iOS, OSX and Windows. Think there are some interesting things around Zapier/IFTTT/Alexa/Google Assistant that can be done with the data once I get there.
Internet of Things. It is still in development and there are lots of stuff to work on.
symbolab is nice https://www.symbolab.com/solver/implicit-derivative-calculat...
In light of this:: https://imgur.com/a/0kH9S2D
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It's a pretty safe bet that any "Simpsons reference" it's actually a reference to something that is at least one level deeper (I consider this one of the great strengths of the show)
Yet again everyone rushes to the defence of fascists.

If history has taught us anything it’s that giving fascists a platform is never, ever the solution, you can never reason with them, you can never argue them out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into, and they will always use your kindness as a weapon against you.

There is no value in anyone giving people like Alex Jones a platform, all you are doing is giving him wider access to people who will be swayed by his idiotic ramblings.

It shouldn’t even require saying; how do you think he has such a large following in the first place? Do you think he’s been unchallenged up to this point? Do you think the counter arguments have had any effect on his base? Do you think the sort of person who ends up falling for a dickhead like Jones is even capable of understanding the arguments against his position?

Stop protecting fascists, open a history book.
APM matters less in Dota than in Starcraft
by analytical database I think the person meant a columnar database. for mysql compatible examples that means infobright or infinidb.
there's two solutions to this already,

the official one: https://joinmastodon.org/
and the alternative: https://instances.social/
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Currently there are a lot of noise in the field, but this is practically how data driven approach is applied to real world with all the sensor data collected. It is ripe for a lot of innovation.
The query includes `date_format(created_at, '%x%v1') as week_commit` - meaning it would need to be computed for every row.
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Haha.

Formal verification has been around for 40/50 years and we can't say it is a wide success from a industrial point of view. It has some achievements in terms of results/methods and projects checked, but on a daily basis, pretty much no one uses it. We are ages away of having every programmer understanding formal verification and having all programs verified/proved.

Type theory is in a similar situation. Many issues in code could be solved with basic typing algorithms but people and companies favor languages with poor/no typing (python, Javascript).
Wrong on many levels. First, second and third he's a crackpot and a dangerous one, as many people believe him. That said, Apple doesn't have to carry him. In USA, under certain circumstances, I can legally argue that people of X color or religion should summarily shot and not go to jail. That doesn't mean that Apple has to carry my speeches or NYT publish my theories.
and this is as novel way to interact with people on internet using concepts delivered in words, only tangentially related to a comment on a discussion board.
>even though I'm not a government shill

Let's just stick with "who knows" on that one too.
If you ever get the opportunity to try a Tempest arcade machine, it's an unusual experience; whether it actually is really low latency or not, it certainly feels the most responsive controller I've ever used. Perhaps the fact that it's a vector display helps reduce the overall input-to-frame latency.
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Yes. Once we build a scale-able quantum computer it will revolutionize so many fields. Simulating chemistry suddenly would become practical. We could broaden our understanding of biochemistry and materials science without designing fickle experiments, just by simulating things. This would be a real game changer and will probably lead to a bunch of breakthroughs on the way to protein-based nanotechnology.
Thank you! I feel like everyone forgot their middle school civics lessons, the amount I hear that line trotted out these days.
Thanks.

I'm using the same characters that the original uses. Pretty much ctrl+c ctrl+v them into my code :)
I now expect Apple to police all content that appears on their platform. If anything that breaks copyright appreas Apple should be held responsbile. They can not hold on to whatever "common carrier" status they enjoy now and still censor people they don't like.
There is another problem with such technology that is missing from this long article. Facial recognition et al. also excludes those with physical disabilities. For example, some people have facial injuries that make it impossible and/or painful for them to look “straight” in a mirror. A reason why, for instance, I abhorre the 3D movies is that I can’t take my wife in movies because she lost binocular vision. We are creating a society where technology is used to filter out people that can’t conform to a given physical standard. I find it revolting and we hackers should fight to our last breath against it.
Edit: typo
That's because USB has an actual limitation so can't support n-key, just 5 or 6 I think.

PS/2 does, but of course not all keyboards can deliver n-key even over PS/2.
Apple manually approves every app and content item on their stores. They are legally the publisher.
Each to their own but I find his shared fictions ideas interesting for explanation and analysis. I mean take Trump's going on about the Russia investigation being a fake democrat witch hunt when it was in fact instigated and run by republicans on the advice of all the US intelligence agencies. It puzzled me why many people believe that stuff which appears objectively false. But it fits well with Harari's:

>But if the chief says “the sun rises in the west and sets in the east”, only true loyalists will clap their hands.

I'm not that political but as a personal prejudice am kind of truth and scientific evidence focused and that behaviour was puzzling to me. It seems a good chunk of the population does not judge truth on the evidence but on loyalty to the leader of their faction who is saying the stuff. Maybe that's old hat but I kind of came across that analysis through Harari. Also the evolutionary psychology angle - maybe the people who believed the great leader was infallible did better in ancient history than us skeptics.