skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I disturbed at the idea of a centralized publishing / distribution platform censoring videos/recordings that it characterized in a certain way?

I'm actually far more concerned that not a lot of people are challenging the question of whether those characterizations can one day become (if they are not already becoming) arbitrary, self-serving, overly broad, or even simply 'by popular demand' removing items based on an increasingly politicized/bifurcated population.

I would argue that choosing winners and losers in the realm of ideas -- which is different than, say, graphic videos, where the criteria are easier to craft ["no nudity" or "no violence" examples of criteria with fewer edge cases] -- goes against core concepts of Western ideals of liberty and the marketplace of ideas. For if there's an objective reality out there, and each of us can seek it out for his/her self, there's no need for an overarching authority to remove "conspiracy theories" to protect our simple minds from accidentally becoming infected with false ideas.

I never enjoyed the screaming histrionics of Jones, nor his absurd obsessions, but I'm increasingly concerned that this Postmodern society is more concerned with what it views as Correct and Incorrect Ideas in such realms as comedy and discourse (the overly used "political correctness" that we often argue over so much) than letting individuals think things out for themselves.

I have a cultural foot in the door in both Europe and the U.S., and one point of contention I'll forever have with the European leg of the value system is the absurd notion that laws or norms should protect people from being offended and root out "false ideas." Not because I want people to be offended or because I think false ideas are good; instead, I simply don't trust anyone -- not a European judge nor some Apple bureaucrats -- to have better judgment than the rest of the population in this matters.

Applauding Jones getting wiped clean from these channels of distribution is short-term: one day there might be something less vile, less clear-cut, an edge-case, that gets removed and you'll have to shout to get it back. Be careful.
I assume nobody wanted to be first. Apple hit the button this morning; Facebook and then Youtube rapidly followed. I doubt there was actual coordination.
me too, but what would be a world-renowned candy that starts with 'P'?
Only KitKat and Oreo have been branded. The rest have been generic dessert names.
Would it then be 'ethical', to sell heroine on the dark web, and not deliver it? So you're essentially helping a drug addict get 'off' the drug? I'm surprised government agencies don't do something like that... Why try and 'catch' people, when they could flood the market with bogus/fake ads and just take people's money making the entire market not worth 2 cents?
Pez?
> App Actions is a new way to raise the visibility of your app and drive engagement. Actions take advantage of machine learning to surface your app to the user at just the right time, based on your app's semantic intents and the user's context.

Aside from the unnecessary jargon, this irks me how it portrays the user as some passive consumer. It really drives home how Google is, first and foremost, an advertising company.

Compare Apple's ad copy: https://developer.apple.com/ios

> Siri can now intelligently pair users’ daily routines with your apps to suggest convenient shortcuts right when they’re needed. Use the Shortcuts API to help users quickly accomplish tasks related to your app, directly from the lock screen, in Search, or from the Siri watch face.

See how this is much more respectful of the user, by treating her as an active entity? Overall, Apple's copy is less jargon-y and terrible too: https://developer.apple.com/ios/whats-new.
In case anyone would like to watch a VOD of the event, it can be found here: https://www.twitch.tv/openai/video/293517383

It was a really wonderfully done event overall and there's several interviews throughout with different folks from the OpenAI team.
All of these companies have content rules (in particular, Youtube's are generally very strict). This is more them applying their content rules evenly, rather than turning a blind eye to a celebrity.
Yeah, except for the fact that historically they have never pulled any crap approaching the ongoing drama that is MoviePass. The biggest shift I recall is the move to split the DVD/streaming services, which I think was completely reasonable.
It would be a fantastic gamble. With gambling comes the chance to lose a lot of money, but also a small chance to win a lot of money.

I currently own around 2500 shares of HMNY, and it is a 100% gamble. I'm hoping someone better acquires them, or they bring in a better management team. But I dropped a total of $450 on these shares, so if I make $500, my gamble paid off.

This company isn't invest-able, but it is gamble-able.
Anarcho-Nihilism based open source.

Arguably Cody Wilson is doing some of this sort of stuff.

Basically 4Chan but far more organised.

Where's my open source, open data, license plate tracking?
That's quite a long article without actually describing a modern New England Town Meeting. They still exist and no, it's not even remotely like a national "town hall".

Make no mistake, they're still as boring as dirt. (Nearly) direct democracy doesn't make it suddenly more interesting to talk about road reconstruction or sewer maintenance. Many towns put their meetings up on YouTube. Search for "Annual Town Meeting", as opposed to "Special Town Meeting". Although STM's being more focused, those might be slightly more lively with debate or dissent.
Surely the headline features here are the machine learning everything, not really the UI tweaks?
It's a prisoner's dilemma. It only works if all nations agree to curtail aggression.
I've noticed this with several friends who complained about the fees their bank is charging them on a simple savings or checking account. It is like people don't realize that banks pay to borrow your money and anything else is a naive perversion of the concept.
I don’t think Alexa is considered an AWS product/service. While you need AWS’ Lambda to make it work, Alexa is an Amazon (versus AWS) product.
The Onion, is this you?
Before World War 1, there was a (relative) period of some peace, and something insane happened - people started glorifying war. The idea of war bringing out the "real" in a person, or skimming off the excess of society was a thing.

Then of course, once mustard gas is rolling through your neighborhood, glorifying war seems rather stupid.

People are dumb forgetful creatures, but it's important to keep well in mind that war is terrible and horrible, and we as people never want it. Public opinion won't prevent another war from happening ever, but it will make war much harder to argue for.
> Start with a category theoretical model connecting neuroanatomy and thought (MENS, category theory and the hippocampus).

Yeah... um... let us know when you've got that in a form that is really true to neuroanatomy, really true to human thought, and really solid category theory. I'm pretty sure you're not going to get there in this lifetime.
Here is Android P for 'Pie'
>The mechanical skills of wielding a pencil or mixing paint are almost trivial

I strongly disagree. Try drawing a large shape without using a template. If you move the pencil with your fingers, you quickly run out of range of motion, and have to reposition your hand and join the new line segment without visible discontinuity, which requires extreme accuracy[0]. If you move it mostly with your arm then you have to learn the difficult and unnatural skill of fine motor control using large muscles. In practice the only good option is using a combination of both, which requires great coordination. The visual part is easy after you learn a few simple tricks like looking at negative space. The mechanical skills are the difficult part.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernier_acuity
undocumented => documented
This is Raymond Chen’s blog, who has been writing interesting technical articles, including multiple detailed introductions of past and present architectures, for more than a decade (maybe even longer). Some of the covered architectures are gone entirely, some have changed since their presented form. That’s a big part of what makes them so interesting.
>As far as I can gather, Intel HEX files are meant to make binary images less opaque

I know this is getting away from the main point of the article, but they're purpose is more to have a standard format that compilers can generate and eprom/device programmers could read without being concerned with the machine's endianness. Pretty much any embedded compiler can produce a .hex file, and pretty much any programmer will read one.
Samsung's modifications to the stock Android experience aren't "features"; these are desperate attempts to differentiate itself from other Android handset OEMs. The resulting need to reconcile two codebases leaves users as the losers: they wait forever for general advancements in the Android ecosystem.
Yes, this project heavily inspired by telegram (channels), telegra.ph(editor) and medium. Is starting from writing full medium clone) After that - i start again, now from an empty list. I try don't copy/paste and think many about the balance of futures/simplicity
You feel robbed that you saw around 25 movies for less than $3 each?
>Unfortunately judging by the comments you’ll hear online after playing through the emotional introduction, it doesn’t seem it makes a lasting impression on many.

Cynicism is the default mode for internet denizens. Wouldn't want anybody to think they were soft enough to feel an emotion!

I loved the introduction. As much as I love war games, I despise the concept of war, and think more media should reflect the abject, stupid-as-fuck reality of it. Because it is absolutely stupid as fuck. Almost any vet would tell you that. Everything about it.
Low-cost, high-effectiveness DIY modular synthesizer system aimed at beginners
Dynamo's create some moderate resistance

But above all else, riding with a phone out on your bars is just asking for trouble. The Bolt is so easy and convenient to interact with since it still use tactile buttons. When it's sub 40s and I'm cold, or 85+ and sweating, the last thing I want to do is fight with a touch screen.
Thanks, fixed my typo.
I think this is really well put.

And just so people understand: the anthropogenic forcing of climate change is the net increase of persistent greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, driven by pulling fossil fuels out of the ground and burning them.

So to offset that, it's not enough to just plant some trees. We would need to plant, grow, and maintain enough net new trees, globally to fix the carbon that until recently lived in coal, oil, and gas reserves. Trading trees for fossil fuels means aiming to have more trees globally than the planet ever had for most of human history. (Because for most of human history, fossil fuels were still underground.)

What private company is going to deliver on that? And how could anyone possibly hold them accountable if they don't?

So I share the skepticism of buying offsets. To me they feel like papal indulgences from the most corrupt time periods in the Catholic Church.
Weird thought what if a 20'something put cells in a bank and had organs generated from them later in life.
How did you learn how to journal? There are countless quality resources for developing a solid workout routine, but I have no idea how to start a journal and every time I try, I have no idea what to write and there is no structure, which makes me give up after some time.
When gaming, I usually have one hand on the keyboard, the other on the mouse. My hand has only 5 fingers.

NKRO couldn't matter less.
There is a lot of misinformation circulating in the comments here that I'll be addressing as replies to some of these threads, though inevitably won't be able to get to each one. I'd ask each of you to not just repeat misinformation you've heard from others, but do first-hand research by going to the Hyperledger website, wiki, discussion forums, or other places and learn about the tech before taking the snarky way out. Thanks,

Brian Behlendorf, Exec Director, Hyperledger
Frankly, I'm of the opinion that that's because it was an equally crass attempt at stimulating that kind of emotional investment. You don't get feelings for free. They are contextual things with many more dimensions that what is put immediately in front of you. Trying to build a genuine commentary on the nature of war into a game like that requires a fundamentally different kind of game, and attitude towards game-making, more than just a tacked-on nod to the fact that some people died in the War.
MoviePass Slashes Offering to Three Films a Month
Ultimately they're limited by the number of pins that the socket they use has, even if the silicon could support more channels. They want to be able to maintain socket compatibility and they want to have some SKUs with just 2 working dies so 4 channels it remains.
> The common meme that the vast majority of people in the antebellum south thought slavery was OK is a great example of this.

Even that is a somewhat controversial statement - as the author mentioned, historians (or anyone who is interested in and studies history) are apt to bring in nuance. From my understanding from reading the correspondence and journals of people in that era, people in the antebellum South weren't "OK" with the institution of slavery to the same degree. Some thought it was wrong but the most practical option, some thought it was abhorrent, some had their opinions colored by their own fortunes being tied closely to it. Some where abject racists even by the standards of the time.

It was a controversial and nuanced issue at the time... like every other political issue in the public arena.
By the time Android P actually makes it to non-Pixel devices, the beta will have long since ended, so this doesn't really matter.
It also looks like the back button is gone... how is that supposed to work?
If Facebook could give the banks sufficient reason to actually develop an api for exporting data in a granular way, that would be a good thing.

I don't like entering my bank password in mint just for it to scrape the account balance. There should be a separate read-only service with a token that can send that information to services I want to have it. Coinbase seems to manage to do this pretty well.
In the US at least people spell based on how words sound in their head if they don't really remember the correct way to spell it.

No one is thinking about the history of the word, in fact I personally was wondering why they chose an elephant as their mascot until I remembered what a Mastodon was.
also note earlier in their feed, a few hours before they announced the death of the canary, they had a 'full system outage due to a poorly communicated maintenance by their ISP'. To me, this screams "Narus box at our edge" or similar shady behavior.
To get other BFSes up there with enough fuel to transfer a useful amount would require them to use the first stage booster instead of just being SSTO.

Really there's no point to doing an SSTO launch in practice since the BFR first stage will in theory be just as reusable (if not more so) than the BFS second stage. Using the first stage booster greatly improves payload to orbit and has relatively low marginal cost once you've built and tested the whole system.
Using the Z80 Instruction Exerciser (2011)
Always glad to introduce people to the idea. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054 is a good article on it. https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-... is actually one of the first posts I had seen on it. I've known I don't have a visual capability compared to most people for a while, I didn't realize til recently just how pronounced the difference is.
Helps the discussion to bracket possibilities. If there's an absolute hard limit somehow, let people know so they don't assume it's possible to go further.

I find this useful in discussing solar power: there is an absolute maximum of 1300 watts per square meter; most people don't know this and implicitly assume substantially higher is achievable.
It could be changed to "The Linux Foundation's approach", sure, but it's very much a Linux Foundation project, and is developed and managed using the same template by which the Foundation manages the kernel project and others. We have some differences - there is no central kernel, but a family of different DLT systems within the Hyperledger community, reflecting geniunely different approaches. But other parts are similar, from technical governance to everything being under an open source license to legal compliance.
Implementing it is straightforward, trivial even. As makomk hints, the problem is that you'd be doing something non-standard and thus have to rely on your own driver (or someone else's) rather than the system's built-in and ready-to-go hid drivers. Or you show up as multiple keyboards simultaneously, but that confuses some software.
"Carbon offsetting on the blockchain"...
YouTube has now banned them as well so they will probably move to dTube / HookTube or one of the blockchain / p2p alternatives. Ironically a big channel like Infowars moving to these alternatives might start the ball rolling in making those platforms more popular.

I occasionally listen to Alex Jones for background noise and entertainment value. There is something amusing in his voice, delivery and absurdity - perhaps I am a little privileged to be able to feel that way because he is nowhere close to home for me, as I live in India.
RxJS Methods. Part2
What about using VSP?
Barnes and Noble says books on anxiety are soaring
Curious what others think of samsung hardware on HN.

Ive had:

>S5 phone whos charging port broke and had terrible battery life. But hey, when I bought the phone the screen was bright and beautiful... I feel like I was tricked

>My SSD failed in a year

>My grandpa's 1,000 dollar samsung TV he bought in 2018 has an irresponsibly slow smart TV.

And I read some horror stories about samsung home appliances when I was looking to buy them last year.

I cannot tell if Samsung has lots of customers with horror stories, or a massive marketing department that is able to get people to buy average products at luxury prices.
>Does being in war make it fundamentally different

Do you mean, like, is there an experience difference between "being there" and experiencing a highly realistic VR simulation?

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding because the questions seems to answer itself... "yes, of course!"

Besides the obvious fact wherein if you get shot you die for good, and if you don't die you'll feel tremendous pain and be potentially maimed for life, you've got other factors such as

-Friends you've developed closed bonds with being killed next to you

-A campaign lasting months or years that consumes your existence

-Terrible food

-No sleep

-Extraordinary boredom in downtime (which doesn't exist in videogames or nobody would buy them)

-The endless question of "why are we here" (which doesn't exist in videogames - we are here to have fun)
The title doesn't do the article justice. This is a physical, 3D-printed neural network, in form of plates that pass/reflect light. You shine your input at one end, get results at the other.

I'm very impressed. Not sure if this has any chance of being more efficient than traditional NNs implemented in silicon, but I can imagine some fun applications. For instance, with some optics in front, I think it could be used as a passive classifier of what's in front of the detector - you could set up an array of photodetectors in the back, that operate a low-power device only when appropriate pattern is detected.
> Once you've reached the levels of market saturation that Facebook has the only way to grow is value per-user, specifically in 1st world countries where there's actual value to be had.

I remember a few years ago some hedge fund friends pitching Facebook as a digital age "value investment" because of its competitive moat and compounding returns. Idea being the more users you get the more revenue you get, and these benefits compound.

The issue with that is, as you mention, they already have most of the users they'd plan to get. To continue to grow, they need to better monetize users by 1) more ads per user or 2) higher price per ad

Seems like they tried 1) the last few years and it failed. Now maybe they are trying 2), but the best way to get higher price ads is through better targeting, which will require deeper privacy intrusions
We have a route to that direction, and have made a lot of progress. It involves ending global poverty, providing economic opportunities for women, and ensuring contraception is available.

If you have high child mortality, limited access to contraception, and few employment opportunities for women, they have a lot of children. You change that, and they choose to have fewer. It happened in Europe. It happened in North America. It happened in South America. It happened in Asia (with some draconian policies to help it along). It's starting to happen in Africa: [0] (Check the map tab to see country-by-country over time).

We can do this without draconian policies. All we have to do is work to end global poverty. People think is hopeless, but twenty-five years ago, those same people would have said there's no way we'd cut it in half by now, and we did[1].

(Obligatory plug for the Against Malaria Foundation[2], which is my charity of choice for fighting global poverty, and at the same time, climate change.)

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality

[2] https://www.againstmalaria.com/ https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/where-to-donate/against-ma...
Probably the same way it works on iPhone, where developers incorporate navigation into the apps.
A Free FB Targeting We Use to Manage 7-Figure Monthly Ad Spends
Some days it's a great deal. Some days they don't let you see the movie you wanted, or you have to pay 8 extra dollars, or they run out of money and half of the methods of buying tickets stop working. Each with less than 24 hours notice.

Yeah it's unsustainable and I was planning to unsubscribe when they raised their prices. Instead I cancelled when they started jerking users around. Well, after the 3rd or 4th time.
How Can a Stock Market Strategy Everyone Knows About Still Work?
Small to mid-scale CFD.
Have you seen the kinds of politicians WI and MI have been electing recently? It's not generalization.
So the optical component is only the end result model of the NN? It isn't learning using the optics?
>Don't ask me how I know, don't believe me, but its Wells Fargo.

I'd be surprised if it wasn't. Wells Fargo is still asking for forgiveness in their Jon Hamm narrated Earning Back Your Trust[0] commercial. It would be incredibly stupid of them to engage in another scheme to take advantage of their customers at this time.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rrivHxCeeY
I think the totality of my comment makes clear the relevance. In the matter of interpreting historical internet posts and judging whether the speaker should be censored or punished for them, or not, the lines are quite blurred.

Is there not something worth discussing here — as we examine the reactions to Sarah Jeong, Quinn Jones, Alex Jones.... to me these are all part of the same movement. By which I don’t mean necessarily something explicitly planned and orchestrated, but rather shifting public consensus on public discourse, what consequences should be dealt, and how the visceral response in these cases may be weaponized and subverted.

Upon second thought though, perhaps the more apt comparison is Roseanne Barr. I certainly agree that bringing up Jeong did not result any useful dialog on the topic, so I’ll be more careful about that in the future.