skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This blows my mind and I have naive questions.
How can the materials withstand such forces? Is a piece inside replaced (he said without taking it apart)? Is ablation a factor at all?
This is an interestingly coordinated move. It seems a most like each of the platforms was waiting for one of the others to make the first move at wiping InfoWars off their platform entirely instead of just censoring specific episodes, and then the dominoes fall.

I’ve never listened to an InfoWars podcast, so I don’t know what I’m missing. But from what I gather Alex is an entertaining quack who is ultimately harmless except in the sense that his message is subversive to the “wrong” groups. We’ve come a bit further along the slope from banning Daily Stormer now haven’t we?

The more interesting contrast which I’ve been watching the last few days is between how NYT handled Quinn Norton’s firing for old tweets which actually used banned words in an positive context versus NYT claiming hundreds of racists tweets by Sarah Jeong amount to the same thing and now that’s a reason not to fire her.

I don’t know anything at all about Jeong, other than some highly... erm... problematic old tweets. I knew a bit about Quinn and was very disappointed to see her fired for what I thought were highly misconstrued old tweets... but I think the contrast between how they were each handled really demonstrates how poorly companies tend to handle these matters, and specifically how much it matters which group is apparently being slighted.

And so it all just makes me wonder. When we selectively censor or fire people for specific views, when these views dont actually cross red lines into illegal speech (inciting to violence), how the decision really comes down to a political one. Companies are of course free to make political choices about who works for them or what content they host, but they’re only lying to themselves if they think it’s about morales or ethics.

Various campaigns have been trying to downrank, delist, or demonetize sites like InfoWars or Breitbart. This is no doubt a form of asymmetric information warfare trying to limit the audience for contrary messages. Personally I find the drive toward censorship all extremely concerning.
I'm an AWS user, I've been using their service for almost 5 years now. I also had a hard time with many of their questions. I agree completely with your assessment.

Amazon badly needs some serious UX power...
I would happily "kill" your idea of "beauty" if it means more people can live the life you are without detrimental effects of hate speech on them, yes.

You realize which country has some of the more effective and stringent hate speech laws in the world? If you do, did you stop to ask yourself why?
Insultingly diminutive language aside, you're just wrong. Assuming you're referring to the ADA, "there's [been] laws now" since the 90s. The line you quoted is clearly referencing personal websites, which are not bound by ADA.
It would create a truly distributed compute utility that was accessible to anyone within range of the network.

Individual tiles could store and compute and cooperate in a mesh network.

To make something like that feasible, it needs to be secure and reliable. In the privately-owned case, I want to ensure that an adversary who gains access to the “grid” can’t exploit it against me. Think of it as having a raspberrypi on the outside of your house where anyone could tamper with it.

In the public scenario, you would want users to be able to offload computational tasks to an ambiantly available computational resource. Some of that computation will need to be local, and for disaster planning reasons, would be helpful if distributed in nature. But, in order for Joe and Jane Schmoe to rely on such a resource, they would want to know that their data isn’t being stolen or shared with others.
I'm ignoring you after the 'people like me' comment as it's irrelevant to the discussion (and also actually false). You also completely ignored the point, but inserted your own arbitrary standard that claims to prove billionaires and average-Joe's create wealth equally, proportionally, because of 'the s&p 500'. That level of depth speaks for itself.
Mature - I mean used in some real world scenarios, integrated into projects, and been around for more than a year
How valuable is air?

It's worthless to everyone except a drowning man, to whom it's priceless.

Supply and demand are highly dependent on context. A strong technology base in a business is usually only required after you're starting to see scaling problems.
While it was a great deal, I don't like to use services that change the rules every 24 hours, so I canceled my subscription.
But excellent platform. Much prefer it that way :)
Since switching to a more healthy lifestyle, doubling or trippling the amount of exercise (walking, bicycling) I do, I feel 100x better than before and can do much better work every day. I also am able to stand up at 8am instead of 10am, just because my body is just so much fitter and ready to take on the day.

I can't emphasize this enough, take care of your body and the mind will follow.
I built a face recognition algorithm to sell to police, immigration and pretty much who ever wants it. It took 6 months and is state of the art. Which is to say, not as good as a human, but getting close.

If you’re worried about privacy then maybe you should take the tracking device out of your pocket.

The concept of using the power of the state to limit the power of the state seems flawed to me. Especially an oppressive state.
Wayfair, Walmart, BestBuy, Google, and Target are all working very hard to beat Amazon in their respective categories. They haven't "accepted" anything.

Jet.com was a high-profile Amazon competitor that was acquired by Walmart a few years ago.
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Yeah, french people are very patriotic. There are some good reasons for that, be it past or present, beauty of the country etc, but as with other over-patriotic countries (I am looking at you US, but not only), a lot of people like simple world views so France/US/whatever becomes simply the best country ever, no real discussion allowed, critical view is ignored or simply attacked.

A bit more humble approach would do everybody much better, since every single country out there has done things to be ashamed of, or outright utterly horrible. Realizing you are not that much better than the other guy may bring some sense of equality that I don't see in current world (american life worth more than some other, modern colonialism done by former colonial powers including US, Russia and probably China, and so on and on).
That's the route JetBrains went as well and while I wasn't happy with it when they initially started doing it, I have grown to greatly appreciate knowing which icon represents which product at a quick glance.

https://i.imgur.com/wSqVMp4.png
Console is just for checking stuff. Real infra is managed by APIs.
Not sure what you mean by "research paper", but scientifamerican is "just" a magazine.

"""Scientific American, the longest continuously published magazine in the U.S., has been bringing its readers unique insights about developments in science and technology f
or more than 170 years.""" - from the about page https://www.scientificamerican.com/page/about-scientific-ame...
A blockchain "without a consensus mechanism" is git: every commit has at least one parent. There is no consensus mechanism, as everybody can commit "to the blockchain".
Thanks for the information. I didn’t realize there were still biocompatibility issues even after the detergent process.
Cross-stitch, crochet, sewing, crafting. I'm in a Facebook group where women share photos or designs of reusable pads they made. It's a great place where women can ask for help, talk about endometriosis or pregnancy, share sewing advice, as well as talk about different types of fabrics.

My friend's in a Fb group for mushroom enthusiasts. They share photos of mushrooms they find in their yard and hikes.

I joined a sous vide fb group- all food photos.

As an Amazon seller, I'm in an Amazon PPC fb group. Troubleshooting Amazon ad campaigns is fun for me. It's amazing to see all the different things people are into.
Got a source?

Strava segments in my area often have very wrong altitude data. Chicago is extremely flat yet there are segments that report gradients of over 10%, sometimes as much as 27%. I believe they are thrown off by buildings and the frequent elevated train tracks.

https://www.strava.com/segments/1504604
> I don’t know anything at all about Jeong, other than some highly... erm... problematic old tweets.

That's the power of a smear campaign, right? Planting a negative perception in people who previously had no attitude about a person. I recommend researching a bit before repeating the message of the campaign ("racist tweets"). Jeong is okay.
It’s not jus the icons. It’s the names too since a lot of them are completely unrelated to the product itself.

I actually find myself referring to “Amazon Web Services in Plain English” [0] every once in a while.

[0]: https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
As hesitant as I am with all the crypto and block chain out there considering all the scams and such, at least this one has a big company behind it. Nice!
A few observations/questions, if you don't mind:

1. I thought both JSON API and jsonschema-hyperschema were basically equivalent -- did you find some point that they weren't?

I'm not sure if this is what you were referring to, but JSON API has affordances for stuff like "meta" built in, but if you were doing jsonschema-hyperschema you'd have to ensure that the endpoint itself returned a let's say "Envelope<Thing>" which had the fields you expect -- is that what put you off? The straightforwardness of having certain affordances included directly in the spec?

2. I'm thinking of focusing jsonschema-validation + jsonschema-hypermedia (or maybe JSON API) going forward in the future, but the current more famous approaches are Swagger, API blueprint and RAML -- I don't want to commit to them because they often move slower and have made some questionable choices (IMO) in their diversions from the underlying standards they're based on.

jsonschema-hypermedia seems to be be functionally equivalent to swagger and more minimal at the same time but I haven't done any in-depth analysis to prove it so.

Why did you (and/or your team) not choose Swagger/RAML/API Blueprint?
That would depend on whether you trust that they are zero-knowledge. It is certainly possible to build a client that works like that, but their client wasn't open source, so there is no way to confirm this.

However, if you trust them on the canary, why distrust them on the claim their service was zero-knowledge. It might make sense if they are 'amoral enough' to lie about being zero-knowledge, but 'moral enough' to admit to being served a warrant. I think space for that level of morality exists, but is small. The other issue would be if they weren't zero-knowledge through an unintended bug.

I can't really give a definitive judgement.
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> If that were the case, the concept of a warrant canary would have died long ago in court.

Was it ever challenged? If not, you can't say anything about them. Probably FBI/NSA/et-al simply did not care if there was no real disclosure.
Disclaimer: I don't mind advertisements in general and I think they get a lot of undeserved hate, especially on HN, which I think is a bit funny since a lot of the folks here work at companies that wouldn't exist without lots of advertising.

I think it's a unique and interesting idea! I might only allow it once or twice because I think eventually the folks at the top of the cumulative score list will have just been the ones to watch the most ads, as opposed to the ones who are the best at your game. Or maybe something like you can watch an ad to keep your score but then you have to play that level again, and if you get a zero again you lose your cumulative score no matter what? Not sure how much that would change your mechanics.

It does not feel like blackmail to me especially if it's a limited-use type of thing.
He was toeing the line of violence against journalists though, which is exactly when the take downs started to happen. "I don't condone violence buuuuuut..." https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/07/13/infowars-perso...
They should've made their Podcasts app actually usuable while they were at it.
They remove that statement. Basically people can know what happened running a diff between reports.
There are multiple database apps, but yes they could have been a bit more generic.
For sure, you can't slash your offering by 90% while keeping the price the same and survive.

A business always needs to keep in mind exactly what it is that they are offering their customers. MoviePass offered their customers the ability to not have to think about budgeting for movies.

Now that that's gone, what is this service, exactly? A discounted pre-payment for 3 movies? MoviePass is now a coupon.
It was a horrible service in the beginning and it still is. It won't matter how much it changes hands. You cannot ask a customer to pay money, commit to a contract (they required this in the early days), and then limit their use in various ways.

In the beginning, you could see one movie per day which was great, but you couldn't share the account with your spouse, you couldn't use multiple devices, and you couldn't see the same movie twice if I am remembering correctly. And that was when it was $30/month (albeit a cheap price if able to take true advantage of the movie-watching).

And now they're changing the terms, seemingly on a weekly basis.

It has been a complete failure throughout its run. It's time for MoviePass to go away.
I don’t watch movies, so i don’t demand characteristics, but why not have several tiers at diff price points?
I agree with you about that in a smaller bunch you do recognize the target icon relatively quickly, but they could have just used the color for the text itself :)

Off-topic (and sort of translated):

Salut Virgile, complet de acord cu tine, dar dacă făceau textul colorat în culoarea "service category", viața era mai simplă pentru toată lumea :) (lume mică, domne, uite de cine dai pe net :D)
I’m not sure I’d call Alex Jones harmless considering the parents of Sandy Hook victims received death threats after his show labeling them as actors in a false flag operation.
The author of the survey should have allowed "don't know" as an answer. I didn't finish the survey because I didn't want to choose responses I knew probably weren't the right ones. If there are others like me who refrained for this reason, this will skew the results.

(The main point of the survey came across very well, though.)
I might be uneducated about the issue as a whole, but I don't really see the negative side to this service.

$10/month for 3 viewings per month. That's 3 movies for the price of 0.76 movies where I'm from (last time I went tickets were $13). Then, after you hit that cap, extra viewings are $5 less per ticket which has to be less than any one movie ticket for any new feature anywhere in America. Am I missing something? Are they just getting hate because they lacked foresight in the beginning? Is it because they gambled with investor money on a ridiculous business model? I have a genuine curiosity around where the hate is coming from.

I don't like going to movie theaters but if I did I would think this was a great deal.

EDIT: to correct the misinformation that each additional ticket was $5
It's crazy to me that they banned pornographic apps from the app store but still let this hot garbage be listed on their platform for so long.
Hi, I just sent you an email, I searched my inbox and spam and didn't see anything from you. Not sure what happened there. We're working on getting the GPL and attribution issues all sorted, that was ignorance on my part versus anything willful. Sorry about your photos and such, if it makes you feel any better I did it to myself at one point as well...

-Chip from Wahoo
I may disagree with what you say but I'll defend with you the right to say it.

Apple's wrong here.
In the threads about privacy, it is common to read some comments that propose to exchange your information for some benefit. MoviePass indicates that this is not as easy as it seems.
I would never support the government throwing Alex Jones in jail espousing his views (Assuming we're not talking about edge cases where freedom of speech does not apply).

But I also fully support the property rights of Twitter, Facebook, etc to exercise control over the content of their platforms.

You wouldn't permit someone setting up camp on your front lawn, passing out, say, NAMBLA literature would you? It's unlikely you'd say "Sir, I do not like that that you are on my lawn evangelizing man-boy love, but it's your god-given right to do so!" -- you'd probably (rightly say) "Get get the F--- off my lawn!"

Your property, your rules.
It is a great deal. The problem is that MoviePass persisted for so long with a model that made no financial sense whatsoever, and now their customers have gotten used to it. There's no way to sell this as anything other than a giant downgrade.
If, for the sake of argument, a hostile (to the security of SpiderOak users) government actor was able to arbitrarily manipulate SpiderOak's further statements for purposes of furthering said government agency's goals, what might they have it say and how would those government-sourced statements differ from what we're seeing?
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Weird, it's almost like theaters were charging what they charge for actual reasons rather than "corporate greed".
> The social media giant has asked large U.S. banks to share detailed financial information about their customers, including card transactions and checking account balances, as part of an effort to offer new services to users.

s/offer new services to users/increase revenue per user/

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.

> One large U.S. bank pulled away from talks due to privacy concerns, some of the people said.

Good for them. I wish I knew which one.

> Banks face pressure to build relationships with big online platforms, which reach billions of users and drive a growing share of commerce. They also are trying to reach more users digitally. Many struggle to gain traction in mobile payments.

That's an industry problem, not an individual bank problem. Also, credit cards are already very convenient and near universally accepted. It's hard to compete with that. Only the uninformed would use a different payment technologies with less convenience and weaker chargeback/fraud guarantees.

> Bank executives are worried about the breadth of information being sought, even if it means not being available on certain platforms that their customers use. It is unclear whether bank customers would need to opt-in to the proposed Facebook services or what other privacy protections might be offered.

It's unclear to me what segment of bank customers would knowingly agree to anything remotely close to this.
I don't understand why they did not also raise the cost to something like $15 a month. $10 was too low in my opinion. I assumed they might increase it to $15 sometime later, which is still a good deal for consumers, if you consider the average cost to be $9
I find your message hilarious. Do you have better alternatives if you're calling this horrible?
Darwin is fantastic. Not only did he bootstrap the field of evolutionary biology despite his lack of access to modern genetics, but he also wrote about it beautifully. On the Origin of Species is still a great read and a lucid explanation of a difficult subject. He's a great person to strive to emulate.
Like the other commenters have remarked, I have a feeling this post is meant for folks in numerical computation.

In numerical mathematics, iteration is typically expressed as recursive equations, and I suspect the iterable construct in Julia helps lower the impedance mismatch of translating numerical ideas to code. There's a lot of tedious "book-keeping" (keeping track of indices, etc.) involved in numerical codes, and appropriate abstractions can help reduce errors, as well as improve composability and extensibility. At the very least, with iterables the code will match the math better than if for-loops were used.

For most other (general) programmers though, a conjugate-gradient example might be a little too complicated of an example for demonstrating iterables. Also, while iterables as an abstraction can be useful at times, the simplicity of for-loops can't be beat for most general use cases. There is also a performance overhead with iterables.

Also, just to point out there is a bit of overlapping but differing terminology here: "iterative methods" [1] refer to a specific procedure in computational math; whereas "iterables" in computer programming refer to iterators [2] which perform (lazy or eager) traversal. The latter can be used to implement the former, but they are mostly different ideas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative_method

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterator
5.5 Sarah Jeong is hired by the New York Times as an editor.

This explains the timing and perhaps the purpose of the Medium article. Wu is trying to warn anyone in the People's Republic of China about what might happen if they talk with Jeong and/or the New York Times.
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I think the answer is fairly easy. If someone is an asshole online, you ban or ignore them.

Free speech is the right to speak your mind without being prosecuted by the government, it’s not the right to force your opinion on people who don’t want it.
isn't the point of twitter that you follow only who you want and other people's garbage doesn't show up if you don't want it? what makes mastodon different in that regard?
You could also use ROS Arduino serial library -

http://wiki.ros.org/rosserial_arduino/Tutorials
It's a great deal and it's still going to bankrupt the company.

If I sent you $30 a month and you sent me $10 a month, that's a great deal for you, but how long can I do it?
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As for 4) probably because it's a high risk and high overhead for most complexes. How do you see that working out? FWIW I often sign short leases (6 to 12 months) and friends who have gone for internships without provided housing have used airbnb. Seems to be a fine alternative.
That doesn't match up with history. Two of the more notable fines by the EU have been on Microsoft and Google. The UK recently fined Facebook the maximum that agency could - 500k [1]. The politicians are on record speaking out against data abusers in ways that sound like they are users. Nearly all of what the EU does centralised is still policed locally. There's barely any of the control that skeptics say there is, even if you include the control the countries willingly handed over.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44785151
How is it legal for the banks to share this? I'm confused.
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The “No True AWS Guru” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman) argument...

I don’t think I’ve ever used the CLI to manage infrastructure on AWS.

I usually use the console for one offs. When something needs to be repeatable, I’ll create a Cloud Formation template.

Anything that’s more conplicated, I’ll either use Python directly or create a custom resource that gets called from CF.