skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before people start jumping on Mr. Rad and getting hung up on whether or not you should freelance first, work at a startup, big company, etc, I want to make a meta-comment.

Too often I see high expectations from posts like these or biographies or whatever. Like Charlie Munger recommends to study Benjamin Franklin's life, so people read Franklin's auto-biography expecting some magical key to making their life memorable.

I think the trick to biographies, and even posts like these, is to read a lot of them. Your brain is really good at processing and structuring loads of information (and more-so for what I'm guessing is a greater than average IQ crowd at HN). You will start to pull out the principles at work and focus less on the specifics. Your brain will begin to differentiate between strategies and tactics.

I think it's Tim Ferris' book / podcast that confuses me because of the minutia he seems obsessed with, like whether Marc Andreesen pees or makes coffee first in the morning (I made this example up). The more I read about successful (and even unsuccessful) people, the more I realize that this kinda stuff does not matter. It's like thinking a black turtleneck will make you like Steve Jobs. We recognize that this is ridiculous, but then people push a 100 year-old book into the best-seller list because Warren Buffett read it when he was 13 ("1000 ways to get rich" or something like that).

There are successful people who wake up at 5am, but also those who sleep until 10 and do their work at night. If you read only about the former, you might think that is the key to everything. But if you read far and wide you see its just noise.

By the way, this is also an effective way to do a deep dive on a topic of interest. Don't worry about what book is The Best, but read a lot back-to-back and think about it. Your brain will start to make sense of it.
No, it's not that Bing was redirecting traffic through Google. Instead it was that windows/IE8 was sending data on search terms/clicks on google from their users' machines to Microsoft.

So user searches Google for a search term and then clicks on a result. This data is then sent to Microsoft, and Bing is updated accordingly (and will return that result for that search term) at a later point in time.
Yes, far better to drive advertising sex services to foreign websites or decentralized platforms. Now everything will be better.
Nobody is saying that they are. But if you're going to write a story about someone prosecuted (let alone convicted) of criminal offenses, it's incumbent on you to actually address the charges they face, rather than rhetorically posturing as if they faced some lesser charge your audience won't take seriously.

So Nolan could have written the story about the evidence Larkin and Lacey mustered in their defense against the actual indictment. But she didn't. Is it because she didn't know about the charges? Is it because Larkin and Lacey can't provide any such evidence?
My son was getting them for a couple years and the frequency was increasing. He was missing school. We tried all sorts of techniques that you can google.

Finally took him to a clinical psychologist that focuses on them and I was embarrassed on how few sessions it took this guy to solve them.
Let me tell you a story of one of the largest news portals in Brazil, ig.com.br.

At the time, it was run by a very clever guy who came from the advertising world. He came up with an idea, the "Good News Day". It was to be tied to some ad campaign I don't quite remember now, but it was a day when the news portal could only publish good news.

The editorial staff protested, of course. It's their job to offer news as factually correct and unbiased as humanly possible and they were very unhappy with the idea. In the end, however they relented.

It was about 4AM when a mayoral candidate from a city near São Paulo, was murdered, seemingly for political reasons. Under protests, they held the release.

By 10 AM a plane hit the World Trade Center.

At that point they just published everything and completely ignored the directive. Nothing similar was ever issued again.

To this day, the people who were there regard such initiatives as extremely dangerous.
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Interesting. I never heat or cool my house (other than opening the windows), and while not being particularly careful with my diet, I've never had any weight issues. I think your hypothesis merits further investigation.
I would love to hear what in the world you think "centrist neoliberal politics" means.
They're weren't claiming that when you searched bing, they did a google search immediately in the background. Rather, they claim that they were collecting google's ranking and using it in their own ranking algorithms. They wouldn't have ever have collected data on hiybbprqag without their previous actions.
I have used slack, hipchat, irc, and many other chats over the years for dev teams. Joined a new small company and we are struggling really hard with MS Teams.

Teams is unique in how it "ticks all the boxes" but has enough small flaws and unfinished implementations that it makes for a really, really awful tool. There are fundamental problems with the software. To name a few:

- The notifications are wildly inconsistent - sometimes I'll get 5-6 email notifications for a single message that I already saw, sometimes I'll get email + app notifications for messages I am currently viewing, sometimes I'll get no notifications via email or app, for stuff that happened when I was offline.
- The way every message is like a new "post" and there can be replies - this is a unique idea, but just really bad to use in practice. When people reply to a post, it gets bumped to the bottom, so posts end up out of order. Also, all the replies to the post automatically get collapsed, making it really annoying to find anything.
- The mac app decided to stop displaying new messages (for WEEKS) in certain channels including our service errors channel - I finally gave up and can only use it on the web.
- the O365 file integration regularly crashes the browser and mac app. We share a lot of spreadsheets and this just sucks. Sharepoint sync on the mac breaks all the time. It spins and fails to track updates.
- O365 collaboration in the browser is brittle, especially disappointing compared to where Google Docs was 5+ year ago.
- The Teams search cannot find documents by name.
- The messages seem to be backed by email files in sharepoint, which makes a mess in sharepoint (not that it isn't kinda a mess already).

After using the google suite at many companies for many years, and having the standard on-prem microsoft stuff, I have to say Teams is not a viable solution for a software team. Teams "ticks all the boxes" but the execution can't compare to Slack.
Yep, that is exactly the kind of clause I’m asking about. 1 year I believe is typical.
I didn't say anything about "discrimination"? I was merely pondering the possibility that cross-language reference might increase the learning potential of ML.

If it can compare between different language models, then likelihood interpreting the right way could be increased. Google seems to be doing something like this with for Google translate, using Bible translations [0].

[0] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-goo...
I agree but that's to come by when your not in a legal state.
That's really cool. Would like to see more samples - the site seems pretty bare bones right now (not in a good way).
I agree, websites are the wrong tool.

What I'm envisioning is a desktop or phone app where you author posts and comments and read other people's posts and comments. The information is stored locally, but published out via a dumb server, with end-to-end encryption. Essentially, the server becomes an async dumb pipe (can just use WebDAV for this) or optionally a synchronous dumb pipe (if you add in a streaming protocol for notifications, such as websockets).

The software could also push up a static website made of any public posts, I suppose. :-)

I feel quite strongly that most users would benefit from their own device being the system of record for their posts, with the server functioning as coordination point and secondarily as an emergency backup.

(I'll be posting in more detail about this if you follow my blog's feed.)
yeah I did not intend to claim anything strong about that. edited my comment accordingly.
That's not what they said. A significant fraction (probably the majority) of Slack's functionality is server-side, not client-side. Even if the client were to be rewritten from scratch, you would not need to replicate 100% of Slack.

But you also don't need to re-implement the entire client. You need to do a significant architectural change for performance improvements, not a complete overhaul. Reasonable people can disagree about whether or not that's feasible for five engineers already familiar with the codebase to do within a few months. Your incredulity at the idea is unwarranted.
This raises the "oracle problem" which is that blockchain-recorded assertions about things outside of the blockchain are not necessarily correct (unless a community has agreed to treat them as definitionally correct).

If you have a trusted oracle for people's identities, you might just be able to trust that oracle's assertions (maybe that's what you're referring to as "cross signing") without also recording them in a blockchain, unless you're concerned that the oracle will tell the truth initially and then lie later on.
Regarding Syria, as I understand, their leader (Assad) has good relations with Russia and there is a Russian military base. It is obvious that if US-supported opposition would win then there would be pro-US government and American bases instead of Russian and Putin doesn't want that. I don't see how US's motives are anything different than Russians'.

While Assad is a dictator, he has support from a part of a population (and is hated by the other part). If you side with one part and drop bombs on another, the conflict won't go away. If you just look at the Wikipedia page [1] you'll see how many military groups and countries are taking part.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War
It's literally an equation, calories in = calories out. Any sustained inequality will lead to either eventual obesity or a slow death by starvation.
This is the subcommittee hearing that mentions the editing: https://reason.com/assets/db/1534803757948.pdf

I think the moderator stuff is enough to say this company should have been put out of business. I'm not sure when congress got their e-mails, though. Backpage and law enforcement clearly had a long-standing relationship, and it could be that law enforcement were aware of these activities and permitted them in order to keep receiving tips and cooperation. Even while Congress was after them in 2015, they were getting lauded privately by the FBI.

It's possible that law enforcement are somewhat culpable, hence the vehement nature of Backpage's persecution. We will probably only ever see the government's public side of the story, which is not good, as one result of this is the recently passed SESTA/FOSTA bullshit.
I think most people are too committed to finishing books that they start. Changing my attitude about this has made a huge difference in how much book content I actually read.

Until pretty recently, if I found myself reading a book that I found boring, or too dense, or hard to get into, I would just get "stuck". I wouldn't be able to pay attention for long enough to make real progress, but it would "block" me from starting any other books.

Now I just abandon the book and move on to a different book that I haven't started reading yet. It makes a huge difference in my "book throughput", and reading books cover-to-cover is overrated in any case.
I wonder whether there's some PageRank-like principal eigenvalue problem under the hood (similar to EigenTrust).

As my Linear Algebra prof used to say - deep down, everything is just linear algebra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EigenTrust
I worked for FB anti-spam team, and believe me, nobody trusted user feedback absolutely (i.e. it's good to send to review, but not automatically take down). I guess that with fake news the signal to noise ratio is even worse.

The whole article sounds more like focusing on one implementation details of review queue prioritization (i.e. what is the difference of definition of "fake news" for this user vs Facebook's definition), rather than bigger picture.
I don't have a strong opinion about where adult classifieds should run, here or Antigua, but I'm pretty sure that if you knowingly and deliberately profit from child sex trafficking --- as Lacey and Larkin are accused of doing --- you belong in prison.
Bing's excuse (at the time in 2011) was that it was the result of Internet Explorer, Bing toolbar, and other user behaviour within their products which seeded this data.

I'm curious if the Google engineers visited any of the 100 search terms using IE or Microsoft service... but I doubt that. There had to be some level of scraping. It's pretty embarrassing.

They also were using autocomplete terms that matched Google's perfectly, which is what initially caught Google's attention.
people who's data has noise seems like a compelling group.
I'm going to politely disagree here and say solving panic attacks doesn't take years but instead minutes. I suffered many panic attacks in my mate twenties and early thirties and then learned some simple techniques that solved the panic attacks in one fell swoop. The whole process took less than two minutes. I've since helped a few friends with the same and they have positive experiences in the same way.

If anyone's interested you can look into the work of Dr Bradley Nelson and more specifically his book The Emotion Code. I use a combination of Timeline therapy and emotion release and it does wonders for panic attacks.
Good read, thanks. However it looks at the eminence of aggregators as a given. I'd argue that at least in the retail space, aggregators provide a very lacking experience and that there is way too much inertia with the established brands for aggregators to work long term. As Amazon commoditzes everything, brands will fight back. So right now, you'd see a Nike shoe on Footlocker window or on a TV ad and perhaps buy it on Amazon. But what happens in few years, when your local mall shuts down, together with its Footlocker, and what happens when you don't see the TV ad any longer because you only have Netflix which doesn't air ads? How does Nike get to you?

I think the next wave in the ecommerce space is a class of backstage services providing direct to consumer logistics and infrastructure while letting the brands control the shopping experience. Brands will be more global and more accessible. No more territorial distribution limits; anyone anywhere could log into Nike and buy their stuff direct. This will call for enterprise-grade Shopify like tools.

While Amazon does the backend stuff amazingly well, their frontend and product discovery is on the verge of unusable and I don't think it's by mistake. They want to put all sellers on an equal and interchangeable playing field and let them spiral down towards oblivion.
About time...

Have never read up on details of Open Whisper, but how are the keys exchanged? I assume its TOFU (trust on first use), or is exachnge happening out of band?
I think the FCC is trying to remove that ability from States now because federal law overrules state law.

> The Attorneys General are hardly alone on this one. As Reuters notes, Mozilla, Vimeo and Etsy also joined forces today to file a legal challenge, while governors in six states have signed executive orders and three states have passed their own net neutrality laws.
Not all libertarians are objectivist Ayn Rand enthusiasts. I am not one.

I support the social safety net. I would disagree vehemently at the current implementation of the social safety net and people who want to expand it in at current form, especially without raising taxes to pay for it.

Both sides want more government support but no one wants to pay for it.
> maybe just maybe, a decent law will be passed to protect us.

Against what? A company rating their trust in our ability to use their resources? This happens on a daily basis with almost any company; it's just less formalized.
An IDE is essentially an extended front-end for a compiler.
You're correct, and it's unfortunate that we're both being downvoted for pointing out the flaws in this kind of thinking.

Brexit was a false choice foisted upon the people by wealthy special interest groups that used falsehoods[0][1] and illegal tactics[2] to mislead the people [3][4] into voting for something they didn't fully understand [5]

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/infact/brexit-second-referendu...

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/final-say-bre...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vote-leave-ca...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2018/05/30/615388562/fishermen-say-they-...

[4] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-voter...

[5] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/06/24/48...
Some places are trying to. America trusted corporations to have public interests in mind for too long.

Additionally, the federal government is attempting to censure states and municipalities which are doing so. When the federal government is in regulatory capture, the will of the people is immaterial.
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It's a little weird. Trap streets often aren't protected by copyright as the existence or non-existence of something is a fact and facts aren't copyrightable.

And maps are nothing more than a collection of facts. As are recipes. You can take the recipes in a cookbook, write them down, and disseminate them how you choose and no one could say boo. Which is why Coca-Cola guards its recipe carefully. Once it is known, they can't do anything about it. You can't copyright "a lot of sugar, carbonated water, caramel coloring, mix".

But you also can't just photocopy a map and sell it as your own. Presentation falls under copyright. The look of the map is a distinct piece of art that has copyright protections. The combination of colors, fonts, line thickness, placement of labels, etc, are all things you can't reproduce.

But the information that Bob Street crosses Bill and Jill streets at these points, that's just facts.
Not sure if "nothing was actually broken" is true... very few of the dependencies from my 0.18 project work with 0.19.
Is the current situation (lack of net neutrality) simply the lack of a law or is it a law or regulation? If the former, the states can enact their own net neutrality legislation. However, if the latter, the federal law or regulation takes precedence and the states cannot override it.
According to article it looks like it's about marking something as fake news (i.e. how "correct" you are in that). At least that is how I understood it.
The House of Representatives majority, which is held by the GOP and is anti - net neutrality, also represents more than 50% of the US population by this method of counting (which says the state AGs “represent” people who didn’t vote for them).

Under the constitutional system of the US something like net neutrality could be passed as a law by the congress, but there hasn’t been a congress that chose to do so.
I would guess it's more like environmental temperature leads to behavioral changes that then affect the average energy expenditure.
> One thing I don’t understand is why states do not enact their own net neutrality legislation.

I'm not from the States, but my guess is that they want it to be enforceable at the federal level. At state level, the ISP could theoretically lodge a compliant at a federal court and as per the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, the federal law, (no net neutrality), is extremely likely to win over state law.
No, it's pretty warranted. The 100% I was referring to _was_ just for the clientside. To rewrite that natively (since today it's in js on Electron) is not going to take a couple of months with five engineers.
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I'm betting people would pay to see you on stage with such wit and biting commentary like that.
They're not alleging that Bing is using Google to execute their searches - they're alleging that they are using data harvested from Internet Explorer users when they use Google, in order to add Google results to Bing's index.
Original thread on HN from 8yrs ago (511 upvotes): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2167875
Google is deciding that they can know what good news is. Facebook/Google have never tried to put people in information bubbles they just create the systems that enable people to do it to themselves. Everything is avoidable online, but we keep making it harder and harder for people to remain unbiased and share common truths.
Always expecting humans to be rational, this is why we fail.
This is 7 years old though, I would be curious to see if the experiment is still repeatable today.

I've noticed personally that bing has gotten a lot better, but that could just be because it's still a delayed version of Google.

Microsoft may even be using IE to harvest data to reverse engineer a Google search algorithm. Even if they make an inferior verision thats 90% as good, that's still good enough to keep them relevant in the market.
Seriously? did you read the article? Talk about selective observance to the extreme. The irony of such a response on thread that started with context is important and you immediately disregard all context not inline with your narrative.

Just a bit of what you might missed.

"...It was a grotesque distortion to portray the events in Ukraine as a purely indigenous, popular uprising. The Nuland-Pyatt telephone conversation and other actions confirm that the United States was considerably more than a passive observer to the turbulence. Instead, U.S. officials were blatantly meddling in Ukraine. Such conduct was utterly improper. The United States had no right to try to orchestrate political outcomes in another country—especially one on the border of another great power. It is no wonder that Russia reacted badly to the unconstitutional ouster of an elected, pro-Russian government—an ouster that occurred not only with Washington’s blessing, but apparently with its assistance..."
Glad to see this comment has risen from the [Dead]. As always, I would encourage HNers to think critically and fight bad language/ideas with better language/ideas, rather than downvoting or reporting anything that conflicts with your personal opinions.

Say what you will about Adam Curtis, he's no Alex Jones, which I hope would be obvious from his Wikipedia entry and filmography below.

I heard a lot about Hypernormalization online and finally gave in and watched it. I almost gave up 20 minutes in or so as there's no doubt it has a conspiracy theory feel to it, but am I glad I hung in there as it gets much, much better as it progresses. I found the portions on the history of Syria and the US Government's on again, off again, conveniently malleable relationship with Muammar Gaddafi particularly interesting.

I should also note, this documentary isn't a one-sided hit piece by any means, there's something for people of all political stripes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis#Filmography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
With how many bits of precision?
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I'm middle-aged, and even out in the sticks we had window air-conditioning. And affordable indoor heating has been a thing since long before I was born. Yet oddly enough, previous generations weren't butterballs. I didn't play a lot of Nintendo growing up, though.

An interesting hypothesis, but I think it easier to point to sedentary lifestyles and poor Western diets before I go off on a tangent like that.
How is this not a bug?