skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a twitter-like system, is there that much to lose when starting over, other than the community itself? I don't use twitter at all, but I'm imagining a twitter migration similar to a * chan mass migrations; the only baggage to take is the people and their way of doing things. I suppose with twitter you get a history of tweets, but as I understand it, tweets are only accidentally preserved, much in the same way * chans are by archival services. But they're not really meant to be referenced 5 years from now, as a longer-form document might.
"Build your own platforms if you don't like your censorship", they said. "Private companies can do what they want. Go make your own."

Bwahahahahahaahahaahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahah.

When I was young and stupid, I thought tech would be an unfettered, unassailable force for individual liberty. Now, I realize that people like Evgeny Morozov were right all along and that the internet is a tool for totalitarian thought control like the world has never seen.
Even more fun: As I recall (I could be wrong here), there are two different versions of SpiderMonkey in Adobe Reader: the one used here and a version for XFA [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFA
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Much like speech, misuse of alcohol is already against the law. And people that have shown themselves to be unable to consume alcohol safely can find themselves stripped of various freedoms.

Your argument is all over the place. From "no harm is being done" to "the harm is limited and already being punished" and now "harmful behavior should be tolerated."
By Calvinists I assume you are referring to Protestants? Or are you actually referring to Calvinistic Protestants? Just curious, outside of Christian circles and history I don't think I have ever seen someone reference Calvinists.
Fair enough, it's a metaphor, but a fragile one that breaks down easily, as I believe it has here. Using actual assembly to defend terse coding in javascript because javascript is "assembly for the web" doesn't work.
It rapidly became clear that the burdens of curation of circles and figuring out which one to use made using GP too much effort. FB does have a mechanism like that but it's barely even known about, while the coarser "group" mechanism does seemingly 95% of what people would want out of circles.

One might consider it an example of "worse is better", though I'm not convinced.

(Wow, just checked and Google+ is still available. I'd thought it had already shut down like Orkut and Wave).
That's literally impossible. What level did you get hired at? I'm assuming at least 5 given your background/exp? That's more than 300k EZ unless you're talking about salary only.
It probably should be left to individual states to work out to a large extent. That said, I really do think that common carrier rules should have been applied and stuck to very early on.
> We need a new internet

Let me know when it's done; seems you've got your work cut out for you..
Yep!

Though, to be fair it's complicated. Requiring them to fully fund their pension obligations rather than use pay-go accounting is absolutely fair. Not only fair, it should be entirely uncontroversial. And I think it would be relatively uncontroversial, partly because the USPS is slowly making ground. IIRC they're past 70% funding and it's steadily improving.

Setting aside the partisan politicking that has hijacked the debate, IIRC the real bone of contention are the healthcare liabilities. Congress won't allow the USPS to cut retiree healthcare benefits even though the union contracts permit this. Healthcare inflation grew substantially larger than expected. Though this wasn't entirely unforeseen--it's why the contract permits cutting benefits. This is what's actually bankrupting the USPS. Healthcare benefits are only funded to something like 30%, and the USPS simply can't gain any ground because of healthcare inflation.
Be very specific about your goals or else the position will burn people out fast. There are many aspects to marketing. You may think you want a "person to get us leads", but you end up needing creative services, ad trafficking, content marketing, social media management, copywriting, partner marketing management, brand management, web development, and (grrrr) email template design.

Those are all very different activities with their own tiers of expertise. If you are still going to try for one person, ask them "is your strength in tactical marketing or strategic marketing?" If they answer "both" it's neither, or equally mediocre. You may think you need strategic, because you watched a few seasons of Mad Men. But, you probably need a tactical marketing pro with 3-5 years experience executing on their own.
Your entire premise is utter nonsense.

Lots of countries have minimum local content provisions. And in none of those countries have their been companies whose sole job it is to produce garbage content. You know why ? Because (a) nobody wants to work or be involved with garbage, (b) the cost of producing garbage is often the same as producing something amazing, (c) its hard for writers to have the motivation to deliberately write garbage.

Often local content (due to their being less money) are really thoughtful, low budget dramas/thrillers which aren't expensive. And contribute greatly to teaching the world how people live. Case in point: Nordic police dramas. They also can be hugely popular/profitable internationally.
But it's false. The loss of net neutrality didn't end the internet like everyone said it would.

Instead, it's going just like the realists said: every couple months or so, Comcast and co do a new little fucky thing, slowly becoming shittier and shittier while dangling out carrots (that are later revoked) so people don't realize it.

It's the same as why asking kavanaugh whether he'll overturn roe vs Wade is a pointless question.

I think we should tell people what they realistically should be looking for. I think doing otherwise just gives opponents more ammunition. "See, net neutrality was repealed and nothing happened!"
Exactly. Ok, free/libre then if you insist.

A link just to make sure: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
This is her interviewed at length on The Open Mind about her subsequent book Pathfinders. Very inspiring.

http://www.thirteen.org/openmind-archive/aging/pathfinders/
It depends on the app. For a game engine (and I don't really mean Stockfish, I mean a game loop with input, network, world scripts, rendering etc.) you have a target frame rate which gives a fixed time budget for everything to happen, and you might divvy that up between different bits of code, where it makes sense to budget at a fine-grained level.

For something with a core loop, and all the value is in the core loop, sure, you can perf test the core loop.

But many applications are big, with lots of entry points, and data being worked with can come in different shapes and sizes. Sometimes it can have different dimensions that stress different bits of code. And it may be difficult to plan the breakdown of a global budget in this context.

Part of the catch-22 of optimization is that you need to profile before you optimize, otherwise you're likely to optimize the wrong thing. If you put your benchmarks at the unit level, you run the risk of having individual bits that are fast, but the whole doesn't run as fast as you'd hoped.
> I do think there could be a case made for Google abusing their power here

Which is the concern here. Abuse of power in order to push your own agenda could just as easily turn into abuse of power to push an agenda you despise.
That's a little like asking "What does a blacksmith do? Is it different than making horseshoes?"
I guess introduction to spell checkers is at the graduate level.
As a developer, I don't want to learn to make AMP pages.

As a user, I look at AMP pages, and still want the real thing, not the AMP page.

In general, on mobile, a lighter page is nice sometimes.

As a rule, I don't want the typical metric fuck-ton of trash that SEO advertising bloat, that pages dump into a single page load.

I don't want to sign up for email. I don't want to hear about how I can either accept cookies and continue reading because resistence is futile, or acknowlege that it's too late and also accept cookies, because everyone must accept all cookies, so just accept the cookies.

I also don't need convenient share buttons. I'm not embedding anything. I'm not tweeting anything. It's not going on stumbleupon or pinterest or anywhere else. I'm not posting the link for this page on any other website.

I'm not commenting with Disqus or in any other way, and I don't need 95% of the page scroll to consist of arguments between random people below the fold.
From what I remember, you're right that it doesn't strictly require an automated system, but the only way to practically do it is with an automated system. With current safe harbor provisions in the DMCA, if someone uploads copyrighted content, the host isn't liable as long as they take it down when notified. The new EU rules would make the host liable for any copyrighted content uploaded by a user, no safe harbor provisions. So you're options are automated filtering/blocking of all uploaded content, or roll the dice and hope that if a user uploads copyrighted content, that you find out before you get sued by the copyright owner.
Maybe it's an average and they include the SSDs.

Here's a better list:

https://gist.github.com/eshelman/343a1c46cb3fba142c1afdcdeec...
Regarding externalized systems, a relevant quote from the classic computer game Deus Ex (2000):

> Helios: The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because human beings themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system, yes, an industrial-age machine.

> JC Denton: Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems.

> Helios: Without computing machines, they had to arrange themselves in crude structures that formalized decision-making - a highly imperfect, unstable solution.
That's super interesting. I wonder why that is.
Advertising is a subset marketing, specifically the communication part. The rest of marketing includes pricing, positioning, customer personas, etc.
Not possible. Google has the web in a vice grip. Don't agree with their policies, drop in ranking, no one sees your disagreements.
> This is how centralization and sweeping censorship/fascism seems to work in the new modern era we live in

With thunderous applause. It's amazing if we take a retrospective look at how big web tech became the enemy, how the feeling was derived, our ideas of perceived harms, and our perception of helplessness of both the masses and existing laws. It reminds me of terrorism a generation before, drugs a generation before that, communism a generation before that, etc. There's little comfort knowing we cannot grow beyond our sheparded-sheep ways.
It is extraordinarily unlikely that Speck is backdoored, since it's a (deliberately) simple ARX block cipher transform, a close cousin to a variety of other block cipher designs from academic cryptography.
Vimeo used to be pretty popular
No, such an app would be extremely unsafe. If I have to keep walking to keep the show playing, I'll lose myself in whatever I'm watching and settle into a status quo where I power-walk deliberately along but with increasing detachment from my environment as I focus more and more on my phone.

This type of situation nontrivially raises the chance of tragedy if I decided to use this app in urban areas.

That's how I see it. Maybe your app could catch on in Japan, which offers "texting lanes" (dedicated sections of road for phone users completely lost to their environments) in some areas.

The only way I could see such an app being useful is if you were able to usefully blend the rear camera with the video being played in a way that was nondistracting.
No one owns Lucene. If everyone stopped developing Lucene, Elastic could devote resources to it which they already do. I don't think that is a potential risk at all.
> Email exists well within our very centralized federated political and cultural system, and so no, it is not meaningfully decentralized.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this, especially since you go on to say that artist communes in the US qualify. Surely these artist communes exist within our centralized political and cultural system as well? These communes presumably refer crimes such as murder to the centralized authority, the police, rather than lynch mob.

I actually suspect that any significant regulation of Mastodon would in fact increase decentralization. Since the software itself is open source, it will be hard to regulate, if not impossible (is code speech?). That means regulators have to go after hosts of instances. Perhaps some instances will comply with regulation, but I suspect many will not. The largest of the non-complying instances will be shut down.

If the complying instances are seen as inferior to non-complying instances, instead of flocking to the complying instances, the users of the instances that were shut down should distribute themselves amongst the remaining non-compliant instances. Some of these instances will be outside of the centralized authority's jurisdiction (for example, after SESTA, many sex workers flocked to a mastodon instance that was specifically set up for them; this instance is hosted outside the jurisdiction of the US).
This quote really jumps out at me:

> "It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't."

I think for some people, hearing something like this can do a lot for the feelings of frustration and despair towards the current state of our political system.

Of course, ideally it wouldn't have to be this way.
So-called "public pressure" is often made up. It usually goes like this - a lobbying company pays journalists to run a story that X causes Y. Journalists look in their network for people willing to confirm X causes Y and that they are outraged. The story is then exaggerated and run numerous times so that people get an emotional connection with the actors and start to believe X causes Y. This is an opportunity for a politician to offer a "solution". In the end, a company gets favourable legislation, a politician gets points and media get clicks and views. But society loses.
If there are no GPG signatures then it isn't legit. Thats pretty much rule number 1 of 3301
"Everyone I know agrees with me" is not a trustworthy signal.

It doesn't mean you're wrong, of course. I am still learning to assume that smart people are smart people who, by and large, have smart reasons for things that on their face seem silly to me.

I think this is one of those times for me. Not knowing the bigger picture, I want to give you the benefit of the doubt. But as one piece of stylistic feedback, since bikeshedding is easy: Congress repealed the Taxation of Readable Variable Names Act around the time that autocompletion was invented. I am dumb and find those far easier to read at a first glance.

Edit: I guess this thread is one of those times that software reveals its true nature, which is that it has almost nothing at all to do with computers.
The point I think is important here, is that (in my opinion) it's lobbied censorship/control though. This isn't the Government forcing their ideology through regulation - this is Corporations lobbying and buying out politicians, and the Government is the accessory to it.

We need better politicians.
Car makers support safety regulation because it further entrenches their position and increases barriers to entry.

That does not mean that safety regulations are wrong, or that they need to be rolled back in the name of innovation.

The mantra that any imposition on innovation is bad just does not hold true. There will be services that challenge YouTube's dominance, and there will be innovation in the copyright protection space to enable that.

You might believe that the increased cost to market entry is detrimental, but you have to actually explain why the inability for garage-startups to compete with YouTube is materially bad for artists, rather than taking it as an article of faith.
Google's feed avoids the filter bubble trap
Considering you could trivially compose a DMCA notice via cut and paste and search and replace in minutes and google I sense we aren't getting the whole story.

Can you explain what 45 seconds of video was worth $1 to get off the internet. 45 seconds isn't a song length let alone a video of note.

Here is a random guess here. The 45 seconds was damaging in some way to the client and they really wanted to bury something.
Looks like the submitter was helpfully trying to adhere to HN title conventions. But in this case I don't think "How" is so bad. Also, we'll put "may" above, since you make a good point there.
Because it's expected for early stage companies: low CFO, high CFI, low CFF.

As they mature, CFO grows, CFI normalizes and CFF grows to profitability.
TDWTF really likes to pick on MUMPS, but for its time it wasn't that bad. Although maintaining undocumented old M code was... an interesting experience.

On the other hand, see a valid use case for NoSQL storage engine, I'd much rather use M than any other alternative.
>pressing problems

Which pressing problem is this solving? I agree with the rest of your statement for the most part but I disagree with your initial framing that all of this is the result of governments trying to solve "pressing problems".
If someone with a history of robbing banks arrived at my bank with a ski mask and a bulging duffle bag, I would say "go away, bank robber". The analogy to cryptography would be the NSA proposing yet another PKRNG, of any kind.

On the other hand, if someone with a history of robbing banks called me on the phone and asked me what the interest rates on my checking accounts were, I would tell them, because they can't rob my bank over the phone. The analogy here would be to the NSA suggesting a streamlined, simplified ARX block cipher transform, a backdoor in which would imply some fundamentally unknown property of block ciphers that would presumably jeopardize a whole variety of other academic ciphers, and would not accomplish the NOBUS property that NSA requires of backdoors in things they encourage USG assets to use themselves.
Exactly - the UK currently has comparable GDP per capita to tiny middle of nowhere commonwealth economies like New Zealand.

Yet they have the fundamentals to be at least at Australian and Canadian levels of prosperity.
I think you're right there. TempleOS is full of Bible metaphors - the root task is Adam, HolyC is a pun, etc. The circumcision metaphor fits.

..I wonder how much more of Terry's seemingly nonsensical musings are actually lucid metaphors. The man needed a translator (or the "holy spirit", metaphorically speaking)
But he said "regulations that stifle", not "regulations that are essential". It seems like people don't even read comments nowadays and just get triggered by keywords.
> There are also many positive examples

Can you list others besides GDPR? I'm ignorant, but interested.
Nexus 6p from 2015 still works great.

Just had a new battery put in a month ago. Runs like a champ, only needs to charge every other day.
Try using HN search to find old comments about Burroughs. It's possible, if you find some, that we could put you in touch with the commenter. In that case email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll be happy to help.
But it's false. The loss of net neutrality didn't end the internet like everyone said it would

It seems too early to tell how that's going to play out since it's such a political change -- I wouldn't expect providers to make any significant changes to take advantage of Network Neutrality at least until the midterm elections are over, no point investing in a business model if it's likely to change with the election.
Can we get to the text and videos without all the school-ish crud? (starting a course, timelines etc.)
yes, but german also has the term "Sorte" which is used to categorize the variations of fruits and other stuff. the macintosh apple is one sort and the boskop apple is another. you can have different sorts of flour, etc. so the meaning of "sortieren" has changed, but it's definetly related to categorizing.

greetings, eMBee
Not only that, but what's with all of the Followers you get on Instagram that appear to be fake accounts made to sell porn? I used to get all of these weird "You're now being followed by..." notices. I'd tap on the profile pic (if it looked safe) only to be greeted with porn pics. And they'd have a ton of followers! It got to where I was nervous to even use the Instagram app around my kids for fear of what might show up there.

It was bad.
Yes, there is a state issued (means tested, but not that hard to get) Pension that is funded out of general revenue. The 10% that is referred to is a separate but mandatory amount known as "supperannuation" - this is taxed at a reduced rate.

I believe that this is similar to a 401K in the US, except that it's mandatory for all workers who earn over a small amount (less than the minimum weekly earning).

The long term intent of this is to increase "private" savings to reduce the general-revenue funded pensions (though there is a large industry around structuring assets and savings to allow people to have their savings and still get the pension).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia
It is not that a website can run over people...
It might change, if we figure out neutrino-based communications. In which case we reduce that timing to roughly 48ms.
Contextually-Aware Search: GIPHY Gets Work-Specific
Perhaps I've misunderstood your desire to be sarcastic, but I think your timeline is off. To give two concrete examples, Geman and Geman's "Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images" paper is from 1984 and Holland's "Statistics and Causal Inference" paper is from 1986.
I had an ethics class for my Bachelors in Science at UIC (part of the engineering department). Is an Ethics class not standard for the CS curriculum?
You can make those kind of numbers say anything. Saying that a country like Sweden is "receding" in "digital evolution" is pretty ridiculous when almost everything is more advanced than 99% of the world. And on top of that most of these "stand out" countries have few to no technology businesses of note.
I've pinched your description for the title above. (I just know we'll get complaints if we leave it as "Scrapping Contracts".)
But, isn't this literally the point of the European common market? Germans make the best pretzels, Italians make the best olive oil, and French make the best cheese, and all the countries can share their exports with each other with no trade barriers.

Why should protectionism be embraced for cultural exports when the EU was literally established to eliminate protectionism for other exports?
The prose in this article reads like an 80s advertisement. Intentional, given the Knight Rider references?
although french and italian are seen as romantic by some :-)
AI os basically bullshit in startups - call it statistics and I'd be glad