skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion not discussing things because you think the topic is going to be potentially harmful, or discussion 'impolite', is regressive. Those are the very things that most need active and open discussion. Otherwise it's akin to aiming to have kids never do drugs by never talking about them, or when you do talk about them to present them as caricatures that anybody with an ounce of grey matter can realize is out of touch with reality. D.A.R.E., for instance, actually resulted in higher drug use among participants!

I think a major part of the extremism that seems to be slowly gripping America is largely because a lack of any dialogue between sides that disagree. Instead people surround themselves with 'safe' voices and fall deeper and deeper into the bowels of their own view system, which also tends to correspond to a fall further and further from anything resembling reality.

Another example would be religion. Religion is quite dangerous and is now dying in the western world. But it's not dying because people stopped talking about it. Far from it -- to this very day we have god on all of our money, kids pledge allegiance to a nation under god, you swear oaths on a religious text under god, and so on. The reason it's dying is because people actively talk about it and advocates for religion are at a loss for a rational and compelling argument in favor of it.
You are right, a p2p web wont solve the barrier to entry, but web hosting costs $20 a year, so its not much of a barrier.

The real cost is scale, $20 year will cover a few thousand users but if you want googles scale it will cost you in bandwidth and complexity. p2p like torrents radically reduces the cost of bandwidth by distributing it, but more importantly it reduces complexity by standardising it.

Once the complexity is standardised budget web hosting can provide google scale for dirt cheap, and there are millions of budget hosting companies too many to shutdown them all giving you censorship resistance.
I've seen this kind of thing in person. What I can't believe is that it was uploaded. I don't want to believe that someone like Terry would do this to themselves.
The UK already has a law that is somewhat related to this (and was probably an inspiration for this)[1], but the proposed Australian bill has a ridiculously low standard and no judicial oversight. Even if you think that breaking all encryption systems used in Australia would stop terrorism (and that it would be a fair deal) you should still argue that it needs judicial oversight to stop us from forming a police state.

I can't believe it's actually necessary to argue to our MPs that a bill proposing access to every encrypted message that has anything to do with Australia without any judicial oversight is precisely the sort of tool that a police state wants -- and that even if they agree with the crux of the bill (which they shouldn't) that the bill itself is fucking insane.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016
>I find it pretty unlikely that nothing would evolve to eat the mirror bacteria.

It may be the case that there is no easy jump for existing prokaryotes to handle mirror proteins. However in the 'worst case', predation would simply re-emerge from the original prokaryote via speciation ... but it may take a long time.
Perhaps such interception capabilities were developed because encryption technology wasn't widely available at the time. Even back then people with high security needs encrypted phone calls with contemporary encryption technology. Times have changed and encryption technology is widely available now. The question is whether encryption will be broken by people resisting change or whether law enforcement will be satisfied with metadata alone.

EDIT: Should have been posted under grandparent.
so what? Should we all have the same, or similar? I would've thought the focus would be on lifting up the poorest, not bringing down the richest. If you bankrupted every billionaire in the world you could give everyone on the planet about $1000, and that's presuming that a) net worth estimates are accurate and b) liquidating a billionaire's net worth would actually result in that amount of cash (it wouldn't). Ultra-rich individuals hoarding money aren't exactly emptying out the economy.
That's because it has nothing to do with skin colour and everything to do with the age old religious concept of light and darkness. However people will find a reason to get upset about anything so at this point it might as well be.
It implies that the conventional view of medieval medicine as little more than hocus pocus needs to be rethought.

Is that a common opinion on medival medicine? I never thought that it was all hocus pocus but only that their explanations were totally wrong most of the time.

An example is the medival idea that bad smells transfer diseases. It's not the smell itself but since it is a byproduct of rotting and decay, avoiding the smell made people also avoid the source of some infections. So it's easy to come to this conclusion.

That is why I think that having a closer look at old medical recipes is a great starting point - not the solution but a thing worth looking at.
It's my understanding that once Australia passes it there's no need for the other 5 Eyes countries to pass it, since they have agreements to be able to send data they've collected to other 5 Eyes countries. Which means that they could just send all of the data to Australia and have the encryption broken (as-a-Service you might say).

Unfortunately I was out of the country when this whole shitshow went down. I sent an email, but I'm going to go see my Federal MP in person tomorrow.
I mean, it already is. Brexit threatens that, as opposed to providing an opportunity.
trump is shaping the country towards his view of the world. A view where there are no such things as friends. Either people are there to inflate your ego while trying to get power or people are there to be used and have their power subjugated. For countries, regardless of how brash and abrasive international relations go, weaker countries will try to win favor by showing support and powerful countries (that were friends) are now being pummeled and face the decision to ride out the crassness or break ties.

you can live a life with that world view but what a hollow hollow inhuman life. and those people will desert you the moment you cease to have power.
>But to come back: crappy networks are not a reason to ditch "custom" ports. Fix the network.

I heavily disagree. Broken and crappy networks exist and for the user it's easier if the software we write works on broken and crappy networks. Most users will not complain to the network if YOUR software doesn't work on it but other software works fine.

That's simply the reality of the situation.
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> these stories come from somewhere

A very rich imagination? It's so easy to see something perfectly normal and imagine a whole new world around it. Even more so if at the time there is no "rational" explanation for it.

A three headed malformed dog? It must be the monster guarding the entrance to Hell.
Firefox is slow as molasses for me, Chrome-based browsers feel SO MUCH snappier - I'm talking about things like e.g. tab-detaching.

I moved fully to Vivaldi about half a year ago and I couldn't be happier. There are only 2 issues I've encountered so far:

- sometimes, video in full screen is flickering (known issue)
- sometimes, when the tab is closed while playing video in full screen, the whole browser UI disappears and the only way to fix this is to kill and restart the browser - the obvious workaround is to never close the tab while being in full screen

Other than that I'm very impressed with Vivaldi. Gestures, clean and USABLE interface, web panels are great features that I can hardly work without anymore.
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If Google hired reasonable smart engineers, they'd know that a 10 year old account with a stable history of regular emails isn't a spam account.

Unfortunately, Google doesn't seem to have the best staff. Or even good staff.
Could you explain, what privacy issues exist with Chromium?
Nothing, honestly. I was just looking to learn if there was a tool in C that could let me be just as productive as Pandas.
> The real problem here is that these services (twitter, fb, whatsapp, etc.) are designed for use by educated, urban people who know the basics of tech. And they are then marketed to uneducated people in remote areas to reach growth metric targets that Zuck and co can fling around at their next meeting.

I'm deeply disappointed that your comment is on the top in this discussion! As one of the "educated and urban" people, I take umbrage at this completely ridiculous and nonsensical statement. The fact that you can even make such a statement as an "educated and urban" person says a lot about the pathetic thinking in urban circles. FWIW, I have seen many so called "educated and urban" people also falling for various WhatsApp scams and fake news. While knowledge of technology may be poorer among uneducated people "in remote areas", it's not unique to them alone. You'd know that urban dwellers aren't immune by any means to these things if you had followed the news on lynchings and other mob attacks in cities.

Before you start arguing further, are you even aware how many urban people fall for all the sensational and fake debates on TV that are just meant to get ratings up, create controversies and tensions? Where is your (or anyone's) focus or acknowledgment on those?
I'm getting more and more worried that it doesn't help just waiting for the world to get back to its senses. US is not the only country where leading politicians have seemingly lost their minds - and there I'm not as naive to think that it will be over when the current politicians leave office.
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But what is reality, for whom? For what amount of people? What of those who never hit this "reality" at all? They exist, and a comment like yours is mysteriously never addressed to them, and it's not clear where this personal development would occur or why.

I see this as a good thing. It makes people expect more, demand more, raise issues. Because the issue in the blog is worth raising. Otherwise, they'll just settle for what is. And the is has never been very good.

The cognitive dissonance was from assuming that the world was fair, but you make this mistake as well.

Reality is malleable and changes constantly, one day your core skill is learning how to throw a spear the next it's how to manage computers; it's all rather unreliable and it differs very strongly depending on where you ended up...
Of course we do: car races, bike races, but also human races yes. You may be confusing race and (sub)species.
Signal is free software[1] -- GPLv3 in fact. Don't get me wrong, it has its own issues with Moxie having very strange views of the threat model (and being anti-federation and anti-distribution), but it is definitely not proprietary. I also concur with the Matrix.org recommendation.

[1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android
I do not. I don't live in the US either. Is that relevant?

I never suggested that WhatsApp doesn't have to obey the law in the countries it wishes to operate in. But it seems very strange to me that a discussion about the moral and ethical implications of software is now concluding with (paraphrasing you) "the solution is simple: whenever 3 people communicate online, they should be subject to government surveillance". Really? The developers of WhatsApp should have foreseen that people unaccustomed to the internet might kill people when sharing hoax videos, but you don't foresee any possible negative consequences to your proposed "simple" solution?

I think the cure you propose is worse than the disease, but if that is what India really wants then by all means let them pass a law to make it so. In that case I hope WhatsApp will create a separate app for India, because I wouldn't want to get into a group conversation with an Indian by accident.

Apart from that, I don't think your solution is as simple as you claim it to be. When people from different parts of India are in a group-chat, who is the local authority? What happens when some or all participants in a group chat move to a different place? If a foreigner visits India for one (minute/hour/day/week/month/year/decade), when do the local authorities get the right to enter all their group chats? Will they leave those chats when nobody remaining in the group chat is in India? Would this law apply to Indians abroad?
Can you explain a little more what you mean by this?
"eye color is a social construct" and "the importance of eye color is a social construct" are two completely separate ideas. OP clearly states '"race" is a social construct'.
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Saw that Tell HN yesterday about Chrome logging you in to Gmail.

Switched to Firefox. It's so damn fast nowadays (it wasn't up until a while back)

Good job at amazing people at Mozilla. You're killing it.
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Conversely to your comment, I find that -if this paper really represents the
state-of-the-art- then the state-of-the-art is extremely limited.

The authors of the paper report as their major contribution a technique that
must be applied to each specific object separately and their experiments cover
47 objects in 3 "distinct classes" (shoes, hats, mugs and a mix of objects from diverse other classes):

We’ve also shown that self-supervised dense visual descriptor learning can be
applied to a wide variety of potentially non-rigid objects and classes (47
objects so far, including 3 distinct classes), can be learned quickly
(approximately 20 minutes), and enables new manipulation tasks.

I'm guessing that by "real world application" you mean an application where
a robot hand is required to manipulate arbitrary objects of unconstrained
shape. Even given the relatively short training time reported in the paper
(though with a pre-trained CNN model to begin with) this is not something that
can be reasonably expected by this kind of system. There are potentially
billions of different object shapes in the real world!

For real world applications a giant leap forward is required: a kind of AI
system with the ability to generalise well from few examples. This seems to
still be far out of the reach of the current generation of deep neural net-
driven vision systems.
What data are you afraid of being stored and sold exactly? Does Vivaldi route your traffic through company servers?
No thanks, just throwing a tarball a someone else face is not making anything "open-source".
Imagine a millionaire, which went through towns breaking windows for fun (he likes the noise and throwing rocks) or art (broken windows make nice reflections on sidewalk) and payed for every broken window. Is this not destroying value?
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I tried Vivaldi a few days ago as Firefox, despite their efforts to up performance, is still far too slow for me. The disadvantage I found that Vivaldi has is the number of extensions is basically 0 (please correct me if I am wrong). Installing chrome extensions is possible if you build from source and bake in the extensions, which is not something I am interested in.

I currently use Opera, but I am unsure about the privacy. Opera works very well though and there is an extension that allows installing chrome-extensions which works out very well.

Any thoughts on Opera's privacy?
> Money remained in the private economy rather than in the central budget? Is that your point here?

My point was that Polish government is using nationalistic propaganda, and I'm pretty sure I was clear. Regarding economy (which is an offtopic you started) my point is, that the government increased spending to buy votes to the point that even at the peak of global economic boom we can't balance the budget. How will it work when the boom will inevitably end? It is not sustainable, especially not in the face of demographic crisis (and contrary to the propaganda 500+ isn't going to help - Poland still has negative net change of population, and it's getting worse).

But economy worries me less than the government playing with fire and supporting antiliberal, nationalist, xenophobic propaganda. Because economy you can fix in a few years. Fucked up society you're stuck with for decades.

> we're building a competing block in the form of V4 and external trade ties

V4 votes differently than Poland on vast majority of sessions in EU parliament. Any sort of V4 or "intermarrum" alliance as an alternative to EU or NATO is a pipedream. We have few common interests, potential candidates have no reason to ally us except on immigrants crisis, and even then we have little to offer them. And if we forced them to choose Poland or EU they will choose EU every time.

> The previous team [of public media] wasn't any more neutral

Demonstrably false. https://i.imgur.com/NkSbLtm.jpg Also with more details (but different period) https://www.wykop.pl/wpis/22910245/pamietacie-zapewne-te-akc...

There was never such a biased public media in Poland since communism fell. Data says so, it's not subjective.

> Wake me up when the nationalization gets any traction in the society.

PIS supporters generally agree with the proposition to buy foreign owned media (and even some Polish independent media) by national companies. Government can do it very cheaply - making laws that make private media in Poland unprofitable, buying the media cheaply, then reversing the law. That's how Hungary did it.

> Holocaust lies were prohibited in Germany and other countries well before in Poland

The problem is - Poland tried to prohibit some Holocaust truths as well. Also it's funny how even government admitted it was bad, and you're still defending it. More Catholic than the pope :)

> We still seem to hold higher plurality standards

No we don't. If you think we do please show data confirming it.

> [western EU survived immigration crisis] with much weakened political scenes and societies split along partisan lines

Just like Poland, then? And we had no crisis to blame this on, just Jarek playing with fire.

> with low trust and dialogues in the nation

Poland consistently scores worse than western Europe (especially than Scandinavian countries) on rankings about trust in society and trust in public institutions. For example https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282817518_Social_an...

> Meanwhile here in Poland we trade with the immigrants just fine

"3rd Reich integrated Austrian immigrants well, therefore they weren't xenophobic."
"...A retraction would have made clear what the problem with the paper was. Sure, publicly saying "we made a mistake" sucks, but not doing so empowers the author of the paper to claim they are being persecuted for their beliefs..."

Or simply imagine so, given a lack of information.

I'm still trying to sort this out.

So this entire thing boils down to "Not-so-good pop-math piece is hated by some. It is first accepted by a journal, then rejected without comment, leading the authors to believe it was a deliberate campaign that led to their rejection, not the quality of their work"?

And the proof that it was a quality issue that caused it to be pulled?

I'm thinking we still don't know. All I know from reading this thread is that the article doesn't match up in quality against others that were published. I'm not saying this thread is wrong. I'm saying that speculating on the quality of the work is as much bullshit as the authors claiming it was a campaign. To your point, without a clear retraction, it's just people making stuff up -- based on stuff they already believed long before this paper ever came along.

So far? Not so much. But admittedly, only the flame-throwers get the media attention.
I neither know nor care about this. The only reason it interests me is the quality of the debate, which I would hope among mathematicians would be a little better than average. (Since I admire them so)
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> hasn't done more to foster local tech companies

The rules against state aid make this hard to do, and it's also something that has been tried in the past with limited success. Quite a lot of EU ""neoliberal"" policy exists because the dirigiste policies of previous years were expensive and unsuccessful.

There are a few attempts such as https://atos.net/en/products/defense-mission-critical/hoox-s... ; that was actually developed by former state-owned computer company Groupe Bull.

Atos themselves are, like Serco, one of those "privatised functions of the state" companies that do public sector work but without public sector unionisation.
Again, languages with a built in bottom usually have sub typing behavior that makes bottom a subtype of everything (so you can give a value of type bottom to everything).

'forall a. a' is just how you define the bottom type in System F, which Haskell is somewhat based on. As a type it describes that a term of that type can just conjure a value of any type out of thin air, which is obviously nonsense. That what makes it the bottom type.

The sub typing behavior associated with that is just the normal subsumption rule of polymorphic functions.
The same reason why you can pass a function of type 'forall a. a -> a' to something expecting a function of type 'Int -> Int'. The types don't 'match' directly, but they do under the subsumption rule.
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Outsourcing has been around for 25 years, but it hasn't yet penetrated the startup and SME scene.

Outsourcing was popularised by Tim Ferriss 10+ years ago, but this is only small scale freelancing outsourcing - its not 'real outsourcing'...

TaskUs recently raised $250m from Blackstone, which shows a rising interest in the industry.

Outsourcing can save up to 90% on staffing costs, and is probably the most transformative tool in business today. Yet, no one knows about it... and not enough businesses are outsourcing...

People aren't quick to outsourcing because the sector is plagued by uncertainty, unease and ambiguity...

Outsource Accelerator has responded to this by creating the first 'TripAdvisor' for outsourcing.

We have now just launched the Source Superstore which allows you to easily browse, compare and purchase productised outsourcing services. Now it is easier than ever to learn about, and and shop for outsourcing services.

Would love to hear your thoughts...

Why aren't more people outsourcing?
Are you being paid to run this community? nobody should be losing sleep over Reddit.
Stuff like my browser fingerprint, what extensions am I using, what website am I browsing, what operating system am I running, what is my location, etc.

It's not about conspiracy theories, just acknowledging that we don't know what's happening under the hood.
From https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/api-keys:

> Some features of Chromium use Google APIs, and to access those APIs, either an API Key or a set of OAuth 2.0 tokens is required. Setting up API keys is optional. If you don't do it, the specific APIs using Google services won't work in your custom build, but all other features will run normally.

From experience, running without API key means that the browser will nag you at every start. If it doesn't, you do have them and then the browser uses APIs mentioned on the page.
You can install any Chrome extension using the regular Chrome web store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/

Link is on the "Apps" page: vivaldi://apps