skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
whoever has power would just censor whatever they don't like and claim they're exercising their free speech.

Have you ever heard someone claim "freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences"? [1]

Seems like an increasingly popular mechanism to publicly litigate the affair in public, muzzle someone from the comparative out-group while insulating themselves from all consequences one might faces themselves from their own petard.

I'll admit there's probably some merit to it-if you applied enough context and nuance to it. Problem is the types of people I observe online deploying this conceit very rarely do so in good faith and rarer still express any willingness to appreciate context or nuance.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/01/10/when-satire...
Sometimes it can be hard to tell it is a sunk cost that’s the problem
HN is profoundly biased in the comments that appear--and those that are "squelched". It's pathetic.

Example:

1 hour ago, user "remarkEon" posted something that was flagged, and then removed entirely, but before it was removed, the children comments gave hint that it included essentially: 'Many people with conservative views in general are being suppressed; it is not limited to people who speak out e.g. against minorities.'

I assume this because, the comments replying to it were essentially bashing it as if the onus was on remarkEon to provide examples substantiating his/her claim. As if the concept is so unfathomable.

For example, a child comment from user "notatoad" 1 hour stated (in full):

> Can you give even a single example of how the parent comment is a gross misrepresentation?

> Who is a conservative personality that's been silenced by a tech company but has never attacked minorities, equal rights, or promoted violence?

An early reply to that from user "itbeho" stated (in full):

> Just today...

> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-22/james-woods-suspen...

"itbeho" was further grayed out. For providing exactly a requested example substantiating the statement that remarkEon was alluding to. And an example from /just today/.

All posters who were critical of the parent poster "remarkEon" were "in full view"--with black comments.

As with tech in general, we need particular users and/or moderators of HN to stop suppressing true statements of fact. Especially when there is a systemic, clear bias against a specific "political flavor" to the statements.

This is precisely the issue discussed in the linked article. Peoples' perspectives of reality are being warped by what is shown to them--and what is hidden from them. Certain facts are being suppressed, which creates an extremely distorted view of reality, e.g. real events and the rate at which they occur.
It works for me. I just tried logging in into Gmail in Firefox 61.0.2 on Mac. I've tried both Solo and a U2F key (Digipass Secure Click). What yubikey are you using? I can give it a shot.
Bucklescript doesn't really count, because it is a relatively thin layer on top of javascript, not even Webassembly. It looks interesting, but the lack of popularity argues somewhat against it.

It may be still in the race...
"Yet look beyond machine learning and consumer services, and the picture for Europe is less dire. A self-driving car cannot run on data alone but needs other AI techniques, such as machine reasoning, which is done by algorithms that are coded rather than trained—an area in which Europe has some strength. Germany has as many international patents for autonomous vehicles as America and China combined, and not only because it has a big car industry."

Important point. Not only see I more hope for deep innovation in the manufacturing sector than in selling people the most targetted ads, this also has the potential to create much more equitable outcomes for everyone in the economy.

I don't really understand the concept of a 'AI superower' at all. Superpower at what, warfare? Concentration of wealth as AI returns flow to only a handful of people? Have Americans and the Chinese pondered whether there is some higher goal to the development of AI or just competition for competition's sake?

As a European(and German) citizen, I am much less concerned about taking the slow and steady route here. I have no interest in seeing Europe destroy its privacy or using AI to malevolent ends just to stay ahead in some fictional horse race.

People told us in the 80s that if we didn't move ahead with the service economy we'd be stuck in an archaic industrial society, and Thatcher was hailed as the reformer. I see parallels here to the AI debate. Now, where has this gotten the UK outside of London? For me, AI looks more and more like the hype around finance and services around that time. I'm okay with being a somewhat slow and bureaucratic grumpy German, if we get to be the guys who put advanced technologies into boring machines without much fanfare that's fine, people seem to keep buying them.
It's worth looking at what you wrote once more from the parent poster suggested perspective "that actual stakeholders would be interested in investing into".

You're giving an example about an improved CMS. If I imagine myself in the shoes of any actual stakeholder who's got a bunch of employees using (or is paying for the development of) a nontrivial CMS system, I don't really see why they would consider your proposed features as needed and valuable. They don't have a problem with referencing the correct Venice, they can say what they want to say as accurately they want with the current CMS systems. If they're writing an article, then either the weather forecast and flight connections would be relevant to the intended message and included by the writer/editor, or otherwise they should be avoided in order not to distract readers from what the publisher wants. Similarly, having 'backlinks' may be considered harmful if the publisher doesn't want the reader to easily go to another resource.

That is the point of looking at the benefit to stakeholders. It doesn't matter if some approach will or will not "create long-lasting contribution to mankind", that's not why technologies get chosen - if the stakeholders who are making the decision on whether to use this technology have an incentive to do so, it will get used, and if they don't have such an incentive, then the technology will die.

And that's the prime weakness of semantic web - its usefulness requires content creators to adopt the technology, but it doesn't provide any strong incentives for these content creators to do so; the main potential benefits accrue to someone else e.g. the general public, not to those who would need to bear the costs of adapting the content. I don't see how it can be successful without addressing this important misalignment of incentives, since incentives matter far more than technology.
The tensor product is not exactly like the Cartesian product because not all the elements of the tensor product of the Hilbert spaces representing each qbit can be written as the tensor product of the individual qbits.

In the cross join case, all the elements are pairs of elements from the original tables. In the Hilbert space of a composite system only the separable states can be written as the tensor product of states of the subsystems.

"Observation 3.6.5: Interesting two-qubit states. Not every 4-dimensional vector can be written as a Kronecker product of two 2-dimension vectors, e.g., you can have a two-qubit state |Ψ⟩ such that:

|Ψ⟩ = ̸= |ψ⟩|φ⟩, for any one-qubit state |ψ⟩ and |φ⟩

These types of states (called entangled states) are very intriguing and play a
fundamental role in quantum mechanics."
What does VAT has to do with it? VAT (as sales tax) is on the buyer.

Yes, in the US you can have something like 5%/10%. But it's not the main price determiner.

Also several company regulations don't exist for companies < 50 employees. Same as the US/Canada

I believe entrepreneurial and investment culture is a more important drive of innovation and startups than regulations. And yes, fewer people will give you an Angel investment in Europe for a murky business plan, while in the Valley you might get 100k for showing something in your laptop to an Angel over coffee.
Same as me. I was like: "Wat the f*, I should check it!!" 2 minutes later... mmmm.....
> Street markets and retail shops

In cities with police forces. Purchases at street-markets don't devolve into robbery because police forces disincentivize that. The municipality taxes you for that service, and so is effectively a middleman and rent extractor for these transactions.

Also, in cases where you've decided to trade using cash rather than to barter, you're being protected from your counterparty paying with counterfeit currency, by the state coming down rather harshly on counterfeiters, keeping counterfeit currency out of the market. That's a service they provide in exchange for state-level taxes. So, another middleman and rent extractor in your transaction.

> one off websites

When this works, it's because the payment processor (Stripe, PayPal) is acting as the middleman and rent-extractor.

Even without a payment processor, you can usually seek redress from your credit card company (another middleman and rent-extractor.)

Also, a search engine probably acted as a matchmaking agent to lead you to reputable services (and so is also acting as a rent-extractor in a round-about way, with sponsored ads and such.)

Without these parties in play, the Internet is not a safe place to transact. 99.99% of credit card input forms on the internet (by volume) are those of phishing domains. That's what a non-iterated prisoner's dilemma looks like.
Still more work than just using braces.
ColorBox by Lyft Design
What formulations equate entropy with uncomputability? That doesn't seem to make much sense to me. Do you have a reference that I could read?
Building polluting factories on Mars would be perfectly fine in fact it would be encouraged it would be a critical part of any terraforming project.
I believe that near omniscient surveillance is inevitable because it is too easy.

And, as an entirely separate point, because the information is too important — not just for exciting headlines about crime prevention (which is probably one of the last things it will fix in the general case rather than specific things like littering or speeding), but also for the mundane e.g. how to train an AI to do a production line job by watching people do production line work, or monitoring all substance use in real life to determine drug interactions.

I want a social, legal, and political system which takes this into account; one that tries to fight against it will fall to blackmailers, fully automatic payment frauds, and thieves cloning your door key from photographs.
Very well put. Not taking a stance, but rather just analyzing the constraints on possible conclusions.

> The only thing that would be required for that is a causal relationship (yet to be observed in science) between your dying mind and some other living structure.

Especially this part is phrased so accurately. Of course we are yet to observe anything similar to it either. Something that survives death and is capable of supporting thought. It would have to be something material, right?
Treating the Prodrome
nobody ever writes the book about a language/paradigm's downsides

Indeed. One can argue that books like "optimizing X" or "secure X" are about ways to easily write slow or insecure code in X, but this is somewhat narrow. Is there never enough demand for a broader book on downsides of X?
>"These are the same people that claim to be anti-regulation and anti-big government"

Is it? From some other comments in this thread it sounded like "those people" already built alternatives for themselves (voat and gab.ai). Or did you mean "republicans"?
For people who are interested in these things, I'd highly recommend Chris Okasaki's thesis/book on the topic.

I was not familiar at all with this stuff when I read through it the first time, so it was a tad mind-bending and I probably understood ~10% of it, but it was certainly educational.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf
And yet, these cultural problems have existed for many decades. While I'm certainly not claiming that the Euro and EU are the sole causes of today's problems, the introduction of the Euro is the more recent change, and I think a more likely contributor to the recent economic problems.
Thank you for that, I need more bewilderment like I need another hole in the head.

Next!
Don't forget Seattle! (Amazon, Microsoft)
Be careful not to swing too far in the other direction. Users who are unfamiliar with your tool will immediately just want something easy and obvious. You shouldn’t be afraid of having a learning curve if the user can gain fluidity and efficiency. The tricky part is that learning curves will never survive a five minute new-user review, so you have to find more invested users who are willing to do expert reviews.

User interfaces that are forever stuck in beginner mode are just as annoying as ones that are too hard for beginners to start using. This is especially true for visual programming languages.
And the correct answer to every software dev. question starts with:

"It depends"
Like when browsers implemented popup blockers. Now we have even more invasive unblockable popups?

Now the popups are almost always not new windows, but "pop-overs" inside the page itself.
Taiwanese authorities arrest Cody Wilson, intend to deport him
This isn't debate club nor is it court: Just because I don't comment on something you say doesn't mean you're correct.

That said: You're making the classic developer mistake of confusing the ability to technically build a piece of software with the ability to build and sustain a community of users who use that software. Tossing code together is the very easy part when it comes to online communities.
there is a pretty fine line between persistence and falling into this trap. In hindsight it's clear but while you are in the situation it's hard to tell if you should call it quits or not.
News Analysis: Just Don’t Call It Privacy
Listen to the crazy sound of Tesla Semi electric truck prototype accelerating
Not all "paints" are equal.

In Indianapolis, for a while they were primarily using "Ride-A-Way", but recently switched to "CycleGripMMAX", which is more expensive per square foot, but lasts longer. Additionally, there were complaints that the Ride-A-Way would wear down to where it was difficult for bikes to get good enough traction to safely take curves; CycleGripMMAX is way grippier.

For smaller sections (like crosswalk-type "dotted" strips, like these[3]), they might actually be strips of thermal-plastic melted in to the asphalt. That should last as long as the asphalt does; yeah, it will eventually need re-done, but at about the same time that the asphalt needs re-surfaced.

Then you'll talk to a city council person from another town who says that they tried doing green bike-lanes, but they wore out very quickly... and reveals that they just used outdoor paint from the hardware store.

[Ride-A-Way]: https://www.ennisflintamericas.com/catalog/product/view/id/1...

[CycleGripMMAX]: https://www.ennisflintamericas.com/catalog/product/view/id/9...

[3]: https://www.google.com/maps/place/New+Albany,+IN+47150/@38.2...
Doesn't even try to prevent mistakes that a good programmer would avoid anyway.

For instance, C++ has operator overloading, which when misused leads do horrible, unreadable code. Still, the feature can be useful in some cases (vector/matrix library comes to mind). Java on the other hand avoids this feature because it doesn't trust the programmers with it.

As for JAI, it mostly means Jonathan Blow and his peers. I mean, he's obviously making a language for himself and whoever he hires. There's no point in catering to a different, wider audience. (The reason there's no point is because he doesn't need a whole ecosystem to support his language. He's trying to make it worth the effort even if he was the sole user.)
I don't think there are many (any) academic labs in CS with 100 post-docs.

also post docs arent students.

big engineering research efforts like that DO happen in industry though.
Economists and data scientists.

/waves
I’m no expert, but my understanding is that bits can “flip” and introduce errors due to things as unpredictable as background radiation etc, even on files the system has had no interaction with, which is why it’s kind of desirable to implement this kind of integrity check at the file system level. A higher level check may be completely unaware of this kind of passive background error.

Also, if I pull the drive and move it to another machine, again it’s kind of nice if the data integrity features are tied to the drive format rather than higher level software. I don’t think it’s too unreasonable to expect the file system to make sensible guarantees that the sequence of bytes I record today will remain the same until I next interact with them.

I’m not sure how appropriate comparisons with IP error correction is either; it’s a markedly different class of problem really (you are not dealing with long term storage issues at all).
This is great! Does it also support play background music that you download as a .m4a ?
Segment
https://blog.ycombinator.com/peter-reinhardt-on-finding-prod...
I think pollution is generally viewed as something negative. It it's part of a planned terraforming project you would not call it pollution.
Wasabi – S3 Compatible Cloud Storage
"Ok, we're definitively in hell" - C Bel, 2018. This is amazing, computation in Excel is becoming a solid meme.

I've got to ask (and I hope this isn't non-PC or some such), but is English the author's first language? Where's he from?

I wish that I had Excel so that I could try it out! :) More about the choice of random digits, sin x + cos x, would be nice to read.
The interesting facts are non obvious ones.
With current exchange rate and living expenses, where I've always lived, it'd last at least 3 years.
Liberia seeks US assistance in tracking missing millions
I find that the quantum-information-theoretical interpretation of QM provides a very satisfying (to me) account of what time is. It's not a fundamental physical phenomenon, it's an emergent property (or perhaps it might be better called a side-effect) of decoherence, which leads to the emergence of classical reality from the quantum wave function:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...
Yea, so quantum mechanics is a set of assumptions. From those assumptions + some other "auxiliary" ones you can derive stuff like the stefan-boltzmann law that makes predictions about the world. Those predictions can then be compared to observation.

I just can't map that understanding to this OS analogy.
Original position
You can turn showdead on to read remarkEon's comment, it wasn't removed.

It said, verbatim, "The kind of gross misrepresentation you’re doing right now is part of the reason why Trump has found justification to do this kind of thing in the first place."

It wasn't flagged because it went against HN's political bias, it was flagged because it was tedious, partisan and uncivil, and threads like this are destined to become cesspools anyway.
I can’t see see the similarity. SQL join is the categorical fiber product. Tensor product is not a categorical product. It can be related to the product, but not in a trivial way. In particular, I can’t agree with your statement that the tensor product “involves taking all possible pairs of the components of the input data". It’s one way to construct the tensor product, but conceptually it’s not really about that.
Twitter seems to hold somewhat of a monopoly on a certain kind of shouty, instantaneous social interaction.
Yeah, that's what I'd like to know.

Being a total noob I enjoyed the article (thanks OP) then went on to wonder how this works. So first I thought it was available through all of these gateways, but then I read something about pinning - do the gateways pin the content? Or the "hosting nodes" (forgive my lack of knowledge about the terminology)?
Hi! I'm Martijn, maker of History Search.

So its simple; It does track you; thats the point. However, you control what History Search does and where it's active.

Any data you capture using History Search can easily be deleted and is available for export to csv, for you to do with as you please. Besides that History Search can also easily be paused, or webpages can be blacklisted.

We also have a very clear policy about privacy and security: it is yours, we also comply with GDPR regulations. If you're interested you can read more about these on historysearch.com/security or historysearch.com/privacy

My goal is to turn History Search into a filesystem for the web. Anyone can use it for free and index/search 3000 pages, most recent. Pages out of the limit are archived until you upgrade or remove some pages. We believe the future of internet is trust, and reward: if people like our services they simply pay us—no ads no selling of personal data—if no one pays we will no longer be able to improve; this is in my opinion a healthy internet.

What History Search does is revolutionary. Since it will be increasingly difficult to do all the things we do online without a backbone that makes it possible to retrieve webpages you've been, using any words you remember on it. This help you find back articles or gmails, open documents or quickly navigate web services.

Can you imagine having to remember all the hidden files on your computer or the places in memory your files reside? Well this is what it's like working online (more or less, a bit less extreme though haha)

How it works is, History Search uses browser extensions to index the text on webpages when you visit them. This way any word you remember will be enough to retrieve it for you. So its both technically and literally an index (you know those pages in the back of those dusty encyclopaedias).

History Search is a product I'm very passionate about, and have spent the past 3,5 years working on. The vision is even bigger: an entirely new way of working with decentralised information sources — in a way they are still connected. The future of History Search is Convergate: Convergence Gateway. The names speaks for its self.

We value trust, and utility over anything. Companies that need to be free aren't any good. Have you ever wondered so every successful service which is "free", is also a waste of time (companies like Wikipedia aren't in this categorie since they receive donations).

Long story short, History Search is a cloud storage so yes your data is stored on our (well Amazon's) servers. But our system is solid, and we do everything we can to make sure our user's privacy is respected.

I launched it this week on Product Hunt if you want to see some more info: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/history-search
If you start a war, you should be prepared to fight for a long time. That's why most browser makers don't even start.

Safari did and had to make multiple changes to ITP because criteo was fighting back.

It is always necessary to stay vigilant.