skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is so ridiculous to claim individual news media accounts in China as "a major source of fake news, disinformation", when in fact the government official news media is shamelessly spreading fake news every single day on TV and newspaper, and they have the total control over how you report major events.

The government controls what can be reported, how it shall and shall not be reported. You blame individual news media accounts?

For example, the government is sending massive amount of people (village by village) to reeducation camps in Xinjiang province. Do you think the official news media will report any of this? Do you think any formal report from serious journalists will be allowed to appear on news media? Of course not! So yes, there are all kinds of rumors about Xinjiang in individual news media accounts. Who should we put the blame on?
It's made worse by the fact that you can't easily read the recommendation without clicking on it.
Sometimes I read articles like this and think I'm past it.
It's like the whole web has turned in to this pool of mud and no-one realises what it was like before.

A blog is a text file on a screen. There's really no need to do it on a proprietary system, you can literally upload a text file to your own host, but if you can't be bothered, somewhere like GitHub Pages.

You want an image? Here's a tag: <img>

If the idea is that it doesn't look pretty enough - well, a Medium blog doesn't look like anything at all because I've closed it after closing the first three popups.

Here is a link to my own personal blog:
https://files.esotericnonsense.com/public/blog.txt

You're reading this comment right now on a site that gets it right.
reminds me of all the snarky/satrical comments along the lines of

iphone is the worst phone ever!

-sent from my iPhone

from a decade ago
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The article doesn't mention YC, it mentions Techcrunch, Conde Nast etc.
Yet it seems excusing corporate hypocrisy and inconsistency based on size and employee location to be par for the course.
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I wonder if it would be possible to create a service (or if one already exist) where you could select which streaming sites you are subscribed to, and the service could search all those sites for the movie you want to watch, then redirect you to that site. Because it's hard to remember or to know which site has which movies/TV shows.
yeah that doesn't sound right at all. There hasn't been a fatal plane crash in the US in many years now, and there's something like 75K flights a day. And there's about 100 deaths a day from car crashes.
Unless they are cracking down on apps that do nothing but republish links and feeds. Most Reddit apps will let you post and engage; some HN apps will do that too (shout out to my beloved Minihack). This particular app didn't, so it's difficult to argue that it provided anything more than republishing links... something that surely should be done only by their News app now /s
I'm glad the author mentioned the thing that I dislike most about Medium: the "share" tooltip that appears any time you highlight anything in the article. I realize that they consider this a value prop (and it certainly hasn't hurt their ability to grow) but for those of us who highlight text as we read, it's incredibly annoying.
Completely agreed here, we gave these companies all the power to keep us safe, integrate into our lives, and at the drop of a hat now they can take it away from you with no real way to fight back.
You still haven't proven that immigration is the cause of this particular wage stagnation. You want to believe it is, but you haven't given evidence.

Is there proof that non-immigrants even want to do this work? The well-known case from Georgia suggests they don't. https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/17/the-law-of-...

At the same time, couldn't the state just raise the minimum wage?
Whatever device I buy I want it to be hackable, medical devices included.
A lesson learned by a lot of iOS devs. If you want to play in their game, you have to play by their rules, even if they don't apply those rules to everyone else.
The article is full of inaccuracies, unfortunately. It mixes up the objective criteria W3C CG agreed upon with subjective claims of Apple, leading to WHLSL as a collaborative product of the group... it is not.

> Last year, Apple established the WebGPU Community Group inside the W3C to standardize a new 3D graphics API which provides the benefits of these native APIs, but is also suitable for the Web environment. <...> All of the major browser vendors are participating and contributing to the standardization effort.

The browser vendors negotiated and agreed to proceed with W3C group (as opposed to Khronos/WebGLNext). It's a collaborative effort from day one (where all of Google, Mozilla, and Apple had prototypes), not exactly Apple-led like the article attempts to present it.

> Forking the SPIR-V language means developers would have to recompile their shaders, possibly being forced to rewrite their source code anyway.

This (and the whole section about SPIR-V) reads like FUD to me.

> Weirdly, this would mean on those two platforms, the starting point and the ending point are both human readable, but the bit in between is obfuscated with no benefit.

Inaccurate. The end point is always GPU machine code, and on the way there all the APIs introduced their own intermediate binary formats (SPIR-V, DXBC, DXIL, AIR). It's just that not all of them are clearly specified. We should be able to convert SPIR-V to DXBC/DXIL without going through HLSL, and the AIR limitations are up to Apple to unblock.
More likely that is about Apple pushing its News app.
Mundane is a cryptography library written in Rust and backed by BoringSSL. It aims to be difficult to misuse, ergonomic, and performant (in that order).
Is the app actually parsing the articles and displaying them the app or just like other HN clients that just have links and you open them in Safari? If it's the first then I guess the complaint makes sense if you are implementing some kind of "Reader" mode in the app itself by scraping the content.
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I think an extremely tiny minority of readers of most blogs ever leave comments.

IMO the best solution is to host your actual articles on a static site and host the discussion elsewhere with a link at the bottom of the page. Host your own forum, make a subreddit, submit links to HN, whatever.
What was his or her stated mechanistic reason for believing this? I ask as a regular consumer of dark chocolate.
I would suggest a look at Excellence Without a Soul by Harry Lewis (sometime dean of Harvard College) before you conclude that it was only those comments that lost Summers his job.
This is intuitive. People aren't consistent, why should we expect their reasoning to be? Especially when the main determinant for most peoples' views on controversial topics, in the USA at least, is their political party affiliation. Why is it that having a D or R in front of a politician's name can correctly predict around 80-90% of their viewpoints? It's a clustering effect, people select D or R, and then cobble together reasoning as best they can to defend their felt views.

Perfectly evidenced by the use of science, for instance. You have something like a pro-life movement, which co-opts scientific "facts" to support their view of fetuses being humans. But then these same GOP voters ignore scientific "facts" when it comes to climate change. This is due to the Republican politicians, who cluster all of their supporter's views to match their own. It's the same on the Democratic side - look at anti-GMO protesters who are ignorant of the scientifically proven benefits of GMO's, yet who point to 98% of scientists reaching consensus on climate change.

Political party is stronger than reasoning or consistency.
Roku tries to do that, but it isn't super reliable and doesn't have access to everything (especially iTunes and YouTube).

There are sites that you can enter a title and it will tell you all the places it's available for streaming. I do use that once in a while, but it's still too much friction (IMHO).
Well, the physical world is the last place where I still have to see ads. So I guess if you want to appeal to an adblock-using demographic, it might make sense.
Story time. I have tried many online videos (Youtube etc) and I really never got anyway. I had wanted to learn how to play the piano most of my life but for multiple reasons (primarily fear) I never tried with a teacher. A year ago at age 31 I serendipitously ran into a woman who turned out to be a piano teacher in my town. Long story short, I started taking lessons and now I am finally playing the piano and it feels amazing! In cannot emphasize strongly enough the benefits of having a teacher. There is no way I would have gained the skills I have from taking online courses.

In my opinion, there is nothing more valuable that being able to have someone show you when you are making mistakes and has the experience to explain how to fix them.
Why is this post written on medium??? Just to be ironic?
I am building my own Static Site Generator [1] similar to Jekyll for fun. It's so great to do this in 2018, compared to the first time I tried to manually build something similar around 2014. Now things are amazing, the npm libraries just seem to merge together nicely to build the whole thing.

I just need RSS and a decent data parser for the blog entries list and it'll be all set. Not recommended for you to use it, just build one, it's fun! And easy, and you'll learn a lot.

[1] https://github.com/franciscop/create-static-web
SCALES. SCALES. AND THEN SOME MORE SCALES.

Reading music is actually easy. Comprehending the rhythm is the hard part.
So far, bugs in medical devices have been documented that have led to death or physical damage. Bad radiation doses, retina burning laser powers, etc. Given that most of those devices run on MS-Windows, I'm still more worried about bugs than attacks, but indeed it would be trivial for bad guys to target you if you need to be hooked on such devices...
And the quality of service is also much lower on Amazon and Facebook competitors, and while I prefer DuckDuckGo, it's not as good as Google either (yet) on any criteria other than privacy.

Merely being better than the competition is not the traditional (outdated) definition of monopoly.
It sounds as if you might enjoy Henry Fielding's The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great.
1- Host your blog.

2- Write post.

3- Post to multiple aggregators (HN, reddit, etc)

It can even be made (semi)automatic.
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Have you tried to be wealthy and/or an important app developer?
Tangentially related: Evernote Premium does this when you highlight-as-you-read on PDFs. They assume you want to annotate all the time. I would rather press a toolbar button or keyboard shortcut to bring up an annotation, like the way it works on Preview.app.
The AMA to both certifies doctors and runs the medical schools. Obviously, they have a vested interest in controlling supply to protect their membership, thus artificial scarcity leads to high prices.
From webhint's about/faq:

> webhint’s development started inside the Microsoft Edge team
> Tracking popularity is still tracking.

Tracking usually refers to tracking users, which as I read the FAQ isn't what it's for.
There is a great solution Publii - works like WordPress but generated static files. Great tool for beginners or developers. https://getpublii.com
The F-117 doesn't have afterburners. goes against the whole stealth thing
"Much of the benefits of crypto for non major financial transactions can be solved with cash and a shady hoody."

Just the other day some guy on HN was adamant that bitcoin was "only" useful to buy drugs without having to meet shady people. I thought he was short sighted but you can't even see the benefit in _that_ specific disintermediation...

In all honesty, when I read things like what you just wrote, it doesn't make me want to spend my time showing you a different point of view because I don't believe you are able to learn from the experiences of others.
Using this thread to add my own:

I was around 14 and also obsessed with aliens and the supernatural. I was living out in the boonies on a road that had just started to be developed (one long road with a smaller road splitting off down to a cul-de-sac with a few houses a mile or so off the main road).

I was walking the dog one evening, headed down the main road and turned off to walk down the side road to the cul-de-sac. It was dark and cold but as I turned down the side road, I could see a bright rectangular light floating above the ground down where the side road ended a mile away.

I was pretty freaked out and stood there squinting at it for a while, psyching myself up to go check it out. In the end, I decided that I would never forgive myself if I didn't go witness what was clearly an alien craft hovering over the road on my dark little street.

So, I walked down toward the end of the side road (with the dog to protect me of course) until about halfway down, I got one of those perspective shifts that made me laugh. In the dark (no street lights, only a few houses set a good way back from the road) I could only see the glowing light but as I got closer, I could clearly see that this was a small bus with the light from inside spilling out through the windshield.

It turns out, the local library had started a "Bookmobile" route out to our little country neighborhood so locals could check out books without driving into the city. The bus was so lit up inside and the surrounding area was so dark that from a mile away, all I could see was the bright glowing rectangle of the windshield.

Needless to say I stopped inside the bus and checked out a book or two. Probably some ridiculous fluff from Whitley Strieber or Stephen King ;)
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> A simpler example that I recently went through was that I stopped drinking alcohol. I never had a problem with alcohol and would have beer or wine here and there. But, the evidence keeps mounting that it's literally just putting poison in your body with little benefits. I felt it was inconsistent for me to workout everyday, eat healthy, and then drink alcohol. So I stopped rationalizing and quit.

Isn't this an example of you being the sole reasonable one? Exactly the thing the parent post was suggesting we avoid writing about?
The Hound of the Baskervilles has laryngitis?
There are options between "one giant YouTube monopoly" and "every single individual must run their own server". There is reddit, there are blogs, but where are the forums?
Are you hoping to maintain the system for historic reasons? If so, sounds like a fun project :)

If not, mini-split systems might be a good solution for upgrading the home's heating (and cooling).
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The difference was the the theatre of war wasn't the battlefield, but the entire economy in general. Germany lost WW1 because they ran out of money first, while the allied powers could have kept the meat grinder churning for another 2-3 years with US intervention.

With industrialization, the results on the battlefield didn't really have much to do with the outcome of the conflict. Direct conflict between major powers from circa-1860 onward was about destroying the enemy's economy and political system or destroying the enemy utterly. The pursuit of decisive military victory was defeated time and time again, with the exception of the atomic bomb, and even that is arguable.
Unfortunately you got downvoted because HN is obsessed with static site generators. Meanwhile, Wordpress offers a superior writing and reading experience which you, the owner, totally control.
I'm not sure I follow your second point. In both multiple linear regression and multiple logistic regression, the coefficients are interpreted conditionally - a one unit increase in X^{(i)} is associated with a B^{(i)} unit change in f(E(Y)), conditional on the values of the other covariates. Using a logit link function does remove the result from the raw scale of Y (thus, f), but in my mind the "model" is more than just the data distribution - it's whatever form your linear predictor takes.

This is the problem the poster originally pointed to - interpreting a variable conditional on the fixed values of all others doesn't always make sense when there's strong correlation among predictors.
I guess... but that still leaves pretty much all news aggregators. Google News doesn't let you do much other than read news from all over the internet. It's functionally exactly the same, only with a different aggregating algorithm.
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Yes, it would help to know why that condition is there in the first place and also why Apple exercise it for some apps and not others.

There's little app developers can do about it for iOS. On Android you can install new app stores, but with Apple you're forced to use theirs. This can be both a blessing and a curse.

In this case, it's just unfortunate luck.
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Someone should do a left handed mouse review blog or YouTube channel and just reject 95% of mice for being stupid. Sadly symmetrical is almost always the best you can hope for.
Even if the Dump & Burn was spectacular

https://youtu.be/BXmnr6_jKuw
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>>Ok so that is an upside but that is like trying to justify that it's ok that those kids got lost in the cave so it was cool to take the risk, no?

Those were people who did not willingly take on the risk. Specifically citing that example, a bunch of children were basically on a field trip and a tragedy befell them. World of difference between an experienced individual who is (supposed to be) completely prepared and able to face the challenges presented.

Those examples I gave aren't ALL "worst case" scenarios. People like this help to fund the creation of materials that can be useful for important research. Sure, maybe some dude wandering the South Pole for funsies isn't helping us, but the team of scientists taking ice core samples to advance our understanding of polar environments and how they're changing use the same type of tent that are produced for this goofuses are benefiting from idiots with deep pockets.

TL;dr- more wandering idiots help support the market for the materials they use, which benefits the people we should ACTUALLY be championing.
These comments really highlight how Hacker News is slowly devolving into Slashdot with a stuck in the past mentality and no constructive criticism just groupthink attacks on "stuff we don't like or understand".
I don't think we can make a generalization here, there's all kinds of conspiration theories and all kinds of conspiratorial arguments
"A blog is a text file on a screen. There's really no need to do it on a proprietary system, you can literally upload a text file to your own host, but if you can't be bothered, somewhere like GitHub Pages.

You want an image? Here's a tag: <img>"

Don't be surprised if someone has this "idea" soon and makes a killing with it. A lot of people seem to get tired with the current stream of "innovation" that makes the web slower and more complex.
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I only really appreciated this while reading while reading about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261

It's quite an interesting one if you are into that kind of thing.
Know that feeling when you learn a new word and then you see it everywhere?

Well, that's a bit how I feel now that I am reading The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone, by Philip Fernbach and Steven A. Sloman. It's a book around the topic of this post. Might be of interest to whoever finds this topic appealing.
>>How do neural nets approximate a Bayesian posterior?

Not sure what GP had in mind, but if a feature x appears in a dataset n times, with pn times with positive label, and (1-p)n times with negative, and your classifier is f(x) which is trained with the "cross-entropy" cost, then the ideal value, that minimizes the cost should be f(x) = p.
In this sense, f(x) is the probability of positive given feature.

Whether neural nets really realize this and how reliable that is, is another question. But that's the intention of the cross entropy cost.
It's so laggy on Safari OSX Sierra and often hangs. I'm not subscribing to read articles by amateurs. What it has going is nice content, white space, a feed feature – that's about it.
Like 'jerf says, we have many centuries of experience in dealing with people and people-based systems. We know the biases, the cognitive problems, the buttons to press and the buttons to absolutely avoid pressing.

More importantly, humans share the same brain architecture and work roughly the same way - you and me included. This makes it easier for us to understand other people (also having a part of the brain trying to directly model other people's minds helps). The way those NN-based black boxes work is completely alien to us (and each being a special snowflake made of hacks does not help).
The downside of curated app stores...
Update: I got this working, and dude- it's so awesome in every way. This is the most substantial improvement I've seen yet. Most importantly- it massively reduces memory requirements. Thank you so much. I'll commit within a day or so and make sure to mention you, on Twitter.
It would have happened, and not even doing it as a mitigation would've worked, as the offending ISP would've re-advertised the same routes as google shortly after google changed it.
What does flat-like means here? Are they talking about the design (flat) ?
I use Anki to memorise scales and arpeggios. I have decks with all the scales and arpeggios, then for example it asks me to play "A major scale". If I play it right on first try I press Good, and the scale will be shown less often, and if I got it wrong I press Bad and it will be shown more frequently. It's a good way to filter the scales and spend more time on those you know less.
I like that it's written on Medium. That allows us to point out other issues, like performance.

Here's what Google's lighthouse sees: https://imgur.com/a/wDCIrpP

"Time to Interactive: 10+ seconds" is particularly terrible.
Isn’t the point that we don’t need another platform to take over but that the web was meant to be decentralised and we can all easily go back to that?
> In recent time there has been more acknowledgement of the role the commonwealth nations played in the conflict. However, that's not part of the popular narrative of WW1, and is given cursory treatment in most histories.

In the second paragraph of Wikipedia's article on the Gallipoli campaign, it says:

> The campaign is often considered to be the beginning of Australian and New Zealand national consciousness; 25 April, the anniversary of the landings, is known as "ANZAC Day", the most significant commemoration of military casualties and veterans in the two countries, surpassing Remembrance Day (Armistice Day).

It's impossible to talk about the Mesopotamian campaign without referring to the Indian troops; it's impossible to talk about Gallipoli without reference to ANZAC. It is possible to omit the Canadians' role in the Western Front, however, but that's because their role is minor in relative terms to the American, British, French, and German components, so a short summary could omit them.