skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ive been telling people, writing to people and complaining about google's increased censorship for years. The lack of transparency to webmasters and google search users is just as damaging as hiding content from people when the company spent years trying to develop trust, now many people believe what they find on google is truth - and they do not know how much of the internet has been filtered out, and ranked down by small groups of people with non-transparent agendas and algorithms.

For this reason is does not surprise me that this kind of thing was in the works and the ramifications to society being degraded in the name of big profits.

I wrote about some of these issues in comments here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18546828

and if people started watching the pbs docu thing about the 2018 dilema of facebooks power and failures - and you started to watch part two at 43:11 till 45:30 ( https://www.pbs.org/video/the-facebook-dilemma-part-two-iev1... )- thinking it's about google - that sums way part of my feelings watching these things unfold over time on this side of the pond.

I am glad to see some people at google speaking outside the plex finally. These decisions have global consequences, and the culture of don't tell them so they can't use it against us, or steal our secret sauce, that omerta is part of the toxic culture that has created the faang monstrosities that are upon us today as they are.

To those that have chosen to speak out, thank you. I hope more open to the discussions occur.
The author decries that governance and tragedies of the commons are for inert resources. This is not the case, but perhaps this thinking pervades software projects. We can learn from Elinor Ostrom's economics work, as well as from Christopher Allen's thinking/writing about the commons of open source projects in particular.

Ostrom’s Design Principles for Collective Governance of the Commons

http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2015/11/a-revised-ostroms-de...
Looking Inside My Heart
I know people like that. They grew up from the students who did everything exactly like the teacher said, even if there was obvious (honest) mistake.
The Sainthood of Dave Matthews Has Been Indefinitely Postponed – Seattle Met
Couldn't journalists always run their own newspaper?

In Italy we had cooperatives running newspapers and magazines as long as I can remember, doesn't this happen elsewhere?

I _think_ the advantage of Civil might be that you get to pay directly a journalist rather than the group, but I'm not sure it's a big improvement.
The Future of Gaming: Your data, your wallet
Definitely, storage is still hard. I don't have a ton of experience doing anything fancy with storage and K8S yet.

Like I said, our primary service with storage is Elasticserach which we still manage with good old Terraform and bash scripts.
You can't create a facebook clone in 2-3 months. Facebook is like FacebookOS, it probably has emacs somewhere in there. The size of functionality that FB provides is like a Mammoth (one of the ones standing on a turtle with the world on its back).

Maybe something simpler with some subset of the functionality that some subset of users care about. Your point still stands about taking a long time to suck up the data. Also, now you'll probably get thrown in jail for doing 1% of the shady evil shit FB have done (and continue to do!).
Mainly that it was creepy and the widower realized she didn’t really want a dead boyfriend/android thing.
I second this.

I lived in a bland, boring commuter suburb of Paris for 2 months to improve my French. Completely different to central Paris which I came to hate as much as the French. Even my poor French trumped people's willingness to switch to English, and many people in the suburbs speak very little English. So it's possible to get immersion even in a city like Paris.
I wish I could still edit the comment to clarify: Immersion is definitely better than not being immersed, but just being in another country - even for a length of time like myself - doesn't magically teach you the language. Seems obvious when it's written out, but I definitely remember being under the impression that it would help way more than it did. Thus my 'overrated' remark.
Which country are you in? In Germany (and most of Europe) such clauses are often void as they are overly unfair for the employee. The legislator usually weighs the risk of the company against the desire of the ex-employee to advance his/her career. It's hard to see how merely disclosing your former work relationship with a company might harm their interests or violate trade secrets. In general, NDAs and non-competes (which might be more applicable to your situation) are only enforceable if they have a reasonable scope (i.e. list a number of specific companies that you're not allowed to work for instead of specifying an entire industry), a reasonable duration (e.g. 12 to 24 months) and include severance pay that appropriately compensates your opportunity loss.

Financial corporations usually have very good lawyers though, so I highly recommend you to get one yourself and have him/her check the no-compete / NDA, as this is a complex legal matter and nothing that can be resolved quickly in an online forum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pkq_eBHXJ4&feature=youtu.be...
His contract may include paid lunch breaks.
Can someone explain for the layman the following doubt?

One of the (many) things I still don't understand about RL even after having tried to read about it is how the loss function of Q Networks is computed if you don't have the target value. I understand that you are trying to predict the "value" of a pair (state,action), and I know that there is a formula for updating the weights based on the difference between the expected value of the next state and the maximum predicted value available plus the reward when you actually get to the state (probably I'm messing up here), but then doesn't that mean that the initialization is extremely relevant? As in, how will the rewards ever be superior to the random weights already present in the network?
- which you argued could hold a 2GB file

No I didn't say that! I've always meant the metadata (that nnn needs) cache which I proved above. Clearly there's some misunderstanding.
I've been using alacritty, another new-ish GPU accelerated terminal emulator, and I can confirm that its performance is better than gnome-terminal or similar. So at least there is something to this idea.
Marketing hype from the makers of those resources, and people who have bought into the claims of instant, no effort, guaranteed results.
While it's not "widely adopted" in comparison to other languages in the world, it's still the most successful constructed language in the world. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

I think that our collective understanding of how constructed languages could influence study is very lacking, but could probably take some hints from our experience with computer programming languages. Some languages could have grammars that lend themselves more easily to technical writing while others lend themselves to casual conversation. Historically, this took the form of having technical writing in Latin in English-speaking countries.

History also shows us that a world with "domain-specific human languages" might be a little too idealistic. Our minds cannot simply download the latest linter for Latin/Esperanto/English to keep the language consistent. However, the rise of the dictionary, and spellchecking/grammar software could be what prevents us from repeating history.
> my point was after a few years of hype about how the blockchain was going to revolutionize everything, and billions of dollars of investment, we should have at least a few real-world use cases. Something beyond the PoC stage.

Perhaps the wild claims and shoot-for-the-stars plans prevented most the blockchain startups from capitalizing on where the easy money was (and usually is), enterprise sales.

IBM sells blockchain solutions. I bet they've made some money doing so (at worst because they could probably sell digital toilet paper and make a profit off enterprise contracts before they phase it out).
I’m from India in India. Could you give some examples of incorrect reporting by Reuters?
In Sweden there is very large minority of finns - many of the older ones forget Swedish and can only speak Finnish. (Or in some areas, actually never learned Swedish to begin with.) Hence the prevalence of nursing homes with the requirement to know Finnish to work there.
Most of the programmers out there do not have any community contact outside of the company they are part of.

We are not representing the majority here
But this is still not an argument against fines scaling up with your income, is it?
Improving your reading skills
I agree, but the “people find presentations about code or libaries for which the source is not available irritating” seems to be a general statement.

I don’t see a problem with talks that show code (to support whatever the talk is about) without giving it away.
>The big problem with Duolingo in my opinion is the computer generated French audio sounds nothing like actual French.

Written French sounds nothing like French.
>2. No one will put up with your shitty language skills for more than 5 minutes... Except your significant other. They'll have the patience because they love you. Everyone else will just cringe after a few minutes and change to English, or just smile and wave you off.

This is actually not true. As a Dutch person I have huge respect and admiration for people that are learning dutch and willing to practice with me no matter how cringy it is. Exactly the cringe is how you learn! I have a friend with whom I can hold a full-blown conversation in Dutch and I'm honestly in awe, he's a PhD student and took on the liberty of learning Dutch whilst many PhD students that are here from foreign countries (i.e. will be here for 5 years) never even make the effort. The effort alone should be highly commended.
she has no position on congestion pricing

... which would require state law changes anyway.
Namesilo ... Free privacy, api, bulk discounts... cost for a .com has just about always been 8.50'ish cheaper when they're having a special... they even have 2 facter authentication and other perks...
Sure, you can make such software, but who would take the risk to use it in a corporate environment? Without traction you're not going to do much good anyway.
What industry is this? Some industries do blacklist. IT doesn't
"the maybe-we’ll-all-get-rich piece"

It also implies that maybe you won't get rich. So these journalists didn't get rich. They made a gamble and lost. End of story.
Yowza, very targeted: "The injected code targets the Copay application. When a developer at Copay runs one of their release build scripts, the resulting code is modified before being bundled into the application. The code was designed to harvest account details and private keys from accounts having a balance of more than 100 Bitcoin or 1000 Bitcoin Cash."
Ask HN: Why don't we introduce static types in EcmaScript?
It'll make very little sense to use TypeScript / other projects like Flow if this was the case and this would make JavaScript a LOT faster.
It seems the article's author won the 2017 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for 'using fluid dynamics to probe the question "Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?"' The prize announcement[0] cites the current article.

Also relevant, down-thread, plink mentions the Bonsai Kitten[1] hoax from nearly 18 years ago now.

[0]https://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2017

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten
Snowden accuses Israeli cybersecurity firm of enabling Khashoggi murder
Interesting, didn't know. Thanks!
You could do it like AFL and not stop the game for substitutions.
There was a post on HN a few days ago from someone who wrote a book called "The first 100" or something similar. Could be helpful? I'll try find the link...
Decent datasets are very hard to come by, and the political gymnastics required to create and release them is horrible.

I'm keen to create a dataset of paediatric physiological data during anaesthesia to help with event detection/preemption but my professor thinks getting permission to do so is all but impossible.
When hiking Trans-Zion, I came across a park service trio who would hike the trails every now and then, and repair/improve as they went, using materials at hand. One was carrying a full-size axe, another had other heavy hardware, etc. Struck me as a really healthy and positive job. Wonder how readily available they are?
"Implementing a language that resembles Scheme is quite easy. Implementing call-with-current-continuation and hygienic macros AND getting the tricky little details correct is not."

(tangential) and this is where most "build your own compiler" style books fall down.

They teach you to implement ultra simple languages, but don't tackle memory management/garbage collection, concurrency, production grade typecheckers, and for lisplikes, macro systems, etc.
Tesla Says It’s the Future of Cars. Did GM Prove It Right?
I forgot to put the context: My Italian was pretty broken then. I never had a meaningful chat in Italian till that point. She complimenting me several times on how well I could talk. It helped me approach other conversations with much more confidence.
In Europe you have to try very hard to fall below the level where you can afford 1€ for a toilet. Arguments that poor people can't use pay toilets don't really work with all that money spent to make sure people always have enough to life with some dignity.
Those are indeed interesting questions. All the West keeps its food prices artificially low by subsidies, or at least the EU does heavily. If food prices were to go up, market would either adapt or compensate by import. That entirely hinges on consumer choice.

But if you cut subsidies, what will happen in the short- to mid term is more farmers going bankrupt and an increase of imports. Would it lead to economic growth in those countries? Hard to tell. Usually what happens in an industry that grows is competition which will lower prices in the mid- to long term. So maybe more farmers would be well off by finding jobs. I don't know. Good thought of yours, though.
Paint with GAN units
That's definitely true as evidenced by the huge numbers of people who can survive living in various countries without learning more than a handful of words in the host language.

The highest yield for me has been 1:1 video call tutoring (italki) by a long margin.
Sorry I didn't mean equipment, I meant artist recommendations.
one important consideration of what to invest in is when you plan to sell the investment.

if you plan to need the money within 10 years or less, or can think of plausible scenarios where you would be forced to sell the investment within 10 years or less, it is probably not a great idea to invest the money in the stock market or any similarly volatile investment.

why? because stock prices are volatile and can decline unexpectedly, and may take the best part of a decade to recover, and you don't want to be forced to sell your investment after it has lost value.

if you do want to consider investing in the stock market, some reasonable entry points to start reading are:

* https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started

* http://www.efficientfrontier.com/
Facebook and its ‘black people problem’
Why was this purged from HN's front page?
Bespoke solution into a well-understood and used language...
OpenBGPD – Adding Diversity to the Route Server Landscape
I imagine the point is that most people have to drive to Niagara Falls to see it, hence hitting the road to get there. And along the way, from almost all directions, there are plenty of other interesting spots to visit too.
GANPaint: Paint with GAN units
The biggest difference is no code(text programming). Platforms in same space still require some coding time to time, which is a problem for average computer user. For example to write even a few lines of python code, you have to know tons of things about python. Function's steps in ChangeOver are simple to use and thanks to REPL users can quickly find problems, which non-programmers will do tons. Also, ChangeOver database is to design to handle billions of records. Most of the office programs have problems with scale.

First practical use-case? This is something I struggle a lot. I spend most of the time programming ChangeOver that I forgot to think outside the box. Thank you for sending my mind this way.
I think that Tesla is really shaping the future of the automobile as well as the automobile industry. GM is the latest example but I think that Ford and others are really starting to take notice and change their ways. However, given the history of the industry I'm not sure an old-school car company can change it's stripes any more than the coach builders could 100 years ago.

Best quote of the article: "For her part, Barra (GM CEO) told the AP that the company needs more coders now, and fewer mechanical engineers. “The vehicle has become much more software-oriented,” she said. “We still need many technical resources in the company.” On Twitter, GM also pushed back at critics of its restructuring, saying it will add “technical and engineering jobs that will support the future of mobility.”"
Clojure(Script) is neither a Scheme nor an implementation of Common Lisp but is a LISP dialect. LISP dialect languages are simply a group of lisp-like language not just implementations of Common Lisp.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lisp-family_programm...
Or art, antiques etc.
Parisians are a whole different breed of people. Actually, that's too nice. They're assholes. I watched my Quebecois travelling companion speak in perfect French to a counter person, who virtually sneered at him before ignoring him completely and speaking to me in English. They've got being rude down to an art form, truly. Outside the city though, we got treated like long lost cousins - all due to his French. Same experience in Italy with an Italian speaking travel partner. Paris is, um, special, no doubt.
Not just the abstract; this entire paper is one of the most clearly-written and comprehensible scientific works I've ever laid eyes on. Figure 4b deserves an award.
> So your solution to a sandbox app is to buy a Samsung device and use a corporate MDM product to manage that one device?

You implied that no one was making any such thing. They do. An app distributor that wanted to do the same for apps it distributes could do so likewise, but not if Apple stands in their way.

> Google and third parties have been finding bugs in other people’s closed source products for decades. Again just because people can look at code doesn’t mean that people are looking at code.

And if the product was open source, they could also fix the bug, rather than having to rely on the vendor to do it -- which they sometimes don't.

It would also be easier for them to discover the bugs, which would result in more of them being discovered.

> You made the claim that there are less bugs in open source software, without any citations, studies, etc.

Because it's an argument from logic rather than an argument from observation. The claim isn't that some specific number of people have been observed using published source code to discover bugs, only that the number is non-zero -- which doesn't require statistics, only a single counterexample that I can provide myself from personal experience in having done it.

> Android and Darwin are open source but a large part of both iOS and Android are closed source.

Then why propose to compare them as though it would provide some useful information about the effect of open source on finding bugs?
The analogy is flawed. There is no congestion and wear associated with software library use.

Also I am not afraid of FOSS dying or shrivelling up. From the perspective of a career software developer or manager it would be a new golden age of in-house development and library sales.

Less open source software = more jobs
You may confuse short-term and long-term actions.

I don't know about Japan, but I live in Germany, and what's happening here isn't a shift back to carbon, it's short-term contracts. The operators of some carbon plants get short-term contracts, so existing plants can be operated at a higher percentage of capacity than they would if nuclear weren't being phased out. But follow the money: Noone's investing in new plants. The current contracts aren't encouraging enough to invest in new plants. And even the operators of some old plants are complaining about underuse.

There's a carbon-based plant near where I live that has never been permitted to produce power. It was one of the last carbon power plants built nearby, and eight years after being connected to the grid, it still hasn't produced power. They turn it on for a few hours now and then to test, that's all. Its neighbour ceased production five years ago, after only two years of production.

The key here is that the new power plants being built are wind and sun. Your wording could be interpreted as saying said that the shift is was only from nuclear to carbon, and when none of the new plants being built are carbon-fired, then you might well get downvoted for that.
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> Are you actually serious

> I'd suggest you study the topic

Please omit personal swipes from your comments here. They only degrade discourse, and the site guidelines are all about not doing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.