skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great discussion to be had anywhere but on an HN thread about how those same organizations are trying to create a precedent for limiting the kind of software you can choose to run on your own computer.

These organizations are making the issue harder and harder for themselves by consistently arguing for insane concessions from society and other companies after they were caught napping during the biggest technological revolution in their business since the printing press. We should definitely have discussions on how to have a healthy press in the digital age but that should never include putting up with bullshit like this
> Paywalls were invented this decade.

Compuserve paywalled all of their content way back in the 1980s.
We are talking about a country where tens of millions of subsistence farmers died in one of history's worst famines, subsistence farming isn't something anyone does if they have other options--one or two bad years can mean starvation.

The common scenario in China is that if someone can get a factory job they go do it, and then they send as much money as they can back to their family, so that nobody starves.
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The device being described amounts to N type device as electrons are the majority carriers, and that's the problem.

You can make electrons jump from emitter to collector over nanoscopic distances in "air," but how to you make a hole to do the same? With my level of understanding of physics, that's impossible.

And without a P device, you can't make a CMOS pair. Thus, any logic family using it will eat tons of current.

You can't use it for logic in a real world application, but if they can solve the endurance issue, that will be an enviable device for use in power gating. Active logic may also be of interest (it is still being used for ultra high frequency DACs in military radar tech)
IANAL but my perspective has been that the courts care more about your ability to control what runs on a "platform" than about who hosts what. So if Firefox in its default configuration will only run addons that Mozilla approves, then the courts might not care about where the addon is hosted or how users technically receive it, and could just order Mozilla not to sign the addon.

My personal opinion is that curation is fine if users can opt-out of it. There is value in having someone certifying that the software you are installing is not malware, or even that it meets some threshold for quality (e.g. does not drain the battery), but users should have the ability to pick the curator or to have no curation at all. That said, it is a totally separate argument from whether or not the courts would care about how software is distributed, and totally separate from how the courts will view the role of a software curator (and whether or not courts will insist that curators refuse to certify software that does certain things, like blocking paywalls).
The PewDiePie printer hack
> We evolved to have big brains

Neanderthals had the bigger brain, (1600 cm³ vs 1300 cm³ according to wikipedia) and we still extincted them so it doesn't appear to be an ultimate evolutionary advantage.
Thanks.

> The problem with all these questions is that the cost of answering them is an order of magnitude greater (more, actually) than the cost of posing them.

No, I don’t think so. Requesting clarification and/or evidence when someone makes a claim like that is not unreasonable. It’s

(1) ensuring everyone’s on the same page to avoid pointless misunderstandings, and

(2) upholding the burden of proof, i.e. extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Genuine discussion would be impossible without these two things. If someone makes an extraordinary claim, they should have to spend time doing the necessary research and presenting it.

> I encourage you to open your mind.

I see nothing uncivil about this.

> Can you not read?

> The only one being a jerk here is you.

Neither of these appear in the comments you linked to.

> and second because facts can also be weapons; it depends on how they're used.

Who gets to decide whether “facts are used as weapons”, and what does that even mean? This is veering into dangerous territory and I’m surprised to hear you think this way.

> Re the GP: taking someone to task for using the word 'kvetch' is cheap and has overtones.

I did mean to take them to task for using the word “kvetching”. Because debate/critiquing/disagreement is not “kvetching”, and it’s absolutely unfair for people to characterize it as such. Debate is essential to science. There’s nothing “cheap” about that.
> If you visit stuff on the web, you respect the concept of a social contract between you and the provide.

If I send a site an http GET request, and that site responds by giving me some data, then that site has given me implied consent to look at the data. If they don't want me to look at it, they shouldn't have given me it.
No, it would mean that the takedown request is satisfied by the Mozilla revoking signatures on the addons, something which the signer can always do (e.g. at a minimum they can push a new signature key and re-sign all the other addons).
The Heimlich maneuver revisited
> This seems like really silly logic. It's not like youtube premium is a big commitment

There's an emotional component. People are upset that Inbox is going away, that Hangouts is going away. Google Reader was a bigger commitment, since it required you to curate a list of feeds, so that doesn't really count.

But honestly at this point using Google services is like letting your third-time-rehab cousin live above your garage. He's not hurting anyone, but you're just waiting for that moment when your uncle calls to tell you he's going to be gone for another 30 days...

> there's zero chance that google is going to actually just rob your money and not give you the product you paid for.

I don't know, remember when Hulu didn't show ads?
> does anyone envisage a 2nd parallel internet emerging

Sorry to break the news to you but it already has, and it is called Facebook. Didn't turn out as we expected. Maybe third time's a charm?
We should encourage everyone to share articles/bypass paywalls using outline.com/similar services. Copy paste article content in comments.

It's difficult to empathize with publishers after all the shit they've pulled and continue to pull. Most of them could be hosted for ~$10/month but they'd rather engage in shady practices.

The qz.com article on the frontpage right now have 30 cookies (18 of which are third-party) and send 67 third-party requests. https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en/results?url=http%3A%2F%2Fq... ..and that's a direct link to a fucking article, and I just picked the first one I saw on HN's frontpage.. they're all like this and even much worse. Some (e.g. salon) make around 1000 third party requests. It's hard to imagine it wouldn't be just as profitable for them to host their articles with a clean interface (ala outline.com) that included simple ads e.g. one request to doubleclick, no annoying autoplay videos, and a donate form at the bottom of the page.
Mjs – An interpreter for ECMAScript 1st edition written in C++17
you mean, searching the past history of all codes?
I'm gonna be that guy and ask you not to refer to OCD in a flippant/casual sense please
You already have more than enough tools there to learn a language.

But I'd like to introduce an idea that I think is really important: when you learn a language there is no finish line.

You'll never get to the top of the mountain. You'll never beat the game.

What does that mean for your learning? Well, if your goal is to learn Italian to understand authentic recipes, start reading recipe books today. If you're learning Korean to sing your favourite k-pop hits, start with karaoke.

Too many people start learning a language with stale and old textbooks while saying to themselves "I'll do the thing I really like when I get good enough."

"Good enough" is a mirage in the desert. You'll never get there so do it now!
Honestly, this comment is garbage. The author doesn't go into machine learning vs not.

The comment appears to be grasping at straws to be controversial and drive clicks to the link at the bottom.

I understand that replying to it and pointing it out may result in the wrath of mods, but it truly is so transparent that it's disgusting.
Are any of those you mentioned popular with Gamers though? I only ever hear Steam in gaming.

What do you mean by own launchers? Surely not a Store right?

Is Battle.Net a "Store"?
Oh, are those hidden behind the giant EXPLORE tab at the bottom of my phone that I dismiss literally every time?
When people say “the climate has changed before,” these are the kinds of changes they are talking about.
https://xkcd.com/1732/

You’re right, there is no equilibrium. But there is a limit to how rapidly any system can handle changes while remaining recognizable as the same system.
One would imagine this has far less to do with data rendering and more data indexing and filtering (web-crawling access).

If you read the link, Schmidts comments related to the bifurcation of the internet, he gives a simple example of two separate internets - version "USA" and version "China".

It seems in this scenario, the single source of truth for all web data is sandboxed to protect a nations (or the nations citizens) best interests (akin to modern day China, Iran). The new web would look to live in the shadows, where users can submit and view pre-filtered ideas without meddling from gatekeeps (government officials and money men)

The issue with this is data access and the sharing of information becomes limited to those with the "know how"( we are all tech literate these days), or more likely, those with the balls to commit a "crime" and disobey the permissions of "their government". This presents an almost dystopian like scenario where people are afraid to share and receive information their government has not green lighted.
Ah thanks for catching that. Changed to “obsessed”
This is mostly about "soft" paywalls, allowing you to read maybe a dozen articles per month without paying.

There is currently no way I know of allowing this functionality that is meaningfully "reliable". At least not without erecting new barriers such as mandatory registration (and verification).

So you, and everyone else, seem to be demanding publishers just switch to "absolute paywalls". You will then have strictly less access than before.

How is that supposed to be better?
Show HN: Bao, a cryptographic tree hash, perhaps the fastest hash in the world
I mean a school like MIT must be able to afford opening more tenured spots, right?
"There is a single common ancestor of all living things today."

No, there isn't. There's an ancestor population.

"This organism survived objectively better than any other organism of its time"

No, it did not survive. Being an ancestor is not survival. And this has nothing to do with "optimization" ... if evolution optimizes survival, then your "single common ancestor" predated optimization. You're just throwing concepts together to support a prior belief, but the facts don't work that way.

"I think it's possible to define survivability objectively using a little graph theory."

Maybe you should actually try it. Perhaps then you would notice that your notion of "optimized survivability" is about the future, but you're talking about graphs of the past.
The Bruce Schneier article recently discussed on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18541886 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3273111&...) is the best answer I know. It is just a start - but at least it frames the problem in the right way.
React-keyview
Mostly searching for regexes in code and in filenames. But yes, history would sometimes be useful too.

And this is really the bare minimum. An even better search would e.g. allow searching for identifiers (comments and strings disregarded).
> You'll note that the database doesn't analyze racism, it analyses race.

It's impossible to do any analysis of racial disparity unless the race element is specifically recorded. And, as data collection is as much a political endeavor as it is technical, not every agency or state tracks race.

You can see a not-quite complete collection and comparison of nationwide police data in the Stanford Open Policing Project (disclosure: started by one of my former colleagues) [0], and which states do/don't track driver race. Not all states have agreed to release their data.

I wonder how you propose that a database "analyze racism"? A database contains data. If it's hard as it is to define and get data on race, you think there exists an arbiter and resulting data source for racism?

[0] https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/data/
Deleted the link

I did write a book on the topic, developed the Elasticsearch learning to rank plugin, and have helped several Alexa top 50 sites deliver more accurate search

I’m only pointing out that search is oversold industry, but when you read about what Google actually does it’s more normal stuff that we would all probably do to solve a similar problem.

(for those curious it was a link to content at a community conference i help run - pointing out how hard ML can be for search. I admit a bit tangential perhaps)
Doesnt that just mean you cant depoloy REBL as part of a comercial product? Im sure it doesnt mean you can't use the tool at work. Not that I like seeing restrictions in any licences but REBL isnt the cool thing here, its datify and nav.
On top of what jazzyjackson said, a lot of people correlate well-manicured lawns with property value. For instance, quite a few place won't allow vegetable gardens in the front yard. It gives an impression of poverty. Which makes me wander what is the best word for modern suburban aesthetic. Sterility?
Interview with Oliver Plattner, VP of Engineering at Codecademy
Why the Future of Email Isn't Dead – It's Conversational (And Thriving)
I'd say it is almost 100% the latter and the former barely plays into it. Their announcement even essentially says they are compensating the big players for the "network effect" their games provide to Steam.

Big publishers and games have been going on their own and doing ok. This is a move to keep them around, while using the players that they bring to sell other games at the old Steam margin.
If the coordinated persecution of individuals is a democratic exercise of freedom of speech and association, then a commensurate protection to ensure these freedoms for all, whether they are the persecutors or persecuted, is a reasonable action. The new journal in the OP would meet this criteria.
Caveat emptor is always better than a petty dictatorship.

And that's what Moz is being these days; emulating the Apple App model, the Windows Phone app model, and other obnoxious "you have to ask us permission to do stuff on your device" rules.

Id rather take toolbar hell. We'd have more functionality overall.
Google indexes the entire website, often with multiple visits to the same individual page (to get comments, etc).

It definitely doesn't stop at "maybe a dozen" pages a month.
Fair enough. You are right to distinguish between attempted attacks and successful exploitation. To be honest I cannot be bothered to properly read those articles I posted and see if they were talking about attempts or successful attacks. :-)

Though having worked as a penetration tester I can say that, while rare, it was certainly not unheard of for a client's web application to be vulnerable to SQL injection. And this is for clients who are willing to spend several $1000s on a penetration test for their website - imagine what its like for people who don't give a second thought to the security of their site.
One without JavaScript, what a dream that is.
As a general rule, anytime an article is titled with a question I presume the answer to be "No".
Just because race doesn't exist outside of social conventions doesn't mean it isn't a relevant factor. In fact, it's explicitly not irrelevant for things within our society, such as the conduct of our police force. For better (or in this case worse), race is a very relevant factor in our society currently.
Electrons can still pass through perfect vacuums.
bad how?
https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/6/6c/Index_support_for_re... is I think the slides for a conference talk on implementing within Postgres
4 Ways to Turn Travel with Colleagues into Your Professional Superpower
Here are my two cents as an Amazon seller.

>Niche is wallets/purses

Purses and wallets are quite competitive. The material cost isn't too high and they typically sell for quite a bit, but marketing is a huge challenge and being able to feel the product is important to buyers.

Another issue is that the factories manufacturing your product are competing directly against you on Amazon, which is sometimes true for any given product, but definitely true for something as fairly undifferentiated as women's purses.

I know many people who have failed here. It seems the only way to succeed in this niche is to either be the manufacturer, middleman, have some unique differentiator either in brand (tough to market such a difference as purses/wallets are infrequent purchases) or in the purse's utility itself, which will require a custom (and expensive) run.

>20% margins

These margins are way too tight for Amazon. You simply cannot stand out from the other 10,000 generic women's purses with such a budget.

Listing products on Amazon is the easy part, getting eyeballs is hard. Advertising is very expensive, and doubly so without a trademark.

>Buying codes off eBay

This is pretty risky. What would work better is if you apply for GTIN exemption. It's very easy to get and you don't even need UPC codes.

>Now i need to come up with a 5 bulleted list and description for my product

This is one of the most important parts of the page. You know your product and the target audience best so it's critical you write this yourself.

>Shipping direct to FBA with no intermediary QA

Yikes, there's no guarantee that what's inside those boxes is going to be anywhere near the same quality as your sample.

>[After shipping] I will use this 1 month period to do some research about marketing.

This likely going to be one of your biggest expenses. Using the advertising tools, you can get a rough idea of your costs before ordering product.

Edit: Removed all caps, substantially toned down/removed needlessly aggressive phrases.
Ah come on, that's just not based in reality. I'm Swiss and in all the companies I've worked, there were a lot of women working. Many of them taking advantage of the option to work 60% or 80% (as men do too).
I was close to a potential measles outbreak this summer. Close enough that had to be tested because my vaccination decades ago in another country was considered insufficient. (I was found to be already immune, as expected, but got a booster anyway.) I also got to work with epidemiologists who were working to contain things, and fortunately the outbreak did fizzle out . So I take this issue pretty personally.

Whatever people's concerns about vaccines might be, and I'll concede that manufacturers' lack of transparency about ingredients and adverse-reaction risks is part of the problem, those totally pale in comparison to the importance of maintaining herd immunity to prevent the disease itself from spreading. There are people who are too young to be immunized, or who have conditions that preclude it. Also, vaccines do fail. The current rate is around 2% and that's what led to the case I was involved in. There is a very small chance that someone will avoid problems that might have occurred if they'd had their children vaccinated. There's a much larger chance that in the process they'll put someone else's child at risk. It's stealing others' lives for their own, so I think it's quite reasonable to compare vaccine refuseniks to vampires. Don't be a vampire. Get your damn shots, make your sure children get their damn shots, and do your part to keep this killer from roaming around freely.
Number Guessing Game in Python
Bettridge's Law of Headlines

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
That's sorta like pushing a drowning swimmer down to stop them thrashing around.

I mean... it is going to work. Sort of.

I also feel sorry for the terrible burden that http requests seem to be for you. Meanwhile, large swaths of the richest nations no longer have local news.

I guess it's a wash...
"Commercial use" is clearly any work-related use. (You are also not allowed to redistribute it at all)
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Wow. It sounds like a tough way to grow up. Happy to read that you got back on your feet (perhaps even literally).

Thanks for sharing your experience.
Off topic but in another thread I saw you did some work with SDR. I'm interested in getting started in that area. Can you point to some useful resources to get started in that, and antenna design?
Do you know why it makes sense to construct these devices on dielectric surfaces as opposed to other non-conductive surfaces?
Even assuming this is a good idea in theory, it's probably not possible. If you're going to publish a full paper defending an idea, it's going to have enough of your writing style in it to identify you.

Academics early in their careers have to publish a lot in order to advance. With more of that publishing moving to freely available online sources, it will be pretty easy to automate attribution. If this journal is freely available online, there will probably even be a browser extension to add attribution.

The only way to publish anonymously is to not also publish under your real name. Even then we'll be able to at least apply a consistent pseudonym to your writing and you'd always be one named publication away from full identification.
How an 18th-century priest gave us the tools to make better decisions
> It merely means that race is something that doesn't exist outside of the social conventions of a society, an identity pasted onto oneself or someone else based on superficial and meaningless biological attributes.

With this in mind, are police not agents working on behalf of a society? Funded largely (if not solely) by members of that society?

You don't have to look much further than "blue lives matter" to see that police in America are almost looked at as a psuedo-race.

> racism is just stupid (i.e. it obfuscates the real issues).

A lot of people think Racism in policing is the real issue. A core one. What do you think the real issues that are being obfuscated are?
I remember the trailer for BigTrack used a 1/8 audio jack for both the circuit connection between the tank and the lift-bed and as the trailer's hitch.
It doesn't hurt.
To each of those individual data points, I can give you counter-examples that do not support this theory.
It's actually extremely common for women to work. Usually a couple (with kids) works each 80% or some other kind of combination of %....
Don't spread misinformation, please.
Or maybe you were misunderstanding the situation?
Source: Am Swiss (lived large parts of my life abroad, but am back in Switzerland since 5 years)
Let's just consider a single city in the United States: Los Angeles. The population of Los Angeles metropolitan area is 13 million people (so, larger than all of Switzerland). Here are some interesting demographic stats about Los Angeles:

Less than 60% of people in LA were born in the US. There are less whites (<30%) than hispanics (47%). There are also 10% asians, 10% blacks. On top of that, I can tell you that there are neighborhoods in Los Angeles where specific ethnicities are so concentrated that the street signs are largely or entirely in foreign languages. This is true for the following languages: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Armenian, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Spanish.
Monads v2 released
Just published a new version of monads (https://github.com/litchi-io/monads). Fixed ok and err implementations and added support for map_err, and_then, unwrap, unwrap_or and unwrap_err methods in Result<T, E>. Docs are up to date.

Feel free to give it a go and let me know what you think.