skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I've noticed this with recommendations, too. Something about it seems off.

I'll watch a documentary about World War II, and then next thing you know it's recommending another 50 hours of Hitler and Nazi stuff. Or other war documentaries.

Medium is similar, too. I read a couple of articles about cryptocurrency, and then there's nothing but crypto articles. I ended up having to actively find a bunch of stuff to follow to get some variety.

I thought one of the key ideas in stats and ML was intelligent sampling? That would suggest you should sometimes throw in something the person hasn't expressed interest in, just to see if maybe you're on a local minimum. But I rarely see that.

I often wonder if it would be smarter for Netflix to just hire a guy who watches a lot of content, and he can just tell you what's similar to what.
Are There Things Which We Should Not Know? (1998)
LocalStack: fully functional local AWS cloud stack
I thought that retaliatory action would be a good indicator, so I took a look, and I'd say this supports Zurich's decision:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/15/russian-sanctions-treasury...

Others cited the exclusion to be worded as "hostile or warlike action in time of peace or war", further tilting the scales in the insurance's favor.
Italy is (was?) quite religious too, what with Vatican City and a very long Christian-Democratic dominance in national politics, but it is also the birthplace of commedia sexy [1], and erotic comics artists such as Milo Manara and Guido Crepax were quite famous back in their day (they still are). The US seem especially prudish when it comes the depiction of sex in arts and entertainment.

[1]: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_sexy_all%27italiana
> This will be a Progresive web app - No app store needed, meaning no app store bans.

Why do you call it an app instead of a website?

The word 'app' to me strongly implies that whatever the service does can only be meaningfully accessed via an app on Android or IOS, and that the publisher has reasons (often for monetization purposes) to keep the software client proprietary and exclusive.
https://github.com/localstack/localstack
mastodon already does this? how are you going to differentiate? also all these types of sites are typically flooded with porn if they become in any way popular...
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You make a contract which says you work for money.

If you strike, you do not work - you therefore break contract.

"libertarians default to liberty"

True. The liberty of individual. For example to make contracts - or to brake them. But the idea is, that society can only work if people do not break their contracts. Otherwise whats the point in them?
problem always is that moving away from the mainstream is non trivial and only for people with oodles of money. for eg if i want to use ipfs i should have
1.a computer capable of handling these connections
2.an internet connection capable of handling the connections with no caps forcing me offline

we need solutions that allow any weirdo to easily get online and say what they want to say
Actually pornography wasn't banned on Tumblr because of monetisation issues directly, what happened is Apple became aware of the child pornography epidemic on there and removed them from the app store, so in order to fix this they had to implement a general pornography filter because it was simply easier.
Yea, I thought that too. I imagine either the "or warlike" part or additional text that was not quoted narrows it down to state actors or state-like actors (e.g. terror groups like ISIS or al-Qaida). Would still be a very broad definition.
The problem with that line of reasoning is that climate scientists have jobs too, and they get money for promoting their viewpoint just as the coal industry does. It's hard to argue coal workers have "vested interests" but science workers don't.

In fact if you investigate it, you'll find a lot of so-called "climate change denial" is not so much denial as skepticism about the robustness and motives of climate science. There are some remarkably famous climate change skeptics you wouldn't expect, like a former head of Greenpeace who wrote an interesting essay that basically claimed oceanic acidification (due to extra CO2 being absorbed) was junk science. I didn't bother digging in to the merits of that specific debate, but when even the former heads of ecological charities are flagging problematic scientific practices, and when I've witnessed quite a bit in other non-climate fields, it's not a big stretch to believe that academia may have been exaggerating or mis-interpreting things to unlock grant money. Certainly other areas of science have developed a big problem with that (p-hacking etc).
> 'would they do this in East Germany? Then maybe we shouldnt' yardstick.

I think there might be some mileage in your theory. :)

The UK has an odd relationship with intelligence thanks to the Bletchley Park story being part of our WW2 myths. I've always thought it goes some way to explaining our politicians being so keen on the UK being so excessive and early with things like CCTV everywhere.

Which brings us to now when even with all that tech, terrorists seem able to do what terrorists do just as well. At which point it's hard not to become cynical.
Here's what I get from vultr's Santa Clara location:

$ host sjdisdji.net 108.61.10.10
Using domain server:
Name: 108.61.10.10
Address: 108.61.10.10#53
Aliases:

Host sjdisdji.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

$ host doasidjaoidja8dy78y7ahduh.org 108.61.10.10
Using domain server:
Name: 108.61.10.10
Address: 108.61.10.10#53
Aliases:

Host doasidjaoidja8dy78y7ahduh.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
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Insurance companies live in the weird realm of customer service up front, and financial defense when the whistle is blown.
Who Is Abdul Ghani?
People have been confused when trying to translate the expression (Weapon Dealer) from arabic to english on google, it shows a name of someone called (Abdul rahman), and when trying to translate (an arm of two edges) it shows the name of (Abdul Ghani).

‎https://translate.google.com/?sl=ar&tl=en&text=سلاح%20ذ
It remainds me a bit of similar discussions about GTA San Andreas, where there is a line "kill the haitians" which created offense. Or "the hot coffe patch" - which unlocked soft porn in the game. Oh my god!

A game where your mission is to kill for fun, fame and money ... and the problem is not the main concept, but NO SEXUAL CONTENT. And NO RACISM. (even though it was not racism. the haitians were just one of the other gangs you fought)

And here again, a game which is about murder in the first place (did not played it though) ... and someone (with an awful history) thinks he is missrepresented in a game that glorifies crime.

Something is very weird here.
There's also netboot. It works pretty well and means you never touch flash media at all.
Am i being unfair to request a refund from Crowdfire?
I signed up for the first time yesterday. Service is broken, Asked them for a a refund, they respond today asking me to wait and asking if I can contact Twitter on their behalf. Here's the communications:

The original message was via the app so I don't have a copy but it was basically:

" I just signed up for crowdfire, the service is not working, please refund."

Their response today, quote:

"Thanks for reaching out!

We're facing issues from Twitter's end and are waiting for a reply from @Twitter about this sudden disruption so we can get it. Until then, our team is working round the clock to get the other Twitter features like Scheduling/Publish and Mentions up and running for you.

For this, can I please ask you for some more time? Meanwhile, I please also request you to tweet out to @TwitterDev and let them know we're waiting for a reply and immediate restoration of services?

We'd really appreciate your patience and understanding at the moment. We'll be in touch!

Best,

Gwen"

If I'm running a business online or offline and there's service disruption, I don't hold on to a customer's money, I apologize for the inconvenience, explain it's not our fault, give them a full refund and let them know we can contact them when service is restored so they can opt to return. Especially a first time customer.

...but what are your thoughts?
This particular site forces me to choose a month from a dropdown menu.
Troposphere: library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions with Python
Yeah, that's what the running theory is. Kind of angry with myself if that's the case. However, as I point out in my second update, the whole endeavor seems to be awfully tricky. One misstep and privacy leaks.
The Church is definitely saying sex is bad, sex is a sin, must only be used for making children, not for pleasure, even in married couples.

It's insane.
Prefix name: giga
Prefix symbol: G
Unit name: pascal
Unit symbol: Pa

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Unit...
I do think that Google has a technical vision.

They want more people writing amazing content, and not SEO garbage.

They want to offer people focused answers to their questions.

They want to serve as your personal assistant.

They want people to really trust the first answer they get from Google.

And they want to be deeply integrated with your life.

The thing is: building AWS is more of an engineering project. Achieving Google's list is more of a research project - it's just far harder and less predictable.

Some will even say those goals require artificial general intelligence.

Assuming that's the case, the fact that Google leads the world in AI/ML , hints that they are doing a good job, right ?
In America maybe? I don't live in a violent society, you can spend decades not getting involved in violence but every spring there is sex in the air.
Companies won't take security seriously until there are real costs to losing customer data. Right now, they can just send out an apologetic press release after getting attacked due to their shoddy security and that's it.
“Stage light”! Thank you! I’ve been struggling to find help on that one.

I‘ve had that problem on a lot of my MacBook; I’d say most of the models 2012-2015. (I haven’t upgraded since.) I’m happy to pay for repairs: I just did on my power cable, the second time for that model, roughly every two years. Most of the time, I notice the problem at the peak of Summer, when I’ve been working like crazy, and internal temperature is likely far from bounds.

My biggest issue isn't design flaws (yes, you would expect fewer for a machine at that price) but findability. There is a ton of help online but it’s useless if I don’t know how to describe it in a search engine. I can’t take a screen capture; photos don’t show it well. Given the patterned look of the problem, the fact that I had it on several machines, I knew it was something explainable. I simply could not. Because it’s intermittent, bringing it to the Genius Bar is unhelpful.

If relevant posts are being deleted, that’s horrible. If Apple wants the problem (and the independent repairmen) to go away, offer a high-production description of the problem on your Help page; if you really feel the need to add some scaremongering that it’s too high-tech for independent shops to deal with it, but give that symptom a name.
Joe Rogan Experience – Jack Dorsey
Coupling Semantic-UI-React with Webpack 4
It won't work for that.

Some non-productive people are non-productively lazy, and UBI may work for them.

Others are non-conformist creative types, and UBI will half work for them. IMO it's good to have some of these types around in a business to shake things up - as long as they have some practical skills and aren't just dreamers.

Others are primarily interested in accumulating power, and corporations provide a perfect cover for them. They will get off UBI as soon as they can, but they're often incredibly toxic, and large organisations of all kinds are very good at empowering them.

With the odd exception, they're probably the biggest threat to the future of any business. And they're very good at disguising this. They're the people who turn in solid financials and performance stats. But the results are built on rubble, and often their management doesn't discover this until it's too late.
What kind of money are we talking about? There's such a thing as practicalities.
Download Screen Recorder Ashampoo Snap 10
The plight of Japan's hikikomori
Building a GraphQL HOC While Playing with React Hooks
But people need to take up some of their 150 with connections outside of work. Quite a lot if you have a few family and friends. What does that say about the ideal size of teams?
Putting Wikipedia on the blockchain
It doesn't work like this on the internet. You're not owed a podium to speak from. Most websites aren't public places. You can't treat them like that.

Is it suppression of free speech if you don't let in some jehovah's witnesses to your house? Would anyone ever fathom I'd even have to ask such a ridiculous question?

I'd agree if there was a complete lack of unmoderated spaces and no infrastructure provider would want to take your money. But there is.

If you want to be an edgelord online, go to a chan or gab or minds or some free speech fediverse server or whatever, you have options, you just don't have a guarantee that people will listen to you.
Exactly. We were already hemorrhaging money, and skilled nursing care for even a few hours a week is incredibly expensive. Not to mention you now have a stranger in your home, and without going in to details, we caught some very unsavory behavior via IP Camera with one of the caregivers we'd hired early on.

It's just an incredibly stressful time in a family's life, no matter how you cut it.
remembering urls is not a trivial task. it's the reason why we have bookmarks and history functions in browsers. a good search engine like google abstracts that away. i couldn't remember the name stack overflow for quite some time(i always associated stack with hay in my mind)

just typing in "hay code questions" would get me to stackoverflow in google. not so in bing/yahoo search(at the time)
Swift value constant can mutate using Copy-on-Write (CoW) and multi-threading
Also want to report this. Running safari on an iPad, fwiw, but it looks like the username/password for the demo user are just wrong.
How is G Suite a joke? It can definitely do some heavy lifting and a lot of enterprises are using it. Granted I've worked at a lot of places and most use office, but the ones that have used G Suite have way more collaboration. Its easier to share, collaborate, and not have files get lost in the shuffle. I much prefer it, plus I love using Sites vs Sharepoint.
Not an insider, but I was under the impression that Jeff Dean was that visionary. He seems to focus on AI, which sounds like a conscious pivot from Google. Have I missed something?

It’s likely that anyone who works on other projects might feel left out and that would explain your reaction and the article.
Surely then it depends upon the reason for the strike?

If the strike is over layoffs, wage cuts, unsafe work practices. They're all potential contract breaches.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Rebuilt the Company Culture
> So your observation reminded me that our society has plenty of people on a similar sort of hidden dole:

This is why everyone wants to be university educated. The great bulk of "respectable" office jobs require no real skill or effort, just some cultural knowledge about how to talk like you're contributing.
i'd totally use a js framework called dragonsfuckingcars
How do you define or measure consensus?

I think this debate goes round in circles because we rely on news organisations to do several things at once, and they should probably be unbundled.

We rely on them to report immediate, factual events, like a fire in a hotel or an impending storm.

We rely on them to do longer form reporting on social trends, new scientific findings, business and governmental activities, etc.

We rely on them to locate and expose corruption and malpractice amongst the powerful.

We rely on them for book and film reviews.

And sometimes we rely on them to engage in analysis and generally telling us what to think, because figuring out our own opinions on complex topics is hard work. We'd like them to do it for us and then boil things down to an executive summary that we can then adopt wholesale as if it were our own opinions.

It's not clear to me that it makes sense to bundle so many things together, or if this is a useful combination or just an artifact of an earlier era when distributing the written word required lots of equipment and big agent networks. Now the internet exists should we be defending these agglomerations or breaking them apart?
Summaries of deep learning papers
Sometimes I wonder how (un-)realistic it is to fill a complain with the EU of google misusing it's quasi monopoly on search to actively discriminate against:

- People with open opinions about sex (e.g. down ranking there blog posts etc.).

- People which had been victims of sexual violence (and similar) by making it harder for them to inform them self/get help.

- Sex workers.

- etc.

(note that this is a unordered list!)

Same goes for other platforms e.g. PayPal.

Sure there might be a difference if you use a platform to display pornographic content to people
without appropriate age checks. But non of this
applies for Google (search) or PayPal (payment).

Lastly people might argue that they are just following US law (e.g. for PayPal) but if they operate in the EU then they will have to follow EU law and discrimination against people for _any_ reason is illegal, this includes excluding a blog from search results because it openly speaks about
porn or people _legal_ earning money with videos of their naked body.

Well but then I'm not a lawyer and didn't really think this through either ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't understand this for dental insurance in Canada. The premium I paid while a student was a fraction of a single visit. I visited twice a year and had additional work done some years.
> 6. The adtech industry has 2 of the most valuable companies in the world and generates petabytes of data and billions in profit proving how well ads work

But that's exactly the author's point. The ad industry works but not because it knows so much about you. Like many other commenters here, I can confirm that it always puzzled me how bad ad targeting is (or how nonsensical retargeting is, or how irrelevant recommendations are, etc.) despite what everyone is saying about how they all collect and mine data on our every move.

In my whole time on the Internet for more than 2 decades now, I can remember maybe only 2 or 3 ads that I mistook for genuine content and even clicked, that was on Facebook. Most of the other ads on social networks and elsewhere is trivial retargeting (remarketing) that fails 100% of time on me. This is not an exaggeration, remarketing never ever works for me, it's always stupid and irrelevant. Every marketing and growth professional will tell you that remarketing is the simplest thing that works, though probably not on people like me, but apparently it is pretty efficient.

Looking back now I realize that the author is right in that simpler hacks may be more effective than sophisticated ML-based algorithms. The truth may be in that, similarly to how Hollywood can sell stupider movies better despite that it can afford the best screenwriters in the world, we may be witnessing a similar "dumbing down" effect of the online ad industry. The fact that Hollywood has become a multibillion dollar realm today (and thriving!) whereas blockbusters become more and more predictable and simplistic over time, only tells us that the ad industry is probably heading in the same direction.

Oh and there's nothing new for me in "the dirty secret of the ML movement" the author mentions. That's quite an unpopular opinion today but time will tell.
Browser-Based Monotron Duo Clone
/How/ to protect humans in a fully automated society
I love apple hardware and still have a $5000 latest-gen laptop from them and haven’t had any of the commonly described problems of the last half-dozen years... but I still find myself using my 16gb Pixelbook at least 5x more than my touchbar retina MBP while on the road. Something about the case, the keyboard, the aspect ratio... also ChromeOS is secure like iOS, and can run Real Linux in a VM. It’s an excellent machine. The only thing I super miss is iMessage and Facetime.
How to Be a Nigerian Programmer
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Scientist Who Rejects Warming Is Named to EPA Advisory Board
Kripke, Putnam, Minsky
The State of Go: Feb 2019
Raspberrys are pretty fantastic.

I have a docker swarm cluster consisting of two Pis and two ODroids[1].

What HardKernel has done is quite interesting - taking the idea further. They continue to support the same pin io. However you can get boards with stronger processors, more memory and Gb lan. I would like to the the folks at to consider exploring models with different specs. I would love to see an octocore with 4GB memory and GB lan able to read MMC at +100MBps.

[1] https://photos.app.goo.gl/UNZyeKdM41DV2cE99
And everybody uses a microphone, guitar, bass, keyboard and some kind of cowbell. trebble clef, bass clef, verse, hooks, a chorus, tempo, allegro, presto, bits per minute... completely identical in many songs.
I come back with an update because the link [2] appears to be blocked due to a request from EU IRU. As that is a fiction around a project which is fully OA and OS and moreover my name is not hidden in that page, I have no idea what happens and I want to understand why.
And the motivation for getting the affairs in order didn’t motivate including private key management in the affairs. There is zero chance this is not a scam exit.
Most jurisdictions (US and otherwise) have moved to Electronic Death Registration Systems. There was a fun Defcon talk about "killing" people with them a few years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdHq3WfJgs
That NEO4 looks really nice. Supposedly it can handle decoding H.265 10bit @ 60fps. If true it would make a nice upgrade for my Pi 3 which I'm using as a media player. Anyone here have success using a NanoPi with HDR and 10bit video?