skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related, I feel we need to figure out a way to systematize information in scientific papers to make mining them for cross-cutting insights possible. I suspect there are lots of discoveries hiding in plain sight, if one knew which particular papers from which disciplines touch on the same underlying phenomenon or concept.

This is interesting problem, unfortunately it's really, really hard.

I'm most familiar with mathematics, so I'll use it as an example, but this is not limited to mathematics.

If you take any new paper on research mathematics, in a hot field like algebraic geometry or partial differential equations, then unless you're an expert in that field, it will almost always be literally impossible for you to understand -- not simply hard to follow the arguments, but simply impossible to understand even what it's about. Look, I just grabbed random example from recent posts on arXiv[1]: try reading an abstract and explaining it back to me. For 99.99% English speakers, this will be indistinguishable from random gibberish in a paper written by recurrent neural network trained on arXiv papers.

However, 0.01% of people will understand something, and for probably 1% of these, the abstract will make perfect sense. However, if you ask these people to explain it, you'll either spend an hour or two on getting some very superficial understanding of what's at stake here, which won't be very useful to you -- you still won't be able to actually read and follow the paper, and use the insights for your own purposes. Alternatively, and if you're intelligent enough, they can spend a year or two teaching you required background. Then you can see the insight for yourself.

The problem here is that you need literally years of background studies to appreciate the insight. There likely is no quick and easy way around it, otherwise some of the extremely smart people involved would already have had figured it out -- assuming otherwise is hubris. This doesn't mean that the system cannot be improved upon: there's tons of ways to make things simpler, clearer, more digestible. However, you'll still be left with hard problems of hard things being hard.

[1] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.09846.pdf
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19048204
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> if Google depends on internal apps

If Google depends on internal apps then they shouldn't have violated the terms of internal apps.
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I own nibble.com and rolled my own very simple static "parked" page using Bootstrap and an Escrow.com button.

In my opinion the parking services like Sedo etc. aren't worth it just for capturing sales leads...the commission is too high.
Siri suggested website is based on what your device knows about you (that is never uploaded from your device).
Strict static types also go a really long way doing this +
(And I'd argue this is more cost effective than tests)
From my perspective too many Americans believe the mantra, “We are good and they are bad.”. We had a President that said those who are not with us are against us. We leaders say that we are exceptional, we are a moral government and that believes in freedom and human rights. But the actions of our government suggest that we are not moral and are not in a position to denounce other nations without being profoundly hypocritical. Too many Americans believe we are altruistic and don’t know about or care about our past and present evil deeds.

The high level goals of the U.S. are to maintain hegemonic dominance and our government appears to be willing to engage in all sorts of immoral deeds to accomplish this goal. It’s not virtue signaling to point out the American government is untrustworthy, engages in illegal behavior, tortures, murders, rapes, and pillages and that I personally don’t see how working for American intelligence agencies is not significantly more moral than working for UAE agencies. It’s how I see things.
A few complaints I share with the other people in this thread:

- It's not clear that even reputed newspapers like NYTimes/WaPo produce quality content consistently. As someone in tech I can clearly see what they get and what they don't. Extrapolating it - it's not at all clear they understand economics or foreign policy or policy impact or environmental concerns and how to address them ...etc.

- Bias: every single one of them have bias. The burden is on me to spot bias and think objectively. Why do I have to pay do that? At least present news as it is? I'm not sure if even that would work - there could be bias in what gets chosen for reporting.

- The user experience is pretty bad. That I have to use an adblock after paying for the already expensive subscription is ridiculous. Not to mention the ridiculous amount of pixels and tracking embedded in their site.

- Big picture: By design, news focuses on the now and misses the big picture quite often and usually by a huge margin. E.g., the relentless focus on petty issues in last election (both major party candidates) and not enough attention at all on concrete policy measures. This extends to privacy issues (Facebook and the like) until it's too late. Wars/conflicts, foreign policy, long term economics.

For all these reasons, I have got rid of my NYT & WaPo subscription to FT now and I can't be happier.
I guess the moral of the story is read contracta before you sign them, and don't agree to terms that you cannot abide by.
I find that Rust's syntax/ecosystem is much more modern and pleasant to use. Some examples are: pattern matching, immutable variable, better build and dependency system, and many more.

There are some concepts like lifetime that you have to learn. But you can always use unsafe pointer and look at Rust as a modern version of C.
Apple completely forbidding the availability of certain types of software on their devices from third party developers? Not anticompetitive? Although sure, in this particular case it wasn't because of the type of app, but it still has the same effect because certain apps ARE forbidden from the store, and this does indeed mean that nobody can effectively offer such apps because of Apple's rules

There's no actual legal requirement that your company offers the same service that you use your market control to prevent your competitors from offering.

This is especially relevant in the markets where Apple has a significant market share (USA).
Something like this would be handy for the .NET framework.

Off the top of my head; PostSharp (although not free) would get you much of this. Also might be achieveable via Roslyn? And there is another .NET AOP framework whose name eludes me at the moment... EDIT: Fody.
50K California customers.
Basically, it's to rip off loyal employees. A huge percentage will just stay. It's not about paying you the money, they'll have to start paying everyone what they're worth. They'd rather just pay the extra 10% to take it of the table.
They are pretty pictures to look at, it'd be nice if this article was just titled Stunning Portraits Created with Deep Dream Algorithms... it might be nice to get a better delve into the actual techniques used, but I always appreciate seeing art and technology melded together in neat ways.
Yeah, though a salt would at least mean you'd have to rebuild the table for each site/database/whatever. However I'm having a hard time seeing how to really protect against this.

The IP is a an identifier, so unlike password salt (where the user is the identifier) you need a way to know what the salt is to hash the IP, and it needs to be consistent.

You can do a lookup table of IP-to-salt, but this either gives away your list of addresses (if only containing IPs you've seen) or is huge (entire ipv4 range), and either way doesn't prevent rainbow tables.

You can have a static salt for the entire site, but again this is not really helping much against rainbow tables (beyond requiring recalculating the table, once).

Is there a mitigation I'm not thinking of?
The news as a written medium is losing traction: youtube rules the next generation (anecdotally from what I see with my daughter & friends).

I wouldn't mind paying youtube premium channel if I can get a truly centrist opinion pieces, factual reporting and random excerpts into topics like science/philosophy/comedy/culture.

Sadly afaic again, most of the 'online' content is way too left (or the worse option: way too right). What I wouldn't give for a bbc like channel in the US that runs 1-1.5 hrs every day of content. Any recommendations?
You either like strongly typed object oriented langs or you don't. If you do, then a bit of verbosity is really nothing. If there are actual lang improvements beyond saving me a few characters, I'll take them.
Banks are starting to support opening accounts and credit cards using phone carrier data for authentication. A majority of application data could be auto-filled using only a phone number and billing zip code. The effort for convenience in applying actually could open a lot of people to potential fraud (which the banks won't materially feel) and serious financial damage.
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I guess that gives valuable perspective on how reliable the ww2 accounts are. I think any account of military events that doesn’t honestly recount the actual confusion on the ground is rather suspect.

One would hope that higher levels of command always think of how uncertain all information they get from lower levels is, but reading accounts of events written in this dead certain and authorative voice is a bit worrying. Only the number of enemy casualities hints at the uncertain state of basically all combat accounts.
I forgot that all payments to C-Corps or S-Corps are exempt from 1099 filings, so yes, as long as Netflix remains a C-Corp, there's no need to file. (That's a matter of 1099 tax law, though - it's still a contracted relationship. And so while it is uncommon to think of them as a 'contractor', that's what Netflix is, when delivering a service for payments under the terms of a contract.)
I thought salt was supposed to be unique per hashed value. Rainbow tables don't work in that case.
Intellij still can't figure out how to handle implicits. At this point i have an intuition about the errors that idea reports as errors but actually aren't'.
Most early-stage startup employees should price the equity grant at $0. If everything works out great, it'll be a lot of money you can't do anything with about 5 years from now and often only turn into actual cash a decade or more out. In the meantime, your personal finances has to work based on the cash salary you receive, without any raises (because "raises" for a start-up are achieved through equity grants becoming more valuable).

Yes, the grant has a positive expected value. This value is too uncertain and too illiquid to significantly affect your planning, which ought to care a lot more about what the maximin strategy suggests for your course of action.
Radio Shack used to always want a bunch of information from you for their database, whenever you would buy anything, cash or not. It was good training in refusing to participate in data harvesting that, 30 years after my first nervous "No", is more relevant and necessary than ever.
The 'Erin Brockovich town' is still toxic and nearly abandoned
Do they specifically mention rental cars in the code of law, when they say that the driver can't drive over the speed limit?
You might not be interested in the functionality, but ring tells you someone is at the door, they don't have to ring the bell for it.
Pushing buttons on Facebook pushes your buttons
Why would it ever be ok? It's dehumanization of non-americans at its worst.
Maybe just use a better language instead?
The only problem I have with this is that the products are going to landfill, and not being recycled for their raw materials or burnt for power.
Quoting from https://bit.ly/2t30lXv:

GSM “buzz” occurs with GSM (TDMA) phones,” he said. “It is when the phone is communicating with the tower on the GSM control channel, which is not power regulated and can be as high 1 watt, depending on the phone model. It is pulsed data bursts and does not happen on the LTE side (the reason CDMA phones remain relatively quiet).”

Phones using GSM standards cause most buzzing. Phones using LTE and CDMA rarely do. GSM networks are less common than they used to be, but are still ubiquitous, and even non-GSM phones may “step down” to other networks for various reasons.
There's been a lot of FUD surrounding the logging of IP addresses for network diagnostic and abuse purposes as a violation of GDPR (and now CCPA), but I'm not aware of any cases where that alone was sufficient to cripple a business.

Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to gamble that for now that's not the kind of reckless mishandling of personal information that regulators are trying to crack down on.
An important difference that Nielsen doesn't have an agreement with Vizio that they broke and the "protection" being Vizio terminating their end of that agreement as a response.
First, it's unclear whether the debt is actually a bad thing. Note debts for countries don't work like debts for individuals, especially if said country controls the world's reserve currency.

Second, the idea that immigrants and women getting jobs is a major factor in 40% of Americans not having significant savings is so completely ungrounded in reality or even popular thought as to make me wonder if you're being deliberately dishonest.
It did make me wonder why JAM didn't use some of their rocket / IED teams to attack the concrete batching plants.
>it is a polite thanks but no thanks and exit

No need to be that drastic - just treat the compensation package as if the equity grant is worth $0. With the liquidity and uncertainty involved, you probably want to do that anyway, since you care a lot about "how far away am I from not having enough money" and an equity grant that pays off with a power distribution a decade out helps you very little on that front.
What are you disagreeing with? I didn't make an argument, I stated some facts and gave an opinion of the consequences of those actions.
If you do the same operation enough times, jitter can be filtered out.
lol, thank you.
Just going to throw out there that I’ve never seen a dev database that was anything other than fake data, or internal dogfood data. Have worked at major public tech companies and late-stage startups.
It doesn't have to be false. What gets picked for reporting reveals a lot about bias as well. The other thing is the magnitude. Being objective would be to consider the truth, the relevancy and the magnitude of issues. If NYT doesn't like FB, they can give front page coverage to every negative news about FB irrespective of how big the issue is and how many people it affects.

It's like raising a sev-1 ticket against a team/project you hate or escalating far and wide every single mistake a coworker makes - it tarnishes the reputation even while being completely truthful with respect to the statement made.
It's the upper hand in certain regions. Last I checked Apple has majority market share in Japan, think it was 60% or more. Google definitely stand to lose something and clearly its worthwhile if they are paying billions per year.
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Or maybe we should express less confidence in our assertions about medicine?

After all, most of the time, people are writing about things they don't know all that much about.
That's clearly not true. You'd have a phone number if you are a customer. Even with Gmail — GSuite offers decent phone support.

The fact that you cant reach a human if you are a "user" tells a lot about values at Google.
I don't follow your reasoning.

The question is why every time the user wants to look at a map she needs to let Google know, using computer network access for which the user must pay.

Paper maps or maps stored on physical media do not have this requirement. The map company may "own the map" but the purchaser can look at the map anytime she wants, without any ongoing expense to keep the map company abreast of her travel plans.

I do not not use an "account" or "log in" to view free maps, so I just take screenshots as a quick workaround.
curious: how big is the Firestore team? what about the team for the Firebase products as a whole?
On Android, one can sideload an app. Amazon has it's own app store. Chinese Android phones have their own. Android was initially designed with this kind of openness. In fact, Google didn't have an app store initially.
Now, there are pros and cons to these approach.
FB could be side loading Android apps all day long, doing who knows what, and there is not much Google can do about it.
Now, if they were a bit smarter, they could've used a shell company's throwaway certificates.
I cannot fathom why they would do something this shady using their own corporate certificates.
RSS is for following blogs, but not specifically for integrating them into social networks. That's the thing I want.
Well in this case, wouldn't most people be using Google owned phones? Or if they bring their own device, have explicitly allowed Google/FB to manage their device through an enterprise system. That enterprise system for some reason shared a cert with an application _not_ used for enterprise, so the cert is banned.
Then they still need to build a search engine, DuckDuckGo is just a proxy for google.
> I think it’s more of a technology problem syncing owned music between devices, and that these major players, especially Apple, have an incentive to make it very hard.

Uh, iPods and iTunes? DRM-free music from the iTunes Store?

>For example, I buy all my music outright from Amazon & Bandcamp, downloaded to my laptop. From there I use the VLC app to propagate the music to my phone, ipad, etc.

You've just described iTunes though! And iTunes Match since 2011, for $25/year. It's even DRM-free. That was the way people did music before, and it turns out that when you can rent every album in the world for ten bucks a month nobody wants to be spending twenty bucks on every album they want anymore.
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So jailbreak it. Meanwhile, Apple should be able to ship whatever operating system it thinks its users want, and those users should be able to keep it if they want.
I generally agree with you.

Wood often has hidden stresses within its structure. An apparently straight length of wood can cup/bow/curl quite markedly when cut. So you can't always know if a particular rip cut will result in the wood binding between the fence and blade leading to kick back.

On the price difference point, I have a portable Dewalt table saw that cost about AUD$1100 with a stand. Saw Stop didn't have a portable version when I purchased. Now that they do have a portable version, it is about AUD$2000, roughly twice the price of similar models from other manufacturers (at least here in Australia). That's quite a price difference for hobbyists and home gamers who aren't deriving an income from the tool.
On second thought, it doesn't. I just wanted a easy way to distinguish complex IoT devices from simpler ones.
To be honest, one or the other should be the case.

Either wild speculation on medicine and law should be fine (this is my position).

Or, people should fear medical speculation as much as they do legal speculation (I think this is the more pathetic option).
Especially considering many home connections don't even have static ips any more. Websites can't tell whether or not the IP is static or dynamic; it would be pretty silly for them to use it too.
Yeah, corporate titans punishing each other when the government won’t do anything is a clear path to dystopia.
Good point, I did not know what SIMD was. (Very interesting side projects to come...)
Not sure what kind of "in-depth control" you're referencing.

This change did nothing to individual phones.

This simply prevents two organizations from deploying applications to phones with specific certificates. That's all.
Yes, but absence of red flags won't really save you from having cargo-culted fake agile shoved down your throat later. I would pay more attention to culture than specific practices.
(as per my other post) crowd sourced investigative journalism... money gets pooled and goes directly to the journalist doing the research...

plus a reputation system

that's it, that's all we need to change right now... seriously, it will work
Have you looked at Sanity [1]? You get both a fast cloud backend (with a powerful GraphQL-like query language with joins, transactions, object-level security, text matching, real-time change notification, etc.) and a collaborative editing front end (optional, but recommended!). The latter is open source and modular. You can deploy serverless just like Firebase/Firestore. Gatsby is a popular way to serve Sanity.

Disclosure: I've contributed to their database tech, but I don't work for Sanity. Mostly just a fan.

[1] https://sanity.io/
If you're sharing your apps with customers for very benign purposes, I doubt they'd care. For instance, if you were giving customers access to your business's data or some sort of internal app that provides functionality that you wouldn't want to make public. That seems very reasonable, and might not even be outside the ToS (IANAL, and I haven't read them).

In both Google and Facebook's cases, they were using it to distribute apps to the public at large (i.e., users with whom they have no business relationship) simply because they couldn't get the apps into the app store to begin with because they would otherwise violate Apple's rules. So not only were they flagrantly disregarding the ToS of their enterprise certs, they were doing so in order to violate Apple's rules for app distribution. Less than great.
> Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to gamble that for now that's not the kind of reckless mishandling of personal information that regulators are trying to crack down on.

And you're probably right until they do otherwise.

The problem with badly-drafted laws is that they can be used to attack people who are annoying but who haven't done anything wrong... except for technically violating a law which is "supposed to" mean something else but which can be read to penalize some harmless activity the gadfly happened to engage in.

So, maybe you'll be patient when I'm not comforted by people telling me to not worry about it.
Folks are tripping over the term "Afrofuturist" here in the comments.

Pretend this was an article about music, and the title was "Stunning Electronic Music Created with [...]". Would you object to the term "Electronic"? It's a specification of genre, and there's no harm in that specificity.

This case is no different — "Afrofuturist" is a style of art, and there's no harm in being specific about the style of art.

If there's anything harmful here, it's the rapidity with which folks jump straight to criticism due to perceived "racial spin" and "buzzwords".

There doesn't need to be something new here in the "technological sense" for this link to be interesting. Hacker News is often interesting for linking to and discussing the intersection of technology and society. So, gang, let's not disregard the human-facing aspect of the story. Here are some examples of interesting things about this story we can talk about:

* How does this artwork advance the discussion around the relationship between AI and race? (This is a very hot, very interesting area of discussion, now that we've seen the consequences of racially-biased training data producing racially-biased applications of AI)

* How does this artwork, and its use of the technology, interact with other Afrofuturist artwork, and its use of technology?

* Let's wonder about what sort of Deep Dream artwork you could create using training sets based on race, and what sort of an interesting artist statement you could make pursuing such a project.

* Ignoring the race angle for a minute (since, after all, this is still under the umbrella of "cool artwork made with AI"), does anyone have any insight on whether you can create music using something like Deep Dream?