skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I struggle with this concept. One of my problems with these platforms is that de-platforming someone can be argued to be a violation of free speech (there are valid counter arguments as well). I don't know how to solve that because I think that no one forces news papers to accept articles from people they think are crazy.

Can we separate the "data storage" at this scale from the message delivery. Where de-platforming someone doesn't mean losing your hosting of the videos but instead pushes you to a fringe "subscription and recommendation" tool?

This is a massive hand waiving over simplification so please correct gross assumptions I'm making here.

Youtube has services that could be broken into separate "categories" if you would.
Platform to post videos.
Platform to subscribe to videos.
Platform for recommendations of videos.
Platform with "top" videos as watched by everyone.

Then you've got Google Search which doesn't control the data but caches it and it has a database of the inter-relationships between sites and you and can recommend sites to you. Up until they started customizing data to a user I'd say there was only one issue here. But now that they customize, you actually have two sets of data in search.
Your data.
The Internet's interconnected relationships.

I don't know how you break this data apart in a reasonable way. I mean Google did create all of it or buy a platform and expand it in the case of YouTube. They deserve to be rewarded for their innovation (obviously my opinion) but we need an equal ability to compete.

I am obviously concerned when you can be "de-platformed" for a TOS violation and silenced. Especially when some of these platforms are so ubiquitous that being de-platformed from them all could completely silence an individual. But at the same time a company should have the right to choose who their customers are if there aren't fair regulations that address this.

So it's complicated and I think this sort of thing deserves a lot of conversation. I still think action isn't appropriate because if we did have twitter owned by the government we'd also need to keep free speech on there. It'd have to get a court order for data to come down as libel or something similar.
>anti-trust legislation and enforcement, so that a number of platforms can coexist and compete even though there is a strong network effect to having a single platform.

So, I get what you are saying.. but what kind of monopoly tactics are twitter/facebook actually doing? In my view it's virtually nothing.

Let's ignore facebook since it wasn't exactly first to market with myspace before it (although it was first to market in "this has your real name attached"), and talk about twitter.

Twitter had a fairly unique idea, you can post public messages that are very limited in scope. They were first to market on that- and that's why everyone uses it. What is stopping twitter clones from popping up? Absolutely nothing. Many people who read HN could easily make a suitable twitter clone. But would anyone use it? Pretty much no. Why? Because people like to centralize their technology as much as they can to make it actually useful.

What a pain in the ass it would be if you had 4 different twitter equivalents that you were trying to use.. or try to remember "oh friend A is on twitter1, Friend B is on twitter3" etc.

Now, yeah people still do this do a degree of course.. some friends might be on facebook, others twitter. So of course this segregation still exists but it's generally for products which are different in scope.

Anyway- my point is it's people and the marketplace have decided "1 facebook is OK" "1 twitter is OK". Arbitrarily trying to break them up is not what people even want. Paranoid people might think that's what people want because all they can see is the possibility of censorship and security stuff, but 95% of people just want to use something that works and they can connect with people without everything being a pain in the ass.
Politics also affords the collective resources to engage on such projects. It's more chicken-egg than most think.

Not to mention, science without proper PR has a disastrous level of near-term utility. See: climate science
Perhaps something along the lines of, "Any company with more than 5 (or 10?) million monthly users in the system," as a baseline for provisions regarding protected speech. I don't like censorship in general, but can respect those that would want to build smaller communities with proactive moderation vs the likes of twitter/facebook etc with very little effective moderation in practice.

Also, similar provisions ensuring that policies against classes of speech are used regardless of backing ideology.
The customers here in question are other large institutions (for now).
Yeah I feel this a lot. It's my biggest struggle. I'm not trying to build a product at the moment just doing a year long deep dive into every part of the fundamentals. The aim is to hit 2hrs ~ 3hrs a night of study. The worst thing is when I haven't managed my energy levels correctly and I can only manage 1hr or 1.5hrs and I'm fighting to stay awake. It just feels like I'm losing the opportunity to make use of that time.

There is still plenty to work on in terms of managing energy levels. Most nights I can hit 2hrs but ideally if I could hit 3hr or even 2.5hrs consistently that adds up. It's not a trivial difference.
Ask HN: Selling SaaS Products in China?
Can anybody share their success/failure selling SaaS products in China.

What are like top DOs and DONTs ?
The F-35 Is One of the 5 Worst Fighter Jets Ever Made
Try adding in 30 minutes of exercise a day, should change your motivation
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure libel / slander is not a criminal offense anywhere in the US. You could get sued, if you lie about someone and they can actually prove that it caused them some monetary damage, but no, you don't go to jail.
Contrast a similar writeup on some interesting observations about solving ImageNet with a network that only sees small patches (largest is 33px on a side)

https://medium.com/bethgelab/neural-networks-seem-to-follow-...
I apologize for Reese shaming. I think there's a difference between body shaming and making light of someone's obviously deliberately chosen self image.
24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today
Just like Bezos pulls out his member for photos.
In case it wasn't clear, I was NOT talking of the Marvel movie with the same name.
That's a pretty damn good argument. It's 10% ahead of the best ISAs that took decades of development. Just think of how adoption would be affected if it was 30% worse.

In other words: not only is it better in terms of royalties and ecosystem, it also better at everything else too. Isn't that terrific?
"Buckle up kids, church is about to get weird."
Pretty sure if you're that extreme you don't have any mates.
Announcing Suggestions for Observable Notebooks
Ranking comments using reinforcement learning
> They are collecting data about you right now

Browsers can block that quite easily.

> and affecting the society you live in

And people are becoming more aware of how that happens, and developing tools to control and expose that, and at the end of the day people can choose to use it or not.

> At least the government is accountable through elections.

Not particularly, no.

I feel far, far more enfranchised in my ability to choose what voluntary associations I form. I know I'm not the only one.
For authenticating multiple users, I wonder if you can do something GPG like where you generate a web of trust?
In an effort to fool us meat bags companies have moved to the term "Human Capital" in place of "resources".
Very happy about this. We recently switched to github and I asked my team to start their PRs immediately. Was pretty disappointed to discover that they needed something to commit first. Having a draft state will in itself be really useful.
Okay. It's still illegal and my point stands. There are disincentives for it here and that matters.
Hey, I hope you don't take it the wrong way -- I'm coming from a place where I hope you start feeling better -- but what you're experiencing might be depression/mood affiliation. I.e. you feel weary and bleak, so the world seems weary and bleak.

There are enormous problems for humanity to solve, but that has always been the case. From plagues and famines, to world wars, to now climate change, AI risk, and maybe technology centralization. We've solved massive problems before at unbelievable odds, and I want to think we'll do it again. And if not, what of it? What else is there to do but work tirelessly at attempting to solve them?

I hope you feel better, and find help if you need it -- don't mean to presume too much. My e-mail is in my profile if you (or anyone else) needs someone to talk to.
Wow, you have some really tough business decisions with this architecture:

- Is the mentioned blacklist implemented?

- Will it be enabled by default?

- Will the legal entity responsible for the blacklist be US-based?
Please do not mistake me asking in a direct way as arrogance, but: Are you making this claim based on the assumptions that cashflows over medium user acquisition & support cost will work out or have you pulled this off yourself?

I'm currently scoping a small - medium enterprise concept with a very concrete set of paying first customers, but thinking ahead this looming uncertainty really bothers me.
It requires a grid, but maybe not a national grid?

There has been a lot of talk about how we need more long-distance power lines for load-balancing solar and wind. However, the PG&E bankruptcy seems to show that we've been underestimating what it takes to properly maintain a grid. Are long-distance power lines more expensive than we thought?

Or maybe rural, fire-prone areas would do better with more local solutions that reduce the amount of low-usage power lines that need to be maintained?
You're getting downvoted, but I don't think it's an unreasonable theory. Cuomo might run for President at some point; having Bezos happy and throwing a million or two into a PAC wouldn't be a downside for him.
>JPM controls access to its blockchain

Only for the initial group of banks invited to participate. After that it would be up to the consensus algorithm to decide if a prospective member can join.
Peter Thiel is a questionable human being. I'm not sure anyone should be taking advice from him.
i think those claims were dropped though.

https://www.eff.org/takedowns/ten-hours-static-gets-five-cop...

https://blogs.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidex/2018/01/22/the-after...

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in after the fact [of comment/replies] is this:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-10/white-noise-youtube-c...

Can that sort of sound really be copyrighted?

"It's actually a bit of a grey area," said Dr Kylie Pappalardo, a lecturer in intellectual property law at QUT.

"Copyright protects expressions that are recorded in material form, but the expressions have to be original.

"What the law means by original is that it has to originate from somebody.

"There's a chance that [white noise is] not actually original enough to be copyrighted, and if it is original enough, then the protection would be quite a low-level protection."
Bigscreen, Social VR for Consuming Media Together, Gets Big Update
Agreed, contributing to the discussion by only elaborating on problems grows only the vacuum and makes it easier for ANY solution to slide on in.
Keep up the good work, I agree with you on that. I can’t see any reason why Apple don’t give free developer certificates to serious developers
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Insulin has been manufactured for decades, and is made by more than one company. Why are the prices rising?
Well for one, techs love hype. Otherwise it is mostly the association with the word "open".
The thing is, the government already has the power! Congress can pass any laws it likes, the president can try to veto, and the courts will decide what's legit or not. "Trusting this government with more power" is totally outside your control.
That's not bullying, either.
Craig Rush / craigr@ clean solar dot com

He's in Foster City, and was previously an engineer, so I felt he 'gets it'.

If you need to get ahold of me, my username here at gmail.
Tank installation + piping + maintenance + exclusive oil supplier, all wrapped up in a 10 year contract attached to the property. I'm not saying there are companies that do that, but I could see it being a possible business model.
Replacing JavaScript Hot Path with WebAssembly
American healthcare is frankly - and I say this as an American - disgusting and infuriating. It needs to be re-structured from the ground up.
Thanks for the feedback and while I can understand your point to some degree, I am not a << content writer >>, or someone that sits in a spreadsheet watching other people work. I was part of my team before leading it and continue to be an individual contributor.

I too have encountered leaders who operate in the way you described, but I think it's actually a really unfortunate viewpoint to have of leaders overall.

One of the key points of the article is that you do have more time than you think. This amount of time varies per person based on their life, but I would argue that everyone does have at least 30 minutes per day that they could re-allocate to something more effective.
Sharding the Shards: Managing Datastore Locality in Facebook at Scale with Akkio
In principle yes, it is even mentioned in footnotes of the matrix (2, 3).
The ABI stability in the article is solely provided by ObjC, not by Swift. The "Swift ABI" of 5 only helps you with not having to embed the Swift libraries within the ObjC shielded module. (it "just" makes it smaller)
The point of the article is that you can use the stable ObjC ABI to wrap the Swift incompatibilities. And that was technically possible since Swift v1.
Typhus is not flu, you need to have the city in a very bad shape to get such an outbreak. Has nothing to do with medicine.
As long as people don't point their cameras at public spaces, i.e. the streets, I don't see a problem with this. I wouldn't personally trust a company to handle my video feed, but that's just me.
Thanks a bunch! Glad to hear you're enjoying it! Apologies in advance for all the duds I send out :)
I get your point. I was part of the YC startup school last year and it was a very good learning experience. but I was wondering that if they scale, would it be the same value? years ago companies had a lot of mentoring from the leaders at YC like Paul Graham etc,. but will now Michael Seibel and team be able to closely work with 200+ companies and have this close relationship? I am pretty sure they're awesome but I have a feeling it wont be the same program it used to be.
The dominant machine languages—the language compilers compile programs to so that the code can run on the silicon—are all proprietary and protected by patents. RISC-V offers a free, open-source machine language, as well as open designs for the hardware. You can more or less download their designs for free and send them off to a factory to make high-quality processors.
yes Amazon ruined the show itself, it feels too proud about itself these two years probably.
It's not just a bureaucracy built to move slowly and purposefully, it's one that we all, by design, have a say in operating.

Don't like how Facebook runs its data collection on you whether you have an account or not? Tough. There's no, and will never be, a town hall for Facebook.

Don't like how the county runs its health services departments? Well, you can show up at county council meetings, you can get involved politically, you can vote, etc.

Fundamental difference.
AI-powered popcorn making assistant
The UI/UX certainly leaves a lot to be desired :3
It's basically a non-standard use of IPv6, which is to ideally issue a /64 to each end point. Personally I don't mind, but some people think they need 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses per host.

The idea being with all those addresses you can create subrouters to manage your network topology. Unless you're doing some weird tunnelling setup through your VPS, I can't see why you'd need or want such a huge block.

People complain about only getting a /64 on their home routers.

Blocking certain outbound traffic is another matter: that really stinks.
I guess it's a matter of scale, like a fractal. If your idea is big enough, it might be easy to get fooled into thinking you are at the top when a small detour might lead to a much higher summit.
> And good paying tech jobs stay on the coasts

But NYC is on the coast. What do you mean by this?
E Corp!
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It is a technology for trading with other banks.

If you want a chain that doesn't allow transaction censorship, you need something else, like a proof of stake or proof of work blockchain.
That’s a purely technical perspective on the situation. One could make the same argument about gRPC versus SOAP versus XML.

What would have been a more constructive response was:

This looks like JPMC is trying to profit off hype by building a new accounting and settlement system on blockchain. Since they control all aspects of their network and ultimately are the only one redeeming tokens for dollars, they could have used something simpler. However, I bet they did it this way because they think forking ethereum is cheaper than building a new system from scratch and also they might get a bump in stock price from the hype. If they built and announced the same system using bespoke tech (that likely solves the problem more effectively), no one would have probably cared.
> Amazon doesn't employ cleaners and other low skill workers. They contract those jobs out

Is this any different from how other companies do it?

> they'll be taking jobs from other organizations, like small businesses, who can't afford to compete with Amazon.

How many small businesses in LIC are competing with Amazon for business/workers? Does LIC even have tech jobs? I lived in NYC for 5 years working in tech, and I don't recall ever interviewing for a tech job in LIC.

> So, what's the benefit to new york?

25,000 jobs with $100k+ salaries. I get that there aren't enough native native New Yorkers to fill the jobs, but since when is NYC not a city of transplants? Amazon or not, this is already the state of things, and I don't see that changing. I mean LIC is already a ghost town of glass luxury residential apartment towers.

> the choice isn't 25000 jobs or no jobs. Its 25000 jobs with amazon and some number of jobs from other businesses. Other businesses will employ those high skill workers because there aren't enough to go around.

Is there a strong demand to build out jobs in LIC matching the 25k that Amazon would've? I'm not being facetious, genuinely wondering. I only went to LIC a few times, and my impression was that it seemed like a ghost town of glass luxury residential apartment towers. I don't recall seeing a thriving office/commercial center. Seems like everyone just commutes into Manhattan to work.
Haha, this is brilliant. Exempt NBA Star X from all state income tax if they play for the team - that seems completely believable.

Obviously NBA rules relate to tampering would come into play, but it would be a compelling story for the 24 hour sports new cycle.

I've read about athletes at least considering the income tax of a state in their decision, but I'm not sure it's ever been a deciding factor.
At least we can, (in theory) vote out our government. If I am not a shareholder, there is nothing I can do to stop a big company’s bad behavior, and if I am a shareholder, then my interests align with the big company’s bad behavior.

Perhaps over a certain size, companies should be somehow required to provide the public some amount of voting power on their board, absent a financial interest in the company’s results.
This is also more like one or two hours for people with kids (which is a lot of people).
As a marketer this is incredible and the possibilities are endless. Any plans to allow creators to add ads so the apps can be monetized?
Interesting content, although the title is a little dramatic. 'Reestablishes Leadership' lol
>What?

Agreed. See Theranos.
Not sure if I'm missing something here, but the pricing seems quite high (in relation to DO's other products and competition).

For example, if we take 8GB ram node, that's $120 p/m. Add in 2 standby nodes, and we add another £160 p/m. That equates to $280 per month.

AWS RDS, by comparison, is about $260 p/m for an rds.m5.large instance (also 8GB ram) on multi AZ. This can be reduced further via reserved instances.

Admittedly, the DO has more processing power, but all-in-all, I don't get this pricing at all. I was very excited about this, but the pricing is putting on the brakes.
In some ways the ones who've mastered a field can be worse, they assume that mastery of an esoteric field translates to mastery of everything.

Tech is pretty bad for that.

I try hard to avoid that trap, we seem to live in a world where experts are undervalued and loud confident sounding people are listened to.

It's frustrating since people like simple answers and the loud confident ones are happy to pretend to give them.
I have greater issue with Google Search[1] than I do FB and TWTTR, they should provide a politically unbiased index of the surface web, but unlike DDG, Bing or others, they curate theirs to further their world view outside that required by law.

Twitter and FBs issue is reliance and optimizing for engagement which leads to clicking and surfacing the most outrageous stuff at the expense of the ordinary.

Google search doesn’t have “an gagement problem”. They have black hat SEO problem, which is different, but they go beyond that and tweak some search results for political reasons. Not talking about terrorism or supremacy groups at all, but somewhat controversial social issues, (reproductive) sometimes tame issues (searching for candidates)[1]. The EU has fined them for “re-ranking” SERs and SSE effects.

>These data showed that Google’s search results favored Hillary Clinton (whom I supported) in all 10 positions on the first page of search results — enough, perhaps, to have shifted two or three million votes in her direction over time.<

Given that, 2-3MM vote swing (vs, what the outside estimate was under 50k votes for Russian bot sway), I’d say Google is the real problem in affecting democratic elections.

[1]https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/09/13/google-big...
FTC and Facebook are negotiating a record fine for privacy lapses
Ask HN: Recommendations for point and click web scraper
My brother wants to do some web scraping and wants a non programming interface (he has a betting system he wants to automate :-) ), I was thinking a point and click interface. The ideal solution would extract to a spreadsheet on a schedule and added bonus run from a command line. He's not a programmer but does excel and some SQL, I recommended using Python but he's not keen on that - are there any web scrapers that you can just click and set up automatic schedules that people would recommend?

A google turned up these two which seem reasonable but a recommendation would be nice

https://www.grepsr.com

https://www.webscraper.io

Thanks
Love it. I’ve had success using Issues in the past to do get implementation feedback, and have a “one pager” for whatever I/the team was working on at the time, but it didn’t feel like it stuck very well with junior team members.

Having something like this that allows a little closer relationship between the plan and the code created for the plan is nice.
I would consider op-ed to be a subset of articles. Is that incorrect?
The ruling's first line is:

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.