skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what you mean by "multi-layer sequence", as it is a simple link at the bottom of the page "send feedback".

Even though the cause of the problem was not in Google's hands, given that they got the data from outside sources, nonetheless I would presume that they have the ability to correct errors.
Giving medical advice, much like legal advice, opens you up to liability.
Blockstack Engineer here. You do not need to download a browser to use Blockstack. We also have a working mobile version, and multiple apps built on the Blockstack API that have their own ios and android apps. You can check out Blockstack without downloading the browser here: https://browser.blockstack.org

If it is your first time, you will be asked to create an identity on Blockstack: https://docs.blockstack.org/core/naming/introduction.html

Each instance of the "browser" whether on desktop or phone, requires a unique password, associated with the id. The id is stored on the Blockchain, the data is stored in your own gaia hub which you can host wherever you like: https://docs.blockstack.org/storage/overview.html

In regards to your comment about "Kademlia or other DHT": Blockstack previously used Kademlia, but iterated on an improvement to Kademlia by creating Atlas which is what we use at Blockstack. More here: https://github.com/blockstack/atlas

and the specific reasons about why Atlas was built in lieu of Kademlia here: https://blog.blockstack.org/blockstack-core-v0-14-release/

Together, Atlas, BNS, and gaia create the foundation upon which the Blockstack API is built on.

You can build applications using the Blockstack API here: https://docs.blockstack.org/develop/zero_to_dapp_1.html

If you want to explore the ecosystem of existing decentralised applications on Blockstack and other decentralised solutions, you can see that here: https://app.co/

You can read more about how identity, Atlas, and user owned storage works here: https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf and maybe poke around here a bit: https://core.blockstack.org/

Oh yes, also you can download the browser on your desktop if you like.
Sure, but if you've got an ebook reader(which usually means 6-7 inch screen size) you don't want to use PDF unless it's absolutely necessary.
Is that 10^-6 figure is for any sort of accident, or just catastrophic ones?
Hah, should have read the comments here first :-) I agree that the author is missing both context and understanding in this article.

A lot of speculation around this move by Amazon (removing FBA type businesses) has rattled around, and rattled some suppliers. But my sense of it is that Amazon has realized that a noticeable portion of their FBA business involves counterfeits and frauds. What is worse, the 'A' part of FBA makes Amazon a liable party to the fraud. I'm going to further guess that Amazon has been looking at ways to try to police people who submit counterfeit goods as 'legit' and get Amazon to sell them, and finding that this is a game of whack-a-mole that costs more than the margins they are getting on this business. The "easy" solution is to dump FBA (or at least strictly curtail it with new language/contract work that allows Amazon to recover costs from the bad actors).

It gives me hope that they recognize how crappy their offerings have become, especially in normally 'high margin' products like Apple accessories.
It might be geographic proximity to Siberia and thus abundance of research material, which drives some funding to do more research which then drives more funding, etc.
Does that make sense? The logic is that woolly mammoths would... am I reading this right? Tamp down the permafrost? Like, they'd literally just squish the ground on top of it to compact it and insulate the permafrost from rising temperatures? And they'd knock over trees... that's... that's the plan?

EDIT: Apparently, yes, that is seriously the idea. But the scale required to make a difference, and the cost to get to that scale boggles my mind. You can't just whip up one pack of mammoths and call it a success...
What features didn't the application process have? Every college I've ever seen advertises "diversity" in their admissions process. If we peek under that diversity umbrella, we can see: Legacy, Donors Kids, Athletes, Full-Tuition Payers, Hard-Luck-Feel-Good-Stories, Employees' Children, Political Backscratching & everyone else.

Please show me one college that says "we _only_ use this list of criteria to determine admission". None do because they need the wiggle room for the aforementioned higher-value candidates. New buildings/NCAA titles/Sponsored Chairs don't cost nothin'!
>It is widely suspected that Boeing knew about the problems with the PCU for decades but had done nothing, despite the hundreds of reported incidents. Because no one was collecting all the accounts of rudder deflections, it was likely that no one except Boeing realized how common they were. It was not until people started dying in crashes that enough scrutiny was placed on the 737 to uncover this history of ignoring the problem.

I can't help but read these stories, and all the accounts of various other crashes, and question the whole "safest mode of transport" line we've been fed? "Safest" doesn't really mean anything to me, I guess.

Is it really outside of the realm of possibility that flying is less safe than the number we've all been given? I've certainly never seen the raw data myself, but it's hard not to take this skeptical perspective when you dig deeper into the number of crashes that happen world wide.
Free speech v. public safety is a touchy subject that pits the moral pillars of liberty/oppression against care/harm. However, before we lose ourselves to moral outrage for one side or the other, consider that, with Judea Pearl's (somewhat) recently work on causality, there might actually be a "correct" solution to when the government (or government-like entity) should intervene to "protect the public interest" or do nothing and "encourage free speech"

Namely, we can use the idea of calculating the "probably of necessity" v. "probably of sufficiency" from Pearl's section on counterfactuals to calculate causation.

Taking your arsenic merchant example, for instance, if you publicly release information that "arsenic in large doses is good for you" to the public, we would consider the counterfactual statements

- "would large portions of public have taken arsenic had you NOT released such a statement"

- "would large portions of the public refrained from taking arsenic had you released such a statement"

Notice that, in both statements, we require a model of public behavior that is contextually dependent on things like "how educated the general public is", "how common is it to take arsenic", "how much harm does arsenic actually do" etc., most of which can be determined and agreed to beforehand. Given that we, as a society, can come to agree on a model of ourselves (lol probably not easy), we can directly calculate the necessity and sufficiency values, which would allow authority to make "just" feeling decisions
To this day, I still log on to Kingdoms of the Lost(http://kingdomsofthelost.blogspot.com/). Not one of the oldies like some of the ones on the http://mudstats.com list, but definitely a goldie.
So true. Further Das Kapital is still for sale on Amazon, even though when put into practice it routinely kills millions.
Maybe it's a question of why rainwater was accumulating there? Is the road design faulty?
Courses for horses, but I much prefer ebooks. Physical books seem so heavy to hold, and you can't adjust the font size.
By simple, I mean one click to an easy-to-fill-out form.

I do agree that it does take attention span--but it sounds like the process or complaint. has gone on for a number of years already.
If your doctor gives you advice, which if followed, caused you physical harm, not only have they opened themselves up to a malpractice lawsuit, their advice caused harm.
My toddler learned at about 20 months how to skip YouTube ads. It's unbelievable. I watched him evolve as he would mash the "skip ad in 5..." Countdown to waiting until it was done to skip.

He also learned through trial and error not to accidentally tap on the ads.
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I'm syncing around 90 GB between my server, laptop, and LineageOS Pixel phone. I use it to sync my documents, music, passwords, and archived pictures. I also use it to sync photos taken by my phone camera as they are taken.

Setup:

* Camera: 1.8 GB, 243 files

* Documents: 10.8 GB, 4604 files

* Music: 61.5 GB, 25077 files

* Passwords: 660 KB, 726 files

* Pictures: 16.5 GB, 6450 files

The passwords are managed by 'pass' [0], which is viewable on my phone using Password Store [1]. Cold-launching Syncthing takes ~10 seconds on my phone, but it does it automatically on boot and thereafter runs in the background. Battery impact seems to be negligible.

[0]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

[1]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.zeapo.pwdstore/ and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeapo.pwds...
This is just an ad, and should be deleted.
Thank you for the response. I totally agree on the early-exit loop problem
What if Amazon gave every new baby chocolate eclairs?
> but it’s interesting to realize yes, cost was spared in making your plane/car/boat/train as safe as possible

Isn't it always the case? Driving cars and flying planes is a risky activity (the former much riskier, but still). There are ways to reduce the risks, but millions of people choose to buy cars without most recent safety features. A lot of people choose to drive tired, intoxicated, distracted, under bad weather conditions, while using mobile devices, etc. - knowing it is risky. There could be more safety features in cars - stronger materials, more accident-preventing electronics, enforced speed limits, etc. - but nobody would buy a car that costs $200K and can go only 30 mph, even it'd be super-safe for the driver. So yes, we know we trade some safety for reduced cost (either directly monetary or convenience). There's no surprise there, and there's no surprise manufacturers participate in the balance too. Of course, the consumer can make voluntary decision about accepting risk only if they are informed about the risks - if the risks are purposely concealed from consumers, then it's a problem.
The trouble is Lions generally hunt as a pack.
Back in the days of physical bookstores, it was not possible to offer every available book for sale. Some person at Barnes and Noble or Your Local Bookshop, would have to review which books they would have in the store, and which they would not. They would use a variety of factors, mostly how likely they thought it was the book would sell, but certainly they were free to use their judgement in whatever other way they liked to determine which books they offered for sale.

This curation was a part of the value the bookstore provided. Nobody ever demanded that they be forced to sell every single book in existence, or even that they explain why they did or didn't want to sell a particular book. Why should Amazon be any different?

If Joe Crackpot wants to sell his book online, he can make a website with a shopping cart and offer it for sale himself. He has no standing to demand Amazon's assistance in selling it.

Literally all intermediaries are making these decisions all the time. If I cook up some homemade ketchup in my bathtup, should I be able to force Giant to stock it on their shelves? Does Bloomingdale's have to stock their racks with whatever rags any aspiring fashionista sews together? Should Best Buy be forced to stock my homemade Fitbit that I soldered together in the garage?

No, of course not. They have people whose entire job it is to wade through all the available products and find the best ones to sell. There's nothing wrong with that.
Google does this all of the time with all of their products. The purposely degraded the performance of some users on their products (search IIRC) to see how they would react.
Yet, when a bakery wants to "curate" what cakes they bake, thats a civil rights infringement, isn't it?
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That's the point, yeah. For the vast majority of apps the 30% cut remains exactly the same, with no loopholes.

But if you're dealing with a $100+ per year subscription, the fee goes down to a modest processing cost.
Remarkable social dynamics of Hacker News
so much incentive to get to the top. when you post, you're there for a second and then you hit refresh and you're gone. day after day people post. comment. thoughtfully. cheekily. mercilessly. what a place. they bring in their friends to vote and comment. you're never at the top when you want it. but sometime somehow it works out so that everyone gets their fifteen minutes at the top.
Well the president did suggest we take forest floors to prevent wildfires, so..
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You don't promote pseudoscience books for the same reason you don't promote TB, Ebola and leprosy.
Unless it is a Free to Play game, you pay before you play. Some Early Access games start out free, but less and less now days.
In the PrivateStorage case the machines aren't "trusted" but they are all run by the service you're paying for -- so the incentive to keep them running properly is indeed there.

For other kinds of Tahoe deployments, no there's nothing built-in to incentivize storage-server operators. That part is up to whomever is organizing and running the Grid (what Tahoe calls a group of storage-servers). For example, friends could agree to host storage-servers for each other and create redundancy + trust that way.

The difference between Tahoe and things like Storj / FileCoin is that those services intend to be "a single, global service" whereas Tahoe is software that can be deployed in several different ways -- one of which is a professionally managed Grid such as PrivateStorage.

If you are interested in these topics I'd encourage you to join #tahoe-lafs on Freenode or one of the Tahoe development meetings. These are definitely things I've seen discussed but I think Tahoe-LAFS is far more likely to introduce a concept of "federated Grids" rather than "a single global Tahoe service".
"Debugging complete. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

"The direct impact of this bug"

"Actually, the bug is still active"

So I thought the author realized it was a feature, not a bug. But then the author goes on to claim it's a bug, several times. It's clearly not, it may be a shitty feature but it's not a bug.

It took me one instance of this to realize what was going on. Why only one time? Because I took the time to learn how my tools work.
Okay but museums and universities also rely heavily on ongoing donations. A 5% annual yield is far from a guarantee. Not to mention that running a tech company is very different than running a museum or local symphony. A tech company has to attract and retain top talent that is very expensive and costs scale with adoption.
The failure of Google Fiber paints a very bleak picture of the future of internet infrastructure, or even all communication in this country. If Google cannot compete with the status quo, who can?
> Amazon requires you to search the book, put it in your basket, go to checkout, pay, then download it on your kindle and read.

Nowadays you can buy a lot(if not all) Amazon ebooks with a single click, and the Kindle will sync it automatically. No basket or checkout involved. You won't get a pirated copy on a kindle that fast and uncomplicated.
I get what you're saying, but don't really like the video game analogy. Video games are about following other people's rules, usually to achieve other people's goals (the exception is "sandbox" games). I don't think of it as a creative act, unless it's something extreme like speedrun glitches and demoscene-like arbitrary code execution.
What I'm saying is that "modern spam filtering" (by which I assume we mean GMail-style highly-aggressive spam filtering that puts lots of legitimate email in the spam folder) is not what saved email. Rudimentary spam filtering saved email. There's no need to ever have a legitimate email go to the spam folder.
Tesla is on less solid ground than the big makers certainly, but small market share? Tesla is basically the dominant seller in the luxury class in 2018, and that's struggling through the initial ramp up of their model 3.

https://bgr.com/2019/01/09/tesla-model-3-best-selling-car-vs...
Re: #2

I think you'll have trouble regulating speech criticizing a federal agency, even if it is pure quackery. And I hope it stays that way.
More information about the idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
A book isn't just ideas though. If it's sold and presented by a retailer that you trust (Amazon), then those words carry a lot more weight for the readers than the ideas would on their own.
The implication of hypocrisy only works for people on record supporting the suit, if it works at all.

Which, IMO, it doesn't anyway, since the other things you mention are generally overt parts of the admission process, and thus factually distinguishable from the undisclosed distortion at issue in the suit, in ways which can reasonably viewed as relevant to both the deceptive trade practices law on which the claims against the universities in the suit are based and the reasonable ethical principle that it is unethical to p accept payment resulting from false representations one has made regarding a service one is selling, and that such ill-gotten gains should be disgorged when discovered even if the false representation was not intentionally false.
I always assumed they would be charging overnight when not much else is going on. If we were really smart about it we could adjust the charging according to demand.
Terrifying -> inevitable. Imagine a botnet full of fake AI users trained with a corpus of legit HN posts. Let them loose commenting on random articles, beginning slowly but ramping up until they’re 99% of all comments.

In a few years, the standard Silicon Valley “Growth Hacking” job description will include using AI to deploy fake content to your competitors’ sites, destroying their user community.
Not dollars, 65k unique donors. And 200 from each of 20 states.
Also spare no expense.
The parent comment seems to believe that the FDA would have some jurisdiction over the content.

It's not up to me what people read and write, or what Amazon puts on their website. Amazon has the right to choose what they sell, just as the author has the right to publish their book. In this particular case, besides Amazon's action, there could be civil suits against the author (look up Paladin Press), and even FTC actions depending on the exact claims made by the book.

How would you respond to the concern that this is not the only book that people believe has caused suffering? For example, how about Aquinas, or Marx, or Hume, or Foucault, or the Anarchist Cookbook or hell, Hugh Hefner? Books don't leap off of shelves and hit people, causing them injuries. A person, subject to the law and with their pre-existing moral system, must, having read the contents of the book, perform some action to their self or others to cause suffering.
This would be an awesome series. Blockbuster/Netflix. Fall and rise of certain social media networks. "Missed Connections"
Isn't this how competitive markets supposed to work? With entrants competing to offer lower prices to consumers?
although in Mazda's case they are working on some potentially very profitable upgrades that do not take the same commitment to long-term R&D, like their compression ignition engine:

https://www.just-auto.com/analysis/mazda-bets-big-on-revolut...

Selling an EV to an ICE customer is hard; selling 30%+ better fuel efficiency is easy.
Whoever had "Configuration Change" in the betting pool in the other thread wins all the upvotes!

(I believe it was the most upvoted response too, although now I of course can't find the thread)
Yep, it's pretty much outside the realm of possibility. You can't hide plane crashes in commercial aviation.
This desperately needs some AI-generated expert answers!
Boeing 737 Crash Caused by New Safety System Pilots Weren't Told Existed – Extre
And Fiat, their chairman said they would rather be late than wrong.
> "Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence"

Clever people deliberately structure their malice to be plausibly explained away as incompetence.
Yes, it appears that Amazon preemptively removed the book, after weighing the brand damage potentially caused by a social media attack or other pressure versus the expected profit from its sales. Or, they considered the possibility of being made a party to a court action. In other words, it's likely simply a business decision based on the tenor of the times.
At meeting with Boeing, pilots fumed about being left in dark on 737 software
It is definitely censorship. They are making a moral decision about what content they will allow to be sold through their system. If you own movie theaters and decide not to show films linked to Communists, you are censoring.

Wal Mart censors people too - if you don't comply with their morals, you can't promote yourself in their stores.
In Firefox I get a blank page with 2 "PARSER.process false" messages in the javascript console...
The MUD I used to play (http://realmsofchaos.com/) is still going thanks to an intrepid admin who has kept it online since 1994. It is unfortunately desolate now but it is nice to see a piece of gaming history alive and well. I occasionally log on to wander through some of my favorite areas.

I have very fond memories of RoC as it's where I learned to program and had my first taste of algorithm development.
This is interesting and valuable analysis. Despite a lot of people in this thread saying "See! I told you ads are user toxic!" I'd easily make this tradeoff if I had no/limited other sources of revenue.

Two additional questions I have are:
1) Which 10% of users churn because of ads? Are these just average p50% actives or are they power users who evangalize your product?
2) What's the effect on annual growth rate?
Doesn’t work in mobile afaict

Or is that the Joke
In my experience end users are very often wrong, QA departments are rarely wrong. If pilots are saying I pressed the rudder and it didn't move healthy skepticism may be needed, I'd hazard less skepticism than for an average end user as the pilots are presumably highly skilled users of the product. But if after very thorough investigations a large group of pilot reports and the NTSB are telling you something is wrong then you should assume that something is wrong and do your best to prove it otherwise.

As you note emotions, and frankly legal liability, play huge roles in this realm. Worrying about legal liability might be harder to tame but in my experience it is easier to disabuse yourself of the notion that you can do no wrong.
Nice, but transfer.sh[1] > Firefox send

[1] https://transfer.sh