skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's disappointing that the PDF is not machine-readable; definitely a regression from the Obama years: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/0...

Can anybody give percentages of redactions for relevant sections and breakdowns for reasons ("Harm to Ongoing Matter", "Grand Jury", etc.)? I skimmed the report and saw a handful of pages completely blacked over, and I believe those revolve around Internet Research Funding and associations with the Trump campaign.

I'll wait until Congress receives the full, unredacted report and closed-door testimony from the Special Counsel and hear what Schiff et al. have to say before making a judgment, but ultimately the fact that the 2016 election came this close in the first place was a severe failing in and of itself.
Facebook as a company does terrible things constantly, but this is not one of them.
I mean, much of the media portrayal of the square itself actually IS a lie.
> QUIC is ... the first ... protocol to ... prevent ossification

I'd never heard of the term 'ossification' regarding a protocol before. But "QUIC as a solution to protocol ossification" from LWN [1] clears it up:

> TCP suffers other problems as well. ... Middleboxes (routers between the endpoints of a connection) interfere with traffic and make it difficult to improve the protocol. They aren't supposed to be looking at TCP headers, but they do so anyway and make decisions based on what they see, often blocking traffic that looks in any way out of the norm. This "ossification" of the protocol makes it nearly impossible to make changes to TCP itself.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/745590/
> Did we used to do that IRL in the 70's and 80's?

Some did, and the vast majority of the population viewed those people as extremists and/or nutcases to be avoided.
It's a group of nazis based in the UK, the US constitution isn't relevant either way.
If you liked this you might also like the COLA system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLA_(software_architecture)

> COLA is a system for experimenting with software design currently being investigated by the Viewpoints Research Institute. "COLA" stands for "Combined Object Lambda Architecture". A COLA is a self-describing language in two parts, an object system which is implemented in terms of objects, and a functional language to describe the computation to perform.
Facebook says: "Individuals and organisations who spread hate, or attack or call for the exclusion of others on the basis of who they are, have no place on Facebook. Under our dangerous individuals and organisations policy, we ban those who proclaim a violent or hateful mission or are engaged in acts of hate or violence"

Now, as long as they keep to that, and steer away from partisanery, I think this is a good thing.

There's probably going to be some mistakes made, and some wrong bans, but Facebook is not the government, and other avenues exist to individuals who want to speak and reach an audience.
I'm not sure I'd call it vaporware. I've not used it myself, but the more objective reports I've seen indicate that Watson is very good at what it does. The problem seems more to be what it does - accurately interpreting and then answering queries written in natural language - isn't actually that useful.

For example, for drug discovery: I'm guessing, off the cuff, that there are other drug discovery tools out there, and that, while they don't allow you to frame your searches in terms of natural language queries, that's probably not actually a problem in practice. Because the querying methods they've developed are presumably highly tuned to their real task, which is enabling a skilled and knowledgeable practitioner to specify what they're looking for with great precision.

It's sort of like programming languages: The ones that are designed to be the closest to natural language (e.g., AppleScript) do have a gentle learning curve for absolute beginners, but they also turn out to be some of the very worst languages for trying to do any sort of serious work.
Quoted from Volume II, page 182:

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Conclusion

Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President's conduct. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment. At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.
Animal cruelty at its most horrific.
I honestly have very little doubt that this will happen.
Samsung's $2k Folding Phones Break for Reviewers
Why wouldn’t you just not use it, if that is your concern?
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It's politics. Many HN readers will flag it immediately for that.
Saying yes and rambling about media bias doesn't forward the conversation at all. You have to at least provide examples...
It's not that conservatives don't want hate groups banned, every reasonable person does. It's because of the ever expanding definition of what hate speech is.

I'm no conservative, but I definitely see their point when "I love America" is hate speech, yet "Straight White Men should die" is not. Look at Twitter as an example.
I don't know about kill, but antifa have certain been violent recently, at least here in the UK.

I'd also say that it tends to be the oppressed who resort to violence first because it's there only option. For example, it could be argued the Black Panthers movement required some level of "violence" to make a point. If a group is resorting to violence it tends not to be because they enjoy violence, but because they feel they have no other option. I'm not trying to draw any moral comparisons here, just want to point out that you don't need to be violent when the state and ruling class are on your side. There's simply no need when the state (or in this case, private corporations) will restrict your opponent's freedoms for you.
At this point is what ever, they gonna violate your privacy as they please, with any excuse
Yes, I noticed the same thing. I may not entirely agree with what is in the article, but I believe that the author deserves to be heard.
Wow, if you check the paragraphs directly before the summary the reports effectively lays out A) a legal argument that the president can be prosecuted and B) evidence that he obstructed justice. And then the summary pulls off this lukewarm "we chose not to make a decision, so he isn't guilty but neither is he exonerated."

Its really weird, I wonder what on earth Muller and Co. were thinking here. I almost suspect they reneged on making a choice because they knew that Barr would fuck with things.
The implication and offensiveness of that question actually stunned me. Please don't troll.
Right, there are tons of things still going on. The report doesn't help other than to publicly say that there are a lot of not-innocent people involved.
Alibaba founder Jack Ma says staff should work 12 hours a day, six days a week
I've found a huge number of highly interesting papers out of India published in predatory journals. Unfortunately this leads to numerous problems:

Barely anyone learns of them, and those who do have to treat them with extreme caution, because they lack sane peer review. Here's one example:

http://www.worldacademicunion.com/journal/1746-7659JIC/jicvo...

The Universal Padovan Code

Really interesting cryptography-related work building on top of https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0701085, extending it from the golden ratio to the only other "morphic number", the plastic number. (See this recent Numberphile video for an introduction to the latter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsGUEj4w9Cc)

And I have tons of additional examples, but this one especially irks me, because I suspect such a line of research could help with homeomorphic encryption.
Not every conservative is getting banned, either. "Fascist parties and neo nazis are getting banned, therefore ordinary conservatives are also being targeted" really makes no sense.
Seems like a possibility, but doesn't HN prominently show that an article is flagged or dead on the comments page? I don't see any indicator on this one.
What did Benjamin Franklin say that you think is hate speech? Because that sounds like a very tenuous claim.
> It's probably true that if you really need binaries built during the Clinton administration to work, the Mac isn't for you.

Notice that i'm talking about macOS being unable to run applications released less than 10 years ago. Of course older stuff would be even better, but macOS cannot do a third of that.

> That such binaries still run on Windows is, to me, evidence of a problem in that world, not a feature.

To me, as someone who actually wants to use the software and not wax about theoretical benefits (that in practice do not apply since macOS is these days - or at least was until a year or so ago, i didn't bother with it much since then - woefully unstable), this isn't just a feature, it is THE feature. The main reason i use Windows.

> I'd make an argument that Apple's willingness to do "big jumps" and cut ties with the past (in controlled ways, with long lead times and compatibility layers supported for a while after) is a strength of the platform, and leads to a more coherent and more stable environment.

That'd be nice if the environment was actually stable, but the last version that was approaching decent stability was Snow Leopard, everything after that is a downhill (especially since Apple decided to switch to periodic releases, as if an OS is a comic magazine).

> Especially since most users have no need for ancient programs.

There is no such a thing as "most users", different people have different needs and people do not care about something until the moment that something turns around and bites them.

> If it's not a documented part of the programming environment, use it at your peril.

You seem to not understand, this "you" who are talking about is not me, it is the developer of the program i am using.

I am not talking as the developer of the program, the developer can change it and it'll keep working.

I am talking as the USER of the program, a program whose developer might not even exist anymore or may have decided to screw me over and not fix their bugs. But this sort of developer wont care about Apple breaking their program, it is the users who will have to suffer the program not working.

Backwards compatibility is 90% for the users and only 10% for the developer (which is most likely why most developers do not care much about it, unless they become personally affected of course - and probably why most inexperienced developers do not see any issue with breaking backwards compatibility at all).

> Lots of people, though, don't think of this as a good thing. The Mac has thrived, I'd argue,

Your argument would be wrong considering the ridiculously gargantuan majority of desktop and laptop computers are using Windows only because they can run the programs the users care about.

Software is what makes an OS relevant, nothing else. The only purpose for an OS is to run the users' programs.

> Microsoft could learn a lot here.

If the lesson learned ends up in breaking people's programs, i'd rather them learning nothing.
Like I said in my other reply - if 60 million(5th of current population) instead of 3000 people died in those attacks, I strongly believe even US would reconsider such position.
Mitsubishi and mitsui are among the big four zaibatsu (zaibatsu) of Japan. Can't agree it's cool consiering their history in modern Japan.
It will be interesting to see how this changes over time. The equivalent of the public square is almost entirely online now. Are there no areas online where I can have free speech equivalent to if I was on a corner standing on a soapbox? In the future there probably will be designated free speech areas online much like sidewalks are now.
I suspect the whole document got squished down to prevent issues we've seen previously, like redactions being removable in PDF progams. (And yes, I checked. No dice)
IMO it's not much different than the situation with Nixon. It took an explicit, textbook demonstration of obstruction of justice, printed on paper and signed by the president, before the tide turned against him.

Edit: It was tape recording, not paper. Not sure how I forgot that detail.
Pyodide/README.md at master · iodide-project/pyodide
The two cited reasons I've noted in the ToC (there may be others in the body) are “personal privacy” and “harm to ongoing matter”; from the structure of the document, it's apparent that a number though possibly not all of the latter concern Wikileaks and/or Roger Stone.
Moving every 2-3 years is not ecologically sound.
I think you missed his point. What I heard him saying is that in the past, other commonly accepted practices were eventually deemed unacceptable and ended. There's no reason the currently accepted practices of the advertising industry can't follow a similar trajectory.
Who is so delusional to think they are so superior to other humans as to think that the others should be constantly tracked and watched by them?

The damaging effects of that surveillance are similar to that of denied freedom of expression which heavily affects the thinking and development process of humans.

It's not logically sound to support freedom of expression and surveillance at the same time.
It sounds as if he's looking for tools that can be used to monitor the sounds coming from machinery to detect or predict impending failures. I found your link interesting since I'm interested in musical applications of machine learning, but I don't think it's what he's looking for.
Amazon and Google Will Make Their Services Available on Respective Devices
The big thing I've heard is vacation photos in real time means unoccupied dwelling, which means ripe for breaking and entering.

Sort of like "huge pile of empty high end electronics boxes on curb on trash (recycle) day after holidays" is also a signal.

That's just the tip of the iceberg, though.
HN has lots of code in it designed to discourage high controversy, low comment value posts. My guess is this submission was knocked down in the rankings because it immediately received a huge volume of very short comments and no long comments. That's probably not the profile HN's algorithms like to see.
A small note - is anyone else frustrated that the video can't be played in both directions?

Watching someone disorder a solved cube is not particularly interesting or satisfying. I'm sure it does serve the text, but boy it irks me.
Is there anything we can do to have it reviewed? I fully understand HN's opposition to politics, specifically US politics.

But I think this is a decent exception as it's a report directly from the justice department, not some BS opinion article that could be written by a high schooler.
DamnInteresting is for the web what KurzGesagt is for YouTube. They have a bunch of well researched topics, written in a way that is interesting and entertaining. I highly recommend checking their other articles!
Sega confirms 10 more games for Genesis Mini, including Castle of Illusion
I have a friend who is an OB/GYN Oncologist in Indianapolis. Her hospital had IBM Watson Health on campus last year, and she mentioned to me in passing last month that they finally had kicked IBM off of their (learning) university's campus. When I asked her why, she said:
"Often times, Watson would recommend courses of treatment that would be completely incorrect, if not detrimental -- or even sometimes lethal -- to the patient. It became more of a hassle than a learning tool."
spaCy in production for some grammar-based tokenization (frame.ai)! And their model for span annotations is awesome for our research pipeline; very convenient to be able to traverse pipeline objects in both directions to explore results.
FULL EXONERATION! It was only CLINTON that colluded with Russia!

-- Half your country, somehow.
Package admin in OpenBSD is really simple, if you want to give it a try sometime:

pkg_info -Q <search_term> # find a package

pkg_info <package> # show package description

pkg_add <package> # add a package

pkg_delete <package> # delete a package

That's all the basics you need on a fresh install.
...but it's almost trivial to count them as you go along, in addition to laying them out.

Have you verified the author's claim that this is the only match in the whole data set?
Do you have any recommendations for building a custom language model for business-specific NER?
Surveillance cameras everywhere are bad enough, now we want to bug our children? This madness needs to end.

Watched people are not free people.
Why not wait for evidence of unjust redactions before making a claim like that?
Please don’t imply that I’m speaking in bad faith and actually just motivated by money. Consider the possibility that I truly believe what I’m saying — anything less is just a horrible way to debate.

I am quite capable of making similar sums outside of Facebook. In fact I plan to leave soon for reasons that have nothing to do with ethics, and I don’t foresee myself changing my opinion once I’m no longer an employee.

Now to answer your specific points:

* Facebook did not steal credentials. They were willingly given.

* “Nobody actually wants to give this data away” how do you know? Do you have polling data on this? My personal belief is that most people don’t care at all.

Also you’re completely ignoring my assertion that it probably was just an accident. Hard to argue that something was “taken by force” by accident.

* Can you give me some examples of Zuckerberg knowingly lying about objective, verifiable facts to Congress?

* Well, your guess is as good as mine whether it’s better or worse on balance. My intuition is that it’s better. You haven’t really argued against this, just given some examples of the worst possible downsides and asking if they’re worth the most trivial upsides (conveniently ignoring the real value of communication tools in people’s lives, which has nothing to do with dog pictures and memes).

In my experience, FB isn’t divisive at all. I use it to talk daily to people who have become very close friends and who live in a different city (my home town). Without that connection, I would be extremely lonely.

* I’ve heard plenty of people in the US tell me great, unjust untruths like they were facts. They saw them on TV or heard them on the radio.

* As for FB being the most destructive force, I think you’d have to give that title to climate change, resource depletion, terrorism, and war.
Zoom stock soars 75% after IPO
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I'm assuming it's automated so that after a certain number of flags it's removed for manual review. Whether it should or shouldn't be flagged is up to HN readers. Whether it stays is for the moderators.
As Notre Dame burned, an algorithmic error at YouTube put information about 9/11
Can't reply to webwielder's comment anymore, but your anecdote is not isolated. How cliche is the response to a mass killing, "we had no idea he / she was capable of something like this."
And?
This is somehow solves fragmentation problem?
And yet sorting a deck of cards is vastly easier than solving a Rubik's Cube.

Which shows that these numbers don't at all measure puzzle difficulty.
> "Palatine Boors"

He had some pretty nasty things to say about anybody who wasn't an Anglo.

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-00...

> "And since Detachments of English from Britain sent to America, will have their Places at Home so soon supply’d and increase so largely here; why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion."

> "Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind."

I believe the modern response to that is "Big Yikes."
Ah, thanks, I didn't see a table of contents for it so I figured it'd be a separate doc.
Not sure of their business model or their quality now, but content wise they were definitely a decent company. I grew up learning to code with their books about 30 years ago and they were great books, really made with care. An almost heroic effort given the niche market for that at the time.
Technically, that's not correct: Xubuntu is just an ubuntu package (https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/xubuntu-desktop). You can install any other Ubuntu (Debian) packages.
Does a nationalist group constitute left wing? Honest question. It's usually associated with right wing activities but ideologically it's kind of its own thing best I can tell.
Safest Bet: Gold, Treasury Bonds, or Stocks?
Who was hired after Trump fired the last AG for recusing himself from this investigation.
Lets say you are right. If protectionism was so bad for the US and so good for our competitors, then our competitors would be begging us to increase our protectionism. But they are doing the exact opposite.

If protectionism was so good for the competitor, Boeing and the US government wouldn't be attacking the EU and their subsidies and protectionism of Airbus.

If protectionism is so bad for Boeing, why have the Boeing execs lobbied the US government for more protectionism? If protectionism is so bad, why has bombardier lobbied canada and quebec for protectionism for decades? If protectionism is so bad, why has airbus lobbied for protectionism from the EU even before they became operational? Airbus was born with protectionism and subsidies that is the envy of the world.

I'm not entirely for or against protectionism, but the blanket ideology that protectionism is bad is historically incorrect. Ask Boeing, ask Airbus, ask Bombardier.

If Airbus starts demanding more tariffs, subsidies and protectionism for Boeing in the US, then I'll start to believe what you say. If Boeing demands that EU give Airbus even more subsidies and greater market protection it the EU, then I'll start to believe what you say.
It's still on the second page, so not flagged/dead in the sense that it's gone. I think the ranking algorithm looks at upvotes and number of flags and weights flags heavily enough that it can push it well off the front page even if it's still there.

Edit: Now it says "[flagged]" and is nowhere to be found.
As others have mentioned, the Las Vegas shooter is one recent example. Congressman being shot down on a baseball field. Dismissing facts by calling it "rambling" doesn't make it any less true.