skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been doing enterprise services at increasingly large scale for like 20 years. The challenges are different from a Google or Microsoft scale, but the benefits vs. a small environment are similar. (Enterprise costs being higher than provider is usually the difference)

We used to have these arguments with people every day with respect to email. "Simple" is more reliable until it isn't. The company running email out of a closet or small server room in an office space has a great, reliable experience until the toilet clogs upstairs, or you need to add 50 people and scaling up is too expensive.
I believe it wasn't actual paper, but the release of the tapes with transcripts.
I used to just look for something similar in the gallery: https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/gallery/ but the docs definitely do assume you know about map projections.
I think the bigger news here is amazon prime adding chromecast support. It’s a feature I’m looking forward to having, and have wanted for a while.

YouTube on fire tv devices hasn’t really been a problem (for me at least). They removed the native app but the web version seems very feature-complete to me, and works almost exactly as I assume the native app did. Its not really any more difficult to get to either.
A useful analogy is to think about social media in terms of steroid use in cycling.

An athlete on the Tour de France knows most winners cheat and the instance of cheaters in the standings clusters densely toward the top.

To even qualify for the game with cheaters, you need to either be a standard deviation better than they are without their cheat, or compromise and also cheat, which in turn legitimizes their tactics.

Social media exacerbates nascent mental illness by creating this same double bind for young people, where to "succeed," in life by getting access to cliques and networks, school placements, job opportunities, and investment opportunities, you need to "play the game," which today means to fabricate an image of performative conventional success and the perception you are a viable centre of attention.

They know it's wrong, everyone else knows it's probably wrong, but the whole exercise is a temporary suspension of disbelief in exchange for lottery style rewards, provided by sponsors.

Good news on both fronts is you can enjoy riding bicycles or any other sport, and indeed life, without the often horrific and spiritually hollow compromises of elite competition, which social media seems to approximate.

The greatest irony is that it is in more humble and private pursuits where most of the real stories of courage, dignity, and personal triumph that people only fake in performances on social media can truly be found.
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Curious. My personal experience is that as an English speaker the Romance languages seem much closer than German does. But the article places English in the Germanic cluster with a distance of 49 to German vs 56 to French. Yet for most English speakers I would guess that they find it easier to make some sense out of reading French than German.

Beautiful visualization and interesting data set.
Played with that a bit a few days ago.

It's not going to replace the DB tools in intellij (which are basically DataGrip) but for nearly all my use cases it could.

It's really decent.
People can sue if they can find some claim to real-life damages... You'd only need a small percentage of the 1.5 million people and FB would probably settle out of court.
You've got a couple different ideas going on there.

First, you make a fantastic argument for regulating ISPs as common carriers, bummer that's up in flames, one step forward two steps back.

Secondly, at least in the US, the whole idea of the "protected class" is to combat over reaches just like most of your examples[0]. This is also why civil rights groups are general fighting to expand the definition of protected class (though I doubt fascists ever will be included) since private companies are very happy to act against gay and trans people, for example.

As for non-protected classes ( having opinions on Israel fall pretty firmly into that) Facebook has the opportunity for the same calculus as they have with neo Nazis and the other alt-right menagerie. Are two-state proponents driving away more people than their removal will?

Is this system perfect, I don't think so, but the idea of "forced free speech" is more distastful to me. Individuals or companies are free to curate the experience they want for their users (up and to current laws around protected classes). If the consumers don't like that they're free to set up their own network (this is why Im a huge proponent for federation).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
Of course, but the fact that these companies have to make a profit creates misaligned incentives.
The problem is not plain English, the problem is that you want to make claims that are more specific than your numbers allow you to.

"Correlation is a number in [-1,1] where -1 means predictably inversely related and 1 means predictably directly related". What is correlation 0.5? There isn't even an unique definition of "correlation", man.

The best thing you could do is to produce a table of correlation coefficients for comparison. That would communicate some qualitative nuance as to what a 0.5 correlation really means.

You can also try to do something like a bootstrap or kernel density or use a prior distribution to claim that the probability that increment dx leads to an increment of dy or more is... That's more technically involved, but satisfies your desire of saying something specific that correlation coefficients do not allow you to say.
The Mate X concept seems much cleaner, with a larger true tablet mode and no redundant screens. It remains to be seen whether the screens can survive normal without getting scuffed up or scratched. I had the same skepticism when the iPhone first came out, but glass screens have proven to be more durable than I thought they could be. Maybe these folding screens will surprise me too?
I still say that to this day. I was stuck at that part of the game for so long that this has never left me.
I just bought a Samsung Galaxy S10e and so far I'm quite pleased with it. It could stand to be smaller, but it does fit in my annoyingly small women's jeans pocket.
And they're all dead!
People claiming to represent “the community” in local politics are definitely not acting in my interests, and are usually acting against them. A neighborhood run by a tech company sounds awesome compared to the status quo of governance by people who attend midday public hearings and sue developers as their retirement hobby.

An alternative model like this, at small scale, is a low-risk way to enrich the competitive landscape for places to live.
Watson is the branding term for an army of outsourced consultants (mostly in India) plugging away at the raw data.

Watson is not very good, and largely doesn't exist outside of slick marketing campaigns.
We know nothing about how many times MCAS got engaged, maybe Boeing does. Who knows.*

Furthermore, the problem seems to be that there is no explicit feedback about this from the pilots, because some of them did not even know about this. Consequently there was no widespread beta test in simulators, meaning there was not much data to base the fine tuning on.

* actually, since MCAS activates only when the plane is over the critical angle (according to the AoA sensor), and there are other warnings, probably those can be counted.
There is a fine line between "investment to build a product" and "dumping below cost to win consumers over via low prices, then raising prices"
When people don't have a perfect "Facebook life" they are castigated for oversharing and washing dirty linen in public. On a public medium like Facebook, you keep things perfect because everyone from your boss to your juniors and your grandmother is reading.
Does it make a difference if they preform better than human docs? The same thing happens now with human docs.
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Which country has an "oppressive liberal government" at the moment?
They ran all of their competition out of business.
This brings up some interesting considerations

I personally believe in absolute freedom of speech so from a network engineering perspective this manifests as a personal responsibility to make the networks I control pass packets without discrimination. The public internet is just a conglomeration of seperate private networks that operate under their own sets of rules.

To have absolute freedom when passing traffic the underlying protocol should be fully encrypted and probably even hide the source and destination IP address and port. This is a very tough problem to solve technically because you have to know the destination IP to efficiently route a packet.
Doesn't this look exactly same to you?
Teach your kids about dangerous things outside, introduce them to the community and teach them how to ask strangers for help. Then they'll be in good shape even when the battery dies or a storm comes in. Tracking their every move is unethical and wrong. You have no right to infringe on another person's privacy and personal autonomy like that.
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Does a child have a smartphone? Congratulations, they're being tracked everywhere they go.
The merchants had a very bad time too, between price controls that caused them to lose money (or their head), and eventually, total war against the rest of Europe, which made it every able man’s duty to go to war.

The American revolution was one of the very few that worked out the way people intended it to.
On my old iPhone the performance is still fine, but the volume controls have been broken for ages. Basically you can only change the volume while it is speaking (otherwise it changes the ringer volume). So you have to guess when the phone is speaking and then smash the volume up button in the hopes that you guessed correctly. And of course you have to do this blind because you're driving at the time to trigger the turn prompt. Very annoying.
I agree. A person with dementia going out and then getting lost when it’s -15℃ outside is possibly lethal.
> Like - imagine if US was attacked and the attacker killed 60 million Americans. I can almost guarantee that no matter how strongly Americans believe in the 1st amendment, saying that it hasn't happened would be made illegal.

Why would scale change people's values compared to say 9/11? It's important to me that we're the deciders of truth for ourselves. I believe people fighting in those wars have fought for my right to believe what I choose and not what a government tells me.

Think about this in the context China, even today and I think you'll see why I feel this is an incredibly valuable right. Governments can lie too, the American one has many times throughout history and we should and do demand a right to question it.
Using your activity as a substrate for ads has always been Google's business model, and never been a secret. You don't have to go along with it, but it's not a revelation.
So, basically:

A bunch of people in the White House deleted evidence and used encrypted communications. Not hypocritical at all.

The President probably committed obstruction multiple times, but refuses to Make a final judgment on that because they believe that is the job of congress.

And the campaign did try to benefit from the Russian influence campaign, and did try to obtain the stolen emails. They wanted Russias help. But there was no evidence of direct coordination (remember the deleted evidence).

This doesn’t seem like much of an ‘exoneration.’
> If you let your students model their distributed system with pure functions where each function takes the current state and an event (for example a received message, or a timeout) as inputs and produces a new state together with the actions to be taken (sending of messages)...

If they were going to do that, they should have just used Erlang instead. That’s precisely the OTP model.
I see this argument a lot. For myself anyhow, it's because all of my friends and family use it to share photos and memories, and I am able to stay connected to people who I no longer have the same amount of time to stay connected to as I used to. There are certainly fantastic parts about Facebook and other social networks, but that doesn't mean care should not be applied to how they are used.
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My memory is a bit crap this morning it seems. Wasn't on paper, it was a tape. I was thinking of the transcripts but those were only released in redacted form. The actual tape recorded Nixon ordering the acting head of the FBI to halt the investigation. Up until that moment Nixon was pretty safe, congress was held by Republicans. But there was no escaping the obstruction of justice when that tape was released on August 5, 1974, and he resigned a few days later.
This is lawyer trickery. Do not think that this transparency law is meant to ensure fair justice, expect the opposite. This is the equivalent of the common "open file" rule of prosecutors. Rather than sift through and release relevant material to defendants (aka Brady material) most prosecutors just declare their files open for inspection. It is then on the defense to do the sifting, to slog through the growing pile of irrelevant material. So too with this law. Rather than properly manage the system, this is the legislature throwing its hands in the air. The burden will now be on defendants to become AI experts prior to making challenges to this system. The poor defendant seeking bail will have to point our the flaws in the code.
My argument would combine both of these sentiments, both parents and GPs, and say that social media has an amplifying effect.

It'll amplify good intentioned and sincere efforts (reconnecting, sharing good news, etc.) as well as toxic ones (hatred, lies, and so on) just as all forms of media have done in the past as well.

The same happened with the printing press as well as the emergence of the Internet itself.
They will continue to be manufactured and sold uncertified then.
What is this specifically aimed at? The entire point of the End to End Principle is that mid-nodes should be passing packets, not mucking about with them. Everything that has been developed contrary to that (eg DPI boxen) are basically exploits of security vulnerabilities attempting to force the old top-down telco services model.

So yes, putting a name on what m[ie]ddle nodes can observe is useful. But I have to ask for what end, given that any modern protocol should be aimed at reducing this "wire image" to the absolute minimum possible. The only reason necessitating still using plaintext-header TCP/UDP is because we're stuck with NAT, and the only reason to use ip.saddr is because we're stuck with egress filtering.
co-workers are in many ways competition, revealing certain things to them can be bad for your career. And I'd bet that most people hiding things aren't murderous, just struggling.
Something that's been bugging me, is when did "smart" become an adjective for machines in the first place, and what were the circumstances around this new use of the word? Before "smart phones" and "smart houses" or "smart watches", what devices were termed 'smart'?

As far as I can figure, it started with "smart bomb" in the early 70s. A term which at this point is so normalized we might not think twice about it, but which I suspect of being propaganda. Here is a 1972 NYTs article suggesting that the term is Pentagon propaganda: https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/26/archives/smart-bombs-and-...

> "To one who has bombed and been bombed, recent Pentagon propaganda about our new “smart” bombs is dumb and repetitious (not to say, indecent)."
Free speech is an awesome civil right! But weren't we talking about Facebook essentially "kicking people out of their living room for shouting the N word"? What does that have to do with free speech?
I'm half way through The Coddling of the American Mind and just got through the chapters on children and free play.

When I was a kid I had to take the school bus, but there were many kids who were close enough to our elementary school that they could just walk. One year my homeroom class was next to the back gate and a teacher forgot to unlock it, so we got to laugh at like the 15~20 standing there who couldn't get in (an announcement was made to let the walkers in without a later slip).

I wonder if that would even be allowed today. There was an article on here a few months back where a Canadian got into trouble for letting his kids ride the city bus alone (there were three of them; they always rode together and they were carefully taught the routes and how to backtrack if they missed their stop).

Although I disagree with some of the stuff in his book (he likes to blame iGen and play the fake generational gap game), the free-play time stuff is alarming. There is value to handing out with your friends, without parental supervision, without a phone or tracking device, and building that trust that you will come home by x pm.

This tracking of kids and not letting them out; is it mostly an American/Canadian thing? The article mentioned Germans and these tracking watches, but I remember even as late as 2013, I'd often see heaps of school kids waiting for a tram or a city bus in Melbourne on their own. In New Zealand I'd often see primary school kids walking home or taking a city bus if they missed a school bus (which were just city buses with a "school" sign attached to them).

It'd be interesting to see freeplay by country. I kinda do agree with people like Hadith and Sam Harris who suggest kids should only have flip phones until they start high school.
Several comments.

First, Axiom is a research platform (currently working on proving the algorithms correct). It is no longer a commercial competitor to Mathematica and Maple (as it was in the 90s).

Second, Axiom is based on Group Theory, giving it a reasonably sound mathematical superstructure. Mathematica is based on rewrite semantics. You can rewrite anything to anything. Maple is based on tree semantics. You can re-arrange a tree in any way. Obviously, their computational mathematicians are well-versed and clever enough to avoid most obvious failures. It is just easier in Axiom.

Third, Axiom is open source. Consider what happens to computational mathematics when the companies supporting closed source disappear. (Companies die, on average, after 15 years). Macsyma (Symbolics) is gone. Derive (Soft Warehouse) is gone. I am deeply concerned about the impact on computational mathematics when this happens. Axiom, as open source, won't disappear as there is no company behind it. It will, of course, probably stall once the key developers stop maintaining it.

Mathematica and Maple are amazing systems. If you need what they provide I strongly recommend buying a license. I know some of the developers from these systems and they are extremely clever people.

If you're looking for competitive software, I'd look at Sage and CoCalc. This is an open source alternative to Mathematica, Maple, Magma, etc. It is open source and (mostly) free. I can strongly recommend it.

As for "feature gaps", there are many. If what you want are "features", Axiom isn't for you. But if you want answers that are proven correct, stay tuned. Computational mathematics IS mathematics. You can rightly demand that the results are proven correct. That seems to me to be a required "feature".
You can clone the repo, audit the code, then host it yourself if you want to:
https://github.com/electronicwhisper/recursive-drawing/tree/...
> It’s very alarming they’re picking a side. It’s one thing to censor violent/hateful speech above some arbitrary threshold...

Heres a quote from, jack renshew, one of the people they’ve banned:

> Hitler was right in many senses but you know where he was wrong? He showed mercy to people who did not deserve mercy ... As nationalists we need to learn from the mistakes of the national socialists and we need to realise that, no, you do not show the Jew mercy. [0]

They’re not banning your kooky ol’ conservative grandpa, these are actual hateful people who’s movements have been using Facebook to spread racism and misinformation intentionally.

Facebook has become widely known as a site full of misinformation—I can’t blame them for wanting to change that reputation. If it were my web forum I’d certainly do whatever I could to change if my site were known as a racist infested misinformation brand.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Renshaw_(far-right_acti...
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I read that more as "we chose not to make a decision, but he isn't clearly not guilty". Not "therefore", "but".
"The President's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests."
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Inspirated by the James Clear recent tweet - https://twitter.com/JamesClear/status/1118564314099736578?s=09
You can add willingness to switch to electronic voting to that list. It's sad how many people don't understand the danger.
You've gone to multiple, distinct IKEAs?
It's probably not difficult - there's plenty of libraries for every framework and stack. My guess is this product was developed in an "agile" fashion. The contracting company showed a "POC" that did what the product owner / VIP wanted to. Then they probably said "ship it".

Product managers are more concerned with functionality than other things like scalability or security. My guess is they just never explicitly asked for it.
Also teach them not to write fake reviews or any fakery on the iNet! Let's work to make the Internet great again....
Easier by what metric, though? Someone with moderate practice at both can do the cube faster. Someone with zero practice won't know what you mean by "sorting" a deck of cards. The cards only win at going backwards from goal to algorithm. And do we have any idea what God's Number is for sorting a deck of cards?
I didn't flag it, but I tend to agree that it doesn't really belong on HN. It's one of the topics that makes me feel worse about the HN community, and I'd prefer to stay delusional in that regard.
Yeah, but you don't know that the person who contributed the code actually holds the copyright to it unless you keep proper records. It's also unclear whether people do in fact automatically agree to all the terms of a license merely by, say, submitting a pull request. Even if the license asserts that this is the case, not all terms of a license are necessarily legally meaningful or enforceable in any given jurisdiction. There isn't a huge amount of case law on this kind of thing, as far as I'm aware.

The bottom line is that any kind of open source license has copyright as its foundation. If you don't have a proper record of the copyright holders, then the license doesn't mean much. You need to know exactly who has the copyright to the code and exactly who is agreeing to release the code under a given license.
Does anyone still use good old Unity? :)
Apple gets the wealthy high margin market, Google gets the mass market. People buy iPhones to keep up with fashion, but most of them won't pay for maps because they can't show that off to their acquaintances.
I guess that explains why Google started nudging people to log in when using the iOS maps app.

They made it really hard to click through and use it without an account recently. Between that and that story about giving map data to LEAs[1] I removed it from my phone entirely.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/13/technology/google-sensorv...
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No I think they are for posts too - I see it in new [1] at least...maybe it has to be [dead] for vouch?

[1]https://imgur.com/a/b1HO9eo