skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's most definitely issue of how Twitter ranks and promotes the content. To make content more visible, you must be popular in first place. To be popular, you must have your content more visible. It's a virtuous cycle 99.9% users cannot possibly break without winning random virality lotteries. I agree Pareto's law and exponential distribution applies in all social networks but for Twitter this is not only skewed by at least an order of magnitude but its current design and algorithms actively promotes this phenomenon instead of resisting it.

A thought experiment: Imagine Twitter was the only way to distribute information. How would that world look like? Everyone who doesn't have followers would almost have no chance of having followers and therefore their content will keep disappearing in Twitter blackhole regardless of how useful it might have been (given how bad their search is). Twitter algorithms takes rich-gets-richer phenomenon to whole new level. At times, it feels their algorithms wants to re-establish ancient model of nobility vs plebs. The whole notion of "follower" has negative connotations with implied power-play top-down relationship. I have seen people with mid-range follower count not following others even when they find them interesting because they don't want to ruin their followers/followee ratio. The notion of follower as opposed to friend or contact firmly puts in place one-way power structure, the information broadcast instead of information exchange model. Many folks have resorted to always following back any followers in protest of this model while many others resist following anyone who they don't consider their peers in power structure created by Twitter Universe.

A minimal fix Twitter can do is to identify good tweets from followers and occasionally show it to followees to at least have a shot at 2-way relationships. The current scheme of "likes" doesn't cut it because first one wins and everyone else gets buried deep. When people ask why Twitter is not so successful with larger population, not so much growing and still relatively quite small (after subtracting bots), I often get surprised they don't see above as the most fundamental issues with their model of social relationships itself.
Whatever happened to the Popular Front?
All three of these are considered to be part of a healthy lifestyle.
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“In total, the current version of OpenAI Five has consumed 800 petaflop/s-days and experienced about 45,000 years of Dota self-play over 10 realtime months...”

Clearly very exciting and a remarkable achievement but does anyone else marvel all the less when such colossal resources are needed?

Obviously it’s not entirely brute force but it seems much too brute force to be considered “intelligent”.
A data-whoring mega-corp isn't forcing anyone to use a CDN, and a CDN doesn't mandate Javascript (and CSS to punish visitors who block that JS).
I'd think from both.
wimax is still used in Japan, mainly for "pocket wi-fi" gadgets which you can buy or rent (the latter mainly for visitors or tourists). They compete with LTE but there's still a market because they don't have completely overlapping feature sets w.r.t. coverage and bandwidth.
Senior software engineer for 7 years. I don't have a degree. I love this field because it is like a modern day trade. You can teach yourself and you can showcase your skill without a piece of paper.
Story of how and why we pivoted
> The host that should deliver the XML files - notifications.buildmypinnedsite.com - only showed an error message from Microsoft's cloud service Azure.

Why is this not hosted on microsoft.com, or something that is clearly tied to them such as microsoftusercontent.com?
Look at the faces of people that have dedicated their life to yoga (or christian monk, or sufism or whatever), and then people who have dedicated their life to the profit motive & been successful (billionares).

Who's happier?
Well no one was expecting emojis, so let the old guys have some fun as well? Have had this idea for a long time, but by now it remained only as a concept. Someone hacked the access to my notes, or maybe certain ideas are universally silly-genius?:)
To people outside the Internet bubble, saying you're an ethical, white-hat hacker must sound a bit like saying you're an ethical, white-hat thief.
If you have to look the token up in the database anyway, what's the benefit of using something like JWT over an opaque session token?
A good reason to look at alternatives.
He has a lot of valid points ("we outsourced the slavery and pollution") but he somehow likes religions more than atheism, which is definitely inconsistent: he recognizes the "false beliefs" in the everyday Western world (keeping the eyes closed about the mentioned "outsourcing"), but then avoids to treat the same the religions which obviously can't all be true. Only atheism is consistent with the existence of all other religions (simply claiming that it's the humans who invented various mutually conflicting stories about one or more "deities"). He also claims that the atheism "is a religion" which is by definition false: "disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods."

Moreover, the changes brought by enlightenment were actually revolutionary and immense. But what is his correct observation is that no rights are fixed and that the most of the humans who have them now can as well lose them fast.
Not using spaces to separate words of course makes dealing with those languages a bit harder. The same problem applies to a lesser degree to languages like German, where compound words are fused together.

In those cases, the quality will depend heavily on the performance of the tokenizer as well. For Chinese you don't need a stemmer, since it's an analytic language, but Japanese is agglutinative and German is synthetic, so stemming is required for those.
Okay, so more of an economical issue than technological. Good to know, thanks.
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I think it's justified. I felt lethargic so I got my testosterone tested. Came back low. But now that's a pre-existing condition so if the ACA is overturned I'm SOL.
I don't think he's talking about how to type the characters... He's probably asking: you're inverting, visually, the order of operations. When does start becoming natural?
... what do you suppose will happen as OpenAI transitions to being a more commercially oriented company with a fiduciary duty to its investors?
it seems like a regular business error ..
What do you mean premium jump? You guys pay individual rates for health insurance rather than a flat % of your income? How odd.
That depends on whether the expected benefits greatly exceeds the costs of the new network and can offset the supposed negative externalities.

expected benefits >> costs + supposed negative externalities
Doubling down on a mac only editor seems super weird. At a time when Apples actions seem like they are de-prioritizing the line, Panic are going all in?

It would seem a better investment to make the go to IDE-y thing on iPad Pro.
I have the oldest available Crowther version running using a DEC Fortran compiler.

YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK
BUILDING . AROUND YOU IS A FOREST. A SMALL
STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND DOWN A GULLY.
Well, you could use certbot (https://github.com/certbot/certbot, see https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html#dns-plugins), which is from EFF, so not exactly third party, to do that.
A new version of CKEditor 5 is out with mentions/autocomplete feature and more..
Ironically I use it as a Chromium/Chrome developer to check whether certain documents are visible to users outside of Google, as a way to determine what information is internal-only.
Well, I suppose if you’re missing the old days of the internet with pages of flashing icons, this will be comforting.
The greatest motivator of all, money!
Google and Apple block video sharing app TikTok in India
Here's a link to the discussion from a past HN submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14727252
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Or to use Scala's syntax which is more clear to me:

point.copy(y=value)
> OmniFocus has many web-based alternatives...I use Trello, personally

I love Trello, but it’s an OF ‘alternative’ at best. It is no way a replacement. OmniFocus is an order of magnitude more powerful. Even an app like Things doesn’t get close; I use both, and while I’d like to maintain an OF=home/Things=work separation, there are a bunch of things that I do that Things just can’t handle.

On the subject of quality software more generally, this is one of the major frustrations I have when forced to use Windows. On my Mac, if I need a bit of software to do a job there is generally – not always, of course, but generally – something well written, well supported, and beautiful. I find it, give the developer $5-$50, and enjoy a long and fruitful relationship.

If I need software on Windows, it’s a hot mess. I mean it’s just a fucking disaster. You Google what you want and get all sorts of shite. You risk your neck and download some file from Sourceforge. You ‘install’ it and have to reboot. Reboot? To install software? Wow. Okay. So you reboot then you launch the software and guess what? It’s a fucking turd.

I hate it. Viscerally hate it.
If the videos can be found on YouTube, the problem can't be with TikTok alone, surely.
He's over there.
> a lot more of it

avidity I say
It's even worse than that.

When I had a website with embed videos from other sites, I had user contacting me because the other sites had some problems. They couldn't tell the difference between megavideo/youtube/dailymotion content and my site, so they came to me and blamed me.

So what this means is that not only Google bullies you into putting your traffic under their control, but now, any problem on their part will be blamed on you by the user.
Rust isn’t really the language you’d use to fool around for a one-use-script.

Although I must say that it replaced Python for most more complex programs for me. The type system makes it easier to read somebody elses code, even if they skipped all documentation.

Rust certainly forces good practice onto you. But on bigger projects good practice doesn’t reduce your productivity, but instead increases it, let alone to speak of the increased sustainability. Rust’s module system in combination with it’s type system and ownership rules leave very little dark spots for the programmer where weird things can happen, even when your project grows big. And if weird things happen they are a breeze to track down compared to python, usually. Rust sort of nudges you into the right choices, when you program Rust the Rust way.

If you are constantly fighting with the type system and the borrow checker that means you are probably still clinging to concepts you brought from other languages (at least it was like this for me). The moment I said: “Ok Rust, you won, from now on I will do it your way”, was the moment the compiler got my friend and things start to flow. Looking back I wonder why I ever thought I have to be able to force my abstractions into the code instead of taking a more data centric approach.

Is the productivity significantly lower than with python? Only if you are not firm with the language
Yes. But I think that's relatively minor.

From 'The Evolution of Lisp' Steele/Gabriel:

> MDL also introduced through example the use of a final ? in a name to connote a predicate ... Lisp Machine Lisp would pick up the lambda lists and the locatives, and would adapt the evaluation and splicing markers in backquote, though the evolution of the concept passes through Conniver where it is refined into a form very similar in appearance and effect as in Lisp-Machine Lisp, but in fact the implementation is quite different. Scheme would pick up the use of a trailing “?” for predicates. MDL had a multitasking facility that would reappear in various forms in Lisp-Machine Lisp, Conniver, and various implementations of Common Lisp.

Scheme got the '?'.

LML got complex arglists, locatives, markers for evaluation/splicing in backquote, multitasking.
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Yup it makes as much sense as an Indian HN.
Nope, the protocol is well-documented so that anyone who wants to reinvent the wheel can do so.
I write fake online reviews
Thanks for posting that quote, it's one of my all time favourites. "You might all be individuals but I'm not", to quip. It's funny and deep at the same time.
Introducing Unity 2019.1
Seems like the benefits being provided wouldn’t show up so often in a well-off area: free food and clothing bank for the parents, for example.
Oh, is it a coincidence that the state govt that is in coalition with the central govt chose to enforce the bans? Is it any coincidence that there was rise in cow-vigilantes killing Muslims in lieu of beef ban after the current govt came into power? Is it any coincidence that the Taj Mahal was removed from the tourism brouchre by the current govt because it was a sign of slavery? Is it any coincidence that the saffron-terrorists have been targeting young unmarried couples and shaming them for following western culture after the current govt came in to power? Is it any coincidence that the journalists killed in India have been at an all time high? That press freedom has been curbed relentlessly? That the erstwhile accused of hate speechs are now not only walking scot-free but are head of states and ministers?

> Individuals speaking against the PM are also not banned.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/southasia/2019/01/indian-poli...

Wake up and smell the coffee.
> How does "REST" handle coordinated transaction rollback/compensation over multiple heterogenous service calls?

By "REST" I assume you're referring to non-SOA distributed systems which might happen to use REST or RPC-over-HTTP interfaces, and not the architecture style.

Assuming that, "REST" handles all those features by integrating services that support coordinated transaction rollback/compensation over multiple heterogenous service calls.

> How is SOAP, XML, WS-*, AMQP proprietary?

If you read what I said you'll notice that I explicitly said "quasi-proprietary protocols and tooling".
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To put it bluntly -- the prevailing mindset is that customer support is a cost-centre. It's hard to reliably measure customer satisfaction, so its value is misunderstood.

And if you're the only game in town with your own little walled garden, and everyone in your industry has entirely automated (read: low opex) support, where's the incentive to do better?
That website list is for SHA-2 compatibility, not the new root.
I'm not sure there is much standard tooling to a job like this, other than staring at hex dumps a lot. He mentions binwalk, which is a good place to start (see https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/17262... for a good workflow).

Other than that it's a question of building job-specific scaffolding as you go.

> I decided to “emulate” x86 real mode inside C by translating x86 real mode disassembly into C very directly, modelling segment registers explicitly in C

(from the section described as "mentally draining")

Once he'd figured out the algorithm:

> the particular LZSS format used here turns out to originate from some public domain DOS code which someone posted on a Japanese BBS in 1988

Ah, the glory of the Internet long tail.

> After writing the shellcode to facilitate this mode of access, I finally had a way to access the APE's address space.

(relating to the use of provided functions to inject code into the APE, allowing inspection of its point of view and boot code)

> Although the diagnostic tool was quite helpful, ironically this is not because I ever managed to run it. Neither the DOS, UEFI nor Windows versions have ever worked for me. Instead, the diagnostic tools are useful because they contain various routines to probe APE registers, and then print the contents of these registers along with their names. It's not much information, but it's all I have, and it makes all the difference. Pretty much everything I know about the APE that isn't guessed is from the dry reverse engineering of this diagnostic tool.

More reverse engineering heroics, this time on the support tools.

Rather like marathon running or the ascent of Everest, a prime attribute for doing the thing is a refusal to give up long after the process has become painful and unrewarding.
After watching a YouTube comedy video, where wasps describe themselves as murderous, but uselessness insects, I was thinking of researching wasps. This was an unexpected, but welcome read. So they are not only murderous, also incestuous, but not useless. At least this fig born species.
Cellular technology is hard and complex.

I remember Broadcom thought "no problem, we churned out Wifi solution with 50 people so how hard can this cellular thing be for us?"... Well, they crashed and burned.

You need massive teams of people who know what they are doing to build cellular chipsets with the necessary software stack.
Thanks for the link. An on-point article in the context of my comment.

I liked this quote, even if I'm not 100% in agreement:

>On the whole, they are older and wiser myths than secular myths like progress
That's quite a read, now I want to read his autobiography too. It does however reveal some places where SSC's thinking and history is a lot thinner than he realises.
They're certainly going that way. Group DMs don't work with the API (in that there's not even a "hey log onto the website your client doesn't support this" notification). A ton of features have been removed from or gimped in the API, to the point where many of the third-party devs have given up.

"Fully disable" - probably not. But they'll certainly make it nearly impossible to produce something "like the Twitter app but better".
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Is my opinion that this should not belong to anybody but to everybody unpopular?
Fluent – A localization system for natural-sounding translations
Why are you so down on real life - expecting every one to display laser focused concentration on one topic is just not realistic or actually healthy.
Religion, in my opinion, is not really about believing in a dude in sandals up in the clouds somewhere. And some large part of it is in fact junk and even sometimes dangerous. But it has value in exploring questions and aspects of humanity that we are not able to understand with reason. Human beings are really bad at reason. Just in my opinion.

Atheism is an affirmative answer to a question about your faith in the unknown. So I agree with him, again just personally.
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So what's so interesting about matthewrayfield.com that you had to go there 59,000 times in the last hour?
Basically correct.

The first Lisp for MIT's IBM mainframe was ported to the AI lab PDP-6, running standalone. Later ITS was written for the PDP-6, and Lisp was ported to run under timesharing by 1968. This evolved into Maclisp.

MDL, first called Muddle, is mentioned in Project MAC Progress Report VIII, covering 1970-971. "The extension of LISP is known locally as "MUDDLE". It was designed and has been implemented by Carl Hewitt and Gerald Sussman of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Christopher Reeve, David Cressey, Bruce Daniels, and Gregory Pfister of Dynamic Modeling".

Ideas from Muddle made it back to Maclisp. The first Lisp Machine Lisp (later ZetaLisp) was basically a reimplementation or Maclisp (as is Emacs Lisp), and Common Lisp is to a large degree a subset of Lisp Machine Lisp.
Credit to Garry Tan! Thanks for posting it on Twitter, thought I should share it on HN
VR I think?
Not quite lost.
Yeah, it's really great. Beautiful animation and solid comedic timing.
The question was for alternatives to code that reads inside->out. I personally don't have a problem with it, but I can see that many languages have a more procedural/imperative top->down control flow by default. A Java programmer might prefer that, where a Lisp programmer will be trained to alternate while reading between inside->out and outside-in in code.
OMG this is so cool to a person who lives in the CJK world (to be specific, I’m Korean) where the order of noun/verb/adj is reversed and always gets to see programs that display text something like ‘Site is news reader HN’, ‘Button press confirm to’.

It’s a pity that the programming world is still super bad at i18n :-(
I think I've used the OpenCV Kalman filter implementation at some point. Maybe that suits your needs
Considering figs not vegan because of this is insane, frankly. If that's the standard you want to apply(the food should not have any insect parts in it) then there will be nothing for you to eat. Zero. Any kind of grain will always contain finely ground insects, in minuscule quantities but you can be 100% certain they will be there.
If you're making the same db call for n items, 10 calls and 1 call are both O(n).
For me it feel the same way as Amiga bundles, just in digital format instead of a pile of floppies.

http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/bundles.html
> Actually compiling this turned out to be an amusing excercise, because MIPS cores without hardware multiply or divide support aren't officially a thing anymore, which means that neither clang or GCC support targeting such devices.

I'm curious what the demand is for a simple, non-optimizing C compiler that translates code into the most straightforward assembly possible (i.e. a true "portable assembler").
The people who conducted this study should be embarrassed. First off they chose BJ's wholesale, which I would venture to say doesnt have the healthiest of employees on the planet and doesnt represent a good sample. Second, they didnt actually track what the individuals were actually doing, were they eating a diet high in greens and low in processed foods? Were they getting cardio in daily? Were they smoking, drinking excessively? How anyone serious about health, nutrition, or even cost spending could take this study seriously, beyond me.
Or you could run the un-split original MDL Zork.
"why can't we work with the facts and evidence that we have already (those overwhelmingly disproving the health hazards of 5G)?"

Yeah well, I'd like to see that overwhelming evidence please.

But since, I am not a biologist nor physicist, I could not really examine it in detail. So I would have to believe the authorative power of the experts who day it is all good.

Then I compare the arguments to the experts who say yes.
There is one area where "computing in the browser" misses the mark a little - browser interfaces (like Jupyter) are often used not just for the convenience they offer, but also because they serve as thin clients, which provision vastly better computing resources than you have locally.

So while I do some of my coding in the browser, the code executed is an EC2 far far away, close to my data, with excellent networking etc. There is very little that a Python stack directly in my browser would offer, to me (!) at least (your mileage may vary).
WTF. Lost for words.

So Google’s browser now directly lie to the user about what’s being loaded?

I bet the SSL mark is still there though?

How can anyone trust this Googlan horse?

This is why you don’t make a browser and control major web-assets at the same time. These lines should not be muddied.
Positive reviews are not very informative.

What I find more informative is bad reviews that get an answer from the seller/company. I guess these interactions will be faked in the next iteration of reviewogenesis.
SGX in particular had revolutionary potential.. Galen Hunt's Haven project showed remotely-attested, encrypted Drawbridge containers executing arbitrary Windows programs within secure enclaves... But then Meltdown and Spectre doomed SGX to side-channel attack. I don't think Intel is even making an attempt to salvage the instruction set...