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Wow, are we know so scared of mob mentality that we don't condemn brazen free speech interference?

I know social media platforms can create mobs, but since when are we all scared that:

> That digital rights and press freedom advocates might now sympathize, if not agree, with Sri Lanka’s action.

This seems questionable to me, and problematic for people trying to find each other.
The invertebrates that occupy that pond and its surrounds really appreciate that you're leaving it that condition.
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This has been discussed more than a few times here.

I've written my thoughts on this. its either very cunning or blatantly thumbing your nose at the tax code depending on where you sit.

Long story short, I think when the tell all book for RenTech is written you'll find that they are very smart but tax avoidance accounted for a much larger share of their returns than most people would expect.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9859620#9859701

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445232#13445506
It's still sooner than "never", which is the current response time for answers that Google cannot provide.

Central search indexes like Google are not going away. There are client-side metasearch interfaces that combine Google results with other sources. Those other sources can be much slower, including human responses. You would still have your synchronous sub-second response from centralized search, but there would be asynchronous results from decentralized search.

This exists today, e.g. when you post a question on HN or a messaging app, asking other humans for answers not available in public indexes. Most of the world's knowledge is not public, it's obscure and may only be of interest to specific niche audiences.
Well, maybe they're "more collectively minded" because they've been living under totalitarian regimes for millennia. And even if we accept (which I do) that some Western-style society is better, getting there would be hugely nontrivial.

In particular, getting there would arguably involve considerable chaos. And so it's not that hard for those in control to play on people's fears about that. After all, Westerners have tried to impose democracy on China before, and it didn't work out very well.

Back in the 60s, China was on track to be North Korea times 10^4 to 10^6. But Kissinger managed to convince Nixon to intervene in a constructive and noninvasive way. That clearly has worked, so what we need is arguably to stay on that track.

On the other hand, isolating South Africa arguably did hasten the end of Apartheid. And if China undertakes full-on genocide against the Uyghurs, that may be the only moral path. But orders of magnitude more dangerous. And when we add global climate change to the mix, it'll be insane.
Thank you!

The model weighs in at 1.2GB with 100M parameters, which is similar to the smallest GPT-2 model.

I wouldn't be suprised if GPT-2 small (+ finetuning on HN data) performed better than what I have trained. Other than hyperparameters, I think there are two main differences:
First, I pretrained the model solely on Wikipedia data, while GPT-2 used more general web data. Second, I used an encoder-decoder model, while GPT-2 is a language model. I'm suspecting that the encoder is not very useful for this task.
Yes, this. Alternatively, what's the logical next step once the semantic web is realized? Ask yourself where wikidata is going in the long run.
I'm going to explain what's going on when data is encrypted
Definitely will do that, thank you for the pointer. Reliable software design is something I've been interested in for a very long time and it is amazing (to me, at least) how much we already know and yet refuse to put into practice. I think a big part of this is that speed is sexy and reliability is not.
Managing infra != managing your own cluster. Don’t be silly, that was never kubernetes value proposition. It’s always been shaky to self host and manage that yourself, even if you are a seasoned infrastructure guy.

The idea was that they could manage the infrastructure their services need - ingresses, secrets, certificates, pods, load balancing, service connections, etc as code. And it’s been a wild success.
That's the sort of talk that gets the villagers sharpening their pitchforks.
Good write-up, confirms my suspicions. Thanks for your thoughts.
Aside from a couple thousand pedophiles, sorry but I'm not gonna take care of their needs...
You are not describing a terror attack then. The point of terrorism is propaganda.
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What makes "pure" a notable or (presumably) desirable quality? If bits of it were in C++, and that made it faster, how would that make it less useful?
The proposal is for a publicly funded index as base-level infrastructure.

Filtering out spam, pornography, and other undesirable or illegal content would be done at the service level, i.e., but companies/organizations building user-facing search applications on top of the index.
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China does claim to be a democracy in its constitution, though:

Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China [...] the Chinese people of all nationalities will continue [...] to turn China into a socialist country that is prosperous, powerful, democratic and culturally advanced.

http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/Constitution/2007-11/15/con...

Of course the literal text of the constitution is completely ignored in practice, but criticizing that doesn't automatically lack credibility.
One big commonality I found is that a woodworking joint (dovetail, mortice & tenon, etc) is equivalent to a software design pattern. There are very well-established procedures for common problems.
No, never.

I've been with my current SO for over 10 years (and married) and had a couple long term relationships before that.

We've had arguments like any other couple, but never an all night argument.
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Yes. As the Internet Archive shows, a large corpus of valuable content is no longer changing.
They are, but the successful part of the Semantic Web is almost entirely limited to open-source datasets (grouped under the "Linked Data", or "Linked Open Data" initiative). That's pretty much the only part of the web that actually has an incentive to release their info in machine-readable format - everyone else would rather control the UX end-to-end and keep users dependent on their proprietary websites or apps.
Please check out the Genesis Group at MIT's CSAIL. Or Patrick Winston's Strong Story Hypothesis. Or Bob Berwick. Many at MIT are still working through the 80's winter, without the confirmation bias of Minsky and Papert's Perceptrons with all the computation power and none of the theory (now called neural nets). Or any of the papers here: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/schedule.html

Or the work of Paul Werbos, the inventor of backpropagation, was heavily influenced by -- though itself perhaps outside the cannon of -- strictly symbolic approaches
Easy. I have three children. If I didn't have children, I'd have 3 Nobel Prizes by now with all that extra free time :)
Yes?

Who owns the fast food chains? The marketing agencies? The land where the stores are built?

Who lobbies politicians to allow them to do anything they want in the name of profit? Who owns the media brainwashing the masses into voting for X or buying Y?

I'm sorry but literally everything is done for the wealthy and by the wealthy.
I saw this response to the same question several years ago. I'm glad you're still at it. Kudos.
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> A bipartisan Senate panel estimated in 2014 that Medallion investors underpaid their taxes by some $6.8 billion over more than a decade by masking short-term gains as long-term returns.

Holy shit.

That 10 year number is the equivalent of the NSF’s entire budget. [0]

This is t an accident. It’s criminal. And it’s not a surprise given that IRS enforcement has been declining over a decade and focusing on small taxpayers rather than wealthy individuals and corporate tax payers.[1]

[0] https://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2018/

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/earned-income-tax-credit-...
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The text on the page doesn't mention it, but surely the instrument with the round soundhole and 5 visible strings is a guitar.
There is a very long history of Japanese ships, also not well suited for open ocean travel, being caught in currents in the Pacific, and washing up in Oregon, Washington, and other areas. Some stories go back to the 1600's. I can't find the reference, but I read of a Japanese sailor who washed up on the Baja Peninsula in the early 1600's and lived there afterwards.

Here's one story - someone who washed ashore in 1832 in Washington state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otokichi
Many previous submissions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Parable%20of%20the%20Polygons&...

But only one significant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716538
nginx.cfg and app.cfg have an example deployment for nginx and the rest is covered in main README.

Yeah not sure what is going on with that pr, tbh i forgot about it b/c we implement it in our own runtime. I got a bunch of others merged quickly since then.
"I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death (of other people) your right to say it."
> Police officers should especially be held to a higher standard

I would guess that people who thought about this longer and harder than you did came to the conclusion that... they are also just human.
The user is the one, well, using it! Sure, in some cases it's not obvious if you're abusing the system but this seems pretty clear.
Improvements like...?
I didn't see mention of who would pay for this infrastructure. Is it considered a gov't funded or volunteer / donation thing?

There doesn't seem to be a mention of how to alleviate a tragedy of the commons problem (unless I missed it). If common crawl is doing a fine job, who funds them?
The current vegetation is adapted well to the CO2 levels before industrialisation, that is about 300ppm CO2. The change in CO2-content is actually detrimental to some plants. Furthermore, the quick temperature change is going to wipe out large eco systems. The question isn't, what is the optimal CO2 concentration for single species, but about the health of the eco systems we are living in. We are about to wipe out large eco systems and as a consequence, the environment we are living in.
What would you expect an overseas US college student to say or not say about Rodney King?
The quick change barrel was introduced in 2010. We're still talking close to a century before substantive changes were made to the design. The "Original M2" as most people know it was air cooled, had bi-directional feed, and is very much the same as the ones in service today aside from the shift away from adjustable head-spacing in 2010. The designation "M2" does not refer to the water cooled M1921, but the air cooled version produced after Browning's death [1]. I guess if you want to stretch back the age of the M2 an extra decade you can highlight the ancestry of the design back to 1921 (usually people do this to give credit of the gun to John Browning, similar to how people say the Hi-Power was designed by browning) but bear in mind that the M1921 is not what most people think of as the original M2. They're thinking of the 1933 gun.

I'm not sure where you got the idea that "those were junk, everyone knew they were junk, and it [took] twenty years for them to stop being junk". Strange for a gun that was "junk" to be adapted for use by foreign companies only 6 years after release[2], and imitated by other foreign powers[3] less than 10 years after release. For a gun that was such junk, other countries were eager to imitate it. The M2 was a particularly effective and long-lived design, and one that went largely without adaptation since its initial release in 1933. What other piece of equipment is so similar to its original design from over 80 years ago?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrailleuse_d%C2%B4Avion_Brow...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho-103_machine_gun
I expect that you will eventually be forced to transition in the next few years. Mesos will fall further and further behind Kubernetes due to lack of development and lack of integrations with new service meshes, telemetry systems, etc. Most new projects boast Kubernetes integration, and omit Mesos integration. Although you may want to hold out with Mesos so you can wait and see if Kubernetes gets supplanted by a newer model.

Even Docker, which competes directly with Kubernetes via Swarm and Compose, has felt the need to include a Kubernetes cluster in Docker for Desktop. That's how comprehensively Kubernetes has taken over the container orchestration market.

In any case I was not specifically criticizing Mesos, but rather using the Mesos vs Kubernetes example to point out that committing to a particular service mesh this early in the evolution of the concept is probably unwise.
$150. At that price it was a much more risky investment. The software, hardware, regulation environment improved a lot. I bought as a high risk high reward long term investment, waiting for 1 BTC to worth millions of dollars in the next 20 years, or 0.
We took that distracting bit out of the title above.
AMF is mentioned in the article, guess they had more businesses than bowling (like yacht construction). Still it was amusing reading the article thinking they were just swimming in bowling profits:

“In 1985, he ac­quired the con­glom­er­ate AMF Inc. and de­nounced the man­age­ment for what he con­sid­ered lav­ish spend­ing on lim­ousines, cor­po­rate jets and plush of­fice space in White Plains, N.Y. “Their ap­petite at cor­po­rate was more be­fit­ting of Gen­eral Mo­tors,” he told the Times.”

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It's not really "permitting" it, that's just how the internet works. If you send the data slowly you can keep a connection open.

And fighting privacy violation is basically a game of cat and mouse. As soon as we figure out how to block their tactics, they evolve. If what I'm doing here became mainstream they would probably do something about it, but as it stands this is much easier to do using JS or something anyway (which people know violates their privacy but they leave it enabled because modern websites break down without it).
The enormous snapping turtle that visits has chosen not to eat my children, I like that.
Here are some things that have helped me make shipping models easier.

- Tag and version your datasets, especially your test set, so that you are confident when you compare performance across models or over time.

- Test your training pipeline. Run it on a single batch or a tiny dataset. The whole test should take less than 1 minute to confirm that your training pipeline didn't break. Once one test works, people will write others.

- You should be able to measure the accuracy of your model with a single command, or as part of your CI process. This command should spit out a single report (PDF or html) which is all you need to look at to decide whether to ship a new model or not, including run-time performance (if needed).

- Don't create hermetic training environments that prevent you from doing debugging. Sometimes you just need to ssh in and put in some print statements to track down a problem.
This simply isn't needed, and if it is it can be done by a charity or any group of people, not something that should be built into the infrastructure of the web itself.

You have to remember that while the little that the web provides is also its strongest attraction; it allows the web to be accessed and modified by anyone, they're on little bit of the web can be very different from someone elses.

So by adding on a way that the web must be indexed is kind of like moving closer to communism than liberalism. I guess if we start dictating to google where to get their data then we've moved to the full blown hammer and sickle stage :).
Rather than sequestering all this carbon into wood and then trying to figure out what to do with the wood so that it doesn't decompose over time and release the CO2 back into the air, it'd make more sense to stop digging up lots of carbon from underground (where it's been stable for hundreds of millions of years in the form of coal and oil) and burning it to release the CO2 into the air.

We already have amazing reserves of CO2, and we're digging them up and releasing them by burning them! Trees are just a tiny band-aid on top of this massive harm we're self-inflicting.
Unfortunately if it's decentralized, then it becomes controlled by spamlords, SEO artists, advertisers, and anyone else who stands to gain from manipulating the index to their advantage. At least if it's centralized, the fights are out in the open and have a chance of converging on something reasonable (like e.g. wikipedia).
I think CC used to provide full-text indices. Not sure though and can't find any posts on it.
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Which part should make me not believe that? If you're not willing to walk away from your job, you have no leverage against your employer.

I mean, ideally, you find another job before you leave your current one, if only for negotiating leverage to get a better salary from the new employer - it's not ideal to just leave with no backup plan. But you should always make it so that walking away is an option.
My understanding is that Facebook doesn't do Go, so it's always been a second class citizen for Buck. Go folks at Uber were spending a significant amount of time (in the scale of several months) trying to upstream fixes to Buck core, but found that Bazel extensibility allowed them to get similar functionality in a matter of weeks or even days. Buck also didn't seem to have a good story around Thrift/Proto and JS/node.

At Uber, the Java stack is still sort of ok w/ Buck (because Buck handles some things better there), so they're taking a wait-and-see approach until the Bazel ecosystem catches up w/ Buck on the concerns they care about. But long term, we are envisioning implementing a company-wide monorepo, and that sort of entails having a unified build system.
I included that for a couple of reasons:
1) It's unusual. Historically, C# is more of a businessy thing, with a bit of game stuff on the side, mainly in the form of scripting. Extremely high performance C# code is even stranger.
2) It's more easily portable than a mixed library. It's definitely not impossible to make/use a cross platform mixed library (they're all over the place), but depending only on one toolchain is just less complicated.

So not a big deal, just a notable quirk.
No kidding. I just need a cheap smallish display I can mount outside of conference rooms and point to a URL that never changes (renders a display of all the meetings/events in the room for the day).

I don't even need the touchscreen. At this price it's the cheapest I have found so far. I'd love to be able to get to $50 for a screen that is POE powered with a flush mount wall mount bracket (guts of device behind the drywall). There's some raspberry Pi solutions out there with 3D printed wall mount brackets but they are $100 in parts before you print the bracket...

Simple no frills stuff like this is perfect for micro-digital signage.
Oh, it works. The objective is to dissolve the bonds between people is dissolved that would allow them to collectively organize and resist. If everybody pretends they don't know, even if everybody else knows they do know, for all practical purposes, the objective of censorship is accomplished.

https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-Censorship-China-...
Tienanmen happened in 1989. Would it not be better to apologize to Iraq, Libya and Syria and promise the world not to destroy entire countries, kill hundreds of thousands of people and put millions of families in disarray for those who genuinely care about human rights and lives?

Instead millions more are threatened in Venezeula and Iran with the exact same warmongering playbook and propaganda while 'human rights lovers' are apparently more concerned about a protest that happened in China in 1989. This simply stretches credulity.

At this very moment exactly zero people have been held to account for the totalitarian surveillance, torture and war crimes exposed by Snowden, Manning and Assange. How so? If you are concerned about human rights surely war crimes and torture by your own country would have blown your top and brought the guilty to account asap? And yet not only has no one been held to account but its those who exposed these crimes who are being persecuted in so called 'democracies'? This is a sham.
That explains why it does nothing in Safari. Safari doesn't support `navigator.getUserMedia`, as that's deprecated and no longer part of the standard. The standard way to do this is navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia
PredictIt was pretty fun for me until I bet ~$250 on Hillary in 2016. I haven't touched binary options since then.
I think the opposite is true. Humans think in terms of symbols to model the world around him. A child is born knowing nothing, a completely blank slate, and slowly he learns about his surroundings. He discovers he needs food, he needs to be protected and cared for. He discovers he doesnt like pain. If you talk to a 3 year old child you can have a fairly intelligent conversation about his parents, about his sense of security because this child has built a mental model of the world as a result of being trained by his parents. This kind of training requires context and crossreferencing of information which can only be done by inferencing. You cant train a child by flashing 10,000 pictures at him because pictures are not experience, even adults can be fooled by pictures which are only a 2D representation of 3D concepts of 3D space. So all these experiences that a small child has of knowing about the world come to him symbolically, these symbols model the world and give even a small child the ability to reason about external things and classify them. This is human level intelligence.

Human like intelligence is training a computer to recognize pixel patterns in images so it can make rules and inferences about what these images mean. This is human like intelligence as the resulting program can accomplish human like tasks of recognition without the need for context on what these images might mean. But there is no context involved about any kind of world, this is pure statistical training.
I do something pretty close; if I'm working on a new feature, I typically create a branch off master, get an implementation working, then do another branch off master without having merged my original code. I repeat this until the code is acceptably un-awful.

It's kind of validating to hear that Joe had a similar workflow to me.
Putting together an accurate picture of the state of the world is not contradictory with liberalism.
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I would gladly wait hours or days for certain long-tail searches; the kind that I revisit every few days/weeks/months for half an hour trying various search terms to see if I can crack the code and find the content that I know is out there somewhere.

I imagine getting status updates with intermediate search results, and I annotate each one with 'warm' or 'cold' and maybe add some more search terms into the hopper to forcibly narrow or expand the search.