skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What kind of content are you or the grandparent commenter looking for this theoretical new site to host?

I mentioned it in a different comment: I miss the content that YouTube used to have before they started punishing the stuff that advertisers objected to (through demonetization and refusal to recommend them).

Far too many YouTube channels now are clearly walking on eggshells and being very careful about what they say and do. It makes the videos less interesting and informative and more like traditional broadcast TV.

There are still channels that don't sweat demonetization at all, and those tend to be the only ones I watch anymore, but they're getting few and far between.
Well at least someone still knows what the internet is for.

They'll make a bundle.
Didn't Tumblr lose about a third of its traffic after the porn ban?

And I don't think the site's culture veering off into Puritanism as it is now will be good for it in the long run. If there were a better site, I'd leave for it - but the only real alternative is Twitter, which combines all the worst aspects of LinkedIn, Instagram, and 4chan.

Who knows! Maybe anyone will use Dreamwidth ever. But I think Tumblr's lack of distinction between top-level posts and comments is a good feature - there were a few blogs, back when blogs were a thing, that I mostly read because they had a few good commenters. The problem is that it enables a lot of abuse, but stricter moderation and better features could prevent this - Tumblr wasn't designed for text at all, and it really shows.

(You could edit anyone else's post while reblogging it until relatively recently, when someone replaced a John Green post with a graphic monologue about liking dick and [so everyone assumed, at least] he complained.)
The VMS people Microsoft poached and then straightjacketed with legacy concerns did have good ideas, yes.
They (auto insurances) provide reduces rates for e.g. driver trainings.

The technical aspect for cars (in Germany) is handled by the TÜV (mandatory bi-annually technical review).
Introducing a token payment such as this undermines the altruism of open source contribution. When people are motivated by altruism they don't want money.

e.g. I would help my neighbor move some furniture for free, but I wouldn't do it if he offered to pay me $5.
The whole article seems concerned with the testability and bug-finding nature of types. But the main strength of dynamic types is the ability to defer decisions until runtime.

JS isn't dynamically typed to make testing easier. JS uses dynamic types because you couldn't build the web any other way.
That isn't a solution for every use case. For example, it means you can't use the s3 VPC gateway for those buckets.
When I was shopping around I was told by hospital rep, that they can't tell me the price, because of a) they don't know until they talk to insurance company, b) EMTALA prohibits that.
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks
Either way, I can get my stuff faster and just as cheap or cheaper from their competitors.
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Not really that much different with respect to their exposure to future laws; your bank account balance is subject to federal and state laws as well. Yes, future laws could affect your 401(k) balance, but the same holds true for your bank account balance (e.g., wealth taxes, etc..).

But what else can you do, really? Best to put your savings into the most cost effective / tax efficient vehicle that is currently available.
My ex-girlfriend was a pretty active pornblogger on Tumblr(her own content and reblogging other stuff before it got shut down), believe me there was a pretty big porn community on there, although it's broken down into pretty specific niche categories(like DDLG, CNC, BDSM, etc), but within those niches there's lots of active content creators that are pretty well-known within their little Tumblr social circles.

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Example, this one guy ran a blog called "Rapebait Academy"(CNC fetish, Google if you're interested I'm not gonna get into that here) where he could post pictures and videos of him with the girls he would meet of Tumblr and what they got up to together(with their consent of course). And anyone who was involved in that little community on Tumblr knew the guy and who you were talking about if you mentioned his name, or at least his blog.

So there's definitely people interested in making content on the platform, people interested in consuming the content, and there's always gonna be people willing to pay out the nose for personalized niche specific content, which will be easy given how Tumblr is a directly creator-to-user platform.
> So... I guess I have to rename/move all my buckets now? Ugh.

It's worse than that. You can't rename a bucket. You will have to create a new bucket and copy everything over.
This is a lovely Quanta article about how mammals had to survive by being nocturnal, and how the eyes once adjusted for dark condidtions could not evolve back to being used in daylight:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/hyperuniformity-found-in-bird...

Now what would be darn nifty would be replacing the somewhat deficient mammalian optical system with something like the avian system. Would that it were so simple to splice a few genes over...

I loved this article on so many levels, although I need a bit of a run up to get the hang of hyperuniformity (which I think is the same as random matricies)
The BBC is independent by decree and design. There’s certainly an establishment slant, but that’s down to hiring decisions and the class system more than anything.
You cannot solve a political problem with a technical solution.
Most people don't know that MG owns most of the industry. They've done a really good job making sure no one looks behind the curtain.
All that’s telling everyone is that you are not caring about a lot of very important stuff and caring way too deeply about the wrong things. When one party is blatantly anti-science, doesn’t believe in the value of professional expertise, and 2/3s of their voters believe the world is 6000 years old (10 years ago- if anything its much worse now), the two parties couldn’t be more different. If none of that stuff matters to you, then I can only conclude that the stuff that does matter to you doesn’t matter at all.
Use DNS over HTTP. Firefox is very easily configurable (network.trr.bootstrapAddress, network.trr.mode, etc) so that if you pick the right bootstrap provider and DNS over HTTP provider you'll never send an unencrypted DNS query (including no SNIs) and it will fail completely rather than reverting to your OS's DNS Client if it cannot be resolved via the DNS over HTTP channel you define.

Because the S3 buckets are virtual-hosted they share IPs so there is deniability if you can hide the DNS/SNI.
We see wealth as living in a big house. Not the net value of that house on a balance sheet.

Reality is unimportant. Is perception that matters to society.
It isn't really about software developers pay IMHO. I think it is about: a relatively poorly capitalised investment community (relative to the US); relatively (to the US) inexperienced VCs/accelerators; a splintered market with a variety of regulators, languages, rules, currencies, cultures etc; more conservative approach (not left/right politics) in politics and in business.
I’m sure they would require you to get routine services if they could.

Car insurance doesn’t cover routine maintenance because they also don’t cover problems that arise from not getting routine maintenance. I’d you neglect oil changes and blow up your engine, they don’t care, they don’t have to pay for it.
From the ads I got on Tumblr, it felt like one of the things they were trying to do was build the leftist millennial equivalent of Glenn Beck's email lists or whatever. I'm not sure how well that would mesh with a porn ban.

(I'm surprised there aren't any companies pursuing this! I thought Gab was going to, but it looks like they monetized with pro subscriptions [instead?].)
I think you are.
Apropos of anything else, as of 2019, you are more likely to die of an opiate overdose (accidental or deliberate) than you are in an MVA. That's staggering.

Of course, not unexpected in a country that has 3% of the world populace but 81% of the world's opiate use.
Hm. I had a local testing setup using an S3 standin service from localstack and a Docker Compose cluster, and path-style addressing made that pretty easy to set up. Anyone else in that "bucket?" Suggestions on the best workaround?
Interestingly enough, back in the old days of analog television, you could listen to the audio feed for channel 6 - it was broadcast on 87.76 MHz. Not every car radio was capable of going low enough on the frequency spectrum, but if you had one that could hit 87.7 and you were in an area utilizing TV channel 6, it was possible to listen to TV on the radio.
They haven't switched to Accuracy International sniper specific rifels - the classic British two guys in a shed company.
I loved it when pdf started gaining traction.

back then there was only 1 format in the world .doc

PDF became standard because it was a SUPERIOR solution for the use cases that most people wanted.
Was curious when someone would bring this up. This has been an issue for such a long time and still the docs are so quiet about it.
Yes but https SNI still exists.
I certainly don't disagree that it was successful, and (coming into technology when I did) I've always personally liked it. I just found the writings around what came before interesting.

> I can bet you in a parallel universe where that tech won, someone on para-HN will claim that it sucked and it was never a good design and if only Unix had won.

I'd take the same side of that bet as you :-P
old.reddit.com :P
One could say this about any library or OS feature. Berkeley Sockets, for example.

Porting code is easier when there are portable APIs. But that doesn't diminish from the quality of the abstraction.
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Solitude: A voluntary disconnect. Pleasant. You can return to socializing whenever you want.

Loneliness: Being alone against your choice, seemingly unable to change it, even when you are in contact with people.
Definitely not 'subtle difference'; when has it ever meant that? It means a nonstandard extension.
This is not true at all.

It is very easy to get some sort of vanguard s&p 500 index fund that will get you %7 return rates, with something like .1% fees.
The point of that is solely for doing website hosting with S3 though - where you'll have a CNAME. Why would you name a bucket that way if you're not using it for the website hosting feature?
Don't forget "universal". Everyone has SMS, so it's the fallback to everything else.

Also, it works without a data connection.
I don't think your source supports your claims. Anyway, I don't think you should be downvoted.
Ah yes, the best of both worlds; socialized medicine provided at rock bottom prices through mass immigration undercutting the salaries of US citizens that are paying billions towards non-dischargable loans taken in good faith.

Sarcasm of course. In my opinion, these are two great ideas for getting Trump re-elected.
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> Unless you are an actual friend of theirs, you don't really know what their true authentic selves are.

People put on a front for their friends, too. And spouses. Even themselves (who people really are often emerges only when they under extreme stress). Being drunk also strips off the facade to some extent, like being a "mean drunk".

I have different faces for the internet, work, friends, lovers, family, etc. We all do.
> As far as I am aware, the ACA actually introduced limits on how much mark-up health insurance can have, where 80% of the cost must go to actual medical expenses, and administration, marketing, etc must be no more than 20% total. So how is the ACA the cause of insurance mark-up?

One of the issues (and I like the ACA generally), is that that limit removes an incentive for the insurance companies to control costs and the 20% markup becomes a floor, not a ceiling. If they get 20% of revenue as non-medical costs, and they want to increase their profit, the best way to do that is to allow medical costs to increase. Then their 20% is larger because the pie of costs is larger.
Don't know about the UK, but the National Review, The American Conservative and National Affairs are pretty solid conservative journalism.
It's better to approach issues from all sides.
I feel like this will end up cannibalizing their engineers effort.
I think a lot of biologists (such as myself) would find drag and drop ML very useful.

I’m not interested in deploying a service or anything, but it would be a great way to take a first pass at analyzing some of the huge and pretty complex datasets that we generate, like metagenomic DNA sequences of microbiotas that are paired with health related information that could also be fed into the model.

Even just narrowing down a list of potential targets would be pretty darn useful.
Junior lawmakers are also perfectly capable of hiring senior lawmakers yet the balance of power still shifts towards lobbyists, so I would assume that the same issue would exist for lottery-drawn representatives.
We all die alone. :)
If only there were a way to measure that
https://www.physicsforums.com

Great for physics and math, both homework, casual questions and more advanced stuff. Large number of active professors, phd studens etc.
This logic is completely nonsensical. Her bill was "dead on arrival" because it was opposed by Republicans. Want to change that, then elect Democrats.
You might be POSTing user uploads to uploads.example.com.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTObjectPO...
It's quite clear what he is saying. Programming languages are what programmers use. And how programmers think is dominated by how a computer works, which is usually a gigantic distraction to actually solving real world problems.

Newton, Maxwell and Einstein didn't need to waste any of their time thinking about how to use a computer to solve the problems they worked on.

If I ask Google for the 2018 Wimbledon Champ it tells me it has found 47,00,000 results in (0.90 seconds). Take a step back and think about this.

They have their own knowledge graph. They have Wikipedia access. They have the ATP site cached. They have the Wimbledon site cached. But they aren't able to tell the problem being solved doesn't need 4.7 Million results.

This is the kind of mindlessness that happens when the focus is not on the actual problem, but what the computer can do.
The other OSes from Unix's era were already as good or better (or at very least there was a diversity of ideas). Then the regulation that prevent AT&T from being sold like the others causes Unix to win prematurely.

Maybe that's how Ford beat the earlier luxury cars in raw profit, but that's not how the ICE beat electric cars.
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Before Obamacare, insurance plans had lifetime limits. So even if you got a really expensive treatment approved, it would potentially push you over your lifetime limit and leave you with no coverage at all.
Nobody in the US think Spanish is a race rather than a nationality. There's an artificial "Hispanic" term politicians invented to encompass all Spanish speakers.

Ignorant Americans may conflate all from Central America as "Mexicans", but that's about it.

Most Americans who never studied the Spanish language are probably ignorant of the differences between Castilian Spanish and Spanish as used in the Americas.
I've seen a lot of like "boutique" porn videos on PornHub that seem to have come from small-ish porn sites. Don't really know if PornHub owns the rights to those. Also, I've also seen some foreign porn flicks there and I also had my doubts about those.
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If the government offers too little money, the supply drops and you get quotas, waiting lists, and denied treatments.
I recently implemented a simple object system [0] using only closures and macros in a Lisp-dialect [1] I'm working on.

One thing that struck me is how little it bothers me that objects look like functions from the outside, and that any callable value could be used in their place.

It helps that the whole thing is quarantined in a separate library and that objects live in a separate namespace. And that it rests on top of a strongly typed environment.

Judging a type system outside of its context based on some arbitrary check list is pretty useless from my experience.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/g-fu/blob/master/v1/doc/functional_...

[1] https://github.com/codr7/g-fu/tree/master/v1
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> you can get a major knee surgery for your dog for a small fraction of what they charge for humans.

I mean you can't really compare vet bills to surgery bills. Veterinarians have actual price constraints where the owner is willing to put their foot down once it gets beyond a certain point. They love their pets but they aren't willing to go financially insolvent for them.

No such constraint exists for American healthcare. You pay what they tell you until you are destitute and on Medicaid.

> by mandating they advertise true prices

I think most Americans want this to be the solution and it still won't work unless there is pressure on the entire system. Doctors, hospitals, surgery theaters, radiology, and diagnostics have such complex billing that even if you could price compare are you even capable of understanding what those options do?
> it makes it clear that the bucket is global and public

How does it do that? You can host a private bucket at foo.s3.amazonaws.com just fine.
But there's still the, very traditional, legal argument of it also breaking the fourth [0], and that on a rather massive scale. Which the eef link also pointed out.

No matter how you frame this, these constitutional boundaries are not as high as many US Americans like to pretend. Because if those boundaries are not enforced, they ain't worth the paper they are written on, leaving the door wide open to further erode these constitutional rights.

[0] https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
Understanding the deepest sense of reality is best for navigating what's thrown at oneself. Even if one has no control over what happens in life, such as one's thoughts, or actions because its all decided by a linear progression of external forces upon oneself and one's genetics. Ultimately it comes down to the individual desiring to be the best person they can be with using their awareness to their advantage. I can definitely handle problems & emotions better when understanding how nobody has a choice in how they are as a person. Specifically if I'm wronged by someone. That's just a small portion of what philosophy and psychology can be used for in living life.
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Can you please elaborate more on what kind of critical mistakes a machine can make, while someone with math background would not make.

I am building a competing tool, so I am not affiliate with MS, but I do think that auto ML has value.

Machine learning is different from imperative programming in such that most of the "programming" is done by experiments and not with actual "program", hence there is an opportunity to replace programming with compute. I.e. an automl platform can create 100's of models/pipelines and just try them all.

Also, why would you trust a model which was created manually and not a model which was auto created.

When a model is created in auto ML it pass the same validation process as manually created model, so in both cases the quality of the model should be judged independent from the way that it was created.

In addition, all models (regardless of how they were created - human / not human), should be monitored for predictive performance. I.e. I will not "trust" any model without continuous verification.
For the record, this is the thing we are talking about:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Ahmed_Mohamed...
The kid uses "wood and condemned laptop batteries to construct a moving excavator and a dump truck." That's pretty impressive to me, and something worth talking about.

I am not sure why you assumed this is a post by a "white liberal" that automatically assumes a low opinion of Nigerians.

To me, this is a post about something interesting that someone has done, and is made more interesting by the fact that they live in an impoverished part of the world (I watched a video on them, it's pretty clear they aren't rich).
Does the same technique work to serve something not liked by the US gov?
Ann Landers once wrote:

1. smart people talk about ideas

2. average people talk about events

3. dumb people talk about other people

I sometimes think about that when I engage in gossip, and am annoyed with myself.
You are correct, but you forget that a technological solution like this one can help bringing around the actual social change you are looking for. It is kinda difficult to bring a social change when your major communication and information distribution methods are gutted.
> and mark up with highlights and notes, has been a game-changer.

What are you using for that? In my experience annotation support is very spotty, not user-friendly and not cross-platform, so I rarely use it for collaboration. Even fill-in forms one gets for reimbursements often seem badly done with too small or too large boxes or missing boxes. Thus, pdf seems fine for read-only, but making changes afterwards is not a good experience.
https://arxiv.org
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