skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi all, I wrote this in my spare time, originally aimed at the American Competitive Policy Debate community (though it's applicable to anyone) - some notes.

1. No one seems to have made anything like this (queryable, word level extractive summarization) , and I was pissed because when I was doing competitive debate I really wanted this tool (I spent days doing this stupud underlining and highlighting of evidence that I'd like back).

2. This is also equivalent to a "Semantic Search" engine. I've seriously thought of trying to write a word2vec powered ctrl-F replacement for a web-browser. I'm convinced that CX_DB8 is proof that this could be neat.

3. While my idea of making a tool that can make any document "say what I want it to say" was cool, the reality is that it's kinda hard to make it look like a document says the opposite of what it naturally says. To a word vector model, "X is bad" and "X is good" are usually very similar, meaning that the summaries given for each query are very similar.

4. Is there anything I could improve? I feel like there's gotta be something better than Cosine Similarity and mean pooling for the creation of document vectors out of word vectors. I saw something implying that TF-IDF weighting doesn't help - which sucks - so I'm skeptical.

Thank you to all the people who contributed the packages that makes CX_DB8 possible
I'm not sure that "here's a place where you could park and charge for 2 hours in the middle of your commute home" is a positive influence for adoption.
Sane OSs have been taking proper advantage of SMP for a while.

Such as Dragonfly: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/#index2h2
I am just listening to 'Art of Manlines' podcast where this topic is discussed. There is a lot here to take in. You should read yourself, I wanted to bring one point that seemed to stick out to me.

He mentions Tiger Woods vs. Roger Federer as two ways how you get to greatness. I don't think they are taking into account that maybe both of them are excellent athletes and that whether they started in childhood like Tiger Woods, or after dabbling in different sports like Federer, both thrived once they got into where their talents were.

Also, both have strong parents that pushed them, even if Federer mom didn't want him to play tennis, she is a tennis coach.

Anyhow, I don't think this take into account innate talents enough.
> And my laptop is a lot more expensive than my phone.

It's not for many people. An iPhone X starts at $1,000.

> The feature / price point combination of those phones are in part a result of the App Store policies. Changing that cut will change the feature / price point: they'd have to charge more, or give you less, or find alternate sources of revenue (i.e., start spying on you).

Apple is a ridiculously profitable company. They quite literally have more money than they know what to do with, as evidenced by their enormous bank account.

I'm happy Apple has been so successful, but I also think a portion of their inordinate profitability has come from anticompetitive practices, namely how locked down the app store is. They don't have a right to that particular revenue stream.
Remind me... is it good practice to put the name of something in the actual definition of itself?

You might not like it, but “universal background checks” are a tax on a right, a defecto national registry, a future ban option by simply denying all transfers of X type gun in the NICS system at any arbitrary time, and entirely unenforceable by default up until people start winding up with guns they couldn’t possibly have received legally over time, oh, and almost completely unrelated to crime as it does nothing for stolen guns, straw purchases, or existing illegal transfers which are the predominant ways criminals obtain weapons. You could also admit that no state that passed “UBC” style checks has seen a reduction in crime as an effect.

I apologize for bringing facts to an emotional topic.
I'm not sure. Each individual TJ's and especially WF store is much larger than the grocery section of an individual CVS. Even the smallest TJ's I've been in (Back Bay) is larger than the largest CVS grocery section I've been in (3 aisles?). I would expect the per-store figure to be obviously in TJ's/WF's favor.

I feel like the most appropriate metric would control for total population served (to discount both the fact that WF and TJ's don't exist everywhere CVS does, and that there are more CVSes per capita than the others where two or more of the three exist).
This is great! It would make a great feel good story, perhaps with the ending changed.
A single photo? What are you talking about. There are plenty of video footage from the square where you can see the military shoot from cars into crowds of civilians[1].

We don’t have “very little idea what happened”.

Contemporary BBC news report: https://youtu.be/kMKvxJ-Js3A
>though my coworker commented a few minutes ago about how she has asked her parents questions about politically-related issues or events in private and they still are evasive about answering.

Some people are more skirmish than others. In every country, there are people who won't discuss politics, for fear of "getting in trouble", even more so in a place like China.

But that doesn't mean the average citizen wont discuss them with friends/family/etc.
Can you explain what exactly the issue is? Where is the certificate chain breaking?
If you build a new service that uses Spanner, you'd list Spanner as a dependency in your design doc, and maybe even decide to offer an SLO upper-bounded by Spanner's. But you wouldn't list, or even know, the transitive dependencies introduced by using Spanner. You'd more or less have to be the tech lead of the Spanner team to know all the dependencies even one level deep (including whatever 1% experiments they're running and how traffic is selected for them). And even if you ask the tech lead and get a comprehensive answer, it won't be meaningful to anyone reading your launch doc (since they work on, say, Docs, with you), and will be almost immediately out of date.

Google infrastructure is too complicated to know everything. Most of the time, understanding the APIs you need to use (and their quirks and performance tradeoffs and deprecation timelines, etc.) is more than enough work.

> not possible to have such complex interdependencies be comprehensively documented

Yeah, this.
Such speculation of voting intentions is disingenuous.

To take your example, only people that oppose the result of the Brexit vote suggest that voters didn't really mean what they voted; it's just a way to apply favourable spin to an unfavourable outcome.
The facts in this UK diplomatic cable are disputed, but it has some terrifying details:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UK_cable_on_Tiananmen_Square_...
Even more directly, it looks like Congress passing a bill they know won't get past a veto. Rather than the uncertainty of Brexit, there's a single voter with veto power and a pre-declared position. (Though this is more extreme; in voting-theory terms, Presidents don't even have proper veto power, but Zuckerberg is a dictator.)

I think the better headline here might have been "percentage of outside investors voting against Zuckerberg rises 17 points". You're exactly right - it's a show of no confidence, but hardly a guarantee that these voters actually want him removed.
Gosh, I’d love to use this for accepting cards for our $29k device, but the limit in the US is $25k in protection for the entire year.

We offer a hardware product with SAAS after purchase, and we have dozens of customers insist on paying for that hardware with a credit card (albeit we won’t accept one now because of the inherent risks of accepting a card).

If the limit was much higher, I’d be sold, and our volume with Stripe could go up by $1m/year.
It’s not uncommon for ISPs to voluntarily tap and sell traffic data to government agencies - perhaps this is another case of that.
Money quote: “I am a polymath. You are a generalist. He is a dilettante.”
Imagine that node A and B are in sync (they have the same bloom filter). If A sends a new event to B, B can check if A's new event really results in that new bloom filter. You basically have a cryptographic proof that an event really happened at that moment. If the hashes of an event point to different indices, you know that something is wrong.
Edit: Typo.
If you put a shebang in your shell scripts, then you have nothing to worry about.
Facebook can't really grow; that race is effectively over, there are no significant new slices of humanity for it to penetrate into easily. Something like one third of all the people on Earth have a Facebook account, and when you factor in Instagram and Whatsapp, they have just about all the users that there are to have.
This list has been stuck at 7 for a _very_ long time.
It's not his company. It's a public company in which he does not own more than 50% of stocks.

He just has more than 50% voting rights, which should never have been allowed, and should be one of the things that SEC should look at if/when any kind of antitrust probe is done. It leads to deviant behavior by public companies.

Edit:

Some people below are looking at it below from a purely investor standpoint.

I'm not an investor in FB and own no stocks.

I'm looking at the behavior of FB which IMHO is purely due to Zuck, him being unethical (as someone else has also called out below) and the fact that he has unchecked power in how he is running FB. Like in a Government, the Board is supposed to provide the checks and balances in a public company. Unfortunately, due to the voting structure the Board of FB is 100% impotent.
Italy in 1998 wasn’t officially occupied AFAIK:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_...
foldr is exactly right. Admitting the truth is major thing in science. The upshot of admitting the truth is that you shouldn't rely on theories that haven't been proven or even tested. You can certainly search for ways to make them falsifiable and try to disprove them. But don't for example make public policy based on them, or publish definite statements about how this theory finally "disproves" competing theories. But again, this applies in any area of science.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman
> Truth be told, the software development cost of these systems (Android and iOS) is not that huge, a reasonably good open source alternative could probably be created for less than a billion dollars

How sure are you about that? Note that there is a stark difference between “reasonably good” and “used by billions of people”, and that both Apple and Google have thousands of engineers paid five figure salaries for years to work on their mobile platforms.
All of us can only recognize expertise up to a certain depth. Beyond that, experts seem to be the same. So if you have broader knowledge, you will appear to know more.

And in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a king.
The point is that apple don't want to update bash because they don't want to ship software that uses GPLv3 but they also don't want to keep shipping a decade old version of bash as the default shell, they aren't doing this because they want to improve on bash or anything like that.
I believe the first version of the iPhone OS did this. It was terrible (often it was literally impossible to type the thing you wanted) and they quickly replaced it with autocorrect instead.
Try mullvad.net.

A bunch of hackers in Sweden. You can pay without exposing any information about yourself and they support wireguard (even help pay for and doing their own development on it).

I meet some of them personally on hacker conferences as well and they knew what they were talking about.
“Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company”… as well. Assuming it’s its defining characteristic is a bit over the top
As someone without ADHD, is there really a difference between an hundred of rambly lines in Twitter or an hundred rambly lines in a blog post?

The only difference I see are expectations, in a blog post, I expect edited content that flow well, while on Twitter, I don't expect much.
There's a difference between weight gain strategies to build muscle and eating because you're "underweight." People not working out and eating normally will be less bulky than people who work out and eat comparatively more. But they won't be "underweight."
Since when do Apple IDs require 3-D cameras to log in to? Mine only needs a password. I don't think my MacBook even does 3D face recognition.
Very good question. I will have to think about it. Will get back to you later.
You're following the narative trope of one person being immortal and watching as everything around them dies. If everyone is immortal it would be much more mundane than you'd expect, think more to the tune of "happy 679th mom" or "man remember that song from 179 years ago?"
The free world gave the criminal CCP regime a free pass after the 1989 massacre. The same criminal regime get stronger in the last 30 years and put on a capitalist shell on its bloody skin. But it never stopped its criminal practices but has been doing it more relentlessly just with more concealment. For about 20 years it made large scale human organ sells from people they kidnapped or arrested. It put up huge concentration camps in Xinjing to get rid of some minor race people in the number of millions. That is just a small sample of its crimes still actively happening. I am glad US starts to realize the CCP regime is not a country following normal human ethics.
I hope not. Google has fairly recently made the Docs API available.
Ex-governor's phone seized in Flint water probe
I don't see discussion about the natural emotional maturation process. Even with a much better body, I don't feel about life and things the same way. We might as well take care about not misaligning somatic health with mental health too much. It would be fruitless.
> You mean like

The argument was that we should not respect the restraint showed by the occupants of the tanks.

So yes, exactly like those, we should not respect any restraint by the Abrams occupants either.

It's not an argument about whether this bad behavior is unique. It's about civilian vs. tank.
> What kind of 'trade secret information' could a vpn provider be blackmailed with though?

According to TorGuard's blog post they stole information from an install script that was allegedly used at C7 hosting:

https://torguard.net/blog/when-bug-bounties-border-on-blackm...

An installer script could easily give an attacker insight into internal TorGuard IP addresses that would otherwise be hidden.

My guess is these internal IP addresses from whatever was stolen were targeted with DDOS.
You might consider this akin to parents being uncomfortable discussing certain topics with their children - much like many parents feel uncomfortable discussing topics about sex and sexual practices here in North America. It's not necessarily that it's forbidden, it's just that many people have been made to feel awkward and uncomfortable discussing sex. I imagine the same mechanism of guilt is at play all over the world for various topics.
Dual share classes have existed for a long time. If people dont like the share structure they can not invest.
Next steps I did on my last hackintosh were install Clover Configurator to mount the hackintosh EFI, back it up, and update it with the functioning one from your boot flash drive. I still keep it just in case an update breaks the bootloader.
I feel like we might be habituated to justifying our own failures in terms of the restrictions life makes for us. I'm not a billionaire because I couldn't be. I'm not a world-class piano player because I couldn't be. And I can't be because life is too short for all that.

So when you tell somebody that life isn't short, suddenly they are confronted with the fact that maybe they could be those things, and now they have to justify why they haven't been working at it all along. "Well, I wouldn't want it anyway."
Decentralized zero trust can't come quickly enough. The evil do'ers are afraid but have the upper hand for now.
It usually is, but that depends on the additives used and the gram strength of the flakes used to cook the glue and the quality of the glue job.

E.g. I cooked a batch of 192 gram strength glue with 50% table salt additive to keep it liquid at room temperature, and I had half of the failures at glue seams in destructive testing. Made an excellent glue for cold winter days, though.

In glue strength tests (like James Wright on YouTube and FWW magazine both), hide glue compares favorably to modern glues.

But all it takes is a few drops of additives to drastically change the qualities of the glue.
A lot of the most recent titles featuring colons aren't the type "Proposition: Question?". Most of the papers I read with colons in the title are similar to "Project Name: Project Description"
An alternative take is that investors are subsidizing the industry, benefitting both consumers and restaurants, at least in the short run.
Are Apple phones really more expensive though? Yes you can get cheaper Android devices, but the hardware that competes against iPhones still costs roughly the same as an iPhone. A Galaxy S10 costs $900, an iPhone XS costs $999.

Cloud storage from Google costs $10/TB, iCloud storage costs $10/TB. Apple Music costs $10/mo for one person, $15 for families. Google Play Music costs $10/mo for one person, $15 for families.

You can get Android phones that are cheaper than iPhones, but that's just a function of Apple not competing in the mid and low end of the market. Comparable phone hardware is comparably priced and comparable services are comparably priced. So in that case it's more of a tradeoff of expensive and selling your data vs expensive and not selling your data.
> The important part here is that you have to offer the same subscriptions at the same price between your web version and your in-app version.

That can't be true, SoundCloud offers differing prices between their Go+ on their website and app store. $9.99 and $12.99. They even tell you if you sign-up through their website instead of the app store you get a "discount".
Xcode Previews are written in SwiftUI; you can definitely write real apps with it.
Or compel the SEC to require a deprecation of dual class structure as part of a settlement agreement. All Facebook crimes are securities crime when you’re public (apologies to Matt Levine).

This administration seems to want to go after tech. If you’re a large Facebook investor, encourage them. You’re going to lose some value, but less than if you leave Mark in charge.
Which is exactly what Mellanox and others are doing. At QuasarDB, we’re using their drivers to bypass the kernel entirely, which (at scale) saves tremendous amounts of CPU load.
Walmart to recruit high schoolers with free SAT prep, $1 a day college tuition
I'd be more concerned that it is apparently fine for Facebook employees to dox random anonymous users to gossip rags like the Daily Beast.
These user-space TCP stacks usually use an user-space driver or a driver that minimizes system calls with packet aggregation. For example DPDK.
A good bit of TV recently about "tank man":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimerica_(miniseries)
In the acoustic guitar world, torrefication has become popular for some guitars. The main idea is that the end result of the spruce (commonly used for top wood on an acoustic guitar) is closer to a piece of spruce that is many years old which affects the tone and "improves" it to some ears. The other benefit is the wood is less likely to crack which is an issue with acoustic guitars, especially in dry climates where humidification is an issue. Some say the wood is more resistant to cracking but more brittle in other ways which aren't too important to how an acoustic guitar applies tension. the main idea is the wood won't change with respect to humidity as much as untreated wood.

But yes, especially when luthiers started using this technique there were all sorts of issues with the end result in terms of superficial results/coloring. However, they've gotten better at this and now we see the wood being a bit darker but without all the other cosmetic issues from past years.
There might be a more subtle issue at work here. Sales provide one-time revenue, heavily taxed. Ads provide recurring revenue.
They should make a movie out of this ;) ... @netflix
I think those snippets demonstrate that asking teenagers to take things over to the neighbor's place does not require a global logistics network. If you insert one, you're just handing another slice of a thin pie out while losing control over that part of your business.

And yeah, it is rather annoying to see too much money chasing bad ideas screwing up local businesses. Uber is a cautionary lesson; apps are not magic pixie dust and the cut has to come from somewhere.
He means it in a sense of turning it into a new creation story that is above reproach instead of treating it as a working theory that needs to be continually investigated and refined.
We can certainly explore that theory, but what can you suggest as falsifiability criteria? Flight evolved several times, presumably, including in insects and in mammals without feathers:

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/flight/bats.html

Notice:

We can infer that bats gradually evolved true flight from a gliding arboreal ancestor, possibly using the gliding membrane as a sort of "net" while the flight stroke evolved.

We can infer this because we beg the question, i.e. the only way evolution can happen is random mutation and natural selection. And so, we postulate the theory as true fact and then we get the result that it must have happened some way that is consistent with the theory.

I am just generally remarking on the fact that all that seems to be required in today's scientific environment is to describe what could have happened with some arboreal ancestor gaining, say, webbed wing-like arms for some reason, and then over thousands and millions of generations for some reason, before the webbed arms could help them glide, they were accepted instead of shunned by their mates for their mutation, and the mutant population survived and genetically drifted in that direction, until finally they could glide... and then fly.