skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why should anyone else have to host them on their private platforms?

Because it's hard to draw the line between acceptable speech and unacceptable speech, and once it becomes acceptable to silence people that power will be abused, especially if it is in the hands of large corporations. The logic is exactly the same as why the government shouldn't ban speech.

> Are you a free speech absolutist at your own house party?

My house is not a public platform so that's a silly analogy.
Literally their first sentence is bolded and calls out the subscription fee.
> while the places with the strictest border controls are often those that are quite desirable

Curiously, this seems to me to be a 20th century invention.
In Scandinavia though (at least in the big cities), you'll be picked up in an unnecessarily top-of-the-line Mercedes Sedan and expected to pay $75 for a 20 minute ride. Also be sure to call the night before if you're trying to catch a flight in the morning! Otherwise you might find yourself on hold.

Luckily the excellent public transport makes up for it. But there are still many scenarios where Uber is a welcome addition.
Bug bounties merely needed market pressure for the bounties to rise.

Corporations had been unilaterally deciding what the payment for a reported bug would be. They were constantly undervaluing and wasting everyone's time. People would say the same rationale "low liability and clean money is more valuable than dirty money and needing to launder it".

Yeah, but not that much more valuable.

So now the bounties are reaching their market price.
I thought that the Linux-on-PlayStation was actually a tax dodge? Something like it let them claim the devices were not just games consoles and so their import duties could be reduced in some regions.
I managed a support forum in the late nineties/early aughts. It was a support forum for a particular mental health condition, so we expected a lot of not-always-perfect behavior and tolerated a lot of it. But with some people it was always hostile and over the top (e.g. somewhat credible death threats) . We always outright banned first (after fair warnings). It’s easiest. That worked for some, who emailed, apologized, and ended up being great community members.

Others not so much. When they came back repeatedly with a new account after multiple bans with no change in behavior they got shadowbanned. The couple of users that figured it out and came back again got the nuclear option. Imperfectly and without guarantee of no collateral damage, it linked IPs, accounts, etc of the user. They could register a new account but the shadow ban followed them unless they were very careful; in which case we just applied it manually.

The thing is, you have to make the system easier for you to control than it is for them to exploit. Otherwise they’ll just grind you down until they “win”.
U.S. Holds Off on Huawei Licenses as China Halts Crop-Buying
What is a reason if not a significant factor?
The chances of a fire are slim otherwise we’d hear more about it. And seriously, everyone has already forgotten about samnsung’s exploding phones.
A century ago it was the world's 10th wealthiest state per capita. Right now it tops the list of the upper middle-income group, so is almost a high-income country, and per capita is richer than, for example, Russia.
Facebook is different. Your friends are the product, not the tech. With Github the tech is the product.
It's still personal: it's "authors of the document" vs everyone else. Often the "everyone else" have not been hired yet.
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Can you add (2010) to the title please?
Doesn't really matter. It's a formality at this point. It's basically public once they do this and they're aware of that.
It’s like the monkeys being shocked every time one of them goes for the banana.
So it's feasible for Pi4?
Meh, someone did the math and calculated that standing up an organization that obey all the financial laws in order to collect money from a bunch of people who can barely pay the minimum payment probably isn't worth it.

If they write off this debt, they probably also get to claim a deduction somewhere on money that they would never be able to collect.

(At one point, one of these ilk of companies offered my grandfather the "privilege" of taking a lump sum settlement for his black lung payments. I calculated what principal I expected they needed to reserve to provide his payments, discounted it slightly and hoped that they wanted rid of the accounting and maintenance in order to give him the lump sum. Alas, they weren't desperate enough to get him off the books and we never heard from them again.)
Nobody got sick.
Oh yea, it was a terrible system - even the concept of limiting the number of cabs is sort of silly - but if the medallions get as expensive as they did then I think it's a clear indication that something in the market is broken.

Still, that doesn't mean rainbows come out of Uber's bum - it was absolutely a market ripe for new competition, Uber just added that competition in a terrible manner.
> The people who produce automations are laborers like the rest of society, just with a temporarily elevated standard of living.

And the illusion that tech workers are not laborers is giving out under the weight of the high cost (hence lowered standard) of living in tech centers, and the growing realization that we're not temporarily embarrassed billionaires.
Show HN: News app with a twist (developed by a 16 year old)
Does anyone have good resources for learning Old English? I have Mitchell and Robinson's "A Guide to Old English" from a college course I took years ago but it's a little old-fashioned and I've found it less than ideal for self-study. I have to imagine there are internet based resources that could help with the oral aspects as well.
Soo... because they aren't being punished after registering with law enforcement, I shouldn't have to register at all?
Re this specific feature — note that Bitbucket has had this for a while now, as did Gitlab. Github is playing catch-up here.
This is fascinating.

I do wonder whether sterilizing the flour had any effect on the output. Doing a control with the same flour and modern yeast seems potentially worthwhile.
Sinemia. From the start of 2018 until the start of 2019 IIRC.
That's awesome.

I've been interested in playing MTG, but sinking money into decks doesn't appeal to me.
Wouldn't be the first time - I had a bank write off a debt a few weeks after they called me at 5am to harangue me about the debt, while I was living in California.
It doesn't really make sense to assume that utilization would be abysmal without constraining supply. The people who operate taxis are rational actors. People who operate taxis will simply exit (or not enter) the business if they're sitting around idle and not making money.
That's not the current thinking. A 2010 study showed that the amount of estrogens in water is 730 - 480,000 times lower than what occurs naturally in cow milk.
There's some chance that governments worldwide will decide the costs of transforming the energy base and applying conservation measures, outweigh the benefits of possibly avoiding the increase of 2°C and attendant problems. In that case, Exxon's internal proxy GHG cost projections don't look wrong. Whether it's a securities law violation, different matter.
That's one of the theories. Roe v Wade is another.
We’ve had to build a lot on. Like support for passing state across jobs in a workflow, or branching, or triggering a workflow with parameters, or triggering a workflow from a different branch, or etc. CCI went to unnecessary lengths to not support obvious use cases, or that’s how it feels. :(
Here’s the data the administration refused to give Congress
The Design of Everyday Things
After seeing the absolutely bonkers car culture that America has, then yes. At least yes as an implicit result of the lifestyle they cannot or will not stop.
You have focused on the stories being allowed on HN. My issue is with the aggressive throttling and shadow banning of users who post polite comments in support of unpopular* views (rather than just letting the upvote/downvote system do its job).

I'm sure being a mod on HN is difficult, but by punishing users with throttling without explanation is not only rude, it creates the wrong incentive, turning HN into a game of avoiding the throttle bully rather than just participating in discussions with an open heart and mind.

Please add features to make moderation decisions more transparent to the victim and also to the rest of the HN community, so that we can all have more trust in what is going on.

* by unpopular I do not mean abhorrent, racist, or other such content, I mean views that do not fit into the normal left vs right political spectrum or which may require more than one comment to articulate to someone who lacks the required background.
The Red Language
It is super important that policies are mutable, that they can change with changes in circumstances and knowledge. They should be as easy to change as the org chart.
I'm not sure where this rumor comes from, GitLab started from one guy wanting his own collaboration tool: https://about.gitlab.com/company/history/#2011-start-of-gitl...
https://twitter.com/steinly0/status/1159616447888396290

arXiv scientific director Steinn Sigurdsson:

"arXiv down due to storm induced power outages at Cornell"

https://twitter.com/arxiv/status/1159611569107537920

"arXiv.org is currently unavailable due to a network outage with our service provider. We will provide updates when they become available."
It happens pretty frequently(well, maybe every couple months) on an individual channel basis for me; I think this is just referring to the fact a whole lot of channels will be shifting frequencies at once.
Full NYAG complaint here [1].

[1] https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/425-2018-10-24-exxon...
And the 14nm I/O die means they can still keep buying chips from GloFo, whom they still have a contract with as part of the spinoff from a decade ago.
I think the Amish have an interesting take on technology too.

They do adopt it - but very slowly and only to enhance their community.

Fascinating article by Kevin Kelly on Amish Hackers:

https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/
This plant has exactly two branches at each node
So, as good as Red is, and I do accept that it is a brilliant piece of work.
Where is it in the market ? What is the sell ? Is this just an exercise to keep a few in pay ?
Nobody pays for programming languages any more ....
You wrote on ihateracket.com:

> Which language should be used in a CS1? There isn’t very much research to suggest conclusively what makes the biggest difference in a classroom, and it doesn’t seem like the language debate will ever end.

But now you're saying there's a massive amount of research for Java and Python — so I think we must be talking about two different things.

> I'm not clear that that's more than a theory.

It is less than a theory — it's my opinion based on my experience going through the edX How to Code series (closely based on HtDP and the design recipes). For example, sum types are taught as "Enumerations" [0], and the design recipe for enumerations looks suspiciously like "pattern matching in a language without pattern matching", as if to prime the student for a language that supports this more conveniently.

Yet, if the student learns Java immediately after HtDP, they will have no use for this knowledge (and probably forget it), as it seems you need some convoluted boilerplate like the visitor pattern to emulate a sum type [1].

> Even if it's true, is that necessarily the major goal in CS1? Perhaps, but you'll have to convince a few of my colleagues of that.

Given that the follow-up material to HtDP was called "How to Design Classes" and used Java [2], no I don't think this is a goal of (PbD's) CS1. I'm saying I think it should be to make the curriculum cohesive, and that HtDP is a wasted investment of the student's patience without related follow-up material. I really loved HtDP so I wish I could find such material.

[0]: https://htdp.org/2019-02-24/part_one.html#%28part._sec~3aenu...

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48143268/java-tagged-uni...

[2]: https://programbydesign.org/materials (You can see it mentioned but it doesn't seem to exist anymore when you follow the links)
Unfortunately, it’s not totally nuts. Designing a system that has replaceable firmware and retains the security properties one would want is nontrivial. Malicious software should not be able to reflash the device without genuine user consent, and any reflagging should wipe all key material. They could do a JavaCard like thing where different apps have different security domains, but that needs either hardware help or complicated software.

IIRC Chromium OS has a little washer that can be physically removed to allow end-user rekeying. Without that washer removed, if you put it in dev mode, you get a warning on the display. Doing this for a reasonable price in the tiny form factor would be tough.
What were the most unsettling things you found in your Google Data download?
It looks like it's about 4500 km from Longyearbyen to Istanbul, which seems like a charter flight could then really open up international access without regard to visas -- since Turkish Airlines flies to around 120 countries from Istanbul Atatürk Airport, which allows visa-free international transit¹.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turkish_Airlines_desti...

I don't think this will happen since that charter would be insanely expensive, and it would be hard for large numbers of people who all can't easily get a Schengen visa to coordinate regularly to pay for it to happen at the same moment.

I think it would be a fun premise for a movie, at least.

¹ It might be challenging to convince the Turkish Airlines gate agents in all of the origin countries that the passengers, some of whom are not legally eligible to enter Turkey visa-free (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Turkey#/media/F...), are all planning to make an inter-airline transfer in Istanbul, although maybe they could all show some kind of boarding document for the charter.
U.S. 30 year mortgage rate drops to 3.6%
Most people don't like migrating (whether that's intercity, interstate, or to a different country). Culture, identity and familiarity have a lot more staying power than HN readers (who tend to be a very transitory demographic) give credit.
I didn't think it was very ad-like. If Anna Wiener were trying to boost the profile of HN then she probably wouldn't have included all those random examples of "toxic" comments and political discussions that she disagrees with.

It was certainly positive toward the moderators, but not the site as a whole.
OP: Noting that title was substantially edited for length. Original:

"People who downloaded their Google data and went through it, what were the most unsettling things you found out they had stored about you?"

The post was also reshared to Ask Reddit, where it's seen considerably more discussion -- over 11,000 comments as I write this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cnhcty/people_wh...

There are numerous other Reddit discussions as well:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/duplicates/cnhcty/people_...
In theory. In practice it often turns out that the decision makers think that any risk at all is unacceptable, giving the lawyers de-facto control.
And I hope you will learn some empathy some day and understand the perspective of others. We all have some growing to do, it seems.
So obvious that ~30 years after the first IP packets were sent, they were still the first to ever do it.

Do you remember what the Amazon website looked like in 1997? Wayback Machine doesn’t even have a snapshot that old.

And the collection of patents that Amazon has been issued, which affords them protection of their published IP, are part of what enables them to spend those Billions every year developing all the new technologies they continue to create and publish today.
What are examples of bs in the javascript standard?
The Roe v Wade theory fails to explain similar results internationally, even in areas without legal access to abortion.
I would certainly accept a wide range of other languages. I picked Python because I think I and many of my colleagues can teach a good CS1 in Python. I'm open to a lot of other options.

But not Haskell. Please don't say Haskell :)
The job shop scheduling problem: Conventional and new solution techniques
I had some car trouble this week so I was ubering to work. 20 minute ride was usually about $13.

The drivers were always nice and friendly. Their vehicles were clean. They arrived on time and got me to work when otherwise I would have been biking or walking for hours.

Those guys earn their money. I tipped them well. I wouldn't Uber to work forever because it is costly, but I absolutely loved ubering while my car was in the shop.
> it is not an expense against the business operations

Except it is, you're borrowing money from the future if your company would ever consider issuing more stock in a followup round - it also may damage your ability to court private investors, not just because you lowered your share price but because you're more likely to dilute it more in the future.

The stock market is a generally viewed today as an absurd concept composed of abstract financial wizardry - but it is grounded in the concept of partial ownership in a company and the assets of that company.
I use Anveo for my "land" line and Google Voice for my cell. Instead of Asterisk, I use an Obi. The Obi also connects to my GV number so my home office can make/receive calls to either number.

I have an Anveo call flow[1] that implements a white/grey/black list setup that works great. There were a couple really persistent callers that I had to block the entire NPA NXX which is harder for the caller to spoof. I get almost no robocalls.

1. https://ibb.co/bBs2RsJ
they're called Generals
Show HN: Active learning and model explainability for document classification
A pig kidnapping highlights the concerns over antibiotics in livestock
I hope you read history and cost of war those societies paid. Don't undermine the hardwork and scientific temperament of the people who help it to progress and develop. Indeed the same story is replicated by Korea, China. China went through much worse in 1960's cultural revolution when people don't have enough food and whole generation was send to farms not to study, due to unscientific thinking.

Also US don't give bags of money to anyone, indeed it needs bags of money from others on the contrary. Please read about debt levels and treasury bonds. USA developed because of its university and scientific temperament. Hopefully it continues as it is good for everyone.
> The only genuine part you can get is a second hand battery from a broken phone

Sounds like a problem deliberately created by Apple.
strange article. "i am the only doomsdayer who's ever been right" is a major theme.
Idea: My model takes in documents from the user using Standard Input - Then the model classifies, explains why it classified the way it did, and asks the user if the predicted label is the ground truth or not. User supplies the ground truth, the model incrementally trains on the new example, and that new example (with human supplied label) is appended to my dataset and the cycle continues. This is called active learning

I want to take in massive sums of articles from a news API which will be placed in their corresponding file based on where my classifier says I should put them. I have to generate my own labeled data for this. That is a problem. Most people don't realize that the sample efficiency in models which utilize transfer learning is so great that AI-assisted data labeling is extremely useful and can significantly shorten what is ordinarily a painful data labeling process.

We need a way to quickly create word embedding powered document classifiers which learn with a human in the loop. For some classes, an extremely limited number of examples may be all that is necessary to get results that a user would consider to be successful for their task.

I want to know what my model is learning - so I integrate the word embeddings available with Flair, combine with Classifiers in Sklearn and Tensorflow/Keras/PyTorch, and finish it off with a nice squeeze of the LIME algorithm for model interpretability (implemented within the ELI5 Library)
> If you're talking about something I actually said as opposed to simply making things up, I'd like to see a link

Sure, here you go. I would never "make things up" and lie on HN, that's despicable and I do not appreciate being accused of such trash by the HN mods.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20192283

That is a well researched story on the NYTimes on an underreported topic that is mostly technological in nature. You claim it got a "software penalty" as opposed to being flagged.

I cannot imagine any interpretation other than what I described, that there is an automatic penalty applied to posts that you personally don't like or have personal expectations from outside of the community's voice.

How am I to interpret your comments without assuming that you have software that flags content and penalizes it by topic when you state that the software penalty happened "because this topic is unfortunately more likely to lead nationalistic flamewar"

I do not understand.

Edit: I cannot see these posts without being logged in as me. Have you hidden this particular discussion from public view? Am I shadowbanned? For what purpose?
From the Anandtech benchmark it was made clear that there is more than AVX-512 vs. clockspeed going on.
Apparently AMD deemed implementing AVX-512 to be less desirable than spending the same silicon area on more cores.

So there's both AVX-512 vs. clockspeed & AVX-512 vs. silicon budget going on.
For many usecases having extra cores is a good trade-off.
Economies of scale destroyed small farms.
this is not only old news, but fully expected and predictable
People like us, we are the trendsetters online. It won't be quick, but Facebook has signed its own death warrant.
As a Jewish coder, I would like to take this opportunity to thank moderator "dang" for banning antisemites wholesale. As a fellow Jew, he has gone above and beyond in preventing hate and ignorance from spreading on this website, ensuring that there's absolutely zero tolerance for intolerance. Dang, thank you for silencing the antisemites!
Most developers probably view sysadmnis as "no men". You want to do WHAT in production? flipoff