skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious about the Deploy feature of Ionic as it's a nice selling point. Their site does say this:

Push live code changes.
Outside the App Stores.

Deploy allows you to send live app updates and code changes directly to users and testers, without going through the App Stores. Changes to JavaScript, HTML, and CSS files are included in the service, and fully compliant with Apple and Android requirements.

Curious how they're able to push live changes to apps and stay in compliance of these rules.

link to Deploy page: https://ionicframework.com/pro/deploy
>>"Programming isn't that hard if you just do it right."

Is this like saying, programming isn't hard if you choose easy enough problems to solve? Or should we ask for a link to see a demo of an AGI implementation?

I guess math is not hard either if you're "doing is right", as long as it's all arithmetic...

>>That's not a tautology.

I would agree tautology is not the best description, probably fallacy would do fine.
R is only "falling in popularity" because more people are interested in deep learning (where admittedly Python has better bindings) than actually doing statistics. But if you want to do actual statistics, take a look at the source code in the "Journal of Statistical Software" and the like. It's almost entirely R.
Regardless of where one lives in America, chronic disease sufferers can't get pain relief anymore. Everyone has a breaking point and the fake opioid crisis has taken away the ability to live with chronic diseases that have pain as an effect.
promo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CXDmgv9ws8

Looks like 2.2 KW is enough to run a frying pan, instant pot, or microwave oven.
Compositional embeddings for memory-efficient models
Even though we won't find out more, this Epstein issue has given us a tiny glimpse to the mechanics of the plutocracy we really do live in.

It's pretty clear that for certain individuals higher up in the social hierarchy than most of us will ever see, Epstein offered a very exclusive service. And was part of a world of that we mostly think of as fiction. Similar to when the Snowden leaks happened we all saw that "yes, the government really does perform mass surveillance on the population", we are now seeing that "yes, the extremely wealth do play by completely different rules and shape our society in complex ways".

But we won't see much more. Joichi Ito is probably the least powerful person caught up in all this, and him and people like him provide the public retribution we all want to see. We'll see the justice has been served, and return the illusion that this was just a strange aberration rather than the status quo.
> That's not a tautology. In fact, it's actually worth pointing out, especially to junior engineers who get frustrated by how hard everything is, that it actually doesn't need to be that hard if you, well, do it right

But this boils down to If you build systems using a high level of skill and foresight, it's easy to do.

This is of course not a tautology, but a contradiction. I agree that inexperienced developers can, as it were, 'make life hard for themselves', but that's (trivially) due to their inexperience. I don't think there's a silver bullet for inexperience.

Over-engineering is bad, as is under-engineering. Fuzzy principles like 'YAGNI' can't be applied without skilled discernment, which means experience.

> Programming is hard, but we make it much harder than it has to be by doing it spectacularly wrong in many ways, both individually and collectively.

I think I agree with this, but it depends on specifics. What sorts of things are you thinking of?
First off, keep in mind that even scaling a broadcast publication can be complex. Sure one can bolt on fastly or s3 but cache invalidation is never a simple problem.

Next "power users" as others put it are not a single set of editors. It's more of a social network with multiple levels of trust. The idea of a wiki is that all users have write access, even if those changes are moderated to have different levels of latency.

Of course there are ways to engineer the system, but at that point one is, well, engineering a system. And WMF is doing so on a shoestring compared to other comparable levels of traffic.

Is WMF creating new paradigms of computing? Probably not. But they are doing a good job, IMHO.
Living in a big city is amazing if you are young and single (or maybe newly married and still in the urban mindset).

There are enormous benefits to many young people, lots of things to do, all in a small area.

But inevitably goals or expectations change (or the number of dependents increases) and it's time to move to the suburbs or the country.

You WILL give up things moving to the country, but if you don't care about or prioritize those things, it's ok.

Cities traditionally suck as far as housing/cost of living, crime and some recreation.

But I think they might have access to better jobs, transportation/airports, health care and nightlife/museums/venues/etc

And good weather might correlate to higher housing costs (think california here)
On the Q train in Brooklyn, in the beginning, the distance between stations is very puzzling. There is what appears to be a block distance between Sheepshead Bay and Neck Road, and
Brighton Beach and Ocean Parkway. Why...
Please just don't click on Medium posts then. It's that simple.

Repeating the same opinions over and over isn't providing any value at all. People on HN usually read the comments to get additional insights into a certain topic or to share their opinions on the linked content.

Opening the comments of a Medium post on HN is destined to feature at least one person who a) most likely didn't read the actual post and b) feels strongly enough about Medium to share their opinion on the platform the content was published on.

I get it. You dislike Medium. Then create a blog somewhere and post about it there. Don't make HN even more annoying than it already is.
That doesn't sound quite right. If everyone did it, there would be no correlation between funding and reputation and power, and there just wouldn't be much reputation for someone to try to launder in this way.

But everyone doesn't do it, and so we have this norm about how if someone X is an investor of Y, then some of Y's reputation transfers to X -- we assume Y did due diligence on X for us.

The problem exists because accepting morally tainted money isn't a norm. (I'm not arguing that it should be!)
what does this gain over Zim (https://zim-wiki.org/) which is additionally muuuch faster
How do you think people write VPN clients? Encrypted DNS is very much within that category of software.

How does Mozilla make Microsoft/Apple/Google implement it?

It doesn't need to, the same way it doesn't need to (nor should it) make Microsoft/Apple/Google ship Firefox as the default browser.
Ever take the CTA in Chicago? Completely contactless.

Discounting the speed walkers who nearly cartwheel over the turnstile we manage to put millions through a day without bottlenecking the fare/board process even on busses (with the exception of those types of riders who will watch the bus coming down the road blocks away and still forget to have their pass ready)
> why is this any different than any small company with poor working conditions?

Because what they manufacture is a weapon that's being exported and used against civilian protesters?
It’s the same with Harvey Weinstein and it was the same with Jimmy Saville in the U.K. Everyone know, but they made rich, influential people richer, so they were covered.

Just look at who Epstein and Weinstein have been photographed partying with over the years...
Yes? That's how news works, finding a local angle on a foreign story?
I have been to Ivrea many times for their (highly recommended) annual orange-throwing festival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Oranges

It's a stunning town, like many in Italy, and it's nice to read more about its Olivetti influence.
Or the fact that PhD engineers aren't making websites for a living.
It'd be nice to simply tag items with keywords. Then you can search for matches with various boolean combinations of keywords.
Such behavior might be "OK" in the "champagne room" of a strip club.

Unfortunately we're talking here about the MIT Media Lab!
Sometimes you can bypass signup/restricted walls by using developer tools in Firefox. My son does this when doing homework and looking for answers.
Because not selling them at the corner grocery shop brings in hundreds of billions in sales.
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Epstein could’ve passed for someone in their 40s, hardly a geezer.

An entourage of eastern european women? You just need to order a bottle.
have a lack of empathy which leads them to view things in purely game-theoretical terms

The same can be observed in adtech, Facebook etc employees
Reddit called. They want their thread back.
He says "interest rates on other assets", which I take to mean "rate of return of other assets" since the phrase "interest rates on other assets" doesn't make sense. Interest rate is a particular rate of return, that of money.
Traffic women? If the women didn't want to be there, they had every opportunity to run away or even file a police report. Let's not compare the 1st world problem of some elite women with what's going on in third world brothels where the women really have no where else to turn.

These women were complicit and, shoot, probably bragged about their jobs.
That's like saying "cooling a stationary house is littering". Operating a device for the comfort of the user is precisely why we make things like AC, whether it's in a car, a boat, or a house.
It's an interface problem. Users aren't able to express the fidelity needed through the current action set
On the day they met, Epstein wasn't a fugitive. He was exonerated. Due diligence showed that Epstein went through the legal process and came out the other end intact. Epstein remained a powerful, rich, influential who clearly established himself as among the highest class of political elites. Refusing Epstein's money would have hurt the lab's reputation among his people. Accepting the money was far less costly.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d115do/official_western_michigan_vs_michigan_state_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d115ei/officialstreams_western_michigan_vs_michigan/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d115fz/streamthreadwestern_michigan_vs_michigan_state/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d115gt/ncaa_official_western_michigan_vs_michigan_state/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d115i6/official_ncaa_western_michigan_vs_michigan_state/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d115iy/officialncaa_western_michigan_vs_michigan_state/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d1174p/streamthreadcalifornia_state_vs_washington_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d1179t/ncaa_official_california_vs_washington_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d117ab/officialreddit_california_vs_washington_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d117b0/officialreddit_washington_vs_california_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d118sp/officiallive_california_vs_washington_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d118tt/officialstreams_california_vs_washington_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d118v1/ncaaofficial_california_vs_washington_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d118v1/ncaaofficial_california_vs_washington_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d118vl/officiallive_california_vs_washington_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shopnergoli/comments/d118vl/officiallive_california_vs_washington_live/
There are a lot of different communities within software; it depends on which ones you consider.
We've hit the throttling issue many, many times. Everything about Parameter Store is difficult. And its a shame. Its such a simple concept. They have enormous resources, so why not throw a couple of devs at it?

In any case, we do also use redis. It might be worthwhile to pitch an idea to move over to that. But we pull the parameters in bash scripts using a custom tool called aws-env, so we'd probably have to make or find something similar for redis.
Interesting, I often hear this described as a peculiarly (or at least mostly) American phenomenon, but that's well beyond the type of thing I'd imagine happening in even the hyper-sensitive US city I live in. I know I'm being a little reductive here, but your story is a pretty substantial outlier relative to what I'm used to.
Great! Now do the one about Bill Clinton taking 27 flights on the Lolita Express!

Or the one about Trump banning Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in 2008 when he started to suspect...
You mean because sometimes it's cloudy? Couldn't you solve that problem by turning on LEDs just when it's cloudy?

Plants are pretty inefficient, it's true, but I don't think they're very efficient even with optimal wavelengths. But, yes, solar cells and LEDs can indeed convert green and infrared sunlight to red and blue, with about 3% efficiency under normal circumstances.
I don't see evidence of that--Epstein seemed to be fairly well accepted and even chummy with the Media Lab management. Nobody consciously says "Hey this is a thing we do now--hang out with child traffickers as if it's normal" but that was the end result.
oh i see; i get security alerts from unknown devices even though it still allows me to login. just noticed your case was different.
I don't just assume where the money comes from.
That will not happen. The others are a group so powerful, if you attempt to criticize them, your life will be ruined. They literally control speech and thought around the world.
The context here is that Epstein was a convicted sex offender who was widely believed to traffic women into sexual slavery, and sexual slavery is a serious problem in Eastern Europe [1].

The implication is the staff were concerned that Epstein was bringing literal slaves into the office.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking_in_Europe
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I'm not certain, but I suspect you'll hit the halting problem if you tried to be completely general purpose.
F*ing important security patches.
I competed in this, and found it somewhat fun. It was like an x-prize for computer science. I knew little about this area of research or work. So when I first saw the data, which was simply movie IDs and user IDs with dates and ratings, and NO other information, I didn't possibly see how any predicting could be done. I spent each morning commute thinking it over, surprised there was no movie metadata released, or user demographics. Just meaningless IDs, and rating dates and ratings on those dates (by a given user).

What was great, was that as I thought I about it, the more I started thinking ok, well, if that is all you have, what can you do with it. And essentially started realizing you can look for other users to compare a user to, and find similarities between movies based on ratings, or similar users and their ratings for a movie, etc.

At some point, after writing my own code, I did some research and learned of cohort analysis, etc, and found I'd invented the same stuff as others (I'd invented my own correlation algorithms, etc). For some reason, I found all of that super fun. In the end, I did beat their algorithm, but not by enough to win.
Thank you for the answer. So especially for personal use I am better off hoarding the ZIM version, especially considering there is the dedicated Kiwix reader, while I am not aware of a similar tool for the XML dumps.
I don't usually have an immediate positive reaction to a site, but I immediately liked yours. It's fast and simple. There is no javascript. The recommendations are reasonable.

Would you mind describing a bit of your algorithm, or is that secret info?
>If you are correct, we should expect Giridharadas to place more emphasis on the hushers for the sake of justice. If I am, we should expect him to put all effort into bringing down Ito.

in "we should expect",

1) "should" means "would" or

2) "should" means Anand "should if only he saw the bigger picture of hush money / cloack of charity" ?

if 1) this assumes Anand has the same interpretation I have (that its not prestige-for-cash but hush money), but as I wrote in my text it mostly seems like Anand does not realize this at all.

it 2) of course the hushers, but also the hush money enablers, which would include Ito & Co, if no one lets Anand know of this hush money interpretation one can not expect Anand to focus on the hushers! I don't have twitter, again could someone mention this to Anand?

>If I am, we should expect him to put all effort into bringing down Ito.

Anand's prediction goes further than just Ito: he also predicts MIT will investigate itself and absolve itself, so he doesn't just condemn Ito as you claim, and given Anand's own admission from the start that he used to respect Ito largely explains his disappointment in Ito specifically!
Edit: Removing my comment after reading the detailed New Yorker article linked from The NY Times.
I’d never heard that aphorism. It’s good. I’ve also always liked:

”Life is long if you know how to use it” - Seneca
Yeah but doesn't mean they normalize the practice of child trafficking itself.
there is always a case for skepticism
Unfortunately the cameras spontaneously failed so we’ll never discover how someone can break their own neck
Checkbot for Chrome: https://www.checkbot.io :)

It checks 100s of pages on your website at a time for SEO, speed and security problems like broken links, duplicate content, invalid HTML/CSS/JavaScript, insecure pages, redirect chains and 50+ other issues.
Because all of them don't want it?
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. The bus runs Portsmouth NH -> Newburyport, MA -> South Station. (No drive to Portsmouth necessary.)

The train is on the Newburyport/Newbury town line, so not quite the center of town... but that’s a quibble. Parking for the train isn’t free either, and tickets cost more than the bus. The busses run more frequently too (they’re smaller, so it’s like breaking one big train into pieces.)
> abstinence approach

Smoking is not sex, don't be a fool.

> You don't know what you're talking about.

I actually do.

> So you "don't know" if something known to cause cancer and respiratory disease is worse than something not known to cause any disease?

That's correct. And neither do you, because the history isn't there.

Now, please go back and look at the history of cigarette smoking in the US if you want to continue this discussion further on an equal footing.
The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno elites
That could contribute to the authors having profound ignorance about making websites, I suppose, if the authors were PhD engineers; it doesn't sound like an alternative explanation, but rather a more detailed one. But we were talking here about the authors' profound ignorance about making desktop applications, not websites.
He hasn't fired the bricks yet. He's just storing them until he accumulates enough to fire and eventually mortar.
Before you dismiss their reporting...

BuzzFeed News is a new branch of the company, with its own autonomy from the whole thing.

They have Pulitzer-winning staff in there, and their investigative reporting is actually quite good.
Well Breanden is currently suing Taso because he never got any equity either and Taso is counter suing Breanden for fraud. Probably will be awhile before everything gets sorted out.
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This is a great thing for the people of India - I mean, hopefully.

The science we expel is a reflection of the cultures that created it. In space, everyone has had failures. And I hope this failure offers reflection and improvement and that they can grow from it.

But even still, this is otherwise part of a narrative change for the people of india, and something "so simple" can have a huge impact on future generations and what people tell themselves on an individual level.
Of course they do, in the 3rd world country I live in you see construction workers hauling rocks by hand with no shoes on. Certainly seems to me that things have gotten a lot better in America in the last 200 years.
Good comment and thanks for the sumup. Not using a basic phone myself, but been thinking about buying one for a while now. Just out of interest (not fomo ;-)) Which one did you choose?
Too much opportunity for fraud and phishing, as well as regulatory jurisdictional reasons. Apple can look at all the HTML in the app, but can't dependably look at the remote HTML that could change later.

So they can try to make sure a gambling app does some sort of geolocation, they can't tell if the web site will do that.

(How reliable reviewing can really be is a separate question).
> Nobody is investing in affordable housing, it's all luxury apartments

Please, tell me of a city in the US that's built affordable housing within the past 50 years - not luxury housing that got old and thus cheap, and not luxury housing that gets subsidized by the city.
I’m reading about vitamin K2 now. It seems like dairy products have a lot of vitamin K2 which is pretty common in Western diet.
So wouldn’t they already reap the benefits?

It also promotes blood clotting, which is a bad think for heart patients no? Don’t asprin and blood thinners try to prevent blood clotting?
Leverage brings people to the table.
Not for third-party browsers like Chrome or Firefox. In a classic Apple-move, it’s for Safari only.
Couldn’t the HK police buy it from somewhere else? Or domestically produce?
The underlying DNSCrypt protocol does the padding already: https://dnscrypt.info/protocol

DNS queries and responses are wrapped, they are never modified. EDNS padding is a horrible hack.
If you read the article, you'll see that MIT specifically blacklisted Epstein from making donations as a result of his conviction, and Ito went behind their backs to keep getting money from him anyway. That's fraud, and MIT could definitely argue loss of reputation. I don't know if they'll go after Ito, but if they do, they'll have a pretty good case.
The cloudfare 8chan action was based on a direct link with multiple actual mass-shootings. Moreover, as they took the decision they went to great pains to explain this was an exceptional case.

Going from that to 'undesired political speech will be censored' requires more of a slippery cliff than a slippery slope.
He was engaged in socially unacceptable behavior and yet was still socially accepted. I'm not sure how much more normalized it could get.
The biggest issue I have found is that you miss out on conversations. For example, with the company I work for, only a handful of developers are remote, the rest work together in an "open office". I might miss out on a discussion between two developers working through an issue that I would have liked to know about or some background info on why something was developed in a specific way.

There's also the issue of cabin fever, there's a co-working space a few blocks from me and I'll get a day pass if I need to get out of the house for a day.

I've been remote for ~3 years now and honestly I can not imagine having to commute into an office everyday again.