skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly - you can still have an ad supported model all you want, you just can't be lazy about it anymore. You'll either have to tell the ad network yourself what your audience attributes are and likely take a hit on CPC because of less targeting data, or you'll have to do what people used to do (and some still do) and manually choose the ads you want to run.

It's not the end of the world, it's the end of some business models.
Aside from physical communication, every other type is achievable through computers. Does that mean the only way to resolve a misunderstanding is through physical communication?
The average "anti-gun person" relies on people who do know more about abuse potential to recommend policy.

Most lethal misuse is for suicide, but it is only in the US that suicides take out an honor guard on their way down.

It might be more effective to ridicule shooters ("Dumbass peppers crowd before disposing of self") than to restrict weapons.
You basically just described the suburbs of an Australian city. The only difference is we have way more supermarkets than that.
People like to bring up the Mini-14 in gun arguments, and I never quite understand what they mean to prove. The Mini-14 is a tactical rifle (note caps). It's not a black rifle, but neither is a classic AK-47, which also features a wooden stock. The fact that it doesn't look like an AR-15 (or its successor, the M16) was a feature of the weapon, not because people in the 1970s were afraid of mass shooters, but because the M16 had acquired a reputation for unreliability.

Is your point that the Mini-14 should be regulated the same way as a Colt AR-15? Of course, you're right. Obviously, Mini-14 regulation isn't that much of a problem today, since the AR-15 platform became the default sporting rifle platform.
As much as most browsers have implemented a standardised payment API, a generic, browser-level Privacy related GUI would be helpful. By that I mean something less repetitive than the multitude of consent screens people have to deal with (not to mention dark UX patterns in the existing solutions).
That is an excellent description of the AR-15 platform. It is very much the PC of firearms.
> What one fact checker says (or is rumored to have said) does not invalidate fact checking by everyone everywhere

It doesn't, but we're talking about that very fact checker, not fact checkers generally. And if you'd like to talk about fact checkers generally, then understand that very few people are opposed to fact checking generally, they're opposed to certain fact checkers that they believe are biased.

> In fact it does not even alter whether any given statement is true or false.

Yes, bias does affect whether certain statements are true or false. It can also be marshalled against one group to make them appear to be disproportionately full of shit. And they might actually _be_ full of shit, but if you are biased against them anyway no one knows whether you're full of shit or they're full of shit or both.
I think there are a lot of people here whose employment depends on being able to sell and buy peoples data freely.

Many of the people here who work for these companies truly and honestly believe the online services they are offering are/will change the world for the better.

As such, they view hindrances to this as threatening to the progress they are trying to help bring about.

Personally, I support this privacy initiative and think SV companies are many times viewed through rose tinted glasses by their employees, but that's just my perspective.

I can totally see how viewed through the lens of a hindrance to progress, some people would feel very strongly that I'm wrong in supporting such legislation.
It doesn’t cost anything like $40 per month per user to operate Facebook, it’s not even $40 per year. (Facebooks operating revenue per user in 2018 was about $25).

Of course, they’d hate the idea of having a fixed revenue per user. They want to keep sucking out more revenue per user until the well runs dry.
As compared to POOP sure. How about as compared to Go? Go is a procedural language.
I just found this humorous clip of the Trailer Park Boys, which alludes to the tastes of various types of gasoline: https://youtu.be/RXtePW4v8zs
Hi Tanner, big fan of your design portfolio. As a fellow designer, what inspired/motivated you to make the jump into learning how to code?

Was it simply scratching the itch to make higher fidelity prototypes?

PS- should designers code? ;)
Yeah, I had to reread that several times.
If you attach the wrong knicknacks to the mini-14 it can be illegal in CA too (e.g. wrong muzzle device or the A-Team style stock)
Usually these announcements put a shiny positive PR spin on a negative change, but it doesn't seem like they could even really find a positive spin for this one.

Sounds like YouTube has decided that with the huge size of the site now, it's too much work to verify every account above 100k subs, so from now on they'll just be doing it when they personally see one that they think needs it.

I see some English channels already complaining about this change, but I can imagine it'll be even worse for large foreign channels.
But it is the use of the word that gives it its meaning and the meanings of words change.

There is value in clarifying what is meant be a specific usage of 'subsidy', (which the linked paper does in the first sentence of its summary). There is value to calling people out for not doing this clarification when they use the word in its less standard meaning.

However, there is no value in saying that a fairly widespread usage of the word "subsidy" is incorrect.

It's like trying to pretend that "literally" doesn't figuratively have the same meaning as "figuratively". That boat has sailed and all we can do now is distinguish be between literal and figurative uses of "literally".
There's only one jump: I don't trust the data, so I'm not yet concerned by this click-bait title.

In this day of clickbait titles, studies that are not reproducible, and suspect motivation for studies, the idea that we can calculate the total number of birds with an error rate of less than 30%, including the fact that some data is 50 years old, doesn't pass my smell test.

I would prefer waiting for accurate data rather than panic over yet another headline that is not anchored in actual science and facts. For example, did they try to count the number of birds at the same time of the year both times? Do some birds have different multi-year migratory patterns leading to them being in different parts of the world? Did they try counting the birds twice using the same techniques but two different teams, and then compare the numbers?

There are too many ways this calculation could fail for me to be trust this data point.
> That makes it sound like there's some kind of natural 'ideal state' for the planet to recover to.

If you want to know what the natural state for an area is, ask a native person from a population that has un uninterrupted culture, that is if you can find one.

A native person I know often describes a discorded ecosystem by saying: "The land is sick."

To equivocate and to claim all states are equally natural, is to deliberately miss the point.

A healthy ecosystem—and most of us haven't ever seen one—is obviously healthy when you see it.

It's a tautology to say that everything is natural. You could argue that plutonium and dioxin are natural, but without considering the concentration and distribution, it's meaningless semantics.
Have you had a psychedelic experience?
The problem with coding guidelines is that they actually are really difficult to enforce, especially during crunch-times. To quote Carmack, if the compiler allows something, it will end up in the codebase at some point.

Of course, this is also true of Clojure; people will make use of bad JVM libraries because they're available if you follow this logic, F# can do unsafe mutables, and even a more pure language like Haskell allows binding into C.

The difference in how idiomatic and easy it is to do a bad thing. For Clojure, the language has the "right" versions of the main data structures as first-class syntax, making it unlikely that you'd call into a Java library until needed, in which case hopefully you're using the correct one; while calling into Java isn't difficult, it is made explicit, and it does feel a bit unnatural as a result. Since Scala attaches no syntactical stigma to using the "bad" Java conventions, it's common for people to do things in a bad way (e.g. using `var` everywhere instead of `val`).
Speak for yourself some of the landscape in China is truly one of a kind
Synthetic Biology Company Ginkgo Bioworks Tops $4B Valuation
Steam has just nipped Epic in the bud by saying you can't sell on Steam whilst you have an exclusivity contract with Epic.

Discord is/was a games launcher too and they just shuttered their subscription service as nearly no-one was playing the games that came with it.
Define "you own it". (I take it you also agree that if the architect of 432 Park Ave said so, you shouldn't be allowed to post pictures including the NYC skyline anymore, right?)

Are you trying to argue that Switzerland and most of the EU, which don't quite seem to believe in what you call property rights, are not "modern cultures"?
Hahaha!!
I think it's feasible we could train birds to do that.
I would rather live in a world like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIwa9sPFT5I
than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mg7qKstnPk
I rather doubt any of this harms the contractor here in any way whatsoever.

Keep in mind with federal contracts that 'disadvantaged' is a designation, not an assessment. One of the main roles of these smaller contractors is landing prime contracts and subbing to larger contractors so agencies can meet their contracting requirements.

Here's the contractor's reported FY2019 payments: https://www.usaspending.gov/#/search/8a0d6c8caefafefa8e9268b...
It sounds like you are referring specifically to the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) which is not native to North America and is indeed strongly associated with urban environments.[0] But the native New World sparrows to which the article refers are a separate group of species and are dependent on natural habitat.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_sparrows

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_sparrow
I hate the idea of polluting the open air with the noise and visual pollution of drones, though I guess we're killing off the birds so we need something to replace them so why not a drone delivering an impulse purchase of chapstick.

How utterly depressing.
Literally the one difference between the "official", Hitler-approved definition of "assault rifle" and an AR-15 is that the AR-15 doesn't support selective fire†. As, like, literally any time spent in gun and military nerd forums or "I was in combat ask me anything" AMAs will quickly inform you, the importance of more-than-semiautomatic fire in actual military operations is highly contested.

Do I concede that the AR-15 is thus not an according-to-Hoyle assault rifle? Sure, but only Hoyle cares.

The reason this debate exists at all is because of "assault weapons bans". But the semantic argument is, of course, circular: it matters if a weapon is an "assault weapon" because we might ban assault weapons, and a weapon is an "assault weapon" if we might ban it. To reasonably discuss them as they pertain to public policy --- which is what this subthread is doing --- you have to engage on the merits. The appeal to definitions is a smokescreen.

† For the advanced Facebook version of this discussion, try making an argument about the legitimacy of binary triggers; is an AR-15 fitted with a binary trigger group an "assault rifle"? Well. Let me tell you something about fully automatic fire: it occurs only when you eject multiple rounds with a single depression of the trigger, and also, with a binary trigger, you have you depress the trigger a certain way to "select" rapid fire, which doesn't really count as "selection", so...
> Document the shit out of everything

Couldn't agree more. Someone in every meeting needs to be taking notes and sharing them to Slack.
Isn't it more "hard times for Silicon Valley companies that don't make money and/or makes losses that grow with increased users"?
The reason you can't send this to your friend isn't the use of the word "subsidy". The issue is that the whole article is premised on agreeing that "increasing CO2 levels is a negative externality,". If your friend does not agree about that, there is no point in sending him this article.
Extremely positive.

Very high performance, and much deeper support for tensors than elasticsearch has with with its new dense_vector type. Sadly they both have the same "gotcha" in that it is only really practical to run any _decent_ ranking model as a second phase re-rank to avoid linear scans.
The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact Vol. 6 [pdf]
The title is very misleading and the whole article is quite misleading too. If Nature want to protect it's brand it should raise the quality of their blog because it's not the first time they posted something misleading.

They factorized numbers that are smaller than 1000 in 15 minutes. A classical computer can factorize it instantly. It's not clear that the new method is more efficient than a classic computer. [Moreover, I'm almost sure that it is clear that it is not more efficient, but I may be missing something.] More discussion in a previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21014681
For them to switch (which is a lot of work), there would have to be an alternative to switch to.

So it looks like they'll keep using 8 in the base system, i.e. maintain a de-facto fork (and probably provide 9 through ports).
you can DIY them in your shed, why drop $1k
Internet comments are usually fire-and-forget.
You'll understand when you're older.
Agreed, although I don’t think WordPress itself needs it. There’s plenty of room for everyone in the ecosystem, and there’s a lot of room to grow at the high end.

I work for a company (Human Made) which is pushing heavily on this, and our WordPress-based DXP shipped in-house analytics in our last major version. I can’t see consumers using this stuff, but in the space we’re operating, we need it.
In the bill:

1798.145. (a) The obligations imposed on businesses by this title shall not restrict a business’s ability to:
(1) Comply with federal, state, or local laws.

Now I wonder what sort of dance would occur if, in your example, both states' laws had such a clause.
There was a big moment this decade where metrics like life expectancy and quality of life decoupled from energy consumption. Which is a capitalized Big Deal in economics.

If you actually believe that software has the ability to change the world, this is it in action.
Millennials had invented banner exchange network.
I'm not fundamentally misunderstanding anything. We both understand the problem quite well, you're just refusing to take on the burden of trying to solve the problem.

I didn't suggest not storing any logging data, actually. I suggested deleting it. Old, stale logs are unnecessary for operation uptime or debugging and low-value for usability or security investigation.

They also cumulatively presents risks to customers. A gay blogger in Russia who used LiveJournal in 2004 might regret their decision now, even though in 2007 when LiveJournal sold to a Russian company, few reasonable people would have foreseen the country's turn towards homophobia later. If LiveJournal had, for example, replaced all IP addresses with cities in historical, pre-2007 HTTP logs, they would have lost nothing of value to them while their customers would be that much safer. If they had gone so far as aggregated statistics of requests and unique visitors per tuple of (user agent, city, timestamp truncated to 15-minute intervals), and then deleted detailed all HTTP logs older than 90 days as suggested by Maciej Ceglowski [1], can you think of anything of value they would have lost?

But of course I'm sure they didn't, because they weren't required to put that much thought into the data they stored.

I'm saying we should be required to.

[1]: https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm
Property damage is a consequence, not a method of prevention? The damage won't necessarily happen at the place of origination.

I'm not sure why you say it's Marxist terminology. It's more or less what Wikipedia uses. Is there another definition that you'd prefer?
I am finding it fascinating that the Western world is following China's path from Alphabet to Pictograms in written communication.

No doubt it will take decades if not centuries to slim down each diagram to its bare minimum basic strokes. I wonder how similar the resulting pictograms will resemble the equivalent Chinese pictograms.
Is there anything else you can share about the process working with the NYT, or other papers? Has the process changed in recent years at all?
> Literally the one difference between the "official", Hitler-approved definition of "assault rifle" and an AR-15 is that the AR-15 doesn't support selective fire.

In case anybody isn't clear on what that means: one is a machine gun and the other is not.
Benefits of DNS Service Locality
This is exactly my experience too. I lived and worked there back in 2005-2006 when it was the wild west (east?), but given the state of things now, I would not go back. I just hope the rest of the world wisens up and works to contain the PRC and its influence beyond its own borders.
Elasticsearch now has that in versions 7.3 and later

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...

The vectors are only used for scoring, not matching, but they are working on a ANN model for that.
If drone delivery takes off, I'm curious how weather will impact the sector. E.g. One week drones deliver 60% of goods in a city, but the next one rains all week with wind and storms - suddenly demand for human deliverypeople spikes.
Patterns for Asynchronous Operations with Async
The president of the US received a very convincing and thorough report about climate change on 1965.[1]

We've known for a very long time but humanity is not taking the issue seriously because we are idiots (collectively speaking). Just yesterday someone in congress asked Greta Thunberg "Why should we listen to science?" [2]

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3227654-PSAC-1965-Re...

[2] https://twitter.com/Jumpsteady/status/1174407565876310016
Not every time when someone says "X is not an example of Y" is the "No True Scotsman fallacy".

Now you may accuse me of the "No true 'No True Scotsman fallacy' fallacy".
What is your point? In this case "might" is used quite responsibly and arguably, understates the likely-hood. While the error bars on how much ocean level rise we will see are fairly large, the chances that some (small island) nations are going to be put completely underwater are fairly close to guaranteed.
In the case of data, is it always yours to give? Is the fact that I am friends with Friendo my data or Friendo’s? Both? Neither? Collectively both? Taken further is my contact info about Friendo mine to give? Is the photo with Friendo’s face that I took of a group of us at a bar my data to give?

If Friendo doesn’t have the same relationship I have with Tech.co, how is Friendo benefitting? Where is the exchange there?
Anything Feinstein proposes is a reflection of perceived political reality given a history of opposition from firearms advocates. It doesn't tell you anything meaningful about public policy, but rather about the limits any one politician faces, both from the firearms lobby and from uncertainty about limitations --- which Scalia explicitly said exist! --- post-Heller. Or, to put it more directly: nobody should care what Feinstein says.

Again: the notion that a weapon is an "assault weapon" due to grips, sights, and flash suppressors is an artifact of a political fight from the 1980s, one the firearms lobby won handily. The original proposals had none of that silliness. They targeted tactical rifles: short to be light, portable, and effective indoors and at close quarters, with detachable magazines to maximize sustained ability to engage targets. That is: rifles optimized for taking down multiple human targets, and for effectively engaging with humans armed with similar weapons.

I'm not even arguing that we should ban assault rifles (and that is not something I actually believe). I just find discussions about firearms policy incredibly aggravating, because they rathole in these manipulatively constructed semantic arguments; I hate to see such an Orwellian maneuver (from the 1980s, not from you!) succeed so completely.
The Decline of Stack Overflow (2015)
Tyrants eat meals, therefore people who eat meals are tyrants?
Also, in the meantime it was pretty well established that they can't hold you responsible for the actions of others.

"I'm sharing WiFi access with several neighbors. In accordance with privacy laws, I don't retain any router logs because they're not necessary for this. I've reminded them again not to do illegal shit, as I've already done when I set this up. My router does not provide support for filtering traffic, and it would be unreasonable for me to go buy a different one just because of this. Kthxbye."
From what I've read, stomping on the breaks with respect to CO2 emissions would very quickly, and very dramatically increase global average temperature due to reduced aerosol masking.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...
didn't know about Cascade Lake, thanks! Every time I did the numbers it didn't add up for cloud GPU. I could buy a new gaming desktop, serve the model from that, and make my money back in 2-3 months
For a law to cover the set of data which is not necessary to exercise free speech would infringe on free speech, because the set and its complement are not disconnected sets. So either the company has stay on the safe side, and delete information necessary for it to exercise free speech, or miss the other way and be subject to penalties.

The example I gave, by the way, is a real one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8418885
I think we have different interpretations of what it means to be "verbose", which is why I instead directed my previous comment towards "clarity".

Wiktionary gives the following definition of "verbose" [0]:

> Abounding in words, containing more words than necessary; long-winded.

My point is that adding words for the sake of adding words is bad, always. It's one thing to say "My code tends to be on the more verbose side of things" and another to say "I prefer writing very verbose code." You should always be seeking to make your code as concise as possible while maintaining clarity.

It's that "while maintaining clarity" bit that's the tricky bit, really. On this, I think we agree. I always try to make my code as short and direct as it can be, but never at the cost of clarity. For example, I don't use cute inlined tricks unless they're idiomatic (or used everywhere in the code and explained in at least a couple places). I try to strive for clarity instead of verbosity.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verbose
That makes sense, it's just as far as exposing a mass audience... I probably wouldn't.
I mean, sort of? If we're going this deep into the weeds on terminology, a machine gun is optimized for sustained fully automatic fire; in particular, it's heavier and doesn't become impossible to handle due to heat after prolonged firing. Automatic rifles are not generally machine guns.

"Selective fire" is the gun nerd way of saying "capable of fully automatic fire".
Where are you seeing "a lot of inflation"?

The inflation rate in the US has been pretty low for the past decade or so, relative to history.

Source: https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-inflation-rate-history-by-yea...