skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem doesn't say all the doors can be opened either. What if you switch and the door is locked???
The model I've wished for is a large micropayment network covering many to most online news sources charging, I don't know, a penny or two per article. Maybe no charge if you close the page after two seconds. Ad views are worth less than that, and I can easily afford ten or twenty cents a day to read the news across a variety of sources.

I want to pay for news. But I don't have the budget to pay $20/mo each to six great newspapers all equally worthy of my attention, and nor do most other people.

Ten or twenty cents a day is lower than the fifty cents for a paper copy- but the marginal overhead is also zero.
The missing part of the explanation (imo), at least the part that helps me explain it in my own brain, is said but not explicit. Imagine the actual mechanics of Monty opening the doors, one by one, and when he gets to that 223,205 door as stated, he skips it, and keeps skipping it. Why _that_ door? What makes it special? I don't think expanding the number of doors without that bit of intuition gives you much.
How did they ruin the neighborhood? They ARE the neighborhood, and have been for hundreds of years.
You seem to be arguing that something is ok if one doesn't do it for the money? Lots of people do things for money, are they being exploited as well?
Your argument seems to be, there might be corruption, and there are no locals.
That's how "news" started. We had a brief period where a significant portion of writers wanted to be balanced enough to be "neutral" to appeal to a wider audience (probably for higher ad revenue) but realistically that didn't last long after Watergate. After that, every reporter wanted to change the world.. which means put forth the agenda they believe in.

We've simply come full circle.
Even though the core runtime is a web standard, I would say this performs worse in every other way. The entire rendering stack has to run in a VM.
> But if you can’t have two nodes within a circuit go through the same country, and someone identifies you, then you’re dealing with a hell of a global adversary.

You can do that with a credit card and AWS. Setting up server presence in multiple countries is trivial. Setting up enough of them is expensive.
The Bible is amazing.
Hey qmarchi. I have made Tabber to be really intuitive and customizable, also to handle the apps/windows switching and handling in the easiest and most useful way. Tabber also has other features like Activate all windows when switching app, Close app after closing last window, and some others. I made it to do a thing and do it 'good'.
I'd add V. Arnold's books on Differential Equations and Geometry to that list.

Wikipedia summarizes it nicely: "His views on education were particularly anti-Bourbaki." :)
It might have been better to simply reference the discussion without singling out the person involved. At the end of the day it was an organizational decision. It's to GitLab's credit that there's enough transparency to even see this; I don't think it's too cool to turn that into a finger-pointing tool. As a developer, we don't do this with bugs. Perhaps bad business decisions are not any different.

(For the record: I don't know this person, I am not this person, I'm pretty sure I don't know anyone at GitLab at all.)
Do religious groups in the US, specifically, Christians, talk about the history of the King James Bible? Why is it, uh, trusted by so many, when stuff like this hints at a storied construction?
Probably because it breaks these site guidlines:

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys intellectual curiosity, the value of the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's better than LA's, although that's not saying much. And it's better than most US metro areas.
Fourier Interpolation
Three of the cases cited are incidents where state organizations are buying AI, which then benefits that state organization at the expense of its citizens: People were arrested others got less benefits.

These systems are black boxes. The software companies have a financial incentive to sell them. The programmers have a financial incentive to get the customer what they want not what is honest and true. If this software meant the customer would have to pay out more benefits, how many states would buy it?

The same thing happens when the product is not AI. AI is a product. Manufacturers of the product are liable. The product should be open to investigation.

When Ford Pintos were killing people, the Ford Pinto could be examined. The 737MAX can be examined.

AI can't be examined. The decisions it makes can't even be explained a lot of times.

Companies are using AI as a shield. Someone here said the other day that they think people are actually making a lot of the decisions Google makes and saying it was Algorithmic absolves them of the responsibility to explain the decision.

This is not a good way forward. You can't say, "I don't know why the machine is hurting people."

It's hurting people. Shut it off.
It lasted into the '90s. I was approached in uni to do exactly this. It wasn't public domain though. (I declined)
It certainly reads like it's based on BOOM; they're describing BOOM's gate count niche to a tee. And their previous designs were based on rocket.
Subway probably does have more than 30 people involved with menu design, quality control, and logistics in order to ensure that you get a consistent sandwich, though.

(although when I used to eat at Subway a lot as a kid, somehow the Subway in one town always seemed tastier than the location in a nearby town... hmmmmm)
Ask HN: Would any liability and zoning lawyers be willing to talk?
I'm working on an idea that involves friction points with zoning laws. Additionally, I could use counseling on liability. I've reached out to local insurance companies but they couldn't offer me much information. Would anyone with knowledge of these areas be willing to have a conversation and give me insight? The context is vague but I would rather not provide all the details online. I have the product ready for launch but I would like to make sure I won't get in legal trouble before launching. I'm also a college student and have reached out to the Entrepreneurship center here on campus and so far they have not been able to find someone to talk to me.
I don't think there's any slow reinvention going on in the way you're describing -- the adoption of ideas from (for example) game development has been a total non-secret since the dawn of the React age. There's definitely slow reimplementation going on though, and unfortunately it's having to be done at the scripting level, rather than the engine level.
> efficiently investigate

Efficiently investigating is pretty far down my list of priorities in this context. Accountably investigating, accurately investigating, and norm/right-respecting investigating are above above efficiency, though I'm glad if it can follow those.

Having to contact and converse with the owner who put up the doorbell cam contributes to this. Having oversight from a judge contributes more.
"For example, facial recognition systems don't make decisions- they make identifications."

Maybe. Not everyone enjoys the presumption of innocence. In the US, for example, probationers and parolees. I could see facial recognition being judge and jury for them, with little recourse, and serious consequences in the balance.
I have been buying regularly (dollar cost averaging) mostly under 200 earlier this year.
All: please avoid religious flamebait and stick to what's intellectually interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sorry to nag, but with a topic like this, past performance predicts future returns.
HUH?

In what universe would javascript running on a webpage be able to access (nevermind modify) the filesystem on the server.
Google seems to have no trouble playing music from Spotify for me. It can even manage it while I yell my song requests from the shower.
wow, a ton of good stuff, lets dive in:

Im going to make it clearer about the envoy dependency. I briefly mention mesh network at the bottom, I thought people using service meshes would understand. Definitely adding your feedback.

The core belief of this idea is that many people are going to start using sidecars in their apps, and with solutions like Kubernetes, running 30 versions from the same app should not be a problem (I do it at work).

Im pretty sure the sidecar pattern (service mesh in the buzz word language) is going to be bigger than Docker and Kubernetes, as it allows for even very old code to interact with modern services by using the sidecar.
> I think something did go majorly wrong.

IMO you're both correct, just referring to different times.

It went mostly right, then it went mostly wrong
The Douay-Rheims is actually a decade or two older and the first English translation, if memory serves.
Everyone is looking down on the users, but they're right. Usually the most correct UI design is the most obvious one, and showing off how clever you are might make the designer feel smart, but it makes the consumer feel dumb. It's one of the reasons I now live almost exclusively in the terminal. The terrible Windows redesigns are usually justified as being more intuitive to users who aren't "powerusers," but when you can't even get something as trivial as opening notepad consistent and logical, whose fault is that? Not the users. The users are just using the abstractions Windows gives them and it's failing becaus Windows didn't implement it correctly.
Modern consumers still actively seek out and consume advertisements (in some contexts). Movie trailers on youtube rack up millions of views. Industry promotional events like E3 receive huge amounts of eager attention from video game consumers. "I watch the Super Bowl for the ads" is a sentiment so common it's basically a meme.
I would definitely call Qt a platform, just like Java is a platform (it actually has a lot of similarities to Java). The platform happens to run on multiple other, lower-level platforms.
Don't forget newspapers are broadcast instead of point to point. You deliver the same paper to everyone.
That's a great point. There's some much arguing about what different passages in the bible mean, and what get's lost in those conversations that the passages in question are already a derivative source. The thinking must go something along the lines that everyone involved in each step must have been tasked by god himself with the wisdom to faithfully transcribe his wishes... or something of that sort.
I've been using Voip.ms to pretty reasonable success. They support most SMS short codes, and everything else I've needed it for has worked as a voice call.
I agree in that it is probably largely just a case of being mistaken. However, comments like that often carry an implicit, “those horrible ancient civilizations” context embedded within them.

There’s an idea that knowledge (science, economics, technology, etc) and morality are intrinsically linked when in fact, they’re orthogonal.
I think the issue was he felt that by taking a plea deal to a felony he wouldn’t be able to run for public office
19-Year-Fugitive Silicon Valley tech executive hauled into federal court
That may be what the OP was thinking, but it's not the case. You can very much OD on regular Opium. It is even easier to OD on its extracts (specifically morphine), and even easier still to OD on its synthetic analogues (fentanyl). However, you can absolutely OD and die on pure opium.
It is actually quite complicated to convince a consumer to use your app instead of Facebook Messenger. Especially when you don't possess an ecosystem of services that they and their friends already use on a daily basis.
This should be taken to heart by every technologist, or to be precise, pure technologist. Being pure tech today is about as useful as being a typist during the type-writer era i.e. specialized skill that is in demand, but by itself (with few exceptions) is only secondary to the domain it is applied in.

Most so-called "tech" companies are not really tech, but more in (tele)communications, media, advertising, surveillance data businesses.

It is easy to see the time when everyone can do technology. This surely happened to typing, it would be ludicrous trying to get a job as a typist today. Same can happen to the pure tech: a) due to technology itself e.g. web-site builders, etc. b) education,- everybody learns to type today, its a bit of a stretch, but maybe everybody can learn to program.

Aside from job security argument, the value creation is happening in the domain where business is focused, not necessarily knowledge of technology. Technologists who understand the domain can deliver much more value, and command higher premiums.
I remember my dad paying subscription for Time magazine since I was a very little (Mexican living in Mexico). I always felt their journalism quality was very good. Are they still doing print?
Real and Complex Analysis by Walter Rudin.
I don't see the point of this, nobody is censoring politically correct speech. Aren't they literally govt funded too?
I don't think it's widely trusted. Translations are hotly debated, but I think most people consider the KJV to be a poor quality translation, besides the fact that even if it had been a quality translation at some point the language has changed enough that it's no longer very helpful for a modern english speaker seeking to understand the original greek and hebrew texts.
This page opened a new tab urging me to call Microsoft support because someone is trying to access my bank accounts.
Obviously it’s interesting to religious people and people who study religion. But, on top of that it’s an important document of the English language at that time. So it’s got linguistic interest as well. But that’s the case for many historic religious texts. One has to do with religion the other is the linguistic aspect. Of course there are other areas of interest like culture and so on.
Those programs definitely do not use the same UI conventions as the rest of the platform.
Mini Supercomputers, Power Misers (2004)
It may be cool commie bullshit :).
How SSH Port Became 22
It's not a successor; nteract is a separate project (part of the jupyter ecosystem) and is alive and well. Polynote was started mainly to support use cases of our Scala-based ML engineering teams. It's a little bit apples and oranges.
There's a good summary of KJV Christians on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Only_movement

I'm not an expert, but out of the five groups of KJVO Christians listed, only the "KJV as New Revelation" group would seem to be troubled by any of this. If you believe that e.g. the KJV was a translation based on providentially-preserved Greek and Hebrew texts, you wouldn't be surprised that it took work and multiple drafts to translate.
Where does this sentiment come from? I've seen it posted before.

I've been using Phabricator for 2 years and development seems to have picked up, if anything. They seem to be polishing what they have and making everything more robust, an odd thing to do if its going the way of the dodo.
By the end of this book reaches college levels. There's nothing better to show how interesting mathematics, to look at it with wonderment. Our education system is to blame.

https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Infinity-Mathematical-Explora...
A very good read indeed. And it's available for free online. https://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html
Nina Makes Next Computer Replica – Raspberry Pi Case
I tried porting some Qt code to iOS and Android a couple of years ago — I found the experience to be extremely lacking.

I’m not a fan of Qt or C++, but I will admit it is at least a very pragmatic and efficient choice for Linux GUIs. It’s much less than that on mobile.
During the 2008 subprime mortgage crash, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon wrote an email to the world-wide staff about the acquisition of Bear, I remember he put "May you live in interesting times" in the email but I couldn't find any relevant explanation of the meaning of the quote. I asked a few Chinese/Vietnamese friends and they didn't seem to know the origin of it, either.
That's not lost in the conversation. "Churches and religious groups" vary widely of course, but a core part of seminary training (which most Christian traditions require before someone can be a pastor) is learning enough Greek and Hebrew - and specifically learning how to study the original written language - so that you can consider translations skeptically.

Further, it's very common for Sunday services to consist of the entire church making their way through a book of the Bible together, with the pastor bringing an analysis of the text each week centered on this whole idea of different translations and what did the original mean in the context of its time.

Even among the laity in a church, most Bible reading and study consists of comparing multiple translations and commentaries by scholars that debate what the original context and meaning was.
As the parent comment describes: You're using Gitlab as a web interface to change code on your servers. Javascript running on the page of that web interface can do almost anything you can do with that page, by producing the same events.

(actually, browsers have a bunch of tools to restrict that, so it's not 100 % if engineered properly. But if it's just "include some scripts"...)
I had a fellow student in a Latin course whose church taught that the KJV translators were divinely inspired in the same way as the original authors (the original inspiration of the Bible being a very common Christian doctrine). However, that's not a common view among English-speaking Christians, nor even necessarily a majority view among people who prefer the KJV.

Apparently there are at least five reasons that people give for preferring the KJV:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Only_movement#Varia...
Yes, that's a lot of deployments, but you can't release software in a safer way.

Let's say you have 500 containers running version A of your app. Now you start to rollout version B, by doing a gradual rollout, you wait for containers with version B to get up before shutting down version A. After 100% of traffic is going to version B, you now start to toggle the new feature using code flags.

Now: what happens if you find a bug after rolling out 300 containers? How fast can you go back to version A? That is the point, you can't assure no bugs are introduced by using code flags, and the rollback process is pretty slow.
China and Russia would both like a word with you.
Signal's purpose is to be secure and private. If these are not primary concerns, it is unlikely that Signal would be the best option for you, as there will always be someone with more money and developers to out-class Signal feature-wise.
I understand your viewpoint, and to be honest I was on the fence about posting names, but I decided to for 2 important reasons:

1. First, the info is totally public and easily viewable in any case.

2. I think there is a danger in just saying "It was an organizational decision." When everyone is "responsible", then no one is. And in addition, both of the people mentioned are senior execs at the company. Having to deal with public scrutiny is one reason they get paid more.

I do give GitLab a lot of credit for being transparent, and for (at least for now) backing off this decision. But I hope they are able to do a deeper root cause analysis of what went wrong. While obviously on a whole other order of magnitude, Boeing didn't fuck up because MCAS was a faulty piece of software, they fucked up because they let financial concerns take precedence over engineering ones.

EDIT: one other thing, since I brought up 2 folks who I think made poor decisions, I should have pointed out Lukas Eipert (@leipert), who was the engineer who originally brought up his strong objections. Even more telling, when Eipert was asked to re-review the code change, he explicitly asked to be taken off the review - his sentiment was clear.
That makes sense, and I am glad that signal exists for people like you who want what they provide.

For me, iMessage / FaceTime achieve good enough security while also letting me use any of my devices (except my windows machine!), and I don't lose everything if I switch phones. I think that signal could better achieve their goals by making some time for usability work.
Former contestants could, in principle, be biased against their rivals. Not that Ken is likely to behave unethically but that makes it hard to have him as host.
The part that isn't compassionate is the part that insists we label certain people as defective.

Your response is about people having the right to label themselves defective.

If you argue that it's compassionate to allow people to live the lives they want to live, that's beautiful and I agree. I am arguing it's NOT compassionate to insist that certain people are defective, especially regardless of how they feel about their own lives.

I mean, the word "defective" alone, c'mon.
No we don't :P
Great. Now only left for Azure to remove the A: drive from their VMs.

I work in na multicloud SaaS, on Azure. Colleagues tease me. They actually bought me a blue floppy disk labeled "Azure - important!". I even have a Jira ticket somewhere, assigned to me "Uninstall floppy drive".
The World’s Most Famous Ghost Ship Is an Enduring Symbol of Empire
The Clinton quote, "Are you having an Interesting Time yet?" also brings in Bill Griffiths's Zippy the Pinhead catchphrase, "Are we having fun yet?".
It is a liability to trust another party with keys to cryptocurrency with such high value.

To step out of the regulated financial system is to open oneself up to these liabilities with little recourse.

That is not to say that telecom companies should not fix this. They absolutely should.
That's interesting - for me it was the first time seeing it explained that way, and it immediately made perfect sense.

I think the intuition behind is that, when you initially choose one door out of 1000000, you are almost sure not to have picked the right one, so you ignore the fact that you even chose one. Then, the host opens 999998 doors, but leaves one closed. That door is now really special!

Or a different way to look at it: The host gives you partial information about what's between the 999999 doors you didn't choose. Doesn't it seem really unlikely that your intial choice matters given that there are so many doors?
Sorry about the lack of data, this is a pretty early version of the landing page I wanted to share and get feedback.

Let me know if you are interested in the demo, I can show you the product.

As I mentioned, its early, so I didn't put the time to build self-service signups and other things that would allow you to jump into the app.
It's not really "coming out of the woodwork" tbh, Gitlab has always been incredibly active on HN, largely through their CEO sytse.
Because I didn’t mention “those great ancient civilizations” doesn’t imply that I mean the opposite. Any history book will show you the atrocities committed by humans against each other for false reasons that today we say to “how could they?”

I was simply engaging in a philosophical question of what if.
Signal's goal has always been claimed to be to bring security to the masses though. My sticking points are not unique to me, but will likely be considered table stakes to compete with the industry titans like Facebook Messenger and iMessage.