skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all emotionally subjective clap trap.

So you were right, you shouldn’t have bothered.

Websites have always been the least interesting tech out there. Nuclear powered cars and helicopters to work all over again. Pipe dreams. Circular fetishism of ones cleverness.

Of course, it’s low hanging fruit relative to hardware. It attracts a lot “visionaries” who don’t realize they’re just peddling a different form to collect the same details as the last guy. And using stats to curve social agency. Good job, Nielsen.

Middle men in the flow of financial capital. Grifters of the highest order.

I host my own shit now, providing basic frontend to family & friends. They’ve all dumped private Corp services in their personal lives. Once it’s polished I’ll be publishing the setup and HOWTO videos.

Oh look how hard it all is! Better externalize all real effort in my life!

Traditional values “distract people from their life to build your ego fluffing flock rather than teach self sufficiency.”

Web companies can fuck off.
> So when there is a backdoor-like situation in a product from a Western company it is not unreasonable to assume that it is not for nefarious purposes.

This perception is exactly why you will get backdoors from Western intelligence services in Western gear, but the Chinese can't pull it off.

It's straight up cognitive dissonance. Western companies are the good guys. Western intelligence services are the good guys. They wouldn't harm "us" Westerners, it's gonna be OK... and the manufacturer will keep the intelligence services in check! We know since Snowden that they broke all the rules, but still, c'mon, it's not that bad, aight?

But if you find a single thing in a Huawei device that looks remotely like a backdoor, hell breaks loose. Of course the Chinese state is behind it! You can't trust them.

And:

> it is not for nefarious purposes.

Please tell me what on earth that purpose would be, for a company to backdoor their own commercial product. Why the f.ck would Cisco or Juniper want to backdoor their customer's networks for their own purposes? Their intent is to sell shit and "create value"! Backdooring your products does nothing to get either of these, but it can very much trash a whole product line.

It's sad, but social signaling and valuation causes its exact opposite in this case. Edward Snowden's achievement wasn't revealing that NSA backdoors exist - people knew that before, but it was "tinfoil hat" country. Now it's common accepted knowledge. Unfortunately, that knowledge hasn't led to change just yet...
No, most people don't just install stuff that lacks even a basic screenshot. The lack of any visuals asks all of us to give you too much credit for design quality in advance. There are risks to installing chrome extensions, on top of the time required to do so, and most online CV generators are hideous. If you refuse to show what yours looks like visitors have to go with the statistics and say yours is probably ugly too, hence no install. I can't imagine why you wouldn't show one, but it's your call.
Great, we'll be running IPv17 by 2055...
Would you be willing to share which states you've considered?I've been looking into this myself, and although cost is not the only factor I'm considering, I find it's intertwined with other social factors.
Just checked your list of products, very cool!

I've always wondered about building a career with scraping, but never got around to it. One reason is the legality of scraping - big sites like Craigslist have gone after (and shut down) smaller projects. I believe priceonomics (YC company) built a big business with scraping.
I assume you’re aware but I wanted to mention that there are many detection methods besides culture. Electron microscopy, fluorescent DNA probes, histochemistry, etc.
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It won’t help you learn to write a scraper, but using the common crawl dataset will get you access to a crazy amount of data without paying to acquire it yourself.

https://commoncrawl.org/the-data/
Thanks to the author for writing this. As an American, I found it very interesting.
So, with the major caveat that I am not an expert and your mileage will vary: After some playing around with it, I intentionally reverted our postgres datasets back to the default ZFS size (EDIT: 128K) because we weren't super performance sensitive and the smaller pages killed compression. Obviously compression ratio vs speed is going to depend very heavily on exactly what you're doing, but it seems to have been a good trade for us.
Correct - but it also shows that they continue to actively mislead people.
Yeah, and the reaction of the IETF is really weird. They feel threatened. And they would not feel threatened if the project was pure garbage.

And their points are weak. This is basically: this is OUR standard and WE are in charge of this part of the world now, don't you dare try to develop something else/better/an evolution.

If I was working on this, I would simply rename it to something other than IP, and be done with the drama.
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Code like this is interesting to me whenever I see it:

const g = [['', '', ''], ['', '', ''], ['', '', '']] // grid

Why not just be descriptive and call it `const grid`? It's like we're all playing some game to be as terse and obscure as possible with variable names in all languages.
Hopefully passwords are implemented in a way to slow down brute-forcing. I guarantee the majority of them will be a simple word or number sequence.
No mention of Clear-Site-Data?

https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-clear-site-data/#example-sig...
Even if Sweden doesn't have a webpage for this, anyone can request anything
https://www.government.se/emails-to-the-government-and-minis...
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Oh please, give me a break here. Browsers are essential to modern life. Anyone from a young student to an old person about to retire needs them to survive these days, so yeah I want them to regulate this.

You really have no idea how many seniors don’t have internet access. I don’t think a browser not properly supporting the CSS box model will kill anyone....

What happens when Google decides to have content restrictions? Nothing! It's not regulated activity so it falls under Google's freedom of speech,they can restrict any content they want.

How can Google restrict the websites I go to?

However b.s. it might be, in theory at least you have some control over your government. Google does what is in their best business interest, you are the product, advertisers are their customers.

As if government officials don’t do what’s in their own best interest. Because of the way that both the electoral college and the Senate is designed, if you live in a more populous state, you will always have less voting power than someone in “Middle America.” Not to mention gerrymandering.

So exactly how does a browser not adhering to standards affect my survival?
Germany is not denying export. They are checking on a case-by-case basis for necessity and not based on money bidding.

It's because of the US/Trump behaviour and Germany clearly shows a more ethical approach.
Its funny how many comments in this article question that an athlete could have such absurd wealth, but don't pause to think that there are many modern people that have multiples of his claimed 15 billion in wealth, which is somehow completely not absurd...
How many trends you are currently tracking?
How many in total are curated trends?
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It's not that much about the etiquette "inside" these orgs, but rather what happens before and after, i.e. what makes it to the orgs. Cross-copy from my post below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777361):

Another angle to view this from is to consider this a startup.

In US & EU, dumb ideas occasionally turn into startups, then they show up on crowdfunding (or, worst case, find a dumb VC), and then they die in a fire of varying gloriousness.

In China, the startup happens inside of Huawei instead. The ideas are equally dumb, but they don't die as easily, and when they make it out of Huawei they suddenly have the Huawei name attached and the Chinese government behind it. And it falls to the ITU, IETF, IEEE, or whomever else to shut it down.

> the ideology of treating every individual at the meeting equally.

Even this turns into a problem. There's several "cringe" drafts each IETF meeting. Everyone wants to, but noone feels permitted to go up to the respective authors and tell them they're idiots.
> the left were desperate to see [Andrew Neil] interview the Conservative party leader

Indeed but it was because all the other party leaders had submitted to his interviewing and it was seen as blatantly unfair that someone with a track record of, let's be nice, wildly inaccurate and misleading statements should be able to skip the process.
i don't see how using this is different from using the directions api for the purpose in the article?
This was great - it's something I wish every American could read.
Yeah - they sure shut the fuck up about that inquiry when David Kelly showed up dead in a field two days later didn't they. They called it a suicide and never brought it up again.

Much like how the BBC has "covered" torture, collateral murder, and the likes which Assange and Snowden revealed - better than the tabloids, and not nearly good enough.
Whoa, a startup that lasted for 5 years!
You probably aren’t interested because you have made up you mind already, but are you aware that the use of the watermelon smiles etc was in an article to satirise the kind of attitude that would use those terms? An article critical of outdated colonial attitudes.
The situation is similar to Georgia. The tick (Ixodes scapularis) is present, as are white-tailed deer, but the ecology is different. One theory is that the tick prefers lizards over white-footed mice and lizards are not a competent host for Borelia bergdorferi.
I'm guessing diffing and updating the DOM is really inefficient if there's a lot of DOM elements and a few frequently updating part of your UI?

e.g. if you added a clock to the game in the article that updates every few fractions of a section to show something like "14.3 seconds taken so far".

The solution to this would be to make the clock into its own tiny self-contained component and to make diffing smarter so that only the DOM parts that belong to the clock need to be diffed/checked each clock update?
or to torture the analogy further: a c++ compiler compiling itself with -03?
As a public official in a small town, I have thought about doing this before. The legal issues always come up. But I also think that the people upset with the exposure after emailing public officials maybe don't fully understand that anything you communicate to a public official is defacto public and can be requested from anyone at anytime. The alternatives to that default are terrible for public confidence in officials.
It depends on the show and the presenter. John Humpfreys was very pro-Leave -- there was one segment on the Today program where he was interviewing someone advocating for a people's vote and angrily asked them how working people would feel betrayed (or something to that effect); meanwhile, he was very soft when interviewing Gove and other Tories. The same applies to how the Today program focused its vox pops on Leave-voting areas.

Likewise, if you look at something like The News Quiz, that and the presenters/guests are left wing and pro-Remain.
Since I don't want to use my own data, I would have to invent an imaginary profile and fill in all the data (practically write a full CV with fake data). Haven't found the time to do that yet since I didn't think it so important. Obviously it is.
Hello,

With Treendly, I am embracing transparency and openness by sharing our app and revenue metrics with everyone.

So, you can find that info here: https://treendly.com/open

So far, we have 1.5K trends in the db but not all are growing and rising.

Keep in mind that we track a lot more keywords/topics in order to find a rising trend.

Thanks for commenting!
Because browsers were initially meant for another job: displaying static, declarative documents.

Slowly, they gained more and more features and performance until people started creating single-page apps, where you need to re-render on state changes all the time.

So people invented the best ways they could do so within the boundaries of the browser: the diff/patch approach, in order to work around the performance issues of the document model.

And in some time, perhaps browsers end up standardizing a way to do this natively. Or perhaps another app-model rather than doc-model (doubtful). They already tried to start with templates and whatnot, somewhat unsuccessfully.

In summary: the document model (and browsers) were not designed for that. The Web is a mess of features and features on top of features that has ended up with roughly a secondary operating system on top of a real operating system. The only (but critical) advantage of this model is that it is a de facto standard.
The Guardian presents itself as Britain's establishment left newspaper, but undermined Labour's leader, the most effective left wing leader in the country, constantly and consistently for years.

The Guardian being fake left wing might not be the view of the average Briton, but Chomsky and Klein would agree. The average Briton voted for Brexit then Googled what it meant after they won. Also, I'm not British.
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For a while there, it made no difference. When cases are growing exponentially, the two graphs are proportional to one another. The cumulative graph made it easy to spot when a particular region or locality had gone exponential, which I took to indicate the onset of community spread.
Weirdly triggered by the function arrows lacking spaces around them. Good work though
The other problem is that PostgreSQL doesn't rewrite data in place, so an attacker can determine the order of the user votes from the physical order of data in the database, and the order of issue votes from constantly scraping your website, thus allowing to deanonimize everything.

You need to use another database for this, specifically one designed to always overwrite data in place, and erase the WAL immediately after commit: it should be easy to write it yourself, assuming the dataset fits in RAM and so you don't need any data structures on disk other than a simple array of records.

Also you need to ensure that higher storage layers don't keep snapshots and don't do copy-on-write.

Could also look into a cryptography-based solution, although not sure if there is a feasible one.
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Presumably you have never interacted with a doctor :-)
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I find it insane that the fact that Google is constantly harvesting device locations is blatantly obvious from things like this, but yet if you make that claim in other contexts people will be extremely skeptical and demand extensive proof.
Thanks for writing this article! The media coverage for covid is so nauseating, all these numbers in the headlines, with no context, you'd think they're covering a sport event... What a shame.
Some context would be nice:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatToCelebrateToday/comments/fur3p...
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The BBC's bias can be considered as pro-State. While some of their journalists and presenters have their own biases, the overall direction they take is to act as the mouthpiece of the government, particularly for international coverage. For domestic coverage, there is enough representation of the opposition to at least make it look like democracy is working and that people aren't being manipulated to do exactly what the State wants them to do. They hold the government to scrutiny on minor issues where there's a difference in the views of the opposition, but on major issues where both parties are united (for example, on going to war), the BBC simply repeats what they're told to.
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So before Apple, Google, and Mozilla release a browser they should have to go through an approval process?
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A problem with complete transparency like this in our new era of yellow journalism is bad actors can cherry pick basically anything and get pageviews and mindshare by manufacturing outrage. Moreover, the kinds of things that are legitimately controversial get moved to other mediums.
That's not remotely true. The 1950 world cup final (the famous Maracanaço), for example, had 200,000 people in the seats.
Challenge: https://youtu.be/hqvGOPB0KmQ

Repo: https://github.com/Alex-Noir/LCO-Basketball-Tournament
The interest over time graph uses spline interpolation to connect the datapoints, while that might look prettier than straight lines, it is something that is strongly discouraged in a scientific / data analysis context, because the curving line does not carry meaningful information.
I have written multiple applications with Qt, GTK, JavaFX and your blog post is spot on, on everything I read.

This is a very high quality post. It shows you really worked on learning the frameworks, as opposed to writing a superficial post after 1 hour of playing around with a framework.
Why should cured people be responsible for what poor people choose to do?

If all people are allowed to work, there's more risk to customers and employees so why shouldn't private employers be able to do as they, their employees and customers see fit?

We may feel about their choices one way or another, but we have no right to stop them from exercising their rights.
+1 for cyclejs! Strange to me that it hasn't caught on more
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VictoriaMetrics FAQ contains comparisons to Cortex [1] and Thanos [2].

[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki/FAQ#...

[2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki/FAQ#...
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What annoys me is there's no frame of reference for what the figures mean. There's the bubonic plague as a reference, but no way of knowing if Covid will match the figures gathered in the black death[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
Oh, come on. html/css+js is capable, but the programming interface sucks. Surely, you can at least imagine something better.
> It used to be the case that you required a TV license merely to possess a TV.

This has never been the case.
> The point is that almost all Americans pay rent or a mortgage in order to have a roof.

Well that’s just false. About ~40% of U.S. homes are mortgage-free.[1] And it is my understanding that outside of select states, properties are generally fairly cheap compared to income, so even if someone’s paying a 30-year mortgage chances are good it’s not a “large proportion of income”.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-17/close-to-...
Point to note : "It was our route design that essentially helped us decouple the bus location updates and travel time computation for each bus, thereby reducing any redundant calculations"
I'm really excited about the prospects of this project. I particularly like the ideas differentiability unlocks once it's a language feature.

For instance, it's possible to write a differentiable rigid body simulator like MuJoCo or Bullet. This has a potential to unlock a new class of reinforcement learning algorithms that can take advantage of the gradients passing directly through in place of very inefficient sampling.

Differentiable simulations in general are the holy grail of optimization and system identification. These ideas have been around since the 70s or so. The bottle neck up until now has been the implementation.
They mentioned Palo Alto, and I think it's a decent example. If you email Citi council, your email will be printed out and made accessible during council meeting and also made public. However, the sheer volume of email and the obscurity surrounding the existence of this public email makes it very non controversial.
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Those examples are all programming languages.

"Web browser" is not a programming language. It's practically a complete operating system, and they have not in the past shown much reluctance to add features to that big ball of mud, when it helps programmers.
Over the years I've wasted a lot of time watching Let's Plays. I consider the one you've linked to be one of the few upon which I have spent my time wisely.
Sounds like you were basically just going to start a company on the basis of a government handout, well okay. Surely you can see how your "idea" is susceptible to fraud and why they have some requirements for qualifications.

Additionally, it's LIKELY that the company which was already established had product/market fit, proven tangible value, and paying customers. It's UNLIKELY that your "startup" will/would...especially if you're the type of person who would exploit such situation as you describe above.
The point of calling out the grant, is that the US just created a two trillion dollar stimuls package - ostensibly to help small businesses and others from laying people off - yet we have the highest unemployment ever, millions laud off in a week and tons of businesses closing.

Whre is that 2 trillion follars going?

Funny you should ask - they pushed for no oversight.

This is the biggest theft of wealth in history.
rofl. funny.
You've missed my point, the point isn't that a right wing person is on the BBC, the point is that the BBC shouldn't be political and by having prominent partisans employed and having a revolving door between the "non-partisan" BBC and political organisations you fundamentally create a political organisation that is an arm of the state.

It doesn't matter who the Conservative party have as their director of comms, it matters that there's a revolving door between a state broadcaster and the political orgnisations that they are menat to be covering.
Attacking authors is a good avenue to stifle good ideas. It breeds toxic standards bodies (I’m remembering my experience with MIPI here).

No one at the MIPI and IEEE meetings that I’ve been to are afraid to speak their mind about ideas though. If you have a bad idea they’ll take the mic and explain why they think it’s bad. It’s intimidating to speak because of the PhD characters in the room, but if you know your stuff and you’re up to speed they will listen to you. And when it comes time to vote, no one’s vote will be influenced from fear of the social repercussions. If every non-Chinese person in the room doesn’t want a Huawei idea in a spec, then it isn’t getting in. That’s their job as curators and gatekeepers.
You may be right but this article was written in 2014
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Hey there,

I agree with your analysis, actually.
I'll try with straight lines and see how it looks!

Thanks for the feedback!
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I think this is a significant part of why identifying frauds is hard: normal business phone practices are often surprisingly scam-like (e.g. asking to provide verification info when they are the ones calling). So not only do frauds imitate legit activity, legit activity frequently imitates fraud.
My laptop actually has this switch for the camera. It slides a physical cover it behind the glass and tells the software it is disconnected. So even if the software was compromised it is physically unable to see anything. Wish there was an equivalent for the mic