skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the greatest terrible technical names of all time has got to be the philosophers who knew than "intention" was already a word but decided that the opposite of "extension" should be "intension" because WHY SHOULDN'T WE JUST USE HOMOPHONES FOR SIMILAR BUT SUBTLY DIFFERENT CONCEPTS FML
I don't see it that way. It's a review site. There is no need for it to innovate beyond that, nor is there any basis for thinking that reviews should be enough to take a company public.

If they're doing that, then you know that the end goal is ads, ads, ads.
Interestingly, The term “interactive computer service” has the meaning given the term in section 230(f)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230(f)(2)):

The term "interactive computer service" means any information service, system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system that provides access to the Internet and such systems operated or services offered by libraries or educational institutions.

It appears that a P2P app would be off the hook, at least for now, because there is no "server" in the picture.
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It's all packed up into one script together using a bundler.
We take on the risk (it's one of the main reasons for our commission). If someone stops paying, either they send their artwork back to the artist or, in the worst case scenario, we pay the artist their full cut at a loss to us.
it is a threat. signal could still operate, they would just be at risk of being killed by a thousand cuts.
I multihop VPN through service A. My criminal friends multihop VPN through service B, C, etc. All hops are through non-US friendly countries

We then communicate over a secure messaging platform like Signal, Telegram, etc.

Knowing just that I communicated with one or more people, how you would conduct your investigation to "trace" the participants in this conversation?

The feds would be really put up to unravel this (and are on a daily basis), let alone the police.
I'm still curious about the relationship between R0 and doubling period, because you can kind of see a relationship between the two by examining contagion period.

In general we've seen doubling periods that seem to suggest 5-6 days, but occasionally as fast as 3 days, unclear how distorted those numbers are by testing and mitigation and misattributed deaths.

If it has a natural R0 of 6, then it means that an infection will infect 6 others within that contagion period.

If we're thinking R0 is not 2-3 but is instead 5-6, then to make consistent with the doubling periods we are seeing, it'd mean that people are contagious for a longer period of time than we first thought.
I had the same thought. Dying within days of each other post-contact from kidney failure after a lifetime in the wilderness is a little coincidental.
Sounds like this would work nicely with vim³[0]

[0]https://github.com/oakes/vim_cubed
We know it's hard Nate, it's hard for everyone else too.

That being said, I'd pay good money to hear his latest numbers...
Hey, just a head's up, I was reading your blog and noticed a typo: s/formally/formerly/

> I was formally a Police Officer in the Northern Territory Police Force between 2008 and 2018.

I'm looking forward to reading the rest of it.
Already bought this movie before, and as someone really interested in design, it was really worth the money...
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Technically true, though if I’m going to give up the advantages of the standard toolchain and the ability to ship App Store apps, I’m not sure why I’d use Swift at all.

Some people like Swift on its own merits but I do not. It’s a terrible fit for the kinds of programming I want to do.
Perhaps it feels a little odd when one form of respect, addressing people properly, is strictly enforced when in a much broader sense, e.g. by not acknowledging (potential) contributors, it's so obviously lacking. Imagine holding a door with one hand while giving the finger with the other. What good is that?
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This just kills me:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/senator-backing-...
And what is the obvious interpretation? Mine is ‘it is preliminary, so results can still change’ and ‘found no clear evidence does not mean evidence will not be found later’.

Or maybe we can agree that there is no such thing as obvious, and different people will necessarily have different interpretations, for better or worse.
I see it differently: Yelp has built a platform that has a large audience. If you don't pay for certain things then you don't get visibility in their platform. Everyone from Google to Capterra does some version of the same thing. You can call it "shaking down" local businesses but no one is entitled to positive or even fair promotion on someone else's platform.
I think it depends about messaging.

There's one aspect to saying "Hey, we are trying to be ultra-inclusive, and there have been members in this group that feel offended or excluded via the term "guys". To make everyone feel welcome, we ask you refrain from "guys" and use the more inclusive "folks", instead.".

vs

"'Guys' is a non-inclusive and harmful term. Please consider using 'folks' instead."

I don't know how the Elm slack channel has broadcasted this messaging, but the first offers the benefit of the doubt and a chance to understand the situation / learn. The second is just asking to put people on the defensive.

Unfortunately, I've come across the second type of messaging far too often, and it often just induces eye-rolls more than anything.
> I'm not sure how they made fire, but it was probably tedious so maybe they kept it going constantly--no shortage of wood.

From experience, I know it's a full time job when the temperature drops to -40. You don't want to sleep for more than a few hours at a stretch. One mistake and you're in big trouble at those temperatures.
Nice work @exegete! The Chrome extension idea is great ;) Nice to also see some metrics comparison. I will review your work. Looks like you achieved 0.6 accuracy with 600 classes. I got 0.4 f1-score on 4000 classes, but I have a ton of posts and subreddits with images and no text ;) For this case, it is also nice to report Recall@k. The current model has Recall@5 of 0.6. Meaning that on the test dataset, 60% of the time the human choice is within the first 5 suggestions. Currently, it is not supposed to automatically post but help the user discover new subreddits :)

I will probably retrain it on more subreddits, and fine tune a few things.
For many Google does carry that weight. And unlike Msft, the hiring bar is common across the company and is not decided by teams. Something that I feel, always results in more consistent hires.
I guess I should work on my bushwhacking skills.
Deaths in that town were about 10x normal for the month of March. I estimate the IFR by looking at the serological results showing 70% were infected, and observe that 1.4% of the population of the town died in March. 1.4%/70%=2% of those infected died.

Now it could be that there was some other cause for the death rate in the town to be 10x normal, but I think that's pretty unlikely. That said, I'm sure there are excess deaths from other causes, like heart attacks that didn't go to the hospital because they were overloaded, etc, but you could consider those deaths to be indirectly from COVID as well.
Sorry, my previous post sounded like I was picking a favorite, what I meant is that Go and Java pretty much has identical problem space.
For what it's worth, meanwhile i have the new Arq 6 up and running smoothly... (but without the migration process of my old backups.)
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This is my view, 100%. Yes there are downsides to strong e2e comms, but the downsides of not having strong e2e comms are far worse.
Do you have any evidence to support this claim?
WHO does not officially recognize Taiwan because the UN does not officially recognize Taiwan, and the WHO is a UN organization. It is as simple as that, got nothing to do with being in China’s pocket. If you don’t like that, pressure your government to recognize Taiwan, and pressure them to pressure UN.
sorry but did we read the same article? how's compiling brainfuck into Julia via macros related to LINQ?
> They are not interested in controlling or occupying other countries, they just want to be able to do business.

How do you reconcile this with the political situation in Tibet?
IMO the IHME/Murray model communication was really confusing, especially considering it immediately became the gold-standard model for the USA.

CT Bergstrom (UW bio prof in communication with IHME team) lays it out in his rapid peer review here:
https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1243837050253496320

The uncertainty intervals are pretty confusing even to educated users trying to understand the results in good faith. The entire model used some version of the Wuhan intervention as a prior, and only the uncertainty in fitting curves to that prior is represented in the intervals.

The problem is that the overwhelming majority of the uncertainty in actual outcome doesn't come from the curve-fitting uncertainty, but rather what prior to fit a curve to.

The IHME model seems OK for what it does, but I'm baffled as to how it become the most-cited tool that we have. It's totally inflexible, and pretty confusing in terms of what it actually represents. Its overestimates are now being used as a bludgeon against people that take the virus seriously, which IMO is a major issue and I think wrong, but difficult to refute given how inflexible and confusing the model is.
They just need to word it correctly:

"This product is designed with the highest levels of security in order to keep you safe from criminals and other illicit actors on the internet. Because of this, it has been deemed inappropriate for use by citizens of the USA by the EARN IT act. Until this changes, it is only available outside of US jurisdiction. Please contact your congressional representatives for more information"
> any information service, system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server

Wouldn't that mean every node on a P2P network would be considered a client, server, and interactive computer service?

Another way of interpreting this, I think, is that everyone participating in a DHT or scuttlebutt network would be responsible for every other user's behavior on that network.
A lot of jobs exist to cover some broken process that could be fixed but costs way more or requires a lot change to actually fix versus throwing a body at the problem. Then things bloat a little bit, but in my opinion there's a lot of things that seem like waste to an outsider that are value added when you consider the system that they exist in.
Don't they create profiles of businesses, ask for reviews from the public and will only take them down after paying?
WHO does not officially recognize Taiwan because the UN does not officially recognize Taiwan, and the WHO is a UN organization. It is as simple as that.if you disagree then you gotta take it to the UN.
I was looking into Dart the other day because I guess Google is insisting on using it for Flutter and… it's someone in 2011's idea of a better JavaScript, except it's worse than modern ES2020 JavaScript? Why would anyone prefer Dart to modern JS/TypeScript? It's just not as good.
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Ok, well then I suppose that you agree that I am free to spread false rumors about you, as long as I do it on a platform that is privately owned?
Presumably, this would affect Apple and iMessage as well, correct?

Hopefully, Apple will publically denounce this act, putting stronger pressure on representatives and increasing public awareness.
I'll probably send certified letters in this case.
I don't think that's true. If the VPN is compromised then the Signal traffic over it should still be encrypted (that's the point of Signal). As long as the VPN doesn't block your access to Signal you should be fine, and there is no risk the VPN would read your messages.
The state of respect from law and corporations upon consumers is already the single most depressing thing and now earnit. Grew up wanting to live in the future now i just want out. Remember that 15 year joke ‘dont be evil’?

I believe i could self immolate a million times over in front of a variety of scenes and meanings, people could call, write and click, teach and learn. There is however an absolute, it seems, that there is no profitable path for relatively infinite powers (politicians and corporations) to allow any meaningful movement towards the more humanitarian, civil/passionate version of a culture.

Instead we will visibly or not be corralled into a highly monitored and monetized form of drone happiness. Its cool.. as long as zoom always works, right? In a sort of twisted ‘we will do things to them but it wont happen to us’. Perhaps quarantine brain is boiling over into my comment style.
Apart from my old phone number, my old ICQ number (and GeoCities address) is something I still know by heart. I would love it if I could get it back.
It was actually used as reference to not take it too literally.

Perhaps not too successful though :)
Slightly more than 7 years, it seems. Younger than my car, my boots, my desk, my stereo, etc. I’m one of those weirdos who replaces something when something better comes along, not just because a certain amount of time has passed. And I can’t afford to spend thousands of dollars just to run a slightly newer version of a compiler that doesn’t even fix the bugs I’m hitting in the old one.
The same thing that we do with every kind of organization. We demand adequate controls, incentives, whistleblower protection, paper trail (auditability and accountability for the higher ups), documented internal policies and sticking to them. (And demand that they pay for external audits, mock cases, red team tests, and so on.)

This sort of works. And it can be made very effective. (Basically by criminalizing grossly negligent auditing and spending public money on enforcing it, the whole structure snaps into place eventually.) Currently financial organizations are allowed to be lax, because audits are lax, because the banking license authority doesn't give much of a shit.
Is this useful for people outside USA?
The best way I’ve ever heard this explained is to imagine a software business as a machine. Early on, it’s easy to trust - the machine is small, there aren’t many working parts and dependencies are all manageable. Making things even easier, the founders generally have control over hiring and they’re often still at the hiring friends/colleagues stage of their evolution.

Then, the machine gets bigger and the dependency graph gets more complicated. Suddenly, if you change one small part of your module, you run a very real chance of ruining something someone in a faraway department relies upon. So, the machine evolves to have things like coding standards and more formalized review processes. Unfortunately, the machine is composed of humans and humans aren’t as simple as just pulling it all apart, greasing it up and putting it back into service. So every single time you add a review step, there’s a chance it genuinely adds to quality (or removes risk). But, there’s also a chance that that change was about ego and organizational power. Then, in five to ten years, they hire MBAs to come in and lay people off.

Edit - Good heavens, this sounds bleak.
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There are other methods of lobbying than just public, visible disagreement. They probably are registering their disagreement in private talks with people in congress.

Facebook publicly coming out against this might not be helpful: most people just don’t care. Those that (potentially) do care are far more likely to be mobilized by the EFF or ACLU, which they tend to trust. Facebook isn’t the most trusted brand name in privacy, as far as I can tell. Their support might actually be detrimental for the cause.

An open split of Silicon Valley and Republicans would also “politicize” the issue. Almost instantly, you’d have the 35% of Trump supporters galvanizing around the bill, even if they were previously ignorant or lukewarm on it. See the recent train wreck around Qunines-against-covid for a great example of this effect.
I find you're being needlessly formalistic here. The author is explaining where they are coming from. What their understanding and expectations in the open-source world are. This helps to understand their position. That initial part was intended (I guess) to make comments like yours redundant. Because that way we can understand what the author means without guessing about their usage of the term.

The article does not require you to share that definition. And haggling over the precise definition of open source does not change their argument one bit. You can say that you use a more restricted definition, and that is it.
I for one was embarrassed to admit I used reddit long after /r/reddit.com was defunct.
> most people would agree that user packages shouldn't be able to invent yet more custom operators

I'm actually curious why; I have yet to see people actually abuse operators outside of C++, and those were in the standard library…
And he is working on Swift at Apple now which does not look bad to me.
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What other innovative keyboards are out there? And what should be out there but isn't?

I, for one, have a particular interest in a keyboard that leaves the largest possible viewing area on the iPhone - to help with typing essays. Ideally a hardware keyboard, sidekick-style, but I'll take anything at this point.

Other ideas?
>There has been a “significant uptick in inauthentic amplification” of posts on social media linking 5G to the coronavirus, UzZaman said, indicating that there could be a coordinated campaign and bot accounts involved. The company says it uses a system that analyzes language, communication patterns, post volumes and bot activity in order to identify social media posts that are “inauthentic” and attempting to manipulate online discussion.

Do we have any reason to believe or disbelieve their methods?
> but they still have to sleep in a crate because otherwise they suffer from anxiety.

Do you sleep on the kitchen floor when it strikes your fancy, or do you sleep in a bed? You may notice that sleeping on the kitchen floor never does strike your fancy, which is instructive. Would you rest well in other random locations in your house?

My point is, wanting to sleep in the crate isn't modern canine neuroticism, it's just normal mammalian behavior. We like to sleep somewhere secure and comfy, and we like for it to be consistent.
I believe something like 80% of their workforce are Sales + G&A.
That's why it is essential for end user to have an ability to sideload apps to the phone (i.e. to bypass vendor's store).
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I think compiler magic is pretty great. Hotspot is a pretty magical compiler. Go is less magical IMO because it is AOT compiled.
sorry but idg how are bats relevant to the kind of planet-scale immunity you mentioned
don't know why you're being downvoted for this.
I am thinking two phones knowing about each other's IP-6 addresses. No central directory.

You might be right though.
Good Heavens! This article was fantastic! It also makes me want to watch Office all over again
Let say there are 500k restaurants and businesses that pay for services on yelp. Let’s say an average sales person services 100 of these places. You’ll need 5000 sales people.
Because HN and the english speaking world is usually so anti-China, that people who are neutral of China get angry responses or are downvoted badly. Note: I am not even saying supportive of China; even being neutral is already considered unacceptable or lunacy by many people.

Things are so bad that many people are afraid to speak up for China using their own identities. I used to be one of those people who were afraid.

But now I have had enough. I personally experienced the lockdown in China and how distorted the western reporting is. That is why now I am stepping out and letting my voice known.
Fear and Greed do not seem opposites so having them as opposing ends of a scale feels odd.

Is this a convention used in markets commonly?
I haven't had to yet, my side projects are mostly just for me and my friends.
you may have replied to the wrong thread.

But I'd like to point out that while Google has some of the top C++ experts working for them, is heavily involved in C++ standardization and compiler writing process, in 2016 they claimed to have 2 billion lines of C++ running their infrastructure...

.. and yet they don't suffer from familiarity bias or the sunken cost fallacy I hear in your comment.

Instead Google C++ developers are sounding an alarm over the future direction the language and its crippling complexity:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p213...
Almost half of Americans don't have $400 to cover an unexpected emergency. For many of them it's because they simply don't make enough money to save a lot.

Yelp is in a similar situation; they're simply not profitable enough to have been able to sock away 6+ months of expenses to be able to weather a black swan pandemic event. The FANGs are profitable enough and they do have that much money saved up, but Yelp isn't and doesn't. Their business model was already a little creaky before this started and all their customers shuttered.
The comments on any 5G-related YouTube video I've seen, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du8yQeQdMBk, tend to bear it out. You see a lot of accounts with no content posting the same thing over and over in comment threads, to a point where it's almost absurd to imagine them being anything but bots. No argument, no defense of whatever point they're trying to push, no engagement whatsoever.

For anyone curious, the conspiracy theory seems to have some varieties, with the one I've most often seen pushed not so much claiming that 5G masts somehow directly cause coronavirus, but rather that coronavirus is a false-flag campaign designed to create broad popular support for a vaccine which, thanks to magnetic particles and/or nanotechnology depending on who's telling the lie right now, will enable mass population control via 5G masts.

I've been a hobbyist collector of conspiracy theories since high school. From that perspective, and absent any sort of context, I have to admit this one's inspired. But I gradually lost my pleasure in that hobby, as thoughtless social media operations turned conspiracy theories from a cute but harmless fringe preoccupation into a means of disinformation with the power to move whole societies. From that perspective, this is truly vile.
I've worked with several large firms that had large footprints of Red Hat products and never heard about them being audited. You're confusing them with Oracle.
No, don't! After you've spent the money they'll do whatever they want. Instead, threaten to donate to their opponent if they don't bow to your will, then after roll call you can wire the money to them.
Pretty meta. I wonder how this article will contribute to it.