skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I need to be able to write math and coding content. So coding blocks and math blocks for writing latex would be ideal.
>But we do want to sort comments so that, on average, the distance between the "ideal" order for any given reader and the actual order is minimized, don't we?

why? who cares? do you not know how to skim and skip irrelevant text?

>I just wanted your thoughts on how this could be implemented effectively

you could think of any number of ways to vet comments. we live in the future after all; you could require a minimum length, you could classify comments according to sentiment and reject those that have unwanted overtones, you could use topic modeling to see whether in fact the comment was on topic, etc etc etc. ranking algorithms have had thousands of labor hours invested in them across all social media sites - apply the same fervor to this problem and there will be an adequate solution.

>the posts are much fewer, the range of interests is much narrower, and the site itself is very heavily moderated.

you're wrong that there are fewer submissions to arxiv

https://arxiv.org/help/stats/2018_by_area

you're also wrong that it's moderated - the only thing that you're required to have to submit is endorsement. but i also don't understand how heavy moderation is a counterpoint? yc is one of the most successful vcs in the world - they can't afford moderators? i also don't know what the relevance of arxiv's narrow range of topics is.
Just a missing step in the explanation:

"1/3 of the students at the first table + 1/3 of the students at a second table =

1/3 of 1/2 of all the students at both tables [ie. those students at the first table] + 1/3 of another 1/2 of all the students at both tables [ie. those at a second table] =

1/3 of the students at both tables"

In US math education I noticed there is a lot emphasis on specific patterns/formulas/etc., kind of "deus ex machina", and a lot of excercises to mechanize their application, yet too little is spend on where it comes from, manual derivation/proval of formulas, establishing logical connections, etc.
I've worked at Amazon. I've worked with CorpDev there to try and help facilitate some acquisitions. Based on my experiences there I'd also go with the "less than zero" position. This is not a company that makes any acquisition decisions lightly. Frugality runs deep.
So did early Uber. Famously, the contractors were Spanish-speaking, so FTE engineers #1-5 had Spanish-English dictionaries on their desks to understand the code.
The reality is that watching all the videos all the way through is an extreme strawman of the actual amount they would need to do to have competent moderation, and yet even that strawman is within their budget!

Even watching every video that hits 1000 views would be a huge overkill, and that would already cut your budget by a factor of multiple thousands.
Sort of... sometimes they will lure them to the USA or catch them while they're here if the victim has enough clout. Some here may remember when the FBI arrested Dmitry Sklyarov, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.
I don't think this would be a good idea. There's a lot of content created on Facebook at any given moment. If you show things only in chronological order, it would take an incredible amount of filtering (that the vast majority of users won't do) to get to anything reasonable.
Or you could just be your own user agent. Problem solved!
From what I know of the company's history some of those pains were intentional to thwart interoperability, created at the direction of Gates himself.
Re-purpose a tablet into a “video phone” and mail it to a COVID-isolated elder
The Fake 10x Dev
The need to manage information about evolving systems gave rise to the world wide web (https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-...).

But the need to share "patterns" is what gave rise to the wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#History)

Wikis are great for unearthing and documenting patterns. But as an organic system, like a garden, it needs gardeners.

The principles here are guidelines for that gardening.
A number of senior Amazon folks went over to Sears 5-7 years ago. Sears definitely had people that know Amazon's techniques.
People do pay for Facebook, by being exposed to ads.
You have to remember it's a completely different situation for companies like Amazon, Cruise versus Rivian, Tesla etc.

The former has a restricted use case. Specifically, driving around specific suburban cities where if conditions are bad or issues are found they can easily just fall back to human drivers.

The latter is trying to do self-driving under all conditions, all scenarios and where it's much harder for Rivian/Tesla to determine if it's safe or not to use self driving.
I do not think cultural relativism, if you want to call it that way, means that one can never judge what others do, and I'm surprised my comment came across as this.

I'd like to help you realize that despite all your values of freedom of speech, free thinking and so on, this very set of strong emotional values makes you live in a fantasy world where countries/cultures are impersonated by good or bad characters, the actions of which are either justified or not despite they are all equally questionable.

Of course the USA have had concentration camps (China and France also), of course people were interned based on religion or skin color also in the USA (China and France too), of course the USA invaded countries while lying in the face of everybody about the reasons (like France and China also did). I don't know, whatch Powell's speech to the UN about the weapons of mass destruction in a loop until it clicks?

All countries (I included France just because I happen to write this from there) would likely do the same on the same circumstances regardless of their official values, because no country act because of values. Countries are not real characters, they do not act, and have no values. Individuals do and have, and it is important that individuals of the most powerful country in the world would adopt another set of guiding values than "when that's my gouvernement doing it it's Ok but when that's others it's evil". Because they have been subjugated by their ruling class[1] for a long time now, and the consequences have been dramatic.

[1] For lack of a better term
THE TAXONOMY OF PRIVACY: by Daniel J. Solove (84 Pages Posted: 16 Feb 2005)
Table of Contents:

A. Information Collection
-1. Surveillance
-2. Interrogation

B. Information Processing
-1. Aggregation
-2. Identification
-3. Insecurity
-4. Secondary Use
-5. Exclusion

C. Information Dissemination
-1. Breach of Confidentiality
-2. Disclosure
-3. Exposure
-4. Increased Accessibility
-5. Blackmail
-6. Appropriation
-7. Distortion

D. Invasion
-1. Intrusion
-2. Decisional Interference
You are right, I should have said "big difference" instead of "deep line". I tried to focus on how meaning is conveyed while neglecting my own language. And there's a big difference between "big difference" and "deep line".

Back to the original topic, yours also serves as an example of how easily damage can be delivered through being systemic. I'm confident it's not hard to produce many cases that qualify as systemic traumatic abuse, but it's an exercise I'd rather not do today.
It’s not an easy problem, and doing it successfully will be expensive.

First, you need a reliable API, ignoring rate limiting / verification concerns. To get that, you should reverse engineer the mobile apps and replicate their API calls. For many apps, you can find an active GitHub project doing this already. But note that it’s a moving target. As an alternative, you may consider setting up a device farm and automating interactions via something like Cycript.

Next, you need to circumvent anti-abuse measures. For most social networks, this means you need to create fake profiles. This will likely entail phone verification. You will also need multiple residential proxies to route traffic through, but not too many per account.

For phone verification, VOIP numbers will not work. Check blackhat forums for services offered in countries in SE Asia with SIM farms for real numbers. Note that you may not have perpetual access to these numbers, so if you’re prompted to re-verify a number for an account, you might have to just burn the account. You may be able to appear “less suspicious” by setting up TOTP (which can be automated) on your accounts and removing the phone number, if possible.

For IP addresses, you need non-datacenter IPs that other people are not using. Your best bet is luminati.io, which is the business side of the Hola chrome extension that routes your requests through users’ computers. You can get “sticky” IPs but only insofar as a user continues to be online. The minimum commitment is $500 per month, bandwidth is expensive and all requests are tracked. You will need to pass a Skype interview to sign up.

tl;dr It’s possible, but doing it successfully requires significant investment in infrastructure and time. You will need to partake in “gray market” activities and deal with some shady operations. Depending on your jurisdiction, you will likely violate at least one law.
Are you taking colt Steele's web dev course on Udemy?
Not to discount anything you've said, but some speed tests I've run find a server that is so close to me that it's not really testing 'Internet speed' as it is just the speed of my ISP and maybe another. I don't know what people want from speed tests and it's good to have different ones, just know what you're measuring.

I'm not a low-latency gamer so none of the differences really matter unless they're near zero. I've been streaming video and fetching/pushing git repos that I use since having a 5Mbps connection.
There's two levels we use: company and user personas. A company can have many different kinds of users.

Here's the headings we have for users:

* Name (fake)

* Photo (fake)

* Type (technical vs. non-technical, power user vs. casual)

* Permissions (admin vs. basic)

* Responsibilities (job description)

* Description (personality and work goals)

* Problems (jobs to be done framed as problems)

* Goals before they pay (e.g. sales process)

* Goals after they pay

* Examples (existing customers we have who fit)
Nobody said it was necessarily a good decision. They said it wasn't just the whim of some executive who thought it sounded cool.
Who is we and why are we being told what we need to do by an unidentified person in the title?

Ive got no idea if this article had any valuable content because I refuse to read things with these kinds of titles. If they had something of value to say I would assume they wouldn't have to resort to a threat in the title in the first place.
Teaching a 3D printer to draw in CMYK color [video]
Do you have any evidence that they are lying about all of the use cases they list on that web site?
Brains may win over brawn, but the problem is that brains don't generalize. It requires bespoke creative mathematical work. In that sense, the brute force method while slower has an advantage in that it could theoretically be derived more easily (from another algorithm for example or by a general intelligence system). Direct analytical results are always faster and more accurate than numerical results, but numerical results are more reliably attained.
SQL Anywhere is also legacy tech, but so is MySQL 5.x and lots of other established stuff. Sybase SQL Server was a real contender for a long time and IIRC shares a lineage with Microsoft SQL Server. All the major SQL vendors maintain a huge legacy of design dead ends that they have to continue supporting because applications were built when they were the next big thing.

I used this software in its prime back in ‘97 and it was quite clever. It had none of the problems of its main competitor, Microsoft Jet (Access). MSDE was still a few years away. Plus, it was cross platform, so us Microsoft haters could get behind it, even if we felt forced to develop for the MS platform.
Since ML outputs are usually "fuzzy", how does one check that the output is actually correct when using a technique like this in the field?
After avoiding it for a long time, I recently switched to ZSH with oh-my-zsh and I really like it.

But if you're not ready to switch yet and still want to use bash for now, set this to remove the deprecation warning:

export BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1
I'm in the same boat with a pihole as my primary blocker, but I use NextDNS as an upstream resolver since they, of all the options, seem most likely to not log (presuming I configure it apprpriately)
Jerry Ting, Founder of Evisort, How to Transform the Legal Industry with AI
Jerry Ting, Founder & CEO of Evisort, an AI-powered contract analytics platform that automates contract review and management, shares on the HumAIn Podcast the changes in the legal tech industry.

- Jerry Ting is a Lawyer by background from Silicon Valley

- Document Review can be automated in the Legal Tech industry

- Corporate Law can be improved in-house with Artificial Intelligence

- Evisort received its Series A funding by M12 and Vertex

- Contract Law powered by AI can accelerate deals, close contracts, and improve automation

- Vendor management can be improved with Evisort

- Scanned contracts with AI and machine learning can improve workstreams with Salesforce, WorkDay and SAP

- From Harvard Law School to Evisort, Jerry Ting is focused on practical ai that delivers value to law firms.

- Jerry Ting is selected for Forbes 30 Under 30

- An increase in verticalized AI applications will augment human jobs at work.
Quick recap. Zuckerburg invited Roger McNamee to serve as an advisor. Stopped listening when he expressed ethical concerns about the business model.

Hired Yael Eisenstat right after the Cambridge Analytica scandal to help with ethics and oversight. Soon after, reduced role to primarily just optics.

Created new Oversight Board with many high profile individuals. Then they did this.
This opinion piece is citing a lot of evidence and blatantly misinterpreting it. At a minimum it defers to the IHME models as the reference standard but they’ve performed terribly; similarly it cites Ioannidis from Stanford who has consistently failed to predict the actual consequences of the disease and is being ridiculed by the scientific community.

Soon to be 100,000 dead in the US with lockdowns; how could it have been a mistake? The only mistake was not doing it earlier.
Never let the truth get in the way of a tall LISP story. Not to cast shade on the original feat which is a great achievement, but let's face it, there are many LISP proponents somewhat prone to hyperbole.
Email exists. Wordpress has free site hosting. SMS is ad free. If people wanted to create a free webpage for friends and family to see there are loads of options. The problem is that, generally speaking, most people do not find the value proposition as a Facebook replacement compelling.
Nice article, on ZSH too (oh-my-zsh). Real productivity.

BTW. Anyone is really using the colorscheme like in article ?

https://thorsten-hans.com/assets/images/posts/2020/zsh-alias...
Can't you just check numerical equality at a few million random points?
if the research was published published ongoing, like open source software, it would not be aproblem.

the problem only exists because people want to 1) hold data hostage for money and power 2) only publish success.
3.2B was a pretty wild valuation though...
"Privacy Policy

1. We do not (and will never) sell, license, sub-license or share any of the data submitted directly or indirectly by our users with any person or entity."

This does not cover metadata.
For example, NextDNS analyzes the data submitted directly or indirectly by the user and makes a note, "This user [something private]"

If NextDNS sells, licenses, sublicenses or shares that metadata they are not violating this Privacy Policy.

If NextDNS acquires data from a third party (e.g., data brokers) that identifies NextDNS users, then that is not "data submitted directly or indirectly by our users" and they are not violating this Privacy Policy if, e.g., they pair that data with NextDNS metadata and store, sell, license/sublicense or share it.

This Privacy Policy also does not cover the event of NextDNS itself or a successor selling ads or ad services. If that ever happens, it would not violate this Privacy Policy.
My suggestion would be to avoid growing to 1 billion customers, until you have support that is capable of handling that many.
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Facebook is only 16 years old. The idea of social networks is only a few years older than that. Surely we can't have tried and failed at every possible alternative already?
Very interesting. This might have some military applications as well. Could be used for recon footage in difficult environments. Such as, mountains and deserts.
100% percent of the stations listed in the article have broadcast over the air stations (their FCC callsigns are given). I couldn't speculate how many people consume these station's content via broadcast versus some other medium, though. I wouldn't be too surprised if it was more than a few years ago, but definitely significantly less than 20+ years ago.

As as aside, as someone who works in the regulated radio industry, I actually wish there was more enforcement of FCC rules. As is, they are mainly a regulatory body, not an enforcement one - its extremely unlikely you will receive the FCC's attention for operating without a license or breaking other rules. But, please dont do these things, its easy and inexpensive to get amateur/personal/business licenses and you risk interfering with public safety or other critical users of the radio spectrum. Here's a list of enforcement actions for rule violations and unlicensed operation: https://transition.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/
Wow! Their own tech demo make it look crappy compared to this demo. He explains the tech really well and gives great examples/demos.

Watch this video, NOT their own demo if you want to be impressed.
While this does seem like a heartfelt apology from the CEO, this incident is a reminder of how much of our privacy we willingly hand over to companies and how much power they wield over us. It is immensely disturbing.

I will not be using Triplebyte’s services.
It's ugly and the GUI performs like mud on my computer. But it's free and full-featured, so it's hard to complain too much.
They started out as a book seller. Now they sell everything. They are a movie studio. They are a shipping company. I think Bezos has grand ambitions.
> Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election. They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post....

> ....Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!

Whelp, it was fun while it lasted.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12654275381401886...
That argument falls flat on its face when you consider Cortana or Candy Crush. Windows including every last bell and whistle would be a reasonable design choice if those bells and whistles were actually useful.
Luxury! 33.4 Mbps down 22.5 ms latency 8.5 ms jitter in a medium city in Tennessee, USA. Paying for up to 100 Mbps, but ~35 is consistent across times and sites.
Do you have a source for those numbers? By your argument, advertising should already be unprofitable on desktop, which seems unlikely.
A bad company devides available work in so many different departments and job titles the actually people with authority that is able to execute is by design very thin spread. This company could also pay higher salaries, give better training and enable more call agent autonomy because that is what is takes to deliver a frictionless delightful customer service.

That's why every mom and pop store outranks every Fortune 500 on customer service expect Amazon. Most still haven't learned to put customers central to their business but treat it as an after thought.
Fine, plum pudding model of the atom then. It isn't perfect, but we don't throw out the name physics.

I don't get this hate for new techniques being classified as AI. Just because they learn distributions instead of using classic prolog?
How to Add Custom Fields in Checkout Pages to Improve Design and Conversions?
Mark Zuckerberg did that with Instagram and whatsapp. Most people would say they overpaid for them at the time.
All that will look for user as just simple "Alexa! Take me to ..."
> There's no such thing as "truth" really. What gets reported through "official" channels is always in accordance with someone's agenda. You may agree with that agenda, but that doesn't make the reporting "true" in any sense of the word. Nor does disagreeing with the agenda make reporting automatically completely false, although people tend to perceive it as such.

Let me put it another way: there are agendas that are more helpful to you and your people and agendas that are more harmful; the people who put out disinformation have the goal of making it harder for you to tell the difference.
I think the impression I had from the article is the author was somehow proud of not knowing things. It's fine not to know things, and it's good to understand there will be countless things you'll never know, and probably even better to be comfortable with understanding that you don't need to know everything, but something about being proud of not knowing something - where it is a badge of honor? - feels weird.

I wish I had a more of a drive to learn new things, more often than I do now. I don't like feeling like I'd be okay with never wanting to learn new things.
I’d say the main contemporary competitors were Interbase (Firebird) and Jet. Jet couldn’t safely support a multithreaded program, it had to run in an “apartment” and communicate through a message loop. I didn’t play with Interbase at the time but it was preferred by Borland devs. But I enjoyed using SQL Anywhere and found it very full featured for such a small engine.
Yeah, I think MacBooks work fine via even via 5V chargers (albeit slowly). Would be nice if Dell followed their lead.
Asteroid that killed dinosaurs 'hit Earth at deadliest possible angle'
This framework has the potential to become another Qt if UI is been added. The coding style and document[0] are solid and similar with Qt[1]. Giving the Qt is heading in an unpopular way[2], I am looking forward to this framework.

[0] https://plywood.arc80.com/docs/modules/runtime/api/string/St...
[1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstring.html
[2] https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020
Thanks - that's great! I'm familiar with Kolter's work on adversarial robustness.
Tell HN: I'm launching a product the “right” way
At this point, I have launched many projects (some with the aim to make money and some just for fun). For all of these projects, I started coding first, completed the project, and then tried to figure out how to get users. Of course that never really worked.

The interesting part is that I always knew the theory - to test the idea with prototypes or just talk to potential users first. But I always started with the coding.

Well, here I am, after many failed launches, giving all of my energy to another product that I am truly excited for and passionate about. But this time, I will not code first.

I have set up a landing page and I'm collecting emails to have the first set of users IF I decide to go forward with this. I hope I do.

Of course, a lot of the credit goes to the HN community for really drilling this point in my head to not start with coding. Thanks, everyone!

For the curious, here's the landing page - http://gettaurus.in/. Feel free to tear it apart!
Imagine I am in a shady business and want to collect $13000 a month clean on my bank account, without attracting IRS etc. attention. I can have people (or myself) load prepaid MasterCard plastic with dirty cash and subscribe them to my Patreon.

Not implying anyone is doing that, just that it looks possible.