skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit resisted doing that for years, until the violations of Reddit's site-wide rules became too blatant and widespread to continue ignoring.
When Trump closes down social media we can finally go back to the version of the Internet were people just had personal blogs and you curated your "feed" yourself by subscribing to their RSS.
Is there one for procrastination and malaise?
You mean the first amendment being trampled on by a president threatening legal action against a private company?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23309269
Not all exponential growth is the same: x^2 and x^1.01 are both exponential. I’m asking you for evidence that the exponent is higher for niche isolated networks than it is for communities on platforms with algorithmic promotion to a massive existing userbase.
It's interesting that plenty of people were flinging poo at Reed Hastings when he was making the transition between mailing DVDs and streaming, and pretty much nobody in the media dared fling poo at the obvious "violating laws of physics" shennanegins happening at Theranos before Tyler Shultz took them to the ground.

None of the other examples are really comparable to Netflix either; they were all companies which eventually failed, but which business reporters didn't particularly dislike until after they failed. Netflix was nearly universally reviled for making "dumb" decisions which turned out to be correct, and Mcardle deserves credit for noticing that Hastings was probably a better CEO than most business reporters.
This is not the full code: "A small part is not published because it implements tests or security critical blocks".

Even this published code is half proprietary and half free software. The Android and iOS apps are under a custom and restricting license. The protocol implementations and the Bluetooth SDK are made by INRIA and placed under Mozilla license. The server code, written by the CapGemini corporation, is proprietary and published as a big tar.gz.

On a side note, the Italian alternative solution has a much better documentation of the process, and a Affero License on the whole code: https://github.com/immuni-app/immuni-documentation

Immuni clearly states that it leverages the Apple and Google Exposure Notification framework. StopCovid19 does not state anything like this, so it's unclear what its restrictions are. IIRC, iOS a limitations on bluetooth control.
Putting aside concerns about overreach government powers, would ending social media as we know it really be a bad thing?
I have a working machine and wherever I have read, Catalina is buggy. There is absolutely no reason to upgrade and waste time fixing bugs.
There's an extremist viewpoint on free speech that it is a categorical good, divorced from any societal utility or harm, which elevates it almost to a point of religion.

It's always interesting to me when I observe it in action, because not even the US legal system---a system that, among the systems of the world, enshrines free speech as more untouchable than most nations---agrees with this absolutist premise.
All your points are valid points. However, operational models (models used by online applications, for example) typically need access to lots of historical features that are not available in the application. In that case, you need to go to a low-latency database/store to get your feature values (build your feature vectors). If you want to reuse those features in different models, you will need join support for building the feature vectors, so a key-value DB won't help there. Now, your features are duplicated between this online/serving layer and the data warehouse. How do you sync them up?
The other thing you're missing is time-travel queries (temporal logic for SQL in data warehouse speak). Yes, Delta Lake gives you this, but you will need to wrap that data in APIs so that your data scientists will be able to use it. For data drift, a library alone won't cut it. You need to compare descriptive statistics/distributions of the data used to train the model and the live data coming in. Where do you get those statistics from - the feature store, in our case (with the help of versioning+metadata). Then, there is end-to-end governance of ML models - what training dataset was used to train this model, can i reproduce that training dataset if it hasn't been archived? You need metadata to manage all that. So, yes you can do it - but you have to build something (as the article describes) or buy it.
From a free speech/free press standpoint, private company Twitter absolutely has the right to editorialize Trump's tweets, while Trump trying to silence Twitter would be the government infringing on the right to free speech/press.
Redheads really are rampant with insecurity aren't they.
Damn, from personal experience I echo your feelings about modern SW development bullshit and I'm 30 years old, though I ground my teeth on embedded SW which is more conservative.

I don't think I can make it to retirement at this rate.
Sorry, what "bias" is that?
Biased fact checking would be and would be par for the course for many "news" organizations on both sides
You know, reading up on your whole Onavo thing... you're just shady AF. I can't say I'm surprised but just stop with this gaslighting BS.
If Twitter's going to have a fact-checking feature, using it exclusively for Presidents and not the userbase at large feels like a fine use of it.
This is because it is littered with personal attacks, lies and defamation. When the president pushes unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and makes constant attacks against private citizens, that crosses the line regardless of party. Being unbiased does not mean promoting/supporting vile personal attacks.
HBO Max taking on Netflix with human curation instead of relying on algorithms
About bloody time twitter.
A few years ago I thought I was noble reading the news and trying to read between the lines on global affairs. I also realised I was bitter and angry about what was going on in the world, and that more people weren't prepared to learn and act on what they read, however which way they could.

So one day, I just stopped and my life has become immeasurably better. I do now have to awkwardly say "oh, no I hadn't heard about that" when someone talks to me about some insignificant world event, but it doesn't matter to me. Of course, you still hear about the major things, but I try not to concern myself with things that Trump says or does. It doesn't add to my life in any way, it only detracts from it.

Would definitely ask yourself the question, does keeping up to date with the news really add to your life? And that's all the author is really suggesting.
Reconcile that with how power concentrates on charisma and relationships (Politics, Startups, Businessmen). Power is about getting other people to do things, which is about communication!
> dangerously factually incorrect information

Here's the problem. Who is doing the fact checking? Who fact checks the fact checkers?

The world isn't black and white. State press releases are not facts. There is no authority that is the arbitrator of truth.
Amusingly, this is one of the few cases where - extremely broadly - one general idea of homeopathy works: you're basically just microdosing virus.
This is amusing because a lot of anti-vaxxers (at least in Germany) will also be into homeopathy.
There's possibly a good pro-vax-comms strategy in here: reframe vaccines as homeopathic viral microdoses (instead of complicated pharmaceutical compounds) and you might save a few kids.
I was under the impression that freeways were the easiest target for self driving. The lack of pedestrians, bicycles and unprotected left turns makes it much more predictable. It's hard for humans because the speed is much faster than human reaction time evolved for, but that's not as much an issue for self driving. Tesla for a very long time only supportted self-driving on freeways.

Neighborhoods are the complicated parts: they're filled with pedestrians, cyclists, kids, animals, and uncontrolled intersections.

AFAICT, a self driving car has to pretty much assume that every pedestrian might suddenly dart into traffic, it can't really tell the difference between a normal pedestrian and a drunk heads down in their phone.

But keeping speeds below 20mph opens up a lot of opportunities simply because stops are basically instantaneous at that speed and because car-pedestrian collisions under 20mph are almost never fatal.
There's an unsolved conundrum I haven't heard mentioned yet.

After the 2016 election, there was a thought that too much false information is spreading on social media. This happens in every country and across every form of communication - but social media platforms seem particularly worrysome (and is particularly bad with Whatsapp forwards in some Asian countries).

So what should the social media companies do? Censor people? Disallow certain messages (like they do with terrorism related posts)?

They settled on just putting in fact check links with certain posts. Trust in the fact deciding institution will of course be difficult to settle. No one wants a ministry of truth (or the private alternative).

So the question remains - do you, or how do you lessen the spread of misinformation?
I don't believe the Donald Trump campaign has officially recognized that subreddit as being a part of their campaign...

but they also did the same quarantine to r/Chapo_Traphouse, a leftist podcast subreddit, so I'm not sure why you think it's not equal. Did you not know about Chapo being quarantined?
The internet itself needs to be the platform that is neutral, and then allowing the freedom of people to have private corporations - "digital land" they own - and can therefore moderate how they choose to govern, thereby giving individuals the freedom to decide who they use, give their attention to, and support financially.

There are separate issues like economies of scale that don't allow a completely level playing field - however a monthly UBI where part of it is required to be allocated to be used for digital services (e.g. pay for Facebook vs. being bombarded by manipulative ads) would allow everyone to afford costs of bandwidth-CPU usage etc to take that burden off of private companies and would level the playing field.

Similarly these massive platforms like Facebook wouldn't have grown to their scale if people's data and networks were completely mobile with no friction, therefore it would be a competitive battle based on governance and not merely difficulty, laziness, leading to strong defensible network effects.
As a hill to die on though, it's certainly revealing!
The new built-in screenshot/recorder feature is nice in Mojave.
Clickbait/fake news.

Proper title is "Youtube auto-deletes lots of phrases that are commonly used by spammers, including phrases critical of the Chinese government"
Are they surprising?

HN is an absolute cesspool of alt-right "Conservatives" [1]. If you want AGW denial, unfettered capitalism, and as of late COVID denial, this is your place. These people have fully committed to the cult of Trump. dang is wonderfully enabling by never censuring their speech, but immediately banning/hiding/shadowbanning anyone who counters them.

1 - There is nothing conservative about Trump, beyond that he occasionally throws a bone to his enablers in the Senate and congress, and some hilariously transparent appeals to his evangelical base. I am historically a conservative, but Trumpism, and his brainless followers, has completely destroyed the title and it's something that now we have to hold almost in shame, just as Trump's cult calls the foundation of the Republican party -- the people who made it -- "RINOs". Trump appeals to contrarian bottom-feeders who think they're owning the libs or some other nonsense.
The opening chapters were awful from a literary standpoint and didn't offer much in the was off science fiction either. It does get better. It's probably overrated (how could it not be at this point), but it has redeeming qualities and provokes thought.
No no, he is biased from his own Twitter history. It is clear he despises Trump and conservatives more generally. I don't have a dog in this fight, but I would certainly pause to consider the ramifications of this individual being the source of truthiness for Twitter b
They had to quarantine that sub because of a tidal wave of pro-shooting-cops posts whenever a bunch of Oregonian Republicans skipped town to hide in the woods with paramilitaries.
Tons of people: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/constant-kernel-panics-...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-mbp-gpu-panics.22210...

There's like a dozen threads on MacRumors and the Apple discussion forums on various crashes, mostly related to sleep, but also to the watchdog timing out for WindowServer due to GPU lockups.
> Public Service Announcement: The Right to Free Speech means the government can't arrest you for what you say. It doesn't mean that anyone else has to listen to your bullshit or host you while you share it.

> The 1st Amendment doesn't shield you from criticism or consequences.

> If you're yelled at, boycotted, have your show cancelled, or get banned from an internet community, your free speech rights aren't being violated. It's just that the people listening to you think you're an asshole, and they're showing you the door.

https://xkcd.com/1357/
> Everyone knows there are facts.

The notion of "post-truth politics" is one of the major issues of the day. "Everyone knows there are facts" is not actually a given in modern discourse.
I'm a bit younger and it may not be the only solution but the one that worked for me was to stop positioning myself and competing for a pure SW dev role altogether.

In my opinion one of the key strength you get with experience is perspective on solving problem efficiently in a no bullshit way, and more importantly in the business context. There is a limit on how much value a developer can bring by working on assigned stories and tickets, and experience after a few years plateau (and age discrimination start to kick in), but go higher in the chain and suddenly you experience becomes very valuable. I don't know how it is at FANNGs but even there are huge architecture decisions really made by young developers?

Most companies burn millions on poorly driven software projects, with layers of useless abstractions and accidental complexity. Execs love when you bring them a working solution no matter how you did it, e.g. the dashboard they are dreaming of all the while the official team and the consulting company that is costing $$$ are stuck in their big-data/blockchain/whatever grandiose project.

So I would look either expert small shops, or consulting companies with a career track for experts. Anecdotal but you can have a better time in a consulting company as "the guru" moving from projects to projects every few months than stuck in a mono product company for years.
The full results https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020
I think he is referencing those tweets: https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/126545757821512499...
From a news story here in Canada about Navajo - their nation is a "food desert" so people have to keep driving to the cities to buy everything, exposing themselves in the process (can't do Foodora/Uber Eats/Instacart). Lack of PPE seems to be a general problem as well.
Turns out, people with important jobs that require impartiality (like judges) have real, personal, opinions and feelings.
Regardless, that would need to be fact checked?
"The PoTUS is threatening to shut down elections in November:"

linkage ??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmis_Expedition
We're trying to support postgREST - at the moment that means client libraries:

https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-js

https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-rs

https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-py (coming soon)

But for additional features, it's a lot of UX - auto-docs, API gateways, auto-UI (like Airtable). For distinct features, check out our realtime server: https://github.com/supabase/realtime
Somewhere in a another universe there exists alternative facts.
Media literacy and criticism classes in middle school?
And yet here I am trying to find an experienced Sr DevOps engineer in Mexico...
How? Forbid all of it? Forbid what, exactly - any app that allows communication between more than 1 person?

Even if Twitter were to go bankrupt tomorrow, something else would come to replace it.
It fills a gap in Netflix. Netflix is great at annoying kids' stuff and great at heavy 16+ stuff, but not so good at stuff that's fun for the whole family[0]. Pixar has tons of that.

[0] Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events is a rare exception that I strongly recommend to anyone who is or has ever been a kid.
On the other hand, dont they strongly value that experience from within the same domain?
I've given some live showcasing/presentations with the help of https://github.com/paxtonhare/demo-magic to smooth over parts that are either time consuming, or not error-proof (e.g. networking and such). It might be useful here as well?
The problem Twitter is going to face has nothing to do with Trump.

By doing 'fact checking' like this they they open themselves up to the charge that anything that doesn't have the little (!) meets some standard. Expect 10x more people @jack, @twittersupport etc... every time they see something they find misleading.

This is a bad move.
For comparison, another poster mentioned a real AI course over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322449 which does include this.

There is a tendency for articles by extremely talented, highly educated, yet relatively immature people to completely over-optimize for technical depth. It's a failure with many articles that get posted here. I wonder how the author might change their article after 10 more years of experience.
>Never got further, it was more of a "can I do it" type project, but boy that feeling when I saw my three "processes" running one after another without cooperation... priceless!

Having done this on a 68000 (Amiga) recently, I can't help but agree with this sentiment.

I should really get around writing IPC support so that I can implement services. I'm of course just messing around like a child.

For the adult approach to microkernels, do look at seL4[0]. It really is a sight to behold.

[0]: https://sel4.systems/About/seL4-whitepaper.pdf
More of a meta question: but why should all undergrad degrees be 4 years? Why should an undergrad in computer science and one in AI be the same length of time?

Was it created because a school wants to charge the same amount regardless of major? Or because 4 years is an acceptable proportion of a human life to spend studying to obtain a white collar job half a century ago? Or some other reason?

(Related, why do people want the 4 year degree as a pre-requisite for most jobs? Why do some jobs -- law and medicine -- require 3 and 4 year degrees on top of it? Why is the CFA happy with 3 years of tests on your own time?)
Since I got my Pixel 4, I've found myself using more and more speech to text as... it's just that quick and easy. Every so often, I try to use speech to text on my iPad Pro and I have an experience pretty similar to Poor Michael Geer over here.
Doesn’t just about every platform, forum, blog comment section, etc. do this? It seems untenable not to allow moderation.
It's a sane approach, but I forgot who said "even if you know about your biases you're subject to them" (or something along the lines). That's very true IMO.
It's a real enough threat that KDE was worried about it.
Such a tough subject.

The problem is this tactic is consistently agaisnt many dissident publications, often on pro-democratic ones by autocratic countries. So what/where do you draw the line for "this speech is unacceptable so we won't propagate DNS entries for it", and who draws it? USA? ICANN? The host country? Each DNS gets to pick and choose?

Going in the other direction, if this speech is so bad, why don't ISP's just ban the IP? We could do like Youtube automated takedowns, only it's a packet blackhole.

At the expense of pushing the satire, what we really need is Deep Packet Free Speech Inspection (tm). All packets are inspected by a blockchain-powered AI in the cloud for acceptibility and lack of Nazi content. All servers which respond to HTTPS must escrow TLS keys to enable Freedom Audits.

If allowing an operator to have DNS records or an IP address "legitimizes" them, then we need some full-blown worldwide consortium which determines the (il)legitimacy of each and every domain. Who has votes in this consortium? What if China wants to put the kabash on some Uyghurs because of "Terrorism" but Netherlands want to keep it up. Sounds like a beaurocratic nightmare.
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Case and point being the valid point you raised being down voted into the gray. Upvote/Downvote systems just encourage the side with the most free time to be the only opinion seen. I think this may be part of the reason so many people on Reddit and Hacker News are routinely surprised by election results. Echo chambers do not represent the real world
Hm, is fact checking solved problem? I remember someone here had their game flagged just because it referenced SARS-CoV-2. I hear almost daily horror stories of youtube algo's screwing up content creator. As a human, I still struggle a lot to read a paper and figure out what I just read. On top of that, things like the GPT2 from OpenAI might generate very human like comment.

Is there no way to consider social media as unreliable overall and not bother fact checking anything there? All this tech is relatively new but maybe we should think in longer time scale. Wikipedia is still not used as a source in school work because that's the direction educational institution moved. If we could give a status that nothing on social media is too be taken seriously, maybe it's a better approach.

Let me end this on a muddier concept. I thought masks was a good idea from the get go but there was an opposing view that existed at some point about this even from "authoritative" sources. In that case, do we just appeal to authority? Ask some oracle what "fact" is and shun every other point of view?
There is a similarity between feature engineering pipelines that feed the feature store and the lambda architecture, in that you have two sinks for your data - one for batch applications (and creating train/test data) and one for real-time serving of features. However, there is typically only one feature engineering pipeline (to make sure features are consistent between training and serving), whereas lambda has two (one batch, one streaming).So, you could come back and say it is more like the kappa architecture, but it could be either a batch or streaming application computing the features and saving them to the feature store.
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Think of it as a period piece setting. American equivalent might be growing up during the Civil Rights movement. Establishes motivations for characters. Something this book could have used more of, not less.
https://stratechery.com/2019/tech-and-liberty/
Mail-in ballots don't generally increase the instances of election fraud. All of the "what ifs" have been investigated in the states that have had general-populace mail-in for years and been found not to occur in either (a) numbers that sway the election or (b) numbers distinguishable from in-person fraud (which is usually of the form "person not eligible to vote, but voting office screwed up and granted them a card" or "person moved and failed to notify election boards of the relocation; voted in the wrong district").
but judges are publicly accountable, while corporations (and their agents) can do what they want. Comes back down to the publisher/curator debate.
That would be step one out of the first three that I bother with :).