skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on guys, 25mbps is enough for like 4 SD Foxtel streams. That's enough for anyone.

-- Tony Abbott, probably.
I'm really torn with this idea. It would be really good solution to the problem for him and twitter/facebook.

But, thinking of this from the new network point of view - I do not wish any good alternative social network to suddenly receive an influx of extreme trumpers following him. That could basically make it the new Voat and poison the idea unless there's some serious coordination around which nodes are excluded. Imagine the effect of him twitting that he's moving his presence to Mastodon. https://mastodon.social/@usercount claims ~530k users now. Trump has 80.2M followers. Even if only 1% of them is ready to move, that's a new mastodon.social by itself.
News page has news from late 2018: https://www.mitsuoka-motor.com/globalnews/
(but Monero is)
He's the president of the United States operating on a private platform owned by a private company! No one should be above reproach on such a platform and that includes the president.

If he doesn't like it, he can direct Lockheed Martin and tell them to spend a couple billion dollars on making Litter. At least then it'll go to something slightly more productive than whatever contracts they're currently siphoning money off of.
This feels like saying "the fundamental flaw about email spam blocking is won't somebody think of the spammers?"
Ah, yes. I was indeed considering the whole system (processor + peripherals). I guess it shouldn't surprise me that there's a PDP-11 that fits on a desk, because I know at least some MicroVaxes fit on desks, and they're contemporaneous with the PDP-11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroVAX
"Users don't care about your ad network" is not a "plan," it is a reality, and calling it "flawed" is just corporate propaganda. I'm sure you're arguing in good faith but the very foundation of this assessment is fundamentally incompatible with reality.
Uber's react-vis is deprecated
Why would you trust them? If you are trying to archive something, make sure to use multiple (separately owned) services so that you don't need to trust them.
So two questions (not to you, but the general audience):

1. Are you ok if some entity steals your research and publishes it under their name in a venue under their name before you publish it?

2. Are you okay if the entity stealing the research is not similarly liberal with their own research on the same subject?
For 15+ years, I've run a sports forum and it is inevitable that societal/political debates emerge in many threads. In recent years, they've become increasingly as you describe. There's almost never a calm, reasonable comment. People get at each other's throats and slinging left-right insults immediately.

I think a lot about how @PG almost never posts on HN any more. Might be wrong, but I suspect he's come to resent some of the discourse/attitudes and time-wasting here.
Somebody else gave the Redshift explanation.

> Snowball

It's like Glacier, but it's smaller and moves more quickly. I think this is one of the dumb-codenames-turned-real that crop up from time to time. Fargate is another notable example.

> Chime

A chime is a notification. That's about all I got.

> Route 53

DNS runs on port 53, Route 66 is a famous highway.

> Sumarian

It's a really niche joke about the novel Snow Crash, that popularized the concept of digital "avatars".
>>in the complete absence of any actual fraud happening

Which of these examples of election fraud are...not examples of voter fraud?

https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/datab...
I took Gordon Ramsay's MasterClass on cooking and it helped me in some small but surprisingly useful ways. The knife skills part helped me be safer and faster in the kitchen, for example. It was also a good refresher on certain ingredients. In some ways, I learned more basic and fewer skills than I expected, and there was some random stuff in there that you won't really need unless you plan on opening a restaurant. Yet, at the same time, it was refreshing to have a high quality, practical course that I could pause, rewind, and re-watch until I had mastered all of the little details. My cooking has definitely improved because of it and it was worth the cost.
Facebook's purpose of existence isn't for somebody to "pay for it".

Facebook's purpose of existence is to make money.
Well, no, today's model is "users tolerate your ad network in return for free content". Which is clearly true given that Facebook is making profits despite everyone and their mother grumbling about ads.

Something has to pay the bills.
> And how could you even possibly compete with a book piracy site such as z-lib? You can get any book you want, for free, within seconds with virtually no fear of legal repercussions.

People used to say the same about movie and music piracy. The problem was never piracy itself, but publishers offering an inferior product.
I always wonder how stuff like this squares with the nearly-unanimous praise for Google's SRE book series. My colleagues in IT engineering all hold those books up as the gold standard in site reliability, but then really stupid mistakes like this surface in the news.

So, which is it? Is Google's SRE practice not all it's cracked up to be? Are they ignoring their own well-publicized advice regarding the avoidance of these blunders?

I do not want to entertain the idea that the system was working as designed and calling it a mistake is some kind of coverup, as other people in this thread have said, because the idea that a corporation the size and power of YouTube is willing to reverse unethical decisions and throw their own engineers under the bus as scapegoats is horrific.
If you're living in fear go find a paid platform where you are the customer instead of the product.

If you aren't making enough money on YouTube to be able to afford paying someone to host your content and provide better, paid customer service, then you have to consider that the risk of being on a mostly automated, poorly supported platform is the only thing keeping you from losing money, or in other words, is the sole source of your income.

When you are as big as Google, very improbable failures happen all the time, pointing them out doesn't tell the story of how well they're doing unless your expectation is constant perfection. Go find rates, not anecdotes, then you might have something.

Also, if you're being blackmailed and harassed, it would seem to be a matter for the police and the courts, not Google, to fix.
$5 a month.

https://codethump.com/tutorials/aws-wordpress-cost-price-hos...
No noisy neighbours.
Sure, but I bet 99.9% of the people will not tweak their personal algorithm and will end up with the same result as FB.
Remind me again, what are some of the benefits to finding ever larger prime numbers?

Not that there is anything wrong with doing so.

Was it to enhance public key encryption possibilities?
Two points:

1. The title does not make huge claims directly, but strongly implies it. That's how I read it when I was skimming the front page of HN. It's like writing an article with the title "I taught Michael Jordan basketball" and then explain how you showed him how to throw a ball for 30 minutes when he was the 5 years old. Or the old maxim that if you are a cashier at McDonald's, you can technically say that you "process high-frequency cash transactions for multi-billion dollar company on rotating supply-demand cycle".

2. I don't like how the common advice for writing resume, which I can only presume reflects what hiring managers want to see in someone's resume, says you must quantify your achievements. You cannot just say I wrote the login system. You must somehow tie it to a business objective and achievement (increases sales by 7%, reduced support calls by 12%, etc). In reality, projects are often team efforts and except for certain niches such as sales and consulting, there is rarely a clear correlation between an individual employee's actions and business's results. I don't like writing pretending there is and writing it, and I don't like reading it.
Wow, same here. I have an audible membership and several unused credits. After browsing the great courses (which I hadn't heard of before this), definitely going to try one.
SRE is a discipline.

Content and account moderation is a cost centre.
It seems from here that Uber has no resources to maintain this library [0]. I hate to speculate that this could be related to their recent layoffs.

They are actively open to looking for maintainers though.

[0] https://github.com/uber/react-vis/issues/1303#issuecomment-6...
I've nearly subscribed multiple times to MasterClass, then I watch a demo again.

We all have different needs for affirmation to information. My fear from what I've seen is that MasterClass is too heavy on affirmation. I already know I can do it, that's not what I need.
The problem with customer service is that quite often the problem is larger than a single person can fix. It requires other people both within the company and outside of the company to fix an issue.

There is also the scenario in which there is no solution and you need to balance the cost of investigating to the point where you're 100% certain there isn't a solution and efficiently deciding there isn't one.

One thing I have learnt working at these companies is that some customers think the world revolves around then and that technology should work flawlessly all the time, when it doesn't.
It appears to me that the parent post was criticizing the ad-based business model - not endorsing it.
Yes, tolerating the ad network definitely falls under "users don't care"... until they do, and they start taking measures to counteract it, and then we're back to "something has to pay the bills," which is where I'm suggesting some R&D investment might be wise.
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Not so! Some, quite seriously, consider -1 to be prime. John Conway was such a person.
Extensive discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23295975
Like all things in life, it's about balance so you don't become accustomed. Can't wait for the day I only have to cook when I want to; because automated, healthy, home-cooked meals are possible.
> Where's the voter fraud data showing that vote by mail causes a massive amount of fraud?

Where's the data showing that wearing a red hat causes a lot of abuse to be yelled at you by strangers?

The answer is historically, not much. Well, unless it happens that we're talking about a Trump (MAGA) hat.
Publisher offers product inferior to what you can get for free. Confused why nobody buys product, makes product shittier.
First ten years of commits to LLVM project visualized starting with C. Lattner
I'm complaining about the structure of the dialog around this issue, not casting aspersions on the parent post's argument itself. It's impossible to have a reasonable discussion when the terminology in use is strongly prejudiced against one of the key parties in the relationship.
That’s not even the issue. If the government said he was lying, that wouldn’t impact his first amendment rights; pointing out a lie is not censorship.
That Rock Star car looks fantastic, like a modernized C2 (63-67) corvette
My understanding is that 共匪 (communist bandit) is a historical KMT slur against the CCP and rarely used in contemporary speech. So i'm struggling to see how there would be enough organic use of the phrase to be flagged autmatically. But maybe the bots flagging it were also the bots posting it, or posting porn/covid conspiracy content with it...
I take it that you’ve never worked on a complex system that probably uses machine learning.
Youtube has locked viewers in. If a content creator leaves youtube no one consumes their content, so this isn't really an option.
> This is made further interesting because of the following:

An additional concern: they've shown signs in the past of being capricious, or at least, easily annoyed by (subjectively) insignificant slights. They continue to block Cloudflare DNS users, last I checked. The "reason" is that Cloudflare doesn't send along the eDNS client subnet, as a way of protecting their users' privacy. [1]

I would argue this means archive.today / is can't be trusted to have the best interests of the community at heart. It's not a public service in the way that archive.org is.

[1] This bad behavior is actually mentioned in their Wikipedia article, along with the additional uncited claim that they throttle users to 20 MB of data per day, upon which they apparently ban your IP address. I haven't verified the latter claim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#Worldwide
Cool! I have a copy of the Bluebook sitting next to me on my bookshelf here, for many years, have often pondered doing the same. I had a similar reaction back in the 80s reading about Smalltalk. I had a set of encylopedias that included a page about Smalltalk with a couple tiny screenshots that blew my mind.

Thing is once I finally got to play with Smalltalk-80 in the 90s with Squeak, it just didn't click with me. I love and understand the language, I just don't find myself expressive in it.
Do you need Twitter to preserve the words of the President, though? Rephrasing, can the President’s words be preserved just as well without Twitter?

If the answer is yes then Twitter isn’t performing the civil service it claims as it is not an archival medium.
The Republicans can make their own twitter
Why do people support the media again?
Sadly this library has been mostly abandoned since approximately a year ago. The idea was good but relied a bit too much on manual props passing, and could have used a revision 2. I suspect that is what the library they will be releasing later this year will be.
But the kind of people who get $300 for a post should have a very large group of followers. Which should imply that there should be a reasonably large group of people prepared to part with some money in support of their work.

And for the small group of people it seems to me that it should be easily self correcting by normal social cues since there’s no network effect to offset it.
And then I’m stuck with the 4th (?) place cloud provider with a horrible reputation. Choosing Oracle definitely would violate the CYA rule - “No one ever got fired for choosing $what_everyone_else_chooses”. I would be safer choosing Azure or even GCP.
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Wondering how people feel about analytics on small sites such as these? Including a Google Analytics tag seems to go against the ethos of such a site, but a lot of people like to know who is visiting their blog and so including some sort of analytics should be an option.

Self hosting seems to be a decent tradeoff. Analytics services like Fathom [0], which provides a free, self-hosted solution, let you track basic statistics about your site without the data being siphoned off to some company. I have seen discussion around whether the use of analytics should even be necessary, but I feel like that's a separate conversation :)

[0] https://usefathom.com
Lots of back button hijacking as well.
Remote Family Tech Support – Toys
this is really good. this is the second project about javascript music I've seen on HN. I would love to learn more about music so I could take a shot at creating procedural music for games.
Microsoft is investigating issues in latest Windows 10 update
I might like it if I didn’t have to sign up, and if I could self host it.
I had a similar idea a couple of months ago. Make a CLI in golang that allows me to easily open all my favorite timewaster sites at the start of the work day. But it ended up in the "Started, but never looked at again" pile. Maybe I'll have another look at it on the weekend.
It's not a ridiculous thing to wonder about how susceptible mail in voting is to fraud, and it seems like some of us are putting blinders on simply due to our distaste for the current president.

You scoff at the reaction yet you've surgically extracted the political context of Trump's motivations for disparaging mail-in voting from your analysis. There isn't a new developing threat to mail-in votes, Trump has a clear political agenda. In Trump's own words a couple months back:

The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again

Can you at least pretend to understand why some people might have a hard time accepting Trump's credibility on the issue?
React solves multiple problems, sure. But I would say that templating isn’t one of them, and it definetly isn’t an abstraction to something more obscure.

You have this on the backend and devops side as well, but I would argue that most competent developers there know that there are other solutions.

Maybe my experience is more skewed towards front-end developers, but I would make the same statement about backend devs if they instantly choose one technology over the other, simply because that’s all they know. (Not even because they can defend that technology with reason)
It was the year 1999, remember that? I was working at a startup and we were preparing to IPO. I got a cold call from a - I kid you not - "Color Consultant"; I don't know why but I listened to her instead of hanging up, her spiel was:

"Do you know [Inser name of recent IPO]? Well they hired me and I changed the color of their corporate identity from Black on Green to Green on Black; well 4 months later they IPO's raising $250 million at a $1+ billion-dollar valuation".

WUT?

Her implication was that she was taking credit for the successful IPO.

So, there it is.

I am not saying that April's contribution was not useful, but... everything in a long process is useful, but not 1 single contribution is responsible for the entire (or majority) of success. Except for grit!
> how do we handle the situation where people that are susceptible to addictive behaviors like gambling and compulsive shopping are exposed to ads that exploit their condition?

Ads like that used to be common. By your description, it sounds like they died out on their own.
Microsoft has been in the real-time communications game much longer than Slack.

Skype for Business 2019
Skype for Business 2016
Skype for Business 2015
Lync 2013
Lync 2010
OCS 2007 R2
OCS 2007
Live Communications Server 2005 (Windows Messenger 5.1 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2005)
Live Communications Server 2003 (Windows Messenger 5.0)
Exchange 2000 Conferencing
Web Telephony Engine
Care to expand on what you are talking about? I've been very curious for a few years about CurveDNS and less so dnssec, but I admit I haven't read the ietfs yet.
Upwork Bans Pre-Contract Communication Outside Platform
Have you read GEB (Hofstadter)? I'm not an expert but I am capable of taking the piss. It should be pretty obvious.

SS
> Geocities was still hosted by a single company.

Because it was forever ago, but nothing about it required it to be hosted by a single company, so you could still replicate it today through federated distribution
I had my hands on a dev kit for a while. It's simultaneously amazing and meh. Sorta like any current AR headsets. The depth of the field that the display achieves is miraculous. But the image is still grainy and has a really narrow viewing angle. This was last year, but we evaluated it as not quite ready for general use, but incredibly promising. The step up to 8K is probably very valuable, but the viewing angle is the big area for improvement.
You've got to be joking. Zuckerberg testified to congress about this. It's gotten huge national attention, especially after russia interfered with our elections by posting fake content on social media.
Plato is also good: https://github.com/baskerville/plato

I switched to it from Koreader.
You can more strongly control - and capitalise on - people when they're divided and isolated, triggered and engaged, in their own little world where they think they're engaging with the whole world, but in reality they have no idea that it's just their tiny little access of it.

This is control. Not uniting humanity. It's 'divide and conquer', through business. The users are the conquered ones.

It is hurting civilisation greatly. Facebook is the archetype of capitalism needing to be reined in by government due to its bad effects on society. It's like pollution, but sociocultural pollution.

I don't care that a company made money while producing the pollution. I don't care that people voluntarily chose to buy their products whose production produced the pollution. That doesn't justify their business activities.

It's pollution.
A lot of people here are saying they will write responses then wait before posting.

Could this be part of the solution? If a discussion is getting particularly heated, put responses on a time delay. Maybe even put the account on a general delay for engaging with heated subjects, so the outrage doesn't crop up elsewhere.

Of course this would decreased engagement. It might even push users to more permissive platforms.
I gave it a go today and it's now red 8)
Screenwriter for House of Cards: "Man, this job is impossible. Every time I come up with something scandalous, corrupt, or intriguing to write about, the real Federal government front-runs it and steals my thunder. I give up. I'm going to call my pal Charlie Brooker and see if Black Mirror needs any help in the screenwriting department."

...

"Goddamn it so much."

More seriously, I don't understand how this is two years old and I'm just now seeing it for the first time. Incredibly powerful video, and scary as hell.
> it's a question of pointer vs value

Yeah, the indirection I was referring to generalises to this.

Edit:

You might be saying that STL data structures could have been used by the author to alleviate the memory locality issue, but as noted in another thread, it's common to use custom STL implementations or use entirely custom memory management in performance critical applications, to reduce on memory allocation frequency, memory usage and/or fragmentation. Or maybe the author is just more 133t than thou.
Reordering Columns for Smaller Indexes
You might be interested in the line of work around differentiable relaxations of formal solvers that was kicked off by Zico Kolter et al. They add a Max=SAT solver as a differentiable layer. This allows the neat trick of solving handwritten Sudoku puzzles by composing a ConvNet with the differentiable Max-SAT layer.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12149
Nah, they’ve already filtered by your IP, geolocation, browser fingerprint, etc.

We need access to all the data so we can decide which algorithms to apply. There’s really no escaping that
Poe's law strikes again
Don't let Viasat cheat your system...
“If you’re being blackmailed...” does sound like a matter for legal redress, but it ought not suffice as a guard against a company backed by Alphabet’s resources taking action. While your argument is technically sound, the consequences of inaction by YouTube can exit the sterile world of bits and bytes and bring real pain.
If not ads then what would pay the bills? We all know users won’t pay for a subscription service.
Exactly,

How long has the idea of “ubiquitous language” when talking about a business domain been around?

Everyone technical at my company from the CTO down can have conversations and talk about CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, S3,SQS,SNS,DynamoDB, Aurora, Fargate, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CloudFormation, IAM, WAF, EC2, ECS,ECR, Cognito, etc.

I’ve seen developers come in and within 3 months it’s second nature.
Oh no, not another youtuber, what if they have to get jobs?
Poor and impoverished? No need to repeat yourself. Maybe there should be a writing test before one could vote. We could come up with all sorts of elitist barriers.
You are wrong. Symisc is an independent software vendor with a distributed team of ~14 collaborators and offices in Texas, Luxembourg and Tunis.
The facts about voter fraud aren’t opinions, though, and the fact is that it’s extremely rare. What reason do we have to expect that mail-in ballots will make it common to the extent it influences an election?