skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the article does describe another way. I’ve been buying ebooks and stripping the DRM for years just so I can have an archive. It sucks, but I feel it’s worth it to support the authors (I recently switched from kindle to kobo, under the impression that this process would be a little improved - but it’s not).

However, for TV and movies, I find the pay site experience to be too poor (last I checked you couldn’t even stream from Amazon video if you run Linux). So I pirate everything.

I think Bandcamp is the perfect site for purchasing music. They’re transparent about what they pay artists and labels, and a purchase nets you unlimited streaming plus DRM-free downloads. This is the model the sellers of these other mediums should be following. I buy a lot of music, all because bandcamp is so great.
Secret to writing: 200 crappy words per day.
Lol that story doesn’t show mail in voter fraud either. It shows a systems issue that’s being investigated by the proper authorities with no votes counted.

You really are bad at this. Here let me help you. The Heritage foundation has a database of proven voter fraud (all forms) https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/datab...

They capture a little more than 300 examples of voter fraud (all forms) in a year.

Crib from them going forward.
Amazing step forward it seems, but not without it's issues.

I'm cautiously optimistic, but we need to see a finalized version of this bill before we get excited or disappointed.
It's a strange thing to condemn an entire concept because you lack imagination.

ACH takes days to transfer between bank accounts in the same country. Maybe you want your money to get somewhere faster than that.

Maybe you need to take money with you when leaving the country and don't want the border agents to nail you with civil asset forfeiture.

Those are off the top of my head. If that's not sufficient, I'm really not sure why umbrellas exist - it's not raining on me at the moment.
Censorship is not a solution to your problems. It's never going to scale due to the sheer volume of the contents. In addition to being ineffective, it would also cause active harm because there never will be sufficient checks and balances in place.

That being said, there arguably are some contents that should be taken down. But content takedowns should always be done with care, and be used as a last resort. It certainly should not be taking down harmless gaming videos.

It's also disingenuous to bring up revenge porn to strike down criticism. No one could possibly mistake the video in question for revenge porn. Even their automated system didn't. It has nothing to do with this issue at all.
It sounds like twitter is trying to appease the people who want Trump banned from the platform (silenced) with a half measure (information control).
In don’t see Facebook surviving such a transition. Without the manipulation and data mining for engagement you’re just left with a few features that is probably easily subsumed by other services in some federated fashion. It would provably look as exciting as hosted e-mail from the business side.
:). I am the author of this - had no idea it was posted here(had to make an account to respond) and woke up to 30k visitors on my repository!

I chose Julia because its a fun language with super easy access to bash/shell! It was mostly a gag but also a prototype for trying to kick off the simplest project possible combining a MC and Julia over USB(IE a button)
You get the Kardashians
Show HN: New Combined OLTP/OLAP RDBMS with Native ML on Kubernetes
Hi HN,
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Which puts the onus on the Whitehouse IT department to produce a UX that is seamless enough for even Trump to transition to.

Our EM aircraft catapults are crap right now, although this is due more to "concurrent development" than an inherent failure of the concept. Trump seems to intuitively grasp certain problems (China = Public Enemy #1, lax border security, etc...) but then draws really odd conclusions on how to solve them, and doubles down with the most retarded cringe-worthy rhetoric imaginable.
Intel's Steve Long: We're Seeing a 'Resurgence' for PCs
Memorable NPCs definitely make or break games, or having NPCs at all (looking at you Fallout 76!). One of the most recent great experiences has been with Hollow Knight; I got so immersed in trying to figure out more about these interesting creatures and their stories, even though they barely really had much to say in some cases. I think something that helped a lot was also how different they all were from one another.

On the other hand, a game like Zelda BOTW, I really wanted to get more into the characters, and the cut-scenes were they used voices were incredibly capturing, but then most of their dialogue then ended up just being text, even for the primary characters, which really hurt a bit at the start. The game is still one of the best ever, just wish there was more voiced dialogue.
I cannot believe that it was a monetary thing, so maybe just space conservation?

Hopefully https://replicastudios.com/ will be able to help make NPCs more like characters.
The author’s argument that crying at work is seen as more acceptable for men than women doesn’t really align with my anecdotal experiences. Maybe I just live in a bubble where men crying is more looked down upon than women crying.

Any other commenters willing to share their experiences with this?
Then complain about Google's monopoly, not its moderation inadequacies, and consider that creators unwilling to leave are the source of the monopoly, not necessarily its victims, especially if they're not even trying other platforms.

I guess I don't like the entitlement/blame cycle where people who help create a problem complain about the consequences.
I'm not optimistic about an anti-science administration remaking the NSF
Transmission of BTC between wallets is traceable -- if the wallet is tied to a person's real name.

Transmission of wallets between people is not traceable.
Mr Conway was (RIP) a genius. If he says -1 is prime ... it's prime. End of.
Agree that public outrage is useful. Sadly Trump is the counterpoint where people over identify with a subject to the point that the subject has total immunity.
> With fiber your ping time is lower, so your internet feels quite a bit faster. Fast internet today isn't mbps, it's ping time.

Two thoughts about this:

1. On 100/10 coax, ping times to 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, and 9.9.9.9 are all under 20 msec. What could a lower last mile latency possibly get me? Even cutting it to zero would seemingly not make a noticeable difference for page load times and the like.

2. I really wish this speed test measured your real latency, but it does not. It tests for latency pre-load, not during the load. Because of bufferbloat, most users will find that when they're downloading a file (whether that's someone on Netflix, or fetching a 2 MB image for a news article) their latency goes up dramatically, possibly hitting in the hundreds of msecs. It's really regrettable that this test doesn't try to measure this in any way. Fast.com does, but it's the only free test I can find that does.

After a lot of tinkering, I managed to get my latency under load down to 50 msecs without a significant drop to my maximum speeds, but this required quite a lot of tinkering with queue management on a BSD based router, and I suspect most people will see worse results.
ReasonReact has been used in production for 3 years now, with billions of page views a day. I'd still call it immature in many^[1] regards :D

The particular point of this project was to prove that each successive simplification that my friend proposed, i.e. avoiding Webpack for native ES6 modules, using lit-html instead of React, etc. introduced its own complexity. I'm not saying that these were all bad ideas, but just that they're fundamentally tradeoffs. I'm quite sure lit-html is a great stack. But it's not "better" than React any more than React is "better" than Angular.

[1]: Lack of async/await, or its equivalent, let+ in OCaml 4.08, is a big one. Mediocre typings for browser APIs is another.
good luck filtering human content via deterministic algorithms, and if people can reverse engineer these then they'll get gamed... it's just a stupid idea.
Reality is strongly prejudiced against one of the key parties in the relationship. Users, today, tolerate ads in exchange for free content. Any reasonable discussion — where continued delivery of content is a desired end goal — needs to come up with an answer for how we pay for it. Calling out "fundamental flaws" is one such way of doing that.
It’s probably doable but I don’t know with what kind of performance envelope. Java famously has very high runtime costs in pathological cases, and it’s very easy to shoot oneself in the foot. I completely agree that memory safety is more important, but it’s not like they wrote a new rendering engine from whole cloth, they used WebKit.
It's quite possible to create content that survives and thrives without depending on some large, proprietary platform like YouTube. Happens all the time.

Of course it's not easy. You have to figure out growth for yourself, and most indie businesses and projects fail. Then again, so do most YouTube channels. So it's up to you to choose the indie path or choose YouTube.
Lol check this out https://www.google.com/search?q=is+-1+prime

More seriously

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55958.html

But the link to details is dead.
A confidence interval is a sort of meaningless notion in this case. You can just do the derivative of the algorithm's answer, and see if you get back an expression that is equivalent to the input. If you did, then the answer is correct.
Not so, Viasat will throttle based on headers and even built helpers for speed tests that bypass other limits. Such as forced video resolution down grades.
I have a feeling that the story may be past its "sell-by" date:

https://www.crikey.com.au/spinning-the-media/

I would not get a subscription to view that story (it is probably the only one that is relevant to me, in the US), as I'll bet I would get the sub, and the story would still be dead.

Which makes me very sad. I believe in supporting these types of orgs, but they need to deliver (Crikey is not cheap - https://www.crikey.com.au/subscribe/ ).
How does one find ban/review rates for YouTube? Wouldn't this be internal data? Can you provide a link to a public datasource that shows shows outcomes of YouTube's banning/takedown and review processes?
A judge in Philly was just convicted of fraudulent ballot stuffing in multiple elections. He actually added enough votes to swing multiple results. If we can question the security vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines, why can’t we also question the implementation of mail-in voting and how it can enable similar ballot-filling and stuffing?

https://www.inquirer.com/news/voter-fraud-philadelphia-ward-...
Spot on.

Though I’d say for the cooking masterclasses they meld a little closer towards the middle.
Don't worry. I got you.

alias -s sh='_c(){ curl -sk $1 | sudo bash };_c'

Wait. Improved.

alias -s sh='_c(){ [[ -f $1 ]] && sudo bash $1 || curl -sk $1 | sudo bash };_c'
The monopoly is due to threshold of creators being on youtube. A single channel leaving would make no difference. I'd love to see a movement away from youtube, but that would require a movement with serous organization, which creators mostly aren't capable of doing.
Redshift - Oracle’s brand colors are Black and Red. Redshift was built to help Amazon “shift” from using Oracle.

Route 53 - DNS runs on port 53

Chime - when you want to talk about something “let me Chime in”.

Snowball and Sumerian. I got nothing. I didn’t even know what Sumerian was until I looked it up and I thought I had at least heard of most AWS services.
> HIRE SOME PEOPLE. they have huge margins, it would take very little for these companies to hire some people to review content.

How many people? Youtube is probably the biggest nexus of complaints, but apps on Play and the Chrome Extension store are also up there.

Consider what it would cost to manually vet all apps on Play against even the most uncontroversial malware and data abuse policy. Malicious authors are clever and apps are big. It'd take a trained reverse engineer days to truly vet a single app. How many millions of apps are on the app store? How many different versions of those apps are there? You are looking at an army of people being paid six figures to figure out if apps are doing nasty things.

Now consider how pissed people get that things like domestic abuse apps (often hiding as child monitoring apps) exist on the app store. Or plenty of other objectionable crap. If you want to tackle any of this (you don't but lots of people do) then now you've got a whole set of complex contextual problems for enforcement.

It would take a lot more than "very little" to review content.
Same thing with me, however I am forcing myself to complete pending projects in this Covid lockdown.

Trust me it is always difficult to restart work on pending projects, once you give it two minutes you'll get glued to it.

Just force yourself to get started.
I'm going to give a lot of credit to April for this, and say the title is not click-bait.

Long before sqlite, or CouchBase, there was SQL Anywhere.

And SQL Anywhere had something in the 90's that's still rare even today - hands-off built-in production-ready replication.

(MySQL struggled for a decade to ship reliable replication after Yahoo paid them $40k for the original statement-based replication, and Postgres still doesn't have a great story out of the box.)

It's that multi-source production-ready replication that April shone a spotlight on that made Sybase worth $5.8 billion when it was sold to SAP.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/sap-acquires-sybase-for-5-8-bi...

So kudos to April for finding a huge diamond in the rough.

I've been to lectures on SQL Anywhere, but I hope some day to use it in a project. It's a killer embedded database.

Source: DBA.
Because “not prime” isn’t the same as “composite” (1 is neither prime nor composite in the modern view) it isn’t that simple.

Some ancient mathematicians such as Aristotle and Plato solved that problem by saying 2 is the first number. Others stated 3 to be the first prime

That isn’t holdable once you accept 0 and negative integers to be numbers.

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL15/Caldwell2/cald6.h... states that, for example, Goldbach thought 1 to be prime at some time (in a letter to Euler), as did Legendre, Lebesgue (sometimes), Cayley, Kronecker, Hardy, Lehmer (as the article discussed also says), and the aliens in Carl Sagan’s “Contact”.

It also gives fairly recent publications that state 1 is a prime.

In the end, whether we consider 1 to be prime is more a choice (just as mathematicians commonly chose to pick 0⁰ = 1) than that it necessarily the case. It just is the better choice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number#Primality_of_one)
There are two kinds of assembly: 1. assembly that corresponds to optimized machine code, and 2. assembly that closely corresponds to the original C code. As I said, these two assembly versions might look very different depending on optimizations performed by the compiler. You can reduce the difficulty of learning the conversion from machine code to assembly at the expense of increasing the difficulty of learning the conversion from assembly to C code (and vice versa).
The point of deplatforming is not to change the minds of true believers in extremist causes, it’s to hinder their ability to recruit.
I have a phobia of the pullup bar coming lose and me falling on my back. I attached it to the joists in the ceiling with lag screws. You could support a piano with it :-)
Microsoft feels very schizophrenic at this point. On the one hand I think there exists a faction that wants to move more into the open ecosystem. On the other though there appears to be an entrenched faction that's hell bent on retaining as much proprietary status quo as they feel they can get away with. Thus the command line is still incompatible with any Unix shell, the SQL syntax subtly different to make it a pain for those coming from other databases, proprietary sockets, threads API's and so on. It's possible to make a Windows ecosystem interact with the rest of the world, it's just a big pain in the butt caused by an endless stream of small pains.
They were having issues with uploads so they turned it off for now.
Not true, I want to see good ads, ads that relate to what I actually want to buy.
Show HN: A shell-script to deploy real-time Laravel projects using only Git
I completely agree with your sentiment here, and having read the other sibling comments to mine, I'd like to note that I have dealt with high volume customer support, I work closely with YouTube so I know their reps/support/processes pretty well and I'm also a software engineer who thinks about these challenges quite a lot.

None of that changes the fact that Google is indeed "treating it like a fun ML problem that they want to solve with magical algorithmic pixie dust". That's basically their MO, and they put wayyyy too much stock in the results. Saying that Google doesn't do this is crazy. This is why the Podcast Addict thing happened; they were trying to crack down on the misinformation from "plandemic" weirdos and Podcast Addict and many other apps were hit with the spray of the shotgun blast. Is their original intention worthwhile? Yes. Do I think a human "reviewed" Podcast Addict before they took it out for linking to content about literally the world's most talked about story while at the same time Google Podcasts did the exact same thing? Absolutely not. If a human reviewed that case and decided that Podcast Addict (the #1 podcast app on Android) needed to be suspended, then something is broken. Maybe someone needs to be fired, but there's no someone in the chair. You can't fire the AIs at this point- You can only tweak and rework them and hope they take out less innocent bystanders.

All this said, is it hard? Yes. Is there too much content to really do this right? Yes I believe there is. Could Google do a better, more efficient and transparent job of cleaning up the mess when their scripts misfire? Oh absolutely yes.
Except people (including HN) hated the Youtube Heroes program.
Well, that's certainly Trump's characterization of the situation. Fox News has also been fact-checking him lately and he's similarly outraged. Bottom line, the Founders' remedy to false speech by government officials is the freedom to discuss those lies in an open forum.
A complex blacklist of CCP-critical keywords? No.
Masterclass is such a brilliant business model.

They're charging close to the same fees as Netflix, yet their production costs are very little. They don't need to bet millions on some show or pilot and become a flop.

They can quickly churn out classes with very limited budget compare to Netflix's budget and keep their paying customers happy.
That makes no sense to me, I bought a lot of cool stuff just because I saw an ads on instagram :|
> Any extra service that Google provides beyond those required for profit maximization ... is purely charity.

Duty is not charity. It would be perfectly reasonable for society to determine that YouTube incurs a duty to its content creation partners, and at no point should that be considered requesting a favour.
I'll chime in for The Great Courses too! I have learned history, how to cook, literature, music theory, among other topics from it. I highly recommend them.
It is not. Though it wouldn't be too hard to adapt, I think, if it was noted at the beginning of a text. For it to take, it would have to power some influential result, sort of like how the summation convention in tensor notation works (something that infuriated me as a kid).
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After looking up the supposed clear names for OCI. I know what they are, but how does that help me ramp up any faster? It would still take me just as long to ramp up on the equivalent Oracle offerings as it did AWS. Heck, I know the Microsoft development ecosystem and it would still take me a few months to get any sort of proficiency with it where a company would be willing to pay me my asking salary.

I look at the front end web ecosystem and I think it’s all gibberish also and I’ve been using Javascript off and on since it was first in beta for Netscape. But thousands of people take the time to learn it.
> If I want or need something, I will specifically seek it out

Sometimes we don't know that we have a problem that is easily solvable. As an example, I had no idea that there was an industry to reduce aws spending. One day a marketer made it past my filters and made me aware of an industry that I benefit from today. Just one example of many where marketing is win-win.

On the other hand I agree that there is too much psychological manipulation, unfortunately it exists because it works. Maybe this is where we need to disrupt the industry through a different approach. Just brainstorming, what if we regulated advertising to prohibit emotional/manipulative messages and rely instead on advertising facts?
It is an advertisement distributed in the form of a press release (or more accurately a media packet with included script and video content).

Using the term "press release" like it is some kind of legal shield is non sequitur. It doesn't matter if the ad is a billboard, graphic, sidewalk spinner, or press release it is still an advert designed to promote Amazon, and an undisclosed one at that.

If a YouTuber wasn't required to declare it, that would be wrong too.
Hmmm, okay. I missed your point then. My bad.
You can’t just assert that amount of content associated with an idea is just equal to how long it’s been around. There is far more research and intellectual effort going into programming patterns than knitting pattens.
Spotify is reliant on copyright exclusions to keep competing free services at bay. So aren’t really providing any value.

YouTube is still reliant on ads, and ad-funded content creators, and will continue serving you manipulative content wether you pay or not. So can’t really count that as a success either.

The thing is when you remove the ugly side of those business what remains can bee done better for free using p2p networks or federation over open protocols.
>You have said that it is impossible to trace origins of hacks

I have not said this. The evidence they have provided makes it equally likely that they've tracked these hacks (correctly or incorrectly) or that they've made the whole thing up. You can't rule out either action.

>There are papers out there that have multiple uses of using language to identify specific authors, determine multiple authors, and even decode known language. That's my first shallow example and would be a pretty reliable indicator if you could get your hands on their code

There have been multiple papers on these subjects, with a budget of millions of dollars I'm sure identifiers could be faked. Particularly with password spraying, the only method mentioned.
In case you don’t get around to writing that golang code.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17659/opening-multi...
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