skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But online there are legal requirements around marking ads as ads. Is there no such law for televised news?
A Practical Guide to Maintaining Machine Learning
Isn’t cloudflare largely built on OpenResty.

Also, why for the desire to have JavaScript built in. There’s a number of language features of Lua that make openresty possible that I’m not certain JavaScript could provide.
I guess I just don't buy enough things to want to see any ads at all. I don't have any particular issue selecting products either.

A well targeted ad doesn't need to serve you well, it just needs to convince you to buy; I have a lot of faith in myself and I'd say those are often the same thing, but experiences may differ.
The site is now unable to serve requests. I signed up, and the loading won't stop.
The JavaScript Bootcamp
Also, understanding the various ways in which people learn a specific subject is an underappreciated ability possessed by a good teacher. Knowing how various people get hung up on conceptually on different elements of a subject is something that comes from experience and outside review of your teaching that a "master" probably never gets.

The corollary is that good teachers are rarely great in their field.
So glad minimal websites are becoming more popular! Great idea. https://catfish.dev/catfish-developer.html also follows that ideology
I agree. I do not think the tweets of government officials should be deletable under any circumstances. Instead they should have an option for strikethrough, or somehow tag as obsolete with link to the revised tweet. I can see how a police department might get some fact incorrect, or information fundamentally changes, and they need to make a correction - so a strike through would achieve that, without deleting the record.
I switched to Manjaro 2 years ago after 12 years on Ubuntu (since Edgy Eft) and never looked back.

You can check distrowatch.com for most popular distros.
It's been 5 years now. Facebook ads used be creepy, but polite: "Come back to Facebook"
But not anymore, black text one white background:
"Go To Facebook"
next ad:
"See What You've Missed From Friends And Family"

Kill it with fire! The only advice I have about the company and it's products.
Jesus goddamned Christ, even the President of the United States doesn't realize that a corporation is incapable of violating your First Amendment rights.
For a lot of these things, I've found that thirty minutes of looking at the problem from various angles is enough to get your subconscious mind engaged. After working on the problem for a bit, the solution just comes to you when you're in the shower or on a bike ride.
Second this - it’s a great book, and one of the few truly actionable guides to doing positioning (a lot of them get pretty academic).

Accessible to founders, and helps lay out the art and science of positioning, and give a methodology for actually doing it. Would recommend it also to technical people who are sceptical of marketing in general.
OP edited their post, but they were talking about methods to change maybe one or two dozen votes at a time. The minimum number of votes that you would need to reverse the 2016 presidential election was 107k. That was if you had perfect polling going in and knew exactly what votes to change. In practice you would likely need to change several hundred thousand votes if not over a million. This process would need to be done in multiple states all over the country. You would need a large distributed team of people all committed to defrauding an election. That isn't a smart plan for a conspiracy.
>but consider that a vote for Biden is a vote for the same Bush-Clinton consensus that will continue those policies.

And Trump hasn't really proven to be a vote against them. The status quo remains firmly entrenched, the rich are still getting richer, and the jobs aren't coming back from overseas (because sending them there was a decision made by businesses, not Congress.)

The more effective strategy would be to focus on changing policy at the state or local level, where it's actually created. We, and by 'we' I mean mostly Republicans (since I live in a state dominated by them,) need to move past this infatuation we have of the President as "CEO in Chief," and with maverick "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" types who promise to turn over the tables of the moneychangers and whip the fear of God into those damn effete Washington city-slickers.

We need to recognize that the office is a political office and that political experience, and experience in matters of law and diplomacy, is not a detriment. We're not electing someone to hang out with in a bar and play darts, we're electing a bureaucrat and giving them the nuclear football. And that there are two other branches of government to pay attention to as well.

We should have higher standards, is what I'm saying.
I sure am tired of hearing about "the fundamental flaw" in empowering people. What you describe is not a flaw in empowerment, it's a flaw in their business model, and it's one that can that be fixed (i.e. "innovate a better business model"). Can we stop propagating the idea that people who do not want to use their limited bandwidth and processing power to rasterize someone else's advertising are somehow "flawed"?

The only thing more insane than blaming users for having self-interest are the people who pretend that Facebook et al. are somehow owed the business model they have, painting ad-blockers as some kind of dangerous society-destabilizing technology instead of the commonsense response to shitty business practices it clearly is.
I think Excel can be considered an upgrade on the physical typewriter. Yet, some people still write books with those. Whatever gets you there.
So assuming this is true, two things.

One, why haven't you reported your aunt for voter fraud? Voter fraud is a very serious issue and it seems to me that you're letting a criminal go free. This can be easily verified by telling the government and having the three others confirm who they voted for.

For two, if she is mailing in the ballots, then is she forging their signature as well as collecting their SSNs? Or are they simply signing on the ballots themselves agreeing to the votes? In which case is that truly fraud or not? If she's forging signatures then she's also committing identity theft which is a very serious issue, one that I hope you agree deserves reporting.
But there's a big difference: a press release is very up-front about being a curated message from the company. The scary thing here is that it's masquerading as independent coverage.
This is a money problem. Google don't want to spend money on human curation. The cost of that is that legitimate channels lose income.

I feel bad for authors that use the platform because they must to reach a sizeable audience, yet the platform does not care about them because they are not Vevo.
The President of the United States of America doesn't understand the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America has absolutely nothing to do with private companies limiting anyone's speech.

<shakes head>
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They might have 1 billion free users, but they definitely don't have 1 billion partners or 1 billion paying customers.

Google's customer service is horrible even for organizations that pay them +$10k/month or make them +$10k/month for ad sales, and that is a far smaller number.

You would think they could at least scale customer support properly for that much smaller number, but they don't because culturally they do not want to. Even people who have used google cloud services say the support is bad compared to AWS. Google stands out as a corp that is really bad at customer service.

While apple, amazon, AWS & many other companies provide customer support that mostly works for customers who provide maybe $40/month max in revenue. They don't even let you self pay for your own support at google in most cases.

I bet youtubers who live on their work on youtube would gladly pay $100 to deal with one off incidents like these that might happen once a year if it meant they had proper thought applied to their issues for example.
As an example of the sort of manipulation that appears to be going on, there's currently a one-star review with over 25,000 thumbs-ups pinned to the app store page with the text:

> Tiktok is a bad app. I have become nervous, never sleep on the video. Hi, how hard can I work together but never even 100 out of 50, I am installing Tiktok if you have the answer to this thing. Fix as soon as possible. We are not crazy who make videos. I have made 600 videos on this, but till today, not a single viral video has been made or their videos are also going viral. I'm not installing Tic Tok so I don't

This is clearly not a human-written review -- it jumps between ideas at random and breaks off in the middle of a sentence. It was almost certainly generated based on segments of other negative reviews.

Nor is the number of votes on the review normal. It's remarkable for a single recent review, even on a popular app like TikTok, to have even one thousand thumbs-ups. (Compare the reviews on the Facebook app, for instance.) 25,000 is absurd.
And how do you know that's not what Youtube is doing already ?
It is a link called "get the facts." It says nothing about the veracity of the statement besides which it appears.

Why are you against people becoming more educated?
Learning from LadderLeak: Is ECDSA Broken?
One offering from The Great Courses that the HN crowd might appreciate is "Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature":

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-utopian-and-dy...

The professor is excellent.
> I feel like most of the time I see posts like this, the situation is resolved favorably and relatively quickly.

This is because the only time a post like this rises to the top on HN is because it's affecting someone notable in the tech/startup circle or someone with a lot of tech followers. If you don't have this kind of leverage to get Google's attention you're usually SOL. An example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMvyVEQO6M

Edit: follow up to the above video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIK0yafnbGM

From the transcript:

> long story short it only went back up I got a message this morning from someone who is a fan of mine who is a Google employee who kind of reached out internally about it after finding out what happened and that basically immediately solved it after three months of me trying everything that I you know basically everything that I knew to try

So yeah. Unless you have a fan at Google, you can go pound sand if you run into a problem.
I disagree. Flash storage used within the range of its capabilities is more reliable than spinning rust. Failure of flash is quite predictable and can be managed through the use of over provisioning and advanced error correction codes. Flash failures tend to be localized and directly related to wear caused by writes. This can be managed by properly written firmware.

In contrast, traditional HDDs are mechanical devices. Total failure of a hard drive tends to happen unpredictably. A poorly time impact can result in damage that is fatal for the entire device. Once debris starts bouncing around inside of an HDD, damage can be catastrophic.

I will agree that early flash drives were not as reliable as they should have been, a problem is that mostly solved in SSDs produced today. Software issues in SSDs were a problem in the early days -- I even had an early Intel 32GB SLC SSD that bricked itself even though it was nowhere near the end of its rated life. It takes time for firmware developers to develop an understanding of the problem space and create a sufficiently advanced test bed to exercise some of the more complicated corner cases associated with wear related issues near the end of life. SSDs today are a very different beast than those on the market 10 years ago.

Lately I've been getting some exposure to the archival problem space. Event today, tapes are still an important part of the storage hierachy, especially when it comes to legal compliance by certain large businesses.
I m adding a section for "Remote city groups" to a remote working community : https://reworkin.com/groups/dir?sub=local . Also, support for Remote City profiles
Alas, this is what The People democratically voted for; and with our current voting system, the will of us 49% who don’t want to hear it counts for nothing u_u
>Elections are run by the states, not by the Federal government.

Sorry, I was talking about national scope and not the federal government actually running the election. The larger the electorate, the more votes cast, the more votes needed to change the results, and the more important scaling becomes in your plan to rig the election.

> If Washington, the 13th most populous state can conduct elections purely via mail-in ballots, why not any other state?

I agree.
Show HN: Understanding Shape Detection Using Hough Transform with Python
> 1st: most people outside of government don't know how much they are expected/"required" to do to protect their work against foreign nation states.

This is very true, sadly. It ought not to be, but level of practical cyber abilities seems sorely lacking. I see lots of "governance" style cyber, but not a lot of "deep technical expertise being allowed to develop defences".

University research lab type environments deserve a special call-out though for being near-impossible to defend. Most of the time these are "defended" by pooled central IT staff without specific awareness of the significance of the systems or threats faced. University networks are also notoriously open, and even in lab environments, they're often connected directly to the internet or campus network (airgapped computers for internet access are less convenient and someone would have to pay for them, and nobody wants to). Let's not even go into the various shadow IT remote access systems in use, which circumvent the institution firewall to let them get work done from home in the evenings...

University lab environments are an incredibly tough target to secure. And the researchers will find ever more ingenious workarounds to security measures that they find getting in the way of their work.

> Except for heavily regulated sectors (government, military, heavy industry, banking, core telecom, and more recently elections) very few companies will actually get help from 3-letter-agencies to actively protect against foreign nation state attacks.

Even some of these sectors sorely lack ability in cyber, at least in some very developed and otherwise capable countries. There is still a very real barrier between 3 letter agencies, and the industries you mentioned that need this help. Information sharing is often too little too late, or not specific enough to be actioned.

That said, I do think cyber security needs to be a bigger priority in all sectors, but nobody wants to pay for it, and as long as there's no routine cost to business, I don't see that changing. Not while traditional "value for money" metrics are used to measure and compare options - it's very hard for those reviewing tenders or proposalsto see and differentiate between good security and some "military grade, unbreakable, quantum sprinkles" snake-oil security that has SQL injections everywhere.
I'd add to that that type errors can happen at run-time, too, in any language that allows any level of dynamic typing. That includes fully dynamic languages (I swear, the most mysterious type errors I've ever fought with concerned Python libraries with insufficient documentation), but it also includes static languages like Java that permit unsafe downcasting.
The edit was "by Fox News viewers" which was previously implicit. To them these are hard left, but to moderates and the left they aren't. It is a matter of perspective.

> but honestly Fox News viewers seeing CBS as substantively representing the left in any capacity is a large part of the problem here.

This is something I agree with and is actually the crux of my post.
Normally I'd recommend a gym (I also don't have space in my apartment) but that's not realistic right now. I've found in the past that the doorway bars that hook around the structure work pretty well, and some cardboard will prevent scuffs.
> Every single aspect of life that cannot be rigorously tested under the scientific method is destined to become a partisan topic.

Remind me again how rigorously testing under a scientific method has quelled any misinformation these days??
I would argue that misinformation via the web has only metastasized over the past decade and the deplatforming efforts have been comparatively minimal.
This is true. Setting goals for yourself can be effective so long as you don't beat yourself up too horribly if they fail. That's usually counterproductive--especially if the goal is to improve your mental health.
And, secondarily to your main point, the idea that "sharing images and text with a small group of people" is some weird niche case that Facebook users don't care about is... pretty off-base. I'd say it's the main use case for the majority of Facebook users.
I knew that google feed was advertising, any reading about google news and google feed that talks about this? I have a pixel, same findings.
I agree very much. I am an amateur club chess player and watching the Garry Kasparov MasterClass was painful. It’s a bunch of self-aggrandizing bluster meant to make it seem like a genius is at work, with all this hemming and hawing and grunting and pointing obtusely at this square then that square. Absolutely no connection to the way a skilled player calculates moves, not even Kasparov himself when he played competitively.

On top of this, in most of it, he’s surrounded by children who are clearly instructed to act like their mind is blown by some epiphany if grunting and pointing at some squares.
You didn't address what parent said at all. Parent said all COVID-19 research should be freely available to all as a matter of principle.

What China does or doesn't do has no bearing on this.
Sure thing. Going to open source it after it's done. I have been thinking of using activity pub and making discovery decentralized so people can host their own curation and share with each other.

I will have to look more into it though.
It's also showing higher speeds, for me. Though only ~20Mbps higher on Cloudfare's speed test vs. other speed tests (and what I'm paying for).
Do you trust your ISP? Because they are probably logging.
Thanks for picking on specifics. The evidence is clear and endless. Mail in voting is susceptible to more fraud. Period.

https://www.dailybreeze.com/government-and-politics/20161103...
Completely unrelated to the content of the article, but I find it so annoying when interview responses are rendered in italics.

For contrast, here's a nicely typeset interview from the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/25/magazine/hann...
I don’t think “your pay cut might be big enough to qualify you for financial aid” is a typical part of the WFH sale pitch, in any case.
U.S. lawmakers unveil bold $100B plan to remake NSF
> Don't you want to learn about sale for new tech gadgets? Discounts for AWS? Good rent deals?

No, not at all. Ads don't just inform about deals, they also incite you to buy. I don't want to buy just because some random company got the chance to put some psychological manipulation in front of my eyeballs. If I want or need something, I will specifically seek it out. If I don't specifically seek it out, then I probably don't really need it.

If the price (heh) of that is that I miss out on some better deals for stuff that I would otherwise seek out, I'm fully happy eating that cost.
> It has to do with managers preferring to make sure that they can somehow avoid being personally blamed for their subordinate's mistakes

You can't fire a crappy AI and replace it with one with better judgement. If it does something weird or bad or inexplicable, you can't ask why it did that and tell it to how to be better in the future. Blame is a tool that organizations and people; you can't blame AI because you mostly can't teach AI.
It wouldn't take guts, just a pinch more of that insular Silicon Valley naïveté the rest of American has grown to despise.

Considering Trump is up against https://joebiden.info, banning him would all but guarantee a tumultuous future for Twitter.
Well, remember it's their agent that's managing the brand. It's not as if the celebrity is picking it over 1000 other things. Their agent thinks that out of a 1000 avenues for strengthening the celebrity's brand, Masterclass would hit the right demographic and get the best return on effort (and it's their job to make those determinations).
This seems to be true of learning as well. It's strange how easy it is (for me at least) to break the cycle of doing something every day--I tell myself that it's okay to skip today so long as I make it up tomorrow (or on the weekend or whatever). At that point it's easy to keep putting it off just through inertia.
It’s amazing how many things exist in modern western culture that are geared around the most basic principles that used to be automatic, like “work hard”, “make your bed”, etc.

However, it’s easy to draw a strong correlation between this and the the departure from farm / manufacturing life into modern urban / suburban office life.

In, perhaps, 60 years, we will be at a point where the vast majority of people won’t even know anyone who works hard (from today’s perspective, such as a garbage man or farm hand). In the long run, these kinds of jobs simply won’t be valued; they’ll all have been “tractored out”.
I agree completely. Trump does not have a crystal ball. Therefore, he should not present things as established fact if they are merely unproven opinion.

He is in a position of power and influence. His words have far-reaching consequences.
Seven Myths of Formal Methods (1990) [pdf]
Hui's immediate response was, "Do you start counting from 0 or 1?"

Counting numbers are defined as the integers starting from one. I'm probably lacking a bit of rigour there. err ... Define 1 = S or is that S = 1 or S is a thing or 1 is a thing or something and then put more S (s) in until you run out of S (essessses) then you have reached infinity. If it's not a really big infinity then keep adding S (sssssss) or remove a few and add some more. You'll get there eventually - lots of Ss or infinity, or not, who knows? If you run out of S then try adding some T. Everything is better with T.

He would have better off with: "Do you prefer green trees or brown trees?" That would have simply sounded silly, rather than +1 insightful.
Twitter Adds Fact-Check Notice to Trump Tweets on Mail-In Ballots
I'm guessing it's because a lot of people (possibly being paid to do so) flagged many comments with these words in them, and so the ML model learned to predict that these words would lead to complaints and just deleted it right away.