skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the line of thinking, but who actually provides the agent, and what are their incentives?

This is far from a perfect analogy, but compare it to the problem of email spam. People first tried to fight it with client-side Bayes keyword filters. It turns out it wasn't nearly as simple as that, and to solve a problem that complicated, you basically need people working on it full time to keep pace.

Ranking and filtering a Facebook feed would have different challenges, of course. It's not all about adversaries (though there are some); it's also about modeling what you find interesting or important. But that's pretty complicated too. Your one friend shared a woodworking project and your other friend shared travel photos. Which one(s) of those are you interested in? And when someone posts political stuff, is that something you find interesting, or is it something you prefer to keep separate from Facebook? There are a lot of different types of things people post, so the scope of figuring out what's important is pretty big.
For Twitter use curated lists. This allows you to avoid "the algorithm".

You are bemoaning YouTube's discovery process, you need not watch what's "Up Next" — that's your choice.
Love this page. Did you close more business?
70% of HN readers probably don't have the technical knowledge (or hardware on hand) to set up pi-hole without investing 10+ hours.

For those of us with a raspberry pi or intel nuc on hand, sure, it only takes 30 minutes.

This service is for people who want to kill ads at the DNS level without dealing with the hardware / setup of pihole.

Also, not many people are going to bother setting up a VPN to access their pihole DNS when traveling or on cellular, which makes NextDNS attractive.

The other argument is "just use ublock matrix". The counter-argument is it doesn't block native app ads / tracking. (One of the #1 blocked domains on my pihole is from Dashlane's MacOS app, constantly wanting to phone home)
The only real reason they are censoring anything is to make it so the government doesn't have to intervene.

If youtube/facebook/etc were just platforms where people were spreading false information/hysteria/propaganda from other countries targeting the US during a crisis the government would step in and force its own censorship regime on these services.

These services are trying to prevent that from happening by being proactive about policing themselves. This is expensive. They wouldn't do it without a profit motive of keeping the government from getting involved, which would probably be even worse.
I've only met one person who actually expressed satisfaction with Apple's wired ear buds, and he made sure to keep them. Aside from that one guy, most people I talk to on the subject do the same thing I do and dispose of them.

To elaborate on why they're bad:

- They fit poorly

- Their sound quality is terrible (likely due to the bad fit and resulting lack of sound isolation)

- Most importantly, they're physically painful to me after about five minutes of wear, like shoving a brick in my ear. Same reason I was shocked when AirPods took off, because they're the same shape and the same awful fit
> They are both cool for short term use, but I've yet to see a shutter glass/etc implementation that is synced well enough to the screen and blocks 100% of the light to avoid ghosting.

I've never seen this on a monitor/display either. But I have an Epson projector from 2013/2014 that uses shutter glasses and does block 100% of the opposite eyes image. Because it's not a screen, it doesn't have to blank the image between frames, it just completely stops sending light from that frame.
Then call it wage-serfdom then. It's not slavery.

> But language is malleable over time

If the liberty someone is taking with the language is intentionally trying to manipulate how people think about something by abusing what words are commonly accepted as meaning, it's completely fair to call out that manipulation.

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
― Philip K. Dick
A bulwark against fiat debasement and the government basically draining the people dry of any wealth.
Thanks, I’ll give that movie a watch. Personally I think Either/Or is more significant than Fear and Trembling, but Fear and Trembling was ultimately more influential. Personally I see stoicism and leap-of-faith style absurdism as being quite complimentary. I find the leap of faith to be the most appealing resolution to the absurd, but I don’t think the existentialists were particularly successful in addressing anguish. The stoics on the other hand, excelled in this regard.
No problem! I myself actually am a newcomer to writing, but I am excited to see how I develop myself as I continue with this!
International fraud ring milked Washington state’s unemployment system
>Is there a legitimate, distinct, unique use case for physical cash to weight against its use as an enabler for virtually all crimes?

Just because something enables crimes doesn't mean it needs to be stopped. Even though many don't use bitcoin, the ideas that bitcoin (and physical cash) represent outweigh their capabilities for committing crimes.
> The way you’re using the term blurs the distinction between the thing that is composed and the thing that does the composing.

Yes, that is intentional. Both of these things are functions. Even numbers are functions, they just happen to be functions of zero arguments, or functions that ignore their arguments, or functions whose value is constant regardless of what the argument(s) is(are). It's all the same thing. That is the whole point.

Numbers and addition and multiplication happen to be particularly important functions, but they are not structurally different from any other functions. Giving them special notation, especially when you are first introduced to them, obscures this fact. This kind of mental damage is very hard to recover from in later life. I believe it's one of the reasons so many people think they hate math. Math can be beautiful and elegant, but the standard notation used for school-book arithmetic is arbitrary and perverse, a bizarre accident of history with no actual merit.

IMHO of course.

[UPDATE:]

> Function composition is a specific operation that takes two functions, f and g, and returns the function f∘g defined by the behavior (f∘g)(x) = f(g(x)).

Function composition is a function, no different from any other function. There is no more reason to use infix notation for it than there is for any other function. In fact, if you drop the infix notation it immediately becomes obvious how ubiquitous and non-special function composition actually is:

compose(f,g)(x) = compose(f)(g)(x) = f(g(x))

On that view, the COMPOSE function is actually the identity function!
> No group of researchers can train a "document-understanding" model simply because they don't have access to the relevant documents or appropriate training labels for them

This is because you could rename deep learning as "over-parameterized statistics". And statistics is just about building some model of the data. That is the only thing "training" a model is for: discovering/optimizing a statistical distribution (a distribution is a generalization of a function). This means the entirety of deep learning is simply building highly complicated statistical models of a bunch of data.

It is unlikely that this is equivalent to general intelligence found in biology.

We could probably solve the AI problem if the entirety of all of research was not directed at deep learning. And it would also likely be far more valuable to any organization or individual.

But, that is just the 2 cents of some random HN commenter. So, I will keep dreaming.
I know it's hard for people to stomach. But look at the difference in the number of results for far left vs far right and you can see the bias.
> The quality of instructors is truly amazing - easily the top 0.1% - most are world-famous masters of their art. Things like acting lessons from AAA celebrities, dancing lessons from the lead ballerina at one of the top companies in the world, music lessons from multi-platinum artists etc.

FWIW, the best talent usually do not make the best teachers. This is a fact widely remarked upon in the world of sports. Knowing how to get your body to do something well is a very different skill from being able to get another person's body to do something well.
I use IntelliJ as my git diff and git merge tool. Requires this kind of conf:
https://gist.github.com/rambabusaravanan/1d1902e599c9c680319...
"Users who just use a phone as their primary computer will still want to able to publich to their millions of followers, and so it wouldn't work to have these millions of people connect directly to this person's device."

You have shifted the discussion from small overlay network for friends and family to large overlay network for "millions of followers".

Those methods of sharing content with "millions of followers" are already available and will no doubt continue to be available.

A small private network is a different idea, with a different purpose. People will always have the choice of using a public network however a small overlay can avoid sending traffic through third party servers, like Facebook's.

There is no requirement that a service has to be "free", or supported by ads. This is something else you injected in the discussion. I use free software to set up overlays, but I have to pay for internet service and hosting. The cost of the "service" is not the setup it is the internet access and hosting.
There are allusions you don't make lightly in articles about games. Describing in detail the abuse and murder of prostitutes is in this category.
I built https://taaalk.co - it's a writing platform, but one where it's a group discussion.

E.g. https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-things

and https://taaalk.co/t/the-why-how-and-power-of-commercial-open...
Mega-corps don't stop themselves from pursuing an idea just because it's bad for the hoi polloi, so why should we?
That seems generally unlikely to me, but it’s a big ol’ world out there so I am sure it has occurred someplace
> others... well, they are going to show up at a state capital carrying military grade weapons because they don't want to wear facemasks in a pandemic. Would you like to patiently and politely engage with them?

I have a few friends like that on Facebook, and yes I do patiently and politely engage with them — but on occasion I've had to remind them that they aren't the only ones who own guns and know how to use them ....
He's a philosopher. He's looking at the metaphorical nuances of what he observes. It's meant to be a point of analysis, not a literal truth.
The economist comes out weekly.
flagged because it's behind a paywall
Chrome extension to skip silent parts in videos and audio files on any webpage
IME: professional tools are easier to appreciate after implementing them poorly.
All of HN other than you isn't actually one person arguing with themselves. There are a variety of people here with a range of opinions, each with different degrees of internal consistency. This smacks of the "everybody says all kinds of things, so you should just ignore everybody" or the "they're yelling at me from the left and from the right, so that's proof I'm doing everything correctly" defenses. The second is the moderation fallacy; the first might be called the "Argument From Sociopathy."
Why is 10 Gbps too much to ask? You can purchase 10 Gbps NICs and switches now. Works fine over cat6 which has been around for two decades, or the slightly newer cat6a if the building you own is measured in acres.

Yes, the switches and NICs cost more than 1 Gbps gear, but that was also true of 1 Gbps when 100 Mbps was the norm.

And if reusing existing cabling is not a constraint, used fiber+SFP switches on eBay are well within the reach of a hobbyist.
One of my theories about the success of HN is that we are grouped together based on one set of topics (on which we largely agree), but we discuss other topics over which we are just as divided as the general public.

I believe there is an anchoring effect -- if you are just in a discussion where someone helps you understand the RISC-V memory model, it feels wrong to go into another thread on the same site and unload a string of epithets on someone who feels differently than you do about how doctors should get paid.
Because it wasn’t concentration of power they were concerned with. They were only concerned with concentration of power against them (political power against their right to profit).

It was a selfish play not a principled one. For example, slavery was written into the constitution. How the hell does that happen when all men (and no women) were supposedly equal? Slavery was enshrined as an economic and then a political right (2/3 vote).

Not all of them were for slavery but that was the end result of the document/of the competing forces at play. It institutionalized slavery in the new nation.

Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of...

“According to those scholars who saw the root of Jefferson's thought in Locke's doctrine, Jefferson replaced "estate" with "the pursuit of happiness", although this does not mean that Jefferson meant the "pursuit of happiness" to refer primarily or exclusively to property.”

What has gradually happened is that personhood has been gradually extended to more and more entities (sometimes non human).
Hugo?

gohugo.io
Would you be willing to share some good resources for identifying rework traffic beyond IP? I have seen things in my little snitch logs I wonder about but no real recourse.
All the info we needed could have fit inside just a few paragraphs, updated each week.
The outrage towards Facebook causing divisiveness is a red herring. You want to see divisive content, go to foxnews vs cnn. Pretty much the entire media is partisan and biased towards their constituents' points of view. For Facebook, it would be nice if they stick to showing whatever is posted by a user's friends or organizations they like/follow without much curation, but my view is that their impact on divisiveness overall is miniscule
You keep on saying "paternalistic" as if it's a bad thing. I left another comment in this subthread suggesting it is not.

Yes, some people are wrong and some are right. With government, there are basic freedoms that allow people to be wrong, and not to be incarcerated or unduly burdened by government policing thought.

But society? Facebook? Even government messaging ala "The Ad Council"? Yes, absolutely, to hell with disinformation, trolls, and toxic platforms.
YouTube isn't even trying to protect the creators here. You could make excuses about how they have to review each claim to ensure it's valid bases on the DMCA or some interpretation of the DMCA. Having said this I have watched prominent channels get hacked and spread Binance (bitcoin) videos all their content deleted. After 90 days YouTube finally stepped in and stopped the hacker and very slowly restored some of the content.

Kind of super thankful I am not a YouTube Creator because having my channel hacked and my content deleted would be very hard to deal with.
Really ? Of course it's another way to say `breath out slower than breathing in`.

That you believed I suggested the laws of physics could be so easily dismissed is beyond me.

Jeez.
Phenomenal! Thank you for helping to preserve this piece of history.
> There was one left: netflix.soy (if you didn't click the link, soy means "I am" in Spanish)

apparently netflix.tofu was already taken (tofu is the infinitive form of the verb "fu" in TLDish)
> What if, instead, you had a personal AI that read every Facebook post and then decided what to show you.

So you can read more of what you already agree with? That's called living in a bubble. The mind cannot grow in a bubble.
Leaving academia for the private sector: Seven years later
> Most importantly, they're physically painful to me after about five minutes of wear, like shoving a brick in my ear. Same reason I was shocked when AirPods took off, because they're the same shape and the same awful fit

The AirPods really do hurt like the EarPods, but I followed some instructions[0] to make them better and now I can wear them for hours.

[0] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/airpods-poor-fit-fixed....
Civic responsibility is not “anything and everything,” nor was it invented yesterday. Glancing over the day’s headlines and top stories every once in a while, having some idea of what’s going on, and factoring in that information at the voting booth is not an unreasonable expectation for a citizen in a democracy.

The 24 hour cable news cycle is toxic, yes, but there are still daily papers and even less frequent periodicals with generally calmer perspectives.
The Law of Averages isn't actually a law, and everything doesn't balance out in the end.
Because an algorithm under your control can be tweaked by you. Could be as simple as reordering topics on a list of preferences. Facebook's algorithm can't be controlled like that. Also, an algorithm you own won't change itself unbeknownst to you.
> Instead of actually trying to create the best customer service

I've worked in high volume customer services. It's not easy for the agents doing the work or the companies operating them.

I've worked in multiple call centers dealing with calls and tickets. I've worked in companies in which I dealt with mobile phone bill queries and hardware issues right up to Cisco networking problems and then eventually enterprise grade Linux clusters at Rackspace (UK). I've spanned a pretty large spectrum of industries from a customer services perspective. I've even done customer services in the food industry.

It's HARD. Not just for you as an operator, but as a company trying to offer the service to begin with. of all of the companies I worked for, O2 (a mobile phone provider and network operator) had tens of millions of customers. We had several call centers that spanned close to ten thousand agents doing everything from calls to tickets, emails to Tweets. The call queue for that company never dropped below a constant 200-300 on hold and emails took days to even get to.

Google has approx' one BILLION customers.

What is your suggestion here?

> they are mostly trying to automate the whole process as much as possible which then causes errors like this

Damn straight automation, to a larger degree, is the answer. People don't scale at all. They can do one job at a time, for a limited amount of time, and are subject to all kinds of problems.

> Yeah I know it's terribly expensive to keep a horde of content reviewers

It cost O2 about $5/6 to answer a single call. That's the cost of the agent's time and JUST answering the call, not the cost of listening, understanding, resolving and ending the call. Humans are expensive.

I'm not saying don't use people. I'm saying automation at Google's scale is one of the few solutions available to them when it comes to dealing with the simply insane amounts of complaints they'll receive just via their YouTube platform alone.

EDIT: Apologies for being so crude in my original wording. I'm updating the comment to reflect a more professional, civil tone.
The official Hacker News headline-fixing person needs to fix this right now.
Might help is there actually was AI... Because currently we just have a lot of people misnomering machine learning, aka glorified brute force pattern recognition, as AI.
But what happens after it's committed to git? What turns a git checkin into a CDN distribution?
Pretty sure this is what search analytics is for... and it’s not about whether a particular phrase is the best signal, but the cheapest signal.
I won't deign to pick apart your defense of disgusting toxicity, throwaway681 other than to say shame on you for going out of your way to defend it.
This 100%, this reminds me of PG's haters post[1].

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html
Isn't it more like "Google picked one, and Microsoft/Apple/IBM/Linux/*BSD/Cisco/Oracle/HP/... picked the other"? Besides Google's, the only OSs I see which support IPv6 but not DHCPv6 are VMS, Symbian, and z/OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_in_...
> HIRE SOME PEOPLE

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23317390
I am happy to pay $10 bucks a month for a facebook like service that suggests me engaging, high quality content without any promotional content.

I am already getting such service in the form of Android's newsfeed feature on pixel. Its google but its pretty good.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23317390
Interesting read and makes sense. Defining an unambiguous language is hard.

The full C grammar isn't very long, however, handling cases such as undefined behaviors between types seems to cause trouble.
Why? It's a great app to keep track of what your friends are doing
Ask HN: How did it feel leaving a job after 'X' long years?
Also, how did you adapt in a new (smaller) work environment especially coming from a big company?
is it really such a jump with a reference like this in the original post?

"And it's almost effortless now. Like, wtf. Have I too become one of those insane Patrick Bateman-like beings that I thought all productive people were a few months ago? How did I finally pull it together? Here's the deal."

It may be a tongue in cheek reference but the comparison to Bateman is apt. He is actually the logical endpoint of this sort of life optimization, surface without anything beneath it and symbolic death. I'm not so sure how large the number of people is who unironically thing Bateman is a rolemodel rather than a parody and symbol of the sort of yuppie culture on display here.
YouTube and Spotify went that subscription route and it works well. There are no ads.
A more relevant metric might be how many channels are subjected to community guideline or copyright strikes per day. Hiring humans to individual examine each of these circumstances is probably far more feasible than hiring humans to individually examine every single video.
The American Economy Was Just Blasted Years into the Future
I've come to the same conclusions myself many years ago. I've watched the news and been told that some person has gone missing or been murdered. Why do I need to know this? The only people who need to know this information are those who knew that person, and the police, of course.
People who write "CCP" are easy tells. Also you forgot "whataboutism".
That's how the nationalist lore goes...but what makes it the truth?
I may be off on this but I believe low carb diets as a treatment for prediabetics/diabetics was considered pseudoscience for decades by most doctors [1], largely associated with fad diets like Atkins and keto. Over the last decade or two that has slowly been changing. Holistic approaches in general have been gaining steam and taking back that word from the naturopaths.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1188071/
The videos were flagged and reviewed as acceptable several times, then subsequently flagged and reviewed as unacceptable. The inability to prevent scripted attacks like this where an attacker brute forces takedown requests doesn't strike me as "doing their best".

They can defend against DDoS attacks, why can't they do better against fraudulent takedown requests? I think the answer lies in their monopoly status and the fact that creators don't have many other options for getting real traffic outside of YouTube.
I think another tangential but related issue is with how these companies measure success. They measure success by engagement, and things that drive the most user engagement aren't usually the best for the user.

YouTube has been getting a lot of flack for this recently.
What's the difference between this, jq, and JMESPath?
If facebook was following a deterministic algorithm, people would complain too.
Second the recommendation. Came across her on twitter last week, found the book & listened to most of it over the Memorial day weekend via an audiobook.
now you know. and hopefully route53 will ring a bell every time you hear it.