skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One method I've used which puts some additional pressure on me to work on side projects is to write them out in the open in a public GitHub repo. Even though there's probably nobody following your development, the idea that anyone could be following along can provide some motivation to keep going.
I agree this is the main problem with ActivityPub, can you elaborate on your DHT idea? I'm thinking of doing something similar. How can the search be fast if the data is on many nodes, will you store the cache on a single instance and update it on some interval?
This is potentially huge for "exit vim" speedrun community, assuming it wont be banned. I can easily this easily shaving maybe another 10 seconds from current wr

https://youtu.be/TLbfqZBL8t8
They are running concentration camps.
Reclam
Can there be a zeroth prime? We are counting things and I think that counting starts at one.

Given that a counting always starts at one, because that is what defines counting, then there cannot be a zeroth prime.
What are the chances that there is no rational thinking behind this deal? What I mean is, what if some Amazon exec said, "Hey, sounds like a cool project, let's throw a couple $b their way and write it off as R&D in the worst case?" Or maybe that exec is buddies with a VC who lost a ton of money on Zoox, and the exec decided to bail out the VC at the expense of Amazon shareholders? Or maybe someone at Amazon really likes Jesse Levinson?
A lot of how big systems work is embodied in large neural networks, and the detailed structure of how they make decisions is an open research problem. So it’s not silly for OP to state that at all; it’s empirical fact.

It’s also not possible to audit the code for anything unusual without taking it all the way back through all tools source, all hardware, down through the chips, through the doping in the chips, and even lower. This stack is such a hard problem that DARPA has run programs for a long time to address this. Start by reading Thompson’s ACM article titled something like “Reflections on Trustimg Trust” where he shows code audits don’t catch program behavior, then follow the past few decades where these holes have been pushed through the entire computing stack.
You can do this by picking a VPN provider that supports WireGuard. In WireGuard config file, you can change the dns address to pihole. I did this so that I can use VPN + nextdns together in iOS because I can't change DNS in iOS.
The first thing I noticed when watching their promo video was that the audio was distorted at anything above half volume...
Covid-19 lockdown keeps many Americans from seeing, touching someone
What terminology do you use to refer to the Communist Party of China? Mind that the PRC does not equate to the communist party.
They won't do anything to change the truck economy, it's pretty much what's keeping the big 3 alive and profitable. They get murdered by Toyota and Honda on small cars.
> Remember, China sequenced the virus and shared the genome with the whole world to help build tests faster. And now they would try to impede research?

The virus came from Wuhan where China has some sort of biological laboratory. The virus has hugely affected Europe and the U.S., but has had comparatively little effect in China.

I'm not saying they made the virus and released it. But there will always be suspicion - if it looks like a duck and has a history of wanting to be a duck, maybe it could actually be a duck. And so any 'good' effort by China can always be dismisses as 'they're just trying to look like they didn't do it.'

Of course there's always the very real possibility that China didn't do it. In which case I feel bad for them; they're in a tough situation. But then again, maybe they did?
Italy Says 96% of Virus Fatalities Suffered from Other Illnesses
Microsoft’s Fluid Framework was announced at this year’s Build conference. It’s like OLE + Google Docs “on steroids.” Imagine sending an email with an embedded spreadsheet to multiple recipients who then collaborate and edit in-line without opening the Excel file. Or PowerPoint, Word, etc... Everyone would see the edits in real time. The modules are drag and droppable. The whole framework is also open source, so Microsoft envisions developers making new applications out of the core concept.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21260005/microsoft-office...
'scale' is often used as a cop-out.

If you double your customer count, and double your revenue, then you can double your customer support resources. O(n) does not become impractical just because the number gets really big.

If they can't deal with something, the fundamental design is wrong, and would fail even if they downsized a thousandfold.
Definitely would get a Suzuki Jimny, a jeep on a budget.
Fine, learn how to sell books from him. Just don't learn how to write.
Just need to build a tool that predicts the next version of a program from an earlier version and suggests improvements (ideally bug fixes).

Then you have http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-914 for programs.
I don't know why all these expert voting frauds don't just take up regular mail fraud?
A 2-stroke engine has one ignition per revolution per cylinder. A 4 stroke engine has half an ignition per revolution per cylinder (or two revolutions per ignition).

This engine has only one combustion chamber for every four cylinders, which means that it experiences one quarter of an ignition per revolution per cylinder.

It's not a 4-stroke, clearly, but I don't see how you can get away with calling it a 2-stroke either. The strokes kind of become beside the point, but if I had to I might want to call this an 8-stroke engine.

I see them pilfering ideas from this for 'simpler' engines. That valve design feels like it could be used for about anything. I've seen other engine designs that use a single intake chamber, so that part has in fact already been done before.

That recuperation chamber trick I think could be applied to a traditional 4-stroke engine, which you would need every other cycle and therefore could share with another cylinder (opposed by a full revolution, which I hear at least a few 4 cylinders do). And something similar could be applied on the intake side (although you might have to use the ignition cylinder for the second compression) and then fully half of your cylinders fire.
Why I Sold My Stocks for a $9,299.73 Loss
Ah, but what's the definition of advertising? Probably requires the station to get paid, right? So what happens if the station airs the segment the company produced for free because it lets them be lazy and not hire as many reporters to fill their airtime?

It actually becomes a tough line to draw, because a lot of huge conglomerates own media organizations. If you carry a coronavirus story produced by ABC, do you have to regard it as advertising because ABC is owned by Disney and the virus severely impacts their theme parks?
My take about Amazon interested in this is that in a giant list of AWS offerings, there will be a sensor suite processor service called SDS (Self Driving Suite) which will be installed physically inside the car as a server box. Amazon AWS has some experience in building hardware, AWS Snowball for e.g. Ofcourse it will communicate over 5G for non-immediate processing and will run through 3 intermediate AWS services before running the actual processing job on EC2 instance. One of them being SFS or Sensor Fusion Service, which combines geospatial data (from AGS + IPS) with up-to-date road data from other SDS equipped vehicles(1). The billing will be a bit complex so it will require ABS to optimize the billing based on location, mileage and other AI-driven metrics.

(1) Inbound bandwidth will be free.
Frankly it sounds like you just need more experience reading literature.
Reddit did not mandate email as of about a year or so ago. I only use HN because no email (well I might have signed up with email anyways but I certainly never provided one). Look at all the dead posts under new on HN, they get spam and do a good job of managing it.

You can get btc with cash, if you already have it,it's a nice option.

"If it can be abused,it will be abused".

Captchas and small btc payments can't easily be abused against the user but email and phone number can. Email and phone number are also not costly to an attacker to spoof or churn out at a high rate. Captchas and small payments have accumulating prohibitive cost for an attacker.

IfI create a gmail just to sign up,it certainly is much more of a hassle. Even temporary inbox services are a hassle these days compared to a 20sec captcha.
>Are they trying to pivot into being car manufacturing companies?

Is Amazon, a company worth 1.4T dollars, trying to "pivot" into a car manufacturer? Seems unlikely, no?

Amazon has a massive logistics and delivery operation. I imagine any automation there will yield great returns.
Gross vs. net sales just means a small percentage adjustment, unless the manufacturer makes a broken product. The other costs of making a table saw also make up a fixed percentage of gross sales, not net, but despite that, the product is still sellable.
There are plenty of non-car companies that make components for the industry.
I know! It's crazy! Reviewers are like "OMG so amazing! Look at how cool it is when you move around!", and they're in there going "Ok, but wouldn't it be fun if we hid it from everyone and made it look like we're full of shit and have something to hide?"
> 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

Just a thought experiment, does Youtube need to be as big as it is? Can’t Youtube say “given the current accuracy/precision of ML based solutions and how much our manual operations can scale, we are going to rate limit the content that circulates to match our ability of giving the best judgment on what videos to take down and what videos to keep”. Physical stores have maximum occupancy limits, and with coronavirus some even shown proactive rate limiting to say “hey, we can’t ensure transmission control above a certain density”. Those are corporations too, those also have fiduciary duty.

I think “growth at all costs” is a major driver of these types of failures, especially when costs are externalized and distributed to the userbase; one annoying notification, one abuse feature change, one harmful policy decision at a time.

> Go find rates, not anecdotes, then you might have something

Youtube has near perfect knowledge of the warm data of their operations, and use it to optimize user frustration rather than minimize it, while we only get to know others are being abused when news make it to Hacker News. The inability to find the rates is inherent to the problem. Short of sneaking into Youtube data centers, there is only so much data you can find without Youtube’s say so. Which brings the question, for such a massive policy layer operation, why is this data not made transparent?
Hey, Facebook VP of Integrity here (I work on this stuff).

This WSJ story cites old research and falsely suggests we aren’t invested in fighting polarization. The reality is we didn’t adopt some of the product suggestions cited because we pursued alternatives we believed are more effective. What’s undeniable is we’ve made significant changes to the way FB works to improve the integrity of our products, such as fundamentally changing News Feed ranking to favor content from friends and family over public content (even if this meant people would use our products less). We reduce distribution of posts that use divisive and polarizing tactics like clickbait, engagement bait, and we’ve become more restrictive when it comes to the types of Groups we recommend to people.

We come to these decisions through rigorous debate where we look at all angles of how our decisions will affect people in different parts of the world - from those with millions of followers to regular people who might not otherwise have a place to be heard. There’s a baseline expectation of the amount of rigor and diligence we apply to new products and it should be expected that we’d regularly evaluate to ensure that our products are as effective as they can be.

We get criticism from all sides of any decision and it motivates us to look at research, our own and external, analyze and pressure test our principles about where we do and don't draw lines on speech. We continue to do and fund research on misinformation and polarization to better understand the impact of our products; in February we announced an additional $2M in funding for independent research on this topic (e.g. https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/02/facebook-misinformation...).

Criticism and scrutiny are always welcome, but using cherry-picked examples to try and negatively portray our intentions is unfortunate.
The value at stake is immense — one of the most economically impactful inventions since the Internet — so companies with tons of money are trying to get a piece of the action.
Too slow to load on fiber.. I waited 10ms.
Zero chance. Less than zero chance.

Companies don't make billion dollar purchases with no due diligence with just one person involved in making the decision. And they don't buy companies just to immediately write them down.

Amazon is one of the most successful companies in the world. They didn't get there by acting like children.
They might be thinking in terms of automated delivery vehicles.
Why don't you care about letting Trump slide, but you do care about letting anti-white racists slide?
Maybe fun isn’t the best way to describe it, but Military regimentation can certainly be satisfying in its own way.
> I don't think it's the kind of thing that should (or even could) be taught to teenagers. I hope github keeps this mainly focused on web IDE with automatic grading and turn-in instead of trying to get kids to learn Git

Why?

Git is pretty fun. Learning that it's not magic but just references and pointers to different objects was very valuable.

Although I probably don't understand enough to implement efficient merging but I can make a simple git clone (I am currently trying).

Git is a good way to introduce kids about hashes and basic crypto stuff, graphs (DAG) and other data structures, collaboration, etc.

saying this as a 16 year old.
Companies will stop working on it the moment they lose incentive, etc etc.
On the other hand, 'If Planet Nine Is a Tiny Black Hole, This Is How to Find It'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23132488

> The black hole in this scenario is neither infinitely massive nor infinitely small... 10 times more massive than Earth and five cm across.
I can see both points of view. Of course, if you enjoy making a new language do it, lots will be learned and you can always remember back to that language you made.

On the other hand, if your intention is to make a new language that does something distinctly different and for some purposes better, then answering those questions will save you from spending time on things that don't deeply matter. Now if we're not in a circle of language design researchers, things that matter can be syntax.

I can see what's being attempted and I appreciate it. I myself have wanted a kind of 'referential transparency' when it comes to lazy values in an otherwise strict language. Or in this case async ones executing concurrently. You can use the result of the expression without the ceremony. I'm not particular to the syntax and would have liked to see it added to a popular language. Making a whole new language is scratching an itch, which is also great for what it is.
A video of it in action: https://youtu.be/NFO0sFC34yE?t=112
I would welcome something radical. Most stations have been taken over by some national streaming entity.
Hey, Facebook VP here (I work on this). We’ve made some meaningful changes to address this since 2016. We’ve strengthened our enforcement in groups and have been actively working on our recommendation tools as well, for example removing groups with extremist content that violates our policies, from recommendations.
I don't even want to have a medium.com account for their crappy UI and hostile paywalls, but I doubt those who use medium regularly actually discover new blogs.
HN is one of my primary sources to read new things, and I'm already blind to medium's footer read-more links.
You can distribute it across multiple subscribers. $1k/month cash deposits for 1000 people will raise less questions than $1M/month for one person. That said, whole operation looks rather expensive, there should be much cheaper and easier ways than fake Patreon accounts.
Why does it move so slowly?
It used to be "broadcast" was really broadcast over limited public airwaves. Now it's all IPTV and streams and there is no practical limit on the amount of content that can be distributed, which was always the justification for regulating it.

The real problem now is nobody wants to pay for anything when the competition is free. "You're not the customer, you're the product" doesn't only apply to Google.
Talk about over engineering, dang. Is it a journaling app? Day One is the big bear in the room.

But just writing everyday won’t make you better the same way fucking around with a guitar everyday won’t make you any good.

If you really want to become a better writer, try writing a short story or an essay. Or Nanowrimo. That’s always popular
This is the most hands-on exciting post I've seen on HN this year. Congrats!
Bypassing Microsoft Store App Licensing
Isn't this utterly at odds with the concept of code ownership, and how SRE doesn't take systems into production without owning them first?
Yes, but given their economics, they are always happy to find most of the work already done for them.
We'll its also cooperate and die. As increased cooperation undermines any trust in the news organization which contributes to diminished viewer/readership.
git replace¹ should be able to do it; otherwise, grafts² work too.

¹ https://git-scm.com/docs/git-replace
² https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GraftPoint
It would if you installed it right in C: without subfolder. It would definitely was all your games if you installed in your games directory without a subfolder of it's own.
That’s a pretty indifferent attitude to take. Do things because you want to? A lot of people make these videos for a living, and have no choice but to feed the advertisement machine. The business model of the internet is not something most content creators have any control over, and it’s pointless to criticize them for it. The only players who might be able to do that are the big tech companies controlling the platforms, which is why they take a lot of flak for how things are going.
Collective decision making and financial due diligence can't always stop you from making dumb decisions. Especially at the most successful companies in the world.
Amazon is now a major shipping and delivery company, in addition to everything else (as of last year, they were apparently delivering half of their packages themselves [0]). My guess is they would like to automate that.

[0] https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/19/21029932/amazon-logist...
The color is absolutely real. Many Hymenoptera, and other insects have this coloration. It structural, not pigment, bouncing light around via microscopic grooves and ridges. Fun fact, most Hymenoptera are also very very small, ~2mm or so, and some the chalcid, or jewel-wasps are very often iridescent.

Someone just pulled off this same effect with Chocolate a while back. [1] (NTY paywall]

[1](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/science/chocolate-irisdes...)
You can do it for every app with a hundred thousand installs, though. And they could manually review support tickets from youtube partner channels of similar size.

They can't vet everything, but the bare minimum of what they should be vetting is a lot closer to apple levels than their current levels.
They probably should check those wildcards a bit more thoroughly.
Lancet paper on Chloroquine is hyped:Real World Data shouldn't be a black box
Given the posts earlier saying that the virus' origins are part of research and we know they weren't cooperating with the WHO in that research as of not that long ago, I think we do know at least that much.
Swedish legislation relevant to us as a VPN provider
Doesn't cloudflare also have boxes in ISPs? Youtube, Netflix, Facebook, Akamai, Cloudfront, etc all do. It's all relative.
No you don't. If you use DoH or Dnscrypt over a VPN, the DNS provider can't associate the traffic with your IP (mitigating control of sorts).
The Evolving Relation of Compensation and Location
Johns Hopkins Releases Rpt on Digital Contact Tracing to Aid COVID-19 Response
I just learnt about this car just earlier today actually from one of my favourite YouTubers, Samcrac, where he bought a used one from Japan [0] and there's a few followup videos of him repairing it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6frb7zrp_o
That's how you're not found!
I share most of these concerns, especially since it’s primarily used in the “alt-right” sphere and could easily become a vector to sow discord, either by tampering with content or simply by mapping the communities of users visiting it.

Worth noting, it’s probably not that expensive to run. Most of the hosting services they use would be offering “unmetered” bandwidth, so the cost is probably fixed per month, likely under $1000.
That wasn’t in dispute. The question was whether you count 2 as the 0th or 1st prime.
Allow me to clarify: The word "charity" is used in the perverted capitalistic sense, where Google's predominant "duty" is first and foremost to its shareholders. The capitalist incentive structure requires no more than the bare minimum of customer service from Google.

I agree that Google has a moral duty to take care of the people who choose to put their trust in their platforms.
codementor.io and coding.blog
I find his Tweets entertaining and I get a good laugh out of them. As for the anti-white thing, I'm just making an observation about something I found interesting.

I legitimately want to know what's up with Twitter allowing these comments. I find it weird cause it'd go without saying that hating any other minority would land you a ban or suspension.
Thanks for this. I'm absolutely in shock this process is so industrialized, and that it has apparently managed to survive so long, and even through fake news being a huge topic in US politics
Nobody said that it did.

But no company makes billion dollar acquisitions without involving the entire C-suite in particular CFO/Legal and the Board. And they sure as hell don't do it without proper due diligence.
That's essentially a price discrimination strategy (intentional or not). Adobe could just offer a free version with super restrictive license, and results would be the same without any piracy involved.
Cynical – I don't like the adjective, turning a school of philosophy poorly understood into a generic term for being overly negative implying that negativity comes from ignorance...

My point being, I'm not just guessing. Seeing the sausage being made a few times is enlightening.

Then the questions about what motivations the reporter and source had making up every story you read become obvious and pervasive and "truth" "relevance" and "ethics" just don't seem to be at the top. Not that those things are completely ignored, just not at the top for everyone involved just looking out for their best interests. You don't have to be wildly corrupt for everybody to have each others best interests as their own best interests and what you get is mostly useless news consisting of people cheerleading for each other and some cause which isn't anywhere near that set of ideals.
Google is also one of the most successful companies in the world, yet they have had their share of bad purchases / decisions.

Heck, Microsoft bought Nokia, and then completely dismembered it.

It's entirely possible for someone in the higher floors in Amazon to convince themselves this is a good fit.

Maybe it's a good decision, maybe not. But it's never right to say it's a good decision because a successful company took it.