skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My PhD work would not have been possible without Hypothes.is. My group uses it for a variety of information extraction and curation tasks, and I'm fairly certain that one of my colleagues has the highest number of human made annotations in the system (though in private groups).

Hypothes.is is great for prototyping curation workflows to explore what is possible before spending time implementing yet another tool. It also hits the sweet spot for having a UI that is just accessible enough for non-technical users that can display annotations made by bots. We have been using hypothes.is as the backend to crawl [0] research resource identifiers from the scientific literature for 4 years, and it has been solid the whole time.

I see some questions/concerns about the w3c compliance of the API. I'm pretty sure that there is just a switch the needs to be flipped, and that it has been implemented. Yep, it has [1]. Also as others have suggested it is fairly straight forward to set up your own annotation store, though it is not simple to replicate the Hypothes.is setup.

I hope that the pivot to education continues to go well so that it can fund the infrastructure, because Hypothes.is provides a very valuable (if hard to capture the value of) service.

0. https://github.com/SciCrunch/scibot
1. https://github.com/hypothesis/h/blob/master/h/presenters/ann...
Do you have any evidence/studies to back up this point of view?

Sowell has done quite a bit of research which backs up his conclusions. He has a couple of books on the subject you might be interested in.
The point is that we shouldn't adapt our processes because people feel cheated. Just because you feel like someone didn't earn something doesn't mean much.
It's weird that people act like this is the only solution to correct past injustice, too, when there's a much simpler racially-neutral method. You just help all disadvantaged persons equally. Inasmuch as any particular identifiable group is thereby disadvantaged, they're disproportionately helped by this neutral method. If only people of race X were poor, then helping all poor people would be isomorphic to helping all people of race X. But it will always remain balanced to the degree that any group is disadvantaged.

So if we just make things biased in favor of the poor, this will be able to self-correct automatically.

I don't get why that isn't seen as the best solution.
I wonder what these differing qualities are, then.

It sounds very generic, but I've found it to be true. If I spend time thinking about what's the best way forward, then just do it, relentlessly and persistently, and with a healthy disregard for cynicism and disbelief from others, I get a lot done.

It also reminds me of the concept of "taking ideas seriously":
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q8jyAdRYbieK8PtfT/taking-ide...
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This is what I was getting at with my question above. I think the distinction between censorship and social consequences blurs really quickly when you look closely, and a society that shrugs and says "social consequences" every time someone's life is destroyed due to their speech is not a society with free speech. And I think it's perfectly fair to have a moral system that places other values above free speech, but I think it's wrong to say what you have is free speech, if you think that people who say the wrong things get what they deserve.
PWAs are going in that direction, but they don't have access to native storage, notifications, and other stuff. They're still mostly webapps, which is great for portability but not great for mobile UI/UX. I want the "native-ness" of React Native (or really, true native) combined with the flexibility of a webapp. Reduce mobile down to another build target, but still not give up access to native APIs.
The hiptop did not use NetBSD until the very last model. It was a bare-metal RTOS prior to that.
CERN makes push to build €21B super-collider
You can't conclude anything from a single thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23555398

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules on HN? I'm afraid you've been breaking them in two ways. First, it's not ok to use the site primarily [1] for political or ideological battle. That's probably the single most destructive thing people do here, because battle mode and curiosity mode do not go together. Some political overlap is ok [2], but it's not ok to use the site primarily this way.

Second, please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. [3]

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
A paper needs an idea that is well-thought-out and well-cited. Outside of math or the natural sciences, it does not need experiments, mathematics, or data.
The only thing I can think of is that the places where it's relatively easier to get explosives (war zones like Iraq, Afganistan, or Syria) doesn't overlap much with places where it's easy to get powerful drones (developed countries).
Common LinkedIn Myths Debunked
Every time someone says "I have no choice but to go against the dictates of my conscience" it translates to "I have a choice to have my own will free of coercion, but I don't want to pay the entry fee of having integrity."

No one is forcing anyone to use Apple or Google products. Anyone that wants the nominal "benefits" that they provide, continues to make the moment-by-moment choice of using them. You can throw your iPhone or Android phone away (or sell it and give the proceeds to the poor, e.g. child cobalt miners or Foxconn workers). You can get a dumb phone. You can live (shockingly!) without having a cellphone at all. Your job requires you to have a MacBook? Get a different job. The lifestyle you choose may require you to have these things, but that's because you choose the lifestyle over personal integrity.

No one can actually follow their own morality and someone else's. You either prove a hypocrite to yourself or a hypocrite to others. You can't serve both justice and the marketplace.

You could take no thought for your career, nor how you would make your living, nor where you would live; nor even the clothes you would wear in the morning. Is living not more than jobs, money, and clothing?
> Taxes are also much higher and ramp up much quicker, too

Actually taxes in the US and Canada are pretty similar. You have to be living in a state with no income tax to see any difference.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/t...
> Most subreddits are hostile to self-promotion of Web stuff. If you're unknown, you're going to have to be socially involved...

Great! I'm there for the content, and self-promotion is usually the worst content.

I like that HackerNews tags this stuff with ShowHN so I can decide whether I want to look at it or not.
Stop Mocking Fetch
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23573386
Yes, that's a great idea. Live video would have even more of a community feel--plus, we could probably capture and edit the streams into re-usable workouts for the future.

We'd love to integrate with provider medical records in the future, but sadly there are very few incentives in a fee-for-service environment. For now, members can just check things off or "postpone" if our cadence is off.
The classic argument in favor of diversity for diversity's sake is that people frame expectations for themselves based on what they see around them. If there are no members of group X in a field, then many people in group X will assume that field is not for them. At a societal level, we miss out if people who would have been highly productive in a field choose not to enter it behind assumptions about inclusion. By injecting members of group X into the field, we can help eliminate those assumptions thereby enticing more qualified people into the field and yielding productivity benefits long term. At an individual corporate level, the value is less clear. I've heard that people do not want to be the only member of group X at a company, so by building a base of members from group X it might make it easier to attract high tier talent who might otherwise pass and work for a competitor. This should be somewhat measurable for a company.

This is somewhat tangential, but it's also important to make sure that your user base is appropriately represented in your workforce (eg if you are developing products catering to white males then it probably doesn't make sense to have no white males in your workforce). That's less diversity for diversity's sake and more representation for the sake of accurate product development though.
The clear, obvious root cause is that humans have a deep tribalistic streak. I would love to hear a solution to that that doesn't involve invasive action to educate people in early childhood. A baby step in that direction was integrating public schools, and to this day a major political party is still trying to reverse that simple measure.
In theory there is already an open technology which is decoupled from these platforms: the browser. Job’s vision was exactly that.

Now we’re still(!) in a place where standards are being fought by the likes if Apple, because they have an incentive to weaken open standards in favor of their closed platforms.

This is a grotesque strategy that needs to stop.
> For all of Pinterest's faults, at least their branding is such that most people don't see it as a generic giant corporation.

There's also a general faith that Pinterest will actually keep their service open in a few years. With Google, it's a crap-shoot if it gets any updates 6 months from now.

EDIT: after reading more about "Keen," and trying it a bit, my bet is that it will be like Google Spaces - an interesting idea with some utility, but will die out because they won't have "Google scale" engagement to keep funding it.

EDIT 2: I also learned that Google Collections is the exact same thing. This is Hangouts vs. Allo vs. Duo vs. Spaces all over again.
Are you saying all three of Microsoft, Google, and Apple are unethical?
Not only that, for the time period when this study was done, the most successful businesses will be in cities where there is statistically a more diverse pool to draw from.

Is the cause the diversity or is it that cities are generally hyper-competitive places that draw the most competitive people in society and filter out those that can't hack it.

Your reason and my reason are just two possibilities of reversed causality. I'm sure there are many others.

The conclusion of that study is basically a wet streets cause rain conclusion.

One only needs to look at foreign firms like those in China that are crushing it to see that many non-diverse businesses are doing very well. I'm sure those businesses weren't included because it wouldn't support the conclusion the researcher wanted to arrive at.
There are categories on the sidebar that you can switch between, and you can also create a (free) account and choose which sources/categories you want in a custom feed.
May I ask, what is the controversial issue you are most unsure you are on the right side about?
Some developers at Reuters definitely do. Indian and Belarusian programmers, heh?
> But be that as it may, the 3D revolution ushered in by DOOM was here to stay. People would just have to get used to the visual crudity for the time being, and trust that eventually things would start to look better again.

What? Doom looked already fantastic when it came out, much better than hordes of 3D games that games before it. (Check out Midwinter just a few years before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxHd2dnpIqU)

And we did not have to wait for long for 3D games to get even better - Comanche in 1992 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snWmPWfeS6Y) and Quake 1 in 1996. A drastic evolution in a very, very short time, even before GPU videocards became mainstream.
I actually really like this htmx library on the surface, will give it a spin soon.
>You can always construct a credible argument for how any statement is "encouraging sentiment that does lead to real world violence and other harms".

No, you can't. Human beings don't process language at such a low level that any statement which parses as grammatically valid is considered equally valid to all others in all possible dimensions, interpretations and contexts.

While It may technically be possible to make an argument that any arbitrary statement causes real world harm and violence, not all such statements would be considered equally credible. The slippery slope you're describing here doesn't exist.
>Certainly all the anti free speech arguments I've encountered are either dumb or evil. But maybe that's on me

Yes, it is on you. If you find yourself in such an absolutist situation, you can bet money that you are in the wrong. It doesn't help that you have grouped all these "evil" and "dumb" opinions under the umbrella of "anti free-speech". That's an absurd exaggeration. Of course an opinion that is "anti free-speech" without any qualification would be dumb or evil.
Stop Colour Theory
Cutting-edge computing paves way to future of NMR spectroscopy
Thankfully this became the default in Safari: https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki...

Previously it only enabled third-party cookies for domains you had explicitly visited. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/14/16308138/apple-safari-11-...
It was surprising to find Aza Raskin involved in the project, but it seems they are not really after users at this point given the whole complicated Get Involved thing. Very nice and interesting landing page though, I would love to use it right now!
Adding noise for completely secure communication – University of Basel
Katie Hopkins permanently suspended from Twitter
There's a couple of really good things in this intro that I wanted to point out.

1. I appreciate the rigour that went into the math notation. I need to see equations to start to make sense of something. And if you're a beginner, this at least provides an intuition for starting to grok these visuals.

2. It's visually very clear, and structured clearly. Sounds trivial, but this kind of visual organization helps a lot to break down complex topics.

3. Intro -> Math theory -> Python breakdown. The best way to teach math.

4. No memes. I feel like there's a huge temptation in articles for beginners to litter the post with moving gifs and memes which are distracting and annoying.
The root of trust for DNSSEC is a key that's stored and controlled by people, and needs to go through routine key signing ceremonies. This is fallible and even recently there have been issues with the key signing ceremony https://www.icann.org/news/blog/root-key-signing-key-ceremon.... One could argue that this system works "good enough" but ultimately I'd prefer that the root of trust for security on the internet to be more robust than relying on humans to avoid error. That's what Handshake is trying to do — instead of using a key in a physical vault as the root of trust, you use a distributed blockchain that's very difficult to break.

It's also relevant to note that 51% attacks to most payment/store-of-value blockchains like Bitcoin, but for Handshake 51% attacks don't really affect the security of the network because an attacker would need to get the private keys for a name in order to attack its certificate.
Perhaps you are not in the intended audience? This is a social science paper.

I know a little bit about economics and social science, and for me the phrase "Veblenian Entrepreneur" was immediately meaningful and helpful. It gives me a theoretical frame for understanding a whole constellation of behaviors I've personally observed, and the incentives that drive them.

What I think this paper contributes is the idea of the entrepreneurial industry itself; that the low quality of ventures isn't a bug, but a feature. It's an integrated system to provide necessarily expensive social and signalling needs.

Some famous investors have questioned universities for the same reasons. The irony is that it might also be happening to technology ventures too.
This is pedantic, but going twice in Russian roulette would have an 80% mortality rate. This is because the second shot is a 3/5ths chance, not 1/2.
I really like my boss, if the trade is a known great manager v rolling the dice plus more money, I’ll pick the manager. I haven’t always felt this way, but I value it now.
Shameless plug, you might want to have a look at https://github.com/ownstats/ownstats
It’s not lifting, there’s just a higher degree of anonymity here.
As much as I believe that Basecamp will do the right thing for their customers the harsh reality is that the vast majority of app developers suck and their subscription system will end up looking more like: "We accidentally leak your credit card info. We accidentally double charge you. We refuse to cancel your subscription when you want to because you signed a hidden one year contract."

Apple's subscription restriction is optimized to prevent the bad actors in the ecosystem from abusing Apple customers. And unfortunately there are a lot more bad actors in the marketplaces than there are good actors who are trying to do the right thing.

If it was a perfect system then yes it would be nice for Apple to allow third parties to have their own subscription systems. But I'd rather be locked into Apple subscriptions than deal with the nefarious and poorly implemented custom subscription systems of the average shovelware app developer.
Seems like you're assuming that having an all-white workforce, absent the political blowback that this would cause, is some kind of competitive advantage? Am I understanding you correctly?
Very nice read, thanks.

It made me recall a nice memory as well. A while ago we (me and some friends) were helping out in some hurricane struck area. We were basically cleaning and throwing away stuff. In one house there was a Disklavier that was ruined and almost completely covered with mud. We asked the owners if we could keep it and they were like 'sure yeah just take it from here'. We spent a good month just playing with it, taking out everything, then trying to put it back together. Aside from the physical keys, nothing was salvageable but it was a very fun experience.
What should be possible is not to sidenote an app but an entry app store.
I'm really struggling in this thread because it seems like folks are either missing one half of my point or the other half. The idea was that I have to either a) duplicate effort in both my frontend and backend (that's extra work), or b) have no security at all.

The goal of both applications is to display HTML. The duplicated work in an SPA is in the DB API -> JSON API and JSON API -> page steps. These steps involve telling my backend server about how my data are structured and how to interpret them, translating them to JSON (or something else), then telling my frontend the same things. Every SPA I have seen involves doing this work, although some (like Meteor) are designed to reduce it as much as possible. That's the standard work involved in an SPA.

The second half of my point is that you could remove this duplicate work but doing that gets rid of any security. Why is this? Let's look at my SQL API example again. In this example, I have effectively eliminated the duplicate work of making my app server aware of the data's schema. It just runs a query, serializes the blob that comes back, and returns it. So why not do that? Obviously because now I'm trusting the client too much. In a non-SPA world it's fine to trust the entity making queries (for the most part...let's not get derailed). In the SPA world it's not, so we inject the app server in between to do mediation, and we pay the cost.
If I had made $better_life_decisions when I was younger and/or graduated in the era of $BigTech instead of the mid 90s, I could definitely have lived frugally, made $BigTech money, saved and invested in stocks, moved to a low cost of living area and done contracts every now and then just to refill the coffers.

As it is now, why wouldn’t I enjoy my job? I get to work remotely in a relatively low cost of living area making $BigTech money.

Will I be where I am for the rest of my life? Statistically, probably not. I can’t see that far ahead for a change. But 3 of the 5 biggest technology companies offer similar roles and if the local economy ever recovers there will be local companies.
Free speech is important even in contexts where the First Amendment doesn't apply. The First Amendment is important because free speech is important, not the other way around.

I agree with this:

You can say whatever you want: you should also expect
to take heat from non-like minded people.

But I think this misrepresents the view of free speech advocates (it certainly misrepresents my viewpoint):

At some point the free speech concept transitioned to
"I should be able to say whatever I want with no
consequences".

On the contrary, I think a lot of left-authoritarians who want to censor right-leaning speech are the ones touting this viewpoint. It's not the pro-free-speech crowd that wants no consequences for what they say, it's the anti-free-speech crowd. One of the consequences of stating your opinion publicly is that people will disagree with you.
Context for non-UK readers: Hopkins is a former reality TV (UK version of The Apprentice) star turned right-wing commentator who has previously been retweeted by Donald Trump
> Trashing a person's reputation and character through a targeted internet campaign (hello Twitter mobs) is another matter.

Isn't that also free speech? Or should free speech only apply to the first hypothetical individual stumping for "race realists"?
the world is a much bigger place than just the US.
> the overarching structural differences between building something for profit vs. for the public good makes a lot of aspects of building a business a bit mysterious to me.

Lack of respect for traditional authority, entrenched interests, and boundaries would be my take. Forgiveness > permission mindset, with a healthy risk tolerance above baseline.

Founders take their research and drive towards profitable exploitation of that knowledge relentlessly.
I think it’s an interesting answer... to a different question: “What operating system Android conceptually descends from”.
I find the premise to be rather Baudrillardian than Veblenian, or perhaps it's simply that Baudrillard encompasses Veblen. In essence: the meta consumption of the symbol of entrepreneurship, on the assumption that it increasingly holds more social value than any economic output, imo extends the behavior beyond mere Veblenian, i.e. conspicuous, consumption.
Alaska has the most missing people per capital of any US state, a few times higher than the natural average. Not all of that is attributable to the wilderness, but much of it is. Nature isn't like a Disney movie, but many people don't seem to appreciate that.
How Hashing Proves Work Done for Bitcoin
Apple may own a smaller share of the pie, but it's still significant enough that lacking iOS support can kill a business.
I like emails and video calls. If I need to communicate in real-time, I prefer to just have a call and do it. If not in real-time, email feels the least invasive to me, and is my preference.
ah, this is an interesting point. thanks.
Yeah, we noticed with the last BLM protests. It's funny to see your government rushing to virtue signaling and pushing people into the streets, in the middle of the current crisis and calling the opposition to be criminals just a few weeks ago for suggesting that we had to stop quarantines.

And this in a country ravaged with structural unemployment and <1% black population.

It's an increasing problem. People gets distracted with american internal agenda.