skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and even with paywalls, as long as the source has login details it can still be done (although this would probably be illegal).

Anecdotal evidence: I work in a tour operator and we publish our products on tripadvisor and getyourguide which are two very popular places to advertise these products and that provide an extranet to suppliers where they can login to create and manage products, availability, etc. A few years ago before they had developed APIs or had only private APIs for the "big guys" and wouldn't really pay any attention to small shops' requests, I managed to use Puppeteer [0] [1] (a node.js library to manage headless Chrome) to dynamically update our products into their extranet. It's very powerful and with some tinkering you can automate pretty much any behavior, including authentication and xhr interactions inside their platform (although this will require a bit of studying their requests using the browsers developer tools).
It's a great tool.

[0] https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer

[1] https://pptr.dev
There are topics we can reason abstractly about well, and topics we cannot. I find when people get to the edge of their abilities in a topic, we tend to fall back on moralizing and personalizing it. The author's link between cognitive ability and liberality towards speech I think can be explained by how cognitive ability is the capability to think abstractly about things using properties and categories, and not explained using the implication that believing in certain rights is a proxy for smart.

The speech and tolerance question is hyper-personalized because the tools for reasoning abstractly about it have a steep learning curve. Some of the most educated people I know hold objectively extreme political views because I think it's something they don't really consider in the abstract, and expressing those views is a sympathetic outlet for other personalized anxieties. Ultimately I think political discussion is something they engage in for excitement and entertainment, and so they aren't held to the same level of intellectual rigor in it as they are in their chosen fields of expertise. Extreme views become a kind of vice or indulgence because it's exciting to be outraged and engage in recreational conflict - especially when it has no bearing on their real expertise.

I'd argue what we may think about freedom of speech doesn't actually matter, as public discourse is no longer about ideas, principle or reason, it's just a power struggle. One that otherwise smart people seem to participate in as intellectual tourists without much thought as to what their impact actually is because it's exciting.
Hey all, Caliban author here. Caliban is a tool that helps ML researchers launch and track their numerical experiments in an isolated, reproducible computing environment. We built this at Google to try and remove the heavy friction that always accompanies a move from interactive development -> local model training -> Cloud.

Caliban will dynamically build Docker containers for your code, without you having to know anything about Docker, and then execute that container for you in a variety of different modes.

Full docs live here: https://caliban.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
We wrote a small tutorial here: https://github.com/google/caliban#getting-started-with-calib...

Hope this helps folks out there with their ML research! Happy to answer any questions that come up.
Applying CI/CD principles to machine learning
O wow this takes me back to my first software job we did pretty much only government contracts but were not eligible for 8a. We had another company was that eligible that we sort of brought on to tons on contracts to make the requirements; they were pretty much a single person shop that got paid to be visible.
Do you go to a different email server 3 times a day plus snack bits of email service at gas stations every day all year? Ridiculous deaf comparison.
I have no issue with people being fired or divorced for spouting obscenities. I would certainly think poorly of someone who filed for divorce because their spouse changed politically.
This is a classic paper, and well worth reading if you use relational databases for anything serious. Using 'phenomena' is a nice framing, and one that I found particularly effective for understanding how to write correct database transactions at various isolation levels. Perhaps the most surprising result here is "REPEATABLE READ »« Snapshot Isolation", meaning that it's not possible to order one of the two as "stronger" isolation.

The author list here is a round-up of real database legends, including the late Jim Gray and Pat O'Neil, and Phil Bernstein and Elizabeth O'Neil who are still doing work in databases and systems.
Ian Holm, actor known for Chariots of Fire and Lord of the Rings, dead at 88
Could you make some sort of generic app for push notifications, kind of like the old school Growl for the Mac?

Then web apps could be bookmarked within iOS, and push notifications routed through the mini-Growl app?
> would it genuinely endanger end-to-end encryption or only do so in the context of these platforms?

I feel like this is the most important question of the whole mess. What you do in the privacy of your own e2ee tunnel is your own business.

How could Chuck sue the service provider for a message sent between Alice and Bob?
Who will do the work to make this so and what is their motivation?
> Swapping out the SOC from an Oculus quest to an a13 or higher would be extremely compelling for me to buy.

I agree, but I believe the battery will need upgrade as well
They're definitely doing their part to maintain diversity in the browser engine ecosystem.
> Those statistics dont factor in the absurd amount of attention liberal media paid to Trump throughout the election. His antics, and the attention it garners among their target market, are great for their bottom line

Yes, this has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with the free press (or in your words "liberal media"). That's entirely my point.

You also seem to keep citing books as though they are somehow equivalent to peer-reviewed academic research. Books aren't peer-reviewed, anyone can publish their opinions. Publishing houses are not staffed by true peers of the author, and are ill-equipped to check information. While books are good and important, they are not authoritative for the discussion at hand.

I provided more than enough academic research, statistical results, and empirical results in recent history. Unless you can do the same, your entire argument is based on your personal perception of the world.
We have a couple of trainers that have focused on older clients exclusively (for example, one of our lead trainers Julie Diamond: https://www.instagram.com/juliediamondfitness/), and all of the rest have had extensive experience training clients up to their 70s. In addition to making sure the workouts are tailored to health goals and easy on the joints, we ask that our trainers offer lots of modifications in the workout videos for those who can't do specific exercises due to joint/back pain.
> The unusual client UI is their main selling point

Exactly. That's why I'd like to use their app as an IMAP client to retrieve emails from my gmail account. Not the other way around.
I've been playing around with this for several years now; building more or less elaborate frameworks for server side rendering and dividing the interface into separate pages.

I blame Seaside [0] for corrupting me. Never used it to build anything, but once the idea of building the user interface on the server was in my head there was no way back.

Though I have to admit I still find JSON really convenient for submissions compared to using fields for everything as it allows massaging the data on the way.

Besides that I've found the approach to be a total success. Pages load instantly, bookmarks and back buttons work as expected and most of the application stays on the server.

[0] http://www.seaside.st/
It _is_ a popularity contest. People must agree with what others are saying, otherwise it has no effect. How you come to change your mind on something might be important here, but trying to elevate some ideal of "progress" without considering the material conditions by which how it happens is extremely handwave-y.

With regards to the first point, Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance) describes how in a supposedly tolerant society, not all viewpoints can be tolerated. For instance, if we use an example from today's society (and let's avoid getting stuck in the weeds about people's motivations for believing what they believe in), supporting white nationalism is clearly good for one group of people and terrible for a very large group of other people. Naturally, those in the second group of people aren't going to be hearing out those in the first and want to work towards stamping it out: one of the actions involved being denying speech.

There is a line to be drawn of course, but erecting a strawman that anyone opposed to free speech is so unprincipled and only the most reasonable would support unfettered free speech is downright disingenuous.
CNN is highly editorialized and borders infotainment.

I too am struggling to find good sources of professional journalism.
Well said. People seem to forget that freedom of speech includes freedom from speech. The instances where the constitution allows the government to compel speech are generally pretty limited. There was a major Supreme Court case in the 90s when the City of Boston tried to force the group behind South Boston’s Saint Patrick’s Day parade to allow Gay & Lesbian groups to participate. SCOTUS ruled that the requirement infringed on the group’s right to disseminate it’s own message.

A discriminatory and distasteful message to be sure but such is the tradeoff of a robust first amendment - even stupid statements are protected.

It was only in the last few years that the parade organization relented and allowed LGBTQ+ participants. Largely because public opinion (and corporate partners/advertisers) forced them to. The parade organization’s message of discrimination and exclusion was eventually drowned out with messages of pride and LGBTQ+ support. So the system may not have worked as quickly as most of us would have liked but it did indeed work.

And on the flip side, I’m grateful that I don’t have to see hate groups marching at Pride. If the City of Boston had won their case 25 years ago that’s exactly what would have happened.
If you look at the selection of apps on the Mac App Store, where developers aren't forced to use the store, it's pretty easy to see that their 30% generally outweighs the usefulness of the service. So, semantic discussions of monopoly aside, Apple is charging a rent. In general, we should be against rent-seeking in technology.
> Imagine a service that is objectively good -- maybe a non-profit organization creates a free app to help connect homeless people with food, shelter, and potential employment opportunities. Businesses can then use the app to post jobs, etc. The non-profit runs on a shoe-string budget and certainly cannot afford to get caught up in litigation related to issues arising between users of the app (e.g., a homeless user upset that they did not get a job because a bug in the app lost their application, or a business upset because they were connected with a dishonest applicant). It seems fair that the non-profit should be able to limit its liability here.

Certainly they should be liable for their service—of course they should be! You can’t expect a non-profit to do the government’s job, and certainly not without public (by which I mean via tax or capital) funding.

Regardless of non-profits, it’s a complete perversion of the very idea of “consent” to refer the users of the internet as consenting to any ads or data mining. There is no transaction to access the service, no way to view the true cost of the service or how much derived value your data has, no way to simply pay for the service with what the ad clients would have paid for the ad slots. In my book that’s completely dishonest. IMHO the onus is entirely on the company to explain and allow transparency into their monetization. If not, there’s nothing distinguishing what people might call “evil” behavior from what is apparently a competitive edge in the market, a “good” in America if I’ve ever heard it.
Yes, the white guilt / virtue signaling has truly gotten out of control. Identity politics is dangerous and is causing division to get much worse.
I assume it refers to this: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/how-antifragile-apple-inc-re...

Basically: Apples competitors marketshare concentrates on the lower cost market part while sharing the infrastructure. Apple has it's users locked in to their environment and controls the upper part of the market. Making it not only hard to switch the infrastructure but also keeping the price always as up as necessary/possible to dominate the upper price region of the market.

Edit: why am I getting downvotes?
Oh wow 2.2lbs, this is the first time I've seen an actual competitor to the Thinkpad x1 carbon.
Everything is a trade-off.

I use iOS because I want a smartphone and I'd prefer Apple's restrictions to Google's data-gathering. I'd like to see iOS be better and I'd like to see Apple's App Store policies improved.

If I choose to use Apple products because I find the trade-offs inherent in using iOS/ MacOS, I don't lose the right to expect better of them and want those products to improve.
I worked at oracle on the bluekai product (search 'oracle' in my comment history). I helped deliver data using bluekai from oracle to platforms like facebook and google. AMA.

If you are curious what data is housed in bluekai, here is a 170 page pdf with lists and descriptions of different data providers/vendors:
http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/cloud/data-directory-2810...
What person from an underrepresented group wants to be chosen just because of their group status? Isn't that highly patronizing for someone who likely had worked hard to get to where they got? Do you want to be "pretty great for a xxxxx person!" or just "one of the best".

Is this a lesson that people want their kids to learn?

Doesn't this also lead discrimination actually being a rational (and maybe ethical) thing to do?

Simply put- if the top 100 medical students (based on MCAT, boards scores, etc) are chosen to become heart surgeons, choosing a heart surgeon from those 100 based on race or gender is not only absolutely egregious morally but it's also irrational.

But if the top 90 of the 100 medical students are chosen and then 10 are chosen because of non-relevant factors (race, gender, etc)... doesn't it become rational (and maybe morally acceptable) to try and avoid choosing those lesser-qualified 10 for your life-or-death surgery?
If readers can't tell, then Twitter should label it "satire" not "manipulated content".

EDIT: just speculation, but by mislabeling the tweet, I wonder if Twitter could be exposing itself to a libel lawsuit.
In your opinion.

In my opinion, apple is using its monopoly (or duopoly) power to force companies like hey into business relationships they would not enter into otherwise. Which represents an abuse of their position.
And you don't need to look any further than yesterday's ruling.

It's a desirable outcome IMO. However, you can be sure the public reaction would be a lot different if the same "the justification for repeal was insufficient" were to be applied to a President Biden trying to repeal some Donald Trump executive order.
I am absolutely sure of it! Babies think farts are funny.
I have to side with Ive here. Apple is not a gaming company, and that's the only consumer motive I could see for a bulky headset that's tethered to a base station. Any other use would be pure novelty. Plus, the already-small market is being well-served by traditional VR headsets.

But a new wearable - a lifestyle product, slim and stylish enough to go anywhere and slide into a pocket if need be - is right up Apple's alley. On top of that, there's the incredibly obvious solution of pairing it to the user's iPhone for heavy-lifting, making use of those absurdly powerful mobile chips and gaining a new source of ecosystem synergy (or lock-in, depending on your perspective) in the process.

It's shocking to me that someone holding such high regard in Apple could be so out of touch.
This might be one of the most ethically controversial comments I've ever read on the internet.
How about OpenStreetMap?

If I'm ditching Android to get away from Google, I'd rather not use Google Maps.

However I do concede that only having an run some of the time is better than an bad OS running all the time.
I 100% agree. I think if Apple was consistent across all apps (i.e. they allow users to subscribe outside of their ecosystem with no restriction, but only charged 30% if purchased through ecosystem) nobody would be complaining about the 30% at all. The major issue is that a smaller app is being penalized for not having the clout that someone like Netflix has and being able to bypass the rule.
It's not that simple -- as Churchill said about democracy: "It's the worst form of government ever invented -- except for all the other ones".

I switched to Mac almost 10 years ago, and I'm basically pretty happy with it. So when it looks like Apple is planning to screw it up, I get upset -- I don't want to switch again (it was a huge PITA), and there's nothing out there even remotely close.
Many successful businesses are a nightmare to maintain and the fact that they are successful doesn't make them less like that - if anything it makes them more like that.

Hell, I used to work for one such business, namely CKEditor.
Excellent point.

We have a tech problem that is orthogonal to the free speech issue. It's making things worse, yet the principles of free speech don't go anywhere simply because other problems have arisen.

Up until a decade or two ago, everybody spoke and everybody spent most of their time not listening to one another. Instead we did other things. Today, however, we carry these wondrous little devices in our pockets which connect us to every angry person and demagogue all over the world. We can find and associate with people who believe some really eccentric things we also believe. We can spend our free time encouraging one another to become more and more radical.

I didn't comment in order to go down this path, but your point is valid. Unfortunately, speech is not the only thing under attack. Pervasive tech has changed much of the definition of what it means to be human. That's a much more involved subject (!) that seems a bit OT for now. But I agree.
The government constantly forces people to sponsor things they disagree with, quite literally with tax dollars. Do you believe that this is also objectionable, per your last paragraph?

If it is not objectionable because enough people agree on it, does that significantly blur the line between censorship and social consequences?
> Is it wise to have children in the same building from which you intend to shoot at the police?

Just so you can't accuse me of sidestepping the question, my answer to this is obviously "no".

Feel free to answer whether you think that killing 5 children and burning 61 homes was necessary to subdue the attacker at any time.

The fact is, if you literally can't even say that burning children to death was wrong, you don't get to go around pretend you have an ethical stance on arson.
Have you considered expanding into ADHD coaching? I feel like it's something I could use. Since I haven't yet tried it, I don't really know how it works. It seems like something that's useful but is in its early stages, with a lot of people just relying on frequent counseling, which can be expensive. I also feel like it's something that could be mostly automated which would be ideal for a tech company.
Boycott Chinese Products
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And the reasons it takes time to port those features is because Google respects GSuite's privacy promises.
Maybe this'll work for you. You can use this tool to generate an RSS feed from their Twitter account

http://fetchrss.com/twitter
Publishers are responsible for the content they publish. Twitter (and other social networks) is not held responsible. These networks like to claim that they are "dumb pipes" when it suits them and they like to choose who is allowed to see which content when it suits them. In particular, if Twitter is allowed to currate content that whips up frenzied (often violent) mobs, they ought to be held responsible in proportion to their role.
Croatian "izbaciti" is closest to this meaning: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eject or the phrase "throw out". F.ex., "Izbacivac" [sorry, haven't bothered with setting up HR keys] is the guy throwing out too drunk people from a club.

> "избацити смеће" (izbaciti smeće) in Serbian, so I am surprised it's such a stretch in Croatian

But that's exactly it! You "izbacis smece" and you don't care what happens to it after. Likewise with "izbacivac", he throws out a person and doesn't care what the person does afterwards. You don't "izbacis" something FOR someone to use it after. That's why the translation is bothering me.

Whereas the kernel writes the core FOR THE USER to inspect it, back it up, delete it, whatever.

The closest word I can come up with for English "dump" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dump is "ostaviti" ("leave around") ili "(is)pustiti" (in the meaning of "drop", not "flushing the toilet" :D). A better literal translation would thus be "Jezgra pustena." (Like a space probe is "pustena" into space and there it goes.) I guess the authors originally used "dump" because it's kinda random (system-wide config) where it ends up.

The most meaningful translation to Croatian would be, IMHO, "Memorija sacuvana." [or "Memorija spremljena."] ("Memory preserved".)

> I imagine you grew up on English interfaces while speaking Croatian

Indeed. Some professors at the university did use Croatian terms, but everything about it was awfully alien to me. "Thread" would be "dretva". Which is ironic, as the professor explained that it's borrowed and mangled from German, whereas we have a perfectly valid, even nice, Croatian word "nit" that is literally "thread".
This argument might get more traction if the people who are applying it right now (progressives) hadn't been trampling on business freedom of association for the last 60 years.
Twitter has defaulted to a non-chronological feed for a while now. Check your "Show best Tweets first" setting.
The Spiritual Mysteries Beneath Our Feet
Funny thing is it was that little things that made me switch to windows as well. The last time I tried to usimg ubuntu, I wasn't able to drag drop a subtitle file from an archieve directly to vlc. I had to drag it to a temp folder to decompress it. And then I was able to drag that subtitle file to vlc