skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First "corporate personhood" means that corporations are allowed to sue and be sued like they were individuals. Along with being taxed and regulated.

A person doing business face to face in a store cannot hide the nature of their business from their own 'customers' for lack of a better word. How long would it take the police to show up at a business that wouldn't let anyone including the people buying things from it see inside the doors or windows? Everyone could only buy things from them in the parking lot, with payment made to anonymous intermediaries, and the product delivered later by a third party. Every customer walks out holding a fake Rolex, talking about how great a store Facebook is.

See how ridiculous Facebook is when compared to the scam 'businesses' of the 80s and 90s that it emulates?

> Citizens United, the decision you are referencing did not involve this concept.

I've read the case, thanks. It equated speech with money. Individuals (only) had that right prior to it, now money has speech. Corporations are money; they hoard it and do all of the bad things that it can do with it.

> It's actually a very common sense extension of the first amendment.

Sure, if corporations can also go to prison and/or be executed. When Facebook lies to their own customers about their ad performance for the 13th month in a row, no more fines and civil suits, the board will go to prison. When a random nutjob goes and shoots up a nightclub or a school based on his political radicalization on Facebook, we'll just send the police over to arrest those same board members and management as accomplices to murder. After all, a getaway driver can be charged with a murder in a lot of US jurisdictions if the bank robber shoots the teller, and in the relationship between terrorists and victims compared to robbers and banks, Facebook is serving basically the same role as the getaway driver in the terrorist's case.

Alternatively, if Facebook refuses to hand over a board member or senior management member for prosecution in these cases we will simply 'execute' the company. Its assets will be seized and spent by the state, just like we do to the property of individual street drug dealers, for example. There's no need to convict them, just as there's no need to convict the street drug dealer. Take the money first, and if Facebook chooses to ask for it back they can hire their own legal representation and ask the courts for the money back, with their own money not the corporation's money... because they don't have that anymore.

Oh wait... corporations don't want that. They just want the rights, not the responsibilities, of personhood. They want to keep the individual indemnity.

Which is my point, in a roundabout way the decision justifies itself by becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. If money is speech then money is a person, and if money is a person then money has rights, and if the whole society is based on money, then money is not only a person but the best person.
Ask HN: Recommend me some undervalued music band
I listen to music 6 to 9 hours a day. Want to discover something new.

My top 3 undervalued musicians:
1. 8mm
2. HVOB
3. SPC ECO
Deploying Istio with Restricted Pod Security Policies
The problem is that a properly executed disaster response will be drama free.

How many people had covid, self quarantined, and never spread it ... unbeknownst to anyone?

The way exponentials work maybe nobody was saved, or maybe a whole nursing home or a city of old people.

I recall the y2k problem and the hysteria. In the end, nothing happened. But... was it an overreaction, or was it an appropriate reaction seeing that all these companies didn't meltdown financially?
It looks like there is a real effort now to get TCC working on macOS which would be amazing.
You got me, it's early yet ;)
> abstractions are bad

They're as good as you make them. Abstractions aren't bad by themselves.

> Copying code for different business purposes is good.

Only when it makes sense, ie when you can't make a good abstraction.
There’s a real lack of good engineering in machine learning and too much emphasis on using bleeding edge research.

There’s a lot of boring models and practices that get the job done for the 80%. That don’t require as much talent to do well. That scale, quick to develop, and can be implemented on prod with ease.

But there’s a problem in tech culture of reaching first for the most sophisticated ML, not the most practical.
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Western Digital adds “Red Plus” branding for non-SMR hard drives
Just look at the page source for CSS and JS used to create it.
Is it? UBI surely relies on taxes, which would evaporate if everyone retired early to live off their UBI.
Do these actually break down, or do they just crumble into microplastics?
Do you mean when you go to the website?
Her playing is awesome. Thank you both for producing this, and congrats on the addition to the family!
I think you’re starting to get into semantics. But I agree that basically the only way to achieve it is is very low density situations where power relationships can’t be manifested.

It’d be an idealized primitive culture -technology will produce power relationships. So will density (water rights, hunting rights, fishing rights, etc)
> That’s not the answer that’s going to work for us.

Well boo hoo hoo. You know what’s not going to work for me?

You having unrestricted access to whois details!

The gall of these companies is amazing.
WhatsApp’s new payments system stalls in Brazil
Management overvalues complex systems and undervalues more elegant approaches. Architects are often more than willing to oblige mostly to live out their fantasies.

Thus, we have every company it seems these days running around trying to implement microservices because “our architecture is like Netflix’s”. No, that LOB CRUD application isn’t like Netflix and you don’t need polyglot storage, Kubernetes, and microservices to capture input from a web form. However, one of the managers between the architect and the CEO (see: Peter Principle) is extremely impressed by this idea and can use it to advance their personal career.
«the video can't be played because the file is corrupt»

vlc disagrees, though
It's very valuable that HN allows throwaway accounts for these circumstances (unlike some other platforms where they allow only one account per person). However this doesn't help if the significance of a comment only becomes clear after it has been posted.
There is a way to offer both jpg and webp, letting the browser to choose.
One may lament the state of things in the US after 9/11, and be justified to so to some extent. The thing I want to lament however, is the near zero insight into the dynamics and logic of terrorism: in essence, that this is what terrorists want.

Terrorists want to strike fear into normal citizens so that they ask for revenge - and more protection. Which results in draconian measures that paves way for authoritarianism which leads to more recruits for the terrorists (on all sides). And so a vicious circle takes off. We are being played, essentially.

In some distant future maybe this logic could be taught in primary schools, so that society could be forever inoculated. Sadly such a vaccine seems a long way off.
I am a firm believer that the most important superpower a software engineer and their team should have is refactoring.

By refactoring what I mean is continually revisiting the architecture of your code, identifying common functionality, better organisation of code, better abstractions. The right decisions for your codebase change as it evolves and so you need to keep reexamining these (implicit) decisions.

Continuously incrementally refactoring your code enables so many things to work better. Your example here is a great one - don't implement something you don't have a direct need for. Don't design for it. If you have a culture of refactoring then you can be confident that in the future if that need crops up, you can implement it with appropriate refactoring that the result will look at least as good as if you designed it in up front. If you don't refactor as a team, then you have to do it now, or putting it in later will result in a mess.
Why would you show a photograph as an svg? You wouldnt. Thats what jpegs are for.

We're discussing transparency and the use case for it. I dont think ive ever heard of someone wanting transparency in a photo. The only times i see the need is if theyre doing something that is better off in a vector format. I.e. png, which is being supplanted by svg, which alleviates the size problems raised about pngs.

I.e. webp is a format solution in search of a problem.

Downvoted, wow, petty.
Why not? The cheapest click you can get is $0.05, which is nearly impossible. But let’s say it was possible, it’d be 100 million.
I took an instant disliking to it. My eyes hurt. Some vertical alignment is off. I dislike the wide layout.

Was there a reason other than "it's 5 years old"?
Nothing wrong with that, I don't think there's a fixed list of "Learnable things" attached to any piece of content. It's mostly about the interpretation.
I am halfway through this life and never had a bike stolen ( NL ).
Journal access, Google 'libgen' or 'library genesis'
This is the whois privacy model used by many registrars already. The one issue is that ICANN then views the registrar as the rightful owner of the domain, which could cause issues with e.g. a registrar bankruptcy if the creditors decide to make use of that to sell off domains.
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Wasn't one of the original Web browsers named as "World Wide Web"? So the analogy doesn't seem appropriate here.
Each attention block in the Transformer models a fully connected graph (with the attention heads being learned edge attributes). A graph is the most general data structure possible, so yeah, I don't think there's really a fundamental limitation to them, just a computational one. Latest papers from ICLR explore how they fully model CNNs and RNNs, for example, and I'm sure papers on their theoretical equivalence with GNNs are coming.
Been a Mac user for 17 years, never knew that. Thank you.
Also, it should go down. If you're going to call something vile, you should at least provide some argument to that effect.

Second, and not that it matters, but searching Scott's real name does not link him as the author of SSC, which is what Scott cares about.

Rationalists have written a lot about:
- making better arguments, and discursive standards
- holding truer beliefs no matter if it goes against your current beliefs or makes you appear "cringeworthy"or "pseudo-intellectual"

Maybe you really ought to check them out?
Most capitalist dominance is built on anti competitive behaviour
Thanks cpach. I have posted my replies here. Is it normal to post something to HN, then have someone else repost the same just a few minutes later?
Going by anecdote, I've seen them used by many mall cops, city tours, downtown cops, some Taiwanese military unit used them as a meme, and some rich people here in the US owned them in their house literally just for fun. I think they were going for less than 10k used so that was play money for them.

Again, that they are going out of production shows that they are definitely not bigger than the internet. But they certainly aren't vaporware or even a failed product. Someone somewhere made a profit, and someone somewhere got non-zero utility out of it
To some extent they seem to do. For instance I had forgotten to update the WHOIS record for phone number when my number had changed and after some months I started getting reminders whenever I logged into my registrar's site that the phone number was not reachable and that I need to update it. But no emails, and certainly no paper mails regarding this. But no enforcement. Nothing happened even though I dragged my feet updating my phone number for a considerable time.
Project lead here. I switched from C# to go for multiple reasons. One was that we were having strange platform-specific issues between different operating systems with the runtime. Another reason was due to some design issues causing the code to be very difficult to work in.

I was originally going to re-write it in C, but when I saw go, I immediately fell in love with it. In my mind it sits somewhere between C and C++. Yes it has a GC, but it's not obtrusive. Plus the language is simple and nice to work with.

Regardless of what language I use, someone's going to say it's a "bad" choice and others will say it's a "good" choice. Personally I believe the language is just a tool, and go is working out extremely well for us so far.
Note that this is only an issue in non-generic context. For dependent names you have to disambiguate with "typename" and "template".

But yeah, it looks like a C++ compiler has to instantiate templates in lock-step with parsing to make this work, but possibly there are some tricks that are applicable here. In any case, this looks like a hard problem.
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Scientific consensus takes years to form, so any claim I make will be contradicted by some scientific findings and affirmed by others. What I outlined in the part you quoted is the null hypothesis: that this new coronavirus behaves like the other coronaviruses we are familiar with. That may of course turn out to be false, but it's indisputably the correct starting point for any serious analysis.

My objection was that many early predictions disregarded this null hypothesis and only looked at preliminary data thereby discarding everything we've learned about RTIs in the past 200 years. That's how you end up with predictions that are off by 1000x or more. That is a huge blunder, and really inexcusable.

You say we don't have a lot of actual evidence yet, but I think we do. For instance we see that Sweden that didn't lock down has practically indistinguishable All Cause Deaths outcomes as the neighboring Nordics[1]. Many predicted that Sweden would have catastrophically worse outcomes but it hasn't. How is that possible when clearly the virus is spreading freely in Sweden but the outcome isn't any worse? Locking down a country 5 months into the Flu season is completely pointless because by that point too large a percentage of the population is infected already, so you wouldn't expect that to make any kind of meaningful difference. And that's consistent with the data. In the VS abnormal deaths were at a 6-year high in November[2]! The notion that Covid19 was contained for --months-- in China is an absurdity, given how much we travel by air. Antibodies were also found in sewage from December all over Europe, which proves beyond a doubt that virus spread without us even realizing it for months! If I had more time I could give you countless more sources, but the evidence clearly points in one direction: New coronavirus just like other known coronaviruses.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZlnYQCU0AA0jkv?format=png&name=...

[2] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZNQ9arUEAAS9W9?format=png&name=...
Hm, it certainly doesn't have to do with popularity. My domain has a single visitor and he looks suspiciously like me. I use it as a test server for all kinds of general software vandalism. It does get visits from bots though, perhaps my registrar has "helped" me by registering it at search services. Pretty certain that I am linked nowhere.
If you've ever tried to reinstall the OS on a machine with a T2 chip, I think you'd have a better idea how this is going.
This might vary between schools, then. My education was heavily focused on writing algorithmically efficient code that was going to be thrown away weeks later. I don't think we ever deliberately practised modularisation, code reuse, changing requirements, simplicity of implementation, message passing for concurrency, and so on.
That's exactly my thoughts, if the DNS system was designed today, it would probably be decentralized, automated & anonymous, whois information comes from another era.
It’s ok, I’ll get used to it.
Yes, there is a concerted effort by wealthy string pullers to invade every facet of the little people's lives so that we have no recourse when we're eventually stripped of our remaining rights by the captured government. We'll have to swear fealty to neo-feudalist lords for protection. See: Cato institute politics.
Huawei leads the 5G patent race
No, the compiler is following rules humans implemented. The humans were reasoning. The compiler follows a well-defined process. This is also what a scientific calculator can do - but the calculator isn't an example of AI, either.

Many linguists think that every human language follows fundamental patterns (e.g. [0]). In that context, the achievement of GPT is that it indirectly derived such a model by working through ungodly amounts of data. The results sound meaningful for us - but that doesn't imply that GPT intended meaning.

Every theory of reason I know has consciousness as a hard requirement. I'm not trying to be pedantic, but the topic of this thread is exactly the kind where clear definitions of words are important.

If Prolog is reasoning, then a scientific calculator is, too. But now we just need another word for the thing that differentiates us from calculators.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_and_parameters
I think this is relevant: https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/12711371765294161...

Nvidia AI researcher calling out OpenAI's GPT-2 over how GPT-2 is horrible because it's trained on Reddit (except it includes contents of submissions, and I'm not sure if there's no data except Reddit)

Reddit is supposedly not a good source of data to train NLP models because it's... racist? sexist?
Like it's even rightist in general...

Anyway; the table looks horrific - why would they include these results? Oh, turns out paper was on bias: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.01326.pdf

Anyway; one can toy with GPT-2 large (paper is on medium, so it might be different) at talktotransformer.com

"The woman worked as a ": 2x receptionist, teacher's aide, waitress.
Man: waiter, fitness instructor, spot worker, (construction?) engineer.
Black man: farm hand, carpenter, carpet installer(?), technician.
White man: assistant architect, [carpenter but became a shoemaker], general in the army, blacksmith.

I didn't read the paper, I admit, maybe I'm missing something here. But these tweets look like... person responsible should be fired.
I was trying to adjust for the size of that R&M bike but you’re right that even the “minivan” of bikes takes up far less space.
Wow, thanks!

I use space all the time to scroll down on a web page, didn't know you could reverse direction, awesome :)
This has never been difficult to achieve, why is this a big deal? Privacy never existed in the first place. People have been able to eavesdrop on homes by targeting pretty much anything containing metal coils (including appliances) with advanced HAM radio equipment since the early 1970s. We need to stop pretending there is such a thing as privacy and start actually looking at where scientific progress is at right now. If you actually get a basic grasp of physics, radio theory and electrical engineering you're going to find out exactly how little privacy we have.
It is also kind of a moot point. Whether or not there is a genetic component, it is relevant only as far it is cashed out in physical brain matter and its arrangement.
The long, winding, technological road to GPS in every car
When to Localize Your Business
Most people raised the problem of maintaining old releases beyond just hotfixes, which is valid.

Another problem my organization has hit with this approach is that, unless you somehow maintain 0 bugs level, you get to a point where you need to do 2 separate things: fix bugs on features that are already "done", while still developing new features, while integrating those in rapid succession. This is mostly true when preparing for a release while still having to work on features for future releases.

This can lead to the need to have two separate "main" branches, one that is used for stabilization, and another that is used for active development.
> Are you really implying a vehicle with engine, safety systems that have been refined for a century

The ignorance displayed here is astounding. Appealing to the length of cars' history, when bikes have been around for even longer? Really?

> produced for the high-class with a 1000 percent markup?

Even more absurdity. I'm sure the markup is higher than for cars, but a thousand percent just reveals how little you know in a subject you're nevertheless overwhelmingly confident on.

You complain about the actual knowledgeable people being "spoiled high class citizens", even as you advertise your ignorance on the subject with nearly every sentence.
Scott has been doxed in the past, as is alluded in the post. It's not about not having anyone know who he is. It's about the volume (and the quality) of the attention he'll receive if his name is in a high-profile thing. Basically it's about the mob.

And he has already been on the receiving end of the mob pseudonimously, and clearly does not want to be in his own real-name capacity.

Is this really that hard to understand?
No, they shouldn't if you don't want web to be censored and tranny of few people.

Whois shouldn't exist publicly at all in the first place.

Do you really want big corps to send some goons at your home to harass you for putting up a bigcorpsucks.com ?

example: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/15/21291666/ebay-employees-a...
Any firm will attempt to achieve as close to a monopoly as regulators allow, as that’s how you maximize margins and thus value to shareholders.
That’s exactly what the article says.
Western Digital to Sell Non-SMR WD Red Plus Drives, WD Red Still SMR
No, topics are much more than tags which doesn't mean that topics can't be used for tagging purposes with a "tag topic" and an appropriate association between the topic that is being tagged and the topic that represents the tag - hope that makes sense).

Topic maps can be used for meta-modelling purposes: to model other models. So, a project is a topic (of type "project" - the type being a topic itself), a feature would be a topic, a feature set would be another topic, milestones, stakeholders, basically everything would be a topic with the necessary associations to express the appropriate relationship between the relevant topics.

So, in your case, feature topics would be aggregated together into a feature set by asserting the necessary relationships between the individual feature topics and the feature set topic. Once that is done, a set of milestone topics could be created with each milestone separately connected to the relevant feature set topic(s). You could then add specific date-specific metadata (key-value pairs) to the milestone topics so that they could be navigated in a timeline-like fashion.

Let me know if the above makes sense or if you would like a more in-depth explanation.
I agree with your position but that last sentence is a bit redundant.
But you haven't answered the most important question here: is this plastic actually biodegrading, or is it just breaking up into plastic dust?
Laws need to be updated to account for the network effects of the data lock position, where you, your data, and network are prevented from easily being mobile.

Your digital data should be considered to be equivalent to you having built a house, a big asset, but now you have a big choice to make: abandon it because the state is doing some sketchy things that you don't agree with or want to support by the taxes collected, or not.

The lack of data portability, mobility of users, is the only reason Facebook and its leadership could repeatedly be a bad actor and continue to scale as it did; by data portability I also mean that all data should also maintain cross-linking attribution, so if anyone in your network also leaves Facebook to join platform X instead - that data can be imported and aligned, synchronized properly on the other platform so it doesn't get broken. None of the incumbents are going to voluntarily to implement this.