skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason I hate using Apple and Windows stuff is that the system seems to think it knows better than you. This is a philosophical thing, not a technology thing.

The SYSTEM decides what's offloaded to the iCloud. The SYSTEM decides that you can't start up your Windows machine to print that report that's due in 10 minutes, because it
just absolutely must spend 40 minutes completing its updates before it will let you do anything with the computer.

How hard is it to have a list of things to be offloaded, downloaded, updated, or whatever? Then the USER gets to select what happens with what, rather than the SYSTEM deciding, and often wrongly.
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That’s called taxpayer funded healthcare, but US voters don’t want that.
> cherrypicking statistics.

Using statistics directly responsive to the claim is cherrypicking?

It seems like your issue is with the claim, not the statistics. Being murdered by the police is not a central example of the problems of black people and holding it up as such will only cause people to address what you claim is the problem rather than what the actual problems are.

> But if we're going to be pedantic it's worth noting that tearing down the things that you don't like is selective whereas burning everything to the ground is much more indiscriminate and there's a big difference there.

When "things you don't like" consists of the likes of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, that's pretty hard to distinguish from burning the American system to the ground.
It actually doesn't matter. "Opposing opinions and differing ideologies" must be protected regardless of what they are. It's pointless to cherry-pick.
Yeah you don't see them rounding people up in camps either. There are other Nazi-style tactics in the ol' Nazi toolbag. For example, taking a complex problem for which nobody is truly able to attribute a simple cause, and saying, But _I_ know why it's happening, I know who's responsible... AND THERE THEY ARE / THERE'S ONE OF 'EM NOW! That's a Nazi tactic.
This is very strange logic. You would think someone who is capable of rape would want less police so they would get away with it. Sounds like this guy just made up an excuse to rape someone. You don't just wake up one day and decide that rape is an option.
There is also an interesting presentation about how Azul implemented their JIT called Falcon, that is fully based on LLVM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqch1rjPls8
Generally LLVM is a nice idea that allows vendors to reuse major components.
Companies already take them seriously to avoid the shit storm that comes after. See the VS code "santa gate" where microsoft removed the santa hat on christmas because one person opened a issue saying the santa hat was as offensive as a swastika to them.
Do you have a link where I could read more? Because it sounds like you're describing a thing that's been around for like a decade, that I've seen in use in (my region). But I may just be comparing apples and oranges under a too-vague description.
But there's tons of reasons why someone might find their behavior abhorrent that don't and shouldn't pass the bar for illegality, and want to inform their employer that the employee's behavior reflects negatively enough on the employer that they would stop doing business with them. There's all sorts of acts that are never going to be proven guilty, because they're not illegal in the first place. Generally because making it illegal would conflict with the first amendment.
I'm not sure the "garden" metaphor helps here
Trying to find a solution to the maximum-entropy probability distribution Q(x,y,z) constrained to reproduce the marginal distributions P(x,y), P(y,z), and P(z,x) from some other distribution P(x,y,z).

It is known that Q takes the form Q=a(x,y)b(y,z)c(z,x) for some functions a,b,c to be determined by solving the system of equations:

P(x,y) = sum_z Q(x,y,z)

P(y,z) = sum_x Q(x,y,z)

P(z,x) = sum_y Q(x,y,z)

It's not clear there exists a general closed-form solution. Iterative algorithms are known. This type of problem comes up in a number of interesting contexts. For instance, testing for non-trivial multi-variable interactions in dynamical systems such as neural networks or spin networks, performing joins on probabilistic databases, constructing reduced models of probability distributions, and in some cooperative game theory problems.

Examples:
https://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/our_papers/schneidman+al_...

http://vldb.org/conf/1987/P071.PDF

https://doi.org/10.6028/jres.072b.019

https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/4/2161
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Yes it does, and if you’ve been here considerably longer than me then you should know the rules just as well, so try sticking to them. It is not trolling to point to the violence that follows BLM around or you wouldn’t need to produce an apologetic for it. Try the principle of charity and try not to tell others what they should think or write simply because you disagree.
I really love Naval’s ideas about reading, wealth and life in general. I listen his podcast during walks and this one of those podcasts series of which I rewind back if I get distracted and miss something.
> It's been going on all around this country for over a month now. I think it's safe to say this thing was an gorse overreaction and it's on its way out. Let's stop the mass hysteria

Not based on active hospitalization counts in the current hot zones... complain all you want about test numbers not be comparable day over day, but I haven't seen anyone explain THAT away.
But we know that is very possible to do already, via relativistic effects.
OP says "harassing someones employer". Presumably that's more than writing a message on a feedback form.
> But in all seriousness, this advice is applying a notably higher standard of premature optimization to file descriptors than to any other kind of resource.

I don't think it's premature, but properly closing files is definitely not about optimization. Maybe "a notably higher standard of code quality"?
I’m not sure individual long term care policies are a viable product if you let people who took genetic tests buy it, but can’t take that information into account when setting rates. I think it’s already pretty hard to buy unless you’re in a group plan.
The Twoplustwo evaluator is open source ("GPL, use as you like" specifically)

Third party repo: https://github.com/tangentforks/TwoPlusTwoHandEvaluator

Original statement of license: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=1482536&po...
To be fair, they never said it was easy to figure out how to properly explain it, nor that the right pace was necessarily as fast as anyone involved would like.
"Now Reddit is even removing people who upvote stories or comments differ from their ideology."

Could you provide some examples please? Assertions are all very well.

(BTW "the country" is not HN. I'm a Brit)
>ALFI is stateless so a typical use-case would be to have a regular web server serving ALFI queries as responses from regular HTTP requests (like GET, POST, etc).

So, no
graduated a few years ago, tinder and okcupid I think
There are absolutely individuals responsible for contributing to societal woes. Deplatforming them is not "a nazi thing", but an everyone thing.
I ask the person that knows the recipe to write it down on paper for me, I also try to make te recipe as soon as possible to keep it fresh in my mind, everything else I just google (duck) it when I want to make it.
They do. And every 2 seconds people make an outrage post about how google bots locked them out by mistake or how facebook deleted their post about breast cancer. And if you are just banning certain words then these people invent new words for the old meanings.
Composites in Plain English Pt. 1
Aqua

What values ?

It seems like you need to do more research off mainsteam

99% corporations support
- Diversity
- Open Borders
- Discrination quotas
- Affirm action
- brainwashed "educated" uni people

- Anti White
- Anti free speech
- Anti freedom

- Pro LGBT
- Pro jewish/zionism/irsael
- Pro Wars with middle east

- pro censorship
- pro Globalism
- Pro Marxism/Zionism/Commie

Also trump is a jewish global zionist and fake right wing/fake "NATIONALISTS"
6.5 trillion with T for corporations/mainsteam/banks

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Platforms that censor speech:-

* Microsoft
* Facebook
* Twitter
* Google & Youtube
* TUMBLR & Instagram
* Pateron
* Stripe
* Paypal
* Twitch
* Spotify
* Apple
* Sony
* pin interest
* LinkedIn
* Mailchimp
* Wordpress
* mastodon
* azure
* Mastercard
* Godaddy
* MEDIUM
* Shopify
* Cloudflare
* pusher
* WIKI
* Reddit
* teespring
* Slack
* coinbase
* GOFUNDME
* VISA
* Square
* Bitpay
* ROKU
* Netflix
* Indiegogo
* Disqus
* Diaspora
* VIMEO
* Ravelry
* Github
* f-droid.org
* Itch.io
* Mailgun
* Gumroad
* YouCaring
* Donorbox
* Dropbox
* LBRY

Regards,
Charliebrowau
> Um, just consume the iterator immediately

That's fine for some use cases, but TFA wanted a lazy iterator.
What is the July 2020 Twitter spat between Taylor Lorenz and Balaji S about?
You can imagine a version of the world where designers structure their designs in a way that can easily export to e.g. a vue component, and along with the base structural layout they define different UI states it can be in, with animation timelines. Designers should be able to specify every aesthetic variable, and developers just program the business logic to fill content tags and toggle designer-defined states.
I’m working on a formula that factors ML model run-time cost (speed / memory-usage) into its performance evaluation. I generated a very simple scoring function from economic first principles. Now, I’m trying to test performance on cumbersome transformer models published by Google / FB / Microsoft etc in order to prove that many of these models are not “state-of-the-art” if run-time cost is taken into account.
Finally more communism woohoo exciting. It feels great to steal from people
That's the reason why we should never ever ever ever give "power to the people", but rather to enlightened few who would do their best to understand common people needs and take decisions accordingly.
Giving today power to the people plain and simple means we'll have light poles holding hanged people at every street by next week.

There's a wonderful quote by Henry Ford regarding innovation which says "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have replied faster horses". I find it very appropriate in this context too. People would definitely know there's something wrong somewhere, but only knowledgeable ones would find how to act, where to act and how to do that without producing collateral damages.
Why should you limit yourself to a feedback form?
method though breaks down into co2 and water eventually, so its still a problem in the long term

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane
Maybe I understood it wrong because they said "mindset" instead of "internal".

To me, seeding ideas is internal to the people and society leading to chaos, as compared to external and physical forces like starvation, oppression and lack of infrastructure.
> Why are you slyly shifting from "sugar" to "mcdonalds"? Minus drinks and desserts, McDonalds' offerings are not high in sugar.

Aren't carbohydrates sugar though?

Why is the distinction between sugar in drinks and sugar is burger buns relevant to the discussion.

> Micronutrients are great and all, but you can't live off micronutrients alone.

Why did you slyly ignore 'beans and rice' in my comment. I wasn't suggesting people get their calories from spinach, what a weird interpretation.

my mexican family of 5 ate this combo every single day ,growing up. spinach + rice+ beans and occasional meat was afforable on one gardner's salary.
Still will effect your insurance if you have a 25% chance of a particular genetic disease.
This is an interesting idea. I find reading code isn't always linear, so I'm interested to see what you come up with.
In some circumstances (life, disability, and long term care insurance are not compulsory nor necessary in all situations), you should pay for risk you incur, whether by choice or not.

This isn’t about race or sex (and the discrimination argument made), but the underlying genetics that present as those traits (and any risks, such as premature death or the need for extended assisted care, that come along for the ride).

Using systems like social security and universal healthcare are better models if the desire is to ignore identifying and pricing risk (as insurance does) and spread the costs across the population with less admin overhead.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2...
It should, obviously, not be the entire population. Why should I subsidize smoker healthcare?
It's been fascinating in a dark way to see how cultural differences from place to place are translating into vastly different responses to this situation (and vastly different outcomes) from country to country and from state to state within the US.

How often do we get to see the entire world deal with the same problem at the same time for such a sustained period?
I really like this. At the start of this podcast [1] they talk about the dark forest theory of the Internet. It's that when you go into a dark forest at night you don't see many animals because they know if they move or make noise they become prey. Similarly many intelligent people stay silent on Twitter and only speak up in private circles for similar reasons.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/podcasts/2019/11/21/2097616...
The one problem with LLVM is that it’s not very well suited to JIT compilers, a major component of which is its slowness.
Actually it does matter, if we want to be honest about why we're even having this conversation.

Deplatforming and banning doesn't happen because of some abstract whim, so defending it in abstract terms sans context seems like it's overlooking a large chunk of the conversation.
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What's the role of cyberspace vs meatspace in your solution?
I'm not sure how arbitrary rules are supposed to create incentives. The bans should be based on how much harm something creates and the harm of shipping vs a pipeline is pretty much the same because you end up burning fossil fuels.

Instead of saying "oil is harmful" you end up saying "oil is totally fine as long as you don't use pipelines".
The corporations in these statements are guided by the people. They seem like an awfully random segment to point out for this. They haven't expressed anything because neither have your friends, Twitter, the news media, and politicians. Maybe the disgrace lies with them.
Thanks. I think another key part is that social networks get huge. They get thousands of employees, billions in investment, etc. This makes them fragile, and forces them down certain paths. If I stay small then I’m not handicapped by forced expectation of user engagement or growth.

I agree with you about the danger of low friction amplification of messages. My hope is that if users can amplify messages but they get no social credit for it, it will dampen down this behavior.
Einstein and Franz Kafka Quotes to Uplift You at This Uncertain Time
I gave them the benefit of the doubt explicitly and reminded them of the rules - what more do you want?

Their reply shows I was wrong to give the benefit of the doubt and that they really need a reminder of the rules. Feel free to come up with more “no it’s you” replies if you like but they’re unhelpful, unwanted, unwarranted, and directed towards the wrong person.
Homeless people not welcome on Nextdoor
I'm sure Apple's response is that you can turn on high contrast mode in accessibility settings.

...and my problem with that argument is that high contrast mode looks aesthetically terrible. So basically, only people with great eyesight get to appreciate aesthetically-pleasing UIs.

Obviously, some people just have very bad eyesight, and there comes a point when you need to say "screw aesthetics, here's something you can actually see." But, the less people who need to resort to that, the better.
IMO part of what’s happening here is that Python’s GC model works well for memory and leaks for other resources.

Rust’s ownership model works very well for many non-memory resources IMO, and even for memory it is very safe and efficient, with the only cost being mental overhead at times. Something like Rust’s ownership system but with an easy escape hatch for “loose” resource management (ie GC) could solve a lot of the cognitive load with resources, I think. Rc is helpful, but not nearly as ergonomic as a GC language.

I think withoutboats had a similar blog post a year or two ago.
What possible "controller feature" would be needed from the controller on the hardware side to support just another USB protocol?
"There's no computer algorithm or machine that will take a chemical structure and tell us what that chemical will smell like." perked my blue sky thinking cap until I read "[but first] we need to understand how the brain encodes information about smells" Datta said.

"We hope our findings are a step down that path."

Idle curiosity makes me wonder whether something like cerebral organoid research was far along enough for it to be viable, especially given that different species could experience smells in very different ways and possibly process smells differently? Lay man's guess says yes and using organoids could allow for easier measuring/interfacing. Ugh, I've watched too many Frankenstein movies, My bad.

[Edit - Reworded my comment after realizing something about a reference I made to a novel]
I disagree. I think there are very few actions so abhorrent that you should be fired for doing them in your personal life, and the vast majority of Twitter firings I've seen aren't over the line. Society isn't going to work under a standard where people who do bad things can't have jobs anymore.
Thanks for the pointer, I hadn’t heard about YikYak but will check them out.
Yeah exactly, this was one of the usecases I wanted to deal with.

Several brick and mortar retailers here require your address and personal info even when buying and picking up physically at their store and several have had their databases hacked and leaked.

Why do I need to give those when they're not shipping anything to me and I pay in cash?

We have an agency called Maistraatti which is our nation wide registry office which will have all of my postal information, family relations etc.,basicslly anything related to me as part of our society. Why can't I just provide online and physical retailers some ID that the registry can then translate into my actual info when it's actually needed, for example for shipping or if they want to check my credit etc. They could just save that ID for that purchase and temporarily check the necessary info through an API.

Hashed info would be one solution, the retailers would only get the hashes I provide and the registry office could then match those hashes to my info. In essence, I could basically create single use throwaway information for each retailer if I'd wanted to and they would be none the wiser.
Looks cool. Suggestion: Require people to request discussions from others to sign up/comment/participate. You could gain big traction by getting big names to do conversations and likely monetize by having sponsored conversations.

Major thing to avoid would be what happened to Quora where all the comments were gamed by people trying to resume pad.

"Thank you for your question, the history of privacy goes back millennia to Cleopatra's Royal guards... In summary, duckduckgo is a search engine focused on privacy"
> The more I see these stories and see how social media has shaped and is shaping the 21st century, the more I wish it was never created.

I don't see how you can come to this conclusion when in the preceding paragraph you accurately portray the mainstream media as the actual manipulators. The media loves to televise drama, it's what sells. When there's no actual drama to be had, they manufacture it by highlight nonsense on social media or other means.

It's all so contrived now. "X say Y on Twitter! Here's a 5 minute diatribe about why that's outrageous with sarcastic analogies and something about true <insert country> values!"
There's been a huge fight with Australia - I was wondering if its known in other countries, Australia said there should be an international investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, a fairly reasonable expectation. The result - has been a disproportionate attack - tariffs applied to Australian exports, Students advised not to study in Australia, Australia has decided to double defence spending, and sell stuff to other countries where possible.

Japan is having similar disputes as Philipines and Indonesia.
It isn't all right wing stuff. The recent banwave took out probably the largest leftist community on the internet after a long period of banning users who upvoted opinions there, such as:

* Slaveowners deserved to die

* John Brown is an American hero

* Police & large-corporate property constitue legitimate political targets during protests

etc.

Essentially reddit wants to restrict the scope of permissible discourse to the same region allowed on mainstream news websites: support of neoliberal capitalism with debate focused on how overtly racist the system should be.
What if that ideology encourages violence against a certain class of people? Must that be protected?
This is exactly what's happening. Hyper-partisan extremist perspectives that are built up by a frenzy of social engagement turning people into blind attackers of whatever they deem "wrong".

We just aren't built for this addiction to a constant global stimulus by faceless anonymous accounts sharing hot takes that can't be verified but elicit a deeply emotional reaction. We're losing our minds.
I suspect that the tax will actually be born by the corps. They would still need to pay their employees competitively to attract talent, so the only option this have is to boost pay proportionally to the tax.
Improving the performance of fountain codes and applying them securely to peer 2 peer file sharing.

A fountain code is an almost magical algorithm that can split a file of size n up into a (practically) infinite stream of blocks of size b, such that collecting any n/b blocks out of the stream can reconstruct the file.

Applied to p2p file sharing it effectively can eliminate rare pieces as well as the need to communicate which pieces people have. Related topic here is homomorphic hashing.

Unless I find something better before September my master thesis will be on this topic.
Absolutely. As is the case with architectural styles, features and forms in footwear, clothing materials, popular branding color pallets and all sorts of other things like that, graphical interface norms certainly follow trends. Skeuomorphism, for example.
I do use Terraform. Terraform is very good to create the building blocks of your architecture but not so much for the user-friendliness part.

Let's take an example: You have an architecture with a CI/CD. Great. You add your CodePipeline and CodeBuild ressources to your plan. Perfect.

For the CI part, you want your build to start on every commit on every non-master branch. Bad news: CodePipeline doesn't have support for multi-branch. So you will need to find a way to clone the default pipeline for each new branch.

Repeat this for all the user-friendly features (GitHub check runs, env vars management, deployment monitoring/rollback...) for the three cloud providers for all the different architectures and you start to feel the difficulty (I can testify ;)).
Can I just signup with email/username and password?
Why require social auth?
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