skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is pretty lenient. You have to screw up really badly to lose your AWS account . I have noticed this it be the case for almost all cloud-based hosting services except of of course dropbox.
Can you point me towards those? I think you are referring to aphorisms[0], but I couldn't find any in the related Wikipedia article[1].

[0] a pithy observation that contains a general truth

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphorism
Yeah, I realized halfway through my list that I was mostly listing infrastructure; that's why I tacked on editors and GIMP. The original claim was that analytics were required to avoid software being terrible, and I mostly wanted to point out that this is obviously false; kind of software and community support make an impact, but they're not a hard requirement, and at any rate I think we're moving the goalposts here.

> You can hardly compare coreutils to smartphone apps.

Indeed; coreutils works on an absurd variety of unix-family systems, is copyleft, respects privacy, and is high-quality. If smartphone apps were more like coreutils, we'd all be better off.

> As someone who deals with Android fragmentation daily, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to support the whole ecosystem. Disliking analytics I can understand, but crash reporting adds measurable improvement in the quality of software.

I do understand where you're coming from; while I don't have skin in that game, I'm passingly aware of the remarkable ways that vendors break their systems. And honestly, if you get user consent, I don't actually have a problem with having the app report problems to you. It's just the "send information about the user's system without asking" thing that I object to.
Discord throws the warning every time you tap on the text box. https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/hfcvbu/is_disco... fixed with a single line change. They were trying to determine if the paste button should show up or not.

I am curious what LinkedIn is actually doing with the data. Is it being exfilled somehow? Or is it just doing something in a really dumb way? I don't trust them at all to not be taking the data, but what purpose does it have?
how important is it to have LinkedIn? as somebody just starting their career, I've never really been told to have it but it's as if it's sort of assumed. in general I don't have other social media, and if LinkedIn isn't that important then I'd rather not have it, too.
"If this post gets removed then I know I have not fully achieved my ownership goal and it might be time to just host on a pi."

If the post does not get removed you do NOT know that you have fully achieved ownership. The simple fact that that clause exists means you do not have full ownership.

Hosting on a pi might not make much difference as most ISP's have similar clauses in their EUP's.

The only way to come close to "full ownership" I can think of would be by either owning the entire stack to the reader or maybe some encrypted p2p system. Does anyone have any practical suggestions?
There are constitutional implications to the use of the Insurrection Act against largely peaceful demonstrations, like the ones in DC at the time it was invoked.

The First Amendment does not protect riots, but it does protect protests outside the White House.
Airbnb blocks some U.S. rentals from users under 25 to prevent house parties
It's the only language I've ever seen that tries to dispatch on what type of object you don't have. Very zen.
Well yeah but that would be Facebook retaining/gaining skilled employees, not losing them.

If, hypothetically, many skilled workers did care (and didn’t like Zuckerberg’s stance) then they’d lose them, which would impact their performance especially against competitors.

I appreciate that this is highly unlikely to happen since, as you said, many don’t care and in fact see this as a positive. I was just stating that I object to the idea that employees can’t have an impact – they can, in sufficient number. We just need to get them to care (lol).
Yes.

It would all be a lot simpler if browsers and other operating systems just implemented an API call for obtainAllMyPrivateInformation(). That's clearly what developers like LinkedIn (and TicToc, etc.) are looking for.
It's ironic that this site doesn't work without enabling third-party external JavaScript.
If systemd-resolved is actually being used, /etc/resolv.conf will list only 127.0.0.53, and to find out what systemd-resolved itself is using one has to visit the resolved.conf configuration files, which is what falcolas is apparently talking about.

But then if one is using, say, dnscache or dnsmasq or MaraDNS or BIND or PowerDNS or any other such software, one has to do the same thing. /etc/resolv.conf will list simply 127.0.0.1 or some such, and one has to go further to the configuration files of those softwares to find out what they are using for resolution/forwarding.

DNS softwares having their own configuration files is normal. falcolas is apparently getting at the fact that systemd-resolved uses the same style of configuration as the other systemd programs do: files and drop-in directories in /etc/systemd, /run/systemd, /usr/local/lib/systemd, /usr/lib/systemd, and (if configured) /lib/systemd, meaning that one has to read all of this together.
> It may have been made up, but I'm willing to bet that a not insignificant portion of people who are _now_ making it aren't doing so to make a point of saying "everything is just fine".

Absolutely. But the corollary is that every time someone claims that something (a flag, a gesture, a tradition) is racist, then it actually transforms it into something racist. Because at that point you're forced to abandon it or consciously make a statement that you don't care about being considered racist.

If next year someone comes up saying that Santa Claus is racist, then dressing as Santa Claus becomes a statement, that you want it or not. This is a huge power that is easily abused.
I'm sorry if I didn't understand. Wouldn't a json or xml type data structure (where some Wikipedia stuff is already stored) would support this?
Wow. That was really not very complex at all... Did they leave off some capabilities that the server side version performed, it was the complexity overstated?
Common Lisp has had Jupyter integration for a while.

First cl-jupyter (https://github.com/fredokun/cl-jupyter) which is now in maintance mode and now common-lisp-jupyter (https://github.com/yitzchak/common-lisp-jupyter).

Here is a notebook I did awhile back with cl-jupyter: https://github.com/mmaul/clml.tutorials/blob/master/CLML-Win...
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Hi, founder of Diffbot here, we are an AI research company spinout from Stanford that generate the world's largest knowledge graph from crawling the whole web. I didn't want to comment, but I see a lot of misunderstandings here about knowledge graphs, abstract representations of language, and the extent as to which this project uses ML.

First of all, having a machine-readable database of knowledge(i.e. Wikidata) is no doubt a great thing. It's maintained by a large community of human curators and always growing. However, generating actually useful natural language that rivals the value you get from reading a Wikipedia page from an abstract representation is problematic.

If you look at the walkthrough for how this would work (https://github.com/google/abstracttext/blob/master/eneyj/doc...), this project does not use machine and uses CFG-like production rules to generate natural sentences. Works great for generating toy sentences like "X is a Y".

However, human languages are not programming languages. Many natural languages, like German and Finnish, are so syntactically and morphologically complex that there is no compact ruleset that can describe them. (those that have taken grammar class can relate to the number of exceptions to the ruleset)

Additionally, not every sentence in a typical Wikipedia article can be easily represented in a machine-readable factual format. Plenty of text is opinion, subjective, or describes notions that don't have an proper entity. Of course there are ways that engineer around this, however they will exponential grow the complexity of your ontology, number of properties, and make for a terrible user experience for the annotators.

A much better and direct approach to the stated intention of making the knowledge accessible to more readers is to advance the state of machine translation, which would capture nuance and non-facts present in the original article. Additionally, exploring ML-based ways of NL generation from the dataset this will produce will have academic impact.
There is a picture of Epicurus or Marcus Aurelius with some pithy quote posted daily on many social media channels. The idea that "stoicism" is obscure is tenuous at best.
I'm 31 and I find this totally insane! Why would you pay $65/mo for something that has 8 minutes of commercial for every 22 minutes of content? Regular TV is dead to me now that we have streaming services. I'll pay for the content, but don't waste my time trying to make more money by showing me ads. I haven't had a regular TV connection since leaving for college.
Sad day for me; for a plane geek, frequent traveler, son of immigrants, and someone who has been to the factory (incredible - visit the Everett Boeing facility if you get a chance), this is super nostalgic.

The "Queen of the skies" really changed air travel, and I'm a bit sad that they won't be flying much longer. The economics, size and scale of travel were drastically different before the 747. Before the 747, only the richest folks could really cross the globe at will. The 747 changed everyday notions of distance and ushered in the age of travel that we get to enjoy today. This plane shrank the world and allowed for the middle class to explore the world in a way that they never could before.

When my parents came to the US, they came on a 747. Before the 747 they probably would have had to make 5-6 stops, instead of the 2 that they came on.

Crazy enough, the 747 was designed with obsolescence in mind because when it was developed in the 60's, we thought all passenger jets would be flying supersonic... so they made the 747 with this hump to easily convert them into cargo jets (cargo would continue to fly subsonic even though passengers wouldn't).
As the others in this reply thread, I'm interested in nearshore synthetic data. Would you be open to chatting some time?
There’s this:

https://github.com/yitzchak/common-lisp-jupyter
It’ll continue beyond July. This quote may have changed everything. If he’s trying to become the silicon trump he is certainly getting there. Unsurprisingly both are clearly sociopaths.
> Why ban the players, and not just the design?

The goal is not to censor the image, it is to change the behavior of society. The goal is to punish bad behavior and set a good example.

The reason we are in this mess in the first place is that people turn the other way and sweep bad behavior under the rug instead of facing it head on and addressing it.
"I'd rather they feel uncomfortable expressing that"

How is this useful though? Are you afraid to adopt those views? Are you saying ONLY others are in this danger of adopting those views (if so, why are you so special)?

At best you are making them stealthy and they are playing with you but you don't know, and at worse their beliefs are reinforced because they already hate people.
Ive worked places where compiling the C# solution on my dev machine took 30-40 mins and the build server took an hour plus...

I haven't seen anything else ever be that bad.
> Do you honestly believe that it’s a good faith argument that housing affordability is not under control of local governments?

In California, yes local government hands are tied by prop 13, as is, in a sense, the state government.

> What if I add in education outcomes? https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/06/20/public-e.... Is this also outside of state control? What is inside state control that could be referenced to understand the successes/failures of state governments?

Exactly, it's hard to have a functioning local government when hamstrung by a federal one that is actively dysfunctional.
But isn't that what comedy is all about - you make fun of everything, the truly great ones, Chapelle comes to mind, expose naked truths and come off with blinding insights.
I find most landlords aren’t willing to push back the move-in date on a new place more than a couple weeks in SF. So if I find a place to move into in 14 days, I’ll then give my 30 days notice and end up paying double rent for about half a month as you said. I wish that weren’t necessary, as I usually only need a couple days overlap for moving.

When I was younger and living paycheck to paycheck, I couldn’t afford the overlap and would have to give notice and then start looking closer to the actual date... very stressful! I’m sure a lot of people have to deal with this.
IIRC it really depends on the cargo. A very cool example I came across was iPhones being fairly heavy relative to their volume while roses were very light relative to their volume. The solution of the air freight company was to fill their aircraft 50/50 with roses and iPhones so that they were both at their weight limit and at their volume limit.
Submitted a lit review for this recently, such an amazing topic that could have huge implications for learning algorithms.
Background stuff?
In that vein, every morning I look in the mirror and smile at myself. It gives you a lift to see someone smile, no matter how forced. And its free. Never mind it's you looking back - the response to a smile is built-in and works anyway. For me.
Do you want to make an impact to improve the way App development works?
Or the 'Universal Life Church,' you just need to fill out a form on their page to get your diploma. You'll be an ordained minister with great powers; sign up today. 10/10 would next -> next -> next again. It's really that easy.
I think the take home message is: Police had a way to intercept these communications, but they managed to have that information leaked before they could finish their operation, only managing success because it was already too late for most of the participants.

Sort of illustrates the futility of giving the police keys to access communications, when the number of times they pull this off without a leak is near zero.
My color coding is bad (and there's an open issue about it), but I haven't come up with a great solution. One idea I should add was to make everything relative to LoopVectorization, but that wouldn't help for those interested in other comparisons like Eigen vs gfortran.

I'm on gfortran 10.1.1, so I'd only be missing out on very recent improvements (i.e., to trunk).

Note that these benchmarks were dynamically sized. If you write a fortran program like

real(kind=8), dimension(10,10) :: A, B, C
! fill A and B somehow
C = matmul(A, B)

the compiler will take advantage of the known dimensions and inline the call, making it much faster.

> I would love an option to align arrays in gfortran. It’s very important to take advantage of automatic vectorisation but I haven’t found a reliable way to do it.

I wish more compilers could also use masks to vectorize without padding. If multiplying 7x7 matrices with AVX512, the obvious solution is to just mask the loads/stores of columns, without the need for padding.
Of course, padding would also ensure all your loads/stores are aligned, which can be nice.
It only declared and didn't let you individually toggle permissions until version 6.0. You just had to take-or-leave the app as-is. I don't know whether or not it declared them from the very beginning.
Because they feel inner need to be relevant or other way around ?
"In all my life, there have been maybe 10 minutes of real happiness"

"Makes it all the more valuable, doesn't it?"
I think i saw that some of the new betas of ios pop an alert whenever software sniffs your pasteboard.. maybe i'm wrong. Seems like I saw somethng during the tiktok stuff earlier this week.
Thanks for the link,such a great invention!
Christian ethics is all about demanding a payment, ie. the promise that one's good deeds will be rewarded in afterlife.
I was with you every step of the way until you lamented the puritanical rules. Your original example was indeed a dumb misunderstanding on their part. However, if you had addressed a real person that way, the reaction would not be puritanical. The other two cases sound potentially reasonable too.
> For the Southern colonies, participation in the American Revolution was part of their effort to maintain slavery.

Slavery was legal to some extent in every colony, northern or southern, throughout the Revolution. Some states had (laudably) started to abolish it in whole or in part by the end of the war. Interestingly, Wikipedia indicates that the last Pennsylvanian slaves died in the 1840s, which seems surprisingly late.
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For ~60 years the "physics" that drive people into large urban centers has been changing, with the changes getting much faster at the last ~20 years.

I really don't think there's enough evidence to say the change is on the direction of people abandoning cities (but the largest ones already slowed down their growth to a minimum). But it's unreasonable to expect the COVID changes to be undone. Things change slowly because people resist changes; but once they change, people will resist reverting them.
Thats it, move on
You might be preparing them incorrectly. Try rinsing very thoroughly and flushing the water, and/or boiling them for longer.
If you tell people you’ll take care of their losses for them and they can keep all of the profits, who would say no?! That’s not capitalism in any respectable sense; that’s crony capitalism.

A good regulatory regime is one that sets the rules and stays out of the game except to enforce those rules. If a company will go bankrupt, fine, the people that took a chance and invested in it lose their money, but that’s how markets function.
More inventory means more chances to sell something to an advertiser. That is why they go to such great lengths to build massive data centers with gigantic digital brains to figure out how to optimize session depth, impressions/user, watch time, etc. Buyers are not able to pay beyond their profit margin, so increased rates just means they cut budget and look somewhere else.
Google Translate's last major update was in May. They still use more restricted model sizes than the top-end research, but the techniques are making their way into the product.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/06/recent-advances-in-google-...

With a cursory analysis, it's not obvious whether DeepL is better than Google Translate any more.
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Exactly. I would probably believe someone who spent many thousands of dollars to own one of the 20-50 existing, authentic Confederate battle flags [0] if they said they kept it as a symbol of "heritage." That's a real, historical artifact, worthy of preservation so future generations can understand what it represented.

I do not believe those who spend a few hundred to have it tattooed on their bodies, or people who buy one for $7.50 from China off Amazon [1] when they say such things, because there's no value in displaying a representation of a thing that's historically represented nothing but hate.

Owning and preserving an authentic flag shows a commitment to history. Displaying a representation of it shows a commitment to hatred.

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[0]: https://www.newsweek.com/2015/07/17/value-confederate-flag-c...

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/ZHENGYU-Polyester-Double-Sided-Milita...
> science Python code relies on C/C++ extensions

Don't forget Fortran. A good portion of numpy is written in Fortran.
Some comments on your wiki:

1. The contrast is way too low, I can barely read it.

2. The typesetting for Hamlet looks really nice.

3. Why would I want to use this?
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Very cool. I’m fascinated by the Wolfram Language paradigm of Knowledge Base+Programming language=Computable everything (demo: https://youtu.be/3yrVuM2SYZ8). But I could never get into the Wolfram ecosystem because it’s totally proprietary. This makes me think, does Wikidata’s model (ontologies?) provide a way to recreate the Wolfram computable everything concept as an open community project?
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A bloke (and a less privileged bloke at that, 75% non white according to himself) was recently fired because someone had shot a photo of him resting his hand out the window of a company truck in what lpoked line an OK hand.

It was discussed here a few days ago. Stop firing the innocent or something, from the Atlantic.
The designers elevated the driver cabin so that it would be possible for passengers to walk underneath it when they coupled multiple trains together into a longer one. Sadly, it turned out the doors for the interlocking mechanism were very error prone so in the end they just welded them shut and you have to go around outside (at a station) if you want to move between trains sets.
Somebody far more eloquent than I am summarized the problem with this attitude: https://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/3tsd5o/comment...

By poking fun at everyone who tries to do anything, you end up defending the status quo
People might be interested to know that semantic web ideas have been more successful in some niches than others. Computational biology for example makes extensive use of "ontologies" which are domain specific DAGs that do exactly what Abstract Wikipedia is attempting. Much of the analysis of organism's genomes and related sequences relies on these ontologies to automatically annotate the results so that meaningfull relationships can be discovered.

There are of course HUGE issues with the ontologies. They are not sexy projects so they are often underfunded and under resourced - even though the entirety of bioinformatics uses them! The ontologies are incomplete and sometimes their information is years behind the current research.

For the curious, the Gene Ontology is the golden child of biology ontologies. See here: http://geneontology.org/
I wouldn't say it's necessary, but it has been very valuable for me. I got my previous job through a linkedin posting and I regularly have recruiters reach out for interesting jobs on the platform.
While the implications are huge, it is hard to think about what is actually being done. XML and JSON are just languages, and the type of information could be stored in any number of ways.

In my point of view, the problem here is that you could say something like "'water' and 'heat' produces 'steam'", but knowledge is never that simple, and understanding of that information is even more complicated.

I would think that Abstract Wikipedia is not the first people trying to solve such a problem, and I am very curious to see what they come up with.

EDIT: Looks like they have an example: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Examples
Perhaps, but this seems to be moving towards a more holistic machine-readable article graph. If you look at a page from wikidata[0], it seems to be basically a key-value database (e.g. earth.highest point = [ mount everest { from sea level, 8000m } ], while the "full article" terminology used in the announcement seems like it may be even more connected/informative/structured than that.

[0]: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2
I think there's precedence for your theory. Angular is also mind-bogglingly stupid, developed by Google and also somehow popular.
There should be some legal consequences to including terms like offensive and otherwise objectionable. They are so very vague and subjective they could be used to apply bigoted, sexist even racist standards on customers.
After browsing the GitHub readme, I'd like to know more about how well supported it is to add your own metrics.