skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have been very transparent what the strategy is. Long term, since this won’t go away in just a few months the restrictions must be sustainable. Take into account the overall health and well-being of the people, don’t worry only about COVID-19. Only do what there are scientific evidence that it actually makes a difference. Make sure that the spread is slow enough so the health care system doesn’t get overwhelmed.
Optimizing a code intelligence back end at Sourcegraph
A lot of people will disagree with you on principle (they view internet access as a "right" rather than a privilege), but I think it's an interesting idea that's worth discussing, if only because we've had similar ideas in the past, with other technologies, and arrived upon similar conclusions.

We as a society have decided that negligent actors can do enough harm to themselves or others in operating an automobile on publicly-owned roads, that we compel individuals to seek license from the government to drive vehicles on those roads. The license is a revocable priveilege that has to be earned by ongoing demonstrations of competency.

One could imagine a parallel system for "web privileges", although it sounds dystopian at first blush, in contrast to the unprecedented freedoms we enjoy on the web, today.

The tricky thing is that it's relatively hard to precisely track identity and intentional authorship on the internet. It's also easy to imagine somebody losing their internet privileges, because some botnet hijacked their printer and used it to spread X-rated content. In the analogy, it's hard to disambiguate between drivers and vehicles.

Maybe we'd require some biometric login system, provided by the government, to use a web browser. It's hard to imagine implementing any such system in a way that doesn't make the attack surface bigger, but harder problems have been solved.

I can't imagine how "commercial web licenses" would work, though. That's an interesting space for thought.
Of course not, and that might be the case for 10-20% of the population. But you don't have to be some privileged trust fund kid for your parents to give you a place to stay in the event of financial hardship. That's not rare and let's hope that never becomes rare because I'd shudder a world where parents by and large would not do this for their kids.
Absolutely.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/27...

> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke by phone Sunday and agreed to open a dialogue to avoid further diplomatic fallout following Poland’s initial approval of a law making it a criminal offense to mention Polish complicity in crimes committed during the Holocaust.

I believe they backtracked a bit on that one after the outcry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_ideology-free_zone

> An "LGBT-free zone" (Polish: Strefa wolna od LGBT) also referred to as "LGBT free zone" (Polish: Strefa wolna od LGBT) refers to some regions of Poland which have declared themselves unwelcoming of an alleged "LGBT ideology." As of June 2020, some 100 municipalities (including five voivodships), encompassing about a third of the country, declared themselves "LGBT-free zones".
Svelte now supports TS

https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-and-typescript
Amazon makes Chime for the communication solution. Don't need Slack
No, that is not the issue. Rather the issue is that even the hardest stuff on Facebook isn't remotely comparable to stuff of actual criminals, and the effort is wildly different:

- Facebook: it's violating rules? Delete, next.

- Forensic IT on a multi TB disk full with child porn: document every photo, what it shows, extract identifiable faces to cross reference with other content (to check for recurring places and victims), and the process is even more gory for video content. You have to watch every second or the defense can attempt "you didn't watch the video in full where the perp gives the victim an ice cream at the end" or whatever else. The amount of time you spend with documenting a single photo or video is many orders of magnitude worse than FB content mods.
This is a fine bit of research, but exclusivity should be the first question--the high-order bit. There has been essentially no market discovery of prices because of exclusivity.

Since 1992, there has been "free" distribution online for software (e.g., Quake launched this way in 1993), and makers of software were able to find their own distribution models without retail in the middle. This is also how the entire web happened, when Netscape Navigator launched in 1994.

To compare pricing in mobile app stores to things like brick and mortar boxed software is a mistake. It ignores the internet entirely, and how the industry worked for the 15 years before the iPhone launched. There are much more price-efficient models than this.
I had 1 Loop+, 2 Defragments, and 1 Capacitor that last game I lost this morning :) I got 'All for One' as my random rare card to start with, so I was doing my best to get a bunch of 0 cost cards, and I also ended up with 2 relics that let me pick cards to shuffle in every battle (Nilry's Codex and the Toolbox), along with a Jack of All Trades card, so I got to pick cards to help whatever my situation was each battle and turn.

But I was a little too weak on my defense that go (had some frost generation, but not enough), and I made a dumb mistake attacking the Masked Bandits instead of losing all my gold, who did 50 damage to me before I killed them, bringing me down to 18 health, then I couldn't get to a campfire until I fought 3 more regular enemies, and the next enemy brought me down 6 more, then the second enemy after that got me down the other 12. Oops.
> I also think part of the objection here is around off-shoring. It's similar to other complaints about off-shored jobs: we're farming out unpleasant work to people that get paid less and have much less support (e.g. mental health).

That's an interesting point, and has me wondering something.

If a site like Facebook opened up a volunteer moderator scheme where people could sign up to filter out stuff that broke their rules, would it make things better or worse on a moral level?

What about a US/Europe based agency that did this thing onshore as a contract deal?
The error here is comparing an upper middle class life of a software developer to that of banks and tech billionaires. You mentioned you have relatively high income, so aren't you and your family's needs met? Everyone wants to retire early, everyone would like a nice sum of cash fast. Perhaps it is worth exploring not increasing income, but decreasing expenditures and living more simply.

EDIT: like others have said here, money is a side effect of a passion. It is not an end in itself, unless you take up business and finance careers.
his blog is excellent (and hilarious) as well. https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/
Magecart is a well known framework in the underground for stealing credit card numbers from websites (if they can get the JavaScript running on a checkout page).

If you hit it directly they will redirect to a random "Spin the wheel win a prize" type site in an attempt to hide the malicious nature of the payload.
The US has laws with punishments that make it illegal for people to use computers or to use certain online services already. Just do more of this, but broaden the categories to include posting visually horrifying content that's known to cause PTSD to places where people don't expect to see that.
I suspect there is a certain interest group that has emerged and grown around this subject that has been elevating and promoting this issue in the public's mind. It would not even surprise me one bit that especially overseas contractors, because there are likely fewer penalties/prohibitions, are paying people to flood, e.g., fb with things like beheading videos in order to produce a cause for their services. It may be cynical, but like I said, it would not surprise me one bit.
> doing it on mommy and daddy's dime is a fairly selfish pursuit.

This is a value judgment specific to the US (and maybe bunch of other countries in the anglosphere). Places in the Mediterranean like Italy and Greece are notably different in children staying at parents' home till their 30s, or places in the Nordic students both don't pay for college and get small monthly stipends from the government for rent (usually in subsidized student housing) and groceries.

Raising humans is hard work and someone got to be footing the bill. Kids don't magically turn into adults at the age of 18, so their parents who made the decision to make them in the first place has responsibility until their kids reach adulthood, or this responsibility can be collectivized by the whole society because failures of parents will also be suffered by the whole society. Putting the burden of outrageous debt on the kid sounds like the most selfish thing to do by the parents and the society. And a debt only for formal education, which alone is not enough to make kids into adults.
What would be valid reasons for the previous comment to be just silently downvoted?
It's insolvable problem.

- mom works as a freelancer and the kid uses her computer to post bad content. Does she lose her job?

- someone trolls his mate for lolz.
Gitlab / github static hosting is an option.
Yeah, I'd be living in a van down by the river if I quit.
> Post gore, rape and torture in places where people don't want to see that and you should lose the right to have internet access. Criminalize this behavior.

It's probably illegal just about everywhere to post pictures of rape and torture.

You may want to reword your comment, unless you meant for it to imply that it should be legal to post gore, rape, and torture for people who want to view those.
What do you mean MS forced Teams on you? IT has always been able to control what apps install with the office suite, including Teams. Teams being freely offered as a bundled service certainly incentivizes its use, but there has never been any penalty for using an alternative service other than, of course, the cost of layering on another service.
I think this is a different issue. It is more of an attack on some fundamental principles. Like, even if some older people in the 70's thought hippies and beatniks were lazy no-goods, the fundamentals - free speech, the right to protest and disagree - protected everyone. I think the worry today is that the next beatnik kid is too scared to say anything outside the status quo.

Personally I feel like the traditional defenders of liberalism have gotten too limp dick and internet-unsavvy. Ultimately I hope that as internet-native people age and mature they will realize the importance of the loftier philosophical ideals required to make progress actually happen.
whats more interesting is how much Apple paid for this report.
Agreed. Misconfigured s3 buckets have to be in the top 1% of of causes for data leaks, hacking, etc security issues in the past decade.
Looks fairly cool, but I'll bet it isn't that popular with security boffins. I would be cautious about something that might not actually reflect a current "in the wild" device.

For example, if the OS isn't quite at the same level as the release OS, it could be an issue.

That said, this is not my field, and I am not qualified to offer much more than the vague speculation, above.
A wealthy black person can easily start their own business. They may have some advantages and disadvantages vs a wealthy white person but nothing can stop them doing it. They have money. A wealthy Black person is a “have” not a “have not.”
A poor white person cannot use their whiteness to pay the bills. Ask millions of white people why they work shitty jobs if you think being white solves economic problems.

They can’t stop working their shifty job to participate in YC if they lowered their investment. A wealthy black founder very obviously could. Clearly the deciding factor is socioeconomic and not race.

So you’re just wrong to talk about racial diversity when the issue is clearly socioeconomic diversity.

The absolute proof is that increased economic diversity necessarily results in increased racial diversity. Contrarily, increased racial diversity does not necessarily result in socioeconomic diversity.

Because one is the root cause of the other.

Your thinking is what leads to “diverse” organizations where many racial and gender groups are represented but they’re all rich people that attended Ivy League schools. And that is not diversity by any meaningful definition. It does nothing to alleviate systemic unfairness.
Sleep in the couch or basement, food costs very little. That's still a lot of support, means that no matter what you have a place to stay and regroup. Not all parents can do that but most could
Well yeah, the people without money concerns don't need to gamble because they already have money.
A roguelike (berlin interpretation) can be made always winnable, without this issue, because their fundamental goal differs from games like Slay the Spire -- a roguelike's victory condition is to steal the object in the depths, and escape, and enemy battles are just an aspect of that task; its not key to the gameplay. Which is why you can have no-kill runs, and non-combat-optimal builds and be successful. It's also why you can have a monster that spawned way too early and can one-shot you while rewarding nothing on death, and you can decide not to fight it.

The 40 damage does matter, but you as a player decide as part of your risk management strategy whether its worth potentially being crippled, or killed, by such a monster. It also means a roguelike can introduce unbeatable creatures (at least at your current strength), or overly high risk-reward scenarios, and it doesn't mean the game is actually over.

Slay the Spire on the other hand is a battle simulator -- a series of fights until you win. You don't get an option in the matter, because there is no grander goal. Which means the same monster that is a choice in a roguelike, is simply game over in StS.

Jorbs is right about StS; he is not right about procedural generation. This is a direct result of the game's mechanics.
My thoughts are about the operations, the relationship between division and exponents, not what's hidden in infinities.

What are you really asking when you talk about e?

Provide input, and the output is also the value of slope at that input. That function is a constant, e, to the power of input. Continuous little line segments down to infinite resolution instead of dots bordering each other on a Cartesian plane.

What are you really asking when you talk about exponents?

How many ways can you multiply x to get 0? Only 1, can only multiply by zero:

x * 0 => x^0 = 1

Just using the numbers under 4
How many ways can you multiply 2 to get 2? 4:

2 * 2

(2 * 1) * 2

2 * (2 * 1)

(2 * 1) * (2 * 1) => 2^2 = 4

Just using the numbers under 8:
How many ways can you multiply 2 to get 3 ? 8:

2 * 3/2,

3/2 * 2

(2 * 1) * 3/2,

(3/2 * 1) * 2

(6 * 1/2) * (2 * 1/2)

(1/2 * 6) * (2 * 1/2)

(6 * 1/2) * (1/2 * 2)

(6 * 1/2) * (1/2 * 2)

How many ways can you multiply 2 to get i?

2 * 1/2i

1/2 * 2i

2^i = RMS(i)

I also think of exponents as an:

1. expansion or collapse of the base

2. an interaction between the newly transformed components

3. and expansion or collapse back.

One has nothing to interact with, so it always collapses back to one no matter if it expands to an infinite power. Expand something to zero, it's like sucking away all it's discontinuity or fragments so it always goes back to one.

That's how I see Riemann. It's not about the numbers. It's about the relationship between division and exponents.
Not OP, but it sure seems like just another “learn things” type of site. My friends and I used to do a lot of problems from the Project Euler back in the day that were similar. Looking at these problems, they aren’t that difficult and mostly are designed to get you a job as a software engineer. If you already have such a job, doing more of this will hit diminishing returns pretty fast.
I'd love to hear more about how your data ingestion works. I'm thinking of implementing TimescaleDB myself, but in my initial read of the docs, the focus seemed to be managing the database, not getting data into the database...
Show HN: Gitern is a Git host for hackers
Ed, here is a recording from Microsoft Workshop (5 hours!) on Quantum Computing:
https://microsoftevent.eventbuilder.com/event/22621/occurren...
Donohoe is back.
The four major findings of the study can be condensed down to two:

1) Our competitors do it too (Google, Amazon)

2) It's cheaper than brick and mortal distribution

Notably absent: How the high fees, and payment restrictions benefit consumers and developers. I guess they couldn't find any solid consumer/developer benefits that would stand up to scrutiny? Not a good look.
I'm not usually one to think in these terms, but this somehow still strikes me as a caricature of white middle-class privilege:

"Having to take considerable financial risk definitely sucked, but it was also was a great filtering function. If you didnt have conviction in yourself or your product theres no way you would have been there. For those who made the leap, it made success the only option."
Sweden has a population of ten million people and an economy very tightly tied to the rest of the EU, so exactly what measures we did I don’t think made a huge difference for the economy.
Decision trees and SVMs are too specialized for classification, which makes them a bad fit for feature extraction. ANNs can be stacked in layers and trained as a whole, but if you stack two decision trees, how do you propagate the error signal between them when the classification is incorrect?

On the other hand, you can use ANNs as the feature extraction stage for decision trees and SVMs, and there are people who do that.
He somehow missed rainbow identifiers, which is quite useful to represent the data flow in a function:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ColorIdentifiersMode
It says a lot that I'm turning 40 and it never occurred to me that I never played "war" with my LEGO bricks... I owned GI Joe, so it's not as if I was unaware of the possibility. It never occurred to me that the lack of weapons as built-in components would have such a profound effect on how I played with them. It's obvious in hindsight, I guess.

Obviously, if I were more creative I could have created things that were weapons/war like, but wow, without being prompted, I guess I didn't.

I made a lot of airplanes, boats, and exploration type vehicles.
You are correct that the defining selection criteria is wealth. However, white people are disproportionately wealthy in the United States, so indirectly you will also have a racial bias in your outcomes as well.

When winning leads to more winning - groups that have won disproportionately in the past (white people) will continue to win more and more unless we find a way to counterbalance.

This is why almost every sport includes some kind of catch-up model for their franchises (better draft picks for performing teams, salary caps) to encourage balance and competitiveness. We accept this in sports and know that it helps, but we don't want to believe it is needed in our economy, which is the most important competitive sport played in the world.
Perhaps the Great Filter is not a single event? Perhaps it can happen more than once and occasionally shows up as a large space rock. [0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e...
I'd agree we should put this simile out of its misery, but there were internet "natives," before twitter as there were people who live in the society impacted by it. That twitter's participation in the radical monopoly of online reputation can affect the ability of a barista in a flyover state getting a job shows how people are in fact culturally displaced by the technology.

QAnon is bonkers, but as an example of a culture being displaced by a technology platform, which I argue is the unavoidable effect of the dominance of said platform, this is good example of the effect of these platforms. They aren't neutral. They're welcome to be against whatever QAnon is for, but I don't buy the story that Twitter is virtuous and worthy for doing it, and they're not the little guy or the people, they are the dominant paradigm.
About 10% of US households are having trouble finding food during the pandemic
Facebook already hires moderators inside the US via agencies, and they have their own problems:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...

As for the volunteer side, it's a really interesting debate. Others in this thread have pointed out Reddit as an example of this in practise. I think the sheer amount of money that Facebook has means that relying on volunteers to (potentially) inflict emotional damage upon themselves wouldn't be a great look.
About free GitHub, if GitHub financials would be independent and they can afford offering some free feature then I think is 100% fair, it would not be fair if GitHub would get money from Azure profits so they can offer everything for free so all competitors fail.

When I buy something and get some extra free crap-ware, is that actually free? As an example some internet companies here would offer you as a free bonus antivirus software - is that free or it is paid from our money and maybe with our data ? Is Amazon Prime free stuff free or it is paid from your pocket but in an indirect way.

The example from my memory was more about the felling I have when I think about that, is like when you buy a phone or some OS and some shit is already installed and you can't remove it,
Test
this is a test content
Thanks for posting this. I'm really impressed with the transparency Twilio showed in actually admitting to having such a silly, silly bucket policy. Not impressed that it was there in the first place; but that should go without saying.

This incident report should really put to bed all of the "It's AWS's fault for making things so complex" complaints. (To be clear, it won't... but it should.)

Even a cursory look at that bucket policy should tell you something named "Allow Public Read" should NOT be associated with anything named 'Put'. This takes 0 AWS knowledge to figure out.
The reason I pick the NBA is because there are only 450 positions available (30 teams, 15 players per team). This is the least number of total positions in popular team sports in the US. The ratios will never be perfect, they just need to be relatively similar. The point is to use something which people already have an intuition for; everyone already has an intuition for how unlikely it is for any given high school or college basketball player to play in the NBA.
One persons parasitism is another's enrichment.

Supporters of ethical hedonism hold that the enjoyment of life holds axiomatic value, and life itself is a prerequisite for enjoyment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism
I don't think the rates are based on competition. If I make an app, I can publish it on:

- App Store, and get 70% cut of X users

- Play Store, and get 70% cut of Y users

- Both, and get 70% cut of (X+Y) users

So as long as I can cover my development costs for both platforms, it makes sense to publish to both stores.

Let's say Google charged only 10%. Would that change which platforms I publish to? I would say no: I would still want to get 0.7X + 0.9Y.