skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did actually do a lot of reading on ActivityPub yesterday and it's exactly the mess I would have imagined it to be.

The standard doesn't define all that much. Arbitrary undocumented JSON fields are perfectly fine and used heavily. Just following the standard you wouldn't get too far, would need to follow Mastodon's implementation to be truly compatible [0].

Many instances have already banned each other, some client apps have outright hard-coded blacklists in. So again would the government forbid that? But then what do you do about unruly instances?

The whole model IMO is pretty wrong in favoring instances over individuals. Twitter is a free-for-all, this model is completely different in optimizing for small groups of like minded people.

Secure private DMs are pretty much impossible in AP.

Rate limiting, spam protections etc are left completely up to the implementer. So would the government define that under an anti-trust scheme?

Now if one considers it to be just some low-level building block for distributed social then okay, maybe it's fine. The idea is basically social-related stuff in JSON over HTTP. Okay. But it doesn't really solve much of anything in practice. It offers a strictly worse experience in name of decentralization. This is exactly why I'd be afraid of the government stepping in and forcing these kinds of decisions on companies.

[0] And then it only gets you compatible with other Mastodon-style instances (and most seem to use the exact same implementation, just different themes). There are other ActivityPub apps that operate under a completely different UX/UI scheme. Which is both nice and weird in that the standard has obviously been written with Twitter-like stuff in mind.
Politifact seems extremely dishonest in this. Even with these semantic word games "[Congress] voted for federal agencies to have access to your internet history without obtaining a warrant." is still true.

Thank you a lot. Do you happen to have a source for "I've seen arguments about Confederate generals rated as false because of modern news events - in ways that disagree with well tenured academic historians" as well maybe?
> I don't understand this requirement.

Why? It's a straightforward matter. You can have the conventional behavior with the necessary limitations to which everyone has adapted, or you can opt in to a modified environment with new rules that would break some sites but provides additional capabilities.

> Am I missing something here?

Yes; the clearly explained rational is somehow being missed. The sandbox is an OS process as necessitated by Spectre. Without the new opt-in capability content from multiple origins -- some of them hostile -- are mixed into a process, and so the shared memory capabilities must be disabled. This new opt-in capability creates the necessary mapping; when enabled the content from arbitrary origins will not be mixed in a process and so the shared memory and HRT features can be permitted.
Damn. I should finally add GDPR-compliant privacy policy to my niche side project.
Are you talking about the world or the US? Living in europe, I‘ve never seen a diesel train and the economics are just fine for electric trains.
That's fascinating, I didn't realize Maya was non-commercial Qt. I wonder why; Autodesk can certainly afford a license.
Norway does not prove that at all.

Norway has almost no industry other than oil. If oil shut down tomorrow their sovereign fund could keep the country running for about 10 years.

10 years isn't really long enough to transition to other industries. It's barely long enough to educate the next generation in new technology.

(Source: Norway's imports per capita were $16.9k, and its fund is $195K per capita.)

Norway is hoping that oil will shut down slowly, giving them time to transition, using the fund as a cushion. But historically industries tend to shut down "slowly, then all at once".

Edit: I didn't see you wrote "work without the corruption". My reply is misdirected, my reply is about the economy. In regards to corruption I agree with you.
OPEC just doesn't have enough pricing power anymore.
If you are doing a "startup", there are benefits to being near SV for the VCs and talent who want that life. If you are just wanting to start aomething new and not seeking the YC/VC model, choose whichever town makes you happy.

What I expect to change over the next 10 years is an increasing number of people making the latter choice.
> The monopoly of Jio is extremely bad for India.

Any form of monopoly is bad. However, it's important to note that prior to Jio's entry in the market, the data prices were unaffordable for majority of the population. Post Jio's entry, the same incumbent network providers had to slash their prices.
Probably through tutorials and verbosely-commented code examples?
> Now I could probably install a more recent cargo version, but really, should I have to?

You don’t have to: You always have the option of not using the tool. It’s provided for free, and it’s not reasonable to expect it to be appropriate for everyone (or really anyone except the developer).

If their chosen installation method makes it unsuitable for you, so be it.

(NB: I am not affiliated with and do not speak for this project)
>What ICE car exceeds that?

Pretty much pickup truck with the base 6cyl engine from the days when an 8ft bed also resulted in the vehicle being equipped with two gas tanks.

Also tons of random sedans beat 600mi.
How about another Prometheus server in federation[0]?

It's as simple as another Prom instance pointing at the "live" Prom instance. You can filter only the metrics you want to keep for a long amount of time, and downsample if necessary (by just setting a higher scrape interval on the "long term" Prom).

Since this "long term" Prom isn't in the critical path you could skimp on processing resources and just give it a big disk as a cost optimization.

If you are on AWS (or equivalent) the storage there is pretty durable. On-prem you can run HA (two instances with identical config).

[0] https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/federation/
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901635
> What ICE car exceeds that?

BMW 730Ld will do 1000 miles. Even the petrol 740Li will manage over 700 miles.
Can someone who is a domain expert comment on this statement I see being repeated often about Jio's ability to have a significantly lower cost structure by offering only 4G service with 'commodity hardware' versus the legacy players who are operating 2G/3G networks in conjunction with 4G? Is there a lot of truth to this or is this just something that the analysts have heard someplace and are now repeating it faithfully?
This is a great comment and extremely disappointing to see down voted. It's perfectly understandable that lots of people on HN in particular, being hackers, want to be able to mess with hardware as a goal/value in and of itself. However, even here and certainly for the general population "repairability" or "modularity" are merely two possible tools of many, not goals themselves. The goal for most people, rightly, is that any given product lasts for a "reasonable lifespan" in line with its relative price and market conditions. In a world with crappy warranty coverage, a product that is easier to repair means that people who get stuck with a manufacturing/QA/shipping fuckup might not get quite as big a bill.

But they still get a bill, and often that's a flat out externality. Everyone expects (and most get) their phones say to last a good 3-6 years, with a longer time for more expensive nicer devices. What should happen is that is simply explicitly mandated and gets represented in the price. Manufacturers should be the ones responsible for figuring out the right way to make it happen at a price that will still sell. They can try a vast number of different combinations of efforts to accomplish that, and easier repairability could be one. But instead, they're allowed to hide that cost and foist the 1%/2%/whatever problems off onto consumers.

That's what the government should fix, not tell them exactly how to do so since every various way to do it involves trade offs. Repairability, modularity, and upgradeability aren't free either. They involve compromises in physical design and other aspects that many of us directly value.
I can't help but think ARPA is a better model than what sounds like a government-controlled vocational school for script kiddies.
I believe negative carbon emissions are typically done via projects like carbon capture (various methods) and regulatory credits (essentially paying other people to reduce their emissions).
No one understands what is going on in modern geopolitics of the middle east...

We in USA don't actually have to understand conditions in other nations. We just have to pay attention to our government and media, and remember what they've done even after they've stopped talking about it. They lied us into war with Spain, which led to decades of murder and oppression of Puerto Ricans and (especially) Filipinos. They lied us into WWI, which led to the Nazis. They lied us into Vietnam, which caused millions of deaths in southeast Asia. They lied us into Kuwait, which caused 9/11. They lied us into Afghanistan, in which USA soldiers are now dying who weren't yet born when the lies were told. They lied us into Iraq, which has seen horrific loss of life oh and also the creation of ISIS. They lied us into Libya, which peaceful prosperous nation was replaced in six months by a smoldering hellscape, complete with slave markets. They lied us somewhat into Syria, where we and our ISIS allies were (thank God) defeated. They tried to lie us into Iran...

(This is not even to mention the dozens of nations whose elected governments we've deposed in favor of authoritarians in spooky ways, at least as long ago as 1953 in Iran, as murderously as 1965-7 in Indonesia, and as recently as last year in Bolivia.)

Gosh, what can we conclude from this fairly consistent history? I submit that when we're fed some pretext for war, we should assume it's a lie and oppose the war for which it is told. If we're ever able to do so consistently (and perhaps the last two entries in the list above are cause for hope?), it will result in a greater global flowering of peace and prosperity than we've ever seen before.
>using CNNs to read a 2D graph

Why don't they use CNNs on the data series itself?
That's why it's important to focus on effectiveness first. At any point in time you should know what you are trying to solve and why. The Inversion Principle is simply a useful tool to helps support that and figure out the how, but is by no means a silver bullet.
all of this, plus an additional observation that i've had about games w/ tiers/divisions: player skill is assumed to be normally distributed when that is just so demonstrably not the case-- there is a fairly high skill floor to be able to play the game at all, and the right tail (high skill) of the distribution is WAY fatter than the left.

especially with well-established, popular games-- Chess, League of Legends, Overwatch, etc. (where there is even a financial interest in being a top player to boot), the skill levels of the people at the absolute top simply profoundly dwarf players that would even superficially seem "comparable" by the standard of being in adjacent, or even within the same tier.

in League of Legends, for example, it is often claimed that the differences between players in high/low Challenger, high/low Master's, and even high/low "high diamond" (low d2 vs high d1) all constitute distinct "tiers" of player quality that are as substantial as the full-tier jumps closer to the median (e.g. silver -> gold, gold -> platinum), but because of this shoehorned prior about skill distribution it leads to this compression at the very top.
Granted, that is exactly how the government lends teeth to sexual harassment policies it would be legally unable to enforce itself.

But I don't think a policy of "nobody can dispute the government's official statements" would fly, even with the enforcement done by Facebook.
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Gallium comes to mind
> That is actually because of regulatory capture in the US [...] nothing to do with free markets.

Regulatory capture has everything to do with free markets and American capitalism. I don't even understand how Americans can use the internet without an overseas VPN.
Maybe I'm being facetious, but these are remarkably simple (and obvious). Are these mistakes really that common?
One life goal is that all my software can compile without any warnings.
We would love to build an API. We constantly have conversations about it amongst our team. It's just a matter of priorities. Agree it would be amazing to see people build more charity-focused apps integrated with our funds.

We are working with a few select strategic partners to help their giving via Charityvest (that eventually would be replaced by an API). If you have an organization who might be interested in working with us, have them reach out. We'd love to chat with them.
Just gonna quickly fork this gold and call it silver
Unless someone recently started doing it again trucks don't come with dual tanks anymore and haven't since the OEMs refreshed their designs in the mid to late 1990s.
>But it's better than pure anarchy.

that's a pretty low bar
There is a reserve demand created because taxes are not due until some time after the transaction that created the tax liability. If you don't want to have exchange rate risk, you need to hold the dollars until the tax is due.
No, never heard of this systematic approach while I was there (AWS, 2008-2014), although the turnaround effect might have been somewhat close to that number just coincidentally.
This lay the ground work where Apple will not include a Charger and EarPod in the next iPhone.

They will probably tout it from an Environmental perspective along with the rumour of a braided USB -Lightning Cable. Apple could tout its packaging is 50% reduction in weight, and 30% reduction in total size in shipping. And less Carbon footprint in Shipping. Which will also saves them some money.

From an environmental prospective, Apple is now so far ahead of everyone else in the industry that no company is matching them in theses checkboxes. So far ahead that it would be easier to get ARM to co-Design a competitive SoC against Apple's Ax Series than to catch up these environment issues. From Design, and Sourcing Renewables materials to providing or funding development of renewable energy, to shipping and recycling products.

While I have criticise Apple for many of its design flaws. ( MacBook 2019 Magic Keyboard is still awful, Battery Replacement is still expensive, TouchBar, oversized Trackpad... etc ) Their supply chain operation is second to none and truly a marvel to behold.
how can regulatory capture exist without regulators?
The article doesn't mention it, but given the current crisis and the huge move to remote education underway currently it would be interesting if this had an approach that took that into account.
While still a ways away, its great to see progress on this front. After SABs were disabled, the use cases and power of WebWorkers shrank considerably.

Very excited to dive back into some WASM/WebWorker projects that got abandoned due to performance limitations.
That is a great point. We spent a lot of time thinking about the adverse selection issue.We narrowed in on Peer selection with stable matching, which seems to mitigate this issue. We are learning..
As a plebeian, the only thing I'm worried about is my internet bill. Why should I worry who Ambani has political ties with as long as I'm getting cheap bandwidth?
> I have no idea why I'm spending my time writing this, but I do appreciate the post as I vividly remember being enthralled with the prospect of money popping out of a coke can as a child and wanting to then rip-open the can to see how it worked. Though this never happened for me or any of my friends who were pretty avid coke drinkers back in the day :_(

+1 on all counts. I still remember this promotion vividly from my time as a kid. In spite of the mishaps, it was pretty effective marketing.
Lame. I thought one of these was finally going to replace my 4770K. Guess I'll wait a few more years.
OK, so... now what?

You've correctly identified a number of practical problems with combatting misinformation. However, this does not change the fact that misinformation exists and does real harm.

So if you can neither change a person's opinion, nor keep them from influencing others, what would you propose we do?
Kontxt (https://kontxt.io) could be a perfect inline communication and engagement layer to enhance wikis and docs with inline highlights, comments, polls, @mentions, page navigation, shareable deep links, and permission-based sharing.
cool, give it a century or so to get used to itself and we'll see how we've done.
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also, what system(s) do you prefer / know of that handle multiplayer matchmaking well? it seems to me that a good system might be necessarily game-specific to some extent, although i'm sure the state of the art is much better than what i've experienced gaming to date xD.
Thanks, this clears some things for me. I guess trick a journalist was mostly geared towards spammers.

As an aside, the main reason I didnt follow these links and find out for myself is because this is in part satire but mostly a marketing scheme to advertise Highrise. Sorry, I dislike these sort of tricks, it makes me feel manipulated. And I prefer not to add my traffic to such endeavours.

And come on, spam is hardly an unnoticed issue which one meeds to raise awareness for.
Ask HN: FAANG employees did you negotiate after your 4 year cliff?
When your initial RSU grant runs out, your 5th year (and onwards) compensation takes a significant dip. This dip is about 90-100k for me. Do you negotiate, nicely of course, with your boss ? If yes, when is the right time ? If no, do you start interviewing elsewhere ? Obviously not a great time to interview right now. Just wanted others' experience regarding this. It does seem that 4 years is the optimal time to move companies. Wish they realized that and retain employees. A new hire takes more time to ramp up.
There were some interesting talks on neural differentiation applied to physics at ICLR. You probably saw:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01563

Very fun!
Yes, but as a pair with a more experienced developer teaching them _how_ to review a pull request:

- What things to look for

- How much scrutiny to give

- When you should actually be pulling the code to run it

Heck, _I'd_ appreciate someone teaching me these things...
The main difference I would say is the emphasis on the backpack they wear
Eventually we can, but given our stage, we're focusing on US giving.

Our focus right now is to make the giving experience amazing for employees of SMB and mid-market companies.
Where were these regulations when mobile network companies refused to bring down prices in pre-Jio times?
Agree completely.

Of course this is exactly how Facebook want it. To appear as the light touch impartial platform where "everyone is free" to communicate. Except in the background they play with who sees what to increase engagement and run experiments.

With the black-box of algorithms used to target content we can only guess what is really happening. But as every media company knows, controversy sells. So I'll need a lot of proof that generating controversy isn't exactly what Facebook is doing on their platform.
This talk turned an inflection point in my career. The physical metaphor of a braid and having that braid straightened out applies to so many areas of software. "Unbraidedness" is a very useful (albeit informal) measure of quality for me. It helps me detect when something's not right, as well as hinting how I can help straighten it out.
Who was making the loans to the Soviets specifically? For all the hard rhetoric of the 80s, it's quite interesting that the West was willing to prop up a (Communist!!!) entity for a fee.
I must say that if scalability is not part of OSS then it inevitably smells fishy to me. I am willing to pay to avoid the pain of maintaining or designing clusters but not because it's the only way to scale up.
There are too many options that allow to scale with OSS version now it's hard to justify it.
It's still a no-go for me.

Again, just take it as one person's opinion. I can't even grasp how complicated and challenging is to run what you offer. This is strictly user's opinion.
It is important to know where to focus. One cannot focus on "everything".
That could very well be the reality. Everyday more people are training this thing on god knows what tasks.
>This question comes up on every post about a big tech company.

And in turn, there are always replies that justify these head counts in ways that I still have a hard time buying into.

All I have to go off is on my own experience, but I worked at a large retailer/wholesaler that had:

- 1500 retail store locations.
- Probably a half dozen warehouses.
- A couple high volume ecommerce sites (not at LinkedIn scale, but scale was a concern).

To support those operations, they employed people for:

- Staffing the retail stores and warehouses.
- Call centers for customer support.
- Sales for the wholesale division.
- Advertising/marketing for the retail division, all run internally.
- Logistics/shipping.
- Real estate.
- Merchandising.
- Inventory management.
- Product design.
- Sourcing product manufacture.
- All of the boilerplate corporate crap (HR, recruiting, accounting, etc.)

Almost all of the above had software to support it that was written and maintained in-house, including a custom built ecommerce stack.

All of the above took roughly the same headcount LinkedIn now has. The technology team writing and running all that custom software was maybe 200-300 people.

So even after I hear all the reasons LinkedIn has to be so huge (sales, support, scale, etc), I'm still left scratching my head.
A Nixon Deepfake, a 'Moon Disaster' Speech
> You can go the Google route and choose accessibility and security

This is not the case. After just a few captchas the audio challenge will be locked off no matter what browser you use.

> and don't even show CAPTCHAs at all for normal users

You see them in firefox from the start as well as on chrome after around the 2nd or 3rd captcha, this is with the default settings + ublock origin on both browsers.
Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, added £10bn to his fortune in just one day
But gravity is an explanation of what we know will happen. You can believe you will fall to your death without needing to believe in gravity. Classical mechanics is enough to model the situation accurately enough but also incorrect. We don’t have a unified model either. A lot of our facts in regard to explanations of observed phenomena are much more loose. Rather they are our best explanations. Don’t confuse the map for the terrain.
I mean all the phone manufacturers are doing it, but phones used to have replaceable batteries. I think companies realized they could make more by selling new phones. But the iphone has never had a replaceable battery.
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They already do. And the difference is in economic, social and political situation in US and China. Nobody should experience worse working conditions than anybody else, but short of economic embargo on China by entire world, I doubt anything can move them.
Squeak was ported to iOS right after the iPhone came out. The virtual machine only had an interpreter back then but, as you said, there is not reason why the JIT (called Cog) couldn't be used as well. Apple has never allowed it on the app store (but applications built with it have been allowed as long as they are completely closed) so people can't get it, but that is a non technical issue.

The needed code is at

https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/tree/Cog/p...
The formatting at businessinsider is often pretty crummy. There is a whole article after the picture and some bullet points.