skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this makes it worse.

You have companies full of smart people working hard who want to make the world a better place -- and the result is still eroding privacy, driving "attention economy" addictions, promoting the shallowest content, influencing politics, devastating small businesses, and ruining mental health.

Not because that's what some of the people working there want. (In that case you could at least think "OK, I'll work extra smart and hard, get to the top, and change things for the better.") But because that's what the system as a whole produces, even when the individuals in it don't want that.

See also: Slate Star Codex's "Meditations on Moloch", https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ .
Does it let you fly helicopters, or not yet?
Nice idea. But doesn't seem very robust.

I searched for "fallus" and it gave me a nonsensical answer instead of the "phallus" that I expected.
OT: what's up with those "Great to hear! Now if only it was easier to..." comments? Some kind of meme I'm unfamiliar with?
> Might as well argue that Crete doesn't count towards an EEZ.

This is more or less what they did with their maritime deal with Libya's GNA [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya%E2%80%93Turkey_maritim...
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>"global"

Please write classes, people!
In theory we could compute the full table of values of a function like less(x: F, y: F) -> {0, 1}, interpolate a bivariate polynomial containing all those values, and build a circuit to evaluate that polynomial. Its degree would be around 2|F| though, so it would be completely impractical.

In SNARK programming, we would usually decompose field elements into bits, then apply a binary comparison circuit. Binary decomposition can be done non-determinstically, by having the prover give the purported bits as "advice" inputs, then having the circuit accumulate those bits and check the sum.

I haven't done any FHE circuit programming, but I imagine that approach wouldn't work, since the circuit must be deterministic. I imagine any values that might need to be compared would just be encoded as binary from the start. (Or is there a better approach?)
>the only indisputable example of intelligence in the known universe

I dispute that any time any day with you, just because we define what intelligence is, do's not mean that we are intelligent.
> The disease are politicians willing to create laws that do not serve the public. If they didn't exist, private actors would have no leg to stand on. That's the disease. NOT the private actors.

I think you're still describing the symptom. These politicians are also "actors", part of a system. It's not that there are too many bad politicians and not enough good ones.

It's the socio-political system which is designed so that companies and people who own large amounts of money - capitalists if you will - have much more influence on the political process than most people, individually and even combined.

However, when we generalize to this level - it becomes exceedingly difficult to attack the root cause rather than the symptoms.
So how many developers are working on this feature?
For an interesting mix of tenses, I suggest "The Vegetarian" by Han Kang. It has two chapters in the past tense and one in the present tense, all by different narrators.
> fits of pique

"Fits of pique" like being extorted for $1 billion dollars per year? That's something like 4% of their global profit that they're being asked to fork over for the privilege of continuing to provide a just one search functionality in a small and isolated market. They'll just disable news searches in Australia lol.
looks at pricing
what are credits

no answer in sight.
And Rhodes is right out. Yay.
First steps are very hard, yes.

I'm distinguishing in a way I think you aren't - to me, exactly because this stuff is so hard, and so many things have bad side effects, it shouldn't be done by governments. That doesn't mean nothing should be done by anyone. When things are done by non-governmental actors, the rest of us have the option of ignoring them if we think they're wrong (usually). When a government does something wrong, everyone is stuffed. And exactly because there's no feedback loop for the vast majority of government employees, except politicians, and even then only weakly, they tend to do things wrong a lot.

One day I think you'll come to understand this perspective. But first you need to realise that doing nothing is not only an option but often, the best option. The assumption that "something must be done, this is something, therefore it must be done" is a political cliché for a reason.
>You might as well say that we gain nothing by banning skateboards, video games, or rock music.

I think apps are interchangeable in a way that tangle things are not. Vine was regarded as indispensable, until suddenly it was gone. And people miss it, but those creative energies have been channeled onto other platforms. Tiktok popped up practically out of nowhere. Now Triller is on the horizon, and who knows what after that.

>Outside of weird Internet rumors

Wowzwers, this does not even come within a country mile of accurate characterization. Tiktok is under investigation for censoring videos to satisfy the Chinese government, they have censored media related to Tiananmen square, have been flagged for 'severe' cybersecurity issues by a cybersecurity firm, and the app is now either restricted or being investigated by numerous countries including the US, India, Taiwan, and Australia.
"Nahuaer" seems like a nice brand of sausages.
Here is a simplified discussion: https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-l...
Probably, if they support Portuguese at all.

That is a pet peeve that we have back home, because of market size, many US companies rather support Brazilian Portuguese than any of other variants.

European Portuguese gets left out due to market size, while African and Asian Portuguese get left out due to buying capabilites.

Thing is, having to speak to a device, in another language variant just feels weird, leaving out the little detail that one does need to learn the differences as well.
> I can understand why someone might not care about having some level of "internet fame." But I can't really understand how someone can not get how that can be rewarding to many.

I've asked the question because I really don't understand the point the OP or you were trying to make. My question was very straight-forward: why do you feel that counter a) has any meaning, specially as a reward, b) is even real. Could you please shine a light on this?

After all, even the OP admitted that the counter was not a result of something users did or a reflection of the value of your contribution. The Op framed it as being a number that was gifted to you for no reason. Why do you see any value in it?
> Your example involves ownership of a US company ("West Hollywood, California-based Grindr" LLC)

TikTok is also incorporated in the United States (TikTok Inc.) as a subsidiary of ByteDance. Their original acquisition of Musical.ly was reviewed by CFIUS last year, but I don't know the result (or if this is a continuation of the same review.)
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> it raises my heart rate to even read about technical interviews.

Just a matter of doing more interviews and getting used to them. I got nervous even when conducting my first interview as the person on the other side of the table.
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Hah, maybe there's some culture I'm lacking, but I don't think of that when I hear the word gimp, either.

I do think of something like a gimp leg though. I.e. a damaged leg which can't support you properly.
Quite loudly..?
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Thanks for pointing that out, for some reason I had thought the last implementation also used a lock.
GIMP is very powerful image manipulation program with tons of features but is has reputation of being very user-unfriendly and arcane.

I do not know if it was a meme, but surely is now.
Sure, how do I replace the card on an otherwise perfectly working laptop?

The usual linux answer to hardware problems, keeps being to buy new hardware.
I typed in a former internal codename from my employer that I know was replaced because of an obvious unfortunate meaning in Chinese, and WordSafety said nothing.
I am not saying there are not practical ways to do useful computation with this stuff. I am commenting on the theoretical remark that any algorithm (as in any Turing machine) can be executed with FHE, which is false, as it can be proved that it is impossible to compute, given an abstract Turing machine, an upper bound on the length of its execution.
Great to hear! That is about it, I respect developers of free software and understand it is big enough undertaking even without constant snarky remarks.
This is great advice. It also helps expose one of the fundamentally broken pieces of advice that come from scattershot interviewers: "make sure you know at least one thing about the company so you look good!"

Why are you interviewing somewhere when you don't know anything about it? Sounds like a great way to line up jobs you don't even want, which is a waste of both your time and everyone at the company whom you spoke with.
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'sweat' remains a popular drinks brand despite such concerns.
That's less about the version number, more about the time-based release train. If you're not ready to go, you can't get on.

GTK/GNOME started doing time-based releases every six months 18 years ago. Hasn't missed a beat.
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Well.. maybe. On the other hand, when Russian gov tried to ban Telegram, it only got more popular, nobody stopped posting, even government officials continued to use it, grocery chains continued to advertise their support bots, grandparents were asking young people to configure proxies on their phones… the ban was a colossal failure and recently it was unbanned.

A smart business can use this kind of ban for a PR advantage, they can make their app into a symbol of resistance.
But surely in CYA-type narrative, present tense is as much of an orthodoxy your guidelines are challenging as past tense in regular fiction?

Would be interested to see the site if you're happy to share though.
Well nvidia need to create an operating system now and we could end up with three ecosystems that could be competitive with each other. Good for consumers I say.
I kind of like that idea, but defining the rules and boundaries would be really hard, and I'm not sure if the cure wouldn't be much worse than the disease, overall, for just blanket legalizing hacking.

Like, how far am I allowed to go?

Deface somecompany.com? Deface it to say "We're going out of business"? Deface it to show the rotten.com best-of?

Can I just delete somecompany.com's customer database? Can I dump and download before I delete? Can I delete backups? Can I tamper with backup mechanisms, set a time bomb for in seven days when all rotating online backups are corrupted, destroy everything? How nefarious exactly am I allowed to be? After all, anyone without regular offline backups deserves to get hit, don't they?

Can I sell that database dump, or at least show it to others? Can I take a peek at blueprints I find on some network share? Can I have look into that User\ List.xslx file I find? Can I access users' private data? May I keep Beyonce's nudes? Can I use the information I find for personal gain, or even to gain an upper hand over a competitor?

Can I play with industrial automation software if I get in that far (you definitely would, sometimes)? What if I don't even realize this super outdated Windows box is controlling some kind of machinery and people get harmed when I inadvertently break something?

Can I attack healthcare providers? Can I attack banks?

Can I use any minutes-old zero-day disclosed by some hackfluencer on his Youtube channel, even if noone reasonably could have reacted to that so quickly?

I guess we'd also see the hacking-for-prestige (or hacking for likes, nowadays?) sector to get much, much more sophisticated; that was happening already before it got outlawed where I live (not in the US), I'd expect that to surge.

That might lead to everyone below big corporation level virtually having to migrate everyting they can to cloud and serverless products, since I'd expect it to get increasingly harder and expensive to run your own bespoke infrastructure in a secure way and not get pwned 15 times a week by some Twitch hackfluencer. AWS may be able to have a fix for a zero day deployed in within the hour, but how many small companies (or individuals running services) could do the same?
This article forgets to mention that right now the Fed is printing and giving free money to corporations via pretend-loans. The interest rates are so low that, in the hands of large corporations, the loans pay themselves off through stock price inflation which the loans themselves create (including future loans).
> You are protected by consumer credit laws

What country are you referring to? Is it a widespread thing?
This is the best comment in the thread. We often compensate in ways to patch over the thing that is difficult or harming us. It's so much easier to just go for gold than it is to criticize and deconstruct your own motivations.
Questions. Does this explain

- Why we dream?

- Why we process information while we sleep?

- Why lack of sleep is associated with serious health problems?

- Why the amount of sleep is so long - about a third of the day in the most common case - but varies a lot from person to person and by age?

A model of a brain as a neural network that's constantly learning, but for stability purposes needs a restart every so often, doesn't seem convincing in terms of other things we think we know about sleep.
Doesn't seem to pick up on "Cognos" being similar to "coño", but it did pick up on the famous example of the "Ascona" car.
For a university assignment, we used the velocity Verlet method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlet_integration#Velocity_Ve...

Each displayed object was backed by a simplified "physics 3D model" (small number of points of mass, fully connected with edges), and after applying forces and moving points, we checked the length of each connecting link and made sure that they didn't stretch or compress too much. Rigs of Rods has a similar model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigs_of_Rods
Amazing that you're down-voted to -3 for expressing your opinion as a consumer. And it's kind of funny that people here are complaining about companies doing a thing which make perfect sense even from a purely financial perspective. Why choose a name that means something gross/weird/derogatory in the language of your consumers? Just bad for business.

I think HN has a subset of people who swarm to these sorts of threads and rage-downvote based on some sort of unusual meme (in the original sense of the word) that's spreading through their community.
I'm not a dev, but for my particular use case this is my current observation:

Running Windows or Linux as a VM in macOS has terrible performance in VirtualBox right now (people are discussing it at length in VirtualBox forums). The expensive software Parallels is the only way for it to be usable. VMware is maybe OK, I don't use it much and only briefly tried it the other day.

It seems if you want to run Windows or Linux as a guest VM, it's better to make Linux your host OS than Mac. I also increasingly prefer open-source software, so VirtualBox at the very least is desirable. On macOS, that solution is not adequate right now.
$1 billion / year is a lot of money. They'll just not serve news results for Australian-origin searches. Most searches are not for news, and news searches are not product searches and probably don't draw much ad money. People can use Bing for their news until the government wises up and adds Microsoft to their list of applicable companies (currently just Facebook and Google), at which point I'm sure Microsoft will also disable news search results in Australia.
Thanks for the suggestion it's a good point of view that I hadn't considered yet.

Currently it's completely free and open to use for anyone, but I'll run out of free digital ocean server credits one day :)

Did you get a chance to try out the video editor itself, what do you think?
I work in a fully remote organization. I _always_ read cover letters. I have wasted too many years of my life trying to decipher some ungodly pile of crap somebody thought was a question (much less a spec!) and a cover letter can be an indication of a candidate's writing ability.

Poor writing leads to wasted hours, wasted sprints, and frustration. Good writing shines a light on incomplete reasoning and logical inconsistencies. A person who takes the time to write a decent spec is the person who has considered "what, exactly, do I want?" in detail. Too often people try to paper over their complete inability to write a paragraph by saying "let's get on Zoom" and spewing out nonsense verbally, because this is somehow better than putting nonsense in writing.

Unfortunately, if the person reviewing your application is a terrible writer - and most are - it's unlikely your cover letter will be read.
Remember Iran earlier this year, a very similar situation.
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> It's Chinese Magnisky act. Sanction and ban those who undermine Chinese interests.

The major difference is the Magnisky act isn't targeted at it's own citizens (even Samuel Chu, listed in the article as an American citzen, immigrated from Hong Kong and his HK-living father helped lead the Umbrella movement in HK [1]).

Magnisky act was a geopolitical tool to hit back at other countries acting unethically, usually using the Treasury dept to go after individual actors who worked directly within the target governments. Mostly by targeting bank accounts or travel to the US (China would love for these guys to travel to China). It's also not a means to protect American interests at home either, unless human rights = American interests.

China is just doing what every authoritarian dictator does. Lash out at any of their own citizens who dare become political activists - these 6 just happened to be out of their reach so their criminal charges are drawing publicity.

China's HK National Security law is also not 'sanctioning' foreign actors either, it's sending out basic arrest warrants via the domestic criminal law system. Just as China has been using Interpol warrants for political ends for years, now it's expanding to HK citizens/expats.

[1] Samuel Chu's father https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_Yiu-ming
After hearing this story for years and finally trying to source it, as far as I can tell it's not entirely clear this experiment was ever actually run -- and in fact is sourced in the link behind your link as a "parable."

I can imagine it's true that churning out quantity is its own education but I can also imagine there's a plateau past which deliberate practice and polish matter quite a bit.
There is no ambiguity.

http:username:password@example.com/thing.jpg
http:username:password@example.com:8080@example.com/thing.jpg

But they might have picked a different delimiter for that in this alternative future. Or perhaps realized it was a bad idea earlier.

IPv6 addresses are a different story. We definitely would have chosen a different character to delimit IPv6 addresses in this future.
My specific point was made in context of maven central repository.

It gives a false sense of security when you have to have a signed pgp key but no challange for trust.
That's cool, but they could really stand to spend some more time on the introductory screenshot to give unfamiliar users a better idea of just what Glimpse is and why they might want to download it. There just seems to be the one with the UI zoomed out so far as to be indistinguishable. It's such a wasted opportunity to showcase additional features, too, like adding a floating salad bowl to show that they were also capable of forking the "Layers" functionality.
Alright, I've been using means testing to mean, a test of eligibility. But I just checked the dictionary and it's indeed defined in purely financial terms.

So we can add to the list of welfare bureaucracy that'd still be needed, disability tests. That's where a big part of the fraud comes from in any welfare system, because fraudulently obtained disability benefits is effectively a form of UBI: for those who have it, it never ends even if they get a job, unless the job is one that their pretend disability would prevent them from doing. Very attractive. Also, doctors and assessors don't pay for it so they tend to be willing to grant it to people in very lax ways.

This can be seen in the way people on disability benefits rises and falls with the economy in the USA.

As for a "comfortable income", again, you're dreaming. For everyone to have a comfortable income without having to work, with extra income only for "luxuries", isn't physically possible. It's literally the original communist vision that was abandoned because it didn't work. Comfortable income was simply redefined back then as subsistence income in a broken economy, and luxury was not only reserved for Party members but redefined as a standard of living lower than that available to ordinary people in the supposedly deeply unequal west. UBI is just centuries old political ideas re-heated and re-branded.
I think that if this cover letter changes anything on the hiring process, the hiring process is odd.
Hertzl didn't choose to occupy anything. His main objective, and the one he fought off the "lovers of zion" over, was a legitimate internationally recognized place for Eastern European "Jews". This was in fact the most serious rift between Hertzl and the Russians.When he died in 1904, the zionist movement was re-purposed for something he never envisioned.

In principal, Western Jews like Hertzl himself did not plan to go anywhere. They saw themselves as Europeans were already emancipated since the first half of the 19th century and integrated (which led to growing anti-Semitism in Western Europe, but that's a different story).

Hertzl was secular and agnostic. Very different circumstances to those in the southern part of the Russian Empire (Pale of Settlement).
Harvard is as much of a safe space as taking an obvious career choice.
In absence of good, hard, scientific evidence of effects above and beyond placebo, I’m gonna go with “Cos it’s easy to bottle and it’s easy to sell”.

And profitable too, I have no doubt. Thanks to Orrin Hatch, US supplement peddlers don’t even have to prove their products are safe, never mind effective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_...

I bet the oft-reviled Big Pharma (who, amusingly enough, are some of the biggest manufactures of supplements too) just wish all their products could enjoy such lax standards of regulation. Meanwhile, to everyone else, I wholeheartedly recommend The Poison Squad:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poison-squ...

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/312067/the-poison-s...
That only re-inforces the cycle of not providing Portuguese support.

Instead of paying for half working stuff and then complaying like many do here, I rather not give any money at all.
I don't know why everyone in these threads is always obsessed with hit rate. It's totally irrelevant. It doesn't tell you anything.

If your success rate is 90%, you're probably applying for positions that pay less than you're worth. If you stretch your salary target, your hit rate will go down. 2% hit rate on $200k jobs is better than 90% hit rate on $40k jobs, end of discussion. Final salary relative to actual value is all that matters, and that's very hard to evaluate.
It's $1 billion / year, and it's just news searches in Australia. Some database queries will figure out whether it's more profitable to pay up or to disable news searching in Australia, and I'd bet it's gonna be disabling news searches.
I dunno. I did this cold at a faang and got the gig