skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what this feels like.

There's a lot wrong with online social features... points at the global echo chambers, the depression and anxiety epidemic, the broken dating scene, and toxicity of online discourse

I don't blame the people that made it, they're innovators that quite literally had no idea what they were doing - or the bottom line of the stakeholders got in the way. So, in my opinion the author did nothing wrong, and has no reason to apologize.

However, it would be nice to start a conversation on how to fix these problems instead of pretending they're not there.

HN made some great choices in its features that makes it a much better place to read and engage in comments than probably 99% of the rest of the internet. Those innovations include small things like not being able to downvote direct replies to your comments, having downvoting locked behind a reputation score, etc. It seems like these features were added intuitively, which is fine but risky.

The author mentions that essentially, the problem with their feature is that it doesn't go far enough. I'd like to ask them how they've come to that conclusion. Do they just assume that? Did they do research?

We really have no idea how to build new forms of communication. The only other ubiquitous forms, besides what we've evolved with, are writing and telephone communication. Both of those have their awkwardness, and therefore have established rules to make communication go more smoothly. Writing has had millennia to iron itself out, and we mostly got lucky with telephones but there definitely are still problems with it.

The internet and all related technologies are a revolution in communication, yet no one has considered that maybe, just maybe, we need to really take care to do it properly?

Where are the institutions and committees for research and creation of standards that make sure to foster at least healthier communication online?
I am surprised that Google's legal team would forward such lame arguments. There are much better lawyers out there with a much stronger ability to convey complex topics to non-technical people in a way that illustrates the point under consideration.
If you say straight away what you're writing about I can decide how important it is and if I should interrupt my current task. I'd rather see something like:

hi - can you please approve this ticket 123

hi - URGENT the website is out can you please check the DB

hi - do you want to come to the bar tonight with the team

If you just say "hi", I dont know which one its going to be. Put it in one line I know whether to pay attention or do later.
> Payments are transferring bits, and should be effectively free

Payments are also about establishing trust, which goes wrong a lot. You can in practice make payments very cheap with some cryptocurrency schemes, but don't get fraud protection, chargebacks, and customer service that credit cards provide (unless you introduce another party in the middle taking a cut).

It seems to me the innovation required to actually reduce costs would replace the credit card system, not build on top of it.
Maybe this will persuade Google to use a better language that welcomes innovation (rust/c++) and frees them from Java commitments and they see past the sunk cost fallacy. It also displays why all companies should move away from Oracle and their totalitarian attitude and towards open source databases that respect their rights.
Adding the purely subjective qualifier "highly meritorious" makes it seem as if you intend to make me waste my time searching for links only to categorically dismiss them all out of hand. That's a common form of trolling that should be beneath you. Most stories or comment threads here wouldn't meet the bar for "highly meritorious" so there's no reason political stories should as well. Anyway, you should know of some examples since you unflagged them. You mention sometimes doing so here[0].

I found a couple of examples, as well as comments by others who've noticed the same issue. I'm not trawling through the archives to try to make an exhaustive list, though.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24296079

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24504297

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24667006

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24610890

[4]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22147116

[5]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291582

[6]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23677740
Navy Dolphin Study, 1967
I tried to find the messages since they seem to be in evidence in this case, but they don't seem to be uploaded to documentcloud (yet).
They do and this could totally happen tomorrow. Window S is already a thing.
All MS need to do is downgrade the editions once more.
Either the post is missing something, or this particular job didn't involve a lot of "high-tech". Which is ok, but perhaps not particularly interesting for most "hackers". At least, that's the feeling I was left with.
POWER is more expensive for us to buy, but IBM pays for it by the square inch of silicon. By that metric, it's probably very competitive with other server platforms. With OMI, they can also offer larger instances than anyone else while having more flexible tenant allocation because a single node can host a lot of tenants of different sizes up to the size of the full node, which could dwarf anything AWS and Azure can offer.
I’m not certain exactly what to look for, but ducking “«nominee name» speech transcript” for each of the top three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_Unite... brings these acceptance speeches as the respective top results:

https://www.democracyinaction.us/2020/thirdparty/lpconvjorge...
https://howiehawkins.us/hawkins-nomination-speech/
https://www.democracyinaction.us/2020/thirdparty/constitutio...

(I can’t seem to find any big repository like rev’s, which for some reason seems to have only speeches from the Democrats, Republicans, and Birthday Party: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/kanye-west-rally-speech...)
Yes. They have had -years- to come up with a defense and a crack legal team and then this guy shows up. Maybe they wanted to lose?
Zara's Big Idea: What the World's Top Fashion Retailer Tells Us About Innovation
A Supreme Court ruling is a lot better than settlement if they've decided they want to pivot to sueing independent implementations of their APIs. I wouldn't find it compelling to follow if Google took the other side of a settlement they were involved in to go and pursue others. Maybe they settled because they figured out they could make more money that way, regardless of the question of law.
Can we get a citation on that last one?
Asterisk Corrections
When I learned that Java is open source, I had assumed that it was free. I guess I was wrong.
A short add-padding (missing the `newline` parameter):

;; (ql:quickload "str")
(defun add-padding (txt &key padding)
(with-output-to-string (s)
(loop for line in (str:lines txt)
do (format s "~a~a~&" (str:repeat padding " ") line))))
No, I mean something that has the architectural qualities comparable to Unix, which has been done multiple times.
Instantiation of ideas from the paper here (NOVID app): https://www.novid.org/

I attended a talk about this recently, and I honestly think it's a revolutionary / game changing way to do contact tracing.

TLDR is to understand the spread of COVID-19 around you (through second-order network connections and beyond). This makes it much more similar to a weather forecast (e.g. the virus is approaching your vicinity through people in your network). This makes it a much more effective way to systematically identify, isolate, and contain further spread.

The idea is so simple and effective, I can't believe this isn't front and center over the news as a way to effectively contain the spread of COVID (beyond the existing measures of wearing masks, social distancing, etc).
Updated it. Searching from "crypto" should now return no results, because the candidates having mentioned it in their speeches.
And Apple did not
Been wanting to buy this phone for awhile but it feels like every time I visit the Librem 5 page the release date is always 6 months out...
Could you link to some docs/posts on where/how Google recommends Golang devs to embed a DNS resolver?

Is that built-in resolver somehow configurable? (env vars?)
>As applied to Java, individual method signatures like min and max might not be copyrightable, but someone had to go in and organize those individual methods into classes, and organize those classes into packages.

An API doesn't require an implementation and copyright is handed out automatically. Could I then write and run a generator that just starts spitting out endless variations of possible APIs (combinations of dictionary words?). Does that mean I would end up holding the copyright for most of the 'common sense' APIs people would want to use for software projects?
However, when legislators try to do their job there is ample outcry that big government is infringing on the rights of people and companies to do free commerce. What gives?
Oh well I mean sure, there's a similar case with colonists and slaves too, right?

I think at some point in the far past though there might have been a wider gap, genetically, between the two forces meeting. I haven't had time to read the whole article in detail, just skimmed it.

Anyhow, thanks. You're right, there's definitely been plenty of mandatory diversification before.
The Afterlife Behavior of Quasihalting Turing Machines
I've personally found Google News to be a pretty decent front page of news. One way I ask whether I'm satisfied is if I miss out on a big story that I feel I would've wanted to be alerted on.
Hi William -- we have absolutely not copied any of Lightning's APIs.

In fact, our PyTorch API makes some significantly different design choices than Lightning does -- e.g., we require users to step optimizers and run the backward pass explicitly, which is a bit lower-level but allows for more flexibility when using the API.

For instance, here is an example of a GAN using our PyTorch API: https://github.com/determined-ai/determined/blob/master/exam...

This is a port of this PyTorch Lightning example: https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/blob/m...

Despite the former being a port of the latter, there are significant differences between the two APIs.

More broadly, we welcome competition in this space and think there's a lot that we can all learn from one another.
I agree that AWS Parameter store isn't great... that's why we use Chamber:
https://github.com/segmentio/chamber

Chamber is an open source wrapper for AWS Parameter Store. You add a secret by doing:

`chamber write ENV_NAME SECRET_NAME SECRET_VALUE`

And when you want to execute a command with those values in your environment...

`chamber exec ENV_NAME -- yarn start:prod`

Parameter Store comes with auditing tools and versioning. Chamber uses KMS for encryption. Also, you can control permissions (including namespacing) with IAM.

My question is - what does Doppler provide that would make me want to switch? I'm weary about letting someone else own our secrets.
Species is a much more fluid term than I think you realize.

Also, we don't know that most people are more or less unaffected by covid-19. We're only beginning to understand long term affects of even mild cases. Please don't spread misinformation.
Schwartz's was the CEO of the company that held the "copyright" should one exist at the time of the alleged "infringement"

Thus Schwartz's beliefs are and should be relevant
GE was a big player in the diesel-electric locomotive market, starting with the GE Universal series, then the Dash 7, Dash 8, Dash 9, and Evolution. The division was sold off at some point there, I think before the Evolution. Back in the earliest days the engines themselves were provided by companies such as Cummins but in the 60s GE started building its own prime movers.
It depends on the context. If it's a riddle, you could see if it's made clear by the wording, interrogate the person asking the riddle, or state the assumption you're making in your answer.

If you find yourself actually in the situation, you need to make your best guess from what information is available.

As for simulation, write a function that handles a single play through of the game and returns the outcome if you switch. Make Monty's strategy a parameter. Remember that "Monty revealed the car" is a separate outcome from "win" or "lose". Run that function a whole bunch of times, counting the outcomes. Compare the ratio between wins and losses, at various choices of strategy.

To really drive home the point that strategy can matter, consider another possibility: maybe this season the studio executives have decided that cutting costs is more important than having an interesting game show, and Monty's strategy is now "reveal the car if you haven't already chosen it". Monty has revealed a goat. Is there still a 2/3 chance that you didn't pick the car?
Tesla is improving its manufacturing all the time. They have only turned into a mass market manufacturer in 2017. Shanghai where they could start fresh has very few of these problems. The Model Y rollout was early and much better the Model 3 already.

The argument that Tesla is not investing in improving quality is simply not true. Things like casting make far more exact parts and very repeatable. It also reduces 100s of parts, less variation, less manufacturing steps and thus mistakes.

They are investing in the most expensive paint shop you can buy in the market right now for their new factories and they just renovated the paint shop in Fremont (since then I have not heard of bad paint quality).

They defiantly need to do more but its unfair to say they are doing nothing.
I think that's wrong on a couple counts. First, the main concern with this type of collection based on search terms is that it has a high likelihood of picking up users who are totally innocent. If many of those users are obscured by VPNs, that raises the bar considerably for law enforcement to de-anonymize each of them (most, if not all, of whom LE knows will be total dead ends).

Second, concerning a VPN being tapped by US law enforcement agencies, I think depending on the country in which it's being operated, that is more or less likely. These companies' entire businesses rely on the perception of security, so government interception of their communications would be an existential threat to them. I think it's also likely that interception (and crucially, use of intercepted materials as evidence in criminal prosecution) would probably get out sooner or later, just as it has in the above story. The idea that federal law enforcement has access to everyone's communications everywhere all the time probably overstates their capabilities.

As I understand it, there still remains a pretty big difference between the government's active/targeted vs passive/dragnet surveillance. A VPN is probably still useful for defending against the latter.
>IBM for one; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture

IBM has been building chips since day one. I'd expect IBM to divest their mainframe business eventually. The distinction you are missing is that usually "finance-driven" companies don't usually decide to pour billions of dollars into bringing in an already outsourced component in house that they hardly have experience in.

Furthermore, I don't see IBM using the Z to "innovate" - They aren't pushing the mainframes to anyone other than people who are already buying mainframes.

>Z is a more interesting architecture by far than the turd Apple is shipping.

The Z, an architecture for people who are pretty much already buying mainframes, is more interesting than a desktop class chip with what will probably be a completely unmatched in performance/watt? I don't see how the Z is more interesting than a chip that is finally attempting to challenge the 30 year x86 dominance in desktop computing.
> Google has had 6 years to show this disaster and yet they could not list a single example of it happening.

How? For that to be true, there would have to be binding precedent applicable outside this case. But Federal Circuit decisions on legal questions—for instance copyright—outside their special subjects (patent claims is what got this case before them) do not create binding precedent for any lower court.

Had this not gone through the Federal Circuit, and had it been the Ninth Circuit (which otherwise would have been the court to hear the appeal) that had ruled, sure, you could then say “Hey, look, there's not some apocalypse due to this ruling happening in the Ninth Circuit, so it must not be a real problem”. But the Federal Circuit decision, notionally applying Ninth Circuit law, has no binding effect on any other court in any other case, so of course it hasn't caused an apocalypse. Precisely because no other court, trial or appellate, has ever held APIs to be copyrightable.
That doesn’t sound like close quarantine at all
someone is watching schit creek
> but for Homo sapiens that "other group" would be of a different species and we thus we shouldn't be able to produce fertile offspring with them.

That's one definition of "species" (specifically, it's "the biological species concept"), but like all the other definitions, it doesn't work and does not correspond to most usage of the term. You can read modern genetic work discussing how homo sapiens interbred with hominids of other species. You can also observe how easily different species interbreed today, like wolves (canis lupus, obligatory pack animals) and coyotes (canis latrans, solitary).
There were some relatively dumb CRT terminals available, but not enough. It still beat punch cards, which I sometimes had to deal with when I was just starting.
Although sometimes they are right as well. It's often layers of people with many different lines between them slowing down the overal pace of development.
I don't buy the argument that ensuring scalability equals long processes. But I do believe that when the product grows in terms features, components etc, the pace also decreases. Even in the perfect multilithic software solution.
Naive question: how and why is this different from the various precedents which allowed "clean room" reimplementation of an interface/API?
You're drawing lines in places that best serve your position, rather than considering the whole landscape.

"Whole" in the sense of "the whole is more than the sum of its parts" is not generally understood to imply the maximal possible scope in any given context. It's simply meant to meant to talk about how the identify an aggregation (of no particular scale) relates to the identities of its individual components.

Similarly, the API/not-API distinction is one that has to be made in contexts beyond just the relationship of function signatures to function implementations. Foo was declared as a public class, but was it meant for public consumption? Or is it intended for internal use, and was only declared public because, for practical reasons, it couldn't be declared package-private?

Moreover, there are certainly rational distinctions that could be drawn, but that does not mean that they are legally relevant. The issue at hand really doesn't have anything at all to do with how programmers understand things. The law is not what we think is right, the law is what is written in the books.
Yeah I imagine you can make a lot more money selling them to state actors than to apple.
ResEdit for the intro; Resourcerer for the win
naffka is just a library so you don’t even see it :)
I thought that would be dogs which seem to want to hump on anything...
Fake Resume Generator
This article missed the entire point.

Here’s the problem: Free speech rights are intended to protect speech. They are not intended to protect propaganda. Nor would we want them to. Propaganda is relatively easy to identify and is not speech.

Take Trump, for example. He does not lie in an attempt to convince you of the truth of his perspective. He lies to show you who has power in the situation. He knows that you know that his excuses are shallow and dumb - that’s the whole point.

He is asserting that he can create his own reality and say whatever he wants and you cannot stop him. The majority of his supporters do the same thing. When they repeat his lies, they are not attempting to convince you of their truth. They are showing you their allegiance.

This is similar with QAnon and a myriad of other right wing groups. After repeating their lies over and over, their supporters begin to get confused about what is actually real. They originally bought in to the scheme to be part of the group, but the scheme took and and they lost their grasp on any truth. There is no truth once this takes over.

This is not speech. This is a caustic type of control that uses honest people to spread by confusing their sensibilities. They protect the exercise of these lies, in their quest for morality and justice, and allow its venom to spread. Soon, it kills both host and victim. Leaving all powerless to the purveyor of the propaganda.

This is easily identifiable. We must not protect this. It is not speech.

Getting pulled into a quasi-logical debate where this is confused with speech is exactly what the purveyors want. They want us to confuse this with speech so it can be protected while it erodes the minds of its consumers.
Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in admissions
Intel is fighting more than just AMD though. Apple ARM chips in MacBooks, Graviton processors in AWS, ARM Chromebooks and gaming computers/consoles just going pure Nvidia/Radeon - not a lot of room for Intel.
All mammals rape. And murder, and steal. Dolphins torture each other. You don't think it's all sunshine and rainbows in the wilderness, do you?
not if you're selling them to -your- government. Then you're a patriot but also a rich patriot.
Sure, people don't know the actual number, but they know that some enforcement is done, and some enforcement must be done for real for the effect to ripple through society. If you see your neighbour get away with it, it does entice you. The easy counterexample is Greece, where enforcement is notoriously low.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Greece#Extent_of...
In other words, given the rates of poverty among Black trans women, you don't want her to be allowed to exist.

Your view is not above regular politics. It is a view that's firmly embedded within the right wing of regular politics. I personally wouldn't consider it "Nazi" but would definitely consider it deeply transphobic, and exclude you from my friend circle. If I met someone with your view at work, I would avoid any interactions with them other than the minimum necessary to perform my job.
Travelling in Zambia is a break from Covid Lockdown
Hmm, I don't remember what I did when my family got a PowerPC to replace our 68k. I definitely remember using MacsBug for live debugging but I don't remember whether I had a static disassembler.
Why stop at Karl Rove? Tribalism is an inherent primal instinct in our species. We are all directly descended from brutal tribes at odds with other tribes over competition for limited resources. It's rooted in nearly all of our thinking, and you have to take active steps in your thought processes to avoid being biased by this inherent biological preference you have for the success of your kin versus the kin of others.
This is another phrasing of what jackdeansmith says, but this is not right:

> Payments are transferring bits, and should be effectively free.

Payments is taking on a short term risk that the (slow) transaction between a customer's bank and a vendor's bank will not settle, because of (a) fraud, (b) chargeback-like issues, (c) insolvency. This isn't exactly right, but overally its not quite 0 risk without crypto, which people don't trust (from a UX perspective).

And all kinds of risk-taking charges for it: loans, mortgages, etc. If you want to shoulder the risk yourself and save the fees, pay with a debit card.