skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should Facebook (or any other platform) be accountable to anyone in particular for what the users of the platform say?

I get that, now, they've hoisted themselves by their own petard after years of inconsistent policies and enforcement, but I mean in a general sense.

>What does holding them accountable look like to you?

The opening paragraph of section 230 of the CDA, to wit:

"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider"

There be far worse dragons than disinformation down the other roads. Let's take this to its logical conclusion - you've got people on the left upset about "conspiracy theories" (which is, itself, a pejorative term with problematic origins rooted in thought control), you've got people on the right upset about "bias" against their stances.

When both sides of the political aisle are demanding tighter control over speech for any reason, the intended result should terrify the hell out of you.

The problem you speak of is not "people say false things" (which is not solvable), the problem should rather be seen as "people demand the ability to censor people they disagree with". The solution to that problem is telling both sides to pound sand and take responsibility for their own beliefs, not foisting that responsibility off onto third parties in a way that necessarily restricts freedom of speech.
I am a regular Software Engineer at a FAANG company. I have a Bachelor's degree in CS and no papers or patents. What's a reliable route for me to file a successful EB-1 application?

What kind of hackathons I can judge/other industry events can I speak at/be in the press to satisfy the requirements of EB-1? How can I get those opportunities?
I would guess there are a lot more poor people than scientists in most countries. are emigrants disproportionately poor, uneducated people?
Hire a really good multi-practice attorney or law firm with expertise in that space. Email me and I can refer you some names.
What does rc stand for, and how did we get bashrc and zshrc as config files for bash?
I agree with this comment. It’s tough with this type of article, because they are almost prescriptive rather than descriptive. It says certain actions are “problematic” but doesn’t go much deeper.

I think the main point of the article is to make sure to make your characters human — even if they aren’t the protagonist, which I agree with. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with having a crazy homeless character — just don’t make their defining characteristic their craziness.

I did have a big problem with #5. The masses can be terrifying. Mob mentality brings out the worst in people. It happens on all sides too.
That's only because the vast majority of middle eastern people are poor. Parent comment is correct saying that it is much easier for educated scientists to leave, and they do leave, which is a self feeding loop draining everyone capable of positive change out of the region.
In my experience the no regulation crowd is the same as the "I should be able to monetize in any way possible no matter how gross the practice is" and they generally think other people are stupid and are willing to take advantage of that
I get the impression that Reddit's ad network is just immature.

We're finding that Reddit ads perform well and are cheap, suggesting that there isn't much competition for clicks.

More mature ad networks such as Google's and Facebook's are better at reducing spam clicks. Google bought a company focused on this about 10 years ago, I'm sure Facebook put similar effort in.

I'm sure this is something they'll work to improve over time as their ad network gains traction.
Don't get me wrong, I love org, but this is really not nearly the same as Jupyter notebooks.

Jupyter notebooks are web based, and only require a web browser to use. That's not the case for org.

Using org effectively also means using Emacs, which is a high barrier of entry for most people.

Jupyter notebooks have no such requirements, and anyone can get rolling by just installing some packages and opening a web browser.

Jupyter notebooks are also really polished, while org is more bare bones visually.

Jupyter notebooks also have all these tools integrated in to it (all the graphing and inline image display tools are particularly appealing)

Yes, you could potentially do all of these with org, but it'd take way more knowledge and setup than is required for Jupyter notebooks.

If something as visually appealing, powerful, and easy to set up and use for people who don't know Emacs then it'd have a chance of getting widespread adoption. But that's not org.
Thanks for the insight. My perspective is from the M&A side which can be a little bit different / less boring (or at least I like to tell myself so)
The interview should have done an homage footnote with this. Can't believe they missed the opportunity.
The boss is always right. Your only job is to make the boss look good.
That's precisely why I put Here's hoping for a flood of further improvements.

This wasn't intended to be read as sarcastic. It really is a great development. It's still amusing that the number is so tiny.
While I agree with the point you made, I want to point out that the fatality rate for driving an automobile is much lower than 1 in a 1000. In the United States, the number of fatalities per vehicle-mile driven is approximately 1.5e-8[1]. On your average errand run, you have about a one in a hundred million chance of being killed/killing someone.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...
> Not GP, but I propose doing absolutely nothing.

There are multiple places on the internet where you can access completely unmoderated content. 4chan and 8chan are two popular forums, and yet they are far from mainstream.

The fact is that moderation is a feature which people want. People don't want to go through 200 spam e-mails everyday. People don't want to spend tons of time going through bullshit.

Facebook and Twitter has never been about getting "unfiltered" news. Facebook became useful because your friends was there. Twitter became useful because you could read content from famous and skilled people.

> There have always been tabloid newspapers, underground conspiracy theory magazines and various AM broadcasting stations peddling all kinds of nonsense.

And these will continue to exist on the internet. The only thing that's happening here is that Facebook and Twitter is taking a stance that they don't want to become part of this group. Is that so bad?
This is probably first-order-model[1] using keyframes. You send only one image each 2 seconds and the mesh of face 30 times per seconds.

Then use first-order-model to extrapolate 2 seconds of video from the keyframe.

Rinse, repeat.

Very doable. AMAZING!

The original first-order-model could not do 30 frames per second, but maybe this Nvidia model has some improvements.

1 - https://aliaksandrsiarohin.github.io/first-order-model-websi...
No reason to think that this UX can't be duplicated in non-Apple app stores. It only artificially looks like that because Apple forces users and devs to only use their store. If users don't trust other App stores, they can simply avoid using them. Millions of people trust non-apple online stores with their money. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on good customer service either.
Controlling the truth via disinformation.? I admit I have horrible comprehension skills but it sounds like a smart enough statement when you repeat it enough, I just can't grep any meaning in this. Do they know the truth? You throw in the conspiracy groups and you have made yourself half a statement.

They're bad we get it, Id rather be able to hear how bad they are in the light. Who was accountable when we spread lies about WMDs in Iraq? That caused magnitudes of more damage than these groups, yet no one is held accountable even with Public figures. Do you want everyone accountable for misinformation silenced or just those you disagree with?
> Umatrix is def technically superior in my eyes.

Don't disagree there.

> Also noscript has some pretty shady sht in its history.

I haven't heard anything about that. Could I get some more info? I use NoScript pretty much everywhere and would like to know if I need to stop.

Edit: Punctuation
I recall doing an experiment in high school where I added a drop of HCl to water and then applied an electric current to the water in the vessel - there were two vents and applying a flame to one of the areas near the bubbling electrodes resulted in a clean flame pop, a signature of hydrogen. Edit0: syntax corrections.
Even if that would be true (that US supported that coup), would the democratically elected Mohamed Morsi have promoted science education in Egypt? The Muslim Brotherhood's history of science education doesn't seem so rosy.

I am curious what you think of https://www.hudson.org/research/9881-the-muslim-brotherhood-...
(yes, I know this is written by an Israeli)
The dot after the TLD represents the root domain. From right to left, URLs read from least to most specific. Root -> TLD -> domain -> subdomain (eg www). The root domain is almost always left out, because it’s always the same and its presence is implied. But if you include it explicitly, it is a distinct URL.

So idk how bloomberg.com works under the hood so I can’t specifically explain this case, but rules that match URLs won’t necessarily see the two versions as identical. This is actually something worth testing your own sites against, to make sure including the root domain doesn’t do something dumb like bypass authentication or whatever.

Edit: also, forgive me if I’m explaining things you already know w/ regard to the root domain and stuff.
Every newspaper in America has obvious scam ads on its homepage. The whole online ad market is diseased and needs to be uprooted.

Common sense fixes:

- Never allow dynamic ad content! Ads should be individually approved by publishers and not subject to change after approval.

- Ban user tracking and targeting. It's a red queen's race and no one benefits. Everyone is better off once it's illegal.

- Pay for ad time slots, not user impressions. Instead of selling by CPM, publishers should say "independent analyst X says we have traffic Y on an average Sunday. You can buy placement for next Sunday for $Z." This is how all offline ads are sold, and it's much healthier for everyone than CPM. It essentially kills the motivation for the Reddit fraud discussed here.

- Use anti-trust to prevent link aggregators from being advertisers. This is a bigger issue, but putting ads on the aggregators creates perverse incentives to promote bad content and not actually pay for it. Why would you pay to put an ad on publisher A which may or may not have traffic when you can put the ad on aggregator B which will definitely have traffic? The problem is this means A cannot pay writers and the whole system breaks down.
Sony reveals PS5 will play most PS4 games, but some ‘may exhibit errors’
I grew up in a Muslim country, unlike Christianity, Islam accepts scientific discoveries but attributes them to God instead. For instance, we were taught about the Big Bang in an Islamic Thinking class but the trick was that "God was responsible for it".
My friend found out the hard way; challenging the ideas of her manager. She now has her head on the chopping block and is under constant passive-aggressive attack by said manager. Her co-worker "friends"....nowhere to be found, no support, no anything except a deafening silence.

All because of fear.
You're getting downvoted, but you're right.

Traditional family values still resonate in these numbers and many people blame women working part-time for a gender imbalance at the top of companies.

So that gender imbalance is definitely on the agenda. Whether you think these numbers are concerning depends on your political stance.
A green alternative to the energy waste of datacenters
You might be able to revive the H-1B but other than country-specific visas (for Australian, Canadian, Chilean, Mexican, and Singaporean citizens) the standard options are the E-1 treaty trader, E-2 investor, or O-1 visa.
We'd be taxing Twitter and Facebook to make up for everybody's failure in public education, which seems unfair.
Can you file multiple I485s for different EB categories? Or can you withdraw and re-apply for a different category I485 in future? One has a current date of filing but final action is back logged. Another is waiting for I140 approval but will be current when approved for both dates.
We scaled Nginx and saved the world 54 years every day
Please don't take HN threads further into programming language flamewar. I realize that you're trying to defend something good, but good intentions don't remove the duty to take out name-calling and swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
IBM to Spin Off Services Unit to Accelerate Cloud-Computing Pivot
the problem will never go away entirely because unless you're discussing the physical state of some matter, there really isn't any truth
If I were in your shoes and was able to offer the wisdom of a few decades+ of work experience and hind-sight I would offer this piece of advice -

As a 'newbie' respect the food chain.

In a large corporate environment there are power-games and power-struggles, empire building and a whole new world of "soft power" and back scratching. If you buck the food chain by going over someones head the sharks will gather. As a tadpole it is best to learn how to swim well enough to avoid the sharks.

With that said - DO go over somebody's head if something is really wrong/serious, just don't do it for the 'gee it is so obvious that we should be doing xyz but no-one will listen" type things.
Correct. This article is about "fully driverless" rides (rides with no safety driver present) graduating from their experimental "Early Rider Program" (which includes a small group of people under NDAs) to their public "Waymo One" service (which is a commercial service which requires no NDAs, but still has rather limited availability for now).

Waymo One has been shut down for a while now due to COVID, but now that driverless rides are an option they're re-opening the service with 100% fully driverless rides. Once they get around to installing barriers between the driver and passenger seats they plan to go back to most rides having a safety driver, but with some smaller percentage of Waymo One rides continuing to be fully driverless.
Thatcher here, co-founder of LeafCloud. Happy to hear your questions!
It was a stressful process with a lot of uncertainty. We had to show language that my job was a "supporting role", which is fairly easy to spin if you're not a Senior or Principal. We also needed to provide my direct supervisor's qualifications. I believe they had to have a degree in a CS related field.
"They should be interpreting the law as written and any negative consequences should be addressed by legislation."

What good is the legislation when it get cuts to ribbons in the courts? Look at what happened to the ACA and the individual mandate. Even modest progressive legislation can barely survive the current court, so I'm not sure your proposed solution works.

"interpreting the law as written" is a farce. The court is a minoritarian conservative bulwark that can rule however it wants with no accountability. The law is what they want it to be. Always has been.
I am sure if Apple dropped the percentage to single-digit, no developer would argue the value that IAP provide, the problem has always been the exorbitant 30%.
Hard Data on Remdesivir, and on Hydroxychlorquine
I also wonder if Hyper is really the right tool for the job here. When I was looking into HTTP/S crates, I decided against Hyper because it seemed to require bringing in a runtime for HTTPS, and the async nature of hyper did not seem necessary for my totally synchronous CLI tool. For something like CURL it seems like you would just want the leanest, simplest synchronous HTTP implementation possible
Except Usenet never actually recovered and now is deader than disco. It was replaced for the most part with more aggressively moderated web forums with automated spam controls.
Developer/Designer Collaboration on Single-Page Web Apps
No china? Dos not make any sense.
Happy to see that at least one guy gets it. Every day I‘m more astounded how western civilizations got to be - it sure as hell wasn’t the Average’s Joe idea, and hundreds if years after most still don’t get it.
> Now how do you feel about Twitter and Facebook deciding what misinformation is?

I don't see how that changes anything except the political leanings of the website operators. Can you explain what the problem is?
That took a few minutes to make it work on newer macos.
Time to install a VPN gateway wherever the top of the geopay scale is!
I know a bit about "ubiquitous computing", or ubicomp.

Ubicomp researchers seek to blur the lines between hardware and software. Computations (as we typically view them) are modeled as mathematical functions. Typically, computer scientists implement these mathematical functions in software with code. Ubicomp people will certainly do that, but they're also trying to design hardware which performs computation as well.

Significant amounts of work go into making ubicomp systems as energy efficient as possible. Inevitably, you design specialized hardware which doesn't operate under normal paradigms and does indeed appear to be magic.

Take SATURN [1], for example. It's a microphone powered by ambient speech. Energy is harvested though triboelectric nanogenerators (TNGs).

Or take Serpentine [2]. It's a special cord which contains TNGs. Interactions with the cord (pluck, twist, flick, etc.) can be uniquely identified in hardware simply by the generated waveform. There's also no power source here.

The reason things like SATURN and Serpentine come off as magical is because energy-harvesting technologies are not the present standard. We expect to need a power source for our electronics. However, every real-world interaction imparts forces. With clever and efficient hardware, the energy imparted by these forces can be captured and utilized.

That said, this new paradigm also introduces new challenges. How do you ensure one of these devices is off? You can't just unplug the power cable anymore. A possible solution is clearly delineating between the sensor and communication portion and placing a physical switch between these two elements. Since someone here mentioned privacy concerns, I'll just say that any privacy concern will need to be addressed at the hardware/physical level with ubicomp devices.

[1] https://www.sigmobile.org/grav/research-highlight/saturn

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3290605.3300775
I think we'll see a lot of people try to game it:

* Not updating their address with their company after moving to a new, lower-cost location

* Using the address of family or friends in a higher-cost area

* Renting a PO Box or cheap room or studio in a high-cost area, but spending most time elsewhere

I'd imagine we'll see companies pop up offering address verification services - physically and/or digitally tailing employees to find address mismatches. They'll probably sell themselves to large tech employers by saying that the geopay savings incurred more than pay for their services. Maybe this already exists?
Now they just need to dismantle the global array of advertising networks and they would have accomplished something.
But you just stated confidently that there were no instances of premeditated vandalism in the United States over several months and hundreds of incidents, many of which have pending investigations. Did you prove that negative or is it impossible?
Permanently. Unless we change our minds later.
None of the points you made actually contradict the claim that Amazon is predatory.
You're "not wrong", but my reading of your comments leads me to believe that you're pointing the finger exclusively (or at least, overwhelmingly and possibly disproportionately) at one side of the dispute.

> Yes it can be fun, entertaining, informative and educational, it can also be propaganda, misinformation, astroturfing, and a big high school like popularity contest where people are fake and narcissistic but probably insecure.

Social media is an epistemic cesspool, there's no doubt. But do not all of your criticisms also apply (if perhaps to a lesser degree) to all media, and politics, and individual and collective activity, and.....well, everything?

> The truth is the internet is teaching the biggest lesson ever in critical thinking and getting your information from many sources across spectrums, countries, divides and more.

I feel rather uneasy about whether this is actually as true as it may seem. The thing about "what's true" is, if you've been fooled, you do not realize it. For sure, there are some particularly bad actors online that are often concentrated in certain communities, but how might one know of other bad actors that are not in your mental inventory, or actors who are in your mental inventory labelled as trustworthy, when they are not actually highly trustworthy?

The variance in quality of epistemic and logical reasoning that can be observed, in extremely large quantities even here on HN, when comparing discussions of a technical topic compared to a political topic, is vast - and yet....does it seem likely that the people writing these things here are doing it with conscious and deliberate intent? Does it seem likely that HN folks consciously choose to become peddlers of disinformation, or might it be more likely that this is a consequence of the unusual, often counter-intuitive, and not yet understood innate nature of the human species?

> Let's hope that people see it as a lesson and not somewhere they can bask in their confirmation bias all day, or make decisions based on fear, in those cases the populace is easy to manipulate.

Indeed. Let's hope everyone can truthfully commit to doing this.

I wrote a bit more on this general idea (with respect to conspiracy theorists) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24730753
I’m looking to naturalize next year. I’ve heard that with the current administration after filing to naturalize it takes 6-12 months due to additional interviews in the green card (not naturalization) backing up the naturalization queue. Covid is probably having a big affect too.

Anyway, if the administration changes to the democrats, in your opinion, do you feel wait times will decrease and will this be get fairly rapidly.

Further, can one be tactical and move to another state to naturalize and hopefully we processed by a state office with a lesser backlog?
Assuming this isn't Reddit, but just a bunch of users with AdNauseum installed, what do you expect them to do? Present a captcha before letting a user click through an ad?
Very good news. Consider signing the petition to make all publicly funded code free: https://publiccode.eu.
Does anyone know of an equivalent newsletter that covers European markets?
You can use both if you want to.
Tesla went with cameras only because they thought Lidar was too expensive.

Not having lidar has directly caused a bunch of autopilot crashes, so I expect they'll add it.
This is saying people are loyal to their tribes, and view the government's interests as unaligned with those of their tribe, presumably giving rise to a lack of common cause in something that a government might foster like scientific development. But if "tribe" were synonymous with "ethnic group" then you'd actually be saying that multiple ethnic groups sharing a government are a cause (not necessarily the only one) of scientific stagnation. But it sounds like you're not. So what defines these tribes if not ethnic group?