skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Local first software makes even more sense on a smartphone than a desktop.

My desktop is always network connected, and my internet connection at home is fairly reliable. My smartphone is often in areas with no coverage. There are tons of apps I can't use because they don't keep local data. It would be a perfect time to read and write email, but the platforms that would let you do that are dead.
Do you think we should filter out astroturfers and Russian bots?

I don't think that anyone is complaining about the filtering of deliberate fraud from outside influences. What people are complaining about are the obvious biases exhibited by the large social media companies. Take this new Hunter Biden example. Twitter claims that they don't want to promote hacking and releasing of private information. Hunter Biden's laptop was abandoned, not hacked. Besides, where was that privacy stance a week or two ago when Trump's taxes were leaked? Facebook claimed unreliable sourcing for the story. Where were such concerns when anonymous sources were claiming that Trump had said that our troops were "suckers and losers"? Or when anonymous sources were claiming that Trump had been peed on by Russian hookers?

We have independent election observers.

Yeah and we balance things out by letting both major parties watch for funny business. Who watches Facebook and Twitter? Those companies are loaded with ex-Democrat operatives in senior positions. They've run out anyone who even smells halfway conservative. Facebook and Twitter have demonstrated time and again that they aren't just getting rid of fake news and bots. They're weighing in on complex political and statistical issues by silencing information sources that they don't like.

there are actors who want to harm the free and good faith discourse of our public forums

Yeah and evidence shows that some of those people are controlling information from within the social media giants.
They already have a tool to convert COBOL to Java. It doesn't take ML to do this job.
What if cloud gaming doesn’t catch on?
Is gmail allowed to filter out spam? Or does doing so make them an email publisher no longer exempt from liability for email contents?
This same blog has a post on the idiosyncrasies of the C preprocessor. Reminds me of several convoluted macros I assembled to stress test a C/C++ static analyzer at my last job. My favorite that I wrote was the following, combining line continuations, trigraphs, digraphs, universal character names, and block comments. Particularly insidious is the line continuation between / and * in the block comment. It is equivalent to: #define 🇩🇪() "de"

??/
%: \
/??/
*/*\
**/\
def\
ine\
\U\
0??/
001\
F??/
1E9\
??/\
U00\
01F\
1EA\
(??/
) "\
de"\

This example also exposes undefined behavior from the C++ standard: "if a splice results in a character sequence that matches the syntax of a universal-character-name, the behavior is undefined" [0].

[0]: https://eel.is/c++draft/lex.phases#1.2
To my point though there is the idea that “silence is violence” which implies if you don’t actively work towards a certain groups objective then you are in fact committing violence.

Yeah, certain kind of leftists are prone to over-the-top rhetoric. What does it mean? Not a lot given these aren't organized group, not even ineffective organized group but just individuals seeking attention for themselves.
Isn't that why they are cracking down now? As social media platforms were increasingly used to spread outright lies, propaganda, and radicalization, the public started to demand social media apply editorial functions- and here we are today.
How does this impact copyrights? Is there a new class of performances that become easy to charge licensing fees for?
Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24794344
https://www.shannonentropy.netmark.pl/
Be a Philosopher, Use Dimenschen
This looks like an experiment.

Please de-cloak and explain.
Hey, I just sent you a connection request on LinkedIn. Definitely interested in learning more about your open working experiences. I'm really surprised that they're also including project management with that.
It's still free speech. It just comes with consequences. The OP doesn't dispute that. Why is it that folks are so eager to run to this as if it were an argument, as if it somehow invalidates that speech is a freedom?
I've been using a little app called Xournal on linux for years which does that just fine.

I have a 600dpi png file with black foreground and transparent background.

Xournal drops it anywhere right over the existing pdf image, resized and positioned at will, and the transparent parts are transparent.
Its not a black and white world. Its a shades-of-gray world. Hill to die on is a figure of speech. The problem is, some people have taken its metaphorical strength to very odd places: Pizzagate, is turning it into a hill to kill from.

I love free speech. I hate the outcome. I wanted a more literate connected world to empower truth, and did not realise the compelling power of falsity. It spreads faster.
> What they need to do is find some number (whether it’s $5, $25, $50, or more I have no idea) where they can charge for real customer service.

They've done that, as they have both business and personal (the latter as a component of Google One) paid support plans.
Consequences doesn’t just mean punishment.
The waypoint server is run on your infrastructure.
"It doesn't stop the build pipeline, but it warns you that garbage is about to come out the other end."

Why doesn't it? Prevent it from merge and build; require the dev to either fix it, or convince the rest of the team that the change should be allowed.
There's a video of a streamer saying 'hey google, play the mexican doot doot song' and it plays, and this reminds me of that. Unfortunately I can't find the video because I think google strips out 'hey google' even when you're specifically searching for the phrase 'hey google'.
I expect post-pandemic this will definitely be an early interview/discussion question. Or spelled out in a job posting. Which is fine. It certainly tends to be with respect to travel. People will certainly switch jobs to companies with preferences that match theirs and that's fine.
What does that have to do with protecting your family? No one in Minneapolis or Kenosha died as a direct result of looting/civil unrest, and no one invaded any personal dwellings. In both cities, the only deaths were protesters killed by non-protesters.

And from personal experience - I live in Minneapolis, and at no point during the unrest did I fear for my personal safety or my property. Well, except when the police with machine guns rolled through my city yelling and shooting "less-lethal" ammunition at anyone who dared peek out their front door.
I've reached the conclusion that this is not about censorship. It's really about attempting to force ideas into the definition of "the mainstream".

Facebook and Twitter legitimize content. From a social media perspective, they define the vanilla. When people say "I saw it on Facebook", you instinctively intuit it was on their feed between a photo of a kid and advert for Red Robin.

If you want rocky road rather than vanilla, you can go find it on (2^n)chan. It's not hard to find. The presence of FaceTwit doesn't stop those forums existing or censor them.

When the President has a tweet deleted or some covid conspiracy group is removed from Facebook, it's not that there isn't somewhere else that content could go. I mean Trump is literally continuously on TV and has the entire Federal government at his disposal to get his message out. The covid conspiracy nuts can go to some smaller/madder corner of the Internet.

The reason to raise a ruckus is because being kept out of TwitFace means being kept out of the mainstream. I saw the Proud Boys update next to that cute GAP ad. I got the latest @QAnon post after the one from @KimKardashian.

To hell with that. Don't normalize that garbage. Moderate away.
Hacktoberfest learned the lesson, just have the project agree to participate. (Or say that you only get the credit if the development was for a foundation, like Apache or Mozilla)
Or there’s cases like WMDs or “Assad gassed his own people” which are outright frauds coming from the establishment who determines what is factual.
That information would still be meaningless unless we could prove that this e-mail is authentic. `v.pozharskyi.ukraine@gmail.com` - why would an Ukrainian citizen have "ukraine" in their e-mail address?

There are so many other red flags (in addition whether this e-mail was really send, and the account belongs to that person) for example if Hunter responded to it (if they had his laptop surely they could get that from outbox? Why somebody who cares enough about their laptop to get it to repair (if you have plenty of money, more likely you'll get a new one) not care about getting it back?

This would prove that gmail indeed sent the e-mail, but it wouldn't prove that the e-mail wasn't created few minutes earlier.
Now that they have phones with LIDAR, they want everyone to standardize on their format. Good idea.

Hopefully this leads to an explosion of mapped indoor spaces.
That's a very good letter. Very revealing at the board level. It's amazing how childish and unprofessional the board member had behaved.
The reverse is frustrating also: no reverse image search on mobile.
The worst part of this is that the artists which tend to get promoted have zero talent. You cannot compare popular musicians today from those in the 70s and 80s.

Actually there are very talented artists around today but it's impossible to find them... Takes a lot of searching on YouTube. I found some music on YouTube recently that blew me away but it didn't even hit 100k views... This extremely talented artist can't even feed themselves with that.
Last time I looked at card processor you had to echo back the approval numbers with the other information when you did your batch close transaction, so the card processor should be able to reconcile the batch record with the original approval record and stop arbitrary new data being introduced. Plus not every card processor I looked at used batches.

At one point the card processors had a very nice crypto protocol called SET that kept the card numbers out of everyone’s hands. At the time the crypto was really overwhelming and it would take like twenty seconds to do all the math on a high end (for the time) processor. The other problem was that the reference implementation was done by an absolute c++ zealot who was furious he had to write the code in C so tens of thousands of lines of code was dedicated to implementing all the c++ features in C which pretty much made the reference useless except for interoperability testing.

Unfortunately the standard never took off and you can’t find it anymore.
I was responding specifically to your "otherwise you lose the tax advantage" bit, which is still false. The money still grows with the same tax-advantage as a traditional IRA/401k.

Spending the money on medical expenses at 65 will maximize the value (this actually isn't universally true because IRA/401ks have required minimum distributions which can make holding onto the HSA more valuable), but you still get tax benefits by not covering medical expenses with it as long as you wait until 65+.

I also realized that I meant to say "not use your HSA for any medical expenses pre age 65" in my original comment. Sorry for any confusion.
Tests showing similar results were presented at the 2012 LENR conference, and probably before.

I really wish they hadn’t been discounted as erroneous without attempts to replicate by the larger scientific community. We’d be much farther along by now, in capturing this extremely interesting result!
Bro, I'm tenure track, I speak fluent nonsense, do your thing, it's all good.
Use Puppeteer to automate it
I feel like you may not be familiar with how patents work in the US: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040137855A1/en. This is a patent for "Wireless Mobile Printing", which is more specific than just "Wireless Printing". Both of these concepts are, arguably, obvious combinations of existing technology.
I remember finding some songs by humming to Shazam 5 years ago or so.
The "smartphone" world needs the equivalent of NetBSD for larger form factor computers and development boards. An open-source, modifiable, freely available, experimental OS that can run on both old and new "smartphone" computers. With larger form factor computers the tradeoff has generally been less hardware support on the very newest ones. Over time however the support for newer hardware generally increases as contributors have the chance to tinker with it. Instead of losing performance from the same hardware, users generally gain performance over time. Whatever one may think of this dynamic, it does allow for the longest possible use of hardware.

Tech companies should be shamed for the "disposable" computer culture they have put so much effort into creating. It is possible to improve software without requiring new hardware.
With the prices Apple charges for hardware, there should not be any forced obsolescence.
Google probably based the suggestion on this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynnhJiGRcVo) which is actually a section from Las Mañanitas followed by Happy Birthday.
Haha. I still work for Red Hat, and Consulting at that. My pay is determined by how many billable hours I put in and my customer reviews. Not directly by how much you buy.
I'm not talking about cable news anchors, I'm talking about the New York Times, which is defending Twitter and Facebook censoring the Post.
We'd be lucky if the salaries stayed the same, because the trend seems to be to cheap out on us.
Statistically, the number of true polymaths has probably risen, but against total world capability to communicate, I suspect it has risen slower than the pace of n^2 connectedness, and the consequent ability to speak rubbish at large, believably.
Maybe there's a higher principle here than partisan warfare?

If they were banning Russiagate conspiracies, while letting conservative stuff run rampant, would you be giving me the pitch about how private property is more important than free expression?
Working until midnight will probably do that to you.
when i upgrade my laptop i just transfer the 20GB file via external hard drive (where I keep a backup anyway).
> Classic fund manager who can't make returns in a new market regime and decides to cope by complaining on CNBC

I'm disappointed that the top comment at HN regarding such an interesting topic is nothing more than an ad hominem that sidesteps any of the points made in the article.

If the fund manager quoted in the article is wrong then you should have no problem presenting a rational case on how and why he is wrong. Instead, all you did amounted to name calling. How does this elevate us?
Doesn't that just mean they will get some self-taught lawyer-in-all-but-name?
A blacksmith is a specialized trade. You cant make up a new definition for an adjective and then use the nonstandard definition to make your point. Division of labor is synonymous with specialization. If you don't like it, make up a new term for what you want to convey.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour
I just tried "Hymn of the Fayth" and got none, despite the fact that there's a version of it that's literally just hummed.
Then you're going against a hundred years of legal thought on free speech there. There's a reason certain speech is not protected, and it's been hashed out. if you have a better legal argument than "it's just not," I'm interested, but it needs to address why previous thinking is incorrect. Edit: a [quick link][1] to all the types of speech in the US that is regulated and why.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...
Doxxing on HN feels like it should have an extremely good reason to do so, IMHO. Unless you are 100% sure you are correct, all speculation should be avoided since you could cause severe damage to others by misattribution.

From reading other posts by Ryan, he seems to be trying to talk about the general problems he faced that simply don’t get surfaced often (for example, due to the associated risks to your career.) He provides enough detail to help anyone likely to be in the know to identify the person.

There is a very difficult balance to make, and he has clearly been careful about judging that balance, and getting feedback from others on that balance.
microk8s has a Prometheus add-on that you can enable with one command: https://microk8s.io/docs/addons

I'm using it and it's been great so far.
Weird, now I see the button. "Google" on iOS 13.7, asia

Immediately after updating, there was no button. Maybe something changed on their end or something needed to sync in my phone.
I wonder if busting the police unions would be a place to start.

Allegedly the unions have positioned themselves as the chief obstacle to any & all reforms.
So what if Twitter, Google, Facebook, YouTube, Microsoft/Bing, Apple and Amazon all refuse to carry the content (including advertisements next to this content).

Do not tell me that's not Big Tech putting their thumb on the scale in a dangerous way.

And before you say it, "muh private platform" is not an acceptable argument. This is dangerous to our society.
We're in a power transition where the Left is now in control of major societal levers: Academia, Hollywood, sports entertainment, the mainstream news media, large government bureaucracies, and big tech.

Once the loudest champions of free speech because they were trying to break down the old power structures, the Left is now consolidating its power and sees no need to allow upstarts to criticize the new order.
They are in the US as well, this thread is just someone demonstrating the reality that very many people don't realize they should be different and make them the same for convenience.

If you care about entropy, don't leave it up to users.
In the US, if it was a chip and nothing transaction, the bank probably covers it. If it was a magstripe transaction not at a gas pump, the merchant covers it.

Card holder liability on timely reported loss or stolen card is capped at $50 or something.
Mmm, yeah. I wasn't considering the series C because the timelines didn't really add up, but I took a second look and it actually fits the points in the letter.
Ah cheers! I didn't think about it being thumb only (I never used raw arm32, so in my brain thumb2 is all that existed :D )
You think their AWS account wasn't cancelled after they leaked pentagon cables?
Just to clarify you believe the radical left have infiltrated the upper echelons of capitalist society and academic institutions and have an anti free-speech agenda and have a goal of dismantling enlightenment principals?

Can you also explain what you mean by scientific liberalism?
We honestly STILL don't have a full understanding of second order effects from the last round of mental health techniques (regression therapy). I have some very serious concerns about hypnotherapy and honestly some of these dod mental health contractors and the people around them make me wonder whether "Homecoming" is closer to reality than we would like to think.
predominant WFH w/ ability to get together at the office seems like an excellent mixture of flexibility and adequate face time. Strict mode on either ends of the spectrum is non-ideal for most people I would assume.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_police
Tell that to megacorporations? Why are prescription drugs allowed to be advertised on TV? Free speech.
EV company Proterra raises $200M
If you have an old, jailbroken iPhone and an HDMI adaptor, and an Elgato Camlink, you can screen mirror the iPhone as a webcam using my app, CleanCam.

I hope it'll put some old phones back into good use.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24302918
How is serving nice meals for lunch "infantilizing" people? I'm simply stating that this is a concrete benefit of employment at these companies. If they choose to move away from providing it, then they should adjust salaries to reflect that, otherwise candidates will join firms that do.
If you are in favor of the popular vote movement, how do you reconcile that for residents of sparsely populated states like Wyoming? Why would such residents bother to vote at all under the popular vote? (I would not)
> Companies have very little to lose from bullying employees into leaving fake positive reviews.

Glassdoor can always fix this problem by implementing a "ban hammer" system where if multiple employees provides credible evidence of a company forcing them to post fake reviews then the company permanently has a black mark on their Glassdoor page (and future reviews are disabled, so they can't even fight back with more fake reviews).
Tell me what: "e to the i pi minus one equals zero" might mean.

lol
VC Meetings: How to prepare and what to expect
The massive LED array is on the front of their trucks, blinding the shit out of oncoming traffic.
Huh. The 8086 did the exact opposite: your ASM source was A-OK but they changed all the opcodes around so you had to reassemble your program. It's why CP/M was completely incompatible with the 8086 and (arguably) why Microsoft was able to edge out Digital Research on IBM PCs.
This is false. Nobody has fought for a right not to sell cupcakes to gay people.

In Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the owner declined to perform a creative service, that being decorating a cake for a gay wedding.

You might think that is also wrong, and that’s fine, but it’s a very important distinction. Legally compelling someone to perform a service that violates their religious beliefs is tricky to balance against non-discrimination. You have to consider the precedent that doing so would set. The supreme court recognized this in a 7-2 decision, so it’s clearly not a trivial or ridiculous objection. It only is to you because you don’t share the religious belief. But we must balance everyone’s rights, and that isn’t always easy.
I work at a large firm which has shifted itself from using Excel, to significantly promoting data analytics tools such as Alteryx in place of Excel.

One of the MAJOR improvements from using Alteryx is that it is easier to audit and review the process. With Excel you can be down the rabbit hole of data manipulation or formula driven outputs and realise you have made a mistake but cannot find where or how. Or cannot find where you went wrong without recreating the steps followed. The workflow style interface of Alteryx and other data analytics tools allows everyone to see the process from start to finish of how you are getting to your outputs. It can also ingest and handle much larger datasets than default Excel.

I honestly believe that we will see a large shift from using Excel to using better suited analytics tools. I cannot think of anything I can do in Excel that I can do in a GUI based data analytics tool. Not to write Excel off completely as will certainly still be using it, but to a lesser extent and not where complex data manipulation is required.
"The public", it was a small group of elites. And of course big tech aren't against getting more power so they "comply", they were just waiting for the chance to do it without significant backlash.
Not sure what you mean? A gym is compared to a fingerprint, versus any part of the copyright material.
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Interesting post about serverless and telecommunications
Apparently the market does not consider it a fully working option if they went for this initiative. I'm doubtful it requires ML, but I truly wonder if anyone other than IBM has access to enough COBOL code to make a go of it.