skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except we have that in software, we call it “hacking” and thirty years on some of us still act surprised when the business people try to ship the proof of concept.

Stop behaving like you can fake it and then make it later. The code has already shipped and they’re pressuring you to move on to the next problem. Anything you haven’t nailed down by the time the customer is happy is not going to get nailed down. The time you get is the time it takes. So if you genuinely haven’t gotten enough time, then you need to slow down and take the time now, because there is no after.

There’s only been two times my code could kill someone, and you bet your ass I didn’t deliver it a moment faster than I thought reasonable, and in one of those cases it ended up being fast enough (the other was, in retrospect, already doomed before I got there)
> However, capitalism doesn't leave consumers with no options - vote with your wallet!

That really works with monopolies! /sarcasm /are-you-serious
File patent for "idea" so nobody can steal it...
Am I the only one who feels this is just wrong?
But CUPS is one dependencies of pappl. Or is that going to be just a temporary thing?
Language Learning with YouTube
Nothing ever good has come from religion. So not a very good example you have there.
> Yes, this would cause price increase.

Actually, it wouldn't. Facebook makes obscene profits. Rather than be uncompetitive, they'd keep the same price.
> YouTube doesn't allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) medical information about COVID-19

So all videos must refer to an IFR of > 3%?
I remember seeing this: https://nostarch.com/mg_statistics.htm
Home and Garden
> Specifically: "Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful."[1]

This is one of the least appropriate uses of the word "specifically" I've ever seen.

That law just says "Don't do bad things. You know who you are."
What harm could someone do with a fake account, also doesn't FB go through creepy lengths to verify your identity?

I'm more paranoid about FB hoovering all my personal information by proxy of having an account and friends tagging me in picture and friending me, filling out my real life social network in their database.
Why do you say that it's a slippery slope as opposed to, say, a (continuously evolving) policy with forces pulling in both directions?
Because that’s an integration test and I’m writing unit tests, which scale much higher.
> But remember back in March? Our glorious leaders were urging us not to buy masks because they don’t work, and besides, doctors need them.

I think this is a bit disingenuous. First of all, you're looking back with the benefit of hindsight and the knowledge of the virus that we have today. Additionally, weren't most of the recommendations around mask wearing that people not gobble up PPE because there was such a shortage of it around the country for first responders and hospital staff? Isn't that one of the primary reasons why people across the country started making homemade masks out of t-shirts and other spare cloth?
Looks like something related to Verizon's/oaths consent management platform which is used to capture consent to track and use data for advertising.
It would be really helpful if Scratch would allow projects with multiple scenes. For any moderately involved story or game, there will tend to be multiple scenes or levels. The limitations of a single scene makes it necessary to write many conditional statements to show and hide items or change backdrops when a scene or level changes.
>Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust

And unionizing. Don't forget unionizing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/technology/google-fires-w...

I'm sure there's a few more things you can't talk about at Google too. But the NY Times should at least do a better job of remembering their own stories.
What applications require unpredictability where you wouldn't go full csprng?
And well - the way washing hands after autopsies and before surgery to prevent infection needed 30 years to be accepted by the community (1850-1880 I think) - even panels of certified physicians could be wrong
Like cancer?
You're not understanding: the wasteful spending is the feature.
https://github.com/mfikes/esprit targets espruino from clojurescript.
I’m guessing they’re either referring to the unbelievably gigantic number of threads making it impossible to find the important and notable ones, or they’re referring to the fact that significant forums on the site have been closed down and either deleted or hidden.

I was active on SA from 2004 to 2010, and at one point I was a contractor who worked on the forum code. I was also an admin for a short period. Having been so immersed in the forums for so long, it blows my mind to think that so much internet culture originated on SA. They basically invented the now hugely popular meme format, though they were called image macros then. “tl;dr” and “pro tip” originated there. 4chan was a spin-off forum from their anime forum. I’m sure there’s more I’ve missed.

The allegations in the article against Lowtax are disturbing to say the least.
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The "slippery slope" is always a lazy argument w. little substance. It's easy to get induction wrong even in simple math problems let alone trying to pigeonhole humanity into tidy formula. The idea that the market will regulate itself because (... because what?) is also lazy. The bottom line is it really makes a great deal of sense to say,"hey, don't drink bleach," "hey, no Nazis on this platform please!", "hey, it's highly unlikely Hillary Clinton is a pedophile" - This is serious - this is real life and in good conscience we should all be supportive of this kind of "censorship" for the good of humanity.
You do realise the Biden campaign has made a statement not denying the legitimacy of the email?
Jigsaw 2.0?
Why no one has revived a crowdsourcing business contacts platform like jigsaw.com, which was acquired by Salesforce and shutdown in 2010?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/salesforcecom-introduces-jigsaw-for-salesforce-crm-101963223.html
Was the NY Post article actually filled with disinformation?

If the roles were reversed and a similar story came out about Trump and his son, would Twitter and Facebook have taken it down as part of a misinformation campaign?
I'm not surprised, who else would be more interested in CUPS than someone working towards a better solution?
I haven't seen a pulmonologist. I have had two separate chest X-rays, but that's as far as examination of the lungs in specific has gone.
I think I disagree with that statement. Censorship would prevent the information from being accessible, make it illegal, come with repercussions for those who publish it, or other such things.

Platforms like YouTube, Google Search, Twitter, Facebook and all have a problem of amplification through algorithms that don't promote well proven, high quality, trusted content. You could almost see these platforms themselves as a kind of censorship through obscuring and creating noise around quality information.

I think because of the way content is amplified on such platforms, that's why they need policies like this, to limit the possible damage and liability they might face if they'd promote something that caused a lot of damages.

This is very different from someone choosing to host their own content which is equally accessible to all other content. But as soon as you rank content, as soon as you have an algorithm pick and choose content to shown you, in what order to show it to you and all that, you actually have a propaganda problem, because you become a propaganda machine, and that's really what these platforms have become.
Yes, please, I'm all in favour of more political statements

Please don't wear a mask. Please don't take vaccines. Please congregate in closed spaces for long periods of time

Do your part to achieve heard immunity.

Just don't say they might suffer the consequences of their actions, the deniers don't like it
I've seen Seinfeld so many times that now a days I just tap on the "random" option in VLC when watching it. X-files I've divided to two, MonsterOfTheWeek and "moves plot forward". Then randomly pick from the two buckets.

Don't think there is any "new" series that I've watched over twice, I wonder why that is.
CCC isn't scraping their pricing data. They are using the mws shopping api.
These results aren't very reliable. Shows potential, but it definitely needs better methodology and perhaps more data.

They trained a decision tree on 36 examples with only 8 positives and tested on 13. Without cross-validation or, even better, nested resampling. All leaves of the decision tree but one contain one or two examples.
Wow, I'm masively disappointed with this thread.

We have so many different Desktop "OS's" already. There's hardly a need for a _revolution_; strong stability and support is needed but there's just no paying market for it by the looks of it.

4 biggest desktop environments are by mega corporations (apple, microsoft) and by big open-source collectives (Gnome, KDE). But is that it?
No, there's also a bunch of tilling-window managers with their own desktop philosophies, there are entire terminal drawing frameworks with full GUI support.

Desktop is awesome. If anything mobile is the one needing to catch up. iOS and Android are awful, awful environments outside of casual usage. Just try writing up a document on your phone!
Just imagine what could be if they were on the level _desktops_?

Real question: Do we continue to dumb down software to exclusive casual usage for house-moms or we try to move our society to be more techn savy as we are clearly moving to a more tech relying world. Why shouldn't everyone know how to code?

To paraprashe Mr. Engelbart: it's a failed tool if you use it exactly the same way the day you bought it and a year after.
Is the idea of “collapsing the wave function” a requirement of QM itself? In that context, a “measurement” would be to be what you call “an interaction that must collapse the wave function”.

And your answer is simply wrong. An excited atom can emit a photon, for example, and the system will still be described by a “non-localized wave function”. It won’t even be well defined if the spontaneous emission has happened or not yet.

The evolution of a quantum system according to Schrödinger’s equation doesn’t violate conservation rules. And, in case it’s not clear, the quantum system described by the wave function in the example above is the atom-photon(-or-not) pair.

You’re definitely thinking about it wrong.
...so you are saying that Google should stop recommending such videos, but has no reason to ban them entirely from being posted, right?
Respectfully, I beg to differ

The Washington Post released unsubstantiated reports from anonymous sources that the DNC emails were hacked by Russia and released through Wikileaks. This is an extraordinary claim, and the evidence should be likewise extraordinary

4 years later, however, these remain allegations only, the lack of which drives the idea of a deep state conspiracy in conservative circles

If you're inclined to believe the Russia hacking allegations, this story will seem like a completely different, false equivalence, because one is true (the hacking allegations) and the other is false (the Hunter Biden allegation). But consider: there is as much hard evidence for one as the other, and both are damaging, destabilizing allegations
Speaking of rc4, what are the reproducibility issues? Quick search on mobile didn't turn anything up. Is it just the "alleged" designation, i.e. no confirmation that it implements Rivest's original cipher?
I think the "hide the file browser" has had some pretty mixed results when attempted on mobile. File browsers and file extensions come in handy.

For example, the zip/archive workflow. Does it make sense for all archives to live under the zip app? Does it make sense to have to share files to and from a zip app in different bespoke app level UI? If its OS UI how is it really any different than a file browser?
> More freedom of speech is the answer to misinformation because then it can be challenged

Do we have any evidence that it's true? Anecdotally, it seems that the more the internet has expanded our ability to communicate, the more widespread misinformation has gotten.

I see the moral and anti-authoritarian arguments against censorship, but only in the context of accepting the costs. This "have your cake and eat it" argument feels hollow.
you're missing his point. the issue is not the specific issue but the endless litany of issues.
Oh, I've had the joy of working with Perforce, Jazz / Team Concert, etc. /s

Git is widest adopted, period (EDIT: because of how it blossomed out of linux dev, essentially). I was able to stick to bzr or fossil for a lot of things until github and gitlab basically became where open source work (and even corporate transitioned to some extent!) needed to happen, and the friction of using anything else is just too great at this point in time.

Which is a shame, really, as --fast-import/export is actually not a bad way to transition from one scm to another these days, and I'd personally welcome a little more active competition in the space to evolve beyond the current status quo.
Yes it is, but docker for desktop runs it for you. You could use LXD etc by running Linux yourself in a virtualisation solution of your choice like VirtualBox or VMWare.
Wait, now it’s PII that caused the blackout?? The excuses are changing by the watch. We can all read the story. I recommend you check your allegations against the source material. The email addresses are material to the story, and I’m not seeing “PII” in it.
There are probably no official ones. Don’t know if there's any unofficial ones.
Starship Design Speculation (Part II)
Only the blocking capabilities of the webRequest API are deprecated, observing traffic remains intact in Manifest V3.

Extensions will continue to enjoy access to your data, while ad blockers will have a harder time to react to the countermeasures introduced by ad networks.
I hope Heroku's pricing comes more in line with offerings like DigitalOcean. The difference between the $5 and $50 Heroku instances is negligible compared to almost any VM provider.

Dokku provides a nice, open-source Heroku-like experience. I've had a good experience so far using Dokku on DigitalOcean or Hetzner VMs.

http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/
> So in effect we have shifted the - can we get superconductivity at room temperature towards - can we get superconductivity at room temperature and pressure.

Not really though, right? We all already own things under higher or lower pressure than normal and they can be kept that way essentially indefinitely. Light bulbs, hard drives, thermoses, etc. On the other hand keeping something below room temperature - especially really far below room temperature - takes constant work.

In theory you could make a cable that keeps the conductive material under high pressure, but you're probably not going to have any luck attaching an air-conditioning unit to your cables.
The solution for the US would be the first radically reform it's election and voting systems.
I think Desktop UI is great.

What I dislike instead is my Android phone's UI. It's 100% proprietary, meaning I have little influence over some decisions.
E.g., if I don't want to be disturbed on my PC, I just quit all messenger apps. On Android, but only since very recently, there's a DnD mode. I don't use it because I don't understand what it is doing + it has been burried somewhere as OS-level app.

Then of course, there's this problem that on Android they want to hide files from you and that the whole experience is optimized to keep you on the screen.

And so on...

I don't like my mobile phone UI at all!
It is against Amazon's api terms of service to do price comparison.

And they will cut you off, no questions asked, for violating that.
Prop. 24 will allow Californians to regain privacy rights
Request back off / retries, any sort of simulation, various load balancing algorithms, randomized algorithms, fuzzing/testing, ...
It would be more efficient to use a pressure tank half filled with water and use water pump and Pelton turbine for the energy cycling.
> It would be a good idea to present stronger evidence before saying HN is astroturfable.

What? You do realize anyone can create HN accounts to post any link and comment on any discussion, right?

Even if you argue that there are magical ex post facto measures to tackle obvious and rampant abuse, you do understand that the system is indeed vulnerable to astroturfers right in its very design, don't you?
It is important to remember in these censorship discussions that it has never in human history been so easy and cheap to create content seen by millions of people than it is right now. Before the web if you wanted to spread medical misinformation widely you probably needed millions of dollars to promote and distribute your ideas yourself. In that sense you were much more censored in the past than you are today even if all the social media companies ban you.
Row Scrolling for Parallax Effects
I'm convinced that the bots will soon do better than humans on image recognition.

With speech recognition, humans have shown worse performance with completely random words and letters, and this was about at least a decade ago when the tech was worse. For example, a bot would likely identify DBDBBDD in speech better than a human.
That’s what my SSD says on the tin, but in practice my PC completely freezes during multi GB downloads, and looking at the charts SSD or it’s drivers appear to be the bottleneck here
Thanks to your website, I got my Sage coffee machine for 250 euros less than what is sold in local stores and at least 100 euros less that the average price.
Thank you for your work.
Some would say Monte Carlo methods, but I'd disagree. If the results are reliant on your RNG method I would not settle for less than crypto strength (and methods like ChaCha20 can generate random data at 4GB+ per core per second on a modern CPU).

There is a time and place for non-CS rngs, and it is in randomized methods whos correctness/results does not rely on the RNG.
Back in the early 2000s I had the idea for a desktop OS where the local apps were all just http servers, and every OS “window” just a “browser”.

My original idea involved a custom markup ui language akin to WPF because at the time HTML was not nearly as up to the task. HTML could probably handle it today.

Between Electron, WebOS and ChromeOS some of the ideas have been tried but not to as high of a degree.
I just noticed today that an item on Amazon had a little notice that said something like, "This is the lowest price in the past month." Not the same as CCC, and the statement could be true even if the price didn't change all month, but I found it interesting.
Huh, that's some scary sci-fi to me. Firing me for that would be a very very quick win at the court for me here.
20+ accounts is pretty small potatos for a content marketer.
Personal opinion: Naval is one of the most insufferable personalities on twitter, it's just vain quotes and other empty statements with vague meanings
You are essentially arguing, your preferred side should be allowed to perpetuate hoaxes, not your opponents.
Yes, if they didn't recommend the video, if it could only be found through search, there wouldn't be any issue with it.

Though even with search, if the search algorithms are biased, and prioritize things in a way that could be argued to be recommendation, like personalized results based on what it thinks you'll like for the given keywords, you could say that's also a problem, which is why I mentioned Google Search.

To put it another way, you'd expect that the easiest content to find and discover, and thus be shown and recommended would also be the most commonly held opinion and current scientific consensus. But you'd also want representation for less commonly held opinions and scientific hypothesis and claims. Just that, if 1 scientist is pushing some wildly different idea, and 99 others are pushing the same idea, you'd expect that the idea pushed by 99 scientist would be the easiest to come around and that it be clear that it is weighted to 99%, while the other would be a little harder to come around and it be clear that it's weighted to 1%.

The issue is those platforms fail heavily to represent things proportionally as such. Often, the outlying wild claim will be recommended more heavily, and be promoted over others. Even without algorithms, the people pushing wild claims generally employ amplification tactics by spamming and posting multiple times over and over, etc. to falsely boost their representation.

So that's the problem I see here. Banning the more problematic instances of this is their poor solution to keep their platforms operating in a way that doesn't offer proper representation (because it makes more money), but avoid the extreme cases that could put them in hot water.
If you want it to just work, stay away from those cutting edge distros stick to Linux' Windows: Ubuntu LTS.

Its boring, but like Windows, that's precisely why it works out of the box.
For "Arc4Random" it says "Reproducible Results: Not Always".

Can an algorithm really produce a non-reproducible result?
I do see the 1Gbit speeds. But what I meant with my comment is to say that 5G May expose other issues with the H/W or software. It’s possible that iPhones would be tuned for it, but other manufacturers or maybe even other apps may hit the limits before fully profiting from the high speeds.
Learn and be curious ;)
All well and good, but going from there to being okay with the state of things as demonstrated by this clear example is a bridge too far. Not saying you’re okay with it but I think there’s a big difference between enforcing community standards for communication decency and this blatant political censorship. They don’t even try to hide it anymore.
Hasn't Apple been a major adopter of/contributor to CUPS?
Or right now, patience into just getting the damn thing. I just got a new power supply after a couple months of waiting by setting the Amazon price to under $500 and making sure the CCC emails trigger alerts on my phone.
Seems like you could fix that by not relying on what hiring managers think and say, since neither of those necessarily correspond to what they actually choose to hire. After all, no hiring manager will admit to discriminating on race, age, caste, etc... But all of those have been newsworthy factors in the recent past.
He asked about Desktop OS, but I actually spend say least half of my desktop time inside of the browser.

And the browser is its own OS in many ways.

I think that Portals are one of the interesting new developments in the web "operating system".

Personally I think the desktop is only going to be "cool" for another 5-10 years.

Because I think that the XR chip(s) are good enough now for very good augmented/mixed reality. We are waiting on some type of glasses that are closer to normal glasses, lighter weight than VR headsets. That do not cause eyestrain and just look almost like normal glasses.

But to get back to the web. Eventually we will see the web and desktop systems start to integrate and merge back together. As this happens there will be more interactions between desktop applications such as hyperlinks and embedding being more common.

You may also see very convenient but intrusive AI activity. Such as monitoring what's on the screen to give suggestions for applications or configuration or whatever else.
You can always 'showdead' on your HN preferences.
Situations where there is no cryptographic issue in sight and random number generation is a bottleneck. Graphics and simulations in games, for example
Database of active/inactive phishing links
Just to keep things in perspective, $200/month is already the median income of some places.