skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue is the question of moderation - it's really trivial to throw up a discussion board on the web, but moderating that discussion board is where things get hairy since everyone wants to keep out the trolls but it can be hard to tell a legitimately fraudulent review from one a company claims is fraudulent - and there are extremely strong incentives to always believe the company since they've got the money.

I think the heart of the issue is that something like glassdoor gets corrupted like this then a bunch of tech folks say "Forums, forums are easy and CHEAP!" go out and roll their own - maybe a few make it big and start having to police traffic once the trolls discover them... at that point they discover that the message board portion of their product is trivial and cheap but what actually costs is the moderation of that... then the costs begin to pile up and they make some deals with some of the better actors among companies to let them subsidize policiing their own reviews and it gets normalized and then the system collapses.

Moderating things is hard.
Both are good. They're doing both. Might as well talk about both.
I lost my Google account too.

One day they just stopped letting me log in.

They show me a text saying that to log in, I have to give them my phone number. Well, I don't want to give my phone number to Google. When I signed up, it was not stated anywhere that one day they might hold all my data randsom and blackmail me to give them my phone number.
On my thermally-limited laptop, aes-128-ctr runs at over 9 GB/s. If pure speed is the goal, then AES-NI is faster than the fastest PRNG. Seek to a deterministic point by advancing the counter. Choose random seed with a fresh key. What more could you want? ("portable speed!")

You can eek out another 10% or so if you dial it back to the recommendations of the "too much crypto" paper:
9x AES rounds (versus 10).

https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492
I heard that Yelp lets you pay to have bad reviews sorted towards the bottom. I recently listened to a podcast episode [0], where the CEO claimed that is not true. Would be interested in evidence on either side.

[0] - https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/918845338/how-i-built-resilie...
As a not-that-old-but-still-grizzled desktop/embedded developer, I suggest this headline be changed to:

"Waypoint: Build, deploy, and release _web_ applications across any _cloud_ platform"
Is anyone surprised though? This has been the Google status quo for over a decade now, and there is no indication of intention to change, ever.
Please mention a brief description of what it is, in the title line. @dang
This response shows the quality of your discourse: quickly declare victory and walk away. Would have been great to know even a single specific issue you have with Taibbi.
To add to this, is cutting load time to one second (or half a second) going to impact the efficacy of the chatbox compared with doubling, tripling that load time?

Certainly there's an upper limit I, as a user, would wait to interact with someone, but load time seems like a pretty non-limiting factor. Since presumably something has pushed me to click this button, I'm going to have to type something into the box that will take more than five seconds to type, and then wait for (hopefully?) a real person to respond, or else play with the chatbot to find the right keywords to redirect me to a real person.

With that, I don't think waiting three to five seconds would hugely impact my experience in the scheme of the conversation that's going to follow it. However - since this is a 3rd party add on to my site, I would certainly appreciate it having a smaller footprint. Can't argue with that.
There's no way to actually create something like call/cc in c so the coroutines can't yield while in a subroutine. It's more like syntactic sugar for for(;;)switch(task){...}
STIR/SHAKEN
Would this not be paired with some kind of law enforcement agency action?
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What does this look like for email? Do we have to trust a particular email account for everything?
People who can get $300k+ jobs at Google are exactly the people who can afford to piss away those jobs
Why is everyone ignoring @jack's official explanation for why Twitter blocked the specific link from being shared? This is the one falsifiable action Twitter clearly took. Twitters official policy is to not allow publication of hacked material or information with Personally Identifying Information - and this material was hacked and had unredacted personal email addresses. I haven't seen any reasonable arguments against these policies, instead I've seen nebulous accusations of biased censorship.

Twitter is clearly okay with the discussion of these emails - no hashtags or keywords are being suppressed: it was a link to a single story that was blocked since it violated stated policy.

Incidentally, the NYT reports that the US intelligence community heard chatter of the GRU using hacked Burisma emails as an October surprise before the NY Post story broke (a trick so nice, they had to do it twice). I guess no one cares for facts anymore, as long as they see patterns that fit their preconceptions
Thought I'd chime in with a recommendation: I bought a "TUL 0.7" (they have other diameters) at home depot and really like it. It has a matte texture with good grip, and overall seems really well built. I've been using it for about 6-7 months.

My one minor complaint is that often when I erase something, I will accidentally and repeatedly "click" and the lead extends out.

It's available on amazon as well.
great project. By the way the team at Automerge is also doing a great job building a Rust version of the library. https://github.com/automerge/automerge-rs
One guy out of 7 billion?

I had exactly one Google account and I lost it - along with all data - too. So for me it is one out of one.

No reason given. They just don't let me log in anymore.
Not clear how you will apply a scientific method to a site that can hide, convince, bribe, censor, etc users so the information you gather is incomplete to have a good analysis. More when people have a short focus span and a scientific method is complex.
Works fine Firefox/Android.
> The movies have forgotten they are fantasy, and come to the conclusion they are Sci-Fi.

You seem to have forgotten that it's entirely possible for "fantasy" to have more complex themes than "evil space wizards vs. good space wizards," or that something must be only one or the other. Star Wars is solidly both, and as far as its sci-fi aesthetic goes, it's more grounded than Star Trek, which runs entirely on nonsensoleum sometimes.

>The worst moment, by far, was in the 2nd of the latest trilogy, when the chinese girl (Rose?) monologues about how the real evil in the world was greedy war profiteers and evil capitalists. ffs.

I mean, the actress is American born, of Vietnamese descent, but sure, Chinese is basically the same thing, right?

And that was one of the best themes of the Last Jedi. Of course there would be war profiteers - we already know this because the OT gave us Mos Eisley and Jabba the Hutt and bounty hunters. "greedy war profiteers and evil capitalists" aren't at all unknown to the franchise. The problem here is this sudden dump of complexity should have been a throughline with Rose for the entire trilogy. It certainly would have been better than "This time the Empire is even more fascist and the Death Star is huge."

>This is a universe in which the more powerful faction outwardly identifies itself as the Dark Side, fueled by the power of Hatred, and known for destroying planets at a time.

The "faction" doesn't identify itself as the Dark Side. It identifies itself as the Sith. the Dark Side and Light Side are aspects of the Force, like yin and yang (in fact, probably exactly like that since so many elements of SW mysticism are Zen Buddhism with the serial numbers worn off.)

Also the Sith and the Dark Side weren't known for "destroying planets at a time." The Death Star was built by the Empire, and yes, while Palpatine turned out to be a Sith (as a retcon) they even made a point of having Darth Vader point out how insignificant the "technological terror" of the Death Star was compared to the Force - not the Dark Side specifically, but the Force in its entirety.

>(although the real worst part was, surprise, 100,000 star destroyers, all of which can destroy planets)

Yeah, that was stupid.

But Rose wasn't, she was just badly misused as a character.
One of my hopes for the next ten years is that we normalize collecting and graphing of telemetry data over time, for things like binary size, disk space, memory usage, and network bandwidth.

We are fairly good at tracking feature regressions, but it's always only a couple voices calling for tracking these metrics, which are a part of the cost of doing business, one that we often have control over. We shouldn't have to wait for a major event to start looking at these sorts of things.
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> "Through this quick article, you'll understand which company offers the fastest live chat solution for website."

They spread the Shamwow thick and early in this advert-o-blog don't they?
For all I know the laptop could have been teleported by aliens into Rudy's greasy ass.
Still would be irrelevant on the merit of any of the facts.
I can't see in the ToC https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...
> But Netflix for example can't piss off the movie companies or they risk losing their catalog

More than that, Netflix needs your eyes on their service, as opposed to the (dozen?) other competing, equally shoddy services. What you watch makes no difference to their bottom line... the only thing that matters is that you don't see a bad review on Netflix and switch to another streaming service (because if you do that too often, you might decide to remove Netflix from your list of $10/month services).
Do you pay them or any of their subsidiaries for anything?

I have cell service on Google Fi. Long, painful (still-ongoing) story short, they shipped me a Pixel 4a that had no cell service. I went back and forth with support for ten days. Then they shipped me a replacement phone. I confirmed my current address. They sent me a shipping notification for my current address. FedEx ended up delivering the package, no signature required, to a town I used to live in five years ago. I double checked and my current address is the only one on the account.

Going back and forth with support has been useless. I paid for a phone that doesn't work, and I'm being charged for service that I can't use. My last recourse is to refute the payments with my CC company....but that also seems like the quickest way to get my entire Google/YT/Google Fi account locked up because it's all tied together.
Obviously quite a big COI at play, but felt like I should post it regardless.
Ask HN: Why AI and Data Science projects have a high risk of failure?
He worked at Google. Look at his most recent tweets.
Maybe you'll find it interesting, I don't know, but it looks like some numbers show that the average age of people who died with COVID-19, in England and Wales (I've heard similar numbers for Scotland and Denmark), are higher than the average life expectancy in those countries:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8821113/The-avera...

Does this suggest that getting COVID-19 increase your risk of getting older than average? Well, both yes and no, I guess. The numbers says so, but logic does not. My point is, a topic like COVID-19 death toll has become so hot that it's almost impossible to find credible information on what's up and down. We need to have more talks, more science, more data, more reason, openly, about what is going on. And we need them from reliable sources. Nature is cutting themselves out of this loop when they post something so one-sided as this article.
Thanks for reminding about that. Seems like a no brainer to me that they should extend it. Google has so many tools that I depend on that I will happily pay extra for them in such plans.
lol , 7 billion is way too high of an estimate of people actually using their free services to store valuable information.

I would say closer to 70 million
I used to believe in raw merit/good ideas. I still believe they're good, but not that they're particularly effective in dealing with most people.
Only if they took off from ground level.
Honestly Google can't entertain the requests of every single U.S. Senator. They'd spend literally hours on unpaid support every year.
Yep. Nothing more I hate than seeing crisp or tawk or whatever other bullshit "ENGAGEMENT GROWTH HACKING" ding noise.
An "October surprise". A time-honored tradition in US presidential elections. Done by both sides. In the past, covered by all major news outlets.

Now if Twitter wants to not allow tweeting of October surprises, I suppose that's their business. But if so, block it for both sides.

I also think it's totally counterproductive for them to (try to) do so. Block links to the NY Post article? Great, but then what? Block links to the BBC article? To the HN discussion? To every random blogger who writes up a post about it, with links to the BBC article, the NY Post article, and the HN discussion? Twitter might be able to stay on top of that, but it's going to be hard, it's going to leak, and it's going to look really bad. It's going to give the story far more legs than it otherwise would have had (Streisand effect). It's going to spawn a whole bunch of new conspiracy theories, with Twitter as part of the bad guys. The net effect of all this is not going to be what Twitter wants...
For a company that made $180 billion in revenue, $16 million is only .009%. I'm not denying that lobbying is effective, but there's clearly a limit.

There are probably thousands of individual government regulations that each could cost AT&T more than $16 million per year. If lobbying was as powerful as some think, why don't they lobby even more?
I tried to set up sftp via strongdm hoping it will work since sftp is using ssh, but I failed. It just did not connect
If this is hacked emails, doesn’t that prove the article is credible?
Not a good look for the founder of interviewing.io: "I’ve been coding for a pretty long time. Since 1982, actually. There’s no data structure called 'a grouping' in any language I’ve ever used. So what assumptions are you going to make about the problem?"

But--there's absolutely a data interface in C#/.Net called "a grouping". It's fundamental to LINQ: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.igro...

Shameful to spread the idea that software developers haven't created an industry-standard interface for groupings of enumerable data in 2020.
I wonder how difficult it would be to synthesize the sound instead of loading it from a file. :+ )
I've been wanting to migrate off Gmail since Snowden, but never looked closer. I need to get on that.
Yea, there's usually two general types of writers, and they can be on a teeter totter so to speak:

Those that outline and plan ahead of time using the outline

Those that write the story as they write

Sanderson is very much an outliner, I think GRRM is more a it'll come together as I write it kind of person. He probably has some sort of plan, but it isn't as fine tuned as Sanderson's I suspect. Sanderson does multiple drafts as well, which works with how I write. My first draft may be complete trash, but getting it on paper helps me a lot in at least getting the ideas out and then I can fine tune or start over if I'm not happy at all.

But yes, I think Sanderson is very much a "I write regardless and I'll refine it over time" type of person and doesn't agonize over the little details until it's time to actually do that.
I'll just add that Rayiner's politics are extremely similar to mine (we identify with different parties but have an almost identical set of positions), so your "politics" rebuttal is not the persuasive mic drop you're hoping for.

I'm not debating Taibbi with you because we don't share premises, so there's no point. You can feel free to declare victory to those who share your own premises!
Unfortunately Protonmail is not good for long term mail storage. Their web mail app has hardly improved in years, and it is abysmal in terms of search and handling thousands of emails. If you depend on PM, you may find some years later that your emails are trapped and incredibly difficult to access except painfully individually, with much manual effort.
Because it costs more than a few dollars a month. The net cost to users for Google is zero (or a token amount) because Google makes their money from data mining and selling your meta data.
Driverless cars are going to be much better than driverful cars in cities since they follow the rules and behave predictably. But I do wish cities would get on board with the clear win of reducing the need for cars. SF is small enough that you could get anywhere pretty easily with an electric-assist bike if only there were sufficiently safe infrastructure. Combine that with better transit, and most people never need to use a car for daily life.
Probably just one persons side hustle while they're on fire watch at work.

But then again they could be a foot soldier for an appropriately compartmentalized consortium.
>You’re not being asked to trust the author’s synthesis of a bunch of facts. You can check the underlying links yourself.

This argument doesn't work in this specific instance because for most of the items on the list the only links are to other articles by The Federalist.
Indeed. One of the reasons why Germany didn't renazify after WWII is because the German government criminalized Nazi ideology almost immediately.

Our common, absolutist interpretation of the First Amendment dates only to the Brandenburg v. Ohio ruling in 1969. If we didn't have conservative presidents unbalancing the Supreme Court with ultra-conservative justices, we might have a Supreme Court willing to re-evaluate the First Amendment's applicability in light of widespread hate speech. But alas, this Is Trump's America...
It could be, and it is possible they are not allowed to inform you of that.
This reminds me, is there going to be a Black Mirror season 6?
Hmm... crawl archive.org?
Use your own domain.

Use fastmail for email: it's best of breed outside of gmail. (This isn't damning with faint praise; it's quite good. Just not as good as gmail).

Use Arq for backup from your devices into google cloud storage or aws s3.
There was a story a while back where someone had Google One, had their account disabled, and couldn't use Google One's support because they needed a Google Account (that was disabled).
I keep my stuff on one drive, I find it better than gdrive. I think it's harder to google than MS to delete my stuff out nothing.
Curious if you are familiar with Habitat (https://community.chef.io/products/chef-habitat/) and how this compares?
Being proud of your work isn't Shamwow, it comes naturally when you actually like the thing you made.
Hi! The page seems to load and the content flashes on for a second and then screen goes all white.

I don’t know what i can do to debug for you apart from mentioning i’m right now using iphone 7 , safari and ios 13.6.1
due lack of clear and measurable success criteria
If anyone has a Google account, you need to Takeout regularly.

https://takeout.google.com
The name Lookuq came from "look up" and should have the same meaning. But the domain lookup.com is not available. So we just switched the last character from "p" to "q" to have the domain. We pronounce Lookuq as "look up".
The Good Old 6502 Microprocessor, but 7000X Bigger
Synology also allows you to run your own mail server, with a web app similar to Gmail, if you want to go down that rabbit hole (MailPlus/MailPlus Server).
I've been slowly trying to decouple myself from google in the last few years (/decades) ... but I have stuff that goes back at least 2 decades that I have been lazy / hesitant, e.g. contacts on the phone (since I doubt I would have the necessary patience to import / export / sync contacts manually anymore).

But ... seeing this kind of thing, I need to reconsider and at least keep a monthly backup or something ... as far as you know, it's not even going to be your fault when you get locked out, so you shouldn't assume it just won't happen to you.
1. Open any site.

2. Click on menu option at the top right of your browser.

3. Add to home screen (select open as window)
I don't understand how to read into P/E ratios. Wouldn't a low ratio imply both a lack of investment by the company in itself and a lack of confidence by investors in long term prospects?
What compels you to chase yield?

How do you make the case that the risk (probability of loss multiplied by magnitude of loss) doesn't exceed the expected yield?

I think hedge fund manager in original title is saying he's uncomfortable with the risk/yield equation right now.
Maybe that action is to be ensued later as part of the investigation.

Google banning accounts stories is usually a one-sided thing. Who knows if Google had a very good reason to ban his account.
I agree that there are lots of problems and too much complexity in blockchain-based systems. But it's important to note that there is a real problem that Filecoin is trying to solve.

Censorship absolutely exists in file storage. Just blocking access to a website could be considered an example of this. Torrents are one solution, but normal people don't want to set up servers to stay on for people to be able to get their files. And there's no standardized way to have someone else seed a torrent for you in exchange for money.

IPFS is basically a giant, distributed file server. Also, it uses libp2p under the hood, similar to torrents. However, it has an incentives problem. Why would other people offer you storage on their devices?

So that's the problem, and Filecoin claims to have a solution. I personally think there's too much complexity in the interface right now for people to prefer it over S3.
Nothing in that link provides any evidence that KR is a white supremacist.
It's incredibly Kafka-eqsue that you get banned for a supposed violation that you're supposed to appeal, but you don't know what you're being accused of doing.

This is exacerbated by the fact that 9 out of 10 times a story like this appears it's an algorithm gone rogue which its billion-dollar shepherd assumes is infallible.

The remaining 1 time it's because someone knows how to abuse reporting systems to get someone locked out on purpose.

The only reason these tech companies managed to get so big is because they'll cheat at anything that requires human scale. Support, moderation, taking responsibility for the content they host. They somehow managed to skirt on that just as the web was transitioning from a wild west to a somewhat ingrained, regulated place and the world is worse off for it.

Because they skirted on all this, they are now somehow the world's gatekeepers on modern communications. If you don't play ball with them, you're cut off from almost everyone. Their recklessness and callousness ironically put them in the position to rule over the rest.
"Good luck using a better ad platform with no users to target your ads to".

That might be true for huge advertisers trying to reach mass-market audiences.

For smaller businesses operating in niche markets, it is plausible that you can get better returns through other promotional channels that appeal directly to those markets, without needing all the nasty tracking or dubiously effective targeting that come with the likes of Facebook and Google. The idea that you "have to" advertise on the big, generic networks because that's "where all your potential customers are" is well out of date, at least in our experience.
I would lose my mind if this happened to me. Can't imagine how frustrating this would end up being.