skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They'd go mask off eventually. Much easier when it's hundreds of small influential 'thought leaders' and other high volume conversation. No on asks twice.

Surprised they went for such a high profile piece (Not that NY Post is high profile, but the accusations are significant and the places that would run such an anti-Biden piece are getting thinner).

And I say that not giving a shit who wins the US election but as someone worried about these unchecked and extremely powerful censorship power we're giving these big firms. The trendline has been very apparent to anyone paying attention, and its not even classically partisan but certainly of a certain ideology.
Simultaneously, we were forced to deal with a board member who was beyond counterproductive. After we bought him out fully in 2019, I sent this feedback email detailing the ways in which he had disrupted our board and company.

The former CEO should take down the feedback email, as he is exposing himself and others to legal liability.

He is not the only one who has had to deal with toxic investors who sit on startup boards. It's driven many good people away from companies they've founded. Sometimes the toxic board members are not newbies, either - they're supposed pros. Not sure what sort of due diligence can sniff these jerks out before they join the board, and maybe it's not even possible to turn them away if it's a condition of getting investment.
Japan to release treated water from crippled Fukushima plant into sea
Incredible

'The song is best known under the alternative title "Sukiyaki". In Japan it refers to a Japanese hot-pot dish with cooked beef, the word sukiyaki does not appear in the song's lyrics, nor does it have any connection to them'
If K8S can be made turn-key, it will become possible for some deployments to realize massive cost savings by deploying across clusters of bare metal machines from hosts like OVH, packet.net, datapacket.com, and so on. The cost of bandwidth and processing power is just so much lower.

The only remaining headache would be database. Setting up reliable mission-critical HA Postgres is kind of a pain, and it's nice to not have to worry about it. If that can also be canned, then this kind of rig would be a really compelling alternative to the managed clouds... unless you need other things like S3, etc.
Ha! From the get go I remembered I heard this song in a Studio Ghibli movie, then a google search quickly told that it was on From Up On Puppy Hill :-p. I love the Internet.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sukiyaki+studio+ghibli&t=brave&ia=...
I said communications medium, not infrastructure. Life goes on fine when the internet is down or your phone is disabled, but they're still considered important and necessary.

Facebook and Twitter are just 2 of the biggest with many others like TikTok, Whatsapp, WeChat. It's the size and scope that should be used as a measure of when they cross over into public utility vs private project.
This is the format of almost every mainstream app update now - completely devoid of any useful information. If this is what Apple wanted why even keep it around?
Sounds like the social pressure to smoke weed and binge watch the Gaia channel in Boulder.
Quick lingo...

CRDT: Conflict Free Replicated Data Type. A kind of data structure and synchronization approach whereby beplicas can be updated independently and concurrently without typical coordination. Can be good for distributed collaborative real time editing, and/or syncing live data among machines.

State-based replication: send all CRDT state to each replica; no need to send operations. Typically good when state is small relative to operations, and/or when communications are unreliable. A.k.a. CvRDT, convergent replicated data types.

Operation-based replication: send all CRDT operations to each replica; no need to send state. Typically good when state is large relative to operations, and/or when communications are reliable. A.k.a. CmRDT, commutative replicated data types.
I think the term “halo effect” could’ve been referenced in there in several places. When someone is good (or successful) at one thing we assume them to be good at many other things.

(Interesting article though.)
Leaving aside the fact whether a blacksmith represents a specialist trade; in my post I specifically alluded to a /more/ specialist blacksmith which /only/ made spoons as an illustration of extreme specialization, I believe that my point still stands — that, I challenge your three assertions:

1) Specialization leads to more autonomy

2) Extreme specialization is as "old as civilization"

3) Extreme specialization leading directly to prosperity as an idea is older than the 18th century

On 1) I don’t see any further arguments on your side; so I assume that you have no qualms with such a correction. On 2) I believe that I’ve adequately addressed your concerns — I acknowledge /Plato/ specifically in my reply as shown in your link and my critique on "Ancient theories" is covered in a previous post. The last point overlaps with the 2nd point and I have found no criticisms to the contrary in your answers.

On semantics and pendantry of terms I’m disinterested — we could debate all day and I could argue that the very term "Division of Labour" originated in Adam Smith’s work [1] and therefore isn’t the same as specialization. Such a debate would neither be useful nor productive.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/division%20of%20l...
I am also a developer in the Silicon Valley and I agree with everything you said 100%. It is a lonely place to be if you are not greedy.
I also had no luck with a number of classical pieces that are commonly recognizable. I had about 50% luck with random pop songs.
That sounds like it's still coercion...
Look at how the Soviet Union functioned. You got a government salary as long as you looked the other way and pretended that obvious lies were the truth.

Works for a while, not forever.
"Ei wrote the lyrics while walking home from a Japanese student demonstration protesting against a continued US military presence in the country, expressing his frustration at the failed efforts."

"An instrumental version of the song was played by NASA over the radio for the Gemini VII astronauts as mood music, thereby becoming one of the first pieces of music sent to humans in space."
If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption. And it won't be hard to find. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
Variant of 8 and 13: people overall are actually getting smarter, and more people are figuring out how to communicate more widely. The iceberg of relative stupidity was always there, but now you can see more of it.

See also Eternal September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Armory's (YC W17) Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery
'Long Covid' may affect multiple parts of body and mind, doctors say
In C:

char *x = (char *[]){"foo", "bar"}[y];
I think it will work just like the other Watson projects- people offshore manually working and pretending to be AI.

I don’t think I would ever hire IBM consulting to convert my COBOL to Java, so not sure Watson could do it any better than IBM professional services.
1) Was this Twitter policy new as in the last few days?

2) If not, how did they treat the NYT's Trump tax papers ( clearly hacked from some sources, since it was not revealed). For all one knows, at the time of release, it could have been fake?

3) Does twitter/FB have processes to identify hacked material?

For these reasons, @jack's explanation is not being accepted.
Or even better, stick it up at google.com, zero install, zero update, zero app etc.
Probably where I learned it!
Same as it always was. My Trump supporting uncle on facebook was just a Pat Buchnnan supporting uncle at a bar.
I'm very excited to see where we'll be in another 10 years. The possibilities in terms of medical and industrial applications seems hard to overstate.

Related, but one of the best talks I've ever seen was this 2018 talk on the subject. It gets into how organisms seem to have bioelectrical patterns that store information separately from genomic, anatomical states. These bioelectrical patterns play a huge role in developmental processes, as they appear to control how the organism is structured at a high level. As a layman and a programmer, to me it sounds like the genome is the actual implementation of a function and the bioelectrical pattern is the sequence of functions you want to execute. They're able to manipulate these bioelectrical patterns to do things like replace a worms tail with another head. It's absolutely crazy to think about what could be possible here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg&t=0s&index=6&lis...
Thanks for the responses and pointing me in the right direction, I'm super excited about this project and I love the tools your company builds.
Of course you're right in a logical or philosophical sense, but in a political sense it certainly does. If the emails were fake, it would be politically insane not to say so. The Biden campaign can easily find this out from Hunter, so the fact that they haven't said it means either that (1) the emails are authentic (though they may still have been altered), or (2) something else is going on that we don't know about and is unusual.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.

I used to be outwardly and loudly critical of the system and people supporting it, but that got me nowhere, just isolated.
When I stopped all criticism and just started aligning my life how I would like others to live, I finally started to get somewhere.
Show HN: Dhaxle – Platform of remote project management
Just wait until dang comes and censors you for inciting a flame war about free speech.

(Just kidding dang, please don’t ban me. I’m just salty about previous incidents.)
While I agree, eating a psychedelic mushroom is really not as bad as a lot of the other stuff we are coerced into doing.
> Even if that scenario is true, there is zero evidence to corroborate it,

I'm not saying that there is.

That's just my understanding of Twitter's reasoning, not a defense of them or anyone else.

Don't shoot the messenger, eh?
> The tweet, in case readers thought it too subtle, contained a photograph of Tsai alongside the bellicose text. Given that any war involving Taiwan and mainland China will likely begin with an attempt to kill Tsai Ing-Wen and other senior leadership, “wipe out” should not be taken to be a mistranslation or a literary term of art.

> It means what you think it does. And Tsai Ing-Wen has a Twitter account. The tweet is, as of the writing of this post, still up. Why? Because Twitter has a significant problem applying rules and interaction norms initially developed for interpersonal conflicts between users to institutional actors (such as loosely state-controlled press entities like the Global Times) and/or individuals representing institutions (like President Tsai Ing-Wen). So a threat from one user (acting as a proxy of a government) against another individual user (the President of another government) is difficult for Twitter.

> Like it or not, conditional threats of physical harm are a part of international politics. During the Gulf War, for one, the United States threatened to execute a nuclear strike and “eliminate” Iraqi leadership if Baghdad deployed chemical weapons. And if Tsai had some means of physically threatening the personal safety of Chinese leader Xi Xingping to deter Chinese invasion of Taiwan, she would absolutely be remiss in not using all of the means at her disposal – Twitter included – to publicly communicate that he would be harmed if Beijing dared to put a single rifleman on Taiwanese beaches.

> Twitter is banned in China, but Chinese diplomats have accounts. And if Xi operated an account and Tsai made a vague but nonetheless firm threat to physically harm him if war should break out, should she be penalized?

The author doesn't intend to answer their own question. If you believe violent speech is acceptable between nations but unacceptable with individuals, what do you do when individuals represent nations?

And how does any nationally-based company go on to facilitate international discussion?
>Harassment

That is not regulated in the capacity of speech.

>yelling "fire" in a crowded theater

That line is from a 1919 court case about whether you could oppose the draft.

>calling for literal violence against others

This is permitted under Brandenburg v. Ohio. Calls to illegal action are only prohibited if they are (1) intended to cause illegal action, (2) reasonably likely to produce such action and (3) imminent.
The world you propose gives more power to large site operators, not less, because they're the only ones that could possibly afford the requisite moderation resources. The world you propose does not have functional real-time public communication, because nobody could risk the liability of allowing the posting of content they haven't checked yet. The world you propose is one in which nobody could take the risk of running a community online. The world you propose is one in which the site you're making this comment on cannot exist in a functional way. The world you propose has more governmental restraint on speech, not less; that restraint comes in the form of "we're not actually telling you that you can't administrate your site, but if do something we don't like, we'll just stand back and let you get prosecuted out of existence for the actions of your users". That's just regulation of speech by an indirect means.

> The ask of companies under section 230 is that they be allowed to publish

No. "publish" is a distortion promoted by people trying to use the repeal of Section 230 as a weapon. To the extent liability should exist for speech at all, companies should absolutely be liable for what they publish. They should not be liable for what their users publish. Without that distinction, the Internet cannot exist as a medium for any kind of user-generated content. Centralized services providing curated content would fare just fine, but anything that allows users to interact or contribute would die.

> The question is, what do we get back for allowing them that privilege?

A functional Internet. Websites that contains content supplied by others, that aren't "anything goes" cesspools. An Internet that helps people interact in a read-write manner, not just consume content in a read-only manner.
A home office sounds a lot cheaper then a place close enough to the office to reasonably commute every day to me. Spending an hour or two commuting 1 or 2 times a week is manageable, but 5 times is not.
I think it scales because, at a larger company, everyone isn't realistically going to get together anyway. So you get together in groups of various sizes. (And there are usually opportunities to get together with an even larger cross-section at things like user conferences.)
Google publie les premières images OTA et d'usine pour Pixel 4a 5G et Pixel 5
Amidst all this chatter, the deafening silence regarding the veracity of that NYP article.

Knowing the facts would really put this discussion in focus: preventing spread of misinformation vs censorship.
second this, twitter's bias did not start with the recent one, it has been a while, quite a while.

facebook is no better, google search no better either.

someone should be locked up, to avoid further tensions between two sides and who knows, maybe civil war or something alike. People can die because of its biased censorship.
I'm thankful for that "feedback email", whoever that guy was, he either has a serious case of the Dunning–Kruger effect going on or he deliberately behaved that way to extract money out of a startup by being a total resource vampire for the group; like it was a strategy. Maybe that's how a certain number of VCs actually operate? They're just grifters all the way down.
There's a great article that explains how to use math to address the issue you metion: https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/photoshop-computes-color... Thankfully using interpreted languages has the added benefit of usually handling numbers better, so converting between color spaces is pretty painless.

Professionally I've handled things more conservatively. Monitors with deep color support are only now being more popular. Most server side tech seems support traditional color depth best. Now is the time to start thinking about deeper color images on by default, webp is great, and support has only recently became mainstream on iOS14.
MDMA can be a shockingly mind-altering drug for some people, and usually in what they self-report as a good way.

I've heard many personal accounts of single-dose MDMA transformations of an intensely powerful and lasting nature. One friend once compared it to the mystical idea of "walk-ins," souls that take over the bodies of people who have lost the will to live. This person said they walked into a club as one person, took MDMA, and walked out feeling as if a different soul now inhabited their body with an entirely different personality and emotional structure. The change was permanent. Luckily it was almost entirely positive. The "new person" was more sociable, compassionate, outgoing, and optimistic. The person who told me this story used MDMA only a few more times, and none of these subsequent uses produced anywhere near the same experience. It sounded like some kind of one-shot neurological rewiring.

The stuff I've heard about MDMA is far more dramatic and lasting than the transformative psychedelic stories about LSD, psilocybin, etc. that I've heard and read.

BTW I said the transformation is usually positive because while I haven't closely known anyone with a horror story I have seen a few from a distance. MDMA is not strongly physically addictive, but it can be psychologically so. The negative cases I've seen seem to involve the development of a psychological dependence causing heavy use. MDMA can be neurotoxic if taken repeatedly and heavily, and heavy long-term use can be very damaging.

It's a drug that I think could be beneficial if used with care but can be very dangerous to abuse. The radical transformation stories make me really wish it were studied more. We should really try to understand what the hell is going on there.
I just tried to post and I get the message: "Something went wrong, but don’t fret — it’s not your fault."
What nyp article are you referencing?
What I find most shocking about this, was that they banned the Press Secretary to the White House's Twitter account - That's the part I cannot get my head around.
I’ve discovered it’s really good at identifying classical piano music as you play it live
I'm about 95% certain this article was written with GPT or some similar algorithm. I don't have clear evidence for this other than that personal experience writing code that utilized the API looking at the outputs it gives on the playground defaults extensively. This looks exactly like what GPT output looks like to my eyes. If I'm wrong I apologize for the insult but the article doesn't appear very cohesive or coherent in my opinion and immediately jumps out as being written by GPT.

The other articles on the website it should be noted, are written in a style that looks very different from the style of this article.
An autoformatter will ruin the way you laid it out and make it look awful.
Am I seeing the same thing as you? Below is a CnP from the start of what I see when I follow the link. It's absolute rubbish. This is an experiment.

------------------ 8< ----------------------------------
"We live in times of great disaggregation, and yet, seem to learn increasingly from generalists.

In the past, an expert in one field of Psychology might have been forced to teach a broad survey class. Today, you could have each lecture delivered by the world’s leading expert.

Outside of academia, you might follow one writer’s account to learn about SaaS pricing, another to understand the intricacies of the electoral college, and yet another to understand personal finance. In economic terms, content disaggregation enabled by digital platforms ought to create efficienciencies through intellectual hyper-specialization."
> cynicism is a way for less intelligent people to protect themselves from being taken advantage of. Basically, if you know you're not smart enough

I think "know[ing] you're not smart enough" inherently excludes you from belonging in the category of "less intelligent people".

One of the most defining characteristics of stupid people is that they think they're smart.
I too wonder about the equilibrium. I have heard that SF rents are down 20%, Which is probably understating the issue because many landlords opt for vacancy over lower prices (due to how loans work and the difficulty of raising once started).
Word of mouth has moved into platforms such as next door and moms groups on Facebook. Literally closed circles and small communities with vested trust. I agree with your point to a certain extent.
The app's UI is consistent across all platforms. Such delightful colours and design. What an impressive execution!

GP, I'm curious about the frontend stack as well.
Why does HN continually talk about technology that's decades old yet we have no proof that it works.

Has Watson ever done anything? Is it used anywhere? I don't want a PR puff piece. Don't want theories. Don't want, I used it for a week. I don;t want to know what you claim it can do.

I want an article or youtube from an independent person who's used it in the field for a year and confirms it works at all.

How about we start there.

And FYI Watson cheated at Jeopardy. It couldn't even do that properly.
This is of course a kind of a toy counterexample. But still, it does seem to illustrate the fundamental problem with a lot of ML-based solutions:

"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should"

I mean yeah - it is kind of neat (and interesting, in a fundamental way) that we can just "throw" a learning algorithm at an ever more, and ever broadening class of problems. But from a basic engineering perspective - it doesn't mean you want to. For a whole bunch of obvious reasons.

Then again, if your company leadership has gurgled the kool-aid, and decided that "our customers want an AI solution, because it's like, new and shiny" ...
Interesting all around but I found the beef part hilarious
https://sci-hub.st/downloads/2020-10-06/8f/10.1016@j.ijhyden...
And if marriage is made illegal, only outlaws will have in-laws.
Best Buy is not one of only two players in the market, or require a years long commitment to shopping there, or stop you from walking out and buying somewhere else, or operates under commission. There is very little truth in this analogy.
>The article never really speaks about them being opposed to one and not the other.

"The history of anti-slavery patrolling is at the essence of what made a Krooman a Krooman."

Right.
“The mission we serve as Twitter, Inc. is to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers. Our business and revenue will always follow that mission in ways that improve – and do not detract from – a free and global conversation.”
I spent so much time trying to figure out what the "right" way was to make a Zettelkasten when I first heard about it years and years ago. I don't think this was available at the time, and there were very few examples of a Zettelkasten online, too.

Now, seeing the original, I... still don't know the right way to operate a system like this. Instead I took the core concept of keeping notes as atomic as possible and use that with linking as many notes as possible together to form new ideas. And that's it. I don't worry with weird file names or the "correct" way that things should be linked together. Obsidian.md has been a great help with that, but any Wiki software will do the trick.

I'm glad I'm free of the old mentality I had. I spent 95% of my time trying to figure out the perfect system and how to operate it rather than writing. Now I just write.
Some people expressed horror over previous NY Post links, and I didn't have a different one handy.