skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice CV by the way :-). I encourage you to join the Sydney FP meetup - https://www.meetup.com/FP-Syd/. Yes it's the other side of the world, but it's now online of course, and the people that attend are top notch in terms of knowledge, skills, connections etc. The sort of people who write their own languages, or play with FGPA's for a bit of fun etc. Some work for trading companies. And they are friendly, so they may have some ideas of companies looking for your skills.
I don't get it. Why is it called an OS? It looks like a web app platform.
Only available on mobile, huh?

Reminds me of Google Translate on photos/images, which has been available for years on mobile but never on web.

I hope this doesn't become a trend.
> or you want to forbid them from moderating

The goal would be to put significant, very large restictions on their ability to moderate.

> There are already forums with “zero” moderation

How about we look at other examples of communication platforms, that are working perfectly fine.

Just take a look at the phone network, or ISPs.

ISPs and phone networks, have very little "moderation" from the parent company, and yet seem to work pretty well, IMO.

Why can't we treat other communication platforms, the same way that we are treating the large and successful communication platform, which is the phone network?
Works for me in the iOS app. Tap the microphone in the search box, then tap Search a Song.
I know nobody asked, but I'm working on making an extension here: https://github.com/JakeTrock/HyperLegible that'll inject this font into the page on page load. It's not done yet due to me being a slow coder(I've never written an extension) and having college, but I hope to finish it over the weekend
FTA: "Popularity is fungible."

Yes, and so is affinity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24785322
Because they weren't private messages. Private messages are between two parties. Instead, these were messages on a platform which is owned by Twitter between two users where these users have agreed to restrictions. You can read about those restrictions here:

https://twitter.com/en/tos

HN is no different. I know this because I've been dinged by dang.
I'm also curious on another aspect, as I don't believe "right to free speech" is meant in any way to imply a lack of liability for damages caused by that speech.

If I convince millions of people that Example companies widgets kills kittens, when I have no reason to believe that to be the case, I would be held liable for the damage to the brand.

But the pseudo-anonymous nature of the internet and most platforms, and even trying to avoid problems like the Streisand effect allow damaging speech to avoid consequence.

I'm not advocating for any approach to fix the problem, this is just a curiosity of mine as of late.
> It's means to discredit intelligence

No

> and expertise

Yes

> and replace them with shouting loudly

No

See: Nassim Taleb's IYI (Intellectual Yet Idiot)
Do things like neutral law, rule of law not men, etc. mean something to you? Would you also say that that's nonsense because humans created the law?
Really? I find that very difficult to believe based on the sum of my interactions with police. Maybe they're lying, but most of the people I've spoken to have nothing but negative things to say about the way they've been treated by police.
> If a major fraction of human communication, especially during lockdowns, is facilitated by social networks then they are fulfilling a utility role.

Removing the ability of those sites to moderate will not make them better. (Even if it did by some metric, that still wouldn't be acceptable; what constitutes "better" is entirely up to the site owner to determine. But it's even less reasonable given that it wouldn't have the intended effect, unless the intended effect is to cause harm.) Having many users should not suddenly mean you don't own the site, nor should it mean that you cannot moderate the site as you see fit. "We came up with a new algorithm to automatically detect spam" should not need to come with "and several years later we managed to get the government to say we're allowed to use it without incurring liability".

>> for anything but the most massive sites that could theoretically afford an army of moderators

> Ok, I have not considered this angle and it is indeed concerning.

That angle is why Section 230 was created in the first place, and why it should remain intact.

> That may be the goal of the FCC, but I for one did not say that I am in support of destroying moderation.

Removing the liability shield for sites that moderate will destroy either the site or the moderation, and either way the usefulness of the site comes to an end.

> Quite the opposite, I was thinking how it could be made to work while providing more open communication platforms and putting more control in the hands of the users rather than the companies.

Make a new network that puts control in the hands of the users in the way you envision, and test it to see how well it works. Or join one of the existing efforts already working on that. This isn't a legislative problem; it certainly shouldn't have a legislative non-solution masquerading as a solution.

I think most people's experience with moderation puts more weight on any encounters they've had with being moderated, and little to no weight (except perhaps in the abstract) on the volume of what they don't see. Moderation, when done well, is close to invisible; I think as a side effect of that, people underestimate its value in contributing to their good experiences.
> I am not important, and neither are you, so both of us should shut up if our speech materially hurt the society.

That's an oxymoron, if we are irrelevant we then dont have the power nor the audience to affect society in a grand scale.

> I see you failed on reading comprehension.

Nice try.

> They should be cancelled if they are proven to be dangerous to the society, such as anti-mask movement or anti-vaccine movement

And yet they are free as a bird. From Jim Carrey to Boris Johnson, from Jack Dorsey to Elon Musk, from Mark Zuckerberg to Alysa Milano, they have spouted absolutely nonsense and they are as influential as ever.They should not be banned btw, but ridiculed.Alex Jones deserves the same treatment and not being hypocritically swept under the rug.

> I don't know why you are trying to trivialize "tin-foil brigade" when it literally killed many people this year.

This a global pandemic, a big portion of the deaths was sadly unavoidable no matter your location in the map or your political persuasion, it is juicy ammunition for political gains though. The other big part in the deaths comes from the clusterfuck of mismanagement of the crisis. The people responsible for that WILL NOT be cancelled. The influence of the loonies in their youtube channels represents at worst a minuscule fraction of the deaths.
This. We need to create an email portability system (like there currently is with mobile phone numbers)
I’m fairly sure SoundHound has had this feature since the early 2010s. Haven’t heard of the app since, but apparently their site is still up. I think Shazam ended up winning the music ID race as I remember having both apps.
Only works for English songs. I searched for a Pakistani song as famous as national anthem ("dil dil Pakistan"). It couldn't find it.

I was thinking it learns the tune of song and matches with that so language should not matter.

It worked for "Desert Rose" though.

Edit: Also worked for an Indian song.

Also worked for few other recent famous Pakistani songs. I guess the first song that I searched is probably not listened on YouTube as much as its known by heart.

It could not search for national anthem itself for the reason.
And why did that preclude Adobe from also allowing actual purchases of their products instead of just the rental model?

Capture One has subscription and license:

* https://www.captureone.com/en/products-plans/single-user/cap...

If I had a need for, say, cloud/sync features I understand a monthly cost as servers and bandwidth costs money; totally on-board. But for people who do not need/want cloud-y stuff, what re-occurring cost is there?

I was happy to purchase YNAB4 for budgeting, and would have purchased YNAB5—but it's subscription and I have no need for the sync stuff that's part of the 'deal'.
Canaan still lists CircleUp as a portfolio company and the partner is Deepak Kamra. Curiously, a 2015 article lists the Canaan board memeber as Daniel Ciporin. Curious.
I appreciate this discussion and your viewpoint, but I frankly fail to see your point.

What is being said is that the police shouldn't be the instance to handle incidents where what is really needed is counseling, or social working. We're talking about shifting funds to those and let police do what they have been trained for.

On that, as an aside... I will say that as black-belt in Aikido, I remain flabbergasted that police officers are not taught simple techniques to subdue or disable people/threats without resorting to deadly force.

To your original post I will also say that owning a gun does not make you and your family impervious to crime! You cannot protect your family with a gun, it doesn't give your family a bullet proof shield. On the contrary you will likely escalate a situation.
Huge academic book:
Commercial Real Estate: Analysis and Investments by Geltner.

What are you looking to accomplish?
Software is more akin to building roads.

Data is more akin to the knowledge in books.

As long as we can read 100 year old data sets we will be fine.

Truly important software will adopt new technologies while old technologies will fade away.

There aren’t many 100 year old roads that exist without being regularly rebuilt. Surely none with any regular usage.
In this case, they would have had to buy new, chip-compatible card readers. In that case the breach wouldn't have produced anything usable. Security costs money. If not now, then later.

However, it seems that Dickey's corporate must also be to blame. Lots of small businesses in USA have old swipe-style readers, but rarely are they lumped together in a single giant hack like this.
Eligibility at Guild – Adventures in Event Processing on AWS
From my understanding about section 230 (which mostly comes from the articles below), I'm not sure I understand what the republicans in this country want or expect from any of this. Removing immunity and treating social media companies as publishers will increase moderation, not decrease it. If Facebook or Twitter could be sued for libel based on what their users post, they would be incredibly heavy handed about hate speech and misinformation.

On the other hand, requiring websites to be "neutral" in order to keep their immunity is also a minefield. It would require new legislation, and what does that look like? Zero moderation? Would all posts have to be chronological, or would companies be able to algorithmically create timelines?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/no-section-230-does-no...
> Moderation on the client side doesn't work and never has.

Are you claiming that the phone system does not work? Or that ISPs do not work?

I think that they work pretty well, even though there really is not much top down moderation.

> If they want "unmoderated"

Why can't we consider the phone network, or ISPs, which are successful examples of the kind of unmoderated approach, that people are asking for?
On the bubblegum side, there's also Propaganda, a russian girl group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5yWYzWYBJA
Scientific publications issue unprecedented critiques of Trump
Maybe you are part of the group suppressing speech of the oppressed? How can there be censorship and everyone be happy?
I'm not actually using KDE atm and not familiar with activities, what are the usecases for activities and how do they compare to virtual desktops?
> Businesses like predictable revenue.

Then make the subscription worth something over and above the software:

* https://www.captureone.com/en/products-plans/single-user/cap...
Whatever solution the GOP wants needs to also apply to Fox (Faux) News...
People are stupid. They're easily mislead. They make horrible decisions. Those decisions effect me.
People use electron because it's literally the only option in many cases.

Can you point to a viable alternative? Multiplatform by default, with the option to build rich reactive UI? Plus text editing with a sane document model (via ProseMirror etc)? Fast math rendering (via katex)?

If so I will happily jump ship! Even Microsoft's attempt at a react native for desktop excludes Linux so it's a non-starter. The Rust community seems to be interested in solving this problem, and I eagerly await their solution.
"Moderation on the client side doesn't work and never has. The Usenet killfile model was awful and was a big part of why huge swaths of it were an unnavigable mess for most users--because unless you wanted to expend the effort to build one you didn't have one and got the whole sewer pipe spraying straight into your face. And, oh boy, client-side moderation happens on Twitter, it works so well? Then why do female friends whose posts get some attention have a bunch of dudes in their mentions saying how they want to have sex with (consensually or not) and/or kill them no matter how many they block? Could it be because it's an abject failure of a model due to the low stakes of spinning up a new account--so low that Twitter stopped using egg avatars because they destroyed interaction rates with new users because most of them were troglodytes?"

Re client side moderation, it's possible that users can be educated about effective approaches. Just like they started warming the non-geeks about email with hollywood films (You've Got Mail, 1998), and I'm sure there must have been similar sort of concerted media efforts for older technology. Automobiles, for example. I -bet- we can dig up content (old films) that basically were teaching the American public how to use cars using movies.

Given the inherently democratic aspect of client-side filterings, and serious inherent political concerns with centralized moderation, it seems wrong to give up on the idea simply because the avant garde generation on internet (using mostly antique kludgy UI/UX, btw) had problems with it.

We can fix client side moderation with education. It is a transitory issue, only.

Centralized moderation is inherently problematic for public platforms. (I have no issues with private, members only, platforms opting for centralized moderation.)
It got "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees with a 17% match, but couldn't get "Dragonaut" by Sleep. Maybe I'm a bad hummer?
I'm not lawyer, and I'm not an American, but doesn't this sorta fall under the 6th Amendment?
I‘m not saying that nothing should be done to counter blatant lies and cheating. I just think it is much more effective, free and sustainable to use emphasis and counterarguments.
A lot (a majority?) of people in Russia and North Korea genuinely happy about the kinds of systems and leaders they have.
I agree with your sentiment for this particular case but think it's crazy that you're saying Apple is condoning this when this exact same rule would have protected and prevented against situations where innocent people were on the receiving end of this information. Reddit screwed up big time, for example, when the mob went after the wrong person during the Boston bombing and people got hurt. What if the wrong person is identified? What if the identifying information is wrong? Yes, there's a moral component to all of this but there's also a precedent that you're setting and I doubt Apple wants to be in the role of deciding whether this personal info is the "right" personal info to be out there.
A lot of apps rarely still introduce compelling-enough new features to justify buying a newer version. We'd all mostly be fine today using CS5 and Office 2007.

Subscription models are about forcing upgrades in a world where users increasingly aren't actually benefitting from them.
Is there a repository of a lot of example COBOL code? IBM might actually be the only company capable of doing automatic translation because they probably have access to enough code to actually test their methodology on.

Also, lost in the conversation is the other language that keeps showing up: RPG. It was and is used in at least the AS/400 - iSeries arena.

Lastly, I would imagine translated code would actually fit into something like orchestrations in BizTalk or related tool. I get the feeling if you did an actual analysis, some form of workflow language would be developed and be a better fit.
Well there are some pretty deep evaluations of that post here already.

It's bollocks. Quite involved bollocks but really big, round and very, very hairy.

Probably machine generated.
Have you ever heard of the Flynn Effect?

IQ tests are being renormalized. Today's 100 may be last year's 99. Average IQs have gone up ~15 points since ~1950. Some evidence of slowing or reversing in the last 20 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
Dropbox itself used to offer APIs to support such use cases. "Local-first" software wasn't called that yet, but that's definitely the kind of applications they intended to enable. Alas it was too early and these features got sunset back in 2015...

https://dropbox.tech/developers/deprecating-the-sync-and-dat...
> Still I wonder if it has failure modes that humans lack

Almost certainly :)
This has consumed my morning. I've been humming out all of random tunes of my childhood from folk music to pop that I never knew the name of. It works.
filecoin will be a useful protcol for independent warehouses of data, all in an effort to consolidate in a pool against the biggest players. it will NOT be for the 'masses' of people, except to the extent they enjoy donating a few dollars of their electricity every month to someone's file storeage for shits and giggles.
"Las Mañanitas" is a traditional Mexican birthday song. "Cánticos" means just "chants".
I'll teach such a course next year, based on the first half of "The Elements of Computing Systems" by Nisan and Schocken. Actually we'll start a bit earlier than the book, showing how to build logic gates from transistors. Then combinatorial circuits, from logic gates to an ALU, then sequential circuits, from logic gates to registers and addressable memory, then we'll put ALU + registers together to get a CPU and we'll design the instruction set, and finally we'll have students write a symbolic assembler for their CPU and write a few programs to run on them.

Due to time constraints, and the fact that it's likely the course will be taught online, students will use circuit simulators instead of breadboards. But I think they'll still enjoy the journey of building their computer from first principles.
There's no Search a Song button for me. I just updated the app...

edit: works for me now. After a few minutes the button just started showing up
Chased out through this very same mechanism even.
This is a major reason for Martin Luther and the Lutheran Church.

There is an excellent hard core history podcast that somewhat relates to the topic.
Hobby Lobby, for example, is not a sole proprietor.
'Watson' is just a brand that IBM uses for a variety of unrelated bullshit.
Back in the days, I hoped Shazam was exactly that.

I was rather whelmed when I saw it could just find songs that were playing right now.
It doesn't even have browser add-ons anymore.

Extensions page has (and since a long time)

- a dead Firefox add-on url

- a long abandoned Safari extension (Safari 5)

- I have never tried Chrome extension and the link is not yet dead so I assume it might still be working.

Oh yeah, there are some bookmarklets.

I think I will move mine to something self-hosted with browser add-on support for Safari and Firefox, at leat Firefox.
I relented and got a portable unit for around $500. It's loud and nowhere as nice as an in-unit, but it's definitely been worth it IMO.
Or even "I authorize merchant X to debit up to Y dollars once per month", for bills that can vary.
Yes, cleaner, and no switch in Python.
Because a discussion forum is not the same as a phone network. It just isn’t. Why would the rules that govern the phone network make sense to apply to Wikipedia?

It’s weird to be having this argument on one of the very forums that benefits from 230. Do you think HN would be a better place if it were forbidden from moderating content? Were you here before dang came along? Can you imagine how much spam gets deleted before we see it and how unusable it would be if it didn’t?

And not for nothing but I wish my phone company would do an better job of moderating the junk calls and spam texts I get.

But set the phone company metaphor aside: I still don’t understand what outcome you want for social media. How do you imagine it will look? Or is this actually intended to put them all out of business? If so, taking down every comment section and discussion board seems like a lot of collateral damage.
wouldn't this leave you in a worse situation? say twitter becomes a publisher (whatever that means) and gets sued out of business. then you still won't be able to follow @NYPost or retweet content to followers.

I'm curious, how do you think twitter becoming a publisher would help you to accomplish your stated goals?
Thanks (to both you and the parent poster) for sharing your experiences. I know exactly how helpful seeing this kind of post can be for people who are struggling.
Yep, countries with a greater average IQ have much less people believing dumb theories (e.g about bill gates and covid-19), countries like Japan and South Korea. All countries that reduced funds for public education years ago in a short-sighted attempt to save money are seeing it's dire consequences, and now amplified thanks to the internet.
how are europoors so consistently butthurt about fucking units of temperature
Ah not far off from the scale used by video game critic site IGN:

“This game is trash” - 8/10
What app are you using? I tried “what song is this”, and it just directs me to a search result on my iPhone.
Ok, let's try something easier to understand: Let's say that rather than conspiring with aliens, the Post was ginning up a story that Biden conspired with bin Laden and was secretly behind 9/11, and they produced some highly suspect documents to back this up. No reputable news outlets verify the story. The Biden campaign produced evidence contradicting the story. And let's say the Post did this not just any random time, but as millions of people are actively voting in an election.

That's what this is - a pretty blatantly false tabloid story being pushed by Rupert Murdoch, the closest thing the world has to a cartoon villain, during the voting process in a major election. In the time it would take to conclusively debunk the story to the public, the damage would already be done. This is straight out of the 2016 election playbook, where disinformation was pushed as voting was happening.

I'm sorry, but I can't bring myself to clutch pearls over a disreputable tabloid being treated like a disreputable tabloid. If anything it would be good for journalism if they banned the Post from the site forever.
One is for end users to tell them what's new in this release vs. the last. The other is for technical purposes to document the specific technical changes from one version to the next. They're not the same thing.
fwiw, I love spacy but the autocomplete has never work for me in pycharm either.

Many autocomplete implementations seem to struggle with anything that isn’t “pure python”; pyspark is notorious for it too.

...but, the type annotations do work! That’s definitely the right way to fix it.

Can’t wait~
It's not just about the recurring-payment part either which makes for a simpler business model to fund updates. Software as a cloud service also makes it easier to provide support to users, it's impossible to pirate, and it's easier to support most platforms.