skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think nicotine has some properties that actually increases performance very slightly compared to other drugs, which conventionally are always a detriment. Cannot find the study anymore though. It also has side effects of course.
I think the argument on monopoly is getting muddied, a monopoly isn't based on consumer's choosing a preferred service, but that they have no choice of provider.

Twitter is popular because people choose to use it, but they have the choice to use other services, or to attempt to create one, and compete with the current popular one, the difficulty of succeeding in the field doesn't change if it is a monopoly (unless of course the service provider can suppress any competitor from entering the market.)

Was MySpace a monopoly? it dominated social media at its peak, and not has been completely surpassed.
For $100K in total, a tiny marketing budget those companies could have shown some good will towards Open Source.

I wonder if the author actually contacted those companies. That is less than $3K from each of those customers listed.
I think the outrage is not at NY Post for posting the alligations or at ABC townhall anchor for ignoring them.

Instead the outrage is about Twitter, FB and others who claim to be 'platforms' and therefore protected under section 230, but instead, systemtically and actively, acting as publishers (that are not under 230).

Perhaps an anology is the outrage and legal consequences , when a for-profit-business uses non-profit charity tax code.
moronic right wing analysis. The article had personally identifying info so it got blocked. the end.
Wish you all good luck. Hope there can be alternatives to Jio's monopoly using wifi.
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There's already a place which disseminates right biased information and censors opinions from the left: Fox News.
Could be a mix of real and fake emails, or real but slightly altered. They could not have any copies of the originals so they can't say which are real or not.

Plus oh my god if we go into 'but his emails!' and Trump is elected again I will leave this country. Keep 'hacked' 'email' ten thousand miles away from Biden campaign's mouth
What prevents me from even looking at this link is the 4.5MB executable. Come on. Have you tried to download that amount of data using a spotty mobile connection?
By cost of publishing I mean effort involved in creating content to be published as well.

Conspiracy theories thrive when credibility and authority are not required to publish: flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, government related conspiracies, aristocracy related conspiracies...

People being able to post anything also facilitates "online mob justice", when people mistakenly arrive to the conclusion that certain entity is responsible for whatever they consider unfair.
That's insane. During my tenure in the industry, we had ceramic coatings on the first stage. We were hitting some 1250 C temperatures with these things and they were barely holding up. There was a huge push for efficiency in that era and we would shorten the life of the blades in favor of efficiency, there would be regular inspections and coatings were such a pain in the ass.
I'm simply pointing out your argument was cognitive dissonance and completely ineffective.

I'm sure you could engage with it directly and without fallacy, you're obviously bright, but your replies were very low-brow ad hominem and tu quoque.

PS I don't invest "moral authority" in almost any leading politician today, though I certainly rank Biden higher than Trump in the "personal morality" stakes.
There's no perfect solution but a small floating mobile button in the corner doesn't seem like a big deal if you know most of the time people on your site are going to be looking for support or sales info.

I don't think anyone is advocating a chat window popping up automatically if that's what you're getting at.
Creator of Sizzy here. Please don’t say equivalent because we have at least 50 features that differentiate us from any other “alternative” out there. Unlike the others, Sizzy is actually a company with employees who care about their users.

You can check out our recent updates here:
http://fungarzione.com/sizzy
An automatic car which can only understand flat surfaces as drivable is not even walking. It's standing still, and is significantly more dangerous than a car slowing down and stopping in the middle of traffic.

Realising that a flat surface is drivable is probably 1% of 1% of what an autonomous car does on a road. Same goes for humans, I'd say.
and their view on censorship:

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/if-unreliable-is-the-issue-why...
As far as I understand LSD greatly increases neuroplasticity, your brain's ability to form new connections between neurons. You temporarily reset the weights in your neural network, so you get a chance to "jump out of the groove you're in". Whether that leads to a permanent change probably depends on what your patterns were before, and what new ways of thinking you come across during your trip. Basically were you in a local optimum before, and did you happen across a better (maybe even global) optimum during the trip instead?
That makes so much more sense. I was thinking per-device instead of per-logical-root. Thank you!
How to find a Software Engineer job during Covid (specially for New Grads)
So twitter is not an impartial conduit - instead it is editorial and opinionated, and should face legal accountability for it's views as such, in the same way as newspapers?
Just curious... have you thought about after work going for a walk to a park etc and reading there?
Except nobody with a sane mind would consider this an acceptable safety system. It's widely known humans are not capable of performing this job. Period. Everywhere else, where there's a need for long stretches of uninterrupted human focus, you have systems on top of systems ensuring this happens.

In swimming pools, you have lifeguards with <30 minutes shifts, overlapping coverage zones, and managers hovering behind them to ensure they do pay attention. On trains, you have dead-man switches that stop the train if the driver isn't paying attention. The military gives pilots amphetamines if they need to stay awake for long hours. Etc.

You just cannot expect a person to stay focused monitoring something for more than couple minutes. You need to have systems to help them and mitigate the unavoidable lapse in focus. At the very least, they should've taken away her phone and made her narrate what she sees on record, while making her aware it will be reviewed and compared against video recordings afterwards.

They set her up to fail, so it's wise to ask what her role really was. Convenient scapegoat, organizational surge circuit breaker, ablative armor - it's a plausible explanation.
Those customers probably couldn't care less about open sourcing somebody else's work.
It wasn't a bait. Is just that I cannot connect Intellectual Property issues with social media issues.

> Social media is currently poisoning our country

What IP has to do with a kid joining extreme right (or left) groups, higher rates of teenager suicides and people believing anything you put in front of them?

All these happen because of social media, at least in part, and I do believe there is another kind of problem at the root. But I cannot associate it with IP. That's it.
It is what it is. If you want to be productive as a modern tech team just deal with it and use it and learn it.
Yeah, sure, certainly plausible. But that's a lot more complicated than a guy who has a substance abuse problem doing things with his computer that a guy with a substance abuse problem would probably do (btw Hunter is sober now, I think).
Writing a movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9076562/
Yup, I wrote about it here:
https://kitze.io/posts/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent

Now that Sizzy is a company, we can put more time and money into the product. We ship an alpha version every day, and a stable version every week.

Changes are listed here:
https://fungarzione.com/sizzy
I sincerely hope so.
I fervently believe that all advertising is, by definition, paid manipulation. As such, it is deeply immoral, despicable, and should be outlawed on the constitutional level!
I also believe that this manipulation is the foundation of almost every evil in the western world, because it is the perverse motive that corrupts our democracy and our economy.
The ability to manipulate masses of people to buy your idea or product using money allows those with money to dominate, not those who are competent or correct (either at politics or economy).
The fact that our societies not only allow this but actively celebrate the biggest manipulators as the best of us (google facebook etc.) is beyond immoral for me. It's insane!

I also believe that anybody who calls out this sick game at the level of society would be cruelly ostracised by those in power, either in media or politics or economy.
Still, we should voice this more often. We should make people rethink our societies.
https://i.imgur.com/7zadiIM.png

Yes I am aware. Bret Stephens was hired to write headlines like this, to appeal to the "fair and balanced" crowd (which will always fail, nothing will ever be enough).
Given how overrated it is to be the smartest person in the room, on the team, etc., I would say the same!
Man people are still deploying docker applications on a single server with docker-compose or docker-swarm for it's simplicity. Some of my personal projects are still deployed like this as it is really simple (it's docker with a very thin yaml), works exactly like on my machine and is against my expectations really stable.

Is there some plan to support docker-compose or something like this? The "magic" why it is working so good for simple solutions is the service discovery. Since version 1.10 dns resolution by container names in created docker networks is possible which would be enough to replicate most of the functionality of docker-compose. And the feature to start multiple containers for an application is required. Is there some plan to support a lot more docker configuration options? Or is the docker mode just a small neat feature which will not receive much development as kubernetes and nomad will be the main deployment systems for most of the users?
I don't mean "if you take away Android today would Java succeed on mobile?", I mean "if you retrospectively imagine Android never existed at all (or used a different language), how does Java do?"

My position is that it doesn't really change things all that much, with losses by Android probably mostly picked up by Apple or Symbian or webOS or Windows Phone but the trajectory to smartphones and away from J2ME stuff largely the same. The sense of how much Android actually "mattered" in this sense goes right to the "effect on the market" prong.

As for the broader case, both the copyrightability and fair use claims have been presented to the Supreme Court here. The temptation from the outside looking in is to think/hope/dread that the court will just resolve these questions once and for all, but they often prefer to resolve cases on narrower grounds, where available. Google spent a lot of time arguing for, and would be perfectly fine with, a simple remand based on the Federal Circuit's standard of review of the jury's fair use verdict.
Thanks for the detailed response. Like you, I was very suspicious of it mentioning USB 2.0 and 4K in the same description. Seems like these aren't worth the trouble, especially when considering 60 FPS to be a bare minimum.
Ask HN: Using code after open source license change
Hey,

I have been developing on a fork of an open-source code which had Apache MIT dual license at the time of fork.

Recently they changed their licensing to exclude commercial uses:
1. personal use for research, personal study, private entertainment, hobby projects or amateur pursuits, in each case without any anticipated commercial application;
2. use by any charitable organization, educational institution, public research organization, public safety or health organization, environmental protection organization or government institution; or
3. the number of monthly active users of the Resulting Program across all versions thereof and platforms globally do not exceed 10,000 at any time.

Is it legal for me to continue using the fork if I don't merge their latest codebase which reflects the change in license?
They want $100,000 to fund work on open sourcing code that people will then use for free.

As far as red flags go, educate yourself: open source work is unsustainable without external sources of income: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
It's not all good though, just came across this article which raises possibility Covid-19 was synthetically generated.

https://nerdhaspower.weebly.com/
I think banning Teslas as unsafe is even more reasonable conclusion. Those cars can't be trusted so they should not be allowed on public roads. Problem solved. Same goes for any other car with this issue.
> He actually ran on a moderate Republican platform.

Hm so, building a wall with a neighbor and having the neighbor _pay for this wall_ is a moderate position? Or is this bluster?
If the data you want to store is legal I agree.

If you want to store things no other provider will touch this should do the trick.

Seems like the guys who raises millions to build this did just fine.

Doubt it’s a big enough market to survive once investigators start shutting down nodes for kiddie porn.
First fix the leaking bucket .. remove the incentives for stupidity and uselessness and timewasting distractions that are rampant in western society.

Then, money you spend on education will get a ROI instead of being skimmed off the top.
Why not build your own VPN protocol similar to VyperVPN, but make it so ISPs in repressive regimes can’t tell the user is using a VPN?

What’s the advantage of a p2p model instead of a better / stealthy VPN protocol that can’t be blocked, which you can also commercialise?
I can picture this actually..

“You guys hear about this coronavirus? That’s a bad deal I tell ya. They say I gotta work from home. I said ‘What do you mean I gotta work from home?’. They said ‘It means you gotta go work from home’. So I went home to the wife and she said ‘how was work?’ And I said ‘fine’ and I’ve been in this bar ever since. Tip your waitress!”

adjusts tie
While I agree in the case of upper case keywords, I consider := and = to be actually better than = and ==. That would also help to avoid syntactical abominations like === and !==.
Some thoughts about teaching online
Has anyone else noticed that the typical IT introvert turns into an extravert when talking to other IT introverts about the things that they’re passionate about?
because we do not want corporations claiming protections that they do not deserve.

Editorializing content by twitter's own employees, or by crowd-sourcing, is still editorializing.

So Twitter and FB, HN and others are publishers, not platforms.

Claiming legal shields that apply to platforms, therefore, is not legal.

This is like claiming taxable deduction of a charity, while being a for-profit-business.
Sizzy started as an extension, but the extensions API is not powerful enough for all the stuff that we’re doing. Please check out what Sizzy can do before you say “this feature”, because there’s plenty of features that differentiate Sizzy from any other browser. We’re really trying to make the most useful browser for developers.
Don't care, sorry.
It's not all good though, just came across this article which raises possibility Covid-19 was synthetically generated.

https://nerdhaspower.weebly.com/

I am an Earth scientist so would be good to get thoughts on the article from bio-scientists
If anyone of the FreePN guys is still lurking around:

What is your business model?

I understand that you don't need servers, because your users supply that part, but who pays for development, support, and all that stuff?
what?

Russian bounties and Trump's knowledge of it is fact, so is that Trump saying “I have never discussed it with him [putin]”
Bro why are you asking me to paste code I can memorise?

Because fizzbuzz isn't about the code. It's a starting point for a candidate to show an ability to code something, and an understanding of the requirements, and an ability to talk about their code and why it does things in the particular way they wrote it, and to discuss what the next steps would be (streaming, optimizations, etc).

If the coding test is literally just 'write fizzbuzz' then it's a terrible test, but if it's more like 'write fizzbuzz and then we'll talk about it' then it can be a great test.

Coding interviews (and just coding as an art really) should never be about solving a problem in a limited amount of time. The problems we face as developers usually need a few rounds of thinking, experimentation, more thinking, implementation, optimization, and so on. You can't do that process properly in an interview. Using things like fizzbuzz is an attempt at a shortcut.

Also, as someone who interviewed lots of people and used fizzbuzz as a test in the past, I can assure you that simply being capable of implementing it takes you out of the bottom 30% or so. Being able to talk about it and suggest ways to do more with it, or to extend it, would put you in the top 30%. There are a lot of developers out there who are not great.
This article seems to better explain the BMJ reference, at least it has more details:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/1-in-3-excess-deat...

"Healthcare disruption and emotional crises may have led to around a third of the 225,530 “excess deaths” in the United States between March 1 and August 1, 2020, a new study suggests."

Is it likely that 215,000 died from coronavirus, like Nature said? I'd like to see the math behind that.
Now if you’re thinking “that’s not funny”, I agree. I’m no comedian. Dangerfield still would’ve killed with it though.

And that’s why instead I make the computers do the things for a living.
> and behave predictably.

Not with the amount of ML, particularly DNN, involved.
God, this is just painfully embarrassing. It's a real shame we -- as an industry -- haven't pushed back against these kinds of practices (maybe the pay is just too good). At this point, technical interviews are just a meme.
I just tried it and so far it's really good. It's still rough around the edges though and feels like someone's side project.

I feel existing OSes are simply missing out on creating a wonderful window manager. Something like this can get better defaults, animation, a tutorial, some ML smartness on making better initial choices and perhaps a dedicated hardware on the laptop (a la touch bar) just for window management.
If you don't evaluate everything your camera sees, you basically just decrease its FOV. Sure, that might net you less errors for objects that are most relevant most of the time.

But it is the unexpected we need to train computer vision for to compete with humans. We can have rules for things like billboards, sure, but those will never be completely implemented everywhere.

The software just needs to be improved to identify something as billboard.
Even though it doesn’t simulate multiple engines, it simulates resolution, pixel ratio, user agent string, browser UI, OS UI, device frame etc. So it gives you a much more accurate representation of what your website would look like than any other browser out there.

Also, simulating devices is one of the features, even if you don’t care about responsive design, there’s plenty of features that can speed up your development work.

Let me know if you have other questions!
> how does considering Twitter the publisher instead of Fox or CNN improve that?

People don’t register on Twitter to read Fox or CNN. They register to read other people.

Making Twitter a publisher increases costs a lot. Especially portion of the cost that’s proportional to count of users and volumes of content.

On-line ads don’t pay much per view, the only reason these companies are making so much money is they got crazy count of views with very low (in comparison) costs. They’ll have to find other sources of income.

They can charge readers, like newspapers did for centuries.

They can charge for publishing, I remember couple decades ago I was paying some reasonable subscription fee for a paid livejournal account, just to get rid of ads.

Either model is fine. They both fix the current outrage culture, by removing the incentive. These companies will stop optimizing content for count of views, and will start listening to users who became their customers.
Sure,

Maybe Twitter would have found other reasons to block the story if it didn't violate an explicit policy literally, for example it being fake news. Calling something fake news takes more investigation and judgement so the reason they gave was simplest.

It's like, boy, they sure have it in for a sleazy and deceptive hit-piece meant to influence an election at the last moment. Unfair!
I hear you. I've typically rolled my own implementation for each project and am always suspect of adding another dependency.

After doing this enough times though, felt like a smarter solution should exist. I believe the value comes from the experimentation and optimization layer- constantly finding the best place to ask for a rating.

But the honest feedback is exactly what I'm looking for. Is there a non-trivial rating feature you'd find worthwhile?
Sharing my story how I migrate my old laptop from Lubuntu to Debian
> certainly plausible

You missed my sarcasm. If you believe son of the Vice President abandoned his laptop in rural Deleware to a Trump supporter to eventually give it to the Trump campaign, I have several bridges in NY to sell you.
The common theme in this article seems to be about planning approaches to and implementing algorithms.

I think there's more to being a successful employed programmer than that. How do you avoid people who are nice as pie in the interview, but play politics and are rude to people under your nose on the job? How do you avoid people who can deploy algorithms on demand, but have very little motivation day to day and fail to get anything substantial done?

At a job, you're interacting with people every day. I don't think you're looking for the best-performing algorithm every day. In most cases, best performance doesn't matter.
> The “professional journalists” aren’t that great either. The field has been overtaken by 20 year olds.

Is ageism really a valid critique on professional journalism?
i think they mean you can't hardlink across devices. there is a single hierarchy but they have mount points.
The New York Post doesn't have a great track record on being factually accurate though, whereas the Washington Post can reasonably assume articles published by the New York Times have undergone some reasonable standard of fact checking (even if imperfect), so it's not a reasonable comparison.
This is one of the best-written blog series I've ever seen. It reminds me of some of my favourite history books, the ones that focused on topics such as the development of chemistry from alchemy instead of which king was stabbed in the back by some long-dead politician.