skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen several definitions of functional languages, but I presume you're talking about languages that encourage the use of pure functions and immutable data structures.

I think the driver there is that it's much easier to reason about (and prove properties of) pure functions. At first glance, that seems pretty clearly a correctness driver. Some strong proponents of functional languages would argue that bugs are a huge detriment to programmer ergonomics, so correctness also ends up being an ergonomic issue. On the other hand, people with lots of experience programming in imperative styles that encourage mutable state (such as many classical object oriented styles) find it uncomfortable to switch over to a functional style.

(I realize some languages, such as Scala, encourage a fusion of OO and functional styles, but mutable state played a big role in classical OO languages. For instance, Java missed a big opportunity by having the Map and List interfaces expose mutator methods instead of having MutableMap and MutableList interfaces that extend mutator-less base interfaces. In Java, immutable maps and lists usually end up implementing the Map and List interfaces, but having the mutators always throw exceptions. If you find implementors of your interfaces regularly subvert the contract you try to establish in this way, you've probably made a mistake in defining your interface.)
Well, they're obviously related in that we really need to discover/determine how useful DNA came to be, starting with just the primordial soup. If we can get more accurate numbers for the Drake equation, that would certainly go a long way towards explaining the paradox.

I brought it up on HN because relatively few people seem to know this is still a problem, and progress on resolving it has been slow.
There’s paperwork compliance, and then there’s security and risk controls performance validated compliance.

It may be more difficult if “we signed a contrast, trust the compliance report” is not an acceptable answer for a particular risk management audit or regulator.
You know, I'm sort of thankful for the increase in private/public company censorship, because they are doing it so poorly and with such bad timing that I think it's starting to create a kickback effect where more people are waking up to the issues... so I am hoping it causes a pendulum swing back the other direction. (though that's hope, I'm not sure how likely it is).

It's interesting to see how servile so many hn'ers are about censorship though.
This one is pretty technical, it might be easier to start with some of the older ones: https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview

He takes what should be a simple problem and solves it with the entirely the wrong tools. There's some comedy, the tools are comically wrong and overpowered for the task at hand. There's also the sheer thrill of seeing such tools used at all, we don't generally write this kind of stuff at work.
Crypt of Civilization
Please deprecate the term 'deprecate' in favor of the non-bullshit, sincere and direct "depreciate".
When it comes to the impact I believe it.
Covid-19 Vaccine: Johnson and Johnson Halts Trial Due to Unexplained Illness
That's a pretty impressive summary. Thanks for writing it.
Some examples that come to mind: click fraud, phishing, malware.
I have upvoted you in hopes that you will provide a link to some of the posts you suspect were generated by a GAN
I was responding to "Or they are using similar criteria to decide what is allowed, and so independently arrive at the same decision when the same thing is posted to them all."

If airline A decides to offer free checked bags, and then a couple days later airline B does the same thing, I would not think they arrived independently at the same decision. Whether they're "colluding" is of course controversial, but there should be no controversy that B did it because A did it.

Is there a "market for censorship"? Perhaps there is. That would be an interesting discussion. But it's not interesting to entertain the idea that Facebook and Twitter independently and totally coincidentally decided to ban Holocaust deniers within days of each other.
Is all of the right wing conservative?
Is all of the left progressive?

(turns out human beings don't fit neatly into these nice little categories)
With Nowhere to Go, Teens Flock to Among Us
To be honest it sounds like a regular end of the election craziness. To all those people, who think this is somehow special and deserves special new set of rules, I can only point to 2016 ( Comey saga that also included Guliani ). It is not special. It is not new. It is still speech. It may be lies ( and I am sure we will find out soon enough ) and I get that a lot of people can be influenced. I get it. And it still think it is risky to the existing system that RELIES on lies flowing freely.

What I do not get is why some people honestly do believe that an average person needs to be protected from lies by a censor? And who ensures censor is not a liar? Who guards the guards? The question is important as people seem to be clamoring for rather powerful guards of 'what is true truth'.
It's highly ironic that the so-called defenders of free speech have torn through this HN thread downvoting and flagging posts that support Twitter's specific actions or anti-disinformation efforts in general.

Free speech for me but not for thee, much?

To those of you who have done this, or don't have a problem with it, or are about to downvote and/or flag this post, think carefully about if you're actually defending free speech or only speech that you agree with.
Great job Janelle!
> Is this actually news to people?

Good question. The thing that was news to me is that it's happening on very large blogs, not random sites and that it's being sold to and used by well-known startups. Like you, I expect sockpuppet accounts and random linkbuilding garbage, just not at this scale or with this much distribution.
How is that environmentally friendly, though? Switching to USB-C now turns all the existing Lightning accessories into more e-waste and all the existing Lightning cables into e-waste. Given that wired charging will likely go away in a few years, it doesn't really make sense to change everything to USB-C now just to make it go away altogether in either an environmental sense or a business sense.
Turns out the fittest isn't you or me but usually a gang of murderous thugs.

You're not going to like the future you just wished for.
If you are interested in supporting medical studies, then I'd watch the clinical trials as they come out and consider volunteering:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/search/index

The care you receive during a clinical trial is, of course, top notch.

Speaking more anecdotally, I have a few close friends that also received a lot of brain injuries in their youth due to sports. Their progress, as you say, is spotty and individual. Personally, the ones that have made an effort to improve themselves mentally have been the most successful to any degree. When it comes to memory, saying that you just have a bad one will likely let it remain as such. Working on memory will help, if slowly or at all. Things like notepads, journaling, meeting notes, and a 'no excuses' attitude were key methods to friends that made progress.

But, as you say, the brain is awfully murky and nature kinda has to take her course. Nothing is likely to stitch back together the neurons that were lost. However, the brain is awfully murky, and there seems to be nothing stopping it from rewiring the neurons that are left.

Best of luck!
Social media -- including this site -- is far more manipulated than people even begin to realize. Social media propaganda and sock puppetry is a huge industry.
SMS came with Sonic the Hedgehog? Interesting! I thought it was introduced with the Genesis.
Hi Troy! Response below written not so much for you to read, but everyone else looking at the thread.

On a large scale there is a big overlap between the general concept of operating a low-cost call center in a developing nation that speaks English (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh).

This has been taken to its most blackhat extent by the people who are running call centers for the fake "fix your PC it has viruses now, we are Microsoft support" scammers. Or even worse the fake Internal Revenue Service / Canada Revenue Agency type scam call centers.

The operating costs in monthly salary per human, and office rental, basic desktop PCs, electricity, telecom services are all very similar between the different grey/black hat business models. If you have humans talking to other humans by voice, you've got a bunch of $20 headsets with boom mics plugged directly into the desktop PCs, some SIP softphones, an asterisk setup, and a router/VPN connection back to a bunch of grey market SIP trunks. The voice part is obviously not necessary if it's just click workers.

Assume for a moment that your office and computer equipment is a sunk cost, and you've got a room full of dudes working a 6-day work week and paying them each $250 a month. They each need to bring in revenue of something like $10-11 per day to break even on the payroll. Obviously this "business model" is somewhat dependent upon finding a place that has a sufficiently large pool of low-wage, but moderately educated people who can drive desktop PCs, and a place to put your call center type environment in low cost commercial real estate. Thus my mention in another comment about Bangladesh.

Some organizations went into the gold farming market to hire people at the equivalent of $250 USD/month to repetitively perform tasks in MMORPG games and then sell the virtual currency/assets to people in the US/Canada/Europe with extra money to spend.

After that, they quickly discovered that it could be more lucrative to have one person run 30 reddit accounts (or twitter, whatever) and get paid to upvote stuff to the front page.

If one business model fails, you take the same office environment and temporarily convert the workers to doing another task. Or you have a mixture of tasks going on simultaneously for the click workers.

People with difficult accents or less than optimal phone skills, that cannot successfully scam a person and then transfer them to the higher-ranked "closer", are positioned for these click worker tasks.
OpenAI: Gym Retro (2018)
We should make sure that the media landscape contains a wide range of political thought, including ideas that you or I might individually find wrong-headed and offensive. That's how we ended up with the Fairness Doctrine from the 50s to the 80s, when broadcast media was monopolized to a comparable degree as social media today.
> There's a person or firm who is doing black-hat content marketing at scale.

No!!! You don't say!
Even if he is Christian; it's kind of strange to me that people don't realize that other cultures will use Western cultural references that might be very "heavy" in a different, much more casual way. I mean, Western companies talk about code "ninjas" all the time; and I have heard a few samurai and zen references too.

Japan talking about Christians isn't particularly different. Christianity and comparisons to it are made relatively casually, with much less cultural weight than they would have in the US or Europe. Here's a Japanese rap song [1] whose lyrics [2] go, "As the Bible is to a devout Christian, so to me is is the Zulu Nation" (translation [2]).

So in my opinion the "internet Jesus uses secret creed" thing is at least mildly clickbaity. It'd be the equivalent of seizing upon the name "Zen of Python" to write an article about "A Language with a simplicity driven by Buddhism".

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnJMBcQFNME#t=2m51s

[2] https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-aklo-rgto-eng...
How can an intermediary possibly help?

Notion has to have access to your data to work their app.

Add an intermediary and now you have somebody else who has access to your data.
I am making a Youtube video series about the TMS9918A. So far, I’ve driven it with an Arduino and a 6502. The next video will get VRAM hooked up.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3itg4Usn3F-24qjSrlY4...
I've been using something called Intermezzo, which is basically 'baby Ambien'. It's a crazy mild dose, sublingual so you don't need to even get up and swallow a pill. Knocks you out for maybe 4 hours on a good day. The idea is to knock you out just enough to get you into a sleeping habit on your own, not sedate you into oblivion.

It works OK, I guess, but every now and then I power through it and end up having not so much a trip as ... something like lucid dreams written by a bored, disinterested TV script writer.
Welcome to the world of black hat services => https://www.blackhatworld.com/forums/seo-packages.206/
For some reason that didn't hit me at all. Perhaps I was already in a mode to draw a link. Apologies.
I'm not trying to suggest that this is the answer/reason for your particular anecdote but it could have nothing to do with USB-C itself and simply be unnecessary physical wear put on by the user. I think you can find anecdotes in either direction for this particular case.
Is this even legal? Can a company prevent employees from talking about the company breaking the law. I don't see how this could be enforceable. Assuming they are indeed found to have broken the law.
This is not the scenario described. The scenario is that all of these web sites allow 419 scams for years, and then all of the sudden in the same week they all decide to ban 419 scams. That would be really strange, don't you think?
Looks like some recent synthetic diamonds manage pressure in the TPa regime! 1 order of magnitude higher than that required for this experiment.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/7/e1600341
Category links on the wiki article? Down at the bottom
a few years ago everything that mattered was on the local machine (apps + files) and there was some interoperability among apps (+ standards around files)

now most of what matters is siloed in saas tools and we access those through browsers or siloed browsers

time to re-design

https://twitter.com/__tosh/status/1316534733719908352
I see ridiculous (even virulent) hot takes blasted out by overwhelmingly left-leaning major media orgs with near zero consequences on twitter and facebook. Half the time, this stuff proves to be incomplete - borderline maliciously so - or even factually incorrect, within days.

I'm still hearing daily from people who think Breonna Taylor was shot in her sleep.

Regardless of how you lean politically, this behavior should scare you. People with more power than you can censor at will while the public has basically no recourse.
There is skeptical and there is censorship.
But wouldn't everyone just take one then? And wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose of minimizing the e-waste?
Motorola made 68xx, MOS Technologies made the short-lived 6501 which became the famous $25.00 6502 with some tweaks.
Buzzfeed has been deemed left, which is a category beyond left-leaning, by an objective fact-checker [1].

As one example of why:

> In June 2016, the left-leaning media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting found that in 100 BuzzFeed stories about Barack Obama, 65 were positive, 34 were neutral, and one was critical.

[1] https://www.allsides.com/news-source/buzzfeed-media-bias
iPhones don’t collect biometric data other than locally, and even then only in a form that would never be useful to anyone (hashed and stored on Secure Enclave).
The NY Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has been a conservative-media mogul for over 30 years.

Did you confuse the NY Post with the Washington Post?
No it is not. Inventory, for example, can have two basis values, taxable inventory, and fixed asset inventory value. One is what the IRS requires via GAAP reporting, and the other is used to secure lines of credit.
I know many such developers who work at these companies helping build these products and who hate these policies; they don't work on whatever feels most direct like the evil feature itself, but they don't seem to have an issue working for the company helping build parts of the UI or networking or whatever.
It was! The 8-bit SMS/Game Gear version was introduced in 1991.
Looking forward to seeing folks talking to their earrings, walls, wrists, speakers, showerheads, kitchen appliances as if the phone wasn’t enough of an intrusion in our lives. Im certain it’s a passing thing.

The earrings look great, one can’t even tell they’re borg. The only problem that I see is that they won’t be kept for as long as regular earrings, a generation or two and hop in the landfill. The same is true for a lot of technology things nowadays. Any idea how to change the trend and make things more lasting?
Um no, it’s a public welfare act.
That hit at 3:28 is very close to targeting. Not that an 8th grader should know to not do that. I mean, he's what, 13? But the refs and coaches aren't watching and guiding the kids well enough.

That said, good on Snoop for sponsoring these activities.
That is not a reasonable way to evaluate the situation. Sure, some people have broken immune systems, and there can be a new and different virus that evolves from the old one but doesn't earn a distinct name. That doesn't count.

He is immune. Similarly, we say that cars can cross the Golden Gate Bridge, despite the fact that the bridge could be destroyed (by bombing for example) or that one could call the NASA crawler-transporter a "car" that is 90 feet wide. Absurd, exotic, and rare possibilities don't change the basic truth.

Vaccines do work like getting the illness, or less so. The illness is nearly certain to provide long-term immunity, but a vaccine is not quite so likely. Those who can't generate immunity will survive the vaccine but not the illness.
If it's the politics of antitrust attention in Google's direction, then it can provide liability to Google. An employee saying in an email "Wow, they didn't want to sell to us so we crushed them. Antitrust folks won't like it but it's what they get for not selling to us."

That, or other language about "crushing" competition isn't going to play well when an antitrust investigation reveals it.
Some government call centers got mistakenly labeled ‘Spam Likely’. People were denied food stamps and other benefits for missing phone interviews from these numbers.

Took a long time to clear up in California.
Nope, it's because they added caller ID spoofing capabilities that nobody asked for, and regulators didn't stop them because Republicans installed telecom lobbyists to be the regulators.
Can you prove algorithmic based information from a Twitter feed does not influence your behavior or opinions?

Twitter itself as a organization is not making you believe anything specifically. However the information presented to you may influence your ideas and potentially your behavior.
Everything for my PC is one of:

1) Web based (something lightweight like ChromeOS can do it)

2) Command line (easy to ssh into a remote box)

3) IDE (heavy)

I only need a light weight terminal for 1&2 but 3 keeps tripping me up. Would be great if IntelliJ ran with remote back end.
I don't think consumers are responsible for ruining online ratings. I think companies are responsible for gamifying/training their users to ruin online ratings.
It might be as elusive as efficient nuclear fusion.
Look, if $30 makes the difference in purchasing a $1000 phone, maybe it’s time to re-evaluate your financial picture. If this is seriously the biggest thing people have to gripe about with the announcement then I’d say Apple did well.
So by your logic we should just delay any posting of news so that it can be vetted by other outlets, which defeats the entire purpose of getting scoops. Plenty of false stories have been spread by big outlets, including CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News, etc...no one has said we should censor those stories. Who gets to draw the line and when? So far -every- proposal I've seen targets one group and isn't broadly applied.
But that's the whole point. You'll buy one at that point because you need it. Giving people the brick whether they need it or not is what makes it wasteful and costly for all involved.
Perhaps Twitter is being set up as a sacrificial lamb to quell the Techlash. In that case, I'm wrong.

But I don't think Section 230 will be repealed. The US government doesn't want to destroy the tech giants. It wants to use them to expand its global influence.
an interesting take, I think you're onto something
I have to ask if they were dropped on their head as a child or regularly chewed lead paint - because undermining encryption is the stupidest thing that a first world nation could do economically. I can only call it "nationally suicidial" and hope that the term catches on so that even tech-illiterate hawks realize it is the worst idea.

Their first world military superiority is powered by the economy is dependent upon information work, networked secure banking, and internet services which all rest upon encryption and secure data. Even with the infamously high US military spending relative to the world the defense GDP share isn't at the top because of the sheer size of it.

It is behavior so mindbogglingly stupid that it would require something supernatural enabled by secure encryption that they are trying to suppress Men In Black style to begin to make sense.
Every search company will be expected to have machine learning capabilities. However, if you simply bolt them on top instead of considering the fast volume of additional data as part of the core engine, the experience will suffer greatly and the results will be subpar.

It was interesting to see their 30% average conversion rate improvement claim considering they lost a big customer to Sajari after we improved their conversion by 10% (and growing) https://www.sajari.com/use-cases/case-studies/catch-com-au-e...

To be fair, Algolia's marketing is great. They did a great job with the announcement. Looking forward to so how well it actually works and what the pricing is going to be. I don't think OpenAI have announced pricing for the GPT-3 service (which this is based on) yet, but I'm certain it won't be cheap to start with.
I'm not sure what argument you're making here. Twitter is a public forum akin to a government institution and is now censoring political viewpoints it disagrees with. You shouldn't be surprised that free speech advocates are livid about this and perplexed at those who would defend such a thing.
> A browser that's not pushed by an advertising company is really important. If we lose Firefox, we lose badly

Agreed. I'm encouraged at the thought of Google being forced to divest from Chrome by US antitrust action [1] [2].

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2020/10/13/what-would-google-be-...

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/10/feds-may-target-goo...
I would presume there is a 1099 or W2 somewhere, unless this is happening internationally.
>Which services banned Trump's recent medical report? I would have assumed "Twitter blocks Trump medical record release" had been in the news and cannot find a single story about it.

Because that's not how censorship works. You don't block it and then draw attention to the thing you blocked. That would be counter productive. Here, have a look at this,

https://imgur.com/H26C0dS

Now look at

https://twitter.com/thelastrefuge2

and all you can see is a retweet of

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1315101764958539777

Twitter also regularly bans and blocks things temporarily while they're trending to stop the spread. Once attention has moved to another issue, they sometimes lift the restrictions. In effect, deleting their censorship actions.
The freedom of speech means that government can't prosecute you for having an opinion. It doesn't require anyone too listen to you. It also only applies to the government.
Can it report Mozilla Decision Regrets? Because this is such a out of focus feature from a company that develops the only browser that's not developed by for-profit company and not chromium based.

This looks even worse to after reading that many brilliant engineers were let go due to financial reasons.