skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find Wikipedia is increasingly relying upon meta-circular authority.

It also relies upon authority by fiat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspira...

> The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is a series of false allegations which assert that 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden engaged in corrupt activities while the former was Vice President of the United States and the latter worked for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma. The conspiracy theory centers around the allegation that then-Vice President Biden withheld loan guarantees to pressure Ukraine into firing a prosecutor so as to prevent a corruption investigation into Burisma and to protect his son. Although Biden did withhold government aid to pressure Ukraine into removing the prosecutor, this was the official foreign policy of the United States government as it believed the prosecutor to be too lenient in investigating corruption; this position was also supported by American allies. A New York Post article published in October 2020 brought renewed attention to the allegations; its veracity was strongly questioned elsewhere.

These statements are "problematic" in a number of ways, and the whole situation (of which this is just one example) is that most people seem to believe that what is recorded on Wikipedia is necessarily factual. It's bad enough that we have this same problem with the media, but at least some people realize that the media is biased. Wikipedia on the other hand, is more of a "record of history" and is typically considered (despite "official" (unread) policies advising otherwise) to be an unbiased ~authoritative snapshot of the state of reality.

The fact of the matter is, the complete truth of what has occurred here is unknown, and it's quite interesting from a psychological perspective how otherwise logical people are very uncomfortable with that truth. <NULL> in a database column is accepted by the mind with no resistance - <NULL> in the real world is very often rejected extremely strongly by the very same mind. It would be interesting to see what mankind might achieve if we were able to find a way to not turn our eyes (and minds) away from such phenomena when they manifest.
Same experience. I tried, but Linux just isn’t ready to be used as a general OS right now.

I’ve dug through message boards and bug reports, and a lot of the features that MacOS has will never be implemented. I’m taking about features released 13+ years ago on OS X 10.4.
Just some recent numbers because I just replaced some drives in my home server...

I grabbed 2x14TB Seagate EXOS drives for $250USD each.

A 14TB WD Ultrastar looks to be a bit over $400USD each.

For 25% more you can get 200% the capacity with the Seagate drives. So for 25% more I can run RAID1 and have redundancy versus a single WD Ultrastar.
I think the point being made is that a deep network (GPT-3 was the example with 175B parameters) will (due to the virtue of its size) not have any 'local optima' in the sense that there is no traditional 'local' for these high dimensional places. This is because as the # of dimensions increases it is easier to move away from or towards both better or worse parameter sets. Thus optimization algorithms don't have to be concerned about being trapped in a 'local optima'. Also because there are many good parameter sets not all parameters even need be used to get good results, thus processes like distillation can work.
I don't know about bsd, but there's lots of documentation on how selinux works (including source code) and information on how to alter its behavior in a fine-grained fashion. and selinux doesn't leave itself a backdoor (as far as the nsa has told us)
still laggy for me too but the lag factor is now lower than the google-annoys-me factor
For secure code, maintainability matters
A good CI/CD, with some precommits and a containerised stack should avoid you all those troubles.
Also, nothing force you to update to the newest version, you can stay approximately 5y on the same release, but keeping the pace makes the upgrades less costly and less risky in the long run because you don't accumulate deprecated features, you're forced to cleanup the abandoned dependencies, ... It also makes the team happier and more attractive when recruiting.
It's actually using yahoo store builder. pg has no control over it, because yahoo owns it. He mentioned that to me when I reported that the mobile interface broke various parts of his site.
I have enough problems dealing with time on this planet. This is going to break a lot of software and software developers instantly :)
I've become a huge fan of Linux Mint. It looks amazing and unlike before now there are no driver related issues (the thing that kept me from using it all this time).

The only thing I miss is Photoshop but I really can't think of a single reason besides that to not use Linux anymore.
> The Missionaria Protectiva is referenced at quite a few points in the novels.

Right. The Bene Gesserit had spent millennia spreading "myths" (AKA propaganda) throughout various societies for their own purposes, i.e., "politics". Herbert is alluding to how mythology and religion have always been exploited to serve the selfish interests of those in power.
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If everyone had this mindset, we will still be in the Stone Age, things can and should always be made better.

Minute progressive changes to systems that already supposedly work end up bringing about systems that work better.
I created a slightly different kind of bot for my website (https://dwayne.xyz/utils/bot). It started as a bot for Twitch (Twitch bots usually only respond to a list of commands that start with !) and then I started to add it to other parts of my site. First, into my IRC server, then into the 1 on 1 (+1?) video/text chat rooms I added.

The base commands are things like !help, !about, !coin (simulates a coin toss), and then I added a little NLP on top to translate to one of those commands. I feel like that works a lot better than a general conversational bot that most likely isn't gonna respond in meaningful ways to most queries.
Will this really be able to replace wageworkers, or will this just be a passing fad? The price tag and servicing fees may make this inefficient for some joints. Although with some states fighting for higher minimum wages, we might have a case of McDonald's tap-to-order stations again
>but is "trust" really something that applies to companies at all?

Of course, It's called branding. Promises that aren't kept are still promises that aren't kept, and Apple was traditionally known for going beyond expectations, it's the core of their brand.

Some companies are more B2B business and developer friendly, like MS and FB, and others like Apple and Amazon are the opposite, they're first and foremost about B2C and mainstream customers.

Apple is less B2B focused than before because of the iPhone.
They don't have to attract devs by giving them the best tools, they can attract them because of their market share among solvent customers on mobile alone.
That really depends but on average it will be more difficult and there will be a lot of boiler plate.
name some foundational advances Google has made.

Throwing 100x more resources at AI ideas from the 70s isn't an foundational advance.
It actually went well, I’m not sure why the title is editorialized: he complained and infringers stopped infringing and making money off his work. Job done.
Easy to bypass. Apple will just talk directly to 17.x.y.z or akamai.
Yes - definitely not bad content (quite good, in fact), but just not aimed at the traditional HN crowd.
Wow, I'm sorry this was such a hassle for you. I think things have gotten better in the meantime. My father died last year and I decided to digitize our home videos to reminisce with.

The capture part was easy enough, did it over a single weekend. I bought a camera that could play the tapes (~$100) and an Elgato Video Capture (~$80). Quality was as good as possible from the tapes and no audio issues. I also did not want to use a third party because I was concerned they might botch the job / lose the irreplaceable tapes / etc.

The editing took about a month, I've never done video editing before. I just loaded up stuff in iMovie and grouped stuff together as it made sense to me. Most of the time was spent just watching the videos (I think I had around 60 hours of footage) which was enjoyable and necessary.

In terms of sharing, I paid a friend who does video editing to make a supercut of all the best moments and I screened it at the family Christmas (many laughs and tears). I gave folks thumb drives of clips that were specific to them, but honestly I'm not sure if people even watched them. The movie format made it more digestible.

If anyone wants the Elgato, I still have it and can give it to you for the cost of shipping. Also happy to refer you to my friend for editing needs, he's very affordable.
responding to both children as they're related:

Enginerrrd said:

> The syntax here doesn't otherwise communicate that to me at all.

Assuming I'm understanding you correctly, that's my point. If the syntax doesn't communicate intent, it suggests a usability limitation.

frankmcsherry said:

> Naming things is hard.

Agreed. Hence point about readability being a personal thing. In this case though, look again at the comment and the line of code. I'd suggest that very few people, on reading the code without the comment, would guess that it was creating a new dataflow computation.

> In this case, the command does not create a new dataflow, it creates a new timely dataflow computation

Good point, thanks for the correction.
>where participating in one community automatically bans you from other communities

This absolutely does happen.

I got banned from /r/offmychest, for example, despite never commenting or submitting anything to that subreddit.

When I asked for a reason for the ban, I was told there is a tool that mods can use which will automatically ban accounts who "participate" in specific subreddits that the moderator deems "bad".

The rest of their reply to me was: "We are automatically banning participants in specific abusive hatereddits that have systematically harmed this support community."

Alongside /r/offmychest, I was also banned from /r/blacklivesmatter, /r/depression, /r/relationships, and who knows what other ones because I got tired of trying to find out. Literally never interacted with any of these in any way, yet I'm already banned from them...

>regardless of the content and context of your reputation

If they had bothered looking at the "content and context" of my singular, years-old comment then they would have realized I was actually criticizing the subreddit in question (and its users) rather than supporting them. Instead, I was preemptively banned from multiple communities.
Clickable: https://naminus.com/

I tried entering "tpu" which broke it. :) But then I tried "test" which worked. Nice site!
I think this is the main issue. If google limited itself to good old search it would be all fine but they are trying to tangle themselves into _everything_ and you can no longer avoid them.

Take app store as an example: if you are a digital company you need an app, which probably means you pay 30% of you earnings to either google or apple.

... Who may also be your competitors, since they are trying to get into every possible business.
I could take this argument...if their search was relevant to finding info and not product.
The resolution is really bad though. Doesn’t it mess with the camera backups, when there’s low resolution versions backed up from the WhatsApp media folders?
Couldn't agree more, the adtech is where the monopoly lies. I worked for a doubleclick / ads 360 competitor and it was so plain that Google used its dominant position not only to squash competitors like us but also to further obscure the auction mechanisms. Today it's a challenge to specify exactly what you want to bid for a given keyword, in part for the better since it dramatically reduces complexity for advertisers but it does remove a lot of the control and hands it back to... Google. Ultimately the auction is completely irrelevant since Google decides which ads will show and by extension whose ad money they'll pocket. In addition to that, Google charges premium for ad space even in non-competitive markets; I'm talking about what you end up paying for a top spot although there are no other actors in the auction for a particular keyword (even in broader matches). While one could argue that it's up to them as a publisher to decide what a spot is worth, this mechanism is completely obscure and you will only ever find out in hindsight through what you pay for the traffic.
The idea is is this:

* Enabling LE to read encrypted content == backdoor

* Backdoor == unviable, because it weakens encryption for everyone, and will be abused.

* Therefore, you need a way to help everyone (including LE) navigate/filter/investigate/discover/block content out there. Subjective reputation feeds give a way of doing so.
No, but it probably helps perpetuate it that there's many free illustration packs featuring them.

At least if I understand you correctly to mean the cartoony faceless curvy people.
I use Trip Mode for that (https://tripmode.ch/). Though, it's not unlikely it'll have the same issues described in the OP, it does seem to block Apple stuff on Mojave.
what dominance?
>So only those who can afford it are able to get tutorials on how to fix their sink and tie a tie but poor people can keep getting poorer?

does the same logic also apply to the tools you use to fix the sink? I really have to laugh about this borderline gaslighting attempt that Google and Facebook have come up with to justify their ad monopolies. As if having to pay for information is any more objectionable than having to pay for anything else. The only reason they've concocted this terrible argument is because free stuff is how they get their fangs into everyone.
Amazon would just point to Walmart as the market leader since Walmart has double the revenue.
Definitely something I'd love to get around to doing eventually! Although I was an aspiring film director when I was 10 so we've got plenty of horrible unfinished attempts of storytelling and stop-motion which I don't want to see again.
Wow - really cool & congrats...

Sort of reminds me of a handful of RegBI tools - like Periscope Data. But the marketing/positioning is "this is for internal teams". I suppose another important difference here is that you can write to the database from the interface. The API out-of-the-box is pretty neat too.

I gave it a quick spin after watching the demo. Large tables take a while to refresh. I dont know if thats just extra load on the servers after the announcement. I would imagine getting latency down, especially for queries with many columns or rows, would be important to UX.
> EM: Will you establish any kind of foundation or charity or something like that?

> TL: No, I won't. They're mostly rip-offs.

Having interned/worked in three INGOs (Save the Children, World Concern and UNICEF) for a total of ~2 years, and having a family member who have worked in a well-known French NGO (ACF International)for 3+ years, I have to agree with this assessment.

That's why when I donate money to charities, I'm very selective and make sure the charities I donate are NOT affiliated with religion (ahem, Save the Children and World Concern) or any political agenda (UNICEF). The truth in INGOs is that they need constant stream of funding and sometimes, they make up/exaggerate stuff to help drive the donations.

Worse is, when you actually work with people in NGOs, you'll find there is a stark difference in pay and benefits between foreigner (usually white or English speaking) and the local/native employees although the latter are the ones who know much more about the actual problems. Regional directors in UNICEF come and go every two years or less and they always can't wait to get out of the shithole third world country that they are supposed to be helping about. They and their fellow (foreign) workers are also paid very well with car, housing and children education benefits (all of which I'm not opposed to, but I'm sure as hell that they cannot find an equally well-paying job with their degrees and credentials in their home countries). Plus you never find these regional directors and management people at work (meaning, they show up to work like maybe once a week if we are lucky; no, they are not in the field working, which is left to the native employees of said INGO).
Too bad :-/
That isn't what I'm arguing at all.
So sorry for the late reply, yes i created all of them. Thanks :)
just checked my history, my first result was "froalla", happened more than once

(the query must have been "quill js" or "quill editor" cant remember -- it's an example of the infamous 'google® tax' - an obviously keyword-targeted ad)
Add recurrent sound issues to the list. Also sub-par touchpad support.
Amazing adaption of same quote by zen pencils : https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/90-ira-glass-advice-for-beg...
Julia is an interesting language. I see that there's a lot of excitement for it, but most excitement seems to come from data scientists who are heavier on the engineer side. For almost all of the rest of the data scientists I know, Python seems "more than good enough".

Also to note, Julia has seen a rise over the last few years, but so has Python, its primary competitor in the data science field.
These are still actively and continuously discussed in right wing and conservative circles, it’s just these are today denied the label of “intellectual” and “mainstream”.
A private equity firm's incentives are almost always not aligned with what's best for the customer of the company and its people.

I've witnessed a P/E firm gut a pretty big firm, ship all the tech work to India, layoff most of the SV employees for quick "value extraction".
Hi HN! Excited to post about Appsmith. We built Appsmith because every company spends too much time building custom internal tools even though engineers don't like working on it.

There are a lot of low code products in the market, but none of them are open source. We believe an internal tool builder like Appsmith is part of you core tech stack and thus should be open source.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly and we ban such accounts because that's not what this site is for.

You also broke several other guidelines with this comment, such as the ones against accusations of brigading and going on about downvotes. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Check this: https://appdrag.com
There is a pagebuilder producing real code that you can export and also a cloud sql db and API builder also producing real code (node.js) that you can modify and/or export and run on your own.

Static files are stored in S3 and served by cloudfront. API endpoints are served by AWS Lambda, so it's quite fast and scalable.

It's also supporting advanced features like SSR and translations.

It's a low code solution, easy to use for non coders, and full access to source and advanced backend features for devs.

Disclaimer: I am the CTO ;)

Documentation: https://support.appdrag.com/
Maybe I'm missing something here, how does having a hashed lists of "bad" message IDs allow LE to navigate/investigate/discover content? From what I can see it only tells you there's something to block, and you can't even reverse it to "investigate" much of anything.
Could you share the link to the place that digitized the VHSs for you?
I love Julia, but I think comparing Pyro with Turing is pretty unfair.

Pyro can scale to pretty big datasets thanks to custom inference via guides. So you can do inference on pretty sophisticated models such as Deep Markov.

Whereas Turing is mostly for small or medium sized models. For learning purposes, for smaller models or for non-parametrics Turing might be a much better choice, though.
Eh, thanks for the info on MTProto2. They made poor decisions initially, and doubled down on them, and thus I didn't (and still don't) think it worth my time to follow their changelog.

The contests are not remotely sufficient. Here's a good article:

https://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypt...

"I’ll repeat it again: If you want to show that a system is secure, give the adversary as much power as possible, and if they still can’t break it, the security is good."

Secure protocols take a lot of expert analysis to build consensus that they're worthwhile. That requires engaging with the community of researchers on their own terms and using established best practices.

Finally, Telegram's server code is still closed source and thus can't be reasonably audited. Could an attacker (or state actor) with server access decrypt stored messages? Maybe! That's why default e2e encryption with well-audited, open-source code is the gold standard...
I love pitch, going into Google slides, my default is always ugly slides (I'm far far from any designer). Default going into Pitch are beautiful slides, which are fun to work on because it makes it easy to make them beautiful.

Easy to use and collaborate on as well.

From the outside I tend to be almost as cynical: is it that much of a difference to become a killer enterprise tool taking marketshare from Google slides ? I never saw a big difference between Zoom and Google meet, even worse, for Zoom you had to download something, but as it happens, Zoom became a behemoth, so now my mind is open to even minuscule improvements over incumbents can sort lead to a run off growth and usage cycle.
There’s a current Fall 2020 class at MIT that uses Julia.

https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/Fall20/

There’s a live video on ray tracing starting in about 20 minutes

https://youtu.be/MkkZb5V6HqM
Why interop with a language that already solves the problems? Just use that language.
> One of the biggest things holding people back from doing great work is the fear of making something lame.

No, the biggest thing holding people back from doing great work is resources. Everything else is a distant concern.

Remember what Y Combinator does? It connects people with resources, to people who claim they'll do great work.

Good, boring, mundane redistribution of resources from old rich people to young capable people. Good, do more of that and please spare us your 'wisdom' - it leads to bullshit artists whose sole skill is 'appreciating' your 'wisdom' to insert themselves into the process and ruin the whole thing.