skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed: 3. Cases where Google doesn't follow standards.

There are plenty. People are just coding to Chrome instead of standards, just like they coded to IE instead of standards.

> This was not the case for IE6.

It sure was. For years. IE6 was a _much_ better browser than the contemporary Netscape versions, for example.
> Maybe we didn’t earn our successes… but is that such a bad thing?

> Sometimes Imposter Syndrome is about accepting that life is unfair.

I love how this kind of reasoning co-exists with, while being seemingly completely oblivious of, the narrative about privilege, that modern sin in the church of social justice. If you didn't earn your success, and are where you are because life is unfair, does this make you privileged? If so, is this bad? The article doesn't seem to think so. If not, why are other manifestations of privilege bad?
Interesting project.

1. How soon will you announce pricing?

2. In terms of feature parity, how close are you to matching Retool?
That's how typical Apple "magical/just works" features are implemented, i.e. very ugly behind the curtain.

Documenting means revealing the edge cases and the limitations, which engineering knows is the best kind of documentation. But marketing people are invested in the "magic".

Marketing people have too much sway at Apple.
Which part (if any) of the linked post is manufactured or disinformation?
I'm not in the military, I've no interest in it. I mis-spoke and said army instead of navy and you think I'm writing falsehoods. When I realised my mistake, I came back to correct it! That's ethics! I eat my dogfood.

Yes, I also expressed a bit of distaste at the way you had missed the main point of what I was saying. You want to nitpick and call me a liar.

So, judge yourself. You want to critique an error of mine, but will swallow whatever BS some random online publication puts out.

Whatevs.
Ever heard of "Muslim Shower"?
Personally* I have doubts[1] about this reasoning, in that it doesn't cover how this would not apply to the New York Times.

I can agree with your interpretation that where the protection of section 230 applies companies would be allowed to remove basically whatever they want.

But there need to be a criterion distinguishing why Twitter can claim this immunity while newspapers cannot. The rights granted need to have some kind of obligation.

From what I understand the people that are trying to attack this immunity have mostly given up with the argument "Twitter monopolized a space for discussions so it should be held to constitutional standards like telephone companies" or "social media platforms are clearly acting as publishers of their content" and are rather trying to push "social media companies falsely promised open forums to users and content creators only to hit them with draconian rules once a monopoly was established" (had facebook (or youtube) had the same ToS since its inception it would have never become a monopoly).

With this last argument the entire question of section 230 is sidestepped.

As far as I understand it will not actually accomplish anything soon; a lawsuit on these premises was successful against Patreon, but those were very special circumstances.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/13/proving-too-much/

* I am even more remote from the US than a Canadian lawyer, but I do not see my role as telling the courts what they should do, but rather as someone that is trying to understand what is happening and trying to develop informed opinions.
A court case by whom against whom?
Think of companies more like nation states than people and it will make more sense.

The organization is still molded heavily by those in power, but it is what the organization “stands for” that you must put your trust in.

For example, the United States is a republic and stands for “freedom and justice for all.”

As we have seen, different people in leadership will interpret these foundational ideas differently and will take actions accordingly.

It’s worth asking again what Apple stands for.

The company has made privacy and thus security core values. However, above that is a goal to make _the best_ products of any company, which as Jobs put it is a matter of “taste.”

So the sentiment of feeling as though Apple’s networking software and developer api choices deviate from your taste has to be measured against one’s support of these other values, and whether one believes Apple’s leadership succession will be measured and protected from weakness.
IP6 on AWS ECS is a pain, and impossible if you use their recommended and dedicated command line tool.
Show HN: [GitHub] Mark Pull Request as depending on another
I have been using windows, apple and Linux (KDE) on a daily basis and handle all os' quite well.

KDE is by far my preference and in general I don't think neither windows nor macos has fewer problems despite the price tag.

After hearing the "it just works" mantra of apple users for many years I was surprised to find I had at least as many glitches on the Mac as I did on KDE (win 7 was better, 10 has more problems ime).

(I use my computers for development and sysadmin, not gaming or art)
see: https://examine.com/supplements/curcumin/

Probably not snake oil. Though maybe better to supplement with the extracts directly
> From a Python programmer perspective, how does CUDA.jl compare to PyCUDA?

I think the relevant comparison today is with Numba, here's a real world recurrence analysis,

@cuda.jit
def _sseij(Y, I, J, O):
# strides
sty = cuda.blockDim.x
sbx = sty * cuda.blockDim.y
sby = sbx * cuda.gridDim.x
sbz = sby * cuda.gridDim.y
# this thread's index
t = (cuda.threadIdx.x
+ cuda.threadIdx.y * sty
+ cuda.blockIdx.x * sbx
+ cuda.blockIdx.y * sby
+ cuda.blockIdx.z * sbz)
if t < I.size:
i = I[t]
j = J[t]
x = nb.float32(0.0)
for k in range(Y.shape[0]):
x += (Y[k, i] - Y[k, j])**2
O[t] = math.sqrt(x)

most of it is index calculation, but super easy
S-Video output on SVHC players is active for both VHS and S-VHS tapes. VHS (normal) signal is not exactly the same as composite, the Y and C signals are encoded differently, meaning there _can_ be a benefit from only decoding VHS and not re-encoding into composite.
Actively managed funds (hedge/mutual)
Zoom into 2020, and you can clearly see when the lockdowns due to the pandemic start on that chart. The other interesting artifact is that it looks like IPv6 network rollout tends to almost exclusively happen in the April-July timeframe.
What local news articles could look like if news websites were not so horrible
There is no point in doing solar systems - the turn around time to the next star is ~ 8 years. Nobody will make a phone call with that sort of latency. It will be email (or videos) if anything at all.

Even in this solar system only Venus and Mars can you even think about a phone call from earth - and then only for a few days when the orbits align closely. The rest of the time the latency will be too bad. Even when it is possible you will need special training to deal with the latency - it will be more of a monologue not a conversation, with pre-planed handoff times for the other side to state their bit.

The moon will be possible, but most people who try it will find it annoying enough that they will avoid it. If grandma didn't go with you that it will be the only way to talk to the grandkids so it will be done, but if the moon ever becomes self-sustaining expect that there isn't a lot of communication back and forth.

There is a reason satellite never took off for long distance calls - it works but people hated it because the other party didn't respond fast enough. Geosynchronous orbit is only used for calls where there isn't an underseas cable (I don't know if any such satellites are even left in orbit).
Whether they have the effect of "[de-legitimizing] voices not in ideological lockstep with their own", the stated goal is often to prevent brigading. If you don't think that's a real problem, don't think that people are seeking solutions in good faith, or don't think these solutions are effective, please say that.
WA has some municipal fiber networks. In my county, you can get hooked up if you foot the bill to extend the network to your property and find a retail provider to service your account. There's an online map that shows where the fiber currently is, you'll save a bunch of money on fiber construction if you build near where it already is.
I was really confused for a moment, because the article mention CUDA a lot, which is a nvidia-specific API/framework/language. I guess that's mainly to appeal to the CUDA crowd? However, Julia being seemingly based on LLVM, interfacing it with AMD GPUs should be quite doable:

> Much of the initial work focused on developing tools that make it possible to write low-level code in Julia. For example, we developed the LLVM.jl package that gives us access to the LLVM APIs. Recently, our focus has shifted towards generalizing this functionality so that other GPU back-ends, like AMDGPU.jl or oneAPI.jl can benefit from developments to CUDA.jl. Vendor-neutral array operations, for examples, are now implemented in GPUArrays.jl whereas shared compiler functionality now lives in GPUCompiler.jl. That should make it possible to work on several GPU back-ends, even though most of them are maintained by only a single developer.

This is the takeaway to me. First-class access to GPU accelerators using the same syntax, regardless of the vendor :)
Nigerian soldiers shoot at unarmed EndSARS protesters [video]
Can you elaborate on the differences between Appsmith and Retool from a feature standpoint?
This is what I think about when I'm told I should use /64s for point-to-point links in v6.
> Their job is to represent their client and bring about the best case possible

To be clear, the current issue is not that they do or don't believe the case on its merits, but that they don't believe they have enough time to push the best case possible.
China would start any prospective war, and it would be over Taiwan. Their rhetoric on the subject has ramped up substantially.
I never had Encarta, but I grew up with a digital version of World Book Encyclopedia, bundled with my family's ancient iMac G4, and it gave me similar feelings to what this article describes.
Or you reserved the string ahead of time or it was reused and not zeroed properly or there is more than 1 null in the data and copying must be done with care.

Again, it's doable, or you can validate the string once (including more than "it's valid encoding") and make a ton of safe assumptions later instead of each thing that interacts with the string. UTF or not.
Just do GMT and ignore the sun. It's not like we have people waking up and opening the curtains any time soon.
apt-get.

More precisely, the repos; When you activate IPv6 on Debian, then apt-get (the package manager) is extremely slow. This is because it first tries to reach a repo in IPv6, then after 30s falls back to IPv4. If you disable IPv4, it is lightening fast. Many services behave the same way, to the point that computers are generally faster on IPv4.

Maybe it changed recently but it wasn’t the case for the last 10 years and I’ve quit trying, and I’m not knowledgeable enough to configure the Debian system far from the defaults.

Edit: Maybe it is my ISPs who don’t support IPv6, which makes it hard to improve because the problem is invisible for, for example, Debian developers who work on IPv6 support.
Reddit, twitter, facebook are just three to start. There are plenty that disallow crawlers except google. We've crawled a significant amount now and just because you are unaware of them doesn't mean they don't exist. I can attest they're there.

I'll also add plenty of sites don't block any engine but confer special privileges to google bot which depending on the site and their size are almost the same thing.

Edit: And I'll add to limit confusion Reddit hides the sitemap and denies access there's is not an outright ban -- it just makes it a lot harder.
Workforce Foundation
Yes, it's clear that using a broken capture device or a system that doesn't properly sync the timestamps between video and audio captures (ie: driver issue) is the core issue.

Just choosing a different capture device or finding one with less broken driver support would have been workable.
> ...only allow connections to IPs that were received by DNS

Works for a home / office setup. I think the main use of DoH is circumventing government enforced censorships, to an extent that it can.

For ISPs to use "packet sizes" they'd need to run stateful firewalls at scale, which is unheard of, and possibly very expensive to run at that scale.
> And, yes, Republicans right now are much more likely to be skeptical of Silicon Valley giants than are Democrats

That wasn't the claim raised or addressed.
From the paper:

"Locations are defined at the level of countries, except for the USA where they are defined at the level of
states and China is separated into Wuhan and non-Wuhan areas."
How to check email deliverability score and identify problems
>in hindsight, a lot of that behavior looks like it was really clandestine signaling allowing neo-Nazis to find each other.

Of course it was. The premise that racists wouldn't take advantage of communities which let them communicate openly and gave them the plausible deniability of "irony" while doing so is absurd. Why wouldn't they, when the community "mocks" them by acting just like them, reinforcing their beliefs, spreading their gospel and making them feel as at home as possible?

I mean, it's not exactly a scathing rebuke, is it?
If the data is fundamentally 1D then why is it arranged with insets and multiple columns ?

I think the answer is that it's arranged that way because that arrangement makes it easier for humans to interpret. Because humans prefer to see data in such 2D arrangements, file formats like PDF were developed so that 2D layouts could be defined and preserved across platforms.

Hence the fundamental problem here is that we want computers to be able to read data that is designed for human readability. That is not an easy problem and it is in fact a large part of what people mean when they talk about "AI".
So is it worth having any of these things at all, or are they inevitably a net negative in the long run anyway?
A timeline visualization of Trump's claims that Covid-19 will vanish
https://system76.com

https://puri.sm

https://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed

and many more.
Lots of profit in those service contracts.
Yeah, plenty as my wife and I had several. It was looking for a while there like HTC was going to become Microsoft’s phone hardware branch. The phones were good enough that I failed to see the big deal about the iPhone. Other than the web browser, yawn. 2G Edge-only when my HTC 8125 had been using 3G for, I dunno, ever?

Then the iPhone 3G was released, and IMO that’s when iOS showed how wart-filled WinMo had become.
I think eventually China will catch up and give 'em hell. They have to have a national processor that is competitive with the west out of strategic considerations. After what happened to Huawei they will double their effort.
Retool Funding Lesson: You Can Compete with Free When It's B2B
> ...they are leveraging their capital to block competitor app stores from even appearing on the home screen or being installed.

If Google weren't paying manufacturers to not install other app stores, other app stores would be paying manufacturers to install them, which could result in a user experience that Google doesn't control but which users would blame Google for ("Android is slow/buggy!" when in fact it's third party software that is causing the performance issues). Their deals are arguably defensible since they don't block third party app stores entirely, just pre-installed ones.

I certainly see the issues with Google parlaying their dominance in the ad market to also dominate the mobile market, but I have a feeling this will be settled with some consent decrees to put up some guardrails in the ad market. The actual harm to consumers from Google's business model is pretty vague and is passed on through marketing expenses that trickle down into product/service prices. If Google disappeared, ads would still cost money and advertising expenses likely wouldn't be drastically lower.
It doesn't necessarily seem that surprising to me.

If I can be really hand-wavy about it -- A lot of deep neural networks achieve their nonlinearity in a very constrained way. They stack linear models on top of each other, and the nonlinearity comes from using a a relatively simple nonlinear function such as logistic or tanh to scale the models' outputs before feeding them into the next one. (Without that step, you'd just have a linear combination of linear functions, which would itself be linear.)

That's a pretty constrained form of nonlinearity compared to polynomial regression, which tries to directly fit some high-order polynomial. I don't have anything like the math chops to prove it this, but I believe that means that the neural network is going to tend to favor a relatively smoother decision boundary, whereas polynomial regression is a naturally high variance sort of affair.
The d&d lineage (from old school dungeons and dragons, via advanced dungeons and dragons, through pathfinder and d20 system and on to 5e) can all be played without grid and all that. For a "ready" example see the call of cthulu d20 edition/remake.

But in a pick-up game with strangers, and with the current "mainstream" d&d - you probably have to be lucky to enter a campaignwwhere you develop a character as rich as Elminister or the Lord of Waterdeep.

For systems that encourage story-telling - I'd look to Cypher as mentioned by others - and of course white wolf's Storyteller system. It can be used for almost anything - but Hunter and Mage are probably most beginner friendly for players. Beware that mage can be quite mind bending.

A wiki from our current mage campaign:
https://radio-noir.fandom.com/wiki/Radio_Noir_Wiki

Old blog from a previous storyteller/mage inspired original setting:

http://thebookofworlds.blogspot.com/p/world-of-argos.html

Ed: I've also heard good things about:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Falkenstein_(role-pla...

And for a fun ruleset (but slightly dated setting) check out Underground!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_(role-playing_ga...
The graph of IPv6 adoption over time on that page [1] is pretty cool because you can see the average jump up with COVID. I'd assume that means residential internet is more likely to use IPv6 over cell or work internet.

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=ipv6...
There was a post recently on the 1st page about helping those leaving prison with finding employment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24652182). A co-worker of mine mentioned some work he does outside of his normal job with a similar organization, I thought others might be interested.
Yes and no. When stressed, it produces a neurotoxin.
Until a global org based on science and not d@#$ length emerges to take the species forward with breakneck speed as far as space based research is concerned- everyone can do whatever they like. Treaties yada yada no one is going to check an American satellite if it has military applications or not. So we'll just have to wait till the next war to find out that honesty is, in fact, a four letter word.
I always thought YouTube should be the first thing that is split from Google.
I see quite a few open letters like this that I think mostly miss the point.

From the perspectives of the governments in question, this isn't (solely) about terrorism or law enforcement. It's about control of their citizens. They use terrorism as the bogeyman to try to get people comfortable with the concept, but really, they just want dragnet surveillance over everyone, period.

I think it's most useful to point out that banning or backdooring E2EE won't stop the terrorists, but it seems like the main thrust of these sorts of articles is about how backdoors are dangerous to everyone... which is exactly what these governments are ok with. And a disturbing number of people (outside of the HN crowd) are perfectly willing to give up their own privacy and freedom if it means catching the terrorists.

I think a better approach to getting the public to be against these encroachments would be to drive home that backdoors and E2EE bans don't actually catch terrorists or human traffickers or child pornographers.
This case is going nowhere before the election one way or another. This will take years to litigate.
Nice to hear that there has been some progress here. I recall trying Rust 4+ years ago and my experience with the module system really left a lot to be desired from someone most experienced with Python's module system.
It’s about Google having bad DNA for building standalone products.

Google’s true expertise is in big data and algorithms and ranking stuff. That’s what they prioritize and often hire for. That’s great for building a search engine, but bad for building most kinds of products.

As an outsider, to me Google doesn’t prioritize engineers that really get social media or the type of design Google would need to compete in new spaces. (Their design is clean, but boring)

Internally, I believe that Google also has a system that keeps anything that competes with their cash cows to the back burner so it’s hard to put institutional momentum into experiments. And in the rare occasion when they do release something interesting, if it doesn’t make a billion dollars it’s small potatoes to Google so they don’t develop the idea further and maintain it.
Not wanting to destroy your countries industries and creating a balance between workers and businesses is not the same as believing that today's large businesses are over regulated and workers have too much power.

If you are anti-capitalist, fine, but your complaint isn't the Dems are pro-business, the argument is that they are still capitalists.
Microsoft made a portable data center in a box
Because they routinely do? They're tech companies. Everything they own depreciates.
I've never noticed those before, thanks! I've just seen the pine tree and palm tree ones. Always fun when they install the wrong one in a situation.
If you're on a laptop, you won't necessarily always be able to filter on the router level.
Hackers hijack Telegram, email accounts in SS7 mobile attack
My experience with Julia is not deep, but I’ve found it’s really nice to iterate on something that floats towards something that flies in one ecosystem. It’s not harder than Python to get the working implementation up and going - really there is a lower volume of idiosyncrasies.
Magic of macros.
"Freedom", in the sense of "The freedom of your not wearing a mask ends where the freedom of my not dying horrendously for not good reason begins"
True, but it has been confirmed experimentally several times. Unfortunately theoretical understanding in deep learning is quite lagging behind practical progress.

This paper [1] seems to be getting closer to what you are looking for.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02875
Migrating Paperclip Image Assets from GCP Bucket to AWS S3 and CloudFront
The Nvidia proprietary bit does leave HLLs like Furhark or DSLs like Neanderthal a bit of an advantage. Are there ways of doing portable GPU things with Julia?
Fork join parallelism is just one technique for using multiple cores and it is pretty ubiquitous. Most large arrays can be read by multiple threads at one time to let them all come up with part of the answer. I don't think this is specifically an advantage of julia.
In the meantime, I advise the people who wrote this piece to try to remove (not disable, but remove) Google Assistant from their phones.