skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My assertion afterwards was my next order conclusion, and I agree, not specifically what she asserted.

I'm going to revisit it, as the idea of power being an artifact of free consensus of belief in a group, and not intrinsic to violence is hard to reconcile with some of her earlier observations, and indeed, physics.
To add: There are also auto-generated quizzes for all kinds of topics, which brings back some of the game-oriented elements of Encarta (experimental):

https://conze.pt/explore/art%20genre?l=en&t=link&s=true&i=74...

https://conze.pt/explore/Fruit%20dove?l=en&t=link&s=true&i=7...

https://conze.pt/explore/Temple?l=en&t=link&s=true&i=44539&u...
> But your taste — the thing that got you into the game — your taste is still killer, and your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you, you know what I mean?

"Talent is feeling how should not be."
Oh, come on. Go after the ISPs!

But, maybe this is retaliation because Google never built Trump's COVID website.
I would love to see some mock-ups of orbital patterns for a moon based starlink-like network. How does the relative lack of an atmosphere affect things? How large of a constellation do you need when the orbital body is 1/4 the size of earth?
Does this "bug" exist in the open-source Chromium as well?

Wouldn't we be able to tell when they push the fix?
They went after Google, because Google has a monopoly.

Amazon does well from AWS, but hardly has domineering marketshare in the way Google does.

The idea that FB has a monopoly is laughable. Until Trump put the kibosh on them there was a real threat from TikTok. Zuck was getting desperate. Social media is very fickle.

Aapl as well only has a monopoly amongst high paying customers. Not sure you can call that a monopoly.

Google is a well defined monopoly.
I'm very pro antitrust and I don't think Netflix is a monopoly at all. I often wonder how they will survive all the free streaming that I love (Pluto TV, Peacock, Tubi...) that is popping up on my tv every day. We cancelled long ago and don't even miss it. They have the monopoly on making crappy low production value Hallmark Channel or Lifetime quality series and movies that I don't want to watch. I might subscribe for a month when Stranger Things comes out again and then binge it and cancel again.

I like watching actual movies and documentaries and I already have Prime, which has much more of those. Which raises a question about Amazon and antitrust...
Cripes this is a long read. Is there an animated version?
... have you looked at carnivore ?
Retail Technology Trends for 2021 and Beyond
I agree that AI is very difficult and requires hard work by competent operators to be successful but I think there’s a deeper problem - most business data is irrelevant noise. It won’t matter how talented your DS team is if there is no signal in your data relevant to business operations for the ML model to identify.
hold off on upgrading to a new major version is always a best practice, unless you really need a specific feature in the new release
An announcement on one does not mean announcements and cases aren't coming against the others.

In the book, The Age Surveillance Capitalism, the case is made the Google is actually worse than FB but lesser known for many of the things people complain about.

Google may be the easier monopoly case to go after given the Doubleclick merger, the way Chrome is used, etc.
And yet the article says:

"Attorney General William P. Barr, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, has played an unusually active role in the investigation. He pushed career Justice Department attorneys to bring the case by the end of September, prompting pushback from lawyers who wanted more time and complained of political influence. Mr. Barr has spoken publicly about the inquiry for months and set tight deadlines for the prosecutors leading the effort."
The AI tools and hardware need to focus on being more plug and play and autoconfigurable as I’ve noticed my team spends way too much time on operational issues and it significantly slows down progress on machine learning and AI tasks.
I had the opposite experience. They were welcoming and helped me solve some very off the beaten path issues.
Ranked posts? I'm not aware of any positioning of hn threads or posts that has correlation with user reputation.

Personally I never check user reputation either, and the only 2 I recognize by name are dang and the digital minister of Taiwan.
At this point I don’t think to many people are genuinely suprised.

I don’t really understand it though, would it hurt Google to just delete data for their own domains? Do they really need it that badly?
Probably less expensive than Redis.

Given that the SQL approach is the standard one, I'd personally expect load testing to demonstrate that it didn't scale before doing something unusual.
Put 30 kids in front of a teacher for 8 hours - that's about 15 minutes of instructor attention per kid per day on average. If we assume that one on one sessions need to last 8 hours, then yeah the system doesn't scale; but more realistically the kid's educational needs could be met in a fraction of the time. One person can tutor dozens of kids a week if they do it full time, but even better you can tutor without doing it full time. Full time teachers are a limited resource and if yours isn't great at some or all of the job, you just have to suffer the consequences; but there is a massive pool of people who are capable of teaching a kid something, and the harm of a mediocre tutor is minimal and easily overcome.

One on one tutoring is already extremely widely employed, and plenty of platforms have popped up to help it effectively scale. Pretty much the only people who don't use it are those who can't afford it, a problem regular schooling would also face if not publicly paid for. It takes very little imagination to picture a system where people get vouchers to spend on tutoring services and a simple method for large numbers of people to qualify as tutors eligible to accept these vouchers.
You could replace "AI" there with any other newly developed tech paradigms, like "Big Data" several years ago. Your null hypothesis is probably correct for most companies, but there will always be some companies for whom the new tech is beneficial. Most companies do not need big data, and are fine running a single postgres instance for the entirety of their lifetime, just like most companies probably don't need AI.
FTC/DOJ/FCC have different, and sometimes complementary, powers. DOJ is taking lead on Google right now, but don't forget FTC just fined Facebook $5B. DOJ may be at the forefront of this particular action because of Trump's grievances, but there's no reason to think Biden wouldn't go even harder, especially if we get Pai out of the FTC (praise be the day). GDPR has been a total wash, it will be funny to see the Americans actually do a better job with a far more constricted legal toolkit.
Yeah this might be appreciated way more by those who have some kind of "connection" with/to him already. I first learned about Moxie by watching his sailing documentary Hold Fast[0] (I'm an avid sailor in a similar low-tech gritty way as him) although I just thought he was some random dude. It was only years later, after having used Signal for some while that I actually made the connection.

I have lots of respect for the man and love his thinking, writing and outlook on things. His blog[1] has a lot of good reads.

[0] https://vimeo.com/15351476

[1] https://moxie.org/blog/
Not sure anyone else's experience but every time I bring up supporting browsers other than Chrome I just get sarcasm at best and belligerence at worst from 90% of engineers.

It's usually down to the remaining 10% to pick up the rest of the pieces.

It's extremely frustrating to hear this attitude as someone who was doing front-end dev in the IE6 era.
They're fine if you don't bring up criticisms. God help your soul if you do.
You are correct. But that doesn't mean all of the Democrats and other Republicans who have been pushing for this for years have suddenly vaporized from history.
> Imagine not realizing project veritas is a HORRIBLE source.

Imagine casually dismissing a megacorp exec literally confessing to wanting to interfere in your country's election.

> They have littering been caught red-handed doctoring videos

1. At the very least source your claims.

2. Point out which parts of the linked post are doctored or in any way false.
Am I the only person who found it ironic and meta that, in a thread about canceling people based on certain words and phrases, OP kind of tried to "cancel" your argument based on your use of the phrase "cancel culture". We are deep into the recursion now.
How does this compare to other solutions in this space like WebFlow, Squarespace, or Wix?
Hi :)

Cool project. So do you mind actually answering the question of _why_ building another one? Just curious.
The article actually called out the unusual rush to September though.
Matrix will apparently invent ui to warn you if your filters are creating an echo chamber but I have no idea how that would look or work.

EDIT: Fucking obnoxious post throttling. I don't know why HN doesn't want me posting anymore, so I guess I'll just abuse the edit feature to get my voice heard.

In reply to zuesflight:

> What if the feed manipulation was per-user?

My understanding from Matrix's blog post is that is half of the filtering equation. 1. Users and 2. Servers can filter 3. other users via reputation. It sounds like these filters will be inspectable, so, I would imagine that if you don't like how a server is filtering, you'd just not use it. I don't really have a strong understanding of Matrix (is it a protocol, a company?) so this is just me firing from the hip from the blog.

I also think the filter "Merge" thing is all about making "multiple points of attack."

None of this is implemented from what I understand, all they have now is a sort of binary banned/not banned list they share with mozilla. Very pie in the sky but if it works as they write that'd be cool!
If there is intelligent life somewhere out there, when they travel to space, I wonder if they also insist on operating technology that is at least one generation back, for the reason of "proven reliability"? I'd say probably yes. If we ever get a visit from them, that "shmux semiconductor" will be the old model...
The vertical integration and domination in the eyeglasses space has been a blind spot for anti-trust regulators.
When Startups Go into the Garage (Or Sometimes the Living Room)
I can't speak to the iOS client but the Android one is only technically OSS in that it bundles proprietary binary blobs by default.
If there are hackers on the moon you have a lot of other issues.
One, on the computing side, the threat of breakup is part of what was good about the Bell Labs culture before the actual breakup. Why was Unix free-ish? Because Bell Labs was forbidden from going into computers. After the breakup, they suddenly expected to make money from Unix, and that was a major problem for Plan 9. Okay, so that didn't work out, but if Bell Labs had been trying to make money from Unix from the beginning, it would have been worse.

Two, it's hard to get the exact cause-and-effect, but clearly the breakup coincides with a period of extreme telecommunications flourishing. Maybe it would have happened anyway, but it clearly didn't hurt on the telcom side.
Everything. Most of my work is touch and go, and I'm constantly having to switch contexts and technologies. I just try to bookmark what I think is important and take notes when necessary.
Here is the original text:

> I see many over, say, 50 do this much more often

Here is your 'corrected' version:

> I see many over, say, 50 yo this much more often

Any-way, i was indiccating the nead for conssisstency, not absulute corectness,,,
Isn’t Squarespace or Wix aimed at people building websites with no code experience?

Or is that not extensible enough?
so absurd. why is it $129/year to remove myself from lists that I didn't consent to be added to in the first place?
Who cares if the server is not ?
Aren't Chrome dev tools part of Chromium? Just use Brave, or maybe even edge.
Actually, it is called Element now. (Not just the new client, but also the company name)
>I personally think it's a bit premature to talk about it

Has that stopped HN before? We have devoted several top posts to the V language, LightTable, and several clearly doomed-to-fail efforts. This, in comparison is rather tame, from a legitimate source, and even if it just gives 2x performance, that will still be something.

PHP, for one, pulled it off, with PHP7.
> Outside of a very small number of major metro areas, cities in America are not livable without a car.

I guess NYC is one of the "very small number of major metro areas" and yet OP used it to show how you can't live comfortably without a car if you make $2k/month.

I understand how it can be a necessity to have a car, but we are talking about living, so before a car you need a roof, food, water, healthcare and heating.
Based on what I've seen those last few months, there are (a lot of) people that owns a car but don't have a roof or can't buy food or can't have healthcare.
So to me it's really weird to link "living comfortably" and "having a car".
How is this different than for example rule engines where you have certain inputs, a calculation/solver engine and then you get the outputs for it?
I don't think that people complain about Go's simplicity. People complain about the hamfistedness of Go's simplicity. The downstream effects of it include, for example the wat that you handle JSON in Go.

But there are a lot of quite frankly crazy choices, like making (milliseconds) an integer type that is incompatible with numbers. This means to multiply an time with a non-constant integer, you have to cast an integer to millisecond type first, then multiply. Which breaks the brain of a scientist like me and makes me want to throw my computer out the window.

My daily driver is Elixir, and it's not impossible to jump into totally foreign code and debug it. In fact, just the other day I did an interview where the 20 minute technical problem was drilling down from the frontend into the backend of a new-to-me system and finding the logic bug in a database query that was causing the wrong data to be surfaced.
Haaaaaaaave you been to Germany?
That's missing the point. Deleting your FB account doesn't affect FB's power or practices. Does it make you slightly less directly affected by their nonsense? Sure, but it's often a false sense of security. If disinformation on FB results in a different outcome to your election, or prevents parents from thinking a COVID vaccine is safe, or whatever else, that affects your life even if you're not on the platform.

You have a say in your government's leadership. Don't like the President? Vote them out. Don't like Zuck? Nothing you can do about it.
No, this is nonsense.

> Remember, IT security doesn't have to be absolute.

The field of applied cryptography is absolutely reliant on near physical unbreakability of its algorithms, or it doesn't work at all. (you need n-times the life time of the universe to have a working bruteforce, and as much overwhelming mathematical proof of non-applicability of non-bruteforce approaches as possible.)

And it was actually found to be extremely hard to make crypto algos which are only "slightly" unreliable. Either they are a complete mathematical iron wall, or their deemed weakness is too glaring to be hidden.
Irony is in the eye of beholder
Ignoring that it's not always a good idea to distill a complicated system to a single factor like distribution or scarcity, I believe the calorie numbers frequently stated often do not discount for the fact that roughly a third of crop yield is fed to livestock, nor are typically the variety used for human consumption.
You are confusing policy with mechanism. There is no good solution right now for lawful access to E2EE messages, but the blanket opposition to it prevents are work on finding such a solution.
Video acceleration, which can be a big deal if watching videos on a laptop.

It recently got better support (as of v80), although it's not (fully) enabled by default.

I'm also on the FF boat, though :-)
I don't know if I would call the SciPy ecosystem the flagship libraries of python. I know it is very popular,and probably in the top 5 use cases, and I use some of them everyday. but in my experience they've always been off in their own world in relation to the rest of the python community. Most of the people I've met that use this stuff are either scientists or finance people that are just using it as another tool along with matlab, R, and excel. Which is what they should be doing, but in their minds they're not writing python code they're using Pandas, Jupyter, and Matplotlib.

But yes, never ever jump on a new release of anything, at least in production. Always stand back and wait for someone more optimistic to find the bugs
You need really high reliability for that; if those endpoints go down, none of your customers' phones will connect to wifi until you fix them. People would be extremely upset they thought they were on wifi but they were really blowing through their data.
"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In this case the whole story is a tweet by the father https://twitter.com/edoloughlin/status/1302536969084383232
Doesn’t this title presume guilt before being charged with it?

Given the states and Barr, this feels deeply political in nature.
For me after significant journaling and recording, it seems to be when nutrition, sleep and stress are all correctly managed. I can even have several days in a row that are optimal for deep work if I'm careful, but life likes to throw in a wrench from time to time of course.

The big things for me have been to eat a very nutritionally heavy breakfast (I hate eating breakfast, it still takes me forever) and to calorie count both to make sure I'm getting enough and to make sure I'm getting a decent balance of carbs/protein/fat. For sleep, going to sleep early and having wind down time so I sleep well (tea and a book are a winning combo for me there usually).

Stress is of course the difficult one we have the least control over. Exercise is a huge help but that can also change up the nutrition equation. Even then, it's still easy for bad stress days to also muck up the sleep side of the equation and it can take days to get that sorted out.
I've been (mostly) quietly working on this for several years, after my initially-promising YC (W09) startup failed to take off, having been afflicted by what I realised on deep reflection was mostly fear, egotism and self-sabotage.

Like you I think the concept has huge potential, and I've found some modalities that you haven't mentioned but that I've found particularly powerful, and could be more broadly beneficial for founders and creators generally.

Feel free to hit me up (email in profile, or in Bookface) if you want to connect and discuss further. (Offer is open to anyone else interested too.)
I love it, thanks!
That's exactly what I said. Big companies that will build a campus the city wants will get special treatment. The small machine shop that buys a quanset hut for $4,000,000 in mountain view will be taxed to death.
Does this mean the ITU is going to assign the moon a country code? I vote for +6666 (MOON).

Who decides what parts of the moon get what area codes?

Imagine how long it will take to get Orange to instal a landline in a crater!
How is switching between Android and iOS remotely comparable to moving where you live?

I've switched between iOS and Android before. What's the big deal?
What's so sad about this is that no one will ever get slapped for this. Not rank-and-file people that coded this, not the people who green-lit this, not the asshole claiming this is a "programming error", not anyone.

I know it's easy for those people to claim that they didn't know what they were doing or that they were told that it's fine. But maybe slapping a few would cause others to finally fucking think for a moment "do I wanna go to jail over this?". If you're making decisions that affect the privacy of literally millions of people then, well, maybe you need a little accountability.
It is about search and btw companies take their profits and expand their portfolios if it wasn't like that Apple would still be doing PCs and Iphone wouldn't exist.
Yeah, exactly right Simon. The memory is now getting big enough for production geometry, but we still need out of core texture support.

We are shipping some (open source) out of core texture loading with OptiX now, lead by Mark Leone. Definitely yes, the idea is that after a few re-launches you’ll have all the mipmap texture tiles you need resident and you can render many samples without a stall.

To be honest I’m not sure whether we’re using mmap for this. (I’ve had my head buried in curves.) Mark is calling the high level concept “cooperative paging”, meaning the GPU and CPU work together to handle page faults and fill new load requests. The user can decide / define what the page fault behavior is, and whether & how they might want to fill the requests. They’re currently working on cache eviction, which will be a big leap when it arrives.

This basic technique could be used in Chris’ Motunui to fill geometry as well - you could use standin boxes for the instances and a ray hit would fault & load the internal geometry. So, obviously, that’s pretty complicated and not necessarily guaranteed to fit in memory, but when it worked it could save a ton of time. I’m thinking about ways to blend what Chris did with something like this to try and get the advantages of both.
> the Facebook wouldn't let us discuss firearms without heavy censorship.

I remember when Facebook censored a famous painting because it showed a naked woman’s breasts. That was so dumb.

Not being very knowledgeable about firearms, it’d help to better understand what sort of stuff in particular Facebook was censoring. May I ask?
I would be incredibly surprised, Harris was advised by Jonathan Mayer on privacy issues, the Democratic House just released a scathing report on tech monopolies, and Biden knows he still needs support from the Sanders/Warren crowd who are salivating at the prospect of breaking up Big Tech. Facebook's shameless support of the Trump admin may likewise be viewed as one of many of Zuck's poorly thought out moves. Unlike Obama, who credited Facebook/Google with his 2008 victory, and opened a revolving door between Google/White House, the appearance of that would be absolutely toxic in the present climate.
wrong! they don't match

I was just searching for "quill", a javascript editor. I clicked the first result without really looking (after all, i m searching name, right? ) - and it took me to some competing product called fro-something. I wasted my time, their money , yet google still made money.
Same reason you pay for trash removal of physical junk mail that’s delivered to your house
Launch-pad Ninja 1: "Great launch, good job team."

Launch-pad Ninja 2: "Let me take a team selfie.... that's funny I had my phone here somewhere. Let me check Find My iPhone...... er, oops!"
Are you in the US? I'm asking this in a non-snarky/good faith way- if you're in the US, and the company is in the US, why would they honor a GPDR request? I understand the EU may have worded GPDR broadly, but sovereignty is still a thing- just because Europe says the law applies globally doesn't mean it really does.

I don't mean this as a criticism- I've been manually deleting myself off of data broker sites for a while- just curious how that works. I see GPDR get invoked a lot here on HN, but I'm not sure people have a firm grasp on how international legal systems work. I mean, as an American I'm not subject to the legal system of Zimbabwe, Myanmar or Saudi Arabia either, even if they pass a law that says I am....