skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't you one of the authors of that paper? It was a good read. Have a look at https://iko.ai, it solves not only many of the pain points you wrote about, but the "critical" pain points (difficult and important).

- No-setup collaborative notebooks: near real-time editing on the same notebook. Large Docker images.

- Long-running notebook scheduling: you can schedule a notebook right from the JupyterLab interface and continue to work on your notebook without context switch. The notebook will run and you can view its state even if you close your browser or get disconnected, and you can view it without opening the JupyterLab interface, even on your mobile phone. https://iko.ai/docs/notebook/#long-running-notebooks

- Automatic experiment tracking: iko.ai automatically detects parameters, metrics, and models and saves them. Users don't have to remember or know how to write boilerplate code or experiment tracking code.

- One click parametrization: you can publish an AppBook to enable other people to run your automatically parametrized notebook without being overwhelmed by the interface. You don't have to use cell tags or metadata to specify parameters. You click a button and an application is created from your notebook. The runs of this application are also logged as experiments in case they generate a better model. https://iko.ai/docs/appbook/

- Easy deployment: people can look at the leaderboard, and click on a button to deploy the model they choose into a "REST API" endpoint. They'll be able to invoke it with a POST request or from a form where they simply upload or enter data and get predictions.

We haven't focused on the stylesheets given that in our previous projects with actual paying enterprise customers, it wasn't CSS that held us back.

Here's an invite link that's valid multiple times:
https://iko.ai/invite/lEMzE_hKwJ2SUbfLdnK7SbZb1c3zUCOAQexakL...
Minor nitpick, that episode is Voyager, not Next Generation. And it was directly inspired by Dragon's Egg.
Whoever instigates violence is at fault, let me get that clear.

But I believe there is a responsibility on the side of organizers to be more vocal about peace than they are about the change they are trying to implement as other more righteous and respectable figures have done in the past.

If you allow your movement to become one of violence and all you have to say is to point the finger at others, whether you are correct or not, you are grossly inferior of the civil rights movements of the past.

But I believe, as many others do, that this movement was not born to achieve any measure of civil rights, though that may be the intent of many.

Making an enemy of an clear necessity of any society ( a police force ) and only being satisfied when injustice is performed on the offender is madness. There are corrupt police, do something productive about. Burning your own house down solves nothing, unless perhaps your goal is a new house.
> Instead, when users attempted to react to or share the tweet, a message popped up from the platform reading, “we try to prevent a Tweet like this that otherwise breaks the Twitter Rules from reaching more people, so we have disabled most of the ways to engage with it.”

The policy on claims about elections appears to be outlined here:

> We will label or remove false or misleading information intended to undermine public confidence in an election or other civic process. This includes but is not limited to:

> disputed claims that could undermine faith in the process itself, such as unverified information about election rigging, ballot tampering, vote tallying, or certification of election results; and

> misleading claims about the results or outcome of a civic process which calls for or could lead to interference with the implementation of the results of the process, e.g. claiming victory before election results have been certified, inciting unlawful conduct to prevent the procedural or practical implementation of election results (note that our violent threats policy may also be relevant for threats not covered by this policy).

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/election-inte...

Twitter is really building a quagmire for itself here. It's trivial to "dispute" a claim. Who "verifies" a claim?

What Twitter really seems to be saying is that they'll remove content they don't like. There's veneer of process and impartiality, but it crumbles even on superficial examination.

Why not just come out and say that Twitter owns the platform and will delete or manipulate anything at any time for any reason?
I agree with this.

This whole story gives me "hacker in movies" vibes. Programming isn't about artfully manipulating input devices while watching characters scroll fancifully across the screen.

It's about understanding a problem in depth, and considering possible implementations/problems/edge cases.

If you spend more time typing than thinking - I will unequivocally call you a bad developer (or a developer who's job is ripe for automation...).

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Now - no knock on Vim. I much prefer it to nano, and if you enjoy using it, more power to ya. I do agree there's a certain sense of "playing a musical instrument" feeling to it.

But playing music and composing music are NOT the same. In the same way that entering text and programming are NOT the same.
To another fossil fuel? May I introduce you to our lord and savior nuclear energy?
Why automation in Spanish firms did not cause reshoring
Was there a discussion afterward?
It's a really good analogy.

HN is fairly equivocal on the concept of walled gardens as a safety measure, despite the lack of accountability. There's some consensus that it's perfectly fine for e.g. Apple to prevent you from installing something outside the app store, or to put up major hurdles to installing anything unsigned on MacOS, because Grandma and Grandpa can't be trusted not to do something silly and get pwned. "It's not a hacker device!" is the usual refrain.

Yet the consequences of having your brain be pwned are so much worse. There are people who believe the Earth is flat and that vaccines cause autism; some of these beliefs can cost lives. Maybe YouTube shouldn't be a "hacker platform" either, but a place where people can watch videos without fear of being led down a rabbit hole.
I bring up the ethics question because a strict utilitarian analysis would be primarily answer the question of whether the drug is effective, looking for any red flags secondarily. A do no harm analysis (in the ethics sense, not the experimental design sense) has to look for any harms as a primary goal, maybe even equally to the question of efficacy.

Answering the question of whether the experiment harmed anything important is always much harder, as I’m sure you know. You see some metric is way down, but after a multiple comparisons correction it might just as well be noise, so then you have to start digging, doing a bespoke analysis for the fact that these non iid metrics point in these particular directions. You can’t pre-automate it because with N metrics that are practically significantly up/flat/down, that’s at least 3^N possible investigations to convince yourself whether it’s enough to stop rollout.

That’s the part that takes time, in any analysis I’ve ever done. Maybe literally zero time to check efficacy because that part is automated, then sometimes days to check whether there’s anything else worrisome in the probably-just-noise on other metrics, spending time proportional to the cost of getting the harm part wrong. Some of the hard questions aren’t statistical. You see some KPIs definitely up and some KPIs definitely down and deciding whether to roll out becomes a bitter fight between competing interests. Maybe you don’t roll it out yet for client segment X (like this trial and kids and pregnant women, as I understand it).

Re US vs UK, no idea. I’m not saying 3 weeks is necessarily the right amount of time here. I’m just so taken aback at the idea that 3 weeks is necessarily too long to the point you “would probably have to start firing people” and would “absolutely” have to start putting them on PIPs.
BTW, I just want to point out that did anyone notice that the pitcher throw the ball with the exact same posture but it turned out to fly on a completely different path. It's just amazing!
Whaley McWhaleface
Object–Relational Impedance Mismatch
> More importantly, just like journalists (who have agendas), fact checkers also have agendas.

Do we know how many "fact checkers" lost their jobs after they were 100% wrong about the "Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation" claims?
>>> Do you think there are many people here that would support a breakdown of the democratic process, a coup?<<<

1) Have you taken a look at Parler?

2) The Chair of Texas state GOP has called for the state to secede in the wake of the supreme court ruling

3) Diamond and Silk (and they are famous in the US in some areas) have called for a coup.

4) General Flynn who was once the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency endorsed a call for Trump to declare martial law and redo the election
Friendship paradox: Most people have fewer friends than their friends
Scandinavian countries are not really countries. More like a family club. (This is starting to change though)

When everybody is just like you, it leads to high trust, no us vs them mentality. Same is true in eg. South Korea and Japan.

Contrast this with their
similarily northern neighbour Russia, which is basically the America of eastern europe. A nation resulting from a melting pot
of ethnicitiess, languages, cultures (most current Russians are really assimilated from smaller native cultures, their great grandparents didn't identify as Russian). And the end result? Corruption. Everybody just tries to milk public funds as much as they can, and so forth.
> What makes Scandinavian countries any more or less earnest than, say, Germany or France?

Experience, perhaps?

As a French who lived a number of years in Scandinavia, it is day and night. It doesn't mean that people in those countries never cheat, but in France, the default attitude is cheating. Always. About everything and anything. Even when there is nothing to win and being straight or earnest would be much easier. It is exhausting.

> This seems no better than to say, “The French make great lovers,”

Well, this assertion is equally true :-D
Twitter (and social media) is largely not journalism. Twitter is a for-profit organization that chooses how to obtain maximum profit. So far, profit comes from user engagement, regardless of the nature of content. That they are choosing to intervene with the user-created content in new ways does not change their top-level goals. Their responsibility is to make money, and any lesser goals they decide are company values. If you disagree with those values, specifically that misinformation that erodes a bedstone of elected representative democracies should be discouraged on their platform, then by all means, encourage as many people as you wish not to use this ad-supported corporation.
I largely disagree with the universality attributed to this 'rule'. It's just that different 'groupings' are usually less useful.

E.g. it is far less likely that you'd want to specify that the "green knife" entity is to be used for whittling. It is far more likely that you'd want to specify that the "whittling knife" is green.

Similarly you're unlikely to group 'lovely knife' as the most low-level entity to which you'd add higher leverl characterisations.

Some of the other ones though are reasonably interchangeable, as long as it is understood that the focus is slightly different each time.

E.g. a priceless old knife, and old priceless knife mean slightly different things, and you'd choose the order depending on whether you wanted to emphasize that the old knife happens to be priceless, as opposed to that the priceless knife happens to be old.
In the first place all communitys around a specific software are about solving technical probles and discussing usage of this software.

Second: emacs is not an editor, it's a platform with text as it's primary interface. It's similar to webbrowsers. So by it's nature there are many usage cases and technical problems to discuss with emacs. Thus, the community us quite vibrant for it's small size.

Third: Religion will always be where people gather long enough.
Each one of those blue icons is a PNG > 1MB. The page is loading for slowly for me. For example.

https://cognifirm.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Cognifirm_w...
I am on a mobile phone, so I can’t try this out. Can it easily automate tasks against Google Drive webpages. Those sites tend to use randomly generated CSS element names that change on each page load. For that reason, I wasn’t able to do it with selenium.
There's a lot to be said about the anxiety of "I'm making a lot of money doing something I don't understand". I've backed out of businesses where I could have been a millionaire but also could have been in prison for violating some law/regulation that I knew nothing about. It starts feeling like you're running a scam.
I bought the book around the time of Black Friday and so far I have been reading parts of the book and really enjoying it. Thank you for writing it :))
If you're interested in X for its own sake, you are very unlikely to want to turn that into a business. Unless you're also interested in business and money for their own sakes - both of which should trigger very justified cynicism, because there are far more effective ways to make the world a better place than by getting extremely rich after an IPO.
Just last week there was a case filed with the Supreme Court, asking them to throw out the election results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Arizona. (Hopefully we can agree that this would be a coup if it happened?) The President, most of his party in the House, and almost 20 states explicitly endorsed it.
OK, lets say that we find ourselves in a situation (again, God forbid) where the Democrats have secured all levers of power in response to a small violent uprising, and the mechanism was not through a vote but through a legal process which barred Republicans from the government.

What do you think happens if half of the country sees that government as illegitimate, including many members of the military? Governments aren't magic. They exist only if enough people see them as legitimate. The scenario you outline, as supported by polling data, implies to me approximately a third of the country would reject this outright as a legitimate government, with a high bias towards the military.

Are you really thinking this through? Do you know how easy it would be for there to be a guerilla war in the US, which is organized in part by military defectors? All it would take would be for enough belief that the country's goverment had become tyrannical. This is exactly the premise of the two prior situations where Americans mobilized for war on our own soil. The scenario you outline is precisely the situation that most strong supporters of the second amendment believe it was created for, and why they exercise it - to provide a deterrence and eventually, if needed, a mechanism to overthrow a tyrannical government.
I think you folks are holding PG to a standard that the vast majority of essays which hit the HN frontpage would not meet.

Even this critical essay looks like it fails to meet its own standard.

A "profoundly unserious" writer which is "mired in intuition and incuriosity"? Nowhere in the post are these terms rigorously defined!

And look! The author accuses Graham of "tantalizing the reader by reducing complex problems down to singular, nebulous concepts" without mentioning principal component analysis! "Profoundly unserious", I say.

Anyway, pg himself has been clear about rejecting seriousness as a virtue multiple times. See this essay for instance http://www.paulgraham.com/newthings.html
I'm sorry, this is a pointless discussion.

First off AI and MI are used almost synonymously[0] and MI very rarely:

- "Artificial Intelligence" 192M hits
- "Machine Intelligence" 4.8M hits
- "Machine Learning" 153M hits

> The word “AI” in these ads has a recognizable meaning, and it is not the same meaning used in the sentence “Elon Musk founded OpenAI because he was worried AI might cause human extinction.”

These is not that different, they are the same thing on different time scales. The first usage names the current (moving definition) state, which moves toward the second which is a singular (theoretical) point in development.

Finally, is this just a PSA? We already know this. If it doesn't say ML, deep learning, CNN, or other specific term it's a fluff piece, or just trying to get eyeballs on research (which is rational).

[0] https://www.dataversity.net/ai-vs-machine-learning-vs-deep-l...
CPU1: How many humans does it take to count to 63,235,965,678?
CPU2: Can they use their toes?
Yeah, mud them those waters.
HN and other forums are also social media though, no? Whether it's online or a billboard on the town square it's still social media in a sense. Personally I agree with your sentiment, but in my mind I equate no social media with "the giants" like Facebook, Instagram, tiktok, Snapchat I guess.

I'm not sure exactly what makes them different from more focused forums, but it's something and – in my opinion – I don't think it's a net good for society.

Personally, I have no account with these services. I used to but I deleted all of them and it's made my life richer, not poorer.
Donald Trump himself wasn't a politically viable candidate until people took his transparently bad faith, virulently racist birther lies in good faith. Have we learned nothing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYMw_dlnVH0&ab_channel=Ernes...
I don't quite agree with this. I work in this field and it is quite rare to get the code along with paper by people from academia. In fact many a times big companies tries to replicate the the published work and publish the code/model like say TF Model Garden.
1. No, the post is still available for viewing. They're just stopping it from spreading. I'm free to write an article. A media company like NY Times or Fox has no obligation to spread that article to their viewers.

2. Yes - you should be free to use the platform but there is no right to have your thoughts shared automatically to others.

3. No. People are extrapolating this into wild future scenarios.

4. This isn't power, it's responsibility. I think it's a good thing that Twitter is taking an effort to deal with this.
Source: https://www.crowdsupply.com/hackboard/hb2
Instead of fining businesses, perhaps the answer is litigation.

I’m not sure what their TOS says, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it protects from this, but yeah, the liability should be that you open yourself up to being sued if you erroneously remove a user from your platform, who is using it as their job
T-Mobile did it in the US.

And a lot of Indian providers as far as I know.

Most still doing either v4 only with CG-NAT or dual stack.
Book distributors generally will carry any book given them by a publisher, regardless of content. Twitter is engaging in moderation, which puts them not just in the business of distribution. They are playing the publisher role - receiving content from authors and deciding whether or not to publish it. That is the very definition of a publisher. And yes, publishers can indeed be sued.
I love the related "I know kung fu" feeling (from the Matrix) when you realize what was very difficult, or almost impossible is doable now.
Great feeling.
Poll: Has media increased in BS the past month?
A lot of the news sources I have– many of whom are individual independent thinkers I read– have seemed to increase in BS content lately.
https://twitter.com/search?q=russians+stole+the+election
>Decreasing price of batteries is the most important step in decreasing air pollution and CO2 emissions.
Is it? What good does an electric car do if the electricity was produced using fossil fuels?
I don't read the news
Can OpenNURBS handle trimmed NURBS surfaces, or read or write STEP files?

Another option for OSS developers in this area is to come work on SolveSpace. This one was also missing from the articles list of programs supporting DXF.
Look, Trump has lost nearly every single case brought forth about the election. Not just lost, but badly lost. Embarrassingly lost. Even a cursory glance at these cases show allegations with no supporting evidence or only hearsay.

If any person still thinks the election was stolen after that, they're not a reasonable person.
you might not get it

but

i'd tell you a joke about UDP
“I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me most wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.”

— Ada Lovelace
Lava lamps optional.

Really, the least-significant-bit noise from any camera chip, even pointed at nothing, fed through e.g. SHA-256, gives high-quality cryptographic random numbers at as high a rate as you are likely to want. (If you need better random numbers, you also have no need to read this.)

You can get similar quality from hashing the low bits of a mic input.

Hashing already-connected noise is actually better than resistor or diode noise, that is tricky to get right -- although feeding output of one of those through a good hash forgives a lot of bias.
Not sure if gambling should have been lumped in with the other professions. A successful long term gambler looks a lot like a hacker in my experience
Not speaking for all Americans, but I've never believed that (a) and (b) are both out there if I can simultaneously solve them. I chose to give one preference and then did the best to support the other. It's an optimization activity that may or may not achieve satisfaction on either one.

It's the outliers who become wealthy doing what they love. No illusions there.

The other 'responsibility' we take collectively is to strive to create circumstances where the process of pursuing (a) and (b) is not impeded by society.
I think I mostly agree with your first statement. I have a different take on the legal proceedings (there's still the vote count, at which point congress can make challenges, etc.)

But certainly there are limits to how far the challenge can go. I'll be right there LOLing with you if he needs to be bodily removed from the WH. I disagree that he's given any indication that he'd go that far, though. Once his options are exhausted, he'll leave.
Everyone has access to the modern equivalent of a printing press. Anyone can buy a domain name and a VPS and "print" as many leaflets as they want.

Publishing on YouTube is more like, well, publishing. There's a middleman. They own their own press, they have a reputation and an audience, they bring the eyeballs, they make the money and they give you a cut. It has never been censorship for a publisher to decline to publish something.

Youtube isn't infrastructure.
Pretty sure there’s one of these tucked away in almost every social commentary Graham essay.
Not suggesting they break the law. I mean, these copyright laws were put in place by intense lobbying from megacorps. Why don't megacorps that stand to gain from more relaxed copyright law do the same?
This is a great explanation. Thanks!
It's left over from a time before distribution over the internet was practical, when middle-men added value (local promotion, collection of royalties, etc) to video distrubution.

The internet made them largely redundant, but they still had their contracts and pushed to have things like geo-blocking to maintain their "local monopoly" arrangement.

When legal options are not readily available to me due to geo-blocking, I have no qualms about pirating instead.
Apparently there is a sequel called 'The Discourager of Hesitancy' about five travellers trying to find out what happened in the original story (and failing). I'm kindof intriuged by that.