skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The creators of plan9 are not involved in 9front, and I don't think they were ever involved with 9legacy, unless I've missed something. I believe 9front's (rather colorful) user manual pointedly remarks that the original authors of plan9 have long since abandoned the project.
Both, they have several pricing models. Also cost per like, and cost per conversion (download). Maybe more.

https://www.webfx.com/social-media/how-much-does-facebook-ad....
In my experience, software engineers do not make good business analysts (and data/machine learning engineering is a subset of software engineering). Most business analysts cannot program.

However, it's likely that our experiences simply diverge here.
Mick West is full of shit on this one. You can listen to both a FLIR technician [1], and the same pilot [2] who saw the Tic Tac, explain why West is wrong. Why would you rather believe someone who has absolutely no experience with neither aircraft nor these advanced imaging systems, over these 2 people?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzmdSsszf5g

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBt4CNHyAck
I worked in education and had teachers and administration who were smart people, consistently asking to have their passwords reset. And the only requirement we had was that it needed to be 8 chars long, no special chars or capitalization. (This was a result of students and staff not being able to remember their passwords for more than a day or two)

I can't imagine needing a password for them to recover photos and messages.
Sorry, I meant spam. If anyone can post a comment, and only "illegal" comments can be removed, that would surely allow a lot of email-style spam.
You think they seriously, seriously wanted to take over the US Government? 200 or so protestors that made it in? If you think that I don't know what to tell you.

//Unfortunately I've hit the "You're posting too fast and you're not a democrat" limit so I can't reply further.
Make encryption optional, and explicitly state the associated risk of a lost key.
Dan Duchamp's CS 521 TCP/IP Networking -- he had us implement low-level protocols like DNS and TCP/IP from scratch, in C. Brutal, but exceptionally rewarding.
I hear you, I grew up playing 2nd edition, and somehow the 5th stuff started off feeling empty for me, though I have to admit the rules are so much better and rolling is so much easier. Pathfinder is like doing math homework, every roll...

5th is finally starting to get some better flavor, however, now taht 3rd parties, and WotC seem to be filling in the gaps. Goodman Games has a line of reissued classic adventures, like Castle Amder and Barrier Peaks, and these books are fabulous. They're updated for 5e, so they offer that old school charm in 5e rules.

Additionally, 5e has so little in the way of specializations and customizations for characters, but that's being cleared up in the newest official D&D book, Tasha's Caldron of Everything. It's got a bunch of specialized subclasses, like the Bladesinger, and a lot of more flavorful text and items to go with your campaigns.

I feel like 5e started off kinda bland, but has been becoming significantly more fleshed out and living over time. And that makes sense: it takes time to add to these worlds.

Oh, also, Kobold Press' Tome of Beasts 1 & 2 are also fantastic 5e books. Great monsters.
IIRC and AFAIK it comes from old norse, madr which used to mean human.

They had separate words for female madr and male madr.

Lately it has been a popular conspiracy that this is because "patriarchy" but the real reason is probably as mundane as simplifications over centuries.
I like using ^W for this nerd-rhetoric trope so I don't have to count letters.
That's right. I use they/them. My question remains, though. True, it might be rare now, but it doesn't necessarily going to be rare in the future.
Like I said, I'm not talking about end users. (Obviously for end users ML enables doing lots of things "for free" that used to be paid services before.)

I'm talking about commercial applications, like the OP said. That is, things I could potentially pitch to management and substantiate with something concrete that isn't "you can fire your lowest-paid contractors now".
Pike, Thompson, Presotto, Collyer, McKie, none of these people contribute to either 9front or 9legacy, beyond providing the original Plan 9 code base which underlies all the forks.
Someone published an investigative report on 1/5 about different social media, the calls to violence were worst in his opinion on Parler
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2021/01/05/how-the-...
You joke but people have cited this as an apparently legitimate argument against adding new states.
I’m surprised to see this here, on HN.

For all its faults, Facebook isn’t to blame for the existence of edgy paraphernalia merchants of the kind that make Buzzfeed feel squeamish.

Journalism like this is bullying. Ironically, Buzzfeed’s intention is to rabble rouse negative sentiment against those in charge — in this case, Zuckerberg.

Profiting off of cultural and political discord indeed. Et tu, Buzzfeed?
Reminds me of what Cards Against Humanity did for Black Friday some years ago:

https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/
This is a backward way of coming to terms with conflict. In the modern world war is increasingly an outmoded way of handling conflicts. The number of wars, casualties in wars, and so on are a tiny fraction of what they have been historically. The idea that war is the basis of peace is held strongly by those who study wars, but a thorough analysis puts and social inequality and disasters such as famines as being both the current drivers of war and in many cases avoidable. At this time trade wars and competitions like the space race have a bigger effect on society than open conflict.
In 1912, the recording equipment would have been quite conspicuous.
The headline is clickbait.

About 3 sentences down, you can see him say "I am an optimist. It may take days, it may take weeks but Parler will return and when we do, we will be stronger."

I also "feel crazy in this world" but only because so many of us only seem to reading the clickbait headlines.
yea it sounds like a reasonable IT person at Parler would suggest preparing for getting booted off these big tools (aws, twilio, etc.) considering Parler sounds like exactly the type of product that would get kicked off these services.

One of the founders of pirate bay had a tweetstorm recently where he was like, i get that aws kicked u guys off, but like, u guys cant get a homepage up and running? I agree with this guy.

parlor was founded with politics in mind, maybe they are ok with shutting down their community because in a way that serves their political goals, sounds like parlor and aws are already suing eachother, i dont doubt uber-conservative users will find an alternative platform to use in the coming weeks.
At least for DX9-DX11 and DX12 translation, Vulkan works great with dxvk and vkd3d-proton. If you need gaming, I'd recommend using them vs the stock support. Winevulkan itself works well.
That link is pay/auth-walled for me, but I do get your point. Perhaps easy to solve was underestimate the technical problem as I was more thinking in terms of political problems. From that perspective no one, other than pedophiles themselves, disagrees with removing that kind of content. But completely agree on tech side of it.
That’s part of it. The other part is that free people say they don’t want to see illegal content (child exploitation imagery, terrorism, scams, sale of opioids etc). The platform needs to moderate to remove that. Then the same users also say they don’t want to see legal but distasteful (in their opinion) content like pornography, spam and so on. The platform then has to remove that as well.

For most part platforms take decisions that will suit the majority of users.
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The problem is that data engineers that are geared towards analytics very very rarely control the systems that create the data. If you're lucky, you have the task of hounding a team within your company to get their data management practices in order. And the conversation there is whether they should make their job harder in order to make your job easier.

Unfortunately, data engineers rarely deal with purely in-house data. You're gonna be pulling data from a variety of data sources. I can assure you that if you're pulling from government data sources, you're gonna have a hell of a time. Speaking from direct experience, my team is probably going to spend $10M/year just trying to keep a government dataset in order, because they won't do it themselves. I'm talking lawyers, legal analysts, data engineers, data scientists, data entry personnel, etc.. just to fix data that should have never been broken in the first place.

It shouldn't be a shock that cleaning the data is the path of least resistance for many.
this post is so timely. How do you guys handle hiring? I’m looking to hire more data engineers (Singapore only for now), especially senior ones and it’s not easy.
My gut is to just find good engineers who have good first principles and let them learn on the job. Feedback/experiences welcome!
This simple suggestions "link --> associated" will greatly help clear the fog around supplementation and nutritional studies.

The other word that I would love to see is intervention study. Ultimately, intervention in a clinical context setup as a RCT (e.g. use of Vitamin D for Covid patients) is the best judge of clinical outcomes.
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You should set it up so that people can send cryptocurrencies that are provably burned. Then you could pay something to no one to send nothing to someone.
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> Okay, compare this to the ratio of recreational knife use (including kitchens) to violent knife use and you'll see why guns are a problem.

In the US, stabbings are the second most common cause of murders after shootings, and a higher incident of assaults. In the UK, stabbings are significantly more common than shootings, to the point they are establishing very similar regulations around knife purchase and possession.

An honest look at the data on violence would indicate two things:

1. Violent behavior and the tool used are disconnected. E.g. People with an intention to be violent will act violent regardless of which tools are available.

2. When someone is violent they'll use the most efficient tool available. E.g. Once someone has made a decision to act out violently they'll identify and use the best tool available to carry out their violence.

In effect, there are two ways to approach violence in society. You can try to reduce the number of available tools to carry out violence so people are restricted to their bare hands (note strangulations and beatings just barely trail stabbing in the US as a cause of murder). Or you can address the social issues that result in people acting violently at all, to reduce the incidence of violence and violence-adjacent behaviors in society.

Levering #2 is easier but less impactful, Levering #1 is harder, but has much wider positive impacts.

No matter what you do, violence will never be entirely eliminated.

I think assessing the data honestly and coming to the conclusion "guns are a problem" is either a result of bias or naivete, because it's not a logical conclusion following from the available data, either US-centric or globally.
Some people in the go team were indeed part of the plan9 team, Rob Pike and Russ Cox to mention a few.

Iirc Russ Cox ported Plan9 userspace to Linux when he moved to google, somehow out of frustration. Thanks for that, using acme on Unix is like a hot summer late afternoon fresh beer. Or whatever fresh beverage of your fancy.
I completely disagree with your post, but I'm utterly intrigued on how you got there. My experience of Reddit is that it is extremely left-wing. I would even go so far as to say rabidly so.

YouTube seems more 'anti-woke' than 'right-leaning'. Those aren't the same, I don't think.

Please go into more detail on why you feel this way, or if you have evidence to support your view. You could be right, because both YouTube and Reddit are vast websites, and I admittedly stick mostly to tech and tech-related areas of both, so I may not be seeing it.
That's by design. And it's not like PR hasn't had numerous referenda.
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> Apple users (not picking on them, they're your average non-IT person)

To be fair, this also describes Windows users. Most users of any platform are average non-IT people.
That was their marketing, yes, but, as happens from time to time, the marketing was not truthful.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200627/23551144803/as-pr...
Nice to hear about issues that got actually fixed. I tend to find some edge case issues regularly too, but usually most of bug reports end up in limbo.
Question wasn't if ML is useful. The question is - does ML make money or create (financial) value for the company?

The stuff you listed doesn't, it's just part of a moat for already established products that don't depend on ML for their market share. (It's not like Netflix will lose market share if they switch from ML to some other approach for their recommendation system.)
The first 37 seconds of lecture video #2 are gold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H7SQWTR6Dw

cough cough
What do you mean by "nuking"?
> It's at risk of being forgotten

Not by HN at least. It comes up fairly regularly in one context or another. Though usually when someone is bemoaning some aspect of POSIX or Linux.
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Jack Dorsey gave Colin Kapernick $3 million after he tweeted a call for a violent revolt.

“When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction, The cries for peace will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance. We have the right to fight back! Rest in Power George Floyd.”
Hahaha, love it.
Speaking as an ex-Pivot (but only for myself), a couple of thoughts:

- VMware grew almost 2.5x under Pat. Obviously their core franchise is about harvesting, but new adjacent products like NSX and VSAN helped a lot with growth. They just took a long time to get traction given the customer base, who don’t like change. VMware Cloud on AWS has been surprisingly strong even to skeptics like myself.

On the other hand, companies would get rid of VMware if they could, and they tried and failed with OpenStack. The hypervisor is commodity, but the overall compute/network/storage private cloud system isn’t trivial. Turns out “holding hands” whether by software or services is pretty valuable?

Public cloud of course is a substitute, though private clouds and data centres have survived and thrived as well (for now).

- Pivotal had a boutique software and services model that would be difficult to scale as a public company given the current shifts in the enterprise fashion away from productivity-at-any-cost (PaaS and serverless) and towards perceived low cost building blocks (Kubernetes and its ecosystem).

But it would be an gross oversimplification to suggest this was merely a vanity project for EMC and Dell. It took in $500m+ annually on open source software (and another $300m in services), which is no small feat, though still minuscule given what surrounds it. But anything new has to start somewhere. Not enough to impact the mothership’s balance sheets, but there was something special there that could be nurtured. Whether it can be, or whether the differences matter enough is anyone’s guess.

Pat could take Intel in a direction we don’t anticipate. VMware was written off for dead when Pat came on but he managed to buy it another 10-15 years and at peak a doubling of the stock price. He’s probably learned from that.
If it was seeded 4 months after the article, it had absolutely nothing to do with the article.
You're misunderstanding. Apple doesn't care about FB driving sales, people would by Apple devices FB or no FB. Apple doesn't care about Pro-Trump loonies. (Or rather, they only care that the Pro-Trump loonies give them a pretext.)

What they care about is the opportunity shift more content from the control of large competitors, to content that is centered and dependent on their devices.

I'll give you a for instance, have you ever wondered why they are so hesitant to allow other providers to link in to their messaging games tech? They're slowly moving into these more social networking type areas, and very few consumers are even noticing. For consumers they just think, "Hey! look what my iphone does now!"

If you think Apple needs the money FB generates for them more than they want the money they can generate for themselves, you're fooling yourself.

In short, with Apple, it's not about social good, it's about money. They don't care about your cause, nor your enemy's. They care about gaining greater control over more and more revenue streams. If they can use social good to justify that revenue grab, all the better. Anti trust law is what keeps Apple in line, not their FB partnership.
>I think it is difficult to imagine real life within Chinese borders.

This is classic orientalism, especially the idea that people can't figure their way out of a plastic bag without Western input. In reality, the Chinese population holds a range of opinions just as diverse as in any other country. And why wouldn't it? It just takes time and effort to cross the language barrier and come into contact with it from the West.
Did those people, specifically, somehow want to take over the government for themselves? no.

Were they merely "protesting?" Obviously not.

Did they want to somehow force the government to overturn or undo what they believed was a stolen election and install Trump into a second term? Quite likely.
Intel's chip designs are still fine, though. Tiger Lake's IPC gains are right in line with Zen 3's IPC gains over Zen 2. And Xe looks to be a great iGPU.

Which means Intel is more or less on equal design footing with AMD, they're just having trouble getting it built.

And Intel has multiple huge revenue streams that are not in question at all. All their networking stuff, for example (everyone, even on AMD, still goes for motherboards with Intel LAN instead of anyone else's, and same with wifi). And things like Optane. And all their tooling & software suites. Intel's CPU division is struggling to get wins, but Intel overall as a company isn't.
Reminds me of this podcast title I saw yesterday on StackOverflow :

"Podcast 303: What would you pay for /dev/null as a service?" [1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/12/podcast-303-what-would...

(I did not listen though)
I love this. It's simple and clever. I hope you make some money.

I'm reminded of the "I am Rich" iPhone app[0], but less offensive to the sensibilities. It's just a small art project where the performance art aspect centers around the observer giving the artist money.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
Moore's law was stated originally as the doublinkd of the number of transistors per integrated circuit per year, later modified by him to a doublingevery two years. Reading the article where he first proposed the rule (cited in the wikipedia article linked in parent) this confirms that definition, as opposed to transistors per unit area or other measures.
Let this be a lesson for other messaging applications: giving users an ultimatum where they have to give up their privacy in order to continue using a product is a bad idea. Damage is done for users -- who have already accepted to give their contact lists and whatnot -- and for WhatsApp although at a much lesser degree. Network effects and migration costs will retain their users, but for how long?
Let's just put it this way. I still have a full time job.
I dont think they were trying to pacify dems. I think they have wanted to do this for a long time but couldnt with Trump in power. This was a cathartic release for San Francisco bay liberals
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Some people have claimed that it would be legal...

Over half a century of life might not have made me much of a programmer, but one thing it has taught me time and again is that if an amateur lawyer says something is “legal if...” and your gut said otherwise, go with your gut. It is as if they forget that the argument is not with me, but the hypothetical judge they’re going to stand before (as you point out).
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Clever. Of course then they wouldn’t be making money. Anyway, what’s truly “provably” burned?

Might as well send them an individualized clip of a Lincoln or Jackson being set on fire.
Parler moderated by showing post to 5 random people and taking their result.
It was a protest whose specific goal was delaying the ratification of a democratic election and that included individuals who apparently hoped to take democratically elected representatives hostage.

Maybe "insurrection" is the wrong word, but "protest" is too. Calling this "gaslighting" seems like projection.
They were clearly trying to kidnap elected officials.
Apple’s ultimate goal is to sell iPhones, not solve privacy unfortunately. Why would they invest in a feature they actively hide and discourage users from using? They can’t put it in the keynote as a feature to buy an iPhone, and then hide it from all the users they just advertised to.
open core?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model
Indeed! We recently moved to a more privacy-aware analytics product (Plausible) and that broke something.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Looks like it's time to add unit-tests to the landing page...
It seems plausible that FB's algorithms noticed a connection between the type of person interested in guns and the type of person that would engage with an ad for illegal, misnamed accessories.
Acme on Unix is almost as good as Acme on Plan 9, but I can't stress enough how great it is on a real Plan 9 system inside rio.

p9p acme does introduce multi-line tag displays, though, which is hugely convenient when I want to keep track of lots of line numbers or hold a bunch of Edit commands.
How much of the ad spend is coming from PAC's with unrestrained fundraising abilities, and dark money sources? Cut off that money supply with election reform and a lot of these ad network problems coupled to political polarization become a lot smaller.
Noted

I’m thinking of e2e encrypted mobile messaging, probably obviously in the context of federal investigations of conspiracy to commit sedition, insurrection, or treason.

In that scenario, I don’t think physical access to the hardware would necessarily lead to the same result as physical access to a laptop, for example.
There's this vid of someone having the shakes from withdrawal that was enough to make me drop alcohol. It's just scary af.

https://amp.reddit.com/r/tooktoomuch/comments/kjnisn/going_t...
> I am glad that the public backlash

Due in no small part to HN. If it weren't for this community, the word would not have spread as far as it did to pressure them to make this change.

Thanks to all of you and everyone at HN who works hard to keep this place as awesome as it is.
I always see that the data used in ML field are not being praised enough. I don't see enough people realising it was the large collection of data / curated information that enabled the advancement (may it be that the ML methods were heavily and manually tweaked to accomplish certain tasks). It simplify wasn't possible before the age of internet.
Same deal on ubuntu/linux! For a year or so I've been really happy with Telegram's resource usage and snappiness.