skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Personally, I'd rather see a more aggressive AGPL where REST calls are considered linking and trigger virality

That would be a horrible precedent. Sending an http request to a server should not trigger copyright violation. This is similar to newspapers who claimed that having links to their site, violates copyright.
How do you deal with the problem that the content the current community promotes isn't necessarily the content that is best for your product in the long run (what if they are very dismissive of new members, hampering growth?), or even legal?
I believe it's referring not to unified memory, but some speculation that the memory being closer to the CPU makes some notable difference. That line was in a fair amount of the initial articles about the M1, and fits the "myth" description.
Agree with this. Fancy libraries like React/Vue etc are great, but they require more human resources in terms of development and add more complexity to your development cycles. I am working on a side project and initially got tempted to use Vue for the front-end but once I stepped back and re-thought about it, jQuery was a no-brainer in terms of how much I can achieve in the time I have.
>"robust low-level (MMU-level) IPC mechanism for CPU-bound tasks compared to memory-mapped I/O ..."

Could you elaborate on what makes IPCS more suited to CPU-bound tasks vs mmap? Sys V ipcs has always kind of eluded me. I think my exposure to it was mostly via Oracle Databases way back when. Cheers.
The OS volume is a read-only image now - just system files only, and is signed etc
Well it's a little harder to tell what's going on now that some of these right-leaning sites have been shuttered, but from what I can tell people are backing away from this and not showing much interest in further violent protest.

There might be some large crowds in response to all of the recent deplatformings, but at least some conservatives are claiming that no such events are planned on at the capitols and that the media is inflating the story.

Your guess is as good as mine though. There are so many lunatics in America that anything might happen. Hopefully whatever attempts at violence are made will be unsuccessful.
> That seems like a pretty significant determinant when considering which site had a more direct connection to the events that transpired.

does it really? "tries but fails to moderate extremism at massive scale" doesn't seem better than "makes no effort to moderate at much smaller scale". I guess the first leaves some potential for improvement in the future, but I don't expect a whole lot from facebook.
You don't know beforehand who is going to DDoS you, or when. So, re: avoidable, a sensible solution is to just use a VPN for that specific purpose. Its easy to set up, cheap, and the added latency for voice chat is negligible.
I guess it's time to de-activate my FitBit account. It was nice while it lasted. I wish companies wouldn't fall prey to Google money on principle, but that money is oh so good...
This is what surprised me most, using Telegram next to Signal in the recent months - their Windows app is fully native and super fluid + speedy. It's really a night and day difference, I hope Signal devs will reconsider some time.
BigQuery Omni – multi-cloud data analytics
So long as we're nitpicking...

The version you're replacing is two processes. It may, with enough files, give an error about a command line length limit. However, it's one find and one rm. Your version spawns rm for every file found, basically like using xargs.

If you want the best of both worlds, try:

find lisp -name '*.elc' -delete
Yeah, it may have worked in some contexts, but people also read the room. And when the algorithm is setting the room to "1 tick more extreme than you" they gradually dial up.

I've watched this process turn friends who had pretty mild political leanings to "burn it all down" radicals or transform into right wing talk radio hosts. It's not good.
not sure what setup you use, but for me (win 10 64b, latest firefox, running ublock origin and ghostery) works fine
Here's something to put ML and related tech to work: to quantify the influence of shilling, astroturfing, brigading, gatekeeping, and all kinds of political campaigning on the 'net, the devastating consequences of which are only now seen by the general public.

Though I have to say that I've personally seen ML invading conferences not related to ML per se, with over half of submissions employing ML techniques to random problems in the primary field which however were in itself clearly of no interest to the presenter and only a vehicle for their graduation even more than usual. So I'm admitting to see MLer as mostly in it for advancing their careers; glad to be convinced otherwise.
I remember seeing ads for sniper scopes on web pages about spring(the framework) scope. But this was in 2010..
Correct. If you build your instrumentation correctly, then you don't really need to do any "cleaning."

Doesn't mean you might not need to do transformation for different uses but ideally wouldn't need to, for example change data types like turning a bool into an int.
it’s not copyright violation. it’s a license violation. they are completely different.
This was recently discussed on bitcointalk [1]. Some quotes from that thread:

> Because when you have mined a full block and there is a backlog, the difference in income between mining the next block (all full of pending transactions) and going backwards and remining the prior block to take its fees is small (and comes at a cost of decreased chance of eventually being in the longest chain). This is particularly true because new transactions that are arriving cannot be included in the prior block if it is remined.

> A supply cap requires a block reward dwindling to insignificance (long before it reaches 0).
So the significant mining reward must come from large fees. Mining stability requires a steady backlog of fee paying transactions, which in turn requires a highly constrained block size.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5306354.0
Switching to Signal? Turn on these settings now for greater privacy and security
A number of industrial domains have largely benefitted from this tool and outsiders can even set up their own virtual r&d lab at almost no upfront investment these days. As usual, a tool is (still...) only a tool, and it (still, just...) needs domain knowledge to work in full and produce noticeable ROI?
I have - moved to an Apple watch.
Keeping in mind DE can mean different things at different companies, I spend a lot of time working on infrastructural components to just get at data reliably. Working in a product company with disparate generators of data, I’m often building out network connectivity (VPC peering, VPNs, etc.), subnets, ACLs, firewalls and load balancers across our visualization tools, managing job flows, controlling AWS costs, building read replicas for production databases, yadda yadda. There might be a ton of hoops to jump through before I can even start to process data and it’s the type of work that wouldn’t make sense to hand off to my DS counterparts.
M1 is a giant flashing sign showing that x86 as we know it is dead. Intel is doomed.
Achieving flow while making podcasts from YouTube and Project Gutenberg
Some people find it psychologically easier to sit in the shit when they discover they are not alone. Some even go further and trying to justify the shit when there is a lot of it.
I am not one of them, so for me shit is still shit and I prefer to see it for what it is.

Besides, can two wrongs make something right ?
This may be a non-answer answer, but given you are versed on the Phoenix front, may I suggest a book on the design aspect of things? For example, Domain Driven Design Quickly: https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly...

It has been a while since I have read it, so it may be dated, but hopefully others can provide suggestions too!
I guess that's because the world is not black and white. You see corrupt cops hurt you while the nice mob helps your family.

It's one of the reasons why successful criminals always have a good community outreach program. Once you have the people on your side, it's very hard for the police to do much.

When gangs selling drugs in Colombia originally started, while they were quite violent, they did take care and look after the local community they were based in. And in return, they local community took care of them by alerting them when the military was closing in as an example.

If you're a young kid growing up in that environment, it's easy to see how you'd consider the military as the bad guys since all you see them do is come in and create chaos / hurt people etc. while the local drug dealer on your street is ensuring that you have food to eat.
And in this case there is demonstrable malicious action.
I'm with you now. If we all open with pronouns, it speeds up the acceptance as a societal norm.

I am not going to argue with you because I'm not sure there is much of an argument, heh, but I have a strong suspicion that if I were to have offered pronouns in the last say, 30 introductions I made in person, most of the other parties would be baffled, ask why, then may think they have to coach their language around me. I hope we'd both agree it may carry a certain stigma with it. As it happens if I walked in the door of a customer the second time and she said "Ah, the ginger menace returns!" I would laugh and tell her that she better believe it, having taken no offence. Perhaps I'm making a false equivalence here to excuse my current viewpoint?
> Isn't it just an example of democratic content moderation

A democracy makes great efforts to ensure 1 person = 1 vote.
Online platforms do not.
I just wish the desktop app could send regular sms via my phone.
I once named a fat32 USB pendrive ЯBK

This data must have corrupted some firmware section or so because the drive was gone afterwards.

Couldn't format, couldn't dd, anything.

Fits the category, I think. Only less funny :(
Well, depends on the observer :)
WhatsApp says: No, we can't see your private messages – and neither can Facebook
I am curious what your take is on things like this article:

https://managingml.substack.com/p/the-myth-that-machine-lear...

It has been my experience too. Basically, ML / DS engineers are thrown under the bus for being poor general software engineers, but in practice it’s totally the opposite.
"Falsely yelling fire in a theater" theory was a judge's analogy for protesting the Vietnam War.

The US passed the Alien and Sedition Acts centuries ago.

These debates are age-old.

Also, the First Amendment is less important than all the Articles of the Constitution, including the ones about the Electoral college. So by your theory (which is invalid because order of Amendment has nothing to do with relative importance, and you are a horrible person if you think free speech is more important than banning race-based slavery) peotectingt the Electoral College is more important than Free Speech
My guess would be it's an issue with cross contamination, not an intentional mixture of the two.
Not in Sweden
disconnected interpretation of "free speech"

Oh yeah whats that comrad?
I would donate specifically to an effort to develop a native Signal Mac app.
My position is that when a private company has so much power that it rivals nation states in the control it can exert on public discourse, it should be limited in similar ways to the way we limit political power with first ammendment protections. The case for such free speech protections is essentially the same as the case for the first ammendment restrictions on government power. Arguably, the case is even stronger, since private corporations have no democratic accountability.
Some good points, undoubtedly this will be saged in no time.

We have nearly reached the end-game for these incremental changes to our perception.

Why would objectivity matter if emotion-driven "lived experiences" (as if there are any other kind) is what passes for truth these days?

Currently a pandemic has taken root globally in the form of a self-replicating mental virus that corrodes critical thought and reinforces the status quo.

Our society will stagnate and die from this, and perhaps that's the only way through. Accellerate.

Life is all about where you park yourself.
US Constitution, Article 1 Section 6:

"The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."[1]

[1] https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcri...
Honestly after seeing the state of most subreddits (aka they become echo-chamber of whatever the main moderators find "worth of value" and very toxic about whatever is against their idea), community self-moderation seems a total failure.
> I've been brewing up strategies of letting the community itself moderate because a machine really cannot "see" what content is good or bad, re: context.

There's a ton of material on that subject, thankfully; look at news groups, HN itself (flagging), Stack Overflow, Joel Spolsky's blogs on Discourse, etc etc etc. My girlfriend is active on Twitter and frequently joins in mass reporting of certain content, which is both a strong signal, and easily influenced by mobs.
'Galaxy-sized' observatory sees potential hints of gravitational waves
Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
please define "need"...
I'm not saying it would be wrong to be rich or that devs should be rich if they work for companies that make a lot of money per employee. But that's a pretty "valley centric" view that creating software means creating infinitely scalable money machine and each developer always creates a value much larger than what they are paid.

For most us devs, especially in europe where a larger fraction of us developers work, I imagine, in traditional industry rather than "in software", there just isn't a situation where we create this massive value. We create more than we earn, sure, but it's not exacly Netflix money. The company I work for, like almost all companies, have a huge number of employees and a profit margin that has looked pretty similar for a lifetime.

What's unfair is perhaps that there are instances of such companies, where the developers really could and should be rich because they write software that make billions. If such devs were paid better, then I could also be paid better, because I'm paid in competition with them. More likely though they'd be paid more and the jobs that aren't in that category would be done elsewhere. So in a sense, I'm also a tiny bit happy that the pay structures aren't as widely distributed as they are in some places.
Intent does matter. Why don't you try moderating posts at the scale facebook receives them, and we can compare the results.

edit: I am not advocating for or against facebook being so large. What I am saying is there is a clear distinction between facebook and e.g. parler in terms of moderation.
The short stories were fantastic. And they really were underground: mainstream youth culture had no idea and no interest and in some cases were even hostile toward the small group of believers. Like you I still have a stack of these magazines somewhere in my basement. My kids are not into RPG’s, so I may have to get rid of them or connect with a buyer if people really like to collect these things.
I triggered account deletion a couple weeks ago when the EU announced their approval. With the 7 day deletion timer, hopefully my account was completely terminated prior to Google getting their hands on it.
Ask HN: Funniest/most entertaining HN post
I've seen quite a few funny blog posts on here but I forget about most of them. What's on your all-time list?
>^H^H^H^H

hmm?
Sounds like the field has accelerated itself into an intellectual dead end.

Not enough to know how to walk . You need to know where you want to go, and figure out the existence of any path in the first place or you might end up squaring the circle.
Can't reply directly to SirSourdough because of thread limits.

>I don't think this really address the point though. Alcohol is sold with known purity, quality, and quantity. You aren't going to overdose due to an impurity.

Their argument was never that it would stop everything, only that it would help (and I agree).

How many people have you met that have gone blind from drinking "bad" alcohol? During the prohibition era, this was an actual issue people faced.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/alcohol-history/prohibit...

>A major decline in the risk per use massively outweighed by a huge increase in use over time due to legalization.

There is evidence that decriminalization when paired with other policies can potentially cause decreases in usage as well as a decrease in negative outcomes such as HIV transmission rates and drug deaths.

https://transformdrugs.org/drug-decriminalisation-in-portuga....
I didn't stop using it, but I made a different decision about what watch to purchase because of it, because a) divesting my health data from Google's vacuum seemed wise and b) I no longer trust Google to support hardware/services long term.
Mini led is disappointing currently. The controllers arent near capable of driving the led count.

The promised 25,000 mini LEDs turned out to be less than 1000 zones, and even then the controller was horribly laggy and poorly implemented giving a far worse experience than a properly implemented ~40 zone tv. And it costs more.

Micro led would be interesting where every pixel is it's own led, without pixel burnin like oleds suffer from, but that seems far off if ever practical.

Oled seems like it will remain king for a while.
It seems as if the virtual omniscience of the internet makes subcultures impossible since there is no mystery anymore.

Subcultures were a primary driver of all this cultural churning through the decades. Greasers, hippies, metalheads, punks, etc.

In the past people were able to differentiate themselves this way. Outside the subculture nobody would know what you are doing, or the words you use. They may fear you.

And you couldn't just be anyone in order to achieve a certain look. Punk gear didn't come off the rack. Now it does.

Now you could have a conversation with any random stranger in full goth attire and everyone will carry on as if nothing is out of the ordinary.

At most they will just think you are lame, and a LARPer.
I was about to buy a new fitbit as my current one is basically dead after 4 years. But the way Google handles things they buy doesn't inspire confidence. I guess I'll investigate others and probably end up with an Apple Watch.
Of course - what I was trying to say there was that it was not feasible without writing hundreds of lines of extra code, with all the development and maintenance cost that brings. In some use cases that trade-off may make sense, but in mine it doesn't.
Use redux-like middleware for useReducer in React
This comment aged well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25771022

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25772462
I have a dream - and it looks like this!
Your qualification of value destroying/value-creating makes little sense to me. If I need a news article or some other webpage translated I can do it thanks to Google Translate.
If Google Translate was not here, I would simply not get it translated and lose the information, there is no way I would contact a translation firm for that kind of stuff.
To me it is firmly value creating.

At any rate here are way more than 3 other uses of DL today off the top of my head:

* Autocompletion (be it in search engines toolbars or in Gmail/Word/...)

* Superresolution GAN, the most interesting example to me being NVIDIA DLSS, you render a game at ~720p or less and then upscale it to the target resolution of 1080p or 4k, allowing to get quality that the machine would not have been able to support at the target resolution directly.

* Image recognition/tagging: Most of this is used in the security domain, but there is also a lot of stuff around inventory management, safety etc.

* Semantic search

* Protein folding (AlphaFold)

* In astrophysics: detection of supernovaes, FRBs and probably a bunch of other stuff I'm not aware of

* Self-driving cars: Even assuming self-driving technology does not evolve anymore from now on, the current state of the art is still a selling point.

* Predictive maintenance: Used for plane engines and other things
History always repeats itself. Strong men create weak times, weak times create strong men. If you look at history, 1917 problems created 1932 solutions. What do we learn from that? Not a lot, apparently.
> I think it's evident from Facebook, Twitter, et al that human moderation of very dynamic situations is incredibly hard, maybe even impossible.

How would you know what the evidence tells us from those platforms, when their criteria and resources for moderation are proprietary and opaque?

FB is a profitable company.

Have you calculated how many moderators could be paid $20 per hour out of $15.92 billion profit?

Approximately 400,000.
I do use AWS S3 for storage and it's very cheap for my needs. But I do periodically think about switching to a VPS (or to Backblaze which does let you set a hard cap).

I also help out a small non-profit newspaper mostly operated by students. We're going to need some storage for an archiving project and there's no way in hell I'm going to use AWS for that.
The story of the CMC is absolutely bonkers. There were so many close calls and possible disasters that I am surprised we even ended up in this non-nuked timeline, even with the anthropic principle!
I am not suggesting it is perfect, but that it may be a little hyperbolic to say any os you load on a Mac is not it's 'own OS' because it relies on closed bootloaders/firmware. If that is the case, then what does every other computer run? Is Linus's own operating system not his own because he loads it on an Intel or AMD processor?
At that time, Intel had a lead with the Tualatin microarchitecture on the PIII. This was developed into the Pentium M and Core. As far as I can tell, they don’t really have anything of that sort on the market right now that they could “evolve” into something new.
Nobody knows yet which side will "win" internally. Wear OS is Android-based and a Google product. It's also universally accepted as garbage: Even Android Police bloggers trash on the state of Wear OS. Fitbit is a better platform that has vastly more users and performs better. But it's not Googley at all, so if Google keeps it, there will likely be a lot of changes.
"Mr Howells bought the bitcoins for almost nothing in 2009"

He's lost the currency value of "almost nothing", not millions. Otherwise, I've also "lost millions" because I forgot to buy APPL 20yrs ago.
"twat" substring probably.
>In which I answer "it doesn't matter, but if you accept my input it's your job to ensure the app doesn't crash"

This is how try/catch alls get added :(
What hypocrisy... despite eight months of deaths, threats, and continued destruction from BLM/Antif rioters who continue to get bailed out by the "Minnesota Freedom Fund" they continue to have a platform but conservative voices do not. What a load of garbage.

The breakup of BigTech cannot happen fast enough!
Richer folks also tent to study more and have say more options to expand their mind to various views, cultures and places. Far harder to manipulate/outright brainwash those into some patriotic bullshit about defending your home from those evil bad guys.

Unless you force drafts with hard punishments for those avoiding of course, but such an army would have very low morale not only these days.
I'm not sure. It was kind of traumatic, but on the other hand it's a very old site, so it was obvious that there might be some dead bodies in the basement. Found one, ignored the others.