skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just another tool. I have this saying: all machine learning is just clever tricks and techniques until someone learns how to brute force the solution.

It's the same adoption/business technology tension that has existed since Frederick Taylor in the early 1900s or Vonnegut's Player Piano concept where they propose taking a recorder to automated human-adverse tasks by recording their movements. The hype is trying to replace people. Real-world adoption seems to take place where machine learning complements human activity to do things humans are not good at, not replaces it. It's not making them dumber, it's making them more enabled.

[reference]

In the early 1900’s Frederick Taylor called public attention to the problem of ‘national efficiency’ by proposing to eliminate ‘rule of thumb’ management techniques and replacing them with the principle of scientific management [157]. Scientific management reasons about the motions and activities of workers and states that wasted work can be eliminated through careful planning and optimization by managers. While Taylor was concerned about the inputs and outputs of manufacturing and material processes, computers and the information age brought about parallel concepts in the management and organization of information and its processes. Work efficiency could now be measured not by bricks or steel, but by their information flows.

F. W. Taylor, “Principles of Scientific Management”, Harper & Row, New York,
NY, 1911.
I read it as:

> I am lesbian, gay, bi-, trans-, and neutral regarding the the use of pronouns.

which doesn't make any sense.
Old-School Text Adventures Inspired Our Virtual Spaces
Antioxidants Vitamin C and Vitamin E associated with lower risk of Parkinson’s
I hope we can agree that there's a significant difference in accessibility for something you can legally buy from the store versus something that you have to seek out illegally from random "sketchy people on the street".
This, right here.

In 2016, when Facebook was charged with hosting "fake news", their response should have been "It's your fault for believing everything you read on the internet."

When Facebook replied, "We accept responsibility, and we will do better", they spelled their own doom.
Didn't they merge with Fitbit a long time ago?
Yes, not e-ink. But it has a heart rate monitor.
99% of HN headlines are not court decisions.

There's a bizarre meme where people apply a lower standard of proof to PR campaigns and random bloggers than statements made under penalty of perjury.
Sweden. I am saving but probably 60% of my "retirement savings" are mandatory payments (payroll taxes effectively) and if I save nothing at all, I'll still have a low-but-liveable pension. The last 40% of my pension or so is what I'm saving for, so basically it's the "extra". It's not nearly as much as you'd have to save in a country where you have to fund your whole retirement.

Also I don't think I'll want to retire very soon which helps the calculation. Saving durig a 50 year career to live 10-15 years is very different from saving for a 40 year career to be retired 20-25 years. I'm hoping to work to at least 70 or longer and that makes a huge difference too. I some times hear US devs talking about wanting to retire at 55 or 60 - which I'd want too if I didn't have summer off every year!
i agree with your point on license proliferation.

the osi has failed, in my opinion, for not approving sspl or something similar.

i respect them a lot less for it than i used to.

sspl does not technically impose any restrictions on any class of users; it’s just an extreme copy left license.

instead, osi spent a time arguing about mongo business model, technical capabilities, and sales tactics.

mongo eventually pulled their application to osi because (i think) they were so turned off by the process and politics.
"Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers." - William Petty

While this is a quote about civil war, it points out a key fact. A country with a strong middle class is much less likely to send its children to war over stupid things. Even the USA barely sent 177,000 troops to Iraq and, despite a jingoistic upswell from 9/11, it was still terribly unpopular.

In my opinion, if you want peace, study poverty.
Forget about the Trump ban, now that some time has passed who involved in the Arab Spring has been permanently banned? Or is that too long ago for knee jerk bird brained twits to remember?
This is the free market at work. PayPal has a well known track record of canceling service to direct customers as well as business partners for arbitrary reasons. This is a major risk but companies too lazy or incompetent to build decent payments just slap on PayPal and everyone suffers. But businesses knowingly do it anyway. Well, this is the consequence.
Arguably true of handguns, not really true of guns in general.
Not trying to defend Facebook, but they did not do it on purpose. They developed a really addicting social network where you do as many interactions as possible.

When Facebook started it was a different world: Almost no data privacy laws, internet security in its infancy (e.g. in 2008 HTTPS was a rare new thing, not cross-origin security etc.) and people were spamming Farmville notifications to each other. It just turned out that this structure is an excellent ground for lots of bad things.
One thing I haven’t seen much mention of is getting things to run on the M1’s neural engine instead of the GPU - it seems like the neural engine has ~3x more compute capacity and is specifically optimized for this type of computation.

Has anyone spotted any work allowing a mainstream tensor library (e.g. jax, tf, pytorch) to run on the neural engine?
A googler recently commented here that, in order to forgive "bigger" bills, you really need to know someone to pull some heavy strings for you - and that it doesn't happen in many cases.

This taught me to be very very careful with this stuff, and to not bet on Google or Amazon being nice to me when I am bound to mess something up at some point - because with the complexity these services carry, it's no wonder people fall into cost traps all the time.
The author puts across his argument in a humorous style (c.f. his sales pitches for his books on his home page) but he makes several good points. As someone who lectures occasionally (not a lecturer per se) I can say with certainty that lecturing is thoroughly enjoyable for the lecturer but generally a miserable experience for the audience, unless they are tuned in, engaged and sit with pen poised, ready to learn. Alas, this is not the default state of an undergraduate audience. His comment about me being a 'gently babbling source of white noise' hit home.
Yes, there are extreme examples, just like there are extreme examples in the stock market.
I see you've managed to make an account on HN.

It is exactly the same. Download one of the clients, for example, Element. Then register. You don't even need an email address. Just make up a name, and a password.

There's even a web client that is functionally identical to the desktop and mobile clients.

It could not be simpler.

Ta da.
I've been using Signal for a few years now. Got most of my friends and actually all of my coworkers to switch.

The one thing that really bums me out is that the desktop app is another Electron app.

At the time of initial development and even now, there's really been no good cross platform way to build a desktop app with a team as small as Signal's, but they recently had an AMA on reddit where I asked if they had considered migrating to a Flutter based desktop app in the future. Their answer was generally positive regarding Flutter, but also a fairly firm no to future migration, so it seems we're stuck with Electron unless something changes.
Call me when someone invents a mask that won't fog glasses.
We should consider shutting down all the various social networks, especially Facebook. These things don’t seem to be actually helping humanity.
Mostly disagree.

> CEOs will realize that ML is effective in narrow ways and that not everything needs ML.

Any stable business isn't unjustifiably syncing costs here. I project FY21 rise an AI-funded efforts in large businesses.

> They will also realize that 1 ML team + ML as a service

Yes/no. This is has more platform implications vs actual ML.

> ML teams might lose jobs

Assumes ML Jobs only do some form of R&D. Data is a utility, and advanced analytics is valuable. Stable ML Jobs dont just work on deep learning.

> I expect it to (already happening)...

partially agree. already happening. But cost centers are only taking on what was standardized yesterday. Tomorrow still requires advanced analytics capabilities.

> In such a system

moot point. This is the system.

I see a pivot in focused efforts. More optimism in an early AI commodity vs stagnation. We're moving from research to integration. Further areas to improve AI in applications (with continuous feedback training) and many domains of advanced analytics.
On a side-note, I hate how Facebook sticks to their real name policy and does not allow for the creation of multiple accounts (I'd want one for my startup / work etc. and another for my personal use case for my friends / family etc.).

That said, all the mainstream social media apps - Facebook and Twitter had a hand and if Parler was de-platformed with that reason, then they should be as well.

I mean, if a 700B and a 50B company can't solve this issue, than how can we expect a much much smaller company like Parler to tackle it?

But it's obvious that these companies don't give a damn about the insurrection - This was entirely to pacify the dems by giving them a "Win" considering they have the House, Senate and Presidency.

It's funny because the company I'm currently consulting for a company that has a ~1B/yr account with Amazon and we've decided to slow our cloud migration projects. We run a major media site and if AWS decides to capitulate to the pressure from essentially people on social media or the wrath of the US Govt, what's stopping them from doing the exact same from Govts of other countries?
The arc of the sun through the sky, along with observable weather and variability in air quality could let you pin the date down with surprising accuracy. Two neighboring dates with similar weather would obviously be very hard, but even variation in cloud patterns could be enough to make an id.
> it is an ongoing determination by many people from a host of backgrounds, biases and intentions who still all agree on what is reasonable and what is not.

Where does this happen currently?
I don’t think this is any different than with stock market wealth.
I'm going to need a few "Jump to conclusions" mats to manage all of the replies to this. Nuts. Propaganda sure does work.
> There are thousands of people achieving this in Bay Area.

thousands ? out of how many ? seems like a tiny fraction
>Is it now your claim that one only enjoys freedom of opinion if the powers that be consider the opinion, or the means by which they are expressed, not harmful?

In a roundabout way, yes. But it is not left to "the powers that be", but a process involving evidence and rigorous reasoning. It's also important to distinguish "mere hurts" from harms. Some potential "harms" we may argue should be prioritized lower than free speech, much in the same way the potential harms of a drunk person on others are prioritized lower than the right to drink (or even produce) alcohol.

You pointed this out yourself; there are many ways to express many opinions, but their expressions can run up against other rights, or at least cause other harms. It's a balancing act, not a settled question. I may also trust the state more to recognize the harm of killing than I trust it to recognize the harm of some other forms of expression.

"Oh, so you believe this now?" isn't a gotcha in a complex process where many different interests need to be considered, and all of us have different views on what society should look like. The law on murder in most countries is extremely complex, with various tiers and problems. Even that is up for debate - England and Wales has a much criticized "mandatory life sentence" and pretty much one tier of murder.

So no, I don't have the answers, but good-faith discussions may bring us closer.
Matrix published an interesting concept for decentralised content moderation [0]. I think this is the way to go.

Edit: Discussed here [1] and here [2].

[0]: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24826951

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24836987
What did you expect the algos to show? Teddy bears?

We all know what kind of people went there and even a simple Linear Regression can figure out this correlation :).
Often but not always. Given name is too informal in some situations. Completely avoiding pronouns can sound awkward too.
I'd like to learn about usage of preact with hyperlink or similar. Do you know of a repo I can take a look?
Scraping HN content with declarative programming
Absolutely correct. The actions of mainstream media have resulted in countless deaths, destruction and other barbarous acts committed as a result of fake news and propaganda. Yet they call for the censorship of others for deeds that pale in comparison.
Free tier gives you a ton of usage across most of the services, but definitely not enough to fully host a side project. But e.g. you can use RDS (database hosting), S3, EC2, text to speech and do whatever you want in a small scale for a year. It's kind of enough to learn for certificates.

I forgot to remove NAT Gateway for a few weeks while learning bits and pieces of VPC usage and it ended up costing me 25$... what can you do.
Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file's icon
In this boat with my Italian. Northerners think I'm from the South. Southerners think I'm from Rome. Imagine their surprise when I tell them I'm from another Italy... Staten Italy.
>There's no reason your SD card has to consist of anything more than u-boot.

Oh, that's a nice idea! It would be nice if you linked to a guide or wiki page so that more people can replicate your setup.
What's interesting and weird to me: both Dutch and French speakers from Belgium (so, Flemish and Walloon people) often sound like they have the same accent when speaking English! To me at least. Anybody else noticed this?
We should bar mega corporations like Amazon and Facebook from receiving public funds and subsidies. One of the many things that invalidates that argument that one should just "start your own ISP/cloud service/etc" is the fact that these megacorporations receive billions in things like subsidies. I would argue that if private companies can do what they want but the government is forbidden from favoring religion, controlling speech, then they shouldn't be giving assistance to companies that do so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-news/amazon-hq...
Milo losing his book deal was not chosen by "the Left" or "silicon valley decision-makers" as they are not the publishing company. People have lost book deals for much less. Such is business. He lost his Twitter and Facebook for harassing people and his official Youtube is doing just fine.

> Traditional far-right views

Can you give an example of a traditional far-right view any of the 3 people in the article were banned for?

The article mentions Alex Jones and Laura Loomer. They were taken off of social media repeatedly encouraging followers to harass people (mobbing). Encouraging/organizing mobbing will even get you banned from 4chan. The number of sites that allow such behavior is exceedingly low, and Alex Jones got several chances to stop before being taken off of youtube and facebook.
Not Jose (obviously), but I have a copy of https://pragprog.com/titles/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-... which I think is still fairly relevant.

Of course, there is always https://elixirforum.com and a good search :)
I think most people don’t understand that the regime will define and redefine what hate speech is, over time.

It’s those icky conservatives now, but the same mechanism will be used against more people tomorrow, as needed.
I've used this book to prove to my kids that, at one time, I may have done something useful because: it has my name in it (by sheer dumb luck I might add).
I wonder if future Fitbit watches will use WearOS instead of the current Fitbit software.
Right?!

This is sort of the meta failure of the argument. They are arguing that people's data skillsets are wrong. To make that argument they are analyzing based on the wrong variable in a data set.
Doesn't load at all in firefox. I guess they only tested in chrome.
Look at how much the price changes based on a small number of trades - sometimes even from a single large trade - to see how little money is really in the BTC ecosystem. The whole idea of the Tether fraud is to pump the price of BTC higher and higher in order to capture an ever smaller and smaller amount of new dollars entering the ecosystem.
Not sure that it's as much stagnation as commoditization.
"wouldn't buy the products the products enmass because they don't want to sit around drooping all day."

Yes they would (!) and we already know why: it's extremely addictive.

We have ample evidence from the ongoing Opioid Crisis that people who get 'too many pills' from an operation can and do become very addicted and 'do it all day'.

Have a look here [1] from the Economist.

What does that look like? It looks like 'COVID explosion' doesn't it?

And consider that we already have restrictions in place for Heroin, what would that 'R0/R1' (aka transmissible social disease) look like without restrictions? It would look like COVID 'without social distancing' aka disaster.

This is happening to Soccer Moms and Patent Lawyers.

And you must be aware that this isn't about 'being high' it's 'addiction servicing' whereby they need the fix to maintain a degree of normalcy.

'Opioids at the Gas Station Checkout' would devolve any society into 'World War Z' within a few months. Only a small fraction of the population affected would overwhelm the medical system.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/07/america-...
I can't speak for them, but I took it this way: there are certain industries that are simply incentivized to produce more of their own industry.

The criticisms of the financial industry where they are not really creating anything of value other than optimizing more value out of existing money.

Adtech industry where a whole generation of technical researchers spent time figuring out how to optimize clicks.

Cryptoeconomy and blockchain where large amounts of money are created out of perceived value and gargantuan efforts are made to build, not solutions to real-world problems (yes I know there are some), but ways to increase the shared, total value of the technology or individual cryptocurrency.
Yes, Facebook is still love-hated by so many because their algorithms are outstanding for finding potential customers. There is no doubt about that, at least for trained conversion campaigns.
Banks dont base their entire operation on a lie that they have 100% reserves. And the exact reserves are audited.
vk did it. The profile/photo/video piece is fairly enough to duplicate. The app /games platform not so much.

Vk is very popular and has scaled well.
Apple is leaving a massive amount of money on the table by not monetizing user data or using it to serve ads. They are by far the most privacy focused of the large tech companies, though they're obviously not perfect.

The only way to do better than Apple is a full FOSS stack, and that comes with different challenges and is more of a hassle to maintain.
I will never do this and I think it's incredibly unacceptable that companies are getting so personal and clawing into their employees in this way. My company encourages this and I will never do it.
Not being sarcastic, but a lot of them are honest-to-god cultists; their connection with concrete reality is tenuous at best. They think that Q is real, and that Trump had secret information about vague evilness being done by Congress (eating babies or similar) that was going to be revealed when they got into the Capitol. Then they were going to arrest them all and execute them as punishment for their alleged crimes. This is what Q believers call “the storm”.

It’s never possible to point to one or two stories that radicalize people like that; it’s not possible to do it that quickly. It takes a certain prior mental state (having a weak social net seems to make it worse), and continual exposure to increasingly radical stories. Like any cult, the rejection of non-members is heavily pushed, which leaves the victim more dependent on the cult and with fewer anchors to reality.

I think any good book about how cults work would be relevant for these people, given that I believe they’re in a cult. But if you’re looking for something more specific, Bellingcat has a great article[0] on the Ashli Babbitt, the Q supporter shot and killed by Capitol police as she breached the final barrier to where congress members were hiding.

0 - Content Warning: lethal violence is discussed and shown in this article. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/01/08/the-journey-of-as...
Won't they be much fewer in number, though?
We disagree. My experience with several extremely large projects has yielded the judgement that closing tickets which are years old without activity is prudent, as is setting a reasonable time frame in which an issue is too stale.
> Where do you draw the line that manages to keep Facebooks app available, while still being able to defend the removal of Parler

The phrase of 2020 was "too many". An arbitrary line.

There are "too many" unarmed black men being killed.

There are "too many" fake news stories being posted to Facebook.

There are "too many", "too many", "too many". We have to do "something" -- and this is something.

What asinine thing to say. First, does that mean there's an acceptable number of unarmed black men to be killed every year? But what this is trying to do is play yourself off as a moderate. "You know, I don't think we should be doing censorship... but there are just TOO MANY"

No. You're an authoritarian playing to scared people who want the problem to stop, and don't care what it costs.
Must have missed the part where Apple allows developers to set up their own app stores.
The Absurdities of 'Franchise Fatigue' and Sequelitis
Anyone stopped using Fitbit as a result of this?
-Devils Advocate

> I fully support the right of private companies to censor content on their premises as they see fit.

Those private companies don't have the right to censor content on their premises 'as they see fit' without giving up protections afforded to them in law as 'platforms'. The question is at what level of moderation and/or bias do they become a 'publisher', not a 'platform'.

> If they do a poor job, I can just avoid using their services.

Issues arise when the poor job spills over outside their service. As an example, The people who live around the US Capitol endangered by pipe bombs in part because of incitement organised on Twitter.
definitely not. And in the dev kit the halves are not even glued together yet :)
There's an example of how this looks in this teardown:

https://gru.gq/2019/12/07/baltic-counter-disinformation-2/

This explains more background:

https://gru.gq/2018/11/08/russian-propaganda-isnt-even-good/
The Next Social Networking Community – Trust Is Everything
Data nerds say things like, “In God We Trust, All Others Must Bring Data”. This is something I think most reasonable minded folks can get behind — especially when it comes to establishing a common truth! But, how would anyone know if I decided I was going to make everything up?