skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just wish Mazda had higher output cars, I’d buy in a heartbeat. I have a Miata for Autocross but I want a turbo/good ev for daily, and I can’t get it from them.
Speech-to-text. Every voice assistant, many phone trees, assistive software.

Facial recognition. iphone face unlock, photo tagging, etc.

Behavior prediction for advertising. Ad quality scores basically.
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>...Anti-trust laws, which have absolutely no teeth since the 80s (and every then...), are not incompatible with free market capitalism.

That's the first time I've ever heard that. Generally, libertarians will state that the existence of monopolies is an outcome of government intervention.
Snarky much? I specifically mentioned friends.

Anyway, globally I know most are on average.

"On average, global internet users spent 144 minutes on social media sites every day"

The Philippines spends almost 4 hours a day.

I obviously know there are things to do that are not social media. No need to be snarky. I just find that most of the people that have mentioned "you work too much" are heavier than the average social media user.

[1] https://www.digitalmarketing.org/blog/how-much-time-does-the...
> I think Facebook should not have the power they have: to grant or deny speech as _they_ see fit, which may or may not align with the locales they operate in.

They don't. You can still speak and publish outside of Facebook.
I'm guessing just venting personal frustrations due to their own experiences, plus maybe poor hiring and guidance of data scientists in their own teams? I have definitely seen DS people in my experience that fit some of the descriptions here, but I think it's a mistake to trivialize the DS position itself. A good DS is a valuable asset, but depending on your company/data, maybe not worth the cost. Plus there is no "single" DS candidate or role, a lot of these roles (data engineer, DS, analyst, swe) blend together at times, and it's about finding the right balance of skills.

Sometimes I think a company (not having the DS experience themselves) mistakenly over-hire DS roles in today's hype of "AI" when their data is mostly run-of-the-mill and only requires simple linear models that can be architected an understood by a stats/math-savvy engineer. Even then, a good DS is still useful (even linear models can be complex: e.g. what priors do you want to use? Do you want a multi-task solution? etc.), but maybe not worth the cost.
Thanks for pointing this out.

Red Hat (my employer currently) is typically in the same boat here and it drives me crazy how people don't think about that before criticizing.

People love to say, "Red Hat couldn't exist without <project>" which is true, but what they don't realize is that a ton (sometimes all) of the development of that upstream project is done by Red Hat employees. Without that a lot of projects may not even exist.

There are no doubt "open source" companies that take more than they give, but it's a little more nuanced and complicated than people make it out to be.
If you think about it, it's a bit surprising how many people, you think, couldn't do his job.
Cool. I'm old enough that I've actually worked with tubes (final amps for 1970s Ham Radios needed too much power to sensibly use the solid-state transistors of the day. Also Fender guitar amps were just turning solid-state in the late 70s/early 80s, so used tube amps were cheaper.)

I would not have guessed that the first ones happened in 1889; Anyone have a favorite link for tube history?
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Interestingly enough, after I reported the first two ads I was shown I clicked on a link that was supposed to show why I was targeted.

The companies had targeted me by gender and age, and a couple of other broad identifiers I cant remember, but nothing about my hobbies, search history, or political orientation.

It's possible that FB didn't show me all of the criteria used to target these ads.

That still doesn't take away from the question of at what point do they become culpable with facilitating a felony offense?

Just because something is hard to do at scale (in this case review ads for illegal behavior), doesn't absolve a company from the responsibility to act.

To be clear, I don't know the answer to this question. Parlor got dumped for not doing enough (and personally I'm okay with that), but how do we determine if Facebook is doing enough?
You still get someone mediocre at everything just they cover up the gaps for a bit longer. Eventually things they don't understand will interact in ways they don't understand and cause production issues. It's okay to be a generalist, one should however understand the blind spots a generalist has.
This is what AWS said in their letter to Parler before cutting them off. It sounds reasonable enough to me

https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/read-amazons-letter-to-...
Since the entire Elasticsearch codebase is now under SSPL, there's no more distinction between the former Apache-2 code and the x-pack code.
I certainly knew about the connections between Go (and so very much other stuff at Google) and Plan 9. I was surprised, at the time, to see the OS itself in use in a production role. Just another example of unexpected tools getting the job done.
This feels especially true when you have access to things like BigQuery ML.

It's very easy for an average engineer (like me) to start using ML using these tools, but a lot harder to explain how it works, or exactly which type of models to use.

In my mind a DS would be really useful to just point us in the right direction and check work. Like a super specialist QA...
A thousand tweets, each seen by a different, overlapping group of a thousand people, reaches fewer total people, but to those people it looks like multiple independent sources confirming the same information. That is, the information looks more trustworthy. (That was one of the points of the Soviet "active measures" propaganda during the Cold War. They not only had western sources giving the Soviet line, they had multiple sources giving the same line.)
Radicalization is a good thing in a group as traditionally as discouraging as nonconformity as much of the US.
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I think this is why they're in trouble.

Apple has the vertical integration to do it properly. Amazon and Microsoft have the server cloud computing to do it server side.

Without proper coordination from Microsoft, third party OEMs, and AMD they'll all fall behind on computing on end devices.

I think that's part of the reason AMD/Intel will be less relevant, the incentives and market moves don't look good for them.
Now that's much more like what I expected to see when you said "hooded tactical trench coat"

I was seeing stuff like this which albeit somewhat tacky doesn't exactly scream IRA like that does.

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1nW0maN_rK1RkHFqDq6yJAFXaa/Fre...

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB19LG5p3MPMeJjy1Xdq6ysrXXaY/Tac...

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/oqoAAOSwGj9dpoA7/s-l300.jpg

https://image.dhgate.com/0x0s/f2-albu-g6-M01-FD-51-rBVaR1rw2...
Try telling HN that you can generally "only do what Apple allows you to do on a Mac" and how that basically makes it "less of a general purpose computer" than others and see how people respond.

To be fair, I don't think of these people as radicals so much as they are suffering from Stockholm syndrome. The bubble that protects them is strong here.
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It can help. At times my company has sought experts on varying threat actors.

Sometimes studying these come with language needs based on the actors’ origin (Russian, Chinese, Farsi, Korean, etc.). While not technically a requirement, it can make things harder when tracking, reversing, etc if you don’t speak the language.

Looking at the current threat landscape and where things often come from Russian or Chinese would be very useful. Looking beyond security, I’d ask if a one language or another in particular is useful or interesting to you.
The fundamental flaw is human nature. That's not going to be easy to fix.
The mental gymnastics some of you will do to support people simply because they have the same world view as you is disgusting.
Right, luxury is what makes money, and in 30 years, they will be qualified as section 8 or low income. This is just how that process works. The massive problem we really have is no one in the 70's or 80's built for the massive population growth we have experienced, so less housing is available than demand. We're near 8 billion people, 70's was only 3.6, 80's 4.4 then boom 8.
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I'm going to be pedantic, but in the US, those silencer kits can be legal. There are requirements for the provenance of the components used in them (can't be imported) but until you drill out the bore they're solvent traps or fuel filters. And if you pay for a tax stamp and file the correct paperwork with the ATF, it's completely legal to transform those items into a firearm suppressor.
Well it was said that Prussia was an Army with a nation vs. everywhere else. (nation with an Army) This militaristic attitude most likely fed the mindset of crushing of the Revolts of 1848 in Germany, and probably had a big influence on starting WW1. A large group of Germans who became disillusioned with the path that Germany was headed down migrated to the US after that. This probably furthered Prussia/Germany down the more aggressive militaristic path.
One of the major specific roles of government in a civil society is to maintain and establish the rules of fair play which then allow for a functioning market economy. This represents an inherent compromise.We recognize and appreciate the value that integration and scale provides, and we use the scale of the government to keep it in check.

This isn’t just about going out and talking to people who disagree with you. Part of the issue is that the news bubbles that have been created out of news and stories and conspiracies that algorithms know we will react to chip away at our ability to have those conversations with each other.

You know, I watch a lot of Fox News, I have some deeply conservative friends and acquaintances and dude they live in a parallel universe. We need the government to collapse those universes together so we can have those conversations in the first place.

The ads to harm because they reinforce the structural walls between universes which prevent the necessary conversation from taking place. It’s pretty bad out there dude.
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Or even the HK protests. I could list many famous [protests|riots] in history and they would also make great examples.

I am not referring to any real life events.
Not sure I agree with this statement.

The Redux core by itself doesn't really introduce abstractions. A reducer is just a function. An action is just an object. They're not abstractions, just a particular usage pattern.
You can run the SSPL'd code, you can view the SSPL code, if you change the SSPL code then contribute back if you distribute your changes. If you run a service providing the SSPL code, contribute the management layer back as well.

It gets more code into the open, where's the disconnect?
> Probably not, but insurrection is.

If Facebook is distributing illegal messages inciting, or that constitute part of a conspiracy aimed at, insurrection, that is obviously a problem.

What legal ads it shows next to such messages is, if a legitimate concern at all, orders of magnitude less important.

If the content is not illegal, and the ads are not illegal, I’m not sure what the issue is at all.
Probably just people blowing off steam and the target de jour are data scientists. If people had to sit down with their company's data scientists to air their grievances face to face I doubt they would be so condescending.
There are many cases where Google has used dark patterns to gather data from users. Now, the ToS may mention those cases clearly, but that's not an excuse for the Google's behavior.

Recent examples: Google tracking users per Chrome installation ID [1], Chrome exempting Google sites from user site data setting [2], Chrome experimenting with silently proxying user traffic through their servers [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22236106
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24817304
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25337995
There's a middle ground between aggressive nagging/spam/a sudden 3 device limit (not even at the same time, total) and no attempt to monetize.
I never would have guessed that Encyclopedia Brown would grow up and join the priesthood! </sarc>
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This is just NY times' daily anti-Facebook tirade. Facebook pissed the NYTimes off a few years ago when they backed off on an ads deal and since then NYT has daily hit pieces against facebook.
"We don't know what we don't know" is the ultimate gateway to wish fulfillment. It's not fruitful for anything other than fantasy.

Who is to say that I cannot write an AI in under 1,000 lines of C? We don't know what we don't know. By all means, pursue that line of inquiry if you feel that the odds are with you.

It's just not a useful heuristic for deciding what to spend your resources (time, money, effort, energy, etc.) on.
I agree, I think people underestimate the need to incentivize moderators. This is why I think some kind of cryptocurrency based solution to moderation is necessary.
There are still proprietary modules only available under the Elastic License just as before.

However it seems that they will be moving the free modules which were previously only licensed under Elastic License to be licensed under SSPL instead.

At least, that is what this graph seems to be indicating to me. https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce...
Are we to believe that a poll was taken of how people felt after an event which then traveled backwards in time to before the event and was then communicated to the group which will cause the event in the future? This is actually what is required to argue with what I wrote.

The topic is "what were these people thinking in taking these actions?" My reply was "there were similar actions in the past which resulted in trivial punishments." Would amending my reply to "there were similar actions in the past which resulted in trivial punishments and no one took seriously anyway" somehow have made the group that entered the Capitol less likely to have done so? If so, please explain.
I think a threat of violence is split between the other and the self in the perceived action. I, Let's, We'll are all inclusive of the self and thus would be direct threats. Someone, anyone, y'all are indirect, unless as I said the person giving the statement was of sufficient influence as to expect it carried out.
Once again, none of those other services listed exist for the rhetoric leading to the 6th.
I apologize if English isn't your native language but it is a simple fact satisfied with the simplest google search that Parler does moderate its content. Therefore it is false to say they do not. Please don't spread "known false" information. Pretty simple. What follows my caveat is supported by evidence and testimony. If the testimony was false, then my intel may not be reliable. I don't believe that to be true but I'm not infallible. What follows my intel is my opinion. My opinion is based on more than what happened to Parler. I'm sure I could have made that clearer. Maybe I should have put line breaks in to help people who have trouble parsing arguments in prose.
Are you keeping a list? I mused in a different thread about tracking the crystal ball predictions of highly opinionated loudmouths on Twitter, I think doing so with Betteridge Headlines would be an equally great idea, although something like this is less a prediction and more a barely testable opinion.
As someone who's contemplating a new laptop, this seems a bit of "too little, too late" from Microsoft.

Albeit the target demographic seems to be the education sector where ChromeOS has taken a solid foothold, but how is this going to compete? Unless Microsoft is willing to forgo licensing costs and also create a "free" version of MS Office to compete against GSuite.

For mass consumers, the lack of x86/desktop app support at launch means this probably will go the way of Windows RT. Windows RT failed in part due to lack of app support from developers and in a world where Android apps are well supported on ChromeOS, I just don't foresee a good outcome for the Windows 10X platform.

Personal anecdote: I'm pretty settled on getting a high-end Chromebook like the newly announced Asus CX9. The support for Android apps is the clincher.
It seems to me that code gets ugly because the incentive structure rewards coders with a large feature velocity. If they write garbage that mostly works but will be very hard to maintain or expand, they can write on their resumes that they delivered the features and use that as a basis for a new, higher paying job.
> Even if tether wasn’t backed by dollars on a 1:1 basis, it would have a small impact on the current market cap of bitcoin.

Are you joking? You seem to think the world works only by mathematical formulas but in fact if the crypto market is run by a shady stable coin, I'm sure there will be a huge panic sell with hundreds of news sites stating crypto market was run by fraud and bunch of blogs mentioning "told you so" further upsetting all investors.

I wish other legitimate stable coins gain more market cap to replace tether before it explodes in the face of traders.
You can either use their native `h` (basically createElement in React)

https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/tutorial/

or you can use the full hyperscript markup library

https://github.com/queckezz/preact-hyperscript
People accept they because it was an English pronoun already. They'll stop using he and she before they accept custom pronouns.
My entire point is you are not accurately describing how they operate.
I have been using it for the past ~1yr and really like some aspects, but these are some negatives that come to mind:

- I really wish it had type safety.

- The ecosystem isn't as mature as other languages.

- IDE tooling in particular seems like it has a ways to go from my experience.
When you're dying in antiquity, just stay drunk off of laudanum all the time.

"Here lies that famous Raphael by whom Nature feared to be conquered while he lived, and when he was dying, feared herself to die."
No my parents misunderstand. They are constantly worrying about money. Some people I think just see others working hard and it's framed on their experience of work.

I grew up a latch key kid and they worked very hard to help me get a great education. Based on this upbringing, I started my family later. As I had planned, I have no financial worries. That unlocks a lot of freedom.

> Like, there are ways of spending time living that don’t revolve around trying to make “gains”; social, financial or any other kind.

No there are not. Everything has a gain of some sort. Even charity work or meditation.

> I notice entrepreneurs using the baby analogy a lot. It’s an interesting distortion of reality...

I have kids and I don't think it's a distortion from that.

You also have to remember that a lot of people choose not to have kids. So yes, that is their figurative baby. Some others may have a dog.
I guess in a vacuum each of those skills is easy to build up through practice and self-learning (which, lets remember, many people struggle with to begin with). However, I think the fact that you refer to people possessing all of them as "unicorns" should be telling as far as how trivial it actually is to build all these skills beyond a simply passable level.
Do you really train more than one model at the same time on a single GPU? In my experience that's pretty unusual.

I completely agree with your conclusion here.
This is the actual email that AWS sent to Parler informing them of its intent to suspend Parler: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664...

Quoting AWS's literal rationale:

> Recently, we’ve seen a steady increase in this violent content on your website, all of which violates our terms. [...] This morning, you shared that you have a plan to more proactively moderate violent content, but you plan to do so manually with volunteers. It’s our view that this nascent plan to use volunteers to promptly identify and remove dangerous content will not work in light of the rapidly growing number of violent posts.
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From what I understand Proton is a steam-integrated bundle of several technologies with wine being one of them.
Proton patches do seem to get upstreamed into wine[0]

[0] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/codeweavers-on-how-pr...
I am pretty sure all mail is scanned (outer envelope) in the US (and I suspect in most countries) and the record is kept. So the police can tell after the fact what was sent to whom from which post office / collection point. I assume all it takes is a bit of CCTV to fully identify the sender.
What % of users need to reset their password (for a given service) each year? I was guessing 5%.

A web search shows this surprising stat, for all the user's services:

"78% of people have had to reset their password in the last three months. - HYPR study"

And 57% for work accounts. Wow.
I think it is the other way around. Cavalry could beat pretty much any group of non-cavalry unless they had a massive numerical advantage, so castles/walled settlements were the way to defend against that, but they only arose by necessity.

Carol Quigley's theory is that technology changes the balance of power, sometimes favoring centralized power other times favoring decentralized power. Cavalry/knights/castles favored centralized power because equipping knights with armor and feeding their horses required a lot of peasants. The invention of cheap firearms led to the masses having more power (and around this time democracy began to spread). Then tanks, ICBMs, aircraft, submarines, etc. centralized power again, where we remain today, although that may be changing with cheapish drones and semi-successful insurgency tactics.
My experience is in quant hedge funds, where sometimes you get some guys who develop the strategy and some guys who put it into production.

Yes, I do admit there can be some specialization in terms of time spent on science vs engineering.

But you really need people who understand both. Particularly if you have a strategist who thinks his job is just to dream up profitable models, he ends up carving that role out in a way that's detrimental to the rest of the team. You get people who just don't appreciate that there's other work to do than finding models, and that models depend on that other work to function.

You also get a huge prestige gap, because inevitably management will think that there's a magician and a blacksmith. One guy needs to be paid a lot, and the other guy needs to be paid enough.

These effects feed each other. Magician will say "where's my data" and expect blacksmith to make it, promptly. He won't do it himself, because spending time on mundane stuff makes the magic disappear. And not doing it yourself, or taking the time to understand it, will eventually lead to problems with the magic.
I do hope "some of you" doesn't mean "those of you with a specific political affiliation", since obviously this is a problem with people in general.
I think I understand the competition aspect - I still think freedom of speech doesn't guarantee you equal competition or equal opportunity to reach an audience. You have to convince the broadcasters to carry your message and always have, the only difference now is the broadcasters have to opt-out of your message instead of opt-in.
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