skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why people insist on running this particular siloed encrypted instant messenger everywhere in every way. There are tons of these things out there. Since none of them interoperate anyway all you need to do is pick one that everyone in your group can run.

Kind of an upside to very unfortunate situation...
Show HN: Revivejs v1.1.0
Hello,

I've just published version v1.1.0 of revivejs - the JS library that helps you map structured json data to your classes/models. This version adds maps support.

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/revivejs .
github: https://github.com/mflorin/revivejs
docs: http://mflorin.gitbook.io/revivejs

The library makes it easy to instantiate models/classes directly from json data, for retaining behavior. Think Java's Jackson for the Javascript world. :)

Please let me know what you think, feel free to open issues or pull requests on github (links below). Thanks.
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Manglement saw a chance, set it up, and now drains the fluid to their offshore account(s)
A coworker runs a charity site (online monument for Market Garden), and because of its charity purpose, he got some free budget for Azure. He calculated that at the expected usage, that year budget was more than enough to last him a year. Until he activated some innocuous function, and suddenly it ate through his entire budget in a month, so he couldn't afford to stay on Azure anymore.
It's amusing hearing them discuss the differences between the accents of Montparnasse, Montmartre and La Villette. Who today could identify where, within Paris somebody is coming from based on accents only? I know I couldn't. The world was bigger back then, a different arrondissement was already a foreign place.
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#2 is definitely not the norm in Sweden, and we do have a lot of startups.

People leave for higher salaries and broader opportunities since after all Sweden is small and isolated, but not lack of challenges
You are right, if they would and grabbed Pelosis magic wand the military would have just bowed to their demands. Even you would have submitted!

A bunch a idiots stormed a building, for anyone to think they could have “taken over” anything other than space is insane. And how fast I’m getting negative Karma is also insane. But it is what it is, I guess no discussion allowed unless you tow the line. Hacker news ain’t what it used to be.
Also I'd prefer more than one subheading per page. That would make scrolling/wheeling through the content easier.
> It’s important to avoid becoming Gary Marcus and criticize existing technique that work without proposing something else that works even better.

Hilarious. Has Gary Marcus actually done anything, in practical terms, like actual code or something, that outperforms the DL approaches he attacks so viciously?
Any reason you can't just zero out the signatures and then hash?
It's fascinating that the Jobs Reality Distortion Field is alive and well in Tesla.

I don't own one, and each friend I ask tells me the same thing across S, 3, X, and Y: "Great tech! Amazing experience! I mean, sure, fit and finish is a problem, repairs take forever, hard to get parts, you just live with the smallish problems... Well, no, never had this many issues on <any other car brand> but this is the future I'm driving! I'll get even newer stuff in upgrades... Oh, the physical parts? That's a problem... But the savings! Of course, no gas payments! Well my power bill did increase, but it's gotta be cheaper than my gas."

Each person was initially effusive then, when pushed, realistic. Sloppy assembly, broken features, things that we would never accept in a usd$90K car from any other brand... Til Tesla both lowered and raised the bar, depending on your pov.

The power of Brand: the comfort with paying more for an item or service wirh equal or less quality than alternatives in general, but with one (or a small cluster of) perceived unique value prop. Amazing.

And even with all the evidence of the problems, I still want one too...

(A coda: the cutesy naming of tesla sort of sums it up around lots of flash, some amazing function, some tawdry qualities: the models sure are "s3xy".)
America is beginning to sound a bit like China. The problem is that China had to roll over a Tiananmen to get here and even then it wasnt easy.

Now either the Democrats+Tech cabal decide to tilt all the way to make America another China, or they loose their hold completely.

In either case, America is lost. Now there is no going back.

Back home the receding snow will most likely spring a war. With America lost, India will fight alone.

The stage for the third decade is set. America has chosen to step back. India will not have an option.
Actually I have found a use for VXLAN in my home network, when I was trying to set up a mesh and was finding that 802.11s support was poor and that WDS was creating annoying switching loops despite STP. So I just set up wireless links between routers, use OSPF to determine routes, set appropriate weights to prefer the 5ghz band (which periodically goes down because of DFS but otherwise gives higher throughput), and use VXLAN to create the logical network I want. It has worked extremely well for several months now and my wife is happy to not have cables going all over our house. There are probably "better" ways to do this but honestly, it works, it is flexible, and it is straightforward to extend to more routers if needed.
Apologies. I only replied because I applied to Canonical through their Who's Hiring post and didn't want others to follow the same path with these expectations. Their salary negotiation process was horrible to say the least.
Haha, I realized the irony of my comment writing it. I definitely would word it differently if I was trying to convince someone.

> See, its easier to accuse people of bigotry than look at their actual problems.

That's true. But I strongly believe that bigotry is the problem.
Blaming the left for the rise of populism and conspiracies is like blaming the firefighters for the fire. I'm putting the blame on the arsonists.

We should be debating how to fix issues instead of "Is the issue real?". All the politics who participated in spreading misinformation and dividing the western world should be voted out of their positions.

It's a systemic failure that brought us here. Our system allowed selfish leaders (from all sides tbh) to get in power.

But fixing the systemic issues touches on personal liberties (who decides what can and cannot be said?), so it cannot be done lightly. Additionally, politics wants to be re-elected, so not only they won't do anything against misinformation, they sometimes encourage it.

I blame the leaders more than the followers, but the followers have a personal responsibility in it as well.
Because reality isn’t so stark as your neat examples of antivaxers and Holocaust deniers. Real issues are complex and multifaceted with room for multiple seemingly contradictory viewpoints. Allowing somebody to arbitrate truth will inevitably result in a corrupt or self-serving entity use that power for purposes not in the public interest.

Having a scientific truth commission be the deciding authority about climate change, for example, is great until it gets stacked with oil industry representatives.

Read up on your Orwell. Controlling “truth” is the autocrats playbook. If having some nutjobs voicing scientifically illiterate nonsense is the price to pay for liberty, then so be it.

The proper response is not to ban free expression of ideas deemed “wrong”, but to provide better education, mental health, and a social safety net free of charge. Rob the anti-intellectual virus of it’s host by treating the underlying causes.
For the life of me I can't see why people use this over Matrix. But if it was because you want an AppImage for the client, then here: https://appimage.github.io/element/
Another way to read this is the feds are trying to send the message "if you're gonna ship junk that you know will break please act like Toyota and run a rolling recall or be like the Koreans and offer a crazy warranty".
Can someone explain this? Why should google pay "content creators" for directing users to said content?
Morality is a poison emanating from the weak and vindictive.
My source for the above was intended to be: https://publicpolicy.ie/papers/comparing-irish-income-taxati...
Twat, maybe?
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I don't like it. It sounds like fast bullet sentences exagerated for cinematic effects. I appreciate it but I associate it with movies from that period, not with how people really talked.
I think our current issues around free speech on the internet are not caused by free speech but by free megaphones. It’s the free amplification of speech that is most problematic. Media companies should step up and only amplify opinions they agree with, or only those they think are worth discussing, instead of amplifying opinions even if they think they are terrible or harmful. Stop trying to be “free speech” platforms. You aren’t, and the attempt is making society a worse place.
A bit related - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics
What we are seeing with QAnon and others could be basically self-replicating ideas that started at some point and now live the live of their own, without a specific person or group of persons controlling it. Same like religion. Basically a virus (in computer or biological sense) that keeps spreading from mind to mind. Maybe it's a bit too far fetched, but there are a lot of analogies that make sense.
>You don't have to be French to understand French. There are other countries where French is the main language, and you can speak French as your second (or third, ..) language.

Obviously. I still don't understand why this is on frontpage.
> If they can continue to pump the value of Bitcoin higher and higher, any potential fraud may never be exposed.

https://marketinsider.net/why-tether-might-tank-the-crypto-m...

> Bitfinex and Tether have till the 15th of January to submit documents to the New York state attorney general about their financial relationship.
Is Perl/Raku widely used these days? Are they worth learning? I've always been curious about those languages but I've had the impression that people are moving away from them.
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> Academics sacrifice material opportunity costs in exchange for intellectual freedom.

Most academics I’ve come across only think they’re doing this. My perception is they are too insecure about their self-worth to pursue material opportunities.

I admit, the number of academic types I know is not vast so maybe it’s too small a subset to make any judgments
I remember reading about the monk who invented it and it still blew my mind were using that system to this day.
I went through this same experience as a student, having gone "up" to Paris. As part of a "communication class" we were taped, and then saw our own recording. Video was not as common at the time as it is nowadays, but to me it was quite shocking: I could barely understand myself!

It was not only the accent (now weaker with time), but also mumbling plus talking too fast. It was a good experience. Definitely motivated me to pay more attention when I speak, slow down and articulate more (the accent part was not the main issue there ;).
Over the years I have learned and dipped my toes in many programming languages, and I'd need some kind of reason to look into yet another language. What are Raku's main contributions to the programming language design space that I probably haven't seen elsewhere?
GNU/Linux is not Unix ;)
Rent control is a bad idea in theory as well. A theoretical solution to the problem that can deliver the promises of rent control is if the government guarantees housing for the desired price.

The reason why it works is because the government is forced to change laws that prevent the construction it just promised. It's about accountability rather than the promise itself.

The reason why rent control doesn't work is because the government can enact or keep laws that restrict the supply of housing. There is no accountability. It's actually equivalent to censorship. If you want the housing market to look good, just ban bad news (high prices).
Born in the wrong generation? I think the 'art' part you mention is just different nowadays.

I mean one of my favorite channels on youtube is a pair of disembodied Canadian hands and voice, he has a way with words: https://youtu.be/toewD0VInlc. Here's a dictionary (do set it to show more than 10 at a time): https://codepen.io/LegoLife/full/YVXbMR
When to trade Bitcoin? When Saturn crosses Mercury, of course
So who's the author of your book of the same name?
Inertia. I think they're still coasting on the reputation from back when they released Model S.
I find it particularly annoying that it inherits almost all of the worst features of WhatsApp which people are supposedly fleeing, such as being completely centralized and tied to your phone number.
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>And even with all the evidence of the problems, I still want one too...

Sometimes I think that owning a Tesla would be neat, but I always manage to kill that voice in my head by looking up the prices. Works every time.
That is an issue, but the real fundamental issue is algorithmic timelines and recommendations that bias content to maximize engagement. What maximizes engagement? Hate, fear, and bombast.
How is that different from saying "this problem cannot be approximated these ways"?
I'm so glad they renamed Perl 6, having it dangling for decades like a Sword of Damocles hurt Perl more than anything else could. At least both languages are now able to progress in their separated ways, and I must say Raku is a really pleasant language, and a joy to use.
Trump could just create his own YouTube platform though right?

Oh no wait, it would be taken down by the hosting company.

But he could just host his own servers and build his own infrastructure?

But it would be banned by his domain provider.

But he could register with ICANN and become a registrar?

Perhaps, but he still wouldn't be able to monetize the platform because Visa / MasterCard would ban him from accepting payments.

But he could build his own payment infrastructure?

Maybe there's a slim chance if you're fortunate enough to be Donald Trump, but even that would be challenging now banks are refusing to do business with him too.

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I'm not a fan of Trump but anyone still giving the "it's only Alex Jones" defence is being extremely naive at this point. If you own a company today and have the wrong political opinions you should be aware that these companies can and will crush you. This isn't about Trump or what he said, this is about whether or not it should be practically impossible to run a business if your politics doesn't align with a handful of monopolies in the US.

Does an individual or company need Twitter / Facebook / YouTube, probably not. Should someone have a right to critical web services? Maybe... It's kind of hard to start a business without them in 2021. Should someone have a right to take card payments in 2021? Yeah, personally I think there is no question here.

When someone high profile like Trump gets deplatformed I often see people say, "well they could always use [x] service instead", but has been proven by Parler to be a ban argument. It's basically impossible to create a successful alt platform when you can't accept payments or find a hosting company. The conversation we're having about Twitter and YouTube is just a distraction from the real problem which is a lack of competition. If there was competition companies like Twitter wouldn't be so quick to kick people from their platform when they see platforms like Parler rapidly growing in response to Twitter's censorship. But the free market clearly isn't working here and regulation is needed. We have no choice and so these companies can force us to stay within their lines or face insurmountable consequences. And there is no forgiveness. Once you're gone, you're gone. One mistake and you're out.
How cheap can you be to run your whole site on a trial and fail open if it doesn't work anymore?
I really noticed this working in a school when I lived in Tennessee. A lot of the faculty had fairly heavy southern accents, but I don't remember ever noticing it with the students. It makes sense though when you realize that a huge chunk of the voices the students learned from were on YouTube, TV, etc., not just people from their own hometown.
Maybe grammars? You'd have to research.

https://docs.raku.org/language/grammars
Oh dear, people here are already infected by this "I choose my reality" bullshit.
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There's a huge selection bias at play. Back then being recorded was a big deal and quite rare, so what little of it survives to this day was probably not representative of the bulk of how people talked.

Also back then people traveled less (especially in the lower classes) which probably made accents stronger and more easily identifiable. Now it's routine for people of all classes to move to a different part of the country for studies or work, and you have mass media spamming a somewhat "standard" Parisian French across the country.

And speech is still the main interface of communication. In general when people send casual texts they'll try to emulate the spoken language, including nonstandard inflections and spelling changes etc...

If anything on average we probably pay a lot less attention to the written word than we used to because we use it so much more and for much more casual conversation. Few people used to write "wanna grab sumthin 2 eat?" a few decades ago.
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Since the first day I meddled in creating online bots I've had the intuition that large scale manipulation was occurring. If a single developer can create a twitter bot in 4 hours that likes posts about a topic, then what could a large company, political party, or entire country do?

I've always thought "Well they're just manipulating online opinions" but the capital and blm riots have shown that online opinions can have real world impacts.

Family and friends often are distressed by the state of the world, where their view of the world is social media. But how much of social media is real? How many of the radical opinions expressed are made by real people? Of those real people, how many of them were influenced by bots or "computational propaganda"?

I believe that we, even really smart engineers, are easier to influence that we want to believe
I am definitely not a Google fan but this complaint is just a little absurd.

They don't want Google to use their content. Fair enough, Google stops using their content. They complain again leaving one to conclude that what they really want is a cut of Google's revenue model --- amount to be set by them.

Next stop, simply abandon the Australian market as unworkable --- which I'm sure will produce further complaints. At that point, perhaps Google can negotiate a payment to stay. I suggest half the amount of taxes Google currently pays in Australia --- payable to said content creators.
> They get protection by the US military and promotion of Californian business interests throughout the world through Federal institutions. Not to mention: friction free access to a large labor pool and US domestic market etc.

And Washingtonians do not? What you wrote does not address the question that the parent poster asked.
NodeLists should have a forEach method as far as I know
Yes. A hard cost limit isn't a hard cost limit unless they start deleting resources like databases which has its own problems. One can imagine a semi-hard cost limit that only cuts off stateless services like EC2 and data egress but AWS apparently just doesn't care enough about courting customers like the GP to implement.

I agree that there is some financial risk to using AWS although my understanding is that they're pretty forgiving of surprise bills--at least the first time.
Didn't Parler just get booted from AWS though? Seems odd it'd go right back to Amazon.
What's worse is that it costs something like $90 per TB of outbound bandwidth. That is absolute robbery and it is consistent across the cloud cartel.
> unless this is a quirk of US English

It is indeed. Very common in colloquial speech around here.
Not all crimes are created equal. It is illegal to use clotheslines to dry clothes in New York City. A protest to remove the law may involve using clotheslines. Would you deplatform for that?

Note, the reason why it is illegal goes back to preventing protesters from hanging up their banners / messages. An act to legally silence opponents.
So if I understand your point correctly, approximations are a priori simplifications of problems, while we are talking about after-the-fact interpretations here, and therefore they are not the same? That sounds logical, thank you.
I'd love something without backlight (front light is OK and encouraged, similar to Kindle) as my main monitor. That would save me from so many of my migraines.
Not to dismiss your reply, but I've always thought that the "just open the terminal and..." kind of solution that is always brought up is holding Desktop Linux back.

There's a workaround for almost everything. Wherever there is a workaround, the problem becomes less severe. As a result, it is less likely to get fixed.

There is nothing preventing AppImages to work like app containers on Mac OS except lack of integration that comes out-of-the-box. Advocating for that integration becomes more difficult, when you can "just open the terminal and...".
Because in contrast to Matrix it looks much more accessible to the average user. Not all of my friends are in IT and want to/are able to use matrix.

Signal is also nonprofit, fully opensource and minimizes metadata to a minimal amount (e.g. [0]), so it might not be as good as Matrix, but it's certainly not as bad as Whatsapp.

[0] https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
You can do some actually useful stuff with a real type system, instead of replicating Perl's stupidity.

For example, you can convert the input into a safe representation, suitable for the exact place you'll be using the string, instead of "validating" it.
Pro tip: memorize the “stop words” (ie closed word classes: prepositions, pronouns, determiner, function words, modal verbs) of romance languages and you’ll be able to comprehend almost all simple text in all of them.

“Trust me, I’m European”.
> What I'm saying is "why this took 6 months" doesn't make much sense as a question. Why wouldn't it?

For the 2nd or 3rd time in this thread, I have to remind that I was replying to a comment saying this: "That's why Apple has the Developer and Public Beta releases for iOS/OSX so that external users can provide feedback. And on this occasion just like on many other they will take action if necessary." So, maybe you should argue with that comment instead of with me?

My point was that developers filed feedback about this issue during the betas, yet Apple did not address that feedback, and thus "That's why Apple has the Developer and Public Beta releases for iOS/OSX" is not a valid point in this context.
I think you can tie alerts to automated actions that you write although I've never done so myself. Of course, that requires anticipating what could happen and what you're OK with taking down.
Someone being murdered does not mean that the group formed and stormed the capital for murder. The people involved in the officers death should be held accountable but to hysterically say that everyone was there to murder is bizarre. And even then he died from his injuries, similar to a bar fight gone bad etc. If the group formed to murder it would have been like Pablo Escobar. But they weren’t and instead you want to push an agenda and get everyone worked up. Watching the “insurrection” or whatever it was live on CNN was a snooze fest and nothing was happening. They didn’t even burn down a Starbucks. People were mostly just standing around.