skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freedom should be unrestricted as much as it can be to the point that it doesn't harm anyone else, and we should be able to disagree with the billionaire CEOs who happen to control every form of media and communication
I think this is exactly right, and indeed this is a lot of the value. "Content-generation" is already a thing, and yes it doesn't need to make much sense. Apparently people who read it don't mind.
I'm no expert, of course, I'm just a guy speaking out of line on the internet, but... From what I saw from a cursory Cluster A search, this behavior is literally not even tangentially related to the criteria for Cluster A disorders. It's not paranoid, it's not schizoid, it's not schizotypal. These are lonely people who disassociate a part of their internal monologue. Please elaborate exactly, in your opinion, which Cluster A criteria these people display.
Julia is amazing for numerics, but the JIT is painfully slow for anything that gets looped only a few times or not at all. I don't think it is usable as a general purpose language until this gets improved somehow.
Is it fine for the judge to say false things in the court if it's a part of the protocol?
This is possible, especially with human in the loop.
is going to remove their conservative speech

No has ever been kicked off Twitter for claiming that their left wing opponent's tax plan will have unintended consequences that can lead to long term slowdown of GDP growth or that a minimum wage increase will lead to higher unemployment.
Well, you can't really buy Teams from the App Store, now can you?

Maybe some day people will understand that this "walled garden" is a good thing
"Free as in beer" means that it is something you don't have to pay for; no monetary cost; free=gratis. It does not mean whatever the article is saying and it doesn't mean that you're expected to pay back. See Urban Dictionary[0], Wikipedia[1].

[0]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Free%20as%20...
[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/free_as_in_beer
What the device is and how it works.
Multi-cursor editing is frequently a very good substitute for inscrutable vim or awk.
Well, obviously a french version is easy to find : https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/15/amendements/3649/C...
On latest Ubuntu it is unusable. Consistently takes over 50% CPU and makes everything slow.
This. Plus the increasing amount of intransparent results.
Training data is private, so it's impossible to even try to recreate results, validate methods, or find biases/failure cases.
Fair enough. But is there any evidence to this? From my point of view, Twitter allows people like Steven Crowder, JK Rowling and Radical Feminists to use their platform to spread hate towards trans people, yet if I go there now and make a post with the word TERF in it I'll be suspended immediately.

Why is that a platform considered biased towards left thinking? Because it put warnings under probably false claims by far right presidents? The fact that it's only happened to Trump and Bolsonaro says more about right wing politics than about Twitter itself.
There are other decentralized social networks (mostly up and coming) that run on distributed networks that aren't as brittle.

For example, a network of nodes that balance all traffic rather than a network of independent servers that federate.
> It will be important for it to be adopted as a first-class target language by CPU/GPU vendors.”

I’m not sure what the Apple M1 SoC with AMX [1] means for Julia within the Apple ecosystem.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25801500
So is it ok for the judge to lie?
Meanwhile india: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Shakti

btw: The article is behind a paywall :(
Semi-relevant username?
By that time, the international communist movement had been splintered between Stalinist and Trostskyite factions for a couple of decades. The CPUSA was not only Stalinist but actually funded and directed from Moscow.
Living in Japan, anecdotal data point, i mostly get served cabbage salads wherever I go
> These products are separate from the stories that appear in Facebook newsfeeds or Google search results — the platforms should arguably pay extra for that.

But... why? That’s like saying YCombinator should pay every website for the content being discussed on HackerNews.

> Given that the search giant can account for more than a quarter of their traffic ...

Sounds more like news organizations should be paying Goog/FB for referring users.

I truly believe that this is just further proof that News Media are unwilling to innovate and would rather focus on lobbying and regulations to maintain their status quo.
Main problem is that while the DSA is still not voted, you don't really know what will be in the text, and the old texts still apply. So, for some time, French law could be in opposition with European law. Good thing Thierry Breton is the European Commissioner for Internal Market.
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Of course, but if you observe 3x to 10x performance gains across the board, you will have some programs that run in more than 1 second where it may be worthwhile.
> > lived undetected in a secure area of Chicago's international airport for three months, US prosecutors say.

> Remind me, BBC, why is that a "secure" area?

Isn't this a question for the US prosecutors?

Failing that, if you want to blame the press, the Chicago Tribune? They felt the need to also include a photo.
For those who don't know the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM
> But I do wonder how much of it is about different uses of words by different people.

There are qualitative differences, however. I think a better question would be not how vivid the imagined shape is, but how connected and contextual it is.

Someone might imagine a 6 red star and stop at that, someone might imagine a 3 star, but with the whole Kremlin tower attached on a snowy night with distant car sounds.

Testable things i found are looking for reactions. Imagine yourself at the beach, standing half immersed in the sea, enjoying the view, then something grabs your leg underwater.

-Did you flinch, or was these just words? Some people would, since they are contextually immersed in the scene.

-Can you answer side questions, like how calm the sea was, were you looking towards the land or the horizon, were there any birds in the sky, and so on? Some people can, because they were visualizing the scene, some people won't unless prompted, since they were constructing the scene.

In the similar vein, do you project your imagination over the world around you? People who do tend to not comprehend how you can lose things, like forgetting where you parked your car.
> But it's crazy to suggest that this somehow invalidates democracy.

I wouldn't say it's crazy. Your employer can just schedule you to work on election day, forcing you to choose between participating in democracy and not starving. Heck, I would go so far as to say that Covid elected Joseph Biden. If mail voting wasn't made so widespread, it's entirely possible that not enough people would have gone to the polls and we would be stuck with the fucking angry orange for another 4 years.
Ask HN: Should I learn Angular in 2021?
My dilemma comes from the recent State of JS survey (https://2020.stateofjs.com/en-US/technologies/front-end-frameworks/)
Vermont's BIPOC drivers are most likely to have run-in with police, study shows
It could also take a picture every minute and record your microphone, then have running captioning on it and stream whatever has been said in the vicinity.
What about this 18 stay in an airport is incredible? Incredibly sad perhaps.

From reading the Wikipedia he seemed to be quite stubborn as both Belgium and France offered residency, but for whatever reason he wanted to go to Britain?
Sure. This wasn't the only reason and I had a meeting with my team lead talking about all of them.
This problem affects all types of agents - natural or artificial. Agent acts in the environment, this causes experience and learning, and thus conditioning the future. The agent has no idea what other opportunities are lost behind past choices.
*realizing GPT-3 was probably created by programmers who's job really is mostly googling for stackoverflow answers*

#singularity
The Perpetual Traveler and Flag Theory Create a Global Citizen
What is the best way to automate the hiring process?
Orthogonal to this, but I find it terribly ironic that many of the "freedom of speech"'ers are probably the least likely to actually be able to argue their corner in a rational, sensible and polite way.

Consider for example a left wing person trying to have a conversation with a pro Trump group on Parler. They'd get shouted out. That's not promotion of "free speech", it's promotion of "echo chamber of the same opinions as mine".

Same goes on the left - imagine suggesting that maybe immigration should be thought about or you have an angle on the trans community that didn't quite sit well with the wokies...

The point is that life is subtle and nuanced. Free speech in my humble opinion needs to be earned - which means open dialogue where ultimately you might be prepared to admit you're wrong.
Agriculture is 10% of US green house emmissions according to https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

Some plant products have higher co2 emissions than meat, https://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/06/13/7-surprising-th...

Eating food that make you unhealthy is not a choice for me, and I am happy for those have better life with different diets. For those who have problems, I can recommend trying this out for some months and see if it helps you.
> Twitter or Facebook is going to remove their conservative speech, if it rubs Twitter or Facebook employees the wrong way

It's not what happened and it has nothing to do with Facebook or twitter employees (who have almost zero power, they haven't even unionized yet!).

Facebook or Twitter could have banned Trump & al. for content policy violation years ago (and they probably should have actually, because you know, policy violation) but they did not because conservatives were in charge and then had power to retaliate. Now they are banning them now, because now the democrats are in charge, and they are definitely going to retaliate hadn't social network ban Trump.

American social networks will do things which don't annoy the American government too much, so it leave them alone. What's happening here, is European govts wanting the same level of power than the US one.
But careful, the human psyche has some kind of tipping point. Too much fake news, and it will flip. Too less, no real influence is made.

The exact balance must be orchestrated by a human.
Also they make great scape goats so people don't look closely at facebook et al.

I'm pretty sure a lot of the posts on facebook before the 6th also involved the insurrection.

Parler had 1.5 million daily users or so and I suspect a good portion of these were lurkers/observers and not users actively engaging in rebellion.

Zero moderation is not the way to go though, there needs to be mechanisms to remove posts with illegal material like child porn and the like or you risk blocking the whole network or make it "unhostable"
I would agree. That’s actually part of the point I’m making—unlike witches, communists actually exist.

I would further state that I’m, in general, opposed to political repression, even if the intent is to repress totalitarian ideologies that entail violence and mass murder such as communism.
Why would you browse the internet this way? Why not just enable the scripts and close the site if it's annoying?
Just to clarify this further - most good recipe writers would use actual prep times, but they start from the state of listed ingredients. If the ingredients mention '3 whole onions' and the steps list chopping them, the recipe would include chopping time. However if the recipe lists 250g chopped onions, then the recipe time won't factor into that part.

Of course, this is usually true for publications which have an editorial processes (eg - Cook's Illustrated), and not more casual blogs/YT videos
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It’s not even symbiotic here in the US.

Facebook has a history of employing a few individuals to navigate the foreign market and then just go all in. No understanding of the local customs. See Facebook vs Myanmar. Facebook turned a blind eye to neo-nazi’s because engagement was up. Facebook is a cancer.
Sadly they don't.
They start to believe to random things in and reject what they don't like.
> If someone deletes an instance, is your content gone?

No. As long as another instance knew about your posts, that data is preserved on that instance. I believe you can file a deletion for those posts, but don't quote me on that. A recent example is the deletion of Drew DeVault's instance cmpwn.org. His web presence is gone, but I can still see his posts from my instance (fosstodon.org).

> This part confused me a bit. Can anyone ELI5?

Imagine having a twitter account and following your friend on instagram. Their posts will show up on your twitter-timeline, and you can like, comment and share them on twitter.
Witnesses stated they saw it. The picture being circulated is an example. Some people ran with that being a shot from there.

So "hoax"? Not quite, but granted, there is no evidence as of yet.

Okay so we're down to several references to Aushwitch then. Plus the fact that the groups involved have a well documented connection.
It sounds like he used a stolen badge to get into areas not open to the public
lately (2-3yrs) I've found twitter has generally become completely insufferable, I can't simply enjoyably watch a broad twitter stream, the fediverse manages to bring the joy back into this for whatever reason it is _less_ political and less full of influence(r)s shoveling trash into the shared social spaces
This was thoroughly debated over many months at the bitcoin-dev mailing list so it would be presumptuous of me to summarize that now. The list is open and anyone can read the actual back and forths that took place.

There were several perspectives on this, including that no one found a way to deploy that protocol change to a live network in an acceptable way. It is much easier to build consensus around "soft" forks.
Not a problem, I guess, at least not until arrogance becomes illegal.
:))

For anyone missing this reference, see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362227/

Good movie, check it out.
Off-topic, but I wonder if/when realtime glucose monitoring will ever come to the Apple Watch and other activity trackers.
> Reason 2: It can't be censored

Unless you own the core network, say a satellite in space with your own IP network there's nothing stopping a country blocking you or lawsuit to subpoena access. I won't mention that such mastodon services are mainly hosted by AWS/Azure et cetera; which was Parlers mistake. If they owned their own infrastructure they've wouldn't of been hit so badly.
The author raises Donald Trump as an example, I'll counter with Wil Wheaton's experience on Mastodon[1].

It's great that there are moderation teams that will accept inflammatory and controversial characters. But if the userbase doesn't believe in freedom of speech, it doesn't really matter if the platform does.

1 - http://wilwheaton.net/2018/08/the-world-is-a-terrible-place-...
There are 2 key issues with this.

The first is that it perpetuates the clickbait bs attention grabbing that is the bane of actual information flow. This is the opposite of what we want if newspapers are to fulfil their hoped for role in public discourse (to inform). But most of these models reward it.

The second is the idea that Google is "stealing" news. One of the core issues with news is that you cannot copywrite it. When Greenwald broke the Snowden revelations, it was the result of months of hard work and investment by him, the Guardian and the Washington Post. They took significant risks, both commercially and physically. They worked through 1000s of documents, checked and double checked, talked to other sources and prepared expensive legal teams. Then hours later ever other paper on earth started printing the same news for free and selling it. How is that any different to Google etc putting ads against search.

I don't know what the right model is for newspapers. But so far the only commercially viable one has been to rip off other people's actual investigatuve journalism, water it down by pandering to readers' prejudices and then sell political influence based on being able to sway readers votes.

These changes will at best just continue and entrench that model. We need a whole new playing field.

Plus as a bonus, when x% of your revenue comes from Google etc, it's suddenly a lot harder to criticise Google etc. I suspect, cynically, that's the real aim here: open your pocket book and we'll put down our pens (not the first time that's happened...).
But is that a problem apart from in scripting? If you ain't looping you ain't waiting in my experience.... Can you give an example which isn't time to plot?
Sure, but that's OpenAI's particular set of circumstances. Generally speaking I struggle to see investors preferring a nebulous non-profit over a for-profit with a clear path to market.
No. It fails some very simple hurdles that are now fundamentally never going to change.
Wasn't Google developing contact lenses to monitor glucose a decade ago?
Why? Why should you be in a position to dictate to twitter how to operate. It's a multi-million dollar company with many smart people working away on the product. Who are you? If you just want walls of text and a completely unengaging product, stick to hackernews.
True normally but the airports and planes I've seen lately were deserted so it is probably pretty safe. I was on a B737 this summer with scarcely 20 people on it. The closest one was 4 rows away.

But yeah poor guy.
Because they don't serve an actual purpose?
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as in "too extraordinary and improbable to be believed". Incredible that he was allowed to go along like this so long
>That’s like saying YCombinator should pay every website for the content being discussed on HackerNews.

or not if you accept that there's a difference between a machine taking everything in an republishing it, and people selectively finding things from all times and posting them with most of the value being provided by the extra value of the comments.
That looks nice. Let's get back to this once any of those services has reached the kind of maturity that a non-techie is willing to sign up and start building their network. I have no idea what needs to happen for that to become the reality, though.
Same error as always, already addressed in the sibling thread, Bitcoin energy usage does not scale linearly with transaction count:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25815303
So there's no way to move your data to another instance?
Content farms are hardly a productive application.
I second this. Python is actually starting to get significant traction in the scientific community. Depending on the field, R, Fortran and Matlab (and even C++) still have a huge lead.

It's nice that Julia is getting noticed, but it's a distant blip in the radar.

The sci community is really hard to move from existing battle-tested and performant libraries.
> I think it's far more likely that any of the publicly available Mastodon instances goes boom long before Twitter does

as long as the admins give a heads-up, you can still move to another instance using the provided feature. If the instance spontaneously combusts, you're a bit out of luck, yes :(

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration
Lolz downvotes
So, essentially, the physical die size and c impose a hard constraint on tick propagation? Whoa!
I feel this quote hits on a nerve - what's more important than the actual safety is the perceived feeling of safety.

For all the TSA shoe removal and bottled water prohibition, they couldn't prevent someone living undetected in a restricted area of an airport for 3 months. It's almost 20 years since 9/11 and there is still this ineffective security theatre.
there is! see my sibling post to yours.
This is an insightful and level-headed comment that applies equally to R.

Although Julia is a growing alternative to Fortran/C/etc for long-running computations, it remains awkward and unpleasant for interactive analysis. Users familiar with Python/R/etc must weight the benefits of Julia against its slow library startup, its cryptic error messages, and its thin documentation.

Also, the lack of a community repository for well-vetted Julia libraries can limit uptake by professional researchers who must be able to trust their tools. A real strength of R (in comparison not just to Julia but also to python) is that such a repository exists, and that it has automated testing across a range of computer architectures and versions of R, including not just unit testing within individual libraries, but also testing of related libraries.
OpenAI will execute the original one for you. If you can get an account, anyway.
Fun fact: A hobby satellite my father helped build as a way to justify procrastinating during university in the late 60s is now low Earth orbit space junk. He says he's rather embarrassed to have learned, post launch, that it would likely remain in orbit for 100,000 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australis-OSCAR_5

http://centralblue.williamsfoundation.org.au/oscar-5-the-fir...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjhto6wUQYQ
Depends if it was just the arrival lounge area or the behind the scenes employee-only zone of course. He's not supposed to be there.

I assume this is where he was as otherwise he wouldn't have ended up in count IMO. After all he had a legal right to be there as an arriving passenger. I don't think the law specifies how long.
Now is as good a time as any to dig in and get it going :)
I will also offer similar anecdata. I had an "imaginary friend", but my memory is that he was a tool for spinning stories ("oh, yeah, I've got this friend who lives in New York..."). Pure roleplay, I don't recall that I ever believed him to be real.
Hehe, should Tesla also fix German diesel car industry it's now actively breaking?

Really reminds me of my old (socialist) government who kept big failing companies on a life support due to so-called "national interest". They all horribly failed right after transition because their products were completely obsolete and unable to function on a free market.
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That's possible:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
The way I think about it is the same as "should I learn Java in 2021". It's not fun, it's not cool, but there'll be work in it for the foreseeable future. If that's enough is up to you.

I work at a bank and we are not gonna ditch angular this decade. Unfortunately.
Ahem no.

Going by Tiobe there is gulf between the top 4 languages and everything else. To put it into perspective Julia is only twice as relevant as Prolog and on par with Scratch.

Of course I don't necessarily think Tiobe is a great metric for this but it was quoted in the article.