skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human brains really love narratives and any documentary requires a good one for it to be interesting. Reality however is not some grand easily digestible narrative. For this reason documentaries are always misleading in some way. Reality must be bent to fit into the documentary form.
>Whether or not it was the author's intent, some people will surely read it as saying, tacitly, there is no problem, and anyone who says there is a problem is being hysterical or otherwise detached from reality.

I'm expecting 90% of the comments on this article to be some form of this. Many people think racism ended when we elected Obama.
Eventually people will realize that the best way to treat others is identically no matter the color of their skin. That used to be an uncontroversial viewpoint but it’s dangerous to say that now!
What is nature? The rocks, the trees, the wind? Or the living and breathing animals who have just as much right to coexist on this planet as we do?
Correct. The no limit means that the employer's contributions aren't arbitrarily limited by some percentage of the employees' salary, which has the effect of hurting lower income employees.
Better Business Bureau too. It's been documented a number of times that when a non member joins suddenly poor ratings will rise / complaints vanish.
Others have already answered you but, they've just released a game called Cyberpunk 2077 and the main and side missions frequently have you breaking into corporations and engaging in digital espionage - hacking.
I grant API access to my friend. That is a direct relationship.

I don't grant API access to people that my friend grants API access to.

If one grant allowed for another grant, by that logic you could chain all the way down to any connected node which is clearly not a desirable model.

Data brokers are trying to make it seem like me adding a friend is somehow not a grant so that they can "plus one" on their reach. But it is a grant. It is literally me granting my friend access to my data. Just because the company doesn't call it a grant and doesn't treat it like one on a technical level doesn't change the fact that I have granted my friend access to some data.
If we agree with your reasoning it would mean that simply getting a new phone would involve me calling/texting everyone in my contacts list to ask for their consent for me to enter their numbers on my new phone since I'm potentially sharing their details with a third-party.

> Facebook has a systemic issue with the way they harvest, handle, share and monetise their users data, this case is just a drop in the ocean of sketchy things they've done

How did Facebook benefit from this? Facebook got duped just like everyone else. CA did not disclose their intentions when they got access to the Facebook API because they wouldn't have got that access otherwise as their actions were against the FB API terms of use.

There's a bit of a witch hunt going on about Facebook, and while I despise that company and want to see it gone too, this is just an outraged mob clutching at straws. They can't go after Cambridge Analytica nor the people behind it (and I guess can't be bothered to vote/lobby for a legislative change so that those people can be prosecuted) so they're venting their anger on the next best thing: Facebook, even though they're a neutral party in this case.
That's another alternative, which doesn't exist yet. Ethereum PoS could be here sooner and doesn't use energy like PoW does, along with other helpful features.
I guess YC is diversifying their bets :-)
is scam a protected word or something? "a scam is about tricking you into parting with your money"

If I _feel_ like I have been scammed surely I can say so?
Nope. Midwest, medium CoL, $18-20/hr to sit and reset passwords all day.

Hell, I am just a sysadmin/developer with minimum experience (2yrs) and make ~$32/hr.
Hey, thanks for replying and clearing the air.

However, I would like to point a few things out :

- Based on my submission history, it can be deduced that I don't have a successful startup history and that's absolutely true but the questions I asked you were from my understanding of YC SUS and how successful startups usually work, I'm not saying my understanding is 100% correct but it is, to some extent and it has little to do with anyone's startup background. I don't mean this as an excuse in any way but I'm 17 right now and I believe that starting up defensively by throwing that I don't have a successful startup isn't the most respectful thing when you could've just politely answered my questions ( or not ).

- I never claimed that your startup is doing poorly, I merely pointed it's not doing a "great job" *as of now* from what I could tell by evaluating the points from your competition and your offering. But, I wasn't totally sure of that either, hence wanted you to answer those questions for me ( if this was actually an startup, which as it turns out, it is ). And, thanks for answering those questions.

Again, I mean no disrespect to you or your startup.
I, as a user of your website, felt that there was stuff left unclear or missing. If you're still gaining massive user growth, honestly, good for you!
Although, if I'm your potential user, I think you should work on the feedback I gave, be more lucid and transparent with your product.
Otherwise, you should happily discard what I have to say, since that'd legitimately not be the best use of your time.

Also, good luck with your startup, hope it gets even more traction and becomes usable, transparent, and clear enough for a user like me :))

P.S As for the questions about your startup, I think I got my answers. If you were a little less defensive with the initial part, it would've been nice too :)
While a surprise birthday party etc. is definitely not a problem for me, if any of my friends considered my address, phone number etc. as his/her data, there'd be a rather serious conversation about it.
You can have a democracy that operates largely like a technocracy if you make it an actual democracy and align incentives.
I haven't read the article yet, but McWhorter is the mastermind behind Lexicon Valley, a linguistics podcast and perhaps my favorite podcast of all times. McWhorter is both a bona-fide expert and a thoughtful, funny communicator - a rare combination. Oh, and he's also into musical theater, as you will learn very, very quickly if you listen to any Lexicon Valley episode.

https://slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-valley
Not exactly. Verification is needed because money transfers can be reversed (fraudulently, or legitimately in response to fraud), so remittance companies need to be reasonably sure to reduce fraud risk to an acceptable level.

However with Bitcoin there is no need for verification because a transfer is irreversible.
Yeah, I'm not sure what's happening on Amazon, but I've noticed that most of my bad reviews never get published or disappear.
Personally I think Musk is more in the "accidental" billionaire category than many of them (by that I mean his wealth is heavily volatile with a lot of risk, and was hard to predict).

That said, most of these billionaires have gotten there because they were able to abuse some part of the capitalistic society. The "quality product for a fair price" bit is warped in some way due to monopoly power, exploiting their workers, etc.

Which is why a lot of people really dislike the Waltons, Bezos, etc billionaires. Its hard to answer why they should benefit so hugely when they could have cut into their wealth a little and given their employees a working wage, or slightly better benfits, etc. Instead they have created massive generational wealth gaps where their children/etc will effectively be royalty, and then cynically used propaganda to even neuter the government/financial system from ever re-leveling the playing field.

And what for, so they can have tens of billions instead of tens of millions while something like 50% of the population lacks even basic healthcare, or for that matter food security?
Yes, that is exactly what I am doing.
The final kernel is an integral taken over the path of the parameters during the gradient descent.

Basically what they're doing is just y = y0 + \int dy/dt dt and then rephrasing this equation as a kernel machine. Which I guess should also work for other forms of learning where you slowly change the parameters.
Consuming CDC with Java and Go from ScyllaDB NoSQL
I don't really have any particular opinion on Moxie or Signal; I've never interacted with either the product, the community, or the person. But I will say in the abstract that many founders drastically underestimate how much extra headache poor community management will cause them in the long run.
Sorry, should have made it clearer that Cambridge Analytica are the child in my analogy, but I think your point still stands.

I don't think voters are children and I agree with you that that is dangerous thinking, but I do think that showing advertisements based off of data they didn't know they gave in order to change their vote is not the way to allow them to make their own decisions.
You don't need trees for powerlines. Steel and an excavator is more than enough. Actually, just a shovel would be enough.
Why is it a problem if there is more than one cycle? Surely it would be more of a problem if you knew everyone was in a single cycle because then you'd have more information about which assignments can't exist.
Why would it not be wise? Python did it, Java did it, Elixir can do it too. Uniformity is good for productivity, as long as the ecosystem stays healthy & maintained.
Make people stop wanting money first. ;-)
The Sad Saga of Silicon Graphics
I haven't figured out how to compute π efficiently yet. But computing e with proper error bounds is feasible with high-school-level algebra: https://www.nayuki.io/page/approximating-eulers-number-corre...
This is as good an use-case for a decentralized blockchain as any.
> AFAIK, any modernish language is good enough to get something up and running regardless of the task.

A lot of languages that have more limited existing use have more gaps in their ecosystems. That means that to get something going quickly, you run into cases where you spend a lot more time building (or validating and tweaking existing but relatively rough) support infrastructure that you would just grab a well-tested, established library for in a language with a richer community and ecosystem. This is an area where the top tier ecosystems (Python, .NET, JVM) really shine over even second-tier popular ones like Ruby, and where both of those tower over things like BEAM, which has the additional problem that it has a fairly high impedance for incorporating C libraries, where many other platforms (some also with stronger ecosystems of their own) also more easily consume C libraries.

This extends both to broad application domains (e.g., scientific libraries) and to things like probability of having an idiomatic, language specific, well-supported client for a new service you want to tie in and incorporate.
I absolutely think regulation should be in place to protect against people/companies acting maliciously (thus preventing a Cambridge Analytica from existing in the first place), and I guess the reason people were so trusting is because they do expect such regulations to exist.

However, I disagree with modifying/removing a legitimate feature (API access) just because it can be abused. Otherwise, why not go further and also ban knives (or go after supermarkets that sell them) to solve knife crime?
I tried to load 30GB image to Krita, it crashes. Gimp handles it pretty well.
It's not as if we haven't managed to automate agriculture with machinery before.
It's a fucking slang term, Jesus Christ. It's a way of showing disrespect for someone who's clearly a loser on a temper tantrum. Maybe he does get tied up by his wife, I don't care, the point is that zuckerburg has caused more damage to the Earth than good, not sure why I have to defend myself here.
It's kind of hard when your discipline is pretty much tasked with finding out the very meaning of 'bullshit'...

Gödel's incompleteness theorem come to mind (mathematics straddling science and philosophy), but I doubt that philosophy will be so 'lucky' to solve this problem in such a concise and clear (though admittedly unsatisfactory) way. (Maybe (late) Wittgenstein is the closest philosophy can hope for ?)
Scam is the go to word to try falsely throw a company under the bus without needing to go into specifics, I also ignore those reviews.

If a business really wrongs someone, people tend to be willing to go into detail about how they were wronged. Especially since it sucks and if you're willing to write a review, you're probably also willing to make it one that informs others specifically what went wrong so they can avoid it.
Cambridge Analytica's app on Facebook had harvested the data of people who interacted with it - and that of friends who had not given consent.

That was really messed up.
This anti-racist wave is pure cancer and will cost many many white lives.
I think Ubuntu only makes this easy if you wipe windows. This was an install alongside Windows.
At my last job, we would get casually DDoSeD from time to time. One of the ones I remember was a wordpress pingback reflection to a large file. Not too hard to handle (pingback is dumb and needs to die in a fire, but at least wordpress sets user-agent), but used a ton of bandwidth until sorted it out.
Given link appears incorrect.

This appears to be correct link:
https://pudding.cool/2021/02/jukebox/
I've been porting code across platforms and most languages cannot embed themselves into arbitrary runtimes, for technical or political reasons. Had to go with rust rather than higher level languages.

If you're running a server—sure, BEAM me up.
As we understand, both of us are taking a very different approach. Opstrace is removing the operational burden of running existing open source projects like Cortex & Loki, while we are building a new observability platform including the UI.

We are focusing on making the experience seamless like existing SaaS tools rather than stitching together disparate tools. We are more focused on observability with traces rather than only metrics and logs - and support things like custom aggregates on traces. We believe that going from metrics to traces to find the exact root cause will be increasingly more important
To me, the most promising alternative to C are actually alternatives to GCC and Clang, which don't use "undefined behavior" as a wanton license to rewrite your program to do whatever they feel like at the time. See for example the cproc compiler that I linked to in the article. And, as someone who still writes heaps of C code, I feel like undefined behavior is an over-stated problem. I run into weird C issues pretty infrequently. Memory safety does cause issues more often than undefined behavior, though. Unintialized values, use-after-free, buffer overflows, I run into these more often than I'd like. Usually they're pretty loud, though, so it's apparent that there's a bug somewhere, and tools like Valgrind make dealing with them pretty straightforward.

It helps to remember that you're not clever enough to do clever things, in any language. The other most promising alternative to C is just doing it more conservatively.

Also, the Rust Foundation just looks to me like a corporate mouthpiece, not unlike the Linux Foundation, which will do little to nothing to make Rust better for anyone. 10 directors and 1 developer, what a recipe for success!

Aside: I'm working on a new programming language which I hope will be interesting with respect to these ideas. It's being kept private while it's under development, but anyone who is interested in this problem space should shoot me an email if they want to hear more.
Shipped a new project – Airtable template for Event/Network directory
If there's enough demand, they'll fix this. Especially after the patents run out.
Thanks for the mention, Cory. Great article, btw!

To the parent post, there are several articles on Go Beyond[1] that walk through development of an open-source, real-world application called WTF Dial[2]. The source is available on GitHub and you can ask Go application design questions on the Discussions board[3].

[1] https://www.gobeyond.dev/

[2] https://wtfdial.com/

[3] https://github.com/benbjohnson/wtf/discussions
I should have mentioned I was coming from a reporting context. The AP style guide we were held to found it to be permissible.

I agree that in fiction or other forms of prose, that the writer should try and mold the surrounding context to fit the quote. But when I did journalism I didn't always have a lot of time to do so. If you're using quotes heavily, from a variety of sources, not all of them are going to fit -- you can either spend a long time rewriting your text until you get it right, or you can do some selective editing and preserve the flow without having to refactor your entire piece.

That said I don't have a hard rule about switching perspective. If you can make it work without bracketing quotes, great! But it's one of those things you have to handle with care, and isn't always practical. Hence, brackets.
This was the thrust of Ayer in Language Truth and Logic, and the Logical Positivists attack against metaphysics in general.
AML [1]/KYC [2] are legal requirements. Breaking the law around transmitting money has consequences, regardless if you have a desire to possibly reverse a transaction.

[1] https://insights.namescan.io/a-complete-guide-to-aml-regulat...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer#Laws_by_cou...
Oh wow, I haven't found any shards about crunch (I don't think...) but I did find one with placeholder text. https://twitter.com/SwitchOpWibby/status/1344823065893457921
>For certain problems

Can you give an examples? Respectfully, you were asked for tasks and instead gave a description of the category.

I can only think of real-time, or real performance limited software (example: rocket guidance software, aviation, etc). With these every modicum of performance per millisecond matters; but these constraints only apply in a few (relatively) small fields of software development.
I tried to do the same recently - the roadblock (I recall) having is that encrypting the entire disk is very easy. Encrypting none of an individual partition is very easy. Encrypting just your Ubuntu install and not breaking your windows install is dramatically less plug'n'play.
As a random Linux schmuck user who occasionally does very light image editing and processing, the few times I've tried to use Krita I have absolutely no idea how to do anything (without looking up a guide), while I can usually do whatever in Gimp pretty easily. Granted, I've never tried for very long, but that was my first impression.

Maybe Gimp has just rotted my brain over the years with its UI...
I've done well by staying clear of anyone airing their thoughts about post-modernity in the past 15 years. (perhaps with the exception of some very few individuals like Zizek).

This is because of the constant efforts from conservative pseudo-philosopher's like Stephen Hicks[0] (who on his YT channel hasn't shied away from inviting neo-Nazis to talk about the subject) all the way to JP[1] who do not understand the topic yet enjoy discrediting and twist the ideas of post-modernity. The odd thing is that these ideas have not been traditionally linked to the left.

I find most people who have an opinion about the subject often have not studied them, nor have they read any (or very few) of the original thinkers, and rather form their minds by listening to condensed misrepresentations in tweet-storms, etc.

[0] https://crookedtimber.org/2020/03/04/rightwing-postmodernism...

[1] https://lachlanrdale.medium.com/analysing-jordan-petersons-v...
How did you measured that already? The "baby" is yet to be born. We found it's "name" just a few hours ago.
> As I understand, it was a browser extension which scraped data off the Facebook pages visited by users.

That is false:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
Trustpilot are a scam operation themselves and I agree that they are near-perfect evil.

They shake down companies involved with them and give add very little of value. If anything, they are harmful to ecommerce as it makes people more skeptical of reviews
Surely statistics might help us resolve to what extent things like public torture and killing of black people by authorities is a problem (as distinct from police brutality against all people generally). What do the statistics say?

Edit: This comment went from +7 to -1 in a matter of a page refresh. HN should be cognizant of brigading on threads like this. But moreso, the people doing it should also ask themselves why, especially on such a scientific and curious forum, they think the simple asking of certain questions should be so vehemently and anonymously punished.
Congrats on the launch!

This seems like a great tool to help corral all the disparate parts of conducting research. As a designer (who does a lot of research), I see a lot of value here, and I think you could make a big impact for those of us who do this often.

Some thoughts and questions:

- I think the pricing will have to be inexpensive enough for decision makers to want to handle recruiting in-house rather than hiring a dedicated third-party recruitment/research firm. Recruiting is extremely tedious and time-consuming. A researcher shouldn't have to waste the majority of their time recruiting, and a bootstrapped designer/PM would have even less time.

- It looks like this helps create a candidate database of existing customers only. Why should we use this over a Google sheet or Airtable/Notion/anything with light CRM capabilities? What about potential customers or customers of competitors? We can use something like Usertesting.com or User Zoom to recruit from a public pool of candidates and use screener questions to approximate our user base.

- On the post-study side, how will you beat something like Dovetail in terms of showcasing findings and other studies?

I think having everything in one tool is a powerful motivator. But I would be concerned that smaller teams try to make make use of the tools they already have, and won't pay for another one, and as you mentioned, larger teams can afford to pay for the recruiting team or all the individual tools.

With all that said, you seem to have solved a lot of pain points in this process, so I'm looking forward to seeing you succeed.
"black people being systematically disenfranchised, and publicly tortured and killed by authorities, often with impunity"

And it's ridiculous statements like this that keep fanning the racial tensions.

1) Please show the data - if you even took time to review police killings it is social class that is the biggest factor not race. In fact as a percentage white people of lower income status are killed more often than black people during police encounters. You can look this data up for yourself it is widely available.

2) Please show how black people are disenfranchised more than another racial group when you adjust for other things such as location and class.

3) Explain how systemic racism exists when Asians and Jewish ethnicites outperform the supposed supremacist white group on all measures.
Wait. Is that it? The article felt like it was off to a good start and I wanted to read more and learn more about the other bits of Senna away from the documentary (which was really good but does mythologize him) and then it sort of just ended abruptly. Is this the start of a series or part of a longer essay?
> Why does Facebook allow people to share the data of others who didn't agree to this?

"Why did Facebook allow" - they changed the practice on friends' data sharing a few years ago.

Every app that implores you to import your phone contacts does this.
Wow, your blog is beautiful!

I had used Hugo before, but I'm learning some Full Stack dev now (I work in Data Science, so it isn't my main work) and making a blog could be a good exercise.