skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolute total rubbish. Every word. A few quick hits

> Twitter bans

They don't want to be accused of "inducement", the same kind that got Kim Dotcom locked up. Bullshit posts leading to death and murder will come back to the platform owners - there's precedence with tabloid press cases. That's what they are doing here. Not facilitating brazenly illegal acts, it's from the lawyers. Silk road guy is sitting in jail for simply providing a marketplace. The platform providers have legal responsibilities.

> the peasants should be able to dictate the topics of conversation

Total nonsense. Their agenda is constructed by think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, AEI, the Cato institute, the Heartland institution, all backed by powerful multinational billionaire media moguls and heads of industry. SPN and Sinclair isn't "peasant directed".

Salem media group practically owns the AM band of radio with hundreds of stations doing nationally syndicated talk shows that pay their hosts millions of dollars to pretend like they're some poor working class oppressed group. They Are The Only Voice On AM Radio. Who is oppressing them when they're the only voice?

Rush Limbaugh died with $600 million. They own almost all of it and pretend like they're some snappy underdog.

Second, the left doesn't even have a major political party, how do they have any power?

How many Socialist or Communist party senators are there? 0. How many have there ever been? 0.

SPUSA, the largest socialist political party holds ZERO seats in any office, local county, district, state, federal. Z e r o. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_USA

When was the last time there was a Peace and Freedom governor? A Green Party president, heck even a Party for Socialism and Liberation dog catcher? Hasn't happened since literally the 1930s.

Absolute and total made up nonsense.

Also the liberals and the left are oppositional. They killed each other in the Paris commune, the Russian Revolution, the Spanish civil war, and the French revolution so go learn the difference, they hate each other.

You can go do that on gab and parler and I'll be ok with it there but on hn the rules are about verifiable reality.

This is why the "thousand flowers bloom" "marketplace of ideas" petting zoo model is so toxic.

People get pilled on multiple 7-layer bullshit cakes
GDPR covers the whole EEA (and UK), so the data portability right also applies in Liechtenstein.
The theory that consciousness exists IS a tautology itself. I think therefore I am. So what new information does that tell me?
Google's strategical view is to make web browser as capable as the native apps on mobile (mostly to counterbalance the iOS native apps' walled garden). It's called Project Fugu.

I don't expect them to stop shipping any time soon.

(Meanwhile Firefox's agenda is to push web forward but keep the balance; and Apple's agenda is to keep browser fast with minimal bloat, and lately privacy as an anti-Google selling point; and evolve the browser in other aspects just to not become the next IE and avoid lawsuits for blocking other rendering engines on iOS).

Up to you to choose your preferred one.
- It's like asking why can't we connect together all software ever written so each software problem only needs to be coded once. Ideally you could, but you can't. The same way there's different programming languages (with major and subtle differences), different libraries that do similar things, different APIs, different data structures etc. all attempting to improve on something, formal verification has competing languages, logics, tools etc. You can't just take a PHP library and use it as if it was a JavaScript library, the same way you can't take a proof in Isabelle and use it in a Coq proof.

- Correctness proofs of even simple algorithms can be research grade problems that take several person years of effort from (hard to find) experts, so you're not likely to get casual Stack Overflow style contributions because of the order of magnitude difference in time and expertise required.

- The time required to verify correct software will come at a major cost to other factors like features and speed. I don't think 100% correctness is a driving factor for many domains like web servers, browsers and IDEs, so your database of correct software isn't going to be widely used until it catches up on other factors.
I think it's meant as a joke... you need to read a bit further before you hit the "oh this is _supposed_ to be complete BS" part:

> The definition of what is "good" can be considered highly subjective [...blah blah] the definition of what is "good" and "pure", come from the Word of God, The Holy Bible. The Katharos License is based on the premise that the full 66 books of the Holy Bible are 100% true and inspired by God and that He alone is the ultimate authority for what is good and just.

Says it all really.
I'm looking for users/testers/feedback'ers for my passport reader app.

The app can read and verify passports via NFC by communicating with the secure chip embedded inside.

It's very simple to use and works in two steps:

Use the camera to read the passport's data page visually

Hold the passport against the device to read the secure chip

The app does not store or send any personal information. The passport is only processed locally by the device itself.
I think the interesting part is less about where it happened and more about what was stolen. Makes me wonder what actually motivated the robbery:

- Was it just a matter of grabbing some expensive-looking electronic device to fence?

- Do these robbers actually have the connections to be able to fence that camera to someone who knows how to use it?

- Do they themselves know how to use it (perhaps having stolen other AV equipment) and have some plan for it?

- Was it an attempt to silence coverage of their crimes?
It's funny that this showed up at HN, but I'm personally interested because one of my ancestors, Aoife MacMurrough, was buried at Tintern Abbey. Her daughter and son-in-law, Isabel de Clare and William Marshal, were big time patrons of the abbey. If you're ever in Eastern Wales, the ruins are a pretty spot to visit.
The lite and HTML versions are identical in speed for me. If I had really slow internet though, maybe I’d see a difference.

The JS version is maybe a tiny bit slower, but honestly is about the same.
But I already have and use an rss reader
Seems like a one-time export, unless I'm wrong.

CloudHQ used to synchronize content between clouds but they seem to have fewer features these days.
> Then look at all the mental health problems young people are having these days

Is there any evidence that mental health is worse than for previous generations?
> Effectively they do get paid. In a marriage, mothers own half their husband's income.

That’s some creative logic. Being a stay at home parent is a full-time job. If the stay at home parent were being paid, they’d...well...be paid. “Effective” payment isn’t helpful to a full time parent raising a child and losing out on wages they would otherwise get at a job that the economy values with a taxable wage.
Good grief. Tell me more about how wonderful Vanilla JavaScript's "Math" and "String" libraries are.
First, there isn't that much Hydro around, and a lot of that has been tapped already.

Second, it's significantly less safe than nuclear. In fact, IIRC the worst single power-generation disaster was a hydro-dam failure in China.

And the environmental impact outside of accidents is also far from trivial.
I don't see how "King's Rocks" (Tintern) is more weird than, say, "Gathering Place By The Water" (Milwaukee)...
> Imagine a software ecosystem with a wild variety of licensing terms with all kinds of crazy clauses.

People are dunking on trying to figure out what is considered "excessively gory".

What does "welcoming and inclusive language" mean?
Seconded. This was a great blog post, I think a more visible plug at the end is more than justified.
Digital brain Roam can give anyone your info to stop “imminent financial loss”
> it's crazy that a women doesn't get paid for raising kids

Because she already collects a massive amount of utility associated with raising her own children. The economics of paying people to raise their own children doesn't make sense; the externality allocations are completely wrong. I'm sure you can imagine some of the perverse incentives that come into play.

A woman benefits from raising her own kids (with an associated opportunity cost in employment availability), and the father also benefits from her raising the kids (without the same opportunity cost), so the rational economic strategy is for the father to defray some of the opportunity costs to the mother. This arrangement has existed for at least thousands of years and is called "marriage".
It is newsworthy considering that they did this without being forced to do so. Things like telephone number porting weren’t possible until the Federal government forced the issue
Great blog post. But this HN thread has a toxic level of "well actually..." going on.
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/04/ios-14-5-item-safety-fe...

Is that what you're asking?
This is a good point, and Pfizer's vaccine isn't the only example. Janssen, the JnJ subsidiary, is headquartered in Belgium. All of these companies have researchers who hail from and work in other countries...

None of the major vaccines would have been possible without international cooperation for sequencing, development, and testing....and the virus doesn't check your passport before it enters your cells.

Ultimately issues like competing contractual obligations can get ugly, fast. But aggressive vaccine nationalism can impede the kind of international collaboration that is necessary to produce enough product to inoculate everyone who wants a shot.
You are using very strange definitions of terminology. Consciousness is just the word we use for the fact that a stream of experiences exists. To say it might be "imagined" is nonsensical - the experiences are there regardless, and their existence is the mystery.
Maybe science, engineering and social planning should be left to people who actually specialize and work in those fields?

Just introduce decapitation for people who turn out to be incompetent idiots.

I don't understand what this fear mongering or 'discussion' of science and technology at the level of idiot journalists accomplishes, besides making idiot readers think they can have an opinion on just about anything because they're now 'informed'.

If there was a time when idiots knew they were idiots and stayed in their lane, I'd like to go back to it, if not, I'd love for it to be introduced. Otherwise, we'll have populist idiots promising to go to the moon to harvest it for cheese and idiots debating whether we should harvest the moon for cheese or invest in an eternal life elixir.
Giving $500/mo to everyone would cost like half of the current federal budget per year.
Note that the GDPR applies to businesses established in Europe, effectively regardless of the location or nationality of users. For instance, the UK authority recognised a US resident's right to invoke GDPR, during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Road closure = less traffic = fewer bystanders/witnesses.
Fantastic. Well created.
Yes, exactly. I am disappointed (but not sneering nor contemptuous) when I find out that another one of my well-educated and ambitious female peers has decided to become a stay-at-home mom. Not because I don't think it's a valuable or valid role to play, but because I have absolutely zero equivalent male peers who have done the same thing.

Another well-educated women who choose to give up her career and stay at home, without a corresponding man doing the same, is just another data point that makes MY career look invalid, and sees MY career as optional.

Like, more power to her, but it does make me sad at the state of society.
Adam Curtis: Social media is a scam
Moving goods by sea is vastly cheaper than by land: for all those cities, being a port is why they are significant economic engines. And power plants need cooling and can use sea water for that purpose.
I have never used any other versions but these two. Cannot imagine what the "full" DDG must be like. Slower, no doubt.
This was the point, yes. Though Aqua/whatever Mac is calling their thing now is also a downgrade.
My town exempts people over 55 from some school parcel taxes. That is because there needs to e a supermajority to pass bonds and exempting people who don’t have school age children makes them much easier to pass. There is a balance that needs to be reached here. If you take this to the extreme, I could have no children and work while my neighbor has 7 children and chooses not to work.
No, there aren't. We're vaccinating at a massive scale in the US, concentrating on the elderly, and the events you're talking about simply aren't happening.
I wish I could set the "HTML" version as default in Safari. It's ~1.5s faster than the default JS version.
oof every FIVE years is an eternity in software years. Maybe I have been working alone for too long while between jobs, but it just feels so much better to listen to all of your hunches about it being refactor time than to ignore them for the sake of functionality. It's just not possible to act on the hunch later when you have lost that important deep context and hastily added twelve other things too.
Forcing the protocol to be open and documented and free for any user that can use the official site/client to connect to doesn’t have to mean forcing a standard. You might want to require o rubies compatibility with old versions and deal with obfuscation or unnecessary changes as anti competitive behaviour, but otherwise just ensuring that anyone can create and sell or give away clients, interoperability and import/export tools, etc. would be an excellent step in the right direction. With no obvious downsides.
This is pretty much the crux of why we see unrest and increased polarization. There are the afore mentioned CPAs with just too much stimulus money to spend, people buying houses faster than they can be built, or the high net wealth individuals that might as well be aliens on mars (and coincidentally can't wait to do). Meanwhile people are falling deeper behind on rent payments with delinquency figures at 25% in NYC, unemployment figures hovering around 10%, small businesses forced into insolvency, and a radically different landscape when this is all said and done.

Those at the very top made out like a bandit, and there are a cohort of the PMC that will to be fine. For this group to be so out of touch with reality to downplay or outright ignore these issues is a direct path to a very angry segment on society.
"Women have different needs" is both extremely accurate and extremely predictive. Taking issue with the statement because it's not perfectly correct 100% of the time is, at best, exceedingly pedantic.
Appreciate you raising awareness about this!

Seems like one more nail in the coffin for Chrome versus alternatives which have a higher degree of people's true best interests at heart.

As a side note, this really deserves a blog post or singular site/page that explains the issue in a simple enough way so the word can spread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

We got super super lucky. And there's some debate about how bad the accident was with regards to NRCs monitoring.

Frankly, the whole plant was a disaster in the making. There was tons of warning lights and other systems but they were essentially useless because they constantly flashed and for poorly understood reasons.

3mile island is an excellent engineering study of what not to do with monitoring. We got very VERY lucky it was as small as it was.
It kind of baffles me that people really want so much regulation. We already have more than enough of it.
It's ridiculous how often people repeat this because they want to live in expensive areas. You don't really have to do that.
Haddock's curses are also great. Mille sabords! That's "blistering barnacles" to you anglophones. It actually means "a thousand portholes" which would not sound very impressive coming from somebody other than Captain Haddock.
I would imagine that otherwise if you happened to have a client who derived income from sex trafficking that would present a problem.

Or even a client's client.

E.g., Paypal might be deriving income from sex trafficking if a sex worker takes payment via it.

Not that the rest of the license is unworkably vague, but that limitation at least makes some sense.
Not OP, but in the major Californian metropolises housing has a way of sucking out all available resources. There are lots of people and not enough land, which means that people have a tendency to bid up the price of available housing up to the very maximum that they can afford to pay. As a result, wages are high, but it all goes to landlords or previous homeowners.

Worse, this applies down the income ladder, such that childcare workers, cashiers, waiters, etc. are also living at the edge of subsistence because of housing. As a result, the price of these services gets bid up as well. This affects everybody but tends to affect families more than singles, because they can't bunk with roommates and they require a lot more services that involve paying other people.

This isn't really California-specific: families in Eureka, Merced, and Bakersfield do just fine (except for it being boring and not having many opportunities). But most people associate "California" with either the Bay Area or LA, and both of those metros have lots of money flowing in, lots of people flowing in, and restrictive zoning that keeps housing scarce.
> The more we talk about overindulgence in social media (or Netflix, or video games, or fast food) as an act perpetrated by evil corporations on us helpless individuals, the less sense of individual agency we give ourselves.

If it's done well, it should have the opposite effect. Describing all the ways that companies are trying to get you addicted will help inoculate people against their tricks. In order to psychologically defend yourself, you first need to understand exactly what you're defending yourself against.
GP shows more understanding than you do. Inflation means savings in cash decrease in time, that's why you don't keep big savings in cash or standard bank account but you invest. Besides stocks, maybe gold, maybe cryptocurrencies.
I think the "may" in "may use Facebook as a technology provider to manage some of the responses on their behalf" suggests that it will only happen if they use Facebook tooling. But likewise I may be wrong.
Google approach to HBCUs accounts for Silicon Valley's lack of Black engineers
Ahh the enlightenment after retirement
I love Tintern Abbey [0]... When you're peacefully driving down the Wye Valley (say, after visiting Puzzlewood [1]), enjoying the green scenery and cosy little villages along the river, the last thing you expect are the colossal ruins of a medieval church... <3

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintern_Abbey

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzlewood
I moved to Tidal when Spotify decided to blow huge amounts of cash getting into the "exclusive podcast business" while still paying peanuts to most artists.

Tidal pays musicians something like 3x what spotify does. [0] This is probably still not enough, but at least it's the right direction.

The higher sound quality has just been a bonus.

[0] https://soundcharts.com/blog/music-streaming-rates-payouts
Volkswagen ID.3 Electric Car Measures Up Well Against Tesla Models: UBS
Perceive how an animal thinks and you're on the nose.
A lot of original psych drugs were also discovered by accident, intending to address some other medical issue. For example MAOIs were found to have antidepressant effects during a trial to use them for tuberculosis. Development of SSRIs (e.g. Prozac) then came from trying to create a similar drug with less side effects.

Also, the many dead ends thing is true in general for pharma, but at some point there are too many dead ends for it to be profitable even given their bankroll. This is happening a lot lately with neuro-related drug development. In the last 10 years I know Amgen, Pfizer, Novartis, Eli Lilly have all had shut downs/lay offs in their neuroscience research divisions.
Perhaps being a little radioactive isn’t as bad as the billions that could die from climate change.

In the 90’s I shared a long cab ride between airports with a nuclear engineer who said he specialized in “cleanups”. I asked what he thought about the next generation of plant design. He spent the rest of the ride recounting a half dozen horror stories about how nothing about the hardware or design was easy but human factors could turn perfectly safe processes into accidents.

He said you could never engineer out human error, panic behavior and blindspots.
Not there, but it does have "x-moose: majestic"
How would this compare with something like pgRouting (https://pgrouting.org/)?
I'm not a policy person, so consider this a good faith question. If government policy mandates larger leave times (both parents), who eats the cost? I'm guessing the company does and the government probably provides a tax credit? How do policy people think about this?

Say we do have such a policy, what's stopping a hiring manager from not hiring more women who might be say 30 and more likely to have kids soon? There's two parts to this question, one if we have equal leave for both parents, and if we have 2x more leave for women over men. How do policy people think about these types of arguments?

How do policy people think about costs in general for such government policies?
Grid and flex let you do in five lines what used to take fifty. I'd never go back.
Am I not alone in thinking this Neo-puritanism is going too far?
I think there's something critical about the implicit data universe being considered in the test and training data, and in these randomized datasets. Memorizing elephants isn't necessarily a bad thing if you can be assured there are actually elephants in the data, or if your job is to reproduce some data that has some highly non-random, low entropy (in an abstract sense) features.

I think where the phenomenon in this paper, and deep double descent starts to clash with intuition, is the more realistic case where the adversarial data universe is structured, not random, but not conforming to the observed training target label alphabet (to borrow a term loosely from the IT literature). That is, it's interesting to know that these models can perfectly reproduce random data, but generalizing from training to test data isn't interesting in a real-world sense if both are constrained by some implicit features of the data universe involved in the modeling process (e.g., that the non-elephant data only differs randomly from the elephant data, or doesn't contain any nonelephants that aren't represented in the training data). So then you end up with this: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/20/21447998/twitter-photo-pr...

I guess it seems to me there's a lot of implicit assumptions about the data space and what's actually being inferred in a lot of these DL models. The insight about SGD is useful, but maybe only underscores certain things, and seems to get lost in some of the discussion about DDD. Even Rademacher complexity isn't taken with regard to the entire dataspace, just over a uniformly random sampling of it -- so it will underrepresent certain corners of the data space that are highly nonuniform, low entropy, which is exactly where the trouble lies.

There's lots of fascinating stuff in this area of research, lots to say, glad to see it here on HN again.
Not bad! Sounds like the tooling has improved since I last looked.

How about debugging? Is it possible to step through a mix of C and JS stack frames?
- street cred.

People do dumb shit all the time just so they can brag about the dumb shit they did.

The equipment was later found. The article didn't provide details, but presumably the assailants tossed it.