skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not proof of what you think it is. It may be evidence but it isn't proof.

dang detaching off-topic subthreads is the opposite of mods opaquely fucking around with rankings. He explicitly detached the thread, and posted that he had done so. That's a judgement call which you're welcome to disagree with and I'm not going to affirm or second-guess because I don't care much.

As to the other: we don't know how HN sorts comments, but I would be surprised if it was as simple as the highest-valued comments floating to the top. It is far more likely given what we know about moderation goals, that controversial comments are penalized.

So maybe your comment got 50 upvotes and 20 downvotes? The mods don't want us making huge subthreads about stuff which people disagree about, for the most part: they want some of that, but anything which is drawing a lot of karma from both sides is that much more likely to draw low-quality replies.

Again, this isn't a comment about your comment: pretend I didn't read it, I barely did in fact.

But it certainly doesn't prove that dang put his thumb on the scale. The mods here seem to be pretty transparent about how everything works, without leaking actual formulas which are subject to change and could provide ammunition with which to game the system.
The ICO's GDPR enforcement action is what set this in motion, (which to be honest is the first result on Google if you want the entire saga)

https://iapp.org/news/a/ico-serves-aggregateiq-with-first-ev...
Why cats may have more to teach us about living the good life than Socrates
It's shit like this that makes me wish people would switch to Mastodon, but it won't happen because the "big names" aren't on there. Wil Wheaton tried, but got bombarded with an endless slew of "Shut the fuck up Wesley" until he quit. The cynic in me thinks this could have been a coordinated effort by Twitter to try to keep people from leaving for greener pastures, but that's probably just my tinfoil hat showing.
2008-2010 collegehumour was great
“For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.” - Dropbox

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
From a social good perspective, if they're all good your product shouldn't stand out.

The argument here isn't that ads aren't good for the business doing the advertising, it's that they're bad for the community at large.
Low resolution as in 16x16, or 320x320?

And what of closer objects?

Would we be able to directly image the Apollo-landing sites for instance?
I was reading East of Eden recently and that description really wormed its way into my mind.

Even if it's worse today, we knew there were ~35 year drought cycles!
> Can you provide example of businesses where employees produce value just for the owners of the business but not the society in general?

Much of the financial sector. M&A firms. Lobbying. SEO. Fake web traffic generators. App/game companies that only clone others. Content mills. Collection agencies. Old growth loggers. Ticket scalpers.

It's a little tricky because the most common scenario provides benefit to somebody, even if the overall social cost is far higher than that benefit. The customers of drug dealers want the product. Sleazy personal injury lawyers' clients gain from their services. Crypto miners.

>> And that's the reality we presently live in. It's not holes, it's watching ads and reading things that aren't worth our time and buying things that don't provide us value. Click on a link, dig a hole. Read the mindless alarm-inducing article, fill the hole in.
> What are you proposing? That some entity tells what to read, what to buy, what to do? Why not just leave it to individuals to figure it out?

Uh, I'm not sure how you got there from what I said. I could make an argument for regulation, but I didn't.

We live an existence of partial information, and that's very exploitable. "Clickbait" is pejorative because it works but the expected payoff is not there. We are where the "free" market put us, though the market is not very free -- there's regulatory capture, information inequalities, and massive externalities that would not exist without the previous two.

I don't need to propose a guaranteed-effective fix in order to make the point that much economic activity provides zero or negative value.

If I had to point in the direction of a solution, I'd say that antitrust laws are vaguely the right idea, except they are based on very outdated notions of harm to consumers, and are also subject to regulatory capture. We need to make serious attempts at capturing more externalities. Even something as straightforward as a carbon tax is hard to define and implement, but it's the right idea; we need something similar for the massive damage done to people's time and attention, to civil society, to the commons. Capitalism got us here; it won't get us out. Although it's one of the tools that can and should be used.
Thanks for you're reply, I will look into the Motorola's then.
That makes a lot of sense. Computers nowadays have gotten so fast that in many use cases the performance is more than enough while heat/power constraints are still an issue. This could open up the possibility to embed chips in many crazy contraptions.
I’d wouldn’t frame this debate as being about preventing people from entering a store, or going up stairs, or running in a straight line fast, or living a normal life.

This about a government choosing to spend many millions of dollars over 10 years to train this one person to do an insanely difficult job. So you can bet that any disability of any kind is going to be intolerable. They will pick people with 0 physical, mental, behavioural or cognitive disability. Bum kidneys? Out. Don’t react well to a fire or spiders or smoke? Out. Can’t solve the orbits question in less than 63 seconds? Out. Argumentative and not the best team player? Out. Sadly, this will also apply to any sort of physical limitation as well. It would be trivial to add some Velcro here and there, yes, but making the entire astronaut training circuit itself accessible, from everything like the 0g sim harnesses, which expect the weight of legs, to flight training, to the Russian centers, is sadly not gonna happen.
The way I see it the obvious route is Free, but it will take a while still.
One of the interesting things about advertising is that nobody really knows if it works, and there's a growing body of evidence that it largely doesn't work.

We are sold on the idea that they work, because someone clicks this ad, we track them, they buy the product, and we attribute the sale to that ad.

But we don't know whether the customer would have bought anyway. And some research suggests that, for the most part, they would have.

Steve Tadelis at Berkeley wrote a paper in 2013 demonstrating little to no efficacy of nine figures of ad spend at eBay.

http://conference.nber.org/confer/2013/EoDs13/Tadelis.pdf

This may not be true of all ads - ads for little-known brands, for example, may reach people who would have never heard of it. But the bulk of advertising bought by large brands may largely be a waste.

Advertisers still spend money because almost nobody is getting paid to rain on the parade. There's an endless stream of ad agencies, paid search marketers, marketing department staff themselves, CMOs, media properties, ad nauseam who are all invested in continuing marketing spend. A CMO will almost never declare that his department is useless. So they continue to make the case for their continued relevance.
Dot files are your friend.
This is so pitch-perfect an example of what pg used to call a middlebrow dismissal (which we reworked as 'shallow dismissal' on HN), upgraded to 2020-21 rage levels, that I'm not sure one could improve upon it as a parody. Is there any note it doesn't hit?
I had moved away from BTT for a while but would come back for this. Awesome. This stuff should be in macOS core.
You seem to have a stray backslash. Is your C leaking through?
Milton Keynes Homeworld '81: What can we learn from homes built 40 years ago?
Interesting that it started out as typeless but as C came from B, they introduced types only for Python to come along and make typeless popular again. Types definitely do have their usefulness but you can certainly get by without them.
Disclaimer: I work at Google too (not ads), all opinions my own.

I'm surprised the author focused singularly on the "funding the open web" stance, and did not discuss the alleged negative externalities created by advertising-driven business incentives. The top comments of the blog comments (e.g. https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-i-work-on-ads#lw-Nvd9ZHJLxZpNZD...) also point this out.

For instance, The Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma" discusses these at length, and it forms a lot of the political zeitgeist around regulation of adtech companies (e.g. driving polarization, radicalization, depression and such).

> The question is, what is the alternative? I see two main funding models:

It's possible to simultaneously believe that ads are currently the effective way to lower barrier of entry to accessing content, and also believe that ads are a detriment to people's mental health.

One alternative would be an ad-supported system that performs less-personalized ad-targeting, and in doing so influences people's behavior less but generates enough revenue to keep the lights on with a reasonable profit margin. The government has laws for regulating natural monopolies like this, where they prevent utility companies from price gouging but grant them a certain amount of margin.
Big discussion from another URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27065361 ( 217 points | 6 hours ago | 157 comments)

Take a look at the comments there. The team has a few weird previous articles, the journal is not well known, and the evidence in the paper is very weak.
What's this mean-“routers can be used as blueprints to intercept...data”
I actively trade these assets, what are you trying to say? Are you talking about relative outperformance?
I am watching this talk now, and so far two things have stood out to me:

1. He flatly declares that forth is the only programming language he deems usable. No contributions to computer science since have added ANY value?

2. He called his program to communicate between cpu cores "ether", to confuse the unwary that it might have something to do with networking.

That sort of willful ignorance verges on arrogance, and it sits strangely on someone who is a CEO of a company that wants to sell CPUs in the marketplace.
I remember viewing it and seeing the teletext TV with built in printer.
The defi thing really gets me confused as someone who works with loans and finance. What I have seen in defi is basically a borrower provides 100% collateral for the privilege of paying interest on it. That’s something no business would ever touch in the real world, unless they thought their “investment” in the collateral would exceed their interest rate. That works for borrowers as long as token prices keep going up, but not if they go down. That is why anyone would put up 100% collateral for a loan of the same amount.. but the thing is people do this even in stable coin which confuses me even further. Am I missing something important?
the phrase "famous for being famous" sums it up nicely. it's a feedback loop.
There’s a difference between the cryptocurrency world’s definition of “innovation”, and solving longstanding problems for humanity.

How does Bitcoin solve inequality?

How does Bitcoin solve world hunger?

How does Bitcoin solve disease?

Bitcoin — and cryptocurrencies more broadly — do none of those things, with only one notable exception. Bitcoin — being a global currency of fixed supply — stands to usher in a global deflationary economic system. Investors in a deflationary environment have little incentive to invest in the future, and consumers have little incentive to spend. These two things could grind the caustic consumerism destroying our planet’s natural ecosystems to a halt. However, there’s room for interpretation even here; many humans would likely not trade off their own survivability for that of the planet’s natural ecosystems.

All of the hullaballoo about “Defi” and Ethereum only amounts to a Wall Street reskin, i.e. better high brow gambling. This does nothing for humanity either. Very innovative (!), lots of money being made, nicely exascerbating inequality of course. But achieves nothing.

(The S&P is actually down since 1970 as measured in gold [1]. Wall St is a carnival, and defi is just that carnival, squared.)

[1]: https://www.longtermtrends.net/stocks-vs-gold-comparison/
> we don't know, right

Right.

> Is this why string theory requires higher dimensions?

No. The higher dimensions of string theory are actual physical dimensions. Configuration space dimensions are pure mathematical abstractions, and there are potentially an infinite number of them, one for every degree of freedom in the system. Look up "Hilbert space" if you want the gory details.
I personally really love looking at old maps of cities like LA [0] to see to what extent the urban structure has changed in the last ~100 years.

[0]: https://kylebarron.dev/usgs-topo-mosaic/#13.02/34.03937/-118...
I worked for a desalination company in the 1980s. From then until a few years ago, I would have disagreed with your assertion. Some recent advances have me rethinking that, however.

https://singularityhub.com/2019/06/18/inching-towards-abunda...
The difference with COD skins being in-game vs on a blockchain is not only can you associate a universal identity to them (your wallet address), but anyone can see and trade for them anywhere. Maybe not the best example, but if you generalize to artwork/digital content it really makes sense.
California has plenty of water for California. Now, whether it can continue to be a fruit and nut agricultural hub for the rest of the country is another thing to consider.
> iOS activity recognition only offers "automotive"

I assume you mean in terms of motorised movement? Because it definitely tracks cycling, running and walking separately.
> So the fact that the mob got onto the building speaks only that the security preferred to let them in (fully understanding that everyone important is already evacuated)

That’s...not true. The building was breached before members were evacuated. The breakthrough and shooting at the Speakers Lobby occurred, very shortly after that room was evacuated, and where the mob, if unchecked at the chokepoint through which they had just broken,
would provide an imminent and overwhelming threat to both security personnel and innocents in the process of evacuating.
Security lost control of the outer perimeter and did a collapsing bubble defense to maximize safety of the heavily outnumbered security personal and the ability to protect VIPs and other innocents who had not been evacuated.
What locks celebrities in after they get big? Why isn't it perpetually volatile? Or if it is, what explains the rate of change in the volatility?
It gives specific examples of ugly and beautiful writing, and tells you how to avoid ugliness yourself. The examples are drawn from real writing, not cheap ad hominem cartoons.

It may be a rant, but not just a rant.
The intent maybe was there, but there are too many similar sounding or looking words that are much closer nearby where you can't be sure whether it's correct or not. There are also some news reports of rescue services ending up miles away from the caller because of a bad w3w code.
The author writes that you can either pay with money or you can “pay with your attention”. What’s left unsaid is the cost of that attention. I believe that cost is very high and it isn’t just ads, it’s the design of countless products including social media sites, games and even the site you’re reading this on right now. It’s all designed to extract as much attention as possible, and the cost is people’s ability to concentrate, learn and get shit done. The cost is, in other words, staggeringly high.
Facebook Is Worried Starbucks May Delete Its Page over Hateful Comments
To the assorted people arguing that the riots on 1/6/21 were not big/successful enough to warrant the term "coup" - you are likely mistaken in assuming that OP was referring specifically to the riot, as opposed to the larger effort to keep Trump in power after the election, which spanned months, was promoted by major news organizations, and enjoyed support from most of the GOP and something like 1/3 of the nation's voters.

Yes, the actual riot at the end fizzled; that's evidence that the attempt had already failed by that time, not that it never occurred. If you'd like to call it by a different name than "coup", that's fine; but OP's point (that if the people behind it didn't face repercussions, the people behind this astroturfing probably won't either) stands unaltered.
Dozens was highlighted.
Then you'll love what we're doing at Splitgraph: https://www.splitgraph.com/connect

As far as your SQL client is concerned, data.splitgraph.com:5432 is a giant Postgres database with ~40,000 tables in it. You can query and join across them using your existing tools. Behind the curtain, we'll forward your query to the upstream data source, translating it from SQL to whatever language it expects. (We can also ingest delta-compressed versioned snapshots).
I notice a common trend of nocoiners is minimizing the utility of the bitcoin network to make their job of criticizing it easier. It is intellectually dishonest and lazy and makes it impossible for people that have actually studied the tech to take you seriously.
Adversarial images targeting an image classifier have been shown to be transferable to separately trained models (i.e., models with different weights or different architectures relative to the model for which the adversarial image was constructed to target).

I'm curious if the adversarial CA reprogramming techniques are similarly transferable. That is, do the adversarial CA and/or the adversarial perturbation matrix transfer to separate CAs (trained on the same task) with different weights or architectures than the original CA that was targeted?

Is this something you've explored or plan to?
Developing a Technology to Produce Hydrogen from Seawater or Brine
What do you mean? At least the current URL [0] returns a response of content-type application/pdf. So the builtin pdf viewer of your browser should display it, no? I know sometimes admins change URLs tho.

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3309074.3309076
Right, of the relevant activities, I meant. Android also has others like walking, bus, etc.
I knew this would show up again. It's a comment that will live in infamy.
Does that mean it should just report 100% confidence on every line of code?
Alot of these projects are having a harder time attracting valid input
Good idea. Who will enforce it? Because those with the most to lose will always, by definition, have the most money to throw at un-separating them.

I am not implying that it cannot be done, but I like to encourage people to think long and hard about why things are the way they are and what systemic changes would be necessary when they propose that "society should do X". Most people would agree that we shouldn't have big companies running the government. So why do we keep letting them do it?
1) New small businesses (like Shopify stores) can reach customers without going through retail gatekeepers. Ask any Shopify seller, nothing beats FB.

2) New challenger SaaS brands can get in front of customers to compete with mammoth corporate brands with worse software (I see this all the time on my job).

3) Without good ad targeting, only bottom hanging fruit advertisers that appeal to the lowest common denominator can afford to spend. Weight loss, teeth whitening, etc. Good ad targeting means a better user experience with ads.
The article contains no reference to the Canadian enforcement action. It is about a European enforcement action against the Canadian company in question for work it did in Europe.
uBlock Origin had this at some point but Mozilla didn't approve it for some reason.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/7c22a312945a2bff41a...
It’s HN. I wouldn’t expect anything less..
Everyone's hyped but Vanilla Google is even better in term of design: Google.com is more readable, just like Hackernews.
You're begging the question. The entire point people have been making is that white supremacy as a socio-political concept is not the same as a white-supremacist in the nazi-saluting way that you seem to have in your head.

You're still mentally skipping the idea of systemic white supremacy and jumping straight from white supremacy to you are a nazi. But that jump comparison only works for white supremacist. There isn't a comparable systemic thing for pedophilia. We don't discuss systemic pedophilia and how society broadly favors pedophiles in the same way that we do talk about systemic favoritism of white people and culture (and even if you personally disagree that society does favor white people and culture, the conversation does happen). When the other person says white supremacy, this is what they mean: cultural systems and norms that favor white people and things associated with white people, often to the detriment of other cultures and peoples.

So again, you're presupposing someone is smearing you, when they've once again never claimed to have done that and further more actively claimed the opposite. And please note that now four different people have pointed out that no, this wasn't calling anyone a white supremacist. So perhaps it is simply you who is the one using a custom definition here.

Part of this seems to be that you keep insisting on making things about individuals, and not the company and systems itself. Consistently you've changed "the company's actions maintain white supremacy" to "the leaders of the company are white supremacists". That's two jumps: company and its actions to the leaders and then an ascription of intent. People can do things by mistake. Groups can do things unintentionally. You're assuming that everyone is presupposing fault and intent, and using that to ascribe nefarious motives to people who at no point appeared to ascribe fault or intent.

It's also totally unclear how

> * Accept the claim that the company is and has been supporting white supremacy, de facto surrendering decisions on anything an employee suggests might support white supremacy

makes sense. This is akin to saying "yes, we've made mistakes before". I don't see how that "surrenders decisions", I mean unless you mean that they're going to say this about certain decision but still assume they made the right decision (or maybe they did, but then they need to justify this).
Absolutely - I have noticed the same in effectively all startups. I'm not even out of high school yet, so take my words with a pinch of salt, but my guess would be all companies may start out as 'enthusiast' brands, of sorts. Since their market is well defined and not very large, once they outgrow their market, investors who want higher returns and more revenue probably push them to expand outside their original market, thus reducing their focus on the original market.

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Also, what is CyanogenMod? And why did Ubuntu add Amazon products to its search results?
i have a hard time classifying mighty as 'rent seeking' - they are providing you computational resources in return for money, not seeking some sort of gatekeeping money by virtue of owning a scarce or critical-path resource.
> I think advertising is positive

> (…)

> So: why is advertising good? (…) The question is, what is the alternative?

“I can’t think of a better alternative than the status quo, thus the status quo is positive” isn’t a sound conclusion. Every sufficiently ingrained societal negative we’ve abolished since was likely reasoned in that manner at one point.