skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No matter. When it’s a wedding party in Afghanistan it’s just an errant bomb or bad intelligence. No accountability required.

If autopilots save lives, surely AI bombs will also.
Google is bringing back the phone both! In 3D pretty cool
> Do the Matrix clients still phone-home to some centralized server (Vector, I think it's called)

There's no centralized server. There's a server with the majority of users for now (in matrix.org), but the network is decentralized, with many servers. The server implementation run by the majority is called Synapse, but there are others (Dentrite, Conduit, Construct..).

I'm puzzled by this comment. Can you elaborate on what you mean by phoning home?

Are you talking about https://element.io, which points to matrix.org homeserver and signing server, etc?

In that case, well, just use a different server and your own client. Or self-host, and select one of many clients: https://matrix.org/clients/. That's the whole point of federation.

You can even deploy your own web client pointing to whichever server default you want, many people do. E.g: element.debian.social, chat.mozilla.org, etc.
The government is just another name for whoever has a monopoly of said power (and violence).
PhotoAiD – Take passport photos where and when you want
You have a local search engine?
>Unless you’d like to buy my Radeon 9800 or my GTX 1070? They’re still perfectly good for gaming… except everybody wants the new RTX ray tracing etc.

Or to run higher resolutions, or to play flight simulator at reasonable refresh rates, etc etc.
If I remember the film correctly, his friends were a bunch of jackasses (in a comedic fashion), while the 40-year-old virgin was actually the nicest guy... Who best deserves the girl at the end. The female lead was also a virgin, and actually valued that in the main character.

I mean, I guess it still falls on the trope of "the hero gets the girl" at the end, if that's what your problem is? A lot of what his friends do get in the way of him actually having a successful romantic experience with the female lead.

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I dunno, reading those reviews kinda reminds me of one review I read for Frozen: where they were critical about "Love is an Open Door" and failing to understand the satire. Sometimes there are messages behind the message...
Yep, the unexpected attention this received today has lit a fire under me.

I'll get on it.
I was thinking more along the lines of, specific tables for different classes of entity, with a schema that’s as fixed as possible, so you get the most compact and indexable representation.
Also a Googler. I spent hours talking with this thing. About everything. It's absolutely mind boggling how conversational it is.
A couple of questions:

* What are the reasons for disabling TCP timestamps by default? (If you can answer) will they be eventually enabled by default? (The reason I'm asking is that Linux uses TS field as storage for syncookies, and without it will drop WScale and SACK options greatly degrading Windows TCP perf in case of a synflood.[1])

* I've noticed "Pacing Profile : off" in the `netsh interface tcp show global` output. Is that the same as tcp pacing in fq qdisc[2]? (If you can answer) will it be eventually enabled by default?

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.13-rc2/source/net/ipv4/s...
[2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-fq.8.html
You can use bitcoin as a saving mechanism, which is the primary purpose of money, as long as you can trust that it is tradeable to something else. There are hundreds of millions of people who use bitcoin in this way.

For using it as everyday currency, there are debit cards that automatically convert your bitcoin to local currency at the time of payment. There are probably millions of people who use these debit cards. Bitcoin itself isn't suitable for everyday payments yet.
>Besides the fact that you're changing the subject out of nowhere

How is it changing the subject? The argument in your previous comment was literally "If you're forced to be there, they have to pay you". If you're not actually forced to be there, then that puts a giant hole in your argument.

>this simply ignores the entirety of the original comment you were responding to

The previous comment's argument was also "forced to be there".
Scientific calculation need double but ML don't need double, isn't it?
Back in 1997, I briefly hung around a criminal who ran a crew known to the feds. I'd drive around with him on non-crime stuff related to his "day job" (front).

I've been dealing with various forms of stalking, hacking, harassment and targeting since, almost certainly tied back in large part to that brief association in 1997. Last spring (2020), this man who I haven't seen or communicated with since the late 1990's, was scheduled to be released from federal prison. Around that day, my Facebook's "people you may know" was littered with county sheriffs and task force types in his area, all shown to me in a row. I have been thousands of miles away from that area since the mid 2000's.

I'm at a major low point now, middle aged, broken down, homeless, defeated with learned helplessness well-established. Being targeted for so long was a major contributing factor. The irony is that I didn't engage in criminal activity with this person, and only hung around him briefly.

Facebook, I'd like to see all of the data you keep on me. The secret dossier, the govt lists, the algos you use, the logs you've created, the supposed "ai we don't understand". All of it. Same for google, twitter and the rest.

Information asymmetry isn't making end users happy in many cases. I'm fucking creeped out by these malicious machines we've allowed SV to create. Thank God I don't have kids because I plan on departing this shithole ape planet soon -- it ain't gonna get better any time soon.

Needless to say, I don't use FB any longer.

Fsck Facebook. And Google, twitter and reddit. I've been targeted on all of these platforms and more.
Time will tell if the lab-leak theory is correct. Personally, I think it's looking more likely all the time.

The author seems to think only right-siders get fooled by errant news. I think he's mistaken.
> I have made no such claim!? Different groups have faced different challenges and that leads to different societal problems. Seems silly to start a misery Olympics and discuss which of the terrible things are more terrible.

I'm not sure what you think it means when you reply by asking us to compare black tropes to asian tropes. Some of the asian tropes going around now are related to spreading the "chinese" virus, and being spies that steal IP, or students who cheat.

> Cantor's obsessions at the end of his life and Goedel's incompleteness theorem would be a great starting point for an essay on the limits of objectivity in math.

Separately, it sounds like from your teaching experience you've mostly been dealing with kids who would really enjoy the foundations of math and physics, and may enjoy discussing how things are true only within a model, and how even that model has trouble making judgments over some sentences. But for everyone else that's a lot of explanation without firepower.

I teach in a model classroom for a math franchise that deals with the age range in question for this document — not college aged kids in MIT. When you're teaching youths, not delivering a story and feeling of firepower is deadly. It is not like college where the failure to learn is their fault.

I also evaluate competitor products domestic and abroad, and I would critique them for the same issues mentioned in this training document, that their product is far more rote, authoritarian, linear, etc. But I would never imagine that, say, a largely imported korean or singaporean product would have notable relationships with white supremacy just because they emphasized rote learning, linear sequencing, an either-or concept of truth, etc.

I think it's completely fine to have a discussion about how some attitudes and styles in math pedagogy are destructive to student motivation, but these arguments of white supremacy ought be better substantiated. The leading arguments so far have been extremely unimpressive, and IMO there could be a more general backlash due to the loss of credibility.
How is this any different from me wasting my life working for FAANG? Why is commodifying my brain any better than commodifying my body?
Watching anime. Or Star Trek.
There doesn’t have to be an easily quotable outrageous comment for something to be absurd. A drawn out explanation can be equally so.

It sounds like you are claiming that everything in the linked article is false.
The self doubt it can sow is horrible, but the way out is to realise you're in the matrix and it isn't real. For the younger populace, this is more dangerous because they haven't had much time (relatively) to experience the reality of life outside of the coloured glasses that social media offers.

I hadn't used my FB account in about 8 years but hadn't deleted it. Just did that a few days ago and the sense of closure was awesome!

In India, there is a psychological tendency to blame the person rather than the tool, so I'm even more afraid for people here.I mean a case like the suit against McDonald for hot coffee spilled on lap would be laughed at here. i.e. I'm expecting that "you're feeling depressed due to social media, you're the problem" kind of statements might actually fly with the people. I also see this changing for the better, so .. hopeful.
How would “stable money” incentivize finding the next big thing?

Funding innovation is a hedge.
Hi Thea. I run a one-person OSHW business too. [1]

Assuming your volume is greater than a dozen pcs/month, you're doing both yourself and your international customers a massive disservice by not outsourcing fulfillment and logistics (at least for international buyers).

I went to order a single nut from your store, and the shipping to Australia was $35. Of course, this makes small purchases prohibitively expensive. But more than that, it shows that you don't care about your buyers from outside of the US, and conversely shouldn't expect them to care about you.

This especially matters if/when your products become cloned. Piracy is a service problem, and any markets you are not serving properly will be serviced by the copycats.

[1]https://espotek.com/labrador/
It's definitely related, yes! You can reduce any list given a monoid on the type of elements of the list. That is, if you have a type `T` with combining operator `combine: (T, T) -> T` and unit `e: T`, you can reduce a list of `[T]` starting with `e` and combining each element into it.

If I have a list of numbers `xs`, there are two nice monoids available: (+, 0) and (*, 1). In a JS-like notation, I can reduce using either monoid with `xs.reduce(0, (acc, x) => acc + x)` or `xs.reduce(1, (acc, x) => acc * x)`, respectively.

The existence of `reduce` is actually exactly what makes lists the "free monoid"!
Well, they'll have extensive 3D data about your body and your house.
As a serious response, if you're looking for a good string library, look up RapidString. I've used it to great effect for a few years now. The original owner disappeared so there are only a number of surviving forks, but the code is clear, fast and Just Works.
To be fair, jury trials look medieval for people who come from a country where judges are professionals. And plea deals, don't even get me started.
When I talk to someone and they share an experience, I like to ask questions, or relate to the experience by sharing my own. This is not "self absorbed" it's really normal...

Mountains out of molehills here.
This has happened more than once, maybe it is by design? :-) How would a machine learning algorithm get trained to see police vehicles as invisible? Maybe learning to ignore sunlight flashes makes it ignore flashing lights in general?
Off topic : The presentation, Language and structure is very similar to how Apple would present its devices or features.
A list of all the "temporarily paused" projects.
Brazilian guy here: my girlfriend just bought two pairs of glasses from China, I don't know from which site exactly, but some AliExpress type of site. She paid 5 dollars each, just telling which degrees she needed for each eye. The quality was the same from the 200 dollars pair she bought with a medical note here in Brazil. Unbelievable. Just telling that, if you want it, you can import it through the mail and it will pass through customs without a problem.
Everyone always brings up Reddits shitty implementation whenever they want to complain about AMP. AMP was never made for the kind of content reddit serves, it's more for static content like news articles. Reddit's mobile web version is shit in all sorts of way, and it's clear that's intentional to push people towards the app. You can tell by the huge damn banners that show up every single time blocking the content, no matter how many times you dismiss them.
> In the fall of 2016, we were dealing with hundreds of thousands of MySQL queries per second and thousands of sharded MySQL hosts in production.

> Today, we serve 2.3 million QPS at peak. 2M of those queries are reads and 300K are writes.

I think the "today" QPS numbers are still doable with a properly tuned single-writer galera cluster running on machines with TBs of memory. Of course, with Slack workload, there would be too much historical data to fit into a single host, so I can see the reasons to shard into multiple clusters/hosts.

Still, the numbers seem a little off. Let's say back in fall 2016 there were already 200K write QPS at peak, with 200 sharded hosts accepting write. That's just 1K write QPS at peak per host on average, and let's say 20K write QPS at peak for a particularly hot shard. What could be the bottleneck? Replication lag? Data size? I don't think any of the articles from Slack has talked about this.

What Vitess provides is invaluable, especially the very solid implementation of secondary index. But sometimes I feel like it is being used/advocated as a sledgehammer ("just keep sharding") without looking at what could be done better at the lower MySQL/InnODB level, in exchange for a much more costly cloud bill.
Thanks Adobe. The Type 1 font collection I have after spending thousands of dollars on your Font Folio product still work fine... Can I switch them for non Type 1 fonts?
Pandocblog: Static site and blog template using pandoc, make, and some Python
Nature is the way it is. Quantum mechanics is one model people use to explain/predict nature
I've stopped using Facebook, IG, etc.. What worked for me is to not completely disconnect. Instead, remove the apps from your phone and turn off all forms of notifications.

These apps want your attention. But you should only give it to them when you want. Not when they tell you.
Exchange the hyperinflating currency for a currency that is more stable. Any germans in the 1920s that held US dollars were completely immune to inflation of german currency.
Site Isolation launched in Chrome in 2018, but the work started in earnest in 2012 -- see the below check-in. The idea in Chrome dated to before the Chrome 1.0 launch; it was the subject of Charlie Reis's PhD dissertation and he interned on Chrome pre-public launch.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/c6f2e67ab40...

Site isolation proved to be the biggest refactor in Chrome's history, and was one of the motivating reasons for the webkit/blink fork. Making site isolation work touched a huge host of features, since handling iframes out of process has a way of making simple things incredibly complicated.

The example I always gave was: imagine how the "find text in page" browser feature would be implemented. With the entire document in-process, it was a simple for loop. With the document and its subframes sharded across multiple processes, it is now a distributed search problem that requires handling of out-of-order results and stitching them into a traversal order. What's more, to achieve Chrome's security goals, you want to avoid introducing functionality that would allow the [presumed-compromised] process of the outer document to query the contents of the inner document via the find in page feature. So you can't simply do this as a peer-to-peer query between the renderer processes; it needs to be coordinated by the main browser process.

Congrats to the Firefox team on this milestone.
> If someone can't moderate their own consumption of something despite their best efforts, abstinence works.

No, if someone can’t moderate their own consumption, abstinence usually fails.

If a person finds something both easily resistable without immediate past use and hard to moderate immediately after use, abstinence works, but that’s not a super common response. People who have trouble moderating use immediately after a prior use also usually have problems resisting initial use.
I think if you find that engaging with people is such a minefield that's probably on you. It's not hard at all to have an engaging conversation with someone without accidentally offending them...

People talk about themselves because conversations can be intimate - they're a two way street where both parties are sharing and relating.
Didn't the US government just drain the crypto accounts of some online hacker collective that ransomwared that petrol pipeline?

Also the verb is "garnisheed". They're not putting parsely on it :)
Great, you found one site that works great. Here's a million others that don't and take 10s+ to load on mobile. I'm not sure what your point is.

The day every website out there makes fast and performant websites like the above without any stick or carrot, then you will have a point, but unfortunately we don't live in such a world.
The article mentions 10x is abandoned but does not explain what 10x is. What is 10x?
That's just your opinion. Astonishingly, some people find The Big Bang Theory to be riotously funny while others find it tedious and boring.
I strongly suggest not worrying about what some HN users believe is self absorbed.
Charles Grodin, actor and rights activist dies aged 86
I don’t want their stupid text selection UI either.
According to https://www.statista.com/statistics/1200477/bitcoin-mining-b..., 65% of BTC mining already happens within one country.
Can't wait to find out how this tech is going to be used to better separate me from the money in my wallet
> Also the verb is "garnisheed".

No, its “garnish”, past-tense “garnished”.

> They're not putting parsely on it :)

No, but its the exact same verb, just a different sense.
Microsoft Chrome OS targeted at dual display devices like the Surface Neo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Neo
Sinclair and Murdochs empire (the two most consumed sources of media in the us) both skew heavily right.
I am dying to have an assistive chatbot that's able to ask me questions or argue in a friendly way, or take notes when I am in a creative mood. I don't really need AGI but have not been impressed with the task-based approach of existing assistants, because I don't want someone/something I can just order around; rather, I learn best by teaching others, and would like a chatbot that I can explain (relatively simple) things to.
LaMDA seems pretty cool:

https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/
> were also the least abrasive

Did you know any of them via mailing lists or Usenet, just face to face?

People's abrasiveness will come out in situations in which they think there won't be any repercussions.
What is the E2EE story for spaces? Besides space names and member lists which I assume are visible to the server like normal rooms, what other information is also visible to the home server? Are rooms/subspaces inside spaces also visible?
I'm inclined to agree, but in fairness to Paul Graham I'll note that one of his essays I think relates back to your point.

His observation was that even if you aren't trying to do things for the money and just want to solve some problem, a lot of times the only practical option is to form a company. Maybe that isn't always true, but at least it seems plausible. He also notes that not chasing money can have advantages: craigslist isn't a charity, but they run it like one. That makes them pretty hard to compete against.

Exerpt:

> Back when I was working on spam filters I thought it would be a good idea to have a web-based email service with good spam filtering. I wasn't thinking of it as a company. I just wanted to keep people from getting spammed. But as I thought more about this project, I realized it would probably have to be a company. It would cost something to run, and it would be a pain to fund with grants and donations.

> That was a surprising realization. Companies often claim to be benevolent, but it was surprising to realize there were purely benevolent projects that had to be embodied as companies to work.

> I didn't want to start another company, so I didn't do it. But if someone had, they'd probably be quite rich now. There was a window of about two years when spam was increasing rapidly but all the big email services had terrible filters. If someone had launched a new, spam-free mail service, users would have flocked to it.

http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html
Power levels feels like the most IRC answer possible, and breaks down as soon you want mutually exclusive abilities.

Why is this the preferred model?
Energy usage and price are related. Should be interesting.
Bath Curse Tablets
Endless Loops: Detecting and Animating Periodic Patterns in Still Images
I keep my account, but use Facebook as a tool, not as entertainment.

I use it to search for items I need on the marketplace.
I use it to join group chats for small events and organization since it would be a hassle to get neighbors and their friends to ditch it for my sake.

I haven't opened instagram in ages, but keep it around for the very odd link to a post on it, and the same with Twitter.

It has absolutely improved my mood. Even cutting down on HN is good, and cutting reddit from my life was the biggest relief I've experienced.
Halide offers a 7-day trial, I don't know where you're getting the idea that the app store makes time-limited trials impossible from.
Your last (edit: second-to-last) paragraph is the first time in this whole conversation that I get what you guys are talking about. I think you are misreading the document. It says that "there is only one right way" is a trope frequently used by white supremacist philosophies, not that the presence of that trope implies the presence of white supremacist philosophies. I feel like getting hung up on this is just silly and overly "snowflaky", when the document as a whole has so many great suggestions on how to be a better teacher.

One other important comment:

> But for everyone else that's a lot of explanation without firepower.

This is a deeply wrong idea that leads to poorly skilled engineers and scientists and I would die on this hill. You are giving your students too little credit if you think they would not be interested when this is taught properly (e.g. by following the instructions in this document). This is exactly the firepower you need to have exceptional skills.
> and the anonymity part of crypto means you can create a new wallet whenever you want to get paid without the court even knowing that you are receiving crypto as payment.

Yeah, and if you get paid in cash you can keep it secret to.

OTOH, if your lifestyle reveals you have access go and are spending funds and not making required payments, courts can impose other consequences, up to and including imprisonment. But usually, seizing and selling off physical or reachable intangible property would be the first way to handle monetary debts. And, sure, crypto itself may be easy to conceal, but if you can’t use it to acquire anything tangible without sacrificing the safety, is it really usefully safe?
________ is the new tobacco industry.

If researchers can produce a result that convinces the powers that be that facebook is a mental health issue they can produce a result that gaming or violent movies or maybe something you indulge is a mental health issue.