skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey HN- Im one of the team members at redact. Redact is a cross platform electron app which allows you to delete content programmatically from most of the big sites out there (we are adding more every day). Meaning, you could say something like "Delete all posts I made on instagram with less than 15 likes in 2019" or (very soon) "Delete all my tweets that are political"
We have been working on this for a little over a year. As you can imagine, working with some of these legacy services is less than ideal. (looking at you skype)

When we launched, we were aware of tons of other free services that let you delete content, but we found that most of them were either unmaintained and broken, not feature rich enough or complicated for grandmas to install. "Ok, so first- download Kali linux to a thumb drive. Then reboot into it and install python and clone this repo...."

Our goal with redact is to make privacy as accessible to the general public as possible. There are tons of services that let you delete 'public' data about you (for instance, deleting your whitepages.com page) but we found very few which took care of content YOU created across more than 1 service.
I just don’t value it enough to be reprimanded by an unknown internet person about how my question was worded. If I have a question I’m obviously not an expert in the matter, so I may not be able to word it perfectly the first time. Sometimes I need someone to ask a clarifying question to understand that I was looking at the situation from the wrong angle, but in SO you just get either ignored or just “that’s stupid”
It's actually 1.75x monthly. 1.75^14 == 2500.
Ava's substack is really good. It is the only newsletter I read regularly. It is about life and writing in general.
https://ava.substack.com/
Nobody mentioned the government. A platform can choose to allow free speech or not. GP seems to be advocating for free-er speech on IRC platforms, including speech critical of the hosts or supporting competitors.
- promises far fewer bugs

- promises to replace entire stack

- ...and Excel

- "declarative languages have almost no bugs"

- built-in database

Yeah color me skeptical. I love experiments, but I prefer those that under-promise and over-deliver. People have been promising unification languages since there were only two languages. People have been promising cross-platform since there were two platforms. And people have been promising to replace Excel since...Excel
It’s not. But the equivalent opening price if you factor in the stock splits - which would have multiplied the shares you bought at opening - is $1.73 per share.
Oh boy this brought back memories for me.

I thought that IQ test was screening test, pre-phone interview. But no, they had me redo it at the onsite interview too. The funny part was the onsite test had the exact same questions as pre-phone interview.

edit: typo
Hey, thanks for the response. Makes more sense to me now.
But as far as I understand the source article, MDN Plus is not a paywall to the type of content that is already on MDN. What's going to be behind a paywall are a kind of technical essays which are not currently on MDN and some convenience features.

Is my understanding incorrect?
I get the sense that you're focusing on when stuff like GPT-3 isn't useful. For example, yes, a customer with a complex issue to a call-center may need to speak to an expert that understands stuff beyond the level of a decent-quality chatbot.

But a lot of humans who work at call-centers are already chatbots. And not even decent-quality ones! They're basically reading from scripts, and when they go off-script, it's often unreliable guesswork. A decent-quality chatbot could be a pretty significant improvement in many positions currently held by humans.

Of course, you're right that GPT-3 isn't any sort of ultimate technological end-goal; that'd seem to go without saying. Still, it doesn't need to be some sort of uber-tech to have its uses. I mean, even a slightly smarter Google-like search box could be a helpful near-term technology.
I'd have been more open to this sort of change if Mozilla didn't gut the content team behind MDN last year.
As far as I understand LaTeX3 is basically ready, it's just that the developers decided to make it available as an optional environment rather than a replacement to LaTeX2e - which would render it incomparable with all the things. It's also not comprehensively documented, though there are introductions. Core development work, again as far as I understand, has now shifted automatically annotated pdfs (might be the wrong term).

http://www.texfaq.org/FAQ-latex3-prog
Correct. 2-1, 3-1, then 2-1 early on. So there's a 12 to 1 ratio at play there. Initial day's closing was 18$.
Sure, and chickens are birds.
Educational. The thing that strikes me is that the reasons why we're in an extinction event are not what most people think. I used to think it was due to cities or suburban sprawl. Not true. This tool shows it's farmland. A high percentage of the land you pass through on this tool is farmland. There are no wilderness areas anymore.
I wonder if MDN would be better served by branching out of Mozilla's grasp and becoming its own independent MDN Web Fondation or something. Mozilla seems to have a poor track record of maintaining anything as we saw when they fired most of the people working on MDN and other engineers despite being able to sell licenses to special editions of Firefox or other things like email, the whole non-profit Mozilla vs for profit Mozilla structure is just awful.

MDN is its only gem left outside of Firefox itself, it's good they're doing this though, but only if all proceeds go primarily towards MDN itself. I can foresee people unsubscribing over funding issues if they find out Mozilla foundation is just pocketing profits from this for things outside of MDN.
> They weren't allowed to return home / escape (they'd be sent back after crossing the sea)

Wait I'm sorry, if a British prisoner escaped Ireland and made it to Britain, the British government would send the prisoner back to Ireland? What reason would they have to do that?
VoiceOver for the iOS camera is on another level entirely.
It really seems to me that people like to be mad, get upset about marginal things that would only affect a small percentage of users (eg inability to side load apps on non-jailbroken iOS) and generally just focus on the negative. Maybe you could call it Outrage Addiction?

So it's refreshing to see something like this where a modern smartphone has such a positive (even life-changing) impact on someone's life.

This is also one of the things I find depressing about a significant chunk of Americans. Many will dismiss things like public transit as "people want to drive". Of course we then design cities and subsidize driving so it becomes a vicious circle and any public transit become unviable (to retrofit).

But what about the people who can't drive? Or even can't afford to drive?

Basically the American response is "F em".
It's real, but at very early stages. I wouldn't have posted the link yet myself.
And yet computers continue to perform tasks that were talked about for years as something uniquely human / intelligence driven. This is a nice philosophical debate, but in practice I think it falls flat.
How's MDN's sharepoint documentation?

The point is that the MSDN documentation for HTML and IE was quite good, and then it was deprecated in favor of MDN's superior documentation.
You're welcome, and thanks for the reasoned conversation. You seem to be the only person in the thread not to attempt at amateur psychological diagnosis.
From English to code in 20 programming languages using GPT-3
Self-promo, especially on-topic, is fine.

You’re also fine to post as stories your homepage, or blog posts. People here would be interested.

Trying to make the world better, with some money involved. See FAQ and Guidelines in footer for other questions.
A look behind the “White Men as Full Diversity Partners” re-education program
Nestlé's 'floating supermarket' in the Amazon with junk food: child obesity
Double Your Impact-per-Engineer
The yellow unions wear yellow vests, but the red unions wear red shirts.
It seems inevitable to me the moment AI capacity seriously surpasses human (as a whole) capacity in any specific topic, it becomes an oracle.
I hear of efforts to translate machine decision making to human understandable terms, but if it is a question of raw intelligence, it will quickly become impossible to understand.
Entrepreneur Raised $90M to Serve 1B Underbanked Users in India
I remember in 2015 when we were decades away from a computer topping a Go champion...
Are there any studies about how long the corporate “nothing is changing” line actually holds true? My gut says maybe 18-24 months? Perhaps I’m cynical but I see “nothing is changing” and I can’t help but assume a change is all but inevitable and they’re just going to slow walk me to it.
From the blog posts, it looks like they were still deciding what language to write this idea in.
That's just bad design - iterators and sequences need to be lazy. The intermediary type should not eagerly create large arrays on the stack, it should only ever do real work once the iterator has been driven.
I guess this can be different depending on your specific field, but in NLP it really changed for the better in the last few years.

I don't have data, but from subjective experience, 5-6 years ago most papers in major NLP conferences didn't have an associated code repository. Now, the overwhelming majority do.

There are still many other problems, for example a big one is reporting of spurious improvements that can vanish if you get a less lucky random seed. But at least including code is now common practice.
That’s why I’m mainly taking issue with slapping the MDN brand over the seemingly not terribly related information service.
I ran UUCP on a Mac Plus, of all things. But it was a local call for me.
Almost. I was working on a web-controlled, high-intensity LED grow light (~1800watts of LEDs).

I was building a UI element which used a single slider to both control the output of the light and show its current position. First attempt had a bug which caused an infinite loop of the UI setting the light to 100%, then the light setting the UI to 0%, and back and forth.

The light was on my desk in an otherwise dark room. I (thankfully) don't suffer from epilepsy, but the the rapid, constant changing from incredibly bright to near darkness made me dizzy to the point where I couldn't really move.

Luckily a breaker tripped after a few minutes.
This as of now also applies to most Rust UI libs, hence why I don't use them. At least in that community each UI kit has an 'accessibility' issue though so hopefully improvements to come.
Whenever I go searching for how to take better notes I always end up on:

https://notes.busterbenson.com/

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes

And

https://www.kalzumeus.com/
What is an open source program office?
Lemonade's Claim Automation
But they do that a lot in other contexts, like using novichok agents or traceable radioisotopes for state assassinations, then 'denying' it was them.
I was recently shopping for cross-platform desktop GUI toolkits, and discovered that there are really very few options that work well with screen readers. The only ones that seemed at all viable were Electron and JavaFX.

.NET MAUI also seems very promising, and I like that they're actively blogging about it[1], but it hasn't been officially released yet.

Anyway, it seemed to me that basically all the others either aren't accessible at all, or are only accessible on one or two of the target platforms, or have long-standing accessibility bugs that seem like they would render the UI unusable.

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/the-journey-to-access...
I hope you are able to keep the investors convinced and stick with it! I'm a Swedish-American that's mostly lived in the US, but has been working back in Sweden for the last 4 years. I'm culturally mostly Californian, but the work atmosphere in Sweden is just less cut throat and much nicer. You pay with salary sure, but it's definitely worth it. Your descriptions on the website feel a bit similar.

I presume you wouldn't consider European remote given your PST timezone requirement, but I guess I'll consider your company one of those dream places to work were I to make my return to the US!
Don't have a good resource of my own either, but I think I would prefer more descriptiveness. Reading the various options you've written gives me totally different ideas of the image in my mind so, especially if it's important to the website, more descriptiveness seems appropriate for higher accuracy.
Just a caj 1896x return
You might find this to be interesting: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/

Curb cuts, in the USA, are a relatively recent addition and they benefit far more people than just wheelchair riders. Accessibility features can help everyone.
> It‘s done basically to tease the EU, saying „look at how obviously fake our pretense to hijack your plane was, and you still won‘t do anything about it!“

At least EU closed their airspace.

https://mobile.twitter.com/flightradar24/status/139752053792...
You Need Volcano – Cloud Native Computing Foundation
on top of that https://theintercept.com/2021/05/25/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-s...
If there are "grim realities" involved with eating meat, it may be time to consider vegetarianism, or at least more ethical butchers.
It's pretty disgusting that they can keep the equipment for a year, and presumably with no compensation.
Not exactly. Originally LaTeX3 was going to be a complete rewrite of LaTeX2e. In the last year or so, there was essentially a declaration of surrender and LaTeX2e+expl3/xparse is now LaTeX3 but still called LaTeX2e. There will never be a LaTeX3 exactly. Some issues with LaTeX development are essentially intractable. They're doable in theory (because TeX is Turing complete), but not in practice.
Blue Origin is not doing well compared to ULA. In fact, ULA is none too pleased with Blue Origin, which has failed to deliver the BE-4 rocket engine required for ULA's next generation Vulcan rocket. https://spacenews.com/with-ulas-new-rocket-vulcan-behind-sch...
We're currently seeing exactly what happens when the central bank money printer goes into overdrive, which is rising inflation. Maybe we shouldn't be encouraging that.
Don't forget the pre-IPO valuation.

https://www.quora.com/Who-were-the-original-investors-in-Ama...

Makes it even more impressive.
In the U.S., workers are entitled to choose union representation by filing a petition with the National Labor Relations Board. If the employer refuses to recognize the union on the basis of a majority showing of interest, the NLRB will schedule an election. If the majority of workers vote for the union, it is certified, and the employer is legally obligated to bargain. Virtually every democracy has some mechanism for certifying unions on the basis of majority support.
https://www.sixteen-nine.net/

It's run as though it's a professional news site, but it's really just one guy posting 99% of the content about the digital signage industry.
Go does have variadic functions, but what are you counting as "currying support"?
Cool, thanks. Looks quite interesting.
christine.website is a fun one
What does it do? I dont have an iPhone to test it.
what I don't get about this is it seemed to me across multiple accounts that this has been in effect for a year maybe two! Gotten used to it, not news etc. I know, wasn't 'global' -- but when it's rolled out in major markets like US, Canada, probably a bunch of EU, Australia etc..... it's totally a normal thing by now. 2 years!

previous discussion about the roll out:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21491648
Dead Voles - https://deadvoles.wordpress.com/

Interfluidity - https://www.interfluidity.com/

The Debate Link - http://dsadevil.blogspot.com/

Econbrowser - http://econbrowser.com/

Empassive - https://mandelcabrera.com/

Dead Voles and Econbrowser may have more than one contributor, but its not part of some institute or organization or anything like that.
They've crossed the Kármán line, but only for a few minutes at a time (going up, then falling back down). They've not reached orbit (going sideways fast enough to "miss the ground").

Their New Glenn rocket hasn't flown yet (and probably hasn't been built yet; they're very secretive, compared to e.g. SpaceX). Their engines will be used on ULA's upcoming Vulcan rocket, which should be a low-risk source of income for them, but also low-reward compared to rockets and spacecraft.
They were national averages from the USDA for 2018-2019. The $1m value was the sales class of the farm, not the cost of land.
Very impressive and congratulations for playing the game right, but the idea that 3% of all crypto use is from 5 people in SF ratifies a lot of my negative beliefs about the crypto world.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27303028 most of the discussion around this is here.
Yes, sadly a quite common part in too many recruitment processes here in Sweden.
And if your information is truely deleted, then when they come across your information again, they'll have no record of you, so they'll just fill in the missing gaps.

For them not to share your information, they need to know what information not to share.
I recommend https://www.nngroup.com/reports/usability-guidelines-accessi...

If you want to really get into. A general note is the context around the image is just as important as the alt text.
Ahmed Yurlanov is sounds more like a Chechen or Ingush name.
I know this might seem like a niche argument, but I feel like asking my browser to store information is something that I can prevent. It’s annoying, and there’s less financial incentive to build detailed tools to help — but compared to taking information from my bank, without my consent; from electoral lists, without my consent; to infer my political opinion from photos of my car on the curb.

I understand that people who don’t know how a browser works see it the other way around: they understand electoral lists (although I’m not sure they can change their details); they might not know how to “delete cookies”.
Actually I "ragequitted" (well, not rage, just disappointment) when it seemed to be an adaptation of the 3rd-person perspective.

Might have been infantile on my part, I'll give it a chance again once I repair my rig.
I read a paper on something similar to this a good while ago now, quoting Bowlby I seem to remember. Supposing it has relevant connotations, changing behaviour during this period to affect outcomes may prove problematic in other ways.
> Were such a car to exist, it is clear the dog would win in very very many environments (almost all). As would a mouse, let alone a dog.

This seems incredibly unlikely. AI vastly outperforms 99.99% of humans on various video games, and 100% on many others. I'll bet on a well trained ml model over a dog every time.

> That it may be possible to rig a human environment to be replete with so many symbols (road signs, etc.) that an incredibly dumb automated system can follow them is hardly here-nor-there.

We already have above average human performance with just normal road signs, and could also simply use digital information.

> Self-driving cars may work on highways and motorways; I don't see there being any in cities. Not for centuries.

Goalpost shifting
My son would probably be dead if we didn't give birth in a hospital. The cord was wrapped around his neck three times and he wasn't breathing when he came out. A small team of doctors (angels) came in and saved his life. An hour or so later, they had to do it again.

It was a short part of their work day, but made all the difference for us.
Hmmm...

>> Jeff Bezos’s Amazon operated on extremely tight margins and was not profitable

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312509...

Amazon made $645 million net profit in 2008, $476 net profit in 2007, and $190 million in 2006.

Where did this myth of "Amazon doesn't make profits" come from? Why are people seemingly unable to check publicly shared historical 10k and fact-check themselves before making statements like this?
My job is about operations research and optimization. One of my favourite blogs is "Yet Another Math Programming Consultant", that contains great articles about this topic.
https://yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/
Vitalik! https://vitalik.ca/ obviously eth/crypto-focused but some great dives.
I'm roughly in sync with your I-thought-you-were-better-than-this expression.

But. I think some people out to drive wedges are working overtime to frame a specific subset of "cancellation" as a civilizational threat.

Over the ~decade this has been trending as a narrative I've heard _many_ people all over the left-of-center ideology map _publicly_ express discomfort, disapproval, or outright opposition to this behavior. This isn't a meme spreading _without resistance_.

I don't think it is strategic to help habituate ~management to sacking people when they feel attacked, but I recommend being very skeptical of anyone who agitates on this without labor rights/law/power and ~management's role in the dance all inside their frame. (I realize this isn't a broad solution... more of a razor for separating good faith from bad.)
Google makes it easier to transfer Gmail photos to Google Photos
Information on when an email is sent, transmitted, and received is part of the email header, which is shown in part by MUAs by default, the full transcript being shown by good MUAs on request.
Well, since functions are first class citizens nothing stops me from turning a (a,b,c) into a (a)(b)(c)
Yes, unless SpaceX has a competitor, space companies are not really privatized...
Agreed. I just wrote this LispWorks IDE review and will add it to the CL Cookbook (when slightly enhanced): https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/discovering-the-lispwork... It should shed some light on their offerings and help newcomers get a bigger idea of what CL is.
So, one month of Mitchel Baker's salary.
I also have tried starting a research institute (eonias.org), and am a member of ronininstitute.org. I’d be happy to have conversations with anyone interested in setting up an institute: grant@eonias.org (my name).
Facebook will no longer remove claims that Covid-19 was man-made
Playstation: More girls and women own recent consoles than was the case with PS1
Bell Labs in its heyday was still reputed to be publish or perish, or patent or perish, without any tenure system either. At my university, we had a previous Bell Labs researcher that said he had been pushed out. As a corporate researcher, there is still high pressure to output something.
Was doing a flat average not compounding.
Oh ok so how was the human right of private property respected when the US annexed Hawaii?
Whether the virus was recombinant or not has been a subject of debate. The fact is that we can't know for sure unless we hear from the researchers working in that lab.

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/05/the-wuhan-lab-and-the-gain...
This is mostly a good thing. I say "mostly" because it encourages scooter riders to use the sidewalk and pretty much anywhere I've been scooter-share riders are a public menace.

One issue with these in NYC at least is the drainage just isn't designed for them. So anytime you get significant rain or snow melt you get pools of water that don't drain because the actual drains are elsewhere.

If only the US could adopt Dutch junction design [1].

And don't get me started on the cyclist and pedestrian safety nightmare that is allowing people to turn right at red lights.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HDN9fUlqU8
> "Why would anyone do that?"

That's such a typical Swedish answer... but they do allow (but not as default!) to block orders and request digital confirmation
The reason music got saved is, eventually, all signal gets transferred over two cables. It is simply not possible to gate it.

Video is much more complicated.
No-code/low-code: Why you should be paying attention