skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not started nor incited a flamewar. I have simply posted a historic fact in a neutral way then stayed on point. Haiti's history is messy and the past informs the present.

In response I have been attacked (classic us of nitpicking to discredit an unconvenient point), flagged, and one or more people went through my comments history to downvote all the comments they could (as mentioned).

I feel like I'm victim of a mob here, and being blamed for it... Good for intellectual curiosity, for sure.
> Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are a conceptual advance that allow reinforcement learning problems to be solved automatically. They mark a step toward the longstanding goal of artificial general intelligence while also harnessing the power of parallel processing so that a program can train itself by playing millions of games against itself. At a conceptual level, GANs link prediction with generative models.

What? Every sentence here is so wrong I have a hard time seeing what kind of misunderstanding would lead to this.

GAN's are a conceptual advance of generative models (i.e. models that can generate more, similar data). Reinforcement learning is a separate field. Parallel processing is ubiquitous, and has nothing to do with GANs or reinforcement learning (they are both usually pretty parallellized). Self-play sounds like they wanted to talk about the alphago/alphazero papers? And GANs are infamously not really predictive/discriminative. If anything, they thoroughly disconnected predicition from generative models.
> Why would my visitor be surprised that I'm suspicious though? They're choosing to be suspicious.

I didn't say that. In the example I gave, you looked through your peephole and couldn't identify the visitor. Perhaps there's a problem with the peephole.
The browsers intent may be to remove cross-site tracking, but we all know that Google Ads will still follow people around the web through latent signals (even if wrapped in something like FLOC), and other parties like KISSmetrics will continue the fingerprinting cat and mouse game.
I have no idea who JD Vance is

He wrote Hillbilly Elegy which was a NYTimes #1 bestseller, an Oprah book club pick, and sold over a million copies.

It also go made into a movie by Netflix.

He's now running for Senate in Ohio where he stands a decent chance of winning (though Josh Mandel is probably the current frontrunner).
I feel like this comes up again and again. For some people Instagram or Facebook are sometimes the only way to communicate with new peers without introducing too much friction. In France, for example, most of my friends will exclusively use Instagram when connecting with new people.
Isn't privacy protection worth that cost? I value my right to privacy, and I'm happy that GDPR protects it to an extent. Not that this has anything to do with the news report being unavailable.
Facebook et al want the privacy discussion to revolve around “keeping your personal data safe” but that is just bald-faced propaganda that covers up the fundamental issue. It’s not like Facebook’s digital model of my behavior is really “mine” and they are just borrowing it or protecting it. They don’t even care about my data in the singular.

What they do have is a giant corpus of behavioral data spanning everyone on the planet. Companies can (statistically) detect that you are going to get a divorce, or that you are going to be pregnant. They know everyone who has been to jail, our sexual fantasies, how likely it is that our children will go to college.

Right now we say they sell ads, but you could just as correctly say that they take advantage of this incredible, unprecedented information advantage to directly change the world in their favor and in the favor of whoever can pay. It used to be used to sell clothing and frippery, but already SM is plastered with ads for political campaigns and brain-altering drugs. Their cultural hegemony will only increase over time, as the data gets better and the methods become more effective.

In this regime, what does it even mean for Facebook to “leak my data”? If anything I’d rather it was out in the open. (Although I’d much rather it didn’t exist!)
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Evolution is an incremental mechanism, which is to say that it preserves most of what it has previously done (DNA encoded) and just makes small changes on top of that. IOW it is essentially structure preserving, and any change that undoes anything that still has value is likely to be maladaptive and not preserved (as opposed to repurposing of gills into ears, etc, where the original function is not being used).

Of course evolution is also messy and isn't operating out of a playbook of decomposable single-function parts. Experiments with evolving electronic hardware have resulted in circuits taking advantage of all sorts of nasty non-linear analog effects, as you might expect.

Still, given the inherently incremental nature of evolution, it is highly likely to result in a system of parts operating with some degree of independence to each other. While there are still many aspects of the brain's functioning we don't understand, it's pretty apparent that it is composed of functional parts like this - cortex, hippocampus, cerebellum, basal ganglia, etc.
He's not playing with mains voltage (except to wire in the USB power supply) - the button's he's "pressing" with his relay are part of a low voltage control circuit.
As an alternative to Google Cloud Speech check out https://www.speechly.com/. A lot easier to get started with and doesn't require a credit card. Has support for all the major browsers both desktop and mobile. If you are interested in a note-taking CRM application this demo is worth watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GcgPcMOuQk
This should be: npm: broken by design.

Or even, since it's in fact the language itself that sets the tone for the entire ecosystem: javascript: broken by design.
I’d imagine that in most projects, the bulk of the dependency is due to dev tooling. I don’t think it’s fair to optimize for small dependency trees when setting up your buildchain – otherwise you’re precluding any usage of create-react-app or Next or whatever development platform. This problem is further compounded by the fact that those tools encourage including dev dependencies as regular dependencies, since the output is compiled anyway.

The answer here is probably some kind of static analysis to know which packages end up shipping in the actual bundle to users. I think Dan referenced some work in that regard.
A good system for describing a game could also be used to help create narration of movies for visually impaired people. Or even descriptions of audio for those with hearing loss.
"This doesn't and couldn't exist"

Rep. Angie Craig (D, MN) questions Mark Zuckerberg in a Congressional hearing: "Facebook allows Rep. Greene's (R, GA) video to remain online. Is that right, yes or no?"

https://youtu.be/vsA4u7i20_0
You've never had your credentials stolen, or lifted in any of the many widely-reported password store breaches? https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
You can switch to English with the button on the top right.

Edit: It would be interesting that the site remember all the previous tries. I finally was able to avoid saturating the hospitals, but I don't remember how the other metrics compare with my previous tries.

Edit: Removed the link to the "version in English" because my link does not change the language.
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Realistically, in your country, the assailant would have had a gun themselves rather than a knife, and OP would be dead.
This can occasionally backfire spectacularly. Consider the story of Herbert Henry Dow[1]:

> With his new company and new technology, Dow produced bromine very cheaply, and began selling it in the United States for 36 cents per pound. At the time, the German government supported a bromine cartel, Bromkonvention, which had a near-monopoly on the supply of bromine, which they sold in the US for 49 cents per pound. The Germans had made it clear that they would dump the market with cheap bromine if Dow attempted to sell his product abroad. In 1904 Dow defied the cartel by beginning to export his bromine at its cheaper price to England. A few months later, an angry Bromkonvention representative visited Dow in his office and reminded him to cease exporting his bromine.

> Unafraid, Dow continued exporting to England and Japan. The German cartel retaliated by dumping the US market with bromine at 15 cents a pound in an effort to put him out of business. Unable to compete with this predatory pricing in the U.S., Dow instructed his agents to buy up hundreds of thousands of pounds of the German bromine locally at the low price. The Dow company repackaged the bromine and exported it to Europe, selling it even to German companies at 27 cents a pound. The cartel, having expected Dow to go out of business, was unable to comprehend what was driving the enormous demand for bromine in the U.S., and where all the cheap imported bromine dumping their market was coming from. They suspected their own members of violating their price-fixing agreement and selling in Germany below the cartel's fixed cost. The cartel continued to slash prices on their bromine in the U.S., first to 12 cents a pound, and then to 10.5 cents per pound. The cartel finally caught on to Dow's tactic and realized that they could not keep selling below cost, they then increased their prices worldwide.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Henry_Dow
WhatsApp is the dominant/default form of communication in a lot of countries. It's as essential as telephone and postal service.
I'm not sure if you're being intentionally obtuse or not. GA phones home with vast information about user, and builds a profile of them. That profile is correlated across sites to personalize search results and sell ads.
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From my understanding of orbital dynamics, this will only be useful to spacecraft already in a precisely matched orbit. So it's not useful to think of this as an orbital gas station that spacecraft can just pull up to in order to refuel.
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You're getting downvoted rather than replied to which is a bummer, because I understand your POV but have recently changed my stance on this.

I used to be the standard kind of user of FB and Instagram who had friends and occasionally posted, etc. Then I realized it makes me feel like crap being on there and hated their business practices so stopped using it.

Lately though, I've had a few experiences that made me rethink how optional it really is. I recently sold a car and FB Marketplace has /so many more people/ along with a higher degree of trust than Craigslist. I got a bunch of offers from FB and none from Craigslist despite the same listing.

But even more significant is how businesses interact with the platforms. Because a bunch of people use FB/Insta, a lot of local businesses post new things or updates or specials there. Lately, new businesses are not even bothering with a website and just setting up an Insta. If I'm looking up what a store's hours were this past holiday weekend in the USA, then I know it's most likely going to be best to look it up on their Insta page. And just go ahead and see what the experience is to do that when you're not logged in!

Sure it'd be GREAT if those businesses didn't do that, but the alternatives aren't great and I'm not going to pressure them into reforming social media when they're just trying to make money off of selling an ice cream cone; they've got it hard enough!
Marketing and fraud detection are pretty valid imo. Just inherently hard to scale.

I do think there's a valid question of how useful n-hop queries are for an N that is greater than 2 or 3.
A lot of comments not sure about what Graph DBs are good for:

* Flexible knowledge association i.e. Knowledge Graphing

* Modeling and querying associations / models with many-steps-removed requirements

* Expert Systems / Inference Engines

* Lazy traversal for complex job scheduling

Graph DBs are not good at being a general purpose 95% of use cases database. Just use Postgres/MySQL if you're not sure. We use Neptune (AWS managed GraphDB) to model cybersecurity dependencies between many companies and report on supply chain vulnerabilities many steps removed. Those kinds of queries are non-trivial and expensive on anything but a Graph Database.

As GraphDBs meet niche query requirements you usually have other databases involved in the full application. If you want to tractably manage many databases in a system you ideally want to be in streaming / event sourced semantics. If you're already in an imperative crud-around-data / batch pipeline you'll find greater maintenance costs in adopting a GraphDB or any additional DB for that matter.
Have you tried getting grants promising they will deliver?
FYI, if you want to follow me along the journey, I am building WarpURL in public, https://link.rehanvdm.com/BaSR1y was last months(also the first) retro of many.
> These are completely non-essential services in every way.

This perspective is completely neglecting that a significant portion of the developing world communicates almost exclusively via Facebook/WhatsApp. For communicating with people in those parts of the world, these services become essential in every way that matters.
It seems expensive at first sight, but the $10/GB are world-wide, and limited to $60 per month.

It's not something I would recommend as a substitute for wifi, but definitely worth it if you travel to multiple countries, and don't want to deal with getting and/or swapping sims at every destination.
Our company works with ComPsych and they seem great. I have never used it, but watched a few presentations on some mental health topics earlier through the pandemic. They also offer other resources for employees like legal help, finance, etc.

https://www.compsych.com/
>The "physics" of electricty are tricky at all voltages, there are recorded cases of people dying from electric shock from a 24VDC truck battery.

yes, that's because lethality is a combination of voltage, current and the location where those are applied to the body. Apply one charge to your foot? No problem. Apply the same charge to your chest right above your heart or in some configuration where the current flows through your heart? You are probably going to have a bad day :p
> it's a uniquely North American thing

It’s a thing in Europe as well.
Standard oil? Antitrust is only a waste of taxpayers' money if there's no real willingness to go after the offenders.
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If you're curious to hear him outline it in his own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nil5_AI0fWs

Interestingly to me was him explaining how he picked the lawyers to use. He asked who the best lawyers are, and "they" said it's the tobacco lawyers, so he went with the tobacco lawyers, because "they" say the tobacco lawyers are the best.
I find it amusing that Donald Trump hates windmills ("they cause cancer") and "tilting at windmills" is an English idiom which means "attacking imaginary enemies"
When I went to a therapist and we went to analyze my dreams it got weird how many details and meanings one could find there
What do monad comprehensions offer?
What're the most valuable skills that can be learned within 6 months?
What hard or specialized skills are in high demand with competitive pricing that can be learned in less than 6 months? Assuming the individual has at least above average intelligence.

If the topic is broad like "programming" try being more specific with subtopics like "front-end development with XYZ frameworks".
So will Facebook (and several others) if you take no steps of your own to block them. It's an escalating war of cat and mouse. You'll block them, they'll find a new way around it, you'll block them some more, they'll find another way. Eventually the only answer will be to shut down the Internet because it's become just too broken to use anymore.
Part of that is because anti-trust law used to prevent discounts based upon scale, and that stop being enforced decades ago.
It's not like there's no history of lawsuits and threats from Trump in the past to provide a baseline. Does he deserve the benefit of the doubt anymore for these?

How many media outlets did he threaten to sue? How many nonsense election lawsuits did he throw out? Trump uses lawsuits and threats of lawsuits as a weapon. Most of them are not even designed to have any hope of winning, that's not what they're for.
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1600 km³ × .1 kcal/ℓ is 670 petajoules, so that's the energy input you'd need to heat the lake up by 0.1°. World marketed energy consumption is about 20 TW, so the entire world economy could heat the lake up at about 0.23° per day if you covered it in a blanket first. So it's not completely out of the question, but only 2.7 million people live in Toronto, so Toronto probably only uses about 20 GW.

By comparison, the lake's surface area is 19000 km², so when the sun is shining on it (at a slanting angle, as it always does that far north), it's receiving about 10 TW of solar energy, half the amount used by the entire human economy. It reflects about 10% of that into space and converts the rest into heat, then re-emits it as longwave infrared light, half at night.
Seems like wsb could fix a small failed state with a spac.
From what I can tell of the paper, this would only replace the disinfectant stage of a waterworks; you'd still need the coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, and maybe the filtration stages of the treatment plant. I don't know what the breakdowns of the various chemical loads for cost is, although I do know that the sodium hypochlorite for disinfection was by far the most heavily-consumed one. (Although the pH control for coagulation/flocculation was no slouch either, especially when all of the algae were busy having sex in summertime).

> How long would the catalyst last in practice?

That is a very interesting question, and one which immediately came to mind when I read the paper. Which is why I fell over laughing when the paper said something along the lines of "it lasts a long time, we tested it after three runs"--three runs is very far from establishing how long it lasts in an industrial setting.
I don't understand what you mean by "the cleverness of connecting the dots" or why you would feel personally attacked.

My point was that I, a potential customer -- this really is directly relevant to my current life situation -- visited the site, found nothing there but an email harvester, so left without spending any money and with a poor impression of the company.

Driving people to your site before there's anything there is wasted effort. Save it for when you're actually ready to do something with that traffic.
A larger, non-experimental depot could use electric propulsion to bring itself to satellites that need to be refueled. It's energetically expensive but likely still worth it to extend the life of expensive satellites.
Can I call my company a “Venture Studio” if I also work with clients?
I run a small company which works exclusively with early stage startups for their product development needs - in addition to building our own products.

Since working in a niche like that is a departure from routine software outsourcing, some people I talked to described my company as a startup studio or venture studio. BUT... venture studios don't work for clients.

This is more of a semantic thing than anything else, but can I call my company a "Venture Studio"?

The company website is at https://venturenox.com
How can the ISP ban Facebook accounts, if they are separated entities? Or do you mean the ISP bans Facebook urls related to certain accounts / posts? Not sure how this gonna work.
On his saving account, i think that's a pretty good motivation to save money then to use a debit card...i thinks it's a great idea.
You don't need a right to do it, because they have no right for it to not be done.

But social convention was my point - the social convention is it's always fine to block and you never need to explain, in my opinion.
Ha - George Conway (infamous conservative lawyer) has the same question;

https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1412828921242996738

> But what makes this meta-insane is that he’s claiming that the Facebook was a FEDERAL state actor because it was entangled with the FEDERAL government at a time when HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Such an exciting, and high stakes, and dramatically late and over-budget mission.
And home owners tend to vote in elections, especially local ones.
Monorepos are pretty common nowadays, arguably popularized by Google

https://research.google/pubs/pub45424/

That said (1) “you are not Google” as the saying goes (2) Google built their VCS from scratch in house for scale.

However it’s not tops hard to do this with just git and some rules/patterns for organization.
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> Sharing the same island means nothing unless the two places also share an ethnic seed ...

Plenty of countries do very well without shared ethnic seeds, whatever that means, including the wealthiest country in the world.

Edit: Thanks for explaining what you meant, below. That makes sense.
There are instances of "they" clearly referring to people whose gender is known as far back as Old English:

https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/200700#eid18519864

The word evolves, as all words evolve. But there's no point in saying that this specific distinction means that Chaucer wouldn't have recognized the use and instantly figured it out. Chaucer used they as a singular noun, and it makes perfect sense to apply that to specific individuals. It doesn't make sense to say that because Chaucer didn't use the word in precisely this fashion, it invalidates the very similar senses in which it was used.
I'm pretty sure CVEs and the like came about because vendors were choosing to hide or deny security vulnerabilities. Vulnerability disclosure policies are a whole different kettle of worms.
I've no intention of taking this challenge but that doesn't mean that I haven't imposed some restrictions on myself in the past! Up until 2018 I was using a Phenom II X2 unlocked to quad core. It was fast enough for its purposes overall but the main problem was that the browser and websites were so far on it because it didn't have any built-in video codecs. Doing a video call on Google Hangouts at the time was enough to peg the CPU at 100% on all four cores!

I used to have a laptop that was a Celeron 1.4ghz with 1.5gb memory. Even with the lightest weight Linux I could load on it, it wouldn't load most web pages.
What do you mean by "super continent"?
The reason it’s so big is because it’s your build chain. I’ve always found this criticism of JS annoying – you’ve also got to pull in a few hundred MB of tooling for C++, Java, or Rust — it’s just that in the JS case, the “compiler” is usually per project.
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> non-experimental depot could use electric propulsion to bring itself to satellites that need to be refueled. It's energetically expensive but likely still worth it to extend the life of expensive satellites.

I'd have to do the math, but I'd be curious about the confluence of launch market dynamics that would make pre-launched depots which need to change orbital planes cheaper than depots launched on demand into the right orbit from the start.
Does anyone remember the initial proposals for this. The cost was supposed to be $500M. At most something like $1B.

Given this is standard govt contracting - I'm sure it's come out much higher.
Seems like the author is ahead of you, inlining the svg in your head tag should fix that too?