skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before people jump to say they violated Twitter's ToC, just remember that this isn't the first time Modi has coerced Twitter:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/technology/india-twitter....
> If I bug fix someone else's code I am not trying to complete the painting - I am at best just doing restoration.

Hmm... "Restoration", eh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(Mart%C3%ADnez_and_G... ;-p
This is a good take.

To put it more succinctly, in most countries (especially in the west) there are clear lines of demarcation between the public, private and criminal sectors. (The lines aren't impermeable. But the lines exist.)

In Russia, those lines have been eliminated. One group controls all three sectors.
The downside to broadening the talent pool for design/manufacturing is that it means workers now have to be among the best in the world to get business and thus earn a good living. It no longer suffices to be the best in a local region.

If each local region needs its own widget factory, then to become a top widgetsmith you only have to compete with the local widgetsmith talent pool. Just as there can be many high school star athletes across the world, there can be many top widgetsmiths within their local widget factories across the world, even if each is likely mediocre relative to the global pool of widgetsmiths.

Now the widget market has globalized. To become a top widgetsmith, you now need to be the best in the world. There is no room for locally optimal widgetsmiths when the market can globally optimize, just as there’s no room for most star high school athletes at the NBA.

The upside is that the entire world gets much better widgets. The downside is that you can only make a good living as a widgetsmith if you’re the absolute best in the world. Local markets lead to redundancy, which is globally inefficient but locally optimal.
> Once again, the notion that everything on the device is scanned under Apple's system was never true.

That isn't what I said.

Also, that's not why most people are so upset. Most people are so upset mainly because Apple has now proven that the capability exists, so they can now be more easily compelled by governments to scan for "extra things".

Prior to this, if a government asked Apple to scan someone's phone, Apple could respond with "we don't have that capability", and it would presumably be a tough legal battle to force a company to add a capability that doesn't exist.

This hurdle is now much lower. The effort has gone from "force Apple to design a new system for scanning phones" to "add these couple of hashes to the pre-existing database".

Also, expanding this from just iCloud upload candidates to the entire device is a very small leap now. I mean, the bad guys could just turn off iCloud, and we must think of the children...

Then you have Apple's "reassurance" that they won't comply with government requests to scan for additional things, which is completely moot considering Apple relies on a third party database and has absolutely no control or idea of what the hashes really are.
I've been using it daily for several years. Since I've never had any problems with it, I'm not the least bit bothered by the lack of a new release.
No. Not even close. Most tech decisions are reversible (we even have term for it - technical debt), which lowers risk and means we don't need to avoid decisions. We have tools that mean we don't need to make repetitive decisions about a lot of things (linters, code formatters, codemods, etc) - once we've decided the tooling keeps everything nice and tidy so we don't have to question our decisions. We have it so much better than most people.
I appreciate Apple’s design here, and I think that there’s an overreaction to it.

This is probably the best design we have so far for something that everyone else is already doing, and I give Apple credit for going to greater lengths to preserve privacy.

But the “just trust us, we only want to do good things and we will be ruined if you ever catch us doing bad things” rationale doesn’t help. In fact it sends me right back into protest every time I’ve seen it posted.

There will not be legal ramifications for “what if” scenarios. Not enough to prevent abuse.

Especially if these would be the same (weak) legal ramifications that prevent people from being wrongfully accused of murder, arrested for peaceful protest, or bank accounts frozen on baseless suspicion of fraud or terrorism.

From the same government that has treated legitimate political beliefs and entire religions as terrorism.

If the core defense is that I should just trust that NCMEC exists for a single purpose, will never be manipulated or expand outside that purpose, and is completely uninterested in carrying out any other agenda, then that defense has already lost.

Because that exact scenario has already occurred with other government agencies.

And suggesting that NCMEC is somehow at such a disadvantage in power that Apple has a choice to say “no” (and that Apple will do so at even the slightest hint of impropriety) and that alone will bring NCMEC and all of the good work they do crashing down?

I bought this reasoning fully with the Patriot Act and warrantless wiretaps. I had no doubt these things were being used to do good and prevent deaths, and I’m sure they have.

But I have also since seen enough to know that short term good will was paid for by the long term ruining of innocent lives, and racial profiling that continues to this day.

I’m not interested in supporting that again.

I’m good with “Apple is trying to steer this in a more privacy respecting direction” and “this introduces a new avenue in which NCMEC introduces more checks and balances by having third parties double check their work”.

I’m saying this as someone who is torn about this issue.

But the “separate government organization that will absolutely not bend to pressure and will suffer legal consequences if they do, JUST TRUST US KTHX” reasoning already has such strong precedence of being proven false, it only works against your case.
This is EU legislation.

I can't find any obligation to have speed limiters in https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/2144.

It only describes Intelligent Speed Assist, which does not limit the speed.

From the description in that piece of legislation, calling Intelligent Speed Assist a "speed limiter" is incorrect. It is also specified that it should be possible to turn off the system, in which cause not feedback that the speed limit is being exceeded should be provided at all.
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??? Generally in the UK people don't have a 3 course catered meal in the middle of the day!
I love to see more time series models becoming available in an easy-to-use format. There's always been such a gap between what is possible and what is convenient to use, much moreso than with other kinds of models.

This was also one of the areas where R always had better options than Python, but that seems to be gradually changing as well.

Darts looks very thorough and user-friendly, it makes me really want to work on a forecasting project!

It might be very helpful to readers/users if you could add a section to your documentation comparing Darts to Tslearn [0] (edit, and Sktime [1]), which already has a lot of time series models with the Scikit-learn style interface.

It would also be helpful to have some kind of writeup that explains the TimeSeries data structure and why you use that, instead of just a Series/DataFrame.

Finally - you really shouldn't say "non-Facebook alternative", because your Prophet implementation is literally a wrapper around Facebook's Prophet library. If anything, I suggest moving the Prophet, Torch, and Pmdarima dependencies to setuptools "extras", so you don't force the users to depend on those projects.

[0]: https://tslearn.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28155384
Haskell copied a huge amount of its core concepts from ML, and even then, ML was very much a collection of prior experimental concepts with a new type system on top.
Wow, lol. I usually pick up on satire.
It’s just …it’s 2020-ish and it looked very aligned with various edgy opinions.
The fear of not releasing 1.0 because of some strange believes that you can't release 2.0, 3.0 or 2364.0 or that 1.0 needs to be special in some way is really annoying.

The moment your software is production ready it should not take long until you use major version numbers.

If you are afraid of users expecting no change breaking after 1.0 don't stay below it as the user also expects 1.0. instead brake expectations by avoiding 1.0 and 2.0 specifically. E.g. jump from 0.69.0 to 69.0.0 or some other arbitrary number like 42.0.
Could you install solar on your roof and a battery?

(Sorry if that's a hard thing financially, just a suggestion?)
It is not a statement about security but about plausible deniability.
> It would feel arrogant to compare Mosh to TeX, but it doesn't seem that crazy to imagine that some software might reach a point where it has accomplished 95% of its goals

The difference that I think makes this comparison invalid is that Mosh is a communication tool, whereas Tex is running locally on files. We (as a community) have learned that any software with a networked attack surface slowly gets less secure over time - you (almost always) need to provide ongoing security fixes to maintain the desired level of security.

To be clear - I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm an intermittent user of Mosh and I can believe that no holes have been found that need patching (and that the team would in short order if necessary). It is, however, a signal that users of software look for. I like the idea in a sibling comment of the "documentation" commit just saying "we're still here" to reassure people.
Can anyone copy and paste this?
Dont you think the incentive to find a double spend flaw in bitcoin is large enough due to it's ever-increasing market cap?
Why is the goal to make it look exactly the same as TeX? TeX is great but it's rules are based on Knuth studying existing typesetting and I'm sure a lot of rules are fairly arbitrary. When I look at this in Firefox it looks finished. Brace heights don't change the meaning of the mathematics. It's a purely stylistic choice.
It's the politicians who must be stripped of privacy. They're servants of all of us. They must be controlled the most, because our societies depend on them the most.

It's them who are the most vulnerable to corruption. It's them who are most likely to abuse their power, including child abuse.

It's them who are most likely to think that they're some privileged caste, so they can do "whatever they want" (c) Trump.
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Look, I understand why you view this as censorship. But I hope you can understand why I don't- as far as I am concerned (and as far as US law is concerned) Twitter is a private actor and has the same rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association that I have. If me or Twitter genuinely believe that the info Rand Paul is putting out is harmful, neither of us should be required to host his opinions, in my opinion.
If I were your employer I'd expect you to foot the bill if you want to spend $750 on a monitor or desk alone when there are much cheaper options
I don't know what to take away from this except that this CEO is evidently a complete fucking idiot. Those metrics are so easily gamed; how could someone not understand that?
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Yeah rich people are (usually) Tories, also known as "Conservatives" here in the UK
I lost interest about a quarter into the book, it is written (or at least translated to English) in a strange way and looses momentum after a very interesting beginning
GCC wasn't elsewhere.

Up to 2005 I was using UNIX own C++ compilers, meaning aCC, xlC, SunPRO.

Then there were Microchip, ARM, TI,...
That's not the typical framing I see, it's usually "government regulations strangling private sector innovation" with the implication that there are no benefits.
I'd really rather avoid using the word 'censorship' in this context, it doesn't require government involvement.
In 1860 barely any countries allowed women to vote. So public opinion was maybe slightly more moderated back then, than what you think.

Not to mention that newspapers work slightly different than online messaging platforms.
> The letter goes on to note that Xsolla has partnered with multiple HR agencies to "help you find a good place where you will earn more and work even less".

Sure, if I worked on this company I would like this option even if I was considered a "engaged employee" by their own classification.
Unless you believe in a transcendent soul that could be the source of these sensations or feelings, this assertion doesn't make sense. Assuming there is no supernatural soul, it's logically impossible for anything humans experience to not arise from the human body.

This entire notion of qualia is a philosophical quagmire predicated on the idea that if you can imagine something, it must be true ("we can imagine a zombie that behaves exactly like a human, but doesn't have qualia at all"). It's actually as laughable as the "argument from perfection" for the existence of a god.
Third over here.
Why is their cloud on x86?, an easy argument is because mainframes don’t run x86 or ARM instruction set, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture

How will people use it?
Fun fact: in the UK the title of this post is a probable libel. HN repeating it is also a probable libel. Maybe the word "allegedly" should go in there? Just a thought.

Edit: OK, some people clearly didn't like the tone I struck, so I'll be much clearer and make no attempt at humour. The subjects of this case are all in the UK. If the allegations can't be proven to be true on the balance of probabilities, and a case for libel against these women is brought by de Grey, their lives will be wrecked in proportion to the spread of this article. HN is technically repeating that libel but the main concern I have here is that some people have miscalculated and their lives, careers and credibility would be wrecked by a case against them.

The damage in a case like this would be calculated on how many peoples opinions of de Grey were lowered. By not presenting a balanced view in the link title, HN would make life much worse for the people making these allegations than if the word "allegedly" were being used. I'll be interested to learn whether we value a concerned FYI about the law more or less than speculating.
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Seems to be disabled on the mobile version. Drop the m. subdomain and you can.
It's nearly all wind, whose output fell all the way to 12.5% of installed capacity over a three-day period when homes were freezing (February 15, 16, and 17). [0] Output consistently stayed in the 15-30% range while I was watching it in ERCOT's live stats. Solar plants are nearly a rounding error. Every other source maintained 60-75% of capacity even with insufficient winterization.

[0] http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/181766/IntGenbyFuel20...
The UK's libel laws are bad, and thankfully don't apply outside their borders.

For an example of why, it took multiple years, millions of dollars, and a 349 page judicial decision to uphold calling someone a holocaust denier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd
I agree - the UX of the extension isn't that great.
Reading all these replies, my takeaway is that there’s a lack of understanding in the internal structure and architecture of a mainframe and how it works.

Not just code, but how things are built and connected.
That would be irrelevant since I never claimed similarweb to be a website comparable in traffic and scale to Reddit. We are discussing how Reddit is the worst implementation of one of the top websites on the planet. I never said there weren’t worse websites but show me one with Reddit like traffic that is worse.
I am neither clueless, brain damaged, or a stooge, and I think Twitter is a wholly private actor. My opinion on this topic is backed by a raft of laws and legal precedent; yours is not.
I'm living in Sweden right now (US citizen). We wear masks. I've been working from home at my employer's request for over a year now.
Office buildings are pretty empty, restaurants are still mostly depending on takeout revenue. Our vaccination rate is higher than in the US, and we're still being sensibly cautious to prevent another wave.
Sweden isn't the free-for-all zone you've been led to believe.
Excellent summary of the Texas situation.
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I don't understand how a hyper developped rich country like the USA tolerates so many grid failures over times. I do not mean that as a critic or boasting about ours or whatever, and I do understand (a bit of) the specifics that gives this end result, I just don't understand why there hasn't been a massive push by the population to make that issue one politicians had to fix.

Short of their pylons being taken down from storm/flood/... causing localized failures, the french grid virtually never goes down like this, and yet even then people complain if it takes too long to recover after a small localized blackout.

Or maybe this is a biased view I have from not living there and only getting fragmented news about it, and grid failures are actually very rare in the USA too ?
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Worse than that, it effectively makes the site legally impossible to run. When people say "remove section 230 protection" what they're really saying is "shut the website down".
In my experience, this is mostly the attitude of people who criticizes a world they're not part of. Not being aggressive about self-benefit only hurts you and helps everybody else. The fact that somebody gets paid 1/100 what I do for 100x the effort I exert isn't my problem, my problem is whether I can get an even better cost/benefit ratio than I have today
Ycombinator is not in the UK.
To me it feels a bit like "I'm not going to do this thing because you've told me to. If you hadn't have told me then I might have done it but I'm damned if I'm going to now".

Which is fine when the public demonstration of a point of principle isn't as important as the thing itself. Otherwise it's a collective act of cutting of one's nose to spite one's face.

But maybe this is the part that is somewhat US specific. The relationship of the people to the government seems to have an almost mythic role in political identity - rather than a somewhat more pragmatic one that I recognize in the UK.
People are buying $200k NFT rocks
This would not be a double spend attack, but a denial of service attack. If you spend $600 million worth of mining work, you can prevent any transactions from executing for two weeks (although in this scheme where you pay twice the block reward to defectors, only one week).
The lowest lowball estimate I’ve seen for the computational capacity of the human brain is 20e15 FLOPS (Kurzweil, 1999), and that would require 2/3 of a megawatt with the current best ranked supercomputer on the Green500 list.

There are already several computers more powerful than this that don’t appear close to a working full brain emulation, and we definitely don’t understand intelligence well enough yet to engineer something like ourselves, so it’s reasonable to be skeptical of estimates saying we’ll be at the kilowatts level “soon” even if it turns out we’re just missing a step which will be obvious in hindsight.

(Unless by “soon” you mean 15 years; I don’t want to bet on anything on that timescale).
By the way I always loved Swing interfaces and always felt like they are incredibly cozy, emotionally warm and also tidy at the same time.

Here[1] is a picture of Oracle EBS. To me it seems beautiful (literally).

And if I look at the more classic Swing style here[2] I almost feel urge to run around naked and scream about how damn beautiful it is. I certainly want every app I use and the OS itself to be entirely in this design and I would even pay just for that (because I feel like that would boost my psychological well-being and productivity).

So, given our perception of this same UI is on the opposite extremes I conclude this is highly subjective.

[1] https://cdn.app.compendium.com/uploads/user/e7c690e8-6ff9-10...

[2] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37069_01/html/E37073/figures/ide...
The science on this is clear, please update your stance.

Natural immunity is not as protective as vaccine induced immunity. It is in fact 2.3x more likely that you will get reinfected while unvaccinated, and a stronger immune response from the vaccine means fewer people end up hospitalized. See:

> Reduced Risk of Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 After COVID-19 Vaccination
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm
Why does that matter? There are lots of stores that require ids to enter. Comparing stores wanting to see your id or vaccination card to the government not letting you vote is a false equivalency as has been said.
> No one who has met Celine would believe that she would ever lose control of how much she drinks...

This sort of thing is why you don't write your own "I've been accused of something bad" defense post. Yikes.
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