skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how you read what you're suggesting into my description. I make a commit.

git commit
# ...
git commit # or two

I push them to the staging area for a given branch, in this case master

git push HEAD:refs/for/master

This isn't a branch in the traditional sense but git conveniently sees it that way.

Now they're immediately available for review. That looks something like this (this is not from my workplace, but the Go team's Gerrit instance): https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/361916

> Either way, just so you know, this kind of attitude and that you think it's a-ok to use such a convoluted process for what is effectively the same thing would 100% mean me not hiring you.

That's fine. There are plenty of companies that manage to hire based on competence, experience and references so I'm not exactly aching to get hired at a place that would deny me for having used Gerrit.
Not if, as the article suggested, there were multiple algorithms to choose from.

Especially not if the top choices were fundamentally different from each other.

It may go so far as to make it significantly more difficult for bad actors to operate.
A remarkable thing about these stories is that many artists end up enjoying lavish lifestyles while they're popular, but having no money (and going on the dole) when their success wanes. The record industry absolutely encourages this boom and bust lifestyle by advancing money and then withholding royalties until an artist is "recouped", which almost never happens thanks to some fun accounting tricks. The result is young people who come from modest means, are showered with cash, and recieved no financial planning advice. They're also a magnet for people trying to get a cut of the money - people who will encourage them to pursue a lifestyle of excess.
The first rule of writing Go CLI tools that don’t drive users insane is to use “github.com/spf13/pflag” instead of the “flag” standard library package.

Rather annoyingly that is often the only third party dependency required…
I think that's what everyone is talking about. They're just using the term algorithm colloquially.
Or just give us more options for viewing a feed than "recommended" or "latest."

Heck, even create an alogrithm store where people could create and purchase different ways to view their feed.

It doesn't seem that difficult to add these multiple sort and filter options, but maybe it's more complex than I imagine.
In open source development you're trying to prevent exploits from being possible as much as you can, and for anything new you have time to get multiple people thinking about it before a release goes live.

In content moderation vs spammers, you have spammers adapting to your tools in real time while posting content in the same way real users do, and the balance between "don't want to accidentally ban real users (who post stuff very similar to the bots)" vs "does it matter if someone gets past your defences a few times an hour" is massively different too.
>There’s a reason that the culture of the 1980’s is experiencing a resurgence right now.

I stopped reading right there. The first signs of 80s-nostalgia went off in the electro nostalgia in electronic music circles around the year 2000, just a few years later we had 80s-shows on mainstream TV in germany, nonstop.

The 80s-Nostalgia-Trip itself is running for 20 years now and normal nostalgia cycles can't explain this phenomenon.
> The truth is we’re in a post-truth world, where more than one opinion is valid. You should never trust just one single source of information, without validating what it's telling you, and thinking about the potential motivations and incentives behind that conclusion.

Wisdom applicable beyond the topic of this article
Is that what happened with Linux and Mastodon?
The milk doing all the hard work, as it's a nutritionally complete food to raise babies.

You don't last long on potatoes only. I bet milk only is doable even if very not optimal to an adult body.
I think its more about the distribution and customer than the product. If you have those two, a product would come to you naturally.

For instance, suppose your father is a dentist. Just take a look at the shitty dentist software they're using. Or maybe some process with dealing with notes, or customers, or whatever. I'm sure some of those processes could be improved through technology. Learn what he needs, build software around that, and try to get in the mindset of a dentist. Expand the network to his dentist friends and go from there.

You can do this without have a connection to dentistry but it would be a lot harder. You can build the product, but you'd have a lot of blind spots. Maybe some of the antiquated processes exist that way for a reason. You may not know the mindset of a dentist. Are you just going to go door to door trying to sell to dentists?

Figure out what distribution you channel you have access to and focus on that. That's why you see a lot of dev tooling, because devs know how to solicit and sell to other devs. Whereas the intersect of knowledge of dentistry, software background, entrepreneurial risk profile and access to distribution is much rarer, and you can tell by some of their processes.
Some are arguing that the algorithm is so simple that there is nothing to disclose. That means that spamming has reached a plateau and can't get anyworse.

Also, Twitter's spam control has been objectively bad.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1487022342630957062?lang=en

People think that the entire platform has been hijacked by left-wing / progressives and the reason for lack of transparency is more insiduos than "spam". For example, being liable for what they told Congress.
Yes. This is exactly what I want.

It's not a global feed of every twitter in existence, it's a feed of accounts that you proactively choose to follow.
>kNN being a perfect algorithm is a catastrophe for this whole formulation of AI. All it means is that the whole field of machine learning has as its limit what you can do if you already know the answer. You can see from this that it isnt learning at all.

Doesn't the existence of unsupervised training and models that solve previously unsolved problems somewhat invalidate the NN=kNN analogy then? The protein folding problem didn't have an already known overall answer for instance. The model clearly 'learned' representational information that we are not aware of in order to be so much more effective at solving the problem than we are.

Or similarly with the Starcraft or Dota AI, while some strategies learned were similar to humans, others were entirely novel. I think that's getting pretty close to 'learning' as you've defined it.
The solution does not need to exist first. It's often said in books like Lean Startup to presell your solution and then build it based on having that initial income as validation.
This had such a change in tone and leap in quality moving from volume 1 to 2... I was amazed as a child reading it. If you're checking this out for the first time, try to make it past the first several somewhat juvenile issues.
if(tweet.author.affiliation == "democrat"){
promoteTweet(tweet);
} else {
shadowBan(tweet.author);
}
Serious question: What if a rich person offers to buy a bankrupt central government?

France's central government budget is 410 billion € in 2020. In a "normal", non covid year, it has a ~70 billion € deficit. It has a similar deficit since a long time and things will probably worsen in next years, while revenues are declining since at least 10 years. Is bankruptcy something on the horizon?

France is not alone, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Belgium are in a similar situation.

France's price is perhaps too high but there are many rich people who could buy for example Belgium.
In all 14,000,605 futures people will argue about this.

I think it would be better if it was an informed argument.
I still would prefer that to what is currently there.
100% agreed with everything you said (and I contribute to archive.org).

Governments won't necessarily get it right, but I would still love to see public efforts toward the goal. Despite recent adjustments, the US postal service has been an impressive slice of government service for a very long time.

What's interesting about this particular goal is that it can easily cross our physical borders. A couple savvy countries can easily team up and get things rolling (or at least throw significant support behind existing efforts)
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The idea of such an exchange is not new; in the Kula Ring Exchange, necklaces and bracelets are traded JUST for the sake of the trade itself and to build up one's own reputation with the renown of the people who previously owned the item.

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I'm going out on a limb here and assuming the issues with their code don't begin and end with async.
How do you know? Where did you come up with evidence to confirm that statement? There has never been a platform as large as Twitter that opened up its algorithm.
Every scientific poster presentation I ever did was QuarkXPress. I still have it in SheepShaver for opening up my old ones.

I hit save a lot.
Positive right: somebody has to do something for me.

Negative right: nobody must do something to me.

The right of self-governance is a negative right. I can see how it can be confusing since you can re-phrase anything as either positive or a negative action e.g. "you must stop stealing my stuff so property is a positive right" and "you should not deny my need for healthcare ergo it's a negative right" so here is a trick you can use to distinguish one from another: a negative right will remain even in the absence of all other people while a positive right will disappear in such a case.

So, for this case, the right of self-governance will remain if everyone else disappears since you can still make laws, obey them and enforce them on yourself thus it's a negative right.
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There is a limited period of time where you (the parents) will be the sun rising and setting for your child. (A few years.) That was special for me; there's no love like the love of a young child.

After that, your kids will start to turn towards friends, teachers, and other relatives. As they should--it's an important part of becoming a full fledged human.

But it's still a bit bittersweet to see the end of being able to do no wrong in your kiddo's eyes.
Easy enough in theory. If you actually try to implement this, good luck calculating 4003 without calculating 4002 and adding one.
HN used to be a place where comments were considered charitably, and at least a passing attempt at replying to the actual comment and not a made-up version to score a cheap rhetorical point was more common.
Jokes aside, I'd be 0% surprised if there were some famous conspiracy theorists who were on various intelligence agencies payrolls to draw attention and make the idea of a conspiracy look silly.
Perhaps a bit idealistic but I aspire for a world where companies can segment and target their market while consumers maintain a level of privacy.
Finally I can boot my PDP-8!

(Don't write & ask me about it; that was a joke.)
Memory has to be managed by something. The more decisions that are made for you in how that happens the less flexibility there is for certain situations.
Opera FTW
Ahh! We don’t need trust, that’s the whole point and the great innovation.

Cryptography works because it allows two parties to communicate without needing to trust the network not to eavesdrop or modify traffic.

Cryptocurrency works because it allows two parties to exchange value without trusting each other, or the network processing the transactions.

Trust is a weakness. If we can build zero-trust systems we can avoid entire classes of problems.
It's not about security bugs in this case, anti-spam needs obscurity as a layer of defense.
Let's keep emotion away to understand what's happening. You emphasise the alleged hate and are regurgitating the private investigator points. He made an accusation as an insult. And dug in on it, on his own FU money, to not lose the argument. It's not right, but missing the crucial context before and after: he was not the instigator, and he apologized for it after.

> Are you implying it is okay for Elon to make false child rapist accusation?

People say much worse than "pedo guy" in arguments, although this is subjective. In a response to another insult, I'll mark "Sorry pedo guy..." as an informal childish remark, not a sober threat with the intent to harm someone.

> Nobody said they were mutually exclusive.
> I am saying that he didn't apologize.

I don't understand what you're saying here. This means he can apologize for and also clarify the context behind the insult. So far, his last words on the topic in sworn statements are that he didn't mean the comments to be a statement of fact and apologized.

> Second the diver had to prove damage, which was hard to do.

They had to prove if a reasonable person would take the statement as a fact of matter. Whatever dirt he dug up with an investigator is something that happened after the fact, and private comments he made digging in are self-inflicted collateral damage, not preceding the comments in question.

> I have no idea how his general trait is relevant with this specific event.

The totality of the case also needs to mention the context that he was trying to help, on his own dime, children who were trapped underground. It doesn't make his comments right, but taking statements at face value lacks human context.
I guess maybe, but this is incredibly badly communicated. Just now they showed up as a member of travis GitHub orgs, but the only member? https://github.com/orgs/travis-ci/people

It's very possible (likely) this is all fine, but done in a way that feels strange/fishy. I haven't even gotten an email from travis. They must be in fire-extinguishing mode.
I mean left on the political spectrum, and certainly far more left-wing than mainstream Democrats or "center" left (even in a British or European context). Additionally, I use the term skepticism here similarly to how the term euroskepticism is used to encompass varying degrees of criticism for the European Union (including criticism that involves full withdrawal of all member states), just in this case in regard to NATO. As I said in my initial comment, I'm well aware that many on the left want to see the dissolution of NATO.

I don't think I would describe myself necessarily as pro-NATO, I just don't think its dissolution is reasonable, and I think its actually quite arguable that NATO dissolution would be a net negative. With that in mind, it's not uncommon for people, who are otherwise very far off from one another on the ideological or political spectrum, to agree (or at least agree in policy outcome) on individual issues (especially foreign policy ones). That's the nature of using a relatively one-dimensional spectrum to describe a complex system of beliefs.
Firstly your belief is knowledge that was created at some point and it spread because people had the right to say it.

Second, a just society is dependent on there being a society at all. The only way humans will solve the problems that threaten our existence is by creating new knowledge.

In this way the progress created by free speech is foundational to all else.
But the article is not talking about content moderation as such. It's about surfacing the right content for right people, and regain the trust that author believes twitter has lost, without really justifying how.
> Recommender systems like Twitter are as much about data as they are about code. Without the dataset and the derived statistics and models that are used for ranking and recall, the code is not going to help much with transparency.

And also other way around, data depends on algorithms and tools that created them. You can't have insightful understanding of data without knowing how and why they were created.
If we can't trust DuckDuckGo, which one then?
According to this post, we can't trust DDG anymore.

I'm totally frustrated, because I thought DDG is finally a great search engine that respects privacy.

Which search engine can we trust then?

Is the solution to use something like https://yacy.net ?

Or is there another way to save search the web without beeing stalked, tracked and sucked?

Our world is so messed up... :-(
The origin/non-origin difference only applies to uBlock Origin, not uMatrix.
I use PowerPoint a lot. It's pretty powerful; I wouldn't call it terrible at all. It can be frustrating, sure.
If you read the article you'll see that most of them do carry on - and it was the carrying on with limited interest in popular appeal that crashed their headliner careers.

So in practice it means you get a lot of respect and money, and suddenly you don't.

It would be not unlike going from FAANG veep or CEO to sudden unemployment. With no one calling. Except that you're less likely to have a financial cushion.
Picking up on your comment. The whole thing is about intent.
Like the US President also does not like to go on a bike:

Joe Biden:
https://cdn.road.cc/sites/default/files/styles/main_width/pu...

Obama:
https://cdn.shoplightspeed.com/shops/618730/files/29004558/o...

George Bush:
https://cdn.shoplightspeed.com/shops/618730/files/29004560/g...

Jimmy Carter:
https://www.thebicyclestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/j...

Bush:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTmueZN...

So are you saying the Dutch prime minister has military, political and economical influence somewhat on the 1% of other political leaders, and the threats that come with it, but he is somewhat cooler and more courageous so goes around on a bike?

Let me give another example from another small country. A ex-president of Portugal (Mario Soares) was known for liking to do long walks along the Tagus river in Lisbon, and hitching rides from passing drivers, back to the Presidential Palace. But that is the luxury afforded to who is not important enough to threaten any powers that matter.
But it's not spam. If fifty people you follow retweet the same popular post, you do not want to see it fifty-one times. You want to see it once, and you want it ranked highly because everyone you follow thinks it's an important post. It's a form of crowdsourcing from a curated group of contributors. The chonological view cannot accommodate.
I thought it was pretty clearly a joke. Maybe a ";)" emoji would have been more explicit.
Sorry, here's the link to the posting I mentioned:

https://lemmy.ml/post/31321
Sure, as set up by the way we have constructed the dataset. "Green" isn't near "Leaves" because the world placed them there.

All these properties follow
from properties of the data which we have structured to produce these solutions.

We arrange the target domain of one dataset up, so that the target domain of another is aligned --- and in doing so, solve the only problem which requires intelligence.

Yes, the character-space structure of Y labelled stuff aligns with the pixel space structure of Y labelled stuff. And feature space templates can likewise be associated.

This is just more of the same. King +Woman isn't Queen --- it isn't anything. This isn't reasoning. And likewise PicOfKing+PicOfW isnt PicOfQueen.

This is schizophrenic pseudoscience --- it's actually the mind of a
schizophrenic who obtains sequential thoughts just by non-semantic associations.

The latent structure being learnt in both cases is just the coincidences we rig in the Y
domain --- Inhave no doubt they 'transfer', we
wrote them in
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McDonald's is required in some places (Canada, for example) to publish the ingredients for its food. For example, Big Mac Sauce:

Soybean oil, sweet relish (cucumber, glucose-fructose, sugar, vinegar, salt, xanthan gum, calcium chloride, natural flavour), water, vinegar, egg yolk, onion powder,
spices, salt, propylene glycol alginate, colour, sugar, garlic powder, hydrolyzed (corn, soy, wheat) proteins.
CONTAINS: Soy, Wheat, Egg, Mustard.

-- https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/downloads/IngredientslistCA_EN....

And there are strict rules about how that ingredients list must be constructed:

"Ingredients must be declared by their common name in descending order of their proportion by weight of a prepackaged product. The order must be the order or percentage of the ingredients before they are combined to form the prepackaged product. In other words, based on what was added to the mixing bowl"

and on and on for many thousands of words, https://inspection.canada.ca/food-label-requirements/labelli...

No, that's not the full recipe, but it is information a company might not want to disclose, but is required to disclose because it affects the health and safety of consumers.
> Steve Jobs is no match for Tim Cool when it comes to being a CEO of a big corporation.

inb4 'Tim Cool, formerly known as Tim Apple'
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There's no merit of what should be a project wide function being a single line instead of 3 to avoid "hard to grok" syntax.
> Really good post. It's amazing how fast you can scan all of IPv4.

If you're just scanning one port, which the author seems to have done, you can probably do it in some minute or two, unless you wanna play nice and lower the rate of sending packets.

Otherwise if you wanna scan full IPv4 + all ports, it'll take a couple of minutes at least. Masscan with the right hardware seems to be able to do it in five minutes or less.
Pop culture has only been a thing since mass media.

The Internet accelerated the existing fragmentations in pop culture that were really always there, but became prominent in the late 80's/early 90's.

The fact that music from anywhere, anytime was downloadable (despite the industry's attempts to stop it), combined with the fact you could chat with anyone from anywhere that had an Internet connection, was the beginning of the end of a mass pop culture. It was the beginning of "bottom up" control of the media. This morphed into streaming and social media, which continues.

So the 90's is it. The only cultural phenomenon comparable in the 00's and 10's are game-centered. So there may be a bit of mass nostalgia about that popping up after the oncoming 90's retro wave.

What would cause a return to pop culture is heavy regulation turning the Internet back into the TV of the 50's through 90's, which is not impossible. However I feel further saturation of current US political discourse into social channels is going to make what used to be pop culture and mainstream media an impossible thing for anything other than political discourse in the US. The countercultures and social bubbles are going to turn into essentially "Internet gated communities" that only come out into the mainstream to fight.