skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess it's because someone might be using the name metaclass as an identifier in their code and therefore appropriating it as a keyword would potentially break programs.

$class on the other hand is guaranteed not to conflict with any existing code.
I agree with this. We also need to understand that some people are too easy to offend and not worry about offending them while keeping in mind some people are legitimately the victims of racism.

It should not be something we make a knee-jerk reaction on. Real racism should be opposed and we should find a way to persuade people that playing the delicate snowflake victim card is also not appropriate.
I live in an area with an automotive industrial base. There are hundreds of tier 1, 2 and 3 suppliers in addition to the five vehicle assembly plants within 150 miles. Each required real-estate acquisition and development entitlement and tax incentive pursuit and contract negotiations. There were roads and highway interchanges. Sewer lines were laid and power lines run and electrical substations and ordinary fire stations built.

All those suppliers built manufacturing capacity because of established relationships with the automaker. It's why there will be German owned suppliers associated with a German manufacturer and Japan owned suppliers associated with a Japanese manufacturer, etc.

Manufacturing at scale happens by outsourcing. It's not the technology that limits, it's business capacity.
Having said that, I suspect that Breitbart, The Onion, CNN, NYT, Buzzfeed, superPACs on both sides of the aisle et. al. do use bots to advance their social media engagement- because why wouldn't they?

There's 2 elements to this study, one which is determining what is "fake news" and the other is "how do bots influence social media engagement?".

The latter is important to study but how do we judge the organizations singled out in this study without a baseline of "real news" (for lack of better word) to compare them to?
I'm wondering why this happened too. Have you already determined sexism caused it?

Edit: I just want to know the history, and I'm not looking for rhetorical weapons.
I've never heard of neural encryption before, do you have a good source for me?

From the Wikipedia page for "Neural cryptography", it seems like there's some success in using NN's for cryptanalysis, but not for constructions...

Edit: Do you mean the Google GAN experiment? (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.06918v1.pdf) Ahh ok, well at least for this there looks like an attempt at defining a security model (security against some other NN). I don't really believe the security model is realistic (how do we know NN's are really that effective as adversaries?), but at least there is a model, so calling that "encryption" sits somewhat better with me. I'm pretty sure this is not what's being used by Numerai since it seems like it would not result in ciphertexts with the structure necessary to perform ML operations on.

Edit2: Maybe you're right and it is more advanced. In any case, as a crypto nerd I wish they would disclose what they are actually doing / the rationale instead of tantalizingly suggesting that they have made (what would be) a breakthrough in a practical use case of advanced encryption schemes, but not saying how.
What are those applications?
_The future of cars is software with hardware attached._

IMO this is wrong, yeah there will be software, but combustion cars have computers too.

I wouldn't buy a car that is connected 24/7 with closed source software monitoring me and my environment and sending data back to god knows where constantly as Tesla does.

I often feel like Tesla would be better off just selling cars that run on electric motors before worrying about the "hi-tech" parts so much, which to be honest make the cars seem gimmicky and will date very quickly.

This is probably the start of affordable "dumb" electric cars, which excites me more as person who cares for privacy and doesn't care for commuting long distances in a self-driving auto-carriage.
ARM becomes “arm” – or is it Arm?
Yeah, looks like the author is not doing a good job at explaining recursion. If I had to do it I would probably visualize stack and show how function calls work.
How much social interaction is there between people of different ethnicities? How often is a white person neighbour of a black person? Can you compare this to, say, New York City?