skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
friend of mine - which had huge success with influencer marketing on instagram in the german speaking market / organic cosmetics niche - tiptoed into the italian market.

from what we could see the account looked legit. the pics were good, lots of comments, good interaction from other accounts with lots of followers, some other brands also - seemingly - using the account to promote products.

invested a few hundred euros, great response on the postings, zero impact on sales and onlineshop traffic (which was not the same behaviour we saw in the german market).

we investigate further. the responses on every post were always pretty similar, coming out of a pool of about 200 different responses, sometimes with emoji variations. even bad posts, very shitty pics with clear commercial intent, got the "awesome" and "#heart #heart"treatment. after three degrees of separation (the accounts which liked the accounts which liked the accounts) the accounts became slightly spammy.

all in all, very sophisticated work.

we changed the approach, we completely ignore accounts which contact us. if we identify an account with a 10k+ followers, a long post history and some meaningful interaction (even snark in the comments), we contact them.

but yeah, identifying - really really well made - fakes on instragram (especially non english/german accounts because of the language barrier) would be a SAAS we were willing to use.
In the US, hate speech is free speech. Other countries ,especially those in the EU, have different definitions; individuals are also free to form their own definitions.

However, it is very dangerous for government to suppress speech, especially if it's speech that the majority of people find distasteful. Let the court of public opinion try those who speech hateful speech, but not the court of law. Certainly, some speech is unlawful, namely incitement to criminal actions, specific threats, and copyright infringement.
Disney made the same mistake with Avengers action figures. They didn't have a Black Widow action figure because they claimed it would interfere with their Frozen action figures that are female and that girls don't like comic book movies anyway. After some protesting, they made a Black Widow action figure.

MI competes with their TPOTC (The Pirates of the Carribean) properties.

It is really hard to figure out how Disney makes their decisions as they don't let the public know what they are doing. But if I was in charge of Disney I'd have a series of MI games, and a cartoon series based on it as well on DisneyXD. But that is why I am not in charge of Disney.
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The "ecosystem" was on the path to destroying the company. The 3rd party Twitter clients had huge chunks of the Twitter userbase - back in 2010-2011, 20% of Twitter users used EchoFon, 11% used TweetDeck, etc.

If they had let the system continue, one of the clients could have gotten enough market share that they could have simply changed the backend to their own app, and none of the users would have batted an eye. Or Facebook could have bought up 2-3 of them quietly then forced Twitter to sell on the cheap.

It's easy to romanticize the wild-west period of Twitter's API being completely open for all use cases. However, it was, from a strategic perspective, extremely dangerous to the company's future - there's a reason why companies now know to build walled gardens.
Parent comment is perhaps a little strongly worded, but I don’t see it as suggesting brain washing. Is teaching about public health or sex education brain washing? Is teaching calculus brain washing? Why would teaching about the impact we have on our environment in aggregate be brain washing? We as a species have not adapted to think or care beyond our closest tribe, not have the intuitive capacity to deal with large scale statistics describing the immense power we have in aggregate. For what it’s worth, i am somewhat doubtful that type of education would have much effect - what easier target for natural teenage skepticism of authority and rebellion... but it might help soften some of the impact we are having.
Docbook and DITA do, with WYSIWYG editors like

https://www.oxygenxml.com/

http://ditaworks.com/ditaworks-pro-easy-desktop-dita-authori...

http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/

http://easydita.com/

Or for general purpose editing, Word like style, Framemaker

http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker.html

Last time I used LaTeX for anything serious was in 1999.
There's always Instacart, and many stores are offering order online and pickup (in Houston, I know of Walmart and Kroger) - no line to speak of, you have a scheduled time.
It seems hard to argue that we outsiders know better that the "twitter-as-a-developer-platform" vision would have turned into a business much larger than what Twitter is now vs. the people on the actual board reviewing the finances. That seems to be what you're arguing. It seems that the people with all the numbers in front of them decided the returns would be better if they ditched the devs and sold brand ads. I'm just saying that's likely logical from the POV of VCs and their LPs.
Possibly in the credits?
The protocol itself could implement an ITC, with deterministic rules for concurrent events, and thus have an identical ordering for all members. It would make sense to make this as an extra layer on top of the core protocol when using distribution mechanics that cannot guarantee ordering (which is most of them).
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Examples from colloquial French with number of syllables:

on (1) = we (1)

trop (1) = too (1)

assez (2) = quite (1) (this one you could translate a few different ways including plutôt, pas mal, très, etc...)

printemps (2) = spring (1)

été (2) = summer (2)

hiver (2) = winter (2)

on boit (2) = we drink (2) [1]

It's also easy to come up with examples where French requires fewer syllables:

hier (2) = yesterday (3)

demain (2) = tomorrow (3)

on se voit (2, possibly 3 if you enunciate carefully) = we see each other (5)

So I think your examples from Spanish are kinda cherry-picked.

At any rate, I'm not convinced that "number of syllables" is a very useful metric, since English syllables are more complicated and take longer to utter than Spanish ones.

[1]: In the formal/standard register this would be "nous buvons" (3 syllables), but in colloquial speech you would hear "on boit" 99% of the time.
There is some doubt around the study you linked. A followup study concluded the original overestimated growth by 3x and that the ice sheet is in fact shrinking.

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-growth-east-antarctic-ice-shee...
Are you arguing that they do work on ELF+DWARF with sufficient extra debug info, when running under a debugger, despite documentation that explicitly says it doesn't work? Because I certainly don't expect my users to have a debugger installed (let alone regularly run programs under one) but I'd still like to get useful crashlogs automatically.

Or are you saying that you could potentially reconstruct a backtrace, if someone wrote code to do so that is smart enough to locate and account for all the stack adjustments in reconstructing where each function stored its return address, including runtime alloca() / VLA adjustments and multiple adjustments in the same function (potentially needing to reconstruct the code flow), just from the disassembly? Because the linked MIPS code is nowhere near that smart, and to my and that author's knowledge, such code has not been written for x86.

Either way, nice in theory but not good enough in practice.
> I haven't seen this be the case. I don't think you can convert pirates.

Well I used to pirate 100% when I was a student but now I have money to spend, I purchase things legally. I cant even remember the last time I opened a torrent client.
If it's only intended as an in-memory representation, then how about a 24-bit representation, which is just as likely to work "in practice, if not in theory" as the 32-bit representation, while saving 25% of the memory? That gives you 16 million unique grapheme clusters per program instance, which, heck, is probably still more than 99% of programs use; you could easily get away with a 16-bit representation and use no more memory for strings than Java, C#, or Javascript. It's not like using a unique superset of UTF-32 is saving anyone the hassle of needing to convert between formats, since the vast majority of the world is ASCII-ish, UTF-8, and UTF-16 anyway.
Secrets of Silicon Valley (BBC Documentary)
Libraries are giving them out for free. But call first, because many of them are out of stock or waiting for a shipment: https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/libraries
I love Hugo. By far it is the fastest blog engine that I have seen. If I need a custom shit done then I will fork the repo and build the needed stuff myself.

Bitching about the free software is unethical. Moreover, the source code is accessible. Change whatever code if you don't like it.

In my experience I've had PRs rejected, so what? People have opinions and not everyone one think of your issue as the blocker. Move on.

"Why don't I like scrambled eggs at that place" - no one cares. Make them yourself or go to another restaurant.
Nice results, but in the old days, algorithms improved on other algorithms in the big-O sense.
Let's see: if the transmitter of spoofing signal is 3km away from the received (less than meaningful minimum - 3km distance is easily covered on inertial alone with no precision loss) it means 1us error. On 30km, 10us error. Is that really hard to have clock that precise on a receiver?
Just a hypothetical question: Would it be OK if a bakery run by Christians were not willing to do business with a gay couple?
Funnily enough it's also where a bunch of mature compilers eventually ended up with, because of speed, heuristics and so forth. Like GCC, which used to have bison based compilers IIRC, but but is hand rolled rec dec...
Are you sure it is not the other way around, that you have to opt out as a seller?

Anecdotally, a friend of mine runs a company that produces a unique fitness product, never opted into any kind of co-mingling as far as I know, as they are the only supplier in the world - and suddenly found themselves with comingled fake stock.
Biological virusses are also very naive yet many have been incorporated into our genome and many continue to bug us even today in this scientific age.
Poop is degraded biofuel.

Biofuel has to be grown.

Growing things is limited by land area, nutrients, water, and solar conversion.

If mammalian metabolism is ~25% efficient, than 75% of the original energy of eaten food is available as biomass. For a given population, with a daily intake of 2500 kilocalories (1 food calorie == 1 kilocalorie), this works out to about 1,300 barrels of oil, or 2,700 tons of coal, per million persons, or 0.2 liter per person.

Given that cooking fuel actually is quite scarce in much the world, but it strikes me that there might be better ways about this, and all the hauling, processing, heating, and drying of fecal matter seems both costly (in real resource terms) and a potential for contamination.

A self-sufficient sewerage system, perhaps selling off surplus electrical generation, strikes me as a much more sensible application.
The website works well in Edge but you claimed that it does not support that. I have to override the user agent in order to access your editor.
Firebase realtime database in linux apps (Not electronjs)
I am just using what the BBC article suggests you should do to not fall for fake news.
>What kind of piece of shit makes these things?

People like my ex's dad. Not involved with this in particular, but lots of fake/knockoff/cheap Chinese shit. Dude is rich as fuck. Rich enough to have bought her a $750k house with cash a few years ago, like it was nothing. Don't know if anything he was involved with ever actually harmed anybody, but from what I've heard he'd have no qualms about it. I'm sure whoever is responsible for this is similar. No rules in China if you're fucking over foreigners. At least none that you can't just bribe your way out of.
I too made this mistake and can see my kitchen light with these glasses. They didn't send me an email about the recall. Amazon will refund the money if you chat with them, but this in no way absolves them. I blame them fully. This counterfeit problem has been going on for years and they haven't addressed it, other than banning accounts of people who return too many of their shitty, counterfeit products. If people do get injured, I hope there are extreme punitive damages. Unfortunately, people will have to get hurt before anything changes. Fuck Amazon.
For those who want to know more about why Dunkirk came about and why it was so shocking that France capitulated so quickly, I recommend this book.

> Nineteen Weeks: America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940

Few things I learned that I didn't know.

1. After Dunkir, UK govt was actually quite seriously considering suing for peace and to leave the Continental Europe to Nazi Germany.
One reason was the financial cost. UK could've sued for peace and save their treasury (already seriously depleted after WW1). Or decide to fight and pay for the cost of war (like in money).

2. As Prime Minister Chamberlain resigned, he was faced with picking a successors: Lord Halifax and Churchill. Churchill was the 2nd choice.
They put some sort of deadly chemical in baby milk to make it more frothy, because that's a sign of more protein... they don't give a shit ("they" being some turbo-capitalists...).
I am speaking about developer documentation.

As for user documentation, any OEM is free to do whatever they feel like, so you don't have any guarantee how much of it is actually like AOSP.

Samsung is well known among Android devs for breaking AOSP compatibility.
Have you ever watched a test against a lot of traffic? In variants with 50k test, 50k control each day you can see wild swings from one day to the next, until you reach statistical significance.

I think you and the other guy want that single conversion to be evidence, but in reality, it's statistical noise.

A coin flip assigned that user to that variant. If they were going to convert anyway, you will be deriving meaning from pure coin flip chance, and you have no way of knowing with a single conversion whether this is true.

Again, it's not about going in with an assumption of which is better, it's about realizing that in split testing the biggest challenge is disproving the null hypothesis.
The more I watch this unfold the more I feel we need a new type of party...something more technocratic (uses ai/tech to streamline processes/end bureacracies and make things run more efficiently) and socialize some things..like medicine/basic income/education -- but STILL keep production in the hands of businesses.

One alternative to single-payer could be hospitals = insurer. Hospitals would have a max they could charge which would be a % of income for individuals above poverty line and would be required to treat poverty level families...maybe divy them out by hospital as best as they can to spread the costs.

hospitals would benefit because they could set the price for themselves....since they only have x amount of recurring income and they know roughly x amount of patients come through door monthly for x, y, z ailments...etc..

They could form coalitions with other hospitals to negotiate drug rates that are more fair...etc...

All while ending insurance industry, ending insurance CEO pay, sales agents, customer support jobs--all wasted money in healthcare... I think a MRR system makes more sense to their bottom line. -- traveling? Your host hospital/insurer would pay the out of area hospital.. they'd all set comparative prices that benefit everyone...because they all have the extra costs of making sure the system holds up...
In the video two comments up, they explain that a different kind of TBM is used for waterlogged boring. Bentonite is used to keep pressure on the tunnel face instead of the bored material, the slurry is then separated with a centrifuge and piped back to the face/out of the tunnel.
The main difference is that there is no direct human contact and the conversation is asynchronous. I'm way better at communication if I have some time to think over my answers and I don't have to come up with them up the spot. Basically, when I do not have to spend so many CPU cycles on all the non-verbal stuff (eye contact, posture, reading their face) I can actually focus on the content.

If someone wants to actually get close to me, IM would be the way to do it.
Glitches R inevitable:how anomaly detection can safely corral a glitch stampede
Anybody knows how whatsapp does it currently?
This has everything to do with the ethical principle of free speech.

Did you mean to refer to some law, or maybe a constitutional amendment?
Did they later come out with a certificate which showed that she had never claimed it from the school and all the official markings, the angles of the signature and all the hand written text aligned exactly with another certificate which belonged to someone else? Because that is what happened with Obama's birth certificate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuhF-Ok3djI.
Movies, etc are works of fiction, people are not.
In my opinion they can't refuse to serve people because of their sexual orientation, but they can refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding (which was the case in the example you refer to). There is a subtle difference between the two.
And if one attempts to open up about their issues, they are told that their problems are small compared to this and that, and so and so. It doesn't help when Psychologists are expensive with insurance, without insurance - good luck on getting an appointment.
Piracy and the four currencies
Yes, it is quite hard - standard oscillators used in electronics can easily drift up to a second a day (we don't notice because many devices update their time from GPS signal or cell data), and even really good ones will still drift for a millisecond quite quickly and it definitely can't rely on accuracy measured in us.

For getting such an accuracy, IIRC, at the very least you'd need a temperature-controlled environment (so, not feasible in mobile devices) because the standard approaches will be slightly faster/slower depending on temperature.
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I liked the Stanford course given by Aiken, on Coursera:

https://dirkjan.ochtman.nl/writing/2012/07/21/compilers-on-c...

Also, if you like this sort of thing, my compiler in Python that compiles to LLVM IR might be interesting:

https://github.com/djc/runa
As a user of Debian, Firefox, LibreOffice and etc. I agree :)
> Do terrorist organizations deserve a place on the internet where like-minded people can communicate and meet each other?

Everyone does.
You can give yourself arc eye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photokeratitis

I haven't gotten it from the sun, but I got a minor case of it from welding with the incorrect lenses (it may seem fine to use gas welding goggles for MIG welding, but it's really not). It's really not pleasant, your eyes feel all scratchy and too large for their sockets.
I fail to see how this is a major improvement over OMEMO? OMEMO is also an asynchronous multi-party chat algorithm, except it's already widely adopted by clients on several different platforms (Android, iOS, Windows, Mac) and has also received a significant amount of attention from security researchers.

OMEMO's cryptographic security has already been audited as well: https://conversations.im/omemo/audit.pdf . I should know as we (Pacific Research Alliance) funded the audit of OMEMO ;) . Auditing merely the protocol seems a little problematic, it's quite rare for vulnerabilities to be in an encryption protocol itself and much more common for it to be in the implementation. There doesn't seem to be any application which actually implements this library right now, let alone a network capable of supporting it. In OMEMO's case we also audited the OMEMO implementation in Conversations where it was originally conceived.

The only difference I can tell from their website is "Room consistency: Group chat participants are confident that they are in the same room". This seems like a pretty niche area to be concerned about, and in practice can be solved by a properly secured network. Although I am no cryptographer I believe OMEMO may offer the same quality as well, because all the messages must be encrypted for each participant, so at worst you could fake an identical room with identical participants, which doesn't really seem like a valid security problem.

While I love to see new research and further development into this area, it seems this is a little late to the party.
I always like to think Free/Open source Software is the only known occurrnce where socialism works. You give 100% of what you have for free as a programmer, but in that very same moment you make everyone, including yourself, richer and more free. As software does not get consumed, everyone's assets rise.
What does free speech mean outside of the context of law? You don't have free speech in my house, your free speech doesn't mean I have to broadcast it. That doesn't mean I'm violating some ethical concept.
>> The popular NodeJS bindings tend to cause huge overfetching because each field tends to have a unique resolver but there is no rule about combining them.

I don't have any experience with NodeJS+GQL but used Golang+GQL a lot. Typically a resolver of a field simply returns the property of a structure that is returned by the parent field, that's it. The only thing is the parent field should unboxed from the interface{} type.
The war was truly going badly for UK at the time, with US still not joining the war. And those French naval vessels HAD to be take out of the war somehow. The Royal Navy was mighty, but stretched very thin.

Had the French naval vessels been seized by the Germans somehow to be used in WW2 actively, it certainly would've meant Germans/Italians completely denying the UK ships from reaching Middle East via Mediterranean. This would effectively mean no more supply of oil, meaning UK would've lost the war.

The local French admiral had been warned to surrender/scuttle the ships but he refused on account of his honor.
You're seemingly implying that GoDaddy should be legally forced to host any client they get and that is simply not the case. They are not beholden to the first amendment in the same was that the government is, and they are not in any way obligated to host things they disagree with or things that violate their TOS. For example, 1&1 bans pictures of celebrities from being hosted on their service (or did at once point, maybe they don't know, I can't say for certain). This street works two ways, whether we like it or not.

I am no fan of GoDaddy at all, but unless they're outright lying about their TOS, they are not overstepping any boundaries. Having a view does not grant you a right to a platform.
Does whatsapp do multiparty encryption? I didn't think they did.
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Create anime girls. Doesn't anime have boys?
is anyone using tensorflow or caffe2 on the mobile ? We are trying to build something on the android.. but it seems there are no real-life deployments using caffe2 or tensorflow on the mobile.
I've been burned by this a couple of times. Posted something with an influencer and got over 1,000 instagram likes both times, but basically zero traffic and zero sales. I only spent about $50 total so should have expected bad results from that much price/promise but this is a real thing... facebook should tackle by blocking these accounts or at least creating a market for doing this legitimately (in which case they get a slice of course)