skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's plenty that the creators can do to empower change at a lower level. Like making people muted by default, or maybe if someone has been reported they are muted by default.

An issue with muting is that, depending on the implementation, the person behaving badly may not be aware they are being muted, and certainly won't know why. Providing some sort of feedback mechanism so that people being immature online get some sort of encouragement to change their behavior. Maybe a reputation system, that is viewable by others, so they can choose to not interact with toxic players.

It's not about having tons of moderators policing everything, it's about the fundamental mechanics of the system you are creating, the incentives. This can involve the peripherals of the game like player chat, community events and outreach, and even the core mechanics. A competitive multiplayer game where the mechanics are set up so that each team is only as strong as their weakest player, for example, is naturally going to increase tension and be unfriendly to new players. This was (possibly) alluded to in one sentence in the article: "the team emerged with a new focus not just on disruptive players, but on the ways competitive games can make assholes of us all."

All this goes to say that preventing a game community from becoming toxic is not a simple or trivial thing, and it's important if you want your game to succeed. It sounds like a coalition sharing ideas and experiences dealing with toxic behavior is exactly what we need.
We don't have Universal Basic Income. We don't have Progressive Taxation. We don't have free food, housing, clothing, education. We don't have single payer healthcare.

People need jobs to survive in this country.

They aren't "freed" to do other things, not in this country.

And yes, you're right, this isn't new.

But if you look at the amount of debt we are all in - education and housing in particular - those are very symptomatic that people are living beyond their means. And the educational debt is indicative that people at least believe they need to be in that much debt to find a reasonable job.

Hooray that unemployment is so low right now. But will it stay there?

The FED is increasing interest rates. What will happen next?

Hopefully just more cycles, and not something new.

It's entertaining watching economists state as law that people will always find work, just because it's always happened before. It's fine at making predictions with statistical confidence, but that's poor consolation when your prediction fails at something so incredibly important.
I have deleted facebook years ago and didn't really need a replacement, it was just never useful to me.
WhatsApp: This is tougher since everyone is expected to have an account there. I really like Threema as alternative, it has most of the features of WhatsApp (video chat is currently missing) and is self-financed, so being bought by some evil company is not a risk (unlike Signal).
Instagram: That's where I don't have a real good alternative.
The Internet Needed the Facebook Data Scandal
>This law is not good for the internet.

It's not bad or good. It's new rules, and people will figure out how to play by them. If hosts become more liable for what people say, maybe we all go back to self hosting. In my opinion, that would be a net positive, if you can excuse the pun. Right now, the rules allow corporations to control speech. I think less of that is a good idea.
But you're really just protecting the shareholders. It only takes a small fraction of the market to not be "incorrectly" prejudiced to scoop up all these underpriced assets and outcompete everyone else.

If you want to make legislation which subsidizes an older, generally wealthier group of people because you feel it's just, then just say so. If you are doing it because you think it's what's best for the shareholders then say that. Any argument that says it's better for companies to keep the experienced workers is just an argument to maximize the benefit of the shareholders. No legislation is needed there.
Yes they are reasonable. I have more than 24 guns, most of which are so called “assault weapons”. You are not taking them.
A key congressional committee has asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify
Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Said He Wanted to Create “The NSA’s Wet Dream”
They'll know through your IP.
Here's the thing. How much that toxic shit bothers you is a function of multiple things, but ultimately it's a bell curve. Some people are going to fall to the far left and think it's great, some people are going to fall to the far right and be unwilling or unable to engage with even the slightest amount of shit.

You're at the median of your own experience, but what if you're near the far left of the bell curve across all players?
Useless trivia. You know the 20 questions game? You can actually find any rational through a binary higher/lower search of the Stern-Brocot tree. Finding n/m this way takes O(log(max(|n|, |m|))).

The logic is slightly tricky. Some day I'll get bored enough to code it up...
I got the feeling that this guy really had/has no idea what being middle class entails.
While not the sole or even probably a significant reason for the decline in split screen; I think split-screen has really suffered because of the need for consoles to be both somewhat affordable but also not terribly behind in terms of horsepower of what PCs can do at the time of the console's release. Depending on the game, the split screen can double the load on the cpu and gpu, and with consoles the way they are now their fps would plummet. A lot of games still are locked in at 30, some 60, which by most PC gamer's standards is already horribly behind. Now of days the vocal crowd of PC gamers say the only way to game is by playing games on 144hz monitors. While I would love to see the return of split screen, I don't think it will with the push to have games be on every platform now and run decently on all those platforms as well.
Google has like 3/4 of the phone market. I didn't know they tracked my location by default for a long time, and though I thought I turned it off I still get random notifications from google maps asking me to rate a restaurant I just ate at.

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Don't do that. All they're going to hear is "Sure, we could do that." They're not going to listen to the rest of it, and then it's going to be your fault when stuff doesn't work.
When news organizations publish investigative stories, they often follow-up with further coverage highlighting what the industry calls "impact." Then, during prize season (think Pulitzers, but there are many others), editors can point to these follow-up stories and say, "see, we weren't just farting into the wind. We were changing the world."
Ionosphere's charge density introduces change in speed of the radio waves passing through it. This messes up with the GPS' calculations which assumes that ionosphere's density doesn't changes rapidly.
Good point. Authentic to me - but I do think the greasy food of cinder block buildings are a good sign of authenticity (in Texas). And you just don't see that at all in most of the north of I30 Dallas. I'm not too familiar with Ft Worth, except Joe T's (IMO: authentic but poor execution on the food, great patio & margaritas). I'm not a purist, I agree with you on the chimichanga.
Helicopter parents don't teach kids about sticks and stones anymore. Instead, they stomp each other to death for minor slights at pee wee hockey. [0]

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hockey-dad-found-guilty/
GPS works by computing your distance from satellites by measuring how long it takes radio signals from those satellite to reach you. As an electromagnetic wave, radio moves at a different speed through plasma (which is full of charged particles) than through holes in that plasma, so this will change how long those radio signals take to reach you, which will change how far away from the satellite you think you are.
What is a job if not exchanging "slavery" for money?
The main problems with slavery are "non-consensual" and "non-terminable", both of which are not problems with contracts.

If an ex-employee wants to break a contract, they can do so. But they must return the severance payment.

There is a risk of Specific Performance, but that seems inapplicable here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_performance
I'm on a plane right now but I will try to get it scanned when I get back. I'll edit my top level post when I do. Thanks!
ACME v2 Production Environment and Wildcards
Scientists Create New Solar Eruption 3D Models Using 3 NASA Satellites
I don’t understand your sarcasm. I agreed with you that the crime rate has not gone up due to an increase in gun ownership. But guns in their current form certainly increase the lethality of those with bad intent. This isn’t deniable.

My claim is that the mass murder rate, the rate at which we have mass killings in the U.S. would go down if buying/selling guns were illegal.
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> Wouldn't that be fondue?

Assuming you're not cracking wise, that would be a reference to the American "Melting Pot," that is the mixing of cultures, as opposed to a culinary term.
do you have evidence that something like that has happened before with such a specifically worded bill?
Reading the bill, it seems two-(or maybe 2.5-)pronged: it seeks to restrict prostitution, and it seeks to restrict "sex trafficking" a term which is undefined and appears three times in the text, one of those times with the modifier "child" preceding. This seems deliberately sloppy, to give prosecutors total discretion to do anything they want. We have far too many laws like that already. Most of the time, new laws targeted at prostitution end up hurting individual prostitutes more than prostitution itself. The innovation here is to hurt e.g. hotels that have websites more than prostitution itself.

IANAL. However, I've seen "unintended" consequences often enough not to believe Hanlon. Also, it's far from clear that the best way of dealing with prostitution in this age is by prohibiting it.
Krita puts a heroic effort into bug workarounds for faulty graphic tablet drivers. Porting to Wayland/libinput will be very much nontrivial for them. They're guaranteed to run into Qt and KDElibs bugs as well. At a minimum, they should wait until Plasma is Wayland by default. Otherwise they're just slogging into a buggy mess.
To be fair, that's really only surprising to people who believe the strong EMH proposition is true. EMH is demonstrably false if you casually look at the returns of various funds over timespans measured in decades. The only way you can argue it isn't false is if you bend over backwards to redefine these firms as havens for insider trading or try to claim they're plausible as mere statistical outliers.

Otherwise, the weaker postulate of EMH is sort of redundant. That's not to discredit Fama's work: we know far more now then we did back then, and it's legitimately useful as a theory of the relationship between market state and information asymmetry. But its utility has nothing to do with whether or not the market actually is efficient.
Sure, but that's not what we're looking at.

The behaviors of community moderation are comparable to those of a government.
Nice to hear you feel that Tex-Mex as a melting pot cuisine. I would concur. The article itself is so focused on the race, sex, nationality, and class of the cookers of the food I find it unreadable. The author is definitely not interested on how food can tie us together.
Another Germany related comment today. Made my day :)
It really becomes annoying when you have to wait a minute because an old lady needs to count all her coins in Lidl.
Back to the original topic, as someone who can speak a few languages, I find the arguments stated in the article quite interesting. Obviously, just because one speaks Chinese doesn't mean they will definitely be a wunder-kind in math. Yet, it plays an important role in speeding up the learning process.
As someone from Texas I can definitely say from first hand the attitude I experience from people snubbing 'authenticity' in other cuisine is the same I hear towards 'Tex-Mex'.

I have gone to many local restaurants where local ingredients are used and not mass-produced and seen the same attitude from friends, colleague or acquaintances in my life.

I also extensively worked in the kitchen, in fact it was my first career, and i can say the attitude was prevlevant there too.

I've worked with plenty of people from mexico itself that had less of that attitude since they could actually see the influence of different dishes and spices in both foods.

So I can pretty much guarantee from actual experience this attitude stems from the same attitude that other people have that leads them to say things like 'italy doesn't have pepperoni pizza' or 'french wine will always be better than nappa' etc. It stems from the same place.

I will concede there are probably people like you describe, but the issue the article describes and the issue I am talking about is seen quite a bit against 'tex-mex'.
I used to think the same when I started a forum. But after 10 years, I can say with confidence that you're wrong and won't create the ecosystem that you want.

For example, by allowing toxicity to be rampant, you're really just catering to a tiny fraction of people, the toxic people. The opposite of what you think.

If you want to play with quality, respectful players, you'll need to put in the elbow grease to create that ecosystem. Compare the average HN comment (moderated) to the average /r/programming comment (unmoderated). I don't see a lot of "identity politics" going on around the moderation here as you seem to suggest must coexist with such moderation.
The Malmo-Palermo Express – Linking Europe's North and South
Yes, 77, you're right. I can't edit the comment anymore :(

See what happens when you're used to a saner numbering system? I always hear "soixante ..." and my brain goes "6... something" :p
There is no safe limit. Smaller exposures may not be testable and the damage isn't obvious, but there's still damage, and it is cumulative.
Yes, WebRender is designed to be usable in other apps. There are small examples of standalone usage in the repository on GitHub.
yes, it's very hard to feel sorry for a guy who is in the top 1% of household income. rather than looking at how
good he has it, he focuses on what he doesn't have. what a lack of perspective.

by the way, bulletproof coffee tastes awful--synthetic and mealy-mouthed.
But everything is made by Facebook, the only difference is branding. It's like saying that Facebook Messenger only belongs to Facebook but isn't Facebook.
These "evolved neurons" look ridiculously more complicated and expensive to evaluate than a base neuron for a minor improvement in performance. The Music Maker paper mentioned that LSTMs haven't changed in "25 years", but didn't mention the 2014 Gated Recurrent Units that have become so popular specifically because they are much more simple to understand and evaluate. This approach seems to be going in the opposite direction.

I guess the idea of them being evolved is that you don't _need_ to understand them, but evaluation performance is definitely a concern and doesn't seem to be addressed much. Interesting early work though!
Seriously. You can set up a blog in under a minute these days. There's no excuse.
Chat rooms and games with self-hosted servers are some of the best social media I have ever used. I wish there was a focus on building meaningful communities online.
> Tex-mex is pretty good, but if you are expecting Mexican food it's not really the same.

It's most related to northern Mexican cuisine, but pretty distant from that of, say, the Valley of Mexico or the Yucatan or Mexico's Pacific Coast, among others. Mexico has diverse regional cuisines, often influenced by the cuisines of the different pre-colonization local cultures (but also influenced by different post-colonization immigration patterns and other factors.)
Everything old is new again
I've come around to the idea that role playing racism/sexism in gaming is just a dodge. It's the "just a prank bro"/"can't you take a joke?" of online shitlording. And the vast majority of the stuff that goes down in these games doesn't even fall under obvious role playing -- it's just abuse.
It correlates with traits like being a dependent conformist, which is generally good for employees you want to exploit.
This. As a PM, this is great for communicating tradeoffs to clients and senior management. As a dev, this is great for communicating tradeoffs to PMs. And conservative estimates of development time (e.g., the dev doubles the time estimate) result in solid, well-designed, thoroughly tested products.
Crossing two genotypes and making mutations so that they produce consistent encoding was for me what put genetic algorithms to purely academic area - for things like TSP I either couldn't come up with good crossing function or it was producing mostly the same results after applying some "consistentification".
Most messengers offer a desktop client.
One of the few companies [0] in the space that I find interesting is doing exactly that.

Tracking the authenticity or safety of physical products changing many hands is a perfect application of distributed, tamper-proof databases.

[0] https://www.provenance.org
Never thought of this one before... From what I understand, this is largely the reason Waymos had the brakes on public release.. they keep running into simple for human situations, but insane problems for SDVs. I heard that on in particular was that for construction crew traffic they actually had to write Ai that would detect the flagger and read whatever sign was up.. for Google this is all data so it fits well into their goals anyway.. but would a company like Uber invest in that kind of technical problem?
The completely different number words used for some things are actually not related to the counter, although it may appear like that because the written form uses the Chinese-style number + counter system. The spoken words are holdouts from ancient Japanese (before Chinese become influential), which TFA discusses separately.

The situation is similar to Latin or Greek numerals in English, which are also applied pretty inconsistently. E.g. duplicate, triplicate, quadruple, ... but pair, triple, quadruple, ...

In general, all languages are riddled with exceptions, ambiguities, contradictions and archaic forms, but it's easier to notice them when you're learning the language later in life and have the "logical" structures of your mother-tongue to compare them to.
Swear I've read this exact comment on Slashdot back in '98, minus the Rust part. Why not assist a free project that needs help?
I don't know why every talks about the "savings" if health care.

No highly paid tech employee is paying 10s of thousands of dollars for Healthcare.

The employer is the one who pays that, and the Employee is probably paying close to nothing.
oh, this is clever! i was worried that it would upload my file to a cloud service, or that i would need to install a custom app on my phone.
JavaScript Classes 1.1
If everybody is driving in the same speed on all lanes, which is not unlikely on that kind of road, I generally am not confident that I can swerve into another lane _and slam the brakes_ without being hit. If I am hit, the resulting impact speed with the bike could be even worse than if I just slammed the brakes, so I don't think it's really a given.

You also cannot decide in 1 second what would happen if the pedestrian were to freeze, and whether you'd end up hitting him/her even worse by swerving left.

Most people in that situation would just brake, I think.
Yeah, I didn't think about that. I just played for fun, not competitiveness.
The Man Behind the DC Rainmaker Gear-Review Empire
Oh fuck that. I’m a student using this to host open source projects, I’m not going to pay more for GitLab than I pay for all my servers and software combined.

I’ll just hack it in there myself then, like I had to put some of the other "premium" features in myself.

Long-term it looks like I’ll have to migrate to something else then.
Can this cause any other issues other than GPS errors? Lines like

It is followed by ionospheric hole (plasma depletions) due to rapid chemical reactions of rocket exhaust plumes and ionospheric plasma.

sound concerning but that's most likely because I only understand half the words, and have even less of an understanding when they're strung together in that manner!
This dashcam footage was released by the local police. It's likely they don't have the ability to access the autonomous car's working telemetry. Given Uber's legal history I doubt they'll release anything until they're compelled to by law. Personally I find it borderline irresponsible of Tempe PD to release this video and statements based on this video so early in the investigation.
I do not think HFT has a very clear definition anyways. I'm pretty sure most we hear of comes from regulatory cases/exposure.

This is how the SEC characterizes HFT firms.

1. Use of extraordinarily high speed and sophisticated programs for generating, routing, and executing orders.

2. Use of co-location services and individual data feeds offered by exchanges and others to minimize network and other latencies.

3. Very short time-frames for establishing and liquidating positions.

4. Submission of numerous orders that are cancelled shortly after
submission.

5. Ending the trading day in as close to a flat position as possible (that is, not carrying significant, unhedged positions overnight).

From pages 4-5 https://www.sec.gov/marketstructure/research/hft_lit_review_...
I think this is true, broadly. Biological evolution has a large advantage in that it introduces a large amount of exogenous variation into the system (it just randomly changes DNA via a number of ways, and selects the "best" changes). This can be good as it allows you to do a lot more exploration than with a comparable gradient based approach, as the gradient based approach can't explore entirely new parameters; it can only look at parameters that have already been shown to be good. This is why, for instance, dead neurons are a problem with ReLUs. I don't think (but have not proof) that this would be a problem with evolution.

I think that evolutionary approaches are a lot better at the exploration phase, but weak at exploitation; gradient methods tend to be the opposite.

I think some sort of combination of the two, like Max Jaderberg's "Population based training of neural networks" [1], is the way to go.

[1]: https://deepmind.com/blog/population-based-training-neural-n...
I wonder if COBOL devs are doing fine.

My sister went to a shit college in India and was hired at one of the shit firms (I want to say Wipro, could've been Infosys). An entire batch of young, just graduated kids were trained on COBOL/batch processing for about 3 months. All of them were then placed to work with IBM, which in turn does that work offshore for US companies.

My sister left after the training, but she says a vast majority of her friends from the training still work at IBM doing COBOL. Each of that is probably 1/10th or so of an old COBOL dev's job gone.
The people making the decisions are usually much, much higher up, and only see those people as a number that can be cut.

Our company has gotten lots of pressure from corporate on that, and they don't care how many people are needed to make things run smoothly, they just see our department as a number of employees that they can cut and cut until there's almost nothing left, and assume we'll still be able to perform all of our responsibilities and satisfy customers without issue. My boss has been fighting a losing battle against them for over a year over it, and we're down to less than 25% of our workforce and struggling to juggle everything now (and have had to severely reduce our support and development capabilities as well).