skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's amazing. I hope more and more companies will forbid the entrance of european users. If at the moment you put your feet on my company you're already making unreasonable demands the most decent thing to do is to put you out and refuse to serve you.

I hope GDPR defenders will understand that if more and more companies adopt this strategy.
The statement "There are fundamental differences between viruses and vesicles: Viruses can replicate and vesicles cannot" seems either paraphrased or dumbed down. Viruses can be replicated by cells, but they certainly cannot themselves replicate. And it's literally that kind of nitpicking that keeps science on track.
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last time I checked prefetch was disabled when windows detected being booted from SSD.
I don’t think anyone wants to receive hubris in return. Not that a university is in a position to offer it.
Slight off-topic. I'm sure this has been said before, but I'm saddened to catch myself doing it. All my life I've been indifferent to matters of race, and so if I'd read 10 years ago about 3 black girls doing whatever I wouldn't have thought twice about it. But after what's been happening in recent years, I just caught myself thinking: "3 black girls? I wonder if they didn't win as part of the diversity quota" :-/ I maintain that "affirmative action" does more bad than good in the vast majority of the cases.

On-topic: In any case, prevalence of occurrences like the reported trolls are why I no longer give the benefit of the doubt to people who claim "there's no racism". For a while you had the excuse of not being aware, but now you're just intentionally adding noise to the conversation.
Looks interesting.

Does this site really need JavaScript? It's some text and a form. It's a completely blank page in Brave.
I recently sold a company that was in an ostensibly similar position. The information on this deal is incomplete, but here are my thoughts.

Given how lean they were running, they probably broke the covenants on their loan(s). This would make them "technically insolvent" -- a very uncomfortable position for their (VC) Board members. Further, it's quite possible that the lender required a substantial number of Preferred shares as collateral.

So the company was probably in a bind, even if cash-flow positive.

Bankruptcy was probably not an option either. It kills any residual value in the company, as modest as that may be. And it requires Board and/or lender approval. A takeover by the lender would be more likely.

Another important dynamic to consider is that debt stands first-in-line for any proceeds. If necessary, all equity would become zero-valued if that's what's required to pay off the debt.

These are the reasons that debt is shunned in startups: if things go south, debt will make it 10X as bad. IMO, debt should only be used in healthy startups with predictable cash flows. The ability to make the payments isn't enough. The covenants are the first thing that bites.

With this as background, I would guess that management, debt, and the new equity got together and reached an accord that allows the company to try to get to a better place. Hopefully much better. The deal probably contemplates a strategic buyout within the next few years.

Disclaimers: I am a CEO -- not a lawyer, banker, or accountant. These are my opinions and analysis and I apologize to the parties involved if I got something wrong.
One of the reasons I quit using Google News is the prevalence of "articles" in the Sci/Tech and Health sections giving me all the latest news about how the globe-alists are keeping Planet Nibiru a secret, and why doctors hate this ONE single trick to cure cancer. Unless it's very carefully curated, adding YouTube videos to the mix seems like it'd aggravate this problem.
Awesome article, and should be required reading for anyone who has only heard of Jordan Peterson through his fans.

I'll say that there's a huge difference in values between the big cities, the suburbs, and Alberta.

Alberta is much more socially conservative than most of the states (if you ever see a Canuck unironically call someone a "cuck", 9/10 times they're Albertan).

Montreal/QC are cool but still hosts an extremely ethnonationalist element that's all but crippled their local economy (remember that a little over a year ago, we had a terror attack where some altright guy shot up a mosque in QC).

Toronto is incredibly progressive (I'd argue it's the most diverse city on the planet), but is surrounded by some of the worst, overtly racist, politicians you'll ever meet. Because of a first-past-the-post voting system, even though they're in the minority, the vote among reasonable people is split among reasonable candidates, and hateful buffoons get a consistent voting bloc. (The late) Rob Ford was mayor, in spite of making violent rants, being repeatedly publicly drunk, using every racial epitaph in the book, smoking crack (sometimes on video), and smoking crack with his KKK-member sister. His brother, reported former drug dealer Doug Ford, now stands a real chance of being Ontario's next premier.

Vancouver is a great city, but somewhat isolated from the rest of Canada. Toronto's pretty expensive, but Vancouver is even worse. Unlike Toronto, though, there aren't a lot of options for anyone but the most wealthy who want to live there. While the Conservative party is very weak there (they didn't even have a location there hosting the federal leadership convention, when even people in PEI had one in driving distance), BC's influence federally is minimal. You could argue they're becoming something of an oligarchy due to the huge influence of corporate money. You either need to have a high-paying job, or be very old, to live there.
> Hundreds of schools across the United States have drinking water that is contaminated by lead

How?
I wonder why we do social media voting at all. Even if it isn’t ruined by racist trolls it’s still kind of silly isn’t it?

How would a bunch of random strangers know which science project was good? And more importantly, why do we care what everyman Joe/Jolie has to say about anything? We’ve always had village idiots or people who stood on cardboard boxes and yelled about our impending doom, but when did we decide that it was a good idea to give these people a megaphone?

Personally I think it’s rude as well. If I entered something cool into a science competition I’d appreachiate it if it was evaluated by people who actually knew something about science instead of entering some popularity contest.
Cheap State governments?
You could probably bake out normals as part of the process (essentially generate a G buffer) and use that for specular type effects.
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Certainly. I just wanted to clarify what "slave-warrior" meant in this context, because in itself the word makes me think of actual slaves living in misery and getting thrown onto enemies to keep them busy getting killed. Originally janissaries were taken forcefully, but the careers they made, many families bribed the collectors to pick their children, and later, muslims too forced the govenrment to make the concession of accepting their children into janissary "ocak"s. Not only, but janissaries started getting families (forbidden initially), and making their children janissaries too, and thus the corruption of the janissaries. Also, janissaries were not mere warriors. They took part in many activities and had many responsabilities in peace time. E.g. the firemen of Constantinople were janissaries. They were also the ruling elite in some remote parts of the empire.

BTW while "taken from their families" is correct, many kept ties with the families. The Sokollu dynasty of grand viziers who practically ruled the empire for decades were taken the same way, but the first of Sokollus, Mehmen Sokollu, was not only able to pass on his position to his relatives, he re-established the Serbian Orthodox Church and got his brother to become its patriarch. We can discuss the humanitarian aspects of this, but practically, these people are not slaves at all; in fact, thinking that these people were slaves is downplaying what a disaster actual slavery is.
It's not just military bases in Japan. Our relationship started by threatening to bomb them to oblivion unless they did what we wanted. And when Japan stopped doing what we wanted, we bombed them into oblivion, occupied their country, and eliminated their ability for further defense.
you will need PCIE slot, preferably x4 one, and in case of old chipsets a BIOS mod to sideload UEFI NVME driver in order to be able to boot form your new SSD.

https://www.win-raid.com/t871f50-Guide-How-to-get-full-NVMe-...
I've always wondered whether 'freedom' encompasses freedom to be racist or hateful. But then again, the moment you bound the freedom, you have to allow others to bound other freedoms in their societies as well, which could very well lead to oppression, or even enslavement. It's a tough call.
It's as though the vesicles are email, and viruses are spam.

Previously on HN:

800 million viruses fall onto every square meter of Earth every day. They kill 20% of bacterial life every day. [0]

Video simulation of HIV infecting a cell and reproducing. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16839636

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16982396
Meta-Comment: While I really don't doubt a bunch of racist trolls would do something like this, I've seen /b/ do enough dumb shit over the years, but I don't see why these papers (NPR, WaPo) don't at least include an example, i.e. screen-shot, of the calls for vote-rigging. Would make the cynic in me, and hopefully others, thinking this is a stunt for free press, like with the Clock Kid, go away.
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You would think that, yet new World of Tanks patch introduced 10-20 second map load times for HDD users :-) SATA SSDs load in 1-2 seconds.
sure, but... why on earth is it there in the first place? why, after years of not going to a website, is it suddenly becoming the first suggestion, topping sites I visit daily/hourly?

much like the android stuff in the original article, it's just broken, and is a poor experience.
Off topic: I just wish people understood what a troll is rather than using the term for anyone abusive or bigoted. Like you aren't getting trolled simply by getting hateful engagements on social media.

On topic: As long as it's not considered racist just because they are African American. It's like where I live a woman at a sports match threw a banana at an indigenous person, completely ignorant to any race issue. Yet the media ran it way out of proportion, I would say it was the media that were racist, they set a narrative which followed which was deeply saddening to me.
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If you're using buildpacks, Cloud Foundry is the place to be. I obviously feel like PCF is the bee's knees, but there are OSS alternatives.

You can run OSS Cloud Foundry (now called Cloud Foundry Application Runtime or CFAR) using BOSH and cf-deployment. You can also run Kubernetes with the same operator tools if you use CF Container Runtime (CFCR), for people who need that capability.

SUSE sponsor an OSS GUI called Stratos.

For CI/CD, I am alllll about Concourse. Automation-as-a-Service is a secret gamechanger.

My work email is in my profile if you'd like me to hop on a call with anyone.
Response from Yann LeCun (https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10155263530987143)

Facebook AI Research is opening two new labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, which will join the existing sites in Menlo Park, New York, Paris, Montréal, and Tel Aviv.

We are delighted to welcome Luke Zettlemoyer to the Seattle lab and Abhinav Gupta and Jessica Hodgins to the Pittsburgh lab. Luke will retain his faculty position at the University of Washington, and Abhinav and Jessica their positions at Carnegie Mellon University on a part-time basis.

Many FAIR researchers share their time between FAIR and a university: Lior Wolf (Tel Aviv University), Jitendra Malik (UC Berkeley), Joelle Pineau (McGill), Pascal Vincent (U Montréal), Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra (Georgia Tech), Iasonas Kokkinos (UCL), Rob Fergus, Kyunghyun Cho and myself (NYU). All of us teach classes, advise graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, and participate in the life of our academic departments. Our time is split 80/20, 50/50 or 20/80. Additionally, Full-time FAIR researchers have affiliations with universities that allow them to advise PhD students. Examples include Leon Bottou and Jason Weston who are both affiliated with NYU. Our Paris lab hosts over 15 resident PhD students who are co-advised by a FAIR researcher and an academic advisor. Those of us who come from academia continue to educate the next generation of researchers and engineers.

This is made possible by the fact that we practice open research at FAIR, which makes it easy to collaborate with academic groups. This new modus operandi is redefining the relationship between academic research and industry research. Professors gain a different type of experience in industry that can have a positive impact on their students and on their research. Additionally, their connection with industry helps produce new scientific advances that may be difficult to achieve in an academic environment, and helps turn those advances into practical technology. Universities are familiar with the concept of faculty with part-time appointments in industry. It is common in medicine, law and business.

This NYT piece by Cade Metz erroneously qualifies this evolution as a "brain drain" from academia. But Facebook is careful not to deplete universities from their best faculty, by making it easy to maintain sizeable research and teaching activities in their academic labs. In fact, making these part-time splits possible is precisely the reason why we have been establishing labs in New York, Paris, Montréal, Tel Aviv, and now Seattle and Pittsburgh. It is the proximity to leading universities with talented faculty, and the existence of a local talent pool that attract us. Unlike others, we work with universities to find suitable arrangements and do not hire away large numbers of faculty into full-time positions bottled up behind a wall of non-disclosure agreements. We contribute to local ecosystem.

Faculty who join FAIR part-time practice open research, teach courses, advise PhD students, and participate in the life of their department.
Correct link: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/tests/numbeast.pdf
It does in the US.

People seem to get confused though and expect that repugnant speech won't have any consequences.
I also highly recommend "Finding your way without map or compass"

https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Your-Way-Without-Compass/dp/0...
> I maintain that "affirmative action" does more bad than good in the vast majority of the cases.

Even if it was a case of affirmative action, their work still gets the chance to get criticized and touch people’s eyes. Arguably with no action it could have rotten in some binder in a desk, so isn’t “something” still better than nothing ?
LOL. At least when I was in the Army 2002-2006, they were still teaching land navigation using map, compass, and protractor. GPS-enabled devices were absolutely forbidden on the land nav course. We also did night land nav, which was definitely more difficult :) I would bet the military still teaches folks how to navigate sans-GPS, because assuming GPS would remain available during a conflict with another great power would be... foolish.

Also, north-is-up mode is the only way to go when navigating with your smartphone :)
Having to write :

return {1, "42", '2'};

seems like a fair trade-off to me. Btw, this is already implemented from c++11.
My point is that a number of features can be well correlated with gender/other social factors and result in training bias into the algorithm.

The following article discusses this in the context of policing for example:

https://boingboing.net/2015/12/02/racist-algorithms-how-big-...
Its cooperate politics panicking due to the failing of some cobbled together success metric. One of the holy cash cows of the company is inserted into the new product using all the previously gained knowledge- on how to herd holy cows, usually damaging the new product beyond repair.

It fails, the ruin is abandoned and sold off as scrap, and this top down approach to product development is taken as further evidence that the internal innovation culture is deteriorating. Instead, some external company doing a "superficial similar feature" is bought to overcome the perceived deficit.
This fails to integrate due to cooperate cultural clashes and architectural differences.

Who would have thought that something like google could be turned into another flailing behemoth, whose management is incapable of seeing potential anywhere besides its core product and the glorious past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC
Remember microsofts attempts to cram Windows into everything? Which ironically turned around only after, anything (platform cellphone) was allowed to adapt the holy cash cow to its needs.

Lets take something like Googles AR-Core. If it would show great potential, it will be honored to integrate search into it. And how will that happen?
Like search always happened. As a clumsy text-entry or as voice search.

First approach deteriorates the platform (there is no useful keyboard)- second adds no additional value but at least would work.

Truth is, to be successful the core cash cow ("search") would have to adapt to the needs of the new platform.
Imagine a NN-net guessing correctly- after you gestured a question mark - not only which trackable you pointed towards, but what the context was and deliver search results situation aware results and suggestions.

Such innovation would force changes upon search- and thus surely would face fierce resistance.

Edit: I apologize for the previous version to any readers. I should stop coding and commenting parallel.
I've also built something similar in past, which is also a PWA which works offline(and quite minimalistic): https://notepad.js.org
Because it brings eyes to a project/company/product/etc.

Why do you think shows like American Idol or weekly music countdowns were so popular? The feeling of participating and having an impact generates interest. Similar to the rise in Video Game streaming and Youtube(comments).
Typically from the building plumbing or the service line from the water main to the building. Both are customer responsibility to repair and a lot of school systems have limited funds.
Why though? Is there some useful benefit that python offers over C++, or is it just another language support so that people more comfortable with Python could use it?

If I were ever to write a desktop app, which one should I choose, given I'm equally comfortable with both languages?
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> I just caught myself thinking: "3 black girls? I wonder if they didn't win as part of the diversity quota"

Not only are you a racist but you need to check your privilege. These people have come a much longer way to stand further than you "Bro". You disgust me because you feel the only way an ethnic person can be as good is with help. Look outside your shitty little enclave to see the world, and how tiny a fucknugget in it you actually are.
> People seem to get confused though and expect that repugnant speech won't have any consequences.

And for folks who scream "Free Speech doesn't mean Free of Consequence" and engage in harassment campaigns causing targets to lose jobs, homes, and everything else, I hope you're fine with the same thing happening to you when someone finds your views repugnant.

We're trying to push the societal ball forward, not revert to a state of digital Weimar-era street fighters engaging in mob justice.
NASA made the claim about vote rigging.
You really think they would lie just to get some free PR ?

And the "clock kid" incident wasn't a stunt. The child was actually accused of being a terrorist, handcuffed and detailed by police. And then when the news spread he was subjected to continued racial and xenophobic taunts.
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Well I’m not sure how they can make it worse than they already have but I’m ready to be surprised.
I read about this a couple days ago. Apparently this started the nonsense: https://twitter.com/Pash_away/status/988951710524583937

Lots of varying levels of "wrong" to go around IMO.
Yeah, let’s not shame people for reading, even if they’re reading dumb shit or doing it just to brag. Getting practiced at reading fast and well, even if you practice on stupid subjects, is a valuable skill that’ll stick with you for a long time. It’s also something of a gateway drug to reading more broadly, and that’s key to escaping cognitive/cultural bubbles, which is what the article is critiquing.
Well, if we can take the position that the lot of the people at start ups are wildly inflating their hours, then, yeah, a book a week is entirely reasonable.

Having occasionally seen people working that much outside of crunch - only at one startup and in the game industry, admittedly - I've just been taking those claims at face value.
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> Here are your new instructions, deal with it.

I wish this where modern workplace problems. Now when you deal with parasite managers you don't get any instructions, never. So you are stuck with getting bored to death or starting to do something by yourself. If you do the first at some point you start complaining so much about life that your group will exclude you. If you do the second your manager will keep watching and use every mistake, every mediocre decision, every conflict with a colleague against you. If you succeed he or one of his friends takes the credit. If you fail you are blamed 100% because you made all the decisions by yourself.

Getting shitty instructions sounds like paradise compared to that.
You appear to be comparing two unrelated data points.

The 92% and related figures were for one specific occasion.

The 450 was total arrests since the technology was introduced.

The article specifically reports the police saying no-one has been arrested as a result of an incorrect match.
> Do our legal systems diverge so much that US citizens completely distrust theirs to do anything but bankrupt them for minutiae whilst we remain certain they can and will be proportionate?

I think...maybe? It's a continuum, and a legal system with zero judicial discretion would either require impossibly detailed law or yield obviously unjust results. I don't think the model in the USA is strictly adversarial--like, it's not entirely that the regulators are supposed to punish you to the maximum extent of the law as written, and if that's unjust then blame the legislators. It's closer, though. This has advantages (less opportunity for selective enforcement) and disadvantages (increased complexity of law, greater opportunity for loopholes).

> I'm somewhat uncomfortable with some of the global precedents myself. On the other hand I'm not sure how it is avoided in a world that is so globalised and so many internet services have essentially ignored EU privacy and data protection. So what's the alternative?

Any large player has operations within the EU, making the extraterritorial reach unnecessary. For smaller players, I see lots of unexplored opportunity to regulate indirectly through ad networks, payment processors, etc.
This could be a great opportunity for another news site, like when they fucked up Google Finance https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Google%20finance,...