skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to decide for yourself how much you can tolerate and still respect yourself. I'd have made the same choice as OP, and because I know that about myself, I keep fuck-off money in my bank account in case I ever need to take a stand that gets me fired. Self-respect is more important to me than any one job.
For the record, C* on the Connection Machine was a great language to program with.
You're lucky if your fights are only about petty things like these. There are much tougher problems that don't go away, like finance, health issues or children.
> Interestingly though, the amazonbasics version doesn't hit the first page for laptop stands while the Rain version still does.

I'm curious, does this mean that Amazon doesn't prioritize their own products in the search algorithm? I've felt that in the past Amazon is usually ahead of the game on legal issues - like when they started collecting state sales taxes across the board, years before the Supreme Court ruling. Sooner or later, we're going to see court precedent and laws regulating search algorithms for anticompetitive behavior to supplement the more broad antitrust laws so maybe Amazon is keeping out of it to avoid any problems later. As an Amazon shopper, I've gotten used to the Amazon Basics icon and I'm sure that alone has marketing advantages over the Rain product entry.
Any peertubers here doing let's plays?

I have some on youtube, but it's just a hobby and I don't monetise it, but because of that I have a feeling that it's being scored lower in the youtube ranks.

However I have not seen any dedicated let's play peertube hubs and most only have a tiny allotment of upload space.
There is one with unlimited, https://peertube.social/, however I'm not confident that it will stay that way and I'm not sure how happy they would be if I started uploading terrabytes of video.

Does anyone know of hubs specifically for this sort of content?
Or 200 orders.
With one increasingly irrelevant exception, all the major players in the browser space are open source with "fork all you want" licenses. The barrier to entry for a new player from a coding perspective is zeroish.

That's not what keeps new players out and what gives incumbents the edge; what keeps them out is precisely the opposite problem, driven by the fact that it's TOO EASY to launch a new platform. There's enough new players that the novelty is gone and the world is _done_ caring. Nobody gives a damn about your new freedom/speech/privacy/blockchain -oriented browser.

You're not starting from scratch, but that's like saying that the transportation industry would be better off the barrier to entry for designing new bullet-trains from scratch was lower. Like... OK. Sure. Maybe. But that's probably not the crux of the problem.
One more case of the technical progress causing a great amount of harm by being ahead of the ethical progress.

"Educating the world" should come before "connecting the world".
They were doing essentially the same thing five years ago when I was taking them. Some of my later classes moved away from the weekly problem set to assigning problems on Alcumus.
I think you'd want to look for dynamic range compression among other things.
Howard Zinn would probably be able to tell you why that is.
You've been able to buy FPGAs tightly coupled with AMD CPUs since 2006 or so. The tech back then was to either plug them into an HTX Hypertransport slot, or in a cpu socket. Very few customers actually wanted to buy these things and I think all of the makers lost money.
Free speech is a good thing.

Scared of IS propaganda? Deal with the root issues that cause it instead.
That is specific to the South Dakota law that the Supreme Court made its decision on.

That said, the Supreme Court also had language suggesting that one reason it decided in favor of South Dakota was that its requirements weren't onerous. This might suggest, for example, that states should have some minimum threshold but the decision didn't supply one or state so explicitly.

IANAL but, if I head to guess, this isn't going t be an apocalypse but there are going to be some uncertain times, some state will probably push the boundaries, compliance costs will rise, many small businesses won't comply and try to fly under the radar especially given it's not clear what teeth a state has against out-of-state retailers with no physical presence, etc.
Are you sure you weren't talking about your school's math club? Art of Problem Solving is mostly an online thing.
It may also have saved tens of thousands of brick and mortar stores. I often buy expensive items from B&H in New York instead of a local seller who has to add 9% CA sales tax.
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a is just a universally quantified placeholder for some type. Essentially

someFunction :: ∀a => a -> a -> a
From The Article: "Yes, South Dakota, which prevailed in this decision, is currently exempting, from sales taxation, small businesses with $100,000 or less in state sales or fewer than 200 individual transactions."

Unless I'm miss-understating, this ruling makes every company that sells online subject to the local tax law in every state they make a sale in (for even small companies this can easily be most of the 48 continental US states). The concern is that every state will have different rules for exemptions and filling requirements, so even knowing if you are exempt and/or need to file is going to be a significant cost for a small businesses just to be sure they are in compliance... even if they owe no actual sales tax.
My guess is they're mostly procedurally generated with manual tweaks for particularly significant lines.
I agree but I am not saying dating is the best way. The main thing for monogamous marriage is the matchmaking. When an entire village is involved, and they give you access to a huge pool of men and women ready to marry each other at the same time, that may be BETTER than the average dating strategy.

Traditional societies have this all over the planet!
Facebook has nothing to do with Sin Ma Kaw having anti-Muslim laws, and Muslim free areas have been instituted by the Burmese army all over Myanmar since at least 2012. Ethnic cleansing and ethno-religious conflict with Rohingya has been happening and accelerating since before Facebook existed.

Widespread hatred for Muslims existed long before widespread usage of Facebook in Myanmar.

There’s also no evidence Facebook pulled Free Basics because of media pressure. Commercial reasons are obvious. Burmese now have a much larger mobile internet and phone market with better penetration, so Facebook doesn’t gain as much now.
There's also a thing called negligence for which you can quite rightly be dismissed and sued for.
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You'd have to be pretty obtuse to blame Facebook for that and not the people using it.
>PT can't compete against that

Good, because it's not a competitor. It's an alternative, and there's plenty of space for alternatives to exist. Not everything has to be a direct competition; It's ok for YouTube to exist, and it's ok for PeerTube to exist too.
LED flashlights can be extremely high-drain depending on the ratio of output to size, but "high-drain" with regard to battery performance may be lower than you think. If 12 hours of constant operation will drain the batteries, low-self-discharge NiMH like white Eneloops or AmazonBasics will outlast any brand of alkaline.

Higher self-discharge (loss of charge when not in use) offers more capacity, and only extremely low-drain devices will last marginally longer with alkaline.

There are Li-ion button cells such as 2032, but their voltage range is higher than the disposables and their capacity is quite low. Their applications are fairly niche.
I was under the impression that for purposes of research, fair use is pretty broad. So perhaps you could explore that angle.
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I used to have the same opinion, but modern NiMH batteries have far longer shelf live than they used to, and the price is low enough that you can afford to keep some spares in an 8 battery charger ready to use. I do have a set of alkaline batteries, but I haven't used them in 3 years.
Yes, I heard the same artifacts!

In the normal codec2 decoding it sounds like "seventy" but muffled and crunchy.

In the wavenet decoding, the voice sounds clearly higher quality and crisp, but the word sounds more like "suthenty". And not because the audio quality makes it ambiguous but it sounds like it's very deliberately pronouncing "suthenty".

It's as if in trying to enhance and crisp up the sound, it corrected in the wrong direction. It sounds like the compressed data that would otherwise code for a muffled and indistinct "seventy", was interpreted by wavenet but "misheard" in a sense. When wavenet reconstructs the speech, it confidently outputs a much clearer/crisper voice, except it locks onto the wrong speech sounds.

With the standard "muffled/crunchy" decoding, a listener can sort of "hear" this uncertainty. The speech sound is "clearly" indistinct, and we're prompted to do our own correction (in our heads), but also knowing it might be wrong. When the machine learning net does this correction for us, we don't get the additional information of how its guess is uncertain.

This is exactly the sort of artifact I'd expect with this kind of system. As soon as I heard the ridiculously good and crisp audio quality of the wavenet decoder, that fidelity just isn't included in the encoding bits, that's impossible. It's a great accomplishment and just impressive, but it has to "make up" some of those details in a sense very similar to image super resolution algorithms.

I'm just thinking we should perhaps be careful to not get into a situation like the children's "telephone" game, if for some reason the speech gets re/de/re/encoded more than once. Which is of course bad practice, but even if it happens by accident, the wavenet will decode into confident and crisp audio, so it may be hard to notice if you don't expect it.

If audio is encoded and decoded a few times, it's possible that the wavenet will in fact amplify misheard speech sounds into radically different speech sounds, syllables or even words, changing the meaning. Kind of like the "deep dreaming" networks. Sounds like a particularly bad idea for encoding audio books, because small flourishes in wording really can matter.

Edit: I just realised that repeated re/de/re-encoding can in fact happen quite easily if this codec is ever implemented and used in real world phone networks. Many networks use different codecs and re-encoding just has to be done if something is to pass through a particular network.

But the whole thing is ridiculously cool regardless :) And I wonder if they can improve on this problem.
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PeerTube exposes the IPs of all viewers who watch videos[0]. This is a privacy issue that's baked into its design. For example, this allows for anyone to track the content viewing history of IPs. I see this being a big hurdle for any mainstream adoption.

0. https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/316
I am impressed you stood your ground on a technical quality issue. One thing though - if you find yourself in this kind of situation in the future, try to inform your employer of the technical risks (data corruption, data loss, lack of accountability when multiple people edit files), and get them to sign off in writing that they agree to the risks. That way, they cannot blame you if the system ever becomes screwed up.
If anyone has caused undue pressure on businesses - and hence customers - it's Congress. The Supreme Court interprets when Congress is unclear. Congress has incentive to always be unclear - it gives them wiggle room to negotiate for your vote.
The biggest problem with Java is the culture. All modern languages are Turing complete and roughly equivalent in the their expressiveness (Lisp, APL and Forth notwithstanding). But only Java people seems to have an AbstractAbstractFactoryFactoryWidgetGadget fetish.

When I have to do Java, I keep recalling Brazil[0].

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
> Because on the centralized platforms, you’ll have a hard time viewing, under your YouTube video, the reactions of people who commented on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

I consider it an advantage to not have those comments. Context matters. Signal to noise ratio on Facebook is close to 0 for most things that are open to everyone. Specialized subreddits have a good SNR. HN can too. Probably closed Facebook groups do as well.

And context matters. The discussion about a Blender tutorial will be different if posted to a group of beginners than if a group of professionals were to comment on it. If I want to help people learn Blender I can seek out beginners and help them in their groups, but when I am not looking to spend time helping beginners I’d rather not have every comment by every person wondering about every little detail show up.
Do you know of any open source packages for doing multi-dimensional Chebyshev regression? I have seen coefficient determination only when the function is known, and one guide for how to do collocation in one dimension, but not really for a ‘best-fit’ in an overdetermined system.
That's quote is certainly alluring - My initial reaction was similar.

On further thought, based on my experience working with general managers/executives, I suspect they were following their noses more than making any elaborate plans.

A big advantage they had (and continue to have), was being embedded in a data rich software/online context AND the organizational drive to use it to their advantage.
I'm talking about people on Twitter who might call the practice 'horrible', they're not role playing Aztecs and they aren't writing a paper.

To take issue with their description because they are not either of those things seems silly....or just a sort of academic trolling for attention.
So is this hot dog or not hot dog?
FWIW the main AMBE patent expired in December, but I was always surprised hams chose to use it.
> It's difficult for me to accept the article's insinuation that in such an environment, Facebook must somehow do more to counteract the undercurrents of society

Facebook went into a troubled situation to make money and made it worse. They don’t have to solve Myanmar’s problems. But if you’re getting paid to throw fuel on a fire, you accept liability for the houses it burns down.
Fisher–Yates Shuffle
I'm listening to this for the second time - I think there will be more.
Well done. Can I ask why the superiors didn't want you to share knowledge? Is it something about wielding power and keeping low-level employees in the dark?
Agree, the UN in it's current form is a joke. I have no idea how an ideal structure for this would be, if even one could be created. "Power corrupts" is still as true as it was in 1870.
There is no notion of moderation in ActivityPub itself AFAIK, but I suppose you're asking what happens to e.g. comments that have been sent to federated servers/software and then deleted on the original platform.

In general, when that happens the comment is removed on the host platform, then a deletion request is sent to the federated platforms. There is no guarantee that other platforms will delete the content (although if they don't, they are generally considered malicious and should be reported), much like deleted forum posts can be viewed through WebArchive.
> I go to a top500 HS and all my peers seem to spend half the effort to get higher grades than me

Let me assure you, this probably isn't the case: they've put in a significant effort as well, except they did it much earlier than you. This allows them to coast to schoolwork, since it's all easier versions of things they've done years ago–but they're probably working just as hard as you to get ahead in more advanced material.
“cool” is both a noun and a verb. How would it handle that?
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Except this isn't going to hurt the big online retailers undercutting local brick-and-mortar stores. Companies like Amazon have whole divisions that deal with sales tax (in the US and globally). They won't be happy about this ruling, but they won't have real problems being complaint. This hurts small online niche and specialty businesses with very thin profit margins, the mom-and-pop online shops and one-man-startups.
The good news, is that so far most states seem to be modeling their legislation after South Dakotas so hopefully there won't be a ton of rule variation.

The filing requirement is the real kicker. Until small business software like Quickbooks and Turbotax for business makes it trivial to file in every state. The compliance cost will be VERY high. In Hawaii for example, you have to file and pay your excise tax return every month. Multiple that by every state and you have a lot of work.

I suspect those companies that sell inexpensive items will probably restrict the number of states they sell to until the software support is there.
Disciplined maybe, not prosecuted, as there are very few ways of placing a sandwich ("in a jet turbine" for example) that would constitute a crime. Also don't forget you're reading Wired's telling of Pokora's telling of the event. Do we know this was done "for kicks?" Do we know the guards' inner thoughts, or did they express them outwardly? All we have is that Wired says Pokora says it was for kicks. Another explanation I can dream up right now: It's futile to give a shackled man a sandwich, even if you leave it right in his lap. (Assuming hands shackled behind.) So maybe the guards roll their eyes at the bureaucracy they work for, that insists on prepping a sandwich for someone who has no way of eating it, and they toss it in, in a combination of frustration with that, and the usual disdain for the kind of people they carry in the back of the vehicle who have (allegedly, but probably, since prosecutors don't like weak cases) acted to harm other people in a way that's serious enough to be illegal. Disclaimer: Unjust laws and victimless crimes exist.
This is so important. Picking one's battles and being diplomatic is just as important to getting things done as being correct. If you create a lot of noise over minor things, no one will want to listen when it's something critical.
If you've ever tried scraping Facebook you'd know that it's nearly impossible to do so reliably. They have a formidable anti-scrape strategy. Instagram is currently ridiculously easy to scrape - but I doubt it's going to be that way for long.
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My biggest issue with paying taxes in other states is what services are they providing? You pay federal taxes which covers interstates, you pay taxes on your shipping fees which should cover state roadways.

So if I pay South Dakota sales tax then I should be able to contact state representatives, should be included in votes for any state referendums that affect my business and should basically be considered a citizen of that state. Otherwise I see it as taxation without representation.
They didn’t make it worse. The situation in Myanmar has been happening since before anyone there was using Facebook...

Ethnic violence, hatred, military junta, none of it was brought about by Facebook.
>improving one's own self-control
On the flip-side, this is also just masquerading behind the sentiment "I shouldn't say that".

Feelings will be expressed whether you like it or not, so it's better to say "I'm fucking mad!" about this than to have an argument four hours later about who doesn't put the cap on the toothpaste back on properly.
As to the first issue, the problem is deeper than one of Facebook merely mirroring existing cultural fissures. Facebook is functioning as an accelerant that's actively making it worse.
Ooh also I automate a bunch of news downloads via calibre and Amazon's email to kindle service. So ive got Sunday papers for the cities care about, the Economist, etc all ready and synced when I fly or take a train each week. And updates are easy to just enable my phones Hotspot and go for it
I can think of some fields where these kids would be well suited - like employing them to make the XBox Live/PS/Steam gaming networks more secure, or employed by game companies to root out the cheaters (Sea of Thieves being a very recent example of a game infested with too many cheats).
The key is being able to talk about those issues (finance, health, children, etc), and resolve them, without having to get into a fight.

Fighting doesn't help, it only aggravates the situation and deteriorates relationships over time. Try to avoid it whenever possible. The techniques on my previous comment are just one way for doing that, there are others as well.
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"the death of non-citizens don't factor into the cost-benefit analysis"

This is absolutely false.
Why are we even arguing about this, is what I want to know. Call a referendum and let the people decide.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but the logic here is that the company isn't paying the sales tax, the individual making the purchase is.The company is "simply" transferring that tax to the appropriate state government. Except it's not simple and you can be fined or go to jail if your business does it wrong.
It's true. What is seen of Facebook in that region is a reflection of the underlying social sentiment. However, there are a lot of people especially kids who form their beliefs based on what is popular in these platforms from adults.
Care to explain? No big fan ofthe Catholic Church, - they've been after people like me as well, -but my point is:

So has everyone else, so singling out them and pretending it is about "religion" or "the Catholics" is wrong.
It might pay for the people on that project, but I think the point was that this ends up being worse for the organization. Because of the incentives at the individual level, as you pointed out, I agree that it's not realistic to expect project leads to be more pragmatic. I do, however, think organizations should be making more of an effort to realign incentives so that what's best for the project is also best for the organization. Unfortunately, solutions like the "within 10% or you're fired" model create enough pressure that people evidently just find ways to cheat the system because their greatest concern is now keeping their jobs.