skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing with US free speech though is that it is mostly only allowed in specific, ineffectual circumstances - like Twitter or "free speech zones".

Try doing something that is actually effective - like staging a protest - and you'll be charged with "unlawful demonstrating". How is that freedom?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/womens-march-...

There are plenty of countries around the world that have real free speech. China is of course much worse than the US, but I don't think the US is the gold standard here.
Can the prisoner communicate with his jailor? He wakes up every morning and announces, "I expect I will be hanged today." Then the execution will not be a surprise if it occurs that day. In order to carry out the judge's order the execution must occur on a day that he is not expecting it. So rather than expect he will not be executed on any day, he should start every day as if he will be executed.
> And like Ford GoBike — which currently has an exclusive contract with San Jose to operate a docked bike sharing program in the city — the city says scooter companies should be required to offer discounts to low-income residents and operate in what it calls “communities of concern.”

Ironically, this is exactly what caused the current de facto local monopolies for broadband. Until Congress made the practice illegal in 1992, cities would grant legal monopolies in exchange for funding various community access channels, serving all neighborhoods, and offering a basic tier of service at very low, regulated prices. The legal monopolies are gone, but the effects of that municial-government idiocy persist to this day.

Cities love granting monopolies in exchange for various concessions, because it’s free money to them. The citizens are taxed indirectly through suppression of competition. It’s a practice that is well-intentioned but misguided. Cities do it because it hides the cost from residents. But it also hides the cost from the government—they have no idea how much extra their residents will pay to secure these social benefits.
Most of the scammers appeal to ones vanity/vices. That’s why the biggest scam still revolves around lady bars. The law enforcement has a piece of the action, so they are of course ineffective.

The police just care about violent crime, anything else is fair game unless Congress is in their once a year weekly session (at least in Beijing).
This sounds fantastic .... but in my experience many students do not read the material as assigned. How did the lecturer manage to overcome that?
If you provide what amounts to a utility, possibly.
"An Exponential Speedup in Parallel Running Time for Submodular Maximization without Loss in Approximation"
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1804.06355/

The ACM STOC 2018 conference links to "The Adaptive Complexity of Maximizing a Submodular Function" http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N651970
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ericbalkanski/files/the-ad...

A DOI URI would be great, thanks.
“So they are always going to make some people unhappy and the question is who. It used to be people nobody on Hacker News cared about like spammers and click farms (remember them)?“

For me, I want pirate sites when searching for piracy and I never want click farm.

Google used to have a simple mission- organize the world information. This means helping you find what you’re looking for. Link farms didn’t do this, they made it harder to find the real thing. If I’m looking for a document and Google knows I want it, and knows the document’s location and doesn’t show it to me, that’s bad. I don’t really care if Google morally doesn’t like piracy, or makes more money by blocking piracy, or whatever. It’s their site, they can do what they like.

But this is why they are worse at their job than they used to be.

One of the reasons I never liked AOL is because their search was like an index through the yellow pages and didn’t use what made the internet so awesome (all the world can connect to each other) and rather was about what was most advantageous for AOL and their advertisers buying keywords.
> And for pfSense and OPNsense common ancestor was m0n0wall.

pfSense forked m0n0wall

Opnsense forked pfSense.
I have no problem with Mormons but I still would use any tactics available to stop 200,000 of them from moving into my town of 20,000. I don’t want to be in a 10% minority by virtue of not being Mormon... if I was OK with that I’d live in Provo.
This is contextually determined. Unfortunately, in the horror of American Capitalism, there are ample settings in which being a sociopath is rewarded, but this is not universally true.

Many sociopaths do in fact rely on blending into a benevolent, communally-oriented settings, dressing themselves in these values, in order to succeed at whatever game they’re trying to run, not the very least because many of these kinds of groups are easy to exploit and parasitize.

But if the group themselves are firmly enough rooted in these benevolent values, exposing the sociopath can lead to their expulsion. I’ve seen this happen.
Decrepit Democratic Party Is Nearing Its Final Collapse
UV filters are pretty cheap these days, even your smartphone camera has one.
I switched to Bing two years ago and I'm pretty pleased with how well it works.

Insane how people are coming to grips NOW that Google is an advertising company instead of ten years ago.
They never claim it is a perpetual motion machine. They just invented a machine and if it works as intended it would be a perpetual motion machine, so we know it will not work as intended. [1] They don't claim that it is a perpetual motion machine, if you analyze the consequences of their claims you conclude that it is a perpetual motion machine. I guess they didn't notice this, it's not an obvious consequence in the usual reference frame.

In my description I change the reference frame because it's much easier to do the calculations. In the reference frame that moves at the same speed of the solar wind the plasma has speed 0, but it doesn't mean that all the particles have speed 0. It means that the number of particles that are moving in one direction is (almost) equal to the number of particles in the opposite direction. [2] It's like the air inside a quiet totally sealed room that is left alone for a few days. The air "doesn't move" but the oxygen and nitrogen molecules are moving very fast. The speed that they have is related to the temperature. But in bulk they don't move and if you put some small pieces of paper or strings they will not move (unless they are really tiny). If you have some container like a glass inside the room the molecules that are inside the container will change constantly, but the number of molecules inside the container will (almost) no change. The problem in my version of the experiment is not that the device will get empty.

[1] Assuming we don't need to change the current accepted laws of physics to explain this. It would be even more groundbreaking.

[2] There are more accurate technical description but this is good enough.
I would have assumed that it was primarily just because of the principle that to go as fast as possible, you need to be using 100% of your grip at all times either accelerating, braking, or turning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_forces

I've sometimes thought that it would be a neat addition to a performance car's instrumentation to have a gauge that showed where you were in the traction circle.
Not all published proofs are necessarily proving a new theorem. Sometimes they are new approaches to proving known theorems. One example of that is the Prime Number Theorem, for which there have been multiple proofs over the years exploring different angles.
"City property" encompasses much more than "some of the city's buildings".
Can they crack down on rampant use of cars? Are car companies paying operating fees? (Not quite the same, I know, but still).
Meekness is a positive trait in the LDS church.

I have met a fair number of fantastic people who were/are members of the Church but I saw how many folks struggled under its influence and expectations.

The worst aspect of Utah LDS culture is the social shunning if you leave the church.
Austin, TX has forced all dockless scooter companies to have up to 500 scooters total in the city.
Israel's coming crypto laws could set example for the rest of the world
It’s even more funny since google got worse intentionally. It’s one thing to go IBM and just get slowly bad through attrition and attenuation. A whole different level of curiousity to cuck yourself.

I hope they wise up and improve as I actually would rather have 2-3 highly competitive search companies rather than just 1.
> The US by contrast has nearly the lowest agriculture tariffs of any nation.

In trying to find evidence either way for this statement I came across the OECD data website, which is pretty cool. The following link shows "government support for agriculture" (which is a greater set than just tariffs) across a few select countries (though note, EU28 is treated as a single entity). Interesting stuff!

https://data.oecd.org/chart/5duj

Note: I'm not making a point regarding parent's claim.

EDIT: adding parent page FYI: https://data.oecd.org/agrpolicy/agricultural-support.htm
I'm running OPNSense for a small private school and it seems to be working fine. I looked at pfSense but between the licensing changes, petty infighting, and "not so pretty" GUI I chose not to use it.

One of the things that OPNSense has over pfSense is the ease-of-use factor. This firewall/router will be used in a school, by non-technical people, it needs to be pretty and easy to make simple changes to. Things like blacklisting/whitelisting a site, and adding a static IP for a printer, are activities that are commonly done by a teacher or administrator. If it's hard to do then I get a call and that's no good for me. :)
You must not be familiar with Mormons then. They're very pleasant people. I'd kill to be outnumbered by Mormons, the neighborhood would improve so much!

They're not different people because of their religion. They are Democrats AND Republicans. Tippers and non-tippers. Toilet roll up and toilet roll down. Gif and gif.

It's different than if 200,000 Muslims were moving in. Then you might have qualms a la Paris.

I grew up in Utah, so of course I have a lot more experience and perspective on Mormons in particular.

I'd kill to have them come swarm Hoboken with their wholesome non-caffeinated selves.
> To maintain his “Chinanet”, Xi seems willing to accept the costs in terms of economic development

It's zero cost to the government.

They're communists, they can take whatever they want as as much as they need.
Sorry, I’m reasonably libertarian but “operating in communities of concern” is fine by me for transit infrastructure providers. Taxis used to have laws that required them to go to any destination requested, and stop for any person hailing a ride. Now that Uber has largely replaced taxis, a vital piece of community infrastructure (point to point transportation) is only available to people with smartphones. I have no problem requiring that Uber take fares by phone, or that scooter companies service all areas, as transit infrastructure shifts from publicly owned to privately owned.
I think it's because porn doesn't have so much of a social aspect as movies or music do. So tastes are less regulated by normalization through discussion, which means "movies I can talk about with friends" is an important factor in that industry.

Porn is much more about revealed preferences in isolation.
If you’re inside Google, do you have access to api definitions or source? There must be some raw result before they apply all the various removals and cosmetic (piracy ban) weights.

It seems like you would to test with this to assess quality.
ASLR is obsolete? Why?
My answer is mostly with respect to CS which I know best, although it does apply to other fields.

This is in no way arrogance. France has a history of long-time academics that are totally inactive but take up a faculty line for decades. This means a lot of the research is just well behind the times.

On top of it all most of the research gets published in 3rd tier or worse places. Often it gets published in no-name workshops or journals in French.

It's so bad a student cannot get a non-pity PhD at MIT by publishing in the venues where most of the papers from EP (and to a somewhat lesser extent INRIA) go to.

If you think EP is anywhere like say.. any of the top 10 institutions in the US/Canada/UK you're ignoring the facts. They're even falling behind China now and will in a decade or two be behind institutions in India too if they keep going like this.

For example. EP has basically no presence in AI or robotics at any major conference. Most faculty members in EP don't publish 1 paper every year in a reputable conference or journal.

INRIA is more international, they suffer somewhat less from these problems. They're also half the size of MIT at best and heavily skewed toward fields that aren't hot anymore.
I know lots of Mormons and I like them. I just like my neighborhood the way it is. If 200,000 Mormons moved in, I wouldn’t move out, but I’d try to stop it. If 200,000 Muslims moved in, I’d definitely sell my house.
This sounds like a restatement of the Achilles & the tortoise paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Achilles_an...
You're probably not going to be as good at it as a VC or Angel investor and there's still a relatively low chance of picking a winner for them so I'd say yes, luck is probably going to be a significant factor.

You should be able to improve your odds in theory by taking into account some of the same factors that successful investors look at but since they still rely on a portfolio to make a decent return and you can't realistically 'invest' in as many companies as an employee as they aim to you're still going to be quite luck dependent.
I used to work for a payment processor. Our upstream bank would not allow us to handle any adult content at all. The justification used is that adult content is too risky because of chargeback rates.

Apparently the chargeback rates on adult content is really high. Anecdotally, it makes sense. You buy the nude pics, your husband sees the charge on your card, "I was hacked" boom, chargeback. You buy the nude pics, do the nasty alone in your room, have some regrets once the pressure to do the nasty is gone, try to get a refund, get refused, boom chargeback.

I'm not sure that quite holds up in our post-Pornhub world, where everyone is openly admitting to using porn these days. But banks are conservative (in all the ways) and slow to change.
DjVu rocks. It's been around a long time too. It's a shame it hasn't been picked up more.
That entire class of browser extensions is shady. Do you make money on referrals to shopping sites?
Mormons are decent people overall, but the church is still officially quite homophobic. I wouldn't really want 200,000 (or even a significant percentage of that) homophobic voters moving in next door to me. I like having civil rights.
Those same residents are not coming to VT now, so there will be no village sprawl.
I would go so far as to say that only 1 in 10 people are really even prepared to acknowledge/grapple with the existence of sociopaths, let alone spot them. Most social systems/relationships are designed around levels of implicit trust that are extremely vulnerable to exploitation by sociopaths, so the default behavior is a kind of willing denial of their existence.
The “city” would be carved out of four other cities mentioned in the article. Not only would these new developments compete with those existing areas, it would compete with any planned developments, or potential developments that opponents would prefer to build in the described “city” of only they could acquire the land.

Though, I think the grandparent comment meant that blocking new home construction is a ploy to increase home prices and harm renters and the young.
I thought everyone decided Bitcoin was a store of value, not a transaction currency?
>I'm not stating that it always needs a governmental solution, but your response indicates a federal disdain for the poor, especially those who have very little control (the kids) over their previous experiences, and don't always get the opportunity to learn how to make better choices in the future.

My point has nothing to do with disdain. I am alluding to a greater good. Is society better off from the averaging effect that comes from mixing high and low performers? The fact that performance is segregated racially is incidental to my point. Does a rising tide lift all boats?

Can we remain competitive as a nation if we improve our low performers at the expense of our best and brightest?

And this issue is correlated to more than just income. This isn't a dog whistle, this a fact, and it has been an unchanging fact for decades. African America children are fatherless, live in broken homes, are not taught to value education, and simply throwing them into a nice school amounts to nothing more than a failed policy which drags down our best without improving our worst.
> had his head frozen at Alcor's Scottsdale cryonic neuropreservation facility, where he now resides among the great COBOL programmers.

I'm choosing to believe that Alcor has a Hall of Frozen Heads of Great COBOL Programmers.
> ill-suited for automatic recurring payments
> on your computer

https://linux.die.net/man/5/crontab

This is a mostly solved problem. (The subscribee needs to gracefully handle missed or delayed payments, but that's true anywhere. Lack of chargebacks is only a problem if you have really bad wallet security, in which case you have bigger problems. Etc.)
> As long as no one is getting hurt, why can't a company choose its target demographic?

They can, as long as they're not using public resources or imposing significant negative externalities. On the other hand, if you want to be part of the municipal transportation infrastructure, the stated goal of these scooter companies, cities may want a quid pro quo for that.
> The optimal mop:geek ratio is maybe 6:1. At that ratio, the mops provide more energy than they consume. A ratio above about 10:1 becomes unworkable; it’s a recipe for burnout among supporting fanatics.

Obviously, the correct ratio is 7.56, from the evidence presented (that is, there is none). ;)

A fun read, in the same way the Gervais principle is, but stay away from hard numbers. This is all hand-wavey pseudo-science, which doesn't really detract from the entertainment value at all, but once you start throwing out concrete numbers without any basis, the suspension of disbelief bubble will pop for some.
> Give each startup $120k and ask them to pay back 5X that once they become profitable.

The devil is going to be in the details of what "profitable" means. If the company just keeps hiring people and growing, are they profitable, or not?

You also have to remember that this idea would be competing with bank loans, so you would have to be willing to take significantly more risk than a bank does to ask for get 5X returns.

Speaking of which, "5X" returns may sound great, but the timeline for those is somewhat important too. 5X in 3 years is very different to 5X in 20 years.

Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't take this deal. I'm not super interested in VC unicorn money, but as someone in tech, it's really not hard to pull 120k together. And if I thought it was just going to be "profitable", I wouldn't want to be in a position where I am being asked to pay back 600k, since that is a serious drag on my own earnings.

So it just seems to be a really weird niche, where I would think my plan has a high chance of failing (otherwise I wouldn't take 120k, since that's very little money), but I also don't think it's going to have huge returns, which means I would be badly aligned with traditional VCs, but I'm also willing to pay back 600k.
In case someone doesn't believe my observations from conferences.

Just look below. Neither INRIA nor EP are in the top 30 institutions with publications at ICML and only INRIA is in the top 50 (at 14, not bad!) at NIPS. EP isn't in the top 50 institutions with papers at NIPS.

https://medium.com/@karpathy/icml-accepted-papers-institutio...

https://medium.com/machine-learning-in-practice/nips-accepte...

EP isn't a player in academic CS basically. (the numbers work out to be the same if you attend CVPR or ICRA or any number of other conferences).
We have a situation where people are are trading money in exchange for goods. Presumably, this is happening because the people spending money value the goods more than the money; and the people selling the goods value the money more than the effort to produce the goods [0]. This means that these trades not happening is, by definition, an inefficiency. By definition, a situation causing an economic inefficiency is a market failure. Unless you are arguing that every transaction Patreon is now blocking will still occur without Patreon, then Patreons decision is causing (or, rather, worsening) a market failure.

Creating an entirely efficient market is a hard problem, so the existence of market failures should not be surprising. But, when we see a clear example of a market failure being introduced, we should question what is the reason, and if there is a way we can avoid it.

[0] Even after the 5% fees Patreon charges. There are also cases where the transaction is not entirely quid-pro-quo (eg. people donating to support the creation of free content), which mucks up the Econ 101 analysis, but I don't think effects the broader point.
I'm not convinced of that. When reading about this, I saw that someone did try a BMW F1 car, and it was pretty fast but not as fast as this Porsche. Then someone estimated the F1 car, unrestricted, could potentially be in the low 5 minute range. Now people in this thread are saying of course a F1 car could beat this record. I would only give it even odds since it sounds like speculation by people who are overly committed to their assumptions.

What I find impressive at any rate, is the motorcycle record of barely over 7 minutes.
If that is the rationale (it isn’t), then the externalities should be priced in fairly for everyone, including those driving private cars. Otherwise you distort the market.
It has happened in some cities. Look at London's congestion charge, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_congestion_charge

And in NYC, taxis and psuedo-taxis like Uber and Lyft are indeed paying fees: https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/02/new-york-surcharge-uber-...

It's politically much harder to impose fees like that when people are used to something being free. But there's no reason for them to repeat that mistake with novel things like scooters.
Bitcoin devs are just what you described. They could have easily made millions of dollars by creating alt coins / ICOs before, with their technological knowledge they could have pulled it off as well, but they care more of their Bitcoin-only reputation and hard work that improves Bitcoin.
Just want to point out an often forgotten fact: the tariff imposed on dairy product by Canada that Trump keeps repeating in order to validate his new tariff is deliberately confusing. It's true that they exist and are pretty big (it's almost at 250%), but dairy products accounts for 0.1% of all trade between the two nations. It's a rounding error. Turns out even with those tariff, US has a trade surplus of dairy products. I also believe agriculture is a national security concern, but that's just an opinion.

I guess I don't understand the ulterior motive of pissing off allies over such minor concerns. The steel tariff will have an impact, but the proposed car tariff will have devastating effects on both side of the borders.
I was in San Jose today and noticed they hadn’t gotten rid of scooters. I guess this is why we can’t have nice things.
If cars start driving on sidewalks I’m sure they’ll crack down on it.
a sink is a plumbing fixture, not an appliance.