skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then perhaps people/corporations will learn that farming social networks to predict IRL intentions may not be the best use of their time and energy.

As far as I'm aware, "being an accurate source of voting intention" is not a prime requirement for social networks, nor is "making life easier for lazy journalists/pollsters". At least, not for any where the users are the customers. For those, where the users are the product, requirements might be different. Personally, I view this is a positive for Mastodon.
Although this talks about freeing the web from a browser, this seems like a pretty good case for a augmenting the browser experience. The first thing being a browser plugin that ignores all links (which is probably a good default for anyone interested in reading an article and not getting distracted), then it just allows a layer on top for highlighting sections creating your own links. I expect this probably already exists.

I think firefox's reading mode should have an option to turn off links.

The missing step here is connecting to other programs, but this is a first step.
> Given that the low-end rate has gone down significantly throughout the 3 decades that I have been alive, how do we on the left reason that immigration is not a factor?

Because we can point directly to the tax policy changes that are largely responsible, starting with the Reagan-era tax burden shift on to work.

And because we on the left don't deny that immigration is not a factor, but instead that immigration policy effects whether people who enter do it more to work and export the proceeds or to settle and participate and both sides of the ledger, and that present policy has been harmful in that regard. A particular way tl
in which this is true is the production of multi-decade waiting lists for family-based immigration from Mexico, which both reduces attachment of lawful immigrants, drives remittances, and produces illegal immigration directly.

> Also related: I thought public resources and the labor market were the most central reasons for nations having immigration policies.

Xenophobia is probably historically the most central reason, but public resources and labor markets are the acceptable modern pretexts. But even when they are the genuine purposes, that doesn't mean policies are actually well adapted to them.
I guess HK has no social housing? The free market has no ethics or compassion so the government has to make rules.
to more eloquently structure and refine what's being communicated

To that end, you should avoid run-on sentences. Cramming all your thoughts together into one sentence
(as you did in your second paragraph) really harms intelligibility.

Also the comma in your last sentence, between "there" and "doesn't", is incredibly awkward and does not belong.
This is an important distinction. I'm super slow when it comes to "unimportant" questions (how are you, what do you want to eat), but rather fast when it comes to questions I deem more important. Try as I might, I don't that I'll ever be quick to answer the questions I'm "bad" at.
Increased supply doesn't drive prices down on its own. Prices change as the ratio of supply:demand diverges from 1:1.

Immigrants not only bring in labor supply, but also product demand. So even if they aren't investors looking to hire people, the proper question should be whether they bring in more supply than demand, or whether they don't.

I'd say that immigrants who send money abroad, tip the balance towards higher supply, while those who don't, are actually suply-demand neutral (they spend their money where they earn it). So removing citizenship from those born, raised and consuming, is just bullshit.

As for why low-end rates have gone down... check out income inequality, you might find that the top-end rates have gone up by the same amount. Either that, or the economy is tanking (but it isn't).
The definition of an "internet service provider" is "a company that provides subscribers with access to the Internet". Almost every American has access to AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile for their mobile internet. Should these companies be allowed to block content?
I don't quite get it either, but at the very least, she talked to Vice before they published the article and said she wanted her relationship status and sexuality to not be discussed, and then Vice put in several paragraphs about her relationship status anyway (from the original Vice article at https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3kjqdb/naomi-wu-s..., "Wu told me she didn’t want to discuss her marital status, but before publishing the piece, I followed up with her. I hoped to discuss the Reddit conspiracy theory that claimed someone she’s in a relationship with was behind her work.")

If someone says that X is important and to please not do it, and you do X anyway, that's crappy behavior.

edit: found a Twitter thread on Chinese political dynamics. It looks like you can be arrested for simply being a vocal feminist: https://twitter.com/jackiehluo/status/982087205907607552

Yikes.

"so now we're back at the vice article. apart from the sexism/racism, what would have been so bad about rebutting the conspiracy theory that she's the "face" of a white man who's really responsible for everything she does?"

"i can think of a few potential issues that could tip the scales when it comes to safety concerns. for one, rebutting the conspiracy theory and framing it as a feminist issue may require or imply a more overtly political stance on feminism, which we've seen can be dangerous."
I'd be curious to know why you want to "get into" jazz. The world is brim-full of music, so you don't need to listen to something you find 'the same and empty'.

Anyway, that aside, I'll make 2 suggestions:

- the real magic of jazz is in its live performance. There really is nothing like it. If you have live jazz going on where you live, go and listen. If any of what you hear appeals, well that gives you a starting point for finding recordings.

- for recorded music, start with crossover or fusion jazz that shares a musical border with stuff you already like. Perhaps Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert might be worth a try (solo piano with lots of ostinato passages - not 'like' Glass, but perhaps appealing to some of the same impulses). Jazz isn't the hermetically sealed thing it used to be, and you'll find it merges off in all directions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-Mole
I tried a different distribution, but one that had the option to install with KDE or Gnome, and I concur with your opinion of Gnome, because I tried it first and eventually had problems.

But one of the problems I attribute to Linux more generally, is that if you Google for information on something like KDE vs. Gnome, you tend to find discussions where people get into the weeds on things very removed from "which one works and lets me get things done?". The threads are more like sports fans debating the merits of their teams while trying hard to be civilized about it. Which is how I ended up not trying KDE first even though that was the obvious default.
All pretty unclear from the articles, especially the timelines.

Sarah states in a tweet that she worked for Motherboard/Vice "before" that all happened: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/981558916382273542

I think she had no direct hand in the article, but she certainly picked a public fight shortly after the controversy started: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/981575986322989056

And Naomi seems to believe that this wasn't an independent tweet, but working in concert with the Vice editor she accuses of breaking an agreement.

It's impossible to judge from the outside, but if you believe only someone who directly worked on the words of the article is "guilty", you probably come out with "Naomi'
s accusations towards Sarah are unfounded".

If you take a broader view, that someone tightly related to the people of the story who is injecting herself into the controvers by her own free will shares responsibility, you could reach the opposite result.
"Alright" I think is used all over England, maybe even the UK, it's not specific to the south :-)
Alex Jones still has the freedom to say whatever he wants. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to be heard or distributed.
This is interesting.. I've only ever heard bad (well odd) things about them mainly on reddit but I admit I'm quite ignorant on literally everything to do with that culture.

Could you please shed some more light on this community? Maybe a link that describes it properly - I can google but could stumble upon maybe an unfactual website without knowing it.

A community that encourages niceness is something I haven't really heard of before yet sounds super interesting - that's not to say that a community has to explicitly say they're nice to be nice. I know I've had my fair share of going out of my comfort zone meeting others and not knowing whether they are "that" person or not. Although maybe it's good for me to come to terms with knowing that not everyone is friendly and that that's okay.
Wouldn't have worked back when I was TA ...

First, I'd have been able to run it (or grade it even without running it). And yes. I've seen a lot of crappy Haskell code. I've written a good amount of that myself when I was learning Haskell back then.

Second, assuming I didn't know Haskell, I'd have stopped your babbling in the presentation at some point and asked you to run it.

Third, any student that does unusual things is either very good or very cheeky, so those students deserve special attention. So 10 minutes at your and my convenience to run the demo in my office would always have been an option.

(But then, teaching at my university probably was quite different from teaching at your university).
According to [0], ”For indefinite integrals, an extended version of the Risch algorithm is used whenever both the integrand and integral can be expressed in terms of elementary functions, exponential integral functions, polylogarithms, and other related functions.”

[0] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/SomeNotesOnIn...
Not sure why you would even remotely assume genetics over just skills being passed down..? Pre war if you look at careers in census everyone used to do what their parents did. Its because its what they taught you!
> acted as expert on the issue purely on being of Asian descent

Not quite, she wrote that she asked a woman from the PRC (but I think now living in America).

Still, not much better.
There are multiple service providers that provide similar internet download speeds (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile). In your view, would it be okay for these companies to restrict content?
Please note the journalist talking in this video is working for a website that's part of a Venezuelan state funded media outlet. It's interesting to get some opposing views, but the truth ous probably somewhere in the middle.
With all the productivity gains, if the wage growth has been far less, it's clear who is to take a huge part of the blame, hint hint, big corporations who also evade paying taxes.

Its almost as if they don't want a vibrant middle class to spend, thereby dooming themselves in the long run with stagnation.
Another way to put this is to say the NHS is insufficiently funded to survive without ongoing imports of cheap labour from poorer countries. The problem would be better solved by reforming the NHS/its funding so that we incentivise the existing population to provide its workforce. Surely propping it up with ceaseless immigration is a ponzi scheme?
I am genuinely curious to find out which number or percentage you'd consider a reasonable number or immigrants to admit each year, and how you arrived at that number. Are there any published studies that have tried to calculate this?
Very real, There was a McD across the street from my hotel in Mong Kok (actually Tai Kok Tsui but hotel claimed it was Mong Kok). Often saw people spending the night in the McD, mostly older women. Rooms can be very small in HK but I rarely found them smelly but they can get pricy.
Classic false equivalence. You are right that Maddow is similar in style, but on a fact-to-fact based comparison, Hannity is some orders of magnitude more extreme.
this.
It doesn't matter one whit about the instance, except perhaps initially. Maybe.
You choose who to read and follow and the instance doesn't matter.
I already 'follow' about 80 like-minded geeks I'm interested to read each day and that's all I can keep up with.
I never look at either the local timeline or the federated timeline: they are too much information; firehose.
edit: and those 80-odd ppl are all over the planet on various instances in various languages.
> To that end, you should avoid run-on sentences

There are no run on sentences in the post you responded to with this. Particularly, the long sentence you call out is not a run-on, just a long sentence with complex structure; it has an unnecessary comma—the last one—but that is different than being a run-on.
MT-Newswatcher has a far more usable interface than google groups, Reddit etc. Eudora ruled Mac email for a long time.

Important at the time was that reading news occured from a local NNTP cache, and hence was fast (still 56k last mile). WAN internet was often slow, and browser UIs sucked. If you had a Unix box at home you could even cache overnight or during the day when no one was using the phone line, and your replies queued for when you went online.

NN was arguably the first 'groupware', we had patches from CVS going to news (& email gateway), build and test reports, threaded discussions, etc. Fast searching of the entire archive. Way more useful than Slack. Skype Business is barely better than ytalk + fingerd.

It seems we've barely moved in functionality since then.
> Apple is not a private entity

Another case of terrible economic nomenclature. Apple is a public private sector company.

Apple is in the private sector [1] of the economy, i.e. it "is not controlled by the State." This distinction is important to Constitutional law, since the First Amendment does not restrict the private sector; it restricts the state (also known as the public sector [2]).

Apple is a publicly-held corporation, as opposed to a privately-held one like Uber, but that's less relevant to this discussion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_sector

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sector
I actually have an intuition around using modular neural networks with dynamic topology to tackle more complex disease cases, general medicine, and other complex, hierarchical problems. I'm working towards trying to use them in my thesis for school
Saved you a click: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
We are in the process of it
Did she try to mimic what was thrown at her?
What if the final sample rate of whatever you're recording will be 44.1kHz? How much is audio affected by resampling 48kHz to 44.1kHz?
> It's terrifying that we need to rely on corporations rather than our elected representatives to make the right choices

I find the idea of the government restricting speech more terrifying. That's why we have the First Amendment. I will fight for Alex Jones' right to spew his garbage. But I'll also defend Apple's right, and in my eyes obligation, to not actively promote him.
Something unclear from the article

>You can also Favourite a Toot. Which basically means that you support or agree with a Toot.

Are favourites toots private? Can someone else view them? Are they automatically shown up in timelines (as liked tweets do).

Also, does favourite really imply agreement? To me atleast, I favourited tweets that I didn’t agree with just because they pointed to a well constructed argument, or for future reference.

Since twitter changed terminology to like I’ve stopped doing that.
I don't know why this one was downvoted. It is exactly right. You don't need threads, you just need your function that parses input to not try to write everything it sees to the screen (drop frames).
Spot on, came to say exactly the same thing. If you don't trust the people you hire, then don't hire them.
Immigrants increase both labor supply (by working) and demand (by buying things). People often forget the demand part.

Businesses in an area that was losing population can benefit from immigrants moving in. A shrinking community isn't good for business.
The Raspberry Pi outputs audio at 14 bits. Its DAC might be too noisy for music applications.
Yeah my interpretation is that she wanted to publicly defend her former colleagues, but not that she played any part in the article’s writing or publishing. Again, that doesn’t mean that Wu isn’t justified to be angry at Jeong, for so publicly piling on. But the material damage from her fight with VICE had already been done by then.

For example, Wu tweeted about being kicked from Patreon on April 2: https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/980838253665271808

The earliest tweet in the Jeong thread is from April 4: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/981558161566920704
I think vice has questions to answer about editorial policy and contracts.

I think many people who enjoy reading vice would be very upset that they both ignored an agreed no go area, and albiet marginally, put a PRC contributor into moral hazard.

Sorry vice, but I think you let yourself down here.
> There's a Jewish Mafia?

According to Jones [1][2].

(To be clear, there was a strain of Jewish-American organized crime around the turn of the last century [3], but that isn't what Jones was referring to.)

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/26/13418304/...

[2] https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/alex-jones-five-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-American_organized_crim...
Infosec is totally different because it’s exposing problems people have already created in a standard way. This is using technology for maliciousness in the first place. Try telling to those people who were abused by that system they were just collateral damage in a bigger plan.
I've noticed that my responses are much quicker when I'm in "empathic mode" as opposed to "analytical mode". It may take me up to an hour to switch from analytical mode to empathic mode. The other direction is much faster.

Also, and this is difficult to explain, I've noticed that trying to feel euphoric helps with being faster with responses, and being wittier.

I wonder if anyone can confirm that meditation can help in becoming a faster thinker/responder.
So nobody wants free speech then? Because speech that doesn't offend anybody obviously does not need to be protected.
>> I don’t know about the techniques but the theory isn’t prima facie impossible.

The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.To explain — since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation — every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.

- Douglas Adams
That submission has no comments and less votes than this one. Reasonable dupe.
There wasn't even grass in South Africa until humans brought it there. Surprised me too.
She's a mind-boggling person and that's why she is so important.

When she fist followed me on Twitter, I dismissed her as yet another fake porn account. Then I saw her builds.

She looks like a hooker and she is a terrific hacker. I _knew_ not judge people by their covers _in theory_ - she actually proved it to me in reality, and that was a real experience. She had a direct impact on how my brain forms opinions.

And that's with me not even following her stuff (I don't follow people on YouTube, I just watch the video with the info I seek right now. I also still can't fully handle her display, which makes me constantly question myself. Can I not take women seriously when they dress like that? Why?)
Unfortunately the concept of a principled stance seems to be a casualty of the current political polarization. It will come back to bite everyone on the left/progressive side of politics too because companies want to avoid being linked to any sort of controversy no matter what the position is and the left/progressives have lost any advantage in tech saviness.

A recent (local to Australia example) was this woman fired over pro-abortion tweets (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/cricket-australia-sack...). The same people cheering about someone getting fired for anti-ssm tweets were up in arms about this.

That said I also agree that apple should be able to do business (or not) with however they like, the problem is the level of control we gave them in the first place. Everyone publishing and subscribing to iTunes is responsible for this. Site's like InfoWars especially should have seen this coming.
If you used Usenet, you should check out Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org
I think so. I kind of wish he increased his prices a bit, because he deserves it; I like him not because he's cheap, but because he's honest.
I am really impressed by Mastodon all the efforts that the community is doing to explain the project and the decentralization to the "common people".

It's something that I'm doing for years now when trying to show how Movim works (it's a federated social platform based on XMPP, https://movim.eu). I always have difficulties when showing how a social platform can work in a decentralized (or in those two cases federated) way.

The path that I'm taking for Movim at the moment is to start from the emails (in Movim the accounts and platforms are decoupled, you can connect using the same account on different instances and clients) and apply it to a social network and chat service (Movim is mixing social network and chat platform in the same UI) but I see often that it's not "easy" when people are used to centralized solutions.
> Apple is much more of a monopoly than the ISPs in my local area

The courts disagree. ISPs can be treated as public utilities by states, if they so choose. (New York's Public Service Commission just kicked an ISP out of the state [1].)

In any case, we are talking about specific products. Internet service with respect to ISPs; podcasting with respect to Apple. Apple does not have anything resembling a monopoly in podcasting.

[1] http://www.wktv.com/content/news/New-York-PSC-orders-Charter...
Giac/Xcas is the CAS included with then HP Prime scientific calculator.
If you read "Africa, Asia and the History of Philosophy" you'll see how this whole story of "Ancient Greeks were great philosophers but then their knowledge was buried during the Dark Ages by Muslim conquerors and when their knowledge was recovered during the Renaissance by Jesuit scholars the torch of wisdom lit bright again and the world found Enlightenment, yada yada" is the same sort of thing as tribal myths of "primitive" cultures
> and said she wanted her relationship status and sexuality to not be discussed, and then Vice put in several paragraphs about her relationship status anyway

I was confused by the timeline. My impression is that Vice emailed her wanting to ask about the personal accusations. Wu saw this as breaking the agreement and went public before the article was published. The mention of her relationship in the subsequently published article refers only to this dispute between Wu and Vice, and AFAIK it’s not mentioned elsewhere in the article.
But the above commenter is saying it doesn't translate 'literally' to that, but rather, that is the equivalent meaning.

The 'literal translation' would be translating word-by-word, which by definition isn't going to work for idioms:

> idiom
>
> A group of words established by usage
> as having a meaning not deducible from
> those of the individual words

Oxford Dictionary
>who is unjustly the target of another ridiculous and purely vile 4chan harassment campaign

I'm assuming this is about more than them claiming her boyfriend builds her projects, any insight you can shed ?