skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No "regular" person liked Twitter, at least not until it got critical mass.

The entire point of Mastodon is to ensure there is no single instance that can control every other instance. Twitter has real issues. For instance, due to their inability to police truly awful behaviour (in the name of freedom of expression) there is no way of limiting the very worst excesses of the medium.

However, if you localize instances, then you allow people to gravitate to those instances they feel most free to join. It also allows instances to reject other instances they really don't want anything to do with - so Fosstodon would presumably block anything from Stormfront.

Frankly though, your idea of "fringe groups" is wrong - it will probably allow for SIGs. In fact, I'd say that Mastodon in that regard seems to be more like a distributed reddit than Twitter, only it basically emulates Twitter features and UI.
When you talk to your boss about salaries, you'll quickly find out that your salary isn't determined by what value you bring to the firm, it's by whatever the market will bear.
If you get a radio license and setup a web site that allows people to broadcast their own death threats over your radio station, that’s your fault.

In Facebook’s case they not only did that but marketed their death threat service and touted it as highly effective.

That’s a much better metaphor.
I don't think it's the ad, per say, but the agreement for delivery. It's be like you sending housing ads and asking USPS to only deliver them to men. USPS would probably be on the hook then as well.

Back to your point though, it is a new domain because with your paper examples there is no one who can "undo" the illegal ad. You copy it at Kinko's and it's not like Kinko's is out there delivering it with you. With online platforms, they both Target and deliver these ads and are responsible for continually delivering them.
No, dnautics is correct. I phrased the racial profiling subject irrespective of the housing subject even though I did post links related to real estate anti-discrimination.

When I wrote the comment I wasn't thinking of retail consumer goods. Strictly in the context of geographic markets my comment was more valid, but in the context of beauty products (as the provided example) it doesn't make any sense.
Not really. What are they going to hit? Presumably the realistic maximum impact radius of a failure would be fenced off (and wouldn't be that big - probably about the same size as the area fenced off for radio towers with guy wires).
Stephen Fry said it best: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UxXbDgLdClc
This isn't an assert, it's not a runtime check; it's done at compile time. You need to prove to the compiler that your code can never reach this point; common ways of doing so are by calling exit or inserting an unconditional infinite loop. If your underlying computational platform is broken, this isn't going to save you, but I don't think there's much you can do at that point.
State of Mind (transhumanism thriller FPS)
Have you watched the documentary or read about the pivot to profit from companies over profit from government spending?

The problem isn’t the FDA it’s the government cutting its budget. In such an obvious way that they want business to be able to do what they want. It’s gotten worse under Trump.
Off-topic, but was it https://www.wattpad.com/205511535-creepypasta-caillou-has-ca... ? Your description was too good, so I had to look it up.
India's sand mafia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugT-zyXGNIY
What a dumb question. No, of course it’s not.

If you ask USPS to display your illegal ad in their window then it certainly is their fault. That would be an actually comparable situation here.
Yep this and I’ve been told by my Caucasian friends that they can’t tell the age of Black men if we are clean shaven and shave our hair off to cut the gray and re ending hairline. Most guess that I am at most in my early 30s - not my mid 40s.

I always go completely clean shaven with a bald head when I interview.
Counterpoint: keeping track of hardware failure rates is useful for predicting longevity and short-term reliability.
Notes from the Unashamed
I could also show a bunch of cases where someone reacted and died. We could be cherrypicking stories to the end of times, even.

At the end of the day, while it's easy to say you yourself could've protected yourself (because macho power amirite?), it takes borderline sociopathic composition for someone to say with a straight face that their mother should not only carry a gun but also react to a robbery and shoot a living person if the situation calls for it.

> It's entirely possible for the average citizen

The average salary in Brazil is like $700 per month. You'd have to be quite privileged indeed to be able to afford something as extravagant as shooting classes.
Too hard to read this is Twitter format
Nobody among regular people cared about twitter at first either, and it was far from the first social media site.
Quora automatically deletes legitimate answers that contain code snippets
I only include my last 10 years of experience and don’t include the year I graduated. Not only to reduce the chance of ageism, but my experience with Perl, VB6, MFC, DCOM, etc. is not relevant.
Think Giant Concrete Blocks Can't Fly? Think Again
I should qualify that a bit...

- The promoters are likely to present at least a realistic (if not optimistic) estimate of mid term cost, the technologies involved are all mature (so the potential for further reduction I'd low), and the estimated cost is not materially better than battery energy storage (worse, in fact, than near term forecasts, and much worse than midterm potential battery energy storage cost).

- The siting flexibility is poor, which means grid connection will be slow/expensive.

- The power density will be pretty bad (which wouldn't matter for bulk energy storage... but it's too expensive to compete in that market).

Maybe it could become more attractive with much taller cranes?
I can guarantee you that the $30,000 I wired from my bank account to my student loan company was not given to me by the government.

The government of course gave me the loan for inflated price of attending uni, but goddamnit I paid for it myself with my own blood and tears.
Exciting research for someone who did their best work recently. But maybe scary for someone who think their best work happened few years back.
I literally saw a super cool company sign on the side of 101 and thought to myself, "hmmm, I wonder what they do?" Two months later when I was browsing the job boards I saw a perfect fit opening for "that company with the sign".

I looked into the company further at that point and found out their customers were evangelical fanatics about the product. I ended up getting the job and three years later, it's by far the best job I've ever had - the team, daily responsibilities, financials, etc. So when you're stuck in that long slog of a commute on 101, take the time to peruse the corporate creativity lining the freeway. It may just lead to your next opportunity.
Canada and USA both in five eyes. If Australia New Zealand and UK Diplo say they have the same symptoms I'm going to go with malfunction in five eyes equipment.
I don't understand your objections, like, at all. Every "concession" you think you're extracting is right there, in a blog post I wrote 4 years ago. Those are the goalposts. They haven't moved since 2014.

Everything else you have to say just reads like word salad. I should be concerned about container RNGs, but not Linux containers, unless they're the Linux containers that don't share the KRNG? Or the IOT devices where blocking somehow solves the cold-start entropy problem, and at the same time can't be done in the init scripts? Even the Python issue thread you posted --- yes, I read it --- disagrees with you. I have no idea what you're talking about and, candidly, I don't know that you do either.

I've written (until now) perhaps 1 word on this thread for every 30 of yours, and I think my comments are straightforward and make obvious points. You respond to each of them with a wall of text. Can I suggest that maybe instead of a grand disagreement, you've instead just done a poor job communicating whatever your concern might be?

Regarding that last sentence of yours (er, the one before your "good day"): I am extremely comfortable with who does and doesn't find me credible. Thanks anyways.
They say the proposed version could store 20 megawatt-hours, but I wonder what the maximum output is? That is, how long does it take to produce that energy? If the maximum output is ~1-2 MW, it can support 1k or 2k homes, but it's also important to put in context that peak load of an average sized US city peak load is ~1000 MW. A med-sized wind turbine can produce ~2 MW, for comparison.
apparently 40-50% of social sciences surveys were conducted through mturk by 2016: https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000056
I haven’t found this to be the case at all. Plenty of sellers have components for the newer models as well of course eBay.

And the computers are almost exactly the same to open. I just replaced the thermal paste on my 2017 MBP and it was just as easy as my 2012 one.
I have never done the shotgun approach. I always go through local recruiters.
I'm curious about this part:

"Lastly, we have partnered with car maintenance shops that will tell us the average cost of service for your particular model."

When you say 'average cost of service', are you talking about:

A) The average cost of the regular annual maintenance and inspection?

B) Everything in A, but also the average cost of expected repairs for N years after purchase?

C) Something else?

When purchasing a car, I'd love to have a great estimate for B, because repairs are a significant proportion of total cost, especially for cars over 10 years old. And the chance of needing an expensive repair in the next N years varies significantly with:

- Make and/or model

- Age of car

- Whether or not a certain repair has already been done (like if a 5 year old MacBook had just had the battery replaced)
I suspect Julia will eventually rise to the occasion.
Xbox and PS4 Join Forces to Make Cutting-Edge Games Look Even Better
If you insist, here is the female version:

http://www.lagustasluscious.com/shop/bluestocking-bonbons/fu...
Generalizing the sanity of an entire platform based on one post that you personally find shocking seems a bit extreme, don't you think?
> My next laptop will probably not be a mac.

maybe it shouldn't even be a laptop
What does that mean? Who's copying ads?
I basically have a shitty Rails app that solves a particular problem for a completely non tech industry (there are millions of such problems). It’s easy for me to find the people who need it. But if I ever had to compete with high quality software my app would probably die.
Interesting. When cars first appeared the public hated them and the drivers. When a person was struck down the driver was usually convicted of murder.
The tinfoil conspiracy theory is that this is the 2018 version of the Anglos manufacturing another Spanish American War type of situation.
Exploring Firebase In-App Messaging
`We're sorry, but something went wrong on our end.`

Reloaded.

Ah, there it is.
While I feel allcaps are way more expressive than italics which are barely noticeable when trying to emphasis, I won't use them again.

Also, did you really just auto-hide my comment for using allcaps on 3 words?
I would guess that most people are, just as most people who refer to menstrual blood intend to imply that it is actually blood.

Is menstrual blood actually blood? That's not a question with a definitive answer; it is obviously different from the normal kind of blood you'd find in blood vessels, but it's also fundamentally similar. "Blood" is not an elemental or even homogeneous substance, so it can be hard to say that something isn't blood.

But most people who refer to something as "blood" have never given it a minute's thought. If you cut meat and get a thick red liquid, of course that's blood. Where else would blood come from?
It was first written in Perl so that makes sense.
WebAssembly compiler implemented in Go
The first cite said you couldn’t discriminate in advertising but you could discriminate in selection. Craigslist said something different.
People will agitate for their interests, beliefs and values. Any outcome to negotiations will have winners and losers. Even if people benefit from some deal there is probably another plausible deal where they benefit more or a deal where they get just as big a benefit but their hated enemy gets nothing or is actively harmed. Without the ability to have private negotiations and present the final deal on a take it or leave it basis your negotiations will at best be slower in teaching an agreement.

Negotiations are hard, the more parties there are the harder they get. Public negotiations have very large numbers of parties, even if most of them can’t vote.
Even having won the Tenure-Track Lotto, I don't do this.

Generally speaking, a student telling me they want a Ph.D in my field gets a strong warning and a frank discussion about the nature of the job market. I'm willing to support them if they simply cannot imagine doing anything else with their lives, but the pool of students for whom getting a Ph.D is actually a good idea is a very small pool indeed.
Now I see. I looked around and it seemed hard to choose 'the right instance' to begin, knowing nothing about the platform. Most had esoteric names, like clubs. It might be a nice idea for Mastodon advocates to create general topic instances, that may feel more approachable for newcomers.

In any case, it does seem like a great platform and might blow up in time with few changes in the onboarding process
Features

Source is a wasm32 binary module. The application embedding the compiler decides what import functions it provides.

Supports x86-64. Support for 64-bit ARM is planned. (Support for non-64-bit or non-little-endian CPU architectures isn't planned.)

Single-pass, low-latency ahead-of-time compilation. Early functions can be executed while the latter functions are still being compiled, even while the source is still being downloaded.

Generated code requires minimal runtime support. It may be run e.g. in a strict seccomp sandbox. Note: calling standard library ABIs is not supported.

Supports snapshot-and-restore across compiler versions and CPU architectures.
I just found this post talking about the book 'Idiomatic Python': https://hackernoon.com/going-beyond-the-idiomatic-python-a32...

It points out some limitations of that book, including one specific example (the 'evil robots attacking' part) that bothered me for the same reasons it bothered the article author.
For the friend who has everything.
The Chinese Wheelbarrow (2011)
Do Linux kernel panics get a HN front page complaint? It's software.

> Exactly. T2 is supposed to work as a secure enclave, for instance (see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208862). Any bug (especially one causing a kernel crash) related to the T2 chip is potentially a privilege escalation bug, with the potential to enable direct (after decryption) disk access outside of os access control, or the possibility to work around secure boot and boot non-signed kernels, or other problems.

Uh, no it's not that simplistic. I think you have a serious misunderstanding of what T2 and bridgeos actually do. It doesn't affect the security.
The plastic bag ban.

https://www.pacificresearch.org/is-states-plastic-bag-ban-ca...
Maybe, it really would require a lot of research to determine if one of the two purposed situations are correct.

I wrote my comment to inspire people to look at jobs they normally wouldn't, because I believe applying for a wide range of jobs is a good strategy for learning about the labor market.
Agreed. These restrictions only apply in a few legally defined areas.

The fact an LGBT dating site can choose ‘don’t show to heterosexual people (a waste of my ad spend)’ is one of the reasons their platform is so effective, especially compared to mass media like TV/magazines.
This is called Olbers paradox, and is much older:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox
" You won't be buying Tesla parts - they don't make them available to customers. "

I guess that's a part of the SV playbook to make their products unrepairable. that alone would be reason for me to not get a Tesla.
> I'm not aware of any large structures that are anchored to the sea floor in a way that resists an upward force rather than a downwards one

Marine vessels can be very large and helical screws are widely used, here’s an example https://helixmooring.com/square-shaft-anchors-2/

> even if they do fall there's nothing to damage beyond the energy storage installation.

Very expensive installation. Maybe they don’t need the reliability of bridges but they need to be able to withstand any weather.
If you exclude all of Oakland specifically because it's full of minorities, you're discriminating based on race. If you exclude one tiny neighborhood because it's on the other side of a mountain and is physically a part of a different area than it's administratively a part of, you aren't. Granularity isn't the problem.

And state or regional real estate advertising doesn't work because basically nobody in San Francisco is looking for housing in Los Angeles or vice versa, much less San Francisco and Phoenix.
Well, there was a criminal case against FedEx for delivering illegal prescriptions from Internet drug stores. But it got tossed.
Twitter is the WRONG platform for this type of information.
I just use it for actions, I have to confess :)

Most of the time I feel that global-ish data like that shouldn't be passed/exist in the first place. Context is a doubly dangerous place for it, since it can go stale.

I take that back. I'm am accessing this kind of data - via the actions I'm passing down. They are `getStore`ing anything they need.

Anything else that needs to have the data >should< access via props, or the redux store is no longer the single point of truth.

Footguns, footguns, everywhere.
And us, with four left feet.
Meh, lots of "meat" foods we eat today are heavily processed and filled with completely unnatural preservatives, I don't see "fake meats" as any different than say, cheap hotdogs.

We've been playing god with our food supply since forever (salting meats to preserve them [salt is bad for you! right?], agriculture, the list goes on...)
Wow, so silicon valley
As an aside, $1,000 a year in full-time, non-manual labor would drastically change the lives of the world's poorest billion people.
That's only a counter if you ignore the second half of the sentence.

There is a very big difference between no micro-targeting ads ever, and no micro-targeting for housing ads.
Yes, we really should be thanking the VC firms (or really the pension and endowment funds which act as LPs) for all the nearly-free rides.
Build a Neural Network from Scratch in Python
I hate the idea of using a cover, but I probably should. Do you have a recommendation?
Had interviewed with a recruiter I met via LinkedIn a year ago, and rejected an offer. One year later I felt like it was the right moment to switch jobs and called him again. He got me the new job I have now.
Much of the data from LIGO is publicly available. Most scientists have been looking for chirp-like signals indicative of events like colliding black holes. Maybe you can find some other interesting signals?

https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW170104/LOSC_Event_tutorial_...

Note that there's quite a bit of interference from the Earth. (trucks driving about, etc)
Here's the transcript:

“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/706825-it-s-now-very-common...
I was unemployed, because I got fired (first time ever, by an asshole who never liked me). I had taken a month or so to try my hand at writing a novel, but eventually a recruiter cold-called me and offered me an interview, and COBRA was so expensive I said "sure, go ahead and schedule it."

Current job is a good fit, I enjoy it and have been here for two years.
I'm a freelancer, so I usually have several jobs. The last 3 jobs:

1. A VC who I pitched to didn't invest in my startup, but he was impressed enough by my technical ability that he took me on for some work. After being conscientious in series of jobs over a year, I usually get first pick in his projects.

2. A guy whose project I failed at recommended me to a friend. Two other people also mentioned me. He was a speaker at a talk that I liked and so I added him on Facebook years ago, which broke the ice.

3. Some of my students were doing a real world project for educational purposes. They dropped out and I took on the project, which was easy and paid very well for the difficulty level.
Perhaps deal with quotes strings generally, and then quoted strings mode with FS=, is CSV mode, and that quoted string functionality is available elsewhere (and maybe also for output).

Less intuitive maybe for beginners but more generally useful?
I had a scholarship.
If you got balls, you can try to extort your replacement value. If you come with unique skills it may be much higher than what your resumee looks like.
> If someone can find a way to make a product near-indistinguishable from meat without raising and killing animals, it would be a massive victory for the environment (meat production is CO2-intensive), for the cause of bringing decent food to poor people, and for reducing animal suffering.

I'm all for reducing animal suffering (especially from CAFOs) but replacing meat with plants isn't necessarily a victory for the environment.

Widespread factory farming agriculture has destroyed entire ecosystems. Ever flown over the midwest? You see miles and miles of plots of the same crops repeated over and over... monocultures with very little of the original grassland remaining. Agriculture has accomplished the wholesale destruction of entire ecosystems.

"70% of all water from rivers and underground reserves is being spread onto ... irrigated land that grows one-third of the world’s food", according to _When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century_ by Fred Pearce. In some regions up to 90% of the water from the environment is used for irrigation.

The green revolution as we know it is only possible due to fossil fuels, the Haber-Bosch process breaking down oil to create nitrogen fertilizer. With industrial farming, all in all an acre of corn requires about fifty gallons of oil according to _The Omnivores Dilemma_ by Michael Pollan. How much fossil fuel does a typical acre of wheat or soy consume? How sustainable is it compared to pastured meat, which thrives on the renewable resource of grassland?

Bringing decent food to poor people is also a noble goal, but is fraught with a moral hazard. Many developed nations have agricultural subsidies, including the US at $1.173 billion for wheat and $610 million for soybeans as of the 2004 USDA report. The billions of dollars in subsidies causes an oversupply, and the developed nations are all too willing to dump onto other countries, putting local farmers out of business and advancing an imperialist dependency. Lierre Keith, vegan for 20 years (now ex-vegan), in her book _The Vegetarian Myth_ says it best:

> Why should people in Cambodia be dependent on the US for their basic sustenance? It condemns them to participating in a market economy where they will have to dedicate their labor and local resources to produce raw materials, like timber and metal ore, or cheap consumer goods like sneakers or computer chips, for rich nations. With the pennies they get in return, they will then have to buy food from the same rich nations or their progeny, the grain cartels. This is a destructive, inhumane, and oppressive arrangement. I have to believe that the political vegetarians haven’t thought it through.