skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this especially relevant. Recently I found an old textbook that was amazing. Lots of great detail on nearly impossible to find subjects.

I emailed the professor (now near retirement) for the answers to the solutions as I'm no longer a student and the book has been out of print since before I was born. He told me he didn't have it anymore as it was on an old computer on an operating system that doesn't exist anymore.

All the code, example answers lost to time.

It made me wonder just how common this phenomena is.
to say that they are equally as bad is, actually, dishonest.
A meme? Did you happen to watch the video of the post election all hands?
It's been some time, but I am 99% sure that we were linking with the correct version of libc, because we never used the system GCC (in CentOS they provide the very old 4.8 version), so we explicitly specified the compiler and the libc that we wanted to use.
Sorry, that was not my intention. I agree that in many cases a modest “no big deal” or “it was nothing” is an appropriate response.

In the particular case I am thinking about the guy being complimented (probably unintentionally) hurt the other person’s feelings by basically rejecting the very sincere compliment, even though he could have easily said “I’m always happy to help” or something similarly impersonal and satisfied the complimenter without making anything bigger out of it. Or even used the same words he had but less dismissively. Tone of voice matters a lot in face-to-face communications.

My point was just that I wouldn’t consider even the most insensitive such responses to be “monstrous”, so I was wondering more specifically what Doreen Michele meant.
the difference is the number of deaths they produce.
Yeah, caught this on Fox News tonight, and the hypocrisy of their breathless hand-wringing about the "threat to democracy" really burned me up. Not because they're right wing, but because they coordinate a top-down propaganda machine and have spurred other news organizations (like MSNBC) to do the same. The magnitude of their crime and the devastating rifts it has helped widen in our country is so much greater in scope than what the Google employees were talking about doing.
Who said anything about nothing ;)
Wow, thanks!! That's an issue. Will fix that asap.
“Google has never manipulated its search results or modified any of its products to promote a particular political ideology." -- "Our processes and policies would not have allowed for any manipulation of search results to promote political ideologies.”

This is a carefully worded statement, because the fact is, Google does manipulate search results for its business purposes. I expect most companies to follow their corporate ethos and justify change as its expedient for their business. In Google's case, they may even feel a change is a moral imperative, without realizing how subjective that is. I think what people need to recognize is, that Google isn't above these problems, buyer beware.
Obligatory "don't forget to authenticate the other party. Encryption can be meaningless without authentication if someone MITMs the initial setup.

Follow-through on WatsApp's initial verification step using some other channel before you assume the communication is secret.
No. Why would it be? At an absolute minimum conspiracy requires some agreement. Which they didn't have here. This also seems to have been an open discussion so there was no secrecy amongst those who did agree.
Sorry I had some weird logic.. I will fix that asap
EIS is more akin to a poor-man's gimbal than it is to OIS, and that's the purpose it serves in GoPros. One could argue that for sufficiently small range of movement a gimbal and OIS can serve similar purposes for stills photography - a gimbal after all is a form of external stabilization. However EIS is not seriously applicable to stills photography as it does nothing for a standalone capture and OIS cannot replace a gimbal (or EIS) for video capture other than in very narrow scenarios where static support would generally be a better solution.

It's obvious that OIS + EIS > EIS. However it's not that case that OIS > EIS for all applications. One could argue that given just OIS one could apply EIS in post, but that's just a different implementation of OIS + EIS.

As far as I know, the GoPro is fixed-focus - there's no moving parts in its optical system. Adding mechanical stabilization whether optical or sensor-based would reduce the durability of a system of which one of the main criteria is being able to withstand repeated impacts. Maybe it's possible to build a sufficiently ruggedized OIS solution, but it's not clear whether the expense or size/weight of that would make it viable for action cameras.
Keep in mind that of US journalists 50% ID as (lowrcase) independent, but 28% as Dems and only 7% as Repubs. So there is inherent bias on one side, if looking at affiliation.
Where in the video did they pledge to censor conservative voices?
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I find his explanation of the reverse quite clear:

> Any proof that can be spelled out at a level of detail sufficient to be analyzed by a computer is necessarily going to consist entirely of steps that are each completely comprehensible to a mathematician.

This means there must either be a lot of steps or a lot of different paths to follow in order for a computer to be of use. Neither is the case here.
“Once you pass college, excessive theory is worse than no theory because it makes things seem more difficult than they really are.”

About every third minute I’ve changed my mind about this quote. I think that means it’s a good quote.
I can see how this is a natural tendency that we have all fallen victim to, but I wonder if the idea of self-worth has gotten twisted. In reality, people have misconceptions about other people all the time, and it does us no good to constantly worry that others’ impression of us may not be what we want it to be.

Perhaps the better approach is living day in day out how you want to live and the people you’d want to be around will be naturally attracted to that in the long run after seeing who you really are. That way, you are not out there trying to impress others but being yourself, not giving an iota of a care about what others think, and trusting that they way you live will naturally bring you in contact with people who have respect for you and vice versa.

Seems like a less stressful, healthier way to live, at least.
Thanks, it can take a little while for the fruit of this approach to show up. And it doesn’t work in all organizations but I think it’s a great idea for a lot of software engineers.
Yes I focused only on mobile so far. Will have to adjust the submit button. Desktop will come pretty soon.

Did you enjoy going through the content? I was thinking about producing much more so you can learn some exciting stuff without reading lengthly posts.
Reminds me, if you haven't been to Paul Alan's Living Computer museum I'd highly recommend it. You can play chess against a real working PDP-8 which is pretty impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHU4nzIsaIM&t=5m38s
Are they talking about Istio? It seems way too new to call it “traditional”.
Mozilla.
> Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

No, you're just falling foul of a dynamic that preexists you. Women giving men compliments is, for the most part, interpreted as a come-on. It's not fair, and it hinders the frank communication between men and women that makes really healthy social environments such a joy to operate in, but it's the case more often than not.
> Serve the billions of people who don't use the Gregorian calendar or who live in areas that don't match your idea of time zones.

There isn't that much use of non-Gregorian calendars in software, even in places that do make use of them. And if you do support them, it's another source of bugs, as you have to deal with new Japanese era names and the like: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shawnste/2018/04/12/the-jap...
In this case what did or did not happen was that some employees noticed that search results for "Muslim" and "Latino" were almost exclusively anti-Muslim and anti-Latino. Since the typical person searching for those terms is obviously interested in a broader view, the algorithm was flawed or even gamed. The article title is click-baity.

But I agree it is terrifying that there are companies devoted to an overt political stance that have vast reach and even monopolies in many markets like Sinclair [0] and others [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_oper...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Networks_Group#Internation...
This is beautiful. Thank you.
Yep, that's exactly what I was referring to. Java will treat every other class as distant as C++ will with a .so ... But it can also in line into these java classes at runtime.
And in those early days, everyone knew that "citation clubs" were a way to attack Google's algorithm... just like how you attack academic citation indices or "impact factor". Then google defended against that, and then...
Ha, no that's not the reason.
/r/politics is a subforum on a news aggregator. While media organizations definitely buy upvotes, as of yet there's no actual evidence of Reddit itself artificially promoting/demoting content within a subreddit

(Tweaking the algorithm to get bot-propogated t_d content off the front page doesn't count, it's a different subforum)

Brietbart is an entirely different category than Fox news. It will publish straight up conspiracy theories with no evidence. I'm talking "moon landing didn't happen" level shit. It's an insult to tabloids, to call it a tabloids.

Fox News is so comically biased to compare it to CNN is dishonest. CNN has liberal bias, sure, but it doesnt sink to the level of claiming Hillary Clinton had Seth rich assassinated (https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/may/23...) or completely makes shit up about supreme court candidates whole-cloth (https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/mar/18...).

Sure, they're gonna spend a lot of airtime on the "kavanaugh allegedly raped a girl in high school" story, or when the president says some messed up ish they're gonna go ahead and play that clip again and again, but that is a far cry from outright lying, which fox news does again and again, and which Breitbart does every breath.
Dishwashing can surely be done/automated now? A restaurant standardises a range of dish dimensions, these are mechanically sorted on a 'line' then cleaned according to their specification and surface scanned for error/reclean/escalation. No AI needed, decades old tech suffices.
Which is kind of missing the point, as the original source was summarizing what people where complaining about 2500 years ago.
Well, first, use a logic programming language and report back. Then understand that math is almost wholly non-empirical. The things discovered or made up in math are not reflective of the real world, most of the time, regardless of how closely it resembles.

Take for instance euclidean geometry. In the world of equations, everything works. But a point, or a line, are neither things that exist out in the world, much less their relations which, when drawn on the surface of the earth, are probably not actually euclidean at all.

Number theory in particular is almost never about math, but about the patters mathematicians believe they recognize. Somebody a'ong the lines goes "oh hey check out this flower. I bet this is the only flower of this type in the world" and then spend hundreds of years trying to prove it.
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I think there are a lot of factors. A few that readily come to mind:

Pecking order nonsense.

People who are big believers in pecking order see you as "beneath" them if you compliment them. They then feel owed and like you are permanently required to kowtow to them and aren't allowed to quit.

Prosody and tone matching.

My son probably is incapable of these two things. He gets very negative social reactions from people all the time. Tone matching signals pecking order at a subconscious level. People aren't consciously aware of it.

I apparently tone match by default, which gets me read as deferential and servile. It works quite well when dealing with, for example, wait staff who routinely get mistreated. I get excellent service anywhere that I am a regular.

But people who do not perceive themselves as "below" me conclude I'm a doormat and they can wipe their boots on me.

Value signaling.

People get this idea that they are irreplaceable and I am being so nice because they are so incredibly amazingly rare and wonderful. I have found it works vastly better for me to be kind of indifferent and make sure they realize "there can be another you in a minute." Which annoys the fool out of me.
It only became a problem after the rise of unwanted political opinions.
Sounds more like a principle of faith than an empirical observation

> I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah, and, though he tarry, I will wait daily for his coming.
Wow, what a Craigslist find!

I wonder if there is any legal entity left for the effected people to sue. Anybody know?
In this case the police did tell him he didn't have to say anything until he'd talked to a lawyer. Then the guy basically broke down, said "I was stupid, I don't know why I did it" and proceeded to tell his tale.

Stupid.

Really don't say anything to cops, especially if you've been placed under arrest.

Given the evidence at hand, we probably would have convicted him anyway. The video was the clincher. Early on the judge mentioned that the defendant had insisted on a jury trial, over the advice of his lawyer (and to some extent the judge, who was broadly hinting that sentencing from a guilty verdict by a jury was going to be a lot harsher than one he could reach with a deal of some kind).

I have to say that his lawyer (a public defender appointed to him, since he could not afford his own) was pretty bad, at least by my unpracticed eye.
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He's the only one listed on the instructor section.
More background information here: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/onsets-frames
One thing I wish is that more of them would feature UEFI instead of BIOS, or at least come with a warning, as Intel plans to drop support for legacy BIOS in 2020.

The more people keep using BIOS, the more likely it will stay around. IMHO UEFI is a bloated mess compared to BIOS, so I very much hope the latter will continue to live.
Yes but these will only accept proofs from within the mathematical framework of the multiple verifiers. I'm not saying that having 4 automatic independent verifications of a proof is useless, far from it! Just that, the notion you can "prove" all of mathematics is almost meaningless, or demonstrable false.
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Constant, not instant.
Dolphins have more neurons than us in their neocortex speaking to specific areas and the size vs density argument. Overall they have more interconnects than human brains.

The real question is what exactly they are spending all that energy maintaining a lot of processing power, it does not map into tool use but it maps into something.
The way some video game studios do this is simply put a whole computer into the archive with all the software on it, so all the hardware and software are captured in time.
Also Kiwi. Amazing News...
Regardless of whether this is a true story or not, Google needs to be regulated. I firmly believe that now. What’s stoppimg them from tweaking algorithms 2 days before an election? If I search Trump and see 80 women accusing him of sexual assault as the first thing popping up or his $3B net worth and great business deals is a huge difference in results. I know it’s not that simple at all but just making a general point how much power that is.

One counter example, every atttempt at censorship and media bias works oppositely. Look at yahoo article content, tilts quite a bit left and the comments are significantly right wing. Makes them more distrustful of true news.
It became a problem almost immediately. PageRank had issues because people got wise and formed link farms to cheat the system. So Google added more tweaks. Repeat this x10000 and you get to 2018.
Google's job is to return the result that the user is looking for. Certainly not results that come from manipulating the algorithm.

I'm guessing that users searching for "Mexico" are not overwhelmingly interested in diatribes of racial inferiority. An algorithm that heavily returns such results is obviously broken.
I was travelling at the time of the ban. Thankfully I wasn't affected by it, but the laptop ban was even more boneheaded. No electronics larger than a cellphone. What does that even mean? Had to go thru another security check right at the gate. Everyone was annoyed, especially the airline staff. Got lucky because I had a check in and I heard about it beforehand. But what if I only had a carry on? My laptop would still be stuck in dubai.
This is a dangerous general-purpose justification which allows mega-corporations to manipulate global information flow in any way they like.

Now Google leadership doesn't just get to be wealthy, they get to manipulate how everyone else sees the world, with no limits or accountability, because hey everything is biased right?

It may sound good because they agree with you on this particular issue.

But this justification applies to any other government or corporation who can manage to seize the reins of technological power. You're making a memetic weapon that, soon, will be turned against you.

No. Neutrality is a real thing and it should be upheld as a serious goal and principle. Especially when we're taking about a group with such insane amounts of unjustified and undemocratic control over other people. We need to do everything we can culturally to make that influence less unequal.
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That is literally one of the points of the article.
"We have multiple forks of react-native for each platform. Of course combined with ReactXP and friends. :)"

https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006762319790125057

It's not clear to me that maintaining multiple forks of react native per environment is so much easier. And that still doesn't buy you native performance & controls. I don't really get it to be honest.
As always with open source projects, it might be a good idea to move it away from GitHub?
That doesn't sound right at all. Law of excluded middle is very easily computed with, It's a college homework exercise.
To be only a little more precise, every proposition becomes a type of its own. The AND operator forms product types, the OR operator forms sum types, IMPLIES forms a function type... The proof of a theorem turns into an inhabitant of the theorem's type.
You’re not wrong, but at the same time what’s the solution that isn’t just a matter of the people complaining manipulating global information flow in the way they like? Most of the time behind the flashlight-under-the-chin tales of potential doom, the solution seems to be a shift to whichever political pole the speaker prefers. I’d like a less restricted flow of information, but I don’t know how to get it, and no one seems to be offering good ideas. The best I can offer is that it’s important to fight for freedom to access any source, so you can compare and contrast and draw your own conclusions. Google can dominate convenience, it they don’t actually stop you from checking other search engines. A media outlet can have a major bias, but in a free country that doesn’t censor non-state media you can pick up other sources for comparison.

It’s messy, it’s work, but what are the alternatives that respects the 1st amendment? Just hand-waving some claims about “de facto monopolies” is a non-starter imo. How do we improve the situation without pretending that a given social medial or advertise company has to be regulated to death, and in a way that doesn’t just amount to, “Keep it biased, but it needs to be my preferred bias.”
> Since the typical person searching for those terms is obviously interested in a broader view

I don't find it obvious at all. Do you have any evidence to suggest that this is indeed the case? Why would those terms/results show up in the first place if only few are looking them up?
Shouldn't containers or VMs solve these problems?
That's silly, because humans have been repeatedly proven to be full of errors.
"Think of it as a Wayback Machine for executable content."
Internet Archive already doing some of this. https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary Jason Scott pushed hard for JSMESS, the in-browser emulator that brings the archived software to life. https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php/Javascript_Mess

This is one of a few similar projects. The government Archives offices of most countries have to not just preserve digital records but also the software necessary to read them. Mick Crouch is the legend in New Zealand who does a pile of this work: https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/346630/outdated-tech...
Ah that makes sense. Thanks
Please don't assume to know what is legal or not in another jurisdiction. Not all states or countries have the same gambling rules as Nevada.
I transferred into my university as a junior. I was older than my peers, having trod a somewhat unconventional life path before transferring. My first year at the new university, I felt felt alienated and invisible. While I made a few close friends, I couldn't seem to really integrate into the larger social fabric of the place. People just didn't seem to care about me.

Or, so I thought. One day at a party, after enduring this perceived ostracization for two semesters, a very drunk close friend pulled me aside to tell me that everybody thought I was this "mysterious transfer who thought he was too cool to talk to anybody". Everybody wanted to talk to me.

Most everybody knew of me, a number of girls had crushes (!!!), and a few flattering (though unfortunately, untrue) rumors even circulated about my exciting life before coming to school. Everybody wanted to get to know me but I apparently exuded some aura of elitism that kept people at bay.

I was stunned, to say the least.

So yeah, we never know what others think of us. I never quite recouped my squandered social capital, but it was a huge wakeup call that I'll carry with me through life. We can rarely trust our internal critics when it comes to evaluating what people think of us, and sadly, we miss opportunities because of it.
Two things to add:

1) You might be interested in the book The Influential Mind. While she doesn't come out and say it directly, the bizarre state of our digital lives (i.e., social media) has quite a bit of reasonable (scientific) explanation.

https://www.amazon.com/Influential-Mind-Reveals-Change-Other...

2) The irony of the homogenized "wisdom" is that these same entities are personalizing so much that the shared / collective experience is being diminished. Perhaps it's easier to build mono-minded on top of a disheveled and disorganized foundation?