skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, but it's important to realize that this new form of racism (and by extension, racism in general) doesn't focus on skin colour alone. The focus is on the cultural traits that tend to correlate with skin colour and their implications given the context.

If you group people by skin tone, sex, height, country of residence, or pretty much any other trait, you'll find that average lived experience differs in some way across groups. As a result, if you draw people mostly from one of these groups, say, white men, then this group's ideas, experiences, opinions, etc. are likely (of course, not guaranteed) to differ from the population average. As long as different people are different, this will remain true. In some contexts, some people decide that this non-representation is serious enough to warrant correction. This leads to what you call the new form of acceptable racism.

This thinking is discriminatory by definition, since it assumes things about people based on their skin colour. And it becomes much less palatable if you replace "white men" with pretty much any other demographic. (It's interesting to consider why that is!) But if you know nothing else about the group, knowing their skin colour and, by extension, cultural backgrounds, can inform you about their likely biases. For example, a bunch of old white men probably won't understand the motivations, challenges, and needs in a population of young women of colour.
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Your comment reads like an incredibly passive-aggressive cease & desist letter. Yes, you're filing a patent, and yes, you started doing this over a year ago. Good for you! This marking of territory is an immature look you really don't want to put on in a public forum.
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Good PMs, yes. A few I have worked at previous companies barely understood their own products, how to use them, or their customers. They were over glorified email forwarders. Sometimes they could copy-and-paste to Jira, and maybe take a few screenshots.
That's exactly what Tether wanted you to think.

They also parted ways with that firm because they were unwilling to provide what the auditor requested. They've never completed an audit, despite their website claiming "subject to frequent professional audits".
The point is that transporting large amounts of money that can be physically confiscated is a problem, even if it somehow fit into a suitcase.

Debating the logistics of potentially being able to evade some of those difficulties by having even larger sums of money (to afford private airliners or private security, even in times of unrest) and accepting larger risks misses the point.
Make sure to keep coding in your spare time. I'm trying to get back to dev work now after 5 years in management land, and I'm finding it difficult to get back to my prior level of productivity. Coding skills age pretty quickly.
People who play with mods are a tiny-but-vocal minority. Most people just download the vanilla game and play with that. Even if the game supports Steam Workshop, most players won't even bother to look.

Enthusiasts are a pretty small segment of any customer base.
Great that Facebook stores these things, otherwise it could not have been stolen.
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Only if the fix involves breaking the old semantics entirely. It's possible in some cases to support old semantics in a safe way at the cost of performance, or in the case that it's not you can disable that call in such a way that the program aborts if it is called, thus indicating that the user should relink that program. This is why integration projects such as Linux distributions are hard, and useful.
You forgot the third: those that alternate between the two...
The comments here will be great. A bunch of people are going to try to relate this to current trends while tiptoeing around to avoid the mob accusing them of thought-crime and it will be a display of some of the behavior discussed in TFA.

Edit: At the time of this edit (~1hr later) the top level comments are definitely very carefully worded to be non-specific. The deeper levels are more direct. Keep in mind that comments here are pseudonymous which affords people a little more protection when speaking their mind.
You can have linear algebra and stats for the ML engineer classes as coursework. Most sciences have an applied linear algebra class which doesn't require the proof heavy math version. And most colleges require a year of stats. I think though while linear algebra for the sake of linear algebra is good, it isn't strictly necessary for AI and you can learn what you need. If you want to go deeper then go deeper. You could argue you need a class in ODEs and stochastic optimal control theory to understand RL, but you don't really. Maybe in grad school, maybe in some research area inside of RL but not in undergrad. Of course the linear algebra will help you. The best thing would be that the RL, control systems, stats, physicists and other related folks would start speaking the same language.
I disagree. As soon as free, small communities get monetized they soon become overrun by sharks and profiteering. They become hotspots for fraud, and troublemakers cause a nuisance to existing community-members. Sure there is some of that already, but not to the kind of scale that monetization inevitably brings.

Your other major problem is that much of the audience for mods are kids or teens who don't have a lot of money. Keeping modding free is what keeps content generation gated to those who intend to truly intend to better the community.

As an example, I now continually get fraud warnings on my Epic account, which I keep for UDK access, because Fortnite blew up. It's really annoying :(
I think "Greed can be good" is really what people should realize. Greed is bad in many situations. But if you design your system SUCH THAT Greed is good, then the system will survive.

Bitcoin has a bit of "greed is good" built in: the bitcoin miners are the mechanism that provide timestamps to the whole system. But higher-levels of greed were not accounted for (ex: ASICs farms using up so much electricity that the carbon footprint of BTC is HUGE now).
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It's just Hacker News Monopoly: https://imgur.com/cDQyhln
Tcl is still a breath of fresh air, here 30 years after it first appeared. Such a pity all the minshare it has lost.
See previous discussions here:

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952908

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13119269

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443420
I'd recommend checking out any game developed by Paradox. You haven't seen fantastic mods until you've seen what people can do with Paradox games

For that matter, some games that Paradox only publishes (e.g. Cities: Skylines) also have fantastic modding support, though that's hit-and-miss compared to the games they develop in house.
There are actually already a lot of "Uber for hairdressers" apps. One of them was actually partnered with Uber.

So it seems like actually the internet _will_ cut your hair.

I suspect there may be a social aspect to some of the salons that could be somewhat missing with only one person coming to your house though. But maybe the app just needs to incorpate a group video chat or something to get that as well.

Someday we may not even need to get out of bed if we don't want to. Which might not be very healthy of course.
And to give an example from the other side:

"Do you know why they don't cover lunatic asylums in Belgium?"

"It would be impossible to cover the whole country."
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There's a big "signout everywhere" button in settings now.
it is actually true. many manufacturers, say kia, have multiple models. that's a fact. then, they iterate on these models every year. that's also a fact. yes, it is true that they typically have a major design on a specific model that is then kept around for multiple years, but they are still iterating on them rather heavily.

"simply swaps small details" is undercutting the improvements made to the cars, especially with fit and finish, something tesla is rather poor at in my opinion.

my statement is accurate and didn't imply that they redesign the car every year. everyone knows that isn't how it works.
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> Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?

It's been said before that if you're not risking downvotes, you're not contributing to the conversation.

It's important to maintain relationships with people who, while they may not respect all of your opinions, at least respect you, and understand why you hold those opinions.

Times change, trends come and go, but humans are largely the same today as before we invented the Atlatl[∆].

[∆]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower
> Are "anarchy and mob violence" mutually exclusive with democracy?

Yes, quite obviously yes.

For starters, violence is obviously a form of oppression and goes agains the rule of law as well as a very long list of rights.

It's always amusing how these terrorist organizations actually believed that violence is justified when they see themselves as the ones dishing the beatings instead of taking them.
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CMU does have a department of machine learning fyi. which is probably what the other guy was referring to since to most people ML = AI and AI = ML
It sounds like you'd need to lie to a lawyer, which (I assume has) legal implications:

Users of this product will be able to enter the identity of their perpetrator into the escrow. This data can only be decrypted by the Callisto Options Counselor (a lawyer), when another user enters the identity of the same perpetrator. If the perpetrator identities match, both users will be put in touch independently with the Options Counselor, who will connect them to each other (if appropriate) and help them determine their best path towards justice. The client relationships with the Op- tions Counselors are structured so that any client-counselor communications would be privileged.

edit: from https://www.projectcallisto.org/callisto-cryptographic-appro...
Well, it's the challenge of finding one person who can talk sales/marketing language to executives as easily as they can talk with their technical teams all while being highly organized and capable of managing a team.

They don't need to be masters at any one of those things (aside from organization and management), but they need to be well above average at all of them, which is rare nexus of talents to find.

Also, experience and skills like that are usually earned through entry-level work in other fields. Most of the good PMs I work with came up through other career paths (like non-profits, academia, print or tv production, paralegals, etc.) that are typically not so well compensated. They make lateral moves into product management for financial reasons, and they top out quickly. The highest paid PMs I know were mostly just former engineers themselves.
Can someone clarify the stats a little bit?

The post mentions "19 founders" and then breaks it down into 18, 15, and 4. Is the "19" an error (I notice that's 15+4, perhaps it's missing the "18" group?), or can women be counted in multiple categories? If that's the case, it seems to me like the first category should include the second and third, so wouldn't that one be more than 19?
"So when you see statements being attacked as x-ist or y-ic (substitute your current values of x and y), whether in 1630 or 2030, that's a sure sign that something is wrong." -- is a litmus test that fails. It's okay for these kinds of terms to trigger you to double-check something, but it's not the case that, for example, every use of "racist" is indicative of faulty thought or misapplied labels.
For me it was the vast number of things that you (eventually) need to know, many of which are assumed by those writing tutorials, such as

1. how to use the command line
2. how to `build from source`
3. how to integrate different technologies (such as the MEAN stack)
4. etc.

In addition to the above, certain parts of the web, like StackOverflow, can be uninviting to new people even though (in my experience) the vast majority of coders are inviting and encouraging both in person and online.
My favorite vending machine moment in college occurred when the person stocking the soda vending machine forgot to lock it. We all enjoyed free soda and, most impressively IMHO, no one took advantage and tried to take all of the soda from themselves. People just treated it like a refrigerator and would grab a soda when they were so inclined.
>I await robot news that is a bulleted list of facts.

Interesting that you mention this, I'm not convinced that this will be a silver bullet. A couple of concerns that come to mind:

1. Something must bridge the robot to the physical world. The selection of which facts to include and exclude in this data source can create bias.

2. From the data source, the robot then would make its own decision about to to present facts, presumably performing some filtration of its own. Such a robot can have bias [0].

To be clear, I definitely agree that robojournalism could be an improvement. But we can't forget how it works and how it could be manipulated.

[0] - For example http://blog.conceptnet.io/posts/2017/how-to-make-a-racist-ai...
Very interesting question, I 2nd the motion..thank you.
Download and turn the filters off.
Main reason it does is people afraid Tether is about to collapse, so everyone fleeing into Bitcoin from Tether.

Arbitrage bots pick that up and drive prices on real USD exchanges, also triggering “short squeeze”.

Downturn is expected when these money will flow from Bitcoin into real USD.
London is getting there, slowly! There are some excellent examples of well-designed, well-used cycle infrastructure such as the new(ish) Cycle Superhighway along the Thames Embankment. This will hopefully serve as a model for future infrastructure.

In general, traffic speeds are low in London and there are lots of quiet side routes that are well suited to cycling. We’re no Amsterdam, but cycling is certainly much more popular and visible than it was 5-10 years ago.
The details are stunning. Nearly 20% of responders reported sexual coercion or quid-pro-quo.

Given that there are responses which declined to report anyone, the actual number is obviously higher. This is happening at the top startup accelerator in the world, where there is likely to be more scrutiny than elsewhere. (The problem is likely worse in other places.)

Kudos on publishing this research, great work.
Sorry to hear that, hope you find a way to make yourself feel better.

I personally enjoy music and films that embraces the darker side of humanity but video games have a pretty big gap in comparison. I guess i like creators that embrace this rather than push it away or pretend it doesn't exist.
There is strength in this.
But shouldn't the rotation take place connection-wise instead of on a daily basis?

If a user browses with a given address and gets identified by one specific agent that shares that information with 3rd parties (e.g. a social network that collects and shares users' IP addresses), every time that happens the then generated new browsing data will have a solid past reference to which it will be added, thanks to that one correct identification.
> In a system with perfect proportionality rather having systematic misrepresentation, sure; actual representative democracies tend to have structural biases favoring particular interests which means opposition to those interests often cannot succeed through voting merely with majority support

In other words, small parties with little to no support can't just dictate their will onto the majority.

That's a feature, not a bug.
You have to adjust for seniority. For example, new grads are not usually hired into PM roles. If you compare a Ln SWE to a Ln PM (at least at FAANG companies where I have experience) SWE's will almost always earn more than PMs
For context

> Sorry but peertube does not support load balancing. If you plan to have many users, you should consider creating different instances (to promote decentralization).

How I read this, whether correctly or not, was that it’s suggested you set up an entirely new server, new database, new domain, new storage (cluster?), etc instead of being able to grow out your one instance. So now any new users need to register and upload to server2.example.com because of “because decentralisation”

It’s just not feasible for the mainstream.

Please do correct me if I’m interpreting incorrectly
I think if you want to be a leader in AI research you want to attract and nurture the best graduate students and researchers. I don't really know how much doing good research has to do with good online education. I am sure online education is useful but these issues don't really have much in common.
That's a very good remark! I'm currently in a roaming area with a very tight data limit, so this affects me too.

I think it might be helpful to have a setting that disables server push for those devices. However the problem here is that most users will neither discover nor understand the setting. Maybe if the ISPs would signal the phone firmware something about the data plan, and that one could switch the push setting it could help, but that's unlikely to happen.

Another remedy could be that push implementations on the server only push the headers and don't begin streaming the body, so that the client can check (e.g. through cache and etag comparisons) whether it really wants it. But that's some kind of departure from generic HTTP/2: The client can't really send that it wants the remaining body, since the only signal that it has is the flow control window increment. Clients would need to get modified to send this always when receiving push promises, and servers would need to understand that those should now trigger them to start streaming bodies. If not all do it then it seems like a recipe for stuck requests, and a nightmare for interoperability. So that's also unlikely to happen.
Sounds like an idea for an idle game.
Is a PM similar to the PO (product owner) role using the agile definition? It seems to me that PM's have a higher level view and take responsibility for the whole product (for instance, the PM of Gmail) while in Agile the PO is taking responsibility for an individual scrum team, which might be a handful of developers, maybe some QA, etc.
So that's basically an appeal to authority. If 90% of all startups fail, that means VCs like those you listed are only right 10% of the time.

There are many objective reasons to take the other side of the bet:

Bitcoin will not succeed as a mainstream payment processing system because:

* The fees are unpredictable and average tx fees have been as high as $55 in the past, during it's most popular time.

* Apropos to the above, Bitcoin doesn't scale and it is clear there is no effective governance method in order to mitigate the problem. Cf. block size wars.

* The risk to the consumer is higher as there is no included fraud protection or chargebacks allowed.

* The difficulty of use is higher for the consumer, who now has to deal with purchasing fees and speculative volatility.

* It is accepted at an extremely low amount of vendors and even that is falling.

* Loss of private key, or password, or security exploit can lead to total loss of funds.

Blockchains will not succeed as a mainstream technological solution because:

* The use cases where you actually need a public, proof of work mined chain are actually very niche outside of cryptocurrencies themselves.

* Even if you have a use case that fits, you must reach a critical mass of mining hash rate or you open yourself to trivially exploitable 51% attacks.

* Corporations will still want to have permission based access, but if you have trusted users then you don't need a blockchain.

* Even if you go with a private blockchain anyway, the scalability isn't there, it is harder to use, the tooling is worse, the technology is less mature, and the upside for the increased difficulty and cost is marginal.
> And the explanation, by the way, for why you often see people making the claim that reverse racism isn't a thing is because

During the civil rights movement, black supremacists advanced, and others in the movement did not expend sufficient effort counteracting because of (understandable, perhaps) higher priorities, a redefinition of racism designed specifically to exclude (and thereby license) black-against-white racism.

While the intersection of power and prejudice is important for determining the impact of racism, and consequently properly plays a role in prioritizing responses to racism, excluding prejudice without dominant social power as “not racism” and therefore not problematic simply encourages that prejudice to deepen and spread, which is especially problematic when you are trying to deal with the problem that those holding it lack power, because by dealing with that problem without addressing (and, indeed, while licensing) the prejudice, you are helping to create a confluence of power and prejudice.
Over 20% of female founders are experiencing harassment or coercion and the response is to implement a reporting system to identify serial offenders? This is absurdly inadequate, does nothing to prevent harassment, and leaves the burden on the victims rather than the perpetrators. It should be incumbent on YC to ensure that before any angel or VC is given access to any founders that they are screened for such behavior, including a background check for incidents that happened before they got involved in YC. Anything less is just posturing.
It's strange how much vitriol the author spends against "Blockchain" while being dismissive of its technical merits. In short, I agree -- Blockchain is not the end-all and be-all. It's a natural evolution of the idea of git (and its predecessors) of using a one-sided Merkle tree to compactly store an unforgeable chain of information.

But let's take the word "blockchain" out of this. Is the claim really, "Cryptocurrencies aren't about democracy and decentralisation -- they're about greed."? I mean, the set of cryptocurrencies isn't a short story, they're not "about" anything. So let's assume that we're talking about cryptocurrency supporters.

"All cryptocurrency supporters are not interested in democracy and decentralisation -- they're just greedy". Okay, better, but let's get rid of absolutes.

"Many cryptocurrency supporters are not interested in democracy and decentralisation -- they're just greedy". Okay, now I think we have a statement that is likely true, but is so bland as to be meaningless.

His testimony to the Senate [1] makes a lot of similar points, but the one that I find most annoying because I don't know how an economist can say it, is the line about bitcoin being deflationary:

> That means if a steady- state supply of Bitcoin really did gradually replace a fiat currency, the price index of all goods and services would continuously fall.

This statement, along with so many others talking about Bitcoin is exactly equivalent to saying that "Bitcoin will always increase in value". I'm as big a fan of the potential of Bitcoin as the next person, but even I find this to be ridiculous.

[1] https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Roubini%20Testi...
>Why would anyone make a "total conversion" mod instead of just making the game themselves using free modern tools?

A TC mod for a game gives you some distinct advantages, especially if distributed through the Steam Workshop:

1. One click installation - the Steam client takes care of everything for you.

2. Community forums and news feeds already set up - you can get instant feedback from players

3. Easier to get a foothold on someone's machine - it's easier to get someone to install your game knowing that it's a TC for a game they already have (so they may have some notion about the quality of the assets and engine) as opposed to trying to convince someone to install a completely new game.