skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Academia boycotting the military won't destroy the MIC. It will simply move all military research into military sectors, because if you can train a person to kill, you can train them to do science.
One thing that’s come out of this years’ posts by various people is that, after those features have landed, people generally do want things to be done. These features shore up major weaknesses in the language for various domains, but there’s not really things not in that list that many people still extremely desire.
> but learned behaviours are the problem?

Regulation can codify those bad 'learned behaviours' into illegal practices, no?
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A remix is a different work. A different encoding of the same piece is not a different work.

If by "different master" you mean a separate recording of a different performance of the song, then yes, it is a different "work" - a separate copyrightable sound recording, but it is the same work of the song writer.

Re-mastering may or may not create a separately copyrightable work, depending on the creative expression that goes into the re-mastering.

Encoding to cassette, CD, mp3, audio stream in various formats is a mechanical process, not a separate "creative expression" that receives or deserves separate copyright protection.
Go is undeniably very useful, just feels like such drudgery actually working with it.
This isn't quite true. There's a lot more to CPU performance than how fast it can process instructions. Someone configured Intel's 9900k at 500mhz 8 cores and compared it to 4Ghz 1 core. The actual performance characteristics are vastly different. If I had to choose between 10x more cores or 10x faster cores, I'd choose more cores.
Interesting how this is covered in the New York Times, while earlier, AlphaZero (and its predecessor AlphaGo) showed the similar kind of insight in playing go (a much more complicated game than chess) coming up with moves that humans would dismiss almost immediately. Since then, go playing professionals have started to imitate this style of playing. I guess the same will happen with professional chess players in the coming years: there will be a less strong focus on material and more on positioning. Because AlphaZero cares less about pieces, but more about their position and abilities to attach and/or defend.
A truly devious political machination: doing what your constituents want.
Look up Bogleheads and their Lazy Portfolios, this may help you understand some different scenarios.

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Lazy_portfolios
Why do so many farmers have diabetes?
I think this is a more important point that is always missed in free market debates. You need not only perfect information, but also unlimited computation power and skill to compute necessary information. If you can get a CSV file of global potato and onion producers with transportation cost, but you have no means of solving this TSP problem, you will not make an optimal decision.

In particular, relevant to this thread, if you have a magical CSV file created by an Oracle associating every food available in US with how "healthy" they are and how much calory they provide, in order to build a 2500 calory diet that maximizes health and minimizes cost, you need to solve a knapsack-like problem. In this environment market will necessarily be a little random not because we don't have enough information but because we don't have enough computational power.
These platforms are becoming the de facto public square, and there is not necessarily room for a bunch of competing platforms to function collectively as a public square; one will tend to dominate for each form of content, it appears.

These platforms are supposed to do two things:

- blog/media hosting, both storage and web distribution

- Handling regulatory and coding requirements for accepting payments, via a trustworthy single payee... so that subscribers aren't having to provide credit card numbers to every random content creator out there

These platforms are violating expectations by going beyond solving those problems and trying to be a nanny. We don't need nannies on the internet.

They aren't even doing a good job of being a neutral nanny. On patreon, there is a ton of objectionable content depending on your point of view and morality. (On youtube, there is a ton of garbage content, though not much adult/erotic material because it's mostly banned.) If either platform cared about the perception of their platforms being a place for content appropriate for a formal dinner party, they wouldn't operate as they do now.

In the case of Patreon, if someone doesn't like a patreon creator's content, they don't have to subscribe to it.
Patreon content is discoverable, but it's not self-promoted by Patreon, so people aren't generally going to see much that they find objectionable. For platforms like youtube, which use subscriptions/histories to recommend other videos unsolicited, there needs to be a better tagging system so visitors can blacklist tags that will trigger them. Other than that, these platforms are not, and should not pretend to be, in the nanny business. And everyone needs to have a thick enough skin that they can encounter a summary, title, or first few seconds of a video they find offensive and simply laugh it off as internet idiots being idiots, and navigate elsewhere rather than pretending they have moral justification to complain to platforms about content that is neither violence-promoting nor defamatory.
> Have you considered that we see the growing use of Nazi lingo because the amount of violence being committed by neo-nazis is rising?

I think the rise in calling other people Nazis is more a symptom of political polarization than of a resurgence of violent national socialist gangs. To that end, I think the media itself is vastly more culpable than r/the_donald or gab.

Are they organizing and rallying more? Yeah, it seems so. Does censoring them on youtube or patreon keep them from organizing? No...but it does smell of the beginnings of what the communist which hunt was 70 years ago, and the collateral damage that came with it.

When everyone starts banning Nazis, then the answer to "What actually is a Nazi?" becomes "anything I do not like."
I believe the answer is yes, in that no one is forced to read spam or flyers.
There isn’t a fine line. One is based on a person’s beliefs. The other is based on a person’s genetics.
I don’t think there’s any plans to move Zircon. It’s also less pressing, IMHO, since it is a microkernel. Maybe someday, but if I were in charge, it wouldn’t be super high in my list.
Is it interesting? It sounds mind-numbingly dull trudging across 921 miles of ice.
It is not capitalism that restricts speech, it is the religious in social justice that does that through seeking institutional roles and abusing their power in those roles. A tool of favor is to couple that with mobs pretending to be outraged in order to pressure a social justice belief into a corporation.

Our society has a separation between a secular state and religious practice for this purpose, and we must restrict social justice abuses using those tools.

See Areo article here for a more in depth argument for this: https://areomagazine.com/2018/12/18/postmodern-religion-and-...
Really? How many anti-feminists are there on Hacker News? Very few, I'd say, especially as such views tend to be immediately downvoted and flagged into oblivion.

There are however plenty of people who are disturbed by the systematic way certain minorities attack and destroy speech about ideas that are, objectively, commonplace and popular (just look at opinion polls).

Even the top voted comment on this whole thread talks about disquiet over censorship whilst ending by saying they're a left leaning socialist. Of course, this statement should not be necessary to make, but it is - it's a form of "don't shoot I'm on your side".
Referencing McCarthy’s “friendly” networks and TV shows misses the point. “Disgusting” viewpoints can today be had on Drudge Report and numerous other places friendly to that viewpoint.

Murrow had spent much of the previous year criticizing McCarthy’s attacks on freedom of speech and association.

The equivalent today would be Rachel Maddow giving an entire episode to Trump to do with as he wished.

Murrow did not have to do this - in fact he was under great pressure to just drop the thing entirely by his network. He did so because he thought it right to expose his audience to ideas other than his own. Many in the news business felt the same at the time.
I actually find that terms like "frequency" are a distraction here. Maybe I am odd, but for me the FFT is easier to understand when you think of the DFT in terms of roots of unity (i.e. nth roots of 1), and writing out the DFT as a matrix involving those roots. Basically, if you take only the first half of the even rows of the DFT matrix of size NxN, you get a DFT matrix of size (N/2)x(N/2); this is basically because if W is an Nth root of 1 then W^2 is an (N/2)th root. The other key observation is that the elements of the odd rows can be computed from the first half of the even rows by multiplying by powers of W (this is basic algebra), so from an (N/2)x(N/2) DFT matrix you can compute an NxN DFT matrix (hence the FFT).

There are two reasons I like this approach. The first is that it is the only way to understand the number-theoretic transform, which is very useful in cryptography (among other things). The second is that you can use the same reasoning to divide the DFT in other ways (e.g. into thirds, or fifths, etc.). The downside is that it is more abstract so if all you care about is signal processing you need to somehow connect abstract "roots of unity" with complex frequencies (but that is probably not too bad if you are comfortable with complex frequencies).
> I could also interpret the data presented in the completely opposite way: these psychological biases have helped us choose people more apt for these positions.

You mean that baby-like facial features do actually make black men more competent in decision-making roles?
The future of machine learning definitely lies in the vicinity of some combination of hierarchical reinforcement learning for training agents to achieve the tasks we want.

It’s amazing to see that DeepMind continues to be at the forefront of this ML leap, and I can’t be more excited to see what comes out in the future!
You write "he's no racist".

The SPLC did not say he is a racist, did they? I didn't see that in the text I mentioned, but perhaps they said it elsewhere? If not, then you don't need to take their word for something they didn't say.

They did make an association between him and racism, so let's examine that connection.

This thread exists because of an NYT article about an action by Patreon where Patreon, at https://patreonhq.com/hate-speech-on-patreon-a9026e52c2cf and mentioned elsewhere in this thread - says he "used racial slurs to insult others and specifically linked those slurs with negative generalizations of behavior, in contrast to how people of other races act." You can confirm that those are some pretty racist statements.

Now, I know that some people demur stating that someone is a racist for doing racist things. Are you making that distinction?

Even if you don't think he's a racist for making those comment, it is enough to support the SPLC association of him with racism, yes? If not, why not?
> That deplatforming deprives the person being deplatformed of a platform is obvious, to the point that it's effectively a tautology. However, concluding that this means deplatforming is effective is extremely naive. When tech companies engage in acts of censorship like deplatforming, it causes many do lose trust in the perceived lack of partiality of these platforms. So while individual people getting censored may see their audiences diminish, support for the views they espouse and distrust of the authority carrying out the censorship often increase. In case it wasn't clear, the lack of efficacy in deplatforming I referred to in my previous comment was in reference to attempts to curb ideas and political movements - not individuals within those.

It didn't just impact the individuals, it reduced the behavior site-wide.

> Again, deplatforming gained traction in the early to mid 2010s. It coincides more or less directly with the rise of the Alt Right. Increases in deplatforming is correlated with support for the far right, not against it.

This is a pretty clear correlation/causality confusion. If factor A is on the rise and triggers reaction B, you cannot use the rise of B to prove that B caused A. Now, your narrative may be correct, but the narrative story you've provided does not demonstrate it.
I think I get it. I would have thought plain, free-spinning wheels could serve the role of the keel (I guess they do in a normal sail car), but you need to transmit that keel action from the wheels on the ground to the sort of virtual cylindrical Earth the propeller lives in.
Those are not frameworks, those are apps that ship as part of the system. Apple has not and seemingly will not deprecate Objective-C for third party developers. They haven’t even rewritten any significant code in Swift, IIRC. Maybe parts of launchd?
So, when it's too late?
That would be a good argument if Gab didn't also keep getting shut down, deplatformed and generally targeted by lots of activists who would love to erase it from the net entirely.

The goal of the sort of people doing this is that there are no alternatives. Not competing platforms, not self hosting, nothing. They want to erase all such thought from all public spaces and will not stop until they do.

That is the problem.
This is super helpful, thanks! :-)
Lots of people don't realize that 1 cup milk has 13g sugar from the lactose.

For comparison, a typical sugar packet is 2-4g.

(This is why cereal + milk is probably just about the unhealthiest thing possible to start your day).

It's a good idea to switch from the sugary/milky Starbucks drinks to anything else - like cold brew, or black coffee where you add trace amounts of sugar/cream yourself, if any.
Ben Kuipers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Kuipers, http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers/) is an incredibly nice man and good professor, and while I was at UT Austin he was the department chairman at least once. I never took a class from him and I don't even have any funny or embarrassing stories about him. In person, he's sounds very much like he writes here.
Meditation. Being able to direct your attention, to be present in difficult situations, to care about others when it's easier to worry about oneself, and to be willing to see truths that contradict one's self-image. There is much to be gained from this simple practice, and much to be lost from foregoing it.

"the faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention over and over again is the very root of judgment, character, and will. [...] An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence." - William James
"The underlying bureaucratic key is the ability to deal with boredom."

Absolutely beautiful. It so wonderfully captures the essence of modern day work life so well.

This is also pertinent to much of corporate america as well. Corporate office jobs are prone to magic of ennui and boredom.

I've often wondered how people dealt with office work or jobs before the internet? Did they play solitaire and minesweeper all day?
sandov is saying that the data presented in the article could be interpreted that way. I don't think sandov is actually advocating for that interpretation.
It’s not about the sound, it’s about the mechanics of performance.

On an alto sax, ‘A’ is 370Hz

On a tenor sax, ‘A’ 237Hz

But in both cases it’s the note you get when you close only the 2nd hole.

Because of the transposing convention, if you take someone who can sight read, but is familiar only with the alto sax, and hand them a baritone sax and baritone sax sheet music... they’ll basically be fine.

If all saxophone sheet music encoded A=440hz, they’d have to relearn which note on paper corresponds to which set of buttons.

That said, the relationship between the instruments in a family is important, but the specific keys are a historical accident.

In woodwinds specifically, the instruments that ‘won’ and remain common are mostly b-flat, with e-flat in second place. If we could take all existing woodwind sheet music and shift the notes up 3 semitones, we’d instead have ‘c’ and ‘g’ woodwinds, where ‘c’ meant it matches non-transposing instruments.

We could start doing that now, but no-one’s really interested in making a breaking change.
ARM has some interesting power and heat advantages over Intel/AMD at the moment. Power and Cooling make up significant costs for cloud providers (and for many companies, for that matter), especially on the cloud storage side. For a fair number of the services, particularly ones with very bursting workloads, that superior idle CPU usage, and reduced heat output is _very_ interesting. It opens up a number of possibilities where "good enough" performance is actually good enough, and the extra rack density provides some strong advantages, _particularly_ in easily parallelisable workloads (or completely independent workloads happening in parallel, for example functions as a service)

Amazon isn't just providing ARM CPU servers because of customer demand, and nor is it just to get leverage with Intel. That's not the way they tend to work. They're providing them so that they can leverage them in-house as well. Amazon just likes to take the position that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. If it's good for them, there's bound to be customers that will find it good for them also, and as you sell it to customers, you get to those advantages of scale much quicker.
The cure to racism isn’t isolation.
Hmm. I don’t know what their marketing is like in the US, but it’s certainly nothing close to responsible/healthy where I am. Their thing has always been trying to be the social space of choice for young adults here - i.e. if you want to hang out with friends or kill time you go to Starbucks.
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As someone who's first language is not English it comes off more as a mark of pedant writing. Some folks might enjoy the "storytelling", but it's really annoying when the author goes in circles and gets nowhere until you've read more than half of the text. Like that joke that goes on forever and ends without a punchline, that some people tell when they just want to pull your leg. And whether it's done by the centuries-old extremely-prestigious my-dad-is-very-important The Atlantic or some random person's blog it's just as annoying.
> I wonder how they're combining all of those images.

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

Mapillary's open contribution (Structure from Motion pipeline):

https://github.com/mapillary/OpenSfM
I'm sure you can get natural yoghurt from Coop. Maybe they just use a different culture from what you are used to.
Dogmatic is the word you’re looking for
There clearly is such demand. However, all such services require partnership with other services, that's the nature of a modern economy - there's always a supply chain. And the sort of liberals who are systematically trying to shut down all conservatives from the internet will also systematically attack those supply chains, from web hosting to DNS to bandwidth. They will never stop, they will never cease because their goal is totalitarian control over thought and ideas. They are not the majority, but they are significantly more vicious and the majority is largely passive.

We have seen this over and over. Any organisation that provides some sort of useful service will inevitably end up hiring activist employees that take extreme positions and threaten to cause as much chaos as they can if they don't get their way with regards to eliminating conservative customers.
I’m assuming the same.
> What makes you think that their bias is not good for them as a business?

Well it caused me to cancel all of my subscriptions. It caused Sam Harris to cancel his account. It caused a lot of people to look for alternatives. I'm pretty sure this decision hurt Patreon's bottom line.

> Either their payment processors would cut them off, or they would face a larger and better organized boycott by those who prefer their current bias.

I don't think that's true, at least not with most of the Patreon bans. Nobody was organizing a boycott of Patreon for this, and Patreon's blog post didn't say they were pressured by payment processors. Another example: When Cloudflare stopped hosting The Daily Stormer, it was because Cloudflare's CEO didn't like them claiming that Cloudflare was a secret supporter of their racist ideology. And today Cloudflare seems to have no trouble with payment processors or boycotts despite hosting the Westboro Baptist Church's website.[1]

1. https://www.godhatesfags.com/
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I think one of the bigger complaints as I understand it, is that Patreon is a de facto monopoly in this space and their rules for these circumstances are arbitrary and capricious.

The outstanding question seems to be whether this merits a degree of outrage, not whether we as a society should pass some laws that would protect creators from Patreon.

I know very little about Sargon of Akkad, but as I understand it, his comments were made in a video in which he was being interviewed, not a video that was being funded by Patreon. There's some question about the context of the comments, as to whether he was making them as an example of something a nazi might say or whether they were directed at a particular group. I don't really know.

Patreon's response was that when one of their creators exhibited behavior they didn't approve of outside of their platform (i.e. videos funded through them) that they would demand contrition and be the sole arbiter as to whether that contrition was sufficient.

Sounds worthy of a little outrage to me.
The crazy part is that a lot of people would go absolutely insane if their sugar was to be cut off all of a sudden.

That's the one thing we don't want to hear. And in doing so, pretend that everything is great. The same goes for canned and long shelf-life food.

If you eat a healthy diet then getting naturally occuring sugars is not a problem.

And I understand the argument that eating 'healthy' might not be possible for everyone. Especially someplace like US where organic food costs ten times more than anything else.
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I'm not voicing agreement with your parent comment, but for a better understanding more data is needed than just broad correlations. Without additional information you cannot accurately pinpoint where causalities begin and end as well as why and how they exist to begin with.

As long as people perceive a stimulus in a certain way (even if they have no rational reason to), it will have an effect that cannot easily be removed. The decisions that a CEO makes are important, but how others perceive them are also important to the very end, not just in the hiring or promotions processes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z228xymQYho
You just explained my point for me by giving a perfect example. We have no idea why any of these correlations hold or why they would lead to any particular change in pain experiences. For god's sake indeed.

This explanation of "why" ibuprofen works is as good as the article's explanation of "why" exaggeration jokes work. It's so unfortunate that otherwise rational people have been made incurious by modern education, enough to believe that "there is a change in the level of one neurotransmitter" is a good explanation for "why a pain medicine works".
If it can run through evidence arbitrarily wouldn't that imply better general utility as a detective than a framer? "Given the available evidence and remotely plausible suspect pool x is a way better match than y."