skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If Facebook decided to ban all Chinese, Islamic, or African-American content, then the conversation would be completely different.

Also, if they decided to ban all White content, it would be different.

White and White nationalist aren't the same thing; please stop insulting White people that aren't racists by implicitly equating them.
I REMEMBER THOSE! Wow.

Really, that campaign is a great way of showing younger folk just what they're taking for granted, and what used to be thought of as "futuristic", and how close the present matches the predicted future.
Ask HN: Do you think the internet will become oversaturated?
With over a billion websites on the internet, and petabytes of increasing data per day, do you think the internet has a useful limit of data saturation?
I didn't say any of those things, and I'm not interested in overly confrontational discussions.
Why just white? I've read asian nationalism (incl. in US) happens to be nasty too. E.g. an asian-american girl dated a white boy and had to face lots of ridiculous hate speech in Facebook.
pro-Islamist != pro-ISIS. It is completely fallacious.
What is the AI cold start problem your solving?
30% of Google ML workload is LSTM. Only 5% is CNN. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/an-in-depth-look-...
Schmidhuber should have gotten the award too.
Google's was not using Oracle's virtual machine, and their attorneys were not frauds, but they've been tied up in litigation for most of a decade and are facing potentially ten billion dollars in penalties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....

Java is not a responsible or ethical choice for anybody to use for any purpose.
I make about $200/month thanks to Spotify listing my podcast. Their partnership with Anchor.fm has really helped push my pod forward because the new features on anchor, since the acquisition, have helped me pinpoint an audience.

https://open.spotify.com/show/0jW7nOHQNi1Xlr3v7UMi2p
This is an interesting point. Netflix has survived multiple price increases over the years, but they offer content that isn't available anywhere else. I think what will probably happen is one music streaming service will raise prices and the others will eventually follow.
I am surprised their PR team didn't advise them to use the neutral term "ethno-nationalist."
The really simple solution is to only have the gag for non- corporate accounts. Then again a lot of people (myself included) use their personal email for buisness. Yet people also use non-domain windows licenses for buisness use and get angry when updates are automatically installed.

I think this is just part of the trend of tech companies becoming more corporate and traditional as expectations increase.
Causal evaluation of urban greenway on physical activity and sedentary behavior
I'm pretty sure most workers in NYC live 2+ hours away too, unless they're in a rent controlled or rent stabilized apartment (of which there are many). Subway commutes have gotten hellishly bad in the last few years so even people with previously more moderate commutes often have much longer ones now.
Only version available for export, about half the price.
> They're not doing it to stand up against hate [...]. They're doing it for political expediency and PR.

I mean, sure. But I'm so used to FB doing the wrong thing, that them doing the right thing for self-serving reasons seems like a welcome change of pace. Maybe someday they'll even do the right things for the right reasons?

...yeah, probably not. But still.
I think if they allow public signups then they should not have the ability to censor anybody, except by court order or to comply with the laws of the users region.

Because of course "anything I don't agree with is hitler" is a problem and an inevitability. Its fine if they do not allow public sign ups and all people they are publishing are considered employees or enter into contract with the company but facebook, twitter etc. are different animals and I really don't see how anybody supporting free speech can support facebook inhibiting the speech of certain people.
Yes, that's unfortunate and I think he's handled it well there. It was the same with the guy who did a windows implementation, didn't want to work with the upstream so is rife for fragmenting the protocol long-term
Function follows form?
I'd say yes. Sports can be a big deal and people who love sports but aren't gifted athletically sometimes do pick an angle to be aligned with it early on for their career. There are even sports-focused MBA programs out there.

University of Oregon MBA offers a "First in the nation sports business program" [1] where an undergraduate team manager position might not hurt to have on your application and in your application letters.
[1] https://business.uoregon.edu/mba
You do end up criminalizing numbers though.
Preaching what I like, and I'm not into extreme performance much:

- Ruby for most things (most generalist language I know)

- JS for whatever can't be done in Ruby

- Other languages when anything really can't be done (or a magnitude harder) in JS or Ruby

I think just trying out to make some simple thing (e.g. an Hacker News scrapper) in different languages will tell you much more than any person's opinions.

https://learnxinyminutes.com helps grabs the basics of a language quickly (especially as you are familiar with other languages).
Plenty of things acquired a lock on it, including ground-based SAM sites. That's the easy part.
> Facebook has a complete and unalienable right to do this on their platform (fact)

If you remove "unalienable", then yes, that's correct. Future legislation and regulation could definitely change that.
That exchange is not realistic, it's easy to ID family or friends by how they conversate. At worst you can ask a challenge question. The prompt that a device has changed is perfect to heighten senses for a quick ID. I disagree that physical contact is necessary as TFA (and industry lore) seem to recommend:

> You must now reestablish identity, and in almost all cases, this means meeting in person and comparing "safety numbers" with every last one of your contacts

Perhaps the alert could be a little more alerty and in red and read something along the lines of "Hey! Your buddy's safety code has changed, make sure they sound normal and aren't acting weird and creepy asking for information"
Corporations hate things that make us human, humour, ambiguity, sex and emotion.

Unless they are monetising them.
Study: Good Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure Makes Neighbors Healthier
Just to clear things up, this is a desktop app that you install and run by double clicking, just like any other app. It's designed to work with your numpad (either the numeric keypad built into your main keyboard, or a separate USB one).

You drag and drop commands like "type text" and "open folder" onto each of the buttons of your numpad. When you then press that numpad button, your automation is triggered!

However, to let people hook up their macropads, I made it also listen out for the keyboard shortcuts ctrl + alt + 1, ctrl + alt + 2 etc. as numpad button 1, numpad button 2 etc. respectively.

So if you can make your macropad do the keyboard shortcut ctrl + alt + 1, then my software will behave exactly the same as if you pressed numpad button 1 and will trigger the associated automation.

Let me know if you have any questions about your specific use case!
I disagree. Production code has to deal with anomalies and failure in a graceful way that allows recovery and identification of the fault. That's not something that's taught in academia at any level, perversely.

And it takes time to learn how to use software tools effectively in a standard way in a production environment that others can understand and extend and maintain. This isn't taught in academia either, and usually it takes several years in the real world for these skills to mature and integrate into the practice of writing good pro code.

A PhD offers no advantage in this school of hard knocks.
Can confirm, I used to run it on a WiFi-only tablet, having confirmed the number of my featurephone (which didn't have WhatsApp at all).
I used to play a lot of poker online back in the day, two lessons stuck with me:

Speaking to the variance of the game:
"Eventually you will run worse than you ever thought possible"

Poker teaches, contrary to most business literature, to not be results oriented. It is the decision not the result that matters.
"You can do everything right and still lose".
If you are talking about becoming competent professional programmers, it absolutely can be learned, but "days" is laughably inaccurate.

I've often had the task of guiding phd's in making the transition. In my experience, the most motivated ones can do it in six months, but most take a year or two (or never get there).

ymmv, of course.
That so many people from California will move to Texas over the next 20 years that it will change the voting population’s habits and Texas will get a state income tax.
The ADA definition of a public accommodation only applies in the application of the ADA, not the Civil Rights Act.
No one is saying that the "royalty" direction should be in the same angle as an axis, or that it should be in the same direction every time you train word2vec of course. It doesn't mean that that direction doesn't exist, and that word2vec doesn't code for such a Royalty direction (or region)
Consider what would happen if AOL blocked communications by a competitor, or say political speech by a popular group? I can not guarantee it, but I ascribe very high probability to the outcome being very different. If so, the conclusion is not that the provider can do whatever they want, but they can do whatever they want as long as they serve public interest. Which means, the current politics defines what they can do and what they can't.

AOL would have still won. That case didn't turn on the content of the spam. It absolutely was predicated on AOL's rights to control its own software/community.

Companies block competitor ads all the time. Companies frequently refuse to air or display political ads.
A hack close to home: parking garage hit with ransomware
There are some (mostly Brazilians) who would disqualify the Wright Flyer as the first airplane on the grounds that it took off from a rail. Is the engine breathing air really an essential part of the "airplane" definition? Solar Impulse 2 didn't breath air either, yet wasn't it an airplane too?

@DuskStar

It's certainly a glider on reentry. Now, most speed records for planes are "in level flight" which would disqualify the shuttle during reentry. But if we ignore that it's interesting that the speed record for manned aircraft is held by a glider, and the speed records for RC aircraft are also held by gliders! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoaWlKC3wIM
Why are white people specifically targeted

They're not. Why is white nationalism specifically targeted? Because there's a lot of it in the US and the anglosphere in general which is Facebook's home and primary market.

I've seen plenty of Hindu nationalist content on Facebook, and [...]

Well, that's something they should be addressing too and I agree it has significant negative effects. At least now you know who to address at Facebook about it. I know other people have been making that exact complaint to Facebook, such as members of the Dalit caste who have been on the receiving end of violence from Hindu extremists with very reactionary views on caste.
> Raising taxes would certainly harm me. In fact, in much more direct way than impotent babble of bunch of idiots obsessed with the color of their epidermis. So I guess we should start with banning any speech advocating raising taxes?

So impotent that they never walked into a synagogue or mosque and shot up a bunch of people. Oh wait...
Compass is a solid product shipping with Mongo these days as well. I missed having something like that many years ago when first trying Mongo.
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Oh, yes, agreed that proptest is way more viable here and probably a good solution to pair with miri.
> but really as a backstop to what we can't do with drones, missiles, and satellites

...yet?

Will it not be most likely the last manned fighter jet?
I can't believe people are applauding this.

The whole "you can go make your own platform, facebook/google/twitter/youtube doesn't owe you anything" excuse is bullshit. Look at what happened when people DID try to make their own platform with Gab. They were DDOSed and people uploaded child porn and then reported it to try to get the whole site shut down to prevent people who were silenced elsewhere from talking there too. They're behaving more like the nazis than the white nationalists!

Cheering on authoritarian censorship of things you don't want to hear doesn't make you virtuous it makes you a coward.

The solution to bad speech isn't censorship, it's better speech:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

-Martin Niemöller
There are line-by-line debuggers for COBOL, with breakpoints, variable inspection, etc. It's not very different from debugging anything else.
it concerns the issue that the system cannot draw any inferences for users or items about which it has not yet gathered sufficient training data.

https://driverbase.com/company/cold-start-machine-learning-c...
https://www.checkpeople.com/background-check
There is a relatively far line from 'free speech' to 'free speech that actively encourages discrimination, harm of others, or infringing on others rights'

As a private platform, Facebook is free to curb the topic you have suggested, in the same way you are free to avoid said private platform.
Cost. The F-22 costs $200M+ per plane. The F-35 cost $94M for the small initial production runs, and that's expected to come down as production volumes go up and the program cost (which includes large fixed costs like software and tooling) gets amortized over the production run.

One F-22 vs one F-35 is a contest obviously in favor of the F-22. One F-22 vs. three F-35s becomes a lot more ambiguous, particularly when we are not at war and there's no guarantee that any of these planes will do anything more than force projection.

(The F-35 very much seems like a peacetime fighter to me, and that may be exactly what the U.S. needs right now. History has shown that basically all your assumptions about how the next war will unfold go out the window once the next war actually starts. Under those conditions, it may make more sense to try out a bunch of new technologies, keep the defense contractors alive and the aeronautical engineers employed, contain costs, and build enough numbers that you don't get completely steamrolled in the early days of a war. Then when war actually does break out, you rapidly adjust and build the planes that you actually need, when you have real data about what's winning on the battlefield.)
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Thanks. that's helpful.
A Love Letter to the Pretend Pirates of Europe from the Real Pirates of SiliconV
They're small, light weight, and about 80% fuel. Without a squishy human on board, rockets can accelerate very quickly.
I don't think he was doing that. He was trying to say that racial discrimination would not be an acceptable reason, I believe. I didn't take it the way you are suggesting at least.
But there's a difference. Microsoft Research indeed hires mostly PhDs as researchers. That makes sense since they do academic research and publish papers like they are in academia. People with PhDs spent years in grad school doing exactly that.

In other places it makes less sense. And it's good not to make generalizations. If we take ML as an example, there are many excellent people without a PhD and also many PhDs that are great engineers and can write code as good as the best engineers.
It's a mix of things I think. First we haven't had a really big breakthrough in engine technology in a while and second there's no need to risk a person piloting these anymore because computers and remote control tech has gotten good enough.
>I consider myself a free speech absolutist. Or very nearly so.

You're not. You're a coward.
I lost my message history on Whatsapp recently just because I decided to rollback from the Android Q beta. Doesn't always have to be a new piece of hardware.
Additional users help us improve the quality of generated recommendations. Every time a new user joins driverbase the recommendation quality improves for everyone.
The Laundry Files Has Been Optioned for TV
The Koch's give money to lots of nice people.
they could just use their algorithm to make unwanted content insignificant...
This will not quench the problem with nationalists, it just drive them to other plattforms and they will become more radicalized because they only hear their own voices there.
I am no longer a free speech absolutist. And the reason I am not is the sort of abstract, angels-on-a-pinhead bullshit arguments that fill the responses to the parent post. The more it can be abstracted to "free speech", the less oxygen there is for discussion of the real harm caused by white supremacist thought and white supremacist actions.

I put the safety of society at large first. And if you think that's oppressing you, maybe you should ask yourself why.
Delivering death with a smile.
Presumably people who support this policy wouldn't consider it a bolstering of free speech, whether it's justified or not.
> It ends, as it always does (and must) with massive hypocrisy on the part of the arbitrary censor, since "harm" is so poorly defined that it ends up being replaced with "whatever seems fashionable today".

You are defending literal nazis. Their idea of speech is Christchurch. Deplatforming that is absolutely the correct move.
I was not familiar with A-12 and looked it up. Wow.

With the wingtips are folded up, the A-12 looks like something out of Star Wars.

The triangular shape is reminiscent of B-2 Spirit, though these are of course completely different beasts. Both the A-12 and B-2 were designed during roughly the same era, late 1980s. I guess there was some kind of cross-pollination of ideas (maybe via DARPA) for a triangular design to appear like this?
Ah, ok, I can understand more from that angle then, but it looks like the Austin manual growth rate hasn't markedly increased in recent decades:

http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/austin-population...
Ask HN: How often do you write custom SQL reports at your job?
At the last startup company I worked at as a backend dev, I was frequently asked to build SQL queries for the marketing, operations, and customer service teams. Typically, they would then dump the results into a spreadsheet and build charts or dashboards there.

I'm curious if you've experienced this as well, or does your startup just use a BI tool like Looker or Tableau for this?

I really enjoy writing SQL, but I'm not sure how marketable of a skill it is with all of the data analysis tools that are out there. Thanks!
Great article! Might be worth adding that too much dropout can cause your model to never converge, which would be creating a model that "sucks!"
Palantir wins major Pentagon contract, beating out traditional military vendors
Like it doesn't scale technically? Like it doesn't scale from a business perspective? That it dies a cultural heat death?
Isn't selective enforcement kind of inevitable? There is no algorithm that can follow code of conduct 'rules' perfectly. You are always going to be able to find instances where the rules aren't applied perfectly.
> I don’t know what’s gotten into Microsoft lately. Remember when it was the Death Star, monopolistically glowering over technopolis and threatening to cut off the air supply of competitors and regulators alike?

Microsoft is a relative underdog now (among the tech giants). Underdogs tend to benefit more, personally, from the greater good, and also have less clout with which to push others around. This makes them come off as being more humble, and if they're smart they lean into that image in their public relations. Just look at AMD and T-Mobile.

With this move Microsoft is trying to fertilize a shared resource, investing some of its own money but also hoping to pressure Amazon - the company it's trying to get a leg up on - to invest alongside it. Amazon has less need for the shared resource and would have to contribute a greater amount to it. On top of that, Microsoft gets some positive PR. It's a smart move.

Edit: I've been informed that Microsoft is currently #1 in market cap, so not an underdog overall. They feel like an underdog in most isolated product categories, but maybe this really is purely a PR move.
How many people are realistically going to pester their friends & relatives with "challenge questions"? I bet even the majority of folks in the HN crowd don't/wouldn't.
It’s more an indictment on the kid’s parents than the kid himself.

No idea what the VC was like as a dad, but what if he worked all the time and never saw his kid growing up and come year 17 just try to buy his kid into school to make up for not actually parenting...
But you are not allowed to suppress the speech of people based on the views they hold. The first amendment does indeed protect even racists.

Or at least corporations and the government are not allowed to.
> if someone thinks they can create a white ethnostate without violence, that's their political opinion. ... that view in itself is not hate speech.

This is certainly an opinion as well, but my view is that the concept of a white ethnostate alone is hateful. Whether or not one can or can't be created without violence is immaterial.

Should people be able to talk about a hypothetical white ethnostate in academic, research, or news-reporting capacities? Sure. But simply promoting a white ethonostate as something that is wanted is, IMO, hateful.
Or even DNC candidates, if they're actual progressives: https://decisiondata.org/news/political-media-blackouts-pres...
This is such an elegant solution, I'm surprised I don't see it recommended more! I never would have thought to use defer to clean up the error catching noise.
Pence calls for Nasa to send humans to the moon within five years
...because nazis can't use Facebook to plan the next Christchurch?

I feel like maaaaaybe there's a few steps in between the two.
???

That's not a lot of money.

You donate USD50 Million, most schools are gonna make sure your kid, (and through your kid, your family's money), keep going to their institution. At less than say, 1 million? That's not really gonna turn any heads at a place like USC or Texas. Probably would get you some time in the luxury boxes for football and basketball games though. (At least, I would think it would??? Unless football at schools like Texas, USC, Ohio State, Alabama etc is even bigger than I think it is.)

But yeah, the guy or gal who donates USD50 Million plus...

You better believe at any school, he or she will be getting his or her OWN luxury box.
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It is not clear to me that US foreign policy has been good for the Middle East.
Is the space shuttle a plane?
Yeah it will come down... nobody is disputing that. The worry is that in the meantime it could hit some other satellite, causing more debris. Yes the likelihood is vanishingly small. But the consequences of an unlucky event could be large.
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