skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What about the legal risk associated with letting the Frog Brigade post their terrorist cookbook on your platform?

Like I said, banning illegal content is the first step that anyone ought to take. Generally this is done via moderation staff of the site + user submitted reports. If you're providing a free platform and terrorists start using it as their communication channel, then you're only at legal risk if you do nothing to stop them. However, I'm imagining things like the NZ shooter's 8chan post, where a direct threat is made or a direct implication of violent acts to come. Posting a "terrorist cookbook" actually is a good example, as its sort of right on the line. It seems to be the sort of information that only has negative uses, on the other hand its just information, as opposed to an actual threat. I'm not really sure if such things should be allowed... it could be helpful to terrorists which is bad, but also censoring information is nearly impossible and almost always seems the wrong way to go.

>Does Zuckerberg have to come to their house and load the bullets into the gun for them so they can make a statement about how angry they are? Because he made an app for people to cheat? I fail to see the connection.

As do I...I really don't get what you're trying to say here, can you restate?
> SV CEOs go on interview shows and talk about getting advice from each other.

This describes basically every big company CEO in existence, and hardly proves the idea of collusion.

> They behave in concert, often taking similar actions on the same target, all on the same day.

That's hardly surprising. Media attention has a habit of snowballing, even absent active collusion. It's pretty easy to mistake the two.
And we still don't know if/how biological brains perform backpropagation. Perhaps we should consider calling NNs "weight networks" instead.
Modern cars are so up their own arse in those kind of things that everything costs an arm and a leg to service or replace. I'm probably sticking to 90s/earlier cars as long as I can.

They've regressed in so many ways - touch screen radios are an abomination, exorbitant key replacements/servicing in general, annoying gas flaps you can only open from inside the car, digital pedals that are usually way over-responsive.

Too many over-engineered points of possible failure - when my mother got her 2008 Nissan a while ago we couldn't figure out how to open the gas flap, turned out a handle had fallen off of a lever hidden somewhere on the floor to the side of the seat. As if gas siphoners don't probably just carry around something to pry the flaps open. And more seriously, wasn't someone recently unable to get out of a burning Tesla because the digital door handle didn't engage? Not to mention remote exploits have been found that theoretically let hackers take control of a car remotely while it's being driven and control the steering/brakes/acceleration/etc. I'll pass on the incrementally better mpg/safety.
The expression "outsider artist" is so silly, and very reflective of the culture and mindset that engendered it. As if there were a normative "inside" that "real artists" belong to, and that everything else is an anomaly of sorts. Following that definition to its logical conclusion, the overwhelming majority of artists who have lived on this planet have been "outsider artists".

Creating art is a fundamental aspect of the human condition, and this categorization serves no purpose except the ones of pompous art dealers and critics.
> how many people sell their house should they take a job further away

That's... extremely common in areas with functional, non-distorted housing markets. There's some financial friction involved in buying and selling a home, plus the obvious emotional attachment, but I nonetheless still regularly hear of people moving across town for a shorter commute or a more desirable neighborhood. It's not a huge deal unless home sales are heavily taxed or the local property tax regime favors long-term owners (the homeowner's equivalent of rent control).
Great! Then you have no legal grounds to oppose me when I hold a political rally on your front lawn tomorrow. See you then!

False. Targeted harassment of private individuals is against the law, and does not fall under Free Speech. Also, I do not have a lawn.

You will know them by their deeds. Can't convince? Instead, intimidate. Can't convince? Instead coerce. Thanks for showing your true authoritarian colors.
It really depends on the field in my experience. I probably wouldn't place too much emphasis on requiring a phd for tech. But I would probably prefer a phd in biotech jobs (bench or computational).
Do some of the people supporting white supremacy know the difference?
Does that include platforms like Andrew Anglin's Daily Stormer, which:

>can not accept cash donations via any payment processor

>has had their domains revoked from multiple providers

>is only barely able to be able to protected from (numerous, expected) DDoS attacks due to being kicked off Cloudflare, etc.

There comes a point when a person is not free to express their content on any platform on the web despite a lack of government censorship.
My point in posting this was to point out that Facebook is not a benevolent organization policing speech that disagrees with its internal morals.

Rather, it is a business that bans speech based on whether or not such speech hurts its profit margins. Those advocates of free speech should realize that Facebook is not currently a platform for speech, but rather a mass publishing company whose sole purpose is to sell adspace to marketers.

We should not expect a private company to serve the public interest out of benevolence. Moreover, it is worrisome that Facebook feels okay to ban speech -- again not based on some internal moral compass -- but rather on the whims of advertisers. It's fine to cheer when those advertisers agree with you and speech you dislike is banned, but the market is fickle, so all the people cheering this action shouldn't be shocked when Facebook bans speech you think should be there because some business doesn't like it.
I Am a Leaf on the Wind
Good point there most certainly is. And Facebook recognizes that:
>Going forward, while people will still be able to demonstrate pride in their ethnic heritage, we will not tolerate praise or support for white nationalism and separatism.

However, Facebook even now is ok with white people advocating for seperation. They claim there is a connection of white seperatism to white supremacy that made them ban it, while not banning other groups like the Basque from wanting independence.

>We didn’t originally apply the same rationale to expressions of white nationalism and separatism because we were thinking about broader concepts of nationalism and separatism — things like American pride and Basque separatism, which are an important part of people’s identity.

>But over the past three months our conversations with members of civil society and academics who are experts in race relations around the world have confirmed that white nationalism and separatism cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organized hate groups.
OK, as I started reading this article I thought, "well, OK, maybe he really did think everything was above board" until I got to the amount. $176,000 for a "college admissions consultant"? Bullshit, if he didn't explicitly know there was shady stuff going on I can't believe there wasn't at least a "see no evil/hear no evil" wink wink.

But Jesus, what's up with all these super-rich people who either (a) have totally incompetent kids or who (b) believe they have totally incompetent kids to the tune that they need all these hundreds of thousands of dollars to get into college. I always considered myself to have a privileged upbringing with relatively-upper-middle class parents, but I had to pay for my SAT prep books out of my own part-time job money.
I find that, if it's a concept completely foreign to me and it took me 30 minutes or more to figure it out, I'll write a blog post on it. (Did so, recently, with the Swedish Personnummer and Luhn Algorithms.)

This mightn't help anyone else but me but the fact that I took the time to try to explain it to someone else means I've had to try to solidify my own understanding of it before attempting to explain it to someone else - if that makes sense? Perhaps, even the fact of writing it down helps me to remember it that much more because I have to present it as consumable material to someone who may not just "get it" from the onset.
Facebook fights for the right to follow users–and nonusers–around the web
Neural network vehicle models for high-performance automated driving
Ok, we put that in the title above for disambiguity.
This describes basically every big company CEO in existence, and hardly proves the idea of collusion.

I highly doubt that excuse would hold up under discovery.
Have you ever asked a black person if being proud of being black was black supremacy?
Firstly, if someone thinks they can create a white ethnostate without violence, that's their political opinion. You may think that's native and stupid, or even that the person holding it is being duplicitous, but that view in itself is not hate speech.

Secondly, as I mentioned elsewhere, such rationalization can be used to ban a whole lot more speech than just "white ethnostate". Why is Marxism-Leninism still on Facebook? For that matter, since we're not limiting it to overt calls for violence, the mental gymnastics can be effortlessly applied to any calls to overthrow any government, when it's obvious that this cannot be done peacefully.
BS Physics - I help bring non-drug health building approaches to the masses.

I get my information from scientific articles and approaches from clinicians in the field even if you can't prove everything 1-to-1.

This approach gives me loads of credibility in a space that's filled with very unscientific approaches.

I'm deepest in probiotics and digestive health. But the basics for improving health are quite simple - good sleep discipline, clean water, understanding signs of nutrient deficiencies, blood sugar management (even for non-diabetics), stress management, movement.
Peter Thiel: Majority of capital poured into SV startups goes to 'urban slumlords'

https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/peter...
Given that these are mobile phones, a more sensible way of transferring a secret between devices would be to display a QR code on the old device and scan it on the new one. You could even make this secure against local eavesdroppers by encrypting the data in the QR code with a key provided to the devices by the server.
Yes, it is a serious question. I was worried you were going to bring up the interest deduction, and you did.

If there are people out there "sheltering" themselves from taxes by paying more in mortgage interest, those people are idiots. Any savings you gained on taxes were already wiped out by the fact that you effectively threw away money on your home (i.e. your money did not go into equity; to you, the money just went into a black hole).

I understand that they pay less in taxes as a result of mortgage interest, but if you have an actual choice between (1) spending $1 on mortgage interest and getting a tax deduction or (2) spending $1 on principal and not getting a tax deduction, the choice that leaves you wealthier is #2. Obviously this is not how mortgage payments work and ignores choice (3) of putting money in some other asset, and the time value of money should be considered, but for each equivalent dollar, I would rather get more equity in my home than a tax deduction. The tax deduction is nominally smaller than the equity you would gain on an equivalent amount of money going to principal rather than interest.

This isn't even considering the extra costs of homeownsership, especially property tax and maintenance (and the latter is tax deductible to a much smaller extent than mortgage interest).
If a time is designated as "local" it is most flexible to store the location in a way that will handle the dynamism. e.g. I would not record a time as "16:00 BST" but rather "16:00 Europe/London" and use the olson timezone db to resolve it to BST or GMT downstream.
Yes, and that is achieved by keeping the part that makes it all sellable to consumers proprietary. But there's not much point in doing that with the backing open source libraries, especially if they're popular and in active development - maintaining a constantly diverging in-house fork is very time-consuming and expensive, so it must have some really big value-add to justify them.

How many closed-source projects use, say, SQLite? How many of them fork it?
Yeah that looks like what I would have guessed, I actually made my living in the music business from 1997-2010 or so.

The recent uptick is certainly interesting though.
Interesting article. Interesting that her net take was $10,000 after subtracting expenses from the $200k win.

I wouldn't say she won that money, I'd say she earned it. Lottery one wins at and is pure luck. Poker is some luck but mostly skill and persistance.

FWIW, she refers to it as earnings and income in the quotes in the article.
What exactly makes you uncomfortable with calling genocidal racism "Wrong(TM)", and helping people leave it? Are you also uncomfortable with them banning child porn, or is that an example of punishing wrongthink too?

EDIT: I invite downvoters to tell me why they disagree?
I don't think that web technologies are going to be a good solution to anything that is not the web.

The web development community haven't even solved their own problem space very well; spreading to new problem spaces will likely not suit them as much as they believe it will.
He had the utmost regard for his craft, which I respect and gives him a lot of credibility there. And as such I sympathized with him initially. I also resent the idea of business interests leading to cutting corners in security (assuming that's what happened here).

But I don't recall any apology from him (though I do recall one from the CEO). It's been a while, but I don't recall him going out of his way to provide hand-holding instructions on installing the next best thing available that he recommends, which I would expect as a _customer_. Whatever happened, whose ever "fault" it is, it's the responsibility of the company to serve the customer, not throw your hands up and say "Well I guess I can't do this anymore. You should do this instead now.".

Resentment aside, if he were working for a company in a technical capacity, I'd trust that company more. But I wouldn't trust a company with him in an executive position.
It's a nice uptick— I have ~60 real-time Spotify listeners right now (usually it's around 25 this time of day).
Yes. Is that so hard to fathom? I think it is the excess of it that gets me, like people paying for fancy bottled water in places that have very good tap water. Yeah, they derive pleasure from that "fancy" water, but it disgusts me nonetheless that they would waste their money on that.
Eating Tomatoes on Cereal Does Make a Certain Amount of Sense
I highly doubt Zuckerberg and Dorsey are emailing around conspiratorial "let's ban the frogs-are-gay guy" missives.
On the Trail of the RoboCall King
In my experience assuming I think of my calendar as anything other than local time is always wrong. 10+ years of using calendars in different timezones and I have never once meant anything other than “9am when I’m there”

It’s my calendar, why would I set it to events in a way that’s not relative to my time reference?
For whom? For instance there has been massive periods of terror and destruction in the Middle East. Americans in general agree it as a price for freedom from Saddam and the Taliban -- followed by the Islamic State. This was at the behest in many ways of the American wealthy who want more wealth by rebuilding those countries and seizing their oil deposit for international corporations. So terror and destruction are not remembered at all by those who perpetuate them and many humans use it as a common place tool for politically enriching themselves.
Goodly replaces office perks with student loan repayment
Not only that but they have the gall to virtue signal all day about equal opportunity... but when push comes to shove, obviously it doesn’t apply to them.
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I think it depends a lot on what it is that you want to do. For example, there are entire teams at companies like Facebook (Core Data Science) and Netflix that hire exclusively people with PhDs. Amazon especially is famous for hiring economists. Microsoft pours huge sums of money into Microsoft Research where the only goal is to fund research with relatively little (short-run) profit motive.

But if you're not on one of these research-oriented teams, then I think it's easy to look at PhDs on your own team and think of them as worthless when in fact they were trained for a pretty different set of things. There's the thing about judging a fish's ability to climb a tree. People seem relatively eager (see other comments) to rip into people with doctoral training for some reason.
In Gmail (and Inbox, RIP), the 12:30am "Snooze" action assumes "tomorrow" means 8am the same day. I'm not sure what time the switch-over becomes "8am the next day". I think around 4 or 5am. Once I learned that's what happens, it became just as useful as "later today".

I use both quite a bit. I'd definitely rather not be asked every time - especially since I work at night and do most of my email management in that timeframe
Should anyone be forced to pay for someone else's speech that you don't agree with? Because that is what you're asking these companies to do.

I think the explosion of hate speech on the Internet is entirely because someone else is basically paying for people to post whatever they want. They don't need to create their own newspaper and get advertisers. They don't need to print signs. It's all free for them. You can consume as much services as you possibly can given your free time and those with more free time, therefore, get more free (as in beer) speech.
Emotional Intelligence: The Social Skills You Weren't Taught in School (2015)
Absolutely not true. She had a rare eye that combined human insight with an unusual talent for composition with flashes of humour.

She didn't exhibit during her life because there were virtually no outlets for women photographers who weren't born rich and well connected, or who didn't find a way into straight photojournalism.

You don't take photos like this one by accident:

http://cdn.vivianmaier.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/VM1956...
So I work in experimental particle physics and our daily tasks involve using particle collision simulation tools(mg5+pythia+delphes), distribute them on clusters, construct jet images using ROOT and finally experiment with neural networks on those jet images. So as people pointed out, what we do had a lot in common with the industry (where we learn from as well), which explains why many people involved in this kind of research could land a data scientist job. An interesting thing I've noticed is that many phD students in our group (with little CS background) waste lots of time on getting the software running (either locally or on cluster). You guessed it, we are trying to exploit the power of docker to make it easier for researchers to run those simulation tools.
Are there any plans to use an interpreter towards having a fast compile cycle. My reference point is Haskell's ghci which reloads changes very quickly (whereas the normal compiler is similar in speed to Rust).
I think technical PhD is simply used as a filter for people who:

1) Have some aptitude for intellectual activity (in a quantitative field)

2) Had to drive a project and face failure

3) Can learn things on their own

Technical expertise is I think usually a distant fourth, since if you have the first 3 you can generally learn whatever is required.

Do you need a PhD to have these things? Definitely not, but it's a simpler weed out process.
Both can be true. These platforms are censoring and people are free to go to other platforms.
I was a dual physics/EE major at MIT for my undergrad.
For my PhD at MIT I was in the EE department working on quantum and single-photon imaging.

I now work on mostly computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. Robotics was a hobby of mine since high school, and is now my work.

I'm still passionate about physics and physics research, but I'm not happy with the academic system of today, which encourages pursuing a lot of low-hanging fruit just to publish and get tenure, instead of going after high-risk, potentially-groundbreaking, but likely to fail topics.

While doing my PhD one of the biggest questions I kept having is why the primary goal the system set for me is "to graduate" and not "to advance science". On several occasions faculty told me to not try something "because I would never graduate" if I went down those paths.
Zero credit for deciding white hate is bad 15 years after your company's founding.
You are probably right. How does the UK enforce websites outside of the UK to enable this verification? Are they going to nag my service providers?
I've thought about this before because I've found the same thing. I think it's caused by an over reliance on education as a signal.

If you have a stack of resumes you're likely to interview everyone with a PhD, but only the ones with the most stellar github profile if they have no formal education.

During the interview if the PhD says something silly you'll probably disregard it. But the person without a formal education needs to be on point.

These and other filters means that a mediocre PhD can get through the hiring gauntlet but only the most kick ass high school graduates can make it through.
I think being ultra-wealthy must 'pickle' people's brains somehow.
Unfortunately for me a lot of times that requires digging behind a piece of furniture :)
associativity is the key to parallelism

Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftcIcn8AmSY (using a monoid-cached tree)
I don't know, or I'd know what the right move is! For this, its sort of a "you know it when you see it" thing, as facebook/youtube/twitter are major platforms used by everyone, and so they feel a lot more like an online town square than a private space. So they are definitely past the line, and ought to have different rules on what content is allowed/disallowed than smaller lower population platforms.
"How often do resets happen? Answer: if you're using WhatsApp or Signal, all the freaking time.

With those apps, you throw away the crypto and just start trusting the server: (1) whenever you switch to a new phone; (2) whenever any partner switches to a new phone; (3) when you factory-reset a phone; (4) when any partner factory-resets a phone, (5) whenever you uninstall and reinstall the app, or (6) when any partner uninstalls and reinstalls. If you have just dozens of contacts, resets will affect you every few days."

I guess I don't have "dozens of contacts", but getting a new phone/resetting a phone isn't really that common of a thing in my circle. I feel like for the average user, they wouldn't do this with their phone more than like once every year or two. So I guess if you have like 600 people you talk to on these apps regularly then that works out to daily, but for me at least this isn't that big of a deal and was pretty much understood from the outset.
Precisely! I think electronic voting records are wrong. We should use paper ballots, and Counting them electronically with something simple and robust like Optical scan works really well. Let the statisticians run some Audits and we can be really confident. My state does that. Oregon.
You can run GSI (generic system image) ROMs as I explained above, but there are still many glitches. And some Android One devices don't have unlockable bootloaders, so you can't even flash a GSI.

See https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki for the list of supported devices and bugs.