skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blog post mentions windows support but there is no real code support for it. Will it eventually be ported?
May I ask where you moved from in Europe ?
While I agree that Net Neutrality is necessary, the argument given in this EFF article seems to contradict itself with regard to FB, Twitter, et al. The article notes that social networking sites have been used by people to coordinate in order to get their viewpoints heard. But then it says:

"What does this have to do with net neutrality? Simple: all of these services depend the existence of open communications protocols that let us innovate without having to ask permission from any company or government."

But anyone who uses FB or Twitter does have to "ask permission" from those companies: the companies own the sites, not the users. And the idea that FB, Twitter, et al are based on "open communications protocols" is obviously wrong.

If the argument is that FB, Twitter, et al should have to use open communications protocols, let anyone use them without asking permission, etc., then that is an argument for ending FB, Twitter, et al as private companies and making them public utilities run by the government. I'm not sure that's a good solution. It seems to me that a much better idea would be to encourage competition in free speech platforms on the Internet, so that people do not have to depend on FB, Twitter, et al to coordinate and get their viewpoints heard.
Disclaimer: Most my professional background is in HEP/Astro, outside that find I might be a bit off.

Basically labs/institutes and large universities that get government funding looking for software developers.

National Labs (though it's getting rougher), flagship universities with large labs or targeted programs like MIT (Lincoln Lab), Johns Hopkins (JHAPL, STSCI), UIUC or UChicago (NCSA, UChicago pioneered much of grid computing but some of that was Argonne if I remember too), USC, and especially smaller labs/institutes or even specific projects at large universities. You can also look outside the US, France (INRIA, IN2P3) and Germany (Max Planck institutes) can be good places, Italy is okay, the Netherlands is good but not as large, UK is good, Australia is okay. In Europe you can't expect to do anything with CERN unless you are working at a National Lab in the US generally. Japan does tons of stuff but most people I know who have worked on Japanese projects in Japan don't enjoy it as much.

Secondary jobs are also a possibility near big national labs (Bay Area, New Mexico, Illinois), but usually that's less software and more big-E engineering.

Materials science and bio have a different layout but much of the cutting edge of that tends to be located near light sources these sorts of facilities too, and the need for software devs is growing there.
I think the obvious analogy would be banning things like the Black Panthers. Should Facebook be allowed to do that?
Damn, when he was my age he'd already been retired 3 years.
I have a z114 and a z800 and a P/390. Not any harder than for instance owning professional wood working gear.
Well, many are behaving as such.

Actually JVM got there first with JS-interoperabily.
you leave "human nature" undefined while it does pretty much all the work of holding up your point. Care to define or otherwise elaborate on that bit?

I'm referring to the the body of research around the GINI coefficient. It's not absolute poverty which causes crime and social unrest. It's perception of relative status, particularly its effect on people's calculation of their viability in the mating market. If people are so far down on the hierarchy, they have no chance, that's when they upend the game board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XYHPAwBzE

Long story short, I don't agree that UBI is unworkable any more than I believe that today's robber barons are untaxable.

I never said that UBI is unworkable and I never said that the wealthy are untaxable. We know historically the 2nd isn't the case for the US. My point is that 1) it's not directly addressing the underlying problem and that 2) it will be hard to tax away the wealth of the wealthy. We appear to disagree on 2) but not really. Historically, the wealthy either donate their wealth voluntarily (in the case of Scandinavian countries, the culture is such that the entire society volunteers through voting for policies) or they're killed and imprisoned. (In the historical case of the US, it takes an outside existential threat.)

So basically, you have to have some sort of change across the entire culture, either bloody or not.
I use all I have listed, I like the UI for KeyBase the most personally especially the way it handles social proofs where you need to verify yourself through a crypto key or another device. I wish Signal would just do this, but it's too married to phone numbers that it's suspicious in that simple regard. I use Signal with my wife, so for us to verify our keys it's very easy and simple.
> I don't think you deserve more credit than anybody having a net worth of $10k donating $100

Well $100 isn't worth shit in the big picture, so no, contributing millions is objectively more useful than contributing $100
Exactly. Freedom of speech isn't just freedom from government censorship. Other entities can infringe on it.
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>No company or platform owes them anything.

This is discrimination of opinion, strange as that sounds.

There is a reason we don't see signs up like; 'No Blacks', 'No Gays', 'No Jews' in private establishments. Its because its not allowed, we either have a list of protected groups - or a general rule that forbids banning anyone because of their 'group'.

If we don't fairly quickly extend free speech into these platforms, then we will have to eventually legislate a list of protected opinions.
I have a MBP for work and a Thinkpad for personal use. Thinkpad wins, hands down.
Yep. And Signal is as good as it gets for end users with zero technical knowledge. I've had many family members and friends install it on their own and not skip a beat.
It's a "trope" because a personal/community project being turned over to a corporate structure and then being steered into the ground is an all too common occurrence. My understanding is that CopperheadOS, the technical project, was entirely the work of Daniel. Even if Daniel would have run it aground himself, adding one more problem certainly didn't help.

I'm not going to dredge up the reference, but what it basically came down to is while they both owned equal 50% and each had a board seat, the bylaws broke ties by deferring to the CEO (James). This BATNA is exactly the type of thing that someone focused on the details of legal documents and power relationships will have planned for. While both still "own" 50%, Daniel would have had to go on the legal offensive ($$$) to bring a fiduciary claim, and a court would be hostile to the idea that the real value is based on long term development by a specific developer.

The 21st century improvement is that the codebase itself is still available to all, having been permissively licensed.
Well, that's the only way it works well for the wealthy, sure.

Historically, when it's done by force, it doesn't work so well for the rest of society in the long term, either.
The virality of violence is a bad aspect of network effects. I think we agree online calls for actual violence should not be promoted.

What I have a difficulty understanding is how and who will define "violence". Inciting direct violence is one thing, but people like expanding definitions. Is expressing support for one state which wants to overthrow another state "violence"? Is supporting China (in some aspect) but which none the less persecutes some people, "violence"?

Is buying almonds violence because it deprives some people in some areas of California of municipal water violence?

What about suppressed minority groups in Sudan who oppose a regime, or likewise South Sudan? Are they proposing and promoting violence?

An uprising in Teheran, is that violence? Suppress it? Are they pro regime, are they anti-regime? Is it fluid, is it at times both? What do you do?

This gets very dicey very quickly.
Nice move

I was annoyed that instagram has now become just reshares of twitter and facebook posts that spread the same message without being indexed as easily as the text versions are

Hope they don't go after things I like and target my accounts next! I know how the limitations of their process and lack of appeals or justification.

Also easy enough to find my friends on group chats elsewhere

I would have very different views if these were state run systems, but fortunately that's not relevant here.
Thank you for the clarifiaction.

I've never been downvoted before for saying "I don't know".
For the machine learning enthusiasts, here is an old article on how Spotify classifies songs into genres based on what they actually sound like (input is a spectrogram) https://outline.com/C3PVuU.

Most conventional methods used to recommend based on what other artists people with the same taste as you like. This method is biased against newer artists as there is no easy way to bootstrap them into the process. Their new technique circumvents this problem and as a result new artists get more exposure.
> The supplier is just able to extract the maximum price from each market.

And they are able to do that because laws have been passed in their favor to legally bar other people from simply importing the exact same products from other markets where they are sold at much lower prices.

Price discrimination isn't subsidizing, per se, but the scope for price discrimination is very limited in the absence of government support due to arbitrage. Governments interfering in the market to enable price discrimination is very much a form of subsidy, even if the money isn't passing through the government on its way to the supplier.
Direct link with the pdf version: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/DeepLearning2July2014.pdf

Unfortunately, a good PR is definitely important for prizes.
At a high level this is fine but it doesn't address the issue of what kinds of nationalist content are ban-worthy.
conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19503094
Not everyone has equal abilities. Societies function best when they are set up to find a place for everyone in a color blind way where they can live up to their full potential doing whatever they're adequately capable to do to contribute to society.

On these boards many people believe all members of a given race have the qualities of their worst members. I try and dissuade them from this by showing many counterexamples and that they should really focus on convincing all member of society to call out bad behavior in whatever groups they associate and have influence with to improve society. My beef with progressives is there is too much special treatment given to ones own group just because they belong to that group by virtue of their birth and this allows bad behavior to go unpunished and uncondemed.
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Yeah, this is like 90% of it. They passed the point of diminishing returns from thin/light back in the early 20-teens, especially for "Pro" laptops. For a pro laptop I want power, battery life, and durability far more than thin/light.
And yet iOS calendar is also more powerful in that you can set different time zones on the start and end of a single event, which macOS calendar will show but not let you edit.
Hmm, maybe this is a matter of vocabulary. Are you including supporting policies with unintentionally disproportionate impact in your definition of racism?

If so, you're going to find a lot of misunderstanding with conservatives when discussing the topic.
The 2016-2019 macbooks feel much more modern. They're lighter, thinner, the touchpad is nicer, more uniform, and though the touch bar isn't terribly useful it looks quite nice. It's overall just a much sleeker and more modern machine.

I'm not a design expert by any means so I probably can't give as good of a detailed account as others could, but I know when I use my 2015 macbook pro after using my 2018, or after using an XPS or pixelbook, it feels much older than 3 years.
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Depending on how you turn your head and squint, Title II of the Civil Rights Act (assuming we can interpret Facebook as a public accommodation engaging in interstate commerce).

... though it's unclear whether it's more of a private club.
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Thinkpads are great (T series) - Especially like the carbon X1s as they work great with Linux. It has been my primary driver for a while now with zero issues.
It's really hard to prevent "we should do what it takes to maintain the dominance and survival of the white race" and "we should do what it takes to establish a white ethnostate" from being received as a call to violence.

If we're being intellectually honest, we know that they know full well that they're not getting a white ethnostate from peaceful participation in the political process.
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The paradox of tolerance is that we must always be intolerant of the intolerant.

You are always FOR free speech until the speech starts hurting you. ie would you be tolerant of isis posting on FB?
One could argue that this implies an antitrust issue, no?
FTA: "a small number of users are having issues"

Still in denial.
From my understanding, Spotify's recommendations have a major flaw - they're based off other users' listening data. What this means is that if a song isn't listened to by very many people it'll never be recommended, and many songs on Spotify don't even have a single stream, let alone however many it takes to get the data to make it a recommendation.
You could compare it to the street vs a private hall - everyone has the right to walk on the street, but not to automatic admittance to private venues.

Now the problem is that social networks in many respect fill the old function of the 'town square' which was a common area accessible to everyone. That commons area has effectively been divided up in the name of capitalism, in parallel to the Enclosure Acts which destroyed the British commons, so now we have a large number of (private) platforms instead.

There are of course protocols don't suffer from this problem of private capital and monopolistic control, but (like land for the commons) protocols without infrastructure can't compete effectively against platforms' huge network effects. The practical upshot of this is that extremist groups will usually just head for other less discriminating platforms, eg there's a lot of white supremacists on Vkontakte (though I'm not sure how this will pan out if Russia rearranges its internet connectivity with the rest of the world).
I don't know about you but I am perfectly capable of holding two parallel opinions at once.

I can both think their ideas are absurd and at the same time support their right to have those ideas.

That's the very definition of free speech in the US. There are many ideas and messages I don't think should be spread that doesn't mean I am against people being allowed to spread them.

You don't know what kind of fire you are playing with here if your think your position is the rational one and have a good outcome.
Even minimal noise damping would be awesome. We're in a big room in a bigger warehouse so add to the usual loud conversations a team of forklifts honking and beeping until 4PM every day.
This has nothing to do with free speech. Free speech has to with governments curbing your speech, not private companies.
Oh I don't disagree with any of that. For doubtless a variety of reasons (if only that habits don't change overnight), it took a few years after at least many of the pieces were arguably in place, before widespread behavioral change took place.
people don't wanna hear this on HN but...Bitcoin
The primary cause of crime and social unrest is stressful jobs and inability to pay the bills.

In other words: perception of relative status. People who are happy in their jobs, have enough to pay the bills, who have personal dignity, and who get genuine delight from their everyman/everywoman pastimes have good perceptions of their relative status. When everyone is truly "middle class" in perception, society is healthy.
Why store it on a server? You could backup to a sdcard or transfer it between devices with NFC or similar when you move from one to another
Counterpoint - if every media, platform or provider blocks the content, and the only audience you're allowed to speak freely to, is to yourself - is it still "free speech"?

I'm not saying we're there yet, but we could be at some point.
> It's not OK to redefine free speech to mean "government censorship"

I beg to disagree, and in fact I believe you are the one that is redefining free speech. "Free speech" as I have known it has always referred just to government restrictions, because the government is the only entity that has the very unique punative powers that they do. Indeed, a strong corrolary to free speech, freedom of the press, by definition means that a (private) journalism organization is free to publish (or not publish) whatever they want.

I do agree that the relatively new, immense power of large technology companies with respect to how we communicate may require a sense of updating what we mean by "free speech", but this would be an update - it is not inherent to the original meaning of free speech.
I think the benchmark here is the use of Facebook to help spread genocide in Myanmar. I'm hoping the company learned something there about how dangerous hate indeology is on their platform, including white nationalism. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
None of the things you listed is racist. Correlation is not causation. If you want to use that list to argue that conservatives tend to support policies that hurt the poor, that would be more reasonable. Racism is treating someone differently because of their race. Things like affirmative action are actual systematic racism. I'm all for programs to help poor people. Such programs will naturally be more beneficial to races who tend to be poorer, often because of historical racism they have no control over (ie slavery). But racism is always wrong, no matter the incarnation.
Autoplaying video right at the top. Never closed a tab so fast.
Signed types and a proper cross language target. There is very little technical difference between the two, esp now that GraalVM has shipped. WASM is now the portable executable standard.

https://www.graalvm.org/
Absolutely not! I'd be interested in knowing how you came to the conclusion that was my argument.

Rather, it is important for society to support free speech, not just the government. While society is under no obligation to, it's unhealthy to censor speech.

It's even worse when society self censors free speech, and then pretends to still advocate it.
"Schmidhuber's significance in the field is not at the same level"

Out of curiosity, at the same level as any of the other three? I could see it from Hinton, maybe LeCunn, but Bengio?
Yeah that sounds like it doesn't really solve it at all (yet).
Chinese nationalism probably should be banned in China (but not the US) for the same reason that white nationalism should be banned in the US: the racial designations "white" and "black" are completely arbitrary terms, not grounded in any scientific fact, and are social constructs based around an in-group (whites) wielding political, economic, and cultural power over an out-group (blacks). "Irish" is an ethnicity. "Lithuanian" is an ethnicity. "White", on other hand, is most definitely not an ethnicity, and identifying as such implicitly supports the present racist status quo, because the white in-group already wields overwhelming power in American society[1]. White nationalism asserts that only those Americans who identify as white are "real Americans", and therefore explicitly advocates for the exercise of white cultural and political dominance at the expense of all other out-groups. And at its most extreme, it advocates genocide as a means of accomplishing its vision.

1. http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/rm/reports/cerd.pdf
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Next time you see his car, take a bat and break his windows. Petty theft is decriminalized in Peak California.
Large privately-owned platforms carry so much discourse across today's society, that censorship and deplatforming in those spaces has the same impact as governmental censorship, for most intents and purposes. Even if these corporations do not constitute what we might traditionally call a "monopoly", they control a large-enough share of traffic to have significant impact when they take artificial actions. That sizable impact is exactly why they are being targeted (not just on this topic but others) by activists or other agents pushing for deplatforming/censorship favorable to their causes.

The big risk is this: when only a few entities funnel so much societal discourse or control our communication infrastructure or process payments, those entities making arbitrary decisions about who they serve has similar impacts/risks to the government imposing similar restrictions through the law. These companies should not act as a thought police and should not impose their own personal governance above what is minimally required by the law. Nor should they rely on the judgment of an angry mob to make decisions.
Oh interesting. I did not know that. I'll probably stick with the V1 then.
The way it works now is with SMS authentication which is not really secure at all.
That's a reasonable question. The simple answer is that I just become uncomfortable when I don't know everybody's name (yet they all know mine).

The other part is that it's a company (a group of people) not just a corporation; while I am friendly with some clients and vendors (ones I worked on, either old ones or major ones) when we happen to hit it off, it's not the same as the company of people.
Cynically, because npm came about during an era where you could easily raise millions of dollars for a simple web service, while pypi didn't.
A platform can define what harm is. We can see what definition is, and we can choose to use a particular platform or not.
> eyesight has changed dramatically

Like how much are we talking here? Do you feel like you've found strategies to mitigate that?
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