skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Last fall, we started using [machine learning and artificial intelligence] to extend our efforts to a range of hate groups globally, including white supremacists

So... is this going to be a train wreck like YouTube's content ID where certain keywords will trigger the robots to censor my post with no human to appeal to?

"Sorry, you said: '80 years ago today Hitler committed suicide and axis power was extinguished.' This post contains keywords associated with dangerous groups and individuals and has been removed."
I bet you'll get some new interest from this being on the front page of HN too. I just listened to a bunch of your songs and really liked them :)

I love Discover Weekly and get excited every Monday morning when I start work and remember there's a new playlist with music I'll probably like. I created a separate playlist called "Discover Favourites" and when I hear a song I like I put it in there, and it's got hundreds now. I've found so many artists I never would have heard of.
I am not a ‘white person’ (whatever that means) ...but I don’t want to see ‘white nationalist content’ banned.

When people communicate on a public platform unself consciously, they reveal themselves openly and freely. There is no greater protection to vulnerable populations than transparency. Freedom of speech is a gift and a valuable tool.This move is dumb beyond words.
I've got spotify premium but end up listening to tons of Red Means Recording style videos on youtube almost as much as I use Spotify.
There is one thing that I ran into with past times that I think falls outside of this. When you record things like “first day of employment”, you really do mean the date and not the datetime, and the date should be interpreted in whatever the local timezone is. Theoretically your first datetime if employment is what, midnight of the day you show up? Or is it 8am or whatever when you actually first step through the door? Each situation will be interpreted differently by the parties involved so best you can do is to store the date and the location/timezone of where they work, even though it’s in the past.
I have a masters in HEP and have experience working on the CMS experiment at CERN for a year as part of my Masters.

I left physics for data privacy in 2017 (PhD programme).

The main reason was that I didn't really feel like I was tackling real issues (real and immediate to society) if I continued work in physics.

The swap has been difficult and I am at a disadvantage wrt to colleagues that come from more relevant backgrounds (e.g. Computer science or Applied maths) but at the end of the day I feel a lot better about the contribution of the work (to society) and also about job security in the future.
I have a 2016 MBpro. I only use it with an external keyboard, except on week-ends (and I do not type much on these).

Then the N key started repeating.

Unbelievable. I cannot imagine the pain of a frequent typer on the keyboard.
If there was an iPad app that works in landscape mode I’d be able to switch most of my groups from other apps to keybase.
> A little muddled but I think his argument is the problem UBI is "it's just a way of perpetuating our roles as consumers at the bottom of the pyramid not as owners" while I guess the 0.1% still own everything.

A UBI funded by a tax on capital income and/or wealth could equally well be construed as enshrining the role of the public as owners, representing a rent charged on capitalists who are mere fee simple property owners by the people, who are the sovereign owners.
Not a lot of people know this because most people will try to get the problem fixed, but the problem will actually fix itself after enough time and use. The problem with the keyboard design is actually two fold: particulate AND keys slightly out of tolerances. You will notice that the problem almost always gets worse when the computer gets warm. E, C, X, R and a lot of keys on the left side of the keyboard seem to be the most troublesome when it gets warm. The keys expand and start to actually "click" different. The sound is audibly different. It actually drove me crazy when I first got it. It took almost a year for all the keys to have the same tone, and the S key is still ever so slightly softer than the rest.

I have a 2016 MBP and after about 3-6 months I started getting stuck and repeating keys. I was going to take it to the Apple Store to get replaced, but just sort of struggled through it for another 3 months or so as I missed appointment after appointment because I was busy. The problem is now entirely gone and all the keys click the same. I actually had this same thing happen with another 2016 MBP. With enough use, the keys break in and no longer stick.

This is, obviously, a ridiculous solution—if you can even call it that. But an aged keyboard is actually more reliable than a new one.

The fix for this wasn't just adding in a layer to keep the dust out, but getting tighter tolerances on the butterfly mechanism itself and designed around the expansion issue or using different/better materials.
>To the people that say "Where does it end?" – that's pretty easy. Let's start with curbing speech that encourages harming others.

But that is not where they're starting though, is it? They're going much further:

>Today we’re announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism on Facebook and Instagram

Praise, support and representation not of speech encouraging harm, but the ideology itself, reprehensible and ass-backwards as it may be.

This sentence indicates they're picking and choosing which ideologies to censor.

This is wrong (opinion), antithetical to American notions of freedom of speech (opinion), but Facebook has a complete and unalienable right to do this on their platform (fact). Despite that right, things should nevertheless be accurately labeled. This is censorship of political thought, not censorship of "hate speech" as most reasonable people define it.
> We didn’t originally apply the same rationale to [...] because we were thinking about [...] things like American pride and Basque separatism [...]

What do they mean by "American pride"? Googling it brings a lot of marketing, I do not know how to filter all of that to find out an idea.
This isn't about sharing legitimate political views at this point, it's about helping prevent radicalization.

White nationalist content should be viewed no differently than content by the likes of isis. I think it's completely reasonable and responsible to ban it from the platform.
I don't see why this would lead to an S230 repeal if banning nudity doesn't.
Other people have it worse so it's okay to remain in a shitty situation? I don't think we should treat this like a victim competition.
I make it a personal policy to never recommend a hackintosh to someone, as it does require some work (albeit, it was less work to install macOS than Windows 10 [but both were relatively pain-free installs]).

That said, I cover my build here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19433038
Both supply and demand for housing is geographically constrained which mean that if demand in a local geography goes up, so does the price. This means that the market can be efficient locally even if inefficient globally.

Since food and water are not constrained in this way (i.e. can be transported), local price increases are usually due to inefficient distribution (supply chain issues/spoilage) or global supply shortages. This assumes that people consume a relatively consistent amount of food/water.
I think you do understand it, yeah. The only caveat to that is the private control of what I believe to be public infrastructure. The wires that connect all of us.
> balkanize traditional institutions of democracy

Trump was elected by a free, fair, democratically held vote of the people. You may cry about the outdated electoral system, but well, the rules are the rules. He won fair and square.

> and cooperation (USA/NATO/UN).

Switzerland isn't a member of the NATO and have only joined the UN in the early 2000s. You don't need to be a member of every overblown bureaucrat club on the planet to be friends with other nations and trade with other countries.
"merely"

People deserve credit for taking an idea and running with it. Without Hinton's efforts (in 1987, 2006, or 2012), deep learning would have never seen the explosive growth.
I've never heard UBI discussed in terms of its benefits to innovation, which is its most important characteristic. There is exactly one reliable way to innovate: Be able to spend a huge amount of time doing unpaid work.

Right now there are essentially three groups that can afford to innovate: Students, the wealthy, and the people the wealthy give money to (via VC money). (Note that I'm using "wealthy" broadly here, if you can not have income for 1-5 years, you're wealthy by these standards).

UBI is basically having faith in human race is natural innovators, funding for the creativity of the entire human race, instead of just a tiny subset of the population.

To address the straw man upfront: Capitalism of course incentivizes innovation as well, and just as important as UBI. These approaches can, and must co-exist, and in fact form the two sides of the innovation coin: Incentivize (capitalism) and enabled (UBI).

The counterarguments to this model are ridiculous, because they assume you have to throw out capitalism to get UBI. Where are you going to get that goop for the 3D printer? You pay people to mine it! Why in the world would you think that wouldn't work? If you give every human $100,000 a year (for example), you think no one is going to be willing to work to earn more money? Which human race have you been watching when you formed those beliefs? All those rich people who earned their first million and then stopped?
It means the economy doesn't grow as fast as it would otherwise. But again, it's not shrinking, or remaining stagnant.

If you call that "crippling" then keeping Central Park in Manhattan also cripples the economy, by preventing the economic growth that would result in replacing it with hundreds of blocks of offices and apartments.

Democratic communities are allowed to choose to slow down economic growth in order to preserve a more liveable physical environment.

Do you think preserving Central Park cripples the economy overall?
Well, we already have a point of comparison in how platforms handle content from groups like ISIS. The thing about groups who adhere to eliminationist positions is that they so obviously don't care about anyone else's civil liberties, so one could argue that respect for the rights of others is the ante required to sit at the social table.
I am probably wrong, but I think all the examples you mention only rely on associativity, and you’re essentially talking about why fold / reduce can be parallelized (literally a parallel reduction).

For example, just make up some associative operation with no identity element. Imagine a string binary operator that prepends the character ‘a’ to the second operand, then concatenates them.

f(‘foo’, ‘bar’) = ‘fooabar’

x `f` y `f` z = ‘{x}a{y}a{z}’
= x `f` (y `f` z)
= (x `f` y) `f` z

but no string e can result in e `f` x == x, so there’s no identity and so no monoid arises from this.
Are you saying that white supremacists only hurt people's feelings and does not have real and tangible outcomes? Look to Christchurch or the innumerable attacks/murders/gig economy fascism in the US perpetrated by the far right.
I really don't think this is the same interpretation of "protected classes" as the US government uses:

> White men are considered a group because both traits are protected, while female drivers and black children, like radicalized Muslims, are subsets, because one of their characteristics is not protected.

I'm fairly certain a state that tried to ban female drivers or (openly via legislation; this next one definitely happens in practice) punish black children disproportionately would find themselves in hot water with the Feds.
This is well deserved, but IMO it also signals an upcoming AI winter. This cycle has happened several times before:

1) Some scrappy researcher on a low budget develops a new AI technology that shows promise in a specific area.

2) More researchers take that idea and successfully apply it more broadly.

3) Massive investment in research happens, pushing PhD candidates into extracting every possible nuance out of that technology.

4) Researchers, encouraged by the broad success, begin to think we've found the one true key in the quest towards general intelligence. Suddenly all the researchers are Neats. The research funding is now mostly businesses instead of governments and non-profits. They grow overconfident that it can be used for virtually anything, funding everything in sight.

5) Starry-eyed futurists start lionizing the founders of the new revolution as geniuses, publishing flowery bullshit about how the world will be forever changed and how the General AI revolution is only 5-10 years away.

6) Surprise! It actually can't be used that broadly. Improvements stall, and CEOs start to realize that they can't just dump data in and get money out. It becomes a commercial disappointment, triggering disinvestment.

7) The Neats, disappointed that their glamorous and simplistic theory of general intelligence, start to disappear. Newspapers begin to make fun of all of the visionaries, comparing them to the people that said flying cars were 5-10 years away.

8) A handful of Scruffies take over the now low-funding AI winter, working hard on minimal budgets until a new breakthrough is found and we return back to #1.

This article is showing that we're solidly within stage 5, and we're already seeing signs of stage 6. When everybody is buying, it's time to sell.
There are inherent costs associated with selling/buying used property and this is especially true for housing. Renting does not have the same inherent overhead when switching, only the common overheads (moving physical possessions, changing mailing address, etc).
> Tensors... what the heck are those? Like matrices, but _more_ complicated, you say? Thanks, but I'll stick with my basic monoids over here. :-)

A tensor isn't actually a multidimensional array, just as a linear map isn't actually a matrix. Defining tensors as the multidimensional abstraction of scalars, vectors and matrices to n indices is anti-pedagogical, though regrettably common because it's computationally useful. Learning tensors this way is like learning linear algebra primarily by doing matrix multiplication. It hollows out all of what's actually going on by focusing on notation and symbol pushing.

What you're comparing here is the heavily symbol-laden, notation-encumbered definition of a tensor with the elegant abstraction of a momoid. If you'd like to compare them on the merits of their abstraction, an alternative definition of "tensor" would be better. The object is not its representation.

For example: a tensor is a multilinear map between a product of vector spaces and another vector space. So T: V_{1} x V_{2} x ... x V_{n} --> W is a tensor. Furthermore, every tensor T is itself an element of a tensor product. An example of a tensor product is R^{nk}, which is the nk-dimensional real space you obtain by taking the tensor direct product of the n- and k- dimensional real spaces, R^{n} ⊗ R^{k}. In this way the tensor product is an abstraction of the familiar Cartesian product in which the dimension of two spaces is multiplied instead of the cardinality of two sets.

This definition makes it easier to understand why the objects of a monoidal category can be considered tensors. A monoidal category is a category C where the functor ⊗ is defined such that C x C --> C. Note the similarity of this definition with my alternative definition of a tensor - no multidimensional arrays are required! You're just moving up one level of generality from linear maps and Cartesian products.

Technically speaking, the monoidal category functor is actually an abstraction the tensor product, the way the tensor product is an abstraction of the Cartesian product. Whereas many monoidal categories admit a Cartesian product, some monoidal categories (like the category of vector spaces) admit a tensor product.

Edit - Sorry for the bracket notation used in subscripts and superscripte, I was thinking in LaTeX...
So if i want to build a shop with a self contained (non structural or otherwise regulated) frontage of my own design, you think you should have a say over that?
He's credited with first introducing the CNN architecture (Neocognitron) and a way to train it with unsupervised learning, inspired by the neurological research of Hubel and Wiesel and his earlier work in training neural networks with unsupervised learning (backprop is now used instead). Probably one of the most famous neural network papers. https://www.rctn.org/bruno/public/papers/Fukushima1980.pdf
> And this case is not likely to happen without a decent amount of notice.

In the jurisdictions you care about. Last-minute timezone changes do happen, and the main time zone database has been updated retroactively in the past. It's actually possible that a timezone change has even been enacted retroactively (thanks to countries that like doing very last-minute DST starts).
There's a difference between asking is self-hosting can be achieved, and if self-hosting can be secure.

Second, I can run an emulator in WASI that implements WASI, including multiple processes. They might not be true OS processes. But as long as I have threads, I can do something.

Also, maybe we get WASI without high precision clocks. /shrug
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Im envious of your ability to keep track of your things. I end up needing to use the one of my tiles to find either my keys, phone, wallet or work badge almost every other day.

When the batteries in them go dead its easy enough to to swap them out myself for new ones.
Apple needs to simply put all their products and features through "what would Steve Jobs have done" filter. He would have probably thrown the butterfly design out the window and ask them to come up with a better design.
MITM is an active/directed hack; encrypted chat covers all the passive hacks. My friend's arch-nemesis won't be thwarted, but a voyeuristic sysadmin will be. And my friends don't have arch-nemeses (that I know about anyway), but I know lots of people who would eavesdrop at any opportunity.
I have a Dell XPS (2018?), 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, i7 and 3 year on-site warranty. I am running Linux Mint on it for Android development (Windows is much slower for building Android apps, because NTFS is slow at handling lots of small files - http://www.bitsnbites.eu/benchmarking-os-primitives/). I am really satisfied with the notebook and I had a Macbook for about a year before buying the XPS. There basically maybe 2 things I don't like - the camera position is weird, it's in the lower left corner so you get recorded from a weird angle, I think they moved the camera in the latest model? And, typically Linux, sometimes I have echo and mic problems but Zoom seems to be reliable. No issues other than that.
I disagree with the framing of this as 'tyranny of the majority'. The size of the group of people which is allowed to enact policies is entirely arbitrary, and I don't see a principled reason as to why HOAs would be OK but cities would not. I feel those who are OK with HOAs but against city-level policy-making that constrains growth are likely just drawing the line in a way that matches their own interests or ideologies.

I also don't understand why you are framing government as inherently bureaucratic as part of this argument. If that's the case and it justifies not having policy-making left to public governments, why not apply the same logic wholesale and say that we don't need city- or state-level governments at all?
That as about as likely as introducing an income tax in Texas.
I like that part too, because it also brings up the notion that US version of near absolute free speech is not the only on that exists. That other countries have banned hate speech without falling into totalitarianism, banning legitimate political discourse, or falling into the other traps that a "slippery slope" argument pushes.
> particle physics, at least, is very hacker-ey: we develop instrumentation hardware, low-level data acquisition software, database and web apps for experiment operations and monitoring, and the like, beyond the data analysis

Sounds like engineering and SE, not physics
IIUC, it becomes discerned by US law if someone acts on violent rhetoric. Then, the violent rhetoric can be used as evidence that the actions were part of a hate crime.
> Let's start with curbing speech that encourages harming others.

You've already disproven your "that's pretty easy" note. Who defines "harm"? The goal posts seem to move damn near weekly on this. That's the problem that can't be solved as easily as you purport.
How different is that from public companies with large funds- for example pension funds- as shareholders? Even if the property is public, the objective of maximizing profit doesn't change, and that is obtained by appointing ceos and managers.
"Free Speech" != 1A
You can be separatist if it's not by race.

And in your rush to snark you skipped the part that calls out "American pride and Basque separatism" as important things to leave alone.
Stochastic terrorism? It's still a terrorism pipeline.

It's all well and good for you to say "white nationalism is very different from what most people think," but that doesn't stop the OP from being right.

Nationalism of all kinds root from an insecurity, and white nationalism in particular is proppogated in colonial societies to encourage the alienation of brown colonial workers via, among other acts, stochastic terrorism.

It's a lot like ISIS propaganda.
I know, I was just reading the part of the article that talks about how it's so hard to find people. I would love nothing better than to work on a mainframe all day long. PM me if you're hiring someone who's never touched a mainframe ;) I won't hold my breath though!
This is a very underrated point.

It also means that an adversary can't go in long after the fact and dig up a message history from a server god knows where.

A lot of the eavesdropping scenarios concocted around key change in particular are fanciful. Practically speaking, end-to-end encrypted chat is often replacing email, not trying to protect secret agents hiding from the Reptilian Council.
I think the interesting case is the presence of a monopolist (and I take no position here as to whether any particular company is a monopoly or not). Other [classically] liberal principles like freedom of contract have been abrogated in such cases, largely out of the realization that competition and choice are what generally make such private exercises of power acceptable.
I strongly suspect neither 4chan nor 8chan are going anywhere anytime soon.
Also great for parents with children of any size, just place it under the insole of their shoe.
>But that runs both ways. Not only do I think that almost all (to borrow a mathematical term) speech should be permitted, but also that the onus is on the speaker to make themselves heard or to find an audience. No company or platform owes them anything...

This!

A thousand times THIS!

People seem to think that free speech absolutists were saying that Facebook should be forced to host extremist content. For my part, I wasn't saying anything of the sort. Facebook has rights too, and as a free speech absolutist, I will jealously defend Facebook's rights as vigorously as I defend the rights of the Nazi/Confederate/whatever you want to call them.

(I think I agree with you on the "almost all" part though, because I do think pedophilia should be stamped out wherever we find it. But that's just MY line in the sand. Others may draw the line somewhere else.)