skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The terms attempt to classify people based on an arbitrary collection of visually distinct phenotypes rather than fundamental genotypes -- however, the One-drop Rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule) works only on the basis of the latter. This inconsistency alone makes the terms scientifically irreconcilable.
It’s interesting that you seem to equate African-American content with White Nationalist content.

Facebook isn’t banning content from white people, it’s banning content that is racist by design.
It's not my PIN number, it's used as a password to access on-line banking services. But I agree that it look like it's design to defend against keylogger; I don't know how efficient it is.
Unfortunately, most of the time we aren't privy to their definitions. If they publish them publically to a literal extent then they MIGHT actually have to follow them! No company wants to have to follow their own rules, it's a Schrodinger situation.
There should be a healthy caveat attached to this one. This was produced and presented by Sinclair broadcast group[1]. Whose devotion to promulgating conservative interests is almost unparalleled. And while some valid points are mixed into this documentary, there is a whole lot of mitigating information left out[2] the better to create outrage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

[2] https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/03/18/39630856/komos-s...
I have a PhD and completely agree with you. I did a PhD because back then working in software wasn't attractive to me (open source was not normal and Linux was seen as this weird geek think). But it set my career back a good few years really.
Exactly, a pretty clever move on his part.
I tend to agree.

I think the main argument against that can be made is that the Internet is now so complex that the forbidden speech can easily be silenced entirely, if you start your own blog independent of FB. Especially with DDoS attacks, it can become prohibitively expensive to stop those and the core/root internet infrastructure simply doesn’t stop it. It’s basically a paid add-on and if you want to do it yourself you will need both funding and/or technical expertise.

Either way, I’m still in support of Facebook and others removing this type of speech as I think it’s a net negative to society to amplify it in this day of discovery algorithms.

Seems like we also need to do more to improve the core infrastructure so that you don’t need 5Tbps of bandwidth to keep your blog online.
There's plenty of places where there would be zero public backlash for those types of signs, if they were permitted by law.
Well, with this one you do.
>If Facebook decided to ban all Chinese, Islamic, or African-American content, then the conversation would be completely different. People wouldn't say, "so be it -- go set up your own servers".

This is because we have laws about discrimination based on race. White supremacy is not a race. You're free to discriminate against someone due to the views they hold.
> The new touchpad and touchbar could also be used on a new design which allows enough for a high-quality keyboard.

For sure, as noted I'm all for that. I don't think we need to move back to 2015 to accomplish that though.
Just googling. It looks like it was a better situation pre2017 though:

www.mondaq.com/x/561782/tax+authorities/Change+In+Taxation+Of+NonPermanent+Residents

See an accountant/lawyer yada yada.

The bitcoiners that gave up their US citizenship, or otherwise left their home country and moved to Japan probably came out well tax-wise.
Let's not forget what Signal and the Signal Protocol (used by WhatsApp) have achieved: making end-to-end encrypted chat EASY and accessible for the masses, for many of whom "security" is password123. It's important in our post-Snowden world.
I understand where you are coming from, but I my irritation comes from the fact that they device cannot be revoked from my account and recycle the name. (e.g. OS reinstalls, etc. I don't really like naming my device MyMainPhone-2, logically because it's not my second phone. It's a same device to me.) If the device that's active already have that name, I would agree with your decision that duplication is not allowed.

Maybe some people are more irritated by that than others (I'm certainly former-type), perhaps consider "advanced" to remove existing names for those who knows what they are doing?
What about all the Nexus devices? Don't those run AOSP without issues?
While I agree with you, Tim Pool (as well as many others) made a good point recently about the fact that when platforms are as powerful as being able to influence elections, maybe allowing them to define the structure within which we communicate might not be a good idea.

I am a free market guy, so for me these companies ought to have the right to determine the parameters within which their users can operate on their service. However, with things such as EUCD and GDPR rules, introducing competitors to the established networks becomes harder and harder for each day, which only benefits the existing platforms. So when the platforms are biased and competition is hindered by red-tape and regulations, we cannot expect alternatives to popup that can compete with said entities.

All of this leads me to believe that things will only get worse as I don´t see a way out of this clusterfuck we´re in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ

Edit: why the downvotes? :S
Removing yourself from any kind of rational framework removes the required considerable characteristic of an idea or view point. Especially when those ideas and view points have been tried on top of just generally being a Bad Idea (TM).

So I haven't done anything. There's no need to start an epistemological bankrupt conversation here. Or to engage in philosophical waxing about intellectual curiosity surrounding view points that serve no purpose.
What's wrong with it? Tons of IO. Thin and light enough. Magsafe. Scissor keys. Throw in a USB-C port and boom, state of the art again.
Keybase developer here.

Keybase uses root privileges only for making the magic /keybase directory available, where you can access your KBFS files (the redirector allows different users on the same system to see their own files). Keybase and KBFS run as unprivileged daemons (via the systemd user manager where available).

As giancarlostoro mentioned, you can unpack the .deb file and run the binaries out of there. If you put the binaries in your $PATH, you can even symlink the systemd unit files to your ~/.config/systemd/user and use the systemd user manager to manage your custom Keybase install. Note that the KBFS mount will not be accessible at /keybase, but instead at another location writable by your user (see https://keybase.io/docs/linux-user-guide#configuring-kbfs).

Finally, our build script at https://github.com/keybase/client/blob/master/packaging/linu... builds all components and assets without root and lets you handle the packaging and install after that.

If you have questions or more custom use cases, feel free to join the keybasefriends team to talk about it or make a GitHub issue!
And if I'm not saying it in a conversation about creating an ethnostate, but perhaps one about seasonal affective disorder, or about vitamin D deficiencies? My point was that the GGP's definition, even the most restrictive one, was arguably still too broad.

(Or perhaps people need to become more accepting of a distinction between better at x and better. Michael Phelps is certainly better at swimming than I am, but that is mostly orthogonal to whether he is a better person than I am)
Ask HN:Recommended tech stocks(maybe others) that have potential for 10X returns
I am looking for innovative companies that will grow 10x in market cap. Duration is not important. It can be 5 years or 20 years
No thanks on going back to Magsafe. On a 2009 machine I went through 3 chargers and you could only buy from Apple. With USB C I can at least buy a third party adapter and replace the cable if it brakes.
Will the user be able to choose DB-less vs. using the DB?
Public health, climate effects of fossil fuel, anthropogenic emission removal
We did a migration from Vertica to ADW a couple of years ago.

ADW was slower and about 2x more expensive than Vertica on 8-year-old hardware, and it hit its node limit at around 60. Loading was also a PITA; there was no json support.
So antifa is next right?
The C stdlib is so married to POSIX they may as well be the same thing.
Sure, though it’s still a web technology taking over an otherwise unrelated space ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
To the people that say "Where does it end?" – that's pretty easy. Let's start with curbing speech that encourages harming others.

Welp, there goes the Declaration of Independence.
Facebook found specifically that such power dynamics are exceedingly contextual, though the role of Western European culture as effectively globally predominant puts an additional burden on anyone arguing for Western European superiority.

Radiolab covered this recently:

Post No Evil |
Radiolab |
Duration: 1:11:45 |
Published: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 07:20:00 -0400 |
Episode: http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/post-no-evil/

Media: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/radi...

Podcast: https://www.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/152249110

Back in 2008 Facebook began writing a document. It was a constitution of sorts, laying out what could and what couldn’t be posted on the site. Back then, the rules were simple, outlawing nudity and...
Nice, Rust is a great fit for this kind of project.
> This case was about a "company town", where there was very much a blending of public and private.

With the pervasiveness of regulation in modern United States, pretty much everything worth mentioning now is "a blending of public and private". Any business has restrictions of how it can hire and choose their clientele. A person with minarchist political bent could consider this wrong but it is undeniably the reality today.

> You can probably guess by the fact that we still use spam filters how that case came out.

I don't think this decision means what you think it means. Of course, AOL was found to be right to block spam. But was it because spam is repugnant, not because AOL rights are absolute. 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.
Ask HN: What programming language should I learn next?
Recently I've been itching to learn a new language.

I work mostly in Python currently. I've also worked extensively with Javascript (browser/nodejs). I've worked with C# and Java and Dart. Dabbled in C and C++. Played with Lua.

What should I learn next? My goal is to expand my skillset and maybe find the holy grail of programming languages (probably not). I'm a generalist and a freelancer.

My shortlist:

- Go
- Rust
- Elixir
- Swift
- Kotlin

Or maybe something I haven't listed?
Why not just store both UTC and timezone right into the database ?
Namely here, in case they drift apart: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19501277 :)
The key thing you're missing is recruitment. White supremacists need access to the larger platforms in order to recruit new adherents to their bigoted ideology, which is significantly harder to do if they're forced into "underground" spaces. De-platforming works -- if we make it clear that hateful ideology isn't tolerated in large platforms, then people have to actively seek out such ideologies. If such ideologies are already frowned upon in the public sphere, it makes their recruitment much more difficult.
What that comment said is true though. Does HN not value the truth?
Throughout most of my career, my PhD has felt like a liability. Especially when I've sought out a non-research-oriented position. Employers seem skeptical that I might rather spend my day coding a product I believe in, rather than solving esoteric research problems.

In the case of many PhD degrees, you devote yourself to studying a niche topic in great depth for several years. In the end, employers might see that you wrote a paper like "Electron vortex beams with high quanta of orbital angular momentum" (picking some academic paper at random), and have a tough time connecting that to their day-to-day needs. So I understand why employers have been cautious.

Not to mention, a non-negligible number of PhDs are incompetent at doing anything hands-on. And even when it comes to research, many are experts at coming up with overcomplicated solutions to non-existent problems.
https://europa.eu/european-union/eu-law/decision-making/proc...

It's a pretty arcane system with laws drafted by the (unelected) commissioners and the EU HCoJ and sometimes (as in this case) ratified by MEP's who all too often have little understanding of what they are voting on because they weren't involved early on in their creation.
I don't see why facebook would be obliged to host content they don't agree with. These people will always find a platform on the internet. Facebook doesn't need to make their recruitment more convenient.
Why "white nationalist" specifically? Is Facebook's policy that nationalism is okay for everyone except whites? What about pro-Israel content (Jewish nationalism)? Countless Palestinians have been murdered or displaced for that cause.

Obviously this is not a principled stance against "hate speech", it's just another example of a powerful organization run by Jews using it's power to attack whites.
I don't think it's a particularly unfair comparison. Hate groups are still hate groups, regardless of "who started it."

The SPLC considers some black nationalist groups (including offshoots/successors of the Black Panthers, which is relevant because there is no actual modern day "Black Panther Party") to be hate groups all the same.
You're doing exactly what literally every expert on white nationalism says that white nationalists do to make their abhorrent views appealing to a wider audience.

Either do some self-reflection or admit you're a white nationalist.
Work as a data scientist in AI. Have seen absolutely no evidence (either from my own personal observations, or from others) that PhD/masters are quantitatively or qualitatively better than folks without, outside of very specific scenarios (materials sciences, or very deep specific applied statistics - and even then, stats BS majors can generally knock balls out of the park).
> other countries have banned hate speech without ... banning legitimate political discourse

This is, of course, entirely a matter of opinion.
Microsoft exec bans company from pulling any dumb April Fools’ pranks
Why not just any race-based nationalism? It seems weird that facebook would ban white nationalism but black nationalism can go on.
I used TransferWise many times and I am extremely happy with it. I have the USD account in the US through TransferWise.

The problem is, that my PayPal does not let me withdraw money to my US account, as I am not the US citizen.
This is an excellent point ablut collusion. The Alex Jones debacles proves conclusively the media giants act in concert to censor political dissonants.
US leftists are extremely racist, and their policies such as this bear it out time and again.

Their fundamental policy is disequitable treatment and standards based on race, sex, and other protected factors. It’s he same imperialist divide-and-conquer racism and other bigotry practiced by colonialists, who ironically, those same leftists pretend to hate.

And just like the bigots in the US during the 1950s or colonial powers, they justify their acts of bigotry through proclaiming its for the greater good.

It’s just garden variety racism.
They are touchy about their maps for sure. If you want to get kicked out of the country, just make it known you own a map like these at your workplace. Deportation will not be far off.
I could legitimately see middle class homeowners in the suburbs paying for this. I think my mom would want to buy the pictures, but my dad would talk her out of it. I don't know why, but it disgusts me that people would pay for that. There's something about the upper middle class suburbs that bothers me, and this fits right into that.
Does this mean that they implicitly support any hate groups that they aren't specifically banning? Antifa, IRA, Isis and the like?
This is a breakdown of state measures to deter/punish unlawful acts and failure to protect WHEN actions occur rather than breakdown of society.

You could say that Facebook has effectively privatized prior restraint, given the "town square" arguments made elsewhere in the thread. Great when we happen to agree with the views being restrained, I suppose.
They did and the code is surprisingly short at only ~1300 lines of C. Why not just use their driver?
Similarly, Fox News isn't required to carry content they don't want to, and their political reach is enormous.
I looked into this in a little more detail yesterday after the Techdirt article was posted. It's a lot harder to format nicely on HN, so see here [1] if you want the details, but it looks like the vote about amendments would have changed from:

Official vote: 312 for, 317 against, 24 abstained

Corrected votes: 320 for, 314 against, 20 abstained

It seems very rare to have that many corrections. Out of the 191 separate results in the voting record document, the only other one with more corrections was the actual vote on the directive right afterwards (but the corrections couldn't have flipped that one).

[1]: https://tildes.net/~tech/brp/europes_controversial_overhaul_...
And if they'd racked up over a hundred killings in a series of terrorist attacks in just three years.
When would I want to use DB-less ? Isn't that where the configuration lives.
Cool thanks, I did not know about that.
> Let's start with curbing speech that encourages harming others.

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?
5 Women on What It's Like to Have Universal Health Care
> But to be clear, you're actively diverting from the point.

...

I get why you showed up here, but you're really not addressing the point of the post at all, and in fact you're trying to distract with the suggestion that Signal's publication of that code protects people from this flaw. It doesn't. At all.

Wow, that's a pretty hostile (and accusatory) response to a fair ask. This is one (small) step removed from accusing someone of shilling/astroturfing.

Let your product stand on its own merits. If you have a good reason why you won't open source Keybase's server implementation, own it. Don't undermine requests to open source the code by publicly accusing people of supporting a competing product.

The person you're replying to didn't make an argument in favor of Signal - or any other competing product, for that matter. In my opinion, your response is actively distracting from their request.
Is it though? The author makes $400 a month, that's not even close to being a living. Mis metrics and revenue match up with my own experience with Spotify and they are very difficult to achieve. Now imagine that your musical project has 4 people instead of 1, now it's $100 a month per person. Except just kidding, because you'll need to pump all that money (and personal money from members) back into the band to keep things growing.
I think LSTMs have been mostly abandoned. I don't see much new work using them, vs CNNs or transformers.
A killer feature for spotify would be if they would tell each individual user how much they are contributing to each individual artist they've listened to. I think that could encourage users to subscribe to spotify and listen more to small artists.
I suppose this too could be gamed, but the benefit might outweigh the risk.
The author, Lin Clark[0], is the person behind Code Cartoons[1]. She does absolutely amazing work. Unfortunately, there isn't really a single place to find everything she has done. She has done quite a few conference talks[2] as well.

[0] https://twitter.com/linclark

[1] https://code-cartoons.com/

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/category/code-cartoons/

[1] https://twitter.com/codecartoons

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIHcC8epcPqhBrQ1dRmI...
By not knowing which peers have verified numbers, the risk of getting caught that you're in the middle is very high, so that big cost for getting there will be for nothing (and actually get way more costly because you alerted the subjects).
I do find them from different publishers, Oxford World Classics dated from 1940's and other's like Blackie and Son's from the 50's. They are so conveniently sized.
I’m saddened this is the top comment, as it appears to be little more than trolling.

It is better to not even have to think about looking at the server-side code.

The best case would be there is no “server” at all, but that’s the Internet we have to work with today to enable the usability and user experience they are going for.
ISPs are utilities because you only have one option for ISP (running a wire to your house). Content hubs take less than a second to switch, there is no lock in.

The lack of ability to switch providers is what makes it important to have regulations, not just the fact that it is labeled a common carrier.
Yes! DB-less mode will be an option that can be turned on. If you don't want to use DB-less, or your configuration is too large to be held in-memory, you can continue using a DB.
Can't you just have a field in the device name that's invisible to the user?

If a user reuses MyMainPhone, just call it MyMainPhone|1 internally, and don't render this in the UI. Then tombstone MyMainPhone|0.
we already know that deep RL is sample inefficient... is meta-RL really useful for something not trivial? This seems rather silly.
How does the amount of bandwidth capable for carrying channels relate to whether something should be carried or not in a legal or constitutional sense?

Carrying white supremacist content has a cost to both Comcast and YouTube/Facebook. Nobody expects Comcast to carry the KKK channel and yet they have hundreds of channels and clearly space to carry it. So why aren’t they compelled to do so if Facebook is?
I use both Paypal and Stripe on my website. I've had companies using Paypal to pay $1,000 a couple of times. Both work fine for me. But dispute resolutions are random with Paypal (never had any with Stripe). I just had a few on Paypal: some where I gave no information and it was resolved in my favor, other where I proved taht the customer made repeat payments from the same IP address but Paypal decided one payment was not actually done by the customer.
So chinese people who are proud of their heritage and promote it can be discriminated against because being proud of your race is just a view one can hold?
I think it's fine if Facebook wants to ban white nationalist content, however I don't trust their judgement with respect to deciding what is "white nationalist" content or not, because as we've seen the MSM will label anything that it doesn't like as racist, and Facebook definitely falls in with this crowd, and this could be just an excuse to block things they don't want because it goes against their political agenda, and they can use "but muh white nationalism" as an excuse.
I like unix time. But its not perfect either. Soon we will have a new y2k problem where unix time can no longer fit into an integer. Anyone remember the y2k problem ? People predicted major catastrophes as the year was encoded with two digits. But no one is talking about unix time.
About half way through I accepted the likelihood that there would be no muppets. Then I was surprised that this was an ad, and not an art film about Orwellian offices.