skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I deliberately chose that phraseology to be ambiguous. But what is not ambiguous is that the Republicans engage in dirty tricks (gerrymandering [1], stripping the governor of powers after an election where a Democrat is elected [2], passing laws to disenfranchise demographic minorities [3], running candidates with blatant conflicts of interest [4], and just flat-out breaking the law [5]) far more often than Democrats do.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-power-that-gerry...

[2] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/14/scott-walker-lame-...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/659784277/republican-voter-su...

[4] https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/16/opinions/brian-kemp-georgia-v...

[5] http://time.com/5535292/north-carolina-election-fraud/
Hey sorry for offtopic, but I saw your post about TwitchVC - is it dead now? Join link from blogpost doesn't work
I was interested in genuine responses, not in starting a flamewar.
The Most Dangerous Dams Are the Smallest
For the question of crossing a time zone boundary while using local time, I'd say the answer is obviously to go off the moment local time passes the alarm time.

Going the other way is a more fun problem, but a few hours of debouncing is fine for anyone moving at suborbital speeds.
> then at least in the context of banning African-American content, there's specific federal law they'd be tripping over

which specific federal law would that be? I can't think of any law protecting content about specific groups
Sounds like if you didn't want to pay NYC taxes they'd repossess the property and it would be sold to someone that would pay them.

Who owns property in 20 cities by the way? If you're an individual I don't think I care if you would hypothetically lose property in NYC if you didn't pay taxes there. However the obvious consequence of this would be the wealthy creating a company to buy and own the properties they live in so you'd have to be very careful about closing loopholes in this hypothetical regulation.
Any modern ultra-book.
It's on their roadmap, guys.
>What we are saying is that Facebook is no longer a platform for free and open exchange of idea...

???

It never was.

I couldn't watch porn movies on Facebook.
It's a start but I hope it expands from there. As someone else noted, Farm equipment is hardly the only area where DRM has been applied to hurt and tollgate people.
Twitter is considering telling journalists to learn to code as hate speech now - we have already slipped down that slope even on the simple things.
Certain types of gun. It's not just one type being banned.
This case was about a "company town", where there was very much a blending of public and private.

> The Court initially noted that it would be an easy case if the town were a more traditional, publicly administered, municipality. Then, there would be a clear violation of the right to free speech for the government to bar the sidewalk distribution of such material. The question became, therefore, whether or not constitutional freedom of speech protections could be denied simply because a single company held title to the town.

It's also not a good idea to bring up this case without bringing up Cyber Promotions v. America Online, in which America Online put up spam filters and Cyber Promotions tried to use the above precedent to say America Online was blocking their right to free speech. You can probably guess by the fact that we still use spam filters how that case came out.

As a final note, even that original case has had limitations based off of the type of property-

> In Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, the Supreme Court distinguished a private shopping mall from the company town in Marsh and held that the mall had not been sufficiently dedicated to public use for First Amendment free speech rights to apply within it.
> If users trust the key because they trust updates coming from Daniel and if Daniel is about to lose control of the key to someone else, then destroying the key before it becomes compromised is the responsible and right thing to do.

how can you possibly state that when the users have no control or say over this decision?
... and yet, child pornography possession and distribution is illegal. Do we think Chomsky would find this unacceptable?
The mall got out of it because there were many alternate places to distribute messages, so banning mall speech didn't significantly stifle overall speech. That probably still also applies to Facebook today, but not by a wide margin.
[Apologies - copying a comment I made elsewhere, but it is relevant to the point you made]

Here's a better alternative to rent control. Instead of rent control on a per-unit basis, cities could provide subsidies to long-term low-income residents that reduce their personal expenditure on rent. The subsidies would be paid for through taxes, thus amortizing the subsidy across the local tax base instead of impacting an individual landlord or unit.

But let me note that this must be done only for long-term residents (that is, those who have been there for years). For example, if someone moved to SF within the last 5 years, they should have known what the price of living there is. This is one of the most desirable cities, and it makes sense that it would be expensive and that not everyone would get to live there. Those moving there in recent years therefore, simply made an irresponsible personal choice and must yield to the consequences, rather than being subsidized at others' expense.
>A big benefit of end-to-end encryption is that it makes it impossible for the service provider to suddenly start doing silent mass surveillance of their userbase.

Mass surveillance no, but if everybody blindly trusts any key provided (which seems to be the default "setting" for Signal and WhatsApp) then it's easy to start MITM'ing any connection at any point. You'll just get an innocuous-looking "your safety number has changed" and nothing else.

I do agree that it's still much better than nothing but I also agree with TFA when they say that "Signal cut a big corner by not planning device management properly", there are many ways Signal could make it massively easier for users to transfer their keys from one device to an other (for instance by deriving the master key from a passphrase bitcoin-wallet-style, or simply by making it easier to transfer your keys and history from device to device).

Because they didn't do this they probably considered that having an SSH-style intrusive "SOMETHING IS GOING WRONG HERE" message was too annoying and got rid of it. But really, they're fixing the symptom, not the problem.
"also that the onus is on the speaker to make themselves heard or to find an audience"

On social media, don't you need to find your own audience?
This is true, however, very few companies will be purely Chinese entities. Both due to foreign investment and desire to IPO in Hong Kong many will manifest as a VIE in which a foreigner or foreign entity can legally own stock.
Correct, they were referring to a very general concept as far as I am aware.
Would that be the same filter he used back in 2010 when he responded to complaints about the iPhone 4 reception issue by stating "don't hold it that way" ;)
PhD in Applied Physics, 2018

Working on data science/ML now.

Started undergrad in 2008 and had to decide between CS and engineering physics. Went with the latter because the school had a particularly strong program.

Applied for PhD programs and national lab positions in 2012. The PhD route seemed more interesting, so I went with that. Ended up spending 6 years on materials simulation.

My peer group ended up going to academia, software engineering, and data science. Technology companies seemed exciting so I interviewed for software engineering and data science roles. Ended up with a company that predicts accident risk from driving data.

I think that physicists are particularly well suited to the machine learning space. I was trained to work systematically work through problems with no analytic solution through clever approximations. This tenacity can help with tackling problems in the machine learning space.
Please ease up on acronyms or add the expanded form in parentheses. I have no idea what WWMWD is even after googling for it for a while.
Maybe people could publicly shame Apple by bringing their brand new MBPs to various Cupertino coffee establishments and then plugging in big old Dell keyboards to actually use them.
Reminder of how dysfunctional the voting in the European Parliament is: https://youtu.be/lzigiPUXNzI
The latest Apple schenanigans: an Apple Pencil that can only be used in some devices and an Apple Pencil that's for the other devices only

Ah but they're both called Apple Pencil

I'm not making this up
Well, I think that's a problem with calling this situation "The Replication Crisis". The basic laws of physics have been verified to an extraordinary degree of accuracy on the that people deal with them daily and even at the ordinary atomic level - if anything, physics has the opposite crisis where it's theories are not fully self-consistent on every hypothetical condition but where in every condition we can produce, one or another theories works with apparently perfect precision.

"The Replication Crisis" has basically involved rather different fields - psychology and human biology/medicine most often. The crisis could be called "human and animal testing crisis" imo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Cynical Answer:

It's affecting FB's bottom line.

White nationalism is in the news and on the rise in the US/Europe and therefore spooking advertisers who only really care what the pundits in US/Europe are talking about.

This soothes them over = money for FB.

My hope is that the algorithms and models developed for slowing the spread of White Nationalism will also work (down the road) for things like Hindu Nationalism, Chinese, etc.
PG inspires as usual!
You can think of a tensor as "an element of a tensor product" (just like a vector is "an element of a vector space") and look at the definition of a tensor product via its universal property, it basically turns bilinear maps into linear maps. This universal property is elegant and immediately gives the Hom-tensor adjunction, but to show that tensor products satisfying it actually exist you'll need an explicit construction, which can be done by quotienting a free module. This explicit construction might look unintuitive at first, but you're really quotienting by the minimal relations required for the "bilinearity" property of tensors to work out
As a Canadian I would be horrified if they banned all speech related to separatism. Quebec should absolutely be entitled to rant about wanting to separate themselves from the rest of Canada. That's not extremist speech, there is no realistic risk of violence from that speech, it's just a widely held (slightly less so recently) political opinion about how we should organize ourselves into political bodies.

I don't know what issues Spain has with separatism, maybe there are some legitimate ones, but not all separatist groups are inherently bad.
There's no shortage of street corners to protest on. Why are you mad that we pepper spray you when you try to protest in front of the bankers' offices?
Essentially. A person's freedom of speech doesn't imply curtailment of another person's freedom of the press.
This is an exact fit. Great job
I wish I could verbalize why I like her photos so much. Perhaps it's the nostalgia they bring, but honestly it's much more. She had an eye for capturing something interesting among the mundane. The photo of the guy in the yellow shorts/shirt/socks could have been out of a Wes Anderson film.
I first heard this 20 or so years ago when a compliation of works by Raymond Scott came out. The music featured in this advertisment is by Ramond Scott a composer and pioneer of the synthesiser for musical purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Scott
Human trafficking is just another word for illegal immigration.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking

"Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim's rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation. Human trafficking is the trade in people, especially women and children, and does not necessarily involve the movement of the person from one place to another."

Please take special note of the last sentence.

There are certainly jobs with higher inherent risks, like working in lumber, or oil rigs, or construction.

This line irks me, though I don't know how to clearly articulate why.
Clearly not a definitive answer but some elements to think about:

Facebook's business consists in promoting some of the content their users put online (the content that makes them win money) so they cannot claim to be a neutral carrier.

Comcast cannot be asked to filter content since what they carry is encapsulated at least and encrypted most of the time.
Implementing a Language with LLVM in Rust
Does this mean Facebook can now be considered a publishing platform, and thus liable for content put on the site?
In all fairness though, DEC and DG were part of the Route 128 cluster of computer companies. They were just mostly scattered in small towns around the region (as were their manufacturing and other smaller offices) because being located in a city was not really something that tech companies did at the time. [ADDED: AFAIK all of these companies mostly used the typical for the time mix of high cubicles and offices for managers.]

Boston metro was still losing population up to around the late 90s and, when Teradyne moved out, that was basically the last major tech employer in the city proper.

The current fascination with urban living (in certain specific cities) by a certain young professional demographic is mostly quite recent.
I know you would say that it doesn't belong here. Especially when it hurts bottomline of your favorite bay area brag. ;-)
Well what can they do really?

If they leave content up after big incidents they are enabling. If they take it all down, they are promoting certain points of view over others. Both will have folks screaming.

Probably they were smart enough to do the math and determined which action likely results in less blowback. That's all.

Then again, Facebook like many public areas always was a cesspool in my opinion. Not a fan of drinking from cesspools. So they can do whatever brings in the most money and I'm sure they will.
Interesting to know that!
> arm processor which will do away with throttling and fans

Not if you want desktop performance comparable to a Core i7/i9. The ARM64 A## chips can perform like desktop chips but they can't sustain that performance without thermal throttling. To offer sustained performance they'll need cooling (and probably also more cache, deeper pipelines, etc.).

ARM64 is not really that much more efficient than X64. It's slightly more efficient due to simpler instruction encoding but it's not huge. Instruction decoding is not the majority of the silicon on a modern chip.
Firefox docs are on https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing and offer a range of config knobs.
The arguments for censorship and "deplatforming" follow the fashions of the times. In one era, the notion of screenwriters inserting subtle communist propaganda into Hollywood films was terrifying enough to motivate an industry blacklist. In an earlier era, advocating resistance to the draft was considered dangerously treasonous. Somehow these threats always seem less severe in hindsight than they seemed at the time, though.
Yep, I have a late 2013 pro, and plan on "upgrading" to the most specced out version of the last 2015 pre-touchbar model whenever this one dies.
> The US President has identified himself as a "nationalist"[1], and appears to be racially white

A white nationalist is not the same as a nationalist who is white; a white nationalist is one who adheres to the ideology of white nationalism.
Bending Jest to Our Will: Restoring Node's Require Behavior
I also use and like Wire for the same reasons.
Oh interesting. I don't think we've talked about this decision publicly, so I can write about it for a second. Not letting people re-use a device name is an inconvenience, I admit, but arguably it's not like other cryptography inconveniences, where people are confused, troubled, etc. We figured people would say "huh, weird requirement" and pick a different name and move on.

The goal is a 1-1 mapping between devices (keys) and these names. So whenever we need our UX to talk about a key, it can talk, safely, about it in terms of device names. Once committed to your chain of signatures, "Laptop-Warhol" means a specific device key, and it can't be used again. So, for example, if one of your Keybase installs wants to tell you "oh, Laptop-Warhol just added a new device, iPhone-Vangogh" then it doesn't need to look like this: "Key 34858234589234895897234598734 added key 90123845890230948234234324."

If Laptop-Warhold could mean multiple devices (keys), well then we'd need to start talking about the keys. Which is a nightmare for usability.

A lot of this decision was driven by something we've seen with apple devices. Every now and then I'd get a popup on my computer - say when updating iOS - that said something like "you just started using iMessage on a new device, 'chris's iphone'. if you don't know what this you should freak your shit out." well - it has basically said that so many times with the same names over again, that I can safely assume that it's a near-useless warning.

Note I mean unique to you; 2 different users on keybase can name their devices the same.

Generally speaking...it's been a goal from the beginning that names on keybase are meaningful. Similarly if you look up "chris" in in our merkle tree (which is pinned to bitcoin) that leads to a deterministic chain of signatures. inside that chain, where I mention "work-imac-warhol", you're guaranteed to see the same answer as I am. So "chris" is as good as a key fingerprint or safety number. And so is my device name.
I dislike the phone number requirement too. Do you disagree with having to use it to register/activate an account or with having to expose it to other people you may want to communicate with directly or in groups?

For the former, you can use Wire, which allows you to sign up using an email address (from the desktop). It also syncs conversations across devices and is end-to-end encrypted. You can just share your name or username with others for them to find you.

For the latter, Telegram uses a phone number for registration/activation, but you can set a username and send that to others (or better, share a https://t.me/<username> link). Anyone who's not in your contacts list would never be able to see your phone number, even if you're in the same group chat. They can use your username to tag you in chats or message you privately. (General commentary about Telegram's encryption is out of scope for the point)
It didn't go unnoticed. We were a tiny part of a large acquisition and just a blip in the company as a whole albeit the most profitable blip margin-wise. A sports bar environment sans booze is kinda baked into the corporate mothership's decidedly non-engineering culture.
To Keybase people here, I'm not sure why you can or won't open/free the software. However, it might be possible that you meet your goal by using shared source that licenses published source for specific uses as educational/academic, security review, and/or build locally from source. Doesn't allow commercial use or forks of that code. There's precedent for that in security software, like Cryptophone doing it (below) for review. I suggest considering an option like that if open/free source doesn't work since it still increases confidence in Keybase.

https://www.cryptophone.de/en/background/source-code/
Yeah that irked me at the time. But at least he tried to be as close to a perfectionist as they come.
OP said "expensive" but you switched to "good location".
Hmmm, the article doesn't go into where the rising construction costs are coming from and it seems incredibly dishonest not to address it. It could just as well be that NIMBYism is leading to legal/regulatory issues which are driving up construction costs. It could be something else entirely, but we can't tell from the article and without that information, there's no way to draw your conclusion that NIMBY isn't the problem.
You can also extract the files from a .deb file and place them wherever you so desire as well though if you really want to be that extreme about it. I see no issue with installing things as root, it's running random software as root that's the real issue. If you verify what the post-install script for a Debian package is doing (ie not running anything not already on the system) you should be fine to install KeyBase and any other package as root.

Packages don't run the software they install unless it installs a daemon or something.
That's going to be very hard to fix.

In order for your link-click to be resolved your computer has to send some packets and tell somebody that you want a piece of content. Somebody has to give you that content. Unless you're using tor (really, even if you're using tor), these are actions with physical manifestations which can be tracked.
I was specifically speaking of the many proprietary libraries that you had to buy for many advanced tasks (or in the vain hope to save yourself time by not writing a video encoder, etc).

Delphi and VB and VC++ and the C Compiler suites for Solaris, AIX and IRIX were mostly fine by themselves, but cost money. Particularly the latter.

Nowadays you see people closing the nagbox in SublimeText to save 10 bucks (or whatever amount this is); back then nothing was free (as beer) and even less free (as speech).
I do think there is a serious lack of accountability for personal choice involved in the recent demands for cities to redo their policies or for states to override city-level policies. Those moving to expensive places know what they're in for. They do it anyways because they want something they can't responsibly afford. And then the incumbents are demonized for not giving up the smaller-city life they desired and sought out, because newcomers are upset. It doesn't make sense to me.
While I agree with you about the money and work-ethic, I think some aspects can be far more rewarding than in the US. In China, you're not making an absurd of money for it to only go to taxes and COL. Instead, you make a comfortable amount (comparably) and can still live a good life. I also haven't found it particularly difficult to get good offers. Quality systems engineers and architects are in high demand in China (due to both the ML boom but also low quality of this particular aspect of CS education there) and so if you find the right company you can be making just as much as in the US if not more (speaking from experience).
What about the legal risk associated with letting the Frog Brigade post their terrorist cookbook on your platform? 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.
My only concern is Braintree is more expensive. Stripe doesn't change any additional percentage for non local currency while Braintree charges additional 1%.
Are these billion dollar lawsuits? The one that Apple lost so far was only for about 30 million—basically a pellet gun shot. Apple's the one seeking billions in rebates which is probably why Qualcomm is shooting back.
PureOS

Not sure if any phone other than the Librem 5 will support it though.
Spray the keys down with compressed air. You should notice a good amount of stuff actually accumulates in there.