skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, hiring for data science is now pretty much exclusive to having a Masters/PhD beforehand as a filter. (it wasn't as bad a year ago, but data science now is at a point where candidate supply is outstripping demand)
having a monopoly doesn't automatically make you a "public use" company.

Having a monopoly on a form of speech does.
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> Why are white people specifically targeted.

Facebook is run by Jews, who have a specific dislike for white people. Notice you will never see pro-Israel (Jewish nationalist) content banned.
My mother and grandparents have had to make a run for a bomb shelter a few times this week. So, yeah, I don't think that people who have "from the river to the sea" in their bio are joking.
Do all HN submissions appear in the RSS feed?
I’ve taken a look at the site and my rss reader, and it seems only some submissions end up on the rss? How are they chosen?
Totally agree, recruitment will be much more difficult. It's what happens to many conspiracy theorists over time. Their recruitment takes the hit in society.
Review shows no performance benefit of machine learning over logistic regression
https://www.recode.net/2014/3/18/11624668/the-price-of-music

Cherry picking from the article from 2014:

> At the 1999 peak ... according to the music trade group International Federation for the Phonographic Industry, across the total 18-and-over population (both across many countries or individually within one), the average amount spent came to $28 per consumer.

Moving on:

> But that includes people who did not buy any music that year. If we look at just the consumers who bought music, they spent $64 on average that year.

> Another study by NPD Group in 2011 found similar spending, about $55 per music buyer per year on all forms of recorded music

Note, that's all forms of music.

> about $12 per iTunes account per quarter is spent on music, or about $48 per year.
The valley in a lot time disregard it which I find refreshing.
Current gen MacBook pros can’t fit latest intel processors into that thin body. Other vendors already leave mbps in the dust performance wise. That fact makes me hopeful that apple will have to go thicker for the next mbp generation and that will maybe warrant a better keyboard.

This form-over-usability-and-function madness has to end.
Okay, and that's exactly the kind of reasoned response that's appropriate. What's not appropriate is implying the request is simply unfounded because of its source. It's not charitable.
Steve Bannon is best described as a civic nationalist. Although, I think he has questionable choice in allies.
They said they already ban "white supremacy" because it falls under their existing guidelines. That's what I take to be the "racist" content.

But now they are banning "white nationalism and separatism" in addition. I guess I don't know enough about white nationalism to say if it's racist or not. Like I said, it's a value judgement (and an issue of categorization) that's beyond my expertise.

I don't think separatism is by definition racist. There was the separatist movement in Spain a year ago. The movement is obviously based on race or ethnic background, but it's not obviously racist. There were probably some racists in the movement, but the entire movement may not be racist.

I think they probably made the right decision -- it looks like they considered it carefully. But my point was that the grandparent's framing of the post as a free speech issue is misleading. Facebook ITSELF framed it as a value judgement.
Comcast is few-to-many model, Facebook is many-to-many.

A few content producers create the content that Comcast could potentially carry. Comcast selects what they want to provide to their many customers. Comcast has never marketed themselves as a place where anyone can have their content provided to subscribers. Facebook has, in fact that is the essence of what they do.
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Because it's in the news since the New Zealand mosque shooting.

Maybe Facebook should ban Hindutva organizing on their platform. That seems a perfectly reasonable position.
Among other things, Oracle has been… not very friendly to people and organisations working with the JVM[1]. A standard with many implementations that isn't controlled by one corporation is desirable. With that said, I kind of wish that this standard was RISC-V, but I guess it doesn't work that well for virtual machines?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....
If you want vetted developers who need to pass rigorous tests to get into the freelancer network, look at Toptal https://www.toptal.com/#connect-unmatched-coders-now

Freelancers too, if you want a network which screens startups and clients (not allowing bad/unrealistic ones) , try to apply to Toptal. It also allows you to have good rates compared to networks which are open to all.
Thanks! Mostly Keynote, and lots of iteration.

I'll be honest, I personally found this figure puzzling. Still not 100% clear on it, but I don't believe it refers to the negative sampling approach. My best guess is that it's referring to earlier word2vec variants where the input in skipgram (or sum of inputs in CBOW) are multiplied by a weights matrix that projects the input to an output vector.
Even in the case of google I know most of the people working in their AI program I know personally don't have an MS or PHD. As long as you can understand the work it's fine.
“One question that has dogged the discovery of Maier’s photography is how a lowly nanny could make such high art. Let’s call that sexism. I’ve never heard anyone ask how another exceptional Chicago outsider, the visionary writer and artist Henry Darger, could have produced his fifteen-thousand-page magnum opus while holding down a job as a janitor.”

Really? That’s precisely the question many people ask about Darger (his stuff is beyond description, you should check it out) or any other Outsider artist, for that matter. Natural talent and genius? Of course. A ton of time available due to loneliness (these artists are mostly alone) to hone your art and practice? Another important factor. And the side effects of that loneliness.
I know this from audio samples used in the Music for Programming podcast. I always want to find out where various bits of dialogue in the podcast come from, but they're generally really hard to Google. It made me laugh to see that this one looks exactly the way I imagined.
Blame the white nationalists for deliberately trying to turn everything into a dogwhistle, with stuff like "Operation O-KKK" where they flooded social media with fake outrage at nonexistent people saying that (HN doesn't support emoji, ok symbol should go here) is racist, thereby turning the it into a racist symbol through the medium of trolling. Nazis around the world now use it to identify themselves while calling it """ironic""" to anyone who asks.

Turning benign stuff racist is how modern racists thrive and spread their ideas, and pretending they don't exist doesn't help.
Borderline doxing? The original poster literally has this information in their bio of this very website.
Since this feature came out I haven't had to change my keying with Signal in over a year. To your point, for heavy use Signal users the flow is a bit arduous. I hope that Signal can offer a continuous backup option at some point so I can just have the app incrementally backup while I'm at home to my NAS. This would solve for both the problems of unforeseen mobile phone loss as well as the level of time it takes to migrate to a new phone.

In the interest of transparency I also use Keybase for things as well. The problem I ran into with Keybase my first go-round was I lost any ability to restore my account after I hadn't used it for about 9 months. That is mostly my fault for not having more bases covered, but had I had anything notable I would have wanted access to I would have lost it at that point. As an end user I don't feel that Keybase competes in the same manner as Signal. Since I'm an Android user Signal is 100% transparent to my normal use handling both SMS/MMS and Signal messaging. Keybase isn't a drop in replacement with that in mind. I realize this isn't the norm for iPhone users. Regardless, my question is: are many people using Keybase for messaging? About half my contact list uses Signal, yet I only have ever communicated with two people via Keybase.
More security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms
Has a single sandbox ever been written that has not had an escape vulnerability? I don't know of any. Sandboxes aren't safe, and everyone thinks of them as being a perfect prophylactic when they provably, demonstrably, and historically are not, in any way.

the solution is not to create another sandbox to run software in.
This is more just a subsidy to the well off than it is a tax shelter.
> It's an ideology

... that's wrong, scientifically and morally. Stop trying to gaslight us all into believing this "ideology" is anything other than backwards thinking, ignorant, hate filled nonsense.
I was actually at Pitt when Rovelli and Newman were still team teaching GR and always regretted not taking this course. Would Modern Classical Physics be enough in the GR section to get the basics down? It looks decent for the stuff I know about (optics and so on).
Great! Then you have no legal grounds to oppose me when I hold a political rally on your front lawn tomorrow. See you then!
It's a step toward people running their own servers, either federated with Keybase proper, or just as a personal instance. That would be valuable for quite a number of enthusiasts. Federation (like email/XMPP) is a very reasonable feature for any forward-looking communication platform.
Yeh I found in the valley this is becoming more normal. Most of the big guys don't require it anymore. either.
Not really acknowledgment of weakness, but presence and presentation of weakness.

Inside of Europe, I'm thinking about Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin. Outside, I'm thinking about Xi Jinping.
In Beijing, a public park is a prominent hub for seniors seeking life partners
How does one land a job as one of these playlist curators?
The KKK literally went through a period where they claimed to be a non-violent organization.

I am sorry, but you are either ignorant, or being intentionally deceptive.
I'll avoid a more sinister accusation of bad faith and assume you are earnest in that belief. As you seem to believe that, I suspect that's largely because your standard of evidence is different from others who believe differently.

If your standard is that no one in the White House has said explicitly "I am a white nationalist", then yes, that seems to be true and there is "no evidence".

But on the other hand, notable white identitarian/nationalist/supremacist figures are currently in the White House, have served in recent years, and indeed, there were entire administrations in the past four decades predicated on the belief that white individuals should have different rules in criminal law than non-white individuals, and strategies were pursued to incarcerate or diminish the status of non-white individuals.

Now, you may say "this is not evidence", but that's to my point. Your standard of evidence is different from others, and you aren't entertaining the idea that maybe, just maybe, these things are not coincidental. That a Muslim ban and "Superpredators" and the behavior of ICE/CBP and the implementation of federal criminal law toward low-level drug offenses (instead of much more societally damaging white collar crime usually perpetrated by wealthy white individuals) is just normal political discourse, not influenced by white supremacy.

You could believe that, and I believe it's possible to believe it earnestly. But I would challenge you to consider whether your standard of evidence in this case might be too high, or even impossible to meet for any smart white nationalist. If your standard is so high that, all it would take is for White House officials to "hide their power level" (using chan-board speak) and use metaphor or coded language while accomplishing the same ends explicitly white nationalist outsiders push for, then is it a useful standard of evidence?

Or, lastly, to bring it full circle: is your standard of evidence impossible to meet for someone who is a smart bad faith actor?
I just got the latest air and it has the same keyboard that current mbps have. They’ve added some rubber membranes, so it’s hopefully less prone to broken keys, but there are reports that the problem still exists, unfortunately.
What about Android one devices like Nokia 7?
How about dart? You have swift and kotlin on the list. With dart you could build native apps for ios and android
PhD programming candidates at my work seem completely clueless to industry standards when it comes to coding because they've been mired in academia land for decades...
Then the reasonable thing to do is to explain why it's a terrible response. What's unreasonable is to imply that the request is a sideshow in favor of a competing product because of the identity of the person who brought it up.

If you have a good reason not to fulfill the request, charitably responding to the request with that reasoning is an educational opportunity for the audience. There's just no need to bring identities into the mix like this, and I think a dispassionate response outlining why the server need not even be trusted would stand on its own.
The French Revolution seems to have worked out reasonably well in the long term

Because the system that's currently in place is quite different from what came just after the revolution. In any case, a period of such terror remains indelibly in history forever, as it should. No moral person should want to create another. As far as I can tell, only angry and embittered people want that.
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We're still down from the 90s heights, but increasing rapidly: https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/
Yes, that's what I mean about using proptest (if you are unfamiliar, it's akin to QuickCheck). You'd write the proptest functions for your dedicated unsafe section.

As an example, I use this with Jetscii [1] in an attempt to throughly test SIMD vs non-SIMD code. If Miri detected errors with SIMD (I don't think it does now), then I could run those tests inside of Miri, having them pull double duty.

[1]: https://github.com/shepmaster/jetscii/
This is so horrible yet I am not surprised. You'd think that at some age people would achieve a certain level of competency.
I believe the DMCA's safe harbor provisions were adopted independently by most other jurisdictions, and there may even have been international treaties establishing some of the rules. Most sites are unlikely to contest take-down notices regardless of jurisdiction; that is incumbent on the party posting the content.
> I think Python’s “no types anywhere” was a reaction to Java’s “types everywhere”

To nitpick, Python actually came before Java. But, the overall sentiment is something I agree with.
> No company or platform owes them anything.

Precisely. I worked on a college newspaper. It was common , had been going on for years and years in face, that a specific hate group would send an order for advertisements, and threaten to sue if we didn't print them. They were usually Holocaust denial ads w/ anti-semitic conspiracy theories. We never printed them, but some schools inevitably did, failing to understand this aspect of free speech. Everyone gets to speak. But if you want a microphone, you have to buy or build it yourself.
Nexus devices are all pretty old and unreliable right now.
It seems like, at least temporarily, providing it on top of the (stable) OpenVPN driver would be highly useful?
> one can argue communists killed a lot of people, so why not?

Because in the really existing world, we are in no way faced with a growing trend of violent leftists shooting up mosques, driving their cars into protestors, infiltrating police departments, perpetrating 73% of fatal extremist incidents in the US, receiving attaboys and cover from the Oval Office, poisoning YouTube RIYL algos, etc.
it's just a question of what will replace that and not make it worse

Periods of widespread terror and destruction should be remembered forever. No one should want that as a price for anything.
The current "PhD hang up" in tech, if it exists at all, seems to be driven by the competition for ML talent (edit: ML research talent).

To some extent, this is understandable: a typical undergrad CS curriculum is terrible preparation for ML research. I'd even say almost any analytical field: statistics, signal processing, physics, math, etc. is better preparation for working in ML than a conventional undergrad CS curriculum. But PhD in CS with specialization in ML/AI would be ideal for most employers, since exposure to more advanced stats, linear algebra, estimation theory, etc. becomes likely.

The other factor is that ML research is moving quickly and knowledge is being rapidly disseminated in academic conferences. A PhD has an advantage there over a typical undergrad, since they've already spent years learning to parse academic literature.
Right, the issue though isn’t if it’s technically possible, but that it would somehow be advantageous compared to a missile. I grant that it can be done, I’m still unsure as to why. Nonetheless I appreciate your analysis!
White Nationalism has permeated the entire GOP since Nixon’s Southern Strategy, and there is evidence of that everywhere, starting with the Southern Strategy itself as exhibit 1.

That it has been more pronounced than the post-Southern Strategy GOP baseline in the Trump Administration is also quite evident to both opponents and overt supporters of White nationalism.
To give a context to why this is important (even though technologically it is much easier to shoot a satellite).

Western Nations often have this tendency of pass international laws with exceptions for themselves using ridiculous arguments. Such as nuclear proliferation treaties which allows existing nuclear powers to build more nuclear war heads but does not allow others to build even the first nuke.

India's NSA Ajit Doval in 2011 had pointed out that this is going to happen to satellite sabotage as well. The existing players will gang up to ban such weapons while making exemptions for themselves. By publicly showing and acknowledging this capability India has ensured a seat at the table in future.
To me the most interesting part of this article is that I missed there was a contract awarded for a Mach 6 SR-72, that may or may not already have a sighted test platform.
Who specifically are you talking about?

And no, my standard of evidence is not hearing someone say the words - it is considering their actions and seeing if they align with a particular agenda. I've seen the accusations aplenty, but I just don't see any actual evidence supporting it. And for the record, I despise any kind of group-based ideology, or anything that treats people other than individuals. I denounce white nationalists or any kind of racial or ethnic superiority group when I see it - I just don't see it here.
This is slightly ridiculous - if it were only 1.5MB of information computers would have a much easier time with it. Google trains their voice-recognition and language models on petabytes of data and still have trouble matching an average 10-year-old. Word2vec is significantly larger than 1.5MB, and that's just the embedding.

Kids pick up way more than just yes-or-no questions like "Is a turkey a bird?" They're also observing the world visually - when a parent says "Look, it's a turkey" and there's turkey in front of them, they make the association between the visual image and the word. They infer information from sentence structure as well - "it's a ..." is a very good clue that the following word is a noun, and semantically, only certain words can go in certain places.

They need to make negative associations as well. For example, to my 14-month-old everything that is round is a "ball": wheels are balls, painted circles are balls, cylindrical rattles are balls, apples are balls, and actual balls are balls. He'll eventually need to learn that we usually only use "ball" to refer to 3-dimensional spherical objects used for recreational purposes, but as everything is a recreational purpose at the moment and he doesn't really get the concept of "spherical", this comes later.

On the other side, somehow he has managed to learn that the wide variety of dog breeds are all "gǒu gǒu" (Mandarin for "doggy"), as are 2 of his stuffed animals, but not the bear. Chihuahas, poodles, german shepherds, corgis, dachsunds, labradors, newfies - somehow he gets that they're all gǒu gǒu despite a wide variety of physical appearances. Deep learning models to classify dogs vs. cats are also significantly bigger than 1.5MB, but have much less accuracy.
The purpose of free speech is that you can influece the reality you live in, without that its useless, might as well not have it. As such free speech requires to be allowed on the most popular social platforms. Just like free speech had to be allowed on a towns square.
What you have described is a semigroup. Sometimes an application might naturally involve semigroups and sure, they share the benefits of associativity with monoids. Semigroups generalise monoids, which are one step further up on the ladder to full groups.

Monoids occur more frequently in practice both because it's often practically useful and semantically meaningful to have an "empty" value (the identity) when accumulating results. So even if the application has an underlying semigroup structure, you might sometimes want to use a sum type to add an identity and make it into a monoid:

"Any semigroup S may be turned into a monoid simply by adjoining an element e not in S and defining e • s = s = s • e for all s ∈ S."

So from a programming point of view, the monoid is a handier pattern than the semigroup, and you can almost always turn a semigroup into a monoid if that would make things more convenient.

There are a couple of articles here that make a weak case for the applicability of semigroups in software: https://blog.ploeh.dk/2017/11/27/semigroups/
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Show them lots of love. :)
I don't believe Facebook. This is just a publicity move.

If they really wanted to combat the hatred they cause, then they should change their algorithm and stop putting stories on top that cause the most emotional reactions (and clicks in consequence).
Is word2vec still the cutting edge of NLP?
> I am hoping 2019 Apple will have a MacBook Pro redesign that fixes all of these issues.

I hope so too, but I'm not optimistic unless there are leadership changes. They've triple downed on this and it's still an issue. We definitely won't see scissor keys again, Apple isn't going to undermine their narrative like that, but I hope whatever comes after the butterfly was developed in a completely separate building than wherever they house the butterfly keyboard team. Poor engineering from the start, embarrassing half measures since, Jobs would have cleared house years ago.