skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a hobby for him, not a living. Most people make $0 from their hobbies.
Why not read the study?

> 1.2 Research Questions & Findings
> We analyze the effects of the ban at two levels: the user level and the community level.

> RQ1: What effect did Reddit’s ban have on the contributors to banned subreddits?

> RQ1a: How were their activity levels affected?

> RQ1b: How did their hate speech usage change, if at all?

> RQ2: What effect did the ban have on subreddits that saw an influx of banned subreddit users?

> RQ2a: To which subreddits did the contributors to banned subreddits migrate after the ban?

> RQ2b: How did hate speech usage by migrants change in these subreddits, if at all?

> RQ2c: How did hate speech usage by preexisting users change in these subreddits, if at all?

>And yes, it borders on the tautology

It's the study of the before-and-after effects of banning two subreddits, particularly on users of those subreddits as they migrated to others. Where is the tautology?

> that does not generalize to reasonable public policy.

The second paper, from the person you Ad Hominem described as "some woman’s opinion on how people should write about Internet-related news," directly talks about how you can generalize these ideas into combatting attacks on the Internet to prevent their amplification.

EDIT: That "some woman": Whitney Phillips; PhD 2012, English with an emphasis on folklore, University of Oregon

Would you like to try again?
We're already working on putting missiles and directed energy in space at my job in missile defense. They are 'defensive' missiles but the new ones they're putting up there will have offensive capabilities as well
>"You can do everything right and still lose".

Super insightful and eye opening when I finally wrapped my head around it. The insightful and valuable corollary / takeaway I get from this is:

"But if you make the right move enough, you will win eventually."

Determination matters, in poker, in business, in whatever hobby you do. I've noticed this laddering Counterstrike and Overwatch. Individual losses are frustrating, especially when you feel you made the right moves. But if you keep making the right moves, you will eventually win more than you lose in the long run. You just need to have the determination and drive to stick with it.
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The paper: https://statweb.stanford.edu/~candes/papers/RobustPCA.pdf

Pics are on pages 25 and 27.
Trump signs executive order to make America greater than EMPs
The other major reasons they didn't load much fuel on the ground is that the engine fuel economy at low speeds and low altitudes was atrocious. After refueling, the crews would head for the cruising altitude as soon as possible.
Not the OP, but also to consider is the high exemption on capital gains tax to be paid on a home sale: $250k for single owners, or $500k for joint owners. If I buy a house for $500k, live in it for a few years, and sell it for $750k, I get that $250k in gains tax-free.

> The tax deduction is nominally smaller than the equity you would gain on an equivalent amount of money going to principal rather than interest.

True, but you can't ignore the "choice (3)" that you mention. I'm not in the market for a house right now, but if I were, I would absolutely get a mortgage even though I could pay cash for the whole thing. It's a non-zero risk, but I feel it's a reasonable bet to believe I can make enough in the markets to more than offset the mortgage interest, especially with the MID in play reducing my overall tax.

That doesn't really address the point the parent was making about buying a house being a good tax shelter (I agree with your premise if you restrict thinking to just that), but I don't think it's safe to ignore it in the bigger picture, either.
There’s a Better Model Than Apple News+: PressReader, the OG 'Netflix for News'
Unfortunately it's not actually possible to delete reddit comments from being publicly searchable. There are several independent projects which continuously retrieve and store every single comment. For example, PushShift[1] constantly crawls reddit for all new comments and posts. Their entire corpus of historical data is freely available for download. There is even a free service to search through any user's entire comment and submission history[2]. This includes deleted comments and deleted users.

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1. https://pushshift.io/

2. http://redditsearch.io/
With the amount of exposure he's getting from spotify, he could almost certainly get paying gigs if he were interested.

Also, for some people recording is more interesting than performing.
>You can play great poker, sometimes over the span of a few days, and suddenly get hit with a cold deck or get unlucky and poof you are eliminated with nothing, along with your chance at a 5 or 6 figure top prize. Then you have to suck it back up and move on to the next one.

I specialized in small, quick tournaments for this reason. Live players still weren't used to the even faster pace of online play but with rapidly escalating blinds it was critical. They were lulled into indecision and procrastination by the low early blinds, not realizing that they escalated quickly to force stacking out of the small players. I could easily make $1k+ a day clearing Binion's tournaments.

I tried playing in a couple of Venetian Deep Stack events and usually busted out. I finally adapted to the slower play, longer rounds, bigger field and frankly better players to leave after two days of play with the same payout from winning one three hour Binion's tournament. The biggest upside being able to say I got my name published in Card Player magazine. LOL. Since for me it was just entertainment and I could reliably pay for my vacation in the smaller tourneys I went back to small ball.
After a lot of C/jS/TS/Go I finally found my pleasure with Rust.

It has some drawbacks like very slow compile time but it make your code sooo more robust!

On the other hand Go's pointer system and lack of immutable semantics make it really easy to introduce bugs when LOC >= 15k.

Rust support for arm, and wasm (without runtime, unlime Go) make me feel it have a great future and personally I'll never look back.

Go's lack of algebraic data type is a real panacea and make programming experience so painful.

Be prepared to have a bigger CI/CD (due to resource intensive compilation) but then your infra will requires far less resources! And you'll finally be able to sleep at night without fearing to have your infra burning.

Please note my use cases are HTTP APIs, cli programs and banckend dev like infra.
White nationalists and separatists are racists because they want an ethnostate. I don't think it should be difficult to tell why these ideas are racist, and I hope you would make the same judgement.

Also, the separatist movement in Spain was not racist because any number of races can live in the region that called for separation. An ethnostate is racist.
Make Buses Dangerous
> doing one airframe for almost every conceivable role was envisioned as a means of containing costs.

Didn't they learn from the Phantom that one airframe for all tasks simply doesn't work ?
> Why is white nationalism specifically targeted? Because there's a lot of it in the US and the anglosphere in general which is Facebook's home and primary market.

Facebook has 1 billion + users, which means the majority are necessarily not American. Now I don't know where those other users are from, but white nationalism is not the largest source of terrorism related killings worldwide, even if it is a problem in america. The fact is that white nationalism is -- for whatever reason -- seen as something worse than all the other forms of racism, and that perception is itself racist. There are two forms of such racism, either straight up dislike of white people or an infantilization of the racism of other cultures that absolves them of their own racism (well they didn't know better...)
Napoleon changed the French army with a similar focus on merit and skill over money or title.
I am a white guy from the states who speaks Mandarin. It's not really racism per se, it's just more that it's harder to win their trust if you're not one of them to begin with.

The startup culture is similar but the difference is most companies expect you to be putting in OT and weekend hours almost as a default. The idea of burnout prevention hasn't caught on, at least in my experience.

Also the dev practices are different as well, things that won't translate well if you'd like to bring your skills back.
>shop owner who sells, for example, duct tape, a ski mask, and zip ties to a kidnapper could have even civil liability?

I feel this has been exhaustively explained and reexplained throughout the thread, so the answer is: maybe...if the shop owner knew or should have known those items would be used in the commission of a crime, then yes there is potential liability. In your example even if the kidnapper didn’t disclose his intent the particular grouping of items may in fact suggest the shop owner knew or should have known, and of course other facts are relevant. For example, it’s a small town and the shop owner knows the purchaser as a felon with a history of violent crimes using duct tape and a ski mask.

That said maybe the facts suggest the shop owner didn’t know and had no reason to even predict the items would be used in a crime (maybe these are items typically purchased together from the shop).

As dragonwriter stated these cases are typically negligence cases, especially in firearms/ammo cases where there is federal law to protect arms dealers (thank NRA).

Here is a link to an article about a ammo case against Walmart (sold bullets to a drunk guy who gave the bullets to a kid after walking outside and 15 minutes after purchase shot and killed someone), my guess is Walmart won’t be found negligent. The article notes a second case where a gun shop sold a gun to someone who workers had suspicions was buying the gun for someone else (the gun was bought for someone else who used it to kill 2 police), they were found liable. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2016/01/08/wal...

Here is a second article against Walmart again where Walmart entered into a confidential settlement before trial. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-...

Sorry don’t have the time now to pull up the case styles.
Also, many folks don't realize that going to Mars would be much harder than the Moon for multiple reasons. There are several big engineering problems not yet solved and n. Nasa knows this.

There's a Tyson show on it, perhaps still on Netflix if interested.
I don't know the moderation policy on title changes at HN, but I just changed the title of the post. Internally at Keybase - and thanks to a conversation with a peer - we've been feeling pretty guilty about calling out a specific project that we think is basically the gold standard outside Keybase.

We'd rather focus on the positive solution to the problem (which Keybase has implemented), rather than just pointing a giant finger at any other services which have the problem we're trying to address. I think I personally will sleep better tonight this way.

Still we want this conversation to continue.
Literally the next sentence you neglected to quote says this:

> But over the past three months our conversations with members of civil society and academics who are experts in race relations around the world have confirmed that white nationalism and separatism cannot be meaningfully separated from white supremacy and organized hate groups.

There is no meaningful difference between white nationalism, white separatism, white supremacy, and hate groups. They are the same thing. So... I mean... did you read the article?
Am I reading this right:

Chainalysis reckons that Bitcoin accounted for around $812bn of genuine transfers of value.

Of that, Ms Grauer reckons, only a fraction was used to buy things. Around $2.4bn went to merchant-service providers, which handle payments for businesses—a piffling sum compared with the $17trn of transactions such as Alipay and WeChat Pay, two Chinese payment apps, in 2017. Darknet markets, which sell stolen credit-card details, recreational drugs, cheap medicines and the like, made up $605m, and gambling sites $857m. Most of the rest was related to speculation.

Is this saying that less than 1% of all "genuine transfers of value" in Bitcoin are for goods and services other than speculation?
Almost all of Google's profit comes from ads on Google-owned sites [0]. Adsense ads and non-ad products are a much smaller portion of their revenue, and Google only keeps 30% of the revenue from third-party ads, meaning almost all of their profit comes from first-party.

Given that, I doubt any attempt to block trackers or ads is ever going to seriously affect Google. It would be pretty easy to block Adsense ads that run on third-party sites, but for the first-party ads, Google can bundle the ads and content together in a way that prevents adblockers from easily blocking just the ads, without also blocking access to the service completely (and actually, I'm surprised they haven't done that already).

I can't find a breakdown of Google ad revenues by product, but considering how many ads each product has, I'm guessing the vast majority of that revenue is from search. Given that, it seems like the best way to capure significant revenue from Google is by creating an alternative search engine (like DDG), or creating another product that avoids the need to use search entirely (voice assistants maybe?)

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2018Q2_alphabet_earnings...
> Rankings are pretty bunk...more important stat is the 40% admissions rate.

It doesn't seem that you're familiar with the public university system in the US. I work at an R1 public university with an admissions rate over 90%. "Compare with Cal and UCLA" is not how you determine if a school is "mid ranked". Texas is not first tier for sure, but that's not what I was responding to.
As just one example, you have no idea what metadata logging the server is doing. This is just the surface.
Does anyone know what this means in practice?
SAP’s revolutionary journey and history of User interface / GUI
https://github.com/uhoreg/matrix-doc/blob/cross-signing2/pro... is the spec for this, fwiw
> Perhaps calling into question the legitimacy of democracy is a good thing? Indeed, why is it legitimate to violate an individual's liberties through a vote of 50% + 1 of her peers?

Someone has to decide what these liberties are. You can require a greater majority than 50%, but replacing democracy by something else does not help.
Or that completing a PhD is a filter for a pre-existing skill. All three of those theories are compatible with employers rationally favoring candidates with PhDs.
It is when the main barrier to a supply increase is rooted in government policy.
A decent chunk of the tax savings from loopholes is channeled back into preventing those loopholes from closing.
If you'd been in Bitcoin over the past 10 years you would have witnessed at least five 85%+ drops and still be up over 300,000%.
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Where does the displaced person who can't afford market rate go? They could afford it at one point, just their wage increases were dwarfed by housing price increases. All it asks is that landlords have a %cap on how much they can increase their rents each year. It's just not sustainable to displace all your tenants every pop of the housing market. It's not like the landlords property tax gets affected when market value goes up, landlords are encouraged to hold and not build on their properties right now because property tax burden is assessed when you sell or build, doesn't matter what realtors can get for your property or how much you ask from your tenants every month.
Lenovo huh, no thanks:

https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
I'm a hiring manager who interviews a lot.

In my experience, high performance in difficult degrees at good schools are a very strong indicator of future success.

We find gems outside the above profile, but it holds true even across the people we've hired from code schools.
This isn't about choosing where to live, and as a matter of fact Zurich does have very strong tenant protections and rent controls. This is about if you've lived somewhere 20 years, and the neighborhood changes, where you were a part of improving the conditions of the neighborhood, you should have the right to remain in your home at a price you can afford.

We as a society should incentivize people improving their neighborhoods, as right now we're doing the exact opposite in areas with large numbers of renters.
In this light, I would recast the story as an addiction to overqualified candidates. I think there's also a parallel (if not multiplying) force here, in postgraduates wanting to be paid more than $20K/yr as an adjunct.
Beginners luck is notable because most of the time unskilled players get bled dry very quickly. When a beginner makes all of the rookie mistakes but still wins out of sheer dumb luck then people take note.

But then as you note the skill cap isn't very high. Once everyone figures out the strategy it goes back to being mostly luck and who has the biggest bank account to ride out the bad times.
"80-85% is the historical average of previous busts"

Sources?

The Wall St Crash may have been worse. I can't believe the average being that bad. But it depends what you class as a 'bust'.
In our application we can compare charts of timeseries data that may originate in many different places in the world.

If you want to compare e.g. two charts of temperature over a 24-hour period between two places, you want noon for both to be in the same place on the X-axis. So you want to use local time of both places.

But if you only store UTC, you don't know local time.

No need for tzinfo changes or travelling through time zones.
If I'm going from my personal experience when travelling across timezones, I generally set my phone to the local time, check it about 5 times, call the front desk and request a wake-up call, and set the bedside alarm. All three have failed me at one time or another and I'm a little paranoid about sleeping through meetings!
They recently started a contest to design an election machine.
Good points. I am in India. When in college, used to buy and read those books, for math., physics, etc. Good content. I remember Ya. Perelman's [1] books in particular, for popularizing physics to the layman. Stuff about perpetual motion machines (explaining why they cannot work), physical phenomena related to refraction, reflection, etc., and much else besides.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Perelman
> The final problem is fraud. Transactions are irreversible

NAPWAD. Fraudulent transaction reversal is a problem for other payment platforms, which has kept someone I know from using Paypal to accept tips for open source projects. That means Bitcoin may not be ideal for certain transactions, or that escrow services should be used.
Well, we do have new perspective after 50 years.

Also, there is educational value in conversation.

What is the value to you in shutting down a conversation someone else is interested in having?

At least cite the answer to the question if you feel it's settled scholarship.
Why not both? People selling physical goods bake a certain percentage of shrinkange into the price of their goods whilst also finding new ways to prevent theft.
Gleam: A statically typed language for the Erlang VM
do you categorically think working in SEO or fintech is a net negative for the world?
Wouldn't you agree that court in us and in china are two completely different things?
> "But if you make the right move enough, you will win eventually."

Or run out of money trying.
The definition of free speech has historically also included the right not to be compelled to produce speech against your will.

It could be argued that requiring companies to reproduce speech against their will is more a violation of "free speech absolutism" than defending their right not to do so.
The killer app for The Boring Company is to extend existing underground pedestrian systems in cities with bad winters.

Oh what I would not pay to have a network of pedestrian side-tunnels to get me the 0.5 miles to the subway on a -20 day with winds of 40mph.

If Boring Co. successfully pitched city officials to spend my tax dollars on underground walkways to get me to the subway without freezing my face off in January, I'd carry them through the streets on my shoulders (in summer) and build a shrine to Elon at city hall.
It's not at all as if Nick Weaver is the only computer scientist skeptical about Bitcoin. Would you have felt better if they quoted several more?
Adding a podcast Lin was on, detailed just how much work goes into creating Code Cartoons. It's pretty amazing and highly appreciated.

https://changelog.com/podcast/294
> I do not understand how people can not understand that the largest companies pay a lot of money to structure their taxes so that they pay proportionately less of their income in taxes than smaller companies do despite deriving significantly more economic benefits from the stable economic system those taxes enable.

I understand it that just fine. I just prefer to fix the problem, not the symptom.
I was hoping for solutions more along the lines of education than “killing the idiots”…
You can't say you condemn neo-Nazis in the same breath that you praise a white supremacist rally for having good people. A white supremacist rally that resulted in people being killed and seriously injured. A rally where the people yelled 'the Jews will not replace us', waved Nazi flags and more.

Who were the 'very fine people' on the side of the neo-Nazi rally?
I completely agree with your observation. It's not that the Ph.D. prepares you for it, but that most people that pursue Ph.D. have that attribute.

I don't think all Ph.D. students or any ordinary engineer can take a vaguely defined research problem and make it succeed. Ph.D. doesn't necessarily prepare you for the research part; it does, however, prepare you to advertise a very /bad solution/ as a novel contribution. It wasn't always like this, but it has come to it. It takes credibility, curiosity, character, and of course, research skills to solve a vaguely defined problem---none of which are given to you by a Ph.D. degree.

I have worked at two FAANGs, and more often than not my interactions with Ph.D. degree holders have left a bad taste in my mouth. Speaking of which, there was one person that was "selling" an event timeline as a root cause analysis system that does "temporal" correlation (with no filtering or association at all) :). And another person that was advertising a DFS compilation of a neural net during the training phase (as opposed to the typical BFS that people do) as a superior and novel contribution that changes how we think about neural nets or something along those lines.

A good engineer would have laughed at both after carefully considering all aspects of the problem.

I suspect that Ph.D. "engineers" are more desirable because of their broader skillset (they have worked with more tools and have taken more classes) and also the fact that companies can hire them at almost the same cost as a BS/MS degree holders. Plus universities have already done some filtering on Ph.Ds.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was even lower. With the exception of "stunt purchases" I very rarely see any real use of any sort of cryptocurrency.
If you don't plan to offer your app on F-droid, could you at least provide an APK for download? Signal does that here:

https://signal.org/android/apk/

With Keybase we currently have to resort to shady APK sites.
Holy mother!!! Never in my dreams could I imagine I'd be seeing it again. You've made my day :-). And, as you'd know surely, how similar/close Kannada and Telugu scripts are I could effortlessly read it!

It does bring back a flood of memories. Thanks again :-)