skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mod a large-ish subreddit and I disagree with moderators "gaining full ownership of their communities". Not every mod was around since the very beginning or did most of these mods spend considerable effort marketing their communities like one would do in an actual company. Even for communities with a clear theme and set of behavioural rules (e.g. r/CMV), a lot of that is enforceable via AutoMod. Most of what moderators do are barely more than Internet janitors.

A volunteer position is voluntary. There is no contract or minimum time commitment (though some subs have minimum mod action requirements). If a moderator no longer likes to commit their time, they can either go on a hiatus or leave.

Monetizing individual Reddit communities or paying moderators will create a whole plethora of financial and ethical issues which Reddit HQ is obviously unwilling to address at the moment. I'm pretty sure they've thought about this and decided keeping the status quo is the best choice for the time being.
SELinux Has a UI Problem
What the Rest of the World Can Learn from the Australian Economic Miracle
Is this related to the characters in the Sopranos dropping the final vowels in a bunch of Italian words? Madonn, gabagool, prozhut, etc.
Your personal meteorologist presumably predicts rain on days in the future, when it could happen, not days in the past.

Nate publishes predictions for events that will never occur pr(x wins | election today) when there is no election. It would be like me placing bets on a sports game that is not scheduled to be played.
One correction: ICC organizes the committee of volunteers who write the laws.

That's how they have such massive profit margins and can afford to pay their CEO $742,000, when the median non-profit CEO gets $104,000 (see our references here: up.codes/free-law).
I'm guessing they meant "an order of magnitude higher".
"Would you be surprised if"?

"Do you expect" is neutral except it has an additional normative meaning. "I expect you to do X" doesn't just mean "I predict that you will do X". It can also mean "This is the thing you're supposed to do", even if I predict that you'll fail to do it. This is common at least in American english.

"Do you expect Google to do X" doesn't explicitly state which sense it's intended, and that can result in people saying "no", meaning no in the former sense, despite thinking yes in the latter sense.
A suitable interpretation would be to say that "exponentially more" means a bigger number in the floating point/scientific notation exponent, so that it's a synonym of "order of magnitude."
Is it not unreasonable to believe that some things worth knowing or doing (A) are worth the prerequisite work (B)? If your class on data mining requires fundamentals in advanced databases why is it unreasonable to require people have taken that course to ensure the whole class is on the same page? Besides in most colleges you can sometimes skip those prerequisite courses if you can demonstrate adequate knowledge in those prerequisite.
I'll post the example source code here tomorrow after the talk (still tweaking it).
Vegan is by definition more ethical than non vegan. And yes, palm oil is a controversial good. There are vegan butter alternatives that do not use palm oil (they are usually a couple dollars more expensive). But honestly, how badly do you need a butter substance in your diet?
Mypy 0.700 up to 4x faster
I'll engage on this, assuming these questions were asked in good faith.

> should I get to tell them they can't say I'm hairy/bearded (despite that being obviously true)?

You can say, "I'd rather you not refer to me/define me by my beard." Do they have to respect that? Of course not.

Does not respecting that mean that they are now knowingly violating a boundary you've specifically asked them to respect? Yep. Sure does.

Does knowingly/deliberately violating someone's boundaries make you an asshole? Maybe? Probably? At the very least it's likely to make that person like you less.

> Do you think you have a right to dictate others use of pronouns?

I have the right to indicate that my pronouns are they/them, just as you can (presumably) indicate yours are he/him. When people deliberately violate that (e.g., if people started calling you 'the bearded lady' or used she to refer to you) I believe I am well within my right to feel disrespected, just as if they had used any other verbal insult. I see it in a similar light to nicknames. If my name was William, and I tell people to please call me William, and someone continually refers to me as Billy despite being asked not to, then I'm going to feel disrespected.

I get sir/he/him/his/etc all the time. When it's people I'm close to (colleagues, friends, etc.) I'll gently offer a correction and move on. e.g. "Sorry, my pronouns are they/them, please, continue." I don't bother correcting the gas station attendant or the coffee shop barista.

I generally assume most times the wrong pronouns aren't coming from a place of malice -- either someone just forgot or they don't know. I give people a lot of latitude.
Yup, I did the same. A contractor replaced all our Classic Macs with Windows 9x boxes and never taught any of the staff how to secure them.

We were using winpopup to send messages to each other, when I worked out how to send them to the entire subnet (or domain - I forget). Three months later I was hauled in front of the Deputy Rector to explain how I managed to 'write my name' on the admin office server. It turned out that they never turned on the monitor connected to the print server until the printer stopped working and they jumped to blaming me.

It took some really fast thinking to wriggle out of that one - I was warned 'he'd be watching me' from then on though.
There have been 2 million immigrants from Venezuela to Colombia last 4 years escaping from lack of food, money, toilet paper among many other issues but despite that this data shows Venezuela to be happier than Colombia; it doesn't add up; maybe the people wrongly assumed the quiz was a government initiative and decided to save face saying they are happy.
That's fair. I haven't.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/exponent...
exponential definition: 1. An exponential rate of increase becomes quicker and quicker as the thing that increases becomes larger:

So, ya. Tesla's product line is exponentially more expensive. Graph them together according to range/size etc, and you will see the exponential rise in the delta between the prices, the line representing chinese product line will diverge from that of the tesla product line exponentially.
I want to see this pushed even further! Film, game design, fiction writing -- all could use better tooling.

- AI tools to aid in story construction for narrative plots.

- Tools to do the planning a DP and AD would have to do on set.

- Tools to automatically assemble rough cuts of films.

- Story arc visualization and branch planning

Etc.
Said friend checking in here. Spend some time watching "how to be a youtuber" youtube and it'll make the role of AI and ML much more obvious in the content you consume. Content creators have to appeal to an algorithmic curator in order to be placed in front of an audience. And that algorithm is constantly trying out new genres and creators on its audience. This technology is VERY good at showing you the things you want to see. [1]

"Like and subscribe" isn't a meme, they're positive signals to an AI curator.

Boundless isn't developing new technology, it's applying this same attention harvesting technology outside the content industry. I have no doubt that Boundless will have great success, because the demand side of the attention market is very strong.

[1] This is how I ended up in "how to be a youtuber" youtube in the first place, for the record.
>you don't need to be online with your feature branch checked out

Can you expand on what do you mean by this?
"Left-over artifacts from the OOP hype of the 90's".
Sorry, but anyone that bashes on OOP can't be taken seriously. There's no problem with OOP, it can be misused of course, but the same is true of any other paradigm. Every programmer with any worth uses OOP, Functional, Data-Oriented, etc, where they are most effective. They are complements to one another not replacements.
China’s electric cars look like golf carts with a plastic skin wrapped around it. The don’t look like they have much more safety features than a road legal golf cart in my state.
I'm not sure the U.S. changes in education since the 80's especially in K-12 have been productive, both administratively and structure. I was talking about letting those that can learn more math, or better language/communication skills being able to do so at a younger age, and not holding them back to keep everyone the same (lowest common standard) on a larger scale, not just for the wealthy.
Are we back to square one? The plan so far is that history suggests pretty strongly that automation creates more jobs than it destroys. Actively choosing not to intervene is a plan, although it can easily be mistaken not having one.
Joled Starts Construction of New Printed OLED Facility
Altbox.dev – A collection of power tools for the Linux/Unix/macOS command line
There was a recent video by VICE/VOX on Finland where it was noticed that people didn't look visibly happy but were more satisfied with their life.

To that effect, I am interested to read some study on, like a satisfaction index.
NB. You can get J for Apple iOS, free: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/j701/id1255235993

and it's apparently got a new in-app keyboard to make it easier, since last time I looked.
You would refuse to donate to charity in support of the disabled? Also, I said "MOST"
They sure do! And trans people have different insurance risks (and presumably nonbinary people do too.) Rates of suicide, for instance, are considerably higher in trans populations.

But, in this case, my insurance company basically said, "Pick either one, and you can change it whenever you want" when I asked how I should pick as a genderfluid person. I asked if I could change it daily, they said, "Sure."

shrug I think you are right, we'll eventually settle out a couple of forms for things like pronouns/gender identity/sex characteristics/etc. But having a member of the minority who is also an engineer can help make sure we build those tools in a way that doesn't leave small integer N% of people feeling left out.
So what you're saying, I guess, is that Silver, by dint of making point probability predictions, is offering a two-sided market with infinite liquidity trading at that value for a binary option, and you could make arbitrage gains by trading off of volatility?

I'm having a fair bit of trouble picking up that from either Taleb's or Clayton's article, but let's say that it's a fair assessment.

Is the complaint that the observed variance is high enough to enable these arbitrages? So in order to make his model arbitrage-free, Silver would have to provide a spread rather than a point price, with his forecast as the midpoint of the spread, and the width of the spread wide enough that .5 is always inside the spread, thus making the forecast economically useless?

Or is it that Silver does not provide error bars that would estimate that uncertainty?

Or is it that because of intrinsic uncertainty in the election?
The stick around bit is interesting. More and more folks jump ship every 1-2 years. I wonder if these folks make $300k+.
Looks like a good project, I may give it a try on Windows.

On Linux, I use weechat to connect to a local bitlbee for Discord and Hangouts. When I was using Slack I used wee-slack [0] with success, but it looks like bitlbee has a plugin for Slack, too [1]. This lacks a few of the features of Ripcord (e.g. voip, graphical emoji, emoji completion), but it works.

[0] - https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack

[1] - https://wiki.bitlbee.org/
Same in Daly City. It's a complete mindfuck that I live immediately south of what claims to be the technology capital of the world and yet my only two viable options are "pay through the nose for Comcast" or "pay for AT&T DSL or some reseller thereof" (even the wireless broadband providers don't serve Daly City, or only the northernmost parts of it if they do; nothing around Colma where I'm at).

I ended up going with Sonic.
Universities treat adjuncts like they do because they can: https://jakeseliger.com/2016/02/25/universities-treat-adjunc....

Academia is not a good industry to be in and people should stop trying to go. This is well known and has been for a long time: https://jakeseliger.com/2010/01/21/problems-in-the-academy-l....
Ask HN: What are the hacks to make decisions?
MagSafe for Headphones Is Here (and Patents Have Already Killed It) (2013)
In many industries if we redefined probability it would be considered malpractice or fraud.

We expect our doctors not to tell us we have a good chance of surviving surgery when we only have a 20% chance of surviving.

I would be fraud (I assume) for a lottery to tell someone buying a ticket that they have a good chance of winning millions (0000000.1% probability that you will win but a 75% probability that it will be won tonight by someone ).
A while ago it seemed like the incredible margins that you could make off selling something DTC was going to make this the dominant business model of the future, but that seems more and more untenable given how pernicious the power of the big social media platforms is.

Being a Warby Parker or a Dollar Shave Club was awesome a decade ago when it easy to get organic reach on Facebook. Not so anymore. That means that these companies now have to raise a lot more just so they can pay it renting the customer acquisition channel. And there's so much more competition.
I have kind of enjoyed Roku, but I've wished to install adblock on it, and perhaps an alternative Netflix interface that doesn't have any kind of autoplay.

Is this currently possible? Someone must have already figured out how to truly own their own device, haven't they?
A more useful quip of his, in my opinion, is: "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time."

I find it a useful reminder at work when approaching projects with a team of mixed ability...

(I'll refrain from commenting on other aspects of his legacy.)
Are we talking about EVs or cars? An EV is anything that moves. A car is something that abides are the normal safety standards that a company like tesla must follow (airbags, crumple zones, ABS, firewalls etc). Lots of the stuff in china that looks like a "car" really isn't, just as how an SUV or pickup isn't a car.

In most countries, anything on three wheels isn't ever a car. They are basically classed as motorcycles and so don't have to abide any car-related safety rules. But they are still EVs.
What became of text columns https://caniuse.com/#feat=multicolumn to enhance readability and still use all that space? Is anybody using them?
Me too. I am absolutely happy with Firefox after switching about 6 months ago. I don’t miss anything.
I was assuming something like licking shavings off its own fur, like a cat might. But I don't know anything about ferrets...
I used to have a film canister with a big resistor in it, and crocodile clip leads for this job. Like I said though, make sure you are confident you know what you are doing.

Some tricks, fit the clips entirely with one hand, and put your other hand in your pocket. You are trying to avoid a shock across your heart...
It is prejudiced against the South. That's the last acceptable prejudice amongst the "woke," and I say this as a red state SJW. Lots of blue state liberals have no idea that the Southern diaspora code switches with them, often avoids having to talk about where they're from lest it be held against them, that making comments about "escaping the south" isn't cute or funny at all, it's insulting, hurtful, and a microaggression if there ever was one. You can't get ahead if people decide your funny way of talking means you're inherently backwards, ignorant, stupid, and uneducated. For all the crowing and screaming about diversity, where the hell are Appalachian voices in mainstream American discourse? Where are the voices from the rural Mississippi Delta? Places whose culture is unique from the rest of the country but incredibly rich and beautiful and full? Is it because if these places were humanized, maybe the "get what we vote for" narrative used to justify our disenfranchisement and maintain the exploitative power structures that be down here would fall apart?

Mississippi is 40% African American. Of course there are racists down there as there are any where else, but you have any idea how hard it would be to function in Mississippi with that demographic make up if people were half as racist as the South is alleged to be? You'd think they'd be uncovering clandestine mass graves of black people every other week or worse down here s2g. I cannot and will not get over the blackest part of America being labeled "Trump Country" and used as the scapegoat for all of the nation's bigotry. It's fucking lazy victim-blaming. We are the poorest, least educated, and most vulnerable part of the country. Shitty rich people with shitty agendas own our governments, as they have for decades and decades, and the rest of the country sure does get off on telling us our hardships are our own fault.
Sure...

https://www.nio.io
Those are usually just exercises with adversarial component.

The war games I'm thinking of are those what flag officers and staff do in RAND and other places. For example, they bring in diplomats and other outsiders to play the opponents. Or they may be pen and paper games (spreadsheets) scenario analysis where sequence of actions are played out and consequence of every decision are updated into the environment.
Well obviously Silver isn't actually offering to bet at those odds.

But complaining that a model is incorrect because it enables arbitrage is a standard complaint, it's how you can prove all non-Bayesian models are irrational. That doesn't mean all Bayesian ones automatically pass the test though.

Error bars and spreads are already outside the Bayesian paradigm, which demands a single number.
Then just make AIs that go to the theaters and watch the movie.
Google releases closed source VS Code plugin
It's a puppet puppet.

IIRC, my high school government was very effective at choosing the prom theme and lobbying for a specific brand of crackers in one of the vending machines.
An ad for a golf ball hat is a pretty benign use case but that exact same approach could be used in much more distasteful ways.

For example, suppose depressed people are more likely to buy expensive impulse item X. Person A is depressed. Lets show them ads for item X!

That would be a nicely profitable strategy that could emerge organically out of a sophisticated ML ad targeting model, something like... AdWords.
I'd be glad to see them finished. But, I know, plenty of claims on limited time.
Yo - this could be a good idea but I wouldn't be able to tell (apparently) since I can't view any of the content without either downloading an app or signing up.

It might be a better policy to show visitors the top e.g. 5 - 10 trending articles on readup to get them 1.) to get a taste of what's shared and 2.) see if that's any better / different to what they'd find on hacker news (which can be read freely).

Anyway, good luck!
Is this using the correct data? The happiness measure for the US of 7.28 seems to be the 2008 value. The 2018 Cantril score according to the report was 6.88.
I pretty much ignore the Roku search as it has too much PPV content. If I care about what's on the Roku channel I'll just navigate to it.

What they really need to do is get rid of the high friction signup process for new channels. Why should I have to go to an external website when Roku should have all the identifying information third parties would need?
Always fascinating to read the history behind the giants of early computing history. We tend to forget that IBM was one of the FAANGs of its era, creating systems and technologies that transformed the world before relative newcomers like x86 or UNIX even existed.
I am not so sure about this. When you read his books or look at his Twitter feed you surely get the impression he is a self-obsessed, extremely arrogant weirdo. But when he gives e.g. a talk in person, he comes across very differently - self-reflective, engaging, emphatic and funny. As someone else has mentioned in this thread, there are really two Talebs out there...
I've had this happen frequently because my configuration really aggressively blocks this stuff. It's bad enough that I have a separate browser (Gnome Web aka Epiphany) just for logging into and using sites that have Captcha, like Pocket and Bandcamp, and I do everything else in Firefox. Captcha is horrible. I understand why sites use it, but putting a Google-wall in front of your content is a very bad idea.
“his model” meaning Silver’s model?

That sounds like it might be right. I think another commenter here correctly identified that it’s a misunderstanding -- Silver’s model estimates “the election result of the election were to happen tomorrow”, so unlikely events in the coming months don’t need to be accounted for by definition.

If so, I think there’s a valid criticism that the “now-cast” notion is a bit deceptive, and also impossible to validate (we’ll never know what that hypothetical election result would actually have been).
Discord itself won't be around long enough for that question to matter.
I'm not sure about an alternative UI, but for ad-blocking could you use Pi-hole?
Look into PiHole. That is what I have, some ads still get through, but for the most part, ads are blocked across the network.
<< adblock >>

PiHole works well for this: https://pi-hole.net
Since I didn't actually do the thing they accused me of it would've been worse to do nothing, I'd be blacklisted for being known as the guy fired for supreme idiocy instead of the guy who received a signed apology letter and compensation clearing me of any involvement. You also get a reference letter to give to future employers and the company is legally bound to not tell anybody calling anything besides confirmation of employment. I would assume you could sue for potential earnings loss if some company is vindictively leaking your settlement details.
Correct. It should be pointed out that the old passwords were all 6 numbers. Any alpha characters would be converted to a number through a simple map.
I don't get much out of his paintings online. However, when I visited the museum in Amsterdam, it completely transformed my appreciation of his art. The paint is literally 3D on the canvas, adding a completely unappreciated dimension to the perspective and color of the painting experience.

If you zoom into this painting, you can kind of get the experience, but it's completely different in person where you can move your head: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Vincent_...
I am pretty much the last person on the planet who should be telling people how to use social media, but if you aren't on instagram, you should be. There's a pretty vibrant community of people in the building trades on there sharing photos of their work and exchanging information.

I'm a recovering programmer turned woodworker with a pretty small following (200 and some followers, like I said, I'm the last person who should be telling people how to use social media), but I follow some carpenters and I'm consistently impressed with how much genuinely informative discussion takes place.
How does this work? Discord has been notorious in shutting down third-party clients; what makes this different than the others?
> Who are these other researcher? Care to link to their research on this?

When a bitcoiner says something is "debunked", what they mean is that someone wrote a post on Medium. In this case, it's an investment banker who put some money into electricity companies before he put money into Bitcoin: https://hackernoon.com/the-reports-of-bitcoin-environmental-...

Digiconomist's response: "Verify, don't trust" - he shows his working. https://digiconomist.net/verify-dont-trust/