skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool thing to do.

This is similar tot the birthday problem: How many people do you need to have a probability of > x% that two are born on the same day?

It's something like 50 people to have a probability of > 80%. You can conduct this experiment at a school, using each class as a sample experiment to see if there are two pupils born on the same day.
It is amazing that we can fly aircrafts to space but cannot solve software installations, in't it? Maybe the software industry as a whole needs a kick in the butt.
Generally not, proactive blocking or silencing is reserved for instances that host illicit content like child porn or hate speech. Inter-moderator communication happens between your instance admin/democracy (or whatever structure your instance uses) and other instances.

Traditional tools like muting a user, silencing an instance (if they're spamming up the Federated Timeline on other instances, like Humblr.social does) and blocking (if the mods are total shit) can still be used. Small instances are the bulk of the content, so you aren't about to block them. Large instances like Mastodon.social are generally blocked tho (if your admin/democracy cares about a vibrant Fediverse).
Kind of disappointed at the methodology. It would have been more impressive to turn this around in a day with ML.
I think they meant that as a joke :)
Looks like an opportunity to do BPE right. Would love to see your take on it with this engine!
I tried ads once for a sports blog. A lot of it was things like marketing a chocolate drink as an energy booster or breakfast meal for athletes. I thought it was quite dishonest .
Many private equity firms are the real owners of a lot of brands you probably heard of i.e. JAB holdings owns Peet’s coffee, Panera, Pret, Krispy Kreme, Krueger, etc etc
And this is why webrings didn't all the way work -- broken links!
Flying to the moon isn’t filled with profit motivated bad actors.
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Checklists: boring and tedious!

To catch errors, I started double-checking math problems, by generating a checklist on the spot.

But I also made fewer errors, and developed more intuition. I think checking itself was a deeper practice; and also gave an overview of the task (less cluttered by detail) that helped me make connections at a higher level.

Checklists: insightful and tedious!
Is this offer open to Americans or only Japanese citizens?
The final straw is not the root cause.
This lets you make something that looks oddly similar to a street map of a city: https://imgur.com/a/aE3RbgK
Your mums bobs and vegana pictures siphoned off the smartphone and plastered all over pronhub, this argument seems to work rather well.
> Genuinely productive people are pretty rare (1 in 100 type numbers).

That may be true in bullshit heavy fields. When it comes to actual labor though the figure is closer to 99 in 100. Unproductive plumbers just aren't going to last very long.

Also you're getting downvotes because you're ambiguously questioning the merits of socialism. But you already knew that.
From my experience, it does not make a lot of sense to me. Spanish is much closer to portuguese (being nearly mutually understandable) than to italian or catalan. Occitan and catalan are extremely close, but here they appear unrelated.
Index funds are agents of their certificate owners, so no principal-agent problem. Seems fine to me.
This game is orders of magnitude more complex than Stratego and it isn't free, but Twilight Struggle is a great asymmetric two-person game that can last for weeks.

It models the Cold War. One player is the US, while the other is USSR. The main conceit is what if you could re-order the sequence of historical events, which drives the overall mechanic, which is vying for influence country by country with the assumption that the domino theory was correct.

The game is available on Steam, iOS and Android (though, you'll probably need a tablet for mobile).

This is probably the best resource for learning the game: https://twilightstrategy.com/
Wow, your conterfactual must be _really_ bad of you think things are better under Zuck.

A reminder for those with short memories, a recap of 2018:

https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/12/21/18149099/delete-fa...

Was enough for me to permanently delete my account. So zuck fails my standards.
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Also on the homepage right now: https://alistapart.com/article/nothing-fails-like-success/

It's all about how social media companies are forced to pursue profit above all else and this harms society.

Your average public corporation has a fiduciary duty to maximize profit for its shareholders. So arguably, we are lucky that Facebook is not your average public corporation. Zuck has plenty of money, and he's pledged to give almost all of it away, so he is probably motivated by more than just profit. He has been talking the talk about fixing social media, let's see if he walks the walk.
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That's a case of "broken clock right twice a day".

Out of the tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of medieval so-called remedies it turns out _one_ is accidentally useful.

It would be more surprising if absolutely none of the remedies were useful. You'd expect at least one or two hits just from chance.
Of course decentralized architectures are not without downsides, just like any engineering trade-off. I'm not so sure it is a strictly negative feature for a lot of people though -- they may just consider it an overall negative due to some conveniences they may have lost as part of the trade-off.

And that's okay. It's important to bear in mind the things lost by not being decentralized also, though. I think this is presently not very prominent since a lot people started using the internet for a few large centralized services so they are not very familiar with the idea. Arguably, there was a period when people flocked to the internet because of the newfound decentralization.

> I'm just putting across the counterpoint that it's not, there are circumstances where unilateral control could be (and is, by large sections of the population) seen as a good thing.

It's seen as a good thing as long as the single point of control is doing things which are (mostly) aligned with the desires of these large sections of the population. This is a tautology. History teaches us that this is not at all given, though, so it's important not to rely on it strongly.

> I mean, you can. I'm not necessarily saying it's a good thing to do, but there's no real reason a government couldn't make exactly such a rule. Whether it could be enforceable in any way is a different matter.

Well, certainly. You can declare anything at all. I was proclaiming that from a position of practicality.
I know that Weed, California was a company town historically. There has been some recent conflict regarding who owns the water in the town, as the company sold the water to the town for a dollar a year for a contract of 50 years that expired in 2016.
Love the processes in this aether project with the voting for mods and such. Wish there was an easy way to clone it and create a subspace aether system that was not attached to the others. I have some user groups that would use this kind of thing - but they would quickly try to game the mod voting thing in many ways, wreck all kinds of havoc trying to get things blocked / banned and ruined - and so we'd need a function for a high level set of super mods and a way to prevent the coming toxic soup from running over into the main project.
Took a look at the open source page on there and there is a bunch of stuff, it's impressive, but too complex for me to try to piece together. Perhaps something like riot matrix is more like we need, and to find some way to incorporate the mod voting kind of system as some kind of addin to a self hosted instance of matrix kind of thing.
I assume you're alluding to: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
> Wouldn't the natural interest of A be to maximize health costs

A, an insurance company, is the one fighting to get the cost down from B, the healthcare provider.

> And if there were more smaller insurance companies competing with A, wouldn't it make sense for A to just eat them up to eliminate competition

Monopolization is more dangerous from the healthcare provider side, though it happens both ways. Basically, insurances compete against each other at state levels, while hospitals only fight the nearest hospital, maybe.

> And if there were several equally large insurance companies aside A (say, B, C, D), wouldn't it make sense for them to collude and keep prices and profits high?

You can see that health insurnace companies are not really profitable. They have lower margins than auto-insurance.

> And since A (a single large) or A+B+C+D (several large) companies surely have considerable clout (money gives you that) isn't it their natural interest to spend on buying politicians, media, etc, to make sure things get even more in their favor?

Noone has more interest than to implement national health insurnace than politicans. It's the biggest political boon plus almost unlimited spending they could get. If something like M4A passed, the state would grow in the order of 10% of GDP.

> ow would insurance being a private market make it "make it more efficient for the sake of maximizing profit"?

By keeping at bay provision costs vs quality. In Healthcare there is something called the Iron Triangle: Access vs Quality vs Cost. If you unleash access, you need to lower quality or increase cost.
For Australians, I'd compare this place to a red dot store, just a little larger. I wasn't really that impressed by it, didn't seem like it's doing anything better than other stores. Maybe it's unique in Japan because other stores are so organised and neat.
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> Meshroom: Open-Source Photogrammetry Software
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political advertising can be tuned to your personal hot button issues

And is this not what happens traditionally as well? Politicians give different speeches to different audiences. Candidates before election talk very differently to various groups of demographies. Candidates who meet individual voters on market squares and public places obviously try to find out which of the voter's wires are hot and try to deliberately connect on those levels that are meaningful to the potential voter.

The structure and interpretation of politicians predates internet and digital surveillance. "If you have to say it, it's not true" applies very well to politicians and especially to political advertisement no matter if it's targetted or general.
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...did google not work on their machine? I can't remember what that is, but I remember googling it ages ago and finding out.
It's an annoying problem. Imagine how useful something like an alexa will be in 20 years. It might even become a handicap not to have one as a life/work aid. It would be unfortunate if the choice remained between full privacy invasion or massive utility. Then again we all already carry alexas in our pockets.
But making news for withholding that technology, thereby drawing attention to and sparking discussion about the issue, can affect public sentiment, which in turn affects policy.

There's also supply and demand. Reducing supply of the technology increases its costs.

Plus, it's good PR for them.
I wish I knew! They are all on my list to try, that's all for now. :)
Even M4A includes removing the tax exemption. But it will not be popular when workers get a Marginal tax rate jump on their entire income.

That subsidy should die and healthcare should be finally decoupled from the employer. That would unleash massive market forces.
Death and destruction are absolutely terrible. They are not the only way to reshape or destroy a society. Like the parent comment said, the tools of mass manipulation that can be created with the data and platforms available today can have just as broad of an effect over time, if not moreso because it's invisible.

How would you convince someone of that?
Sometimes it's an invitation to discuss an interesting part of the article.
3 - those who know how fb works, assume the worst about its intentions, and still don’t care and keep using it
Doesn't the need for continuous growth come from the interest charged on newly created money? We always have to grow to be able to afford the ever growing amount of money we owe.

With a non debt based currency, capitalism could do just fine in a shrinking economy no?
> Just that it's in addition to the single payer system, which means the private one is cheap because the competition is 'free'

Eek. This is also called crowding out. It means expensive but efficient health services can't survive. It might be a decent compromise but I would call it a success.
well nowadays we have better tech for that. you can simply "infer" someone's preferences/values according to their social graph/spending graph(and trivially)

This is easily obtainable information for any regulatory type oversight government level agency(DEA/ICE in the US) if the appropriate presidential order goes through
It isn't literally a continuous loop, not in all locations at least. The ones I visited when I was touring last year were playing a more typical department store tracklist, but I did hear the theme at least once.
While we can see people disagree if this is discrimination or not, everyone agree that the system employed by the TSA is ineffective, humiliating and security theater. Air marshals are better. Dog patrols are great.

Only in areas which is very close to war would current methods be necessary, but you also need multiple checks which manually going through every single item in luggage and backpacks. This is only really possible in low traffic airports, which destinations close to wars usually is.
What problems does Shopify pose?
I think he just means efficient C++ programming.
This is a big part why I like to play games of chance like poker and football simulators. It's a way of testing out your math-predictive skills.
The article puts blame on specific apps of Chinese origin, but lot of said in the article can be applied to other apps too, for example:

> Kaltheuner, of Privacy International, told BuzzFeed News the policies are vague about how third parties, including potentially the Chinese government or other authorities, can gain access to the data being collected.

Google's privacy policy [1] is also very vague. Instead of clearly writing technical details, what data they collect and when, they just give a general description. Take this phrase, for example:

> We may also collect information about you from trusted partners, including marketing partners who provide us with information about potential customers of our business services, and security partners who provide us with information to protect against abuse.

Or this:

> We provide personal information to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

Absolutely no details. I don't see how Google hiding its "partners" identity is different from Chinese companies hiding their identity.

The article says that Chinese company can share the data with their government (without any proofs), but doesn't Google share the data too when required by the law?

Also, there is an interesting note hidden in Chrome's policy [2]:

> Chrome won't allow a site to access your location without your permission; however, on mobile devices, Chrome automatically shares your location with your default search engine if the Chrome app has permission to access your location and you haven’t blocked geolocation for the associated web site.

So instead of singling out a Chinese company, we should pay attention to all of the mobile apps and their practices.

Regarding excessive permissions, I think Google could improve the situation by promoting apps with few required permissions in the search results and making permission list more noticeable. For example, currently, if you browse Google Play, permission list is hidden behind a tiny link.

[1] https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

[2] https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/privacy/
This has been vastly improved fairly recently with the advent of the tensorflow-gpu meta package available via conda. See https://towardsdatascience.com/tensorflow-gpu-installation-m...
Big Commerce.

I wrote a lot of custom themes/scripts for it when I started freelancing.
No, I'm saying there was controversy about the fact (?) that he didn't disclose this information even though he knew about it for two years. Isn't that the story? I think there are good reasons he might have felt this was not doing justice to the story, the public overreacts when they hear about a hacking group. I'm not questioning whether it should have come to light or not.
Think bigger-picture. Not only do you have to trust these corporations with your data, but also the data of your family, friends and community. Not only now, but through future changes in political climate, regimes, and cultural shifts. You have to trust every employee who has or has ever had access to that data.

You may not feel that the targetting of political opponents (or, forfend, ethnicities) using such data is likely or realistic, but there is recent historical precedent even in the US.

"The only bad effects I can think of are if Google or Facebook starts leaking all my data, and it being personally identifiable"

What's the worse that could happen in that case, multiplied across your entire community or nation? It does not even have to be personally identifiable to do damage. It could, for instance, correlate your clothing and hair style preferences with likely political affiliation, to start.

Let me know if you find any of this incredible, and I can find sources.

Ps: I dont understand your being down-voted. Your question is a reasonable one.
I used to play quite alot of Atwar (https://atwar-game.com/) It's a Risk like game with nice unit mechanics and mods. Unfortunately last time I signed in (about year ago) it seemed that there wasn't that much players anymore so it was pretty hard to find a game.
I have been experimenting with tokenization in Rust in https://github.com/rth/vtext, mostly relying on Unicode segmentation with a few custom rules for tokenization. The obtained performance was also around 10x faster than spacy for comparable precision (see benchmarks section of the readme).
I see. What if you want to FIRE? You can’t have all your $ tied up in a house.
> but healthcare is in the business of health and there's no substitute for that

There's plenty of substitutes, and there are plenty of things that have little to no substitutes and don't have these issues (food, clothing..housing does have some of the same issues).

Healthcare is a mess because it is the most regulated market there is.
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> "I really do think people have trouble assuming the worst about the intentions of others and are inclined to be trusting."

I think you hit the nail on the head. Even on HN, it's not uncommon to see a few comments on each negative story about facebook accusing the media of a conspiracy against Facebook; claiming that the media is wrongly maligning Facebook who is merely the unfortunate victim of a series of coincidental accidents.

They have trouble accepting that a tech corporation like facebook actually might be rotten.
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That assumes your interests are non-aligned with the people who create the tech. In most situations where you are voluntarily choosing to pay money for a product, your interests are aligned, because you will stop choosing to pay money if you feel your interests have been harmed.
It's the parser token for the scope operator (::) in PHP.
The same tech that turns your face into an alien, complete with facial expressions, can turn your face into a searchable surveillance data point ("Show me all the people who looked unhappy or worried when looking at this propaganda poster").
One honest question: if you believe the system as it is, is broken because of lobbying, why would a socialized medicine system be immune to lobbying?
Would Martin Luther King have enough privacy in 2019 to organize the civil rights movement? Would Ghandi have enough privacy to lead the Indian independence movement?

I hope the answer is still yes, but once the answer becomes no then everyone cares.

That’s my attempt to explain.
I think adding more details such as your current work profile, location, visa status, expected salary etc will help elicit quality responses.
No, I got them from the same place.
> While on my most recent flight to Beijing, I sat next to an chatty elderly Chinese woman. We started discussing the topic, and she said that Chinese society lacks su zhi 素质, which translates roughly to manners or etiquette. Before the Cultural Revolution, she explained, Chinese society was guided by the moral lessons of Confucianism, with its emphasis on being a gentleman, respecting one’s elders, and obeying one’s leaders. But during the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong put Confucian principles on its head, pitting the Red Guard youth against their parents, the less educated against the educated elite. This chaos tore the social fabric and transformed the society into a survivalist one, a dog-eat-dog world, the vestiges of which are still felt today.

> When Deng Xiaoping implemented the Reform and Opening Up policy in 1978, capitalism was added to the mix of the survivalist culture; in order to get rich, you had to compete fiercely, fend for yourself and take care of your own with no regard for rules. This would also explain the rampant corruption among government officials, who use their position to amass wealth for themselves and their family. And nowadays, a third phenomenon has also added itself to the dangerous cocktail of selfishness and competition: the digital age. Many Chinese young people spend the majority of their days glued to WeChat, or taking selfies everywhere, or shopping at the ubiquitous malls around the country. This “me” culture is certainly not unique to China; indeed, we see the same thing happening to the youth in New York to Buenos Aires to London to Brussels to Moscow. But in China it exacerbates the already self-centeredness brought on by the cruelty of the cultural revolution and the competitiveness of capitalism with Chinese characteristics.

> In other words, China doesn’t just lack common etiquette and basic manners; it lacks a moral compass altogether.

https://thediplomat.com/2016/09/chinas-quest-for-a-moral-com...
> President of USA, travels with a ~100 men security cover all the time, does not mean USA is unsafe to move around

It doesn’t??? Most other OECD presidents/PMs/HoS don’t bother.
Get a sense of somebody in an interview using minimal time, hire them, try them out and if they can’t do the job fire them.

That hones your skills in spotting fakes, and your skills in giving people the hard word. Both of which are incredibly valuable in business.

I don’t see the time trade off in having complex interview systems. It has to be mostly a power play.

I wonder when somebody will write the book “agile interviewing - twelve steps to get it done in an hour”