skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don’t allow...privately owned platforms to be the arbitrator of truth.

Sure we do, we allow every other privately ran website on the planet to pick and choose what or who it allows, why should this be different for YouTube or Facebook or whatever other website bans racists next. The most prominent racist forum on the internet doesn’t have a hosting space for left media, we don’t expect fox news to give unfettered and free streaming on their website to every liberal protest group in the country, the very forum we’re posting on right now has moderation, they don’t let random trolls spew whatever they want here. Sites care about their reputation and who/what they’re associated with, why is this suddenly a bad thing?

Sites and forums have branding to be concerned about, they have reputations they’re trying to curate, all of them.

Facebook has become widely known as a misinformation hellsite, who in their right mind can blame them for trying to clear that reputation? In my opinion it’s probably too late, but I certainly can’t blame them for trying..
Thank you!I look forward to listening.

To those of you who use the default podcasts app on iPhone:
1. Go to the library tab
2. Tap the edit button
3. Select "Add a Podcast by URL..."
4. Paste the xml link above
fvwm is current stuff, being the default window manager in OpenBSD.
> definitely a regression from the Obama year

Of all the things one could choose to focus on... :)

Be glad there even is a digital copy. First indication was printout only, and according to rumors I just made up, “interpretative dance” was another option considered.
Yes, for many. There are many things that are worthwhile but can't be done without a substantial amount of money up front.

Most software doesn't fall into this category, but a lot of hardware and services do.
The Lamy 2000 is entry level for you?

>their steel nibs

It has a gold nib...
Well, show me were people were saying that. Small business people who served large employers were correctly saying it affected them, and they knew the reasons.
No-where in Facebook's statement does it say far-right. It just talks about those spreading hate.
The article mentions social stigma to showing that you're unhappy, as if the stigma is wrong. To me, the stigma is natural behavior. Most people don't want to be around people who are deeply depressed. It takes a lot of energy to counteract that. In my opinion, it can be contagious like happiness can be contagious. This is not to say that I don't think depressed people need help and support though.

I guess what I'm getting at is that I don't understand what it would look like if outwardly showing your depression wasn't stigmatized. The only alternative I can come up with is that people would have to be totally apathetic to your happiness or your sadness.
I don't think there is such a thing for programming because by its very nature, programming is against repetition. You'll repeat a piano concert over and over until its perfect. Even a painter will train on classical painting, trying to reproduce the skill of masters to make it their own.

Programming on the other hand relies on reuse, of your own code as well as the "master's". By the time you learn how to do something perfectly by head with no mistakes whatsoever, it means you missed an opportunity to automate something. Say your job is to create restaurant websites. if you create 10 of them from scratch (improving yourself in that skill), you're probably missing the opportunity to reuse some of your work.
I think that is quite unique as far as arts / jobs go though.
They’re free to place any demands on their platform as they see fit. I have no problem with anything they’ve done.

Great, I'm glad we agree!

The problem arises when you insist that Facebook do things according to your political leanings, but then suddenly your political leanings don’t line up with everyone else’s anymore and you’re the odd one out and now people are demanding that you be banned.

Yes, for 99.999999% of people that’s never going to be a problem.

Including me, because I do not advocate for harming, killing, or stripping the civil rights from others, unlike the folks who are being banned. :-)

banning them isn’t the right way to get them to change their minds or to improve their posts.

Who wants to change their minds or improve their posts? I want them the hell out of my face, permanently, and I'm happy that Facebook agrees.
So mitsubishi finally will deliver the plane or not? I can't find this information in the news, and the delivery of this very plane has been delayed several times.
why would he present the results in an academic conference anyway? Those are archaic gatherings with extreme social/political biases and nothing good ever came out of them (i ve been in quite a few). not a very smart academic
Spread it across the neighborhood maybe?
The issue is that there is a far-right and not a far-left. When you say: this is what is acceptable to us, there has to be a way to look at a side and say there is the limit.

The other issue is that the approach these days to minimize or eliminate opposition by making them a “hate group.”
aubio and librosa are two excellent MIR (music information retrieval) tools I can recommend from personal use. They can both be implemented for real-time audio using pyaudio or similar.

https://aubio.org/doc/latest/

https://librosa.github.io/librosa/
The bit about Trump ordering Lewandowski to deliver a dictated message to Sessions to limit the investigation to future elections (Volume II pg. 90-94) is something new and interesting.
I don't disagree that detecting hate isn't a hard problem. But I also feel it isn't as ambiguous as you make it out to be.

"X loves Y" - not hate speech.

"X should die" - hate speech.

Now, context to these could change it. But the question is, can two random person proficient in the same language tell apart similarly the two kinds of speech?

If a human can perform the task with pretty good accuracy, then it's doable.

Now if we're saying that even people can't tell apart hate and violence, we're in more trouble. But as of now, I think it's a pretty strong claim to make that people can't actually decipher hateful tones in text.
If your values change based on the magnitude of an atrocity then I suggest considering whether you hold those values at all. I certainly feel for the Polish people and the extreme suffering endured in the 20th century. But in my experience, suffering builds resolve, and it may jus be that Poland does not consider free speech a fundamental right. My homeland doesn't either, much to my disappointment.
> we certainly don't have high unemployment in the USA today

When you take into account labor participation it's not such a clear cut picture. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_force_in_the_United_Stat...
If only we could price in negative externalities, we would see a very different supply/demand point.
Since this is completely antithetical to the current socio-economic powers and mores, I'm confident that true costs of consumption and thus production will never be charged to the culpable.
I think the generous reading criticizes the generalization from one extreme anecdote to "scary how many" (emphasis mine).
For those who haven't seen the clip, [1]. Yes Minister is a brilliant piece of satire (though it does have a somewhat unfortunate Thatcher-esque streak when it comes to discussion of unions -- though it would've been difficult to avoid ridiculing unions in satire from the 1980s).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y4PEqvk0Jg
I assume it is a comment on the turn of phrase "It's scary how many", suggesting that perhaps this is a phenomenon that the poster has had repeated experience with.

(I'm not sure this is a valid criticism, as the comment comes first and the anecdote second, suggesting that the anecode is there mainly for backup.)
this is not the right forum to present such thoughts
I’m running on prem instances of Watson and it’s far from vaporware but Watson has become more of a brand name. For the Watson product I use, It’s more of a wrapper to do AI and ML work, notebooks, containers and related tools for data science.
It really saddens me to see a culture where parents feel like they have ownership over their children. Children are people. They ought to be given autonomy over themselves, their proprerty, and their privacy. Helicopter parenting is profoundly psychologically damaging and should be illegal. It's child abuse.
Improving scene understanding through panoptic segmentation
Colorado State Gov. tries Quadratic Voting Experiment
I wonder why some posts have "vouch" option, but this one doesn't. Seems like a good way to let the community disagree with flagged posts.
This article focuses a lot on large, well curated gardens, but I'm an engineer who found a lot of solace and safety in managing my own garden. (As someone who has faced burnout and anxiety from work before.)

There's something about planning, planting, and then caring for a garden that appeals to my engineer brain. It's an exercise in organization and planning that scales from "throw seeds at dirt" to "these plants will attract bees near these other plants, these plants will repel insects. These will bloom early, these bloom late".

You can grow flowers, you can grow vegetables which you can turn into cooked, canned, or pickled food.

There's something about putting food on a plate that came from your yard, from your care. There's something about sitting in a green (or red, or blue, or yellow, etc.) space that you made.

I'm a sucker for games like Minecraft, Factorio, etc. Raising a garden is like a slow motion version of those things. It's a fusion of creative and scientific/engineering brains. It's great.
This article feels misguided because it seems to start from the assumption that your social media presence is supposed to be a whole representation of your life. It's like saying James Bond movies fail because they don't show him going to the bathroom.

They're not failing, it just isn't their intent. If you're contemplating suicide, perhaps your distant aunts and people you last saw in high school are not the appropriate lifeline.
The article says "Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China Ltd., also known as Comac, has a new regional jet in service," and then shows a picture of the Comac C919. To be clear, the regional jet that Comac has in service is the ARJ21, and the C919 is Comac's upcoming competitor to the 737 Max and A320 Neo.
It is not pushing divisions to highlight existing divisions. They must be addressed, not papered over. Academia (and other places) indeed is or can be a racist & misogynistic place, but you don't have to take my word for it - many women scientists have spoken up about this issue.
FWIW, JetBrains has an IDE for SQL things.
https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/?fromMenu

(I've no affiliation with JetBrains).
I vaguely recall reading about this but it's since been made illegal, in Washington at least. Not sure about the rest of US states though. Pretty sure it's illegal here in the UK.

https://www.geekwire.com/2013/illegal-employers-social-media...
ER design, Query builder, Query Debugger, Query planner, DB Report generation are some best features to me comparing to pgAdmin.
Which is why data scientists use python instead of AppleScript.
Absolutely. There could be some amazing projects and businesses built on top of this data if it were in OSM.
I would assume that FB has gotten pretty good at hiring devs that match their culture. FB devs aren't reading HN articles about how bad FB is. FB devs are at FB because of the "prestige" of having been selected from the 10's of thousands of candidates. They're there for the money. They're there because they enjoy the projects. They're not there because they have some moral obligation to change FB.
Music definitely works differently in my imagination, but I notice that it also corresponds to very subtle breathing pattern changes. Like I'll be inhaling and exhaling with the beat and maybe very, very imperceptibly nano-humming. or perhaps I'm just _rationalizing_ the what-feels-like-nearly-physical music in my head by telling my lungs that they're helping to create it...

Maybe there's a similar vector I could explore for improved visualization. eye-movements or subtle pen-strokes with the hand or something.
It's telling that this is the extent of a list we can come up with (even if we allow the dubious Vegas claim) compared to the constant, extreme acts of violence, killing, and omnipresent, explicit calls to violence and killing the groups banned engage in.
AFAIAK the procedure is to not increase thrust, quite the opposite (disable the autothrust thingie), get the nose below the "horizon" (which is of course wind dependent), gain airspeed, and then start to increase thrust (which will automatically start to up the nose a bit), then climb back to whatever altitude you should be at.
PDFs have a hidden meta layer of text. It is INSANELY easy to "block out" text thinking you are redacting it, but it is still right there in the document.

The only safe way to handle document redaction is convert a PDF to a series of images. Let someone on the public side do all the work of converting it to text.
> We live in a globalized world, there's an argument to be had that nationalism in the cheery light you just presented it as is no longer such a good thing. I'm of the opinion that the very concept of countries is inherently violent, so there's my bias, but I don't want to get into this.

Right, nations can only exist as long as they use violence to fight (perceived) threats.

> What I do want to get into is all this "why ban one side and not the other", well probably because one side is significantly more violent and is only becoming more agitated? Is that not completely obvious? They're not trying to ban a school of thought, they're trying to prevent terrorist attacks by white men on non-white and immigrant people. As has been literally happening. The most violent parts of the left are responses not home grown hatred, and they're not shooting up places of worship. Go ahead, find the like 2 bad examples of left leaning violence but it doesn't take much to find 10x that from the right. One is not like the other.

We want the same and I agree we have a huge problem with right-wing extremism that does not mirror in left-wing extremism (sic).

My worry is: how soon until the same people we want to deplatform are the ones in charge of the platform? Get Twitter as an example: It is usually left-leaning and minority Twitter users the ones getting the shit end of the stick. Jack Dorsey is known for being, to say the least, accepting of nazis in his platform.

Edit: Again another bunch of downvotes without replies. sigh
I stopped using Google Maps a few years back. I received a notification on my phone that a store I was near was having a sale. It was clear that something was leaking my location, and that was being used to push ads to me through Android itself.

A little investigation revealed that the culprit was Google Maps. I uninstalled it at that point and never looked back.
Mueller cannot confidently state Trump didn’t obstruct justice
I've commented this before, but Watson is nothing but branding for anything IBM does that is somewhat intelligent. There's pretty much no common technology between the different Watson products, so there's no 'core Watson' like many people believe.

Some products with Watson branding are great and industry leading. Others suck. The latter tend to appear in headlines and severely impact the brand they established with Jeopardy and their ads.
Don't want to get into a political debate, but this is a lot of the principles of modern anarchism (sometimes called "AnCom"). I am unsure of the feasability of such a society, but it is interesting to read about theories and ideas if anyone wants to learn more.
People may say they love using Slack, but they certainly wont like their computers being slower and/or their laptop's batteries draining. And they wont blame Slack or any other Electron application for that, largely because they do not know why that happens! They'll blame their computer, perhaps Apple/Microsoft, their luck or whatever, but they do not have enough knowledge to judge Slack or any other misbehaving application unless the application makes it crystal clear that it is the reason.

It is up to the techies and developers to point out why that happens as they are the ones who have the necessary knowledge to figure out what is wrong. You cannot rely on users to figure out that stuff.
KDE Applications 19.04 is out
I will note that this was written by a 15 year old. Pretty amazing work.
the Las Vegas shooter is one recent example.

You are repeating a lie, and I think you know it.
I think a lot of people, me included, have quite a high barrier to things they're willing to discuss or reveal to co-workers regarding their personal life.
You dodged my question, but I'm happy to answer yours. I do think that advertising has made the world better. A majority of the content on the internet is viable because of it.
Just one example: If I add a step of, If patient enters with heart attack symptom X, was patient injected with 100cc of <drug>?

It's not a risk free check at all. It will likely increase the rate at which the drug is administered, with all types of plusses and minuses associated with adding a component to a system.
There's some videos if you click on "Product":

https://www.sqlgate.com/product

However they're of a Korean language version...
Considering how many people I've seen on HN decry the Mueller investigation and claim everything coming from it is a hoax, I'm unfortunately not surprised that it would be immediately be flagged and taken down.
https://github.com/ybayle/awesome-deep-learning-music a "Non-exhaustive list of scientific articles on deep learning for music"
It’s sad how often social media has to take the blame for social iinteractions in general. Yes alcoholics, drugadicts, manically depressiv and terrorists all Seem normal to passive observere and sometimes even to passive friends. That has nothing to do with facebook, Instagram, snapchat or any other social media platform.
What is the open source alternative?
What's new in Ubuntu 19.04
Quite a few of them had history of trouble if you ask those who knew them closely. Legal troubles, conflicts in school, aggression toward acquitances or/and undiagnized but visible mental health problems. Not all, but way more then obe would expect based on cliché. People who say that iften base it basically on killers ability to respond to "hello" with smile and "hello", but did not spent time with them to know their opinions or troubles.
Most banking regulations don't have to do with abuse of me a person who is putting money in a savings account by the bank. They protect from: The economy failing (FDIC), random (non-bank) companies lying (SEC), "bankers" using non-public information for personal gain in a way that is only harmful due to the zero-sum nature of trades (FTC).

Fiduciary duty is the only thing that comes close to what you might be describing, and well, my bank isn't my financial advisor, and they aren't investing my money for me. As far as I'm aware, they don't actually have a fiduciary duty toward me.
Not in Mac Safari
Many of us have been deliberately mislead into thinking that because the Special Counsel's office issued a report, that means it's the end. There are still numerous pending trials and pre-arrest indictments. Especially for the pre-arrested, they can't release every detail on what they know about those people. For the pre-trial, they don't want there to be any confusion between wording in the report and what's officially submitted as evidence on discovery.
I don't think the issue is monetization. I think the issue is the method of monetization. Doing something like offering paid enhancements, or even an option to pay in exchange for being omitted from the ad network, would be more acceptable.
>"You can cloak this basic economic trade-off in fifty layers of bullshit—say you believe in freedom of speech, or that the antidote to bad speech is more speech—but the fact is, hate speech is profitable."

May I point out that this happens to be a major talking point of some big media outlets right now? The same outlets, BTW, that mindlessly cheered on Facebook/Twitter/etc. as late as 2013.
I had a boss who said "drug dealers have users, but we don't..."

Then you often wind up with a set of "personas" that are set from the top down and that are inconsistent and have the kind of mismatch with reality that never seem to bother neurotypicals but they sure make it hard to implement things on a computer!
The Weather Channel knocked off air by 'malicious software attack'
iOS has a prompt before your address book/contacts are shared with any app and apps will always work without it (required by dev guidelines).

However note that this article is not referring to the Facebook mobile app accessing the mobile contacts -- this is about their service logging into a person's email service (like GMail) and downloading their email contacts.
>Why should they offer a free maps service?

The shouldn't. They should be forced to close, and Maps and Search should be provided by a non-profit, internationally controlled (UN etc), organization, not a for-profit company.

That's my opinion of what would be best. Some services (like "indexing the world's knowledge") are too important to be left to private interests and be monetized via ads...
What frustrates me is that the people built, marketed and sold this thing will likely face zero consequences, or at best maybe some minor monetary loss. There's literally no reason not to keep doing this.
I need healthcare, not an infinite number of unaffordable "options".
That's fair. Like I said, it was a long time ago, and I didn't finish the series. I just remember it often being a chore to read, with a loathsome main character. Maybe it made a larger point that I missed at the time, but I was a kid reading David Eddings.

PS - I'll check out the audiobooks. I hope they're as good as Rob Inglis' reading of The Lord of the Rings. It may not count as "deep, heady, high literature," but he does an incredible job.
People who go through the Ruby on Rails tutorial, where you make a simple microblog and each post is identified by a sequential number get a job making software for a little 2-bit company and this happens.
At the higher end there is also Ariel Kullock's "Fantasy" 51's [1]. I believe that he's no longer making them, but it's not uncommon to see his pen parts for sale (e.g. [2]).

[1]: http://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Parker/Parker51FantasyPart...

[2]: https://www.ebay.com/str/arielkullockpens/Parker-51/_i.html?...
There's DBeaver Community
I think also there are people who will take advantage if you show any form of weakness. Thus people have a good reason to not come clean about their feelings.
I flagged it and I'm quite convinced it is not. Being true is not enough to belong on HN. Americans always think their party politics are so dammed important.
Heh, following the apple branding, they could call it google+
We might never know. Do you think we should never think about what was redacted ?
This is supposed to be a full-fledged IDE. Those tend to be resource hungry anyways.

Plus the interface is looking pretty straightforward and native to me - no bootstrap-ish/whatever website-looking-thing shenanigans disguised as a native application.
I noped out of there after seeing those and the terminator reference in the first paragraph. Maybe I'm not the target audience...

Seems like the vast majority of the DL articles that make it the front of HN are just fluff. Nothing for DL practitioners, just 'hey look I can import tensorflow'.
It also lets you stay connected to people in ways that were impossible before.

Chance meetings can become longtime friendships. Great memories that would have faded away no longer have to.

For me, social media has mostly improved my life.
I've had a good and a bad Lamy. The good one was amazing, the bad one replaced it when I lost it and was scratchy as hell. YMMV.