skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What should be the rule about what videos are banned? We don't want to ban parodies I suppose? What if the author of the Pelosi video claims it's a parody?

It would be great if we could allow parodies and jokes as long as a reasonable person can tell that this is indeed a joke. But that won't work since people disagree about what's "reasonable".

I guess we can require that parodies and jokes are tagged as such, so people don't confuse them with real stuff. Is that too overbearing?

Are there any better solutions that have been proposed?
>that type of content

Therein lies the problem. The video was slowed down and the audio slightly distorted. I don't see a set of metrics that can capture that "type" of alteration that doesn't also capture tons of content. Unless, of course, you go down the route of saying "it's illegal to post any altered video or image of any politician."
Yes, some of the fake accounts - not necessarily bots - are there to create chaos. Russian political influencers have publicly boasted about this.

Of course this is no different to the US and the rest of the West using the media and social networks in other countries to promote their own agenda.

The difference is we're supposed to be immune from having it done to us - and of course we aren't. Because it's no different in principle from a fake advertising and promo campaign, or a fake pro-corporate stage-managed PR campaign - just larger in scope, and weaponised as opposed to financialised.

In reality troll and Tweet farms are incredibly cheap compared to other propaganda vectors, and incredibly cost effective.

At some point knowingly misleading the public for political or financial gain is going to have to become a criminal offence.

Currently consumers/voters have more protection from fake claims about a toaster than they do from fake claims made by a president or a hostile foreign power.

If you're trying to be a genuine democracy, that's a bad place to be.
>To more mathematically minded people I'd explain it like this: two political stances can be correct at the same time, because political stances are projections of high-dimensional conceptual structures to lower-dimensional space. Both a circle and a rectangle are correct 2D projections of a 3D cylinder. But if your 2D projection of a cylinder looks like a hexagon, you're wrong.

This is brilliant. I tend to fall back on category theory and multivalent logic for the same job.
That list seems to be a roughly ordered list of cities by population. I see rats at night in most cities I spend time in.
I feel like you work at my last company. But so many companies f* this up that it could be any company.

I got fired from any last job after being one of the only engineers willing to say something to management about this. I figured I had a popular opinion - many other engineers often DM'ed me on slack encouraging me to continue speak out, including my own manager, so I somehow figured I should be safe speaking out, politely, as a respected majority representative.

In fact I was dead wrong. By saying that scrum was a problem, I ended up making product managers / CTO who loved scrum and used it as an hour long opportunity to lecture the team every day feel threatened.

Getting fired was one of the best things that ever happened to my career, because in retrospect it was a dead end company that was run by fear. Management was afraid of ideas or challenge to power to the point where innovative ideas and feedback were never well received and a culture of fear and not stepping out of line arose, even though it was sugar coated with fake company values of "openness" that nobody really believed in but that managers loved as a way to elevate themselves.

I suspect many companies are a my least a little bit like this. Unfortunately it is human nature and there are so many stories in history, usually of narcissistic dictators, that mirror this.

This was a very extreme example but I'm sure many other companies struggle with this when it comes to challenging scrum. Managers tend to love scrum because it's a chance, daily, to "manage" and to get status updates so that they feel comforted. It makes it so that trust is no longer necessary, and bad managers are often bad at trust.

I guess another way to view scrum is to realize that it is often a reflection on management's subtle fears and insecurities being projected onto the processes of the company. It is an instance where employees unfortunately must manage up.
> Daily standup, nobody wants to be at. We have multiple teams arrive, with roughly 20 people in a small room

It is central to the idea of the daily standup is that it is one team.

> Its limited to 15 minutes, so nobody says much of importance, and just parrots what is already on the Jira board.

If you have another mechanism for sharing what each person has done and is doing, then the standup should just be for sharing information about and resolving barriers.

> Stories are supposed to be forecasts, not commitments. But the business doesn't like stories carried over, so they become commitments.

If you organizationally can't get away from commitments, then you need to cut back the amount you plan to do so that there is some slack. As long as you are also doing backlog grooming and have items groomed beyond the current sprint commitments, you can take additional items opportunistically, if there is excess capacity after doing the committed items properly.
I completely agree when it comes to small to medium-sized websites, but Facebook is effectively a monopoly. At a minimum they should have clearly defined rules and transparent processes for censoring content and banning users.
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IPC's gone up quite a bit though, right?
I feel like a crux of the author's argument (and not deeply discussed), is the process where increasing population and density leads to higher wages for the highly educated.

We could imagine new companies moving to the area, with their complete team in tow. This creates a new opportunity for me to jump ship in return for a raise. My employer then has some incentive to 'steal' someone from elsewhere and may offer higher wages. The net result being little change, but higher wages for us both.

Is that enough to feed into the loop that keeps housing costs high?

Maybe the key step is the arrival of new employers, which bring the credit and wealth that soaks up the space created by any new housing. Some employers, and those employees not paid enough to keep up will choose to exit. But those spaces will be filled by the highly-motivated quickly. Meanwhile the relatively poor will continually suffer, there is nothing created that satisfies them.

So, dear leaders, build new housing but restrict employers, to make the bell curve that matches the people you want to populate your city.
I got criticized for zoning out at scrum meetings. So I watched what the managers do. They show up for the first few minutes, look alert, then leave as if in a hurry. I started doing the same thing, and never had a problem again.
Considering SSRIs are prescribed for IBS (the gut has a lot of serotonin in it) and anxiety disorders (the brain also uses serotonin), I could see this being related.
Sébastien Eustace created pendulum specifically to address the deficiencies of arrow: http://blog.eustace.io/please-stop-using-arrow.html
Yes, upon rereading I see that, too. When I first read it, I understood in such a way that it only would work until (a timestamp of) 65535 ticks since device-startup had passed, but he was referring to durations of that length.

Thank you for clarifying.
tl;dr: yes, it's "the algorithm"

Facebook (and Youtube et al) have chosen not to be content-agnostic distribution platforms (unlike the postal service and SMS). They perform a variety of editorial functions to curate content and provide recommendations with the objective of maximizing engagement and hence advertising impressions that they can sell. This is popularly known as "the algorithm".

Given that these platforms have chosen to selectively display content for profit, many people believe that they should have some sort of responsibility for the editorial decisions they make.
But if the duration is > 65535 ticks, the calculated duration will be wrong, no? There is no mechanism to count how many times TCNT1 overflows, so it will be incorrect if the duration of what you are timing exceeds 65535 ticks.
Thankfully, my parents were technical back in the days of BASIC & CP/M.

So basically it comes down to making sure that the UI/UX they (and I tbh) like sticks over updates. As such, we've moved completely away from Firefox to Palemoon (with a "classical" theme), from Office & OpenOffice to LibreOffice, and to minimalist Windows theming to keep it looking like, well, Windows.

I use either uBlock or Adblock Latitude & Greasemonkey with the Aaklist setup, and Disconnect / Ghostery. They also have Avast! & MalwareBytes on their machines and I have a ClamAV client set up on a scheduled task.

As far as them getting phishing emails... they're not stupid. They've been seeing spam email since Prodigy and haven't fallen for more than one scam in that time (long story but it didn't hurt us monetarily). Oh, and if they're not sure, they ask me - or they search (using DuckDuckGo or Exalead, not Google) to figure out if it's real.
Attrition!
70% tax rates on $50K? Total non-starter, even in CA. No chance of the Federal tax rate hitting that high, so CA State tax would have to jump up to 45%? Good luck getting that passed in the Legislature.

Thinking that inequality can be solved by taxing the rich ignores history, as well as the relationship between correlation and causation. Just because tax rates in the past were higher doesn't mean they were the cause of the lower inequality rates.

Oh, and it already makes financial sense to live in the Midwest. The problem is that many don't make the majority of decisions with their wallets.
On the bright side Starlink is something that can help to solve both of this issues by helping to lower the price of rockets and by improving the antennas.
I mean, it's not that it won't work, but why would you use a language that is a CPU hog, for a heavy duty task that needs a GPU? It's 2 orders of magnitude slower than it needs to be, and nobody else has ever trained or done tutorials for PHP ML, so why? Just why??

Respect for building fundamentals, but in terms of utility, it needs a proper warning label IMHO.
>You're asked to deliver a feature that would take 4 weeks to implement without tech debt in two weeks.

Well there's your problem. How is that inherent to scrum?
What’s the product if you don’t mind sharing?
I've heard entirely the opposite, that having a close relationship between chip designers and fabricators allows for higher performance designs. I don't know of anyone who interpreted AMD selling off its foundries as anything other than severe financial distress, and it worked supremely well for Intel while they stayed at least one step ahead of the competition. Enough so this is said to have wiped out a generation of CPU architects while Dennard scaling still worked, no matter how clever they were, Intel moving to its next process node wiped out their speed advantage.

But it's a brittle model, if a company screws up a node and is too messed up to handle the failure gracefully, as Intel is doing with their "10nm", no doubt with pride as a factor. And it's not uncommon for institutions to permanently lose abilities, I'm not counting on Intel succeeding with their "7nm" node.

On the third hand, we're now down to 2-3 high end CPU fab companies, Samsung, TSMC, and maybe Intel. That also can be a brittle thing.
Very few modern philosophers, perhaps. Starting at least with Plato, it was entirely the opposite, that the individual whose passions are completely controlled by reason is ultimately happy. The individual controlled completely by his passions is the most unhappy. This is because Plato believed supreme happiness was found in perceiving the good itself using reason.

Nominalists, such as Hume, don't believe there is such a thing as 'good itself', and believe all mental abstractions are merely labelings of physical things. Thus, mental abstractions cannot be the goal of our desire. Only physical things can be the goal of our desire, and we must necessarily be ruled by our passions. Note, this was not an innovation on Hume's side. A number of philosophers before and during Plato's time proposed similar ideas, such as Epicurus. So, we cannot say Hume came up with a brilliant idea no one had ever considered before. However, for whatever reason, most of the philosophers of the Western canon sided with Plato rather than with Hume. Perhaps because Plato was closer to the truth than Hume.
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What if I told you you'd very probably just show that the pattern continues to hold for the first 5 n?
The Australian election wasn't particularly close. The two-party-preferred margin was 3.2%, which is the mid-range in terms of margins this century (7 federal elections since 2000, 3 have had higher margins and 3 lower).

Yes the "death tax" was an outright lie. But there were lots of factors which went into that margin.

Also it's important to clarify that (for the most part - except possibly on some WeChat groups) - this wasn't a foreign campaign. It was mostly old fashioned paid advertising by the Liberal party itself.
Except for the fact that this isn't true. "Over the past decade of data, the cancer incidence rate (2006‐2015) was stable in women and declined by approximately 2% per year in men, whereas the cancer death rate (2007‐2016) declined annually by 1.4% and 1.8%, respectively. The overall cancer death rate dropped continuously from 1991 to 2016 by a total of 27%, translating into approximately 2,629,200 fewer cancer deaths than would have been expected if death rates had remained at their peak." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21551

Most of the increase has come from our increased life expectancy since getting cancer is very strongly linked with age. Lifestyle choices have also contributed. An aging population and greater detection will result in more cancer cases.
> What has surprised me is the relatively large percentage of my compatriots who are also authoritarian and anti-democratic. All that stuff about the constitution was just lip service.

To the extent that the constitution maintains the status quo, it is embraced. To the extent that it upsets existing social order, not so much.

According to Stenner's theory, there is a certain subset of people who hold latent authoritarian tendencies. These tendencies can be triggered or "activated" by the perception of physical threats or by destabilizing social change, leading those individuals to desire policies and leaders that we might more colloquially call authoritarian.

...

Authoritarians prioritize social order and hierarchies, which bring a sense of control to a chaotic world. Challenges to that order — diversity, influx of outsiders, breakdown of the old order — are experienced as personally threatening because they risk upending the status quo order they equate with basic security.

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism
>>Worse, those app developers would choose to drop old version, release a new version that requires you to purchase again.

To be fair, one is not entitled to free upgrades forever.
> At a minimum they should have clearly defined rules and transparent processes for censoring content and banning users.

They do their best to document this: https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/

The simple reality I see is that Facebook has to please the majority of people, but people are reluctant to confront the fact that some of their views are significantly out of line with the majority. So people react negatively when their own content is banned, and also when content they think should be banned is allowed.

That and an either an unwillingness to accept or understand the limitations of automated content moderation. There was a post on the front page of Reddit about an artist who got their Facebook page taken down for making KKK-style MAGA hats, and nazi-style MAGA armbands (crucially, with a swatstika). It's unambiguously anti-Trump in context, but of course it's going to get automatically flagged when it prominently features items strongly aligned with hate speech.
This sounds like the OP is asking about something like when Elon Musk and Peter Thiel formed PayPal from their payment processing companies.

How did you jump to illegal collusion from opening talks about a merger?
Trump didn't spread the video, his lawyer Giuliani did. Trump pinned a video of spliced moments of Pelosi stumbling on her words: each segment was raw footage.
Facebook and Google didn't even exist when CDA and DMCA were passed.
It's similar at my office. We also use it to let the rest of the team know on occasions when you're blocked on something.
There is an absolutely solid book on the subject of how NASA comes to make decisions. The Space Shuttle Decision[1]. I say solid and not good because it's easily the most boring book I've read this year being composed entirely of bureaucracy.

1. https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4221/contents.htm
This seems very much to underscore last week's comments by Amber Brown re: the problems of the batteries which are included.
What happens with this code?

volatile int x;
int y;
int z;

x = 10;
x = 20;
y = x;
z = x;

Answer:

the constant 10 is written to x
the constant 20 is written to x
the contents of x is read and written into y
the contents of x is read and written into z

Now, what happens with this code?

int x;
int y;
int z;

x = 10;
x = 20;
y = x;
z = x;

One answer is the same as the above. Another valid answer is:

the constant 20 is written to x
the constant 20 is written to y
the constant 20 is written to z

Why? Because x is not used between the two assignments, so the first will never be seen. Also, x is not used between it's assignment and the assignment to y, so the compiler can do constant propagation.

All volatile does it tell the compiler "all writes must happen, and no caching of reads".
Yeah, I really have noticed an increase in "Facebook is bad" content from mainstream media, usually blasting them because people use the platform to spread fake news as people have used any other platform to spread fake news since time memorial. Where were these hand-wringing articles when Facebook was pioneering the degradation of privacy standards or pushing invasive tracking across the web? I guess those don't threaten the old media business model as much.
We're the same way, but we have Amazon as well, mostly because of the shipping side. There are series that I'd like to watch, but it's not available on either, so I just don't bother.

In fact, I started getting back into watching TV shows after a couple years of not watching much, and then the fragmentation with Netflix losing content and creating their own happened, and now I just don't watch nearly as much and we just watch occasionally for family movie/TV time. I have friends that mention various series and I've just stopped bothering looking anymore because, chances are, it's not on a network I already have access to.

My wife has gone back to watching movies at the theater, I'm playing more video games, and the only reason we pay for streaming anymore is for the kids. I used to enjoy talking about shows with friends, but now it feels like everyone has access to different content, so there's less common ground than before.

I'd be happy to pay a little extra for access to certain content, I just don't want to have to remember which service provides which content.
The big problem here is that people create accounts on multiple sites and then reuse the username/passwords on many sites. Then, one of the sites gets hacked, the database gets leaked with unencrypted passwords. Eventually this database gets passed around the internet for anyone to use. Now people simply go down the list trying to log in with these username/password combos on every site.
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I've worked on more than 10 different Scrum teams, and have seen it done well exactly once. When it was good, it was very good.

But we spent one entire workday (7 hours) on each sprint follow-up meeting, and then another entire workday planning the next sprint. That is what it took to write the stories, break them down into one-point pieces, prioritize with the PO, pass the stories out to the devs, etc.

Most places just don't plan for enough time to do things right, and quality is second priority, so no matter what methodology you use, you lose, because no cared about doing it right to begin with.
I'm not sure why you seem to think so. The government does have the ability to force people to testify - just so long as it doesn't force people to incriminate themselves with that testimony. Just like how you get imprisoned for skipping jury duty, you can get held in contempt of court for refusing to testify to a grand jury.
Please.
Don't fall into the trap of underestimating others intelligence.
Even that typical Facebook user from another state has valid reasons and thier opinion or values are no better than my( or
Yours)
I'm not trying to argue one bit okay?
But how exactly do you know the Panama papers are legitimate?
Do you have an inside source or did you hear about this issue the same way I did?
I agree with you that it fits perfectly into my own world view and I caution you and myself to not take stuff like that as a golden source of true info.
No matter how much I'd like to think it's all true, in this day and age one must be more careful about accepting sources of info as gods honest truth because there are folks out there who spend thier lives,fortunes and passions just to mislead or misinform allegedly informed ppl like me( and you)
What Will Replace PDF?
PDF-like documents are a very common need. However, PDF as a format is not the best. Documents are not reliably consistent across platforms/readers, and have vulnerabilities. It really seems like something that should be replaced, but isn’t. What will replace it?
Move to a city where coyotes live? I live in a city near a large park and have never seen a rat, but I do hear coyotes fairly often. I think these are related.
Mai ShoGun is doing an AMA on /r/casualiama
I passionately hate being asked for "commitments". If it's stuff of any reasonable complexity or novelty I will have no idea how long it will take and therefore can't make any commitments. The only thing I can commit to is to make sure that people don't waste time and work towards the goal. The problem is that management has no problem wasting a lot of time with useless meetings or not committing to the final feature set but instead changing requirements all the time.
Somehow I'm reminded of "we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" but I'm not sure which side it supports.
It does cause a lot of health issues.
Waterfall with little or no modelling. If you write the wrong system, you are left with nothing. With waterfall you could at least start over with your design artefacts.
There have been some very interesting experiments in this area. Going back to the 90s, smaller website once gathered together to form communities under a single subscription fee. In some advanced groups each website was given a share based on traffic. This allowed a single reasonable subscription to back a great many independent websites.

As with most things on the internet, the porn industry did it first.
Why is Facebook obligated to play the role of referee in games of political fact?
The best out of the box solution I’ve found is eero with eero plus subscription. It blocks ads at the router level as well as malware sites, phishing sites, certain downloads, etc..

It’s not perfect, but better than anything else I’ve ever used. Also comes with subscriptions to 1Password, Malwarebytes and Encrypt.me.