skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Car-centric mindset. Some people it's their birthright to drive anywhere and park their cars for free in front of the place.
The headline seems to be a rather extreme (and willful) misrepresentation of the facts.

As the article points out, framing is important for the decision making, and I see absolutely nothing wrong with that. A video showing the horrors of war, and being presented as an argument against war, just is different from a video showing violence with an accompanying message promoting such violence.

One case in point is the Kim Phuc photo of a naked crying girl running away from Napalm in Vietnam. That photo being deleted actually was widely criticized, as it should.

At least my experience using Facebook also speaks against the article’s thesis: I cannot remember ever being shown any gratuitous violence. If they are trying to shore up click with shock value they are doing a mightily bad job at it.

There’s a lot to criticize about Facebook, but this just doesn’t seem like it.
Is that path accessible to everyone who practices 10 hours a day through their teens or is there survivorship bias involved? I've known a few very skilled musicians who had to have spouses or day jobs to put food on the table.
It's a really unique occasion to try to improve a worldwide-known monument with a very strong identity: every one expects getting a certain gothic experience when they come to visit it. Deviating too much from that is both a risk and an opportunity.

Out of the multitude of kitschy ridiculous high-concept pool-on-roof design sketches, a few will emerge as timeless and delivering what people expect. I bet it's easy to deliver the expected gothic experience when they step inside, and take bold bets on the outside appearance.
The title is "How does Facebook moderate its extreme content?", which seems more accurate than "Undercover video suggests Facebook wants extreme and disturbing content."
I was handed a 2015 Pro when I started this current job and they were apologetic they didn't have a 2018 Pro available for me like the other members of my team. I told them to cancel the order.
I believe statistician ecologists use the reverse in an interesting way.
Tag 100 units from a species, say goats (failure of imagination on my part) from a certain location. Then sample 100 other animals at a different time, controlling for time spent and so on, and the ratio of tagged animals that come up in the result will give statistical information about the total population of said species.
Hubble's cost structure is complicated. It is essentially a modified spy satellite and so much of its development costs were shrouded. We don't know how much was saved, or how much of Hubble's public budget was used on other projects. JWST is different. It is a unique object with no equivalent. Its cost structure is therefore not comparable to Hubble.

(Or I am wrong. Maybe JWST is a modified version of a super-secret unannounced program and its budget is covering the development costs of that spying program. Given the testing scheduled I doubt this, but it remains a possibility.)
The Chinese were first to print money and the first to get into difficulties by printing too much. After this silver became the store of value and the currency.

Hence the Opium Wars, the only way for UK/USA to get silver out of the Chinese economy. China had no interest in sub-standard Western goods and only wanted silver in exchange for their fine porcelain, silk and other goodies. Getting the whole nation on drugs and defending that trade with gunboats was a way of getting silver, silver being needed in the West for paying soldiers/mercenaries.

Such proud history we have, enslaving India to get the opium, selling it in China and getting silver back to buy legit goods from China.
There are a few projects for generating onion URLs, probably relatively easy for the CIA.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/29772/how-do-yo...
Did you read the article, or are you just responding to the title? It sounds like the latter.
This is one of those cases in which the GDPR is very nice to have as a European citizen
Thanks for adding that context. But without this post, I would have missed that bit of information, like I missed this news the previous times it came around.
Random, probably uninformed thought: I wonder if the solution could be LESS determinism rather than more. If you could make it so the same hardware rendered pixels in a slightly different (random) way each time, it would no longer be possible to determine if you were looking at the same machine.
Show HN: Popup Encyclopedia – A lightning fast popup encyclopedia/dictionary
link doesnt work for me. https://cl.ly/bd74bbbc194a/Image%2525202019-05-31%252520at%2...
> if the caption were promoting the violence or poking fun, it would come down. But in this case, since the caption condemns the fighting, the moderator is told to leave it up with a “mark as disturbing” warning

This sounds exactly right. How the heck are we supposed to confront and fight society's ills if any video highlighting them is immediately deleted?

Maybe if people were more aware of the shocking problems that people are facing in the world, they would be more inclined to act upon it. Out of sight, out of mind.
Well more concerning is that source code is never ever released for most games even when they are not sold anywhere anymore. Being able to run a proprietary piece of software is one thing, but being able to check how it was implemented would be more interesting at way many more levels. But gamedevs have no interest in preserving anything, they like it disposable.
Therefore, I find myself in a situation where making a lot of money isn't my goal, but I feel that I have to do it if I want to achieve my goals.

Can't you work remotely? There are a lot of smaller cities (at least in Europe) that have a great vibe, are welcoming to all kinds of people, and do not have extreme housing costs.

I live in such a city, a large chunk of the population are students, so there is a vibrant social and nightlife. But the city is too small to have a lot of 'big city problems'.
Android Q: The Bad and the Ugly
The first 17 minutes of the Time Travel lecture is the best introduction to Git I've seen and he didn't even mention Git.
Subverting expectations once again, Gaben must be choking on his tongue somewhere..
Indian Americans Came to Dominate the National Spelling Bee
I'm not.

My point was that Docker purports to solve the sandboxing and security problems.

In reality, this is something that 90% of people who use Docker don't give a shit about. For the vast majority Docker is just a nice and easy-to-use packaging format.

The sad part is that

a) Docker failed at security.

b) In trying to solve the security problem Docker ended up with a pretty crufty (from a technical point of view) packaging format.

Maybe we need to start from scratch, listen to the devs this time and build something they actually want.
> A video of a toddler being beaten by an adult would prompt hundreds of calls by Facebook users for its removal. But as the documentary reveals, a video showing just that is being used by CPL to train moderators on the type of content that should remain on the platform.

> In this case, the video was left to circulate online for six years after being flagged by online child abuse campaigners.

> The decision to ignore or delete extreme content appears to rely on how it’s being positioned. In one instance, the undercover moderator asks the advice of his colleague regarding a video that shows two underage girls, one of them being beaten by the other. “Unless it has a condemning caption, it’s a delete,” says the colleague, referring to the text accompanying the video.

> In other words, if the caption were promoting the violence or poking fun, it would come down. But in this case, since the caption condemns the fighting, the moderator is told to leave it up with a “mark as disturbing” warning. As the colleague notes, “If you start censoring too much, then people lose interest in the platform. It’s all about making money at the end of the day.” (emphasis mine)

> The undercover reporter inquires about a far-right page that touts anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant content. He is told that these pages, though they have exceeded Facebook’s “allowed content” violations, remain active and are “shielded,” preventing the CPL moderators from deleting them. “Obviously, they have a lot of followers, so they’re generating a lot of revenue for Facebook,” says one moderator. (emphasis mine)

That's all the substantive material from the article. I find it noteworthy that at least two of the damning quotes come from co-moderators, not any sort of official material. Whether that's an intended culture on facebook's part or not is up to the reader to infer.
I think a big part of this is that statistical significance is taken as a surrogate for clinical significance. They are not the same. Antidepressants for instance may be statistically significant in meta-analyses, but the average gain is less than 3 points on the Hamilton scale which is not even detectable by most people or doctors. The same goes with these other measures such as slight tumor shrinkage, ect. Its a difference that doesn't make a difference clinically.
The rare earth oxides are in mud on the seafloor in 18,700 feet of water. The concentration is only 0.66%, which is a lot lower than other known ore bodies on land. Mountain Pass in California is about 8.9% rare earth oxides.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minami-Tori-shima#Minami-Tori-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass_rare_earth_mine#...
This is precisely why I said the fact that someone would gloss over this is a red flag. The point is super critical.

VMs are literally so hard to do correctly and in a performant fashion that parts of CPU instruction sets[0], and kernel subsystems (KVM[1]) were created to make them easier to run. Containers, in contrast are literally a few flags and a bunch of in-kernel antics.

A few people, notably Liz Rice and Jessie Frazelle have given talks on how to make containers from scratch that are very illuminating for those that are interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPuvDm8IC-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYsVvV1aVss

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine
'language' as we know is quite ambiguous and an inefficient way of communication.
my guess is that what they will probably evolve is some kind of an audio encoding format for the exact information they want to convey to the other entity, like literally sending it control inputs over audio.
IMHO one should not accept alternative cryptocurrency, since they can be seen as a form of inflation, which is against Bitcoin's idea.

1 or 21 million does not really make a difference, as long as they are infinitely divisible.
The whole prestigious school thing means little imo.

After you meet a few dunces from a top school and the rare genius who went to CC, you really stop caring.

College is what you make it. If you aren't networking a top school, I don't see the purpose, we all learn math.
HN is full of bitter commenters who have been predicting the death of cryptocurrency for a decade, and it hasn’t come true. A community that learned of Bitcoin right as it was invented, dismissed it, and missed out on huge fortunes.

Well, some people here thought for themselves and analyzed the technology and ideas on its merits. Just not the people who comment on these posts.
guess most companies are now using not a robot future with any images. meaning when you click on am not a robot you will be moved to do next..
Demystifying Security for Security Tokens
Are there any programs that buy up fossil fuels and put it in a place or state where it would be infeasible to consume in the future? Seems like the only way this will work is to keep the carbon in the ground.
Say why.

Not only is it throwing off hormone/endocrine production, the toxins that have been stored in the fat cells are all being filtered through the body at the time of breakdown.
No, this was at Stanford a few years ago, so not close to CERN level HPC.

Our lab has modest compute requirements, but need a ton of storage, so we were very interested in a mid-range storage option.
> I made a conscious effort to get through with as little work as possible

I did a lot of that, too - and although I was (and probably still am) a bit lazy, there was more to it than just laziness. I had in some way convinced myself that studying all the time was sort of "cheating" - I was too smart to be doing such mundane things as showing up for class, reading the material and working the exercises. I didn't come to my senses until my senior year of college - and even then, when I took the GRE I actually bought a test-prep book and read it and the whole time I felt like I was going to get "caught" and thrown out of the testing center for being too prepared.
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
Most of the other extensions do not support encyclopedia ( or proper nouns ), hence the motive was to support both. Also the dictionary can be used offline.
Truecaller:
https://techunalt.com/truecaller-data-sold-on-dark-web/
That sounds like a nightmare...
> you shouldn't be using docker to try and contain possibly malicious code

Indeed. And since we're not building our own cloud environment, because that's a waste of resources for most companies, we will share an environment with possibly malicious code so therefore need isolation.

> unless you mean that the future is everyone just deploying functions for their applications?

Yes, that is exactly what I mean.

> You know serverless runs on MicroVMs right?

Yes, that's why I mentioned them

> and most of the time it's actually containers in MicroVMs?

I doubt this - AWSs performance documentation focuses on MicroVMs as an alternative to containers, not an addition. Which makes sense as containers do less than MicroVMs.

But hey, even if the AWS MicroVM documentation is wrong, it doesn't matter. I am not building a cloud platform. I do not care.

You're right about spin up time. Open a socket and let your apps terminate with it open for a greater chance of reuse. As a FaaS user that's your entire concern with your execution environment.

> 99% of people aren't building their own cloud platform, so they don't need the full isolation of VMs

All cloud environments must provide isolation between customers, hence VMs / MicroVMs. Customers adding docker on top of that add a huge administrative overhead that duplicates the features of their cloud provider for littl benefit,

> Is there anyone that spent 2015 really getting into Docker and isn't better for it now?

Every single person whose product is not Internet infrastructure, that wrote or configured their own unnecessary custom LXC or Docker and VM environment because 'Docker changes everything'.

If a company's product is machine learning for detecting cancer and their ops person has a custom Docker/kubernetes environment they're misusing their employer for their own technical interest

>2015 is late for realizing containerization is a good thing, not early.

It is indeed. It's just that then Docker hype was at its maximum.
The difference being that people actually use Docker
Ireland benefited from Tech investment, Tech firms benefited from extremely low tax rates.
In this case I’m a conservative. Imagine the Parthenon, GP of Giza or Kyoto Golden Temple being modernized. It would ruin the character and further make into Disney-esque tourist attractions.
This title provided by the OP is intentionally misleading and taken from a quote by Roger McNamee.

There are other platforms out there (liveleak and worldstarhiphop for example) that it only takes a minute or less to reach extreme content. If Facebook really desired what the OP suggested, assumed by Roger McNamee to push ad revenue by engagement then that’s exactly the first video one would see when logging in Facebook. The first video I see is always some shallow inspirational video by an “influencer” or a Buzz feed video on cooking.

Dang, I’d rather at least the original title be used so that anyone reading the article can reach their own conclusion and then bring whatever fire and brimstone need be.
If it tears bad it's technically possible to send up a shield that floats near the telescope. There were some plans for that way back during the design phase if I remember right. Still wouldn't be cheap or easy
Cars are no better than trucks in a locale that penalizes gasoline as fuel. The reason why American cities have cleaned up significantly over the last 40 years is that gasoline emissions controls are far more comprehensive than those for diesel.
The 19th century restoration had a goal of restoring the original style and character of the church. The 19th century spire, for instance, was a replica of the one that had to be removed in the 18th century. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Viollet-le-Duc

“Their project involved primarily the facade, where many of the statues over the portals had been beheaded or smashed during the Revolution. They proposed two major changes to the interior: rebuilding two of the bays to their original medieval height of four stories, and removing the marble neoclassical structures and decoration which had been added to the choir during the reign of Louis XIV [. . .] Instead, he proposed to rebuild the original medieval spire and bell tower over the transept, which had been removed in 1786 because it was unstable in the wind.”
Word certainly does for some people although being one of the "gifted" types at work seems to provide fewer chances to be that. Teacher's can give out As left and right and even if they give them to everyone, people feel pretty good about it.

Also the scale of affirmation at work can vary wildly.

Granted every workplace is different.
AFAIK the GDPR applies to every company, regardless of where it is located, as long said company has customers / users / ... from an EU country
> Even most SPA (think Gmail) don’t need to refresh if you aren’t observing them

Maybe not 'as often', But I certainly want the (xxxx) number next to 'Inbox' to change if I get new email while looking at another tab.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2014/

2026? Probably not. 2021? I doubt it. My money is on 2023-24.
Which brings up another important point: Typically, when someone wants someone to adopt their currency, they actively work to ensure that the currency has a stable value.

Think of historical examples of governments buying and selling each others' gold and silver coins; or more recently governments actively buying and selling gold and silver in their currency; or even more recently governments holding reserves of other countries currency.

The historical purpose is to ensure that a currency has a stable value, and is readily available for anyone who wants to use it.

No one does this with Bitcoin. The incentives are to use the currency as a speculative bubble, instead of as a means of commerce.

Drawing an analogy, in order for Bitcoin to work, there would need to be a "Bitcoin authority" that basically holds a huge reserve of Bitcoin or another commodity, and buys and sells to keep the value stable. Bitcoin goes up in value: Sell Bitcoin for some commodity, Bitcoin goes down in value, sell the commodity for Bitcoin.

(Of course, a Bitcoin authority goes against the general anti-government promise of Bitcoin.)
Great gif. This should be how everyone does readmes.
It seems that the main proposal is to make SQL watermark-aware. This additional "knowledge" will allow for producing groups and windows taking into account some late and out-of-order records.
It was originally intended to be a place of indoctrination into the state religion of the local theocracy. We have, fortunately, moved on.
So I think you're asking, "why prosecute a victimless crime?"

There's a couple reasons. Some people want the law to uphold societal moral standards. Some say that victimless crimes aren't actually victimless.

- In this case, it's not clear that the male in the video consented to the distribution of the video.

- The video shows a girl who may not legally able to consent to the sex act (The male is presumed to be an adult, but an age was not given in the case).

- She enabled the further distribution of the video by giving it to a friend who passed it on to other students.
'The film also uncovers how some Facebook pages that promote hate speech are left up and running. The undercover reporter inquires about a far-right page that touts anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant content. He is told that these pages, though they have exceeded Facebook’s “allowed content” violations, remain active and are “shielded,” preventing the CPL moderators from deleting them. “Obviously, they have a lot of followers, so they’re generating a lot of revenue for Facebook,” says one moderator.'
Yeah the folks who stay in the education systems often (not always) tend to like that sort of structure / participating in it. It feels a bit like a feedback loop.
I challenge the distinction between hard work and smart work. You cannot be smart without hard work. Amassing knowledge and mental ability requires years of effort and work. It is easier for gifted/clever people, but not inherent.

gifted =/= smart
Good grief, thank you.
Yes, it is. It is the first, arguably the most decentralized and safe, and absolutely the most valuable (by market cap) and thus most trusted store of value.
That would be declaring a full on browser war with Google. I expect MS don't want to do that yet. It remains an option in the future I suppose.

As I understand it Chromium is a lot easier to wrap your own GUI around than Gecko. XUL is still not completely decoupled, separating them completely is an ongoing effort I think.

Maybe when the embedded Gecko/Servo engine is production ready would be the time for MS to reconsider.
Sex with more than one person is a lot more fun than even the most pleasurable wank to even the most ultra specific porn. In fact, you could do the naughty with someone while watching your ultimate kink. There is zero risk of societal collapse due to a lack of sex.
>> It doesn’t matter that it can be explained by peeking behind the curtain, because it’s almost certain that all behavior, including human, just comes down to “statistics”.

"Statistics"? You're saying that human minds calculate means and standard deviations and the like? I find that very hard to believe. Just think of the amount of time it takes very powerful computers that are much better than humans at calculations to do statistics.

I also don't see how the "behaviour is just statistics" is the polar opposite of the body/mind dualism. I would think the opposite of "behaviour is just statistics" is "behaviour is not just statistics". Which we can't really verify until we figure out how human behaviour comes about.

Basically, human intelligence is not going to be "just X" anything. We've tried all the "just X" we could think of and nothing really worked.
The reason why China is the source of all of our rare-earth metals is because they are aggressively mining & processing it. There are a variety of reasons why China is doing the mining and processing, including factors like proximity to supply chains, China's strategic goals, different environmental & labor laws, land use laws, etc.

As soon as it gets more expensive to source rare-earth metals from China, other sources will come online. Other countries could ramp up mining & processing, perhaps as a "matter of national security", but for whatever reason that hasn't happened yet. This is done in other areas, there are a fair number of industries that only exist in the US because the military-industrial complex is interested in keeping supply chains independent of influence by foreign powers.
You analyzed Bitcoin on its technologies and merits and concluded that it’s a useful currency? Yikes.