skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the reinforcement learning system talk that was mentioned in the New York Times article about how YOUTUBE creates radicalized people.

The Google engineers who unleashed this on the world are Minmin Chen, Paul Covington, Alex Beutel, Ed Chi, Sagar Jain, Francois Belletti and Can Xu.

Youtube makes a lot of money from this approach by enticing viewers to stay on youtube longer and continuing to show them more alt-right and far right radical videos.

What needs to be uncovered is WHY their first tier recommendations start with the kind of grifting and far right sensationalist material that then floods their sidebar with more of the same.

It is immaterial if Youtube monetizes those streams, as their goal is simply to addict their customers to more videos for longer times, to show them advertisements.

Internet scale immoral behavior in the name of revenue. Blindness to how the far right keyworded and categorized their videos in a way that they were just there in the recommended streams of videos across the globe.

Has Youtube or Google accepted responsibility for this after the NY Times article by Kevin Roose on Caleb Cain's radicalization?

Have they refactored how this all works? Or are they still doing evil?
The "oh it was ironic" defense sounds especially weak when OP subsequently shoots up a synagogue. Guess he didn't get the irony? And neither did the Christchurch incel a few weeks earlier? That incident should have maybe informed the community's opinion on the future viability of that particular excuse.

It's also telling that both un-ironic murder sprees resulted in general approval, and no visible signs of regret on these boards. Or, you know, shutting them down.
A couple of things I like about the Bay Area:

It's gorgeous; We get cold winters and hot summers with a nice inbetween for spring/fall.

I enjoy the drives (out of rush hour) and the many, many things you can get to easily outside of the city.

Well paid and pay about $1200 for a 3 bedroom with one room mate (Outlier I know) right across the GGB.

Things I dislike:

The traffic into the city is disgustingly bad.

A lot of elitism going around based on worth/employer/general status.

Too many got-damn people have moved here in the last 10 years.

advice: If you have a really well-paying offer, then jump on it, get an electric bike for the steep hills, and enjoy your time here.
I don't struggle with that concept much; literature and popular usage conditions us to certain meanings and associations of words - when I read Marcuse's book I was actually almost as surprised as you seem to be, though Marcuse goes to pains not to trivialize the situation in those places we would describe as "totalitarian" by the kind of standard outlined in 1984 or by the example of Nazi Germany. Marcuse's point stems from the concept of totality, it's like looking at totalitarianism from the other way round - to me that was extremely refreshing.

Similarly, I think we've made strides in thinking about what oppression means - what allows us to say that those non-"1st-world" places are oppressive but ours are not? Is it a matter of quantity or quality? The language here is not merely hyperbolic (though this feature does remarkably well in being provocative, which is the point of activism - Marcuse was a lifelong activist), it's substantive.

When you appeal to the the "basis of Western society" in your comment, it reads more like normalization - how could such a thing be totalitarian, after all, it's the basis of Western society. That's actually the point I'm making, this basis conditions us to see only the worst examples as totalitarian/oppressive/"bad". The unspoken point seems to be that because it is the basis then we can't describe it as totalitarian. To me, that's not a logical conclusion.

>Marcuse’s engagement with the issue of totalitarianism relies on the understanding of the transformation of reason and for him this transformation is exemplified by the emergence of positivism as the dominant means of making sense of the world. He argues that the totalitarian character of advanced industrial society and its concomitant ‘totalitarian rationality’ (Marcuse 2001 [1961]: 52, 55) have specific, potentially devastating, consequences for the members of that society. Most important here are what Marcuse conceptualizes as ‘matter-of-factness’, ‘psycho-logical neutrality’, and ‘repressive desublimation’.[0]

>In advanced industrial societies, Marcuse says that the unit of production is totalitarian in without it determines the activities, attitudes and skills involved in social life. It defines and regulates also the aspirations and individual needs. Thus, the creation of false needs and control of these needs have corollary the disappearance of the border private / public life: only the consumer remains. It is this unique ontological condition that Marcuse called “undimensionnelle.”

[0] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230250857_6
I visited 8chan once several years ago shortly after it was founded. What I saw there convinced me it's not a place you want to frequent, especially from your own internet connection. If someone said to me "hey you have just got to see this thing on 8chan" I'd walk somewhere with open wifi first.
"Klaatu" is also a reference to the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
My TXR Lisp adds a shebang to the compiled file, if the source file has one.

$ cat > foo.tl
#!/usr/bin/txr
(pprinl "hello")
$ txr -e '(compile-file "foo")'
hello
$ cat foo.tlo
#!/usr/bin/txr
(5 0 nil)
((2 3 #b'0200012400000004 02000010' #("hello") #(usr:pprinl)))

If the source file doesn't have a hash bang line, the one isn't output.

You'd think SBCL wouldn't need this sort of thing since it compiles to native code?
When I'm driving my car and listening to an audiobook or podcast, I find that if I rewind it a couple minutes, my brain will flash back to where I was driving when I heard it the first time.

really weird.

additionally, and somewhat unrelated... The best racers know the course. They can sit back, close their eyes, drive the course in their mind, and open their eyes. If they are missing parts of the course in their memory, they have more to learn. If they time this exercise the closer they are to a lap time, the better they know the course (and the better chance they have of driving it well)
This article goes well together with the Overlooked[1] series by New York Times, which prints obituaries for the people overlooked by NYT at the time of their passing.

The one that appeared on HN a while ago was for Alan Turing.

This profile of the obituary writer gives a better impression of how and why some of those people could have been overlooked.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlook...
A closed loop steam engine without a cooling system is going to be terribly inefficient.

Heat engine efficiency is reliant on temperature differential.
It's different from "I'm going to fly a robot into an airplane". My point is that gok's summary of this threat is rather off the mark. As for gok's analogy to a bomb threat... enough has probably already been said about that.
Pretty ballsy to proclaim western society and economic coercion as not "legitimate oppression".
Unlike 4chan, 8chan isn't a centralized website managed by a single moderation team. Much like on reddit, anyone can create a board on 8chan and there are thousands of them.

Because of that, I don't think it makes sense to treat 8chan as a single community.
What was the reasoning behind that? Does it help you to play the original piece?
Wasn't the orb supposed to symbolize Jesus performing another miracle by not having the light warp the fabric?
I have struggled to learn piano for a very long time, and I think that learning to play pieces written by other people is overemphasized in piano (and music in general, with the exception of drums, guitar, and bass) education. Music is like a language, and we owe it to ourselves and our students to learn more about the language of music rather than just reading and regurgitating notes on a page. A better approach is learning words (chords), and grammar (chord scales, chord progressions) or music.

As a shameless plug, I am developing a site to help me learn piano[0]. It's still pretty early; the paywall is there so I can control initial users a bit better (feel free to pay though :P). If you're interested in such things, shoot me an email (check my profile). I'd love to learn more about how I can help the world be full of better music (i.e. helping you be a more awesome musician)

[0] https://musicianship.studio
Amen. The Mac goes one level wonkier by allowing file names to visually appear mixed-case, but treats them as if they're upper/lower only one way.

For example, Thing.JPG, thing.jpg, THING.Jpg are all the same file name even though under Linux they would not be.

I didn't look, but does unf check to make sure renaming Spaced Filename.txt to Spaced_Filename.txt check that it isn't clobbering a pre-existing Spaced_Filename.txt and offer a different remediation? Bulk collisions could be very messy.
Also it’s not really chief executive, as executive power is in the hands of PM, so upcoming elections matter even more. You are however on point, since president proposes candidates for General Prosecutor and head of Intelligence-Counterintelligence Service.

The man in question however could simply bribe officials on lower levels with the same effect and for far price.

To top it — extradition of a citizen is constitutionally prohibited, so everybody could sleep well and show middle finger to the rest of the world, as we traditionally do here.
Probably not a comparable example but Tesla ?
Kubernetes and Swap Rationale
I have no opinions or expertise on the legal merit of any kind of defense. I'm just sharing what happens and what's going though the minds of most of the people in these threads.

Trolling the trolls is just what you do on /b/
Chang claims that slow practice is valuable, just not so slow that you change the "gait" of your motions.

Walking isn't the same motion as running; we wouldn't practice running by walking. But not all running practice is a sprint.

He says that it's a mistake to learn pieces too slowly and try to speed up from there precisely because of this "gait" issue.As you speed up, you have to unlearn the wrong motions that do not work at full speed and replace them with different ones.
"It" did actually happen, shortly after the post, and was therefore both imminent and likely.

This was also the second such incident within just a few weeks. Knowledge about Christchurch should maybe have informed these "shitposters'". Can't really claim it's all just a joke after people have died.
I agree but 'avoiding conflict' is in many ways a much better bias than 'creating narrative'.

So, FT supports Liberal Democrat narratives by virtue of their existence, but they definition are not bandwagon anything, they don't have to be.

It's dry and boring, which has it's merits.
I do this after eating dinner, before going to bed. I do it for the door locks of the house, the knobs/dials of the stove, the gas valve behind the stove, the fridge door (giving it a push instead of pointing at it), the sink (to make sure it's clear of dishes), the windows.

I also do it for my car locks and windows to make sure they're closed and locked before leaving it. I'll make a point of it to touch the windows at the top edge and pull the handles.
Ha its a good point but hey atleast they build and publish files.
I think the idea is that the position of the earth relative to the sun would’ve moved with the pole movement, right? As in, “the middle of pacific” would’ve been the top of the world.

Not sure if they gave any indication of when the pacific was thought to be the North Pole, but the line of hotspot created underwater mountains from the Siberian traps to Hawaii certainly support a huge amount of movement of the surface of the planet around the core. It doesn’t feel that far fetched, depending on suggested time frame.

I just traced a parallel line (matching the Siberia to Hawaii one) from the North Pole and it does indeed land out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Incredible stuff.
In September, 1958 science was in the midst of the groundbreaking 18-month 'International Geophysical Year'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Geophysical_Year

It's what stimulated ice-core sampling. Before it, 60 years ago, science knew much, much less about climate, let alone climate history. (Plate tectonics was just coming into vogue!) IGY stimulated evidenciary techniques that forced a drastic revision of what we 'knew' before it.
Thanks to the kind folks putting in the effort and bringing this to linux, every release excites me! I've been a long long time fan of ZFS on BSD and Solaris (yes I'm old).
> It is also interesting that a 3rd world country's navy has better camera equipment than the premiere power.

Defense acquisitions at it's finest. Various bits of that camera have been certifiably touched by workers in all 50 states, and it took 10 years just to work out the contract details. That thing is bomb-proof but will fail catastrophically when exposed to a firm sneeze, and the CMOS sensor was "commercial off the shelf" tech from the lunar landing era.
This is exactly the kind of role my company has. They didn’t even know how to restart web server from command line.
Pardoning Power of the Executive – Alexander Hamilton; Federalist Papers(1788)
It's more the reason why you avoid eye contact. Looking nervous while shifting eyes to avoid eye contact looks suspicious. Avoiding contact because you are otherwise distracted thumbing through forms in a clipboard makes it look like you have a purpose for being there.
Doom on my 1999 Kodak DC265 digicam
Lessons Learned Starting a Developer Blog
Thanks. This is super valuable!
I think this quote describes the evolution of imageboard culture pretty well:

>Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company.

Edit: apparently this thread is the source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011498
The protagonist becomes conscious of having lived the same life repeatedly, and struggles to fix his mistakes.

Abbreviated weeb version: Re:Zero. Also, All you need is Kill. (Aweebrviated?)

It's a valuable metaphor, though I reject the concern that the timeline of every quark is scripted.

Let's say I implement a huge, immersive, highly emergent video game, where all of the entity states are recorded, but all of the random number generation is constantly seeded by a feed from CloudFlare's lava lamps. I could present the entire history of my toy universe as a single, static 4 dimensional data object. I could even save that data on a 2D surface, then set the archive as a physical object on my mantelpiece. Yet the timeline of every entity in that toy universe wasn't scripted.
My Recovery from Programmer Anger
At least Apple makes products and is not a troll.
The patents related to 5G are mostly under FRAND since they are required as part of the 5G standard and Qualcomm owns most of them.

Who besides Qualcomm even has to technical know how and the scale to create chips at a profit besides Qualcomm and in the future Apple?
Yes I do that occasionally when trying to solve a specific problem. Often helps.
Apply common sense: One threatens violence, the other threatens inconvenience. Duh. If a "fake bomb threat," were called, it would have no effect. Bomb threats have to be credible to have weight, which would also an act of terrorism, meant or not.
How are courts supposed to determine a priori likelihood?

And is it the likelihood pre or post incitement?
Ken White’s rule of goats:

“The Rule of Goats applies. Slightly paraphrased — for this family newspaper — the rule states: If you kiss a goat, even if you say you're doing it ironically, you're still a goat-kisser.”

You don’t get off scott-free just because you say “I was only being ironic“.
I have no expertise in the legalities here.

But I’ve found that quite often, on the internet, when you think you’ve found a forum of hilarious ironic commenters... a lot of them are very sincere.

Irony is currently used as a conscious strategy by the extreme right. They know that it gets a pass from ordinary people. While permitting the sincere to organize in plain sight.

I don’t know what to do about this, but this is the world we’re living in.
I'm thinking "make things more discoverable" than "find more useful things" if that makes sense. I'm willing to wade through it myself if you present me with options.
Ah OK - thanks for explaining. I wasn't thinking about the movement of tectonic plates on that scale.
Mediatek and Huawei (RIP)
Well...

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-joins-open-...
That is the rub isn't it? We are currently over generating green house gasses (relative to non-anthropocentric sources), so whether we want to or not we are "exploring that option."
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/meetings/fellows/mar0...
> But the crux is that these people are not serious (though I'm sure some are),

So which is it? Serious or not? How do we know which is which?

> they're just saying it for the sport of calling the bluff of anonymous people they perceive as trolls or brooding teens.

By what definition of the term is this sport? If anything it's callous, and probably illegal in most jurisdictions.
I'm still not aware of the killings, the article had no details. Maybe they included those couple cops killed in NYC a few years back? Maybe they didn't? All we have is a bar chart. And it's not like anger at police is a liberal-exclusive position.

It did remind me of the congressional baseball game shooter, who as far as I remember, didn't kill anyone (though not for lack of trying). That was stacked against several more successful mass murder attempts from right wingers.
No it's not. It's a formalization of St. Anselm's ontological argument. It's clear to me that you have no real interest in the subject, but on the off chance I'm wrong you can easily find both the medieval ontological argument and the modern formal one online.

In any event I think Gödel's proof is worth understanding simply as a nice example of modal logic and the power of formalisms. Anselm's informal attempt at a proof is famously unreadable.
I'm not sure what you would've liked to have happen here?

Canada has a valid extradition treaty with the US. It was a lawful arrest of a person who violated American law.

Should Canada not follow it's own international agreements so that it can meet your standard of "standing up the the US"? Don't be ridiculous.
Off the cuff I am skeptical about this, because of the connection with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

Autism is a "developmental disability" where your brain develops differently from other people. There is not going to be some treatment that hits your brain and suddenly makes you normal -- because your brain developed on a different trajectory.

Also these days it is fashionable to say poop transplants are a treatment for everything, just like every disease is caused by "inflammation". Let's see how that is working out:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/killer-poop-fecal-tr...
The USSR. East Germany. Syria. The Sudan. Pretty sure you haven't lived in any of them. If you've ever been in real oppression, you wouldn't say that western society is legitimate oppression.
What reasons?
I'm going to be honest, at this point, after blatantly stealing tech from both Cisco and Samsung, how can you even claim Huawei developed the technical know how and didn't just steal it?
> I'm just sharing what happens and what's going though the minds of most of the people in these threads.

How can you know what's going on in the minds of most people?

Have you conducted surveys? Where's the data?

If we've got data, let's go with the data. If all we've got is opinions, let's go with mine.
that’s not what the extradition is about.

again, wikipedia is your friend: “Assange was accused of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in order to help Chelsea Manning gain access to privileged information which he intended to publish on Wikileaks. This is a less serious charge in comparison to those leveled against Manning, and carries a maximum sentence of five years with a possibility of parole.[2]”
Same in physics. You'd think it would get better after a few semesters but it kind of became one of the constants during my studies. Especially in math 1-4 and in almost every theoretical physics lecture I attended. The worst was quantum field theory with a close second in classical mechanics. Most students, the tutors and the professors somehow really liked to appear superior. Asking things in general during a lecture was almost frowned upon in most cases. Nobody wanted to acknowledge their "inadequacy". I vividly remember the faces of people looking with elitist impatience (for a lack of a better term) at those who dared to ask for a different explanation or a repetition if something was unclear.
And here we are :)

Ordinary (?) citizens, connecting over the internet to share our distaste for war and hope for a better future.
Honestly I can't get past the idea that somehow an image of Iranians removing a mine from an oil tanker is somehow a smoking gun proving that they put it on ... It all screams fake news, information warfare, to me.

As far as who would like the US to go to war with Iran (apart from Bolton) Saudi Arabia and Israel spring to mind ...

Remember how we were railroaded into war with Iraq using fake news about weapons of mass destruction (from the Whitehouse that time), fool us once shame on you fool us a second time shame on us.
> Working with other scientists, Lin developed a model to represent how flowing air carries these substances. The new model divided the atmosphere into cells or boxes and used computer code based on the laws of physics to simulate how air and chemical substances move through each cell and around the globe.

> The model paid close attention to conserving energy, mass and momentum in the atmosphere in each box. This precision resulted in dramatic improvements in the accuracy and realism of the atmospheric chemistry.

Global Forecast System > Future
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Forecast_System#Future
Thanks Daniel! The site guidelines are great. I have read them previously but it seems I had forgotten the details of the relevant section:

“On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.”
That was the idea 20 years ago. Now search engines, social networks, and national firewalls are more effective propaganda machines than television ever was because they're individually targeted. It's going to take a new generation of people who are not just ready to swallow anything they read in their newsfeed.
What's childish about it? They refactored their code and removed a legacy header in the process. If ZFS was a part of the kernel it would have been fixed as a part of the refactoring.

What's going on here is that people on the internet are asking Greg K-H to do extra work and his reply is that he doesn't care to.

If anything what is childish is random internet users thinking that they are entitled to Linux dev's time and work.
search and youtube are the two things I can think of.