skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Skepticism requires an unlimited amount of work for verifying a chain of evidence, if one piece is wrong then the whole body of data could be unless. Not easy for a data journalist to standup and get a new set of data when there's a time constraint.

In theory, perhaps, but not in practice. In practice, the bar is usually at two standards:

1. at least two uncorrelated/independent sources of truth say the same thing (replication)

2. peer review turns up no clear flaws in methodology

Then your conclusions are good enough for most people. You will not be able to completely rule out the possibility of an incomplete understanding or a theory that is mostly right and a little wrong, but the vast majority of untrustworthy science in the news fails at basic diligence, not at "it looks right to the best of our knowledge but turned out wrong."
I have children and a large dog, and my car is vacuumed regularly (by me, not a service), has no food in the carpet, and no stickers on the window. Teach your little ones to respect your tools.
I’ll just keep saying this, and getting dismissed by everyone I know - any data security discussion around a centralized data store that doesn’t begin with the recognition that that data store will be compromised, is a discussion that is just a joke.
NYT straddles a line between being institutionally conservative while having a majority liberal staff and subscriber base. It creates pattern matching hits for both sides. MSNBC has similar issues.
> fix the home upload bandwidth issue

The “home upload bandwidth issue” is “it's not a thing consumers demand, and we have business-class service for people who do have a need forit.”

I'm not sure what there is to solve...
"Just so you know, black people are not inherently better athletes than white people, Kendi says. We only think so because “black people have not only been rendered inferior to white people, they’ve been rendered like animals,” and thus physically superior creatures.

*

That is certainly not the "only" reason. If blacks are consistently over-represented in the NBA, it is plausible that they are better at basketball on average.
Um, needing millions to risk on this means it isn't "available to everyone".

And yes, it is a risk, even if your mask is solid. There's always the risk that the lottery commission could say "oh, come on, the terms and conditions prohibit this kind of thing", leading to a protracted legal battle.
Thank you for noting this!

PostScript is currently underappreciated, and I highly recommend learning it. Among many other uses, I like to use PostScript as a portable animation language to visualize search processes like in this case.

Also, programming PostScript is great fun and in a sense quite timeless: In all likelihood, these definitions will work without change also in the distant future, because PostScript is so widely spread and frequently used.

Newer graphics languages and concepts also take many ideas from PostScript, but PostScript is in my experience still the most fun and flexible of them, at least for a very large set of important use cases.
The kinds of analysis and visualizations you can build in 5 minutes with Tableau (and the ability to explore the space of possible analyses and visualizations) would take hours of futzing to reproduce with python.
Indicating that it's already exceeded the point of diminishing returns, which is a sufficient counterargument to subsidizing it.
Damn, son! Good catch! I have been trying to figure out how to deal with just this problem. Thank you.
Oh...I don't think anyone relevant seriously thinks he's a crypto-Jew. People just think he's spineless and is easily manipulatable by Putin/Kim/Netanyahu.
Looker is way better than tableau.

Lets break it down:

Both are over priced

Lookeer, however has LookerML

Tableau obfuscates all code.

Looker has easier bolt-ons to redshift/postgres

Tableau's BI tool-set is weaker than looker, albeit, wider spread (more mature)

So, I think google got a steal and SF is playing catch-up... at a high cost.

Plus SF's sunk costs in eveything is going to make a 15B buy take at least two decades to pay off....
What is the benefit of a secured card when the interest rate is 28 percent? Why would anyone ever sign up for such a terrible situation?
I appreciate all your transparency and engagement on this issue. It probably would have had the same outcome, yes, but potentially resolved much more quickly. Regardless, the fact that you're fixing it is music to my ears.
IBM’s open-source design system for products and experiences
Or even pay, I wouldn't mind paying 0.003$ at each Captcha as long as I have an anonymous payment system.
You should probably invest some time learning how incredibly hard and costly it is to make a streaming platform. Youtube can only do this at low costs because they do it at scale.

Also, The only people who could do this are already making tons of money. We're talking about people with high technical skills, not the people posting ASMR videos.

You also need to attract viewers to your platform, which is no small feat.
What about an undersea volcano also? Tonga has had a few new islands appear and then disappear, although I'm unsure as to how that would work with the gas outputs detected.
Right. AV1 is technically poor but the licensing is so egregious elsewhere that we should really be rooting on VP9/AV1 over the alternatives.
"Of course getting these divisions down is really hard and therein lies the heart of why getting microservices right is hard.
"

I think you can only get this right if you deal with pretty mature processes that are well understood.
>There is no way for him to get rid of the ad next to the Google listing.
>So he wants the free traffic but not to pay for it in any way?

If people are specifically looking for his business he doesn’t want the competitors business to be able to buy an ad that pops up before the user searching for his business.

That has nothing to do with wanting free traffic for nothing. This guy has likely already built a website that is optimized for google search, likely uses paid gmail/google apps, probably registered all his info in google maps...that’s a lot of free data entry for google so their product is better and some of those business services are paid.

So now that you use their paid services and probably paid for web development/SEO up to Google’s lastest standards, your business comes up #1 on google searches...and they sell an ad before your result.

There is no great real world example, but imagine you have a brick and mortar and sign a commercial lease in a shopping center, then the landlord rents signage in front of your sign to a competitor. Of course he’d always be happy to rent you the 2nd signage if you beat your competitors bid.
If you want the best, step 1 is to eliminate anything with the Vera "l". The foot at the bottom is dreadful.

Step 2 is to eliminate anything with an "@" that doesn't have all 4 vertical lines when cut horizontally. That is, it should contain a full "a" of some sort, without the loss of a gap between the "a" and the surrounding circle.

After that there won't be many fonts left. Prefer a "$" that has both vertical bars. Prefer (){}{} that are tall, reaching both above and below a "X".

Make note of the tilde, asterisk, "a", and "g". These are notable for the style they give the font, but it is less clear what might be best.
I don't think people can be blamed for only having an interest in things when affected by it. There's only so much time and energy available to each of us.
Do people actually care about karma?
Yeah, no. If you only had to be a medium sized business owner to access that kind of corruption the world would be a much fairer place.
I don't really like the sound of my computer fan - so while it's nice to have a relatively good cpu, I still don't want it to be running flat-out all the time. Also, I'm not really sure what the point is of GUIs, other than looking flashy. I do a lot of 3D modeling, and I really don't like clicking around the menus whenever I have to. I figure that's just taste.
This might be the worst trick used by media outlets to portend there's a 'movement afoot' or 'what most people' think when neither are true.

"People are saying XYZ" - because some random person on Twitter said it.

"People believe this" - again, some random Tweet in support.

They're creating narrative, which is definitely the opposite of news, and it's way beyond 'Editorial' i.e. 'the opinion of the author'.

Politicians do this, and the 'politician in Chief' does this in I think some nefarious ways, but that shouldn't give cover for ostensibly respectable outlets to do the same.

Almost all of the major voices in the press are guilty of this.

The wierdest pardox of the 'Fake News' line (which is usually used in a very cynical, nefarious way to shut down real news) ... is that there is actually a lot of 'Fake News' being created.

I'm tired of having to read everything with a huge dose of cynicism, and of having to look up references and facts because I don't quite trust ostensibly trustworthy people.

I read the news these days not for 'news', but rather to see where various groups are trying to 'focus the narrative', which is really cynical.
Life Improvement Protocol:

Move as much as you can of your decision space into "default trust" environments.

Save the "default skepticism" environments for areas where your counterparties are particularly sketchy and/or the parts of your job that make you a professional risk-sniffer-outer (journalist, investor, cop, etc.).

Default skepticism is a hell of a bad way to go through life buying rice and greeting your coworkers in the morning.
'Crypto' as a prefix means that <thing being prefixed> is done in secret.

Wikipedia lists some common ones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Crypto

It's like neo- (new) or proto- (earliest form of).
Depends on the issuer. In this case they do not - see
https://www.synchronybankterms.com/gecrbterms/pdf/Amazon.com..., section V
I agree, I'd be interested in this as well. Based on the replies you're getting, I'd also like to point out that I'm tired of this trend in discussions:

Person A states their preferences regarding a product and says that they wish that the company would offer certain options. Person A says that they would be more likely to buy (or would only buy) the product with those options available. Nowhere is it demanded that the company implement these options, but person A has very clearly indicated their preferences.

Persons B, C, and D then immediately come out of the woodwork to shut down the discussion:

* Person B explains why nobody else would be interested in the options that person A has asked for. Person A is a "niche" user and their opinions are unimportant.

* Person C characterizes person A as "unreasonable" or "entitled" and explains why no company in their right mind would want person A as a customer.

* Person D counters person A's statement by explaining that the company can produce any product they want to, and that they don't have to listen to person A's request. It's a private company, etc, etc. (Note that nowhere did person A imply that the company had to listen to their request.)

For real-world examples of this phenomenon, see any thread regarding (in particular) Apple, Mozilla, or Tesla.
To add to your list here are some more talks!

Machine Learning and Level Generation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6lHExfem6U

Roguelike celebration has a ton of content on procedural generation techniques and its worth watching all of them, but this one was one of my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsCqXksJuAkfZRtnW5Pq1mw

GPU-Based Procedural Placement in Horizon Zero Dawn

https://www.guerrilla-games.com/read/gpu-based-procedural-pl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ooDLiU-o6c

Procedurally Generating History in 'Caves of Qud'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0sLa1y3BW4

ProcJam has a lot of good talks as well

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFSPzCM9rx_Hxl-g13KcYw
Why not something like wordpress.com? I know this disqualifies the “self-host” part, but is it better in this case than self-hosting your blog?
The original Mass gaming commission report is floating around out there, if anyone is looking for additional reading on this subject,
though it is of limited interest, outside of a select few MIT students and a couple from Michigan.
I love that the tooling for ML experimentation is becoming more mature. Keeping track of hyperparameters, training/validation/test experiment test set manifests, code state, etc is both extremely crucial and extremely necessary. I can't count how many times I've trained a great model only to lose the exact state and be unable to reproduce it. It's extremely frustrating. When I found sacred (https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred) it changed my team's workflow in a very positive way. We already have this approach of saving default experiment workbenche images, but formalizing it is much nicer.
A.I. Has a Race Problem–and I'm Trying to Fix It
Login with multiple usernames to upvote yourself. Pathetic? Perhaps. Effective? Also perhaps. Worth it? You be the judge [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidan
Why is it terrible. Sure this has the potential to have negative consequences for the people who's data it was but as far as the government cares it's working fine.
Locusts destroy crops in 'worst invasion in Sardinia for 60 years'
The Black Caddies of Augusta National
Building and maintaining more entry/exit gates doesn't have an upfront and ongoing cost? Integrating Muni and BARTs entry, exit, and ticketing systems wouldn't have upfront and ongoing costs?

I suspect an solicitation of bids for either of those would not have any $0 bids.
Exactly. Design patterns are a type of language... in fact Christopher Alexander, the architect who came up with the concept, talks about "pattern languages" (and that's the title of his first book). And category theory is a language... it's a language much more suitable for talking about the kinds of abstractions we have to deal with in software engineering (and maybe mathematics or at least parts of mathematics as well). Design patterns help, but they're too fuzzy... category theory lets you say the same things much more precisely.
Government agencies should never be seen as victims.

That's a weird absolute, and that's before the side dish of theology and... Spiderman? You can be powerful or negligent or whatnot and still be a victim.
I think as long as Comcast, AT&T, Viacom, Fox, CBS and Disney own over 90% of news media by viewership, I will keep referring to it as MSM since that is practically an oligopoly by any definition of the term
And who decides what is blasphemy?

Furthermore, what progress have non-Western societies made to be confident in the right to determine what is blasphemous, and then to murder so-called blasphemers?
> The cartoon portrays Trump and Putin as lovers, supposedly to mock their alleged closeness. It doesn't attack homosexual people.

It does attack homosexual people. You can't use "gay" as a slur or as a punchline to a joke anymore. The punchline of the joke isn't "they're close", its "they're so close they're gay".

That makes "being gay" an active of derision or humour, which is an attack on gay people.
Its not the capitalists that untied cost from utilisation time when it comes to transport.
I know, who would have thought that CBP* could possibly have leaked a large database of information about people that they accumulated without consent? Whoever could have predicted this.

* The leak occurred when that data left CBP controlled systems. That the company benefiting from that first leak also had weak network security is an _additional_ criminal (in my mind, though probably not in the US political system) act.
I work in the gambling industry and live in au. From my perspective this is super strange. By law vendors have to publish the odd (and on some games the EV).
There's pretty strong selection bias in information about data security standards. The companies that have strong ones will go out of their way to publicize that fact, but companies with weak or nonexistent ones will never admit that fact to the general public or news media, and the only thing you may hear about it is when disenchanted employees make anonymous posts on web forums.

If a company with weak data-protection standards wins out over a company with strong ones, it's never because of their lack of data-protection standards. Rather, it'll be because all the other features, pricing, marketing, etc. they can do that's the opportunity cost of decent security. So as far as the information available to laypeople is concerned, most companies do a decent job with security and it's just a few bad apples that happen to be gigantic like Equifax, Facebook, Target, Yahoo, Anthem, and the U.S. government that are screwing things up.

(FWIW, at Google we took security very seriously and implemented some truly heroic measures to keep your data safe.)
Would love to see if we can collaborate. Can you drop me a note danielle@gitlab.com?
" As a non-Muslim teen in India I saw it as mocking Islam (I get that others' mileage varies)"

Yes, it kind of was.

But should people be able to 'mock' a religion?

Should they face death threats becauase they 'mocked' something?

This is the whole point.

I have a slight inclination towards a specific religion and I can assure you it's 'mocked all day' and I don't care, as long as it's not done in a vile way. And even when it is, I'm not calling for suppression.
People aren't betting that way because they're uneducated. People generally don't play the lottery because it's statistically wise. They play because dropping $1-3 on a ticket is no big deal, and it provides a little excitement and lets them fantasize about the winnings. Fantasizing about what you'd do with $250M is a lot more exciting than fantasizing about what you'd do with $1M, and once the odds are low enough, any emotional investment in the math is going to be lost in the rounding error.
Yeah, it's certainly more than just a CRUD, and I agree it's awful. I never had to use it in the early years, so I don't know if it's that their original platform was poorly made, or that the accumulation of bloat & bolt-ons is what has made it this way.
Only if the contractor was not meant to have access to this data. I would put money on them being contracted to "securely manage" the data CBP accrued without consent.
> I'm not sure how you rationalize stating falsehood as any kind of "acceptable journalistic practice"

You're just being obtuse¹ now, it's such a reasonable inference given the circumstances that it's petty of you to place such a high burden of proof on the writer.

Also you're denying one other important piece of evidence in favour of rape. Why did the mother never speak about it?

If she had had a joyful affair with such high ranking member of society, wouldn't she be proud of it?

Why do I even bother...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
>Until they've tried that

Sure. But are you going to pay for their relocation package, plus unemployment benefits until they find a job at their destination?

No?

Oh, then perhaps let's stop suggesting that moving cross-country is easy or cheap for people already living month-to-month at best.

And that's without taking into account that some of them:

1. Have family in the area that they can't just give up;

2. Have their social support network in the area that they can't just give up;

3. Might be a part of someone else's support network that they can't just abandon;

4. Grew up in the area and thus will be forcibly displaced by your suggestion.

I know two people living off a van / RV in the Bay Area.

Both are Bay Area natives. One can afford to rent an apartment, but his work as a bus driver makes the morning commute three hours long. He lives in an RV close to work on weekdays.

Another was renting until recently, but doesn't make enough money as a musician / audio technician. So he's effectively on a permanent tour.

Both are in their 40's and have children.

I guess you can say that they are "addicted" to their families, to their hometown and community, and to their jobs.

Or you can say that they live here, and stop giving infeasible suggestions like "Move to Midwest".
Of course! Dropping you a note now
"Happy Holidays!" maps to "But All Lives Matter!"

Being generic and being inclusive aren't the same thing.

And, besides, most of the anger was at public and private policymakers, not nice people wishing each other well.
It prevents your ISP, roommate, spouse, or employer from learning what domains you are visiting. It should also protect against the creative HTTPS downgrade attacks that sometimes show up.
PureOS seems to have these exact same problems except way worse.

Yes, a significant fraction of Android apps do not work on AOSP without Play Services. And 100% of Android apps do not work on PureOS. F-Droid alone has ~1800 apps. I do not see PureOS or PostmarketOS catching up to that level anytime soon.

FOSS projects that are built out of passion, but recieve little funding or corporate support? Exact same situation on PureOS.

Are the Snapchats and Instagrams of the world going to port their apps over to this entirely new platform when they can't even be bothered to make versions of their Android apps that work without Google's services?
What is the lease in this example? I don't think "optimizing your website for SEO" or "using other Google products" is anywhere close to the kind of specific relationship a lease implies.
> After quoting the head of the News Media Alliance, David Chavern, as saying newspapers deserve a cut of that $4.7 billion,

> One of the most glaring omissions from the report, mentioned by a number of media-industry observers, is the ad revenue newspapers generate from the pageviews they get via Google News and Google search. The search company says publishers get more than 10 billion clicks every month (the value of which differs depending on the publisher). When asked for comment, the NMA tells CJR the purpose of the report was to look at how much Google benefits from news, not the opposite.

Uh, so it sounds like Google deserves a cut of the ad revenue directed via Google News then.

Man, there's no trustworthy journalism left, is there?
You can outsource work, you can't outsource responsibility. It will likely be a long time before the various powers that be really get this.
"Political cartoons are, in my opinion, reductionist garbage that fail to take into consideration nuance and complexity and context. "

They don't have to.

They can just be stupid and funny (to some) as well, that's fine too.
If the lottery was in the business of educating people, they would lose their customer base.
Yes, in that skepticism should not be taken to an extreme.

The problem with skepticism is it makes it harder to change your own opinions when they are incorrect. The goal is not to reinforce your own opinions, that’s going to happen either way. The goal is consider information that you would like to be true can also be false.
> Unlocking the bootloader is becoming increasingly rare.

This is a bit of "you get what you buy" territory. Google's devices have official bootloader unlock capability and always have, with instructions here: https://source.android.com/setup/build/running - already updated for the Pixel 3a & 3a XL even. You take your risks when you buy something that doesn't advertise that.

> Most of the interesting stuff happens in the backend anyway, so what's the issue.

I think most of the interesting stuff on the device is even in Google Play Services and not in the firebase library. I have no idea why the client SDK can't be open source, but how much does that even matter?
1. How about posting it in a hosted solution like wordpress.com? Is it better in this case than self-hosting your blog?

2. No, it is not (yet, maybe). But I’d like my writings to be accessible as long as possible after my death.
> They cannot absolve themselves of liability when they are invading everybody’s privacy.

This is incorrect. They can absolve themselves of liability an act with impunity.

You and I might not like that, but it is fact.