skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a whole other level, but there is something somewhat similar going on with news in general in most countries, including the US.

People get their information from certain streams. It might be reddit, or Hacker News, or certain subreddits on reddit. Or it could be WhatsApp or Fox News. Or in some cases RSS feeds. Or some particular website.

But news streams tend to be attached to certain groups and certain worldviews. And its not the same level as Chinese censorship, but when there is user moderation support, the groups do automatically censor things that contradict their worldviews.

From what I can see, just about everyone is living in their own alternate reality that has been tailored to their particular political slant.

Here is an example: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/19/asia/viral-photo-hong-kon...

Some people who were promoting the protests were tweeting a doctored photo that made the protests look larger than they were.

Again, that's a completely different level from totally censoring information.

Well, I guess I will go ahead and say something that may get the comment buried. There are certain "conspiracy theories" that I believe that are automatically censored from being visible on YouTube or other information streams for the US.

So I think that it is correct to be concerned about how far China is gone, but at the same time I don't think people realize that other countries are not always impervious to this type of thing. And part of it has to do with just a ubiquitous protection of worldviews. Which unfortunately are often dictated in a top-down fashion to some degree. So I think its a worse problem than people realize.

Or for example with HN and reddit, if you say something that too many people disagree with, it becomes hidden. So for example my recent comment which I thought was the most important one I had made recently:

"-4 points by ilaksh 1 day ago | parent [-] | on: Facebook Cryptocurrency Plan Faces Opposition in F...

They are going to get the regulators in their pocket and play ball with them. They will filter all transactions requested and provide a convenient place for governments to go for information or control.

Its a way for companies to capitalize on the cryptocurrency hype, without, ultimately, acting like a real cryptocurrency. Its going to be a giant bank that has government law enforcement and intelligence agencies as its clients and patrons.

This is sponsored by Visa and others. They are co-opting "cryptocurrency" for their own purposes. The goal is for this to become mainstream before real cryptocurrencies and take over before they can really get going for mainstream payments.

I filed a bug report. https://github.com/libra/libra/issues/41 "

This comment is not seen by people unless they click the plus button, and its unlikely they will do so.

Censorship and alternate realities are a core function of even Hacker News.
I thought this too but there is an embedded video on the page and I guess maybe that is what's being linked to.
Hearing 'piano \tuna\' and '\tuna\ sandwich' is not odd.

Hearing 'piano \tuna\' and '\tuner\ sandwich' sounds different. It exists.
Not OP but I haven’t either, because I don’t need to. Email is client agnostic.
Grover is open source. They open sourced it the other day.
What kind of innovation are you expecting? Plenty of innovation is still happening in the realm of adding motors and batteries to bikes. Beyond that, what else is there to do with bikes? We're already deep into the realm of severely diminishing returns on weight and aerodynamics, and braking power is limited by physics. What else is there to improve? All I can think of is ABS.
What AI “App Stores” Will Mean for Radiology
>We know for a fact that free markets do not provide an answer for externalities like pollution and climate change and the only reason to say this is to buy political cover for the real motivation.

Would it be fair to say that free markets answer externalities, but only when they become so severe that the market producing the externatlities itself becomes degraded? Not really an exception to your statement, more of a ludicrous technicality.
Does every developer face the law? Or just the companies putting material out there?

This really isn't a matter for developers to take on themselves. It is a matter of product development and feature selection.

So many people on here talking like they just "just do it right" and it's no more difficult to make the site accessible than it is to make the site at all. It is something which needs to planned an budgeted for.

It can get expensive. Especially when the development of the site is speculative and you don't know beforehand what it is going to look like in. Iterating over works in progress and maintaining accessibility along the way can be a real pain.
Disappointed that I didn't see a new generation upon refresh...
> What other kinds of safety does it provide?

I'm confused because the entire thread is about answering this question and I even detailed it explicitly in the previous post.

It provides the safety from invalid state transitions in the form of opt-in state machine type encoding.

What else is there to discuss? I just gave you a concrete example, which you challenged on the basis that it was not impactful, so I provided you research showing otherwise.
Love it, does anyone know of a similar service for chinese ?.
I honestly think it’s just a slow news day.
ICO selling is mostly over - https://diar.co/ethereum-ico-treasury-balances/

It does not affect the price anymore compared to daily trading volumes
AMA shares policy recommendations focused on AI
Anger against China in trade benefits Republicans and Trump. Anger against China in human rights does not, because then they would have to explain their friendliness to Saudi Arabia and other countries. Trump hasn’t chimed in on the HK protests much at all as far as I can tell, he just doesn’t care.
We're on a rock flying through space. In that context, what does contributing even mean?
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This is silly. As a US citizen with the internet, you have easy access to foreign press as well. Just go look at that and see how much of an alternate reality we're not in regarding this topic.
This text just sounds like the stuff that I used to get in Akismet when I had a Wordpress blog.
> that doesn't mean that those particular cost/benefit tradeoffs rule over everything, everywhere, and everyone else should follow suit.

Indeed, a very great deal of code running on servers is in Python or Ruby. That's the low-hanging fruit before you start talking about GC overhead in a compiled language. But of course most of that is somebody else's code. People tend to be interested in what it costs to run their own code, not the next office over's.

If you believe your own argument, it would be foolish to start a rewrite while easy GC optimizations still await. Not everyone chooses wisely every time, but it's the charitable assumption.
I don't know. I see a lot of people on "Citi Bikes", but Washington is a big tourist destination.
> How easy is it on Slack to contact a person outside of your company?

in general, contacting arbitrary people outside your org is just not a use case slack supports.

that said, the slack administrator can create certain channels that "bridge" two or more organizations' slacks. this makes it easy to chat with business partners without necessarily giving them access to all the other channels. you can dm these people if the admin chooses to allow it.
Just a few weeks ago was the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and now you have 2 million people protesting in Hong Kong.

I think it's mostly that there's a lot of newsworthy events going on in China right now.
AI analyzes language to predict schizophrenia
This is something I've been wanting to ask at interviews, "how many people who work here were hired with a different title?" I'm pretty sure that promoting from within is an extremely strong indicator of resilience.
A good overview of the case against minimum wages based on economic research & reasoning is this Cato Institute summary paper, "The Negative Effects of Minimum Wage Laws":

https://object.cato.org/pubs/pas/PA701.pdf

(This understanding was popular enough in 1987 that even the NYTimes endorsed it in an unsigned, editorial-board opinion piece – that meaning "this is the consensus opinion of the paper's editors": https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/14/opinion/the-right-minimum... )
I love this story. It's not about how Montañez "got lucky" - it's about how he, in several key spots, set himself up so luck would find him.

It's a great American success story.
There is Chinese in the dropdown list.
Randomness has bias. Including the type of randomness mentioned in this article. Which in the physical world (something "quantum information theorists" forget about virtually always) has measurement bias at the very least.
I'm one of the broadcasters on GonzoVR and I've been making robots you can play with in our livestreams. If you have a PC VR headset you should come say hello some time!
Impervious? This event received extreme coverage from western media as opposed to the protests in France, which have been equally violent and have been going on for months.

We live in the same kind of bubble as the Chinese.
See sibling reply at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20227574
After trying to find the video I've found that iguanas are an invasive species in Florida and blunt force trauma to the head is the legal "humane" way to kill the invasive species. Not sure if that's what's going on in the video, and if it took multiple swings it certainly wasn't done correctly but maybe look into it before assuming things.
Thank you for being humble. Experience is worth a lot more than credentials on paper. This is a truth that SV turns a blind eye to.
My dad literally went from putting the chips in the boxes when he was 23 years old, to overseeing the construction of a brand new manufacturing plant (and running it), to managing scores of plants at HQ in his 40's.

Frito-Lay however, is not immune from boneheaded decisions. After 20someodd years of employment, and a trophy case full of awards, he and some of his [white male] colleagues were laid off in favor of creating a more 'diverse' management roster.

Lacking the experience of those whose positions they took, performance tanked with the new management team, and the person who set it all in motion was fired.

At the end of the day, revenue-per-share is pretty indifferent to age, race, or gender.
> FWIW I believe Instacart hustled their way in post-deadline (not post-rejection though) and did get accepted.

The TechCrunch article does state that they had an initial rejection after their late application.

> I put together an application, and made a video describing my product. I waited for a response, and several days later I got one: another “No.”
It certainly seems like a flawed system, I've heard some discussion about whether someone could preemptively claim their own video with a separate account to prevent a third party from also claiming. Some thought it would work, but haven't heard anyone who's actually tried it in practice.
(the less your employer can steal your wages)
For what it's worth, there's a substantial amount of anti-CCP propaganda out there (although I doubt it's straight from US gov but who knows). By propaganda I mean QAnon-tier nonsense.

I've had the great pleasure of hearing about it from certain relatives on a semi regular basis. One week you hear that trump will have the CCP dismantled within a month, the next week you hear there's going to be mass starvation in China and we need to call relatives (in mainland China) and tell them to stock up on food while they can.

The common theme is that Wang Qishan (not Xi, notably) is some kind of corrupt Boogeyman who controls China, wallstreet, etc etc
Games companies hire their own cleaners and mailroom and they make it through to the C-suite?

Your comment takes a tone suggesting disagreement but the content agrees completely with the parent.

If you started in a technical role then you manage to reach a top technical role then you haven't done the "start in the mailroom" progression at all.

Are games testers even taken on straight from school at age 16 or do they have to have a degree to get in the door nowadays?
Navigating code on GitHub with jump-to-definition
It's only saner if you value the money of website companies over the dignity of their users
Ad agency leaks data on US military veterans' combat injuries
I think of chatbots as asking the question "what if we could put an AGI (artificial general intelligence) in here" and programming the closest approximation for the task. Sometimes that's a natural language interface, and that's what most people focus on (lots of money in customer support and sales automation). But if our office coffee machine had an AGI I wouldn't care about natural language comprehension, I want to be able to tell it to have coffee ready when I come to the office early and I want it to convince humans to clean it.
Another gross simplification I like is: Rust is a memory safe C with type classes. (traits)
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Even second hand in article format that’s disturbing.

A classic sweatshop operations except it also destroys the slaves psyche on top of it.

Two parties weren’t really mentioned. The executives that set up the operation and the people posting the content. Both must be pretty twisted
Can you give an example? Smart pointers make you consider ownership. Or does Rust account for more than that?
That's incorrect. You can generate the same face with multiple facial expressions by either doing style transfer onto a single face from other faces using the style noise (as demonstrated in the StyleGAN paper & video, and you can see further examples with my anime StyleGAN faces), or you can directly control a face by modifying its latent vector as desired, once you've reverse-engineered the latent vector (as can be done by generating random faces+latents, & feeding the faces into a tagger like DeepDanbooru which knows about facial expressions to do classification/regression). See https://www.gwern.net/Faces#reversing-stylegan-to-control-mo...
The day I saw what the VP of Tech saw when they logged into Slack was the day I stopped complaining about email.
Great story. When I read the headline, I immediately thought of D'Angelo Barksdale's cynical speculation about the inventor of Chicken McNuggets being a "just some sad ass down in the basement of McDonalds, thinking up some shit to make some money for the real players": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyg_v7Vxo4A
Shameless self-promotion:

https://www.prettyfwd.com

https://www.fwdeveryone.com

Basically the former is like pastebin for email, where you just set when you want the thread to expire and then click a button to get a shareable link behind an unlisted URL. And the latter is the paid version (good for businesses with 10+ employees), where you can share threads within your business so that they're searchable, discoverable, etc.

Here's an example thread I just grabbed from a public mailing list: https://www.prettyfwd.com/t/TzirVw9RSOCPuoIA2C0N-Q/
I see a lot of linode recomendations here, but if you are looking at mostly European audience scaleway.net has very cheap VMs starting at 2€ per month, while not being that much slower than linode
> It wasn't ruled unconstitutional, it was stayed by the Supreme Court...

My misunderstanding from all the words going around.

> If the Supreme Court rules that the EPA "only has authority over environmental infractions at individual plants, like chemical spills and improper handling of hazardous materials", a rule from the EPA like this might not be possible again.

AFAIK the Supreme Court does not tend to rule on whether you "only" have the authority to do something, they're more likely to rule that a given thing is something that you don't have the authority to do. Maybe it's different when it comes to federal agencies, on that I'm ignorant. It seems more likely that the Supreme Court simply takes no issue with the new policy, rather than making a broad pronouncement about what future policy could be.
A good reason to seek financial independence early - then at least you have some time to find what gives your life meaning and makes you happy.
How is mentioning the existence of ad-blockers, on a story about ads, editorializing? Meanwhile teaching you how to be a good consumer and set your ad preferences is 'neutral'?
> The real hero of this story is the CEO who decided to take this guy _and_ his idea. He could have easily taken the idea and ran with it on his own, with Montañez spending the rest of his life mopping floors.

A practical question, and a moral one:

Would it be have worked out had the CEO tried to steal Montañez's idea, given Montañez came up with the spices himself?

Does someone merely not doing something unethical, at no cost to themselves, make them a hero?
Are there good online examples of interactive fiction developed with this tool?
Turing complete templates and inheritance make C++ far more complex I'd say then, even at compile time.
It's not that they are without flaws, it's that it is a lot easier to fix/ignore/work-around the flaws than in other languages, where the flaws are unchangeable (except by the standards committee) and constantly in your face.
I can't blame you for being suspicious, but in this case we have both a significant anniversary of Tianamen Square and a major protest in Hong Kong that are probably driving news sources.

You should probably look at the issue behind this protest. Currently, Hong Kong and mainland China have separate, independent judicial systems. HK's is a fusion of Chinese law and British common law. The HK government recently tabled a bill that many feared would make HK citizens subject to mainland Chinese law, effectively ending the "one country, two systems" policy. This is a pretty big deal, and I don't think these protestors required foreign meddling to fill the streets.

On the other hand, lots of significant stuff goes on in the world while U.S. news sources ignore them and cover domestic fluff. An event like the current protest might show up in news, but then quickly disappear instead of being dragged out into story after story as "BIG NEWS". Is this showing up as big news in U.S. news sources because of the antagonism between the U.S. (and most of the rest of the world) and China right now? It's certainly possible. Even so, I think what is happening in HK right now is significant, and worthy of attention.
There's been thousands of attempts to replace email already. What makes this one any different?
Immigrants are more likely than natively born to commit sexual assault, and Muslims are more likely to commit rape. Laws could be changed to allow for natively born to express a preference to only be around other natively born and vice versa.

The crime statistic here in Sweden show that a larger percentage of immigrant commit rape than the total percentage of men. It can even be narrowed down to specifically immigrant which comes from countries where the wast majority are Muslims.

A rational discrimination would thus target the demographic that has highest risk of being criminals, and yet such concept would be inherently racist and irrational because the change would unlikely lower the actually rate of sexually assault and rape.
Florida city pays $600K ransom to recover data from ransomware attack
Things We Lost in the Flood: A Massively Multiplayer Loneliness Simulator
Yes, the key is this person looked at their entire job differently. They never were looking to only be an average janitor.

Jan Koum went from welfare to WhatsApp with his key job as a contractor to yahoo via Ernst & Young.

This is about the person and how they use resources at hand. The loss of corporate identity in low levels positions may have fallen away but other opportunities now exist.
> That leads to a complete lack of error handling, because you've lost all of the relevant context of what you were trying to do.

20 years ago, maybe. These days every browser has a debugger which will automatically take you to the exact location with full context at every layer of the stack and tools like Sentry will collect and aggregate those reports even from devices you don’t control.
No, it doesn't even sound like an American.. while the two downvoted ones do sound "correct".
> plagiarizing parts of his presentation

I don't agree. He copied parts of it from examples in a book on marketing strategy. One writing a book with samples in it would expect someone to use those samples. It's the whole point.

Otherwise, it's a useless book describing things you can't use.
Should we get Google Wave back? Not that I remember how it was exactly..

Maybe something that combines Slack and collaborative editing (like Google Docs). It might work if you could just in the middle of the chat switch from discussion to editing a document. This should be somehow integrated experience, happening inside the same tool.
Why wouldn't the buck actually stop with Cognizant management? FB isn't demanding these horrible labor practices, Cognizant is.
The key insight is that "contribute" can mean different things, and it's worth broadening one's definition of "contribute". The J.S. Bach example really struck me in this regard.
Smart pointers make no difference to the time spent allocating and freeing memory.

But we know that GC always imposes huge costs that point benchmarks uniformly fail to reveal. Often the costs are tolerable, or even negligible. At issue is the set of recourses available when they turn out not to be.
> But Friedman's original proposal and most others pay for it by having the rich pay for the poor through taxes and the middle class pay for themselves.

It would increase inflation in this example not because the government is printing money, but because the source of the money (the "rich") are not in the market for low-end housing, but the recipients of the taxes are.
I’m from Europe, consume both US and UK English content and I’ve only ever heard one single youtuber from Wisconsin say “nitch”. That’s it.

So to me it seems most mainstream, non-regional variants of English sticks to the obvious pronunciation.
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I hate it. I think it belittles Ph.D's and denigrates the people who don't have them suggesting that you need to deflect the question because you [sarcasm] couldn't possibly have a skill set that's of high worth unless you actually had done a Ph.D [/sarcasm].

Bleurgh.

FWIW my highest level of qualification is a bachelor's degree and I work in a position that doesn't require any formal training at all.
"Hey, what if we made Cheetos really spicy..."
this only shows your bias. If FB or Google release a project duplicating this, it will be legit tech. Just like the whole blockchain was a ponzi scheme till FB copies most of the features and release Libra.
> It's attitudes like this that leave you with a dialog box that says "an unknown error has occurred"

For many errors, "an unknown error has occurred" is the right message, since it's a bug. There's no action the user can take to fix it, and you should let the user know to try again later or contact support. The message can then be sent to your error reporting software so you can fix the bug.

Sure, you can explicitly call "An unknown error has occurred" dialogue on every error case, but instead, I think the ideal tradeoff is to handle all errors that you predict will happen regularly, (ex. 404, authentication errors, etc.) on the value/monad level and handle errors you don't expect happen via the throw level.
This gives it a valuation of $15.7 billion on $220.5 million of revenue in 2018 and a loss of $181 million.

Pinterest by comparison went public earlier this year at a value of $12.7 billion with revenue of $756 million and a loss of $63 million.
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