skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Media no longer try to represent the truth. Everyone lives in a bubble. People are being fed with carefully targeted bullshit.

Your Russian propaganda machine is showing epic fail of the UK despite warnings from experts, highlighting that Putin navigates Russia with the more steady hand than these elected clowns.

In the meantime in the US. Fox News is trying to persuade uneducated whites that Trump knows what he is doing. He clearly has no clue and just serves as a distraction.
They already expensed $3 B last quarter.
This is why JWT is better... JWT signs "header.body" with each part as base64 from the JSON, and joined with a period. The content in the body and header are immaterial.
just fyi, while it might seem quicker for everyone, waitstaff generally do not appreciate this.

but i'm not trying to tell anyone what to do. :)
> You need to earn money, sure.

Oh, for f#ck's sake. Such a cheap way to belittle this person's lifework.

Take this bit out and the rest of your comment actually makes sense and could serve as a good discussion point.
Isnt it so convenient that they announce this after they close their funding round.
No way others in the industry go for this. If you had the option to legally pay 20%+ less in taxes, would you? Exactly.
That number includes bots.
Judging by the nosedive that the stock price is taking in after hours trading (down over 12% from $264.88 at close an hour ago to $236 right now), the outlook of this letter isn't great.
From their 1Q 10Q (2Q is not up yet):

. We define a monthly active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebook through our website
or a mobile device, or used our Messenger application (and is also a registered Facebook user), in the last 30 days as of the date of measurement. MAUs
are a measure of the size of our global active user community on Facebook.
From the slide it says

"The numbers for DAUs and MAUs do not include Instagram, WhatsApp, or Oculus users unless they would otherwise qualify as such users, respectively, based on their other activities on Facebook."
I realize you are being somewhat facetious, but calling your (presumably unlawful) market manipulation tool EnhancedOrderManager isn't really the answer. Not building the unlawful tool is.
The "regex bait and switch trick" doesn't work if any of the intermediate processors might decode and re-encode the JSON.
It seems more likely that physics is the illusion.
Oh wow what a pleasant surprise! Such an interesting person.
Look at their 10Q yourself

https://investor.fb.com/financials/sec-filings-details/defau...
Trust me, I'm no Erdogan fan but allow me to defend him for a few paragraphs...
So a lot of the argument about how "right wing commenters" are unfairly, well, whatevered, is based on some very serious anecdotes. And you know what we say to those - not today.

A few things:

- Protests are valid free speech expressions.

- Holding an entire protest as invalid due to a small number of individual's actions is unfair.

- Many of those conservative speakers aren't trying to spread discourse, but trying to create an outrage and play off of that (evidence exists of the malignant intent). While perhaps being protected by the 1st amendment, that's academic dishonesty. And we should not accept prima facie the arguments they're being oppressed.

- The portland professor was being brought up based on academic dishonesty, human experimentation, process, and ethics. We're going to need better evidence not to take the disciplinary board at face value.

Basically "I hear about this frequently" and "there have been..." is pretty weak evidence. It's mainly relying upon the recency bias, availability cascade, base rate neglect, and our inability to assess large events.

For example, the Berkeley campus protest is constantly referred to. The problem is this is a splashy example which distorts people's thinking. People rarely talk about the thousands and thousands of conservative speakers that hold events without a hitch. We cannot talk about a systematic risk by only referring to events that are so rare that we keep on referring to the same one for the last several years! That is _by definition_ the opposite of a systematic bias/risk.

Basically I call serious BS. Lack of data, cherrypicking stark examples, and the reuse of the same events over and over again while appealing to the impression that there should be more events like this, when there are not, is garbage.
Sure it does. Imagine there’s a cave you can’t enter. You can send other people in, though. You send someone in and they tell you there’s a lion in there. You send someone else, they also say there’s a lion. You send a thousand people in and they all say there’s a lion. You send in people you’re certain have never met each other and they say there’s a lion. You send in people from cultures that haven’t contacted each other and they still say there’s a lion. You send in people who have no idea what a lion is and they say there’s a strange animal in there and the description matches a lion.

Put it all together and you have objective evidence that there is, in fact, a lion in that cave.
If you treat the original UTF8 as bytes, then you still have that as bytes... this is part of why JWT uses base64 around the JSON string's bytes. In any case, you don't create a signature on a string per se, you create it on bytes, even if those bytes are derived from a string. Also, you don't validate a signature by re-creating the bytes in question... that's a flawed approach, and not the approach for example JWT takes.
> You need to earn money, sure. But it's really sad that things like this are not OpenSource

I find myself saying this about basically all unfree software. So much in our economy is redundant, and obfuscated. I understand the place for competition and new ways of doing things, but it's a shame that artificially limiting the proliferation of good ideas is our default survival strategy.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Dogs (2017)
A few things about it strike me as hitting all of the standard points of what is essentially Soviet/Russian propaganda - overly lurid description of the injuries caused by nuclear weapons, overly long concern about the cost of maintaining them in a deployed and ready state. Meanwhile, not a single word about the threat that other countries' arsenals pose to us or to other nations that we have pledged to defend.

Note that, like it or not, our nuclear weapons are implicitly used to defend non-nuclear nations such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, most of Europe, etc. If the US destroyed all of our nukes, all of those other countries would have to either bow down to to Russia and China, build their own nuclear weapons, or put themselves under the protection or some other nuclear superpower. Leading to a lot more nuclear powers, and probably a higher change of nuclear war happening somewhere.

The only discordant node is the pro-Second Amendment section. Not usually present in these sorts of peacenick papers. I suppose it could fit in if you take the foreign propaganda interpretation - foreign superpowers don't really want to invade us anyways, they just don't want us to interfere when they try to dominate their local neighbors. At least until so much of the world is under their thumb that we can't ignore them anymore.
Ah yes I meant to make that an option in the Chrome extension. It'll be in the next update!
Disqualifying an argument using unstated, inscrutable and ambiguous rules, and then implying guilt by association. Top form there mate.
The initial submission lacked the tag in the title.
What's wrong with "We are robots." ?
I like this a lot. Great idea!
Today our lowest cost tier is $195/mo. Hopefully in the future we will have an even lower cost option.
I know some people who are on a similar list run by the far right in the UK.

edited for grammar all happy now.
The building blocks of this universe are "things" vibrating. That is all I know.

Consciousness is a very tricky problem. I often question what happens when a man loses his "mind". Is the being now just a machine with stored memory which responds to stimuli?

What happens when a person loses his memory? What role does consciousness play in this scenario?

How do we let split personality disorder and consciousness to play together?

Also, I look around and see the geometry of flowers and seeds. Geometry that emanates from the universe. Everything that looks chaotic at one level becomes extremely beautiful and organized at another.

Also, I see that everything is terribly interconnected. If we think deeply enough we can easily see that a stone lying outside and us are all the same as far as building blocks are concerned. The stone is not an unnecessary object, but our existence and the stone's existence are inextricable.

The universe, whatever is visible to me, is absolutely too grand and too well engineered to not have some sort of intelligence working behind it.

I do not know.
Uber releases Ludwig 0.2 with audio improvements, plus Comet.ml integration
Tesla misses Q2 expectation; posts loss of $408 mln against $6.3 bln in revenue
This is spectacular revisionism.

Conditions arose out of MIT's AI labs, a place full of entrepreneurial enthusiasm and practical work, conditions were described in the early 80s.

Algebraic effects come out of Endinborough, a place full of academic research focusing on abstract algebraic models of computing.

Algebraic effects builds on theoretical work by Wadler, Spivey, and Moggi on monadic computation, not on Lisp. Similarly, Lisp around that era built primarily on the previous work on Lisp out of MIT, not on models of computing from around the other side of the globe.

These labs had different focuses, goals, and approaches. Lisp is one of a dozen languages of the time that found clever ways to express control flow and exceptional flow, but none of them were trying to find a model for defining semantics.

Years later, we discover that many of those old constructions are almost equivalent to models derived by PL research. That's not surprising, as the models are meant to help us describe programming in general, and the problems were already there to be solved. Using the models usually (not always) gives a better end result than the ad-hoc approaches.

Or sometimes we keep ignoring the models because we've always done it some other way.
What is it that you think the 10Q says that validates your claim that these numbers are false?
> Your consciousness is an illusion.

People say the same thing the passage of time, too. We live in a block where all events, past, present, and future are fixed and unchanging.

It's essentially denialism: if a phenomenon doesn't fit well into my framework, it must not really exist because framework.
I'm on Google Fiber, of all things, and it's slow as hell. I use basic HTML instead, much faster. As you note, even interactions are faster which, you know, was the whole point of AJAX back in the day but I guess by the time you mediate that through a bunch of bloated serialization formats and bullshit abstraction atop the DOM it's not fast anymore. Basic HTML's very snappy.

I (at least internally) swear any time I open Google Maps, either by accident or when I can't avoid using it. Same for Google office suite webapps, which I avoid as much as possible.
In Germany, with an 80000€ salary, what would be the monthly take home in your pocket? And I'm assuming they would take out taxes for health system, pension, vacation, etc.

In the US in an average taxed state, compare a $150K salary: After federal and state taxes, our old person medical and retirement (i.e. FICA), maximum retirement investment of about $19K, health insurance, disability insurance, dental, etc, one will end up with about $7200 a month or $86K / year in their pocket, which is roughly 42% taxes and retirement. This includes 3 weeks of vacation and 10 Federal holidays.
I haven't been close to the DB world for a few years, but didn't they start requiring tables to have a clustered index sometime around SQL 2012?
I don't see how this belittles their work. OP's reverence is evident to me. The more valuable the work, the greater the shame in its absence from the collective canon.

Of course we can't blame the creator for their moat; under our current economic system, it's basic self-defense.
Here's to hoping that they hire some creative talent to help make letters that don't look like they are from the 90's.
> There are in the U.S. approximately 30,000 executives, with incomes of $50,000 or more.

That’s only $475,000 in 2019 dollars. By comparison the Census Bureau reports the average income in 1955 as $4,400 or $42,000 in 2019 dollars.
> I don't know what country you reside, but in USA you are innocent until you are proven guilty.

Yep. And you can sit in jail for a year or so while they figure that out at your trial. Of course you’ll have lost your job by then. And paid your lawyer a fortune so you’re broke. And your family is kind of screwed up over the whole thing and the hardship it caused.

But you were innocent. And that’s all that mattered.
This already happened. NSA/Booz Allen had a back door and Snowden exploited it. The Embassy had a back door and Manning exploited it.
Sometimes your requests for rigor on a freeform discussion board don't carry the weight of law, sometimes people just respond with what they're thinking instead of doing what they're told.

I stand by my handwaving as relevant, common experience that indicates an erosion of intellectual discourse. It should be patently obvious that I didn't have any sources for what I said specifically. There's no parenthetical or APA formatted links anywhere!

Edit: Okay, I'll go run an experiment and come back with the data. Maybe that's a compromise.
Hmm, I thought that was a cancelled Avro. Britannia only coming into being after it had been cancelled and put out again. Course I may well have blurred the timeline too. :)

Edit: Yeah, Avro 690, which became Avro 693 with Avons by time of cancellation in 47. Spec 2.47 was Britannia, which was indeed type III not type I, so I'd muddled the timeline too.
>"Does a rock have intentions?"

Didn't all organic life arise from inorganic molecular structures like rocks?

As a result of the theory of the big bang, molecular structures have progressively evolved in complexity, eventually becoming so complex that the boundaries of physics and chemistry are transcended into biology, life, and consciousness.

This suggests that "rocks" -- inorganic molecular structures -- indeed have "intentions" to the extent that they are primordial building blocks of consciousness
They missed market expectations. They lost 6x more money (-$2.31/share vs expected -$0.35/share) and sold less cars ($6.3b sales vs $6.5b expected) than the market wanted with more capex to come (China Gigafactory, Model Y).
Postmates autonomous delivery robot gets new Lidar eyes
That was maybe 15 years ago. These days cars have multiple CANbus networks running and there are control unit everywhere.

Below the details for an Alfa Romeo Giulia, which is interesting because it was a complete new design when introduced in 2016, not a rework of a previous platform:

3 networks run in parallel:
These networks and their subnetworks are protected by a Security Gateway Module (SGW).

- CAN-C (high-speed 500 kb/s)
- CAN-CH (high-speed 500 kb/s)
- CAN-IHS (medium-speed 125 kb/s)

Modules connect to 1st network:

- Body Control Module (BCM)
- Instrument Panel Cluster (IPC)
- Occupant Restraint Control (ORC)
- Radio Frequency Hub (RFH) Module
- Antilock Brake System Module (ABS)
- Adaptive Cruise Control Module (ACC)
- Emergency Assistance Module (EAM)
- Primary Powertrain Control Module 2.9 V6 (PCM - P)
- Powertrain Control Module 2.0 I4 DI (PCM)

To 2nd network:

- ABS Module
- BCM
- Electric Steering Lock (ESL)
- Park Assist Module (PAM)
- Electric Power Steering (EPS)
- FFCM - Haptic Lane Feedback (FFCM - HALF)
- Occupant Restraint Control (ORC)
- Active Aerodynamic Module Left – Front left Splitter actuator (AAML)
- Active Aerodynamic Module Right – Front right Splitter actuator (AAMR)
- Adaptive Front Light System (AFLS)
- Chassis Domain Control Module (CDCM)
- Torque Vectoring Module (TVM)

To 3rd network:

- Instrument Panel Cluster (IPC)
- Comfort Seat Wheel Module (CSWM)
- Left Blind Spot Sensor (LBSS)
- Right Blind Spot Sensor (RBSS)
- Amplifier (AMP)
- Trailer Tow Module (TTM)
- Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
- Entertainment Telematic Module VP2, VP4 (ETM)
- BCM
- Entertainment Multimedia Control Module (EMCM)
- Secondary Powertrain Control Module 2.9 V6 (PCM - S)
The drop shadows are straight out of a bad Photoshop Tutorial.
Sure, but the [5] feels unnecessary in a finished document like this. I mean, the output should be right after the input anyway, right?
Good luck with this coming full-circle when you have to create all of this, from nothing.

"Good Lord"

Don't worry he's cool with that.
"Buy on rumours, sell on news". The stock is up about 50% since its low a month and a half ago when rumours of good deliveries started. A small pullback is expected. But maybe not 12%.
i.e; premature optimization is root of all evil .

The example you give is sooo right. And understanding the many levels of compromise between code speed, quality, legal implications, customer needs, management needs, cost, deadline, maintainability, technological choices made elsewhere, etc. is part of the job.

(personally, I have some priorities : meet the deadline comes first (descoping included), management at customer side comes next, then end users and, in the end code speed.
Darling Progress Report Q2 2019
All my friends' pets have accounts. Plus celeb "official" + "personal". + Brand pages.
Cool, although I noticed the output PDF is fairly blurry. Can this be made crisper?
The way I'd approach this is to treat "revocation" as meaning "after this user's current tokens expire, they can't refresh them," and make the token lifetime short enough that you're comfortable with it. Document that any API call can also include a "new_token": {...} field, and the client should update. On the server side, only try to refresh the token when it's close to expiring, and don't fail the API call if you can't reach the revocation server (just skip refreshing).

You still have a central server to track account status, but now it can be more like "a text file with a list of usernames on a single box running Apache, if it crashes we reboot it" and less like "a distributed, high performance, highly-available in-memory K/V store that's in the critical path for every request," which is going to make you a lot happier operationally.

Or you can push the list of usernames to revoke to each server, or something.
The title mentions an antitrust probe but the article says nothing about it. What is that about?
It seems like the simple answer to this is to tip out-of-band directly to the person (e.g, cash, venmo, etc).
I think this shows the difference between a regime like physics where we expect models to generally work, versus another kind of regime like the stock market where it's unclear whether they work.

The point of the above quote is that in some regimes, models [that we can currently build] don't work. So the lesson to take away from a bad prediction isn't "this model is bad", it's "any model I build will be bad". There might not be enough signal in the data you have (or even is possible to have). It's exacerbated in cases where it's hard to assess the model's performance, e.g. the stock market mostly goes up so any model that predicts that will look pretty good most of the time.
Can you not have consciousness without free will?
That still requires having an account and likely a shedload of your data on FB being tracked.
I took issue with this part:

>In the same way, if the universe is to actually exist, its properties can’t be exclusively relational/dispositional

People who believe the mathematical universe hypothesis would take issue here (I'm not educated enough to make a full opinion but I know they would oppose this quote). They would say the universe is entirely relational - it's all one set of mathematical relations. Max Tegmark is one such person and he explains consciousness and self awareness as arising out of evolution (being aware and not a slave to sensory inputs can be beneficial), and subjective reality and the flow of time are just subjective/conscious illusions. Albeit he doesn't give a mechanism for consciousness to form in the brain, but no one has yet.
> it's not a question for which an answer can be deduced from observation

Another assumption. Throughout history, again and again, science has discovered ways to answer questions, and when science finally arrives, it brings the "final" answer since no other method can compete. Haven't we learned this lesson yet? Why is consciousness the final bastion ?

Of course, philosophizing on issues like the OP article is incredibly valuable. After all, science is just philosophy with extra steps.
all I'm saying is there's no number where you can say with 100% certainty "we have enough missiles to meet our strategic goals". this doesn't mean you devote your entire production capacity to making nukes, but it makes it sort of silly for laymen to sit around talking about whether we have too many. we don't have enough information to make even a halfway-educated guess.
Umm, kemiller2002 perfectly described the justice system of the good ole US of A. Once a prosecutor wants to get you, they stack all kinds of charges together to take your 1 year crime and make it a total of 10 years in prison, so you'll take a deal that gets you back to the original. At the Federal level, the conviction rate is 93%. Even if you are innocent, you can still be convicted.

> Edit: don't break the laws when you [sic] being prosecuted;

What? The whole point is you can't help but break a law.
WWE is a squared circle.

Ice is dry water.
I was thinking the same thing :)
I don’t get this metric especially after they specifically disclosed that their metrics could be off by as much as 5% last quarter from “fake” accounts (which they oddly didn’t disclose financially).
6-ish bits of PCM "emulation" via PWM in games like Pinball Fantasies (admittedly only appearing in the '90s) showed that the PC speaker is not the worst that could happen in terms of sound emitting apparatus :)

(Although a dedicated TI or Yamaha sound chip like in the PCjr/Tandy/Adlib cards would've definitely helped with adoption. But alas, the PC was intended for Serious Business use cases, not for home use or gaming)
My understanding is that

- DD provides a guaranteed wage of $1 per delivery, similar to a restaurtant's "under minimum wage" wage.

- DD provides a "you will make at least this much" rate. This is a parallel to normal minimum wage

- If the (<tip> + $1) is not at least <this much>, DD covers the difference

- If the (<tip> + $1) is more than <this much>, DD pays only (<tip> + $1)

The only real differences between that and a restaurant are
- The numbers are all per delivery instead of per hour
- The sub-minimum wage is $1 instead of whatever it is for wait staff ($2.50 or so?). How these numbers compare depends on how many jobs per hour there are.
- The "you will make at least this much" amount varies by the delivery, vs waitstaff where it's a set number for all.

If you consider the "you will make at least this much" number to be "if you don't get tipped enough to make this much, we'll make sure to cover the difference for you", it's more clear how it's the same as for wait staff.