skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. It's hard to effectively wield political power as a minority in a democracy based on voting power alone...
I'm relatively skeptical about Bill Gates' philanthropic motivations -- his strategy seems to be to grow consumer bases which improve the bottom line of his company; in a world with ever decreasing resources, more people isn't the solution.
What would the impact be if we just eliminate fossil fuel subsidies?
Clearly the misconception isn't "that's not how percentiles work" it's "that's a percentile of only a subset of the population". I don't know why you keep repeating yourself. It is exactly how percentiles work in that subset.
But that's not what "backend" means. "Backend" means "not directly facing end users, but doing part of the work for the parts that are directly facing end users". Embedded systems are not backend. They are their own category.
There's a call to action on the webpage which goes to Twitter; which won't change anything. If instead there was a donation link, it would be contributing. Also, saying that on a forum is one thing; taking a stand with art should be backed by actually trying to do something about it and pointing people to groups or individuals who are doing more about it than creating art (no small feat in itself, but not an immediate cause of legal change).
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UPDATE: Per @mic47 in a comment below, the video does not actually discuss content moderation on the E2E encrypted systems (Messenger & WhatsApp). It is only discussing the FB website itself, which is already in the open (to Facebook).

Original message follows for continuity:

Thank you for this!

The 4-layers-deep source is an F8 talk on using AI to filter for FB TOS-violating content. The relevant portion of the talk is discussing hyperlink website previews of the kind that show up next to URLs posted in Messenger/WhatsApp that show the title and feature image next to the link. In order for this functionality to work at all, the app must crawl the link to pull the metadata for display. This AI team is attempting to pre-emptively block URL-masking attempts that fool the Preview into showing benign content before redirecting users to bad content.

To do this, FB must "pierce the veil" of E2E encryption in order to see what the URL is and test the content. This opens the possibility that FB can further expose supposedly encrypted content in the chat/message. The actual talk refers to putting this AI on the device itself, preserving user privacy (a difficult technical challenge).

If this leaking of URL data is status quo on FB messaging systems, is it reasonable to assume that the supposed encryption is more or less invalid? Are there any ways that this could be a secure system with this kind of content validation going on?
Proven optimal packings are indicated by a radius in bold face type.
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Gerrymandering uses cracking and packing. Packing is giving your opponent 2 very safe districts (eg urban centre), and cracking is making it impossible for them to win the other 7 (eg making them 30% suburb, 70% rural).
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the Haskell gentle intro is very well written.

https://www.haskell.org/tutorial/
The written specification wasn't being kept in sync with the implementation and has been relegated to the status of 'design document'. The language is nowadays defined and versioned through its test suite, and there have been two releases (v6.c in Dec 2015 and v6.d in Nov 2018).
Or you could drop the whole issue by turning to a representative democracy with proportional voting, where it's about policy not individuals raising money.
Yeah, sorry about that. This prototype was optimized for development speed; I'm working on mobile apps now which will be easier to use. I'm not positive if the plaintext username/password is strictly required, but it's in docs from the spotify plugin's author (https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify#configuration). I think it may be related to the fact that a native integration with spotify is only possible through a lib that spotify abandoned a while ago, so it's a bit of a hack.
What experiences did you have while on HRT that lead to you to believe this?

In general, I'm specifically skeptic of claims of behavioral changes associated with HRT, as I feel as if a lot of those claims have roots in gendered preconceptions of women that have nothing to do with biological differences. People going through HRT will associate personal, unrelated, experiences with the medical transition, but cannot be corroborated through any studies or research.
>would've put a dent in their wallet and hopefully caused them to go bankrupt.

IOW, good luck getting any money from them?
Holding details: https://www.nbim.no/en/the-fund/holdings/holdings-as-at-31.1...
Somewhat related, Gustav Söderström from Spotify was recently discussing with Lex Fridman about various topics, including the problem of music recommendations. This was pretty interesting.

Spotify had for example acquired some company, which is looking into how music is structured to come up with recommendations. This should help in discovering new music, which does not yet have enough plays to be picked up by more traditional recommendation systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-9Mpe7NhkM
I still don't feel like this is more than 5% different from a combination of "thing" and "shit" in colloquial Canadianese.
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ok..now I am confused which hand do you look at?.. On my left hand..index and ring finger are about the same.... on my right hand the ring finger is longer
I haven't looked at it since 2014, but this + codecademy took me from pedestrian interest in programming to writing prototypes
FCC finally orders ISPs to say where they offer broadband
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but you said "not be tied to any platform." on the landing page? Will the blog be hosted on your platform? or it has on-premises install?
I think it's flawed for a different reason: you have no idea if the 'off' switch is actually turning off what you think it is in these proprietary systems (e.g. Apple's 'wifi off' fiasco).

If you do not want Apple/Google/Amazon/whatever listening to you, do not use their services/products.
If this is the issue, the electoral college doesn't solve this. Because what happens is the campaigning for the general election is usually dictated by swing state status and when the caucus or primary takes place in the election calendar. If you look at the distribution of states visited during the campaigning for the general election, it backs this up.

Also, the Senate is supposed to combat the House in this instance. That's what it's there for, and frankly, because of the importance of the Senate, a voter in Wyoming has more voting power than a voter in California. This isn't good either as you mention in your last statement.
I'm so glad you thought of this. This is precisely what I used to learn how to play a series of new board games. I now have multiple friends hooked on Catan and Pandemic.
Groups are the sticking point, and in the circles I know the more popular unit of chat. These are high friction to switch.
According to the cook political report[1]:

California 3 - D+5

Texas 35 - D+15

Ohio 12 - R+7

Ohio 7 - R+12

Connecticut 1 - D+12

Missouri 8 - R+24

Missouri 6 - R+16

Oregon 5 - EVEN

Ohio 4 - R+14

North Carolina 6 - R+9

Texas 15 - D+7

Illinois 18 - R+15

Alabama 1 - R+15

New York 7 - D+38

New York 8 - D+36

Illinois 11 - D+9

Arizona 6 - R+9

Florida 25 - R+4

Texas 12 - R+18

Ohio 10 - R+4

Michigan 13 - D+32

Tennessee 4 - R+20

California 43 - D+29

Illinois 4 - D+33

New Jersey 5 - R+3

New York 8 - D+36 (yes they used it twice)

California 8 - R+9

California 14 - D+27

Illinois 12 - R+5

Indiana 8 - R+15

Ohio 8 - R+17

What you are looking for is states where you see a lot of one party with +5-9 districts and then a handful of districts that are +20 or more for the other party.

https://cookpolitical.com/pvi-map-and-district-list
I can certainly vouch for CS50, when I was in middle school I messed around with programming, but taking CS50x was what made the intuition and process come together for me.
In the US, and to a lesser extent Canada, the idea of the state benefiting too much is seen as lefty socialism (Canada briefly flirted with economic nationalism with the creation of Petro-Canada, but this was vehemently opposed by US energy companies). So we have a classic situation where the profits are privatized to the very few, and the costs are socialized (climate change, abandoned wells, pollution, etc).
Actually, I think gerrymandering aims to have the result be more like 7-2 consistently, where 7 is the party with less actual representation. Gerrymandering aims to put all of the opponent's voters in the smallest number of districts possible, while spreading out your own base.

The result is that the opponent wins fewer districts with over 90% of the vote where you win more districts with 55% or 60% of the vote.
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The difference is (1) food isn't a specialty good, you can make it yourself and (2) food is provided by the government free of charge if you can't pay and (3) subsidized by the government to a massive degree even if you can pay. If this is the kind of system you're advocating for prescription drugs, I'm all in!
If you can't trust the other end of the E2E implementation, there is nothing a VPN can do to get you closer to trusting them. Of course Facebook has all the requests you sent to them. You sent them! Using a VPN doesn't prevent Facebook from misusing the data they collect on you.

Perhaps using a VPN prevents them from logging your IP address. But they still have your username that you logged in with, your phone's device ID, your session cookies (which were created when you were at home on WiFi), your browser's signature, etc. Again, using a VPN isn't going to stop any of that.

The likely outcome of using a VPN is that Facebook's analytics will know exactly who you are, but their global rate limiter will cut off your access because your IP address is now shared with a thousand other people, some of whom are using a VPN to spam them.
I think I've had it happen very recently, but can't remember the term. Here is an older screenshot of them ignoring that I forced "amp" and they searched for "map" anyway: https://i.redd.it/5bttlsl6zen11.png It was like this for months.

At least that is fixed, but as I said, I could swear it happened with another term recently.
There isn't as much work in that area, but there aren't as many people that do it, either. It balances out to pay pretty well, at least in my neck of the woods.
Thanks.

Whalen is a smart(er) guy (and you probably want to work with him instead).
It is just to show why base rate matters by using the most extreme example... it doesn't imply that it is easy to calculate.
>And I'd like to have a word with whoever downvoted this.

Why?

The comment is essentially: "I read someone claiming something one time." It has no sources, no links to anything to explore or understand, nothing. There's not even a link to the article or story. Just someone making a wild statement on the internet.
There are a lot of people who rely on those investments, whether through their government retirement, their employer's retirement, or through their own holdings. Even many social programs are funded with investments in equities.
my (albeit faint) hope is that this leads some ambitious (EU?) organization to spin this as a US tech/corporate/power overreach angle, starts heavily promoting Signal as an alternative, various security conscious orgs/govts buy in, leading to big Signal popularity boost

... hopefully
Nah, you're still a youngster. Got Perl 1 via Usenet in 1988 when there wasn't even a web yet.
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This is entirely your opinion, and you don't even explain why.

For me one of the most consistent flaws is that DDG simply doesn't index some forums that Google does.
Clearly taking steps in that direction with watchOS 6 though. On-device app store, and the activity app lets you look at workout info and awards instead of forcing you to go to the iPhone app.

On the face of it, that makes me wonder if they're aiming to expand it to Android users. But I suspect they'd need a real Android integrated app if they want to compete in that space.
A simple change I'd like to see in tech culture is to change how we refer to the notifications feature. We should call them interruptions instead.

Do I want my meeting interrupted if my spouse calls with an emergency? Absolutely.

Do I want that meeting interrupted to find out I've been given a $10 Lyft credit? Absolutely not.

That Lyft credit, thank you, can be delivered to the proper home for notifications: my email.
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I'd believe the contractors scamming more money before I'd believe the honeypot. Defense Intelligence isn't that forward thinking.
That digit ratio stuff has always weirded me out. There are even some studies that show certain ratios correspond with homosexuality. That wikipedia page even has a huge table with a list of stuff like having a high digit ratio corresponds to reduced financial trading ability, and a low digit ratio corresponds to a longer penis.

That shit is weird.
Yes, but that is out of my control. I don't see any other option than taxpayer funded healthcare to solve that issue, but I have to play the game by the rules that exist now.
I bought some of the Anadigm FPAAs a while ago, I need to get round to using them, one thing to note though is they seem to use the discrete time style circuit, so they actually switch at a high frequency between different capacitors to generate a filter.
There's a bigger ideological drive to show that taking US oil assets in the country and diverting the funds toward social programs was a dire mistake.
My personal twist on this one is to make showing a habitual failure to enforce a law be an affirmative defense for all crimes. That way, the law is by definition what is enforced, and singling someone out for infractions that are generally overlooked becomes a much more risky tool for the police to use.
The magnitude matters a lot, though, and suggesting that Apple is more than 5% of the US GDP is incorrect and vastly overstates their contribution to the US economy.

The 1.2%/1.6% and even 0.5% figures quoted by others in this thread are still high numbers for a single company, but I submit that "more than 5%" would be a very different number (3x-20x, depending on which of the other numbers you believe) and is a gross exaggeration.
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No, it’s not. I don’t see the similarity.

Some rich and powerful guy wanting to plant his ‘seed’ in as many women as possible is a story as old as time.

Beckoning Nazis is really not helpful.
The author teaches a basic course on statistics on harvard extension school and charges ~$2800 for that.
He wrote a clickbait random article and I can see it on hacker news front page.
And we say only facebook can publish fake news ;)
My friends and family won't :\

This will be true for a lot of people, and it's a huge annoyance. The only things that break this kind of network affect is a market changer - Discord is a good example here.
Personally I've felt this has been in the works for some time.

If you look closely at how the founders exited facebook, and what was said at the time, it seemed (to me at least) that they left over exactly this.

I mean, that aside, can you really come up with many other operational arguments that would result in people walking a way from hundreds of millions of dollars? (or by some estimates leaving over a billion dollars on the table between the two of them)
The capital V was just iOS auto-correct.
Have you seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20574182

Is it something you can use in your model?
Good luck with that! I've been hoping to see Spotify support for streaming or searching or casting to a roodready endpoint but Spotify has not been helpful.
Arch packages the Electron runtime separately from apps. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Electron_package_guidel...
A service call for Hubble cost more than a hundred million dollars. A service call in Hawaii would probably cost a few thousand.

When you build something to go to space it gets way more expensive. Hubble cost around $4billion before it launched, JWST is gonna cost more than $10b, and WFIRST, a relatively cheap space telescope, will cost at least $3 billion.

The most expensive telescope on Earth only cost about $1 billion. It weights about 15 million pounds, so just the launch costs to put it in orbit would exceed the $1 billion it cost to build.