skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3% stock market movements set in motion by the US president alone. "Great" insider trading potential. Have someone set up the right derivatives strategy and bam: instant millions.

I couldn't convince myself to immediately write that idea off as utter nonsense.

Anyone with more relevant financial experience? Can you reassure me this would be difficult to pull off? Or would you have to confirm this would be difficult to catch?

EDIT: Let me try put this in an even more neutral way. Let's say one knew down to the minute when the entire US and EU stock markets were going to sustain substantial losses. How much value one could siphon off without triggering too much suspicion? Surely market depth and trade volume must offer at least order of magnitude hints about that?
Fixed-width fonts are harder to read than proportional fonts. There's a reason they're not used much outside of programming.
Congrats! Two quick questions...

Is it weird sharing the same name as a fashion icon ;)

And I'm curious about your ML "stack". Particularly the chicken and egg problem. Are you using something like Tensorflow with pre-trained binaries, perhaps from a vendor? Or is it 100% proprietary. Thanks!
> In their mythology, the insitutions of social control (eg. the mainstream media, Silicon Valley, banks) are all left-wing

This is a classic, authoritarian tactic of misdirection.

Here's a report on some of the forces at play:

1. https://datasociety.net/output/media-manipulation-and-disinf...

By the way, they're wrong—although not alone—in thinking that Silicon Valley is "left-wing". This is a convenient smoke-screen, as illuminated here:

1. http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideol...

I am not sure why we should put much stock in the explicit mythology of a troll army.
From that perspective, what is arguably good about this trade war continuing?
> Do you ever see people openly hoping for shootings, cheering them on, and then posting manifestos on Twitter?

Yes I have many times. Just this weekend alone, the Ohio shooter tweeted "Kill every fascist", retweeted several violent Antifa posts. His Twitter profile read “he/him / anime fan / metalhead / leftist / i’m going to hell and i’m not coming back.” His top pinned tweet said “Millennials have a message for the Joe Biden generation: hurry up and die.” In May, he tweeted, “You’ll never be rid of me. I’ll haunt your life like a fucking vengeful spirit.” He added, “My Horoscope Just Reads ‘Doom.'” He shared posts about “concentration camps” at the border and wrote, “Cut the fences down. Slice ICE tires. Throw bolt cutters over the fences.” He retweeted a post from another person about stealing from “right wingers” at a Trump rally. One of his tweets referred to white people. “Imagine if we did the thing you liked, but in a way that totally ruins what you liked about it! Wouldn’t that be fun? Ha ha Also, of course they’re all white people, of course they are,” he wrote.

From another comment:

> "Dayton shooter Was The Lead Singer Of A "Pornogrind" Metal Band - The gunman, identified as 24 year-old (wont be named), was a member of Menstrual Munchies, a three-man band that performed regularly on the Midwest death metal scene. All the Dark Metal Bands that were friends with the shooter are distancing themselves extremely fast. All their music supports antifascists (aka antifa) and their genre of music is defined by its explicit subject matter and themes of gore and violence, specifically sexual violence and necrophilia."

> "Betts was also in a “Pornogrind” Band that, according to Vice News, “released songs about raping and killing women.” Vice called it the “extreme metal music scene.” The bands he performed in sometimes were called Menstrual Munchies and Putrid Liquid, and the songs contained vile names like “6 Ways of Female Butchery” and “Preeteen Daughter Pu$$y Slaughter,” Vice reported."

> Betts’ Twitter profile read, “he/him / anime fan / metalhead / leftist / i’m going to hell and i’m not coming back.” One tweet on his page read, “Off to Midnight Mass. At least the songs are good. #athiestsonchristmas.” The page handle? I am the spookster. On one selfie, he included the hashtags, “#selfie4satan #HailSatan @SatanTweeting.” On the date of Republican Sen. John McCain’s death, he wrote, “F*ck John McCain.” He also liked tweets referencing the El Paso mass shooting in the hours before Dayton. The Twitter page contains multiple selfies of Betts.

Archive of the tweets:

http://archive.is/https://twitter.com/iamthespookster
https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/connor-betts/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EBKBsgSUIAALHBg?format=jpg&name=...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EBKBsgsU0AAiB4O?format=jpg&name=...
http://archive.is/7niS2
“Full speed ahead and damn the licensing issues!”
Hey @ajw, congrats on the growth. Quick question for you: How does Scale's labeling speed and quality compare to Hive?
I don't understand.

Why do you feel it's required to take some stand (including whatever the majority default is) on free speech, gun rights, immigration quotas, abortion restrictions, tax laws, states' rights, welfare benefits, etc. in the workplace?
Me too! Or a class action lawsuit against companies for using "two factor" authentication that depends on SMS.
Indeed, the ability to "invent around" a patent is essential because it means that patent-holders can't completely monopolize an idea. Instead, they only get to monopolize their specific inventions disclosed in their patent, and only for a limited time.
This is great if you can agree on the goal and the measure. It seems like that is more the issue.
...no?

I think you maybe don't get the whole "don't be political at work" thing.
Not sure there will still be a trade war during the election. The world is no longer composed of warehouse economies that can hold out indefinitely in the face of war, disease, sanctions, etc, come what may. Either China will give, we will give, or China and the US will go their separate ways. Way too risky for the Chinese to try to bank on a new president, or a new president after that, or etc etc etc. See sawing back and forth between normal trade and no trade and never knowing where you're gonna stand in 4 years.

Better for them, game theoretically, to do exactly what they're doing. Either bring Trump to the table, or fail and look to their own markets.
> Then 8chan should sue them in court and win.

In order for them to win, you'll have to ignore the fact that when they created a CloudFlare account, they agreed that CloudFlare had the right to terminate such services for any or no reason.
This plot is the basis of another (very good) anime called Steins;Gate actually.
is it really debatable? how could giving China printed paper for their goods be bad for US economy?
How do you plan to make money once the self-driving hype dies down or becomes a solved problem?
> How about the free speech rights of the 22 people who died in El Paso?

Excellent point, I'm sure we would have done a swell job taking away their rights as well had they survived and had opinions we disagreed with.

A very nice false dichotomy.
the whole point of layers of management is to insulate upper managers from the decisions they make

When I've had layers of management inserted above the team I'm on, it's been because someone had too many direct reports and needed to add another someone to delegate part of their work to.
I think this is a natural outcome of the peer review process; you're not targeting research papers at statistical models, you're targeting them at human reviewers. This kind of behavior is equally prevalent in many fields, including computer science.

I recently reviewed a paper from a research team in China, on a scalable and ubiquitous ad hoc sensing platform. The presented "spin" was that it could potentially be useful for monitoring power distribution networks, thereby reducing blackouts, which was certainly true. However, it could also have been used for an inescapable, totalitarian panopticon (this part was implicit and unstated).

As a reviewer with explicit instructions to evaluate the ethical implications of the work, is it my responsibility (A) to interpret the stated "spin", (B) extract and evaluate strictly the technical contributions of the work, or (C) all of the above, and the implicit "anti-spin" interpretation that was provided courtesy of my Western worldview?

And here's a twist - six months previously, a similar situation occurred with my own work, in which a technology that I envisioned (spun) being used for disaster relief caught the eye of an alphabet agency for low-cost, secure data collection in third world theaters. This was deeply shocking to me at the time, because I hadn't considered this potential use case when I was developing the system. I had spun its impact so effectively in my own mind, I didn't even see the negative alternative.

It's my observation that human brains will inject their own spin if it doesn't already exist, using the social and cultural norms to which that brain is accustomed. I don't hold a researcher's desire to sell their work as effectively as possible against them, especially if the person to whom they're selling most effectively is themselves.
I had a buddy in business school who insisted on meeting every one of our classmates for a coffee chat (~400).

By the time he got to me, it was the middle of our second (and last year). I was skeptical since I thought it was kind of weird, plus most friend groups had formed by that point.

Turned out to be one of the most intriguing conversations I ever had. We became very close friends after that.

No short cut to friendship. Sometimes you just gotta get face to face and see how things go.
Curiosity Rover Celebrates 7 Years Since Thrilling Mars Touchdown
You may like the anime Steins;Gate then. The plot is based on the idea of sending a small amount of information back in time and changing the sender's present, and then finds that another organization has been using this and is trying to control the world with the power.
Solves it in an absolute sense? No.

Solves it better than a non-tax solution would? Yes.
This article might be spin itself, given how it captures attention with the accusation but hides what was actually tested with the circumlocation "a previously published definition of spin". For all I know, they just counted every abstract that contained the word "may" and called it spin.
Which in itself is one of the biggest rationales for developing such a system. The Fed really has a third unspoken directive: maintain dollar supremacy.
Re 1—It has been a bit of annoyance growing up (for example, Google autocorrects "Alexandr Wang" to "Alexander Wang"), but we run different circles ;)

Re 2—As with most companies working on ML these days, our stack is not fully proprietary. We don't take too strong an opinion on ML framework and use both Tensorflow and Pytorch currently. We generally use neural network architectures from the literature and then iterate on top of them to suit our unique problem requirements.
>Your assumption is we have infinite growth on a finite planet, which unfortunately is not the case

You're arguing against an implicit faith in the civic religion of infinite growth, and the cognitive dissonance this causes.
US can barely put sanctions on Iran as of now and the rest of the world is hesitant to follow. It took ~8 years to get the sanctions on Iran to that point.

Even if US wanted to go nuclear and push for China being cut from SWIFT:

1. It will be suicide. Cutting China from SWIFT will have very very big impact in the US.

2. US corporations have too much interest to lose in here. No way corporate America allows that to happen.

3. The rest of the world is already pissed at US for pulling out from Iran deal. They are not following US regarding Iran. How do you propose they would follow US' lead to put such sanctions on China and suffocate themselves?

Again, the chances of China being cut from SWIFT are close to zero.
No but that didn't stop their idiot HR lady from trying.
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I have Google Domains autorenew my domain for me. Does Gandi have something similar?
:s/without challenge/without censorship
- Even if by Sybil attacks that ideology is numerically irrelevant, the media amplifies their message and drowns out other messages. Bernie was attacked by centrists for doing an interview on Fox News, it's not just the Republicans contributing to the current state of affairs.

- For Trump to support neo-nazis he doesn't even need to praise them (even though he does it anyway), just selectively unenforce their actions. Inaction can be a political statement.
Interesting. What changed in 1994?
Its a battle for who is the world economic power in 20 or 30 years. The american public doesn't understand what is at stake here. Unfortunately the media is calling Trump a buffoon, when the trade war, and possible subsequent economic hit to the USA, is vital to our long term economic future.
This sounds exactly like my dream tool, the very thing I've been meaning to write myself and haven't gotten around to it. Thank you for writing this!

Suggestion: I'd love to see a `revise.autoSquash` git config flag (like `rebase.autoSquash`) to always autosquash in interactive mode. Maybe you already support it, but if so, the manpage doesn't list it.
Having politics free zones like work is a good idea.
> If we think of CF/Voxility as of a "neutral infrastructure"

"Property rights for me but not for you"
Oh I'm fine with all those concepts. C++ has anonymous functions, and I'm a Haskell programmer too. But whatever syntax JavaScript uses is not standard across other imperative languages.
I see what you're saying, but - and I mean this constructively - you can take a rather roundabout way of saying it which fogs your meaning.

Anyway...

> So when a particular society legislates a law, you don't necessarily have to take it as if that particular society has settled a universal moral question

Point taken, but laws can be plain immoral, even evil. Laws should be as moral as possible. Laws without a moral backing would seem to be meaningless.

But lets put that aside, let's take your intended point that laws are an attempt to formalise morality, and lets also assume morality is what we'd call moral (not oppressing women/minorities/certain religions/etc). You say

> but you cannot equivocate on a law

but you damn well can! In the UK the definition of theft involves intent. From wiki "[...] if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it"

It's all about intent. It's the crux of it IIRC (and I did a short course in law). A lot of law is about intent. I hit a person in the face. Deliberate? I get spanked. Genuine unavoidable accident? I get let off. Intent is central. It is very equivocable.

In our case, which of 8chan's members are in it for pure lulz, and which because they really want to start a race war. Hard to tell intent.

Still sounds like the world is a cleaner place without them lot.
Incidentally this frame is what got the most upvotes, compared to more neutral framing of the new valuation.

[3 points] Scale AI (YC S16) raises $100M at $1B+ valuation to go beyond AI data labeling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20615657

[11 points] Scale (YC S16) Raises $100M from Accel and Founders Fund at $1B Valuation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20614672
> I'd much prefer that the article focus on these things which helps us understand the value that they bring to the market and what makes them unique.

Me too. The era of lightweight clickbait headlines can't end soon enough.
Yeah, everyone on this site seems really eager to move to Mega-City One.
The us decoupling itself from China would be an unmitigated disaster for the us as China would align itself with Russia.
From the POV of someone who says that, the evil actions of Israel are not a fluke, but an inevitable result of the nature of Jewish people, just like genocidal colonialism is seen as the result of the nature of white people, etc. They see themselves as frogs talking about scorpions, to put it in fabulistic terms, and the fact that a particular specimen hasn't stung is no evidence that it's harmless.

To someone like me, who believes quite intuitively that humans are generally the same everywhere, it's hard to grasp, but I don't see how I can prove it's objectively wrong.
This is very cultural. The west, and especially North America, is very anti-cute in general. I think part of it is that traditionally cute was something that was culturally acceptable for women and girls to enjoy. Men and boys were supposed to show some disdain for cuteness. As discrimination against women became a more recognised issue, I think it became less acceptable for women to enjoy cuteness. To be cute was to invite the discrimination they were fighting against.

I live in Japan now, where women and girls tend to enjoy cute things. I really enjoy that aspect of the culture. I wish that instead of women fighting against the cute stereotype we could allow men to enjoy cuteness. It's obviously a much more difficult approach to the problem, but to me it seems much more desirable.
This guy always strikes me as a weird nut bar. Is someone willing to tl;dr for me? I'm interested, but a bit too tired at the moment to wade through a sea of cray-cray.
Wouldn't a more effective US strategy against China been to get the EU, Japan, and South Korea in on the tarrifs as well? Might as well throw in Canada and Mexico as well on account of being NAFTA partners. That would account for all of Chinas major trading partners. Japan and SK might have been difficult, but a combined North America + EU might have done the trick.

Maybe the Trump Administration tried this, but I find it unlikely since this Administration opened up lambasting our traditional allies. This trade war as it stands is going nowhere. China won't budge.
> The US is seeing a large move back toward cities.

Is it really, or are you using "US" to mean white middle class? I googled and can't find a reference for this - do you have one?

Edit: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.GROW?locations=U...

As far as I can tell from this graph, urban population growth in the US was lower in 2018 than it's ever been.
In many ways developing nations can and do have the option to skip auto-based transit and go directly into mass transit if only because many up and coming consumers don’t have the capital to invest into a depreciating asset.

India, Indonesia, much of LatAm, including Mexico, most of Africa, etc. They could make autos cost prohibitive (in many places they in essence are) and invest heavily in mass transit. Skip roadways and other infra for personal vehicles.

China is in the cusp. They could simply decide to ban cars nationwide after a vigorous campaign promoting transit values.
> The bakery that won their SCOTUS case?

No, [1] the bakery that paid $135,000 in fines, went bankrupt, and is stll bound by the lower courts decision because SCOTUS only remanded the case back to a lower court.

And yeah, they might ultimately win... if you want to call that winning.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/17/scotus-lower-court-should-re...
Both of these statements are objectively false
> They should call Child Protective Services and get her home investigated.

Never play XBox Live.
> If you want to use your platform for good, you do good no matter the time.

Why? It's a business not a "platform for good"

> It´s not like CF went on a cleaning spree and dropped hundreds of shady clients that are faaaaaar worse and much much nastier than 8chan

So what? Maybe recent events struck a personal chord with the owners and they said "fuck it, we don't need their businesses, it's one small thing we can do to offer our support to the victims". If they're hosting "much nastier" customers than 8chan then it's fair to ask them to do better or call out their hypocrisy and ask them to rectify the situation.

> this wasn´t a "do good / patriotic moment".

I never said it was.

> I´d like to know in case you´d make that same argument for the Bakery/gay wedding case

I followed this case closely and my views on it are complex. It's not as simple as most people like to suggest. In short, I think the SCOTUS made the right ruling specifically because of the reasoning put forth by Kennedy in the majority opinion; in particular, that the colorado commissions board demonstrated a hostility towards religion in their application of the state anti-discrimination laws. The opinion even goes as far as to say that the ruling could have went the other way if the commission had more evenly applied the anti-discrimination laws in past cases. Further, I agree with the reasoning that suggests forcing the baker to create a bespoke cake-to-order is a form of artistic expression and should be protected by the first amendment and that his speech should not be compelled. However, the baker in this case specifically argued that homosexuals should be prohibited even from purchasing pre-made off-the-shelf cakes that were not made-to-order. This clearly crosses the line into discrimination of a protected class, so in my view he ultimately got away on a technicality, but the SCOTUS had no choice.

> either it´s mere PR move and I despise that type of behavior

If it's "a mere PR move" then who cares? CF is a private businesses and it's their prerogative to operate their business in a fashion that is beneficial to their PR image.
Good point. There is no winning in this war.

I’d say I’m definining “winning” at this point as preventing further damage.
Even IF this were the case, Insider trading has been allowed in congress for a long time. There was the STOCK act passed in 2012 to prevent it, the very next year it was amended to get rid of strict disclosure requirements.

Nancy Pelosi for example (speaker of the democrat majority house) is worth 140 million dollars. One has to wonder how a life time politician has managed to get that much wealth.
The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
wtf?

It's not some "gotcha game".

If the claim is [Donald Trump supports and advocates for ethno-nationalists causes] ...

I'd like to a source for that claim because it seems like Orange Man Bad delusions, but I'm willing to remain open minded if someone can provide a citation!
> Yes, are you willing to grant or share social, political, or professional rights with everyone on this earth (except perhaps bigots)?

Yes.

> In other words, do you think it's intolerant for a country to have any immigration system other than open borders (except that bigots don't have to be allowed in) or any exclusive political benefits for its citizens, such as the right to vote?

I think it's perfectly acceptable for a country to have a reasonable set of requirements and a well documented and transparent process to attain citizenship of a country, and the benefits which citizenship confers, i.e. state benefits, school attendance, the right to vote, and safety protections.

> Because if so, you've just declared the majority of people in this country to be bigots, who in your view should not be tolerated according to the second definition, i.e. you don't want to grant them equal freedoms or share social, political, or professional rights with them.

I hope you had a protein bar or something after making all those leaps.

I have said nothing of the sort. Not being a citizen of the United States doesn't make anyone a bigot. Conversely, being a citizen of the Unites States also doesn't mean you aren't a bigot. These terms are completely unrelated from each other and I have no idea how you think this tortured logic is supposed to work.

Perhaps instead of coming up with bizarre theories on how the people intolerant of intolerance are the REAL intolerant ones, maybe you should reflect on why you feel so personally attacked by the idea that intolerance shouldn't be tolerated?
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Also: "Spin" found in over 50% of top quantum mechanics journal abstracts.