skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am Iranian and I follow the news very very closely. I have family and friends in Iran.

You are right. The Iranian economy is crushed and basically the country is starving.

Here's what happened (oversimplified of course):

1. US has had sanctions on Iran for a long time (> 3 decades). No US entity can deal with Iran.

2. Obama extended these sanctions to the world: No entity form any country is allowed to work with Iran. If they do, they cannot work with the U.S.

3. Europe was happy with those sanctions and pushed for it.

4. JCPOA (Iran Deal) was signed.

5. Iran stopped nuclear activities.

6. US got out of the deal and push-forced everyone else out

7. The rest of the world, being powerless and bullied, bowed to it, but Europe, UK, China, Turkey and Japan have all been vocal in supporting Iran now. They even have exemptions from the sanctions to work with Iran.

8. Europe even has been working on a back-channel [0] (with no success though) to trade with Iran.

It is true that sanctions are crushing Iran but that's due to years of pressure that was already built-up during Obama era where the Europe and rest of the world did agree upon that.

US cannot cut China from world trade overnight without the support from rest of the world.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_in_Support_of_Trade...
Mexico - SPEI (2004)

http://www.anterior.banxico.org.mx/sistemas-de-pago/servicio...
wow, does this really deserve 1000+ comments?
Just to satisfy my personal curiosity: how successful was he after schooling? I have to imagine this outgoing / network-driven personality makes one quite successful.
There is a trade-off.

German society (compared to some others) seems to do much more enforcement of industry-wide and society-wide standardization (e.g. of measurement systems, part compatibility, common procedures, ...), with an expectation that everyone should “follow the rules”.

This has the advantage of increasing interoperability and compatibility and making many things more predictable and easier to assess/audit, at the expense of sometimes fixing poor choices and forcing them into contexts where they should be discarded.

* * *

As one example, most of the design features of computer keyboards sold worldwide from the 1980s–1990s were forced to conform to a (not especially well considered, in my opinion) German standard, which was adopted by IBM and then copied by everyone else, and later became the basis of an ISO standard.

Beige or gray color with matte surface texture and dark labels (no colors allowed), cylindrical keytops with primary symbols in one corner to make room for standard German labels, low keyboard height (which did not fit many of the keyswitches from the 1970s), a shape precisely accommodating the standard German key layout, ...

At some point companies started ignoring this standard (e.g. producing black keyboards), and I don’t think there was ever enforcement. But we are still stuck with many of those design choices now, a dramatic difference from the extreme diversity of designs from the 1960s and 1970s.

Arguably many of the keyboards of the 1970s were better than almost anything produced at mass scale since.
"Banks create money through lending"

A bank making a loan is trading one asset, cash, for another asset, a loan. If that's "creating money", then doesn't that imply that a loan is "money" and cash is not "money"?
Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem
(Don’t reply to temp comments because then I can’t delete them!)
The bosses do. Government employees don’t just run around and do whatever.
I think it is a general rule of savings accounts in the US (in my experience anyway) that you can make a limited number of withdrawals per month.
Self-driving is one of many applications of AI/ML to the real world, each of which likely requires high-quality labeled data to truly be production-ready. This includes other robotics, self-checkout like Amazon Go, natural language understanding, and more.

Second, self-driving as a problem space will need labels for a very long time. In an application where (1) verifiable model performance is paramount, and (2) the models need to be extremely robust for cars to be safe, the need for labeled data is only magnified.
Everyone in this thread should try Primer! Great little movie about a similar concept (smaller in scale though). Tries really hard to stick to its own rules.
I'm a little confused about what the business model here is. It sounds like they are selling labeled data to companies, and doing this by "label[ing] most of the objects automatically" and then having humans review these labels. So does this mean they are using some unsupervised method to label data, and then selling that to people who want to train supervised models? Why aren't they instead just beating out the people they sell to by solving the same problems without labeled data?
Is Switzerland working on something along those lines now? I'm surprised, given the outsized Swiss position in global banking, that they're not among the leaders on this front.
The documentary mentioned at the bottom, "Into Eternity" is definitely worth a watch, it's fascinating.
Hey thanks for the kind words and for calling this out.

Perhaps it is a bit misleading but the calculator is working as designed. The Vesting Start Date is the "first day your stock has vested" which, in that example, would be at the one-year cliff.

Hope that makes sense, we will try to think of a better design so this is clearer.
Most here are using the term "deepfake" as a generic term describing the use of software to create a believable fake visage of a human face. The discussion is about the ramifications of the widespread use of this capability, which has nothing to do with the particular software that was used. In any case, the provided link is strong evidence that currently widely available software is enough to fool a lot of people that one person is another person, and we can confidently predict that software will only get better at this.
Think of it as “doing due diligence”. They’re positioning themselves against what is seen as a worker-exploiting labor tactic that abuses a policy loophole, knowing full well that Google’s priority of bottom line profits will likely take precedence over acknowledging their request. If Google blinks and changes their hiring practices, state and federal labor regulators could pounce on the de facto admission of guilt and charge back pay with penalties and punish the rest of the contractor-abusers industry too. If Google does not blink, the senators can rightfully say that they tried to play nice and must now proceed to use their role as senators to altering labor law to make this abuse illegal. It’s not a “lazy request” so much as a “gauntlet softly thrown”.
Bush intentionally weakened the dollar in 2001 to boost export sales. Nobody batted an eye then.
If you have a macro then something like "do notation" could be done in a superset of JavaScript, such as something like this:

const listMonad=(m,f)=>[].concat(...m.map(f));
const x=listMonad*>{
let a=yield [1,2,9];
let b=yield [3,4,5,7];
return a-b;
};

Such a code can then be compiled into a ordinary JavaScript code.
You have to specify application in a patent. Riken desribed it for 3D printing in 1997 see https://sffsymposium.engr.utexas.edu/Manuscripts/1997/1997-2... but did not specify the use of laser diode as it was quite new at the time. It got only invented in 1996 by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuji_Nakamura who got a patent for the laserdiode but little rewards and fought with his employer over it.
>All the Dark Metal Bands that were friends with the shooter are distancing themselves extremely fast.

If the groups of these other shooters had instead responded by distributing propaganda that literally canonized the shooters like saints and praised future shooters in order to encourage more, then it might be comparable. (You don't have to look far at all on 8chan for this type of thing.) I'm probably only in the tamest of lefty circles, but I've never seen anything remotely like that. I don't see these shootings celebrated; it seems like a much harder argument to make that they're encouraged in lefty places than the argument that 8chan encourages violence.
Very similar to the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop which gives a good starting point and can be improved on manually in the problem areas where colors are ambiguous.
Okay, so first let it be noted that you linked a list of 15 bad examples and when I called them out you called me cherrypicking, then when I stopped cherrypicking your immediate response was "I don't have enough time to engage with all the examples". Jeez louise, you literally just asked for me to "open up tangents". I was satisfied summarizing your list as ridiculous garbage that made no sense. The reason we're still talking about it is because you wanted to. Okay, let's only talk about Kathy Griffith for some reason.

The reason YouTube did not ban Kathy Griffith under rules for threatening violence is because: 1) The purported threatened violence was not threatened on YouTube, it was for a magazine. 2) The purported threatened violence was not a threat of violence, it was a depiction of violence. Those are not the same thing, but I'm totally fine with banning for the latter. You're the one that isn't fine with the thing you're arguing for. 3) The threat occurred at a time before YouTube put these rules in place. Updating your rules isn't being a hypocrite because you didn't time travel after doing so. It's also literally what the left has been asking for for years.

But separate from that, your position was that the left didn't deplatform her, and unsurprisingly, it did. CNN, Home Of The Left Biased Anti Trump Fake News, fired her immediately. So great, it is agreed that celebrities face significant reputational consequence for doing things that aren't threatening violence but are adjacent and might be perceived as uncouth.

Again, I need to stress that the person in the OP directly threatened violence. She didn't say "I hope the people who own YouTube get shot". She didn't say "If I was alone in a room with YouTube lady, I'd punch her in the face". She didn't do a music video of robot YouTube getting exploded. She did a direct and personal threat to murder a specific named individual. And you thought the really important aspect of this story was talking about Kathy Griffith.

Let's recap the thread: You think that no one should be banned for threatening violence on YouTube. To support this argument, you link a bunch of people, some of whom were deplatformed, most of whom aren't threatening violence, and most of whom weren't doing the thing they're accused of on YouTube. You then insist I'm being uncharitable to the evidence by not taking more seriously the threats of violence, which again are mostly not threats, and again, you don't think we should take actual threats of violence seriously.

You should advance the argument you actually believe in, not do a bizarre strawman devil's advocate where you say "I don't believe in banning people, but imagine if I did because I was a tyrannical anti-speech leftist, then I would be a hypocrite, because I wouldn't ban this anti-Trump celebrity, which makes me a hypocrite, checkmate".
It probably could, but typically studies associate music and precision [1], not speediness. OP's anchor points to a specific part of the research that cites speed along motor dexterity as an unexpected result.

Regardless of the similarities/differences, it's still amazing that you could get similar results from a quick glance at a cute kitten as you would listening to an entire movement from a classical piece.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15135879
Have any TLDs attempted to implement a property tax on domains according to value to reduce cyber squatting? To implement a property tax, Glen Weyl and Eric Posner have proposed using self-assessment so that users pay what they want (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2818494 and https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Markets-Uprooting-Capitalism-...)
they use glass lenses and infrared, cross scan error must be quite significant due to long separation distance between polygon and substrate.
Yes, but the pressure to pay off those bonds would be deflationary, so in order to sustain the inflation next the Fed would have to do something even more extraordinary! AFAIK this policy pathway leads ultimately to bond forgivenesses (or funky bankruptcies) that eliminate deflationary pressure but may well have the unpleasant side effect of radically adjusting the fiat currency system.
I would definitely not include LA on a list for accessible without a car, and San Francisco is debatable.
The www is fucked. Move to tor. The only place where you can have an interesting conversation is one where the conversation can't be monetized.
This is the same study that the publishing scientist quit the USDA in protest over.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/05/ziska-usda-climate...
Who's throwing them off the internet? Their vile racist garbage is still accessible to everyone.
One thing that I think is getting lost in this discussion is the role of intent on currency manipulation.

Switzerland has the strongest currency in the world due to the country's reputation for governmental and financial stability. This makes Swiss labor extremely expensive for reasons mostly outside of their control, and the Swiss government has tried (and largely failed) to remedy this. Technically, this is devaluation but given the circumstances and Switzerland's relatively small footprint in the labor market, it's understandable and fairly benign.

The Fed cutting interest rates in 2009 had the effect of weakening the USD relative to what it would have been. But the intent of the policy was not to steal a share of the export market, but rather to provide stimulus during a deep recession.

Japan has been in ultra-low growth and ultra-low inflation for decades. To fend off the threat of deflation and economic contraction, it ran the printing press and cut interest rates. Which, again, devalue the currency but stealing export share is not a major intent.

I'm not sure what the appropriate definition of "currency manipulator" should be but, while China's currency policy history is a strange and variable beast, yesterday's devaluation was clearly a different case than those above. And depending on how far you want to go back in history, there's an argument that the intent of some previous Chinese devaluations were aimed primarily at increasing its relative attractiveness as an exporter.

Its most recent history until yesterday was to prop up the RMB, so it may be fair to argue that now is a strange time to label them a currency manipulator. Given yesterday's events and their history in this area though, it's hard to make the claim that their currency policy is altogether ordinary either.
Could be Monzo bank hiding more security problems
You have to specify application in a patent. Riken desribed it for 3D printing in 1997 see https://sffsymposium.engr.utexas.edu/Manuscripts/1997/1997-2.... but did not specify the use of laser diode as it was quite new at the time. It got only invented in 1996 by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuji_Nakamura who got a patent for the laserdiode but little rewards and fought with his employer over it.
I was #2163 - I responded to an instagram post he made as he was passing through town, and we were able to make something work. I really enjoyed talking with him for an hour!
If you're in SF, I'd be happy to chat over coffee - I have some ideas and suggestions for you. $HN_username @ gmail
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20614672.
I see you have invoked the Slippery Slope fallacy, which is primarily a way to sidestep talking about the actual issue at hand by comparing it to hypothetical events. What's not hypothetical is that scores of people are dying in the meantime. Furthermore, the First Amendment was designed by the founders as a way to protect citizens who criticized the government. I find it unbelievable that they themselves would support extending those protections towards people who would seek to explicitly provoke mass, random violence.

It is illegal to be an accessory to murder. It is illegal to incite riots. I still haven't heard a good reason why forums that are havens for users openly and explicitly encouraging terroristic acts should not bear any responsibility, beyond lazy slippery slope arguments.
> Fast forward to 2019 and people love it.

Some people do, others don't. Currently they are complaining about homeless and drunk people hanging out there.

To be honest, it's more crowded and looks desolate now. The shops aren't deserted, but it's a different crowd. And everybody complains about bicycles going 30 Km/h and endangering pedestrians.
LVH wrote that, and he's definitely not a Slytherin.
> In fact, that is what the researchers did in this case: They applied several statistical models of weather extremes to both models and real data and compared them. Every model that failed to predict the actual measured heat wave went out.

Wouldn't it be better to select the models which have had the most accurate predictions over as long a period as the required data are available? Mean squared error of temperature, or something. Promoting models primarily for their ability to predict an event that is currently happening seems like a terrible idea.
They also do it to have currencies better reflecting their economical state, with it's own advantages and disadvantages.

I'd say a developing country with a small internal market typically wouldn't have a strong currency, which would be great for their exports, thus supposedly boosting their economic growth. Without any manipulation.

But maybe I'm getting it wrong
It will never happen, but I wish that the US would keep all currency but revalue it at ten times the present value. Within living memory, the dollar was worth ten times what it is now, and back then, pennies, nickels, dimes, and so on were useful.

This makes a lot more sense to me that changing the physical coins.
nothing is free. there are other ways to pay for things than government and taxes.
There is a general theory that the current US administration's foreign policy, from Russia, to North Korea, to Iran, is all primarily geared to checking China. It's a bit tinfoil hat, I admit, but it's not implausible.
> Given their abysmal warehouse management, it's no surprise they have the second highest employee turnover out of all Fortune 500 companies

It's worth emphasising that Amazon employs a LOT of seasonal employees in the warehouses, and there are a really large number of those warehouses. It's a terrific number of staff that are around for 2 months, during various peak times of the year. Not because they're burned out, injured or whatever, but just because the work isn't there for them at the time.

(I'm not generally disagreeing with the rest of your point. Been there, done that, got burned out by it after a couple of years)
We merged this thread into the latter, which was posted earlier and has the less baity title.
Imagine being a new hire in almost every part of the civilized world and still having more vacation time than a guy laboring in the mines for 7+ years.
There is another documentary called Containment by historian of science Peter Galison: https://vimeo.com/124451868.
I think the parent is saying you /can/ use threads, but they will all contend on the GIL.
Yeah I think it is not clear enough. I suggest you rephrase the description at least.
The courts decide this. That's their job. And they don't just get to make up rulings, they have a huge body of precedent to which they are bound.
I think its a combination of a few things. First I think there are automod policies that use keywords in these conroversial topics to throttle. Second I think an ugly truth people don't want to admit is tech is heavily slanted to his supporters and those who find his values appealing due to the gender, class and age weighting in the industry, and nationality on this site being predominately American. Third there is a concentrated effort in every relatively neutral forum to downvote/argue/oppose, some of which is organic and some active measures. You often see an initial and rapid hit and downvoting of comments critical of him or the country in general, but then as the other hemisphere wakes up it balances out.
Well, that could mean anything.
Not just a cottage industry -- they actually have a big building and huge quantities of money and workers:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-...

>55 Savushkina Street, St Petersburg, said to be the headquarters of Russia’s ‘troll army’.
"Do they realize they are exchanging temporary wages for eternal futility?"
Yes they do.

and this isn't wrong either

"If you could be pulling a rickshaw or labeling data in an air-conditioned internet café, the latter is a better job."
The paper feels full of lies by omission to leave out the caloric yield increase and only discuss the vitamin density side. This is likely a case where vitamin production per acre are unchanged in a elevated CO2 enviroment, and calories per acre increase by 20%.
You're saying that as if you have made a point, but I still don't understand what you mean. Could you explain what your actual point is?
> I lived in Germany for three years in the 1980s, never had a car, and never felt I needed one.

You don't know what you're missing. I pity the people who have to use the hot, crowded, smelly, slow public transport every day and don't know any better.
Cars just come with so much baggage. The insurance, maintenance, purchase price, risk of collision, etc.
"But the point is: who´s to judge which ones are right and which one are wrong? "

Judges. That's literally what judges do.
I make money traveling with strangers
Contrastive Reasons Detection and Clustering from Online Polarized Debate
Even in the absence of non-compete clauses, you're still obliged to keep your company's trade secrets when you leave, or they can sue you. California companies sue each other all the time over things like this.
> there either should be clear violation of ToS

I'm not aware of any consumer-accessible supplier who provides ToS that require abuse. In particular, CS doesn't:

"we may at our sole discretion terminate your user account or suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice for any reason or no reason at all. We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue the Service at any time (including, without limitation, by limiting or discontinuing certain features of the Service) without notice to you. We will have no liability whatsoever on account of any change to the Service or any suspension or termination of your access to or use of the Service. You may terminate your account at any time through the Service’s account dashboard."

And there was certainly meeting of the minds on this term. CF has booted sites in the past due to political backlash. Those boots were high-profile and well-covered in the news. And even without those high-profile boots, any reasonable person will expect someone using CF and running a site like 8chan to know what CF's terms say about terms for continuing service with any/no reason.

If you want your site to stay up even in the event of one of your customers committing a mass murder while your other customers cheer him on, then don't use CF.

It's true that finding another provider might be hard unless you have $$$ because the market for that product is really small -- not even 8chan's original founder is in that target market.

Oh well. I want $0.001 diapers for my kid and a lower grocery bill. The market doesn't provide those either. But if universal access to cheap diapers and high-quality food aren't fundamental human rights, I don't see why cheap anything-goes top-of-the-line DDoS protection services should be.