skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Social media platforms need to wake up and realize they have a responsibility to society - just like "classic" media - and that is to further democratic discourse instead of helping to destroy it. Allowing lies and propaganda fabrications to spread is nothing less than destruction of democracy.

There's another word to describe what you get when the ultra-rich and powerful are the ones that decide what's true and what's not: plutarchy.

Further, I'm not so sure the classic media organizations see their responsibility the same way you do. The centralization of the media landscape resulting from the invention of radio and television was extremely pernicious: it led to the near-total control of news and information by a few people, who were able to effectively propagandize their interests to millions of Americans.

These same media organizations worked hand-in-hand with the CIA and other intelligence agencies to advance falsehoods and propaganda. We have a long and sordid public history of things like Operation Mockingbird, and it never stopped. The same situation goes on today - what do you think all these "anonymous officials" are doing, who end up being cited repeatedly by the media, even after they prove to be lying, and why do you think media organizations actively hire people like John Brennan?

The Internet has given us, for the first time in decades, the ability to read information not controlled and filtered by the news media/government establishment. It is difficult to see these efforts on the part of YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms as anything other than an attempt under pressure (by the government and the classic media) to get the populace back under control and wholly informed only by government/plutarch approved information sources.

For centuries, even millenia, "fake news" and propaganda have been real problems. There were arguments at the Constitutional Convention about how 'designing men' were already spreading lies and propaganda to influence elections. Rumors and propaganda caused all sorts of problems in democratic societies throughout history, which survived anyway. Democratic discourse means yes, letting everyone speak even when it means a lot of people will be misinformed. It means it's your duty to try to convince people otherwise, even if you have to do it a thousand times or a million times. It means that you are not the possessor of ultimate truth and you don't get to dictate the truth to others. Maybe that's not the best way to run a society. Maybe we should be trying to construct Plato's Republic and penalizing people who put out what we decide is harmful. But that's not democratic.
Yes, that's his point. Tolerating "Jews should not be able to vote" as an opinion will ironically lead to a less tolerant society. You must be intolerant with the intolerant.
Cathay Pacific CEO stepped down after China’s civil aviation regulator issued a major safety risk warning to Cathay and set out a list of demands, including giving full information on crew flying into its airspace [1]. The news is first reported by China's state-owned CCTV [2].

[1]: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/302312...

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-16/cathay-pa...
ad hominem attacks don't change the veracity of the leaked documents.

This is strawman thinking and to use your phrase, "I'm surprised it showed up on HN."
Calling it a tax on parents is a serious reach. And while the US has dumping prices that are lower than Canada's (e.g. when they are faced with dumping product down the drain so instead pour it into an area for little), in many areas and times the prices are not far off the US.

The lack of butter croissants has nothing to do with it, as an aside. We simply have a mediocre croissant palate in Canada, so the general market variety are horrendous.
The fact is that, while the mainstream media pays attention to the far right outcry of censorship and demonetization, the left alternative media is also censored and demonetized on YouTube.

YouTube is actively promoting the content of mainstream corporate sources that are inoffensive to advertisers with no say from its creators, it’s employees or its viewers/subscribers. And this is truly the fundamental problem.

YouTube has zero accountability to anyone accept its advertisers, it’s major shareholders which there are few, and its board which there are few. YouTube being the only game in town, makes it impossible for the free market to allow you to move your eyeballs to another video platform.

The fact is we need regulation and democratic oversight over YouTube as it is demonstrably a public good and a monopoly.
The Ukraine situation has nothing to do with debt.

Show me an after WW2 example were one country used the military against another because of unpaid debt.
The topic here is not twitter jokes, so refrain from derailing the conversation to your pet talking point.
> The ability to prove, in isolation, the relevant properties about some entity (e.g., a function, a hardware module, or what have you), and then to make use of these properties, without ever looking inside the entity again, to prove properties of some larger system, seems to me to be absolutely essential for scaling proofs to large systems.

I understand the motivation, and of course you're right that it would be "essential", it's just that it has been mathematically proven (see my post) that this is not the case. Results in computational complexity theory, that studies how hard it is to do things, show that "making use of these properties, without ever looking inside the entity again" does not, in fact, make verification easier. More precisely, the difficulty of proving a property of A_1 ∘ ... ∘ A_n is not any function of n, because we cannot hide the inner details of the components in a way that would make the effort lower even though that is what we want to do and even though it is essential for success.

In practice, we have not been able to scale proofs to large systems, which means that maybe there is some truth to those mathematical results.
Weimar Germany did not have limitless free speech. Newspapers were continually confiscated in Germany pre-1933, editors taken to court, and promulgators of hate speech arrested. [1]

It didn't work. So what's the argument for them now?

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/copenhagen-speech-v...
Can Low Interest Rates Hold Off Recession? (With Richard Wolff)
I would argue, that separate control/data channels makes protocol more secure. You can't sneak commands on data and you don't need worry, how do terminate data transmission and switch back to control mode.
It goes deeper than that. There is plenty of research showing that shared memory multithreading is not even a viable concurrency model. The premise that threads are fine and simple is just false.
I should be a separate cmd. It's such a common operation, and it's a huge noob trap.
the day after the election of Trump. That actually explained a lot to me about why a young man who was the student treasurer of the college would do something like this

Sorry, maybe I am being stupid today, but can you explain your reasoning here?

You seem to be saying there is a causal link between a particular candidate being elected and an underage minor shoplifting, stealing alcohol, and assaulting a shopkeeper? Further you assert the former justified the latter?
That's how I switched to Firefox years ago. Chrome's data had showed them a particular feature I liked wasn't used by a ton of people so they removed it.
> As long as Youtube doesn't remove the videos outright there is no censorship

As long as protests are limited to designated "free speech zones", there's no censorship either, right?

Yes yes one is private and the other is public property, but the effect is the exact same. Worse, in fact - at least when you're herded into a free speech zone, you know your speech is being restricted. But when your video doesn't get many views, you have no idea.
> the meaning of 可爱 would be fairly straightforward to guess

To be honest this whole thread about 可愛い is more or less bonkers, because it's an ateji. The word's meaning doesn't derive from the characters, the characters got arbitrarily attached to an existing word because they were similar in sound and meaning.

As such, the whole thing is about as meaningful as talking about how easy it is to guess that 珈琲 means "coffee"...
Some remarks as a developer on Fastmail’s webmail, using JMAP daily but not having been much involved in its development:

IMAP really isn’t fine. If it was, mail providers wouldn’t have kept on making their own protocols/APIs for their mobile apps or their webmail. JMAP has various concrete benefits over IMAP. JMAP has been made by people that have been working with IMAP for decades, and have been actively involved in IMAP improvements over that time as well.

Pretty much all of your objections seem to me to either be misinformed, or addressed at https://jmap.io/. Strongly relevant are headings 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8. (I could write more about individual issues, but I’ll just leave it at that.)

The main thing that is only kind-of addressed there is your objection to JSON number representation. JMAP does not state that JSON is the best thing out there; but rather that it is good enough. JMAP doesn’t use floating-point numbers, uses opaque strings for IDs (where many APIs people home-bake would use numbers), and expressly limits its integers to the −2⁵³+1 to 2⁵³−1 range where it does actually use integers. (And none of those places should ever be anywhere near that.)
I'm continually surprised this isn't a major international scandal.

Some Americans don't like google interfering with their discourse and they spend their time using constitutional arguments as to how ok that is or not. International people watching these arguments look on with boredom.

Meanwhile, and american company per default explicitly shapes the dialog of the entire world and people shrug.

The international angle on this is absolutely scandalous and no one cares. Every international government acknowledges the problems of the great firewall of China, but this doesn't matter?
Setting an example is great and doing what you personally can to reduce your footprint is certainly not wrong but it’s completely and utterly wrong to focus on that and talk about it. That’s just the wrong approach.

Deniers and their ilk will talk about nothing but personal failings, not systematic approaches. That’s a rhetorical strategy they are comfortable with and where they will always be able to win (since society is currently structured in a way that makes it very hard to reduce your footprint).

People might think that them personally doing something might solve the problem, which couldn’t be further from the truth. People might think that since they did something they don’t have to do anything more.

Focusing on personal responsibility is the completely wrong approach. This needs taxes, this needs bans, this needs huge political changes. There is no alternative. There is nothing you can personally do to solve this when those things don’t happen.
> "N2 is generally attained after 1-2 years of Japanese studies"

From my own experience, this would only be true in the most favorable of the situations. 2 years studying fulltime while living in Japan sounds about right. 1 year studying as a hobby few hours a week, no way.
I'm not sure I understand your argument. I assume you mean "assault weapons" because actual "assault rifles" (capable of automatic or burst fire) are not generally legal to own in the U.S. But your argument would apply equally well to these banned assault rifles (they are clearly "arms"), so doesn't that mean your argument is wrong?
Chrome didn't exist 20 years ago, but you can trace its lineage back that far. Khtml dates back to 1998 apparently.
> Because I don't see it as a good enough method.

You don't see what as a good-enough method?

> There is, even though it is hard to judge: the number of cases it works for with same amount of work invested and genericity of obtained results.

Well, even deductive proof proponents (like Xavier Leroy) are forced to admit that of all known and practiced formal methods, deductive proofs score lowest of all on that metric.

> To me it looks like you have type theory except it moved from typing of variables to associated predicates.

Then it's not a type theory. A type theory is one way of expressing logical propositions, and, say, first-order logic over set theory is another. You can express similar things in both. Why do you think that it means that one is really the other? If you could say in French the same thing as you can in English, does that mean French is really English?

> I really don't see how it is better.

It's not better! The problem with dependent types is not the theory, which is perfectly fine! The problem is the practice. You can describe a property using dependent types or, say, FOL in some contract system. But only with dependent types you have to verify that property using deductive proofs, the "weakest" formal method by your metric. With a contract system, you can choose to verify the same proposition with a deductive proof, or you can use one of the "stronger" methods.
It depends on what you’re developing. I have 0 need for anything except an on chip GPU for my development. That’s only because I developed for the web. If I need horsepower on the go I can VPN into my home workstation or server. If you’re doing ML or even Video editing a multi-GPU desktop will be so much faster than any portable laptop.

However, I agree that eGPUs aren’t a solution. I had a bad experience with Nvidia on my 2011 MBP but my 2017 MPB with an AMD chip is as good as the 2011 in its day.
She had been there about 2 years. The company was about 4 at the time.
Sure it does. See https://jmap.io/#push-mechanism
> have the wrong stance on the current Hong Kong situation

> "Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party," said O'Brien

You have erred in your thoughts, Winston.
In cooperative multitasking you can program when to give up control, not when it is regained. The regaining part is unpredictable. Which introduces a lot of non-determinism to deal with and overhead.
Interview with a Project Manager
That's not remotely what's being discussed here.

Nice straw man with the hyperbole and the "good job comrade".
> with a factor < 1

How so? The video is there and it can be viewed. That is 1. That is your voice. It just gets no amplification while other voices do.
Did you ever see Breitbart putting an anti-Breitbart opinion on the front page? Are they being anti-democratic by doing this?

So I'll ask again, if you downvoted/flagged my comment thus making it less readable (factor < 1) did you act in an anti-democratic way? And if so how do you reconcile your actions with your words?
Why can we assume that? Is he an expert on the history of logic? That he's an expert in an adjacent field doesn't make him at all an expert on that. If you listen to his talks and compare with the actual texts he mentions you'll see that he's wrong.

And the similarity is not "striking" at all. It's by design. It is only striking if you don't know the actual history of how these formal systems developed. A couple of years ago I composed an entire anthology on the subject: https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra
A huge payment for a piece of art is also a convenient way to legitimately pay for goods or services that you don’t want to be assoicated with.
It turns out there are more than 777 words commonly used. Kanji is not different in this respect.
What would it take to connect those two outlets to the line ins of a sub / speaker?
If you think CNN is somehow more accurate than RT, you are part of the problem.

I used to pay extra on my cable bill for the new package which was CNN, MSNBC, BBC World, DW and Fox News. Never bothered with Fox, but it was interesting to see how inaccurate or false CNN and MSNBC we're compared to BBC or DW.

I guess if you are covering your ears at anything presented that doesn't match your political ideology, you're a lot dumber than you think you are. Personally I like to have as much news as possible from all sources so I can come to my conclusion to the actual truth, compared to being told that you can only trust leftist news channels because if you don't you're racist(2015),Russian Bot(2016),homophobic(2017),transphobic or alt-right(2018), white supremacists (2019)
Humility is a great start!

Humor, also. Amuse others with your wit. Don't be insulting, it's not necessary

Be willing to have your opinion discounted for a while (see, humility). When you turn out to have been right often enough they will come around. If it doesn't work out that way, hmmm, maybe you lacked some necessary knowledge.

Actual knowledge can often trump an ability to figure it out quickly. Pay attention to people with experience in a new situation, even if their CPU clock is running slower than yours. Respect their database.
Rekindling friendship can be hard when your last text is forever visible
There is a massive, massive difference between a trillion dollar company optimising for money and optimising for "the truth".

I prefer my corporations greedy instead of virtuous, it's much more trustworthy.
because IQ has no bearing on discipline and you get nowhere without putting in work (no matter how astronomical one’s IQ is)
Why didnt they use the language they already coded the API in then ?
Is that true? I just opened an FTP URL in Firefox 68 just fine.
Chrome, being a browser made by an advertising company, could show ads on ftp directory listings.
Unsealed Warrant and Forfeiture Complaint Seek Seizure of Oil Tanker “Grace 1”
PrimeVue UI Suite 1.0.0-beta.7 is released with the new TreeTable and InputMask
Professional quant here. I have to say I strongly disagree with the conclusions of the OP.

> They were all found by using phrases like "predict stock market" or "predict forex" or "predict bitcoin" and terms related to those.

Yeah, searching for any finance papers with "predict" or "machine learning" is literally the lowest quality tier you can get. These papers are often written by grad students who can pump an easy paper out by "applying" some already known ML algorithm to financial markets. Of course it's not gonna work. It also kills me when I see ML models who need stationarity assumptions applied to non-stationary time series data. Yeah, good luck with that.

THAT being said, there is lots of high quality research which has been replicated over and over, showing that alpha does exist in the market (and which funds have made billions off of). I would like to see the OP try to replicate some of these instead. To give some simple examples:

1. Try searching for papers with the keywords "and the cross section of expected returns". For example, the momentum factor which can be tested and replicated with only linear regression.
> There is substantial evidence that indicates that stocks that perform the best (worst) over a three- to 12-month period tend to continue to perform well (poorly) over the subsequent three to 12 months.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=299107

2. Statistical arbitrage strategies which were known to work well until the mid 2000s. Also been replicated many times, furthermore, you can see the gradual decline in profitability pointing to the theory that "alpha decay" in this case is real. https://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/avellane/AvellanedaLeeStatA...

3. High frequency strategies. No way OP or any retail trader can replicate this, but firms make billions of dollars per year consistently doing this.

In conclusion, to make a claim that there is no alpha in the market seems highly suspect, and perhaps just needs a more nuanced view of how trading firms make their profits.
Whole solution and experience is different, even if some point uploading file by bytes over TCP is similar. HTTP server itself isn't solution. You need code implementing upload functionality, probably support for uploading many files at once and tracking progress. Now you client uses javascript and that client is remote, you need to "download" it from HTTP server. FTP client is small, local and don't have much overhead, HTTP with its stateless form needs headers retransmitted with every request.
Is Google not "the intolerant" in this scenario?
Since when is a tropical storm a minor concern? That’s one of the stranger assertions to wake up to on a Saturday morning. The National Weather Service maintains a nice list of EAS event codes here: https://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/info/eventcodes.html

47 CFR 11.31 defines the AFSK signal used for transmitting EAS alerts. The encoder settings are unique enough to not be accidentally used in any regular setting. For emergency planning purposes especially in lessons learned post-Katrina, avoiding alert fatigue was deemed by internal & external evaluators as being critical. The cited code section is here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/11.31

As for being artistic, sometimes there are boundaries. This is one that shouldn’t be crossed.
Probably the same as now. Authentication with user supplied credentials grants you a long-living session for the current device and current mail application via a locally stored secret unlocked by the user logging on to his computer or unlocking his device (which too could be done via WebAuthn or a similar 2FA approach; e.g., a fingerprint on a smartphone).

It can be invalidated by exceeding an age limit or by the user logging out or otherwise retracting the access grant.
Except we can see that's not how it works, and Alex Jones became incredibly successful all the way up to slandering the parents of murdered children. It turns out that's where the line is.

People do treat Google search results like truth. There's not a great deal google can do about that, and it's irresponsible for google to feed people lies.
> And yet, the government pushes and incentivizes farmers to just grow more.

I'm a corn farmer (along with soybeans, dry beans, and wheat). What particular incentive is there for me to grow more corn? I am honestly unsure of what you are referring to.

There is a natural incentive for me to stay within that group of crops because that is what my existing infrastructure is capable of handling. If I wanted to grow, say, tomatoes, assuming my locale is actually suitable for growing them commercially, I would need to set up an entirely new infrastructure to handle them at great cost. That doesn't make business sense. Accepting a bad year on corn sales to be made up in the good years does.

That said, new crop corn was at nearly $6 with the local basis applied a few weeks back. If you cannot plant and harvest corn at a profit at $6, you're doing something horribly, horribly wrong. The real problem this year – and what prompted the jump to $6 – is the wet spring that left us struggling to get the crop in. If you have a crop to harvest this year, and were savvy enough to sell it, you're laughing.
IIRC the only way to fry an amp is to hook it up with no load. Putting not enough load will fry the load when the amp overdrives it, putting too much load will simply make for a quiet speaker.
How (and Why) to KISSASS
There aren't that many of them, but they have an outsized influence on politics because of the role they play in the economics of rural life. Farmers are the major employers for young rural people, they pay for local services to a greater degree, and their families tend to have been active in the local economy for a long time. When the farmers in an area are doing well, typically so is the rest of the economy and vice versa.