skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can a PR company manage to fix Saudi Arabia's image after the Jamal Khashoggi murder? But, hey, why not take the money
Apparently Trump's tariffs contributed to this.
Just hope it would not hurt US economy that much.
Show HN: GroupMe bot to render LaTeX equations and send them as images
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I made another comment in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21000374 and here's an extra one I didn't use https://twitter.com/tamidon/status/1172345517248040961 so see if you can find what you want in there.
The idea that speech is not "real-world conduct" is, in my considered opinion, not just wrong, but actively corrosive to the fabric of our civilization. Ideas are powerful, speeches can incite revolutions, send millions to their deaths, or be used to fight tyranny and oppression.

Should we highly value the idea of free speech? I believe we should. But we should also recognize that there's no such thing as "just speech". What we say matters, particularly if, like Dr. Stallman in this case, we are public figures speaking in what (given the number and types of people involved) is a semi-public forum.

There are two well know aphorisms: "the pen is mightier than the sword" and "he who lives by the sword dies by the sword". But if one recalls the last is derived from a line in the Bible that says in whole: “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword."

Sometimes, we should put the pen back in its place, lest we kill or die by it in our hubris.
As the income and wealth disparity, between people and between generation, the number of people thinking "let it burn" increases. A lot.

This is then multiplied when those people are those who actually do the work. Rich people in retirement homes can't get their stocks and 401ks or whatever to wipe their asses.
Insane 60% discount doesn't sound so insane when you are getting life in a country where you can't have your assets seized by the government and be put in jail at a moments notice. Your kids will have great schools and live in a pollution free beautiful place with good future prospects and a Chinese friendly environment. Sure he could have gotten more, but the downside is much worse.
The article mentions this page

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-5049

but it is a placeholder
It's really "threat that more people will want to divest or remain divested when they would have otherwise invested" that can cause change.

The board answers to the shareholders, and shareholders generally want to be able to sell their shares at a profit. If shareholders start to believe that the market for the shares is going to continuously decline because of some activity the company engages in, that creates an incentive to pressure the company to change behavior.
Chinese Hackers Eye US Cancer Research
I'm excited about this; I remember using leocad to design complex models, and I'd love to have programmatic tools to work with the same formats in Rust.
IANAL but basically, yeah this is probably mostly Fair Use.

You consider a few factors to determine if something is Fair Use, like what the work was originally, how much was copied, and what was done with it. For a GIF from a movie that gets put into an email/slack, you're looking at a tiny portion being used in a different format that isn't being sold directly but rather just part of emails.

If a copyright holder cared, they might be able to get an injunction stopping a company from using GIFs of their characters in promotional emails. They probably wouldn't get anything in terms of damages as what harm really occurred? It's not like I saw a gif and didn't need to see the whole movie. There might be statutory damages but those usually require bad faith which would be hard to argue.

StartupGIFs might be less fair use-y though. If they are selling access to the gifs or otherwise using it for marketing purposes, now there is money that can be directly tied to the use of GIF, which is a factor that is considered in Fair Use AND an argument to be used for damages.
I'll just quote oneshot908:

> If as amyjess seemingly suggests that female professors at MIT repeatedly filed complaints against him and nothing happened, well then carry on Twitter mob, good job, seriously.

And add that it doesn't matter. If it takes a twitter mob to force MIT to finally act ethically and remove a person with a history of bad behavior, good thing twitter mob. The solution to your concern is simple: institutions should be more proactive about self policing. If RMS had been fired 10 years ago, this mob would have no reason to exist.
Compared to training the CNN, running a GP on the outputs seemed like a worthwhile tradeoff of time if it resulted in a discernible difference in validation error; and the original authors of the paper we were following already had an open implementation.

I am open to suggestions if you know of any "post-processing" methods that would help to incorporate locality into the overall prediction.
> if this is really well sustained and consistently done then IPOs for such industries will raise less capital because there is less demand available when initial investors want to cash out.

Would this really have an impact on fossil fuel usage? The companies that drive fossil fuel consumption are established players and it seems like limiting seed funding in their industry would only help these players.

I'm pretty sure that you would have a bigger impact teleconferencing rather than flying around for meetings and investing the money saved on airfare in oil companies.

The solution is not divestment, but investment. Taking your money out of oil companies seems far less effective that putting your money into green companies.
How often does that happen? I can make the same argument about killing literally anyone because they might kill other people.
I made this very quickly in an evening as a proof-of-concept for a more advanced version to be integrated into Slack.

I am a member of several group chats in which math is commonly discussed, but it is sometimes difficult without notation. This bot is designed to augment such group chats with LaTeX typesetting ability!

Additional discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/d5hw66/groupme_bot_to...
Apparently the word unlimited now means 22GB. [1] Also no international tethering. [2] Then you need to also account for the fact that if anything happens with your Google account (say an AdSense terms violation) you will also lose your phone service. All of that for a whopping $70/month. Seems pretty crazy to me.

I'm currently paying 17€/month for unlimited calling, texts & data. Not sure what the actual data cap on my unlimited plan is, but I haven't reached it yet. For example I've used about 160GB with iOS tethering during the last week alone and everything still works fine, currently at 85Mbps down / 65Mbps up from where I'm standing. I can stream 4K no problems and I do.

Now my current plan has only 10GB EU-wide data and no non-EU data. However my operator (Tele2) does offer a 50€/month package for EU-wide unlimited all. No international unlimited all package from them yet though.

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[1] From the article: we will reduce speeds after 22GB of usage per person in a given month

[2] international tethering not supported on iOS https://fi.google.com/compatibility
They should be sued out of existence!
This is... unfortunate. California has really dragged most of the US auto industry kicking and screaming into an era of lower emissions by virtue of its ridiculously large impact on overall vehicle sales for the country. Granted, some of this has resulted in loophole exploitation like with overly large pickups and tiny production run cars, but the overall trend has been positive. It's sad to see the Trump administration might actually succeed in pushing emissions standards back several years.
Investors divesting from fossil fuels sounds a lot like sanctions in that they “don’t work until they work.”[1] It would take an overwhelming number of investors to make divestment really hurt, which is unlikely. And I definitely agree that focusing on supporting climate change impact is better than starving the polluters. But it seems intellectually dishonest to say that divestors are “wasting their time.” And there’s no reason you can’t do both.

1. https://qz.com/1072581/sanctions-dont-work-until-they-do-the...
This feels like a circular argument: Banks get bailed out, because banks always repay their loans, because banks can’t go broke, because banks get bailed out.
I was vague about the exact compensating donation because it'll be clearer when the time comes what'll do the most good.

The excerpt I saw was about trying to enjoin Macmillan to transfer them any money they were giving Snowden & any agents, etc.
'Look, freedom from speech is not freedom from consequences. Nobody is stopping Professor Galilei from continuing to insist that the earth revolves around the sun, and besides the Inquisition is a private institution with a right to practice freedom of association by associating Galileo with some thumbscrews(and I heard a rumor he's a creep).'
Technically yes, but there's effectively no way impeachment would ever make it past the Senate. It's all games in preparation for elections.
30 years ago? every one of these links is heresay from just 4 days ago. That is reviling.
>Your post is unabashed propaganda

Right and the government is paying me to say this on HN of all places.

>A radical and undefended claim. In what way is this true? You never say.

I thought this was obvious. Snowden did not have freedom of speech to reveal that the government was spying on its own citizens. You do not have the freedom of speech to threaten others. You do not have the freedom of speech to lie and slander about someone, it is literally in the law and people can sue you for this. Literally the law in the united states controls your speech using the justification of "security." China uses the exact same excuse. Is it a valid excuse? in both cases, I'm not sure. Definitely the US is more lax on these laws then China overall, but the atrocities done by the US on snowden is only one aspect of a country and it does not define the entire regime or its people.

>A single-party regime with no term limits on executive power is a stark contrast with a representative democratic federation designed with a multitude of checks and balances on its own power structures.

Right, vs. a government where people in power can (and are regularly) bribed with corporate money. Checks and balances in the united states is a check written as a bribe with a balance of over a million.

>Those two things are indeed important, defining characteristics of the two countries you describe. One of them was an act of world war decades ago. The other is current events, the result of an illegal act of oppression by a dystopian communist state, heavily indicative of what China is today.

Yeah the wholesale slaughter of millions of innocent civilians during wartime is excused with a couple of decades vs. a fucking protest happening right now can't be excused and must be used to define an entire nation and its people. That's not the point. The point, is the united states was never defined entirely by the bomb. You still are a country separate in culture and identity from a nuclear bomb or imperfections within the government.

China is largely the same thing. However because they are economic rivals with the US the media largely magnifies the things they do. You really need to go and live their to see that it's not as horrible as the media makes it out to be.

The LGBT person above feared for his life. That's next level brain washing right there.
Another $75B injection planned for tomorrow: https://www.ft.com/content/2c11a972-d941-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1...
must mean aliens

I haven't seen a single thing that couldn't be explained by technology humans already master.

The phenomena were unconventional guided plasma objects, and certainly didn't have any living things riding onboard. No pilots or passengers. Definitely remote control only from some undiscovered platform or satellite control.

But it's really obvious that someone was using electrified plasma to taunt pilots in an exercise.

Since the object advertised its presence and then further provoked pilots by anticipating their ad-hoc CAP points, I suspect it was Americans experimenting on Americans.

If it wasn't a U.S. experiment, it was China or Russia screwing around, considering the level of tecnology.
In the shared channels it says right above the text input: `foo is in this channel` (with their logo) where `foo` is the name of the other company.

It makes it really obvious at a glance before you type into the textbox.
Climate change is solved with neither divestment nor technology, but with hard-stop policy reforms. Considering just 100 corporations are responsible for 71% of global emissions [0], we know who's doing the damage and how they're doing it.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...
You're right. You're spending more time sitting on that plane
'Look, freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. Professor Galilei said something gross, but nobody is silencing him. The Inquisition is just going to exercise its right to freedom of association by associating him with some thumbscrews. Plus I hear he's a creep!'
> some types of mail are protected by the 4th amendment

> The law doesn't see a difference

Wow the cognitive dissonance in that is painful to read. Your argument sounds like "Shrodingers cat". It is and isn't at the same time. Ultimately though, it has to collapse into one objective reality ;)

> If you send a document through UPS, there is no expectation of privacy.

Yeah, again, no. This is directly contradicted by supreme court cases like:

"No law of Congress can place in the hands of officials connected with the Postal Service any authority to invade the secrecy of letters and such sealed packages in the mail; and all regulations adopted as to mail matter of this kind must be in subordination to the great principle embodied in the fourth amendment of the Constitution."

But then again, some people view laws (like 39 U.S.C. 3623, supreme court precedents or other such concrete objective reality as impediments that must be overcome to see reality as they choose to see it.

> you should read the words package/letter/mail/correspondence interchangeably.

> some types of mail are protected

Aside from the obvious contradiction, that's not how language works. You should really look up these words in a dictionary. It will help you communicate better.

In case you want to learn and not just teach people things you are making up:
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/nsa-surveillance-why-th...

P.S. it is a scarecrow because you are answering someone talking about Letters with what happens to packages. This is textbook scarecrow arguments, where you change what is said to attack a new, different argument than the one provided.
And this supposed marketing advantage only lasted for the first handful of releases, when numbers where under or around 10. Now numbers are so big that they have become totally insignificant. 57? 63? 98? who cares any more?

Furthermore, as another comment said, it is impossible to remember on which release they started breaking this or that, since there is no more major version number change, which is usually handy to indicate backward-incompatible changes.
Wouldn’t it be better to reduce demand? Even just now where supply was literally taken out with missles (or were they drones?) that doesn’t affect how much fossil fuel is used. Why would divestment work any better?

To reduce demand you should either create cheaper ways to store alternative energy or make carbon based fuels more expensive with a carbon tax.
I pay a princely $7 per month for GitHub and have always had surprisingly speedy, accurate, caring results-including follow ups.
It seems perfectly consistent to me that someone worried about people being fired for controversial opinions would not give such an opinion non-anonymously. I don't see what point you're making.
Artificially propping up the price of oil won't have the intended effect:

It would incentivize the extraction of oil, which at present requires infrastructure that damages the surrounding environment. A lot of the oil is in the ground now because it doesn't make financial sense to extract it; the cost of extraction is less than the revenue generated from its sale on the market.

There's plenty of oil hoarded in the ground now in private wells. People sitting on land rights waiting for the right time to sell that oil on the open market. A massive government program that artificially props the price of oil up is the perfect setup for a massive wealth transfer to people that do nothing but hold title. That extracted oil would need to be transported or piped away from the extraction site and stored in perpetuity, all of which the land was already doing for free!

Techniques for extraction like fracking destroy the quality of adjacent groundwater and externalizes that cost onto the surrounding community. We don't want a government program that incentivizes poisoning groundwater on a hotter planet with diminishing glacial melt surface water.

Planet Money did an excellent series on the crude economy:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/26/491342091/plan...
>a glut of new bonds appeared on the market as the U.S. government sold some $78 billion of 10- and 30-year debt last week.

But this isn't slowing down any time soon, so the problem will keep recurring. Deficit's are rising, and foreign purchases of treasury debt has plateaued the past few years.

This, some say, is the real problem: banks are forced to purchase this debt and so the funding needs of the US government are crowding out domestic banking sector. If continues, this means the Fed will effectively be monetizing US deficits.

Luke Gromen has covered this in various podcast interviews[0] and on twitter: @LukeGromen.

[0] https://www.macrovoices.com/podcasts-collection/macrovoices-...
I'm actually excited that it's all 2D.
They should have used a .gov site to reduce phishing risk.
Yep, we do this on GitLab.com - it’s one of the most well thought through systems I’ve worked with tbh. We use autoscaling EC2 spot instances for almost everything, incredibly cost efficient and unlimited.
Some of the protest leaders have been bankrolled by NGOs with connections to the US government since the 'Umbrella Revolution'.
Great suggestions, you'll be happy to know many of these are on the roadmap, and some have already been done!

> Have multiple projectional views of the system,

Some amount of this works already (you can see callers and callees, you can see the DB schema); we want a callgraph view for sure, and I like the idea of seeing the handler at the bottom of the call stack.

> Easy example based testing

Yes, this is planned to work similar to traces, and it should be trivial to turn a trace into a test

> History of each function,

Yup, planned

> 'diff' of a snapshot against another one is great.

Planned, but low on the priority list compared to the other stuff you've mentioned.

> Annotations

Planned. We've implemented some grouping (similar concept but obviously different use cases to tagging). Some of these annotations would be automatic or semi-automatic.

> A standard CRUD UI for DBs

Planned :)

> DB/field annotations for privacy

We plan two aspects to this. There is the "PII indicator" which says this is PII and shouldn't be logged at all. Then there's access-control lists where we decide who (if anyone) can view certain attributes (eg: this dev is a contractor, do not show them live values).

Thanks for all the suggestions!
So great is their control that they've built one of the greatest censoring apparatus in the world, the great Firewall?
A lot of meetups are held in WeWork spaces, especially smaller ones that are too small or niche to have a strong corporate backer.
the problem with syntactic rules is that syntactic rules can be interpreted as rules before anybody has a chance to use them, or can even think about them! so maybe if my mom calls me cat, or the weather forecast is coming up and the people on live television could only watch the weather forecast for ten minutes or less without shouting about my exposed nipples, then everybody would be mad.
Great place to work from.
Cleared the text field, typed "Autism ", asked for autocomplete, and got 2 sentences in French.
I need this for linux to play youtube while working.
There actually seems to be a bit of a battle going on in my upvotes right now.
The n parameter there was the number of datapoints, not the size of the inputs (that would've been way worse). For brain imaging, is the 100k parameter also referencing datapoints, or dimensionality of the input?

Chapter 8 of the Rasmussen reference does talk about approximation methods for large datasets, but I couldn't find any reference implementations to go off of.
He's just released a book, I wonder how it is set up, can he earn the money from it or not?
This is why consumers need to organize to kill the worst one first.

Equifax has a poor reputation from the leak in addition to having an antisocial business model, so they are the most vulnerable.
But managers can stop doing the thing that leads to divestment (or so the theory goes).
Whether or not bank bailouts were prudent is a matter of debate, but unlike individuals, default is rare and overall bailouts were repaid quickly.

https://www.politifact.com/new-hampshire/statements/2012/oct...
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>Public works projects happen all the time here. This is such a silly argument.

On the scale of China? No. On the scale of Europe? No. On the scale of Asia? No. Public works is one of the weakest things about the united states. A big portion of your money goes to military! If you're counting the F-35 as public works then yes America spends more money than all the other countries.
We have a shared channel too. It's great for times when you want to pull a client or a vendor into your slack for long term. You do want to be careful about getting pulled into slack (see this post and discussion from a week or so ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895853 ).

There's actually another use case where a vendor provides a bot and wants users of the bot to be easily able to file help requests. We wrote an app for that and outlined our thinking here: https://www.transposit.com/blog/2019.09.17-amazon-slack-shar...
Oh, I agree that other routes are more efficient, but divestment with dedication and co-operation could have an impact.

Also, the amount of coaching and conditions in the post above were an effort to express how utterly futile it is for you to actually effect change through this approach - there are far more effective things to do as an individual or group... And if you've got enough clout to lobby then the best tactic is probably getting the US government to stop subsidizing oil because, honestly, what... why is that something that deserves subsidies.
These days we have the same questions, but with extra ones:

Fluter or Native?
Which the answer is Fluter never ever can be natives, like JAVA and SWIFT, but is good for must of the startups to start quick

PWA or Fluter? We don't know
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