skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Antifa is center-right?

Frankly I don't know what their specific positions are, but being anti-fascist on the face of it doesn't make you left, it makes you "not far-right."

> UBI is center-right?

UBI in my mind is apolitical, as it is the inevitable consequence of development. The more we develop, the fewer humans we'll need, as robots will replace them in the work they do. We won't need as many people working as we will have. Luckily as we develop birth rate goes down, so UBI is, for me, an artifact of a transient state where population will shrink to make up for development, and this is a humane way to handle the people who we don't need in the work-force.

The alternative is to create jobs we don't need and turn ourselves into a renaissance faire as a make-work project.

> Civil rights are center-right?

Civil rights should be apolitical. Everyone should believe in civil rights, left or right. Unless "left" means to treat people with respect, and "right" means not doing so, in which case I think you're making my argument, as most political systems treat civil rights as table stakes.

> Disregarding that, the rest of your post clearly shows you have a very skewed understanding of how politics (and laws) work.

Please do explain where, by law, anyone is required to publish someone else' views verbatim.
The First Amendment says:

"Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech"

A company removing an app is not Congress making a law that abridges anyone's freedom of speech. This isn't a First Amendment issue.
Want to hammer a nail into a wall? Build a robot to do it! If you have lots of spare time, of course...
WSL is out, and you can get installation instructions here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-install
My first thought when seeing this was "they have a way to shield UK startup financials from Brexit".
This argument doesn't really work. I think the clearest example of this is Mars, Hershey, Nestle.

These companies are, at the minimum, complicit in literal child slavery in the production of their chocolate. [1] This gets a piece run in the mainstream news once every couple of years or so. People express shock and awe, vow to boycott the companies, come up with some neat slogans or hashtags and all that. A few days after the next outrageous news piece comes up, it's a distant memory. And that's over something that's like comic book villain black and white bad, or in other words that there is going to be nothing but quite strong derision for that situation.

Hershey and Nestle are showing record breaking stock prices. Mars is private, but it's safe to assume the same.

The same is true of most topics now a days. The vast majority of activism is not driven by individual initiative, but by media attention. That means when the media spotlight fades, so does interest in the topic. In this particular case, the revelation of PRISM [2] (of which Apple, Google, and all major US tech providers are a part of) reshaped my entire perspective of the world and of these companies. Ask yourself why these companies would participate in such a program. For many, it's now just a distant memory - and you even have people now arguing that PRISM couldn't have been that bad. After all, the media isn't even talking about it anymore.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/hershe...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...
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Because most major manufacturers are mainly Chinese now(Huawei/Xiaomi/Oppo), and China is the NO1 market, why leave China?

Samsung had been irrelevant in China for some years now, like below 1% market share. It just can't compete

US is by far the only market that Chinese phones haven't dominated, but that is for a reason. Buying an Android in US there has surprising limited choices, Samsung/OnePlus/Pixel in that Order, and that is it. It is Duoploy either Samsung or iPhone, and others don't play.
Google merely closed their office in China and (passively) stopped offering their search and mail services. The money making part of Google (AdSense, Android) has been making a killing in China over the past decade. Despite the posturing on both sides, the relationship between Google and the Chinese regime is much cosier than people often assume.
I’m not claiming that the code of conduct accusation is or isn’t justified. My point is that he got fired from one normal job (i.e. not a role with a significant public-facing component, like an actor or TV personality or comedian or writer or YouTube creator) for saying things about his employer that for one reason or another the employer very much didn’t like. Do you genuinely think his case qualifies as “deplatforming?” I think that would be an extremely broad application of the term “deplatforming.”
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I don't understand how 'person on test/est' makes sense in context of this post. The article implies just the opposite. That xy chromasome males (who all experienced a fetal testosterone surge, assuming they have normal male sex organs) tolerate testosterone better than males who had a smaller test surge, and obviously more than an xx female.

I guess chromesomes are biological not 'medical'?
The Tesla Model 3 has 409km range WLTP for the Standard Range Plus model and 560km for the Long Range model. The ID.3 will have three battery sizes for 330km, 420km, and 550km WLTP at lower price points. The range argument isn't really there.

Taycan's Nürburgring performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m31EgQkswg

Tesla Model S Plaid's Nürburgring performance: https://www.thedrive.com/news/29946/porsche-taycan-laps-brok...

It's disappointing they're not even trying with the current Model S. The Plaid drive train is still a year away. Porsche is a year ahead on performance at this point.
Does it swing purely due to the cyclic nature of what is fashionable? Or does it take catastrophic results to shock society into a pendulum swing the other way?
I find game development as a good proxy for the overall level of CS in a region. Can you name, from the top of your head, a Spanish game studio? or Italian? or Portugal? or even a single game? I could only come up with Commandos/Runaway series (Spanish) and Screamer/Assetto Corsa (Italian) on my own, plus knowledge Screamer developer is the only notable one still making racing games to this day. I couldnt remember a single game studio name :( and Im an avid current/retro gamer. Even looking up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_companies_... is not that helpful. You know its bad when you get results like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_Spanish_software. Thats really not that great compared to the rest of Europe.
And you think some researchers at UC Santa Barbara, under a professor named "Yasamin Mostofi", are far-right and deliberately snuck in a white-supremacist reference? I have a feeling most of the researchers aren't even white... "Chitra Karanam", "Belal Korany", and "Herbert Cai" are the three Ph.D students. Well.

Of course, even if all people involved were white, and even if it was a deliberate reference, as long as there's nothing other than the number, no one should get in trouble for that. Under no circumstances should researchers be worrying about the numbers they come up with. If you're doing 420 trials at 69 degrees Fahrenheit, so be it.

Cf. this thread: "Six paediatric health‐care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head. Previous gastrointestinal surgery, inability to ingest foreign objects and aversion to searching through faecal matter were all exclusion criteria. Pre‐ingestion bowel habit was standardised by the Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score. Participants ingested a Lego head, and the time taken for the object to be found in the participants stool was recorded. The primary outcome was the Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18519899
To clarify, because I wanted to know the details:

This is coming from the "NYC Commission on Human Rights Legal Enforcement Guidance on Discrimination on the Basis of Immigration Status and National Origin."

The relevant text is: "the use of certain language, including “illegal alien” and “illegals,” with the intent to demean, humiliate, or offend a person or persons constitutes discrimination." The law does not (in this context) explicitly include the phrase "illegal immigrant."

A news article about this:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-illegal-alien-city-law...

The original document: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/cchr/downloads/pdf/publications/...

ETA: "The New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”) prohibits discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived “alienage and citizenship status,” and “national origin,” among other categories, by most employers, housing providers, and providers of public accommodations in New York City. The NYCHRL also prohibits discriminatory harassment and bias-based profiling by law enforcement."
Love your Privacy Policy:

→ Memos does not transmit any images or associated metadata.

→ All processing is done on your device
Reading the paper, instead of computing the gradient across the training run they compute the gradient for a hyper parameter after each batch and update the hyper parameter then. That keeps the computational cost pretty light. Stacking gradient descent 50 times on itself only costs about double normal gradient descent. That's specific to their experiment, but when done on bigger models the added cost for computing the hyperparameter derivatives should become a smaller fraction.

I'm surprised by the lack of any bigger experiments (imagenet would be nice, but even cifar10 would help) given how computationally light this was. Also surprised that an 11ish author stanford paper did their experiments on 1 cpu.
In addition to tariffs, they were effectively training their competitors in China. Manufacturing in China just accelerates the rate of IP theft.
Students across Europe learn Swift to unlock new opportunities
I believe the understanding is that the amount of male brainedness is dictated by the magnitude of the fetal testosterone surge.
> Sadly, using Firefox doesn't really mitigate Google's grip on my data since I'm still searching via the big G

That's rather easy to fix.
https://www.startpage.com/en/pics.html

Not a perfect solution but does allow some cake and eating it too.
Dang, this is the second time today an Anandtech article has been causing ad issues. I commented earlier about it happening to me but on a different article.
> L.A. will prohibit all restaurants and vendors from handing out plastic straws unless requested effective Oct. 1. Councilman Mitch O’Farrell says people don’t even need a straw to drink a smoothie. “Just have them blend it a little thinner.”

https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1178911679846871045?s...
To me a website can be a static webpage, but a web app's more dynamic
short answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps "As of 2018, it is estimated that the Chinese authorities may have detained hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million, of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Hui (Muslims) and other ethnic Turkic Muslims, Christians as well as some foreign citizens such as Kazakhstanis, who are kept in these secretive internment camps throughout the region."
> FTA: "Hong Kong citizens have highlighted a quirk of local laws that provide a strong counter-argument: under the law, the Hong Kong police are obliged to wave a blue flag at the spot in which they which to declare that an illegal gathering is taking place."

So HK police are required to wave a blue flag so that the general public is aware the police have declared a particular gathering at a particular location illegal. Thus, HK law literally wants the location of the gathering made known, publicly drawing attention to it and the location. I assume this is to inform those gathering about their status and to let others nearby know also, as a warning, perhaps. And also nearby officers. Okay.

So consider an app that shared only this publicly visible information on a map. i.e. "police have raised the blue flag on this gathering, right here", without commentary or calls to action.

Less functional and informative than the existing app, but it may still serve a useful purpose for HK residents and demonstrators and perhaps even police (according to HK law) and then Apple may plausibly allow the app because it doesn't get into choosing sides or facilitating illegal calls to action.
Hate speech is protected speech. The "fire in a theater" argument was forced as the justice was grabbing at straws in an attempt to protect the war effort. He later admitted it was a poor ruling.

To understand why all speech is protected realize that the first amendment is partly to prevent arguments about which speech is permissible from occurring by allowing all of it. So... by saying "hate speech is not allowed" you are having the argument that was supposed to not be had.
The shared evolution of the Tasmanian tiger and the wolf
In some states free speech extends to private property that serves public function like a mall or square.
Only if you use regex in the lexer.
Federal government has dramatically expanded exposure to risky mortgages
I'm reminded of: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-foo...
Yes, the tendency for "winner take all" distributions to happen are annoying as heck.
Ask HN: Who do you follow in tech on Twitter that you learn the most from?
Part of my wife's contract includes wording like 'any duties', so they can add as much arbitrary work as they want
Sure, I agree in a sense. But nobody actually knows how to generate a true win, where we all live globally together in harmony and understanding - its all a big mess, and no one has the magic formula. At best, we only know how to slow our competitors down. Its like a chess game, but one where nobody knows what a checkmate really is.

If we knock the American tech giants down several pegs, as a hypothetical example, it might be beneficial in some ways. But we're also helping to clear the path for companies like Huawei to fill the void. That in turn, helps China project influence around the globe. Every nation-state in the world wants to position its resources (like corporations) as advantageously as possible, and they'll seize on any and every opportunity to do so.

We might not like wars for oil - we might like the alternatives even less.
I'll try it without citations :)

Because China is an authoritarian regime that imprisons, and sometimes kills, people for their opinions.

Because China systematically destroyed one of the oldest and most peaceful cultures the world has ever seen in Tibet.

Because China put 100's of 1000's of Muslims in concentration camps. A program which is still happening by all (non Chinese government) accounts.

And so on.

Not that Apple makes decisions based on moral considerations.
[PM on Brex Cash]

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1) 1.6% or more yield on your cash balance. (Savings accounts in the US offer 0.06-0.16% interest on average.)

2) Zero fees on ACH and wire transfers. (Average wire fee is $23.)

3) Get Brex reward points every time you do a transaction. (Haven't seen an account give reward points for each transaction but I could be wrong.)

4) One account for all your deposits. (Typically have two accounts -- checking and savings -- with checking typically earning less yield and savings accounts having a transfer limit of 6 transactions/month).

5) Easy-to-use online interface designed to give you back time to run your business. (Of course, very easy for me to say this so I'll let the customer feedback do the talking as we roll Brex Cash out).

You can visit https://brex.com/cash for more information.
They don't extract a 3D mesh from the signal -- this doesn't literally "see through walls".

They use the 3D mesh to model how they think they signal would be modified by the person behind the wall, then they compare the received signal with their model to see if it's a match.
Example: my whole building was working in the android repo, but the ToT article would be about some tool for google3 (web) development.
Sometimes it's nice to step away for some perspective and start again fresh somewhere new!

People do actually read these comments so please give it a shot (even with a throwaway) just to see what's out there at least:

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? October 2019
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126012

What do you have to lose, you want to be fired anyways!
> Birthright citizenship based on being physically born within the country—not the case in any European country.

That's more an artifact of America's history, IMO, as it was brought in to side-step Dredd Scott. America didn't have it until the southern states refused to allow citizenship for African Americans even after the emancipation proclamation. I don't believe in birthright citizenship because I don't think it makes sense, but I respect why Americans support it. It's just not a big problem one way or the other. Especially since y'all extract tax revenue from American citizens no matter where on earth they live. You should encourage everyone to have babies in America and fly back where they came from to help offset the deficit ;)

> Opposition to school vouchers, which are part of the Swedish education system.

It's not part of the vast majority of the world's school systems. That the Swedes made it work doesn't make it left vs. right.

> Support for a single-payer “Medicare for All” system along with the prohibition of private health insurance.

A few candidates are, but nobody who's become nominee for the Democrats has supported socialized medicine of any flavor, whether that's two-tier or single-payer.

> US corporate tax rates are extraordinarily high by the standards of other developed countries; Democrats consistently oppose lowering them.

I'm not sure that's a left v. right thing but more a function of the trillion dollar deficit.

> Many European countries have reformed their old age pensions to avoid long term deficit spending. Democrats oppose this type of reform to Social Security.

I don't know enough to weigh in on this.
Jan Koum quit WhatsApp and stepped down from Facebook board after raising privacy and encryption concerns.
What about climate change? Should we continue to give a platform to climate change deniers?
That happened to me as well. I was worried I had a virus or something. Glad to know it's not me.
I confess general ignorance of the religious schools in the area, but while this obviously this isn't an exhaustive survey the following examples seem typical of secular schools in the area (all quotes lifted from the school's websites).

Northwest School

"Diversity is our commitment to build [a] community that includes individuals and families who represent a wide variety of ... gender identity and expression, sexual orientation"

Seattle Academy

"includes and embraces a spectrum of differences in ... gender, sexual orientation"

Lakeside

"Lakeside is committed to creating an inclusive and equitable community in which all individuals can participate in and contribute to the life of the school, regardless of ... gender, ... sexual orientation, or any other aspect of their identity."
Wow thank you so much for this. There's some stuff I've been working on which I want to sync to Dropbox as I type but without the .git being synced too. Up until now I've just had to deal with the .git files being synced with Dropbox. But now it looks like I finally have a way of moving the repo!
Researchers invent low-energy alternative to Blockchain using sampling
God, at 18—or hell, at 22—showing the fuck up and not seeming entirely incompetent is a big deal. Show up, be engaged, do both consistently, and anyone who's not a total piece of crap will be all over giving you more responsibility and mentoring you up to bigger and better things. Total pieces of crap may still be interested, but it'll be in exploiting you (as in current situation). Oh, and ask questions. No one expects you to know diddly-squat, so ask away. Ask about stuff that's not part of your job description at all. People will tell you all kinds of stuff, and, incredibly, the whole exchange will make them like you more.

Phenomenally small amounts of give-a-shit go a long way for youngsters. It's basically their superpower, if they're willing and able to use it.
Guesstimate spreadsheet to estimate the number of ideal dating matches nearby
You're free to believe so, but that doesn't change the fact that the post's original title was heavily editorialised. Nobody wins by having HN posts' original articles misrepresented.
I can't tell if you're trying to purposefully obfuscate / be antagonistic right now, but I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.

The Information article you cite, explicitly says itself that this increased revenue comes from "a wave of Chinese tech companies buying ads outside China to promote products like the TikTok video app and the Alipay mobile wallet".

Are you trying to imply that the actions of any Chinese company should be assumed to be an extension of the central government's? I mean, I suppose you could argue that. But otherwise, all this represents is a company with an international presence buying ads to advertise their product/service.
If you're so worried about surveillance that you're willing to turn your house into a Faraday cage, why would you have an active cell phone in your house (or provide a microcell that "they" can use for their own listening devices)?
Having an office in China (they actually have several) is different from having a market in China. They pulled out the market.
>Frankly I don't know what their specific positions are

So you clearly don't fully grasp the political climate in the US, but you feel you're somehow qualified to dictate America doesn't have a left?

>UBI in my mind is apolitical, as it is the inevitable consequence of development

Communism is not "inevitable"

>Civil rights should be apolitical. Everyone should believe in civil rights, left or right

No, civil rights are a left position, in actuality, a democratic republic such as the US should have some mix of both left and right policy to function freely, it is not the other way around.

>Please do explain where, by law, anyone is required to publish someone else' views verbatim.

No, because I never stated that they were.
It sure didn't.

Sideloading came about as content was generally downloaded elsewhere and then pushed onto a device over a local connection -- i.e. sideways.

It's a lot older than the N-Gage.
All of the countries that did not invest heavily in their militaries no longer exist.
Who is moving goal posts? You claim above that the Porche is "Better in every way". Two rather significant ways it's not: speed and range.
It doesn’t matter if China doesn’t need the phones. The phones were made there for other markets...
I agree, it's between useful and harmless.

But who considered someone taking a piss and thought "that time could be better utilized?"
I once worked for a company that was purchased and we were tasked with signing new employment papers for the new owner.

When HR asked why I still have not signed the papers, I said it was forthcoming and BTW, can I collect unemployment if I don't? Mysteriously enough, half hour later I get an email from the CTO. :) So I told him I want to get laid off since the company was terrible. He promised to fix thing, but of course nothing happened and I ended up quitting anyways a few months later.
Has Iran Been Hacking U.S. Drones?
SpaceX is a US corporation, therefore US jurisdiction.
Wouldn't that also prevent your cell phone from connecting to the network?
How come in people have been shown to be more productive with dual screens?
Cheers. I'm using WSL1 now, but am getting too old to join the Insider / Fast rings. Have done my fair share of Windows OS beta testing over the decades, starting with Win95. :)

As we're sharing links, this was a great write up:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/

Can't wait for it to roll out officially with 20H1.