skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's censoring advertising (or it would be if they did it), not speech.

That's not even remotely the same.
>Ads can be an important part of voice - especially for candidates and advocacy groups the media might not otherwise cover so they can get their message into debates

It's interesting how hard Zuck is working to try and conflate the idea of 'free speech' with paid advertisements. To put it another way, if advertising on Facebook is part of my free speech, surely Zuck must run my adverts despite the fact I have no money to pay him for them.
> placing within the top 0.15% of the region's 90,000 players

> 61 wins out of 90 games against high-ranking players

This doesn't seem to be quite as commanding as it was in Go. Do we know what MMR it reached or if it consistently beat players like Serral?
BTW Spain doesn’t have a “president” as the article says — Pedro Sánchez is the acting prime minister. Spain is a monarchy.

I assume this is a translation error.
I showed my wife the video, and she remarked "You know, we went to the moon with less than that".

So, puts it in context! So much possible now that was unthinkable back then.
UCG (User-Generated Content).

Also, even for your embedded 1st-party images, even if you really know every variation you want to deliver (putting you in a small minority), and you already have an asset pipeline you're happy with (a smaller minority), there are still potential use cases (test automation, R&D, prototyping, DX shortcuts...) I can think of off the top of my head.

No affiliation (I haven't even tried Pixaven), just replying to your question per se. :)

Edit: also, some of the listed features (eg face detection and blurring) might not be part of your extant pipeline's capabilities.
> > I just took a look at a long list of lies by your current President.

> The idea that one side tells lies, and the other only truth is part of the problem here.

This is just an observation about your current president, there is no "other side" to it.
> "Ads can be an important part of voice - especially for candidates and advocacy groups the media might not otherwise cover so they can get their message into debates," he added.

Another tool in the arsenal of the rich and powerful to give them more of a voice than the average person, is another way to look at it.

Facebook are profiting from both sides. They’re a news site that’s simultaneously FOX News and MSNBC all at once. But I still have to agree with Zuckerberg on this: enforcing misinformation shouldn’t be left to a private company.
A few years ago in my city, a biker gang used a similar weapon (military RPG) against a rival group. There was a party at the rival group's clubhouse. A guy climbed up on an adjacent roof and fired the RPG at the building. It went through a brick wall (directly through a corner IIRC) and exploded in the main room of the clubhouse. I actually think only one or two people were killed (it was full), but the place was completely cratered inside.
Facebook, the platform, is in trouble.

It doesn't matter what the outcome is of the 2020 election season, or what Facebook does during it. They will be blamed for it.

Buying Instagram and Whatsapp was farsighted, Facebook the company can cruise for awhile on those properties. The main site is bound to fall out of fashion, and soon.

Can't be soon enough for my taste.
While I think on the whole our society is very biased toward a Boasian view of nature versus nurture: "give me a child and I can raise it to have any personality and aptitudes via deliberate rearing techniques." I'm skeptical of some of the conclusions being drawn from this study.

Environment has not been entirely separated out here it seems. And while a comparison of fraternal and identical twins detangles things somewhat it doesn't completely.

My intuition is that a person's personality and aptitudes (around 50% heritable according to many studies) can help them to take advantage of their environment in certain ways. So it's not that environment doesn't matter at all. It's just that people with varying attributes will leverage their environment in different ways, leading to different outcomes.

It would be even more interesting to me to see the personality profiles of the children compared against their future earnings. My guess is there would be a strong correlation since personality -> interests -> career choices.

Then it would just so happen that identical twins have similar personalities. Leading to the results we see here.

Admittedly I'm hopeful that if we could figure out the correlation between personality and environment maybe we could shift our focus away from the unhealthy extremes of 100% nurture (leads to children being pushed by their parents to fit into a mold that may not suit them) and 100% nature (genetic fatalism leads to apathy and hopelessness). Instead what if we took a child's natural gifts and personality profile into account and tailored their environment to maximize their potential within those constraints? Seems like a more hopeful and useful path.
> Well, it's not about my opinion.

It is. You're making statement about the future - what SpaceX will achieve or demonstrate - as if it's a fact. There are plenty of people who disagree with this statement, who have another opinion about the future and who will point out that SpaceX did several times something what was considered at least unlikely.

> Please note that $2700/kg is still great

When Proton launcher debuted on world market in 1990-s, the price (not cost) for a launch was about 30 millions, which, given payload about 20 tons to LEO, gives price per kg of about 1500 dollars. $2700/kg isn't bad, but isn't record-shattering either. As for costs - as opposed to price - of Falcon-9, we may have only estimation.

Two orders of magnitude difference won't likely be achieved immediately, but the potential is here. See the evolution of airlines.
Haha ! Picking a name for a SaaS as I learned is not easy but I love the name and even tho it might be a challenge I think we will deal with it ;)
> The problem with this style of programming is of course that we have to pass the Env around everywhere

So why not make it a singleton? Or even better, make it a static class with some static properties?

Yes I know, I said something evil! But before you take out the pitchforks, bear with me:

public static class Master
{
public static ISupplyService Supply;
public static IBankService Bank;
public static IMailService Mailer;
}

This is C# and I actually LOVE this pattern. I have seen it referred to as Master-Pattern, but I don't know the correct term. It solves a lot of problems:

* You don't have to pass essential modules around anymore. You can initialize the Master once and access them everywhere without caring about their implementation.

* Code completion does wonders on this one. You simply type "Mast..." and it will show you ALL available modules. You don't have to remember anything. It's awesome for new team members.

* It is fast. In release builds you can even try to replace the interfaces with the actual classes implementing it for a straight method call.

It introduces a few problems:

* You increase coupling. Once you add a module, removing it or significantly changing the interface is tricky.

* You need to be careful to NOT couple modules to each other, and if you do, do it rarely. Otherwise you will have to instantiate the modules in a specific order which gets cumbersome.

In my opinion: If you are a small team and have sane teammates, give this one a try. It reduces boilerplate a lot and reduces the amount of arguments you need to pass around everywhere.
Just ban all political ads.
How soon is this put into the hands of battlefield commanders? Not presuming it’s a bad thing, but I wonder when we’ll hear the outcome of a battle was aided by this kind of intelligence.
> After 50 games, however, DeepMind hit a snag. Some players had noticed that three user accounts on the Battle.net gaming platform had played the exact same number of StarCraft II games over a similar time frame — the three accounts that AlphaStar was secretly using. When watching replays of these matches, players noticed that the account owner was performing actions that would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for a human. In response, DeepMind began using a number of tricks to keep the trial blind and stop players spotting AlphaStar, such as switching accounts regularly.

So instead of fixing the unfairness... they tried to hide it?
I consider a major role of government to regulate behavior that hurts others. That is, you can swing your fist around as much as you like by yourself, but I want a law preventing you from swinging it into my face.

Polluting the air, land, and water we share seems behavior that hurts others.

Similar cases in the U.S. and Canada:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/03/kids-sue-us-...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canadian-tee...

This article mentions cases in Colombia, Holland, Norway, India, and Belgium, saying they are progressing https://qz.com/1334102/kids-around-the-world-are-suing-gover....
Reader mode and adblocker and JS turned off. It was absolutely fine to read, just text and images :)
I don't have a thesis about the business (software publishing) aspects. Well, I do, but it's a tangent: Microsoft's failure to provide the much promised ramp from Access JET to SQL Server (which I also love) alienated me as a dev.

Here I'm only commenting on the impedance mismatch between code (biz logic) and persistence (eg RDBMS) introduced with ODBC. (Specifically, type information in the db schema is lost to the client code.)

Okay, writing this out now, Microsoft (and everyone else), probably didn't appreciate what was lost with ODBC, so didn't consider how to continue the Access style of CRUD to client/server. So we ended up with nonsense like LINQ.
Is this a troll comment or are you being serious?
> The Republicans used to be quite working-class oriented.

When exactly? Because thinking back through the history of the party from it's emergence, I can't see any time when I would say that, without some strong geographic, racial/ethnic, or other caveats. Their current status as the party of white working-class resentment is probably the most working-class they've ever been, unless you consider the original anti-slavery focus as a focus on the plight of a particular segment of the working class.
Or just get off the Google bandwagon.

Googles customer service: None

Google's care of their users: None

Google's desire to sell every single thing about you they can figure out: Unlimited.
I think the right way to think about science investment is the multi-armed bandit. There's a lot of uncertainty, but you also know that if you fund a portfolio with a good distribution, you'll have a chance of maximizing the total good science results that come out of it.

I've always been very skeptical of claims that heavy investment in the space sciences advacnced other technologies, more than if we had just invested that money directly in the other technology. I also see a lot of money wasted in space sciences running experiments on the ISS that aren't really that useful (like crystallography- sure, you can grow nice crystals in space and then bring them back down to earth, but for the money you spent on that, you could have funded 10 PIs, and also crystal structures aren't that useful for advancing science).

Interestingly, if you look at modern science funding, it does basically treat it as a multi-armed bandit and there is a portfolio of project funding that includes both large particle physics experiments and individual investigators.
You can also compare identical twins that grow up in the same family, vs. identical twins that were separated at birth... although I imagine you wouldn't have a lot of samples.
> On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with.

From I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer
It hasn't beat Serral once, from the article: "The AI wasn’t able to beat the best player in the world".
I'll ask the dumb question (I don't use AirBnB): why not dispute the charge via a credit card?
Hitler painted and Stalin wrote poetry...just throwing that out there...
I am trying to build a different kind of CRM. Something easy to use and affordable.
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/466362/Blend-PDF-with-H...
So should be only left with live face to face stump speeches?
>Racism isn't about race. Otherwise it wouldn't exist: there is only one human race.

Offtopic but I wonder, where does this notion come from?

Biologically there is more variance in the humans species than in others species that we consider to having races. One example of big phisical distinction is themarathon winner's race, most modern marathon winners descend from the same tribes, and have very distinct physiology due to millenia of adapting to persistence hunting. Literally evolution.

My definition of racism was always: race based discrimination. Aa in I should not treat you different because of your race. The definition about denying even the existence of different human races seems weird to me, as there seem to be a lack evidence to support the inexistence of different human races.
Congrats on the launch! There's a small typo on the landing page where the stats are shown: "avgerage processing speed" -> "average processing speed"
I assume obtaining a decent-sized training dataset is gonna be a bloody business.
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wouldn't that be 48 euro/year for the four individuals in gp post?
Our leaders (and groups that prop them up) have never had the ability to scale their propaganda and target people as they do today.

They need to stop braying about turning into China and admit that this a new ball game. That needs new rules.
It was also selecting buildings that for a normal player would either be out of the isometric field of view, covered by ui elements, or only barely on screen like clicking 1 pixel specific in the corner.
Something you have on your Christmas table? What's your definition of luxury?
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Demanding even the slightest level of accountability for blatantly misleading or false information does not make them the final arbiter. It's not a binary choice of absolute determination vs completely hands off.
Sintering != milling.

It is not uncommon for engine components to be milled. I guess what I'm asking is if there are properties inherit in sintering (e.g., crystalline structure) that make it unsuitable for engine components. You mentioned tensile strength and composition, are you alluding to the fact that specific alloys can't be used in laser sintering or that the process itself creates inferior composition?
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Neither really, it's demonstrating that it's kind of dumb to consider a paid advertisement "speech" for the purposes of "free speech", considering there's inherently a restriction there on how much "speech" you get, because you have to pay for the ability to "speak".
The G3000 has ADBS in/out, and from January 1st ADSB out will be mandatory in the US, so it will know where other traffic is. Additionally, the autoland talks to ATC, and ATC can tell other traffic to get out of the way.
Still makes me wonder: do you really need/want all that automation or would it make more sense to prepare for putting a remote pilot into the loop? Not for virtually holding the stick, but for looking at telemetry, communicating and doing all the high level decisions.
"Mr. Paine! I submit that your pamphlet, _Common Sense_, is not free speech! If it was part of your free speech, surely your printers must print my pamphlets despite the fact that I have no money to pay for them." — some colonial judge in the service of the Crown, probably
> Is it actually a thing that people don't know how to write cursive?

Of course. Cursive writing is a use-it-or-lose-it kind of skill, and almost no one uses it any more. It has been replaced by typing. When was the last time you received a letter written in cursive? When was the last time you wrote one?
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The word "censorship" has a lot of moral baggage, and using it here obscures more than it clarifies. Not all limits on speech are censorship. For instance, it's not "censorship" to insist everyone speak in turn, and to tell someone who's continuously shouting their opinion over others to shut up and let others speak. That scenario is very similar to putting limits on how much someone or some group can "pay for expression."
We have them now, just not passenger carrying. Military drones are autonomous.
Simple test: if you do this one minute later does it matter any other thing. None? You will start lazy and all way down.

We do thing at the margin. We stay sharp for that. It is not work or collegiate. But at the margins, the moment ...
I like

- Paperphone: A printable Paper Phone which helps you take a break away from your digital world (reminds me of Hipster PDA).

- Postbox: Minimise distractions with scheduled notifications (I now use daywise for Android for scheduling notifications)

- Desert Island: challenges users to find focus by going a day with only their essential apps.

All the experiment code is hosted at https://github.com/googlecreativelab/digital-wellbeing-exper...
It will advertise an emergency on the radio and with the transponder, so that ATC can clear traffic out of the way.
I think it genuinely depends on what your users are nostalgic over.

You can look cutting edge while taking advantage of nostalgia.

To be entirely honest, the "flat design" doesn't look "cutting-edge". It looks basic, which is because, well. It is. Intentionally so. If users don't care what your buttons look like, why spend tons of time making them look a specific style. That's just more time spent.

I'd argue that the reason it's become so prevalent, is exactly that. Less time spent designing, more time spent on features.
Isn't this trained via playing against itself? I don't think there's a dataset involved.
I'll put in a vote on behalf of access. I work in a consulting industry and as part of my work I have to track thousands of companies, individuals, tenders, and projects. It became obvious early on that a nice little DB would simplify the work. MS Access was there for me, already installed as part of the minimal software set they make available to us. Months later I offloaded the data to a Postgresql database (elephantsql.com) and continued using Access as a front end using the postgresql ODBC component. It's been perfect, and because all my data is offsite, it goes when I go. I have yet to find a better solution that Access as a front end to a postgresql database hosted elsewhere. To the person who suggested sqllite, I'd respond I'm reasonably technical but have no idea how to do that, so it's no solution to my problem. I used filemaker for a while on Apple. Linux has no GUI database front ends worth the while - Libreoffice Base is a weak substitute for Access. Kexi doesn't work as simply a front end. Excel isn't a database and we spend a lot of time laughing at people who use Excel when a DB is the proper tool. Any SAAS solution is out of the question; having a server dedicated to my/our use at work is out of the question. What's left is Access. Long may it live!
Regarding your [0], in my experience larger groups of people tend to behave somewhat less smart than their mean intelligence ...
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How about labels that operate independently of folders like Protonmail has?
There are terrorist ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/dissidents-...
> You don't have to capture every biased statement and bending of the truth to counter outright lies like "Obama was born in kenya" or "Trump was endorsed by the pope"

You do if you want to make some kind of law about it. You are correct, there are plenty of instances where a story is blatantly false and could be taken care of by some kind of preventative action. But the distribution of possible lies is extremely long tailed. For every one of these instances, there are dozens where it is not entirely a lie, but not entirely the truth, or is biased, or a half-truth, or editorialized, or an extreme conclusion, etc. Libel and slander laws already exist, but are rarely invoked because of this reason. It is nigh impossible to create any kind of system or legislation that does more than what these laws already do, while also properly dealing with all of these edge cases.

I mean, even your examples could easily get around any kind of preventative measures by couching their language. Instead of "Obama was born in Kenya", it could be phrased "rumors have begun to circulate that Obama was in fact born in Kenya". The desired effect of planting this lie in people's minds is still successful, but with a few words there is now no way to create a framework that legally prevents people from spreading lies that way, that is also consistent and not overbearing.
Feddy Gov has their own eval process, and things like active clearances are useful even for non-gub'mnt work.

But yeah, you can't say or release nothin. But that's true with the Fortune 500 places I've worked, too.
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It’s only half true. New transferable fully automatic weapons have been illegal since 1986.

The few that are out there are collectors items costing upwards of $20,000.

So while it’s tecnichally true that if you live in a state where they have not been banned outright you can legally buy a fully automatic assault rifle in the US, they are extremely rare and expensive.
It isn't much an accomplishment, but it is required. When you have 50 year old wore out cars (I have no idea how old the cars in question are), or a newer car but it turns out the design has a flaw you have a problem.

There are only a few companies making rolling stock. Some of them have better designs than others. All have only so much space in their factories to produce more. All have looked at demand to in some way and made decisions about what sort of capacity to build cars they should invest in. (I don't know which have done a good job here). There are a bunch of different standards that rolling stock has to meet - wheels, safety: not all factories can deliver cars that will work, but they have several choices that will work. Sometimes local laws limit what factories you can buy from (buy American has increased costs in the US - but that obviously doesn't apply here)

It comes down to this: they order some rail stock today and in 5 years have some cars. They might be able to get the cars sooner by selecting a different factory to order from (cost and quality are both in play here).
Exactly. I don't want to assume gp doesn't understand the difference between unit and integration tests, but I think the only alternative conclusion is they don't think there is value in unit tests. I disagree, and happily inject mock objects for testing.