skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The content isn't even being spidered in any way by Google or the like so discovering the content in these groups later is also nigh impossible.

This is huge too. It's so hard to archive the data on these closed platforms - especially if you need an account ot view the data. There's a massive loss of knowledge when these platforms inevitably shutter.
It's like literary fiction vs popular fiction. One might think literary fiction is the right way to do fiction, but popular fiction is where the money is.
I think OP is saying that facts alone can be used to spin a narrative. Inserting conclusions makes it even worse.
China establishes $29B fund to wean itself off of US semiconductors
Money makes the world go around so:

The 2018 drought cost farmers in germany approximately 2 billion euros -> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-08/germany-f...

ground water levels are at an all time low due to very little rain: 2018 was especially problematic.

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/how-climate-chang...

forrests are dying at an alarming rate https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/07/part-of-...

I wouldn't say germany is a climate change hotspot but the effects are already here. Politics just hasn't caught up with reality yet.
The Kindness Reminder
There's definitely some truth to that. But looking back on arXiv there are papers going back years, including from Harvard/UofT [1], Tencent [2], Facebook [3], etc. There has also been an SC1 tournament running since at least 2011 [4]

I'm sure that the AlphaStar effort absolutely dwarfed everything that came before in terms of investment (as I'm sure AlphaGo did for Go as well) but based on my reading I'd also bet that Starcraft has likely seen the most continued AI research effort of any imperfect information, real-time game over the last decade - I think that's also part of what made it appealing for DeepMind over Dota 2 or any of the other options in this class of game.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.02682.pdf
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.09467.pdf
[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.12266.pdf
[4] https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/SSCAIT
By targeting flu-enabling protein, antibody may protect against wide strains
Agree wholeheartedly with how you posed the question, I would like to expand:

Should Adult (xxx) sites be held accountable for ads for male enlargement pills/snake oils? I personally don't think so. Is the answer to this problem to teach our population that blindly accepting what you read is safe (you can trust information posted on social media/public internet sites as fact) OR do we instead teach our citizens to filter information analytically and do research the way you are taught to in university for example?

Personally I think the former option is an intractable problem. Why try to make it safe for your population NOT to have to think instead of just teaching them how to think critically?
As impressive as this is, APM matters a lot in an RTS such as Starcraft and computers have a massive advantage here. I'd like to see them tackle an RTS like Civ where APM doesn't matter whatsoever, only decision making.
Chinese must find geoIP really sleek, Alibaba kept serving my Poland IP Russian language version for couple of years.
Then WeCame to the End (WeWork)
Thanks! For others who tried to google "The Odin Project", the correct link is https://www.the-odin.com/ . It's confusing because that's also the name of a website for learning web development (https://www.theodinproject.com/).
What are you even trying to say? It absolutely was a political issue even before this happened, and the fact that it involves videogames does not detract from the issue.
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Putting the 'Bang' in the Big Bang
True. I learned a long time ago that 4chan is not my sort of place at all, and never bother going there. I do pop into Reddit every so often, though.
probably something like Halo / Borderlands 3 / Titanfall campaign.
Never recommended just "reading a book" - although books are for knowledge transfer. In fact, I recommended the exact opposite. Creating or joining a lab to do DIY genetic engineering is not pipetting. Anyone can easily obtain the materials to do CRISPR and implement various ideas they get from reading the latest research and literature. It is exactly analogous to the computer and internet revolution. All of those founders learned things from the ground up, often outside of academia, while others were completing academic research. The truth is that the same opportunity is now available to biotech and genetic engineering. The odin project, for example (I am not affiliated in any way whatsoever), offers all the materials to build your own home DIY bio engineering lab. That is certainly enough to do the required research and test / validate various research ideas, and ultimately creating a startup.
I've been the victim of a similar scam then the one mentioned in the article.

Having said that, I still use the platform.

Why? I've traveled a lot and generally on the cheap, and I have run into scammy/terrible hotels. I mean, at one place the hotel owner tried to scam me by claiming I broke something that was clearly broken when we arrived. One time, I had a hotel room with hookers outside, a broken beer bottle under the bed with beer still in it, and a slice of pizza literally still on the floor face down. This last one had good reviews on one platform, terrible reviews on another.

My bad airbnb experience made me much more careful about who I stay with and how on the platform. But I haven't given up on it. I've had some amazing airbnb experiences, both renting full houses with friends as well as staying in a room in a house with locals and getting the 'real local experience', I won't leave it. Maybe for people going to high end hotels it won't make sense to airbnb? At least for me, going to cheap hotels and cheap airbnbs, the overall reliability has been not too dissimilar.

I do wish they would monitor their platform more.
So far as I can tell most other liberal democracies either handle the issue much the same way as the US does or they just flat out ban political parties that are too “fringe”.

I wouldn’t trust anyone who wanted to be the censor to be the censor.
> Actually not a single game made pro player realize something new about the game.

People are now over saturating their mineral line (making more probes than before), so I don't think that's true.
You use common sense - I have been a host of properties and I would say Airbnb does not go to any lengths to encourage you to misrepresent. In fact they do the opposite - with your listing you are building a contract so they encourage you to be as specific as possible and accurately describe the guest experience and your expectations as much as possible. They also strictly govern guest interactions so you can’t provide a phone number or email address during negotiations to side step the system. Overall I think the people who are saying it’s a scam are amplifying a bad experience to suggest that it represents the whole system. It clearly doesn’t and I say that as having seen how it works both as a host and a user.
The insurance companies apparently want pilots to pull the CAPS rather than try to dead stick it. That’s what I was told when I got checked out in the SR22 by the flight school. They drilled it into me. What happens when blah blah blah? Pull the CAPS. That was the answer to everything.
GEDmatch highlights security concerns of DNA comparison websites
Guido van Rossum: Python Creator Leaves Dropbox
What's the difference between not believing in astrology (or any other theory) and not believing that it can predict anything?
Who would do all that travel and work for $5? That’s a small fraction of minimum wage.
A big issue is its actually expensive to start a company that involves lab. Software can genuinely be one person in their bedroom with some AWS credit. I think the "why has no one else done this?" question is one of the worst anyone in the history of business or science can ask themselves. Any opportunity looks like that, it's why its an opportunity! The very best ones look like an obvious gaping chasm when you see them.
Yep, the free accounts are quite restricted. Having a paid developer account makes things much better(I have some app builds installed god knows when that I was too lazy to remove and they are running just fine) but yes, there are restrictions.

I would guess that what Apple wants to prevent is being undercut by another app distribution platform by making unauthorized app installation a pain. It is a choice that brings some advantages and disadvantages.

It is true that Apple might cancel the access to your device but I am find with that as long as Apple is not in a monopoly position. If A day comes and for some reason(like an US embargo?) Apple no longer can serve me, I would just move to the platform that serves me.

There's really nor reason to be paranoid over Apple's grip on the system. I am much more worried about Google cancelling my Gmail account and cutting me off from my digital presence.
Not directly related to the article, but given a green field, what project qualities would lead one to choose Fortran as a tool to solve the problem over anything else?
At least 13 managed service providers were used to push ransomware this year
Yes it is, but you can prune the decision space significantly by discarding bogus choices, or more concretely by modelling higher level goals and then compiling them into actual moves.
I feel blizzard wouldn't really give a damn if you said "sodomites should be illegal stop the gender agenda!" either.

The only issue they saw was displeasing the CCP, it's blatantly obvious.
I agree, but there is one person who's not in the market for an out of date game but is for a remaster: youth who were too young to play the original. Case in point: my kid.
Facebook accused of being 'megaphone for hate' in northeastern India
But here's the question: maybe you can become a provider of highly optimized big data processing or data visualization software, without deep knowledge in biology?
It was condemned by the city. It was not salvageable.
Should we worry about AI making high risk decisions
Surely we can come up with some way of giving candidates a platform to share their ideas? The current system is broken, we should think of ways of fixing it instead of just saying we can't do better.
The Mac equivalent (for decades now) is FileMaker. Which, now that I look at it for the first time in a long while, seems to run on Windows and the web as well. [1]

[1] https://www.filemaker.com/products/filemaker-pro-advanced/
> C is therefore a language for which it is easy to write a decent compiler, and it requires the programmer to write text that is easy for the compiler to interpret.

Ironically this is no longer true. Not so much because C has changed but because the hardware underneath it has.
Hackers who extorted Uber and LinkedIn plead guilty
(Author here.)

Yep! Both sandsifter and MC Hammer provided inspiration for mishegos.
I'd say it was because of the nature of two of the three punishments. Taking away money from someone who had won it in a tournament was too far and "firing" casters (banning casters for either 6 or 12 months is basically firing) who may not have been involved was too far. I think the PR would have succeeded if they had only banned him, even if it was for a whole year, and if they had fined him a fixed amount.

I think the biggest thing that sparked the situation was the casters. While some people feel that they were not neutral due to some comments made, Blizzard themselves in their response did not mention those comments. As such, it appears that Blizzard fired casters for merely allowing controversial topics spoken, which makes it very unclear how Blizzard wants casters to handle similar situations. In other words, Blizzard fired people who were neutral-ish and who were stuck between a rock and a hard place instead of clarifying the situation. TLDR: If a situation is complicated and unclear, clarify instead of firing.
Interfaces in C#
Ugh.

> Trust me, in this case will be war

Sorry, after reading your text the one thing I can't do is to trust you.

> At difference than Norway, there is a silent majority in Catalonia that is fuming.

I would love to see data on that; right now, pro-independence parties are majority in the parliament and have had 10x times the amount of people on the streets (without the need of bringing outsiders). That majority is not silent, is inexistent.

> Now they can't exit home without finding a burning barricade and the pavement vandalised (...)

All that is false. I have multiple friends in Barcelona and protests have been focalized in a small area (spanish police station in Via Layetana).

> It does not really matter because they will not find a local job anymore in the 5000 companies that have quited the area by this permanent climate of confrontation

That is also false. There were some movements of the headquarters address that didn't really affected the business. The part that should be scary to all democrats is how the Spanish government created a law specifically to facilitate this change of address and how the king of Spain started calling companies to do that change.

> The rest of Spain will take some popcorn and enjoy the carnage and backstabbing on TV

This is pretty disgusting and telling.
That looks great, reminds me of Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, which was used as textbook in my intro to philosophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics
2009, before EOC and the MTX wheel?

Ahhhh the good days....
they changed the title
Ubisoft reports 93% drop in DDoS attacks after pushing back against attackers
I don't think that the impact of less professional sports on a societal level will be very significant, but if the reason to get rid of ads at sporting events is to make them better, then it's (probably) counterproductive to take steps that kill off a large portion of those events.
Data on this is already out, as the FAA only gave planes with > 30000 cycles 7 days to inspect and 3 days to report findings after inspection.

810 planes were inspected; 38 of them have cracks (4.6%) and have been grounded until fixed. They are not airworthy. Only two of these were in the US.

The other 772 planes will have to undergo inspection after each additional 3500 cycles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HprNMrjK6_I
I have the opposite experience. After several bad experiences with hotels I
'm mostly using Airbnb. Fewer issues.
Academic Code Ten Year Reproducability Challenge
How introverts are poking their mental decline in the eye!
Messagetap: Who’s Reading Your Text Messages?
Wow no!

TV ads are broadcast and you can have one grad student check some boxes per market, they just need an extension cord and a bunch of TVs to watch.

Internet ads can have a spend of one and they're gone, or behind this really slick infinite scroll. If 40 people see the ad really whats the likelihood of gleaning useful information?

The Old World Mad Men style Ad is blasted from the antenna, printed, or plastered on a billboard. With Old Media you can tell easily who's being targeted because you can't narrow down based on "Likely to be Pregnant". A TV commercial is incapable of pranking your roommate[0], this stuff is a wholly new category, and its profitability is larger than Uber's 2019 Q2 posted losses.

While this handy search page is for sure an improvement over Facebook's previously completely opaque ad market, I disagree that this is an improvement over the Old Media.

I'd also imagine the Old Media ads have a lawyer or compliance person overseeing the business, and while I know FB has the lawyers I doubt anyone is motivated or empowered to hit the brakes.

[0] https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...
there's thousands of devs/staff at blizzard, not just the handful that interact with the public.
The problem is in how you define what "a service" is. Legally. See, for example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18301116
Fascinating. I was a S/370 mainframe operator and CICS systems programmer back in the day.

You folks have no idea how much fun you missed out on.
A "unit test" that relies on a database connection, isn't a unit test, rows from a table can be mocked. Data from all external APIs can be mocked.

If you want to run a full suite of integration tests, be my guest, but none of those will ever be unit tests.
There is an opportunity cost. There are plenty of gig-type jobs that could be performed in your spare time.
Nothing about what you describe sounds like it falls into the "good to great experience" category to me.
Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment
Then you aren't hosting your own website from home anymore.
Most software development isn’t high skill work.
Just to point out: this is true for individuals as well. Standing for any cause or principle has inherent risks. Some people will disagree with your cause or principle and people who agree with it will expect you to be consistent.
freedom to express one's opinion is different from spreading disinformation (e.g. incorrect election dates) to manipulate public, and the latter should be minimized somehow someway. i would like to know if you disagree and why.
I've never used AirBnb. However, when making online purchases (even for physical items) I don't have a lot of trust. Many systems (reviews, ratings, etc) are all too easily exploited. While the thought of staying at a stylish house is more appealing than a room at a hotel chain, I at least know what I am getting myself into. I've had my share of... not great rooms at hotels, but they typically make it right with a room switch or reimbursement. It doesn't sound like AirBnb is good at that.
Lots of libraries available for all kinds of scientific work that require supercomputers to be useful.

Also, I've been told that FORTRAN makes it easier to write fast scientific code than C due to pointer aliasing (or something in those lines).
> And while, as a career software guy, I entirely love open-source culture and technologies and methods, the hypothesis that Open Source in and of itself constitutes a business model is not well supported by the evidence.

Then it's time to change that. I would argue it's long overdue.
>They usually assume news from these channels have been fact-checked or are trustworthy

I think this is irrelevant. People will listen to what they like to hear or what matches what they already think. NOBODY is exempt from this, I dont care how smart you think you are.
You say that, yet there are also some scammers who use chargeback on airbnb to not pay: https://old.reddit.com/r/AirBnB/comments/5q1css/planning_on_...
> The only feasible way that I see to avoid the complete disappearance of the catalan language is by having our own state, and thus I fight for independence.

In your view, if the central government let Catalonia have independence in terms of language, including what children are taught in public schools and what appears in public forums and so on, would the independence movement come to an end?
Yes, consensus.

From NASA’s https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/#

"The number of papers rejecting AGW [Anthropogenic, or human-caused, Global Warming] is a miniscule proportion of the published research, with the percentage slightly decreasing over time. Among papers expressing a position on AGW, an overwhelming percentage (97.2% based on self-ratings, 97.1% based on abstract ratings) endorses the scientific consensus on AGW.”

J. Cook, et al, "Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming," Environmental Research Letters Vol. 11 No. 4, (13 April 2016); DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048002

Agreed that the point of science isn’t consensus. It’s ok.
There is statistics and then there is statistics. For example this paper is statistics based https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3487 with some novel data too. But its stats over graphs, which is way less straight forward. You don't just fire up R and do model <- lme(data, x ~ y + z) That paper spawned a fairly amazing startup too one that I really really really doubt anyone could possibly have come up with without a PhD and a lot of insight https://mogrify.co.uk/
....what kind of behavior were you expecting? AirBnb has always had atrocious customer service.
What do you guys think about having the ai communicate to a person and having them execute the moves?
> Looking things up for a specific topic is not even easy in biology

How do you find info on bio topics right now?
The notion of country matters very much in the conversation of global warming - while every country will be somehow affected, the effect will be very different for different countries. A rise of sea level will eliminate or devastate some contries while barely affecting others; the change in rainfall and temperature patterns will devastate agriculture in some countries while improving it in others; etc.

And a lot of how and why climate change mitigation is (not) working is explainable by the difference between the countries who'd bear the worst consequences of climate change and the countries who'd bear the worst costs to reduce these consequences.
you probably can, but it's hard to know what will be in demand without doing a lot of customer interviews with the people who would need your service.
> the corruption scandals in Partido Popular (the party that govered Spain from 2011 to 2018, but is always extremely irrelevant in Catalonia) had a lot to do with it

I understand they are the perfect enemy and have zero sympathy for them, and I agree with you this is the feeling of many people in Catalonia, but I find this argument very weak, taking into account that corruption scandals affected their regional government too (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso_3%25).
This looks like more of a case of glibc not working well with one particular combination of options. I don't think libc really holds anyone back considering it does still expose a syscall wrapper.
Perhaps I should have said "widely used." :-) I have never been to Louisiana, but I've been to several states.
Why is the moon vs. planet distinction important?
No, it isn't. They are independent countries and should be treated as such. Diplomatic bribes aren't a good enough reason to continue doing subsidising this.
Ignore this.

I studied Genetics and CS. What you can do instead is reach out to the PhDs and gather information from them to start getting a general sense of the direction.

This is easy some schools allow you to sit in on lectures / come to events. Most PhDs are usually off working independently though. Make friends with the competent PhDs gather info. Hack the system you don’t need a PhD you can hire one later.

This is all assuming you have the raw talent of product and can lead well, and can convince people exceptionally well, otherwise disregard.
Why can't FB charge a minimal subscription fee? For 2-3 bucks a year, wouldn't they keep the vast majority of users and simultaneously remove their dependence on shadowy advertisement dollars?
There is a difference between saying 'Freedom for X people' and 'X people are retarded' that has nothing to do with a subjective feeling of 'bad' or 'good'.
Beyond all the other benefits of this, hopefully it means more general feature updates/bug fixes. There are several (minor) bugs in the app that have existed for some time now, and it doesn't yet support iOS dark mode, for example. I know they don't have a huge team and are focused on the web app and security, but it would be exciting if the iOS app started getting a bit more love.
Who are you arguing with? Does anything in my reply imply that I think it's good idea not to mock dependencies?
As an outsider not following this too closely, it reminds me of what happened with Boeing and McDonnell Douglas[0]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/11/boeing...
They're assuming that the readers will infer, from the name "quantum gravity", that it has to do with gravity. From just the name, "general relativity," people who don't know what it is probably wouldn't guess it's a theory of gravity.