skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone hates change.
Twitter wants to live in the future so it has to change and show behaviors more like the news and information service it currently is, And trump and others don't want twitter to change because currently they can communicate with bubbles isolated from reality.

I really don't like twitter for all the crap and bots that's on there. I think it's a terrible format. But I think we are in a middle time, were new publishers and formats are rising at the same time as traditional media is falling. Hopefully larger publisher's and media organizations such as Facebook, Google and Twitter take the power and responsibility they have seriously.
Right... the earlier point releases were 100-500 MB.

Full history of OS X update sizes:
https://robservatory.com/a-full-history-of-macos-os-x-releas...

It seemed to start getting out of hand around Yosemite 2014.
Several native nations traded their land for the promise of acceptable healthcare as part of treaties, which has not been held up to standard.[0]

Additionally, native nations in fact have tried to set their own lockdown and travel policies. State governments have threatened them for doing so.[1]

[0]. "For Native Americans, Health Care Is A Long, Hard Road Away" - https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/13/4738483...

[1]. "'I’m protecting my people': Tribal citizens defend coronavirus checkpoints amid threat from state" - https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/05/11/im-protecting-my-peo...
I hope he goes through with it, then gets dragged for abuse of power. But that's not likely to happen; the president has too much power, and there are no checks and balances in place. He is only still in power because his party voted to keep him in a sham 'trial', and they only voted in favor because else their party would look divided.
You can also be both.

Like every newspaper website that has a comment section. They are responsible for the parts they publish but not the user generated comments. There is no legal requirement to be one or the other.

For whatever reason, most people seem to get this backwards.

Here is the relevant legal code Section 230 C1: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service, a platform, shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”

There is nothing in the law that says a publisher is responsible for user generated contact (even if they moderate it). In fact the law says just the opposite.

Edit: added note in parenthesis
Private organization that enjoys the legal protections of a platform. Reclassify them as a publisher. Can't have it both ways.
Bye Bye Feature-Policy, Hello Permissions-Policy
Not quite.

He's like a vacuum salesman who promises to give his customers dishwashers and toasters for free if they buy a vacuum cleaner.

When they buy the vacuum cleaner, it turns out he lied about the other goods but they still ended up with the vacuum cleaner. But what a lot of people really wanted was the dishwasher.

I may have pushed the analogy a little too far...
> Except that leftists and libs have their own sort of low-value hateful garbage.

Any of similar prominence to the President of the United States?
Those fields where weirdos make it to the top.
Because probing the fundamental building blocks of the universe is very interesting to some people. So now your question is: why do people care what we're made of? Not sure about that one although i spend over a decade in HEP... on the other hand, if they don't then what do they care about? It is easier to do physics than to understand people...
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Exactly. It is just another lie that Twitter would be "stifling free speech". Free speech was not stifled: Trump could even say what he wanted even though it is a private platform.
You can hold private companies accountable via secondary boycott. It's more complicated but it can be done.
>I have found it dis-heartening that higher energy levels at the LHC have not opened new doors into reality.

I think the last thing we need is LHC opening new doors into reality. The only thing that could be more dangerous than such research into teleportation is research into teleportation that's conducted on Mars.
If Trump actually closed it (not going to happen), then something may come along to replace Twitter, but it certainly wouldn't act like Twitter.
That doesn't sound right. The BSD licence is GPL-compatible, so you can release your code under the BSD licence and still use Qt.

It would mean however that if someone were to make a proprietary fork of your project, they would no longer be permitted to use the no-charge version of Qt. They would have to get a commercial licence. I don't see anything wrong with any of this though.

Edit: I wasn't clear here: Qt is also available under the LGPL, so the restrictions of the GPL aren't directly relevant.
> I don't think you should equate giving you an email address with the willingness to become a user of your product, once it exists. If you end up building this product, it would be interesting to hear about your "conversion rate" for these early emails.

Of course, the conversion rate won't be high especially if the time between the user signing up and the launch date is very long. But it is still possible to keep the interested users engaged and some of them (not sure how many) will be the seed for the first set of actual users.

> And on the flip side, I personally am very reluctant to give out my email address to an entity that is essentially a company that doesn't exist yet, with a product that doesn't exist yet. Even if I'm very interested in the product in theory. (In this particular case I'm not in your target group.)

I think that's fine. Your email, your choice. But the company does exist and the product is in the design phase.

> Finally, here you write that you are essentially only collecting emails at the moment, while the submission button on the website says "Get Early Access". That is very vague, but to me it suggests that you are at least actively working on development and will have a beta or at least an alpha sometime soon. So I find this very dishonest. Dishonesty is not a great look for an entity that harvests emails, or one that hopes to provide financial services.

This is totally valid criticism. I hope to convey that by signing up, you will be the first set of users to get access to the product when it launches. And while we haven't started development, we are in the design and user testing phase. The whole idea is to test ideas before developing.

> All in all, I don't think this is the "right" way to launch this product at all.

I don't think there's one right way to launch. The only theory being tested here is to test each and every single idea before going into development. Since this product will be more expensive to build, it is even more important now.
I agree and I'm generally anti-regulation of the media.

But the argument would be that your average forum, blog comment section, etc. isn't one of the most important mediums of communication in the world's leading superpower's democracy
Facebook, duh.
(a) imagining there's one "other side" is a fallacy. There are multiple interest groups. Some more aligned with the President and his administration, some less.

(b) you'll have to be more specific about what you mean, but the "tantrum" I've heard is that the system as set up over-represents land over people, not that the result is illegitimate. A legitimate result in a badly-crafted system is materially different from claiming the process as designed is compromised.
B2C is kind of a saturated area to get into I have the feeling. And thats the metric the article focused on. You have the big apps where people build their "startup" around. It's hard to get into this market nowadays, competing with the bigger players.
Where the "violations" of Reddit site-wide rules involved having lots of users and being able to push stuff up to the frontpage merely by upvoting it, like any other subreddit would. Of course when /r/politics does it, they don't call it "violating site-wide rules".
OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is no longer supported, unfortunately.
Deliberately shave it? My plan is to keep cutting my hair shorter and shorter as my hairline recedes... My hope is that by the time there's not much hair left there's also not much length left...
I'm observing from the outside (read: the other side of the Atlantic), but my understanding is that people who say #NotMyPresident do it because of either a) a perceived lack of shared values between them and the president or b) in reference to him losing the popular vote, like several other presidents before him.
As long as the sources can be checked, challenged, and counter-opinions can be voiced, I personally don't think it matters that much. It's the blind acceptance of statements and accusations that match our existing world view that we need to combat, I think.
He dismissed the entire Midwest as lunatics to be ignored. There’s a lot of hackers and engineers and amazing companies in the Midwest.

He’s mindless in his opinions. He’s not against a policy or a politician. He’s separating society.
This worked in the scandi countries but i feel like in the places where Fox news exists it'll be hard to get on the curriculum.
That would be a USA Great Firewall. It would require some re-branding to get the US population to accept it
I'm sure they would have taken credit regardless who won. Have to keep the ad money flowing
It's remarkable that Trump has consistently been against free-speech but still has the support of a non-trivial number of self-described "libertarians" like Thiel. This is in the 1st amendment sense as saying he wants to open up libel laws in 2016 [0] to his comments on video games [1] and flag burning [2] to in the broader sense in his anger at the kneeling protesters [3].

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/26/do...

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-check-tru...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/15/no-braine...

[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-nfl...
> However, if your version of getting ahead is to have a loving family, or to spend time on the hobbies you like or traveling or <insert other non-monetary thing here> then you can (and sometimes even have to) spend less effort on the game.

Money – and thus at least understanding the game enough – is often a precursor to getting enjoyment out of those things though, to various degrees. Probably less so with family, if the dynmaics are healthy, but definitely more needed for certain hobbies and travel.
Thanks for the informative replies. I didn't realise my 'random musing' was actually "a thing" and was so widespread.

From my point of view [based in UK] the link to the UK Government's statement on why the deposit scheme was dropped is quite interesting. Most of their objections to retaining the deposit scheme; people not renewing their deposits, people's financial circumstances changing, insufficient size of the deposit. could equally well be applied to the system of insuring through an insurance company.

The Government also quotes the possibility of claims running into "many millions". Again, I stand to be corrected but I'm pretty sure my insurance policy has a stated ceiling on 3rd party liability which is in the hundreds of thousands. I'd have thought any claim involving "many millions" would be a the result of an incident of such magnitude that it would go well beyond a standard motor insurance claim, anyway.

And, again; a billionaire or multi-millionaire could still hypothetically cover even "claims running into the millions" from their own pocket. So the UK Government reasoning still seems flawed, in those cases.

Next topic: Who should pay for the insurance when the cars are self-driving? [But I'm sure we've done that one before, a few times!]
You don't need more preparation
With the corollary advice being:

a grey beard will protect you from accepting positions where looks might be more important than skills.

No slight against your friends, if they needed the money they did what they had to do. But if one doesn't, there is nothing wrong with letting your beard guide you: somewhere out there is a lisp codebase just waiting for your love and attention.
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For anyone else watching The Great, Catherine's interest in variolation is apparently a true story: https://smarthistoryblog.com/2016/10/05/catherine-the-great-...
I work in the financial services industry (insurance), and so far I've found it to be very friendly to older developers. Sure, it's not the sexiest work, but you're working on real products that people want or need.

I would recommend looking at insurance companies, banks and other financial institutions.
Why not just kick him off for tos violation and be done with it. That would be an article worth reading...
However you feel about this, Twitter did it in pretty much the worst way possible.

1. They had someone with a clear history of strong anti-Trump and anti-Republican sentiment take the action (https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/126545757821512499...)

2. Twitter chose a prediction rather than a factual statement to fact check ("Mail-In Ballots will be..."). Why not start with a truly factually wrong statement about the past?

3. They picked something that is actually debatable! A bipartisan committee concluded it carried some risks in 2005: https://www.wsj.com/articles/heed-jimmy-carter-on-the-danger...

The notion that a company can ever be trusted to "fact check" (aka determine objective truth) is just completely laughable. The closest we can come is labeling agent beliefs about truth ("X says Y is false").

Doing nothing would be better than doing this. Even better would be building solutions that allow community-based (and ideally personalized) derivations of consensus (this is what we're doing at LBRY).
"The other side" has been pointing out how broken the electoral college is, not claiming that Trump is president on illegal grounds.
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1. Agreed, I'll add that asap.
2. I should make it clear that the company does exist and is registered.
3. India's financial system is tricky but I'm well positioned to start a new brokerage. The problem that I'm dealing with is building a product around it that users actually want.
It's not a good option for medical data. Also, we are far too early and need to go through a security audit.

At some stage we will make it easy to self-host, and at that point it might be worth checking out again. If you need any recommended alternatives, feel free to message me (email in my profile)
There's a big murky middle where you can't really tell but in the case of what Trump is complaining about an informed observer would come to a conclusion really quickly.
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Well that's another false extreme.

That's what algorithmic detection (together with user flagging) and removal at scale is for. That prevents them from growing out of control.

The combo of algorithmic detection at scale, combined with small amounts of manual intervention and customer service where most needed, is how YouTube is able to operate.
How scalable is this? E.g: What is the maximum active (e.g: writing) user concurrency? What happens when that is exceeded?
Trump would have no intention of ending social media. He just wants to end social media that doesn't do what he wants.

And yes, that would be an overwhelmingly bad thing.
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> Is there no way to consider social media as unreliable overall and not bother fact checking anything there?

The issue is that this is not just a random social media post, it's coming from the President of the US, and most people expect that someone in that position will not post clearly false messages, specially when those messages affect something as fundamental as the election process.
I don't understand the rationale behind this. Why would a commercial company dupe itself into restricting the licensing of its product?
If this happens, we can always make better Trump tweets: http://TrumpTweets.io
Fact checking is far from a solved problem. The can of worms that Trump opened when he started the "fake news" conversation is still very much open.
No the logical name is C@, the great successor of C#
( https://www.reddit.com/r/C_AT/ )
There’s tons of fraud and bad acts in mail in voting but I 100% support allowing it and fixing the systems.
> Installation of Qt binaries will require a Qt Account

Distributions ship binaries with OS anyways. You won't have to build it yourself.
And how do you challenge an opinion?

By giving your own.

In other words, we just need more speech, not more restrictions on speech.

-- reply to below because I'm restricted and at comment limit (ironic, eh?)

> Isn't that exactly what Twitter did? They left the speech up, and added a note below it expressing their opinion that a particular link demonstrates that the tweet was not factual.

Anybody can reply to a comment on twitter and cite the facts, and people can reply to those comments and contest or argue them. The specific difference is Twitter's "fact checking box" cannot be replied to - which makes them the ministry of truth.

All Twitter had to do was create a @twitterfactchecks handle and reply to the posts in question - perhaps promoting their reply to the top so that it is most visible, but then people could reply to @twitterfactchecks contesting their opinion (a fact check is always an opinion, if you didn't get what I was hinting at above.)
Oh?
https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?s...
Just a minor question. The price of the yearly "basic" plan is just the monthly rate x 7, but the advanced plan has a ~ 10% discount when payed annually. Is this on purpose?
I think for small teams with a small number of models, a feature store is probably overkill. Just like you wouldn't need a data warehouse if you only have one database. However, with lots of sources of features (oltp database(s), data lake, kafka), it becomes very hard for data scientists to find/use the data they need to train models. The feature store acts like a data warehouse for features for data scientists - and the more features are reused within the organization the more value you will derive from the feature store. You wouldn't ask a Tableau user to go to S3 or Athena or Big Query to get their data for reporting, and at organizations with feature stores, their data scientists can find most of the features they need in the feature store (Uber have >20k features last i heard in their feature store).
Then, there are problems related to making those features available to online applications and not duplicating feature engineering pipelines and monitoring of models that are covered elsewhere on this page and in the literature (http://www.featurstore.org).
Maybe an ignorant question but how would classifying Twitter as a publisher solve the issue?

I’m guessing you mean that they should be held accountable for what people post there? Or is there a different angle I’m not seeing?
That strikes me as all the more reason to shoot for it.
I only recently discovered goreleaser and I can't get over how simple it was to add to my CI setup. Distributing binaries was my goal for having a "real" open source project people could use. After a year of avoiding the issue, I discovered goreleaser and got it running in less than an hour.
Social media can only survive because of safe harbor provisions. If sites become responsible for the content they host, social media as we know would instantly die out.
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That might increase belief in homeopathy, which is bad too.

Homeopathy beliefs are that the stronger the dilution, the more powerful the medication.
Homeopathy would be diluting the virus to the point where there's a strong probability of zero virus particles remaining in the "medicine" because of the belief the water has the memory of the virus.

This is false, because homeopathy has no effect other than placebo and placebo does not stop covid 19 deaths.
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Never used it, but saw it on a couple of tutorials, https://asciinema.org
What a childish attitude.

Some people like cheap laptops.
Some people like expensive laptops.
Some people, like you, obsess over people's choices.

An, apparently, if you make a choice (the wrong one, in your eyes), you're not allowed to complain when things go wrong.

Jeeze.
The mechanical how people read at higher speeds might be an interesting topic.

What I often do when I am "reading" for knowledge can probably be simplified down to "I read fairly quickly", but there's no nuance in that statement to talk about what I'm doing when I'm reading and how I move so quickly.

I am often doing some combination of:

- scanning (moving quickly across sight-words, finding relevant points of entry into the subject matter)

- absorbing (slower process of gathering words surrounding the entry point to gain better local context)

- backtracking (taking local context and fixing it into a broader context)

- full-on processing (often this looks like deep reading, but it is more like deep thinking; I take in fewer words from the page, but connect them to concepts I already understand)

This is not a linear process, at least for myself.

This is different from when I read for pleasure. My pleasure reading can only really be described as "scanning" I think. Authors who craft their paragraphs so carefully would probably be horrified by how I enjoy their works of art, but I appreciate their works in my own way, and I find that this reading for pleasure is probably the fastest reading I do. I could easily consume a book of fiction in a day or two, and I always enjoy re-reading.

Another reading skills facet: my reading out loud is pretty clumsy (or it at least feels that way). I read often to my children, and it feels pretty slow and clunky. I enjoy doing it, but it's not the same type of "reading". Different skill, different goals. It's something I'm working on.
The oddest part of of this whole thing is that Trump supporters are typically the personal freedoms above all else crowd. Yet Trump openly talks about having/wanting authoritative, dictator level power.
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There's nothing we can do. We should stop pretending otherwise.

This it it. We did it. There is nothing for us to do, but celebrate.
If the Trump election campaign wants to sue Twitter for libel, they're welcome to try. The President has already tried suing the New York Times for libel for publishing an op-ed he didn't like.
But this has a side effect of supporting homeopathy. I'd prefer we found some better way to educate people.
Personally I'm staying the hell away from Catalina, but it's not like Windows is the land of milk & honey. I've lost overnight testing data multiple times thanks to Windows' hostile "we're rebooting right now, whether you want to or not" upgrade strategy, and their mandatory telemetry bullshit is well-known at this point.

Basically: Catalina sucks, but there's nowhere to go that's unequivocally better.