skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's much more reminiscent of BB-style forums where moderators were part of the community and would explain their actions at the time of enforcement. This is unfortunately un-scalable, and so larger communities turn to strictly enforced rules with zero flexibility a la Reddit or moderation via machine classification like FB, Twitter, and YouTube.
>I understand there simply not being enough manpower on Earth to manually review so many cases

It's an unpopular opinion, but perhaps there doesn't need to be so many videos online for public viewing.

I don't think its much to ask for a real human to review every video before allowing it to be made public. The posting person could perhaps pay a small fee for the video to be reviewed.

We could have more relaxed rules for videos that are private and shared among a small group of other accounts.

Why do we feel entitled to post any video for public consumption for free?

Actually, now that I think about it, its kind of surprising that nations don't require a film and television style rating for every video.
I think "priorities" is a pretty good way of framing it, at least when considering the abortion debate. I'm pro-choice, but I don't consider my position to be any kind of moral right; I just believe that in this situation, the priority should go to the mother and her wishes, not the fetus. I don't think that giving priority to the fetus is inherently illogical or wrong, it's just not the choice I'd make.

The problem that I have, though, is that I don't believe that many pro-life advocates look at it that way; instead of thinking about what's best for the people around the potential baby, they resort to religious or strictly emotional arguments in support of their views[0], which I will never consider persuasive.

The cut-off point is entirely up to society's consensus. You could go to the extreme and say that vasectomies (or even male masturbation) and tubal ligations are murder, because they destroy germ cells that could turn into children eventually. Some religions prohibit birth control of any kind. Many people aren't comfortable with the morning-after pill. Some people are fine with an abortion up to N weeks, but not after.

And that's what I find sad about arguments on this topic: people have drawn their line in the sand, and they believe that they are right, any other option is wrong, and that they must impose their rightness on everyone else, regardless of any disagreement in beliefs.

As a result, I just tend to not get into arguments about this, as I don't think it's worth the blood-pressure increase to engage a pro-life advocate in discussion.

[0] I may be wrong about this; I frankly do not have many (any?) pro-choice friends, so I only know what I read, and that may be a case of me just hearing the loudest voices, not the most representative ones.
The Church committee hearings in 1975 had the CIA admitting they had key people in magazine and print media, but when pressed if they had people in TV, they requested a closed session.

If this clip showed just one set of news stations (all NBC stations) saying the same line, that would be one thing (they're just getting phrases to include from higher up) but it's tons of different networks.

Sure they could just be cutting up and reporting the same AP article they licensed or a press release (Occam's Razor) but it's also likely this particular narrative is pushed, at best, by advertisers wanting a specific message, and at worst, by the government or the CIA. It has happened before (Operation Mockingbird and COINTELPRO). It's silly to think it's not happening now.
They should hire more humans to do a proper job and provide actual customer service, using their excessive profits. The AI/automation stuff is just cost cutting and its lowering the quality of service.
I'd buy a Suzuki Swift in a heartbeat if it were available.
You're preaching to the choir my friend. (^_^)

Here's mine: https://joypy.osdn.io

> Thun is dialect of Joy written in Python.

> Joy is a programming language created by Manfred von Thun that is easy to use and understand and has many other nice properties. This Python package implements an interpreter for a dialect of Joy that attempts to stay very close to the spirit of Joy but does not precisely match the behaviour of the original version(s) written in C. The main difference between Thun and the originals, other than being written in Python, is that it works by the “Continuation-Passing Style”.
I distinctly recall GNOME on Ubuntu using kibibytes. This may have been in the GNOME 2 era. Had thuis changed?
WordPress on Ubuntu
Let's imagine for a moment that a decentralized social network actually took off.

How long until those ads crop back up anyway? Instagram should give us some idea on how sponsored content might look in such a system. According to some random site, the average price for a "sponsored" instagram post is $300. You think your friends are above showing you an ad when real money is on the line? Maybe they won't be making that kind of money with very few followers, but when Pizzahut asks you to post an ad in exchange for a free pizza, I think you'll see plenty of takers. Now, granted, at least the people being paid are your friends, instead of Zuck.
> More relevant however is that we humans can understand that we're faced with an optical illusion and we can make adjustments accordingly.

Broadly speaking, yes. At the same time that's not what happened in 2015. It produced so much polarizing content with people deeply entrenched in their believes. They might have recognized it as an optical illusion, but they refused to make adjustments.

> A machine needs to be specifically trained on adversarial examples in order to be able to predict them. Once you come up with a different class of adversarial examples it will continue to fail to detect them. There is no understanding there, just more and more refined pattern matching.

Moving away from image recognition examples, isn't that exactly what happens with humans predicting whether an email is a phishing attempt? I remember reading here on Hacker News this week about phishing tests at GitLab. It had a lot of comments about tests and training employees to spot adversarial emails. Some companies are more successful than the others. It is a complicated problem; otherwise we would have solved it already. But it's the same principle because phishers come up with different ways of tricking people. And some people will fail to detect them.
Here is the youtube discussion by Taleb for us lazy ones https://youtu.be/ggrW6qi0qZQ
Seems to me that their argument against censorship should be even stronger, then, as editorializing is protected expression.
I don't think that was why it was considered unfair.

The problem was rather that they tested on the same distribution the model had just seen 80 million examples from.
Value to society is subjective and many horrors of the past (and current) were caused by trying to optimize specific definitions of that term.
Transact for what? What am I more likely to need bitcoin for than to pay off some script kiddie?
From what I can tell from reading the docs on netlify-cms, it only works if you use Netlify as your CDN.

I could very well be wrong though.
>We do start out with a pretty well defined problem definition though.

One of the things that really helps this happen is when the management structure (on both sides) understands a defined problem statement that both sides agree to is a requirement for a project to have any hope of success.

The above isn't specific to Data Science projects. It's just having a management structure who knows the right time to support things being pushed back.
They're pretty upfront about this in the excellent documentation: https://help.nextdns.io/en/articles/3941241-what-is-the-adva...

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Early Fascist tenents were very much a reaction to the godless enlightment and 19th century secularism.

It is religious if that’s your social baseline. I’ll predict that Qanoners lean evangelical.
I'm a fan of their service, and because most browsers support DNS-over-HTTPS natively I can put the configuration right into my browser settings and have the same level of DNS filtering even when I'm outside of my home network without VPN.
Earliest reference I'm aware of for integration is James Slagle's MIT Ph.D. thesis work, from 1961. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11997
Setting aside the concerns about the efficacy of the idea, it also seems like an arbitrary encroachment on business prerogatives. I think everyone agrees that social media companies need more regulation, but mandating technical business process directives based on active user totals isn't workable, not the least of which because the definition of "active user" is highly subjective (especially if there is an incentive to get creative about the numbers), but also because something like "open source the recommendation algorithm" isn't a simple request that can be made on demand, especially with the inevitable enfilade of corporate lawyering to establish battle lines around the bounds of intellectual property that companies would still be allowed to control vs that which they would be forced to abdicate to the public domain.
btw. you can't compare the two. dotnet works way closer to the metal than java does. that's due to better interop and also since span exists, which also has more/better control over unmanaged memory in a more accessible way.
also struct's exists which eliminates a lot of problems when memory constrained.
example most java date objects are classes and use way more memory than any available object/library in dotnet (which are using structs)
Not purely. But there are 1000 things they could be doing. Taking the time to create thoughtful instructional videos is hard. I admire them for sharing what they know.
> The two 1/3 fractions refer to different objects ('wholes') than the 2/6 fraction (and from each other).

That is, precisely, the problem of units. Each object is its own unit here.

> The correct equation would have been 1/3 3 + 1/3 * 3 = 2/6 * 6.*

That's not how you add fractions. The correct equation would have been, 1/3 * 3 + 1/3 * 3 = 2/3 * 3 (or, 1+1=2), if these 3 all truly had the same units. But they don't, so you can't add like that.

> 1/3 of a meter + 1/3 of a Pascal does not equal 2/6 of anything (or maybe it does equal 2/6 of (2 meters + 2 Pascals)

That's the point (but it's 1/3, not 2/6). Also, 1/3 of a meter, + 1/3 foot = 1/3 (1 meter + 1 foot). Different units, but same dimension, so if you know the conversion factor (here, 1 meter = 3.3 feet), you can change it into (1/3 meter * 3.3 feet/meter) + 1/3 foot = 1.1 foot + 1/3 foot = 33/30 feet + 10/30 feet = 43/30 feet = 1.43(3) feet.

You can do the same math with students at tables.
I'm not sure if the sarcastic tone is meant to imply AWS is just a rehash of existing tools, but that's obviously not the case.

A list of actual competing software/products/services would be pretty useful.
Twitter labels Trump’s tweets with a fact-check for the first time
Well, that is what it is. No one knew a single website could grow so large, but it did. Even though there are thousands of people working for its owner, when reading articles like the OP we are reminded how much control he still has over it. No doubt he still thinks of it as his personal creation. Of course, "99.99999%" of the content is not his. Perhaps most of the people who sign up on Facebook are not employed by nation states but just ordinary people who want an easy way to stay connected to friends and family. Maybe these people should have a better way to stay connected than using a public website.
That is incredible and terrifying. Thanks for sharing!
Encrypting data meant to be public to the whole web doesn’t make much sense to me.
Not dead yet: https://github.com/smore-inc/clippy.js
It's a little bit uncomfortable to me seeing lots of empty boxes in the writing history before the date I signed up, and I know I will never have a chance to fill them out. Why not start the history graph from the first day registered?
Anyway, nice idea. I think I have some writing needs that can be fulfilled by this product. Please keep your UI as simple as possible no matter how many features you come up later.
> I do not want to fall in the trap of slow compilations and debugging mysterious typing errors again

I always found that, instead of debugging type errors, in dynamic languages you end up debugging runtime errors.

The errors don't go away, but with compiled languages at least they're easier to catch.
Not Solving the Problem
That indeed looks like it, thanks. It also looks like old memory mixed up bits and pieces of it; the interview wasn't in fact set in the machine room shots.
Makes me feel good that we planted our garlic last fall. We ate the first sample today for lunch: pulled them green, chopped up, sauteed in olive oil, then mixed in a cheese omelette. Tasty, and the first thing we've eaten from our garden this year in Vermont.

@jelliclesfarm: You post a lot of California farming related articles, and have a name that includes 'farm'. Do you have farm? What do you grow?
Is the help data relative to what is said in the tweet? Is the history of help data available to see the updates?
It's interesting how biased you are, that you see the inherent good in the US and view China as totally evil. The Chinese version of you would probably see it the opposite way, and you'd call him brainwashed and deluded...

I remember reading a cynical blog post about how what occupies governments are how to have the most influence in the world. USA used to be good at that, but well, we know where that's gone. As for "Western democtratic values", one could cynically view that as trying to install a free market so American companies can exploit resources and the population. Just look up where the term "banana republic" came from.
Eight drives! That's bad. I always order my Dell machines with the minimum cost single drive option so that I can buy my own drives.
> the major incentive has to be the altruism

Sorry, no. The major incentive is keeping one's name relevant/established. Think about the Masterclass as an advertisement for their personal brand and it will make a little more sense to you.
I think you'll notice that great human mathematicians and integrators also take pretty big jumps in their derivations, if they don't jump directly to the solution.

Going algorithmicly step by step is the clutches you use till you have built a strong enough intuition.
Didn't used to be this way, the FCC used to be much more serious about treating public airways as the public resource that they are.
> No idea why Windows has to reboot so many times for a single update.

It's an interesting tangent, but Insider Preview updates are fascinating from a technical standpoint. Nearly every single one is installed closer to how Windows' big "Feature Updates" work (as essentially full Windows images that get built to a new folder, all the old things installed back into it, then the old Windows folder archived or removed) than old school sets of patches to individual files. It's been interesting as an Insider since very early in Windows 10's life to see how much faster these updates have gotten over time. Installing lots of updates this way on Insider Preview machines seems to have helped a lot make the big "Feature Updates" themselves faster/better/more reliable. It's maybe not as obvious to someone installing a big Feature Update at most twice a year, but as a long time Windows user and having seen the gradient of change in Insiders Preview (and read some of what I could in their discussions on the technical efforts on blogs), it has been fascinating to watch.

WSL2 should be out of preview in the soon-to-be-rolled-out May 2020 feature update.
I want more government when it helps me and less when it doesn't. What's so hard about that? Everyone agrees with me, I'm sure.
Yeah and we also dropped potato beetles via parachutes over crops across Warsaw Pact countries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_against_the_potato_beetle
Money, size (I prefer small startups), culture, interview process... all of them matter but eventually the most important factor for me is the challenge. I prefer really challenging jobs and to be honest it's not always the smartest path...

It can work great, you can make a huge impact on growth of a promising startup, but it can also fail...
"There’s a lot more to the evolution, enough for a book on the subject, but if you had to create a list of what kinds of technology and methodology went into the Looking Glass (since they do not list it), it might look like this:"

Pure speculation.
Remind me what's happening to the refugees (including infants) in the south border?

Maybe they deserve it for being criminals, just like the Muslims in Xinjiang deserve it...
I searched online - seems that when SAP bought Sybase, net revenues of Sybase were around $1b - this was only one product in their portfolio.

Is it true that the product was making $1b / year?
Uber to close its AI labs
doesn't make you a good teacher, only an exceptional anecdote. Which has value, but it is what it is.
Note to security researchers: per the TOS, this platform censors publication of malware, worms, viruses, and other such software.

I’ll never personally use a publishing/hosting service platform that tells me, in advance, that they will censor my legal content.
Web.dev LIVE: A digital event over three days and three time zones
Just a heads up. This looks broken for me on iOS Safari on an iPhone x.
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> I have to disagree, or maybe we have a different idea of what is mainstream. The New York Times front page was making a big stink about the coronavirus in Wuhan as early as mid-January. By mid-February they were already quoting experts in European countries telling people to be prepared for a pandemic.

Fair, maybe it's the fact that the media is constantly catastrophizing everything that I didn't pay attention to coverage like that. I did start paying attention as soon as I started hearing the warning bells from a bunch of experts in mid February.

Thanks for the recommendation of The Economist. I wish they had a monthly option, looks like they only do weekly? I've had so much trouble finding a good news source or magazine that has a monthly edition / subscription. Guess there's not much money in that.
I was trying to put it in perspective for you since your reaction seemed very out of left field.
I read it as it could have been making $1b at some point after the SAP acquisition.
I've asked the question - what if FB went for bartender rules? No politics no religion... sometimes I feel like those are 65% of the content.
If I may, I would like to add my own Markblog to the list :-) It is basically a static site generator based on markdown files. (https://github.com/olaven/markblog)
Looks like a case of bad anycast routing, as we have a PoP in Toronto! It happens and is usually easily fixable, can you talk to us via the chat on our website (or at support@nextdns.io)?

A map of our network for anyone interested:

https://i.imgur.com/2uenEAZ.png
Almost all news is a race to the bottom and full of dark patterns. I'm quite surprised to see how many people here are defending the news. I see people who seem to have extreme anxiety caused by the news. Constantly refreshing NYTimes or Twitter. Its not healthy.

Read slow news. The article mentions local news which I agree with wholeheartedly. The Economist comes out once a month. There's balanced coverage and no clickbait. There's no homepage to constantly refresh or articles designed to induce outrage. You know that they are funded by subscriptions and not from selling your data.

I think that's the biggest point. Services that make money by selling your data or by serving you ads should not be trusted by default.
The three kinds of non-fiction books
>Another concern, they and others said, was that some proposed changes would have disproportionately affected conservative users and publishers, at a time when the company faced accusations from the right of political bias.

This is the same thing they were worried about in the lead up to the 2016 election when they fired their newsroom for not promoting pizzagate and other conspiracies that would be deemed as "biased" against conservatives. And they clearly still haven't learned anything about why letting engagement algorithms run wild is bad for society.
“Holistic Nursing” is a serious effort at legitimizing what would have been considered New Age medicine 50 years ago.

http://samples.jbpub.com/9781284072679/Chapter5_Sample.pdf
Protective coloration of European vipers throughout the predation sequence
This already exists — most social media is already curated. You only see tweets and posts from those you follow or friend. You can already block or ignore any undesirables. This works fine for self-curation.

There is no need for holier-than-thou censorship short of legal breaches. Good to see FB take this change of direction.
Thanks for the feedback, noted!
If this were true you'd have the average opinion filter out - naysayers would downvote supporters and vice versa. The truth is in fact that hn is hypocritical and becomes outraged for the sake of outrage just like every other opinionated group (where the raison d etre is to express an opinion rather than discourse).

Edit: think hn isn't just about getting attention? Then explain to me why responses are ranked? Or even ranked without requiring a response? Even Amazon reviews in principle require leaving ratings only in good faith (ie having engaged with the product). It's obvious and dang and whomever could make that a perquisite of voting. That they haven't proves my point.
In the info box photo on that page, only the box at the bottom (with the red and purple switches) is the processor; above it are two blanking plates and a TU-56 tape drive. I suspect that KPS considers the machine to just be the processor, whereas you're looking at the processor and surrounding peripherals.

That said, there were PDP-11's that were desk-sized, such as the DEC Professional (about the size of an IBM 5150), or even smaller, the VT240 (which is largely an embedded PDP-11, and it has about the footprint of a C64, though somewhat thinner)
That MMC snap-in hasn't changed much in the NT era of Windows. You might be recalling 95-ME's even worse task scheduler?
If you are strictly sticking to the SI system of units, you should be fine. However, some of us work in industries and countries (You know where) that don't fully embrace SI, and mixing other systems with SI is common.