skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, enjoyed your little foray into the field of statistics. So much so, that I'd love to learn some of this stuff as well! I'm a bioinformatics student, so I have a rigorous math background (analysis, linear algebra), but for some reason, our course is quite light on statistics and probability.

What resource would you recommend to get an intuitive grasp of statistics?

To give you an idea about what kind of resource (book) I'm looking for: I'm currently reading Elements of Statistical Learning and I enjoy that it has all the mathematical rigour I need to really understand why all of it works, but also that it's heavy on commentary and pictures, which helps me to understand the math quicker. Counterexamples: Baby Rudin one one side of the spectrum, The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book on the other.
US Senators already introduced a bill ! https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senators-hawley-scott-introduc...
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I think even the author's own example can be criticized this way. He describes himself as a top-25% artist and humorist, but not among "the best" at either of those. But you could just as easily re-frame that as him being among the best cartoonists.
In the majority... in the United States?
> “While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such attacks of hate.”

So according to this rule, a racial minority can call members of a "majority race" sub-human, but not vice-versa. And yet, majority/minority are regional properties. How do you know a redditor's region in order to moderate their comment appropriately? Or are reddit employee regions the only ones that matter?

It's clearly a farce. Majority/minority status is a red herring. It's used only to enable reddit and mods to selectively apply the rules for their own ends. The fact is, it's unethical to call any race sub-human, regardless of whether the majority shares your views.
> Dev tools for Windows and iOS/ MacOs are fairly straight forward

Are they? It's probably been a decade since I touched a native GUI (and I was without a mentor and working on already-old software) so I legitimately don't know. Using something like Visual Studio's form builder was fine enough, but it was not a very expressive toolset as I recall.

Web you can get started "instantly". Your browser covers most of the tooling you need and you can tweak any live site.

I don't like that that's how it is. From an abstract perspective I'd rather not be working on web because it seems like we're trying to make a better car by building a bicycle inside of it. But the low bar for entry is hard to beat.
"Rocket Equation", thank you! I've had a total brain-block on that term as I was literally just trying to answer a question related to this, on a Tesla forum, and I couldn't remember the name! The inevitable question of "Why can't they just add more battery for more range?" Like you mentioned it's some variant of this and I'm sure there is a name for it. I'm not a mechanical engineer. But again, dragging more mass requires more energy. In an automobile, you'd need a bigger and stronger car. My Model 3 is one heavy beast. More weight and it would need bigger (perhaps more) tires and a heavier/stronger drivetrain. The new Roadster was must have been planned for "some time in the future" production (not in production yet) because they have some formula that dictated a new battery was coming. A 620 mile range on a car that can do 0-60mph in 1.9 seconds (twice the range of my car) has to have some way of reducing that weight. Who knows. Fascinating problems. I wish I had gotten myself into that sort of engineering when I was young(er).
Your move Apple.
> Seems odd for multiple independent companies to act in concert like this.

It shouldn't, all social networks delegate banning "hate content" to the SPLC and ADL. It's much more efficient/effective to do things this way, and more importantly, it assures fair enforcement. Otherwise, you'd have the same content allowed on one platform, but banned on another. This approach is much better for the platforms and their users.
New ransomware masquerades as Covid-19 contact-tracing app on Android
Yes & it immediately transmits once it comes back to cellular service.
They literally greenlit racism against Whites:

"Marginalized or vulnerable groups include, but are not limited to, groups based on their actual and perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or disability. These include victims of a major violent event and their families.

While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such attacks of hate."
I'd quite like the world to be free of hate, narrow-mindedness and biases, but it turns out wishful thinking does almost no good.
Here’s a partial crowdsourced list https://www.reddit.com/r/reclassified/comments/hi41t2/the_ba...
A reddit user, who claims to have reverse-engineered the TikTok app[1], concluded:

> TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network. If there is an API to get information on you, your contacts, or your device... well, they're using it.

> For what it's worth I've reversed the Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter apps. They don't collect anywhere near the same amount of data that TikTok does, and they sure as hell aren't outright trying to hide exactly whats being sent like TikTok is.

It doesn't seem surprising now, given that Zoom, which is also being developed in China, acts like a malware application, too[2].

I'm glad, that India is more aware of the possible consequences of using any software made in China than, for instance, the government of the UK is[3].

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22748204

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52126534
> However this also admits it can be done as I mentioned too.

That wasn't the intention
> For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority

Are they serious? So basically racism is OK as long as it's toward people who are the majority?
Oh I have plenty of that too. But it's usually the case that saying _anything_ reasonable is enough of a foot in the door to a wider conversation. And it's a lot like creativity, or math, or music... the more you do it, the better you get at it.

It's like when you learn a new language, one of the first things you learn is how to say "I don't speak X well, please slow down" in that language. Same with debate: learn how to say "I'm trying to better understand" to prime the other person for a conversation. Sometimes they'll start talking for you–that's even a common negotiation tactic, to let the other person talk to basically give you a few points to think about questioning/rebutting, or look for contradictions.
“Look how many sauces we’ve got to choose from for McNuggets!”
My money is on it has the opposite effect, and by banning these people it moves their fans onto fringe platforms that will shuttle them towards even more bizarre/fringe/extreme views.

Here's a study that shows it pushes people towards more moderate videos.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.11211.pdf
One hopeful thing that might come from this time of forced isolation: time and space to reflect on what is genuinely meaningful to us in the long term as individuals and as communities.
It's also important to be aware of the fact that you don't have to see too many horrible, bigoted comments before a space feels unsafe.

It's not a matter of "not all HN posts", it's a matter of "too many HN posts". And "too many" can be a relatively small number in absolute terms, especially in the context of an industry that has a strong gender imbalance.
In China Apple allows iCloud infrastructure to be managed by Chinese companies (presumably so they can do bulk collection on user data/message backups).

I agree. This absolutely fits the bill. For Apple, it’s either accept this arrangement or don’t do business in China, but it doesn’t change that it has a hollow ring, when Apple talks about privacy as a human right elsewhere.

Apple removes the Taiwanese flag emoji from devices

That’s a bad look, but it has nothing to do with privacy, and ultimately has no practical consequences for anybody.

Apple removes the apps the CCP asks them to from the app store in China (notably this includes podcast apps with access to unapproved speech).

Again, that has nothing to do with privacy. I don’t even see how it reflects poorly on Apple. What would you like Apple to do differently here? Should they martyr themselves in protest Chinese laws? What would that accomplish?

I wouldn't be surprised if there were more concessions.

Undoubtedly, if by concessions you mean complying with local laws in the countries where the do business.

Apple is still the best when it comes to protecting their users in the west

I’m sure Apple is also among the best when it comes to protecting their users in China. The problem is that Chinese laws don’t allow for the same level of protection as US laws.
The computer screen and keyboard is just the interface. It’s the tools that you must use to access the computer (for now).

The real magic is in the ideas, the thought processes, and the algorithms that makes the programs come alive. You can scratch this out on a chalkboard, if you want.

You’re like a magician, that is able to synthesize something, from really nothing, except a bunch of bits organized together to mean something.

On the flip side, these folks spend hours on their iPhones reading their depressing Facebook feeds.
Oh I’m sure there are plenty of people in the west who would like it to be all about the money, Trump for example looks at the corrupt oligarchic system in Russia and sees huge commercial opportunities, it’s right up his street. The trouble is the Russians keep insist on playing their stupid Cold War spy, assassination and destabilisation games mucking things up.
In response to the idea that beginners should not be taught in ways that need to be unlearned later on if they take it to higher levels: I agree. However, I also believe the greatest impediment for most people to learning anything is internal. But that’s not to say it’s some psych out thing that can be overcome w a better attitude. Internal problems are entirely real and need respect. Confusion and frustration are central to the learning experience and a good teacher makes it central to teaching as well. Richard Feynman is a great teacher and his books do not teach stuff you need to unlearn even though he teaches simplifications all the time. I cannot say the same about all of my books! Apologies!
You implied they were true (or at least questioned it).

I gave my arguments as to why I think they are both false, A) being a lack of evidence, B) imperialism as a more believable explanation with more evidence. Ball is in your court
well you must totally disagree with the head of advertising at every single large company on the planet.

I wonder who is wrong.
This really is the key point. Posts which on Twitter or Facebook would be deemed as hate are allowed now on Reddit. They were not before.

Indeed in most EU countries, Reddit steps over the line into hate speech by allowing it against certain groups. There is an important caveat as it still would not allow violence, harassment or bullying.
> If you don't know, to post on /r/blackpeopletwitter you have to send a photo of your skin color to the moderators.

I think there's a good reason for doing that, given that such a sub can almost trivially become a hate sub for mocking people on Twitter, much like fatpeoplehate. "We want our community to be largely black" seems like a reasonable founding principle.
The issue right now is that most content is presented over and communication conducted over HTTP interfaces without clear APIs. This makes writing independent applications to access this content or communicate via these channels challenging (though not at all impossible).

What would be really great is to go back to communicating via open protocols (and I don't mean a bespoke protocol over the open protocol that is HTTP). This lets people use whatever tools they want to participate. Like we have with email, Usenet and IRC.

EDIT: I initially wrote about content presentation over HTTP, that wasn't what I meant so I modified it. Specifically I'm talking about forums (like this one, Reddit, or any of the other popular gathering grounds) that are interfaced with via HTTP. They've taken over a large chunk of our person-to-person communication. Simple sites (like this one) are easy to interact with via a custom application. But Reddit, Facebook, and others are harder to use via anything but their primary site or their own application.
Almost like being a police officer?
Where do you live? I'm trying to find this type of city culture in NJ suburbs.
I don't know if one is proposed. As a philosopher he takes it upon himself to best articulate a problem as best he can.
Thanks for the kind words! I have been gone from Klutz for almost 10 years. Scholastic runs it now and they have their own vision. I’m yesterday’s news!
To wit: the Freedom of Association enshrined in the first amendment includes the right to tell someone else to fuck right off.
Hell, I don't think anyone really understands fractions until they've taken Elementary Set Theory and constructed the reals, and I don't think anyone really understands high-school trig until they've taken real analysis, etc.

It's a great feeling to come back to the "simple" topics from early in school, and to realize how much rich knowledge they communicate, and the level of detail that really sits underneath them.
Are any of you afraid it'll happen to your app? today its China tomorrow it could be another country
> The internet is an IRL thing, and these things also happened before electric cars. Unless you have some reason to think people's reaction to the truth is somehow fundamentally different on the internet than on TV or newspaper, I really don't see what your point is.

The internet is a fundamentally different communications mechanism than TV or newspapers. Reasoning about internet forum social dynamics using pre-computer examples, is like reasoning about modern infantry tactics citing victories from ancient Greek history. A hoplite phalanx would be annihilated by a WWII German infantry battalion.

> Subtly racist memes and dog whistles are created by censorship. If a person believed "black people are criminals" without censorship, they would just, "black people are criminals". How effective do you really think censorship is if the entire point of subtlety and dog whistles is to get around censorship?

Sorry, no. You're conflating censorship with exclusion again. "Censorship" didn't create those things; they were created by the widespread rejection and condemnation of the underlying racist ideas and the racist people who hold them. Earnest, up-front advocacy of racism isn't going to be effective in a population that's been primed to identify and reject it, so racists setup recruiting funnels with obscured entrances to spread their ideology by radicalizing people more slowly. That situation won't change, and the racists won't abandon their subtly racist memes and dog whistles, unless racism becomes respectable in polite company, which would be much worse than what we have now.
This is a joke. The "western world" created PRISM and Five Eyes and has been meddling in elections in the third world for almost a century. Additionally, what do you define as the "western world", because by some measures it includes some actually fascist governments like e.g. Saudi Arabia.

A) Having democracy does not correlate with having transparency and freedom, this has been de facto proven.

B) If the "western world" is the bar, the bar is low.
> empathy and social unity required for creating and protecting civil liberties and equality.

"empathy," but it's OK to use violent aggressive force against people who don't share my empathy.

"social unity," but it's OK to use violent aggressive force against people who don't share our opinions.

The non-aggression principle is the only ethically consistent one. As soon as you advocate for violence to be used, your other opinions mean shit.

A free market is implied by the non-aggression principle, because the only way you can stop people trading freely if they don't agree with you is to use violence.

Civil liberties are protected by individuals themselves, by asserting their rights, and conforming to the non-aggression principle to avoid getting into conflicts with others.

As for "equality", I really could not give a shit. Me and my immediate family come first. My extended family come second. My community comes third. The rest are dead last. It doesn't matter what sex, color, orientation or other perceived victimization they have - if they attempt or advocate for violence to be used against those I care about, they are the problem.

I am a strong proponent of the non-aggression principle, and will interact with anybody on good terms unless they are in violation of it.

Also, regarding trust in free markets: What is a democratic vote? Why does this free market opinion have a free pass but other free market opinions are not allowed?
It's even worse than that. People can honestly disagree about whether the term "racism" accurately describes something or whatever, but that's a far cry from actively condoning ("..this rule does not protect...") the whipping up of hate towards a majority of the population. The internet is full of nihilists and misanthropes who genuinely hate everyone and everything - I'm sure they can't wait to abuse this weakness in every way they can possibly think of. All for teh lulz, of course.
Ask HN: Best Bank for Startups?
We've been using Silicon Valley Bank for the last 4 years and while their services generally "work", they aren't the best. We've been working with SVB to setup a line-of-credit just to have in case we need it, and we recently talked with them about their Innovators card. Unfortunately their sales people cannot show you any kind of demo so that you can see how it works or what the UI looks like even. This is a tough ask as the only way to see it is to sign up for an account and start issuing cards. We also talked with Brex about their solution and even looked into Expensify's card.

Brex was able to show us a demo and as part of the trial we attached our SVB account which causes a $0.01 deposit and withdrawal. After doing this we received an email from our SVB sales rep acknowledging the transaction: "It looks like I see a penny test from Brex on June 3rd so it may be that you just set something up." I'm not sure what's buried in the SVB ToS, but SVB sales reps looking into our transactions didn't sit quite right with me. Then we told them that we decided to go with Brex because we liked the solution and not being able to get a demo from SVB made it basically a non-starter. A couple days later we get a call from a Managing Director and he tells us that the line-of-credit will need to be venture debt and backed by equity or warrants, which we're not interested in since this is only a rainy-day LoC and we've got plenty of money in our SVB account. Fast forward to today and they tell us that they won't give us the LoC anymore unless we also agree to use their Innovator card.

Basically I'm looking for other banks that are great to work with and understand how startups work and the needs they have. I've looked at Mercury, and we have an account there, but I was hesitant to move too much away from SVB because it "just worked", but obviously now I'm reconsidering. Hopefully HackerNews has some good advice and recommendations.
The Masterminds Behind Toyota’s Self-Driving Cars Say AI Still Has a Way to Go
as someone not from the US, The american mindset of moving out at 18 seems bizarre to me. (also, moving halfway across a continent aswell).

Most people in my country don't move out of their parents homes until their mid twenties (usually after university/military duty).

Also, it might be my ignorance of american culture. But to me it seems america lacks a certain sense of regional culture that exists in most other places around the world. a sense of belogin to a very localized culture.

Kind of hard to explain, "heimat" is a term which sort of covers it, but is not entirely what i mean.
Thanks for all the kind words! I’m humbled! I’m trying to respond to everyone but the software or admin tells me I’m “posting too much” so I have to slow down. Let’s see how this post does...
Conclusion: white nationalists ruin the internet
On the question of black box algorithms, no because it's not relevant.
Obvious fraud like that would never hold up in court.
I wasn't making that claim at all. Reddit corp. politics aren't left or right. It's just whatever gets them the most ad money, personal information sale money, and the least bad press.
What's fascinating to me is the amount of knowledge and teaching experience that has to go into designing those exercises. How long and how many teachers and students did it take to come up with a good set of exercises to develop towards a certain skillset?
If I had to have a wild guess (could be wrong) I would say it's from the Sosnovy Bor plant near St. Petersburg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Nuclear_Power_Plant There is ongoing work to decommission the last Chernobyl style reactors by 2025. Hope it's all going safely!
So, they built a model for polarization. I read through the article a couple times, but maybe I missed it - I don't see what predication this model makes that can be useful or can test it.

The article also implies that being on a political team is the only reason for polarization. Maybe that's a big part of it, but it seems to me that ignoring incompatible world views is uncharitable to all involved, and almost certainly a way to increase misunderstanding.
Safari will likely be the last browser to support HTTP/3 as it will only be available in the unreleased MacOS 10.16. HTTP/3 is already in the other browsers with instructions on how to enable [0]. Firefox Nightly and Chrome Dev already support Draft 29 (which is Working Group Last Call [1].

0. https://www.bram.us/2020/04/08/how-to-enable-http3-in-chrome...

1. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/quic/F7wvKGnA1FJasmaE3...
High-Resolution Neural Face Swapping for Visual Effects (Disney Research)
You're probably right and I hope you are.
I don't think that is true. Giving the fringe a platform makes it easier for like minded people to find each other and that allows them to create a nice little echo chamber where they can pretend their ideas and concepts are legit and backed up because 'many others feel the same way'. Free speech advocates believe that somehow everything that can be said should be allowed to be said but this does not - in my opinion at least - extend to each and every medium. Handing every moron a megaphone is not a good idea.
Just visited the site. Looks like you need to go through capticha/cloudflair wait and then you have to create an account. I never got that far.

But you went through all of that and verified your email. Now you are reporting it is full of [insert trending bad words]. Are you part of that community? A reporter?

Were there any upvotes on comments you approved of?
1) Front-end engineers don't compile any Rust or C++ etc. code, instead they use artifact builds which download pre-built binary artifacts from Mozilla's continuous integration builds, and their local builds only "compile" the HTML/JS/CSS code.

2) They use sccache locally for caching binary builds artifacts.

3) In-office they use stuff like distributed compiles/a beefy compiler machine on the network rather than necessarily the one they are using