skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The type of gullible person that accepts these false beliefs about issues such as climate change and immigration isn't going to change their mind simply because Facebook starts censoring such content. Many people held such views before the rise of Facebook and other social media empires. Such views have been transmitted over old school media such as conservative talk radio shows for decades before the popularization of the internet.

All that is happening is a change in medium used to propagate such views. These people in question are only engaging with such social media channels because they find views that support their beliefs. Should such views be censored, they'll simply seek out other mediums.

I think the core problem is that many of these issues have been too highly politicized and now people can only engage with such issues on an emotional level. They only ask whether a view supports "their side" on the issue and care little for the actual facts.

Note, I don't even believe this behavior is limited to any side of the political arena. I've seen friends ostracized for simply considering positions such as the leftist argument for strict immigration standards to ensure a country has ample resources to care for their existing citizens and only takes additional members that will be a net positive contribution to societies available resources.

All in all, I think it is beyond the ability of social media empires to help gullible people become less gullible. All they can do is decide what content for gullible audiences they will allow on their platform. The more they restrict content, the more their user base will shrink as people seek out alternative mediums to find the content that supports their existing beliefs.
A few facts to note: Blacks kill more blacks than any other race or ethinicity.[1] Blacks also kill more whites, than whites kill blacks in pure numbers.[1] When you factor in the size of the respective populations on a per capita ratio, then the numbers just get worse.[2] On a more positive note, though, crimes are reported to generally have gone down over the last few years. In fact there's nothing in the data to suggest that there is a systemically racist problem in the USA. If anything, the data has a bias towards whites...[1] As for the article from the clearly Left-biased Vox,[3] public opinion only reflects how poorly educated most people are about the matter.

If you think it's racist of me, a Sami minority person from Norway to say this—whose history also contains a lot of racism and atrocities systematically committed towards the Sami people—then please just excuse what I just said, and instead look at this black person saying just about the same exact thing.[4] Here's another slightly more famous black person wheighing in on the matter, with his opinion on what might be the cause of this tragedy.[5] Either way I don't believe in original sin, or that the current generation should atone for the sins of their fathers.

The sad fact that I'm forced to refer to black-only sources before anyone will believe me—a slightly racist thing to demand in the first place—should tell you how stigmatizing this discussion has become. Most people don't even dare to quote facts these days, and for good reason! Nevermind being banned from social media; people these days stand to lose their jobs if they have the wrong opinion! This is extremely chilling on the much needed democratic discussion on this topic. Thus I hope people will refrain from personal attacks or downvoting, and instead will use well researched factual sources to discuss the matter in a civil way.

Thank you!

[1]: FBI murder statistics by race from 2018, https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-... 2018 was the latest year I could find such data on.

[2]: US Census Bureau, ACS Demographic and Housing Estimates 2018, https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?d=ACS%205-Year%20Estima...

[3]: VOX, "White Americans are finally talking about racism. Will it translate into action?" https://www.vox.com/2020/6/11/21286642/george-floyd-protests...

[4]: The Systemic Racism and Police Brutality Narrative is Getting People Killed | Larry Elder, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z572XopBVFc

[5]: Denzel Washington on systemic racism in the USA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0dCvQdt5XI
This is not true. Firefox has never used a Chromium backend.

One of the big arguments for using Firefox is that it encourages diversity because a huge handful of "alternative" browsers (Opera, Brave, etc) use a Chromium backend
The low beta anomaly has persisted for since we have data. If you consider the S&P 500 the market, then yes, it's not difficult to beat it by investing in low beta stocks and leveraging up so your beta is 1. This is a classic and time-tested strategy that will probably always outperform, on a risk-adjusted basis.
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I'm not sure what you're getting at here but JAVA code is really OO when compared to something like Go.

If you consider java to not be OOP then it's a completely different story. If you consider java to not be OOP what would style would you call it? Is this what you're referring to with "imperative functional decomposition"?
Isn’t there a maintenance window that can be configured, I don’t know what the default one is sounds like something to tweak. I’m not saying all is well, i would set it and move on with my life YMMV
RxJava or Reactive Streams won't solve the issue of ceremony needed for dealing with async I/O. You're correct that it only makes it worse.

The real advantage the reactive model offers is a more powerful abstraction for data flow than futures. I found it useful than straight coroutines or async/await in cases where I had to process complex data flows or combine periodically polled data from multiple sources, but in well over 99% of the use cases for an async REST API it's an overkill.

Removing the ceremony around asynchronous I/O, on the other hand, requires language support, so your best option right now is to just use Kotlin coroutines. Or wait for Project Loom, but I assume it's at least 2 years away from a stable release.
It would be same as the regular bidding process.

Except that the gov't picks and pays for the contract (construction), instead of the local residents.

For service and maintenance contract the gov't would subsidize the monthly fees (which are expected to bee higher than a high density city)
It seems like you're saying momentum is racist.
There are lots of ways to produce an edge. Forex is slightly different because you are trading a currency (this actually makes things easier in some ways) but, a few years ago, a lot of the cutting edge was news releases.

So inflation comes out at X% and then you try to jump ahead of other people reacting to the news.

Speaking very generally, you are looking for data that has information about future returns. So this may include past values of the time series (this is kind of complex though because a stock price does trend, that company is investing capital to earn a return which compounds in the price so stationarity is...complex) but may include other time series/their past values i.e. price of other stocks, economic data, etc.

So this could be responding to changes in liquidity, it could be seeing some repeatable behaviour by investors and jumping ahead of it, etc.

Quant is not about adding to the efficiency of markets though. They aren't using these models to determine the value of something, they are more about looking at the value of other things to determine the value of a given asset. So these strategies end up being correlated to liquidity in a lot of instances (but not all). This is a generalisation but...it is a very odd thing to have occurring in society...would this exist if investors didn't have an irrational demand for microsecond liquidity? Probably not.

Also, determining whether something is a real signal is just part of statistics, isn't it? This has definitely been an area where there has been quite a lot of innovation as increases in computational power has made non-parametric stuff more feasible (I am not an expert on this, it is just my understanding).

Btw, I should add I used to work in finance and I have some experience with this kind of thing as I do quite a bit of "quant investing" but in gambling (it is far easier to just copy what people do in finance and apply it to gambling then come up with it yourself). And just based on my experience, it makes most sense to employ a mixed approach. So learn about the business valuation, and then build a five-factor model...watch what it does, and then filter its picks with your knowledge. A lot of quant strategies are vaguely ludicrous if you have an understanding of the fundamentals of investing, like you are trying to use a computer to replicate a human...and people wonder why it doesn't work? It is an overcomplicated shortcut (to give you a concrete example, the blowup of value and funds like AQR was very obvious...you just had to look at the utter garbage stocks they owned). So I think a combination of human and computer beats either separately (one fund that does is Marshall Wace).
I should have clarified that I mean music that is stored on my phone while I'm not at home. Also, the default Spotify player in Ubuntu is in a SNAP container that can't access my music folder and won't follow symlinks from the SNAP's designated music folder to other folders.
> This happens all the time in orgs all over the planet.

> You are truly insufferable and making incorrect assumptions. This happened once, in my current role.

> Now, please... do us both a favor and stop talking out of your ass.

I'm going to be blunt here. If it's anything like this to work with you (which I don't know, only your colleagues can say), then I think you have a lot to work on:

- You freely admit that you don't have a track record of working at orgs that insist on the highest standards for design

- You seem to harbor unchecked presumptions and lack the curiosity to seek them out

- You lash out at others who suggest that maybe these things are not universal

- You take little responsibility or ownership for the situation you're in

If I was a hiring manager for a team that cared about good design of any kind, why would I hire you? It would be like oil and water. It's one thing to end up in an org practicing your craft in a way where quality just isn't appreciated. And I imagine many of us have been there (I certainly have). But, it is another thing entirely to extrapolate it to a universal circumstance, or into something unavoidable.

Figuring out how to adequately communicate and tradeoff the short term and long term value of good design to other stakeholders in the company is one of the /bare minimums/ to being a competent designer. Why would I trust you to visually communicate something to a customer if I cannot even trust you to verbally communicate properly with your team? I have very rarely worked with designers unable to do that with a variety of stakeholders. And honestly, if you cannot do that successfully, I think you need to go back and work on your fundamentals.
Would be cool if there was one of these for the front page of HN. Pretty challenging to parse though. Headlines and comments should be simple enough, articles and images not so much.
Pray someone does not kill the joke further. Whoops...
Or maybe it will show that humans can manage the plastic over their life times but maybe insects can not. It certainly seems to coincide with the declining bug population and increasing plastic use.
I'm bemused. In the last few weeks, multiple stories have cropped up about various advertizers boycotting FB. On every one I saw, the cynics were buzzing about how the companies were only making profit-based decisions and virtue-signalling by characterizing their cessation as a boycott.

But it sounds like they hit FB in the wallet and that got FB to take notice.

Excellent drama, if nothing else.
That almost describes Super Graph. It's not exactly config file driven it can be used as a library within your own GO code and it's configured via a config object. In fact if you look at the example here we're passing null (nil) for the config since unless you want to do something more complex out of the box it just works config is not needed. https://supergraph.dev/docs/home#using-it-in-your-own-code
Warren Buffett doesn't buy stocks on Robinhood because they couldn't handle his volume. I saw him quoted somewhere not long ago saying that if he was working with a "small portfolio", a few hundred thousand dollars or maybe it was even a few million, that he was quite certain he could return in excess of 100% annually.

But yes, picking stocks is probably not as effective for most people as buying an index fund.
Next up: the spinning newspaper headline entree...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpinningPaper
My thoughts too! Hacker News was actually in a prototype of this and you can try it by going to https://unim.press/#hn -- but indeed, it didn't look great without pictures. Might be able to scrape linked articles and such, but I didn't get that far in an afternoon hack.
If Firefox had better dev tools I might. Chrome's entire development environment feels first class, whereas Firefox's feels like an afterthought.
People built things like this 10+ years ago and they were awful, and ridiculed by people in places like HN etc.

This format looks good on paper, but on screens its a mess and poorly formatted one at that.

Can we stop re-inventing bad UX all over again?
For the Xbox 360, they ditched Intel and went for PowerPC. Microsoft then bought a bunch of PPC Mac Pros from Apple for development since they shared the same ISA :D
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https://github.com/MeteorStudioASU/lcc/pull/5
IFIS multiplexes with PCIe so it probably qualifies as quite serial. IFOP a little less, but that's blurry at this point.
Just a reminder: nobody ever wrote about their super successful trading strategy. Its just never happened. If you have the wherewithal to research and build a trading system that works, then you're smart enough to know that the moment you reveal your edge to the world - it disappears. Even if you dont discuss the innards of your strategy, but you talk about your process or the system youre strategy is built on, you've revealed too much.
> Cloud vendor computing models are not generally the computing model of the rest of the world.
> Comparison to their environment is not relevant to the general populace.

The way that Google shares server compute and memory resources is by having a service oriented architecture. A single high scale service serves many different applications, usually colocated in the same cluster or data center. Each service is based on multiple instances of a statically linked binary.

At that scale, there is no point in try to use shared dynamically linked libraries to reduce consumption because you save more by either reducing increasing your own app's efficiency or relying on one of the major services rather than linking more functionality into your own app.
The config file is for when you use Super Graph as a standalone service that you can just deploy to Cloud Run, App Engine, Digital Ocean or whatever. The standalone service is the same core compiler library with a lot more valuable add-ons like auth middlewares, compression, etc.
This thread makes me wish I hadn't gone to grad school for an MSDA. I'd be a lot less angry at the ineptitude on bold display in this thread.
If there are 9 widgets and 10 people who want widgets then handing out money will cause inflation. The problem is a lack of widgets, and money shuffling games won't help.

If there are 11 widgets, 10 people who want widgets and one person has 3 widgets then UBI might help. It will definitely help if the biggest problem is an uneven distribution of widgets.

"Inflation" is a largely irrelevant metric that provides an accounting measure of how those situations play out. What matters is the production & distribution of goods.

The problem with 30 years mortgages isn't necessarily that they are given to everyone. It is that they create a situation where to own a home people have to agree to give years of their labour to a bank for essentially no reason.
Also read negative incometax. Same thing. At this point economics will make more sense if human cost is acually made quantifiable and counted in profit and loss.
> expect the "below-knee" point for this kind of approach to still look realistic, but not faithful anymore.

If so, that might be kinda cool on its own.

(and perhaps also useful for anti-forensic purposes, e.g. use it as a de-noising mechanism that makes it more difficult to identify the source camera)
A mechanical timer would be more expensive, and less reliable than a software solution. It would also be less accurate, but that doesn't really matter.

You could easily reduce the complexity of the actual controls, but it would still be a digital microwave.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, but if your implication is that I'm saying "(legal) progress towards racial equality is racist", then I'm not really sure how you got that from my comment. My point is simply that you can have greater legal equality and yet things that happened in the past can still cause racist outcomes in the present (see my example).
> No, but he needn't have sent people with guns at first. The first step in enforcing any law is just asking people to comply with it. The next step is putting fines on them. Only the last step involves the threat or at the very end, the use of force.

None of this is any different from armed robbery. Of course the bank robbers just ask with a note first. The threat of violence is still the same, which is why there is a huge burden on the state to prove it’s necessary.
At best you are misinformed, at worst you are spreading misinformation. Otherwise, cite some sources.

Firefox has never used Chromium.
NASA is offering $35,000 in prizes to design a toilet that will work on the moon
Police should solve crime. Instead they are put in charge of everything that is not their job since there is no funding for mental health services, homeless, etc. etc.
This is over intellectualizing and already hyped up topic. Predictive “ML” here is closer to an excel spreadsheet with crimes per block, sorted from largest to highest, with more police sent to the high ones. It’s not some weird deep net trained in secret crazy data.
More people get shot in some areas, so more police go there. That’s what they’re saying.
I think some version of this idea has promise. It's kind of like social distancing and COVID-19.
you are sarcastic, but what i noticed is that languages on top of javascript improve the hiring pool.

i already experienced that earlier with coffeescript.

because javascript is so ubiquitous, everyone has to learn it, and there is a large pool of inexperienced javascript developers.

however, only those who are actually skilled will apply for a position that requires coffeescript or typescript.
The 8-bit Guy had a video on this topic. He does a tour of his home wiring setup and talks about his previous setup was completely destroyed by lightning hitting a tree above a buried cable.

https://youtu.be/Ev0PL892zSE?t=355
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I know how ASLR/ROP/PLT/GOT/RELRO work, but I'm still not understanding what's going on here. When you statically link a binary, you get…one file. And that gets loaded into memory together, and to make it PIE you have all the jumps be pc-relative. Like, a straight up jump instruction to a fixed offset. So where the the room for a table like this?

(Unrelated, but since you brought it up: kbind is IMO not a very good mitigation. It seems that all you have to do to bypass it is leak a cookie and ROP to that one place in ld.so that is "blessed" and then you not only have the ability to scribble all over your read-only GOT but as far as I can tell you can overwrite any read-only memory, which means it opens up an extremely valuable exploit primitive…)
Warren buys presidents.
The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks
You don't need popular opinions to maintain positive karma. Slow down on the politics and be relevant on tech-oriented topics. I've seen you do it. I believe in you.
So how is crispr fundamentally better than restriction enzymes?
I agree except if your strategy is something everyone uses then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of winning.
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there's a similar paper shared here a couple years ago: https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/aeirikur/extremecompression/
..when compared to low bitrate dct-based compressors it looks impressive, but then compared to the original source the compression artifacts stuff like incorrect license plate numbers, building architecture, species of trees, etc.
I see it as a good thing for both you and the Microsoft. The fact that you had a chance to play with it before buying it (and hated it) means that Microsoft avoided either really pissing off a customer or handling an expensive return; and possibly both.

For me, I wanted a surface pro (not book) with the largest screen available, so I ended up with the Surface Pro 4 and the keyboard -- I use it as a travel laptop, not an on-the-go device, and really love being able to have a decent keyboard and display when I am in a hotel without having to put a 4 lb monster into my backpack when I fly.
Yeah, and then you put a couple of people of the same gender together in them…and now they're basically back to being dorms.
Do you realize that arguing we must keep some people impoverished so they will do the work no one wants to do is basically an argument for slavery? If there are jobs in society that are essential that no one wants to do we should automate them or increase the pay to an amount that appropriately reflects their level of crappiness and importance.
> For example, redlining may now be illegal in the United States, but middle class white Americans have been benefiting from nearly a hundred years' worth of wealth accumulation through housing that black Americans were locked out of. This is a good example of how the "system" produces racially-biased outcomes without any racist human input in the present day.

I think this is describing how the system includes momentum, and you're saying that the system (momentum) is producing racially-biased outcomes _without_ racist input today. That's true in the strictest, most technical sense, but is this supposed to be a motivation for reparations or something?
Totally yeah. One idea is maybe like a "library / public" mode where you can't install software very easily. My mom really just uses email, a browser and Microsoft Word.

It's a big enough issue for Microsoft that they have a dedicated page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/concern/scam

Was just encouraging other approaches to it too for that demographic.
On the contrary, this demonstrates the major strength of the UBI concept.

Unemployment is means-tested. If you are paid more to not work than to work, it's economically rational to not work.

It's also against the rules of unemployment to keep collecting it when you've been offered a job, but this is difficult to enforce.

With UBI, this isn't a problem: a temporary bump in UBI in response to some future pandemic crisis would be in addition to any work someone could or couldn't get.

Andrew Yang's proposal of $1000 a month should be enough to survive on... maybe. But if someone could make another $500 on top of it, that's going to be a much higher quality of life. I'm confident most people would take that job if they could get it.