skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have any resources to link, sorry.

The weird-power-dynamic-Lincoln statue with the freed black man aside, I generally agree on statutes of the founding fathers. I doubt a statue of Washington was erected in honor of his support for slavery.

In the greater context of what is happening in America right now, tearing down statues of Washington isn't necessarily about Washington himself. Instead, it is about challenging the idea that our historical figures (and America itself) are infallible.

If I may paint a picture, put yourself in the shoes of a black man in America in 2020. You see thousands of videos of police brutality, blatant racism, and disregard from those in power. A significant portion of the representatives in this country refuse to outright state that racism is still a problem in this country, but you see it with your very eyes every day.

However, you see these statues symbolizing this "ideal" version of America, where everyone is equal, which never actually existed. Further, when people challenge the existence of these statues (and by proxy, that non-existent "ideal") in the face of all of this inequity, they are defended orders of magnitude more intensely than the rights of actual-flesh-and-blood people. It's hard to look at a statue of General Lee, or even Washington, and see anything but a symbol of the fact that America at large cares more about the "appearance" of equality and equity than actually granting it to the people. If the people who defending these statues so vigorously also defended the civil rights of their fellow Americans with the same energy, I don't think we would see as much of a struggle over this.
And that's a fully valid criticism of a certain style of mainstream news that I completely agree with, and that is also being discussed in some circles, and even by some journalists, although it hasn't hit mainstream media level consideration openly. All falls into the massive and fraught discussion around how news gets paid for.
Didn't we recently learn that only Android 10 prevents background apps from constantly watching the contents of the clipboard?
Yeah guess the mods did that or something. I just updated the original title :)

Read here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23714416#23716962
AWS Security Maturity Roadmap for 2020 [pdf]
The article states that the initial "independent third party investigation" was not all that independent. The investigation was done by an investor who had put a substantial amount of money into DataCamp.
Facebook is actually one of the few platforms (if not the only platform?) that allows running self-serve RCTs (conversion lift tests in their lingo): https://www.facebook.com/business/help/688346554927374

Conditional on them honestly reporting numbers, it's a pretty credible way to measure effectiveness in terms of incremental conversions you get by showing ads on FB/IG
Another example: Allbirds. $90 for a shoe with the build quality of something $25 from the Target store brand, but since it has hip, minimalist adverts on instagram it's seen as a great product and very popular.
Hi, it's me, unironically pushing the "just make your own" narrative.

I posted a comment similar to this, but let me just lay cards on the table: if you want to publish child abuse images, or sell controlled substances, you're probably going to have a hard time finding hosting for that. Same if you want to publish content that violates US copyright law, which I agree with less but still applies.

The original question was "where can I speak 'in the public domain' online," and I'm fairly sure my answer holds.

Unless you were just trying to make some juvenile "any limits placed on my conduct online are invalid because Internet" argument, which I mean good luck with.
> Why ban the players, and not just the design?

This is a silly complaint IMO. If you break the rules, whatever they are, a ban is a completely reasonable punishment. A 1- or 2- strike policy gets the same result you are talking about with no "super-cool AI-driven ML-based image recognition"
With that same argument you can conclude that since 2020 is very atypical then it's not a good time to run the usual strategy of last year. Might as well switch it up, cut costs or react (in case they saw that ad clicks went up, but not the actual sales).
Sex and race are protected classes, using a particular image is not a protected class. I'd be quite surprised if there is any country in the world where you can't discriminate against someone using the confederate flag or some other iconography. And honestly I don't think there should be.
If you have a positive ROI on marketing, and prices go down, you increase spend.

Big brands cutting spend on positive ROI is probably foolish, especially if it lets your competitors increase their ROI. For brands like pepsi that don't sell online, then it's just a cost center.
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It may have been made up, but I'm willing to bet that a not insignificant portion of people who are _now_ making it aren't doing so to make a point of saying "everything is just fine".

My town had an issue with a cop posing out with a bunch of 3%ers at their gun store. This is in the PNW, and the owner of the store, born and raised in the PNW, has a Confederate flag neck tattoo. This was during some street protests.

People can't credulously claim that the half dozen or so people there were all making an "OK" sign then, completely naively, "hey, all good, we're safe, just guarding our gun store". Or maybe they were just making an in joke based on the SCUBA store next door?
He did when FB's stock fell from $242 to $216 a couple days ago. Now it's back up to $234, so you do the math.
Not mentioned in the article, but I bet it’s also due to companies making upgrading and repairing hardware difficult.
Court Says Facebook Has Been Wiretapping for Years
Pride in what?

Heritage of what?

The South has hundreds of years of history. Why are the 4 years of the Confederacy so celebrated?
Aptly put. Very insightful,
Everything “non-core” usually gets cut... it depends I guess whether someone views marketing “core” or not.
Capitalist Realism, Mental Illness and Societies of Control
There is lots of assessment provider out there, how do you use it in your platform?
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23711867
I'm sure if you did a poll in Germany you'd find a non-zero percentage of people who'd answer something similar RE the Nazi flag, with the right wording. Nothing like 40%; that particular variety of lost-cause-ism isn't as common as the confederate stuff in the US, but, there are certainly people who would claim that it was something more benign than it is generally perceived.

That's why it's illegal in Germany in the first place; if there was universal acceptance that it was an obscenity there wouldn't be much purpose in banning it.

Another issue, of course, is that teaching about the US civil war, and general cultural treatment of it, has been, and in some cases still is, far more dishonest than teaching about World War 2 in Germany. Note that in this thread there are people questioning whether it was about slavery. The initiators on the confederate side would not have questioned that, they could hardly have been more clear that it was. There's a huge amount of mainstream cultural baggage glorifying the confederacy and important confederate figures in a way that there isn't about the Nazis (with the possible exception of some rather creepy Rommel apologia that shows up sometime).
Not much of a Fortran yet without arrays, complex numbers, or strings.
Thanks for sharing this, didn't know it existed.
Dismantling of an Encrypted Network in Europe
>You aren't part of the same experience

I think that you(we) never are.
I really have a hard time believing consumer behavior is affected by these boycotts. Is the average person running to spend more at Starbucks or Hershey or Honda because they temporarily "stood up to Facebook"?
Any Ice Lake processor, available in many different laptops, from all the major OEMs.

I own one.
Oh look, a cis white guy telling people that they can be happy by using his app.

While I do agree that people should be introspective, this fails to address the fact that many people are oppressed and put into distress through no fault of their own. Giving this message to those people implies that it is their fault they are unhappy, rather than the socio-economic status/situation they may find themselves in. It's like telling black people the reason they're unhappy can be solved through meditation when they are literally being killed by the police.

I know in the US we like to think a lot about our individual success/happiness but, while I do think this is something we may be able to improve on our own, I think there are greater gains to be had by addressing the systemic issues in our society.
That's very irresponsible of you. You just said that someone could read someone elses medical data and there you are sitting on similar vulnerabilities out of principle. Shame.

I know first hand that such big telcos are slow and bureaucratic. But they still need help and patience. They do after all have all the important government contracts.
And yet, they went out of their way to show they changed their minds about Al Gore's climate change agenda. A jester doesn't do that.
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> there might be a need for a high power, high performance design where cooling is of no consideration

Ha, there's a reason IBM z chips were the first commercial CPUs to break the 5GHz barrier with the zEC12 at 5.5 GHz back in 2012. 300W CPU, who cares, it's going to get a tailored water cooling system anyways in a tailored chassis. Cooling is one of the lowest priority problems when designing a mainframe CPU ...
It's a question of how narrowly the flag is tied to the hateful movement.

Should the UK retire the Union Jack because of what they did in India? The Nazi imagery is very closely associated with the specific group that committed the atrocities rather than Germany in general. The UK flag is less so. IMO, the rising sun flag is somewhere in-between, having been in use over a slightly more heterogenous time than the Nazi symbols, bit less so than the Union Jack.
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I recently completed my CS Masters program and am actively looking for a full-time position. I'm a generalist and can dive into any topic. I have quite a bit of software engineering / devops experience through my various internships and my student research assistant job. I'm also interested in Product Management (junior roles to start with). I care about the quality of my work and am willing to learn new technologies.

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Very relevant on this topic, I loved Daniel Gilbert's book, Stumbling on Happiness.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56627.Stumbling_on_Happi...
The article explicitly says the SSIDs need to be written in code and that there is no dynamic mechanism.
The list specifically says "including but not limited to". If you are implying that there is a leftist slant to their rules, I would point to the examples of banned offensive phrases that includes the anti-police "FTP" and "ACAB".
I'm not sure why people are hating on Facebook more than any other platform. Justified or not? Explanations pleasse.
> The assessors in that case should use historical sales data to adjust down the valuation of the property.

Isn't that exactly what assessors should be doing? I don't see how you can value real estate without factoring in land values, which is best determined by nearby prices. If racism drives down sales values in a neighborhood, that should be reflected in property tax assessments.
I agree.

It is also interesting to note that at 10% per annum Musk could turn his $50B into $165B in 13 years, whereas it would take 113 years for my $1M to grow to $50B.
Good question! One Python example is docopt. It is a very well-liked command line parsing library but haven't seen any maintainer activity in two years. https://github.com/docopt/docopt But people don't realize that so they keep filing bug reports and submitting pull requests.

There is a docopt-ng package here: https://github.com/bazaar-projects/docopt-ng But users haven't found it yet. And sadly, there is no guarantee that the new maintainer won't also lose interest and abandon the project.

Definitely not an ideal situation. Yes, you can fork but how do you get visibility? How can the developer announce to the community that he or she wants to maintain the software?
I highly prefer the way HN is now over PH. If they made those changes, it'd be worse in my personal opinion, not better.
I am arguing for a space online that is publicly owned, maintained by the government, easily accessible by your average person, with the same very few restrictions on free speech that exist in the real world.
if there is enough news about it, why not? There is a segment of the population upset at starbucks over their holiday cups.
This assumes that people are acting in good faith. If someone uses a swastika it’s unlikely that they are otherwise a positive contribution to the community.
Things get less interesting because you get detached from what people consider worldly pleasures. In Buddhism, happiness comes from cutting afflictions down through training and practice.

If you find a good knowing teacher, they can guide you through a process where you can attain the bliss of meditation, which is completely worth it and different from "regular" happiness.

As you practice, this newfound happiness becomes ingrained and you become happier. It's very natural.
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In a way, they _do_ have a limited-time discount. Facebook's ad prices are set by an auction. If there are less advertisers competing during the boycott, the prices will be lower.
Hi all, I'm one of the original authors of OpenNMT and an nlp prof, always nice to see it trending :). I work with Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/) now, we do similar things for NLP generally as well as supporting NMT applications.

Main Versions (supported by folks at systran):
https://github.com/OpenNMT/OpenNMT-tf
https://github.com/opennmt/opennmt-py

Happy to answer any questions about NLP, neural models, open-source ML.
> You realize that you can't send marketing emails without double opt-in, right?

That's not true.

> "Hey, you forgot to buy these ..." is definitely a marketing email

Also untrue.
> Point of clarification here: Twitter censored and edited absolutely nothing. They attached a warning to Trump's tweet. It is still available for all to read in its entirety.

No Twitter actually removed a video[1] that Trump posted.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/twitter-labels...
It's gonna be an unpopular opinion here I suppose, but I agree with you. The only times I ever find myself reaching for python are one-off scripts, and when I have a simple problem that can be solved in < 50 loc with some combination of pandas + numpy + matplotlib. It's a good language for gluing together libraries, but I would never pick it for anything involving "actual" programming.
Chainlink Expected to Spend $25M More on Development Than Ethereum
Facebook has enough momentum that not having the best and brightest probably wouldn't slow them down. And, let's face it, for what Facebook pays, there are still plenty of skilled people who don't favor one side or the other who would happily take their money.
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Today it's racists--fine. Hell with em.

If you're young, you have many years ahead of you. A lot of time for culture and norms to keep changing and evolving. I guarantee that one day, you're going to wake up as an old person, and something that you like that's innocuous today will have been deemed terrible and hateful by a future generation. Maybe even for good reasons. You'll be kicked off platforms, called ignorant, and shunned for being associated with this now-controversial thing. It's going to be confusing. You're going to feel as though the world has gone off in some crazy direction and left you behind.

I'm not saying have empathy for racists. But maybe we could try to put ourselves into the shoes of someone for whom time and culture are moving too fast and imagine how disorienting and confusing what's going on today might be for them. I'd guess that these people might want to lash out at the rest of the world who suddenly seem to be against them. Or turn inward into hermits and avoid society. I don't really understand it, but I'm still young enough to keep up with all this change. But I feel I'll be left behind eventually. It'll probably happen to us all.
> Is More Competent Than the US Government

Not setting the bar high, are we?
If you have leverage with your employer you should use it to demand more money. Don't let other people bully you into wasting your negotiating capital on their pet causes.
I would love sum types (which would allow for real enums), too. Russ Cox has commented on Reddit why the Go teams considers them incompatible with Go [1].

The first challenge is zero values: For a sum type like (int, float), there's no natural zero value. I think that sum types would have to follow the same design as Go's interfaces; a sum type value has to be nillable. This is unfortunate, but the Go team burned some bridges when it decided to support nils, and they now have to deal with that problem.

Secondly, there's the matter of what a sum type of interfaces means. I think this is solvable, too, and I don't agree that it presents a conflict. Sum types express the range of allowed values. What you do with a variable, once it holds a value, is no different than today:

type Source sum { io.Reader, io.ReaderAt }
var src Source
switch t := src.(type) {
case io.Reader:
case io.ReaderAt:
}

This is no different from:

var src interface{}
switch t := src.(type) {
case io.Reader:
case io.ReaderAt:
}

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/46bd5h/ama_we_are_t...
Square: https://developer.squareup.com/blog/squares-growth-framework...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12h50IYqd7fsO7tJ0l1Ou...

Noticed you linked the blogpost but may have missed that it also includes a spreadsheet.
My first lead position, I was hired with money saved by firing an architect who was all talk (on a small team, like this one, that becomes glaringly apparent very quickly). They wanted someone with rudimentary architecture chops who could grow into a lead role, but who was hands-on. I obliged.

Over the years, I've found the most productive way to go is for the leads to share the responsibility, with input, tie-breaking, and the occasional veto by a technically literate project manager ("yes that sounds neat but it's antagonistic to our business goals so pick something else").

Architecture as a responsibility, not a title. It's harder to prioritize - there is no point person - but the payoffs if you do manage it are not to be sneezed at.

You trust people with skin in the game, who suffer along with you when the 'right decision' results in near-term pain. Some guy who barely writes code lecturing you about how you're doing it wrong? Nobody respects that guy, except to their face, when the bosses are around.
I think it'a fair at this point to say "the Confederate flag" refers to the battle flag (or the naval jack with the same design).

Language is a living thing.
Smart advertisers, anyway.

The older folks make facebook sticky for the younger people too. It might not be their first choice for social media, but they're on there cause extended family are on there.

Some people quit facebook, most people don't. There's lots of groups, and now you have market place. It's genuinely useful.
>Europe has high import tariffs

The EU has a weighted import tariff of 1.79% vs 1.66% in the US. For comparison, China is at 3.83% and Japan at 2.51%. Canada, New Zealand and Australia are all lower than the US, at 1.52%, 1.18%, and 1.27% respectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_ra...

This is mostly 2017 data, which means the recent US-China tariff war could very well have resulted in the US having a higher weighted import tariff than the EU by now.
Isn't the term "big tech" just successful companies?

So we ignore all the failures to get to that point and then declare them better?

Isn't this like asking why the Super Bowl champs are always good at football?
And I'm sure some Germans felt (and perhaps even still feel) that the nazi flag is a symbol of German pride? The pride that they feel for that part of their heritage is still unmistakably antisemitic and hate-filled. I would argue that the number of Germans who feel that way is so much less than the number of southerners who feel that way only because of just how strong and universally nazism was rolled back. In the south after the Civil War, things stayed far more similar to how they had been pre- and mid-war
These seem to very much cherry picked states.

Like CEO pay ratio. How does that in anyway correlate to a better life. if you look at gdp per capita growth in places like germany who have only grown from 45k to 47k since 2008. The US grew from 45k to 62k. Thats an insane jump and its lead is getting bigger not smaller..

The US also has more CEO per capita, more startups per capita, more unicorns per capita which is a more apt reason CEO pay is higher. The CEO in the US are generally better and their companies make more money than European counterpart especially startups.

You can apply this to shares of economy going to workers pay too. Is the US pie just bigger. If so why does share matter.

Whats the annual average wage? If the minimum wage is low but the average wage is high which is is why does it matter where the bottom is.

Some of this is correct like incarnation rate, but a lot of seems to point to where other first world countries have got it wrong when you look at the results you really care about.
> They're upon us right now.

That was my first thought too, when I read the headline.
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

This advocacy for a group boycott raises anti-trust concerns, IMO. While it is not aimed at getting price concessions, it is aimed at getting other concessions in terms of the public perception of the context of the advertisements bought. This is a material contractual term, and organizing a group boycott to coerce concessions from Facebook to their business partners seems problematic on anti-trust grounds.
> There is (hopefully) enough space between "actively organizing genocide" and "conservatives, conspiracy theory pages, or even jokes" to allow room for a reasonable line.

There is no trust to allow anything resembling a reasonable line.
Zuckerberg: "We're not going to change our policies or approach on anything because of a threat to a small percent of our revenue."

Facebook Mission: "Give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together."

Please update the mission statement
memetic immune system and hormesis are cool metaphors to use for institutions, but probably just metaphors -- not sure how to use these as specific prescriptions for change

'lack of a driving purpose' rings false -- amazon was a book company, that doesn't connect to buying whole foods or owning all of e-commerce. companies and governments both adapt and take on new projects when they're working.

US government leadership dulled hanlon's razor this spring by achieving high marks in both malice and incompetence

create cultural change by replacing stale process and leaders constantly