skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An angry twitter "mob" isn't going to murder you.

Sometimes they do. SWATting is a thing, and the targets of Twitter mobs are ripe targets for domestic terrorists looking to make a statement.

But that's besides the point.

There are many flavors of violence other than outright murder.

> That doesn't mean people never deserve to be deplatformed or fired.

"Deplatformed" is one of those words that Orwell wrote about in "Politics and the English Language" -- a euphemism that hides the real meaning.

The word you are looking for is "silenced".

Being silenced or fired is violence.

You are being deprived of the human right to free speech, or of the means to feed yourself and provide for your loved ones, by an anonymous mob.

The only way to avoid the cycle of escalating violence is to not get on it in the first place.

Because if not, the US is on the fast track to turn into Venezuela, or Maoist China, or late-1930s Germany, and none of those is a place you want to live, even if you support the regime.

I'm speaking up more about this because I'm seeing smoke, and would rather avoid a full-on fire.
It's demonstrably true that there was a significant period of introduction of new foodstuffs from the Americas into Eurasia in the wake of Columbus, in a phenomenon known as the Columbian Exchange: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange. Since custard apples are native to Central America, it's the natural hypothesis.
ASCAP/BMI currently works this way - songs are compulsorily licensed in the US, at least, and everyone gets the same deal.

It makes a lot of sense to prevent this kind of walled-garden approach and the incremental hassle of renegotiating licenses every time, but the licensing organizations aren't the most flexible or responsible, so it brings its own issues.
Given the current state of our nematode simulation tech (http://openworm.org/), "the future" might take a while to arrive.
With a key/screen logger on your personal, or corporate device, what happens to your gmail login (assuming you're permitted personal email at work)? The company where I work permits a small amount of time for personal affairs, checking bank/email if required, I've never personally done this as I'm fully aware of a MITM proxy.

All that aside, if you were to log into your personal bank account, or personal email, what are the restrictions around where the data is logged, or who has access to the data. This should extend to the disk storage replacement, if a disk is upgraded, or becomes faulty, where does the data centre remote hands put the faulty/old disk once popped from the tray?

Lets hope that gmail account didn't provide MFA for another site login.

Should this type of software be announced in employment terms?
Got another one today, exhorting me to share things via/with the Dropbox mobile app.

For crying out loud, I'm already signed in on the fucking app. I've been using it for years.

Are you trying to drive away paying customers? This is how it happens.
Asking in advance about the type of interviews helps. Better avoid wasting a whole day when you are not prepared. At least to reduce the stress of whiteboarding. Algorithms are fun, but most of the people don't implement BFS after the college.
CAFE isn’t an emission reduction program.
They know already. A perennial topic of annoyance for US immigrants in Sweden is that their US licence is only valid for a year here, then they have to retake their test (unlike immigrants from the EU who get to convert theirs automatically).
Exactly, because the world seems to have become a competition for virtue signalling. Many folks without nuanced understanding of topics becoming experts of everything under the sun, judging others etc. I understand that ultimately we have many different problems that only get resolved when highlighted a lot, however relying on attention economy and pumping out new issues to be outraged about day in and day out is also not the right approach. All it does is make people feel happy about themselves.
Can't speak for others, but LinkedIn's web is annoyingly slow on mobile.
Bandcamp is proof that you don't have to be a predator to your clients or your users to run an online business. I love your service and I hope you all keep it up!
No, that's likely to end up in the half we'll never be able to figure out. Unless the aliens are good at record-keeping and decide to tell us one day. :D
Same problems with the private home rental market. If someone can figure out how to match good tenants with good landlords in a way that is hard to scam and respects privacy, they would make a lot of money.
> It depends on a variety of factors.

What depends?
Even a smart philosopher like George Carlin downplayed the 'environmental' agenda. However his comments should be viewed with the context of the time and his primary targets.
One of the biggest misses for asciidoc is that it's core libraries are ruby only. The javascript renderers are autogenerated and unmaintained.

This is also the reason why community uptake for asciidoc has been hard. Fundamentally we do not have any pastebin or hackmd for asciidoc.. because it is hard to build for it. Pastebin and hackmd have consistently refused to include asciidoc.

Momentum exists in the JAMSTACK space. Yet Gatsby and Nextjs play with markdown variants (MDX?) for markup. There are no asciidoc examples even in their repos .

Asciidoc is undoubtedly superior to markdown..and more importantly, is a well defined standard. But unless the core team engages with the ecosystem more, this is DOA.
“Loss-conserving?” Or you could say it contains the mounting liabilities.
I don't know about the state of current tests, but it doesn't seem to me like the author is necessarily proposing to switch left and right to use computer models instead of a real mice.

Instead, the way I'm reading it, they are recommending to use computer models whenever possible, and only resort to live animal testing when the limits of the modelling are reached.
SF MUNI expects to lose the majority of its bus lines permanently
I also have had a lot of luck with LinkedIn. I suppose if you went to Stanford for SE then yeah you already have a good network!
Automating UX design process using Pixelic
As someone who has work with all three NLP toolkit: huggingface, openmt-py and fairseq. I always have trouble juggling through the heavy abstraction of openmt-py.

For example in openmt-py you need to write fields, reader and raw datasets before you even load into their complex dataset class. Each item is heavily abstracted through several layers of classes. I understand this improve code reuse, but introduce a huge steep curve for newcomer.

Huggingface approach on the other hand is slightly more "messy" [2] but easier to understand and add your own tweak.

[1] https://github.com/OpenNMT/OpenNMT-py/blob/master/onmt/bin/p...

[2] https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/src/...
First they kill their low cost bare-metal servers[1] and ask customers to move to the low cost VPS servers, and now a few months later they increase their prices. Too bad their low cost offer wasn't sustainable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22922582
What about all the chemicals that never get to human testing due to harmful effects coming up in animal testing? Is that not a net positive from a human perspective?
Considering the abysmal performance of the LinkedIn website and the fact that sometImes it seems to get stuck in some race condition, causing 100% CPU load, my guess is, that they do a lot of other shenanigans, not only every keystroke, but every millisecond. That, or I guess they are farming bitcoins on my machine sometimes. Not sure which one it is.

I try to visit it as little as possible.
Actually, Data Secrets Lox has moved to this URL:

https://www.datasecretslox.com/

The old link will continue to work for a while.
See book reference in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23549551

I think the historical political reasons for favouring landed interests[1] is one of commitment: (a) as the spartan proposal of using a currency of iron implies, it's much easier for an urban magnate to "sell out" on short notice and continue trading in exile than for a rural magnate (consider the pejorative "rootless cosmopolitan"), and (b) that innovation is often greeted with scepticism: urban traders are sometimes interested in disrupting markets, agricultural[2] producers are almost always for the status quo.

[1] from a game theory perspective, the urbanite would also prefer to defend their own city and either pay besiegers to go away or wait for their logistics to fail. if one is a monarch raising an army, rural dwellers would be more interested in travelling to defend their land (or even to acquire foreign land. cf "filibuster").

Compare "no viet cong ever called me", uttered by someone whose profession could be conducted anywhere there was a large venue.

[2] if one believes US political memes, ag policies favour the "family farm" and small towns. if one follows the money, they tend to favour the likes of Archer Daniels Midland.
Some of the books that you mention seem a bit too hard for a teen, so you have to be careful not to demotivate them by expecting too much of them; instead i suggest a simpler approach before tackling the big ones;

* Functions and Graphs by Gelfand et al. - A small but great book to develop intuition.

* Who is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure - A great "manga type" book to build important concepts from first principles

* Concepts of Modern Mathematics by Ian Stewart - A nice overview in simple language.

* Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by Kolmogorov et al. - A broad but concise presentation of a lot of mathematics.

* Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics by Richard Hamming - A very good applied maths book. All of Hamming's books are recommended.

There are of course plenty more but the above should be good for understanding.
There’s always outliers.

You’d be shocked to find out how many times I’ve watched Deep Space Nine since I subscribed to Netflix two years ago.

It’s great because most of the episodes are utter garbage, but..

At least $3 of the AU$15 per month I pay could go directly to Andrew Jordt Robinson and the writers for their outstanding work on Elim Garak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Wye#/media/File:Keyst... Wow!
So our terrible transportation is about to get worse?
Yes, it's the TCAS. It sees in all directions. It's secondary radar so it only sees planes with a transponder, but that's usually all of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...
Agreed. The ease of Markdown, but well structured and complete enough to write a whole book in it. I love it.

I've even fantasized about creating a new AsciiDoc mimetype, called AsciiWeb. It would be a subset of AsciiDoc that is relevant for browsing and would sit somewhere in the middle of Gopher or text browsing on one hand and the "normal" HTML/CSS/Javascript on the other. Very easy to create, suitable for minimal document browsing and structured enough that graphical clients can make it pretty and accessible. Oh wel.. one day I'll get to it.
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> "Deplatformed" is one of those words that Orwell wrote about in "Politics and the English Language" -- a euphemism that hides the real meaning.

Except that it's not. Someone who has been deplatformed can still say whatever they want, it's just that fewer people choose to listen to them or to help amplify them. Much as your right to move your fist ends at my face, your right to say whatever you want ends at my megaphone. I'm under no obligation to amplify your message.

You are still welcome to say whatever the hell you want. I'm just not obligated to help.
The article makes only a passing reference to the recent crash, but serious pilot error ("incompetence on an astonishing scale" might be a better phrase than "error") appears to be a major factor in it. http://avherald.com/h?article=4d7a6e9a&opt=0
nearly 100 years worth of movies and shows

This is a truly sickening failure of our copyright laws.
How bout turning part of the Sahara into an inland sea?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project
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I suggest having purpose. Have responsibility, as many find meaning in that.

Good sex helps.

Why does being happy have to be complicated? :)
A piece of digital text isn't a forgery; there is no concept of authenticity in it in the first place to serve as a backdrop legitimizing the use of the word "forgery". It's not like planting someone's hair, or imitating their signature. You need absolutely nothing from the victim, and to expend no effort.
Are there absolutely no alternatives to test that ?
Guietta – Python module to create simple GUIs
I've spent a lot of time in Vegas and while it does get old it takes a lot longer than a weekend.

There's clubbing, lots of high end dining, shows galore, Red Rocks for hiking and climbing, each casino on the strip is a spectacle, old Vegas, shooting ranges, etc. Most of those things costs a fair bit of money but are well worth doing.
I wanted to like it, but its new tab page has a bunch of MSN cookies associated with it. To Edge's credit, it blocks some Bing cookies (giggle) and cookies from a 'scorecardresearch.com', but I'm still unimpressed.

Putting my web-developer hat on, I _am_ happy that I'm not going to have to worry about Trident-in-Edge ever again.
It's in awful 16:9, but the whole Simpsons back catalogue is enough to justify what I pay them.
That's not his full name. IIRC Scott Alexander is just his first and middle name or something, and the journalist was going to lay out his full name for everyone to know.
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Curious why you use Figma and Zeplin together. I guess I’d always thought of Figma as being Sketch+Zeplin
As I got older, remembered Marilyn Manson, and did some research about him as a phenomenon, and in a lot of his interviews around the time he was (un)popular, he came off as thoughtful, intelligent, and articulate. And dressed like a freak, but that's his schtick.
What if you are just being funny? Like you create a truck and put the Confederate flag on it. It could be intended as humor I suppose.

Are we looking past intent and being too sensitive?
Heh, I recently found out that season one of a show I'm watching is exclusive to platform A, and season two to platform B... It's madness.
Anyone who has studied old-school AI will know that this is an incredibly ambitious project; it is essentially throwing itself at the problem of "knowledge frames", i.e. how to encode information about the world in a way that an AI system can access it and, well, be intelligent about it. (Also at the problem of natural language generation, but as hard as that is, at the moment it seems like the easier of the two.)

But...

One of the biggest problems with a lot of the old "Big AI" projects that were developing some sort of knowledge frames (and there were several, and some of them still exist and have public faces) was, who the hell is going to get all the info in there in a way that's complete enough to be useful? Now you have a learning problem on top of the knowledge representation problem. But throw the wikimedia community at it and crowdsource the information?

This actually starts to seem plausible.
This is less of a "we will replace natural meat with lab-grown meat" claim and more of a "we will eventually be able to travel to the moon using only a megajoule of energy" claim. It would take a vast change in our basic understanding of physics to effect such an innovation. The crux of the matter is that mouse bodies don't simulate mouse bodies, they are mouse bodies. The idea you could have something the size of a mouse body that could fully simulate a mouse body is ridiculous. Biology is computationally efficient.

The University of Nevada used a 360 TFLOP supercomputer to simulate a mouse brain. They managed to simulate the neurons firing once every ten seconds. In reality neurons fire an average of 200 times per second. Even if their model was fully accurate, that means you need 720PFLOPS to simulate just the brain of a single mouse.

Barring computers based on completely different principles or a revolution in the way we understand physics, a installation at a single facility will never be able to fully simulate hundreds of experimental mice.
In a similar vein, I've heard of a building addressing the problem "everyone complains about how long it takes to wait for the elevators" by, instead of trying to speed up the elevators, installing mirrors next to them.
I would argue we can't even model those things. Non-linear, dynamic systems are not predictable beyond a certain point even if you have a perfect model. Uncertainty with models of dynamic systems like biological ones, increases exponentially as a function of time. And they are highly sensitive to initial conditions, so if your input is off from reality by even the tiniest amount, reality will veer off dramatically from your expected results, even if you have the perfect model. Chaos theory is a thing. We can use models to learn about systems and how they might work, or how we might think they work, but we can't use them to model reality effectively enough to determine treatments.
Interesting. The SSC home page itself points to the site's subreddit as the intended place of discussion, but this could work as a "lifeboat" site in case that runs into problems with the new reddit content policy.
Fucking hell HN
Weren't expert systems the second AI winter? In any case, I see the end of the cold war as being the driving factor behind that winter, whatever its ordinal.
NewsBlur is pretty well thought of, I believe, although I haven't used it for years (I use Thunderbird instead).
Lexical content on Wikidata is (unfortunately) separate and independent of Wiktionary. Same topic, different execution (and much smaller coverage at the moment). https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data
Popsical bags $5m to bring a ‘Spotify for karaoke’ to Southeast Asia
It would be nice to have this with payments integrated or something, but the trust aspect is a lot harder to achieve. With a service like Uber/Lyft, you have riders and drivers building a reputation over time as they can make many rides over the course of their use, each one a rateable experience for both parties. For "BetterLandlord," the _ideal_ tenant is one that sticks with one landlord longer. More use of the platform intrinsically leads to a lower incentive to use it.

Though I guess you could earn "trust points" for making payments on time, and landlords for fixing maintenance issues submitted within the app in a reasonable amount of time, there's a lot of other factors that count for a "good" tenant or landlord.
Who here has watched as much Black Mirror/Westworld as I have and know how this ends? My question is, if a robot is engineered well enough to replicate the "real" thing, then when you test on it, aren't you just shifting the torture from "living" to another thing yet to be granted the rights of the living? If you answer "no", then you have to admit that the model is incomplete and it does not in fact feel pain and is thus in an inadequate replica. Also agree with other comments that this is and will remain computationally infeasible at least until production quantum computers arrive.
What do you mean ? This is run by the employees or someone else. I used to bemoan the corruption in India but at least recently a lot of things have reduced. e.g. When you came back from an international flight, 'agents' would court you and suggesting skipping customs for a bribe (they did the dirty work), this has been mostly eliminated at least in Mumbai airport.

I cannot imagine what a sour taste it will leave if you cannot board a plane. In any case what reason will the authorities have to detain you ? I am assuming you are talking about some official fees and not bribes.
I worked with a guys who said 'one of the reasons' he quit medical research was because of the amount of mice he had to kill on a daily basis. He said, "the quick way is to snap their necks with the back of your pencil." as he demonstrated on the desk the technique of how to hold the pencil a certain way.
I would say to keep the moderation active, and focus it on encouraging reasoned posts, while striking down posts that go too far in a personal direction, ad hominems and so on. Start with warnings, scale up to temporary timeouts, bans and eventually permanent bans. Strike down extremely hard on any kind of doxxing or threats.

Have moderators cover only a few subforums, so they don't get stretched too thin, have the moderators/admins confer internally on cross-forum issues and bans.

It does require a competent moderator team that knows when to let discussions run, when to gently nudge people towards more reasoned debate, and when to swing the ban hammer.

Reddit was absolutely not perfect at any point in time. There were countless cases of power hungry mods in their own little kingdoms, doxxing, inter-subreddit fights and exceedingly virulent hate subreddits that specifically did their best to hurt other people. That's not debate, that's bullying and in many cases criminal.
DMS: Unable to establish connection between AWS and on-premise system
I am trying to migrate data from the on-premise database to AWS cloud using DMS and facing issue while establishing connection between them .

I have created the source endpoint by giving the details of the server and database( DB2 ) , but it keeps on failing even after allowing ALL TRAFFIC rules for both, inbound and outbound in the security group.

The error message:

Test Endpoint failed: Application-Status: 1020912, Application-Message: Cannot connect to DB2 LUW Server Network error has occurred, Application-Detailed-Message: RetCode: SQL_ERROR SqlState: 08001 NativeError: -30081 Message: [unixODBC][IBM][CLI Driver] SQL30081N A communication error has been detected. Communication protocol being used: "TCP/IP". Communication API being used: "SOCKETS". Location where the error was detected: "192.168..". Communication function detecting the error: "selectForConnectTimeout". Protocol specific error code(s): "115", "", "". SQLSTATE=08001

Is there any way to make the connection successful without using Site-to-Site VPN?