skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link! My only complaint would be this is restricted to only gdpr fines but there are more which occurred before gdpr was a thing and fines outside of the EU.

I'll do some more searching though since it seems likely it exists in full exhaustive format
> Let's put the 50 cent piece of of its misery while we are at it too--just dollars and dimes

You forgot quarters, which are perhaps the most common coin.
How about we eliminate pennies, nickles, dimes, half-dollars, and dollar bills, and just use quarters and dollars?
I'm a maintainer of an OSS project with other contributors. I have fights like this all the time because others are constantly just wanting to fix the symptoms. This is for a project that is a framework/API, where the saying "the best programmers remove more code than they add" should be even more true.
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The claim that 0.01€ coins produced elsewhere remain legal tender in the rounding countries, does not hold for Finland. No supermarket is going to accept 1- or 2-cent coins for payment even if you had enough to add up to the nearest 5-cent unit.
Musk is technically great, he has OK business sense, he has really bad social interaction skills and really needs to work on developing a better filter.
This comment is at the very bottom of the comments right now and I'm glad I looked for it.

I agree by killing the penny we essentially force inflation to happen. Bread priced at $.99 can be sold at $.98 far more easily than bread priced $1 can be sold at $.95. By removing the penny our jumps become more volatile. Something increasing in cost by a penny or two might take a product from 99¢ to $1 or reduce the profit margin a bit now, but when there is no penny the $1 product that needs to cost 2¢ more is going to cost $1.05.
Not sure if that quote supports your argument. Tesla states:

"Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability are intended for use with a fully attentive driver, who has their hands on the wheel and is prepared to take over at any moment." [0]

This sounds very different from "allowing the operator to focus on broader aspects of operations". I have never heard of pilots having their hand and feet on the stick and paddles in case the airplane make an incorrect maneuver.

[0] https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/support/autopilot-and-full-self-...
Because we're talking about an automated decision, Art. 22(1, 3) of the GDPR applies as well where:

> The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.

And any exceptions still require the data controller to provide:

> suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and to contest the decision.
Mostly support is a person getting a hold of someone that can escalate. No technical requirements needed.
Fairly complete attack details are out already.

https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/resolving-your-way-into...

Including possible javascript vectors to trigger reflection attacks on LAN servers. Yey. This isn't going to take days, this will be fun tomorrow.
No, they give you 30 days to return the equipment at which point they charge you late fees. The calls were totally superfluous.
>A skeptical person would ask - what reason could he have for pushing a major media outlet to write so much - what can only reasonably be called - propaganda

Not a secret, Amazon considers lack of diversity a risk factor for unionization.

"Whole Foods' heat map says lower rates of racial diversity increase unionization risks"
https://archive.is/1khJw

It's all one big social engineering scheme designed to ensure absolute corporate hegemony by redirecting social tension it generates into racial and sex/gender identity conflicts. Extremely successful.
Weiss condemns groupthink, not algorithms.
And this sort of thing is why some of us have been endlessly warning that it's probably a bad idea to centralize all of the open-source ecosystem onto a single centralized, proprietary, commercial platform.

Not that those warnings were heeded, of course, as usual.
I regularly hear a friend complain about BS like this and variants. "Why did adding a button take a week, it's just a button?!" is also very popular. Not sure what's worse, that or the recurring "that element should be 1px to the left, drop everything you're working on and fix it asap"...
Non-backlit LCD is a possibility. If you need several indicators, you can combine them into one LCD.

The downside is they are hard to read, especially cheap ones and especially at weird angles.
Steve King's comments were routinely taken out of context. For instance the "straw that broke the camel's back" moment for King was in 2019 when the NYTimes stated he said one thing while King said that his words were taken out of context and gave a reasonable explanation for how they were misinterpreted.

The NYTimes never released actual audio of the conversation so it boosts King's case that his words were taken out of context. If they were truly incriminating, the Times could have released audio of the interview and cleared things up.

That's what I know off the top of my head, as for Paul Nehlen, I'm not sure who he is.

Of course I could name other examples. Democratic congresspeople routinely spew racist and inflammatory rhetoric that is never confronted by the Media precisely because the Media functions largely as a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party.
With today's knowledge, Gödel's theorem should be regarded as a corollary of the impossibility to solve the halting problem.

In my opinion, this is also how it should be taught in order to convey the explanation for its truth in the most straightforward way.

After that, one may of course also note that in the old days, without a good theory of computation, one had to resort to such hacks as Gödel numbers.

A good explanation including all the finer points can be found here: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=710
What exactly did his companies deliver, that experts said was impossible, in the technological sense I mean? Reusable rockets, deemed possible but not economic due to the low number of launches. SpaceX delivered amazing stuff, so, but nothing impossible. EVs were a thing already 100 years ago, so technically totally feasible, as is mass production. And the battery tech is to large part Panasonic. Still impressive what Tesla did, but again nothing technologically impossible.

Not feasible is a different thing. A lot of people said that about EVs and reusable rockets. With EVs he pushed the industry in zzhe right direction, at enormous costs. Funding seems to be directly linked to Elon, so. And whether or not reusable rockets are feasible is hard to tell, since SpaceX isn't publishing any results.

I think that the moment Elon runs out of stuff to hype and sell to investors, or just fails to sell, is the moment his companies go down. Which would be a pity.
> if your intention is to reach an audience rather than simply to geek out over an elegant technical solution

I'm not looking for a broadcasting solution along the lines of Twitch, so much as a solution to use with a specific audience of maybe a dozen students, that I want to be able to interact with to some degree.
I think it is quite ironic that on the one hand you completely dismiss sinophobia as a concept, and on the other hand you cite pre-Ghenis Khan times as the reason for being wary of 21st century China.
It’s better to find ways to make more money than to save it. There’s a floor but no ceiling in much of what we do.
From the experience with LTE-based FWA in the boonies: 50 MB webpages each is fine. Even if someone else is watching youtube on the same connection.
What if a single line change, given it took 2 weeks, fixed 40% of your crash rates? That fix alone is worth millions, almost 100x - 1000x the engineer's hourly salary in down time.
I think it needs to be a stronger political entity in its own right for that. EU foreign policy is hamstrung by very different foreign policy objectives of member states.
Silicon Valley is like a casino lot of bets going on but in the end the house always wins.
Your eyes can't focus the blue light. That's one of the reasons blue LED displays are so irritating. A low-intensity LED segment or dot panel is the best for a clock, but because they require a driver module and calibration to not look terrible, they cost a lot (relatively speaking).

A calibrated amber 5x7 matrix is, to me, an unsurpassed technology in digital display.
You could be your cat's favorite meal
There's quite a lot of citations to problems fixed by high precision numbers here: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/3/2/337/htm
I think anger drives them. I would definitely like to know. I suspect that many are sociopaths. Like the couple that ran a news site from their home in TX that made many millions from writing untrue and sensational headlines and then purchasing ads on Facebook. FB finally stopped allowing them to purchase ads, but not before a massive number of people consumed their hate-filled shit.
It doesn't sound like it is mutually exclusive. However restricting access to technology by AMD looks bad.
You would hope so, but I've seen an Engineering Director at an otherwise well run software company use number of Github commits as the central reason to put someone on a performance improvement plan as recently as 2019. Granted, this was someone who was a professional manager and hadn't been an engineer for the last 90% of their career, and many people were shocked by it, but it happened.
This makes it sound like the core team has abandoned the open source Snorkel project to work exclusively on closed source Snorkel Flow. Is that correct?
You can get a very rough idea of how countries are doing by looking at the tests per capita figures here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (click to sort). Obviously this isn't the only aspect that matters, but it's going to be hard to get a more detailed view that doesn't just tell you whatever country you're in sucks compared to everyone else. The major countries with widespread coronavirus testing on there are - in order - the UK, Russia, the US, Spain and Australia, and I can tell you that our press here in the UK has been pushing almost as hard on the narrative that we're falling behind the rest of the world in testing for coronavirus as the US media.

Naturally, publications like the New York Times have carefully worked to leave their readers with a much worse impression of where the US falls on this specific ranking than reality.
> I shored up the batch processing (which had all kinds of try catch everywhere, despite a fixed schema) and went on to another company

I was hoping for a happier ending there. What could have potentially fixed their situation?
Yeah, I want pirate money with pieces of eight. And the phrase “two bits” will make sense again.
> gRPC wasn't added for no reason, or because politics; its a sister CNCF project, and would increase the performance of the API surface, which greatly benefits all of its users.

gRPC (Google RPC) was absolutely added because of politics. Yes, it's performant, but let's not kid ourselves that gRPC wasn't picked because it falls nicely into the orbit of Kubernetes and the Google ecosystem. It's also why etcd can even threaten to remove support for HTTP+JSON (!!!) in the API, when it costs nothing at all to keep that support. This is exactly what the post is bemoaning.

> Did the author join in on the discussion when these changes were made? Did they voice their concerns?

Did you? Did anyone outside of a few people in a SIG or an RFC? This is also the complaint the author is obliquely getting at. Google may be 95% of the etcd _volume_, but they are basically 0% of the institutional users. That a small group of people can push a project in a direction that uniquely benefits them while adding an incidental complexity tax for everyone else is worth complaining about.
It is addressed in the first sentence:

> We found that while left-leaning sites prioritize statewide reporting, right-leaning sites are more focused on local reporting

Obviously there are more small, local outlets than large, expansive ones.
> it is Google that is problematic in the sense that they seem to be of the opinion that the law does not apply to them.

Except the article explicitly states:

> Google refused to delete the search results. According to the Litigation Chamber, this was justified with regard to possible links with a political party

It seems to me that the law only applies to them. One should be punished for trying to use the law to request things be deleted that are not illegal.

> Keep in mind that Google would have lost nothing if they had just complied with the request

This is scary, one-sided thinking. Google loses their ability to determine if the request is even a legal one if they comply blindly. Similarly the public accepts unnecessary content censorship.
What are you saying? You think, "I hope you get raped" is a critical response?
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Disclaimer: I am writing a book on the same topic (nevertheless it will be quite different from the content perspective).

I don't want to comment much on the book because of ^ but there is something that I found a little bit off putting for me.

It is the obsession with American big tech (the biggest tech companies and well known startups). The book suggests that all such companies have it figured out, that all engineers working there are the most productive and best in the industry. I personally don't believe it and I am not sure why a productivity book should be so heavily based around it.

As an example take this question from the book "What's so special about individuals who create the most used applications in the world?" I really really just want to answer "Nothing".

Anyways there goes my little rant... Definitely congrats on publishing a book, it is a struggle!
I agree that EVs are the future, but plenty of companies have been working on them, but nobody gave a shit until Elon made them sexy. Also, most people will drive ICEs until EVs get cheaper and enough infrastructure is in place to support them.
A timeline of bold claims from Elon Musk
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The article seems to state that the sites it lists have specific financial ties to politicians and PACs; civility of writing doesn't seem to be a criterion.
because of the article? Or because the entire process for handling it failed to meet NYT process standards for op-eds, and because Bennett himself was at best misleading and at worse lying about his own role and behavior in that process?
> IMHO, the US does have faults and does do bad things, but those bad things are usually domestically controversial (to some degree). Since it's a liberal democracy, that controversy is tolerated, which means there's a path to something better

From the outside, I think Americans generally over-estimate the degree to which modern America is actually a liberal democracy. The tolerated range of speech seems to in reality run a perilously narrow gamut from "neo-conservative" to "arch-neo-conservative", with anything left of the former routinely subject to exercises of state force to attack and undermine that dissent in practice (declarations of turning the nebulous self-applied label of "Antifascist" into a "terror organization", COINTELPRO, etc, etc), regardless of what freedoms are claimed to be enshrined in the US constitution.

And this is merely its internal opposition to liberal democracy; again, even a cursory glance at modern Latin American history demonstrates that the US happily prefers right-wing dictators to democratically elected leftists, if the latter is at all detrimental to the US government's interests.
> She was totally fine until she live-tweeted public insults about her co workers during a company meeting.

Do you have a reference for this?
> Today, you can take that tiny webserver and put it in a VM, and voila, now it doesn't matter if anyone breaks in

This is a dangerous viewpoint to hold. Containers do offer some slightly better security, but they are not a silver bullet or anything close. There are still lots of ways to cause problems whether the software is in a container or not.
Sure thing AirBnB! I'll take out a personal loan right away. How much should it be?
and then the algo tags you as bipolar lol

Will try the swear words, kinda did it anyway but didn't notice any improvements...
What you want out of a programming language may not be the same as what, for example, DHH or Matz wants. You seem to want minimalism and proximity to the metal whereas someone who appreciates Perl and Ruby is more likely to value expressiveness. Dynamic and statically-typed languages are not in competition with each other. They both have their place.
Happens to me, on average, probably once per month. It tends to happen in spurts though— I might go 3 or 4 months without an episode but then once a week for a while. If it happens enough to quickly realize what's happening, you tend to be able to move past the feeling of imminent danger and focus on controlled breathing (I can always control my breath.) Then again, I've had a few jobs where I had to deal with physically threatening situations regularly, so maybe I've just worn that nerve ending smooth.
Yes, adding features to a CPU is not a vendor specific problem. I wonder if this can be handled at the link / binary loader level so it is more transparent to the programmer. Almost like a patch using diff. You have a base binary that runs on any machine, but there are added diffs (added by the static linker) for different CPU versions and the OS loader patches and loads the code appropriately.
"AMD, we're getting to the point of too many different product lines."

I legitimately do not understand writing your post directly addressing AMD as if they're actually listening to you.
Well, shorting Tesla was a bet. As was investing in it. A bet that had serious foundations, with Tesla potentially running out of money.
I don't see anything "discrediting" the that comment. I think it is very salient to point out that it us much easier to call out intolerance in other people than to face our own intolerance. Weiss's own intolerance doesn't negate the intolerance she faced, instead it reminds us to remember to strive for tolerance within ourselves as well as pushing for it from other people.
Exclusive control of an activity isn't needed to be a monopoly. In the 90s, people used Netscape on Macs, but Microsoft got declared a monopoly anyway.
The point of the comment is that the most important competitors to the US during the period of its strongest anti-communism both called themselves communist. It's not whatever one thinks "real" communism is or should be.
Noam has some very valid ideas, but he's got a long habit of supporting questionable characters like Pol Pot and Chavez.
Thanks; that actually makes me want to check it out more. I appreciate the info.
The problem that arises when newsrooms are hyper partisan, as is the case with most of the Mainstream Media being composed almost entirely of Democrats, is that there are no dissenting voices that exist to check the more extreme tendencies of one side.

In mainstream newsrooms, the Democrats' perspective is unchallenged, which means that there is no force preventing a lurch towards extremism.

It's similar to a nation with One Party Rule. There are no checks and balances so extremism settles in.
> The British colonies over the years?

Sure. I don't see anyone here defending that in this thread.

> Possibly Britain itself as far as the treatment of poor nobodies.

Currently? Are you serious?

> Look, China's a repressive regime, but: (1.) A bit less so than it's described by Western media,

"Western media" is such a large set as to be meaningless. If you mean the mainstream media, please provide an example of two of where they claim China is more oppressive than it actually is.

> and (2.) Britain and the US are not categorically different, they're just, well, different in the contexts and degrees in which they oppress more and less.

No. There is a categorical difference between being democracies with major flaws and being a totalitarian state, between having real struggles in their open and adversarial justice systems and having arbitrary arrests as the norm, between abhorrent detention of immigrants and outright concentration camps based on ethnicity.

Placing the dystopian hellhole that is China in the same category as Western democracies is an affront to those that suffer under CCP rule and highly unproductive with regards to fixing the serious problems we have at home.
The Universe’s Clock Might Have Bigger Ticks Than We Imagine
you forget that people can bully each other online, sabotage businesses for no reason, and that the person or business bullied should have the right to have the content removed.
So you are completely ok with TikTok filtering out content from ugly, poor or disabled users? Because that is what it sounds like.
Not to all people, and not necessarily to the commenter you are responding to.
And yet, AM talk radio is overwhelmingly dominated by conservative voices. Fox news is overwhelmingly partisan (and don't counter with MSNBC—MSNBC does not have the open collaboration with the Democratic party that Fox has with the Republicans). Sinclair Media controls large numbers of local stations and presents news with a clear conservative bias, plus all the conservative-owned newspapers. And that's not even getting into the weeds of things like OANN, Newsmax, etc. Plus there is a very obvious coordination of conservative voices so that within a day of an issue arising, you'll hear the same arguments from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and nearly every conservative blogger.

The Republicans are eating the Democrats' lunch on media influencing.
If the fault can be resolved by pushing a button and the system knows which button, why not remove the button entirely?

If a human decision is needed before pushing the button then there may be some risk in making it too easy since the human will just push any lit up button.
China's already got multiple overt state-run "news" organizations. So it's not like there's some dearth of China-friendly content readily available. Propaganda also isn't necessarily just content produced by some Ministry of Truth. Simply censoring or "discouraging" negative coverage of China/CCP in state influenced media can be/is propaganda.

That's just "official" propaganda. The CCP's various astroturfing brigades are well documented (see "50 cent army" and "internet navy"). They show up in public forums of all stripes.

TikTok doesn't allow discussion of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Falun Gong, Free Tibet, or anything other topics the CCP deems inappropriate. That censorship is propaganda by omission. Content users see being primary algorithmic makes it trivial to add in pro-CCP or just anti-West content into people's feeds.
Yes about two years ago, but the bug wasn’t fixed till April this year and it looks like the fix was a work-around:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/linux-syscall-support/+/be...