skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> -Matt's ability to understand and synthesize topics reflects incredibly highly on his intellect. I don't know anyone on Wall Street... is his level of intellect common among investment bankers and such there?

Intelligence is 100% absolutely not a prerequisite but anyone who rises above a certain level in finance has to be talented at something. At a bank that's likely to be either sales or politics.
Ok - so he’s a shill. But is anything in this article false? It makes Google’s attorney look at best incompetent.
People do click them but unsurprisingly the rate is pretty low. Often times ~0.5% - 1% for a reasonably well targeted ad. So 1 in 100-200.
You made some huge leaps in what I was arguing. I never said the government should expand their freedom of speech restrictions or anything like that. I simply said there are still restrictions, even if they are small and that sites without restrictions are horrible.
If I understand public opinion logic correctly: its the customers fault until one of the customers kill themselves, then its the brokerage fault. But for now we can make fun of the customers having their email compromised, while being slightly confused why Robinhood doesn't offer greater verification.
Your doctor should not be acting as a researcher with you as a laboratory. They are taking a biased position in favor of you as a patient and should provide the best possible standard of care.

A scientific researcher is trying to answer an unanswered question dispassionately. I don’t see how taking a bias in testing a scientific hypothesis can possibly determine the truth of a scientific fact.

Are researchers who say that applying leeches won’t cure cancer bad for cancer patients? Why shouldn’t they be hopeful that leeches cure terminal cancer, rather than being downers? The answer is that cancer is the enemy, not people who oppose medical treatments that don’t work.
This is why I think its mostly non-engineers commenting about how great Julia is. No one has tried to deploy it prod. Sure there might be exceptions, but if you interview 100 engineers who've tried deploying Julia, a vanishingly small % would recommend it if at all.
This is a good example of what corruption in America looks like.

America enjoys a reputation of being a rather non-corrupt country. To large degree, this is true: bribing scandals are rare, and most Americans would be completely aghast at the idea of passing an envelope under the table to the official who is responsible for issuing building permits.

Instead, the corruption in the US operates through completely transparent and legal means. Instead of cash-filled envelopes, you see campaign contributions, board seats, consulting jobs for children, and, yes, donations to designated causes. All of this is just How Things Are Done, and people are so used to them that they no longer even consider it corruption.
This is false, at the moment I wrote this comment the "Apple tax" was mentioned a lot. IMO the fact that is 3%, 30% or 99% is irrelevant . What is important is that Apple uses it's dominance to remove choice from users.

I am sorry if fanboy will hurt someone feeling, but if for example:
Google (or Apple) would have a new rule that if you want your website to be opened in Chrome(or Safari) and not marked as malware you have to include Google Pay(or Apple Pay) and remove the Visa/PayPal and all the other payment options and some person would say "this is exactly what we wanted, no more choices - force everyone to a Google(or Apple ) tax , this choices are overwhelming my poor brain then tell me the correct adjective to describe this person that thinks removing choice and forcing the big coorporation way is the best thing.
I personally know dozens of people who don't care at all about black lives one way or the other. I've seen hundreds more that I don't know personally demonstrate that belief publicly, many of them police officers.

The disparities in policing, application of police violence, and prosecution are well-documented.

This is why the movement exists. It's a real problem, whether you personally have experienced it or not, whether you personally wish to acknowledge it or not.

There are many people out there who simply do not think that it matters whether or not black people live or die. Many of them are in uniform.
Disclosure: I used to work on the pipelines counting this stuff at Google.

> What? They get paid for the clicks, not the impressions. Serving ad impressions costs money, the clicks make money. I don't quite follow your line of reasoning here.

Google has display ads (nee double-click) and search ads (adwords). Display ads can be pay per click or pay per impression (https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2454058?hl=en). Search ads are pay per click.

> Why wouldn't it? How do we know the bidding process is fair and the clicks we're paying for are valid? We don't and that's the problem. We wouldn't tolerate this type of behavior from companies in other industries. We need to quit giving tech companies a free pass and start holding them accountable.

For cost per click there's an economic argument that the auction is fair. Google has limited ad slots and leaves money on the table if it serves low bid or low quality ads instead of higher-bid or higher-quality ads, and if Google pretended low-quality ads were high quality the advertiser would see it as an insanely high cost per conversion. Click validity is also easy to measure; count how many clicks you're charged for and compare that with how many referrals with gclid from google.com show up in your logs (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35813737/matching-google...).

Impression ads are trickier which is why there are fancy cross-device conversion/attribution metrics to correlate purchases with impressions, but ultimately that is the problem with pay-per-impression in general.

> It only has to be good enough to convince people to keep using it. There's no financial incentive to eliminate fraud completely, or even try, without regulation.

Here I mostly agree; I was pretty disappointed to find out Google was serving those stupid "Download Now"-button ads on various software distribution sites. I think that particular insanity has been fixed now, but "not against the rules" was the answer for most of the time I was there.

Trust is also a financial incentive and is the primary incentive to prevent outright fraud. Ad-blockers or moving to another ad network are the proper responses to indicate lowered trust.
So funny because I’ve proposed the same thing! Not necessarily git, just a merkle tree in general to diff changes to state over time. Super interesting read! The trade off being more cpu required to build a picture of state than storage requirements due to having to walk the tree.
Hi from Scandinavia, we dont have a monopoly on anything, and no actual minimum wage, yet people make about $20+ at the lowest paying jobs, enjoy 5 weeks paid vacation, free healthcare and cheap childcare..
Would it be objectively worse for consumers? You buy an expensive machine once every ten years and then the games would be more reasonably priced for that whole time? How can you say with certainty that would be worse?
I'd say that "pushing a broom" is a straw-man of a job that doesn't actually exist anymore, if it ever did.
Darwin performed hybridization experiments that demonstrated the principles, and the topic appeared as a section in Origin of Species. However, Darwin's experiments lacked statistical rigor -- he didn't do enough variations to make statistical assertions. This gap was later adeptly filled by Mendel. Freeman Dyson did a wonderful lecture on this topic right before his passing, which covered various forms of biological & cultural evolution spanning Darwin to present:

https://www.ias.edu/news/in-the-media/freeman-dyson-biologic...

If you want an alternate source:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-019-0289-9
> Is it?

DL/RL/etc. Are very hype right now in research, everything is moving at a very fast speed. A lot of 'RL applied to robotics' papers are accepted at top conferences (and even more rejected)

Several tools are in development to increase dramatically the speed at which research can be done ;)

A simple Google scholar search on reinforcement learning and robotics limited to 2020 only should give you lots of good results.

I wish you the best ;)
is there an initiative like this in the US?

It depends, and varies greatly by location.

Anything created by the federal government is public domain by law. However, not all federal agencies make their code public. Some, understandably. Others, our of budget constraints or ignorance. In theory, you could file a FOIA request to get the code, assuming it's not classified.

Other levels of government can be problematic. In part, because cities and towns can copyright things they create, while the federal government cannot.

For example, the City of Chicago and some other cities have data portals open to the public. Their utility varies.

Smaller cities, however, are less likely to understand the important or value of making data public.

Back when governments started switching to data processing a lot, I belonged to an organization called Investigative Reporters and Editors. It had lots of guides for extracting data from local governments. I remember lots of newspapers rushing out to buy computers are nine-track tape readers so they could sort through the information.
> It would be really silly for Apple to ask the provider to censor their user's inbox and hide a particular email they received.

I agree completely. If Apple agrees, they should spell this out clearly in their terms.

As it is, Apple gets to selectively enforce this whenever they want, which is unfair to both app developers and users.

One likely danger of spelling this out from Apple's point of view is that someone might say the same thing about other messaging services besides email. Take Facebook Messenger, for example. Imagine that Facebook started offering a paid upgrade to Messenger. Why should Facebook Messenger care on which platform you're receiving an internally-generated call to action to upgrade to some hypothetical paid plan? It's not like they were intentionally targeting Apple users in this hypothetical scenario, and it should be their right to not have to censor messages they decide to send to their users just based on the platform being used. It's (hypothetically) just a regular Facebook Messenger message, after all, generated by some marketing system completely disconnected from both the app and the messaging platform!

One thing that confounds the issue for ProtonMail specifically is that the app only works with ProtonMail, and ProtonMail is operating both the frontend and the backend. It's not like the Gmail app that also lets you use other email accounts with it as a general purpose email client. This is why I chose Facebook Messenger as an example -- it is a messaging platform, but both the frontend and backend are operated by Facebook.
I think that a very real argument could be made that this PoTUS was elected as a direct intolerance of the corruption and intolerance of the normal citizenry of the US by the professional politicians. To expect him to be competent at the job was to be naive (which a lot of people were), but it was a knee jerk reaction to the options left to them, I think.
Twilio open sources their SRE GameDay templates
I don't think this conflicts with the OP premise. Making something take longer/be harder is a common trick to help you learn something. Like reading out loud helps you remember what you read more than just reading silently in your head. That doesn't mean that in cases where you are not trying to learn that typing would be better as using less mental energy means you have more to spare for other uses.
It doesn't.

It's called the Sapir-Worff hypothesis. Pinker called it something like "the most well known hypothesis in linguistics, too bad it's almost certainly false." It's pre-Chomsky, in date and concept.
My bigger concern regarding NULLs is that its a ternary logic shoved into a binary logic system, and it all invisibly becomes nonsense when your dataset has NULLs in it, and you don't explicitly address it

WHERE col1 > col2

is wrong, and it'll break in terrible ways

and in the face of negation + NULLs, everything falls apart[0], giving you both false positive and false negatives in your answerset, and everything will look perfectly fine.

Every column being made NOT NULL is the only sane solution.

[0] https://databasetheory.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/03_pr...
1. It will give that cash up to some amount. It won't let the chap drain my entire account.

2. They will return my money if I reported the theft in a timely fashion.

Robin hood seems to be doing neither.
That's a fantastic example - and it looks like you've had that running for three years now! https://github.com/arkadiyt/bounty-targets-data
sure, but its only been that way for a little over a decade, it could change back just as quicky.
Information sharing and collaboration in the US intelligence community [pdf]
Personally I find the call to actions rather tasteful on that site
The most common causes of false ad clicks on the web isnt fraud but unintended maliciousness. Eg. there are extensions around that 'click' and load pages or click through posts to cache contents, etc. Plenty of people write web scripts that end up looking to webservers like humans interacting with ad content.
I'm reading On The Origin of the Species right now. He discusses human selection of domestic animals and plants at length as a fairly convincing analogy, then connects it to observations 'in nature'. It's hard to demonstrate something that is observed (vs something controllable), but the argument is quite comprehensive.
I think law and morality are two totally separate concepts.

I operate by morality, but my risk tolerance is bound by legality. For example, for any human rights issue X, will I speak out for X in a place that has free speech but not yet legalized X? Absolutely. Will I speak out for X in a place that I might get a $100 fine? Probably. Will I speak out for X in a place that I might get jailed or beheaded? Probably not.

In this case though I don't consider it immoral to violate certain ToS terms, especially when they track and sell user data and don't offer a clear opt-in/out option to that, and perhaps even doubly on the sites that I actively contribute useful content to the platform in good faith, and the legal risk is extremely low.
I run an ad blocker, but I’ve also occasionally clicked on ads. Usually it was some cool looking gadget or clothing item, not sure if I ever purchased through ad-initiated interaction, but it definitely made me aware of products.
Is this really a SQL feature or a relational feature? The essence of the relational model is that names are known up front: an attribute of one relation is not an attribute of another.
well the nations that saw others that were primitive, were much poorer, for example china and india were the 2 richest nations in the world, whilst britan was very poor and needed the industrial revolution, not india or china.
> When I was in college I interned at a company that negotiated retail placements for stuff like software. The 30% slice is a much better model than the terms our customers were stuck with.

When I was in middle school a computer costed as much as a small car. Times change. Physical distribution of most software is dead and the associated costs are completely different now.
Sure, not every person is evil. You just need evil leaders and employees that need paychecks to be in a bad spot.

The core problem is that they have two conflicting incentives. They don’t want to look bad for spreading misinformation so they try to restrict it. But, they are incentivized to make money, and posts spreading disinformation are lucrative because they appeal to eyeballs. I am extremely, extremely skeptical that this is a resolvable problem for them.
Some startups are working in direct air capture of CO2. I've linked one in another comment here, Carbon Engineering:

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

They think that at scale, a ton of CO2 will cost $100 and take 5-6GJ if energy.

Totally agreed that it is far cheaper to just never emit in the first place. But as far as building new nuclear, France has not been able to succeed at this economically, and similarly the UK's plans at building new nuclear are coming apart completely.

And even if we are able to decarbonize, with whatever technology, be it nuclear or not, we will still need to get to negative CO2 emissions in the coming decade. While some of that will take the form of CO2 sequestration in the biosphere, such sequestration is only temporary, and we will eventually want geologic sequestration.

So we must solve the capture problem by some means. Perhaps it will be with something like Carbon Engineering's process, or maybe something else.
> There's a particular narrative they seem to want to advance...

This is true of every media outlet. There is no media outlet free from some agenda. By exercising editorial control, they are fundamentally choosing which articles to publish and how they will be presented.
As the guy that helped build the first ad platform on reddit, no, I don't think the provider should choose.

When we built the first reddit ad system, none of us liked ads, and we knew that a lot of users didn't either. We knew that we had to make useful ads if we wanted people not to block us. We knew we had to make them unobtrusive and even enjoyable.

We knew that we had to build an ad product people enjoyed if we wanted them to be effective and not get blocked.

And we knew some people would block them anyway, and that was fine. Heck, we even added an option to turn them off if you paid us, so that people had options.

I used to not run adblock as a way of supporting sites I liked, but then all the ads got so bad I just couldn't do it anymore. Now I just find other ways to pay for the sites I love.
That makes more sense. But keep in mind that only 2.3% of hourly workers make minimum wage.[1] It's not really fair to compare productivity (a mean) or even median output to wages at the second percentile.

It's an interesting question in its own right. Do the very lowest paid people in the economy have it better or worse than 50 years ago. I don't know the full answer to that question, but I do know that in 1968 about 5% of American households didn't have full indoor plumbing.[2] Just based on that datum, I'd much rather trade places with a very poor American in 2020 than 1968.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm
[2] https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2004/data/papers/SS0...
Google unlimited Drive storage is no more in Workspace
Wow, I had not seen that from Yelp. That is a horrible idea, and because they control brick and mortar reputation more than anything else, there is nothing that can be done about it. Hopefully they get sued for libel and realize what a dumb approach this is.
I think the fact that handwriting is more challenging than typing is why it’s better. Your brain isn’t just engaged with the BS related to handwriting; it has to compress information on the fly in order to overcome this BS and still keep up with the speaker, which embeds an understanding of the content in your brain while you write. When you type, you can transcribe all of the info, but none of it resides in your brain afterwards.
> This scares the hell out of me that one mega conglomerate with it's algorithms has control over your procreation and deep knowledge of your sex life, all linked to your real identity.

Only if you give it to them?
Fappocalypse Wow!
The reader ignore macro can be stacked in clojure, so you can also do

#_#_#_#_GET "/something3" [] "hello3"

if it strikes your fancy. The possibilities for bikeshedding here are truly remarkable.
He formalized it as a theory that could then be tested, reviewed for internal consistency, used to model/explain the world, etc.

Yeah I wouldn't call what he did primarily demonstrating, but gets you on that path (and IIRC he had several examples to point to for concepts).
No, you can setup a Canadian company, and subcontract as a consultant. The downside is your company is responsible for paying taxes (GST, EI, etc), in addition to your personal taxes. Also, obviously, the US company won't provide benefits.
I just watched a Nova episode last night about the intelligence of the single-cell slime mold. They can go through a maze to find food and other interesting things. Fascinating.
Facebook and the Group That Planned to Kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
> digital equivalent of a landlord extracting economic rents from everyone in the ecosystem.

Ok, well, it’s not illegal to be a landlord, nor immoral (as most people see it at least). So I’m not sure this is a very good argument.

You could even say “they’re as evil as Ticketmaster” and it’s like... yeah well Ticketmaster continues to operate. You don’t have to like them, basically no one does, but they’re playing according to the rules of the game.
Yep, reddit ads CPC is 2-5x cheaper than FB / Google. So assuming half of it is real fraud, the likely outcome of removing the fraud is just that CPC would double. Still better as misleading metrics are bad, but likely no real net change in cost per real return.
>Let's say that all of the major social media platforms ban any discussion of raising their taxes, or enacting more regulation on them, or let's say they straight up ban major politicians from the platform

Unless we're talking about a situation where a government controls the internet and makes it illegal for anyone but those social media sites to set up a server or host content, then that might create an immediate market demand for alternatives and those alternatives would appear, although alternatives would very likely already exist.

>Oh, and also there is no other significant competitor that matters, and it is unlikely that any competitors will pop up anytime soon.

You keep piling on qualifiers like "significant" and "serious" yet before social media silos it was entirely possible to reach millions of people and go viral with hosted forums and personal webpages. Hacker News alone gets a ton of traffic and it's hardly mainstream. What will happen is that the web will adapt as it always has.

It's not as big a problem as you make it out to be. Don't confuse the size of these sites' userbases with proportional degree of control over anything outside of their domain.

>Ok, now what is almost all of the major platforms do it, and there are no serious competitors?

>Let's expand this out even further. What if Walmart did the same thing? Along with multiple other grocery stores.

>You want to raise their taxes, well sorry, you probably aren't going to be able to buy food from any major grocery store.

(...)

>Your passive acceptance of this type of being can be extrapolated out to horrifying results.

Everything can be extrapolated out to horrifying results if you try hard enough and care little enough about reality. But your scenario in which every social media site (including those hosted in other countries,) and every businesses and government utilities and services conspire to control all forms of communication and deprive people of basic services as a means of oppression is so far removed from any conceivable reality that I have to question whether you're commenting in good faith. Otherwise, you're doing a good job of making my point for me.
This is a Gentoo distribution thing. I interpret it mostly as a quality bar. See: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html#moving-fr...

One of the requirements of being in arch (vs. ~arch) is not having any ~arch dependencies, so that's the first direct issue with Julia moving from ~arch to arch.

(Also, I don't feel particularly bad about pulling in a package or two from ~arch.)
I CALL BS!! The likelihood of being infected by a COVID infectious passenger coughing in the seat next to you in a single-aisle airplane (no empty seat between you) is lower than if you sat/stood 6 feet apart in your office/home/shopping center (in both cases masks are worn).