skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a lot of people being alienated by the fact that people could take on different avatars during their meeting. I would honestly accept that with no question.

In a work environment, I would expect the person I'm talking to to be presentable, ie their avatar would be presentable, so no goofy backgrounds or annoying accessories.

But the key for me is, I'd actually have something to see. So often in my work in in meetings and three people have cameras on and the rest don't. I don't really care what they look like, I care if they're engaged, nodding their heads, their facial reactions.

I don't always have my video on either, I don't have great upload speeds so I usually appear as a big blob anyway. I'd happily have whatever representation of me be in my place if it meant people could see my reactions
It makes it harder for bots to just retweet and amplify without having to write unique content. If they all just retweet with "I agree", that is easy to Twitter to detect and filter.
Good moderation sets standards for how we communicate that everyone is honestly able to meet regardless of their worldview. Taking this site as an example, the guidelines focus on the tone, relevancy, and novelty of your responses. It encourages civility and curiosity, it does not try to calculate the truth value of what I'm saying.

I see many "it's just moderation" takes on what Twitter is doing, but what Twitter and other platforms are now doing goes beyond what most platforms have traditionally enforced in their moderation. Hiding user content that the platform unilaterally perceives to be untruthful is really a new milestone.
Modelling anti-vaccine sentiment as a cultural pathogen
> In a very simplistic way, shouldn't the average wage keep pace with the average productivity gains and the minimum wage keep pace with the minimum productivity gains?

Wages are set by the market, not by productivity.
Firebase: Google Cloud’s Evil Twin
I've used ad nauseum for years without a problem.

So unless you have some proof to prove your point, I'm going to assume you're making this up
With time you start to develop your own short hand, skipping words, focusing on questions to ask yourself when reviewing notes. You can often write many words without looking at the paper. Embrace the messy and ugly writing. Legibility only matters in that you can still read it.

I still want to learn cursive but my handwriting style uses plenty of flourishes that mimic cursive. Or writing words that are nearly illegible but easy to know in context.
Hi,

I'm graduating next spring with a B.S. in Physics/Computer Science and currently have work authorization through DACA. With the recent challenges the current administration have imposed on DACA it's not clear what will happen with DACA in the next year. Do you suggest I seek an employer that can sponsor for h1 visa? Are DACA recipients eligible for h1 visa? Are there other pathways you suggests I explore?
I only follow 88 people on Twitter
Apple does a manual review of the quality of their apps as well as their content (e.g. if you own a social app that allows users to publish images, they will verify there are no adult images being published and there are systems in place for banning these images.)
The answer is probably that Broadcom's documentation is dogshit and this required a herculean effort to reverse engineer to get everything working.
The comment macro should really come with a warning that it should only be used as a top level form. Using it inline (a very natural thing to do if you're coming from a language with more typical block comments!) only ever leads to suffering, in my experience.
This is a good take. Skepticism is one of the most important aspects of thinking critically, and building a library of skeptical techniques so as to be able to sniff out things that aren't true is crucial to being able to navigate through a sea of information.

It's sort of like the Godel incompleteness theorem of social networking: you can either be incomplete or inconsistent; any system which tries to be perfectly consistent will find itself excluding massive amounts of potential dialogue. This in turn will result in a user exodus.
Not elected people, not respecting the most basic of constitutional principles. Not only that, but you can't enforce your "set of principles" on billion of tweets each hour of the day, not by people at least, so you defer to bots, which are incapable of discerning what is free speech. They can't apply your principles with the discernment of a human, they can't enforce what's legal or illegal, like they can't recognize copyrighted music from public domains ones.
But the point is, you can just download a .apk file and install like like you would on a desktop. You can even download a .apk file that installs an alternative app store. You do have to click through a couple screens with scary warning messages, but it's a much, much softer lock-in than Apple & the App Store.
No BBC tie-in games like Geordie Racer or Through the Dragon's Eye either!
This mirror why I've come over a lot of writing anxiety by using a notebook and writing by hand. It may be a bit weird, but eh.

Pen and paper forces you to be a bit more deliberate for each word, because each word requires more care to be readable. But at the same time, each word written is done and set for now. And honestly, if I let it sit for an hour or two, it's usually a good enough word. And its easier to have a pen and a notebook on you and write something down whereever you are.

Editing a written peace for quality is a very different thing. A text editor is much superior there.
Yes! Great idea! I've been working on a similar, but different project recently. Using screenshots instead of git. I wanted to see the change in air quality due to the wildfires over time, so I'm making time-lapse videos: PurpleAir Air Quality 7200X Time-Lapse - Glass Fire - San Francisco Bay Area - 9/28-10/3 https://youtu.be/CFT-EIEmzfM
Just for comparison, a functional approach is a major alternative to relational and set-oriented models and query languages. The difference is that functions and operations with functions are first class elements of the model.
One version of it is implemented in this project:

https://github.com/prostodata/prosto - Functions matter! No join-groupby, No map-reduce
That's a hell of a qualifier you just slapped on there. I'll answer as soon as I can track down a website that's not running a third-party ad network, which I'm sure you're aware is but a teensy percentage of web sites that run ads.
> The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009, and a handful of states are only just now breaching $15/hr. At this rate by the time a federal increase happens we'll already be another 20 years behind.

But even more localities have higher minimum wages. Because the "minimum necessary" is extremely cost-of-living specific, it's decentralized.

Despite Washington having a State minimum wage of $13.50, Seattle's minimum wage is $16.39/hr.

Despite New York having a State minimum wage of $11.80, New York City's minimum wage is $15/hr

Despite Illinois having a State minimum wage of $11, Chicago's minimum wage is $14/hr.

Despite California having a State minimum wage of $13, San Francisco and Berkeley's minimum wages are $16.07/hr. Emeryville's minimum wage is $16.84/hr. San Jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Fremont, Belmont, Alameda, El Cerrito, Los Altos, Milpitas, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Richmond, Malibu, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Santa Rosa all have minimum wages at or higher than $15/hr.

You can view it by state and by city here -> https://www.epi.org/minimum-wage-tracker/
What Happened to South America’s Missing Mega-Mammals?
> Do you believe the same to be true for Facebook as well?

I have no idea about Facebook. I barely even use it so all my information is second-hand.

> Why is Twitter encouraging outrage-engagement via the (somewhat filtered) Trending section?

We're not, at least not intentionally. Do you think we are? If so, why?

The Trending section is still biased towards things that are being talked about frequently. Unfortunately, that means outrage-inducing topics will tend to bubble up there. We're working on making trend identification more sophisticated in order to provide better context, but it's a really hard problem with such short snippets of context.

> Why aren't you actively trying to decrease political engagement if it's a net negative?

"Political engagement" overlaps with, but is not synonymous with, "outrage engagement". Outrage engagement is a net negative; political engagement that does not devolve into misinformation and toxicity is not. We are actively trying to decrease engagement with misinformation and outrage, but it's a hard problem. Also, frankly, it's being hampered by a lack of focus internally that is leaving the teams involved with no clear direction other than "do something, now!".

Non-toxic political engagement is a net positive for us. We don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater by shutting it all down, assuming we even could (it's fundamentally the same problem, though a little bit easier). I see how other people might see that as the better option to shut down the toxicity and misinformation, though.
sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages#Usage
> Alternate headline: "People With Access to More Information Less Likely to Trust Blindly"

I agree. I think as well that nowadays we're at a crossroads:

we get many more informations than in the past AND at the same time we can dedicate less time to evaluate those informations (because we have to dedicate more time to digest all those extra inbound informations => circular cause/effect?).

Interesting times & theme (& complicated discussion) - going to be interesting to see how this turns out, if people will find a good way to deal with this. I just hope that humanity won't fall into any kind of extremes.
They meant the user pays a 42% premium. If the developer needs to earn $70 they need to charge $100 on the App Store which is a 42% increase for the user. So if you’re talking about passing along those costs it’s +42% on every purchase.
Katzenberg Strikes Out on Quibi Sale Efforts, So Far
Yup. I remember those sites that would say "please click on the ads and support us!"

There was also that one in the early 2000s that claimed to donate a cup of rice for every ad clicked, and maybe another one that planted seeds or something. I think I clicked on those a bunch for a while. Doubt they ever did any good, and I should probably have just donated the $2 I probably "earned" for those charities with my clicks.
"Mike Stonebraker of Ingres didn’t even bother to show up at the committee meeting to make the (quite strong) case for adopting QUEL because he was ideologically opposed to setting technology standards. It was the behavior of an intellectually arrogant academic rather than a prudent businessman protecting the interests of his company."

Some might call the behavior principled, rather than arrogant.
That's not an immigration issue, that would be more of a contracting issue and then making sure you're filling the requirements in the country you're in.
Can you provide examples where he demonstrated it? I mean that would be pretty epic him able to demonstrate it happening.
Any recommendations on whom to follow on that front?
Probability of getting Covid-19 in an airline cabin
This is really cool, and coupled with a tool like https://github.com/augmentable-dev/askgit, could yield some interesting results. It could produce a table of specific values/text changing over time, measure frequency of changes, etc
I wrote a similar git scraper for tracking bug bounty programs and their scopes. Here's the data, updated hourly:

https://github.com/arkadiyt/bounty-targets-data

And the code:

https://github.com/arkadiyt/bounty-targets
How far up? All the way?

Edit: I mean, Sundar must be an opportunist rather than an ideologist, right?

Larry and Sergey: I assume very few people know what they actually think about the big issues.
Sure, that's the Prime Mover theory, which would be extraordinarily hard to prove or disprove. I don't think it's fallacious reasoning.
Sure; HCQ is effective against some strains of malaria, and if you're going to a region where the strain isn't vulnerable to anything else, or if there are contraindications for everything else, or if you're in a health system where the cost is relevant, the doctor may prescribe you HCQ, after warning you about it. Its side effects are generally safer than having malaria. Of course, lots of things are safer than having malaria, so this is hardly a great endorsement.
A cursory examination of their leadership's own statements makes it clear this is untrue.
Haha, I've written a scraper for docker tags for Elixir images this way. I'm even gonna open source it this weekend...
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf

> Results indicate that corrections frequently fail to reduce misperceptions among the targeted ideological group. We also document several instances of a “backfire effect” in which corrections actually increase misperceptions among the group in question
With the eye-raping callout (dark background -> white background switch) half-way through the article on wanting an email address (three callouts within the article in total), I'm shocked you didn't finish the job and put a big fucking modal popup smack dab in the middle as I was scrolling and ask once more.
looking forward to vulkan support on the pi4
The excuse that this is to prevent phishing would make more sense if not for the fact that Firefox already has a much better solution to this in displaying only the domain in full black/white and the rest of the URL as a less visible light grey. Chrome did something like this before too, but less pronounced. It being very pronounced in Firefox seems to work based on my experiences.
Handy SSH_config Settings and Suggestions
Productivity growth at the bottom end is very low, but wages at the bottom end still need to keep up with the cost of living or people who are in minimum wage jobs will no longer earn enough to survive.
Or how the bible is telling the story of Eve(Mitochondrial Eve) and Adam(Y-chromosomal Adam)
The changes give Twitter employees a vast amount of power over determining what's allowed to be said and what isn't.

That fact alone makes me believe this is a result of internal pressure.
Well that's just the idea. In reality, most people only install apps from Google Play, and Google has decided that it also wants to enforce a 30% cut [1]. Sideloading provides an option, but for most developers, its not a realistic one (See: Epic putting Fortnite onto the Play Store after trying to get people to install by sideloading).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/technology/google-play-st...
HTTP libraries are a prime example of where many, many standard libraries are considered old and crufty, and there are much better ecosystem libraries that end up being wildly used more.

You may have that perception, and that is fine, but it's not likely to be a thing that changes significantly, even when Rust is quite old. There's just not a lot of advantage to being in the standard library, and numerous downsides.
As long as it’s constant between ads, the scraper effect should all be a wash in the end, no?

Ad buyers will pay half as much for double the traffic when half of the traffic is bots.
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"Genesis" got it wrong. The knowledge from "genesis" is no different than the knowledge of so many others that got it "close" but not quite right.

Another issue is that many texts are vague and open for interpretation so people can make it "make sense" regardless of how wrong/ridiculous/innacurate it is.
> I get the impression that Reddit's ad network is just immature.

I get more the impression that Reddit's advertiser community is just immature. ;-)

> We're finding that Reddit ads perform well and are cheap, suggesting that there isn't much competition for clicks.

Also reinforcing my perception.

> More mature ad networks such as Google's and Facebook's are better at reducing spam clicks. Google bought a company focused on this about 10 years ago, I'm sure Facebook put similar effort in.

I doubt either of us know that either of their ad networks does a better job. They certainly have invested more money in it, but they also run much bigger ad networks that are likely much more aggressively targeted for fraud (particularly because of their revenue models). So they may have more of the clicks that get through being fraud than Reddit.

> I'm sure this is something they'll work to improve over time as their ad network gains traction.

Yeah, but what I think is needed right now is a more mature perspective on click fraud. For starters, the underlying subtext that "click fraud" means that the ad network is profiting at the advertiser's expense fails to appreciate the context. If there was no fraud, the clicks would cost proportionately more (likely more than proportionately more), so the advertiser would save no money and Reddit would not lose any revenue.

More than that though, the poster doesn't seem to appreciate that what they are describing as obviously fraudulent is likely filled with a lot of false positives (I'd speculate that they are labeling at least a third of their real traffic as fraud using this heuristic). They also do not seem to understand that just because they are using a technique to detect fraud that Reddit isn't employing the same technique on their side; click fraudsters have a strong incentive to fool ad network detection mechanisms, but no incentive to fool the landing pages. They might follow redirects, load images, use unique IPs, etc. on the ad network, but they have no incentive to fool the operator of the site the ad is sending traffic to (in fact, sometimes their objective is to convince the advertiser that the ad network isn't providing quality traffic).
It's not difficult to fire employees in the US. You can't just fire the minorities and the women, but other than that you can fire for any reason at any time.

It's sometimes difficult to fire employees as a way of lowering wages. The people left behind who are expected to make up for that through raised workloads and losing the experienced for green new hires might complain.
ProtonMail complaining about extortion? That's rich. I was a visionary user for 2 years, and then decided to move somewhere where IMAP/SMTP was a bit easier to do than to run a piece of Go that somehow still required half of Gnome to run.

The experience was full of dark patterns. There is simply no way to terminate at the end of your billing period (and I had an annual subscription). If you have custom domains, you lose them immediately upon clicking the unsubscribe button, as do you lose your only way to properly move data off the service (as they have still no export feature)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921-600-why-darw...
Hey, I'm founder of Podsite, the headline probably sounds like a clickbait, but it's not.

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Also look at Braeburn Capital.

It is a hedge fund owned by apple, it has at least $237B under management.
> Also, why are we assuming that technology brought down wages when offshoring has skyrocketed. What makes you think it wasn't competition from the third world labor rather than robots?

Do we think that increasing minimum wage will hasten or slow down this trend?
> Islam has no issues with good science

As long as it does not come in form of satiric cartoons, it seems...

Free speech without blasphemy laws, and being able to express new ideas or discuss new points of view without fearing to lose your life by that, is -absolutely- essential for having good science.
What.

Lowering taxes doesn't lower wages.

Higher rents are caused by regulations, not freedom from regulations. You have to ask permission for something as simple as building places to live.
I think you may have misunderstood what the post is saying they're going to do. It is significantly more in line with your suggestion than you seem to think.
> It's unfortunate discussions can't be kept over ideas and policies instead of veering towards persons.

I don't think it's a matter of ideas vs persons. Already I hear that speech and ideas are violence, and violence requires fighting back (by complaining to HR that you made them feel unsafe). Of course, you cannot keep quiet either, because "silence is violence" too.

> It's unfortunate discussions can't be kept over ideas and policies instead of veering towards persons.

This is a sensible expectation, and I think that's what reasonable people should be able to do. However, my experience tells me that there's nothing to win by having such conversation in work environment, so I'd prefer them to be avoided altogether. However, both the company as an institutions, and many individuals working on it, are insisting that the employees have these discussions, no matter how irrelevant it is for the actual job. This is the reality on the ground in most big US tech corporations.

> I feel for people that suddenly need to discuss such topics, it means that they probably don't have IRL friends or friends outside of work if they really feel that they have to talk about no-work related issues at a work lunch. It's sad.

I don't think that this is the case. In my experience, it's the more social people who are insisting on having these conversations. I think this is because the more social people are better at gauging social climate, and the purpose of these conversations, often purportedly about diversity and inclusion, is to enforce uniformity and exclusion of people with alternative views.
I wonder why. My team members used to have both conservatives, liberals, and libertarians. We used to discuss all kinds of politics in a really cordial manner. We liberals were really angry with G.W Bush because we believe the WMD totally destroyed republican's credibility, and showed how evil they were as they were willing to shed blood for some god-knows-what reason. The conservatives would defend Fox News by giving lots of factual information, and reminded us about the danger of pushing narratives regardless of truths. Libertarians would snort something like "Change! Change what? It does not even make grammatical sense". And we all talk about education, history, the projects, white flight, gentrification, and the list went on. No one was offended. No one would charge someone this ism that phobia.

What about now?
Just got informed of this change/regulation. My first extension after first 3 years of H1B is coming up next July.

Do we currently know any ballpark numbers for the wages for the regulation?