skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those weren't hacked or leaked. The story is much simpler, and the provenance of the files is not in question:

By falsely claiming the records were hacked, rather than the legal property of the repair shop following payment default by Hunter Biden, Twitter is itself deliberately spreading false information to justify its illegal election interference. [1]

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[1] https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1316484977928941570
First books had same shockers, but then he run out of characters to kill.
They been steadily ramping up their efforts to silence voices. It starts with the people you dont like, the Alex Jones and the Richard Spencers. And now it's come to censoring news, while using Orwellian excuses like "fact-checking" and "harmful content".

This must be stopped and it must be stopped now. Trump is right, we should remove their special FCC protections.

The American People do not need Silicon Valley to tell us what we can and cannot read.
I don't have a compelling argument for why you're wrong, but it really seems like this is a weightier claim than you're giving it credit for. If social harmony is a sufficient reason for censorship, is there any basis left for objecting to the Great Firewall?
> And it's not just about anti-trust; you also never want to talk in any kind of discoverable medium how an engineering short-cut in the development of your product (say, like a 737) is going to cause people to get killed.

You don't see the fucking problem with this policy?

Ultimately, I guess the solution here is that this "training" ought to be considered as damning as the kind of speech that it tries to forbid.

This is like trying to get out of a drunk driving ticket by smoking weed and wearing a blindfold.
Ask HN: How to hands-on learn Data Science
I'm a software developer wanting to learn data science and hopefully get a job in the field in a year's time. From my research I'm not far from having the needed skills, but I still need some study so I can verify this, fill the gaps and gain confidence for interviews.

With development I realized I learned very quickly by working on projects instead of reading full books or taking classes, so I started looking for something like a list of DS projects that, if I managed to solve them on my own, I would know I was ready to apply for jobs as a junior scientist. Can someone point me to something like this, if such thing even exists? Are my expectations realistic? Is there any advice you think I need?

Thank you!
> (For all the flack that real-name policies get, they do reduce spam and hate speech by a big margin, so any service which doesn’t verify identity isn’t really a drop-in replacement for FB as far as that news org is concerned)

Did we not see the same studies?

As I recall Google+/YouTube's real name policy came under fire because a large minority of people received substantially more hate speech.
The author seems a helpful fellow future proofing his website :)

I do live near a border and YouTube thinks I'm in the other country all the time. I suspect European borders may have more resolution than Californian algorithms.
You should probably edit out the team names & age - I'm somewhat concerned for the privacy of your friend given how specific you're being.
Football is a brutal sport.

I played football for 9 years (1 in college). I made my best friends playing football, gained confidence, learned countless life lessons...but I still wouldn't let my future children play the game because of the risk of brain injury. A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a former teammate where we wondered if there have been long-term effects on our brains. And we played at nowhere near the level of the athletes here.

I'm convinced we're going to see football go the way of boxing. Boxing still exists, but it doesn't have nearly the appeal that it did 40-50 years ago, when a quarter of the planet watched The Rumble in the Jungle. [0] Boxing (competitive boxing, not workout classes) isn't a sport that upper-middle class kids get involved in. Youth football is headed in the same direction; participation rates are down as parents don't let their kids play (and other sports increase in popularity).

Every activity we choose to engage in comes with some degree of risk. The ethical issue here is twofold:

1) Do we adequately understand the risks, and are the people playing the game (children) equipped to make the decision of whether or not to play?

2) As a society, what degree of risk are we willing to tolerate? How many suicides is too many? [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rumble_in_the_Jungle

[1] I have mixed feelings about Malcolm Gladwell, but his podcast on the ethics of football (especially as it relates to higher education institutions, whose missions run counter to the idea of bashing one's brain in) was thought-provoking: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/22-burden-of-proof
According to their website, the most recent release is from 2016.
Which of these points do you find persuasive?
I'm no TV show buff, but what I gather from my friends, your premise is pretty much false in many cases.

First, in the age of binge watching, people might be specifically looking for shows with tons of episodes/seasons out to sink their teeth in.

Second, some shows take a while to "warm up" and get the word of mouth out before they catch on. Some shows might be dozens of episodes in before they become wildly popular. You say that Breaking Bad and GOT break the dynamic, but I think it's far more common that very popular shows do so after they've been out for a while.

Third, with episodic formats it doesn't matter if a show is long running, people can jump in or out at any given time.

Fourth, people might enter your target demographic over time. You say that the potential viewers of season 3 are the viewers of season 2, but what about a new batch of viewers of season 1? Let's say your demographic is young adults. Every year you have teens entering your target demographic, and you could count those as potential viewers of your show. And again, on the age of the internet, is dead easy to start viewing a show from the beginning at any time.
I've been having this concerning feeling lately that we are in fact getting the leaders we deserve :(
Most processes have benefit proportional to the number of participants. As an individual little process is required, and spending time maintaining the process is extraneous overhead. Academics tend to want maximal freedom ( in exchange for minimal compensation ) and adding process that constrains their work is unlikely to be productive.

Most ML projects in industry are leveraging understood techniques in novel ways to build real customer facing products within reasonable investment timelines. To say that one can't provide any scope or estimates on these seems weak.
Why the pandemic has affected Britain and Japan so differently
Can anyone tell be in one or two sentences how this relates to Scratch? Is is an alternative, is it used by Scratch, is it something different although it looks very similar?
It does sound unnaturally clean for the fm synth.
Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese_vocabulary#Phone...
Apple Music (fka iTunes) is still perfectly good as a music library. No need to subscribe to anything.
Totally understandable... because playlists are tricky.

I have a medium sized local music library and up to a few months ago have used an iTunes-like app to manage it all. Then I decided to move my music library... everything was still in the same folder, just on a new server but the playlists were all empty. I certainly was a bit freaked out when I realised that the m3u playlist files contained absolute paths to every song, instead of relative paths. Turns out that the player/manager I had used did that by default... took me a few weeks to correct everything!

I sometimes envy people with vinyl or cd collections, must be easier to deal with...
Choosing a ‘mission critical’ idea definitely ups the difficulty into hard mode. That’s number one on my list of ‘can’t have’ items for bootstrapped software because I just don’t want to deal with 24/7 instant support.
I've seen a lot of the software engineers on teams I've worked with complain about the way data science and machine learning professionals work with code, and They. Just. Don't. Get. It. Stop trying to push the tools and processes that you developed for yourselves onto us!

People I work with don't care that our notebook tools have rudimentary syntax highlighting or type-checking. We don't rely on our tools to make sure our code is written correctly. We just memorize the APIs and rely on experimentation to get things working.

Please don't make us use git. Checking out and checking in files is too slow! Oftentimes, Slacking code to a colleague is the best way to collaborate, and the fastest.

Don't make us use confusing and broken authentication schemes to access our data! I work best if I can just download live data to my machine and work locally. If it's too big or it's something like streaming, just give me an admin password that I can save in my notebook and use to hit some database clusters. Nothing wrong with that!
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Oh.... and if you are sure that your product has flaws that might cause people to get killed, or cause medical information to be inappropriately leaked, etc., the proper path is to schedule a meeting with your team lead and the product counsel on the issue.

Not only did I have to certify that I received this kind of training every year at every large corporation that I've worked at (and yes, this includes Google), this was also covered in my MIT Sloan School class, "Legal issues for I/T Managers" that I took as continuing education when I worked in MIT Network Operations and served as Tech Lead for Kerberos V5 development.

I'm really surprised at the comments in Hacker News on this article. Doesn't everyone get this fundamental, basic legal training? IMHO every single practicing engineer should!
And the SEGA logo chorus. "Seeeegaaa" wasn't FM Synth.
The provenance of the files is not questioned by far-right political operatives like Sean Davis who are pushing this story in the first place, but to anybody with half a brain cell and an ounce of skepticism the whole story stinks. Just listen to this interview with the owner of the repair shop these files purportedly came from, who changes his story about a half-dozen times in the span of sixty minutes:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunter...

It's not even clear that it was Hunter who dropped off the laptops in the first place!
A bit out of the loop on this, anyone know Carmack's stance on this? Seems like a huge step in the direction of what we afraid of when Fb acquired Oculus.
> His treatment of Ophelia is dreadful. Laying her death at his feet is an overstatement, but "misogyny, gaslighting and open sexual harassment" isn't.

Virtue signaling a fictional character created a couple of hundred years ago. Nice! You are the hero we desperately need.

> "How now, a rat!" That's not madness or heat of the moment:

That's open for debate. But we are talking about a character who sees his dead father's ghost. Also most would chalk it up to the "heat of the moment" as the scene led to the murder. If he saw polonius walking down a corridor, he wouldn't have killed him. So, "madness and heat of the moment"?

> Hamlet's nowhere near the greatest villain

He isn't a villain at all. He's a tragic figure.

> but he's not a good person, either.

He's not a bad person either, virtue signaling aside. That's what makes him one of the greatest characters in literature.
This is actually part of the problem I have. I only really have a few artists I may listen to on a more frequent basis, but other than that I am usually just using random playlists from Spotify that fit my mood rather than spending time making my own.

However I have been having a couple issues. Everything was working fine, but then I started using Spotify at the gym almost daily for workout music. The music genres I like to listen to while working out are vastly different from what I listen to at home. To further compound this problem I often listen to podcasts in the car and don't listen to Spotify much at home. So a good chunk of my usage of Spotify is listening to music at the gym. As such my recommendations are complete garbage. I don't care to be suggested music related to gym music as I just pull up random playlists anyway. But what I do want is suggestions for what to listen to when I am at home. Problem is that Spotify has no incognito mode or any way to tell it to "ignore this from recommendations".

That was actually one of the biggest draws for me was using stuff like "Discover Weekly" and the "Made for you" stuff. But now it is essentially useless for me. Now I have been trying to transition to Plexamp as I already use Plex. My problem is that now I have zero suggestions of what new songs to acquire and I feel stuck.
This is so awesome. Thank you!
Outkick also has excellent takes.
Yeah symmetric ciphers are easy (TM), it's the pub key shit that really gets you.
> before CTE was even named, let alone well-known

It wasn't named yet, and wasn't described using all the diagnostic tools we have at our disposal today, but it was very well-known.

They were calling it "punch drunk". The phrase appears in the article. It's been widely known for a long time that repeated head traumas are really really bad for you and can come back to haunt you later in life.

Just because they weren't calling it CTE doesn't absolve them of knowingly sending these kids into repeated harm.
They literally locked their account.
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Conservatives: we don't need the government censoring things! Trust the free market

Free market: censors things

Conservatives: no, not like that
Yes you do. You pay with your attention and with your ability to understand the world around you.

Twitter is an extremely powerful bit of technology that can basically make you believe anything. As a trade for entertainment/dopamine: you are allowing it to.
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> Not only did I have to certify that I received this kind of training every year at every large corporation that I've worked at (and yes, this includes Google), this was also covered in my MIT Sloan School class, "Legal issues for I/T Managers" that I took as continuing education when I worked in MIT Network Operations and served as Tech Lead for Kerberos V5 development.

Welp, that says a lot about MIT's ethics education.
Why didn't you just build Krita and then come here to leave some relevant feedback instead of complain about package management in general?
It's based off Scratch's UI but doesn't share any code. It has a lot more features that delve more into computer science instead of scripting like in Scratch. I believe it was also available in-browser before Scratch was, but I'm not sure.
don't forget this is politics and the campaign is asking the other campaign to make a statement that the emails are inauthentic.

revealing the dkim signatures at a later point would be twice as effective from a political and public opinion standpoint.
The "blacklist/whitelist" issue is still circulating and appears to be getting some traction. I just had a manager on my team bring up migrating away from them and our management chain was generally supportive.

I thought it was slightly ridiculous until I saw the suggested alternatives of "allowlist" and "denylist". These really are better terms: they're completely self-describing and match the verbs that you'd usually be using when referencing a denylist. Only downside is they don't have the same number of letters (and so don't line up if you put them one after another in code), but that can be worked around.
The only reason measures to curb disinformation would have a partisan impact is because conservative parties (throughout the industrialized world, not just in the US) use disinformation strategies far, far more than do other parties.

Center-left/left parties use reality to galvanize their base voters into action. Their voters are people who aren't pleased with what's happening in their countries and want to change it for the better. There's no need for center-left parties to lie that their electoral opponents eat babies when their electoral opponents actually put children in cages.

In contrast, right wing parties overcome the inherent unpopularity of their revealed policy platforms (running on platforms of cutting taxes on the very rich while making life harder for the average person is not popular) by using disinformation to make a stated platform based on fabricated wedge issues. Hence, the imaginary convoys of South American migrants that were about to storm the US-Mexico border in 2018.

As such, restricting disinformation will have a partisan impact. Within the US, there is no Democratic equivalent to Qanon, so anti-disinformation measures that impact the likes of Qanon will have no impact on the Democratic party whatsoever. This, however, isn't a bad thing.

Functioning societies can have zero tolerance for 'alternative facts.' Disagree over goals and interpretations, but facts must be accepted by all. Democracy requires an informed electorate and there can be no functioning democracy when one side is free to invent its own version of reality.
Thanks for the transparency. I sincerely mean it
Miles O'Brien was promoted to security officer after Worf left, on the Enterprise-D iirc.
They did, but that's a pretty obvious pretext because anything that makes it easier for their customers to switch carriers is bad for business.

This is materially different.
Did twitter censor all stories regarding the claim that Trump paid $750 in taxes?

In case the point I’m making isn’t obvious: the NYT never published their source for that, and still haven’t. If twitter is removing stories for having dubious sources, then that story should not pass muster either.

If they’re removing stories for having “hacked” (or in the case of both this story about Hunter Biden, or Trumps taxes: “leaked”) sources, then discussion of BOTH of these stories should be banned.
They could have invested that 180-odd million they spent on political advertisements figuring out how to pay their drivers and comply with AB5
Great job on this and the idea itself is genius. It does look like the earring uses the piercing itself to stay in place. To be honest visually the top portion does look awkward, but I am sure it's just a matter of getting used to the look.

Nonetheless, great job and goodluck!
One issue now is that the title mentions Facebook but the linked article does not, which is somewhat confusing.
How to manage distractions in a post Covid world
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Scientific journal Nature voices support for Biden after NEJM last week
No, it's not like that at all. What you don't want is a bunch of nerds with no idea what they are talking about writing an email that says "I don't think this follows standard safety practices" because then that will be admitted into court even if the author has no knowledge whatsoever about industry standard practices.

The training is more about getting nerds to shut the hell up, and less about some great conspiracy against humanity.
Yes. They didn't advertise that way when I lived in the States a few years ago.
Just a tought I've had but what if it will actually reveal more insights about their recommendation and curation algorithms than about your music taste?

This data would be more interesting over time. What new artists have been added to the playlists and have any new songs from already known artists been missed...
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Had a funny thought. What would happen if I just put tons of key words in a hidden area of a document to make keyword scanners happy. Old school keyword stuffing. Then the visible portion was my actual resume. I bet I could get in the better bucket. Could even scrape the job listing to fill the hidden stuffing.
I'm Ukrainian citizen and I'm truly outraged about entire Hunter Biden/Burisma story.

Vultures, praying on a weak country.
> See also Altered Carbon

Well at least there's consistency. I thought Altered Carbon (the live action netflix version) was terrible too! For similar reasons. Really poorly executed action scenes. Underdeveloped drama.
> It's extremely difficult to produce useful proteins from random DNA chains.

I think we all agree about that.

> Scientists who have done the math disagree. It's a major current issue.

The problem is that you can do the correct calculation or a wrong calculation. For example the number 160 is probably too high. Some of the current proteins have a 160 or more amino acids, but there are shorter proteins, and there are some useful short amino acid chains with only 20 amino acids.
I question if the National Review is really the best home for this story.
Paraphrasing for a HN comment I saw a while back. A reverse chronological feed of your friends’ posts is a platform. A recommendation engine is a publisher. That makes a lot of sense to me.
I guarantee more people use QUIC daily than use FTP.
> The general idea is that you have forecasters who make predictions on multiple topics A, B, C, and D that have all not happened at the time of the prediction. Then, by looking at the outcomes of A, B, and C you can judge the ability of the forecaster to make prediction on topics what have not yet occurred at the time of prediction. You can then become confident on their ability to predict topic D before it occurs.

Thanks, that really clarified the idea for me :)
Oh, right. I forgot about the I through 4. I'm not sure why, since the Model 4 was the first machine I ever played Zork on. Such a great beast.
> We live in a country where we have elected officials and laws to deal with individuals and organizations that undermine our democracy.

This is not entirely true. I’m not sure what the law is on slander (which would be the law in question here, I believe), and if social media companies would be breaking the law if they allow slander to be distributed on their platform.

But regardless if it turns out that the story is bogus, and the NYP is charged with slander, but this article had a widespread distribution and is successful in swaying voters on a false claim. Then the damage to democracy is quite significant, but the NYP gets away with a fairly minor charge of slander.
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I always wonder if dark matter doesn't exist and it's just hard to measure the mass of stuff very far away.
No, I don't smoke.

And I've been coughing for three years. :/

[edit:

Sometimes when I cough there is a tearing sensation. If this happens, I generally interpret it as phlegm being dislodged from a place where my coughing wasn't getting it before. I will generally devote a lot of extra effort to coughing at that point. No effect overall, though.

A couple of times I've brought up blood spots after some particularly dedicated coughing.]
If it helps, in the settings you can enable an option to display songs even when they are unavailable. It's not perfect but I find it much easier to compromise on that as opposed to Youtube's practice of slowly rotting away playlists until all that's left is a mix of [Deleted Video] and [Private Video]