skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how people want to ignore that being pro-"free speech" means private sector corporations can choose which speech they want to associate with too just like an individual can.

You have the right to say whatever you want, everyone else has the right to not allow it on their property.

There is no first amendment right to compelled listening. We aren't remotely close to having that. There isn't even a strong argument having been made for that, there is nothing slithering through the courts that would change that.

This is what happens every time people "cancel" someone, everyone agrees not to listen to them.

The separate standard for platforms is that people are just observing that they can't cancel the platform, easily. Just because they too will lose their own sounding board, which is ironically still being tolerated by said platform. But that is their only option.
I don’t believe he’s looking for a voice assistant. He’s in the market for Lieutenant Data.
So what happens when Biden probably wins?

Will any criticism of our sitting President be punishable by banning from social media?
how do you like the screen? I wish it had higher resolutions :(
Hanlon's Razor is widely applicable, but it can also be used against you. Malice does exist, and malicious people can appeal to Hanlon's Razor to divert attention.

It's especially effective in the presence of propaganda. Stupidity is indeed widespread, and a malicious appeal to stupidity is very difficult to combat. The many stupid people will reinforce the propaganda for each other, and Hanlon's razor can be tacitly used to deny the existence of a malicious source.

So I don't always draw as broad a distinction between malice and stupidity as the razor implies. If your stupidity harms me, and you will not cease harming me, I'm going to have to treat you as if you were malicious rather than merely stupid.

This puts a big onus on me: it's entirely possible that I am, myself, being stupid. It's fiendishly difficult to prove otherwise. But at a certain point I have to weigh the harm to myself against my own best judgment, since ultimately that observation is all that I've got.
Twitter links on my phone never work... i will click on the link to a tweet, and then it will just say "failed to load content"

So I guess I somehow do block twitter?
> Meanwhile, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Stanford, and UVA all have affirmative action and are doing fine. Decades of supposedly different standards haven’t hurt their standing. They continue to graduate a diverse class of high achievers that are well-represented in just about every field imaginable. How does that square with your claims?

The issue is these institutions cast a way wider net for their admission pool compared to a high school.

Really, MIT gets applicants from everywhere in the world and kids will gladly relocate to Boston to attend. A high school, especially a public one, can only expect applicants from its county.
> It is an even harder decision to make when you don’t have an obvious replacement, or when you are not 100% confident that the obvious replacement will be an improvement over the current CEO.

When the stakes are high and the cost of keeping current leadership are potentially harmful to a dangerous degree and the only possible replacement isn't an obvious choice (as is the case with the obvious allusion to the US presidency) then this is true.

In reality, do VCs really go so far as to make the call to replace someone with someone else who has the potential to be equally bad? Isn't the risk of two consecutively bad CEOs worse than taking a little longer to find a reasonable replacement?
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To the people constantly saying that twitter is a private company and should be allowed to do whatever they want:

Would you support the same idea around electrical power? If the power company providing the power to the office at the NyPost decided that they had a political disagreement with them, would it be okay to just cut off their power?

NyPost could just make their own power, of course, by purchasing a generator.
What about multi focal aspects of smartphone triple/quad cameras? Aren’t they supposed to add some sort of data points?
Classic Computer Science Problems series' code ported to 8 Programming Languages
> Yeah for now we're waiting to get more paying customers

Don't "wait". Do something about it.

P.S. Hate "waiting" mindset
While i somewhat agree with your advice, i think the solution you propose is incomplete/omitting (not on purpose) some important parts.

I would rephrase it as "find a software job at a non-tech company that works in the industry or with the topic that you enjoy/care about". Otherwise, you get all the negatives of working for a non-tech company with none of the benefits, since working a software job at a non-tech company, you don't get much respect/recognition and you are treated as a cost center, not profit center. We complain a lot that at tech companies, management doesn't listen to our suggestions or acts however they see fit by disregarding engineers' opinions, but it gets much much worse in that aspect at non-tech places. Of course there are tons of positives in that arrangement too, but I think they are pretty obvious and there is no need to discuss them.

Which is why, I believe, the best of both worlds (if you are tired of working in tech) is working a software dev job at a non-tech company in an industry that you are into. My guess is that, for you, it was entertainment. For someone who is into music and sound synthesis, working at a DAW company (like Ableton) or at a small company working on VSTS and synths would be a great idea. For someone who is interested in physics, working as a software engineer at some college research lab would be great (e.g., Georgia Tech has GTRI, which employs a lot of software engineers who assist research teams in various disciplines like bio, chem, physics, any kind of engineering, etc.). For someone who is into neuroscience, working at something like Paul Allen's Brain Institute would be fun, I imagine. For someone into avionics, [...], you get the idea.

What I am driving at, it isn't just a binary tech vs. non-tech. Writing code in tech, you are aligning the work (tech) with the industry/interest (tech). With non-tech companies, you are aligning the work (tech) with industry/interest (non-tech). And imo, your enjoyment and just overall happiness would be much better at a non-tech job that works in the industry/within the topic you are already passionate about, rather than just some random non-tech company that pushes papers. There is a lot of learning and happiness to be found in working cross-disciplinary jobs like that.

P.S. Just to clarify, because I know this tends to irk people in a wrong way at times, I use terms "software engineer" and "software dev" interchangeably (both throughout this comment and in general). I don't make a distinction, even though I know some people get very passionate about this topic.
So why wasn't the NYT punished for publishing info from Trump's tax returns? The laptop story could at least be true. There is no way for the NYT to receive Trump's tax returns without someone committing a crime.
Agreed, I think that everything else in the movie is rather pointedly aimed at revealing and satirizing the reaction of average Americans to a "foreigner", but the scenes involving the villagers lose that focus and reflect poorly on those involved with the movie. I don't think that discounts what the movie is successful at doing, though.
> No laptop has had a lid as thick as a phone in decades

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but I feel like this is a bit much of an exaggeration. I just measured my Pixel 3 (at its thickest point, the camera lens) and a 2011 Macbook Pro (including the rubber bumper, admittedly, but those were super slim at the time), and the MBP is only ~2mm thinner than the Pixel. The race for ultra-thin laptops seems like a relatively recent thing to me.
Watch the exhilarating Tesla Model S vs. Ferrari F8 drag race
In the U.S., the lockdowns were issued in compliance with local laws. As you could easily learn for yourself, those vary from state to state and city to city so you can't make a blanket statement without being incorrect. In the context of this thread, you specifically referred to “ignoring close orders” which implicitly acknowledges the existence of an order issued by someone with the authority to do so under current law.

In some cases there have been legal challenges to those laws so there aren't givens but even if those are successful, my point was that even if you do re-open you can't force customers to come back when they feel unsafe. Even in the states where restrictions have been relaxed, a large number of people are not comfortable hanging out at a bar or restaurant — the problem being the risk of a serious disease, not the countermeasures deployed against it.

> The US lockdowns were originally only mean to prevent hospitals from being overloaded. We are way way past that point where that was an issue - all the emergency capacity has been dismantled for months.

The lockdowns were, as clearly communicated at the time, intended to slow community spread. Avoiding hospital overload was part of that but so was avoiding large numbers of people getting a serious disease with potentially life-changing impact when they don't need to.

> As sibling comment implies, something like half the states in the US aren't under any lockdown now, businesses there aren't having issues staying open, and their stats are no worse than the locked-down states.

And that commenter was wrong just like you are wrong. Anyone who follows this issue knows that the cases have been rising recently (~35%) and there's a noticeable correlation with the states which re-opened high risk activities and those who did not.

For example, they mentioned South Dakota which is at an all-time peak:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/south-dakota-cor...

Compare with, say, New York which is roughly 20 times larger even before you account for density differences:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/new-york-coronav...

A common cause of error here are people looking at the all-time cumulative stats rather than the last week or two and missing that while, say, NYC was hit early with quick community spread in a dense environment and thus had a brutal spring but the increased lockdown have kept levels low since then.
Electrical power shouldn't be privately controlled.
The way I'm used to seeing the GP's example made is

set a pu
set b ts
$a$b "Hello!"

which I think does a better job showing how the mixture of strings with interpolation allows for some slightly unexpected things.
This is a tricky topic to write about accurately, even just thinking about myself, much less when trying to say anything with more universal appeal, but the author does very well here.

One of my favorite parts of programming work is the opportunity it affords for letting my mind wander. I'll often be (re)learning all sorts of little tidbits while working on more mundane tasks, just by letting myself be curious and pulling on loose threads inspired by whatever I'm doing. To the untrained eye, these tangents might seem fruitless and wasteful, but as the author implies, over a longer timescale, it is anything but.

The problem for me occurs when the management caste thinks they know better how I should be spending my time, sometimes right down to the minute. There is a lack of trust which manifests in the need for constant communication, lest a teammate veer slightly off course, or, heaven forbid, become temporarily stuck on some problem. The solution, all too obvious to the manager, is clearly a top-down error correction process, and everyone must participate because it would naturally invite accusations of bias otherwise. And pretty soon instead of working away quietly at your desk, conferring with your peers when you need to (via pull request and code review perhaps), you are now forced into regular, maybe even daily, meetings that follow a formula derived at some business consultancy back in the 80s. The team moves slower, and every little thing that comes up now commands the full attention of every individual, who must listen and parse N points of view on a range of mostly trivial topics. Then come the elaborate handshakes and buzzwords and head bobbing mating displays and you start watching nature documentaries to learn what you can about the birds of paradise so you'll be ready for Monday morning.

But don't worry, you'll still be expected to do code reviews, only now they are yet another data point to be tracked by managers, and the meta discussion of your code discussion will itself become the topic of a separate, emergency meeting convened as a result of a process snafu involving multiple stakeholders who would each like you to explain how it's possible to deliver value with the correct prioritization based on the governance model that I thought we adapted after all the estimates were done for the tickets we decided to keep during the backlog meeting last Thursday, no wait it was two weeks ago, but regardless we need to get to the bottom of the requirements gathering so we know what kind of lift we're likely to encounter going forward so that expectations can be set among the VPs as to which communications outlet they should plan to engage with leading up to our next all hands because the overall direction will depend on the outcome of whatever you're about to say right now please open your mouth, no not that far, ok swish with water and spit if you need to, have you been flossing? Well try better next time, and please feel free to take a usb-c to hdmi dongle on your way out see you tomorrow!
Wine is a much bigger target and threat than ReactOS (and ReactOS uses a lot of code from Wine) since unlike ReactOS, Wine can use the latest drivers and hardware via Linux. Also unlike ReactOS, Wine has been pushed a lot by companies like Valve explicitly so that people can move away from Windows.

Also if it is found that someone did indeed copy code from Windows, then they can simply replace that code. This isn't the first time such an accusation would happen to open source software - even the Linux kernel was targeted like that, yet you do not see people saying that the writing is on the wall for Linux because anyone can contribute to it.
> As for affirmative action being an effort to keep out Asians...have you been to Harvard’s campus? There are many, many Asian students there. In fact, nearly one in five students at Harvard are of Asian descent. The idea that elite schools are purposely excluding Asians is absurd on its face. The people pushing the idea have an axe to grind and it usually isn’t actually in the interest of Asian-Americans.

Are there any elite school (so sourcing students from the same pool of applicants) that don't include race in their admission process? Would be interesting to compare the demographics.
According to [0] the "data comes from a variety of phone applications—such as gaming or weather apps." Their opt-out policy [1] confirms that since it requires a mobile advertising identifier. It seems like they can only collect data from mobile devices.

[0] https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/the-government-has-your-...

[1] https://www.venntel.com/opt-out
I like the landing page a lot (with original header)! For me that quickly added image seems to be out of place and doesn't actually explain the usage of the app. In my opinion the original header was better at expressing a constant feel of the page.
Twitters censorship just serves to further polarize and divide people.

As the right bails on twitter and goes to pure conservative echo chambers and the left stays in their leftist echo chambers... any shared interactions are lost.

Even though it's their right as a private company...its truly a shame that Twitter is acting like this.
DSLR/mirrorless is way too big and very slow to operate if you want to send photos to someone or post them somewhere. D70 also doesnt record video
PyCM 3.0 released: Machine learning library for confusion matrix analysis
> On what grounds do you think it would constitute fair use?

Can you take a few seconds of a video and show it to a class of students for educational purpose?

Yes, you can

Can you do the same to test a software feature?

Yes, you can

The video is never used or displayed for its commercial value, but only to learn something from it.
Will this apply this to the discussion about the claim that Trump paid $750 in taxes?

Would this apply to the Trump access hollywood tape (grab them by the...)?
Your assistant is probably smart enough to remember what kind of pizza you like and from where, and will just order that unless you tell them something else. In theory, there's no reason your phone auto-assistant couldn't do the same thing, but we seem to be a long way from any of them having that level of intelligence.
>It's fair, but is it PayPal's job to enforce that?

Yes, because it's using their payment network. I'm not sure why your example involves Visa auditing a purchase of a prepaid mastercard.
NYT didn't publish Trump's tax returns, they published prose about supposed contents of Trump's tax returns.
If the articles had PDFs of the documents at the bottom, Twitter should probably block them too. But they don't.
But that's the problem most people don't speak U.S. English as their primary language.

They use all kinds of languages with all kinds of accents and and ticks.

In my experience, and from the time I did a bit of NLP the situations is often along the line of. It works for mostly accent free simple English. Fails to get anywhere usable on most other languages and or accents. Sure that is to some degree because of missing training data. But for a consumer this doesn't change that for very many consumers this features work terrible bad.

Just out interest I tried out the youtube auto generated subtitle for a german video, but even at the parts where the text was super clear and well pronounced the result was hardly differentiable from randomly picking arbitrary words. It wasn't even that the algorithm choose similar sounding word. They where completely different words in many case. I think in a sentence of ~10 words in average 1 or 2 where correct. And that was at the parts where the text was unusually clear understandable. At other parts it wasn't even able to recognize that there where words...
> These days, pretty much the only people shooting with DSLR's are the people who want/need that fine-grained manual control anyways.

Or people who shoot journalism, sports, conferences or other live events.

I don't care how damn good smartphones are (or will become). DSLRs will forever rule the roost in fast paced environments, smartphones are just too fiddly and there's nothing the manufacturers can do, the hinderance is not software, its form-factor.
My process is easy. 30 minute phone call with them showing me what they've done recently in the relevant stack. I don't believe in coding challenges. Just show me the code.
We’ll see if on Nov 4 they re-instate it...
The Post still hasn't deleted the offending tweet. Those are the rules: on a first violation of posting someone's personal information without permission you get your account locked until you delete the tweet.
Learn JavaScript and Node.js With Microsoft-now it loves non .NET languages too?
Which page did this? Rocketcrab is built with next.js so i'm kind of half using the "pages" feature. But I'm open to ideas on how to use it better :)
I think the issue is that people like me aren't interested in any sort of filtering or curation from Twitter, Facebook, etc. We simply want to see what the people we follow have to say, in linear time order. That was the initial premise of these sites, and it's unfortunate that it is becoming more editorial in nature.
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Great point on combinators, PEG, and GLL -- this potentially would be covered in 201 as suggested, since it's good having a foundation of the LL/LR, and then gradually moving to combinators if needed. LALR(1) covers a pretty wide range of the most practical languages.
Self-Driving Cars: Waymo Beats Tesla by Picking the Right Target
That is a lot of reading into the question that was actually asked: "how does it work?"
If the laptop became property of the repair shop, how would that be illicitly obtained?
Not necessarily. Preference falsification is a thing; it's quite possible for a organization to enforce compliance with a principle which no individual member of the organization sincerely holds. In cases of large scale preference falsification, everybody lies to fit in with everybody else, who are also lying for the same reason.

Such scenarios may be susceptible to preference cascades though, when people realize that they're actually in good company and suddenly feel free to act and say as they truly wish. When that happens, change is rapid. The personal guards of a hated dictator may switch sides overnight and execute the leader they would have killed others for the day before.
Is there any reason to think the NY Post didn't get a notification with a reason why?
Oh, I didn't mean AGI levels of understanding, but even "simple" technical things that are likely building blocks necessary to get to that point like sentence boundary detection.
Maybe not, but it is.
>>>1. Gaming. Just about nobody games on Linux with nVidia.

I guess I'm the oddball here. 95% of my gaming is native Steam Linux apps on my Kubuntu box with a GTX1060 6GB.
Is bathroom choice a problem of the relatively wealthy?

Because I sure don't see opiate abuse or ODs as a problem disproportionately affecting the poor. Sure, it affects a lot of poor people, but it also affects a fair number of the wealthy, quite possibly in numbers greater than their proportion in the population. (It's hard to judge because every celebrity overdose will be widely reported, so availability bias might be affecting my perception.)
Where would you get started with Python web scraping
This is only one of 11 vaccines now in phase III efficacy tests.[1] Six vaccines already have "partial approval", but those are the ones in Russia and China, which may or may not be working, and the governments decided to try anyway. All of those provoke an immune response. Whether it's enough of the right immune response is found out in phase III testing.

Something is probably going to work. The big question is how well. A 50% effective vaccine might be an overall lose - only half are protected but more than that abandon masks and social distancing.

The Johnson and Johnson vaccine, if it works, is the easiest to use of the early leaders. One dose, and it doesn't need to be refrigerated to dry-ice temperatures like some of the others. The Merck/IAVI vaccine is only in phase I, but it's a pill. If that works and is highly effective, it will be possible to wipe the virus out worldwide in a second round of immunizations.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus... (or https://archive.is/D6C68)
Automatically labeling GitHub notification emails with Gmail filters
Apple Developing Smaller AirPods Pro, Revamped Entry-Level Model
I’m learning Haskell right now and had the same question until I found Hindley’s Lambda-Calculus and Combinators: an Introduction book. Many here are recommending Julia but I’ve used Julia enough now to conclude that it isn’t as mature as Haskell and can be frustrating at times. Haskell, when it’s foundations and history are well understood not only challenges how you think about programming but also of mathematics.
Twitter is not a utility. It is not common infrastructure. The Internet is, and I would not be okay with Internet access being terminated over political disagreements. But individual services? Sure, why not?

For those who argue that Twitter is a de facto common platform, well these decisions are moving them away from that role. The more they exercise their own prerogatives in removing content, the more they're no longer some sort of vital communication platform.