skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll take your good points one step further: transparency without honesty is like a window on a blackbox, in a room with no light.

Let say there's a CEO who presents facts and figures signalling their company's success. Investors are happy, employees are happy, regulators are happy. A month later, the company goes bankrupt.

How did no one see it coming?

Chances are the CEO did but knew other people wouldn't. She knew the decay was not yet solid enough, not yet visible enough, for outsiders to recognize it as decay. So, she chose not to highlight it. She gave their followers a nice, wide window into the company's activities as required by law, focusing on the easy parts, while leaving the decaying lines between the parts decaying in the dark.

The journalist phrase "shine a light" comes to mind: if leaders don't give followers a true belief they need (honesty) to organize the information they're given (transparency), then outsiders must bring or draw their own insight instead. To peer through the cracks and connect the dots while others fumble in the dark.

Effectively, transparency without honesty becomes a tool for manipulation. It enables the powerful to appear clear while maintaining their invisibility, and therefore their invulnerability.
The ridiculous part is that a corporation was given "personhood" by the law, with all the rights that people have. A corporation is not a person.

Here's the 1st amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

What works for me is to replace the words Congress & government with Facebook, Twitter, or any company with a certain market share. If you want to be a corporation that facilitates communication between thousands of people, you're subject to the rule, ie, you lose some of your private property rights. If you have fewer than say 1000 users, do what you want: only private property rules apply.
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I am curious about how do you see street corner enquetes and random telephone sampling before SNS.

Thoses enquetes were done on somewhate crowded yet non busy places for convenience, and tended to sample a specific part of the population: e.g. people going to shopping districts at off hours, or people coming out of church for the most biased samplings.

Telephone checks were similar in that you had a very high percentage of at home caregivers responding to them.

Do you the past journalistic methods as that much more sophisticated than nowadays ?
Yeah, the CEO decided to terminate their account because he didn't like them. The bit about "endorsement" was just a rationalization after the fact.

>“Literally, I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet,” Prince wrote in an internal memo to employees obtained by Gizmodo and published on Wednesday. “No one should have that power.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/17/cloudflare-ceo-says-removing...
They are not white supremacists no matter what the overtly biased SPLC says. Many of them are not even white, and their chairman is black. Trying to push this smear is just silly at this point. The media have taken to calling all anti-BLM or anti-antifa counter protesters “white supremacists” and it’s quite ridiculous.
> NOTE: Image of a floppy disk on the front cover is just for a joke and no actual cover disk is included.

Such a disappointment!
Less than you'd think – it comes up in serializing/deserializing data, somewhat, because JNI has a fair bit of overhead, but this isn't really like Rust's "unsafe". To have fast Java, you really need the JIT to be happy, and that's not a safe bet if you're doing random things with Unsafe.
And before Java, it used Microsoft FoxPro! Here's the source code:

https://josh.com/notes/island-ecn-10th-birthday/
https://josh.com/notes/island-ecn-10th-birthday/ISLAND.PRG.T...
No, but there are many things that don't provide any net value that is even more prolific. All the sugary drinks that just give you health issues, the big monopolistic companies that replaced smaller decent-wage shops with big low-wage machines that suck the value out and doles it out at the top. If everything is designed to take value from one place and never give back, is that beneficial? Of course not. If you only look at the product, you see only half the picture.

Evil is everywhere, really. Our brains are not made to really understand these things well. The easiest thing is to resign yourself to at least make you and your familys life easier. Which is acceptable enough.
$5 per month and 10c per GB or am I missing something?
It's a bit of a leap from the parent sharing their personal experience to claiming that they said the material is a waste of time for everyone.
We should also teach them not to fall for conspiracy theories, and how to read articles carefully.
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I'm not so sure. Why would Microsoft want to shut this down?

I suspect most of Microsoft's revenue comes from business and OEM licenses - neither of which are likely to switch to ReactOS. Even if ReactOS was stable and perfectly compatible with Windows, I doubt many people would switch to it. I don't have any data on what portion of users have installed an operating system on their personal computer, but I bet it's extremely small.

ReactOS isn't competing with Microsoft's most profitable software. By allowing ReactOS to exist, non-Windows users are more likely to stay within the Windows ecosystem. Microsoft still retains control of the development direction for the platform and they can still sell their software to those users.

Even ignoring the bad publicity Microsoft would get from the tech community for shutting down ReactOS, I just don't see a good reason for them to do it. It seems much more likely to me that Microsoft will use only legal action so far as to ensure ReactOS never becomes a viable "Windows killer", but I doubt they'll so far as to shut it down altogether.
It helps with price discovery just like human traders do. Is there something inherently better about droves of people shouting into telephones?
>You are quoting a very specific claim. That big providers such as Gmail and GitHub do not block Iranian IPs. Are you saying they do?

Yes I am saying they block accounts by Iranian IPs, and this is easily verifiable if you know anyone who lives in Iran and can access a website - attempting to use Github functionality for anything other than viewing repositories right now is currently blocked, and enterprise accounts are entirely blocked.

Personal Gmail accounts are the exception to Google services available in Iran, and some functionality is also blocked by IP - if you live in Iran currently you might know that almost all other Google services and enterprise accounts are outright blocked by IPs too:

https://support.google.com/a/thread/4870330?hl=en

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...

Here is a non-comprehensive list of sites that block Iranian IPs, most outright disallowing access to websites:

https://gist.github.com/alibo/dfd7c258bcc44a0e8c9f7c5bfd3bd2...

Please do not spread misinformation.
where I've worked you avoid triggering the GC by making sure you have enough memory for the entire day's operations

with a modern JVM you can even disable it entirely (Epsilon collector)
Nice overview. The fast vs smart comparison is apt. But something that gets missed in these conversations is what trading system architectures actually look like. The part where latency is measured in nanoseconds is just the tip of the iceberg. Java and 2007 tech is absolutely acceptable for most of the architecture.

Another thing is the structure of Equity and Derivative markets vs FX. The former is fairly standardized. You'll need infrastructure at a handful of exchanges in 2 or 3 cities. Microwave networks and FPGA's are the norm.

But for FX markets, where these guys trade, the picture is much more messy. There are countless places to trade. Co-location means different things at all of them. The entire structure is much less regulated and understood. As a result, strategies and trading system architecture looks much different.
hopefully this doesn't work.
But for this disease that's particularly bad because Covid has shown to be worst in 55+, obese, comorbidities, etc... which means that the trials on healthy groups are proving very little, since the virus itself is so much weaker on healthy groups.
I think spaCy offers a lot of things to connect the models to the rest of your application.

spaCy's Doc object is pretty helpful for using the outputs, for instance you can iterate over the sentences and then iterate over the entities within each sentence, and look at the tokens within them, or get the dependency children of the words in the entity. The Doc object is backed by Cython data structures, so it's more memory efficient and faster than Python equivalents you'd likely write yourself.

I also think our pipeline stuff is a bit more mature than the one in transformers. The transformers pipeline class is relatively new, so I do think our Language object offers a better developer experience.

I think the new training config and improved train command will also be appealing to people, especially with the projects workflow.

The improved transformers support in v3 is very new, it's only just released in beta form. I do hope people find it useful, but of course no library or solution is ideal for every use-case, so I definitely encourage people to pick the mix of libraries that seems right to them.
Heating problem only occurs when I use Chrome (a chrome problem maybe), debugging in a simulator, watch videos, play games. Text editing and emails are fine. I guess Macbook Pro is just a very productive machine :)
Why would you buy a new one every 1-2 years? My work MBP is a "mid-2014" i7 that I still see no reason to request a replacement for.
>Prominent examples disagree with you. Gmail for example. They even allow accounts! Now maybe Google wants to argue that Gmail qualifies for the personal communication tools exception. But wait, GitHub doesn't block Iranian IPs either! They allow free accounts as well! Call in the feds!

Both Google and Github block accounts by Iranian IPs, and this is easily verifiable if you know anyone who lives in Iran and can access a website - attempting to use Github functionality for anything other than viewing repositories right now is currently blocked, and enterprise accounts are entirely blocked.

Personal Gmail accounts are the exception to Google services available in Iran, and some functionality is also blocked by IP - if you live in Iran currently you might know that almost all other Google services and enterprise accounts are outright blocked by IP too:

https://support.google.com/a/thread/4870330?hl=en

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...

Here is a non-comprehensive list of sites that block Iranian IPs, most outright disallowing access to websites:

https://gist.github.com/alibo/dfd7c258bcc44a0e8c9f7c5bfd3bd2...

Please do not pay attention to this fellow, he is spreading legal misinformation that is dangerous.
Gay rights is hardly a settled issue. If it were, the GOP wouldn't have adopted reversal of the Obergefell v. Hodges precedent as a party platform plank in 2016.

https://news.yahoo.com/richard-grenell-addresses-rnc-gop-220...
Some people argue that HFT provides liquidity for retail investors, but it's debatable whether that liquidity is real or not since it'll be gone during black swan events. At the same time HFT profit from uninformed/retail flow. So it's debatable wether the actual activity provides values. I'd say probably not.

But there can be indirect value in working in HFT, just like there is with other demanding jobs. There's interesting systems and ML research going on in the field - that's knowledge you can take with you and share with others. Some time ago, HFT was driving a lot innovation in networking, infrastructure, and systems.

Also, over time I've come to realize that "providing value" is really difficult to quantify. Does working in Academia provide value? Maybe if you get lucky and publish something that actually turns out useful. The majority of academics publish papers that are nothing more than noise - negative value. Does working at FAANG provide positive value to society? Again arguable. You may inadvertently end up promoting ads and misinformation. Not everyone does - but it's not guaranteed that you don't without realizing.

"Providing value" is subjective and most of the time it's nothing more than a story people tell themselves so they can feel good about themselves.
> So if I sell my laptop that still has some photos on it, the buyer would own the copyright over those photos because they own the laptop?

No, since you made an agreement to sell the laptop, and only the laptop.

> Copyright is not generally attached to a physical medium.

That's correct. But it can be transferred to satisfy a lein; depends on the fine print the repair shop has in their contract.
They do sometimes cause Googlers to out themselves as a hostile work environment hazard and get fired.

So, benefit there. ;)
I wish the article also explained how the C4 algorithm works and why it is _not_ an “stop the world” GC, as compared to G1.
there is no meaning of life... life is boring and you shouldn't want to live a long life.
Yes, CBP should be (is?) required to have a warrant. The crazy part is that, if the law were being respected, there would be a higher standard of behaviour for a government agency than for private companies. Dragnet surveillance is wrong and needs to be illegal no matter who the buyer is.
It seems like problems to do with these things will only ever be solved politically which is very alarming.

Is there any resource which effectively threat models these situations?
Thanks! Linkfire is definitely an inspiration for us and our goal is to build a suite of tools for fan identification, monetization, and communication.

We hope that by building for a wide array of creators and continuing to expand the toolset we can differentiate ourselves from some of the established products.
I'm guessing most people are familiar, but if you're interested in this, look up "Knight Capital flash crash". They lost $440MM in about 45 minutes. As I recall, they reused an old feature flag accidentally reviving some old code.
No, I'm not, sorry - It's been a couple years since I bought anything from Olimex, I remember one FPGA board that I had to return had a shipping address in Turkey (might have been just a forwarding address?) but I admit I didn't check further than that hazy memory.

I only meant to convey that it's shipped by DHL internationally from an eastern European warehouse, while the other board is stocked in the United States and ships USPS/UPS.
They're part of a the market making ecosystem. That market making allows everyone to buy/sell stocks easily at the true price. HFTs make that more efficient by reducing the bid/ask spread. We had market makers before HFTs so it's not an earth shattering innovation. But it is an incremental improvement.
I had a conversation with someone who works at Credit Suisse in IT in some capacity.
He said they experiment with C# but went back to C++ due to latency. This was about 12 years ago.
why not just use C++ or something and never deallocate memory then?
Why would it diminish the recommendation? Why shouldn't he get a cut from a product he referred to someone?

Why should amazon collect all the referral fee for themselves, a fee that's charged either way on any seller, without cutting a slice for someone who actually referred to?
I'm not sure why we'd treat FB and Twitter PMs separately?

They both built a virality engine, and then acted dumbfounded (at first) when news sites used this to tune their content to go viral. It's an intentionally incredibly addictive, and borderline malicious, product that capitalizes on the worst human instincts. The entire thing exists as a feedback loop that grants you legitimacy by counting the number of eyeballs (real or not) that see it.
Except that is explicitly not the argument of those that actually want these folks deplatformed, but those that fear their own speech will somehow be in danger and want to solve every issue in existence with technology.

The "it could happen to you argument" is really tiring. Gab is abusing your idealism. If you spent any amount of time on Gab you'd know it was a deeply right wing bubble full of hate, with a lot of harassment coordination happening. I say has because it has gone a bit out of fashion and these people moved on to Parlor now. This is not merely a place where people have opinions (that someone thinks are bad). That exists on YouTube. If the bar really was "the consensus thinks you're wrong, filled with bias and not interested in productive exchange", Stephen Crowder, Dennis Prager and Tim Pool would not be on YouTube. James Damore would not have been on every conservative program in existence. Society has drawn a line, and you can argue if it's too strict or leniant, but to say we could never draw one without the possibility of false positives is defeatist idealism.

Sites like Gab or, let me dare mention their name, Kiwi Farms, are different. They facilitate material harm in a very tangible clear-cut way. They are very definitely beyond the point where tolerance does not actively work to destroy itself.
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At the very least ReactOS makes for a good test suite for Wine...
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So uh, HFT is a zero-sum waste of intelligence, but paying for the privilege of shitting into people's brains to improve the chances that they waste money on garbage that they don't need is somehow positive-sum and good for society?
It's just a small title error from the person who submitted the link. Replacing "as" by "in" makes a more accurate.

"ESP8266 in Open Source Hardware"

It's an evaluation board, it's not meant to be used in production.
The value in good mathematical books is mostly the exercises. Like Spivak, Rudin and Pugh. Struggling through those is vastly more valuable than any video or hand holding. I mean most of those problems would take hours or even days to solve. I suppose Khan videos (or at least the ones I’ve watched) are useful but it’s no substitute for active thought. What I like about videos from a real course is that you can “see” how a real mathematician thinks about attacking a problem.
If you’re having heat issues on the 16” MBP (or, IIRC any of the USB-C models) try plugging the power in on the right side. I know it sounds crazy but it makes a difference.

Also, since we’re on the topic, if you get weird wake from sleep issues with external monitors, I’ve found the solution (at least for my setup) is to always wake the computer from the Touch ID button.

With all of that said, obviously these are not perfect machines. But in truth my 16” (BTO, max RAM, lowish specs on basically everything else) is the best computer I’ve ever owned.
Your ideological sophistication is questionable. If you've ever spent time in left discourse you'd know that leftists argue about everything. And it's not just leftists who hate fascists. It's pretty much anybody with a basic understanding of the history of the last century.

Fascism wants to start up the murder machine; and they'll tell you that it's to "purify" the nation and they'll try to present it in such a way that you think it's only "bad, dirty, disgusting" people who will be fed into it. But in the end the murder-machine will be turned against anyone and everyone until it is stopped.

The scenarios that apply to this country look less like Europe in the 1930's and more like Syria with a side of Rwanda.
I'm super suspicious of research like that for a couple of reasons.

One it would it be impossible to publish research that came to the opposite conclusion. Imagine seeing a headline that said "replacing female and black executive leadership with old white dudes increases profit" by McKinsey.

Second the magnitude of the impact seems insane. This seems larger than the difference most studies find between good leadership and average leadership. And while I wouldn't be surprised if diverse leadership is marginally better than non-diverse leadership I would be surprised if it's larger than the difference between average and good.

Three they're pulling from many different countries which could potentially create huge confounds.

In general "research" that comes out of a place like McKinsey and Bane is pretty suspect but something like this is even more.

Even if none of the other problems are real they still don't establish causation. It could easily be the case that diverse candidates are harder to find, so more competitive/better firms are able to better attract them.

I think diversity is great and there are lots of great reasons to increase it but I doubt the impact on profitability would be anything beyond marginal.
Me too, two 27 inch 4k monitors, although thats with the MacBook itself closed. I tried running with the MacBook open for 3 monitors and it started drawing much more power and the fans revved up and became audible.

From looking at the threads this is a known issue running the internal and external monitors together can cause excessive power draw even with just one external monitor, something to do with mismatch refresh rate between the built in and external display and the Radeon GPU power management [1].

I also had kernel panics coming out of sleep with external monitors connected and window manager restarts although they seem to have gone away in the last Mac OS release or two [2].

Also MacOS still doesn't support display port MST so usb-c hubs with two display ports only can mirror not two independent monitors.

Overall pretty happy with latest 16 inch MacBook but MacOS has had more power management issues than I am used to, very surprising and annoying, with the usual non-acknowledgment from Apple of problems.

1. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-is-hot-noisy-with-an...

2. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/constant-kernel-panics-...
Here's some additional background in an official document from Github describing the nature of what sanctions typically do, which also describes how and why some websites opt to create "downgraded" experiences rather than outright blocks in those countries:

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...

https://github.blog/2019-09-12-global-software-collaboration...

Additionally, descriptions of what types of software might be sanctioned:

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS20871.pdf

As you might guess, enterprise accounts are the most targeted aspect of these sanctions.
UCSF has a useful overview on the topic.

https://diversity.ucsf.edu/resources/state-science-unconscio...
> Nobody's met a pollster but everyone has faith in the polls...

I refuse to believe relativity until Einstein gives me a personal audience. Gravity, for that matter, is wholly unbelievable unless Galileo will sit with me under a tree. This is how the scientific method works: you must personally meet the scientist in order to believe anything they say. :)

But seriously, I have no idea what point you're trying to make here. I've met geneticists but have never met a virologist. Does that mean I should have more belief in the existence of DNA than in the germ theory?
Life is pretty awesome for top 10% in the US compared to European countries, and comparable for top 20%. But bottom 80% in Europe will have have better quality of life than bottom 80% in the US, which is the source of those price savings on everyday items and 3x incomes for “qualified” workers.
"Low-latency" is sometimes used as describing those who care about speed, but who are midway on the "smart <-> fast" spectrum.

e.g. more complex algos looking at the relationship between securities

> Anyone can trade frequently.

lol, fair