skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump is pushing a catastrophic narrative that logically leads to violence.

https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/only-the-church-can-tr...

> After all, when people believe our national destiny hangs in the balance, they often respond accordingly. Or, as I said in a December 4 newsletter warning about potential violence, “if you argue that the very existence of the country is at stake, don’t be surprised if people start to act as if the very existence of the country is at stake.”
they could sneak it in now because it'll get drowned out by all the other news, and the applause they get for "cracking down on nazis".

but neither are good news for free speech. I'm glad twitter purges alt-right and Q accounts but then why use it as an opportunity to also silence a platform that is the biggest hit since the first time a human rights lawyer uttered "Open Access".

pretty glad I left twitter in 2017. I still read twitter via other people's list (those I used to follow) and via searches on nitter. If you know a great list you still have doom scrolling. But the good thing: when I get too angry (or even too much in agreement with the OP), there is no way to share it with the world. This is both frustrating (in the moment), but literally has no downsides. It has never been once that I woke up the next morning regretting I hadn't already shared whatever my opinion was on literally any subject earlier.

The same platform shapes news today. Literally any subject there are weekly instances where a journo got their story through some "influencer or thought leader". Elon Musk tweeted about Signal and the number of downloads increase within 1 day five-fold. Story is in the NYT and international news. Twitter is a surreal place that shapes way too much the news-cycle in partisan ways. Everyone complains about news being divisive but forgetting where the division comes from - there is simply no way a leftist journalist will have many followers from the right and vice versa. It's been like this forever but twitter (and all of social media) amplified this a million fold. Blame journalism for sure but in the same sentence also damn these individuals requesting features that "drive engagement". How the actual F should an algorithm drive engagement when there is no way of really telling what that engagement will cause. Twitter judged from history has never done the right thing when it could have been up to them. They always waited until enough damage had been done to justify what should be "ongoing housekeeping".

[1] https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1349577579091566592
Yes there is a formatter built into Mix, the Elixir build tool. There is also https://github.com/rrrene/credo which is not as extensive but does the same thing as ESLint.
Of course we could, but it's a thought exercise.
> He still has more money than >99% of all humans on the planet.

Understatement much? You could also say Elon has more money than 50% of humans on the planet.
I think part of it is the corporate nature of the owners of D&D now, and part of it is that the D&D 1st and 2nd editions and to a lesser extent the 3rd edition, were designed to appeal to the sensibilities and tastes of the Dave Arnesons and Gary Gygaxes of the world, i.e., middle-class western European or North American, mostly white and mostly male nerds.

The later editions have much more general audiences from much different generations than those early ones, and so the game changes - and that's not a bad thing.
Buuuut, combine that with the impetus of a corporation to make their product sanitary and palatable to that wide range of tastes, you end up with something bland and inoffensive.

edit: none of that is to say that I think 5ed is a bad game, it's not, it's just different in kind and in philosophy to the earlier editions.
They are out there -- I've met a few of them. But you will need to seek the ones where the big time difference is a non-issue.

Many companies are still easing into the remote-only across a couple of time zones.

I am confident 2021 we will see more companies willing to take on EU based work.

Maybe East-coast dominant companies are easier. I don't like the 9 hour difference between Stockholm and California as it really puts one party out of sync with daylight working hours.
> The solution for this small acreage automation(what I am working on) systems and protocols.

Could you elaborate on this? What exactly is it that you want to automate?
Tcl is highly configurable because of its simple syntax and homoiconicity. It can be stripped down to be non-Turing complete for configuration files and then built back up with custom commands to suit ones needs.
A lot of people are talking about the quality of DDG results and I thought I would mention that there is a way to tell DDG about their search results. It's pretty hidden but there is a "Send Feedback" button in the bottom right. They should really make it more visible so that they can get community feedback about what results they need to improve.
Out of curiosity, which container have you settled on instead? debian:buster-slim?
Illegal or not who’s going to stop them when US law doesn’t apply abroad? In general the US interferes far more in foreign politics at least on a high level imo. I tend to find when there’s a US election foreign politicians refuse to comment and when it’s the other way around US politicians are full of opinions.
Dogs in this sense refers to any member of the Canis genus. Historically speaking, before taxonomic and genomic advances, coyotes, wolves, jackals, and, well, dogs, were all called dogs.

Similar usage inconsistencies persist throughout the world.
Spam detection is the oldest and most well-known one.

It is also used quite a bit in graphics and imaging; DLSS is a consumer-facing application, but it is also used in other domains, like OCR.

Machine translation is another ubiquitous use case. As is any kind of language processing, like text-to-speech.

Also, in the industry, it is heavily used for anomaly and defect detection. Also, Google reportedly uses it for a lot of search/recommendation stuff.

ML is definitely monetizable, but not every company needs it, by a long shot. It is not "AI" and seems to often resemble a complex DSP step when used in practice. I think it's overhyped, but it is far, far more useful than anything blockchain will ever be.
A lot of people joke and say "This is good for Bitcoin", but I do not think that this is one of those cases.
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> Of course in ruby, nobody is actually adding new syntax, although that's a common misconception.

This is the argument I usually use for anyone who has a problem with it yet if they've already decided they don't like it, it doesn't do much to pursued them. On the other hand, being able to rewrite operators in Ruby does take it a bit in that direction—While not strictly new syntax, changing the meaning of an operator can really throw people off. As an example in the standard library, there is `Dir[]`. `Dir[]` is a shortcut to `Dir.glob`. Sure, it's technically doing some kind of access, but everyone knows it as hash access and certainly aren't accustom to passing a pattern to it. Elixir libs do stuff like this.

And I'm sorry, I don't know if can actually add new syntax in Elixir, but you can certainly change the meaning of existing syntax (as in Ruby).
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Your example appears to be similar to my example of the tap water: In a case of a threat but without proof, we may make a decision that will help us be safe.

Otherwise, in a case without threat, we are reluctant to devote the resources to develop a proof and just ignore the claim that has no proof.
I noticed this effect on me after years of living in Europe. The perception of Japanese culture / society I had from before I moved to Europe was quite different (these phenomena are to some extent well-known but not an obsession). Now I fear my understanding of all things Japanese is a little bit off (or at least diverged) from my peers in my country.
Is it still politics? I thought it moved into the realm of deranged mass criminal activity, bordering on domestic terrorism once republican politicians started finally abandoning them?

Still probably illegal to financially support.
Rightfully so. A free press is at the core of America’s values. Free thinking, free to ask questions, free to investigate. If an administration wants to deny the press, blast them as fakes, ignore their questions, personally attack journalists, then I’m all for those journalists to skip whatever he has to say.
It's so funny that you said 'literally'.
Parler was a bunch of people who got run out of places Reddit for being too extreme. It was to maintaining democracy what a housewife on Facebook loving a meme that said “upvote for awareness” was to curing cancer. I mean look at the end result: people unironically brought confederate flags into the US Capitol and called themselves patriots. That is in no way different than flying the British flag there. “Hurdur, my ancestors fought against the American troops in the revolution. Y’all aren’t true patriots, I am. Go colonies!”
Mike Moritz: Business must set aside self-interest to battle extremism
I am not interested in your red herring. You are claiming an equivalence between recent and previous incidents which is not apparent to anyone else,a nd seem unable to support your claim.
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It also supports "Sponsor blocker". It's the best app for youtube addicts.
They can. This is the distinction between unsecured and secured debt (outside of your primary residence, which has special protections). For most unsecured debt, an individual can get it wiped out in bankruptcy court. The main exception to this is student debt. Good luck ever getting any type of loan for the next decade or so though. This is what's called Chapter 7 in the US. There's a means test here ostensibly to prevent abuse.

There's also Chapter 13, which is more of an adjustment plan. You keep your assets, but you agree to pay some portion of your debts over 3 to 5 years. If you don't make your payments, the judge can dismiss the plan and creditors can pursue you under state law for the debt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy#Chapter_7
This was addressed in the previous comment

>On the quant side, *unlike on the data science side*,

Vision scientist is on the data science side. You're not dealing with monetary values where floating point error compounds on itself to the point your models become garbage. Quant work is it's own unique field with its own unique prerequisites.
As a visitor to the Bay Area for the last 30 years, the biggest change I have seen occur is, by far, the proliferation of tent camps and strung-out homeless. I have been to 30 countries including North Korea and most of the Stans-- and the Bay Area, specifically SF/Oakland/Berkeley is the Hall of Fame for sketchy and unsafe. I suppose New York in the 80's was worse...but currently seems like Bay Area. I stayed at a rather swanky Hilton in SF but all night listened to the sounds of homeless people fighting outside-- it was very dystopian.
Harassment of Chinese dissidents was warning signal on disinformation
As a telling sign of the times, I have no idea to whom you are referring. :D Those are the best comments, because all sides should take heed of them.
AR500 and any steel ballistic armor is a liability. It may stop the bullets, or maybe it wont. You cant be sure its not NIJ certified. But even if it did AR500 has the bad side effect of making the bullet fragment, the bits them flying perpendicular to the plate into your crotch and neck. They will apply truck bed liner and claim this "spall liner" prevents it but it doesn't really.

The same companies that make body armor for the military and police, Hesco and RMA also sell to civilians. The NIJ also helpfully provides a list on their website of all currently certified body armor that passes their test. If its NIJ certified then it is deemed acceptable for law enforcement units in the US to use it.

AR500 the company has only one product on the NIJ's CPL and its their most expensive plate and its ceramic like all real plates, not steel.

The body armor industry has a history of a lot of shady dealings and AR500 is only the latest chapter. They pay youtube gun influencers to make videos that make their products look good.
I'm not at all familiar with this domain, but wouldn't this kind of farm be incredibly vulnerable to a foreign threat?
I'm going to butcher my question so my apologies, I've heard Perl described as a sort of linguist / grammatical type of language, where you can solve the same problem using multiple approaches and syntax. Is this something Raku is drifting from or embracing? I think Raku is kind of interesting and I did try it out a few times whilst it was called Perl 6, but I'm not sure what its niche is. I mostly do Python for professional projects but don't mind experimenting with other languages.

I guess what I'm trying to ask is what are the major fundamental differences between the two languages? Features aside, although if some features are part of the answer thats fine.
>If this is a reason for acquisition, then why wouldn't G*gle wait until they were "killed" so they could come in and buy their business for pennies on the dollar?

Because what Google wants to buy is their marketshare and existing userbase. I very much doubt fitbit has any tech or products google couldn't make themselves in a few months. The longer fitbit sucks compared to their competition the lower that becomes.
It was. People with ambiguous names lived with it, correcting people after the fact. So did long-haired men and short-haired women. They weren't happy about it, but didn't have a good way to fix it.

Now they do. The solution was always available, of course, but there wasn't much pressure to implement it because it was merely a nuisance. It's more than a nuisance for people whose pronouns change or whose physical appearance leads people to the wrong pronouns. So they decided to implement the solution, along with people who are sympathetic to putting for the minimal effort to help them.
Recruiter. It was money well spent.

I was very green in my hiring role and honest with the recruiter. They were patient and really mentored me through the process.

Pro-tip: find a mature recruiter with experience who will help you on this end.
Exactly, the logs use case is what we use Elasticsearch for.
I think we're in agreement then that the U.S. is more lenient with its bankruptcy laws than Europe (on the whole, although as you pointed out it varies by country)
Specifically, this is my advice to ENTRY level data scientists who are trying to find a job and compete against a flood of candidates hot off the bootcamps. I guess once you get your foot in the door, you can be that guy if you want. It seems to be a successful strategy at companies without technical leadership.
Hm, but what are the actual changes that PG suggests? For example, would PG suggest changing HN's rules so that Sci-Hub is a first-class source of articles? This very submission notes that it is not just from "twitter.com", but from "twitter.com/paulg", so there's no technical obstacle to this functionality. Similarly, would PG suggest changing HN's rules so that links to paywalled sites are automatically replaced with links to unpaywalled versions?

FWIW I am in favor of all of this, but I am not really sure that PG actually wants to follow through; rather, this is a bland partisan position statement meant to allow PG to say in the future that they have always been a big supporter of Sci-Hub.
Used for what?
Is there any evidence whatsoever to this claim?
France, UK, US, Canada all have huge chronic trade deficits.

Weimar Republic's economic problems were mostly related to hyperinflation caused by their unsustainable debt, not sure how you're factoring trade deficits into that.

I agree nationalism is just an excuse like any other, but it's a remarkably good one: it's a cancerous mind virus that makes solving problems impossible, everyone is too busy calling everyone else unpatriotic or something.
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Badly according to Pfizer and Moderna executives.
Have you ever experienced kettling?

Police forces have been pushing left-wing protestors to use violence in order to justify crackdowns for decades.

If leftwing protestors were more violent they wouldn't need to use such techniques.
How do you maintain notebooks in production? You use papermill? What about versioning?
Yeah, but no. The problem is that the man invested in Microsoft, which has been proving itself to be a hell of an investment.
One today also suggested how we could give every home in America a sea view!
I can vouch for this. I haven't really done anything on the web interface, I use it for file sync like i used to use Dropbox, and I have clients in Windows, Linux and Android and it just works.
It is super cool that there is a community around this
Because public listed companies are swayed by winds of speculation
You get out what you put in - I see this story as someone making the best of a bad situation, finding a unique niche and innovating something that didn't exist before.

(If the story is indeed true) "Doing nothing" is just click-bait - he's definitely not doing nothing, he's connecting with people who need it, and has built it into a business with a twitter following.
Shirky's Law and why (most) social software fails
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I think it's about 0.03% of all US farmland, 3 orders of magnitude more.

267K acres out of 897M acres.
The NY Times changed the title of this article to: "They Used To Post Selfies. Now They Are Trying To Reverse The Election." from "How Facebook Incubated The Insurrection."
Don't forget the raid. On a hunch one of the admins was able to make a copy of the entire database and bring it back online shortly afterwards; if he had not, they'd've had to revive it with no content, and it probably would have died out / been overtaken by some other one.
Sure. But that’s a pretty weird digression when we’re talking about one specific group of crazies that just attempted an insurrection and got 5 people killed in the Capitol.

When the crazies on the left do something crazy, we can talk about them. But in this context bringing up such a “both sides” argument smacks of whataboutism.
> The reason I say this is because I think the world is a tough competitive place whether we act like it or not.

It doesn't have to be, though.

I guess the individuals featured in such stories are the change they want to see in the world.
No. In length yes but not close in width. But same order of magnitude.
This is like the kind of news story that would be funny in 2008.
From the article:

“ The disparity in police response only grew when comparing peaceful leftwing versus rightwing protests. Looking at the subset of protests in which demonstrators did not engage in any violence, vandalism, or looting, law enforcement officers were about 3.5 times more likely to use force against leftwing protests than rightwing protests, with about 1.8% of peaceful leftwing protests and only half a percent of peaceful rightwing protests met with teargas, rubber bullets or other force from law enforcement.”

So it’s actually worse when you take into account how peaceful the protests were.
> That are offered to the customers below cost of running them in order to stifle competition, which is only possible as long as the government antitrust body is looking the other way.

Twitter as best as we can tell is not offering services below cost to customers.

The free users are not the customers. The paying users purchasing ads are using the services to derive value from the population of free users on the platform.

If you want to reform this, target how companies convince people to give up their data in exchange for functionality rather than for money.
That's not his fuckin job!
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No kidding. Not making any comment on validity or ethics of reparations, but just putting myself in the shoes of someone who would be the beneficiary of this policy, would I like to uproot the life that I have led, and many generations of my ancestors have led as non-farm-owners, to go try to figure out how to farm? Or would I like a big fat check from Mr Gates?
The first thing I was led to:

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co87246...

"0.2 inch composition punches for Gloucester Old Style"

That's a pretty neat thing, with a lengthy writeup.
Cool analysis. I wonder if the breach is considered domestic terrorism, could this funds be seized as part of an effort to fund such terrorists, or because its a private donation the gov can't touch it.
Sorry but spending / donating money is not a difficult thing to do. If you have billions of dollars, claim to be donating much of it, but somehow your wealth continues to increase, perhaps you’re not trying hard enough?
I'd love to learn more about this! Have you been involved in the project from the start?
They teach us Quebecois accent which is sort of like the Texan/Southern dialect. It's associated with negative stereotypes.

On one call I recall a team from Paris snickering as my Quebecois co-worker spoke who was confused and embarrassed.

Heureusement, mon professeur était parisien.
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Not when running Wireguard client in it. Without I get 1 Gbps, but when having Wireguard on, we peak at 300 Mbps, loads between 3 to 5 and the CPU temperature goes above 100 degrees.

I put the system now to a spot where it kind of has lots of air around, so the temps peak only around 95 degrees now, but the loads are still crazy.
We’re only four of those away from having to choose between a Dyson swarm or ending growth.
I've been using start page for the past two years without a problem, but I do find myself dipping into google for maps and "near me" searches.

That being said the biggest drawback is if my wife uses my phone to search for something she grumbles at me.
> It's no wonder these people are angry and rallying behind a psudo-fascist like Trump.

Say what you want about Trump, and there's a lot bad to say about him, but at least he pretends to listen to the blue collar class. People need to understand this because most of his voters are not the radical MAGA people. If those voters don't believe they have a voice now, and arguably they don't have that voice, that increases the chances of more fractionation, more violence, and so on.

They should be pissed, by the way. They've either lost their jobs or had to continue delivering food or whatever during a pandemic for the white collar workers whose jobs are primarily nonsense. Society rewards people who invent problems, the digital duct tapers who fix those problems, the countless managers and supervisors to wrangle those duct tapers, and governance structures like Human Resources, but pays shit for actual work. Even if you are white collar, depending on what you're doing you may get paid only modestly if you're solving a real problem.

Something in us is telling us that we can't allow actual problems to be solved because, if we solved them, we'd all be out of things to do. And that's one problem we don't know how to fix.
The US having a taste of their own medicine.
I assume at that point you just buy the factories.
Given the up to 10k they are paying for flights and to have their RVs driven across the boarder (yes, commercial drivers can cross in RVs) a few hundred dollars for a covid test won't be an issue. Private covid tests in canada cost about 250$.
But this is only true of running the land. I feel that it would be better for land to be owned by real people (preferably citizens of whichever country it is) given that there is a finite amount of it. If corporations are better farmers, they will still be keen to rent it / run it for the owner.

The alternative is probably a future where all land is owned by corporations and all people are just renting, which to me sounds like a recipe for disaster.