skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canadian (anglo) here that went to French immersion (teachers were mostly from France). I don't really have an accent which sucks. People just think I am a stupid French person who makes grammatical mistakes here and there and has a more limited vocabulary set.

I am jealous of my American friends who speak with heavy accents and receive praise about their mastery.
Well if white supremacists and fellow travelers are people, then yes, sure.
These look like characters from a Valve video game. Coincidence?
Not just hysterical, but unbelievably, cynically partisan.

Three and a half years ago, someone radicalised by Facebook shot a group of members of Congress after asking them about their party affiliation. One of them, Steve Scalise, was hospitalized for a couple of months fighting for his life, and my understanding is that if some of the bullets had been just a couple of inches across he'd be dead right now for sure. The response of the New York Times and the mainstream press was to lie - to falsely claim that actually, it had nothing to do with political polarization and his party was the one that had incited the shooting of a member of Congress, Gabby Giffords, as he lay in hospital with potentially fatal injuries. (This was literally the exact diametric opposite of the truth - Giffords was shot by someone who had a weird grudge against her personally which had nothing to do with national politics.) There certainly wasn't any kind of concern about the radicalization behind it.

In the eyes of the New York Times and the mainstream elite whose views it represents, it's like someone on the wrong side going to a protest and turning around when the property destruction starts is more violent, more dangerous, more in need of suppression by Facebook than someone on the correct side actually filling one of the other side's Congressman full of lead.
Thank you for maintaining the snap. I once reported a problem with it a couple years ago and was impressed at how quickly you responded and fixed it.
No, the reason is that people of all genders should feel addressed. There is a female version of programmer (and any other occupation) in German, but you can use the male form to address female programmers too. Some argued that some would not feel addressed correctly.

I have never seen a posting where gender was a requirement. You often saw something like this (rough translation):

"With equal qualifications, female candidates get preferential treatment."

Haven't seen that in a long time and I don't think it was mandatory, but some employers used such a clause.

Don't think I ever saw a gender specific job posting aside from movie roles, dancers, etc.
The natural destiny of every fund that consistently beats the market is to return outside capital. Eventually it makes more sense to transition to a proprietary trading firm or family office than it does to share superior returns with investors.

Two reminders are worth repeating:

1. Renaissance isn't unique because of Medallion's returns, it's unique because it achieves those returns on a very high AUM. Other firms consistently hit that kind of return, but they may only do it on an order of magnitude or two or three lower than RenTech can do it. This contributes to returning outside capital. A lot of prop shops set a goal to hit 200%+ and consider it a bad year a failure if they don't hit at least 100%. But they're working with like $10 - 100M total capital.

My personal hypothesis is RenTech's research talent spends a significant amount of time specifically focused on novel ways to scale strategies beyond capacity constraints.

2. It's important to consider fund performance against their own benchmarks on a risk-adjusted basis. Beating the market is great, especially with absolute returns, but it's not the only rational pursuit for an investment. Reasonable investors have different goals. I haven't actually checked, but the non-Medallion funds might still be desirable from this perspective.

Incidentally, 2020 was a great year for a lot of funds. There were a bunch that returned 70%+ on the high volatility.
No, you need an active smartphone and a phone number to sign up to Signal and register the desktop app at the moment. Maybe that'll change once they introduce usernames.
Consumer diesel vehicles often have a mechanism to (try to) prevent the insertion of a gas nozzle.

Source: I had one of those “evil” Jetta’s
Most engineering and science jobs aren't a binary as much as they are a spectrum.

If the article is trying to make a point about skill development and diversification, I'm totally on board. Bifurcating the roles instead is going to be less effective.

To the value point...my sense has been we are seeing the Webcommerce 1.0 bubble Machine Learning edition. Lots of uses of it, not all of them have value. I am excited for where we will be in 10 or 15 years, but I suspect the difference will be huge. If you put me to a guess, I would say better data handling practices and ethics will likely be the linchpins of value creation vs. using tools for the sake of tools.
I hope that SSPL becomes the standard for companies so that at least it becomes a known entity instead of a proliferation of bespoke licenses: like if CockroachDB moved to it as well.

Personally, I'd rather see a more aggressive AGPL where REST calls are considered linking and trigger virality and I believe that would meet the definition of open source by the OSI while preserving the value of the commercial version.
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While it is not truly private, it is absurd to compare it to a company that lives from tracking people and selling their data..
Congratulations to José and the entire elixir team, I find elixir to be a language which makes me incredibly happy as a developer, and I look forward to using it for another 10 years.

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Social networks that reach a critical mass of regular people become too big to block. And social networks that exist as landing pads for people who aren’t tolerated on mainstream platforms naturally have targets on their backs.

I really don’t think this is liberal vs conservative, left vs right. Mainstream social networks are full of conservatives. YouTube is basically Fox News mixed with Drudge Report once you start down that path. Even Reddit —- once you get past the post titles you realize that Reddit commenters are actually right leaning now. They look different than the stereotypical portrayal of gods and guns conservatives but the views are the same save a few social issues. Scott Alexander called them the “grey tribe” and I expect they’ll start being called the “new right” eventually. HN is basically entirely left-passing conservatives.

But then there’s this tiny subgroup of legit insane people who with nothing better to do than get angry at the internet all day and push conspiracy theories. They keep getting passed around and banned from social networks while more mainstream right-wing talking heads use them as the poster children for their victim complex.
Knives can be used to kill people. But a lot more knives are used in cooking. So we see knives as tools that are relatively rarely used to do bad things and mostly used for good things.

Guns are mostly used to kill people. So we see them as tools only useful for that purpose. That’s why you can buy a set of knives on Amazon but not a 10 pack of Glocks.

Facebook is seen closer to knives. Parler was mostly guns.
Oh man, I remember laughing about that exact idea. Though, at the time it was going to be "holographic storage" which never seemed to pan out.

We never envisioned that NVMe would end up being the storage medium of choice for pretty much everyone.

I still remember my first 128MB usb drive. At the time I was like "Wow, this holds about 100 floppies worth of data, insane!"
>The actual process of collecting, aggregating, cleaning and verifying data is a hugely important skill, and not one I've really seen typical data scientists possess.

Then they are not scientists. They have a label "scientist" but lack of rigor of actual science.

I don't see why changing the label to "engineer" would suddenly make them have rigor.
I don't think Facebook really works this way. People get impassioned, sure, but I don't think the platform generates it. Compare this to something like Twitter, a machine deliberately devised to maximize outrage and fights, where the top trending content is almost always clapbacks and 'mic-drop' put-downs. It's a curiosity that they don't get any of the blame for "destroying democracy", while Facebook takes all of it.

My suspicion is that journalists use Twitter more, and enjoy their audience and aura of authority they get through the Verified system, so they have an incentive to protect the platform against regulatory action.
We do machine learning for large organizations and business is good. We've been doing it for many years. We're even making our platform (https://iko.ai) to do it faster and more consistently as it takes care of all the menial tasks.

These projects have an impact in the real world [predictive maintenance on infrastructure that serves people, for example].
> Get your own server in a colo that's owned by someone friendly to your political viewpoint.

...until someone up in the food chain will either shut that down too or force them to disassociate with you.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/25/21532883/paypal-cuts-tie...

> Keep some spares in a closet for when the feds inevitably come when someone uses your unmoderated platform to plan crimes.

Section 230.
> I am not sure what risk you mean here and I struggle to see how a rational person can infer that I mean hatred when I introduce myself as "proactivesvcs", "Adam" or "Mr Piggott". I think that yes, everyone should feel that they can offer their pronouns, unsolicited, and I believe that we should encourage that this is an acceptable behaviour, since then eventually, it'll be something we don't even have to discuss. But inferring hatred strikes me as a very acute form of assuming bad-faith.

Ah, from what I'm reading, it doesn't seem that my message registered. Let me try conveying it another way.

Taylor Jones introduces herself with the pronouns she/they to a new group of friends. The new group of friends is unaccustomed to forward declaration of pronouns, and among them, a few in the group perceive Taylor as being different from themselves as a consequence of their unfamiliarity with pronoun declaration. Thus begins the Othering of Taylor. (Othering: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/other-as-a-ver...)

On the flip side, Taylor Jones introduces herself with the pronouns she/they to a group of friends who all then share their own pronouns for the sake of clarity. Because this practice is ingrained in the group already, it's less likely that some in the group would perceive Taylor as being "Other" to them.

Does this help?
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because stuff like this in facebook's case is tinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy percent

meanwhile what % of parler's stuff all those "bad" things are?
The effects of MDMA and opiates are entirely opposite - why would someone cut MDMA with fentanyl?
Does a static microblog generator[0] count as serious? I use it for my own, mostly linkblog [1].

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

[1] https://plurrrr.com/
> a sizable chunk of the mob had no idea that they were doing anything wrong

Has anyone dug into this? What were the actual stories that caused that suspension of critical thinking? (Serious answers, please.)
> "If the USA is nasty and racist then we must be nasty and racist too!"

I suppose we also get a free pass on sexual assaults and discrimination since #metoo is obviously just an American social problem?

While I agree that our problems are subtlety different, it's mostly people of Asian ethnicities who get a shit deal in the UK, to pretend they don't exist is just sticking your head in the sand.

Overt racists are alive and kicking in the UK at least. I have the misfortune of being related to some of them.
Not sure Raku was the best choice.

I initially thought this was about the programming language
for roku and was a little disappointed it was about perl 6 changing names.
That's not really true. Parler existed to be twitter without censorship. That's a worthy goal, even if it (predictably) attracted some unsavory elements too.
Sorry for abusing this platform but i wanted to as you about another thing you said on another post about learning machine learning from scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24336000 .
To keep it short, I am unable to find any such tutorial and would really appreciate if you could tell me where you found such resource. Thanks
I don't see how Tianemen Square is a refutation of the quoted statement. Tianemen Square is an event that demonstrates the value of democracy - people are willing to die to achieve it. Jan 6 shows disregard for democracy - those that broke into the Capitol were willing to destroy it.
The short answer: German is not English.

The German language allows for both male and female forms of
most job descriptions(like with actor and actress). It doesn't
help that we have a male, female and neutral form of "the" which
are seemingly randomly used for certain words, and often also
differently when used in a plural form.

This mixed with gender debates has lead to a lot of controversy
and many more or less wild suggestions for "fixing" the
language.

The explicit mention of male/female has been mandatory for quite
a while, and now that "diverse" was added as a third officially
recognised gender this is now required as well. The whole
reasoning behind this is that hiring decisions must not be based
on gender, so companies also have to clearly indicate that -
whether that actually reflects reality is another can of worms.
>> a centralized service dictate what is and isn't "good".

This isn't movie reviews. Good and bad are not the standards. The standard is whether or not something is illegal. When the feds come knocking on your door because your servers are full of highly illegal content, "we let them moderate themselves" will be no defense.
I owned one of the original Pebble watches. My takeaway was that without significant phone interoperability, a smart watch is primarily useful for notifications and not much else.

I want to like this, but even if it gets back in stock I wouldn’t get it.
A couple of us inherited a machine learning project a while back. The code was horrible. Riddled with copy pasta (nearly half of the entire thing was copy paste and no code reuse). We basically refactored everything, standardized input and output file names. We put up a small Flask service to allow outside services hit it easily and wrapped it up in a Docker container so it was ultimately easy to deploy. Yes it was all the plumbing. However we also looked at the code, and the ML strategies, and while there was "some" level of competence, it was nothing more than word2vec add and divide. Totally horrible for actually finding key phrases that matter to the subject we're matching. So we started tackling that too with LSTM but our time got cut short and shifted off to another area. So not only was the "scientist" they hired completely crappy at the engineering, they weren't really helpful in the ML either.

This is obviously of lesser value to the topic at hand, and more about making sure you hire good people I think.
Yeah, I was thinking this as well - the only official versions are for Debian-based repositories, feels a bit misguided to me for the "privacy and only privacy" messenger that probably has an essential userbase on Linux.

The other messengers with the same amount of funding can do it and it's not a great amount of work, with the community being able to contribute to build scripts.
This was relevant to the parent post as well as your own comment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210

A UK study led by a panel of experts analyzed a number of recreational drugs and evaluated them across 16 different criteria.

Alcohol was one of the most dangerous drugs and was unique in that it was the only drug that posed more risk to society than it did for the actual user.

This is of course, not definitive proof of the parents assertions but the findings do lend evidence to it.
Regardless it's their responsibility to insure it, they'd just have to pay higher premiums.

They would know if the cars are insured or not before making a claim.
Incredible to hear this accent but also the fact that it's completely clear and comprehensible, if different sounding, than the modern Parisian accent!
Nobody deprived anyone of a platform. Platforms spawn like mushrooms and the closure of one will only radicalize its members further more, not to mention that will force more to take a stance. No problems have been fixed.

Your concern with violence is fake, as that and the platforms that it lived on, existed way before 6th of January. Parlor was allowed to thrive for years, nobody had problems with it before that. But magically, Amazon is a saint now.

The general problem is that everyone thinks that the ban button and "cancellation" fixes problems. It doesn't. What transpired with these platforms is purely based on political interest and nothing else. This political interest can and will change with next elections and the platforms will follow suit - are you OK with that?
Suddenly, I'm glad I never bought a fitbit
It's possibly the lighting or the monitor but I don't have a problem with using any other websites in this configuration.

The orange on gray has a 2.5:1 contrast ratio, the main body text (dark gray on gray) is 4.1:1, both of which are below the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility minimum of 4.5:1
In this case, give DeepL a try. Translations between English and German at least, are magnitudes above Google, IMO. Not without errors, of course.
Relevant xkcd: "What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?"

https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
Agree with the legal implications. I would not go anywhere near this data.

I don’t think this relates to GDPR though. There are some exemptions for personal use which I think there are arguments this could fall into (IANAL). But my opinion is this isn’t in the spirit of GDPR.

There are many other laws that are broad enough in most countries to cover gray area scraping sadly. CFAA in the US for example. This sounds similar to the AT&T weev case.
More readable version with ascok art, as the spiral rule:

http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html
Make a cogent and non-authoritarian case for even having a "decentralized content moderation" which doesn't pass the "is this an oxymoron?" smell test.

> I'm building a large, chatroom-like service for TV.

So the profit motive is likely the motivation for applying a "central" doctrine of acceptable discourse using a decentralized mechanism.

> While I think that community moderation will inevitably lead to bubbles

Which allows for e.g. an athiest community to have content that rips religion x's scripture to shred (and why not?) in the same planet that also has a religion-x community that has content that takes a bat to over-reaching rationalism. Oh the horror! Diversity of thought. "We simply can not permit this."
They're absolutely correlated. The correlation coefficient isn't 1.0, though.
Yeah, I understand the SSPL has some issues that could use better clarification (exactly the extent the copyleft is intended to reach), but it is an aggressive copyleft license, and I'd argue, very in the spirit of open source. The parties using it could develop a more clear newer version to SSPL that addresses the concerns.

And the more companies adopt SSPL, the more pressure OSI will be under to accept a viable license for open source businesses.
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Fixing this isn't a matter of adding complexity but of removing it. When timelines were sequential or user-moderated and YouTube was just a search engine and host for videos it was fine. Algorithmic prioritization algorithms were introduced around the 2008-2012 time frame and all Internet discourse went to hell shortly afterwords.

What we did was to insert a biasing function between all people that biased content for engagement. What maximizes engagement? Hate, fear, and conflict.
After reading these beautiful articles I'm sadly wondering if we've already put the golden age behind us.

I will dig a little deeper to support archive.org[1] this year. I'd love to run a mirror.

[1] https://archive.org/donate/
Minor comment. On the homepage the titles of small paragraphs (like What we do, Why we do it), I can't help but notice that I'm ignoring the part that's in the pill, and reading the text only, getting confused, reading again, and spotting the pill, then realizing it's part of the full sentence.

Could be only me, but if not, maybe change that?
I'm going to shamelessly take advantage of your being here with a question if that's ok. Do you have any recommendations for reading material that covers Phoenix as it's used today?

Back in the early 0.x days I read the Phoenix book, which was a great introduction to building an application and using Ecto, but trying to pick it up again recently I found that nothing really seems to cover using Contexts in the real world.
Obviously upvoting and downvoting is not enough for adequate moderation. There's still the aspect of people trolling and generally posting horrible things online. There's a reason Facebook had to pay $52 million to content moderators for the trauma/ptsd they suffered.
I've never been able to do this effectively. I'm either on or I'm off. I can't have work emails/slacks push to my phone during off hours unless its an emergency.

May have something to do with my ADHD but when I'm not working I need to be offline or else I feel like I'm always working.
I find Jan 6th scarier just because of the number of people

We don’t know if it is going to happen again, if the mobs are going to be larger, etc

We don’t even know what kind of backlash Republicans that voted for impeachment will receive

People are afraid

The shooter was caught and that was it (though it could happen again, but with anyone really)
There's a lot of rationales you can give, but the real answer is that banning Facebook would cause Google to miss their quarterly earnings.

Many people are willing to take a stand for their beliefs, many fewer are willing to nuke their RSUs.
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Like I said, owning isn’t for everyone (my point is only that it’s not an extraordinarily risky investment contrary to the OP’s claim). 5k a year isn’t rent in most places.
We (at Almonit) work on a self-governing publication system which would bring democratic control to content moderation.

We just wrote about its philosophy earlier this week.

https://almonit.com/blog/2021-01-08/self-governing_internet_...