skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer : I am not American, and could care less for your politics.

> Can you point to a place where he specifically encouraged trespassing or violence in a way that is more egregious than the ways in which various Congresspeople encouraged violence in Kenosha or Minneapolis?

This seems like a weird statement to me. Does it matter what other Congresspeople said or not said? I had a quick read of the speech you linked. Its clear that the whole speech is priming the crowd that their vote has been stolen, and that they need to go their and fight for their votes.

> Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down.

> Anyone you want, but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.

> Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated.

> I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

This bit right here is clearly indicating that the people need to walk to the Capitol, to "confront" the egregious assault, to show strength, to "not going to be cheering so much for some of them". Granted yes, he also does state that they will be marching over "peacefully" and "patriotically" but spending paragraphs telling an audience that their votes are stolen, and they must fight those who stole their vote and then throwing in a few words about peacefully doesn't absolve you when that mob does basically what you said.

Near the end :

> And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.

> So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we’re going to the Capitol, and we’re going to try and give.

Again, clearly indicating that they need to go to the Capitol, to "fight like hell" and ensure that Republicans vote in a certain way. I think anyone reading between the lines can clearly see how a group of people who believe this man quite a bit would get an indication that they need to walk to and into the Capitol.
I honestly don’t think price comparison can work for general healthcare, plus it would lead to huge disparities of care quality as the US has now, which means in practice a very expensive safety net for which the government picks up the tab.

Better just to go with single payer healthcare, not linked to employment or insurance, and dramatically reduce costs with similar outcomes.

Everyone wins, and those with money can still buy private care or private insurance if they wish, truly shopping around, as they have the means, education and leisure time to do so.
The official number for 2020 appears to be 25 (not including last week), however conservatives seem very interested in representing this as a list of "people BLM murdered" when it's really a list of all deaths due to political violence. It includes people who were killed by police, individuals murdered by far right individuals, and that one guy shot by a left wing extremist at a protest.
We already know the answer to a lot of this. Algorithms that increase "engagement" by promoting controversy promote conspiracy theories, because conspiracy theories are controversial and get everybody arguing.

The first generation of response to this was to tweak the algorithm to favor "trusted" sources, but still promote controversy. This seems to be going extremely poorly, because it's encouraging the "trusted" sources to become radicalized in an effort to get promoted by the algorithms.

The actual solution probably involves not optimizing for engagement anymore, but that's a business model change.
I hope this is sarcasm...
Because companies want some protection from private meetings being leaked. Right? I don’t see the mystery here.
Visual and auditory.

Definitely saw him and he contributes to the lack of eye contact I give other people. It's hard to look at someone 1 on 1 when you see another person taking attention away. Back to the point, it wasn't super common to see him all the time. You know how you zone out of certain things but are still able to do the tasks? It was like that when he would visually appear.

Auditory would happen a lot more frequently because I was relatively focused on what was going on. Whether it be solving a problem in school and him seeing an error I had done previously, telling me to look back at the question, or him just talking with me about something random, I could hear him. Kind of like the whole whisper in your ear thing but I primarily heard it like he was right behind me talking to my brain (inside my skull to the back of my head).

Presence wise, maybe? I only say that because I rarely flinched because of him. For example, when he first started popping up, I would actually get surprised, maybe even try moving out of the way. Eventually though, I wouldn't even bat eye. I definitely knew what he was going to do and he would definitely do things that would catch others off guard but I saw it coming. If that's the presence you're referring to, then yes.
If you are pricing and risk-managing complex derivatives books then Pandas is not the right tool for the job. Pandas does not include derivatives pricing models, daycount conventions, schedule generation and algorithmic differentiation which are all basic ingredients in a modern derivatives pricing framework. In general what you are concerned with here is computing the fair value of each instrument usually as an expectation in a simulation or as a solution to a partial differential equation, and the first derivatives and sometimes second-order derivatives of the fair value with respect to the model parameters. Pandas makes a lot of work in empirical finance nicer, data cleaning, time series work, etc. But when pricing and risk-managing a derivatives book as a market maker you are less concerned with inferring the future from the past, and more with interpolating current data in such a way that you do not open yourself to arbitrage.

I worked as a model quant for a year a couple of years ago in a bank in the team responsible for developing and implementing the derivatives pricing models. Everything was written in (a lot of) C++, but I suspected and still suspect that you could get the same performance by leveraging one of the off-the-shelf deep learning libraries with a lot less code. Maybe you would have to write a few central components in C++ and assembly to get the exact same performance. I am glad to see someone actually following through on that idea.
I read a science fiction book a couple years ago where the main cast of characters paid data services to generate fake digital trails for them. They couldn't erase the real video record of where they were, but they could create fake video records showing them in 6 other locations around the world at the same time. (And browser logs, credit card purchases, chat histories, etc).

I wonder if at some point we'll see deep fake profiles being made like that for obfuscation. 40 accounts with my name on facebook, all with similar but different histories and similar but different friends and travel histories. One of them is the real one and the rest deep fakes. Instead of being lost in silence, we can lose ourselves in noise.
This tendency to close "stale" issues is a symptom of Goodhart's law [0]. Once the number of open issues is used as a proxy for software quality, then lowering that number becomes a goal in itself. And thus it ceases to be a pertinent metric, and it might even become counter-productive by discouraging contributors.

Another reason I think is that it's also a nice excuse to avoid working on old boring stuff and focus on new exciting stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Absolutely not. Western liberal democracy relies on centralised power; it’s not clear that it could function without it.

As an extension of that, getting “power to the people” is usually the rallying cry of someone who wants to weaken the government enough to overpower it in some way.
My best guess is that liberals stopped reading higher in the thread. I would hope that moderates and conservatives would not find those claims very credible, but perhaps they do or are not so offended as to downvote.

I was personally fine with the integrity of the election right up until censorship ramped up. Now I have zero confidence that I would hear about any problems. I still don't think the election was "stolen" or anything, but I'm no longer confident enough to downvote such an opinion. How are we supposed to really know what's true or not when we only hear one side of the story?
There was a chapter in a game theory book I read that talked about this.

It said that rituals and rules can serve as a way to raise the cost of being in the religion, which can help keep people who don't really believe in the religion out. The book had a cartoon showing a man standing in front of a "Church Picnic" sign and he had a thought balloon that said "I'll pretend to love Jesus for a free hamburger!".

The tangible benefits of being accepted as being a member of a church can be considerable, far beyond the occasional free hamburger at a church picnic. Members of a church will often when they need services or need to buy things look first to providers that are in their church.

If all it takes to convince them you are one of them is showing up at services occasionally and giving a small donation now and then, that is a price many non-believers would pay.

Annoying rituals and rules raise that price. For the true believers who are in the church because they believe that it is the only way to not spend an eternity being tortured in hell, church is worth it even with the onerous rituals and rules.

For the person who is only there because he thinks it will get him a few more customers for his landscaping business, the rules and rituals can make it not worth it.
I'm not sure I understand your point, overall.
Here's another way to look at it. Is there a principal engineer in your chain of technical supervision? Does the work you do, at your current and former jobs, include a path to becoming a principal engineer?

Or another perspective. Can you be sued as an engineer? What standards would the opposing attorney or their expert witness reference to assert malpractice?

Further, could your employer be sued for allowing you to work unsupervised by a principal engineer?
I wonder if the watermark can only be decrypted by zoom and is unique every time, if not, you could fake it and blame someone else intentionally. From the article, it seems so but I hope it’s done properly.
I miss TechShop. A Tormach 3-axis mill and Shopbots in several sizes. I don't have enough need to have my own shop, but I was happy to pay TechShop to use their variety of machines.
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1 out of 197 for a tattoo of a mailbox

Skynet still a long way away
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The Next Great Social Network: Technical Aspects of the Solution
The discussion from here is going to get somewhat technical but I will do my best to cut through the nerk talk and get to the point. Based on our discussion in Part I, we know that there have been a long history of failed social platforms — many of which have tried to solve certain aspects of this problem. Core components that need to be understood well are notions of Identity Management, Anonymity, Security & some good old CAP theory!
Twitter and facebook tolerate the use of their apps to set up autonomous zones within american cities and incite users to riot, loot, commit arson and murder cops so why doesn't parler just use a similar hosting infrastructure to whatever they use?
That is absolutely correct!
If you pick a bad enough codec, it should mask watermarks by distorting the sound, while still allowing speech to be audible.

Maybe something like mu-law, which only has 3 kHz bandwidth centered on human speech (as opposed to mp3 with usually 44.1 kHz) would perform best.
> They still have competitors from all around the world who may be less scrupulous

Not really. European Union services are more regulated towards user rights (GDPR) and services from other big countries are usually targeted towards domestic or regional market (typically East-Asian apps for example).
Of course perfection only comes with persistent practice, my natural talent was not enough to project me to such a hallowed height of artistic accomplishment.

I had to go through https://paint.wtf/ranking/Y08Q/wRC0z2rQmSYrcuBFeNh2 (no. 4) and https://paint.wtf/ranking/Y08Q/YXQduzfjXldDduZa0FYK (no. 6) first.
After playing with different combinations of screen-sharing between my devices, I'm pretty happy with how it works. Maybe still a bit rough around the edges but for simple usecases definitely useable.
You can see some proposals for server migration/fallback here:

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/915
Can someone ELI5 why we want inflation?
I think your cancer metaphor is backwards. The way that a single genome is processed by myriad cells throughout the body is a miracle of decentralization. Each node is free to deviate and improvise and yet for the most part they work together for the greater good of the overall network. Cancer is what happens when a small group of cells deviates from the protocol and starts consuming resources to the exclusion of their neighbor. What is a tumor if not a centralized drive towards growth at any cost? Sounds like many modern tech companies to me.

You also seem to think that decentralization would lead to less emphasis on local happenings. Why? If we moved away from a handful of services for the whole planet, wouldn't the logical next phase be a service or two per city? A decentralized web means knowing the guy who runs the server you're connecting to. A decentralizalized internet means configuring your router to peer with routers in the houses that you can see from your house. Relocalization seems like an obvious consequence of decentralizalization to me.
Why would you think either is stagnant?
There are plenty of advances in both, all the time.
I agree with everything you said but I want to highlight one more condition: There must be a reasonable chance that the suffering will end if one toughs it out. It doedn't have to actually end or be highly probable but there has to be realistic hope. This is what differs some chronic conditions from the other cases talked about here.
I see your 7/44 and I raise you a 4/56.

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His new company Rapidia, which makes metal 3D printers, is pretty awesome too!
agreed and maybe with some sort of predefined or saved sessions for different usecases.
I think the idea is that if they use audible frequencies, the user will, well, _hear_ them.
JavaScript vs. Other Popular Languages of 21st Century
I had a friend who worked as a project manager for a major telecom and their policy was to basically furlough her for a few weeks (paid time off) after a major project winds down. She's there if something bad happens, but otherwise it's downtime (and retained experience!) before the next project. It seems like a sensible and healthy policy.
What censorship? The president himself was saying the election was stolen from him for two months and that was basically the only thing the nightly news talked about (other than COVID) every day. At some point we should be able to say "Enough, evidence or GTFO," without being accused of silencing discussion.

We're way past that point.
https://www.vox.com/culture/22233197/orwellian-definition-ge...
What does an architect think of Cyberpunk 2077's Night City?
which interface is missing on mobile?
Hmm feels like a great tool to create echo chambers
Hmmm...

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2 out of 291 for a solid green square. I feel like there might be a "complexity" metric missing in the model.
Got to 4 or 5 on a few of them with NO. Then discovered a solid color put me on #1.

AI is only as smart as it’s programming (which can be pretty darned smart, but this AI wasn’t trained to deal with people who are trying to break it).

On a side note, Roboflow is freaking amazing.

https://paint.wtf/ranking/5qms/pORkuKYlFhXWjn6SWD4M
> The tangible benefits of being accepted as being a member of a church can be considerable

My step father is quite conservative and he and I don’t see eye to eye on much, but one time he pointed out how the declining religiosity of my generation meant an increased reliance on the state for social programs that the church once filled the need for, and I’ve never been able to stop seeing that function of religion since.
Curious, do you see value in democracy? Because it seems pretty obvious to me that you can't have democracy without freedom of speech.

Otherwise you do not get the true will of the people, only will of the purveyors of acceptable opinion.
Cool idea, but as expected, any word/phrase that isn't approximately one-to-one with a particular color or region in the color space turns up nearly gray.
No, I did only the outline also, in black, with one eye. Currently 11 out of 604 submissions. I used the mouse on a desktop computer and used 2 strokes to do the whole thing.
You get some numbers, they look good - fine, but at best it’s grounds for a proper study, at worst wildly misleading. You can easily fool yourself with statistics, and other people too.

For a good read about studies with solid statistics and bogus results, see [0].

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...
4/610

I didn't colour it either, actually.

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Simplified and Efficient Integration of Huawei Scan Kit in Xamarin Android App
Free discussion does not axiomatically stop radicalization. There is a reasonable argument to be made that as we've seen communication get easier, it's made radicalization more possible rather than less.

That said, I'd invite you to continue your line of reasoning: decentralization leads to free discussion. Free discussion leads to X. X leads to the reduction in radicalization. What is the X you see?
Use automated machine learning in Azure Machine Learning
> Disclaimer : I am not American, and could care less for your politics.

Why don't then tell us which nationality you are from?
> Obviously no programmer is solely relying on StackOverflow to do their job

I've encountered a few people who were doing something very close to this. I really hope that doesn't happen in medicine too.
Yeah, you’ve just described IBM 25 years ago. Lots of pockets of innovation in a sea of mediocrity. It wasn’t even that long ago that IBM was considered a top 5 company in cloud, AI, and quantum computing.

> G is still way more technologically advanced than any other top tech company

That’s a senseless statement. Google has lots of nice tooling for developers and managing their infrastructure, but that doesn’t make them the most “technologically advanced”. They use a mono-repo for a ton of stuff, most shit is boring grpc calls and regular database lookups. There is nothing on the leading edge of the crypto/blockchain world, there isn’t anything particularly interesting in p2p, etc.

> Did you completely miss the memo on google duplex, tensorflow, kubernetes, etc?

It’s funny you should mention kubernetes since most of the innovation there comes from outside of Google. Look at who is driving ebpf networking adoption, etc.

You’re right though that Google is currently an AI leader. But again, that’s <1% of their engineering workforce. When I left a few years back most people were working on simple shit resting and vesting. It’s an incredible place to retire in place, but that will eventually catch up with them and it’s bad for career development as a SWE.
Check my comments here; top with simple negativity -- but straight lines. Simple solid also works for some reason.
Because it's a crappy version of the count of monte cristo.
techniques that i've seen in the past are indistinguishable from noise unless you have the correct key. that is, they use the fact that a key is a psuedorandom bitstream and that audio streams often have psuedorandom noise so ciphertext is ideal for adding into the noise.

i think i presented this paper for a course journal club from two decades ago, a decade ago on the topic:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01651...
This is fascinating and really made me think. The article is pitched at leakers but it could just as likely be pitched at journalists. If you consume news from an outlet that doesn’t follow The Intercept’s advice then complain immediately to the editor.

When you leak something it needs to be credible. Removing watermarks also reduces the fidelity and therefore the credibility. If 99% of the screen is blurred and the audio has been transcribed then how does the receiver know this is a real leak at all?

The answer lies in reputation. Leak high fidelity material to a trusted third party, usually a journalist. This can include just showing them the material though that involves meeting in person. They will verify the source material, summarise and down sample it to conceal the source actor, and maybe even destroy the source material itself.

The economics are simple: if you get a reputation for revealing sources then people will stop leaking secrets to you. Newsrooms that rebroadcast Zoom caps verbatim are revealing sources and need to clean up their act if we are to continue to rely on what’s left of The Fourth Estate.
It's pretty amusing. To quote an (in)famous xkcd. The private companies told the Right they were assholes and showed them the door. And now Russia is stretching out a hand and saying: you are welcome in my house.

And of course the Left is upset. The Right were supposed to become friendless losers with imaginary friends[0]! Not befriend other people! That's cheating!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25817605
After not reading for a few years I felt both within and without.
Microstepping does not reduce torque in any respect.
If the sea level keeps rising, we eventually might have to.
Yes, noticed that by reading the comments on CBC's site.
Not a mac user myself, but i think some music and video editing applications are considered basically essential on Mac.
> Robert Mercer, etc. Very humbling

Nothing humbling about hiring a deceitful guy like Mercer. Of course, this being a technical website and everyone needing something to believe in there are people who say that this company's success is mostly based on its technical achievements (and on the people that helped implement those technical achievements), but looking at the character of people like Mercer that success is probably most likely based on stuff like insider trading.
Hi there. That is in my todo list. Also, I will support Edge.
Regardless of hosting, Parler seems to be dead in the water given how much of the Internet is accessed via mobile devices, and Parler being banned from all (both) major app stores.
Well, hopefully, someone will come up with a language model that picks words based on GLTR purpleness. Automated data collection deserves automated data.
The rights new friends seem to have a tenancy to poison their political opponents with nerve agents.
While most democratic governments currently involve some form of centralization, a pure democracy is one where every person has equal power.

I believe that it's possible, and preferable for everyone to have the same amount of power. A democracy where every citizen has equal power would try to do what's best for as many people as possible.
see this one too: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01651...