skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After a few pages the article gets past Greenwalds hatred for the NYT and eventually makes an interesting point (which I'll quote without further comment):

"Beyond all this, what if he had used the word “retarded”? What would it mean? If someone uses that term maliciously, as a slur against others to mock their intellect, it is certainly reasonable to condemn that. Used with that intent and in that context, it is unnecessarily hurtful for people who suffer diseases of cognitive impairment.

But that is not remotely what happened here. Anyone who spent any time at all on the sub-Reddit thread of r/WallStreetBets knows that “retards” was the single most common term used by those who short-squeezed the hedge funds invested in the collapse of GameStop. It is virtually impossible to discuss the ethos of that subculture without using that term. This was one of their most popular battlecries:

“We can stay retarded longer than you can stay solvent.”

And the use of that term in the sub-Reddit was not just ubiquitous but fascinating: layered with multiple levels of irony and self-deprecation. Sociologists could, and should, study how that term was deployed by those Redditors and what role it played in forming the community that enabled them to strike a blow against these hedge funds. It reflected their self-perceived place at the bottom of social hierarchies, expressed the irony that they as unsophisticated investors were defeating self-perceived financial wizards, and marked their culture and community as transgressive. Did some use it with malice? Maybe. But there was vast complexity to it."
The shift in social discourse over the past few years helped me understand how the Salem Witch Trials came to be.
"SEO, publishing schedules, editorial back-and-forth, social media"

Hmm, not really core PostgreSQL strengths either. What am I missing?
Three countries are due to reach Mars in the next two weeks
> Or how about this: when the engine triggers a ban it just notes the reason for the ban in the database, and then tells the user why the ban happened?

> Sadly this would make the system utterly trivial to gamify

There is a reasonable middle ground that would make gamification harder and at the same time satisfy less abusive users. You can disclose the sanction immediately, would need to add a short but variable delay before disclosing the underlying reason, to prevent abusing from abusing the system repeatedly.
anyone one know why of the 7 AD's tried (8 including the one implemented at the start) there are the different answers?
0.4999999963909431 vs 0.4999999963909432 vs 0.4999999963909433

I assume if is some kind of IEEE math thing.
given that IEEE allow `(a+b)+c != a + (b + c)`
but where is it occuring exactly?
So, an NYT reporter snooping on a Clubhouse conversation got her facts wrong (although she later corrected them), and the entire thing seemed relatively trivial to start with. And... this is exhibit A for the prosecution about how no one is doing real journalism anymore, they're just playing hall monitor. Or turning into the modern Stasi. Sure, those two things don't seem very similar, but we always forget how the SS started out as elementary school crossing guards, don't we.

Okay, Glenn, we get it. You don't like -- say it with me in your spookiest voice, everyone! -- CAAAAAAAANCELLLL CUUUUUUUUUUULTURRRRRE. I mean, sure, it was fine when they were cancelling Bari Weiss, because he was on board with that, but then they came for him! (And by "they," I mean fact-checkers, or as I believe Greenwald refers to them, Paramilitary Death Squads.)

I'm just saying, maybe we should stop treating "but he's the guy that Edward Snowden worked with!" as some kind of Get Out of Making Sensible Arguments Free card.
Politics in the US is not limited to the two parties. The population of the US has a wide range of political opinions that don't neatly aligned to the mainline Democratic or Republican views. Especially in the US, with its system of primaries, the real politics of the population are relevant even when the official election essentially only offers 2 candidates.

And in the real US, the Democratic party is to the right of a vast majority of its own voters' views, on issues such as Medicare for All most prominently, but others as well. It's even to the right of the views of large swaths of Republican voters on many issues, such as withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan. The Democratic party is much closer to the Center of the political opinions of the US population, at least on economic and foreign policy matters (I would say it's well in the center-right of American political views actually on those matters). It may well be on the 'real left' on social and family matters, to be fair.

Not to mention, there are many other political forces and voices, which form a clear left pole far to the left of the Democratic party (I gave specific examples), and they have large amounts of increasingly organized support. They will likely pull the Democratic party to the left instead of establishing a pure leftist party, but that is far from having happened. You can look instead at how much the extreme right has been pulling the Republican party right to see the mechanisms

So the way I see it, the US population has left leaning people, right leaning people, and centrists. Looking at the relative opinions of the population, the Democratic party is overall in the Center, and the Republicans are well on the right (these are overall generalizations). Of course, in the absence of better choices, leftist voters will generally vote Democratic, as the Center is preferable to them than the Right.

More importantly for this claim, papers like the NYT and networks like CNN are explicitly cultivating centrist beliefs (especially on economic and foreign policy matters), often leaning far more to the right on such issues compared to the majority of the population (look at Brian Williams repulsive praise of the 'beauty of our weapons' on MSNBC[0] as they were reporting on a US missile attack on a Syrian base).

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jNHOJwgZyfo
I don’t know if upper paleolithic Europe had temperate climate. Given that there was a pretty deep ice age at the time I would definitely consider that insular population in a harsh climate. Also like I said above game is seasonal, and winter is exactly when hunting becomes easier as game is more vulnerable in the absence of foliage and takes greater risks as their own food source is scarce. If I were to guess, winter is when most pre-neolithic societies did most of their hunting in temperate regions, and consequently ate most of their meat. I would also guess that in late summer and early autumn months went by without any meat what so ever (except fish, some birds, and scavenged meat) as roots and nuts are plentiful and game is the hardest to hunt.

EDIT: I would also like to add, that the original claim was that it is in human nature to eat meat. If that were true, people wouldn’t have stopped doing it after the neolithic revolution as farming spread and plant based food became even easier. I mean we kept feeding meat to our dogs as it is definitely in the wolfs nature to eat meat.
Very different to flash an ID to a store employee than to give them a copy of your license tied to a highly-detailed account of online activity on and off of their platform :shrug:
The NY Times editor who "resigned" didn't say burning downtowns should be countered with the National Guard. He approved the publishing of an op-ed from a US Senator that approved of sending in the national guard. The editor was attacked for allowing "hate speech" in the paper and forced to resign.
Or just make the entire system based on a sort of "public defender" model. As it stands, a person accused of a crime and then found innocent has still been punished without even being found guilty due to enormous legal bills. It is a highly asymmetric power structure for anyone who isn't wealth: the prosecutors have massively more resources than the average person to call upon. Alternatively, when prosecuting the wealthy, that asymmetry is reversed, which might be equally problematic.
He isn’t saying it’s a probe. He says that it kind of looks like and acts like a discarded light sail. The probe it belonged to could be in a different part of the galaxy having dropped the sail long ago and we just ran into it or if it was aimed at us then the probe could still be decelerating and about to enter the solar system at a velocity that would allow it to be captured by the Sun’s gravity.
UK govt admits 15,000 people deleted from police records
At most news orgs the reporters aren't the ones writing the article titles. I agree that the headline is alarmist, but it's probably just written to be clickbait-y, as far too many headlines now are.

I disagree that "articles like this are written specifically to inadvertently call for the censorship of more voices." The article takes on a subject that has been discussed a lot recently, and, on balance, probably pushes back at the notion that private messaging apps are a net harm in terms of the spread of misinformation. I'm not even sure how it's possible to specifically write an article intended to inadvertently accomplish something?

> "Misinformation" is among the list of grossly overused words in online discourse. It has no meaning, other than to exist as the boogyman.

As someone who used to work for an academic-backed non-profit that sought to understand misinformation using algorithms, I strongly disagree with this statement. I agree that many people use terms like "misinformation" in a way that isn't grounded in this kind of understanding, but people do that with all kinds of buzzwords. Without getting into solutions (even if your preferred solution is "do nothing"!), I think we can agree that misinformation causes real and demonstrable harm. So what's worse about using misinformation as a boogeyman, than, say AI?
I used to respect Greenwald a LOT. But his newsletter and rhetoric lately is just an anti-journalism dog whistle.
Accusing Greenwald of being a Nazi is pretty uncalled for. I (a Jew) despise Nazis, but I can certainly distinguish between someone calling for the older liberal line of free speech for everyone (something Noam Chomsky has done [0]) and advocating for racial purity via ethnic cleansing. You can say that such a position might help Nazis, but to draw zero distinction is troubling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faurisson_affair
Braden, one of the founders, I gave you an upvote! GDPR is definitely at the top of our mind.

We would love to make it so developers don't need to think about, or make it easy to think about, GDPR and CCPA, and any future regulations that come up.
Your "Corporal Bubba" isn't just cynical, it leans heavily upon a harmful stereotype that folks in small towns are uneducated simpletons. Stop the polarization, please
The future of computing is analog
This is just a misunderstanding of how brew works. Brew is doing what it is designed to do. Your assumptions are that brew should be able to "pin" a package to an exact version, or that it is selecting packages at random to upgrade, but those assumptions are wrong.

https://docs.brew.sh/FAQ#why-does-brew-upgrade-formula-also-...

However brew does support your use case, but it take some extra effort. If you want to use brew to install an exact version of python you need to create a tap: https://docs.brew.sh/How-to-Create-and-Maintain-a-Tap

Also, you aren't forced to use brew to install that version of python. You can do so yourself using the standard make; make install. It would be best to install it under /opt. Or use any other available method of installing software on your mac.
The problem is that the market itself is best at rewarding those who contribute in an economically meaningful (more efficient or innovative, less costly) way.

Rewarding only effort encourages people to focus on working harder but not smarter as well, leading to less economically productive results.

Also, it's easier to look busy than to be busy.
WordPress core yes, and it's pretty safe, but if you use many plugins (which most people do) that gets a lot riskier. Premium plugs are pretty safe but still I've had stuff break.
Hackers broke into a water treatment facility in Florida making the water unsafe
I think it is high time for us all to explore different services than Google. This includes search.
I'm using pandoc for my site (https://www.dharmab.com). It's a bio/profile, not a blog, but I think it's OK (other than I'm lazy and haven't auto-generated smaller resolution images for mobile).
No, that's not reasonable. However, the story does highlight an important problem for low-income families for whom Internet access has gone from being a luxury to an essential item. The inability, at this time of in home schooling, to access the internet will leave a large number of low-income children far behind their peers. The consequences will be realized well into the future and probably translate into higher drop-out rates.
> And yet somehow whenever you take a closer look at mislabeled product prices, the average is always in favor of the store.

What is this based on?
I have yaktrax without spikes - they have ‘springs’ on rubber. I have used them for years. They give me great traction when it’s slippery outside and I use them for walking and even running in snow/ice/slush.

When I’m wearing them I never slip and just carry on as if there was nothing slippery underfoot.

The only thing you have to watch out for is remembering to take them off if you go inside where there’s a hard floor such as tiles or wood, otherwise you’re going to fall over immediately. Coming in from a walk I’m taking my shoes off anyway, so it’s hard to forget.
https://twitter.com/theotheredmund/status/134945323076219699...
> we're only back down to three because of a (going on) five decade streak of executives that favor laissez-faire economics, which kind of proves my point that it's a good solution

I think that kind of disproves your point, but maybe we should just stop there. :-)
> “Apple and Hyundai are in discussion, but as it is at early stage, nothing has been decided,” Hyundai said, before releasing subsequent statements that removed all mentions of Apple but said Hyundai was receiving electric car cooperation requests from parties it didn’t identify.

The first rule of private negotiations with Apple is you don’t talk about private negotiations with Apple.
wouldn't it also count reflections, for example, which are not real bottles to be counted ?
On many sites, Firefox's reader icon gets the content before javascript hides/removes it. Especially if the button is pushed faster than the transition effects.
Far-Left Elites Admit They Are Using Covid to ‘Reset’ America to Socialism
Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says
I’ve opened it on 2 devices and showed 2 different numbers. So either the counter is fake, or there is a load balancer issue :)
Is it using any kind of IP or something like that to recognize the place in queue? I was around 100, I pasted the link on a Whatsapp conversation to share it (I guess it did a request to get a preview), and when I came back to the tab I was last in the queue.
I'm getting downvoted for recommending a journalist. We're headed for interesting times.
To paraphrase C. S. Lewis: They say that unregulated speech is destructive. I do not contradict them. But I oppose speech regulation because I see nobody fit to be trusted with regulating it.
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This. The main things we have to decide in the next decade or so is "who gets to decide what the truth is?" and "how can we allow creative dissent from that truth?"

We have to allow people to dissent, or we will have destroyed our own civilisation.
i opened dev tools and lost my place in the queue :(
>With a sufficiently magical kernel function, indeed you can get great results with a kernel machine. But it's not so easy to write a kernel function for a domain like image processing, where shifts, scales, and small rotations shouldn't affect similarity much. Let alone for text processing, where it should recognize 2 sentences with similar meaning as similar.

I think the key issue at hand is that gradient descent is easier to train than a model using kernel functions. Someone could absolutely devise a mechanism for back propagation of errors with kernel functions, but at that point, it is basically a neural network.
> Like this problem is hard. I want free and open communication as much as the next person it's not so easy.

I want free and open communication as long as it does inconvenience me or those in power?

Also remember: public groups and channels on Telegram are public. You can join them and report them if you want.

What you cannot is join my family group and start judging my kids based on what they said one afternoon when they were angry.

The problem here is that because of journalists like these we now have to prepare to defend Telegram against authorities, because some well connected journalists said it was the next evil thing after Parler.

People believe this, just like they believe that MeWe is an alt-right hotspot (it is mostly ex-googleplusers discussing chili growing, general gardening, sharing landscape photos etc - unless maybe I haven't searched for the magic string that unlocks all the evil..?)

The result is that ordinary people shy away from newer, better technology and fall back to/stick with abusers line Facebook.

Yep. Facebook, the place that has hosted much more hate speech than any alternative platform I know of.
It should still be UNDERSTANDABLE to ML experts even if they are not the target customer.

IMO Making your pitch non-understandable is just a bad idea ...
Dated (2005), but this report seems comprehensive: https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/nsa/sta.pdf
When are you guys going to figure out that this doesn't work anymore?
This was the same for me during my first serious breakup. The only thing that made me feel marginally better was walking through my neighbourhood. If it weren’t for the hot Australian summer and risk of severe sunburn or heatstroke, I probably would have just walked nonstop every day.
Does that mean your employer should fire you for your HN comments and tweets from personal accounts?
I had and still have the same suspicion. I had a lot of friends who said they had the same thing happen around the same time and they all just did it. The real tinfoil hat part of me wonders if it was to aid efforts being fed and ramped up by firms like Cambridge Analytica et. al. in anticipation for the 2016 election and their data collection ops as a whole.
I’m not saying that. I use Lisp and my Lisp programs have dependencies and my other programs depend on Lisp. I’m just saying that (1) Lisp can still stand to integrate better in today’s OS/language scene, and (2) Lisp could benefit from people writing additional high quality libraries. (Lisp has many high quality libraries, but it needs more.)
A private exchange for stocks that is based on crypto?
1. I'm not sure you understand what running water means. It's not water that flows down a river, it's water that comes from a tap. The whole point of running water is that a utility delivers it to your home, regardless of whether or not your town is in a rain forest, or the middle of a desert.

2. You'll die in three days without water. You'll probably be healthier if you spent three days without Facebook.

3. I can't collect water for myself where I live. I suppose I could walk down to the lake, and manually bring up a few buckets of water, but it won't be safe for me to drink. I suppose I can also go buy bottled water, at a ~million-percent markup. There is no economic alternative for me to get water, other than through the water pipes laid to my apartment, by my water utility. I am a completely captive customer for my utility. My water utility has monopoly control of special-purpose one-of-a-kind infrastructure that is used to deliver water to my apartment. That is why my utility is regulated.

4. Unlike with my tap water, there are plenty of functioning alternatives to... Whatever it is that Facebook does for me. If Facebook shut down tomorrow, my life would be mildly disrupted for a week or two, and then would go on with little change.

On the hierarchy of needs, we have air at the top, followed closely by water, shelter, and food, followed at some distance by electricity, and way down the street, that we can barely make out, by grabbing a pair of binoculars, we will see 'Facebook'.

It's just not that important.
On the multistate bar exam there is a invariably a version of this question:

“Susie raised a pet squirrel from birth. It was very well-trained, calm, and seemed to think it was a dog. It would come when called, could do tricks, etc.”

There would be some scenario that would follow where the test-taker would be asked to decide whether this indubitably gentle creature was a “wild animal.” The answer is always yes... training, temperament, etc. has nothing to do with it.

(The issue comes up in legal cases — albeit, rarely — due to the different levels of responsibility one has towards others when one’s pet or livestock causes damage or injury. For a “domesticated animal”, the owner usually needs to be negligent in some way. But, for a “wild animal”, the owner is always strictly liable.

Which is odd in many ways... you may have less liability when your vicious pit bull attacks than when your pet sloth lashes out at someone tormenting it. For, the sloth is by definition “wild” and the dog is, by definition, “domesticated.”
What if it's a specific browser with a specific TLS stack, or something weird?
It sounds like celebrating, not advocating.

That's a very different thing.
theory: it never lets you in

the experience of wanting to get in is the experience
Someone attempted to poison water supply in Florida city during hack
> Yeah but most people aren't paying for g-mail

...Or are they, except not in cash? :) Jokes aside, that's a fair observation, but then one should be able to "transfer" their address by paying a one-time fee, rather than getting a GSuite subscription.
Here we are in a thread about why the internet has become so pessimistic and we have someone spreading disinfo.

Go ahead and perform a TinEye or reverse Google search on that image of the so-called "confidental memo", check out it's origins. Lots of posts on 4Chan, /r/The_Donald, reposts on sites like "JewWorldOrder".

Zero attribution to which organization this is supposedly from. This poster, Solid_Applaud, uploaded this photo to ibb and created his HN account at the same time.
There’s no accounting for taste! I thought the scissor hands one was cringe worthy ! Weird us humans.
I feel like what you refer to as intuition other's refer to as taste, to quote Ira Glass:

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

and to keep with the other comments I would argue that some people have more taste than others, or more passion, or transferable skills that carry over, which often translates into what we think of as natural talent. But it still takes some work.