skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also don't know that targeting any particular thing makes sense.

There might be some targets that contribute more than their fair share: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-percent-power...

It's like optimizing code. You don't go optimizing everything willy-nilly, you profile first, and attack the most egregious hotspots.
there are many of states and entity types where the owner/member/director/principle disclosure requirement happens a long time later

you can form companies, do the transaction, dissolve the company or let the state dissolve it automatically eventually

the record of the title the stays as is, regardless who (or what) the property ownership passed through to

but real estate aside, I know people do political contributions this way
"used to be"

They still are in many cases. Proprietary compilers for embedded devices (MCUs, FPGAs, etc.) are still commonplace. The license for the full Intel compiler suite discussed here isn't free either.
They have a podcast together called Dithering which is pretty good (but not free) - they're friends.

I think John's article is better than Ben's, but they're both worth reading.

Ben takes the view that unencrypted cloud is the better tradeoff - I'm not sure I agree. I'd rather have my stuff e2ee in the cloud. If the legal requirements around CSAM are the blocker then Apple's approach may be a way to thread the needle to get the best of both worlds.
Go to nearly any university and look who is in the computer science classes.
You should do a piece on how the racial biases used to determine the "correct" color balance for film grew into the algorithms for facial recognition and result in the terrible accuracy for non-white non-males.

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/racial-discriminatio...
That's all dependent on the subs you visit. I have learned so much on reddit. News and leaks before it breaks anywhere else. How to 3D print stuff. Extremely complicated laws and how to avoid going to prison for stuff I knew nothing about.

Reddit is the ultimate "it is what you make of it" website. If you spend your time in the subs that make you angry then yeah, but if you narrow it down to only things you like you'll have a great time.
“The Diversity agenda of the past 20+ years has created more racism and division than I witnessed in my entire life before then.”

This could only be said from someone in a group that benefitted from the racism of the past.

Edit: Love the downvotes, but not unexpected given the demographic.
Thanks for the positive message. We appreciate the support from people who understand the problem that we're trying to solve with Secoda. We haven't had someone request Google Data Studio as an integration, but if you were interested in discussing what that would look like please reach out to andrew@secoda.co. It looks like there's an API for accessing assets in Google Data Studio, so it's definitely possible.

Our most requested feature is discussion threads attached to each data resource (table, dashboard, etc) to build context around a resource. So that will be coming in the near future, and we are happy to hear you also think it would be super helpful!
This change appears to only affect posts in western languages, and users with multilingual content end up with a mix of fonts in their timeline, which doesn't look all that great.

But at least Twitter did not mix fonts within the same post, I guess.
> regulating Apple and Google

this is not strong safety for citizens

source: political history
Quite a few states have replaced partisan assignments with more neutral algorithms.
I would also like to see LaTex subset to be supported by a dedicated GUI control in every magor platform (eg windows, android, ios, etc) and that control be available within browser builds for those platforms.

This way math in mobile native message apps, web apps, etc -- will look the same. This also would mean that people from middle school to grade school will write and read math typings the same way as they change/switch devices they use.

I would hope that it would influence calculator manufactures to upgrade their 30 year old 'money making' tools to a more typing oriented input.
IMO, it's perfectly fair and fine if they want to take that approach

Likewise, if I'm looking at an offer for $350k total compensation from Company X, and $300k from Company Y because they think my time is less valuable when it's remote, I'll probably go with the higher pay

Indian engineers who could do a $300k job in the SF Bay Area aren't going to just hang out in India making $3k a year for long.. sooner or later they'll get a lot more of that value they're generating. "This lazy fucking American who fixes the bugs my tests find is making 100x as much money as me??"
So join a different community on Reddit whose rules you like better, or make one. Why does everyone have to allow everything?
If the website owner didn't think it was a big deal, why would they call police in the first place? Police are not just sitting and eagerly waiting for the ridiculous calls and complaints they receive. Most likely the website owner made the story sound like sort of theft occurred.
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I think meaning of the term diversity is often twisted into a binary outcome. If a company is 65% white and 35% Chinese is that more diverse than a company that is 70% white, 10% Chinese, 10% Indian, and 10% Vietnamese?

Often, the above two examples would be flattened to just 35% or 30% Asian. But even my example is very reductive - China, for example, has many dozens of ethnic groups.

I think 'diversity' is a very hard thing to quantify, which makes it more difficult to measure the effectiveness of initiatives to increase diversity.

Can anyone point me towards better methods of measuring diversity? If society or a particular organization wishes to increase diversity, it seems important to be able to measure it with more nuance.

What would an ideal algorithm for quantifying diversity look like?
What's at risk of being taken away is the right of weaker groups to abuse stronger ones, at least to some degree.

Stronger ones always have and always will abuse weaker ones. It's pretty much a tautology. Freedom of speech and classical liberalism in general is the only defense the weak have.
As far as I understand they use some kind of hash. I suspect their paper on avoiding hash collisions is right next to the Nobel price wining description of the worlds first working perpetuum mobile.
Jews for a long time now have been functionally white

It's a Schrodinger's white guy situation, often even to themselves. I've seen the same person claim to be both white and not white in different times and contexts. I wonder if Irish and Italian people went through a similar period on their way to whiteness and we just don't know about it because no one was listening.
The front page is a perfected outrage machine. I don't think even Twitter comes close to it.
You can always say no to this. I've seen recruiters do this other places and people got their pictures taken down after the fact.
Yes, it seems like a free "Lite" version of Codespaces for every repo whether the repo has paid for and enabled Codespaces or not. It seems to be using the recent "Virtual Workspaces" support in VS Code, just using a browser-hosted VS Code rather than a local install, so some of the VS Code extensions supported in Codespaces won't work in this GitHub.Dev "every repo" version.
Valuation was $10B per linked article for those curious (I was).
If you try moderating one you'll see quickly why these tools are necessary.
Yes, welcome to Corporate Typograhism™ where big corp takes an already existing (copyrighted) font -- change it a little -- then release it as their own.

Some Copyright is more Copyright than others...
so why do these businesses have to own their land then? Just let them only lease it...
I've been permanently banned from almost all of the top COVID related subs for daring to discuss disallowed topics, like the Wuhan lab, as well as expressing anti-lockdown sentiments. My appeals have been instantly denied as well.

I understand the idea that subreddits are user-run communities and should be able to self-moderate, but there are a couple problems with this:

1. Reddit claims to be the "front page of the internet" and promotes many of these top subreddits with front-page rankings, user suggestions, and push notifications. Therefore, reddit mods have immense power in controlling the flow of information to those who believe they're interacting with a reputable source, and Reddit corporate has washed their hands of any responsibility to have a say in this, despite the profit they receive from it.

2. Reddit corporate certainly is willing to get involved with subreddits, by banning or quarantining certain subs for spreading "misinformation", but this seems selectively applied to one particular side of these issues. Anti-lockdown subreddits are banned for downplaying Covid, but major Covid subreddits openly feature fear-mongering posts that overplay, say, the risk of the virus to kids. Both are misinformation, but one is allowed and and the other is banned.
I get where you're coming from, as I created /r/relationship_advice. The existence of such blacklists, even "enormous" ones, isn't inherently bad; it's just a reality of dealing with an enormous flood of spam on a $0 budget.

That being said, blacklists on strings have 100% been abused by both the mods and the admins. Blacklists should be used for mitigating spam — e.g. we'll often block a specific attacker by blacklisting certain phrases or regexes and then deal with the inevitable edge case false positives by hand — not generally for censoring ideas or "offensive" words.

Sure, by all means block phrases like "kill yourself" in /r/SuicideWatch and maybe /r/relationship_advice. If a sub is inciting violence or posting CP, there's probably a case for banning it. But when people have to self-censor common curse words and even the word "fart" in a general forum like /r/tifu, clearly something is wrong.
> The Diversity agenda of the past 20+ years has created more racism and division than I witnessed in my entire life before then

I am forced to wonder if this isn't precisely because the "diversity agenda" has simply called attention to something already lurking in the background. In other words, it's not that there is more racism and division than there used to be, only that you're more aware of it now.
Where’s your evidence on this?

The NCMEC database and this hashing have been around for like 15 years. I’m curious as to how you know this.
It is coming, and there is nothing we can do about it.

There's a chilling feeling watching this all unfold, as our freedoms get taken away and we're powerless to do anything other than complain on a programming themed social media website.

We'll be labelled as conspiracy theorists, wackos, nutjobs, unintegratable people.

That meme you shared with your friend in a private chat? Sorry, was a bit too anti-establishment for our tastes.
What is the purpose of having a company's demographics represent the country?

What if certain ethnic groups focus more on sports, or biology, or being lawyers or doctors, or they skip the whole college ripoff and go to a trade school. Do they still need equal representation in tech?

Do we just want equally smart people, or do we want people who also are motivated to work on tech, due to their cultural values?

What about the individuals themselves? What if we ignore the color of their skin for a moment and try to find diversity in peoples' experiences, backgrounds etc. I feel these anti-racism movements do more to further cement race as an important component of identity into peoples' minds than anything else these days.
What are the necessary components of a contract? If I wanted to create a document storage for contract datastructures, each having their own unique content addressable hash, what are the key features that would be needed to be considered a legal contract? Name/Title, creator, recipients, signatures/acknowledgements and terms? Are their specific terms involved. Any specs on this sort of electronic data?
Not a fan of binary choices myself, I'd like to consider these options:

1 - everyone believes every single thing they see on fbk feed.
2 - everyone is well versed in how to highlight, one-click / tap search ggle,ddg, bing - for more info about highlighted thing (taught how to determine what a good source is).

See, the first way can work mostly, but many problems emerge in short while. The second way empowers people to think before acting and to learn more and not buy what X is selling automatically.

(I have witnessed first hand the damage done by 'fact checking' on fbook - people 100 believe a false post because fbk has not labled it as misinfo - for three days)
Reddit pushes certain communities to the front page and suggests them to users, and quarantines/bans other communities.
I don't think they give a shit about investors actually.
I remember those shoes. I bought one pair of Yao Ming signature shoes with that pump on. Those were nice, the only issue was that they had holes on the sole. I think the holes were designed for better ventilation and keeping your feet cool and dry, but the reality is if I walked on some water/rain my feet would immediately get wet.
> Liberalism announces ‘one person, one vote’ and ‘equality before the law’, and yet somehow the children of the wealthy have a plusher time on Christmas morning than those of the very poor (not to mention most other days of their lives).

I'm not sure I see the "and yet" conflict here; equality before the law and one person, one vote don't have anything to do with money. In fact, the big deal about these two ideas is that they completely ignore how much money you have. Maybe someone can explain to me what the author means here.
as someone who trains, that is one of the main reasons I stopped buying reebok. Most of my shorts and shoes were reebok prior to that deal, they were good for the price.
> We do not interact with our Machine environments via an array of bespoke, single-purpose buttons.

We don't? Every single light source in my house is controlled by a bespoke button or switch. I have buttons to control the burners on my stove, the temperature in my room, the music, etc. I have two buttons on my toilet and I select the appropriate flush mode based on context. I have a button I carry in my pocket to open my car which is full of buttons. At the parking garage a button raises the gate and gives me a ticket. Even the coke machine with a touchscreen has a dedicated button to dispense liquid.
Since he said "non-LLC owner", it pretty clearly is trying to tie ownership to a single (or married) real person owner.

They probably intended to limit this to residential properties.
It would be great to have information about how much work this took. The only thing I've seen mentioning timescale was the leaked Apple/NCMEC memo:

> Today marks the official public unveiling of Expanded Protections for Children, and I wanted to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for all of your hard work over the last few years.

So this doesn't sound like a feature where all the puzzle pieces were in place and they just needed NeuralHash.

Even if you casually “put aside” NeuralHash as you suggest, the amount of research and testing that has happened to ship the system they've described is not trivial.

I stand by the idea that this was never a point release away.

> Apple could have already implemented a secret image tag for terrorist material" or "drug material" that is attached automatically to images

Apple cannot even consistently tag cats and dogs. There is no way it was ready to ship a feature that tags drug or terrorist material in a way that generates few enough false positives that agencies won't just turn it off.

I do agree with you that we have no way to know what's running on closed-source devices (or even open-source ones, unless we personally audit the whole process from dust to device).

For me, though, “you can't ever really know what's running on your device so why care about contentious new things you've just learned will definitely be running on your device” is not compelling.

I might swallow 10 spiders a year in my sleep, but if someone offers to feed me one I think it's fair to decline.
Wouldn't you need to compare it to available workforce and not entire population? I don't know how the available workforce breaks down by race (even more specifically tech) but it seems like that could change the numbers a lot.
Then you might just find a trustee's name in its place rather than the person that actually paid for the property. At least with LLCs you can usually lookup the owners of the LLC.
Ah, makes sense then
> go start your own reddit.

This is actually what makes reddit great, that anyone can start their own subreddit, mod it however they want, and compete with all the others based on the merits of its own content, community and moderation style.
"Asians" doesnt mean much, if it has to mean someone from the continent of Asia, given 60% of world population is from Asia.
Yeah and don't you hate how graphs aren't graphs and trees aren't trees? These people talk about bootstrapping when they aren't even referring to footwear! And always talking about bandwidth as if it's a maximum data rate when the term really refers to the electromagnetic spectrum! Makes me so angry how these people treat language as if it's some fluid thing where homonyms develop.
That has not been my experience, and I've browsed some _really_ niche subreddits for a "famous" group of bodybuilders in Delray beach if you catch my drift.
"Great content" === what are you referring to exactly? The left-wing propaganda that dominates the front page, passed off as "news" or "science"?
One thing that they do not seem to be taking advantage of is how specialized many of their communities are. It seems primed for letting advertisers target to specific audiences, but as a user I don't really feel like the ads I get are targeted to what I read at all? Maybe I am uninformed but it seems like an advertising goldmine that hasn't been taken advantage of.

If you are a PC components retailer, users of /r/buildapc seems like an ideal audience to target for advertising. Camera retailer, where better than /r/photography? Cookware - advertise in /r/cooking. Repeat ad infinitum across every niche interest on the site.

They should be able to enable advertisers to do really effective targeting of campaigns. Is this not possible with their current ad tools, or are they not selling the capabilities to advertisers well enough? Or is there not actually that much money in targeted ads, is all the money in generic ads like Coca-Cola & cars?
Launder it.
As I said, the design enables this, if Apple chose to do it. It remains to be seen if they will.
How many do care though? The vast majority has swallowed whichever pills were laid in front of them and fully believe the "I have nothing to hide" message.

It's not hopeless, the people with money here should be putting it where their mouth it and actually buying things or donating to projects that make a positive change.
Potentialy to be able to introduce e2e encryption later on.
Untrue... reddit pushes some subreddits to the front page and bans other subreddits on the basis of spreading "disinformation".
Keep in mind, this manual review only happens after Apple’s system detects multiple occurrences of matches. Until that point, no human is alerted of matches nor does anyone see how many matches there have been.

In a TechCrunch interview Apple said that they are going after larger targets that are worth NCMEC’s time.
In case anyone wants to take a look at the actual data, I unrolled the weird summary files into CSVs: https://github.com/henrydavidge/redistricting-data-2020
The EFF wrote a really shitty hit piece deliberately confused the parental management function with the matching against hashes of illegal images. Two different things. From there, a bazillion hot takes followed.
I would add that it feeds nicely into the "outrage industry" that is an offshoot of the attention economy. There is a lot of money (power as well) in dividing and enraging people. As long as current ad revenue models (and yes, the associated algorithmic escalation of outrage) persist, I don't see this improving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing
What is giphy's revenue stream?

Is it just selling what people have searched for? (Or I suppose, informing facebook)

Is there really enough data in gif search patterns to be monitizeable?
This problem is vastly overstated. The real issue is that there simply aren't enough homes being built for all the people who want to live in desirable cities
Sounds a bit like /r/restofthefuckingowl.
There is a LOT standing in the way of monetization for Reddit:

- younger user base (so less disposable income)

- loose concept of user identity, so can't tailor ads

- more corpoarate and mainstream advertisers tend to stay away due to the nature of the community and content shared

- primary usage is on web rather than mobile apps

All of these are fixable, but the question is can they do so without alienating their use base.
> Apple is using a similarity based hash, so if the NCMEC database contains a picture that's similar to one that you have, it could produce a match even if it's not the same

It's actually worse than this, if the hashes are similar then they'll get sent for review. Your picture could be a picture of an abstract painting[0] which has no visual similarity to anything in the db, but through the magic of crypto is similar and it too will be flagged.

[0] The reason I use this example is because someone posted a bunch of abstract art that was flagged by the algo.
> Gruber practically (no, perhaps actually) worships Apple. He'd welcome Big Brother into his house if it came with an Apple logo, and he'd tell us how we were all wrong for distrusting it.

You mean the same Gruber who described the situation as “justifiably, receiving intense scrutiny from privacy advocates.”? The one who said “this slippery-slope argument is a legitimate concern”?

I'm having a hard time reconciling your pat dismissal with the conclusion of his piece which very clearly rejects the position you're attributing to him as grounds for dismissal:

> But the “if” in “if these features work as described and only as described” is the rub. That “if” is the whole ballgame. If you discard alarmism from critics of this initiative who clearly do not understand how the features work, you’re still left with completely legitimate concerns from trustworthy experts about how the features could be abused or misused in the future.

I mean, sure, know where he's coming from but be careful not to let your own loyalties cause you to make a bad-faith interpretation of a nuanced position on a complex issue.
They don't support the same precise system, but you can e.g. definitely do installable apps on Firefox for Android: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...