skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always surprised how little interest there seems to be from the international muslim community in the Xinjiang situation, given that at least parts of it really blow up over even minor anti-Islam actions by single individuals quite regularly. The actions of China seem at least in part aimed at extinguishing Islam as a religion in the region, which would seem far worse than some person drawing a cartoon.
But maybe any reactions just don't make mainstream news.
Adding a watermark to all AI generated images should be imperative.
> In the contemporary world, philanthropy is distinctively American. We give about four hundred and seventy billion dollars a year—more if you count donations of time, physical labor, and material. America’s total is ahead of any other country’s, even as a percentage of G.D.P.

Well, this is just not true.

Americans give 2.1% of GDP to charity [1] while the whole world gives just under 3% [2]. Also when you take a look at a comparison between countries [3] you can see that the US is far behind (percentage-wise, not rank-wise) countries like Netherlands (14%) or Switzerland (13.3%)

1. https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&...

2. https://www.privatebank.citibank.com/newcpb-media/media/docu...

3. https://www.axios.com/2019/11/30/most-charitable-countries-w...
Related to this, and something I should write up in more detail one day: Priority is an order.

"High", "Medium", "Low" are not a priority, they are useless.

A priority is an ordering of tasks. Once you free yourself from trying to assign labels to the priority then you free stakeholders from worrying about putting things "very high" in case they tread on toes and you enable an honest conversation about where it belongs in the list of tasks or projects that need finishing.

After all, no-one ever marks things as "low" priority because they understand it'll never get done, and no-one ever marks things as "high" priority because they worry about the politics of doing so.

The result is you get "medium", "Just above medium", "Just above just above medium" and "JAJAM+" in your JIRA. (True story! And a shout out to anyone recognising JAJAM+).
Drug usage increased in almost all places on the globe or perhaps we have better means to track it. You have to compare it with instances where drug prosecution is strict and those places saw an even higher rise in drug abuses and drug death. By significant margins in some cases bordering on a complete other magnitude. I think Fentanyl in the US is a good example although it also increased in Europe. In countries where usage and dealings are illegal too.
Seconded. also consider Lockhart's "Arithmetic". Bear in mind. These are both non-orthodox style books. Burn Math Class least orthodox.

An orthodox approach to Analysis would be Terence Tao's Analysis books.

Further recommendations depend on your specific goals.
Are millions of Uyghurs interned all terrorists?
Let me click on the doors and chests to toggle the open and close.
China, US racing to make billions from mining lunar minerals
Yeah, practically, it's the same. They don't even own git tbh, and won't even make noise on git core mailing list. I can even go extreme, practically, whether they even can.
Absolute worst case scenario it goes bankrupt and ends up like the second corporate incarnation of Iridium under entirely new owners. Which is very much a successful and essential, mission critical business today.
art of problem solving
How about Orthopox Virus Disease 2022 - ORVID-22 for short. We really risk alienating the corvids though - Carl Bergstrom wouldn't like it
Yeah it's disappointing that the comments are so dominated by his example rather than his greater point. Especially so for people outside the USA for whom Roe v Wade is irrelevant but tribalism isn't.

It's worth considering that this problem isn't necessarily symmetrical around the centre of the political axis. There have been experiments done on this that show conservatives understand the left far better than the other way around. They come up with a large set of "How much do you agree with on a scale of 1-10" type questions on political topics. Then they recruit people from across the political spectrum (self rated) and split them into four groups. Two groups are asked to fill out the survey in the usual way, directly about their own opinions. The other two are asked to answer the survey as they imagine someone from the other side would answer. Then the answers are lined up to see how good each group was at predicting the answers of the other. The results are always the same: conservatives can play 'pretend leftie' much better than the other way around.

I'm always quite suspicious of social science these days but the methodology in this type of experiment seems simple enough that there can't be much hiding in it, except maybe, the exact nature of the questions used. This experiment has been replicated however.

This provides empirical support for what has probably been the real world experience of many of us, that people on the right are much more willing to interact with and be exposed to left wing views than the reverse. Example: I've encountered people in the past who threw tantrums at work because they discovered that someone else was reading right wing news websites (in their own time). The idea of a conservative person going to HR and filing complaints about other employees because they read the Guardian is laughable, and it's not because the Guardian is somehow better or more moral than other newspapers (very much not so). People on the left are just drastically more afraid than normal people of exposure to non-left wing thought, and this problem gets worse the further left you go. This is also why communist countries always rely heavily on censorship and speech control.

Unfortunately the experiments can't illuminate why this effect exists, only proving that it does. The rest is in the realm of speculation. They do leave one clue though: the left wing participants usually fail to predict right wing responses because they're picking answers much more extreme than those people actually hold.
That stance strikes me as untenable. People get consensually drunk while horny all the time, and act on it, usually without major regrets. Taking the hard line of requiring absolute sobriety for consent invites all sorts of other decision-making inhibitors to effectively invalidate consent. Anxiety disorder? Consent didn't count. Low blood sugar? Grieving a lost loved one? Tired from jogging? Didn't count.

I am wholly behind consent between children and adults of actually significant age gap being invalid (the standard creepiness rule from xkcd comes to mind,) but mental fitness to make the choice really is a blurry line and intents should be considered. Well-meaning people who had no intent to exploit or coerce are not rapists because of one voluntary beer, nor should the justice system treat them as such. It only encourages another kind of victimization via the courts.
I see.

I think I understand better the motivation behind your initial comment that I've criticized. Thanks for taking time to explain.
The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy.

They do, but only through the proxy of 'likes' and 'followers'. This leads to a bigger problem with web content, especially with video - people conflate the quality of the video production with the quality of the content. Someone who can make slick, glossy videos full of effects will almost always have a far larger following than someone who makes videos with better content but worse visuals. The same goes for a well-designed website. People literally believe that the loading speed of a webpage has an impact on the quality of what it says.

You could put 30 years into learning, understanding, and explaining a complex topic, but if you can't use AffectEffects or you haven't paid attention to your Core Web Vitals the chances are that YouTube and Google are going to rank you lower than someone who can.
Six-round interview process.

Presumably with compassionate rejection letters for the unsuccessful candidates - I don't think.

Kindness is the most important quality any human can have. I'm detecting none from this tool. I do appreciate the warning not to go near his 2-bit no-office-manager company.
> I think we should exercise the people’s desire for small government and relocate military bases to the places that pay for them

Do you know what military bases do? They aren’t there to protect just a local region.
I'm going to slightly modify and repeat comment of mine I wrote here on another post for the same topic:

According to the DKSB (Deutscher Kinderschutzbund) [1], encryption barely plays a role when it comes to the distribution of CSAM [2]. In short: DKSB is not in favour of this. You know, the people that probably know what they are talking about when it comes to the protection of children, unlike the politicians who are trying to force this through.

The politicians which only really talked to salesmen of surveillance software [3] about this and never really consulted any independent people with expertise in tech, privacy or the protection of children [4].

Because this was never, at any moment, about protecting children.

[1]: https://www.dksb.de/en/home/

[2]: https://www.eu-info.de/dpa-europaticker/316232.html

[3]: https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-ho...

[4]: https://edri.org/our-work/private-and-secure-communications-...
Where is the line then? How are you going to argue to the judge that you were on the "anxiety disorder, single beer, diabetic" side of the line? Is that a risk that anyone will want to take?
well you got a bad teacher mate, probably in ur neighbourhood whose side hustle is teaching music.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_rape_in_the_United_St..., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_in_the_United_States, I’m sure there’s more on Wikipedia alone.
It feels like there are already audiences who are already fooled by content narrated by robots, I've seen some where they don't sound totally robotic, they just mispronounce particular terms that you know it's speech synthesis...
Two points:

1. I'm confused. Your original request was, "Can you point me to the documents describing systemic torture in those 'camps'?" Clearly the BBC article outlines fairly substantial evidence of systemic torture in Chinese-run prison camps in Xinjiang. Would you not agree?

2. It's possible for one to criticize the human rights abuses in American prisons--which absolutely exist, I agree--while simultaneously criticizing the human rights abuses in Chinese prisons. If we must make a comparison of scale, the Chinese ones seem far, far worse, of course. But I don't think we need make a comparison; this thread was about Chinese prison camps, and you asked for evidence of systemic torture (which I provided); that you then choose to bring up "similar" behavior in western countries is...strange.

It's almost like you are trying to change the subject, repeatedly and unsuccessfully.
So basically the same history as yesterday with changed fields, and a slightly different author name.

I wonder what's the purpose here. Is the 'product' discouraging people from pursuit a PhD?
I think you would really enjoy the Nautilus article about Game Theory of anonymous philanthropy:

https://nautil.us/larry-david-and-the-game-theory-of-anonymo...

The opening call out is pretty great, too. Ever see the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where Larry's big donation is upstaged by Ted's anonymous donation?

Visible philanthropy is not a simple system of rewards. It's much more interesting than that.
This is a very well written article that justifies its criticism of the EC's proposal with facts and numbers. Based on this, it really does look like child abuse is merely used as an excuse for more general surveillance.
Always have to check the date for April's fool day when seeing a news like that, but sadly it is not...

When you think that gitlab started as an open source alternative to the closed world of GitHub, and was free as in "free speech". And then, little by little it becomes the same thing.
Less and less things not in premium plan and less affordable plans.
Now, they are ok to use as-is a Microsoft editor, that is free as in "free core" and is in the straight line of the EEE strategy.

So, for me, each time it is less and less reasons to use gitlab and better to use directly GitHub, for better performances anyway...
Reeve Collins interviewed Monday morning on CNBC. I won't editorialize and just leave it as a data point for others to interpret.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GsMPMXGzAg
> There is no substitute for a good teacher.

Note that this does not mean one cannot fully learn a subject from books or that the average teacher is better than books or that a good teacher dealing with 30 other kids will be better than a good book.
> Not 19, not 21, 20. That's how you remove rigidity?

I mean, the fact that the 20% figure is only a rough guideline is so obvious it doesn't need to be stated.
>In 10 years Google regret not buying Github.

They regretted it the day it was announced.
This argument is always raised but in the end, the most work is done by volunteers and the top of those big corporations (the charity status is just a tax dodge) reap wealth like in any other corporation.

The lower down payed employees get the "you don't get much but you work for a charity" speech and get abused as much as the volunteers.

Let the CEO do it out of charity and take a 1$ salary and see if it all goes to hell. I very much doubt it.
As someone who does photography on the side this rings very true for me (regarding quality of work).

Instagram has steadily been showing my content less and less (based on their own analytics) and I see less and less of who I follow in favor of content aggregation accounts (that I don’t follow).
In the extreme case I’m actually more likely to see content by someone I follow via an aggregation account then the actual author (I do follow both in one rare occasion).

Weirdly enough I find recommendation systems getting worse and worse when it comes to content on YT/Instagram, shouldn’t we be seeing progress, it would benefit all parties involved.
It is funny, but most of these points almost equally apply to research output.
How do you structure that trade such that it pays out when tether collapses?
The hollow universe of modern physics
He was definitely onto something in that book where people also resort to using blockchains to fingerprint their behavior and build an unbreakable chain of authenticity. Later in that book that is used to authorize the hardware access of the deceased and uploaded individuals.

A bit far out there in terms of plot but the notion of authenticating based on a multitude of factors and fingerprints is not that strange. We've already started doing that. It's just that we currently still consume a lot of unsigned content from all sorts of unreliable/untrustworthy sources.

Fake news stops being a thing as soon as you stop doing that. Having people sign off on and vouch for content needs to start becoming a thing. I might see Joe Biden saying stuff in a video on Youtube. But how do I know if that's real or not?

With deep fakes already happening, that's no longer an academic question. The answer is that you can't know. Unless people sign the content. Like Joe Biden, any journalists involved, etc. You might still not know 100% it is real but you can know whether relevant people signed off on it or not and then simply ignore any unsigned content from non reputable sources. Reputations are something we can track using signatures, blockchains, and other solutions.

Interesting with Neal Stephenson that he presents a problem and a possible solution in that book.
Have you got a theory for why the straight people at the rave came away without Monkeypox but the gay and bisexual men did?
Relevant. Guy Steele, Growing a Language https://youtu.be/lw6TaiXzHAE
> but having 2 FTDI cables plugged in sometimes causes issues

As long as you have genuine FTDI cables or at least ones that expose an unique serial number, you can use udev rules to have clean reproducible device names: https://askubuntu.com/a/165262/777894
Netflix tests Netflix: The story behind the service’s new two-thumbs-up feature
only skimmed it but there is nothing "data science" here. I guess the voting system on hackernews is only as effective as democracies
well it's not due to price changes, 1 USDT = 1$, so yes there are less coins in circulation.

Poster below says Tether can create and destroy coins at will. They can certainly create them, not sure they can destroy them if in others wallets (and doing so would be a huge adverse news event). If they have destroyed coins can only be their own (in their own wallets) but I suspect that would also be transparent. My feeling is that yes there have been $10bn of redemptions.
While I also dislike bloated websites, I suspect the climate impact is rather neglible. The internet as a whole needs a few percent of global power, and the vast majority of that is going to be (video) streaming. Most heavy JS is going to be static and running on very efficient end devices.

The worst case estimates seem to be 7kWh/GiG (2012) (the best case much less than a 0.1 kWh/Gig, but only including network), which is ~60 km in electrical cars or 15 km in petrol cars. (The latter two only including the incremental energy usage).

The additionally induced trips by AirBnB (especially flying) are going to be so much worse than their website could ever be.

Energy usage data is from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jiec.12630 (with very old & high estimates disregarded). In 2022 the internet will probably be more efficient, the study estimates a halving every 2 years. So naively (very naively) extrapolating the 7kWh/Gig figure from 2012 to now is less than half a kWh/Gig.
I expected to see something about probability and statistics but they're hidden with dozens of other topics in the electives > Any and every topic imaginable. Are probability and statistics not part of a regular mathematics curriculum?
So don’t use it? This is an additional feature for people that want to use it. It doesn’t prevent you from using your own IDE.
You should actually click on the link I will quote from it:

> A paid trial project of about 20 hours work, where we work with you on a real piece of engineering at Ghost.

I could do it for free but paid is a question mark. As long as they didn't find out I'd be fine lol.
If someone has a nonstandard analysis text that they endorse as really good, I would love to hear about that. It would be a shame to tell a kid about deltas and epsilons.
> Still, concerns about political equity—bearing in mind that philanthropy is only one of the ways in which capital can be converted into power—deserve systematic and rigorous investigation. Several universities have created centers for the research. It’s either apt or ironic that philanthropy pays for this, too.

Yeah, and I'm sure those research centers will be completely unbiased and unafraid to bite the hand that feeds them...
The clickbait headline put me off, but it's actually quite well reasoned.
> trumpification (i.e. lies upon lies and speaking as if you have a significant mental problem)

Why use both the term and explanation for it? Either the reader knows the term and has to skip the explanation, or skip the term and read just the explanation. When in doubt, using just the longer expression avoids useless noise
the idea of indian classical music is to find your own personal tonic (the 'Sa') with your guru assisting. everything else in a raga is around that tonic. the problem with a harmonium is the notes are tuned to standard western classical music frequencies and you pick one of these notes as your tonic, the closest comfortable for you. its also comfortable for other accompanists to tune their instruments (independently of you) to. but its a compromise and especially one that works well for the stage. what is lost however is the search for your own personal tonic, thereby a whole different approach to music making. indian classical music is by the individual, for the individual, a kind of meditation but tbh it got compromised long b4 harmoniums came along when played for kings or later the rupee paying public. of course doesnt mean standardistation isnt good or cant produce 'good music' but the core reason is kinda gone deep underground now.

i guess only in dhrupad they get very close to this approach. you would take forever to tune the tanpura to your tonic and 5th (or 4th) above (depending on raga), low tonic. now if your tonic isnt a standard note, you would first tune the tanpura to your tonic (by humming), then you understand the 'relationships' between your tonic and your 5th (or your 4th) better by tuning (ie listening deeply to) the tanpura cos you cant simply dial up a standard note. its a whole different world.

one could argue why not tune the harmoniums notes into your personal tonics and 5ths and 4ths and all other notes but of course its tedious, the other deeper idea is in indian classical music gurus wouldnt quite fix the position of a 'note' in the raga, its fluid, it emerges, its rediscovered (the ahha happens here) etc.

what is happening now is as harmonium is immensely popular they start to rewrite history and say well indian classical music wasnt about finding your own tonic after all...u are no special...u were waiting for our standard notes...u are just like us....but not as good as our beethovens and mozarts ;)
I'm so mad at Google I'm going to stop using it entirely!

Oh wait ;)
> You're complaining that dollars are created out of nothing - they're not, of course

They’re not?

> you cannot have a bank run anymore. It's not possible.

Right, because the banking system can always create dollars out of nothing to satisfy any outstanding liabilities.

> Banks are backed by the FDIC which in turn is backed by the Fed

The Fed is a creature of Congress. It’s all sovereign currency issuance.
"try to use react bare bone"
I ended up with a math degree without taking any of these classes.
I got inspired after watching it. There is a clever piece of script behind it.
I've planned a full coding session today in order to implement it.
Cooking recipes, philosophy quotes, Wikipedia articles (?) and daily news headlines. Still looking for more content.
I'm also thinking about TTS functions like the one used in Sir Reddit YT channel.
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It's not even the CEOs. Most non-profits are just staffed by busy-bodied millennials working up a bunch of corporate memphis themed junk content. It actually is incredible how many people work jobs at a non-profit that think they are the stars of "The Bold Type" (I know that show is about a magazine). Doing nothing important all day except talking to their friends and posting it on social media - expecting that THAT was work. Also it's late and I'm salty.
The best book for me was "Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms" by Hubbard and Hubbard.

It is the only book (I know of) that brings you from absolute basics to an integrated development of the subjects from its title. And that integrated developments actually leads to a good didactic method.

The search function will show you many comments on HN recommending it.
> Mathematics is best learned under the guidance of a mentor.

I disagree. The most important thing is curiosity.

For math, you need to think, question, and play with the concepts. It is much more active than just reading. Develop an intuition by seeing what happens when you maximize or minimize a parameter. Think about the consequences if something were different. Try to derive relations for fun.

This also applies to music and code.

If you figure out how things work on your own, you will retain it far better than going through the motions mechanically.
why do I remember that nextjs always has had layout. Only worked with it briefly 2 years ago.
Thank you. For the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL see the second paragraph.