jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What can tech workers do to help this effort? Either through supporting this particular project or through other applications of their skills?
Posting election misinformation violates Twitter ToS, and since the election he has posted something violating that policy (in their judgment) if not every day, very close to it. These policies have been around since before the election [1].

These examples don't appear to be hypocritical to me on the surface, but I am certainly open to more information. Many people are not happy with Kathy Griffin doing that, on both sides. And I am honestly not sure how Cuomo saying that violates anything, could you explain? Or point me in the direction of it? I had not heard about it. If it does violate their ToS, then he should have received a suspension or at least warning too.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/civic-int... https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/2020-elec...
Wow, this is getting up votes?

I encourage everyone to fully exploit any and all data they can get their hands on

I think SAP found out where this can lead. A piece of data doesn't have to be under lock and key for it to not belong to you. Moreover, it's not really that hard to be caught when you start scanning "all the data you can get your hands on" rather than all the data you have a legal right to look at.

Edit: ISP could only benefit by doing this publicly since they have to actively sell this to ad-buyers to make money. And it would cost a bit of money to do.
Memes and popular quotes as the top comments. I had to double check the page's URL to make sure I really was on HN.
In a wider sense yes.

But to a set of skilled poker players the value of the cards are relatively immaterial; they will play the averages and the other players.

One of my friends (a hardened player) once put it like this:

The cards are simply there to settle those times when players call bluffs to the end
So what do you do apart from just list spaces?
Uprooting and going away with no warning, and then refusing to communicate unless it's not from an old platform sounds is a perfect recipe for being seen as awfully arrogant.

The issue here is that it's a sudden approach. Humans are creatures of habit, and shifting interpersonal relationships slowly matters. This is not an API migration to a new provider where you push a commit or two and it's done. If you explain why, then the other person may even sympathise. If you don't, you will be seen as unreasonable and puritanical.
All tips are in a database.

In my new template there is a section that will have a graph of stats on performance and ability to check how the algorithm has performed across segments (leagues, etc).

I am planning on using a Betfair bot in the future. Once I am happy that I have everything in place I will create this.
Less Wrong also published an article arguing the option of:

>choosing a career with high direct social value than by choosing a lucrative career with a view toward donating as much as possible.

That would cover skilled volunteering efforts.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/hjn/earning_to_give_vs_altruistic_ca...
The way these disclosures keep building in severity, it almost makes it seem like Greenwald et al are preparing us for some truly horrific news. Something along the lines of, "NSA and GCHQ have been using their agencies' resources to alter the outcome of elections."
"iMac has two built-in microphones"

https://www.apple.com/imac/features/

So that won't work for me, sadly.
> correlation doesn't mean causation.

As a statistician, I guess I should be happy that more people are aware of this. But I also think too many people are taking "correlation != causation" superficially. I mean, almost all of science is based on significant correlational findings, especially when the traditional way to prove causation (i.e. via randomized trial) is unethical (i.e. we can't randomly assign people to be insured vs. uninsured).

Along these lines, I often find people who say "correlation != causation" don't stop and wonder "so how _can_ we prove causation (in a non-randomized study)?" I guess many of them can be partially excused since the answer is non-trivial. But generally, here's a few rules of thumb for making a stronger case for causality from correlation:

* the effect size is relatively large (e.g. uninsured children die at 60% higher odds than insured children)

* the cause comes before the effect (e.g. people are uninsured before they go to the hospital and/or die)

* reversible association (e.g. risk of dying at a hospital changes when people get insurance)

* consistency / consensus across multiple studies (e.g. many studies showing that a difference in insurance status is associated with a significant difference in hospital mortality )

* dose-response relationship (e.g. I didn't link examples previously -- but there were a few studies showing that different levels of insurance, from none to Medicaid to private, is associated with different rates of hospital mortality)

* plausibility (e.g. even from a qualitative point of view, it's quite believable that people who unable to pay a hospital bill might get worse service)
See my replies below regarding "not real science". I'm happy to accept your point in that regard.

As for #1 and #2 - we've created a kibble/pellet formula for virtually every other animal on planet earth. Why not humans? Seems incredibly narrow minded to me.

Not to mention that the average american diet is atrocious so the bar for an improvement is pretty low.
I think the point was that 97% of people want to do their job, whatever it is, and the remaining 3% have to match those people with the ones paying the money for the job to get done.
Has it occurred to you that we don't all find food as entertaining as you do and would rather do other things with our time? I could just as easily say I find it profoundly depressing that such an extraordinary amount of time is wasted on satisfying the basest of biological needs, to eat.

I agree with you on the anti-intellectualism front and the need for real experts, but please don't be so dismissive of the desire to escape the menial daily tasks forced upon us by biology.
You're right. If he's doing his job right, you should be getting MORE than ($125 * # hrs) in value in return.
Now I'm curious, who's your current broker?
Probably the same way people do it at companies that occupy several separate buildings in a complex. You walk.
Task Rabbit is pretty good and well known, and now there's Magic which sits on top of it. There's a lot more but they're smaller.
The whole point of the complicated safe browsing protocol with hash prefixes is to avoid downloading the entire blocklists to the device.
Heh...I was thinking of doing this same thing with a hoodie.

Another thing would be to mask license plates from automated readers....but that may just attract more attention to you.
I believe order is important. The way to verify this is by running a simulation with players whose skills are all equal but vary with some normal distribution, and you will find that skill levels to do move about quite a bit even though the underlying skill level is fixed (I am thinking about order as just random shuffling here, so if we take a dataset where there is just randomness and in converges quickly then order doesn't matter...this doesn't really happen with ELO).

This isn't to say that rankings don't converge. They do. But things like order definitely can get in the way. Glicko controls for this by modelling uncertainty in a skill estimate (iirc, proportional to the number of matches seen). In practice, you would tend to burn the first few matches using ELO to try and get rankings to converge to a limit.

But, again, even then I have found that issues. ELO will quickly identify the worst and best but there is a lot of volatility around the middle grouping of teams. And this does vary with the underlying activity you are modelling too: activities with a lot of randomness take longer to converge. You can also control convergence with the K-factor.

I think this is one of the trade-offs that comes with the time dependent nature of ELO. You get more variance but less bias. Imo, it usually isn't a huge issue in practice because the upside of this is your method isn't static, and your ranking can respond to things like lineup changes (which tend to occur in many applications)...it works well in most applications.
The officer didn't do anything wrong and just because police are sometimes unreasonable or unethical, it doesn't mean this officer was either. The officer has a right to do whatever he wants with his phone as well. He could be recording with it, or he can play music with it, without recourse. It's his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that protects him, not the constitution or being an officer.

If someone wants to film him, and then use the power of the Internet to amplify that video to be viewed by many, as is their current right, then they will simply have to do additional work to ensure they are not transmitting the officer's "tunes" to others. Take the time to edit the video provides a means to still publish. Not as easy as clicking submit, but still available as an option, without making a sensationalist claim that music is being "weaponized" by anyone.

People using straw man arguments to "weaponize" language and then place it online where it becomes divisive. That's more of a story than some dude using his phone in a clever way to protect from being video mobbed.

I am aware your comment may be sarcasm, so there's that.
Yup! It's just that CE spec has taken much longer than I'd anticipated ;-)

The CE spec is for all intents and purposes done (I don't anticipate any more changes), and the reference implementation is in the final stages. After that comes the schema format, then the official V1 release, and then I can move on to technologies built upon it.

From some back-of-the-envelope calculations I made recently, I should be able to represent the same vector graphics in the same basic structure (such that you could convert between them), but in about 1/3 the space (not including the crazy stuff like CSS and JS).
It's all about trade offs. No one is required to use all the latest tooling and frameworks, and writing things the 'good old way' still works, it'll just come with trade offs. Pick your poison.
It would have been much more productive to improve the Kotlin programming language support instead.
So basically like what exists e.g. in France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenu_de_solidarit%C3%A9_acti...
This is not true. Whether I've been on one is not relevant information, though my personal experience also says this is not true.
It gets better (i.e. readable) when you get to the bit written by Ron Gilbert at the bottom, but there are still some really weird, seemingly random, word insertions, and the whole thing needs a proper edit - shame.
You can speed it up somewhat by tweaking ~/.gradle/gradle.properties and adding org.gradle.daemon=true
and org.gradle.parallel=true. That way at least it doesn't have to re-read all the build files each time and will run some parts in parallel.

The benefit wrt the old Ant-based build is the way it lets you specify 3rd party dependencies. Being able to just add in say Timber, ButterKnife and Guava with a few lines of config, rather than downloading the jars, faffing with paths, making sure the pre-processing bits are in place, etc, is really a big benefit. Maybe Maven would have been a more sensible choice, since Gradle/Groovy seems pretty niche and not really used that much outside Android.
Not happening, because:

1. You need facts to back that claim
2. $1.3 trillion debt
3. Stuxnet et al.

Nobody gains anything from opening that particular door.
I found GS bit complex. Are you comfortable using it on your mobile device?
taskwarrior and taskwarrior-vim so I can keep tasks in the same terminal as work.

ghi to keep track of github issues

mutt for email, with notmuch for searching/indexing

ynab via wine for budgeting, though I'm not the best at keeping up with that : )

other than that I have a moleskine that I fill with random things related to that day/week/month, inspired somewhat by bullet journal
To clarify what I think is the relevance, as well as to explore my own questions:

If someone were to clean-room design their own GPU chip, how likely is it that Nvidia and AMD would come down on them anyway simply by virtue of the fact that they (presumably) have patents on everything that you could think of putting in that chip?

In essence: do you now have to be an expert in what you’re not allowed to put in before you even start?
I still remember when he compared Scheme to The Bell Curve

"well, enough marketing for Scheme. once you try it, you'll understand. be
warned that lots of people approach Scheme the same way they approach
controversial books (The Bell Curve comes to mind): they don't read it,
they don't know any of the things it actually says, but they have a hell of
a lot of opinions about it."
Outlook supports app passwords too.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/using-ap...
I'm absolutely aware of the shortcomings of the currently most popular blockchain technologies. But calling specific implementations (like Bitcoin or Ethereum) a failure when people are paying thousands of dollars each block to use it is pretty bold.
"the US abandoned that course so long ago "

How do you know this?
>But this is already too long :)

Not at all, I appreciate the info.

Cardano I believe uses PoS of some sort.

What is the thinking about what keeps these distributed application servers running? Is it still mainly the mining reward model?

What sort of applications most excite you? Are there places the distributed model works better than the traditional? Are there applications the distributed model enables that the traditional does not?

And vice versa, what are the limitations of the distributed model? What things just aren't feasible? Could you build Twitter or YouTube like systems?
Powerpoint. Not really a prototyping tool per se but it's super easy to draw shapes & text in it and almost everyone has it installed. You can duplicate and modify slides to simulate different UX flows, like going through a wizard or filling out a form. With Office 365 you can also easily share and collaborate on prototypes.

The only thing that most prototyping tools add (IMHO) is better organization, more rich interaction and some premade graphics, but if you don't spend all day prototyping I think Powerpoint (or OpenOffice) is just fine. Task management / feature planning shouldn't be done in the prototyping tool IMO.

Other than that: Pen and paper.
That has already happend in the 70ies when the unexplained zoo of hundreds of elemenary particles has been reduced to a handful of more elementary particles (12, called quarsks and leptons) and a set of dynamic theories that use even fewer bosons to describe the interactions between them. This post-copernican model of elementary particle physics is the standard model.

Particle physicist have been expecting the next copernican revolution that replaces this model really soon now with the next accelerator upgrade since at least 1980 (look for example for conference talks by Haim Hariri from that time), but fundamental shifts don't happen that often.
That's why that if you receive all that news hype and publicity one day, you have to remember that your own bed will always be the best place to sleep at night. Gotta keep grounded.
>Not if you give your username and passwords to websites. I feel like you don't understand this distinction all up and down this thread...

I've never given my username and password directly to websites, except for Etacts. For the other sites, I simply authorized them (through the Google interface) to access certain functionalities. Behind the scenes Google doesn't provide them with my password: https://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer...

They also put such sites on a list of that is accessible from your account. You can remove sites from that list at any time.

> Also, man, what is the point of DBANing your install?

Yeah, that's sort of unrelated. I've been planning a clean install for a while.

> you give your usernames and passwords to websites and then be surprised that they use them?

When THEY use them? No. When someone else does, yes.

Anyway, we have beaten this horse to death many times over.
I assume its targeted towards enterprise use, where Google Voice really fails, most notably by forbidding commercial use altogether.

Other advantages for businesses:

1) You can get a toll-free number

2) You could use it like a CRM (many employees sharing the number/responding to customers)

3) Could integrate it with your calendaring to direct calls to whoever is on call.

Obviously you could do all of this will Twilio already, but they've done a lot of the busywork for you. It looks like you could install this and be using at your company it today.

Regarding pricing, 'free' is not such a big deal in the enterprise market. In fact, I'd much rather pay my vendors so I know they'll stay in business. I suspect other companies feel the same way.
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to be a fool. I might be of course, especially compared to the many people I know who are smarter than myself.

I think though that your argument is basically an 'appeal to ridicule' fallacy. You are making it sound like my statement is the philosophical equivalent of 'we can't be sure the sun will rise tomorrow'. It isn't, it is simple the statement that the current zoo of particles may well all be fundamental, with no 'simpler' theory underlying them.

Secondly, I think your statement that 'every single major advance in physics' has been a simplification is debatable.

Thirdly, extrapolating from that that every new advance will be found using the same heuristic is also debatable. If there really is to be a scientific breakthrough of the magnitude of a Newton, it seems likely (almost by definition) that it will be from an unexpected avenue of thought - seeing that the expected ones have been well researched and haven't been all that productive.

I guess it makes sense to bet on a unifying theory if you are a career particle physicist. There's a Nobel prize in it. It doesn't make sense to bet on the opposite notion, since there are probably no breakthroughs that way.
From what I've read you seem to be a nightmare customer. Not only expecting a service you aren't paying for, but complaining about it in a public forum when things don't go your way.

Service I'm not paying for? Come on, now that's not true.

I've sent support requests for a number of issues in the past and today for the server being down. Are you saying I should expect to be ignored?

Honestly, you signed up for a service that openly states that you are expected to run your own machine

I have been running my own machine, even though I am no pro server admin. But surely I have the right to ask about downtime and other issues which are not in my hand.
That circle has been squared since the 90s when webcams first showed up. VIDEO CHAT WITH LIVE GIRLS has been an Internet porn mainstay for a long time now. But the media didn't let that fact get in the way of playing up a new fad when they could.
Agreed - I won't buy one until they add a blu-ray drive.
The winner writes history. As I remember it could be described much simpler - 'we found a way how to monetize open source OS and powerful friends to promote us (read: IBM) and arrange our IPO (big money)'.

Some might think after reading this article that Java was really open source at that time. It wasn't until 2007, when everyone realized that the hype started to decline. And it wasn't a part of RHEL/CentOS until 2008.
Obviously if I'm keeping my bitcoins in a private wallet on my computer and the computer is stolen, then I they are probably gone, like cash. But, I would assume that it is possible to have some insurance? If I had my house insured and cash was stolen, I could be reimbursed by the insurance, correct? I would assume the same thing could be done with bitcoin? And what about a situation like with Coinbase, if they are "hacked" or whatever, isn't it at least theoretically possible that the bitcoins could be insured? I think just as bitcoin fanatics are overzealous about the enhanced security of bitcoin, the other side can get a little short-sighted by not imagining any scenario where your bitcoin deposits are insured in some way.
that's awesome! What language/environment are you guys building the Bayeux server for? Link? Would love to help out if possible. I helped implement part of this with my ex-colleage/friend https://github.com/pcrawfor/fayego Also feel free to open any issues/pull-requests on the swift library :)
Since 2010 you could deploy Access as a web app to Sharepoint. It probably still works.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/build-and-publish...

Also you can use Access as a frontend to any ODBC database such as Postgres.
> Why not have a law that your policy must have a summary that is less than 140 characters long?

Not as explicit as 140 characters, but it's already covered the GDPR

From the preamble, paragraph 32:

> If the data subject's consent is to be given following a request by electronic means, the request must be clear, concise and not unnecessarily disruptive to the use of the service for which it is provided.

From article 7, paragraph 2:

> 2. If the data subject's consent is given in the context of a written declaration which also concerns other matters, the request for consent shall be presented in a manner which is clearly distinguishable from the other matters, in an intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language. Any part of such a declaration which constitutes an infringement of this Regulation shall not be binding.

(emphasis mine)
So your problem is that it’s not fair how he distributed it? You’d rather see life saving medicine trashed rather than go into a human being’s arm? How can you defend that position? It’s so unethical.
Obviously the best alternative is to make sure to vaccinate an even multiple of 10 people before you close. So if you're about to close, just finished a vial and a single person shows up, then don't open a new vial and put yourself in the position where you have to run around and find patients.
I don't understand how Fetch API is an improvement over XMLHTTPRequest. To me, this looks like a syntax update but I don't see it being better or worse than the previous installment.

Now that I think about it, I couldn't find any API related to download/upload progress events with the Fetch API. If that's the case, it means it's an actual regression to XMLHTTPRequest.
Shame they cannot join the 'sharing economy' with Uber and that car.
It might be nice to try a setup comprising one of these little NUC things, a monitor (or two) which won't break when travelling (e.g. Lenovo LT1421), a tenkeyless keyboard and proper mouse.
Not even the research bears that out.
Note this refers to the activities of Volkswagen Motorsport GmbH [1], which races VW brand cars (and sometimes Skoda apparently?). It does not apply to Volkswagen group as a whole, which would have included Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini and many more brands.

[1] https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/press-releases/ready-...