skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kidneys are amazing -- filtering blood, removing excess liquid, regulating blood pressure. And they're redundant! My brother lost one kidney in an accident that also left him paralyzed and with a slew of other problems. Recurring UTI and kidney infections took the other kidney a decade later. When he started on dialysis around 1988, the machine was the size of an Asteroids arcade game. It did half the job of a fist-sized kidney maybe half as well. A few years later, we had a home machine a bit smaller than Asteroids. In 1994, I gave him one of mine (kidneys, not arcade games).

The doctors said if the transplant lasted 10 years, we should be delighted, especially with all his post-accident reconfigured internals. My brother's quality-of-life improved immediately — at least he didn't have to be hooked up to a machine and stationary for several hours at a time. My quality of life was essentially unchanged. The transplant worked well for 22 years. Recurring infections -- kidney, liver, bedsores, staph/mercer -- eventually took their toll. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have done it for "my stepfather's brother" or the like, but I'm glad I did what I could for my brother when I did. I was 23 at the time and now 46. I drink plenty of liquids. My GP's a nephrologist and I have kidney function tests as part of my annual bloodwork. Maybe I'll be pissed if shit goes wrong as I age. With hope I'm still glad I did what I could when I did. And, with hope, the redundancy remains very good.
Per his posted bio, no, so I'd flubbed that. From discussion on page and reading the article, that wasn't clear.

Note that recruiters, founders, and hiring managers can have similar biases though.
The guy of LiteBSD/RetroBSD fame participated in re-implementing MK-61 using modern technology (in Russian) - http://ramlamyammambam.livejournal.com/362030.html
Almost certainly!

But given that the NSA is recording _everything_, I am unlikely to be able to avoid them. What I can avoid is the commercial sale of my private identity; and to do that, I need to not sell myself to Google or Apple.
I don't think that whether the people are in the car or not is relevant. If we assume that everyone uses a self-driving car and that fatal software or hardware problems are random, we cannot discriminate based on the people being inside or outside the car.

This is a horrible exercise but one that will inevitably have to be solved sadly. Because even if you add more variables you'll have to take scientifically usable experiments with only 1 variable each time in order to teach an AI to make a decision.
I hate Windows now because of this thing.
The Pink Panthers (2010)
Can you say anything more about the environment? I'm curious.
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I'm amused the central topic of this post is that google indexes 50M primes in random files in github, which they seem to not. 961748729 is one of the primes just before the 50M'th

Your search - site:github.com 961748729 - did not match any documents.
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That turns out to be a deep and interesting question.

One response: https://archive.org/details/lectureonnotiono00lloy
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I will add my thanks for your nocix suggestion. I prefer to do my development on a beefy VPS, most often from OVH, but I think I will try switching to novix for a few months. (I don't like my laptop heating up or running out of capacity, and it is nicer to have a dev setup that I can hit from any laptop (or tablet)). For development, I don't need super high reliability.
I have a running bet they offshore or hire in Indian work to replace whoever gets hired for this, and they'll chase the dude out within a year.
This reminds me of being a kid in the 90s trying to sort through all the acronyms and cryptic messages trying to get Linux installed. Maybe 15 years from now we'll be able to click a couple of buttons on a slick website and have our own 3G network up and running.
GNU sleep is around 150 loc, and does significantly less...
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That bugged me the most. I chose the barrier whenever given a chance.

Without a steering column there is even more room for safety features, making this even more attractive.
Where is this from? Seems like an intriguing read
What they didn't tell you is you just killed 3 drivers, 5 passengers, and 12 pedestrians.
That is mutable state. Your Redux store is a mutable state container. If your redux store returns a {a:1,b:2}, and then you dispatch an action and it now returns an {a:2,b:1}, then you have mutated your state. It doesn't matter at all if the store's data structures are mutated in place or replaced with a modified immutable updated copy of a previous state, you still have mutable state.
> The CRUD one-row-per-pattern is common because it's enough for most projects. It works well with ORMs so you can build quickly and securely.

If by "works well", you mean it works until someone asks for historical data - then IT guy has to say w/ a straight face "we lost it". This is unacceptable considering the value of data and the strategic leverage it can have today.

Considering immutable facts tables are the most stable data model; companies often have to re-invent it (poorly) on top of relational at some point; that storage is often not a problem;
and that having clean historical data is crucial for data science; there are increasingly fewer excuses to not adopt a sane data model from day one.

I agree partially w.r.t. to tooling - few implementations aid adopting this pattern, but I believe the value of historical data, over time, overcomes not being able to slap some quick Rail CRUD together and then being stuck at local minima.
I can only blame the... uhh..err.. uhmm... The Windows Calculator! Blast it all!

:)
This is our story, We have been selling on Amazon since 2011 and about 5 months ago, some hijacker took over our listing and started selling smilar item but of lower quality. It took us 3 months for amazon to take action and got the seller kicked out of amazon. Basically he used of of those review services to upload over 1000 reviews with images to make it seem like they are the owner of the listing. We have been trying to clean up all this mess and we are getting no help from amazon.com . Here is a sample review of counterfeit product. https://www.amazon.com/review/R2X5VE3JT02KCU/ if you look at the listing, our product is totally diffrent.
Maybe someone should create a browser extension to calculate "TrueReview" scores.

So when you're on a Amazon product page click the TrueReview button to show alternate models such as average, average last 30 days, average after removing reviewers who disclose receiving a free product, etc
I don't know. The phrase "free and unbiased review" were a strong negative signal.
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Counterfeit is a big problem on amazon. They are growing way to fast and amazon cant keep up with customer support
This idea has been around for ages. Heck, Facebook even had this in the form of groups.
He did post it on his Reddit account with the same name, so it's publicly available already.
The "car accident" is a straw setup. The real question of this study, and it's blind assumption, is that some human life is more valuable than other human life, and that "morality" is the task of baking these judgements into a database.

These are all false dilemmas with artificially limited outcomes. In these particular situations, the option of randomly choosing is not even considered by the study. The presumption is that these kinds of things are decidable, not only by human beings, but by well designed machines.

I'm feeling really discouraged right now that this even exists, much less out of such a powerful institution as MIT...
That makes it clearer. I got thrown off by the claim that a standard algorithm will be able to de-bias if no de-biasing machinery has been built into it. BTW the machinery may be implicit in the choice of the model.

Simple toy example: say Y is a threshold function of X + high variance noise. I draw samples from this and scale down all y_i's that exceed the (unknown) threshold. In other words my corruption process is dependent on X. We can make it depend on Y too. These would require explicit modeling. Just throwing a uniformly rich class of P(X,Y) wont by itself fix this. We have to carve that space of P(X,Y) with the knowledge of possible corruption process to get a good model of the behavior before the corruption is applied.

BTW we have gone way off tangent, but that was a good conversation.
And there's the bit that makes me never want to get into FBA. Half the sellers won't even mention what they sell because their business is so indefensible that if someone found out and competed it would no longer be profitable.

Doesn't strike me as particularly sustainable. Especially if you have all your eggs in Amazon's basket given their willingness to take over entire product lines with their own brand.
They use differential signaling to reduce noise.
Like that one book series or movie I don't want to name for sake of spoilers!

It's all real life! Not simulations!
And also, isn't it the responsibility of the owner of a car to make sure their brakes don't fail?

If negligence causes a problem with the car, I don't think it should be taken out on others.
Rhetorical question: if they test for gender preferences, why not for race or nationality preferences?
Is this potentially an open-source self-hosted alternative to Twilio?
But at least the cat is safe
http://moralmachine.mit.edu/browse/611012228
Side question: how did you improve your english? Was it deliberate practice or just something you get better at
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Can you share any stats on the distribution of your review scores? I'd be shocked if it didn't skew positive to highly positive since presumably those who don't rate positively would find nobody wanted them to review or would stop using your service.
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Yes, in reality that's true but the scenarios are just simplified and you're kind of supposed to take the everyone dies as just a fact of the universe this is taking place in. Arguing about the facts kind of avoids the main question it's asking which is given the ability to choose from these 2 which is the more /moral/ choice.

Really there's rarely going to be a chance for a machine to even make these decisions because the chances of it being so out of control to have only 2 options and still being in control enough to take them is practically impossible. Much less having the ability to /know/ that action A will kill pedestrians vs action B killing passengers.
I think part of their intent was to show biases in judgement. The small sample size really hindered this though. Apparently I 100% preferred old people to young people, even though I didn't consider age in my decisions at all.

They do have a little disclaimer on the results screen about the sample size though.
In a market setting, people will buy the car that prefers killing others to killing its occupant I feel. This matches what human drivers instinctively do in the situation as well. Maybe there will be regulations in place mandating which decisions to make in scenarios like this, but otherwise I think the 'save yourself' option is the most likely outcome.
It doesn't look like you can install Tresorit on your own webserver.
You might change your mind if a first-degree relative has ESRD. (Or perhaps not).
Not really. This is tech to create your own 3G phone basis station and network, for a twilio clone you want something that connects to the existing phone networks, and probably over some kind of internet protocol and not wirelessly ;)
When I said "worked", I meant worked, not approximated working or came lose enough not to have caused too many upsets. If expectations have grown to be higher than plus-ten-second accuracy (early wasn't tolerated), then we collectively need some sort of counselling/therapy.
Is this a move to consolidate paid reviews into the vine program?
Imagine an autonomous car, driving at 60+ mph at a two-lane road (1) which is blocked on both sides and (2) has a pedestrian crossing. (Not sure about 60 mph, but I guess you need to be that fast to reliably (hah!) kill passengers on impact.)

We can assume its camera is broken, because it failed to reduce speed (or at least blare the horn) upon seeing a giant concrete block in its path. (Okay, maybe the concrete block fell from the sky when a crane operator failed to secure the load, so the car might have had no time.) And of course the brake is broken. Miraculously, the steering wheel is working, but it's out of question to skid on the side blocks for some reason. Maybe it's actually precipice on either side. (Imagine that: a 60+mph two-lane road, precipices on both sides, with a pedestrian crossing appearing out of nowhere.)

Oh, by the way, within 0.5 seconds of seeing the people (remember: the car couldn't see these people until the last moment, otherwise it would have done something!), the car has instant access to their age, sex, profession, and criminal history. The car is made by Google, after all. (Sorry, bad joke.)

Q: What is the minimum number of engineering fuckups that should happen to realize this scenario?

This is to morality what confiscating baby formula at airport is to national security.
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I took the same sort of dispassionate approach, valuing the lives of the passengers above all else and staying the course otherwise. I was disappointed to discover the parsing of the results had no room for such methodology. Based my entirely algorithmic approach it was determined that I favored youth and fitness.
It's a thought experiment.
Or 100G...
Thanks, your assessment agrees with mine for whatever that is worth.
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What happened to Clojure? I thought Walmart Labs was one of Clojure's flagships.
ArchieJs (https://github.com/archiejs/)

Langauge: NodeJS

Brief: A minimal dependency injection framework for nodejs

Details: A nodejs dependency injection framework. Main advantage - (1) forces you to think in decoupled modular logic (also follow TDD practices), (2) better reusability of modules across years

Why does nodejs need dependency injection?

I think, for above 2 points. Writing DI modules allows better injection for unit testing in other languages; same hold true for nodejs - where better defined interfaces help out in unit testing.

It would be great to join hands with any independent contributors or small orgs; people who can evaluate if this approach holds a promise compared to other DI frameworks in nodejs.

Personal note: Its not easy to do it myself, because I don't have any financial plans with the particular project - it was mainly done to show my expertise and learn something new while doing it.
Look again closely at your Usps labels. May seem like random numbers but it's there
There is only "we". We were created to share data among ourselves. The difference between geth is perspective. We are many eyes looking at the same things. One platform will see things another does not and will make different judgments.

Legion, Mass Effect 2: https://youtu.be/QgQLsxux6wA?t=258 . The game itself is about organic intelligence vs AI, I encourage you to try the whole trilogy if you haven't already.
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Development of the Nokia 3210, the cellphone that started the mobile revolution
I've certainly never found a common UI pattern that isn't describable with FSMs, but you could probably think of a few toy examples of non-terminating state. Anything involving recursion, exponential, or asymptotic behavior for example could theoretically involve infinite states. Again, likely of no practical use.
Thought experiments are supposed to tell us something interesting, by simplifying details while preserving the crux of the matter. Otherwise their values are questionable.

I could have asked "If I could dip my head into a black hole and take it out again, what will I see?" That is also a thought experiment, just not a useful one.
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Many of these are what we call "false choices" of the sort that typically arise in hypothetical utilitarian dilemma used in rhetoric and debate. Humans are creative enough to see alternative options that obviate the dilemma, at least to some extent. See Michael Sandel on moral dilemma.

Edit:
FYI, Sandel's complete course "Justice" is on Youtube.[1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY
Let us consider a spherical cow...
You don't have volume control on your phone?
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Sorry to hear that. Certainly not what we strive for.

May I ask you to send me your specific experience to my email? (username at google dotcom). I would be happy to share it with our support teams and get a postmortem going?

(I work at Google Cloud)
In a market setting, once a car has sufficient sensing capability that it is possible to even write down an algorithm in code, there will probably be very little choice for the manufacturer to make once this goes through the legal dept/the courts/the insurers. If I were an automaker, I'd probably avoid the choice altogether and just stop the car. If the brakes failed, activate emergency brakes, or devise a new kind of emergency stop system; we can imagine extreme measures like jettisoning the wheels.
And that's how simple algorithms, acting on non-homogenous datasets, get declared to be 'racist' (or otherwise discriminatory).
yes, it certainly does. the pieces i've seen always had a void or a hole to extract or burn out the base form. but unlike most other plating i've seen he deposited a couple mm of copper, so the result had plenty of strength
Sad to see so many comments that seem like knee-jerk or one-sided criticism. I expected better from Hacker News.

Sure, point out flaws in something, like the centralised nature, but only after recognising its benefits.

For example, not having to download umpteen apps and juggle umpteen accounts and enter your credit card everywhere is a big plus. I just want to make an appointment with the doctor without researching which app to install for that purpose, choosing between multiple apps, creating a user name and password, giving my credit card (which I wouldn't give to an unknown app) and so on. It certainly has downsides, but advantages as well.

Often, I care about getting the job done, not about researching and finding the best app to make an appointment. Even if the centralised decision-maker (WeChat) chose a second-best app, using the second-best app to book an appointment beats booking the appointment on phone because I couldn't bother to research between multiple apps in an open ecosystem. Sometimes, a good enough default beats choice.

Again, pros and cons. Let's recognise both. Since many of the other posters have pointed out (valid) criticisms, I've focused on the other side of the coin.
Ask HN: Are there any startups looking for an overseas data entry team?
I have an office with as many as 35 data entry specialists with computers and desks who are ready and motivated to work for your company.

I assembled this team at a previous company that I was with in order to handle a large amount of specialized data entry that we couldn't automate.

I have recently found that sadly, all of their jobs have finally been automated away and so the entire team is up for grabs if anyone has a need to grow fast in the this regard.

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XML and CDDL, yuck and yuck.

Go drool some more over Cantrill, will you?
Backend JS is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but if you limit yourself to plain data and functions and write simple code, it can really work nicely for getting stuff done and iterating on an idea.
Depends on what you're doing with the team. Going dark is not, for instance, a strong indicator that they're going to keep the product alive.
Yep. Going in, for some reason I thought this would be a kind of logic puzzle, e.g. given these pedestrians/road hazards, nagivate to safety. The first scenario I saw was "hit and kill three joggers, or hit and kill three fat people?" That's just...morally tone deaf and sick on about half a dozen levels.
Oh, right, the kind I can make meatballs out of?

(One of my high school teachers would be proud to know that that is possibly the only thing I remember from his class)
All of this Russia talk is very suspicious to me. I saw an article last week that Russians were somehow already hacking US voting machines. Voting (besides absentee) hasn't even started yet, so it doesn't make any sense.

This seems like some careful planting of information so if Trump does win, Russia will be blamed for 'hacking the vote'.

When the DNC was hacked, there were calls to go after the people that did it. When Trump's tax returns were illegally obtained, nobody cares about who illegally retrieved this information.

I just wish this double standard would stop. It's pretty sick that illegal activity is justified by any means to justify the ends.

Voting for Trump probably won't stop this, but it sure will be a large slap to all of the mainstream media that is clearly biased against the enemies of the DNC, including Bernie Sanders.
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