skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious what liberal bias looks like in algorithm form?

> Google is also setting new rules encouraging its “raters” -- the 10,000-plus staff that assess search results -- to flag web pages that host hoaxes, conspiracy theories and what the company calls “low-quality” content.

Oh that's how, it's going to be trained by people...

Considering how often I've seen Snopes get stories wrong, or are subtlety misleading (such as marking something as false because an insignificant part of a statement is incorrect, by that I mean if it was deleted from the statement the overall meaning wouldn't change, but the general statement as a whole was still actually true).

This is really concerning. I get marking hoaxes and to a lesser extent conspiracy theories. But "low-quality content" and "fake news" in general is not just difficult to identify but open to abuse. And there will likely be no appeal process. It will happen transparently and silently.
Ratio is probably better, but also misleads if my income isn't close to the cost of maintaining my lifestyle.

If I am able to save, and I move to make 2x in a place that costs 2x, I am saving 2x as much!

If I am stuck drawing down savings, and I make the opposite move, I have doubled my runway.
Having the "state" decide counts as equal opportunity?
Interestingly, a few years ago Nature planned to include statisticians...

> as consultants on the rare papers in which there are serious issues about the statistical techniques used, at the editor's discretion and based on the referees' suggestions.

I think the crux is that editors already have enough trouble finding reviewers, and see getting a statistician as often unreasonable. It's too bad, because the nature of statistical issues is that people tend to be unaware of them until a statistician (used broadly) points them out.
Just curious, as an engineer finding myself thinking along similar lines, where did you end up moving?
You know there is a whole legion of jobs that require a vehicle? All construction jobs for example. Most service techs require a bunch of expensive tools and need a secure place to keep them on site. The list literally goes on and on...

Can an hunter ride share the pacifica out to the forest with his/her hunting gear? How about bicyclists? People with kids know about activity shuffling... I am not sure that sharing will work for my families schedule.

Driving drunk isn't the bulk of the accidents I go to on a regular basis. If we could just eliminate texting while driving, we could see a significant drop in accidents.
Hubert Dreyfus, philosopher and AI critic, dies at 87
How we realised putting machine learning in everything was not the answer (2117)
Boulder managed to copy a lot of the good stuff about Silicon Valley - but also seems to have copied the brutal, rampant NIMBYism

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/how-anti-growth-...

Great place, and I understand not wanting sprawl, but... build up and in?
Everyone has a price. For that many millions, lots of people would do it, especially if the alternative was someone else getting the millions and everyone getting fired anyway.
Doesn't happen to me, and I'm using a Galaxy S3.
literally the only use case I see here is dates. Like everything else I can infer the type of the field based on its contents. "boolean": false, no kidding. "event_ts": 1223349483, is that an index number or milliseconds since epoch or what? Well, probably ms since epoch, but my one gripe about json is that there's no good way to push dates without domain knowledge (anything whose property name ends in _at or _ts gets converted? all numbers in a certain range get converted?)
> Is Waymo clear about what the end goal is?

IMHO, it may be a little short sighted to look at Waymo and self-driving cars by itself, I believe it fits into the broader DL-AI initiatives within Alphabet as yet another DL-AI application. Whether it becomes an end in itself or simply feeds into other DL-AI initiatives is most likely still undefined.
Interestingly similar discussion going around in the UK at the moment after a UK MP came out saying that '£70,000' salary makes you 'rich'.

70k as a single income won't get you a flat in London in any reasonable time and you'll most certainly be renting forever on that kind if money in London. Even if its triple the average UK wage.

Location means everything.
Then you can contact them and request they add the license header again, in this JS file. But is it worth pursuing this? Chances are no one will ever actually see it, though.
Live on the other side of a subway or commuter train line. New Jersey, Brooklyn, Queens, that sort of thing.
What area of the country did you decide to move to, and why (besides the obvious cost saving)?
I have a Flickr account without a phone number, but I've had it for a long time. It's the same with GMail, though, so it's hardly a Yahoo thing.
It's very readable if you've used a typed language before. The <> brackets are like generics.
The money was already tax when the original "owner" received it.
i rely on flickr as my mobile photos backup
should i be worried, and look for alternatives

i know it is not very social a la instagram and all ..
but it is really good to backup and store my photos and share them with family

i hope they dont close it
My bad, didn't detect the sarcasm through the text. These days, you never know...
Hello, I created TJSON. The answer to your question can be found in the second sentence on the page:

> TJSON documents are amenable to "content-aware hashing" where different encodings of the same data (including both TJSON and binary formats like Protocol Buffers, MessagePack, BSON, etc) can share the same content hash and therefore the same cryptographic signature.

TJSON is designed to facilitate documents that retain the same content hash when transcoded to/from binary formats.
yahoo doesn't accept voip numbers for signup. I moved my mobile number to a voip provider and got a data only plan because it is way cheaper.

I have hit a few roadblocks here and there, but end up saving 50% on my phone bill.
"A million is a statistic."
bhhaskin's post said Uber was selling secrets, which is definitely NOT the case; I don't think I've heard anyone accusing them of that.
After two years in San Francisco, I had to move back to my small(er) home town city because I ultimately realized there's little to no future for me in a city like San Francisco, despite making 250k/yr. I'd have to make at minimum $1M per year for a similar lifestyle (and even then, the stress of living in the bay area will reduce years from your lifespan... what's each year of your life worth to you?).
I found a scan of the famous Wall Street Journal article about the unfortunate fellow whose jaw fell off: https://www.scribd.com/document/188172930/The-Radium-Water-W...
Thanks, looks like I was wrong there indeed.
>The certification process for these cars are going to be very, very expensive. Think about the software involved for the operation of aircraft and the review / testing process then apply it for the road. That is level of scrutiny that will be placed on "self-driving" vehicles.

This is one of the most scariest points to me. Are any entities working on lobbying Congress about this? I've seen nothing on it, yet we already have a handful of these technologies on the road. One can retort with what offerings there are are "safer" than humans, but that's missing the point entirely.
The full professors at many large universities have to split their time between research and teaching. Both of which can be full-time jobs on their own. The consequence is that many great researchers are mediocre teachers (or only good for teaching smaller courses in their specialty), and many great teachers abandon the time needed for research (or aren't good researchers) which doesn't bring money and prestige to the school. So they get booted.

You're left with underpaid adjuncts, under qualified TAs, and research professors that don't want to teach another-goddamned-section of Calculus 1 (as one of my profs referred to it).
> I really don't think people should be able to own self driving cars. They really need airplane style maintenance for sensors and companies need to work together so all fleets have the latest safety and security updates

Couldn't this be solved as easily as you car telling you that while you're at work it will head over to the repair shop to get its sensors checked up?
If it's compiled, they don't need to add anything. If it's interpreted, i.e. a JS file, they do (at the top of the JS file)
Like where? Everywhere I've seen in the US now has moved to the open-plan office. Cubicles and walled offices are a thing of the past. It's not just Silicon Valley.
It doesn't matter if you're not the only one. Somebody did the math and determined that people without mobile numbers weren't worth the support cost. It sucks to be the wrong side of that math but it happens to a lot of people for a lot of different things.

Developers tend to try and include everyone but that is often a mistake -- the benefit rarely outweighs the cost.
I agree that it fails in some countries, yes, but to say it fails in a global context... The same argument could be made for the opposing viewpoint; police are more often legitimate than illegitimate, and on telephone company execs: if they purposely assign the identity of someone else to a person who then uses this identity for wrongdoing.. Yes, possibly? Otherwise, it's a company, and doesn't fall under the complaint.

Complaint: Individuals as tor exit nodes presents a fake identity as opposed to a lack of an identity. Fake identity seems problematic.
Seems like the minimum height for general aviation is 500 feet. Why isn't it the same for drones?
I didn't know about that (the pods bit!), thanks for the link.
Are homogenic nameserver names a single point of failure?
The most recent study (2015) on your second link that is a literal survey has 93.7% consensus.

The next valid study in (2014) is 87%.

It then throws in a study that includes people who aren't scientists with lower numbers.

Then you have Cook.

Then you have another study with 90% consensus.

Then another two more that includes non-scientists.

Then one with a different question.

Then one with a 100% consensus based on published scientists.

Then another one that includes non-scientists.

The range is from 87% to 100% consensus with 2 of 5 at 97% or greater.

I understand you are trying to argue I'm wrong but the moment you start referencing personal blogs and studies that include non-scientists, you aren't really debunking what I said to any great degree and none of the years overlap sufficiently so its really a charge of a trend of belief over time combined with different methodologies.

100% -> 90% -> 97% -> 87% -> 93.7%

That makes perfect sense given science is always going to uncover new evidence that there was some variation over a 15 year period.
That statement could be interpreted more than one way...
edit2: This is arguably worse, but the argument may be "it's a compiled binary":

discord_rpc.node is an ELF file. It's hard to see how that would not be considered a binary distribution (if it was that file alone, and not being distributed with source files)
Yeah, but you'll never get any peace or privacy away from them. Welcoming teammates does not make work bearable when they're on top of you all day long because of the open-plan office.
also at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14194865
I think all self posts get penalised. You should have written a blog post and linked to that.

You can try emailing the mods and asking them to lift the penalty.
Be careful not to conflate grammar and orthography. The former is tied to the spoken language as understood and mentally represented by native learners, the latter is tied to convention and style guides. Grammar has nothing to do with punctuation or any other characteristics that are purely of the written language.
Del.icio.us was sold to AVOS systems. It changed hand a couple of more times and now owned by an entity called 'Delicious Media'. In its current state, it is almost non-functional. The bookmarklet for tagging links does not work, API and RSS feed are deprecated. I knew it was time to get out when I found the data export function to be broken. I wrote a scraper[1] to get my data out and export to some other service.

[1] https://gist.github.com/rubayeet/a5c25458986ddecafd5e569866c...
Recently heard a talk by Thomas Friedman about how the year 2007 was a really interesting "inflection" year wrt all kinds of technology.

The cost of making solar panels began to decline sharply in 2007. Airbnb was conceived in 2007 and change.org started in 2007. GitHub, now the world’s largest open-source software sharing library, was opened in 2007. And in 2007 Intel for the first time introduced non-Silicon materials into its microchip transistors, thus extending the duration of Moore’s Law — the expectation that the power of microchips would double roughly every two years. As a result, the exponential growth in computing power continues to this day.

His talk was basically a rehash of everything he talks about here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/dancing-in...

Yahoo was an awesome company in 2007. Back when developer conferences were more or less free (for attendees), it hosted the first conference I attended as a newly transplanted person to SF... the "Open Source CMS Summit"... I think I still have some of the stickers it handed out to promote some of its then-recent acquisitions the original article discusses. Yahoo! was kind of one of the first companies to really actively engage and enable external developers (those not employed by Yahoo) as collaborative partners who probably could have helped Yahoo keep its then competitive advantage. Mozilla did this a bit earlier, yes... but not as a publicly-traded company. So part of its demise was due to impatient investors, for sure; however, I think the article makes a good argument for the implications of ignorance when it comes to fostering community.

It's now ten years after this inflection point that Friedman talks about; and according to him, it's just getting started.
From the bloody knife pic to the snark...this article lost me at paragraph 1
> The additional hardware and software will be expensive as hell to develop, but once it's invented, the marginal cost should be fairly cheap compared to the price of a car.

Go talk to a pilot and ask them about Garmin products and the autopilot of their plane. Also ask them about update the software on these devices. Ask how much money they are asked to fork over for software...

Have a look at the self-driving tech of the John Deere tractors and how well that has gone for the farmers. I don't think the bulk of people here have really thought about this in a negative light.
It's no place for introverts any more. It's a place for extroverts. Only extroverts perform well in an open-plan office.
The point of this format to push data over the wire in a format that is both semantically richer and authenticatable using techniques like object-hash. This gets us to one true unambiguous representation of the data which you need for redactable signatures and rich credentials.
>Discriminating against someone because of their gender is wrong, not just bad manners.

Depends on the discrimination. Costing them a job opportunity is wrong. Telling them "hey, make me some tea" is bad manners -- same as if you asked a lower ranking male employee whose job is not it, that.

>"It's not wrong because nothing is truly wrong" is surely an excuse of last resort.

It's also an excuse nobody made. Wrong != evil. People are not cartoonish figures who are either holy or evil.

>I don't see anyone on here bringing that point up when people are complaining about NSA surveillance or some other hacker cause célèbre.

I'm not sure of the relevance. NSA surveillance is totalitarian. Asking female colleagues to "make you coffee" is impolite.
> especially if the alternative was someone else getting the millions and everyone getting fired anyway.

That's such a lame excuse.
One of the first computer class lessons that I remember--in maybe 4th grade?--taught us to use Yahooligans and Altavista and such to research a topic. Incredibly valuable to ingrain at that age the idea that the best way to figure something out is to start running vague queries until you understand enough to synthesize an answer or a theory.
Navdy – Augmented Reality GPS Navigation System with Heads Up Display
How we realized putting WiFi in everything was not the answer (2018)
Wait, did he state that his religious beliefs are important to him? Or that in general, the concept of religion is important to him?

It sounds like a weasely statement - "I care about this because you care about this", meaning, I don't give a shit but don't want to offend you.

Either way, though, it's definitely and unfortunately a near necessity for entering politics.
For 186 million, I think I could manage a sneer or two, even.
close an already dead for years crap company and make 93M$? come on man. these people will find new jobs, new employers understand they weren't individually fired for sucking if the whole company shut down
I actually think the insulation is adequate for a line voltage motor. You can also see that the brush holders were heavily modified (and kinda ugly) in the Juicero motor compared to the spec sheet [1], likely due to the higher voltage.

Though the most telling is that the only isolated supply is the 5V Meanwell, the whole bottom half is at line potential as evidenced by the lack of transformers and the optoisolators right below the Meanwell supply (for controlling the H-bridge below).

One thing that still seems to be missing is active PFC - it was implied by the article, but I don't see enough components for it. Maybe it's just a rectifier into 170V/330V, and the in the case of 330V they drive the motor at half the duty cycle.

One other question was "why not a series-wound motor?" It was pointed out to me that one potential reason is that a series-wound motor introduces 60/120hz hum and vibrations, and maybe they found the noise objectionable.

[1] http://en.jiaai.cn/products_detail/productId=65.html
> Isn't this generally the same ruling that allows land owners to shoot trespassers?

No. And, at least in the U.S., there is no such ruling. You absolutely cannot shoot someone just for trespassing on your property.
We moved to Utah where the tech scene is actually quite strong, and the cost of living is significantly less. We bought an 8k sq ft house for the price of many 1,500 sq ft town homes we had been putting offers in on in California.

It can be such a rat race down there, it is refreshing to remember that it doesn't have to be that way. Life exists outside of The Valley, and it happens to be a pretty darn good one (and affordable!) :)
Nobody will prevent you from the enjoyment of driving, but just as it is now, you will probably be required to insure yourself against the externalized risk associated with operating your vehicle, and that risk will be measured relative to your other transportation options.

It's the same reason that you pay relatively high car insurance premiums when you are in your teens and twenties.
You're right, it's not his problem.
> but there were plenty of other factual stories covered in a factual way

for example?

The reality is even he has admitted he's just a "performance artist"
Zuckerberg lacks the charisma. His run will be more Carson than Trump.

He severely lacks the oratory skills of Obama, the fiery commitment to economic justice of Bernie, the decades of government experience of Hillary, or the Barnum-esque showmanship of Trump.

Trump is the first non-stateman to win, and he did it by keeping the cameras on him at all times, and competing against a wide field of primary candidates that split the vote. And also by appealing to some base desires that Republicans have only dog-whistled in the past.

And the left is much less friendly to a billionaire with eyes on purchasing the presidency than the right. Why would anyone pick Zuckerberg in 2020 when they could pick someone like Warren or Booker?

I'm not saying he won't run, but I think it's delusional to think he can win a primary, let alone the presidency.
Single income, Alameda county ( Fremont ), family of 4

No car payment, No credit card debt,

130k will let you live and eat with a bit of room to go do things once a month.

If you have a car payment and or credit cards kiss that once a month thing goodbye

150k will let you have a car and do things

Source : I left that area recently
You are asserting that there is a ceiling on the effect of education on income. Agreed, but only 2.7% of the population has doctorate level education, and there is regression-toward-the-mean as well (many high-attainment folks have kids who are stocking shelves).
The professors friendliest to student budgets even separated their custom materials into "lecture notes" which contained only instructional material and "exercises" which were generally made up of problems that actually appeared on previous exams, including space to write in. Total cost for this style of "textbook" per course was less than $20, purchased new from the university bookstore. Or you could inherit an older copy of the notes for free and just get a new copy of the exercise portion.

That kind of thing would be a free download today. Can you imagine paying thousands of dollars in tuition for a course, and then getting the entire textbook for free?

Those who do it are truly saints among scoundrels.
Let's set aside cost of living in the Bay for a second. Here's a completely taboo subject. At what point do we hold people accountable for their reproductive choices? You want to have 2, 4, 6 children in the most expensive slice of land in the US?

Great, but please bear in mind that choice comes with real financial consequences to your lifestyle and you should not expect the state to bail you out of it.
I feel this pain everyday. Getting a house in the bay (because 3-4br apts are super rare) in a decent school district is right around a million dollars. That's a $5k/mo mortgage (not to mention every new development has some insane HOA fee). No way to afford that on a 100k salary. Even at a 200k salary that's pretty uncomfortable.
Actually insurance in the trucking industry is pretty expensive [1]. In addition to commercial vehicle insurance for the actual truck there are frequently other types of insurance like cargo insurance and trailer insurance which would be affected by self-driving cars. Because trucking is already such a low-margin business any reduction in cost is actually a pretty big deal.

1. http://www.commercialtruckinsurancehq.com/owner-operator-ins...
In a thread that's mostly discussing how fake news is defined, I thought it relevant to comment on it. To me it came off that he was calling it fake news and not being sarcastic. If that's not the case so be it but it wasn't obvious to me.
I don't necessarily disagree with what you've said, my main point was that much of the value of ADTs in OCaml is in their restrictions.
Don't hate the player!

Before a CEO takes a job, they negotiate well for the negative outcome (which usually ends their business career, and begins their political one).
I should have said smartphone apps
So a guy explains in many many words how he let a third party in to a supposedly private call, gets an email that because of letting others in to a private conversation he is being kicked out, and still rambles on in many more words how he doesn't know, why he was kicked out, that it must have something to do with being "gross" and whatnot.

Drama. Flagged.
The example video has no audio track, but in real life I could see how someone would not be OK with the buzzing noise [1] of a drone flying "as he does on most nights".

By the way, is flying a drone legal over populated places in the US? At least in my country it's illegal [2].

---

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI0i1wfKB_I

[2] http://www.seguridadaerea.gob.es/media/4427085/recomendacion...
Isn't linkerd in Scala and linkerd-tcp a small subset of it?