skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think all of those who concluded that he was being a misogynist have no leg to stand on.

I don't necessarily believe he's a misogynist, but I do think he's in denial about the impact of sexism on gender gaps. To quote his letter:

"We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism."

The fact is that we don't have to assume. It's fairly unlikely such gaps are entirely the result of sexism. But to suggest that sexism does not play a role in gender gaps is absurd.

Edit: To respond to similar points in the replies, yes, I'm quite aware that you can read this sentence in the strictest logical sense as saying a gender gap, in and of itself, does not imply sexism. This is obviously and trivially true. But studies on evaluatory bias tell us that biases, such as and including sexism, are in fact the norm. It is so fantastically unlikely that they are not present among Google's interviewers / hiring committees that the sentence, taken in the strictest sense, is making an irrelevant point.

Rhetorically, however, it serves the effect of suggesting we ought to consider it plausible that perhaps sexism isn't at all at play in Google's hiring. Which, again, is absurd.[1] It would be far more likely that Google's hiring tilts sexist against men than sexism not being a factor at all.

[1] Note that this has nothing to do with Google specifically, but rather with humans generally.
The point at which they rely on mystery algorithms is the point at which benevolence and incompetence become indistinguishable.
The no-sports streaming bundle is coming soon from Viacom, Discovery, and others
Best != most used. I think most Java developers still use Eclipse.
Go vs. Clojure – Which has the better job outlook?
Trying to decide which language to deep dive in and a big factor is which one would I more likely be able to use at work.
Don't worry, reddit is hurting themselves too:

Now about 50% of the time I go to reddit, I have a jarring, awkward experience that reminds me they're datamining my history instead of a mellow, nearly invisible on that made subreddits feel more like a community.

I'm sure reddit 4: digg sum moar! will be a great production by the reddit team and look forward to all the change it'll bring.
Your data is not safe unless you have a local backup that you control. Don't trust Google (or any one cloud storage provider); they haven't earned it.
On ATMs they use a keyboard with random multiple digits per key, e.g. "2 or 7", "8 or 0", etc. That's a defense to the "observing-attack", but it's slow and boring. Also, someone could unlock with other password.
I'd say yes. And/or go for his earlier more scientifically formatted Judgment Under Uncertainty, not sure if that's been put into audio form though...
If you are Dyslexic and an Entrapunuer and live in the bay area, consider joining NED the Dyslexic Entrapunuer Network. See denlaunch.com

I really enjoyed meeting a bunch of other dyslexic folks and I'd never really met any others. Bets part of a NED meeting is no one will ask you to take notes :)
Wonder if anyone will see this, but I have a general question I might as well ask here.

What if, you put an addicted person in a padded cell, and supply progressively decreasing doses of the drug(s) the person is addicted to?

The dosage gradient could be mathematically computed to find the lowest possible harmful withdrawal effects.

The person would stay in the cell environment until completely past the hardest phases of withdrawal (however
long this takes, whether days, weeks, months(?)), but they would be free to move around (within the secure complex) as they please, and have limited access to technology (anything enabling communication would be heavily vetoed, but eg unlimited access to a video library could work well).

It seems that the current models in use depend entirely on the will of a person who is heavily compromised. I honestly have to say, that seems fundamentally and ridiculously broken, and yeah, even suspiciously so: it's so obvious that this approach is not going to work for most, so why does every "treatment center" continue down this path?

The only caveat I can think of with the suggestion above is about the violent phase of withdrawals, and sedating a person enough when in that phase so they can eat/drink/etc. (I'm not sure how long it is - I vaguely recall it's just a couple of days right?)

Also, about the padded room - I'm not talking "psychotically mad-proof" padding, but just enough for this context. Obviously that's going to change per drug and person, and maybe thick padding is what would be required.

I'm just thinking about cost here (cost of sedation and padding), because I know that a) everything health-related in the US seems to attract the most markup and overhead in any field in the world, and b) because (as per my notation that the current model is _suspiciously_ broken) I wouldn't be surprised if anyone who tried this would find it mysteriously hard to get funding.

On the other hand, I must admit that I've never really tried to find out if this idea has been attempted or not. Would/does it not work?
Nordstrom's new concept: A clothing store with no clothes for sale
> What a world we live in.

s/world/country/ fixed that for you.
Yes, for example if I read about a saw in an article on the internet and then decided to buy that one. This comment is bizarre.
Toyota came out saying you'd have to gather 8.5 billion miles of driving data to make any claims with statistical certainty about the ability of any autonomous driving system to prevent fatalities (I've heard other outrageous numbers thrown out to this effect, though I don't recall them off the top of my head).

Though by the time you get to the 8 billionth mile the technology will have evolved, rendering the earlier data moot. So it will be pretty much impossible to do any sort of authoritative study on how safe this technology is until it is widespread, and mature.
When i read about the "hardware integration" of OSX/macOS/whatever I really have to wonder.

Power 32 bit is dead. Apple never ventured into other architectures. macOS (and OSX 10.whatever plus since the mid 2000s) are running on x86 and stumbling towards ARM; iOS runs on ARM. It's still commodity hardware, just like Windows and Linux.

I understand that Apple supports a much smaller set of hardware and drivers, but in my mind it's not really 'integration' the way, say, dinosaurs like SPARC + Solaris or POWER virtualization under AIX is integrated hardware with software. I'm really just being cranky here and splitting hairs.
I'm wondering how long before we see transponders required in analogue vehicles so that autonomous vehicles have a better capacity to monitor what other traffic is doing. It seems like something that could be easily deployed (for instance, across fleet vehicles) and would give autonomous cars much better feedback about the traffic around them.
Feeds and speeds, feeds and speeds.
> Unless you're securing State Secrets or occupy rarefied enough heights that you have a Swiss bank account I don't really see anyone bothering.

You're vastly underestimating how valuable access to a person's phone can be. It's not just about quickly wiring money or stealing state secrets but also about building blocks for social engineering campaigns, ad/app fraud, extorsion and all sorts of different things.

And the petty thief who steals your phone doesn't need to have the tools to spoof the biometrics. There just needs to be some criminal organization that does and that's willing to pay petty thieves for stolen phones.
How long ago did you send it?
Interesting question, although there are standards to Tetrimino block coloring.
And I learned there's a subtle distinction between "y'all" and "all y'all". If I ask, "Do y'all have a ride?" I mean "Do you have a car and/or get a ride with someone who has a car?" Whereas if I ask "Do all y'all have a ride?" I mean "Do each of you people here own a car?"
my thoughts exactly when I read that headline.
The secret language of chatbots
It is kind of odd that the whole Google account is wiped and canceled.

I post a YouTube video big G doesn't like, then they close my whole Google account. So now my Android phone, all my contacts, call history, purchased apps + music, etc, are now gone? And my nest thermostat resets to factory defaults? And all my AdWords campaigns for my small sole proprietorship. And...so on.
Well since it doesn't have touchid, you're pretty much back to using a pin/password, so back 5+ years ago
There's also a very blurry line between a common carrier and a publisher. Social media platforms don't want to be liable for content published on their site, but they also want the right to delete content at their own discretion. Somehow, the courts have granted them this wish.

The USPS has a similar monopoly to YouTube, but they're obliged to transport any printed material that is legal. There's no hidden algorithm that shreds letters containing the wrong keywords. There's no team of Indian outsourcers searching your mail for content that breaches an arbitrary set of rules. Nobody but a court can prohibit you from using their service.

I think we collectively need to decide whether social media services are publishers or common carriers. The present ambiguity over their status gives them an unreasonable degree of power with unreasonably little responsibility.
Unfortunately, it doesn't really remove the shadiness of the issue. Too bad.
I was able to find them by casting a wider net. I live in a very, very remote area. He has a practice that he visits that's not too far away. When he is up, he makes the drive to my house and we chat for an hour, usually over a small meal. Sometimes, I go down to see him but he enjoys the drive and coming to visit me.

I am in the US. I am retired in Maine. I am fortunate in that I sold my business and am financially secure. So, I can afford some of the best medical care.

I've since helped to seed another program, at a not terribly distant medical facility, that helps treat others with addiction problems. It's a bit of a money sink, but it makes me feel good. The provider is a different person, however.

I never liked methadone. Of course, when I tried it last, I was using fentanyl and methadone couldn't come close to helping because my tolerance was so high. Suboxone doesn't really get me high, it just keeps me from getting sick. I am allowed to take enough to get high, but I seldom do. My doctor is pretty cool about stuff like that.

Again, the goal is harm reduction and not strict sobriety. Finding a doctor interested in that was key for me. It took some phone calls, some false starts, and some time. I can't stress this enough - it helps to have money. Insurance would not cover much of this. I pay my doctor in cash. I'm pretty sure I spend more now than I usually did when using illegally.
Another fantastic resource for ML is Dan Grossman's Programming Languages course: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse341/17sp/ Scroll down to the Course Materials and check out some of the Videos. I started watching them and couldn't stop.
yeah I'm a surfer and I have an apple watch. never once have I wanted the ability to use my phone while surfing, it's the antithesis of the entire activity. that video made me laugh
Show HN: If you wear your resume will you get a job faster?
Unregulated markets inevitably lead to corruption, oligarchy, and health hazards to humans.

It's more profitable to operate when there's no expense or regulation associated with negligence and malice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fda#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#Federal_response

The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American
journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968).
Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions
and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in
Chicago and similar industrialized cities. Perhaps his
main goal in exposing the meat industry and working
conditions was to advance Socialism in the United
States. However, most readers were more concerned with
his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices
in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th
century, greatly contributing to a public outcry which led
to reforms including the Meat Inspection Act.

The book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social
supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working
conditions, and a hopelessness among many workers. These
elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption
of people in power. A review by the writer Jack London
called it "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery."
Platform as a reflection of values [video]
It IS absurd and I'm with you in thinking it is a perfect storm. Possibly even a fundamental crisis of freedom. My latest tactic is to label these people "copsuckers". It makes me feel good anyway.
If you're on OS X (apparently Windows now too?) Arq is a fantastic product that automates the process of creating archives, encrypting them before they leave your machine, and dumping them to AWS/other cloud providers. The encryption keys never leave your machine, and their data format is fully documented so you can easily decrypt if they fall off the face of the Earth one day.

It's a fantastic product that does everything you mentioned. I can't recommend it enough.

(not an employee, just a fan.)

https://www.arqbackup.com

EDIT: I forgot to mention you can set upload limits to keep your monthly bill below a threshold you determine. Very cool.
They never said that Talk was aimed at moving that goal further along, however. They're trying to use it instead to allow better curation tools to make comments manageable.
Doug Turnbull here, author of Relevant Search. I'm in love with this post. Thought I'd point out I added a few pointers that stream-of-conscioused into my head as I read this!

https://medium.com/@softwaredoug/this-is-a-fantastic-post-e9...
Hmm, I do agree with you but when I read that I read that as literally meaning "these police officers have no time to dwell on whats wrong".

With that many deaths and overdoses in just one week a lot of these departments are pretty taxed. A lot of these guys are doing the best they can with what little time they have and showing compassion where they can.

Fortunately for those battling these addictions I suspect, this epidemic is touching people the police know and care about. When it's not quite literally a black and white issue (or latino and white), and when the victims look like the officers or their friends or family, I think you see a bit more compassion.

But boy are a lot of these places just plain overrun with calls these days.

Hopefully one day we'll see more compassion for every citizen and I'm hopeful we're slowly but surely moving in that direction. I dunno what it is I just have a decent amount of faith in America's ability to generally move forward over time.

Man, some of those stories were really heartwrenching.
I heard some scuttlebutt about two years ago after Oracle got rid of some Java people that Oracle had wanted to leverage Java-as-a-Service as a cloud product, sort of like Google Compute, but just never managed to get there... The Sun acquisition, someone told me, "was a hardware acquisition". With SPARC/Solaris dead, Sun staff gone and the lawsuits against Google over Java faltering Oracle has sucked the last marrow out of the bones and is just casting them off now.
Dumb of them, good for us. I mean, the whole business of the cloud is based on your users/customers not realizing that...
Aah I agree. I do resist most of the time. But this 'HN is becoming Reddit' is itself a cliche repeated here far more often than I like. A direct "Please no joke' would be just fine.
Usenet news user apps had individual blacklisting
(and whitelisting and scoring) "killfiles" in the 1980s.
They made reading popular newsgroups more tolerable, but
did not scale in the face of "endless September" (1993).

If a site allows a near-infinite number of anon or sock-puppet accounts, individual or even distributed blacklisting amounts to trying to empty the ocean with teaspoons.

If posts or comments were strongly associated with
an individual identity, then a distributed scoring
system could help produce a more useful set of content,
but would be likely to make an echo chamber. But, the
scoring system could be gamed by persistent vandals.

Also, anonymous or persistent pseudonymous posters may
contribute valuable content - how can one allow for that content but defend against abuse?
During the demo they described a small chip built in that worked as a SIM so I don't think it's purely software / eSIM.
Above being more than a legal concept, it's also not really about expression, ie. the biggest value to society is not from Alexa O'Brien being able to express her thoughts and feelings, which is a minor benefit to her, but in us being able to read them and then choose the best ideas to adapt/copy/implement. The fact that you can make your (realistically, very tiny) contribution to the culture is much less important than being able to access everything created by other people.

Robin Hanson calls it "free hearing"[1]. The branding could be improved but the argument is exactly right.

We shouldn't even hide behind commentary and journalism. The source bin Laden videos should be available for us to judge. Removing them is not an act against the terrorists but against the public.

[1] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/01/free-hearing-not-speec...
This seems like a transparently bad plan if you include subreddits I view a single post from when browsing popular.

It's extremely hard to believe anyone thought a single post view was a strong enough interest indicator to be a reliable conversion.

I want to believe it was a communication error, but your explanation here sounds like you intentionally diluted the ad value.
You can think of it as a standardized API for creation of enterprise web applications.
The common numbers thrown around are that with 20 stocks your portfolio risk is reduced by 70%. The corresponding ratios follow. So in that sense it's not that bad.

Of course that's just one form of risk. The less attractive aspect of a 20 stock strategy comes from the fact that the majority of the market's returns come from very few stocks - The 80/20 rule applies pretty well here. With only 20 stocks you'll probably miss out on the few winners that contribute all the market's gains. It's very easy to end up with a 20 stock portfolio with low risk/variance and low returns.

Of course if you are Buffet, then your goal is to pick 20 stocks that all outperform.
I'm gonna need something better than myth and superstition to buy into this meme that autopilot users don't understand what autopilot is/isn't capable of because of how it is named.
But the photography on that was amazing wasn't it? Slow-mo from behind the tube, just the hand and the watch dipping below the surface. Great visual I thought

Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jUvD80mNKBM
For case 2 - I believe your eyes need to be open for this to work.

For case 1 - you can disable faceID prior to crossing borders.
Not to mention the trouble when nobody will allow you to host your legal content because they disagree with the message. Hell, even registrars are refusing to point to an IP address.

I know... We all hate Nazis. I get it. I don't like them and, being not white, they definitely don't like me. But, they are the current good example of what happens when the controllers decide you can no longer share your legal content.

I don't know what the solution is, but I want a world where even the deplorable are able to express their thoughts and feelings. I want a world where we aren't cowards and trying to force conformity. I want a world where even the worst of us can express themselves, using the same tools as others, so long as it is legal content.

Yes, speech must have restrictions. However, we already know what those restrictions are. I guess I'm just a hopeless idealist.
I hate cases, is like people covering their car seats.

I like using them the way they were designed.
Isn't there a danger of providing 10 wrong passwords and thus trigger the data deletion builtin ?
But you can only enter a pin on a phone you have physically with you. With this proposed auto-sync, every new phone is potentially a gateway to anyone else's phone.
Gold miners bragged about slaughtering members of a reclusive Brazilian tribe
This was a great read and incredibly helpful. As someone that has been working on a search system for three years, it is incredibly difficult. There is a ton of variables and the cost of being wrong early costs you dearly later. There is a lot in this article that resonates with me. Some stuff I know, some stuff I wish I had known, and some stuff that was new. Great read!
I'm not sure what the privacy issue is here. That moderators could connect a user's posts together? That's true of all popular platforms (where the user isn't using Tor anyway).
Along with proactively making my wishes concerning life support known to my family, I have made certain that they understand that a close friend is to be responsible for dealing with my data. He is capable of purging private data and filtering it down to family photos and the like. He knows to physically destroy all storage devices after processing the data and my family knows that he has accepted this responsibility.

I make sure to mention this to all concerned parties every couple of years so that everyone is clear on the matter. This doesn't include online services (email, etc), but it's enough for me.
The Time I Got Drunk on AWS S3 and What I Learned from It
The time required to actually sync music to the Watch (and the inability, until watchOS 4, to have multiple playlists) is what has always killed this for me. It's just too much faffing about.

As far as I'm concerned, the LTE Watch cannot arrive fast enough.
not necessarily, the IRS declared cryptoassets to be "property", which is inadvertently subject to like-kind tax treatment unless a specific exception is made, which has not been made.

"cryptographic hash inputs" which are colloquially called cryptocurrencies are functionally similar, and are subject to like-kind until a specific exception is made.

the IRS inadvertantly made altcoins the biggest potential tax shelter in history.
> The counterpoints are that 'this smells like PR bullshit', and that Kyle Vogt is an asshole

I literally said none of that...
> Every time someone says this there seem to be nothing but haters.

Because it's not completely true. If a CPU is microcoded, then it's accurate to say "assembly is interpreted" because every instruction is effectively an address into a lookup table of microinstructions. But in a non-microcoded (e.g. purely RISC) CPU, the bits of the instruction word are effectively enable and data lines to a bunch of hardware logic gates and flip-flops, which cause register transfers and arithmetic operations to happen. In this case, the ones and zeros in the instruction word are voltage levels on logic gates. Calling the latter "interpretation" is a stretch.

To be fair, there aren't many pure RISC implementations around these days. Most everything has some degree of microcode involved, so to that extent you're right.
His identical twin brother does a tiny bit of acting on the side - no joke!
Hibernation Over, New Horizons Continues Its Kuiper Belt Cruise
> Echo chambers are ultimately self-defeating as they bring on more divisiveness and intolerance.

But they are excellent at driving activity => pageviews. Which is where the money for newspapers comes from. Nothing to be said beyond that - the induction of outrage and divisiveness is a desired feature, not a bug, from the POV of media companies.
You were prescribing me an avenue of pursuing happiness when you said property rights were required. This kind of hypocrisy is rife throughout libertarianism.

If anything, by showing you additional ways to be happy, I was increasing the options available to you.
But the number of devices sold by Apple would multiply, which is the whole point.
Very handy, thanks for this. Mercator projection makes most of the major countries in Europe and Asia extra small but not sure how great anything else would look either.