skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not buy the 'a standpoint can be too extreme to not be worth discussing'. Interracial marriage would have been one of those standpoints as recently as the 1960s. If you find yourself incapable of articulating actual reasons, not emotional appeals, of why certain things are wrong, that is a personal failing and certainly you shouldn't tackle those issues yourself. But those who have thought about these issues should be able to bring them forward and deal with them objectively and dispassionately.

The number of people who seem to operate on this mindset of "killing loads of people would actually be good, but its too nasty to speak of" is really fucking disturbing. There are objective, rational reasons why such things would be monumentally destructive. I also encounter a disturbing number of people who are earnest racists, who believe that certain races have inherent biological advantage over others, but who believe that they are not racists because they find acknowledging that as inhumane. They don't use epithets and they support affirmative action and diversity and such out of DUTY. All the while never being able to learn that they're WRONG.
There are lots of clear consequences to "tribalist" behavior, especially if we mean the obvious example of racism.
> Additionally loss can be controlled, since you can easily control your venmo balance as opposed to a traditional debt card.

I dunno dude, I find no difficulty in keeping my debit card empty. Almost too easy in fact.

Paycheck comes in, automatic transfers instantly cut it up and put money where it belongs.
Ask HN: Would you pay one cent for every web page you visit?
If your browser was able to send micropayments seamslessly and at near-zero cost, would you pay one cent for every web page you visit? Abuse limiting controls aside (ie, this would most likely be opt-in but once you green-light a website, it would be able to charge you on an ongoing basis up to a certain threshold), would you consider paying for web content on a regular, automatic basis, as an alternative to advertising and subscription-based paywalls?
Have you been working on this for 17 years? Why does the copyright statement in the footer say 2000-2017?
Thanks for these replies. Also, very cool idea you have here: Cryptography for genetic material
DigiCert is taking over the cert issuing infrastructure on Dec. 1st, so presumably those brands are coming along for the ride.
Most of that logic is usually on a web server somewhere, so it's already being shared.
Is it IRCv3? http://ircv3.net/
Is the plan to update RFC 2813 and RFC 1459?

Either way neat, and good luck. Like it or not, IRC is certainly going to be around for a long long time. It's going to be a long time before you get project devel/help channels to move elsewhere!
Yes. The reasoning is still sound.

It's the moral panic after 9/11 that made people and politicians to lose their marbles.
>When control of the modern public sphere is vested in the owners of social networks and internet infrastructure, that balance of power becomes rather lopsided.

Absolutely, but I'm not sure that's germane to this topic. That's an argument for why we should have open standards and be opposed to monopolies, it's not an argument for not having moderation.

As it stands though, many social networks are dominated by the perspectives of a minority of technically savvy people with an abundance of free-time and a willingness to spam propaganda. They get away with it because these social networks were designed as ad platforms, so spamming propaganda in peoples' faces is literally why they exist and they don't want to invest too many resources into letting you control who gets to shove things in your face and who doesn't.
Amazon raising prices by cutting the cost.

If Google/Msft were not entering the cloud market, you'll never see as much an aggressive price cut from AWS, and Amazon should be having a way bigger a market cap right now.
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That's their average for the year. They were way worse at the beginning, and way better by the end. They continue to improve, though I can't give you data on that until late December when this year's disengagement reports are filed. Like once you get to the point where you can go, say, 10 miles in urban traffic without a disengagement, the improvements from then on (as measured by disengagements) improve dramatically, up until you get to the point where it's really hard to discover new edge cases. Waymo in 2016 was at 1 disengagement every 5000 miles, and that's a 4x improvement over 2015.
There is even now an international research workshop on deep learning for music that was created in 2017: http://dorienherremans.com/dlm2017/
Equifax shares tumble another 8% after credit score hack
Remember also that the dataset they are using began back in the 1940s when the towns demographics would have been much farther skewed towards English/Anglo-Saxon. And while they've included more participants over the course of the study, it's mainly been adding the descendants of the original participants.
Show HN: See how much money people from your school make
Ha. I actually drafted it in a markdown editor and pasted it over.
One interesting side effect someone was postulating w.r.t. the Equifax leak was that it may provide bad actors a handy list of "people with credit issues that may be more amenable to blackmail and/or bribery".
Well, since the trend goes towards In-App-Purchaes, you could simply paywall some functionality and slap Stripe or PayPal on your website. That should give users a relatively similar experience. Don't even have to share 30% that way. It's up to you.
Announced price cuts. We've been in WF before and after the buyout. Didn't see much difference. Still prefer to go to farmers markets and discount grocers like Aldi's.
It seems most people are terrified that the bigots might be right. That's the only thing that makes any sense. It's the only situation in which censorship makes more sense than discussion. If the bigots are wrong, you just correct them, lampoon them, etc. There must be many people who suppose the bigots cannot be corrected, that the truth is horrible and must be hidden for the good of all. Those people are wrong. And they will do radically more harm than good.

Good intentions are the opposite of good actions. (An old German saying I quite like.)
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The comments, flow control and variable names are the exact same, and the comments at the top of the file have the same emails as the WebKit source code. If that's not a clear cut sign of plagarism, I don't know what is.
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Nobody is driving without backup drivers yet yet. It's not because they aren't allowed.
Ah no. The company is that old and our main product is at processmaker.com. The copyright that you see is tied to the company name. Probably something we should correct/clarify

This project is brand new and we were working on it now for almost a year just now releasing it into the public.
Thanks for the advice and the insight :) I'll uncheck the boxes preventing them from contacting former employers and rely on them restricting info to dates and titles.

> DO NOT HACK THE WEBSITE OF THE BACKGROUND CHECK COMPANY YES I AM SHOUTING.

ducks Yeah, this was a dumb idea. I'll avoid the form validation antics.
I have not found little correlation between sharing my values and phenotypes, and short of DNA testing my friends that's all I have to go on.

Further, while there may be a correlation, it's far from deterministic. Experiences count for a lot in developing values.
Creating a false sense of urgency is a cornerstone of modern marketing. The only difference between this and any other marketing campaign is that you just happened to catch them this time.

This is just like when you go to an electronics store and they put the super expensive tv (almost) nobody buys right next to the still very expensive but comparably more modest model. You are more likely to buy that second tv even if costs more than you initially budgeted because your brain tells you that this is the cheaper model with _almost_ the same features as the flagship tv.

For another example, many ecommerce sites will list the number available in stock if it is low, and sometimes will just say "few available" without specifying a number. This creates the same (sometimes false) sense of urgency.
Sure, of course we curtail these behaviors. It's uncharitable to read the parent comment as suggesting that we ignore our conscious, moral minds. I understood him as simply saying that the dogmatic belief in humans-as-blank-slates is going to keep being belied by the way humans act in practice, even those who have as much a claim to conscious morality as anyone else. Something as subtle as why you get along with someone and choose to keep seeing them isn't fully-specified, and whenever something isnt fully-specified, our lizard brains have a strong chance to fill in the gap.

In case you think I'm arguing against a strawman, the blank slate view is _extremely_ popular, and likely even more so in the circles that this commentariat likely run in.
There is a simple solution for that, and it exists on Android.

On Android all text formatting is compatible between apps nicely, and can easily be copied between apps.
If most people used electric bicycles instead it would be about 1kWh per day instead +-100%, on tenth of the energy consumption, that would lead to more productive work hours, and less time spent at hospitals, and less issues with the big killer diseases affecting heart and lungs.
Good points, but either way the go study is doubtful as hell.
There is nothing hard about valuing gnome vs child, if you can identify them. Computers can evaluate huge problem spaces in milliseconds. The hard part is the perception: identifying the child and the gnome. Deep learning has allowed us to make gigantic leaps in the quality of perception but there is a long way to go in uncontrolled environments.

I also think people incorrectly think that the moral choice dilemmas that self-driving cars will face are somehow the difficult part. What will happen is that we will provide valuation functions that are somewhat close to our intuitive collective understanding of value of life in different forms. Computers use them to evaluate these situations and we as a society just adapt to the new ethics of the AI age.
I think that already exists.

https://venmo.com/business

https://help.venmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/217532327-Splitting...

I've never seen it in the wild though.
The people that drive Uber.

Jokes aside, it's still semi-public transportation.
Usually a post like the OP's is a lead-in to an argument about why discrimination is actually fine and shouldn't be fought, so I guess I let my previous experiences get ahead of what the post actually says.
It depends on what you mean by "on par".

If you mean "endlessly churning out songs that sound pretty much like Beethoven, Chopin, or the Beatles", then probably not. Humans do that too.

If you mean "endlessly creating new, innovative, and enjoyable material, like Beethoven, Chopin, and the Beatles did", then I think it's a very interesting proposition and lots of people would be happy to have that. I am skeptical it can be done with ML though.
Fantastic way of putting it. Developers shirk responsibility too easily
> I've considered JS taking over CSS more and more thoroughly inevitable for about four years now.

If you spent four years trying to write UIs on the order of 100k SLOC and style them without CSS, you'd realize pretty damn fast that you want CSS.
It's becoming very common outside the US. I think a large part of it is that credit cards are less common in most other countries, especially among young people. Mobile payments have a big advantage in convenience over cash, which is the primary alternative for many people.
Waymo already had a car driving with a blind person.
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The response isn't great either. For example, the contradiction alleged in footnote 1 isn't a contradiction at all, and they don't adequately address the limitations of the study in relation to the absence of non-white individuals in the dataset, or the absence accurate information about individuals' sexuality. All they do is insist without evidence that none of this makes any difference.

In fact, the original paper is deeply confused about sexual orientation:

>Their sexual orientation was established based on the gender of the partners that they were looking for (according to their profiles).

> [...]

> Another issue pertains
to the quality of the ground truth: it is possible that some of the users categorized as heterosexual
were, in fact, gay or bisexual (or vice versa). However, we believe that people voluntarily
seeking partners on the dating website have little incentive to misrepresent their sexual
orientation.

Obviously, bisexual people who say that they are looking for a partner of one or other gender are not "misrepresenting" their sexual orientation!
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> And just how would you do this?

Embed channels in the unibody. Seal power+digital rails in the channels and provide replaceable hubs at joints (which avoids some problems with CAN transceiver issues, and simplifies maintenance). Use plugs that can be sealed in place to connect sensors. The only wires, if any are needed, are between the sensor and a point on the frame, which might be a few centimeters apart.

Unibodies already are subject to replacement upon severe damage and the replaced part would include the data rails. Attached sensors could be disconnected and rewired or replaced. Fiber would be just as vulnerable to crash and transceivers would probably cost more, and it certainly wouldn't be less complex, other than perhaps EMI.

A lot of modern car design is a result of balancing complexity against maintenance cost. A lot of these factors will go away in a driverless electic world.
I think that the Ember community beats this drum because they have no real answer to React Native.
The key deception with StubHub is that you're not actually buying tickets, you're actually giving away put options for free.
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I am not concerned for Einstein's status - he's firmly among the greats as far as I am concerned - but Great Men historiography diminishes the role of all the other contributors to the progress of science. Most importantly, this gives a false impression of how science works.

From popular expositions of Einstein's work, you would think he came up with the profoundly counter-intuitive ideas of spatial contraction and time dilation single-handedly and out of the blue, yet the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction hypothesis was already well established within the field. This short article gives an idea of how the relevant ideas developed through collaboration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation#History
Interesting RCA from Symantec on the originating incident: https://bug1334377.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8831... (PDF)

Also, they provided several Q&A-style responses as well:

https://bug1334377.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8831...

https://bug1334377.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8836...

https://bug1334377.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8838...
Not only that, but they're doing things like Certificate Transparency - publishing every certificate they sign into public logs and they're funded and supported by some of the biggest names in online security and privacy.

They're probably the most trustworthy CA on the planet.
Hop into our self-driving car! It was designed by a team of inexperienced developers working under a manager who foreshortened deadlines and delivered ahead of schedule and under budget! The software guys asked for crazy things like 'bug trackers' and 'static analysis tools', but we kept their nose to the grindstone. Some of them said the software required more testing, but you know software guys, always such nervous ninnies. Luckily we maintained the standard business practice of keeping every employee replacable so that there were no worries when we booted those guys.

Don't forget to read the fine print about the driver actually needing to keep their hands on the wheel and ready to correct the car should it do anything improper. You bear full responsibility for anything the car does. And have fun!
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The number I always had in mind (to charge) was 1/10th that.

Back in the olden days (decades ago now) I did use viewdata systems that charged like that, and it did not feel evil.

And for those on a limited mobile plan, the data costs of all but the lightest pages will be similar to or higher than a 0.1c/0.1p charge.
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

I have never had an answer to that question. I am sure this varies by person but is that a terrible thing or a sign that something is wrong?

I have made radical and life-altering changes in the last year and I can see how bad my life had gotten but I still have no answer for the question about what I would like to be doing professionally in 5 years time.
Images of code are the worst. Completely unusable.
It goes farther back. People have long thought, "The gods favor people with wealth and power". And similarly that people have thought certain acts (prayers, rituals, spells, sacrifices) would get the gods to do what they wanted. There's a logic to it since that's pretty much how people work.

Prosperity theology attempts to fit that approach into the words of the Bible. It generally relies on out of context quotes, fallacious logic, and errors of omission (John the Baptist ate bugs, Jesus couch surfed, the apostles did chores to earn their keep) to make its case. The New Testament is clearly on the record against showy religious displays, ritual-based theology, and status symbols.
Well, the problem is that people so often go motte-and-bailey on it.

Motte: all the valid critiques of how institutional science works, all of which are well-known.

Bailey: full Paul Ryanism, cut the NSF and NIH to the fucking bone and tell scientists to go get "real jobs" in industry. Subject academics to yet more administration and reporting requirements that further incentivize bad science and just generally make everyone miserable.

We'd all be less tetchy about the motte if it wasn't used as an excuse for the bailey.
It just seems like all of the shittiness that was on Reddit migrated over to Voat.

Voat is a fucking cesspool of gross.
Right. I know of people who lost power and cell phone coverage.
I tried hackthebox.eu...
https://i.imgur.com/Axq0GPu.jpg
Do you happen to have a good source handy on the growing acceptance of the Multi-Regional theory vs the Out of Africa theory? This is obviously a topic with political implications so looking for something that is accepted as a neutral source.
4DK. A cool startup later acquired by Radius Networks. That's where I got the "bug" for coding. It was sometimes stressful and occasionally caused a great deal of anxiety. But everyday, I felt challenged and engaged to the max. Plus, I loved flying out to Chicago to meet the rest of our small dev team and drink beers. It was more about camaraderie than anything else. It was just us, 5 developers and a UX director, against the world. People were trusting me with their livelihoods. And I still feel honored to have been a part of the 4DK team.
I might be in the minority, but I really enjoy the fact there are no favicons in Safari, the cleaner looks really help the content of the current page stand out more.

And after all, there is Chrome, Firefox, and many others that do have them for the ones that find them useful.
What is your goal? A perfectly rational society? Does that take into account that human psychology (the behavior, not the science) is not (completely, if at all) rational? (I'd argue that the goal of a rational society specifically takes into account this inherent non-rational behavior, both in ourselves and others.) How do you want to get there? Do you want to convince those that don't agree with you? Are you yourself open to having your opinion changed? These in my opinion on are both difficult problems and problems worth tackling.

If the religion aspect of it is a sticking point for you, substitute anything over which people strongly disagree. Where do you draw the line as to what's worthwhile discussing or who it's worthwhile discussing with? This is really the crux of what I've been trying to express.

As for "their divining rod should not be entering public debate at all", there are a large number of people who do hold religious beliefs, and are part of the public. Public debate is going to include such discussion because it's a part of who people are. Are you going to shun them? Segregate yourself from them? These are clearly straw men, and I don't ascribe them to you. Don't get me wrong, I don't have an answer to this, and likely there needs to be a varied approach as people themselves are varied. But I do think that not engaging with or dismissing each other if we're acting charitably and in good faith is not a solution.

(And faith certainly is debatable: there's a long history of theological debate which includes debates about faith, both in the particulars as what is believed and the nature of faith itself.)

Anyway, this is likely the last I'll post in this thread. Best.
That's one of the arguments of the paper - there's some good evidence that a lot (of course not all) of those accounts simply stopped posting.
>Now, of course nobody is realistically suggesting taking all that money.

Right, we're suggesting seizing the means of production. Don't redistribute, predistribute!
Musk has 5 kids and 2 ex-wives. How many ex-husbands does our lawyer have, and how many of her ex-husbands themselves have an 8 figure net worth from the divorce?
Right, in the sense that they don't owe the applicant a reason. But being caught in a lie is an especially good reason, from an internal perspective, to decide to move on from an applicant.
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High? I keep an accurate and calibrated hygrometer in the musical instrument room, and it's the rare day when it goes over 50% in Redmond. That said, I've never used one in the PNW.

According to the chart at the bottom of this article, it's not optimal, but it'll take the edge off: https://www.air-n-water.com/common-swamp-mistakes.htm. And for most summers, this one being an exception, our problems with heat are in the high desert east of the mountains.
That's not true at all - the price cuts were to staples like salmon, avocados, ground beef, milk, eggs, bananas, etc...
You could ask the same thing about most cars with an internal combustion engine as well. Most of them do store some key data inboard. Some already push quite a lot of data to the cloud.

The biggest reason most car manufacturers are laggards in this respect is because they mostly don't make the onboard systems themselves. As opposed to manufacturers like Tesla, which understand that making the onboard systems is important both from a practical and strategic point of view.

I don't think privacy will be respected unless there are strict regulations in place that are taken as seriously as, for instance, cheating on emissions tests. But in recent years there has been a keenness in government to harvest this data. So I wouldn't hold my breath.