skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The downside of this is that reputation systems can be wrecked with rumor. A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can take the first step.

However, I don't know what's going to work to take people with vast amounts of power out of power for wrongdoing, either. What we've done in the past doesn't appear to have consistently worked. So here we are, unfortunately.
I would recommend starting with a test case and a missed optimization bug report.

GCC has some support for macro-ops fusion. [0] is the first message in a gcc-patches thread where the feature was added.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-09/msg00168.html
It’s from a moving fighter jet at night at a significant distance.

Not saying it’s ET, but that seems like a bit unreasonable beef.
Agreed. NFL is general and we need to discuss a specific landscape.

Deep learning is continuous <nonlinear> multidimensional optimization - yes.

What defines the subset of problems ? a general nonlinear mapping from R^n to R^m n>m ?
or are you limiting to image classification ? speech recognition ? which would be a subset.

We have empirical evidence that deep-learning works but I'm not confident that we have the mathematical tools to understand why.
Nice investigative work there.
The problem is massive. Most people haven't noticed yet but it's only a matter of time. Eventually everyone gets burned at least once and Amazon becomes the new ebay.

They need to get a handle on their supply chain and stop outsourcing so much of their product listings to shady third party sellers. Shady third party sellers go hand-in-hand with fake reviews. Most reputable brands don't want to get their hands dirty with that stuff. It's guys making margin on reselling that have all the skin in the game and most of the incentive to manipulate the system.

I've never gotten a fake from any brick and mortar or online merchant that sells direct. Only places I've gotten fakes and been duped by rampant fake reviews are eBay and Amazon. Once a competitor gets their shit together (I'm betting on Walmart) and has an equally convenient online store, Amazon will be the Myspace of online sales.

People have loyatly to brands but not the company that sells them. If something better comes along I'll switch immediately just like I did years ago with ebay
Thing is: nobody threatened to murder him, no one called for a boycott of Y Combinator. Nobody did anything except disagree with him. Somehow an insignificant fraction of humanity disagreeing with him was too much for him to deal with though.
this. I looked up some current polling on drug issues and it blew my mind how backwards most of the USA still seems to be on this issue. [1] I mean at least the desire to legalize marijuana is increasing but on other issues in the "war on drugs" topic, the outlook doesn't look so great.

There are a lot of young dems and republicans that are at also against the current war on drugs - mainly as it pertains to marijuana, but still [2].

Glad to see Norway making headway in the right direction here. Hopefully my countries (Germany and USA) can follow suite at some point, rather sooner than later.

Finally, when will the USA and other countries start using metrics, data, experiment, and testing to drive policy instead of following public opinion or philosophical / moral stances that are based on nothing and which are continuously being invalidated or minimally given ample evidence for optimization by any data allowed to accumulate?

1. http://news.gallup.com/poll/1657/illegal-drugs.aspx
2. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/02/27/63-of-republ...
It's not the same, but it's the first step. They probably thought the general public will perceive it better than going straight with legalization.
Unfortunately Bush the Lesser, for all his strutting around in flight suits, turned out to be a chickenshit when the big bad Treasury Secretary barged into his office and hollered that he had to "act now!" Anyone with a spine would have kicked that corrupt asshole to the curb immediately. Instead, we got bailouts.
It's still politicians that pass laws. Politicians are voted for by American people. Those people just can't help themselves voting for the most well funded candidates. They're blind to the fact that their so called free will choice is determined by lobbyist's payments and refuse to vote for underfunded candidates.
i couldn't see a benefit aside having more eyes for mass surveliance?
we need ethical values at this point, not another array of tech sensors.
I had fun trying to beatmatch these.

Got me thinking if one could build a site / tool to aide with beatmatching youtube videos. Would be a fun side project.
> Why is there not more focus on the police investigation. Why did they police decide not to press charges?

So, you might not find it in the same article, but if you want to do the research you can find out the answer to this question.

And there are a lot of answers. Here's on aspect:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/07/16/untested-rape...
Does InstaCart warehouse some Costco goods?
My family sometimes orders InstaCart from Costco, and I've noticed a few times some goods have arrived expired. These includes things like Asparagus and Heavy Cream, for examples.

Does InstaCart warehouse some goods, and not always acquire them directly from the stores?

It seemed odd to me to get expired perishables from Costco, when I've never seen anything expired on their shelves.
Start by making your bed when you get up, because it's something easy that naturally belongs at that time, and gives you immediate visual feedback in the form of a nicer looking room.
Not true, executives pushed their high-pressure upselling scheme downstream without properly following up on if the goals of the program were realistic or viable. They fired or punished employees calling into the ethics line. Their high-pressure policies created this culture of fraud, and they looked the other way. So long as the money kept rolling in, they didn't care how it was getting done.
With behavior like this (and previous acts) I view Mozilla as less trustworthy than Google.

Wouldn't Chromium be a better option for those who still don't like Google?

I'm still glad that Firefox mobile is available since Chrome mobile doesn't support extensions (e.g. for ad blocking).
Sure. The question asked if you would want unwanted messages, which is certainly tautological. It's a pointless question if interpreted literally.

I interpreted it more as asking people to think about how they would feel in that situation. That's dangerous, because it opens the door for people to say, "it wouldn't be that big a deal to me."

That would be fine if personal feelings were relevant, but they're not. It's unacceptable for someone to treat others this way, regardless of whether they accept others treating them the same way in return.
And way behind on Chromium version.
Playing devils advocate:

Why should I hire anyone who is accused of rape when I do my background check?
Why should anyone else hire such people?
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>I am sure this comment will only be seen by me, only through this browser.

hi!

Since your model has led you to an incorrect conclusion, are you going to revise it?
I don’t remember if this was the exact link as this was several weeks ago. This was the toy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00OYJNKJG/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=...
That one actually skipped town while in office to get the job.
Yeah, seems like the potential for expertise is there.
The Scenic Railway in the Blue Mountains, NSW is listed at 52deg so I believe it’s still steeper?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katoomba_Scenic_World#Railwa...
CEO for 2 weeks doesn't accurately capture his contribution.

"He started work at Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1995"

"In early 1998, Eich co-founded the Mozilla project with Mitchell Baker, creating the website mozilla.org that was meant to manage open-source contributions to the Netscape source code. He served as Mozilla's chief architect."

"In August 2005, after serving as Lead Technologist and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Mozilla Foundation, Eich became CTO of the newly founded Mozilla Corporation"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
What did they have before buying pocket?
Do you imply that Lay was not present at the funeral? I think that could be a pretty good idea for a movie...
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I can't whitelist/blacklist domains for cookies.
James Mickens gave a great talk about how we could build a better browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uflg7LDmzI
This is one of my all-time favorite things on the internet. I was so inspired by it that I did a sort of half-formed "installation art" piece using it for a college class back in 2011. I projected the site onto a wall, hooked up some speakers, and prompted people to touch any of the videos, but I didn't explain anything else beforehand. When someone touched one of the videos, it would start, and when someone touched the same one, it would pause — just like a large touchscreen.

It's amazing what you can create yourself with this, but imagine what it's like when you have a large group "composing" it together, and then collectively deciding when to end it (or not!). Watching people go "ah ha" and then starting to communicate wordlessly to create their own piece, unique to their particular group, was so rewarding.

In hindsight, I wish I'd recorded it! (And if I were to do it again, I'd definitely want to get in touch with the creators and get their permission first.)
I mean the money they spent to buy Pocket could've been spent on other things.
That was awesome but that is a reverse engineering disassembler (a bit redundant when the GoodWatch guy wrote the code to begin with but ...).

A reverse engineered disassembler would be a disassembler that has been reverse engineered itself, which was not what the article said.

It confused me, too.
In case anyone is curious, Virginia Code 18.2-108 states that "If any person buys or receives from another person, or aids in concealing, any stolen goods or other thing, knowing the same to have been stolen, he shall be deemed guilty of larceny thereof" and the following section states "Any person who commits larceny of property with a value of $200 or more with the intent to sell or distribute such property is guilty of a felony punishable by confinement in a state correctional facility for not less than two years nor more than 20 years". https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter5/secti...
How much do the various militaries and defense contractors communicate with one another? Is it possible that we end up spying on our own technology across departments/contractors?
> unless there's some specific set of instructions or optimizations that would make a difference for the workload

I think this was the parent's worry. Most HPC deployments have versions of libc, libm, etc. compiled with tuning flags specific to the microarchitecture of the system, to allow workloads deployed on them to squeeze as much performance as possible out of the system. I would worry that the versions of libraries in the container are just the generic packages that ship with the OS, compiled with -march=i686 or whatever the modern equivalent is, where they don't try to take advantage of e.g. AVX512 instructions if they're available.
Yeah, because developing those pays off in other ways.

And Mozilla has a contract with Cliqz that requires them to deanonymize the data and with Google to not use the data for anything else. It's perfectly possible to cooperate with companies that otherwise disrespect privacy in a privacy-respecting way, believe it or not.

And just because Chromium doesn't have Google Analytics in it, doesn't mean it's not worse for privacy. Google for example uses your browsing history and bookmarks for profiling you, if you sign up to Chrome Sync.
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Philosophy divides the mystery of consciousness into two problems. The Soft Problem is "how does the brain compute things?". The Hard Problem is "how does qualia exist?".

The Soft Problem is easy to imagine. Neuroscience will solve it eventually. We may not understand it yet, but we can make a lot of computer analogies and educated guesses. After all, computers are already Philosophical Zombies (someone who passes the Turing Test, yet in no way experiences qualia).

> but it doesn't lead me to question the nature of reality in any deep philosophical way. Should it?

Here's the contention the professionals are currently debating. The Hard Problem challenges our notions of Physicalism (as opposed to say, Dualism). "But souls are dumb, Science says so!".

Extrapolate into the future. Even after Neuroscience solves the brain's circuitry, qualia will remain just as mysterious as ever. E.g. suppose we discover that the hippocampus demultiplexes memories to different parts of the brain. Suppose we learn how to directly manipulate memory. Not only can we fix amnesia, but we can implant false memories. "Hooray, we've solved the Soft Problem!". But we still have no leads on the Hard Problem. A hippocampus doesn't distinguish a Homunculus from a P-Zombie.

Physicalism has been so successful in the sciences, everyone takes its accuracy for granted. I myself consider Physicalism true. But Physicalism is not adequate to explain the Hard Problem. This doesn't mean we have to go back to souls. But it does mean we need to (at least) "spice up" Physicalism, or maybe choose another line of attack, etc if we're ever to crack the Hard Problem.
How much of this problem would be eliminated if Amazon only allowed reviews from accounts that purchased that item?
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His wife was conducting what behaviour? They said nothing about that at all. I think you're reading bad motives/deeds into the original description of events.
Shameless plug, we also have a benchmark post for CPU/K80/V100 focusing on image tasks: https://blog.floydhub.com/benchmarking-floydhub-instances. In this case, V100 can be a lot more cost effect compared to CPU and K80. Our tensorflow environments are built from source with optimizations targeting our CPU instances.
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Ok, the system isn't perfect, for sure, but who cares about someone's doubt, when you have the evidence?

From what I can see, in this particular case the girl didn't press charges, even though she had a strong case (his DNA, her being very drunk, done the med evaluation quickly).

What do you propose exactly? Always believe the accuser? No more innocent till proven guilty? Make the accused unemployable? For how long?

Cause it would be trivial to create dozens of FB profiles and accuse you of rape once a week.
It doesn't have to be "extra-terrestrials". People are capable of creating things that are superior to government technology.
Where is the HD footage that actually shows features of the mysterious "unidentified objects"?

Why is all the evidence grainy and obscured?

The prospect that life from another star system traveled hundreds of trillions of kilometers, only to hide for the past few decades, peeking out briefly for low-quality photoshoots, is beyond absurd.
The difference is that a real HATEOAS API provides clients with context through the payload for all service interactions. HTTP becomes just the transport layer. Roy Fielding never wanted to point to anything else. He was inspired by how HTML enabled human-to-service interaction through a Browser (the client) and formulated an architectural style for human/machine-to-service interaction. The emphasis must be on how we design formats. Communicating the state is just freestyle, HTTP being the prominent one.
Mozilla is an embarrassment of an organization run by people paying themselves $1 million/year for years of gross mismanagement.
You'd think banter would work that way, but in practice it just encourages the idiot to respond with more "banter" of their own. See, a guy who is stupid enough to think it's appropriate to tell you your dress is too sexy for the conference is just not intellectually equipped to face the fact he's being a creep. In his eyes, that creepy stuff he said to you is already "banter". If you reply, you're just accepting his rules for interaction- and that can only lead to more uneasiness or humiliation.

Also, this idea that you should respond with chuzpah to every idiot who bothers you puts the burden on the person who is being harassed to protect his or herself from the harasser, when really the harasser is the one who should be controlling their behaviour.

Finally- some people are just not good with banter. What about them? They just get harassed and it's their fault if the can't come up with a zinger to put the creep in his place? I don't think that's resonable.
As I've heard the term used in the vernacular it is synonymous with 'welfare'. I attempt to clarify that there is a huge difference between a mandatory retirement pension plan whose benefits depend on how much you pay into it vs. say food stamps. Therefore I point out that Social Security is not an entitlement since that word has become distorted in the last 30 years to be synonymous with welfare. It connotes getting something without paying for it. Therefore I think it is wrong to call Social Security an entitlement. The meaning of the word has changed or is in the midst of being changed.
A little beside the point, but I love the real-time distribution visualisation with the boxplot.
Wait, GHB? Are we talking about the liquid that can be either a solvent GBL or cooked with baking soda to neutralize it to GHB and make it less dangerous?

Two millilitres too much of GBL and you pass out, a bit more with GHB. Of course if you can keep it in control, you can have lots of fun. But I wouldn't list it with MDMA and LSD, which are tremendously more safe than GHB.
Does that also filter out stuff sold by vendors, but fulfilled by Amazon?
> "start thinking about the future, and write draft specs for an open web..."

There has been tons of attempts at this. Maybe we should start examining why these attempts have failed to succeed.
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> could we lock up some of its proponents?

For breaking what law? There are good reasons we make it tough to arrest politicians for their political decisions.
>It is mostly text [...] doesn't make it readable at all.

that is the weirdest comment ever. On HN no less which is literally just text.
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You can say that, but if he finds out, you can get sued for defamation. That's why most companies, when you ask for a reference, will not say anything beyond your dates of employment and maybe the names of the projects you were working on.
Or putting up a poster that only some people are allowed to look at (or that the google maps car isn't allowed to photograph).
How can you know which drugs do and don’t make people’s lives better?

There’s so much misinformation around this topic, I really have no idea whether cocaine is actually a drug that can be used to benefit, Aleister Crowley certainly claimed so, or meth, or who knows.
Happens all the time. Last few times I've purchased electronics on Amazon that have been relatively recently listed (i.e 20 reviews or less), I've made a point of looking at the reviews.

Click on first reviewer's name, and that reviewer has just happened to review 5 items all on the same day, and those are the only 5 items they have ever reviewed. And all 5 items are completely random (electronics, bed linen, garden equipment, clothing, etc). Rinse and repeat with second, third, fourth reviewer and a similar pattern arises.

Majority of recently listed electronic items that I've been looking to purchase follow the same pattern.
And that's wrong.
Yeah unfortunately here we use the drug laws to effectively reintroduce slavery. Its legal under US law to use prisoners as slave labor. As we used to say in the 90s people in the 'hood don't have planes. By the 2000s rather than the CIA cocaine and heroin smuggling we saw Wallstreet move in and the rise of the Oxycontin era where Wallstreet shareholders have been directly benefiting both from selling opiates to the masses and then from their slave labor when they land in a private prison after converting from oxy to heroin addiction.
But come on, if US intelligence agencies recovered metallurgy from Russian hypersonic missiles or something like that, why would they use UFO for cover? And why would they store it outside of AFRL? I think it's just a way to funnel taxpayer money, there is nothing real being investigated. Not extraterrestrial tech, not foreign tech, not even domestic tech.
I would have thought you could give my very serious policy proposal some slightly more considered analysis.
As I see it the Fed put assets into a weird sort of freezer to maintain liquidity and asset prices and they have been unfreezing them at about the same rate as the GDP has been growing such the net impact on asset prices is unchanged.
You need to get the ball moving with following your own instructions. The first tasks don't have to be useful or related, just doable.
Eg force yourself to blink. Then raise one arm. Then stand up.
Now you are half way to doing the pushup. Ignore the silliness of it all, and keep going.
With each progressively harder step, you gain more momentum and more energy to take bigger steps.
I also didn’t consider that China would probably not be happy with the US in their backyard.
If Tor browser sends additional data over the net, it does so via the Tor network, so you are at no more risk than any other explicit requests you make via Tor browser. Unless you're using uMatrix in advanced mode with extra strict content settings enabled, Tor browser won't keep your session completely private. It isn't designed to do so. It's designed to keep a single session isolated and - if you're careful - anonymous within itself, but any activity within that session can still be easily associated with other activity within that session, unless you're selectively blocking 3rd parties. NoScript (bundled with TorBrowser) does this partially but not fully.

Beyond the above (that TorBrowser isn't designed to protect from what we're discussing here, and as such their vetting won't be overly concerned with it), there's also the fact that they track ESR which is likely to have less of these issues since they'll usually be fixed before feature releases are backported.

Edit: In case you're still of the view these bugs are "imagined", here's two small (related) examples: [0], [1] though not the only ones. The "lack of consideration" I referred to in my above post that imo causes these bugs is the language seen in the second one of those bugs:

> It's not tracking but I'd imagine users who were uncomfortable submitting usage data from the app to GA also don't want to log their errors in Sentry

This is a Mozilla developer who seems to fundamentally disagree with (I'd guess most) users on what tracking means.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1380754

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2802
I made one based on Chromium: https://cretz.github.io/doogie/. I don't have cookie management per se beyond dev tools. Also it's not the most mature/stable yet.
While I agree, we would all be better off if the populace was more intelligent, I can't deny that this is a very narcissistic attitude.

National elections carry vastly more importance for the people than EP elections, just look at the voter turnout statistics.

And rightfully so. Just look at the daily news of Denmark, Netherlands or Germany. Countries that are compared to other sets of nations remarkably similar. Yet, languages aside, have vastly different daily concerns and thus vastly different needs. A parliament where your nations needs are watered down is guaranteed to offend your nations voters over each iteration where such offending decision takes place.

The bigger the electorate, the lesser a vote counts, thus less participation and ultimately less democratic legitimacy.
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