skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, the context that you're ignoring is important:

> I'm so much more effective that it's always cheaper to have me do it, assuming I don't have a higher priority task (in which case it's a non-issue, since I'm working on that one). I.E. I'm a 10x (or 100x) developer, but I don't get paid 10x (or 100x).

The numbers were merely to indicate that my multiplier is sufficient that I'm cheaper than a dev.

> I suspect you didn't actually read that link, just the URL - not fair to chide me for mentioning the number if you didn't read what that meant.

No need to suspect, I confirm I didn't read it. I saw the number in the URL and just dismissed it as puffery.

> That's exactly my claim, that you add more value with this sort of activity than the "execute it" part; doing that plus teaching others to do it, you add exponentially more value to the company, than just coding stuff in a corner .

That was in no way you're claim, at least, not the claim I disputed. Your claim(s) were:

> You don't hire senior devs to code - good junior devs can code not only "just as fast", but probably faster too!

> "Mentoring" is basically the job you hire a senior dev to do

No way. Maybe mentoring is a part of the job, but it's by no means the main job in many organizations.

> if you remove qualifications like "correct code" or "maintainable" or whatever

??? This is a pretty ludicrous statement. Why would you ever count incorrect code? And yes, I probably can code incorrectly faster than a junior dev, too. After decades of experience, I'm a faster typist than most junior devs.

> I know very well that my younger self could code circles around my older self when it comes to raw speed. And I've seen other people like that later; experience can't fight youth when it comes to speed and enthusiasm... it just can't.

Rose colored glasses, to say the least. You seem to be switching back and forth on whether raw LOC throughput is meaningful...first you were "flabbergasted" that it might be a measure of productivity, now you're bragging about raw speed, and even suggesting that creating "correct code" or "maintainable" code is irrelevant, which is insane.

> It's more likely that you just never worked with a good junior dev before, than it is that you can always code everything faster).

I've worked with (and mentored) some really great junior devs, who grew into great senior devs. But they didn't walk into the building as my equals in coding.
I see no basis for thinking that whatsoever.
How the AK-47 and AR-15 Evolved into Rifles of Choice for Mass Shootings
I wonder if the average is skewed because so many people buy new phones every year / every other year.
Mencken’s [False and Viral] History of the Bathtub
This idea is fundamentally flawed because mining is ultimately a zero-sum game. If this approach became commonplace as the author suggests, it would greatly increase the number of publishers squabbling over much smaller pieces of the pie.

In any case, you're effectively paying for the mining on your power bill. So nevermind that this approach disadvantages users who pay higher rates for electricity or have older, less-power-efficient computers.
I agree, but will mention that MIT's plan is a tokamak. But it's ten times smaller, because they use new, commercially-available high temperature superconducting tapes that weren't around when ITER was designed. This lets them use a much stronger magnetic field. (MIT doesn't have funding for it but the private company Tokamak Energy is doing something similar.)

MIT's design is also easy to take apart, has a 3-d printed reactor core that gets replaced once a year, and surrounds that with FLiBe, the same molten salt used in some fission designs, for cooling and tritium breeding.
Top Blockchain Startups that boomed in 2017. What are they about?
It’s a very popular observation spot and permits try to manage its overuse. Errant car headlights can spoil an observation, the area caters to enthusiasts that follow a slew of best practices (only using red flashlights in the dark to preserve night vision, etc).
Yes, but it's kind of a whack-a-mole since their reuse times are not public AFAIK, so it would constantly need tuning as they develop the service.
In what way is your comment different from 'No True Scotsman'?
Seems sane and reasonable amount of data collection.
It doesn't have enough mass to do anything like that. It'll burn up in the atmosphere if it does come back to Earth. Currently projections of it coming back to Earth in the next million years are at 6%.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster#Fut...
First sentence shows something is wrong:

>"It has recently become apparent that the immune system can cure cancer."
https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aan4488

Recently? This has been thought for quite awhile...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=immune+surveillanc...

And really it is obvious that there are trade offs between immune surveillance of cancer and auto-immune disease. Next they will be surprised at the tradeoff between aging/organ failure and cancer.
"We would like to add a checkbox to the installer, exact wording TBD, but
along the lines of “Send diagnostics information to help improve Ubuntu”.
This would be checked by default."

That seems like a transparent way of collecting what appears to be not very personal data.
I hope they checked this with their lawyers, otherwise they will be sued out of existence when EU GDPR directive comes into effect(only applies to EU citizens).

Just check the "Consent" section at https://gdprchecklist.io/

Opt-out is not legal anymore... I'm not saying they are not allowed to collect, they can, just not by default. And because they are requesting "Location", they fall under GDPR even in lamest terms.
They only bite in straight lines ones they’ve grown large enough. If they’re still small, then one-off bites are possible. A better tell is the bite location; they like warm, moist areas like around the waist and armpit area.
If you limit Turing Complete strictly to systems with unlimited "tape" then no computer would qualify except arguably if you stream data in and out, but even then it's only acceptable if the universe is infinite.
Welcome to Microsoft's world :)

I don't mind sharing data for software that I use for free but this kinds of bothers me a lot:

> This would be checked by default

Lol no, I know where are you going on this but please do NOT enable this by default.
I see nothing in wrong with this as long as the checkbox is prominently presented, preferably on it's own "page" of the installer, it can be easily updated post-installation, and the scope of agreed upon data collection isn't increased for a given installation after agreement.

> Any user can simply opt out by unchecking the box, which triggers one
simple POST stating, “diagnostics=false”. There will be a corresponding
checkbox in the Privacy panel of GNOME Settings to toggle the state of this.

By POST do they mean a POST to the same web endpoint? Why would opting out requiring notifying them of your installation. I get that they'd want to track installation counts but would expect opting out to be entirely silent. Or do they mean that opting out once you've opted in would notify them of such?

> And to reiterate, the service which stores this data would never store IP
addresses.

Any idea what country / jurisdiction they plan to host this data and service?
Social pressure itself is a fact. In your umbrella-example, you're restricting your definition of utility to the immediate benefit of dealing with rain weighted against the cost of having to carry the umbrella. But your choice can have a social effect, too. In particular, you need to take into account that other people will not always act on exactly what is warranted by evidence.
Hacking my brain to experience lucid dreaming
There is no such clause in the Coinbase Commerce TOS[0], and "Coinbase Commerce accounts are completely separate from Coinbase accounts"[1].

Also not sure what the Coinbase Commerce account is even for since "Coinbase Commerce is not a hosted service".

[0]: https://commerce.coinbase.com/legal/terms-of-service/
[1]: https://commerce.coinbase.com/faq
That is, compile an array access a[i] into an array of size N as a[i&M] where M is one less than the next power of two larger than N.

Doesn't that still permit speculatively getting an out-of-bound element, where the problem gets worse with larger arrays?

The following LWN article describes a more sophisticated masking approach by Alexei Starovoitov:

https://lwn.net/Articles/744287/

Of course, the same question still applies: why not use this cheaper masking approach. Are there known problems with it?
Is this for real? There is no justification. It’s theft plain and simple. Nothing has gotten me to turn on NoScript by default but if this becomes commonplace I will.

I know the author is doing opt-in mining but that’s obviously going to be as popular as opt-in ad tracking vs automatic. The model will be pages just serve up the in browser mining without asking.
It seems like there’s not much of a mystery here in that companies hire promoters to review a product. Promoters buy a few hundred products and send them to random people from various accounts and then post verified purchases.

Amazon should be able to easily identify this behavior through data analysis. It’s curious that they don’t comment to confirm it and say what they did (remove reviews, require verified purchases shipped to reviewer, punish products with large number of fake reviews) or rule this likely reason out.

I think this is a low priority for amazon as the churn of new products is likely profitable and gets few complaints except when the item is scary or offensive when received by random amazon user.

This is more of a story about Amazon’s worsening customer support.
I am not so optimistic; Big Data craze started in the US like 8 years ago, whereas in Germany it's in the past 2 years; Machine/Deep Learning is also only fringe, with most "Data Science" positions focused on classical (i.e. not really good) machine learning and Deep Learning is almost non-existent in the market. Only cars are years ahead of US. There is a significant latency in Germany in tech.
When you pay for something, you are more important than when you use a free service.
Seems like can opt out easily, and the information given appears reasonable so will quite happily check this box.
It is just easier to cherry pick results, p-hack, etc for mouse studies since there is less oversight. Once you get into even primate studies, where the data is expensive enough, the level of crap drops substantially (although is still very high in absolute terms, I mean like 99.99% to 99% junk).
All the size objections at least are just due to ITER being an obsolete design. MIT's ARC would use the same plasma physics and would have the same power output, but in a 10X smaller package by using modern superconductors.

There are also lots of alternative designs (including LM's); they have higher scientific risk because the plasma physics isn't understood as well, but may be more practical if they work out.
FBI Was Warned About School Shooting Threat from YouTube User Named Nikolas Cruz
Whenever an advertisement is displayed to you, brave awards you BAT which you then pay a percentage of to the site owner.

Brave also controls what kind of advertisements you can see and prevents things like auto playing videos and full screen ads from cropping up.

It also allows you to apportion micro payments to content producers.

Won’t weigh in on whether this makes brave groundbreaking or not, but this is at least part of what it does that makes it unique.

It also has this whole interface it exposes to advertisers and content owners I don’t fully understand.
Maybe he was fired not just because he made the company look bad, but also because he insulted about 30% of his co-workers, and on top of that kept trying to get his memo read by as many people as possible within Google.

Banging on about a controversial subject that can cause upset and disruption in a work environment. Does that sound very professional, or something that a smart person would do? And do you really want that kind of person in your team?
I use Windows, OSX, Linux and BSD. And my main OS is Windows. Sorry that you don't like the OS. Maybe you never learned the APIs or read some of the public code. The windows kernel isn't bad by any means. And its userspace utilities are pretty damn good.
You (and she) are focusing on the wrong part of the chain of reasoning. The issue is not whether there are gender differences in preferences, but why we have any reason to believe that programming is a “masculine” profession. The fact that men and women sometimes prefer different things due to biological factors does not mean that if you observe men and women preferring different things, that can be explained by biological factors. That’s the basic logical fallacy underlying Damore’s screed. (Pointing to articles validating the scientific assertions doesn’t help, because the challenge isn’t the scientific premise, but the inferences Damore is drawing from that.)

For example, for many years Law was 95% male. You could say that it was a masculine profession because it’s all about conflict while women prefer peacemaking. But today 50% of new large firm attorneys are women. Law isn’t any softer or gentler now—in fact it’s probably less civil. Same for teaching. We explain teaching being dominated by women on the basis that teaching is about nurturing. But in India, the vast majority of teachers are men.

You could easily say that programming is feminine. It’s not at all physical, all about cooperating and communicating with other people, it’s about managing expectations, etc.

Also, the truck analogy has been debunked. It’s explained by the fact that girls have a higher affinity for faces than boys. Which makes sense: infants don’t have any association between trucks and masculine professions like construction work. They can’t. Any gender difference observable at a very young age has to be unrelated to the associations adults have between trucks and masculinity.
Well, Apple and Microsoft already have that data about my systems, so jump on board.

And if you don't want Canonical having this data you're probably savvy enough to uncheck the box, or you're already some other flavour.
This is pretty awesome. I sent the link around to my co-workers the other day but didn't think it was on topic for HN.

This guy spent seven years thinking about this this idea and then made it a reality.

We should all be so lucky (and so motivated and willing to put in a lot of work.... I mean look at all those solder points!!). I'm a little jealous. I have so many fun projects I've been thinking of for 7 years and never gotten to.
>Plus, from a probabilistic point of view, wouldn't equal chances mean that for large numbers of trials (people) the outcome would also be equal?

Yes. For most people those two options would be the same, which is why the difference between those two options matter.

Equality of Chance merely means that everyone gets a shot at becoming, for example, a Math PhD. You still have to put in as much elbow grease as everyone else and work just as hard as everyone else. If female and male humans are equivalent mentally then the end result should be a 50/50 distribution.

If there are mental differences then the distribution would be skewed but it would be fine since everyone has gotten the same chance as everyone else. It's the approach with the highest game-theoretic fairness; the chance of winning the game is directly related to the skill you bring to the table.

>You cannot even properly define what you mean by "brain and/or mind",

With brain I mean just that, I don't know why it lacks definition. I mean the raw organ of thought in the human skull. There are notable differences, as mentioned, found at early stages in the brain that are sufficient for a computer or human to identify the gender or sex of an individual with a higher-than-chance probability.

With mind I was refering to the mental capacity and properties of an individual, ie how good they are at math, their social skills, IQ score, pain tolerance, etc (these are just example categories, not necessarily categories in which a significant difference exists).

>which is why it's impossible to convince you that there actually is injustice if your opinion relies on that

It is certainly possible to convine me of the opposite, I have clearly formulated which evidence would be sufficient.

>Then why would we have to adjust our society to it, as it would benefit from less social tensions if there was equal outcome?

That question feels slightly loaded since it proposes that an equal outcome leads to less tension. Current movements concerned with an inequality of outcome do only so because it is unfairly inequal.

Not a lot of people complain when the outcome of the game is inequal but fair (for example, nobody minds that someone with low strength will be unable to participate in olympic weight lifting, there is an unequal chance of participation and outcome, but it's a fair process)

The resolution to the problem of "do we have to adjust society" is another question "is the reason we are suggesting to change due to a fair or unfair process?".

[footnote]: Fair and unfair are defined as the ability of a player to apply their skills and get an equal amount of reward to other players with the same skill level (or with neglible difference)
Spectre can read from other processes! Meltdown can even read across privilege levels (userland to kernel). But within userland, spectre lets you read anything. See:
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Meltdown+and+Spectre+clear...
What if it's a gay couple? Kind of subverts the joke. Interesting how the joke only works when we lock ourselves in the past.
Why not ? Some people just don't care, and these who don't care don't care to check the option. So to me it's more logical (in order to have more data) to check the box by default.
Please use the original, less inflammatory title: "more diagnostics data from desktop."

Understandably, Canonical wants to collect diagnostic data useful for software development and bug fixing. Other major OS providers like Google, Microsoft, and Apple do this.

I like the fact that Canonical is doing it in an open manner: anyone can opt out by unchecking a box at installation or afterwards on the privacy panel; and they will make aggregate diagnostic data available to the public.
Parallax error prevented him from finding it at first! Didn't know this was a thing in astronomy.

> "Since the Roadster is still fairly close to us, parallax is significant, meaning, different locations on Earth will see Starman at slightly different coordinates," Andreo said. "I quickly recalculate, get the new coordinates, go to my images, and thanks to the wide field captured by my telescopes... boom! There it was! Impossible to miss! It had been right there all along; I just never noticed!"
An observation without any kind of control is not really good evidence. Of course that means it's not evidence of the contrary either.

However I do agree that profit is a very powerful motivator, and I see no easy way to make sure the money is better spent otherwise (although there's no reason for all research to be profit driven, publicly funded research can definitely be good thing even if only as competition).

However I get the impression that we're at the point where there are so many things that can be cured if money is no objection that money is starting to become an objection, and nobody seems to be prepared to do what is essentially putting a price on human life.
I suppose it to have a "total number of installs" statistic.
Are there any checkout systems pre-built solely for holding crypto afterwards, and not for converting to fiat? Guessing Coinbase has to have it like that because they interact with wider networks.

If you wanted to sell a saucy story, how'd it work?
Essentially a hot wallet with a webhook?
Any chance asking for an invite will work?
My favorite reason to delete facebook: the massive amount of information on you being bought and sold by facebook and hundreds of other companies is regularly leaked and used for fraudulent activity (gaining access to banks, brokerages, credit lines, cryptocurrency, email accounts, phone port scams, etc.) even if you're totally unaware of it. Identity information yields criminal activity simply by existing in too many places.

It's not about a shitty news feed to me, it's about OpSec.
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> We would like to add a checkbox to the installer, exact wording TBD, but along the lines of “Send diagnostics information to help improve Ubuntu”. This would be checked by default.

This is about a choice presented as a checkbox that is checked by default during installation, not about a feature silently enabled by default you have to then opt out of.
Super impressive. I wouldn't count this as being turing complete. You could say that the SNES itself is turing complete. He successfully got a turing complete machine to run arbitrary code. It was the SNES itself running this code he injected, not some rule engine built into the game. This is much different than getting CSS or HTML to run arbitrary code.
Yes, we shouldn't treat equality as a a "war against men". I think we all learned our lesson from the "War against Christmas" when after early victories the Christians somehow caught on to our plan to distribute plain red cups in Starbucks and be considerate of those who celebrate other holidays around the same time.

With the element of surprise gone we had no nope of crushing them under our athiest/muslim/jewish/hindu/sikh/pagan/christian-that-doesn't-watch-fox-news heels and had to retreat.

So yes, tactically disguising our true aims under the banner of "equality" is definately a good plan and the only way to actually defeat men. Good thinking sister.
>> If we are in search of truth and want to build a consistent model of the world then we just can't accept this kind of reasoning.

> Yes, you can. It's called generalizing. Remember, we're not doing math here, this is ethics.

To strive for a consistent set of beliefs grounded in reality is more akin to most branches of Philosophy than Mathematics as far as I am concerned, and seems particularly concerning to Ethics (e.g. you can achieve a set of beliefs of what you can consider 'good' or 'evil' ignoring all perception of reality but would the result be desirable?).
It's a wonderful thing, but not something you want in an actual big game project.
"charismatically-challenged unfortunates like Damore"

Maybe I am on the autistic spectrum, or ots teh fact I studied science but i thought that Damore's memo was fairly well written. First time I went through it he made a couple of points where I though to myself "that sounds controversial", but then in every case he had backed it up with some study validating it to some extent.

It was certainly a lot better written than the majority of the media's reporting on it.
It will also enable a program called Popcorn that will track and report the relative frequency of your app usage. That is somewhat personal according to some people at least. And this option toggles Apport to send back crash reports without asking permission each time, which means it could(?) leak sensitive data in memory?
There's a setting in your profile called showdead and it can be set to yes or no. If set to no you won't see it. Otherwise you will.
Germans are getting over their cash addiction
I'm unconvinced that what they're collecting is personal information. The closest would probably be location, but that's very coarse and is based on user selection not IP (which isn't stored). I might be wrong though, what data were you thinking could be problematic?
But the point is that's none of their business.
To me that reads like a lot like credentialism. "Unless you've been formally vetted by the institutions we like you can't participate". It's like a bizzarro-world anti-intellectualism, where you can't read a scientific paper unless you have the right degree in that particular sub-field.