skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes they do. Look at popular music around the world. It's all slight variations of American popular music. I don't think this is only because of the dominance of English, but the two phenomena are definitely symptoms of the same disease.
So it can become a dirty cheat just like a human. AI is getting more "natural" after all.
A valid concern. However even after reddit and hacker news has had their way with the site, my phone has been impressively quiet. These push notifications are only for cases where the lambda functions thrown an error that isn't handled anywhere else (i.e. something is very wrong).
> ﻿﻿Just because people share the same language, it doesn't mean they think the same

Actually it kind of does of does;

https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/11/multilingua...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/speaking-second-lang...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingual/201111/c...

https://www.edge.org/conversation/lera_boroditsky-how-does-o...

At the very least having multiple languages ensures a diversity of thinking.
I'd it a trend though? Or is it just reporting accuracy?
Perhaps just scaled to population it is constant?

A Wikipedia list does not answer any of those questions.
It seems possible to do better than average here? Just from reading this article, we learn about some "cancer" that is less scary than it sounds and unlikely to cause a problem.

I would be more skeptical if there were a study showing overtreatment still happens in a population informed and wary of overtreatment.
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>Since 1996, there have been 16 multiple victim shootings in schools, or incidents involving 4 or more victims and at least 2 deaths by firearms, excluding the assailant.

17.

Literally happening just as this was posted: https://www.wxyz.com/news/police-responding-to-reports-of-sh...

Edit: Actually this may or may not meet the definition since their definition requires 4 or more casualties. Still.
Does this include the bonus incentives? From my conversations that’s where the money actually is.
gitlab.com is free for private repos!
There's a very easy answer to your question. It's the understanding that bias/implicit bias exists and needs to be overcome.

The MLK quote is such a red herring. It's a nice statement, but what one guy said 50 years ago doesn't define a culture or society.
You resort to personal attacks; is this to say that you’re unable to factually substantiate your assertions?
You could probably just have a link that directs the reader to HN and posts a pre-filled "I have barely read about Rust, and it all seems over-complicated and ill-designed; convince me" comment.
Turbotax has a $120 "self employed" version custom-tailored to that situation. More than $50, but still not exorbitant.
There is no victim. This isn't chattel slavery. Women can say no to shitty culture and find another job. Take some of that good money save up a 6 month emergency fund and GTFO. There is no reason you should be going into work everday with a curdled stomach.
MIT AGI: Computational Universe (Stephen Wolfram)
It's also great for literally carpooling on your real-job commute. You'll be online at peak times and with the destination set in the most popular directions.
Another interesting read about green/bio cremation/water cremation/alkaline hydrolysis. [1]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15060177
Disagreements about issues is what politics is all about. I would be more concerned if we all were in lock-step agreement! Ultimately those disagreements and differing views are from a desire to make this country better. Unchecked foreign influence undermines these debates.

The Russian case was deliberate stoking of issues until their advocates could no longer talk civilly and rationally. They played up caricatures of each side to destroy any common ground. It's the deliberate stoking of discord to our people, which bleeds into our politics, and hampers our nation's actions globally. A disrupted US politic gives Russia more room to maneuver globally without rousing our attention. None of these things serve to advance the original issues raised by the people that were targeted.

Even if the discord didn't emerge, the taint of Russian influence diminishes legitimacy and trust in an issue and its advocates by sowing doubt in the movement's motivations. This undermines all kinds of debates and freezes movement on all sorts of issues.

Lets put concrete into an abstract idea.

Putting aside everything else about Trump, during the campaign Trump insisted "Wouldn't it be nice if we got along with Russia?" Was this a legitimate call for undoing decades of demonization that is a product of the Cold War? Or does he want to score lucrative quid-pro-quo deals and access to Putin? The campaign meetings with Russian contacts doesn't inspire benefit of the doubt.

Finally all other things being equal, the protesters here have skin in the game. Foreign influencers, outside of what they want to influence, do not. Foreign powers can cause all kinds of harm while spared the consequences. Us locals have to live with those consequences.
I looked into this last month when they posted this "job description" and was sorely disappointed. It seems the sum total of what they have is:

* A slack that might see a new message every 12 hours.

* A github

* A domain

Nowhere did I see anything that actually looks like a company, has money to pay anyone or even had a whitepaper that describes what this new technology is going to do or how it'll do it.

Initial deploy servers numbering 100k+? Yeah right, I don't think there's even 1 running.
Also - add here the most popular VPN services that claim they “don’t have access logs” and are very stable without any legal problems.
Thanks for the data! Is it unreasonable to think that as energy efficiency of things (cars, heating systems, airplanes) improve and we move towards renewable energy that the inefficiency of rural life could become offsetting and the value of nature on the human psyche is allowed to return to our culture?

I realize that's more of a value judgement and not objective. But there are definitely costs associated with living in dense urban places. Regardless of efficiencies we are definitely still living in a post-industrial-revolution world, and people did not voluntarily cram themselves into giant cities then, so some sort of reversion when it's possible makes sense. Vast populations of urban people in China would rather not have to move into the city.
I enjoyed Fooled by Randomness, and, to a lesser degree, Black Swan. But recently Taleb has just taken a dive off the deep end.
Well if you're an artist with an MFA over time its easy to be sitting on over 250k in debt. The key point is the artist is selling a piece for $750, the collector then can turn around and sell the same piece for $40k+. The art doesn't start gaining real value until the artist is no longer participating in the value chain of their work.
3Blue1Brown: The stunning geometry behind this surprising equation
I was talking to a guy and he said he gets around 30usd/h from full item Ubering.
Mike Acton cppcon talk on data oriented design https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc
More direct quotes and more information on Bloomberg: https://uk.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/boes-carne...
Even a monolith like NSA has this same conflict.
"Icelandic is spoken today by barely 340,000 people"

The population of Iceland is 334,252.
The problem is that because it is such a rare event, efficacy of any intervention is extremely hard to evaluate. So essentially whatever you do is guesswork.

To put it simply: how's do you know if whatever you did has an effect instead of the numbers being a result of a random downswing?

(You can know if you can know by employing Bayesian statistics - with these low rates you really cannot.)
> somehow they couldn't show my wife the forms that waived her right to sue the hospital, her agreement to pay whatever they billed her regardless of correctness of timeliness

This really ought to be illegal. It's continually amazing how the US has seemingly no effective consumer rights organisations.
That’s the nature of retail. If my art was a USB cable, and my gallery was Best Buy, the markup would be similar.
"Merit" as defined by whom, and measured how? I doubt that many companies disregard the idea of hiring based on merit. They all try to do that, they were trying to do that all along, but that only got them to your step 2. So what do you when even your best effort to create a purely merit-based system has empirically failed to overcome unconscious or structural bias? What's your magic prescription?
its amazon having problems.

https://status.aws.amazon.com/
"makes me think that they are running the stepper motors in a closed-loop mode similar to how you'd use a servo. I am not 100% on that, "

Do the steppers have encoders on them? If not, the machine can't do closed loop control. It can keep track of where the rotor should be based on counting the steps of coils it has energized, but it has no way of directly keeping track of the rotor. A large enough torque resisting the rotor's rotation can cause the rotor to skip steps, but this doesn't influence the energizing of coils in the stator so the machine has no idea that anything has gone wrong.

An encoder lets you directly measure what's going on with the rotor (and therefore the shaft of the motor). You basically keep track of where you should be (based on counting the steps delivered to the stator coils) then use the encoder to validate. e.g. 'I've sent 12 steps so I should be 48 degrees from where I started. My encoder is reading 26 degrees, so I must have skipped steps somewhere along the way.'
> "data gathered from dragnet programs is [...] used in the [...] prosecution of normal domestic crimes in both the US and UK."

I don't think this is true - sigint is not admissable in the UK (or US afaik).
Also, how come the incidence of these types of shootings are so much lower in other parts of the world if there is no policy that will help prevent them?
You might be interested to know that Annoy is also integrated into Gensim, which allows you to train, use and query word embeddings on your own data. Gensim implements fast Doc2Vec and FastText too, which are a bit newer embedding techniques [0] :-)

[0] https://twitter.com/gensim_py/status/969222857246101504
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GitHub DDoS, Sourceforge DDoS, BitBucket 'routing issues'... somebody hates version control.
You are correct that if you work in tech create a throw-away account to discuss anything critical of the prevailing viewpoints. Many holding the prevailing viewpoints are tyrannical and have shown themselves willing to destroy the lives of anyone pointing out problems in their viewpoint.
I'm getting like 4 fps on Debian 8 Firefox nightly 64-bit. In the latest chrome I get about 10 fps.

I see other people experiencing similar problems.
Appears to be due to an upstream dependency:

> Some component services are currently unreachable due to an upstream incident on a cloud provider. We're attempting to route as much traffic as possible away from the affected components, and are working with our vendor now.
One of his regular points that is hardly controversial as far as I can tell. It seems solid to me.

I think your summary gets at a key aspect of it too.
That would be difficult indeed, but you could certainly crack down on exchanges, payment processors, miners and generally every company dealing with crypto currencies, including banks. That would greatly cripple their usability.
For the CNN model I was using Magpie [0] which takes a sum of the vectors (so yes, equivalent to unweighted average) to represent the document.

For the FastText model, it would be whatever FastText is doing under the hood. I haven't peeked at the code to see what it is doing, but Section 2 of the paper I cited above seems to imply that an average is taken.

[0] https://github.com/inspirehep/magpie
The last time I was in Las Vegas, we used Lyft to get around and the one driver we talked to quite a bit told us the car he was driving belonged to Lyft. I think that makes a lot more sense than using a car you own.
I suspect that at least some of this is due to confusing cause with effect: people see that most highly successful people have a collage degree, and wrongly conclude that anyone with a collage degree will be highly successful.

A few of the other problems with this increased drive to send people to collage is that now a collage degree is required -- as the article points out -- as a signal of employability even for jobs where a high school education would suffice; a drive away from trade school, even when a job in the trades pays well and is quite secure; and of course the debt load that comes with collage, even for a degree is in a field with little chance of providing a good return on the cost of the degree.
thank you all for your input. The hospital you linked in Asia. It seems that SE Asia has leapfrogged us in the concept of capitalism and the free market. Indeed, it is a 'free-for-all' in terms of lack of regulation, but certainly it is not 'free care for all'. Here in the US, The medical-industrial complex has seen how other industrial complexes deal with our government and are trying to mimic that gravy train. I still remember articles about the $500 hammer, and $2000 toilet the Navy had purchased in the thousands.

We need to get back to our roots. A free market where people can buy what they want when they want it. Health care insurance is an oxymoron. Everyone gets sick. There is no probability of someone NOT using the system. The minute you try to amortize the costs over time or large populations to provide services, there is infinite demand.

Insurance would make sense for events that are RARE. House fires, automobile accidents, gun accidents, etc. (BTW, why isnt gun insurance mandatory? That way everyone could be happy- you could still buy a gun as long as you paid your $5000 premium. The insurance companies could make more money, there would more 'gun control', and the money could go to the emergency rooms that take care of shooting victims. But OH NO! Hospitals would figure out a way to spend that money too and it would never be enough!! Maybe the gun insurance premiums could be given to the victims !)

Anyway, there is no easy fix until we start to force our politicians to GET OFF THEIR ASSES. It particularly annoys me that they offer 'thoughts and prayers' after each mass murder and do nothing else. They should be in Florida digging the graves. Representing their constituents properly.
If you like Mt.dew great maybe you are happy with that. The other problem with ads is that wr only see big company that everybody know therefore the impact are really low. People like the product that's it, it's not the ads that make them buy it. Otherwise why would you buy a product that you don't like but have see that ads and then consume it? You like it.. then you buy it.

People think that they are so easily fool like monkey ? For saying I saw that ads I need to consume this that ? Or they like the product? I don't see the point there.
If I may add, it goes for any procedure and medication.
Unless, it is an emergency, or a clear case of immediate attention, avoiding is better.
Unfortunately, most surgery (including dental) is crude and rudimentary, good for saving lives, but leaves the patient with chronic problems.

Unfortunately, the burden is on the patient to make informed decisions at the time of suffering.

As an anecdote, my friend was given a handful of painkillers just before a procedure. I repeatedly told that he were not used to painkillers and perhaps decrease the amount. They did not even consider the smaller size of the patient. Within 20 mins he suffered seizures with just painkillers. Of course, later they apologized. Just got lucky that no permanent damage was done.
Looks like access over SSH is still working. Not the worst.
In any case, using Tor is better than not. "We have plenty of academic research and mathematical proofs that tell us quite clearly that the more people use Tor, the better the privacy, anonymity, and traffic analysis resistance properties will become."

And in the examples you gave, a Qubes OS+Whonix setup would've prevented those exploits from leaking the IP, unless the adversary has a Xen exploit.
This is the last straw for me. I'm gonna stop using them to host my code. They have been down way too many times in the last year. It's been six failures from them in the last two weeks alone. I'm gonna self host Gitea to fix my issues. I cannot believe that they fail so hard. Why does a failure mean that I cannot read AND write from BitBucket ? Why are those two things even related ?
Another ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501731

Hosted JIRA is down too (at least for me).

Interestingly, I can seem to be able to find it only via search, it doesn't show up on the frontpage at all.
Tor's US government roots have been public knowledge since its inception. Why is this suddenly trying to be a scandal?
I read it less as an indictment of any real person expressing a real thought or opinion and more as a constructive criticism of a system that can be gamed to destructively exacerbate tensions between different thoughts and opinions, rather than constructively negotiating them.
I would be interest in a deep understanding of the top performers in this system and if there was a way to optimize this. I feel like even with a median number in this study, with such a wide distribution of education, technological and business savvy, how much of the poor performance here is related to the "freedom" in the system and the lack of structure that might move the profitability needle for the drivers.
I think fundamentals of programming should be more emphasized not the language itself.
I looked through that list, and once you filter out the non-school deaths, it seem to line up with the article.

For example, Rancho Tehama Reserve, California is listed as six deaths, but that was a shooter who killed five adults at other locations, then fired at a locked down school, injuring one student, before killing himself. So zero students killed. There are quite a few like that in the list.
Is there any obvious application of this in software design?
You were scheduled for an expensive, unnecessary dose of radiation that would be billed to your insurer and that's how the provider makes a ton of money out of you.

The only priority of any sane health system should be to make people's health better.
This seems hyperbolic. Did anyone truly think TOR was some grassroots tech? I'm only casually interested and even I was aware of its links to US government.

Digging past all the hyperbole the more interesting "revelation" is that the TOR project is friendly with Broadcasting Board of Governor (BBG), an independent agency of the US Government.
> if shootings are rare events stopping one would make a considerable difference. just because assault rifles were rarely used in past 35 years in what way does that influence a future projection? What if we had a Vegas type event around a school? I don't really understand the thesis here

The thesis is that you ought not make expensive, likely unconstitutional policy goals based on a fantasy about stopping a type of crime which happens less than once every seven years (in a country that is several times larger than the next most populous developed country), based on an unlimited attack on all risk.

The projected effect of this policy is so low, in fact, that it could just as easily cause more deaths, youth deaths even, than we expect it to limit; and there's a good chance that the policy will do essentially nothing at all, even for the limited cases it applies to.

added:
If all risks are worthy of unlimited policy resources, I hereby declare that all children should be driven to school in Caterpillar 797s, to avoid the problems of pedestrian collisions and deadly vehicular collisions.
The thesis is that, because these events are so rare, the cost of prevention outweighs the benefit.

Yes, it sounds cold, but human life has a certain value, and just like any rational decision, we have to consider in some objective manner whether conceivable preventative measures are worthwhile.

>just because assault rifles were rarely used in past 35 years in what way does that influence a future projection

Do you not normally make decisions regarding the future based on observed past data?
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Analzying Heap Corruption in the Post-Mortem
It works, but only partially, and is still very very broken, which is why it is disabled in the first place. See also this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065729
well what about the idea that other countries adjusted their laws after such incidents and it made a difference in crime statistics?
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