skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason, I feel like their control wasn't the best thing to compare to. People filling out personality questionnaires might not compare to looking at facebook likes. May be a better control would be letting humans look at the facebook likes themselves and compare their prediction based on that to that of computers looking at the set of facebook likes.

If they want to stick to the questionnaire, then train the computer model on the questionnaire too and let's see who wins. Giving one side more powerful data and giving the control just a questionnaire is like giving a robot a machine gun and a human a knife and being surprised who wins.
> The social security bit is very important to highlight. Especially if he can't recover the payments once he leaves the company. He is putting over 50% of his pay check to the Portuguese authorities.

Within the EU you can transfer social security between countries. If he doesn't he will be entitled to retirement income when reaching retirement age. In no condition would he forfeit these payments.

> It is not a third-world dump hole but it is a not a first world class country either.

One of the best health services in Europe, one of the lowest crime rates in the world, lots of english-speaking nationals, and gorgeous weather. You won't find the hubbub of very large cities such as NY, Paris, or London, but then again you might not miss the hubbub. It's definitely first-world.
I have an account like that. I just retweet and like stuff sort of like a public bookmarking system. I just go through them when I get enough leisure. I wonder if having a profile photo would help avoiding false positives.
what did you expect from the Guardian...?
> Our findings highlight that people’s personalities can be predicted automatically and without involving human social-cognitive skills.

I had noticed with with Netflix. After telling it enough movies I liked (over say 100) it pretty much figured me out and it knew me better than I knew myself. In other words, I'd see a movie description, watch the trailer and think "Nah, I wouldn't like it". But Netflix was telling me I'd like it, quite often after I watched it I did end up liking it.

On another note, I always tried to steer away from taking personality tests. I have a strange belief that once I know the "official" results it would somehow restrict my what I would attempt later in life. I'd think "Oh well your personality officially doesn't match, you shouldn't try that".
The report monitored "ready-to-drink espresso coffee from 8 cafes and gas stations... purchased in the Copenhagen area."

The OP's forum is talking about particular (older) mid-range personal espresso machines which use brass boilers, like the Silvia V3:
https://www.thecoffeebrewers.com/rasihoofesan1.html
Those are not generally found in higher-end-coffee-selling cafes.

The report did note that one of the espresso machines tested in Copenhagen put out levels of lead greater than what was considered disconcerting in the OP's forum's calculations: 65ng/ml vs the 20-40ng/ml found in Rob's testings.

But even so, they still conclude that such levels are not a particular health risk in their mind. From the report:

> "The concentration in ready to drink espresso from cafes was similar to the homebrewed coffee in all but one sample, which had a concentration of 65 ng/ml. Even if a consumer has a daily cup of coffee from this cafe it will not be of health concern. The correlation between tin and lead described earlier indicate that the source of the high value could be a lead containing welding in the espresso machine."
Genuine question, did he hire or bring any other new people to the company after becoming CEO?
@dang YCombinator seems obsessed with criticizing Jews. Why?
I’m not seeing a problem. There should never be a situation where a human cannot review the decision and reverse it.
Whenever I looked into what most philosophers publish, I just saw vagueness, poor thinking and little value.

What's a philosophical problem or question (understandable by someone who hasn't studied philosophy) I would need a philosophy book to answer?
Flagged because of the quotes in the article. If hacker news is going to make accusations, can we at least base them on, you know, facts. If we can't do that can we at least base them on statistics?
The use of this information in the hands of the statistically incompetent will lead to miscarriages of justice and disaster. This basically institutionalizes the prosecutor's fallacy.
Wing It is a Facebook Messenger bot meant to get you out of the house
And we all know Reddit is free from spam and bots.
The lights are over 300,000 ft so well above the altitude of 70,000 ft.
Post some examples of this "leftist extremist" content? I'm curious.
Specifics of this case aside, it must feel great to hold short positions, where you are hoping others fail...
Yeah, if it was purely 'extremism sells', then these sites wouldn't be banning right wing channels or subreddits or whatever else, but pushing them due to all the clicks they get and the easy controversy they stir up.

The fact one side can almost get away with murder on many social media platforms and one site has to walk on eggshells makes it seem like extremism isn't being pushed from both sides here.
It's not easy to find somebody who has the brain, knowledge, and experience to run a big company.

It's extremely easy to find somebody that can serve food.

Evidently, it's 1000 easier to serve food (or whatever other job).

What is the problem with that?
Indeed. Galois have a reputation, at least in the Haskell community, for designing, building and releasing really cool stuff -- but then not maintaining it for much longer than the internal project requires. Galois is primarily a consulting firm and the amount of time they have for projects depends greatly on how useful they are to their current consulting arrangements. That said, I don't speak for them in any capacity -- these are only my personal observations.
I don’t keep them in my head at all :) In fact, my memory is quite bad except for procedual stuff like programming techniques. That’s why I process and store notes so extensively.
At first I found it a little awkward, but after trying it, I think it works very well (e.g. much better than email due to instant nature of XMPP). I just don't know how vulnerable this extension is to spam.
Expand that a bit:

"Articles 13-15 provide rights to 'meaningful information about the logic involved' in automated decisions."

Your scenario doesn't explain the logic. Saying "that's the AI's choice and we're going with it because it's 99.9% accurate" isn't the logic involved in the decision.

You need an interpretable model to ensure that the AI isn't discriminating based on a protected class (race/gender/etc). "You were denied a loan because the AI determined that you're Polish, and we don't like Polish people" is partly what this law wants to prevent.

Forcing models to be explainable makes sure that we aren't illegally discriminating, so we need to make sure that we can tell why the AI made it's choice, not just what the choice was.
I agree for the most part with bootsz. One trick I play on myself is to make my own coffee at work using an Aeropress. Aside from it being cheaper than Starbucks and much better tasting than office coffee, it naturally limits me to two cups a day because of the effort involved.
> How long until these records are available for subpoena, e.g. in a divorce case?

I see nothing preventing this information being sought in U.S. discovery right now--at least in Federal litigation[0]. That isn't to say that the subpoena won't be squashed by a court for one of the traditional rationales under FRCP 26(b).[1]

>When are police going to start sweeping such data up en masse, looking for e.g. parole violations?

Arguably runs afoul of the particularity requirement of the fourth amendment, although I do not pretend to be an expert on criminal law. That said, I understand the fourth amendment to be a low bar these days.

> When will every "free association" be a tracked association?

Rhetorical question?

[0] Your specific example, divorces, are state law in the US. I don't do that, and the relevant laws / cases can change on a state-by-state basis.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_26
Machine learning models leaking private information is a real problem though, unless mechanisms to ensure something like differential privacy are applied. Those approaches may still be too theoretical and hard to reason about for many machine learning practitioners. Will be interesting how that plays out.
Well I'm sure this seems really neat, but criminals will simply not bring their phones and then be excluded from the search.
> So what’s the problem with that?

It's not a problem, in the sense that I realise there is no malice; on the other hand, it's a problem in the sense that after many years living in a country, having acquired citizenship and having built a family here, I would like to think you are part of the community.

Constantly being reminded that I am never really going to progress past the status of outsider can be really bothersome.

How long have you been living in Singapore? Things start to change after a few years in my opinion.

EDIT: I just wanted to point out that the positive aspects of migrating to a new country, in my case, still greatly outweigh the negative aspects such as the one described above. Also, I am lucky because the cultural differences between my native country (Italy) and my adoptive one (Australia) are relatively minor.
That looks really useful, but there's no way in hell I'm providing information about my portfolio to a site with "Sign in with Facebook" on its front page.
Plus they can get their name on a campus building.
We used https://statsbot.co/ at 3 USD/user/month from when they started until last month. I think I remember the pricing increased after a year and is no longer public. I was valuable, just the overlap with another bot we used too high.
Most European airlines have limits on the size of luggage you can take onboard. If you have baggage that is larger than the limit they’ll make you check it in, and charge you the airport fee which is a lot higher than if you booked it when you bought the ticket.
The framework handles the setup and management of versions and resources for me. Uploading is a small but relevant part of it.
I don't have any intuitions about non-physical substances. It's just not possible to even define what a phenomenal property is without making reference to non-relational or non-functional notions. Note that Searle is a physicalist, so he certainly doesn't think that non-physical properties are relevant here.

> Functionalism needs to explain why the proposition "it seems to i that P" is true, where "i" indexes a conscious system and P is a phenomenal property.

We aren't trying to explain why people think that they are conscious, we are trying to explain why they are conscious. A non-conscious system could believe that it was conscious, given a functionalist account of belief.
The Machine That Changed the World largely attributes Toyotas success to avoiding costly repair/rework, it's a phenomenal book.
This may be a case where the headline writer did not read the article. The article itself does make the distinction you are making:

"[...] the widening split between dynamic urban areas on the one hand and struggling cities and small towns on the other."
You’ll get it. I’ve run two 100s and I’m running my third in a few weeks. The suffering really begins after 100K or so. It’s a long time on your feet.

If that doesn’t do it for you, let me recommend one of these options:

- The Last Annual Vol State 500K. https://ultrasignup.com/register.aspx?did=34762

- The Quintuple Anvil Triathlon. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/sports/virginia-quintuple...

You might also want to explore timed races where you run as far as you can on a loop course in 6 hr, 12 hr, 24 hr or 48 hr.

And if after all that you still haven’t found what you’re looking for, I can only recommend the Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race. http://www.3100.ws/
Yes, it works. There are a lot of ways to use charities, trusts, and similar things to avoid taxes.
You hit the nail in the head, on what's evident to anyone who wants to see. But I expect some people are so intent on Tesla succeeding that they don't want to see...
The hypothesis is that topical exposure is linked to the hormone changes. For me, that means tea tree oil in toothpaste shouldn't be something to worry about.
Ivory is not for print statements. Ivory is for designing and implementing high-reliability/safety-critical/hard-real-time firmwares. Combined with their Tower project, and other support projects, it's used to build https://smaccmpilot.org/ -- a high-assurance, partially formally verified, autopilot system.
I am sorry but "2 years of job security" is a joke. That's the sort of shit that's sold by web companies in the valley.

Some of the guys I knew who are working as engineers in electronics, mechanical, software have more than a decade in the same company. That's in Europe and outside of the major tech hubs. They have the unions, unheard of in tech companies, and the accrued benefits with age.

They won't move to an unknown company just to disrupt some processes, but it doesn't matter because Tesla doesn't exist on this continent anyway.
De icing fluid is only effective for a set period of time

> Holdover Time (HOT) is the length of time an aircraft can wait after being treated prior to takeoff. Holdover time is influenced by the fluid dilution, ambient temperature, wind, precipitation, humidity, aircraft skin material, aircraft skin temperature, and other factors. If the Holdover Time is exceeded the aircraft must be re-treated before takeoff.
> the structural engineer's trade is no different than any other construction trade, and has a contribution -- framed in financial terms, or in terms of common good -- on the scale of that of a (qualified) tradesman.

Not sure how to read that or how you meant it, but a good or bad engineer can have a big financial effect on a project in a way that a tradesman couldn't.
That's a bit different. The definition of sweet is basically defined as "the experience you get when eating sugar". It doesn't matter for this purpose if that experience is completely different for you - all that matters is that we both know that "sweet" is basically a synonym for "your experience of sugar".

Note that this definition allows you to predict a lot of things:

1. You can predict that you'll have the same experience when eating other things which are not sugar, but which you know cause the same experience in you.

2. You can predict, at least in broad outlines, whether people will find this experience pleasurable or not (again, on average, broad outline, but still better than chance).

3. You can predict that someone without a sense of taste won't experience anything when eating sugar.

That's why this definition is meaningful. Of course I can play word games all day about "can you show me 'sweet'???". But those are word games that are trying to hide the idea of what a definition is and what we use it for.
Understanding cryptocurrencies as new asset class
That's nice and all, but the investor is interested in whether or not a company makes money.

For a company like Tesla which is on the order of LOSING $1.8 Billion / year, the fact of the matter is that ramping up Model 3 production ASAP is incredibly important.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla/financials

Tesla's cash flow is in a poor state, and the company is relying upon hypothetical Model 3 shipments to carry them over. It doesn't matter how good a car is if they can't build it.

With that said, maybe a bank will sponsor them some debt, or maybe the investors will throw more money in another stock dilution. As long as the banks / investors are happy, Tesla isn't really at risk of going bankrupt. But with that said, its unlikely for the share price to increase or to issue a dividend.
Fun with glue and reliable integration
Yes. NHR status affects your income tax, but not social security. It is pretty much designed to attract retirees from other EU countries (and those are almost non-affected by social security).
You're no longer a "free person" once you hop on that plane. So since the government has instituted more and more rules to take away your civil rights in an airport/airliner they should give us a break, and give us some options to get us back to the free world.
Which is why they should have done it before Pinterest got so big in the first place.

And honestly I don't think any significant amount of people search Google images wanting Pinterest results. People want images, they don't care where they're from. AFAIK there is almost no OC on Pinterest anyway.
I do struggle with the information/knowledge distinction as I never researched that field in detail. Would love to hear about some helpful alternative!

I can imagine a primary source that’s important in your life becomes part of your knowledge, too, because you ... well, got to know it so well. But that really isn’t the point, since mere collecting is the opposite of familiarizing yourself with the material.
The HN ranking algorithm ranked this comment below others. I demand a human explanation.
What rules is Pinterest breaking?

And what would it mean for Google to treat "all sites equally"?
This was a good article and despite the location of CSLA a good look outside of the coastal elite education bubble.

Far too often the focus is only on the elite students at the elite schools when its clear upward mobility, just in sheer quantity, is better created at less elite public institutions like the CUNY schools or the CSUs. Hell even the culture war aspects are overstated - the "campus free speech" pearl-clutching is based on the experiences of maybe 5-7 elite institutions, and the entirety of the "Asian discrimination in admissions" controversy is based entirely on the superiority of 3-5 elite schools.

Far more needs to be done to extend upward mobility to everyone in this country and that isn't going to happen by focusing energies entirely on the HYPSM.

Relevant - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/shut-up-about-harvard/
Towns were hot where they had to motivate people to move there. Most of towns are XX century phenomena.

Now that people are already there and many of them are unemployed, they can pay peanuts and still expect workers to show up. The dynamics became toxic.

Only when local business sees such need in work that they need to expand, they have to offer good salaries to be competitive.
This study, while amusing, doesn't actually hold any true data. Using data gathered about Facebook likes is hardly a reflection on a person's outlook on life, how open they are, neurotic, or how agreeable someone is. After looking at the data I am thoroughly disgusted at how this study tries to tell me how happy people should be.

Does this study suggest that I am an extrovert for not being on Facebook much? I must be some kind of 'way' because I don't 'like' people's comments or posts that are in my feed when I'm on Facebook (which is not often).

For example, one usage was a depression scale (CESD-R), and to let you know how ridiculous it is, it literally says, "I could not shake off the blues.". Clearly if your sad and depressed if you answer yes, who needs a test at this point? If you were hungry, you could be depressed, not because you're on a diet or just too busy to eat, but because you're sad.

It's a sad day to even assume a machine could pass judgement about my personality.
Short sellers, villainized though they may be, provide a valuable service to the market and society as a whole. It’s a good thing that people are incentivized to spot companies that are financially overstretched (or worse) - it keeps companies honest and penalizes bad actors. See the story of Valeant for a good example.
> This seems like a pretty big/dangerous jump to make with little-to-no evidence.

Sorry for the lack of evidence.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/05/19/united-...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/09/tesla-worker-long-hou...

But its no small secret that pro-union forces are also in this whole mess. I've got no skin in the game, but its clear that the UAW union wants to unionize Tesla's workers.

The UAW rallying pro-union forces of the Tesla workforce is just... how politics works in the USA. Its going to happen.

I'm overall a Tesla Bear (but I have no real money on this bet, its just my unfathomed opinion). But when I read Tesla news stories, they're either complaints about the workforce (which I generally judge to be from pro-Union forces), or complaints about Tesla's financials (which I judge to be from Financial bears).

That's all I'm saying: keep an eye out for the union pieces. They may or may not be "correct", but there's certainly an agenda that is being pushed here.
Question is open for 5 hours and nobody commented yet.

This question comes up regularly. There's been a couple of threads with dozens of links and advice in the past. Even ages as young as 4 year olds. Search for 'ask hn teach child' https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ask%20hn%20teach%20child Similarly for the words son, daughter, niece.
See I get you, but I disagree. My example is python, whereby biologists and such-like people get snakes, people hanging out here get the programming language and so on.

I personally believe (with no evidence) that the number of potential SERPs is much lower than the number of users, as I reckon they use some kind of dimension reduction technique and pick vectors of results "close" to yours.

But I completely accept that I could be entirely wrong on this (i still think such a decision isn't consequential enough to trigger any GDPR provisions, but again I could also be wrong on that :) )
The way I see it, the core of philosophy is the hard problem of consciousness. Once you understand that, there's not much left. Some people include aesthetics or ethics in philosophy, but that's really just psychology, biology, maybe sociology.
As EU citizen I wouldn't mind. If these corps decide its not profitable for them - for sure an alternative will pop. (Currently using two of those services)
At a valuation of $10MM/life, deaths from lead cost the USA $4 TRILLION per year.

Meanwhile, the gross national income is only around $18 trillion/year.
With experience you realise you're looking for an answer that matches your question, as opposed to a question that matches your question.
I would imagine that Google can approach Pinterest with a deadline.

Take measures to ensure that visitors can see these images without an account after being linked to them, or lose x% of your traffic overnight.
Actually, there is a startup that's about to make it cost-effective through blockchain-based crowdsharing:
https://ivorylang.org/tower-overview.html

> The Tower Language is an eDSL for composing Ivory programs into real-time systems. Tower programs specify communication channels, tasks, and signal handlers, and generate Ivory code which implements scheduling and communication for real-time operating systems.