skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're somewhat pulling that single line out of context. Here's the paragraph it's in

>Kids with disabilities want to socialize; the need to affiliate is deeply human and present in all of us. Children like Esprit may not be able to participate exactly as typical kids do, but who cares? My wife would not have been indignant if a playdate had included more babies, so the typical kids could do typical kid stuff while Esprit watched. Just ask a disabled child's parents whether the planned activity will work for their son or daughter. If an adjustment is needed we can figure it out together.

To be honest I liked the article and it makes a good case and has given me a new perspective. Especially this last one is quite morbid:

>For parents of a severely disabled child, the big picture is dominated by a future cataclysm. For my wife and me, it's that, although Esprit has lived nearly 15 years, we will likely survive her. For other parents, it's that their child will likely survive them.
Could this be used on Mars?

The humidity at the surface is 30 to 75 ppm [1]. Clouds have been known to form.

If Elon Musk gets interested, I think the MIT researchers could get the investment they need to scale this up.

I'm just grateful to read some good news about scientific progress for a change. Useful inventions like this give me more hope for humanity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4508910/
Gun ownership is a right in the US.
> To be fair, you have to keep in mind that deploying 1000 cars would quickly make self-driving cars safer than humans.

This seems unreasonably optimistic.

First, this particular crash is an egregious counter-example. The car doesn't even seem to slow down when it first sees the pedestrian's foot. Nor does it try to swerve. This is basic stuff for a human driver, never mind more complex avoidance and risk mitigation a human driver can perform.

Second, we've had years of training various AI content curation algorithms on social networks, videos, blogs, etc - and the most advanced AI and search company in the world still can't keep adult-oriented conspiracy videos off of Youtube Kids. And while you might counter that content is a human problem, driving is too! Dangerous driving situations happen at the periphery of traffic rules, where someone is doing something the drivers around him don't expect. I've seen people run solid red lights, drive the wrong way down a one-way street, pedestrians start crossing when their light turns red, etc. Short of creating special roads for autonomous cars only - how does an autonomous car deal with all of this successfully?
It’s completely limiting free choice and voluntary interactions between consenting adults. A huge personals section just got shut down. Unless you think 100% of personal ads are coerced sex trafficking, which would be rather crazy opinion.

If you truly wanted to curb sex trafficking, you’d legalize prostitution, not drive it farther underground.
right, the words that popped into my mind were, "Fremen stillsuit".
I'm sure work is pretty bad for a lot of people, and sure, something should be done with that.

I personally think the biggest thing we could do is to just add a reasonable safety net. I get treated well because my employer knows I have a choice of jobs; if we gave the people on the bottom some minimal safety net so they wouldn't go homeless or starve without working, then employers would have to treat them well enough that working was better than living off the minimal government benefits. And that's a good thing, though it would need to be balanced with how much wealth we have as a society. Certainly, though, we can afford public housing and food for everyone right now, and we should. "Work or starve" is only morally justifiable when society has so little that someone must starve.

But... on the other hand, I do think that in some ways a lot of us (especially a lot of us on hn who are in the top half of computer technicians and software engineers) have it pretty good. For me? I know I had a lot of negative feelings about management when I was younger. I thought they were stupid and evil. I became a lot happier as an employee after I blew a whole lot of time and money trying to run a business myself.

And it was ramen profitable, but god damn did I work hard for that ramen. I'd be most of the way to retirement if I had lived on what I lived on and worked for someone else, investing the difference in index funds. But I think running that business really helped me be a happier employee; I mean, I am not saying I understand the business bullshit... I don't know what to do about all the moral dilemmas at that level, about negotiation, about hiding information, etc... some of it still does seem kind of stupid and evil. But I understand that business bullshit exists, and that I don't understand it - I ran the experiment, and the data showed that I really had no idea what management and business development was all about.

Because of my time running the company, I'm much more laid back about letting management manage than I was before I ran my own company, because I tried. I gave it my best shot, and I'm just not very good at it. I'm a pretty good technician, though, and I really appreciate that I'm in a world where that means I get a well-paying and comfortable job where all I have to do is be that good technician, and not be too rude to anyone else. I don't have to worry about not saying this or that or the other (well, with some exceptions. As a general rule, I can tell my boss anything with the door closed... if that's not true, I get another job, because clearly they want someone with a different skillset.)
There is something to be said for making a discouraged activity harder to do.

Yes, it pushes these people underground but in a sense that is good as it makes it harder for them and harder to access them. In return it’s not much harder for authorities to infiltrate and there’s less non-illicit activity to filter.

Not perfect, but it’s not always bad.
I think "needlessly" would work better than "unnecessarily" there.
Since I'm a relatively old guy, I'll tell you how it used to work. Before cell phones, online dating and apps, the way people met people was through friends, or at work, or god forbid, randomly approaching a stranger and introducing oneself, usually at a nightclub or bar, but sometimes at a supermarket or cafe. Rejection happened in one's face publicly in front of other people!
Oh well, not sure how I failed to pick up on that. I'll just blame it on the early hour and be on my way.
According to the author, the invitations stopped before there was any attempt to adjust anyone's plans:

I started to see the discomfort people feel in socializing with disabled kids when Esprit reached 6 months. Until then, my wife was invited to playdates, where she and another mom drank coffee while the babies gurgled on the floor. The invitations stopped when the other kids could sit up, something Esprit wouldn't do for years.
That's just a news narrative. The reality is that states interfere in other state's elections and sovereignity for their own advantage.
right right right -- you have an extremely high surface area of metal and you expose it to air and moisture. Why would it not oxidize in like minutes?
Possible, I know that a couple times a year but I would think a professional in that situation would use a completely different service for personal use. (I.e. Personal Twitter, Professional Reddit)
What about the “internet freedom” of those sites to tell people they don’t want to go away?

This legislation isn’t that but your examples are.
>The current industry approaches are great for extracting certain kinds of value out of large data sets, but in terms of producing a result that could even begin to be considered as interesting as life (i.e. AGI or "strong AI"), I believe we will have to rely on creating a system whose inner workings are too complex for us to understand.

Speak for yourself.
> A heat sink will not cool the air below ambient. This is required for condensation. No configuration of heat sink + device will decrease the temperature unless we put some "work" into the system.

A heat sink surrounded with foam with an opening left that looks down the focus of a satellite dish that has been carefully covered in tinfoil will get colder than ambient air temperature, if the dish is pointed at a clear sky.
It’s been that for about 20 years, roughly.
Laws should be evaluated by their effect, not the intentions behind them.
The 46% is only the nets, the title is absolutely true if left as it was.

“The study also found that fishing nets account for 46 percent of the trash, with the majority of the rest composed of other fishing industry gear, including ropes, oyster spacers, eel traps, crates, and baskets.”
You are welcome to build your own internet already, and not connect it to any bgp peers or ICANN root nameservers. But I think you will find that achieving a 1000 km size scale at OSI layer 1 is very very costly, nevermind making it global.
> That's why countries where gun are banned for general population, does not have mass murder by "common people" like USA

Funny. I live in a country where gun ownership is common-ish. Curiously, per your theory, though - no mass shootings.

Gun ownership is not the root of all evil.
Every single decentralized version of those sites has died a death due to a) being pretty awful b) attracting completely terrible users as it’s base c) terrible user experience.

What do you see changing?
Ask Kim Dotcom
Responsibility Deflected, the CLOUD Act Passes
Using CL personals led me to a blind date with a Canadian 16 years ago. Still on that date :)
How... does that follow? To reduce slavery, legalize prostitution?

There must be some steps in between I am missing.
This article is great.

The usual advice is "just treat disabled people as people" but it isn't super useful because humans don't "naturally" treat anyone like anyone. Much of our social interaction is cultural and learned. So it's extremely helpful to give specific, actionable advice ("just tell your child to wave").

I have to admit to occasionally looking away, or doing other things mentioned in the article. It's not because I think disabled people are "worse" or because I'm an asshole. It's because I get a momentary "shit, this isn't automatic, what do I do" feeling, and by the time I arrive at a conscious decision of what to do a few moments later it's too late.

There is a lot of shaming of people that I think would be much better replaced with education. Most people aren't assholes. They just don't automatically know what to do. We can fix it by giving people specific actionable norms.
Experimental Self-Learning AI in Battlefield 1
To me, the odd thing is they focus on that instead of legalization and helping people report abuses.

Legalization is far from perfect but abuse in Nevada brothels is much lower than as street walkers.

It seems it's more a puritanical belief system than a genuine desire to render aid.
It's true that an MS is advantageous when applying for an H-1B (albeit an advantage that has been steadily eroding over the years). But equally attractive is the vastly better quality of instruction, facilities, and opportunities available at even the median American university compared to some of the top Indian schools.
Please let us know your experience with the Talos system.
The specificity of what this author wants is what keeps me from even interacting — the fear of saying the “wrong” thing in one direction or the other.
Haha. Nice!
Errol Morris on his movie, and long friendship, with Stephen Hawking
Healthcare is an obvious exception, and religiously fundamentalist capitalists won't admit to that, but the reason is simple. Healthcare has virtually infinite demand, and the demand for more expensive solutions is intense. It is one of the few sectors of the economy where traditional capitalist price optimization algorithms don't function properly. I wish people would admit this and move towards more rational healthcare considerations, but I also wish people would stop using obvious exceptions to argue against rules.

(Healthcare is also an ethical battleground in a sense that many industries never can be. Should a hospital administrator be willing to spend a million dollars to save one life, or should that money go to equipment that could save more lives? The answer seems obvious, but most people react with a sort of justifiable horror at the thought of letting some poor child die so the hospital can buy some new machines.)
The goal is immaterial. The effect is an unconscientable abridgement of the rights to free speech and free association, all in the name of dubious and ineffective effort to prevent "harm", where "harm" is apparently defined as acting in a way contrary to utopian social engineers.
Last month I moved back to London for a contract job. Yes it pays well, but because of the hours I basically have no life. I leave at 7:30, get to the office just before 9, work until 7, then head home and arrive around 8:30.

I really wish part time work was more of a thing in this industry...
The intention is a lie. Much like the Patriot Act was a lie.

The chilling effects are 100% intentional.

The goal is to target any personal section that does not actively moderate content.
New laws are bad laws
Let me rephrase the parent:

How is the NRA stopping anyone other than the government from funding studies?
Something like this?

"“With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types, but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the ‘fingerprints’ of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from,” Wikileaks said in a statement."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/07/wikileaks-cia...

and for remote control:

"In April this year, WikiLeaks disclosed a brief information about Project Hive, revealing that the project is an advanced command-and-control server (malware control system) that communicates with malware to send commands to execute specific tasks on the targets and receive exfiltrated information from the target machines.
Hive is a multi-user all-in-one system that can be used by multiple CIA operators to remotely control multiple malware implants used in different operations."

https://thehackernews.com/2017/11/cia-hive-malware-code.html
Very Nice!

I did something similar but only for hosted solutions

http://blog.codepipes.com/hosted-ci-comparison/hosted-ci-com...

I am preparing another blog post for on-premise (GoCD, Jenkins, Concourse etc.)
They are reporting on testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
There are various reasons that people may ask to be exempt. Two that most comes to mind are:

1. Explicit or roundabout pressure from the managers

2. Being expected to produce the same outcome despite reduced work time

Both of which seems like a inertia issue with the culture not following the change. That would probably stabilize over time if a actual rule sets in place.
This reminds me of a paper on primate stress level increases due to the amount of time they spend foraging (study was focused on deforestation but seems applicable here). It seems to suggest a biological ceiling for well being and reproductive success.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130122102110.h...
Facebook regrets threatening to sue journalists over Cambridge Analytica story
> It's a myth that the private sector is inherently more efficient than public sector.

Stating it, doesn't make it so. You've provided zero argument for your position. You haven't even provided a logic basis for your claim.

Healthcare systems across developed nations? Ok. Germany, Japan and Switzerland all have highly successful private segments to their healthcare systems. They're all as efficient, or more efficient, than comparable overwhelmingly public systems such as in France, Britain or Canada.
CL openly allowed prostitution on their site just yesterday.

I wouldn't be so quick to call it self-evident that there was a better response than to immediately shut down their classifieds.

I'm sure there's more to do than just flicking a "filter prostitution: yes / no" switch on their admin panel.
Which only happened because they were first forced to close the previous escort sections several years ago.
And just a few hours ago the Cloud Act passed as part of the Omnibus bill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
It isn't strictly speaking better. It has pros and cons compared to other systems just like any other service. You and your messaging partners must decide what trade offs you are willing to make.

Personally Signal is nearly unusable for me (check my posting history for why, this has been coming up a lot recently). I think Telegram has the highest quality UX of any modern IM, yet I still mostly use Facebook Messenger because everyone is on it.
More specifically, don't do fixed cost contracts. They misalign all the incentives, and encourages you to do a worse quality job. And it encourages them to take up your time with meetings and support and new "quick" features to add.

Best is a fixed hourly rate, providing them an estimate, and setting it up so that you won't exceed a maximum (after which you can reevaluate with them whether to continue).

This lets you be flexible on the spec and respond quickly to changes they may want, it lets you get compensated for all those little things that you don't plan for like meetings, and you no longer have to give your time estimate a padding to ensure you meet the deadline.

Although they pay less on average, I think you also make more on average. Consider, for a fixed cost project you need to create rigorous specs that take weeks to develop and then negotiate over how hard different things are. Which of course itself takes lots of time. And god forbid they want to add a new feature or change a spec, necessitating either you just doing it for free or negotiating a whole new add-on project.

Ratios of overhead to actual work? Honestly, probably like 50-50... so by cutting out a good chunk of that first 50% from the process, both sides save time and can do other more useful work. I'd way rather take on two clients and not spend my time negotiating and doing paperwork.
What if it has nothing to do with ML? You see a point cloud that's moving toward your lane at a speed estimate of say 2 mph. If that's below the sensor noise threshold, you might classify the cloud as a stationary object on the other lane (say a stranded car). In that case, by the time you realize that this stationary object has somehow moved itself into your own lane, it is already too late.
I am trying to think of anything worthwhile Apple had ever delivered that was actually their idea, but somehow fail...

Sure, there are companies that make real, cutting edge stuff in SV. As there are in other places. But SV has far more noise that just would not even appear any any saner part of the world. Although I would really question whether Apple does (or ever did) anything cutting edge that wasn't... eh... borrowed from somebody else.

But really, what unique skills does SV have? Chutzpah isn't a skill, after all.
Interesting. I did find the process a bit arduous, but my interviewers were fairly professional. They were always punctual. Your experience is also the exact opposite of what Toptal tries to be: incredibly dedicated.

Might I suggest giving it one more go? Your experience is likely an exception, and definitely not the norm.

Personally, once I got through the screening, and started working with clients, I decided the screening process is well worth it.
How did you verify if the patched system is not affected anymore? I'm really curious what means the users have to verify the effectiveness of such patches.
It wouldn't violate professional codes of ethics in a war, and we're taking wartime casualty numbers on our roads everyday.

This is the real trolly problem when it comes to the ethics of developing self driving cars.
okay so another question, so in theory I could keep a common backend code and experiment with Qt frontend code even as I simultaneously build with electron as well?
> Jenkins: Nobody likes Jenkins, apparently.

That is not a good reason for not using Jenkins. You should try to see if it covers your needs and if it does, you should not care about what other people think about it.

Also you can discover more options here:

http://blog.codepipes.com/hosted-ci-comparison/hosted-ci-com...
Why German companies fail at digital innovation
Legal prostitutes can call the police for help from pimps or others trying to abuse or coerce them, without fear of arrest.

Legal prostitutes are incentivized to work with the police to report others being coerced, it’s competition.

Bringing things out into the open helps clean them up. Keeping them in the dark allows evil to multiply. The next time Prohibition helped the people it was trying to protect will also be the first time.
I'm doing an internship in a long-term-care facility (one resident has Huntington's) and there's no easy way to accommodate the profoundly disabled.
It increases the sexual abuse of marginalized women statistically.

Legal brothels have much lower rates of abuse.
My daughter (7) has a "sighted" (almost completely blind) friend that she loves dearly... I found it was an interesting challenge to try to think of birthday parties for my daughter that could suit the scenario where a 7 yr old sighted child could participate.

What I think I've figured out is that my expectations of how these children will could have fun was completely different to the children's expectations of how they could have fun.

ie, I was over thinking it.
Just invite them, let them figure it out for the most part. (but obviously things like movie viewings or go carts we not really in the running.)
In most countries obstructing the flow of traffic, no matter the method, is illegal.

And what alternative do you suggest? Not braking?
>This week: Reddit bans Cigar, beer and Alchohol trading subreddits, toy bb gun sales, and gun related coupon clippers

Reddit also banned subs that were used for sourcing marijuana, designer drugs, xanax.. direct deals onsite.

i'm not defending the drug war, but when you only include the subs you wrote the move looks really silly. if people were only doing giveaways and trading toy bb guns, those subs would still be open. the fact is reddit was being used by vendors for direct deals of illegal shit, and in order to put that to a stop reddit had to ban all sourcing.
It's taken this long because it took until now for people to start falling out of love with the tech industry, including many politicians. Having Wyden in their pocket won't be enough anymore. The skepticism of the tech industry is surprisingly bipartisan, which bodes well on a number of fronts including antitrust scrutiny and potentially the equivalent of GDPR (if we're lucky).
Only problem with BMW is any men I’ve ever seen riding one, looks like a fucking moron with tight pants and colorful sweater. Bunch of Fucking homos.
I don't know any other hypothetical building blocks for complex life. It could possibly be the case that the alternatives are too unstable and that alien life would be made of something remarkably similar to (but obviously not identical to) Earth DNA.
Political thoughts aside, I have to say that I'm extremely impressed with Telegram's macOS client, especially after Slack. It's very elegant and iOS-y without skimping on the power-user features expected from Mac apps. What a breath of fresh air!

(I'm assuming TGUIKit is responsible: https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift/tree/master/TGUIKi...)
What if Uber’s first self-driving car killed a cyclist in its very first mile of operation? Would you find it equally hard to draw conclusions?