skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the UAW-FCA contract.[1] This would be a "temporary layoff" in a union plant. Beyond 10 days, different rules apply. Auto plants do this during model changeovers, so it's expected. Short layoffs are unpaid. Long layoffs come under the unemployment benefits provision.

Tesla's production engineering people probably need to rearrange the production line. By now, they should know where the trouble spots are.

[1] https://uaw.org/app/uploads/2017/03/2015-agreement-productio...
One day, an old man was walking along a beach that was littered with thousands of starfish that had been washed ashore by the high tide. As he walked he came upon a young boy who was eagerly throwing the starfish back into the ocean, one by one.

Puzzled, the man looked at the boy and asked what he was doing. Without looking up from his task, the boy simply replied, “I’m saving these starfish, Sir”.

The old man chuckled aloud, “Son, there are thousands of starfish and only one of you. What difference can you make?”

The boy picked up a starfish, gently tossed it into the water and turning to the man, said, “I made a difference to that one!”
I hear what you are saying about the intent of the actor, but that's tricky. What if the actor doesn't believe in private property? What if the actor accidentally misreads "private" as "public."? These things aren't really mitigating.

This is why the law tends to fall back on what a hypothetical "reasonable person" would think.

I'm not as much of a hardliner as rayiner on this particular case as I think there are some facts in favor of thinking of these documents as public:

- it was a government website

- it was specifically set up for the purpose of sharing foia requests

- the data in the documents was not easily identifiable as private

But when it comes to the general principle where some HNers seem to think "If the webserver responds with a 200 then it's perfectly fine." I have to disagree.

Imagine a different scenario in which we were talking about tax returns instead of foia requests. You're looking at yours at http://www.canadataxes.com/return?id=1234 and you realize that if you inc the ID you get the tax return of some other random Canadian citizen. In that case it would be immediately obvious that someone had made a mistake and you were accessing information you shouldn't. A "reasonable person" would understand that a mistake had been made. It would then be clearly illegal to write a script to scrape down the docs for every ID.
Its surprising AWS hasn't tried to open a Russian region yet. All the arguments about compromise of the data centres etc can also be made even more so for China (which is both a more sophisticated opponent and one that literally forces you to work with their state sponsored companies.

I guess the economics vs just running out of the Stockholm region dont make sense but it seems like an underserved market
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From the article: "When he was around eight, he remembered playing around with the HTML of the Google search page, making the coloured letters spell out his name."

Isn't the Google logo an image? Smells a bit fishy to me.
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Interesting to note the author’s role in the Newton: https://gizmodo.com/5452193/the-story-behind-apples-newton
> How about the thousands of people who have already sent millions of dollars back home to developing nations where they previously had to rely on western union and their exorbitant commission fees.

Sorry to be that guy but do you have a citation for this? I hear it all the time but it makes no sense to me. Can you explain what happens when people receive the bitcoin? For one thing there are frequently 20% spreads in countries that do not have good ways to export their fiat currency, like India, so bitcoin actually doesn't usually end up being cheaper when you consider conversion costs.

> On the opposite side of the spectrum, for the ultra-wealthy, cryptocurrencies offer the ability to place a portion of one's capital in accounts which are not seizable by any means. This is a significant feature of the technology, and coupled with the level of encryption, already represents a small, yet sizable place in the world banking system.

I don't have a dog in the fight of whether or not this is a Good ThingTM, but a lot of people would call this a bug not a feature.
Looks about right for early high school math.
Is there a rock solid proof that shadow profiles exist? I only ever seen anecdotal evidence... and Zuck said he's not aware of them.

The wikipedia page doesnt have much:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Shadow_profiles
Predictive value isn’t an end in itself.
I no longer live in Russia, so can't tell if it is true, but from what I'm reading, Telegram devs used a clever hack to bypass the blocking.

They say Telegram is using service PUSH notifications (DC_UPDATE - https://core.telegram.org/api/push-updates) to send new server's IP.

Apparently, those push updates come from Apple/Google/Microsoft notification servers. So if Roskomnadzor blocks those servers, then all push notifications will stop working altogether (not only for Telegram).

Does anybody know if it is possible?

Also, Roskomnadzor asked Apple/Google/Microsoft to delete Telegram app from their app stores.

UPD1: Obviously, Web version of Telegram won't work as it doesn't have/use push notifications.

UPD2: Roskomnadzor blocked ~800,000 Amazon IPs and more than 1,000,000 Google IPs. People say they're having issues with Viber calls
Open Media is pretty good at social media and pressure campaigns.

The BCCLA is top notch if you actually need to win a court case. When they take on a case they don't fuck around, and they have high powered lawyers working pro-bono for them.
The status quo seems to already be devices on the internet that can be updated.... but are still apart of a botnet.
...how closely tied it is to the x86 memory model & the PC in general.

Is it, though? Linux has had NOMMU (running without an MMU at all) support since the early 2000s, and the atomics / barriers are more based on Alpha's memory model than anything else - several of those primitives just compile out to a compiler barrier or nothing at all on x86.

Most heavyweight things you don't need in an IoT context can be compiled-out completely - I think probably the major bit of infrastructure you can't is support for multiple user IDs?
In Which We Define 'Biased' As Meaning 'Not Conforming To Our Ideas Of How The World Should Be'. Because it's unthinkable that movies with male main characters could actually just be better than movies with female main characters.

(I'm not saying they are, mind you - but when we analyze sentiment in a large dataset and reach a result like that, the first question to ask should be "is that result accurate?" not "how do we tune out this problematic result?")
"Don't roll your own security" has been the marching drum of an entire sector of IoT companies working within the connectivity "slice of the pie."

The general mindset has been that iot has a couple slices: the "thing" (air conditioner vibration sensor), how that thing is connected (Ethernet plugged directly into a smart vibration sensor, or vibration sensor plugged into a connected data-recording device), the transmission/storage of that data (cloud solution? Servers on site? Internet y/n?), Analysis of that data (Microsoft IoT platform? Rolled solution? Now defunct Autodesk iot platform?), and finally the acting upon data collected (chief engineer scheduling repairs/maintenance, project manager ordering new motors, whatever).

So many companies have tried "rolling their own" because they got it working on a raspberry pi or Arduino in a week, then find out their connectivity is not secure at scale (let alone that the solution can't scale at all).

Let specialists specialize. No reason not to let big daddy Microsoft handle the messy bits.

Disclosure, I work at electric imp, thus considering myself firmly in the "secure connection and transmission" slice of the pie.

Disclosure 2, we're partnered with Microsoft for their new IoT push, lol.
Its not the lock that makes it illegal. Its the act. Somebody reaches into your pocket to take your wallet, its not 'ok' because you didn't lock your pocket, is it?

We're not yet to the point where its the victim's fault when victimized by a criminal. It may seem that way when there are so many active criminals. But some places its still possible to trust your neighbors. I live in one.
This is about foraged ingredients though. How do you forage flour to make a pizza dough?
It's hard to say, given how Tesla spins things sometimes, though. That said, a stoppage like this COULD be totally normal.
That you were just hoping to find an orgy? I fully support this endeavor.
Yeah, it didn't need new all new Aircon but we got the Aircon techs in to look at it and they're changing where the inlet vents are located and adding an additional unit of separation into the ducting.
> Since you're a nonprofit, Apple will waive your developer fee

I thought you meant charities, not non-profits, but TechCrunch reports the latter:

"Apple in early 2018 will waive the $99 developer fee for all government and nonprofits starting in the U.S. to make this transition easier."

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/apple-revises-its-controve...
> But what if we found that while Model C performs the best overall, it's also most likely to assign a more positive sentiment to the sentence "The main character is a man" than to the sentence "The main character is a woman"?

As I understand the problem, they are saying that statistically, the statement about the main character being male is a bit more likely to be positive than if the same thing is said about a woman. If that is statistically true and you are trying to create a model to determine the level of positive sentiment in a review, then that may be a legitimate indicator of how people categorize things. If the goal is to try to "fix" how people talk and write, I'm not sure ignoring statistical patterns in the way we talk is really the right approach.
I guess the question posed in the article is an interesting one and is an interesting discussion re how to deal with bias and building counter-biases into algorithms without the editorial decision asking being clear.

Movie reviews are editorial content. Measuring that content is a difficult problem in this type of context... Are the best reviewers people who dislike movies with female leads? Are you going into a back catalog of movie reviews from an age where societal expectations were different? Are popular genres skewing the result?

You could have a curation issue as well — if the female lead movies are dominated by "Hallmark Channel" fare, algorithm C has a point!
YouTube employees say violent threats from creators have been going on for years
Well, they take dirt and turn it in to a big, long, nothing. AKA a tunnel.
Or as I'd put it, let's state the goal clearly.

We could all pretend that we all knew what "unbiased" was, as long as we lacked mechanisms for putting numbers on these things. We could meet our fuzzy conception of the biases with our fuzzy conceptions of what "unbiased" ought to be and we could all speak back and forth to each other praising the virtues of how unbiased our models of the universe are, and there was no way to dig in any farther to see if we were all actually saying the same thing.

Now we can put numbers on it. So, do it. What's the goal? Be clear. It's a program. Anything you can clearly specify can be done. It's not useful from an engineering perspective to define the goals entirely by examining each model in sequence and deciding on the spot that it's not "unbiased"; give us a definition in advance, so we can build a model to try to fit it.

Once the goal is stated clearly, the engineering work becomes much easier. We can even iterate on the goals. I'm not asking for perfection on that front on the first try any more than I ask for it anywhere else. But there's been enough of these articles that just point at a specific point in the space of models and call that point problematic. Move on the to next phase. What wouldn't be problematic? Exactly? At least take a stab at it instead of trying to make vague insinuations so we can iterate on the stab.

Nor am I trying to prejudge what those answers will be. It isn't necessarily the case that the only possible answer is to just slam in 50/50 numbers for the genders (or whatever other constant values you want for whatever other genders you want). Though if that is what you want, do it, and see what happens, and iterate from there. But what other things can be tried too?
...and even then, you're not secure forever. So many times the best security practices have been shown to be insufficient. In fact, I wonder what the scoreboard actually would read, 'roll your own' vs 'best practice'? Maybe not all that different.
TBMs are frequently recovered and extracted now.

http://metrotunnel.vic.gov.au/construction/building-the-tunn...
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This is a genuine, difficult problem. It's so easy to join up on your political team of choice and scream about it, and all this makes any real attempt to solve it so much harder to talk about in public or collaborate on. In fact, there's practically guaranteed to be some greyed out text in the discussion here.

So some of these associations simply reflect the way-the-world-was or the way-the-world-is - like associating "woman" with "housewife". That's a whole debate in itself.

But some of these can be accidental. Suppose a runaway success novel/tv/film franchise has "Bob" as the evil bad guy. Reams of fanfictions are written with "Bob" doing horrible things. People endlessly talk about how bad "Bob" is on twitter. Even the New York times writes about Bob latest depredations, when he plays off current events.

Your name is Bob. Suddenly all the AI's in the world associate your name with evil, death, killing, lying, stealing, fraud, and incest. AI's silently, slightly ding your essays, loan applications, uber driver applications, and everything you write online. And no one believes it's really happening. Or the powers that be think it's just a little accidental damage because the AI overall is still, overall doing a great job of sentiment analysis and fraud detection.
I work in finance, for a dark pool. Our "value add" is to provide the anonymity to both buyers and sellers (both in who they are, the side they're on and their limit) while doing minimal disturbance to the market. We only disseminate the symbol on an IOI, and we don't quote prices, at all. We facilitate moving large block trades with minimal information leakage to market et large while abiding by NMS rules. Effectively, we run blind auctions for large blocks of US traded equities.
If you did use vim, and had the touchbar, it would still suck because the esc key isn't a real key anymore.
This is an example of sacrificing the scientific method to make results more politically correct. We've come full circle.
For ccla, cclet is their education arm eligible for a charitable contribution tax credit.
Something similar happened in Australia last year.

Federal Government ministers all have their phone bill summaries released as part of public record with private information removed.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-hundreds-of-parliamentary-mo...

The contractor redacted the phone numbers in this instance by changing the font colour to white (same as the background) in the PDFs uploaded to the government disclosure website. So if you exported to text, or highlighted text, the phone numbers were clearly visible.

So most federal members of parliament, the former prime minister (Australia's equivalent of president) and opposition leader all had their numbers leaked.
I work in a US city government doing government transparency work. I have a title that can get people on the phone. What can I do to help?
What's wrong with just saying "isle … of … dogs"? Why would you need to enter a special mode before enunciating?
Social Counterprogramming and Content Moderation
Tesla says its factory is safer–but it left injuries off the books
WSCC[0] to have them all in one place.

[0]: https://www.kls-soft.com/wscc/
There are use cases for which internet becomes the most effective solution. Mostly "extremely distributed products," like a sensor sold by a company offering analysis and preventative maintenance services alongside the product.

Do the security right and the classic internet of shit botnet type vulnerabilities aren't really an issue (knock on wood...)

Anyway, we've managed to survive pitching internet connectivity instead of local network, and several customers have found use cases for it that I don't think local would be feasible for.

In the end it's not just "technically a LAN would be the most secure option here," I mean that's always the case. It can be more "our partners and solution are offering a so-far-unbroken security model, and connecting via the Internet makes the whole manufacturing, distribution, on-site enrolling, and monitoring cheaper and working out of the box."
But there’s a near infinite supply of straws and it didn’t damage the dispenser.
Ask HN: Any affordable deep learning cloud service for practicing/experimenting?
This is Eufy, Anker's brand for home products. I think with a $50K funding threshold, it is pretty clear they are simply leveraging Kickstarter as a go-to-market strategy. Informs their mfg schedule and possibly grants a better position in negotiating their mfg costs. Doing this also has the happy benefit of reducing initial capital investment.
My experience with Arlo has been overall positive. I have three Arlo Pro cameras integrated with SmartThings, and while the integration is not perfect, it works well enough for my purposes.

Battery life is 3 months at best, and a lot less if it's recording often. They recharge pretty fast so it's not a big deal unless they are hard to get to.

Range is pretty good--one has been on a tree behind my house all winter, and only stopped working when it got very cold. Absolutely zero false alarms from moving tree branches/bushes/blowing leaves (although the sensitivity can be adjusted if needed).
> This post is literally ridiculous, I don't think a single thing in it is true. The constraining factor for flights in and out of NYC, or nearly any place, is runway capacity, not available airspace.

What you're saying flies in the face of a decent amount of reporting on the matter, as well as what I've been told by a friend of mine who happens to work in ATC at one of the aforementioned airports.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_(earth)

The company name is somewhat tongue in cheek, but also apparently straight up literal in some sense.
It did, however, damage the privacy of various Canadian citizens.
Agreed. The machine is biased because biased humans are training it to be biased.
I think some people are never going to feel right typing with a "thin laptop" range of key travel. I can deal with it, but it still feels weird.
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The fundamental thesis is

> Three generations ago, literature professors exchanged a rigorously defined sphere of expertise, to which they could speak with authority, for a much wider field to which they could speak with virtually no power at all.

Hence all the references to various scholars and their works.

Nowhere does the author bash Trump or say his voters are uneducated imbeciles. The quote most related to this is

> For going on 50 years, professors in the humanities have striven to play a political role in the American project. Almost without exception, this has involved attacking the establishment. As harmful as institutionalized power can be, as imperfect as even the most just foundations inevitably appear, they are, as it turns out, all we’ve got. Never has a citizen been so grateful for institutions — for functioning courts, for a professionalized FBI, for a factually painstaking CBO or GAO — as since November 2016.

Which boils down to "The humanities anti-establishment position needs to be toned down. This election when many of us did not get an outcome we wanted, we realized the value in having strong and trustworthy public institutions."

The main theme of the essay is self-awareness:

> Yet the editorial logic of right-wing media resembles closely the default position of many recent books and dissertations in literary studies: The true story is always the oppositional story, the cry from outside. The righteous are those who sift the shadows of the monolith to undermine it in defense of some notion of freedom.

Considering the essay starts out with

> Can the average humanities professor be blamed if she rises in the morning, checks the headlines, shivers, looks in the mirror, and beholds a countenance of righteous and powerless innocence?

The takeaway is that humanities professors have become ineffective because they've traded expertise for politically motivated analysis. There's a feel good, all inclusive, woo woo diversity culture about the humanities, but its come at the price of critical analysis and discerning judgment. Instead of providing a a critical, reasoned opposing view, they've become increasingly radical and reactionary. Instead of seeing their view as a small, but important contribution to the greater project of society building, they've tried to monopolize the project. The end of the essay reaffirms that the humanities have something to offer, but that that offering has to be a balanced towards improving the establishment instead of encouraging critiques with no means of improving or fixing it.
It seems to me that mathematical higher dimensional matrices are, in the broad scheme of programming languages, a corner case. Certainly a big one and an important one, but not one that was ever likely to drive general purpose languages.

Indeed, I'd argue that if that was your primary use case you are and always were better off with a relatively custom language (relative to programming as a whole), because the needs are so different and the wins so big using an environment set up to support those needs that you'll want that in the end. You can fuzz the line with things like NumPy, because all these lines are fuzzy, but dedicated support will be a big win in the end.
> I have no doubt that some people are addicted to their phones...but just as some people are addicted to Siracha sauce

I don't think _anyone_ is addicted to sriracha in the same way people are addicted to their personal devices. Downplaying this problem is the last thing that should be done.
Finding a decent camera in that size is damned near impossible, but something like a LUMIX ZS60S or a Sony DSCW830 is pretty tiny and takes much nicer photos than a phone once you've spent a little time getting used to the camera and what it can actually do. (Often your phone can also take much better photographs than your automatic settings will, but fiddling with it is a pain.)
In 1992 Apple gave me a T-shirt for supplying speech samples used to train their System 7 voice recognition. Below a picture of bunch of apple cores strewn on a beach was the caption "I helped Apple wreck a nice beach!"
Yes it is possible. Typically this usage of push is done more to pre-fetch content to improve load times, but it certainly can be used in the way you described.
I interviewed and rejected so many GA candidates that I unfortunately don't bother interviewing them anymore.

Moreover, I blame them for completely weakening what "Data Scientist" is supposed to mean. It was never really clear in the first place, but always assumed to be "a programmer who knows about statistics or a statistician who knows about programming". GA distributes their certifications to people who are neither.

Corollary, you're better off coming to me with no diploma/certification than with a GA one.
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I found android development easier when I had little experience with it.