skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it's implied that in Southern California they are breaking minimum wage laws?

Also, exploitation only applies if the workers 1) have no better option and 2) their options are artificially constrained by the party offering their only option. Anything else is simply failing to understand their situation.
> Perhaps more on other humanities departments (e.g. social and gender studies) rather than philosophy?

(former philosophy student here) -- honestly, yes. I think you'll find that within American academia that the influence of continental philosophers is mostly within the sphere of 'critical theory' not philosophy depts.

That's not to say that each department doesn't have its contingents of continental specialists. There's plenty of them. But at least at my school, they were the minority, and looked on with what seemed to be a mixture of bemusement and separation. Like a rival but tolerated religion. That might be slightly exaggerated, but at my school in the 90s there was really only one prof I was able to study continental philosophy with (he was good, at least).

My wife just finished her BA in anthropology, and the profs threw around continental philosopher names like candy. But there wasn't a single course accessible to her that actually studied those theorists in depth and with seriousness. IMHO this is a serious problem and part of the reason that post-structural etc. theory is often either taken as a pseudo-religion (by a kind of adherent who does not have a deep philosophical depth in it) or hated and derided (by people who see it all as nonsense.)
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so what's your premise here, that she's drunk and that's what caused the engine to explode?
Why does the IRS not distribute the tax-filing workload across the whole year? Having everyone trying to complete their taxes on the same day seems wildly inefficient and wasteful.
No email yet here either. Good luck all!
Are you running IPFS nodes for unloaders to keep data persisting? From what I understand, as soon as the last available node stops broadcasting, the pinned object is gone.

How do you deal with illegal content? Aka people using this service to host bad content.
They weren't pressured to like it, but without the "algorithm" showing it to them, they never would have discovered it.
I read somewhere that depending on how they access the video on the application portal, it may or may not count as a view. So no sweat on views! Goodluck!
Maybe so, but could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN?

The site guidelines ask you a bunch of things in this department—here's one: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They are often exploited, trafficked, abused, and paid less than anyone else.

Again, see "sweatshops."
Straight from the article:

> The damper system has no connection with the seismic safety of One Rincon. It is always a challenge to build a tall structure in earthquake country, and One Rincon's engineering response was to use outriggers, tall reinforced concrete columns built around the core of the building.
My point is that to deconstruct the article on merits of audaciousness is unfairly critical considering a fatality took place.
Dude, the woman just landed a damaged plane and saved everyone's life. Are you this much of a nitpicker in real life?

"Uhhh, I don't know, the landing was good but she could have been a little quicker on her speech. 8/10 would consider further training."
Amazing! What API are you using to weave together the clips - just ffmpeg, or some other tool?

Also I love that you coded cutaways to observers and the chicken stenographer - it makes it incredibly natural seeming. Did any news outlets end up using your outputted videos?

Also, any chance it’s open source? :)
..but they could.
"As an addendum, Ho adds that “most of the works on the list are analytic philosophy,” therefore Prof. Chen asked Habermas to recommend some additional European thinkers, and received the following: “Axel Honneth, Kampf um Anerkennung (1992), Rainer Forst, Kontexte der Cerechtigkeit (1994) and Herbert Schnadelbach, Kommentor zu Hegels Rechtephilosophie (2001).”"

Note also that this list was collected "at the behest of a Chinese publisher seeking important philosophical works for translation", so the fact that A.C. Graham is missing doesn't disturb me much.
A random thing I just remembered:

https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena/blob/dbe4ddb1...

They implemented adaptive huffman coding but ironically only use it during static initialization, feeding it with static data (see the defn of msg_hData a few lines up.) Note that the only calls to Huff_addRef are in the init, and notice how it gets called - the loop over msg_hData[i]. I found that pretty funny. I'm guessing there was some plans to use it adaptively but it's not easy/obvious how to keep it in sync reliably...
this is untrue in both a moral and legal sense.

People absolutely own content they post to facebook.
Wake up at 7:50am, work from 8:00am - 11:50am, go to the gym from 12:00 - 12:50, then continue work until 5:00p. Chill with the missus afterwork/play video games, go to bed at 10:30p.
The message data is encrypted client side and stored in a cloud service of your choice (dropbox, s3, google, azure: default).

We don't host any data, it's stored in the users data store; the user controls all their data.
Yes, this is a well-studied problem.

Here is some information from SuperMemo: https://www.supermemo.com/english/ol/sm2.htm

This algorithm is used in other programs like Anki (https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#studying) and Mnemosyne (https://mnemosyne-proj.org/help/memory-research).

Good luck with your program!
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I'm sure they make a killing on those carrying large balances
Americans love debt. But you can personally come out ahead as a consumer if you pay your bill in full each month, and you can abuse it through churning if you really try. That's just allot of work.
>The truth is (as far as we can tell at the moment) that the surface of the earth is pushing you up and accelerating you through curved space-time.

And in fact, General Relativity is the best explanation science has given us at the moment, which seems to fit what I said.
because people are people... Enough people will wait till the last day, no matter how much time you give them, enough to create a huge server spike
This seems to be very interesting from a technical perspective, but it seems that it would not improve upon the accuracy of current tools and would be additive to cost, if only incrementally so. Thus the real world benefits would be reducing time spent reviewing slides or other workflow improvements?
Good point, in Georgia at least, Motor Vehicle Registration renewals (a form of tax) is done by the birth month of the vehicle’s registered owner.
> unless GW2 is trusting the client where it shouldn't, would it even work on an MMO?

MMOs have to trust the client, to a large extent, in order to avoid janky gameplay on ~150ms connections.
Or that the captain could use some more urgency and sharpness in responding to the situation, rather than sounding somewhat checked out and slow. Still a pretty petty point.
>I never actually understood the difference between self-censoring and just deciding to not be offensive, and why deciding not to be offensive is such an unscientific thing. ... what are the consequences to simply not saying things?

Saying that global warming is real and caused by humans offends a large chunk of people.

Saying that vaccines are effective and don't cause autism offends a non-trivial amount of people.

Saying that (meat|sugar|fat|veganism|political ideology) is unethical or unhealthy offends pretty much everyone depending on which you pick.

So should we seek to not offend by not saying these things? Or should we strive to uncover the truth behind and change the things we don't like, instead of being offended by the acknowledgement of their existence.
One good bout of alimony will put a stop to that.
This is a neat paper - it's an interesting empirical result combining known techniques - but machine learning academics should really know better than to contribute to the over-hyping of results. For example, talking about "dreams" and "hallucinations" is not helpful - it doesn't make the work more accessible and only adds unnecessary hype.
I can't find solid numbers, but what I found suggests Southwest flies twice the number of flights Ryanair does. Don't know about this specific plane though.
Ask HN: Cannabis-friendly online payment processor and merchant account?
Does anyone know of some good services who will provide online payment processor and merchant account services for a cannabis startup in California?

The startup delivers actual marijuana flowers, not just THC byproducts. They want to accept online payments, with card not present.
This is interesting. My 2 x 14 year old cats started getting very concerned, especially when the "meow" would happen.
Vietnam? When North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam, they used more tanks than the largest WW2 battle. North Vietnam had fighter jets, SAMs, a powerful benefactor in the USSR etc etc etc.

The Vietcong were indigenous, though funded and armed by the NVA. They were thoroughly defeated during Tet.
Maybe she went to the Denzel Washington School of Aviation: https://www.hulu.com/watch/417659
I think a lot of people are afraid of this sort of scenario because they think it will be "awkward" or "weird."

One thing I've learned in life is a situation is only weird if you make it weird.
turbotax imported investments from robinhood and etrade. Still took me 10 minutes to finish.
If so, they will sadly be waiting forever, as LightTable is largely dead.

The creator, Chris Granger, abandoned it for his next project, Eve. After it became clear Chris had left, the community tried to pull together and continue, but it looks like it hasn't been updated in months.
The US is a country that tries to have a limited government. In that view, not all problems are the government's to solve.
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> two professors emailed sixteen philosophers in the U.S., England, Australia, Germany, Finland, and Brazil, asking specifically for "ten of the most important and influential philosophical books after 1950." "They received recommendations,” writes Ho, "from twelve philosophers, including: Susan Haack, Donald M. Borchert (Ohio U.), Donald Davidson, Jurgen Habermas, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Thomas Nagel, John Searle, Peter F. Strawson, Hilary Putnam, and G.H. von Wright." (Ho was unable to identify two other names, typed in Chinese.)
She's inside the airplane. She's relying on her instrumentation. What do you expect her to do, get out and look?

As for her speech patterns, she's trying to be extremely clear and specific with her speech while dealing with stuff like emergency checklists and keeping the plane aloft. As anyone in a life-or-death crisis should be doing. Speaking precisely and clearly is worth overwhelmingly more than speaking quickly and getting something wrong.

This is perhaps the grossest backseat-driving I've seen on Hacker News and I have seen some gross ones.
Have any twitter accounts you find worthwhile? I currently follow Troy Hunt and occasionally check some of the people he talks with/retweets, would definitely like to expand that a bit.
Good Lord. She's working through how to get a damaged plane onto the ground without further incident, which means that in addition to talking to ATC she's assessing equipment status and going through an emergency landing checklist. Pretty full plate all things considered.

Her calm is impressive. That's what pilots are paid for.
The point is that the "last day" is x/365 instead of x/1 (in the case that your taxes must be filed by your birth day for the given year, for example). You're right that there will ALWAYS be people waiting until the last minute, what he's proposing is that there are different "last minutes" for different people throughout the year so it's not an absurd number at one time.
Definitely should have gone back and stuck her head out the window to assess the damage. Just lazy to sit there in the cockpit.
In college we used the book "Problems from Philosophy" by James Rachels for Philosophy 101. It covers different philosophy ideas in chapters that aren't too long so you won't get bogged down on certain topics you might not find interesting. After reading this book you should have a good idea of what sort of philosophical questions interest you and you can dig in from there.
Your oath won't do you any good when you're fired. There's always plenty of talent ready to step up and do the job you would not do.
I wonder how much nameserver + hosting is for them? I wish they would just leave it as-is and put up a go-fund-me for the hosting costs...
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> The problem of participatory democracy is that the people need to be informed and participate and vote for the issues, if no one cares about the surveillance then nothing is going to be done about it

Incidentally this is also true of people patronizing large companies and exchanging their personal data for those companies' services. And I don't know why a constituency which accepts NSA surveillance from its government would be expected to pressure that same government to sanely regulate edge providers like Facebook. In reality, this pressure is all coming from elites who are upset by the prospect that they've lost some of their exclusive control over social media to the Bad Side. When it was the Obama campaign applying largely the same tactics in 2012, they were feted in the press as tech geniuses.

> yes NSA has sweeping and unjust powers, which invade privacy of many, but so far this power has been largely benign

"So far" being the operative term here, and I'm amazed that the same people who think Trump is a huge threat to civil liberties are somehow still not up-in-arms about this. It's probably also not true that its use has been benign, there are strong hints that NSA surveillance has already been deployed in an unconstitutional manner against U.S. citizens who find themselves in the government's crosshairs, e.g. in the hunt for Ross Ulbricht.

> facebook was either complicit or actively participated with the subversion of several western democracies.

Again, the only reason people are talking about "subversion of Western democracies" is because Trump/Brexit/Orban/AfD are winning, and that's not "supposed" to happen according to their own preconceptions. It's far easier to chalk these election results up to nefarious foreign meddling than it is to confront the genuine, pressing systemic problems causing voters to want to upend the system in this way. Had the Russians run a similar number of hilariously bad ads in favor of Clinton, occupying an equally infinitesimal sliver of Facebook ad traffic, it correctly would be dismissed as largely inconsequential to the electoral result.

I don't like Facebook, and even as a fairly hardcore libertarian, I'm open to the idea that FB and its ilk need to be reined back from some forms of data sharing and overly broad applications of their terms of service. But it's hilarious that what finally got people up in arms about this issue was Russia putting up a handful of vaguely pro-Trump Jesus arm wrestling memes on Facebook.
Processing fees are also much lower in the EU, hence the lower rewards.
"Is $5,000 what owners of other cars pay for similar driver-assist features?"

Although at its core, that's what Autopilot is (nothing more than Lane-Keep Assist and Adaptive Cruise-Control), to leave it at that is not giving it enough credit. Tesla's Autopilot is far beyond any other manufacturer's drive-assist features that I have personally driven (and I tested quite a few before purchasing my Model S).

In fact, a lot of people are saying that how well the assist features work is part of the reason why we saw the unfortunate fatality where the Model X ran right into a median. It is so good that people (wrongly) begin to place too much trust into it, and don't pay attention when they need to. When I first got my car (Feb 2017), it was shortly after the big MobileEye departure, and TeslaVision was still in its infancy. Never in a million years would I have taken my hands off the wheel or stopped paying attention when using this early version of TeslaVision AutoPilot. That thing tried to kill me more than once. The current version works very, very well and I'm totally happy with having paid and additional $5,000 for it.
What would that something be?

Most "mainstream" languages aren't any better.
Have you ever been in a crisis anything like that? If you don't panic, you may find an eerie sense of calm as the part of your brain built for the situation starts stripping away all input that doesn't matter and focuses you on the task at hand. Hardly compares, but as someone who once set his yard on fire (and once pulled over to help someone whose car had just rolled multiple times) I can attest it feels a bit like a superpower after the fact.

On the one hand, I'd definitely be happy to see her on my next flight, but on the other, she's a woman so all her responses have to be seen through some mechanism where her emotions have betrayed her.
Remove account creation as mandatory through fb/google and I'll happily give it a try.
The point of a laugh track is to make the show itself appear funnier; the laugh track is in the background, invisible. I think what he's describing is different, more like focusing on the laugh track itself and ignoring the show.
"PII" only seems to exist in US law, GDPR has "personal data".

I am far from an expert an GDPR, but it doesn't seem to be so clear cut. Even if IP addresses in this context are considered personal data, there may be "legitimate interest" in processing them for blacklists, e.g. https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-49/ could apply. I am confident a workable solution for spam blacklists will be found.

I have the impression that a lot of the fear around GDPR is unfounded if one uses a reasonable and restrictive approach of processing and storing personal data.
Chicken itself is very lightweight. Applications built on it may or may not be.
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Interesting to see it's in new york - I wonder what role the big players in finance have had in lobbying for this. Nonetheless, this is great. I would bet every single crypto exchange has their hand deep in the honey pot so they deserve whatever an investigation turns up.
There has been no mention of how the person died, and if that is the same person.
Furthermore, they are supposed to be calm. It's not just a good idea & more effective; it's what they're supposed to do.
> Since R.M. Hare's "Language of Morals" is on the list, I recommend Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue" should be on the list for any one who want to study Moral Philosophy today.

“After Virtue” is a legit recommendation.

> Along with Popper and Kuhn's works on that list, read Larry Laudan's "Progress and its problems" and "Science and Relativism: some key controversies in the philosophy of science". This goes under Philosophy of Sciences.

I demur. Comparing two giants of the Philosophy of Science (nb: not plural) to a relative unknown. I would recommend instead “Against Method” (1975) by Paul Feyerabend or “The Sleepwalkers” (1959) by Arthur Koestler.
In light of this article and that it already made the Hitler comparison, I would like to point out that the nazi did also employ a lot of people in charge of political, cultural and philosophical area of their society. In their view they had a lot of employed experts, and yet from the rest of the worlds perspective they all were in a extremely limited bubble.

The answer is naturally not to stop having experts, but maybe what we need in days of extreme polarization is experts on social and cultural bubbles. The humanities bubble can't continue forever.
That page appears to be broken for me. I get a rapid fire series of constant requests to the twitter API that all get a 401 response.
The trouble is not the decision to optimize for financial or physical health, the issue is that Amazon seems to see some people as part of its organism (long-term entity), such as its engineering talent, and other people, like these poor warehouse workers, as a temporary part of a future robotic optimization. Companies like Apple value their lowest level employees because nobody is sure that computers will competently replicate sympathetic customer service. Amazon doesn't need its warehouse workers' soft skills, only their muscle and basic logic.
You touch on an important factor: land-use and transportation policy. The lack of "walkability" in the typical suburban neighborhood is certainly not helping. I don't mean the ability to go out and take a walk for the exercise, I mean being in a place where walking is the best way to get to useful places and do things... the grocery, the doctor, the hardware store, and ideally, your job. Dense cities have this, to some degree. Rural areas don't, but they usually have a small town nearby with a main street (if Walmart hasn't decimated it). But in the suburbs you're generally inside a car to get anywhere at all, and how much incidental, accidental contact are you going to have with your neighbors from behind a glass pane at 25 MPH?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16826357
What would urgency sound like, speaking really loudly and quickly? If so, how would that be better than her measured cadence making sure she and the tower are on the same page?
I'm guessing they didn't actually store it, because it got cleaned up shortly after I deregistered the domain.
> then I have to replace the networking with async and tie it back into the protocol parsing. This in itself isn't too bad, but then anything that calls the new async cl-postgres has to be converted to expect async...all the way up.

Isn't this the very consequence of going async? I'm reminded of the article on this recently featured here[1]. Once you introduce async, you poison everything up to the event loop (which, with usual async implementations, you don't even see or control).

[0] - http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y... + https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732948
Bless your heart for assuming that the exit row seat doesn't cost extra compared to the others.
Can I suggest Angus C. Graham's translations and work around Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters and Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters, collected by Harold Roth)? In particular, the essay, "Taoist Spontaneity and the Dichotomy of 'Is' and 'Ought'" (IIRC) is ... really nice.
Toddlers have a higher chance of survival than adults at free fall actually I think.
Oops. There's malware in Minecraft skins
Arm derived: 32-bit Cortex-A and a Cortex-M for radio. Curious what the security arch is...
When Prabhaav mentions it's encrypted client side, we should elaborate and also mention that it's encrypted such that we can't see it, so we have no way of knowing if you are transacting illegal content.

An interesting architectural point is that because you as the user choose your storage provider, you are essentially hosting bad content along with your storage provider. We and Blockstack simply provide you with a means of transporting your data to others without getting in the middle.
Can we estimate in any way about how happy these people were?

I doubt there's an objective measure, but I feel like how to be happy and to live a good life are among of the main goals of philosophy. Are they? Did many of them succeed?
I always appreciate the ethic of extremely calm radio tone when I hear these recordings. It's clearly something they emphasize, because it's so common, but I think it does a lot to communicate that a pro is on the clock and handling business.