skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "death panels," where faceless government bureacuracies let people with uneconically feasible conditions die untreated.

We prefer the private "Free Market" death panels. (Health Insurance), which effectively do the same thing. But you get a choice in who will deny you cover if you ever go over a limit or could not afford you cover.
Exactly this. It's insane that the US is threatening EU companies for (currently, legally) doing business in Iran, while at the same time letting ZTE get away with, well, having done the same thing (except illegally, when the sanctions were still in place). And all of that to save "many jobs"... in China.
No, you clearly don't really understand it. If you did, you should know that telling a suicidal person "chin up, it's fixable!" is the worst thing you can do. Another big sin is offering me encouragement unsolicited as if I need it when I am not even saying that I am currently suicidal.

Last, I have a genetic disorder. There is no cure for that. Your assumption that anything is fixable if you just try hard enough is monstrously wrong.

The hell of it is, I am getting myself well anyway, for which the entire world would like me to know I am insane, an egomaniac, a teller of tall tales, etc and generally heap abuse on me.

But don't let the facts confuse you. Just carry on with doing things that could push someone over the edge if you did this to them while they were actively feeling suicidal.
> I don't see how this would benefit Trump

It puts money in his bank account. Of all the things to understand, this seems like it should be the easiest.
Ha! Now that is descriptivist! :-D
> the world feels like such a blur

Get off of social media and twitter.

Stop watching/reading the news every day. If you want to keep up with current events, read a politically neutral monthly periodical.

I grew up in the 70's and 80's. Every generation looks back on its youth as "the good old days" but things really were much less stressful then and the main difference I see is that you were not connected to a firehose of real-time updates on everything.
The only reason the US is concerned with saving ZTE from going under in this instance, is as a favor-trade with China (they sign off on Qualcomm-NXP, the US gets to conclude eating an important EU company). It acts as an overall goodwill exchange in the midst of the trade deal positioning.
Young (white) men are completely lost in the US right now. The most exciting thing in the majority of my friends lives right now (23-26 years old) are the current challenges in Fortnite. Everyone is scared of longterm, meaningful relationships and Tinder provides the instant artificial validation to make those long-term relationships seem unnecessary. You're a tryhard if you have serious career aspirations or goals. We go to work during the week to get fucked up on the weekends. The common political/social narrative is that you're "the problem". If you're college educated, you're most likely drowning in debt. Most guys I know actively express feeling stuck in a rut or display behavior that strongly suggests it. This report doesn't surprise me at all.

Love him or hate him, agree with him or disagree with him, this is why Jordan Peterson rose to fame so quickly. Guys my age in this country are almost completely aimless and without meaningful purpose. This report doesn't surprise me at all...
>Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias.

I recommend _The impossibility of “fairness”: a generalized impossibility result for decisions_[0] and _Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores_[1]

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.01195.pdf
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05807v1.pdf
Facebook would change peoples settings on purpose during updates back in 2009.

Man, has it been that long? W/o reading the article first, I expected the first comment to be "needs [2010] in the title", because I, too, dropped FB the day I found out that all pictures were now public (and, IIRC, "by design"). I subsequently figured it was an old story about that.

But it happened again recently, huh?
You might be overestimating the coordination between different teams at Microsoft :) It's a big company. I doubt there is any overlap between the people involved in the Excel IAMAs and Nat's
Part of the problem is the foundation. You either need to pour a large foundation ahead of time (that you won't use for a while) or pour it as you go. It's not an insurmountable problem, but it does make it more difficult. Although if you decided to build up instead, by just adding more floors you could avoid that problem.
personally, I don't consider those USA wooden houses to be a real house.

there is a company in UAE doing this for quite some time from concrete:
http://www.gulfprecast.ae/
New hot job title: AI ombudsman.
FWIW, since they updated the google news algorithm, I've started getting a pretty diverse set of results. It might be because it picked up that I try to read opposing views, or it might be because the algorithm is terrible, or any other number of reasons, but regardless of the source it's refreshing to see.

...and revealing! The headlines differences between, say, Washington Post, CNN, The Hill, and Fox News for the same news blurb is even more dramatic than I'd expect when you put them up side-by-side.

None of which contradicts your point, I just wanted to flag a happy instance where the result wasn't just "yo dawg".
It was an impression of mine, but it seems it was just bias of availability because I heard some bootcamps were changing Rails for Python.

But I believe I was wrong on this one. A quick search on a page I googled for "best coding bootcamps" led me to this page[0] where a quick ctrl-f showed the results: Ruby = 34 results, Node = 18, Python = 12.

[0] https://www.switchup.org/research/best-coding-bootcamps
I don't understand the example program at the top right. What does it do?
how active are those users and repositories? both of these statistics are meaningless without additional context
you hate it? care to elaborate?
It's unavoidable. Let's say a self driving car realizes that it is on an unavoidable collusion course, but changes in it's behavior (steering) will change where it collides. That's the trolley problem.
I don't think it's possible to deny it at this point; you'd have to be blind not to see the hatred directed towards white people. This behavior is both encouraged and protected by the culture & institutions running the western world at the moment. The opposite is cracked down upon swiftly.
Any European users affected?
Ok true. Just would add that high housing costs are actually the sum of asinine zoning laws + high labor costs and that high labor costs are due to high housing costs. :)
Indian origin here working in the UK. I have met good and bad developers from India and the UK. I agree the attitude in India is to get the job done but thats because they are contracting for companies here. Its the same attitude I get from UK contracting companies, they write terrible code and just get the job done. However I found the best developers working in smaller private companies. I've found various contracting companies in the UK just as bad as Indian companies, poor coding standards, lies and fob offs.
>4. Be accountable to people.
>We will design AI systems that provide appropriate opportunities for feedback, relevant explanations, and appeal. Our AI technologies will be subject to appropriate human direction and control.

Youtube moderation and automated account banning combined with the inability to actually get in contact with a human show they they have a long way to go with this principle.
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Change it to: "Tread carefully."
A decade ago a fuel-tanker truck crashed on a freeway overpass in Oakland, and the ensuing fire softened enough steel for the overpass to collapse:

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/30collapse.html

The overpass was reconstructed and I-580 highway reopened after 26 days:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-MAZE-ING-His-reputa...
IIRC, he felt like if he was honest and good at calling the numbers, wall street said it wasn't that great because they didn't exceed the numbers much if at all.

Then again if he played the game and played down expectations stock would drop just on that prediction and wall street's own made up numbers never adjusted to his predictions anyway.... so things would at best be flat.

Generally he was just tired of it all I belive. This was after the .com crash and they had weathered that really well compared to many companies but also this was the time when Wall Street was turning into "short term lots of growth only please" kinda folks and our company was plenty profitable but never going to grow massively.
I'm not on social media. It's more like, idk, what you deal with living in modern society. And it doesn't matter if you are connected or not if everyone else around you is. If there's a Twitter organized revolution happening around you, ignoring it might be harmful.

At no point was I reminiscing about good old days, and my argument is actually very orthogonal to that statement.
Your understanding is wrong.

1. Facebook defaulted a bunch of posts to public, when they should have been something else.

2. Users posted a bunch of things with this unexpected default

3. As one part of fixing the bug, Facebook changed all posts made with the unexpected default to private. They were attempting to undo the damage.

Some of the posts they made private probably were intended to be public, so they made things worse for certain users.
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17217210
That's a pity - as someone in stereo machine vision, metrology is something we really really need for a huge range of applications - that said, if its feeding an autonomous armed targeting system, I agree. We really need to decide as a species we want to continue being a species and realize that solving problems with each other by force is coming to an end. I'm not speaking from a pacifist viewpoint, just a practical one - there's pretty much no way we're not going to continue evolving vision systems in all their hyperspectral glory, and they can do a lot of good - we just cannot arm them. Ever. And surveillance is a complex question - there are enough positives it can offer not to rule it out a priori
Both sides complain about this. Its hard to say what the original poster is really saying.

I've got a liberal gay friend who was ostracized by his family after a failure to complete gay-conversion therapy for example. He managed to live fine once he ran away from home, got married in Canada to his now husband, and seems to be happily married for the past few years.

On the other hand, there are right-wing friends who also claim that they're being bullied online. I don't think I've heard of any horror stories that compare to the trauma of gay conversion therapy however. Still, there's a level of trolling that can be psychologically damaging, so I can understand that issue.

To be clear: I'm against bullying of any kind. But often times, its important to know the viewpoint of the complainer. I'm not sure if there's anything we can do about casual internet trolling, not without breaking the 1st Amendment anyway. But there's definitely something we can do about gay conversion therapy for example.

I would personally be for increasing penalties on "obvious" internet troll moves: Swatting, online harassment, revenge porn, etc. etc. There's relatively little legal recourse against these acts of trolling right now. And sure, its technically chipping away at 1st Amendment / free speech issues, but I do think that cleaning up the internet a bit and reducing bullying online will probably help someone.
You've been posting a lot of unsubstantive comments. Could you please try to increase the amount of information?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: Tips for getting your first remote gig?
I've been applying to remote gigs since August of last year, and I have yet to get very far. My fear is the applicant pool is simply too large, so I will need to find something to set me apart. Still, it seems like most companies don't want to talk unless I have remote experience.

Do you have suggestions on how best to present yourself to remote companies when you have no experience with remote?
Same.

It's going to take a while for me to move out of Github.

I have a lot there over years and scripts that use Github.

Also Gitlab's import is failing on some repos.

It's also suddenly pushed me in a place where I have to suddenly find an alternative.

It's going to take some time.
FTA:

> As we develop and deploy AI technologies, we will evaluate likely uses in light of the following factors:
[...] Nature and uniqueness: whether we are making available technology that is unique or more generally available

Presumably this means they would allow the US military to use their cloud services like any other customer. This is almost certain not to happen because of the classified nature of their data.

Also, this is meant to guide how Google decides what to develop, not (AFAICT) meant as a terms of service for customers. Though I bet Google still reserves the right to block accounts it decides are using its platform in a way they think is immoral.

Disclaimer: I work for Google.
ZTE didn't get away with anything. The US action against them nearly destroyed the company and they've been fined $2.2 billion.

As of right now, if all the US has done is threaten sanctions on EU companies, then it's ZTE that has received the dramatically worse outcome.
Excessively long, unstriped gores are not at all common in the Eastern US. This is bad engineering and poor maintenance.
Yes, of course there is. That's why the gas tanks are in the back, and they most certainly do survive such crashes.
Welcome to driving taxis. People have been dealing with the exact same problems for about 400 years, since at least the hire coaches of London. Charles Dickens interviews a cab driver (1860): http://www.taxi-library.org/dickens.htm

It sucks that taxi drivers are getting screwed by the system they bought into, but if they can get out from under their debt and get into Uber or Lyft, that might protect them from some of these problems. But obviously the "getting out from under the debt" part is pretty difficult.
It really isn't because of how the algorithm works, it's as dang said; people don't agree with what you are promoting.
> We badly want to believe that we still live in a non-zero-sum nation, in which good-paying jobs for low-skill workers are abundant, and opportunities for advancement are always just around the corner. Instead we have taxi drivers who are being driven to suicide because they can’t bear the competition from slightly more desperate people who want the little that they now have.

It's common sense that, even if "the market" will adjust and those displaced workers will change skills, that adjustment isn't instantaneous. Thus unemployment insurance, etc. The trouble is those taxi drivers weren't employees. The US social contract is almost entirely implemented through the relationship of employee to corporate behemoth. Since that's dissolved, so too has the mechanism for softening the impact of economic change.

> And all this is unfolding at a moment when the labor market is the tightest it has been since the turn of the century

This "tightness" is misleading, because labor is less collective than last century. The low unemployment rate has not caused higher wages (in most fields) like it used to.
If I don't build these gas chambers, somebody else will, so i might as well pocket the money.

You don't see a problem with that position?
In the name of national security Google may or even have to lie.
Turning away will slow things down but AI for military applications will happen. Someone will fill the void.
I lived directly across from the Berkeley one shown in the article while they were building it. I wonder how significant the cost benefits were - the time to build didn't seem substantively different (another apartment complex a couple blocks away went up in fairly comparable time it felt like), but I could definitely imagine it being faster
Among the top voted comments here is "this is due to Republicans", and "this is due to SJWs." (EDIT: gladly, this is no longer the case)

Suggesting policy based on evidence instead of trying to immediately assign blame to your least favorite political group is a huge improvement in discourse. It's pretty absurd that this is getting downvoted.
I'm from the rural Midwest. It may seem pedantic, but _no one_ from the Midwest uses a space in the name. That and the spelling errors reinforce that this is just an inflammatory bait comment.
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I didn't know HTML/CSS are programming languages...
There's a bunch of different good results (along with the bad).

The first, from the Chinese side, is the demonstration that the US can and will impact the immediate Chinese economy. That coldwar tactic is on the table (while open warfare in the south sea is not). Take the tariffs off, move on to a tariff on toys tomorrow.

From the US side, the government has a tacit approval to bring up other relationship imbalances that have gone on for too long. The fact that my machines are attacked by Chinese IPs more often than any other locality (via casual IP lookups) makes me think that this is actually part of a greater response to various Chinese incursions into various arenas in the world (not the least of which is the US infrastructure).

Another good is in regard to the impact on the US manufacturing base. Dealing with the fact that costing in existing processes and materials (based on abroad cheap labor and materials) is not reliable, is an important step. This will force higher capital investment into experimental materials and processes for alternatives (maybe with other 3rd party countries). There will also be a boon to choice US companies that the federal government favor, through existing and new contracts where these tariffs will otherwise be abated. It's not going to kill every existing company, but it hurts a lot. This is a future-investment move. It's possible it's a misstep and we will never have anything better than steel and cheap plastics, but I doubt it.

There is the geo-political arena to consider. The US has been in a cold war with China since after WW2, same as we have with Russia. The moves with regard to North Korea are suspicious. North Korea has been the heel of China for some time. NK has had no way to bargain, with anyone, much less their greatest benefactor. Setting a stake against China then making overtures to NK allows NK (KimJong) to consider becoming a valuable Geopolitical figure and US partner in a critical area, surpassing south korea (for once). It just happened to coincide (I have a feeling Trump is ironically talented at speaking to KJ) and happened to influence the ultimate decision to place the tariffs at this time.
"recommend" is a bit strong. Yes, two people recommended it. But another indicated that DocSend is disliked by investors and an actual investor chimed in to say they don't usually open DocSend links and never open them if they are from cold pitches.
That doesn't make it ok to be the one to fill it.
> "Due to a technical error, we recommend you review the audience of your recent posts. Learn more."

What does that even mean? What possible action can a user do to "undo" any damage? You can't really make the people who saw your posts "unsee" it.

Also, AFAIK, Facebook doesn't show the user stats of what public posts were accessed by 3rd parties like advertisers, random drive by Facebook user, so how is this statement in any way useful to the user?
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Bias has a very broad meaning in AI work. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias-variance_tradeoff

Most AI/ML/Statistics procedures use Occam's razor: prefer the simplest explanation of the data. That's a bias (toward simpler explanations), but not "unfair" to anyone.
It's kind of funny, really: through human history, we "gained" a lot of "free" energy by burning fossil fuels; now, to fully recover our atmosphere from the externalities of that energy generation, we would have to expend just as much, if not more, than that total amount of energy we ever "gained", to essentially un-burn those same fossil fuels.
My vehicle (a Honda civic) exhibits this exact same functionality and behavior. (lane keeping, ACC, emergency braking for cars) They make it very clear the limitations of these systems. I'd say that in the 5 months I've owned it it's had this exact behavior (veering off exit ramps) 10 times. A simple jerk of the wheel puts it back on track, it's such a natural motion if you're paying even the slightest bit of attention. That being said Tesla fails to make their drivers aware of the limitations of autopilot, so I agree that this may not be in the driver.
The usual way businesses deal with that sort of thing is by withholding milestone payments till the contractual obligations are fulfilled. Running such scams doesn't keep you in business for long. There is no one handed clap.
anyone every try to juggle more than one remote job simultaneously? seems feasible...
I have no competitive advantage to take care of, though.
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I grew up in Oregon, which has been 100% vote-by-mail for years, and fraud is non-existent there.

This is FUD, to dust off an old chestnut, at least as far as Oregon is concerned.

Check it: https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&q=oregon+vote+by+m...

In the 2016 election, a potential 54 cases of voter fraud. Here's the breakdown of the kind of fraud (which amounts to .002% of ballots -- one in 38,000):

"Richardson said the suspicious ballots broke down into several categories: 46 voters appeared to vote in Oregon and another state; six individuals listed as deceased voted; and two voters registered in Oregon voted twice."
538 does something similar:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/
Of note here, which has always been true, but worth remembering: Facebook can change the visibility of your posts however it likes, whenever it likes. The only thing stopping them is their own ethics. (And possibly a big fine in Europe, but that will be cold comfort to anyone whose personal info is exposed thus.)

Not that it _did_, but it certainly could, and will do so if it thinks it has good enough reason.
Millennials and retirement: How bad is it?
> You're a tryhard if you have serious career aspirations or goals

Where did this come from, I wonder?
Suicide attempts are more common among women. But they are less likely to use the most effective methods (e.g. firearms), so they often survive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide#...
That is going to be a tough one, and possibly even impossible based on where current ML tech is leading. A laudable goal, but taking a complex system with a training time of many GPU years and asking it how it came up with the answer basically nets a very large pile of numbers (weights) tied together in a complex multidimensional relationship that we just plain can't follow outside of the system. Right now the practical focus is on trying to stop feeding the systems biased data. Your example is spot on, save for the 'not able to talk to someone' which is just googz being too aloof and too cheap
Living the drean then. Trying to get through everyshow this summer.
Information theory does not require graduate level math. Even if it's entirely new to you, you can pick it up with a few days on wikipedia.
Also on this topic, from students who would interview at Google. It's important to hear how the upcoming generation, who would actually be doing this work, feel

https://gizmodo.com/students-pledge-to-refuse-job-interviews... [Students Pledge to Refuse Job Interviews at Google in Protest of Pentagon Work]
I feel like I have to post these two extensions to that strip a previous commenter posted.

https://i.imgur.com/VZvj5S7.jpg

https://imgur.com/VbKV9DF

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12239358
What is your gut instinct for microbial life on Mars?

And in the past? Are we going to fine fossils?