skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think that long-after-the-fact punishments that require long-term planning would have an effect?

We have evidence that even the most severe punishment of all does not work as a deterrent (example link: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/study-88-criminologists-do-not-...). Or smoking, where knowing how bad it is seems to have little to no effect (even doctors do it).

Even if people did act completely rationally, a dollar earned today is worth much more than dollars lost tomorrow even without inflation. And how many expensive and useless mergers have been performed even when the executives and even the top stock owners knew it was a bad strategy long-term? They just sold their stake and let somebody else deal with the fallout.

So even with complete rationality, detaching punishment from the "crime" (in time) gives people time to get in the harvest and move on before punishment occurs, making it useless as a deterrent (given that, as linked above, it does not even work when people cannot detach themselves from facing the ultimate punishment it's even worse).
Little is known about why he died. I see many people go full tryhard when a child is in danger, doing dumb stuff.

I can see a scenario where he wanted to rush it, potentially cuttin corners, because of doom rainfall scenarios. This makes his death more a psych problem than a dive problem.

Another is age/shape. I used to be a fine skater, did a trick I could do in my sleep at 14 at 30 and fell hard. These kind of coordinations need to be maintained and he was explicitly retired.
Health tourism, or retired pensioners who moved there permanently?

(I’ll grant that some of the “some” who say this sort of thing seem to have difficulty drawing the right distinctions between such groups. At least two have angrily denied my examples of my brother and my girlfriend going from the UK to the Philippines and Hungary respectively for cheaper dental work).
This is not directly relevant to the article - more a critique of the Sonos product which I've wanted to get off my chest.

I was a Sonos skeptic then a convert before becoming skeptical again. I stopped buying after the third Sonos 3 speaker.

Some basic features are missing which mean that users like me are clearly not a focus. Primarily I want to play my own, ripped-to-FLAC media.

The most irritating thing is that users have been requesting these features for 5+ years on the fora.

A random list of grievances:

- No regain support - this renders the playlist feature useless unless you want to constantly fiddle with the controller to adjust the volume between tracks.

- No cue support (i.e. single FLAC with a .cue file) which allows transitions between tracks. This breaks play back for lots of classical, Opera, ED music and classic rock albums like the Beatles' Abbey Road.

- Multi-disc support is poor - no grouping or separate disc images. 2 CD boxsets are o.k. but larger (4+) are unnavigable.

- Can't handle higher than 16/48 digital rips.

- No airplay, bluetooth, etc. support. This means you cannot use Sonos to replace all audio speakers in your home.

- Wierd/undocumented rules for file naming - silently ignores tracks with quotes, colons and maybe others (these are the ones that hit me)

- Finally the controller software has gotten worse with every update: poor album art caching, illogical navigation, confusing search, artist search cannot find tracks on compilations, etc.

Then again, it seems going the "smart speaker" route has boosted their revenues. I have no interest in such functionality so I guess I'm not the target market for Sonos.

This is a pity because much of the package is quite compelling and it wouldn't take much effort to support libraries (rather than streaming).

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Yes, this is absolutely racist and sexist. This is explicitly segregating people by gender+race and disallowing people from participating because of their gender or race. Instead of doing this, we should work to ensure that gender and race plays no role in earning VC funding.
Yes, agreed: I think he was being way too modest. It didn't turn out exactly like they expected, but they were right about the important things, and we still have a LONG way to go, so comparing their vision with the crap we have now just isn't fair. I think time will prove them right (but wrong about being wrong ;).
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Quote from the article

>How to start an AI startup

>1. Hire a bunch of minimum wage humans to pretend to be AI pretending to be human

>2. Wait for AI to be invented
That was just a very basic sample, if you wish to play this game, I have more from Apple I could keep writing.
At what rgb value does a person of color end and a person of no color begin?
Please don't ever. Justified text is the hardest to read and it's meant for print anyways.
I also think the effect of this is absurd, but the logic is sound and it is unlikely it will change.

ICANN is illegally collecting protected data when requiring personal data for WHOIS without having any reason to do so, and that's the problem here, the conflict. But in the impressum, it is you that is releasing data, not someone collecting, and that is not conflicting with the DSGVO.

Maybe it would be possible to argue that Germany is collection that data de facto, or that it is illegally enabling illegal data collection by third parties, and suing the country for that in an EU court. But that is not a winnable fight, they'd argue that they are not collecting the data, and that there is a valid reason to force the release of the data.
I am a Netflix subscriber in India. The monthly subscription fee is Rs 800. Which is very high by Indian standards. A very small portion of Indian audience has taste for American shows. Some of Netflix's Indian shows have a political/ideological undertone which is not liked by a segment of audience. Netflix and Amazon both suffer from a very limited collection of Bollywood movies. These are some reasons IMHO.
https://www.statista.com/chart/12598/the-worlds-busiest-air-...
If you're a VC fund that discriminates by race and gender in the fight against "racism and sexism", then your definitions of those two terms do not rely on ethnicity or gender at all. The terms "racism and sexism" as used here describe power, first and foremost. Those holding power are necessarily prejudiced, and to discriminate against them cannot be a prejudiced act; by your definition, the minority cannot be prejudiced, and are but victims of prejudice.

The truth is this: To have equality of outcome across race and gender in entrepreneurship is impossible. It's unclear why anyone at all is interested in taking extremely high risk positions as founders of start ups relying on fast growth and with a small amount of burn; to segment that group by racial and gender identity is to shame and belittle the ones deemed "to hold the power". And when they cry out that they are being discriminated against on the basis of race, you are one step ahead of them: Your convenient re-definition of racism to be an act only committed by those of power denies the shamed their rightful defense.
While the goal is laudable, this is surely racist and sexist. The language-control group wants to avoid the label, because then those weaponized words will lose their impact. It remains racist and sexist for a good purpose.
Funding is not fair. I believe that is the point of this particular fund.
It is neither racist or sexist, as it makes no comment at all on relative superiority of race or gender.
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surely you mean 3/6 of the internet ;-)
How do you make that persist?

When I tried it seemed I had to type stuff into an edit field, but I‘m probably wrong.
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Curious, how do you prep for comebacks after 3years break? Do you switch fields with each career? Do you try to keep your toolset sharp on almost daily basis since day one of your long break? Thanks
How is it that the vast majority of funded founders are white then, if they have been systematically discriminated by funders?
Ironically, in the context of this conversation, I’m both a white male in tech and also a minority in the city I live in.

If someone set up a white male VC fund I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole.

I’ve dealt with plenty of racism, on the job and just living my life, but I understand that being a minority means dealing with (often unconscious) biases.

Is this ok? No, people should be better.

But I would never take a handout as contentious as this. The message here, regardless of intention, is that black women cannot compete on merit.
Seems like you've had a lot of experience with the products from Sonos.

When it comes to file naning, no same system wants to handle colons and other special characters. I know Macosx and classic has allowed it, and taught users bad manners.
This is absurd. Employee/employer relationship is nowhere near the same as citizen/government relationship.
It is number two in the world by total number of flights per year: http://www.traveller.com.au/worlds-busiest-airline-flight-ro...

It's somewhere around #5 by total number of passengers.
Uyghurs in China need to install mandatory tracking app to their mobile phones.
I'll take a statically typed million-line code nightmare over a Tcl one every time.
It's a spectrum. The darker your skin is, the more funding you get.
Her first offence with respect to social media, yes. That's all you can say.
I don't use their platform and I'm not much of a gamer, but one criticism I read online is that they intend to police their platform more heavily than Steam. The creator criticized Steam's game policy on Twitter [0]. Of course, it's their platform and they can do as they please, and if you share their views then you might view this in a positive light. If I were involved in that community I'd have some concerns of rules being selectively enforced, although I don't know if that has ever been an issue with them.

Personally, I've been favoring gog.com over Steam as of late; they have a decent amount of DRM-free indie games available. I think anyone can submit their game, although I'm uncertain of their content policy, and I wasn't able to find any information on it after a quick search.

It's also worth noting that the actual Internet Archive [1] has a large amount of games freely available. It's mostly retro games, but I don't think there's any restrictions against modern games. Of course you'd probably only upload your game there if you were making it freely available, since it's meant as an actual archive.

[0] https://twitter.com/moonscript/status/1004448157776793600

[1] https://archive.org/
Finance contributes next to nothing? Finance is exactly how Jeff Bezos assembled billions of dollars to fund a company that had no profitability.
>If white males were systemically discriminated by their gender and their skin color,

This is an ironic comment in this post.
I would say society produces a social safety bet, corporations aren't completely separate.

They would like to be, but they are heavily supported, between society educating their workers, providing them basic health care, the emergency services, allowing their owners limited liability, the odd massive bail out, etc. Etc.
It is at the very least racial discrimination, as it discriminates on the basis of race who should receive funding. You could argue that it does make the claim that non-colored men have relative superiority, otherwise it would not be able to justify it's abject racism towards them.
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Unless you mean General AI. We don't have that yet.

AI is huge. Machine learning definitively is changing how people work and will work. It is not there yet but it'll get there. Some people just want to monetize on the hype.
"Webassembly is bound to make sites even 2-5x smaller in the near future."

That's true if you hand code your webapp in WAST :) Otherwise there will be tons of libraries included from C++, Rust or god knows where from. So if you want to draw a few pixels, then prepare for 5 - 10x time size increases.

It's not the goal of WebAssembly to replace JS and HTML/CSS.
Why not just self-identify as one of us? Who judges this anyway?
I've been working towards early retirement for a decade now, but I've never thought about this perspective before. Seeing it from a devil's advocate perspective, you could consider retirement a beautiful dream that people will tirelessly work towards until they are practically spent.

Retirement age as the age where most people are not net contributors any longer, is a very different perspective than the age where most people have enough savings to live for the rest of their lives without working. Of course, there is no sinister cabal that deliberately shapes society in this direction, but there are certainly powers that would want (and probably try to) to pull society in this direction.

If most people could choose how to spend their time (working productively, working on stuff that no one pays for, not working) by the age of 40, there would be a smaller supply of in-demand specialists. And that would mean higher salaries and less return on capital!
As it becomes easier for women of color to get funding more will apply for funding. Very few people want to play a game that seems rigged against them.

The standard in silicon valley (and by its own admission, also the standard of YC) was that people who looked like Mark Zuckerberg would get funding. Meaning white, male Harvard/Stanford/MIT undergrads. As a result perfectly qualified candidates get rejected because they don't fit this picture.

There is no reason to presume that people from certain races/ethnicities/genders make for better or worse startup founders. However, when certain demographics get basically never funded, then capable, motivated, qualified founders don't even bother to apply. Even when there is no actual discrimination the negative cycle continues. Breaking this cycle is a social good.

It's like Hollywood. For a long time women of color never got offered leading roles. Movie Executives just didn't want to take the gamble. But as more and more movies hit the screen with women of color in leading roles the financial risk is lessened. Which results in more opportunities for WoC. This was never about how talented or motivated the actresses were. Hopefully we'll quickly get to the point where a WoC in a leading role is no longer noteworthy. Same for startups.
I've got lots of Sonos speakers, one in every room of my house. Before Soundcloud was an option I wrote my own SMAPI service to get that going for myself. Then, when I switched from Mac to Linux I created my own client app [1] to control my speakers.

I feel Sonos have really missed a trick by not opening up their API more. Most of the features I had a reverse engineer or check from other libraries. Their own apps have also not exactly gotten better. For example, I _HATE_ the unified search feature, it makes the search slow and sluggish. Controlling the speakers from Spotify directly also never worked glitch-free for me. Other niggles have to do with the grouping features, which are also a tad flaky and sometimes time out or only partially group.
Most of all I am annoyed by the frequent updates asked for, without the ability to "pin" the speakers to a version and download a specific version of the client app.

All that said, I love their speakers because they sound good. The old Play 3 and the Amp especially. I feel they should focus their efforts on making the apps snappier and faster, not much more feature rich.

[1] https://github.com/pascalopitz/unoffical-sonos-controller-fo...
All of them?

At least all those I've ever used or looked into do.
I work in a registry which has whois obligations over number resources and I find this very troubling. I'm not going to say there is no right to privacy here, but I suspect states inside the EU will be seeking high privileged rights to information not in whois, come what may. So, this disempowers people seeking redress from harm as outsiders but doesnt stop state actors or lawyers or police.

Apart from my dayjob I have whois objects in DNS registries so i know there is the other side of the coin. I see the bad stuff from choosing not to hide my ID.
Also, I forgot to say: There is no way I'd put an Amazon alexa or similar device in my home, period. I take a "speaker company" instead any day.
Racism does not depend on history or society, it depends on whether or not there is active racial discrimination. You imply that only the powerful may be racist, and that discrimination towards the racial or gender group "of power" is not only not racist, but a virtuous act.
Seems a bit far-fetched to me.
I bought one and spent three days trying to fight the software. Seems Sonos are aiming for a cut of the streaming revenue: if you already own the music you’re a distraction.

Once I discovered you can drive the Sonos as a passive target from a DLNA device, things got much better.
Yes, it’s literally racial discrimination. That’s what it says on the tin. “At the very least” implies this is a form of racism, which it’s not.
Ugh. Almost every comment on this article is gross. What is wrong with you all?

Targeted support of a minority population to correct for an unjust imbalance is a good thing.
What city is that?
Folks, can you please open a dictionary before you start complaining?

> racism: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

It’s very clear that this fund is not created in the spirit of claiming women founders of color are superior to white men.

You can call it “discrimination” or “unfair”; you can argue that it’s not good long term for either parts; you can claim that such an incentive doesn’t create the best products/companies. But please, make an argument, don’t just shout out “racism!!!!”
What are typical situations where I would use this tool?
The whole thing reminds me of the Piltdown man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man

A friend of mine, who is an archaeologist once explained me there are topics in archaeology you cannot touch without risking your career.
I suspect this wouldn't be the first time the employee in question would've been disciplined by their employer. Based solely on the relative speed to which gender was introduced into the debate.
Pardon me for the off topic reply, but I don't see your contact info anywhere so will post it here:

The "recent posts" link at your website throws a lot of "Illegal string offset" warnings at the start of the page.
Sadly this site makes mo mention of the hell that is web fonts. Few things frustrate me more than loading a site, then waiting to read the content because the author thought I cared about whatever pretty fonts they wanted to use. I actually have a collection of screenshots of websites in this sad pathetic half-rendered state where you can make out where the text is supposed to be but is missing because the browser is downloading 10Mb of some font that looks barely different from the native font anyways...
The quote you've pulled is referring to the process of negotiating a prenup, not to the marriage itself.
I think this article may be overstating a little.

First, the prototyping/bootstrapping with humans is not a terrible idea. It takes a hurdle, and moves it down the line a bit. You still need to get over that hurdle. It's still a potential failure point, but it's not an irrational approach. There are a ton of businesses started on the basis of.

1. make free service
2. get 1bn customers
3. ???
4. profit

Twitter, Google, Facebook... They deferred that little "make money" hurdle until they were ready for IPOs. Obviously, this opens a door for stupid plans, where the AI task will not be achievable. But, the "monetisation step" has comparable problems too.

The deception is a problem though, building companies based on deception is a problem and will probably lead to a nasty crash.

Second, if the goal is a result rather than to use AI... Say you're trying to solve some specific transcription use case, like Spinvox or Expensify. First, the problem seems solvable or soon to be solvable. Second, it's helpful to have a stream transcription attempts coming to you with real life accuracy requirements. Third, it's not a bad way of approaching Human-AI hybrid systems. Start with 100% human labour and gradually hybridise. Maybe you never solve the hard problems that will get you to 100% AI, but you find ways of leveraging human labour to solve it efficiently.

If what they reach is a tech/process that allows a person to transcribe 10k words per hour... that's pretty good too.
I been using Monday.com rather successfully for that past couple months, I'm using to track project work, sprints, bug queues all the way to using it for tracking my own morning routine.

While it doesn't have all the bells and whistles or even the integrations as Jira or Asana, I've found it more useful.
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It is not that they have been systematically discriminated against; it is that they are being systematically discriminated against with this very fund. Let's get this straight: You are not cleared of being racist if you are discriminating against a group you deem as "in power". It is simply your careless redefinition of the word racism to apply not to ethnicity or nationality, but to power. This redefinition clears those not in power from being called racist when they explicitly discriminate on racial grounds.

The reason why the majority of funded founders are white men is because white is the majority color in places where there is the most VC money, and men are less risk averse, especially in the more extreme male personality types.
How unused is the letter z on your keyboard when typing? Different regions of the brain serve different functions, so though they aren’t always activated, they are necessary.

Besides, obsolete and unused brain tissue is very expensive calorically to maintain, and would be a hinderance to survival over long periods of time.
Yes, and if you want to do it correctly you use your AI story to convince some VCs to make you a huge pile of money, which gives you the advantage over anyone else who gets a similar idea.
11 hours minimum per boy for the trip though. Hopefully it all works but I'd hope the backup plan preparations are continuing.
I am glad we agree that this VC fund is based on racial discrimination. I am upset that you find this acceptable, if not virtuous.
Obligatory: SlimMP3/Logitech's Squeezebox[0] was the best.

Very similar line-up to the original Sonos boxes, except they released a lot more speakerless hardware. Open source server (that could be run from the Touch model) which is still maintained and improved. Streaming options. House-wide sync. All for half the price of the Sonos.

It's especially galling reading that list of Sonos complaints. We've got regain support, good .cue handling, 24/192 and higher playback depending on your hardware, you could even do bidirectional Airplay and bluetooth (with some kicking and screaming)... And oh yeah, you could make your own players because it's all open source, open spec.

And a feature (for me), none of this smart rubbish.

For those of us that have a household full of it (and spares) it's still an amazing system... but Logitech ultimately binned it. I guess only selling one pile of kit every 15 years didn't seem good enough business for them.

Le sigh.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezebox_(network_music_play...