skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are so right. It feels like a dejavu:

"Lydia Sohn, then of Princeton University, noticed that two experiments carried out at very different temperatures had identical noise.[3] When the editors of Nature pointed this out to Schön, he claimed to have accidentally submitted the same graph twice."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal#Allegations...
Cristiano Ronaldo vs Lionel Messi Fight: Sport Atmosphere Episode 1
Your overall point is not clear to me, but I can affirm that I do not agree with your supporting arguments.

My list was of examples, not reasons. And, of course, each has varying levels of impact.

And how many reasons should one need to respect basic human privacy?

Would you assert these human rights aren’t worth defending until they’ve been invaded?

I just can’t see where the stipulation is, where the justification for your skepticism lies.

Your point of you comparisons with face-to-face interactions are lost on me entirely. Race, demeanor, height, sex, weight, and more are all determinable with enough collected data, and discrimated on accordingly. It’s the data that makes the discrimination more similar to physical interaction in terms of affect, but more scalable. Physical interactions take far more time and necessitate an emotion of conscience, both of which are often undermined in electronic communication, and always undermined in the process of data collection.

Similarly, I’m super confused about your point about political privacy. Are you seriously asserting everybody posts all of their political opinions on social media? Of course, I am referring to what they don’t post publicly. This should be a given, no? Anyhow, US law aggressively protects the ballots citizens cast in elections, and all the while any of these spying corporations readily determine this with a minuscule margin of error from citizen’s visited news outlets, search queries, social networks, etc. Anyone who has viewed their own personal Facebook data can confirm so.

Of course, physical violence is not an immediate concern over the internet. If that’s your point, then OK. It’s lessened in both directions and this is a different topic entirely.
I'm not sure about other states, but in CA you still need a special license, the same as a motorcycle, to ride a moped. I'm sure this would be the biggest blocker.
Where even Walmart won't go: how Dollar General took over rural America
How England Got Its Curvy Cucumbers Straightened Out – Gastro Obscura
I wish we had finished the SSC :(
First off, a lot of people are born at the bottom, and born at the top, of various hierarchies. I'm certain that the people at the top think they earned it. They didn't.

Second, maintaining these kinds of hierarchies does not happen as the result of some kind of natural process. It requires violence.
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So what is playing out in the culture? A privileged majority angrily attacking any attempts to refine the meaning of existing words to describe the real-world consequences of prejudice (racism), and attacking attempts to introduce new language to describe the structure of non-prejudice (privilege).

It's almost as if the majority doesn't want us talking about it at all. That's how it's playing out in the culture.

Think about this when you attack terminology.
Twilio, craigslist, twitter, wikipedia, are all pretty simple from the top view.
> In Eldada’s vision, lidar sensors could be deployed along the border, monitoring remote regions for movement, then determining whether there were people attempting unauthorized crossings [...] Eldada acknowledged that a contract for a virtual wall would be controversial, but he described it as a kind of protest against Trump’s version of border security. “I hate the word ‘wall’. We are anti-wall. We have a technology solution,” he said.

This physically nauseates me. Where are our ethics? Just because we can engineer something does not mean we should.

It makes me glad that this company seems to be nothing but vaporware.
Setting up and maintaining a kubernetes cluster on my own would probably kill me desire to touch a computer again.
Azure and Google provides free Kubernetes-cluster-management-as-service. But you are right, its still a hassle.
Yes, good faith bundling is just fine, just a business decision as far as I’m concerned, and if it reduces your chargebacks, good!

Circumvention and deception (which require clear intent, hence the emails) are the issue.
Where Are Plastic Bags Banned Around the World?​
California should exercise their eminent domain powers and purchase it for what it's worth.
care to share some of the inaccuracies?
I don't own a safe, I rent a safe. It's fine.

If ever these corporations cause trouble, our government (well, maybe not the US government, but most sensible governments) will step in to remedy the situation. We've done so with privacy laws, we've done it with non-compete laws, we're going to do it with other companies as well.
saying, “you ought to own the stuff you possess.”

I succumbed and buy music and movies online because that battle is already lost; I'm not going to commit to maintaining VHS, DVD etc players forever and obsolescence is built into the format. Hell there are probably people with laserdiscs that they can’t play anymore.

But I still buy physical books because they are a real thing.
Exploring .NET’s – Java inspired – “synchronized” methods
Treasure trove of white papers, product details, and jobs :)
A closer look at our newest Google Cloud AI capabilities for developers
If we are posting great V-sauce videos, "Which way is down" is the best explanation of the relationship between space-time and gravity I have come across.

https://youtu.be/Xc4xYacTu-E
Ask HN: Your opinion about an idea of platform for mentors and junior developers
Hello, folks!

I am a professional software developer that has a dream of building his own project, that will bring value to people.
Some time ago my friend and I got a idea of a project, that connects junior developers, mentors, and people who may have an idea of an awesome non-profit project, but don't have any resources to implement it.

Following the best traditions of "startup from engineers" we immediately started to write the code, without any market research. At the moment we have a kind of prototype, that is available in opensource. And finally I decided to ask people, what do they think about the concept of our project?

What do we offer people:

For junior developers, we offer code reviews, an experience of team collaboration and work on real-world projects.

For mentors we offer an experience in mentoring, leading the team and product, ability to grow and hire the best performing teammates for your company.

For anyone with an idea of a valuable project we offer development teams staffed with junior developers and mentors, that can implement your idea for free.

The only limitation is that all projects should be opensourced, until the author gets some money and is ready to give some donation to the platform. Those donations will cover our project's full-time team members salaries and will be also spread between mentors, as an additional encourage.

I'm really interested what do you think about such concept? Would you like to join this project in any role?
Can you point me to something about these inaccuracies?
Google Releases More Details About New AI Developer Tools
Something I've been wondering and casually looking into: besides another whole keyboard, what other keypad-like layouts/devices are there? What I think I want is another row of F-keys above the ones that are there (I use these to switch between windows). Of course I now use a TKL, but never warmed up to the idea of using the numpad for this. I think part of me just doesn't like the idea of repurposing keys with strong meanings.

I've pondered getting one of those pads used to drive music software. The Elgato Stream Deck mentioned elsewhere in this thread seems quite interesting (to look into when I have more time). Any other pointers?

Also related: I'd really like to try a wireless chorded keyboard for mobile use.
Correction: We don't have a testable idea of the way forward. As with current technology.
The off-brand that invented x86-64? :)
I might add that Silicon Valley et al has not simply cleverly redefined the meaning of ’sharing’ to cover their rental practices, but even the meaning of community has been totally warped out of shape. A community used to be a group of geographically proximate people whose collective survival depended on getting over their sometimes conflicting mutual interests and opinions in order to survive; now we use the term ’community’ to cover collections of isolated loners who are on average many hundreds of kilometres apart but are united by a common and often generally speaking controversial opinion that puts them at odds with their actual neighbours. The Information Superhighway was meant to usher in the Global Village but instead it begat a landscape of virtual ghettoes.
Ancient Rome was full of 5-7 story apartment buildings and had a population of around a million. Higher density than a whole lot of modern cities, the vast majority of which are not seas of skyscrapers.
Another perspective is that the object's effective mass is going exponential as v->c. I mean, that's why we say "rest mass", right?
I read somewhere that Edmund's reaction to tasting turkish delight was a measure of the wartime deprivations he lived under. Sugar and fruit were rationed. Luxurious cuisine was a rarity. That, and the White Witch magic on the treats :-)
>Drivers don't want to kill anyone

this is not universally true.

in the rare case they do (i know a guy who was intentionally run down), and in the common case they just don't care, assuming that any cyclist-involved collision is the cyclists fault for being on the road. your attitude here - to immediately call out cyclists specifically, just because i dared to suggest that non-car, non-pedestrian traffic deserves a safe space to travel in - is exactly the problem. The roads are not the private domain of the automobile, and as long as people treat them like they are, some traffic will be forced to seek refuge on the sidewalk.
This bipedal robot has a flying head
Considering the substantial amount of of bankruptcies by airlines, I wouldn't call it a good business.
I'd count that under "shelter"
I lately noticed a lot of threads similar to these with a lot of meaningless comments like for example "What a great product!", "WoW! Finally! Waited for this so long", "Perfect product, will be using!" from accounts that were made 30 days ago or 3 days ago, or same time as thread were created.
A/C drive westward expansion and allowed Houston (and other cities not on the East coast) to thrive.

Galveston (where I currently live) was here long before A/C. The Storm of 1900 is what drove Houston to grow. Houston is more inland and better situated to weather the threat of hurricanes than a barrier island. The railroad allowed Houston to become a nexus of trade (in cotton shipping out of Galveston originally). The oil boom continued that growth. A/C didn't come along for many years later. It fueled the cities growth but plenty of people lived on the Gulf coast to benefit from the breezes off the water. In fact, it was those breezes that drove the University of Texas to start its medical hospital, UTMB, in Galveston.

How people managed to live further inland where there was no wind is beyond me. (There are too many mosquitoes to spend too long outside or have open windows without screens - besides, even then they'll still find a way to get through.)

A/C drove folks to move where the climates are warmer but land is more plentiful. A/C, like the railroad before it, made westward expansion more doable (bearable?).

Cities like Las Vegas and other desert metropolises sprang up as a direct result of A/C.
I think A/C belongs in the shelter category, no?
So long as tobacco is product that is legal to sell, jailing the people who sell it would certainly be an absurd position.
The gist is that you would roughly look for deviations from theory on one (probably small) dataset, you'd identify any regions of interest and then run a proper analysis of that region on a different dataset to see if the effect is real.
Artificial intelligence platform screens for acute neurological illnesses
I’m thinking broadcast models of publication is inherently less privacy invasive.

So a browser only functioning over a federated content addressable web fetching content from trusted cache nodes could help isolate the problem to only vet information intentionally meant to be communicated leaving pure consumption reasonably private.
Market-makers, even.
Is it just me, or does this article seem like it’s trying really hard to push Intel? For an article about FPGAs, failing to acknowledge the other (major) player in the market-there’s no mention of Xilinx anywhere in the article, while plenty of Intel/Altera-seems disingenuous. Really, the tone just seemed to stick out to me as an subtle advertisement piece; maybe it’s just me?
Ever Better: Refreshing the Evernote Brand – Taking Note – Medium
On the other side of the coin, all these things would make sysadmins absolutely loathe you.

- You have 20-30 specialized applications which aren't package based stored in an application share mounted at /app with the convention /app/name/version or something but then this tool hardcodes itself to /opt/name.

- Using nonstandard ports doesn't make you more secure against someone who's specifically targeting you, but it absolutely stops automated attacks and logspam. What do you mean you can't change the port?!?

- Because there's no such thing as a secure internal network. All sites go through the hardened proxy.

- Invest? Nobody is going to pay for certs for internal services and who wants to set up a reverse proxy If you can't use an internal CA that's just poor form.

- That's a new one for me. I assume because they have a single shared database for all of their apps.
Show HN: Mandelbrot/Julia fractal viewer that lets you create/buy prints
In California it's actually based on how powerful the scooter is. Under 150cc doesn't require a motorcycle endorsement.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/motorcycles/motorcy...
> no tiny CPUs

That is far more a constraint than you think. Probably quite hard to have even a gigabit Ethernet subsystem without it.
We used it instead of õ (and Õ) in teletext system as from all of our umlaut characters (äöüõ) õ is the only that is missing in ASCII.
Uber uses AI to determine if your trips are for business or pleasure
> I think the most contentious point is that "prejudice without power" has become a socially acceptable phenomenon while a decade or two ago people were campaigning for no prejudice of any kind.

That's really insightful point! To my ear, condemning someone for engaging in "prejudice" has far less sting than condemning them for engaging in one of the "prejudicial isms" (like racism or sexism). The extra sting comes from the widespread and deep understanding that those isms refer to totally unacceptable behaviors.

I only see the "prejudice + power" definition of racism come up in defense of racially prejudiced comments. The effect is to (relatively) sanction and normalize forms of racial prejudice. Personally, I find that to be a totally unacceptable effect.
This article is fluff. If you're looking for substantive information on the earlier half of DEC's history, I recommend this book.

Computer Engineering: a DEC View of Hardware Systems Design
C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102630383
As lallysingh noted just above, Uber and AirBnB are brokers.
Not to mention that he's still probably beholden to his bank.
I don't know how it applies to electric bikes, but in most states you're ok if the engine is < 50cc.
Organisers of 'NIPS' AI Conference Ask Whether They Should Change Name
That's quite a blast from the past.

Good on Aleksey for picking it up and modernizing libjit to this point.

And for everyone who thinks of LLVM in this context, here's a thread with some "primary sources" [1].

[1] - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/dotgnu-libjit/2004-05/msg0...
yeah, both are bad

So vaping should continue to be banned everywhere that smoking is banned. Most people do not consent to breathing other peoples second-hand drugs.
Sharia New Mexico: Islamic compound jihadis RELEASED on bond after charges
That's a good one. The annoying thing is, privilege is a simple, obvious concept that not even right-wingers can disagree with, once they understand it. But getting past that initial hump of resistance is so difficult. It doesn't help that those who came up with the terminology used a word that carries a meaning most people are offended to assign to themselves. "I'm not privileged, I was poor once in college!"
Saving Elephants in Myanmar
In GA, as long as the engine size is less than 50cc, then you don't need a license plate or a special license.

But you can't drive it on the interstate and most major highways, for obvious reasons.
The right to disconnect
Jack of all trades and a master of one or two.
And fauna
Why two countries want to kill 100,000 beavers
What is the value of "owning" something?

I've owned VHS's, they're worthless
I've owned houses - that I had to short sell
I've owned DVD's - they're worthless
I've owned Books - they're worthless

What is the value of owning over just paying to enjoy access?

I like spotify because i can sync music to my phone to play offline - but "owning" all this music is worthless... I had a HUGE cd collection growing up but they were all stolen one day. Owning was worthless..

It seems we're substituting "ownership" with control. There are landlords that let you "control" your house - paint it, update it, customize to your liking - without having to own it yourself. This is a win-win since you get the benefit of fix annual costs whereas owning the place you could be liable for so much more.

heck, Everything i "own" actually owns "me" and burdens me with costs... but i can cancel spotify/netflix/hulu and re-sub later. I like the flexibility of our new model. I get the 4k version without having to "Re-own", i get higher bitrate songs without having to re-encode or re-buy, i get more quality content because i'm paying the producer - not a middleman distribution.
Maybe it's time to take a vacation and get some space from the company and try to reflect on what's wrong.
This seems to be the antithesis of the lesson taught in Rich Dad Poor Dad. Stuff is a liability. Even in "owning" it you're still beholden to it. You have to maintain it, store it, protect it, make sure nobody injures themselves with it and sues you. You don't own it, it owns you. Rental, in many areas, is an improvement. Own the couple things that matter to you, rent the rest.

Perhaps it's not so much that Americans own less stuff, but rather the supply of stuff has grown so much that we became overwhelmed with too much ownership and have resorted to rents on more and more of those items by percentage.

Cellphones are an interesting side point, as they don't fully fit into either classification (own or rent). They kind of take on the worst of both. In fact, perhaps there's a market for a phone that's more purely "rent". Given the state of technology and the speed of change, I don't know if there's any real market for a purely "own" phone, unless it's like an ultra-secure dumb phone, in which case yeah there's probably a market for that too.
I'm not understanding this line of reasoning. Are you assuming the US didn't have inflation in that time? I know it would be less than the lira but even still I'm not sure there would be a direct correlation.
Thank you for adding some nuance to my statement wit a good point. I'll have to keep that in mind (supporting a friend or family member and holding them accountable for things they did are not mutually exclusive ideas)
Thanks for the clarification, good it's not on by default
I think you've distilled the debate perfectly to it's uncomfortable and anachronistic point.

I think what it comes down to is that some people (myself included) are finding it hard to give the benefit of the doubt here when the character defence being offered so closely parallels what's been said in the past in defence of brazen male perverts.

That said, I think you've hit the nail on the head regarding in and out groups, and we should simply be looking at this as: a person has been wronged here, what's the appropriate response?

There's a reason the law as written doesn't discriminate offences on race or gender.
Air Force Doubles Down on Hypersonic Weapons
It's clear that the original law of the land assumed that only landowners had a stake in running things.

The Roman Republic had a rule that to serve in the army you had to be a landowning Roman citizen (with a minimum-value requirement for the property). Largely for this reason: if you owned land, you had a stake, something to fight for.

It didn't work out so well, because -- and it's up to you if you see parallels here -- the Roman Republic was also incredibly corrupt, and its wealthy/powerful classes used every trick they could come up with to commandeer productive land, leaving Rome in a situation where there weren't enough eligible citizens to form a useful army.

The further, and longer-lasting, consequence was that Gaius Marius reformed the system, creating essentially a standing force of professional soldiers, rather than a landowners' militia that had to be re-recruited and re-trained for every war. This was a big boost to Rome's military capability, but also resulted in soldiers having loyalty to their general (who would pay/reward them) rather than to Rome. And that played a part in the eventual change from Republic to Empire.

So do keep in mind that a "rights for property owners" system can in theory expand rights as more people gain property. But can also reduce them and concentrate power as unscrupulous people work the system to accumulate property in their hands instead of others' hands.
Two CMU Computer Science Professors Resign, Citing “sexist management”
Tesla introduced a "chill" driving mode for this very reason. It makes acceleration and braking (regen) much smoother and many owners speak highly of it.
Don't miss the later comments by Richard Stallman (creator of Emacs), and Tom's reply:

Richard> I don't think a 3% speedup is worth those drawbacks.
Richard> Or even a 10% speedup.
Richard> A really big speedup would justify the costs.

Tom> It is 3x, not 3%.

Mic drop.
Well bikers are angry because they don't want to be treated as cars OR as pedestrians, but those are the only two classifications much of the US has. Many people on a bike are unable to even maintain 25mph for a slow city road, let alone 45mph or 55mph, so treating them like cars is ridiculous. But they do commonly go over 3mph, which is the speed of your average pedestrian.

Bikers want to be treated like bikers. Unfortunately that classification doesn't really exist in the US so it becomes situational.
The reason it's difficult to make elisp fast is because the language defaults to dynamic scoping rather than lexical scoping. That means any function that uses `let` is no longer making a tailcall. Meaning you have to restore the value of each variable after you call whatever function would have been the tailcall.

Stuff like that adds up. It's why Lua is so fast compared to JS, too.