skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 This is so funny "https://outline.com/[url]"

I'm guessing outline.com has a subscription to WSJ, and can therefore share the content?
When I was 18, I got a summer job in road construction. My job was to walk up and down a hot highway for 16 hours a day, picking large rocks out of gravel.

My mental model is "this beats the almighty fuck out of road construction." :)
I gotta say I am a bit shocked that it's apparently no big deal at Google to a) use company email for non-work topics and b) openly discuss one's political views. In my experience either would be a one way ticket to HR for some "retraining".

Things are way too polarized in the US right now to discuss politics at work. It's not just right vs left, it's also maybe you aren't right/left enough for your boss/peers.
I'd like to know who the competitor was that bought data. For all intents and purposes, they're buying stolen credit card numbers, aren't they? Plus, I want to make sure I'm not buying anything from someone that unethical.

Also, if the ToS is so one sided that it's legal for my data to be sold in a shady deal like this, I'd say it's time for some massive regulatory change regarding data privacy. If not, everyone that bought the "stolen" data needs to be investigated by the RCMP.
https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...

edit: which cites https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program... (from HN's own patio11) as inspiration, as the original "Falsehoods programmers believe about X".
This is sometimes true, but the way you phrase things, your body language, etc. can make a difference.

There's a great book called You and the Police by Boston T. Party that goes into depth on that.
Thanks, and good luck! Followed you on GH. noreml sounds interesting too, I'll check it out when I have better internet access!
Assange: Generation being born now is the last to be free
Not just new users, due to some bitrot Pizza Hut has decided that my house, built in the 60's and probably occupied for 100+ years, no longer exists and they won't let me order. Not a big loss in this case, but imagine if this was someone like amazon deciding my address wasn't valid.
Regarding intelligent life in the cosmos:

If [most] life begins at the microscopic scale, wouldn't there be a higher chance of intelligence developing at much smaller sizes than the average human body?

Have we even learned if there's a minimum body size required for sapient intelligence to develop?

We can already see different types of intelligence in comparatively-small creatures like octopuses, but even overlooked organisms as tiny as the ant show forms of intelligence! Social communication, tool usage, agriculture, even domestication of other species (e.g. aphids.)
I really appreciate #3 about founder-led sales.

Even if you don't make the mistake of bringing in a VP of Sales too early, it's easy for founders to get lost during this stage of the company.

When founders struggle to get those first paying customers, I wonder how many conclude that they haven't yet found product/market fit when really, they're just terrible at doing sales. It's especially difficult for technical founders (who tend to be bad/new at doing sales), and particularly challenging when selling B2B software.
Who proves that the automated proof is correct. Who proves that... etc.

All this is tied up in Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
The New Yorker article didn't reveal anything that wasn't well-known in the technical community for years, nor did it turn up any instances of misogyny or sexual harassment. They even mentioned that there's no evidence that he's been more abusive to women than men. It wasn't clear to me why they even ran the story - seems like they were trying for another #MeToo moment, but just ended up restating the obvious: obsessive male geeks can be a pain to work with (regardless of gender).

Undoubtedly Linus is going to need to moderate his temper in the future, but I'd hardly call this "in disgrace", and I don't really see this as something he'll have trouble bouncing back from.
It's already linked to a non anonymous profile and his email is in the git history so...
It's bad enough to foster an echo chamber to your personal biases, as is currently standard operating procedure. But to actively engage in hidden manipulation of public views strikes at the very heart of democracy. Democracy only works because of the wisdom of crowds [1], and the wisdom of crowds only works if each participant has independent knowledge. The more people rely upon a shared source of knowledge and truth, the less accurate their collective wisdom becomes.

Practically, this means that anyone with wide enough influence can directly affect democratic outcomes, which defeats the entire purpose, and the level of influence possible these days is unprecedented.

So regardless of what actually did or did not happen, the fact that a few companies ARE in a position to wield this kind of influential power should strike fear into the heart of every free citizen of every democratic nation.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/038...
I got asked to be on a University Challenge team after someone saw me playing... but completely flopped when they asked independent questions at trials.

This kind of unlinked data leaks very fast, too: at my peak I had to top up with Anki for about 3 hours a day. I've forgotten almost all of it now.

A small consolation is that I can still tell you the 'exact number of gallons of water' in most major lakes.
ATOMZ Vision for the World – Fazimoon Samad – Medium
Again, that's not the point of an address system. You do not use this to navigate (even with proximity built-in), but to transfer location data in a compact format. I don't see why this keeps getting misunderstood.

If you need to mark an area in a reliable, deterministic and politically neutral way, especially in the absence of any existing system, then this is a good option. If you need to drive your jeep to get somewhere, then continue using the lat/long that your GPS or map provides. If you need to translate between the two, then place codes make it easy because they require nothing but simple math.
It depends from the Unix and decisions by the local system administrator.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/327403/5132
In most cases humans have not yet figured out anywhere near the full range of particular animals’ communication, so this is hard to judge.

For example, prarie dogs https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/magazine/can-prairie-dogs...
I think a key detail is he wasn't especially good looking and I complimented him on a physical trait. I've known lots of people over the years who had baggage over X and who made X into some big damn deal where it was impossible to say you liked them without it going weird places.

Short men do this a lot and make it impossible to say "Eh, your height doesn't bother me, but I like X about you."

Men who see themselves as ugly do this.

Men who are heavyset and hung up about it.

Etc ad nauseum.

At some point, my personal policy became "Sorry you have so much baggage. I'm not your goddamned therapist. I wouldn't touch you with a ten foot pole, not because you are short, but because, Oh. My. God. BTDT, got the t-shirt and life is too short for this shit, geez."

People paint themselves into a corner and make it impossible for other people to make X trait into a non issue. And then it becomes this hill to die on and god help you if you stupidly are oblivious and genuinely didn't think they were too short, too ugly or whatever.
Imagine there was an email thread on how to dampen search results for Chinese ops in Tibet or Xinjiang because to many staff from China this was offensive, would that just be swept aside? Oh, just a few employees and it never went into production...
Yea I don't find it surprising at all that any company with technical employees was opposed to the Muslim ban, I specifically remember a bunch of high profile cases of engineers stuck after making the "mistake" of visiting home.

H1b and other travel is still a mess. My old recruiter friends back in Texas are just about as conservative as possible but they're still pissed off about all the random executive orders surrounding immigration, it's making their jobs a lot harder.
Is Andrew Ng still personally teaching this course?
Is that considered conspiracy?
Thanks for the insight.

I'm guessing the on-site/NDA combination is intended to prevent another Mainsoft (and all the other leaks...) from happening.

I wonder if I stand a chance of turning up a copy of Chinese-governmental Windows 10. Would be awesome.
There's a PR open! https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/pull/1423
Some Amazon sellers carry them. There's also brands like Mountain House that are specifically geared towards campers and don't have the little kick-knacks with them, just the entrees.
Well, obviously politics, burden of blame, and plausible deniability, and all that. Microsoft never made the changes themselves, they've no real idea what happened, they just sat in a corner of the room and glanced at the devs' screens once in a while to make sure they didn't look like they were stealing anything.
No, it was designed to prevent typewriters from jamming, with the drawback that your fingers need to move much more when typing. There are various statistical analysis on the web.

> probably a myth as I find the letters that stand right near each other

And that's exactly the problem. Dvorak is optimized to maximize alternating hands, on purpose.
Wait, isn't Windows phone officially dead?
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-41551546
When this was discredited, was there alternative research on how people actually accrue skill, or was this just a dismissal of a claim and no alternate information provided?
It's a shame if this kind of research is not being done, but obviously, it's understandable that a catch-all "how much experience does any skill need to build for anyone?" is not easily, if at all, answerable.
Housing is not affordable primarily because of rentseeking behavior from a constrained supply.

"Self-driving homes" have been available to every American for decades. They are called RVs. A more affordable and practical version are trailers.

There are trailers that expand out when parked to effectively double the floor space.

While living in a trailer is perfectly doable, there is a significant degradation in the quality of life.

Living in a studio apartment is, for the average person, a completely different experience than living in even a nice $70k trailer that has 3 beds and two bathrooms with sewage and 15A hookups.

Let's assume that the quality of life was comparable - it still costs thousands of dollars to rent a parking spot with hookups so you can live in a vehicle.

The concept the article is about is absolutely insane and far detached from reality.

It's a wierd take on a RV that combines all the responsibilities of owning a trailer with the responsibilities of owning an automobile with the risk of being unable to use the "home" when the automobile needs to go in for repairs coupled with the nightmare of having thousands of intricate parts that cannot be purchased without going through the dealership.

This is impractical and a disaster.

This not only fails to address affordable housing completely but makes a complete mockery of it.

Housing is not affordable primarily because of rentseeking behavior from a constrained supply.

Even if Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo et al were to mass produce these RVs and sell millions of them (which they will not), these vehicles will need to be parked somewhere and the rental fee for these parking spots will then become unaffordable for most.

Did it solve the unaffordable housing problem in the end?

No.
Too bad they weren't able to follow through.
If it has alt text, we can't ask for much more. But typically pictures on Twitter don't have alt text. I've perhaps encountered an image with alt text once. But I'm glad that at least there will be alt text if they use it in the web app.

In short, if the image has alt text, it's fine. But this seems likely to be used in ways that mean uploads without alt text.
Now imagine the conversations in newsrooms all over the world on how to present a particular event or newsstory. You can imagine how the different actors behave given their affiliations and editorial freedom (or control, depending) and this is why there is distrust since the ‘60s.
If we have a problem that too many people are getting sent to prison on too little evidence, I don't think we should try to solve it by sending even more people to prison.
With agpl licence, it has a reduced chance to become mainstream, though.

It's a pity, because I like its technical ideas.
Verifying proofs is a much simpler job than creating a proof. Also, you can have multiple independently implemented verifiers, which act in many ways like multiple human reviewers. That is what the metamath community does, they have 4 independently implemented verifiers that check every proof. That is very strong evidence that a proof is correct, far stronger evidence than is typically accepted now.
It's not a simple disadvantage when the act of choosing another option invites the same violence against a customer.
Have you read Noam Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent?”
Google Compute Engine, and their infrastructure offerings more generally, are in a nice spot relative to Amazon and Microsoft. AWS and Azure get all the attention, but I wouldn't be surprised if GCE is decently profitable as well.

Like sibling commentors have pointed out, it's easy for even relatively successful ventures to be completely overshadowed by the golden goose that is ads and search.
“Apple trying to stop scammers selling fake 5 star reviews” isn’t exactly going to get a lot of clicks.
This is an absurdly inaccurate headline. From the article:

> The email traffic, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, shows that employees proposed ways to “leverage” search functions and take steps to counter what they considered to be “islamophobic, algorithmically biased results from search terms ‘Islam’, ‘Muslim’, ‘Iran’, etc.” and “prejudiced, algorithmically biased search results from search terms ‘Mexico’, ‘Hispanic’, ‘Latino’, etc.”

So, employees saw that the existing algorithm was inappropriately prioritising prejudiced results, and discussed tweaking the algorithm accordingly. I don't see what's controversial about that, unless your understanding of Google is so basic that you really think results are calculated by a magic computer program in the sky. It's always been programmed by humans, within various parameters. It isn't objective and it never has been.

Now, is it worth discussing the enormous power Google has over people's perceptions as a result of their market dominance? Absolutely. But using a headline like that just plays into conspiracy theory.
I'm a kiwi. The ship is on our 50c coins, but has always seemed almost mythical to me. This would be pretty damn cool.
Sounds like a couple employees wanted to add banner links to pro-immigration charities when someone searched for immigration-related terms, similar to donation links they add when a natural disaster hits. This is incredibly far from modifying the search algorithm.

Hard to even say what this means because WSJ is sitting on the actual email chain so they can editorialize it in any way they please.
I've built a similar proof-of-concept HQ Trivia algorithm before[0], and from my simple tests, in most cases isn't any additional work needed, just naively send the OCRed question to Google. Of course, some questions don't work using this naive approach, which is why a similar HQ Trivia bot used riffed on this concept with unique (and clever) heuristics[1].

And yes, it is easier to work with a screenshot than a grainy image of text produced by a camera.

[0]: https://applecrazy.github.io/blog/posts/protect-trivia-from-...
[1]: https://hackernoon.com/i-hacked-hq-trivia-but-heres-how-they...

Edit: my HQ Trivia system was a simple 1-hour weekend project, so it is by no means perfect. Also, to prevent my Github from being taken down, none of the code is available.
> A couple times I have seen men brush off / refuse compliments it looked like because they wanted to seem modest

You make that sound like it's some kind of deliberate manipulation or something, some of us were just brought up with the idea that doing helpful things for people is expected and not really that big a deal, and it makes us uncomfortable when people make a big deal of it.
Number of employees was 89,058 as of June 30, 2018. This does not include temps, vendors, or contractors.

And in my experience as a current employee, it sure seems so. Just as someone who left years ago can juice attention and their job prospects by writing a Medium.com post or making a YouTube video referencing once working at Google, it's increasingly tedious to see anything done internally, most of which is kind of boring, reported with excitement.

But again, congratulations to whatever dumb leaker wanted to make a point out of some random email this week.

Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204418...
There are number of proof verification systems that do not require constructive logic. So if you require classical logic, just use a tool that supports it.
It's strange that he basically removed the entire history, but kept a couple of commits such that the 'face' gif can still be accessed?
Regardless, several forks exists with the original history dating back to 2016. So it's probably too late to do anything about now.
There was a recent finding (not yet replicated!) that performing rituals of any kind aids in building/retaining self-control/willpower.

This is kind of like priming, but—if it holds true—this result would actually take away a lot of the explanatory power of most priming studies. A simpler explanation than a bunch of specific "doing X makes you think about Y which makes you do Z" priming relations, is "doing {any number of things} releases striatal dopamine, that increases executive functioning, which allows you to do {any number of things}."
The Green Rush Begins
Why did they choose that offer character set? I get excluding vowels to prevent profanity, but why exclude B, and not start from zero?
For some reason I just had a sudden idea about democracy being like Monte Carlo localization. We don't need everyone to have the same, or even correct ideas. We need a whole lot of disagreeable perspectives to consider and explore. That way we don't get trapped in ideological local minima.
I see a lot of coordinated attacks against Google right before the elections.
"the exact number of gallons of water in most major lakes"

I don't think there is such a thing.
This is where Terry Tao's comment from December seems relevant: https://galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/the-a...
> to actively engage in hidden manipulation of public views strikes at the very heart of democracy.

Indeed, Fox News, Britebart, and friends are terrifying.
Did you look at your version of libc? What version the original linked to?
CTRL-Labs: demo of human-computer control using electromyography [video]
Years ago, an online acquaintance undertook something with similar intent, collecting old web browsers: https://browsers.evolt.org/
Gödel's incompleteness theorem shows the inherent limitations of every formal axiomatic system capable of modelling basic arithmetic. The incompleteness theorem does not show that nothing can be proven.
To put this into perspective, these algorithms, especially for autocomplete, have always been fiddled with by humans. Why? Because algorithms often produce terrible results, and few engineers want to stand behind an algorithm that coughs up bestiality results for vanilla queries about animals.
It's also actually socially very problematic to have praise heaped on you publicly. It makes other people jealous and causes lots of backlash.

The single most effective thing I have found for reducing forum drama is to mostly ignore any compliments. Saying "Thank you" is inevitably followed by multiple people feeling compelled to openly and publicly hate on me.
>It's bad enough to foster an echo chamber to your personal biases, as is currently standard operating procedure. But to actively engage in hidden manipulation of public views strikes at the very heart of democracy. Democracy only works because of the wisdom of crowds [1], and the wisdom of crowds only works if each participant has independent knowledge. The more people rely upon a shared source of knowledge and truth, the less accurate their collective wisdom becomes.

It may have always been that way in the US. From his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin controlled a newspaper and founded secret societies for wealthy business owners to collude together while getting business for his printing press from the government.
Holy shit you've just discovered the reason behind the first amendment!
I've basically adopted the policy that if bikes start to shred I put my headphones in or walk away.
or maybe it's just customary to tell anyone you think they are cool, really enjoyed working with them and wish them the best when they leave
The end result still remains: introducing bias.
> the common paradigm is buying machine time on AWS.

That alone is an indicator that cost (at least of compute) isn't a critical factor in the decision process. If it were, AWS costing a multiple of self-hosting would render it no longer paradigmatic.
Agreed. For me, it's CNN, MSNBC, and HuffPo.
Two fish a day keep the mantid coming back to prey: First fishing praying mantis
People have been predicting that for longer than either of us have been alive, and we’re not really any closer to the reality thst doesn’t involve brain surgery.
Let's be honest, all media organizations are biased. Be it Fox News, Britebart, or CNN. Heck even r/politics is biased af.
The article is trying to not-so-subtly prop up the conservative meme that google is a leftist empire out to censor conservative voices.
It's not a secret, after the leaks, that the highest levels of Google are very anti-Trump.
> the level of influence possible these days is unprecedented

vs the past when we had the single newspaper, the single encyclopedia, their priest, the three TV networks, or the town gossip mill?

> only works if each participant has independent knowledge

So, can you name a time that this was more possible than it is now?
Google is nothing but a collection of biases. Even in the early days, PageRank meant that Google was biased towards sites that get linked to more than others. That was a value judgement they made about what best served their customers. This is no different.
I guess just sort results alphabetically then? Or what's your idea?
kiwi too, and yes, this would be a cool find. This ship is such a significant part of the south pacifics history.
Did not know, thanks.
Funny how different cultures have "go around something and dance in sync" dances. Bon odori is the one I know in Japan, which originated in the 14~1500s, and is still fun to do today.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7SoUIKWkqc
The central issue is whether they can exert control They obviously can.
What it protects against is casual people outside the home, with no intrusion, connecting to the Chromecast. It's casual vandalism that would be easy with the direct connection Guest Mode without the PIN, but which the PIN pretty effectively defeats (provided the screen isn't visible to outside passerby.)

> whether the convenience being provided to guests is actually far outweighed by the risk that's being created to the host.

What risk? If you are in my living room or compromise an internet-connected device there, you can stream to my Chromecast, sure, but you can do a lot worse with those preconditions independent of Chromecast Guest Mode.
Another great one: “I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.”