skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it income redistribution when Bezos pays more taxes than the person who served you your coffee

Yes, it is, taxation is a mean of income redistribution!

But I find your example flawed for the purpose of this discussion. More apt would be to say that the coffee clerk (through his taxes) have to help reimburse the Chinese post office when Bezos orders a package from Aliexpress.

But note, I didn’t say income redistribution is always bad! You seem to assume that you are arguing with some tea-party republican with a MAGA cap. But I am not, not even american.

But income distribution through UPU is incredible opaque. If we are going to pay foreign aid, I think we tax payers at a minimum deserve to know exactly how much we are paying and to whom!

>How do you propose we handle international mail with people directly accountable to voters?

I don’t suggest that. What I am saying is that they since they are not directly accountable to the tax payers, the people that are (eg US president) have to hold them accountable.
Also they better stick to their scope or they will lose public support.

I doubt the US will leave UPU in the end, but this will be a huge wake up call for the other member countries.

> miserly to demand that poor people pay as much as we do

But no one is upset with US or France paying more than Zimbabwe. They are upset mostly with Chinas classification, which doesn’t match its new economic powers.

Whether US president should be involved in a
$300 million decision I don’t know, but that is still is a lot of money, and the tax payers deserve that every dollar of their money is spent judiciously.
A corporation writing that off is not an apt comparison because being a shareholder is a voluntarily taken risk position. You can’t opt out of paying tax.
Well, you know; spending time with my children, programming my hobby projects, cooking, sleeping, working on my bicycle, riding my bicycle, lifting weights on my roof deck, googling the candidates on my absentee ballot, having sex, cooking something else, reading a novel, taking a bath... I mean there’s a veritable laundry list (ahem) of things I’d rather spend 5 minutes of my precious, precious time on than hanging my clothes on a line.

YMMV, of course...

(Possibly relevant: my clothes consist primarily of a few identical pairs of shorts and fatigue pants, and 20 identical heavyweight no-brand T-shirts, plus maybe a hoodie...)
Be warned about Allan savory, I liked his talk a lot, but it seems he's selling snake oil procedures (a few people tried to rebuke him online, I'm not knowledgeable enough to know who's right but it made me shift my stance nonetheless).

And about meat, some cultures enjoy eating way less meat, surely we could reduce the quantity, so that farmers can go back to simpler ways, and probably enjoy a lot more quality too.
I think the FCC should remove the 300 baud limit for HF which is super arbitrary and limiting for real digital modes. That limit makes modes that are quite distant from modern day commercial digital modulations viable--FT8, JT65, and so on being examples.

They are primarily asynchronous MFSK detectors with tons of symbols--pretty weird design and a work around of the 300 baud limit. We can't get cool stuff like QAM, high rate PSK, and other nice modes working because of this arbitrary old rule.
So true, but the near term is the struggle.
Scale, leading to the associated economies on the supply side, real estate and employee benefits, among other things. Plus, they have a well known, consistent product, which holds high value with customers.
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> I think we are going to need laws against big cooperations using their power and tech to change socal constructs.

Maintaining such constructs is as much a use of power as changing them is. It’s completely impossible to outlaw a corporation’s or any agent’s influence on society. ‘Society’ as we think of it (the nation, a community, bureaucracy, you name it) itself is a massive construct with tons of subjectivity attached.

> I don't need or want to be unconsciously retrained by ML.

If it’s a thing in your world, which it probably already is, it will have an influence on you. This type of research is how we make that visible. IMHO the social sciences are a good thing.
Remember that time Apple messed up and decided to punish all their app developers by forcing them to resign their apps?
We do this, but at young ages it is mind-boggling how far off they are from internalizing it yet.
Hi!

I love this kind of spaces.
This is how I would advise to do it.
Art/literature - create high quality, high ROI product offering first. Hand bound collectables for example. Low cost digital counterparts. Find niche online first. Crowdfund, test.
Have the publishing first. That's raising capital. Profit/Non-Profit no real difference if you have income. Just don't rely on grants and voluntary resources (economic volatility will hit these first). Physical space: make it enchanting (design/brand/service/experience). So that people would want to pop in regardless of products. High ROI food: coffee, tea, pastry, nibbles, smoothies and such. Food=energy. Sell local energy (economic volatility will hit this last). Innovate. Constantly change the furniture, accessories - sell them. Both online and at the physical space. Think of it as a curated space. Assess risks particular to the location/niche. Have contingency. Have another contingency for risks that are unknown.

Anyone planning to open something like that - happy to give some more specific free advise (tangible products/interior- service design/branding/marketing/economics).
Winamp had a nice and accessible plugin called AVS, where you could code your own VJ effects.
“People cause suffering because they value pleasure and lack empathy” sure sounds like a moral problem, but I hear you that just telling people to be better is unlikely to improve things.
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Does anyone know what are the algorithms behind this game, i.e., how does the game decide whether a given construction is valid? I'd appreciate any pointers!
In fairness, SIDH trades off the tiny key sizes for a slower key exchange time. Personally I think there's more potential in getting lattice keys smaller since the LWE-type systems are fast.
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"#1 laboratory meat will largely eliminate factory farming. [..] All us tree huggers should work to expedite."

Any suggestion about how to help here? For instance, is there any organization where we can send money for pushing for this outcome?

The environmental reasons alone should be enough to invest in this.
morse CW is pretty bad in terms of BER because it's hard to create a robust automatic decoder, not to mention OOK (which is morse essentially is for this purpose) is very poor against multipath interference.
I am sure that all of this is true but really there is almost no knowledge to be extracted from this bitter, passive aggressive, get-the-bottled-up-frustration-off-of-my-chest "tale"

This is just a very pointed & personal rant. I mean, good on that guy to let it out, but that's a complete waste of turning actual experience into usable advices

> While all this is happening, the bookstore runs out of money, but the employee doesn’t tell anyone for over a month. Instead, the employee tells all your friends that you’ve been exploiting them this whole time.
Oh come on. That's not even stretching. That's just throwing random things out there. Sending a message on a site that allows everybody to send messages is not 'exceeding authorized access.'

I don't find the violation of an arbitrary rule to be unethical in and of itself. Action and probabilistic consideration of consequences is what matters. For that mouthful on the end what I mean is that e.g. running a red light, even when nothing bad happens, could still be considered unethical depending on the probabilistic consideration of possible outcomes. Amazon's intentions and actions were positive and productive. Nobody was directly hurt or harmed in any way whatsoever, and there was really no chance of anybody being hurt or harmed in any way. Seems 100% on the up and up to me.
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The "For Humans" quip is a design mindset in the Python community that says the API is meant to be intuitive. It's another way of saying "API-first".

It might have lost some meaning over time, but when Requests ("HTTP Requests For Humans") first came out, it really was revolutionary, that idea that "making an HTTP request" shouldn't take several unreadable boilerplate lines of code.
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The GPU is on the CPU die. Hardkernel can't offer a version without one unless different versions have different CPUs.

And for that matter I don't think Intel offers any low-power chips without a built-in graphics accelerator.
The demand for meat (and especially farmed meat) is pretty much artificial. Without massive marketing spending by the food* industry, the demand would be nowhere where it is now. If you regulate the marketing spending and marketing methods of the food industry, I believe there will be big dip in the demand for meat. This can be done on the grounds of public health concerns, just like it has been done for the tobacco industry.
The problem is that food industry also sponsors politician's campaigns, so any move towards regulation is not going to happen unless there is immense pressure from the public.

*This includes both the meat industry and the farming industry producing food for the animals.
Yes, I agree humans are selfish. Given the enormous number of situations where personal or in-group selfishness would confer a survival and propagation advantage, it would be surprising if we didn't have it. I hope we don't take explicit pains and effort to encode this into ML/AI systems.

Concretely, the car should take the course of action to minimize the global harm based on the knowledge it has. If that's killing me in the event of a brake failure, so be it. The spectacularly unlikely probability of that is outweighed by the million more times when it and others like it will make a less selfish decision than today's human drivers.

> I, personally, would never buy a car if I knew it would make the choice to sacrifice my family to save strangers.

The point I find interesting here is "this consumer preference, if common, confers a propagation advantage to systems which behave selfishly".
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It’s the convenience factor. That’s it. Once plant-based options are more convenient than meat, game over. Most people lack the discipline to sustain a vegan lifestyle, even in 2018.
Ask HN: Now what?
Suppose that you have mastered CS as a hobby project. Let's say you have watched all the classic courses, like 6.001 2004, CS61A, Dan Grossman's Prog Langs, Programming methodology course by Gregor Kiczales, Scala courses by Martin Odersky, even the OCaml MOOC etc, etc. Basically, you have bootstrapped yourself to an equivalent of a major in CS (in a foreign language media) just for fun. Originally it was the way to practice English language.

Then you have realized that there is absolutely no market to this kind of academic, mostly theoretical, classic knowledge. You are supposed to have a top-tier CS degree from an Ivy league college to get one of these high paying job in the valley (not necessarily possessing even a half of CS knowledge I've accumulated) or to compete on an online sweatshops like UpWork for $10 a task (well, I am exaggerating a bit).

Of course, I know how wonderful it is to write an open source software for the benefit of humanity as a whole, or how to contribute to a top-tier open source project (hello all the guys who are submitting all these minor typo corrections and insignificant code reordering patches to ghc or golang to see their names in History) but I literally have no idea what should I program and why.

The positions for writing, say, fintech in Haskell for a startup in London or for improving Dotty in Geneva, or writing Erlang in Sweden are quite limited (related to a population of 7 billion) so you better to have an Ivy leagues credentials, indeed. There is, of course, no demand for top-tier functional languages on Upwork. (I won't even touch PHP or Java, sorry).

So, what next? Give it up and run some fast food joint and what not? Small business? The time of garage startups are long gone. To teach kids in a third world? Well, even this requires a diploma.

Is there some darknet marketplace where people really don't care who you are and how old are you as long as you are able to produce a high quality code?
If "bring up" means putting it online where everyone with a name and 20 seconds on google will find it, then there isn't really any point to removing something from official records.

That said people wanting to be forgotten tend to just ask for search engines to ensure that their name will no longer be connected to certain pages rather than having the information removed entirely.
Note that this and that are not necessarily related: you're talking about performing unicode-aware text matching and manipulation, TFA is solely about validating a buffer's content as UTF-8.
Why, the phone book, of course. Usually the yellow pages, if you were in a reasonably sized metropolis. Nobody used a dictionary; I can’t imagine where this misinformation came from.

The advantage of using a phone book was that a new one was delivered, completely for free, every year, so you just had to hang on to an old one if you were particularly fastidious, and otherwise just used the current one. And they were softbacks, so were more comfy to sit on than a hardback dictionary. Not to mention that not all households had a dictionary, while I seem to recall that the market penetration of landlines was something like 98% of American households (with subsidization for poorer folks) and they all had phone books; both were pretty much necessary to carry on a normal life.

Now, let me tell you about paper roadmaps, and how they were available for free at pretty much all gas stations (though the ones at Esso were considered the best), on a little rack near the door. No problem perusing the selection while your gas was pumped and oil checked by the attendants. (And there was no food or candy available to buy, so your other options for amusement were pretty limited).
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Obviously they would always prefer you to spin gold out of air, but I’ve found that most are perfectly happy if you find a way to turn lead into gold too.
>> The determining factor in a startup’s success isn’t competition, it’s whether they can actually make something good enough that they don’t die.

That is so wrong. Very wrong. It's all about competition. If you work for a well-connected startup or a big corporation, it may feel like there is no competition... But the competition exists; they just never had a chance. The reality for most startups is that they're faced with impossible competition. Competition is everything.

>> You can tell whether a startup has [already] made something people want by whether it’s growing really quickly

People buy what they're told to buy. People don't actually buy what they inherently want or need - If they did, they wouldn't be so miserable and Facebook wouldn't be making so much money. "Make something people want" is a lie - The quote should be "Fool people into buying something they don't need".
No offense here, but none of that has anything to do with the dilemma. Human response would be biased in myriad ways. Agent response would be biased in myriad way. There is no correct solution. The lasting impact on a person (and lack thereof in an agent) has no bearing on the decision.
I'll point out that broad categories of fairness have nothing to do with AI/ML and everything to do with institutions ensuring fair outcomes.

For instance, we would be appalled if a court found that the conviction rate for people like the defendant was extremely low, so the trial was going to start with the presumption of 80% guilt.

What's the problem? It's not one fixed by better modelling or a better bias percentage. The problem is that fairness in many contexts is about processes and institutions. We expect courts to follow principles like due process and equal protection under the law.

Companies like Google can't jump right to social science and social engineering without thinking about fairness and justice in these terms.

Can a user confirm that the data about them is accurate? If not, what can they do about it?

If a business has its account algorithmically cancelled, what is the appeals process? How is it fair?

When companies like Google start getting into social science, the problem is extremely complicated fast. For example, it starts looking like a judicial system in parts, but one that isn't established and maintained by a legitimate government.
Its funny you mention watches. Another reason I rarely use the SE is because all of my notifications, volume control, etc are on my Pebble.

With this, I think you're onto something. So long as what I see isn't uploaded anywhere, I can't wait for AR glasses. I'm horrible with names, so some form of [completely invasive] facial scanning would be a god-send. And if not that, at least some sort of AR where I can slap a name tag on someone at a function.
How slow? On my 2013 MBP, `gsed` (sed from coreutils) can do a replacement like that at about 350 MiB/s (of which most seems to be spent writing to disk, since writing to /dev/null hikes it up to 800 MiB/s).
Of course I haven't used (and for that matter not sure I've seen) a white pages in years. But yellow pages can still be somewhat useful for finding local services of various types. A lot of local service businesses are still pretty bad about online presences.
When has a Democrat ever won for the electoral college to a problem? It’s always be conservatives/Republicans.
Some explanation from Product Expert (Google Search)

> Regarding the search for [white american inventors], the results would reflect the way the images are labelled. Check the image descriptions and you will find that the image results all contain some of the words you searched for. Maybe the webmasters who label images of inventors have no interest in the colour of the inventor's skin!

https://support.google.com/websearch/forum/AAAAgtjJeM4xP2ts6...
This is news? What did they think they sounded like, chickens?
Where do the numbers come from? What is the context of collection of data? What is the context of the classification of training data?

There are hundreds of questions like that which apply. It's not (necessarily, it certainly can be) the algorithm that carries bias, it's the data.
"i claim it is a namespace that spans multiple hosts and requires (distributed) consensus algorithms..."

That's a very unique definition of "distributed". To many in the field, "spans multiple hosts" alone is sufficient. Some might refine it to preclude single nodes with special roles or by adding requirements such as a single view of the data etc., but it's a joke to add atomicity or implementation details such as how a consensus algorithm is used. There are plenty of distributed data stores that don't provide atomicity for all operations, and users are happy with that. There are plenty that use leader election instead of consensus to deal with consistency issues, and users are happy with that too. Inventing a novel and highly specific definition to exclude them seems more than a bit disingenuous. If we want to go that route, I'll point out that HopsFS is misnamed because it's not a filesystem according to commonly used definitions. There are many hard problems that it wimps out on, that a real filesystem must address.

"Operations that cross volumes do not solve the consensus problem, so they do not execute operations like move atomically."

Again, you seem to be using "volume" in a very unique way. Your architecture might misuse "volume" to mean some sort of internal convenience that's practically invisible to users, but others don't. To most, a volume is a self-contained universe, much like a virtual machine. Users are well aware that moving data between either will not have the same semantics as moving data within.
Funny you should say this. This was around the cycle a few days ago

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2018/10/apple-gr...

Having a tiny phone that could be unfolded on-demand would appear to solve everybody's problem.
Definitely tempted to give one a try, screen resolution might drive me a bit nuts though. The Lumia 640 I'm currently using is starting to show it's age these days. To be honest, I'm finding most phones very underwhelming these days.
If you want to know that you, personally, moved the needle, you should look for a small company. If you want the CEO to drop by at the company party, greet you, and acknowledge something awesome you did last month that he or she noticed... Small company.

There's some incredible job satisfaction perks that come with smaller companies.

But as others have pointed out, there's a difference between a "small company" and a "startup". The former is likely filling a need where it is, and is hopefully growing at a reasonable, but steady pace. A startup is a get rich quick scheme that's gonna be huge in the next couple years or wont exist anymore by then.
How does one "meet their true self" and what exactly is it? Also, the influence of n-back training on general intelligence is anything but uncontroversial.
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I read HN with showdead on. There's some pretty unjustifiable censorship going on in this thread.

I'll just call their attention to their own rule on this: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

The weak interpretation of these dead comments is that they're just racists who hate dark-skinned people. There are much stronger interpretations and those should be discussed.

Especially in the context of Google, where it's been demonstrated over and over through video leaks, court filings and the Damore firing, that a single and very heavy-handed ideology has power and will not allow discussion. From a centrist position is seems obvious Google's internal thought process will be itself heavily biased, and the possibility of certain factual hypothesis being true about the physical world (not normative statements on what to do) will be denied for ideological reasons. It's like a group of fundamentalist Christian scientists studying geology. This needs to be acknowledged in any discussion of Google, ML, and 'bias'.
As a Finn, I would say that people at least in Finland tend to be more closed during winter than during summer. I think I saw some study where they seemed to notice this kind of pattern as well, but I think the study was done outside Finland.
The exact nature of the jokes isn't clear, but I'd say your last guess is the most likely: papering over one's own cognitive dissonance with dismissive "humor" is a pretty natural tactic.
Why didn't you hire a grant writer?
Not sure "derive" is the right word here :)
Breaking crypto makes for a good headline but the most important application of QCs will be simulating quantum states, eg modeling molecular interactions. And obviously there is plenty of work that remains to be done in this nascent field.

Also obligatory link to the best quantum computing blog out there: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/. Very good at dispelling hype.
I have small hands and an iPhone X. Not a single complaint about the size, I think that Apple nailed it with this one.