skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually it's the "racism must involve some tangible race" that's ignorance and a-historical. Etymology and definition doesn't define how words are actually used, one needs historical and empirical research for that.

Race is not about genetics. It's a cultural construct, which is predominantly based on historical and ethnological differences (with the inevitable, but not critical mix of genetics that comes with the latter), and has little to do with actual "races".

People from Italy and the Balkans for example where perceived as "non white" when immigrating to the US, while being caucasian. They just weren't anglosaxon, germanic, or nordic, as the dominant WASP Americans of the time. There are is lots of historical and cultural studies on this [1].

WASP Americans badmouthing Greeks or Italians were racist, even if talking about people the same race.

And it's a similar cases between Northern and Southern Italians (there are cultural, historical and ethnological differences between the two areas). The racism of north vs south comes from that -- and it even fed into actual far right / neo-fascist parties, like the Lega Nord ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega_Nord ).

Whether Southern italians are indeed "less productive" is beside the point too. Blacks in the US are also poorer and less 'productive', more likely to be convicted felons (statistically), etc, but people still consider someone badmouthing blacks to have racist motives.

[1] The immigrants from the southern part of Italy and Sicily were not considered wholly white by Anglo-Saxon standards, a notion which was reinforced by the US Immigration Department classification of northern and southern Italians as two distinct caucasian ethnic groups. In reaction to the large-scale immigration from southern and eastern Europe, Congress passed legislation (Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and Immigration Act of 1924) restricting immigration from those regions, but not from Northern European countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Italianism#Anti-Italianis...
Do you keep up with the development of QCs at all or are you just an eager consumer? They're only able to make QCs with a small number of qubits at the moment and can't add more without running into sound disruption issues so it's a ways away from being able to do anything practical.
Really? Why is the original/classic trolley problem in any way interesting if the future weight of the decision on the human has no bearing? (That's a serious question.)

In the problem statement, an actor has control over whether this 1 person or those 5 people die. If they choose red, then 1. If they choose blue, then 5. (Failing to make a choice is choosing blue.) If after playing the scenario, they knew someone would use a Men In Black pen on them to completely forget what happened, is there a rational argument against choosing red?

(I realize this might read like trolling, but I genuinely don't find the original problem a difficult one if you eliminate the human guilt aspect.)
Where I live (Denmark), nobody makes any phonebooks anymore. I believe the last time I used one was in 2003.
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I think I generally sympathise with this way of thinking about the value of a PAKE here, and you're right that only one person has to see a smoking gun - but just to be quite clear here on how fragile such manual checks would be:

The certificate used for the HTTP transaction where your credentials are submitted may be completely different from the one used to present the web form you filled them into.

A sneaky bad guy can let you talk to the real Bob for every single HTTP transaction aside from the one they want to capture, and intercede just for that single case, then drop back out silently, leaving you talking to Bob directly as before.

The web browser's own checks (including matching the FQDN against the certificate) run every single time - if they spot Eve taking Bob's place they'll freak out, but any human checks like "Look at the certificate in Certainly Something" (the nice certificate view for Firefox) only happen when a human gets to intervene which may not happen at all at key moments.

Imagine you go to https://www.example.com/ to log in

It presents a form with a submission target of login.example.com, your browser does a POST to https://login.example.com/login.form/ and it gets back a 30x redirect to https://www.example.com/welcome/

When did you get to examine that certificate for login.example.com? The answer in every browser I've seen is not at all, because it responded with a 30x so the page never finished and displayed.
yeah -- its getting there. That last release was a result of me mentioning darkmode. It was easily the fastest 'can I post a bug somewhere?' to release I've ever seen. The total time was no more than a few minutes.

While the mac version is promising, its still missing the powerful organization features that I use the most.

Foobar2000 is probably my favorite and most-used piece of software.
I dont like those extensive animal farming anyway but, cattles are responsible for 25% of greenhouse gas emission. Those factory farms are included is it? We must stop. Let's have some regulations; it's not so bad after all, it's just a matter of changing eating habits.
One of the issues here is the division between government action, collective action and individual action; while most people group the first two together, the divide is meaningful as soon as the government can be said to be operating independently of the people; for me, this has always been the case in Western liberal democracy. The methods for which the obvious path can be achieved are still confused.

One idea frequently suggested is that people as individuals ought to reduce the amount of consumption, but does this address the fundamental qualitative issues in the system of production? Even if the scale can be achieved, what will be the meaningful permanent change?

Another response is that reducing the amount of consumption is wrong headed: it's targeting an effect rather than the cause. But in my opinion, the worst solution to this problem is the one which insists on a form of government action. Laws can be changed, but they can also be changed back, and in every country the laws are decided by capital (the structure and abstraction, not "big business"). So this also raises the issue of whether what is profitable is good, but that question has an easy answer: it's not.

My ideas are fairly radical (and very radical by HN standards), in the sense that I think there is a fundamental factor in this mode of production, abstract labour to be specific (which Peter Hudis makes a convincing argument for, rather than property, money, "greed" etc. for instance), which is a cause of overproduction, the qualitative aspects of work in industrial capitalism and much misallocation (judged in human standards rather than economic standards).
It was sed substitute command on a ~800Mb file on Thinkpad T470 with SSD. It was taking around 40-50 sec for each substitution. Though as others have pointed, it may not be directly related to article in discussion.
Can you explain how this is collaborative filtering as opposed to a classic IR ranking problem? CF would suggest they are somehow getting user ratings of these scientists, but either way its going to boil down to a similarity metric basically. So I guess for me, I can't imagine how user data is creating these rankings and I'm pretty confident using IR techniques on the datasets they have would not return these either, ergo, they are likely tweaking the factors themselves to return results that are "less biased" i.e. less representative of the underlying distribution and more normally distributed aka politically correct.

But If you have a better theory of how the 10 of the first 20 "american scientists" are black and 5 are women, I'd be interested to hear it.
I'm not pessimistic about them. I'm actually (weakly) pessimistic I'll see significant cryptographic breaks due to large scale quantum computers within thirty years. We are very, very far off from quantum computers that can break RSA or even elliptic curve systems (which are a bit easier to break for quantum computers). Google's Bristlecone has 72 physical qubits but I don't recall seeing any published information about how many logical qubits they managed to achieve.

Shor's algorithm requires O(n^3) time and 3n logical qubits to break an n-bit key. The state of the art in quantum error correction requires high tens of thousands to low hundreds of thousands of physical qubits to achieve the logical qubits needed to break a typical 2048-bit RSA semiprime. 4096-bit keys are even farther off.

Research in post-quantum cryptography is really important, but I think you should take most of the non-scientific reporting about quantum computing and cryptography with a (large) grain of salt. The Economist is actually very level headed in its coverage here and it still neglects to mention that realistically we're far off, even if we can achieve 50% improvements in quantum error correction and stability year over year for over a decade.

I also think you're being too uncharitable to post-quantum cryptography. You'll find that many of the lattice-based systems (particular the various flavors of LWE) are very fast (and getting faster) and perform reasonably well in real world experiments. I'm cautiously optimistic we'll have lattice-based schemes with keys smaller by an order of magnitude in a decade, and very optimistic we'll have achieved that before 2048-bit RSA can be broken on a quantum computer.
we got a yellow pages phonebook this year. Thinner than a standard paperback now
Oh, thanks for clearing that up! Although the name can be either female or male (and is probably even more likely to be female) and the article doesn't indicate the gender I just assumed that it was a guy.

I guess it shows that my perception on the industry is still very much influenced by stereotypes; no matter how much I would like to think that I'm immune to that.
In the draft spec I wrote it would be salted by default with the origin (proto+domain+port), and could be overridden (in case a site changes domains) by a parameter. That would act as salt for the site, so that you have a unique hash for each site without having to keep (and sync to other browsers and computers) a database of salts.
>Seems most of them migrated from southern Italy/Sicily.

Yes, since they were the poorest provinces, and thus the ones that produced most immigrants.

A "fun" read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Italianism#Anti-Italianis...
"Experimentation and invention is evil, all hail the status quo".

This is the underlying message being propagated by the media with their anti tech narrative.
There's always someone in these threads who thinks they are blessing people with knowledge that QCs are not as powerful and amazing as people think. While it's certainly a revelation to know that, it doesn't tell the full story. QCs are still able to perform those specific tasks really well, and we haven't even begun to get our hands on a personal quantum computer which will ultimately give rise to more algorithms and general discoveries about them. It's not like the internet is done when QCs come into play, but there's always someone who thinks they have an unpopular opinion about the power of quantum computers when in reality both sides are usually biased or misinformed.
Ah ok thanks!, interesting parallel.
Might anyone know of a web/*nix alternative that has the Winamp Media Library like functionality, i.e. enqueuing? That was, to me, the killer feature from "later" versions of Winamp.
What was the size of the SQL file?

A "few table names" doesn't mean much if the SQL file is 20GB.

In any case, sed and awk are plenty fast, but not the fastest methods of text manipulation. You could write a custom C program for that.
Clearly the answer is to hot glue a stack of the obsolete and unrepairable devices that you had to upgrade from every 18 months.
Here is a blog post: https://blog.steve.fi/so_i_wrote_a_basic_basic.html
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I said this in another comment, but there's two sides to this QC thing: People who think QCs are magic and can do everything, and people who think they know better when they tell people that QCs are not magic and cannot do everything. In reality, you're both slightly skewed. To undermine the potential of QCs is a blunder, as big a blunder as thinking they can do everything. The hype train is exactly where it needs to be.
It's also indoctrination. We've been indoctrinated to think of meat as a staple food. Meat was never a staple food before factory farming came along.
Fortunately, it seems that humanity's honeymoon with the farming industry is coming to its end.
They go to some lengths to dance around the issue. If you can't pay for the space based on a sustainable amount of donations, or other recurring income, you aren't running a space you are running a business and a lot of businesses fail. There is at least half a century of complaints over gentrification to that point.
Perhaps you can see the official "Who is hiring / freelance post?" the fist day of the month. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring If you are a freelancer, you can find the correct thread one and repost there.
>It was taking around 40-50 sec for each substitution.

Substitution should not be really a relevant metric as it wouldn't influence the result much. Sed/Awk will still have to go through the whole file to find all occurrences they should substitute (and when they do find an occurrence, the substitution would take nanoseconds).

The size of the file is a better metric (e.g. how many seconds for that 800mb in total).

Also, whether you used regex in your awk/sed, and what kind. A badly written regex can slow down search very much.
> A recent experience from a hackerspace showed me how incredibly thankless people can be. After working really insanely hard to build an inclusive space with loads of features, every little hobby revolutionary in the community just shits all over the work and proclaims the people actually getting stuff done should just stop and leave it to them.

They are clueless. It's like when developers on HN share all their ideas about being a manager and what's required.
I'm not sure white pages are still printed in the US, but I do get a yellow pages delivered every year.
> we stopped breeding animals that taste good and just worried about breeding ones that survive the industrial process.

Exactly, and further proof of your point is that the exact same process has happened to vegetables: they're bred to be transportable and sale-able for a long period of time; not to be excellent. Tomatoes are the perfect example. Most tomatoes that you can buy from a grocery store are really not worth eating. Compare them to a actually ripe summer tomato from a neighbor's garden, and they may as well be different substances.

Commodification turns things mediocre almost by definition.
Of course, there are environmental reasons to avoid (some, most?) fish, but I consider wild-caught fish (and all wild/hunted game) fairly neutral from an animal welfare perspective. Perhaps this is a bit naive.
When I was feeling very disenchanted with my customer service call center jobs after 8 years, I took a job waiting tables and painting houses.

After two months, the physical nature of the job went from awesome to horrible. Everything hurt.

I immediately went back to customer service with new gusto.

Good luck!
500 years is a big leap but I appreciate the caution. We actually already do have working quantum computers.

If you mean personal quantum computers, commercially, I would give it about a century, give or take a decade.
This is similar to Ozzy Osbourne where he stutters when speaking normally, but has no issues when singing. I've seen reports of this situation with many people.
So why isn't there anything about teaching fairness in statistics?

To sport the classic over simplification, ML is just glorified curve fitting. But in reality, it's not like we created a special new species with intelligence that we have to careful teach not to be racist. _We_ just have to be careful not to be racist with it.
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Your specific tracking, perhaps not. Once it gets to a point where it influences election results in your country, or prevents you from getting insurance, etc., it does.

But no, DDG doesn't offer a paid option, as far as I know. (I also doubt there would be a sufficient market for that.)
Sure I don't want to be treated like that, but animal well being? I don't care. This just mean I care more than my own well being compare to animal well being and I don't have problem with that.
> New members have mentors who are responsible for them.

Does that imply that if you vouch for a new member that you are also expelled if they are or share the cost of their fuckups?
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It goes further, a Twitter verified PhD in molecular biology calls it "deeply disturbing and unacceptable":

> This study is so deeply disturbing and unacceptable. Studies that link genetics to intelligence/achievement are so deeply dangerous. Yet scientists jump into them without taking into account the social context in which they're doing their work.

https://twitter.com/webmz_/status/1053353974764634112
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I like to blame it on the people. They're not the source of pollution/production but they keep being lazy and immaturely wasteful.

By abstract labour you mean like overly specific high rate tasks instead of craftmanship ?
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Because I am curious about such things and had a moment I went and looked it up. In the UK payment for order flow is effectively banned (there are some firms who are trying to say they aren't brokers so it isn't payment for order flow but the FCA has taken a dim view of this practice).

https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/thematic-reviews/tr14-13....

So for as long as freetrade is UK only I think you can probably assume they aren't receiving payment for order flow.
> It’s completely impossible to outlaw a corporation’s or any agent’s influence on society.

Honestly. We would have to ban all marketing and mass media. The only other solution I can think of is to subject all relevant industries to some democratic process, and I don't think anybody really wants that.
You could also argue improved technology allowed for more detailed narratives. Hand copying scrolls and books means only the essential details of a narrative would be recorded.

Hyper linking means you could now conceptually write a story from every character's perspective and switch between them with a click.
It's becoming increasingly clear that in the current environment, algorithms trained on real-world data that produce politically inconvenient results will be decried as X-ist, and either disregarded or fiddled with until the results they produce are inoffensive.
It might be very well the case like slavery. So until the other side win and I'm forced to not allowed to eat meat then I'll continue to eat meat.
Sure, I agree that I may not necessarily want to trust the organisations they trust or indeed mistrust the organisations they mistrust. Or to put it another way, my web of trust may differ from theirs.

But the OP was for example talking about potentially wanting to "exclude Apple" which would, IMHO, be nonsensical on Apple's OS.
I think they're trying to say OP made a contradiction. On one hand, they think its a non-issue, yet on the other hand they admit that when quantum becomes an every day reality we will have to change everything.
Several (requests, pipenv, maya) are by the same author.
>The attack on human bias is totally silly.

Ugly short men in a corporate environments have to swim against the tide because everyone instinctively thinks less of them. Tall handsome men get automatic adoration. Prejudice is irrational and harmful. Bill Gates and Bezos are too short to be CEOs. The world is filled with irrational biases that do more harm than good.
Snagit; saving us from this since 1990.
But that was already the case, wasn't it?

Store those packets long enough and even ordinary, non-quantum computers will become fast enough to factor the requisite large numbers within a reasonable period of time to unlock the comparatively primitive encryption which had been in use back when the packets were captured.

We're really just saying that quantum computers could theoretically decrypt those old stored packets sooner than the non-quantum computers will be able to do it.

But the non-quantum computers will definitely be able to do it someday. Those stored packets are not staying encrypted forever, regardless of whether or not quantum computing is eventually made to work effectively and efficiently and economically.
The SE dragged down apple’s average selling price, which is a key metric Tim Cook optimizes for. You can see how the SE brought down the ASP when it was launched Q2 2016: https://www.statista.com/chart/15379/iphone-asp/

If they bring back an SE-sized device it will be a high end one, a X SE for example with the screen size of the iphone 8 in an SE-sized body. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them launch that within 6 months and as a current SE owner I would definitely buy it.
How does it compare to:

FarmHash

CityHash

SMHasher

MetroHash

FNV1a_YT

Note that if you're just using it for a hash table, where you'll compare the full strings to resolve hash collisions, you don't actually need good randomness. FNV1A_VT is faster than most, has worse collision properties, yet provides a faster overall hash table, because the faster hash (every operation) outweighs the extra full string checks (rare).

https://github.com/rurban/smhasher
It's not about trust (at least for me). It's about the credibility of the account. "Journalists got something wrong" is a lot easier for me to believe than "there is a massive conspiracy to cover something up and there just so happens to be no evidence of it besides our say so."
I need support for jumbo frames on the external interface. Intel NICs provide it, most other brands don't.
Check Baidu: http://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&wd=%22american+scientists%22

Result #6 is the list of African-American inventors and scientists on Wikipedia. Unless Baidu has the same ideological biases as Google (would be strange), the most likely explanation is that it's driven by n-gram frequencies.
True. I do remain skeptical. I just really hope he's right.

The opposition feels like concern trolling. I've been in Allan Savory's position a few times. For instance, a local newspaper called me "a sweaty paranoid kook" in the late 2000s. Today, all we can talk about is election integrity.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi

I promise you that if Savory is debunked, I'll update my position accordingly.
But it does operate this way, of course. It is just the same effect that causes "earth society" to mostly show results about the superstring "flat earth society"
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