skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that consumerism doesn't work, but what would most anti-consumerist advocates/thinkers describe as the opposite of consumerism?

It seems to me that at least certain aspects of consumerism work. Labor saving appliances like washing machines, slow cookers, microwaves, and vacuums make life much easier and less stressful. Media like TV, movies, and video games seem to provide legitimate entertainment.

I'm not trying to setup a straw man that anti-consumerist are saying we need to go back to the stone age. I'm just not sure where a society/philosophical movement should draw the line.

What makes the most sense to me would be to return to quality goods over mass production (e.g. emphasis on permaculture, the ability to repair goods, opposition to planned obsolescence, etc.) combined with emphasis of gratitude and a balanced approach to minimalism. However, I'm not sure if this approach is available to people who are not well of financially.
Unfortunately that’s a problem regardless of quantum computing because the computational power of classical computing continues to even without the threat of QC on the horizon.
Not a native speaker, I don't understand the meaning of "filled up urns for meeting rooms"?
I wonder about the Joules per byte. AFAIK AVX units are quite expensive energy-wise.
It's not hard the understand, everyone its different, me too if you might say sociopath againts animal, the only thing that make me care animal well being is nothing to do with the animal itself but much to do with the other human who care about it.
Not sure if you were seriously proposing this, but eating things that died of old age is not likely to be a good idea. One of the reasons that killing is part of creating food is that you know what state the animal's body is in: it's not sick, it hasn't started decomposing, and similar.
I am down for a ban on all marketing and mass media :p

But really, think there is a difference in trying to get me to buy your microwave and a small group of people attempting to retrain the masses on social issues -- according to their views -- "for the good of everybody".

It's really hard for me to understand how anybody can think it would be good for any small group, no matter how much good they think they are doing, or how pure their intent is to have the power to change the masses, little alone be allowed to use such power.

Things are complicated one wrong step and these people can break society.
Great article. I agree that the meat industry thrives on the fact that most people see animals at assets/property. They dont treat them as entities who are entitled to live their life, like we do with other humans. The analogy to slavery is interesting and I have no doubt in generations from now we will look back on these days as savage and uncivilized. This is essentially a cultural problem with a ton of history behind it which is why meat consumers tend to be sensitive about to topic.

But science is on our side here (I'm talking to you, intelligent, rational HN readers). Technology can solve the problems with efficiency and taste by making alternatives accessible and cheaper. And then you have the scientist/public figures in this article. These are the folks who should be bringing awareness to the masses. I think we need to slowly legislate away this cruelty and destruction of the environment. Much like the gay rights bills and tobacco legislation that has come and gone over the years. We need to take baby steps to make animal production impossibly difficult.
> Buit this is the point: The US appears to have better 5 year survival rates for prostate cancer because they massively over diagnos cancers thatwould otherwise not kill the patient.

The methodology of that study is highly suspect, but even if we took it at face value - the magnitude of the effect that they propose is nowhere near enough to explain the difference in survival rates by overdiagnosis alone. It's a drop in the bucket.
I think it’s important to bear in mind that most machine learning models still aren’t very good, and the main problem you’ll encounter with them isn’t bias, it’s whether or not they’re producing gibberish. In this thread we seem to have assumed that ML is generally trustworthy, and I doubt very much that it is.

What we may be debating is whether gibberish is more or less morally good depending on whether it includes race and gender.
Hm, at first I thought that they went with "padStart" instead of "padLeft" to address RTL languages, but the documentation still says

> The padding is applied from the start (left) of the current string.

I wonder if they just didn't want the "pad-left" stigma.
Don't they also tend to work at a lower clock due to their higher energy requirements?

edit: though this is AVX2 ("AVX-256") rather than AVX-512, and Lemire has covered AVX and the possibility of throttling (with or without AVX) in the past so they're probably aware of the potential issue and consider that they either won't get triggered or the gain is good enough to compensate the lower frequency.
So doubling or tripling everyone's salaries, making workweeks 4 days of 6 hours each, and firing all business and management majors and replacing them with engineers is not the path to a successful company?
42 percent of new cancer patients _in the united states_

The rest of the developed world has a healthcare system.
Wouldn't those be lap bottoms then?
Not-Google will exploit your personal data as hard as they can. But so will Google -- why do you expect them to leave money on the table?
I've made a similar point to yours myself in the past, and people really don't like hearing it.

I guess part of the problem is that Gates just so happens to have deployed his vast wealth for good, whereas there are plenty of very rich people that are ambivalent at best and (depending on your political viewpoint) negative at worst i.e. rich people funding climate-sceptic organisations.

On balance though I'm sticking to my point, which is that all the people preaching on incessantly about why us evil unenlightened need to mend our ways would do far better to shut up, make a stack of money being an evil capitalist, and then give it all away to their noble cause of preference.
I've not seen a phone book since moving to Norway, and just realized it after reading your comment. In the states, I'd get at least one every year - sometimes two - and it didn't matter if I wanted one or not. I honestly think they print them because businesses pay to be in them.
Laziness and wastefulness are qualities produced by the surroundings, that is to say, in a culture in which abundance is possible, items mean less, as does their disposal. I don't think they are innate human qualities, at least, not fully. The question is to what extent the capitalist mode of production instills these attitudes and thoughts through ideology.

By abstract labour I mean the property of labour as valuable in an economy rather than as the concrete action of producing useful items. A related term is commodification, which transforms purely useful items into commodities by making them comparable (i.e bestowing the property of abstract labour). Abstract labour is what makes a coat and 20 yards of linen comparable and tradeable, and as a consequence of this, money is the general equivalent form for trading.

The focus on high rate tasks instead of craftsmanship ties into the (again related) concept of alienation of labour, which is more obvious in late capitalism.
Autopsy of a phishing attempt
Fido isn't even a real carrier. It's more that Rogers (along with the other carriers) has chosen to artificially restrict Apple Watch support to only its most expensive plans.
Amazing. E pur si muove.
That’s true, but the absolute values of the timeframes involved are quite different. Classical computing is speeding up, for sure, but breaking RSA-4096 (as an example) will take significantly longer to be feasible than the 10-20 year estimate for quantum computers. That’s assuming that classical computers are still roughly following Moore’s Law. For quantum computers, the difference between RSA-2048 and RSA-4096 is pretty negligible (it’s linear) while it’s exponentially more difficult for classical computers.

10-20 years a short enough timeframe that all sorts of PII could remain useful. Some people haven’t changed their passwords in a decade or two. If you extend those timeframes out over 100+ years then the sensitivity of PII begins to decline pretty significantly, though admittedly not to zero.
If one wants the content of this article in podcast format, the researcher was interviewed in one of the latest episodes of Data Skeptic (an excellent pod cast, by the way): https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2018/deepfakes
"The harvest is plentiful, the laborers few."

If you knew this stuff as well as you think you do, you'd have more ideas than time. The field is a disaster.
You're in such a rush to shoot down the idea that you haven't taken 3 seconds to realize how trivial it is to create a podcast site/app with thousands of podcasts but no users. Users are the chicken and the egg, just as they are for the podcasters who spend more time and money on audience-building than on podcasting.
Wouldn’t the members each be legally liable for anything that goes wrong?
If one has a cognitive distortion it's better to talk back to that distortion. Why should these aspects of so called identity be important to how I feel anyway?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeling_Good:_The_New_Mood_The...
Are you able to easily tap the opposite upper corner when holding it with one hand (eg. the back button when using your right hand)? I have big hands and even then have issues doing this on an iPhone SE.
As a founder, I’m working on diversifying my identity by learning mandolin, reading more fiction, and running again. The funny thing is I’m actually more effective at work when I take time for myself outside of the company. In the moment it’s hard to give myself the permission, but I almost never regret it now.
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I'm still looking. Please tell us if you find something.

My 1/2 baked notion is to meet with family ranchers, start talking about active management, build alliances with some tree huggers, enlist the help of their (likely conservative) legislators (state and federal). Maybe start in Wyoming. The messaging would be terrific. Maybe enough to blunt the counter attacks from Big Ag.

My other 1/2 baked notion is to enlist the Tim Ferriss types (health nuts, earliest adopters), pitch vat meat as a veganism meets paleo paradox buster, better than current protein sources (eg whey), create demand from the top-down.
>I have predicted that from the day Gatekeeper was invented.

And I have predicted people like you are wrong because there is no hardware backing for it yet, unless by "the future" you mean literally a good decade or more down the line which for tech is getting into really hazy land. But equating the Mac to iOS devices right now just plain makes no sense because the Mac doesn't have that whole hardware chain. iOS isn't magic, while I think Apple's level of lockdown should be illegal on a cultural level on a technical level what enables it is the hardware. On the Mac maybe the newest ones with Apple's T-series chips represents first steps in that direction, and of course if Apple does in fact someday decide to switch the Mac from x86 to their own ARM-based processors they'd have far more power there. But even that doesn't solve the legacy issue, and at this point Apple has built a great deal of culture and brand around supporting hardware for a long time. They still support Mojave officially on 2010 Mac Pros [1] for example, and right now they're still selling new Macs without even T-chips. Sure, it's not impossible that they could release an ARM Mac system in 2020 and then immediately put all "legacy Macs" on life support [2], but that'd a big a pretty surprising choice wouldn't it? It'd engender a lot of justified fury.

>If this changes some day, I already know what I tell the users of my program, though

I hope you realize how pointless this is likely to be? It'd be better to work on a political answer around it and inform your users accordingly.

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1: A few unfortunate caveats around features hampered by the MP's very old EFI aside, which is a complex discussion on its own.

2: Though I'd expect lawsuits over a decision like that at least in the EU.
That's the thing.

While we don't deny the "clear rhetorical turn that started with the western novel (or shakespeare)", I (and I think the parent) believe that this turn was in fact a return (to what e.g. ancient Greek, Chinese, etc literature did: talk about feelings) and not some wholly new direction.
The Cooshee, or course. I bought one in 2001 and all 7 of my kids have used it.

https://www.babysmart.com/copy-home
Real-World Examples of How the Minimum Wage Harms Workers
>I interpeted “feelings” as “explicit emotional introspection”. There’s a little of this in the Oddysey

Huh? There's lots of this in Oddysey. Even more so in ancient tragedy, and whole lots in lyrical poetry, Sappho etc.
The articles were pretty clear on that his methods were never working. I have nothing against him I really liked his theory at first.
If you fear that... don't buy one.

It's a nice phone to have in your pocket with the screen off, so you can run instant-message apps, can phone your ex or optionally other people, can run 2FA apps, and so on and so forth. It's not a nice phone if you want to have the screen on.

Unobtrusive and within reach: Yes. Use very much: No.
Without a more in-depth analysis of where the study goes wrong, I'm afraid I can't simply take someone's word for it merely because they have a PhD next to their name.
A paper dictionary is nice when reading a paper book. I seem to have two "flows" in my brain, one for reading on paper and one for interacting with a computer screen. Looking up a word on the computer seems to break up one flow with the other, whereas I don't have the same problem flipping through a book.
Nice. So I understand that AVX2 is not bringing the CPU's clock down.

Got any sources for power consumption figures/comparisons of those AVX units?
I don’t think there’s such a thing as “inclusive” long term prospering community. If you can’t ban a-holes you will lose all positive forces acting on your side.
In the United States it’s still a law in many states that landline providers are required to provide a printed white pages, which they subsidize with yellow pages (ads). It’s a legal anachronism.
> The emergence of the novel in the 18th and 19th centuries introduced omniscient narrators who could penetrate their characters’ psyches, at times probing motives that were opaque to the characters themselves. And by the 20th century, many authors labored not just to describe, but to simulate the psychological experience of characters.

What about Scipio's Dream by Cicero?
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cicero_dream_of_scipio_02_... One of the earliest psychoanalytical novel I know.
searched for the previous version of the title and couldn't find it. clear now.
This resonates a lot with me. I recently ran into a somewhat similar situation and I was grateful that I had read Mark Manson's article about the same topic[1] a while back. It allowed me to recognize and address the underlying issue fairly quickly.

[1] https://markmanson.net/diversify-your-identity
> indoctrinated to think of meat as a staple food

Generally agree, although I think this is slightly the wrong way 'round. Meat was definitely a luxury, as recently as a century ago. (Speaking of the U.S. here.) Then we had an explosion of a (relatively) wealthy middle-class, who could afford lots of things that were formerly luxuries. And those things became expected, they became part of the culture, and they became commodified. I don't think there's any nefarious conspiracy, it's classic tragedy of the commons: everybody individually wants steak for dinner; the social price doesn't become clear until much later.
-against our own biases- we are evaluating and validating models all the time. There are many, many models with acceptable accuracy that we rely on every day.

I think this is a myopic view of the current state of ML.
> Porsche

> Fewer problems makes you happier.

Ironically the "old clunker" is likely to generate fewer problems that cost less.

I recently had someone complain to me about getting their newer BMW serviced at service centers; I told them you could always buy a 10 year old car that you could take anywhere; like me.
So what's happening lately is that tech giants have gotten into the business of dictating how the world should be. No one was consulted about it, it was not put to a vote, it simply began, and over the last few years it's increasing in amplitude.

The problem with them using words like 'fairness' is anyone who disagrees with what they're doing is immediately put on the defensive and labelled as 'unfair'. This is far from the truth though, as what society today is actually doing, is trying to figure out exactly what 'fair' should mean. Google et al just took it upon themselves to start pushing their particular brand of fairness onto society and acting as if it's the most natural widely-accepted common sense.

Google's idea of fairness is to build ML solutions that don't accurately predict the world, but rather inject Google biases into the predictions in order to bias some real-world process, and ultimately change the distribution of some factors in the real world according Google's image of how things should be. Not enough <demographic> represented in the workforce? Bias the candidate selection model to equalize it. Some <demographic> is over-represented in crime statistics? Bias jail sentencing model to be more lenient on them and hope it equalizes their representation in stats over time.

This is not inherently a bad mechanism, but it's an extremely powerful mechanism with far-reaching consequences, and it is currently controlled by a small number of people at the top of the US tech industry, with no checks or oversight. I worry that there's a strong possibility that the long term effects of messing around with these levers have not been considered. We have done serious unintentional damage with far smaller levers like the Australian Rabbit Plague.

I don't know what 'fairness' should actually mean in modern society, but we definitely need to be aware that the US tech industry is hijacking the term to fit their agenda, and need to be checked. And the exact nature of the biases they're injecting should definitely be made transparent and put to public debate.
We used the dictionary. It was three inches thick, while the phone book was less than half an inch.
https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherma...

"The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos.”"
I feel like we must have done enough twin studies over the years at this point to conclusively say that genetic heritage is the most significant factor for a whole host of ourcomes. Environmental factors are alluring, because they offer the potential that something can be done, through toil and good works, to achieve improvements, rather than the more Calvinist tyranny of genetics.
it worked for Google....
Why would you assume that simplistic (and not fault tolerant) approach is why you get that result?
This sound bite from WNYC Marketplace [1] reminded me of how shakey creative industry has always been.

"Who cares how long people watch videos on facebook? News organizations...thinking video was where the ad money was."
[...]

Ben Bradford (reporting). [...] Just months after he was hired, Gonzales was let go [as a video producer for Mic].

Gabe. And we started seeing the same happen everywere. Any you know I think at that point you realize the jig is up, right?

[1]: [Marketplace Business: A look back at the "pivot to video" after a new lawsuit alleges Facebook misled about video viewership](https://www.marketplace.org/2018/10/18/economy/facebook-pivo...)
Personal observation - I cannot provide a study for that. As far as I can tell parents (or who ever raises a child most of the time) is the reference point for personal development. That either manifests in emulation or rebellion - depending on the quality of the relationship and the phase a child is going through. But in the long run the similarities outweigh the differences. A bit like a photo and its negative - both convey the same information but look very different.
This isn't about "appearing taboo", it's remembering that data is always the product of the environment that created it. If you are using e.g. housing data, naively applying the data directly bakes in, for example, the decades of redlining, blockbusting, restrictive covenants, etc. Many cities are still segregated today, decades after redlining/etc ended.

Lets say you are writing ML related to loan applications or deciding if someone gets parole. Do you want to "accurately" look at the historical data? Or should the decision also include the context of that data with an eye towards making a decision that is more socially appropriate than perpetuating the racism of the past?
Europeans don't like PC culture anymore than Americans do. The rapid and sudden rise of nationalism and nationalist political parties across Europe proves you wrong.
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Most contemporary fiction is not like David Foster Wallace. Literary fiction is special subset of fiction that moves its own way, have its own audience, habits and so on.
What is the pill he took at the beginning of the video. Has anyone tried that pill to stay focused ?
I imagine that state intelligence agencies are logging all encrypted communication today in the hopes that it will be much easier to decrypt them at some point in the future. That’s terrifying.
I have a feeling there will always be a way to detect trace footprints of a 'fake' but assuming the technology is perfected, what is the best way to verify that a Deepfake video is not you without analyzing the video?

Thinking on this I feel like the future might require that we record our every move via some sort of verified GPS service so that you can corroborate your whereabouts. Maybe their service comes with a video recording device that can show no, 'at this date + time client was at a McDonalds drive through at 41°24'12.2"N 2°10'26.5"E here is a 452 second video of their engagement' which would overlap the supposed Deepfake timeline/video

Thoughts?

I imagine if the service is publicly trusted/credible then it would not need to expose the actual details of the client's whereabouts, it could just issue a true/false verification on a Deepfake based on the data held privately.
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Not that I necessarily agree with what she's saying, her comment isn't on where "the study goes wrong", but rather about the fact of the study itself.

In the same way that, for instance, an evil genius can be said to have created a "good" bomb, the "good" here refers to its efficiency, the number of people it can kill, the speed at which it can be activated etc. but these qualities speak nothing of whether the bomb is a good thing - for that question you need to consult the context in which it was made, and the question is of course different and mostly irrelevant to the technical parameters of the bomb. The ethics of killing have nothing to do with how long the blade of your knife is.