skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have safe search on, all the results should be non nude, non adult.

I reread the article, and see where I went wrong. They mix up two issues: bing returning odd suggestions with safe search on, and bing returning results for searches for illegal material with safe search off.

I had thought they were only talking about safe search being on.

In my misreading, I made the assumption that Bing would never return illegal results for searches for children, as it would never return pornography since safe search is on. Apologies to the OP.
I think this is pretty common across industries where a platform acts as an aggregator/marketplace. Case in point services like Amazon.com, Netflix have their own brands/content as well. Netflix is known for using data of people's content consumption to make new content. I think this makes sense for two reasons:-

- Tighter control over what you produce, so higher margins and potential differentiators(like the burger example in article).

- Acts as a defensible strategy for the aggregator if it can tie these brands with itself.

The only scary thing is when these marketplaces/aggregators just kill small businesses because of controlling the "storefront", discovery and leveraging economies of scale. Example search in Amazon: https://imgur.com/a/zHDueIk
Sure, but parent is talking specifically about heavy-R research labs (he mentions Intel labs, Amazon Lab126, etc), not more D-oriented data science or ML positions.
> Depends on the persons age and maturity level too. At some point shiny new cars and other trinkets are not really what makes you happy...

I don't know if I agree with that. Just because those things don't make you happy doesn't mean there aren't other things you can do with money that make you happy. Or maybe I just haven't matured enough yet?

At least I think I am at the point I don't care too much about having a fancy car or nice house.

Still, the thing that I have found to increase my happiness the most is giving it to someone else and seeing someone be really grateful. If I had more money I could do the same thing but to more people probably.

And probably just knowing that I have enough money that I don't need to worry would increase my happiness significantly. Even better would be that my parents don't have to work.
Same in VWs that have lane assist. Tesla just figures out how to rebrand lane assist. No reason the other auto companies couldn’t remove the distance limitation on lane assist and the it up to their nav system.
The inequality slope is increasing. There's a fairly large upper middle class of people who work+commute long hours and are prepared to pay for extreme convenience. While at the same time there's also a precariat of people for whom earning a small and variable amount outside normal working hours sounds like a good idea, providing cheap labour to these services.

https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/02/changing-relative-pri... : "In Agatha Christie's autobiography, she mentioned how she never thought she would ever be wealthy enough to own a car - nor so poor that she wouldn't have servants..."

Perhaps that is now reversing. Or the gap is wide enough to have a servant with a car.
Montoya is still prescribing Valcyte for patients even though his own study found that there was no significant difference between Valcyte and placebo (even though the Valcyte arm had more symptoms at baseline):

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jmv.23713
It’s usually good enough for me 90-95% and if I need something that google does better I’ll just use !sp as a proxy to those results. !g is a last resort.
Electric scooters do not go faster than bikes. Your concern is misplaced.
>I think both you and the author of the article are making the same mistake here.

Maybe?

>If you have a nonlinear function f on a vector space, there's no reason why an orthogonal basis for that space will give a better parameterization than a nonorthogonal basis.

I don't think I made that claim. Here's all I'm saying: To whatever degree the features of interest are linearized in the latent space (and there's really no guarantee that they are), we don't have any guarantee that those linear features are orthogonal to one another, so tuning the latent representation along one feature will also impact others.

> (For example, take f(x,y) = (x-y,y). Then f(x,0)=(x,0) and f(y,y)=(0,y), so "correlated" input directions (1,0) and (1,1) are mapped to "independent" or orthogonal outputs.)

That's true, but remember that the nonlinear mapping is from our latent space (spanned by uniformly random 512-element input vectors) to pixel space. We really don't care about linear algebra in pixel space. I have zero expectation that we would preserve orthogonality from latent to pixel space.

I don't think any part of the GAN objective requires that these interesting features actually be linearized in the latent space (obviously they are not in pixel space), but the approach is to use a GLM to find the latent vectors that best fit the features anyway. Whether or not the vectors you identify with the GLM really retain their semantic meaning through the latent space, they're also clearly not orthogonal, so changing the latent representation along one dimension also changes others.
Everything you wear is athleisure
I'm almost in agreement... I'd rather have centralized and constantly updated/audited standards which are mandated for all national level elections, and are enforced rigorously with federally funded programs.

The actual implementation of how these standards are met should be left to the states. Updating the standards to eliminate exploits and loopholes would minimize gaming of the system.

Ideally I also feel that somehow the entire nation should be incented to increase voting %. Just not sure how to do that though without creating unforeseen consequences.
Hoping this is false! IBM is the worst of acquirers and they treat their people like utter garbage, especially the more experienced ones.

If there's any truth to this, it means those in charge have basically given up - assuming growth is capped and/or that the big return of a buyout premium would counter recent stock pricing setbacks.

(Update: now officially announced!)
The upside inherent in fifty parallel and bespoke experiments in government is worth the extra complexity and cost. Ideas are tried out, and can bubble outward and upward if they work. Bad ideas directly impact only ~2% of the country.

Don't agree. Just look at the history of Alec to see how local and regional governments are easily captured by self-serving actors. These are nice sentiments but the underlying assumptions are painfully naive.
Is this event comparable to when Oracle bought Sun? Should we expect IBM to rip RH apart and alienate all existing customers?
That time never stopped here in the big-city parts of Canada. The US housing crisis was a speed-bump in our endless upward price-march out of affordability.
You are creating a straw-men. The GP clearly wasn't talking about the top 1%.
> In the article, the person who resigned is presented as a respected expert on the subject. Maybe that person has more context that didn't make it into the article.

it’s not a context thing, it’s (as the article makes clear) a complete disagreement over your point #3. She does not believe the trust should be empowered to hold the de-anonymized raw data at all or grant acccess to it to any party at all, over concerns that it is both too valuable a hacking target and that companies will be incentivized to ask for as much data as they can get whether or not they “need” it. She has little faith in the ability of contracts to enforce data access and deletion policies on private companies (nor should she, in my opinion, as we’ve seen how little impact they had on restraining the (mis-)use of Facebook data)
This makes it sound like double is a big proportion. But given how much of the wealth the rich control, I'd expect it to be closer to 80 or 90% of tax coming from the rich. They just don't need it.
Privacy-preserving AI 101
You can stick !g or any of those at almost every place in the query. In fact, if it is at the end you can omit the space.
Trump Administration Approves a Plan to Drill for Oil in the Arctic
Hey, these all sound like very good hints on how to use Slack, especially the consensus on decision making. Maybe we have used Slack wrong, but especially the context was important for me and Slack threads are hard to enforce, you can "break out of the jail" easily, often by mistake.
some express lanes on highways, for example, switch direction based on the time of day

shut off lights that aren't illuminating anything

These are examples of existing technology which most people don't consider "smart" --- the word is reserved more for the new technologies that also contain pervasive data collection.
There's a lot of work being done on making Java more container friendly. E.g., Project Portola [1] (Java on Alpine Linux), jlink and modules, and Valhalla would likely reduce memory consumption. You can even compile some Java apps AOT these days with native-image. Plus, there are plenty of lightweight alternatives to Spring.

[1]: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/portola/
The problem with #3 is that they _already_ doing that with the fisa courts and it's a shit show. In our current system, they rubber stamp every warrant that is presented to the court with no oversight[0].

[0]:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/president-obama-called...
Confessions of a Flawed Designer
Short, medium and long.

Researchers could not find other lengths although they hypothesized that if someone wanted they could create a “mega” category. “It’s possible,” they concluded.
The recession is coming. We're in the 2nd longest expansion in US history (at ~10 years), and the contraction is on the horizon. Liquidating a property now, waiting for the recession to hit, and sticking the money into a low-fee index fund seems pretty reasonable. Maybe a financial advisor could check in and let us know if that's a valid strategy? I've been thinking of doing something similar.
In that case, you may enjoy https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy

Or its siblings, including https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs
It's worse, IMHO. IBM treats their customers as prey just like Oracle plus they treat their own people worse. I know people who've had the IBM licensing ninja squad show up at their door for surprise validation with a big bill as a result.
I'm not familiar with that site, I don't see any way of passing arguments to the compiler.

To reproduce you have to compile with "-fsanitize=undefined", as in:

gcc -fsanitize=undefined -o test test.c
./test

(clang also works with the exact same command line)
Personally, I find it more helpful to move the locus of control inwards and teach myself how to be productive in a diversity of circumstances. In this case, that would mean being more intentional about how I use Slack, and managing others’ expectations of their Slack messages to me. If you have a coworker who expects broad latitude to demand your undivided attention at a moment’s notice at any time, then that’s a problem that isn’t necessarily exclusive to Slack. More realistically, it’s fine if you batch Slack communications in your down moments like you would for any other communications (email).
That's not the fundamental issue unfortunately.

I do trust random taxi drivers and I do trust arbitrary individuals to cook for me (trust is a bad word to use here; rather, I think the positives outweigh the negatives, I'd rather pay less and take some small risks).

But regulation in these areas doesn't apply because I might get into trouble. With food it's about preventing illness outbreak, with taxis it's about preventing massive congestion. At least, that's the goal (in practice the regulation gets corrupted).
Wow, if this is true, my condolences. I was a former IBMer and Red Hat folks, your world is about to be turned upside down.
> I think this is pretty common across industries where a platform acts as an aggregator/marketplace. Case in point services like Amazon.com, Netflix have their own brands/content as well. Netflix is known for using data of people's content consumption to make new content. I think this makes sense for two reasons:-

In this case it's quite different, I believe, in that Uber will notice an underserved market and reach out to existing players/small business in that area to expand into that market. This sounds very different than Uber using their market knowledge to create a competitive advantage for themselves.
Cable TV? I am quite sure in the future we are going to pay almost the same amount what people were paying for cable TV. Not all content is available on each service so in the end people will end up subscribing for Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, Disney whatever etc. Plus more for sports. Also, good luck to people who don't have true unlimited plans, as streaming all those high definition bits over the internet just means paying your ISP more.
The problem is that if airlines ever takes away your airmiles points because your bought a leonardo di caprio fake poster from aliexpress I wouldn't miss them at all. I would just delete their email and move on.

The issue with Google is that they can ban you from all their services for "trying to act oversmart". I know startups that had their whole gmail/drive/docs suspended and everything purged because one of their dev had a banned account. My colleague had his google account banned because he resold the pixel (http://fortune.com/2016/11/17/google-pixel-ban/)

I had one account banned because they did not allow paypal after they launched google wallet. And they banned a second account for being "related to first account"

Because google does not have customer support for gmail/drive they run amok with the ban hammer. If you don't mind being suspended for all google accounts for absurd reasons then yes you are right, this is a non-issue.
The only positive side I can think of is that, Microsoft did not buy RH before IBM does.

This is a threat to OSS, sadly.

Maybe Google or Amazon will buy Canonical soon?
I'm not so convinced that we are entering a recession.

I think we will more likely enter a dystopian phase to squeeze out more money from the workforce.
Post-WWII the US home ownership rate increased from under 50% to between 60% and 70% and has stayed there ever since. https://dqydj.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/historical_home...

I'd argue that this makes for a bad public policy environment. With such a high levels of concentrated investment in a single asset class political manipulation of that asset class isn't just tempting, it's practically a political necessity. What the voters demand is impossible to sustain forever (monotonically increasing nominal prices and above the rate of general inflation growth over every five year period), but with such high political pressure politicians try anyway.
Rust GC?
I see IBM as being worse than MS as a company. They have steadily imploded over the last 20 years.
A personal anecdote: recently I came quite close to being diagnosed with CFS or fibromyalgia but luckily found out I have primary hyperparathyroidism. I have no idea how all the doctors could have missed it, I had to figure it out myself.

"Of all the missed diagnoses of ME/CFS and fibromyalgia, primary hyperparathyroidism proves to be one of the most tragic simply as a result of how treatable the condition is relative to the suffering it can cause." https://phoenixrising.me/archives/23988
> I'm not talking about Europe at all.

It's awesome if you agree that "white privilege" is nonsense outside of US. But I bumped into way too many people who bring this bullshit to Europe as well. Hearing about that in Eastern europe is even funnier.

Why post your american-centric stuff as reply to euro post then?

> Most European societies are extremely homogenous

You might want to double-check that. And I'm not even talking about recent migration in Western Europe. For example, 25% of Estonia population is Russian. South Tyrol. Whole Switzerland is one big multi-lingual clusterfuck. Different parts of UK are not exactly identical either. Spain/Catalunya thing is kinda interesting too. Jewish communities are smaller (or entirely deleted) nowadays, but there's still a lot of memory in general population.

> It's actually humorous that you believe white privilege = someone gives you money.

I'm not talking about money either.
> until most of them use different versions, so you will miss out on the advantage of dynamic linking anyway -- updating a library would only fix security holes in a subset of your programs. You might as well just statically link everything and call it a day.

Please don't. Especially if I don't have your source code.

A reduced amount of binaries to upgrade is only the tip of the iceberg.

Even if I have 10 programs using 10 different versions of the same library, dynamic linking is a better choice than static linking.

Because it allows security upgrades, independently of any collaboration with the vendors of these 10 programs.
OK, I get that you object to the blogger "surfacing" this book at all.

More generally, though, a lot of people pay attention to value cues like the simple fact that something has been professionally published. With books, I'm sure you would agree that there are multiple filters that people apply. The general availability of a book attests to the fact that it passed some kind of quality control, however feeble.

The general condition when it comes to reviewing is that the products are out there anyway, so both positive and negative reviews are appropriate. The tradition of literary book reviews (e.g. the NYRB, LRB) is to turn the review into an timely essay, maybe cover a few recent releases, express an opinion, pass on the most interesting facts etc. The point is to make the review a self-contained literary work, capable of being read for its own sake, for information or for pleasure.

I think that's what this blog post does, it takes something curious and makes an entertaining story out of it. You might think that this isn't "worth other people's time", in the sense that it doesn't advance an alternative, more relevant approach to covering the book's subject matter. But the review is potentially worth their time if it sheds light on anything (academic eccentricity, the importance of typesetting in scholarly work, anxieties about systemic racism in 21st C academic writing, etc.)

There's another discussion to be had about fields where negative reviews are rare, like visual art. In that case, publishing any review at all does serve to draw attention to/advertise/"surface" the artwork in question. Critics aren't really able to distance themselves from the world of artists and curators, so they can't really say anything too negative.

But that's a bit of a digression.

The book might not be worth people's time as a CS text. That doesn't mean the blog post isn't worth their time as a reflection on other phenomena.

Underwood Dudley wrote multiple books about mathematical cranks. Cranks get a bad press for wasting mathematicians' time and being impossible to convince of the errors in their work. But isn't the phenomenon of crank culture interesting, and couldn't it potentially teach us something about human nature?
Agreed. Hollywood wanted a formula and found one in Campbell. After reading that book or others about the "hero's journey" most mainstream films are quite bland. Having said that, there are only 7 notes in the major scale and look what that's done for us...
RedHat can be replicated. Not cheap, and it will take a few years. What do I mean? Well, IBM will slaughter this goose very quickly. Customers will experience vendor hate to a high degree. But, RH is based on open source. A replacement, open source friendly, can fork RHEL at any time.
Let me rephrase. I don't have much skin in erubin and oldandtired's particular talking points on this post in HN. Happy?
US now has first and third most powerful supercomputers
very cool, yeah I think there are a few novel concepts that texas brings to the table, but I'm super excited to see more projects are trying to leverage persistent connections to make SSR viable again. I believe SSR is not only viable, but optimal given the right techniques. Hopefully texas is pursuing all the most optimal abstractions to make this work, and I think it is, but I'm excited to see more people thinking about this. Time will tell I guess!
This is terrible news. I hope its not true.
Ah, thank you for explaining.
Author here.

I have never used IRC in a company, so I can't compare. Slack is the topic, because we used Slack. If we have had used IRC or HipChat or Microsoft Teams, then maybe we have come to the same conclusion.

Yes, summarization is important. However switching to E-Mail causes all its problems. New colleagues don't have the mails for example. Basecamp has chat and a forum/message board or todolists. We can easily link between these.
The next level disruption. Taking an industry that is known for absolutely horrible almost non-existing cupstormer service (for everyone not paying tons of extra money), and just remove the customer service entirely.

I'm sure he's heard tons of stories from other airlines spending a lot of money on difficult edge case support issues and just thought: "So basically people with large problems are calling our support staff by phone to resolve those issues..... I thing the phone line is the problem!"

I will say it's nice of them to be up front about it. That makes it easy to just add them next to Reyanair and Delta in the list of airlines I don't want to go into my search for tickets.
> Alarmingly, Google now deploys hidden trackers on 76% of websites across the web to monitor your behavior

Is this referring to Google Analytics? If so, I feel like "Google deploys" isn't quite fair compared to "Google's tracker is deployed" or something to that effect. But in any case, the phrasing is confusing enough to me to post here, since I want to know if it means something other than GA, which I understand and can block with uMatrix.
> One thing that's really helped us is that, by consensus...

This is why the things that work for you don't work for others: Communication requires that all (or at least a significant majority) of parties agree to a protocol. It's not enough for a lone employee to start putting up Do Not Disturb when the culture insists on real-time responses.

I read somewhere that the crazy hours on Wall Street (purportedly 7 AM - 11 PM for new employees) are not because it takes 80 hours a week to get work done, but that there's a kind of social proof that one must demonstrate in order to be part of the "club". (Nobody's saying that you can't work 9 AM - 5 PM, they're just saying that everyone who was ever successful with the company put in the long hours, and you want to be successful, don't you?)

Similarly, it seems that Slack and other real-time communication removes some of the defenses that employees once had against these implicit demands. Note I'm not just talking about demands made by management of employees, I'm also talking about demands that employees put on themselves. (All it takes is one or two employees answering messages in the middle of the night to change people's expectations of when they'll get a response.)

As we enter an era of knowledge work, we're going to have to get better at recognizing and avoiding the social dynamics that can cause distraction and wasted time.
RIP RedHat.
This is just the cynic in me; but I think this is just for now, because it allows them to test these theories and ramp up faster. In the future Uber might just decide to go the Amazon way or just cut deals where they earn significantly higher margins compared to other restaurants.
Nooooooooooo.
I don't want Google or Amazon anywhere near Canonical.
+1 to Crystal! Amber (Crystal MVC) is a very good framework as well... basically Rails, but about 100x faster