skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once worked on an analytics product for a company. The product would get the details of your machine's hardware details, commonly used softwares, most visited websites and so on.
This product was installed on selected list of people who where made aware of the data being collected.
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I think he's considering how they are perceived by NASA, and it seems that there's little room for jokes right now.
I previously worked for a company in internet dating and I implemented a matching algorithm that actively segregated people according to their language, country, income, race and education. For example we would match people differently if they were assumed poor, rich, black, white, etc

I don't regret working there per see, I didn't make the rules, but it opened my eyes that the dream of everyone being treated equally on the internet is dying. Before, you could assume the internet wouldn't discriminate because it's digital and detached from your physical self, but more and more companies have profiles about you and your experience will vary depending on who you are.
I think the should be improved is implicit in the first step, does can be improved imply a suggestion - if not the third step is a suggestion, and it's that third step I'm always seeing problems in, not to mention the third step in a scenario of too much too learn runs into the XKCD standards problem https://xkcd.com/927/
Hmm, that's a very good question. I'm not exactly sure, I don't have access to either right now, so I'll have to guess.

I think it's probably in how sophisticated it is. The bird example seems analogous to something like a handshake. A handshake has a sort of grammar to it, has to learned by observation/instruction, and if you scrambled it, people would be confused. However, I don't think the ceremony of handshaking qualifies as a language.

The dolphin example as well, while more sophisticated, isn't very when compared to what humans nearly universally do without effort. Though that could be a limitation of the study. Given enough time we may discover a dolphin language or teach them one comparable to what we can do.

Take what I said with a grain of salt though, I don't really know what I'm talking about here.
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OTOH, if you let go any rationalization for its cost, then you get 2 billion dollar bills for bus stations that don't work. (SF transit center).
I mean...is that bad? You're more likely to "connect" with someone who is closer in both location and culture.
The ny times piece didn't agree with your assessment of her involvement. the facebook reaction to the ny times article basically says we don't agree without any specifics, which means you can't point to any specifics. there are tons of these billionaries with good pr types out there who have managed to fool the world with how awesome they are. She's just been exposed as another person in that group.
>all I want to do is buy a bigmac with some cash and not worry about put options or hedging risk in currency fluctuations

Who says you have to perform the hedge? Just contract with a firm to provide that service. Having the state grant a monopoly to banks to perform that service makes about as much economic sense as saying the management of any good should be given a monopoly by the state.

>I don't have to worry about that and neither does anybody else.
If you don't factor in inflation to your economic calculations, you'll go out of business. It's not an option. People who run companies or manage substantial finances have to constantly be taxed by hedging inflation. Price inflation of housing is a perfect example.
You sound unhappy and insecure.
The statistics are misleading. I can say a bit about Japanese subways; they generally have handful profitable lines (e.g. Midosuji line in Osaka Metro---previously known as OMTB---, or Ginza line in Tokyo Metro) and lots of non-profitable lines. For private subways like Hankyu, the codevelopment of subway lines and neighboring metropolitan area was crucial for their long-lasting profitability (in this sense, Hankyu is not a subway corporation). If we want profitability as a goal, we should just drop those non-profitable lines or subways in general, but of course that would be a public disaster.
I like reading, but i hate libraries (as in physical buildings), at least in the western countries. With almost everyone having internet access, there's no point. Digitize everything, put it online.
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Ehhh, within some bounds and assumptions of a competitive market efficient allocation of resources is an important way to run an effective society.
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I could be wrong, but I'm under the impression that ticketmaster's customers are the performers, who want to maximize their revenue without appearing greedy, so they give ticketmaster a cut for taking the blame.
If you like that ticket tracking system (Trac), maybe consider getting involved with that itself as well:

https://trac.edgewall.org/query?status=new&keywords=~bitesiz...

'bitesized' tickets are "small work items, ideal for new contributors to dive into the code".

https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/HowToContribute
Do ever do any game jams? Those might be exactly what you are looking for.
Oh man, how I love data! Good work on this post.
Maybe this is my own hubris speaking, but over my career as a dev, I've worked on a few projects that lacked vision. I wouldn't say I regret the work because I learned quite a lot on these projects and none of them had a negative impact on society. But I do regret all the time spent in a sort of disengaged malaise rolling out features for projects I didn't believe in.
It’s genuine. The email arrived with me tonight also. Headers checked out ok.

Email read exactly as you say, but the story is actually that they leaked email or email and name. Of course nobody is gonna say how, when, volume of customers affected etc. They don’t seem to know the scale or exactly what happened in Customer Service.
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Of course maybe if we can figure out how to raise & be ok with higher gas prices, maybe we can finally get out of the Middle East... Though I'm sure that's not quite what you were doing :)
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It's been a while since I've seen the original but what threw me for a loop was that at the end of the first movie didn't they basically find out that baby had powers? I thought there was a conversation with the babysitter where she was freaking out and told them that their baby had special needs. Wouldn't you as a parent ask your babysitter at some point in the next few days/weeks/months what she meant about your child given they also saw (maybe not perfectly, but still could see something was up) the villain just had your baby and could've easily escaped with him yet something happened in midair to defeat him? I'm just surprised that they tossed that part of the plot out the window for the 2nd movie. It certainly took me out of the story a bit while I was wondering why they were rehashing that they're all just finding out that the baby has these crazy powers when it seemed likely they would've already known.
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I fully agree with you. Welcome to the world of identity politics where every achievement must fill a narrative based on you gender//religion//sexual orientation.

The worst in all of this is that people pushing this are the ones that want to eradicate racism and sexism, which is a very brave goal but by attracting attention to all those external factors, They only create more racism and sexism.
I did my masters on compiling Matlab, which involved coding parts of the compiler. Compilers are cool, Matlab isn't. My decision was based at least partly on easy availability of funding, and I was a poor grad student at the time.

I wish I'd done a master that was more in tune with my interests; the regret is largely about wasting time.
I worked for a small business to track surgical trays by bar code and rfid chips. I was fired after I found out they wanted to use the code to track people and invade their privacy. I raised ethical issues only to be told ethics does not matter only the bottom line.
This is what you said btw

>If the point you're trying to make is that suicide isn't correlated with low income

He didn't, not even close. That why I called you out for arguing about something nobody mentioned.

>Also "Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle" - please stop making my comment

The person you replied this to is completely new to the thread and all he said was "Then why did you respond to a comment that mentioned inequality to begin with". Not sure why are you releasing all the anger on him. You ain't a smart fella aren't ya?
Yeah I broke up with my (now) ex in that patch. It's been about a month since I took my last Zoloft, so I'm pretty sure I was experiencing that irritability as a withdrawal symptom too... and maybe I still am?

This seems like a more insidious side effect, because it didn't _feel_like a withdrawal symptom, whereas the brain zaps clearly were. I guess I won't ever know for sure if the fights with my ex were because of withdrawal or personality incompatibilities.
I don't think they use the Lab color space, except if you define your own colors to use in the palette, did you see a reference to it?

From their encoding spec:
> In order to optimize the decoding of JAB Code, the used colors shall be so distinguishable as possible. Therefore, the used colors shall keep a distance from each other in the RGB color space cube

> In case of 256-color-mode, the color channel R and G take eight values, 0, 36, 73, 109, 146, 182, 219 and
255, and the color channel B takes four values, 0, 85, 170 and 255, which will totally generate 256 colors.

Which is too bad, because your idea of using Lab with
ChromaTags to enable quick and accurate finding of the symbol was a really insightful technique. The decoding algorithm they suggest seems like it would be slow, and their use of RGB seems like a whole bunch of issues due to color-selective fading, shadows, damage, lighting, incorrect printer calibration, etc.
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Running everything in a container is the definition of commitment! I am looking forward to the day when this is normal.
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It’s very bizarre. The idea that we will accept such a thin response to something like this is so crazy.

And the email says they disclosed my email address. Their agent said it was email or name first, then changed that to email, or email and name...
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It does use gpu, you need to compile it with a flag.
There is stuff to worry about- they disclosed NAMES AND EMAILS according to my communications with them
Statistically it might make sense to segregate and discriminate groups of people. But morally?

It's like how the public wouldn't really accept that if statistics show that all planes are blown up by people from country X, everyone from country X is thoroughly searched and no one else.

Also note that in case of the dating app, if you assume people like X want to date with people like Y and you don't allow them to match anyone else you, you can never validate/improve your assumptions.
An extremely observant existentialist-idealist caught up in the tech world and its intelligence-vs-humanity theorist ideas. Poor guy. This happens a lot and we get some really amazing things from such gifted thinkers, for example Larry Wall's literary thinking about code. But I can also see where the annoyance comes from. AI theorizing requires huge leaps of intuition which can immediately supersede the existential in one's own mind, because you're thinking 200 or 2000 steps ahead, seeing the crises, seeing the opportunities, and pretty soon you have a level of convergent certainty which is hard to explain step by step, because you yourself don't really think in that step by step way, but rather in leaps. But Maciej _does_ need to think that way, especially regarding far-future concepts. And now you the AI-guy have both the burden of certainty and the energy to try to prioritize group attentions toward things you can see, that Maciej can't. IMO it's an important difference in psychology. And Maciej makes Maciej-like points: Don't sacrifice current generations' humanity for progress toward a "better" or "saved" future, when there are in fact many possible outcomes (this is key--divergence where others see convergence), and a pressing need to act on identified, easily-sensed problems, right now.

The question I have is, how much of this concern on Maciej's part is "wooly" extrapolation or the same kind that Maciej is complaining about? Much of what I just read also makes intuitive leaps, albeit of a different mindset. They are leaps of human judgment, leaps to fear the nature of those who "feel" inhumane. This is where I wonder if some more nuance and back-and-forth communication would be more helpful than a presentation.
I think this is just the cycle of deep "disruption" - naive optimism/hype spurring development without regard for how the general public behaves, followed by speculative investments that lead to mass adoption, diluting ethics in the sell out, which attracts unsustainable exploitation... adoption continues to increase as trust falls... then, eventually, enough people burn out that cynical realism reaches the critical mass required for cultural/legislative regulations. Finally, we end up with a mediocre sustainable system - a stable playing field for the next disruption.

Things look bleak to the early adopters that saw dreams morph into nightmares... but this too shall pass.
Why is that? Any molecule can be destroyed in a way?
It is very difficult to realize what you objectively work on sometimes. Every organization internally tries to justify the product they build as "good". People don't want to openly admit they work on a product that is bad for society but generates money, so they lie to themselves.
Well, depending on how the service marketed itself, I don't think there's anything wrong with doing that. If people want to use an internet dating site to find someone they are happy with, and if they are more likely to be happy with someone similar to them, then you are providing what they asked for. If they find they aren't happy with similar people, I'm sure there are other dating services which deliver that specifically.

It's not our job and it's not right to force our values on others because we think it will make them better people when that's not what they asked for. That said, I think it would be different if a news organization was doing the equivalent, and serving items that confirmed prior ideas. the difference there is that in one case they are asking to be happy, and in the other they are asking to be informed. This does of course assume people actually want to be informed and news isn't just an entertainment medium for the customer as well now...
It is also confusing in the sense that it uses the term "sound engineering" with 'sound' being the 'good/sturdy' definition, whereas the whole phrase is interchangeable with a field of study within architecture(sound/acoustic engineering)
You're sure about that?

> [after discussing alphago]

> Consider, for example, an old doctor; suppose they’ve seen twenty patients a day for 250 workdays over the course of twenty years. That works out to 100,000 patient visits, which seems to be roughly the number of people that interact with the UK’s NHS in 3.6 hours. If we train a machine learning doctor system on a year’s worth of NHS data, that would be the equivalent of fifty thousand years of medical experience, all gained over the course of a single year.

Doctoring is just like playing Go, right? Just increase the CPU cycles on it and pack more data in there, it's more or less the same.

You can make that assumption but I don't think it'd be based in fact or reality, because Go has far fewer inputs and states than treating humans does. And you don't get to test every hypothesis and then rewind either.

Most answers there are like this, making unfounded conclusions into supposedly insightful rebuttals.

Let's try another.

> If we then take into account the fact that whenever one Einstein has an insight or learns a new skill, that can be rapidly transmitted to all other nodes, the fact that these Einsteins can spin up fully-trained forks whenever they acquire new computing power, and the fact that the Einsteins can use all of humanity’s accumulated knowledge as a starting point, the server farm begins to sound rather formidable.

Or maybe they tell each other fake news so quickly they can't tell what's right and what's wrong, like we do whenever we find a more efficient way to communicate?

Anyone can make unfounded assumptions about anything; I just did it. It's up to you to decide if you care whether these assumptions are based in reality or not. But if you consider yourself "rational", I think it'd be in your best interest to care.
Same reason(s) i stopped pursuing a career in finance. The percentage of the financial sector (mbe not including direct investors like vc’s) that is actually beneficial to markets and society can be counted on one hand.
It makes business/economical sense, and some of the algorythm's rules were logical (ie : have people of same country/language meet), but I think the way we discriminated on assumed income and race to be a bit more questionable.

Another thing is that they used to bought ads targeting female users in developing countries to "feed them" to users of richer countries hoping to bait them to pay money (to send digital gifts for example).
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I honestly don't think anything in that post 'demolishes' the criticism or even advances some sort of argument.

It's just a huge wall of text full of weird analogies which is quite typical for these 'rationalist' community posts.

People like Bostrom or Yudkowsky have one thing in common. They are not engineers and they stand to gain financially (in fact it is what pays their bills) to conjure up non-scientific pie in the sky scenarios about artificial intelligence.

In Bostrom's case this goes much further, he has given this treatment to anything including nuclear energy and related fields. Andrew Ng put it quite succinctly. Worrying about this stuff is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars, and there's maybe need for one or two people in the world to work on this.

I really wish we could stop giving so much room to this because it makes engineers as a community looks like a bunch of cultists.
And the suggestion for the best way to run Lineage OS was to buy a phone from Google - so you’re locked in to buying one phone from one manufacturer.
The connection criteria should go deeper than the list the OP mentioned. Real connections happen when your principles, beliefs, goals and dreams resonate with another. Your skin colour, location etc. can be completely irrelevant in that equation.

Were the OP working on an algorithm that would go 'next level' and extract those qualities from the base data given, then I am sure that would have been a far more rewarding endeavour than just matching skin colour or income level.

(Note: I am of sub-continental heritage and married to an Australian girl whom I met while going to ballroom dancing lessons).
A while back I would run affiliate offers of different variety on Facebook and I discovered something interesting. A lot of times it wasn’t about a particular spin on the subject you are trying to promote, and more about how many people like and share your comment at a continuous rate. My suspicion is that it takes a few special accounts to share content with a few more special accounts and do this just enough times for things to go viral. What do I mean by special? Accounts which have friends/followers with the same mindset who are likely to also share the content. It’s like going out in the forest and walking into 5 spider webs in a row to get really pissed. It takes a consecutive successful event chain to trigger a viral reaction.

I put this theory to the test by promoting the same exact affiliate message under the guise of some fun content several times over the course of the week, at different times of the day. Results were almost predictable. One message might go viral if shared at a time when more people were sharing as initial “seeders” (basically your content is shared quickly at first). Another exactly the same message would not take off when the seed rate was too slow (likely due to uninterested people who were shared to from likeminded people). I could get 2 out of 5 identical messages to go viral given a fast seed rate with some luck.
I'm surprised that Xu didn't simply leave Hong Kong for China.

I doubt China would be as keen to extradite one of its citizens.

Was Xu simply underestimating PdeP's wrath, or did he have more faith in the UK legal system than warranted?
The costs of making better decisions need to be measured against the costs of making poor decisions. Most (but certainly not all) software is ephemeral. If you knew what would be in use in ten years and what would be in the bit bucket, you might make different choices. If you were liable for your choices and mistakes for years and years after your product shipped, you would examine them closer as well.
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You’re definitely buying cars wrong. It doesn’t matter one bit if they know my budget. Cars are a buyers market and sales businesses are hungry to close every deal they can. I don’t need a car, but they do need to sell one. And if I decide I want one, I have the choice of buying from any dealer I want.

Also, you’re incorrect about dealer financing. It’s often, but not always, a far better deal than anything you can get from a lender, because the manufacturer buys down the rate in order to move more product. 0% financing is common, and no bank would give you that. Depending on monthly dealer incentives, you do sometimes forego a purchase price rebate by opting for the financing, so it pays to weigh both options. But, those cash buyer incentives are getting far less common because they destroy the used market.
I do not think that this is something unique or specific to the US. Loan sharks, payday loans, and the consequences exist in many countries of the world.
the attorney general had a very high salary that was paid for by hidden people. he's been promoted out of nowhere to be the acting attorney general and appears to have a lack of adequate experience. If you wanted to bribe someone this is how you'd do it. Spiro Agnew and his bags of money could have been hidden by this practice (person was paid by a hidden third party).
and what happens after 6 months, or a year? you keep nagging the user if it's 18 or not?
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