skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every bag of the stuff says, "It is a violation of federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling." Sounds like regulation to me. You don't have to ask permission to put it on your lawn, but you've got plenty of rope to hang yourself with a warning label like that.

I meant in terms of application. I did try to find ordinances on this at the state and municipal level. They may exist, but even so is there any oversight?
I have a feeling that if it always suggested "her" instead of always suggesting "him" there would be as much outrage, but from a different quarter.
Yes, the goal of the modern Civil Rights Movement has basically been to say "in these areas, even though Bayesian inference produces statistically valid results, we as a society have decided that it's immoral to use it."

What axes are OK to use Bayesian inference on and what are not is a philosophical and historical question with lots of practical implications across politics, economics, actuarial science etc. It's really worth thinking about. But here's a start: in general, people are more forgiving of inferring data from mutable traits than immutable ones.
Weren't the blacksmiths in Robin Hood only for the bad guy?
Fusion is only necessary for long-term sustainability if you're talking about interstellar travel (and even then, fission may be fine).

There's a real physical ceiling to how much power can be consumed on Earth's surface, regardless of its source.
> Doesn't apply if the new tools are forced by management

That's the reality I was trying to capture with my original comment.
For example if you're moving from on-premise servers or a simpler cloud provider (Rackspace, Digital Ocean, or Joyent) to AWS there is no way to escape learning AWS, and the last thing you want to do is manage everthing through the web console so you will need to learn a new tool to manage the infrastrucutre when your old tools don't work with the new stuff.

Management and sales types hear about how great, fast, and agile the cloud is and don't consider that it also takes some time to do things right, and there's is no way around learning lots of AWS specific bits at the very least.
The title is really ham-fisted. It means "threat" as in challenge.

Like a better understanding of the brain and mind might destroy all of our previous misconceptions about how it works, radically altering our perceptions of ourselves.

This is just as how AI is providing insight into how some cognitive processes work by serving as an experimental foundation.
Also a general walkthrough for how it works: https://medium.com/craneai/getting-started-creating-a-todo-a...
“It's cheaper on AWS” really depends on where you're starting from, too. If you actually need more than, say, a bare Linux box it's usually hard to even start collecting the staff time + costs for the equivalent enterprise environment with network infrastructure, monitoring, access management and audit logging, the various fault-tolerance / recovery options, etc.

It requires care to do a comparison which actually measures the subset of features which you use — I've seen the other side of that where someone justified dropping a ton of cash on a particular option based on a specific feature but, jumping ahead a few years, never ended up using that due to performance/stability/security issues.
'Make Bjorn's life easier (and grease the path of your patch)' (2017)
I, for one, applaud this move.

These times are indeed hyper-sensitive, and ridiculous exaggerations do occur. This is not one of them.

Gender dysphoria is a real, crippling, dangerous mental illness. Maybe in the future there'll be some pill or simple brain surgery that fixes it. Today, there's none of that.

Gender reassignment surgery generally helps. Calling people their preferred gender helps, as a complement or substitute to surgery. It's a hacky, inelegant solution, perhaps disgusting to some, but it fucking works! Goind the extra mile to avoid misgendering people is reasonable.

"Imagine if we could give depressed people a much higher quality of life merely by giving them cheap natural hormones. I don’t think there’s a psychiatrist in the world who wouldn’t celebrate that as one of the biggest mental health advances in a generation. Imagine if we could ameliorate schizophrenia with one safe simple surgery, just snip snip you’re not schizophrenic anymore. Pretty sure that would win all of the Nobel prizes. Imagine that we could make a serious dent in bipolar disorder just by calling people different pronouns. I’m pretty sure the entire mental health field would join together in bludgeoning anybody who refused to do that. We would bludgeon them over the head with big books about the side effects of lithium."

From http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-mad...
> ...part of you that feels like you're morally superior or have secret knowledge that the other people below you on your social scale don't share...

I see where you’re going, but can’t this criticism be applied to any factual journalism?

And isn’t it therefore vacuous?
What? Of course it does. "Do you want to meet them?" or "do you want to meet the (noun)" etc.

People use English this way constantly and it's well understood.
I paraphrased you by cutting down your comment, hope that's OK.

>Actually K8s [...] are slowly adding all the secure options by default [...] (user namespacing being the most notable).

K8's RBAC is nice, and in particular auth-delegator really helps with odd duck integration for the enterprise. But k8s is reliant on OS features to make user namespaces happen and Redhat customers are still waiting for Redhat to backport a newer version of shadow-utils [1] [2] to RHEL 7 so that user namespacing works there.

Given enterprise certification and release cycles "Wait for RHEL 8" isn't really a good answer for those kind of customers. I'm not disagreeing with you, just saying some features of kubernetes aren't available everywhere. Personally I'd really like to see user namespaces come to RHEL 7 as it helps with removing or mitigating privileged access.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498628
[2] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3657531
If automatic suggestion tools had more than a markov chain like understanding of language they likely would have been able to identify this as a use case and had a culturally appropriate UI. As is, completely blocking references to gender is the only way to fix the issue.
Or I'm remembering poorly after ten years, most likely
No country is entitled to sovereignty. Sovereignty isn't given, it's taken by force. What Russia did by invading Ukraine was terrible, but the Ukrainians essentially let their own country disintegrate and failed to maintain even the slightest deterrent. Coming to their rescue now would create a huge moral hazard: other countries in the region might think they no longer have to defend themselves against Russian aggression because if they get into trouble them NATO will ride in to save them.
Fonts are expensive, generally.
It is usually best to assume that I am indulging myself in facetious sardony. It is a moral failing on my part, but it keeps me entertained.
In this case it's more like a 50/50 split.
Xorc.io: Open Source Real-Time Distributed Orchestration
As a sysadmin and scripter/micro-framework-user: Assuming a UI's design doesn't get in the way of its function, an attractive UI is much more enjoyable to work with than an ugly one.
Does "swarthy" have offensive / embarrassing connotations? It doesn't matter, because I never use it, but I didn't know that until now.
San Francisco (Apple's font) is also mentioned.
> The gender neutral is just a dangerous ideology.

Yet you're linking to Jordan Peterson videos. Maybe it's time for you to explore the world outside of your red pill bubble for a bit.
Survey: How do you measure and analyze retention?
Should we build tiny insect/animal greenhouses ? to compensate and restart their population ?
Right, and politicians are only in it to represent the people. /s
Hiring external security team: what you need to know
For Android there is F-Droid.

> Lightweight YouTube frontend that's supposed to be used without the proprietary YouTube-API or any of Google's (proprietary) play-services.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
We didn't do that because we're intelligent. We did that because we're assholes.

Bacteria could wipe us out tomorrow given the right circumstances. They can be assholes too.
In my experience, things look quite different at the human scale. From a distance, you lose the complexities of real experiences of real people. I’ve been to the museum at Nagasaki, but even that felt less immediate and visceral than the linked New Yorker story.
Why are there 3 threads in the top 10 relating to this topic but 0 have comments?
MarCO: Interplanetary Mission Development on a CubeSat Scale [pdf]
> i'm considering moving my 200+ domains somewhere else.

Just curious, but who does that? I can only afford to renew a small handful of domains, never mind 200+. I presume they are all monetized in some way?
> So is the solution to let native plants grow all over your yard?

We're currently planting berry bushes, nuts and clover in large parts of our yard. It's fairly low-maintenance and as a bonus the clover is and excellent food source for our rabbits and chickens.
> literally made the whole of the country a military target

This is exactly the sort of collectivist thinking that makes it possible to have WWIII. When you can disregard fundamental human dignity based on the actions of a government, you've already lost.
I didn't want to editorialize the title, but the buried lede for the HN audience is that its camera subsystems run Linux and Python:

> MarCO’s camera systems, two per spacecraft, run a customized embedded Linux distribution on a GumStix
single-board computer. A Python script spawns at boot time on each system, and effectively serves as the interface
to the spacecraft. The script receives commands from and sends data to the FCPU via the RTC microcontroller,
which acts as an I2C-UART bridge. A simple communications packet protocol defines the way the camera and
FCPU interact, and includes basic data integrity checking through the use of CRC16-CCITT. The camera systems
are powered on for short periods of time directly by FCPU GPIO lines to perform brief imaging campaigns, process
the images, and store them on standard SD cards. Images can be retrieved any time the systems are powered.

As far as I can tell, this is the first time Python or Linux have been used beyond earth orbit.

These spacecraft flew past Mars yesterday and took this picture [1], in addition to successfully relaying the InSight landing telemetry.

[1]: https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1067189007455539202
Building a Minecraft Scanner with a NFC 522 Reader, Event Hub and a Raspberry PI
Reading this in the NYT this morning, added to other coming global disasters, it occurred to me that given there isn't a whole lot I can do, my only regret is that I won't live long enough to see the end of the movie.

Choke ourselves with CO2? Kill all the insects and the crops die off? (Maybe that was the disaster in _The Road_.) Something else even worse that we're currently fucking up, and don't even know it yet? Growing up, I thought it was going to be nuclear war, but I'm starting to think it will be not with a bang, but a whimper. But unfortunately, I can't flip to the last chapter. I just want to know how it ends. :-)
> So is the solution to let native plants grow all over your yard?

Yes, but that doesn't mean you have no discretion or control over what is growing and how. The key is that you want to choose things that require no supplemental watering or nutrients like most non-native lawn grasses do.

Choose native grasses that are well-adapted to your climate. This may mean dormant / brown periods of the year, but this is perfectly natural. There is a mental hurdle to clear about an aesthetic that isn't going to be achieved.

There are many native ground covers that are also available, and many that flower to provide habitat and support for animals. Both these and grasses can be mowed to an acceptable height.

Wherever possible, put in native wildflowers or shrubs/trees. These sustain other life and they look amazing.
That doesn't necessarily follow from what I said: my comment was strictly about the distribution of incentives. A PoS-based cryptocurrency can bootstrap a fair distribution through airdrops over PoW-distributed cryptocurrencies, sidestepping both the shortcomings of ICO distribution and the environmental impact of PoW coins.
Those are mostly "Software Engineers" and not a lot of them. Google can kick them out and replace within a month.

Unfortunetly I dont think executives will give a slightest heck about this article..
If Google had made this change quietly I suspect no one would have even noticed.
I'd be interested if you could provide some examples of regulation which would be unconstitutional if applied to another form of free assembly which is currently held constitutional when applied to a business.
Agree; and the engineering stuff that comes out of CERN is more important than the experimental physics as well.

Same was true of NASA back in the day; it was amazing how much practical knowledge on vacuum chambers alone was generated in the late 50s early 60s.
5 Lessons Developers Can Take from Apple’s Walled Garden
How is that true? Can I copy a book or a painting visually as long as I don't copy its "data"?
dunno, but its kinda creepy
Heaven forbid that the millions of mindless sheeple using “Smart” Compose actually have to read and edit their email before hitting send.

If Google really cared about combatting bias, they would just use “she/her.” At least it would be grammatically correct.

It’s not about taking a political/social stance to them, it’s about making life convenient for their users by removing any form of cognitive processing necessary
Asking people to refer to you how you want to be addressed
IS madness. You must then ask every person how to refer
to him/her/them/it/cis/trans/pan before you assume standard
English is good enough.
Exploiting dev infrastructure is insanely easy: Analysis of the npm exploit
In the enterprise world, many companies prefer recurring payments (opex). Reasons include...It's risky to invest large sums early on in a project without knowing the outcome. Also easier to get approvals for a smaller recurring payment than a single, large sum
Should you start a data science masters degree in 2019?
I hate to break it to you, but a lot of that caring is also based on a profit motive. Some of it isn't, but some of it certainly is.
> They can be assholes too.

Not really; they don't have any cognition. They're just little machines. They're no more of an asshole than a toaster or a clothespin.
Is it possible that people are kinda upvoting it as a "Yay for this!" type upvote without having anything to say on the topic and possibly not even reading the article?
Yeah, I remember trolling through those and I found them really useful and accessible; unfortunately I don't remember the details about why they didn't help me get over the hump (I'm sure if I stuck with it long enough I could have; I just have limited free time).
I was about to make this comment as well. The only way to sideload games on any game console is to essentially "jail break" it as well.

Which automatically voids any and all warranties on the product.

Like it was mentioned above, if you want to reach Playstation's, Nintendo's, or Microsoft Xbox's regular warranty abiding customers, you HAVE to go through their marketplaces and gain their approvals and pay their license fees first
> How do you determine if the grievance is valid or not?

I can't give you an algorithm in advance that will let you decide every political and social issue ever. That's obviously not possible.

There are heuristics, like. You can put yourself in the other person's shoes, try to empathize with them to figure out where they're coming from, and work out what their values and their reasoning is. You're a human being, a social creature whose most distinctive characteristic is extremely complex and nuanced communication. Your brain was made for this.

> There are people up in arms about Maryland's flag because the checkered pattern is a confederacy symbol which somehow triggers them. The best course of action for those people is not to change the Maryland flag but rather to get them therapy so they can learn how to live without getting offended.

I'm gonna let you in on a secret. If you treat everyone with contempt and dismissal, then every conclusion you come to about them will be contemptful dismissal.
10 Types of Slack User
Super excited for electric trucks. They're so practical in my area, being EVs makes them a slam dunk environmentally. Just keep the clearance for snow, please.
Dear Mrs. bitcharmer,

Guessing something with a 50% probability of being wrong is not a useful feature.
This encapsulates the modern technocratic 'left' as much as anything.
> my only regret is that I won't live long enough to see the end of the movie.

Unless you’re very elderly, I think there’s a good chance you will.
Thanks! Some testers are now on the list.

But we need a lot more if we want a beta period as short as possible.
Heck - even HPE are selling HW for a monthly bill based on actual consumption.

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/services/flexible-capacity.html
Ask HN: Are advertisers stealing Christmas?
I've started my Christmas shopping and a few years ago my partner wanted a VR headset. So I did some research and purchased one this year.

Now my partner mentioned to me that VR headset advertisements are being shown and found that "odd". That is on a different device/profile in the house. Same IP though.

I didn't mention anything. "I guess it's a popular gift for Christmas"

How are you doing your Christmas shopping online to prevent such situations?
If I was in China and had to choose between having a choice between censored baidu and censored google vs just censored baidu, I'd rather have both baidu and google. It's easy for us here in the western world as we have access to both and more uncensored sources to take the moral high ground and subject the Chinese to a "let them eat cake" attitude. Not sure if this will benefit people over there though to ban google completely.
Plus the mandatory cost of an Apple computer.
>Sometimes "addressing specific grievances" should be to recommend the greivers apply for therapy.

People often assume I'm a man on reddit. A lot of the time I'll politely let them know that not everyone on reddit is a man. Are you suggesting that I ought to go to therapy instead?
I wish. It's everywhere. When I went phone shopping this year, my criteria was 1: not a phablet 2: Headphone jack 3: No notch. My options in the $500+ market* were... the Galaxy S9. And it's likely the S10 will be swapping its headphone jack for a cutout notch.

*$500 for a phone is suddenly midrange- let's not forget phone prices shot up 25% on average in the last 2 years, likely because other manufacturers realized Apple could get away charging $1000 for a phone and followed along.
There are not many Chinese names in the signed letter, and I can fully understand. If you are a Chinese H1B or green card holder, and you signed this letter, it is almost certain the Chinese government will contact your family in China.
it almost looks like someone is pushing agenda, eh?
The same arguments hold for the entire platform-economy.

See also: Uber, AirBnb, Amazon, UberEats, ...

We need some new laws, fast.
Statement on NPM Package Vulnerability in v5.0.2-5.1.0 of Copay Bitcoin Wallets
There's no philosophy here. That's literally how regulations work.
Are you suggesting that building a chat application where most of the chats are one-to-one is a complex problem, computer science-wise? The fact that there are hundreds of chat apps, and that they could manage hundreds of millions of users with just 50 employees proves that that is false.

I could build a chat app typing with my cock, and I'm sure you could too. We don't do it because we know the market is already saturated as it is... because of how easy it is.
Is it just me or does it seem like the only people getting upset in these situations are the people offended by others trying not to offend others? It just doesn't seem like a big deal either way. It's weird that people automatically view actions like this as some sort of moral command, and thus feel so strongly about it. At the end of the day, it's just a design choice to reduce inaccuracies.

It's not something I would've thought to do myself, but I can see the reasoning for it. Bias in AI is a real issue, and it's wise to consider it earlier than later. Sometimes it's something more culturally visible, like in this situation, but oftentimes it can be much more subtle and insidious. This step isn't going to fix much but it's part of a bigger effort to make considering bias one of the priorities. Ignoring bias in our AI will make our AI more human in all the bad ways.

On the other hand, Smart Compose already seems like a bad idea to me. It's good for their AI but bad for humans. This pronoun action feels like a micro optimization for this technology's social impact, while the entire feature itself is a small net harm for society, in my opinion. It's a subtle dampening of our personal voice and nuances.
Yes, it would have been nice to have more information on that since this is a serious problem. Shielding helps up to a point, but you need a lot of shielding to keep out gamma radiation and hot neutrons.
Design thinking: A guide to design better UX components
WHY is this still the case? I mean, Bluetooth is fundamentally just a communications protocol broadcast with some kind of antenna. Yet I don't have these kinds of issues making wifi or cell service work.

Who decided to use such a flaky protocol for audio and such, and then remove the reliable connection?
I think what bothers me most about Apple's behaviour with the App Store is this:

> Apple does nothing to increase the value of Netflix shows or Spotify music or Amazon books or any number of digital services from any number of app providers; they simply skim off 30% because they can.

30% is a huge cut for what amounts to hosting, payment processing, and basic QA. Despite taking this big chunk, quality control in the App Store feels like it's on the decline - with a bunch of malware and scams slipping through in recent years. And of course, charging 30% for non-app content distributed through the App Store is completely insane.
The vast majority of roads are narrow. The wide ones are extreme outliers. It may seem otherwise if you judge by the portion of time you spend on each type of road, but most roads are quiet little empty lanes.

So, on average, we don't really have more lanes than the minimum.
Google can't change the laws in China. Personally, I'd rather have Google in China if I lived there. It's a great tool.

People should be made aware that there's a filter and all searches are made available to the government.
Good for them. Any company claiming to have moral backbone should not cater to the demands of the Chinese government which has shown time and again that it is a tyrannical regime.