skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reads to me as yet another scenario where blockchain is the stone in the soup.

If trusting Alice, Bob and Carlos's public keys is equivalent to trusting them, then I don't really need a blockchain to verify that they did what they said they did.

If it's not, then I don't trust the blockchain as a record of what happened, because there's no chain of trust between what they wrote in the blockchain and what they actually did.

The reason why this sort of thing works with cryptocurrency is because, with cryptocurrency, the blockchain is reality. If the blockchain says I have 1BTC, I have it. If it doesn't, I don't.

As soon as you try to apply it to something like supply chain management, though, that falls apart. The map is not the territory. So you have to add a whole bunch more stuff to the system to try and ensure that what's been recorded is accurate. Not entirely unlike how, in the story of the stone soup, people had to add a whole bunch more stuff besides the stone to the pot in order to make sure the soup was tasty and nutritious.
The blockchain "revolution" is very similar to AI, bots, IoT, Web 2.0, etc etc.

These were all mainstream "fads" that died down over time. As I've said before, many of these technologies are revolutionary and extremely useful - but only in their respective domain. Calling any of them, blockchain included, the end-all-be-all is foolish. There are some legitimate use cases for which this will apply greatly. But it's only a matter of time before another technology goes viral only for folks to realize it's intended use cases and then simmer down to a focuses, purpose-driven tech.
Presumably they'd get it right some of the time but the exceptions would be common enough and rather impactful.

Example scenario: "Hey, I have an investor you should meet. Does next Tuesday at 11am work?"

Problematic response if the unspecified investor isn't a man: "Yes. It'll be great to meet him."

Good alternative: "Yes, that sounds great. Looking forward to the meeting."

Another good alternative: "Yes. It'll be great to meet them."
Only thing I took issue with is the overbroad statement "because "enterprise" already implies a trusted authority"

It does not necessarily.
Services are not rent seeking.
> We can do so much better using cryptography and electronics

no, we can't

> But paper is extremely inefficient?

efficiency is less important than correctness.
Hypothetical situation: if there was devised a cheap and easy to administer "genetic IQ test", would you oppose an NGO whose mission statement would be to administer this test to low income inner city kids, and offer scholarships or vouchers to good schools to those exhibiting the highest "genetic IQ"?
Companies using Rust are not too conservative I think. Conservative companies use Java or C++, or something similarly stable and easy to hire for.
I've been able to find good libraries for everything I need on stable now that Diesel is on stable, so there's not really a requirement anymore to use nightly for most things.

For example, I use actix, which works really well. It's not as ergonomic as Rocket, but it's way faster and quite useable. The same is true for pretty much everything I need, so I only use nightly when I'm dinking around with something that doesn't need to go to production anytime soon.
I have a feeling that, even if the ecological costs of transportation were factored into price, centralization of production and globalization would still be more efficient than producing the same goods in many different places.

International trade is also a strong check against war, so that is something to consider.
Great write-up on your natural suburban yard. What other consider 'messy' I consider natural and beautiful.

Our small backyard has a section where we let native plants grow. This year a handful of thistles were growing there, which attracted a few European goldfinches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_goldfinch). Was really pleased to see them, first time I saw them in our area!

It saddens me that people consider a garden with thistles growing as 'messy', and prefer cultivated plants that need to be bought at a garden center. Plants native to the area will provide a much better habitat for local wildlife which results in a much more interesting garden, according to my definition of interesting :P
It's a very important question. IMO we should be most mindful of our work and moneymaking since we spend most of our waking life doing these things.

When we are dishonest in our moneymaking, we are probably creating unnecessary suffering for others. That's enough reason for some.

IMO it also feels easier to love and be loved (e.g. by friends, family, your children, etc.) if you are honest in your dealings with others.
> It's sad that you were able to make all of these very valid points without even needing to mention the "health insurance costs for self employed people and their employees"

That was mentioned along with a litany of other things in point 2.
I agree that the US has stronger free speech protections than any country I'm aware of, but we have more restrictions than the 2 you've mentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
Recently was using coderpad, I believe, and after the session ended it had an advertisement for some similar scheme - a blind technical interview (with Uber, Lyft, or Facebook! it advertised) that, if you do well in, you can choose to "unmask." Was thinking about doing it, anybody else tried it? Probably would be disadvantageous to me - I generally pitch myself as a moderately skilled engineer with very good soft skills, as opposed to a tremendously skilled engineer straight up (maybe in a couple years...). Can't demonstrate soft skills anonymously.
Ladies, if he:

- doesn’t return your texts

- doesn’t comment on your pics

- offers a draw in a clearly superior position just as his opponent gets into time trouble in the final round of the World Chess Championships

- says he “doesn’t care” at the press conference when informed that all chess playing engines, grandmasters, and rank amateurs could see that he had a dominating position

- was previously legendary for his ruthless fighting spirit, grinding out wins against supergrandmasters with much less to work with

- is Norwegian

He’s not your man. He’s reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, only one more misstep away from losing his crown to Fabiano Caruana, the first American challenger since Bobby Fischer. #GoFabi
They probably did, but someone made the mistake to put them somewhere where they were publicly available. Also the "russian" made tools available for taking down the content, tools which according to the article were working in an effective and timely manner.
I mostly do business software and was curious about doing modeling of physical plasmas. Sure enough, everything is fortran.
Amazon could also pick on someone their own size. Oracle's annual revenue is more than double AWS at 40B a year. If you look at on-prem enterprise IT, or Azure you'll find competitors much closer to AWS with very high performance, resilience, and security guarantees. In fact, Azure is growing much faster than AWS and Microsoft has a huge advantage in many of the industries that AWS is lagging in.

AWS is a leader in "running a web app at scale". But when it comes to Healthcare, Finance, Government, Education, Telecommunications, etc, they are small fish in a big pond.
Why beavers make dams is very interesting - they tend to instinctively build at the site of the sound (beavers are nearly blind) of running water. Canadian wildlife management has used this knowledge to trick beavers into not building dams where it would be inconvenient for highway management.
The options that replaces each of those items were superior to the older design.

A wireless headset requires charging, requires pairing, is more expensive, is more likely to break. It's not a superior technology, it's an alternative technology. You don't eliminate options just because alternatives exist.
They're not very bitter, but I still prefer the taste of sow thistle. I still love dandelions, though. :) They're definitely an under-appreciated and misunderstood plant.

From what I've read, they're actually beneficial for lawns as their long roots draw up nutrients from deep in the soil. Yet we pull them out and spray herbicides to kill them! I don't remember ever seeing brown patches caused by dandelions.
Maybe you mean "not likely", because "not possible" is objectively false.
Not sure why you are making this about "being offended" or not.

In some case a program makes mistakes --> a simple solution is implemented.
Your neighborhood must be quite different from the one I grew up in, where people only ventured onto the grass to mow it, and those same patches were used as an excuse for dogs to be kept outside 24/7, howling through rain, snow or shine behind vinyl fences.

Myself, I quickly learned to avoid any lawn space because my skin would break out in small hives from touching it. I'm not sure if it's the grass species most commonly used, or the pesticides on it - but I know I wasn't the only one with such allergies.

I think most people here are not advocating for abolishing lawns like yours entirely. Instead, the consensus is that they should be optional, not enforced uniformly for aesthetic reasons. I'd add that what we should make mandatory is public outdoor spaces (with native species and plenty of shade) within easy walking distance of each house, so that someone might receive the kind of enjoyment you do without feeling like maintaining their own patch of green is the only way to get it. It might even help alleviate the sense of isolation acutely felt in a lot of suburbs.
What percentage of Google employees work for sectors in Google that actually make money?
'Siberian unicorn' walked Earth with humans
How Toyota Guides the Evolution of Our Infrastructure(+Makes Me Appreciate Jira)
I disagree.

This is obviously a subjective question.
You will feel productive once you have a sufficient grasp on the language and the parts of the ecosystem you need.

Basically no-one will have Rust as a first language so there will be a point of comparison to other languages too.
No, but typefaces are specifically excluded from copyright. An alphabet is considered to be utilitarian, not art.
Does that really mean anything, though? I'm sure win10 users update at a higher rate than that, but that doesn't mean that people are clamoring for Microsoft's newest update.
Can someone explain to me what a good use-case for Rust would be? I mean, why would I pick it over C#/Go/Python for web development? Does it only outperform them, or is it also a pleasant language to use?
I use Rust daily, and it took me a while to be productive. Productive is hard to define, and I guess I'm not "all the way there"; the design of a Rust project still takes me longer than a C++ or JavaScript one, mostly due to its pervasive restrictions around mutability.

There are still things I'd have trouble doing. I used to do game development professionally, and I still don't think I'd use Rust for it. I also have worked on virtual machines and high level programming language runtimes, and I wouldn't want to write a GC in Rust.

(Yes, I've seen shifgrethor[0] and the rustconf 2018 closing keynote[1] (I was there, actually) -- both are great, but they're almost more examples of my point; Rust makes certain patterns much harder).

[0]: https://github.com/withoutboats/shifgrethor/

[1]: https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html
Can confirm your confirm is fabricated from thin air.

The difference would be: you might not know you are lying while I do. We are doing the same thing, confirm something not conformable. Theoretically that's lying
Well done buddy, it's great to hear about people taking a principled stand, especially when money's involved.
Healthcare seems to be so important to your financial future and yet your state consistently votes for politicians who are opposed to providing better healthcare (although, Doug Jones' win was certainly a bright spot).
This, too, has been my thinking.

That said, having worked at Google there are many folks who were there prior to this shift (and unwittingly assisted by doing nothing previously). I don't blame them for trying to correct course and actually hope they can do so while remaining at a workplace they have spent so much time and effort developing and integrating within.
> “A key challenge is that when much of the information in the application has been hidden, it’s hard to establish a clear picture of the know-how and capability of the applicant,” the city’s resolution says.

What exactly do you learn about a candidate's know-how and capability by knowing their name, gender, etc? Unless you are so deep in denial that you'd just blatantly say "Men are more capable than women".
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Same. I normally avoid me-too comments, but...
How come the "ECU" ratings aren't listed for the A1 types in the pricing page?

In particular I'm wondering how the vCPU's compare to the equivalent m5 instances. I.e. a1.xlarge and m5.xlarge both have 4 vCPU's, though the a1 has half the memory. So for tasks that aren't memory bound, would these have similar performance?
The man who spent decades befriending isolated Sentinelese tribe
We had a visit from an individual and the rider of their email politely asked for them to be referred to in gender neutral terms. This was done by all but it’s very hard when you are not used to it.
The regulatory system that was in place, a requirement that automakers increase the average fuel economy on their vehicles, worked for the last forty in that fuel economy rating steadily increased. The requirements could and probably should have been tweaked early to apply to all sold to be used as personal transportation - ie, everything but actual work trucks.
Propaganda and the Weakening of Trust in Government
Bitcoin Plunges to $3,738; Whole Crypto Scam Melts Down, Hedge Funds Stuck
What Happened to the Conversation?
[meetup][reinvent]Meet the thought leaders reinventing cloud infrastructure
> it’s an unfortunate error to believe it represents any reality other than Google’s opinion of what its users want in that second.

That was also true when search results were purely based on terms entered, barring the domain name affecting the default language, and user configuration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

> A filter bubble – a term coined by Internet activist Eli Pariser – is a state of intellectual isolation that allegedly can result from personalized searches when a website algorithm selectively guesses what information a user would like to see based on information about the user, such as location, past click-behavior and search history. As a result, users become separated from information that disagrees with their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in their own cultural or ideological bubbles.

I remember when was totally normal to settle how a word was spelled by looking what spelling had how many results. I'm not saying that wasn't silly, but I actually remember people actively using that "consensus reality" in forums, all the time. "how did you find that", "I entered X and then it was the third result", "oh yeah I see, thanks". The traditional exception was things blocked on youtube in various countries, but otherwise we took it for granted that if you visit a certain public URL, you get the page someone else would get.

That doesn't mean one confuses those Google search results with reality anymore than every person in the cinema seeing the same movie means they confuse it with reality. It just means that experience is part of the common world they inhabit. When I go into a library, the selection of books there is rather arbitrary, but that's still very different from there just being a clerk who might recommend one book to me, to then lie to someone else and pretend to not know that book.
"Hello world!" programs or their slightly more sophisticated variation, the to-do list app, aren't a realistic measure when it comes to actual real-world software that has to solve real-world problems.
It seems to me that a better solution for auditing in situations where you don’t need a distributed ledger is using event sourcing. Blockchains are just a data structure after all. You wouldn’t say “just use a b-tree.” Event sourcing databases solve most of the problems blockchain companies seem to think they have. (And the other problems they have probably won’t be solved with Blockchain anyway.)
It's not meaningless; it's just not very meaningful. You can doctor the phrasing to filter out the specific issues you raised (hence, "or similar"). More importantly though, it's never going to be a perfect metric because there is some inherent subjectivity; however, it's still far more meaningful than the current question. There is a difference between "meaningless" and "not 100% meaningful".
And lots of Finite Element Analysis packages still use Fortran under the hood.
Normally, "fixing" ML systems to "Remove Bias" seems like a pointless exercise (e.g. hiring algorithms that somehow still pick more male candidates in a gender-blind test, when 75% of applicants are male), but here it's done correctly.
Doesn't the owner first have to claim copy rights on the content for it to be illegal?
Smiths were common, and occupational surnames were common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname#Occupational_surname
Depends on what's considered identifying information. There is Google you know.

But I applaud the concept. I'd be interested in the results.
I am starting to to think I would prefer if I could pay a company for a service directly, get the service and that's it. Instead we have all these "free" services that do all kinds of sleazy things with our data behind our backs.
While I agree that AWS pricing and UI can be a nightmare for individuals to understand, at every mid to large enterprise I've worked at they simply haven't cared - a corporate card is entered in an admin screen somewhere and forgotten about.

I honestly don't think this matters to most serious AWS (ie paying substantial amounts of money) customers as much as it maybe matters to individuals looking for a 5 buck VPS to host a side project on. The small players like Digital Ocean/Linode/etc exist and cater more easily for this business if you want it, and it doesn't seem to be helping them make major inroads against the big three.
Should retailers be forced to accept product returns for customers who decide not to learn arithmetic?

Arithmetic is easy. Wading through 20 pages of legalese so I can share cat pictures isn't.
The mistake is being attributed to a human email sender as perceived by the email recipient, not to an AI, since it's an email suggestion. Many such email senders will know the recipient's gender better than the AI, and the recipient will know that.

As for your broader doubt that misgendering leads to offense, that's a longer conversation than I can shoehorn into this thread today, but the Geek Feminism wiki is one of several good places to which you can turn to start learning about that topic if you want to.

I'm a cisgender man myself, but I have heard enough personal stories from friends who aren't to know that misgendering can and often does offend.
I think I understand where you're coming from.

Here's my motivation - I think there are actually some pretty scary problems out there. However, I think it is possible to talk about an important issue in a way so emotional that it actually backfires and creates a negative impression of those who care about an issue.

For example, Alex Jones is right to lament the pesticide atrazine that changes frogs sexes [1], but by virtue of being Alex Jones actually may look a wider swath of environmentally-conscious look somewhat unreliable by association.

Another example is Al Gore: even though he had an important message on climate change his manner was so distasteful that it's hard to argue he helped the cause.

When I see someone who agrees with my beliefs but comes across as hysterical I try to metaphorically "hold a mirror up" so they can learn to phrase their message in a way that won't drive people away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine#Amphibians
Not just entrepreneurship, but even competition itself, in a world that has seen nothing but consolidation and centralization of power and wealth over the last 20+ years as ever fewer organizations have been gobbling up and devouring and squashing any notion of competition and entrepreneurship in its infancy. It is arguably the sole model of the technology sector, the pump and dump, setting a "startup" up to appear as appealing to one of the monopolistic behemoths or titans. It's even somewhat of a model in the smaller tech company sector as free money paid for by tax dollars is sloshing around and companies are consolidating and creating ever larger conglomerates that take ever more air our of the entrepreneurial landscape.

It's not healthy, and no matter what the consequences will be, I cannot envision an outcome where any of this leads to positive things. But maybe it's just my own "bias" that I have positive associations with not being a subject to a hive mind of centralized power and control.
I think this is a loaded statement. While there are, in fact, statistically proven differences for all three of those facets, the greater thrust that the OP was making seems to be that we are forced to dehumanize ourselves and others in service of an effort toward forced equalization, and that it feels very Orwellian.
TV's, Software, and Toys are cheaper, and notably the only categories cheaper on that chart from BLS. Well, it looks like this is good at keeping rioting off the streets; everyone is too distracted consuming tech.
It doesn’t assume equal gender ratio. It will use a neutral pronom that will ensure it gets the response 100% right. Solution will be right 100% of the time, wouldn’t you prefer than may be being right at 70%?
Nor does my infra code, because I write tests, and have a pre-prod end to test it in a controlled ci approach.
What a clickbait article. Reading the title alone gives the impression that this is a change to appease the LGBT community or after receiving some similar pressure.

All that happened is that the strings are hardcoded so they removed pronouns because they don't want to go though your entire email history to find out the person's gender.

That's something that everyone do at some point when programming systems. You remove plurals and pronouns so that you do not have to manage them.

Using gender neutral pronoun when writing about people whose gender you do not know is simply being polite.

I wouldn't want Google to show me autocomplete suggestions for "do you want to meet him" when I'm writing an email to my mom or my girlfriend.
It's hard to conjure sympathy for anyone booted from Facebook. They built on someone else's platform and that platform pulled the rug out.

That's the price of admission to the Walled Garden.
Pundits go by statistical indicators of the economy's well being. You've provided only anecdotal evidence of grievances/complaints. EDIT: I see in another thread here you do provide factual evidence so I will retract my previous statement. My apologies.
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What would you suggest as an alternative where each step still independently verifies all previous steps?

I guess you could just store it in a database and store the hashes and signatures as columns but again, that seems more like implementing a blockchain strategy using a traditional RDBMS.

*After your edit: It seems like the blockchain is still useful in this case as a series of signed statements where it can be (generally) verified that each signature was made by a certain entity at a certain point in the chain.
Amazon opens up its internal machine learning training to everyone
Disagree, I was the not in the "in crowd" with my boss at a previous location and yet I was the person (as suggested) in regards to everything backend related.