skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could have used a different company for it (although then it possibly would have attracted attention earlier)
Oh I did miss that. That sounds bad considering what was reported last time they did this. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/nyregion/students-at-fake...
Personally, Facebook has allowed me to rekindle / develop several relationships.
I've used ramnode as well. They are certainly ok for testing and tinkering. Word of caution, be ready to have some patience with them if they have a billing issue. Their billing system is a monster. Their node performance is decent for the price though.
The blade of a standard 10" table saw rotates at very close to 100mph (150 fps). Of course, the teeth of the blade point such that they will maximally engage the wood if it gets loose. So anything of small-to-moderate size will accelerate to as much as 100mph. Using 150 fps, it will depart the 2-foot table of the saw in about 15 milliseconds, so (like the author of the video, and me, once) you will only understand what happened after it's over.

The usual reaction is to stare dumbly at your hands, and then stock up on push sticks, push pads, and work holding jigs ;-).
Even when the term is turned around it serves the same function. The distinction is that you agree with it's use in one context but perhaps not the other.

I'm not necessarily advocating for or against it's usage in either context, just pointing out the effect of using such a term has in terms of framing a conversation.
Well I did say "in the theorem-proving sense", meaning that the code undergoes formal verification. There are programming languages for which each function is a theorem that is proved at compile time. That's what I meant.

There are some low-level libraries that have already been partially converted to theorem-proved functions for the sake of security.
The point of "I, Robot" was to show how these laws can lead to dangerous results if followed to the letter, and their inherent contradictions. I agree with the author: applying the Three Laws to actual AI research and engineering is dangerous. Thankfully, I haven't seen too many people in AI research that actually advocate for their use.
Well said, we have to get past this "well you have a choice" nonsense. Data is too easily acquired and cross-referenced for that to be remotely true anymore.
> directly appealing to suspects to convince them to commit a crime which they would not otherwise have committed

Hiring recruiters for a fake university would seem to fit this definition nicely. ("Independent people who offered their services" is a funny way of describing "people who applied for and accepted jobs".)

I'm also not clear on how, absent specific evidence, it's possible to draw the "which they would not otherwise have committed" line for the students -- did they intend to misrepresent their visa status so applied to this fake university? Or did the recruiter or university encourage the students to apply and therefore misrepresent their visa status?

(That said I'm very prepared to accept that there is evidence to support criminal intent on both the recruiters' and students' part which is just absent from the news articles; it just feels odd to assume it automatically.)
Then, learn to check what you install? Make it require XCode or something, that may solve the problem.
Explain shadow accounts then. Those people didn’t even sign up for Facebook!
Uh, I guess there is always someone out there that can get addicted to your game, but to call Myst addicting is a bit weird.

You've stretched the word "addicting" pretty far when you use it to put an equality between both "Spec Ops: the line" and "Candy crush saga".
> Naive. I'm sure they'll find another excuse to restore the Muslim lands.

So it's ok for you to continue, because you're sure they'll find another reason? What if am sure they won't? That's a lousy argument if I ever saw one.

> This is where the 'get fucked' comes in.

So you approve of violating international law? Why should Israel have any extra rights as a state, compared to others, or the Palestinians for that matter?

> What's your point? It's ok if they shoot missiles at me because ours our bigger and fancier?

It's not ok, but so it's acting that your bombardment is a proportional response to their home-made rockets. It mostly kills civilians.

> Noted. Both sides are negotiating in bad faith so some degree here. There is no indication that Palestinians will ever consider one square inch of Israel to not be 'jacking their lands'

The Palestinians have said that they're OK with the '67 borders, that's certainly giving up on some land allocated to them by the UN to Israel.

> any more than there is of settlers giving up hope for 'greater Israel.'

So is this the justification for continuing the status quo of the occupation? That's not a good look if I may say so myself. How are the settlers different then than the extreme Islamic factions of the Palestinians? Because their settlements are protected by Israel and thus make Israel at least partially responsible for them.

> So they can use fishing boats to smuggle weapons and concrete for tunnels? Which IS what would happen. but still..

Am sure there would a percentage used that way, so do inspections or whatever. You don't make an argument like this for anything other. "There should be no cars, because someone may have an accident".
I don’t understand that people are still surprised that articles, particularly about complex issues, mess things up or gets facts wrong. I think a journalist context switches a lot (even in the same field) and it’s hard to get everything right. I don’t read news as facts, more like indications that something have happened and if it’s sounds interesting I do some reasearch about it or check reports or follow numbers on my own. I never assume that news reporters gets the whole story. It perplexes me when people scream “fake news” or something. “Fake news” doesn’t exist because the opposite doesn’t either. When we talk about news, Plato got it right.
Of course they have a duty to protect children or at the very least not knowingly market to children.

But the complaint here is that the headline implies that it means something that they used the term whale. It doesn't.

Whales are just a segment of customer. And incidentally, there are real, legit whales. There are a lot of rich people in the world who willingly throw money at luxury items like exotic cars, expensive vacations, lavish parties, etc. And some of those people like to play video games too and are totally content spending $500 or $5,000 on coins and junk for a game.

Basically there are two ways to interpret this story. One of them has Facebook salivating while asking themselves, "Is this kid a whale?" The other interpretation has Facebook asking themselves with some degree of concern, "Is this whale a kid?"
The mouse isn't working properly, but you can emulate it in your browser (or grab the image) here: https://archive.org/details/qnxdemo_modem_v4
What are the performance implications with memory encryption?
First thing is to get rid of the syntax feeling unfamiliar. As a beginner, you need 3-4 chapters of a book for this. As an experienced dev, what you need is an overview, a cheatsheet, and reference docs.

I think you can get an overview from the Wikipedia on S-expressions[1], then there's Dylan cheatsheet[2] which translates Scheme syntax into equivalent forms in a language with more "normal" (infix) syntax, which also happens to be object oriented, so it should feel quite familiar(EDIT: thinking about it some more, maybe Dylan is still a bit too far from Algol-like syntax, but I can't find such right now). Then, there's Racket cheatsheet[3], and the Racket Tutorial[4]. After writing some Hello Worlds and getting familiar with the syntax, start branching into interesting libraries (like plot, pict; see the list on [5] or search on [6]). See `raco pkg` docs[7] for installing additional libs.

Advice about editor: find an S-exp support plugin for your editor and just go with that until you want some graphics support, in which case try DrRacket. Advice about weird things: try not to focus on weird things which are historical incidents - you can learn why CAR and CDR are called that way later, just remember that they are first/rest operations on lists.

After this I think Beautiful Racket along with the rest of the Racket docs should be enough to learn most of it. You can also skim How to Design Programs (linked at the end of tutorial) for intro to contracts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression

[2] https://opendylan.org/documentation/cheatsheets/scheme.html#...

[3] https://docs.racket-lang.org/racket-cheat/index.html

[4] https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html

[5] https://docs.racket-lang.org/

[6] http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/

[7] https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/index.html
Sure, and Woody Allen summarized War and Peace in one line: It involves Russia.
Monitoring internet activity is FB’s business. That’s how they make their money. That’s the product they sell to advertisers. Since this is their product they have responsibilities in this regard, no?

If I let you monitor all of my internet activity then no big deal. There are no society wide consequences from this. If a company the size of Facebook can do this then there are society wide consequences. Some of those consequences are good and some are bad. We need to mitigate the bad consequences. This is analogous to the mortgage industry problems back in 2008. If I make a bad loan to you no big deal. But if I make millions of bad loans that can wreck the entire economy then there’s a problem that society ought to mitigate against.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18995823
convictions != unique people convicted. As I have already pointed out, offenders commit multiple crimes and therefore register as several convictions. So you can't just look at percentage of infractions and assume this is representative of unique people committing crimes.

> than just repeatedly commenting that the article sucks

The article sucks because it fails to account for several ways to explain the data and jumps right at a conclusion that's pushed by a social narrative.
Maybe the maligned FB research app was implemented as a clumsy clone of Onavo by such an agent of the people, working to undermine Facebook from within.

Never thought of it this way... because it's bloody ridiculous.

If FB has been infiltrated by so many "agents of the people", they're doing a pretty crap job at improving it.
When you find someone you want more than you want your freedom, then it will make perfect sense.
I think Asimov knew all this – his stories are about how the laws can be twisted into having surprising consequences. It's meant as a Sci-Fi version of the "literal genie" [0].

Has anyone actually taken them as a serious suggestion in AI ethics?

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiteralGenie
The Financial Times 404 Page Is Great
"Considered harmful" has become a lazy writing device. There's nothing valid here that even says why these are harmful except possibly that they are "vague". The only thing that looks even remotely like a real concern (that people, even scientists, believe these are somehow magically hard-wired laws) is not cited and appears to be entirely manufactured.
Getting enterprise certificate is not easy and requires manual approval from Apple for registered company. I can imagine that getting another one can be hard, if ever possible.
I like Chris's stuff, and I really like Andy Rawl's "No Talk...Just Work"[0] series of videos. I actually like _all_ of his videos, but that series is great for relaxing.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yo6ALeIfF4&list=PLPCaXyAa7W...
He's been writing about and practicing these ideas since he was a grad student with no publications, well before having tenure. I actually think his early blog posts are substantially better and more detailed than his later books, e.g: http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/07/
You mean, commit fraud? Don’t give them ideas!
Yes. Are they utterly oblivious to the eventuality that a policy of "break things now, apologize later" will receive the world's cold shoulder?
No it's not. They are humans who are breaking the law and who shouldn't be in the US. Nobody is saying they are not humans. Just that they don't get to stay in the US without following the process.
> with Apple you give the money and get the service

I mostly agree but to be fair with Apple you rent the service. They dictate what you are allowed to install on your phone, only after they deem it suitable.
But "tribalism" predates humans. Living in groups is a trait that humans inherited, not something we developed.

Now we may have refined it and grown it to form tribe of tribes, but the point still stands.

When it comes to humans, we have to talk in terms of groups because that's the human experience. Humans don't exist outside of a group. Humans never have existed outside of a group. The "group" is what we inherited from our non-human ancestors.

Also, my point isn't that we selected the most peaceful. It's that female selection isn't the drive force behind human "evolution" or the human "taming". Humans were tamed through sheer brutality and concentrated power along with bread and circuses.

Take away the bread and circuses and loosen the concentration of power and I doubt we'd be as tame as we are now.
Moreover the Facebook requires that its users be above 13+ to use it, but these kids/their parents are in violation of that.

I do think the outrage culture as found in Reddit, etc and most of main stream media are slowly creeping in to HN.

Now my automatic reaction to articles like this, any side that resorts to appeals to emotion in an argument, is trying to be manipulative.
Most of it would be on your spouse. Unlike you they are completely subsidized by your employer.

My current plan:

$100/mo - me

$125/mo - me + child(ren)

$350/mo - me + spouse + child(ren)
Not the OP, but I tend to associate anything cryptocurrency/blockchain related with snake oil.
It's not that mistakes happen, it's that retractions are usually hidden and do not contain the same level of effort to educate the reader as the initial incorrect reporting.
Ah, I missed that detail; thank you.
This is an absolutely unreal level of professional grade ignorance.

no safety shield on his face

no gloves

baggy sweat pants

not even a shop apron

its just ONE GUY in a...garage? no safety spotter or anything. Its sheer luck that this guy didnt end up live streaming a suicide.

What thintz12 is also not considering is the blade itself is likely carbide tipped. the tips are hard, so if you crash the tool into the steel frame of the workbench, those bits can fly off like a bullet. a kickback that crashes a tool or jams the machine will also trip the breaker youre plugged into. If that breaker controls your garage door, and you're badly injured, you will not be able to make a simple and quick exit for help.
> give H1b to every applicant who has graduated in the US

Agreed. I studied in the US, wasn't even applying for jobs and had job offers. But, I didn't have work authorization so I couldn't take them. I went back to Canada for years before I was able to get back again. I'm not mad, but the system could definitely be improved for those who are qualified. If we're going to compete with China, Russia, India, etc we have to do everything to attract and keep the best minds here.
Cameras built using dedicated hardware similar to what lidar systems are using would not have that sort of latency. You don't have to receive a full frame of data before it can be processed if you're not using generic COTS cameras.
I wouldn’t. That line doesn’t exist, at least in the laws of the legal system. It might cross your own moral boundary, but that’s intrinsic to you and subjective at best.

I’m not defending them as a company. I do think the rest of the media is just as horrible and would seize a similar opportunity if given the chance.

We are in dire need of regulation here.
For a discussion group I might agree, but SO is supposed to be a repository of legitimate questions and their legitimate answers, not a place for general banter.
Never underestimate the capacity of government, in ALL its forms, to fail.

It's the Thermocline of Truth. The bigger and more powerful the organization, the deeper the thermocline and the more threats can be hidden therein. National governments are the biggest organizations around. Ergo, they can fail the most spectacularly.

http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-t...
>Have we lost sight of personal responsibility?

Implying that individual people can keep up with legalese written in an intentionally misleading way by teams of lawyers is crazy. Especially when seemingly every single company and sale is treated like that.

It is effectively impossible for an average person to understand every agreement you need to make to be part of modern society, and that is by design of the companies
Experian's entire business model is built around collecting data about people who have never interacted directly with Experian. In fact, our entire system of credit would break down unless there were ways for lenders to know the credit-worthiness of their borrowers. Now, very good arguments can be made that credit rating has an inherent conflict of interest if privatized. But that's another conversation. In this one, we seem to continually fail to distinguish between 'information about you' and 'private information.' There is clearly a distinction. Figuring out exactly what that distinction is almost certainly a regulatory problem.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Everyone knows what whale means in the context of sales and marketing. I feel like this thread is missing the forest for the trees. It’s the immorality of trying to get young children hooked on gambling that people are angry about, not that they’re being equated to the mammal.
I don't understand why this is all that controversial either. Is it really any different than what Nielson does with set meters to capture people's TV watching behavior?
Was that because of trade sanctions, or because the regimes were (internally) unsustainable? (Honest question, I'm not old enough to know.)
Well they laid off a bunch of people, changed their business model, and are trying to raise another round.

They aren't some scrappy startup anymore, they are the big dog in the space and doing those kinds of things doesn't exactly signal that all is well.
Uh, have you used a lot of words to try to explain that names gain their meaning by how they are used?

Thanks for the new way to express this fact, but I honestly don't see what you are arguing.
> Children? No.

OK, this is completely off topic, but I just came across an interesting fact about children and consent.

For most medical procedures in most states, a minor needs parental consent. But suppose the parent themselves is also a minor?

In 30 states that minor parent can consent for their child, even though they would not be able to consent for the same procedure for themselves!

In the other 20 states what would happen is unclear, as this is covered neither be policy or case law.
Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA
True for almost all revolutions, Salons in the French revolution, Churches in the English Civil War.
Having taken the Udacity Robotics Nanodegree I can say that they actually teach these laws in full seriousness as part of the first week of the course. When I saw that I started to regret signing up.
Not sure how owning a market research subsidiary would make it any more fraudulent than it already is. (It's of course also not a full protection against Apple deciding the parent deserves to be punished too)
Learn Web Development in 2019
Having read the Times article, which I found very informative and balanced, this highly editorialized headline makes me uneasy, especially because this one already has twice as many upvotes. I feel like we're living in a bizzaro-world where objectivity doesn't matter and all of reality is becoming a sleazy used car lot.
My friends argue about the best strategies for this. Will send to them to stoke the fires.
Something mysterious is blocking car key fobs from working in an Alberta town
I agree, but try using an Apple TV without an account...
So I think this is true, but it is not necessarily a terrible thing. It is one thing to memorize a summary of a book. It is another to engage with and apply the ideas in the summary. The goal of a book is to hopefully give you enough time and space to do that.
It’s a very good point that a less efficient way to side load apps onto an iPhone exists.

The enterprise cert program and associated software and infrastructure allows efficient internal side-loading under specific licensing conditions. If you break the license you don’t get to keeping using the product just because you bought the hardware that that licensed software happens to run on!
The US is not in the top 10. Despite being the country the most people want to come to. It has by far the most unicorns. More than the next three combined. They ding the US for education. Does it really matter when people want to come here?
It's never one person taking a new drug though. I also doubt any GMO can be as bad as say leaded gasoline or gun manufacturing.
Simple: Any content that isn't required to generate the image.
I have not read through the whole article yet, but it seems strange and it is unfortunate that this Harvard published request for corrections has no links at the start to the paper in question[1], the nytimes article[2], or David Reich's response he sent to the nytimes[3]. Here are some links.

[1]Skoglund et al. (2016) paper "Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific.", doi: 10.1038/nature19844, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27698418

[2]"Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps?", https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-pale...

[3]Never printed by the nytimes, but it would have been nice if he had linked to a personal copy.
This is a political talking point to scare poor and uneducated white people. It’s why we are willing to penalize folks who were brought to this country as children and use this future for political gains.
> and c) has the audacity (combined, curiously, with humility) to just swap out the entire backend to eek out more performance

Unfortunately they are not doing it for performance reasons. They are doing it solely to make the code base cleaner and easier to maintain.

Based on their most recent blog on the subject (https://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/01/racket-on-chez-status.h...), the new backend is almost uniformly slower to load, takes up twice as much memory, takes more than twice as long to build, takes twice as long to compile Racket code, and the compiled code generally runs slower than it used to. (They expect that this last one will improve, but they have never indicated that they expect it to actually match or exceed the speed of code compiled with the old backend.)

Also, the new back-end, by design, permanently removes support for the Racket C API.

This trade-off is hard for me to understand. I don’t maintain Racket, so I don’t have any idea how much effort this will ultimately save those who do. But I do know that I the main thing holding me back from investing more development time in Racket is its poor performance compared to languages like PHP, Python or Go; and I have never seen explained, and can’t even imagine, what new features the maintainers will now be able to implement that would actually make Racket development more productive or enjoyable.
The app developers that are selling microtransactions to children? I’m not sure I’m supposed to feel pity. Even if they weren’t sold to kids, if every such game disappeared off of the app stores tomorrow, I would be more happy than upset.

This software exists solely to manipulate irrational gambling tendencies.