skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think calling it a televised execution is quite an oversimplification. Mars One was deeply flawed, but the basic concept of a one way colonization mission to Mars isn't insane. A one-way mission is legitimately simpler from a technical perspective, and there are obviously plenty of people who would be happy to go. If it were done well, with a high probability of survival and prosperity (and really, only in that case), I would be fascinated to watch.

Not to mention, even if the initial mission were one-way, it's entirely possible that return trips could be possible within the lifetimes of the initial colonists. And besides, everyone dies; I can see why someone might choose a life of adventure (and pain, toil, monotony, etc.) on Mars over a life of relative comfort on Earth, even if I wouldn't make the same choice.
It says “DNA” and “genetic material”, while also talking about finding living tissue and growing from it. I think the presentation is either misleading or confusing.
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It is not impossible that a technically proficient Unabomber style individual could produce a pandemic capable virus. It would just be extremely expensive and take a very, very long time.

The other problem is keeping it secret. The chance of making a global catastrophe virus without any population testing and iteration is currently extremely, extremely small. It has now become quite easy to sequence DNA, so if a few people got seriously sick from a weird virus (perhaps a failed test version), the CDC or whoever would be able to sequence the viral genome whereupon it would probably be quite obvious that someone was making a designer virus.

The final point to make is that the kind of rationality, dedication, dilligence and technical skill required to engineer viruses doesn’t overlap much with the desire to destroy humanity.
Google thinks otherwise, hence Linux Kernel Self Preservation Project.
Consumers around the world are buying the wood and the palm oil that gets planted after the trees have been chopped down.
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If we enforce some morals and not others in our app stores, who exactly do we choose as the arbiters of morality

Just... wow. This app is literally designed to allow men to enforce morals on women.
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> Sure, it can be done by force, but at what price?

Tibet would like a word.
That's exactly how Velvet revolution in Czech republic in 1989 happened by the way...
Actually no, your example is not "clearly wrong."
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I have two conflicting stereotypes: on one hand I assumed people spending that much on mobile games would be uneducated, on the other hand I also assume people on HN are more educated than average.

Thanks for making me coming out of it.

So, now, you made me curious. How did that happen ?
The people that felled that tree for its essential raw materials did so under hardships and conditions thankfully many of us will never know, and not in small part due to the toil and labour of previous generations.
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One only needs to look at the death records for New England in the early period to realize that's not the case. An 90% mortality within a year is no stop for colonization if there is enough political will for it.
I would happend soon:)
VM Host Guard and wide enabled NX and ASLR make it somewhat trickier to exploit many kernel level bugs with results better than a crash.

Driver model changes helped some too.
So what you're saying is, that in the domain of study it means something which in common parlance, nobody understands. Because when any politician gets on their hind legs to bray about rational actors and efficient markets, they sure as hell aren't talking about "utils" to the taxpayer, are they?

Let me ask you a question. Do you think the word "rational" in rational actor, rational investor and rational market, has exactly the same meaning? Do you think as people commonly understand these terms (I don't mean economists) the answer would be the same?
One story I heard was that one of the production engineers added a rivet in the skin near the corners of the window. This was added because he thought it would strengthen the structure. Unfortunately it actually acted as an additional stress concentrator. I'm not entirely sure there wouldn't have been an issue without that extra rivet. The guy that made that change thought he was doing the right things but in fact made things much worse.
One amazing story about this is that the film 'No Highway in the Sky' [1], which (almost) predicts this exact problem, was made a couple of years before these actual events took place.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043859/
Except Mars One wasn't interested in not fully healthy people.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19138363
"boycott microsoft" is 11,200 [0]. apple 27k, google 20k, facebook 30k, twitter 15k, uber 13k.

Amazon is the only one that comes "close" - 98k -- 15% that of "boycott israel".

Boycotting Israel is an order of magnitude more than China, and 40 times that of Turkey, despite China doing far worse things over a constant period, and Russia and Turkey actually occupying developed countries

"Few" is obviously a relative term, and given that even China is less than 10% of Israel shows that Israel receives a disproportionate amount.

[0] http://imgur.com/s7wC8yTl.png
Yea I don't get why you can't do this already, effectively. Just hide the real semver in the place it'll be consumed, with a comment tying it to the branded version if you want to reduce confusion.
They already block porn because it's sensitive in the US. Games where you shoot people in the head or drive people over is okay though. I can't see how this differs.
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Nobody owes you anything either. I don't like your opinion. Your internet access will be cut tomorrow. Apple and Google ban you from using their phones. You are welcome to create, manage and host your own infrastructure though. Good luck!

Oh wait, most of the AS around you also prefer not to route your traffic. And your domain? Nah, DNS is also at their providers' whim and you are on a very popular blacklist.
The first sentence of the article mentions the saplings have been taken from multiple sources (five different stumps), which means there's probably some genetic variation amongst the saplings.
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Even the northern tip of Minnesota is pretty far south - about the same latitude as Paris. I'm kind of surprised you ever see them there!
I have a book on my bookshelf to offer you.

https://www.amazon.com/Cult-Mac-Leander-Kahney/dp/1593271220

I think everyone is entitled to a mobile phone without having to give diamonds in exchange for one.
It's all plumbing and bookkeeping.

If you want to be humbled, go to a conference on high energy physics.
You forgot directly doing everyone over with externalities and being unethical corporate or political backstabber.
This is a typical argument from 'neutral principles'.In this kind of thinking, the notion of 'being fair to everyone in a principled fashion that is easily and mechanistically describable' is more important than say, the notion of 'not oppressing women, even if the Saudis think it's OK'.

This is itself a value judgement and comes down to your opinion. Like the old joke about turtles, it's opinions all the way down.

It's also fairly obviously absurd; there are countries where public opinion and even the legal system are pretty much OK with rounding up gays and beating them up, or worse. You have to have a pretty hefty commitment to neutral principles to think that Apple and Google should be OK with the "Let's Beat Up a Batty Boy" app because it's OK in some country...
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I think there’s a point where we have to ask ourselves if the systems we as a society designed in the name of efficiency are truly worth it. Do we essentially want to condemn a group of people (people for whom college will be financially untenable) to be a perpetual underclass? To have virtually no chance of improving their standard of living, perhaps for generations? Going to college is one of the largest drivers of social mobility after all. I think this argument can be potentially very paternalistic: you can’t afford to move out of your parent’s house, you can’t afford to have a child, you can’t afford to have any control over your existence. Calling it ‘lousy’ and ‘crummy’ trivialize it in my view. I think better adjectives are ‘existentially depressing’ and horrifying.’

Are we as humans so empatheticly deficient that we cannot say “I don’t really want to give up this money which will be spent on another person’s well being, but I’m not going to fight it”? I pay a lot of money in taxes that I’d prefer to spend on rent or food or healthcare or my family but ultimately I’m satisfied that at least some of it will go to making someone whose life is not very good just a bit better.
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It's conventional now, but initially the idea of putting trains underground beneath a city must have sounded a lot like a Hyperloop or whatever does today. (Which isn't to say that I think these current gadgetbahns are good ideas.)
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Insert Chav/Good Guy meme pic here, you can replace the whole article with it.
Talking about Taiwan, they're trying really hard to attract foreign talents. (one big reason is that China is poaching all the talents here, but this is an other story).

If you're interested, check their Gold Card Permit. It's a visa+redisent card allowing you to stay and work for anyone there up to 3years. The only requirement is to justify of a salary of 160k NTD/month(~USD 5210/month), anywhere in the world, if you don't earn that, try the skills application[1].
And about the article, they are now requesting feedbacks from the public for the next immigration bill [2], that will make even easier to apply fo the visa.

[1] https://foreigntalentact.ndc.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=128B875DE9C...

[2] https://join.gov.tw/policies/detail/1b688f9c-5f05-47ce-ab56-...
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Ask HN: Model management/deployment of many Python models
Hi HN!
These days I've been getting into Python model deployment and haven't really found a great solution for my specific problem yet.
The use case is that there are thousands of models trained using scikit-learn (efficient prediction, low footprint) that I want to deploy.

Most solutions seem to expose an API per model, but I think in my case this is unnecessary:
in principle, each model will be called every hour (or other predefined frequency), and its prediction stored in a database. From there the user/dashboard will access the predictions as well as the time series they come from.

I could deploy docker containers per model, but given that 99.9% of the time there is no work to do but wait for new values, I'm thinking there could be a smarter way. Something along the lines of a queue from which the models are executed at every timestep.

I do want to avoid a single point of failure, need to be able to version and manage the models after deployment, and need to be able to deploy this in the Azure ecosystem. Does anyone have experience doing anything like this?
I'm looking into things like seldon.io and Databricks, which look like they can provide what I need, but am thinking they may be too much?
Being popular does not mean everyone uses it, specially in countries where there is regulation, thankfully.
Plenty of people pay $$$$ to climb everest, even though they'll never be as famous as Hillary and Norgay.

To me your argument sounds like "Nobody space-tourists to the moon any more, it's too crowded" ?

I mean, if they send so many space tourists to the moon that going there isn't noteworthy any more, their sales would have to be really, really high.
>Yet... a strong portion of the public still want it built. And it will be at the expense of schools, public health, infrastructure, disaster relief.

You are drinking up propaganda if you believe this to be true in the slightest. The US extremely rarely has a balanced budget and there is always room for politicians to take on more debt for their projects.

The entire position of AOC at this point is to give up the facade of government brining in revenue to pay for any proposals. All questions about payment are answered with whataboutism pointing at a different unfunded liability.

Neither party cares about balanced budgets. The wall, tax cuts, the green new deal, whatever do not take away funding from other programs because the federal government no longer fundamentally operates that way.

Funding is only cut for political gamesmanship at this point.
While I agree with your point about client-side vulnerability, I think the central issue you highlight has reached a tipping point.
The use of zero-knowledge arguments of knowledge, such as the zk-snark, allows for anonymous, but still verifiable voting systems. These could be decentralized (via blockchain or similar), or built according to a more traditional architecture, but I do think that such a tool would represent a genuine advancement in voting systems.
In India, Apple continues to screw itself with its short sightedness by insisting on credit / debit cards for all Apple Payments and refusing to integrate itself with India's many innovative digital payment systems.

Even though I have wanted to pay for a few games and 1 or 2 really good apps, I can't because Apple doesn't accept my indian cards nor other alternative indian payment systems.

Nor can we buy iTunes / App store credit online. Nor are we permitted to use iTunes / App Store gift certificates from US or elsewhere.

Personally, I wonder if this is because:

1. The central bank's (RBI) rule that financial data of indians should be stored in india.

2. Indian payment systems make it difficult to bill someone automatically (without the involvement of the payee).

3. Indian payment systems prevent "leakage" of your "credit worthiness" / credit rating, unlike credit cards.
Are you seriously saying that there are two sides to the whether women are chattel or not?

What's funny is that your specious analogies try to equate this argument -- for more freedom for the Saudi women -- to others where people's freedoms are being restricted.

Might I suggest you have another go at remedial logic.
It's kind of ridiculous that my Google Nexus 5X, which was released just over 3 years ago, will not receive updates to patch vulnerabilities like this anymore.
Previously, self proclaimed ugly single guys protested it too.
If the problem is really that Google doesn't hire any phone polishers and is hyper focused on new products, does it make sense for Google to spin off projects into somewhat independent subsidiaries? I have no idea if this is feasible within Google but it seems like breaking out some of Google's products into units with relaxed and/or focused hiring policies might help project cohesion. Seems like such a system could let Google keep its core campus type culture and also allow for better long haul support of certain projects.

Then again, if its just a matter of cutting any project that won't make billions, the point is moot.
When you are employed by a company, you are treated 'like a car to rent', yet nobody seems to have an issue with it.

At some point in the future, people will look back at this time and consider it immoral that companies could rent people by the hour.

Likewise, people in many non-western cultures do not have any issue with having a guardian 'look after' you, in return for a payment to your family.

If the people don't see an issue with it, why should some foreign company come in and decide to ban it?
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> governmental paternalism is called upon to steer people with the help of “nudges.” These biases have since attained the status of truisms. In contrast, I show that such a view of human nature is tainted by a “bias bias,”

Is it me, or does this sentence (from the abstract) seem very non-academic? It uses the first person, and seems rather political.
Should add (1983).
I think Google should yank the app. I think Apple should be forced to carry the app or open their platform. Android users can install whatever they want. Apple should not be in a position to prevent iPhone users from doing the same.

To me if BMW said "You can buy this car but you're not allowed to drive to to Compton Los Angeles". The answer should not be "If you want to drive to Compton buy some other brand". It should be "Those terms are Illegal"

Unlike Google, Apple claims total dominion over what apps you can run on your iOS device. They have that control over 1.3 billion devices. That the largest amount of censorship control ever in the hands of few people. Political apps are blocked. Sex positive porn apps are blocked. I get that Apple shouldn't be forced to carry those apps on their store but until they provide alternatives I think they're in the wrong.

People generally respond to this they want Apple to censor their apps. That's not an argument for not opening the platform. You are always free to install only Apple approved apps regardless of if the platform is open or not.
This is something multiple clients of mine have told me.

They were straight up about letting me know, hiring me is great for them because they can make a crap ton of income once the product is completed.

That's the nature of things though. You make money the most money by owning things that make money.
Each. For every giri (obligation) chocolate. You would need a plenty of those. And if it is something more serious like friendship or fondness, yet more.
You did not address anything OP raised. Maybe read this https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-criticism/ (it's short, concise and relevant) and try to articulate your stance here - who should have the authority to take these subjective moral decisions?

[edit: sorry it's not short at all, but self-repeating so just read a few and you're done]
Well, I guess that we won't get to use all that great Saudi tech then. What a shame.

In the end it comes down to the fact that Western countries have the app stores. Enthusiasts for various middle-brow airport Big Ideas books can probably advance about a million different theories (many even plausible) that explain why these companies wind up being from California and not Saudi Arabia or Uganda.

As far as I'm concerned, if you're busy promulgating the morals of Saudi Arabia, while ensconced comfortably in California, you've got it coming when your friends and neighbours start pissing on your shoes. Tech companies make decisions all the time about apps that go well beyond the strict letter of the law in countries in which they operate (Exhibit A: adult content).
I think it is more similar to lottery than pornography in that it enable people to fantasize about the future.
Taking down "blasphemous" content is immoral. More generally, allowing religiously-based morals to restrict the freedoms of those who aren't willing participants is immoral.

Building and distributing or in any way being involved in the technology to track women in SA makes you directly responsible for the abuse that happens as a result.

Technology companies have a responsibility that comes with the power they enable, true it is very difficult to exercise properly, but in some cases it is very clear what is right and wrong.
Definitely not comparable at all. We're talking about another world, one which is completely hostile to life. You need the best people to start the foundations.
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And Google Home has proper TTS (from HA). I ditches all my Alexas for Minis for this reason only.
Personally, I'm waiting for the "put rocket boosters on Mars and fling it into Venus, re-enacting the impact that created the Moon and altering Venus's orbit to be approximately opposite of Earth's (but still safely far away), thus creating Earth-2" mission.
Little does he know its 100 bucks and a hotdog.
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