skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem with codes of conduct is that many of them contain pro-harassment carve-outs, for vaguely defined groups like "marginalized peoples". They specifically enshrine harassment against by some groups onto other groups. (I will provide citations in the next few hours at lunch if anyone wants)

This is simply not true. Harassment is not the same as calling out harassment. Saying "hey, I have a right to exist and be included, stop your exclusionary actions" is fundamentally different from actions to exclude someone in the first place. It is the difference between "we welcome your contributions if you stop attacking others" and "you're not welcome here, leave."

If you believe that anyone seeks to harass you on the basis of being white, I suggest you might benefit from a deep examination of the experiences of actual marginalized groups. There's a good chance you're just not aware of the reality others have to deal with. And there's no way to know without a lot of self-directed study. No one can do it for you. You have to have an open mind, be willing to explore uncomfortable topics, and be willing to come to the conclusion that you've behaved poorly in the past out of ignorance. You know, take the rational approach to one's own ignorance.
>Accounting for all these things, taking on Jug’s lease would translate to us paying at least $30 a month more. We’d lose money from Day 1

I'm unsure how I feel about this. $30 is a significant % of the electric bill, but is a very small % of the cost of owning a home.

Didn't solar start as economically viable due to heavy government tax incentives? I'm ignorant of the data, but I thought solar was not fit for public deployment has only edge use cases.
The freight is moved expediently. The human pax ("self-loading freight") flies along cheaply whenever the freighters fly.
> would see no benefit from the CA tax

Well, no benefit except for the 70% of his time he spends there.
When I was an AI grad student back in the late 80's and early 90's logic was all the rage. People published papers about things like non-monotonic logics, intentional vs extensional logics, higher-order logics, the frame problem, circumscription... One thing that always bothered me about the field was that the whole premise behind using logic as the basis for AI seemed to me to be obviously flawed because neither the inputs to nor the outputs from my brain were logical propositions, they were images and sounds on the input side, and sounds and gestures on the output side. Even my internal reality didn't seem to consist of logical propositions. When I went to open the refrigerator to make a sandwich, I didn't feel like I needed to prove any theorems in order to do it. And I think subsequent developments have vindicated my skepticism.

Well, I have a similar objection to neural networks. Human learning is fundamentally qualitatively different from contemporary neural network learning. It is simply not the case that I learn what a cat looks like by being shown a bunch of images of cats and having some meta-input that says "label:cat". Instead, I see a cat -- and a whole bunch of other things, including the environment that the cat happens to be in -- and I hear some sounds, and I somehow manage to make sense of the whole melange and sort out what a cat is and what the sound of my mother's voice is when she says, "That's a cat!, and the fact that the "cat" part of the audio stream is a label, and that it stands for this furry purry thing moving around in front of me, and that by producing some outputs that cause me to produce the same sounds from my own body I get the reward of hearing mommy say, "That's right!"

What we call neural networks today are interesting and useful, but I don't think they are even remotely close to anything interesting that the human brain does, and so quibbling over whether or not they are "essentially polynomial regression" or not is, IMHO, missing the point.

[EDIT: I had closed with "missing the point rather badly" but subsequent comments have convinced me that this extra emphasis was unwarranted.]
>It’s far more common for home sellers to transfer the lease to the buyer—Sunrun says 94 percent of customers do this—or to prepay the lease and leave the hardware on the roof for the next owner to use. I’ve been kicking myself ever since I learned about this latter option. It would have saved the estate around $12,000 and allowed us to support solar and get “free” electricity, even as Sunrun remained responsible for maintenance and repairs.

I'm not surprised Sunrun chose not to tell them about that option as it seems like a losing situation for them. They claim that Sunrun would have been covered, but that merely means they fail to lose money. They stood to make money on that system, and no sane solar panel buyer is going to have heavily used panels put in.

>Aided by a local attorney and my father-in-law, a retired contract attorney, I drafted a letter to Jug’s trust accusing the listing agents of failing to deliver title to the property free of any third-party claims as the agents had said they could. I threatened legal action. It was a last-ditch effort that none of us expected to work. Then it did.

I'm not surprised this worked. Their whole job is to present the actual situation during the sale and they failed at it. There are probably a lot of legal issues with what they did and I bet the agent was quaking in their boots at the thought of that going to trial.
Show HN: Oatpp Example. Configurable Web Service. PostgreSQL, Swagger-UI. C++
I find it enlightening to discuss with people what they would do if they could unilaterally secede.

I find offering the option quite appealing, in the sense that it would hold government strictly to account if it annoys sufficiently large minorities to warrant large splits.

But what the people opposing taxes often tends to forget is that if you want to argue that society should be organized in a fully voluntary way, then the rest of society don't owe you access to any of their public services either if you're not prepared to agree to their terms for interacting with you.

If someone is ok with taking the consequences of that, then, hey, let them, but in my experience the moment you point out the likely consequences, there is a tendency to start crying about how unfair it would be when other people want to exercise their freedoms to refuse to deal with someone not prepared to pay their share. In other words, most of this boils down to wanting to be free to pick and choose how they interact with wider society, without wanting the rest of society to be able to pick and choose how to interact with them.
My work machine that I used as reference here (my personal machines are similar, and suffer from similar sluggishness):

Intel Core i7-8700 @ 3.2GHz (12 threads, Coffee Lake)

64 GB 2666MHz DDR4 RAM (4x Kingston KHX2666C16/16G)

SAMSUNG MZVLB512HAJQ 512GB NVMe PCIe SSD

GPU is just the built-in UHD Graphics 630

Opening a new window takes presents a blank, black window that has more and more UI glitch in over a 2 second period. This is very frustrating for as a file-open delay when doing quick small edits. Gedit, on the other hand, does it in the time it takes to make the "fwoosh" opening animation (which can supposedly be disabled for faster start).

And for the record, there are no specs bad enough that a text editor should have a noticeable delay to open.
Zillow Wants to Flip Your House
The difference is that nobody was ever burn for proclaiming that Dante's work was just fiction. If you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, saying that these texts are "unrealistic" would get you in trouble.
Straw Museum
If Spectrum spent half the money they spend on leaflets and promotional offers (that aren't really promotions and invariably force one to purchase Spectrum TV) on actually growing and upgrading their fiber network, my internet at home wouldn't be so absolutely awful.

Naturally you just can't expect a comprehensive fiber network in the largest metropolitan area in the Western world, though.
The Peppa effect: Canadian kids adopting English accent, parents report
That's just the bill for state tax (need to consider federal, property, sales tax)
Since this particular event seems to be quoted a lot, I suppose I'll attach his response to previous criticism of the event. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9041086

> Anyway, your request is entirely fair, and let me be clear that I (obviously?) regret the have-you-ever-kissed-a-girl response (which was actually an obscure Saturday Night Live reference). I was young, and it was stupid -- and I regretted it shortly thereafter, for whatever it's worth. I have never actually met David in person, but if I did, the first thing I would do would be to look him in the eye and apologize.
In central Kansas, I have seen faint aurora several times in the last 10 years. Nothing bright or fast moving, but if you paid attention and looked they were definitely aurora. And my Canadian mother also confirmed it.
'Fisher was so smart and gifted at chess, he started at a pro level. His mind could work so quickly and efficiently at chess, that once he knew the rules, he could play as well as a pro, much like a computer that plays as well as a pro after the rules are programmed into it. He was probably initially playing at a 1,800-2,000 rating, which is considered a master, and practice got him to 2,500-2,900 very quickly, which is a grandmaster rating.'

This is just nonsense. Fischer started playing when very young and it is highly unlikely he was strong when he started. He studied like crazy before he played games in public.
For standard Unix tools? Not really, since they're often used in scripts and everything breaks if the formatting changes. Generally any new feature is hidden behind new flags on the command line to avoid breaking anything. There are exceptions of course but I doubt the output of lsof will change any time soon.

Meanwhile kernel ABIs can and do change between versions (the API less so, but it still means that you have to rebuild your code).

What can happen however is that a tool of the same name might have a different output or behavior on different operating systems (most notably between the GNU and BSD variants). But in this case the kernel API is probably different as well, so you'll have to implement an abstraction layer anyway.
I agree with this comment. Everybody changes with time, and yet we dig up in the past of these individuals.
>One former Bay Area employee sent me a Sunrun training manual he said was current when he resigned in April 2017. It’s called “Power Play 2.0: The Guide to Successfully Sell Sunrun.” (The company confirmed its authenticity.) It instructs salespeople to sow distrust in and disdain for traditional utilities and appeal to customers’ emotions. Over 61 pages, pain is cited at least 31 times and fear at least a dozen. When reviewing a customer’s traditional utility bill, the trainee is told, “amplify the pain significantly.” Among “components of success”: “creating pain and fear.” Among the “five fatal flaws” to avoid: “failing to build pain or fear.”

Not the company I want to be stuck in a 20-year contract with.
Amazon caught selling counterfeits of publisher’s computer books–again
Liberal populism is a thing, and is a goal of hipster Democratic activists. But implicit in populism is a sort of rejection of pluralism, and a notion of some will of the people that transcends the political process, which is disquieting no matter what side of the political spectrum you're on.
Care to elaborate? I'm following that from a distance and my impression was, that until now? Glyphosate was considered safe i.e. German BfR (risk assessment institute) said it there no big risks in the last EU talks... a lot of sceptics are also saying this.

So - basically this proves that these were wrong (or misled) and exposure to Glyphosat causes cancer?
Bond Funds Are “Potential Source of Financial Instability”: Fitch
I'm unsure of whether you are being serious or not because I think this is an opinion most people have that is wrong.

A single study does not a scientific consensus make.

Well-accepted scientific facts are formed from dozens of studies, often with conflicting results (both positively and negatively).
This is incorrect - Airbus has to pay off the launch aid form governments that paid for it. The WTO later ruled this form of financing illegal, so in the last two years, Airbus has been converting it to more conventional financial structures.

see: https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/airbus-confirms-a...
One thing to note about this downward trend of women in CS: its unique. If you look at the trends for women in law school, med school, physical sciences, and computer science, they all gradually increased to ~30% until the time highlighted in the article. After that, all of the fields kept growing to 40-50% ... except computer science, which sits at ~20% nowadays.

One thought I have: of those 4 fields, computer science has changed the most in our culture. Nintendo happened, the internet happened, the personal computer happened. Majoring in CS can mean money and status now.

A lot of these pictures ... women moving cords, operating keypunch machines ... it doesn't seem great. It looks like men relegated women to tedium. In the same way that women were typists back in the day. Now I realize those photos are much older, but maybe these sexist attitudes persisted back in the late 70's and early 80's and CAUSED more women to be in CS? Women did the "busy work" for the fancy new "computer machine business", while the men ran the business.

Is this a bad take? I just have a hard time believing the 70's/80's were a better time for women in CS. Granted, they didn't have YouTube videos like "Mr. Conservative DESTROYS SJW academic in CS debate", but still...
Two words: “outrage journalism”
It's fair for states to set residency requirements for some things, such as whether you qualify for in-state tuition, or for hunting and fishing licenses.

But I don't think that change of legal domicile should be anything but an overt act of volition. If you surrender your driver's license from your old state, and take a replacement from your new state, you have implicitly changed your domicile to the new state. But changing that driver's license may just be a concession to the fact that the new state is where you do most of your driving, and your old state might make it too inconvenient to renew licenses when you are physically elsewhere. Inconvenience alone does not make one's home change. You might physically spend 11.5 months out of every year in State X, but you might also have 2 parents, 1 grandparent, 3 siblings, 2 aunts and uncles, 5 first cousins, 15 old friends, and 30 cemetery burial plots for people whom you knew, and years of memories in State Y. I think your domicile is probably State Y, no matter what State X tries to claim.

I have been where I am now for about ten years, but I still don't consider it "home". I'm only here because this is where the job is. I don't know when, exactly, I can ever return "home", or where it might be when I do, but the only places I have lived so far that really felt like "home" so far were Indianapolis and Madison, Wisconsin. Everywhere else has felt like the place belongs to someone else, and I was only allowed to temporarily stay there by some special indulgence.

Any state that tries to tell me that it is my home, whether I want it to be or not, is probably not one that I'd want to be my home.
Why Event-First Thinking Changes Everything
I use Safari on a Mac with a simple ad blocker, but I use a lot of Google products, and I also get a captcha most of the time.

So perhaps it's Safari and/or the ad blocker that are to blame? Hard to say, though.
The Blockchain for Leftists
Usually what happens is that they themselves create their own wikipedia pages. I see that all the time. I don't get why wikipedia allows that, it's becoming a collection of resumes.
"Nobody likes paying taxes, but new millionaires in California’s IPO gold rush are looking to protect their money."

My Heart bleeds for these millionaires.
Commute time, working hours, vacation time, job safety, there are many thing to take into consideration.

I'm not saying one is objectively better, it all boils down to personal choices, but it's much more complex than "Go to SV and make 10x the salary".

I worked in mountain view before, now I'm living 300 meters from my office in central Berlin paying <20% of my salary in rent, I'm missing the 365 days of sun but other than that I don't think anything changed for the worse.
I'm not sure that's actually correct. In fact I'm sure it is incorrect for a polynomial of degree 1. Otherwise, there's nothing special about relu or tanh that you can't use sequential/backprop on polynomial regression in general.
The Unix Timeline
In my experience, the botnet didn't upgrade their JVM...it was 18-24 months out of date. THAT was what we filtered on at the F5 to blunt the attack.
Not the grandparent poster, but a 13% increase in Federal income tax would apply to everyone in the country, regardless of where they live, and therefore would be fair. Punishing people who don't live in your state (only commute there for work and have an actual, bona fide residence elsewhere) is not fair.
Such a nonsense article really. I know nobody that claims that 10,000 hours = makes you a top expert. Nonsense, just pure nonsense.
Hey it’s been at least a couple of years since we’ve sent a governor to jail.
I disagree, fundamentally understanding what neural nets are from any angle might be useful to debug them better.

I do agree with that learning happens differently in the human brain. Your comment points out that humans sub-consciously cluster a lot of things, and do a lot of other things at the same time (e.g. you also mention reinforcement training) in order to make sense of the world.

If only children between 0 and 3 would be self-aware enough of what they're going through, would've made this question so much more easy to answer. I wonder whether their form of learning and our form of learning is the same, I don't think so (pruning and all that).
This is Apple's war on drugs. Apple claims to be protecting users from themselves, and that's true to a degree, but the cost is a significant loss of freedom and eliminating a check on Apple policies.

Just as a US resident could move to a country (or state) with legal drugs, an iPhone user could switch to Android. But the availability of this "choice" shouldn't be used to justify a bad policy, in either situation imo.
It depends in which part of the city you go I suppose.
Touristic areas and tech hot spots should be ok.
Did you really find the article incomprehensible? What parts did you have a hard time understanding?
How many days in California caused this to be triggered?

Looking at the CA non-resident form, I don't see how you have to pay taxes in CA:

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/fileRtn/Nonresidents-Part...
Calling people who don't want codes of conduct "trolls"

The article isn't doing this. It's calling trolls "people who try to combat codes of conduct with the threat of removing code as a magic bullet to stop them".
Well while that is troubling enough, the fact that the people behind these accounts representing ministers running a country do not read them before posting it for millions, is also pretty worrisome.
Tubes and Transistors: A Comparative Study (1959)
I long for the days of foobar2000!
Effective TensorFlow 2.0: Best Practices and What’s Changed
Damn... my wife and I are doing our 23 and me for the holiday today, I'll have to check it out. I've been investigating a ton of stuff related to my Tourette's (hence the ticviking handle) and now I'm curious how that dopamine path and my tics might be related...
Using BERT for state-of-the-art pre-training for natural language processing
While neural networks are responsible for recent breakthroughs in problems like computer vision, machine translation and time series prediction, they can also combine with reinforcement learning algorithms.

Reinforcement learning refers to goal-oriented algorithms, which learn how to attain a complex objective (goal) or maximize along a particular dimension over many steps; for example, maximize the points won in a game over many moves. They can start from a blank slate, and under the right conditions they achieve superhuman performance. Like a child reinforced by its mother, these algorithms are penalized when they make the wrong decisions and rewarded when they make the right ones – this is reinforcement. While that may sound trivial, it's a vast improvement over their previous accomplishments, and the state of the art is progressing rapidly.

Reinforcement learning solves the difficult problem of correlating immediate actions with the delayed returns they produce. Like humans, reinforcement learning algorithms sometimes have to wait a while to see the fruit of their decisions. They operate in a delayed return environment, where it can be difficult to understand which action leads to which outcome over many time steps.

Reinforcement learning algorithms can be expected to perform better and better in more ambiguous, real-life environments while choosing from an arbitrary number of possible actions, rather than from the limited options of a video game. That is, with time we expect them to be valuable to achieve goals in the real world.
The self help industry often makes the promise that if you follow their recipes then success is guaranteed. I think a lot of people have bought into that. So it’s a little uncomfortable to think that even after following all the steps success is not guaranteed.

Sports is a little more realistic in that sense. I don’t think anyone believes that if you do exactly what Tom Brady did you will win the Super Bowl.
Tech’s Long Hours Are Discriminatory and Counterproductive
As the parent post states, "most of these people are not unbanked by choice".

https://www.ozy.com/acumen/one-out-of-every-4-americans-is-u...

> In this area, the United States lags behind other developed nations. The percentage of Americans who are completely unbanked is 7 percent. For comparison, a 2014 World Bank report shows that the percentage of Canadians without a financial institution account is less than 1 percent; Germans, less than 2 percent; and Spaniards, less than 3 percent.
Not at all! I think those actions were very kind.
Why do you believe that corporations employ lobbyists? Why do you believe that corporations make campaign contributions? We can imagine that Congress could be composed of members spanning the normal human gamut of morality and then adjust the viable window to account for the system. Given that money is a primary factor in campaigns on this scale, fundraising is important enough that members of Congress spend almost half of their time raising money for their re-election. If someone can get you elected by funding your campaign, they can also fund your opponents instead at any moment. Now, there are probably some members who stand strong in the face of that pressure - and they are more likely to lose than someone who caves - so over time, those members lose their spots. Therefore, the window of morality, I would argue, will naturally get skewed towards those "willing to appease corporations who donate to their campaign". In some cases, that means that laws are written with input from lobbyists (and maybe labor unions as well) and in other cases that will mean that lobbyists literally write the bills themselves (which are still subject to alterations during the process of course). Unfortunately, the system skews Congress over time towards the latter. There isn't a conspiracy theory here - just a math problem and the human condition.
In what way can kinds of constructive logic play a role in linguistics, in your opinion?