skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once again, Apple isn’t following its own advertising rules
> it sounds blatantly female but pitched lower.

Concentrate harder; it also sounds like a high pitched male.

Basically, for me, I flip flop between two genders. For me, there is no such thing as "genderless" voice, just "gender meta-stable" at best.

Another thing to consider is that adult female voices sound like boy's voices. In animation, boy characters are often acted by women (who aren't doing anything to change their voices).

So "gender neutral" easily has the interpretation of "between boy and man".
Maybe you're right, WSJ is quite bad, but I wasn't sure if FT or Economist is better. Also the long form writings are interesting with the Economist, not these short headlines.
I'm 50 this year, and this stuff obviously concerns me. But if there's one thing that comes ringing through the story, it's that IBM has been very, very intentional in how they've gone about this. I'm quite certain they have their bases covered, and that they will prevail in court under current law.

That the laws should be changed is another matter altogether...
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Bullshitting is what many talking heads do on TV, YouTube and tumbler to generate content required for their job. Basically, truth seeking has not done its job on it so the person doesn’t know if it’s true or not.

People are right now most often in a biased content bubble and judging content from what they learn by emotionally mistaking what they learn from possibly bullshit content as objective might lead to injustice.

Most of us agree that people might say bad things and that it would be great if they didn’t, but my claims was that facebooks judgement of the content is unlikely to be objective because:

1) no clear definition of terms like white nationalism and hate speech is a recipe for bias. What liberal or republican haven’t been called a alt-right/Nazi at this point?

2) because of #1 there is a risk that a company that has a clear ideological tilt will most likely end up suppressing viewpoint opponents when the definitions are unclear, because too much is up to subjective judgement and no due process protects against these biases

3) no recourse is bad when things go wrong

In due process it’s the process that reduce bias so that we don’t get the mistakes of mobs of the past (eg people that think they are objective while not having an accurate mental model of what they judge), although it can’t eliminate it.

How do you think facebook has ameliorated these concerns so that they can be objective?
> AP CS is the epitome of a "Java School" course.

As a high school student who took AP CS last year, I agree, but in reality the course isn't even about Java. Code is written by hand on the free response portion and Java syntax is mentioned but not really emphasized (things like missing brackets and semicolons are okay on the FRQs). I finished all the questions in about 25 minutes, with over an hour left to twiddle my thumbs.

Even questions about algorithmic analysis (in APCS's case, just sorting algorithms) are done without proper big-O notations, which is just plain stupid IMO.

For a student that has done CS on their own for years now, APCS feels like the fake, industrialized, watered-down version.
I wonder if you can FOIA to get the actual numbers, or the estimates of the numbers for how the FTC arrived at $15M
How much better are AMP pages compared to regular pages for Ecommerce?
> gives us the right to vote.

Not true.
Inert dinitrogen forced to react with itself
Two of the three cited fraudsters are female.

Sign of progress?
> the person provides an electronic service that has one or more end-users in Australia

I don’t think this particular clause covers an individual working for a corporation as an employee, as in that case the employee isn’t providing the service the employer is.

It reads to me like that clause is intended to cover people who produce software as sole operators of their business, or perhaps a group of people in a business partnership.

I haven’t read the rest of the act, so maybe there is a stronger clause targeting employees?

If the government can compel a company to do a thing that doesn’t necessarily mean they can compel any particular individual.

You could refuse / quit / abandon the project. Maybe they’ll just find somebody else to do it?
> Women make good poker players because in a male-driven society, we’ve had to be much more sensitive to social cues. We’ve had to read people much better. I’m not saying women are inherently better at this. I think we’ve had to become better at it as a survival mechanism. Because men can be boors and still rule the world, but women really need to know what’s going on.

It's a common belief that women are more sensitive to emotional cues than men, but I've never heard it put like this. Interesting perspective.
A node in a binary tree was dereferenced by a^.b if I recall.
Corporations and organizations always had the ability to police their content to their own desires. A more interesting question is when does that become perhaps ethically wrong; Are people against the big companies policing content _in general_ (and thus likely against the first statement), or at people against the big companies policing content that violates popular definition of free speech once they reach a certain size?

I mean, we're discussing this topic on a site that highly polices content, albeit in one that does in different ways, but such different ways that it attracts the very commenters in this thread to read and respond to content rather than visiting other sites -- or any at all.
I don't think those jobs change nearly as much as software. Winforms development on VSS/windows and react/node.js work on github/AWS have far less in common than what an allergist was doing 10 years ago vs today.
Not to mention that many schools allow dual-enrollment, where one can take courses at a local community college to make up for the dearth of courses at a high school.
The subsequent astronaut story is something to behold.

Life was clearly a lot simpler once. The barbed-wire telephone hack is pretty much an old-time 2600 or Phrack article before its time. Great stuff.
So why not just use a male voice then?
> Facebook can do what they want, we're not talking about the government here and I understand that

That isn't so clear: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=139661
Most people do not critically evaluate content, especially if their own ego or group identity is involved.
I've always wondered why you don't see self-funded startups that just hire old people. The customers don't care.
The SR-71 was a recon platform, not a fighter or bomber. It was made obsolete largely by advances in satellite technology.
So it's worthwhile to make sure we all understand that we're talking about two different things: atrial fibrillation and sinus rhythm are two options in the same bucket: rhythm. You can have PVCs with afib, you can have PVCs with sinus rhythm. You can't simultaneously be in afib and sinus rhythm.

I'm guessing Apple is just looking at rhythm - it would be the most reliable datapoint, as opposed to trying to measure QRS duration or analyzing for presence of P-waves, both of which differ depending on which lead you're looking at. The lead being looked at depends on which two points on the body are used to produce the tracing as well, which is not something Apple can guarantee, so perhaps that's where the explanation lies, but I have no evidence or data to back up that conclusion.
i'll raise you a case where a team of very well paid senior engineers/architects and PMs dismissed a remote execution vulnerability down to a very low "some next release" priority on the grounds that "notepad.exe doesn't seem to do any damage" - as you may have guessed the vulnerability PoC used notepad.exe . After seeing that with my own eyes, this Cisco curl is just "meh" for me :)
Considering recent chrome, firefox user agent contains id string of almost every browser in existence, this is so true:

Mozilla/5.0 (...) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36
To be clear, I stated that I'd never heard the official definition and used context clues to come up with a running (incorrect) definition.

I am not of the opinion that white nationalism has no real meaning.
What’s the old record?
I know I will be downvoted to hell by the young folks that don't know how things work, but the only way to fix the absurd power imbalance and worker hostile laws we have in the USA is through strong unions.

It is such an obvious thing that you can even spot when union-busting laws were passed in the trends for inflation adjusted wages.

Software engineers think they are irreplaceable and our current conditions will last forever but it's a lie.

Good news is it seems we have a new generation of politicians worried about it but we as workers have to do our part or we will progressively lose more and more of our hard earned "privilege" and make sure more can benefit from it.
We don't actually have a constitutional freedom of religion in Australia. The first election I ever voted in this was a proposed change to the constitution and it was voted down. If the Australian government want it could establish a state religion and ban the rest - not that this would ever happen in practice.
You're not wrong about it being a bad beat, but I think he was thinking of a "cooler".
Guessing they have a dozen vague reasons on the ready to cite without any further explanations required
I was waiting for the "only idiots get suckered into wrongthink" comment
> watered-down version

All of the AP tests are roughly comparable in my opinion. Just not too many high school kids are as overprepared for the tests in chemistry, physics, statistics, economics, etc.
The whistleblower is getting $33M. That's some kind of motivation!
Specifically, a lab tech, not a professor or researcher, who was embezzling from the university while falsifying lab data. So the school’s guilty of not aggressively dealing with the faked data and the research it buttressed — definite wrongdoing! — but it wasn’t engaged in an ongoing conspiracy to use faked data to apply for federal grants. The penalty seems excessive, especially given that federal fines for schools engaged in covering up rape and sexual misconduct (Cleary violations) have never exceeded $2.5mm (and generally are in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars range).
Mind if I ask which one, or if it's at least one of FAANG?
Looking for some 996ers of your own? This might not be the best time and to place to ask about that.
If you know COBOL you should be fine.
You can be compelled to give evidence against yourself in a royal commission. This is one of the reasons royal commissions are popular - that and they employ an army of lawyers and QCs.
He discovered he didn't like the food on day one. What's your point? The question is about experiences moving to China.
PhD 2018 in physics, condensed matter theory. Currently a postdoc at MIT. Exploring life outside of academia for the past year, did some RL projects for fun on the side.
> They wouldn't do that, because there would be justified public outcry.

This is an argument for mob rule. I'm not sure that's as comforting as you intended.
Not in medicine and there are some legal roles and financial roles where it’s beneficial.
The islands might be worth it.
If I look back at my career, the stress has never come from the technical responsibility of producing software, it’s always the politics and red tape. I don’t do large companies. I realized that I’m just not a fit for them after working at what was then a Fortune 10 (non tech) company.

Not dealing with corporate politics by either working for a small company as a salaried employee or working for any company as a contractor is the only way that I’m going to be able to keep doing this for another two decades.
What does HN think of Khan Academy's treatmemt of calculus? https://www.khanacademy.org/math/calculus-all-old

Ideally, by an expert in calculus, who has done the whole KA course on it (though why an expert would do that, I don't know...)
Regretfully pragmatic viewpoint here: The poster is currently relying on this menial job for income. Automating it before he has something else lined up could be a really bad idea, financially.
Some would argue that removing the ability would be counter to constitutional rights.
And getting worse all the time. OH&S has got totally out of control.
Consider what happens when another software hack/bug is found in Bitcoin/Ethereum/cryptocoin client wallet software, allowing an attacker to double spend (rob exchanges/OTC trader/dark pools), or generate more BTC for free. This could be done by any of the few developers using obfuscation techniques. See how easy it is to hide malicious code even in open source projects, there's several underhanded obfuscation contests that demonstrate open source code can hide malicious backdoors even with vigilant audits.

A Bitcoin bug happened a few weeks ago allowing any attacker to generate infinite free BTC, but the network survived only because an honest researcher chose not to exploit it. [1]

Constrained supply means protection against inflationist
central banks.

Bitcoin's inflation rate is higher than USD:

The current inflation rate for the United States is 1.9%
for the 12 months ended December 2018, as published on
January 11, 2019 by the U.S. Labor Department.

Bitcoin inflation rate per annum: 3.83% [2]

4. fraud in exchanges

This is unraveling right now with Tether and Bitfinex. [3] It should be assumed any and all cryptocoin exchanges are operating as fractional reserves, and front running customers, unless they can prove otherwise.

[1] https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-core-bug-cve-2018-17144-an-an...

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...

[2] https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/

[3] https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/latest

https://hackernoon.com/the-curious-tale-of-tethers-6b0031eea...

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-never-repaid-their-t...

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/the-mystery-of-the-bitfinex-t...
I'm not sure but he's been doing it a long time for a really big company that makes notebooks and you might own one.
True, but what about the jobs that aren't meaningful, but still need to be done? and what about the people that aren't capable of being an artist or a scientist?
I initially avoided that Dirty Money series because I thought it was going to be just another surface level rage bait documentary - like so many "finance" documentaries have been since the great recession. But it was very well done and had high information content.

I wasn't surprised to learn it was from the same director as The Smartest Guys in the Room (Enron Documentary). Bethany McLean even makes an appearance.
I work in Shanghai, my first full-time job as a Rails developer was more than 2k dollars a month(I was just graduated with only a little development experience), and I think that's about the average in Shanghai.
The point is that you shouldn't invest in an asset without understanding its properties.

I help my friends buying Bitcoin and I make sure that I prepare them for the huge risk they are taking.
Considering that a lot of this plastic crap is never recycled but rather shipped somewhere, I’d assume it will help.
Every little helps. It’s a small step in the right direction. The next should be eliminating the sellotape and wrapping foil from consumer packaging.
It's how you get severance in most cases. I had to sign something to get my severance when I left a grocery store (the whole chain died and everyone got laid off)
>Through all of mankind we had strong mechanisms to form consensus, including social repercussions.

And throughout history people lived to be 30 and died of plague wallowing in their own excrement thinking the devil did it.

If your ideology needs thought control to work it needs to be taken out at the back of the sheds and shot. The second a society stops discussing ideas openly is the second it starts sliding towards a new dark age.
Heheh. My grandmother literally was a programmer. Not a computer scientist by a mile but she wrote software as a Sr Analyst in the oil industry— I believe her lingua franca were FORTRAN and COBOL. She retired in the late 80s and was hired back for a few years in the 90s because even then they didn’t have enough people working in the language to draw from.

She passed away a few years ago now.
"What is suboptimal about working here, the kind of stuff that someone people will cause some people to quit & that others can accept? I am gonna find out if I take the job."

A CEO who answers the question directly, with confidence, makes me believe their answer, and appreciates your directness gets +1 gold star. If you ask this question, you'd better be prepared to reply directly & with confidence, too. When confront someone directly, you should assume they will do the same to you. Have some good stories ready about why things that might drive someone else bonkers are things you can accept.
Hearing on Airline Safety After the Global Recall of the Boeing 737 Max
Just the unfunny ones
Crushing* sales calls. Please, show some self-respect.
That pitch control isn't really controlling musical pitch. It seems to mostly moving the peak of a band-pass filter. The actual change in pitch is very slight.

Think about it; if you change the pitch of a note from 100 to 150 hz, that's should sound like someone is singing a perfect fifth interval. Nothing like that is heard here.
Having been involved in meetings where "stop ship" was the phrase of the day, I'd bet money that the following at least vaguely resembles a real conversation:

Engineer Alice: We should really fix this properly.

Manager: How sure are you that the proper fix won't break something else for $BIG_CUSTOMERS who are responsible for $OBSCENE percent of this product line's revenue?

Engineer Bob: Uh, ten percent on a good day? Do you remember the last time we applied a "simple" hotfix to this function? I almost had to sleep under my desk.

Manager: And we can just prevent it with an extra regex rule in the front end code?

Engineer Alice: ... Yes. irrepressibly existential sigh

Manager: How much QA effort to call this good?

QA Engineer: We can run through a cut-down version of the acceptance test suite in four or five hours.

Manager: And for the proper fix?

QA Engineer: Oh, hell, at least a week of stress testing to really be sure.

Manager: Add the regex rule.
I'm curious how you verify them out of band, because that would reveal your threat model and why or what for you take such pains (not arguing that out of band verification is useless or wrong).

The following questions are not intended as attempts to poke a hole on the requirement for out of band verification. Do you meet in person and speak in whispers or show some code that's hidden from the view of others (and cameras)? Or do you use a voice call or SMS (both expressly designed to support surveillance)? Or do you use another end to end encrypted app or email (if yes, how do you verify the keys for that)?
University administrators responded to the market glut of PhD's according to the laws of supply and demand, particularly those running huge endowments who in reality only need the university itself as an excuse for the endowment - from this point of view expensive tenured professors should be replaced with the academic equivalent of cheap immigrant labor. This was not a "we decided" as I understand the use of that phrase.
> The American government does theoretically have this power

So far they haven’t been able to enforce it, at least when challenged.

And there are organisations that prohibit the use of US based cloud providers.
A Boeing 737 Max makes emergency landing at Orlando airport
Two thoughts:

I got a little caught up in the argument about clipboard apps suddenly being broken as if there was no thought put into the impact it would have. Clipboard apps on Android are currently very dangerous since an app can access the clipboard without asking for permission so the user can unknowingly share anything in the clipboard with malicious apps. That's insane and Google is right to fix this even if it breaks things for well behaved apps. There is a lot of solid information in this article but starting with that argument set a poor tone.

Second, makes you wonder if Google as an organization wants to push you towards web apps / PWAs. Google has always seemed to think that getting people to abandon the app model benefits them and hurts Apple and maybe these changes are in search of that end result.
If we did that with pornography we'd still be swimming in porno ads.
An authorization mechanism a la crypto-ledgers but available for VISA/Stripe
We should keep our minds open to the possibility that this isn't the worst plane ever made.

I think the real crime is the ridiculous cost, and putting all our eggs in the F35 basket.
> "why there are such a few percentage of older folks in engineering"

No, there's a small percentage of older folks in software engineering. In almost any other engineering discipline, you'll find many older engineers who enjoy long careers, and whose perceived value often grows with age. That's because actual engineering principles change very slowly.

Most software jobs do not involve much engineering in the traditional sense; most of the effort is keeping up with the constant churn of flavor-of-the-week libraries and frameworks, information that will be often be outdated and useless in a few years.
And around the other way, the reason people respond better to female assistant voices is because our culture has historically treated women as subservient. This important change (to our old gendered culture, and new nearly universally female automated assistants) is coming, so at least Q is pushing the conversation.
Ask HN: Where to find a list of hashes for copyrighted material?
Due to the recent law the EU signed, any product is required to perform some sort of content filtering of what users upload (assuming the data is available to the public).
As such, I need to perform some content filtering, but I can't seem to figure out where I'd go to gather a list of hashes of copyrighted material. Is there any API, a list of hashes or can it be requested to someone?

I'm just one software developer and don't represent any company.
Wow you're shamelessly stretching the definition. He particularly worked on a study commissioned by Microsoft. That does not make him a paid shill
There is no such thing as a malfunction in genetics - every single biological property is the result of some imperfect copy some time in the past.
Thanks. I needed that laugh.
I’ve had some great dreams with taking b12 right before bed. Or waking up then going back to sleep + b12.
> Why would and should facebook be treated differently than other websites? Having a large amount users and money doesn't suddenly make them a public entity.

Because FB is not targeted at specific communities of people like HN, and less so reddit, it's welcome to everyone. Everyone is in fact actively encouraged to join. That's their mission. Private spaces that are open to the public often have first amendment protections:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=139661
libcurl is open source, I would imagine it'd not be difficult to make it "lie."
> I am unclear how biased or factual this account is

Let's say that I'd be very careful.