skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a different region?

Here (Finland) PayPal starts at 3.4% + €0.35 domestic, 4.4% + €0.35 US customers.

Stripe is 1.4% + €0.25 EU, 2.9% + €0.25 non-EU cards.
Yes: it was opt-in and conducted in conjunction with Stanford. You had to download the app and enroll: https://med.stanford.edu/appleheartstudy.html
How is this not naked racism? Or do race-based anti-discrimination laws simply not apply to some government jobs?
I think that unless they are in a market-dominant position, or there's collusion between several players to effectively create a cartel that has that position, then there's more leeway.

But the ones that are - where their private rules have an extremely broad stifling effect that in practice makes it comparable to government censorship - should have very little leeway. I'd rather not allow such dominant positions in the first place (i.e. cap the size directly), but if we are doing that, it should come with strings attached - e.g. smaller companies get a choice between common carrier and curated platform with responsibility for everything, but something as big as Facebook is forced to be a common carrier.
The problem with hooking up to freight trains are numerous. First, the ride is bumpy. Freight trains add/remove cars throughout the journey, which generates large bumps.

More troublesome, though, are freight rail yards. They don’t have potable water hookups, wastewater disposal, or other passenger amenities. And they are notoriously dangerous at night. Drifters, break ins, no lighting... it’s no place for your family to sleep. Plus they are located on the outskirts of town, making disembarking difficult. Passenger rail yards accommodate for all of these issues.
Can we not pretend that a computer generated voice in a specific frequency range is some sort of political statement?
> Violent hate speech doesn’t have to result in a mass killing before you ban it.

I would say that, where there is debate over the level of danger and need to take action to restrain hate speech, whether or not that particular kind of hate speech is motivating violent acts and on what scale is a quite legitimate factor to consider.
Except that you don't control the signaling or the switching, meaning you can't choose where to go and you will very quickly be noticed and depending on the level of signaling automation either stopped completely or at least shunted to the place you can do least damage.
Oh, I agree totally. That's why I put "gaming laptop" in quotes. I could care less what they're called; as long as it's better as a development laptop than a MacBook Pro I'm interested ;-)
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They were very open about the study and it needed a separate app to be installed https://med.stanford.edu/appleheartstudy.html
I'm aware. It's the principle of the thing that bothers me. I'd love to do business with Fastmail but I don't want my communications flowing through a surveillance state that has no due process.
That seems to me like a far reaching problem to solve. I don't believe anyone actually thinks like that, I think this hypothetical issue exists in the minds of people trying to solve it.
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Good, they try to hide behind the 1st amendment but there's only one endgame that they're after, and we know how that turned out.
I figured someone would try to bring up malfunctions. No, DNA is pretty clear on the whole male/female thing. Malfunctions are just that.

Redefining gender is an uphill battle. I won't wish you good luck in doing that, I'd prefer coming up with a new term for this goal.
Fingers crossed for Canada to be next.
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If you are unable or unwilling to extend civility and assumption of common good intent to a negotiating partner, a successful outcome is unlikely.
Unique with Grindr is that it's a safe bet that the majority of users have sent and received explicit photos. So if you want to find a congressman's dick pics that his wife doesn't know he's been sending to men..... grindr is probably a good place to do it.
Withings recently announced a watch with the ECG capability: https://www.withings.com/us/en/move-ecg .
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And yet here I am with a 2010 11” MacBook Air desperately hoping for it to break so I can justify a replacement (just not yet because the new keyboards are crap).

I have three iMacs from a Strawberry second gen, one of the last white polycarbonate models (first core 2 duo?) and a 27” iMac in the enclosure with the really thin edge.

I have an iPhone 4 which doesn’t run anything I am interested in using, an iPhone 6 which is way overdue for a battery replacement.

To get close to the type of problems you have, I’d have to talk about the various Wintel laptops I have had over the years which ended up failing due to external or internal power supply issues, GPUs that just stop working, and batteries that just give up.

I have come to accept that Apple is forever, and I only rent time on a Wintel.
Look.

It's a stupid bill.

So garishly stupid that it can blind a boulder. So vapidly moronic that bits of ooze collected by clams are more intelligent. It's so bad that astronauts on the ISS passing over Canberra need to shield their heads with lead so the radioactive idiocy doesn't fry them.

But don't kid yourself: Australian citizenship is profoundly valuable.

I would not pass it up lightly. I was born to it and I am enormously grateful to have it.
The answer is "it's complicated." See https://github.com/alfiedotwtf/AABillFAQ
Wow, I checked out primerlabs.io and I'm not sure about the competition, but if non-existent or small this could be the next Facebook. I would like to learn more, I work in venture capital. Emma Muhleman - please touch base u can find me on LinkedIn
Is it possible that people who lack self-control also have a poor sleep schedule? I know that I personally can be rather poor at telling myself to go to bed…
I used to be profitable in the golden days being a nit and just letting the huge swaths of players pay me off. So many all-ins to bluff me off while holding top set, nut straight, or nut flush.

Just recently got back playing and am trying to learn to play against real players. I'm down overall after about 50 hours of play, but not very much. Any advice?
Ha! I worked on hybridizer, imager, pipetting robot back in 2002. This was in Java (not my choice), if I did it again it would probably in Rust and Erlang.
> A computer assistant doesn't have a gender so why should it represent itself as male or female?

One could argue that a computer assistant should have a human-like voice and an overwhelming majority of humans have distinctly male or female voices.
At a certain point in time, you could download music from the internet and burn it onto a CD and nobody would find that strange. Faxes could have easily had the same fate. In a way, it's equally weird to send faxes from a smartphone than to make phone calls from a smartphone.
We've also been around for longer than anyone else with a modern democracy, and our goal is longevity of a sustainable relationship between the people and their government.

We have some issues in our country right now, but I have a good feeling we'll get them worked out in the next few years.

Many of our laws and rights are in place not for short term feelings about safety between people and police, but for long term safety of the people from a tyrannical government. And that tyrannical government might take hundreds of years to begin to form in a democracy... But the bill of rights and ability of the people to feel secure without their government's support, keeps the government from getting too power-hungry or separating too far from the will of the people.
"you should first identify why you’re going to sleep later than intended, and then create a plan of action which allows you to deal with your specific set of reasons for procrastinating instead of going to sleep."

If only it was this simple.
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> My local library blocks vpn and ssh

Where is this, and why?
Sure, doing it earlier would be good, but at any point in time the only choices are to do something now or do it further in the future. So I'm glad they chose now.
AT&T is the combination of several "Baby Bells", including Bellsouth. I worked at Bellsouth (Advanced Networks) in the early-mid 90's. Bellsouth was a technology leader among the Baby Bells (but were too cautious buying other Bell's).
Anyway, there were a ton of innovations at Bellsouth, but Marketing was always one of the biggest drivers, as was Finance. And that is what prevented 'Fiber to the Home', and so many other innovations. Tons of great ideas never escaped the labs, because there was no vision for the market, or fear that one technology would cannibalize other existing revenue streams.
don't really grasp the level of foresight required at the time

Is there anything much to grasp there, though? These are fairly straightforward near-future sort of extrapolation of then-existing technology, for an ad. "A colour Newton that actually works and you can use on the beach" is hardly some mind-blowing prediction nor was it intended to be.
I currently work on the software that runs Google's quantum computers. To paraphrase the Talking Heads: How did I get there?

PhD 2001 in physics, working on quantum computation. Postdocs at Caltech and Santa Fe Institute, then landed a research faculty position at the University of Washington. Yeah, raise your own funds! Jumped ship in 2011 (burnout, quality of life, university not caring about quantum computing) and went off to become a "real" software engineer at Google. Worked on ads (as one does), then helped build Google Domains, then worked on distributed privacy preserving machine learning. About two years ago, my background in quantum computing caught back up to me, and now I run the team that builds software for Google's quantum computers.

People ask how to get into quantum computing if you are a software engineer. I will say that you really need to spend some deep time in quantum computing, either a masters or a PhD or some very very serious self study. There are certainly parts of writing software for quantum computing that don't require that, but if you really want an expansive career working in quantum computers you'll want to have a deep background.
Prison for visa fraud in case involving Bay Area workers
But the 90's is not a good / true benchmark. In the 90's, for the most part the music industry pushed CD's and did not do CD singles. Therefore, if you liked a single song you'd have to buy the full CD (approx $15 to $17). That is, music sales were inflated.

Eventually, this also helped set the stage for Napster, etc. The public didn't want to spend $15+ dollars for s single. And after getting too many one-hit wonders the public was glad to have it's needs met and were even happier when that was also form of revenge against the music industry.

The artificial peak of the 90's was also one of the reasons the music industry took so long to adjust to digital (read: a return to singles buying normalcy). They go so used to those revenues that they forgot what reality was like.
This was a lot faster than expected wasn't it?
> a large portion of the world is born with one of several intersex conditions

No, a very very small portion. Gender doesn't vary independently from sex, you'd be hard pressed to find a stronger correlation. It's misleading to consider them as totally separate things.
That, actually, has nothing to do with that BS "paradox" and well predates it. Indeed, you can't do illegal things, and inflicting violence on others is generally illegal. What the "paradox" is used for is to silence those with inconvenient opinions -- if you've followed discussions of the Damore affair, "paradox" has been trotted out as justification for "punching him in the face" multiple times. But on the other hand, to use the simplest example, US is quite tolerant of speech (in the 1st amendment sense) and hasn't turned into communist or other dictatorship. USSR, or China, or Nazi Germany on the other hand did not tolerate any "intolerance" -- that did not turn out too well.
I haven't seen that at all. To preface the rest, most of everyone I've worked with over the past 6 years had a PhD in electrical engineering, physics or chemistry from top 10 universities (about 20+ people). Maybe 30% had the ability to pick apart an experiment rigorously, most of them would hand wave themselves through the steps in experiments leaving obvious gaping holes that required unnecessary iterations on the experiment. I rarely trusted experimental results unless it came from those 30% of people. Frankly, I have come to see a PhD as expensive piece of paper that is unique in that it indicates you're not a complete idiot.

Moreover, I only have a bachelor's, but I had 6 years of training and humiliating embarrassments from those 30% of people, which I believe strongly contributed to my experimental rigor. I dont know that every person with a PhD has dealt with that kind of pain and would be biased against people that haven't dealt with that pain.
The purveyors of such ideologies simply do a wink-wink-nudge-nudge dance.

Look at Germany and its Streitbare Demokratie policies. Then look at how AfD polls.
I haven't seen a compelling argument that it has extra-territorial effect; on my reading of the amendments it doesn't.

Extending your intelligence laws to cover individuals residing in other countries, who might also be citizens or permanent residents of those countries, can make for awkward dinner table discussion in diplomatic settings.

So hiring Australians working outside of Australia should be OK.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer. Or a spook. Or a diplomat.
I think what they're saying is that the horses are out of the barn now, reversing the sale won't undo the damage.
From the article, it looks like the American way is to own a carriage or two, and attach them to a passing Amtrak passenger train. This is disruptive to Amtrak's passengers (!).

The European way is much less disruptive (the private train will fit in around whatever is already scheduled), though having to rent or own a locomotive and driver in addition to the carriage must be significantly more expensive.

I don't know about elsewhere, but in Britain there are fairly regular trips by private steam trains, or other old trains. A relative used to take these trips every few months.

People who aren't interested in the train itself can just rent an ordinary, modern train. Again in Britain, this happens for cases like a large group of football supporters (probably in the official fan club) who need to travel a long way for a match. Presumably, this isn't much different to hiring a bus with a driver.
> I'm not doing dance battles in the streets against the Sharks and Jets with it (is that really what London is like?)

I had to look that up, but the rate of incidents suggests that for some teenagers in London, it could be like that.

> supposing it were in my backpack instead of my pocket, what's the difference?

You are not "armed", it's not available for use to make an opportunistic attack or defence. "Don't run off, I need to get my knife out of my bag!"

(Do note that the knife violence is almost entirely within [youth] gangs, and shouldn't be a worry for anyone considering visiting London.)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/knifecrime
> But don't kid yourself: Australian citizenship is profoundly valuable.

Relative to what other citizenship?
There's so much ambiguity in this, though. Can't the complying Australian employee simply nudge his/her coworker and say "hey, patch this later" and then it's just a game of back and forth with the Australian government not having their way in the end?
>If you want to argue about a flaw, ASIC's were the mistake. CPU hashing would have eliminated the centralization risks, GPU's could have been expected and ultimately ASIC's after that.

There's really no way to prevent ASICs. With any function you pick, it will always be possible to create a custom hardware + memory design that beats a general-purpose CPU/GPU.
Transformer-XL uses recurrence, and most NLP SOTA is still with LSTMs. I’m not sure I’d expect attention mechanisms to fully replace recurrence.
Thanks to GraalVM. Well, that wasn't always the case and it prompted the need for WASM.
I have Australian citizenship, but fortunately I live abroad so I would just refuse. Good luck with that extradition numbnuts :)
> The alignment of incentives is as fickle as the alignment of the stars. There's no telling when the incentives will line against you; that is why it's worrisome in the general case.

That can be true. But any other concept that influences decision-making can also be fickle, e.g. "what the company thinks is moral." In fact, I would be more concerned if I saw a company doing something that seemed bad for their bottom line but was motivated by what the company's supposed moral values, because I know that the bottom line is always by definition an existential concern of the company, whereas its supposed moral values are not.
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It might be hard to believe if you have fairly normal dreams. I can easily believe it. My dreams are much stranger than that. The last vivid dream I had was of Anubis looking men emerging from eggs laid out in a grid. They clapped their hands chanting 'wolf men, wolf men, wolf men' while I had to fight their normal looking wolf pets.
It's national origin based, not race based.
It's not a question of whether you have a Chinese spouse; that's not correct, and that would be racist.

It's a question of whether or not you or your spouse have ongoing relationships with Chinese nationals and could, as a result, be subject to influence by the Chinese government.

If you were married to someone who, say, had fled China and had no connection to anyone there, that's likely to be fine. If you're married to someone who has a whole extended family back in China and visits them four times a year, well, that's pretty obviously a potential vulnerability that's going to be considered as part of a background investigation.

It's not a question of ethnicity or race, it's a question of having avenues of influence by a foreign government.
Presumably Grindr is going to continue to exist and gain new users, possibly for quite a long time. Just because they already have data on 27 million doesn't mean we should just shrug and leave it open for future millions more.
I'd really like to get one of these for my Mom but getting her to use an iPhone would probably be a bridge too far.
Yes, _Calculus Made Easy_ is a classic. Here's link to Project Gutenberg pdf: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf
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You are aware that 10gen state clearly that single node is not supported for production deployments. And that a replica set is required.
Neo-nazis and their ilk tend to be pretty explicit about wanting to kill specific groups of people as part of their ideology, something which your hypothesis seems to overlook.
Even worse when you have a set against two pair with one card to come and the only card to help the other guy is the higher of his two pair and it hits with all your money in.

About a 95% favorite.
I didn't think being from China was a racial condition. What if it were a Russian spouse? Same thing. In national security background checks they are concerned about connections to foreign governments. Yes it is discrimination on foreign ties such as travel, family, or dual citizenship.
I disagree... I think if you have an application where you have several variants of a type of document in a handful of collections, MongoDB is a great fit (think classifieds, or other storefront). It the structures don't nest too deeply, and they vary a bit from one subtype to another, it can work very well. And scale better in the box than many alternatives (a shortfall of PostgreSQL imho).

It's a combination of factors. I still mostly reach for more traditional SQL options (including SQLite). It just depends on the needs of the application, the costs associated and the skill and experience of the developers working on the application.

I would still reach for Mongo first for a handful of application types, I do wish that RethinkDB had the marketing effort/money/skill that Mongo did, as I think they were more solid on the technology, and the admin interfaces are great. I'd love to see a mid-scale vendor pick up the tech and run with it.
> There are also Muslim groups who say as much.

My criticism applies to them as well, and as far as I can tell, they are also banned from Facebook.

> Is your objection to them saying it out loud, or saying it in English?

English very clearly has nothing to do with my objection.
There is a 'modern day' Bell Labs. Look at Air-Gig (for example). I worked with one of the top AT&T inventors (just earned his 200th U.S. Patent).
Nokia Labs owns what was Lucent, which was the direct descendant of Bell Labs.
I don't believe that the average person is interested in racist ideology. The people it tends to attract are disaffected white males. They tend to have poor education and poor job prospects i.e. no hope for the future. My guess is that they were already radicalized before being heavily exposed to racist ideology online. They will still be able to cluster online. It just won't be under our watchful eyes anymore. It'll be similar to how pedophiles cluster online.

I hope that you're right and that I'm completely wrong about this.
How is it naked racism? I doubt this is a race based restriction so much as a nationality based one. I would be shocked if it effected anyone with a spouse of second generation or later.
The collective imagination of all of humanity, when presented with new technology 20 years in the future, is always going to discover implications that any futurist or group of futurists would never think of.
Keybase's target is to become a central identity point. Other features (like team chat and git repos) are made to showcase what you could do with that.
I've heard it's not just the average pitch that varies; female voices also tend have a wider range of pitch. In other words most men speak in more of a monotone than most women. Whether this is biological or cultural, I don't know.
> Your body is also distinctly not "one or the other", given that a large portion of the world is born with one of several intersex conditions.

What sort of "intersex conditions" are large portions of the world born with? What do you mean by "large portion?" Like 50%? 30%?

Happy to follow a link if you don't want to type it out and would rather paste a URL
"Shouting fire in a crowded theater" is a quote from a Supreme Court decision that put American citizens in prison for the crime of protesting against the draft during WW1.

That decision has since been overturned, thankfully. But it would be good if people who keep coming back to this phrase remembered where it came from, and what it was already used to justify.
Thank you for providing a better source - reality is more nuanced than what most news outlets want you to believe, but unfortunately hiring practices are influenced by public discourse, and unfortunately the prevalent message out there is "don't hire Australians"