skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps as a result of #2, many in the SF Bay area aren't exploring non-discriminatory explanations as to why there are few African Americans in Bay area tech companies. First off, the Black population is not very big in the Bay area. Less than 2% of mountain view's population is black. Overall the Bay area is 6.7% black, about half that of the country as a whole.

What percent of SF Bay area tech workers grew up in the Bay area? If it is not high, it is not clear that the Bay area's general population racial demographics are relevant.
For those interested in the GitHub integration / preview pull request features that Netlify offers, but don't want to migrate from your current host: I'm developing a product called FeaturePeek[1] that will spin up static builds into a feature environment you can share with your team / publicly. Unlike Netlify Dev / ngrok, you don't need to be online with your feature branch checked out for others to preview it. We can run dynamic builds too, and are agnostic of your host or cloud provider because we don't focus on production deployments. On top of that, we provide some collaboration tools so you can annotate / comment directly on the build.

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They are total legit if you speak Greek. Now engineers get to know Greek words like MDs :D
Ask HN: Anyone Working as SDE at Amazon Prime Video (UK)
I heard from a recruiter that Amazon Prime Video got many open positions. And before making my mind I wonder if someone knows anything what it looks like working there.

Thanks.
Of course--but those companies use AI specifically to, at scales previously impossible, directly personalize (and, frankly, entrap) people by exploiting bugs in the human firmware. To borrow a quote from a friend, "every time a social network abandons the chronological timeline, that's the moment they added AI."

And I would like his justification for making the world a worse place.
Couple of questions if I may.

Do you think you have a right to dictate others use of pronouns, or maybe that they're wrong to use a pronoun that matches your sex (as it appears to them, whether that's factual it counter-factual)?

I have a beard, and people always comment on it but I'd rather they not define me by it (honestly, I'm not making this up) - it's hair that grows on me, that's it - should I get to tell them they can't say I'm hairy/bearded (despite that being obviously true)?
That's part of the classic formulation, which dates to the 1960s, and which I first encountered in the 1980s in print. It's effectively a "consultant's matrix' of "known" and "unknown", giving a matrix of four elements: {KK, KU, UK, UU}.

The notion of unknown knowns strongly resembles the apocryphal Mark Twain quote; "It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so". (There's no apparent proof he'd said or written this.)

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/11/18/know-trouble/
They would have probably supported it when CAPTCHAs were still about digitizing books. Now that they've turned everyone into unwilling trainers for their visual machine learning they'll never do it.
`rails generate scaffolf products name:string` generate models, views, controller, migration and even controller tests. I dit not seen this anywhere outside Rails.
Ruby has blocks. Python does not. And Ruby blocks are very extensively used.
I don't understand this new position (that GDPR follows) that consent is required for information to be gathered on someone. If someone sees me wearing a blue shirt and writes in their notebook that I wore a blue shirt then I don't feel like I have some inherent right to coerce them to erase it or prevent them from selling that information to Blue Shirt Emporium.
I'm in my twenties now, periodically overwhelmed by the current and potential future misery of the world. However, I have lately been able to cope with my misery by realizing that my misery is only subjective, which softens it. Perhaps that does not make my feelings misery at all.
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Dutch F-16 flies into its own bullets, scores self-inflicted hits
Hahaha and my last startup was called sfalma (σφάλμα) which stands for error but nobody could pronounce. Unless it became a Google project. Kubernetes is pretty hard core too
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And it will be branded as anagnostes
Can you clarify what is not working for you? IPv6 should work. (I work on Cloud Run).
This isn't a backdoor, nation state or otherwise. LPEs are super boring and common, there's often several a month discovered on Windows (inc. third party services/software/drivers/etc).

For it to be a backdoor it would typically need to facilitate the ability to access the system itself (e.g. Remote code execution, hidden credentials, etc), but even then intent is implied with the word which we simply don't have here.

Plus it LPEs aren't as powerful as they once were. Most of the good stuff is now running in userspace, the only thing a LPE grants you is persistence.

To give you an idea of how overblown this is: HP used to run a local webserver as SYSTEM (highest priv) which any webpage could call via iFrame to execute local commands. I don't consider that a backdoor either, even though that issue is ten times more serious than this one.
So Nassim Taleb's "Silent Risk"[1], a mathematical parallel version to Incerto, is not good enough?

[1] http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/SilentRisk.pdf
Not first-party to every one. See my cousin comment.
Cryptomining seems like a fine alternative to ads to me. Or just the general idea of making the client do some computation work for you.
Ha I was “hacking” and “changing my grades” because I brought a laptop to school in 2002.
It might look bad for both for them but also a good way to drum up some twitter followers. I followed them.
Are the United States of America Embassies (& Other Embassies) in Algeria MITM?
I'm trying to leave the region back to the United States of America. I've previously served, but cannot remember much and I cannot be made to remember and I have evidence I have been reprogrammed. I need my medications and my food supplies unavailable in Algeria formally mathematically speaking. The region is unstable. I specialize in AI philosophy and other military industrial complex projects. Previously I worked in cryptography research and since I started specializing in counter-neurowarfare since starting from worse to worst. Ask me any questions. My disabilities prevent me from posting actively (severe ADHD untreated in Algeria, SAD/GAD untreated). Anyway, ask me anything. https://amirbenbouza.tumblr.com is where some of my research is as well as https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amir_Benbouza. https://encryptica.org in the past was us before they shut it down for "atemporality". I have a syndrome where I don't recognize the people I'm living with. My Gmail is VLANNED from embassies for some reason..I've been trying to reach them for days, can't call due to disabilities.

I will posting if anybody is interrested...

I'm a US citizen for the record.
You are happier to have your resources stolen and not be aware of it (it's invisible, you can't see what's happening and react - right?) than to be shown an annoying thing which is very much in your awareness? I don't know, I'd rather know someone is harming me silently and have the means to stop it by default. The things that are shown in front of me, I can handle them...
what IS web3?
If I understand Taleb's argument, it can be boiled down to the following:

A year before an election, there's 365 days worth of news stories, interviews, scandals, and other stuff that will be released to the public before election day. The day before the election, 364 days of that election influencing stuff has already happened and the effects of it are now known. As you get closer to an election, you have more information, and there is less time for public opinion to change, so it follows that you can be more certain of the election's outcome.

Taleb's assumption that voter psychology can be modeled with a random walk is pretty questionable, but if you give him that assumption, what's wrong with his math? The article doesn't actually address this.
One of the things I'm using it for is their form processing

Form filled -> Pass submitted data to Zapier -> Chuck data into a Google Sheet

Basic usage for sure, but once it's in Zapier you can do with the data anything Zapier can do with data
> If Silver really believed these probabilities were correct, he should be willing make bets with these odds, otherwise his incentives are distorted.

Yes, the "skin in the game" argument. That is Nassim Taleb's calling card. Personally, I consider it a little unreasonable to expect people to literally put their money where their mouth is every time they make a forecast.
But is he wrong?
That used to be the market for AWS. Entice tech startups to use AWS and reap huge benefits as they grow to larger companies and the occasional unicorn.
What is the copyright holder contributing in this case? The government is passing laws and providing the access to them. Citizens aren't paying anyone for access. I'm not sure what the third party is doing that it should be getting paid in this situation.
thanks for all the helpful comments here! we run a rails app. if we want to replace heroku with a google cloud service, would cloud run be the best one?
nm. i thought it was like web 3.0 or something, turns out it's an etherium api?
Not yet, though I'm looking into both Filestore as well as GCSFuse.

The short answer is that read-only mounts are going to be super easy, but read-write is going to get really interesting (especially since there can be N instances all trying to write).
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Paperbags in Supermarkets
I would like some stores near me (Walmart) to consider adopting Paper bags.

I am trying to come up with a solid case and I was wondering if HN community had any ideas.

Walmart exclusively uses cheap polyethene bags.
Harris Teeter has paper-bags but you have to insist on it. They always default to the same cheap plastic bag.

1. Is there a strong economic case that I can make to convince them?
2. I'm a bit doubtful on the "them" aspect of it. I could just tweet, but that's not very smart in my opinion. Seems too casual.

I'm open to all ideas. Thanks.

This is my first post, I apologize if it wasn't well written or structured.
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I feel like I’ve always led myself astray trying to pursue happiness. Meaning & purpose seem to give me more “contentment” than optimizing my life for constant ecstasy-like highs.
Manhattan in the late 80s was probably a little more comparable to that

What changed?
Currently just `us-central1` since that's the only region Cloud Run is supported in.
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They don't exactly gloss over it. They have tons of articles explaining it, but of course the average reader is just going to see the probabilities and run with that, and 538 does have some responsibility to actively explain things upfront in their UI, which I don't think they do a good job at.

> Why are they publishing probabilities for if the event were to happen today? The event isn't happening today!

My guess is that it's extremely out of scope (and probably ultimately infeasible) to try to incorporate these things into their models. Sure, there's a non-zero chance of a candidate being killed by a meteorite, but I think it's fair to ignore that and, if it happens, admit that you didn't even attempt to include the probability of that into your model.
Clojure is far from perfect. But a lot of people are using it and will continue to use it effectively.

It sounds like you're just salty for some reason. I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but that has no bearing on the usefulness of the language.
It's actually funny you said that. After I wrote my earlier comment I was thinking of Frank Loyd Wright's version of the perfect city, Broadacre City. It looks like it might go a ways toward solving some of the modern city problems, if it was viable: https://franklloydwright.org/revisiting-frank-lloyd-wrights-...
"Those 10 people are going to get rich" is true unless we face facts and change social contract.
It’s called Berkeley open arms. I thought it was open source and 3d printable...
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https://kyso.io/eoin/world-happiness-gdp-per-capita-scaled

I forked OP's study and graphed out how Happiness vs GINI looks when you scale the markers by GDP per capita, there is a clear trend of increasing happiness with increasing GINI, but it snaps back for the highest GDP per capita countries

(disclaimer - I founded Kyso - the company these studies are hosted on)
The idea that people resent inequality always seemed incredibly sketchy to me. Imagine a super-wealthy country where 99% of population has a yearly income of $200k, and the 1% has an income of $200m. This society would be very unequal, and yet somehow I can't imagine the 99% there being resentful of the rich, voting for populists etc. So, I think that people resent the rich only if they themselves are struggling to get by - but, as soon as their needs would be met, they would stop caring about other people's bank accounts.
We don't support inbound gRPC/streaming, but we do support outbound gRPC/streaming, so things like Firestore (or other streaming gRPC products) will work fine.
Isn’t it just one big misunderstanding between them?

Taleb thinks 538’s probabilities represent a binary option price on the event, in which case, yes, the probabilities should stay very close to 50% because the vol is so high. Whereas Silver’s models are actually saying “Based on current polls, if the election were held tomorrow, then the probability candidate X wins is Y%” and are thus allowed to swing more wildly. Aren’t both just fundamentally different things or am I missing something in Taleb’s argument?
My personal data has been involved in a breach, what can I do next?
Moreover:
- DOD.mil does not check
- I've been told I have my own Internet
- I am neither an Assange or Snowden case
- I suspect even my phone number is VLANNED
- Calling the US embassy is not a lazy function; the menu keeps changing when I tried to call them
- I suspect I've been kidnapped from Europe for some sort of religious psyops camp in the MENA region
- Somebody keeps downing my startups
See my other comment but I've made a new graph where the markers are scaled by GDP per cap: https://kyso.io/eoin/world-happiness-gdp-per-capita-scaled
SMBs don't usually have enough data to be able to guide optimization decisions in any meaningful way. Unless you're just sharing data between all other companies, which then results in the first problem I mentioned: you will not stand out.

Usually creative agencies don't choose to work with two clients that compete with each other because of this dilemma, or if they do, they keep what works for each client strictly secret.
I can't even find the paper in question - DOI link in the article here doesn't even resolve.

However, from the description of this model as "an interatomic forcefield", I'd guess this is more like a potential that can be used in classical molecular simulations. I.e. it's a highly refined and application-specific version of an EAM type model. This is a good jumping-off point for those:

https://www.ctcms.nist.gov/potentials/
Git written in Ruby, it's a no from me.
If I was Panasonic or Samsung I would be very nervous about losing trade secrets. China would give anything for their IP. With the same quality of materials Panasonic and Samsung have 30-40% higher energy capacity than Chinese BD.
No. Teslas, all of them, are exponentially more expensive than the average EV in china. These aren't what we would even call cars. The average Chinese electric car is more akin to a really fast three-wheeled golf cart. I'm talking about the sub-$5000 market, price points that wouldn't cover the doors on a tesla.
So Butterick's article can be reduced to one point: "The Crystal Goblet is wrong because you can't read an article until it is typeset." I may be mistaken, but I think you have misunderstood Butterick's response even more than you misunderstood the Crystal Goblet itself.
Most of Chinese electric cars are badly built electric golf carts, around $1000, that is driven around traffic with disregard for traffic rules, that is driven by people with monthly income of $800 or less ( majority of urban population).
Ha, that's cheap. Last time I checked the medical system gets over 20 grand a year from me(some via my employer). Works out to like 4 to 7 grand a visit, and that's mostly routine checkups/vaccinations for my kid. There's a reason doctors and medical/insurance execs are so wealthy.
What is the point of such unenforceable law?
I know new social networks are so 2010, but I honestly can’t believe there isn’t a mainstream social app that shows popular upcoming live events (concerts, festivals, events
, etc) near you or elsewhere with an RSVP function to see who is going (and thus see events that are trending or popular and upcoming).

Eventbrite and Facebook sort of do this but neither have event features that are really optimized for this IMO.

Would definitely use that all the time.
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Explain the value of the Somali shilling, then.
Nate himself has explicitly addressed that complaint as a huge mistake that Nassim continues to make and refuses to admit: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1114160511208259584

"p.s. You continue to cite a paper in which you critique our now-cast (a deliberately volatile hypothetical of what would happen in an election held today) and mistake it for our forecast but because you're such a stubborn idiot you won't admit to this very basic mistake."
Could you elaborate on what issues you encountered? I may have to do that for a F50 soon enough. Will probably get the same problems, if any.
The map is very beautiful and clear, so please take these as small nitpicks:

The zone boundaries are not clear at all. I see the words Zone A and Zone B within an area with the same background colour, with the words Zone B and Zone C "tacked on" to a border. Is Zone C the area outside the framing rectangle?

Contrast is a bit low, and line colours are just slightly too similar. Maybe the fare zones would be clearer in grey, like the London tube map.
Taleb is basically saying that Nate's model is not internally consistent.

I tend to agree, but the name-calling is a bit much.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

Sweden wants to change its vote on “Article 13” — here are the ways it can trap the directive
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Netflix ends AirPlay support in an ongoing souring of its Apple relationship
Why would there be a need to prevent that? The only text that is authoritative comes from the legal branch of the government.
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>The converse to the statement above is also true: if prices form a set of probabilities, then they are consistent. Since Silver’s forecasts begin with probability models, it’s safe to assume they obey all the rules, including Bayes’, and would be arbitrage-free.

I don't believe this is correct. You can lose money to arbitrage even with a calibrated model if you ignore data someone else has, or include random noise someone else isn't including, which is what Taleb's argument is.
It's also an interesting twist on the Innovator's Dilemma. The lesson IBM CEO Tom Watson took from the project was:

> Years later, when asked whether IBM would ever engage in such a massive project again, one executive barked out, “Hell no, never again.” Watson tilted toward a similar reaction. Commenting in 1966, he said, “At our size, we can’t go 100 percent with anything new again,” meaning anything that big. After the 360, Watson made it a policy “never to announce a new technology which will require us to devote more than 25 percent of our production to that technology.”

Yet if IBM had had the balls to hold onto that "bet the farm" spirit, then they might not be quite the sad husk of a formerly great company they are today.
You may be leading yourself astray by improperly defining happiness...
Teslas don’t spontaneously burst into flames as often as cheap Chinese EVs.

Wealthy Chinese consumers will drive down the cost for poor Chinese consumers.
Can someone explain how rayiner's argument goes against the idea of IRS-prepared taxes itself rather than the UX of the implementation? It sounds like he’s just trying to be devil’s advocate (to put it nicely).
Reminds me of the old essay on "Words of Estimative Probability" from the CIA

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
I remember reading around that time that some people were wondering whether Semantic Web or IoT become Web 3.0. Unfortunately I won't find the references without a lot of googling. On the other hand Semantic Web is pretty much dead, HTML5 being not related to XML rather went further away again IMHO. Also IoT didn't seem to find the adaption as expected for home users, at least I don't find myself interacting with IoT devices on a day to day basis.

That said, IPFS servers and clients are there but it's not in use. So it would be quite a stretch to call that "officially" Web 3.0 until it will be in use by a significant amount of end user applications. Until now also blockchain (read Bitcoin) payment is very exceptional despite tons of frameworks, libraries, servers and clients. Even for the semantic web there are bizillions of tools but the information value remains questionable.

Looking back at Web 2.0, the transition went much more smoothly from static Web 1.0 to usage of "DHTML", HTML 4.0 with much JS/Ajax and eventually popular services making a lot of use of it, namely Facebook and Google including their plugins that were embedded on lots of websites at that time and still are.

Anyways, would be nice if a new development would get traction...
Controversial != useless. I don't like they wasted money on Firefox OS or Persona; I don't want to donate to them if my money goes there instead of to Firefox. In fact, why not let us decide where exactly our money will go if we donate?
>At least here in the US, bakeries are overwhelmingly small single retail shops.

How did you come to that conclusion? My reading of the market data shows the opposite.

https://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Article/2018/10/31/Industry-...

Maybe you think retail shops that finish off parbaked goods are actually mom-and-pop shops?
But hasn't been used in the UK for at least a generation.
Sorry, my question was about outbound IPv6. At the backend, we need full IPv4 and IPv6 network connectivity to the outside world. (I haven't tried Cloud Run, but I read through the docs and there are no indications [that I could find] that IPv6 is supported, as with other GCP services.)
Orthogonal question. Unless you mean "Is he wrong in his approach?". Then probably yes.
- I can't edit my posts for some reason; I've been in a layer2 VPN before. I'm also under house arrest. My domain names have somehow been stolen.
Can you test out a demo(http://blog-wordpress.adymatic.com/2019/04/09/fastspring-dem...), and tell me if its good enough? You can ask questions via the blue widget
I wonder how they are doing. I hope they don't share the same fate as Geocities.
IPv6 TCP and UDP outbound works. :)
- There is a financial VLAN on me since 2017. I also specialize in theoretical nanotechnology.
That depends entirely upon how motivated an attacker is and how many blocks organizations wait for.
This is a reasonable programming language design choice.

CMake actual gotchas I dislike enough to avoid it as much as possible include defaulting to cached information, even after I make changes, and preferring "smart", opaque and even hard to track down scripts to explicit user input. It seems optimized for cleverness and conciseness, at the expense of reliability and required user effort.