skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 is not a FB breach.
One solution would be for the temperature to be mid way between men and women.

But, if I have a choice of jobs, I'm not going to work at a place that keeps the heat blasting so that the coldest person in the building feels warm. And of course the same could be said of someone who's freezing in a building meant to keep the warmest person from overheating.

I guess the ideal solution would be some kind of advanced technology you could wear to insulate yourself from the cold of the environment, while also letting you take it off when it gets too warm. Startup idea?
Unity 2019.1 Released
It already has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideonella_sakaiensis
The common discussion around this topic reminds me of how people got upset about Pluto being demoted to a "dwarf planet", or how they value spending hours of one's life reading fiction novels while scoffing at shows and video games as lower forms of art. I know older folks who think it's a bad thing that their nieces and nephews aren't being taught cursive handwriting. People have a visceral reaction to change, especially when it comes to things that were romanticized, or at least emphasized in childhood.

Knowing how to write in cursive is like knowing how to churn butter, how to tie a horse to a hitching post, or (more aptly) using a typewriter. Said skills might be selectively useful, but they are generally obsolete. It's great that people want to know that I have to do those things, but don't expect me to have to learn outdated things that have no use for me.
not likely to be taken down as the CEO tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1118057606159798274
This is a slippery slope. At least this puts pressure onto people to match the speed of people going faster. So this might lead to massively increased average speeds risking an increase in accidents.

Wouldn't it?
This is a neat toy simulation. I do enjoy the depth of the drivers' behavior. I am a traffic engineer and traffic simulation is a large portion of my job. Professionally I use PTV Vissim. [1] It allows me to build just about any road network configuration imaginable.

[1] http://vision-traffic.ptvgroup.com/en-us/products/ptv-vissim...
Ads that are "irrelevant" are still leaving an impression in people's minds. They will be a subconscious push toward the particular service when time comes for you to need it.

Re: payday loans, I'd guess no one who uses those expected to use them until they did. Not that you ever will. But the point is, your reaction doesn't mean their targeting formula is wrong.

Much of advertising is about building subtle positive associations in people's minds and/or leaving a seed for them to remember when the time comes. Other advertising is like the dog carrier mentioned above -- a specific product and not a brand.

It gets confusing when all advertising is lumped in together in discussions about whether it's "relevant" or not.

Finally a lot of advertising is about keeping brand loyalty for current customers -- make them feel good about their choice so they keep making it.

I make the assumption that advertisers are both smarter than me and understand the human mind better than me.
Unexpectedly powerful front brakes are a problem with low speed pedal power, too. I flipped myself over the handlebars that way (rear brake had worn, front brake hadn’t).
An inverse relationship between better security and usability perhaps? More security == less usability. Look at PGP encrypted email as a shining example of security sucking for usability.
Yes conceptually, no because of signage error.

If you were in a position MCAS would have to kick in, you were at positive AoA, reduced thrust would impart a negative AoA moment.
I understand why people laugh at the stories I tell from there, I laugh at it now that my time is over. But when you're in it, it's just disheartening. No one wants to tell their grandkids "I was in a lot of meetings, and I was the best at looking busy".
> Must every collective effort be corrupted by selfishness?

Collective efforts directed to realizing the vision of the few are inherently suspect.
ugh, so fucking creepy, but it's perfectly in line with SV double speak
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I don’t think this anecdote makes sense either. I have heard it described this way when it was assumed men would wear jackets but not in casual shorts.

I also find it hard to believe that offices are five degrees too cold for women. That feels too extreme.
Scraping web data with R and the Tidyverse
We spent a trillion dollars sending a man to the moon. We can do megaprojects if the exigency exists. But the bar for exigency is much higher now and that's a good thing. Notre Dame, by contrast, never did a damn thing for the French peasants that were taxed to pay for it.
Because it is costly and full of bugs
Just leaving this here:
Do tasks, get paid.
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No worries. It's true being a US citizen carries certain guarantee of basic rights that a citizenship of any other country does not.

You wouldn't believe. Sweden is really a high-trust society. You can look up any person in the country online, etc, etc.
Well, you could have it somewhere in between the two extremes.
1) The problem is that Apple doesn't allow it to be used for the web where it could help privacy there too by removing cookies.

2) Apps are reviewed, there are no workarounds and there is no need to when there is a sanctioned API that does exactly what is necessary.
> I had to uninstall it as I started seeing captchas everywhere. The recaptcha v3 test page gave me a score of 0.1. After uninstalling this jumped to 0.9.

Wow, I had no idea this was the cause. I thought it was just Google straight up ranking Firefox lower (whether intentionally or due to bugs) because they don't care about fixing the experience for Firefox users.
If there's technical capability, there's no doubt they will do it, with or without an "attack" (a fake orchestrated attack can always be used as pretext). It's obvious to everyone this will be another Great Firewall.
Why should they? Are they going to make more money if they fix it? Of course not; people aren't basing their usage of Windows on the performance of the built-in unzipper. Advanced users just install a 3rd-party tool, the clueless masses just use the built-in thing and wait and think it's normal. Companies like Microsoft don't care about building the best product they can; they only care about maximizing profits, so the solution that's "good enough" is what they go with. What they have works, poorly, and costs them nothing to maintain, so that's what they stick with.
It is not in the government's interest to strongly support the teaching of financial literacy because a population that is financially literate is going to demand more financial responsibility from government. While there's no conspiracy to prevent teaching financial literacy, there's just little incentive to actually do it because the status quo thrives on its absence.
Let's hope they don't "improve" it with an Apple store inside.
This. Making a chatbot isn't difficult. Making a competent one that users can comfortably interact with is extremely difficult.
Are the algorithms that power dating apps racially biased?
There was an extra pilot in the cockpit uninvolved with flying the plane.

His participation in Crew Resource Management allowed the previous flight to correctly identify and remediate the issue before things became unrecoverable.
Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is another (even more famous) example. Started in 1882 and still is under construction (current completion estimation is 2032).
Ask HN: Examples of Good UI/UX?
All of computer graphics is making pictures with data. All of computer vision is making data with pictures.
Has anyone also read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Modeling-Software-Finite-State-Machin... ? I've actually stopped at 56% or so when it starts plugging their proprietary solution as mentioned in one of the reviews, the previous part being the theory of it, I very much enjoyed it though.

I had not learned about automata theory and electric engineering formal methods before, so I'm still trying to piece it together, seeing if I can fit this to my work and such, seemed very promising and kind of a "missing piece" in the puzzle to me. In that it seems to really allow to better model system behavior in a way that potentially could bind it to a spec, give new tools for seeing blindspots, etc, at the same being abstract enough that you could capture much with actions, control values, conditions and states.
Don't forget to charge all that labor to the program (taxpayers).
Also a very good point!
I've always wanted to search specific terms and have never been able to. Really excited to try out Allparel!
Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm sorry you had to go through that.

I believe the racial segregation in our country is an enormous injustice that gets short shrift in public conversation. It's so pervasive in our society that we don't even see it anymore. It's role in education is particularly pernicious. I live in Columbus, Ohio, which like many northern cities has an underfunded, poorly performing, mostly black and brown school district in its core flanked all around by well-funded, high-performing, mostly white school districts. My son's elementary school last year had 82% students of color and two miles away in another school district was a public elementary with 9% students of color.

I did some research to understand how things came to be like this in my city, and of course, it’s the typical story of white flight after Brown v. Board of Education. But what surprised me, a white person, was the historical and continuing ambivalence in the local black community with bussing as a solution to racial inequality in education. And I’ve seen that ambivalence expressed elsewhere, too. I was told that prior to Brown v. Board there were excellent all-black public schools. Then Brown v. Board triggered white flight, which drained all the resources from the city core, and eventually even middle class black families who could afford to, got out. The answer is not bussing, not integration, I was told by one thought-leader in the local black community, but quality, well-funded community schools.

I struggle to accept that answer because I know the data shows that minority students benefit hugely when their schools are not segregated. Yet I understand why sending kids to schools that aren’t in their community and where they may not be welcome is problematic. I wonder if the ideal solution isn’t a bussing program that is just as likely to bus a white kid to a black school as a black kid to a white school. But the program would need to be robust enough to prevent or adapt to white flight. Or maybe we should focus our energy on residential economic and racial segregation which, if solved, would also solve the educational segregation issue. I don’t know.

In any case, I’d love to hear any thoughts you might have.
>The formula to determine standard office temperature was developed in the 1960s around the metabolic resting rate of the average man. But a recent Dutch study found that the metabolic rate of young adult females performing light office work is significantly lower than the standard values for men doing the same activity [......] This leads to the odd sight of female office workers wrapped in blankets in the summer, while their male colleagues wander around in shorts.

Who really thinks that people set the thermostat at the office to be in accordance with the formulaic "standard office temperature?" The powerful people in a particular office set it at the temperature comfortable for them. Duh. The oppression of women in this case comes at a much more local level, and if it is true that women prefer a warmer temperature than men (with the caveat of everything falling on a distribution, of course), any change in the thermostat is a zero-sum game where one party wins and the other loses. This means that touching the thermostat will always and forever be a political game.

Another strange one the article mentions: the size of bricks. 99% of bricklayers are men. I would be willing to bet that the 1% that are women are unusually large-handed women as well. If we decreased the size of bricks to accomodate small-handed women, the time and cost it takes to build a wall would increase in proportion. It isn't rocket science that the incentives line up with what is good for the majority of people here.

As a more general concept, construction materials that are intended to be hand-installed are generally made available in the largest unit that a construction worker can wield. Making these units smaller genuinely decreases productivity. If this has a tendency to select for large, brutish construction workers, I don't see any harm. Especially considering that brutish folks have been getting the shit kicked out of them economically for the last 20 years.
For those who wonder what GLFW is... if you want to play with OpenGL or Vulkan, make a graphics demo, or make a game, GLFW is a library that frees you from having to deal with the nuances of Win32/X11/etc, wrangles keyboard inputs and other things across platforms.

It is similar to LibSDL, but is more lightweight and GPU-centric. GLFW is designed more with greenfield projects in mind, whereas LibSDL was designed from the beginning to help with porting existing code. (They are both excellent libraries.)
In Europe, churces are desecrated en masse. Nobody talks about it, yet everyone knows what is behind it. It's like an absurd nightmare.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14044/europe-churches-
vandalized
> developers would push the user to make their software trusted

I don't see it going this way. This is comparable to virtual memory and MMUs. When there is support in hardware, the speed benefit of not using it is negligible (as shown by the 1% difference demonstrated in the research).

When it is not needed, there is a benefit of not implementing it in hardware, and saving power and die area. For example, GPUs (traditionally) and crypto mining hardware do not employ MMUs.
She did what she thought was justice, and I agree it is. I did not detect any sarcasm in her post, and it's better because of it.
> malware (studies)

Uh huh.

> MITI[1] (Ministry of Truth)

"Coral is a Mozilla project that builds open-source tools to make digital journalism more inclusive and more engaging."

"Mozilla will develop a web literacy curriculum that addresses misinformation, and will continue investing in existing projects like the Mission: Information teaching kit."

"Later this year, Mozilla will be releasing original research on how misinformation impacts users’ experiences online."

"Imagine: an augmented reality web app that uses data visualization to investigate misinformation’s impact on Internet health. Or, a virtual reality experience that takes users through the history of misinformation online."

Terrifying, really. They want to make an ~educational pamphlet~.

> DRM (EME)

Very reluctantly joining other browsers is 'pushing'?
I use the "Old Reddit Redirect" Chrome extension to automatically switch to old.reddit.com. It's kind of unbelievable how much worse the new site layout is by almost any metric (usability, performance, etc.). https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
like a sweater you mean?
No. I'm not here to argue with anybody. I don't intend to change anyone's standing point. I realized long ago that online argument is more about sending pheromones so that the like-minded will come to you.
In the next sentence the author also says the damage was caused by foam "hitting the wing nine times faster than a fired bullet." A bullet goes about 900m/s, and the "nine times" figure often symbolizes orbital velocity. It's clear that the reference is to the speed of the collision.
Indeed we still make great technological achievements, and thanks God there are still brilliant engineers out there.
But they may not be equally distributed in the industry.

And many of them (in my humble experience, at least) rely too much on computing tools and algorithms they do not completely master, expecting a "magical" answer out of them.
>>Back in 2015, I was invited to lead a mindfulness retreat in Ireland. Upon arriving in Dublin airport, I made my way to the immigration counter. Presenting my passport to the officer, he asked me whether this was my first trip to Ireland. ‘Yes’, I replied:

I love the irony of an author speaking about the Buddhist approach to consumption while engaging in the most consumptive act imaginable: international flights to a meditation retreat. We need to get consumption under control. We need to reduce not only our carbon footprints but our overall impact on the natural world. Buddhism, or any other approach, isn't useful if it promotes excess. Flying to Ireland to discuss philosophy, or to indulge in a better or more pure mode of eating, is exactly the type of excessive consumption we need to curtail.

>> In the photos taken during our day at Universal Studios,

>> In October 2015, I was walking around in New York City.

>> It reminded me of a talk our teacher gave when we were travelling in China

We get it. You like to travel and have the time+money to do it. What does Buddhism say about boasting?
Your boss just called. They said to tell you to stop padding your estimates...
China's Workers Are Protesting Tech's Deadly '996' Overtime Culture
That is a good question that is very complex to answer. This isn't just a historical building, it is a building. There was one (two?) pipe organ inside that were used for beautiful music, modern design can improve the acoustics making the music better. This was a cathedral, I assume still in use for worship, could modern design help that purpose? This was a beautiful example of historical architecture, should we recreate that exactly to add study of architecture? This is a valuable building site in the middle of Paris, they could build a skyscraper to better use the land.

Those are just a few of the competing concerns. There is a good argument to be made for each (even the skyscraper), whatever you choose will be at the expense of the others. We are forced to have this argument now: expect a lot of shouting and nobody to be happy with the end result. Try to see all sides. (I was going to say help to a reasonable compromise, but then I realized that compromise is not always reasonable)
> One of the biggest problems in AI is that NN cannot match an object in 2 images if it was taken from different perspective

I think you've missed the last 5-ish years of NN development. Some of the latest Face2Vec stuff can handle different perspectives pretty well by either building a system that can predict 3D representations of the face from one shot[0] or by just training on two different perspectives of the same face and having the system output the same vector (I've read some work on this but Google is failing me at finding a reference).

If you can recognize people from different angles, computers will eventually be able to do it better than you. Probably already.

[0]https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.10714.pdf
> In a professional environment this would be illegal

Why? Humans come in all shapes and sizes. You can't possibly accommodate everybody. I have a sister in law who is 4'7". I have a brother-in-law who is 6'7". Unless the entire workbench is on adjustable legs, it must accommodate one or the other. There is no possible way to accommodate both people comfortably.

That's why chairs with adjustable heights were invented.
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On the other hand, what kind of useful projects would take so long to build today? Even massive infrastructure like the Channel Tunnel or the Panama Canal can be finished well within one lifetime.

Technology changes too fast for that to be reasonable these days. Let’s say I design some massive bridge that will take 100 years to build. Why would we start construction today, when technological changes might render it completely obsolete before it’s even done?

The fact that people were able to plan and execute a centuries-long construction project for a monument to society’s shared imaginary friend is fascinating and speaks well of them but it doesn’t seem like the sort of thing we should strive to emulate.
I like to say we never solve problems, we try to replace bigger ones with smaller ones.
Take a look at the Z-machine wikipedia page. It has some good background. There's also a link to "Learning ZIL" in the external links section.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine
5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
"Safe: All calls to WebAssembly will be fast, but more importantly, completely safe and sandboxed."

That's a very bold statement, I see no backup of this in the readme.
You are wrong. The second paper is attempting to measure sales lift (with randomization, which many ad campaigns disallow because the marketer doesn’t want to pay for holdout inventory, so it’s not really the same situation that most companies are in when calculating lift), but sales lift does not mean there was positive ROI. You can increase sales all day, but if you’re spending more than you’re making to do so, it’s not effective and usually indicates some unsustainable effect that is more about short term attention than about a meaningful effect of information transfer about a product (and indeed in [1] the authors found a very similar effect - that there is usually positive lift on a customer activity like visits or site shopping cart checkouts, but that among users driven to the site by digital ads, their purchases were far less in total value, enough to more than offset the cost of advertising to drive them).

[1]: https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

I think you’re confused. I’m not disputing whether ads create positive lift in intermediate metrics like visits, clicks or sales.

I’m saying the research pretty conclusively shows that despite that created positive lift in intermediate metrics, it does not translate to positive ROI, or a weaker version is that it may create positive ROI but on average marketing campaigns even from the country’s biggest marketers would need to be 10x-1000x larger than they are to even be able to distinguish such wildly incompatible outcomes as +100% ROI vs -50% ROI, to the point that for most companies buying digital ads, they literally have no idea if they are making money or losing money by doing so.
You might want to check out Fit as a testing framework that may be more appropriate for your use case than Cucumber. Not sure if it's still well maintained, but it could be brought up to speed without much effort.
The GWT problem and Cucumber's issues remind me of COBOL or even AppleScript. They worked out an English-like syntax that looks great in a demo, but winds up being harder to write code in than most other programming languages.

And the reason seems to be that it's requiring us to express ideas in a vastly simplified language. In order to do that, we have to expand a complex idea to many simpler ideas.

That's making us do the job of the compiler! Real high-level languages are rich with many idioms and structures and the compiler then reduces that to simpler ISA.