skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> WALLACE: What do you mean by "the marketing orientation," Dr. Fromm?

> FROMM: I mean by that, that our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality - or as one says sometimes, our "personality package" - for something. Now, this is not so true for the manual worker. The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile. But, what you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.

-- Erich Fromm, http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/from...
The first part of which (up to the flaming ship funeral)
borrows from Ibn Battuta.

http://muslimheritage.com/article/ahmad-ibn-fadhlan-northern...
Charge+something, but also because when one breaks im not screwed.
If you haven't read the guidelines and FAQ, those are good places to start.
CFM Monitoring Leap Fleet for Issue Linked to Southwest Engine Failure
Good. Focus on the use cases that actually work, namely a chatbot for handling customer service questions and an enterprise search engine.
I think there is also a racial component to it. We focus on features that enable us to distinguish people in our social circle. For example, for some groups of people hair color and eye color are not really distinguishing (a majority of the group have black hair and brown eyes). It would be interesting to see how many of the inaccurate identifications were cross-racial.
> specific isues in the report concerning Internet, Web, Silicon Valley, and related technologies, firms, practices, and concerns, most especially Facebook and Twitter.

And specific articles about numerous such issues have been discussed on HN (with varying "success"), and there's no reason to believe it won't happen with issues based on details from the Mueller report.
It's not a bug. It's a feature anomaly.
Wished they had taken the opportunity to show off the C64's solid sound chip hardware advantage over the NES ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_cbQh8og70
Several other movie renditions of Beowulf were made before the LotR films.
And it's still not enough.
Bluetooth is not always an option. I often travel/work (military) where i must keep it in airplane mode. Wireless headphones also arent an option. 2 usb ports means when one snaps the phone isnt bricked.
TED 2019: Google’s advanced tech director wants everything to be a computer
> Scholars agree that these were different scribes copying the poem, not two different poets.

Which suggests that some of the perceived
homogeneity may stem from the scribal style,
rather than the oral style.
Most projects (not just software) never ship unless there's a deadline. For example, how many students complete their term papers weeks before they're due? If there was no due date, how many would ever complete them?
I know I never would have learned much of anything in college without deadlines and exams.
It doesn't seem to say what nexus is, or why we should care what it is. Anyone care to clue us in?
» They're the same thing. BTW, many aircraft crashes were due to a pilot doing what would have been the right thing on another design they were familiar with. Boeing's plan to make the MAX behave like other airplanes is a reasonable plan to improve safety.

» The "multiple cascading changes" is always an issue with a complex design, and in fact Boeing's approach with the Max was choosing a route which minimized those cascading changes.

I think the charges people are bringing is that Boeing wanted to make the new airplane acceptable by airliners by making the 737 Max the same as the old plane so there was no need to certify pilots for the new plane. My vote is that this is criminal negligence at best and under an ideal government, the then CEO and board would be in jail pending charges right now.
If the proof is more complex than the software, I don't see how that gains you anything. It's harder to verify that you've proved the right thing than to verify the software itself, so how does that help?
It's difficult to imagine a government that is pro-surveillance and dedicated to its expansion is going to want dismantle / disarm its #1 partner - informal or otherwise.

To think that no one of significant power / influence in Washington DC has been aware of FB's depth and breadth is naive. Things are, from that POV, exactly how they're supposed to be.
If all kids could just sit on the sofa and play video games we'd all be much healthier.
This article reads well. Unfortunately, it's filled with fundamental mistakes.

> In the old days, when cables connected the pilot’s controls to the flying surfaces, you had to pull up, hard, if the airplane was trimmed to descend. You had to push, hard, if the airplane was trimmed to ascend. With computer oversight there is a loss of natural sense in the controls. In the 737 Max, there is no real “natural feel.”

Whoops. The 737 is one of the few airliners produced today that DOES still directly connect the pilot's controls to flying surfaces. There's literally 12mm wires connecting the yoke to the control surfaces. So, in fact, the 737 does have "natural feel". In fact, that's the whole problem MCAS was designed to solve - how to add force to the yoke when at high AOA in certain speed regions, in order to ensure a linear AOA response. (Certification requires something along the lines of "5 pounds force -> 5 degree AOA, 10 pounds force -> 10 degree AOA, etc") If the 737 was fly-by-wire, this force could be added directly in software. Instead, they added this force by changing the aircraft's trim.

> In a pinch, a human pilot could just look out the windshield to confirm visually and directly that, no, the aircraft is not pitched up dangerously.

No, you can't. There isn't a visual indication for AOA - the author is confusing this with pitch. You can have a 45 degree AOA while still having the nose of the plane pointed at the horizon. (The author mentions using the artificial horizon for this purpose, too) If you could read AOA from sensors that didn't require being exposed to the airflow, planes would use them.

I'm sure there's more, and it greatly reduces my confidence in the article.
I read that book as a teenager and it made me want to start my own gaming company just so I could throw keyboards at my coworkers :D
Or where you want to deploy some small tools without worrying about setting up rbenv and dealing with bundler in your config management.
Why do we continue to allow our institutions of higher learning (namely high schools and colleges) to promote this sport? The very organizations charged with making our children smarter sponsor a sport proven to cause brain damage. At some point these institutions need to be held accountable for this, only when that happens will we see any change.
What about Shakespeare, doesn't he have one of the most extensive authorship research? The article quickly mentions that an older analysis mistakenly attributed someone's poem to Shakespeare, to me, that only adds to the mystery of the authorship question.
This is true, but any number of engineers still should have blown the whistle. The driving force may have been managerial greed, but other factors still could have averted it.
How much money did they make?
Also discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19689601
I have three others main hobbies (powerlifting, videogames and novels books) and a fiance. I already give programming 40hours week (hoping to reduce them growing up), the remaining hours are for my other passions and my friends/family
There is certainly work involved, but it's passive income to the citizens, who didn't work for it and aren't the ones guarding it. I agree that it's fine. (I am in favor of basic income.)

But I'm wondering, how do you think we distinguish between good and bad income streams? You seemed to be making a moral distinction.
Having played a lot of lacrosse (high school & college, field & box), since it's in Oregon, it's probably field lacrosse. Box lacrosse just isn't that prevalent in the United States, especially in states that aren't big hockey states.
They have some of those throughout the city. However, they require attendants to be on site during operation because people shoot up drugs, prostitute themselves, or sleep in them.

The solution will require much more than some free-to-use restrooms.
This was not buggy software. This was a bad specification. The software did what it was supposed to do.
He saved his PE investment in Kmart from liquidating by doing a PE buyout of the original Sears to create Sears Holding.
Threadsafe refcounting is just terrible for throughput. Not only do the atomic ops hurt you, but logically read-only operations like data structure traversals require modifying refcounts, and therefore become read-write operations, with associated cache line ping-ponging between cores.

The Swift people are smart and maybe they have a plan to mitigate this but I don't know what it might be.
Thanks, I have wanted to try it. I will find some small project to use Crystal for.
Blackstone CEO blames gap between rich and poor on income 'insufficiency'
I think the logs were accessible to anyone in the company, probably vendors also. So disclosing seems appropriate, I dont think this kind of wide sharing of sensitive data is the norm, I have seen this mostly at startups (but also some others) that move fast and see security as developer productivity friction.

Companies that take security serious wouldn't give access to logs to everyone in the company in the first place.
Businesses would not employ expensive managers if the dev teams worked better without them.
I have a masters in physics and know people who do to with different results. One thing you gotta realize is physicists tend to be very smart people and often enough "lazy". Or I should say - don't like putting on a suit for a 9-5.

They're different people. And a lot of then value living their lives over slaving away and are OK with that.
It isn't just that the tests need to be good and humans break things sometimes. At a certain scale, the following happens enough to be a problem:

- changeset A is submitted, an integration branch is cut from latest master, and CI begins

- changeset B is submitted, an integration branch is cut from latest master, and CI begins

- changeset A's integration branch passes CI build/test, so A is merged into master

- changeset B's integration branch passes CI build/test, so B is merged into master

- however, changeset A + B interact in such a way that causes build and/or tests to fail

- build is now broken

You're probably thinking "that sounds like it wouldn't happen very often. Both changes would need to be submitted within some window such that changeset B's integration branch does not include changeset A, and vice-versa". Which is correct, but that's where the scale comes in. With enough engineers this starts happening more, and the more engineers you have the more unacceptable it is to have the build broken for any amount of time. And the more engineers the more code you have so the longer any individual build starts taking which lengthens the window during which the two conflicting changes could be submitted.

You need to do it in a way that serializes the changes because that's the only way to prevent this, but that takes too long. So the paper is about how to solve this problem.
> it would be better for a male fan of the book to just hold his tongue and not try to deny that female reader’s experience

This argument is at odds with the core idea of feminism of equality between genders. You are insinuating that a female reader would not be equipped to judge herself the "male fan's" comment.
Recently, all new Crystal releases has introduced only new features for very specific use-cases, or made old ones easier or better to use. For example the new "begin-less and end-less ranges" — unless you need such a thing; there is no need to use it, or give it any care alltogether.
> One other modest mitigating factor should be mentioned. For many everyday crimes, like robbery, the presence of surveillance cameras in stores and buildings has made the police somewhat less dependent on eyewitness identification. The broader use of such surveillance cameras should therefore be encouraged.

Oy vey, the cure may be worse than the disease.

We’ve know this for over a century[0]. Plane crash investigators mostly ignore eye witness testimony using it only at best to guide the investigation[1]. Maybe this should be the standard for the legal system too: allow eye witness testimony to guide police investigation but not be used as courtroom evidence.

Also, this article doesn’t mention the cross or other race effect[2] which is yet another compounding factor.

Aside: Rashomon is still an excellent movie.

0. http://historyforensicpsych.umwblogs.org/eye-witness-account...

(The link above embeds a 60 minutes segment about the Ronald Cotton case mention in the submitted story.)

1. https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&co...

2. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-conscious/20...
> When churches help people, they have an ulterior motive -- to convert the people they help to the church.

You might as well say God has an ulterior motive for providing for our needs - that we would come to know and love him. The two statements are analogous.

It’s true, churches that truly love people and believe the Bible will want people to be saved through belief in Jesus. Hell is so bad, nothing could be more unloving than to not care about people’s souls and offer them the gospel.

To be clear, the assumption that non-Christians are going to hell is not because of any moral superiority. All deserve hell, including Christians, because all have sinned. But free forgiveness is offered. It’s like a flag being waved over a well in the desert by a once-thirsty man who has found water. The statement “I’ve found water” or the assumption that we’re all in a desert carries no overtone of personal superiority.

At the same time, if people need help but don’t want to hear anything, fine. That is no reason to turn them away or treat them less favorably in charity/outreach.
Crypto Finance
If it's a plaintext password, the minute it hits any human eyes, it is IMO compromised and the user should be required to change it. Employee, Interviewee, Hacker - doesn't matter.
It would be interesting to see how the code classified names as European/non-European.
Given that apparently no ML was involved, I assume it was based on a list of European names, and if your name is not on the list, you're not European and you lose 15 points ? Or some kind of pattern matching (Reged or similar), again if your name doesn't match, you lose 15 points ?
It seems very strange that someone would go to such lengths to explicitly code this kind of bias.
Well it does become difficult to separate considering Tolkein lectured about Beowulf, translated it in the 1920s (not published until this decade!), and his decades of work on ancient languages, philology and linguistics.

Nothing to do with LotR films, more to do with an intellectual giant well known in the field (who also wrote LotR). The books were far better anyway.

Neither is it Tolken's fault Beowulf is considered the most significant work from Old English. Often discussed in the broadsheets I once read, not ever likely to reach those who read the Sun or the Mirror. Still doesn't stop it being a highly significant work (without Tolken or Jackson).

The Beeb trot it out regularly - not buried in dusty literate sections that no one normal would encounter, which seems to be what you're driving at.

Mind it probably even reached down to tabloid readers from time to time. There was a fun Australian cartoon version, narrated by Peter Ustinov retelling from Grendel's point of view. Managed to become a bit of a cult classic in its day. There's been a couple of TV mini series. Probably a game and festival too for all I know!
Any tips for getting into Amazon's research arm? I'm in the market, as it were.
> Watson is more a marketing term than a technical connection between products.

As far as I can tell there's absolutely no connection between the products being labeled as 'Watson' and often times very little machine learning taking place either.

I've interviewed several candidates from IBM over the last ~3 years and almost all of them worked on something with 'Watson' in the name. When we whiteboarded out the architecture of what they worked on it was mostly automation with _maybe_ a touch of machine learning thrown in by a module written by someone else.

Very few of them were able to pass the technical interview.
I've noticed this too. I think it applies to most of their apps. I've had an issue since early April where a certain gmail account crashes the mail app (one account out of four only - it's not just me with this issue https://support.google.com/mail/thread/3994942).

The only fix is to remove all updates and revert to the original version of the app, and the UI experience is so much better. I'd forgotten how fast it was. I might just keep it like this.
s/NB these programs don't work on modern computers/NB these programs work well with BBC BASIC on a modern Raspberry Pi computer running RISC OS!/
Unclear to me why average temps would move up and at the same time the variance in the range of temps would shrink? If the average goes up 20° why should we expect the potential maximum temperature to go up less than 20°?
Genes which prevent people gaining weight discovered, hope for slimming medicine
And another of my pet hates: stop asking for 'full stack developers'. I've got a fuckload of experience from decades of work and the best I can do is be a moderately knowledgeable jack-of-all trades for back-end development, with a real depth in certain areas of MSSQL.

A normal human just can't be everything unless it's so shallow as to be downright counterproductive.
Air Force creates CTO position to oversee non-IT development
The picture he shows of all the Skittles' counts looks like something I would've seen at the local museum. He missed his chance of taking an ultra high resolution photo of it and putting it on display:

https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/follow-up-i-f...
> More data is needed, unfortunately.

I’ve slowly been convinced that more data isn’t needed before we act on this. The only reason there’s a call for more data is that these sports are very popular and drive revenue. We have enough data to say “yes, these sports pose a serious risk to the health of those playing them.” That doesn’t mean to have to stop playing them, but it does mean we can’t throw our hands up and claim we just don’t know why these kids keep getting brain injuries.
I too agree that trade can be a mutually beneficial endeavor. But it's not an either-or nor an absolute. Trade can be good, trade can be bad. Protectionism can be good, protectionism can be bad. History has shown that a certain amount of trade and a certain amount of protectionism is the formula for success and trade.

As I pointed out before, some of the top trading nations are the US, China, Japan, Germany and South Korea. All of them have significant amount of protectionist policies. All of them also have significant amount of trade.

It's a false dichotomoy to claim you can have trade or you can have protectionism. You can have both.
>Some of the most brilliant people in the world have been working on image recognition, voice recognition etc. and AI is crushing all of their work.

This is very true. I take my stronger statements back, MAINSTREAM mathematicians attempting this problem are all wrong, and have been wrong for 50 years. But you do need the right theory, and the right math that realizes this theory.

"AI" is superficially beating the work in computer vision. Computer vision is complete bogus. The gabor filters, fourier transfroms etc. are all wrong conceptually. The known methods do abysmally on basic tasks like object recognition, texture segmentation etc. But they keep trying it.

I would take this one step further: computer vision, audio and NLP researchers have been stuck in a rut for the past 50 years. DL is beating THEIR math, but this is because of data and computation speed, not because of any insights. But DL is also wrong, and giving you an illusion of progress. Both of these things are doomed to go the way of GOFAI.

I can go into great detail and carefully explain why MAINSTREAM contemporary ideas in math for vision, audition and language are completely wrong, and have been wrong for 50 years. What is the right model? Like I mentioned before, the right ideas are emerging, neural networks will dominate, just not DL.
Yeah, that's what I thought TFA would be about.

OK so this is totally off the wall.

Back in the late 80s, I recall an Apple video which claimed that all of the Hebrew characters are 2D projections of some 3D shape. And then [something about creation, the structure of reality, etc]. I also remember something about a lawsuit by some guy in California, claiming that the video producer had stolen his work.

I think that I even had a videotape. But it's all gone, or maybe packed in a box that I've lost track of. And it was so pre-Internet that there's no trace that I've managed to find. It was very trippy stuff.

Anyway, had to ask :)
You know, it would be very profitable for someone to profess an expertise in X, reach out to various companies to help them use X to solve their problems, then simultaneously gain experience in X while patenting the heck out of any problems solved with X.
And they announced it while they thought the attention was elsewhere (due to the Muller report release), and in an easy to miss manner (as an update to a blog post). Very trust inspiring.
> Is there any scientific literature on potential dangers of these standard vaccines? Maybe newer findings?

> I’m asking because this is such a polarizing topic that science-trusting people could totally have developed a blind spot by now.

There are massive publicly-accessible databases of reported possible adverse reactions to vaccines. You can easily download a spreadsheet listing every reported instance of someone developing a runny nose or rash after receiving a vaccine last year in the US. It is very reasonable to assume that the reporting rate for more serious reactions is plenty high enough for any real patterns to be quite noticeable from analyzing that data, at least for the vaccines that are given to large portions of the public. There is no blind spot when it comes to safety of the vaccines that have been recommended for the general public; this is well monitored and the safety of something like the MMR vaccine is supported by a mountain of data. Anyone questioning the long-established safety of common vaccines needs to provide up-front an analysis of VAERS data and a very good explanation for why they think that data is inaccurate.
So using Go and Java on the server makes sense when the developer ergonomics of GC outweigh the performance costs (and the developer ergonomics disadvantages of having to analyze GC performance). Using Rust makes sense when performance matters more. Swift seems somewhere in between; maybe there's a sweet spot there but, but it wouldn't be surprising if not.
Looks very cool. What is the preferred way to deposit checks? I see it mentioned on the FAQ as “add new funds” flow, but I’m thinking more like payment for invoices from old-school customers.

Do you support an RDC scanner, or would it be recommended to use a traditional bank and then electronically transfer it in from them, or wait for a mobile app?