skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
those governments are failing and voters are moving to the left and the right, depending on the country of course.

I think it's pretty universal across Europe that people are moving more to the extremes. But that doesn't make the original parties suddenly "centrist" -- they're just status-quo, "old school".

Centrist governments are trying to use "hate speech" laws as a way of curbing their loss of control of the media

I'm sorry, but this just sounds like populist propaganda. There hasn't been government control of the media like you suggest; instead, the media used to be civil. The current "popular" channels do away with civility, and any voice critical of that tone is immediately discarded by playing the victim, like you are doing here.

The establishment, still representing the civil masses, is perfectly within scope to try and curb uncivility. Whether their methods are effective is up for debate, but the goal isn't -- we all know what happened last time Europe went uncivil (80 million premature deaths).
Well, tech transfer can be a slow process. Primarily because of legal formalities around indemnification, liability, etc. You also have the common scenario where many competitors are working in the same problem domains. Only to find after years of effort that they have independently arrived at eerily similar solutions!
Or maybe I am wrong and the author is right. After all, he claims that the problem is not AI but the humans, and maybe we shouldn't blame systems trained on human data, which reflects all human's prejudices.

Then again, if AI's aim is to perform activities until now restricted to humans, just like humans, how could it not be prejudiced?

And who decides how AI should make decisions that are politically loaded?
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It turns out, these problems are connected, and we're starting work on a second generation of tooling for this, based off of things like Rosyln. See https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/rust-analyzer-2019/, which is already usable for basic things. This also means improving the compiler. From the 2019 roadmap: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2657-road...

> This is where the RLS 2.0 effort comes in. The plan is to build a prototype of the new front-end, thus enabling a truly first-class IDE experience. Wherever possible, we aim to share code between this front-end and rustc by extracting libraries, such as Chalk (for traits), Polonius (for the borrow checker), and a new library focusing on name resolution. Eventually, we will merge this new front-end with the remaining bits of back-end from rustc.

rust-analyzer is that "RLS 2.0"
Maybe unhappy people who are 40 and older are more likely to die?
Than why does it look like their happiness is only a few percentage points different than men?
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NOLA is spending $2 billion in FEMA money right now to actually repave roads properly, including some in Deisre and Algiers that haven’t been worked over since the mid-90s. Roads in this Parish cost $10 million a mile to do right due to underlying soil geology. Do you even do research before you run your mouth? The contractor takes at least 40% of traffic camera revenue.
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You'd have to do that manually with Adobe Illustrator/Sketch/Affinity Designer or some similar vector editing software.

The Github has the raw SVGs you can download and edit.
I think this rating does not take into consideration local culture. For example, I don't think India has a culture that makes you introspect whether one is 'happy'. How about asking whether one is unhappy? My suspicion is that India will score low (as in, not unhappy) on that also.
I just bought a vodafone sim in the UK without ID. It is supposed to work all over Europe, but I only tried the Netherlands.
I have been homeless in my life, and while my ordeal wasn’t as bad as some, it’s definitely not a good feeling to have no idea where your next meal is coming from.

It’s not about the amount of money, it’s about summoning the political will to implement programs that sound counter-intuitive but attack the root of the problem while spending far less money.

A few examples:

- Safe injection sites reduce crime, restrict the spread of blood-borne diseases, and are cheaper than most forms of outreach. When combined with access to detox and treatment programs, they’re more effective and almost certainly cheaper than police and paramedics responding to hundreds of overdoses a day.

- Homeless shelters as designed are dangerous and ineffective at helping people transition from living on the street. A more effective solution is to provide longer-term, smaller scale housing. Lack of housing stability severely impairs an otherwise capable person’s ability to find a job. While the cost-per-person for such a program would be higher than shelters, I suspect it would actually save money by reducing the amount of time a person needs benefits.

- Mental health. Mental health. Mental health. We ignore the problem and marginalize mentally ill people from society; which leads to homelessness. There are not enough case workers to deal with the problem, and they are so underpaid that most aren’t far removed from homelessness themselves. We also have to recognize that some people will never be capable of independent living — giving them benefits is not “enabling” their bad habits, it’s taking care of a person who cannot take care of themselves.

- Too many outreach programs use a “carrot and stick” approach to providing benefits. For people dealing with profound mental health issues, they may not be capable of meeting whatever requirements are placed upon them, despite their best efforts. The efforts of ensuring compliance with “carrot and stick” programs add costs and reduce the impact of every dollar spent.

- A political recognition and acceptance that some people will try to game the system. Some will be successful. That doesn’t mean these programs are ineffective — provide the benefits, investigate the fraud and prosecute the offenders. We have laws against this kind of fraud already. We don’t need new, complex compliance mechanisms.

The net here is that homeless people’s lives are often in an out-of-control spiral of helplessness and marginalization that generates an existential level of stress. Unless we can break that spiral by providing a stable, safe environment, the homeless problem will only get worse. It takes the political will to actually help people rather than paper over the problem.
When it comes to SMW ROM hacks, nobody distributes ROMs. Instead, people release _patches_ which have to be applied to the base ROM (this is done through an IPS/BPS patching program). There's actually a JavaScript version available: https://media.smwcentral.net/Alcaro/bps/
i like the razor edge they put on the bottom of the computer, such that after using it for a while, people feel compelled to ask me about my day and offer kind affirmations.
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Anyone knows an open source alternative to zoom that is good.
Scientists create “lifelike” material with metabolism that can self-reproduce
Giffgaff in the UK gives you 20GB for £20 on pay as you go, and it can be used up to that limit anywhere in the EU. And you don't need a passport to get a simcard either.
I think what the post was going for is that things are often mislabeled as AI when really they're much simpler algorithms.
It looks like "predictive policing" is already an outsourced thing. www.predpol.com
Interesting that Brexit uncertainty is in their risk factors:

> These developments, or the perception that any of them could occur, have had and may continue to have a significant adverse effect on global economic conditions and the stability of global financial markets, and could significantly reduce global market liquidity and limit the ability of key market participants to operate in certain financial markets. In particular, it could also lead to a period of considerable uncertainty in relation to the UK financial and banking markets, as well as on the regulatory process in Europe. Asset valuations, currency exchange rates, and credit ratings may also be subject to increased market volatility.
God.. you guys HATE electron apps :-P

Those 150MB of RAM must really be killing you :-P
>Instead of worrying about the state of the world, spend an hour of your social media/fuck around time a day/week/month doing something for someone else. It'll do some actual good.

Unfortunately, the current zeitgeist is one in which if you say the wrong thing, are misinterpreted, "mansplain" or simply disagree with the wrong people you're going to get railroaded, brigaded, reported to authorities, fired or blacklisted.

In a world like that, where everyone is an opponent, who wants to "help their neighbour"?
Okay, they haven't admitted their mistaken design to the public. So what? That says nothing about what design changes they might make in the future.

There are definitely things to point out about Apple's current generation of MacBooks, but I really don't get the vitriol people currently have for them.

Sure, I liked the MagSafe charging port, but USB-3 has so far been better than I expected. I only need one kind of cable for most things now, and can charge my phone and my MacBook off the same charger.

The touchbar is kind of bullshit to me, though. It hasn't provided any benefit and is really just a nuisance when I somehow inadvertently touch virtual keys when reaching for the delete key. Other times, it shuts off after non-use during things like Google Hangouts, in which case what's the point of the virtual keys if I can't see them all the time? Yet the touchbar doesn't offend me enough that I wouldn't buy another MacBook in the future.

These are still good computers. I used to be a Windows and Linux guy, but all the non-Apple laptops I owned had significant flaws that usually didn't reveal themselves at first. My experience with 2014+ MacBooks has been excellent in contrast, with updates always being very smooth, no hardware failures besides soy sauce jamming up my spacebar, and a consistent experience overall.

I get people's criticisms, but I also think people need to chill out a bit, and that some of the vitriol is being manufactured by journalists(for better or worse, it's popular right now to attack Big Tech).

If you don't like the butterfly keys, you can still buy a 2015 MacBook brand new or refurbished and it's really just as good for most purposes. My main laptop is a mid-2014 MacBook Pro and it's still working great with Mojave.
> too thick

Exactly. And my life improved so much since I reduced the backpack carrying my laptop by 1mm...
this article is of course reasonable, but what’s depressing is we genuinely have made really incredible strides in machine learning. like enough that it shouldn’t be possible to overhype it. of course people manage though.
I'm not sure "I was raised not to rat on friends" holds up in court.
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I mean, but we've been doing that with mathematical models for years. I mean, just look at the controversy over books like The Bell Curve or Freakconomics.
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This! Anyone who has had any trauma informed care training would have zeroed in on this instantly.
nice read; Hi I also wrote a SQL dump parser using rust here the code.

> https://github.com/ooooak/sql-split
Absolutely not, 33% revenue concentration, no matter what business you are in is NOT good from an investor perspective. Super risky.
You can always squash the branch before merging back to master.
I'm probably reading this wrong, but it sounds like police would be barred from e.g. looking at a public FB profile.
That would go way to far IMHO. The police should be able to view simple public information.

In my opinion (and hopefully, this is what the law means) the warrant should be needed whenever the police need to compel a third party to hand over information.
So, viewing a public FB profile is okay, but demanding FB to show the private profile would require a warrant.
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It's absolutely not just you: the author is completely clueless and is basically making shit up. For example:

"The reason is not only because race is used as a factor in assigning risk (not unlike Amazon’s system picking “female” as a proxy for “inadequate”), but also because lenders are obviously incentivized to find new ways to make money on loans and insurance rates. "

This is complete horse shit. I've done this sort of risk assessment for banks. Race is absolutely not used as a feature in assigning risk, and you have to work REALLY HARD to remove things such as zip codes which are simple proxies for race, AND you have to have an explainable model (GLM, decision tree, 2-3 layer neurons, etc) which you can defend as not being racist. This is a legal requirement, and I assume it is possible that banks have done overtly racist things in the past, but they certainly don't do this now: it's something that could cost them money.

The over all point is legit: AI isn't real and anyone who thinks it is should have their head examined, machine learning is gratuitously overhyped, and its use by powerful groups is what you should fear. How he got there is not legit.
Well, it’s a different paragraph and sentence isn’t it? :)

Whether the tools are “unixy” is of course an interesting discussion. :p

I guess my line of thought was: kind of “unix” -> kind of “posix” -> kind of compatible with a lot of your familiar tooling.

All this equals pretty good platform for many nerds.

I could have made myself more clear.
I think in one comment you've discovered the reason everyone is fed up with social media.
There is a petition to get Apple to recall the keyboards. Previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16997476
The $30M is 20% their annual revenue, or 18% of their current assets. That doesn't seem out of line for a growing business, and is something you can do without Venture Capital.
If anonymity is made criminal, only criminals will have anonymity.
there’s decades of history about the practice of redlining in the US (good term to Google), as well as more recent court cases related to subprime lending.
Judging from pages 4-5, I'm guessing these include NYT, New Relic, Ticketmaster, Alaska Airlines, Spotify, and Github.

They mention other cloud platforms as competition, and Azure has a CDN. I doubt Github would switch anytime in the near future, but the dangers posed to smaller companies by the consolidation under giants is interesting. What happens when your competitor doesn't just try to steal your clients, but can actually just acquire them?

They also mention one risk as their dependence on AWS, a competitor, and that if all the cloud providers blackballed them, they'd be in trouble.
I use the Apple Mouse on a daily basis. This criticism is blown way out of proportion.

I agree that it's a very ridiculous placement, but do you have a better idea where it should be placed? IMO, this is the best option given the constraints.

The usual ridicule is that you can't use it when it's charging. To me, it's a non-issue at all:

- When the battery drops to a low level (4% I think?), you will see a notification on your device reminding you that the charge is low. So have never been caught in a situation where I needed to charge the mouse while using it.
- The battery lasts a long time. Apple claims that it lasts 2 months per full charge. Based on anecdotal evidence from myself and a friend, it lasts 3 months per full charge. So this 2 months claim isn't based on some super unrealistic assumption that Apple makes. So why is this important? Because at 4% when you receive the warning notification, the mouse can still run for another 2 days! (Assuming constant usage everyday and one full charge lasts 60 days, then 4% = 60 / 100 * 4 = 2.4.)
- Finally, it charges super fast, too. A couple of minutes of charges can run a full day. So if you come to the office to find your mouse out of charge (because you forgot to charge it for the past 2 days despite the notifications), then plug it in before you get your coffee and you're good to go.

My point is that, yes, the charging port placement is ridiculous, but 1) I don't think there are better options and 2) it's really not that big of a deal because it is extremely unlikely that you'd need to charge while you're using it.
Repeating my other comment in this thread:

> This is a tired trope, that “business people” are brainless and gullible. Almost as tired as the “VCs are so dumb they’ll throw money at anything-AI” idea repeated in the article.

> Maybe, just maybe, the people running multi-billion-dollar companies, and multi-billion-dollar investment funds, are not stupid?

> It would be much more interesting and productive to discuss what they see in AI and why they feel so much urgency, rather than dismissing them as fools falling for magic.

VCs only need one big winner out of every ten investments. You are looking at their nine failures and calling them stupid and naive.
Apart from being one of the most ethnically and culturally homogeneous countries in the developed world, Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered a nuclear attack (twice!). This fact makes Japan an essentially unique society, not entirely comparable to others. The mindset of Japanese people today is completely different from that of the Japanese for centuries prior to the Second World War.
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Try the Pilot Vanishing Point. It writes well and it is the only major market retractable fountain pen.
> I am not sure what the alternative you propose is. Dig your head deeper into sand?

I was trying to edit my comment earlier to purposely extend on this point, but was unable to.

Would nobody agree that perhaps this problem stems from a perhaps larger underlying issue? Perhaps better education?
A thousand times this. Sandy Rosenthal and levees.org have kept the drumbeat going.
The only thing I have had to configure on the last two laptops I've installed is, weirdly, to go to sleep when I close the lid.

The battery life on the X1 Carbon is about one and a half to two hours, which i think is acceptable given that the battery is reporting less than half of its original capacity.
The Economist article includes wide-ranging information on the relationship between age and happiness in various parts of the world. The information you've provided addresses a small portion of that (the percentage of the population on anti-depressants as they age).

A population can be both more happy with age and (as a percentage) on more anti-depressants. Some potential explanations:

1. As we age, we have greater access to healthcare (money/quality employment/government), so those needing anti-depressants are able to get them more regularly

2. Even with access to healthcare, there may be greater willingness to make changes in life and confront unhappiness as we age

3. Perhaps those who age are happier overall because they're on anti-depressants. The Economist article doesn't address this possibility.

I feel like the flaw in your argument may be that increased anti-depressant usage among older adults indicates increased depression as a person ages. That doesn't take into account other factors that might cause anti-depressant usage to rise with age.
Do we all remember "algorithms"? Like, when every company had an "algorithm" as part of the pitch?

Some of them even had the ability to self learn and adjust to new data.

At the end of the day, AIs and MLs are just new labels for slightly more advanced "algorithms". I think everyone would be a bit better off if we tempered our expectations around the technology to "better algorithms".
Just bought a Dell Precision, and out of curiosity, went through and specced one out to match an equivalent Macbook. The macbook was solidly 30%+ higher in price. They were pretty close about 3-4 years ago, but now they have gotten terrible. And that doesn't even consider the Dell has a better keyboard (and for me, a better trackpad).

I used Macs for almost a decade, but I'm crazy happy with my Dell running Ubuntu 18.04. Amazing!
Growing up in a former Eastern bloc country transitioning towards capitalism (Bulgaria), I was able to witness the change in people's behaviours and social expectations. Greed and arrogance had suddenly become the order of the day in the 1990s, in exchange for the ability to gain status and material possessions previously unavailable (Western cars, modern clothing, etc.).

As a result, our current society is much more atomised and the feeling of connectedness is lost to a large degree. In the past people looked at happiness as a way to exist in a group, now it's everyone's own game of "finding truth and happiness" (often at the cost of screwing up others, even people from your family).
A wiki + document search?
Or just, you know, ignored, like we used to do to dumb statements.

But I completely agree with you. The argument against the removal of those visible metrics on twitter sounds like an argument for toxicity, even if it is cloaked in a jab against big corp accounts.
The identity of sexual assault victims is still often kept secret, is this also an awful government cover up?

Why does everything have to be an outrage/conspiracy theory?

The media does still self censor, ask a cop for real stories compared to the media reports if you want a downer of a day. Avicii killed himself with a broken wine bottle, most media have not reported this for instance, this is a nice story compared to what no media will report.

In this case, I also see little purpose in telling this story.

It's not even clear to what extent it's true. Some obscure bullet through a shirt shows they were raped? This is a troubling 'fun' who-dunnit.

It's also a pointless exercise, since there's no reason to think the weren't raped, there's documentation it happened elsewhere. Besides which tens of millions were killed, the war was horrific, we already know this, what's the story here other than salacious tabloid material?

Sells books I guess.
The last time Capitalism was this inequal it led to communism and fascism with fascists chiding that their ideological enemies were "plutocracies".

I honestly don't think this will fix itself until we face great depression 2. When the government is no longer able to bail out the rich because they will have accumilated so mamy resources that nobody will be able to save them from self-imposed financial peril.
So it’s basically like a Span in C# if I understood correctly?
I transitioned into tech without a CS degree and did a great deal of coding at home outside of my day job to learn. At first my day job was tutoring, then customer support and some dev work, then a junior programming position, and now a software engineering position at a big tech co. Up until my current job I was always building projects and grinding outside of my work hours.

At the big tech co I learn a great deal and do a lot of programming during the day, and I now enjoy a healthier work/life balance and spend time on the rest of my life. I also don't have that same "break into the industry" need, which is very freeing.
You’re looking at this as homeless spending when this is clearly public works and public health spending.

There is shit in the streets, now. If you’re fine with shit continuing to be in the streets, then sure, if the measure comes up to do something about it, go ahead and vote it down. Frankly it is largely in the parts of town I don’t frequent these days, I don’t even have much of a vested interest, but I do have enough pride in my city to at the very least, not want people and their shit to remain on the streets.