skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why has it become acceptable to assume so much about someone's view of the world based on their race, gender and sexual identity? Why has our definition of "diversity" become so narrow and stereotypical?

If you want to hire people with diverse viewpoints, then look for people with diverse viewpoints. It's incredibly easy to fill a room with people who look like a Benetton poster but who all read the same books in the same colleges and all rigidly adhere to the same dogma. It's incredibly easy to use tokenism to justify your own prejudices. It's difficult to build a genuinely diverse collaboration based on profound and meaningful differences of perspective.
Facebook doesn’t think it’s good enough for them anymore http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-on-facebooks-... but it might be a champagne problem.
Good point. We don't extract individual fields or query on them. We just schlep the data in and out, and for that, json appears to be faster.
What's bad about supporting a site you like while learning about something that interests you? If this were really all ads were I wouldn't block them.
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If I understand right, they took off pretty much everywhere other than NA for public use. The general vibe I get here is that nobody in the country uses them, and using them is seen as a bit of an anomaly, even scanning one in public makes you a minor spectacle.
I’m fan. You have inspired me. Gonna write one myself to refresh my front end skills. What tools did you use to build this?
I really hate PDF for many reasons. It seems it's only a partially open format, a lot of features are implementation dependent (how can a file be 'locked' to prevent printing or editing?). There are very few free and FOSS clients that handle forms, highlighting, etc. Some clients do highlighting and annotations but don't save it to the PDF itself.

The failure of epub and other HTLM based formats in this use case, IMO, is that their focus on reflowing to support any display and device makes them inconsistent and therefore impractical for replacing PDF based content.
I just tried it, although it asks to upgrade to a premium version to post comments. I think I'll just keep the authenticated browser tab open to post comments for now. :)
Any plans to open source the code? I bet you could get a PR that enabled native comments.
With Amazon being the ones making the change, this situation is asymmetric. It’s on the affected to convince the “affectors,” if you will, that what they are doing is a bad idea. Whether they convince us or not is irrelevant.
God forbid we do our best to seek objectivity /s
> I do think we can modify our drives, though, and that free will isn't quite as much of an illusion as you say. Visualization is pretty powerful.

I agree that our drives can be modified, but who is modifying them, and based on what drives? And where does the drive to modify ourselves come from? It's turtles all the way down.

To quote Hofstadter: "In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference."
Is the fuel really a concern there? I mean, fuel is such a tiny small part of the expenses overall in Europe. Almost invisibly small. France consumes 162K barrels of gasoline a day, or 9.4 billion liters at average price of 1.57 EUR. That's 1.2% of the value of household consumption, and by far not all of it is gasoline consumption by consumers. So we are speaking of <1% of household expenses. How is this squeeze?
Yes I want strong border security. A nation is only as strong as its borders.

Everything in the world is related but can still stay separate topics. Foreign policy may have affected other countries but that doesn't mean it's illegal immigrants are suddenly allowed, which is what we're discussing. Just because traffic lights can increase traffic doesn't mean you illegally run the red lights. Just because health insurance is expensive doesn't mean you can steal supplies from the hospital. All related, all different.

Venezuela wasn't perfect before, but it's a whole lot worse now isn't it? Socialism is attractive as can be seen in the rise of the left because it promises everything to everyone without any sense of reality on how such things are provided. Unfortunately they paid the price and have a long road to recovery now because socialism leads to catastrophe and ruin every single time.
PNG filters basically difference each byte of each line of image data with a choice of [1] nothing, [2] the pixel preceding the current one, [3] the pixel immediately above on the previous line, [4] an average of the latter two, or [5] "Paeth" (a dynamic choice between the left, up, and upper-left pixels), the goal being to increase redundancy for areas of smooth gradients. Each line has its own choice of filter indicated by a prefix byte. Then it compresses the differenced data using gzip/flate/zlib (a general-purpose LZ+Huffman algorithm).
Here is a temporary workaround: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkcjoa/all_of_my_a...
I know the typical user my have struggles but FWIW, I installed nightly, toggled xpinstall.signatures.required to False installed ublock umatrix and will live with my pw manager's native application for a day or two and it took about 5 minutes.
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It's not really about alternatives. Before no one pretended that proprietary blob is some part of the web - everyone knew it for what it is: ugly black-box plugin. And any engineer knew how easily is it to bypass said DRM.

Problem with what Google among others did is that they was actually in position to push against making something like that part of the web specification. Yet they went all in and what worse become gatekeeper for new web browsers to implement Widevine DRM.

Same way Google might push for more open Android ecosystem, but it's not their interests so they did the opposite. And with all Chrome-exclusive features and AMP it's pretty much the same thing happening.
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Just as a side note: I found a WebP file on a website I wanted to share in Slack. I downloaded it and tried to convert it to JPEG to put in Slack (as it didn't seem to support it). It was much harder than it should have been to convert the image type. Never had such an issue with a JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc.
Yiddish really has nothing to do with Hebrew other than the script and borrowed words which are forced into it. Sort of like Farsi and Arabic.

It’s unfortunate that because of the number advantage Eastern Europeans (and historical events) Jewish culture was completely altered.

Authentic Jewish culture and traditions, which were dominant before the holocaust and are so much part of the Middle East and of course deeply influenced by, and influencing on, Islam and Arabic, are obscured.

Some suggest the difference is more than tradition, and we are in fact separate people.

Many Israelis still find it offensive when foreigners ask them if Yiddish is spoken in Israel. It is not. Zionism tried so very hard to burry it and the culture it represented.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3543
Neither do I, but people still keep using the damn thing.
Maybe if economy can be crashed in 15 seconds it should be crashed in 15 seconds do we can have a saner economy?

Letting AI in is like fuzzing for computer programs. It can break your program in interesting ways but that's a good thing.
It makes sense that a regular pilot flying actual passengers should be familiar with all systems.

But this article is specifically about test pilots, and keeping a tester in the dark about specific implementation details of the system they are testing is a perfectly normal and good way to preserve the integrity of the testing, especially for a system that's meant to be transparent.
Treatable condition could be mistaken for schizophrenia/bipolar disorder (2017)
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One you have targets mapped correctly keepass2android is great and I now that I've gotten used to it, I prefer the system ui password filling for everything including the browser. Also installing the keyboard extension is great and makes for an easy way to quickly access logins.
In fairness: I don't really want to disable signature checking. I value these security features and I'm hoping that by tomorrow morning Mozilla has a better solution.
It’s the sheer number of trackers online that really pushes me to use lots of security extensions. I really can’t support that kind of malicious behavior.
If they want EU citizens to enjoy the fantastic EU privacy protections via EU tech giants, they need to have a beneficial legislative ecosystem. GDPR needs work (as only the giants can afford more than zero breaches, which are an unfortunate reality for every company at some point) and their shiny new copyright law is outright fatal to startups.

EU legislation has a very clear message: start your tech company elsewhere.
Just drove by it, not much going on. All passengers are accounted for, 21 went to the hospital, really not much to see here.
I'm going to skip the analogies and just say this: If tomorrow this is still broken and I have a choice between installing Chromium, and installing Nightly + disabling security features, It's going to be a tough dilemma for me personally.

I'm glad you have software/vendors you feel you can trust. I definitely don't feel that way about most software anymore. I do think you are being a bit hyperbolic regarding other browser vendors, but to each their own, I don't know what trying to argue about that would solve for anyone.
Deportation does not equal violence...
Except that's not how unemployment is measured. It's measured by people seeking work, not by job openings. [0] If you really think it's an illusion, a better argument would be that people are dropping out of the workforce, i.e. no longer seeking jobs.

[0] https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-economics/chapte...
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Beautiful. Really impressed.
I think a search function would be nice to have...
> if we are limited by the halting problem for Turing machines?

It's not how it works. Yes, there's no algorithm for solving the halting problem: given a random program, prove that it halts.

But we don't write programs by taking a random source code and trying to prove that it will halt. We create programs, and creating a provable halting program is easy. Just add executed instruction counter and halt the program when it equals some number.

In other words: yes, there's at least one program you cannot prove whether it will halt or not, but it's irrelevant. You can always construct a program that halts.
>If it makes it easier for you, forget the "nobody" paragraph or substitute for "a very tiny minority compared to the total population of people/companies that make software for a living".

I did just do that in my previous post and noted that my point does not change, but hey, please go right ahead and keep telling me what point I should be discussing and what it is that others meant to say.
> Why is the idea that the human mind is beyond Turing

> machines not taken seriously?

Because it doesn't appear to be true. Every day that goes by we are able to build larger and more complex neural networks (NN, DNN, FNN, RNN, CNN, BNN, etc, etc).

> Seems to make the most sense from the data we do have.

We haven't done it yet, but we haven't come across some massive barrier to stop us doing it. Although no attempt has been successful, no attempt has shown some reason to stop trying.

> E.g. how could we possible write functioning code so

> consistently if we are limited by the halting problem for

> Turing machines?

Better testing tools are developed all of the time. You hear about the failures, but never the success. When was the last time HN crashed? When was the last time you couldn't connect to the internet? We're getting much-much better at building complex software that is reliable (TM).

It will happen, we just don't know when or how.
this goes beyond "never change". never changing your product is a bad thing, but never changing your URLs is a mantra everybody should live by.
> In our effort to continuously improve customer experience, [feature x] is being retired

In this case, the most highly improved experience I can think of eould be that of sundry nefarious entities monitoring internet traffic.
Like a reminder that gets automatically added to the taskboard?

I like it! Will talk about this with my team lead!
I think what will happen is that a few people at the top will manage the machines and benefit from them while they will be trying to make the other humans second class. I think a scenario like “Elysium” is very possible. That is until there is a revolution and then nobody knows how that will end.
>Assuming you mean that half second looking at the ad: Name a better alternative for funding the internet. Paywalls at every website?

Funding the Internet? What you're talking about (ads) is a revenue stream for what amounts to a handful of websites. google.com, amazon.com, ycombinator.com, reddit.com, thefacebook.com, tweeter.com, etc. could all go offline right now and the Internet would still be here.
Only because they can be, if hospitals and law-makers meet in the middle come up w/ across the industry iron-clad rates for services, or hell -- what if hospitals just get a flat average monthly lump sum -- no piecemeal at all, just based on # of patients that go through their door in a month?

Dr's get x% based on patients they saw + hours booked in the OR. Hospital administrators would have pay caps of 1 million per year. Hospitals that struggle could get grants and loans while the system corrects and adjusts to pay them more so they meet their budget constraints.
" ("that black guy I worked with was terrible; won't do that again")."

I once started a business with a black Nigerian partner. In fact, I would not consider a black guy as partner in business anymore. Been there, done it.
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Humans can't solve the halting problem even for restricted cases where computers can, just imagine trying to analyze an otherwise trivial Turing machine that was larger than you could read in your lifetime. Turing machines are infinite and immortal, unlike us.
> how can you fight generational inequality in big things like inheritance?

France gets a big fail on this one. It's incredibly difficult to completely dis-own your children in your will.
that feels more theoretical. Looks like they are close to failing in Venezuela, for example.
> ... the role they're playing is their "movie star" persona ...

That's the same everybody is doing in their lives.

If you go to buy some groceries you are not yourself. You are playing your "polite shopper persona". When you area talking to your boss ... your subordinates ... your kids ... your spause ... your extended family ... your colleagues ... your students ...

You get the picture. Most people are a mixture of roles they play in front of others.

The people that are themselves and don't play any roles for anybody are perceived to be assholes.
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Out of curiosity, can you share why you’re looking to move from Play to Spring?
Having a root process with write-privileges to /etc on production machines and also able to communicate over the Internet definitely is a security risk.

To mitigate that you end-up building a series of privilege-restricted jobs flowing from the DMZ back into the internal network. And maintaining that might be more complicated than just manually renewing, depending upon the processes and architecture of the company.
> A big chunk of the vehicle's depreciation is a result of years rather than miles

Ehhhh, I'd say that it's not that skewed towards age of the vechile beyond common correlations:

- usually more years = more miles
- cars < 5 years are usually in warranty and fetch a premium

> insurance doesn't generally track how many miles you drive and charge extra if you drive more

Mine does: in 5000km increments. (Australia)
Fair, I do that a bit too. If people need me to focus, I then tend to change gears slowly. Some managers bizarrely see this as a training opportunity and like to switch what I am doing several times a day against my protestations that it is probably a bad idea if they want to get good work out of me.
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It was Friday night on most parts of the Western hemisphere.
I'm guessing it took some time to get the right people back to work and assess the situation.
It's called unrolled linked list. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrolled_linked_list). Note that if you can make sure each chuck contains sqrt(N) elements, then you can achieve insertion/deletion/lookup in O(sqrt(N)) time
We’re doing it all the time already https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
But C++ has static and dynamic types, and a C++ programmer needs to understand both.

For example, in inherited methods the selection of the method implementation is based on the dynamic type of the (pointer) value, but the selection of the default arguments is based on the static type of the value.
Manifold is an amazing piece of engineering. Scott McKinney, the author, used to work on Gosu but mostly focuses on this now.

He added GraphQL support a few weeks ago:

https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold-sample-graphql-...

You can just drop graphql files in your resources directory and start coding against them as type-safe interfaces immediately, no code-gen required.

The @Jailbreak annotation is awesome too.
Hmm, not sure I agree that LLVM has little documentation. My experience using it has been pretty smooth.

Regardless, compiling functions from a language you know to LLVM IR is a good way to learn how IR works. You can do this for C(++) with the clang --emit-llvm switch. In addition, many optimizers in LLVM are geared towards the IR patterns clang emits.
It's their job to try and make it fail and test boundary conditions.
It's not a mischaracterization. Free market proponents believe that markets will reach an equilibrium on their own if left alone, and they believe that monopolies are caused by regulation (regulatory capture). This line of thinking is often (but not always) rooted in the Austrian school of economics.

If someone is telling you that they support free markets and they also support government regulation, they don't understand what they're saying.
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I think the logo is a work of genius
Not hard to imagine the degenerate case though.

Hey, remember X? Nope.

Checking more things before returning the negative result might be better.
The compact mode uses small thumbnails on right side instead of huge ones above the title. Doesn’t look different if the article linked does not have hero image.
An option I've thought of btw -- also is what about hospitals BEING the insurer? For instance, say they simply charged 6% of income for insurance. You'd signup through your local/favorite nearby hospital -- and pay your 6% of salary (nothing if you are in poverty), the hospital benefits because they have recurring monthly income that they can count on for budgets and things. When you travel your hospital pays other doctors and hospitals. Your hospital also pays your primary doctor, and other professionals as needed. This would basically cut out the insurer middleman, still leave it fairly privatized, but also lower the need for billers. Hospitals aren't going to gouge prices when they're the ones paying the bill right?

Government could also give grants/subsidies to help w/ the system as needed or tax relief. I think fair % might be 2% per 30k annual salary upto 10% of income.
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Just for fun here's a link to a 2010 flash crash before those rules were in place where a trillion dollars were dropped in half an hour due to algorithms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
Cheap, ubiquitous access is a game changer, especially in the 3rd world.
It's pathetic to see the attitude demonstrated by Mozilla support on this.

diox commented 4 hours ago

I'm locking this like I did in #851 because no new information is being added. We're aware and we're working on it. This conversation has been locked as spam and limited to collaborators.[1]

Bug 1548973 (armagadd-on-2.0)
All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
NEW Unassigned (Needinfo from 3 people)

Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan]

We have confirmed this issue. Extra comments about this being broken will not advance this bug to being fixed.[2]

Mozilla just left their entire user base unprotected against ads, trackers, and some hostile code. Then they insult their users.

Undoing the damage is hard. First, they have to update their signing certificate. Then they have to re-sign all the add-ons. Then users have to reload all the addons. Then, something users won't do - remove all the tracking cookies, etc. that slipped in while Firefox was broken.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/978

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973
In addition to the immediate fix, what needs to happen here and in general anywhere a certificate is used, is the browser should display an informational banner that the certificate is due to expire soon. I’d suggest start warning at T-7 days left.

That way even if the business messed up, they would have a heads up from users to fix it before d-day when everything stops working. This includes website certs and addon signing certs and any intermediaries.
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It's great to see Marcus's 3.8: "Deep learning presumes a largely stable world, in ways that may be problematic."
Most interesting problems in the world don't mirror Go's orderly rules. Players don't always take turns; the size of the board changes, and the pieces' powers mutate.

Marcus cites politics and economics as fields that pose fierce challenges to deep learning. I'd add marriage counseling, stand-up comedy, full-length fiction, and most sustained interactions between multiple people.
With ipfs anyone can operate an http relay to access the network from any arbitrary IP and/or distribute endpoint IPs to populate the daemons dht if run locally.
> how they'll prevent the mistake from being made again in future

This could have been prevented by someone putting the expiration date on the team shared calendar with a 60 day alert.
> I sort of wonder if the idea that we have an authentic self is just as poisonous [...]

Especially since when the people try to determine their true self by subtracting the roles they play, they end up with benevolent inner asshole.
Traefik is another option here for a reverse proxy with automated renewals; I use it in a ton of places.

https://traefik.io
France is at the latitude of Wyoming. And it has ocean on two sides. And plenty of people in Wyoming don't have air conditioning. My mother lives in Wyoming, and has no AC in her brand new condo.
Heuristically.

There is no reason to suspect we solve the halting problem or even any restricted variant. In fact, there is no reason to suspect we solve any problem of even modest computational complexity for anything but the tiniest domains.

It is 'not taken seriously' because the only evidence seems to be handwaving and philosophical argument (perhaps with a dollop of quantum weirdness, a la Penrose).

There are a number of models of hypercomputation. Finding any with a physical basis that might credibly match neurobiology is highly dubious. It is not even clear that any of them have any physical basis.