skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should definitely expand a bit: the voice skins that we're building give you a _specific_ person's timbre (or you can do some cool "voice space" vector manipulations to combine timbres). The cool application here is being able to sound like a character or celebrity in the game, but the risk of misuse for having a specific person's vocal cords is much greater than that for just swapping your gender.

That said, there _are_ some interesting things to be careful around, even for changing your gender, or age, or other basic variables around your voice. We're mostly worried about what impact this would have for communities built around these kinds of commonalities: for example, is it okay for a child to masquerade as an adult in an adults-only social group? I don't think there's a clear answer to all of those situations - but until we see more use of realistic voice skins in the real world, we're playing it safe and building in these kinds of tools!
Usually when I read a headline like "X are reporting...", "Y is becoming...", etc. I expect to see some data that shows a trend, with analysis from the author to convince me that the trend is significant.

This article is two anecdotes, one of which has since been "credibly contested". It reads to me like an author looking for anything to support a story they already knew they wanted to write, rather than a story that evolves from the facts and data available.
Or, for those who are allergic to Lenin, Adam Smith made pretty much the same point in "The Wealth of Nations".
Oh, there's a counter-culture out there, it's just that none of them are willing to go to bat for Assange.

Assange did this to himself, with posting antisemitic tweets and courting the alt-right. And you have Assange's legal defense campaign posting tweets blaming childfree women for white people in Europe being replaced by brown people, which is both disgustingly misogynist and disgustingly racist.

The counter-culture is highly feminist and anti-racist, and is generally led by women of color, so there goes any sympathy they might have for Assange.
I can't figure out what point you're trying to make with those two search results. They are almost equivalent.
This. Integration and load tests do so much work that the compiler is lost in the noise. Running forty (hopefully) concurrent requests through a 200 OPS service does not tell me whether it's going to make prod flaky or more expensive.
Common food additive E171 found to affect gut microbiota
I am sure both of those companies do exercise more control than Google, but they also do not have over 90% market share.
It's material because people are using attacks on his character as a proxy to discredit his work. Most people I encounter have completely dismissed Assange, WikiLeaks, and anything related at this point. It seems the CIA smear campaign has succeeded, even though their first attempts were failures, such as the HBGary/Palantir debacle.
You'd be at peace if Google favored news and narratives that overlap with your world view. Hypothetically, how'd you feel if 65% of those articles were from Fox news and the greater Murdoch empire?

I wish they simply skipped narrative driven, opinion filth and stayed with factual reporting from AP, Reuters, NPR, ...

In the last 5 years, NYT, WaPo,.. have wholly embraced narrative driven opinions instead of sticking with plain news, because anger sells
@bilbo0s I’m sorry. Let me be more specific.

When I refer to deplatforming I’m talking about users and opinions being banned from the plaftorms (YouTube, Twitter, FB, etc).

When I’m referring to search engine results what I’m saying is that Google is promoting a few selected sites over others based on a undisclosed criteria. The undisclosed criteria here is what makes a world of difference.

By not making it clear they are picking winners and that should not happen.
Thank you for taking the time to clarify this in layman's terms!
> Can someone explain to me why the general public has ”turned” on Assange in the last few years?

The US center to right hated him from the beginning, with leading figures inside and outside of government, aligned with both major parties, calling for his head. There was some sympathy for him (or at least WikiLeaks ostensible mission) on the left.

Being somewhere between a tool and a collaborator in the Russian influence and spinning partisan lies about the source of the information on top of that to conceal that it was a Russian influence op (which itself tends to create the impression that he was more collaborator than tool) soured that, without durably mitigating the hatred the center to right already had for him.

The rape accusations don't help, especially given where what little sympathy he had had was located.
I got a small old grey-market tractor made by Mitsubishi. Most of the wiring is shot, only ignition, sparkplugs and battery-to-starter is working. The rest is destroyed by someone previously. (alternator is probably also dead). And it works awesomely! Just gotta charge the battery once in a while in the garage. That is tractor.

What is sold by JD - is semi-authonomous sophisticated machines with equally sophisticated service network, not a tractor :P
>Invest in an automated tractor, combine, whatever and it will take care of your crops.

Now you have a huge loan to pay every month to pay off your farming equipment. You now need a second job and you're no better off than when you went and bought your groceries at the supermarket.

I'm basically a Luddite trapped in a software engineer's body at this point. I'd like nothing better than to buy a hundred acres and become a farmer/rancher, but after taking a serious look at the financial side of things I gave up that dream. The capital costs to start up are so high that there's basically no way I would be able to do it without a loan big enough to mean that one bad year in the first decade would likely sink me financially.
Uber is absolutely a scummy company, but the taxi industry was/is a scummy industry. Google "taxi corruption" and you can find many, many instances of politicians being bribed to maintain the medallion systems.

In Washington DC, there were multiple cases of taxi companies bribing politicians to introduce a medallion system. Even when many of them were caught in stings, they still kept trying (with "good" reason, many of them would become multimillionaires overnight if it passed).

Uber was so successful because we consumers had little choice, though the ride subsidies were definitely helpful.
Interesting. I thought I detected the whiff of bullshit when reading the "about" on this blog, which looks disingenuous. I don't think I'm going to dig too much deeper.

The main idea is to cover instances in which science and social-justice-advocacy get in fights, with an eye toward helping them get along better.
Thanks for taking the time!

I never pushed broken code, just configured the cloud function before pushing the code.

They accepted the issue by now, BTW, which I am quite thankful for.
E-bikes will eat cars
Tractors are behemoths of modern machinery. I have relatives in the tractor industry, as well as relatives who are farming, and this has been coming for a long time.

Tractors are ridiculously expensive. I was talking with a relative who sells them, and some of them cost more than pretty nice homes in the city we live in (as in, we live in a large metro area, and they can easily cost more than a very large, attractive home).

These things aren't just tilling dirt like you might have in the 20s either, or like you might with a garden in your backyard. There's all sorts of modern planting and harvesting methods, and tractors are sort of the engine that drives a lot of this machinery (which is very large). The technology involved can be complex, and it's often tied to aerial surveillance, soil monitoring etc.

The intellectual property problems associated with Deere and other manufacturers go beyond DRM per se. Deere over the last couple of decades has tried to force smaller sellers to abandon other manufacturers. I.e., "as of X date, if you continue to carry equipment from other manufacturers, we will no longer supply you with Deere equipment." This is extraordinarily anticompetitive when you consider that these pieces of equipment are extremely expensive, and that the dealers are geographically very sparse. So, it's hard on the farmers because if the dealer does become Deere-exclusive they might have to travel far to find alternatives, and it's hard on the dealers, because they are forced to put their eggs in one basket even when the buyers might want (or need) choice.

I've seen families split apart actually in cases where one part of the family is on the dealer or farmer side, and the other is on the Deere side.

Deere really has become anticompetitive in many ways, not just with DRM. If there ever was a case for antitrust enforcement in my opinion, it would probably be with Deere.
Taboola/Outbrain provide unique demand. If you fill the extra space on a page with the same type of ads you have elsewhere on the page, you will exhaust the high-paying inventory for that page and quickly get diminishing returns.
Funny that this prediction came true for Soviet Russia :)
you're not allowed to do that. You've to use Apple's in-app purchase otherwise Apple will reject your app.
Really cancelled? That's news to many like myself who have been following the case.

In fairness the China back/forth is static quo for the Trump era, the fact the Sweden reopening is just nonsense fake politic showboating. Empire being cancelled is really interesting and speaks to something deeper / culturally important. The: you must believe everything that comes out of my mouth because I identify as these groups who have historically been oppressed narrative has changed. People who normally would be afraid to question his story have started to. The change happened after the Saturday night live bit a few weeks ago. His responses put in that context made his side so absurd his supporters couldn't defend him.
I can't think of why this would be unique to farmers, perhaps aside from a push towards autopilot systems.

Mining equipment, road building, all of that hyper-specialized stuff for slicing and dicing trees, I would think they all have this issue. Perhaps it's the greater prevalence of owner-operators.

I've probably bought the newest car I ever will (which is now 15 years old), so it would be nice to steer clear of the dealer-only craziness and the inevitable spying on you that new vehicles are going to accrue. I can just imagine how ticked I'd be if the tech juggernaut was messing with my income in a bad way.
It takes 3 seconds to print because it doesn’t include any complex rendering (like a dynamic bubble chart) or need full state to determine how to print it. This design challenges a lot of assumptions that the current generation of receipt printers use.
Correct. I guess I wasn't clear. I'm talking about the personalizing of search results based upon search history, search terms, personally and in aggregate. Not based upon the structure of the web itself.
Thanks for the mention. We've re-organized the material and updated the submissions by splitting into three parts. We wanted to extend the content but felt that in its original form the article was too dense. The new structure consists of three related but more self-contained articles to help articulate the key differences:

Overview: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01518

Systems perspective: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01517

Correctness/theoretical perspective: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01302
Well, true. I have not disclosed to my job that I was diagnosed with ADHD, and I don't particularly plan to (I wouldn't deny it if it came up, but I'm not going to volunteer the information either). There are more downsides than upsides to disclosure. It's generally recommended to not disclose, especially during the hiring process, unless you truly cannot cope in your job without some sort of ADA accommodation, in which case you must disclose for the ADA to kick in.

Plenty of people with ADHD choose not to take medication though, and I'm having trouble coming up with a situation in which a judge would order you to take it. As long as you're not blaming your ADHD as a reason you broke the law (which you shouldn't, ADHDers may have poor impulse control and bad executive function, but we still need to hold ourselves accountable for our actions), I don't see where it's the law's business if you have it or don't, or medicate it or don't. There are plenty of non-medication coping strategies, including therapy and coaching.
I don't like this piece. It's so vague there's really no story here.

"Employee A had a disagreement with Employee B who filed a complaint with HR. HR investigated and took no action."

Oh the persecution!

> The mere involvement of local ‘authorities,’ whether school administrators or HR or whoever else, in adjudicating mainstream political disagreement can of course have a chilling effect on people’s expression of their political beliefs.

That's their job. They go out and verify the claims and take action where neccesary. Since no action was taken one can assume no action was neccesary. That doesn't mean we revoke Employee A's right to complain to HR next time they have a problem.

And it's important to note that if 90% of your workplace has a problem with your personal opinion, maybe your expression of political beliefs needs to be chilled. That doesn't mean don't believe what you feel and don't vote how you believe. That just means that if you have a pointed stance on race that flies in the face of civil discourse society is going to step in and make sure you hear the echo's of society. It's the same feedback loop that ensures KKK members know, without a doubt, that they're doing something wrong. That's a good thing. It doesn't mean they can't drink the Kool-Aid, but it means they should probably think twice before selling it at the supermarket.
Interview is dated March 13, 2018:

Niklaus Wirth
1984 ACM Turing Award Recipient
Interviewed by Elina Trichina
March 13, 2018
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland
That is certainly the hope. What is the plan?
Workers of the world, rejoice! Amazon will now be exploiting fewer workers.
"not explicit consent to initiate sex while sleeping"
In other words, he had sex with someone without the capacity to consent, which is rape.
Did the post get deleted? Getting a 404.
Curiously, what does the homelessness & (true, ie not unemployment) jobless rate look like in that graph? Of course though, they're tough metrics.

More importantly though, we're on the cusp of some pretty hairy water. Imagine we drop all of the truck drivers, taxi drivers, Uber and Lift drivers tomorrow. How many millions of people will that be - where can they go?

I'm not against automation in the slightest, but to think it won't have an impact on employment seems farfetched. Imagine a robot tomorrow, humanoid capable of basic tasks. How many millions of people would that displace almost instantly?

I don't think the past 100 years even remotely indicates how we'll handle this as a society. We aren't talking about taking away one job. We're talking about taking away a skill category. No more drivers. No more basic manual labor.

And that's not even talking about how growth would need to expand to handle the increase in workforce. Imagine our workforce doubles tomorrow - who is going to consume it all? Do we even want more consumption?

I don't think it's as cut and dry as looking at the street cleaners and how they handled it when horses stopped being used transportation. We're talking about fundamentally categories of work becoming obsolete, and having no jobs that some people qualify for.

With that said, I'm curious to live in a world where the population is forced to be educated. No low skilled jobs might have a benefit of (basically) no low educated people. However I am worried about how it will affect the current populace.
Right, the assumption is that if Daily Caller, Kos, and Breitbart became more popular then Google would surface them as authoritative.

First, there's a popular belief amongst their readership (for whatever reason) that this is not the case and that Google actively works against sites like these. Furthermore, if it doesn't currently work against these sites, it's taken for granted that if (for some reason) Zero Hedge became more popular than WSJ Google would work against it.

Secondly, if it were the case that Google would surface Zero Hedge over WSJ purely because of popularity is that ok? Is that what should happen? If Google does want to curate rather than using a "blind" algorithm does that change the way it's regulated and what it's responsible for?

I think this is something we haven't quite figured out as a free society. We recognize that an educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people (please don't over index on who the quote is attributed to).

Yes there are a multitude of media outlets on the internet which the citizenry can use to educate themselves. Are there moral hazards when the majority of the citizenry arrive at one or two doorsteps in-spite of the multitude of alternatives? What is the risk if what's served from that doorstep is detrimental to the republic?
It doesn't seem odd at all that someone with non-favored political opinions would be concerned about attempts to silence non-favored political opinions through the use of HR.

Out of curiosity, would you say that Jesse Signal's reporting would warrant reporting them to HR if you were their coworker?
One act, regardless of how heroic it might be, doesn't mean that the person should be free from consequences for the rest of their lives.

The US extraditing him for conspiracy charges would be really tragic. Sweden wanting to hold him accountable for his behavior afterwards is completely fine.
Seems to be normal form. I don't have enough fingers to count the number of times companies go public, primary investors exit, stock slumps. Employees who have been with the company several years get stuck waiting 6 months to sell any shares at which point the stock is well under water preventing an exodus of talent. It's completely by design.

It would be more concerning if these stocks were spiking after IPO because it means the underwriters messed up and the market is irrational.
But plastics aren’t carbon neutral and most aren’t manufactured to be reused. They’re made from buried dino bone. On the other hand, paper comes from trees which pulls carbon from the air so if and when that carbon reenters the air, the cycle is complete. Paper is in fact carbon neutral, minus any of the machinery used to manufacture or move the product. Pulling hydrocarbons from underground by its very nature is carbon additive.

Don’t throw them in the ocean, don’t throw them in anybody’s backyard, is the problem we now are running into China doesn’t want our trash anymore. Recycling plastics is harder than ever before. Also recycled plastics lose their elasticity which is part of their strength so only 10% of used material can be re-manufactured into new product.
No way! I too stumbled through QBASIC. A guy I knew was 7 years older and in high school. They were learning Turbo Pascal. Every Sunday I would go to him after church to enquire about what else he could teach me. Then I would go home to try it and if I wrote it down wrong or wasn't listening it was a whole week before I could ask for help. It's so cool to see someone else walked that road
That's why many states expressly import the common law from Old Blighty as they existed on independence day, Louisiana's civilian law preferences excepted. My own state's example discussed at https://www.floridasupremecourt.org/About-the-Court/History-...
I'm so confused how this is a monopoly. Buy an Android device.
Will population growth mean not enough water? Thats not quite the right question
Haha. I haven't heard of it either. I though that this was a toy project or something. Seems like it's real business. What don't you like about the other Lisps, like Common Lisp, for example? What boxes still remained unticked?

Janet discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19179963
Managing Technical Debt: 5 Stories from the Field
Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites
San Francisco may ban police and city use of facial recognition
I use wireguard daily in a somewhat complex setup and it works beautifully for me. I used ipsec before for everything and don't miss it much. It appears to be a lot simpler and setting it up is certainly a lot easier. It has been stable for me since its in use for like half a year or so.

That said i miss being able to use a trusted CA for provisioning. Every new client needs to be setup at the server which is annoying. I would also like to see the possibility to do Ethernet style virtual interfaces instead of raw ip interfaces in order to be able to bridge those. However, ipsec did not allow me to do that either. Allowing non unicast traffic would also be huge benefit for some applications.

I think all or some of this could be done by a different implementation using the same protocol. Maybe something like ipsec's IKE daemon but for wireguard could handle key exchange and dynamic routing allowing dynamic clients and probably fully meshed networks easily.
That was always been the case. My question was rhetorical. The reason is multifold and complex but a key factor occurred in the 1980s when companies like MicroPro International/WordStar found that they could license software and obfuscate its source at the same time and that this was to their advantage. Back in the 1980s I recall having a conversion with Seymour Rubinstein (of WordStar fame and one of the key pushers of software licensing) about these matters.

I'm not implying that there's anything wrong with software licensing but that licensing 'extensions' have now gone way too far and they are having damaging impact on end users not to mention third parties as in the Volkswagen case.
Free at last! Free at last! Free to...wait a minute...