skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of your examples are about how he looks at the particular issues in this case though. You've arbitrarily grouped this case with the several others above by putting them all on an axis of whether he's anti-consumer or pro-consumer. You may choose to perceive justices on these ideological axes, but these ideological axes are probably not what determines how they vote, even if there are sometimes strong correlations.
It seems like a popular response for this kind of this research is “Well of course - I expected this result” or to point out the murky causality going on when an intelligent technology is trained on the behavior of people using it.

I agree this murky causality is important to discuss and that indeed these results are consistent with other observed distributions of online content (i.e. Pareto/Zipf), but I think excessively focusing on these responses undermines the importance of audit research like this. Audit research is mainly descriptive by design (can’t really conduct an experiment unless you’re Google) and without the descriptive results from audit research we can’t argue empirically about the these topics at all!
> because it does print as you scan

I'm in the midwest and I've never seen this anywhere
Receipt should be just data. Mixing analytics in it seems to be overkill. Making it easy to feed the data to a separate analytics app seems to be a better idea so that consumers can analyze their spending not only for that particular instance of purchase but also over a period of time.
From some browsing through the patches they apply to the packages it appears they are making extensive use of function multi versioning. Instead of compiling for the lowest common denominator for the target arch they are shipping pre-compiled versions for each generation and using run-time detection to figure out which to load.

Nothing stopping any other distro from copying the approach other than detail work and increased package sizes.
There is only one way to make sure that a platform is fair. Make it AGPL. That way there is an information symmetry and even if there is bias there is equal opportunity to exploit it.
My wife is openly bi so won't mind me saying this, she gender swapped me and apparently I would make a super hot chick.

It's nice to know she finds me attractive as any gender.
> If you are heavily medicating with caffeine, then that can be a signal. I was using Pseudoephedrine and caffeine to self medicate and stabilise my moods and behaviours. That was before I got prescribed Ritalin.

Does tea count? I dislike coffee; I only drink some when I absolutely need to stay awake (caffeine in energy drinks is another thing, this I like). But ever since I was a kid, I've been drinking ridiculous amounts of black teas every day, on the order of 10-15 cups. I ask because I keep hearing that the stuff in tea is pretty much the same thing as caffeine...
Yes, exactly. I recently was cleaning out an old file cabinet and found the manuals that came with my 486 PC. It was mind blowing remembering how much info was in there! Schematics and also all kinds of info telling exactly how things worked.

We have really regressed. I really hope some of the new open source/hackable systems (like Raspberry Pi, Pine64, etc) continue to grow and can change things for the better.
Obligatory link to "Playing to Win" free version: http://www.sirlin.net/ptw
> It just proves Sweden, like most smaller Western nation's have little choice but do what the big man in Washington whispers in their ears.

Does it, though? I got the opposite impression: that Sweden is potentially willing to go against US interests and compete for Assange's extradition. It's possible their plan is to convict Assange and then extradite him to the US, but who knows?
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I've met quite a few people who told me that they questioned their gender identity after playing with such a filter.

That's a good thing, it allows people with an otherwise strong sense of their own gender identity to have a small glimpse into what a gender identity disorder could be like. For a cis person, this happens when an AI morph their features into the opposite gender. For a person with a gender identity disorder, this happen with regular mirrors. It's two very different experience, but the sour taste in your mouth is similar.

It is easier to have empathy for something you have experienced the tip of. Similar to how someone with a broken heart will be able to empathize with the struggles of someone with clinical depression.
This is a solution to a non-existent problem, and not even a good one.
how do you contest wrong quantity scanned, while in person?
Less effective to seek reimbursement to do so after leaving the shop.

Are you suggesting an app that is connected to register that shows the scanning activity live, and somehow retaining that entirely in digital copy??
I think this is an ongoing problem for any provider, can be bad local peering or even ISP ddos protections kicking in.
I loved using my Kindle DX to browse various sites and even check email over 3G back in the day. No https support, though, and as that was increasingly required (quite correctly) and as the JS-all-the-things philosophy infected the web world (less correctly) it became broadly unusable.

I'd love to have an e-ink device with similar (or better) capability again.
> Wirth’s main metric for assessing language complexity was how fast the compiler compiles in general and compiles itself. He ditched anything that slowed that down.

Indeed, one of the old stories about the Oberon compiler (I can't vouch for how strictly he stuck to it) is that optimizations had to "pay for themselves": Once recompiled with the optimization, the compiler needed to compile itself as fast as before the optimization was added.

At least one of his thesis students did write papers on applying other optimizations that had no hope of making it into the standard Oberon compiler for that reason. I believe it was either Michael Brandeis PhD thesis or one of his other papers. But even though his optimization pass was "too costly" it was impressive how small it was given it also beat contemporary versions of gcc in terms of resulting performance.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704806

I love diving into old HN threads... Especially seeing my own comments on the top of the page. Less so to have my slow pace on my personal compiler project highlighted on them (apparently a GC was the next step for my Ruby compiler back in 2017 - it's just now sitting in a working state in my home directory; not yet committed). It's definitively not as fast as a Wirth compiler - in large part due to the sheer volume of small objects created. As much as I love to work with Ruby, as a fan of Wirth's work it also makes me want to bang my head through a wall...
Arguably, the purpose of a search engine is to help people find sources that they don't already know about. Ideally, Google Search should present a diversity of results (the long-term trend of declining search quality, notwithstanding).

Google News, however, isn't a search engine, it's a link aggregator curated by a multi-armed bandit that seeks to maximize clicks and minimize political blowback (i.e. via censorship). Providing a diverse set of news sources is inconsistent with these constraints.

If it wasn't obvious, Google uses Search to identify topics that reach a large enough audience, and then they build specific properties around those topics curated by algorithms in order to create screen space in which to sell behavior modification products* (ads). While Google News, Maps, and Local are the obvious ones, even AMP fits this model with an attempt to monetize the "waste heat" of the lower click sites by appropriating their content.

* gfodor's observation that ads are behavior modification products: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19798178
> Finally, as this kind of tech improves the potential for misuse becomes an important problem, so we need to build in protections (like watermarking the audio) that can help prevent fraud while not compromising the speed of the algorithm or the quality of the output audio.

Legitamate question: (absolutely not rhetorical, I don't know the answer!)

What the potential misuse of a gender voice changer? If someone wants to change their perceived gender in a video game (presumably to avoid harassment), should that be detectable? If both genders should ideally receive identical treatment anyway, is there any harm in swapping?
Outside of the large corporate farms I think you are going to see an increase in farmers continuing to refurbish older tractors that are pre computers and then begin to retrofit those tractors with third party systems that won’t give them complete vendor lock in. A good example is Welker Farms. They run Big Bud tractors from the 70s refurbish them every decade or so. And have added in gps guidance and other things as 3rd party mods. Also they have a great YouTube channel[1].

1 https://www.youtube.com/WelkerFarmsInc?uid=tKUW8LJK2Ev8hUy9Z...
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Would you agree that in the past was worse, but we handled it better? Its better now, but we handle it worse?
If you can't fix or tinker with it then it's not yours, and if it isn't yours it's not worth "buying" it but rather renting. Does JD lease their equipment? Or do they hope to?

On another take, I can imagine old, repairable tractors going up in value at some point. You can traditionally keep those going for decades.
> It turns the kissing of a sleeping lover into a violent sexual assault

No, it doesn't.
My favorite strat is taking domination and beguil. And then I choose my pokemon and level them up into a ferocious swoll monster.
> IMO that is only a problem if you can’t pay attention in meetings where the points being discussed are very relevant to what you’re expected to contribute.

Or if the scrum master noticed it, and started shaming you in front of everybody to repeat what the other guy just said.
I see a lot of myself and my own behavior in this comment and I'd love to hear about your experiences on running your family!
You could try compiling with and without `-gcflags '-N -l'`

`-N` disables optimization and `-l` disables in-lining.

I also found this[0] page which lists some optimizations done by the compiler.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CompilerOptimizations

edit: You can see what the compiler emits as assembly code with `-gcflags '-S'` so you can compare the optimized vs unoptimized assembly.
The US isn't old enough to have old laws.
Off topic, but you're literally the first Amazon developer I've ever seen say anything positive about working there. Do you feel that the work culture is unusually good for your office compared to Amazon as a whole?
> Censorship is a government only thing

To nitpick: no it's not. Government censorship is worse than other forms because the state is an entrenched, nearly irreplaceable power structure with lots of inertia, but that doesn't mean non-state censorship is perfectly fine.

Any platform that curates content is censoring. Sometimes that's fine (illegal content), and sometimes it's just not acceptable.
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The difference is that the hypothetical third party Android App Store could use any payment service it wanted, or even the user could use any App Store it preferred.

With iOS not only you can't buy from a third party, you can't even install an app that hasn't been signed by Apple.
Fahrenheit 451 in real life. Instead of burning books they are suppressing links that don’t favor their political inclinations.
Case in point, google ‘the gateway pundit’ https://www.google.com/search?q=the+gateway+pundit and search for the same In DuckDuckGo https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+gateway+pundit
find out where they show the actual website.
> Deeplinking from web into the app is hard

This is exactly whay I was getting at before. Please stop fixating on the deferred form of deep links. The play store need not even be involved for deep linking to an already installed app.

The mobile_guide instructions are where most people bail out.

"Yeah, no. This is too complicated." is the response when they see

"Install an app, then click on a check box that changes the UI, then enter https://foo.bar:8448, then register".

That's a massive turn off before your app is even installed. A flow of "Install this app, then return to this web page" is significantly easier. Or if/when branded builds of Riot are possible, it becomes "Install this app."
People make web pages. Web pages link to each other. Page Rank finds out how important a page is, based on links to it from other important pages.

That idea is probably at the core of all modern Search Engines (including DDG).

Thus, all modern Search Engines (including DDG) are almost certainly based upon user activity. That being the users who build web pages and links to them.
You seem to be suggesting that by curating the content on their platform, Google is losing (or should be losing) their section 230 protections. This is simply wrong.

If I have a blog, and I ban someone from commenting, I don't lose my 230 protections. Even though I've 'de-platformed' someone from my blog. Google is no different than a blog, just scaled up.
Yes, that's what Renewable electricity superhighways in the Wikipedia link basically refers to. But it's a bit ahead of its time and there are still challenges to overcome and more renewable capacity to be built in order for HVDC ground based networks to be viable economically. I’ m sure we'll see it being built in the next 20 or 30 years.
I've usually seen an option to select the kind of packaging at time order is placed.
Why not both? LIDAR and cameras both have their applications
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Sorry, I got lost a little in the second part. I assume you mean "a negative influence". How exactly discussing viewpoint, which is not believed by the person, influences the real-world decision in a negative manner, considering that more information is processed, not less?
What if they got bought up by a hedge fund, raided, and sold for scrap?
More importantly, it doesn't solve the larger problem of "where did my money go?" since that usually is asked over a timeframe of more than one shopping trip. The question is usually "How did I spend $100 more this month on groceries than i budgeted?" and the only way to answer that is analyze all of the spend together
This is why I will never again own a Ford. (That, and the endless recalls.)
Did the cordless drill result in tons of jobs vanishing overnight? Or did it slowly happen over many years? Is your cordless drill able to walk over and automatically do the job you would've done, firing you overnight? Since it doesn't do any of those things, seems like it wouldn't necessarily be taxed.
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This is false, there are almost always specific job number requirements that must be met to be eligible for tax credits or the credits are tightly tied to hiring. The Joliet, IL Amazon warehouse incentive deal is a typical example. Amazon can credit employee withholding taxes against corporate income tax. If there are no employees hired, then there is no withholding tax, and no tax credit.
Wow, these women must be incredibly deep sleepers.
@deelowe, sure.

- https://boingboing.net/2019/05/02/facebook-just-deplatformed...

- https://mashable.com/article/deplatforming-alex-jones-2018/

I can probably find a lot more, but I guess this is enough to make the point, right?

> Unless Google doesn't want that. If that's the case, them they are a publisher and not a platform.

Would you rather fight spammers and keep free-speech alive or give it up over to Google and other platforms?

I know where I stand.
Consent doesn't extend forward in time, it must be continuous.
Oh, oh, oh. I can answer this — I’m a software engineer on sabbatical and I’m doing the same.

First off, everyone says Hennessey & Patterson and Patterson & Hennessey and while I think those books are worth reading at some point, for me they concentrate on things that I don’t care about (like what the cutting edge is) and gloss over the finer details of actually how the processor works.

I’ve found that Mano’s Computer System Architecture is great for the higher level stuff. I have the 2nd edition from 1982.

I like Hauck and DeHon’s Reconfigurable Computing from 2007 for FPGAs.

I like Hill and Peterson’s Digital Systems: Hardware Organization and Design from 1973 for describing the design programmatically using an RTL, in this case they use an APL derivative rather than the more recent (and horrible) VHDL or Verilog. This is a dense text and I’m still working my way through but it’s super awesome in my opinion.

I’ve been working through the Visual ARM1 animated transistor-level simulator and have made my way to Bryant’s 1984 paper A Switch-Level Model and Simulator for MOS Digital Systems and recursively reading what I need to understand it thoroughly. I have Mead & Conway on the way.

I also have a copy of Sedra & Smith (2nd Edition) for understanding the actual electrical circuits but I rarely reference it.
How is that less biased, as opposed to less personal? Or do you mean that companies shouldn’t be biased to your preferences as a customer?
Why would you ship a cloth bag from halfway around the world?

It is a cloth bag. It is something we teach our kids to make from old shirts they grow out of. I know society has moved deep into the paradigm of buying everything and making nothing, but there are some items that make no sense to buy, and cloth bags are one of them.
People would change it if they could, same as height and any number of other immutables that people are discriminated on.
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Turns out farmers really like their WiFi because driving around in a tractor all day is really boring without some entertainment.
That's what I'm suggesting @mullingitover.

It seems like you don't agree. Maybe you could make the case about the reason you don't agree and we can go from there.
I think that is a pointless way of looking at it. There was no internet then and the media landscape was a lot more different as well.
Not the first time I have heard that and yet I see thousands of machines in hundreds of machine graveyards where old equipment has been sitting for decades collecting rust spread accost the country side. The same can be said about cars and the people who own the old equipment are basically giving it away if not paying people to take it... The problem, imho, is that people actually don't want to be able to fix their machines themselves because they don't want to spend the time it takes to do it. They want to be able to pay a guy to do it for them and even then they complain about the cost or the hassle involved in making that happen. Today's farmers are not the farmers of 20 years ago. They are the same as everyone else, to busy playing angry-birds to learn how to fix a carburetor.
Current social security spending gives us $9k per household.
Cutting military spending in half (utopian, but so is UBI): $3200 per hh.
Raising income tax to a simple flat 50% rate gives us extra 0.7 trillion or $7k per hh.
Single payer would give us about $1k per hh plus free healthcare for everyone. No more insurance payments.

That is already about $21k per year per household.
In the town that I grew up in, there was a family-owned farming implement dealership were you could buy farming equipment from a variety of manufacturers.

That dealership has now been replaced with a John Deere-only dealership. From what I was told, nowadays John Deere only wants to sell to dealerships who exclusively sell John Deere equipment, so they had pressured the previous dealership.

So I think that's been a factor in the consolidation of farming equipment dealerships, which are now further apart and siloed into different manufacturers. It's not a healthy/competitive market for farm equipment buyers.
Information asymmetry. I would humbly posit that this is one of the biggest challenges that the information security community has to tackle on the face of the planet, and it is not just a technological one. Farmers are at the mercy of equipment manufacturers, who are centralizing control. A model with distributed control is more robust in the long run, and should be an option for consumers. Are there any competitive open source tractors out there?
For paying attention: have you tried to take notes (even if you throw them away afterwards, but you might as well keep them)?

It may force you to focus. It may not work at all. It cannot hurt to try?
Liquidation preferences go away at an IPO because the preferred shares convert to common.
It's almost as if people were free to publish, or not publish, whatever they want to in America.
Considering how badly Amazon treats their employees, I'm surprised they haven't allocated vast amount of resources already to automating everything in their warehouses. The number of times they've appeared in the news in the past regarding their treatment of employees, you'd think they despise humans and want to replace everyone with robots and that they would have done it already.
Is there a list of governments, companies and other organizations that documents how much waste they direct into the sea?

Or is the majority of it individual people littering?
Jesse Singal is hardly a disinterested observer, he's a producer of anti-trans opinion pieces. https://jezebel.com/whats-jesse-singals-fucking-deal-1826930...
Surely some party would come in and fill the gap, reverse engineer the thing, whatever is necessary. Food security is a national security priority for the United States. We wouldn't go hungry if John Deere went under instantly. There would be a response.
It's fantastic to see how far this tech came in such a short time.

It's also scary, because soon it will be very dificult to trust anything you see in video. What now demands a big CGI budget, will be possible to do with a simple App.
Perhaps, but "fully automated" does not mean that the machine has to be dependent on an outside service to operate.
>Faceparty

That sounds like some generic name a TV show or movie would use in place of Facebook
Also these series of blog posts describe what's going on in the Visual ARM1 simulator and they are both really really well written:

- http://www.righto.com/2015/12/reverse-engineering-arm1-ances...
- http://daveshacks.blogspot.com/2015/12/inside-armv1-register...