skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great way to think about it when you're looking for good candidates. Most everyone with a CS degree knows the general systems knowledge. But, most interviewers aren't going to hire someone with general systems knowledge, when they can get someone who knows the exact technology stack they're working on.
The grand jury is an attempt to get something out of her which will sway a jury to decide that Assange is not a journalist and is guilty of conspiracy to commit computer fraud.

She's decided to not play that game. To not serve as an accomplice in the US Government's case against Assange.

I don't know why you think there's nothing heroic about remaining silent under intense government intimidation. You can come up with a counterexample very trivially -- in the civil rights movement, if you had witnessed a black person going into a "whites-only" bathroom then it would've been far more courageous to refuse to act as a witness than it would be to tell the truth.
If we taxed robots, this would be easier for more people to embrace as a good thing.
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After reading this thread I scheduled an appointment with a psychiatrist. Too many red flags for me to ignore.
The real story here is incredibly aggressive guerilla marketing on forums written by snobs for entry-level enthusiasts. Schiit bombarded a bunch of subreddits with posts and comments and eventually hit some kind of critical mass.
I have this tab open from a procrastination session some days ago:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit...

I like the definition of stupid vs. intelligent from there - intelligent person consistently makes win-win decisions. Stupid person consistently makes lose-lose decisions, inflicting loss on other people for no gain for themselves.
The fixable equipment without electronic black boxes is several decades old and increasingly difficult to come by.

New farm equipment is financed with loans/leases, trade ins and depreciation in ways that make it a sort of trap that is difficult to escape buying new things all the time.
> Do you ever feel like these applications are re-enforcing physical gender stereotypes?

They do. Even people that are not transgender might get stuck trying to reach a goal that is impossible. What I have is "Gender Dysphoria" because it is strongly linked to my gender identity. However, nobody is safe from "Body Dysmorphic Disorder". There has been a increase in people who go see plastic chirurgeons with such filters as reference images[1].

In my case, that's a wanted effect. By sticking to society's gender stereotypes I increase my ability to pass unnoticed. It is fine for women to not follow those stereotypes. There are strong women, women who like to dress in male clothing, women who wear punk haircuts, sit with their legs spread out, etc. The thing is, those habits often cause people to take notice. In their case, people would look and think "Oh, this woman is punk. I [love/hate] how it looks!". In my case, that's often "Oh god, there is a man in the girl's bathroom. Let's call security!".

I am aware of the stereotypes and hide behind them. That's not to say I never break them. In my daily life, I try to blend in. If I go to a bar and want to stand out? There's nothing stopping me from bending those rules. For example, my large shoulders that are a pain in my day to day life look amazing in studded leather coat.

[1] "Please Don’t Ask a Plastic Surgeon to Make You Look Like a Snapchat Filter" - http://fortune.com/2018/08/03/please-dont-ask-a-plastic-surg...
Google is supposed to be nothing. They are here to make money, and they will follow whatever rules that let them do that as long as we let them.

They are not a public service.
Discussion from 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8990903
https://quasilyte.dev/blog/post/go_ssa_rules/

is maybe a good starting point.
Core Data is an object-graph persistence framework, not a database. As said in the other comment, Core Data is an implementation detail, and there are other backends to choose from.

Apple adds additional metadata on top of the entities themselves in order to provide smart versioning and migration utilities. The entire object model is persisted inside the database, so that lightweight and heavyweight migration patterns can be deduced the next time the database is read. This metadata can also assist with opening WhatsApp's database and parsing it using Core Data.
> In Seattle, you can sit on a chilly day on the porch of a popular restaurant and overhear people lamenting climate change while they sit under a row of 8 large blasting fracked gas heaters.

Not to mention that they're paying other human beings to prepare meals for them. The thinking around environmentalism is really fucked sometimes.
No that was entirely by the book. The case could not be investigated without access to assange so it was closed. And with access to Assange it could be reopened. And (somewhat surprising perhaps) it was.
Also the unscented is sometimes placed in the baby section (at least Whole Foods does this) that makes it even harder to notice that there are two with blue labels. Also the peppermint goes on sale much more often than any of the others.

I once met someone who wrote a song about the tingly effect (probably not the only one...).

Since I am commenting late I'll mention here that I suspect the main reason for the current popularity in the US is that it became a universal feature of health food stores and co-ops before they were all that popular. When Whole Foods took health food stores mainstream they sold it and when supermarkets responded with natural products departments they started selling it too. So now it is not only a good quality soap with a relatively short ingredient list but very widely available.
It's pretty obvious to those who are paying attention and are not affiliated with a side of the political spectrum that there is a clear bias to Google news and search results. Most though are unwilling to admit this because it implies scary things, such as their world view is wrong, or there are actively malicious people manipulating them, so they concoct narratives as to how these negative behaviors arose organically and unintentionally, and bury comments like yours and mine.
> Uber already was valued at $80 BILLION

yes, but remember, that's a valuation based on how much of the company was sold off and for how much. $80bn hasn't been poured into Uber, just a fraction of that. Still way too much, but nowhere near $80bn.
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I find this notion ridiculous. There are many industries like farming and mining which are now highly mechanised and employ a tiny fraction of what they did. As a result, food and minerals are cheap, fewer workers have to put their lives at risk doing dangerous jobs, and the labour force for other endeavours is increased.

Mechanisation delivers benefits to society at large, although I agree that at an individual level redundancy is harmful. This harm is a humanitarian issue, which the whole of society is responsible for, not an ill which employers should be specifically penalised for.
Some posts on HN are meant for people who actually like to build the tools upon which future app or backend dev will build end-user software. I think this is this kind of post.
In some ways the very low social skilled worker is better at the job than the person with higher technical skills. I know some people with Downs Syndrome, their employers hire them for greeter type tasks because they obviously unsuited for anything: it makes thing move fast when the public realizes they won't get anything out of the greeter so they have to read the signs to figure out what they should know. The public likes to know that otherwise "useless" people have a productive job and so public opinion of them goes up. The greeter like the feeling of doing something useful, plus the money in their pocket. Everybody is better for this. Of course someone has available to handle trouble makers.
Secondary to the main point, but complaining to HR for any reason is tricky. Their number one priority is to protect the company. Even if you feel that aligns okay with your complaint, they may not. They are also free to change their minds at any time.
You wouldn't had you been in the market for a tractor 15 years ago. Unfixable black box electronics has been a part of farm machinery for quite a while now.
What about the brother -> sister mapping?
Fleeing to the UK seems like a terrible plan if you're looking to evade the Swedish justice system. Assange might not be a genius, but I don't think he'd be that daft.
I don't need evidence to the contrary, what I said is the null hypothesis. If there's proof that every job lost to automation will necessarily mean one additional job opening in a different field, you are welcome to provide it. In absence of such evidence, I'm going to stick with the default belief: a job lost means a job lost, period.

And what is stopping that small business from starting up right now? Considering how terribly Amazon treats their workers, people should be lining up around the block to apply.

Dollars to donuts, the answer is the small business can't afford to start up because Amazon uses its monopolistic power to crush it, and that power will only grow as they continue to automate.
One of the reasons they are holding their value is that nobody wants to buy the new ones and get screwed by this predatory DRM. It's a similar situation to the value of diesel pickup trucks the model year before certain emissions standards came into effect
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19897250 (380+ comments)
Maybe we should start with easy problems.

I'm not proposing that we have a "fair" algorithm. I think two simple actions would suffice:

1) Google (and other platforms) should stop removing content from people they do not agree with in their platforms.

2) They also should publicize why one result was chosen over the other. That would give users the necessary information to decide if Google is biased or not. Everyone would make decisions based on publicly available information.

That alone would make things way more transparent and level the playing field a bit.

Unless Google doesn't want that. If that's the case, them they are a publisher and not a platform.
> Replacing or even renewing the law for a modern technological society is not going to be a semester project for some script kiddies (legislators).

If only we had some kind of distributed system that could be used, to maintain a complex codebase with thousands of contributors... oh wait we already have git. Imagine if federal law was a monorepo, and state, county, city laws were branches. It sounds like a nightmare to manage, but lawyers are increasingly tech-savvy and, for example, bitbucket allows one to edit files from a web interface and immediately create pull requests. Additionally, there are already consensus-based and k-of-n cryptosystems that could be used to review and sign pull requests -- this could be the basis of a true technological republic.
Hmm I'm interested in the sleep article you posted but the link doesnt seem to work
Many would buy rc cola or water companies not owned by Coke. Coke/Pepsi payoff/threaten to keep shelf space away from anyone else.

Drinking Coke/Pepsi is probably worse than smoking short/long term.
https://clearlinux.org/news-blogs/transparent-use-library-pa...

The optimizations they are applying only exist in hardware made in the last ~9 years.
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The print volume matters. These new receipts would be at least 3x longer than they need to be, and thermal paper:

a) costs money

b) is considered to be highly toxic

c) often isn't accepted by local recycling programs (but people still throw receipts in anyway)

d) ultimately end up in the garbage, or even just littering street corners.
Repealing laws (two out for every one in) was part of the current US president's electoral platform, so it seems like there is an appetite for this among the voters.
I think this proves that Supreme court justices are not aligned with any political parties. They take their roles very seriously. Kavanaugh looks to be very much a worthy Supreme Court Justice, same as Roberts who was elected by Bush (whom I hate more than Trump). I'm glad he was able to survive the ridiculous antics he went through and I think he will be a good justice regardless of what people think his allegiance was.
All modeling fails, because it's worthless until proven otherwise. It's future breakthroughs - JFK speech at Rice, just replace space with nuclear: " Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and child in the United Stated, for we have given this program a high national priority--even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us."
You're stating your opinion in an unfalsifiable way: mistakes that follow your narrative are a conspiracy, even if later fixed. Mistakes that don't are glitches, yet to be corrected, even if they never are.

What would convince you that you were wrong?
Lyft just started experimenting with car rentals in San Francisco
It's not possible because they use different frameworks on each operating system. On iOS, they use Apple's Core Data, which is optimal for what they need, but is not portable as Core Data is closed source. That's not to say that there cannot be a method to do this, just saying the first major hurdle they'd hit.
DCSS suffers from the "Star Trek hallway" problem. In ST:TNG, many episodes feature officers striding through hallways determinedly while not advancing the plot at all.

Similarly in DCSS the levels are so large and there's so much space between interesting bits, that you spend a fair amount of your time mindlessly pressing keys to stride through the hallways.

Mind you, DCSS is much better about this than Nethack because there are things like waypoints and fast travel, loot/stash search (with ^F), etc. I'm not contesting that it's better than Nethack in this respect.

But if I may say, Brogue is better about this in that there are very few 'wasted' turns: the food clock is very finely tuned so you really can't waste too much time or you'll die, levels are very compact so there's not as much exploring to do (but there's just as much tactical depth on each level, if not more, because of how the environment works in Brogue).
You can't pick your ethinicity either, it just exists.
Completely agree. I also wasn't thinking about tractors (or really vehicles for that matter), but in the mid-2000s I was helping build "tamper proof" devices for my employer. Listening to Richard Stallman talk I would think he was crazy. Then I saw how much we raked in providing "support" for the tamper-proof devices when they needed service. It became quickly apparent that the rest of the industry was just a little bit behind.

We are headed to a crazy world. Cory Doctorow's message on the War on General Purpose Computing is more relevant than ever. For anyone that hasn't seen his Cory, he's got numerous videos on Youtube. Check out some of his talks at Google.
I disagree with the premise that these groups are deceptive. There's two claims implied by that statement that I don't agree with:

1) A large portion of the women heading to these centers are unaware of the existence / legality of abortion in their state. Considering these are online advertisements, they can necessarily do an online search to determine that information already, and it's well-known public discourse.

2) The only valid response to an unplanned pregnancy is abortion. Therefore, not recommending abortion is deceptive.
People say it was worse in the past. I disagree. In the past there was Vietnam which was just a big thorn. The current situation seems to just be a descent into insanity.
> If we consider X|E as a random variable, what is its value if we roll an odd number? Undefined? What does that mean? Random variables always have some value.

Random variables have some value on their domain, and for the random variable X | E=1 the sample space is restricted to the elementary events {2,4,6} which conform the composite event E=1. The original sample space is partitioned in the subspaces {1,3,5} and {2,4,6} when we condition on the values of the random variable E (0:odd, 1: even).

> Sure you can build a new event space (sigma algebra) but then you can't use random variables over the original one.

I guess we all agree then.

> Let's consider two independent rolls, X and Y. You can't compute the joint distribution P(Y, (X|E)), it just doesn't make sense as the two "variables" are defined over different spaces.

The variables X and Y describing independent rolls are also defined over different spaces and to have a joint distribution you have to define a "common" sample space of the form {x=1,y=1},{x=2,y=1},..,{x=6,y=6}.

You could do the same for a roll of a dice and the toss of a coin. Or do you think that computing the joint distribution of a coin toss and a dice roll doesn't make sense because they are defined over different spaces?
I guess I constantly flip between diligent and lazy. That is, I consider myself lazy and love finding tricks to get the job done much faster or automate it away, but I have extreme problems with delegation. For some reason I'm pretty much incapable of asking other people to do something for me. I think it may have come from a mix of empathy and being extremely overprotective of my tinkering/thinking time as a kid. Whenever I consider asking someone for help, I feel like asking them to take the extra workload is infringing on their personal time, which is sacred.
"the service is fundamentally engineered in a way that the SLA will be met"

So... with the recent Route53 outage, do you still believe that statement to be true?
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The beach would probably be fine. Safety by dilution.
These are flimsy examples of journalists being punished for not falling in line with groupthink -- and I say this as someone who has worked in several newsrooms with relatively uniform ideological views that did not match my own.

The first case describes a columnist who wrote a piece that his colleagues disliked so much that they complained to HR about him. But it doesn't quite add up, and I'll tell you why in a minute.

The second case describes what sounds like a case where an intern and a staffer were discussing a political issue and got into a heated argument, and the intern complained about it. But it doesn't sound like he got in trouble with HR for his opinion; he got in trouble for the way he expressed his opinion.

So I don't think these two examples are really strong cases of journalists being punished by their employers for not holding a certain ideological view.

And I think people need to understand that just because a journalist is reprimanded for expressing their personal views, it doesn't mean their employer has done something wrong. In some cases, keeping your personal views to yourself is part of the job requirement.

For instance, if you're a news reporter covering politics, you _shouldn't_ be going around telling people your personal opinions about politics. In fact, doing so can get you quickly kicked off the beat, because you're (ostensibly) supposed to be objective and unbiased.

On the other hand, if you're a columnist or writing an op-ed, the whole point is to share your opinion, and I think most writers and editors understand that there are going to be columnists with whom they strongly disagree.

And that's why the first story seems so strange to me.

If a newsroom staffer were to feel so incensed by a particular colleague's column that they think it shouldn't have been published, I would expect them to go to the section editor who signed off on it, or the managing editor, or the editor in chief, and urge them to take it down or retract it ... not to complain to HR that they feel unsafe.
They would just switch to e.g. CNH tractors. I don't see the problem.
I appreciate what you're trying to do, but it's not about what I think. It's about what the rest of society thinks, especially the legal system and people hiring programmers for jobs. I don't imagine judges look kindly on someone who is officially diagnosed with a mental illness deciding not to take any medication for said mental illness.
>How did we ever get into the situation where we cannot repair our own stuff—stuff that we have actually purchased ourselves?

People purchased items that they cannot repair, for myriad reasons, and did not purchase items they could repair. I don't know anyone that wants to fix their phone, they want to walk into a store with a broken one, and walk out with a working one and restore their settings. That's a relatively small value item, but same applies for home appliances and automobiles.
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Just a little supporting fact most people wouldn't be aware of, when you're buying a used tractor the "odometer" you look at isn't in miles but hours which is tracked in the same way.
No they can. There are a lot of other brands with similar support like Fendt or Massey. The reason everyone gets JD machines is that for their specific purpose they’re generally the best barring a few niche markets like what Ventrac targets with their mowers.
Most likely he’ll give an interview after which the prosecutor will decide to press no charges. It’s a rather weak case that is also quite old at this point.

After that I’d try to disappear in Sweden if I were Assange.
Schiit sponsors head-fi iirc. Definitely some business interests involved
Soviet Russia once predicted that the USA would Balkanize.

Things could get interesting.
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Interesting, I've never realized how much of it was just wanting to blend in with everyone else. I'm not transgender, but I also feel much less anxious when I'm not standing out, so I can definitely relate there. Thank you for explaining.
In the past year Fox News has been getting much more exposure than they ever did before. They stand out because their headlines are either the direct opposite of the other services in the same topic group or some form of irrelevant rage baiting for their base. I don't want them there and didn't ask for them.
> Their claim is much closer to the true operations of government finance than the prevailing perceptions.

Um... yeah, I want to see a bit more than a podcast as evidence of that assertion.

> multiple political cycles have been dominated by demonstrably false claims and those claims have been used to refute proper understanding and progress. It’s important to refute and push back against such dismissive rhetoric.

It takes a lot more than you have supplied to push back. That's not "dismissive". That's reality.

And, "demonstrably false claims"? Absolutely, there have been a bunch, from a bunch of different sides. All the more reason we should want a bit more evidence than a podcast from last week before we believe MMT.
My understanding is that ford is really really bad for this as well, requiring incredibly expensive computers, software packages, and training to repair even basic things without it pissing off the ECU
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Love it.

It's missing a qrcode with a date, uuid, total, tax and unguessable url to the items list and prices (or gzipped json of it) so that we can finally scan import receipts with software.

Qr codes should be mandatory on most paper docs IMO. Forms, invoices, contracts, etc.
> Google (and other platforms) should stop removing content from people they do not agree with in their platforms.

Citation needed.

> They also should publicize why one result was chosen over the other.

Seems like this would make it much easier for the SEO spam sites to manipulate.
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