skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I [was in the bottom quintile] but I wasn't in trouble or part of some kind of social problem.

Yeah. But you were poor. And, on average, absent the social change we're looking at now, you were poorer than you would have expected to be in similar circumstances in 1989.

The fact that poverty was tolerable for you doesn't mean that it is for everyone. Would have have been able to support two young children at that level? What if your other support structures (parents, friends, stipend, whatever) failed? What if you weren't living in your middle class university area with nice transportation and had to make do in rural Alabama or central Detroit?

I mean... you recognize that to people who are actually poor, a message like "You don't have a problem. I went to grad school!" is outrageously patronizing, right? Dude, empathy.
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Do we not have a right to clean air? One could easily argue the most of the population is interfering with my right to breathe clean air and enjoy normal weather.
These systems can be extremely profitable even when they give massive amount of false positives.

Example:

Without algorithm:

For every 100,000 customers true 1,000 positives. Each positive leads to $1,000 payoff (on average). The cost is $10 per customer.

With algorithm:

For every 100,000 _potential_ customers the algorithm identifies 9,500 false positives and 500 true positives. You reject these 10,000 customers. Now you have 500 true positives for each 90,000 customers. The cost is $5.56 per customer.

The end result of extensive customer profiling is that wrong friends in the social media, wrong words, or any physical trait that has little correlation with something cost incurring can increase the cost of your life.
Typically the error due to your numerical integrator that runs Newtons law backward in time (or forward for predictions) is larger than the floating point error after a few time steps and it is not uncommon to run for millions of time steps. This is not just true for the trivial but terrible Euler integrator, but also for high-order symplectic integrators. I know that my office mate has run simulations of planet systems with different codes and they tend to diverge at around 100 million years. They still look like the same system, but orbital phases disagree.

The uncertainty in the orbital elements (current orbital position and velocities) from which you start is not a major problem as long as all bodies are well separated. But our model would for example completely miss the body that crashed into the young Earth and left us with a moon.
> I fall in the “not” category (the average-sized book is a 3-4 hour length for me), but I will occasionally intentionally subvocalize, just to slow myself down a bit.

This is what I do, though sometimes it's a second pass over a passage that I want to savor or really focus deeply on.
If you go the SPA route you have to, at the minimum, add some form of routing and manage application state and logic. It doesn't matter how good the tools for doing that are, there is always going to be an overhead to do that.
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I'm amazed that even chemotherapy drugs are consumed by gut microbes. I would assume it's only the pill form taken orally.

>The gut microbiota has the potential to directly metabolise chemotherapeutic drugs and also to modify the host metabolic milieu, indirectly altering host-chemotherapeutic metabolism

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6145523/
I'm an extremely slow reader. I read probably most books about this subject, but am unable to absorb material if I don't subvocalize.i see words, chunk of words, but they don't connect to each other and I get no meaning.

I've wondered if this is one of those thing that if you have not learned how to do it before a certain age, your brain can no longer learn it, like seeing in stereo etc...
It has less pull, but it orbits slower and therefore has a longer time to pull on the Sun.
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It involves this man: https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/john-kricfalusi-ren-sti...
Alternatively, they could be increasing it. Computers have been exposing people to a lot more text in the modern technological era than they would've seen prior to it.
I agree completely, use the right tool for the job, it's just that the SPA pattern has been abused.
Ubuntu/SFLC: https://blog.ubuntu.com/2016/02/18/zfs-licensing-and-linux

It links to http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/02/zfs-licensing-and-lin... and https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-...
I read a lot on my computer and phone. I could see the point with TV, but I think saying that reading speed is declining and that computers are to blame is ridiculous.

Anecdotally, I've found computer literacy or usage skill to strongly correlate with the speed of reading and skimming. While it takes me or another computer enthusiast seconds to find an option in a busy menu, it may take some others a minute, which is a clear disadvantage.
I don't think good intentions are that ruinous. A business that's economically viable for someone who cares only for profit can still be economically viable for someone with higher goals.
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I suspect so, as almost everyone starts off as an out-loud vocalizer when they're first learning to read.
No, they're talking about the recordings made when people say the wake word. People, especially children, probably don't know that this recordings are stored indefinitely: “At no point does Amazon warn unregistered users that it is creating persistent voice recordings of their Alexa interactions, let alone obtain their consent to do so.”
>I sometimes wonder if by exposing each other to diametrically opposed ideas, they temper each other out.

I mean... you're posting this in a thread about a /pol/ user committing mass murder due to his racist and anti-semitic ideals... and he wasn't even the first to do so.

So... no?
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c8ca8c109ecb9dacdaa829...

Something like this
Well, I'm fat and I don't think other people should have to pay more for my lifestyle choices. Doesn't make any difference if the insurance system is for profit or not.
The individual scientific discovery was common in the early history of science, but has grown less common over time. Looking at this list [1], for example:

- Prior to roughly WWII, it was mostly individuals, and so we named things after them (Kelvin, Doppler, Joule, Ohm, etc).

- From WWII until the late 20th century, it was a lot of small teams (transistor, 3; DNA, 4; pulsars, 2; etc).

- Since then, team sizes have grown so that individuals aren't even named (cloning, an Institute; Top Quark, a Lab; Tau neutrino, a Collaboration; etc).

In fact, in the past 35 years, the only individually named contributors on that list were mathematicians who constructed proofs of long-standing unsolved problems in mathematics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_scientific_discove...
>Do you think I'm a hate filled racist?

Context matters. Are you interested in the flag for those reasons? Then probably not. Are you flying it at a protest, in a faux innocent schoolboy sense of "noo, it's not a nazi flag, see, it's a kek flag, teehee'? Then probably yes.
Not allowing insurers to charge people who engage in unhealthy behaviour is effectively forcing people who make good health decisions to subsidize people who make bad health decisions. From an economic perspective this has a negative social function, incentivising bad behaviour and punishing good.
Apple Now Scans Uploaded Content for Child Abuse Imagery
For these cases I like to use Vue with a script tag. It's smaller than jQuery, probably more convenient, and depending on your use case you can get away with writing ES6 with no babel.
Finally had to stop lurking here to share the good news... if you get the CVS app, buried within app settings is the option to go paperless. Once you do so, the registers won't even try to print a receipt which seems to confuse 10 out of 10 cashiers when they're about to ask if I want my receipt. Bonus points, receipts go directly to email.

Can also manage your prescriptions completely as well, a surprisingly easy user experience.
Plastic bag packaging often says "keep away from children" and maybe privacy invasions should too. You might say there's a big difference in that one is life safety and the other isn't, but there's plenty of non-life-safety messaging applied to products such as "not for street use" on car mods affecting emissions in California. I mean I guess that's life safety at a macro level but then privacy invasions could be too. I think the car part manufacturer could be liable if they don't present a reasonable effort to keep the use of their products well contained.
BTW -- The author (Cathy O'Neil) is awesome.

This particular problem has always existed in insurance. The best way to make a profit is to not insure sick people. I was hoping the cautionary tale was that it didn't work for the insurer, rather than it being a ripoff for the customer.

Digging a little deeper, it looks like their plan is to implement a telemedicine+drug kiosk system at Chinese scale which is interesting. That should work.

Their PR person claims they hit 80% 'positive' rate on detecting lies using micro-expressions. Seems... unlikely. When the dust settles, it will probably just turn out that that preventing people from lying about identity so you can't escape your past has all the value and the rest of it is worthless to the insurer.

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/ping-good-doctor-show...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shuchingjeanchen/2018/06/06/chi...
Missing is the most comprehensive treatise on economics in the 20th century, perhaps ever: “Man, Economy & State” by Murray N. Rothbard.

https://mises.org/library/man-economy-and-state-power-and-ma...

Another is Rothbard’s little book, “What Has Government Done to Our Money?” which provides a wonderfully accessible introduction to the theory and history of money.

https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money
What kind of bad choices are you talking about here? Was it things such as the engine giving too much information to the clients?
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It's Oracle. They'll sue you just because lawsuits are a core part of their business. I have no doubt they'll eventually start litigating on this.

Oracle is basically the Westboro Baptist Church of the tech world.
"The matter" in that quote is the matter of whether the Earth orbits the sun or vice versa. Naturally there's observable physical reality to distances and whatnot, but if you use the laws of physics to make predictions about those observables, the math works regardless of which body you assume the others revolve around.
I would imagine it has to do with the retina where photoreceptors exist

/e all of the physical stuff has to do with magnification of the image (or incoming light) onto the retina
Amazon Reaches 37% Share of All Ecommerce
>All I'm saying is that a chain of hashes is not a blockchain.

And to be clear, I wasn't claiming that "chain of hashes" was equivalent to a blockchain. (E.g. bitcoin-like blockchain.) Instead, I extracted one particular property of a blockchain -- the chain of dependent hashes -- to contrast your proposed broadcast solution.

To add to the confusion, it turns out the authors may be implementing your non-Bitcoin suggestion anyway. (See further down in my comment.)

>Also, we do care what paypal’s certificate was in the past.

I understand the nitpick but I mean that web browsers don't care what the particular values were several years ago (especially anything before 2013 since CT didn't exist until then while SSL/TLS existed since 1995). They check existence in a CT log.

>Less like Bitcoin, more like Certificate Transparency.

It looks like the authors propose a architecture more similar to CT than Bitcoin anyway. Excerpt from their proposal:

>We chose to give data storage control to the regulator, as opposed to distributing data storage to nodes across participants in the network like in Bitcoin applications. We preferred this design because the trial regulator is the only party that can and must be trusted, since this party is the one having final approval over success or rejection of the treatment. It is a central authority that cannot be eliminated. We feel implementing distributed storage to everyone in the network (such as that used for Bitcoin) does not fit this regulatory context well, and is also impractical as all parties would also have to locally store data pertinent to the clinical trial on their machines.

I believe this means the remaining issue is that you disagree with the authors calling something "blockchain" that doesn't have a distributed consensus mechanism to prevent double spending.
Even if it’s not a profit-maker, someone has to pay, and if someone isn’t paying the appropriate premium for their level of risk, someone else in the pool is bearing the cost.
One thing I've realized recently, AAA games are a medium like blockbuster movies. They aren't enjoyed in a vacuum, there's a social participatory element to them. People want to be part of an active fanbase and/or talk about it with their peers.

Playing an unpopular indie game (or even a game that's >8 years old) is kinda lonely. Yeah its fun but who am I going to talk to it about? Playing Fortnite or Overwatch or even a new AAA single-player game feels like being in the cultural zeitgeist.
Vue is not an SPA framework. Vue only makes components with data binding and reactivity.

Vue Router, a plugin, adds the SPA functionality.
Reticulating splines!
Thanks for the suggestion! I currently live in Tokyo, which is big enough I _should_ be able to find some writing communities, but it might be a bit challenging.
Sure, it could happen, I'm only providing the requested links here.
Google Chrome 76 will make it easier to bypass paywalls
I'd have just added "of sales" or "of my sales" after the dollar amount to make it more clear.

I actually looked at this because I thought Google had refunded money to the author and I wanted to see what had actually inspired an act of customer service from a company known for not having it.
He was never excommunicated as far as I know, and the book was only published after his death. The church did suppress the book though.
I completely agree with you that having an Alexa in your home means you must accept that your (i.e. you, the registered user) voice commands are being stored indefinitely.

But to be fair, there is a distinction here. That is, if you're not the registered Alexa user and you're not the one who agreed to the usage terms, shouldn't Amazon try to recognise that your voice is different and not store your voice commands? It's clear they have the recognition tech to do this. I'd say it's a pretty reasonable expectation.

Even if you posit that consent is implicit in using Alexa (i.e. if you use a friend's, for example, in making that choice you're consenting to Amazon storing your voice command) - something that's debatable but certainly within reason - I'd say you definitely can't extend this to children, who simply can't be expected to even know what this means let alone understand the implications.
I... never thought to use a continue inside a catch block. Points for creativity at least....
Previous discussion on ZFS on Linux 0.8.1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186458
The linked articles are suggesting that animals should be given similar protections as infants, since the two are of similar cognitive capacity. This eliminates any right to vote/marry etc etc, and voids your reductio-ad-absurdum objection
The hate bubbles up inside me when I read this. I read an article by the late Robert Parry, describing the meticulous work he did combing through records in presidential libraries to uncover important stories. Then to read the assertion that a machine will do "journalism" is maddening.
Show HN: Pinker.js v1.2 – JavaScript library renders diagrams from text
Swimming is the word for anything that "flies" through the water. Fish are much more graceful at this than eagles.
I completely agree. I can read incredibly fast however I've attenuated my reading speed over time to appreciate richness of text and think deeply about the ideas that are being communicated. At some point the actual technical part of reading becomes trivial and the ideas become what's important.
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Legal issues matter only if there is change of getting sued.

Canonical Ltd. is confident enough to supply ZFS as a Linux module. If there are any legal issues, they are the ones taking the heat.
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Probably not OP’s, but I know of one here with a few videos on their website:

http://www.waliawipers.com/

Definitely not a high tech industry, so I’m sure a lot of business is conducted off-line.
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Zoom out or move a little further from the screen and try again.
That and trusting client information with extraordinarily few server-side validation such as, for instance, impossible shots, impossible movements, impossible speed, etc. It does no client information culling (beyond a large circle of information around the player's position) enabling wallhacks, aimhacks, etc.

These are hard problems to solve on the server side, and require resources, so it was easier not to worry about it at all, and at most do post-game analysis occasionally to try to retroactively detect the impossible (with a very low detection rate, so much so that they rely upon user reports).

This is one of the selling points of something like Stadia (which has to be balanced with the downside of latency) -- by default a cloud renderer would give minimal information to the client.
I'm going to remember this. It's a good way to have discussion if you're lucky enough to have someone who can abstract their personal views from the model that produced them.
Another example of the HN bubble.

Assuming you can get 1800 hours worth of work a year for $50/hour, that’s $90K a year. That puts you at the 84 percentile of individual income in the US.

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/

If I were living in a smaller city like the one I came from, $50/hour would lead to a very comfortable life.

Heck, because of $poor_career_choices, I didn’t make $90K until 15 years in my career and by then I had a big house in the burbs (not the most affluent area of town but I was single. I didn’t care about the school system it was safe enough)
Consumer Reports is good, but sadly covers way fewer products than it used to. It has pretty solid coverage of yard and garden equipment, though.
IANAL, but why do you care if you are not redistributing ZFS or Linux? As far as I understand, both the GPL and CDDL only impose limitations on redistribution.

So, it is more a problem for distributors, like Canonical. Even there, people like Eben Moglen believe that joint redistribution of Linux and ZFS is probably ok, since it does not violate the licenses in spirit:

https://lwn.net/Articles/687550/
Because of the low body density needed for flight, I suspect that all flighted birds can swim to one degree or another. It is at least trivial for them to float quite high in the water. And once you're doing that, you've got both legs and wings that should be able to provide some manner of propulsion.
The allegation is that Amazon has the ability to differentiate from children vs adults, but still records children and saves the recordings indefinitely without the parents permission if a child says the word "Alexa". I call it an allegation because it's not entirely provable from outside of Amazon.
You could, but it wouldn't move faster than light anyway.
>at one point people on Twitter

Here's your problem. You're following immature overexcited crazies on twitter and trying to extrapolate to "the world at large".

>Well it turns out, according to the crazy left, that clowns are symbols for Nazism.

Context matters. Is the "ok hand" gesture a symbol of white supremacy? Plainly not. But when the Christchurch shooter flashed it in court to the cameras, was it then a symbol of white supremacy? Of course it was. Such nuance is lost on some people (or rather it is not lost, and they know full well what they're meaning but fall back on that lame excuse as a cowardly cover).

>Tesla fans

>Tesla doubters

What is this immature, playground-level shit?
That description fits your cell phone too, except it’s “everywhere you go” rather than “home.” Do you expect it to record you?
You make a good point, though different people perceive optical illusions differently. Remember the black/blue/gold/white dress? What colour should an AI call the dress when humans can't even decide? So it's actually even more complex than you might think.

This question also applies to audio illusions, such as the (in)famous Laurel/Yanny clip.
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I still think of Tim Sweeney as “the man behind ZZT”.
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Initially sure, but I think the building capabilities of Unreal and their underlying experience with the engine making contributed to their staying power.

Unreal is a hyper hyper smart games company. They built the frameworks that companies built games on. I think it's really awesome to see them win in the end like this after decades in the sticks.
China already has universal healthcare, it’s just not very good yet.
Apple using its iPod and Mac experience to enter (smart)phones?
I just emailed them and told them I was doing research. Lots of people, especially students, love talking about their work.
Even in the most optimistic case, what's about to happen with Facebook's cryptocurrency will border on a straight up scam. Which is fitting both for their business model, their image and for the broader cryptocurrency space.
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I didn't put it clearly, and not entirely correctly either. Sorry about that.

To the extent the site has an overarching culture, it's right-wing. There are boards outside the overarching culture (I said there were only "few" earlier, but I don't know if that's right).

/tech/ is the largest technology board. It's part of the overarching culture. It has a clear political leaning, even if that leaning is not part of the rules or the stated topic or the moderation policy. If you look at /tech/'s catalog, there's threads like "Stallman Going SJW on us?" and "Apple - FULL ON JEWMODE".

/christian/ has a /christian/pol sticky that encourages people from all parts of the political spectrum to post but seems to have primarily right-wing posters in practice.

/lit/'s second non-sticky is "Race Realism/biological determinism Books".

Not everyone on those boards is right-wing, of course. Being right-wing isn't their defining characteristic. And there are other boards that don't have this.

But boards with a politically neutral moderation policy that get cross-posters from other boards are likely to end up with a culture that's right-wing.

/leftypol/ is explicitly left-wing, so even its cross-posters are left-wing. Some smaller boards mainly get users through other means, so they're decoupled from the site culture. Non-English boards might be insulated as well, but I've never used any of the large ones so I can't tell.

Large boards tend to lean right though.
The swastika is forever ruined. If you fly a swastika in nearly any occasion then "nazi" is going to be the interpretation, not any of the myriad previous meanings.
Amazon has been including "editorial reviews" on certain searches. See https://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-partners-with-the-wirec... and https://www.channeladvisor.com/blog/marketplaces/icymi-amazo...