skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your civil reply. Nothing political or ideological in stating that prison labor for the public good is a good thing. It is. That's a fact. Prisoners owe the public for their malfeasance, hence their serving time to pay back society for breaking the social compact.

I will say, however, that this site appears and acts disproportionately left in its operation. And while I am a very far right ultra-traditionalist, I can happily exist around others with differing opinions. Notice, if you will, that I never vote anyone down. People are entitled to opinions. The left seems militantly opposed to any viewpoint that challenges their narrative. Voltaire applies...
It's a perfectly apt comparison. Software "engineers" are not actually engineers. We are not professionals, we are wage labor.

* No professional code of ethics.

* No professional body that oversees the profession and sets standards.

* No licensing or certification (except maybe in Canada).

I'm sure I'll get a bunch of flack for this, but it's well past time developers stopped indulging in classist self-flattery pretending they're the peers of doctors, lawyers, or accountants.
Interesting post to be getting down voted. I personally don't subscribe, but I value opinions that are different than mine (which include all media outlets, on all sides).

I DO subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, which is worth the cost to me. I'm a stock market junkie so there's that.
All fine and good until you're in that 1%. Then you might have a slightly different opinion on forced unpaid labor for someone else's profit, otherwise known as slavery.

But seriously, I see that 1% and it solidifies why prison populations should not be subject to forced labor for profit. That is not a low number.
John McAfee Fled to Belize, but He Couldn't Escape Himself
Circumventing the Paywalls and the Paywalls Dilemma
Retalt project for launch system re-usability technologies
FWIW, his 2020 campaign started in January 2017, just after getting into office. His first rally was a month later.
Please keep this sort of trollish flamebait far away from this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20284021 and marked it off-topic.
Did a kid get shot for seeing too much ?
How would you begin indexing everything?
Try seeing it in another light: that is our punishment for failing to create a society that removes the need for crime.

How much of those 30k/year inmates are we wasting tax dollars incarcerating because we refuse to acknowledge that marijuana is not worthy of a schedule 1 certification? How many because we failed to provide an equal opportunity education system?

The prisoners are already being "punished" by having their freedom taken away. I don't see why they should have to pay for the mechanisms that remove their freedom at the same time. They're still citizens. They have paid and will continue to pay taxes. They still participate in the system despite being a prisoner of it.

We don't make people pay per usage of the existence of the FDA. Why make them pay for their own prison?
Show HN: An anonymous chatting app for anyone to deploy
Reminder that prison slavery is explicitly allowed by the 13th amendment. We really should amend it.
Not that computationally heavy--usually takes under a minute to draw all the polygons and render the shadow map.
Why Parents Should Raise Kids to Be Generalists, Not Specialists
Not necessarily true.

It's a an employee's duty to bring any abnormality to their superior, and then let them make a decision.

Sometimes something anomalous to a newer employee is actually normal, and an experienced superior knows about.

But sometimes letting an anomaly by doesn't get caught to later, since people further down the line/process aren't looking for or see them. And it's not until the product/process reaches final testing that they become aware. Thus it being cheaper to have stopped the line sooner. And 'punishment' being more severe than simply reporting a mistake or anomaly in the first place.
FWIW, there is zero evidence that anything like the common conception of free will exists. It is basically a folk explanation for a decision matrix that has hundreds or thousands of inputs that are mostly opaque to the tools currently at our disposal. There is no reason to believe that there will be anything left which we can label "free will" once we are able to measure and quantify all of these inputs and the system operating on them.
good point, but we already have the PKI in place, and use it for SSL.
Few things sound less likely to improve the internet than some entity having the power to content-police the web and remove anything it accuses of the thoughtcrime of advertising...
I'm not able to find a complete transcript yet, but this has a fair chunk of what he actually said in near transcript form rather than snippets. This was on Fox News Business this morning, by phone interview.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/06/26/trump_tal...

He accused Twitter of being all Democrats. Accused all of tech for bias, and hating Republicans. That "many people" tell him they can't join Twitter because of their political bias (apparently). Said they all should be sued for bias even though he doesn't know if any of it is illegal or not.

And about Google "Let me tell you, they're trying to gig the election." I think that's a typo, and it should be rig. He likes to talk about rigged elections to explain any possible weak showing or loss on his part.

In a way not a lot of new ground being covered, but the rant was done live and indisputably by him, rather than on Twitter.
It's the same meme - a stack of pancakes as a visual pun on "software stack"/"full stack." Not the only place I've seen that before, either - I've seen the same idea on T-shirts and laptop stickers.

Funnily enough, I went to sequelpro.com/legal to find that while their software is under the MIT license, as opposed to the more restrictive GPL license used by BTrDB, the website specifically calls out the icon as property of the project and its use is disallowed in forks. So, it looks like they really would care more about the logo being ripped off more than anything.
I don't think it would be an issue if Google wasn't creating "special" rules for specific winners and losers (overall). Hell, I really wish they'd make it easy to individually exclude certain domains from results.

The canonical example to me of something to exclude would be the expertsexchange site. After stack overflow, ee was more than useless, and even before it was just annoying. There are lots of sites with paywalls, and other obfuscations to content and imho these sites are the ones that should be dropped/low-ranked.

But the fact that there's no autocomplete for "Hillary Clinton is|has" (though "Donald Trump is" is also filtered). Yes, it's been heavily gamed. It's also had active meddling. And their control over YouTube seems to be even worse, with disclosed documents/video that indicate they're willing to go so far as outright election manipulation. With all indications that Facebook, Pinterest and others are going the same route.
From their site:

"Our Media Bias Ratings represent the average judgment of Americans. They are based on blind surveys of people across the political spectrum, multi-partisan analysis and other in-depth analyses as well as tens of thousands of user ratings. Our scientifically-generated ratings are fluid and subject to change over time as new information is gathered and biases change.

Unless otherwise noted as editorial content, all bias ratings are based on online versions of news coverage, not TV, print, or radio content."

Link: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings

You can also see that they differentiate between fox's online news and opinion pieces, with the latter classified as being on the political Right.
To prevent hydrolysis (literally breaking apart with water) you just need to keep the environment humidity-free.

An airtight plastic box and a bed of salt should do the trick.
Part of the reason it wasn't a very big issue pre-Roe v Wade is that on-demand abortions were illegal in 46 states prior to it.
Isn't "generics for me but not for thee" already a core part of the Go philosophy?
Engineers too, in Canada.
That’s only true if you believe your own side and yourself aren’t just as vulnerable.
Seam carving is the second assignment of Algorithms Part II. I also highly recommend Princeton's Algorithms course on Coursera.
It’s Time for AI in PCB Design
> The joke was at least partially on them, since I’ve never owned any cryptocurrency other than a handful of Stellars that I got for free and have lost the password for. If they or any other attackers can help me get them back then I would be very grateful.

This also happened to me - and after returning to the Stellar site years later, my old login did not work, and the page looked nothing like it used to. Were the free Stellar tokens ever really granted?
I also grew up poor, with my dad in construction and my mom a waitress. I push buttons and solve all sorts of interesting puzzles for a living.

Rather than racing the 100+ temperatures on a roof, I mosey to work before whatever scheduled meetings. Rather than permanently damaging my wrists from carrying trays overhead, I sometimes get a bit uncomfortable so adjust the height of my ergonomic desk and chair, maybe take a walk for a bit.

I value how easy I have it and put in extra effort to make sure it all persists.
Sergeant David Bellavia: Knife Fight in the House of Broken Mirrors
Without meaning to sound patronising, I believe I understand your confusion. Allow me to explain.

My comment is making an entirely uncontroversial statement: that "backpropagation is an AI algorithm". Not that "backpropagation is AI". The latter could be taken to mean that backpropagation is itself artificially intelligent, that it exhibits some kind of intelligence (leaving aside for the moment the fact that we have no agreed upon definition of "intelligence", artificial or otherwise). If I understand your comment correctly, this is the interpretation you make of my comment.

However, what my comment says, and this should be clear from the context ("most researchers will agree"), is that backpropagation is an algorithm from the field of research that is known as AI.

In that context, "AI", "Artificial Intelligence", is the field of research that investigates methods to construct "AI", "Artificial Intelligence(s)". Backpropagation is a component of one such method, neural networks.

I think then that the confusion, which is also discussed, and exhibited, in the article, stems from the fact that the same word is used to describe both "artificial intelligence" and the field that researches artificial intelligence.

And I hope this clarifies the confusion.
There's no distinction between government and private prisons in this regard. Money is fungible. Even public prisons are partly privately run.

Government-enforced slavery isn't better than privately-enforced slavery.
The ones that really piss me off are there “studies shown to lower cholesterol” or “improve heart function”.

Or the ketchup that has lycopene for men’s help. Yup that and a boatload of sugar.
@krapp
I don't believe anything deserves to be targeted for canceling. It's basically the main thing that polarizes me against progressivism, the obsession with speech control.
> Funny that the browser that has been selling so much on privacy falls victim to such a vulnerability.

All browsers fall to such vulnerabilities -- Chrome had one in March this year. The difference is that some browsers (again, Chrome) are malicious by design instead of only by accident.
Yes but with 200% scaling you now only have the screen real-estate of a 1080p screen.

At 4k I can have 4x 1080p windows open and visible at the same time.

At 1080p at most I can have two windows open side by side. Some programs will fit into a quandrant at 1080p, but others wont. For example, at 1080p you can have 4x task managers open, but spotify/discord won't fit in the quandrants.
I run a 43" 4K Dell at work, no scaling. It is sweet. I can either fit 10 full pages of a Word document simultaneously, or I can tile 6 large terminal windows and output windows all together.
The Greatest Paper That Ever Died (2011)
Absolutely agree with this. The Internet-as-appplication-platform has never been better, from a developer's perspective.

From a user's perspective, it's maybe a bit more nuanced... I'm tired of websites trying to get around my adblocker, and everyone attempting to enable desktop notifications, for example. If I'm trying to read someone's document they've published, I'd like it to just be a document, thanks. But, increasingly, "Paradigm 2" webapps like Spotify and Google docs are as good or better than "rich" desktop apps.
That's what Java applets were supposed to be originally, they were supposed to run in a sandbox....
Neither of those links you pointed to say anything about warnings being required, or even customary for that matter.
A spell checker still doesn't detect faulty grammar.
I must say windows new app design is truly amazing, just based on how good it looks.
MySQL and Memory: A Love Story (Part 2)
The transaction fees on sneaker sales (by far their largest segment) are between 8% and 9.5% depending on seller volume. Since StockX authenticates every shoe, that eats up a bit of that fee. The point of your comment mostly still stands, but I wanted to mention some real numbers.

https://help.stockx.com/articles/478556-what-are-stockx-sell...
The sofa is an example of the concept of an "extended phenotype," isn't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extended_Phenotype
I'd definitely read those if you wrote them. I build small machines that use Pi Zeros as motor controllers and I'm a sponge for domain knowledge about using them in practice.

Your point about voltage fluctuation affecting clock speed already has me re-evaluating my current solution. Also I'm really curious about your custom cameras. Thanks for sharing!
Pass has no out of the box multi user support. Gopass allows encryption for multiple keys, hence better for teams.

I use it for the same reason to encrypt different folders with different keys (work vs. private).
I like the idea of local personalized search ranking that evolves based off of a on device neural network. I'm not sure how that would be work though.
As an American I'm completely offended. I demand other people pay the price so I can fulfill all my wants and desires.
QED.

To put it another way, "life" is basically a quine. As per the fixed-point theorem, all Turing-complete formal systems support (infinitely many) quines. Therefore, any universe whose laws of physics are powerful enough to support Turing-completeness, can support life.

(Of course you have to be careful with what you mean by "life" and "universe" and so forth. A 0-dimensional infinitesimal singularity capable of arbitrary computation can of course run Conway's Game Of Life all you want - but perhaps you'd prefer 'universe' to mean some kind of spatial construction with locality-preserving rules - in which case it's not even clear that our own universe counts!)
The waffling on ethics demonstrated in the article doesn't seem as ambiguous to me.

Is it ok to pay below minimum wage, if the prisoners are gaining useful skills? No. It's not ok.

1. We have no system of accountability measuring worth of useful skills against amount under minimum wage the prisoner is getting paid. Is upholstery worth 3$ less an hour, or 4$? Are they actually learning upholstery? How do we know? Is upholstery actually a valuable skill? How do we know?

2. We have not allowed other people to be paid less than minimum wage, why prisoners? "Useful skills" is not a valid excuse (except for interns sometimes, which I also disagree with). I don't agree that it should be considered part of the punishment as the jury and judge had no say in the amount under minimum wage the prisoner would be paid. There's no transparency or accountability.

3. It doesn't make economic sense. Why pay someone minimum wage to upholster, when you can buy the work on the cheap from the prisons? The prisons have thus evaded our imposed market controls and have an unfair advantage.

4. Prisoners are humans and (generally) US citizens. It is not cool to devalue them by paying them less.
can some freelancers show how they promote their work here?
> .bcn domain is intended to maintain a relationship of "cooperation and sum of efforts" with the .cat domain

I wanted to learn why this TLD exists but I didn't understand the explanation. What does cooperating with another TLD mean and can I use it for bacon stuff?
Balanced AI Inference Chip Benchmarking Is Underway
And, its not like any other cargo ships use those protected routes, either.
I don't like that it's mutable state that is easy to shadow accidentally. (tooling can warn you about it, but it's suboptimal).

Also, in a function with a couple of different error types, do you end up checking the error type manually and reacting accordingly, all in one final defer? That seems error prone. And it doesn't work at all if multiple statements can produce the same error - you won't know which statement caused it.

And, last but not least, this would loose proper backtrace information: the backtraces all point to the defer line rather than separate lines for each error.
Sounds like we're in perfect agreement on the critical points and the only debate would be around the timeframe (10 years or ?).

- It will be possible to automate a large % of a radiologists job in the future, it's currently not possible.

- Radiologists are useful and their job lies beyond matters of image description
Yeah, they claim this supposed study showed the game increased resistance to fake news, but how do we know that's really true!?
I've never heard somebody say he doesn't believe in science, but maybe we just know different people. Scientific studies are subject to bias. Scientific reports are often non-reproducible, yet are peer-reviewed and in the public domain (well, maybe behind a paywall) because peer-review is not about repeating experiments but about persuading a small number of reviewers of your results. And since publishing good results frequently is essential to secure continued funding, there is an absolute drive to push and sensationalize questionable results.

We know that there are risks associated with vaccines. They are not "100% safe" as people have been led to believe (to suggest that anything is 100% safe is basically preposterous). Right now, pharmaceutical companies are being demonized for profiteering and getting massive numbers of people addicted to their drugs (the "legal" ones). We know that there is extreme bias and sometimes outright deceit from media outlets and especially governments. People are increasingly suspicious of all these "experts" telling them what to do because we know that these experts tell partial truths, at best.

So people are expected to overlook their distrust of drug companies, of governments and of media, all of which collectively trumpet the necessity of injecting babies with cocktails of stuff whose contents is unknown and/or not understood by the majority of people of the world. There's little in the way of elevated debate: each side just calls the other stupid. And somehow Alex Jones always comes up, as if he is the ultimate scapegoat for the "idiocy" of alternative viewpoints.

My point is that the issue is not black and white, like everyone wants it to be. It is extremely complex and we owe it to ourselves to listen to each other.
I'm pretty sure "the best" fake news comes from state actors who have paid employees, and budgets, and a clear and clean mission statement (disrupt our enemies). Most news organizations are not these secret cabals where everyone is indoctrinated and working on some dupe-the-masses approach.
It's in a replication crisis because pretty much none of it is science ( no replicable testing possible - hypothesis, experiment, theory ). It's why Richard Feynmann associated social science with pseudoscience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWr39Q9vBgo

Because real science destroyed the credibility of religion and religion in much of the world is no longer a credible social control tool, the elites needed a new form of religion to control society. That new religion is social "science". Whereas religion controlled everything from economics, schooling, family, culture, society, law, etc, now they all fall under the pseudoscience/religion called social "science".

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Reply to ziddoap.

Considering you tossed around "illumati-esque", I doubt you are interested.

I consider social science to be a pseudoscience for the same reason richard feynmann did. Did you bother watching what he had to say?

Social "science" is a humanities. It belongs in the category with philosophy, ethics, literature, religion, etc.

Just because I said it is a pseudoscience doesn't mean that I think it is useless or bad necessarily. No more than I think literature, ethics, philosophy or even religion is bad.

I just think social "science" is a "religion" trying to latch onto the good name of real science. Just like creationism "science" or all the other fake "science" trying to gain credibility by associating itself with science.
Because you haven't understood the context of what the EU means when it says "proportionate".

Article 83 is basically a long list of reasons to avoid giving a fine but to give a warning instead.
This is 100% false. It is an "appeal to the middle" fallacy based on two assumptions:

1. that all news sources are equally biased;

2. that aggregating those biases produces an unbiased result.

Neither of these assumptions are credible.
A related fun fact, when slicing several dimensions:

>>> a = np.arange(9).reshape(3,3) # a matrix
>>> a[0:3,0:3] # ranges are treated independently
array([[0, 1, 2],
[3, 4, 5],
[6, 7, 8]])
>>> a[[0,1,2],[0,1,2]] # but arrays are treated at once
array([0, 4, 8])
Snipped from another comment I made:

With 200% scaling you now only have the screen real-estate of a 1080p screen.
At 4k I can have 4x 1080p windows open and visible at the same time.

At 1080p at most I can have two windows open side by side. Some programs will fit into a quandrant at 1080p, but others wont. For example, at 1080p you can have 4x task managers open, but spotify/discord won't fit.

Also once in a blue-moon you'll find some software won't scale at all, or has issues scaling. If you only have a 21" screen then you have this tiny microscopic text you have to try to read.
Ignoring that we don't know how complete the one-paragraph summaries of the cases are (many of the links are not in English) -- how is looking at the top 10 largest fines a fair sample? Surely taking 10 random samples is a much better selection?

It seems possible that the largest fines were for the most severe transgressions, or for companies that are large enough to know better. In fact, the topmost example of Google's Android penalty is a prime example of both factors. So it's possible there is a statistical bias for larger fines to be for more severe cases where warnings make less sense.
The only life form we know has DNA and the DNA is a 3D molecule. With our current knowledge, it doesn't seem possible.
You're looking at this Python code and blaming its deficiencies on lack of types. It's deficiencies are not lack of types, but lack of separation of stable vs volatile code, lack of contract specification and documentation, lack of refactoring and versioning idioms (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk).

Why does the blame always go to lack of types?

Whether or not you have types you're still going to suffer if you don't have the other things I mention. And if you have the other things I mention then static typing become much more of a nuisance. Ergo...