skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a look at your comment history and it seems clear that the downvoted comments were the ones that broke the site guidelines, while your thoughtful and substantive comments have positive scores.

It's true that a fine comment sometimes gets an errant downvote (if nothing else, remember that people misclick). But most of those get corrected by other users who will notice the unfairness and give a corrective upvote. They won't do that, though, if you get upset by downvotes and lash out like this—because then you've broken the guidelines, and that will result in downvotes and flags.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> It still seems like the best solution is a revenue-neutral carbon tax, i.e. a carbon tax which is merely refunded to everyone in the form of a fixed tax credit.

A revenue neutral carbon tax means that government is dependent for funding for operations (or, if you follow MMP, “is dependent for extracting sufficient money from the economy for the current degree of inflation control”) on continued carbon emissions at the present level.
In some (relatively limited, I believe) areas in the US, you can text 911: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/what-you-need-know-abou...
Statically typed languages deal with data un/marshaling all the time. Maybe I’m missing something, but how would this be an issue?
I was doing things manually to, even security!

You don't really need DTOs because you can use projections and set a default projection to be used when that entity type is returned in a collection. Any entity fields that should never be exposed can be annotated with @JsonIgnore. And then if you need endpoints that aren't CRUD, you can build those the usual way.
He's most likely referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20237568

Which is a bunch of FUD (see top comment by EvanYou).
Just delete your medium cookies.
>A more direct interpretation of her statement would be "we don't like Trump".

How about we just not make any interpretation until Veritas, known for deliberate -- to be charitable -- "creative" editing in the past, releases the full unedited exchange without cherry picked statements out of context?

"So, in Swedish search results, how do we represent the image of 'Doctor'? "

How about a GAN-generated of an doctor with randomized features? The issue isn't really imagery, past instances of bias in machine learned text results has translated for example, gender pronouns according to historical bias, so if you translate foreign language text containing doctor, sometimes even female doctors, it'll end up replacing with male pronouns.

>I interpret as 're-writing information to suit my view of the world and how it ought to be'

How about rewriting it so it fits categorical definitions? The definition of a doctor does not specify gender or race, so any automatically generated extracted knowledge should not leak cultural bias.

> mostly by virtue of the fact there's very few Black people in Sweden of course

Geo-centric thinking. Google is a global service. People in Africa search for doctors. People in Asia search for doctors. So why should every query return a white, male, doctor? Shouldn't a global service either a) be localized to return culturally relevant results for the context of the region or b) be internationalized so that it returns unbiased results that can be applied anywhere?

The problem is when a Swedish engineering office ships a feature to Google globally, and all of a sudden, their own cultural biases turn up globally. This isn't just social justice, it's bad for business!

This is a classic example of why there is strength in diversity hiring, and monoculture is bad if you're a global brand.
Scientists Find Way to Build Turing Machine Inside Magic: The Gathering
How is the US federal government considered exempt from this logic? Their budget dwarves more or less everything else in the world
Welcome to digital socialism. It always ends with long lines for a few blocks of cheese.
hehe nice. The QM67 is always compared with the Brewtus, and I like that the QuickMill has a shot timer. It's a good buy too.
McDonald’s Testing Robots and Voice Recognition at Chicago Location
Big ups! I use this all the time in winter while waiting for the 55. I definitely assumed you worked at Ubisoft across the street!

Btw, from some experience spending cold winters looking at it, it flickers a lot by having so many screen changes, making it tiring to see the screen change so much. L'AUTOBUS - SERA - LA - DANS - 5... - MINUTES - GREG . - TECHNOLOGY. It would be easier on the eyes if it changed less often.

Thanks so much anyways!
Speculative Distributed CSV Data Parsing for Big Data Analytics [pdf]
Silicone tips work much better than foam tips for me. I currently use Shure SE215s and the passive noise blocking when using silicone tips seems similar to (but not better than) the old quietcomforts I've used.
> There has always been a dark horse OS within .NET its called F#.

F# isn't an OS. And it hasn't always been around, it's much newer than .NET.

> But what is sad about the state of the average C# dev is that when I ask them about their opinions on F#, they always respond with a "whats F#?"

And, so what? F# isn't C#. Why should a “C# dev” be expected to know F#.

> That's the problem with most .NET developers. They were fed straight from the MS spoon with blinders on, and never wondered what is out there.

F# is from MS and it's not exactly hidden by them. But why should a “.NET dev” be anything other than someone who has sufficient knowledge and proficiency with programming with the .NET framework, irrespective of whether it's all in VB.Net or whether they are a ployglot?
> The technologists know it’s bullshit. Fed up with the fog that marketers have created, they’ve simply ditched A.I. and moved on to a new term called “artificial general intelligence.”

Not to detract from an otherwise excellent BS takedown, but unfortunately the author fails to mention that there’s a non-zero possibility that AGI itself is merely taking the bullshit to the next level.

It continues to astound me how some technologists actually believe AGI is not just inevitable but around the corner. When to my naive perspective (as a machine learning rank amateur but with several decades experience as a professional human being) all I see is machines that can do some form of pattern recognition, but nothing resembling the common sense that the words “general intelligence” seemed to indicate at one point.

Minor quibbles about truth and meaning of words aside, I have to support any article that skewers the soft underbelly of the phony AI ecosystem as effectively as this one does.
It depends on your threat profile. Are the secret police more likely to target you than a vengeful ex who happens to work at Google?

Obviously Google doesn't provide any real defense against court ordered snooping, but everyone (should) know that at this point. No sufficiently large company will provide any real defense, and going with no name companies doesn't help either.
hm, most "high quality" earbuds nowadays come with detachable cables and i have 3 200$+ earbuds with mmcx. 2 chi-fi and 1 sony, all of them work for 3-5 years of active use. Yes mmcx chords could break from time to time, but top notch chords cost like 5-10$ on aliexpress nowadays. anyway i'm probably a little bit biased here, because after you get several dissent pairs you start to think what kind of music you what to play today and what kind of headphones signature you should use for this music, because to be honest there is a huge difference. And yeah i was exactly like you, buying the cheapest possible earbuds 5 years ago and i had like 10+ of thous cheap sony/philips/sennheisers. They all break in a couple of mounts-year. Usually it is a chord or just some driver problems.
This thread has had a huge influx of comments from new accounts in the last 24 hours—over 250 and counting. They are all, I think, critical of the study. Many have been unsubstantive, but many have had interesting things to say.

Normally we'd consider closing the thread in a case like this, to prevent it from being brigaded. But this is an unusual case and I'm curious to see how far it goes.

In case any of the new commenters happens to read this: I'm the lead moderator of Hacker News. Would you mind sharing with us how you found out about this discussion? It's unusual for us to see so much activity in a thread that is already several days old, and I'm curious to find out what happened.
http://www.rowetel.com/?page_id=452
There's a huge difference between saying you're going to be a leader and, y'know, actually being a leader. And there's an even huger difference between that and being an effective leader. I follow Cloudflare and eastdakota a lot. He clearly has the capability to be an effective leader (he is a CEO after all), and I personally admire him. However, in this particular situation, publicly berating the people that he is supposedly taking a "leadership role" over does not a good leader make.
The metal content is the main difference, DeLonghi (and every other popular home espresso machine )are almost entirely made of plastic. Boiling water in plastic leaches harmful chemicals into the espresso and add subtle flavors that shouldn't be there. The DeLonghi level machines are built to last a few years and be replaced while the commercial machines can easily outlive their owners.
Getting ready for the next AI winter.... this is a cyclic phenomena.
My growing collection of rpis includes an rpi2 with a usb wifi dongle that still gets a fair amount of use. Mostly for experiments, but truth be told, it's not an old slouch.

These pi models are all tailor-made options. I think its a mistake to think in terms of "older models" when you consider the lower power requirement and higher physical stability of the rpi2 (doesn't overheat even without a fan, for example). The Zeros are less powerful but still belong in the range because of exactly that.
Also earlier versions of Java were a pain. The flexibility of a well thought out functional and dynamic language means new syntax to reduce boiler plate or extend generics don't need to be added. Compare Clojure to Scala for extreme examples in the JVM land. Similarly I think modern OO languages seem to be adding new syntax to handle OO complexities, e.g. much of the newest syntax additions to Python3 aren't useful (walrus operator? Well everything is already an expression... Etc).

In the end, I agree that the idea of a language which could be stable for a decade or more sounds fantastic! Given macros could add almost any other required feature should a good idea arise. Plus the BEAM and elixir compiler can continue improving performance and tooling.
Cutting noise 25-35 db while listening to music at a reasonable level could in fact be better for your hearing than doing nothing.
Sorry about that. Doc told me there can be a 20 year lag between the damage and the symptoms, much like that for skin damage from the sun.
Modern day Thomas Paine
I’m not on Instagram, but that post was quite obviously sponsored: nobody has that much coffee merchandise or talks about things they like as was done there. I’m more concerned about people who have a small but not unreasonable bias in a certain direction swaying people than sponsored Instagram posts.
I don't disagree with you at all on principle here. What I'm genuinely curious about is if this approach is akin to "compile everything statically?" I'm assuming that, if so, the issue of memory use has obviously been raised and the response is akin to "memory is cheap now" so it's a bygone concern. That may all be true and totally worth it. I just feel compelled to ask having been accustomed to the shared memory mapping model for decades...
D for me is a guarantee of continuity. Unlike languages kept on corporate "life support" there is not so much risk of it becoming abandonware or sponsors "pulling the plug" on it.

I'm very sure that C will outlive Go, Rust, and probably us all. I'm not so sure about the current wave of "a better take on C++" type languages
Progress of civilization could be summarized in the slow march of BS elimination parallel with the creation of creative new forms of BS (people don't actually learn anything, they just form the same crazy opinions about something new)

Strikeout "of Phony AI." The BS-Industrial Complex is huge and the rise of the Internet has made it worse by empowering the less-informed to share ideas. That is somewhat the price you pay for progress.

The hopeful idealistic information superhighway myth of the 90s turned into something else.
I’ve never understood this kind of thinking. If you want to give your money away you are absolutely free to do so. The Gates Foundation does wonderful things. If you want to fund government, pretty much every public school system of any real size has a foundation. If you legitimately want to pay more in taxes just ensure you have a taxable event every year. Hold no investment for a year and pay short term capital gains. Take zero deductions, etc, etc, etc.
There's such an elegant solution here: cups could have individually tailored patterns (or chosen from a large library of a few 100s) on the outside s.t. you wouldn't confuse yours for another. We're (at least I am) pretty good at memorizing combinations of odd shapes and colors, so there's no need to name cups (i.e. they can be pre-named).
We have a United Healthcare PPO through Apple, it's considered a "good" plan. We paid about $6k out of pocket for a pretty standard hospital birth.
Unskippable Ads in a 60$ Game
Have you read Cloudflare's multiple blog posts regarding BGP? Did you read the tweets from their directors talking about how other customers were unaffected by the event today because of the mitigations put in place? Did you even do the simplest Google about BGP protocols and the plans in place to prevent this from happening in the future?

If you're going to try to impose yourself as the gatekeeper of "knowing the context", you should probably know it yourself. Saying CF "simply cannot do anything" is narrow minded at best, and completely wrong otherwise. In fact, in this very blog post linked in the OP, Cloudflare talks about taking steps to mitigate BGP issues in the future. That's great, if only it wasn't also paired with a childish finger pointing session.
> dynamic volume equalization

The audio term is "compression". And it's unbelievable that it isn't a standard OS-level feature. It is not computationally expensive to implement.
Instead of a printer, why not use the Pi's Wi-Fi to transmit photos to a phone – where they can then be posted to Instagram.
Yes, very much professionalism including such recent email threads titled "Russian Anal Probing"
Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton on building a computer for industrial users
Thats orders of magnitude of other people's software running for other people on our phones and laptops. If it were just the software we wanted, the adware, ransomware, click-baiting, click-jacking, pop ups, and such wouldnt need yet more software to fight.

The internet might have been a mistake.
Louisiana is #5 in the nation on the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (despite being 31st in the nation by size).

Related reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley
I helped build one of the biggest brands on Amazon.

Send me an email at hackernewsamazon@gmail.com
Gosh, I remember when the walkman came out and the press was full of articles on how this was ruining kids' hearing (and civilization in general to boot). Of particular additional concern was how it blocked out exterior noise.

Now we have the panic that these don't block out enough noise, which, sacre bleu!, apparently makes things even worse!

Though for what it's worth my hearing's been shot since my late 30s. I suspect loud concerts, gunshots, explosions, and manned rocket launches have been worse.
> CPI is computed nationally

There are CPIs calculated for each metropolitan area. When I'm considering my savings, for instance, I look at New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA [1] and New York-Newark-Jersey City [2] statistics.

National CPI is useful if you're planning policy. Local CPI is better for individual planning.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUURA101SA0

[2] https://www.bls.gov/regions/new-york-new-jersey/news-release...
> References? Credit Score?

Both of those are easily gamed in the absence of trust. For references the mechanism is obvious. They list co-conspirators as references who then lie about their titles.

For credit reporting it seems like you could do the same thing over time. Create fictitious entities to make positive filings with credit reporting agencies. I assume the reason that isn't more popular is that it's even faster to do it the other way and steal the identity of somebody with good credit.
How about leaking session tokens and other sensitive data for millions of people during "Cloudbleed"? Were you advocating public shaming for Cloudflare then? Was that also "sheer laziness" and did they earn "more than a few" of your "go fuck yourself's"?
Because they actually purchased the product?
The title (original title, post title haven't been altered ), is highly misleading, and certainly designed to be optimize to a certain format.

From my (non-US, non-Gay) point of view the policy sound quite reasonable.
Comfort comes not only from tips, but also from cable position. Sometimes over the ear cable can make a bigger difference then tips.
I have had my Audio Technica ATH500s for 10 years now. I paid $150AUD for them and of course I feel that was worth every dollar. One of the only pieces of technology I own that has lasted so long.
I wish the article specified which location, I'd love to check it out.
Ask HN: US government funds a lot of tech research, why don't startups use it?
Some people know about SBIRs (small business innovative research grants), through which federal government gives away more than $1B of R&D funding to small businesses. There are many more opportunities open for small businesses. For example, AirForce recently opened a $100M solicitation looking for machine learning technologies.

I know government grant process can be very cumbersome but so is trying to raise VC money (especially outside of SV). And government money is non-dilutive.

I am noticing more startups (e.g. Palantir, Anduril) starting off of government opportunities, but they seem very rare.

Why isn't gov funding a more common way of starting a startup? Is it mostly because people don't know about these and/or don't know how to navigate the process?
Yes, I know what white label goods are.

But your statement "white Label brands tell you nothing about the product" is not correct.

I gave two examples (razors, watches) where people buy white label goods and pay more because of an attached brand.

That's because brands don't provide only a product but can also provide a service. That service might be quality management, or it may be cachet, as in "selling a lifestyle".

Hence why I point out there's good market evidence that your original statement is "overly dismissive" of brands.
This appears to be a previously-unknown-to-me definition of the word "free". Care to explain a bit?
Run my home automation system with Gladys Assistant! :)

https://gladysassistant.com/
Anyone know of any good places outside of eBay for getting ahold of less expensive fixer-uppers?
I imagine plane rides are the worse as that is loud as fk and you will be watching 1-2 movies.
Boaty McBoatface is doing just fine

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/06/18/uk/boaty-mcboatface-fir...
You joke, but cascade failure ain't no laughing matter, either. Emergency plans aren't for fair weather, they are for sh!tstorms. I don't want to say "we are too reliant on the internet" because it's cliche and connectivity is just part of growing the modern world. But we sure as heck need several layers of backup plans in case things go sideways.

I, for one, hope there is a secret society of HAMs lurking as mild-mannered employees at every telco and ISP, ready to wire things back together when they short out.
This doesn’t work for everyone, but I can wear air pods under the 3M Peltor hearing protection (what pro Starcraft players use). Let’s me use them while mowing.
Are you going to prohibit domain leasing?
Cloudflare reached out multiple times in multiple ways to Verizon, to attempt to resolve the situation.

More than eight hours on, after utilising everything from what they were told was a Tier 1 support line to Twitter, they have nothing.

Even if we're kind to Verizon about the network failure, which was a global issue, they haven't done anything or said anything to suggest that Cloudflare should be treating them kindly in any way.

Not even a "we're aware, we're handling it".

Ghosting one of the world's largest (as in utilised) companies is not wise for administrative, technical or PR reasons.

Verizon have shown a complete lack of leadership.
Exactly! Free market != laissez faire.

But a market where exorbitant costs of regulation drive up the minimum efficient scale to the point that no new entrants are possible is also not a free market.
> A revenue neutral carbon tax means that government is dependent for funding for operations (or, if you follow MMP, “is dependent for extracting sufficient money from the economy for the current degree of inflation control”) on continued carbon emissions at the present level.

Not if the amount of the tax credit in a given year is tied to the amount of revenue the tax generates, i.e. it remains revenue-neutral. Then it automatically phases itself out as less carbon is burned.
Welcome to Monowi, Nebraska: population 1 (2018)
While it's true the AI hype is getting a bit overboard, couldn't one make the argument that humans, and to a lesser extent other animals, are just a collection responses to pattern recognition like when I see a thing that looks like this I should eat it, but when I see a thing that sounds like that I should run away? After all, what is common sense but "believe it when I see it" type thinking which is most certainly pattern intuition? The overhype part is that there are armies of lowly paid Mechanical Turk tier workers tagging all these data sets, so that these pattern recognition algorithms have something to train on.
Ending in 911, not just including.
A serious problem with the "let the people live in their own worlds" attitude is that many communities do not stay in their realms. You allude to this a little but, in my opinion, it's not a minor problem to be glossed over, it's the core of the trust issue: any online community that doesn't keep itself small and insular (and enforce this with sufficient opsec) is at risk of being invaded and exploited (for lulz, for cash, or for political manipulation).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20260863
Is this mobile and browser based? What is a use case for someone?
uunet , alternet and ? now it's verizon eh
> Google has repeatedly been clear that it works to be a trustworthy source of information, without regard to political viewpoint. In fact, Google has no notion of political ideology in its rankings.

This is blatantly untrue, and theres evidence of Google editorializing all of their products: search rankings, answer boxes, YouTube feeds, etc.

Google willfully allows the biases of their staff to influence products. As do most tech companies and media companies.

There’s been a clear purge of conservative voices, a further pressuring (eg, demobilization and other such tactics), a bias in what is considered hate speech or other rule violations, and a clear bias in the internal behavior — including firing the moderator of their Republican mailing list. [0]

Her claims Mr Pichai denies it are equally flat — of course he does, because if it turns out that Google’s editorialization over the past couple years violated their safe harbor status, the company is likely already bankrupt from his error.

Google displays about 350 billion videos a year; 250 million instances of commercial copyright, at minimum statutory damages, is greater than the entire assets of Google.

[0] This guy: https://medium.com/@mikewacker/googles-outrage-mobs-and-witc...