skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If machine learning worked as well as mechanical engineering, we would have a serious industrial revolution on our hands.

True, but it can be non-obvious that algorithms can produce such problems.

Also an unexpected result from an algorithm can be compared to an unexpected result from an application of law, including a consequence of a contract. Like one can complain that an algorithm is wrong for whatever reason in a particular case, similarly one can complain that a law requires some unfair things in some case, or a contract leads to some actually non-agreed consequence.
The brz and the gt86 are around 30k in Europe, so the increase is a bit more
I hope things get better for you. The hardest part is taking that first step. I've been there and I know how hard it is to even get out of bed. It's cheesy, but what really helped me was listening to motivational tapes like Les Brown/Jim Rohn/Eric Thomas. I'd just go for a walk while listening to them and over time it got a little bit easier.
Bots are communications tools configured and deployed by human beings, at least until they can pass the Turing Test.

Human beings have human rights to express themselves however they wish.
Here's the technological aspect of how China oppresses the uighur community: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/apr/11/china-hi-tech-w....

Terrifying stuff, it literally is straight out of a black mirror episode.
To me, the definition of an asshole is slightly different. An asshole is someone who acts out every social interaction on the principle of "dominate or be dominated". It's the lack of a middle ground that makes an asshole, so that people can't just go into an interaction being each other's peers, and also finish the interaction with being each other's peers, having been nice and respectful towards each other, preserved each other's individual freedoms, and exchanged some information.

I agree that assholery has a tendency to spread, and the mechanism in my observation is as follows: You can start out NOT being an asshole. When there is an asshole for you to deal with, you'll realize "All of my interactions with this person end up with this person dominating me." But you don't like being dominated because that's natural (psychological reactance), and bad for your career. So next time you interact with that person you know you have to act on the principle of "dominate or be dominated", i.e. the asshole-principle. Soon enough it becomes a habit, and you may inadvertently behave towards non-assholes as an asshole as well, making you an asshole.

Another interesting corollary of this definition of asshole is this: If you perceive a lot of assholes around you, maybe YOU are the asshole.

It also explains why you find more assholes as you go up the corporate ladder: Being higher up means you get more opportunity for exhibiting domineering behaviour without repercussions (namely towards your subordinates).
Make Magazine Archive
What do scientists say about alleged negatives about planting trees, like reduced reflectivity and slower disperal of fumes in cities? Do any of them still stand?
Theoretically I learned it works, but only if you have unlimited funds.
The core rope memory (ROM) and erasable core memory (RAM) are different in most ways. For RAM, a core is magnetized in one direction for a 1 and the other direction for a 0. Reading the core erases it, so it must be rewritten (destructive read). On the other hand, for rope the wiring determines the value of the stored bits and it can't be changed.

RAM is addressed in an X-Y grid, using core's "coincident current" property. An X line gets half the current necessary to flip a core, and a Y line gets half the current, so only the core where both cross gets flipped. When writing a core, the core is flipped to the 1 state unless an inhibit line blocks it, causing it to stay in the 0 state. Core rope, on the other hand, uses inhibit lines for addressing, blocking all cores except the desired one.

Another key difference is RAM stores one bit per core, while rope (ROM) stores 192 bits per core, making it much more dense. (Each rope core has 192 sense wires passing either through or around it.)

RAM uses tiny ferrite cores, while rope uses much larger cores consisting of a permalloy ribbon wound around a bobbin.

RAM uses a separate plane of cores for each bit in the word, while all the bits of a word share the same core in a rope.

Both RAM and rope use sense wires threaded through the cores, along with sense amplifiers to pick up the weak signals.

I've written about the AGC's RAM core memory here: http://www.righto.com/2019/01/inside-apollo-guidance-compute...
I think part of the goal of this law is to make this be true:

> I doubt that anyone running bots, and who is technically competent, will be identifiable or findable.

Telemarketing, for example, was done a great deal by perfectly legal, traceable businesses. Once it was made illegal, it was forced underground, and volume dropped immensely.

> I could do it, and I'm just a random anonymous coward.

Could you? Hiding the flow of significant amounts of money is actually quite hard. Robot salesmen masquerading as humans would be a plague, and I think this law should keep that from becoming a legitimate business technique.
That's an appalling thing to say.

Like the US's neverending war on terror, "extremism" here is a handy excuse to commit atrocities. It's no argument to justify this level and scale of human rights abuse.
Centuries-old physics problem that baffled Newton finally solved
Since I am a technologist and not a town planner or a govt. authority I want to propose a solution from technological perspective.
And also I just want to start small by say using web cams to alert/predict future traffic jams and just alert authorities via social media?

Then next step would be to feed this systems output to traffic signals and dynamically increase/decrease their timings?
I have a lot of radical ideas and if you have one I would be glad to hear it out.

Again keeping in mind that traffic jam eradication vs aversion are a different problems.
Traffic jam eradication/prevention requires a lot of experts from different domain to work in collaboration (town planner + civil engineers + road engineers + gov. authoritarians etc).

While I think(may be wrong) traffic aversion can be done using technology + some domain knowledge.
We have reached alpha on https://sitefitnesshq.com , an early warning service for website failures. We have just started reaching out to customers.

Wish us luck.
What, specifically is "bunkum" here? What's your definition of an "authentic source"? This is just more FUD, easily dispelled. Just try doing 5-point breathing while doing yoga and see for yourself.
Well, that's probably enough if you're willing to follow through on such requests quickly. I'll restore the title.
While I love the idea I think it'll be very hard to pull off for these reasons:

- psuedo code or you'd need to implement a lot of languages

- There are so many bloody patterns

- The time it would take to fully take an SAT like test without narrowing scope to an particular issue set (for example for an specific role) would be immense, or there would be a lot of hurdle deciding what is in which scope.
An article about the paper by the first author https://towardsdatascience.com/using-unsupervised-machine-le...
Or a used BMW Z4 :) I'd buy one if I hadn't live in the city center.
Clickable link:

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-13/brilliant-jerks....

Saves one second per person, that's like a whole man-day across all the readers.
> You can only spend so much money on drugs and sex.

Speak for yourself.
Also, the client needs to opt-in.
> Or, as you did, just say something that puts them off script.

I don't know about that. Does Amazon's support use bots? Or are they just in a remote call center using auto translate to communicate with customers?

Because in general, they appear like bots to me: they will parse for key words and reply to those, ignoring context and subtle differences that make their replies sound weird.
Someone who has a physical background: what's your opinion on that?
The sheer scale of this is facilitated by technology. We should all be wary of what we build.
> Much of the worst asshole behavior I've encountered has been done by people who are outwardly polite and high functioning and have often never had a cross word for anyone.

Indeed, there are many ways to hurt, belittle and generally make someone feel bad or unwelcome without being blamable for anything.
> The law clearly targets automated content creation that is not declared as such, not assistive writing technologies

How are those two different things? In each case it's a machine generating and suggesting things that you may want to write. Presumably in the second case the suggestions would have to be more sophisticated in order to be coherent most of the time, but that still doesn't really give you any useful criteria to distinguish them. We're already at the point that phones have context-aware word suggestions. There isn't really a principled line to draw there at the point where the suggestions get good enough to constitute the entire message. It already happens sometimes.
Apparently the solution is just to swear at the bot and you get punted to a human, the downside is many of the humans are no better than a bot.
Blame the FCC dicks!
The word originated as a slur for people with disabilities. That is its origin and still the first definition in the dictionary (for slang usage). You're trying to argue that a word is not defined the way the dictionary defines it.

Dictionaries aren't perfect, but they're more widely agreed-on and useful than your anecdata.

> they're trying to apply US (at least parts of the US) cultural norms to international projects

Out of 379M native English speakers[1], 234M[2] live in the US. That's about 61%. If our English-language norms are widespread, they're also likely used by a majority of native English speakers.

(That's also not including Canada, which shares many of our language norms.)

> alienating most of the world

How does changing the name of Gimp "alienate" anyone? Whose feelings would be hurt and why? Who would stop using the product out of rage?

1. https://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/size

2. https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/...
Biased and wrong: Facial recognition tech in the dock
The software purchase model has worked for years and had made many companies very very rich.

Hint: you can charge for upgrades without forcing them down your users throats.
This article builds on the premise that a few employees are assholes and none of the managers are. In my experience, the reality is the exact opposite, where all managers (especially those at the higher level) are assholes. In that case, none of the considerations of the article seem to be useful. Yet, it is a fun read, especially the "unrelated" pictures and the colorful language.

I am surprised by this sentence:

> Formalizing social skills as part of the job description can help with this.

This kind of thing leads to a subtle but most damaging form of management assholery, whereby employees are "invited" to participate in social gatherings at expensive places, and are frowned upon if they don't participate.
If you do not have access to the Nature paper, this paper reports on the same study. https://chemrxiv.org/articles/Named_Entity_Recognition_and_N...
I've been assuming that it's a pre-determined initial message, but that a real human in a low-cost country would immediately be involved if I bothered to respond.

What portion of the chat pop up windows do you think are purely bot? Might any of them be purely human?
You could pick apart basically the entire body of US law like this if you wanted to. As other people have mentioned the legal system just doesn't work like this - context and intent are taken into account and judges and lawyers are not mindless robots reading a script.
AliExpress does this as well and in an annoying manner that I consider insulting. Support chat will start with a useless bot that just looks for keywords and then replies with FAQ links. "Escalate to a service agent" will make you wait for 30-45 seconds to then be greeted by "Anna" or some other human name. It's another bot, with typing-delay and will follow a simple script to keep you busy, low quality and no apparent option to actually get to a human support agent.
For majority of people who know english as a second language, ct is a familiar word, while gimp is not.

As for my personal experience, I can't even recall if I have ever encountered this word. (English is not my first language).
>> Stupid question - what makes us think the meta studies are themselves valid?

This is not a stupid question. Many meta studies are done by people with their own frameworks of deciding what is and isn't a legitimate approach to studying something. Unsurprisingly, their findings are overwhelmingly negative due to their own publication bias.

Meta studies are pretty worthless in my opinion. Primary studies in all fields should be forced to be published with open data, and any study that received - directly or indirectly - more than $1 from the public taxpayer should be forced to publish Open Access.

Lay bare all the raw data and let the software developers and data analysts get after it, not so-called expert meta reviewers.
My main issue would be fixing stuff if it breaks. Toyota dealer's got you. With this thing after a few years good luck, unless they have built it on a bunch of standard parts from a Japanese or German manufacturer or something.
I'm sure that's true. It's just that a lot of these start unintentionally, so we all have to practice fire safety.
It's easy to run tasks in parallel with just "await". Just start your tasks without await, store the promise in a variable, and then use await later when you actually need the value.
Then you have to set a timeout, which introduces lag in your typing.
Future conflicts between major powers are more likely to be fought over maritime trade routes and offshore oil fields.
Blame the fcc dicks!
I guess he was referring not to metaprogramming in the common sense, but to the change of behaviour of built-in methods and classes.
They really need to give a proper apologize to all customers for it.
> With basic understanding of Promises, these mistakes shouldn't happen

That's why blog posts like this exist, to teach people the basics. In the real world people often start using technology before they fully understand it, and then get sent blog posts like this to read (or catch them on HN).
A bigger danger still would be:

const userPromise = fetchUser(id)
const itemPromise = fetchItem(itemId)
// Do stuff, maybe even more async stuff
const item = await itemPromise
const user = await userPromise

Since those promises haven't been awaited until later in the code, they could throw and result in an unhandledRejection, which would be pretty bad. Promise.all is much safer since it instantly awaits both promises.
> deployment is terrible like really bad

I've seen this stated many times as one of the big drawbacks of Beam languages. But using Distillery with Elixir, it's very easy to generate a release that's completely self contained. Just extract a tarball on a freshly installed system and you are ready to go.
If your target platform differs from the one you are compiling your project on, there are various options for cross compiling too
soundcloud but more retro (alpha) https://mixtape.ai
Just accepted an offer for helpdesk–what can I do to excel?
I come from the educational technology side of things (K-12) with a great aptitude toward technology and problem solving. I'm moving into formal IT and am planning on testing for compTIA A+ at the end of the summer. What can I do at my job to make sure I'm doing well, excelling, and being seen by my managers, and not just slipping under the radar?
This question doesn't make any sense. If your users can access the ip/port of your redis instance, you're already hosed regardless of whether the redis clients cache requests or not. The only hypothetical surface area opened up is if an attacker manages to install a virus on your server to snoop memory via sidechannels. But in this case, your data is already vulnerable using normal queries (the data must reside in memory eventually), again, regardless of whether data is being cached client side or not. Most applications most likely already cache data, at least in a variable or something for the duration of a particular function.
The law is not a programming language.

Believing so is a common misconception amongst engineers, but depending on it as such is likely to lead to disappointment, frustration, anger, needless bickering, extended conflict, and vexatiously long, hard to read, and mostly unenforceable contracts.
That's the excuse used by everyone in support of ambiguous legislation. "All we need is a law that says bad people go to jail and judges are smart people who can figure out what that means based on context and intent."

Ignoring predictable ambiguities to be resolved by the subjective whims of the judiciary is not the rule of law, and the fact that it regularly happens doesn't change that or make it right.
There is no problem, the same way GraphQL does not automatically allow arbitrary queries.

The parent author holds some very stubborn beliefs about how systems are built (his/her way is the correct way!), which is great for discussion, but probably not the best example on how to actually build big systems.
Your complaint seems to boil down to "if the law is so imprecise and open to interpretation, how am I supposed to game the system?". Well, this may be a surprise to some people here but the law is not intended as a system to be gamed.

Loopholes are just day 0 exploits of the legal system.
You are simply not allowed to run a messaging platform at that scale without following all those known and unknown regulations.
> This is the philosophy of a loser who has fallen into despair, who is unable to achieve anything through labour but who is endowed with a strong mind, ferocious energy and a burning ambition.

Could something like this also be said about at least some of us, who similarly have mind and spirit but seemingly can't convert that to achievements?
I was suppose my question was more biased to the software side. Thank you for sharing the link it's a great read.
This is amazing and inspiring! I would love to follow this and help in some way if I can. I would donate money to this cause. Please get in touch with me. My email is on my HN profile.
i'm working on a music streaming service for indie artists called .mixtape

https://mixtape.ai (in alpha and only works on chrome)
They are different by your intended use of the tool and whether the work is judged to be authored by you or by the tool, not by some specific aspect of technology or implementation.

Do you intend to prepare your thoughts as written word, and you use technology to write those thoughts rapidly? Then that’s probably fine.

Do you intend to prepare written works written by algorithm, software, or technology, to a degree that the work can no longer be reasonably considered the creative output of a tool-assisted human and is now instead the creative output of a human-assisted tool? Then that’s probably not fine.

If you want another way to look at this problem, imagine that our society grants algorithms copyright over the works they produce with our assistance, while granting us copyright of the works we produce with the assistance of algorithms, and that the law demands all algorithms be credited (CC-AT) when their copyrighted works are republished by humans. Copyright law has significant experience studying the problems of entangled and commingled ownership of works, but it’s too soon for US society to grant copyright to algorithms over their works, and so this law is all we get today.
It is a crime if the intent is to gain so much market share that pricing power is achieved at which point predatory pricing is pursued. This is an old business model; operate at a loss until your competition is driven out of business and then sit back and collect windfall profits. This was one of the main drivers of anti trust policy to begin with.
Yes, the aricle we comment here was posted March 2016. The video is from April same year.

Also June 2016 "John Ioannidis - Why most clinical research is not useful" (University of Oxford, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uok-7NPFn4k

The paper:

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
> True, but the existence of contraception, sterilisation, celibacy, etc. are all examples that such "innate biological drives" are pretty trivial to avoid.

You don't have kids because of the physical act. That's the how not the why.
I don't think that is the case, at least not as an absolute rule. There are stable and non-stable outcomes of what you do. If you choose one job over another definitely affects your life like you describe. But if you choose to have coffee over tea one morning you will still end up behind the same office desk later in the day.
Of course, if you met your wife by a random accident that would not happen if you were one minute late, there is something about it that the beverage choice could affect. But if you met her on your workplace, then less so.
Not if it is part of a pattern of anti competitive practices. If you lower prices with the intent of putting competitors out of business that is not competition.
CDOs and the subprime mortgage crisis have some analogues to pre-Enlightenment darkness in human intellectual history. The idea that authoritative figures can use maths to give junk debt the midas touch is basically financial alchemy.

There was no sound reasoning behind it. It was literally just "maths is really powerful, and these people are the Smartest Guys in the Room, which is not really that much different from "these guys are really Holy, and also the Smartest Guys in the Room" in previous generations of humanity. Just market it with Math, and you can defraud the most powerful and prosperous society in history.
The expected value of that strategy is still negative.
You get a high chance of winning 1 dollar, with a low chance of losing everything. Only the chance of losing everything isn't low enough.
This is a very weird article. Isn't the main point of electric cars is to reduce carbon emissions? I don't remember Elon Musk saying that his cars would solve the problem of Urban Sprawl, traffic jams, or parking space?

The headline feels like pure clickbait.
To a degree. Python has plenty of advanced features that I have rarely used. 20% of the language gets used 80% of the time.
At least 10 thousand years of civilization, and we are still trying to figure out each other and ourselves.

Why is "Don't be a dick" so hard to codify?

All these religions, ethics and philosophical systems, and all this technology, convenience and comforts.. and we still have so much friction in interacting with others of our own species.

The best solution we seem to have found is leaving each other alone.

I've come to believe that true maturity is the realization that everyone is capable of feeling the same things you feel.

But most of us – me included – seem to have "Single Player Syndrome" where we feel that we are the only person capable of feeling what we feel, and everyone else is an NPC with diluted senses and processing capabilities.
> It's still not public domain - but nobody knows who should be angry at you if you broadcast.

Point Break (1991) is a good example of this.

Here's an article from someone who wanted to show it at a festival and couldn't work out the rights.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/com...
I don't understand why people say this. Human rights abuses are "politics"? Why is this politics?
it's not a global counter, it's a per-infringer counter.
Hasn't this been fixed with the requirement to pre-register trials? https://chrisblattman.com/2016/03/01/13719/

I'm not sure if every org requires it now or not, but if not then it seems like a question of time only.