skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These abstract objections to specific actions are, frankly, a cop out.

My objections aren't to these specific actions. I'm trying to discuss the phenomena of very vocal outrage at a distance motivating company change. I specifically didn't mention my stance on the results because I don't want to be one of those people who supports the means only when it leads to results I like (e.g both Democrats and Republicans when it comes a President of their party overreaching their power to do something their party supports).

For the record, I am very pro-immigration and don't like the current Administration. That's part of why I have mixed feelings about the general approach.

The other reason I have mixed feelings is because corporations do need to be accountable, and currently the outrage mob seems to be the most effective, if very narrow tool for helping accomplish. But while I don't think it's the proper tool for that, I'm not really sure what else to try to replace it with.

> Your statement also completely disregards morality and ethics.

That's a fair point, my description was lacking. I think mobs also tend to act amorally and without regard for ethics. May they have reactions rooted in moral and ethical causes? Absolutely. I don't think often gets applied to their reactions though. I think in these situations, most people check their civility at the "keyboard" (door, getting online, etc).

The reaction here was relatively mild. There have been bigger, badder ones though, and while this doesn't really compare effect-wise, it is on the same spectrum, in my mind.

Do I want things to change? Absolutely. Do I want things to change just because a large number of people were informed of something through a random news article and poor handling of it? I'm not so sure.
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How would you deal with misinformation and malicious campaigns under this situation?
unionizing and strongly regulating the h1b system?
Does anyone have any actual useful/helpful comments?
Yes, the propaganda of the survey is very mature in recent years.
Believe us, I am not looking for squabbles about thinking otherwise.
My understanding is that most cells in the human body regenerate. What I don't understand is how cells that are part of the transplant regenerate. Do they use the host or the transplanted DNA to regenerate?
This does not work.
A similar system is currently in place in Shenzhen and it is overrun by scammers deliberately running people off the road and doctoring the footage.
Many are making a mint from it.
It's already a pretty good option, the Nim forum is written 100% in Nim.
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21045550
for example an electron or a polarized photon. they can take the value 0 and 1 when measured but when not measured they can be in superposition states. Quantum physics forbids copying a qubit to create another, but you can initialize them en masse to to be in a superposition state. Those things are too tiny to be easily manipulated so 53 is quite an accomplishment.
Exactly. The large amount of faith currently placed in probabilistic models that do not have common sense ways of eliminating factors which are extremely unlikely to be causal (like the presence if a ruler causing cancer) disturbs me. There is something that humans do that we have not quite figured out how to teach computers yet, at least as far as I can tell, which is to get them to evaluate whether their model is not just compatible with their observations, but other models and prior knowledge about the objects being observed.

I think we’ll get there at some point, and I’m not exposed to the most cutting edge AI research, but it seems like AI us currently very overhyped and deeply flawed for many of the applications people would like to use it for.
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> "Phone-as-camera"

You're not getting it.

Pre phones when people had cameras, I specifically travelled without a camera because people who travel with cameras were bullshit.

This is pre Instagram, pre Facebook, so to show people your photos after a trip you had to see them in person.

The bar has dropped so low, it'd be considered hipster and mentally healthy to take physical photos now because it would mean you have to physically leave the house and physically see a person to show them.

The bar used to be, travelling with maps, cameras and travel books is a crutch that ruins your experience.

People broke these rules but they at least thought about it when doing it. I used travel books, but I thought about it.

This current situation is not normal. And by normal, I mean with the current understanding of how humans work, healthy.
> Science has found repeatedly that using outward characteristics does not work as a good classification measure.

Science has found that, on average, it works [1]. Of course there will be many cases where it fails - that's how statistical inference works. Whether that makes it a 'good' measure, by whatever standard, is a different question. But there is no doubt information can be inferred from appearance.

[1] http://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-res...
If you google "white race" on Google versus "black race" or "asian race" you don't get what you expect. You get hatred for whites, and then historical black and asian cultural for the latter.
There is no first-party support for this, but I don't see why it shouldn't be possible. It might take quite some effort though.
I will have to continue to disagree with you. A prepubescent child with no education can learn how to make clothes, most of the clothes in the world are made by children...so it probably isn't skilled work. Even more complex pieces, i.e. trainers, that require more than just finishing machine work can be made by children. Some work requires specialist knowledge (i.e. tailoring suits) but the majority does not.

Welding and metalworking is more complex but not by much. When Japan and Korea were getting into shipbuilding, there definitely was a learning curve which meant places in the West surviving for a short while after their entry...but after a decade or so, they had caught up.
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Not gonna get between you two, it could also be that you are a Googler and are thus inside the reality distortion bubble. Or maybe merely a SV resident. It's gonna twist your perception in ways you cannot even see until you're outside of that lens. Google has a tendency to take over people's lives. Googlers so often have only other Googlers as friends, eat 2 or even 3 meals a day there, the company is overly concerned with your well-being and work-life balance, etc. Part of your underlying point seems to be that since Google is made up of seemingly nice and well-meaning people that it couldn't possibly be a horrible thing. I'd argue that it is instead the configuration of people and its incentives that can turn something truly horrible. (something like the infamous prisoner experiment, but milder: Google essentially presents an internal narrative about its own virtuosity and need to scale and swallow the world) And I'd agree with the OP that the senior leadership is mostly concerned with scaling either their own fortunes or the company's bottom line.

1. Sure they don't say that out loud. It's just an assumption baked so deeply into the mindset that no one even considers it a thing worth openly stating or questioning. And others might quibble about making information universally accessible being wonderful. A lot of information is misinformed propaganda. Look at flat earth videos.

2. You are talking about decentralization (and replication) as a means of implementing robustness. You fundamentally misunderstood what this person was saying.

5. There are a massive number of free market libertarian types when it comes to economics, especially among the upper management.

Someone else pointed out that none of these assumptions are all that damning. I agree, they aren't. And I agree that the OP missed that Google's fundamental sin was its decision to be, at its core, an ad company. Googlers definitely don't understand that, either.
It seems like our browsers need a sandbox mechanism for 3rd party js to restrict a) dom access b) ajax

Of course, I use uMatrix for that at the moment, but it'd been better if we, as users, can tell what sites are actually interested in providing privacy, by hobbling advertising antics from the get go.
We did shifts like this too, it worked really well.
Schrodinger's cat in unopened box is 1 qubit = it's alive and dead at the same time. When the box is opened to observe the result, the quantum state "decoheres" - decays to 1 bit result.

Now imagine 53 such boxes, interconnected by quantum gates. The 53 qubits combined are in all of 2^53 states at once. The gates can be set up such that some combinations like "cat 1 alive", "cat 2 dead", etc. are much more likely result than others, after the boxes are opened. And all this computation is done in one step, whereby the classical computer must do 2^53 steps to get the same result.

To have 53 cats all undisturbed in these dead/alive states so that computation is done without errors is very technically challenging :)
There are professions that no matter how good they are at fixing things, new clients just keep coming. Dentists would still have work even if cavities were eradicated. Maybe you don't have cavities anymore, but want a perfect smile?
Just today my dentist, who recently took over the practice from my previous retiring dentist, said the old guy pushed metal fillings on most patients even though composite is a better alternative for most fillings (he did describe for which fillings metal is still preferred).

I bet the worst medical advancement or study result for dentists would be the one that definitively shows six-month checkups aren't better than annual.
Lots of people have actual complaints about the functionality of goodreads. I saw at least one article complaining about it recently on this site. When I saw the headline, I imagined the goal was to address some of those complaints. Perhaps instead the goal is to get some reviews or users first? Or perhaps it’s something else?

Eg this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20904549
we need more statisticians doing medical research.
I'm starting to get annoyed at papers like this that are all about simulations. How is anyone to evaluate the paper without access to the models and simulations? Archive that material or don't permit publishing.
I fully admit that I may be an outlier (particularly here) on this, but I can honestly say that smartphones hadn't improved my travel experience very much.
Do you know linear algebra?

If you have a collection of n qubits, the state of those corresponds to a unit vector in a 2^n dimensional space over the field of complex numbers.

You can do certain linear operations (iirc, only unitary ones. I wouldn’t claim all unitary ones either) to change the state. You can also do a measurement, which has a random outcome, following the Born rule.

So, it isn’t really just “each of them has more than 2 possible states”. That can be the case with something classical, and has been done before (there have been ternary computers. Binary computers won out. Ternary computers (or quaternary, etc. etc.) wouldn’t be particularly special.)

You can’t just think of each of the qubits as having a state always entirely independent of the rest of the qubits.
I agree for an additional reason: critical thinking and root cause analysis. I am not going to go into detail but a family member had several years of misdiagnoses because she has a lot of weird symptoms don't fit a common disease pattern. After being correctly diagnosed with a blood test, once in awhile she will still be told by a doctor that she has something else. Even when shown the results of the blood test, they persist in their nonsense. A scientist would never think they are right when there is objective evidence to the contrary.
"Motion is Lotion"!
they're talking about the times when you can't.

you can't identify every friendly dog just by looking at it, you'll identify dogs that are also acting friendly and doing things people have found preceded positive experiences.

you can't identify every sick dog just by looking at it, otherwise the vet would never find additional issues.

and so on
A smartphone is definitely not the most efficient way to type an essay, but I'd bet that many commenters here are composing responses on a smartphone while on the go. There's an adage for cameras that applies here - the camera you have on you is better than the camera that's sitting at home (caveat: assuming you're not at home). It's more than a little inconvenient to pull out a laptop to compose a response here while, eg waiting on the bus. Comments here reach essay length, and sure, it would be nicer to use a full size keyboard, but I'm on my smartphone already.

Additionally, it's worth watching how fast the younger generation that was raised on smartphone keyboards can type - some type impressive, though I've never measured wpm. Then again, I'm at the equivalent of index finger pecking on a regular keyboard on my smartphone's keyboard.
Google is hard

12 x https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=128GB+D...
> Namely, Google decided to become an advertising business at its core.

That's a massive bingo right there. And engineers at the company really don't grok this at all.
It’s time to start trade wars over the use of antibiotics in healthy livestock instead of starting trade wars for silly protectionism.
There needs to be some kind of sanction.
How about self control?
I have seen delete social media, get a non smart phone, etc. It boils down to self control right? If I have my phone in my pocket and check it once every 6 hrs or only when it rings what's wrong with that? The challenge is that of self control, something that even I seriously struggle with, what's the secret? That's what I want to see, how do folks that do it do it. There are those that can ignore their phone, HN, social media, TV, games or whatever they choose to. How do you'do it?
That's so interesting. I absolutely love Elixir, but I just never saw it as a replacement for Python. (Which I hold in high regards as well) Perhaps it's only my experience with both langs. Elixir I used for JSON API type things, while Python I used for all types of general purpose stuff. Both are great, but Python is super popular with the science crowd (I used it for GIS/Geoprocessing tasks). Maybe Elixir has similar packages and I just never went to look....
>Sorry, but it's not a decision. Science has found repeatedly that using outward characteristics does not work as a good classification measure.

Lol, what? Generically, that statement is almost certainly false more often than true in general in science. But I believe you are restricting yourself to social psychology?

You then presented a long list of examples taken from the tails of certain distributions to refute an argument that said distribution exists and has an average? I didn't even name any particular distributions. You're thinking appears flawed and emotionally driven, and most unfortunately, that's the type of thinking that will lead you to building biased systems.

Here's the point you missed the first time around: There are going to be outwardly visible characteristics that ARE correlated with some factor of interest, to the extent that training a machine learning algorithm based on a cost function that uses predictive accuracy alone WILL result in a system that assigns what society would consider an inappropriate importance placed on non-causal but correlated parameters.

Here's a real world example that might help you understand why this is important: (Data taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...) Because blacks are over-represented in the US criminal justice system (40% of the prison population vs 13% of the population) and because part of what defines "black" is the outward appearance of certain facial features, a facial-recognition algorithm which is trained to recognize criminals, with a cost function based on prediction accuracy alone, and facial features as input parameters is going to have false positives that over-represent blacks. Does that sound like something you want? Because denying the underlying distributions is going to lead to exactly that.

It's very important to consider this when you develop a training set, for fucks sake. It might work something like this: Take 100 innocent people's faces at random. (On average it will have only 13 blacks) Then take 100 random criminal faces from inmates. (On average it will have 40 blacks.)

Then mix up the groups into your training set and assign a prediction score 1 or 0 depending on whether or not your classifier has correctly predicted whether or not a face was in the criminal group. Then, based on no other feature than race, your neural net can get better performance based solely on guessing more often that black people are criminals. That's not a good thing.

Do you get it now? The likelihood of being falsely identified as a criminal is greater based on the non-causal but correlated variable of being black. And this has happened several times already! You can't keep pushing this narrative that neglects the underlying statistics because of your beliefs, or people will keep making racist systems.
True story, in the UK: I once saw a guy using an electric razor while driving - and overtaking at ~80mph.

I regularly see women doing makeup while driving, stretching up to see their face in the mirror, their car often drifting from left to right.

The things some people do while driving are... amazingly fucking stupid.
Why does it have to support expressions? A basic scientific accumulator-based calculator is enough for numerical computation without resorting to a slide rule.
Sounds like your body was having trouble making collagen
just for what it's worth, i personally get nicotine salt juices for use with my sub ohm tank. i never really got the appeal of those small vape pen style ones like the ego or the modern wave of juuls. but i have heard some people say you can't do nicotine salt ones or shouldn't with a sub ohm vaporizer. i still don't see why. the reduction of throat hit with a large delivery of vapor seems to be the ideal way to consume it for me
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I mean, after eating tide pods[1], might as well... :D

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_of_Tide_Pods
If Scott Rifkin's Revolt Against HMOs Works
I'm sorry you have to put up with all of that, and I don't want to be part of the problem for folks like you. But here's the other side of the coin: I ran a small VPS hosting company for many years, and the "small, poor, out-of-sight-out-of-mind countries" are a huge source of fraud. Someone signing up from an IP in Latvia, for example, was virtually guaranteed to be paying with a stolen card that would later get disputed. Debit card payments can get disputed, too, and disputes can happen as much as 120 days after the initial charge.

For comparison purposes, the dispute rate for US-origin payments (US card, US origin IP, no evidence of proxy use) was under 1%.

If I couldn't do things like "submit a scan of your passport", I would probably just decline any cards from high-risk countries.

What would you suggest I do instead?
I can soapbox on my own website. You might argue that the purpose of a soapbox site like Medium is to get read, but getting read doesn't matter as much to me as it once did. I've had people read my crap, and it wasn't the life-altering experience I thought it would be because nobody cared. What matters to me now is having written.

Recommendations are likewise of little worth to me; nobody knows my preferences as well as I do, and any attempt to accurately model my preferences will fail because I gain more by withholding accurate information than I do by providing it.

The truth is that I'm not really anybody's target audience.
I disagree completely.

First, stop using the term "marketing" for "sales and advertisements". It is not.

Real Marketting is "the study of the markets", that is, what people need or wants. Apple in times of Steve Jobs was amazing in Real Marketing.

Apple created revolutionary new products like the mac, Ipod, Iphone, Ipad that sold (and curently sell) in the tens of millions each year. No other company has been able to do so at that scale.

Lots of people wrongly believe that people is brainwashed to buy what they don't want or need, because they don't understand.

They do not understand that it is the other way around. You design what is going to be sold like hotcakes. Because people want it or need it.

It is not even a secret:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE

By the way for a lot of years I wanted a laptop that was done in metal(instead of using plastic with flame retardants) and Apple was the only one doing it. With batteries that lasted lots of hours, lightweight, and silent.

Those were essential for me as a traveler. People that could not understand would believe(because they did not have my needs) I was stupid for buying something 3x more expensive than a 3kgs crappy plastic laptop.
Doctors sometimes get things wrong. That doesn't mean you're MORE likely to get the answer from a layperson -- it's still much more likely that your doctor got it right.

> corrected by aggressive bodywork, including trigger point myofascial release and dry needling.

It was corrected, but that doesn't mean those techniques are what corrected it.
It comes down to personality and biochemistry, not everyone is that hooked on the stuff.

If you ban everything that is addictive you end up doing a disservice to people who can handle the substance or item in question. Banning addictive substances because some people can't handle them goes against my philosophy of the purpose of government.

Do we need some kind of super-citizen test where you have to prove your knowledge and responsibility for people to be able to be free to do/have/use the things they want?

I don't want a nanny state that bans what it thinks is bad for me and prevents me from accessing things that I want because some people can't handle it.

I was talking to some of my old farmer relatives a few months ago and one of them was telling stories about his dynamite license. It was a useful thing to have when interacting with the land and you could get a license and just go out and buy dynamite. This was maybe 50 years ago. That is the kind of world I want to live in, where people who can prove themselves can get any tool they want or need to manipulate their minds or the world around them.

Not a world where a committee (or public pressure) can decide what I can't handle or what's too dangerous.

I don't want to live in a world of padded walls.
This is actually the reason why a lot of hunters are conservationists.
Statistically, vaping products are far more dangerous than smoking.

Smoking may cause cancer and lung disease which kills smokers over time, but that time period is measured in years and decades.

In contrast, 8 people have died in the last few months from vaping-related illnesses despite most of them being active and healthy only a month or two before their deaths. Another several hundred people are in hospital beds with severe lung diseases related to vaping and many of them could die or never regain function.

At the current rate, vaping would need to go another few decades without a single death just to achieve statistical parity with smoking.