skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are all kinds of interesting implications and questions here.

1. What is the meaning and intent of a "life sentence", or other punishment?

2. Does it apply to a singular life, or all lives a prisoner might have?

3. What (if any) legal definitions for "life" and "death" are there, in relevant jurisdictions. And how are they treated in sentencing laws?

4. Is clinical death the same as legal death?

5. Is there legal precedent for obligations lifted (or privileges revoked / denied) on the basis of temporary clinical death? E.g., lifetime obligations for debt, etc.?

6. With advances in medical technology, what are the implications of either induced death (e.g., the film "Flatliners") or extended / eternal life (Singularity, cryopreservation) on future legal matters -- not only sentencing but contracts and the like.

6a. If a convict were sentenced to death and were clinically but reversably killed, would that sentence be considered fulfilled?

6b. What of eternal or lifelong benefits or obligations -- government pensions, wills, property ownership, etc., in the case of immortal or resurrected individuals.

7. Is a resurrected individual the same or a different person? Clinically? Legally? (Ship of Theseus, as @nprateem notes.)

8. Is a person who dies naturally but is resurrected against medical directives (as in the Iowa case) considered discharged? If so, or if no, on what legal basis?

It's worth noting that the law is not a system that's consistent either externally (as with science or public opinion/sentiment), or internally. It is based somewhat on legislation, precedent, and gloss. But also on argument, persuasion, judicial temperment, and political and power relations. It kinda works, but is awfully creaky in parts.
In the modern economy it’s impossible to not be constantly and pervasively impacted by these data models. I think it’s reasonable to assert that it is in society’s best interest to make sure that the effects and impacts of these models are communicated as perfectly as possible to those who are forced to live under their purview. What way is this done besides viewing the model? (And given the state of regulatory capture, I’m not sure you can rely on regulators as proxies, no?)

It’s totally possible that those models could then be “gamed”, sure—but it’s more important that people are able to live than for lenders and the like to make yet another buck, isn’t it?
Nextcloud Talk fufulls all of those requirements except the unspoken one, your friends don't use it.
Deep learning doesn't parallelize well. Would be cool if you could loan CPU cycles on your phone or home computers while at work.
> To your point about the risk model, I generally think the credit score the bureaus give us is wrong, while I think the decision GS made on the card limits is probably plausible

I find this likely too, the first time I applied I got denied and the credit score in the email was considerably lower (-100 points) that what is shown on Credit Karma.
Because they provide broad context. Forums are usually specified on a certain interest. You come to HN you can discuss everything from computers to astrophysics and from sex to transport. You go to a computer oriented forum and try to discuss about fertility issues then 95% of the comments are irrelevant. In here everyone focuses on the things they know. Same goes for Reddit. It's a community of communities.
Right. And even if all those companies found everything that goes through their systems, they'd arguably accomplish nothing more than catching the punters. Mostly kids and old men.

Most people who create and distribute child sexual abuse imagery don't likely operate on the open Internet. They're in private forums on Tor onion services. Along with I2P and Freenet.

So this is mostly propaganda to build support for the Panopticon.
It compared the cost of building the nuclear reactors in France to the cost of building Solar, Wind and biomass in Germany. It also looked at the cost and amount of energy produced from the last five years of construction in Germany. So the newer and cheaper solar and wind. 160 billion euros for 70 TWh per year. France built 400 Terawatt hours per year from 290 billion euros. France has run them for over 30 years.

China's more recent nuclear construction was also cited. $150 billion for 300 TWh per year.

80% of the world's new nuclear reactors are being built in China, India, Russia and South Korea. Those are coming in at a price of $2000-3000 per KW. A gigawatt nuclear reactor at $2-3 billion each built in 4-6 years. A gigawatt nuclear reactor can generate 8 Terawatt hours per year.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-a...

A fully amortized nuclear power plant generates power at about 2 cents per kwh.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedFiles/org/info/pdf/Econ...

Germany, between 2006 and 2017, increased the cost of electricity for households by 50%. (per OECD)

http://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/pubs/2019/7299-system-costs.pdf

French electricity costs are just 59% of German electricity prices. France produces one-tenth the carbon pollution from electricity compared to Germany.
In roughly 2520, this will give rise to the l+500 problem.
So what? Credit score and income are two separate things. Credit applications look at both.
That came up in The Dream Machine! Reading it now.
I think you're conflating politeness with empathy.

Shallow politeness may vary well lead to shallow politics, but empathy and actually being kind to other people is quite different in its outcomes.
> Among other things, I claim it does one of the best jobs on the "CJK problem" of any stack out there, using both font selection and the locl OpenType feature to adapt rendering for the preferred language(s).

What does Android infer the preference from? I’m using U.S. English as the UI language with input method set to combined Finnish and English (with Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese also in my input method list) and using a Finnish SIM, and Android 9 seems to pick Simplified Chinese glyphs for me. (I’m not suggesting these signals should have another result. I’m just curious what signals are considered meaningful.)
Plane Accidentally Flew Around the World
What is it about this story that has triggered so many people (men) on here? Dear lord.
You should really watch the clip again before you get behind Trump on this one. He definitely refers to mexican immigrants as rapists, although of course "some, I assume, are good people".
I'm surprised by the amount of people trying to play semantic games with what Trump is saying in general, the sentiment is clear to everyone. Trying to deconstruct it in hindsight to his favor is.. pointless.

Argue however you want about that you should be able to express your opinions, but please stop trying to sugar-coat Trump. His rethoric is toxic, it's marginalizing minorities and it's affecting how it is to live as a part of a minority and it shows, not only, from the hate crimes rates.
If you would indulge me, what sorts of insights would this get you? (genuinely curious)

All I can think of is identification of frequency modes.
The unimpeded path required for a tow line would restrict the number of drones an airship could operate, since it would presumably need to be nearly directly above them. This would also make it difficult to operate in cities with overhead cables.
Depends. Do immortals become more good / lawful, less good / lawful, or does it vary?

What are you going to do about the incorrigably unlawful / evil?
> since large parts of the population are currently handicapped like this.

That is called fragile. It isn't genetic, but it is socially reinforced. I suspect people who suffer from fragility are more prone to depression and anxiety.
Well, it's O(nm) where m is the number of candidate breaks on the line. The amount of time spent Knuthing and Plassing is not too bad, but where it does hurt you is that you have to measure the substrings with potential hyphenation breaks. And even if rasterization is more costly, layout hurts because often you have to do lots of it in bulk, when materializing new content, where rasterizing usually scales with the number of pixels you have to draw. And in Android that basically has to happen on the UI thread (offloading it to an async thread is theoretically possible but a major pain).

I haven't been involved in day-to-day engineering on Android in 3 years though. Maybe of the current team will feel like chiming in.
Another aspect to this is that the meaner a message is, the less likely it is to be said by someone who can grasp a very basic point about human nature.
We have UTF-8, they don't have to write it, they have to say it's how all names now are.
Yes, I experienced something like that as well. I don’t feel I have anything to prove anymore; listening and choosing my words more carefully comes as a very natural approach to conversation now. I’m also a lot less interested in convincing people of things, though. It’s not important to me for others to see things as I do anymore.
Recent Immigrants Turned Virginia from Deep Red to Solid Blue – NYT
For extortion there needs to be a threat, and the threat needs to be unrelated to the thing of value you want. Collection agencies generally just call up, and even if they do threaten to call, since it's a threat directly related to the debt, that's generally not extortion.
This is really great, and I hope it gains traction -- it's nice to see things that can supplant the funded-walled-garden-startup incumbents for these such cases with services that embody the original vision of the WWW
Doesn’t that concede the point that married couples can have different credit profiles? How much higher is her score? What is the max amount of credit GS will issue to a household? DHH has a history of acting righteously angry without having all the relevant facts.
Example of VueJS app with Spotify API authentication and data fetching
Tangential, but what's LuaJIT's maintenance status?
Lenders can still realize a reasonable profit while ensuring people are not improperly discriminated against by machine intelligence.

Effective regulation is possible. I would even be willing to serve a tour of duty standing up such a regulatory body, perhaps as a division of the CFPB. Throwing up your hands that government is ineffective entirely is unreasonable, just as asking for all models to be public is.
Are you purposely excluding the "250 MBA students taking coauthor Chatman’s course on leadership at UC Berkeley" plus the "nearly 900 business school alumni from Stanford, Santa Clara University, and UC Berkeley who worked at 56 large, publicly traded high-tech firms based in the United States"?
> Fun. A normal last name in the Netherlands

No it's not.
Just wondering what was the turning point for getting over that, and how do you feel about it now? I’m in the same boat regarding privacy (but more concerned about cancer - aka advertising - companies stalking me as opposed to any state actors).
If you read all their articles for the past 10 years they are clearly a pro-globalism left leaning entity
Seems to focus on reducing the size of existing models through optimization. Better would be to find ways to train smaller models to start with. Still interesting.
Yeah, but - context. We're talking about leaving a disused reactor around in some type of safe manner. Ideally it won't be leaking... but some radioactive material is still in it. Aren't the beta & gamma radiators more dangerous, even as far as irradiating other parts of the structure itself is considered?
This title and article strike me as an incredibly naive and possibly immature perspective. When your goal is to neither prove a point or be kind there is nothing left but the clearest intent of the message.
I stand corrected. Thanks for explaining.
He was also repeatedly told "It's the algorithm, man! And I have no clue what's in it!"

I worked for a Fortune 500 company at one time. Lots of entry level employees were not exactly reliable sources of info about how decisions got made there.

You may or may not be talking with an entry level employee in their call center, but you probably aren't talking to a departmental head or member of the C suite.
This article is an interesting thought exercise and it makes some good points about how expensive Germany’s renewable build out has been. However, these are all sunk costs and don’t matter going forward. What matters is the cost today.

Also, the total terawatt hours isn’t nearly as important as keeping the lights on. Nukes are great and renewables are great, but this isn’t a contest to see which generates the most electricity over the course of a year, but rather we need to keeps the lights on by using the sources that make the best sense to do that at lower cost or lower co2 emissions.
I know the guy that wrote it. We worked at the same company for a while. I feel a bit bad for not calling it out now tbh.
You think that is bad, imagine having a name that has an apostrophe and an accented character. I think it's a few times a month a friend of mine complains about not being able to use their name.
I don't get why this is written in the past tense or treated as something that ended when one special program ended in the article. The US started demanding denaturing or taxes in 1909, made it deadly during prohibition, but the US still requires a deadly mix on untaxed ethanol today.
There's a fantastic video by CGP Grey about him digging down into a specific historical fact, and proves it to be a myth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex74x_gqTU0

It's a fantastic piece on critical thinking and chasing sources to figure out if something is really true or not.
Speaking of names, my full name has 6 parts, and I share 4 of them with my brother. We never use the first three, and I stead, use 4th and 6th names to make the full name that satisfies the falsehoods.

In the web sites I work on, I have decided to have one field that asks "How would you like to be called", and allow full Unicode range in it. If you want to use Emoji, fine, go for it. I have fewer data to store (privacy and data protection concerns), and users feel better not typing the last name either.
why would that be better?
I think there may be multiple factors at play here that result in the same outcome.

While I don't dispute his observations on organizational dynamics, I have a theory that this behavior exists at the individual contributor level as a result of metric dysfunction.

If you have two weeks to work on something and you get it wrong, then the ugly question of "you had two weeks, and this is all we got?" happens. After a few rounds of this awkward conversation we start acting defensively.

So if the problem feels pretty simple, we sense a trap that may or may not be there. But the trick is not always obvious, and so we may take on some tech debt payback or overengineer, only to discover that in fact there is more to the original problem or to the additional work we volunteered for (+ sunk cost fallacy).

So now not only has the work expanded but the work is now late. And then that gets turned into a narrative by your boss or their boss about how we're all terribly busy and we need more people to get the work done. And then we are still late.
I got my money back from a craigslist scam selling faulty electronics. I called everyone in his family. I was finally offered full refund after contacting his current employer. I told his grandma he was a thief.
thanks for pulling out these tidbits, very helpful.
UpHabit, Dex, and the Stilted Rise of the Personal CRM
Apparently calling it by its name is verboten in HN as well. How interesting.

ps: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nso
Anyone have a book to recommend about how to do this sort of programming safely?
I think they describe it here: "They asked more than 250 MBA students taking coauthor Chatman’s course on leadership at UC Berkeley to provide names for at least three current or former coworkers, who then confidentially rated the students on measures of narcissism."

And here: "Researchers surveyed nearly 900 business school alumni... who worked at 56 large, publicly traded high-tech firms... Alumni completed surveys to evaluate their CEO’s personality type and organizational cultures."

Sure it's a little subjective like anything based on societal norms, but there are generally accepted behavior models/characteristics around personality types across medical fields.
Hmmm...my experience is very different. A lot of seemingly normal people are just fine, if not happy to be led by psychopaths and narcissists. They view their "confidence" as a plus because they don't dig deeply or are just scared, wimps and like a big strong "asshole" to lead them. I honestly blame the rise of asshole CEO's and leaders on the normies, who don't want to be be held accountable.
I think you've mistaken me.

My argument is that if we take the standpoint that we don't just want the metric to be whatever is short-term economically optimal for the designer of the model, we should just stop/ban it now, because we already know that we're going to have to kill it once we actually understand it properly.

It's only allowed now because we haven't figured out the bad things that are happening.

Inventing more and more categories that businesses are not permitted to discriminate upon is precisely the wrong approach - if we're talking about huge companies and not the bakery down the road, we need something that's more like 'you need a very good reason to exclude someone', rather than 'you can exclude someone for whatever reason they like, unless they're a member of the set of continually extending list of protected categories'.
> because there's no good reason that these robocalls can't be treated like a DoS attack

The problem here is that the origin can be spoofed.

You are imagining a system where a telco like T-Mobile connects the caller directly to you. That's not how it works. The connection chain could look like this.

bad caller 111-1111 -> A -> B -> C -> T-Mobile -> you 999-9999

All T-Mobile knows is that 111-1111 is calling 999-9999 and that the call was routed from C, it does not know about A, B, or the true identity of the bad caller.

That's also why spoofed attacks are also a problem on the Internet. These systems were not made with spoofing in mind, and it will cost a lot of money to get these companies to switch over to a new system seamlessly that can detect spoofing.
Google Maps is now an Angular component
The main signal is the locale setting, which can have a list of languages in it. For example, you could have Finnish as your primary language, with Hong Kong Chinese second. Then CJK will get rendered as zh-Hant-HK.

Apps can set locale explicitly to override that, but almost none do. Probably the motivating example is a translation app, which can then render both, say, Chinese and Japanese correctly.

Input methods are technically a separate setting from your locale list, which is maybe confusing but that's the way it is.
> I guess it worked for him to throw a hissy fit, but there's absolutely no reason to actually believe they're conditioning on gender.

There certainly is. Ignoring the anecdotal data of people replying to him who saw the same outcome, credit scores for women skew lower than for men.

One of many sources: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/gend...
What's wrong with relying on your terminal device to decide whether to ring the call? That's the definition of a smartphone. In fact, Android has native spam blocking:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2018/12/30/in-20...
but it's quite reasonable for you to install whatever filtering app you choose.

If you don't feel safe installing software on your phone, that's a problem with your phone OS.
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> This isn’t a business decision any reasonable company would make on those grounds alone

Agreed. The decision is not because they care about people's well-being (otherwise they would kill off their entire product to begin with, or make more drastic changes that actually matter).

The decision is because they want people to believe they care, as the parent company is under a lot of negative press lately.
Dude, you're here just six months and you already decided that the system doesn't work? I'm here 8 years and I haven't had a single problem with how voting works. When I'm downvoted it's because I say something snarky, generalized, or stupid. HN is by far the most healthy moderated community on the web.
There could be a manual process here - someone knows that DHH has a >$1 million car and manually edits his credit limit to super high.
Or, the meaner a message is, the more likely is to be said by someone who cares about subject matter way more than "human nature".
I updated to the beta specifically for this feature. But, like anything else like this, was worried missing important calls. I get a notification immediately about a missed call (which I'll probably soon try and turn off), I'm a lot more aggressive about adding businesses to my address book (someone else said they whitelist phone numbers you've made calls to even if they're not in your address book), and I kind of expect important calls to leave a voicemail.
If I could find an extension that blocked the thousands of "ackshually" reply threads or replies like yours that miss the point entirely I would be so happy.
It's always annoyed me that the blog post above didn't contain examples, and I'm grateful that someone posted a latter post that does contain examples:

https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers...
How much is "a lot", though? We already have $billions sloshing around in telecom.
In the thread, it was pointed out that her wife actually has a better credit score than he did, and judging from the photo, it looks like ( I may be wrong ) that she only gets like $50 of credit limit.

I had the same thought as you did when I first read it, for those of us not in US, it seems strange and we assume those Credit Score and Algorithm works as intended, like in your example of past loans and payment. And from experience they tend to be consistent and can be easily explained.

In this case however it seems something is very wrong.

I am still thinking and not sure if it is Apple to be blamed. It is easy to just point a finger to Apple, but in reality our financial and insurance system works pretty much the same way, changing these algorithm will require lots of work. Luckily GS is new to all these consumer business and changes are much easier as compared to other banks.
> But, yeah, in general sleeper trains don't work other than for the experience. Just for kicks, I looked at traveling to Chicago from Boston by sleeper a couple years back instead of flying. Made absolutely no sense for me in terms of time and I couldn't have justified the expense to my company.

I regularly travel Munich-Hamburg via sleeper train. It has many advantages:

- at short term booking it's way cheaper than a flight

- I arrive well rested, showered and fed in Hamburg, compared to being essentially a wreck the whole day after having to get up at 0330 (this alone is well worth the extra cost compared to a flight)

- I don't waste time travelling to and from the airports, or security crap, or have to expense taxis

- I don't have any contact with police
Well, Zeppelin NT [1] _did_ bring back the airship. At least insofar as they have produced a number of actual airships, as opposed to Cargolifer. Also Zeppelin NT existed before Cargolifter, and after - it is still an operating company.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_NT
Rhetorical questions annoy me even more than an opinionated statement. So yeah, YMMV
> I guess it worked for him to throw a hissy fit, but there's absolutely no reason to actually believe they're conditioning on gender.

Of course not, but why spoil the outrage mobs victimhood narrative du jour?
Let’s assume that the tweet author is reasonably well-versed in business operations, since he is himself a very successful businessman.