skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always annoyed me that this blog post above didn't contain examples, and I'm grateful that someone here on HN in another thread posted a later post that does contain examples:

https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers...
Yeah.. True that. I lost access to paid email account due to problem coming up with funds for paying this year's fee. Was not a fun 2-3 weeks.

I am with you but I think protocols and apps that are designed to allow users to own and host content on primarily their own device would be great.

For mail, what if email was always delivered to device for free and you pay a service provider to mirror it so that while your account is active,they provide backup,spam filtering and content search on their servers?
> As long as the government (ie the people) don't have to pay for it, what's the problem?

Doesn't necessarily apply here, but there are things that people believe are such a detriment to society that keeping them around would incur an unacceptable cost to the government and it's people that might outweigh any benefits it brings.
I'm not sure, I'll have ask if they're interested in Mein Fuhrer's Modern client side Javascript tutorial and get back to you.
> However, these are all sunk costs and don’t matter going forward. What matters is the cost today.

one of the major points from the article is that Germany's renewable build out is not a one time capital cost. according to the article, the German power infrastructure is more expensive and has half the expected lifetime compared to France. unless solar and wind decrease in cost much faster than nuclear, there's no way it ends up being cheaper in the long run for Germany.

I'm not knowledgeable enough to say whether the figures quoted in the article are actually correct/complete, but if you accept them, it seems France is getting a lot more bang for its buck.
>Instead of the capitalist approach of cutting jobs to save on labor costs because of automation, employees could simply work fewer hours to achieve the same outcomes.

This is a false dichotomy. In what way does capitalism prevent employees from working fewer hours? There are quite a few companies that now make that possible, including many of the new 'gig economy' jobs. Remote employment opportunities are also increasing, albeit slowly.
Social media anecdotes! Oh my!
True, I've been trying to be polite and respectful and subtle at least in online conversations (I am far too emotional to do it effectively in real life, which is a big handicap). And I am not getting much results anyway.

But maybe the problem is also that we expect immediate satisfaction: we want the other person convinced there and then, in the course of one exchange. Probably we should accept the fact that without inciting polarization, and being open to being convinced as well as convincing, eventually we'll contribute in changing some opinions, or we'll change ours. It will take time and we won't be there to witness the "flip", the moment when the other suddenly starts seeing our point of view. Ideas don't change during a heated confrontation; they change at random times, sometimes when we're alone and maybe thinking about something else.
> isn't it more likely that they were real, and only played a show or two in some backwater town, rather than being invented whole-cloth?

I only briefly paged through that page, but in the sommary for almost all of those bands it says that they were credited with some nonexistent hit song, or had released albums, or all died in an airplane accident.

In all those cases there would have been verifiable records if the whole article wasn't a hoax. I.e. those articles were not simply about some obscure bands that didn't look all that notable, but had a long list of made-up "facts" in them.
For me, skimming the transcription and swiping to delete is quick enough to manage.
Or more likely to be said by someone one sees trees not forests.
Actions that are legally required of every company doing business in a particular country do not invalidate their actions elsewhere.

Google, for instance, bragged on their blog to their real customers in advertising that they now buy a copy of everyone's credit card transaction history.

No nation forced them to do that.
Not on purpose, stopped reading after that line about mechanical Turk. Still, after reading the whole study, I can't believe this is publishable.
> Firmly convinced we're on the wrong side of history on this one

We're omnivores, we eat meat and plants, meat is thought to have been what gave us our big brains.

https://paleoleap.com/human-brains-evolved-meat/

Hardcore vegans already think it's a horrific practice, but for most people it will just be a diet of the time, especially if future people are eating imitation meat.
Compressing it means it may take less storage, but not having to look at it in the first place it the win. It simply takes time to process all the data. Less data: faster computation.
The parent talk about how the building material like rebars absorbs the isotopes, and then how long it can afterward be harmful.

Do those isotopes also get absorbed, and if so, at what rate? Since I don't know the physic I don't know if all isotopes can get absorbed at the same rate, but my intuition is that the answer is no. I would also guess that nuclear plants get exposed to different amount of each type of isotope, so the above table would need to include both in order to compare the radiation risk after X years.
Yeah, there was a push a little while ago to start an airship delivery service to remote communities in northern canada. The economics of an airship look pretty good when you compare it to Boeing 737s.
This is crazy, for some reason this rang a bell and I checked my email and sure enough, I ended up buying those gift codes from you! Funny how things come full circle :)
Correct, they shouldn’t be allowed to keep using digital means to perform criminal activity. Perhaps a read-only email or receive-only would be an idea. I just wanted to make people think twice about the idea that suspending an account based on ToS is necessarily as legitimate as currently accepted.
Blow to Amazon as Seattle socialist looks to have triumphed in key vote
Half life is almost as confusing as statistics. A halflife of 5 years means 10% of the radioactivity is still there 16 years later. You'll still get 1% of the rems 33 years later, and that's if the materials don't migrate.

Alpha decays are still problematic for any material that can by aspirated or ingested. Demolition means flying dust. A leaky building means groundwater contamination. A lot of these substances are also heavy metals, so even without the alpha decay problem they are highly toxic.

Can you keep a building full of alpha sources water tight for five or six half lives?
I don't know but I would imagine it would be as annoying as getting everyone to switch from ipv4 to ipv6 in 1 or 2 years.
People follow the path of least resistance - it's easier for most people to play the office politics game where the boss will let them than do the work before them. It's still a failure of management and leadership however.
Or MrAmr which, assuming Amr is a man, would be technically not wrong when he enters his name as “Mr Amr” and would then be (correctly) corrected by the system dropping the first instance of “mr” in the string.
Ah, yes. I agree with this.
Fast-SRGAN: Deep learning model to convert low res pictures to high res
I think you're interpreting that paragraph from the article very uncharitably. Protesting against "offensive and racially charged speech" that is tailored to provoke the left because it goes against everything the left stands for is very different from silencing conservative speech in general. Why should "the left" allow offensive speech for the sake of free speech from the right? Is the right to be offensive and to perpetuate stereotypes and regressive viewpoints more important than the harm such speech causes?

I don't see where the left is "systematically" targeting high-profile speakers either considering that it's the speakers themselves and the conservative student groups provoking and trolling the campus left. I see this a great deal online, too, where right-wingers love to comment on left-leaning Twitter users' posts or Reddit threads to insult people, troll, and generally just provoke a response. Then they cite those posts as "evidence" that conservative speech is being censored online and that everyone on the left is polarized and unwilling to step out of their own echo chambers. It's really leftists not wanting to feed the trolls because doing so wouldn't lead to anything productive anyways.

The campus left wouldn't, for example, disrupt the meetings of the conservative student groups themselves, prevent conservative students from organizing, or encourage school administrations to ban harmless conservative viewpoints, for example. That's what I see as "systematically targeting" conservatism, not the the article is talking about.
Credit lines are given based on stated income, not on credit score. A common problem in this industry is that non-working partners state their personal income instead of household income. Even if an applicant is approved due to strength of credit, the bank won’t underwrite a large line for low stated income.
Maybe it's possible to do both?

I've always been told to always "address the ideas, not the person" (never attack someone's character) and to adopt a pose of "curiosity".

In discourse, it's perfectly fine to dispute ideas (it's the foundation of Western civilization and of analytical thought, and is a means to knowledge and wisdom).

If we cannot argue in a marketplace of ideas, we are prevented from having hard but necessary conversations. We need to adhere to parameters of civility of course, but to me, a necessary freedom is the freedom to disagree/dispute. Some ideas are truly wrong and they need to be put through the crucible.
Feynman's O-ring demonstration wasn't mean or nasty. It was calm, polite sharing of factual information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rwcbsn19c0
"We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world? "

Emma Goldman, one of the deported radicals, wrote this 1917.
I mean you know the system is sexist when one gender out-lives the other by a considerable number of years yet the retirement age for both is the same.
As explained in the very first tweet in the thread, DHH’s wife is exactly as wealthy as DHH. That’s part of the frustration expressed.
The average American eats 17 teaspoons of added sugar daily
So then T-Mob calls the NOC at C. Tells them to get this stopped and they have 24 hours, or they'll depeer.

6 hour later, C's NOC calls B's NOC, saying to knock it off, and they have 18 hours or they're getting booted.

6 hours later, B's NOC calls A's NOC, saying to knock it off, and they have 12 hours to figure it out or they're getting booted.

In under 12 more hours, A cuts off 111-1111.

If peeringDB is to be believed, big providers all require their peers to have a 24/7 NOC number to call.
Did you and your wife put different incomes in the application? Do you have identical debt loads on the credit report?
Please explain why you would want a pixelbook instead of say a Lenovo P71 and why you would in any universe want to code on something running android.
Sure.

Let's assume I am very well versed in other pertinent domains of knowledge, like social psychology and the tendency for people to get mad as hell about social justice issues and leap to ugly conclusions that fit their SJW narrative about evil in the world that can be conveniently lumped under a one word heading, like sexism.

Let's further assume that this is actually actively counterproductive, so it's reasonable to point out that correlation is not causation and it's unhelpful to insist on a particular conclusion you cannot prove.

I already noted he's right to be outraged at the situation and critical of the black box nature of the decision. I'm just not comfortable with him ranting that it's clearly and obviously due to sexism.
> which will basically never kill x86 ABI support

Ubuntu decided to drop i386 support since 19.10, for one. Though, x86_64 kernel still supports running 32-bit software and multilib support is there. The kernel is unlikely to drop support for the architecture, but if the distributions stop including it it will die off at some point.
Kind (Kubernetes-in-Docker) is already around and it is somewhat of a niche use case. Minikube also exists to satisfy most of the use cases for single-node clusters on a development machine.

Docker does not automatically make software safe. If you do not know what is in the image you should assume that it is malicious as Docker images can gain root access to the host machine. I don’t see how a Docker image would be less “iffy” in terms of security or ease-of-use.

This is just a think wrapper for K3s, which already has a one-step installation and immediately provides a kubeconfig. Relying on this seems like unnecessary tech debt. It is simpler to just go straight to Rancher for K3s.
They brought the Taurus back, though. The period with the 500 in production and no Tauruses being built was like six months.
Everyone that works for a robocalling firm should be arrested down to the person that answers the phone. The phone companies should be fined 100k per illegal call. They have done nothing to stop fraud. At this point they are complacent
>You can't downvote replies to your own comments.

TIL.

Anyway, my aim isn't to debate you on specific subjects like veganism or vaccines. Just be aware that stating things in a blunt, opinionated way can have undesirable effects on your communications, regardless of your intentions.
There are studies on this, however they are controversial since diet is not easy to control amongst study subjects. Also, there are vested interests keeping public opinion divided on this matter.

One study from 2014: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565018/
This compared non-vegetarians with multiple types of vegetarian diets.

> Conclusion: Vegetarian diets seem to confer protection against cancer.

> Impact: Vegan diet seems to confer lower risk for overall and female-specific cancer compared to other dietary patterns. The lacto-ovo-vegetarian diets seem to confer protection from cancers of the gastrointestinal tract.

A more recent perspective on the topic of diet as a cancer risk: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01635581.2017.1...

> Abstract: The role that nutrition plays in cancer development and treatment has received considerable attention in recent decades, but it still engenders considerable controversy. Within the cancer research and especially the clinical community, for example, nutritional factors are considered to play, at best, a secondary role. The role of nutrition in cancer development was noted by authorities as far back as the early 1800s, generally under the theory that cancer is "constitutional" in its origin, implying a complex, multifactorial, multistage etiology. Opponents of this idea insisted, rather vigorously, that cancer is a local unifactorial disease, best treated through surgery, with little attention paid to the etiology and possible prevention of cancer. This "local" theory, developed during the late 1700s and early 1800s, gradually included, in the late 1800s and early 1900s, chemotherapy and radiotherapy as treatment modalities, which now remain, along with surgery, as the basis of present-day cancer treatment. This highly reductionist paradigm left in its wake unfortunate consequences for the present day, which is the subject of this perspective.

(I am citing the second publication only in defense of my original comment, for future reference. In retrospect, when discussing health benefits of diet, I should have used the term whole food plant based diet instead of vegan to avoid the baggage that term carries.)
In this case, it’s a state government investigation.
For many Instagram users, this is an eerily accurate description of their relationship with the site.
In what way does it not parallelize well? There are mounds of research in federated learning.
I would't count a SQLI as a honest mistake, at least not for newer systems. Any developer not knowing about this has no right to have his code run productively. A couple of times I had a quite hard time to convince people to fix their SQL code (in a framework, no less). It would have been easier if it had been outlawed, I am sure.
Isn't cesium contamination the reason why the descendants of the Bikini Islanders still can't move back to their ancestral home? Same group as potassium so it gets sucked up into fruiting bodies (eg coconuts)
As German philosopher and scholar Hans Peter Baxxter once famously proclaimed: "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."
The article starts with NLP models and then mentions the successes of increasingly smaller vision models. NLP seems to be an outlier in increasingly becoming a pissing contest. The models are too big and not particularly useful. openAI spread FUD about their model but after their release , it's rather underwhelming. Yeah you can output some text that's readable and paraphrasing reddit, but what about understanding , intention, doing actual useful stuff with text? Hallucinating text in itself isn't interesting. It seems this line of nlp with transformers has hit some kind of deadend and they are trying to brute force the next breakthrough - doubtful that this will happen though. And then we have bizarre decisions like microsoft releasing dialoGPT yesterday without including a generaiton script because "it might be racist". This whole seems more like marketing than research
Not much of a survey (the subtitle of the article)... Screenshots are included for some and not for others.
You wouldn't leave the spent fuel in the reactor, that removes the first 5 elements. This leaves at most a 5 year halve life if you exclude water.
Petition for Bloomberg to Run for President
iirc 14% of them claim this. People lie all of the time, especially about drugs. We have ten years of people vaping without dying and a sudden outbreak where all of the evidence points to black market THC cartridges and vitamin E.

But yeah, let's just trust your 'common sense' and take away the single most effective way of quitting cigarettes.
Quebec doesn't put registration year stickers on their plates so there's no way to tell without running the plate whether it's valid. If you just need to get a shitbox that moves under its own power from A to B it's a pretty cheap way to do it.
Do you think that a complaint in the form of a question is necessarily rhetorical? Couldn't it, in fact, be Socratic?
Says the throwaway who is ignorant of the etymology of "meritocracy"
I suppose if you choose to not take a salary you're not making anything, right?
Would there be a desktop or browser version of the software in the works? It'd be nice to see first-class support for free/libre operating systems so admins, shop owners, and customers alike wouldn't be forced to use walled-garden smart phone ecosystems.
Internet Mail 2000
Would you care to give more details?
Well, apparently they use mainstream services quite a lot, even openly where search engines can index it. I think what goes unsaid here is that Facebook reported a lot of it to the authorities and they don't do much about it anyway.
Learn Linux 101: Graphical Desktops
I've asked my provider to just block Texas and Florida and they refuse. I don't know anyone that lives in those states.

I've tried a new method when I have the time. I waste their time. Ask a lot of questions so they have to explain things. Play dumb. Keep them on the phone for as long as you can
Yes, entirely possible (I wouldn't know, I'm not US based). When the carrier breaks the phone, is it the original manufacturer's fault though?
“Unhealthy” is not an intrinsic, observable feature; it’s a label we use to describe things that cross some arbitrary threshold of having deleterious effects. Calling something “unhealthy” is the textbook definition of an opinion, my dude.
Thanks. I take it that Simplified Chinese is the default then, if none on the CJK languages are in the UI language list.
Death Stranding Gameplay Walkthrough Part 1 [1080p HD PS4 Pro] – No Commentary
Service Discovery, load balancing. Aren't these things that should be done by the underlying platform?

In other words: if I'm using this with K8s doesn't K8s do that for me? What major benefits do I still have by using Go Micro?
What Menopause Does to Women’s Brains
> Neither. We consider ourselves to be in the "radical centre"

From [1]:

'According to the 2014 Pew Research Study, Where News Audiences Fit on the Political Spectrum, the majority of The Economist readers hold political values to the left-of-center. Seventeen percent of The Economist's audience is conservative (compared with 26% of all respondents to the survey).'

Interestingly, I've seen far worse online and printed 'news' which have an unashamedly leaned bias when they do their reporting. But looking at content from FT.com and The Economist, they show that they have highly factual content in their business section at least and both seem to be graded as 'least biased' with high evidence based reporting [0][1].

I'd pretty much rather subscribe to such content than to read clearly biased free online 'opinionated' news junk littered with ads on my browser.

[0] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-economist/
[1] https://www.allsides.com/news-source/economist
I would love a customer-company relationship in which the customer gets meaningful information by privately contacting the company with a polite message, but in my experience this is rare. When an answer comes, it tends to misdirect rather than tell the whole truth.

Here you have a bank and a company known for secrecy.

But you acknowledge this;

> random CSRs don't get a pithy explanation

What the throwers of hissy fits are pointing to is that, by building blackboxes, you can get whatever result you want (which doesn't mean all results are expected) with plausible deniability.
Always wondered why anti-stalking laws and restraining orders can't be used against this
Maybe give people unlimited upvotes but a budget of downvotes, say 3 per day or 3 per article. This wouldn't prevent multiple accounts colluding to brigade a thread or person, but it might help stop the casual, uncoordinated drive-by downvoting.

Or, make people actually type in why they're downvoting before it counts. Again, wouldn't stop a motivated attacker or coordinated attackers, but could add just the right amount of friction.
I don't think the point of the post is to encourage people to be kind. It is more to encourage people to be subtle.

I think that in many situations language is a tool to make other people do what we want them to do. And turns out that closing others in a corner with data and hard logic- while an excellent method in science- is not the most effective approach in a lot of other contexts.

This doesn't necessarily mean compromising with our values either: one can be faithful to truth and still formulate his thoughts in a slightly more open, kind and accommodating way.