skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> tl;dr: Beachfront property owners don't want to pay for their own flood insurance, so you get to pay for it instead. In October 2017 the government wrote off $16 billion of that debt, and as of February 2018 it was still in debt to the tune of $20.5 billion.

The NFIP insures millions of properties, like mine, that are nowhere near a beach.
Thank you for your answer. I'll try it on some old laptop.
So it is like flutter but in swift?
Superstition that wearing someone's wedding ring is a bad luck. Probably was similarly manufactured to keep higher demand for diamonds.
Ok, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
Good riddance. The web was a finer place before this ad boom.
> People have to record the movie with a camera to get it out there before the home video release.

If a party who got a copy illicitly could commercially distribute it in competition with theaters (i.e. someone who has profit motive) I think you'd have a lot more of this.

> Studios manage this by using proprietary formats and blacklisting theaters who fail to control their copies correctly. And theaters have a vested interest in those copies not getting out as well because that would cut into their revenue.

So you're effectively conceding that if we squash copyright, we'll have a whole lot more reliance on DRM and proprietary exclusion. I'm sorry, I think that's worse-- I'd rather give authors protection for their creations for a limited time (maybe 20 years + another 20 years with a steep renewal fee paid? or 20+10+10+10) than deal with that.

> Yes but that relies on a competitor taking the time to rip their copy and upload it across all of their servers. That takes time so for live broadcasts like where an episode of Game of Thrones goes live and everyone wants to see it, they'll be behind the ball.

I might have bought this argument in 1990, but what fraction of people watch content live anymore?

> This is already the way it works, but people still use streaming services because they're convenient and offer exclusive things they can't get elsewhere.

Sure, but I could curate a nice copy of everything on Disney+ for half as much if it wasn't legally prohibited.

> Wow you mean consumers won't have to buy ten different services to view what they want? That would be amazing!

So you are conceding that commercial services will no longer be viable in charging for content.

> Yes, just like our current world. Any contract with end users would be impossible to enforce just like copyright is now.

It nicely tamps down commercial infringement and the associated high-quality curation which would render monetization of content unviable.

> What you're saying is that the fact that someone who has had no interaction with the creator, agreed to nothing with them, and caused them zero harm can be liable to the creator and even criminally liable is a good thing. Incredible.

"Zero harm" is debatable, and it depends on your philosophical stance about this.

Note that criminal liability generally involves commercial infringement, too.

I believe that people should be able to profit from things they create. That's the idea with copyright: they're entitled to an exclusivity period in exchange for the work eventually belonging to society as a whole. It's the latter part where we've lost our way: terms are way too long.
Are you asking about cordite or gunpowder in genneral?
Yeah that's a good point, about having sufficient examples in the training set. I think it's not as simple as that though, several years after that made headlines people have still not been able to close the face recognition accuracy gap. Experts are debating different explanations for this.

https://www.wired.com/story/best-algorithms-struggle-recogni...
Link to TMRC's site:

http://tmrc.mit.edu/ (no SSL/TLS available)

It's amazing how in a model, such as this one, the control system has gone from a bunch of mini-computers and relays over the years, to these days, in modern layouts, tiny DDC control modules and very compact hand held DCC controllers. And on top of that a reasonably mature common control protocol defined by the NMRA (https://www.nmra.org/) that's pretty standard world wide.
For example, the model under discussion, which can tell the difference between men and women and believes in differences between them, probably doesn't know that intersex people exist. It probably cannot learn such a distinction, either. Therefore this algorithm probably doesn't fit what we know reality to resemble.

So there's at least two sorts of biases. There's both biases inside the model, which is what you're thinking of when you use the word "bias", and also biases outside the model, which inform the model's design and construction in ways that cannot even be quantified with only the model's metrics.
>A different mechanism could be used for the sorts of issues you identify.

Would the new proposed mechanism require more volunteer work or the same effort as now?

Btw, many people forget that back in 2011, Jeff Atwood was concerned that there was too much crap and the community was not downvoting enough. Therefore, he removed the points penalty to encourage the community to aggressively downvote more:

https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-...
To be fair, it wasn't Tao who discovered the formula.
The post you are replying to has three clear bullet points which indicate where the problem lies. It also directly addresses the point you're making about accurate depictions of reality.

Would you mind responding to the third bullet point from the parent post, that discusses the dangers of naive and biased applications of facts that are based on reality?
A reasonable person isn't going to say that the asymptotic complexity of merge sort is more masculine than feminine.

If the goal is to learn whether programming associated with gender, it's unbiased. If the goal is to learn whether the definition of programming is associated with gender, it's biased. The usual goal of NLP is to learn language and (waves hands) meaning. The current tools do this by learning associations, but that's the method, not the goal. The critique is on the methods. The critiques are saying that it's led to trouble, which we'll have to correct for. We want to make it unbiased in the definition based sense, where programming is totally unrelated to gender.
No one in the industry actually looks at wsb except to laugh at them. The people there are... to put it nicely, uninformed.
> How do you differentiate between biased and legitimate disagreement?

Neutral 3rd party?

But then how do you know the party is neutral?
To do anything useful across the boundaries, parsing will be involved. Parsing without bounds checking is insecure and will be exploited, period.
The prompt that comes up to initiate Apple Pay has a section for the shipping information. If you click that, you can create multiple locations and addresses for each location. You can even create custom emails in the same way under the email section.

Is that what you were doing and were unable to do it or was there some kind of technical issue?
No, this _is_ macOS - you won't have the same gesture(s), the fidelity, on other OS's. Apple goes to great lengths to ensure their trackpad is amazing on both the hardware and software side, and it shows. The drivers on Linux even running on a Macbook don't compare.
My partner and I frequently ask each other things, to which the response is "I bet you could google that." Seems fitting :)
Sea-thru algorithm counteracts distorting impact of water on underwater photos
So with 15 years of experience as a New York Times editor, you make about 80% as much money as a newly hired software engineer at Google with zero experience. No wonder traditional media is bitter about the tech companies.
It is completely ridiculous if you think about the fact that they created a system where people can spam emojis, then banned them for doing it. If you don't want people to do something so easily filtered, just don't let them do it in the first place.
are you a touch typist? because lifting your hand, and repositioning it onto a grid of undifferentiated keys is MUCH harder when you can't feel the shape of the inverted T and can't see it (because you're not looking at the keyboard or because you're visually impaired).
The issue I have is that I will rest my index finger on the Option key instead of the left arrow key because they feel the same. The dip is fine for the up/down keys, but I can't "rest" my index and ring fingers on the arrow keys anymore.
He misses a number of issues:

* The steam turbine attached to a light water reactor is huge compared to a modern gas turbine; like an order of magnitude larger and more expensive. Even if the heat was free, the cost of the turbine makes it hard for a LWR plant to be economic. (Switching to a liquid metal reactor, liquid salt, or gas cooled, would be alternatives, but the closed-cycle gas turbine required is not yet off-the-shelf)

* A nuclear power plant not only takes a long time to build but it seems to take an indeterminent time to build, so that adds to the risk, the interest rates you can pay, so well as your expectation value for the project

* With the longer construction and larger amount of debt you will pay a higher interest rate for the nuke.
You can continue active chats or respond people who had started a chat with you, but yeah, you can’t start a new one without the contacts permission.

Maybe you can use a number link (https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/android/26000030/) without the permission, but I’m not sure.
Everybody at every step takes a bit of money. It funds a billion-dollar industry of parasites.
That would be amazing. I just switched back to Firefox from Safari after uBlock stopped working and the biggest thing I miss is Apple Pay. I try to remember to make purchases in Safari but, without the ability to use an ad blocker, it makes it much less simple and seamless than it was before.
Except very few people are saying "Let's kill all of Group B", especially in 2019, at Google, in San Francisco. But sure, if you want to act on your "intolerance" for that specific flavor of intolerance, then please go to eg Indiana and protest the actual KKK.

Rather what "Person A" is likely to have said is something civil that clashes with the dominant political team's reality distortion field. Rather than having to address the substance, those who disagree feign highly personal reactions as if a minority viewpoint is that "kill all" mortal threat, effectively resorting to the age old monkey status games for silencing dissent.
> tab is still important for programmers

I disagree. If you are a even modestly decent programmer you know to configure autoindentation so that you never need the tab key for anything. I cannot imagine a scenario where I would need the tab key in insert mode (except a very fringe case where I need to enter a tab character in a literal string and for some reason there are no escapes like \t. But then again you can still ^V^I)
Stateful Serverless with Unikernels
Surprised how much they make providing so little value to the average person.
Thanks for the tip, certainly will take a look, could be very helpful in case I sell stuff myself. Which also needs a lot more capital.

Does stripe also have a B2B / invoicing functionality?
> I'm fail to see how step 2 leads to step 3. The fact that there are less woman programmers overall should not have any affect on P(good|woman,programmer).

You're correct that there should not be any affect.

The problem is that many systems are designed such that there is an affect.
Docker, Inc Is Dead (2017)
I am being purposefully hyperbolic in response to the parent's hyperbolic sarcasm, but for example Somalia, Burundi, and Madagascar together have an estimated GDP of about 40 billion dollars. Forbes billionaire list contains 19 people with a net worth north of $40 billion.
Humans make decisions based on arbitrary and capricious preferences, and are good at coming up with logical-sounding reasons to justify those decisions (eg: rejecting a candidate because she is a black woman, but saying it was because she didn't communicate well). A neural net makes a decision based on a perfectly reproducible sequence of calculations. There has been a lot of work published about how we can explain the output of neural nets, and IMO this has much better prospects than trying to explain a human’s decisions by scanning the brain or whatnot.
One thing is, voice over phone is so compressed that it actually took a long while for this kind of voice cloning (and associated frauds) are all over the place.

We are going to need 2FA over voice communications :)
So people can't be trusted to know what they need personally, but when they vote they suddenly develop a keen understanding of which politicians can offer them the things they don't know they want?

That point isn't reasonable. There can't be a division where people know what they want when they vote but not when they spend money. I suppose there could be in theory, but a system that encourages that that would generally be called 'corrupt government' and the actors involved 'lying politicians' where the people who get voted in do things that the individual voters vehemently oppose.

Voting someone in to office is a broadly similar decision to going out and buying something. Individuals in their capacity as voters are not that different from individuals in their capacity as buyers.
Its not great but its not terrible. Just software is way overpaid.

Median Household Income 2017

Bronx $37,397
Brooklyn $56,942
Manhattan $85,071
Queens $64,509
Staten Island $79,201
New York City $60,879
New York State $64,894
United States $60,336

https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/income-taxes/med_hhold_i...
Generally speaking we have taxes included in our pricing (often forgotten when doing conversions) and because small market we often get "taken for a ride" as there's limited volume. Not many people actually use the CGA, but if you know about it, it's gold :)
Except that when you don't have the disk space on your SSD to download the stuff from iCloud, the whole thing doesn't work. I think you've a conspiracy theory here.
In general, I'm pretty sympathetic to this point, but how many square feet per person does the East Village have compared to other metropolitan areas?
That's an apocalyptic scenario and not one likely to survive legal challenge. But if something like that were to happen, then I'd say that there is still a workaround. I forget the name of the browser extension but there is definitely something that exists that circumvents domain blocking by storing the domain to IP list. I believe this is/was used mostly in the UK to get around their governmental laws blocking certain sites so if you had a link to www.blockedsite.com/article it would take www.blockedsite.com and replace with the known IP address and route you there directly instead.
You're missing the point when asking the final question. Predicting crime rates is not the goal in itself (unless you're running some kind of crime rate bet).

If you're going to use a model trained on simple, biased data, to get, say, insurance estimates for a for-profit company, the model will probably successfully increase profits, so it was a good model.

On the other hand, if you're going to use the same model to help with sentencing, where your goal is to see equality and justice, then the model will do very badly, since it will punish many people for the community/skin they happened to be born in.
Good. I'm glad you explain. That doesn't make it any less of a public reprimand.

In polite society, when you reprimand someone publicly, you only do so when private discussions have failed.

I'd also argue using down votes for outdated information is very inefficient. Wouldn't it make sense to just have a "this is out dated" flag, and list how many people have used it? Then, the author of the answer could update their post and ask that the flag be cleared.

For wrong answers, I'd say a comment "this is wrong because" first, then something other than down voting.
How do I submit a patch against archiveprogram.github.com? The copy contains a typo, and unlike GitLab—which has a footer at the bottom of most public-facing pages with a link back to the markdown source—there's no indicator of how to get this corrected.
Unless something has changed in the past few years, I don't believe Paypal facilitates micro-transactions.
To be fair, you seem to be quite explicit.
NYC's primary water supply comes from the Catskills, not from local aquifers or local riverine supplies (the Hudson River is too salty around Manhattan to draw from).
I hadn't realised until you said that this is the same physical size as the 15" MacBook Pro. This is very cool.
I care very little about the webcam...
First thought: Sketchy.

Second thought: Actually I hope that they do raise prices. Sucks for the squatters and the legacy owners, but the squatters more so given how many more names they own.
I don't see that coming soon. The voice is one thing, but the performance goes far, far beyond that. Without understanding the text, you can't get good prosody out of a single sentence, much less developing a character for a whole performance.

You'd have to "direct" this on a word-by-word basis: "Put the emphasis here. Speed up 10% here. Decrease vocal intensity 25%". You'd end up producing a whole "score", and it would take at least as long as the human actor puts into it.

Having done that, it would be amusing to switch it from voice to voice, as a party trick. But the result would still be much poorer than you'd get out of an actor. Really solving the work of an actor is strong-AI-complete.
Yeah, people say that, but it's hard to see what selling shovels would amount to. I mean, hardware/cloud is commoditized, ML software is free. Maybe Uber for annotators /s (read, Mechanical Turk).

(Of course, there is the ever more popular route of making services for enterprises wanting to outsource basic stuff.)
It was a joke about how they have ran multiple stories sourced from there due to them finding bugs in robinhood and exploiting them, most recently the infinite leverage cheat code.
Steve Jobs Was Right: Smartphones and Tablets Killed the P.C
Slightly off-topic but HN-appropriate, Alan Cox of Linux kernel fame runs a model train business:

https://www.ultima-models.co.uk/
Constitution says otherwise so go fuck yourself traitor.
>Just because you’re not a fan of it doesn’t mean it isn’t a solid solution for the rest of us.

Leaving out USB-A ports isn't a solution for you though, it's just a limitation that affects some people but not you.

>And the rest of us mostly like having change forced on us — it means we’re progressing forward instead of shouting at clouds for being in the way of the sun.

This just stinks of fanboyism, any time Apple makes a big hardware change like removing the headphone jack from iPhones, it's mostly negative voices disliking the change. The heat eventually dies down and people adapt, but it's revisionist history to imply people like having the change forced on them at the time.
Absolutely, and so we're back to (in my opinion) the main valid arguments for cryptocurrency: censorship resistant transactions, and store of value through absolute scarcity immune to political desire to debauch fiat money.

The second case arguably devolves, game-theory wise to the market never valuing subsequent new currencies with much significance compared to Bitcoin. It's the same argument I made above, just replace Bitcoin for $. Why hold BAT if some new crypto might come along and be better. Opening oneself up to appeals to new, "better" currencies based on features means there's never any trust, incentive to, or faith in holding current ones. Those that take this to logical conclusion will only/mostly value Bitcoin.

There will always be some floor on many of these currencies based on censorship resistance, but again that's niche relative to addressable market... and those who in their own minds won't get kicked off payment processors won't have use for a less censorable one. Of course, BAT is less decentralized than Bitcoin so not sure it's immune to political influence (we know who runs Brave).

Donations generally can be achieved with Bitcoin of course. Micro-payment currencies being stable relative to alternatives is the point of contention here. I don't see stability coming anytime soon, therefore I don't see large adoption either. I'll happy to be surprised though.
Or would it be cheaper to stop throwing money away and let Florida become a failed state and restructure to some new stable configuration (presumably with a much lower population)?
Side note: if anyone does go to Venice and finds the McDonalds, walk straight behind it down the alleyway, there’s an amazing, reasonably priced restaurant right behind it. Their meatballs are fantastic (not spaghetti meatballs, just meatballs), along with everything else.

It’s called Cà D'Oro alla Vedova. We were shown it by a local, only realised McDonalds was near it after we finished eating.
The problem is that people have different ideas of what a downvote means.

To someone who has spent a ton of time answering questions, it means "this is not a well-written question and I do not have the time to explain to the poster why that is; I would rather spend my time on answering well-written questions, which is what I came to this site to do."

To a question asker, it means "you suck and I hate your question, and I'm not going to tell you why."

The problem is that there are a couple of mechanisms for getting rid of questions - downvoting, or flagging / voting to close. Some questions are clearly on the wrong site - just close them. Some questions are not good questions (screenshots of code, no explanation of desired behavior, no research done into error message) but they are not closeable according to the options provided. The downvote is just to send a message.

Answerers who downvote are people who genuinely want to help - they are spending their free time answering questions on the internet for no gain other than extremely localized imaginary internet points.

The solution is providing one method of feedback to the question poster, and couching it in a less negative way. Maybe all methods have the asker's feedback get hit, maybe none of them. Maybe the asker should be protected from feedback until they learn the site.

Asking technical questions properly is hard. I got downvoted and closed and duplicate questions on my first 5 attempts, and even my recent questions have 0-1 upvotes (my answers fare better, for whatever reason).
Interesting link. I'm not sure how to interpret these numbers though. It says Amazon gets $752 per user per year. But this seems like it is nothing to do with how much my eyeballs are worth - people give Amazon money in return for stuff. The only other brand on that list I use is Google. I'm outside the US, so it appears my eyeballs are worth $137 per year. That is an amount I'd be prepared to pay if it made adverts go away and the money was split between the content providers I do use. But it isn't really clear (to me) how the old guy on YouTube who restores the antique furniture would collect his 75% share due to my eyeball time.
Don't do it! Just have fun and understand how stuff work and why they work as they do!

There is so much boring time in "doing real developer work"!

If you get time to invest, this is not how you want to invest it!
If you're a beachfront town, you don't care much that rich people are now buying vacation homes in the mountains. Your economy is still ruined.
This is tinfoily. Making people happy to buy $2500-$4000 machines is a much bigger incentive than squeezing a little iCloud money.
The only reason I use other storage provider than backblaze is simply because of the benchmark done by one of the more modern backup tool author.

https://github.com/gilbertchen/cloud-storage-comparison/blob...

Can anyone from backblaze say anything about their performance compared to other vendors?

The pricing is certainly ahead of others, so I would use if the performance is comparable to some of the leading group tested there.