skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You surely can't be oblivous that, user wise (security, ease of use) this is a process of improvement slowly...

MacOS might have bugs due to neglect, bad priorties, too fast deprecations, etc.

But all the extra restrictions (notarization, sandboxing, dropping 32-bits, etc) are in the right direction for a consumer platform (i.e. not for devs), for making the computers easier and more secure, like appliances that just do what you bought them for. And they will be part of any/all platforms going forward (including Windows, and new platforms like Fucscia).

As for Linux, it exists for 2.5 decades, it has been free since forever, it's still not adopted by the masses. It's not in the direction that most want.
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> “It’s just your credit score.”

I feel like who ever gave her this explanation was undertrained or unqualified.

She just refuted this silly explanation to prove bias.
YouTube notifying users about a ToS update on 10 December, 2019
There is already a law that allows you mention any source of income in your household for an credit card application. Is Apple in violation of that law?

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-cards/list-spouses-in...
There is a loophole in HIPAA.

Basically, a hospital can give data to a partner if it has to in order to deliver care. But it was meant for, just as a for instance, your doctor gives a few DICOM studies to GE because they are going to concert on modifying the settings on a CT scanner to do some wiz-bang thing everyone thinks will help the patient. (Maybe even other patients down the line?)

Giving it to Google so they can serve you ads, er, um, I mean, "recommend different treatments" to you, kind of stretches the letter of the law. And definitely breaks the spirit of the law in my opinion.
Why couldn't the ants reach the ventilation pipe?
Statistically false.

Women account for 85% for all purchases, they control 60% of all wealth in the US, 40$% of them out-earn their spouse.

https://girlpowermarketing.com/statistics-purchasing-power-w...
So far CA DMV publishes autonomous miles driven without incident etc. It would be interesting to see commercial numbers driven - ie someone paid for a ride.
A Quick Primer on Dig
The vast majority of web apps are CRUD apps, which can achieve sub 100ms responses on any language with caching, background workers and minor optimizations.

There will always be problems where you need faster responses, and the solutions to those problems are already not using Ruby. You don't use a hammer when a screwdriver is appropriate, but nails work pretty well in most places and screws are unnecessary.
No - that will not mute music around you, but allow you to hear it through the headphones.
I'm pretty sure household income is a federal thing coming from the Credit Card Act of 2009, not just CA community property laws. Every time I apply for a credit card it's been pretty clear they want household and nonwage income, not a solo salary.

Either way, it's baffling and I think this explains why my wife got such a piss poor credit limit on her Apple Card, something like 1/5 of another line of credit she has. I didn't even bother applying after seeing what she got.

The joke...? is on us though because we're both female.
At this point, can we just pin a post to the top of every message board and forum that says:

> [For Profit Company] [verb] [adjective] data of [noun].

The point is, what do people think these thousands of engineers are doing throughout the tech industry? Do people really believe it takes 1k developers to style a login button? Or deploy a kubernetes cluster?

It's painfully simple. Capitalism dictates that companies must acquire and explore new methods of generating profit at all costs. Therefore, it should be assumed that an internet company is hoovering as much data as possible until proven otherwise.
> I bet that Goldman Sachs is not correctly accounting for California community property laws

So what you are saying is the GS is conducting banking without following all regulations.

Color me surprised.

I am so tired of financial companies, big and small, flouting regulations because they think they know better. Regulations, especially financial ones, exist for a reason.
Also first re-use of a faring as well, which is awesome because they're apparently not that cheap to make.
script includes applicant's husband's tweets?
This is a lovely article. I used various ideas from here and other sources to make a little tutorial which was intended to explain the power of composability of small programs to a student audience. The details are here https://thelycaeum.in/blog/2013/09/03/text_processing_in_uni...
While meditation in general tends to help one manage pain/discomfort, the Wim Hof method deals specifically with coping with cold temperatures.
I love the Internet Archive, but sometimes I suspect they keep their hosting costs down by having a website that isn't always easy to use; particularly when it comes to content discovery. If you know what you're looking for, their search engine generally works reasonably well enough. But if you don't know what you're looking for, youtube is much better at suggesting content.
> One of the most celebrated successes of Deep Learning is image labeling, using CNNs, Convolutional Neural Networks, but the very essence of CNNs is that the front end of the network is designed by humans to manage translational invariance, the idea that objects can appear anywhere in the frame. To have a Deep Learning network also have to learn that seems pedantic to the extreme, and will drive up the computational costs of the learning by many orders of magnitude.

Thanks for the link, this is a pretty strong rebuttal.

That said...

> Massive data sets are not at all what humans need to learn things so something is missing. Today’s data sets can have billions of examples, where a human may only require a handful to learn the same thing.

I've come across this idea before, the notion that we should be able to create an AI that can learn something from just a handful of examples because humans can do that. This assumes some rough level of equality in lack of related knowledge / capability between a tabula rasa AI system and a human adult. But a human adult has been awake and continuously learning & testing conscious and unconscious predictions about everything they interact with for at least 18 years (1 year = 31536000 seconds * 2/3 (accounting for sleep) = 21024000 seconds awake per year, * 18 years = 378 432 000 seconds). In other words, a human adult is already a highly trained system. And even very young human children have been awake and learning for quite a long time compared to anything we might imagine to be a tabula rasa system.

So I don't think that the human capacity for learning supports the idea that a tabula rasa AI system should be able to learn any particular thing with just a handful of examples.
Traveling with a smartphone can also have the opposite effect. It makes us overconfident. On my honeymoon a few years back, we used Google Maps to take a scenic route [1]. Google Maps gave an ETA of 2 hours and a sign said it required a 4x4 vehicle but wasn't too worried because I had a Jeep 4x4 rental car. Long story short - it took 5.5 hours, required rock climbing and driving through mud pits deeper than the vehicle all without cell service and no humans in sight.

[1] https://www.dangerousroads.org/north-america/usa/7300-mana-r...
A perfectly innocuous connection could be that intelligence community folks are good at ... drawing conclusions from intelligence? It makes sense to recruit spooks to analyze and interpret mounds of proprietary but legally-gathered intelligence then.
Community Property laws and joint tax filing do not suddenly make each partner’s creditworthiness or credit risk identical.
Without knowing much about your situation, this could indicate either poor culture in your company, or poor management. In other words, is this really a sign that you should get another job (or another assignment under someone else)?

That being said, assuming you like your job / manager:

> I’ve broached the topic lightly with my manager but don’t want to come across as whining, so I’ve generally just been trying to push back on meetings in the friendliest way that I can.

Don't broach the topic lightly. Be very direct. "I have too many meetings, and I need to reduce them. As a result, I'm doing too much work at home. This is a problem for my family."

See where that goes. Before you discuss this, though, there are some things to consider:

Some people hold meetings as a form of procrastination, or as a way to feel important. It's important to figure out which of your meetings are these kinds, and decline them.

It's also worth looking at how to hold an effective meeting. When I worked at Intel in 2005, "effective meetings" was part of onboarding for all new employees. It gave us a lot of tools to pushback on bogus meetings, including a clear culture of declining bogus meetings.

It's important that you set some clear boundaries / limits, and not give in at all. (Even if this means finding a new job or assignment with a different manager.) What that something is, really depends on your relationships with your manager and peers. It could be that you decline meetings, (as other people suggest,) or it could be that you demand better planned meetings in order to attend. What's important is that you set some clear boundaries, and leave if they aren't respected.

Finally, if you don't get much support from your manager, and you still like your job, I suggest bringing the problem up the chain of command.
No, since unsupported conspiracy theories don't tend to convince me.
I think that fits into the wider goal of educating people to care for their health for their own good; clearly the methods we're using don't work, and haven't adapted to the world in which you could be doing a million other things. Besides, it doesn't have to be all or nothing, you can easily escalate how much time you spend and plan accordingly. The answer isn't to give up on them.
It seems to me that the parachute(s) you need for LES wouldn't need to be as complex and capable as landing parachutes.

The LES parachute(s) will be firing at quite low speeds, so they don't need to be too strong. The LES parachute(s) also don't need to be nearly as reliable or give nearly as soft a landing.

Ejection seats in combat aircraft show the same tradeoff -- it's considered acceptable to have ejection seats that fail sometimes and sometimes cause a landing injury. Hopefully you never have to use it, and so even if it fails or injures you say 10% of the time, it's much better than certain death in a pad explosion or similar.
Thread from Foone on statistics and warfare by other means
Awesome! We need grand innovation in the health records space if we truly want to help people be healthier. I hope Google does something great with this plus Fitbit. If anyone is interested in our research in this space, we are aiming to radically improve medical records and healthcare delivery/research as well. We don’t have the resources of Google but everything we’re doing is open and public domain: https://pau.treenotation.org
So, what you're saying is that it's useless to the people complaining about their videos being demonetized, or not getting a firehose of algorithmic marketing.
>accurate reporting

War letters are not "reporting". They're human interaction - there is no right or 'wrong' way to report what is happening during war time, censors and military commanders notwithstanding.

>family life related stuff,

IMHO, this is the only real value of commentary about war letters. Nothing belies the futility of war more than the same letter written, in a different language, from both sides of the front line, lamenting the war.

We must never allow ourselves to consider that there is a 'right soldier', writing his letters ...
And society has no obligation to give Youtube/Alphabet indemnification for the content they present to users. If Youtube wants to curate their content more power to them. And people can pressure their representatives to update the DMCA to strip safe harbor provisions from service providers who don't allow unpopular but legal speech on their platform. There's no reason a social media site should be allowed to make hundreds of millions of dollars in inkind donations to their preferred political party.
he got sued, let the courts handle it
Poincaré Recurrence Theorem
It sounds like you are doing $10k-$20k jobs in a few days or weeks.

Charge way more than you're charging. If you're successfully building our their entire backend, their internal tools and their automation in a few weeks, you should be charging for a few months instead of a few weeks.

In your case, it sounds like project work is better for you. I wouldn't recommend that you work hourly since that's probably where you're being burned. If you quote a REST API, automation system and internal tools for $10k-$30k and you finish it in 2 weeks, then you're golden and so is the startup since they just saved a lot of time.

I would highly recommend that you get on retainers with your clients. If they appreciate your work, and need help from time-to-time, you shouldn't be charged for 1 hour whenever they need you. They should pay for you to be available for them, so perhaps try to get on $500 - $1000 / month retainers. They may only need you a few times a month, but you're not billing them for $100-$200 for 1 hour of work, what a bad deal for you (and a great deal for them!)
We just upgraded to the newest Samsung TV, and the voice integration is incredibly useless.

You could ask for "netflix" (but the remote has a dedicated button for this!) but you cannot search for a specific movie, you cannot speak to enter your username/password or enter data in any text inputs. You cannot even pause any of the streaming apps (maybe you can pause if playing from the USB stick).
>Where's the line?

I think it would be fine to say "as long as it isn't illegal (harassment, CP, copyright violation, etc. are not legal, so it falls under the umbrella), then let it be".

If it is something that isn't entirely clear (e.g., CP is pretty clear-cut, but harassment might not be), let the courts decide and make a decision based on what the courts say.

It sounds painfully obvious and simple, but I have a feeling I am definitely missing something important here, because that sounds way too easy.
Love this so so so much.
Dan Abramov: “Why Suspense Matters, a Short Thread”
War, as in pitched battles on a field, has been going away for a long time. Perpetual war, unfortunately, is back.

If you believe Clauzewitz's dictum that "war is diplomacy by any other means" then than disinformation, continual, slow, background degradation of the infrastructure of perceived enemies and the like will become the standard mode of large nation states, with actual shooting being the guerrilla/terrorist activity of those who can't afford the electronic ops. Something that also has been the nature of the world since forever (David/Goliath, US revolution, WWII partisans, Al Qaida....any so many in between).

And BTW once you have this capability wouldn't you use it internally to "ensure domestic tranquility"?

Once again The Sheep Look Up and Stand on Zanzibar are highly predictive.
What need does a millionaire have for an Apple credit card? Why can't she use her millions to buy what she needs? Or the income from said millions? Why does she even want a lousy Apple credit card? Just because her rich husband has one?

The piece she wrote reeks of privilege. It has nothing to do with so-called social injustice or women's rights. It's a white whine about how she isn't able to use Apple's white credit card, when she has, by her own admission, no need for any credit at all. Being a millionaire and all.

It's especially insulting for those of us who don't have access to credit due to student loans, medical problems or other things that seriously and actually affect our lives. Most of us don't have a famous husband or millions of our own to fall back on, and can't get credit. Those are the real injustices. Hearing this woman complain about her "better than most" situation is infuriating to the rest of us.

Her piece is nothing more than tone-deaf "rich people's problems" privileged "can I speak to the manager" at its finest.
Maintaining OpenAI Gym for the Ultimate Goal of Safe AGI
If the algorithm is (accidentally?) biased, how do you un-bias it without collecting the data points you are legally prohibited from collecting?
> I care about digital privacy. It’s why I wanted an AppleCard in the first place.

what in the actual fuck?
I never considered weight classes for running but that would definitely make it more competitive I'm always on the lower end and I usually only really compete against about two or three other people.
Wait, so she has left the workforce, and is a millionaire as far as savings, and pays all her debts onetime. Of course she's going to have a lower credit line! She's the worst type of person to loan money to: people who pay everything on time. She's going to cost the bank money and gain them very little.

Not much is said about her husband, but if he carries any balances or has had a shorter credit history or has any higher risk, aren't the algorithms going to be weighted to give people like him way more credit? That's who they need to make money off of.

There are a lot of unknowns here and we're guessing at a lot of information. Many of these algorithms are also closed so we can't be sure how they're weighting things. We can guess, reasonably, that they're weighted toward making the most money for the banks as possible. They probably balance risks with ability to pay back on those risks.

Jumping to conclusions like, "the algorithms are sexist," is way too overly simplistic. It could be that the major weight was gender in this case, but if that's true, it's probably because the number crunching revealed men in her husband's demographic were most likely to be unable to pay off all purchases at once and earn them more money via interest. More likely, it's way way more complicated than that.
It makes perfect sense when you realize that Lebanon borders our (((allies)))
Easy for start, just blast satellites passing over with comparably big amounts of rf. Or just require spacex to not provide service in your territory "or else". If those phased antennas are very good, they may block point sources of jamming by "muting" that small area, but if you pump enough energy into rf, antenna will be overwhelmed and will degrade fully. But that requires tracking each of satellites passing overhead with some tracking antenna, so you would have to deploy several antennas (even hundred for territory the size of Russia). I speak only theoretically, don't know that much about currently operating phase antennas, I just know the theory and can extrapolate.
This article mixes up a lot of issues and is not very coherent. Here are some important clarifications:

1. You can run any unsigned or unnotarized software from any developer by right-clicking the app, selecting "Open", and then click the "open" button in the scary warning. It's really simple. I wish people would stop pretending like it was really hard to run unsigned software.

2. Apple does not "curate" or "review" software distributed outside the Mac app store. The notarisation process runs some automated malware checks, and that's it. The goal is to block malware, not to limit the content you put on your computer.

3. Notarisation takes less than ten minutes. It's easy to automate it, and you can also do it manually if you want. You can staple the notarisation ticket to the app, but you don't have to. MacOS will look up the ticket via a webservice if you don't staple it. The documentation sucks, but that's the only bad thing you can say about it.

4. Apple does review stuff you submit to the Mac app store, but fortunately it's entirely optional to submit stuff to the Mac app store, there's nothing stopping you from releasing software outside the app store without any review.

5. Apple did end support for 32bit apps, which sucks, and I don't have anything good to say about that.
This article reminded me of the other major reason I've left OS X, other than five years of shitty Mac hardware which has been covered to death: shitty Mac software. Apple's software has always been on the lowest levels of quality, however, this generally excluded OS X. It's clear to me that Apple intends to remedy that and has already started so with this system protection bullshit that prevents running programs and resets itself on upgrades and possibly at other times randomly (I assume it does so just to fuck with users and show them who's the real boss and owner of their computer).

The author of this piece is 100% correct: none of these changes have anything to do with security. It's all about control. Apple, like most companies, just wants to control everything, whether relevant or not. The end goal is to control exactly what software is ran on their platforms, as clearly evidenced by the linked articles. I highly doubt that we'll be able to run any non-Apple approved tools in a year or two. They are turning OS X into iOS and have already renamed it macOS to let people know it's just going to be a walled garden of shit. The only reason to ever purchase an Apple computer was OS X. Now that OS X is turning into a shitty version of iOS, that last reason is gone. And that's before we get into the garbage hardware. I simply don't understand why anyone would want to support this platform going into the future. It's a platform that stands for censorship. Every component on the platform is designed around it. It's no longer a general purpose computing platform. In the future, it will be even less of one. All in the name of "security" and "privacy." Yup, save the children. But plenty of smart people fall for such stupidity.
I have friends who are, but when GP said "a large percentage of the population", I assumed they weren't specifically talking about clinically depressed people, who don't make up a large percentage of the population. Meditation isn't a cure and it's not equivalent to therapy, so people who are depressed should consider doing things as prescribed by a psychiatrist. Their issues with motivation (such as avolition) aren't issues for most people who don't meditate. Time and addiction to instant gratification probably are.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/spa...

There is an annoying interstitial ad, but the URL really says it all. From March 21, 2019.

They say the first 75 have iron thruster parts and steel reaction wheels which can survive reentry, but that in subsequent builds no parts will come down with lethal energy.
It doesn’t help much when you present the alternative to the video as a paywalled link...
Asciident: Sci-fi game with a design completely made by text symbols for Android
How about the fact that health care in the US is ripe for change? We spend a lot of money only to have the insurance company dictate the course of action, rather than the doctors on the front line.
Anyone else find it strange in the US with the self-insured health care plans (the norm with large companies) your company has complete visibility into every health care interaction you have while employed through claims data?
You pointed me to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-circuit_model_of_consc...

Very interesting. I'm finding patterns in explorations of consciousness. The first four levels Leary describes could be Freud's id. The next 4 contain his super ego.

Compared to id = Dąbrowski's first level and super ego = 5th level.

Like you said these are all maps of consciousness. Psychological models that describe the actual physicality of a material mind.

I suppose I'm trying to determine how to physically recreate the material that will lead to a new consciousness.

We can't recreate Seattle from maps of Seattle to continue your analogy. Is it possible to recreate consciousness from our maps of consciousness?

It seems like that is what we have been trying to do in our pursuit of AI, when we know no more about what consciousness is than we know what Seattle is.