skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that you aren't thinking of the west in terms of the last 100 years. I feel like sometimes when we're all discussing privacy on here, we forget surveillance is iterative as an industry as well. This isn't the first time that privacy has attempted to be eroded.

Here are a few for you to consider:
Post 9/11: the tracking of muslim american communities and all that came from Snowden's disclosures

Interment of Japanese Americans: identify, tracked and literally interned during WWII

WWII Axis decisions: the tracking, internment, and death of Jews, Slavs, gypsies and others

WWI: The Wilson administration banned radical and Socialist journals from the mail system, jailed the leader of the Socialist party even though ~1% of the US population voted for the guy

McCarthyism which was shown to be used against political rivals as much as it was against socialists

The list honestly goes on and on. A government cannot be trusted with expanded surveillance tools and there just needs to be oversight. Its not to say it shouldnt exist, its to say it should always be viewed with a critical gaze.

As far as the ideological goal sitting above your security, its important to remember that your ideological goal may be at odds. Democracy was at odds. Socialism is at odds. Freedom of religion in communist china and russia was at odds with the existing govt. Its easy to say these things when we feel like we're on the 'right' side and things will never change.
Australia's indigenous solution for bushfires. It's been around for 50k years
Ask HN: Why Shouldn’t I Use Lisp?
I’ve been following people like Jonathan Blow, as well as Paul Graham. I’ve learned Lisp and kind of like it, but I’ve heard Jonathan Blow say that A) GC is bad, and B) not to use Lisp and other similar languages. Could you explain these reasons not to use Lisp/higher-level languages with more features?
Swimming is the safer option.
Your romance will turn into an unpaid caretaking job.

Many women have post-partum depression (ie. mental illness.)

A lot of relationships never recover.

Do not have a nexus in California or you can be garnished $2,000+/month for child support (plus legal costs, of course.)
I think solutions widely divergent or not should solve a problem and consider other problems that might be created along the way, and Engineers are quite adept at doing that thing called "consequence". The humanities people may not have solved any real world engineering problem and yet think they qualify to access Engineers?
The Reason You Use Closed Captions for Everything Now
I'm actually interested in this, do you have any data to back that claim up or is it just your personal impression? It's not that I don't share it, but I am curious if indeed it did "not really change anything".

By the way, it's not like a marriage where you bind yourself to one party exclusively. I use DDG as default but fall back (for any queries that do not yield good results and are non-sensitive) to Google when necessary. Still an improvement.
Indeed, AAVE is just sort of an egregious example, for the pattern matching tests, men score better than women. Is this because men are smarter than women? Or is it because performance on Raven's progressive matrix tests are essentially spacial reasoning tests[1], and thus.

Similarly, western women have better reasoning about color than western men (I can't remember exactly where I found this, but it was probably an article about the World Color Survey controversy), and western cultured-people score better in pattern recognition tests compared to people from cultures that have fewer color words.

Such motifs are similar: people from cultures whose languages don't express numbers (1, 2, many) or express time[2] differently have more or less trouble reasoning in those contexts. Even formal logic can be culturally tied[3] (and that article also mentions certain forms of spacial reasoning being culturally tied too), which is weird (you can think of this as an extension to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis[4]: language and culture influence how we think, and thus trying to judge intelligence across-culture will run into...issues).

tl;dr: Fairly judging "general intelligence" in any way is difficult. We continually find that we're really bad at it. Something like IQ is useful in certain contexts: an individual with a much higher IQ is probably going to perform better in US life than someone with a comparatively lower IQ, but when you try to make strong conclusions about intelligence, especially about group-levels of intelligence, from something like IQ scores, you're veering off into pseudoscience.

[1]: (pdf) https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/45855297/Sex...

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21564254

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/08/science/how-culture-molds...

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6eXw0AAKZ8
طريقة كيفية تحديث جوجل كروم 2020 Google Chrome اخر اصدار
It seems like a low value proposition if their most enticing feature is the ability to view Google results. Moreover, if Google added a "!d" command to show DuckDuckGo results, I can't imagine anyone would use it.

A negligible number of people are willing to sacrifice tangible functionality for intangible feelings of privacy that almost certainly will never impact them in any meaningful way. DuckDuckGo needs to make large improvements to their search results if they want to capture anyone outside of this niche market.
Part of the problem is that we don't have any way of translating prior "theory" information into a prior over the weights of the neural network, so we are stuck assuming some sort of prior normal distribution over the weights. It's unclear if the posterior over the weights has any particularly useful meaning.
You’re grossly misinformed.

> What is misinformation is saying that climate change started those fires.

No.

> The temperature rising one fraction of a degree doesn’t cause combustion.

Yes it does. It dries out vegetation and evaporates moisture, directly contributing to further and worse combustion.

> And these sorts for fires have happened since before Australia was Australia.

No, they haven’t.

> Arsonists, however, have been arrested for starting the fires. Blaming climate change for every single thing is no different than those that attribute everything to “god’s will” — and equally neurotic and cult-like.

Both contribute, but climate change much more. Without arsonists, the bush would still burn from other sources of ignition. Your first sentence are weasel words clearly intended to disproportionately exaggerate arson.

You’ve clearly fallen for the misinformation. Please stop spreading it further.
Why is that wrong?

It's not a binary right or wrong.

It's a matter of the negatives -- that come with allowing people to purchase large amount of property anonymously -- outweighing the positives.

As long as person/entity complies with all laws - it shouldn't matter.

Agreed. And one of those laws might very well be: "If you own more than X amount of property (of this type or another) -- you need to disclose some basics about your identity."

Like anything else in the public sphere.
Anyone who can pass an interview in any company requiring engineers really.

One of the reason there is level.fyi.

Certifications help up to a certain point.

Word of mouth is still a thing for us. Linkedin recommendation, even though it's forgable?

Also, being in a company with a high engineering and culture expectation, I noticed that some people are naturally good for the business, ranging from old experienced people to non arrogant gifted entry level engineer. The more they are open-minded the faster they learn about any thing.
This is a country where people are able to take out hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans and kill or be killed in a foreign war before we trust them to buy alcohol or cigarettes, and before we trust them to rent a car. And the same country's legal system will treat a preteen child as an adult and sentence them to life in prison (Lionel Tate, 2001).

Maybe "at some point we need to be able to hold people accountable for their actions" but the first step might be figuring out an actual age where they can be held accountable. Perhaps the youngest age someone should be able to take out student loans is 21, when they're able to buy a pack of smokes and a case of beer? Or maybe 12, when they're responsible enough to serve life in prison?
First, "indebt their youth basically for life" is just false. Just 1/3 of people 18-29 in the US have student debt at all: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/13/facts-about.... 40% of college seniors take out no loans at all.

Out of people who do have debt, the median student debt for someone with a bachelors degree is $25,000. That's less than the average U.S. new car loan. Over a career, a typical college graduate will pay much more in extra taxes in one of those countries with "free public education" than the $25,000 median student debt for college.

Second, the United States has "free public education." The question is do we need to extend that to tertiary education. We sent a man to the moon back when just 5% of adults had a college degree. It's not clear that sending vastly more people to college is actually going to add value.
Depends. If it's car related, revoke the license until the payment is made. Maybe do what the debt collectors do and harass them on the phone or garnish wages. Another thought, maybe we shouldn't make so many things crimes. We only do it to pay for the obscenely large justice and policing system. To me it just seems like a jobs program with a very steep societal cost.

I would think throwing someone in jail who owes money for a fine is very counter productive, considering how much it costs to incarcerate and jail someone. It's like spending $5000 to not collect a $500 debt. We aren't very good at government.
What does education, healthcare, childcare, and housing have in common? They didn't get cheaper from outsourcing and automation.
It's also has wide usage as synonymous of "Telegram app", I guess it's the main reason behind naming.
You can maintain the interest rate based on choosing your intended major, but if you choose another your rate changes.

It’s just an ARM loan, but with adjustments based on your one decisions instead of the greater economy.
The problem with abstractions in testing is - you should test it :)
If AI Suddenly Gains Consciousness, It May Happen First in AI Self-Driving Cars
Maybe, but when you do anything to get it--Even when you hate doing it... its a huge lifestyle problem.
similar to that woman who said she was on times person of the year.
For anyone who believes that the medical industry is a net loss on society, I have a house to sell you on Mars.
I wish "proper nouns only" closed captioning was a thing. "King Byanlethroun of House Herethrofod" can be tough to catch accurately.
It was definitely there five years ago. It was already a long time after Children of Earth had screened. Being a fan I loved discovering it, but everyone that I was with was just bemused.
i love this game of semantics.

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45113.pdf

"Even though Section 523(a)(8) renders student loans presumptively nondischargeable, however, it
does not render them completely nondischargeable".

italics not mine. so it is all but nondischargeable.

"Even though Section 523(a)(8) renders student loans presumptively nondischargeable, however, it
does not render them completely nondischargeable. Section 523(a)(8) as currently written allows
a debtor to discharge a student loan if “excepting such debt from discharge . . . would impose an
undue hardship on the debtor and the debtor’s dependents.”
33 In order to discharge a student loan
on undue hardship grounds, the debtor must ordinarily file a separate complaint against the
creditor holding the student loan debt.
34 The debtor must then prove by a preponderance of the
evidence that repaying the student loan would impose an undue hardship on him"

BUT

"The Bankruptcy Code does not define “undue hardship,”
72 and the legislative history of Section
523 does not precisely specify how courts should determine whether a debtor qualifies for an
undue hardship discharge."

i.e. it's not written into law. it is stare decisis on the other hand that the brunner test can be used.

note i do not have student loans (i.e. no dog in this fight) but i do believe it is disingenuous to make it seem more straightforward to discharge student loan debt than it actually is. the reason this person's discharge is newsworthy is exactly because of how exceptional it is.
Hetzner has 8 vCPU with 48gb RAM and 2x2TB Enterprise SATA, for 30€ a month with unlimited bandwidth.
The flip side of dischargeable loans going largely to the currently entrenched is that those most victim of non-dischargeable loans are the ones most in need of protection.
School in the US is already funded by the people in the immediate area, meaning that poor families have worse schools. Also wealthy families wouldn't need student loans anyway.
Sort by size and delete the big stuff you don't need to keep first. Deleting small emails in a sea of 15 GB won't help.
Thanks for you comment! After all, the concept of "ethnicity" is highly debated and numerous definitions exist (just have a look at the wikipedia article). Many European countries don't even ask for "ethnicity" in their census; cultural minorities are often rather defined by their language because this is what practically matters regarding things like school, traffic signs, offices, court, etc.

Therefore I find it pretty odd that in the USA the idea of a uniform European "ethnicity" - largely defined by skin color! - is still very common and even officially practiced. I remember how I had to fill a form when entering the USA which asked for my "ethnicity". I was flabbergasted and just ticked "unknown" or something like that because I didn't want to identify myself as "Caucasian".
Georgism won't work very well if you can't work out who owns the land or if it is owned by offshort corporations.
The reason is that an education can't be repossessed and sold to another person. Also, a student typically doesn't have any other assets.
They did some acquisitions, too. Like "Pixo" for the OS software

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixo

So you sort of need to include Pixo's timeline to get the real picture of the start-to-end-time
If I'm understanding your objection correctly, it'd be summarized as "objective cross-cultural tests are impossible", right?

And at least to me... Spatial reasoning, color comparison and differentiation, and formal logic would all be parts of general intelligence. Penalizing someone for being innumerate might not capture a person's theoretical intelligence if raised in a different culture, but that doesn't make it inaccurate as a test of how they are now.
How does a college spend that $70k? It seems awfully high.

In a subject where there are 500 students in the lecture hall, 1 or 2 of those are paying for the lecturer and building use. What's happening to the other $34M?
Bringing up the age and maturity is always a red herring. It is effectively a choice of potential maximum wealth and social class. While some may rise high in spite of a lack of higher education they are outliers among outliers.

Students know one essential aspect for the choice - do they want more schooling and are they remotely capable of handling it?

Of course the other myth is that being smart enough is sufficient for the unknowns and bad hands that can make failure a foregone conclusion. What is normally the "smart" choice can bring about disaster and doijg something "stupid" at the right time can bring about success in a very narrow circumstance. Even a brilliant trust fund kis can wind up homeless if they will develop severe schizophrenia around twenty.

Life isn't fair - I don't mean this to justify injustices but to note that it is possible for anyone to be screwed over for reasons beyond anyone's control. Victim blaming for such is wrong both morally and factually.
> I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future

When I read this title I was sure the author had gone to see Idiocracy.
Because they impose a middleman between the application developer and the user.

I don't want a middleman, I want to get my programs from the developer, and store them using the tools I know (regular files on a filesystem).

Are package managers easy to use (most of the time)? Yes.

Are package managers (as they exist today) a universal, well designed way to distribute software? No, because they impose a middleman.
When I first started listening to his podcasts, I got a strong AM radio talk show vibe from him. But the material, in my case, The Wrath of the Khans, was too intriguing to stop listening. After a few hours the negative association I had with his voice went away. Glad it did because his material really is high quality and an enjoyable listen.
I still feel like Google should participate in the bidding and distribute the resulting money (their own and their competitors') to a charity rather than keeping it as profit. They got a fine for a reason, turning it into a profit scheme is a big middle finger to anyone who cares about monopolies.

The question would be how to pick a charity in an unbiased manner, but I guess there are a lot of ways to answer that such as picking the most well-funded charity worldwide, or distributing it over the top ten.
Well, then, it would not make sense to publish a free ebook, would it?
> I doubt they would give you the whole amount up front if it were dischargeable

This is basically the entire point.
"Indigenous people" is the superset of earliest known inhabitants. "American Indians" or "Native Americans" are the indigenous people the United States. My area of Australia, we'd be as specific as saying "Wurundjeri People". There is a matching level of specificity for the United States. Indigenous people is still the catch-all term.

> And IMO it would be unreasonable to include for the same reason that a discussion of set theory would be inappropriate in a history course covering the "New World" in the 1400s, even ignoring the fact that the term is wrong.

"Set Theory" has no overlap with "New World history", I agree. The Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering has a very real-world overlap with the land on which it is built.
> Duck duck go doesn't roll off the tongue as well as Google but it is my default search engine

I mostly use Duck Duck Go now (with liberal use of !g as needed), but the main issue I've had with making it part of my spoken vocabulary using it as a verb. It's much easier to say I "googled" something than "Duck Duck Go'd it" (duck duck went?) or "searched for it on Duck Duck Go". It's been a pet theory of mine for a while that any attempt at getting people to change the words they use is doomed to fail if the replacement contains more syllables (e.g. "letter carrier" for "mailman"), and now I'm wondering if that's something companies should take into account when naming themselves too.
Metrics with an Ego – Podcast with Ben Grosser (Twitter Demetricator)
Xeus cling gives me hope https://www.learnopencv.com/xeus-cling-run-c-code-in-jupyter...
That isn't the argument though. The original comment was saying that buying a tenth car is somehow inherently immoral, which it isn't.

If I've earned the money I have honestly, it isn't anyone else's business what I do with it. Buy an 100th car or light it on fire. Anyone who wants to tell me what to do with my money (that I've earned and paid all the taxes on) can take a long walk off a short pier.
Corporations have assets and generally behave rationally and non-emotionally if you take them to court.
Ah yes, the well-known limited parameter space of deep neural networks
This is a terrific guide overall and even provides guidance to develop your software pricing strategy beyond one common pitfall: assuming that you must charge one static price for all customers of your software.

In reality, different segments of your users have varying price sensitivities, which means the best practice is to charge the maximum price that each individual customer segment is willing to pay. Skip to the section on "Versioning" to read more about this.

Disclaimer: I run an API that helps businesses carry out versioning/dynamic pricing, https://modernpricing.com
I'm not sure I'd go as far as saying impossible (perhaps for true objectivity, yes?) but certainly really, really, really difficult. And as a corollary, for things that aren't designed explicitly as fair-ish cross cultural tests, we really shouldn't go about trying to draw cross-cultural conclusions.

I'll be fully transparent, this does make the question of "well how can we judge people without insisting on equality of outcome" rather tricky. I resolve this personally by just concluding that the precise judgement of people such that we'd need a good test like that is rarely actually important in day to day life. In other words, I'm okay with wider error bars for the reduction of implicit bias.
In some cases, those entities are a DoJ (Denial of Justice) attack. When you try to sue such a company, you find a chain of owners, each in a different jurisdictions - just figuring out the real owner for damages you may right fully deserve may take years.

The asymmetry in the costs of setting up such a structure vs decoding it works only for the “bad guys” as far as most society is concerned.
> If package managers weren't a good way to do things, brew wouldn't exist.

Package managers are an easy way to do things, most of the time. That's why brew exists.

They are not a universally good way to distribute and install software. It twists the relationship between the software developer and the user.
Hilarious things happen when you divide after getting NaN as the subnet mask as well.
College has become massively political to the point that professors swing 90+% in one political direction often without 1 in 100 or 1000 registered in the other direction.

The political side that college swings now wants college free and more common.

I got a phd and then taught at college for a number of years. Professors preach political stances as much as some religions. I'm probably clinically centrist / not aligned either way, and it was clear that was an unacceptable if not heretical position to hold as a professor. Students of different politics than their professors frequently feel like they have to lie in papers to parrot their professors worldview to get a good grade. I left I'm part because I got sick of my coworkers mocking people who don't think like them or aren't a proud atheist as stupid, and the opposite politics is frequently demonized.

If you want to know who is coming out ahead, that part can't be removed. If you want to maximize the number of people who are preached a particular set of politics and worldview, our current policy would be in line with that. Even if that's not the core reasoning, it's too tightly aligned to be removed. If college is free next election it played like a football every 8 years back and forth.
What to do with the plastic is a separate problem that needs proper logistics, but step 1 is removing it from the oceans and rivers. That's where this program is helping.

Also the river cleanup systems are completely automated and solar powered. Where did you get the $50k number from?
Thanks — I'll give these a try! Each year, I try to read a handful of books that expand my world views, so these sound great. :)
My wife speaks English as a second language (very fluently), but sometimes she has trouble with various accents so we leave the closed captions on most of the time. I seem to catch at least two or three transcription errors every time I watch something. I believe AI is used for most transcription, and it does a poor job when it lacks context for the content.
Yeah I would imagine that gait analysis is not anywhere near 99.9% accurate.